All my billing addresses are a PO BOX(one too many mailbox replacement because of drunken teen agers with bats). That being said, I give them the billing address and have them ship it where I want it to go. Never had a problem.
mafia, gun runners and drug dealers have the stuff I want. who else would i buy it from. Windows I buy from the intertubes via a scurvy den of pirates.
I have friends who I do stuff for free(they buy the parts) or people I know who I do stuff fro and they have to pay me something, and it is more than beer money. Fucking call me at 3am because your AC broke, you better be my mom, sister,niece or one of three good friends. Or a customer who doesn't mind being told to fuck off and wait until a decent hour. I made it a habit to do emergency calls for customers at the regular rate, but I decided what was an emergency, not them. I do think I have passed the buzz and went straight to drunk. Maybe it was the pills??
I was a HVAC/R technician for most of my life. I have a very broad skill set for specific repairs of systems and broad based knowledge of every other trade and the skills to replicate what they do. This includes electrical,masonry,roofing,plumbing,carpentry,and sheetrock installing and finishing, carpet laying and flooring, along with setting and repairing ceramic tiles. In other words if it is broke and is in a building, I can usually fix it(hence why HVAC/R techs make the most money of all the skilled trades). But when I want my house painted, I cal a painter, when I want new lights installed in new places , I call an electrician, same with all the other trades. My time is more valuable,even though I am fully qualified to do the work, than the money I save bu doing it myself. But I upgrade my own computers, replace parts and hold long talks with my geek buddy when I want/need a new one. I let him build mine, because i trust his skills much more than I trust mine. But I may build my next one myself with his advice. Well, this post was going somewhere, and had a point, but the everclear and SC has started to kick in and I have lost my train of thought. Anywhoo, even a non-geek like me knows not to buy a pre-built consumer marketed computer.
Dead on for the "feels good" idea about serial killers and anti-social personality disorders. Their feeling good is roughly analogous to normal peoples' moral compass. Normal people do things because it is the "right thing to do". So do anti-socials, but their rightness is determined by the way it makes them feel, not by any morality. BTW, the reason most serial killers and anti-socials get caught is because they can not suppress their desires, a trait that morality teaches as a matter of course.
This is/. Logic and facts will get you nowhere. Learn to use FUD, insults, questionable analogies, lies and distortions, and you too can be a master of./-fu.
As a point, the SS rounding up Jews were not the same SS fighting on the lines. The Jew rounding up SS were for the most part freakazoids who were sadistic pervs who were not actual military types. the front line SS would take horrible casualties and keep fighting with decent morale. The other SS would probably shit themselves if they lost one per round up, especially if it was to the "subhumans" who were killing them.
Wermacht and Waffen to distinguish them(sp?)
Fighting for your life and the lives of your family is the important part. If every jew, gypsy,homosexual and other fodder for the nazis' death camps had fought to their dying breath before being taken off to be exterminated, that things may have been different. Look at the French Resistance, the current islamic terrorists, the IRA, and then try to extend your mind into the realms of numbers. How many jews, how many gypsies? How many armed and ready to die in the street, taking at least one government stooge down with them does it take to stop BS? If every time a local USA police department staged a predawn raid, they had to be concerned with not only the people in the house, but their neighbors also, you would see a remarkable decrease in the use of the heavily armed no knock intrusion. The threat of deadly response is a big speed bump for oppressive governments, hence the heavy use of secret police, and the indoctrination of the youth in every oppressive government.And the most important thing you forgot is the idea that it is better to die on your feet, as a free man, than live on your knees as a slave.
I wonder when the console fanbois are going to wake up and smell the coffee. The point are the games, not the friggin box they play on. There is an opportunity for a generic, built with off the shelf components, console waiting to be developed. A mid-range video card, 500GB HD, Mid range chip, 2 to 4 GB of Ram, DVD drive and output for RCA/HMDI and standard VGA, universal(ie USB) control ports and a little bit of coding for GUI. And away we go, a generic console, which the game companies can code for easily, anyone could buy for around $200.00 USD, and even the most technologically challenged person could plug in and play. With something like this, we could see sane prices for games again, and have more content available by indie firms.
