Listen, I'm not a meteorologist or anything, but I'm pretty sure that a penis is not an inside-out vagina. I'm pretty sure it's more analogous to the clitoris, and that the little seam that runs down the nutsack and taint (excuse the medical terminology) is the result of the labia closing and sealing.
Go (back?) to law school and re-read (or perhaps read for the first time?) the material on what can and cannot be subject to a presidential pardon.
No thanks. Not only am I not an attorney, but I don't have any desire to be one. I was responding to this quote:
"I can't pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so that's not something that I would comment on at this point," Obama told the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
I interpreted that as meaning that he was not able to do that, rather than just being unwilling.
Some more quotes:
"At the point at which Mr. Snowden wants to present himself before the legal authorities and make his arguments or have his lawyers make his arguments, then I think those issues come into play," Obama said.
More than a million supporters of Edward Snowden have petitioned President Barack Obama to pardon him, but the former National Security Agency contractor hasn't submitted the required documents for clemency, according to the White House.
"Mr. Snowden has not filed paperwork to seek clemency from this administration," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.
Snowden cannot be pardoned, because he has not been convicted of any crime. There is no conviction to pardon or commute. He has to surrender and be charged in order for that to happen. Obama already commented on that, he said that regardless of how he feels about Snowden, you can't pardon someone who hasn't been convicted of anything.
It sounds like you should get kicked in the taint for rolling out a new network in the age of fiber but deciding to run with Cat-5 because you got a great deal on spools. Just because the network is publicly-funded doesn't also mean that all of the expertise needs to come from the community. Part of that public funding is hiring a designer who knows what they're doing.
The government can subsidize the costs and offer service for well below the actual costs, which is unfair competition.
That seems like a red herring. "The Government" isn't some giant mega-corp paying out stockholders, it is run and funded by the citizens. That's not "the government" subsidizing the costs, it's the taxes paid by the people who live there. The people are subsidizing the costs, so why shouldn't the government be allowed to build and maintain a network for the benefit of the people which is paid for by the people? The answer of course is because the ISPs think they deserve everyone's money. That doesn't mean that towns should not be allowed to pool their resources and plan and deploy their own network paid for by themselves. Even if they are competing with a private company, they should still be allowed to do it. If the private company can't build a better network and provide better service than the people doing it for themselves then the private company doesn't get any business. They can up their game or go elsewhere. Instead, in reality, they find that it's a better investment to pay legislators to pass laws which favor themselves against the people living there, and the end result is that the people still have the same shit network that has been there for the last several decades and they're still paying way too much for it. That's the specific situation that people want to change - they want a fast network and a reasonable price, not 10down/1up DSL for $80/month.
The issue in high costs with broadband come from partial or complete monopolies of ISPs.
Right. But all of a sudden when the people step in to build their own network then *that* is unfair competition? I think the existence of a monopoly makes the environment for unfair competition, not a town deciding that they want to publicly fund a network.
In order to reduce costs, the government can help introduce competition.
How can they do that? Keep in mind that ISPs have very large war chests, and that they have no problems with paying large sums of money to legislators in order to maintain their monopolies and ban towns from doing things themselves. So how exactly should anyone expect the government to "introduce competition"? Wouldn't the ISPs claim some other sort of government overreach? If building their own network is unfair competition, then wouldn't "introducing competition" be labeled as some sort of anti-capitalist big government move to influence the market? You write a lot of bright-sky points without offering any actual solution. What is this supposed to mean:
I really like this idea in Virginia of providing a means for municipalities to introduce competition
What are you actually suggesting there? Anything at all? I'm not talking about suggesting vague things like "introducing competition", I'm talking about actual laws that would help the situation. Because a town getting together and deciding to fund and build their own network is a concrete example of introducing competition, but if that's not what you're suggesting then what kind of concrete steps are you referring to?
