Actually the founding fathers had it right because they had to fight for their liberty. Now we only fight when the president declares war without approval from Congress. Fucking bush should have been impeached for that shit. All Clinton did was get a blow job and put his cigar where it didn't belong. Bush got several thousand people killed and they still hate us in the middle east.
Seriously? What is wrong with you guys? How in the fuck did you even come up with a system where non related shit can be tacked on to a bill? Is it bullshit that got added on later or were your vaunted founding fathers slightly retarded?
We don't care that our government has been stripping away our rights and privacy for years because we are too concerned with stupid shit that happened on tv last night. I could go on but you all know the story.
That's just it, we allowed our government to be sold to the highest bidder because no one gives a fuck. Nothing can change until enough people get motivated to do something about it. There was a time when young people would be the ones to change things but they're too busy being complacent like the rest of us. Bummer.
The MPAA said they weren't aware of his operation. The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops
How could the MPAA not be aware of this guy copying thousands of their movies? I can't believe his ISP didn't rat him out to the Mafiaa. It's a nice thing he did for the troops. It's a shame the movie industry could not have done the same with their reel to reel tape thingys. Who uses reel to reel? Maybe the mpaa still uses them because their DVD's are too expensive.
I've heard of this place where you can go to talk shop without fear of being overheard. They call it a cafeteria. Only Apple is arrogant enough to call it a private restaurant.
I concede your point but in a closed 2 party system you have to take the lesser of two evils. At this point I haven't been able to decide which of the two is most evil. I've got a strong feeling that this election will be less about each candidates record and more about how much mud the respective PAC's can sling. We're in for a long bumpy ride folks.
That's a good point. As I recall he is responsible for putting at least 5 MAFIAA lawyers in the department of (un) justice. I wouldn't judge him on his choice of lawyers though. I'm sure Mitt would do the same thing. The problem here is that the government works for corporate interests and not the people. It would be nice to see a nice big fat juicy lawsuit (can you say class action) come out of this. Someone needs to put these asshole Mafiaa lawyers in their place.
The latest Android has a very stable code and a solid permission system that allows the user to set exactly what an app can or can't do.
Therein lies your problem....the user. Oh and it doesn't hurt that a large portion of the marketplace is crawling with malware. Google does not do a good enough job of policing the apps and end users can't be relied on to secure their machine.
Have we gone as far as we're willing to go in space?
We've gone as far as NASA's budget will allow. The fools in congress can debate creationist theory as long as they want (or untill the public decides to chuck them out on their arse) but private funding is pretty much the future of space travel.
makes it possible for companies to share user information with the U.S. government (and vice versa) if the parties believe it is needed for the greater cyber security good.
WHERE IS THE OVERSIGHT??? And don't tell me the FISA court is involved because we all know that dumbass bush pretty much left the door wide open to bypass the court at will. Lord knows that I'm not important enough for the government to be interested but people will use this information to make decisions about you without your input. So essentially it's a license to discriminate will with no real oversight. God this country is sliding down hill so fast.
Yeah it seems that there are a lot of companies trying to steal a piece of cable's pie but speaking as a cable employee I really don't see a huge drop in customers. Competition is good for everyone so I say bring it on.
If scientists were in charge we may have a chance at survival as a species. Unfortunately our country (USA) is run by a bunch of corrupt money grubbing idiots that still believe in creationist theory (god WILL protect us). What's worse is that we voted these fools into power.
If you use a bank issued visa/mastercard and the transactions are swiped (credit) instead of via a pin you have the same protections as a regular credit card. Transactions via a pin have limited rights and you may not be reimbursed for the full amount of the fraud. That's why the banks have promotions and special hardware (RFID) at the POS. They want to entice you to use your pin so they can get off cheap. If they spent less time being greedy I'm sure they could impliment a more secure system but I suppose that would not be in their best interest.
