Jurors always have unknown emotional motives. To suggest that a verdict be altered due to unreasonable motives by a juror is childish. How many unknown emotional motives exist in maintaining the entire civil and criminal justice systems?
First, all customers should be advised that only low speed cable service has ever been available in the US. They should then be told that their unlimited use provisions were a fraud.
Your cable company needs to install more gear such that real high speed service is available and it should not matter a hoot if some fool needs to continuously download the kitchen sink.
In short when one sees a cable company executive one should look about for a rope and a tree.
This technology could drive all the nails in the coffin lid for cable TV. At these download speeds one could download all of the programs for all of these channels in a minute or two. The only reason for further contact that day would be news updates. Of course we will need some type of hard drive arrangement that can record 12.5Gps..
Since computers tend to be communication devices the question folds backward into another question. Can any government survive good communications among its citizens? I really doubt it. Understanding government will lead people to realize that for their individual situation the government is a negative. If you end up with any substantial percentage of a population feeling that the government is negative in their lives they will find a way to crash the government. Even 10% who are real disaffected with government will assure failure of a nation.
Back in the Hippy movement the young understood that. Tune in, turn on, and drop out was every bit as serious as an enemy marching toward a border. Whether the hippie seeking to end the Vietnam War or the kid in the mud in Vietnam was the better patriot is open to debate. But one thing is sure. The hippies did cause that idiotic war to end. Sadly we have so many ruined lives on both sides of that war as living testimony that war is a lousy idea.
The typical public school teacher is very good indeed. The problem is not in the teachers or in their work.
What is really going on is a crippled school system brought about by parental demands.
You can't flunk Johnny. You can't control Johnny. You can't suspend Johnny. You dare not hold him back a year. The ALMIGHTY Parent demands that the lessons be so completely dumbed down that even if Johnny has been blowing pot and snorting coke for a week he can still make straight A grades.
Gone is the notion that hard work is involved in learning. The idea that learning is almost like running in an Olympic race where one has to give one's all and try without error or exception to succeed has been castrated from the educational model.
The certain knowledge that those who do poorly in school will almost always suffer poverty and deep social rejection can not be mentioned or else.
The idea of an honor code where one is obliged to report others for cheating sounds wrong to the modern ear. Instead parents prefer their children to gang bang, take dope and kill each other. They must prefer it as they do almost everything to cause it.
Obviously such a law can not be enforced. But the thought behind this new law is disturbing. The notion that a government can muck about and stir up things to create a new source of taxation needs to be nipped in the bud so that we are not forced to perpetually fight such obnoxious ideas.
I wonder how many minutes it took for another server to put the same material back on line. Heck, it could be a challenge. We could get it down to a how many seconds type of contest.
This simply emphasises the need to have servers in different nations so that law enforcement remains ineffective in regard to copying software, movies and music.
These moral wizards just keep popping up all over the place. Being a moral wizard has no training or other prerequisites but the pay stinks. I have suggested that moral wizards be forced to wear those pointy dunce caps at all times so one can avoid getting anywhere near the creeps.
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Ronald Reagan drove the nail in the coffin lid of television. He passed legislation that allowed far more ads to be run every hour of the day. That killed conventional TV. Cable was also shot in the rump as without over the air competition the cable companies purchased far too little entertainment.
Worse yet regulations were relaxed or at least no enforced which allowed shockingly loud ads which got to the point that some channels were impossible to watch.
Some Russian hackers will not be touched as long as they are bringing foreign money home to Russia.
Phone sales used to work like that in Florida. Crooked companies called all over America from Florida bases. It was a huge industry employing tens of thousands in the Miami, Ft. Lauderdale area. As long as cash was being brought into Florida law enforcement wouldn't touch these criminals. These companies had an absolute rule about never selling anything within the state of Florida so that only money from people in other states was stolen.
In some smaller towns the old fashioned method was applied. The cops were simply paid not to bother phone sales companies.
I have opined that no government can tolerate the free flow of communications. If the common man can communicate with enough people he will soon gain insights which cause him to be at odds with his government. Choking communications is the response of governments which perceive a dangerous degree of freedom in their population.
The supposed ethical issues with embryonic stem cells were a red herring. What the loonies really want is no stem cell work at all to take place. So now the self appointed guardians of morals and ethics must put on their pointy hats and try to find a way to declare skin cell derived stem cells immoral.
How moral or ethical is it for these ignorant idiots to have opinions in the first place?
