There really isn't much to learn. Seriously. Browsers work the same, word processors work very much the same, Java and Flash work the same. The desktop can even look the same as Windows, if the people who are spending the money decide it's important that users "feel at home".
The average data inputting person will have to spend a week or two, learning how to access the database and other routine chores. Anyone competent to use an applicaton in Windows can become competent with similar apps on Linux within months, if not weeks. Obviously, the company thinks the "investment" worthwhile. Funny thing is, the only "failures" I've read about when companies/governments switch to Linux involved campaigns launched by proprietary concerns.
Linux fails on one front, only. Linux fails when it comes to offering kickbacks and bribes to decision makers.
No, the people who offered the credit card were in breach of contract. They PROMISED to do such and such, and instead, did thus and so. Had they made those three month's payments THAT WERE IN THE CONTRACT THAT THEY WROTE, there would have been no debt to take to court.
It's their own fault they decided to renege on the contract, and it's their own fault that they waited for years to send the thing to collection and it's the collection agency's own fault that they didn't spot the statute of limitations thing.
Immoral? If you think that we were immoral for getting over on the credit card company for a few hundred dollars, I don't know what to say.
I'll agree - collection agencies are a necessary evil. But, necessary or not, they are still evil - or most of them are.
Oh yeah - the statute of limitations. We were given one of those damned credit cards, years ago. Didn't ask for it, didn't want it - should have just cut it up, but we ketp it laying around. One day, we NEEDED some auto repairs, and used that stupid card. Then, I got laid off, only weeks later. The bill came, and the wife sent them a letter, explaining that I was laid off of work, and we wanted to take advantage of thier sales point in the brochure that came with the card. "If you lose your job, we'll waive three months payments" yada yada yada. They stopped sending bills, but a few years later, some collection agency took it to court. The wife looked at the summons, and laughed. She took a day off of work, went to court, and told the judge that the statute of limitations had expired. I'm pretty certain that the collection agency ASSumed that we would ignore the summons, and that they would win by default.
My wife is pretty smart, sometimes. But, don't anyone tell her that I said that!
There are several different learning methods. Some people don't need notes, because they remember what they heard. Others, like myself, get by with some notes. Yet others need extensive notes. But - there are huge numbers of people who don't benefit from notes at all - they need to get hands-on experience with whatever it is they are studying.
But, I'm really getting of onto an entirely different subject. We already know that IQ tests only ever test for the things that the testers consider important. Here, where we are discussing learning methods and teaching methods, the bottom line is, courses are targeted at certain types of people who benefit the most from note taking.
Awesome. Now, there are better encyclopedia, I guess, and there are worse. But, that one is rather dear to me. My Grandma bought me the 1973 edition, because I was her favorite nerdy grandson. (She had a favorite jock grandson, a favorite motorhead grandson, a favorite redheaded granddaughter - etc) If I recall correctly, that set cost about $1200. And, I used the thing extensively. Great source of information, at the time.
Of course, today, one can use the internet to find everything that the Brittanica has, without ever looking at an encyclopedia.
I have never seen a textbook that was intrinsically worth more than the good old Brittanica.
I, for one, simply don't give a rat's ass if Sony were losing money on those PS3's. If indeed, they were, they had several options. 1: sell a new model that didn't have the OtherOS enabled 2: simply raise the price on the original PS3 so that they made a profit 3: change the existing PS3's into two lines, one optimized for the clusters, the other optimized for gaming, and price them accordingly 4: design, build and sell yet another PS3 that was even better for clustering, and price them accordingly - and remove the gaming features from that machine 5: just leave things alone, and when the cluster market was saturated, the gamers would eventually do what gamers do - keep buying consoles for gaming.
I'm sure that others can come up with other ideas. Bottom line - Sony had no right to remove or disable features that they sold. That's right, SOLD. EULA's mean diddly shit - they are coercive in nature, and the only people who "agree" to them are those who simply don't care. I'll click through EULAs all day long, in order to get to the end that I have in mind. I just don't give a shit. Microsoft, Sony, websites, I don't care. They mean nothing to me, and I'll break them forever.
