I agree with you, cyberchondriac, that your perspective widens when you become a parent. That certainly is true, in particular of my personal behavior.
But I believe that larger principles, like those that center on essential libertis and personal freedoms are not made mutable by having children. If anything, it makes my belief in them stronger. I do not want them to inherit a world where they are not able to exercise their own conscience and live freely. I refuse to believe that now that I have children, an expansive interventionist nanny state is the best model of government.
This case is very different than the cameras that record my license plate when I run a red light, or I'm speeding, because they're recording my picture when I haven't done anything wrong. Unlike traffic.com, which also records my travel without my consent, this town is looking to keep tabs on me. The town also has the authority to levy fines and punishments on me, which traffic reporters cannot.
This is just a bad decision, and I'm saddened that some would support it.
Okay, so you've had a bad experience in your area, with a poorly run company, and you've got a stellar municipality. Kudos to the PU, and it's shame that the company can't find their ass with both hands.
But why judge EVERYONE'S experiences based on what's happening locally? Why return everyone to a single government-run monopoly based on your township?
Deregulation doesn't work for you, and you've found a town that agrees with you. Cool. I don't want that and I'm happy where I am. That's what I love about this country: the ability for us to disagree politely and go our different ways. If, in the future, deregulation doesn't work, we'll fix it. If it does work, it will spread to those who want it.
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If deregulation is so friggen great then where is the cheap electric? Why can my Village sell me electric for $0.04/kWh with their regulated municipal power authority (while paying their workers Government rates and with Government benefits) when my girlfriend (who lives a whole two miles away) pays $0.14/kWh for electric supplied by a company that is supposedly part of the free market (a company that pays their employees crap and outsources their call center/billing functions to India)."
Well, let's handle this first. Your municipal can offer lower rates because you're paying more in taxes to subsidize them. You pay local, state, and federal taxes which then go to artificially lower the up-front costs you pay for electricity. But it is not necessarily cheaper.
An analogy would be Canadian drug prices. It's easy for those of us in the US to marvel at the lower prices of drugs in Canada without first considering the fact that it's only cheaper because Canadians pay a bulk of their taxes towards their health care expenses (29% of total tax revenue in 2002).
If it's not taxes, then the municipal funds itself by offering bonds, which then pushes the higher costs onto future subscribers. This isn't an effective solution, as it depends on future growth to give current subscribers a lower rate. You're effectively mortgaging your children's future so you can leave the lights on now.
Further more, if municipals were truly better, then it should have been the Canadian Power authorities or ConEdison that recognized the problem and cut Ohio off of the grid, thereby preventing this whole problem. But they didn't. Instead it was a private company outside of Philadelphia that helps maintain the grid that recognized the issue as it was happening and isolated it further. In fact, they said in a news story that they practice the very type of blackout event twice a year. They do this because they have a responsibility to their shareholders, and their customers and know that screwing either of them is not good business.
Yes, a company like Enron can game the system, and screw a lot of people, but I think we can honestly recognize:
Enron is the exception, and not the norm. Not many companies operate like Enron did, or was as unethical they were.
I think we can all agree that unethical behavior, ignorance, and incompetence are not limited to private corporations, but government agencies, municipal authorities also exhibit those human qualities.
btw, nice strawman, mentioning outsourcing while talking about a deregulated power company. sure to get a raise, but can we keep the logical fallacies to a minimum please? thanks
And you don't question the lady for putting a hot beverage between her legs? Just like I'm not going to sit on the couch with hot soup between my legs when I eat dinner, I'm not going to buy coffee and put that between my legs.
Why should McDonalds be at fault for her decision to do so? That's what people object to when they say the lawsuit is frivilous.
I don't want to minimize the pain and anguish that Ms. Lieback went through, but just like I'm not going to advocate someone sue Ford when their Mustang crashes because they were racing, and I'm not going to advocate someone suing a pharmaceutical company when a person overdoses on a drug clearly labelled as dangerous, I'm not going to advocate suing McDonalds when someone ignores common sense and puts a hot beverage between their legs, right next to their crotch.
Interestingly enough about this list is that PA, home of Homeland Security Lord, Tom Ridge, has had a program just like this before they signed into MATRIX.
It's called JNet and it was one of the earliest such systems built in the US for law enforcement.
So not only does MATRIX have you, but now JNet too.
The big issue for me is that law enforcement is now getting this data without having to use a warrant. They used to have to get a warrant to check public sources of data. This made sense, because they have more authority and power than, say, a private investigator. But systems like MATRIX and JNet remove the necessity of getting a warrant, which removes judicial overview from the process, and keeps police searches of your records more secret.
