There are a couple things here that clearly indicate that banks are committing fraud. First, there is usury.
If I remember right...most usury laws (except for Arkansas) were phased out in the 80's because of the credit card companies. It all started in South Dakota. Even in Arkansas...the banks have tried for many years to get them repealed because they can't seem to be satisfied for a 10% interest rate being the highest they can charge there. Voters there have seen the smoke blown up their arses and refuse to vote it out...even when the banks threaten to pull out of that state.
Then there is collusion in the defrauding of the american public. Much of the loan money goes to private distance Universities.
The ONLY reason you have "schools" like the University of Phoenix is because of the profits they generate and generally the low quality of "education" they claim to provide their students. When you had "reform" of the student loan program years ago...Congress was well aware of what was happening...but they didn't give a damn because these "schools" were handing out decent bribes to make sure nothing changed for them or the banks. Didn't exactly work the way the schools/banks expected...but the students were the ones who got and are still getting the shaft sideways.
You want to reform this system...you start black-balled ANY school where the default rate is over a certain percent and make sure they can never get another penny under any other name they may use. Maybe then...these shysters will go back to selling vacuum cleaners or horse sh!t door-to-door.
They can be discharged on death. You are stuck with them for life.
What happens when it seems like suicide is the ONLY way out of the debt/joblessness situation? Wonder if the families where Jr. commits suicide because of his/her debt/joblessness would get the word out if this was the reason they took their own life? Will shame keep this buried? I would hope that with more and more suicides the government/corporations would be shamed to do something to prevent this for future generations.
Sorry... no.
Sad as it may seem, the federal government (as screwed up as it is) is the only body that could possibly keep these fuckers in check. Your proposal would make the federal government weaker which would in turn make the Wall St. asshats stronger which in turn screws us all.
The problem is that this country was started because you had the moneyed interests getting pissed off on paying off the war debts the British ran up protecting the colonists from the "dreaded" Native Americans. When they cried as a colony with no representation in Parliament...you had your colonial "Grover Norquist's" who threw off British rule. After the war and the Constitution being ratified...you had Washington using troops to shut down "illegal" local moonshiners who believed the Federal government had no power to tax their whiskey.
Instead of drowning the federal government in a bathtub (ala Grover Norquist), I suggest we take our government back from the greedy pigs and use that power to set things straight.
Personally...I believe it's going to take boarding up some business exec's in their homes with their family and burn the house down with them inside of it. The troops will be called of course...but if you send a message that your business practices and morals are not for the common good...some will change their behavior because they know the same could happen to them.
Whether or not people believe it...the French/Russian Revolutions did put fear into the moneyed elite. Many were shot/hung/decapitated because they did not believe it could happen to them. When the elite believe their money/power will protect them when you have those who are starving and little hope...they will change once martyrs are made. You have martyrs...you have something to fight behind. Ideas are powerful and non-stoppable.
But in the end, I quit just like I did with Facebook a year ago. Social Networking is fucking boring when the people being the most social are retards.
Still with Facebook...but it's not the "Place" to be that others think it is.
I agree with you 100% about the users there. That's why I misspelled my name...never put up a photo of myself...changed my sex/age/location to keep only those I WANT to communicate with to be able to find me. Screw former co-workers I couldn't stand when I was forced to deal with them. Screw the relatives and ex's. If I wanted to deal with any of them...I have a cell phone or can send them an email message. I actually have a life which is more than posting that I'm beating off at this moment and came the next. They are not and will not be in it by my choice. Unlike these morons...my life isn't earth shattering and people don't care what I'm doing.
First of all its by municipality, not county. Individual cities have different rates here.
Ah that's easy, once you have the data. How do you get the data? The expensive part is keeping track of the endless seemingly random changes. Is soda a tax free food or taxable luxury good in that city? How bout energy drinks?
Very easy way around this is to know someone in a state with no sales tax (like Oregon). You have your online retailer send it there...then you have your friend or family member send it to you. On something which costs very little like an e-book or a cheap part...wouldn't be worth it...but for a big ticket item like a TV or a computer...it would.
I've said it before and I'll say it here...quit making it Xmas by bribing every business with tax breaks. The governments wouldn't have the problems with deficits.
