You know, when i was young, my parents used to take me to Tijuana, a border town just south of the U.S. We would give nice used clothes, shoes and other misc extras we had to the poor. And by poor i don't mean "low income." I mean people who were living in the cardboard houses!!
Anyways, aside from THOSE people, what makes you think so many people are really "bad off?" I used to think USA was THE best country in the world! Then I grew up, learned about different cultures and compared them to "the US."
Having lived abroad for a little while, i find this "middle age" living not so bad! It's amazing how much ingenuity is necessary and applied. And, when compared to the US, having a car (forget even a 'nice car'), and 2 weeks vacation isn't that important as long as someone you know HAS a car, and when you regularly take trips to places "Americans" (US Citizents) pay decent amounts of money to visit.
If you want money, the US is the place for you. If you want luxuary, the US is the place. But if you want to live decently, healthy and still have time for yourself and your family, maybe these "3rd world countries" aren't so bad.
I am actually trying to save money up so i can move to mexico and start a few businesses that i know would take off. It's really interesting because at first, you'd think "that's crazy!" But after having met a few americans and canadians who did just that, i think with my technical abilities, i could make a pretty penny in mexico - and relatively easy too!
But even if the post, article and or reason for posting is ridiculous, we can learn a lot from it. I just learned that the moon could basically be separated from earth if we leech too much power from it! That is cool!
Also, i got some ideas for my own invention! bad ass
One last thing is, if these guys can actually prove anything that they are claiming, then that is awesome! This whole "that isn't possible" reminds me of my Public Education!
"You can not multiply or divide, that doesn't exist" - First Grade Teacher
"It doesn't matter where you are, newton's law doesn't change" - Elementary Teacher, in response to a question regarding space
"We just don't know enough about it" - Honest answer from a physics teacher in highschool
Most people won't admit we don't know crap! We only like to fool ourselves into believing that we know about something, anything. With enough time everything can be proven wrong.
Anyhow, you can never say never...
This does remind me of a philosophy teacher i had, who said that in Wisconsin they had a machine similar to this one that worked off of a radiator under pressure. I don't know what ever happened to that idea, but from how he described it it seemed it could have worked. Then again, he was a little crazy, talking about the NWO and all (search the U.N.s website for that "craziness.")
hey that's not true! Pirate Bays image site has "filter adult content" or something along those lines. Maybe "offensive" content. Either way, for that site at least it doesn't matter, all the porn goes through anyways!
yesterday on some science show i saw a guy with "the most advanced bionic leg" in the world!! That guy could play metal to metal! They could even rig it so the robots have padded skin, so it wouldn't even be so hard on the bionic leg guy!
now that you mention it, wouldn't it be best to not have liquid in a HDD in a cell phone?? I mean, i've known plenty of women and some men who've dropped their cells in the toilet. Some of them deserved it more than others. So why mess with an already good thing???
My system isn't a system at all. Because of the LARGE amount of legal optical media I own and my "custom" discs, i've run into this problem lot's of times!
Usually, i start sorting things out on my HDD. Once that is at capacity, i've moved them on to CD's. Now with DVDs cheap as dirt, i've been using those for a while. My problem has always been the different DVDs.
So what I do now, is have about 5 logictech cases of 320/420 disc capacity. Each one is broken down into a "theme." I have 3 other smaller cases, maybe 120 disc capacity. One is for my Mixed Martial Arts, another is for my "video," another for my music videos, another for my "audio" and books on tape, another for software. Then in my smaller one's i have my necessary tools -- software i throw on every install i do.
That doesn't sound very helpful, but it really is! Each disc is labeled by folder name/type and number. So for example, MMA d1 would have say, early pride fighting vol 1. MMA d2 would have early pride fighting, vol 2. MMA d14 could have pride 26.
I try to keep these in order, because it's much easier after i create a list of what each folder contains to keep track of. I've seen list managers, but none do what i want, and most are for HDD solutions anyways. This allows me to constantly add to my collection easily without having to make it a big deal. Stick disc in, ls and print to file, append to "master list" and voila! It's updated.
When i am looking for something in particular, i just search for the title and it shows up, telling me what folder/volume it's located on. It may not be pretty, but it works really well, for me.
At one point i was making a website i could share with "friends" so they could see what i had, if it was of any use to them, but it was very time consuming. So i gave it up and never found a better solution.
Right now i'm at 750GB on my main system, and under 500 on my bsd box. I've been burning to dvd like crazy because i like to binge on the news groups! And as of late i've been into torrents because i found some interesting Japanese animation (Go Baki and Hajimi no Ippo!) So they'll be added to my collection soon.
Soon, i hope to have the time and considerable money to buy some large HHD's, a low watt-efficient cpu/PS setup that'll allow me to throw everything on a few TB HDD's and allow me to have it directly hooked up to my tv.
Well, if the president won because of popularity, that would be a good thing! But laws don't/can't allow that as is.
I am of the idea that money doesn't matter as much as quality. It doesn't matter how much money I have for my campaign as long as people making commercials in my favor muckrake for me!
