>>>At what point does someone else's business become ours?
When it happens within US borders. If the Europeans of 1914 or 1941 were so fucking stupid as to fight one another, then let them. They created the problem - they can fix it. It is NONE of America's business. ----- Next time the Europeans squabble, it will be a Civil War within the EU and we should not interfere, just as they did not interfere with the US Civil War. .
>>>the European bits of WWII would have eventually bitten us in the ass if we did nothing.
Not really. Britain was holding its own (thanks to buying weapons from US and Canada), and Russia had effectively defeated the German army all on their own. The war would have ended in 1946 instead of 45, but it still would have ended. It's just the same way that Napoleon looked undefeatable but was eventually crushed. There was no need for the US back then either.
>>>>>As for the Japanese attack, it was already declared by Japan to be a war on the US, so future casualties were coming. Inaction was not an option. >> >>I think that was the idea behind Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda had "declared war"
Nonsense. They are criminals - nothing more. They can no more declare war on the US than Al Capone and his Mob. Would it have made sense to mobilize the US Army to attack Chicago and take down Capone's men? No. Neither did it make any sense with Dickhead Laden. He's a criminal and you deal with criminals in a LOGICAL fashion - get better locks on the doors so they can't break in again
"...to hold the Supreme Court as final arbiter would leave us in the hands of an Oligarhcy of non-elected men..." "...when there is doubt, call a constitutional convention of the States to amend and clarify the meaning..."
"Rather than twist the meaning of the Constitution, go back to the original spirit of the day when the words were written." (i.e. original intent)
- Thomas Jefferson. I'm fairly certain if you were standing in 1789 when the 2nd amendment was passed, you'd find the original intent was to have Guns be an Individual right, since the men who wrote that law had just finished overthrowing the British government a mere six years earlier. They knew that would have been impossible if the populace had been disarmed, or the guns limited to only soldiers in the British army.
Well if I might use a car example..... Nah let's make it a computer. The Seller sold it to me for $210 and free shipping. She then decided not to deliver the Microsoft Office software promised in the auction because "you already got a great deal" and "wants to sell MS Office for $100 to make up for my loss".
i.e. She's suffering Seller Remorse because she didn't get as much money as she wanted ($400). These banking programmers who think $150,000 is not enough are suffering the same effect, and now they are whining about it. .
>>>It's sometimes hard to tell what a job will entail until you've done it (early in your career)
Too bad. You should still place the blame *on yourself* not on your buyer. And use the lesson learned to ask for more money on the next sale .
If you don't own your own body, then you don't own your mouth. Or your uterus. Or your sex organ. Or your brain.
Which would also mean you don't have a right to free speech, or abortion, or sex with whomever you wish, or freedom of thought.
You are now just a thing, which somebody with more power (Congressman or MEP) can use and abuse as he desires, the same way they do with any other natural resource.
If they don't ask permission, then they will meet the same fate as the gentleman who enters your home without permission (gets shot). Intrusion is never acceptable accept in the minds of fucking idiots.
That show is so "lets have government run everything" that it disgusts me. They would have the government raise the tax rate to 90%, and then just let the government take care of me, like I was a child too stupid to make my own decisions.
Maybe I ought to charge them for the Gigabytes they wasted on my limited 5GB per month plan. Webmasters have a duty, as professionals, not to be bandwidth hogs or incur overage fees for their users.
Is this "Virgin" the same company that provides cellphone service, aka Virgin Mobile?
I love that they let you buy just the service you need - in my case that's $5 a month worth of calls. They also sell data bundles for cheap (1 GB for $5). All the other companies require you get $30 minimum even if you rarely use your phone.
This also reminds me of a documentary about "unintended consequences of laws". During the 90s the British Parliament mandated no more than 30 minutes wait time for hospitals, but the doctors could not meet that quota so instead they had sick people waiting in the parking lots. That didn't count as "wait time" so the hospitals met the legal requirements even when people were waiting for hours.
This Internet regulation sounds like it's causing the same problem. The letter of the law is complied with, but not the original intent. (sigh). When will people learn? Government micromanagement never works.
