Ehh, I'm slipping. One of my sons bitched not long ago, because the store didn't want to sell him the cold medicine he wanted. Yeah, I should have realized.
The wife does almost all the shopping, I suppose that she has her name in that database. I'm just out of touch, I guess.
Quick reminder. The real reason the court isn't packed with either liberal or conservative, or either Democrat or Republican judges, is the method by which they are appointed.
If the day comes that one party or the other controls the government for twenty years or more, then that party WILL pack the court.
I seem to hear a pitch for Intellectual Property here.
Sure, they are subsidizing less popular drugs. And, that justifies fleecing us for popular and/or necessary drugs? Huh, wut?
Sorry, I can't generate much sympathy for corporations that invest a few millions, claim to have invested hundreds of millions, and expect to reap profits in the billions. The only industry that is seedier than big pharmaceuticals are the agros like Monsanto. Oh wait - there really is only one company like Monsanto, isn't there?
I take it that you're serious. Where do you have to show ID for over the counter cold medications?
The only time that I can recall showing ID when picking up a prescription, was for some feminine stuff the wife needed. Can't remember what it was now, but it was a controlled substance, script was written for a female, and I'm obviously not female. Pharmacist asked for my ID, then when he walked behind his little hidey-wall, he called the wife to verify that I was her husband.
Once in my life, did I have to show ID.
"Over the counter" means "over the counter" - nothing needed except cold cash.
You seem to be looking at one characteristic, size, and ruling out any possibility of the dogs breeding.
You could take a smallish border collie, breed into the chihuahua, breed into mastiff - then breed the two litters together. We'll end up with some small mastiff looking dogs, and some large chihuahua looking dogs, but mostly average sized border collie looking dogs. I'm oversimplfying, of course, but the point is, the two breeds you've named are the same species. Each species can interbreed with any number of a third species, with ease.
I count myself among the ranks of the "scofflaws" that you refer to. Funny thing is - I'm an authoritarian. If/when I consider you to be a legitimate authority, and to actually have the authority to give me orders, there is little that I won't do for you.
Overstep your authority one iota, and I'm suddenly your worst nightmare.
And, that is the case we see with copyright and patent law. Corporations are grabbing power, using it in place of authority, and robbing the public. Government is in collusion with those corporations, passing laws and writing treaties that they have no authority to write.
Key words in your post are "legitimate authority".
While I'm less sympathetic toward Swartz than some others here - he IS a martyr. He didn't go about it in quite the proper way, but he is a martyr, just the same.
For every Rosa Parks, there are thousands of raped victims that no one ever pays attention to. Without those thousands of victims, Rosa would have been just an uppity old N****r broad, who didn't know her place. BECAUSE OF those victims, Ms Rosa Parks earned her place in history.
Lest anyone misunderstand - my aim is NOT to detract from what Rosa did.
Aaron did some pretty damned good things, and he was awesome in his own way, but obviously he didn't have that something special that gave Rosa her strength. I, for one, won't kick the guy for failing to be great. Or, failing to be as great as an historical figure like Ms Parks.
Oh good grief. Why do you hold Manning up beside Swartz? I'm sympathetic toward Swartz. The man was guilty of little, if anything. Manning is guilty of a whole list of crimes, that in another age would have meant his execution. Probably a very painful and lingering execution. Swartz was a civilian, Manning a soldier. Vastly different worlds. Swartz acted honorably. Manning dishonored himself and his uniform.
The article is about Swartz. Don't drag Manning into discussions about Swartz, please.
Can't tell from the news that anyone works there. It looks more like a private club, with a bunch of bozos sitting around, hoping for their big opportunity. Justice? Who has time for justice?
I had never heard that story. It's such a miscarriage of justice - I don't have any idea how the prosecutor can possibly go to sleep at night. The story doesn't mention the race or color of either the victims or the driver - but in Georgia, I might make an educated guess.