I've had 27 different jobs in my life: groundskeeper, photographer, construction worker, car salesman, telemarketer, bill collector, restaurant manager, cook, pizza delivery boy, cashier, PC technician, project manager, software engineer, just to name a few.
One of the worst conditions I ever dealt with was when I was doing groundskeeping work. I worked on the estate of a multi-millionaire businessman who owned several thousand acres in the Pennsylvania country side. He had acres and acres of pine trees he was growing to sell at Christmas. But he decided that he didn't like that idea any more, and so he wanted them all cut down and uprooted so he could put in his own personal golf course. So during one of the hottest summers ever, I would trundle out with the 3 other guys in my jeans, boots, t-shirt, flannel shirt, hat, and gloves to cut down pine trees with chainsaws, and then heave them into the trailer to be hauled away. I got heat exhaustion 3 times that summer, and so many rashes from the needles and sap, it was awful. We asked the millionaire if we could work 4am until noon, and enjoy some cooler temperatures, but he didn't want his sleep disturbed.
Same millionaire would have us go out and wash his airplane at the local airport whenever it rained. No lie. It would be pouring and we'd be outside in the rain with brushes and soap scrubbing down the exterior of his jet. That, and when it rained, we'd go clean his turkey pens. He would throw lavish Thanksgiving parties and have fresh turkeys from his coops killed. So we'd go in and sweep up turkey shit and breath in all those nasty feathers and shit. I mean, literally, shit. Hourly pay rate: $4.25
Worked in an office that used to be a janitor's closet, and it doubled as the server room. It was the width of your standard cubicle. Day-time temperatures of over 100 degrees. The company required suit and tie as well.
The company I work for now is great, but the facilities suck. Mold growing up the walls and in the ceiling tiles, the roof leaks horrendously and we've had lights short out above us because of leaking water. There are crickets and mice all the time. The fire alarm just goes off at random, so you never know if you're supposed to get up and leave or not. For the entire month of December we had no heat at all, and they had to send us home some days. The other guys in my office bought a space heater to help us out, and it blew out a circuit. Now it's over 80 in here, and the heat's rising. You always think you're smelling something burning, but you can't be sure. There's only 3 toilets for over fifty men (on average), except the one's always busted, so we really only have two. They keep saying that they're going to fix the toilet but they never do. We don't have any windows, and no way to get fresh air. We'd like to turn off the lights overhead and use desk lamps, but oh, no switches to control the lights. This office used to be a chemical lab and there are still portions of the office that haven't been converted to "Class A" office space and still have drums of whatever sitting around. Love the company, but the location is killing us.
Perl also doesn't support Windows directly like Python does - if you want Perl in Win32 you pretty much have to go with ActiveState whereas Python.org has a Win32 specific distribution.
FUD. Following Gary Ng's port of the source code to Win32, Gurusamy Sarathy began releasing a binary distribution of Perl, and so did ActiveState.
At some point they realized that it would be a benefit to Perl and Windows if they merged the distributions and gave Windows users a single place to go to get Perl with an installer and the most common packages installed.
This has been nothing but beneficial, as most IT managers of Windows shops feel better installing something with a company name attached to it, and an installer.
I don't think that ActiveState has ever been anything but good to the Perl community, and it's a shame that you imply that they're involved in some murky shadow plot.
couldn't this just be because they had to free up some revenue to pay for that witty commercial with Jerry Stiller and Snoop Dogg?
I mean, now that I've seen that, and AOL's brand of self-deprecating brand of humor, why, I almost went out and installed AOL myself!
Oh wait...no I didn't.
I hope AOL goddamn dies.
This reminds me of one of my favorite songs
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Given the convergence of how this sounded like the start of a Penthouse letter with music, I'm greatly enthused that it also reminded me of one of my favorite songs:
A woman came up to me and said "I'd like to poison your mind, with wrong ideas that appeal to you though I am not unkind." ('Whistling In The Dark' TMBG)
Rocco from the Newark NJ Institute of Car Thievery released a study today that showed that eventually, the economics of car theft would work against the car thieves if EVERYONE left their cars unlocked with the keys in the ignition.
Kenneth Lay from the CEO's Fleecing Thinktank said the more that investors allow themselves get defrauded, the less it sucks overall
And finally, Rollo the Mad Dog Rapist said in a Press Release from San Quentin Prison that the more his bitches bend over when he...oh never mind, you get the point...