I have found the the "beta" spam feature of google voice does a good job of filtering out crap calls. Also, every cell phone that I have used for the past 10 years has had caller ID. I just don't answer calls that I don't recognize. If it's important, they'll leave a voicemail.
Another lesser known use for Google is to type in the number in question and getting some type of listing for them. That way...if they leave a number...you can call them back if you like or just let them hang in the wind. Even if the number isn't specific to a listing...for instance a telemarketer or bill collector...others have been harassed as well and will complain online about it.
Had my roommate see me do this with a number which wasn't in my phone book. He was amazed you could use Google to find a phone number/name/complaints of callers. Been doing this for years and works great...just fight the urge to answer the call until after you can see who it was. Means...guys waste your time and trouble...it's my phone and I choose who I want to deal with.
Think the longest was a bit over an hour before I got bored with it.
Another way to handle this is start throwing out phrases in other languages. Pissed off a girl years ago with these two phrases..."No Habla English" and "No Habla Espanol". She kept switching between each language...then it would be the other language. She hung up and called back a few minutes later...so she got it again in German and Russian. This time...she didn't call back since I wasted about 10 minutes of her time.
If you really wanted to play with callers from India...start doing the same thing in their language and several others from the area. Can't be too difficult to tell them you don't speak English in their own language.
Then someone claims vaccines cause bad, scary things which plants doubt in their minds so they do a risk evaluation in their head. They know autism is bad. They probably have seen someone with autism. They have probably never seen someone with measles or whooping cough, though. Their brain tries to come up with a "bad disease" and they think of the flu. So would a lifetime of autism be worse than a week of fever and coughing? Sure. So skip the vaccines.
Having had a sister pass away from pneumonia from either mumps or measles (doesn't matter since both can now be vaccinated against)...have also worked extensively with autistic children. Have seen both ends of the this discussion.
The point is that many of these autistic children have their infirmity because not of an imagined threat which can be pointed to...but because either/both of the parents have bad genetics. It's too tough for many people to even consider that something outside of their control (other than not having children or having an abortion once you find out) is the cause of their children's disability. Parents don't want to hear or understand that if they didn't want to have an autistic child...they should have never had sex and gotten pregnant in the first place. By not controlling your urges to have children...the parents are the ones who caused their child to develop autism...NOT a vaccine.
The vaccine isn't 100% effective, there are very few things which are. According to the National Network for Immunization Information one vaccination is 95% and two is 99.7% effective. The U.S. started giving 2 shots in 1989. That probably means there are between 10 and 15 million people in the U.S. who received the vaccine who are still vulnerable to Measles.
Now, I do have a degree in Mathematics so you can take my word on the fact that a 0.3% is much less than 100%. There is a 0.01% of a child having a reaction, and a 0.00001% of a child having a severe reaction, and 0.000001% of a child having an anaphylactic reaction.
The only problem I see in your odds is the number who MAY die or suffer something life changing are they are the ones who get the attention of the spotlight and finding the sleaziest lawyer they can find for a payoff. In terms of the circumstantial "evidence" she claims to have...we have a former playmate who CLAIMS to be an authority on vaccinations. Didn't know she had medical degree or other professional training...other than being able to look good for the camera and possibly give a decent BJ and a romp-in-the-hay. In that case...she's the one I want to contact and get her help. Even that UK doctor has who started this BS has had his medical license revoked.
I don't see why there's such a big screaming panic about a disease that gives you spots and a bit of a temperature, and a couple of days off school...
Because for about two per thousand cases, it causes meningitis which kills about half of the affected patients, leaving many of the survivors brain damaged for life. For quite a few who don't get meningitis, it causes blindness and deafness (measles was the #1 cause of both in the 50s.) Because it causes pneumonia of the "hospitalized for days" variety in up to 30% of cases (and before oxygen therapy, IV fluids, and antibiotics killed about 10% of patients.)
Forgot to mention that catching this and other childhood diseases as an adult can also mean sterilization.
Personally...having seen too many of today's parents and their kids and what brats they are...that may not be such a bad conclusion. At least the gene pool will get some cleaning...some college girls will make some extra money from donating eggs and may have a better educated population. That is unless the most stupid ones are the ones to survive and have the kids.
