Too bad if it gets people killed, but making George Bush look bad is much more important than American lives! Trust me, GWB doesn't need any help getting Americans killed. He's already gotten at least 7000 of us killed.
The satellites are owned by the US, but they are "made in China" just like everything else we own. But the rest of the world shouldn't worry, for that reason, the first time we turn them on they will burst into flames and crash to the ground.
Pick your solution:
A) Learn to speak (and write) English better than just stringing together a bunch of words that form utter nonsense.
B) Stop posting on English language websites.
The missile anti-satelite spyionage digital data photocameras, RFID snooping, weird signals capturing foreign unauthorized low altittude short-life recyclable satelites Bans or nukes any satellite if it has too much champaign. the missile anti-satelite doesn't exist for spying U.S. territory and shutdown satellites if it is to steal top secret's Crack.
I don't think too many moderately informed people care what the National Academies of Science says about radiation any more than they care what GWB says about Saddam Hussein's WMD's.
Actually, I think OmgTEHMATRICKS is referring specifically to the apocalypse stories based on the end of the Mayan calender. December 21st, 2012, is the last day of their 5,125 year calander, leading some to believe that that date signifies the end of time (and the universe i gather). If that were true, it wouldn't matter where you were, as long as you were still in the universe.
The theory is pretty convincing if you look at all the other weird things expected to happen that year at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012.
* Second and last solar transit of the planet Venus of this century
* July 1 -- The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage take office - Like the Chinese will ever let that happen.
* October 19 -- at 1:36 UTC, the Earth will be home to 7 billion people
* November 6 -- United States presidential election, 2012 - Like Emperor Bush will ever let that happen
* NASA's new Orion spacecraft is scheduled to become fully operational for International Space Station support flights - Like NASA will ever actually complete anything.
* the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of the current 11-year sunspot cycle
* The Canadian Navy receives the delivery of the first Joint Support Ship - Canada has a Navy?
* asteroid 2004MN4 comes into view again to recalculate odds of impact. - Scientist: "is that 2004MN4, that fiery thing that takes up half the sky."
And finally,
* Charles Manson will be eligible for a parole hearing again - Nuff said.
COX doesn't provide that level of service.
We had an outage that eventually lasted five weeks. For the first week they told us there was an area wide outage (which must have been true because my neighbor's was out too). Every time we called they said that they had no idea how long it would be out but assured us that a technician was working on it. After that, they kept saying that it was a local problem, and they would send a tech out "tomorrow." I have no idea what day of the week "tomorrow" comes after, so every few days we would call them back - and they would say that he had been there and hadn't found any problems. This seemed strange since we had never seen anyone and the cable was still out - so they would send out the same invisible tech again with the same results. When we refused to pay our bill and threatened to terminate service, they finally sent a real tech - who took one look at the junction box outside and noticed that they had neglected to hook our line back up after the original outage.
That's a shame. This is an obviously necessary law... What I don't understand is why the federal laws like this are necessary. IANAL, but I can't believe that the Constitution allows states to tell cities and towns that they are not allowed to provide certain services to their residents. What's next? Is some state going to pass a law forbidding a city from funding their own free medical clinics. Hell, while we're at it lets ban public fire, police, sewer, water and garbage collection. And when private industry decides a town is too small and remote to be profitable, sure it will become a disease infested pile of garbage where crime runs rampant for a little while, but eventually the whole thing will burn to the ground. Problem solved.
The difference is that you have the choice not to pay for the service. If you do any kind of business in your city, you're paying for broadband.
So your choices are:
1. Pay for broadband 2. Move to a self sufficient hippy commune in Wyoming 3. Die
Faced with only the last two, I think I'd pick #3.
Screw that. No wonder it takes me so long to get anywhere.
I say we privatize the road system. That way people will have a choice in what type of road system they use. You could have your budget system, which would similar to the one we are all forced to use now. Then you could have a premium one, basically parallel to the first (or maybe directly above it), but with no speed limits or traffic lights. Then, for very impatient people with deep pockets, there would be a luxury provider who would build roads that go directly from your house to your work and anywhere else you frequently go.
