I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just structured your sentence in a confusing manner, but there comes a point in everyone's life where swallowing random things stops being the "thing to do" and that's usually at what, 2 or 3 years of age? After that point you have to start understanding that not everything is food.
If you can't figure out at age 7+ that a magnet isn't food and that chemicals aren't treats, either you have a mental handicap or your parents have utterly failed. Besides, if you're too ignorant to understand that swallowing something like a magnet isn't safe, I don't think a warning label is going to assist you much.
Ohhh, good thing this Bleach bottle has a warning, I thought it was going to make a good substitute for the Tang I just ran out of!
I know people see the past through rose colored glasses, but I most certainly won't miss going in and finding that all the good/new movies are out of stock and the hassle of dealing with late fees for things I definitely returned on time. Oh, look at that, they found the copy I had out. Thanks for making me come down and threaten to drop my membership, AGAIN.
I'm not sure on the technical specifics as I haven't, and won't purchase from them. But when I buy anything, I don't just immediately run and make use of it. Sometimes I let it sit for a day or two until I have time to download, install, and play it. Can't fault people for not immediately downloading something due to an unknown impending publicity stunt that is going to basically tell you "too bad" for a few days.
Still, it was a publicity stunt that basically took away access to the product they just sold to people. If I sell you something and then take it away before you can access it during a publicity stunt, what are you going to say? Are you going to be happy? They just took your money and said they are shutting down. You're out of a game you just purchased. A few days later, "HAHAHA we're joking!, you can access it when we feel like bringing the servers back up!" Really shady.. Really, really, shady. So shady in fact, that I will make it a point to not purchase from them in the future. This was the first I heard of them (well, a few days ago when they started the stunt anyways) and from what I've seen, they will take your money and shut down for a few days if it suits them.
Maybe there are cases where running host based Firewalls and/or IPS is overkill. But you _never_ pretend that you've got security 100% covered. It's great to think you have security locked down, but threats come from _all_ angles.
Case in point, I don't care how good your external firewall/IPS is if John in Sales decides to try and break into a server on the LAN. Hence, Defense in Depth. Multiple layers of security all the way down to the OS. Sure, that desktop over there might contain _no_ critical data whatsoever. That doesn't mean it won't end up becoming a SPAM bot or have a backdoor installed for easy LAN access.
"Here’s a contentious topic to chew on, but before I go any further let me make something crystal clear – I’m not advocating that you try this, I’m not saying it’s a good idea, and I’m not saying I would do it on my own networks."
Frankly, it sounds like he just wants to write an article with an absurd title to get clicks, nothing of value to see here
The thing that irks me the most, isn't the fact that the government wants a more powerful trade agreement. It isn't the fact that this trade agreement would be adopted by most every other first world country. It also isn't the fact that the U.S. government wants to keep it classified due to "national security" reasons. No, it's because our government keeps it classified from its citizens _and_ invites the MPAA in on the deal, or did the MPAA invite them? I don't even know anymore.
That review was written by "Jason Scott". Scroll down that review to post 41 to see what kind of person he is. I'm not saying he's factually incorrect (since I can't verify his claims), but he certainly does _not_ have an unbiased and objective view of the subject.
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Jason Scott wrote:
Salutations, Ignorant Fuck.
A number of weblogs recently linked to this page from out of the blue, leading me to believe you jostled among them and found yourself reading this entry. This might explain your commentary on a page written in February, with multiple clarifying followups, that has otherwise been superceded elsewhere in the five months hence.
As I sincerely doubt that your filmmaking and film watching career harkens back to the exact moment your choking, bloodied infant form issued forth from your screaming mother, I will assume that you are one of those folks who takes a number of liberties when he constructs his scribbled opinions in the heat of emotion and ignorance. Therefore let me say the following, in an easy to understand list:
1. This movie and my movie are not the same movie; they did not steal my idea and I did not steal theirs and they do not overlap in subject matter.
2. I am making several movies.
3. While movies are, by their nature, edited products, out and out lies and misrepresentation opposite to reality are generally not what people should find “at the finish line” when they assemble their footage.
Enjoy your filmmaking career and die, slowly and alone, forgotten but for your distant-faced caretakers.
Hopefully his family is still by his side and I hope even more that he can now hang up his Donkey Kong hat and spend a lot more quality time with them.
With any luck, this contest to the top cost him a lot (as any meaningful win should), but not his family...