Sorry guys - I hate the idea of Chrome as much as any privacy lover would, and I love certain addons (Adblock/NoScript/Firebug/etc.), but as a web dev FF4+ just isn't cutting it. Unless one of these new version fix those issues, I have to leave FF behind. It's now wasting my time on the job.
Fortunately...I found many of the same addons for Chrome that I was using in FF. Don't get me wrong...have been using and am used to FF...but when I have to wait for my quad-core to catch up to whatever I'm doing in FF...something had to give...so went with Chrome and the problems went away.
Whenever I read that FF gets their act together and it starts acting like Chrome/Opera/IE...I will start using it again.
The Windows version still has massive memory leaks. Before switching to Chrome for Windows and Linux...Firefox was lagging and not responding every 7-10 seconds...then catching up when it decided to do something. Thought it was my cable modem & squirrel eaten coax...but after getting Chrome...doesn't happen at all. Have used Firefox for years...but nothing this buggy needs to be allowed out into the open. Even IE8/9 doesn't pull this garbage.
If anything, the odds of dying in a terrorist attack are so remote in a given year that things really haven't changed. Mundane reasons for death, like car accidents, medical problems, even run-of-the-mill personal homicide massively dwarf terrorism.
DHS and post 9/11 is what you get when you have people who are legends in their own minds overestimate their own importance. No matter what you think...you are not unique nor special and are replaceable. By not believing this...you have all ready deluded yourself...no matter what your mother lied to you about.
One of the problems here in saying whether Neanderthal's are a different species to Homo Sapiens is that the word species is poorly defined. It's actually been a problem since Darwin's day, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem gives an idea of how long we've been arguing this. Personally if I feel if they were routinely successfully breeding with homo sapiens then calling them a separate species may be a bit of a stretch.
Does that mean that since I was always told I was found under a rock...have rocks for brains and having a stubborn streak which makes me rock headed that I'm part of the suspected missing link for silicon based lifeforms?
I have also made the argument that with all the tax breaks that state/county/local governments give away to businesses...there is no reason to go after individual taxpayers for taxes at all. For instance...I was living in Phoenix when they put the vote up for the professional football stadium to have the citizens pay for this stadium...rather than the owners/stockholders of the team. I and too many people never had any use of this stadium...but the sales tax was increased to make sure the owners/stockholders got a free ride. Even worse is that if the owners decide to hop out of town during the middle of the night...taxpayers are still on the hook for the bill...rather than the owners.
When corporate welfare goes away...then come talk to me about needing additional taxes. You want to give these multi-millionaires my tax money to make them happy and give them a free ride paid for by me...go stand in the corner and talk to it about how you need my tax money that bad.
Saw this happen about 10-15 years ago in a former American PC maker. Every six months...you would get a visit from a new hoard of VP's. Each would have millions at their disposal and "new" ideas on how to maximize profits. The results would be millions and time wasted...employees blamed for their failure and fired. The worst part is these VP's would walk down the street to another company and do exactly the same thing in another company. Seeing the writing on the wall...I got out after the fourth set of VP's did their damage and most of my fellow employees were fired/quit when times when downhill.
Looking to the present...company was acquired about five years ago by a Asian PC manufacturer.
Too bad jr bush wasn't the only one I've ever met like what you described. Seems like almost every manager I've ever met or been forced to sell my soul/ethics/morals to are the ones who are the used car salesperson. Seems like it's this way in almost every American business and we pride ourselves in this?
Hopefully the cops end up paying tons of cash to replace the phones, along with whatever criminal penalties come from their actions.
Used to date a lady who worked in law enforcement in Oklahoma. She told me if a cop is convicted...he serves his time in Kentucky to keep them out of the hands of people he/she may have arrested. If this is the case...hopefully...they'll serve time in some place like Arizona where it's hot and their former reputation follows them. Arizona in summer is 120 degrees plus and they run private prisons facing federal scrutiny over civil rights and such violations.
Anyway...I don't care how bad of a bad a$$ you think you were/are...there are always bigger and badder bad a$$es who will change your mind. The difference...your gun and badge is gone and you're a former cop.
"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
This would be true if there were no other machines you could purchase which would play these game cartridges. Right now on several online sites...I can buy for about $40-50 US machines with the ability to play NES/SNES cartridges. Since you can find these games used at garage sales...used game stores or numerous other venues...you can purchase a new machine which will allow you to play them...it's an EPIC FAIL using this part of copyright law to prove the point the guy was using code which wasn't his to make money.
