"Yessiree, that will keep capital circulating! Nothing inspires a person to move funds into a position to better fund a promising new company or other investment than to take 15% of that money away from you for seeing the opportunity."
It will keep the capital moving. Moving to the Cayman Islands, to Switzerland, to Monaco etc.
Step 1. Write a comment with a spelling mistake Step 2. Attempt to correct said spelling mistake Step 3. Fail to correct said spelling mistake Step 4. ???? Step 5. Profit
Now if only I figure out step 4, I could make millions of spelling mistakes and then retire comfortably.
Irrelevant. A communist would claim that there is a higher goal namely destroying capitalism and creating an classless society and would justify his actions according to his goal. He can(in his view) justly claim that the people who govern him are tyrants and that their blood should be spilled(notice the Jefferson quote) because he wants concepts like equality(both lawfully and financially) and better representation(as a representation of the working class). Not obeying laws in a democracy is a sham 99% of the times and used by mostly pot-smokers(as you have illustrated). Do you find the law unjust? Sure, change the law by voting or get elected and change the law.
Instead of choosing that path you could go with the easy path and "stick it to the man", using some pseudo-anarchic philosophy. Breaking a law because you deem it unjust in modern society has nothing to do with oppression and everything with a pure disregard of the law and rules in general. It is the product of not idealists but spoiled kids who are used to getting whatever they desire at whatever moment they desire. People deem themselves revolutionaries and philosophers by reading badly written pamphlets written by people who have never tried to build a proper philosophy but instead pick and choose whatever they like.
I personally respect people with a concrete and thought out philosophy, irregardless if I agree with them or not. But a childish "rules don't apply to me" commands me no respect and the those people are rightfully not being taken seriously by people with power.
Long live Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and down with his ideas!
"With this precious life that I have I have decided that I am not going to let tyrants deny me of freedoms I wish to undertake that meet my personal ethics, which are partly informed by things such as "the golden rule" etc."
I, as a professional thief, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to rob houses. I, as an assasin, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to assasinate targets. I, as a pirate, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to plunder ships. I, as a ninja, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to indiscriminately attack pirates. See, everybody can do it!
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Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.
"And I, for one, thought Voyager was good, and I know I'm not alone."
Your absolutely not alone. Voyager hooked me to Star Trek and in itself it is not a bad series at all. Sure, it has some boring episodes but all Star Treks have had those.
I'm glad Voyager wasn't able to visit Risa *shudder*
"I currently run my computer system off solar panels. They (SSDs) consume less power as compared to systems that have hard disks. FYI, I live deep in the country."
Well, I etch my data into massive stone tables. FYI, I live even deeper in the country.
I'm sitting in a room with 4 computers(not a basement;))
My four rigs ascending based on hardware
old pentium 4 with XP more recent pentium with XP/Ubuntu my own AMD single core box with XP/Ubuntu Dual-core box with Vista/Ubuntu
The OS that feels the slowest is the old pentium 4 with XP. After that comes the Dual-Core box when running Vista(running Ubuntu everything's fine). I actually prefer my computer(which is a lot weaker) to the PC running Vista because Vista likes to use up a lot of resources for something(yet to be determined). And the problem with Vista is, I don't see the benefit. UAC is allright but the imcompatibility of older software and its tendency to completely mess up programs makes me actively shun it.
Maybe Windows 7 will be better, but that's not hard compared to this turd.
"My idea was more like: We have something special. A will/power to survive, that outweighs even the Borg assimilation nanites."
Welcome to Star Trek, you must be new here.
This is essentially the idea of Star Trek. Humans somehow have something special in them so they can do what other races cannot.
Humans have:
-Cured the phage(thought incurable) -Make piece between Vulcan and Andoria(thought impossible) -Prevent civil war on Vulcan -Travelled to the center of the universe(I, NEED, MY, PAIN!) -Beat the borg on multiple occasions -Prevented an invasion of species 8472 -Winning the war against the dominion
and so on. The whole idea of Star Trek is humans saving the day and doing the impossible and surving a multitude of dangerous situations by a matter of seconds.
"It can face any number of deaths in committee, or beat-downs when held to a vote, and it doesn't die. Yet it takes only one passing vote to put it on the books forever."
Different time-periods have different people with different opinions. You can't expect a law that was voted down once to remain undiscussable forever because it would hamper any change and would allow sneaky blockage of laws(by trying to introduce a law that will never pass thus banashing it forever).
Trying to create a bureaucracy that will these kinds of laws is impossible. If you want to stop cencorship laws like these you will have to go to the root, the politicians who voted for this and the people who voted for the politicians.
This message does not imply any endorsement of certain politicians and/or civilians or viewpoints about the laws of Australia nor does this message denounce any politician or other civilian.
I actually like the idea of a technical battle of merit. This might drive advances in softwaretech. I admire the people who create and try to protect the BD+ protection scheme although that doesn't mean I support BD+ itself. This technological game of chess is not over yet, even if Slysoft proclaimed that the BD+ king was dead. Now, the move is unto the cracking camp lead by Slysoft and supported by people of the Doom9-forums and other amateurs.
For those who don't understand this, I regret not being able to make a fitting car-analogy. A virtual cookie for the person who can do that.
Slashdot Mirror
It's easy.
The word memristor has no reference to Apple whatsoever. The Apple app store on the other hand clearly portrays itself as being associated with Apple.
The app store wins!
"All the hysteria over nuclear power is ridiculous. Quit trying to regulate everything."
Fixed that for you.
You can't start looking at something after it goes horribly wrong, you start being careful and prevent that things go wrong.
"Rule of acquisition #35. War is good for business."
That's rule #34
Rule #35: Peace is good for business.
Source:http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition
I remember that Jadzia also mixed those two up.(forgot which episode though)
Now where's my official geek-card.
"Yessiree, that will keep capital circulating! Nothing inspires a person to move funds into a position to better fund a promising new company or other investment than to take 15% of that money away from you for seeing the opportunity."
It will keep the capital moving. Moving to the Cayman Islands, to Switzerland, to Monaco etc.
Step 1. Write a comment with a spelling mistake
Step 2. Attempt to correct said spelling mistake
Step 3. Fail to correct said spelling mistake
Step 4. ????
Step 5. Profit
Now if only I figure out step 4, I could make millions of spelling mistakes and then retire comfortably.
Irrelevant. A communist would claim that there is a higher goal namely destroying capitalism and creating an classless society and would justify his actions according to his goal. He can(in his view) justly claim that the people who govern him are tyrants and that their blood should be spilled(notice the Jefferson quote) because he wants concepts like equality(both lawfully and financially) and better representation(as a representation of the working class). Not obeying laws in a democracy is a sham 99% of the times and used by mostly pot-smokers(as you have illustrated). Do you find the law unjust? Sure, change the law by voting or get elected and change the law.
Instead of choosing that path you could go with the easy path and "stick it to the man", using some pseudo-anarchic philosophy. Breaking a law because you deem it unjust in modern society has nothing to do with oppression and everything with a pure disregard of the law and rules in general. It is the product of not idealists but spoiled kids who are used to getting whatever they desire at whatever moment they desire. People deem themselves revolutionaries and philosophers by reading badly written pamphlets written by people who have never tried to build a proper philosophy but instead pick and choose whatever they like.
I personally respect people with a concrete and thought out philosophy, irregardless if I agree with them or not. But a childish "rules don't apply to me" commands me no respect and the those people are rightfully not being taken seriously by people with power.
Long live Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and down with his ideas!
"With this precious life that I have I have decided that I am not going to let tyrants deny me of freedoms I wish to undertake that meet my personal ethics, which are partly informed by things such as "the golden rule" etc."
I, as a professional thief, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to rob houses.
I, as an assasin, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to assasinate targets.
I, as a pirate, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to plunder ships.
I, as a ninja, will not let tyrants deny me my freedom to indiscriminately attack pirates.
See, everybody can do it!
"Government officials have long since forgotten that they are, according to the Constitution, answerable to us, not vice versa."
And people have long since forgotten that reality works differently because it involves actual people and not abstract designs and robots.
Someone who disapproves of a witch hunt?! He must be one of them! Tie him to an anker and see if this wickedness floats or not!
"you seem to have forgotten that little "be bold" thing."
No I haven't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold
WTF?! Firefox's share is OVER 9000!!!!
(You did say random)
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01101110001000000110001001100001 foo
01110011011001010010000000110010 bar
00100000011110010110111101110101 foo
00100000011010010110111001110011 GIMP
01100101011011100111001101101001 sucks
01110100011010010111011001100101 as a
00100000011000110110110001101111 name
0110010000100001
Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.
"And I, for one, thought Voyager was good, and I know I'm not alone."
Your absolutely not alone. Voyager hooked me to Star Trek and in itself it is not a bad series at all. Sure, it has some boring episodes but all Star Treks have had those.
I'm glad Voyager wasn't able to visit Risa *shudder*
"$distance_between_earth_and_moon."
European or African moon?
"I currently run my computer system off solar panels. They (SSDs) consume less power as compared to systems that have hard disks. FYI, I live deep in the country."
Well, I etch my data into massive stone tables. FYI, I live even deeper in the country.
"Since when did Dungeons and Dragons have nuclear missles? Is that a 4th edition thing?"
We call it a magic missile. Present in DNDv2 and nerfed in v3, creating the present magic missile.
Casting magic missile meant wiping out the entire dungeon. Good times, good times.
Obama performs stupid /. changelog tricks with Ubuntu!
Frontpage material
I'm sitting in a room with 4 computers(not a basement ;))
My four rigs ascending based on hardware
old pentium 4 with XP
more recent pentium with XP/Ubuntu
my own AMD single core box with XP/Ubuntu
Dual-core box with Vista/Ubuntu
The OS that feels the slowest is the old pentium 4 with XP. After that comes the Dual-Core box when running Vista(running Ubuntu everything's fine). I actually prefer my computer(which is a lot weaker) to the PC running Vista because Vista likes to use up a lot of resources for something(yet to be determined). And the problem with Vista is, I don't see the benefit. UAC is allright but the imcompatibility of older software and its tendency to completely mess up programs makes me actively shun it.
Maybe Windows 7 will be better, but that's not hard compared to this turd.
"My idea was more like: We have something special. A will/power to survive, that outweighs even the Borg assimilation nanites."
Welcome to Star Trek, you must be new here.
This is essentially the idea of Star Trek. Humans somehow have something special in them so they can do what other races cannot.
Humans have:
-Cured the phage(thought incurable)
-Make piece between Vulcan and Andoria(thought impossible)
-Prevent civil war on Vulcan
-Travelled to the center of the universe(I, NEED, MY, PAIN!)
-Beat the borg on multiple occasions
-Prevented an invasion of species 8472
-Winning the war against the dominion
and so on. The whole idea of Star Trek is humans saving the day and doing the impossible and surving a multitude of dangerous situations by a matter of seconds.
USB 6.0: Ludicrous-Speed
USB 7.0: Holy shit!
Bleh, been playing too much UT
You win!
Here's 7 cookies:
http://www.wayodd.com/funny-pictures2/funny-pictures-nerd-cookies-1LL.jpg
"It can face any number of deaths in committee, or beat-downs when held to a vote, and it doesn't die. Yet it takes only one passing vote to put it on the books forever."
Different time-periods have different people with different opinions. You can't expect a law that was voted down once to remain undiscussable forever because it would hamper any change and would allow sneaky blockage of laws(by trying to introduce a law that will never pass thus banashing it forever).
Trying to create a bureaucracy that will these kinds of laws is impossible. If you want to stop cencorship laws like these you will have to go to the root, the politicians who voted for this and the people who voted for the politicians.
This message does not imply any endorsement of certain politicians and/or civilians or viewpoints about the laws of Australia nor does this message denounce any politician or other civilian.
I actually like the idea of a technical battle of merit. This might drive advances in softwaretech. I admire the people who create and try to protect the BD+ protection scheme although that doesn't mean I support BD+ itself. This technological game of chess is not over yet, even if Slysoft proclaimed that the BD+ king was dead. Now, the move is unto the cracking camp lead by Slysoft and supported by people of the Doom9-forums and other amateurs.
For those who don't understand this, I regret not being able to make a fitting car-analogy.
A virtual cookie for the person who can do that.
"I'm betting on 2010."
I'm betting on the year of SSDs in the computer will the same as the year of Linux on the desktop!
"The Zerg Rush All-You-Can-Eat Special"
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