And yet you probably support Antitrust legislation to breakup monopolies.
Wouldn't a single company (say Ford) more efficiently serve the entire nation? Of course it would, but we decided that customer choice is more important than absolute efficiency, which is why we have multiple carmakers not just one. Likewise we should have multiple internet providers (say 4 or 5), so as to maximize customer choice, and not force people to be locked into just Comcast (as example).
No not really. Elizabethtown became a secular school many decades ago, and is now no different than any other small college. While I was there I slept in the rooms of certain "female friends" without any kind of restriction by the college. Really it was no different than my later experience at Penn State, as far as intermingling of the sexes.
(1) If you bothered to dig deeper, you'd see that there are also naked men on this site, and on other nudist sites too. The issue is not WHO is uncovered, but the mere fact that they are uncovered, and whether it's a man, women, boy, or girl, matters not because the human body is NOT shameful.
(2) What the hell's wrong with admiring beauty? Nothing that I can see. As the Pope stated: "The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty, because God created it."
They'd choose "hollowed out wood bowl" and "hand-made spear". Even in Africa the sexes take on different tasks (women stay home; men hunt). It's hard for me to imagine it being different. Can you picture a pregnant woman chasing down a wild boar? Not me. Like it or not, biology is not the same.
Well if you have multiple wives, they can listen to each other gossip, and they don't need to rely on just your ear. So having that extended family might actually be beneficial.
>>> women are complex, emotional creatures who need a whole lot of care and feeding
This is why you need to look for the independent women who take care of themselves. "Honey my car is dying. I need to buy a new one." "Okay. Good luck!" and off she goes.
Good point. A cyberattack by China, India, or Japan on U.S. banks and institutions would hurt the foreign investors as badly as it hurt us. The Chinese, Indians, and Japanese are not that dumb.
I went to Elizabethtown College (PA) and even though there were 2 girls for every guy, I still found it difficult to gain entrance into that "sanctuary" known as the female dorm room. I think the women tended to ignore the man and find comfort in each other.
My Windows 98 does indeed still grab data from Microsoft servers. The data returned is typically "no updates", but the server is still there. Microsoft did not disable Win98's security and leave it vulnerable to attack. MS left the security intact.
Mozilla on the other hand, did (or soon will) disable Firefox's security in 2.0.0.19. In my opinion, that's a really bad idea.
And reading her comments: "I already have severe depression. I mean, it's so hard to sit there and think that I have to get in trouble for something that I didn't do. It's not fair," Sauro said. Sauro, who lives in Ross Township, is disabled with pancreatitis. She needs an islet cell transplant and is hospitalized weekly."
I want to take my sniper rifle, fill it with paintballs, drive to the RIAA headquarters, and wait for Adolf Hitler..... er, the RIAA CEO to walk within my sights so I can splash him with pellets. He's evil. Pure evil. The scum deserves to be tarred and feathered.
You are correct. Also I'm going to repeat myself: "It's similar to how a DMCA claim can be used to take down a website even if there's nothing wrong with the website." It's just not worth the time and effort to fight the false DMCA claim, which is why these things are so effective.
If my local provider (Comcast) blocked google, then I'd file a breach-of-contract in court in order to remove any obligation to continue paying the bastards, and go hookup with Verizon DSL.
If Verizon DSL tried the same crap, then I'd fall back on 50k dialup through Netscape. It's slow but they don't filter anything, not even bittorrent.
FCC rules require cable companies to carry local channels. If FOX is local then Time-Warner committed an illegal act by blocking the local channel, unless it was the local channel who *voluntarily* requested not to be carried. The only reason why a local might demand removal is because they wanted to charge 5-10 cents per home, and the cable company refused, so it went dark.
>>>Cable TV already does this -- they want paid for access to their tubes
No not true. For cable channels like TNT, USA, CNN, et cetera, they charge the cable company ~50 cents per home. So it's the cable company that is being "extorted" in this case in order to obtain channels to show to the customers.
>>> Why the hell would google have to pay my ISP a second time for my bandwidth?