Billy Mitchell really came off as a douche willing to do whatever it takes to win, including cheat. Although, with any type of editing, it's easy for the author to portray a person in whatever way they choose.
Good idea, so lets take that to its logical conclusion. All income is money that people make, thus entitled to, and _none_ of it should be taxed. Collapse of government in 3.. 2.. 1..
You keep parroting this bullshit notion that the personal income of the rich is used to "create jobs". More jobs are created in their businesses when the _business_ expands and/or otherwise has the funds to create new positions/salaries. If Ballmer makes another $100k this year, he isn't going to immediately create a new $100k job and redistribute his personal earnings to support the new position. That's an absolutely ludicrous notion.
Irrelevant. If buying $house, $toy, $car, $whatever, is too expensive and you can't pay $taxes, but you buy it anyways, you're not living within your means.
You know, I was writing a whole rebuttal and just decided to delete it.
This is such a simple concept. Just because someone makes more money, that doesn't entitle them to being "off the hook" when it comes to funding the country. The simple truth is, the government needs $x to run the country and the citizens need to foot the bill. There are those that are in real danger of losing everything because their situation puts them in that predicament. Then there are those that make more than enough to fund their expenses and toys. One of those two should be responsible for a larger chunk of the $x the government needs.
When I get my next raise, I expect to bump up to the next tax bracket. And rightfully so...
If you can't figure out how to budget your $200,000+ salary to accommodate the above, you're living outside your means.
Simply put, if you're making over $200,000 and you're finding it hard to make ends meet, you're living well outside your means. Don't look for sympathy because you can't afford your million dollar home, your five cars, and the yacht.
Ya, how dare they actually use the device for any meaningful length of time in their own homes/offices. Actually using the product, figuring out the good versus the bad and writing up a quality article just isn't warranted these days, apparently.
Your mistake is in thinking that anonymous does anything for rational reasons or for anyones benefit. It's merely mob mentality and they do it for kicks.
It's an interesting robot. It seems to have great balance and great range of motion, when it's just there by itself. What happens when it picks up something heavy? What happens when weight it is carrying shifts? Can it delicately handle easily damaged/broken items? Is it simply programmed, step by step for simple processes much like a line assembly stationary robot, or is it capable of recognizing and manipulating objects in three dimensions?
The solution is easy, because there is none. There simply is _no_ solution to "terrorism" besides the total and utter collapse of any and all freedoms.
Why? Because tomorrow I can be a terrorist. My mother too. How about a random guy out in Montana? Yes, he can be a terrorist tomorrow. Hell, you can turn into a Terrorist in 30 seconds if you want to. All you have to do is start plotting to cause harm with the intent on moving someones political goals/agendas/views.
See, terrorists aren't armies. They aren't, as a whole, organized. Sure, you get groups of "terrorists", but frankly, ignoring funding, they are probably weaker than the lone McVeigh since they probably communicate and that chatter can be monitored.
The major problem with the "War on Terror" is that there will _never_ by definition, be an end to it. There will _always_ be another person willing to die, or at least kill, to make a political point. Take the guy who crashed his plane into the IRS building months ago. He's a terrorist. If he really wanted to make an Al Qaeda type bang, he just had to fill his aircraft with something that would go !BOOM! on impact.
Again, these people aren't part of a standing army with x soldiers. It would be great if you could ask them to all line up in an old school skirmish line and just take them all out in an afternoon. But that will not happen, it can't, because the best part of Terrorism is that they rarely have the same agenda or goals. Terrorists in Somalia will have a different view than Terrorists in the old Soviet Republic or Ireland, etc. They will each attack different targets at different times while truly remaining entirely autonomous. Hell, they don't even care what the other guy is doing as it has _no_ bearing on their goals.
What is the solution? There isn't one. We need to step back and realize that they will keep coming just as sure as the sun will rise in the morning. Destroying everything we hold sacred to "defeat" the Terrorists only gives them more purpose. Hell, that's half of what they want in the first place. The war can't and will never be won.
My solution?
Go back to pre-9/11 security. Keep enough security to hold the crazies at bay as much as you can but otherwise ignore the "Terrorists". Stop throwing away everything we care about for "security" and "safety". Live your life and enjoy it. Or, you can keep buying into the propaganda and help feed the machine that profits from the fear. Seriously, the war can't be won and the only purpose for the huge industry that is trying to "stop" it is pure, utter, profit and power.