Now, as for that cash settlement - I find that to be unsatisfactory. Any rational court of law should force Sony to restore those features that the original purchasers paid for, AND give them the cash in consideration of all the inconvenience a bunch of jackbooted Gestapo wannabes caused the owners of those PS3's.
Auto analogy? General Motors sold half a zillion cars with turbochargers, then decided that they didn't like their cars running so fast. So - GM recalled all those vehicles and removed the turbochargers. But, rather than just a recall, they sent a mechanic to every home that had a car in their driveway, jacked the car up, and forcibly took out those turbochargers. The owner of the car had zero say in the matter, because each mechanic was accompanied by enough force to ensure that the owner didn't interfere.
Witnesses weren't required, in US courts? Surely you jest. While television is pretty ridiculous, you must have seen a few cop shows. Oh - you figure that the cops who investigate those murders aren't "witnesses", because they didn't see the crime committed first hand? When a body is found, and circumstances say that the dead guy died violently, then a crime has been committed. It's up to the investigators to find evidence to make a charge stick. If/when it comes time to go to court, the cops involved in the investigation are "witnesses".
"if the state had wanted to prove he had more time to brake, they could have produced information "
And, there we have a problem. The state isn't trying to prove anything. These actions are all being carried out by a contractor. The state (or municipality) has an agreement with the contractor that the contractor can ticket people, and they will share the revenues. In effect, a corporation has free reign to impose fines on random people, and the court is generally willing to side with the corporation FOR PROFIT.
And, what has happened to the concepts of clear evidence, chains of custody of evidence, and accountability for evidence? FFS, murderers, rapists, and other sociopaths have walked free on technicalities, in which the cops have failed to actually prove that the murderer killed anyone. But, you're willing to waive the defendant's rights in this case, because it's only a speeding ticket or forty?
Fact is, no one is accountable for real evidence to be presented in court that proves those vehicles were speeding. So, the businessman has successfully beaten five tickets, and will likely beat all the rest.
And, that is the real truth here. Once upon a time, a crime had to be witnessed, or it wasn't a crime. And, in general, only an expert or an officer of the court was considered to be "reliable". Today, no witness is required, no experts and no officers of the court need be aware of any supposed crime. All that is required is a notice be mailed from some corporate office, and you're presumed to be guilty.
Total bullshit.
I don't care how many photos there are, or how many radar readouts. They are all meaningless unless there is a PERSON on hand to make sense of the photos and/or radar readings. When not even one human being is required to corroborate the results of all this surveillance, then humans have surrendered their rights to - what exactly? To the gods of technology?
Fact is, Radio Shack has had calculators out for a long, long time. I lost one, around 1985, and replaced it. Another fell into some concrete, around 1990, and I replaced it. The last one I bought, around 1997 or so was "appropriated" by my son. I don't do much construction anymore, but I'm sure Radio Shack still has them, if I need it. Texas Instruments has another.
And, no, the results don't come out in engineer scale, unless you PROGRAM it to do so. You punch in 2 3/4 inches x 6 3/8 inches to get the area in inches and fractions. You can figure the cubic yards for concrete as well.
I almost never used pen and paper when I was working construction, unless I was working on an estimate. In which case, I commited everything to a notebook, THEN checked my math with the calc.
Basic math. Yeah, tell me about it. You learned to count to ten, and you mastered all the measuring units - distance, volume, everything. Take a look again at the imperial and/or US measuring system. Throw in a few specialised measures, like the engineer's scale. Oh - you're so smart with your ten base system. WE have mastered base 8, base 16, base 12, and so much more. But, go on - feel superior. I'd hate to stand in the way of children having fun.