The real solution is for schools to employ people who are competent to teach programming, and for universities to make this a prerequisite, but I doubt that will happen.
I live in Idaho...where I hear that businesses will not move here because of lack of a decent educational system. In the next sentence from business and community leaders...you hear how not to increase taxes (claim they're too high all ready in a right-to-work state) and give every student a laptop to and force them to get their education by this method. This being the case (where I live in a state where it's still the 1970's without any of the benefits)...how are the students going to be anywhere close to competent when no one is willing to spend the time and money to make it so? Very simple answer...Americans love education as long as the students "feel great about themselves" and as long as they aren't being taxed for it. Means we're going to have narcissistic brats who can barely walk upright and talk...but they will have great feelings of their self worth.
The only thing that has changed between Ye Olde Sears Catalog and mighty Amazon is the scale and ease at which money is slipping away from the state's grasp AND current budget shortfalls causing states to look anywhere they can for that money.
Very easy way around this is if you have a friend in a no sales tax state like Oregon...get your package shipped there and have your friend deliver it to you. State tax man says anything...my uncle sent me a gift...go to his state and collect the sales tax you think you're losing. Without a receipt...declare the value at ten cents and pay your sales tax on that.
I've said it before and will keep saying it...as soon as states quit giving out corporate welfare to their corporate buddies...that's the time I start paying into what I believe is a system which deserves my hard earned money...rather than throwing it away to those who need it the least.
You haven't gone down far enough in the food chain yet. It's the local entities who would whine the most about this...since they cry the state/federal governments don't give them their fair share...so schools/parks/roads are crap because community A gets more of the share than community B.
You want to solve this issue about people not paying sales tax on their out-of-state purchases...quit giving away taxes to finance football stadiums for millionaire/billionaire owners. Quit throwing away tax monies on businesses who promise to relocate to your area for 10 years...but leave after two to five years and the taxpayers on on the hook for the bills with nothing to show for it but an empty building. When businesses start paying their share...rather than gaming the system...then come talk to me about my Amazon purchases...if I indeed make them.
Nintendo can come out with a console that will probably outperform the 360 and PS/3 and be cheaper. Now Nintendo can produce a new machine that will out perform the completion and cost less just as the Wii sales start to drop.
For Nintendo to outperform a 360 or PS3...is going to be a tall order. Here's just a few of the reasons:
1. Never could play DVD's on a Nintendo. I can play DVD's on a 360 and Blu-Rays/DVD's on a PS3.
2. Have not seen Wii controllers I can use on my PC. Wired 360 controllers work without jumping through hoops when plugged in. Wireless receivers will allow my 360 wireless controllers to work on the PC. I can buy PC controllers in either 360 or PS3 button configurations.
3. Microsoft and Sony had hi-def built in for about $50-100 more than a Wii. Can find a new 360 as cheap or cheaper than a Wii.
4. My 360 can interface with any of the PC's in my home through Windows Media Center.
5. Played the Wii for about a week after I got it. Use my 360 several times a week for playing games/watching movies/TV shows on the home network/watching DVD's. Gave my Wii away to get work done on my car and I feel like I got the better end of the deal. Only regret is that Goldeneye isn't out on the 360.
6. The caliber of games on the 360/Xbox/PS3/PS2/PS1/PSP...even the Nintendo legacy systems...leaves the Wii crying in the dust.
The ship Nintendo is chasing has all ready left the dock...the passengers are getting food poisoning and they're waiting for the USS Posidon to rescue them.
It doesn't work that way because you are completely and totally unqualified to be CEO of Goldman Sachs. Believe it or not Slashdot, the guys at the top are usually there for very good reasons. They are not stupid, they are not idiots, and most of them are pretty damn good at what they do.
You're right. Most of the people who do these type of jobs have no morals or ethics...just a drive to screw anything and everything they have to to keep themselves in power and the paychecks they never earned from disappearing.
Myself and many others...I have morals/ethics and care for our fellow man. We will never be rich...but makes it much easier to sleep at night and shave in the morning by being able to look yourself in the mirror.
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There are a couple things here that clearly indicate that banks are committing fraud. First, there is usury.
