>>>but for the last 3 or so months that you were in the womb, you were floating in your own excrement.
No your not. A baby's bottom is "plugged" with a semi-solid material that doesn't come-out until the first bowel movement (after birth). So no solid poop floating around. And all liquid waste material aka urea is removed directly from the baby's bloodstream by the umbilical cord.
Whoop-tee-do. "Buying carbon credits" simply means he's paying-off people to keep silent. That trick dates all the way back to the Roman Senate 2500 years ago. The only fact I care about is this - I traded-in my 25mpg car for a 70mpg. I turned-off my 10,000 watt central AC and replaced it with small 800-watt window units to just cool one room at a time. I work 4 days instead of 5 days, to cut my car's CO2 emissions by 20%. And on and on.
I am working to reduce my energy usage as small as possible. Is Gore doing the same?
Nope. "Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported that Gore's Nashville mansion consumed more than 20 times the electricity than the national average." He's acting like a typical king, noble, or leader who thinks he belongs to a "better class" than us mere commoners, and therefore he's exempt from the need to cut energy consumption. "Do as I say, not as I do."
It was settled by a tribe of Vikings called "the Rus" circa 850 A.D. who sailed far into the ICEFREE northern sea along Siberia, and traded silk with the Chinese. Not until 1250 A.D. did the planet cool-off and close the northern route.
That's why I said the article is wrong - this German ship is not the first time the northern sea route has been used. It's merely the first time since the last global warming spell (200 to 1250 A.D.). But nobody ever talks about that. Nobody talks about the vineyards the Romans grew in Britannia, or that they crossed Alps that had no ice on them, because it's inconvenient to acknowledge that global warming is sometimes natural, rather than manmade.
>>>This warming thing never happened before humans got here.
Actually the Earth has spent apprxoaimtely 80% of its time in a Tropical Age (without global ice). The dinosaurs were alive during an ice-free age, and ditto our primitive mammalian ancestors. Having ice-covered poles is an unusual event, not the norm for our planet.
This isn't the first time a northern route was used.
The Vikings, prior to the ~1250 onset of global cooling, routinely used a northern route to reach Siberia and sometimes even China during the 900s, 1000s, and 1100s. But of course the Global apologists won't reveal this information, because it would ruin their "ohmygodtheskyisfalling" storyline.
>>>Have you looked at your bandwidth bill lately? If Disney puts a bunch of movies online
Have you bothered to learn to read? I CLEARLY stated that was Apple's bill, not Disney's. Apple would keep half of each Itunes Fantasia sale ($5) and Disney would keep the rest ($5) minus its duplication costs ($0) which yields pure profit for the Disney Company.
>>>you need to recoup the costs of making said movie. Not to mention what you say is again patently false.
You really need to take the time to read what I write, because I don't enjoy repeating myself. "Fantasia" cost Disney a mere 0.003 billion to produce. Mr. Disney paid it off in the 1960s, therefore there's no more production cost. It's bought-and-paid-for, just like your car or your computer or television.
>>>Online distribution, marketing, customer service, none of that is free
Yes which is why I said, out of each $10 sale, Apple Incorporated gets to keep $5 of it. THEY take care of all that website/marketing crap. And Disney keeps the other $5 for itself. Minus duplication costs ($0.00) yields five dollars.
Listing Fantasia on itunes.com literally costs Disney *nothing*.
If you still disagree, then I challenge you to list the costs Disney would have to pay to sell this movie on Itunes. Not just generalities. Specific, broken-down labor costs. You won't be able to, because there are none.
>>>the US doesn't make any products for export anymore
Really?
Then how come I see Fords driving-around in Europe? How come virtually the entire world uses Windows? Why have Ipods become the defacto choice for music players? Why are foreigners eating American food crops and cattle?...Shall I continue?
Cute. Those jobs are not "theirs" to own. Jobs belong to the employer, and he's free to move them wherever he feels like moving them.
And as for solutions, people could try cutting their wages to compete with the Chinese/Indians, rather than demanding $20 an hour. Or they could send their kids to college, so they can learn to do what we do (programming/engineering), rather than keep churning-out more unskilled laborers.
Boy that sounds elitist. At least you didn't bring-up race. Anyway I used to shop Safeway, but I found Walmart's sale prices to be several cents cheaper.