FTW. Obviously, we are a bunch of retarded rednecks. And, the rest of the world is so smart - let them do the calculating and converting. FTW again. We're American, we don't have to conform. Starting way back at the dawn of time, the conformists stayed in the jungles and forests of Africa. Later, the conformists stayed in the villages of Africa. Still later, conformists stayed - well, everywhere. It was people like us - NONconformists - who settled northern Europe, Asia, then walked across that land bridge to Alaska. A bunch more noncoformists found their way to Australia and New Zealand, and all those Pacific islands. Still later, all the nonconformists left Europe and came to America.
Face it people. You wish you could be like us. We don't give a rat's ass what anyone things, and you're jealous!!
Now, get back in queue, and blend in with your mates. People are looking at you, you know you don't want that!
Pal, I hate to break it to you - but we don't live in a stable world. When I left high school, there were jobs everywhere. I could pick and choose, and I did so. I worked a year in construction, then joined the Navy. Guess what? The world had changed. The steel mills were all shut down, and jobs were hard to find back home. So - I moved to a different region, where the steel industry's woes didn't impact the common man. Again, I went into construction. Then, I went truck driving, then back to construction, all the time working on education. Then, the world did a little bit of shifting again. Suddenly, construction workers were in high demand - and the better workers were paid some really good wages. I made big bucks for a few years. Then - Bush was elected and the twin towers came down. Major shift in economics. I was able to fall back on trucking, but I couldn't buy a job in construction anymore. Those jobs available in construction were all taken by cheap labor from south of the border, and a lot of employers wouldn't even give an American an application to fill out.
Today, I'm 55. Yes, today. Happy birthday, old geezer. No one wants me. I managed to get a job five years ago, which I've held onto. Obviously from my previous paragraph, I've not held any other job this long. There were always greener pastures, somewhere. Not any more. Jobs are scarce, no one wants to hire an old goat, and I'm kinda stuck where I'm at. It isn't the best job in the world, but it pays my bills.
Things may get better, but you can expect them to get worse first. Then again, they may get worse, before they get even worse.
Need a job, and can't find one? Reach deep in your soul, and see if you can't find a little bit of nationalism. Then, start writing all the corrupt bastards in Washington who made Nafta, Cafta, and all the rest of the globalization crap happen. They, and the corporations, are busy selling everything that we need to the Chinese, or anyone else who can bid high enough.
Again, the world is not a stable place. Things change. Now get off your ass, and try to make those changes benefit you and your offspring. Stop whining.
You seem to be making an assumption here. I have actually been the only sane person in a room - and, when I walked out, that left no sane people. Now, when you get a group of nutcases together, without any oversight at all - shit just happens. Take a look at both the Republican convention, and the Democratic convention. Go on - tell me that any of that crap makes sense to a sane person. I mean, ANY sane person - male, female, gay, bi, old, young, healthy, decrepit - even a sane retard would barf on anything that comes out of either of those conventions.
So, yes, I can easily imagine a bunch of crazies buying capes for the unemployed just as soon as the last sane person has walked out of the room.
What I'm really wondering is, how many of the unemployed actually wore the capes to fill out an application, or to an interview? And, how many of them got the job? Most likely, those capes were used for wiping rags, unless some Suzy Homemaker type used them to make something for her kids.
Horse shit. Spying is spying, no matter that your target may be as sleazy as you are. Next, you'll be suggesting that a crooked cop should get off, because he's less of a criminal than the average criminal, or some other crazy nonsense.
Errrr - wait. Who created the truecrypt container? Was the container created/implemented by the server, or by yourself, then transferred to the cloud? How is the container accessed? Are the keys to the container on your own machine, or are they on the cloud server? I'm really curious here. If you're accessing the container through the server, the server must have the keys necessary to decrypt the container, right?
"I encrypt all the data before I move it into the Dropbox folder."
