I especially like how stating the truth is trolling. Let me state it differently so I can get modded Troll again:
This should do well in Europe. Because Europe is a land where the members of that society have decided that freedom and everything that goes along with it (such as free will, free thought, etc) is too dangerous to have, and as such legislates it away at every possible chance specifically to protect themselves from themselves.
Because Europe is a land where people enjoy having their actions and lives dictated to them under the guise of protecting themselves from themselves. Which for the record, is not possible with anything less than handcuffs, force fed tranquilizers, and 24 hour supervision. I'm so glad I'm the age I am in the country I'm in, knowing that very soon I will be dead and shortly after my country will end up just as FUCKED.
You've said good day before, yet you can't help replying. Almost a compulsion, isn't it?
Look, it is plain as day that I support real freedom, while you are a wannabe dictator. You are engaging in classical psychological projection, and it's just sad how little introspection you have. Since you can't seem to keep your word and bugger off, I'll close out this conversation as I began it, with a sincere sense of superiority. You've convinced no one of anything nor brought forth any sort of argument.
Maybe, at least for the VM, it's neither Microsoft nor Apple, but rather VMWare. I wouldn't question the wisdom of using a VM session at all on battery or not. I do all of my browsing, email, IM, etc through different VMs, (eg. 1 VM for Firefox, 1 VM for Outlook, 1 VM for ICQ/MSN), I can't say that I've ever noticed it draining my HP Pavillion's battery any more than anything else really...
When Russia entered the market. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond And read under "Mining, sources and production" for most of it. It doesn't due justice to how that market opening up lowered prices
But really there are 6 major players now, not just one. However De Beers still is nearly 40% of the market.
I for one would love to see diamonds become as common and cheap as catseyes or obsidian so that it can be used more for its non jewel properties more.
What's wrong with the man made diamonds for those purposes?
What exactly makes a stone out of a material that costs next to nothing to produce so valuable?
Bonus question:
Or do you mean the stuff that people are killed for?
A stone is not aesthetically pleasing to the majority of humans. However, due to the refractive index, a properly faceted gemstone can be beautiful. The value is determined by scarcity of the resource, and the beauty in the eye of the beholder.
DNS hijacking isn't evil because the companies that do it is evil. It's evil because it breaks standards, and therefore breaks all sorts of other crap.
It doesn't matter what company does it, it's still fucked up. To suggest that OpenDNS breaking standards is any better than Comcast breaking standards is just plain stupid and clearly missing the point entirely.
But isn't that how we vote for president? Lesser of two evils?
I fail to see, using your scenario, why Comcast's DNS server would effect the company's internal DNS server, thus creating the conflict you alluded to. Since I'm not sure why Comcast would know anything about the company's internal network...
That's because you didn't pay attention to the scenario. We're talking about a split tunnel VPN. DNS resolution uses the following rules:
1) try the usual (external) DNS server first. If it resolves, use that IP address for the communication.
2) try the internal DNS (via the VPN) if step 1 returned NXDOMAIN, and if that resolves, use that IP address for the communication.
3) otherwise, return NXDOMAIN.
So if Comcast's external server returns a valid IP for the internal server, instead of NXDOMAIN, then your internal mail server will never be accessible to anyone using your company's VPN from a Comcast connection.
Couldn't you avoid that by changing step 1?
1)try the ip that the hosts file says to use for the server first.
Granted there probably are situations where even that might not work... I'm just too stupid to think of any..
You're actually trying to claim that OpenDNS's bounce pages are as bad as Comcast's?
Who gives a shit about the bounce pages? My concern is that the lack of a proper NXDOMAIN response will break various applications whose authors were foolish enough to think that the RFCs would be followed. In that respect OpenDNS is no better.
I'm glad I have the knowledge and ability to run my own DNS server and don't have to deal with this bullshit.
I agree, and you might see in a different reply, my being and advocate of OpenDNS was based more on not using evil Comcast than anything else. I never meant to imply that OpenDNS wasn't doing the same thing, only that they are less evil.
