My guess would be Davenport, IA - Bettendorf, IA - Moline, IL - Rock Island, IL. Between the four cities (and East Moline, IL which is sometimes included and they are then called the quint-cites) and the surrounding hamlets, there are about 500,000 people in the "Quad Cities".
The Arsenal Island, a island in the middle of the Mississippi River, sits in the middle of the four. The Arsenal Island is a moderately large military complex that primarily manufactures arms. Legend tells that is was ranked 25th on the Soviet strike list during a certain point of the Cold War. (Legend also tells that that there is an extensive undergound bunker that under the Mississipi which extends for miles.) Jerry Lewis visited Moline, IL once and had some rather nasty things to say about it. In my experience, people from the "QC" have all of the rudeness of the rudest New Yorker while having all the the close-minded, limited worldview you stereotype mid-westerners as having. The worst of the farm belt and the big city all in one place.
On the up side, there is a strong local art and theatre scene there.
And you will suffer for your attempts to hold on to your friends and family.
This is Buddhism 101.
Life is transitory. Time ends everything and everyone. Everyone you love will die. It is inevitable. There is nothing you can do to stop it.
Your emotional attachment to the transitory things of this world are the source of your suffering. The only way to escape suffering is to cease to have attachments.
So your parents have enough wealth to have a dream home with a wilderness surrounding and only one neighbour. They share what sounds like a square mile of wilderness with only a couple of other people. Do we understand you correctly?
I bet they have a well and a septic tank and not municipal sewer and water from the water company as well. Right?
They understood that most utilities would not be running lines out into their dream home/wilderness retreat, right?
They have wealth and privacy far beyond that of most people on the planet. Do you agree with me on this point or did I miss something here?
And your stance is that we should feel bad for them because they don't have high speed internet access?
I feel like I am repeating someone else's comment but just let me say that you are an idiot. Seriously. You'd have to work harder to even be considered a worthy troll on FARK, much less here.
My goddess! You are so uninformed. Citation please?
NFL had an exclusive contract with DISH for years. You couldn't get it on cable at all (NFL Gameday or something - I am not sure as I don't watch sports).
What major college and pro sports teams had exclusive contract with which cable companies?
Oh, you mean they had contract with the TV networks, the channels themselves, that are on both cable and satellite? The same TV networks that mostly owned by one of seven media conglomerates? The same media conglomerates that own 90% of TV networks and prevent a-la-cart cable by throwing their weight around and preventing the cable and sat companies from offering a-la-cart with their contracts that the cable/sat company can either sign or have no networks at all?
I see. So, when pro/college sports make shitty deals with Viacom or Sony you blame Comcast or Cox.
When your cat pisses on the floor, do you beat your dog?
I watch documentaries and foreign films. I did a comparison (searching for favorite titles) and could not find what I wanted on Blockbuster but they were available on Netflix.
If Blockbuster would carry long-tail title, they might get my business. In the meantime, Netflix is the only way for me to see the films I want to see. No brick and mortar store rents them in my area (read: anywhere in Iowa) and Blockbuster doesn't even have them with the shipped disk method.
No flaming, but it would seem that you and I would both likely concede that the "real world" will pick that with which it is familiar, not that which is the right tool for the job.
Until the right tools are being chosen and not the familiar one, the flaming is actually valid criticism of people that only know hammers thinking and therefore seeing all problems as nails.
Consider this a retaliatory flame to your pre-emptive flame against flames.
If you had 18 fingers, six on each of three hands, dividing by 3, 6 and 18 would be trivial for you.
As you have 10 fingers, five on each of two hands, dividing by 2, 5 and 10 is trivial for you.
It is not that dividing by 10 is any harder or easier than dividing by 18, but as an animal with 10 digits that evolved counting with those digits, you find a base 10 number system familiar and dividing by the base of that number system is easy for you.
Dividing by 10 is not just inherently easy, just easy for humans spending a lifetime working in decimal.