"It's nice to only be able to listen to what's in front of you, instead of having the entirety of music at your fingertips with Spotify and all that"
Right, and when I go to lunch I prefer to go to the convenience store where I only have the pre-made sandwiches in the cooler to choose from. That's also "nice". When I can pick from anything I want I just get confused. I prefer it when my choices are today's ham and swiss or yesterday's ham and swiss. Sometimes I pick yesterday's ham and swiss because I appreciate the retro taste of it, I like that the bread just feels warm and fuzzy (where it isn't soggy). I also avoid online dating, when I want a date I go to the closest cheap bar and think it's nice that I'm only able to pick from the selection of women at the bar, I appreciate their retro ages. Sometimes I pick the one without a disease, but I always appreciate a retro penicillin shot.
If they consistently get an awful rating, then imagine how many people they have to regularly piss off, especially if a lot of their customers don't really have much of a problem with them.
Personally, I think that people just tend to hate their own cable provider, and it's been a long time coming. Quality has been declining and prices have been increasing for a while but people feel like they don't have any options, so they take it out on whoever their provider happens to be. I'm one of the cord cutters, but I'm happy to pay for the content I'm consuming if the companies decide that they want to sell me what I'm willing to pay for.
I like how they individually list "transistors" and "capacitors", but then also list "servers". They also list "smart cables", "data server cables", "copper and power cables", "optical fiber cables", and then just "cables". Someone got paid by the word.
Allow me to add copy-and-paste trolling as another example of why you're losing. You know what we call people who lose, APK? We call them losers. That's what you are. You are a mid-50s loser with no achievements to speak of who trolls all day, all the while calling other people never-do-wells. You are the picture of irony. Maybe instead of copying and pasting your stupid insults, you should go out and find some work. Maybe get something worth actually citing in the future instead of telling people how that one time 15 years ago you suggested some efficiency improvements to someone else's program, which then went on to almost win an award but didn't. Maybe update your resume so that the next time you're in some stupid pissing match of your own making you can actually cite something that someone else might be impressed with instead of crashing and burning like you do literally every time.
Or, be a loser and troll all day. It's really your choice. I bet I know which one you're going to choose, too.
Allow me to add copy-and-paste trolling as another example of why you're losing. You know what we call people who lose, APK? We call them losers. That's what you are. You are a mid-50s loser with no achievements to speak of who trolls all day, all the while calling other people never-do-wells. You are the picture of irony. Maybe instead of copying and pasting your stupid insults, you should go out and find some work. Maybe get something worth actually citing in the future instead of telling people how that one time 15 years ago you suggested some efficiency improvements to someone else's program, which then went on to almost win an award but didn't. Maybe update your resume so that the next time you're in some stupid pissing match of your own making you can actually cite something that someone else might be impressed with instead of crashing and burning like you do literally every time.
Or, be a loser and troll all day. It's really your choice. I bet I know which one you're going to choose, too.
Why not Idaho? Cooler weather, low taxes, and cheap real-estate.
Idaho has a single tier-3 data center. Compared to Phoenix, I'm sure the major difference is the concentration of top-tier networks already here in Phoenix. I doubt there are as many top-tier networks running through Idaho. We also have cheap power and land, but I'm sure the prices in Idaho aren't very high either. Then again, there aren't many people in Idaho and it pays to locate your equipment near to the population centers. The population of all of Idaho is about 1.6 million, while about 4.5 million live in metro Phoenix. Intel, Motorola, and Honeywell also have a lot of major facilities here, I'm sure for many of the same reasons as the data centers.
When they say finished data center cabinets for their other data centers, I assume that means with all of the hardware already installed, ready to be shipped to one of their data centers, installed, and powered on. I doubt it means an empty cabinet. The empty cabinet is one of the parts, along with all of the various hardware and networking components.
I've never claimed to write bug-free code, in fact I've never even claimed to be a good programmer. I don't make judgments like that about myself, other people who know me can comment on how good I am but I'm not the one for that. Even so, I talk about how much I get paid and you're totally bewildered. I talk about normal pay for a lead programmer with a lot of experience and you think it's not possible. That's why I think you're pitiful.