YEAH...I'M AT THE SUPERMARKET
If you see any European or Asian over the age of 45 on the phone, they usually shout. We never had to do that here in the States during the AT&T era Why is it then, that when you see most Americans on the phone in a public place, they are usually shouting? Not to mention that if they have a hands-free, they think that they need to look everyone around them directly in the eye.
I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic or not. It sounds like you think that the government should simply regulate ISPs. I've never taken any econ. classes, but all you have to do is look around to see that government regulating private industry gives you the worst of both worlds (government providing something as a public service vs. taking a hands off approach and letting the market work itself out). For example, right now most cities provide your sewer/garbage collection as a social service, and the fees are usually pretty reasonable because they are determined by elected officials. On the other hand, they leave retail services up to the private sector, which also results in pretty reasonable costs because of competition. But when the government heavily regulates a privately owned industry, each side can blame the other as prices go up and service degrades. It's a perfect symbiotic relationship where the politicians stay in office and the tycoons keep making money.
The problem with socialism vs. capitalism is that compromise seldom works. You have to decide which things are best left to government to provide, and which things are best left to the private sector.
As far as internet goes, I think it's too early to decide. Let's let those cities that want to, provide it as a public service, and those cities that don't, leave it up to private industry. After a few years we should start to see which works better.
If 85% of them didn't want to be around smoke, there would be plenty of bars and restaurants that would choose not to allow smoking. First of all, way more than 15% of the general population smokes. Second, even more of the people who frequent bars and other nightlife smoke (let's face it, even with smoking bans, you don't see too many Mormons out at the club on Saturday night). You have your numbers backwards. Go to a bar or a pool hall in your city (even after the bans have been in place for over a year) and actually look at the number of people who go out on the patio to smoke. If you pay attention, you will see that it is about 85% of the clientèle, while the 15% "majority" sit inside happy as pigs in shit that they can come down there once a month, drink a few beers, spend a few bucks, and not be bothered by that offensive smell, while the people who are down there five nights a week, keeping the place in business for you, are huddled outside in the cold.
I think I'm going to file a lawsuit against Hooters on behalf of gay men and people with children. After all, I'm sure I could find plenty of people who like their food but don't want to have to look at half naked women while eating it.
Society didn't break down with lax and simple policing rules in the 50s and 60s, sure people broke laws, but society still ran ok. IMO, it ran better. Of course, people who want to take away our rights always argue that we didn't need to be a police state in the 50s, because people were just inherently more "good" back then, but people are just born more "bad" nowadays. There's no attempt to explain why human nature has changed (stricter rules and punishments couldn't possibly be the reason). Only the argument that since it has, we need even stricter rules and punishments.
Anyone want to venture a guess as to why no one in Russia or Iraq has any respect for the law whatsoever.
This reminds me of arguments I used to have with a musician friend of mine (who IMO, was a very good musician, but very computer illiterate at the time). He was a struggling musician type, He'd been in several bar bands through college, cut a few basement-recorded CDs that they would try to sell at shows, always hoping to "get a contract" and "have their shot," without ever making any money except for the few bucks that they would get from the clubs they played at. Well, he used to decry Napster as stealing from musicians, while I would argue that they aren't stealing from musicians so much as stealing from the record companies. He believed that record companies were there to help musicians make money, and that stealing from them, meant they couldn't pay musicians as much.
His attitude did a complete 360 when one of his band mates, who had done all their computer mixing and CD burning, created a website. It featured schedules, and club's sites linked to it. In addition, you could download their entire album in lo-fi, and two songs in hi-fi, and you could order a CD for about six bucks. They didn't get rich, but it was the first time they made any significant money off of their recordings (better than selling them at shows, anyway).
He had finally realized what I had been trying to tell him: the recording industry is a middleman, that makes their money connecting artists with consumers. Modern technology has eliminated the need for such middlemen, and that is why they are up in arms. They have carved out a niche as necessary parasites of artists, and seeing that necessity vanishing, are lashing out in any way they can to hold on to the position of power they held when limited technology made them useful.