I was unaware that Comcast has a mechanism in place that detects when I'm not using their DNS and knows when the DNS I'm using returns an NX record, thus allowing Comcast to hijack my traffic. That kinda sucks. Maybe if i used the web more I might have noticed, as it stands, I rarely see the OpenDNS bounce page, and the only time I've ever seen a Comcast bounce page is when I was setting up a FreeBSD router on an EMTA, and determined that Comcast was using OS detection to push non-Windows/MacOS users to their provisioning spam page.
Wow you typed in caps so I could hear through my monitor's screenmuffs. Way to go! Comcast is evil, to put it in/. terms, Comcast is Microsoft evil. I would much rather see OpenDNS's bounce page than evil Comcast's.
Again I love the rant, and that you're not trying to debate. You spew vulgarities and insults, and then you claim that's what I'm doing. You contradict yourself in the very same paragraph, and you claim that's what I'm doing. I used to fall into these circular logic traps when I was about 12. I'm 32 now. I like to debate topics and make rebuttals, which you seem incapable of doing.
It sounds as if you would rather everyone have the ability to screw over their neighbor, and only afterwords could they be caught, tried, and convicted. So, people should have the 'freedom' to do whatever they like, and the rest of us should not be allowed to preemptively stop them.
By this logic, anyone should be allowed to own any kind of weapon up to and including nuclear bombs. They should be able to bring said weapons anywhere, threaten anyone with them, and only be punished if someone has the ability to bring them to justice, try them, and convict them.
Anyone should be allowed to drive drunk, and only if they hit someone should they be punished. Anyone should be allowed to come into the country, no borders would be allowed by your philosophy.
This is exactly how it is now (minus the nuclear bomb dramatic sensationalism, obviously). For the majority of us it works just fine. You on the other hand, sound as if you would prefer Hitler or Stalin to be in power, and dictate your life and your choices to you and your neighbors, because otherwise someone might have free thought, free will, free action, or in a single word: freedom, and that would be unfair!
I love the disingenuous way you feel free to insult others, then take offense when they reciprocate. Typical of the "I'm a superior creature so the rules don't apply to me!" type of thinking I see from sad little libertarians everywhere. What we're doing is not 'debate' by any stretch of the imagination, starting from your sarcastic, insulting and logic free first post.
But it sounds like you might like places like, oh, say, Somalia, where there is no big bad government to tell you what to do. Why don't you and your fellow libertarians pack up and move there?
I have made no conscious attempt to insult you, through vulgarity or otherwise, like you have toward me. If I were to classify myself to a political affiliation it would be Federalist Republican. Perhaps I could have been labeled a libertarian of 50 years ago, according to my grandfather, but not today, and that's a whole different discussion.
As for packing up and moving away, I'd like to offer you the same: Iran, North Korea, and China sound like the perfect place for you, since you would rather not have the freedom to think and make choices. These countries are the least likely to provide you and your neighbors with those. So why don't you and your fellow totalitarians pack up and move there? I would put money on cellphone use in school being your last concern if you did!
Now, since I've dispensed with the pleasantries, and you say we're not debating, I bid you Good Day Sir!
At least this story doesn't have OpenDNS in the "from the X department" this time.
OpenDNS does exactly the same thing, so you might as well stick with your comcast servers.
You're actually trying to claim that OpenDNS's bounce pages are as bad as Comcast's? Ok fine. Then what's wrong with Treewalk?
You're IT for a business. You have employees who check their e-mail from home, accessing your stuff via a split tunnel VPN.
The computer tries to resolve internalmail.company.com, and normally this should fail, causing the computer to try the VPN's DNS server.
Instead, your employee's computer gets Comcast's search page server. Their mail client times out.
You get inundated with tech support calls.
I fail to see, using your scenario, why Comcast's DNS server would effect the company's internal DNS server, thus creating the conflict you alluded to. Since I'm not sure why Comcast would know anything about the company's internal network... If you meant:
The computer tries to resolve webmail.company.com, and normally this should fail, causing the computer to try the VPN's DNS server.