I always liked the Matrix-in-a-Matrix theory because it seemed to make the most sense. In fact someone came up with some math to show how it was the ONLY way to make sense of population growth.
And I just didn't buy the idea that Neo was suddenly powerful outside of the Matrix.
some WW2 era cartoons including some classic Bugs Bunny...will likely never make it to DVD
oh, wrong you are my friend: Warner Bros. are releasing the Looney Toons on DVD in their original form and uncut. Trust me I was shocked, but I am pleased that WB sacked up and is releasing these.
$insult = 'Fools!'; $question = 'pay so much for a piece of hardware'; $alt = 'the iRiver discman'; $reasons = 'costs less AND it plays and plays OGG files'; $endingFlame = 'Apple is dying. Everyone knows it but you';
print <<REPLY;
$insult Why would you ever $question? Don't you know $alt is SO MUCH COOLER? I mean, it $reasons!
Jesus! If you fuckheads paid attention, you'd realize $endingFlame! REPLY
#disclaimer - The above Slashdot parody is provided without warranty, and if you can't recognize the saracasm, you left your sense of humor at home.
Patents are designed to allow the small man, the thinkers, the tinkerers, and the inventors, like Ben Franklin, the ability to protect their discoveries and inventions from being co-opted by larger firms that would use their resources to create a cheaper version of said invention.
Yes, patents can suck when some company's got it, and they're not sharing, but that's how it works. Just as with free speech, you have to take the good with the bad.
We were never meant to be a democracy in the US, and if living in your democracy means I have no way to protect my IP, you can have your democracy, I'll find a republic to live in, which is the rule of law. I think we can all recognize that the rule of the mob is just as destructive and despotic as the rule of a single dictator.
Monopolies exist, they are natural in capitalism, and they will continue to exist. As long as there are no government interventions, and the monopoly doesn't use force to prevent market change, the monopoly will go away. Monopoly's can be beneficial for the customer. For example Standard Oil was a monopoly, and while they were the only place for gas and oil, the price of gas went steadily down. They didn't gouge the customer because they were smart enough to realize that if they did, someone else would step in and start their own company and they would lose market dominance. For more food for thought, land ownership is a monopoly. If I own the land, I'm the only one who owns that land, and you cannot use it without my express consent, or you can be arrested.
People like to point to what's going on in the US, and how much it sucks, and gee, isn't capitalism terrible, but we don't have capitalism in America, we have a mercantalism system that was retrofitted with socialist programs. Mercantalism does suck, and it does breed more unnatural monopolies and bad laws which allow companies to extend patents and play fair, but in a true capitalist republic, neither monopolies nor patents would be so onerous, or reviled so much.
The advisory states that Internet Explorer isn't affected by this vulnerability. Before someone else states it, I'll get them out of the way, silly as they may be:
"This must have been posted by Microsoft as FUD to get people to stay away from superior products! It's all a trick! Don't listen!"
"What's up Taco? I thought April Fools had passed!"
"Javascript serves no purpose ever, and why anyone would ever use it is beyond me!"
"This is why we should all be using IE. I've never had a problem with IE security! Linux [l]users sux0rs!"
The API is clearly documented, and easily accessible. I can program extensions for it in VB (shudder to think), a.NET language, Perl, or Python
and finally...I've never had an issue with Outlook and security.
When another client gives me all of the above, in an easy to use fashion, I'll consider switching. That, or if Outlook hoses my computer I'll consider switching, but considering the security precautions I take, I don't believe that will be an issue.
Tucker Max is not an overly self-impressed jerkoff! Just because Tucker Max speaks in third person and Tucker Max pretends he's James Bond, doesn't mean you should look down on Tucker Max.
Just as criminalizing drugs, and establishing mandatory minimum sentences has done nothing to stem the tide of drug trafficking, this will do nothing to eliminate file trading.
What I find criminal is that this horse's ass sitting in Washington collecting tax dollars to live high on the hog, and make our lives more difficult wants to permanently screw up the lives of these 'example' students forever by making them felons. Once they're convicted of a felony like this, they'll be ineligible for student aid, they'll be unable to vote, and they're criminal records will be held against them by potential employers for a long time. Not to mention the fact that it will cost us $120,000 per student locked up ($40,000 per year per inmate at a Federal prison), I find the proposal and the cost absolutely outrageous, and reprehensible.
I believe this man should be run from office as soon as possible before he screws up anyone's life.
