Well if BP starts going-out and shooting pelicans in the head, rather than rescue them, that might be newsworthy. But thanks to this taking-away of freedom along the southern coast, we'll never know about it.
Even performing live may not be profitable for artists. I just learned that Lilith Fair canceled 1/3rd of its summer schedule due to lack of ticket sales. AND apparently it's not the only concert calling t quits. This summer has been lousy.
The internet is no more a "fad" than radio or television. It merely changed how we receive the radio and television. NOW instead of fixed schedules we can get things on-demand, whenever we wish.
MTV and VH1 have not died. They simply moved. Now they are on the net and have a new name: youtube.com and googlevideos.com and itunes.com
>>>Perfect Dark required it, as did The World is Not Enough
No it didn't. If all you cared about was the direct person-to-person battle, like me, you didn't need the RAM expansion at all. - By the way I think it's funny we're debating about 4 megabytes. That's nothing and I think it's funny Nintendo didn't just include that RAM in the original console .
>>>"Most Blacks have trouble learning..." it would sound pretty bigoted.
Yeah but saying "Most Blacks die of heart disease..." it would not be bigoted. It would be a fact which I could support with medical research that makes the same observation. There's nothing bigoted about stating what is true. Likewise there's nothing bigoted about saying old people have declining faculties (slower to learn, trouble walking, et cetera).
As is the case throughout most of the US, the "bad eggs" are just those who live inside the California cities (bounded by the beltway). Most everyone outside the beltway are decent people who want to see government spending shrunk, but their voices are almost never heard.
>>>>>I will be fined $950 for choosing not to buy hospital insurance >> >>News flash: if I have to pay for your health care, you have to pay for mine.
News flash: That has nothing to do with my decision to NOT buy insurance. I can afford to pay my OWN health expenses, same as I could afford to buy a $200,000 house and $30,000 Lexus (times two). Most health procedures really aren't that expensive - like my dad's pacemarker implant - just $8000.
I don't need you paying my bills, therefore NO valid reason why I must be forced to buy insurance, so shove your anti-choice idea somewhere else. Be a Pro-Choice person instead.
H2O probably will be outlawed. After all water is filled with dangerous-and-explosive hydrogen! Just ignore the fact that, like this rock, the dangerous component is locked-up inside the molecule and therefore harmless.
California - proof positive that we're not really any more advanced that any other backwards third-world country. (reads constitution) - Is there anything in here that says we can expel a State from the Union, like the Lisbon Treaty allows States to be ejected from the EU? California will soon be the boil on America's ass the same way Greece is a boil on Europe's ass. I can hear the word on the wind already: "bailout"..... "bailout"
Californians - Please don't take offense. You know as well as we do that it's not you that sucks; it's your government that sucks. It's been demoted from AA to A- status (not much higher than junk bonds), and the debt-to-GDP ratio is nearing 10%. That may not sound that high, but remember California can't print money - when it runs out, it runs out.
All the taxpayers in the other states do NOT want to assume responsibility for bailing out Sacramento's mistakes and/or paying their bills, anymore than European taxpayers wanted to assume responsibility for paying Greece's bills.
>>>I would think rights have more to do with action and expression than with shit you own.
At its core, rights ARE about ownership. You own your own body and you own the various things your body can do - like think, speak, act, create. For example if a politician is granted the power to muzzle your mouth, then you no longer really own yourself - you are now the property of the politician. You're a serf and he's your master.
Natural Rights philosophy was discovered specifically to say, "I am no longer your property. I am no longer a serf. I can say whatever I please." It was a rebellion against the old feudal system where humans did not own themselves, but instead were owned by the manor's master or lord.
By the way this philosophy came from Scotland, an oppressed people who felt they did not own themselves. Coincidence? Not really. Everybody desires to throw-off the shackles that restrain them. It was later copied by the Americans, Canadians, and the Indians who also wanted to throw-off the English Parliament's shackles.
