>>>"You must patch to version 7.3.43... we've got a security problem with 7.3.42."
But Microsoft says that about everything. I can just imagine them trying to turn-off my ethernet card, simply because I'm running Explorer 6 or Microsoft Office 97. Yes I know they're old but they are also compact, using very little memory. No corporation or government should have the power to control my computer or property .
(turns off the pr0n). Yo chill! Homie don't play dat.
Clearly this ACTA will be shoved through the same way NAFTA, DMCA, Pelosicare, and the EU Lisbon Treaty was shoved through even though 70-80% were against all of those bills/treaties. Alex Jones claims it's because governments are being run by a banking elite and megacorporations, but I don't think it's anything so complicated. I believe our leaders in the EU, US, and elsewhere have simply decided they are the new nobility, and they are blessed by god/time/fate/whatever to rule over the serfs (us). i.e. Democracy is dead; the People are ignored.
ACTA will pass. It might change names (like the EU Constitution was renamed Lisbon Treaty) but eventually it will pass in direct opposition to our wishes.
>>>So wait...you're saying you want her to inject opinion into her rulings, instead of basing her rulings solely on law?
No. Are you in the habit of using Strawmen (logical fallacies) in your discussions? That's not what he said and it's rude to put words in his mouth. ----- His point was that a judge should follow the Law not the Supreme Court's opinions/precedents. Just because the nine unelected oligarchs in DC said it's okay to censor obscene photos doesn't mean I, as a judge, have to agree. The Law is clear: "The right to free speech/press shall not be infringed." "Other rights are retained by the People [such as the right of free expression, including photos]." "The powers not given to Congress are reserved.... to the Member States or the People."
That's the law. And as a judge I would enforce it. Anybody appearing before me who had been charged with obscene photos would be instantly freed. The SCOTUS' opinion that obscene photos are a crime be damned. I swore an oath to the Supreme Law, not to a nine-person oligarchy.
Factcheck is also liberal (pro-big government) biased.
Also Republicans/libertarians make a mistake when they say "liberal media bias". What they really mean is TV media is bias, which is dominated by Democrat-friendly reporters (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC). In other non-TV media there is a balance for both sides, but of course most Americans only watch TV News. In any caes the R's and L's should be more careful when they speak. *TV* is liberal biased not the media in general.
Okay you listed all the positive things about Obama. I'll grant you that, but for balance here are the negative things. Obama's broken promises:
1 - Stop snatching people off streets. Provide a Right to fair trial. (REALITY: No longer have Miranda rights even for U.S. citizens.) (Obama's advisers say americans can be held indefinitely w/o trial) 2 - Protect our Right to Privacy. (REALITY: They now spy on us via warrantless wiretaps and track our cellphones.) (Patriot Act renewed by Obama and the Pelosi Democrats.) 3 - Stop interrogation. Close Guantanamo. (Revoked - Club G is still open and now they interrogate US citizens too, not just foreigners.) 4 - End the war. (Nope. Instead it's been extended two more years and apparently involves killing children & journalists not soldiers (see wikileaks))
Bush. Obama. Two halves of the same ass. And on another note: I just noticed that the national debt jumped from 10.5 to 13 trillion since Obama took office. That's ~$130,000 owed by each American home. Think about that. Can you afford to pay off ~$130,000 in debt? I sure as hell can't. And that doesn't include unfunded liabilities (medicare, SS, etc) which I suspect will eventually be discontinued due to lack of money.
I paid off my debt. Now it's time for the government to do the same. When the Communist Cold War ended in 1990, that's when the government should have cut spending and paid-off the debt. It was only 3 trillion then. Now it's much bigger and harder to tackle.
>>>Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid as a result of ASCAP and similar lobbying. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought >>>
Basically like unpaid labor. You contribute all that effort into Linux or whatever, only to have it taken away from you (like Google did with Taco when they turned it commercial). I'd be angry first, and I'd get even with the ASCAP and RIAA CEO just the same way I got even with my ex-california boss after he did not pay my last week of work.
POINT - It's ridiculous to worry about events that are unlikely to occur. The odds of me getting hit by a car, directly, are probably 1 in 100 million. I know literally nobody who was ever hit by a car. I'm not wasting my money on non-events. (Besides if I was hit it would be covered by the driver's insurance, or the state.)