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I agree with you, cyberchondriac, that your perspective widens when you become a parent. That certainly is true, in particular of my personal behavior.
But I believe that larger principles, like those that center on essential libertis and personal freedoms are not made mutable by having children. If anything, it makes my belief in them stronger. I do not want them to inherit a world where they are not able to exercise their own conscience and live freely. I refuse to believe that now that I have children, an expansive interventionist nanny state is the best model of government.
This case is very different than the cameras that record my license plate when I run a red light, or I'm speeding, because they're recording my picture when I haven't done anything wrong. Unlike traffic.com, which also records my travel without my consent, this town is looking to keep tabs on me. The town also has the authority to levy fines and punishments on me, which traffic reporters cannot.
This is just a bad decision, and I'm saddened that some would support it.
"And I'll bust your TraceBuster with my TraceBuster-buster"...
Okay, so you've had a bad experience in your area, with a poorly run company, and you've got a stellar municipality. Kudos to the PU, and it's shame that the company can't find their ass with both hands. But why judge EVERYONE'S experiences based on what's happening locally? Why return everyone to a single government-run monopoly based on your township? Deregulation doesn't work for you, and you've found a town that agrees with you. Cool. I don't want that and I'm happy where I am. That's what I love about this country: the ability for us to disagree politely and go our different ways. If, in the future, deregulation doesn't work, we'll fix it. If it does work, it will spread to those who want it.
An analogy would be Canadian drug prices. It's easy for those of us in the US to marvel at the lower prices of drugs in Canada without first considering the fact that it's only cheaper because Canadians pay a bulk of their taxes towards their health care expenses (29% of total tax revenue in 2002).
If it's not taxes, then the municipal funds itself by offering bonds, which then pushes the higher costs onto future subscribers. This isn't an effective solution, as it depends on future growth to give current subscribers a lower rate. You're effectively mortgaging your children's future so you can leave the lights on now.
Further more, if municipals were truly better, then it should have been the Canadian Power authorities or ConEdison that recognized the problem and cut Ohio off of the grid, thereby preventing this whole problem. But they didn't. Instead it was a private company outside of Philadelphia that helps maintain the grid that recognized the issue as it was happening and isolated it further. In fact, they said in a news story that they practice the very type of blackout event twice a year. They do this because they have a responsibility to their shareholders, and their customers and know that screwing either of them is not good business.
Yes, a company like Enron can game the system, and screw a lot of people, but I think we can honestly recognize:
btw, nice strawman, mentioning outsourcing while talking about a deregulated power company. sure to get a raise, but can we keep the logical fallacies to a minimum please? thanks
And you don't question the lady for putting a hot beverage between her legs? Just like I'm not going to sit on the couch with hot soup between my legs when I eat dinner, I'm not going to buy coffee and put that between my legs.
Why should McDonalds be at fault for her decision to do so? That's what people object to when they say the lawsuit is frivilous.
I don't want to minimize the pain and anguish that Ms. Lieback went through, but just like I'm not going to advocate someone sue Ford when their Mustang crashes because they were racing, and I'm not going to advocate someone suing a pharmaceutical company when a person overdoses on a drug clearly labelled as dangerous, I'm not going to advocate suing McDonalds when someone ignores common sense and puts a hot beverage between their legs, right next to their crotch.
Interestingly enough about this list is that PA, home of Homeland Security Lord, Tom Ridge, has had a program just like this before they signed into MATRIX.
It's called JNet and it was one of the earliest such systems built in the US for law enforcement.
So not only does MATRIX have you, but now JNet too.
The big issue for me is that law enforcement is now getting this data without having to use a warrant. They used to have to get a warrant to check public sources of data. This made sense, because they have more authority and power than, say, a private investigator. But systems like MATRIX and JNet remove the necessity of getting a warrant, which removes judicial overview from the process, and keeps police searches of your records more secret.
That's what I don't like.
Hey Carlos, what's up man? Email Address
I've had 27 different jobs in my life:
groundskeeper, photographer, construction worker, car salesman, telemarketer, bill collector, restaurant manager, cook, pizza delivery boy, cashier, PC technician, project manager, software engineer, just to name a few.
