So because the other parents are fools that spend ~$50/month and $600/year to support their kids' texting addiction, we should do the same?
I vote "no" on that subject. Kids can find no-cost ways to talk to another, like email or local phone calls, like we did when we were kids. They don't need to be wasting my money on trivial bullshit (aka gossip).
I don't have a kid but if I did I'm put them on the $5/month. (i.e. The same one I have.) You get 5 dollars each month credited to your phone, and if you run-out, too bad. You should have learned to budget your money more wisely.
And if a child does charge a credit card or cellphone, per consumer protection law, that charge is illegal and can be charged-back by your credit card company.
>>>"Dominic should be banned from Facebook..... We call him the Sperminator as he just goes around getting girls pregnant and doesn't ever think about the consequences"
He'd just move over to the local bar. Men have been impregnating girls for millions of years. It's what they do, and why anyone is shocked by this is a mystery.
As for "not thinking about consequences" isn't that what the women did as well? It seems they are just as guilty, else they'd not be pregnant
You may be right but I still am fearful. I've been loyal to the Mosaic/Netscapee/Firefox line since the birth of the web, but now I'm uncertain. I'm beginning to doubt if Firefox is the browser for me. Maybe I should switch to Opera (least vulnerable) or Microsoft Explorer (a close second)???
The thing noticed is that the "most vulnerable" browsers were open-source (Firefox, Safari) and the least vulnerable were closed-source (Explorer, Opera) with a huge gap in between these two types.
Could it be that closed-source aps simply don't publish their vulnerabilities, so that makes them look better?
When Dish Network mailed me a broken DTV box, and refused to accept a return, I purchased a second box from them (which worked), and claimed non-receipt..... thereby making myself whole on the money Dish stole from me n the first box.
They say small percent but if the #'s in the summary are accurate we're talking about 3% of their userbase. And as you said, not just any 3% - probably the 3% near the top.
If this had happened to me, I'd demand a refund on my XboxLive subscription for the current/future prepaid months. Plus a refund for any games I downloaded which are not unplayable due to the disconnection.
If Microsoft refused what recourse would we consumers have?
Oh well. I'd rather by an "asshole" than a person who is anti-liberty, as you appear to be. You would have the government censor its citizens, as if we lived in damned China.
They say small percent but if the #'s in the summary are accurate we're talking about 3% of their userbase. And as you said, not just any 3% - probably the 3% near the top.
If this had happened to me, I'd demand a refund on my XboxLive subscription, as well as any games I downloaded which are not unplayable due to the disconnection.
If Microsoft refused then I'd take steps to recover my money by: (1) Buying microsoft product equal to whatever they stole from me (say $100). (2) Claiming non-receipt in the mail. (3) Filing chargeback.
>>>In any case, I think it's time to quit waving your copy of 1984 and calm down. A case such as this is hardly a threat to "the rights of everyone" >>>
Strawman argument. Twice. I'm not waving a copy of 1984, nor did I say anything about threatening everybody's right. As for citations of SCOTUS, can't you use google? Here's what I turned-up:
According to Virginia v. Black (2003),
"a statement can't be a punishable threat unless it's made "with the intent of placing the victim in fear of bodily harm or death." Thus, following Black, a statement is a punishable threat only if a reasonable listener would understand it as a threat of attack and the speaker intended that the listener get that impression."
Brandenburg v. Ohio also has relevance since it requires "imminent action". i.e. If I said I was going to kill you while holding a gun. And of course Watts v. United States: "Petitioner's remark during political debate at small public gathering that if inducted into Army (which he vowed would never occur) and made to carry a rifle "the first man I want to get in my sights is L. B. J.,"
Watts was freed because his death threat against the president was considered protected free speech.
>>>the truth is there is no right to anonymity...free speech
This is only true if you a slave/serf and owned by somebody else (master, king, government). I reject that very premise and consider myself and all other U.S. citizens as owned by NOBODY. It's our mouth and we can saw whatever we want. It's our pen and we can write whatever we want, including signing "Poor Richard's Almanac" instead of our real name.
We. Are. Free.
By the way, libel is protected. That's why glennbeckrapedagirlin1990.com was declared protected speech yesterday. Even death threats are protected speech, unless you're holding a deadly weapon (per numerous SCOTUS cases).