>>>And you used the same methodology (the program they wrote which takes into account all sorts of things) to determine that, of course.
No. I gauged the compressed dialup against my 750 kbit/s DSL. It loads webpages almost as fast, so I estimate it has an effective speed of 400-500 kbit/s. True the images look like crap (due to the 90% compression) but who cares? Most of those images are stupid ads anyway. What matters is I'm getting near-DSL web surfing from a phone line - very useful when that's all the hotel has.
>>>Penn basically made the argument that recycling is unnercessary because it requires material separation by each person throwing stuff away
Partly but his MAIN argument was that most of the separated items can't be sold, so they are then thrown into the central landfill anyway. So all that work of separation was for naught. .
>>>The other one was the toilet seat
The only thing I remember about that episode is Penn swabbing the fine-looking ass of a model. Mmmmm. BUT if I recall correctly, the point was that cold dry areas are not really contagious, and it's stupid to be afraid of trivial stuff (like getting hit on the head by a meteorite). Penn & Teller is a hit-or-miss show but even when they miss, they are funny. And at least they make you *think* unlike most TV today. "ORGASMS" is the episode I did not like. No particular reason... just felt that it has no real point for existing, plus I was turned-off by the disgusting closeups of guys/gals orgasming and so I never watched it again.
Vice-versa I really liked that Cheerleader episode. I didn't realize that cheerleading was the most dangerous sport in high school or that it's unregulated by the government. It is rather ridiculous we put our young women into such a dangerous hobby/sport and don't bother to protect them despite injury after injury after injury .
>>>Assuming you don't want a 47%-175% speed increase
True but for me it's a matter of economics. According to the article FiOS would give me ~1200 kbit/s web surfing, which is about 1.5 times faster but the fee is around $50. That's 3 times more than what I currently pay, so I'll stick with what I've got.
>>>I enjoy working with women. They bring a gentler feel to the group.
And more boobs. And better legs. And they wash their hands after using the bathroom! Even when I play games I typically pick the woman character (hot) rather than the male character (ick). Being surrounded by a bunch of dudes sucks, and I've often considered going into a different profession with more women - like teaching. Or healthcare.
>>>If I'm speaking most men will just interrupt and talk right over as if I'm not even in the ro
So? Men do the same to me, and I am a man. That's how men communicate. Is it rude? Yes but that's how men are - constantly interrupting one another. It's not because you're a woman but because the men are treating you like any other man. You need to learn to interrupt them too, if you want to be heard. .
>>>And if I'm competent, which I am, I'm seen as a threat and treated as "the enemy"..
Again, no different than how men treat me, and I'm a man. It is the way of things. Maybe you need to read "Men Are From Mars" which has very useful insights into how men think and talk differently from women, because you seem to expect men to act like women (don't interrupt, don't be competitive), and they simply aren't hardwired that way .
False. When you compared men and women of equal years, they make equal salaries. You make the same mistake as those who claim people only lived to 40 in the 1700s. That is the AVERAGE lifespan, and it's drawn downward because of early death, but if a person survived past age 20 his life expectancy was 70-80 years. Same as now.
Likewise women tend to quit early, but when you compared a 60 year old man to a 60 year old woman in IT, you'll find they make the same salaries.
You need to move out of Basement 1.0 and upgrade to Apartment 1.0, so you can acquire Girlfriend 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and so on...... after about 3 years you can then use the Bribe With Ring Addon to turn Girlfriend X.0 into Wife OS X 10.0. Eventually Kid 0.1 will emerge.
>>>all the medical conditions I had while in IT disappeared within 2 months of leaving it
I refuse to let myself become stressed-out in my job. Even if my boss is breathing down my back and saying, "If you don't get this done I'll find someone else who can," I just ignore the mother fucker. I chose this career to ENJOY it not to be treated like a McDonalds employee, and if he does replace me with somebody else, so be it. At least I'll be happier than Mr. Heart Attack.
I've been marked troll, but you shouldn't shoot the messenger.
I'm just sharing what the White House Chief of Staff SAID with his own words - "The word volunteer is tricky...... we'd prefer people comply by choice, but if they don't then we need to pass laws to force people to do what is best for them." - That's what he said and no amount of denying he said those words will erase the video from google searches, anymore than you can deny George's last name is Bush.
