We hear so much about camp sex stories... Alas, it was not the case for us.
We used to go to a private school who, during the summer, had a day camp, where we were supervised by the teachers.
Can you imagine? Not only spending the WHOLE GODDAMMED SUMMER with the same teachers we had during the school year (and, somehow, they had to magically turn into our friends and were supposed to have fun with them) but also doing this in the very same school building???
When I turned 12, we managed to convince our parents that we wanted to stay home, so she hired a sitter.
A sitter dumb enough to sit in front of TV all day long (cable was new 35 years ago), while we pushed the bed against the bedroom door while we had sex orgie (I'm not shitting you - this was the 70's - yes, I was organizing orgies when I was 12 and yes, there was sucking and fucking).
The teacher lasted about 5 weeks until, one day, my mother came home early and found the sitter sprawled in front of the TV watching a stupid soap, but none of us around.
My mother found out where we were when we came back from the swimming pool (a 15 block walk) one hour later. Needless to say, she was glad to save on the sitter (and we could have the orgies in the living room).
I don't want to give dubya more power, and in any case, like 95% of the people on earth, I don't live in the US. No, what I want is to give far more power to a DEMOCRATIC government that will protect the people against croporations.
We, in the past, have suffered tremenduously at the hands of entrepreneurs, so we eventually gave ourselves governments that take a very active role in the Economy (our electricity, for example, comes from a government-owned utility that gives us the cheapest electrical power in the world, distributed on the only northeast network grid that did not crash during the last blackout) and that has enacted very strict laws to insure that no one will suffer because some rich asshole gets too greedy.
Of course the greedy assholes bitch about it, but they nevertheless stick around, because our nearly-free education system (it only costs you less than $10,000 to become a doctor of medicine) keeps providing high-quality professionals who, when given good jobs and treated well, will never think of starting their own company (why one would want to become a greedy asshole) and thus become competition to their employer...
In case you haven't clued-in yet, we are not anglo-saxons. We are french, even though we are a day's drive from Washington DC, and we believe in big government and we get damn good service from that big government in return of our taxes.
It's not the "frea mahkit", because your local telco owns the copper by law, and your local cableco owns the cable by law. A mass of heavy regulations keeps the competition at bay. What little competition there is exists in the DSL side, but you pay extra for the non-telco due to rent seeking.
It may be so in the Croporate States von Amerika (heil Dubya!), but in other places, where governments are not p0wn3d by the croporations, the law says to the big bad telecom it **HAS** to open the last-mile to other companies ("competitors") and cannot lowball their DSL prices.
Under pressure of the telecom lobbies, the US government has made extensive non-moves, leaving the issues solely to the frea mahkit, which always translate in the companies gouging their clients with extremely poor service.
In much saner countries where the government does not lick big companies arses, there have been positive measures and involvement so the broadband penetration is much higher.
For instance, I am a member of a telecom co-op and pay around $45 (US converted) per month for 2MB down/ 512 up with a static IP address and absolutely no ports blocked nor bitching for running a mail/DNS/web server.
Such a scheme would be totally unthinkable in the USA where the telecom lobby goes to great length to prevent governments from doing stuff that they would never do (watch the municipal wifi debacle).
So, relatively speaking, there are people in *this* country that are in no better condition, except perhaps we don't have many company-owned barracks-style housing projects.
Feh! Nearby, there is a big ski resort which has driven the cost of housing sky-high. They have more and more trouble finding employees because they can't afford the combined housing and commuting costs.
So they went whining to the municipality for it to build low-income housing for the employees...
And now, the real-estate crooks are shouting murder!
Ah yes...yet another shameless use of the 'Lovejoy Gambit'. If you oppose this data retention, you must hate children. You don't hate children, do you?
I ** HATE ** children. Therefore I will never molest any!!!
So, if you love children, you're a potential child molestor!!!
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but it won't seem so funny if this guy commits suicide.
So what? The guy is iranian, so he'll get his 72 virgins.
Nowadays, you can install a package, and fire off it's daemon, and it will work. In the old days, you had to edit sendmail.cf with a hex editor, and prod the bits into place using a 15-foot pole in either hand.
Hmm, check how many bankruptcy filings there have been from members of congress. Then look at the number of failed businesses they have had....
Anglo-saxon politicians are, for the most part, failed businessmen.
Anglo-saxon culture views the State/Government as something bad, for which it is demeaning to work for. So the brightest people tend to work in business, whilst those unsuccessful in business but with still an ounce of ambition will be drawn towards politics, where they will apply their businessmen credo, which is to line their pockets.
It's okay for a private businessman to line his pockets; that's what businesses are for: fatten their executives, and, if there's some left, the shareholders.
But it cannot work for the Government, because it acts for the whole society, but politicians act like businessmen and still stuff their pockets at public expense...
The UK still has it better; the French have to cross water to get to the UK, but you can walk here from Quebec. They're building the fence along the wrong border.
Don't worry, for us, the US is hell, so you yankees don't need to worry about us crossing into the US.
I work at an EMail marketing company (no, not spam) and we have had our servers placed on blacklists multiple times... you know why? People who are competetors to our clients signup a spamtrap email to their lists, getting our mailserver blacklisted for sending mail to an address -- even though the mail is a "are you sure you wanna subscribe?" message?
Booo Hooo fucking Hooo! Cry me a river!