Reading LISP is hard for you because you have been trained in a different standard syntax common to most other programming languages. LISP was one of the first languages I learned and I find its syntax far more readable than that of "normal" languages.
(+ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) is much more obvious to me than 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10.
I know I am adding, why do I need to show that operator 10 times when one operator will do?
</LISP RANT>
If you want to dismantle the military-industrial-complex, you do not start by validating is existence by behaving in a violent and short sighted manner.
"Look at the violent, poor youth in the UK! Rioting. Looting. Please, jackbooted thugs, please protect us!"
These reckless youths have the middle class begging for a more authoritarian police state. BEGGING FOR IT!!
The first things that the revolutionaries need to do is to stop behaving in immoral ways. All their violent, destructive behaviour does is to legitimise the police state they seek to illegitimise.
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Pardon me, '98 and '94.
Google was 1997 and Lycos was 1994. Mod parent down.
My guess would be Davenport, IA - Bettendorf, IA - Moline, IL - Rock Island, IL. Between the four cities (and East Moline, IL which is sometimes included and they are then called the quint-cites) and the surrounding hamlets, there are about 500,000 people in the "Quad Cities".
The Arsenal Island, a island in the middle of the Mississippi River, sits in the middle of the four. The Arsenal Island is a moderately large military complex that primarily manufactures arms. Legend tells that is was ranked 25th on the Soviet strike list during a certain point of the Cold War. (Legend also tells that that there is an extensive undergound bunker that under the Mississipi which extends for miles.) Jerry Lewis visited Moline, IL once and had some rather nasty things to say about it. In my experience, people from the "QC" have all of the rudeness of the rudest New Yorker while having all the the close-minded, limited worldview you stereotype mid-westerners as having. The worst of the farm belt and the big city all in one place.
On the up side, there is a strong local art and theatre scene there.
Arrow IN the knee, not "to the knee". Details, people, DETAILS!
MOD PARENT UP!
Electronic Arts at its finest. The Bard's Tale was EA as well.
You can also do that with "about:config" on firefox. No plug-in required.
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns - set it to TRUE
Bad analogy.
You should switch because you can do more.
It is like asking why you would switch to flying instead of just walking.
Maybe you are just going to the store for milk. Maybe flying isn't for you.
But sometimes, flying is the BEST way to go.
And you will suffer for your attempts to hold on to your friends and family.
This is Buddhism 101.
Life is transitory. Time ends everything and everyone. Everyone you love will die. It is inevitable. There is nothing you can do to stop it.
Your emotional attachment to the transitory things of this world are the source of your suffering. The only way to escape suffering is to cease to have attachments.
Don't you know other people mock Gentoo?
Sure, it works well for chumps like Facebook and the the NY Stock Exchange, but no one is using it for serious . . . um, wait . . . nevermind.
So your parents have enough wealth to have a dream home with a wilderness surrounding and only one neighbour. They share what sounds like a square mile of wilderness with only a couple of other people. Do we understand you correctly?
I bet they have a well and a septic tank and not municipal sewer and water from the water company as well. Right?
They understood that most utilities would not be running lines out into their dream home/wilderness retreat, right?
They have wealth and privacy far beyond that of most people on the planet. Do you agree with me on this point or did I miss something here?
And your stance is that we should feel bad for them because they don't have high speed internet access?
I feel like I am repeating someone else's comment but just let me say that you are an idiot. Seriously. You'd have to work harder to even be considered a worthy troll on FARK, much less here.
The polar bears have asked me to point out that the USA and Canada have set up illegal permanent settlements in sovereign polar bear lands.
The polar bears also asked me to point out that humans taste good and deserve to be eaten by said polar bears.
That is all . . . for now.
My goddess! You are so uninformed. Citation please?
NFL had an exclusive contract with DISH for years. You couldn't get it on cable at all (NFL Gameday or something - I am not sure as I don't watch sports).