>>>"SurfSpeed takes into account the complete, real-world download time of a Web page to a browser."
If that's true then there's no reason for me to upgrade from dialup or DSL. My dialup uses image and text compression to achieve an equivalent web page load of 400-500 kbit/s. My DSL is 750 kbit/s. There's no reason for me to upgrade if, according to this PC World magazine, I'll only get ~1100 kbit/s in a browser .
TRIVIA: How the US compares to other continent-sized countries/unions around the world: Russian Federation 8.3 Mbit/s U.S. 7.0 E.U. 6.6 Canada 5.7 Australia 5.1 China 3.0 Brazil 2.1 Mexico 1.1 Mbit/s
And if you prefer to look on a state-by-state basis of the EU, US, and Canada then you get: 1 Sweden 13 Mbit/s 2 Delaware, Romania,Netherlands,Bulgaria 12 Mbit/s 3 Washington,Rhode Island 11 4 Massachusetts 10 5 New Jersey,Virginia,New Hampshire,New York 9 6 British Columbia,Colorado,Connecticut,Arizona, Slovakia 8 Mbit/s
>>>.....then he'll use the force of government (law) to compel you to "volunteer".
Similar to how I am being forced to buy Hospitalization insurance that I don't want. (I'll get it when I'm old but for now I'm still young and healthy.) (Plus paying cash is cheaper.)
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>>>"You must patch to version 7.3.43... we've got a security problem with 7.3.42."
But Microsoft says that about everything. I can just imagine them trying to turn-off my ethernet card, simply because I'm running Explorer 6 or Microsoft Office 97. Yes I know they're old but they are also compact, using very little memory. No corporation or government should have the power to control my computer or property
.
(turns off the pr0n). Yo chill! Homie don't play dat.
Clearly this ACTA will be shoved through the same way NAFTA, DMCA, Pelosicare, and the EU Lisbon Treaty was shoved through even though 70-80% were against all of those bills/treaties. Alex Jones claims it's because governments are being run by a banking elite and megacorporations, but I don't think it's anything so complicated. I believe our leaders in the EU, US, and elsewhere have simply decided they are the new nobility, and they are blessed by god/time/fate/whatever to rule over the serfs (us). i.e. Democracy is dead; the People are ignored.
ACTA will pass. It might change names (like the EU Constitution was renamed Lisbon Treaty) but eventually it will pass in direct opposition to our wishes.
L8r.
>>>So wait...you're saying you want her to inject opinion into her rulings, instead of basing her rulings solely on law?
No. Are you in the habit of using Strawmen (logical fallacies) in your discussions? That's not what he said and it's rude to put words in his mouth. ----- His point was that a judge should follow the Law not the Supreme Court's opinions/precedents. Just because the nine unelected oligarchs in DC said it's okay to censor obscene photos doesn't mean I, as a judge, have to agree. The Law is clear: "The right to free speech/press shall not be infringed." "Other rights are retained by the People [such as the right of free expression, including photos]." "The powers not given to Congress are reserved.... to the Member States or the People."
That's the law. And as a judge I would enforce it. Anybody appearing before me who had been charged with obscene photos would be instantly freed. The SCOTUS' opinion that obscene photos are a crime be damned. I swore an oath to the Supreme Law, not to a nine-person oligarchy.
Factcheck is also liberal (pro-big government) biased.
Also Republicans/libertarians make a mistake when they say "liberal media bias". What they really mean is TV media is bias, which is dominated by Democrat-friendly reporters (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC). In other non-TV media there is a balance for both sides, but of course most Americans only watch TV News. In any caes the R's and L's should be more careful when they speak. *TV* is liberal biased not the media in general.
P.S.
>>>We didn't invade Iran like McCain promised.
I don't remember this. Do you have a youtube or video link so I can hear McCain say this in his own voice? If not then I'll consider it as not true.
Okay you listed all the positive things about Obama. I'll grant you that, but for balance here are the negative things. Obama's broken promises:
1 - Stop snatching people off streets. Provide a Right to fair trial. (REALITY: No longer have Miranda rights even for U.S. citizens.) (Obama's advisers say americans can be held indefinitely w/o trial)
2 - Protect our Right to Privacy. (REALITY: They now spy on us via warrantless wiretaps and track our cellphones.) (Patriot Act renewed by Obama and the Pelosi Democrats.)