... then it almost makes sense... but only if you have a poorly constructed hosts file and route.
I officially advocate the use of Treewalk and OpenDNS for all Comcast subscribers such as myself. Because after all, if I don't use their DNS, why should I care where they are directing non-existant domain traffic to?
but ain't diamonds the kind of carbon that's supposedly expensive?
Only the kind that are dug out of the ground and sold for the market that's artificially manipulated to keep prices high.
I think you've completely failed to understand the gemstone, precious metal, and jewelry markets. As the son of (and apprentice to) a GIA certified gemologist and master goldsmith; I'm curious who you think is behind the manipulation specifically regarding diamonds. The GIA? The EGL? The IGI? Or perhaps you are refering specifically to DeBeers? My guess would be that your making some backhanded comment about DeBeer's former stranglehold on the diamond market...
So, they are attempting to have the laws changed so that they can enforce their rules without requiring teachers to act constantly as police, looking for surreptitious cell phone use.
This highlights how people that think like you have fundamentally flawed ideals. Change the law, so they don't have to enforce their rules. Except you preach it like it gives them more ability to enforce them, while simultaneously ignoring the fact they are not currently enforcing the rules that they claim to have in place already. I cannot, and will not ever agree with that premise. I will always blame the lack of rule enforcement. Precisely because I live under a democracy, and not a dictatorship, oligarchy, monarchy, or any other form of oppressive police/nanny state government.
I don't know about you, but I would rather have teachers focus on teaching than on policing your selfish brats.
Here you are engaging in the typical double-talk that totalitarians like to engage in. I also would rather have the teacher teaching. The difference is that I understand life will never be Utopian, therefore I expect distractions, tangents, and disappointments in life. How miserable and tiresome your life must be thinking that you live in a Broken Utopia and that you can fix it.
Your kids have no right to disrupt my kids learning.
Here you are attempting to blur the distinction between rights and freedoms once again. I'll nibble by saying that I agree the kid doesn't have the right to, but since this isn't a fascist regime, the kid has the freedom to.
I'm glad you find my 'rants' (is that what you call anything that disagrees with your selfish desires? Rants?) amusing. I find you to be a sad reminder of what base selfishness can create.
Yes, typically when someone I am debating falls apart and starts cursing and insulting me I call it a rant, and it amuses me. About me being selfish, well, that's human nature and if you are haven't learned that by now the rest of your life will be an uphill battle. I will always care more about me and my own (family, friends, or things).
Fortunately, most people aren't like you.
Fortunately, most people in the USA aren't like you either. However I'll expand on that by saying that your ideals fit right in with many of those in Europe. Have fun with that.
First is bullshit. Americans are, by objective testing, fatter and stupider than Europeans.
Citation needed.
Second is hypocritical given your posts.
Sorry I should have made a separate post calling your post inflammatory, my mistake. Really, I'm hot a hypocrite.
Third is splitting a retarded hair.
Splitting hairs? Really?
"In 1955, ten years after entering the country, von Braun became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Von Braun worked on the American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon."
But apparently, I'm the troll, for pointing out how idiotic your mindless nationalism is. Oh well.
I can see how a European would confuse patriotism with nationalism. It's rather sad your supposedly superior educational system allowed you to make that confusion.
Good point, modern cars do have DRM-protected ECUs. My old Grand National had no such protection though:)
I was more responding to modifying for reason xyz vs. modifying for reason of circumventing copyright measure, and why modifying the consoles was different from making a general modification to a car, even one that might lead to you breaking other laws (like speeding.)
I guess the correlation would be something like: Xbox DRM is to prevent Xbox from runninng unsigned software as ECU DRM is to prevent running unsigned software. The only difference really is that the Xbox software is a game, and the ECU software manages your engine.