So, i say quality is what matters. Limit the amount of money you can spend to be the same for everyone. Whatever the amount is for the least amount of money is the cap.
Make it so that the candidates have to visit each state capital, and debate in public forums.
Other things that bring real people into the picture, not "agreed upon questions and answers."
It's all a lie and most fall for it!
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Actually, although i do play a few games here and there, my windows system have never been put together with that purpose in mind. The reason i still have windows around is because of macromedia/adobe flash. It's something, that is fair to say i'm very proficient in, allows me to do awesome things (things not intended) and is practical for basic drafting as well!
I've often wondered how come some of it's tools/features haven't been implemented in other "graphic producing" programs. Anyhow, wine "works, and is getting better" but "is not 100% yet."
Some have said linux would be somewhat more forgiving but i still run my fbsd and xp:P
Except, i also have suse for the tux games on my laptop
Well, i've always said, the problem with people is that they are pussies now! Why punish violent people with non-violent punishments? All 3rd world countries are like this, and they don't really have a problem with petty violent crimes.
Anyhow, my point is, if someone tries to carjack you, do something about it! Using your brain power, you can easily set your car up so it's easy for your to do something IF you get car jacked, rather than get caught off guard and just hand over the car.
It's always said by law enforcement that you should always do what they ask of you, but in reality the exact opposite is what saves peoples lives. If you are ever told to go along with the jackers, you will probably die. But if you put up a fight, you're more likely to survive!
Now, imagine if everyone had this mentality? No one gives up their car without a fight! Sure, some bag guys will come and just shoot you first then try to take the car, but who wants to drive around in a bloody car?
Most bad guys will look for other crimes to commit because it's just not worth when you compare effort Vs compensation. I've always told people, robbing banks is the easiest way! I know, i've worked in them before! So car jacking is no good.
Like rage against the machine said, "you got to take the power back!"
Well i for one welcome our new North Pole Overlords! I mean, how bad can it be/get, right? The way i see it, they can trash it as much as they want, as LONG as they continue their space faring efforts! That way, once it's fubar, they can lift us off this crappy rock!
Hey! I'm not a nerd, i'm a biker -- i can do whatever i want.
As far as "nothing is wrong with the NRA"!? Whats up with that?? They don't even help support their own when their members are stripped of their weapons.
And it may not be "above the law" because it IS law, but it was written to be "above the law, legally." Bush has declared executive privilege so as to not submit documents requested by subpoena. Yes, it's apparently legal to refuse! but anyone else would go to jail.
And no, this country will not have civil war or anything like that in the current condition its in. I mean, look at who you have left? People afraid to protest because that means they have to take a day off. If they do that, they can't make rent (at least in california) because everything is so expected. And because everyone agrees that its a God given right to be in this country, if you were born here, they don't have a need to exercise their rights, even if they are being cut back. They figure the problem is the foreigners.
Anyways, these aren't my words but many others words who have repeated them often to me. Also worth noting, isolation in my opinion has been the biggest problem. Not have domestic wars has put our factories behind because all the war torn countries are rebuilt with the latest technology of the era. While we're stuck with factories from the early 1900s.
Sure, we don't need wars to make bitchen new factories, but because money runs our country, it isn't going to happen. It's cheaper to send our crap to be made in the orient or south american countries where we still pay less than building new factory AND employing "americans" to man it.
With our "1st world country" labor standards, and without slaves or "legal abuse" of people, we can't compete!
But it could be worse, bush could always declare some sort of executive emergency power and stay in office for another 8 years. But like some guy at work said, "that could NEVER happen! It's written in the law (presidents) they can only serv 8." Yah, the "law" also says presidents can't declare war, only congress!
It is awesome!!@#!*#!@)(* As far as I know of, i haven't seen this on ms, nix or palm OS for map software. The ability to drag is something that has been needed for a long time.
It is different, because i don't have to make up fake points in between my start and end point, like i do on S&T. Google maps automagically finds the correct location, all this without having to make me get off the freeway and then back on! Derr
It is awesome because it shows that you can beat a dead horse! Because they aren't always really dead! They just play dead sometimes!
Everything is evil to somebody! but in this case, the perception is that MS is the lesser evil of the two. I don't claim to know what who promotes, but i have a better idea of what MS has historically done Vs. that of google.
As long as google keeps making free stuff that makes my life better AND doesn't harm me directly or indirectly, then it's all good from my point of view. Yes, they have problems but they don't affect me.
One last thing, security is futile. If you believe it isn't, then you must be running a well configured windows firewall! Its up to the users to secure their system, and that includes what information they put on the net! yes, that includes putting your friends names, faces, ages, likes/dislikes and locations on my space!
and LOL at "Golden Palace.com must be the confidential one. " For some reason it's not hard to imagine "Hollywood" sign style letters visible from earth with the naked eye on the moon.
You know, for years i've been telling my friends that flash could be used to sneak in a virus or two. As a matter of fact, mp3s could as well. For a long time people told me "well if you can do it, why don't you?" Basically because it's messed up AND i don't have enough skills outside of flash to do it.