3 - Stop interrogation. Close Guantanamo. (Revoked - Club G is still open and now they interrogate US citizens too, not just foreigners.)
4 - End the war. (Nope. Instead it's been extended two more years and apparently involves killing children & journalists not soldiers (see wikileaks))
Bush. Obama. Two halves of the same ass. And on another note: I just noticed that the national debt jumped from 10.5 to 13 trillion since Obama took office. That's ~$130,000 owed by each American home. Think about that. Can you afford to pay off ~$130,000 in debt? I sure as hell can't. And that doesn't include unfunded liabilities (medicare, SS, etc) which I suspect will eventually be discontinued due to lack of money.
I paid off my debt. Now it's time for the government to do the same. When the Communist Cold War ended in 1990, that's when the government should have cut spending and paid-off the debt. It was only 3 trillion then. Now it's much bigger and harder to tackle.
>>>Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid as a result of ASCAP and similar lobbying. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought
>>>
Basically like unpaid labor. You contribute all that effort into Linux or whatever, only to have it taken away from you (like Google did with Taco when they turned it commercial). I'd be angry first, and I'd get even with the ASCAP and RIAA CEO just the same way I got even with my ex-california boss after he did not pay my last week of work.
Or a train.
Or a stampede at a zebra crossing.
Or a toilet seat falling from the space shuttle.
POINT - It's ridiculous to worry about events that are unlikely to occur. The odds of me getting hit by a car, directly, are probably 1 in 100 million. I know literally nobody who was ever hit by a car. I'm not wasting my money on non-events. (Besides if I was hit it would be covered by the driver's insurance, or the state.)
That's spelled "idjit"
(Yes a supernatural reference.)
Comcast still imposes 250 GB limit. I don't know about other companies.
>>>And you used the same methodology (the program they wrote which takes into account all sorts of things) to determine that, of course.
No. I gauged the compressed dialup against my 750 kbit/s DSL. It loads webpages almost as fast, so I estimate it has an effective speed of 400-500 kbit/s. True the images look like crap (due to the 90% compression) but who cares? Most of those images are stupid ads anyway. What matters is I'm getting near-DSL web surfing from a phone line - very useful when that's all the hotel has.
>>>Penn basically made the argument that recycling is unnercessary because it requires material separation by each person throwing stuff away
Partly but his MAIN argument was that most of the separated items can't be sold, so they are then thrown into the central landfill anyway. So all that work of separation was for naught.
.
>>>The other one was the toilet seat
The only thing I remember about that episode is Penn swabbing the fine-looking ass of a model. Mmmmm. BUT if I recall correctly, the point was that cold dry areas are not really contagious, and it's stupid to be afraid of trivial stuff (like getting hit on the head by a meteorite). Penn & Teller is a hit-or-miss show but even when they miss, they are funny. And at least they make you *think* unlike most TV today. "ORGASMS" is the episode I did not like. No particular reason... just felt that it has no real point for existing, plus I was turned-off by the disgusting closeups of guys/gals orgasming and so I never watched it again.
Vice-versa I really liked that Cheerleader episode. I didn't realize that cheerleading was the most dangerous sport in high school or that it's unregulated by the government. It is rather ridiculous we put our young women into such a dangerous hobby/sport and don't bother to protect them despite injury after injury after injury
.
>>>Assuming you don't want a 47%-175% speed increase
True but for me it's a matter of economics. According to the article FiOS would give me ~1200 kbit/s web surfing, which is about 1.5 times faster but the fee is around $50. That's 3 times more than what I currently pay, so I'll stick with what I've got.
>>>I enjoy working with women. They bring a gentler feel to the group.
And more boobs. And better legs. And they wash their hands after using the bathroom! Even when I play games I typically pick the woman character (hot) rather than the male character (ick). Being surrounded by a bunch of dudes sucks, and I've often considered going into a different profession with more women - like teaching. Or healthcare.