Dumbass, people can circumvent the cell phone blocker, too. Doesn't mean it doesn't work. People can circumvent any technological enforcement, that isn't a reason not to use them. You spoke not a whit about guns, why not? You've completely lost sight of the original argument, and have started bringing up arguments that contradict your original position.
The cell phone blocker is not like a sign. Telling kids not to use cell phones is like the no trespassing sign. The cell phone blocker is more like a gun. You break into my home, well, I have shotguns rigged to a string pointing at all the doors and windows and you get blown away. Same as if your dumb kids try to use a cellphone surreptitiously in class, oops, it just doesn't work, problem solved, and teachers don't have to waste valuable teaching time acting as police and babysitters for assholes.
I don't think existence of a rule constitutes enforcement, THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT, ya moron. The rule is, 'don't use cellphones in school.' If that were its own enforcement, we wouldn't need the cellphone blocker, now would we? You're so far off track now, you couldn't find your way back to your original idiotic point with a map and compass.
I just fucking love giving morons cognitive dissonance so bad they start to argue against their own point. It's like I owned your tiny little brain.
If you think raving like a lunatic and tossing in a few big words makes you intelligent think again. Here in this rant, it's you that has lost sight of my argument. Which for the record is that I have freedoms and rights, which are distinguishable by law. Since you are so obviously confused about our society, and how we decided to use the checks and balances approach to governing ourselves; let me explain by siting our State and Federal governments as an example. The Legislative branch creates the laws, the Judicial branch interprets the laws, the Executive branch enforces the laws.
By that example, you as an American should clearly understand that with a lack of enforcement, the existence or interpretation of a law or rule is completely meaningless. It's totalitarian of you to believe that forcing the masses to do something to prevent a case point from ever occurring is acceptable.
Guns... my guns enforce my own personal rules in my house, and that's about all they are good for unless I decide to break some serious laws. My guns do not reinforce my States "Breaking and Entering" laws, that would make me a vigilante, which I am not, and I highly doubt you are either. My local sheriff/police are the enforcers.
I guess overall your rants have been comical to me, I never thought I would chat with a person who's said they think the kids should effectively be shot rather than bother with enforcing the established rules of the school. Quite comical indeed. Oh and please feel free to rant and spew insult attempts at me again, those are always worth a chuckle.
I think what he was saying is that American managers are crooked and incompetent, and now his managers, who are imitating American managers, are now also crooked and incompetent. I don't believe that it was the complement you thought it was.
I can't see how, from my comment, that you came to the conclusion I thought that was a complement. Anyway, maybe I read too much history, you see, the US Federal government setup plots of the most useless land in the country. They called these plots "Indian Reservations" and forcefully moved all Native American peoples onto these reservations. South Africa looked at that model and attempted to apply it, and it failed them.
So since you missed it, my point was this: America has made mistakes. Mistakes that ironically have lead to some of its successes. Foreign governments shouldn't look to America's successes and assume that they will arrive at the same conclusions simply by following the American model.
We are a tough and resilient people, we have endured many hardships in our brief existence. We've been through the crucible time and time again, and each pass refines our beliefs, traditions, and culture. Foreign cultures should not be envious of our success, rather, they should be wary of following in our footsteps. Our path is a difficult one.
Wait until the US and it's socialist/communist collaborators pass the ACTA.
No, this is fascist, extreme authoritarian capitalism, if this was communism (extreme authoritarian socialism) they would be asking for a tax in exchange for production, not the ability to charge people more money and prevent any kind of competition.
So you're saying all the 1st world countries are fascist?
Yeah, because the American attempt to create a collider on this scale turned out really well, didn't it? I'm sure you might want to bring up the Apollo programme next; I will have to concede though, that the Saturn V really was a remarkable piece of German engineering.
Americans thinking they are better than everyone else used to annoy me, now it just seems pathetic.
First, we are better, and that's one reason we left most of Europe behind, then kicked your asses out of our new land to prove it, then saved your asses from yourselves and your remarkable Germans.
Second, I think your post is inflammatory.