What the hell are you talking about? Edys is the best ice cream money can buy. Walmart sells lots of other quality goods like Healthy Choice dinners, Levis, Panasonic, Dell, and on and on.
>>>And until then- you suffer from the effects of the current monopolist.
Riiiiight because there are no other places for us to shop then Walmart (cough - Target, Kmart, Meiers, Sears, Boscovs,...). Pu-leeze if you're going to make an argument, don't make it so easy to refute. There is simply no justification for having government (a far, far worse evil than walmart) to interfere and try to break-up the company.
I simply don't care enough about the project. For me work is just a means to acquire money so I can live comfortably, so I just do whatever the manager asks me to do, unless it's exceptionally stupid in which case I'll suggest an alternative action, but I still won't argue over it.
Couldn't you just avoid the forums and focus on coding? Then when it's done, hand it over and say, "Here is it. Peer review it and I'll make the changes." Ignore rude persons by killfiling them (first give them a warning; then if they are still rude, block 'em).
I can understand his frustration. I've walked-away as well from various clubs. You volunteer hundreds of hours of your time, without pay, and all you hear from the members is complaint-after-complaint-after-complaint.
You eventually reach a point where you say, "What am I doing this for? No one's appreciating it or saying thanks. I could be out having fun instead of this shit," and then you stop volunteering.
>>>the pillory for people who put classified information on a computer that is ever connected to the internet.
You got a good point. This information about Obama's safehouse, motorcade routes, and so on should never have been allowed on a networked computer. EXISTING RULES already state that classified information can only be stored on non-networked machines... and most-importantly, behind a locked door.
I think more than just the P2Ping employee is in trouble. Probably that whole company is in trouble, for violating classified requirements. They'll likely lose that license and never be allowed to work with sensitive information again.
Right. We need reporters to take the eyewitness newsgatherings, chop them into little bits so they can be distorted, and then explain why this event requires yet another layer of bureacracy added to our government.
If you don't know what I mean, watch Babylon 5's "The Illusion of Truth" where a reporter manages to take the stars of the show, and twist-around events to make them look like an out-of-control mob needing government to fix the mess.
Anyway.....
Megacorporate reporters, for whatever reason, are biased towards more-and-more government. The idea that we need LESS government is never proposed on the evening news. I say we take-away their power to present only this slanted viewpoint, and give reporting back to the common man via websites. At least that way we can hear both sides of the story.
Anybody can string together a bunch of videos, and make things look bad via propanda like these videos, but overall 99.9% of animals and walmart/chinese workers are treated humanly.
The anti-walmart people are trying to recreate a 50/60s-style of America that no longer exists. Well I can agree with that. These are the same persons who waste billions of dollars trying to "revive" the downtown of inner cities. What they don't realize is that:
(1) downtown isn't dead; it's still alive and well at the mall where you can find a similar style of window-shopping.
(2) shopping downtown during the 1930s/40s/50 sucked, because there was no place to park your car, it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Worse: you had to struggle to carry your 10 bags of groceries back home; not an easy task.
I know. I used to shop with my grandma, and it was horrible, often taking all day. Give me the convenience of a mall and a car to carry-home the goods.
Whatever. I'm not worried about it. Yes American and European factories are moving to China/India. BUT when the oil drought happens, and a barrel rises to $300 or more, those same factories will move back home in order to reduce shipping costs. It's inevitable that as fuel goes up, factories will have to be moved close to their market.
Eventually, probably within my lifetime, I expect all the "made in China" labels to revert back to "made in Rednecktown, USA" labels, just like the good ol' days.;-)
I just bought Edy's ice cream for 2 dollars. Other stores sell it for 3 when on sale. I also bought Budget tv dinners for 89 cents. Other stores sell them for 1 dollar. Walmart's cheaper.
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>>>but for the last 3 or so months that you were in the womb, you were floating in your own excrement.
No your not. A baby's bottom is "plugged" with a semi-solid material that doesn't come-out until the first bowel movement (after birth). So no solid poop floating around. And all liquid waste material aka urea is removed directly from the baby's bloodstream by the umbilical cord.
Whoop-tee-do. "Buying carbon credits" simply means he's paying-off people to keep silent. That trick dates all the way back to the Roman Senate 2500 years ago. The only fact I care about is this - I traded-in my 25mpg car for a 70mpg. I turned-off my 10,000 watt central AC and replaced it with small 800-watt window units to just cool one room at a time. I work 4 days instead of 5 days, to cut my car's CO2 emissions by 20%. And on and on.
