Some kid with a genius father, and an idiot mother? Such a person would be a half-breed, and hence a half wit!
And, no, I don't think it would work the other way around. A genius mother wouldn't be fertile for an idiot father - you couldn't even get an infertile idiot offspring (or, mule) from that match up.
Let me ask - how much medical training and experience do you have? Have you ever stood in the middle of carnage, and had to decide which people to save, and which people to not bother with? I have. I'm not even a military medic, but I've had to do triage after accidents. I've had to decide to allow one person to die, so that I could work on other people whom I MIGHT save.
I'm just a lowly EMT, whose training is decades out of date, so I don't have all the answers. But, compassion? Yes, I have it. I spent my time studying, getting certified, then I spent my own time and money on simple supplies so that I could help people. I have never been reimbursed for any time, or any supplies that I have used to treat people. Not one red cent. In fact, I've seldom heard a word of thanks from people I've saved, or their relatives.
Compassion. How much compassion do you have for the injured? Have you gone down to your local community college, and paid hard cash for your EMT certification? When you have, and when you have been up to your elbows in blood and gore, when you have saved a few lives, and when you have decided that you cannot and/or will not help one or more dying person - THEN you can talk to me about compassion.
Now - emotions aside - this earth is most definitely overpopulated. We need to stop making these heroic efforts to save people who cause their own injuries out of stupidity, maliciousness, and/or suicidal motivation. There is no shortage of people, we don't NEED to save every worthless drunk who runs off the road, and wraps his car around a tree. Screw him - he isn't worth the resources, let alone the investment of time and effort.
A lot of these people seem to come across as "tech savvy". So - why do they have their primary credit card accounts linked to the app store? I have one debit card that I use online. Guess what? It's almost always EMPTY. Balance of zero. No cash onhand. DEBIT cards can't be used to make mass purchases when there is no balance on them. Each week, when I get my pay, I pretty much know what I want to purchase online - I just deposit enough to cover those purchases, and a dollar or two more.
It was a comment on "saving people" - mostly from themselves. Try to understand - every time we muck around trying to break Darwin's laws, we are only screwing ourselves.
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They're already breeding in captivity. Have you looked in their mother's basements?
Is it within the realm of possibility that some nobody might be allowed to die so that his organs can be harvested for a prominent somebody? Ever think of that? Well - people who trust politicians, celebrities, the wealthy, and all medical personnel would never think of this possibility. Of course, I might call such people "gullible", or "tools", or - well, you get the idea.
But - do globally installed addons prevent a guy from firing up his portable Firefox? Hmmmm. I'll just bet it doesn't. I've found a few computers that were locked down pretty tightly. Portable FF ran on all of them. To prevent me doing so, they would have needed to uninstall and remove devices with which I can read portable media.
I don't know about all that. I've been using Nlited versions of Windows for quite a long while now. IE is ripped out by the roots, before the installation media is burnt. No IE at all. It works well on XP and Windows7. Had I ever bothered with Vista, I'm certain it would have worked there as well. (Vista was just to big a POS to ever bother Nliting) Sure, a lot of software may look for that rendering engine, but in my experience, for home use, the software that I use works just fine if the only rendering engine available is Gecko. Hell, I can read Windows CHM files on Linux, and there isn't the vaguest trace of Trident on those machines.
Everything that was ever said about Trident being necessary for the operating system to work was a lie. Simple as that.
Marrying for love is a relatively recent development in history. Marriage has always been about creating business and political alliances, right after the requirement to ensure that your offspring get your toys.
You are most definitely on the road to cynicism. At least that's what most people call it. I would call it realism. Anything that interferes with the mindless circle jerk in front of the boob tube is bad, in America.
Uhhh - the monopoly business doesn't bother me so much, as the unfair trade practices. There are many that MS has engaged in, but the single worst thing they ever did, was to demand exclusive contracts with vendors.
Totally wrong. And, it should have been punished severely. Not only Linux, but other OS's would be light years ahead of where they are today, if the vendors had been permitted to build custom and/or "standard" machines with alternative OS's all along.
Even today, it's a bit difficult to navigate Dell's site, to find the machine that you REALLY want, without Windows. That's just wrong, wrong, wrong. All of the possible configurations, and all the possible OS's should be easy to find with a simple search. Very simple search. "No OS Thinkpad" should take me right to the window where I can customize it - I shouldn't have to make multiple searches in the enterprise/business section.
Uhhhh - as I recall, that cube didn't come from Ubuntu. I believe that it came from a couple different teams. I'd have to check into the history to give everyone credit, but it's known as Compiz now. Ubuntu merely implemented Compiz, just as Suse and others have done.