But a few months ago i read about mp3s having hidden viruses. It didn't go in depth so i don't know what happened with that. But many people don't realize how bad security is. Someone mentioned thumb drives, they're fairly protected with AV. But what programs are scanning mp3s and flash swf's?
It shouldn't be too much longer before someone who has those skills is inclined to start spreading the badness.
As always, if it's on the net it's probably best suited for porn. Just think about it, no longer will you have those hard to get shots with poor lighting with this new source of light!
Not to be a troublemaker, but since you are on/., you should be able to create some sort of web site. On that site you could place a forum for people to come together. And then, if everyone actually unplugs for a bit, maybe they could go protest. It doesn't really matter what who believes and why, but the fact that they actually do something about it.
Here are some of the more memorable quotes i have of past "friends."
"... I just want to go to work, do what i'm told and then go home. I don't want to be a manager."
"... If it was such a good idea, someone would have invented it by now."
"... That's a stupid idea, no one wants to watch a movie about AI taking over! That sounds too much like The Terminator movies."
"It's not my problem, i don't care."
"I don't care who died, i didn't know them."
And finally, "I care, but not enough to do something about it."
I am pretty ignorant in other countries sports, but from my understanding, we're the only one's who chant their country name during a sport... that is based on teams/individuals, not countries.
One example is the last PrideFC event hosted in Las Vegas. They had mostly US Citizens fighting others from around the world. "USA USA USA" was not uncommon that evening. I asked the great guys from canada who were next to me, "do you guys ever chant "canada" during hockey games Vs. the US? Or have you even ever hear of canadian chanting? (during a sports match)" They looked embarrassed and said "no." So I apologized.
While i think you have an interesting point of view, especially because of where you've been brought up, i don't think you can compare the cultural similarities and differences between canada Vs. US and US Vs Mexico.
"Mexifornia" as you said, is the first time i've ever heard that word. Unlike any canadian territory where french nor english was the native language, "Spanish" - the american variation of Spain's official language, was already present in California and many other "western states" long before the US moved west.
The reason why there are so many "latin americans" in the southwest of the us is not because of the millions and millions of illegal immigrants, it's because of the millions of people who lived/settled on the lands before it became US territory. Although i will agree that the millions who keep coming in illegally help increase/sustain the number of latin americans. (Hey, someone said there's a difference between immigrants and settlers, right?)
What are people so afraid of? Surely no one on/. is going to be out of work mowing lawns, working taco trucks, singing Mariachi tunes in restaurants, working "fast food" joints, working at the car wash. If anything, we should be trying to give these peoples more jobs because they'll do it, try to do it well and hopefully "motivate" locals who don't do the jobs back because they can't get hired for anything more skilled and aren't willing to take less pay now.
You know, i've personally never have heard of an illegal alien getting welfare, foodstamps or some other sort of non-humane benefit. I've never heard of one apply for a tax refund either. I'm sure they've gotten emergency room treatment for free at the expense of legal aliens, but standing in line to get money? They must have paid a lot of $ to get a good SSN and ID.
What I have seen is a LOT of unfortunate people living together in amounts/places that locals would not tolerate themselves. If illegals have nice houses in Wisconsin, or Michigan, it's probably because the standard of living is a lot less there than in California. I worked at a site recently where one of the Mexican workers (born in the US) said, "... and i told them i'm mexican mexican" so i asked, "what is a 'Mexican 'Mexican'" and she answered, "you know, mexicans who live in a 1 room apartment with 2-3 families." She wasn't ghetto, and had no accent. But this is what she joked about being mexican.
While i'm sure that many miss the real point of what's going on here, the US always has been a point of inspiration and hope for the entire world. Maybe a little less now since about 2000, but still maintains that appeal. People from all over the world believe that there are streets "paved with gold." They think what they see in the movies is how it is. They want to be able to come here, and live like they "imagine" they can. So when everyone who thinks "they MUST assimilate but don't..." they are wrong. No one who comes here sets up show like vietnam, thailan, japan, russia, pakistan or any other place. They can try to "live like they did at home" but that doesn't mean buying a property, tearing it down, and the building the same crappy structure they had back home.
You don't see Los Angeles being a copy of Mexico. And besides, like i've told everyone after having worked in TJ for a little bit, "the only difference i saw between TJ and California is that California has Cal Trans."
Anyhow, it's time for leftovers from "Beto's." Man those dudes can make some mean fajitas. I sure am glad the illegals haven't integrated into our society as some wish they had... because we wouldn't have fajitas, tacos, tostadas, flautas or even nachos! Even though nachos was a mexican-american invention.
Well yeah its a web page on a web site, but page means just 1, right? I tell people, "i have a web site." Back in the day, you could say "i have a web page" and that was it, just 1 page. No one says "i have a mp3 cd" when they have 300 mp3 cds, right? Or how about, "i have a big web page" Vs "i have a big web site."
My God! I just saw this video and i can't believe it! Here is the jist of it:
- A trio of english fellows try to buy 3 cars under $1000 USD in miami, they joke and then verify how dangerous the city is
- they work their way through florida, with their final destination being new orleans.
