I run BT 24/7 and I upload @ 800-1000 kBps and I have yet to recieve so much as an email from Shaw. (I have the 25/1 Mbit package for 99/month). As far as I'm concerned, Shaw is a great isp.
Man, you really need to wake up from your church-ophillia/social darwinist fantasy world. There is a reason why the US has 100Xs the murder rate, 10Xs the incarceration rate, and one of the worst school systems in the industrialized world: your country does not value social welfare. Monies that go to keeping homeless people sheltered and fed, public schools clean and well stocked and staffed, addicts off of drugs, etc are seen as weak and wasteful. Whereas monies that go for bombs and cops and prisons are seen as wise and prudent. You want a peaceful prosperous society, then stop putting your jackboot on the throats of the vulnerable. Cut your military spending and your corporate welfare state and spend the money on the poor. But of course thats just liberal bleeding heart nonsense right? The key to a better tomorrow is to have the losers of society starve to death, isn't it?
Writing asinine comments online deriding one of the most important advances in journalism since the selectric? The advent of net not only breaks the monopoly of the **aa cartels, but it also breaks the monopoly of the news conglomerates. So who the fuck are you or the French govt to be telling everyone what is or isn't journalism? and who is or isn't a journalist. BTW, some of the discoveries in engineering/mechanics have been accomplished by autodidacts with zero formal educations.
Why not? The MPAA has been rating films for yonks limiting access to children. And the people sitting in judgement are totally anonymous, low paid, and very inconsistent. The guidelines they use are murky and different standards are regularly used for independent vs studio output. And trying to appeal a rating...well don't even bother. For some reason they felt the need to include a catholic and a protestant priest on the appellate panel.
if a system like that can survive, why not a governmental one run by professionals with clearly visible criteria and an appeals process that is fair and doesn't have a religious component? BTW, kids don't have free speech.
to release blu ray discs you need blu ray licensing. sony seems unwilling to have their brand alongside titles like "anal fisting petite debutantes who swallow" for some reason. And a lot of early adopters are young men with more money than sense who like porn and think a 6 foot HD vagina is exciting. No porn on blu-ray? guess what, there are a fair number of people who wont buy blu-ray.
I want the option of what bit rates I want to pay for...frankie goes to hollywood nostalgia purchase-128k is fine...the 1970 cellar door sessions from miles davis--flac + artwork + liner notes + bonus video would be nice.
Imo, choice is key.
I think you missed his point. It was about his impression of Visda after reading the articles, he wasn't arguing whether they were right or not. and lets be honest, no one is going to fire up a vista machine in a critical environment (or even a highly productive one) for a fair while yet. Why? because its not reliable, and productivity would take a hit.
Thats interesting. Here's a little ditty on harmful emotions penned by some truly amazing monks (and these are my words, not their;s, it's from memory) and similar to yours, try to read it until the end:
Cultivation of states of mind is a cumulative process. One one engages in states of meditation that feed the loving connected aspects of the mind, those tendencies will grow. The more time you spend in states of lovingkindness, the more lovingkindness will grow inside of you. Similarly, the more time your spend cultivating states of agitation, aggression, greed, or anger the more those states will grow inside of you. For whatever your actions/intentions are in this moment, they will influence your actions/intentions in the future. This is karma.
Mystical gobbledeegook? not according to the latest research in many fields including neurology. A recent article, http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/arti cle2171679.ece, provides a little info. Or you can check out the book 'destructive emotions' for a more thorough treatment. In short, the mind is plastic, and what you think and feel on a regular basis shapes the actual physical network of the mind. Just like learning a musical instrument changes the physical structure of your mind and they way your brain processes information, so does cultivating so-called states of mind. Which opens up exciting avenues of treatment for all kinds of people, depressives, addicts, blind ragers, etc. But it can also be used for bad things, like cultivating states of anger or aggression.
I dont know if playing vids makes a person worse, but I really doubt if it somehow makes a person better.