Third, when people defect from Germany, they are no longer "Germans."
Last, YAEEF4TL (Yet Another Epic European Fail 4 THE LOSE)
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You remind me of me when I was young.
I especially like how stating the truth is trolling. Let me state it differently so I can get modded Troll again:
This should do well in Europe. Because Europe is a land where the members of that society have decided that freedom and everything that goes along with it (such as free will, free thought, etc) is too dangerous to have, and as such legislates it away at every possible chance specifically to protect themselves from themselves.
Because Europe is a land where people enjoy having their actions and lives dictated to them under the guise of protecting themselves from themselves. Which for the record, is not possible with anything less than handcuffs, force fed tranquilizers, and 24 hour supervision. I'm so glad I'm the age I am in the country I'm in, knowing that very soon I will be dead and shortly after my country will end up just as FUCKED.
You've said good day before, yet you can't help replying. Almost a compulsion, isn't it?
Look, it is plain as day that I support real freedom, while you are a wannabe dictator. You are engaging in classical psychological projection, and it's just sad how little introspection you have. Since you can't seem to keep your word and bugger off, I'll close out this conversation as I began it, with a sincere sense of superiority. You've convinced no one of anything nor brought forth any sort of argument.
I SAID GOOD DAY SIR!
Maybe, at least for the VM, it's neither Microsoft nor Apple, but rather VMWare. I wouldn't question the wisdom of using a VM session at all on battery or not. I do all of my browsing, email, IM, etc through different VMs, (eg. 1 VM for Firefox, 1 VM for Outlook, 1 VM for ICQ/MSN), I can't say that I've ever noticed it draining my HP Pavillion's battery any more than anything else really...
When Russia entered the market. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond And read under "Mining, sources and production" for most of it. It doesn't due justice to how that market opening up lowered prices
But really there are 6 major players now, not just one. However De Beers still is nearly 40% of the market.
I for one would love to see diamonds become as common and cheap as catseyes or obsidian so that it can be used more for its non jewel properties more.
What's wrong with the man made diamonds for those purposes?
I can break your whole world with one question:
What exactly makes a stone out of a material that costs next to nothing to produce so valuable?
Bonus question:
Or do you mean the stuff that people are killed for?
A stone is not aesthetically pleasing to the majority of humans. However, due to the refractive index, a properly faceted gemstone can be beautiful. The value is determined by scarcity of the resource, and the beauty in the eye of the beholder.
Beautiful example.
DNS hijacking isn't evil because the companies that do it is evil. It's evil because it breaks standards, and therefore breaks all sorts of other crap.
It doesn't matter what company does it, it's still fucked up. To suggest that OpenDNS breaking standards is any better than Comcast breaking standards is just plain stupid and clearly missing the point entirely.
But isn't that how we vote for president? Lesser of two evils?
I fail to see, using your scenario, why Comcast's DNS server would effect the company's internal DNS server, thus creating the conflict you alluded to. Since I'm not sure why Comcast would know anything about the company's internal network...
That's because you didn't pay attention to the scenario. We're talking about a split tunnel VPN. DNS resolution uses the following rules:
1) try the usual (external) DNS server first. If it resolves, use that IP address for the communication. 2) try the internal DNS (via the VPN) if step 1 returned NXDOMAIN, and if that resolves, use that IP address for the communication. 3) otherwise, return NXDOMAIN.
So if Comcast's external server returns a valid IP for the internal server, instead of NXDOMAIN, then your internal mail server will never be accessible to anyone using your company's VPN from a Comcast connection.
Couldn't you avoid that by changing step 1?
1)try the ip that the hosts file says to use for the server first.
Granted there probably are situations where even that might not work... I'm just too stupid to think of any..
You're actually trying to claim that OpenDNS's bounce pages are as bad as Comcast's?
Who gives a shit about the bounce pages? My concern is that the lack of a proper NXDOMAIN response will break various applications whose authors were foolish enough to think that the RFCs would be followed. In that respect OpenDNS is no better.