>>>the programmer in question agreed to the terms BEFORE he wrote the first line of code.
This seems to be a universal problem. Buyer Remorse (paid too much) or Seller Remorse (didn't ask for high enough price). You have to learn to set your price upfront and not whine about it later.
Where? $150,000 sounds like a heck of a lot of money to me, considering my previous job (when I had one) only paid 70,000. where are all these magical jobs that pay such huge salaries?
That show is so "lets have government run everything" that it disgusts me. They would have the government raise the tax rate to 90%, and then just let the government take care of me, like I was a child too stupid to make my own decisions.
>>>Why? Will your tv and blu-ray player stop working when this new cable comes out?
Honestly I don't own either an HDTV or Bluray. I was being smartassed.
BUT I am starting to wonder if I want to waste my time upgrading to HD, if the Megacorps keep insisting upon changing the standards every year or two. And I'm not just talking about these cables, but also the recent FCC plnn to convert TV from MPEG2 to MPEG4 (which means I have to toss my less-than-a-year-old receiver in the trash), and companies like Comcast forcing people in my area to rent "converter boxes" at $5 per set. I'm perfectly happy to just stick with DVDa, plus books, plus whatever I can grab off the net.
I come from the old school where I had the same computer for ten years (Amiga and WinXP, each) and have no desire to hop on a yearly upgrade treadmill just because of planned obsolescence.
>>>You'd have to connect it to the Internet for that.
People have told me that Blurays discs operate a lot like PSP discs. When you insert them they say, "This needs firmaware X.Y" and then automatically updates your machine. You do have the option to say "no" but then you can't play the movie/game you just bought.
And if you upgrade your player to the new firmware, well then you might discover it will no longer let you use the old HDMI 1.3 or analog Component video cables.
>>>>>Will my $600 gold-plated monster superconductor cable support the new standards? >> >>Why take the chance. Just buy the new $800 version and you'll be good to go!
And...
I'm done. The HDTV and Bluray player is going on Ebay. I can't keep up (or afford) all these constantly changing standards. I'll get my entertainment an easier and cheaper way (dusts off the books & old black-and-white tv). Maybe it's time to learn some open source programming too. I work cheap (minimum wage).
>>>When do we move on from whether or not the planet is warming up to why it's warming up?
I don't know why. (checks the want ads). Any engineering and programming jobs in the cool northern state of Maine? Or maybe I should buy some land in northern Canada and start growing corn & wheat after the permafrost thaws out. I can envision that area being just like the time of the dinosaurs - a vast plain filled with edible plants.
Humans will have so much food they won't know what to do with it all.
>>>Exclusives that were very poor attempts at arcade ports with incredibly bad sound and graphics
I disagree. A lot of focus is placed on games like Pac-Man (the programmer hated the game so he sabotaged it), but ignore the great ports like Asteroids, Missile Command, and Space Invaders that were BETTER than the original game. Or Berzerk and Defender and Phoenix that were not identical but still fun. (And didn't require a small fortune in quarters.)
Considering that Atari was working with an ancient 70s console that had only 128 bytes of RAM, 2-4 KB of ROM, a 25x25 bitmapped playfield, and just two sprites, they did a decent job with their ports. So too did Imagic and Activision with their exclusives.
As for the 5200, it had a bastardized joystick that made the games near-impossible to play. Give me the old 1977 Atari VCS/2600 any day, because it may not look as pretty, but it has working controls.
Yes in order to save the original hardware. But some games (mainly Red Storm Rising) only work properly with the Commodore keyboard, so then I dust it off and use it.
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>>>At what point does someone else's business become ours?
When it happens within US borders. If the Europeans of 1914 or 1941 were so fucking stupid as to fight one another, then let them. They created the problem - they can fix it. It is NONE of America's business. ----- Next time the Europeans squabble, it will be a Civil War within the EU and we should not interfere, just as they did not interfere with the US Civil War.
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>>>the European bits of WWII would have eventually bitten us in the ass if we did nothing.