- along the way they almost crash into a river full of gators, possibly eat a dead squirrel and a dead cow (both "road kill")
- Almost are beaten at a gas station (more later)
- Threatened to get sued for trying to give away a car for free because they said the car year was 2 years later than it really was
The almost beaten part is as follows:
they have a bet to try to get each other into trouble. There are 3 cars so they have to write on each others cars offensive words. The one who gets one of the drivers pulled over or killed wins! Well, it's all fun and games until they pull into a gas station in alabama. The station manager (?) complains about the "nascar sucks," "i'm bi," and "hillary for president" painted words on the vehicles. Shortly after she "calls for the boys" and a truck full of locals show up, threaten the film crew and chase everyone away by throwing rocks. Locals give chase and cars pull over to wipe the words of the vehicles for fear of getting shot at. Oh, i forgot to mention that before they stopped at the gas station, loads of drivers were honking.
At first, i thought "no one will get mad..." but i was wrong. I guess americans aren't good at taking a joke? I really recommend the video if you have some time to kill. If you just want to see the worst part go towards the last third of it.
While I agree that America CAN be great, i don't honestly think it ranks amongst the "best." I mean, don't forget about our secrete prisons! And although i am no authority on the CIA, i saw some documentary about how they were kinda out of control at one point and the FBI had to go reel them in.
For the most part, i'd rather be in jail in the US than in Mexico. From what i heard straight from Mexican nationals, jail isn't a place you go to be kept, it's a place you go to be punished and are treated accordingly. None of this "i'm crazy, have problems and oh, i'm white and paris hilton so can i go home" stuff. You go, starve, probably get beat and try not to go back! Maybe that's what paris needs? a real "life changing jail experience," not the "you're released because there's too many people here" experience.
"I would like to address your misconception of it being the job of the police to presume innocence until proven guilty. That's simply not true. Innocent until proven guilty applies only in a court of law, not on the street or in the realm of an investigation. If I were to simply presume someone was innocent, why would I go around arresting people I presume innocent? The concept is patently absurd, and not how our legal system works."
I agree 100%, you are right. But sometimes people getting pulled over isn't only because they've done something. Don't get me wrong, i'm all for racial profiling or any other kind of profiling that'll help catch the "bad guys" - but they have to treat everyone the same. That may not sound like it makes sense, but it does to me.
But thanks for your advice, that is actually what ended up happening. I ended up seeing a judge and the judge pretty much dropped whatever the one charge was (speeding) and got rid of "no insurance." I had just bought the car so i went to Pasadena to show it off! (thus no insurance) Well, from my point of view it worked out bitchen! It went from paying several thousand to $300 if i remember correctly.
But the sad thing was, while i waited to be called into the chambers, i saw an officer walk into that large waiting room where there was a lot of people waiting for different judges. And this one officer pretty much talked to everyone on his way in. His words were pretty much "not you again, now what did you do?" He had pulled everyone over, and seems to know them well. The worst part was the guy who i was able to hear pretty well because he was behind me, was a bus driver (public transportation). I heard his story and even the officer said "yeah they shouldn't have gotten you for that..." I guess some guy cut in front of him when he was pulling out of a stop and an officer got him for something. Oh, this officer was the guy who pulled me over.
Anyhow, i wondered how many people were treated as i was? Another time, MANY years later, i was driving around in my bright yellow car. When i noticed a sheriff following me, i told my buddy. I was working my way to the main street. I like to take the scenic routes, so it was obvious this officer was following me. My buddy said i was just paranoid - which was a good thing too! So i finally made it to the main street and i just had it. I'm sure the officer ran my plates and saw everything was good. But maybe it didn't help how i looked, even though i was "clean cut" at the time. Maybe its because i had a pakastani in the car with me? Who knows, right?
I pulled into the sheriff's station and parked my car. The officer pulled up right up to my rear bumper. I got out, and walked over to his window. I asked him, "is there a problem officer?" He answered WITH a LOT of attitude, "did i pull you over?" I said, no, i guess not and walked into the station to file a complaint. I asked how to file a complaint and it never happened, the supervisor on duty never came out and i figured my buddy would be pissed for waiting more than 30 mins in the car. Maybe more than 20, but it was a LONG time.
Anyhow, the point of the story is that i didn't do anything for him to be following me, especially since it wasn't for 2-5 mins, but a nice long while. Coming out of a fairly nice neighborhood and driving the car i had, didn't make sense. The good thing that came out of this, is my buddy who said "you're just paranoid" started to notice things he hadn't before. He drove a stock BMW with some nice rims and a sport kit in the adjacent city. Well, he started noticing lot's of sheriff's following him. One time it was so bad, at around 11 PM or 12 AM, a sheriff stopped that was following us in the middle of an intersection making cars wait for him because my buddy made a quick right. I guess the officer couldn't decide if he should cut a car off to keep following us or just let us go.
I don't mind getting pulled over if i'm driving bad, look like i'm doing something i shouldn't, or even ha
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Dude, those places exist all over the place!! They're called jiffy lube!
Lawyers aren't the problem, the laws are! 2 sets of laws, common law and statutory are the problem!
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But then again, i don't know what i'm talking about!
