Yeah, funny, a lot of telemarketers are from the midwest, because they have a neutral accent. The midwest, while slowly becoming more diverse as far as race, it is still dominated by people of European descent. Most telemarketers that call me sound to be from the south; however.
I'm a hitman, just making a living the only way I know how. Please don't insult by suggestioning I use my abilities in another profession where I might do some good, or learn another skill. I am only human, and doing anything other than calling people is beyond me.
Not really, I pay $20 a month for "unlimited local service." They could change at any time to "500 minutes" like it is now with cellular phones. We're lucky that we get plans like this from our local telephone companies. Considering in many places (Indianapolis) they're (Ameritech) local monopolies, I'm surprised we're not screwed over more.
PS. Ameritech sucks. They rip you off to no end, they whine and complain and go ape poopy when the state wants to bring competition in because they say it will raise rates to the consumer. I'm sure they're looking out for me, they've been so good about it the past 10 years.
If "downloading the file" is illegal, then they (and you) can't be held to the agreement. Determining the legality of their downloading of the file / you uploading the file would be the important part.
I agree, they weren't terrorists. My point was that by the definition of terrorism being used by many people in power, they would be terrorists. As far as I can tell, according to GWB, anyone with a cause not in line with that of his administratrion is a terrorist. Therefore, if I climb up a tree to protest NFS logging, I'm a terrorist.
I challenge that statement. You show me where it says the majority opinion of the colonists supported breaking ties with England. If I recall correctly from History of Western Civ class, it was the other way around.
However... we (US Citizens) often forget that we are lucky to have been born in a country where you are allowed to have opinions that may go against our current government leaders, and you don't worry about it and can speak them openly.
Funny, what do you think happened during our war of independence? Surely all of our soldiers in the war were terrorists. I'm sure had the events taken place a few hundred years later you would see us doing similar things as you see here.
The problem is that no clear-cut definition of what a terrorist is exists at this point. I call upon the US and International bodies to come up with a clear, accurate, definition of what a terrorist is. Otherwise, every common criminal (or accused person) could be labelled a terrorist and end up losing their rights granted by the constitution.
It's the same way with telemarketers. It wouldn't be such a big business if it weren't making money. Although, they are regulated a lot better than SPAM. In Indiana you can register to be on a no-call list, which prevents many telemarketer calls, but does allow for some (non-profit orgs using their own people, etc.) The only problem is it would be difficult to enforce similar legislature for SPAM.
I like your.sig There are a lot of people who don't quite understand what "America" is. It's actually considered one continent by most geologists (correct me if I am wrong, but I clearly remember it being pretty much one giant plate).
The problem lies in that the United States of America was named after the fact that a bunch of colonies united and made a big country that happened to be in America. Many other countries are named after the people that live there. (Francs lived in France, Mongols in Mongolia, etc.) Since the US is comprised of so many different nationalities and very few people that live here have roots more than few generations deep or are scattered throughout most of Europe, it's hard to have an indentifiable name like that.
People can't accept that their country doesn't have a neat name like France because there aren't peoples to name it after. (American Indians don't really work either, they weren't the first ones here, and they aren't Indians either. Although they are probably related to them.)
This is so wildly off topic I'm posting it at 1, I would post at 0 if I could, but I don't wish to remain anonymous.
Extremely rough estimation of the actual number of people who own at least 1 pc.
Each person probably has had:
1 pc at work (which may have been replaced at least once or twice already)
2-3 pcs at home (probably 2-3 that have since been retired)
So let's say each person (or their place of business) has purchased about 5 pcs for them. That gives us about 200 million individuals. Still an impressive number. I would guess the actual number is higher than that.
If you really want to look at these numbers and figure out how many people use PCs, you would have to consider that probably 1/3 of those billion sold have been sold multiple times, replaced multiple times, or people own multiple pcs.
Apple doesn't consider Macs as being PCs. In their commercials all comparisons are made Mac to PC (although it's obvious they are just bashing Windows, even though they only say "PC")
If the links to images on their page are absolute URLs, then you are waiting on it to pull the images from their server still. Google only caches the web page there.
This seems like a good time to note that GM went through and slashed a lot of upper management and high paying jobs to cut costs recently. Most other companies would have looked at the production line as the first place to go. GM knows the worth of their employees. I worked on the assembly line at one of their plants for a few months, and there was a lot of pride by the employees in the work they do. Even if it was just putting a few nuts and bolts on something. This is something I don't see a lot of at other places of employment. You usually hear people talking about how horrible where they work is and how they don't matter at all.
Levi Coffin himself helped about 3,000 slaves, Harriet Tubman about 300 on her own. Some estimates put it at about 100,000 overall.
If you're ever near Richmond, Indiana, I suggest you stop by the Levi Coffin house. Pretty neat stuff. The "underground railroad" existed for nearly 82 years. With your numbers, that's less than 1 a year.
But what were they going to bitch about? Anything in particular? I guess that's what I am curious about. Is it anything significant, or is it just another excuse to bitch?