And by now you have totally abandoned all of your arguments and you've resorted exclusively to name-calling (but *I'M* the never-do-well, not some guy in his 50s with the emotional maturity and skills of a 12 year old who has nothing better to do than troll all day) . You won't even sign your posts any more. You've lost in every way that there is to lose.
Yeah, there's not much to this story. If LinkedIn doesn't want to store data on Russians inside Russia, then they can't operate there. Fine. This is the exact same reason why our company has a server in South Africa. It's not about free speech or whatever else, if the country wants you to store data on their citizens inside their country, then you can either comply or not give access to that country. I don't see how anyone should have a problem with that. If you can switch around the story and insert the name of your own country in place of Russia, and still be outraged, then you probably just like being outraged.
That's backwards. His posts on Twitter are from an Android device, and he's known to use a Samsung phone. His campaign team was posting using an iPhone.
You're not even going to bother trying to defend or rebut any points, are you? You see what you're doing right now? That's called running away, APK. That's what you accuse everyone else of doing all the time. I'll accept your admission of defeat. You're free to call me whatever you want to call me, because nothing you say changes a single shred of reality. I can take your name-calling because I know that it's a defensive mechanism after you got your shit trashed and after I've made you realize that you aren't anything. Name calling is what you do when you have no argument. You lose. Again.
Well done, APK very impressive. Ignore everything everyone else says, pretend to be someone else, accuse everyone else of running (no irony there), avoid the points I make because you don't want to address them, and when you feel like the things I've said have stung a little too much, just retreat into your third-party safe space. Great job impressing and wowing everyone with your amazing abilities and command of social interaction. Oh, and fart jokes. That's some classic high comedy from APK. Don't worry, little guy, I won't be so mean anymore. I'll try not to ask such obvious questions or poke such obvious holes in your paper accomplishments. I know your ego is fragile, I don't want you to feel like you have to spend your whole life in your safe space.
You prove you can what, APK? Get paid $100 for a forum post at age 46? I was wondering something. You apparently graduated from college in the mid-80s, right? So what exactly did you do between graduation and getting something in a magazine in the late 90s? What did you do during those 15-some-odd years, and why doesn't your list of accomplishments include anything from that time? I was curious because I was already working on the application that still runs the company even while I was still in school, and that alone seems like a better accomplishment than anything you've listed, so what exactly were you doing? And did you actually graduate with a degree in computer science, or were you too busy playing lacrosse and learning how to argue like a 13 year old?
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Also, if you're such a badass, then why the fuck do you act like you're someone other than yourself? If you had all of the confidence that you want people to think you have, wouldn't you be proud to be yourself instead of needing to act like you're someone else?
Or, let me ask a different question. Let's assume that you're actually not APK like you'd prefer everyone to believe, even though you're completely ignorant to how uniquely you type and express yourself. If you're going to claim that you're not Alex, but you're going to accuse me of running, then why did Alex run from the conversation you're linking to? Hmm? If you're not Alex, then Alex hasn't responded since that conversation, yet you're accusing me, and not him, of running. Isn't that a little ironic? And what are the chances that me pointing out this obvious fallacy in your stupid third-person persona causes you to once again switch personae and resume speaking as yourself?
I realize that there is a large amount of cognitive dissonance in your life. It's evidenced by the fact that you always ignore my answers about staying anonymous and respond like you just made an awesome point, but I thought I would ask anyway.
You're a sad person for pretending to be someone else and linking to threads which show you acting like an idiot. You have no answer for my last post that you link to, so you just accuse me of doing something that I didn't. You are tone deaf, you're living a sad, unfulfilled life, and your programming achievements are no better than hobby-grade.
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and the vagina "pops out" becoming the penis
Listen, I'm not a meteorologist or anything, but I'm pretty sure that a penis is not an inside-out vagina. I'm pretty sure it's more analogous to the clitoris, and that the little seam that runs down the nutsack and taint (excuse the medical terminology) is the result of the labia closing and sealing.
One, Compelling a person to say things is kind of tyrannical, isn't it?
Calm down Debra, you can still be a pretty little princess.