Delaware is the first state (that I'm aware of) to propose off shore wind farms. Of course between the politicians and the special interests we managed to F#$ck it up. It's really a shame because (since I've lived here 10yrs) certain parts of the state have always had energy delivery problems and this project would have done a lot of good. Hopefully Virginia will have more luck with their offshore wind project.
The Senate approved a bill Monday evening that deals with teaching of evolution and other scientific theories...
Well, there's your problem, right there. The overall concept of evolution is no longer a theory. Surely even the staunchest of Creationists must acknowledge the so called "short-term" evolution that gives us the ability to manipulate plants or breed wolves into dogs.
Yes, as with most fields, a long time ago there were sets of theories. Like prior to Watson and Crick, back when you had Darwinian Evolution, Larmarckian Evolution, etc. Not anymore though. You might have theories about very specific things in the field that might be impossible to prove -- like, say, what the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) looked like -- but Evolution is no longer a theory. The field moves forward while Tennessee makes themselves look like idiots from some forgotten era.
^^^Needs some mod points^^^^ .
I support their willingness to look the fool as long as they don't try to get into politics.
Sounds like you had a very bad experience. From my perspective as a front line tech speaking to people that are barely literate in computers and have no clue about networking the search works. Asking a person to look for network connections or network and sharing center is painful enough as it is. Trying to get them to navigate to device manager is absolutely impossible. If I can get them to find the start menu the rest is cake. Yes I'm not having them search for anything specialized but the basic function works and since they are already tuned to the search mentality it makes it easy on me.
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full-blown, mongoloid-butt-fuck retarded
The nanny state exposed. It turns out that they really are a bunch of mongoloid butt fuckers.
More security theater.
If this was America I'd say that someone bought themselves a judge. I don't know how things work down there but the whole thing seems stupid.
Actually the founding fathers had it right because they had to fight for their liberty. Now we only fight when the president declares war without approval from Congress. Fucking bush should have been impeached for that shit. All Clinton did was get a blow job and put his cigar where it didn't belong. Bush got several thousand people killed and they still hate us in the middle east.
Seriously? What is wrong with you guys? How in the fuck did you even come up with a system where non related shit can be tacked on to a bill? Is it bullshit that got added on later or were your vaunted founding fathers slightly retarded?
We don't care that our government has been stripping away our rights and privacy for years because we are too concerned with stupid shit that happened on tv last night. I could go on but you all know the story.
That's just it, we allowed our government to be sold to the highest bidder because no one gives a fuck. Nothing can change until enough people get motivated to do something about it. There was a time when young people would be the ones to change things but they're too busy being complacent like the rest of us. Bummer.
The MPAA said they weren't aware of his operation. The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops
How could the MPAA not be aware of this guy copying thousands of their movies? I can't believe his ISP didn't rat him out to the Mafiaa. It's a nice thing he did for the troops. It's a shame the movie industry could not have done the same with their reel to reel tape thingys. Who uses reel to reel? Maybe the mpaa still uses them because their DVD's are too expensive.
In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.
And in the 00's it triumphed over privacy. And we allowed all of this to happen by not standing up for our rights. Apathy rules.
I've heard of this place where you can go to talk shop without fear of being overheard. They call it a cafeteria. Only Apple is arrogant enough to call it a private restaurant.
I concede your point but in a closed 2 party system you have to take the lesser of two evils. At this point I haven't been able to decide which of the two is most evil. I've got a strong feeling that this election will be less about each candidates record and more about how much mud the respective PAC's can sling. We're in for a long bumpy ride folks.
That's a good point. As I recall he is responsible for putting at least 5 MAFIAA lawyers in the department of (un) justice. I wouldn't judge him on his choice of lawyers though. I'm sure Mitt would do the same thing. The problem here is that the government works for corporate interests and not the people. It would be nice to see a nice big fat juicy lawsuit (can you say class action) come out of this. Someone needs to put these asshole Mafiaa lawyers in their place.