Not really. Britain was holding its own (thanks to buying weapons from US and Canada), and Russia had effectively defeated the German army all on their own. The war would have ended in 1946 instead of 45, but it still would have ended. It's just the same way that Napoleon looked undefeatable but was eventually crushed. There was no need for the US back then either.
>>>>>As for the Japanese attack, it was already declared by Japan to be a war on the US, so future casualties were coming. Inaction was not an option.
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>>I think that was the idea behind Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda had "declared war"
Nonsense. They are criminals - nothing more. They can no more declare war on the US than Al Capone and his Mob. Would it have made sense to mobilize the US Army to attack Chicago and take down Capone's men? No. Neither did it make any sense with Dickhead Laden. He's a criminal and you deal with criminals in a LOGICAL fashion - get better locks on the doors so they can't break in again
"...to hold the Supreme Court as final arbiter would leave us in the hands of an Oligarhcy of non-elected men..." "...when there is doubt, call a constitutional convention of the States to amend and clarify the meaning..."
"Rather than twist the meaning of the Constitution, go back to the original spirit of the day when the words were written." (i.e. original intent)
- Thomas Jefferson. I'm fairly certain if you were standing in 1789 when the 2nd amendment was passed, you'd find the original intent was to have Guns be an Individual right, since the men who wrote that law had just finished overthrowing the British government a mere six years earlier. They knew that would have been impossible if the populace had been disarmed, or the guns limited to only soldiers in the British army.
>>>I don't own the air around me.
Yes you do. It is the collective property of all the People. Just like roads. Or radiowaves.
Well when I type in virginmobile.com it asks me to identify which country, so there must be some connection there?
Well if I might use a car example..... Nah let's make it a computer. The Seller sold it to me for $210 and free shipping. She then decided not to deliver the Microsoft Office software promised in the auction because "you already got a great deal" and "wants to sell MS Office for $100 to make up for my loss".
i.e. She's suffering Seller Remorse because she didn't get as much money as she wanted ($400). These banking programmers who think $150,000 is not enough are suffering the same effect, and now they are whining about it.
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>>>It's sometimes hard to tell what a job will entail until you've done it (early in your career)
Too bad. You should still place the blame *on yourself* not on your buyer. And use the lesson learned to ask for more money on the next sale
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If you don't own your own body, then you don't own your mouth. Or your uterus. Or your sex organ. Or your brain.
Which would also mean you don't have a right to free speech, or abortion, or sex with whomever you wish, or freedom of thought.
You are now just a thing, which somebody with more power (Congressman or MEP) can use and abuse as he desires, the same way they do with any other natural resource.
Welcome to 1984.
Mexicans are welcome if they ask permission.
If they don't ask permission, then they will meet the same fate as the gentleman who enters your home without permission (gets shot). Intrusion is never acceptable accept in the minds of fucking idiots.
The US *and* the EU will be targeted.
Many a catastrophe (oil skyrockets to $1000 a barrel) will stop the process of development in those 3rd world countries.
>>>>>Get real [democracynow.org].
That show is so "lets have government run everything" that it disgusts me. They would have the government raise the tax rate to 90%, and then just let the government take care of me, like I was a child too stupid to make my own decisions.
Maybe I ought to charge them for the Gigabytes they wasted on my limited 5GB per month plan. Webmasters have a duty, as professionals, not to be bandwidth hogs or incur overage fees for their users.
Is this "Virgin" the same company that provides cellphone service, aka Virgin Mobile?
I love that they let you buy just the service you need - in my case that's $5 a month worth of calls. They also sell data bundles for cheap (1 GB for $5). All the other companies require you get $30 minimum even if you rarely use your phone.
This also reminds me of a documentary about "unintended consequences of laws". During the 90s the British Parliament mandated no more than 30 minutes wait time for hospitals, but the doctors could not meet that quota so instead they had sick people waiting in the parking lots. That didn't count as "wait time" so the hospitals met the legal requirements even when people were waiting for hours.
