This change by the TSA was not to made to improve safety. The TSA has decided that these machines are cheaper than hiring the appropriate number and quality of employees and training them properly.
Yes, your judges have been watching way too much Mary Tyler Moore late at night and that's why they made this stupid decision. It has nothing to do with your lack of a written constitution.
I'm having trouble giving a fuck. Someone please enlighten me to why anyone would want, what's basically a camera made by Microsoft, trained on their living room 24hrs a day? We'll be able to plat tux racer with hand movements?
Generally, when invading a country, soldiers don't have to obey local ordinances. You'll notice the M1A1 doesn't stop for red lights, and J walking foot soldiers are rampant.
That "Shitty quality copper pair" is Cat6 and feeds nearly every Major circuit in the country. Yes, if your how was built in the 50's it's possible that you have some really old copper, but most people have stuff that's relatively new. The problem with DSL AND cable modems is the willingness of ISPs to oversell the connection.
The world outside of linux and unix a long time ago came to an understanding about the way the desktop should work. The majority of desktops are either windows or mac based. A Mac and PC user could switch computers and withing a few minutes either person could get done what they were intending to get done. Not so with Linux. You can argue all day long that Linux is better on every front... but it doesn't matter. It's unfamiliar to the majority of the public. It's like one of those screwed up chairs that chiropractors invented, no matter how comfortable it is, or how much it helps your back, the things just fucking retarded. We need one of the main distro's to just give it up, clone the windows or Mac UI, hide all the linux weirdness until you entered the root password a couple of different times and then maybe people will start to come over.
No I wouldn't. The power company is selling both of us 20kWh connections. If he uses all of his 20kWh and it leads to brownouts at my house, that means the power company hasn't actually delivered the product I and my neighbor are paying for. The ISPs would like to blaim the problem on customers who are abusing the system. But the fact of the matter is that the number of people actually torrenting to the point that they cap out their connection is very very small. If the few people that actually do max out their connections can affect everyone else in their neighborhood, that's not because they are doing something wrong, it's because the equipment the ISP has deployed is oversold, not just a little bit, but by massive amounts. I also work for an ISP and I can tell you that it's common in the industry to sell to customers 10meg connections that are connected to equipment that is only fed by a 3 or 4 T1s. Those customers will NEVER get 10meg speed. Even if they are the only customer on the remote. It's just not possible. Your ISP is lying to you. Your ISP is over charging you. It is completely impossible for any single customer, or group of customers to do anything that would slow down your connection short of a DOS attack on your IP address, or possibly some of the routers you hit on your way out to the www. I don't like government regulation, but it should be set into law that an ISP must be able to provide 100% of the speed sold to at least 60% of it's customers on any given remote at any given time. This used to be an industry standard, but greed as all but eliminated it. Now we have 50+ customers all with 3-10meg connections on the same equipment fed by a 6 meg connection. That's criminal. and far worse than torrenting. It's outright stealing.
Come to the USA! It's so easy here it doesn't even have to be you that signs up for it. Half the time it's someone on the other side of the country that you've never met that sends in the application and the CC companies are more than happy to extend them credit in your name.
I very much doubt this has anything to do with Googles views. It has to do with Googles customers having a reasonable expectation that their ads not show up supporting something they might think is questionable. And in this case, the exact same content is still there, it just has a quick warning blurb in front of it that in now way hinders it's affect. Google has every right to do this. This is how it's supposed to work. You just agree with the outcome. You have every right to boycott Googles goods and services in protest, but of course, you'd be doing exactly the same as Google then wouldn't you? It's you're right, go for it.
TV Tropes has the first amendment right to say whatever they like. Google has an equal right not to support them. This is exactly how censorship should work. No government involvement, no heavy hand laws or hypocritical politicians to be seen. TV Tropes could still publish whatever they'd like, but TV Tropes has decided that profit is more important than keeping the warning labels off their content. This should be applauded as a shining example of the 1st amendment at it's best, not as if Google is trying to squash their speech. Everyone has the right to speech, but if they want a megaphone, someone has to pay for it.
1) Micheal Moore is a decetfull bastard. Don't believe anything you see in his movies. He was quoting the minimum wage in Mexico which is not what they were paid. I can attest to this because years ago I was involved in setting up a plant in Mazatlan Mexico to manufacture car parts for GM. While the minimum wage was about $5/day, there was no way anyone would work for that in a factory environment. Pay was more like $4/hr. I was apposed to putting the plant there, because up until that time the company involved could have claimed "Made in the USA" but that fell on deaf ears. Ironically enough, they eventually switch suppliers to one in china where the workers made around $4/day.
2) Income tax, by its very nature, scales to your wage. So it's not even relevant. Education does not apply to a factory worker, that's why they are working in a factory. Healthcare... yea, that's a problem. Housing prices are definitely scalable. If the entire country earns less as a whole, we just need to go through a market correction where the values of all homes goes down to reflect the new economy. We should go through one of those any time now...;-)
This is something that has a very high potential to cause a real problem in the markets... and already has several times, they just weren't high enough profile to get the publics attention. But if they really bring down the markets for a day, or cause some sort of crash that impacts the average persons 401k or pension, governments all over the world will be happy to jump on the "Rich people are the bad guys" bandwagon and outlaw this sort of thing outright. Simple laws like, you must own a stock for a minimum of 4hrs before selling it, would end this kind of trading over night.