In case you hadn't noticed, Commerce rides on the backs of the little people who supply manpower, and consume the products of commerce.
Of course, commerce has long ago forgotten that the very concept of commerce is a bargain between the wealthy and the not-so-wealthy, that everyone should benefit from commercial arrangements.
A business license is a license from the people, permitting a person or group of persons to conduct business in such a way that the community benefits. When the community no longer benefits, then the community may revoke the license.
IMHO - society isn't deriving much benefit from copyright and patent law these days. Commercial interests want to hoard all the benefits, and force society to pay over and over for any small benefits that commerce might dispense.
Dammit. I used to think that I liked you. Now I hate you. Why? Because you are right, of course. You're perfectly right. It matters not that as much as 99% of the population opposes a measure - if the government wants it, they will find some sneaky, underhanded way to ram it down our throats. Failing that, they'll ram it up our asses - it makes little difference to them.
Ehhh - I don't hate you - I just hate your message for being so damned right.
"Attention: your audience isn't a bunch of third-graders"
No shit, Sherlock. We know that some of you are fourth graders, who feel so superior to the little 3rd graders.
Personally, I thought the title fell just short of "cute". Someone making an unapologetic attempt at some juvenile humor. Refreshing. Not quite cute, but almost there.
Now, stop whining. A little originality and thinking outside the box are always welcome here.
The real problem with this whole "anti counterfeiting" thing is, the common man, the "little people" have no voice. Yeah, the talks are more transparent than they were a year or six ago - they've lost their "top secret" status. But, who is speaking for the PEOPLE? Absolutely no one.
Which songs are entering the public domain, this year?
Which movies are entering the public domain this year?
Which patents are entering the public domain?
Which copyright and/or patent laws are being made less restrictive this year?
When I hear that some party to these talks are actively pursuing the overhaul of copyright law, THEN I'll feel that some good may come of ACTA. Until then, I view ACTA as little more than a highway to hell. If one party wins out, we go to Satan's throne room, if another party wins out, we end up in the far reaches of Satan's kingdom. But, it's still hell.
I want 20 year old copyrighted works in the public domain, unless the so-called "rights holder" is willing to pay some HUGE bribes to society. Not to a handful of lawmakers, but to society as a whole. Give something to us "little people", in exchange for a continued monopoly on some specific copyrighted work. God knows, that bastard Al Gore doesn't need anything, or Obama, or anyone else in Washington. Give something to the school kids, and the moms and dads who have to pay for all the cool schitzls that the school kids need/want.
Actually, if I were masterminding a secret criminal organization, I would look to TOR or I2P for "secure" communications channels. An off-the-shelf installation of TOR might not be good, but some modifications could make it useful. And, I2P may work right now, with default installation. All you would need to do, is set up some mailing addresses for the people you need to communicate with.
Hell, encrypted IRC might be better than the social networking tools you mention. Set up a server, and send the addresses to the poeple you need to communicate with. No one gets on the server without an invitation, and no one can log on unless his connection is secure and encrypted.
No plan is foolproof, and my ideas are subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, but they seem a whole lot better than readily accessible media that anyone in the public can see.
""The US said it is sure that most criminals (insert who use ICQ) use ICQ"
There. The sentence still doesn't make a lot sense, but I've fixed it as well as I know how. And, I agree that "most criminals" certainly don't use ICQ. Half the criminals that I know aren't even SMART enough to use ICQ without an IT guy to hold their freaking hands.
Yeah, someone is going to point out that some very intelligent people happen to be criminals - but I'll just remind them that a lot of people become criminals because they are smart enough to make an honest living. And, the dummies far outnumber the smart but dishonest and/or lazy bastards that the US intelligence community might be interested in.
Yeah - FF does get rather bogged down from time to time. I'll admit though, for myself, I suspect a lot of that bogging is due to the user scripts I have installed. I play an online game, and one of my scripts does my scouting for me. During a long scouting run, that and all other Firefox windows get so sluggish, I'm just waiting for it to all come crashing down.
The scripts have been updated recently, and the bog isn't so bad now - but it's still there.
People who don't install bandwidth and memory hog scripts may never notice this problem.
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"Annoyingly assertive" translates to "I can't stand opinionated old assholes!"
Some kid with a genius father, and an idiot mother? Such a person would be a half-breed, and hence a half wit!
And, no, I don't think it would work the other way around. A genius mother wouldn't be fertile for an idiot father - you couldn't even get an infertile idiot offspring (or, mule) from that match up.