The way I learned it, the pedestrian always has the right of way. I was 19 years old the first time I ever heard the term "jay walking". Unless the mother physically picked the child up, and threw him in front of the car, blaming the kid's death on her is grossly wrong. And, obviously nothing like that happened here. They're railroading her on a technicality.
And, I've already made it pretty clear that the policy sucks. It does not accomplish what it was meant to accomplish. Others have posted links to studies that either show no energy savings, or minimal savings, overall.
And, it might be appropriate to point out that 2/3 or more of the population of the US has been "indoctrinated" to accept the idea. I was around before daylight savings. But, I'm getting old now. If you're not at least fifty years old, you've grown up with DLS, and just assume that it must be good, or right, or "the thing to do".
My opinion is, daylight savings time is petty, and stupid. Totally unnecessary. If an individual business sees the merit for changing their work hours to save on heating costs - fine, let them change. I'm not to worried about my work hours matching school hours - they never have!
Arbitrary points, of course. Very much like DST already is. Except - it's VOLUNTARY. The students and the parents in the school district have input, and we decide together if it's worth the effort.
I always look both ways, to make sure that some fool isn't coming at me 50 mph. I've seen it happen, and there are videos on Youtube. The most recent video I watched, was a guy on a motorcycle running a red light. He went over the car, did a flip, and landed on his feet, looked around for a couple seconds wondering what happened, then collapsed on his broken leg.
Had that motorcycle been a two ton truck instead, the driver who pulled into the intersection without looking would probably have died.
It's optional and voluntary, as opposed to being mandated by government. Besides - you mentioned "shift". I work third shift. It matters not one iota to me where the sun is when I wake up, or lay down. It matters just a little on the drive home, because in the spring and fall, the sun is in my eyes for part of the drive. And, it matters not at all where the sun is while I'm at work. Only when I step outside for a smoke do I see whether there is a moon and stars, or it's dark, dark, dark. Time changes mean nothing to a shift worker, except he loses or gains an hour of sleep when the time change occurs.
Let's say that I run a school district. Let's say that I believe that children should leave their homes while there is daylight, and they should arrive back at home while there is daylight. What's the SIMPLEST thing I can do?
Schedule school hours to begin 1/2 hour after the sun rises, and to end not later than 1/2 hour before the sun sets. As the days grow longer or shorter, I can adjust the beginning of classes accordingly.
DERP A DERP!!
The same idea applies to businesses, of course. As summer approaches, I might schedule my workforce to come in earlier, and as the winter approaches, I can schedule them to come in later to take advantage of daylight.
People who work outdoors just don't care very much about what the clock says. They'll generally start working at daylight, and work for x number of hours, or if necessary, work til dusk.
Kill a man. Or a woman, I'm not prejudiced here. Kill someone. Get caught, go to trial, get convicted. You'll likely do about five years in prison. Five years, for a life.
Alternatively, go poking around an AT&T server. Request some data. If the data comes back to you, tell people about it. Get caught, go to trial, get convicted. You go to prison for four years, plus pay AT&T a couple year's wages.
Group think asks - why is a little bit of data as valuable as a person's life?
WHY IS OFFENDING A CORPORATION PUNISHED AS SEVERELY AS COMMITTING A MURDER?!?!?!
Nothing was damaged, broken, destroyed, or killed. A company's reputation may have been slightly tarnished. I might understand this sentence had AT&T's investors lost many billions of dollars. I WOULD understand the sentence had the "perp" profited by millions or billions of dollars. But, that is not the case here. AT&T took offense over something that should not have been offensive.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it does. Economic terrorism is the worst kind of terrorism! Everyday terrorists only kill a few dozen or a few hundred people. The rare terrorist manages to kill a few thousand people. And economic terrorist might actually cause the demise of a CORPORATIONG!!
Obviously racist. Obviously. Poor fool - when you hear two "niggas" calling each other "nigga", you assume that they are racists? ROFLMAO I'm obviously a racist, you poor thin-skinned fool . . . .
