Typical thief. You think it's okay to walk into a store, swipe some gum in your pocket, and then walk out. When you get caught you claim you did nothing wrong. That's all this is.
How do you think a Sheet Music songwriter is supposed to buy food to feed himself, if you steal his Labor without compensation? You cannot provide an answer because none exists, except copyright .
Driving is a privilege and therefore can be revoked at any time & any reason, even if no crime was committed. But walking is an innate natural Right and police may not detain you from moving about, unless they charge you or obtain a warrant.
>>>They would try and get you with resisting arrest
Then don't resist. If you voluntarily hold out your arms and say, "Here you may cuff me," the police can't claim you resisted can they? You cooperated fully. As for the actual crime of photography, if police said I'm not allowed to take photos my immediate reply would be: "Oh I'm sorry - I didn't know," and whip out a sketchpad instead. That's how reporters produced newspaper pictures in the past.
If the police then claim "It's illegal to draw the metrotrain," you know they are full of shit. And you would later win the court case (if it went that far). The police would end-up looking like fools and that would please me to no end. It would be like Christmas.
>>>So the Constitution should be lawfully amended via a process designed to make sure that the Constitution can never be lawfully amended once the United States grew large enough?
What the fuck are you talking about??? The Constitution was just amended in the mid-90s. It's an easy enough process for people who aren't twits.
>>>Gee, on that note, you'd think they would take a closer look at the controlled substances act, and the patriot act, free speech zones, etc. No, they really don't believe in obeying the constitution nearly as much as obeying the bible. >>>
And thus you demonstrate you really know nothing about Tea Partiers. Although there are a few religious-tyrannical types, most of them are libertarians and want to repeal all the laws you just mentioned, because not only are they unconstitutional, but also anti-liberty.
>>>You mention the southern states as if they were a different country.
Yes they were essentially - just like the southern states of the European Union were/are separate countries. Some EU states allow gay marriage; others don't. Similarly in the American Union some states allowed slavery while others banned it & treated blacks as equals.
>>>What... what do you expect x2 audio to sound like?:S
On my Windows PC the 2xAV plugin makes the 2x playback sound natural. Ditto on my Sony DVD player with 1.5x playback. The pitch is corrected so the talking people sound normal.
>>>No actually it does not. Look a little closer. Opera aligns the right side both inside and outside the block quote rather than indenting both left and right.
A lot of sites "break" because they detect Opera and then feed it garbage code. So adjust your settings to "mask as firefox", which causes the site to send proper code, and the page renders perfectly.
Why not just feed all browsers the same HTML? If the browser fails to render properly (cough, IE6 and IE7) well that's the browser's problem. They should have followed established web standards.
I don't know who labeled you "troll"? "Ignorant" would have been more appropriate. Better yet, don't mod you down at all - I don't think people should be censored just because their opinions are unpopular.
- AdBlock is not an addon because it's built in - Opera has addons. Lots of them in fact. - No idea what QT4 is. - Try instant pageview - rather than forcing you to wait several seconds, Opera will display the partially-loaded page immediately. I wish Firefox had that feature.
Opera also has a few cool features: - Opera Turbo for those of us on slow connections like Dialup or Cellular - Opera can put your bookmarks *online* so you can access them anywhere you go (or if your computer crashes, you won't lose them). - And it has SpeedDial with upto 25 of your favorite sites. Just click the icon of Facebook, Wikipedia, or whatever and go directly there. Nice-and-fast.
Not that I think Opera's flawless. But you didn't give it a proper review either.
There are a few things different about Mac which I find annoying:
- Can't find a program that plays videos at 2x speed without making everyone sound like chipmunks - Can't run Internet Exploder (not that I would want to... just saying) - Can't find any decent emulators for Atari or C=64 or Super Nintendo gaming - - Doesn't have a convenient start menu to quickly-and-easily access all my programs. - Doesn't have a task manager to adjust priorities or kill programs (at least not that I'm aware of) - And at one point didn't have a right button menu, but of course that's been fixed now that Apple stopped clinging to the one-button mouse .
>>>Point is: Change makes people confused and angry
Pretty much. Hell even upgrading from XP to Vista made me annoyed. And they are the same basic OS. As for usability: Mac was superior to the Windows 1/2/3/95/M.e kludges that used to exist, but I don't really see much difference between OS X and Windows NT 5/6 (XP and Seven). Both are solid. .
>>>said it was stupid not to copy the most popular software in every way.
It probably is. If Honda came-out with a car where the turn signals were on the floor, the gearshift attached to the radio, and the throttle/brakes on a stalk at your left hand, people would say "this sucks" and go buy Toyota instead. If you are a minority player, it makes sense to copy the majority player(s) and have similar controls. It makes it easier for people to switch-over to your car or computer.