Are you saying that only the latest and greatest safety features be present in all vehicles that exist on roads inside countries with universal healthcare? And that anything that doesn't meet the best standards should be fatal in all forms of accidents?
Because, I'm not sure you're going to be successful telling everyone to buy a _new_ car every 2 to 5 years to have the best standards of safety. I mean, the old ones wouldn't be as safe generally and comparatively speaking. Unless you want to tell those that have old cars they need to fit in a mechanism that will utterly kill any occupant in any accident > 5mph.
I don't see any other way to meet your requirements, unless, you were being sarcastic or just doing a little political trolling.
Best two Google stories, back to back. Spying on kids by Google employee(s) and Social Integration announcements. What could possibly go wrong? Just kind of funny.
Too True.. I voted for the current politician in charge and frankly, I only did so because the other guy scared me more. Even if I was a Republican (not that I consider myself a Democrat) I think I'd hate Glenn Beck just the same. Damn he's a moron, or more to the point, those that eat up everything he says.
Our political system is a joke. Both sides want basically the same things. They are just different flavors of suck.
I don't consider government funding of private/public businesses socialism. That's just a feedback loop due to corporate lobbying, in my mind at least. A "we'll help fill your pockets if you fill ours and also make us CEO's and/or some other high paid employees afterward" sort of deal.
Right, it's "socialism" that's hurting our county. Not the constant erosion of citizens rights, nope. Not the constant and gratuitous government spending. Not the off-shoring of nearly all our industry because we'd rather have a cheaper item regardless of the human cost overseas. Not the constant War-State mentality where we have to fight "Terrorism", "Drugs", "Copyright", etc, etc, and again, pay for it. Not the fact that our country is basically being run _by_ corporations _for_ corporations (heavy lobbying).
No, it's the thought that maybe, just maybe, some of the spending government does should actually help _citizens_ that's hurting us.
Seriously?
P.S. Sorry for the OT comment. I just get so tired of hearing this BS Glenn Beck inspired bullshit.
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just structured your sentence in a confusing manner, but there comes a point in everyone's life where swallowing random things stops being the "thing to do" and that's usually at what, 2 or 3 years of age? After that point you have to start understanding that not everything is food.
If you can't figure out at age 7+ that a magnet isn't food and that chemicals aren't treats, either you have a mental handicap or your parents have utterly failed. Besides, if you're too ignorant to understand that swallowing something like a magnet isn't safe, I don't think a warning label is going to assist you much.
Ohhh, good thing this Bleach bottle has a warning, I thought it was going to make a good substitute for the Tang I just ran out of!
I know people see the past through rose colored glasses, but I most certainly won't miss going in and finding that all the good/new movies are out of stock and the hassle of dealing with late fees for things I definitely returned on time. Oh, look at that, they found the copy I had out. Thanks for making me come down and threaten to drop my membership, AGAIN.
I'm not sure on the technical specifics as I haven't, and won't purchase from them. But when I buy anything, I don't just immediately run and make use of it. Sometimes I let it sit for a day or two until I have time to download, install, and play it. Can't fault people for not immediately downloading something due to an unknown impending publicity stunt that is going to basically tell you "too bad" for a few days.
Still, it was a publicity stunt that basically took away access to the product they just sold to people. If I sell you something and then take it away before you can access it during a publicity stunt, what are you going to say? Are you going to be happy? They just took your money and said they are shutting down. You're out of a game you just purchased. A few days later, "HAHAHA we're joking!, you can access it when we feel like bringing the servers back up!" Really shady.. Really, really, shady. So shady in fact, that I will make it a point to not purchase from them in the future. This was the first I heard of them (well, a few days ago when they started the stunt anyways) and from what I've seen, they will take your money and shut down for a few days if it suits them.
Maybe there are cases where running host based Firewalls and/or IPS is overkill. But you _never_ pretend that you've got security 100% covered. It's great to think you have security locked down, but threats come from _all_ angles.
Case in point, I don't care how good your external firewall/IPS is if John in Sales decides to try and break into a server on the LAN. Hence, Defense in Depth. Multiple layers of security all the way down to the OS. Sure, that desktop over there might contain _no_ critical data whatsoever. That doesn't mean it won't end up becoming a SPAM bot or have a backdoor installed for easy LAN access.