This Internet regulation sounds like it's causing the same problem. The letter of the law is complied with, but not the original intent. (sigh). When will people learn? Government micromanagement never works.
>>>the programmer in question agreed to the terms BEFORE he wrote the first line of code.
This seems to be a universal problem. Buyer Remorse (paid too much) or Seller Remorse (didn't ask for high enough price). You have to learn to set your price upfront and not whine about it later.
>>>They are quitting and going somewhere else
Where? $150,000 sounds like a heck of a lot of money to me, considering my previous job (when I had one) only paid 70,000. where are all these magical jobs that pay such huge salaries?
>>>>>Get real [democracynow.org].
That show is so "lets have government run everything" that it disgusts me. They would have the government raise the tax rate to 90%, and then just let the government take care of me, like I was a child too stupid to make my own decisions.
>>>Why? Will your tv and blu-ray player stop working when this new cable comes out?
Honestly I don't own either an HDTV or Bluray. I was being smartassed.
BUT I am starting to wonder if I want to waste my time upgrading to HD, if the Megacorps keep insisting upon changing the standards every year or two. And I'm not just talking about these cables, but also the recent FCC plnn to convert TV from MPEG2 to MPEG4 (which means I have to toss my less-than-a-year-old receiver in the trash), and companies like Comcast forcing people in my area to rent "converter boxes" at $5 per set. I'm perfectly happy to just stick with DVDa, plus books, plus whatever I can grab off the net.
I come from the old school where I had the same computer for ten years (Amiga and WinXP, each) and have no desire to hop on a yearly upgrade treadmill just because of planned obsolescence.
>>>You'd have to connect it to the Internet for that.
People have told me that Blurays discs operate a lot like PSP discs. When you insert them they say, "This needs firmaware X.Y" and then automatically updates your machine. You do have the option to say "no" but then you can't play the movie/game you just bought.
And if you upgrade your player to the new firmware, well then you might discover it will no longer let you use the old HDMI 1.3 or analog Component video cables.
Licking ass? No but if I heard the building was blown-up, I'd happily snoopy-dance on the ashes.
>>>>>Will my $600 gold-plated monster superconductor cable support the new standards?
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>>Why take the chance. Just buy the new $800 version and you'll be good to go!
And...
I'm done. The HDTV and Bluray player is going on Ebay. I can't keep up (or afford) all these constantly changing standards. I'll get my entertainment an easier and cheaper way (dusts off the books & old black-and-white tv). Maybe it's time to learn some open source programming too. I work cheap (minimum wage).
>>>When do we move on from whether or not the planet is warming up to why it's warming up?
I don't know why. (checks the want ads). Any engineering and programming jobs in the cool northern state of Maine? Or maybe I should buy some land in northern Canada and start growing corn & wheat after the permafrost thaws out. I can envision that area being just like the time of the dinosaurs - a vast plain filled with edible plants.
Humans will have so much food they won't know what to do with it all.
>>>Exclusives that were very poor attempts at arcade ports with incredibly bad sound and graphics
I disagree. A lot of focus is placed on games like Pac-Man (the programmer hated the game so he sabotaged it), but ignore the great ports like Asteroids, Missile Command, and Space Invaders that were BETTER than the original game. Or Berzerk and Defender and Phoenix that were not identical but still fun. (And didn't require a small fortune in quarters.)
Considering that Atari was working with an ancient 70s console that had only 128 bytes of RAM, 2-4 KB of ROM, a 25x25 bitmapped playfield, and just two sprites, they did a decent job with their ports. So too did Imagic and Activision with their exclusives.
As for the 5200, it had a bastardized joystick that made the games near-impossible to play. Give me the old 1977 Atari VCS/2600 any day, because it may not look as pretty, but it has working controls.
I meant PC/mac can not recreate the music video with only 7 megahertz and 1/2 megabyte. Why? Because they were both inferior in the 1980s.
Yes in order to save the original hardware. But some games (mainly Red Storm Rising) only work properly with the Commodore keyboard, so then I dust it off and use it.