"Windows Phone has a 16.3% market share in Poland, one of the highest in the world"
Do you realize WHO is in Poland? My distant cousins, that's who. The descendants of those who couldn't find their way to the docks, for passage to the United States. The duller tools in the shed.
So - WP has a 16% share in POLAND? Not 60%, but 16%. In POLAND. Meaning, 84% of my dumbest distant cousins prefer something else over WP. Only the very dumbest of the dumbest cousins actually use WP.
Go ahead and spin that any way you like, but Microsoft has to search long and hard to find a double digit market share.
And, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of that 16% share is in government phones. Like any other place in the world, the dumbest sumbitches always get a law degree, then go into politics. Those are just the kind of people who are going to buy WP8.
Uhhhh - decent answers. No need to ASSume that I don't do real work, or that I'm a fool. You're showing your ass with that bit. You'll notice that I ASKED what you are doing, without jumping to conclusions. I was more or less expecting you to ignore me, or to admit that "Yes, I'm browsing the web, but it's a different environment blah blah blah". But, I didn't just ASSume that you're that stupid . . .
"Most people cannot even read 3.5" floppies any more."
That should be, "Most people can't be bothered to mess with a 3.5" floppy any more."
The technology to read the data on those floppies is readily available. Hell, for a small fee, I can send you an external floppy drive to plug into your computer. Don't worry - if you run any operating system that either used floppies, or has been developed since floppies came into style, your operating system will read them.
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Ehh, I'm slipping. One of my sons bitched not long ago, because the store didn't want to sell him the cold medicine he wanted. Yeah, I should have realized.
The wife does almost all the shopping, I suppose that she has her name in that database. I'm just out of touch, I guess.
Quick reminder. The real reason the court isn't packed with either liberal or conservative, or either Democrat or Republican judges, is the method by which they are appointed.
If the day comes that one party or the other controls the government for twenty years or more, then that party WILL pack the court.
I seem to hear a pitch for Intellectual Property here.
Sure, they are subsidizing less popular drugs. And, that justifies fleecing us for popular and/or necessary drugs? Huh, wut?
Sorry, I can't generate much sympathy for corporations that invest a few millions, claim to have invested hundreds of millions, and expect to reap profits in the billions. The only industry that is seedier than big pharmaceuticals are the agros like Monsanto. Oh wait - there really is only one company like Monsanto, isn't there?
I take it that you're serious. Where do you have to show ID for over the counter cold medications?
The only time that I can recall showing ID when picking up a prescription, was for some feminine stuff the wife needed. Can't remember what it was now, but it was a controlled substance, script was written for a female, and I'm obviously not female. Pharmacist asked for my ID, then when he walked behind his little hidey-wall, he called the wife to verify that I was her husband.
Once in my life, did I have to show ID.
"Over the counter" means "over the counter" - nothing needed except cold cash.
You seem to be looking at one characteristic, size, and ruling out any possibility of the dogs breeding.
You could take a smallish border collie, breed into the chihuahua, breed into mastiff - then breed the two litters together. We'll end up with some small mastiff looking dogs, and some large chihuahua looking dogs, but mostly average sized border collie looking dogs. I'm oversimplfying, of course, but the point is, the two breeds you've named are the same species. Each species can interbreed with any number of a third species, with ease.
Supposing that your first statement is more or less true - one doesn't redeem a dishonored uniform by heaping more dishonor on it.
Manning dishonored himself, and his uniform.
I count myself among the ranks of the "scofflaws" that you refer to. Funny thing is - I'm an authoritarian. If/when I consider you to be a legitimate authority, and to actually have the authority to give me orders, there is little that I won't do for you.
Overstep your authority one iota, and I'm suddenly your worst nightmare.
And, that is the case we see with copyright and patent law. Corporations are grabbing power, using it in place of authority, and robbing the public. Government is in collusion with those corporations, passing laws and writing treaties that they have no authority to write.