I'm glad I have the knowledge and ability to run my own DNS server and don't have to deal with this bullshit.
I agree, and you might see in a different reply, my being and advocate of OpenDNS was based more on not using evil Comcast than anything else. I never meant to imply that OpenDNS wasn't doing the same thing, only that they are less evil.
I was unaware that Comcast has a mechanism in place that detects when I'm not using their DNS and knows when the DNS I'm using returns an NX record, thus allowing Comcast to hijack my traffic. That kinda sucks. Maybe if i used the web more I might have noticed, as it stands, I rarely see the OpenDNS bounce page, and the only time I've ever seen a Comcast bounce page is when I was setting up a FreeBSD router on an EMTA, and determined that Comcast was using OS detection to push non-Windows/MacOS users to their provisioning spam page.
Wow you typed in caps so I could hear through my monitor's screenmuffs. Way to go! Comcast is evil, to put it in /. terms, Comcast is Microsoft evil. I would much rather see OpenDNS's bounce page than evil Comcast's.
It sounds as if you would rather everyone have the ability to screw over their neighbor, and only afterwords could they be caught, tried, and convicted. So, people should have the 'freedom' to do whatever they like, and the rest of us should not be allowed to preemptively stop them. By this logic, anyone should be allowed to own any kind of weapon up to and including nuclear bombs. They should be able to bring said weapons anywhere, threaten anyone with them, and only be punished if someone has the ability to bring them to justice, try them, and convict them. Anyone should be allowed to drive drunk, and only if they hit someone should they be punished. Anyone should be allowed to come into the country, no borders would be allowed by your philosophy.
This is exactly how it is now (minus the nuclear bomb dramatic sensationalism, obviously). For the majority of us it works just fine. You on the other hand, sound as if you would prefer Hitler or Stalin to be in power, and dictate your life and your choices to you and your neighbors, because otherwise someone might have free thought, free will, free action, or in a single word: freedom, and that would be unfair!
I love the disingenuous way you feel free to insult others, then take offense when they reciprocate. Typical of the "I'm a superior creature so the rules don't apply to me!" type of thinking I see from sad little libertarians everywhere. What we're doing is not 'debate' by any stretch of the imagination, starting from your sarcastic, insulting and logic free first post. But it sounds like you might like places like, oh, say, Somalia, where there is no big bad government to tell you what to do. Why don't you and your fellow libertarians pack up and move there?
I have made no conscious attempt to insult you, through vulgarity or otherwise, like you have toward me. If I were to classify myself to a political affiliation it would be Federalist Republican. Perhaps I could have been labeled a libertarian of 50 years ago, according to my grandfather, but not today, and that's a whole different discussion.
As for packing up and moving away, I'd like to offer you the same: Iran, North Korea, and China sound like the perfect place for you, since you would rather not have the freedom to think and make choices. These countries are the least likely to provide you and your neighbors with those. So why don't you and your fellow totalitarians pack up and move there? I would put money on cellphone use in school being your last concern if you did!
Now, since I've dispensed with the pleasantries, and you say we're not debating, I bid you Good Day Sir!
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At least this story doesn't have OpenDNS in the "from the X department" this time. OpenDNS does exactly the same thing, so you might as well stick with your comcast servers.
You're actually trying to claim that OpenDNS's bounce pages are as bad as Comcast's? Ok fine. Then what's wrong with Treewalk?
You're IT for a business. You have employees who check their e-mail from home, accessing your stuff via a split tunnel VPN.
The computer tries to resolve internalmail.company.com, and normally this should fail, causing the computer to try the VPN's DNS server.
Instead, your employee's computer gets Comcast's search page server. Their mail client times out.
You get inundated with tech support calls.
I fail to see, using your scenario, why Comcast's DNS server would effect the company's internal DNS server, thus creating the conflict you alluded to. Since I'm not sure why Comcast would know anything about the company's internal network... If you meant:
The computer tries to resolve webmail.company.com , and normally this should fail, causing the computer to try the VPN's DNS server.