The TFA has a screenshot that says "You can also become a saddo on Facebook"
I did a search on facebook for "saddo". Found this, among other pages: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Being-a-Saddo/383335583952?ref=search
It looks like what is actually printed is true. Taking things out of context, anyone can apply their own meaning to anything they find.
Let me ask - how much medical training and experience do you have? Have you ever stood in the middle of carnage, and had to decide which people to save, and which people to not bother with? I have. I'm not even a military medic, but I've had to do triage after accidents. I've had to decide to allow one person to die, so that I could work on other people whom I MIGHT save.
I'm just a lowly EMT, whose training is decades out of date, so I don't have all the answers. But, compassion? Yes, I have it. I spent my time studying, getting certified, then I spent my own time and money on simple supplies so that I could help people. I have never been reimbursed for any time, or any supplies that I have used to treat people. Not one red cent. In fact, I've seldom heard a word of thanks from people I've saved, or their relatives.
Compassion. How much compassion do you have for the injured? Have you gone down to your local community college, and paid hard cash for your EMT certification? When you have, and when you have been up to your elbows in blood and gore, when you have saved a few lives, and when you have decided that you cannot and/or will not help one or more dying person - THEN you can talk to me about compassion.
Now - emotions aside - this earth is most definitely overpopulated. We need to stop making these heroic efforts to save people who cause their own injuries out of stupidity, maliciousness, and/or suicidal motivation. There is no shortage of people, we don't NEED to save every worthless drunk who runs off the road, and wraps his car around a tree. Screw him - he isn't worth the resources, let alone the investment of time and effort.
A lot of these people seem to come across as "tech savvy". So - why do they have their primary credit card accounts linked to the app store? I have one debit card that I use online. Guess what? It's almost always EMPTY. Balance of zero. No cash onhand. DEBIT cards can't be used to make mass purchases when there is no balance on them. Each week, when I get my pay, I pretty much know what I want to purchase online - I just deposit enough to cover those purchases, and a dollar or two more.
Hey hackers - good luck trying to rip me off!!
It was a comment on "saving people" - mostly from themselves. Try to understand - every time we muck around trying to break Darwin's laws, we are only screwing ourselves.
They're already breeding in captivity. Have you looked in their mother's basements?
I've probably read a dozen books on the subject. I'll have to look at 'The Jigsaw Man'. Niven is a damned good author. ;^)
Are there any citations to show that there is a real shortage of people on this planet? Maybe it would be good if we didn't save so many lives?
Is it within the realm of possibility that some nobody might be allowed to die so that his organs can be harvested for a prominent somebody? Ever think of that? Well - people who trust politicians, celebrities, the wealthy, and all medical personnel would never think of this possibility. Of course, I might call such people "gullible", or "tools", or - well, you get the idea.
But - do globally installed addons prevent a guy from firing up his portable Firefox? Hmmmm. I'll just bet it doesn't. I've found a few computers that were locked down pretty tightly. Portable FF ran on all of them. To prevent me doing so, they would have needed to uninstall and remove devices with which I can read portable media.
I don't know about all that. I've been using Nlited versions of Windows for quite a long while now. IE is ripped out by the roots, before the installation media is burnt. No IE at all. It works well on XP and Windows7. Had I ever bothered with Vista, I'm certain it would have worked there as well. (Vista was just to big a POS to ever bother Nliting) Sure, a lot of software may look for that rendering engine, but in my experience, for home use, the software that I use works just fine if the only rendering engine available is Gecko. Hell, I can read Windows CHM files on Linux, and there isn't the vaguest trace of Trident on those machines.
Everything that was ever said about Trident being necessary for the operating system to work was a lie. Simple as that.
Corbettw deserves insightful mods.
Marrying for love is a relatively recent development in history. Marriage has always been about creating business and political alliances, right after the requirement to ensure that your offspring get your toys.
You are most definitely on the road to cynicism. At least that's what most people call it. I would call it realism. Anything that interferes with the mindless circle jerk in front of the boob tube is bad, in America.
Uhhh - the monopoly business doesn't bother me so much, as the unfair trade practices. There are many that MS has engaged in, but the single worst thing they ever did, was to demand exclusive contracts with vendors.
Totally wrong. And, it should have been punished severely. Not only Linux, but other OS's would be light years ahead of where they are today, if the vendors had been permitted to build custom and/or "standard" machines with alternative OS's all along.
Even today, it's a bit difficult to navigate Dell's site, to find the machine that you REALLY want, without Windows. That's just wrong, wrong, wrong. All of the possible configurations, and all the possible OS's should be easy to find with a simple search. Very simple search. "No OS Thinkpad" should take me right to the window where I can customize it - I shouldn't have to make multiple searches in the enterprise/business section.
