So it's like our country - tons of laws that are rarely enforced, until the politicians decide to "make an example" of someone and then they use those laws to arrest anyone they desire to arrest, because we're ALL guilty to breaking at least one law. China's more like us than different.
BTW, why isn't China bankrupt yet? Perhaps it's because they watched the Soviet Union communist government fall, and they decided to evolve into a fascist state (privately-owned capitalist companies, but with strict centralized control).
>>>Right. You tell that Spanish motherfucker what his documents mean. Obviously, you can read English better than he can.
Um. Okay.
So like I said, this law VIOLATES human rights. It requires stealing money from your neighbors to fund the installation costs of broadband. That's an infringement upon their property and labor rights
Rights don't come from the Man in the Sky. Rights come from being human beings. Like instincts. They are a natural consequence of man's desire to be liberated.
However when you rob your neighbors wallets to buy some poor person a car, or house, or internet, then you've infringed upon your neighbors' freedoms (theft of labor). Nobody has a right to harm another in this fashion.
>>>they could have gone for either of the others; but nothing obviously prevents them from going with this one.
Yes there is. The third option requires stealing money from neighbors to fund the installation costs. i.e. The third one is a violation of property and labor rights.
Well... Palin doesn't have a chance in hell of winning a presidency, but you're right she's no dumber than Bush Junior. Probably smarter. And Obama, intelligent as he is, demonstrates that that doesn't make you a good president either. In fact here's a rundown of presidential IQs (estimated). I'm just going to offer my opinion of which presidents were good or bad during their office term. Hmmm. It appears the smartest are also the worst (IMHO)
Summary: bad - 1. John Quincy Adams, IQ 175 - protective tariffs - single termer - split Democrats in half good - 2. Thomas Jefferson, 160 - our best president bad - 3. John F. Kennedy, 159.8 - got us into Vietnam War; makes him no better than Bush imho bad - 4. Bill Clinton, 159 - scandal; failure to deal with Bin Laden; crash of 2000 bad - 5. Jimmy Carter, 156.8 - duh bad - 6. Woodrow Wilson, 155.2 - promised to keep us out of WW1 - lied; arrested protesters against the war; imprisoned women asking for voting rights
bad - 7. Theodore Roosevelt, 153 - broke-up corporations- unconstitutional; took land from states without just compensation good - 8. Chester A. Arthur, 152.3 - ended the spoils system of governance; replaced it with a merit system bad - 9. Abraham Lincoln, 150 - suspended habeas corpus to jail American citizens without trial; ignored Supreme Court decisions; basically he acted like Bush
Here's a website that claims the debt + unfunded liabilitoes (SS/medicare) == $340,000 per citizen. That sounds too high to me and I don't really agree with their calculations, but here's the link so you can see yourself:
Lat time I posted this people didn't believe me and then tried to claim it's only $40,000. Well here's the numbers so you can verify them yourself: 12 trillion dollars divided by 100 million households == about $120,000 per home
>>>just study what these rabid teabaggers think about the need to "protect" the "real" america from (modern urban existence) and how they intend to do that: with a gun. this is the soil in which fascism grows, not a bulwark against it >>>
Ahem.
I walked in one of those protests (back in December 08) and generally support their mission. I'm no more radical than Daniel Jackson on SG1. In brief, "teabaggers" share the same ideas you would find if you read the works of James Madison or Thomas Jefferson. That's it. Sorry to disappoint you with the lack of radicalism. ----- As for "modern urban existence", I shall assume you mean a government-provided healthcare monopoly, since that's currently the hot topic.
- I believe in the right to get health or sickcare. - I also believe in the right to choose smoking, drinking, or overeating as a lifestyle. - I even believe you have the right to replace your damaged lung, liver, or fatty heart. What I do Not believe is that you can raid your neighbors' wallets to pay the bill. I do Not believe you are entitled to other people's labor.