If I remember right...most usury laws (except for Arkansas) were phased out in the 80's because of the credit card companies. It all started in South Dakota. Even in Arkansas...the banks have tried for many years to get them repealed because they can't seem to be satisfied for a 10% interest rate being the highest they can charge there. Voters there have seen the smoke blown up their arses and refuse to vote it out...even when the banks threaten to pull out of that state.
Then there is collusion in the defrauding of the american public. Much of the loan money goes to private distance Universities.
The ONLY reason you have "schools" like the University of Phoenix is because of the profits they generate and generally the low quality of "education" they claim to provide their students. When you had "reform" of the student loan program years ago...Congress was well aware of what was happening...but they didn't give a damn because these "schools" were handing out decent bribes to make sure nothing changed for them or the banks. Didn't exactly work the way the schools/banks expected...but the students were the ones who got and are still getting the shaft sideways.
You want to reform this system...you start black-balled ANY school where the default rate is over a certain percent and make sure they can never get another penny under any other name they may use. Maybe then...these shysters will go back to selling vacuum cleaners or horse sh!t door-to-door.
They can be discharged on death. You are stuck with them for life.
What happens when it seems like suicide is the ONLY way out of the debt/joblessness situation? Wonder if the families where Jr. commits suicide because of his/her debt/joblessness would get the word out if this was the reason they took their own life? Will shame keep this buried? I would hope that with more and more suicides the government/corporations would be shamed to do something to prevent this for future generations.
Sorry... no. Sad as it may seem, the federal government (as screwed up as it is) is the only body that could possibly keep these fuckers in check. Your proposal would make the federal government weaker which would in turn make the Wall St. asshats stronger which in turn screws us all.
The problem is that this country was started because you had the moneyed interests getting pissed off on paying off the war debts the British ran up protecting the colonists from the "dreaded" Native Americans. When they cried as a colony with no representation in Parliament...you had your colonial "Grover Norquist's" who threw off British rule. After the war and the Constitution being ratified...you had Washington using troops to shut down "illegal" local moonshiners who believed the Federal government had no power to tax their whiskey.
Instead of drowning the federal government in a bathtub (ala Grover Norquist), I suggest we take our government back from the greedy pigs and use that power to set things straight.
Personally...I believe it's going to take boarding up some business exec's in their homes with their family and burn the house down with them inside of it. The troops will be called of course...but if you send a message that your business practices and morals are not for the common good...some will change their behavior because they know the same could happen to them.
Whether or not people believe it...the French/Russian Revolutions did put fear into the moneyed elite. Many were shot/hung/decapitated because they did not believe it could happen to them. When the elite believe their money/power will protect them when you have those who are starving and little hope...they will change once martyrs are made. You have martyrs...you have something to fight behind. Ideas are powerful and non-stoppable.
But in the end, I quit just like I did with Facebook a year ago. Social Networking is fucking boring when the people being the most social are retards.
Still with Facebook...but it's not the "Place" to be that others think it is.
I agree with you 100% about the users there. That's why I misspelled my name...never put up a photo of myself...changed my sex/age/location to keep only those I WANT to communicate with to be able to find me. Screw former co-workers I couldn't stand when I was forced to deal with them. Screw the relatives and ex's. If I wanted to deal with any of them...I have a cell phone or can send them an email message. I actually have a life which is more than posting that I'm beating off at this moment and came the next. They are not and will not be in it by my choice. Unlike these morons...my life isn't earth shattering and people don't care what I'm doing.
First of all its by municipality, not county. Individual cities have different rates here.
Ah that's easy, once you have the data. How do you get the data? The expensive part is keeping track of the endless seemingly random changes. Is soda a tax free food or taxable luxury good in that city? How bout energy drinks?
Very easy way around this is to know someone in a state with no sales tax (like Oregon). You have your online retailer send it there...then you have your friend or family member send it to you. On something which costs very little like an e-book or a cheap part...wouldn't be worth it...but for a big ticket item like a TV or a computer...it would.
I've said it before and I'll say it here...quit making it Xmas by bribing every business with tax breaks. The governments wouldn't have the problems with deficits.
I have found the the "beta" spam feature of google voice does a good job of filtering out crap calls. Also, every cell phone that I have used for the past 10 years has had caller ID. I just don't answer calls that I don't recognize. If it's important, they'll leave a voicemail.