>>>If I'm speaking most men will just interrupt and talk right over as if I'm not even in the ro
So? Men do the same to me, and I am a man. That's how men communicate. Is it rude? Yes but that's how men are - constantly interrupting one another. It's not because you're a woman but because the men are treating you like any other man. You need to learn to interrupt them too, if you want to be heard.
.
>>>And if I'm competent, which I am, I'm seen as a threat and treated as "the enemy"..
Again, no different than how men treat me, and I'm a man. It is the way of things. Maybe you need to read "Men Are From Mars" which has very useful insights into how men think and talk differently from women, because you seem to expect men to act like women (don't interrupt, don't be competitive), and they simply aren't hardwired that way
.
>>>women are offered shittier salaries on average
False. When you compared men and women of equal years, they make equal salaries. You make the same mistake as those who claim people only lived to 40 in the 1700s. That is the AVERAGE lifespan, and it's drawn downward because of early death, but if a person survived past age 20 his life expectancy was 70-80 years. Same as now.
Likewise women tend to quit early, but when you compared a 60 year old man to a 60 year old woman in IT, you'll find they make the same salaries.
You need to move out of Basement 1.0 and upgrade to Apartment 1.0, so you can acquire Girlfriend 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and so on...... after about 3 years you can then use the Bribe With Ring Addon to turn Girlfriend X.0 into Wife OS X 10.0. Eventually Kid 0.1 will emerge.
But be careful. After about twenty years, maybe as fast as ten years, Wife 10.0 will start to look like this: http://www.beforeandaftermarriage.com/celebrity/fat-keely-shaye-smith or affectionately called "Grandma 40 Plus"
>>>all the medical conditions I had while in IT disappeared within 2 months of leaving it
I refuse to let myself become stressed-out in my job. Even if my boss is breathing down my back and saying, "If you don't get this done I'll find someone else who can," I just ignore the mother fucker. I chose this career to ENJOY it not to be treated like a McDonalds employee, and if he does replace me with somebody else, so be it. At least I'll be happier than Mr. Heart Attack.
I've been marked troll, but you shouldn't shoot the messenger.
I'm just sharing what the White House Chief of Staff SAID with his own words - "The word volunteer is tricky...... we'd prefer people comply by choice, but if they don't then we need to pass laws to force people to do what is best for them." - That's what he said and no amount of denying he said those words will erase the video from google searches, anymore than you can deny George's last name is Bush.
If two anonymous cowards (0) are talking to one another, does anyone hear them? ;-)
You mean Gigabytes per month? Ditto. It seems a more logical approach to separate the ISPs from one another.
>>>"SurfSpeed takes into account the complete, real-world download time of a Web page to a browser."
If that's true then there's no reason for me to upgrade from dialup or DSL. My dialup uses image and text compression to achieve an equivalent web page load of 400-500 kbit/s. My DSL is 750 kbit/s. There's no reason for me to upgrade if, according to this PC World magazine, I'll only get ~1100 kbit/s in a browser
.
TRIVIA: How the US compares to other continent-sized countries/unions around the world:
Russian Federation 8.3 Mbit/s
U.S. 7.0
E.U. 6.6
Canada 5.7
Australia 5.1
China 3.0
Brazil 2.1
Mexico 1.1 Mbit/s
And if you prefer to look on a state-by-state basis of the EU, US, and Canada then you get:
1 Sweden 13 Mbit/s
2 Delaware, Romania,Netherlands,Bulgaria 12 Mbit/s
3 Washington,Rhode Island 11
4 Massachusetts 10
5 New Jersey,Virginia,New Hampshire,New York 9
6 British Columbia,Colorado,Connecticut,Arizona, Slovakia 8 Mbit/s
>>>.....then he'll use the force of government (law) to compel you to "volunteer".
Similar to how I am being forced to buy Hospitalization insurance that I don't want. (I'll get it when I'm old but for now I'm still young and healthy.) (Plus paying cash is cheaper.)
I can't hear people with scores of (0)
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Someone lacks a sense of humor. Go watch some Penn & Teller and chill out. "And try laughing mutther fukker! Jeez. My achin' ass." - Penn Jillette:
- Martial Arts are Bullshit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_3BSk2TbK4
- The War on Fast Food is BS- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEkJMGPHiXE
- Cheerleaders - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbymhQyq5rQ