This is always what happens when a middle-man sees their position becoming obsolete. Another great example is health care. Why does socialized medicine have no chance. Is it because the people don't want it? Hardly. Is it because doctors don't want it? Not really. Is it because the existing insurance companies don't want it? Bingo! After all, pass true national health care today, and every health insurance company (with their average 18% overhead, as opposed to Medicare's 2%) is out of business tomorrow (Ever wonder why, after Clinton's absolute failure with his plan for socialized medicine, Kerry came along with his plan that you could have any private insurance you wanted, but the government would pay the bill). Another example. Do you think defense lawyers who defend drug dealers want to see any drugs legalized? HELL NO! Illegal drug sales are their bread and butter. Legalize pot and many of them would have to go out and get real jobs.
I agree that the ACLU has a democratic agenda. That was my point. They are not liberal enough for my taste because they have a democratic agenda. And no, liberal and democratic should not be used interchangeably, because they don't mean the same thing at all. The economic policy of the republican party is called neo-liberalism, while that of the Democratic party is conservatism. Let's face it. We are seeing the re-writing of the English language, just like the Newspeak of "1984" Don't accept the definitions that the news media give you. They too have an agenda. Dig a little deeper and you'll find that none of the powers that be have your best interests at heart.
The way I read that is: "all liberals are criminals"
Yeah, it's hard to believe that an organization called the "American Civil Liberties Union" would have a liberal bias.
BTW, look up the word liberalism, and you will see that "Liberal" does not mean "Democrat". It is the idea that the individual is the most important part of society. That what is good for you and I, is more important than what is good of the nation. This is in contrast to totalitarianism, communism, and fascism; which all espouse the importance of society over the importance of the individual.
Obviously, a liberal society is going to have more trouble catching criminals. But that is the price we pay for our freedom.
My problem with the ACLU is that they aren't liberal enough. Sure they defend my right to surf the web (or drive) anonymously. But where are they when I decide I want to open a bar (my own private property) and put a sign on the door that says "This is not a health club, if you don't like cigarette smoke, I suggest you go somewhere else."
I just can't wait till I get pulled over on my way to work, and hauled off to jail because of one of these cameras, because someone reported me for smoking within 20ft of the the door to a bar.
In that light, why do we need this equipment. Wouldn't it be easier if they just required you, when renewing your plates, to state not only your address, but where you work, where your kids go to school, where you usually do your shopping, etc... That way, if they ever want you they'll know where to look.
but, does anyone know if they even teach cursive writing in school anymore. I hope not, because whenever I come across it, I have a lot of trouble reading it (everyone's style is so different).
I suppose that if you want to have the prettiest report, you may need stuff only found in Office 2007. But if you merely want to report your results so you can get the mark based on your understanding of the topic, and the execution of that knowledge, and then move on to your next class, OOo is more than adequate for the task. In my experience, having the prettiest report is only important to about 25% of instructors. OTOH, having the exact same opinion as your instructor, is the deciding factor with about 65% of them. My advice to students: pirate all the best software, and kiss a lot of ass. After all, high school and college are supposed to teach you what you need to make it in the real world. In other words: lie, cheat, steal.
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From TFA, it sounds like we're doing the same thing to the Germans as well. Otherwise, why would they be involved?
I know you know that you got that. And I know you know I know you know that you got that.
The satellites are owned by the US, but they are "made in China" just like everything else we own. But the rest of the world shouldn't worry, for that reason, the first time we turn them on they will burst into flames and crash to the ground.
Why shouldn't they ID US satellites? I always ID French satellites when they want to buy liquor.
Pick your solution:
A) Learn to speak (and write) English better than just stringing together a bunch of words that form utter nonsense.
B) Stop posting on English language websites.
The missile anti-satelite spyionage digital data photocameras, RFID snooping, weird signals capturing foreign unauthorized low altittude short-life recyclable satelites Bans or nukes any satellite if it has too much champaign. the missile anti-satelite doesn't exist for spying U.S. territory and shutdown satellites if it is to steal top secret's Crack.
I don't think too many moderately informed people care what the National Academies of Science says about radiation any more than they care what GWB says about Saddam Hussein's WMD's.
Actually, I think OmgTEHMATRICKS is referring specifically to the apocalypse stories based on the end of the Mayan calender. December 21st, 2012, is the last day of their 5,125 year calander, leading some to believe that that date signifies the end of time (and the universe i gather). If that were true, it wouldn't matter where you were, as long as you were still in the universe.
The theory is pretty convincing if you look at all the other weird things expected to happen that year at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012.