The truth? So Comcast, Time-Warner, et al don't block google.com from sending bits to you. That's what is running in the back of their minds: "Google better pay for access to our users, or we will simply block google." Extortion.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, which provided these taxpayer funds, was mostly aimed at improving telephone lines so that rural customers could get 56k digital connections rather than 19k analog/noisy connections. This goal has been accomplished (I was one of the beneficiaries). Don't blame the phone companies; they spent the money as required. Blame the politicians for being so short-sighted.
Comcast's INTRAnet (because you never leave their local network - like intrastate commerce).
And I agree that Comcast should not charge a premium if I want to connect to the internet, rather than use their intranet. I can easily imagine a situation where I want to watch "Heroes" on itunes.com, but Comcast charges me an extra $5 a month fee to access Itunes, because Comcast wants me to watch Heroes on their intranet's "video on demand" service instead.
This cannot be allowed.
The "natural monopoly" could be removed if local politicians stopped giving companies like Comcast or Time-Warner exclusive rights. There's enough room in the underground pipes to run multiple lines, and let the *customer* decide which of 4 or 5 companies they want to choose.
At least Windows 98 still has its security enabled.
Microsoft didn't come along and disable the protection, which is what Mozilla is doing. MS left the security in place to protect Win98 users (like me and my old AMD-K6 laptop), whereas Mozilla is deliberately leaving people vulnerable to attack by turning OFF the security. That's just wrong.
The alternative method being "ignore the constitution" and "threaten to add 4 pro-socialist/anti-constitution justices" (FDR), so the justices would cave to any desire the president wishes. The POTUS became Diktator over the SCOTUS.
And also forbade people from growing corn or potatoes in their own backyards. (You need the permission of Congress to do that, because it "affects" interstate commerce.) I'm fairly certain that was not the original intent when the Supreme Law was written.
"On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson
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And yet you probably support Antitrust legislation to breakup monopolies.
Wouldn't a single company (say Ford) more efficiently serve the entire nation? Of course it would, but we decided that customer choice is more important than absolute efficiency, which is why we have multiple carmakers not just one. Likewise we should have multiple internet providers (say 4 or 5), so as to maximize customer choice, and not force people to be locked into just Comcast (as example).
>>> Well, it is a Christian school after all...
No not really. Elizabethtown became a secular school many decades ago, and is now no different than any other small college. While I was there I slept in the rooms of certain "female friends" without any kind of restriction by the college. Really it was no different than my later experience at Penn State, as far as intermingling of the sexes.
It was okay at first, but now it's reached the point where it takes me 3 or 4 tries to finally guess the letters.
It's become more hassle than it's worth. Isn't there a better way to stop bots from getting accounts?
(1) If you bothered to dig deeper, you'd see that there are also naked men on this site, and on other nudist sites too. The issue is not WHO is uncovered, but the mere fact that they are uncovered, and whether it's a man, women, boy, or girl, matters not because the human body is NOT shameful.
(2) What the hell's wrong with admiring beauty? Nothing that I can see. As the Pope stated: "The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty, because God created it."
No.
They'd choose "hollowed out wood bowl" and "hand-made spear". Even in Africa the sexes take on different tasks (women stay home; men hunt). It's hard for me to imagine it being different. Can you picture a pregnant woman chasing down a wild boar? Not me. Like it or not, biology is not the same.
I'm alright with that. Can I watch?
It only takes an inch.
And if that's no good, I can build her a machine. That's why I earned my EE degree. ;-)
Well if you have multiple wives, they can listen to each other gossip, and they don't need to rely on just your ear. So having that extended family might actually be beneficial.
>>> women are complex, emotional creatures who need a whole lot of care and feeding
This is why you need to look for the independent women who take care of themselves. "Honey my car is dying. I need to buy a new one." "Okay. Good luck!" and off she goes.
Good point. A cyberattack by China, India, or Japan on U.S. banks and institutions would hurt the foreign investors as badly as it hurt us. The Chinese, Indians, and Japanese are not that dumb.
Precisely.
I went to Elizabethtown College (PA) and even though there were 2 girls for every guy, I still found it difficult to gain entrance into that "sanctuary" known as the female dorm room. I think the women tended to ignore the man and find comfort in each other.