Take the cash, invest it and go to work for big evil megacorp until whatever happens, happens. You will A)have a leg up on a retirement package which may allow you to retire a decade earlier than planned, B) you have a steady income for the period of time working for megacorp C)you get a helluva resume entry D) nothing is precluding you and your friends from developing a new idea/concept while working for megacorp. The earlier you can sock cash away for retirement, the better off you are. Plus, the experience of developing and being involved in the marketing end of the idea, without it being a live or die pressure cooker will be worthwhile too.
What you are referring to is "in a perfect world". Reality, where the rest of us operate in, there is no such thing as a totally impartial judge or jury, nor an unbiased trial. No matter what the law "says" about impartiality and fairness, spit in the judges face next time you go to court, and find out first hand what really happens when you piss the judge off. You seem to place a great deal of faith in your fellow humans to expound so forcefully on how in your wonderful country, all the judges are perfect, of course this explains how "fair" trials happen in your wonderful country since the judge in TPB trial was on the payroll for the party suing TPB. That really seems fair and unbiased. Maybe you should check your idiocy at the door before posting again.
OK, I am stupid i guess. But if I shoot two photons away from me in opposite directions, in one year, won't photon A be two light years away from photon B, from my perspective and the perspective of the photons? And would not observer C sitting off in the distance also see the two photons located 2 light years apart? And how does the idea nothing can move faster than the speed of light play into this idea/question>
Idea. Find 10 fake coins worth say $100.00 a piece if real. Mix them into a bunch of real coins worth $50.00 in total. Post picture and auction, stating they are from your late grandfather's old coin jar. Ask for $300.00 dollars. Some slicker will see picture and think they are ripping you off and buy the auction. You profit and no illegal acts are committed.
Lol, a mac or linux fan boi I assume.
I run windows and don't have viruses and bots taking control of my box.
It is called a firewall and common sense.
What the hell is wrong with you people? How is it OK to take someones' property and give it someone else?
Dressing it up with some type of BS about poor health is just that,BS.
Their health, their problem, not mine and damn sure not a moral reason to take my money to pay for her bad health.
Unless you are a socialist or communist of some stripe.
Because those two political systems both believe that taking from those who have and giving to those that don't, is a good thing.
Of course they have both failed in the real world in their "pure" incarnations, but that should not stop you from beating the dead horse in this case.
Nice strawman there ignorant whatever.
Facts are no one said they would not support toll road, local fee based fire departments and local fee based police departments.
I might even agree it is a good idea to maybe pay a 5% tax on gross income to support fire departments and police forces.
But when you are taking my money to give to people in the ghetto to have 5,6 or more babies.
Taking it and giving it to illegal aliens so they can feed their ever increasing broods of children.
Taking it and giving it to the person who contributed the most to your campaign.
Or as in my hometown, taking it and giving it to two of the wealthiest individuals around here, so they can build themselves a baseball stadium and make even more money, it is fucking wrong.
Your heart being bad and you needing a transplant is not my problem, nor is it societies problem. It is your problem.
Fucking grow up and stop looking for the government to take the place of mommy and daddy.And while you are at it, get out of your mom's basement and get your own place, with money you earned and see if your attitude about taxes don't change.
Cable set to the side.
Forcing me to pay taxes and then using those taxes to benefit someone else is theft.
Theft from me and my family.
You think taxes are good, then defend taxes, don't dispute that they are theft though.
If I stuck a gun in your face and demanded 20% of your money it would be armed robbery.
When the government does it, it is called taxation.
And I personally could not care any less than I do now, (zero), if Billy-Joe Bob gets anew heart or not. He could die before I walked across the road and pissed on him if that was all he needed.
I also don't care if your mewling brats get an education or if your parents have to eat roadkill.
Taking my money to benefit you and yours is fucking wrong,immoral and exactly what the founders of the USA were dead set against.
And don't forget, if you get it earl and need hospitalization, it will be available. Let 5% of the population get it and there are not enough hospitals to care for all that need to be there, so the death rate will climb.
Is till fail to see how my questioning the "good idea" of allowing the government to have your DNA is rated troll, while your statement is modded insightful. Duh, neither of us seem to think that DNA taking by the gov is a good thing. Fucking retard with mod points is all I can figure out.
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All my billing addresses are a PO BOX(one too many mailbox replacement because of drunken teen agers with bats). That being said, I give them the billing address and have them ship it where I want it to go. Never had a problem.
mafia, gun runners and drug dealers have the stuff I want. who else would i buy it from. Windows I buy from the intertubes via a scurvy den of pirates.