You know, when i was young, my parents used to take me to Tijuana, a border town just south of the U.S. We would give nice used clothes, shoes and other misc extras we had to the poor. And by poor i don't mean "low income." I mean people who were living in the cardboard houses!!
Anyways, aside from THOSE people, what makes you think so many people are really "bad off?" I used to think USA was THE best country in the world! Then I grew up, learned about different cultures and compared them to "the US."
Having lived abroad for a little while, i find this "middle age" living not so bad! It's amazing how much ingenuity is necessary and applied. And, when compared to the US, having a car (forget even a 'nice car'), and 2 weeks vacation isn't that important as long as someone you know HAS a car, and when you regularly take trips to places "Americans" (US Citizents) pay decent amounts of money to visit.
If you want money, the US is the place for you. If you want luxuary, the US is the place. But if you want to live decently, healthy and still have time for yourself and your family, maybe these "3rd world countries" aren't so bad.
I am actually trying to save money up so i can move to mexico and start a few businesses that i know would take off. It's really interesting because at first, you'd think "that's crazy!" But after having met a few americans and canadians who did just that, i think with my technical abilities, i could make a pretty penny in mexico - and relatively easy too!
But even if the post, article and or reason for posting is ridiculous, we can learn a lot from it. I just learned that the moon could basically be separated from earth if we leech too much power from it! That is cool!
Also, i got some ideas for my own invention! bad ass
One last thing is, if these guys can actually prove anything that they are claiming, then that is awesome! This whole "that isn't possible" reminds me of my Public Education!
"You can not multiply or divide, that doesn't exist" - First Grade Teacher
"It doesn't matter where you are, newton's law doesn't change" - Elementary Teacher, in response to a question regarding space
"We just don't know enough about it" - Honest answer from a physics teacher in highschool
Most people won't admit we don't know crap! We only like to fool ourselves into believing that we know about something, anything. With enough time everything can be proven wrong.
Anyhow, you can never say never...
This does remind me of a philosophy teacher i had, who said that in Wisconsin they had a machine similar to this one that worked off of a radiator under pressure. I don't know what ever happened to that idea, but from how he described it it seemed it could have worked. Then again, he was a little crazy, talking about the NWO and all (search the U.N.s website for that "craziness.")
hey that's not true! Pirate Bays image site has "filter adult content" or something along those lines. Maybe "offensive" content. Either way, for that site at least it doesn't matter, all the porn goes through anyways!
yesterday on some science show i saw a guy with "the most advanced bionic leg" in the world!! That guy could play metal to metal! They could even rig it so the robots have padded skin, so it wouldn't even be so hard on the bionic leg guy!
now that you mention it, wouldn't it be best to not have liquid in a HDD in a cell phone?? I mean, i've known plenty of women and some men who've dropped their cells in the toilet. Some of them deserved it more than others. So why mess with an already good thing???
My system isn't a system at all. Because of the LARGE amount of legal optical media I own and my "custom" discs, i've run into this problem lot's of times!
Usually, i start sorting things out on my HDD. Once that is at capacity, i've moved them on to CD's. Now with DVDs cheap as dirt, i've been using those for a while. My problem has always been the different DVDs.
So what I do now, is have about 5 logictech cases of 320/420 disc capacity. Each one is broken down into a "theme." I have 3 other smaller cases, maybe 120 disc capacity. One is for my Mixed Martial Arts, another is for my "video," another for my music videos, another for my "audio" and books on tape, another for software. Then in my smaller one's i have my necessary tools -- software i throw on every install i do.
That doesn't sound very helpful, but it really is! Each disc is labeled by folder name/type and number. So for example, MMA d1 would have say, early pride fighting vol 1. MMA d2 would have early pride fighting, vol 2. MMA d14 could have pride 26.
I try to keep these in order, because it's much easier after i create a list of what each folder contains to keep track of. I've seen list managers, but none do what i want, and most are for HDD solutions anyways. This allows me to constantly add to my collection easily without having to make it a big deal. Stick disc in, ls and print to file, append to "master list" and voila! It's updated.
When i am looking for something in particular, i just search for the title and it shows up, telling me what folder/volume it's located on. It may not be pretty, but it works really well, for me.
At one point i was making a website i could share with "friends" so they could see what i had, if it was of any use to them, but it was very time consuming. So i gave it up and never found a better solution.
Right now i'm at 750GB on my main system, and under 500 on my bsd box. I've been burning to dvd like crazy because i like to binge on the news groups! And as of late i've been into torrents because i found some interesting Japanese animation (Go Baki and Hajimi no Ippo!) So they'll be added to my collection soon.
Soon, i hope to have the time and considerable money to buy some large HHD's, a low watt-efficient cpu/PS setup that'll allow me to throw everything on a few TB HDD's and allow me to have it directly hooked up to my tv.
Good luck!
Well, if the president won because of popularity, that would be a good thing! But laws don't/can't allow that as is.
I am of the idea that money doesn't matter as much as quality. It doesn't matter how much money I have for my campaign as long as people making commercials in my favor muckrake for me!
So, i say quality is what matters. Limit the amount of money you can spend to be the same for everyone. Whatever the amount is for the least amount of money is the cap.