Some people don't want to cater to the delusions of the mentally ill.
Well, then how do you explain Trump?
It was my signature that tipped you off to the fact that I love Obama, wasn't it?
Are you aware that what you stated is false?
After reading all the replies, yep, I sure am.
Go (back?) to law school and re-read (or perhaps read for the first time?) the material on what can and cannot be subject to a presidential pardon.
No thanks. Not only am I not an attorney, but I don't have any desire to be one. I was responding to this quote:
"I can't pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so that's not something that I would comment on at this point," Obama told the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
I interpreted that as meaning that he was not able to do that, rather than just being unwilling.
Some more quotes:
"At the point at which Mr. Snowden wants to present himself before the legal authorities and make his arguments or have his lawyers make his arguments, then I think those issues come into play," Obama said.
More than a million supporters of Edward Snowden have petitioned President Barack Obama to pardon him, but the former National Security Agency contractor hasn't submitted the required documents for clemency, according to the White House.
"Mr. Snowden has not filed paperwork to seek clemency from this administration," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.
Snowden cannot be pardoned, because he has not been convicted of any crime. There is no conviction to pardon or commute. He has to surrender and be charged in order for that to happen. Obama already commented on that, he said that regardless of how he feels about Snowden, you can't pardon someone who hasn't been convicted of anything.
It sounds like you should get kicked in the taint for rolling out a new network in the age of fiber but deciding to run with Cat-5 because you got a great deal on spools. Just because the network is publicly-funded doesn't also mean that all of the expertise needs to come from the community. Part of that public funding is hiring a designer who knows what they're doing.
The government can subsidize the costs and offer service for well below the actual costs, which is unfair competition.
That seems like a red herring. "The Government" isn't some giant mega-corp paying out stockholders, it is run and funded by the citizens. That's not "the government" subsidizing the costs, it's the taxes paid by the people who live there. The people are subsidizing the costs, so why shouldn't the government be allowed to build and maintain a network for the benefit of the people which is paid for by the people? The answer of course is because the ISPs think they deserve everyone's money. That doesn't mean that towns should not be allowed to pool their resources and plan and deploy their own network paid for by themselves. Even if they are competing with a private company, they should still be allowed to do it. If the private company can't build a better network and provide better service than the people doing it for themselves then the private company doesn't get any business. They can up their game or go elsewhere. Instead, in reality, they find that it's a better investment to pay legislators to pass laws which favor themselves against the people living there, and the end result is that the people still have the same shit network that has been there for the last several decades and they're still paying way too much for it. That's the specific situation that people want to change - they want a fast network and a reasonable price, not 10down/1up DSL for $80/month.
The issue in high costs with broadband come from partial or complete monopolies of ISPs.
Right. But all of a sudden when the people step in to build their own network then *that* is unfair competition? I think the existence of a monopoly makes the environment for unfair competition, not a town deciding that they want to publicly fund a network.
In order to reduce costs, the government can help introduce competition.
How can they do that? Keep in mind that ISPs have very large war chests, and that they have no problems with paying large sums of money to legislators in order to maintain their monopolies and ban towns from doing things themselves. So how exactly should anyone expect the government to "introduce competition"? Wouldn't the ISPs claim some other sort of government overreach? If building their own network is unfair competition, then wouldn't "introducing competition" be labeled as some sort of anti-capitalist big government move to influence the market? You write a lot of bright-sky points without offering any actual solution. What is this supposed to mean:
I really like this idea in Virginia of providing a means for municipalities to introduce competition
What are you actually suggesting there? Anything at all? I'm not talking about suggesting vague things like "introducing competition", I'm talking about actual laws that would help the situation. Because a town getting together and deciding to fund and build their own network is a concrete example of introducing competition, but if that's not what you're suggesting then what kind of concrete steps are you referring to?