Well then, that is why they invented pirate bay, they have excellent customer service and charge nothing for the privilege of sering your needs.
I have friends who I do stuff for free(they buy the parts) or people I know who I do stuff fro and they have to pay me something, and it is more than beer money. Fucking call me at 3am because your AC broke, you better be my mom, sister,niece or one of three good friends. Or a customer who doesn't mind being told to fuck off and wait until a decent hour. I made it a habit to do emergency calls for customers at the regular rate, but I decided what was an emergency, not them. I do think I have passed the buzz and went straight to drunk. Maybe it was the pills??
I was a HVAC/R technician for most of my life. I have a very broad skill set for specific repairs of systems and broad based knowledge of every other trade and the skills to replicate what they do. This includes electrical,masonry,roofing,plumbing,carpentry,and sheetrock installing and finishing, carpet laying and flooring, along with setting and repairing ceramic tiles. In other words if it is broke and is in a building, I can usually fix it(hence why HVAC/R techs make the most money of all the skilled trades). But when I want my house painted, I cal a painter, when I want new lights installed in new places , I call an electrician, same with all the other trades. My time is more valuable,even though I am fully qualified to do the work, than the money I save bu doing it myself. But I upgrade my own computers, replace parts and hold long talks with my geek buddy when I want/need a new one. I let him build mine, because i trust his skills much more than I trust mine. But I may build my next one myself with his advice. Well, this post was going somewhere, and had a point, but the everclear and SC has started to kick in and I have lost my train of thought. Anywhoo, even a non-geek like me knows not to buy a pre-built consumer marketed computer.
Dead on for the "feels good" idea about serial killers and anti-social personality disorders. Their feeling good is roughly analogous to normal peoples' moral compass. Normal people do things because it is the "right thing to do". So do anti-socials, but their rightness is determined by the way it makes them feel, not by any morality. BTW, the reason most serial killers and anti-socials get caught is because they can not suppress their desires, a trait that morality teaches as a matter of course.
This is /. Logic and facts will get you nowhere. Learn to use FUD, insults, questionable analogies, lies and distortions, and you too can be a master of ./-fu.
As a point, the SS rounding up Jews were not the same SS fighting on the lines. The Jew rounding up SS were for the most part freakazoids who were sadistic pervs who were not actual military types. the front line SS would take horrible casualties and keep fighting with decent morale. The other SS would probably shit themselves if they lost one per round up, especially if it was to the "subhumans" who were killing them. Wermacht and Waffen to distinguish them(sp?)
Fighting for your life and the lives of your family is the important part. If every jew, gypsy,homosexual and other fodder for the nazis' death camps had fought to their dying breath before being taken off to be exterminated, that things may have been different. Look at the French Resistance, the current islamic terrorists, the IRA, and then try to extend your mind into the realms of numbers. How many jews, how many gypsies? How many armed and ready to die in the street, taking at least one government stooge down with them does it take to stop BS? If every time a local USA police department staged a predawn raid, they had to be concerned with not only the people in the house, but their neighbors also, you would see a remarkable decrease in the use of the heavily armed no knock intrusion. The threat of deadly response is a big speed bump for oppressive governments, hence the heavy use of secret police, and the indoctrination of the youth in every oppressive government.And the most important thing you forgot is the idea that it is better to die on your feet, as a free man, than live on your knees as a slave.
I wonder when the console fanbois are going to wake up and smell the coffee. The point are the games, not the friggin box they play on. There is an opportunity for a generic, built with off the shelf components, console waiting to be developed. A mid-range video card, 500GB HD, Mid range chip, 2 to 4 GB of Ram, DVD drive and output for RCA/HMDI and standard VGA, universal(ie USB) control ports and a little bit of coding for GUI. And away we go, a generic console, which the game companies can code for easily, anyone could buy for around $200.00 USD, and even the most technologically challenged person could plug in and play. With something like this, we could see sane prices for games again, and have more content available by indie firms.
Take the cash, invest it and go to work for big evil megacorp until whatever happens, happens. You will A)have a leg up on a retirement package which may allow you to retire a decade earlier than planned, B) you have a steady income for the period of time working for megacorp C)you get a helluva resume entry D) nothing is precluding you and your friends from developing a new idea/concept while working for megacorp. The earlier you can sock cash away for retirement, the better off you are. Plus, the experience of developing and being involved in the marketing end of the idea, without it being a live or die pressure cooker will be worthwhile too.