* Second and last solar transit of the planet Venus of this century
* July 1 -- The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage take office - Like the Chinese will ever let that happen.
* October 19 -- at 1:36 UTC, the Earth will be home to 7 billion people
* November 6 -- United States presidential election, 2012 - Like Emperor Bush will ever let that happen
* NASA's new Orion spacecraft is scheduled to become fully operational for International Space Station support flights - Like NASA will ever actually complete anything.
* the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of the current 11-year sunspot cycle
* The Canadian Navy receives the delivery of the first Joint Support Ship - Canada has a Navy?
* asteroid 2004MN4 comes into view again to recalculate odds of impact. - Scientist: "is that 2004MN4, that fiery thing that takes up half the sky."
And finally,
* Charles Manson will be eligible for a parole hearing again - Nuff said.
Of course they will. Obviously, you've never tried human liver with fava beans and a nice chianti. It's delicious.
COX doesn't provide that level of service.
We had an outage that eventually lasted five weeks. For the first week they told us there was an area wide outage (which must have been true because my neighbor's was out too). Every time we called they said that they had no idea how long it would be out but assured us that a technician was working on it. After that, they kept saying that it was a local problem, and they would send a tech out "tomorrow." I have no idea what day of the week "tomorrow" comes after, so every few days we would call them back - and they would say that he had been there and hadn't found any problems. This seemed strange since we had never seen anyone and the cable was still out - so they would send out the same invisible tech again with the same results. When we refused to pay our bill and threatened to terminate service, they finally sent a real tech - who took one look at the junction box outside and noticed that they had neglected to hook our line back up after the original outage.
So your choices are:
1. Pay for broadband
2. Move to a self sufficient hippy commune in Wyoming
3. Die
Faced with only the last two, I think I'd pick #3.
Screw that. No wonder it takes me so long to get anywhere.
I say we privatize the road system. That way people will have a choice in what type of road system they use. You could have your budget system, which would similar to the one we are all forced to use now. Then you could have a premium one, basically parallel to the first (or maybe directly above it), but with no speed limits or traffic lights. Then, for very impatient people with deep pockets, there would be a luxury provider who would build roads that go directly from your house to your work and anywhere else you frequently go.
If you see any European or Asian over the age of 45 on the phone, they usually shout. We never had to do that here in the States during the AT&T era Why is it then, that when you see most Americans on the phone in a public place, they are usually shouting? Not to mention that if they have a hands-free, they think that they need to look everyone around them directly in the eye.
I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic or not. It sounds like you think that the government should simply regulate ISPs. I've never taken any econ. classes, but all you have to do is look around to see that government regulating private industry gives you the worst of both worlds (government providing something as a public service vs. taking a hands off approach and letting the market work itself out). For example, right now most cities provide your sewer/garbage collection as a social service, and the fees are usually pretty reasonable because they are determined by elected officials. On the other hand, they leave retail services up to the private sector, which also results in pretty reasonable costs because of competition. But when the government heavily regulates a privately owned industry, each side can blame the other as prices go up and service degrades. It's a perfect symbiotic relationship where the politicians stay in office and the tycoons keep making money.
The problem with socialism vs. capitalism is that compromise seldom works. You have to decide which things are best left to government to provide, and which things are best left to the private sector.
As far as internet goes, I think it's too early to decide. Let's let those cities that want to, provide it as a public service, and those cities that don't, leave it up to private industry. After a few years we should start to see which works better.
If 85% of them didn't want to be around smoke, there would be plenty of bars and restaurants that would choose not to allow smoking. First of all, way more than 15% of the general population smokes. Second, even more of the people who frequent bars and other nightlife smoke (let's face it, even with smoking bans, you don't see too many Mormons out at the club on Saturday night). You have your numbers backwards. Go to a bar or a pool hall in your city (even after the bans have been in place for over a year) and actually look at the number of people who go out on the patio to smoke. If you pay attention, you will see that it is about 85% of the clientèle, while the 15% "majority" sit inside happy as pigs in shit that they can come down there once a month, drink a few beers, spend a few bucks, and not be bothered by that offensive smell, while the people who are down there five nights a week, keeping the place in business for you, are huddled outside in the cold.