"Here’s a contentious topic to chew on, but before I go any further let me make something crystal clear – I’m not advocating that you try this, I’m not saying it’s a good idea, and I’m not saying I would do it on my own networks."
Frankly, it sounds like he just wants to write an article with an absurd title to get clicks, nothing of value to see here
The thing that irks me the most, isn't the fact that the government wants a more powerful trade agreement. It isn't the fact that this trade agreement would be adopted by most every other first world country. It also isn't the fact that the U.S. government wants to keep it classified due to "national security" reasons. No, it's because our government keeps it classified from its citizens _and_ invites the MPAA in on the deal, or did the MPAA invite them? I don't even know anymore.
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Jason Scott wrote:
Salutations, Ignorant Fuck.
A number of weblogs recently linked to this page from out of the blue, leading me to believe you jostled among them and found yourself reading this entry. This might explain your commentary on a page written in February, with multiple clarifying followups, that has otherwise been superceded elsewhere in the five months hence.
As I sincerely doubt that your filmmaking and film watching career harkens back to the exact moment your choking, bloodied infant form issued forth from your screaming mother, I will assume that you are one of those folks who takes a number of liberties when he constructs his scribbled opinions in the heat of emotion and ignorance. Therefore let me say the following, in an easy to understand list:
1. This movie and my movie are not the same movie; they did not steal my idea and I did not steal theirs and they do not overlap in subject matter.
2. I am making several movies.
3. While movies are, by their nature, edited products, out and out lies and misrepresentation opposite to reality are generally not what people should find “at the finish line” when they assemble their footage.
Enjoy your filmmaking career and die, slowly and alone, forgotten but for your distant-faced caretakers.
Posted on 23-Jul-08 at 11:34 pm
Entirely agree.
Hopefully his family is still by his side and I hope even more that he can now hang up his Donkey Kong hat and spend a lot more quality time with them.
With any luck, this contest to the top cost him a lot (as any meaningful win should), but not his family...
Billy Mitchell really came off as a douche willing to do whatever it takes to win, including cheat. Although, with any type of editing, it's easy for the author to portray a person in whatever way they choose.
Either way, congrats to Wiebe!
Good idea, so lets take that to its logical conclusion. All income is money that people make, thus entitled to, and _none_ of it should be taxed. Collapse of government in 3.. 2.. 1..
Businesses create jobs with the money the _business_ makes and doesn't already pay out as salaries.
Small business or large, when a business makes enough money to bring in another employee, it does so.
The owner or another employee doesn't use their _personal_ income to pay the new salary. Why is this so hard to understand?
You keep parroting this bullshit notion that the personal income of the rich is used to "create jobs". More jobs are created in their businesses when the _business_ expands and/or otherwise has the funds to create new positions/salaries. If Ballmer makes another $100k this year, he isn't going to immediately create a new $100k job and redistribute his personal earnings to support the new position. That's an absolutely ludicrous notion.
Irrelevant. If buying $house, $toy, $car, $whatever, is too expensive and you can't pay $taxes, but you buy it anyways, you're not living within your means.
You know, I was writing a whole rebuttal and just decided to delete it.
This is such a simple concept. Just because someone makes more money, that doesn't entitle them to being "off the hook" when it comes to funding the country. The simple truth is, the government needs $x to run the country and the citizens need to foot the bill. There are those that are in real danger of losing everything because their situation puts them in that predicament. Then there are those that make more than enough to fund their expenses and toys. One of those two should be responsible for a larger chunk of the $x the government needs.
When I get my next raise, I expect to bump up to the next tax bracket. And rightfully so...
If you can't figure out how to budget your $200,000+ salary to accommodate the above, you're living outside your means.
End of story.
Simply put, if you're making over $200,000 and you're finding it hard to make ends meet, you're living well outside your means. Don't look for sympathy because you can't afford your million dollar home, your five cars, and the yacht.
Ya, how dare they actually use the device for any meaningful length of time in their own homes/offices. Actually using the product, figuring out the good versus the bad and writing up a quality article just isn't warranted these days, apparently.
Your mistake is in thinking that anonymous does anything for rational reasons or for anyones benefit. It's merely mob mentality and they do it for kicks.
I was going to post something very similar.
It's an interesting robot. It seems to have great balance and great range of motion, when it's just there by itself. What happens when it picks up something heavy? What happens when weight it is carrying shifts? Can it delicately handle easily damaged/broken items? Is it simply programmed, step by step for simple processes much like a line assembly stationary robot, or is it capable of recognizing and manipulating objects in three dimensions?