There were many jobs created during the WPA era that don't make sense at first glance. But they saved America money. People without money don't lay down and die. They may grab a gun or grab a purse. Jails cost money. Hospitals cost money as well when the public health suffers because individuals suffer health declines from lack of medical care, nutrition or housing.
Considering only the tax payers money it may be the best of all plans to find some task that provides a pay check to people rather than paying for the aftermath of poverty.
America has gone crazy over the sex crimes issue.
There is one city in Palm Beach County, Fl. that has restricted the areas in which sex offenders can live so severely that every offender in the city lives under the same bridge. That is the only spot that is more than 1500 ft. from a school in the entire city. But controlling where offenders live has not helped reduce sex crimes even by a fraction of one per cent.
There are already some pretty fair computer specialists working in this capacity for the government. Hiring a few more might actually help increase national security. Some civilian specialists are attached to the military or agencies such as NSA.
Amen! Wasting public funds on trials over this type of nonsense is offensive. Once it gets started it repeats over and over again almost like drinking that high octane coffee at Duncan Doughnuts.
So do we all need to surf through anonymous proxies or can we beat down these whining ninnies?
This type of law suit in which the righteous party is forced to settle because of legal costs is exactly why Microsoft needs criminal sanctions. It is also exactly why stiff punitive fines should be levied against Microsoft. Hundreds of billions would be appropriate.
Perhaps aluminum oxide in a finely granulated form could be reformed by solar heat. These scientists may have found a small step in a difficult problem.
I shell out big bucks and take almost every channel Comcast has to offer over a fiber optic connection. Yet the movie selection is awful and very repetitive. Their cable service is also marginal.
Instead of giving them larger shares of the entertainment market it is high time that we have choices between numerous cable services to our homes. Competition would drive quality upwards and drive prices downward.
As a long time Florida resident with a heavy involvement in water sports I would just love to congratulate the state for bringing crocs back into my immediate environment. The joy of confronting a ten foot crocodile weighing about 500 lbs. on a popular beach is hard to describe. I did discover that unlike Jesus I can not walk on water.
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Jurors always have unknown emotional motives. To suggest that a verdict be altered due to unreasonable motives by a juror is childish. How many unknown emotional motives exist in maintaining the entire civil and criminal justice systems?
First, all customers should be advised that only low speed cable service has ever been available in the US. They should then be told that their unlimited use provisions were a fraud.
Your cable company needs to install more gear such that real high speed service is available and it should not matter a hoot if some fool needs to continuously download the kitchen sink.
In short when one sees a cable company executive one should look about for a rope and a tree.
This technology could drive all the nails in the coffin lid for cable TV. At these download speeds one could download all of the programs for all of these channels in a minute or two. The only reason for further contact that day would be news updates. Of course we will need some type of hard drive arrangement that can record 12.5Gps..
Rich people go down slower than a teen queen in 1953. You've really got to go some to get them on their backs.
Picture the sales clerk saying OK kid! You must first misrepresent your age before I am allowed to sell you this game!
It is the carrier's job to provide more tubes, larger tubes, better tubes etc.. If they don't do a good job they need to get out of the industry.
Since computers tend to be communication devices the question folds backward into another question. Can any government survive good communications among its citizens? I really doubt it. Understanding government will lead people to realize that for their individual situation the government is a negative. If you end up with any substantial percentage of a population feeling that the government is negative in their lives they will find a way to crash the government. Even 10% who are real disaffected with government will assure failure of a nation.
Back in the Hippy movement the young understood that. Tune in, turn on, and drop out was every bit as serious as an enemy marching toward a border. Whether the hippie seeking to end the Vietnam War or the kid in the mud in Vietnam was the better patriot is open to debate. But one thing is sure. The hippies did cause that idiotic war to end. Sadly we have so many ruined lives on both sides of that war as living testimony that war is a lousy idea.
The typical public school teacher is very good indeed. The problem is not in the teachers or in their work.
What is really going on is a crippled school system brought about by parental demands.
You can't flunk Johnny. You can't control Johnny. You can't suspend Johnny. You dare not hold him back a year. The ALMIGHTY Parent demands that the lessons be so completely dumbed down that even if Johnny has been blowing pot and snorting coke for a week he can still make straight A grades.
Gone is the notion that hard work is involved in learning. The idea that learning is almost like running in an Olympic race where one has to give one's all and try without error or exception to succeed has been castrated from the educational model.
The certain knowledge that those who do poorly in school will almost always suffer poverty and deep social rejection can not be mentioned or else.