Make it so that the candidates have to visit each state capital, and debate in public forums.
Other things that bring real people into the picture, not "agreed upon questions and answers."
It's all a lie and most fall for it!
Actually, although i do play a few games here and there, my windows system have never been put together with that purpose in mind. The reason i still have windows around is because of macromedia/adobe flash. It's something, that is fair to say i'm very proficient in, allows me to do awesome things (things not intended) and is practical for basic drafting as well!
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I've often wondered how come some of it's tools/features haven't been implemented in other "graphic producing" programs. Anyhow, wine "works, and is getting better" but "is not 100% yet."
Some have said linux would be somewhat more forgiving but i still run my fbsd and xp
Except, i also have suse for the tux games on my laptop
Well, i've always said, the problem with people is that they are pussies now! Why punish violent people with non-violent punishments? All 3rd world countries are like this, and they don't really have a problem with petty violent crimes.
Anyhow, my point is, if someone tries to carjack you, do something about it! Using your brain power, you can easily set your car up so it's easy for your to do something IF you get car jacked, rather than get caught off guard and just hand over the car.
It's always said by law enforcement that you should always do what they ask of you, but in reality the exact opposite is what saves peoples lives. If you are ever told to go along with the jackers, you will probably die. But if you put up a fight, you're more likely to survive!
Now, imagine if everyone had this mentality? No one gives up their car without a fight! Sure, some bag guys will come and just shoot you first then try to take the car, but who wants to drive around in a bloody car?
Most bad guys will look for other crimes to commit because it's just not worth when you compare effort Vs compensation. I've always told people, robbing banks is the easiest way! I know, i've worked in them before! So car jacking is no good.
Like rage against the machine said, "you got to take the power back!"
Well i for one welcome our new North Pole Overlords! I mean, how bad can it be/get, right? The way i see it, they can trash it as much as they want, as LONG as they continue their space faring efforts! That way, once it's fubar, they can lift us off this crappy rock!
Russia: The opportunity to find a solution.
Hey! I'm not a nerd, i'm a biker -- i can do whatever i want.
As far as "nothing is wrong with the NRA"!? Whats up with that?? They don't even help support their own when their members are stripped of their weapons.
And it may not be "above the law" because it IS law, but it was written to be "above the law, legally." Bush has declared executive privilege so as to not submit documents requested by subpoena. Yes, it's apparently legal to refuse! but anyone else would go to jail.
And no, this country will not have civil war or anything like that in the current condition its in. I mean, look at who you have left? People afraid to protest because that means they have to take a day off. If they do that, they can't make rent (at least in california) because everything is so expected. And because everyone agrees that its a God given right to be in this country, if you were born here, they don't have a need to exercise their rights, even if they are being cut back. They figure the problem is the foreigners.
Anyways, these aren't my words but many others words who have repeated them often to me. Also worth noting, isolation in my opinion has been the biggest problem. Not have domestic wars has put our factories behind because all the war torn countries are rebuilt with the latest technology of the era. While we're stuck with factories from the early 1900s.
Sure, we don't need wars to make bitchen new factories, but because money runs our country, it isn't going to happen. It's cheaper to send our crap to be made in the orient or south american countries where we still pay less than building new factory AND employing "americans" to man it.
With our "1st world country" labor standards, and without slaves or "legal abuse" of people, we can't compete!
But it could be worse, bush could always declare some sort of executive emergency power and stay in office for another 8 years. But like some guy at work said, "that could NEVER happen! It's written in the law (presidents) they can only serv 8." Yah, the "law" also says presidents can't declare war, only congress!
+1 Redundant for me but!
It is awesome!!@#!*#!@)(* As far as I know of, i haven't seen this on ms, nix or palm OS for map software. The ability to drag is something that has been needed for a long time.
It is different, because i don't have to make up fake points in between my start and end point, like i do on S&T. Google maps automagically finds the correct location, all this without having to make me get off the freeway and then back on! Derr
It is awesome because it shows that you can beat a dead horse! Because they aren't always really dead! They just play dead sometimes!
Everything is evil to somebody! but in this case, the perception is that MS is the lesser evil of the two. I don't claim to know what who promotes, but i have a better idea of what MS has historically done Vs. that of google.
As long as google keeps making free stuff that makes my life better AND doesn't harm me directly or indirectly, then it's all good from my point of view. Yes, they have problems but they don't affect me.
One last thing, security is futile. If you believe it isn't, then you must be running a well configured windows firewall! Its up to the users to secure their system, and that includes what information they put on the net! yes, that includes putting your friends names, faces, ages, likes/dislikes and locations on my space!
GOogle!
"Old tricks are the best tricks A?"
.com must be the confidential one. " For some reason it's not hard to imagine "Hollywood" sign style letters visible from earth with the naked eye on the moon.
and LOL at "Golden Palace
"Golden Palace.com" hmmm
You know, for years i've been telling my friends that flash could be used to sneak in a virus or two. As a matter of fact, mp3s could as well. For a long time people told me "well if you can do it, why don't you?" Basically because it's messed up AND i don't have enough skills outside of flash to do it.