And last but certainly not least, our debt rose 6 trillion under Bush and is projected to rise 11 trillion under Obama (until 2016). I fear that we are on the verge of economic collapse, as do most of the Tea Bag Protesters. All we are saying is, "Please stop spending like a teenager with a credit card. You are putting our children and grandchildren deep into debt." That's not such a radical request. Currently it's about $120,000 per U.S. home, but it's projected to be almost $200,000 by 2017.
You forgot Executive Orders which allow presidents to make laws in direct violation of Article I.
If I were president my very first EO would read, "All executive orders are hereby declared null-and-void, per Article I and Amendment 10 of the People's Constitution. Executive orders are an unconstitutional usurpation of power that is reserved to other branches and governments of the Union." I'd also veto any budgetary bills that exceed 50% of last year's spending level.
I'd probably get impeached rather quickly. Oh well.
The new guy (Gordon Brown) is same as the old guy (Tony Blair). Brown was supposed to be an improvement. How's that workin' for ya?
"There are not two parties. There is ONE party, the Big Government Party, with separate branches each trying to exert ever-increasing control over your life." = Judge Napolitano, freedomwatch.com
I can understand that. Why would business want to deal with the mess that is Vista? Most likely they'll just hop directly to Win 7.
If corporate america was smart they'd also get rid of IE. I just ran Spybot Search & Destroy yesterday. Every piece of malware it found was connected to Internet Explorer. Nothing was tied to Firefox or Opera. IE is like an open door.
>>>MS was a huge supporter of web standards back in the mid to late nineties, back when they were the underdog browser.
Not true. W3C has been criticizing Microsoft since day 1 for not following their recommendations. (They also criticized Netscape.) .
>>>That's a big part of why Microsoft won the first browser war; because they had a genuinely superior product to Netscape.
I don't agree, but even if we assume IE was better, the MAIN reason it "won" was because IE was free and Netscape cost $30 at the time (I remember; I paid to get the shiny new Navigator 3 in a box). Free almost always wins in a battle.
>>>Actually, the W3C and IE appeared almost contemporaneously with each other
False. W3C == 1994. IE == 1995. There were standards put forth by the W3C, but both Microsoft and Netscape were ignoring them (and being criticized as well). I remember it well.
Microsoft licensed the NCSA/spyglass MOSAIC which was the dominant browser at that time (1993-94).
Then Microsoft got sued for giving-away the browser for free and thus not making royalty payments to NCSA/Spyglass (no sales==no profit sharing). Microsoft used its economic muscle to force Spyglass to accept 8 million dollars in one-time payment, and kept the code for themselves.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. "Business is war." - Jack Tramel
Take 28k and 56k Modems: The official V.xx standards were compatible with but not identical to the K56flex and V.FAST protocols that were dominant at the time. So early adopters had to flash-update their modems to the official standard.
Something similar happened with 3.5" floppies and CD-R / CD-RW standards which were slightly different from the dominant formats of the time.
>>>FIX the damn memory issues. Stop adding features. Stop trying to make the app sexy.
That's like asking car companies to stop releasing new cars with the same gas-guzzling engines, but sexy new cosmetic differences. "We fixed a memory leak" doesn't sell. "It looks hot" does.
+1 insightful. I went and looked it up on wikipedia.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994. Microsoft's Internet Exploder was not released until a year later, and then it went hog-wild to ignore the W3C standards. (In fairness, so too did Netscape Navigator with adding new extensions to HTML.)
- My Firefox 3.0 passed all except ACID3 (stopped at 73). - K-MELEON - Major fail on Acid2 and 3. I'm deleting this off my hard drive. - - Opera 10 passed 100% with only a slight error on ACID1 (bar maids was off by 1 pixel). Yay Opera! - Links - uh - no - - Cingular (C64) - failed ACID3 - iBrowse (Amiga) - ditto
>>>Not in search, not in standards, and not in media delivery.