I would say you could bitch a lot more about Ford, past and present than GM. I shouldn't even have to list those reasons for you (pinto, firestone, etc.) GM is a natural target though, I suppose. When you've produced nearly 1/3rd of the cars on the road in the US you can expect a lot of people to not like you =]
I see more of a problem if you point a domain to an IP address of someone that doesn't wish you to. Take all the "fuck GM" and "ford sucks" stuff out of the picture and look at it that way. Should you be able to register a domain and point it to an IP Address you do not own with permission? I can't exactly forward all my mail at home to Bill Gate's desk without causing some trouble. (Although, that would be 'forwarding' which would be different from giving out my address as his).
I see a potential problem there. Pointing a domain to an IP address that you don't own. This brings up the issue of the legality of linking, etc. as well I suppose. Is there any difference when it's at this level?
As far as libel, I don't see it. They aren't saying "Ford rapes little boys", they're saying "GM sucks".
I always understood "no law respecting an establishment of religion" to mean laws that affect religious institutions. "establishment" meaning the Catholic Church, or some other religious institution. Not meaning the establishment of a national religion. Of course, that is included in my interpretation as well.
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I'm not sure about the humor you saw in the movie. I didn't think it was intended to be funny. I saw the scene with the sandwich, etc., as a testament as to the conditions those people lived in and what he was going through to defeat the system. These were people that didn't want to be traced by the system, and to do so wasn't exactly pretty.
I will agree that having the characters explain things to me annoyed me. I don't like being told what is going on in a movie directly. It is evident why things occured the way they did, and we don't need a monologue or whatever to reveal that to us. Aside from that, I enjoyed the movie.
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Slashdot did not say that, but the submitter of the article did. Blaming Slashdot for that is like blaming your local newspaper for printing something said in an editorial. The words are in italics to let you know that someone else said them, and not CmdrTaco or anyone else.
Sometimes magazines and newspapers will print someone's comments to show how stupid they are. While I doubt this is the case here, you should be smart enough to point and laugh at the story submitter who sensationalized his submission in order to get it posted. Say what you want about the editors, but they didn't lay claim or support anything this guy said.
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If Slashdot can handle its own load, I'm sure Google can handle a few extra thousand from Slashdot. It's just ittybitty servers that can't take it.
Yeah, funny, a lot of telemarketers are from the midwest, because they have a neutral accent. The midwest, while slowly becoming more diverse as far as race, it is still dominated by people of European descent. Most telemarketers that call me sound to be from the south; however.
I'm a hitman, just making a living the only way I know how. Please don't insult by suggestioning I use my abilities in another profession where I might do some good, or learn another skill. I am only human, and doing anything other than calling people is beyond me.
Not really, I pay $20 a month for "unlimited local service." They could change at any time to "500 minutes" like it is now with cellular phones. We're lucky that we get plans like this from our local telephone companies. Considering in many places (Indianapolis) they're (Ameritech) local monopolies, I'm surprised we're not screwed over more.
PS. Ameritech sucks. They rip you off to no end, they whine and complain and go ape poopy when the state wants to bring competition in because they say it will raise rates to the consumer. I'm sure they're looking out for me, they've been so good about it the past 10 years.
Breaking and Entering is illegal to, but not if you have a search warrant. =]
If "downloading the file" is illegal, then they (and you) can't be held to the agreement. Determining the legality of their downloading of the file / you uploading the file would be the important part.
I agree, they weren't terrorists. My point was that by the definition of terrorism being used by many people in power, they would be terrorists. As far as I can tell, according to GWB, anyone with a cause not in line with that of his administratrion is a terrorist. Therefore, if I climb up a tree to protest NFS logging, I'm a terrorist.
represented the majority opinion of its people.
I challenge that statement. You show me where it says the majority opinion of the colonists supported breaking ties with England. If I recall correctly from History of Western Civ class, it was the other way around.
However... we (US Citizens) often forget that we are lucky to have been born in a country where you are allowed to have opinions that may go against our current government leaders, and you don't worry about it and can speak them openly.
Bill Mauher (sp?) might disagree with you.
so then if I commit armed robbery I can be tried by a military tribunal instead of a jury of my peers? I sure hope you don't end up in charge someday.
Armed Robbery = terrorism?
Funny, what do you think happened during our war of independence? Surely all of our soldiers in the war were terrorists. I'm sure had the events taken place a few hundred years later you would see us doing similar things as you see here.
The problem is that no clear-cut definition of what a terrorist is exists at this point. I call upon the US and International bodies to come up with a clear, accurate, definition of what a terrorist is. Otherwise, every common criminal (or accused person) could be labelled a terrorist and end up losing their rights granted by the constitution.
It's the same way with telemarketers. It wouldn't be such a big business if it weren't making money. Although, they are regulated a lot better than SPAM. In Indiana you can register to be on a no-call list, which prevents many telemarketer calls, but does allow for some (non-profit orgs using their own people, etc.) The only problem is it would be difficult to enforce similar legislature for SPAM.