>>>whether there are Constitutional rights to Native Americans, children, criminals, foreigners, illegal aliens, tarrarists
Constitutional Law applies to any landmass where the US Government currently has jurisdiction. Although there are scumbag politicians who try to claim otherwise, in order to remove the shackles the constitution places on them, they are wrong. The Law is the law and applies everywhere within the US jurisdiction.
I know a guy who fought a similar case. He created a website about a new mall coming to his town, to provide information to residents about what stores would be there and what it would look like.
After the mall was completed the owner sued the webmaster, claiming the name of the dot-com site was copyrighted. It took about 4 years and eventually rose to the level of the US Supreme Court, but the webmaster won. His website was protected by the Constitution. It ended-up costing zero out of his pocket because the justices ordered the mall to pay for all legal expenses.
This turned-out to be an important ruling because it also protected sites like paypaylsucks.com or ebaysucks.com, which were facing similar "you can't use our name" lawsuits. Our right to speak freely, and either criticize or support companies, has been protected.
It only takes one man willing to stand-up for his legal rights to nullify portions of the DMCA that are unconstitutional.
>>>I also get 1p back for every £2 I spend on the card
Wow that's pretty sad. I get 1 penny for every dollar (about half-a-pound), so I'm getting cashback about four times faster. Even better: I get 5 pennies per dollar if the purchase is gasoline or food .
Yeah but the bank didn't have to do that. I've heard horror stories of people who had their debit cards stolen, their money taken, and the bank refused to put the money back. That is allowed under current law.
In contrast when you use a credit card, the money that is stolen is stolen from THEIR account, not yours. That means if someone stole $4500, you can simply refuse to pay the bill. You suffer no loss, except a bad mark on your credit report (which would have zero impact on me 'cause my score's sky high).
Debit == you lose the money and the bank is under no obligation to restore it Credit== the loss comes out of the bank's account; you lose nothing
As imperfect as FOX is, at least we have a voice that is opposite to the pro-"we need more government" crowd at ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and CNN. Whenever I want to hear a story I listen to both FOX and DNCNBC. I figure the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
CNN compares this BP oil spill censorship to when George Duh Bush refused to let them document the Katrina flood & aftermath. Wow - talk about violating the law. - I'll be glad when we get this Bush dude out of office, and a new president in charge so we can have freedom of speech and the press again. Bring about some real Change we can believe in.
Now if only we could figure out why the bowl of petunias said that? Anyway here's a LINK to CNN video where they compared this press censorship to when George Duh Bush blocked the press from documenting the Katrina flooding of New Orleans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0NyinwQ6A#t=1m40s
Well as CNN explained in the video, the boom is laying everywhere so the 65 foot distance effectively blocks cameramen from capturing images of the oil-soaked islands/reefs along the cost, or the oil-soaked birds struggling to survive. In other words, it prevents the people of the US, from seeing the damage that has been caused.
And we deserve to know because it's OUR country, not BP's country or the government's country. That's the whole purpose for freedom of the press - so the people will stay informed rather than remain in the dark. "The liberties of a people never were nor ever will be secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry, Virginian
Bought tickets to see the show in Seattle and Portland back in March but then got laid-off in April, and sent back home ~2000 miles away. I couldn't sell the tickets on ebay because they were tied to me (had to show ID and credit card to gain entrance). And I couldn't get a refund either.
So basically I got screwed. I ended-up flying across the country rather than waste the tickets. Like downloading games, it takes away your right to resell the used product to someone else
>>>So tell me, do you have mouths to feed? Mortgage or rent payments to make? It's real easy to be idealistic when you don't have responsibilities.
And this is why liberty has been dying, inch-by-inch, for the hundred years. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery?" - Patrick Henry, Virginian - "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
That guy's an agitator. It's one thing to be minding your own business and suddenly the cops start making your life miserable, so you stand up for your rights. It's something else entirely to drive-round looking for police cars & then purposely make yourself a nuisance. That's called "trolling" or baiting. AKA being a dick.