Another lesser known use for Google is to type in the number in question and getting some type of listing for them. That way...if they leave a number...you can call them back if you like or just let them hang in the wind. Even if the number isn't specific to a listing...for instance a telemarketer or bill collector...others have been harassed as well and will complain online about it.
Had my roommate see me do this with a number which wasn't in my phone book. He was amazed you could use Google to find a phone number/name/complaints of callers. Been doing this for years and works great...just fight the urge to answer the call until after you can see who it was. Means...guys waste your time and trouble...it's my phone and I choose who I want to deal with.
Think the longest was a bit over an hour before I got bored with it.
Another way to handle this is start throwing out phrases in other languages. Pissed off a girl years ago with these two phrases..."No Habla English" and "No Habla Espanol". She kept switching between each language...then it would be the other language. She hung up and called back a few minutes later...so she got it again in German and Russian. This time...she didn't call back since I wasted about 10 minutes of her time.
If you really wanted to play with callers from India...start doing the same thing in their language and several others from the area. Can't be too difficult to tell them you don't speak English in their own language.
Then someone claims vaccines cause bad, scary things which plants doubt in their minds so they do a risk evaluation in their head. They know autism is bad. They probably have seen someone with autism. They have probably never seen someone with measles or whooping cough, though. Their brain tries to come up with a "bad disease" and they think of the flu. So would a lifetime of autism be worse than a week of fever and coughing? Sure. So skip the vaccines.
Having had a sister pass away from pneumonia from either mumps or measles (doesn't matter since both can now be vaccinated against)...have also worked extensively with autistic children. Have seen both ends of the this discussion.
The point is that many of these autistic children have their infirmity because not of an imagined threat which can be pointed to...but because either/both of the parents have bad genetics. It's too tough for many people to even consider that something outside of their control (other than not having children or having an abortion once you find out) is the cause of their children's disability. Parents don't want to hear or understand that if they didn't want to have an autistic child...they should have never had sex and gotten pregnant in the first place. By not controlling your urges to have children...the parents are the ones who caused their child to develop autism...NOT a vaccine.
It is shocking how stupid some people can be.
The vaccine isn't 100% effective, there are very few things which are. According to the National Network for Immunization Information one vaccination is 95% and two is 99.7% effective. The U.S. started giving 2 shots in 1989. That probably means there are between 10 and 15 million people in the U.S. who received the vaccine who are still vulnerable to Measles.
Now, I do have a degree in Mathematics so you can take my word on the fact that a 0.3% is much less than 100%. There is a 0.01% of a child having a reaction, and a 0.00001% of a child having a severe reaction, and 0.000001% of a child having an anaphylactic reaction.
The only problem I see in your odds is the number who MAY die or suffer something life changing are they are the ones who get the attention of the spotlight and finding the sleaziest lawyer they can find for a payoff. In terms of the circumstantial "evidence" she claims to have...we have a former playmate who CLAIMS to be an authority on vaccinations. Didn't know she had medical degree or other professional training...other than being able to look good for the camera and possibly give a decent BJ and a romp-in-the-hay. In that case...she's the one I want to contact and get her help. Even that UK doctor has who started this BS has had his medical license revoked.
I don't see why there's such a big screaming panic about a disease that gives you spots and a bit of a temperature, and a couple of days off school...
Because for about two per thousand cases, it causes meningitis which kills about half of the affected patients, leaving many of the survivors brain damaged for life. For quite a few who don't get meningitis, it causes blindness and deafness (measles was the #1 cause of both in the 50s.) Because it causes pneumonia of the "hospitalized for days" variety in up to 30% of cases (and before oxygen therapy, IV fluids, and antibiotics killed about 10% of patients.)
Forgot to mention that catching this and other childhood diseases as an adult can also mean sterilization.
Personally...having seen too many of today's parents and their kids and what brats they are...that may not be such a bad conclusion. At least the gene pool will get some cleaning...some college girls will make some extra money from donating eggs and may have a better educated population. That is unless the most stupid ones are the ones to survive and have the kids.
Sorry guys - I hate the idea of Chrome as much as any privacy lover would, and I love certain addons (Adblock/NoScript/Firebug/etc.), but as a web dev FF4+ just isn't cutting it. Unless one of these new version fix those issues, I have to leave FF behind. It's now wasting my time on the job.