Wiser words of wisdom have seldom been spoken. Only a moron fails to understand that anything hosted off-premises is no longer "private". There may be very few people who can get at your stuff when it's in the clout, or there may be many people. Maybe it's only law enforcement, maybe not. And, maybe all law enforcement people are honest and ethical, and maybe not. Bottom line - you put it in the cloud, it's no longer under your exclusive control. So - if you use the cloud to store stuff, you BETTER make it damned hard to read your stuff! Anyone who fails to understand that needs to take a hard look at all the crazy "digital rights management" shit that has failed.
When it hits the web, you've effectively given it away.
Yes, it most certainly is crippleware. You do not get all the benefits, unless you pay for them. You're "given" just enough to get you interested in the good stuff, you're hooked, so you start paying for the extras. That's what demos were all about, and shareware, and all the rest of the gimmicks. If the online game gives you ALL of the features and benefits, then asks if you would care to make a donation, then the game would not be crippleware.
I happen to play Runescape. I can play for free. But the free version is most definitely crippled. The same is true of any other online game.
Who wants to be the first to tell Zakkie that in "the natural order of things" there would be no intartubez? The internet itself is an artifact, and everything about it is artificial. There IS no "natural order".
So, what you are saying is, using some of Google's older models, you were treated well, and you were happy. With the updated algorithms, you are not being treated as well, and you resent it. This has nothing to do with any "natural order" at all. You simply prefer one algorithm over another.
That strikes me as an overstatement. Either that, or my search parameters meet my needs better than your search parameters, or some such nonsense.
From time to time, I do notice trash crop up in a search. Sometimes, the first 5 or 10 results are pretty obviously noise accompanying the signal. But, ten pages of results? Never. Not even a full page. Crap - I'm going to check something - some stupid term - UTERUS!
Ohhhhh - I dunno. Google has a lot of neat things, some of which I haven't found on my own. Guess I'm not a Google fanatic. Anyway - I am logged in, and I clicked the link in sibling post, to find this: http://www.google.com/reviews/t
Manage Blocked Sites If you don't like a site that appears in your search results, you can block all the pages within that site. Then you won't see any of those pages when you're signed in and searching on Google. If you change your mind, you can unblock the site later.
Sites will be blocked only for you, but Google may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall.
You may block up to 500 sites. You currently have no blocked sites. Manually block a site
Now - 500 sites doesn't sound like a lot, but hey, if you're entering TLD's, they go a long, long, long way, right?
I drove truck for years. Many, many times, I've raced tornados across one state or another. My father in law was 84 when he died in 1998. The old man told us tales of tornados wiping away entire towns before WW1, between the world wars, and after. In fact, I lived in Xenia, Ohio for a couple years as a kid. Imagine my surprise soon after we moved away, when I watched Xenia being wiped off the map on the evening news.
Tornados are nothing new, they are no bigger, and no more deadly than they were decades or centuries ago.
Put this all into perspective. In a nation of 350 million people, a few dozen are killed by storms. Uhhhh - how does that compare to cataclysmic events from the past, such as Pompey, or Vesuvius, or - well, you can parse history as well as I can.
I call bullshit to any alarmist conclusions regarding a monster hurricane and a few tornados.
Of far greater concern are the oil spills and the nuclear plant disasters.
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There really isn't much to learn. Seriously. Browsers work the same, word processors work very much the same, Java and Flash work the same. The desktop can even look the same as Windows, if the people who are spending the money decide it's important that users "feel at home".
The average data inputting person will have to spend a week or two, learning how to access the database and other routine chores. Anyone competent to use an applicaton in Windows can become competent with similar apps on Linux within months, if not weeks. Obviously, the company thinks the "investment" worthwhile. Funny thing is, the only "failures" I've read about when companies/governments switch to Linux involved campaigns launched by proprietary concerns.
Linux fails on one front, only. Linux fails when it comes to offering kickbacks and bribes to decision makers.
No, the people who offered the credit card were in breach of contract. They PROMISED to do such and such, and instead, did thus and so. Had they made those three month's payments THAT WERE IN THE CONTRACT THAT THEY WROTE, there would have been no debt to take to court.