"It's nice to only be able to listen to what's in front of you, instead of having the entirety of music at your fingertips with Spotify and all that"
Right, and when I go to lunch I prefer to go to the convenience store where I only have the pre-made sandwiches in the cooler to choose from. That's also "nice". When I can pick from anything I want I just get confused. I prefer it when my choices are today's ham and swiss or yesterday's ham and swiss. Sometimes I pick yesterday's ham and swiss because I appreciate the retro taste of it, I like that the bread just feels warm and fuzzy (where it isn't soggy). I also avoid online dating, when I want a date I go to the closest cheap bar and think it's nice that I'm only able to pick from the selection of women at the bar, I appreciate their retro ages. Sometimes I pick the one without a disease, but I always appreciate a retro penicillin shot.
And they're using Adobe-only features that don't exist in other PDF products? I understand the need for PDF in general, but why Adobe in particular?
I personally have, and still find a way to watch what I want to watch, but plenty of other people don't know how.
If they consistently get an awful rating, then imagine how many people they have to regularly piss off, especially if a lot of their customers don't really have much of a problem with them.
Personally, I think that people just tend to hate their own cable provider, and it's been a long time coming. Quality has been declining and prices have been increasing for a while but people feel like they don't have any options, so they take it out on whoever their provider happens to be. I'm one of the cord cutters, but I'm happy to pay for the content I'm consuming if the companies decide that they want to sell me what I'm willing to pay for.
I like how they individually list "transistors" and "capacitors", but then also list "servers". They also list "smart cables", "data server cables", "copper and power cables", "optical fiber cables", and then just "cables". Someone got paid by the word.
Allow me to add copy-and-paste trolling as another example of why you're losing. You know what we call people who lose, APK? We call them losers. That's what you are. You are a mid-50s loser with no achievements to speak of who trolls all day, all the while calling other people never-do-wells. You are the picture of irony. Maybe instead of copying and pasting your stupid insults, you should go out and find some work. Maybe get something worth actually citing in the future instead of telling people how that one time 15 years ago you suggested some efficiency improvements to someone else's program, which then went on to almost win an award but didn't. Maybe update your resume so that the next time you're in some stupid pissing match of your own making you can actually cite something that someone else might be impressed with instead of crashing and burning like you do literally every time.
Or, be a loser and troll all day. It's really your choice. I bet I know which one you're going to choose, too.
Allow me to add copy-and-paste trolling as another example of why you're losing. You know what we call people who lose, APK? We call them losers. That's what you are. You are a mid-50s loser with no achievements to speak of who trolls all day, all the while calling other people never-do-wells. You are the picture of irony. Maybe instead of copying and pasting your stupid insults, you should go out and find some work. Maybe get something worth actually citing in the future instead of telling people how that one time 15 years ago you suggested some efficiency improvements to someone else's program, which then went on to almost win an award but didn't. Maybe update your resume so that the next time you're in some stupid pissing match of your own making you can actually cite something that someone else might be impressed with instead of crashing and burning like you do literally every time.
Or, be a loser and troll all day. It's really your choice. I bet I know which one you're going to choose, too.
Do you really want a data center where the temperature quite often approaches 110 degrees?
Sure. Here's one. Take a tour. They have a facility in Scottsdale, too. Other companies host here, also. Digital Realty has nearly 1 million square feet of data center space in the county.
Why not Idaho? Cooler weather, low taxes, and cheap real-estate.
Idaho has a single tier-3 data center. Compared to Phoenix, I'm sure the major difference is the concentration of top-tier networks already here in Phoenix. I doubt there are as many top-tier networks running through Idaho. We also have cheap power and land, but I'm sure the prices in Idaho aren't very high either. Then again, there aren't many people in Idaho and it pays to locate your equipment near to the population centers. The population of all of Idaho is about 1.6 million, while about 4.5 million live in metro Phoenix. Intel, Motorola, and Honeywell also have a lot of major facilities here, I'm sure for many of the same reasons as the data centers.
When they say finished data center cabinets for their other data centers, I assume that means with all of the hardware already installed, ready to be shipped to one of their data centers, installed, and powered on. I doubt it means an empty cabinet. The empty cabinet is one of the parts, along with all of the various hardware and networking components.