The latest Android has a very stable code and a solid permission system that allows the user to set exactly what an app can or can't do.
Therein lies your problem....the user. Oh and it doesn't hurt that a large portion of the marketplace is crawling with malware. Google does not do a good enough job of policing the apps and end users can't be relied on to secure their machine.
Have we gone as far as we're willing to go in space?
We've gone as far as NASA's budget will allow. The fools in congress can debate creationist theory as long as they want (or untill the public decides to chuck them out on their arse) but private funding is pretty much the future of space travel.
makes it possible for companies to share user information with the U.S. government (and vice versa) if the parties believe it is needed for the greater cyber security good.
WHERE IS THE OVERSIGHT??? And don't tell me the FISA court is involved because we all know that dumbass bush pretty much left the door wide open to bypass the court at will. Lord knows that I'm not important enough for the government to be interested but people will use this information to make decisions about you without your input. So essentially it's a license to discriminate will with no real oversight. God this country is sliding down hill so fast.
Well maybe not quite that extreme. I was thinking more in terms of dumb as in not connected to the internet or gps.
I'll take the dumb car that doesn't spy on my every move and report that information to the highest bidder.
Wonderful but who really wanted to see Titanic in 3D?
Thank you. My thoughts exactly. Titanic was great for my wife but I could care less and 3d is just a gimmick (wast of money).
Yeah it seems that there are a lot of companies trying to steal a piece of cable's pie but speaking as a cable employee I really don't see a huge drop in customers. Competition is good for everyone so I say bring it on.
LMFAO well played sir, well played.
If scientists were in charge we may have a chance at survival as a species. Unfortunately our country (USA) is run by a bunch of corrupt money grubbing idiots that still believe in creationist theory (god WILL protect us). What's worse is that we voted these fools into power.
does anyone use a bank card and feel safe?
If you use a bank issued visa/mastercard and the transactions are swiped (credit) instead of via a pin you have the same protections as a regular credit card. Transactions via a pin have limited rights and you may not be reimbursed for the full amount of the fraud. That's why the banks have promotions and special hardware (RFID) at the POS. They want to entice you to use your pin so they can get off cheap. If they spent less time being greedy I'm sure they could impliment a more secure system but I suppose that would not be in their best interest.
Delaware is the first state (that I'm aware of) to propose off shore wind farms. Of course between the politicians and the special interests we managed to F#$ck it up. It's really a shame because (since I've lived here 10yrs) certain parts of the state have always had energy delivery problems and this project would have done a lot of good. Hopefully Virginia will have more luck with their offshore wind project.
I can't stand the deer staring at headlights look. Are we really that stupid or do we just not give a sh#$?
The Senate approved a bill Monday evening that deals with teaching of evolution and other scientific theories ...
Well, there's your problem, right there. The overall concept of evolution is no longer a theory. Surely even the staunchest of Creationists must acknowledge the so called "short-term" evolution that gives us the ability to manipulate plants or breed wolves into dogs. Yes, as with most fields, a long time ago there were sets of theories. Like prior to Watson and Crick, back when you had Darwinian Evolution, Larmarckian Evolution, etc. Not anymore though. You might have theories about very specific things in the field that might be impossible to prove -- like, say, what the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) looked like -- but Evolution is no longer a theory. The field moves forward while Tennessee makes themselves look like idiots from some forgotten era.
^^^Needs some mod points^^^^ . I support their willingness to look the fool as long as they don't try to get into politics.
Sounds like you had a very bad experience. From my perspective as a front line tech speaking to people that are barely literate in computers and have no clue about networking the search works. Asking a person to look for network connections or network and sharing center is painful enough as it is. Trying to get them to navigate to device manager is absolutely impossible. If I can get them to find the start menu the rest is cake. Yes I'm not having them search for anything specialized but the basic function works and since they are already tuned to the search mentality it makes it easy on me.