Key words in your post are "legitimate authority".
While I'm less sympathetic toward Swartz than some others here - he IS a martyr. He didn't go about it in quite the proper way, but he is a martyr, just the same.
A touch of honesty is due here.
For every Rosa Parks, there are thousands of raped victims that no one ever pays attention to. Without those thousands of victims, Rosa would have been just an uppity old N****r broad, who didn't know her place. BECAUSE OF those victims, Ms Rosa Parks earned her place in history.
Lest anyone misunderstand - my aim is NOT to detract from what Rosa did.
Aaron did some pretty damned good things, and he was awesome in his own way, but obviously he didn't have that something special that gave Rosa her strength. I, for one, won't kick the guy for failing to be great. Or, failing to be as great as an historical figure like Ms Parks.
Oh good grief. Why do you hold Manning up beside Swartz? I'm sympathetic toward Swartz. The man was guilty of little, if anything. Manning is guilty of a whole list of crimes, that in another age would have meant his execution. Probably a very painful and lingering execution. Swartz was a civilian, Manning a soldier. Vastly different worlds. Swartz acted honorably. Manning dishonored himself and his uniform.
The article is about Swartz. Don't drag Manning into discussions about Swartz, please.
Can't tell from the news that anyone works there. It looks more like a private club, with a bunch of bozos sitting around, hoping for their big opportunity. Justice? Who has time for justice?
I had never heard that story. It's such a miscarriage of justice - I don't have any idea how the prosecutor can possibly go to sleep at night. The story doesn't mention the race or color of either the victims or the driver - but in Georgia, I might make an educated guess.
Well, half the guessing is right at least - http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/07/26/raquel-nelson-granted-option-of-new-trial/ That story is an update, two weeks later. I'm curious, gonna look some more . . .
http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/04/17/raquel-nelson-back-in-court-with-high-profile-lawyer-at-her-defense/ That story almost makes it look like the prosecution had a change of heart.
In September, the prosecutor is still going though: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/09/11/georgia-prosecutor-continues-case-against-raquel-nelson/
The way I learned it, the pedestrian always has the right of way. I was 19 years old the first time I ever heard the term "jay walking". Unless the mother physically picked the child up, and threw him in front of the car, blaming the kid's death on her is grossly wrong. And, obviously nothing like that happened here. They're railroading her on a technicality.
BINGO! We have a winner!
And, I've already made it pretty clear that the policy sucks. It does not accomplish what it was meant to accomplish. Others have posted links to studies that either show no energy savings, or minimal savings, overall.
And, it might be appropriate to point out that 2/3 or more of the population of the US has been "indoctrinated" to accept the idea. I was around before daylight savings. But, I'm getting old now. If you're not at least fifty years old, you've grown up with DLS, and just assume that it must be good, or right, or "the thing to do".
My opinion is, daylight savings time is petty, and stupid. Totally unnecessary. If an individual business sees the merit for changing their work hours to save on heating costs - fine, let them change. I'm not to worried about my work hours matching school hours - they never have!
Arbitrary points, of course. Very much like DST already is. Except - it's VOLUNTARY. The students and the parents in the school district have input, and we decide together if it's worth the effort.
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I always look both ways, to make sure that some fool isn't coming at me 50 mph. I've seen it happen, and there are videos on Youtube. The most recent video I watched, was a guy on a motorcycle running a red light. He went over the car, did a flip, and landed on his feet, looked around for a couple seconds wondering what happened, then collapsed on his broken leg.
Had that motorcycle been a two ton truck instead, the driver who pulled into the intersection without looking would probably have died.
It's optional and voluntary, as opposed to being mandated by government. Besides - you mentioned "shift". I work third shift. It matters not one iota to me where the sun is when I wake up, or lay down. It matters just a little on the drive home, because in the spring and fall, the sun is in my eyes for part of the drive. And, it matters not at all where the sun is while I'm at work. Only when I step outside for a smoke do I see whether there is a moon and stars, or it's dark, dark, dark. Time changes mean nothing to a shift worker, except he loses or gains an hour of sleep when the time change occurs.