It's their own fault they decided to renege on the contract, and it's their own fault that they waited for years to send the thing to collection and it's the collection agency's own fault that they didn't spot the statute of limitations thing.
Immoral? If you think that we were immoral for getting over on the credit card company for a few hundred dollars, I don't know what to say.
I'll agree - collection agencies are a necessary evil. But, necessary or not, they are still evil - or most of them are.
Oh yeah - the statute of limitations. We were given one of those damned credit cards, years ago. Didn't ask for it, didn't want it - should have just cut it up, but we ketp it laying around. One day, we NEEDED some auto repairs, and used that stupid card. Then, I got laid off, only weeks later. The bill came, and the wife sent them a letter, explaining that I was laid off of work, and we wanted to take advantage of thier sales point in the brochure that came with the card. "If you lose your job, we'll waive three months payments" yada yada yada. They stopped sending bills, but a few years later, some collection agency took it to court. The wife looked at the summons, and laughed. She took a day off of work, went to court, and told the judge that the statute of limitations had expired. I'm pretty certain that the collection agency ASSumed that we would ignore the summons, and that they would win by default.
My wife is pretty smart, sometimes. But, don't anyone tell her that I said that!
There are several different learning methods. Some people don't need notes, because they remember what they heard. Others, like myself, get by with some notes. Yet others need extensive notes. But - there are huge numbers of people who don't benefit from notes at all - they need to get hands-on experience with whatever it is they are studying.
But, I'm really getting of onto an entirely different subject. We already know that IQ tests only ever test for the things that the testers consider important. Here, where we are discussing learning methods and teaching methods, the bottom line is, courses are targeted at certain types of people who benefit the most from note taking.
Uhhh, actually, 200 bucks seems far to much for even a quality book. There are a few books for which I've paid ~100 dollars. Precious few. Wonder how much an entire set of Encyclopedia Brittanica costs today? Hmmmm - lemme google that: http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopaedia-Britannica-42711-Encyclopedia-Deluxe/dp/1615354379
Awesome. Now, there are better encyclopedia, I guess, and there are worse. But, that one is rather dear to me. My Grandma bought me the 1973 edition, because I was her favorite nerdy grandson. (She had a favorite jock grandson, a favorite motorhead grandson, a favorite redheaded granddaughter - etc) If I recall correctly, that set cost about $1200. And, I used the thing extensively. Great source of information, at the time.
Of course, today, one can use the internet to find everything that the Brittanica has, without ever looking at an encyclopedia.
I have never seen a textbook that was intrinsically worth more than the good old Brittanica.
I, for one, simply don't give a rat's ass if Sony were losing money on those PS3's. If indeed, they were, they had several options.
1: sell a new model that didn't have the OtherOS enabled
2: simply raise the price on the original PS3 so that they made a profit
3: change the existing PS3's into two lines, one optimized for the clusters, the other optimized for gaming, and price them accordingly
4: design, build and sell yet another PS3 that was even better for clustering, and price them accordingly - and remove the gaming features from that machine
5: just leave things alone, and when the cluster market was saturated, the gamers would eventually do what gamers do - keep buying consoles for gaming.
I'm sure that others can come up with other ideas. Bottom line - Sony had no right to remove or disable features that they sold. That's right, SOLD. EULA's mean diddly shit - they are coercive in nature, and the only people who "agree" to them are those who simply don't care. I'll click through EULAs all day long, in order to get to the end that I have in mind. I just don't give a shit. Microsoft, Sony, websites, I don't care. They mean nothing to me, and I'll break them forever.
Now, as for that cash settlement - I find that to be unsatisfactory. Any rational court of law should force Sony to restore those features that the original purchasers paid for, AND give them the cash in consideration of all the inconvenience a bunch of jackbooted Gestapo wannabes caused the owners of those PS3's.
