No you're gullible. You believe liberals represent "more individual freedom" when they actually represent the exact opposite of that (more government regulation of you).
You would get exactly the same "feel" as you get with an old C=64 or Atari or Amiga machine. If your goal is to get down to the bare metal, then go ahead and do so. There's no need to dust-off old machines that are on the verge of death (from age).
>>>What? The political terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' were in use far before that -- the actual origin of the term is from the late 1700s in response to the French Revolution.
But no longer means the same thing. The people who used to be conservative (pro-monarchy and/or big government) absconded the word liberal for themselves. At least that was the case here in the States. Now a liberal no longer represents the small government ideal of the 1700s.
You can not apply old terms to modern post-1930s American politics. The words, like words in the novel 1984, were redefined.
I think he meant McCain was "statist" by interfering with private affairs where teh government has no business.
For example: If a woman owns her body, and has the right to kill the human fetus growing inside her, than I too own my body and have the right to decide whether or not to insure it. But McCain was in favor of taking away that right - QED a statist. Also unconstitutional.
>>>Which is why the right is truly conservative: they like old ideas, good and bad.
It was the right/conservatives that freed the slaves dipshit. They were protecting the 1776 ideal of "equality for all" that was the original intent, even while the leftists in the South tried to convince everyone that blacks were things, not people. And even after the war, the leftist/liberals in the Democrat party invented all kinds of grand ideas like segregation and the KKK. Even as recently as the 60s Senator Byrd was saying, "I would sooner die than see unification of coloreds in the army."
Yeah I really want to join that party. They have such an esteemed history. From 1820s to 1970s they had one lousy idea after another.
Almost 0%. I've visited a LOT of hotels that had CNN but neither FOX nor MSNBC. And I've visited zero hotels that had only FOX but not the other two. So your presumption of an exclusive arrangement is null.
And even if it were true, it would have Zero impact on the Nielsen Ratings since they only monitor residential homes not businesses. FOX is number one because a lot of private households watch it. The end.
We call ourselves a "democracy" even though we're nothing of the sort (you don't vote up or down on every law passed). It is a generalized term. Same when people speak of a free market - their intended meaning is 90-99% free not 100%. i.e. People are free to make their own choices in a deregulated market, but it's still illegal for a company like Ford to go-round murdering its customers (either intentionally or accidentally via faulty engineering).
>>>Troll64 admits that they fully intended to not buy health insurance until after they needed it.
False; can't you understand simple english? Quote: "I would buy insurance for the very young..... and when I reach a certain age, say 60, then I will buy insurance." i.e. For the sick young and old persons, not the healthy 20-60 years old that almost never get sick.
Funny? I would expect it to be just the opposite - society is more accepting of male-male or female-female partnerships.
And where I went to college, people just stripped naked and took 2 steps into the shower. Then they got back out again, towel dried while fully nude, and eventually headed back to their room.
Since I lived in a coed hall, I always made sure to wear more than just a towel. Usually shorts and a t-shirt, minimum.
Such things did not exist in my middle or high school during the 80s. Even the smart girls tended to go after the popular jock or outgoing types, so us nerds didn't stand a chance.
>>>I'm contending he knew the difference between idea and expression.
Which is why he said (about transmission of ideas, books, music, inventions, etc): "Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine... That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Jefferson
Seriously. Can't you comprehend simple 1700s English?
I think it's stupid. If pedestrians are too stupid to LOOK before they cross a street (instead relying the car's engine as warning), then they deserve to get run over. It's just the same as Caveman Ugh not looking left-then-right-then-left prior to crossing a buffalo path, and then getting trampled. Eyes are in your head for a reason. LOOK for the quiet priuses and electric cars.
Mass drivers as shown in Babylon 5 would actually be cheaper & just as effective. Just grab a couple asteroids from the local solar system, then send them towards the planet to wipe-out the large-sized smurfs.
Plus you wouldn't have any nasty radiation to clean up.
>>>the value doesn't depreciate. It's still $150,000.
False. $150,000 cash in 2010 will buy you a medium-sized house (or a new Ferrari). $150,000 cash in 2020 will only buy one-half a house or ferrari. What changed? The paper lost value. Put another way:
When my grandfather was my age (in the 1920s) a nice wool suit only cost $12. Today a wool suit costs around $400. Again: It's not the suit that changed - a wool suit is a wool suit. It's the paper that lost value.
Paper money depreciates over time, due to banks doubling, tripling, quadrupling the paper supply.
Not if you have a plan with Virgin Mobile (like I do) which only charges you when you make a call (18 cents per minute). And while you're correct restaurants and gas stations do let you use their wired phone, sometimes your car will break down miles away from such services. I'd rather make the call to AAA from the cool of my car rather than walk-around in the hot summer sun.
That doesn't sound strange at all. Most people don't need cellphones. In my whole life I've owned exactly two:
An old analog phone from circa 1999 which cost me $10/month. When the battery stopped working, I upgraded to a Virgin Mobile Nokia phone at $0.00/month and 18 cents per minute or per text. I make sure not to give the number to anybody (except close friends/family), so they cannot disturb me and disrupt my calm.
>>>If only most of us could do that, rather than having shitty pointy-haired micromanager bosses who insist on minute-by-minute "productivity" scales.
Pretty much spot on. Today's managers are almost all dicks, especially since a lot of them have ZERO technical knowledge.
OLD BOSS (fired by the company) NEW BOSS (tasked with cutting costs): Hello I'm pointy-haired bosses' replacement. And oh yeah, we're terminating your contract. ME: Why? I thought everything was going great. Look at all the work I accomplished last week (points to status report).
BOSS: We heard from an engineer that you were watching FOX News on company time. ME: Yeah but it was during my lunch break. Didn't the engineer tell you I was stuffing a sandwich in my mouth at the time? BOSS: Doesn't matter. Also you held-up yesterday's 11 o'clock meeting by being late. ME: I was sitting in my seat at 10:55.
BOSS: You should have been there earlier. ME:..... BOSS: Well why are you still standing here? Leave or I'm calling security. ME: Bitch.
Now when you have a ~5% devaluation rate on your paper, due to the Private Central Bank running the printing presses like mad. $150,000 today... $142,000 next year... $135,000 the following year... and so on.
By 2020 your mattress or shoebox stash will be worth just $89,000. You're better off to put the paper in the bank where the 5% devaluation can be offset by a 1-2% interest rate.
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The games still ran on AmigaOS though (the Kickstart and CLI), so even game players were still running the operating system.
Workbench 1 and 2 were really just a separate program, not the core OS (similar to how Windows 1-3 were program shells for MSDOS).
No you're gullible. You believe liberals represent "more individual freedom" when they actually represent the exact opposite of that (more government regulation of you).
You would get exactly the same "feel" as you get with an old C=64 or Atari or Amiga machine. If your goal is to get down to the bare metal, then go ahead and do so. There's no need to dust-off old machines that are on the verge of death (from age).
>>>What? The political terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' were in use far before that -- the actual origin of the term is from the late 1700s in response to the French Revolution.
But no longer means the same thing. The people who used to be conservative (pro-monarchy and/or big government) absconded the word liberal for themselves. At least that was the case here in the States. Now a liberal no longer represents the small government ideal of the 1700s.
You can not apply old terms to modern post-1930s American politics. The words, like words in the novel 1984, were redefined.
I think he meant McCain was "statist" by interfering with private affairs where teh government has no business.
For example: If a woman owns her body, and has the right to kill the human fetus growing inside her, than I too own my body and have the right to decide whether or not to insure it. But McCain was in favor of taking away that right - QED a statist. Also unconstitutional.
>>>Which is why the right is truly conservative: they like old ideas, good and bad.
It was the right/conservatives that freed the slaves dipshit. They were protecting the 1776 ideal of "equality for all" that was the original intent, even while the leftists in the South tried to convince everyone that blacks were things, not people. And even after the war, the leftist/liberals in the Democrat party invented all kinds of grand ideas like segregation and the KKK. Even as recently as the 60s Senator Byrd was saying, "I would sooner die than see unification of coloreds in the army."
Yeah I really want to join that party. They have such an esteemed history. From 1820s to 1970s they had one lousy idea after another.
Almost 0%. I've visited a LOT of hotels that had CNN but neither FOX nor MSNBC. And I've visited zero hotels that had only FOX but not the other two. So your presumption of an exclusive arrangement is null.
And even if it were true, it would have Zero impact on the Nielsen Ratings since they only monitor residential homes not businesses. FOX is number one because a lot of private households watch it. The end.
Stop thinking in black and white.
We call ourselves a "democracy" even though we're nothing of the sort (you don't vote up or down on every law passed). It is a generalized term. Same when people speak of a free market - their intended meaning is 90-99% free not 100%. i.e. People are free to make their own choices in a deregulated market, but it's still illegal for a company like Ford to go-round murdering its customers (either intentionally or accidentally via faulty engineering).
>>>Troll64 admits that they fully intended to not buy health insurance until after they needed it.
False; can't you understand simple english? Quote: "I would buy insurance for the very young..... and when I reach a certain age, say 60, then I will buy insurance." i.e. For the sick young and old persons, not the healthy 20-60 years old that almost never get sick.
>>>people are pretty homophobic these day
Funny? I would expect it to be just the opposite - society is more accepting of male-male or female-female partnerships.
And where I went to college, people just stripped naked and took 2 steps into the shower. Then they got back out again, towel dried while fully nude, and eventually headed back to their room.
Since I lived in a coed hall, I always made sure to wear more than just a towel. Usually shorts and a t-shirt, minimum.
>>>find a geek girl.
Such things did not exist in my middle or high school during the 80s. Even the smart girls tended to go after the popular jock or outgoing types, so us nerds didn't stand a chance.
I did have more success in college.
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>>>I'm contending he knew the difference between idea and expression.
Which is why he said (about transmission of ideas, books, music, inventions, etc): "Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine... That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Jefferson
Seriously. Can't you comprehend simple 1700s English?
Twit.
>>>Kinda makes me feel good..
I think it's stupid. If pedestrians are too stupid to LOOK before they cross a street (instead relying the car's engine as warning), then they deserve to get run over. It's just the same as Caveman Ugh not looking left-then-right-then-left prior to crossing a buffalo path, and then getting trampled. Eyes are in your head for a reason. LOOK for the quiet priuses and electric cars.
(1) This could save the magazine and newspaper industry. Instead of reading about the cops chasing a runaway suspect, you could watch it.
(2) I want this to flatsheet video for my living room wall.
Mass drivers as shown in Babylon 5 would actually be cheaper & just as effective. Just grab a couple asteroids from the local solar system, then send them towards the planet to wipe-out the large-sized smurfs.
Plus you wouldn't have any nasty radiation to clean up.
>>>the value doesn't depreciate. It's still $150,000.
False. $150,000 cash in 2010 will buy you a medium-sized house (or a new Ferrari). $150,000 cash in 2020 will only buy one-half a house or ferrari. What changed? The paper lost value. Put another way:
When my grandfather was my age (in the 1920s) a nice wool suit only cost $12. Today a wool suit costs around $400. Again: It's not the suit that changed - a wool suit is a wool suit. It's the paper that lost value.
Paper money depreciates over time, due to banks doubling, tripling, quadrupling the paper supply.
>>>Switched off cell phones still cost money.
Not if you have a plan with Virgin Mobile (like I do) which only charges you when you make a call (18 cents per minute). And while you're correct restaurants and gas stations do let you use their wired phone, sometimes your car will break down miles away from such services. I'd rather make the call to AAA from the cool of my car rather than walk-around in the hot summer sun.
That doesn't sound strange at all. Most people don't need cellphones. In my whole life I've owned exactly two:
An old analog phone from circa 1999 which cost me $10/month. When the battery stopped working, I upgraded to a Virgin Mobile Nokia phone at $0.00/month and 18 cents per minute or per text. I make sure not to give the number to anybody (except close friends/family), so they cannot disturb me and disrupt my calm.
>>>If only most of us could do that, rather than having shitty pointy-haired micromanager bosses who insist on minute-by-minute "productivity" scales.
Pretty much spot on. Today's managers are almost all dicks, especially since a lot of them have ZERO technical knowledge.
OLD BOSS (fired by the company)
NEW BOSS (tasked with cutting costs): Hello I'm pointy-haired bosses' replacement. And oh yeah, we're terminating your contract.
ME: Why? I thought everything was going great. Look at all the work I accomplished last week (points to status report).
BOSS: We heard from an engineer that you were watching FOX News on company time.
ME: Yeah but it was during my lunch break. Didn't the engineer tell you I was stuffing a sandwich in my mouth at the time?
BOSS: Doesn't matter. Also you held-up yesterday's 11 o'clock meeting by being late.
ME: I was sitting in my seat at 10:55.
BOSS: You should have been there earlier. .....
ME:
BOSS: Well why are you still standing here? Leave or I'm calling security.
ME: Bitch.
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Convert the cash to goods. Like electricity, cable tv, food, and so on
Now when you have a ~5% devaluation rate on your paper, due to the Private Central Bank running the printing presses like mad. $150,000 today... $142,000 next year... $135,000 the following year... and so on.
By 2020 your mattress or shoebox stash will be worth just $89,000. You're better off to put the paper in the bank where the 5% devaluation can be offset by a 1-2% interest rate.
Mr. Adams could have just built a German PassivHaus.
They use standard building materials, just with better engineering (using corners to block air from leaking through window cracks) and thicker walls.
>>>How do you fit that Amiga up your ass at night?
I don't. Amigas have holes. Didn't you ever take sex ed, or at least take a look at playboy? Oh wait... maybe you don't know spanish.
(1) I was implying that it was a lousy joke. :-) Why? Because it makes no sense.
(2) Here's the lineage:
CP/M-86 (16 bit)
86-DOS (16 bit)
MS-DOS 1.0 (16 bit) - fork - MS-DOS 2.0 (which was a from-scratch rewrite and had nothing remaining of previous OSes).