The traffic stop had ended, the citizen had drove off, and that was the end. There was no reason for that guy to continue hanging-around, flashing his gun and camera to the cop. That's just trolling.
Not only that but the N64 memory upgrade was a flop. As I recall only 2 games required it - Donkey Kong 64 and Zelda: Masks of Majora. For all the rest it improved the game but was optional. ----- I remember the same thing happened with the Commodore 64 versus the 128. In theory twice the memory would make for a better game but in reality almost no games required it - they all were designed to run on the base model.
>>>my first PC was a 286 8Mhz, which is smokin' next to a Com64
Not really. In pure number crunching, yes, but when it comes to sound and graphics the C=64 is better. The old IBM PC suffered from a poor hardware architecture that made it run slower than it should have. (For comparison an ~8 MHz Commodore Amiga was all that was used to create Babylon 5, seaQuest, and several late 80s/early 90s Disney movies... slow CPU but fast architecture.)
As for glare the color scheme used on the C64 was light blue on dark blue background - a nice eye friendly mix. On modern PCs I turn my screen as dark as I can get it with high contrast to bring-up the text. I prefer white or yellow words on a dark screen.
There was a New Outer Limits episode like that, and it wasn't funny.
Basically the Cellular internet that fed information into everyone's brains suffered a collapse, and everyone was forced to learn the old-fashioned way: By opening a book. Of course first they had to learn what the scribbles on the page meant..... a bit of a challenge.
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Well if BP starts going-out and shooting pelicans in the head, rather than rescue them, that might be newsworthy. But thanks to this taking-away of freedom along the southern coast, we'll never know about it.
>>>Just take a helicopter out
Das ist verboten..... (cough)..... I mean: This is forbidden. You may not fly over the oil spill. That rule has existed for about a month now.
Even performing live may not be profitable for artists. I just learned that Lilith Fair canceled 1/3rd of its summer schedule due to lack of ticket sales. AND apparently it's not the only concert calling t quits. This summer has been lousy.
Prince doesn't understand.
The internet is no more a "fad" than radio or television. It merely changed how we receive the radio and television. NOW instead of fixed schedules we can get things on-demand, whenever we wish.
MTV and VH1 have not died. They simply moved. Now they are on the net and have a new name: youtube.com and googlevideos.com and itunes.com
>>>Perfect Dark required it, as did The World is Not Enough
No it didn't. If all you cared about was the direct person-to-person battle, like me, you didn't need the RAM expansion at all. - By the way I think it's funny we're debating about 4 megabytes. That's nothing and I think it's funny Nintendo didn't just include that RAM in the original console
.
>>>"Most Blacks have trouble learning..." it would sound pretty bigoted.
Yeah but saying "Most Blacks die of heart disease..." it would not be bigoted. It would be a fact which I could support with medical research that makes the same observation. There's nothing bigoted about stating what is true. Likewise there's nothing bigoted about saying old people have declining faculties (slower to learn, trouble walking, et cetera).
That's true.
As is the case throughout most of the US, the "bad eggs" are just those who live inside the California cities (bounded by the beltway). Most everyone outside the beltway are decent people who want to see government spending shrunk, but their voices are almost never heard.
>>>>>I will be fined $950 for choosing not to buy hospital insurance
>>
>>News flash: if I have to pay for your health care, you have to pay for mine.
News flash: That has nothing to do with my decision to NOT buy insurance. I can afford to pay my OWN health expenses, same as I could afford to buy a $200,000 house and $30,000 Lexus (times two). Most health procedures really aren't that expensive - like my dad's pacemarker implant - just $8000.
I don't need you paying my bills, therefore NO valid reason why I must be forced to buy insurance, so shove your anti-choice idea somewhere else. Be a Pro-Choice person instead.
