I think that's why so few people turned out for the cash-handout. Its really hard to rationalize a displeasure with your kid seeing video-game 'sex' when you compare it to the rest of the game that the parent knowingly purchased.
I still don't understand how they won. Its like going to a Friday the 13th movie and expecting only drug use and murders without the irresponsible sex. Its just not the 13th without the irresponsible sex (lol).
here: 1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. [1913 Webster]
Any more questions?
If that is the applicable definition, then I can see the 'prior art' in this case.
But what about a means of making a round flat doughed food with cheese, tomato sauce, and pepperoni? I mean... Someone employed the means to accomplish a pizza FIRST. Does that mean they *own* the idea?
How about the means of feeding oneself? Lets go find the oldest person alive and give them the benefit of being the only living person who has 'employed means of consumption to accomplish appetite satisfaction'. Then we all owe him/her a dollar every time we want to eat.:rolleyes:
Attention people! This is what happens when you base your life and culture around money. Frivolous lawsuits prevail over justice, ethics are set aside for financial priority, and progress (in all aspects) is limited by selfish greed.
I'm not preaching communism, I'm preaching community. Once your needs are met, try doing things for others without the goal of money or returns. Many cultures have survived and prevailed under these concepts, usually much more peacefully and socially considerate as well.
Actually I believe you a quite wrong about the only way to overthrow a government is via a military coup. Based upon a outsiders perspective it is quite clear that there is another way to overthrow a government.
You simply gather together a bunch of morally bankrupt lobbyists and get major corporation to fund them and provide them with sufficient capital to funnel that cash to a bunch of criminal politicians. Also you arrange for a proportion of those bribes to go to, well, somewhat less than Christian leaders of the various Christian right organisations, to ensure a whole lot of blind, listen to the words but ignore the actions, voters , do the right 'er' wrong thing.
To push it all along you get the government department that is meant to ensure that mass media organisations do not become monopolistic, do not become a one eyed voice for the majority shareholders ands sociopath corporate executives, to do the exact opposite a work towards turning mass media into a propaganda network for endless war and corporate fascism.
Now it also helps if you get the telecoms to start monitoring everyone who disagrees or might even consider disagreeing as well as every opposition politician and their supporters, to keep one step ahead of them and to ensure you can enact measures to isolate them.
There you go, everything you need to over throw a government and blow me down but, you don't have to look to far to see the evidence of it. Now I can think of one reason why the immunity bill might make it through. It really all boils down to how much dirt the telecoms were able to dig up on the various political leaders and how much of this dirt would appear as evidence if those telecoms were prosecuted. Take a very careful look at the ones voting for immunity, they are likely not voting for the telecoms immunity from prosecution, so much as they are, voting for their own immunity from prosecution, really nasty stuff.
This is the way that the younger Bush takes control of america.
Not too long ago, his grandfather, Prescott Bush, was involved in a corporate-funded military coup to overthrow the fed and kill FDR if necessary.
I guess the 'fear' and *-centrism is a more publicly acceptable method for perverting and replacing our country.
I think your perception of 2nd amendment supporters is a little off. They are generally the ones who do not trust the government on any level, hence the reason to arm themselves. Do you really think those nutjobs out in the middle of nowhere in Montana or Texas really want to give the government the right to freely monitor their phone conversations?? But do you think they even heard about it while glued to Fox news? Only a terrorist, err... enemy combatant... er... liberal... could do us harm. Damn those liberals!/sarcasm off
I'm just curious... Where is the 'art'? Maybe there is a form of 'art' that I am unaware of, or maybe the term is being loosely applied for convenience. Whats the definition and what the hell are we talking about here?
Maybe Rupert Murdoch wrote conveyed his anger with Facebook's success in REALLY BIG LETTERS!!!111oneoneone I would guess it is more related to the fact that Myspace is ALWAYS HAVING UNEXPECTED ERRORS. Furthermore, their videos never stream well, the pages load very slowly when compared to almost any other website, and oh, some people care that Rupert Murdoch owns it and don't want to be part of it. I know I personally considered getting rid of my myspace account for that reason alone, but I kept it due to the exposure I get (band page).