If only we could guarantee that our so-called elected servants are not without conscience, that would be revolutionary. It's not something that gets a lot of press time, but there are people who are defective, who don't feel compassion, who view others in the same way we view objects, who have no empathy. Oh to have a leader who feels that murdering children in the name of war is utterly nauseating, and won't bomb civilian sites (& fyi, there is no such thing as a smart bomb); a leader who doesn't view habeas corpus as an annoyance; a leader who will not say anything to anyone to get elected as long as the strategist says its a good idea; in short, a leader whose goal it is is to serve not win. A screening test that will eliminate the power hungry sub-humans, now that would be a godsend.
The road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with the intentions of the soulless remorseless creatures previous cultures called vampires and we call sociopaths/narcissists. Unfortunately, they're drawn to politics like ants to honey and most people don't see it.
Yeah, and it's ok to beat my wife with a stick thats 1" in diameter or smaller, anything larger is abuse.
Look, to a small child, getting yelled at and spanked is absolutely terrifying. Regular physical and emotional trauma creates enormous personal and social costs. Schools don't use physical punishment, workplaces don't use physical punishment, first world prison systems don't use physical punishment (except in Singapore and the U.S.), and hitting another adult is totally inexcuseable except in self-defense. So why engage in that treatment with the most vulnerable members of society? Does it make them better people? Better at relating to others? Does it foster their emotional and intellectual growth? Or is it just a means of terrifying children into behaving the way we think they should behave and for us to feel powerful and vent our frustrations?
I find its usually people who hit their kids or were hit as children that steadfastly defend physical assault as a valid parenting technique. Which means they have a fuckload of emotional baggage attached to the issue, and are not a good source of info.
A much better source is child development psychologists and, to a lesser degree, primate researchers. One interesting study showed the quite dramatic changes early physical punishment had not only on primate behavior latter in life, but on the actual anatomy of the brain (i.e. some structures were stunted, others greatly enlarged). Anyway, I defy anyone to produce evidence that human, or higher order primate offspring benefit in anyway to physical punishment and the resulting terror inflicted on them by those they depend on for survival.
Are you an expert in Russian law and culture? Didn't think so. Allof DOES pay artists, its just different then the way the us does it. You might not like the system, but don't push those lies that allofmp3 are just thievies, you know there is legitimate businesses in Russia.
Thanks for the reply, I've just sent my order to classicshaving.com for a "Hefty Classic" safety razor & some platinum coated blades.
I have been suspect of the whole razor industry for a while, as I have found any industry that needs to advertise that much has some serious issues. Their marketing corps have a pretty hard job, I mean how would you try to convince people that they need a razor that uses 5 blades simultaneously & requires a battery for vibration.
I experimented with the strait razor, but wielding that particular munition requires a real investment in training. I never even thought of looking for a safe razor that still embodied some of the characteristics of the dangerous razor.
Again, thanks for posting that. You have most likely changed the way I live, albeit in a small way.
Prove it. There are many many rich parasites who do nothing except collect dividend checks and accrue interest and then waste the planet's resources on disgusting luxeries. Now you, I suppose, couls argue that the fact that their money is being invested and/or loaned means that these vampires are infact producing. But you would be mis-understanding the word 'produce'. It is the human activity of creation that comes out of personal effort. I am not offing an alternative economic model, just point out the fact that just because somebody owns stock doesn't mean they are actually producing anything.
But I don't know why I am bothering to reply to someone who writes 'Being poor is the result of being a thief' & 'everyone in brazil steals and destroys'; overgeneralize, judge, and condemn much? r u jesus?
Yep. The case is one of the most mis-characterized of all time. Mickey's intentionally, at management's insistence, put their water temp 50 degrees hotter than is recommended so as to increase coffee yield (hotter water, less grounds are needed). The manager admitted under oath that he knew the coffee's temperature had the potential to cause serious injury. So the woman gets a coffee in the drive through, and placed the cup between her legs for a moment as her son started driving through the drive through. Bump..And she received, and I cannot stress this enough, THIRD DEGREE BURNS on her GENiTALIA. If you don't know what burns in the third degree are, you should look it up. The woman sued Mickey's for medical expenses only, totalling about 10K. She received a letter from the McDonald's legal team saying they would not pay. And one of the reasons they listed was that old people don't need plastic surgery on their genitals because nobody is going to see them, so it's a waste of money. Needless to say, this pissed off the woman and so she sued them for mad cash. And the jury was sufficiently convinced and/or pissed off to award her the money. See, it's not so cut and dry.