But a few months ago i read about mp3s having hidden viruses. It didn't go in depth so i don't know what happened with that. But many people don't realize how bad security is. Someone mentioned thumb drives, they're fairly protected with AV. But what programs are scanning mp3s and flash swf's?
It shouldn't be too much longer before someone who has those skills is inclined to start spreading the badness.
As always, if it's on the net it's probably best suited for porn. Just think about it, no longer will you have those hard to get shots with poor lighting with this new source of light!
Not to be a troublemaker, but since you are on /., you should be able to create some sort of web site. On that site you could place a forum for people to come together. And then, if everyone actually unplugs for a bit, maybe they could go protest. It doesn't really matter what who believes and why, but the fact that they actually do something about it.
Here are some of the more memorable quotes i have of past "friends."
"... I just want to go to work, do what i'm told and then go home. I don't want to be a manager."
"... If it was such a good idea, someone would have invented it by now."
"... That's a stupid idea, no one wants to watch a movie about AI taking over! That sounds too much like The Terminator movies."
"It's not my problem, i don't care."
"I don't care who died, i didn't know them."
And finally, "I care, but not enough to do something about it."
Hmmm, since that's how it works, i hope i can read /. from prison, being that it isn't stopping anyone i know =P
I am pretty ignorant in other countries sports, but from my understanding, we're the only one's who chant their country name during a sport... that is based on teams/individuals, not countries. One example is the last PrideFC event hosted in Las Vegas. They had mostly US Citizens fighting others from around the world. "USA USA USA" was not uncommon that evening. I asked the great guys from canada who were next to me, "do you guys ever chant "canada" during hockey games Vs. the US? Or have you even ever hear of canadian chanting? (during a sports match)" They looked embarrassed and said "no." So I apologized.
While i think you have an interesting point of view, especially because of where you've been brought up, i don't think you can compare the cultural similarities and differences between canada Vs. US and US Vs Mexico.
/. is going to be out of work mowing lawns, working taco trucks, singing Mariachi tunes in restaurants, working "fast food" joints, working at the car wash. If anything, we should be trying to give these peoples more jobs because they'll do it, try to do it well and hopefully "motivate" locals who don't do the jobs back because they can't get hired for anything more skilled and aren't willing to take less pay now.
"Mexifornia" as you said, is the first time i've ever heard that word. Unlike any canadian territory where french nor english was the native language, "Spanish" - the american variation of Spain's official language, was already present in California and many other "western states" long before the US moved west.
The reason why there are so many "latin americans" in the southwest of the us is not because of the millions and millions of illegal immigrants, it's because of the millions of people who lived/settled on the lands before it became US territory. Although i will agree that the millions who keep coming in illegally help increase/sustain the number of latin americans. (Hey, someone said there's a difference between immigrants and settlers, right?)
What are people so afraid of? Surely no one on
You know, i've personally never have heard of an illegal alien getting welfare, foodstamps or some other sort of non-humane benefit. I've never heard of one apply for a tax refund either. I'm sure they've gotten emergency room treatment for free at the expense of legal aliens, but standing in line to get money? They must have paid a lot of $ to get a good SSN and ID.
What I have seen is a LOT of unfortunate people living together in amounts/places that locals would not tolerate themselves. If illegals have nice houses in Wisconsin, or Michigan, it's probably because the standard of living is a lot less there than in California. I worked at a site recently where one of the Mexican workers (born in the US) said, "... and i told them i'm mexican mexican" so i asked, "what is a 'Mexican 'Mexican'" and she answered, "you know, mexicans who live in a 1 room apartment with 2-3 families." She wasn't ghetto, and had no accent. But this is what she joked about being mexican.
While i'm sure that many miss the real point of what's going on here, the US always has been a point of inspiration and hope for the entire world. Maybe a little less now since about 2000, but still maintains that appeal. People from all over the world believe that there are streets "paved with gold." They think what they see in the movies is how it is. They want to be able to come here, and live like they "imagine" they can. So when everyone who thinks "they MUST assimilate but don't..." they are wrong. No one who comes here sets up show like vietnam, thailan, japan, russia, pakistan or any other place. They can try to "live like they did at home" but that doesn't mean buying a property, tearing it down, and the building the same crappy structure they had back home.
You don't see Los Angeles being a copy of Mexico. And besides, like i've told everyone after having worked in TJ for a little bit, "the only difference i saw between TJ and California is that California has Cal Trans."
Anyhow, it's time for leftovers from "Beto's." Man those dudes can make some mean fajitas. I sure am glad the illegals haven't integrated into our society as some wish they had... because we wouldn't have fajitas, tacos, tostadas, flautas or even nachos! Even though nachos was a mexican-american invention.
Well yeah its a web page on a web site, but page means just 1, right? I tell people, "i have a web site." Back in the day, you could say "i have a web page" and that was it, just 1 page. No one says "i have a mp3 cd" when they have 300 mp3 cds, right? Or how about, "i have a big web page" Vs "i have a big web site."