... then it almost makes sense... but only if you have a poorly constructed hosts file and route.
I officially advocate the use of Treewalk and OpenDNS for all Comcast subscribers such as myself. Because after all, if I don't use their DNS, why should I care where they are directing non-existant domain traffic to?
but ain't diamonds the kind of carbon that's supposedly expensive?
Only the kind that are dug out of the ground and sold for the market that's artificially manipulated to keep prices high.
I think you've completely failed to understand the gemstone, precious metal, and jewelry markets. As the son of (and apprentice to) a GIA certified gemologist and master goldsmith; I'm curious who you think is behind the manipulation specifically regarding diamonds. The GIA? The EGL? The IGI? Or perhaps you are refering specifically to DeBeers? My guess would be that your making some backhanded comment about DeBeer's former stranglehold on the diamond market...
So, they are attempting to have the laws changed so that they can enforce their rules without requiring teachers to act constantly as police, looking for surreptitious cell phone use.
This highlights how people that think like you have fundamentally flawed ideals. Change the law, so they don't have to enforce their rules. Except you preach it like it gives them more ability to enforce them, while simultaneously ignoring the fact they are not currently enforcing the rules that they claim to have in place already. I cannot, and will not ever agree with that premise. I will always blame the lack of rule enforcement. Precisely because I live under a democracy, and not a dictatorship, oligarchy, monarchy, or any other form of oppressive police/nanny state government.
I don't know about you, but I would rather have teachers focus on teaching than on policing your selfish brats.
Here you are engaging in the typical double-talk that totalitarians like to engage in. I also would rather have the teacher teaching. The difference is that I understand life will never be Utopian, therefore I expect distractions, tangents, and disappointments in life. How miserable and tiresome your life must be thinking that you live in a Broken Utopia and that you can fix it.
Your kids have no right to disrupt my kids learning.
Here you are attempting to blur the distinction between rights and freedoms once again. I'll nibble by saying that I agree the kid doesn't have the right to, but since this isn't a fascist regime, the kid has the freedom to.
I'm glad you find my 'rants' (is that what you call anything that disagrees with your selfish desires? Rants?) amusing. I find you to be a sad reminder of what base selfishness can create.
Yes, typically when someone I am debating falls apart and starts cursing and insulting me I call it a rant, and it amuses me. About me being selfish, well, that's human nature and if you are haven't learned that by now the rest of your life will be an uphill battle. I will always care more about me and my own (family, friends, or things).
Fortunately, most people aren't like you.
Fortunately, most people in the USA aren't like you either. However I'll expand on that by saying that your ideals fit right in with many of those in Europe. Have fun with that.
First is bullshit. Americans are, by objective testing, fatter and stupider than Europeans.
Citation needed.
Second is hypocritical given your posts.
Sorry I should have made a separate post calling your post inflammatory, my mistake. Really, I'm hot a hypocrite.
Third is splitting a retarded hair.
Splitting hairs? Really?
"In 1955, ten years after entering the country, von Braun became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Von Braun worked on the American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon."
But apparently, I'm the troll, for pointing out how idiotic your mindless nationalism is. Oh well.
I can see how a European would confuse patriotism with nationalism. It's rather sad your supposedly superior educational system allowed you to make that confusion.
Good point, modern cars do have DRM-protected ECUs. My old Grand National had no such protection though :)
I was more responding to modifying for reason xyz vs. modifying for reason of circumventing copyright measure, and why modifying the consoles was different from making a general modification to a car, even one that might lead to you breaking other laws (like speeding.)
I guess the correlation would be something like: Xbox DRM is to prevent Xbox from runninng unsigned software as ECU DRM is to prevent running unsigned software. The only difference really is that the Xbox software is a game, and the ECU software manages your engine.
Dumbass, people can circumvent the cell phone blocker, too. Doesn't mean it doesn't work. People can circumvent any technological enforcement, that isn't a reason not to use them. You spoke not a whit about guns, why not? You've completely lost sight of the original argument, and have started bringing up arguments that contradict your original position.
