Eh? I have looked up "Matticus" and I found no reference to anyone in the position of "telling me what the hell I should do". Who on this earth decided to drop down and make you the arbiter of what consists fair use of the internet (a community resource, yes, but one that you feel that you personally have the right to rule over: "emails, mindless web surfing? OK OK very good....BITTORRENTING? YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT....I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OR BELIEVE, I AM MATTICUS, THE ONLY TRUE ARBITER OF RIGHT AND WRONG ON THE NET!!!!").
In other words, my mother tried to tell me what I should do, I defied her. My wife tried the same with the same result. If you're not caring for me or having sex with me, what on earth makes you think I'd (or anyone) would listen to you?
BTW, why should heavy users have to pay for guaranteed-bandwith? Usually the point of downloading 24/7 is to not mind if the bandwidth drops here and there. And why don't light users deserve guaranteed bandwitdh? If the heavy users paid for that, then the light users would become 2nd class traffic merely because they don't use the internet that much. You claim the internet is a community but then you advocate that heavy users should pay for a better service, creating 2 distinct classes of users: the heavy users who get always fast connections and the light users who get what is left over (bandwith is limited and they didn't pay for the guarantee), meaning slow speed. An equivalent would be allowing wealthy users of public transport to pay more for a luxury seat, something we acknowledge in private transport (airplanes, ships) but in a community resource it is evil.
As an American ally, I have never been bullied. In fact, our treaty with the US (ANZUS) is awesome. I can see how countries who are not your allies would feel bullied but where do you get bullying your allies from? In Iraq your allies are Australia and Britain, have you bullied them (well if you bullied the British, no problemo...we do that too)? If you feel that the people that refused to go with you to Iraq are your allies, then yes you may be bullying them but I hardly see France, Canada, or NZ (whom all hate the USA while worshipping it's culture) as your allies. Secret prisons, torture? War stuff. Did you think it was going to be fair and nice?
> Jesus Christ - no wonder people hate Americans. Thanks for that, people - I'm embarrassed to say where I'm from these days. Bunch of jingoist jerks.
Actually you're the kind of American people hate. The gung-ho type we don't mind, they are consistent and wear their beliefs on their sleeve. They are honest and straightforward. It's this new, smug, "I'm ashamed of my country" kind of American that I cannot stand (I am Australian). Your country dominates the world (just as italy, england, greece, persia, france etc etc etc all did in their day) and you are ashamed? I'd hate to know how you'd feel if you were French and actually had to live with the knowledge that not only did your country surrender to Germany without a fight, they also aided and assisted the round-up of their own Jewish population. How would you feel then? BTW, if your country was invaded, you would be cowering behind those "jingoist jerks", you hypocrite.
Talking unsubstantiated nonsense and practising extortion are also hallmarks of:
Politics
Education
Commerce
Entertainment
Religion is not unique by any means in seeing the most effective way to get money and believers.
Now, does the average home use all of it's 10,000 kWh per year in making light? Re-read google's claim. It's enough to LIGHT 1,000 houses. Seeing that lighting a house is a tiny portion of the electricity use, I would propose that the 10/175,200 or.0057 percent is extremely inflated. Let's say a house uses 10% of it's electricity to make light, then the real use would be 1,000 kWh / year and your calculation would yield 1 megawatt of electricity, changing the proper number to 1/157,200 or.0000064. So that one server rack becomes one server. How many solar panels does it take to run this server? 9 thousand some odd?
Im about the same size as you and I defy any woman to step into the ring. Not into the "let's wrestle and see whose biceps are stronger" ring or the "jab, jab, right cross" ring, the "I'm trying to cave your face in with every blow" ring. Your boxing example could just as easily be applied to small men (David and Goliath for example) as women and it proves nothing. As the Bible shows, we have known men who are small in stature can do an extremely large amount of damage for a long time, you didn't reveal anything new by stating that a larger man got beaten by a smaller opponent. Joss Whedon is so far off it's laughable....do you REALLY think SM Gellar or Eliza Dushku could do anything other than bleed if faced with real violence (once again, not threats but REAL violence: kicks and blows to the face, hard body punches etc). No, they'd be annihilated in a bloody mess.
Women aren't as aggressive as men? That is completely false. Women are not as destructive as men (they don't get the chance as men hold most positions of power) but they are at least as aggressive as men, if not more. What kind of lifelong condition are you referring to where a woman is going against it when she stands up for herself? Hello? Welcome to the 21st century. As an arriver from the 19th century, let me catch you up on the 20th century. That idea of yours is gone. Been to a day care in the past 50 years? The first thing taught to little girls is always the same: "Anything boys can do, girls can do better." Oh yeah, that starts them out on a life of meekness. Been to a college lately? Why don't you go and check out the 18-21 yr old girls there who cannot stand up for themselves.
On the subject, IT has never had any women in it, so how can the number go down? What happened, did it go from five thousand worldwide to four? I've never worked in any company that had more than an a few women in it. Sad to see, but IT is and always has been, a sausage-fest.
"Now consider Germany who got subdued when Russia, USA, England and France ganged up on them. What about when France, Germany and England gangs up on somebody else?"
Then, the world laughs. Add up all those countries military victories in the past two centuries and you get Napoleon and 2 world wars that they fought (against each other) and needed American/Russian help to get out of. Will Germany and England be adopting the official saying of the French Military? "We surrender!". Seriously, the state of Texas could go over and defeat the combined might of England, France and Germany.