Good analysis. By FAR, Ebay's biggest asset is their user-base numbers. Which is odd, because they really don't provide any services for the average buyer. The system is setup from the seller's POV almost entirely, it's only when actual fraud is occuring do the ebay gears start to turn.
I never recommend ebay purchases to anyone, unless they are looking for rare flea market crap (you know, one man's garbage type of stuff). And even then, I tell them not to expect much in terms of authenticity or quality. It's one step above buying from some guy in a van on the street corner.
Ah, and theres the rub. When a company leverage's its power to kill competition...the only product left is monopolist's and therefore it is the defato 'best'.
In a one party state, the best party is, well, The Party.
Umm, you can if hack shit and forfeit your right to expect microsoft to keep your system as secure as systems with the browser. And I've only ever seen it done successfully on a 2000 box; the hackablity of vist and xp are unknows to me.
did you miss all the predatory allegations in the eu/us over the last 5+ years?
I really don't know where people get the idea that all DRM guys are morons. Specialized hardware that is easily updatable, specialized updateable players, specialized media, and the complicity of MS & the hardware manufacturers will make cracking this stuff really forking hard. I'm sorry, but some of the people working on this stuff are incredibly smart. Maybe the system will be cracked, but it is by no means guaranteed.
So we shouldn't even try?
A couple of tid bits from the last load of declassified docs: Johnson started the bombing of cambodia, not nixon. More explosive force was droped on that country (we have the day by day logs now) than was dropped by all sides in WWII (including nukes). Which has lent credence to the theory that the psychologicaly and physical devestation of the country was the reason a nutter like the k.Rouge went from a fringe force with less then a hundred followers to the genocidal ruler he became.
Like it or not, some openess is better than none. And there is no way that law would get passed now by either party.
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We (Canada) already are a bread basket. /nitpick
I run BT 24/7 and I upload @ 800-1000 kBps and I have yet to recieve so much as an email from Shaw. (I have the 25/1 Mbit package for 99/month). As far as I'm concerned, Shaw is a great isp.
Man, you really need to wake up from your church-ophillia/social darwinist fantasy world. There is a reason why the US has 100Xs the murder rate, 10Xs the incarceration rate, and one of the worst school systems in the industrialized world: your country does not value social welfare. Monies that go to keeping homeless people sheltered and fed, public schools clean and well stocked and staffed, addicts off of drugs, etc are seen as weak and wasteful. Whereas monies that go for bombs and cops and prisons are seen as wise and prudent. You want a peaceful prosperous society, then stop putting your jackboot on the throats of the vulnerable. Cut your military spending and your corporate welfare state and spend the money on the poor. But of course thats just liberal bleeding heart nonsense right? The key to a better tomorrow is to have the losers of society starve to death, isn't it?
Writing asinine comments online deriding one of the most important advances in journalism since the selectric? The advent of net not only breaks the monopoly of the **aa cartels, but it also breaks the monopoly of the news conglomerates. So who the fuck are you or the French govt to be telling everyone what is or isn't journalism? and who is or isn't a journalist. BTW, some of the discoveries in engineering/mechanics have been accomplished by autodidacts with zero formal educations.
Why not? The MPAA has been rating films for yonks limiting access to children. And the people sitting in judgement are totally anonymous, low paid, and very inconsistent. The guidelines they use are murky and different standards are regularly used for independent vs studio output. And trying to appeal a rating...well don't even bother. For some reason they felt the need to include a catholic and a protestant priest on the appellate panel.
if a system like that can survive, why not a governmental one run by professionals with clearly visible criteria and an appeals process that is fair and doesn't have a religious component? BTW, kids don't have free speech.
to release blu ray discs you need blu ray licensing. sony seems unwilling to have their brand alongside titles like "anal fisting petite debutantes who swallow" for some reason. And a lot of early adopters are young men with more money than sense who like porn and think a 6 foot HD vagina is exciting. No porn on blu-ray? guess what, there are a fair number of people who wont buy blu-ray.