I've never claimed to write bug-free code, in fact I've never even claimed to be a good programmer. I don't make judgments like that about myself, other people who know me can comment on how good I am but I'm not the one for that. Even so, I talk about how much I get paid and you're totally bewildered. I talk about normal pay for a lead programmer with a lot of experience and you think it's not possible. That's why I think you're pitiful.
And by now you have totally abandoned all of your arguments and you've resorted exclusively to name-calling (but *I'M* the never-do-well, not some guy in his 50s with the emotional maturity and skills of a 12 year old who has nothing better to do than troll all day) . You won't even sign your posts any more. You've lost in every way that there is to lose.
Stop hitting yourself, APK.
Yeah, there's not much to this story. If LinkedIn doesn't want to store data on Russians inside Russia, then they can't operate there. Fine. This is the exact same reason why our company has a server in South Africa. It's not about free speech or whatever else, if the country wants you to store data on their citizens inside their country, then you can either comply or not give access to that country. I don't see how anyone should have a problem with that. If you can switch around the story and insert the name of your own country in place of Russia, and still be outraged, then you probably just like being outraged.
That's backwards. His posts on Twitter are from an Android device, and he's known to use a Samsung phone. His campaign team was posting using an iPhone.
You're not even going to bother trying to defend or rebut any points, are you? You see what you're doing right now? That's called running away, APK. That's what you accuse everyone else of doing all the time. I'll accept your admission of defeat. You're free to call me whatever you want to call me, because nothing you say changes a single shred of reality. I can take your name-calling because I know that it's a defensive mechanism after you got your shit trashed and after I've made you realize that you aren't anything. Name calling is what you do when you have no argument. You lose. Again.
Well done, APK very impressive. Ignore everything everyone else says, pretend to be someone else, accuse everyone else of running (no irony there), avoid the points I make because you don't want to address them, and when you feel like the things I've said have stung a little too much, just retreat into your third-party safe space. Great job impressing and wowing everyone with your amazing abilities and command of social interaction. Oh, and fart jokes. That's some classic high comedy from APK. Don't worry, little guy, I won't be so mean anymore. I'll try not to ask such obvious questions or poke such obvious holes in your paper accomplishments. I know your ego is fragile, I don't want you to feel like you have to spend your whole life in your safe space.
You prove you can what, APK? Get paid $100 for a forum post at age 46? I was wondering something. You apparently graduated from college in the mid-80s, right? So what exactly did you do between graduation and getting something in a magazine in the late 90s? What did you do during those 15-some-odd years, and why doesn't your list of accomplishments include anything from that time? I was curious because I was already working on the application that still runs the company even while I was still in school, and that alone seems like a better accomplishment than anything you've listed, so what exactly were you doing? And did you actually graduate with a degree in computer science, or were you too busy playing lacrosse and learning how to argue like a 13 year old?
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Also, if you're such a badass, then why the fuck do you act like you're someone other than yourself? If you had all of the confidence that you want people to think you have, wouldn't you be proud to be yourself instead of needing to act like you're someone else?
Or, let me ask a different question. Let's assume that you're actually not APK like you'd prefer everyone to believe, even though you're completely ignorant to how uniquely you type and express yourself. If you're going to claim that you're not Alex, but you're going to accuse me of running, then why did Alex run from the conversation you're linking to? Hmm? If you're not Alex, then Alex hasn't responded since that conversation, yet you're accusing me, and not him, of running. Isn't that a little ironic? And what are the chances that me pointing out this obvious fallacy in your stupid third-person persona causes you to once again switch personae and resume speaking as yourself?
I realize that there is a large amount of cognitive dissonance in your life. It's evidenced by the fact that you always ignore my answers about staying anonymous and respond like you just made an awesome point, but I thought I would ask anyway.
You're a sad person for pretending to be someone else and linking to threads which show you acting like an idiot. You have no answer for my last post that you link to, so you just accuse me of doing something that I didn't. You are tone deaf, you're living a sad, unfulfilled life, and your programming achievements are no better than hobby-grade.