H2O probably will be outlawed. After all water is filled with dangerous-and-explosive hydrogen! Just ignore the fact that, like this rock, the dangerous component is locked-up inside the molecule and therefore harmless.
California - proof positive that we're not really any more advanced that any other backwards third-world country. (reads constitution) - Is there anything in here that says we can expel a State from the Union, like the Lisbon Treaty allows States to be ejected from the EU? California will soon be the boil on America's ass the same way Greece is a boil on Europe's ass. I can hear the word on the wind already: "bailout"..... "bailout"
Californians - Please don't take offense. You know as well as we do that it's not you that sucks; it's your government that sucks. It's been demoted from AA to A- status (not much higher than junk bonds), and the debt-to-GDP ratio is nearing 10%. That may not sound that high, but remember California can't print money - when it runs out, it runs out.
All the taxpayers in the other states do NOT want to assume responsibility for bailing out Sacramento's mistakes and/or paying their bills, anymore than European taxpayers wanted to assume responsibility for paying Greece's bills.
>>>I would think rights have more to do with action and expression than with shit you own.
At its core, rights ARE about ownership. You own your own body and you own the various things your body can do - like think, speak, act, create. For example if a politician is granted the power to muzzle your mouth, then you no longer really own yourself - you are now the property of the politician. You're a serf and he's your master.
Natural Rights philosophy was discovered specifically to say, "I am no longer your property. I am no longer a serf. I can say whatever I please." It was a rebellion against the old feudal system where humans did not own themselves, but instead were owned by the manor's master or lord.
By the way this philosophy came from Scotland, an oppressed people who felt they did not own themselves. Coincidence? Not really. Everybody desires to throw-off the shackles that restrain them. It was later copied by the Americans, Canadians, and the Indians who also wanted to throw-off the English Parliament's shackles.
>>>whether there are Constitutional rights to Native Americans, children, criminals, foreigners, illegal aliens, tarrarists
Constitutional Law applies to any landmass where the US Government currently has jurisdiction. Although there are scumbag politicians who try to claim otherwise, in order to remove the shackles the constitution places on them, they are wrong. The Law is the law and applies everywhere within the US jurisdiction.
I know a guy who fought a similar case. He created a website about a new mall coming to his town, to provide information to residents about what stores would be there and what it would look like.
After the mall was completed the owner sued the webmaster, claiming the name of the dot-com site was copyrighted. It took about 4 years and eventually rose to the level of the US Supreme Court, but the webmaster won. His website was protected by the Constitution. It ended-up costing zero out of his pocket because the justices ordered the mall to pay for all legal expenses.
This turned-out to be an important ruling because it also protected sites like paypaylsucks.com or ebaysucks.com, which were facing similar "you can't use our name" lawsuits. Our right to speak freely, and either criticize or support companies, has been protected.
It only takes one man willing to stand-up for his legal rights to nullify portions of the DMCA that are unconstitutional.
>>>I also get 1p back for every £2 I spend on the card
Wow that's pretty sad. I get 1 penny for every dollar (about half-a-pound), so I'm getting cashback about four times faster. Even better: I get 5 pennies per dollar if the purchase is gasoline or food
.
>>>refunded all the cash,
Yeah but the bank didn't have to do that. I've heard horror stories of people who had their debit cards stolen, their money taken, and the bank refused to put the money back. That is allowed under current law.
In contrast when you use a credit card, the money that is stolen is stolen from THEIR account, not yours. That means if someone stole $4500, you can simply refuse to pay the bill. You suffer no loss, except a bad mark on your credit report (which would have zero impact on me 'cause my score's sky high).
Debit == you lose the money and the bank is under no obligation to restore it
Credit== the loss comes out of the bank's account; you lose nothing
As imperfect as FOX is, at least we have a voice that is opposite to the pro-"we need more government" crowd at ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and CNN. Whenever I want to hear a story I listen to both FOX and DNCNBC. I figure the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
CNN compares this BP oil spill censorship to when George Duh Bush refused to let them document the Katrina flood & aftermath. Wow - talk about violating the law. - I'll be glad when we get this Bush dude out of office, and a new president in charge so we can have freedom of speech and the press again. Bring about some real Change we can believe in.