- Bing is growing in usage. - Microsoft wins by NOT following standards; the lockup users with proprietary MS formats. - Uh... silverlight? Okay yeah MS lost here; but they do have MSNBC!:-\ And the Xbox which is making wads of profit (cough).
It's okay to break the rules ("Don't touch the hardware; that's reserved for drivers only") when you're Microsoft and trying to stop your dwindling browser share (95%...90%...80%...70%....65%).
Subpixel rendering (turning on or off R,G,B elements) is a cool concept. It almost makes me want to give-up my CRT for an LCD. Almost. In reality my eyes can't see those pixels smaller than 1024x800 resolution, so it makes no difference anyway. And I can't believe we're now on IE9. I just upgraded to version 7 last month! Next you're going to tell me XP-SP2 is not the latest OS.;-)
Aside -
I just tried the K-MELEON web browser for a few weeks. I don't recommend it. Despite claims that it's "ultrafast" it keeps freezing-up for 4-5 seconds while pages are downloading. That's rather frustrating when you're trying to highlight text and the computer does not respond. Firefox or Opera are the best ones (IMHO).
Oh I see. So Verizon and AT&T are playing games with "3G" terminology and obfuscation. Kinda like in the old days when Sega said their Genesis/Megadrive was faster because it had "bit blasting" (whatever that is) and was "4096 kilobit strong" (in other words the cartridge had a 512 KB ROM).
The usual FUD that happens when companies compete.
Don't agree. After this whole thing blew up I watched the Verizon ads. They make clear they are discussing 3G coverage, not generalized coverage (which would be available almost everywhere).
Aside -
Have you ever been to a place without cellphone coverage (and I don't mean because the building's walls are blocking). My digital phone doesn't work in mountainous areas, but my old analog phone seemed to work everywhere. It makes me wish analog was still alive, if only for backup.
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So it's like our country - tons of laws that are rarely enforced, until the politicians decide to "make an example" of someone and then they use those laws to arrest anyone they desire to arrest, because we're ALL guilty to breaking at least one law. China's more like us than different.
BTW, why isn't China bankrupt yet? Perhaps it's because they watched the Soviet Union communist government fall, and they decided to evolve into a fascist state (privately-owned capitalist companies, but with strict centralized control).
>>>Right. You tell that Spanish motherfucker what his documents mean. Obviously, you can read English better than he can.
Um. Okay.
So like I said, this law VIOLATES human rights. It requires stealing money from your neighbors to fund the installation costs of broadband. That's an infringement upon their property and labor rights
Rights don't come from the Man in the Sky. Rights come from being human beings. Like instincts. They are a natural consequence of man's desire to be liberated.
However when you rob your neighbors wallets to buy some poor person a car, or house, or internet, then you've infringed upon your neighbors' freedoms (theft of labor). Nobody has a right to harm another in this fashion.
>>>they could have gone for either of the others; but nothing obviously prevents them from going with this one.
Yes there is. The third option requires stealing money from neighbors to fund the installation costs. i.e. The third one is a violation of property and labor rights.