What you are referring to is "in a perfect world". Reality, where the rest of us operate in, there is no such thing as a totally impartial judge or jury, nor an unbiased trial. No matter what the law "says" about impartiality and fairness, spit in the judges face next time you go to court, and find out first hand what really happens when you piss the judge off. You seem to place a great deal of faith in your fellow humans to expound so forcefully on how in your wonderful country, all the judges are perfect, of course this explains how "fair" trials happen in your wonderful country since the judge in TPB trial was on the payroll for the party suing TPB. That really seems fair and unbiased. Maybe you should check your idiocy at the door before posting again.
OK, I am stupid i guess. But if I shoot two photons away from me in opposite directions, in one year, won't photon A be two light years away from photon B, from my perspective and the perspective of the photons? And would not observer C sitting off in the distance also see the two photons located 2 light years apart? And how does the idea nothing can move faster than the speed of light play into this idea/question>
Idea. Find 10 fake coins worth say $100.00 a piece if real. Mix them into a bunch of real coins worth $50.00 in total. Post picture and auction, stating they are from your late grandfather's old coin jar. Ask for $300.00 dollars. Some slicker will see picture and think they are ripping you off and buy the auction. You profit and no illegal acts are committed.
If the money is good, you can soothe a hurt conscience pretty easy.
Guess you wouldn't want to drink any of the pineapple juice, everclear and vodka mixed drink I am currently obliterating my brain cells with.
You can not tax corporate profits. Any tax imposed on a corporation is passed to the end user.
Lol, a mac or linux fan boi I assume. I run windows and don't have viruses and bots taking control of my box. It is called a firewall and common sense.
What the hell is wrong with you people? How is it OK to take someones' property and give it someone else? Dressing it up with some type of BS about poor health is just that,BS. Their health, their problem, not mine and damn sure not a moral reason to take my money to pay for her bad health. Unless you are a socialist or communist of some stripe. Because those two political systems both believe that taking from those who have and giving to those that don't, is a good thing. Of course they have both failed in the real world in their "pure" incarnations, but that should not stop you from beating the dead horse in this case.
Nice strawman there ignorant whatever. Facts are no one said they would not support toll road, local fee based fire departments and local fee based police departments. I might even agree it is a good idea to maybe pay a 5% tax on gross income to support fire departments and police forces. But when you are taking my money to give to people in the ghetto to have 5,6 or more babies. Taking it and giving it to illegal aliens so they can feed their ever increasing broods of children. Taking it and giving it to the person who contributed the most to your campaign. Or as in my hometown, taking it and giving it to two of the wealthiest individuals around here, so they can build themselves a baseball stadium and make even more money, it is fucking wrong. Your heart being bad and you needing a transplant is not my problem, nor is it societies problem. It is your problem. Fucking grow up and stop looking for the government to take the place of mommy and daddy.And while you are at it, get out of your mom's basement and get your own place, with money you earned and see if your attitude about taxes don't change.
Cable set to the side. Forcing me to pay taxes and then using those taxes to benefit someone else is theft. Theft from me and my family. You think taxes are good, then defend taxes, don't dispute that they are theft though. If I stuck a gun in your face and demanded 20% of your money it would be armed robbery. When the government does it, it is called taxation. And I personally could not care any less than I do now, (zero), if Billy-Joe Bob gets anew heart or not. He could die before I walked across the road and pissed on him if that was all he needed. I also don't care if your mewling brats get an education or if your parents have to eat roadkill. Taking my money to benefit you and yours is fucking wrong,immoral and exactly what the founders of the USA were dead set against.
What happens when two black holes actually intersect at their event horizons? Inquiring non-astrophysicists would like to know.
And don't forget, if you get it earl and need hospitalization, it will be available. Let 5% of the population get it and there are not enough hospitals to care for all that need to be there, so the death rate will climb.
Is till fail to see how my questioning the "good idea" of allowing the government to have your DNA is rated troll, while your statement is modded insightful. Duh, neither of us seem to think that DNA taking by the gov is a good thing. Fucking retard with mod points is all I can figure out.
L2DSM before saying someone is addicted. http://addictions.about.com/od/substancedependence/f/dsmsubdep.htm and no I am not a tech geek, so no short URL, although I would like to know how to do it on slashdot.