(ducks a spitball)
My Windows 98 does indeed still grab data from Microsoft servers. The data returned is typically "no updates", but the server is still there. Microsoft did not disable Win98's security and leave it vulnerable to attack. MS left the security intact.
Mozilla on the other hand, did (or soon will) disable Firefox's security in 2.0.0.19. In my opinion, that's a really bad idea.
Well after seeing this image: http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/2008/1127/18160621_240X180.jpg
And reading her comments: "I already have severe depression. I mean, it's so hard to sit there and think that I have to get in trouble for something that I didn't do. It's not fair," Sauro said. Sauro, who lives in Ross Township, is disabled with pancreatitis. She needs an islet cell transplant and is hospitalized weekly."
I want to take my sniper rifle, fill it with paintballs, drive to the RIAA headquarters, and wait for Adolf Hitler..... er, the RIAA CEO to walk within my sights so I can splash him with pellets. He's evil. Pure evil. The scum deserves to be tarred and feathered.
That is true.
You are correct. Also I'm going to repeat myself: "It's similar to how a DMCA claim can be used to take down a website even if there's nothing wrong with the website." It's just not worth the time and effort to fight the false DMCA claim, which is why these things are so effective.
A trip to Arizona to beat some sense into NetEnforcer's CEO would be easier.
If my local provider (Comcast) blocked google, then I'd file a breach-of-contract in court in order to remove any obligation to continue paying the bastards, and go hookup with Verizon DSL.
If Verizon DSL tried the same crap, then I'd fall back on 50k dialup through Netscape. It's slow but they don't filter anything, not even bittorrent.
FCC rules require cable companies to carry local channels. If FOX is local then Time-Warner committed an illegal act by blocking the local channel, unless it was the local channel who *voluntarily* requested not to be carried. The only reason why a local might demand removal is because they wanted to charge 5-10 cents per home, and the cable company refused, so it went dark.
>>>Cable TV already does this -- they want paid for access to their tubes
No not true. For cable channels like TNT, USA, CNN, et cetera, they charge the cable company ~50 cents per home. So it's the cable company that is being "extorted" in this case in order to obtain channels to show to the customers.
>>> Why the hell would google have to pay my ISP a second time for my bandwidth?
The truth? So Comcast, Time-Warner, et al don't block google.com from sending bits to you. That's what is running in the back of their minds: "Google better pay for access to our users, or we will simply block google." Extortion.
False.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, which provided these taxpayer funds, was mostly aimed at improving telephone lines so that rural customers could get 56k digital connections rather than 19k analog/noisy connections. This goal has been accomplished (I was one of the beneficiaries). Don't blame the phone companies; they spent the money as required. Blame the politicians for being so short-sighted.
Comcast's INTRAnet (because you never leave their local network - like intrastate commerce). And I agree that Comcast should not charge a premium if I want to connect to the internet, rather than use their intranet. I can easily imagine a situation where I want to watch "Heroes" on itunes.com, but Comcast charges me an extra $5 a month fee to access Itunes, because Comcast wants me to watch Heroes on their intranet's "video on demand" service instead. This cannot be allowed.
The "natural monopoly" could be removed if local politicians stopped giving companies like Comcast or Time-Warner exclusive rights. There's enough room in the underground pipes to run multiple lines, and let the *customer* decide which of 4 or 5 companies they want to choose.
>>> Chinese is not effective as an international communication tool, what Internet is all about.
"Perfect. A firewall and a language barrier. We have effectively protected the people from foreign ideas. Wonderful!" - Communist Chairman
At least Windows 98 still has its security enabled.
Microsoft didn't come along and disable the protection, which is what Mozilla is doing. MS left the security in place to protect Win98 users (like me and my old AMD-K6 laptop), whereas Mozilla is deliberately leaving people vulnerable to attack by turning OFF the security. That's just wrong.
The alternative method being "ignore the constitution" and "threaten to add 4 pro-socialist/anti-constitution justices" (FDR), so the justices would cave to any desire the president wishes. The POTUS became Diktator over the SCOTUS.
And also forbade people from growing corn or potatoes in their own backyards. (You need the permission of Congress to do that, because it "affects" interstate commerce.) I'm fairly certain that was not the original intent when the Supreme Law was written.
"On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson