Don't blame the whole state for what is really just the fault of Chicago and its exurbs.
The people living in the rest of Illinois try to clean-up the corruption, but their voices are suppressed by tyranny of the majority (i.e. they are outvoted).
I remember when the first PC was released with photorealistic graphics (i.e. the 4000-color Amiga in 1985).
Our local club digitized photos and then used a PhotoShop-type program to change them. They put a Nazi swastika plus a mohawk on my friend, printed it out, and it escaped into our 80s-era high school. Every one was so stupid they thought it was real. Once we showed them the original side-by-side with the altered photo, then they realized what had happened.
Yeah it's ridiculous. The "sex offense" is not something worthy of a life sentence to be treated as one of the shunned.
As for youthful indiscretions, employers who do google searches on potential employees will quickly realize that all their candidates have tainted backgrounds. That's the moment where they will either keep their unrealistic standards and not be able to hire anybody, or else have to admit there's no such thing as a perfect employee.
I've found a few messages on Usenet as far back as 1988. Fortunately most of the really horrible things I've said (cough) disappeared when BBSes went defunct.
>>>Opera is a little bit better than both Firefox and Chrome in terms of memory management
I must be doing something wrong then, because my Opera install (10.6) uses about twice as much memory as Firefox (3.5). Maybe if I turned-off the memory caching?
>>>After using for a few days with only a few windows open, FF eventually becomes so unresponsive that I've got to restart it.
For me it's only a few hours. Firefox has a memory leak, so that it starts at ~100,000 kilobytes but gradually grows larger and larger. Even if I close all my tabs, the memory is not released. This memory leak was fixed in 3.0 but now it seems to have opened-up again.
>>>Nothing can touch add-ons like NoScript, AdBlock, etc. (and most of my add-ons and their associated functionality can't be found on Chrome, Opera, etc.).
Really? Opera doesn't have add-ons equivalent to NoScript or Web of Trust or NetVideoHunter? I thought Opera was supposed to be just as good as Firefox (in terms of customization).
But scientists can usually tell different species [apart]. They may look superficially identical, but they have unique organs which indicate if it's the same species, or a different species that discovered the same niche.
Anonymous Coward wrote: What do they tell them? Oh, you meant discern. Work on that 5th grade vocabulary or no one will take you seriously.
Work on getting a real userid. Also you seem a little uptight. Try shoving a plastic electronic device which vibrates up your sexual orifice until you reach the peak of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, characterized by paroxisms of intense pleasure. You'll feel much better about the world, and not get so angry over trivial things like typos.
>>>If you're a singer or musician, you have to sign with a record label if you want to go the megacorps route.
I was talking about BEFORE I got discovered by the megacorps, I would use youtube and other net programs to distribute my music. Obviously after I signed the deal, the music would be theirs. .
>>>Radio stations don't play anything new,
False. I just heard three new songs yesterday.
>>>they play the same handful of songs over and over and over
False. Most radio stations have no repeat workdays, so you'll get to hear about 13 times 10 hours == 130 different songs. Espeically if you listen to stations that span a wide range of time, like 1990 to the present. .
>>>The US government has the authority to force individuals to buy health insurance whether they want it or not, and that certainly isn't addressed in the Constitution.
True. But I expect that law will be nullified, either by the Courts or by the States.
All works that are created belong to everyone else, unless the author locks it in a safe out of view. The legal privilege we call an "exclusive right" for a "limited time", doesn't prevent copying of his ideas (which is a right given to us by nature). It merely gives the author a way to recover lost earnings from the sale of his book. Nothing more.
No because the modern doctor moved beyond that primitiveness and now actually cures people.
Brain quacks don't. As this story attests (feeding drugs to children that don't need it). And also the story about the Kennedy daughter still pisses me off..... a perfectly normal, perhaps slightly below average intelligence (IQ 95) young woman, and they jammed an icepick up her nose to and severed parts of her brain. It's basically murder of personality.