Auto analogy? General Motors sold half a zillion cars with turbochargers, then decided that they didn't like their cars running so fast. So - GM recalled all those vehicles and removed the turbochargers. But, rather than just a recall, they sent a mechanic to every home that had a car in their driveway, jacked the car up, and forcibly took out those turbochargers. The owner of the car had zero say in the matter, because each mechanic was accompanied by enough force to ensure that the owner didn't interfere.
Totally wrong, no matter how you look at it.
Witnesses weren't required, in US courts? Surely you jest. While television is pretty ridiculous, you must have seen a few cop shows. Oh - you figure that the cops who investigate those murders aren't "witnesses", because they didn't see the crime committed first hand? When a body is found, and circumstances say that the dead guy died violently, then a crime has been committed. It's up to the investigators to find evidence to make a charge stick. If/when it comes time to go to court, the cops involved in the investigation are "witnesses".
"if the state had wanted to prove he had more time to brake, they could have produced information "
And, there we have a problem. The state isn't trying to prove anything. These actions are all being carried out by a contractor. The state (or municipality) has an agreement with the contractor that the contractor can ticket people, and they will share the revenues. In effect, a corporation has free reign to impose fines on random people, and the court is generally willing to side with the corporation FOR PROFIT.
And, what has happened to the concepts of clear evidence, chains of custody of evidence, and accountability for evidence? FFS, murderers, rapists, and other sociopaths have walked free on technicalities, in which the cops have failed to actually prove that the murderer killed anyone. But, you're willing to waive the defendant's rights in this case, because it's only a speeding ticket or forty?
Fact is, no one is accountable for real evidence to be presented in court that proves those vehicles were speeding. So, the businessman has successfully beaten five tickets, and will likely beat all the rest.
And, that is the real truth here. Once upon a time, a crime had to be witnessed, or it wasn't a crime. And, in general, only an expert or an officer of the court was considered to be "reliable". Today, no witness is required, no experts and no officers of the court need be aware of any supposed crime. All that is required is a notice be mailed from some corporate office, and you're presumed to be guilty.
Total bullshit.
I don't care how many photos there are, or how many radar readouts. They are all meaningless unless there is a PERSON on hand to make sense of the photos and/or radar readings. When not even one human being is required to corroborate the results of all this surveillance, then humans have surrendered their rights to - what exactly? To the gods of technology?
Fact is, Radio Shack has had calculators out for a long, long time. I lost one, around 1985, and replaced it. Another fell into some concrete, around 1990, and I replaced it. The last one I bought, around 1997 or so was "appropriated" by my son. I don't do much construction anymore, but I'm sure Radio Shack still has them, if I need it. Texas Instruments has another.
And, no, the results don't come out in engineer scale, unless you PROGRAM it to do so. You punch in 2 3/4 inches x 6 3/8 inches to get the area in inches and fractions. You can figure the cubic yards for concrete as well.
I almost never used pen and paper when I was working construction, unless I was working on an estimate. In which case, I commited everything to a notebook, THEN checked my math with the calc.
Basic math. Yeah, tell me about it. You learned to count to ten, and you mastered all the measuring units - distance, volume, everything. Take a look again at the imperial and/or US measuring system. Throw in a few specialised measures, like the engineer's scale. Oh - you're so smart with your ten base system. WE have mastered base 8, base 16, base 12, and so much more. But, go on - feel superior. I'd hate to stand in the way of children having fun.
FTW. Obviously, we are a bunch of retarded rednecks. And, the rest of the world is so smart - let them do the calculating and converting. FTW again. We're American, we don't have to conform. Starting way back at the dawn of time, the conformists stayed in the jungles and forests of Africa. Later, the conformists stayed in the villages of Africa. Still later, conformists stayed - well, everywhere. It was people like us - NONconformists - who settled northern Europe, Asia, then walked across that land bridge to Alaska. A bunch more noncoformists found their way to Australia and New Zealand, and all those Pacific islands. Still later, all the nonconformists left Europe and came to America.