The idea of an honor code where one is obliged to report others for cheating sounds wrong to the modern ear. Instead parents prefer their children to gang bang, take dope and kill each other. They must prefer it as they do almost everything to cause it.
Obviously such a law can not be enforced. But the thought behind this new law is disturbing. The notion that a government can muck about and stir up things to create a new source of taxation needs to be nipped in the bud so that we are not forced to perpetually fight such obnoxious ideas.
I wonder how many minutes it took for another server to put the same material back on line. Heck, it could be a challenge. We could get it down to a how many seconds type of contest.
This simply emphasises the need to have servers in different nations so that law enforcement remains ineffective in regard to copying software, movies and music.
Are you suggesting that the Lord God has something more important to concern himself with than where I stuff my pecker and when?
These moral wizards just keep popping up all over the place. Being a moral wizard has no training or other prerequisites but the pay stinks. I have suggested that moral wizards be forced to wear those pointy dunce caps at all times so one can avoid getting anywhere near the creeps.
Ronald Reagan drove the nail in the coffin lid of television. He passed legislation that allowed far more ads to be run every hour of the day. That killed conventional TV. Cable was also shot in the rump as without over the air competition the cable companies purchased far too little entertainment.
Worse yet regulations were relaxed or at least no enforced which allowed shockingly loud ads which got to the point that some channels were impossible to watch.
Some Russian hackers will not be touched as long as they are bringing foreign money home to Russia.
Phone sales used to work like that in Florida. Crooked companies called all over America from Florida bases. It was a huge industry employing tens of thousands in the Miami, Ft. Lauderdale area. As long as cash was being brought into Florida law enforcement wouldn't touch these criminals. These companies had an absolute rule about never selling anything within the state of Florida so that only money from people in other states was stolen.
In some smaller towns the old fashioned method was applied. The cops were simply paid not to bother phone sales companies.
I have opined that no government can tolerate the free flow of communications. If the common man can communicate with enough people he will soon gain insights which cause him to be at odds with his government. Choking communications is the response of governments which perceive a dangerous degree of freedom in their population.
I'll wait for scent of 7 of 9 to come out!
The supposed ethical issues with embryonic stem cells were a red herring. What the loonies really want is no stem cell work at all to take place. So now the self appointed guardians of morals and ethics must put on their pointy hats and try to find a way to declare skin cell derived stem cells immoral.
How moral or ethical is it for these ignorant idiots to have opinions in the first place?
There were many jobs created during the WPA era that don't make sense at first glance. But they saved America money. People without money don't lay down and die. They may grab a gun or grab a purse. Jails cost money. Hospitals cost money as well when the public health suffers because individuals suffer health declines from lack of medical care, nutrition or housing.
Considering only the tax payers money it may be the best of all plans to find some task that provides a pay check to people rather than paying for the aftermath of poverty.
America has gone crazy over the sex crimes issue.
There is one city in Palm Beach County, Fl. that has restricted the areas in which sex offenders can live so severely that every offender in the city lives under the same bridge. That is the only spot that is more than 1500 ft. from a school in the entire city. But controlling where offenders live has not helped reduce sex crimes even by a fraction of one per cent.
There are already some pretty fair computer specialists working in this capacity for the government. Hiring a few more might actually help increase national security. Some civilian specialists are attached to the military or agencies such as NSA.
Amen! Wasting public funds on trials over this type of nonsense is offensive. Once it gets started it repeats over and over again almost like drinking that high octane coffee at Duncan Doughnuts.
So do we all need to surf through anonymous proxies or can we beat down these whining ninnies?
This type of law suit in which the righteous party is forced to settle because of legal costs is exactly why Microsoft needs criminal sanctions. It is also exactly why stiff punitive fines should be levied against Microsoft. Hundreds of billions would be appropriate.
Perhaps aluminum oxide in a finely granulated form could be reformed by solar heat. These scientists may have found a small step in a difficult problem.
I shell out big bucks and take almost every channel Comcast has to offer over a fiber optic connection. Yet the movie selection is awful and very repetitive. Their cable service is also marginal.
Instead of giving them larger shares of the entertainment market it is high time that we have choices between numerous cable services to our homes. Competition would drive quality upwards and drive prices downward.
As a long time Florida resident with a heavy involvement in water sports I would just love to congratulate the state for bringing crocs back into my immediate environment. The joy of confronting a ten foot crocodile weighing about 500 lbs. on a popular beach is hard to describe. I did discover that unlike Jesus I can not walk on water.