You mean I can't be both? Okay. I'll stop calling myself a hacker then and go with "technician" or "ham" or "tinkerer". I like to "tinker" with my PS3 to run AmigaOS - and no Mr. Sony or Congressman that doesn't make me a criminal.
No actually it's short for "IBM PC" or "IBM PC compatible clone". It's been that way for about 15 years now, since all the other PCs (tandy, coleco, atari, commodore) died out leaving behind just the IBM PC clones and..... um, that other one. "Amiga" I think it's called.;-)
(I'm just joking - I just bought a Mac myself but calling it a PC would be an insult.)
>>>False. Hate crimes, segregation and intimidation were common
False. The right not to be insulted by your neighbors is NOT a right - if it were I could criminally-charge half my coworkers and former classmates. Do not falsely label things as rights that are not rights.
And segregation didn't exist as a concept in 1600s, 1700s, or early 1800s america. The southern states treated blacks as slaves, and the northern states treated "freemen" blacks the same as whites, with full rights and responsibilities (like voting and property ownership). In fact some of the Founding Fathers (the lesser known ones) were black as well.
You need to educate yourself on how the world ACTUALLY existed at the time of this nation's founding.
I bet if they switched from their Windows software to a Mac OS software, they'd experience similar results. It's inevitable that when you jump from one style to another style, you'll experience some slowdown in the work.
>>>the founding fathers were essentially fighting for their own desire for money and power.
And what the hell is wrong with that? Every day we citizens drag ourselves out of bed and labor to earn money. What's wrong with being allowed to keep almost all that money for ourselves? And what is wrong with giving Power to the People, so they can be free to make their own personal decisions (I think I'll buy a new car) rather than have the decisions dictated by a nobility (You must buy a car from the UK only - no other nation).
I don't see your remark as a criticism. I see it as a strength. If I were president I would immediately push for the US Income Tax to be 0% for the first $100,000. Let the common man keep the money he labored to earn. And I would next work to abolish monopolies so we can have a Pro-Choice solution to our problems, rather than being locked into just 1 or 2 choices. Money and Power to the people .
Which is why Jefferson immediately ran-out to a printer and had the original document (including the line about ending slavery) published by the printers. He didn't like the Congress-approved version - he preferred his original. You can find it here:
Also outlawing drunk driving is a constitutional act, if you read Amendment 10 (powers reserved to the Member State governments). It's amazing how many people criticize the constitution and yet have no clue what it actually says.
>>>>when was the last time you wrote code that lasted more than two centuries with less than 30 patches? >> >>Six thousand years ago.
Actually the bible has had thousands of patches over the years, including some chapters that were completely-and-totally expunged & burned on fires because they were heretical teachings, such as the Gospel of Mary Magdalene (a woman disciple equal to the male disciples). So they destroyed her work and falsely-labeled her a prostitute. Can't have a woman disciple can we? Jesus obviously made a mistake (so said the Romans).
- The First successful republic since the Roman Republic.
- A legal document that still stands today (nobody else has a ~250 year old written constitution)
- And a Bill of Rights that still blocks politicians from being dicks.
- Plus a level of religious freedom (worship whomever you want) that even modern societies like Europe do not enjoy. For example the UK still has an official, taxpayer-supported state religion. Those pro-religious freedom laws were passed by people like Adams and Jefferson during the 1810s and 20s.
- Suffrage for blacks, women, and property-less citizens. True that was only available to a few northern states, but it was a start. It provided the foundation for later advances.
Freedom doesn't come all at once. It happens bit by bit over time .
>>>There were plenty of Chinese getting screwed over in for most of the 1800s though.
Yep. Look at how the British and French and Dutch treated the conquered mainland of China and Indochina. No wonder there's still an anti-european sentiment even today.
>>>It's difficult for me to take the Declaration of Independence seriously when blacks didn't get rights until almost 200 years later
False. "Freemen" had the same rights as whites, in states like Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other northern states. You see in its original condition the United States was a lot like the European Union - each state was sovereign and followed its own rules. Some had slavery - others did not. .
>>>not to mention the plight of Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, etc.
Native Americans were treated as conquered peoples, same way the Romans treated the Celts and Britons when they were conquered. i.e. An inferior, backward people that did not have rights. To us it seems wrong but at the time (1600s,1700s) that was the standard operating procedure of European society.
Japanese- and German-Americans were imprisoned by a president many regard as a "hero" even today: FDR. Why someone would venerate this man makes no sense to me.
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Website owners already do that (turn people away) when they create sites that are non-dialup friendly.
Typical thief. You think it's okay to walk into a store, swipe some gum in your pocket, and then walk out. When you get caught you claim you did nothing wrong. That's all this is.
How do you think a Sheet Music songwriter is supposed to buy food to feed himself, if you steal his Labor without compensation? You cannot provide an answer because none exists, except copyright
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The metrorail belongs to the government.