>>>>>Now change it back to your previous resolution without using some secret keyboard combo >> >>Done. I changed it using xrandr at the command line
Fail. "xrandr" qualifies as a keyboard combo that the average user would not know, and therefore is Not user friendly. Pimply-faced nerd-friendly? Yes. But not user-friendly.
False. On XP all you have to do is press enter and the Properties window will auto-select "okay", so it doesn't matter if the button is offscreen. On XP you can escape, and it's rather silly that Linux is not similarly easy to use.
>>>1. You're still on dialup? How about joining us in the 21st century sometime?
As Buffy the vampire slayer might say, "Rude much?" If my company sends me to Grand Rapids Michigan, I use whatever the hotel provides. That's typically just a phoneline. Also it's nice to have dialup as a backup in case the Comcast fails.
>>>2. All those things are possible, YOU FAIL. Not linux, YOU.
Yeah I'm sure that will go over really big with potential customers. No wonder Linux remains a niche product with less than 1% use on the desktop
No I stick with Windows (with a little linux here and there), since it's become the defacto standard, but there are still some of us Amiga users on OS4.0 or 4.1:
I think it's important to remember where you came from. Just as Ford's Model T turned the car from a hobby to a mainstream product, so too did Commodore 64 and Amiga effectively invented the idea of a "multimedia computer" that played full-color images (yes including nudie pics), near-CD-quality music, and full-motion videos. Prior to that IBMs and Macs had an ugly 4 colors and went "beep" for sound. They saw the Amiga and were essentially trying to catch up
No. The 9/11 plot consists of a guy named Bin Laden directing ~8 men to visit America, hijack 4 jets, and then fly them into large buildings. It's not complicated at all. Hijacking planes prior to 2002 was easy and had been done many times.
In contrast the "Bush did it" campaign proposes that hundreds of people know about the TNT implanted in the towers to bring them down, but somehow feel no guilt for their actions, and have kept completely silent about it, even after Bush is no longer in power to threaten them.
Uh huh. But you spoke as if you thought Linux should be user-friendly for everyone. Here's some other things my Linux laptop won't do properly:
- Emulate Atari, Commodore 64, or NES games - Connect to my Netscape dialup ISP - Run Internet Explorer - Run Microsoft Office so I can update my resume - Let me select a hundred songs from a window, and play them in order. Instead it tries to play all 100 at the same time?!?!?
>>>One reason the UK does not have a written constitution is that generations of legislators have worried about generic laws being overtaken by social change, or misused.
Ya know..... We CAN change the Constitution. It ain't difficult, and was amended 10 times before the ink was even dry..... and another 16 times during its first two centuries. The local State Constitutions have also been amended, or entirely rewritten, numerous times as well. The idea that Constitution(s) can't be updated to reflect changing society is a falsehood.
As for corporate abuses, I'm not even going to comment on that because it has ZERO relevance to this article about one citizen talking publicly. The basic law is clear - the right of free speech for that citizen shall not be revoked. I don't support the concept of slander/libel that limit speech, and just yesterday a judge agreed when he protected the citizen who owns glennbeckrapedagirlin1990.com - libelous but protected speech
Even death threats are protected, per numerous U.S. Supreme Court Cases, unless you're brandishing a weapon at the time.
Switch your Debian laptop to 640x480 mode. Done? Now change it back to your previous resolution without using some secret keyboard combo. It can't be done because the Desktop Properties window doesn't fit in the 480p height, and therefore no way to mouse-click the "okay" button. I got stuck like that for several hours until finally I said "fuck it" and reinstalled the whole damn OS from a CD.
Amigas had plug-n-play back in 1985. I always find it amusing when Mac or IBM PC users get all excited about stuff I was already doing in the 80s. "Hey look. My OSX can do true preemptive multitasking!" or "My Linux can detect when I plug in my printer!"
No it wouldn't deter anything. People always assume the bullet-ridden corpses were just dumb, and they will be smart and not get caught.
As for heating problems, I have a backup propane heater so even if the central electric died, I won't freeze. Worse-case I go sit in my car and get warm there. People should always have a backup plan.
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So because the other parents are fools that spend ~$50/month and $600/year to support their kids' texting addiction, we should do the same?
I vote "no" on that subject. Kids can find no-cost ways to talk to another, like email or local phone calls, like we did when we were kids. They don't need to be wasting my money on trivial bullshit (aka gossip).