Face it people. You wish you could be like us. We don't give a rat's ass what anyone things, and you're jealous!!
Now, get back in queue, and blend in with your mates. People are looking at you, you know you don't want that!
Pal, I hate to break it to you - but we don't live in a stable world. When I left high school, there were jobs everywhere. I could pick and choose, and I did so. I worked a year in construction, then joined the Navy. Guess what? The world had changed. The steel mills were all shut down, and jobs were hard to find back home. So - I moved to a different region, where the steel industry's woes didn't impact the common man. Again, I went into construction. Then, I went truck driving, then back to construction, all the time working on education. Then, the world did a little bit of shifting again. Suddenly, construction workers were in high demand - and the better workers were paid some really good wages. I made big bucks for a few years. Then - Bush was elected and the twin towers came down. Major shift in economics. I was able to fall back on trucking, but I couldn't buy a job in construction anymore. Those jobs available in construction were all taken by cheap labor from south of the border, and a lot of employers wouldn't even give an American an application to fill out.
Today, I'm 55. Yes, today. Happy birthday, old geezer. No one wants me. I managed to get a job five years ago, which I've held onto. Obviously from my previous paragraph, I've not held any other job this long. There were always greener pastures, somewhere. Not any more. Jobs are scarce, no one wants to hire an old goat, and I'm kinda stuck where I'm at. It isn't the best job in the world, but it pays my bills.
Things may get better, but you can expect them to get worse first. Then again, they may get worse, before they get even worse.
Need a job, and can't find one? Reach deep in your soul, and see if you can't find a little bit of nationalism. Then, start writing all the corrupt bastards in Washington who made Nafta, Cafta, and all the rest of the globalization crap happen. They, and the corporations, are busy selling everything that we need to the Chinese, or anyone else who can bid high enough.
Again, the world is not a stable place. Things change. Now get off your ass, and try to make those changes benefit you and your offspring. Stop whining.
You seem to be making an assumption here. I have actually been the only sane person in a room - and, when I walked out, that left no sane people. Now, when you get a group of nutcases together, without any oversight at all - shit just happens. Take a look at both the Republican convention, and the Democratic convention. Go on - tell me that any of that crap makes sense to a sane person. I mean, ANY sane person - male, female, gay, bi, old, young, healthy, decrepit - even a sane retard would barf on anything that comes out of either of those conventions.
So, yes, I can easily imagine a bunch of crazies buying capes for the unemployed just as soon as the last sane person has walked out of the room.
What I'm really wondering is, how many of the unemployed actually wore the capes to fill out an application, or to an interview? And, how many of them got the job? Most likely, those capes were used for wiping rags, unless some Suzy Homemaker type used them to make something for her kids.
Horse shit. Spying is spying, no matter that your target may be as sleazy as you are. Next, you'll be suggesting that a crooked cop should get off, because he's less of a criminal than the average criminal, or some other crazy nonsense.
Agreed. Stop the hyperbole. Plain old bole would be more than enough here . . .
Errrr - wait. Who created the truecrypt container? Was the container created/implemented by the server, or by yourself, then transferred to the cloud? How is the container accessed? Are the keys to the container on your own machine, or are they on the cloud server? I'm really curious here. If you're accessing the container through the server, the server must have the keys necessary to decrypt the container, right?
"I encrypt all the data before I move it into the Dropbox folder."
Wiser words of wisdom have seldom been spoken. Only a moron fails to understand that anything hosted off-premises is no longer "private". There may be very few people who can get at your stuff when it's in the clout, or there may be many people. Maybe it's only law enforcement, maybe not. And, maybe all law enforcement people are honest and ethical, and maybe not. Bottom line - you put it in the cloud, it's no longer under your exclusive control. So - if you use the cloud to store stuff, you BETTER make it damned hard to read your stuff! Anyone who fails to understand that needs to take a hard look at all the crazy "digital rights management" shit that has failed.
When it hits the web, you've effectively given it away.