The solution is easy, because there is none. There simply is _no_ solution to "terrorism" besides the total and utter collapse of any and all freedoms.
Why? Because tomorrow I can be a terrorist. My mother too. How about a random guy out in Montana? Yes, he can be a terrorist tomorrow. Hell, you can turn into a Terrorist in 30 seconds if you want to. All you have to do is start plotting to cause harm with the intent on moving someones political goals/agendas/views.
See, terrorists aren't armies. They aren't, as a whole, organized. Sure, you get groups of "terrorists", but frankly, ignoring funding, they are probably weaker than the lone McVeigh since they probably communicate and that chatter can be monitored.
The major problem with the "War on Terror" is that there will _never_ by definition, be an end to it. There will _always_ be another person willing to die, or at least kill, to make a political point. Take the guy who crashed his plane into the IRS building months ago. He's a terrorist. If he really wanted to make an Al Qaeda type bang, he just had to fill his aircraft with something that would go !BOOM! on impact.
Again, these people aren't part of a standing army with x soldiers. It would be great if you could ask them to all line up in an old school skirmish line and just take them all out in an afternoon. But that will not happen, it can't, because the best part of Terrorism is that they rarely have the same agenda or goals. Terrorists in Somalia will have a different view than Terrorists in the old Soviet Republic or Ireland, etc. They will each attack different targets at different times while truly remaining entirely autonomous. Hell, they don't even care what the other guy is doing as it has _no_ bearing on their goals.
What is the solution? There isn't one. We need to step back and realize that they will keep coming just as sure as the sun will rise in the morning. Destroying everything we hold sacred to "defeat" the Terrorists only gives them more purpose. Hell, that's half of what they want in the first place. The war can't and will never be won.
My solution?
Go back to pre-9/11 security. Keep enough security to hold the crazies at bay as much as you can but otherwise ignore the "Terrorists". Stop throwing away everything we care about for "security" and "safety". Live your life and enjoy it. Or, you can keep buying into the propaganda and help feed the machine that profits from the fear. Seriously, the war can't be won and the only purpose for the huge industry that is trying to "stop" it is pure, utter, profit and power.
Stop drinking the koolaid.
Not trolling, serious question.
Are you saying that only the latest and greatest safety features be present in all vehicles that exist on roads inside countries with universal healthcare? And that anything that doesn't meet the best standards should be fatal in all forms of accidents?
Because, I'm not sure you're going to be successful telling everyone to buy a _new_ car every 2 to 5 years to have the best standards of safety. I mean, the old ones wouldn't be as safe generally and comparatively speaking. Unless you want to tell those that have old cars they need to fit in a mechanism that will utterly kill any occupant in any accident > 5mph.
I don't see any other way to meet your requirements, unless, you were being sarcastic or just doing a little political trolling.
Best two Google stories, back to back. Spying on kids by Google employee(s) and Social Integration announcements. What could possibly go wrong? Just kind of funny.
Too True.. I voted for the current politician in charge and frankly, I only did so because the other guy scared me more. Even if I was a Republican (not that I consider myself a Democrat) I think I'd hate Glenn Beck just the same. Damn he's a moron, or more to the point, those that eat up everything he says.
Our political system is a joke. Both sides want basically the same things. They are just different flavors of suck.
I don't consider government funding of private/public businesses socialism. That's just a feedback loop due to corporate lobbying, in my mind at least. A "we'll help fill your pockets if you fill ours and also make us CEO's and/or some other high paid employees afterward" sort of deal.
Right, it's "socialism" that's hurting our county. Not the constant erosion of citizens rights, nope. Not the constant and gratuitous government spending. Not the off-shoring of nearly all our industry because we'd rather have a cheaper item regardless of the human cost overseas. Not the constant War-State mentality where we have to fight "Terrorism", "Drugs", "Copyright", etc, etc, and again, pay for it. Not the fact that our country is basically being run _by_ corporations _for_ corporations (heavy lobbying).
No, it's the thought that maybe, just maybe, some of the spending government does should actually help _citizens_ that's hurting us.
Seriously?
P.S. Sorry for the OT comment. I just get so tired of hearing this BS Glenn Beck inspired bullshit.
Can't it be both? He holds an advanced degree (Masters) as well.