I actually only have a myspace account, but from the very limited experience I had clicking around on FaceBook, I already know it is a much cleaner platform.
Maybe if Murdoch put some damn effort into fixing Tom's millions of bugs he'd get people to give a crap.
I believe the whole point of OPEN SOURCE is that you cannot point a finger. Why? Because if you want it your way, you just make it that way. It is kinda like Burger King, except instead they let YOU go behind the counter and put the pickles on yourself.
That is a pretty great analogy. I like where it is going because it points out the obvious flaw in the deceptive marketing tricks of the ISPs with plenty of clarity for a judge to understand. I hope.
One thing I do not quite understand is that even if 1-1/4 is the expectation, I don't know or see enough people actually utilizing max bandwidth 24/7. Most people I know use the internet as 'expected', so the realistic offset from the actual 24/7 P2P use is probably noticeable but probably not that bad.
In another argument, similar to the faked 'oil supply issues' in the US. If there was actually a lack of supply, gas stations would be out or nearly out of gas somewhere (which is not the case). And in this case, if there was a shortage of bandwidth, there would be major breakdowns of the internet (which is not happening before or after p2p controls).
If they need to charge me more, that's fine by me. I just want them to be honest about what I'm getting and to let the appropriate authorities deal with whatever illegal activities may be occurring on the internet.
Yeah, when you consider that the DOD unclassified budget is around $408 Billion, appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan are another ~$170 Billion and DOD classified projects are another ~$35 Billion.... in comparison, $300 Million is a *tiny* drop in the bucket. But $300 million might help some labs to avoid closing down...
I think the results would be *AMAZING* to see if the opposite were true. Imagine even one year of spending where $800 billion goes to sciences and technology, and $300m goes to the DoD. Think about that... Think long and hard about what could change, what huge serious things we could actually accomplish when we focus on something other than war.
Yes, its hard to imagine not killing others for some reason or another; we can do it. Seriously think about just chilling back and watching huge amounts of your cash go somewhere productive.
Here's the best example I can think of for this awesome feature.
1) Go to this page in a new tab 2) Now close that tab. 3) In a new tab start typing "Warlord Tiefling" in the location bar. 4) Notice how a link is coming up and how it is highlighting the word as you type it. But if you select it and hit enter, you'll see that the words "Tiefling Warlord" do not appear in the URL.
This is the awesomeness of the awesome bar. It doesn't just search the URL of your history and bookmarks, it searches the page title as well! So while trying to remember the URL for the Warlord Tiefling page would be impossible, the awesome bar means you don't have to.
Well put. But that doesn't give these guys something new to whine about, does it? Instead, they are overly encumbered by the extra suggestions it provides, suggestions that they themselves bookmarked. Hell, if they don't like the link, delete the bookmark.
But then again, there's a lotta these anonymous cowards whining about insubstantial things like this address bar. Maybe there's a few bugs, maybe it still has a memory leak. Who knows. If you don't like the program, uninstall. Its that simple.
One thing i can almost bet on is that despite all the bitching, they did their posting in FF3. Lol. The irony, the apathy, the whiny. I guess if it wasn't FF3, they'd be wining about having to clean their toenail clippers after each use instead of it doing it automatically.... Negative Nancy needs a cookie.
Not really. The answer to the whole problem is for ISPs to provide what they are offering, internet access at xxxx/bps rate for $xxx/month. Once such a term is agreed upon between the provider and buyer, that service needs to be supplied regardless of what 'content' is going on.
ISPs are not the police, and while they may have corporate ties, should not be allowed any specific controls over internet access.
Thats why we have the police, so they can go find criminals and bust them. Thats why corporations have their own websites, so if we want their info/stuff/etc, we go look at it.