The government belongs to the People.
QED the metrorail belongs to the people.
In my opinion if you can see it with your eyes, then you can record it, whether it's with a camera, a sketchpad, or the neural net called the brain.
Yeah but driving is a different set of rules.
Driving is a privilege and therefore can be revoked at any time & any reason, even if no crime was committed. But walking is an innate natural Right and police may not detain you from moving about, unless they charge you or obtain a warrant.
>>>They would try and get you with resisting arrest
Then don't resist. If you voluntarily hold out your arms and say, "Here you may cuff me," the police can't claim you resisted can they? You cooperated fully. As for the actual crime of photography, if police said I'm not allowed to take photos my immediate reply would be: "Oh I'm sorry - I didn't know," and whip out a sketchpad instead. That's how reporters produced newspaper pictures in the past.
If the police then claim "It's illegal to draw the metrotrain," you know they are full of shit. And you would later win the court case (if it went that far). The police would end-up looking like fools and that would please me to no end. It would be like Christmas.
>>>So the Constitution should be lawfully amended via a process designed to make sure that the Constitution can never be lawfully amended once the United States grew large enough?
What the fuck are you talking about??? The Constitution was just amended in the mid-90s. It's an easy enough process for people who aren't twits.
>>>Gee, on that note, you'd think they would take a closer look at the controlled substances act, and the patriot act, free speech zones, etc. No, they really don't believe in obeying the constitution nearly as much as obeying the bible.
>>>
And thus you demonstrate you really know nothing about Tea Partiers. Although there are a few religious-tyrannical types, most of them are libertarians and want to repeal all the laws you just mentioned, because not only are they unconstitutional, but also anti-liberty.
>>>You mention the southern states as if they were a different country.
Yes they were essentially - just like the southern states of the European Union were/are separate countries. Some EU states allow gay marriage; others don't. Similarly in the American Union some states allowed slavery while others banned it & treated blacks as equals.
>>>What... what do you expect x2 audio to sound like? :S
On my Windows PC the 2xAV plugin makes the 2x playback sound natural. Ditto on my Sony DVD player with 1.5x playback. The pitch is corrected so the talking people sound normal.
Include an icon that says "This will not render properly on IE6 or IE7. Please upgrade." Basically the same thing Youtube is doing.
>>>No actually it does not. Look a little closer. Opera aligns the right side both inside and outside the block quote rather than indenting both left and right.
A lot of sites "break" because they detect Opera and then feed it garbage code.
So adjust your settings to "mask as firefox", which causes the site to send proper code, and the page renders perfectly.
Why not just feed all browsers the same HTML? If the browser fails to render properly (cough, IE6 and IE7) well that's the browser's problem. They should have followed established web standards.
I don't know who labeled you "troll"? "Ignorant" would have been more appropriate. Better yet, don't mod you down at all - I don't think people should be censored just because their opinions are unpopular.
- AdBlock is not an addon because it's built in
- Opera has addons. Lots of them in fact.
- No idea what QT4 is.
- Try instant pageview - rather than forcing you to wait several seconds, Opera will display the partially-loaded page immediately. I wish Firefox had that feature.
Opera also has a few cool features:
- Opera Turbo for those of us on slow connections like Dialup or Cellular
- Opera can put your bookmarks *online* so you can access them anywhere you go (or if your computer crashes, you won't lose them).
- And it has SpeedDial with upto 25 of your favorite sites. Just click the icon of Facebook, Wikipedia, or whatever and go directly there. Nice-and-fast.
Not that I think Opera's flawless.
But you didn't give it a proper review either.
There are a few things different about Mac which I find annoying:
- Can't find a program that plays videos at 2x speed without making everyone sound like chipmunks
- Can't run Internet Exploder (not that I would want to... just saying)
- Can't find any decent emulators for Atari or C=64 or Super Nintendo gaming
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- Doesn't have a convenient start menu to quickly-and-easily access all my programs.
- Doesn't have a task manager to adjust priorities or kill programs (at least not that I'm aware of)
- And at one point didn't have a right button menu, but of course that's been fixed now that Apple stopped clinging to the one-button mouse
.
>>>Point is: Change makes people confused and angry
Pretty much. Hell even upgrading from XP to Vista made me annoyed. And they are the same basic OS. As for usability: Mac was superior to the Windows 1/2/3/95/M.e kludges that used to exist, but I don't really see much difference between OS X and Windows NT 5/6 (XP and Seven). Both are solid.
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>>>said it was stupid not to copy the most popular software in every way.
It probably is. If Honda came-out with a car where the turn signals were on the floor, the gearshift attached to the radio, and the throttle/brakes on a stalk at your left hand, people would say "this sucks" and go buy Toyota instead. If you are a minority player, it makes sense to copy the majority player(s) and have similar controls. It makes it easier for people to switch-over to your car or computer.