I am working to reduce my energy usage as small as possible. Is Gore doing the same?
Nope. "Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported that Gore's Nashville mansion consumed more than 20 times the electricity than the national average." He's acting like a typical king, noble, or leader who thinks he belongs to a "better class" than us mere commoners, and therefore he's exempt from the need to cut energy consumption. "Do as I say, not as I do."
Why do you think Russia is called Russia?
It was settled by a tribe of Vikings called "the Rus" circa 850 A.D. who sailed far into the ICEFREE northern sea along Siberia, and traded silk with the Chinese. Not until 1250 A.D. did the planet cool-off and close the northern route.
That's why I said the article is wrong - this German ship is not the first time the northern sea route has been used. It's merely the first time since the last global warming spell (200 to 1250 A.D.). But nobody ever talks about that. Nobody talks about the vineyards the Romans grew in Britannia, or that they crossed Alps that had no ice on them, because it's inconvenient to acknowledge that global warming is sometimes natural, rather than manmade.
"An Inconvenient Truth" indeed.
>>>This warming thing never happened before humans got here.
Actually the Earth has spent apprxoaimtely 80% of its time in a Tropical Age (without global ice). The dinosaurs were alive during an ice-free age, and ditto our primitive mammalian ancestors. Having ice-covered poles is an unusual event, not the norm for our planet.
This isn't news.
This isn't the first time a northern route was used.
The Vikings, prior to the ~1250 onset of global cooling, routinely used a northern route to reach Siberia and sometimes even China during the 900s, 1000s, and 1100s. But of course the Global apologists won't reveal this information, because it would ruin their "ohmygodtheskyisfalling" storyline.
>>>Have you looked at your bandwidth bill lately? If Disney puts a bunch of movies online
Have you bothered to learn to read? I CLEARLY stated that was Apple's bill, not Disney's. Apple would keep half of each Itunes Fantasia sale ($5) and Disney would keep the rest ($5) minus its duplication costs ($0) which yields pure profit for the Disney Company.
>>>you need to recoup the costs of making said movie. Not to mention what you say is again patently false.
You really need to take the time to read what I write, because I don't enjoy repeating myself. "Fantasia" cost Disney a mere 0.003 billion to produce. Mr. Disney paid it off in the 1960s, therefore there's no more production cost. It's bought-and-paid-for, just like your car or your computer or television.
>>>Online distribution, marketing, customer service, none of that is free
Yes which is why I said, out of each $10 sale, Apple Incorporated gets to keep $5 of it. THEY take care of all that website/marketing crap. And Disney keeps the other $5 for itself. Minus duplication costs ($0.00) yields five dollars.
Listing Fantasia on itunes.com literally costs Disney *nothing*.
If you still disagree, then I challenge you to list the costs Disney would have to pay to sell this movie on Itunes. Not just generalities. Specific, broken-down labor costs. You won't be able to, because there are none.
Food and clothing is still tax free.
Interstate mail-order or net purchases are tax free (unless you count the USPS.gov's fees as a tax).
Sex is still tax free, unless your sex comes from a Nevadan prostitute, where they apply a tax to the transaction.
Mowing your neighbor's lawn or babysitting their kid is taxfree. (shhh)
>>>the US doesn't make any products for export anymore
Really?
Then how come I see Fords driving-around in Europe? ...Shall I continue?
How come virtually the entire world uses Windows?
Why have Ipods become the defacto choice for music players?
Why are foreigners eating American food crops and cattle?
You need to watch this Penn & Teller Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZfoNZd_HEk
"Walmart Hatred is Bullshit"
>>>waiting for their jobs to come back.
Cute. Those jobs are not "theirs" to own. Jobs belong to the employer, and he's free to move them wherever he feels like moving them.
And as for solutions, people could try cutting their wages to compete with the Chinese/Indians, rather than demanding $20 an hour. Or they could send their kids to college, so they can learn to do what we do (programming/engineering), rather than keep churning-out more unskilled laborers.
>>>Safeway also has far less white trash
Boy that sounds elitist. At least you didn't bring-up race. Anyway I used to shop Safeway, but I found Walmart's sale prices to be several cents cheaper.
>>>And also the price/quality ratio.
