Some of us actually wrote our congressional representatives. I wrote a letter to mine two months ago. I have no idea if it helped, but lawmakers do talk to each other.
Oh, believe it; all of us that complained, wrote, and signed petitions are most definitely on The List (of people to be watched).
Google may be waiting until Microsoft bullies every manufacturer out there to pay the ransom, then Google destroys them in court, leaving Microsoft open to endless, massive lawsuits, not only from the companies they threatened, but every institutional investor holding rapidly devaluing Microsoft stock.
In high school some 3 decades ago, I and a buddy both received Zenith stereo systems as presents. Just about identical, by mine was components and his was an all-in-one. His lasted about two years; mine lasted about fifteen. All a TV should have is: a great screen, good connectivity, a tuner (required by law) and nothing more. I'll upgrade the external components as needed, thanks.
Every miserable stinking lawyer working for the MAFIAA must be outed and made public pariahs with no quarter given to thier privacy. Their parents and children must be asked every fucking day why their children / parents are wilfully destroying the Internet and societies in general all for thirty pieces of silver. Stronger measures are left to the conscience of the reader.
The well-to-do complaining taxes - especially property taxes - are too damn high. Their constant battle to lower already low taxes is one of two major reasons why public education in the US is dying (the other being the right-wing drive for an ever more ignorant populace).
If you have a six-figure income and are whining about high taxes, guess what: you are living beyond your means - just like the white trailer-trash you look at with such elitist disdain. Oh, you have massive school loans to repay? Then you shouldn't have opted for Daddy's august alma mater or one of the top ten schools listed in US News. If the only reason you have your job is because of where your degree is from (as opposed to what you actually know) that is pathetic and undeserving of nothing but even higher taxes upon you.
We need serious campaign reform to include barring direct financial contribution to any candidate and mandating that all elections be publicly funded equally to all qualifying candidates regardless of party affiliation.
And please, pray tell, how do we force those in power and benefitting from a rigged system to vote for it to end, especially in light of our corrupt Supreme Court already having ruled that corporations are persons and unlimited campaign donations is merely free speech?
If Google wants this to actually be relevant and sustainable (though this part is questionable), they will have to hand over PalletFulls* to professional sports leagues to allow their precious content to be accesible through Google TV.
* - PalletFull is a hundred-dollar-based monetary unit invented by the Bush Administration (like the reasons for the war itself).
State-run (or highly supervised) health care systems only seen to work well in homgenious societies such as in Northern Europe. I really do believe the all too common human factor of fearing / resenting those that aren't like yourselves are at the core of right-wing dismantling (NHS in Britain) and blockade (Public Option in the US): 'we' don't want 'them' to benefit, lest 'they' take over even more quickly - and punish us for our past treatment of 'them'.
will never allow a consumer to Reset their computer to 'factory settings' unless it is their factory settings, will all the shovelware and 30-day trial bullshit reinstalled.
Given that, other than pushing a button instead of throwing a Dell/HP/Gateway restore disc in the drive, this 'Reset' feature is not a dimes worth of difference.
maybe the unstoppable roof leaks will come through these like a gentle rain! Or cause an electrical fire and burn the damn place to the ground... then you will actually be outside!
The very first thing the Republicans will do if they get their hands on the White House and Senate again is destroy the Freedom of Information Act. To the Right, accountability and truth are as deadly as a wooden stake is to a slumbering vampire.
Why are we letting a small handful of corporate pigs destroy our very society in ways that Carnegie and Rockefeller couldn't even have even fantasized about? If everyone would put down the simplistic bullshit red - blue fighting (the very thing their news puppets promote), it would be very clear that is us (all the American people) versus around a hundred or so very rich people who believe their wealth and power is more imporant than the very concepts of an open and democratic society.
"Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. " -- J. Frank Parnell
"I promise you an eternal paradise! All you have to do is..."
Hitchens saw that more clearly than most. And why folks who believe in invisible men in the sky are on Slashdot is beyond me. Don't knuckle under to your lizard-brain fear of mortality and blindly march under someone's bullshit banner on a promise more empty than a scratched off lottery ticket.
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Oh, believe it; all of us that complained, wrote, and signed petitions are most definitely on The List (of people to be watched).
This is akin to having a cool new type of car... that is not allowed to operate on any good roads (read: content). Kinda pointless, like Google TV.
while the richest and most evil are living longer (Cheney, Murdoch, Pickens, etc.).
but in a list of programming truisms, was:
"No documentation! If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read."
