Even more so, perhaps people have come to see the economic and socio-political systems as a set-up designed to do harm to many for the benefit of too few. Once that conclusion approaches one becomes radicalized and not only of little use to society but a real threat. Good and reasonable ideas are not easily weeded out. People like the recording industry middle men are creating radicals among us. They may not like the ultimate consequences.
There was a time when people ran their sprinkler systems in the morning in S.Florida. We could clearly see the steam rise during the hot months here. By afternoon that steam would form clouds and actually seed the sky in such a way that a good drenching was sure to follow, As local governments posted more and more rules for lawn watering the rain following over the populated areas diminished to about half of what we used to get. That triggered a so called water shortage in which even less lawn watering was allowed.
Our nation has fluctuated from the center to the right but never to the left. We have never had a real liberal leadership in America. At best we may get a president who is somewhat liberal who is limited by a conservative house or senate. And we are paying a sad, hard, price for our lousy politics in America.
Unions can aid taxpayers by keeping workers off of welfare if they are injured, laid off or too old to work. Strong unions can serve a public purpose. However if we are to have some workers not covered by unions then we should require a strong, secured, contract for every worker that is approved by his own attorney as well as a labor standards committee. That way every worker injured at work, fired, laid off, disabled or retired would receive protections.
I can't imagine a guy with 500G of personal files. It must take a month just to read the titles of his various files.
But people are different. I'm not prone to believing in the media failure reports that we have all seen. For example I have a pile of floppy disks that are still intact after 15 plus years and I stored them like a barbarian. Hard drives also tend to last for me. And I suspect that any quality CD or DVD will last for quite a long time if handled and stored carefully. I would worry more about the PCs being unable to use ancient formats or OSs that can't cope with older stuff. In order to avoid that issue he would have to make certain to keep trying his disks every couple of years.
It is sort of a rogue who defies the current professional opinions and hunts diamonds where supposedly none exist.
There is a similar story of an individual convinced that he could find serious emeralds in N.Carolina. After many years of searching he hit upon a huge, high quality emerald which will provide several lifetimes of income for him.
There remain a host of treasures to be found all around us. These days many are deposited in the earth by drug runners who bury gold coins and the like knowing full well that they may need money after long prison sentences that might come their way.
I am more disturbed at the teacher's need to jump into action after assuming that there might be porn or some other banned materials on the disks.Is it not enough to go after kids for what they actually are known to be doing without digging deep at what they just might be doing? After all, anyone might be doing anything.
Except we want cops to catch people with illegal drugs etc.. Why restrain the cops from doing what we all need them to do? Whether its illegal aliens or a bundle of dope I prefer that 100% be detected and punished.
We need anyone who has activist experience, legal training, or any strange abilities that might help to step up and find a way to help Australia fight for free speech. Loss of liberty is never amusing and freedoms once lost may be difficult to regain.
These days one may be a victim of war without even noticing it if it is done correctly. For example simply allowing private companies to duplicate software and pumping stolen software onto the market can actually harm the economy of the US.
Conversely the US might be attacking China right now by creating a deliberate economic emergency such that China loses great sums of money and delays military development. For example China has a nuclear submarine base which may be a lot less important to them now that their economy is suffering.
That reply makes no sense at all. Assuming that pot were at a reasonable price if made legal the dope dealers would have even greater incentive to push a user towards more profitable, illegal drugs. The illegal channels would stay open and might be even harder to close down. Pot is bulky and smelly compared to other drugs. That means that a shipment that also contains pot is more likely to be detected. Also consider the harm that a motorcycle with its handle bars filled with heroin can do compared to the same handle bars filled with pot. In other words legalizing pot could cause greater harm from stronger drugs in many ways. But above all it would send the message that getting high is OK. We need our young people to know that we are more than willing to throw them into oblivion if they get high even once.
Then you would argue that drunk driving is not a crime. The average adult has probably driven drunk at least once. Often nobody is killed. But it is still a serious crime.
More people are killed in the commission of a bicycle theft than in bank robberies. Because people have limited vision bicycle theft rarely results in much of a jail sentence. The truth is that 10 years on the first offense would be a very reasonable sentence. Before you protest just how many miles are driven in cars because people don't want the hassle of trying to lock a bicycle or carry locks and chains with them?
Cops make overtime. Judges are hired. Prison contracts are lucrative as are the endless jobs provided by having a local prison. Lawyers love dopers. Bail bondsmen make a fortune on dopers. Western union exists primarily to ferry money to bondsmen. Unemployed wretches get good jobs lecturing addicts at "rehab" centers. Buy stock in a drug rehab and retire rich. Ambulance services as well as emergency room employees get fat on dopers.Undertakers, funeral homes, grave yards and firearms sales all are boosted by drug use.
In other words there is a serious ulterior motive for society not to cure drug use.
I am old enough to have lived in an area both before and after drugs entered the neighborhood.