Fortunately...I found many of the same addons for Chrome that I was using in FF. Don't get me wrong...have been using and am used to FF...but when I have to wait for my quad-core to catch up to whatever I'm doing in FF...something had to give...so went with Chrome and the problems went away.
Whenever I read that FF gets their act together and it starts acting like Chrome/Opera/IE...I will start using it again.
It uses way less memory and is way faster.
The Windows version still has massive memory leaks. Before switching to Chrome for Windows and Linux...Firefox was lagging and not responding every 7-10 seconds...then catching up when it decided to do something. Thought it was my cable modem & squirrel eaten coax...but after getting Chrome...doesn't happen at all. Have used Firefox for years...but nothing this buggy needs to be allowed out into the open. Even IE8/9 doesn't pull this garbage.
If anything, the odds of dying in a terrorist attack are so remote in a given year that things really haven't changed. Mundane reasons for death, like car accidents, medical problems, even run-of-the-mill personal homicide massively dwarf terrorism.
DHS and post 9/11 is what you get when you have people who are legends in their own minds overestimate their own importance. No matter what you think...you are not unique nor special and are replaceable. By not believing this...you have all ready deluded yourself...no matter what your mother lied to you about.
One of the problems here in saying whether Neanderthal's are a different species to Homo Sapiens is that the word species is poorly defined. It's actually been a problem since Darwin's day, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem gives an idea of how long we've been arguing this. Personally if I feel if they were routinely successfully breeding with homo sapiens then calling them a separate species may be a bit of a stretch.
Does that mean that since I was always told I was found under a rock...have rocks for brains and having a stubborn streak which makes me rock headed that I'm part of the suspected missing link for silicon based lifeforms?
I have also made the argument that with all the tax breaks that state/county/local governments give away to businesses...there is no reason to go after individual taxpayers for taxes at all. For instance...I was living in Phoenix when they put the vote up for the professional football stadium to have the citizens pay for this stadium...rather than the owners/stockholders of the team. I and too many people never had any use of this stadium...but the sales tax was increased to make sure the owners/stockholders got a free ride. Even worse is that if the owners decide to hop out of town during the middle of the night...taxpayers are still on the hook for the bill...rather than the owners. When corporate welfare goes away...then come talk to me about needing additional taxes. You want to give these multi-millionaires my tax money to make them happy and give them a free ride paid for by me...go stand in the corner and talk to it about how you need my tax money that bad.
Saw this happen about 10-15 years ago in a former American PC maker. Every six months...you would get a visit from a new hoard of VP's. Each would have millions at their disposal and "new" ideas on how to maximize profits. The results would be millions and time wasted...employees blamed for their failure and fired. The worst part is these VP's would walk down the street to another company and do exactly the same thing in another company. Seeing the writing on the wall...I got out after the fourth set of VP's did their damage and most of my fellow employees were fired/quit when times when downhill. Looking to the present...company was acquired about five years ago by a Asian PC manufacturer.
Too bad jr bush wasn't the only one I've ever met like what you described. Seems like almost every manager I've ever met or been forced to sell my soul/ethics/morals to are the ones who are the used car salesperson. Seems like it's this way in almost every American business and we pride ourselves in this?
it's the goal of nature to build better fools.
Or as a friend of mine tells me...the more idiot proof you make something...the more an idiot will use it.
Hopefully the cops end up paying tons of cash to replace the phones, along with whatever criminal penalties come from their actions.
Used to date a lady who worked in law enforcement in Oklahoma. She told me if a cop is convicted...he serves his time in Kentucky to keep them out of the hands of people he/she may have arrested. If this is the case...hopefully...they'll serve time in some place like Arizona where it's hot and their former reputation follows them. Arizona in summer is 120 degrees plus and they run private prisons facing federal scrutiny over civil rights and such violations.
Anyway...I don't care how bad of a bad a$$ you think you were/are...there are always bigger and badder bad a$$es who will change your mind. The difference...your gun and badge is gone and you're a former cop.