The entire theory is asinine.
Let's say that I run a school district. Let's say that I believe that children should leave their homes while there is daylight, and they should arrive back at home while there is daylight. What's the SIMPLEST thing I can do?
Schedule school hours to begin 1/2 hour after the sun rises, and to end not later than 1/2 hour before the sun sets. As the days grow longer or shorter, I can adjust the beginning of classes accordingly.
DERP A DERP!!
The same idea applies to businesses, of course. As summer approaches, I might schedule my workforce to come in earlier, and as the winter approaches, I can schedule them to come in later to take advantage of daylight.
People who work outdoors just don't care very much about what the clock says. They'll generally start working at daylight, and work for x number of hours, or if necessary, work til dusk.
Group think. Here's a little group think for you.
Kill a man. Or a woman, I'm not prejudiced here. Kill someone. Get caught, go to trial, get convicted. You'll likely do about five years in prison. Five years, for a life.
Alternatively, go poking around an AT&T server. Request some data. If the data comes back to you, tell people about it. Get caught, go to trial, get convicted. You go to prison for four years, plus pay AT&T a couple year's wages.
Group think asks - why is a little bit of data as valuable as a person's life?
WHY IS OFFENDING A CORPORATION PUNISHED AS SEVERELY AS COMMITTING A MURDER?!?!?!
Nothing was damaged, broken, destroyed, or killed. A company's reputation may have been slightly tarnished. I might understand this sentence had AT&T's investors lost many billions of dollars. I WOULD understand the sentence had the "perp" profited by millions or billions of dollars. But, that is not the case here. AT&T took offense over something that should not have been offensive.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it does. Economic terrorism is the worst kind of terrorism! Everyday terrorists only kill a few dozen or a few hundred people. The rare terrorist manages to kill a few thousand people. And economic terrorist might actually cause the demise of a CORPORATIONG!!
I think it was a double dog dare, so they couldn't just say "no".
8 inch floppy? All the Trash-80's that I ever messed with had 5 inch floppies. You lost me on that one . . .
Obviously racist. Obviously. Poor fool - when you hear two "niggas" calling each other "nigga", you assume that they are racists? ROFLMAO I'm obviously a racist, you poor thin-skinned fool . . . .
"Windows Phone has a 16.3% market share in Poland, one of the highest in the world"
Do you realize WHO is in Poland? My distant cousins, that's who. The descendants of those who couldn't find their way to the docks, for passage to the United States. The duller tools in the shed.
So - WP has a 16% share in POLAND? Not 60%, but 16%. In POLAND. Meaning, 84% of my dumbest distant cousins prefer something else over WP. Only the very dumbest of the dumbest cousins actually use WP.
Go ahead and spin that any way you like, but Microsoft has to search long and hard to find a double digit market share.
And, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of that 16% share is in government phones. Like any other place in the world, the dumbest sumbitches always get a law degree, then go into politics. Those are just the kind of people who are going to buy WP8.
Uhhhh - decent answers. No need to ASSume that I don't do real work, or that I'm a fool. You're showing your ass with that bit. You'll notice that I ASKED what you are doing, without jumping to conclusions. I was more or less expecting you to ignore me, or to admit that "Yes, I'm browsing the web, but it's a different environment blah blah blah". But, I didn't just ASSume that you're that stupid . . .
"Most people cannot even read 3.5" floppies any more."
That should be, "Most people can't be bothered to mess with a 3.5" floppy any more."
The technology to read the data on those floppies is readily available. Hell, for a small fee, I can send you an external floppy drive to plug into your computer. Don't worry - if you run any operating system that either used floppies, or has been developed since floppies came into style, your operating system will read them.