We need to make our politicians understand that we do not want our ISPs doing anything other than selling us internet access; that we do not want the ISPs being responsible for what happens on the internet; and that we pay enough damn taxes for our government to enforce laws on their own. We also need to remind them that the internet is an openly established medium of free speech, and thus equality rights should go without question with only restrictions to things that would parallel past restrictions to free speech (such as absurd things like yelling Fire in a theater).
Dude.. it only looks slightly different and puts things from your bookmarks below your address bar as you type.
I dunno wtf you're talking about. I use the internet all the time, probably 2-3 hours a day of web-browsing alone in that time... I use firefox from 1 through 3, and I've hardly noticed a difference.
Sounds more like a whining point than something substantially flawed. Just my 2 cents.
I agree. 100G of a baby laying there staring into space...
I have a lot of pictures of my daughter, even some video. But in her nearly 4 years, I've yet to get more than a few gigs of footage. And we do a lot of picture taking.
If you do happen to survive the nuclear apocalypse to come, your data will be erased by the vast EMP wave attacks that China will drop on our cities to mitigate any surviving technology.
And then the baby jebsus returns and we all go to the hebbens.
I don't know, but I do know that 'knowing' that water is on mars is a big objective. I'm curious why they are observing and interpreting strange data instead of applying some (probably easily produced) technical gadget to detect the presence of water.
It can't be that hard to make the device. You'd think that if they put so much importance on whether or not water is on mars, that the rover would be equipped with something to test that. Guess not.
Any information that has a serious level of importance (Classified), is not, or at least SHOULD not, be in physical connection with our public internet. There is an air-gap.
Our politicians capitalizing on the gifts/donations of big business isn't capitalism?
In pure capitalism, everything can be bought, sold, owned, etc. What makes buying a politician any different?
***Capitalism and the desire for money is *not* the answer, as we are finally beginning to see here in the US. Money is used to subvert political representation of citizens, the Fed is establishing the groundwork for debtors prisons, and media is owned/paid by the same people who buy our politicians. I suppose our assumption that $$$+Competition is the fixall for the world is coming back to slap us in the face. When the payments from the citizens is not equal or greater than the payments from big business, democracy is substituted with capitalism.
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I think that's why so few people turned out for the cash-handout. Its really hard to rationalize a displeasure with your kid seeing video-game 'sex' when you compare it to the rest of the game that the parent knowingly purchased.
I still don't understand how they won. Its like going to a Friday the 13th movie and expecting only drug use and murders without the irresponsible sex. Its just not the 13th without the irresponsible sex (lol).
Should the buyers have been so surprised? lol.
I know a certain president with a small penis. Or, at least he acts like a man with one.
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1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. [1913 Webster]
Any more questions?
If that is the applicable definition, then I can see the 'prior art' in this case.But what about a means of making a round flat doughed food with cheese, tomato sauce, and pepperoni? I mean... Someone employed the means to accomplish a pizza FIRST. Does that mean they *own* the idea?
How about the means of feeding oneself? Lets go find the oldest person alive and give them the benefit of being the only living person who has 'employed means of consumption to accomplish appetite satisfaction'. Then we all owe him/her a dollar every time we want to eat. :rolleyes:
Attention people! This is what happens when you base your life and culture around money. Frivolous lawsuits prevail over justice, ethics are set aside for financial priority, and progress (in all aspects) is limited by selfish greed.
I'm not preaching communism, I'm preaching community. Once your needs are met, try doing things for others without the goal of money or returns. Many cultures have survived and prevailed under these concepts, usually much more peacefully and socially considerate as well.
*Food for thought*
You simply gather together a bunch of morally bankrupt lobbyists and get major corporation to fund them and provide them with sufficient capital to funnel that cash to a bunch of criminal politicians. Also you arrange for a proportion of those bribes to go to, well, somewhat less than Christian leaders of the various Christian right organisations, to ensure a whole lot of blind, listen to the words but ignore the actions, voters , do the right 'er' wrong thing.