Google may be waiting until Microsoft bullies every manufacturer out there to pay the ransom, then Google destroys them in court, leaving Microsoft open to endless, massive lawsuits, not only from the companies they threatened, but every institutional investor holding rapidly devaluing Microsoft stock.
In high school some 3 decades ago, I and a buddy both received Zenith stereo systems as presents. Just about identical, by mine was components and his was an all-in-one. His lasted about two years; mine lasted about fifteen. All a TV should have is: a great screen, good connectivity, a tuner (required by law) and nothing more. I'll upgrade the external components as needed, thanks.
Every miserable stinking lawyer working for the MAFIAA must be outed and made public pariahs with no quarter given to thier privacy. Their parents and children must be asked every fucking day why their children / parents are wilfully destroying the Internet and societies in general all for thirty pieces of silver. Stronger measures are left to the conscience of the reader.
"How can you have your pudding unless you program a bubble sort?!!"
The well-to-do complaining taxes - especially property taxes - are too damn high. Their constant battle to lower already low taxes is one of two major reasons why public education in the US is dying (the other being the right-wing drive for an ever more ignorant populace).
If you have a six-figure income and are whining about high taxes, guess what: you are living beyond your means - just like the white trailer-trash you look at with such elitist disdain. Oh, you have massive school loans to repay? Then you shouldn't have opted for Daddy's august alma mater or one of the top ten schools listed in US News. If the only reason you have your job is because of where your degree is from (as opposed to what you actually know) that is pathetic and undeserving of nothing but even higher taxes upon you.
And please, pray tell, how do we force those in power and benefitting from a rigged system to vote for it to end, especially in light of our corrupt Supreme Court already having ruled that corporations are persons and unlimited campaign donations is merely free speech?
If Google wants this to actually be relevant and sustainable (though this part is questionable), they will have to hand over PalletFulls* to professional sports leagues to allow their precious content to be accesible through Google TV.
* - PalletFull is a hundred-dollar-based monetary unit invented by the Bush Administration (like the reasons for the war itself).
You cannot be serious. Well, if you are, the reason is: the government gets cc'd on every scrap of data they have.
Why does all this remind me of the province of Quebec? Hmm.
just like in invasive surgery, there would be a known count of 'sponges' and after buttoning up, they had all better be accounted for.
State-run (or highly supervised) health care systems only seen to work well in homgenious societies such as in Northern Europe. I really do believe the all too common human factor of fearing / resenting those that aren't like yourselves are at the core of right-wing dismantling (NHS in Britain) and blockade (Public Option in the US): 'we' don't want 'them' to benefit, lest 'they' take over even more quickly - and punish us for our past treatment of 'them'.
will never allow a consumer to Reset their computer to 'factory settings' unless it is their factory settings, will all the shovelware and 30-day trial bullshit reinstalled.
Given that, other than pushing a button instead of throwing a Dell/HP/Gateway restore disc in the drive, this 'Reset' feature is not a dimes worth of difference.
maybe the unstoppable roof leaks will come through these like a gentle rain! Or cause an electrical fire and burn the damn place to the ground... then you will actually be outside!
Wear the disposable face masks as they do in Japan. Bonus: plausible deniability of the accusation of 'hiding' your face.
Um, Verizon blocked Google Wallet, as they are working on a propriety - and no doubt to be a crap and insecure - competing service.
The very first thing the Republicans will do if they get their hands on the White House and Senate again is destroy the Freedom of Information Act. To the Right, accountability and truth are as deadly as a wooden stake is to a slumbering vampire.
The phrase 'authoritarian government' fits the US oh so very well now - those who would deny it are either ignorant or complicit.
Why are we letting a small handful of corporate pigs destroy our very society in ways that Carnegie and Rockefeller couldn't even have even fantasized about? If everyone would put down the simplistic bullshit red - blue fighting (the very thing their news puppets promote), it would be very clear that is us (all the American people) versus around a hundred or so very rich people who believe their wealth and power is more imporant than the very concepts of an open and democratic society.
GET THEM.
Jersey Shore is still in production...
"Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. " -- J. Frank Parnell
"I promise you an eternal paradise! All you have to do is..."
Hitchens saw that more clearly than most. And why folks who believe in invisible men in the sky are on Slashdot is beyond me. Don't knuckle under to your lizard-brain fear of mortality and blindly march under someone's bullshit banner on a promise more empty than a scratched off lottery ticket.