I think I'm going to file a lawsuit against Hooters on behalf of gay men and people with children. After all, I'm sure I could find plenty of people who like their food but don't want to have to look at half naked women while eating it.
Anyone want to venture a guess as to why no one in Russia or Iraq has any respect for the law whatsoever.
This reminds me of arguments I used to have with a musician friend of mine (who IMO, was a very good musician, but very computer illiterate at the time). He was a struggling musician type, He'd been in several bar bands through college, cut a few basement-recorded CDs that they would try to sell at shows, always hoping to "get a contract" and "have their shot," without ever making any money except for the few bucks that they would get from the clubs they played at. Well, he used to decry Napster as stealing from musicians, while I would argue that they aren't stealing from musicians so much as stealing from the record companies. He believed that record companies were there to help musicians make money, and that stealing from them, meant they couldn't pay musicians as much.
His attitude did a complete 360 when one of his band mates, who had done all their computer mixing and CD burning, created a website. It featured schedules, and club's sites linked to it. In addition, you could download their entire album in lo-fi, and two songs in hi-fi, and you could order a CD for about six bucks. They didn't get rich, but it was the first time they made any significant money off of their recordings (better than selling them at shows, anyway).
He had finally realized what I had been trying to tell him: the recording industry is a middleman, that makes their money connecting artists with consumers. Modern technology has eliminated the need for such middlemen, and that is why they are up in arms. They have carved out a niche as necessary parasites of artists, and seeing that necessity vanishing, are lashing out in any way they can to hold on to the position of power they held when limited technology made them useful.
This is always what happens when a middle-man sees their position becoming obsolete. Another great example is health care. Why does socialized medicine have no chance. Is it because the people don't want it? Hardly. Is it because doctors don't want it? Not really. Is it because the existing insurance companies don't want it? Bingo! After all, pass true national health care today, and every health insurance company (with their average 18% overhead, as opposed to Medicare's 2%) is out of business tomorrow (Ever wonder why, after Clinton's absolute failure with his plan for socialized medicine, Kerry came along with his plan that you could have any private insurance you wanted, but the government would pay the bill). Another example. Do you think defense lawyers who defend drug dealers want to see any drugs legalized? HELL NO! Illegal drug sales are their bread and butter. Legalize pot and many of them would have to go out and get real jobs.
I agree that the ACLU has a democratic agenda. That was my point. They are not liberal enough for my taste because they have a democratic agenda. And no, liberal and democratic should not be used interchangeably, because they don't mean the same thing at all. The economic policy of the republican party is called neo-liberalism, while that of the Democratic party is conservatism. Let's face it. We are seeing the re-writing of the English language, just like the Newspeak of "1984" Don't accept the definitions that the news media give you. They too have an agenda. Dig a little deeper and you'll find that none of the powers that be have your best interests at heart.
The way I read that is: "all liberals are criminals"
Yeah, it's hard to believe that an organization called the "American Civil Liberties Union" would have a liberal bias.
BTW, look up the word liberalism, and you will see that "Liberal" does not mean "Democrat". It is the idea that the individual is the most important part of society. That what is good for you and I, is more important than what is good of the nation. This is in contrast to totalitarianism, communism, and fascism; which all espouse the importance of society over the importance of the individual.
Obviously, a liberal society is going to have more trouble catching criminals. But that is the price we pay for our freedom.
My problem with the ACLU is that they aren't liberal enough. Sure they defend my right to surf the web (or drive) anonymously. But where are they when I decide I want to open a bar (my own private property) and put a sign on the door that says "This is not a health club, if you don't like cigarette smoke, I suggest you go somewhere else."
I just can't wait till I get pulled over on my way to work, and hauled off to jail because of one of these cameras, because someone reported me for smoking within 20ft of the the door to a bar.
In that light, why do we need this equipment. Wouldn't it be easier if they just required you, when renewing your plates, to state not only your address, but where you work, where your kids go to school, where you usually do your shopping, etc... That way, if they ever want you they'll know where to look.
but, does anyone know if they even teach cursive writing in school anymore. I hope not, because whenever I come across it, I have a lot of trouble reading it (everyone's style is so different).
The whole purpose of using a computer, of course, is to avoid learning to do things yourself.
Whoever modded it troll doesn't know a joke when it sits on his face and beats him with a whip.