Yes, it most certainly is crippleware. You do not get all the benefits, unless you pay for them. You're "given" just enough to get you interested in the good stuff, you're hooked, so you start paying for the extras. That's what demos were all about, and shareware, and all the rest of the gimmicks. If the online game gives you ALL of the features and benefits, then asks if you would care to make a donation, then the game would not be crippleware.
I happen to play Runescape. I can play for free. But the free version is most definitely crippled. The same is true of any other online game.
"the natural order of things"
Who wants to be the first to tell Zakkie that in "the natural order of things" there would be no intartubez? The internet itself is an artifact, and everything about it is artificial. There IS no "natural order".
So, what you are saying is, using some of Google's older models, you were treated well, and you were happy. With the updated algorithms, you are not being treated as well, and you resent it. This has nothing to do with any "natural order" at all. You simply prefer one algorithm over another.
That strikes me as an overstatement. Either that, or my search parameters meet my needs better than your search parameters, or some such nonsense.
From time to time, I do notice trash crop up in a search. Sometimes, the first 5 or 10 results are pretty obviously noise accompanying the signal. But, ten pages of results? Never. Not even a full page. Crap - I'm going to check something - some stupid term - UTERUS!
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=uterus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
I clicks the first ten links:
wikipedia - not good, not bad, it's informational
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19263.htm - looks alright, educational, I guess and seems to lead to other educational material (didn't check)
www.medicinenet.com/uterine_cancer/article.htm - looks alright again - educational, but there are links to what look like practitioners sites.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/226-hysterectomies-in-6-months-in-rajasthan/149579-3.html - news article, appears to be about forced sterilization, or unethical doctors
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/17/2171976/south-florida-activists-pen-the.html - 'nother news article about an activist group
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/prolapsed_uterus/article_em.htm - looks like a mirror of medicinenet above - same adverts, different article
http://www.nuff.org/health_theuterus.htm - you'll note I'm not digging deeply - looks like a nonprofit concerned with women's health?
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/uterinehealth/a/abouttheuterus.htm - looks like what the name implies - educational
http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html - lots of links, looks like it's educational, but again, I'm not digging deep here
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5918 - another medicinenet mirror, this happens to be yet another related article
Somewhere, somehow, perhaps my settings tend to show pertinent results? I don't know - maybe you're trying to pull the wool over our eyes?
Ohhhhh - I dunno. Google has a lot of neat things, some of which I haven't found on my own. Guess I'm not a Google fanatic. Anyway - I am logged in, and I clicked the link in sibling post, to find this: http://www.google.com/reviews/t
Manage Blocked Sites
If you don't like a site that appears in your search results, you can block all the pages within that site. Then you won't see any of those pages when you're signed in and searching on Google. If you change your mind, you can unblock the site later.
Sites will be blocked only for you, but Google may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall.
You may block up to 500 sites.
You currently have no blocked sites.
Manually block a site
Now - 500 sites doesn't sound like a lot, but hey, if you're entering TLD's, they go a long, long, long way, right?
iPods don't have EXTERNAL antennas, but nice trolling.
FTFY No radio spectrum device works without an antenna. Period.
I drove truck for years. Many, many times, I've raced tornados across one state or another. My father in law was 84 when he died in 1998. The old man told us tales of tornados wiping away entire towns before WW1, between the world wars, and after. In fact, I lived in Xenia, Ohio for a couple years as a kid. Imagine my surprise soon after we moved away, when I watched Xenia being wiped off the map on the evening news.
Tornados are nothing new, they are no bigger, and no more deadly than they were decades or centuries ago.
Put this all into perspective. In a nation of 350 million people, a few dozen are killed by storms. Uhhhh - how does that compare to cataclysmic events from the past, such as Pompey, or Vesuvius, or - well, you can parse history as well as I can.
I call bullshit to any alarmist conclusions regarding a monster hurricane and a few tornados.
Of far greater concern are the oil spills and the nuclear plant disasters.