What a shitty dumbfuck you are. You work for a real big bunch of fucky slimeballs!
If someone (y'all) is stupid enough to devise a system that DOES NOT CONFIRM that one wants to be subcribed, and therefore be abused by "competitors", he deserves to be blacklisted and to rot in SPEWS until the heat-death of the Universe.
You are the sole architect of your woes. By setting up an abusable system, you got abused and your complacency has only brought you well deserved grief.
A proper system will make sure that no one will be subscribed against his will; but it seems that you're bunch of numbskulls too dense to think of a way to do it, and no, I'm not going to tell you how to do it, because you dipshits don't deserve free technical advice, since you're too dumbfucked to find it where it is.
We are governed by a Democratic Republic. Democracy is, most simply, defined as "rule by the people" and Reupblic is defined, again simply, as "rule by officials in lue of the people", or something like that.
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We hear so much about camp sex stories... Alas, it was not the case for us.
We used to go to a private school who, during the summer, had a day camp, where we were supervised by the teachers.
Can you imagine? Not only spending the WHOLE GODDAMMED SUMMER with the same teachers we had during the school year (and, somehow, they had to magically turn into our friends and were supposed to have fun with them) but also doing this in the very same school building???
When I turned 12, we managed to convince our parents that we wanted to stay home, so she hired a sitter.
A sitter dumb enough to sit in front of TV all day long (cable was new 35 years ago), while we pushed the bed against the bedroom door while we had sex orgie (I'm not shitting you - this was the 70's - yes, I was organizing orgies when I was 12 and yes, there was sucking and fucking).
The teacher lasted about 5 weeks until, one day, my mother came home early and found the sitter sprawled in front of the TV watching a stupid soap, but none of us around.
My mother found out where we were when we came back from the swimming pool (a 15 block walk) one hour later. Needless to say, she was glad to save on the sitter (and we could have the orgies in the living room).
We, in the past, have suffered tremenduously at the hands of entrepreneurs, so we eventually gave ourselves governments that take a very active role in the Economy (our electricity, for example, comes from a government-owned utility that gives us the cheapest electrical power in the world, distributed on the only northeast network grid that did not crash during the last blackout) and that has enacted very strict laws to insure that no one will suffer because some rich asshole gets too greedy.
Of course the greedy assholes bitch about it, but they nevertheless stick around, because our nearly-free education system (it only costs you less than $10,000 to become a doctor of medicine) keeps providing high-quality professionals who, when given good jobs and treated well, will never think of starting their own company (why one would want to become a greedy asshole) and thus become competition to their employer...
In case you haven't clued-in yet, we are not anglo-saxons. We are french, even though we are a day's drive from Washington DC, and we believe in big government and we get damn good service from that big government in return of our taxes.
Contragulation for saying exactly what I said...
Let's hope that maybe now, Microsoft will put all it's weight behind scrapping software patents altogether???
Under pressure of the telecom lobbies, the US government has made extensive non-moves, leaving the issues solely to the frea mahkit, which always translate in the companies gouging their clients with extremely poor service.
In much saner countries where the government does not lick big companies arses, there have been positive measures and involvement so the broadband penetration is much higher.
For instance, I am a member of a telecom co-op and pay around $45 (US converted) per month for 2MB down/ 512 up with a static IP address and absolutely no ports blocked nor bitching for running a mail/DNS/web server.
Such a scheme would be totally unthinkable in the USA where the telecom lobby goes to great length to prevent governments from doing stuff that they would never do (watch the municipal wifi debacle).
Just give bogus information.
Everybody does!
Whoops, sorry, I have to go to the library to RIP CDs with my laptop before it closes...
So they went whining to the municipality for it to build low-income housing for the employees...
And now, the real-estate crooks are shouting murder!
And nothing but those cute chinese chicks to pork!!!! Yay!!!!
What comes around, well, comes around.
Yeah, right.
So, if you love children, you're a potential child molestor!!!
Spandex-clad geeks???
Yup. 2 years ago I turned-down a job to administer one such jalopy.
Anglo-saxon culture views the State/Government as something bad, for which it is demeaning to work for. So the brightest people tend to work in business, whilst those unsuccessful in business but with still an ounce of ambition will be drawn towards politics, where they will apply their businessmen credo, which is to line their pockets.
It's okay for a private businessman to line his pockets; that's what businesses are for: fatten their executives, and, if there's some left, the shareholders.
But it cannot work for the Government, because it acts for the whole society, but politicians act like businessmen and still stuff their pockets at public expense...
The people you see there are not "real" french.
What a shitty dumbfuck you are. You work for a real big bunch of fucky slimeballs!
If someone (y'all) is stupid enough to devise a system that DOES NOT CONFIRM that one wants to be subcribed, and therefore be abused by "competitors", he deserves to be blacklisted and to rot in SPEWS until the heat-death of the Universe.
You are the sole architect of your woes. By setting up an abusable system, you got abused and your complacency has only brought you well deserved grief.
A proper system will make sure that no one will be subscribed against his will; but it seems that you're bunch of numbskulls too dense to think of a way to do it, and no, I'm not going to tell you how to do it, because you dipshits don't deserve free technical advice, since you're too dumbfucked to find it where it is.
They wouldn't act the same against americans...
A republic is simply "a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch", say, a president.
So it can be democratic, oligarchic, a dictatorship or whatever else, as long as the big cheese isn't a king.