Well... Palin doesn't have a chance in hell of winning a presidency, but you're right she's no dumber than Bush Junior. Probably smarter. And Obama, intelligent as he is, demonstrates that that doesn't make you a good president either. In fact here's a rundown of presidential IQs (estimated). I'm just going to offer my opinion of which presidents were good or bad during their office term. Hmmm. It appears the smartest are also the worst (IMHO)
Summary:
bad - 1. John Quincy Adams, IQ 175 - protective tariffs - single termer - split Democrats in half
good - 2. Thomas Jefferson, 160 - our best president
bad - 3. John F. Kennedy, 159.8 - got us into Vietnam War; makes him no better than Bush imho
bad - 4. Bill Clinton, 159 - scandal; failure to deal with Bin Laden; crash of 2000
bad - 5. Jimmy Carter, 156.8 - duh
bad - 6. Woodrow Wilson, 155.2 - promised to keep us out of WW1 - lied; arrested protesters against the war; imprisoned women asking for voting rights
bad - 7. Theodore Roosevelt, 153 - broke-up corporations- unconstitutional; took land from states without just compensation
good - 8. Chester A. Arthur, 152.3 - ended the spoils system of governance; replaced it with a merit system
bad - 9. Abraham Lincoln, 150 - suspended habeas corpus to jail American citizens without trial; ignored Supreme Court decisions; basically he acted like Bush
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/pops/2006/00000027/00000004/art00001;jsessionid=1i07kdv5wgn5p.alexandra?format=print
Here's a website that claims the debt + unfunded liabilitoes (SS/medicare) == $340,000 per citizen. That sounds too high to me and I don't really agree with their calculations, but here's the link so you can see yourself:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
>>>Currently it's about $120,000 per U.S. home
Lat time I posted this people didn't believe me and then tried to claim it's only $40,000. Well here's the numbers so you can verify them yourself: 12 trillion dollars divided by 100 million households == about $120,000 per home
>>>just study what these rabid teabaggers think about the need to "protect" the "real" america from (modern urban existence) and how they intend to do that: with a gun. this is the soil in which fascism grows, not a bulwark against it
>>>
Ahem.
I walked in one of those protests (back in December 08) and generally support their mission. I'm no more radical than Daniel Jackson on SG1. In brief, "teabaggers" share the same ideas you would find if you read the works of James Madison or Thomas Jefferson. That's it. Sorry to disappoint you with the lack of radicalism. ----- As for "modern urban existence", I shall assume you mean a government-provided healthcare monopoly, since that's currently the hot topic.
- I believe in the right to get health or sickcare.
- I also believe in the right to choose smoking, drinking, or overeating as a lifestyle.
- I even believe you have the right to replace your damaged lung, liver, or fatty heart.
What I do Not believe is that you can raid your neighbors' wallets to pay the bill.
I do Not believe you are entitled to other people's labor.
And last but certainly not least, our debt rose 6 trillion under Bush and is projected to rise 11 trillion under Obama (until 2016). I fear that we are on the verge of economic collapse, as do most of the Tea Bag Protesters. All we are saying is, "Please stop spending like a teenager with a credit card. You are putting our children and grandchildren deep into debt." That's not such a radical request. Currently it's about $120,000 per U.S. home, but it's projected to be almost $200,000 by 2017.
You forgot Executive Orders which allow presidents to make laws in direct violation of Article I.
If I were president my very first EO would read, "All executive orders are hereby declared null-and-void, per Article I and Amendment 10 of the People's Constitution. Executive orders are an unconstitutional usurpation of power that is reserved to other branches and governments of the Union." I'd also veto any budgetary bills that exceed 50% of last year's spending level.
I'd probably get impeached rather quickly.
Oh well.
The new guy (Gordon Brown) is same as the old guy (Tony Blair). Brown was supposed to be an improvement. How's that workin' for ya?
"There are not two parties. There is ONE party, the Big Government Party, with separate branches each trying to exert ever-increasing control over your life." = Judge Napolitano, freedomwatch.com
I can understand that. Why would business want to deal with the mess that is Vista? Most likely they'll just hop directly to Win 7.
If corporate america was smart they'd also get rid of IE. I just ran Spybot Search & Destroy yesterday. Every piece of malware it found was connected to Internet Explorer. Nothing was tied to Firefox or Opera. IE is like an open door.
>>>MS was a huge supporter of web standards back in the mid to late nineties, back when they were the underdog browser.
Not true. W3C has been criticizing Microsoft since day 1 for not following their recommendations. (They also criticized Netscape.)
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>>>That's a big part of why Microsoft won the first browser war; because they had a genuinely superior product to Netscape.
I don't agree, but even if we assume IE was better, the MAIN reason it "won" was because IE was free and Netscape cost $30 at the time (I remember; I paid to get the shiny new Navigator 3 in a box). Free almost always wins in a battle.