Uhhhh - as I recall, that cube didn't come from Ubuntu. I believe that it came from a couple different teams. I'd have to check into the history to give everyone credit, but it's known as Compiz now. Ubuntu merely implemented Compiz, just as Suse and others have done.
In case you hadn't noticed, Commerce rides on the backs of the little people who supply manpower, and consume the products of commerce.
Of course, commerce has long ago forgotten that the very concept of commerce is a bargain between the wealthy and the not-so-wealthy, that everyone should benefit from commercial arrangements.
A business license is a license from the people, permitting a person or group of persons to conduct business in such a way that the community benefits. When the community no longer benefits, then the community may revoke the license.
IMHO - society isn't deriving much benefit from copyright and patent law these days. Commercial interests want to hoard all the benefits, and force society to pay over and over for any small benefits that commerce might dispense.
Dammit. I used to think that I liked you. Now I hate you. Why? Because you are right, of course. You're perfectly right. It matters not that as much as 99% of the population opposes a measure - if the government wants it, they will find some sneaky, underhanded way to ram it down our throats. Failing that, they'll ram it up our asses - it makes little difference to them.
Ehhh - I don't hate you - I just hate your message for being so damned right.
"Attention: your audience isn't a bunch of third-graders"
No shit, Sherlock. We know that some of you are fourth graders, who feel so superior to the little 3rd graders.
Personally, I thought the title fell just short of "cute". Someone making an unapologetic attempt at some juvenile humor. Refreshing. Not quite cute, but almost there.
Now, stop whining. A little originality and thinking outside the box are always welcome here.
The real problem with this whole "anti counterfeiting" thing is, the common man, the "little people" have no voice. Yeah, the talks are more transparent than they were a year or six ago - they've lost their "top secret" status. But, who is speaking for the PEOPLE? Absolutely no one.
Which songs are entering the public domain, this year?
Which movies are entering the public domain this year?
Which patents are entering the public domain?
Which copyright and/or patent laws are being made less restrictive this year?
When I hear that some party to these talks are actively pursuing the overhaul of copyright law, THEN I'll feel that some good may come of ACTA. Until then, I view ACTA as little more than a highway to hell. If one party wins out, we go to Satan's throne room, if another party wins out, we end up in the far reaches of Satan's kingdom. But, it's still hell.
I want 20 year old copyrighted works in the public domain, unless the so-called "rights holder" is willing to pay some HUGE bribes to society. Not to a handful of lawmakers, but to society as a whole. Give something to us "little people", in exchange for a continued monopoly on some specific copyrighted work. God knows, that bastard Al Gore doesn't need anything, or Obama, or anyone else in Washington. Give something to the school kids, and the moms and dads who have to pay for all the cool schitzls that the school kids need/want.
Actually, if I were masterminding a secret criminal organization, I would look to TOR or I2P for "secure" communications channels. An off-the-shelf installation of TOR might not be good, but some modifications could make it useful. And, I2P may work right now, with default installation. All you would need to do, is set up some mailing addresses for the people you need to communicate with.
Hell, encrypted IRC might be better than the social networking tools you mention. Set up a server, and send the addresses to the poeple you need to communicate with. No one gets on the server without an invitation, and no one can log on unless his connection is secure and encrypted.
No plan is foolproof, and my ideas are subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, but they seem a whole lot better than readily accessible media that anyone in the public can see.
""The US said it is sure that most criminals (insert who use ICQ) use ICQ"
There. The sentence still doesn't make a lot sense, but I've fixed it as well as I know how. And, I agree that "most criminals" certainly don't use ICQ. Half the criminals that I know aren't even SMART enough to use ICQ without an IT guy to hold their freaking hands.
Yeah, someone is going to point out that some very intelligent people happen to be criminals - but I'll just remind them that a lot of people become criminals because they are smart enough to make an honest living. And, the dummies far outnumber the smart but dishonest and/or lazy bastards that the US intelligence community might be interested in.
"Quite narcissistic"
I don't think that word means exactly what you think it means. Whether you understand the word properly or not, I think that Keeboo has you pegged.
What a revealing commment.
You should meet some REAL homophobes. These people give meaning to the silly term you throw around.
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Yeah - FF does get rather bogged down from time to time. I'll admit though, for myself, I suspect a lot of that bogging is due to the user scripts I have installed. I play an online game, and one of my scripts does my scouting for me. During a long scouting run, that and all other Firefox windows get so sluggish, I'm just waiting for it to all come crashing down.
The scripts have been updated recently, and the bog isn't so bad now - but it's still there.
People who don't install bandwidth and memory hog scripts may never notice this problem.