The cell phone blocker is not like a sign. Telling kids not to use cell phones is like the no trespassing sign. The cell phone blocker is more like a gun. You break into my home, well, I have shotguns rigged to a string pointing at all the doors and windows and you get blown away. Same as if your dumb kids try to use a cellphone surreptitiously in class, oops, it just doesn't work, problem solved, and teachers don't have to waste valuable teaching time acting as police and babysitters for assholes.
I don't think existence of a rule constitutes enforcement, THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT, ya moron. The rule is, 'don't use cellphones in school.' If that were its own enforcement, we wouldn't need the cellphone blocker, now would we? You're so far off track now, you couldn't find your way back to your original idiotic point with a map and compass.
I just fucking love giving morons cognitive dissonance so bad they start to argue against their own point. It's like I owned your tiny little brain.
If you think raving like a lunatic and tossing in a few big words makes you intelligent think again. Here in this rant, it's you that has lost sight of my argument. Which for the record is that I have freedoms and rights, which are distinguishable by law. Since you are so obviously confused about our society, and how we decided to use the checks and balances approach to governing ourselves; let me explain by siting our State and Federal governments as an example. The Legislative branch creates the laws, the Judicial branch interprets the laws, the Executive branch enforces the laws.
By that example, you as an American should clearly understand that with a lack of enforcement, the existence or interpretation of a law or rule is completely meaningless. It's totalitarian of you to believe that forcing the masses to do something to prevent a case point from ever occurring is acceptable.
Guns... my guns enforce my own personal rules in my house, and that's about all they are good for unless I decide to break some serious laws. My guns do not reinforce my States "Breaking and Entering" laws, that would make me a vigilante, which I am not, and I highly doubt you are either. My local sheriff/police are the enforcers.
I guess overall your rants have been comical to me, I never thought I would chat with a person who's said they think the kids should effectively be shot rather than bother with enforcing the established rules of the school. Quite comical indeed. Oh and please feel free to rant and spew insult attempts at me again, those are always worth a chuckle.
I think what he was saying is that American managers are crooked and incompetent, and now his managers, who are imitating American managers, are now also crooked and incompetent. I don't believe that it was the complement you thought it was.
I can't see how, from my comment, that you came to the conclusion I thought that was a complement. Anyway, maybe I read too much history, you see, the US Federal government setup plots of the most useless land in the country. They called these plots "Indian Reservations" and forcefully moved all Native American peoples onto these reservations. South Africa looked at that model and attempted to apply it, and it failed them.
So since you missed it, my point was this: America has made mistakes. Mistakes that ironically have lead to some of its successes. Foreign governments shouldn't look to America's successes and assume that they will arrive at the same conclusions simply by following the American model.
We are a tough and resilient people, we have endured many hardships in our brief existence. We've been through the crucible time and time again, and each pass refines our beliefs, traditions, and culture. Foreign cultures should not be envious of our success, rather, they should be wary of following in our footsteps. Our path is a difficult one.
No, this is fascist, extreme authoritarian capitalism, if this was communism (extreme authoritarian socialism) they would be asking for a tax in exchange for production, not the ability to charge people more money and prevent any kind of competition.
So you're saying all the 1st world countries are fascist?
Yeah, because the American attempt to create a collider on this scale turned out really well, didn't it? I'm sure you might want to bring up the Apollo programme next; I will have to concede though, that the Saturn V really was a remarkable piece of German engineering.
Americans thinking they are better than everyone else used to annoy me, now it just seems pathetic.
First, we are better, and that's one reason we left most of Europe behind, then kicked your asses out of our new land to prove it, then saved your asses from yourselves and your remarkable Germans.
Second, I think your post is inflammatory.
Third, when people defect from Germany, they are no longer "Germans."
Last, YAEEF4TL (Yet Another Epic European Fail 4 THE LOSE)