I don't have a kid but if I did I'm put them on the $5/month. (i.e. The same one I have.) You get 5 dollars each month credited to your phone, and if you run-out, too bad. You should have learned to budget your money more wisely.
And if a child does charge a credit card or cellphone, per consumer protection law, that charge is illegal and can be charged-back by your credit card company.
>>>"Dominic should be banned from Facebook..... We call him the Sperminator as he just goes around getting girls pregnant and doesn't ever think about the consequences"
He'd just move over to the local bar.
Men have been impregnating girls for millions of years.
It's what they do, and why anyone is shocked by this is a mystery.
As for "not thinking about consequences" isn't that what the women did as well? It seems they are just as guilty, else they'd not be pregnant
>>>Just another BS FUD report
You may be right but I still am fearful. I've been loyal to the Mosaic/Netscapee/Firefox line since the birth of the web, but now I'm uncertain. I'm beginning to doubt if Firefox is the browser for me. Maybe I should switch to Opera (least vulnerable) or Microsoft Explorer (a close second)???
Hmmm. K-meleon might also be a good choice
The thing noticed is that the "most vulnerable" browsers were open-source (Firefox, Safari) and the least vulnerable were closed-source (Explorer, Opera) with a huge gap in between these two types.
Could it be that closed-source aps simply don't publish their vulnerabilities, so that makes them look better?
P.S.
When Dish Network mailed me a broken DTV box, and refused to accept a return, I purchased a second box from them (which worked), and claimed non-receipt..... thereby making myself whole on the money Dish stole from me n the first box.
They say small percent but if the #'s in the summary are accurate we're talking about 3% of their userbase. And as you said, not just any 3% - probably the 3% near the top.
If this had happened to me, I'd demand a refund on my XboxLive subscription for the current/future prepaid months. Plus a refund for any games I downloaded which are not unplayable due to the disconnection.
If Microsoft refused what recourse would we consumers have?
Oh well. I'd rather by an "asshole" than a person who is anti-liberty, as you appear to be. You would have the government censor its citizens, as if we lived in damned China.
>>>"de-resed."
I hate losing my resolution. 350x240 just doesn't cut it. Even VHS isn't that horrible.
The right to life also includes the right to end that life when you're done with it.
And death threats are protected speech, except in case of imminent threat (see Brandenberg and Watts).
They say small percent but if the #'s in the summary are accurate we're talking about 3% of their userbase. And as you said, not just any 3% - probably the 3% near the top.
If this had happened to me, I'd demand a refund on my XboxLive subscription, as well as any games I downloaded which are not unplayable due to the disconnection.
If Microsoft refused then I'd take steps to recover my money by: (1) Buying microsoft product equal to whatever they stole from me (say $100). (2) Claiming non-receipt in the mail. (3) Filing chargeback.
>>>In any case, I think it's time to quit waving your copy of 1984 and calm down. A case such as this is hardly a threat to "the rights of everyone"
>>>
Strawman argument. Twice. I'm not waving a copy of 1984, nor did I say anything about threatening everybody's right. As for citations of SCOTUS, can't you use google? Here's what I turned-up:
According to Virginia v. Black (2003),
"a statement can't be a punishable threat unless it's made "with the intent of placing the victim in fear of bodily harm or death." Thus, following Black, a statement is a punishable threat only if a reasonable listener would understand it as a threat of attack and the speaker intended that the listener get that impression."
Brandenburg v. Ohio also has relevance since it requires "imminent action". i.e. If I said I was going to kill you while holding a gun. And of course Watts v. United States: "Petitioner's remark during political debate at small public gathering that if inducted into Army (which he vowed would never occur) and made to carry a rifle "the first man I want to get in my sights is L. B. J.,"
Watts was freed because his death threat against the president was considered protected free speech.
>>>the truth is there is no right to anonymity...free speech
This is only true if you a slave/serf and owned by somebody else (master, king, government). I reject that very premise and consider myself and all other U.S. citizens as owned by NOBODY. It's our mouth and we can saw whatever we want. It's our pen and we can write whatever we want, including signing "Poor Richard's Almanac" instead of our real name.
We. Are. Free.
By the way, libel is protected. That's why glennbeckrapedagirlin1990.com was declared protected speech yesterday. Even death threats are protected speech, unless you're holding a deadly weapon (per numerous SCOTUS cases).