Oh. Wait.....
LINK - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0NyinwQ6A#t=1m40s
"Oh no. Not again." - a bowl of petunias
Now if only we could figure out why the bowl of petunias said that? Anyway here's a LINK to CNN video where they compared this press censorship to when George Duh Bush blocked the press from documenting the Katrina flooding of New Orleans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0NyinwQ6A#t=1m40s
Well as CNN explained in the video, the boom is laying everywhere so the 65 foot distance effectively blocks cameramen from capturing images of the oil-soaked islands/reefs along the cost, or the oil-soaked birds struggling to survive. In other words, it prevents the people of the US, from seeing the damage that has been caused.
And we deserve to know because it's OUR country, not BP's country or the government's country. That's the whole purpose for freedom of the press - so the people will stay informed rather than remain in the dark. "The liberties of a people never were nor ever will be secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry, Virginian
Bought tickets to see the show in Seattle and Portland back in March but then got laid-off in April, and sent back home ~2000 miles away. I couldn't sell the tickets on ebay because they were tied to me (had to show ID and credit card to gain entrance). And I couldn't get a refund either.
So basically I got screwed. I ended-up flying across the country rather than waste the tickets. Like downloading games, it takes away your right to resell the used product to someone else
>>>Saying that Africa is going to have water shortages in 10 years and then say it might be 220 million years is more than a small error.
Always frakking everything up.
Oh.
Wait.
>>>City light rail systems do NOT belong to the government in most cases (in the usa). They are commissioned like the post office
>>
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You stupid twit. Not only is the post office owned by the government, but it IS the government. That's why its address is www.usps.gov
>>>So tell me, do you have mouths to feed? Mortgage or rent payments to make? It's real easy to be idealistic when you don't have responsibilities.
And this is why liberty has been dying, inch-by-inch, for the hundred years. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery?" - Patrick Henry, Virginian - "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwQQSo9YX4&feature=player_embedded
That guy's an agitator. It's one thing to be minding your own business and suddenly the cops start making your life miserable, so you stand up for your rights. It's something else entirely to drive-round looking for police cars & then purposely make yourself a nuisance. That's called "trolling" or baiting. AKA being a dick.
The traffic stop had ended, the citizen had drove off, and that was the end. There was no reason for that guy to continue hanging-around, flashing his gun and camera to the cop. That's just trolling.
Not only that but the N64 memory upgrade was a flop. As I recall only 2 games required it - Donkey Kong 64 and Zelda: Masks of Majora. For all the rest it improved the game but was optional. ----- I remember the same thing happened with the Commodore 64 versus the 128. In theory twice the memory would make for a better game but in reality almost no games required it - they all were designed to run on the base model.
>>>my first PC was a 286 8Mhz, which is smokin' next to a Com64
Not really. In pure number crunching, yes, but when it comes to sound and graphics the C=64 is better. The old IBM PC suffered from a poor hardware architecture that made it run slower than it should have. (For comparison an ~8 MHz Commodore Amiga was all that was used to create Babylon 5, seaQuest, and several late 80s/early 90s Disney movies... slow CPU but fast architecture.)
As for glare the color scheme used on the C64 was light blue on dark blue background - a nice eye friendly mix. On modern PCs I turn my screen as dark as I can get it with high contrast to bring-up the text. I prefer white or yellow words on a dark screen.
There was a New Outer Limits episode like that, and it wasn't funny.
Basically the Cellular internet that fed information into everyone's brains suffered a collapse, and everyone was forced to learn the old-fashioned way: By opening a book. Of course first they had to learn what the scribbles on the page meant..... a bit of a challenge.