What the hell are you talking about? Edys is the best ice cream money can buy. Walmart sells lots of other quality goods like Healthy Choice dinners, Levis, Panasonic, Dell, and on and on.
>>>And until then- you suffer from the effects of the current monopolist.
Riiiiight because there are no other places for us to shop then Walmart (cough - Target, Kmart, Meiers, Sears, Boscovs, ...). Pu-leeze if you're going to make an argument, don't make it so easy to refute. There is simply no justification for having government (a far, far worse evil than walmart) to interfere and try to break-up the company.
You need to watch this Penn & Teller video (yes all 25 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZfoNZd_HEk
Walmart Hatred is Bullshit
I'm confused.
Can't they search for that embedded metadata, locate I've illegally-copied their stories to my website, and then issue a cease-and-desist notice?
Why not Amiga OS?
I don't waste time arguing with my manager.
I simply don't care enough about the project. For me work is just a means to acquire money so I can live comfortably, so I just do whatever the manager asks me to do, unless it's exceptionally stupid in which case I'll suggest an alternative action, but I still won't argue over it.
>>>The Gentoo maintainers were particularly rude
Couldn't you just avoid the forums and focus on coding? Then when it's done, hand it over and say, "Here is it. Peer review it and I'll make the changes." Ignore rude persons by killfiling them (first give them a warning; then if they are still rude, block 'em).
Where does somebody go if they want to see this TTY code first hand?
I can understand his frustration. I've walked-away as well from various clubs. You volunteer hundreds of hours of your time, without pay, and all you hear from the members is complaint-after-complaint-after-complaint.
You eventually reach a point where you say, "What am I doing this for? No one's appreciating it or saying thanks. I could be out having fun instead of this shit," and then you stop volunteering.
>>>the pillory for people who put classified information on a computer that is ever connected to the internet.
You got a good point. This information about Obama's safehouse, motorcade routes, and so on should never have been allowed on a networked computer. EXISTING RULES already state that classified information can only be stored on non-networked machines... and most-importantly, behind a locked door.
I think more than just the P2Ping employee is in trouble. Probably that whole company is in trouble, for violating classified requirements. They'll likely lose that license and never be allowed to work with sensitive information again.
>>>That's not reporting.
Right. We need reporters to take the eyewitness newsgatherings, chop them into little bits so they can be distorted, and then explain why this event requires yet another layer of bureacracy added to our government.
If you don't know what I mean, watch Babylon 5's "The Illusion of Truth" where a reporter manages to take the stars of the show, and twist-around events to make them look like an out-of-control mob needing government to fix the mess.
Anyway.....
Megacorporate reporters, for whatever reason, are biased towards more-and-more government. The idea that we need LESS government is never proposed on the evening news. I say we take-away their power to present only this slanted viewpoint, and give reporting back to the common man via websites. At least that way we can hear both sides of the story.
>>>You should really check this movie out - Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
You should really check this movie out - PETA: The High Cost of Meat Eating - http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
POINT-
Anybody can string together a bunch of videos, and make things look bad via propanda like these videos, but overall 99.9% of animals and walmart/chinese workers are treated humanly.
Wow. So to summarize-
The anti-walmart people are trying to recreate a 50/60s-style of America that no longer exists. Well I can agree with that. These are the same persons who waste billions of dollars trying to "revive" the downtown of inner cities. What they don't realize is that:
(1) downtown isn't dead; it's still alive and well at the mall where you can find a similar style of window-shopping.
(2) shopping downtown during the 1930s/40s/50 sucked, because there was no place to park your car, it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Worse: you had to struggle to carry your 10 bags of groceries back home; not an easy task.
I know. I used to shop with my grandma, and it was horrible, often taking all day. Give me the convenience of a mall and a car to carry-home the goods.
Whatever. I'm not worried about it. Yes American and European factories are moving to China/India. BUT when the oil drought happens, and a barrel rises to $300 or more, those same factories will move back home in order to reduce shipping costs. It's inevitable that as fuel goes up, factories will have to be moved close to their market.
Eventually, probably within my lifetime, I expect all the "made in China" labels to revert back to "made in Rednecktown, USA" labels, just like the good ol' days. ;-)
I just bought Edy's ice cream for 2 dollars. Other stores sell it for 3 when on sale. I also bought Budget tv dinners for 89 cents. Other stores sell them for 1 dollar. Walmart's cheaper.