One of the worst conditions I ever dealt with was when I was doing groundskeeping work. I worked on the estate of a multi-millionaire businessman who owned several thousand acres in the Pennsylvania country side. He had acres and acres of pine trees he was growing to sell at Christmas. But he decided that he didn't like that idea any more, and so he wanted them all cut down and uprooted so he could put in his own personal golf course. So during one of the hottest summers ever, I would trundle out with the 3 other guys in my jeans, boots, t-shirt, flannel shirt, hat, and gloves to cut down pine trees with chainsaws, and then heave them into the trailer to be hauled away. I got heat exhaustion 3 times that summer, and so many rashes from the needles and sap, it was awful. We asked the millionaire if we could work 4am until noon, and enjoy some cooler temperatures, but he didn't want his sleep disturbed.
Same millionaire would have us go out and wash his airplane at the local airport whenever it rained. No lie. It would be pouring and we'd be outside in the rain with brushes and soap scrubbing down the exterior of his jet. That, and when it rained, we'd go clean his turkey pens. He would throw lavish Thanksgiving parties and have fresh turkeys from his coops killed. So we'd go in and sweep up turkey shit and breath in all those nasty feathers and shit. I mean, literally, shit. Hourly pay rate: $4.25
Worked in an office that used to be a janitor's closet, and it doubled as the server room. It was the width of your standard cubicle. Day-time temperatures of over 100 degrees. The company required suit and tie as well.
The company I work for now is great, but the facilities suck. Mold growing up the walls and in the ceiling tiles, the roof leaks horrendously and we've had lights short out above us because of leaking water. There are crickets and mice all the time. The fire alarm just goes off at random, so you never know if you're supposed to get up and leave or not. For the entire month of December we had no heat at all, and they had to send us home some days. The other guys in my office bought a space heater to help us out, and it blew out a circuit. Now it's over 80 in here, and the heat's rising. You always think you're smelling something burning, but you can't be sure. There's only 3 toilets for over fifty men (on average), except the one's always busted, so we really only have two. They keep saying that they're going to fix the toilet but they never do. We don't have any windows, and no way to get fresh air. We'd like to turn off the lights overhead and use desk lamps, but oh, no switches to control the lights. This office used to be a chemical lab and there are still portions of the office that haven't been converted to "Class A" office space and still have drums of whatever sitting around. Love the company, but the location is killing us.
Perl also doesn't support Windows directly like Python does - if you want Perl in Win32 you pretty much have to go with ActiveState whereas Python.org has a Win32 specific distribution.
FUD. Following Gary Ng's port of the source code to Win32, Gurusamy Sarathy began releasing a binary distribution of Perl, and so did ActiveState.
At some point they realized that it would be a benefit to Perl and Windows if they merged the distributions and gave Windows users a single place to go to get Perl with an installer and the most common packages installed.
This has been nothing but beneficial, as most IT managers of Windows shops feel better installing something with a company name attached to it, and an installer.
I don't think that ActiveState has ever been anything but good to the Perl community, and it's a shame that you imply that they're involved in some murky shadow plot.
couldn't this just be because they had to free up some revenue to pay for that witty commercial with Jerry Stiller and Snoop Dogg?
I mean, now that I've seen that, and AOL's brand of self-deprecating brand of humor, why, I almost went out and installed AOL myself!
Oh wait...no I didn't.
I hope AOL goddamn dies.
Given the convergence of how this sounded like the start of a Penthouse letter with music, I'm greatly enthused that it also reminded me of one of my favorite songs:
A woman came up to me and said
"I'd like to poison your mind, with wrong ideas that appeal to you though I am not unkind."
('Whistling In The Dark' TMBG)
I always liked the Matrix-in-a-Matrix theory because it seemed to make the most sense. In fact someone came up with some math to show how it was the ONLY way to make sense of population growth. And I just didn't buy the idea that Neo was suddenly powerful outside of the Matrix.
some WW2 era cartoons including some classic Bugs Bunny...will likely never make it to DVD
oh, wrong you are my friend:
Warner Bros. are releasing the Looney Toons on DVD in their original form and uncut. Trust me I was shocked, but I am pleased that WB sacked up and is releasing these.
Call the Chairman of the ATA at home!!!!!!!
Chairman:
Thomas Rocca, (770) 429-1956, 3840 Jiles Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144
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$insult = 'Fools!';
$question = 'pay so much for a piece of hardware';
$alt = 'the iRiver discman';
$reasons = 'costs less AND it plays and plays OGG files';
$endingFlame = 'Apple is dying. Everyone knows it but you';
print <<REPLY;
$insult
Why would you ever $question?
Don't you know $alt is SO MUCH COOLER?
I mean, it $reasons!
Jesus! If you fuckheads paid attention, you'd realize $endingFlame!