My God! I just saw this video and i can't believe it! Here is the jist of it:
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- A trio of english fellows try to buy 3 cars under $1000 USD in miami, they joke and then verify how dangerous the city is
- they work their way through florida, with their final destination being new orleans.
- along the way they almost crash into a river full of gators, possibly eat a dead squirrel and a dead cow (both "road kill")
- Almost are beaten at a gas station (more later)
- Threatened to get sued for trying to give away a car for free because they said the car year was 2 years later than it really was
The almost beaten part is as follows:
they have a bet to try to get each other into trouble. There are 3 cars so they have to write on each others cars offensive words. The one who gets one of the drivers pulled over or killed wins! Well, it's all fun and games until they pull into a gas station in alabama. The station manager (?) complains about the "nascar sucks," "i'm bi," and "hillary for president" painted words on the vehicles. Shortly after she "calls for the boys" and a truck full of locals show up, threaten the film crew and chase everyone away by throwing rocks. Locals give chase and cars pull over to wipe the words of the vehicles for fear of getting shot at. Oh, i forgot to mention that before they stopped at the gas station, loads of drivers were honking.
At first, i thought "no one will get mad..." but i was wrong. I guess americans aren't good at taking a joke? I really recommend the video if you have some time to kill. If you just want to see the worst part go towards the last third of it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=813372031
While I agree that America CAN be great, i don't honestly think it ranks amongst the "best." I mean, don't forget about our secrete prisons! And although i am no authority on the CIA, i saw some documentary about how they were kinda out of control at one point and the FBI had to go reel them in.
For the most part, i'd rather be in jail in the US than in Mexico. From what i heard straight from Mexican nationals, jail isn't a place you go to be kept, it's a place you go to be punished and are treated accordingly. None of this "i'm crazy, have problems and oh, i'm white and paris hilton so can i go home" stuff. You go, starve, probably get beat and try not to go back! Maybe that's what paris needs? a real "life changing jail experience," not the "you're released because there's too many people here" experience.
"I would like to address your misconception of it being the job of the police to presume innocence until proven guilty. That's simply not true. Innocent until proven guilty applies only in a court of law, not on the street or in the realm of an investigation. If I were to simply presume someone was innocent, why would I go around arresting people I presume innocent? The concept is patently absurd, and not how our legal system works."
I agree 100%, you are right. But sometimes people getting pulled over isn't only because they've done something. Don't get me wrong, i'm all for racial profiling or any other kind of profiling that'll help catch the "bad guys" - but they have to treat everyone the same. That may not sound like it makes sense, but it does to me.
But thanks for your advice, that is actually what ended up happening. I ended up seeing a judge and the judge pretty much dropped whatever the one charge was (speeding) and got rid of "no insurance." I had just bought the car so i went to Pasadena to show it off! (thus no insurance) Well, from my point of view it worked out bitchen! It went from paying several thousand to $300 if i remember correctly.
But the sad thing was, while i waited to be called into the chambers, i saw an officer walk into that large waiting room where there was a lot of people waiting for different judges. And this one officer pretty much talked to everyone on his way in. His words were pretty much "not you again, now what did you do?" He had pulled everyone over, and seems to know them well. The worst part was the guy who i was able to hear pretty well because he was behind me, was a bus driver (public transportation). I heard his story and even the officer said "yeah they shouldn't have gotten you for that..." I guess some guy cut in front of him when he was pulling out of a stop and an officer got him for something. Oh, this officer was the guy who pulled me over.
Anyhow, i wondered how many people were treated as i was? Another time, MANY years later, i was driving around in my bright yellow car. When i noticed a sheriff following me, i told my buddy. I was working my way to the main street. I like to take the scenic routes, so it was obvious this officer was following me. My buddy said i was just paranoid - which was a good thing too! So i finally made it to the main street and i just had it. I'm sure the officer ran my plates and saw everything was good. But maybe it didn't help how i looked, even though i was "clean cut" at the time. Maybe its because i had a pakastani in the car with me? Who knows, right?
I pulled into the sheriff's station and parked my car. The officer pulled up right up to my rear bumper. I got out, and walked over to his window. I asked him, "is there a problem officer?" He answered WITH a LOT of attitude, "did i pull you over?" I said, no, i guess not and walked into the station to file a complaint. I asked how to file a complaint and it never happened, the supervisor on duty never came out and i figured my buddy would be pissed for waiting more than 30 mins in the car. Maybe more than 20, but it was a LONG time.
Anyhow, the point of the story is that i didn't do anything for him to be following me, especially since it wasn't for 2-5 mins, but a nice long while. Coming out of a fairly nice neighborhood and driving the car i had, didn't make sense. The good thing that came out of this, is my buddy who said "you're just paranoid" started to notice things he hadn't before. He drove a stock BMW with some nice rims and a sport kit in the adjacent city. Well, he started noticing lot's of sheriff's following him. One time it was so bad, at around 11 PM or 12 AM, a sheriff stopped that was following us in the middle of an intersection making cars wait for him because my buddy made a quick right. I guess the officer couldn't decide if he should cut a car off to keep following us or just let us go.
I don't mind getting pulled over if i'm driving bad, look like i'm doing something i shouldn't, or even ha