"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
This would be true if there were no other machines you could purchase which would play these game cartridges. Right now on several online sites...I can buy for about $40-50 US machines with the ability to play NES/SNES cartridges. Since you can find these games used at garage sales...used game stores or numerous other venues...you can purchase a new machine which will allow you to play them...it's an EPIC FAIL using this part of copyright law to prove the point the guy was using code which wasn't his to make money.
The real solution is for schools to employ people who are competent to teach programming, and for universities to make this a prerequisite, but I doubt that will happen.
I live in Idaho...where I hear that businesses will not move here because of lack of a decent educational system. In the next sentence from business and community leaders...you hear how not to increase taxes (claim they're too high all ready in a right-to-work state) and give every student a laptop to and force them to get their education by this method. This being the case (where I live in a state where it's still the 1970's without any of the benefits)...how are the students going to be anywhere close to competent when no one is willing to spend the time and money to make it so? Very simple answer...Americans love education as long as the students "feel great about themselves" and as long as they aren't being taxed for it. Means we're going to have narcissistic brats who can barely walk upright and talk...but they will have great feelings of their self worth.
The only thing that has changed between Ye Olde Sears Catalog and mighty Amazon is the scale and ease at which money is slipping away from the state's grasp AND current budget shortfalls causing states to look anywhere they can for that money.
Very easy way around this is if you have a friend in a no sales tax state like Oregon...get your package shipped there and have your friend deliver it to you. State tax man says anything...my uncle sent me a gift...go to his state and collect the sales tax you think you're losing. Without a receipt...declare the value at ten cents and pay your sales tax on that.
I've said it before and will keep saying it...as soon as states quit giving out corporate welfare to their corporate buddies...that's the time I start paying into what I believe is a system which deserves my hard earned money...rather than throwing it away to those who need it the least.
You haven't gone down far enough in the food chain yet. It's the local entities who would whine the most about this...since they cry the state/federal governments don't give them their fair share...so schools/parks/roads are crap because community A gets more of the share than community B.
You want to solve this issue about people not paying sales tax on their out-of-state purchases...quit giving away taxes to finance football stadiums for millionaire/billionaire owners. Quit throwing away tax monies on businesses who promise to relocate to your area for 10 years...but leave after two to five years and the taxpayers on on the hook for the bills with nothing to show for it but an empty building. When businesses start paying their share...rather than gaming the system...then come talk to me about my Amazon purchases...if I indeed make them.
Nintendo can come out with a console that will probably outperform the 360 and PS/3 and be cheaper. Now Nintendo can produce a new machine that will out perform the completion and cost less just as the Wii sales start to drop.
For Nintendo to outperform a 360 or PS3...is going to be a tall order. Here's just a few of the reasons:
1. Never could play DVD's on a Nintendo. I can play DVD's on a 360 and Blu-Rays/DVD's on a PS3.
2. Have not seen Wii controllers I can use on my PC. Wired 360 controllers work without jumping through hoops when plugged in. Wireless receivers will allow my 360 wireless controllers to work on the PC. I can buy PC controllers in either 360 or PS3 button configurations.
3. Microsoft and Sony had hi-def built in for about $50-100 more than a Wii. Can find a new 360 as cheap or cheaper than a Wii.
4. My 360 can interface with any of the PC's in my home through Windows Media Center.
5. Played the Wii for about a week after I got it. Use my 360 several times a week for playing games/watching movies/TV shows on the home network/watching DVD's. Gave my Wii away to get work done on my car and I feel like I got the better end of the deal. Only regret is that Goldeneye isn't out on the 360.
6. The caliber of games on the 360/Xbox/PS3/PS2/PS1/PSP...even the Nintendo legacy systems...leaves the Wii crying in the dust.
The ship Nintendo is chasing has all ready left the dock...the passengers are getting food poisoning and they're waiting for the USS Posidon to rescue them.
It doesn't work that way because you are completely and totally unqualified to be CEO of Goldman Sachs. Believe it or not Slashdot, the guys at the top are usually there for very good reasons. They are not stupid, they are not idiots, and most of them are pretty damn good at what they do.
You're right. Most of the people who do these type of jobs have no morals or ethics...just a drive to screw anything and everything they have to to keep themselves in power and the paychecks they never earned from disappearing.
Myself and many others...I have morals/ethics and care for our fellow man. We will never be rich...but makes it much easier to sleep at night and shave in the morning by being able to look yourself in the mirror.