>>>stop equating "hacker" with "criminal".
You mean I can't be both?
Okay.
I'll stop calling myself a hacker then and go with "technician" or "ham" or "tinkerer". I like to "tinker" with my PS3 to run AmigaOS - and no Mr. Sony or Congressman that doesn't make me a criminal.
>>>PC is short for Personal Computer
No actually it's short for "IBM PC" or "IBM PC compatible clone". It's been that way for about 15 years now, since all the other PCs (tandy, coleco, atari, commodore) died out leaving behind just the IBM PC clones and..... um, that other one. "Amiga" I think it's called. ;-)
(I'm just joking - I just bought a Mac myself but calling it a PC would be an insult.)
>>>False. Hate crimes, segregation and intimidation were common
False. The right not to be insulted by your neighbors is NOT a right - if it were I could criminally-charge half my coworkers and former classmates. Do not falsely label things as rights that are not rights.
And segregation didn't exist as a concept in 1600s, 1700s, or early 1800s america. The southern states treated blacks as slaves, and the northern states treated "freemen" blacks the same as whites, with full rights and responsibilities (like voting and property ownership). In fact some of the Founding Fathers (the lesser known ones) were black as well.
You need to educate yourself on how the world ACTUALLY existed at the time of this nation's founding.
I bet if they switched from their Windows software to a Mac OS software, they'd experience similar results. It's inevitable that when you jump from one style to another style, you'll experience some slowdown in the work.
>>>the founding fathers were essentially fighting for their own desire for money and power.
And what the hell is wrong with that? Every day we citizens drag ourselves out of bed and labor to earn money. What's wrong with being allowed to keep almost all that money for ourselves? And what is wrong with giving Power to the People, so they can be free to make their own personal decisions (I think I'll buy a new car) rather than have the decisions dictated by a nobility (You must buy a car from the UK only - no other nation).
I don't see your remark as a criticism. I see it as a strength. If I were president I would immediately push for the US Income Tax to be 0% for the first $100,000. Let the common man keep the money he labored to earn. And I would next work to abolish monopolies so we can have a Pro-Choice solution to our problems, rather than being locked into just 1 or 2 choices. Money and Power to the people
.
Which is why Jefferson immediately ran-out to a printer and had the original document (including the line about ending slavery) published by the printers. He didn't like the Congress-approved version - he preferred his original. You can find it here:
http://www.constitution.org/tj/doi_rough.htm
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Also outlawing drunk driving is a constitutional act, if you read Amendment 10 (powers reserved to the Member State governments). It's amazing how many people criticize the constitution and yet have no clue what it actually says.
>>>>when was the last time you wrote code that lasted more than two centuries with less than 30 patches?
>>
>>Six thousand years ago.
Actually the bible has had thousands of patches over the years, including some chapters that were completely-and-totally expunged & burned on fires because they were heretical teachings, such as the Gospel of Mary Magdalene (a woman disciple equal to the male disciples). So they destroyed her work and falsely-labeled her a prostitute. Can't have a woman disciple can we? Jesus obviously made a mistake (so said the Romans).
You'll need to think of a different example.
Failure?
- The First successful republic since the Roman Republic.
- A legal document that still stands today (nobody else has a ~250 year old written constitution)
- And a Bill of Rights that still blocks politicians from being dicks.
- Plus a level of religious freedom (worship whomever you want) that even modern societies like Europe do not enjoy. For example the UK still has an official, taxpayer-supported state religion. Those pro-religious freedom laws were passed by people like Adams and Jefferson during the 1810s and 20s.
- Suffrage for blacks, women, and property-less citizens. True that was only available to a few northern states, but it was a start. It provided the foundation for later advances.
Freedom doesn't come all at once. It happens bit by bit over time
.
>>>There were plenty of Chinese getting screwed over in for most of the 1800s though.
Yep. Look at how the British and French and Dutch treated the conquered mainland of China and Indochina. No wonder there's still an anti-european sentiment even today.
>>>It's difficult for me to take the Declaration of Independence seriously when blacks didn't get rights until almost 200 years later
False. "Freemen" had the same rights as whites, in states like Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other northern states. You see in its original condition the United States was a lot like the European Union - each state was sovereign and followed its own rules. Some had slavery - others did not.
.
>>>not to mention the plight of Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, etc.
Native Americans were treated as conquered peoples, same way the Romans treated the Celts and Britons when they were conquered. i.e. An inferior, backward people that did not have rights. To us it seems wrong but at the time (1600s,1700s) that was the standard operating procedure of European society.
Japanese- and German-Americans were imprisoned by a president many regard as a "hero" even today:
FDR. Why someone would venerate this man makes no sense to me.