Millions of people had that done to them.
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But scientists can usually tell different species. They may look superficially identical, but they have unique organs which indicate if it's the same species, or a different species that discovered the same niche.
I think the likely explanation here is that (1) it's the same species at ~500 and ~600 million years ago, and it did survive the extinction because (2) Snowball earth wasn't as harsh as we believe.... there were probably warm zones around the equator for a few sponges to hang-on.
>>>>>it'd just be hypocritical if they went after a bunch of perverted quasi-Orwellian miscreants for doing, on a much smaller scale, the same kind of espionage the Fed directs against its own citizens on a daily basis. >>>>>
And also, the government would be suing itself (Government DOJ versus Government School). That rarely happens. .
>>they couldn't spin it as a Pedo Teacher thing, so they decided it wasn't worth it.
Similar to how they couldn't spin the Black Panthers scaring-off white voters into a "Tea Party Hate" deal, so they just quietly dropped it. Had it been the reverse, it would be front page and top-of-the-hour news. - Okay I'm just kidding (like you were), but they still should have sued the School Board for invasion of minors' bedrooms via surveillance equipment.
>>>what if I, in return, promise to pay the ISP "up to" $45/mo for their service?
That would be okay if that's what your contract read. It does not. It specifically says you will pay $45 flat, plus applicable taxes and in exchange they will provide upto XXX Mbit/s. So they are not in violation if you get less than XXX, but you would be in violation if you only gave them $40.
Not sure if it's true, but I've heard that DSL Internet is more reliable than Cable Internet. Why? DSL gives a dedicated phone line for every home, where cable has a shared line (broadcast to everyone). So if the kid next door starts downloading a Bluray, that will slow your cable internet too.
I know I've always had 7Mbit/s DSL just as advertised, without any slowdown. My cable friends can't make the same claim.
>>>In Ezekiel 4:13 so sayeth God: "And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them."
Anybody this anal (and critical of religion) should realize a 600 year old King James translation is inadequate. The original hebrew says nothing like that. It makes it quite clear to HEAT the bread with dung, not to dump the shit in the bread mix.
Similarly the original Hebrew does not forbid man-on-man love (as the KJ version of Leviticus claims). It says two men shall not sleep in one woman's bed (i.e. it's a ban on threesomes). I have no objections to being anti-religious..... I merely object to people being wrong. Go to the original source FIRST before you presume yourself more knowledgeable than the "fundies" you hate.
I've grown sick of abbreviations ever since I started working for the military. Mainly because I got tired of asking, "SM-2? What's that? TASM? Oh you mean a Tomahawk. What the heck does COTS mean?"
I've made it my own personal rule to never use abbreviations, because they block communication. Instead of "I LOLed," I'll say, "I laughed out loud."
Choose-Your-Own Adventure lost its appeal for me once I got my first 8-bit computer. Text adventures like Zork or graphics adventures like Activision's MindShadow offer the same appeal, but with many more forks that the limited ~200 page book format. In fact, here is Zork if you want it for your iGadget: http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/08/14/zork-for-the-iphone-you-were-eaten-by-a-grue/
Heck you could turn your iPhone into a Commodore=64 if you wish and play any of its ~5,000 game library
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The Republicans or Democrats for the stupidity of rushing head-long into computerized voting? I knew it was a bad idea right from the start.
My main concern is the ability to record cops while I'm being questioned. I need that protection.
COP: "Sir turn off that recorder."
ME: "Why? So you can beat me up, like the other cops I've seen on youtube beating innocent citizens?"
Don't blame the whole state for what is really just the fault of Chicago and its exurbs.
The people living in the rest of Illinois try to clean-up the corruption, but their voices are suppressed by tyranny of the majority (i.e. they are outvoted).
I remember when the first PC was released with photorealistic graphics (i.e. the 4000-color Amiga in 1985).
Our local club digitized photos and then used a PhotoShop-type program to change them. They put a Nazi swastika plus a mohawk on my friend, printed it out, and it escaped into our 80s-era high school. Every one was so stupid they thought it was real. Once we showed them the original side-by-side with the altered photo, then they realized what had happened.
ADHD? Any relation to Toshiba's other advanced technology HDDVD?
>>>One magnetic bit can hold one bit of data
Why? Telephone modems can store 8 bits per symbol. Surely there must be some method to encode more bits per chunk of magnet.
Yeah it's ridiculous. The "sex offense" is not something worthy of a life sentence to be treated as one of the shunned.
As for youthful indiscretions, employers who do google searches on potential employees will quickly realize that all their candidates have tainted backgrounds. That's the moment where they will either keep their unrealistic standards and not be able to hire anybody, or else have to admit there's no such thing as a perfect employee.
I've found a few messages on Usenet as far back as 1988. Fortunately most of the really horrible things I've said (cough) disappeared when BBSes went defunct.
>>>Opera is a little bit better than both Firefox and Chrome in terms of memory management
I must be doing something wrong then, because my Opera install (10.6) uses about twice as much memory as Firefox (3.5). Maybe if I turned-off the memory caching?
>>>After using for a few days with only a few windows open, FF eventually becomes so unresponsive that I've got to restart it.
For me it's only a few hours. Firefox has a memory leak, so that it starts at ~100,000 kilobytes but gradually grows larger and larger. Even if I close all my tabs, the memory is not released. This memory leak was fixed in 3.0 but now it seems to have opened-up again.
>>>Nothing can touch add-ons like NoScript, AdBlock, etc. (and most of my add-ons and their associated functionality can't be found on Chrome, Opera, etc.).
Really? Opera doesn't have add-ons equivalent to NoScript or Web of Trust or NetVideoHunter? I thought Opera was supposed to be just as good as Firefox (in terms of customization).
It's been so long since I visited the bookstore, I forget where it's at. Is DocBook 5 online?
Oh here it is: www.isohunt.com
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But scientists can usually tell different species [apart]. They may look superficially identical, but they have unique organs which indicate if it's the same species, or a different species that discovered the same niche.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
What do they tell them? Oh, you meant discern. Work on that 5th grade vocabulary or no one will take you seriously.
Work on getting a real userid. Also you seem a little uptight. Try shoving a plastic electronic device which vibrates up your sexual orifice until you reach the peak of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, characterized by paroxisms of intense pleasure. You'll feel much better about the world, and not get so angry over trivial things like typos.
TV stations (and their associated receivers) are regulated monopolies.
>>>If you're a singer or musician, you have to sign with a record label if you want to go the megacorps route.
I was talking about BEFORE I got discovered by the megacorps, I would use youtube and other net programs to distribute my music. Obviously after I signed the deal, the music would be theirs.
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>>>Radio stations don't play anything new,
False. I just heard three new songs yesterday.
>>>they play the same handful of songs over and over and over
False. Most radio stations have no repeat workdays, so you'll get to hear about 13 times 10 hours == 130 different songs. Espeically if you listen to stations that span a wide range of time, like 1990 to the present.
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>>>The US government has the authority to force individuals to buy health insurance whether they want it or not, and that certainly isn't addressed in the Constitution.
True. But I expect that law will be nullified, either by the Courts or by the States.
No.
All works that are created belong to everyone else, unless the author locks it in a safe out of view. The legal privilege we call an "exclusive right" for a "limited time", doesn't prevent copying of his ideas (which is a right given to us by nature). It merely gives the author a way to recover lost earnings from the sale of his book. Nothing more.
Hahahahahhahahahaha.
One million dollars? That's nothing. We waste that much just on the President Putin's executive bathroom.
No because the modern doctor moved beyond that primitiveness and now actually cures people.
Brain quacks don't. As this story attests (feeding drugs to children that don't need it). And also the story about the Kennedy daughter still pisses me off..... a perfectly normal, perhaps slightly below average intelligence (IQ 95) young woman, and they jammed an icepick up her nose to and severed parts of her brain. It's basically murder of personality.
Millions of people had that done to them.
But scientists can usually tell different species. They may look superficially identical, but they have unique organs which indicate if it's the same species, or a different species that discovered the same niche.
I think the likely explanation here is that (1) it's the same species at ~500 and ~600 million years ago, and it did survive the extinction because (2) Snowball earth wasn't as harsh as we believe.... there were probably warm zones around the equator for a few sponges to hang-on.
>>>>>it'd just be hypocritical if they went after a bunch of perverted quasi-Orwellian miscreants for doing, on a much smaller scale, the same kind of espionage the Fed directs against its own citizens on a daily basis.
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And also, the government would be suing itself (Government DOJ versus Government School). That rarely happens.
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>>they couldn't spin it as a Pedo Teacher thing, so they decided it wasn't worth it.
Similar to how they couldn't spin the Black Panthers scaring-off white voters into a "Tea Party Hate" deal, so they just quietly dropped it. Had it been the reverse, it would be front page and top-of-the-hour news. - Okay I'm just kidding (like you were), but they still should have sued the School Board for invasion of minors' bedrooms via surveillance equipment.
Maybe as part of net neutrality, Congress will require cmpanies to alter their plans from "upto XXX" to "minimum XXX".
You would be guaranteed that level of speed (or get a pro-rated refund). But most times it would be faster.
>>>what if I, in return, promise to pay the ISP "up to" $45/mo for their service?
That would be okay if that's what your contract read. It does not. It specifically says you will pay $45 flat, plus applicable taxes and in exchange they will provide upto XXX Mbit/s. So they are not in violation if you get less than XXX, but you would be in violation if you only gave them $40.
Not sure if it's true, but I've heard that DSL Internet is more reliable than Cable Internet. Why? DSL gives a dedicated phone line for every home, where cable has a shared line (broadcast to everyone). So if the kid next door starts downloading a Bluray, that will slow your cable internet too.
I know I've always had 7Mbit/s DSL just as advertised, without any slowdown. My cable friends can't make the same claim.
>>>In Ezekiel 4:13 so sayeth God: "And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them."
Anybody this anal (and critical of religion) should realize a 600 year old King James translation is inadequate. The original hebrew says nothing like that. It makes it quite clear to HEAT the bread with dung, not to dump the shit in the bread mix.
Similarly the original Hebrew does not forbid man-on-man love (as the KJ version of Leviticus claims). It says two men shall not sleep in one woman's bed (i.e. it's a ban on threesomes). I have no objections to being anti-religious..... I merely object to people being wrong. Go to the original source FIRST before you presume yourself more knowledgeable than the "fundies" you hate.
Because you clearly are no wiser than they.
>>>I've been on the online scene since the Fidonet era
(hug)
Anyone who mentions Fidonet in the present age deserves a hug. I loved FidoNet and wish I could still access it.
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I've grown sick of abbreviations ever since I started working for the military. Mainly because I got tired of asking, "SM-2? What's that? TASM? Oh you mean a Tomahawk. What the heck does COTS mean?"
I've made it my own personal rule to never use abbreviations, because they block communication.
Instead of "I LOLed," I'll say, "I laughed out loud."
Yep. An ad.
Choose-Your-Own Adventure lost its appeal for me once I got my first 8-bit computer. Text adventures like Zork or graphics adventures like Activision's MindShadow offer the same appeal, but with many more forks that the limited ~200 page book format. In fact, here is Zork if you want it for your iGadget: http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/08/14/zork-for-the-iphone-you-were-eaten-by-a-grue/
Heck you could turn your iPhone into a Commodore=64 if you wish and play any of its ~5,000 game library
Leaving on my own? I'd take nothing except my paycheck.
Fired and I deserved it? A few pens. Pack of paper.
Fired and I didn't deserve it? I'd GIVE them a lawsuit.