What major college and pro sports teams had exclusive contract with which cable companies?
Oh, you mean they had contract with the TV networks, the channels themselves, that are on both cable and satellite? The same TV networks that mostly owned by one of seven media conglomerates? The same media conglomerates that own 90% of TV networks and prevent a-la-cart cable by throwing their weight around and preventing the cable and sat companies from offering a-la-cart with their contracts that the cable/sat company can either sign or have no networks at all?
I see. So, when pro/college sports make shitty deals with Viacom or Sony you blame Comcast or Cox.
When your cat pisses on the floor, do you beat your dog?
"Fuck", "cunt", "cock" and "prolapsed asshole" are not censorship fodder on slashdot. Nor is "nipple".
Unless you are an AC. I fucking hate ACs.
All the worlds a game, and the men and women merely players.
Barbara is a big fan of personal attacks and insults. This is her rationalizing her behaviour so she doesn't feel so guilty about the evil she does.
And it is also too short to list the names of the hobos that have boned your mother, but the hobos and your mom were happy, so why are you hating?
I think his new book is out today, anyway.
I got my hands on an pre-release reader copy and I love it. It reminds me of 'Crytponomicon' in many respects.
Richard M. Stallman is a fucking ROCKSTAR! Would you please get off his dick?
I watch documentaries and foreign films. I did a comparison (searching for favorite titles) and could not find what I wanted on Blockbuster but they were available on Netflix.
If Blockbuster would carry long-tail title, they might get my business. In the meantime, Netflix is the only way for me to see the films I want to see. No brick and mortar store rents them in my area (read: anywhere in Iowa) and Blockbuster doesn't even have them with the shipped disk method.
No flaming, but it would seem that you and I would both likely concede that the "real world" will pick that with which it is familiar, not that which is the right tool for the job.
Until the right tools are being chosen and not the familiar one, the flaming is actually valid criticism of people that only know hammers thinking and therefore seeing all problems as nails.
Consider this a retaliatory flame to your pre-emptive flame against flames.
Isn't it possible this lawyer is a consummate actor and not actually a compassionate, unselfish person?
Or true but a statistical outlier?
elrous0!!!! Hey!!! You!!! STOP RESPONDING TO THE ACs!!!!!!!
Pretty please?
Your first post is being modded up as I type this. You are not losing respect from us when the ACs flame you.
Hell, you are not even losing respect when you respond to the ACs. But you still shouldn't do it . . .
I will take this as an opportunity to demonstrate restraint and ask you politely to show some respect for LISP.
Parentheses and white spaces alone do make some magically readable code once you become accustomed to it.
It is only harder for you.
If you had 18 fingers, six on each of three hands, dividing by 3, 6 and 18 would be trivial for you.
As you have 10 fingers, five on each of two hands, dividing by 2, 5 and 10 is trivial for you.
It is not that dividing by 10 is any harder or easier than dividing by 18, but as an animal with 10 digits that evolved counting with those digits, you find a base 10 number system familiar and dividing by the base of that number system is easy for you.
Dividing by 10 is not just inherently easy, just easy for humans spending a lifetime working in decimal.
Reading LISP is hard for you because you have been trained in a different standard syntax common to most other programming languages. LISP was one of the first languages I learned and I find its syntax far more readable than that of "normal" languages.
(+ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) is much more obvious to me than 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10.
I know I am adding, why do I need to show that operator 10 times when one operator will do?
</LISP RANT>
Violence begets violence.
If you want to dismantle the military-industrial-complex, you do not start by validating is existence by behaving in a violent and short sighted manner.
"Look at the violent, poor youth in the UK! Rioting. Looting. Please, jackbooted thugs, please protect us!"
These reckless youths have the middle class begging for a more authoritarian police state. BEGGING FOR IT!!
The first things that the revolutionaries need to do is to stop behaving in immoral ways. All their violent, destructive behaviour does is to legitimise the police state they seek to illegitimise.