I like your .sig There are a lot of people who don't quite understand what "America" is. It's actually considered one continent by most geologists (correct me if I am wrong, but I clearly remember it being pretty much one giant plate).
The problem lies in that the United States of America was named after the fact that a bunch of colonies united and made a big country that happened to be in America. Many other countries are named after the people that live there. (Francs lived in France, Mongols in Mongolia, etc.) Since the US is comprised of so many different nationalities and very few people that live here have roots more than few generations deep or are scattered throughout most of Europe, it's hard to have an indentifiable name like that.
People can't accept that their country doesn't have a neat name like France because there aren't peoples to name it after. (American Indians don't really work either, they weren't the first ones here, and they aren't Indians either. Although they are probably related to them.)
This is so wildly off topic I'm posting it at 1, I would post at 0 if I could, but I don't wish to remain anonymous.
Extremely rough estimation of the actual number of people who own at least 1 pc.
Each person probably has had:
1 pc at work (which may have been replaced at least once or twice already)
2-3 pcs at home (probably 2-3 that have since been retired)
So let's say each person (or their place of business) has purchased about 5 pcs for them. That gives us about 200 million individuals. Still an impressive number. I would guess the actual number is higher than that.
If you really want to look at these numbers and figure out how many people use PCs, you would have to consider that probably 1/3 of those billion sold have been sold multiple times, replaced multiple times, or people own multiple pcs.
Apple doesn't consider Macs as being PCs. In their commercials all comparisons are made Mac to PC (although it's obvious they are just bashing Windows, even though they only say "PC")
Does TNN play anything besides star trek marathons?
If the links to images on their page are absolute URLs, then you are waiting on it to pull the images from their server still. Google only caches the web page there.
This seems like a good time to note that GM went through and slashed a lot of upper management and high paying jobs to cut costs recently. Most other companies would have looked at the production line as the first place to go. GM knows the worth of their employees. I worked on the assembly line at one of their plants for a few months, and there was a lot of pride by the employees in the work they do. Even if it was just putting a few nuts and bolts on something. This is something I don't see a lot of at other places of employment. You usually hear people talking about how horrible where they work is and how they don't matter at all.
Levi Coffin himself helped about 3,000 slaves, Harriet Tubman about 300 on her own. Some estimates put it at about 100,000 overall.
If you're ever near Richmond, Indiana, I suggest you stop by the Levi Coffin house. Pretty neat stuff. The "underground railroad" existed for nearly 82 years. With your numbers, that's less than 1 a year.
But what were they going to bitch about? Anything in particular? I guess that's what I am curious about. Is it anything significant, or is it just another excuse to bitch?
I would say you could bitch a lot more about Ford, past and present than GM. I shouldn't even have to list those reasons for you (pinto, firestone, etc.) GM is a natural target though, I suppose. When you've produced nearly 1/3rd of the cars on the road in the US you can expect a lot of people to not like you =]
I see more of a problem if you point a domain to an IP address of someone that doesn't wish you to. Take all the "fuck GM" and "ford sucks" stuff out of the picture and look at it that way. Should you be able to register a domain and point it to an IP Address you do not own with permission? I can't exactly forward all my mail at home to Bill Gate's desk without causing some trouble. (Although, that would be 'forwarding' which would be different from giving out my address as his).
I see a potential problem there. Pointing a domain to an IP address that you don't own. This brings up the issue of the legality of linking, etc. as well I suppose. Is there any difference when it's at this level?
As far as libel, I don't see it. They aren't saying "Ford rapes little boys", they're saying "GM sucks".
Why is 2600 saying "Shove it!" to GM, though? I can't figure that part out.
I always understood "no law respecting an establishment of religion" to mean laws that affect religious institutions. "establishment" meaning the Catholic Church, or some other religious institution. Not meaning the establishment of a national religion. Of course, that is included in my interpretation as well.
I'm not sure about the humor you saw in the movie. I didn't think it was intended to be funny. I saw the scene with the sandwich, etc., as a testament as to the conditions those people lived in and what he was going through to defeat the system. These were people that didn't want to be traced by the system, and to do so wasn't exactly pretty.
I will agree that having the characters explain things to me annoyed me. I don't like being told what is going on in a movie directly. It is evident why things occured the way they did, and we don't need a monologue or whatever to reveal that to us. Aside from that, I enjoyed the movie.
Slashdot did not say that, but the submitter of the article did. Blaming Slashdot for that is like blaming your local newspaper for printing something said in an editorial. The words are in italics to let you know that someone else said them, and not CmdrTaco or anyone else.
Sometimes magazines and newspapers will print someone's comments to show how stupid they are. While I doubt this is the case here, you should be smart enough to point and laugh at the story submitter who sensationalized his submission in order to get it posted. Say what you want about the editors, but they didn't lay claim or support anything this guy said.