>>>>>Now change it back to your previous resolution without using some secret keyboard combo
>>
>>Done. I changed it using xrandr at the command line
Fail. "xrandr" qualifies as a keyboard combo that the average user would not know, and therefore is Not user friendly. Pimply-faced nerd-friendly? Yes. But not user-friendly.
>>>By the way, that happened to me in XP.
False. On XP all you have to do is press enter and the Properties window will auto-select "okay", so it doesn't matter if the button is offscreen. On XP you can escape, and it's rather silly that Linux is not similarly easy to use.
>>>1. You're still on dialup? How about joining us in the 21st century sometime?
As Buffy the vampire slayer might say, "Rude much?" If my company sends me to Grand Rapids Michigan, I use whatever the hotel provides. That's typically just a phoneline. Also it's nice to have dialup as a backup in case the Comcast fails.
>>>2. All those things are possible, YOU FAIL. Not linux, YOU.
Yeah I'm sure that will go over really big with potential customers. No wonder Linux remains a niche product with less than 1% use on the desktop
No I stick with Windows (with a little linux here and there), since it's become the defacto standard, but there are still some of us Amiga users on OS4.0 or 4.1:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp0ukoM_rNQ
More videos - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amigaOS%204&search=Search&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&spell=1
I think it's important to remember where you came from. Just as Ford's Model T turned the car from a hobby to a mainstream product, so too did Commodore 64 and Amiga effectively invented the idea of a "multimedia computer" that played full-color images (yes including nudie pics), near-CD-quality music, and full-motion videos. Prior to that IBMs and Macs had an ugly 4 colors and went "beep" for sound. They saw the Amiga and were essentially trying to catch up
No. The 9/11 plot consists of a guy named Bin Laden directing ~8 men to visit America, hijack 4 jets, and then fly them into large buildings. It's not complicated at all. Hijacking planes prior to 2002 was easy and had been done many times.
In contrast the "Bush did it" campaign proposes that hundreds of people know about the TNT implanted in the towers to bring them down, but somehow feel no guilt for their actions, and have kept completely silent about it, even after Bush is no longer in power to threaten them.
It's simply not reasonable to believe.
Uh huh. But you spoke as if you thought Linux should be user-friendly for everyone. Here's some other things my Linux laptop won't do properly:
- Emulate Atari, Commodore 64, or NES games
- Connect to my Netscape dialup ISP
- Run Internet Explorer
- Run Microsoft Office so I can update my resume
- Let me select a hundred songs from a window, and play them in order. Instead it tries to play all 100 at the same time?!?!?
>>>One reason the UK does not have a written constitution is that generations of legislators have worried about generic laws being overtaken by social change, or misused.
Ya know..... We CAN change the Constitution. It ain't difficult, and was amended 10 times before the ink was even dry..... and another 16 times during its first two centuries. The local State Constitutions have also been amended, or entirely rewritten, numerous times as well. The idea that Constitution(s) can't be updated to reflect changing society is a falsehood.
As for corporate abuses, I'm not even going to comment on that because it has ZERO relevance to this article about one citizen talking publicly. The basic law is clear - the right of free speech for that citizen shall not be revoked. I don't support the concept of slander/libel that limit speech, and just yesterday a judge agreed when he protected the citizen who owns glennbeckrapedagirlin1990.com - libelous but protected speech
Even death threats are protected, per numerous U.S. Supreme Court Cases, unless you're brandishing a weapon at the time.
(sigh). And the 9/11 demolition was an inside job. I hate conspiracy theories.
Okay.
Switch your Debian laptop to 640x480 mode. Done? Now change it back to your previous resolution without using some secret keyboard combo. It can't be done because the Desktop Properties window doesn't fit in the 480p height, and therefore no way to mouse-click the "okay" button. I got stuck like that for several hours until finally I said "fuck it" and reinstalled the whole damn OS from a CD.
So much for your "user friendly" claim.
(shrug)
Amigas had plug-n-play back in 1985. I always find it amusing when Mac or IBM PC users get all excited about stuff I was already doing in the 80s. "Hey look. My OSX can do true preemptive multitasking!" or "My Linux can detect when I plug in my printer!"
"That's nice. Been there; done that."
Let please me know from where you have English tolearn.
No it wouldn't deter anything. People always assume the bullet-ridden corpses were just dumb, and they will be smart and not get caught.
As for heating problems, I have a backup propane heater so even if the central electric died, I won't freeze. Worse-case I go sit in my car and get warm there. People should always have a backup plan.