>>>Actually, the W3C and IE appeared almost contemporaneously with each other
False. W3C == 1994. IE == 1995. There were standards put forth by the W3C, but both Microsoft and Netscape were ignoring them (and being criticized as well). I remember it well.
Interesting. I've never seen Firefox 3.0 freeze up while loading a page.
Microsoft licensed the NCSA/spyglass MOSAIC which was the dominant browser at that time (1993-94).
Then Microsoft got sued for giving-away the browser for free and thus not making royalty payments to NCSA/Spyglass (no sales==no profit sharing). Microsoft used its economic muscle to force Spyglass to accept 8 million dollars in one-time payment, and kept the code for themselves.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. "Business is war." - Jack Tramel
Take 28k and 56k Modems: The official V.xx standards were compatible with but not identical to the K56flex and V.FAST protocols that were dominant at the time. So early adopters had to flash-update their modems to the official standard.
Something similar happened with 3.5" floppies and CD-R / CD-RW standards which were slightly different from the dominant formats of the time.
>>>FIX the damn memory issues. Stop adding features. Stop trying to make the app sexy.
That's like asking car companies to stop releasing new cars with the same gas-guzzling engines, but sexy new cosmetic differences. "We fixed a memory leak" doesn't sell. "It looks hot" does.
+1 insightful. I went and looked it up on wikipedia.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994. Microsoft's Internet Exploder was not released until a year later, and then it went hog-wild to ignore the W3C standards. (In fairness, so too did Netscape Navigator with adding new extensions to HTML.)
Even the [blink] tag? Hmmm.
Neat.
- My Firefox 3.0 passed all except ACID3 (stopped at 73).
- K-MELEON - Major fail on Acid2 and 3. I'm deleting this off my hard drive.
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- Opera 10 passed 100% with only a slight error on ACID1 (bar maids was off by 1 pixel). Yay Opera!
- Links - uh - no
-
- Cingular (C64) - failed ACID3
- iBrowse (Amiga) - ditto
>>>Not in search, not in standards, and not in media delivery.
- Bing is growing in usage. :-\ And the Xbox which is making wads of profit (cough).
- Microsoft wins by NOT following standards; the lockup users with proprietary MS formats.
- Uh... silverlight? Okay yeah MS lost here; but they do have MSNBC!
It's okay to break the rules ("Don't touch the hardware; that's reserved for drivers only") when you're Microsoft and trying to stop your dwindling browser share (95%...90%...80%...70%....65%).
Subpixel rendering (turning on or off R,G,B elements) is a cool concept. It almost makes me want to give-up my CRT for an LCD. Almost. In reality my eyes can't see those pixels smaller than 1024x800 resolution, so it makes no difference anyway. And I can't believe we're now on IE9. I just upgraded to version 7 last month! Next you're going to tell me XP-SP2 is not the latest OS. ;-)
Aside -
I just tried the K-MELEON web browser for a few weeks. I don't recommend it. Despite claims that it's "ultrafast" it keeps freezing-up for 4-5 seconds while pages are downloading. That's rather frustrating when you're trying to highlight text and the computer does not respond. Firefox or Opera are the best ones (IMHO).
Oh I see. So Verizon and AT&T are playing games with "3G" terminology and obfuscation. Kinda like in the old days when Sega said their Genesis/Megadrive was faster because it had "bit blasting" (whatever that is) and was "4096 kilobit strong" (in other words the cartridge had a 512 KB ROM).
The usual FUD that happens when companies compete.
Don't agree. After this whole thing blew up I watched the Verizon ads. They make clear they are discussing 3G coverage, not generalized coverage (which would be available almost everywhere).
Aside -
Have you ever been to a place without cellphone coverage (and I don't mean because the building's walls are blocking). My digital phone doesn't work in mountainous areas, but my old analog phone seemed to work everywhere. It makes me wish analog was still alive, if only for backup.