REPLY
#disclaimer - The above Slashdot parody is provided without warranty, and if you can't recognize the saracasm, you left your sense of humor at home.
Patents are designed to allow the small man, the thinkers, the tinkerers, and the inventors, like Ben Franklin, the ability to protect their discoveries and inventions from being co-opted by larger firms that would use their resources to create a cheaper version of said invention.
Yes, patents can suck when some company's got it, and they're not sharing, but that's how it works. Just as with free speech, you have to take the good with the bad.
We were never meant to be a democracy in the US, and if living in your democracy means I have no way to protect my IP, you can have your democracy, I'll find a republic to live in, which is the rule of law. I think we can all recognize that the rule of the mob is just as destructive and despotic as the rule of a single dictator.
Monopolies exist, they are natural in capitalism, and they will continue to exist. As long as there are no government interventions, and the monopoly doesn't use force to prevent market change, the monopoly will go away. Monopoly's can be beneficial for the customer. For example Standard Oil was a monopoly, and while they were the only place for gas and oil, the price of gas went steadily down. They didn't gouge the customer because they were smart enough to realize that if they did, someone else would step in and start their own company and they would lose market dominance. For more food for thought, land ownership is a monopoly. If I own the land, I'm the only one who owns that land, and you cannot use it without my express consent, or you can be arrested.
People like to point to what's going on in the US, and how much it sucks, and gee, isn't capitalism terrible, but we don't have capitalism in America, we have a mercantalism system that was retrofitted with socialist programs. Mercantalism does suck, and it does breed more unnatural monopolies and bad laws which allow companies to extend patents and play fair, but in a true capitalist republic, neither monopolies nor patents would be so onerous, or reviled so much.
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"This must have been posted by Microsoft as FUD to get people to stay away from superior products! It's all a trick! Don't listen!"
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"What's up Taco? I thought April Fools had passed!"
- "Javascript serves no purpose ever, and why anyone would ever use it is beyond me!"
- "This is why we should all be using IE. I've never had a problem with IE security! Linux [l]users sux0rs!"
Did I miss any?- Integrates with existing Hotmail accounts
- Integrates with PGP
- Integrates with work's Exchange Server
- Integrates with Palm
- Calendaring software
- Journal and Tasks
- The API is clearly documented, and easily accessible. I can program extensions for it in VB (shudder to think), a
.NET language, Perl, or Python
- and finally...I've never had an issue with Outlook and security.
When another client gives me all of the above, in an easy to use fashion, I'll consider switching. That, or if Outlook hoses my computer I'll consider switching, but considering the security precautions I take, I don't believe that will be an issue.Tucker Max is not an overly self-impressed jerkoff! Just because Tucker Max speaks in third person and Tucker Max pretends he's James Bond, doesn't mean you should look down on Tucker Max.
Tucker Max is not happy with you.
Anyone that says "No, that's NOT flamebait!" already has his asbestos skivvies on, and is priming his flamethower.
It's like someone who starts every insult with the phrase "I mean this in the kindest way, but..."
Seriously, I know that things are most certainly less rosy than this at most banks around, but my friend, you took the words right out of my mouth.
For the love of God, Access????
Access?
Bah. I'm going to start hiding my money in a mason jar again.
Alright, I'm in. I'd welcome the chance to find out about more musicians who are download-friendly, and|or against the RIAA.
Music reviews would be a good thing too. We have book reviews, why not music reviews?
- Mozilla is dead! Use [Phoenix|Opera|Chimera|Galeon]
- [Phoenix|Opera|Chimera|Galeon|IE] suck, Mozilla is the only true browser.
- Mozilla is not a browser, it's a platform
- Mail client in Mozilla sucks
- Why haven't they fixed bug xxxx yet. It's been like forever!
Did I miss any?Just as criminalizing drugs, and establishing mandatory minimum sentences has done nothing to stem the tide of drug trafficking, this will do nothing to eliminate file trading.
What I find criminal is that this horse's ass sitting in Washington collecting tax dollars to live high on the hog, and make our lives more difficult wants to permanently screw up the lives of these 'example' students forever by making them felons. Once they're convicted of a felony like this, they'll be ineligible for student aid, they'll be unable to vote, and they're criminal records will be held against them by potential employers for a long time. Not to mention the fact that it will cost us $120,000 per student locked up ($40,000 per year per inmate at a Federal prison), I find the proposal and the cost absolutely outrageous, and reprehensible.
I believe this man should be run from office as soon as possible before he screws up anyone's life.