To push it all along you get the government department that is meant to ensure that mass media organisations do not become monopolistic, do not become a one eyed voice for the majority shareholders ands sociopath corporate executives, to do the exact opposite a work towards turning mass media into a propaganda network for endless war and corporate fascism.
Now it also helps if you get the telecoms to start monitoring everyone who disagrees or might even consider disagreeing as well as every opposition politician and their supporters, to keep one step ahead of them and to ensure you can enact measures to isolate them.
There you go, everything you need to over throw a government and blow me down but, you don't have to look to far to see the evidence of it. Now I can think of one reason why the immunity bill might make it through. It really all boils down to how much dirt the telecoms were able to dig up on the various political leaders and how much of this dirt would appear as evidence if those telecoms were prosecuted. Take a very careful look at the ones voting for immunity, they are likely not voting for the telecoms immunity from prosecution, so much as they are, voting for their own immunity from prosecution, really nasty stuff.
This is the way that the younger Bush takes control of america.Not too long ago, his grandfather, Prescott Bush, was involved in a corporate-funded military coup to overthrow the fed and kill FDR if necessary.
I guess the 'fear' and *-centrism is a more publicly acceptable method for perverting and replacing our country.
Gimme Ubuntu anyday. Wtf would I be paying for with windows?
*fart*
I'm just curious... Where is the 'art'? Maybe there is a form of 'art' that I am unaware of, or maybe the term is being loosely applied for convenience. Whats the definition and what the hell are we talking about here?
I actually only have a myspace account, but from the very limited experience I had clicking around on FaceBook, I already know it is a much cleaner platform.
Maybe if Murdoch put some damn effort into fixing Tom's millions of bugs he'd get people to give a crap.
I believe the whole point of OPEN SOURCE is that you cannot point a finger. Why? Because if you want it your way, you just make it that way. It is kinda like Burger King, except instead they let YOU go behind the counter and put the pickles on yourself.
Seems like people will always look for reasons to hate each other. Can't just make a suggestion; this is something we can HATE over!
That is a pretty great analogy. I like where it is going because it points out the obvious flaw in the deceptive marketing tricks of the ISPs with plenty of clarity for a judge to understand. I hope.
One thing I do not quite understand is that even if 1-1/4 is the expectation, I don't know or see enough people actually utilizing max bandwidth 24/7. Most people I know use the internet as 'expected', so the realistic offset from the actual 24/7 P2P use is probably noticeable but probably not that bad.
In another argument, similar to the faked 'oil supply issues' in the US. If there was actually a lack of supply, gas stations would be out or nearly out of gas somewhere (which is not the case). And in this case, if there was a shortage of bandwidth, there would be major breakdowns of the internet (which is not happening before or after p2p controls).
If they need to charge me more, that's fine by me. I just want them to be honest about what I'm getting and to let the appropriate authorities deal with whatever illegal activities may be occurring on the internet.
Yeah, when you consider that the DOD unclassified budget is around $408 Billion, appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan are another ~$170 Billion and DOD classified projects are another ~$35 Billion.... in comparison, $300 Million is a *tiny* drop in the bucket. But $300 million might help some labs to avoid closing down...
I think the results would be *AMAZING* to see if the opposite were true. Imagine even one year of spending where $800 billion goes to sciences and technology, and $300m goes to the DoD. Think about that... Think long and hard about what could change, what huge serious things we could actually accomplish when we focus on something other than war.Yes, its hard to imagine not killing others for some reason or another; we can do it. Seriously think about just chilling back and watching huge amounts of your cash go somewhere productive.
Here's the best example I can think of for this awesome feature.
1) Go to this page in a new tab
2) Now close that tab.
3) In a new tab start typing "Warlord Tiefling" in the location bar.
4) Notice how a link is coming up and how it is highlighting the word as you type it. But if you select it and hit enter, you'll see that the words "Tiefling Warlord" do not appear in the URL.
