That fucking god didn't give you any constitutional rights; he rather doles-out kings that dominate their subjects. Those revered constitutionnal rights were given to you by your founding fathers, which, in doing so, were violating god's-imposed king George's whishes.
The "liberals" in our country will try to tell you that these people are poor because mythical republicans someplace conspired against them. I'm sorry, but people that dumb don't need any help to be poor.
But assholes repûblican right-wingers like you do a pretty good job of exploiting their "stupidity" by not educating them (by cutting funding to public schools and sending your own children to private schools) and making a living selling them those lottery scratchers and potato chips, though.
Without commenting on the morality of gambling laws, it's interesting to note that many states consider betting so immoral that they not only prohibit private gambling organizations, but thoughtfully provide their own.
Would you rather see the profits of gambling go down the coffers of organized crime (or croporate America - what's the diff?), so they can buy more lawmakers and judges, or into the coffers of the State to decrease the amount of taxes you pay?
Majority used to be granted at 21 years old, because it is "5 years passed in the age of reason", the age of reason being, of course, 16 years old.
Interestingly, here, even though you cannot vote at 16, you can however, being in the age of reason, be an electoral official (those who supervise voting and count votes) at 16.
It'd be nice to see a disk controller with encryption capability. IANA hardware engineer, but I'd bet that it would be trivial to reprogram a disk controller capable of doing RAID5 to do hardware encryption (also).
How about a "modified" RAID whose one disk is actually a "one-time pad" key for the whole data? Just remove that drive and the whole disk set is unusable.
Of course, with such a setup, as my mother used to tell me when I was a kid, "Backup early, backup often!!!"...
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The most practical solution to the problem of DRAM data retention is therefore to constantly flip the bits in memory to ensure that a memory cell never holds a charge long enough for it to be "remembered". While not practical for general use, it is possible to do this for small amounts of very sensitive data such as encryption keys.
Will we be seeing DRAM driver-logic that actually does that in hardware while it refreshes the memory????
Okay, let's play baseball. I get to have a hundred players.
You get three. Are you willing to play me? If you stack the bases against
corporations so they cannot make money, they're going to liquidate their
assets and go out of business.
Okay, let's play football. Of course, you're not allowed to eavesdrop to
what we decide before throwing the ball.
What? You won't make as much money if you don't know in advance how
we'll throw the ball? Hey, though shit! That's life!
Who the fuck you think you are? You're just a fucking company.
You don't even have the fucking right to vote, so why the fuck should
you get fucking special treatment?
That's the problem with companies: they think that they oughta get special
treatment over the people.
I'm sure the hype this decision will cause will cause some insurers not to take it up, and advertise this fact, just as some advertise "No medical required" at the moment.
For how long? Not much, I'm afraid, before some pointy-haired accountant will decide that it's good for the bottom line to have that genetic testing.
Don't forget that plenty of bosses don't want to have smartasses working for them that and who owe their promotion to their competence alone. After all, if you promote somebody who doesn't deserve it, you'll get instant loyalty...
My boss gets in at 11/11:30
He fixes everybody else's problems that have been accumulating in the morning...
We go to lunch at 12:00 Then we go around in technical bookstores and libraries
We come back at work at 15:00
My boss then fixes everybody else's problems that have been accumulating in the afternoon...
Everyone leaves at 17:00
We start to REALLYwork.
We leave at around 20:30/21:00, having done the work of 1.5 days.
That good life ended up when my boss grew tired of supporting 14 people in the company with his and my work... He just slammed the door one day. You should have seen the other turkeys running around like freshly beheaded chickens...
I remember, some 25 years ago, a radio receiver which applied a solenoid-actuated brake on the tuning knob whenever a station was tuned. It provided good tactile feedback as you searched for a station... Was it made by Marantz???
It's unconstitutional for our legal system to presume someone
guilty of a crime until proven innocent, so why should it be legal for
corporations to do so?
Because the sad thing is that the corporations are NOT BOUND
by the US Constitution.
No need for Amnesty International in this particular
situation then - I'm sure that AI is busy enough dealing with real infringments
against human rights. In fact, do us all a favour and go and read their
Annual Report and read about some real horrors before describing the banning
of arcades as a travesty.
It's a democracy? Really? Well, let's go have a look at Amnesty
International's website...
Hmmm, lesseee.... Ah! Asia, Malaysia, there:
restriction of individual rights and liberties,... use
by police of excessive force in dispersing peaceful demonstrators,...
allows detention without charge for up to two years, renewable indefinitely,
of anyone considered a potential threat to national security. At least
27 prisoners of conscience were detained,...
...with its ban on chewing gum, etcetera. And the caning
of that little bastard who was damaging cars.
Huge restrictions on what you can do, when you live in Singapore.
But on the other hand, you can walk the streets safely at any time of night,
and you don't worry about people breaking into your car and stealing the
stereo.
Odd, the same thing could be said for Europe or Canada, yet they offer
considerably more freedom than Singapore.
Could it be that this be the result of guns alone being banned???
Now, the next question is, why doesn't Big Business just release
the movie everywhere at the same time? That's another evil conspiracy,
right? No. Copying a film is not like copying an MP3. Copying a film is
hard. The cost of film duplication is a substantial chunk of the post-production
budget of a movie.
Though shit. That's the studio's problem.
Not ours.
And the studios oughta know better than pass the problem onto the customers?
What? Thinner bottom line?
Though shit.
Maybe someone will come along and figure out a way to precisely position electro-magnetic disturbances within plasma, Neon, or other gas in a sealed vessel.
It's not that far out...
The Neonics company makes a neon transformer that uses a standing wave to light a part of the tube, all controllable under software.
So, I guess it's only a matter of time until the thing is translated into 3 dimensions...
Does anybody remembers an article (was it Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar?) about a 3-d volumetric display effected with a spinning mirror in front of a CRT ???
The article even had diagrams for a vector display driver and assembler routines for 3D display...
The bizarre decision to include child versions of all of the original characters is what bothers me. In case you haven't heard, Boba Fett is apparently going to be in Episode 2 - as a child (that kid you see in the supposed storyboards is supposed to be little Boba).
It's just been fashionable lately to have babies versions of whatever characters (Baby Sylvester, Baby Twitty Bird, Baby Bug's Bunny, etc ).
And, if you look closely in TPM, there wasn't only Baby Darth, but also Baby Greedo, too... (In the scenes before the pod races, along the pod racer).
Hmmm, I wonder if Episode -1 will feature Baby Palpatine... Or Episode 3 will have Baby Han Solo...
Well, in October 1999, I succumbed to the siren songs of ADSL
service. Not having cable, I pretty much had no choice and had
to use Bell
Sympatico's service.
When the modem arrived a few days after my signup, I hooked
it up and it worked flawlessly. Then, I found out many horror
stories about Bell's ADSL service. I had even the surprise to
discover that they were even phasing out DHCP and taking up PPPoE,
which was strange, as I hooked the modem straight to my NT workstation,
configured with DHCP.
Turns out that I was in the last pockets of "resistance"...
About two months later, DHCP was dropped, and I switched to PPPoE,
which worked fine except for maybe three or four times in the
further 6 months where I could not connect for about 30-40 minutes.
Then I moved to another part of the country, where ADSL wasn't
available. This is surprising, because I live downtown, 3 blocks
from the CO which also serves a very high concentration of government
offices...
I wasn't very hot with the idea of using a cable modem, because
I don't relish TV at all, and because of the abysmal level of
service that is so typical of cable companies (they hire people
not smart enough to work for phone companies)...
I managed to last 3 months on a 56 kbps hookup, and when the
ADSL became available, I jumped on it. So I went to register,
was told that there would be a 3 week backlog. I decided to endure
the 56kpbs for a while more.
But I had the immense surprise to see a package arrive by courier
two days ago, and the documentation bore a notice that the service
would be activated today. So, I just hooked-up the modem, and
the service logged-on flawlessly first shot. This is my first
post with the new service...:):):)
Interestingly, the box had a sleek-looking AlcatelSp eed -Touch
Home modem rather than the bland Nortel
modem I used to have...
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I'm angry at people who brandish something that doesn't exist to justify their actions, as if they could not justify them on reason alone.
If you absolutely need religion to make yourself a moral, that's your problem. Just don't make it mine.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
Interestingly, here, even though you cannot vote at 16, you can however, being in the age of reason, be an electoral official (those who supervise voting and count votes) at 16.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
Of course, with such a setup, as my mother used to tell me when I was a kid, "Backup early, backup often!!!"...
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
What? You won't make as much money if you don't know in advance how we'll throw the ball? Hey, though shit! That's life!
Who the fuck you think you are? You're just a fucking company. You don't even have the fucking right to vote, so why the fuck should you get fucking special treatment?
That's the problem with companies: they think that they oughta get special treatment over the people.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
The bourgeois subversion seems to be successful. We're gonna have to call for résistance.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
PERIOD.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
- Got in at 10/10:30
- My boss gets in at 11/11:30
- We go to lunch at 12:00
- We come back at work at 15:00
- Everyone leaves at 17:00
- We leave at around 20:30/21:00, having done the work of 1.5 days.
That good life ended up when my boss grew tired of supporting 14 people in the company with his and my work... He just slammed the door one day. You should have seen the other turkeys running around like freshly beheaded chickens...He fixes everybody else's problems that have been accumulating in the morning...
Then we go around in technical bookstores and libraries
My boss then fixes everybody else's problems that have been accumulating in the afternoon...
We start to REALLYwork.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
Because the sad thing is that the corporations are NOT BOUND by the US Constitution.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
It's a democracy? Really? Well, let's go have a look at Amnesty International's website...
Hmmm, lesseee.... Ah! Asia, Malaysia, there:
Read it all here.
And next time, stop pontificating about Malaysia being a democratic country without doin' your homework.
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
Could it be that this be the result of guns alone being banned???
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Americans are bred for stupidity.
Not ours.
And the studios oughta know better than pass the problem onto the customers?
What? Thinner bottom line?
Though shit.
--
Americans are bred for stupidity.
The Neonics company makes a neon transformer that uses a standing wave to light a part of the tube, all controllable under software.
So, I guess it's only a matter of time until the thing is translated into 3 dimensions...
--
Americans are bred for stupidity.
The article even had diagrams for a vector display driver and assembler routines for 3D display...
--
Americans are bred for stupidity.
And, if you look closely in TPM, there wasn't only Baby Darth, but also Baby Greedo, too... (In the scenes before the pod races, along the pod racer).
Hmmm, I wonder if Episode -1 will feature Baby Palpatine... Or Episode 3 will have Baby Han Solo...
That's funny, just like my father and myself, Hemos is dyslexic: he spelled adobe just like my father says it...
Well, in October 1999, I succumbed to the siren songs of ADSL service. Not having cable, I pretty much had no choice and had to use Bell Sympatico's service.
When the modem arrived a few days after my signup, I hooked it up and it worked flawlessly. Then, I found out many horror stories about Bell's ADSL service. I had even the surprise to discover that they were even phasing out DHCP and taking up PPPoE, which was strange, as I hooked the modem straight to my NT workstation, configured with DHCP.
Turns out that I was in the last pockets of "resistance"... About two months later, DHCP was dropped, and I switched to PPPoE, which worked fine except for maybe three or four times in the further 6 months where I could not connect for about 30-40 minutes.
Then I moved to another part of the country, where ADSL wasn't available. This is surprising, because I live downtown, 3 blocks from the CO which also serves a very high concentration of government offices...
I wasn't very hot with the idea of using a cable modem, because I don't relish TV at all, and because of the abysmal level of service that is so typical of cable companies (they hire people not smart enough to work for phone companies)...
I managed to last 3 months on a 56 kbps hookup, and when the ADSL became available, I jumped on it. So I went to register, was told that there would be a 3 week backlog. I decided to endure the 56kpbs for a while more.
But I had the immense surprise to see a package arrive by courier two days ago, and the documentation bore a notice that the service would be activated today. So, I just hooked-up the modem, and the service logged-on flawlessly first shot. This is my first post with the new service... :) :) :)
Interestingly, the box had a sleek-looking Alcatel Sp eed -Touch Home modem rather than the bland Nortel modem I used to have...