Similar example: Democrats don't want government intrusion in abortion and reproductive rights, but they are fine with government dictating what parents teach their kids. They oppose government road blocks that search for illegal drugs, they support mandated smog testing
Illegal drug use only affects the user. Smog-causing automobiles affects everybody.
With the republicans, the need of the few outweight the need of the many. Not so with the democrats.
Next up, hunters using "Bambi" as material for showing why hunting is great.
The brother of an ex-colleague turned vegetarian at age 5. His father went hunting and got his deer. While he was gutting the deer in the basement, the mother told the kid not to go downstairs...
Well, the kid did, and screamed "YOU KILLED BAMBI" and never touched meat ever...
Bah, let it go through. And the US will simply lose whatever leadership it had in computers for the benefit of non-US countries, most especially the European Union...
You can thank disney for that...
I mean, what country can be so stupid as to make the jesters decide how information should be processed????
It is unlawful to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies that adhere to the security systems standards adopted under section 104.
It only affects interactive devices? Pfeeew! Linux is safe, as long as all it does is batch-processing...
I disagree and here is why, what would happen if a company was crippled, and I don't mean the Code Red or NIMBA stuff, I mean really hurt so badly that it was put on the edge of bankrupcy by a hole in M$ software?
Though shit. That'll teach them. Think of it as elimination of the most stupid by natural selection.
I remember some 10 years ago, I went to a big Macintrash show in Boston. We were thinking about adding cache memory to our machine, and we stop at a kiosk of a company making precisely that.
A guy walks to us, and we start talking. We tell him what do we do with the machine, and he then tells us that it would not help us.
We're a bit stunned, but not as much as when he handed out his card, we found out he was the president of the company...
Keep in mind that in New York, Verizon is a particularly fucked up, over-mergered company, which results in fucked up, incompetent management of "Dilbert" proportions.
Here is the chronology of NY telecom since the early 80's
AT&T Bell System & Small phone companies
New York Telephone NYS / New York Telephone NYC
New York Telephone
NYNEX (merger of New England Bell & NYT)
Bell Atlantic (NYNEX & BA)
Verizon (BA & GTE)
What the FUCK are you complaining about? Can't you see that VERIZON highly-trained and highly competent management is doing the utmost in respect to it's SOLE RESPONSIBILITY, that is, to maximize it's shareholder's equity???
Much of the economic development of the past two hundred years has been fueled by technology. If we drive out our technologists because they're afraid to write software, then we've crippled ourselves while the rest of the world moves ahead. That's just plain stupid.
No. It's only AMERICAN. Only americans are stupid enough to be so blatanly short-sighted. But, hey! That's darwinism at work; smarter countries will simply take your place. Move over, dinosaur...
The RIAA will buy laws that let them tax your ISP for carrying copyrighted data. They will have a tax placed on blank media and will then extend it to all hardware. They will buy laws that let them view all of your data traffic, and have your ports blocked or your service throttled or cut off. If they feel like having a show trial to try out their new laws, they will have you thrown in jail for longer than a murderer or a rapist, along with the sysadmins of ISPs and sites, including.govs and.edus, that refuse or fail to comply with their laws. They will control what hardware you can buy, and what operating systems and applications you can run on it. They will control what software you are allowed to write yourself, or to run on your own system. They will control who you can discuss software with.
Let them do that, then. Either the people will revolt, or the US will simply fade from the world, as it will get bogged-down by the bullshit-making companies.
I dunno, but just by looking at the pink picture of the plasma in the article, the thing strikes me as not having much energy in it... If it had enough energy, it should at least radiate in the UV, not in the reds...
For years, non-americans has seen the USA as a big movie itself, and relinquishing the control of all data-processing devices to Hollywood merely confirms this fact.
This ultimately proves that the United States of America is nothing but a bullshit country.
That's fine, then, the rest of the world will happily ignore the US.
Why is the U.S. such a big believer in precedents? No other country determines case outcomes based on precedent as strongly as the U.S. If we can get over our precedents maybe we wouldn't have to worry so much about the future. Things can be decided on a case-by-case basis.
This is because the US is a primitive country; it stills relies on customary law, just like any stone-age tribe in Africa. Like in all anglo-saxon countries, the law is determined by the most powerful people. So, the one with the biggest lawyer wins, because he alone is able to wage the long and costly battle to push his agenda ahead.
More evolved countries, such as France, have civil codes which precisely detail the legal relationships without having to go to extreme lengths of judicial spelunking in court archives and records to find precisely the jurisprudence needed.
Well, a place I worked at which folded didn't screw me, and I didn't screw them. However, just before closing, the comtroller (who I had befriended when I did a project for him) brought me in a stock room and told me to help myself with the old obsolete stuff in there.
In there was a working Friden 130 electronic calculator and a working IBM 5100 Portable Computer. Plus several old Contex, Olivetti and Burroughs mechanical calculators, you know the ones baby-boomer geeks used to drool above when they were kids, which all started me nice in collecting those old machines.
In the same manner, we might be able to flash such a card in the airport and not have so much hassle getting on the plane. And someone who doesn't have one would be subject to more intense 'scrutiny'.
Why do I hear the sound of a rubber glove smacking on some security officer's hand????
Our technology is also greater than it was 20 years ago (when the Soviets tried). We have stealth, night vision, heat vision, etc... such things change the balance of odds. This is why we were able to take out Iraq so fast
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With the republicans, the need of the few outweight the need of the many. Not so with the democrats.
Well, the kid did, and screamed "YOU KILLED BAMBI" and never touched meat ever...
You can thank disney for that...
I mean, what country can be so stupid as to make the jesters decide how information should be processed????
Actually, this would be a swell punishment for Bin Laden: have a sex change done on him and sent back to the talibans...
A guy walks to us, and we start talking. We tell him what do we do with the machine, and he then tells us that it would not help us.
We're a bit stunned, but not as much as when he handed out his card, we found out he was the president of the company...
No, I don't remember the name of the company.
I dunno, but just by looking at the pink picture of the plasma in the article, the thing strikes me as not having much energy in it... If it had enough energy, it should at least radiate in the UV, not in the reds...
For years, non-americans has seen the USA as a big movie itself, and relinquishing the control of all data-processing devices to Hollywood merely confirms this fact.
This ultimately proves that the United States of America is nothing but a bullshit country.
That's fine, then, the rest of the world will happily ignore the US.
More evolved countries, such as France, have civil codes which precisely detail the legal relationships without having to go to extreme lengths of judicial spelunking in court archives and records to find precisely the jurisprudence needed.
The big gushing flames one see from the burning LZ-129 (Hindenburg) come from the diesel fuel(Yes, that mother was diesel-powered)...
That's why the US economy is so "strong": they cheat their employees...
In there was a working Friden 130 electronic calculator and a working IBM 5100 Portable Computer. Plus several old Contex, Olivetti and Burroughs mechanical calculators, you know the ones baby-boomer geeks used to drool above when they were kids, which all started me nice in collecting those old machines.