Because, while some jobs leave our country, goods made in their country are cheaper. If shipping a job to India lowers the average wage here by 10% but the price of goods goes down by 20%, that's a net gain.
Unless of course, the rabbit used the materials to build it's nest, and it's children do the same. The problem here is that they've left these materials, that are easily identifiable, laying around for the wildlife to consume.
I live in wisconsin. I pay 6.5% sales tax. The Property tax on my $200k home is $6k/year. My income tax is almost triple what my federal income tax is. And for all this what do I get? Nothing. Our roads are worse than any of the states that border us. We have virtually no public transportation. Our water is polluted, they have to shut down wells all the time. I've got a hotel with prostitues and junkies patrolling out front just 1/4 mile from my house. The government will squander whatever you give them. The less we give them the better.
Lets charge people the same way corporations are charged. Specifically: http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-30-cd-settlement_x.htm
So even if we could this part where they distribute CDs to non-profits which was obviously complete bullshit, they had to pay out 143 Million They stole, by the estimate 480 million... which I think is a very very low estimate. So they had to pay 30% of their ill gotten gains back in fines. Even if we assume the the prices from their price fixing era, 16.99, the max fine should be $5.10 per song.
Yes, but are we going to ignore this to the point that facebook and google get so good at mining our data that every time you think "I could eat a blueberry muffin right now" a delivery boy is already knocking on your door, muffin in hand, before you can even think "God, why am I 500lbs!?!?"
The EMP is the easy part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
But surviving the strike itself? Only if it's a relatively small nuke. Once you get into the tens of MEGAtons that your typical ICBM is going to be carrying, having a mountain on top of you isn't going to matter much. Specially when all the datalines feeding this place are only 6 feet underground. Even if the data inside survived, all the connections would be severed, any tunnel leading in would be filled with molten rock and any workers inside would end up starving to death rather quickly.
So... I buy an app that enables "FutureNeatoStuffThatM$FTDoesn'tLike" for $100... then Microsoft says "That hurts out business model! Rogue app!!!" and deletes it. Hrm... That doesn't sound like a feature to me.
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This change by the TSA was not to made to improve safety. The TSA has decided that these machines are cheaper than hiring the appropriate number and quality of employees and training them properly.
Yes, your judges have been watching way too much Mary Tyler Moore late at night and that's why they made this stupid decision. It has nothing to do with your lack of a written constitution.
Why does the dog wag its tail?
Because the dog is smarter than the tail.
If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog.
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I'm having trouble giving a fuck. Someone please enlighten me to why anyone would want, what's basically a camera made by Microsoft, trained on their living room 24hrs a day? We'll be able to plat tux racer with hand movements?
Generally, when invading a country, soldiers don't have to obey local ordinances. You'll notice the M1A1 doesn't stop for red lights, and J walking foot soldiers are rampant.
All we have to do is coat trees in gold and we wont have to pay our electricity bills anymore? Genius!!!!
That "Shitty quality copper pair" is Cat6 and feeds nearly every Major circuit in the country. Yes, if your how was built in the 50's it's possible that you have some really old copper, but most people have stuff that's relatively new. The problem with DSL AND cable modems is the willingness of ISPs to oversell the connection.
ignorance is no excuse. I've been told this by a judge while in court. Time for a Judge to tell Telstra.
The world outside of linux and unix a long time ago came to an understanding about the way the desktop should work. The majority of desktops are either windows or mac based. A Mac and PC user could switch computers and withing a few minutes either person could get done what they were intending to get done. Not so with Linux. You can argue all day long that Linux is better on every front... but it doesn't matter. It's unfamiliar to the majority of the public. It's like one of those screwed up chairs that chiropractors invented, no matter how comfortable it is, or how much it helps your back, the things just fucking retarded. We need one of the main distro's to just give it up, clone the windows or Mac UI, hide all the linux weirdness until you entered the root password a couple of different times and then maybe people will start to come over.
No I wouldn't. The power company is selling both of us 20kWh connections. If he uses all of his 20kWh and it leads to brownouts at my house, that means the power company hasn't actually delivered the product I and my neighbor are paying for. The ISPs would like to blaim the problem on customers who are abusing the system. But the fact of the matter is that the number of people actually torrenting to the point that they cap out their connection is very very small. If the few people that actually do max out their connections can affect everyone else in their neighborhood, that's not because they are doing something wrong, it's because the equipment the ISP has deployed is oversold, not just a little bit, but by massive amounts. I also work for an ISP and I can tell you that it's common in the industry to sell to customers 10meg connections that are connected to equipment that is only fed by a 3 or 4 T1s. Those customers will NEVER get 10meg speed. Even if they are the only customer on the remote. It's just not possible. Your ISP is lying to you. Your ISP is over charging you. It is completely impossible for any single customer, or group of customers to do anything that would slow down your connection short of a DOS attack on your IP address, or possibly some of the routers you hit on your way out to the www. I don't like government regulation, but it should be set into law that an ISP must be able to provide 100% of the speed sold to at least 60% of it's customers on any given remote at any given time. This used to be an industry standard, but greed as all but eliminated it. Now we have 50+ customers all with 3-10meg connections on the same equipment fed by a 6 meg connection. That's criminal. and far worse than torrenting. It's outright stealing.