This is the awesomeness of the awesome bar. It doesn't just search the URL of your history and bookmarks, it searches the page title as well! So while trying to remember the URL for the Warlord Tiefling page would be impossible, the awesome bar means you don't have to.
Well put. But that doesn't give these guys something new to whine about, does it? Instead, they are overly encumbered by the extra suggestions it provides, suggestions that they themselves bookmarked. Hell, if they don't like the link, delete the bookmark.But then again, there's a lotta these anonymous cowards whining about insubstantial things like this address bar. Maybe there's a few bugs, maybe it still has a memory leak. Who knows. If you don't like the program, uninstall. Its that simple.
One thing i can almost bet on is that despite all the bitching, they did their posting in FF3. Lol. The irony, the apathy, the whiny. I guess if it wasn't FF3, they'd be wining about having to clean their toenail clippers after each use instead of it doing it automatically.... Negative Nancy needs a cookie.
Not really. The answer to the whole problem is for ISPs to provide what they are offering, internet access at xxxx/bps rate for $xxx/month. Once such a term is agreed upon between the provider and buyer, that service needs to be supplied regardless of what 'content' is going on.
ISPs are not the police, and while they may have corporate ties, should not be allowed any specific controls over internet access.
Thats why we have the police, so they can go find criminals and bust them. Thats why corporations have their own websites, so if we want their info/stuff/etc, we go look at it.
We need to make our politicians understand that we do not want our ISPs doing anything other than selling us internet access; that we do not want the ISPs being responsible for what happens on the internet; and that we pay enough damn taxes for our government to enforce laws on their own. We also need to remind them that the internet is an openly established medium of free speech, and thus equality rights should go without question with only restrictions to things that would parallel past restrictions to free speech (such as absurd things like yelling Fire in a theater).
Dude.. it only looks slightly different and puts things from your bookmarks below your address bar as you type.
I dunno wtf you're talking about. I use the internet all the time, probably 2-3 hours a day of web-browsing alone in that time... I use firefox from 1 through 3, and I've hardly noticed a difference.
Sounds more like a whining point than something substantially flawed. Just my 2 cents.
I agree. 100G of a baby laying there staring into space...
I have a lot of pictures of my daughter, even some video. But in her nearly 4 years, I've yet to get more than a few gigs of footage. And we do a lot of picture taking.
If you do happen to survive the nuclear apocalypse to come, your data will be erased by the vast EMP wave attacks that China will drop on our cities to mitigate any surviving technology.
And then the baby jebsus returns and we all go to the hebbens.
I don't know, but I do know that 'knowing' that water is on mars is a big objective. I'm curious why they are observing and interpreting strange data instead of applying some (probably easily produced) technical gadget to detect the presence of water.
It can't be that hard to make the device. You'd think that if they put so much importance on whether or not water is on mars, that the rover would be equipped with something to test that. Guess not.
pee in that guy's gas tank!
Any information that has a serious level of importance (Classified), is not, or at least SHOULD not, be in physical connection with our public internet. There is an air-gap.
Fortunately we have locked and bulletproof cockpits nowadays, so hijacking is nearly impossible.
I think a missile is sufficient if the situation deems necessary. Or maybe liaison/diplomacy.
Stand up for your rights.
INGSOC! INGSOC! INGSOC!
Our politicians capitalizing on the gifts/donations of big business isn't capitalism?
In pure capitalism, everything can be bought, sold, owned, etc. What makes buying a politician any different?
***Capitalism and the desire for money is *not* the answer, as we are finally beginning to see here in the US. Money is used to subvert political representation of citizens, the Fed is establishing the groundwork for debtors prisons, and media is owned/paid by the same people who buy our politicians. I suppose our assumption that $$$+Competition is the fixall for the world is coming back to slap us in the face. When the payments from the citizens is not equal or greater than the payments from big business, democracy is substituted with capitalism.