I want the option of what bit rates I want to pay for...frankie goes to hollywood nostalgia purchase-128k is fine...the 1970 cellar door sessions from miles davis--flac + artwork + liner notes + bonus video would be nice. Imo, choice is key.
You've actually heard someone say that OSX is a waste of money compared to windows, and then proceed to dump the mac for that reason?
I think you missed his point. It was about his impression of Visda after reading the articles, he wasn't arguing whether they were right or not. and lets be honest, no one is going to fire up a vista machine in a critical environment (or even a highly productive one) for a fair while yet. Why? because its not reliable, and productivity would take a hit.
Thats interesting. Here's a little ditty on harmful emotions penned by some truly amazing monks (and these are my words, not their;s, it's from memory) and similar to yours, try to read it until the end:
Cultivation of states of mind is a cumulative process. One one engages in states of meditation that feed the loving connected aspects of the mind, those tendencies will grow. The more time you spend in states of lovingkindness, the more lovingkindness will grow inside of you. Similarly, the more time your spend cultivating states of agitation, aggression, greed, or anger the more those states will grow inside of you. For whatever your actions/intentions are in this moment, they will influence your actions/intentions in the future. This is karma.
Mystical gobbledeegook? not according to the latest research in many fields including neurology. A recent article, http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/arti cle2171679.ece, provides a little info. Or you can check out the book 'destructive emotions' for a more thorough treatment. In short, the mind is plastic, and what you think and feel on a regular basis shapes the actual physical network of the mind. Just like learning a musical instrument changes the physical structure of your mind and they way your brain processes information, so does cultivating so-called states of mind. Which opens up exciting avenues of treatment for all kinds of people, depressives, addicts, blind ragers, etc. But it can also be used for bad things, like cultivating states of anger or aggression.
I dont know if playing vids makes a person worse, but I really doubt if it somehow makes a person better.
If only we could guarantee that our so-called elected servants are not without conscience, that would be revolutionary. It's not something that gets a lot of press time, but there are people who are defective, who don't feel compassion, who view others in the same way we view objects, who have no empathy. Oh to have a leader who feels that murdering children in the name of war is utterly nauseating, and won't bomb civilian sites (& fyi, there is no such thing as a smart bomb); a leader who doesn't view habeas corpus as an annoyance; a leader who will not say anything to anyone to get elected as long as the strategist says its a good idea; in short, a leader whose goal it is is to serve not win. A screening test that will eliminate the power hungry sub-humans, now that would be a godsend.
The road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with the intentions of the soulless remorseless creatures previous cultures called vampires and we call sociopaths/narcissists. Unfortunately, they're drawn to politics like ants to honey and most people don't see it.
Yeah, and it's ok to beat my wife with a stick thats 1" in diameter or smaller, anything larger is abuse.
Look, to a small child, getting yelled at and spanked is absolutely terrifying. Regular physical and emotional trauma creates enormous personal and social costs. Schools don't use physical punishment, workplaces don't use physical punishment, first world prison systems don't use physical punishment (except in Singapore and the U.S.), and hitting another adult is totally inexcuseable except in self-defense. So why engage in that treatment with the most vulnerable members of society? Does it make them better people? Better at relating to others? Does it foster their emotional and intellectual growth? Or is it just a means of terrifying children into behaving the way we think they should behave and for us to feel powerful and vent our frustrations?
I find its usually people who hit their kids or were hit as children that steadfastly defend physical assault as a valid parenting technique. Which means they have a fuckload of emotional baggage attached to the issue, and are not a good source of info.
A much better source is child development psychologists and, to a lesser degree, primate researchers. One interesting study showed the quite dramatic changes early physical punishment had not only on primate behavior latter in life, but on the actual anatomy of the brain (i.e. some structures were stunted, others greatly enlarged). Anyway, I defy anyone to produce evidence that human, or higher order primate offspring benefit in anyway to physical punishment and the resulting terror inflicted on them by those they depend on for survival.
Are you an expert in Russian law and culture? Didn't think so. Allof DOES pay artists, its just different then the way the us does it. You might not like the system, but don't push those lies that allofmp3 are just thievies, you know there is legitimate businesses in Russia.
Thanks for the reply, I've just sent my order to classicshaving.com for a "Hefty Classic" safety razor & some platinum coated blades.
I have been suspect of the whole razor industry for a while, as I have found any industry that needs to advertise that much has some serious issues. Their marketing corps have a pretty hard job, I mean how would you try to convince people that they need a razor that uses 5 blades simultaneously & requires a battery for vibration.
I experimented with the strait razor, but wielding that particular munition requires a real investment in training. I never even thought of looking for a safe razor that still embodied some of the characteristics of the dangerous razor.
Again, thanks for posting that. You have most likely changed the way I live, albeit in a small way.
cheers!
So why not include it as a semi-mandatory update for 3? Because it would hurt 7's sales of course...
And so they call somebody copying things without permission 'copyright infringment' not 'theft'. What's your point?
Prove it. There are many many rich parasites who do nothing except collect dividend checks and accrue interest and then waste the planet's resources on disgusting luxeries. Now you, I suppose, couls argue that the fact that their money is being invested and/or loaned means that these vampires are infact producing. But you would be mis-understanding the word 'produce'. It is the human activity of creation that comes out of personal effort. I am not offing an alternative economic model, just point out the fact that just because somebody owns stock doesn't mean they are actually producing anything.
But I don't know why I am bothering to reply to someone who writes 'Being poor is the result of being a thief' & 'everyone in brazil steals and destroys'; overgeneralize, judge, and condemn much? r u jesus?
Yep. The case is one of the most mis-characterized of all time. Mickey's intentionally, at management's insistence, put their water temp 50 degrees hotter than is recommended so as to increase coffee yield (hotter water, less grounds are needed). The manager admitted under oath that he knew the coffee's temperature had the potential to cause serious injury. So the woman gets a coffee in the drive through, and placed the cup between her legs for a moment as her son started driving through the drive through. Bump..And she received, and I cannot stress this enough, THIRD DEGREE BURNS on her GENiTALIA. If you don't know what burns in the third degree are, you should look it up. The woman sued Mickey's for medical expenses only, totalling about 10K. She received a letter from the McDonald's legal team saying they would not pay. And one of the reasons they listed was that old people don't need plastic surgery on their genitals because nobody is going to see them, so it's a waste of money. Needless to say, this pissed off the woman and so she sued them for mad cash. And the jury was sufficiently convinced and/or pissed off to award her the money. See, it's not so cut and dry.
Good analysis. By FAR, Ebay's biggest asset is their user-base numbers. Which is odd, because they really don't provide any services for the average buyer. The system is setup from the seller's POV almost entirely, it's only when actual fraud is occuring do the ebay gears start to turn.
I never recommend ebay purchases to anyone, unless they are looking for rare flea market crap (you know, one man's garbage type of stuff). And even then, I tell them not to expect much in terms of authenticity or quality. It's one step above buying from some guy in a van on the street corner.
Or my retirement funds.
Ah, and theres the rub. When a company leverage's its power to kill competition...the only product left is monopolist's and therefore it is the defato 'best'.
In a one party state, the best party is, well, The Party.
Umm, you can if hack shit and forfeit your right to expect microsoft to keep your system as secure as systems with the browser. And I've only ever seen it done successfully on a 2000 box; the hackablity of vist and xp are unknows to me.
did you miss all the predatory allegations in the eu/us over the last 5+ years?
I really don't know where people get the idea that all DRM guys are morons. Specialized hardware that is easily updatable, specialized updateable players, specialized media, and the complicity of MS & the hardware manufacturers will make cracking this stuff really forking hard. I'm sorry, but some of the people working on this stuff are incredibly smart. Maybe the system will be cracked, but it is by no means guaranteed.
So we shouldn't even try? A couple of tid bits from the last load of declassified docs: Johnson started the bombing of cambodia, not nixon. More explosive force was droped on that country (we have the day by day logs now) than was dropped by all sides in WWII (including nukes). Which has lent credence to the theory that the psychologicaly and physical devestation of the country was the reason a nutter like the k.Rouge went from a fringe force with less then a hundred followers to the genocidal ruler he became. Like it or not, some openess is better than none. And there is no way that law would get passed now by either party.
See, Jimmy Carter was a great president.