Come to the USA! It's so easy here it doesn't even have to be you that signs up for it. Half the time it's someone on the other side of the country that you've never met that sends in the application and the CC companies are more than happy to extend them credit in your name.
I very much doubt this has anything to do with Googles views. It has to do with Googles customers having a reasonable expectation that their ads not show up supporting something they might think is questionable. And in this case, the exact same content is still there, it just has a quick warning blurb in front of it that in now way hinders it's affect. Google has every right to do this. This is how it's supposed to work. You just agree with the outcome. You have every right to boycott Googles goods and services in protest, but of course, you'd be doing exactly the same as Google then wouldn't you? It's you're right, go for it.
TV Tropes has the first amendment right to say whatever they like. Google has an equal right not to support them. This is exactly how censorship should work. No government involvement, no heavy hand laws or hypocritical politicians to be seen. TV Tropes could still publish whatever they'd like, but TV Tropes has decided that profit is more important than keeping the warning labels off their content. This should be applauded as a shining example of the 1st amendment at it's best, not as if Google is trying to squash their speech. Everyone has the right to speech, but if they want a megaphone, someone has to pay for it.
1) Micheal Moore is a decetfull bastard. Don't believe anything you see in his movies. He was quoting the minimum wage in Mexico which is not what they were paid. I can attest to this because years ago I was involved in setting up a plant in Mazatlan Mexico to manufacture car parts for GM. While the minimum wage was about $5/day, there was no way anyone would work for that in a factory environment. Pay was more like $4/hr. I was apposed to putting the plant there, because up until that time the company involved could have claimed "Made in the USA" but that fell on deaf ears. Ironically enough, they eventually switch suppliers to one in china where the workers made around $4/day.
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2) Income tax, by its very nature, scales to your wage. So it's not even relevant. Education does not apply to a factory worker, that's why they are working in a factory. Healthcare... yea, that's a problem. Housing prices are definitely scalable. If the entire country earns less as a whole, we just need to go through a market correction where the values of all homes goes down to reflect the new economy. We should go through one of those any time now...
This is something that has a very high potential to cause a real problem in the markets... and already has several times, they just weren't high enough profile to get the publics attention. But if they really bring down the markets for a day, or cause some sort of crash that impacts the average persons 401k or pension, governments all over the world will be happy to jump on the "Rich people are the bad guys" bandwagon and outlaw this sort of thing outright. Simple laws like, you must own a stock for a minimum of 4hrs before selling it, would end this kind of trading over night.
Because, while some jobs leave our country, goods made in their country are cheaper. If shipping a job to India lowers the average wage here by 10% but the price of goods goes down by 20%, that's a net gain.
Unless of course, the rabbit used the materials to build it's nest, and it's children do the same. The problem here is that they've left these materials, that are easily identifiable, laying around for the wildlife to consume.
I live in wisconsin. I pay 6.5% sales tax. The Property tax on my $200k home is $6k/year. My income tax is almost triple what my federal income tax is. And for all this what do I get? Nothing. Our roads are worse than any of the states that border us. We have virtually no public transportation. Our water is polluted, they have to shut down wells all the time. I've got a hotel with prostitues and junkies patrolling out front just 1/4 mile from my house. The government will squander whatever you give them. The less we give them the better.
Lets charge people the same way corporations are charged. Specifically: http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-30-cd-settlement_x.htm
So even if we could this part where they distribute CDs to non-profits which was obviously complete bullshit, they had to pay out 143 Million
They stole, by the estimate 480 million... which I think is a very very low estimate.
So they had to pay 30% of their ill gotten gains back in fines.
Even if we assume the the prices from their price fixing era, 16.99, the max fine should be $5.10 per song.
Yes, but are we going to ignore this to the point that facebook and google get so good at mining our data that every time you think "I could eat a blueberry muffin right now" a delivery boy is already knocking on your door, muffin in hand, before you can even think "God, why am I 500lbs!?!?"
Al Gore created the internet, and he is obviously the only one that can destroy it.
The EMP is the easy part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
But surviving the strike itself? Only if it's a relatively small nuke. Once you get into the tens of MEGAtons that your typical ICBM is going to be carrying, having a mountain on top of you isn't going to matter much. Specially when all the datalines feeding this place are only 6 feet underground. Even if the data inside survived, all the connections would be severed, any tunnel leading in would be filled with molten rock and any workers inside would end up starving to death rather quickly.
If their plans are to kill you with extreme prejudice, you're not gaining much by listening.
So... I buy an app that enables "FutureNeatoStuffThatM$FTDoesn'tLike" for $100... then Microsoft says "That hurts out business model! Rogue app!!!" and deletes it. Hrm... That doesn't sound like a feature to me.