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Eh? I have looked up "Matticus" and I found no reference to anyone in the position of "telling me what the hell I should do". Who on this earth decided to drop down and make you the arbiter of what consists fair use of the internet (a community resource, yes, but one that you feel that you personally have the right to rule over: "emails, mindless web surfing? OK OK very good....BITTORRENTING? YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT....I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OR BELIEVE, I AM MATTICUS, THE ONLY TRUE ARBITER OF RIGHT AND WRONG ON THE NET!!!!"). In other words, my mother tried to tell me what I should do, I defied her. My wife tried the same with the same result. If you're not caring for me or having sex with me, what on earth makes you think I'd (or anyone) would listen to you? BTW, why should heavy users have to pay for guaranteed-bandwith? Usually the point of downloading 24/7 is to not mind if the bandwidth drops here and there. And why don't light users deserve guaranteed bandwitdh? If the heavy users paid for that, then the light users would become 2nd class traffic merely because they don't use the internet that much. You claim the internet is a community but then you advocate that heavy users should pay for a better service, creating 2 distinct classes of users: the heavy users who get always fast connections and the light users who get what is left over (bandwith is limited and they didn't pay for the guarantee), meaning slow speed. An equivalent would be allowing wealthy users of public transport to pay more for a luxury seat, something we acknowledge in private transport (airplanes, ships) but in a community resource it is evil.
As an American ally, I have never been bullied. In fact, our treaty with the US (ANZUS) is awesome. I can see how countries who are not your allies would feel bullied but where do you get bullying your allies from? In Iraq your allies are Australia and Britain, have you bullied them (well if you bullied the British, no problemo...we do that too)? If you feel that the people that refused to go with you to Iraq are your allies, then yes you may be bullying them but I hardly see France, Canada, or NZ (whom all hate the USA while worshipping it's culture) as your allies. Secret prisons, torture? War stuff. Did you think it was going to be fair and nice?
> Jesus Christ - no wonder people hate Americans. Thanks for that, people - I'm embarrassed to say where I'm from these days. Bunch of jingoist jerks. Actually you're the kind of American people hate. The gung-ho type we don't mind, they are consistent and wear their beliefs on their sleeve. They are honest and straightforward. It's this new, smug, "I'm ashamed of my country" kind of American that I cannot stand (I am Australian). Your country dominates the world (just as italy, england, greece, persia, france etc etc etc all did in their day) and you are ashamed? I'd hate to know how you'd feel if you were French and actually had to live with the knowledge that not only did your country surrender to Germany without a fight, they also aided and assisted the round-up of their own Jewish population. How would you feel then? BTW, if your country was invaded, you would be cowering behind those "jingoist jerks", you hypocrite.
Talking unsubstantiated nonsense and practising extortion are also hallmarks of: Politics Education Commerce Entertainment Religion is not unique by any means in seeing the most effective way to get money and believers.
Now, does the average home use all of it's 10,000 kWh per year in making light? Re-read google's claim. It's enough to LIGHT 1,000 houses. Seeing that lighting a house is a tiny portion of the electricity use, I would propose that the 10/175,200 or .0057 percent is extremely inflated. Let's say a house uses 10% of it's electricity to make light, then the real use would be 1,000 kWh / year and your calculation would yield 1 megawatt of electricity, changing the proper number to 1/157,200 or .0000064. So that one server rack becomes one server. How many solar panels does it take to run this server? 9 thousand some odd?
Im about the same size as you and I defy any woman to step into the ring. Not into the "let's wrestle and see whose biceps are stronger" ring or the "jab, jab, right cross" ring, the "I'm trying to cave your face in with every blow" ring. Your boxing example could just as easily be applied to small men (David and Goliath for example) as women and it proves nothing. As the Bible shows, we have known men who are small in stature can do an extremely large amount of damage for a long time, you didn't reveal anything new by stating that a larger man got beaten by a smaller opponent. Joss Whedon is so far off it's laughable....do you REALLY think SM Gellar or Eliza Dushku could do anything other than bleed if faced with real violence (once again, not threats but REAL violence: kicks and blows to the face, hard body punches etc). No, they'd be annihilated in a bloody mess.
Women aren't as aggressive as men? That is completely false. Women are not as destructive as men (they don't get the chance as men hold most positions of power) but they are at least as aggressive as men, if not more. What kind of lifelong condition are you referring to where a woman is going against it when she stands up for herself? Hello? Welcome to the 21st century. As an arriver from the 19th century, let me catch you up on the 20th century. That idea of yours is gone. Been to a day care in the past 50 years? The first thing taught to little girls is always the same: "Anything boys can do, girls can do better." Oh yeah, that starts them out on a life of meekness. Been to a college lately? Why don't you go and check out the 18-21 yr old girls there who cannot stand up for themselves. On the subject, IT has never had any women in it, so how can the number go down? What happened, did it go from five thousand worldwide to four? I've never worked in any company that had more than an a few women in it. Sad to see, but IT is and always has been, a sausage-fest.
"Now consider Germany who got subdued when Russia, USA, England and France ganged up on them. What about when France, Germany and England gangs up on somebody else?" Then, the world laughs. Add up all those countries military victories in the past two centuries and you get Napoleon and 2 world wars that they fought (against each other) and needed American/Russian help to get out of. Will Germany and England be adopting the official saying of the French Military? "We surrender!". Seriously, the state of Texas could go over and defeat the combined might of England, France and Germany.
Do the numbers include human CO2 emissions? China certainly has to lead the world in that area. How about animal CO2 emissions?