And flat out once drugs infest a neighborhood it is a terror justifying Draconian measures of almost limitless extent to stomp out any degree of illegal drug use. If we had a choice of exterminating 20 million Americans to only wipe out half of all illegal drug use I would vote to open the death camps and lite up the ovens.
You just have to live around the dead babies, flying bullets, and better class 13 year olds turned hooker to get their fix to understand.But if you ever live it you will hate drug users worse than Charles Bronson with a fresh box of ammo.
I've always felt that about the time IBM released its own version of Linux we would feel Microsoft crashing and burning without mercy. IBM has the resources to do some really wild things with Linux.
OK, so we submerge the entire PC into some sort of super cold, non conductive substance. So just how fast would a super cold, quantum computer compute? Would I finish writing its software before I began or would the software vanish as soon as i peeked at its output?
It is a rotten shame that Australia now has to battle with censorship. Obviously America and Europe also have a running battle with those that would control what we see and read.
Any man that would censor what I read is my mortal enemy. I hope others will not be willing to play nice with such ilk. Censorship is always evil.
Perhaps good will is more important in your situation than partial ownership of software. Unless you feel that a great deal of money is involved you might be better off smiling and asking for nothing at all.
In all seriousness I do wonder to what degree privacy software has been created or released by government agents. Anything from PC main boards or components as well as encryption software could be altered to aid the government prior to sale or release to the public. There is some evidence that such things have already been done in relation to potential foreign enemies.
Sadly high school degrees have been degraded by requiring less and less of students in the US. Still, employers really want them as well as college degrees.
But the real ice breaker is when you can demonstrate work that is original and of blatantly obvious value to prospective employers. For example if you can create a real killer of a game and let the prospective employer know that it is your work you will gt the job and get paid big time.
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Even more so, perhaps people have come to see the economic and socio-political systems as a set-up designed to do harm to many for the benefit of too few. Once that conclusion approaches one becomes radicalized and not only of little use to society but a real threat. Good and reasonable ideas are not easily weeded out. People like the recording industry middle men are creating radicals among us. They may not like the ultimate consequences.
There was a time when people ran their sprinkler systems in the morning in S.Florida. We could clearly see the steam rise during the hot months here. By afternoon that steam would form clouds and actually seed the sky in such a way that a good drenching was sure to follow, As local governments posted more and more rules for lawn watering the rain following over the populated areas diminished to about half of what we used to get. That triggered a so called water shortage in which even less lawn watering was allowed.
I'm certain that he followed every tip in P.C. Magazine. Quality apparently means different things to different people.
Good Lord! What could the Brits be thinking? Foolish and stupid leap to mind.
That leads to the inevitable antisocial=good conclusion. Maybe that is why our prisons buldge with too many convicts.
Our nation has fluctuated from the center to the right but never to the left. We have never had a real liberal leadership in America. At best we may get a president who is somewhat liberal who is limited by a conservative house or senate. And we are paying a sad, hard, price for our lousy politics in America.
Unions can aid taxpayers by keeping workers off of welfare if they are injured, laid off or too old to work. Strong unions can serve a public purpose. However if we are to have some workers not covered by unions then we should require a strong, secured, contract for every worker that is approved by his own attorney as well as a labor standards committee. That way every worker injured at work, fired, laid off, disabled or retired would receive protections.
I can't imagine a guy with 500G of personal files. It must take a month just to read the titles of his various files.
But people are different. I'm not prone to believing in the media failure reports that we have all seen. For example I have a pile of floppy disks that are still intact after 15 plus years and I stored them like a barbarian. Hard drives also tend to last for me. And I suspect that any quality CD or DVD will last for quite a long time if handled and stored carefully. I would worry more about the PCs being unable to use ancient formats or OSs that can't cope with older stuff. In order to avoid that issue he would have to make certain to keep trying his disks every couple of years.
It is sort of a rogue who defies the current professional opinions and hunts diamonds where supposedly none exist.
There is a similar story of an individual convinced that he could find serious emeralds in N.Carolina. After many years of searching he hit upon a huge, high quality emerald which will provide several lifetimes of income for him.
There remain a host of treasures to be found all around us. These days many are deposited in the earth by drug runners who bury gold coins and the like knowing full well that they may need money after long prison sentences that might come their way.
I am more disturbed at the teacher's need to jump into action after assuming that there might be porn or some other banned materials on the disks.Is it not enough to go after kids for what they actually are known to be doing without digging deep at what they just might be doing? After all, anyone might be doing anything.
Except we want cops to catch people with illegal drugs etc.. Why restrain the cops from doing what we all need them to do? Whether its illegal aliens or a bundle of dope I prefer that 100% be detected and punished.
Does Mrs. Robot have a mute button? Can she be taught to hate shopping and charge cards? If so I might want one.
We need anyone who has activist experience, legal training, or any strange abilities that might help to step up and find a way to help Australia fight for free speech. Loss of liberty is never amusing and freedoms once lost may be difficult to regain.
These days one may be a victim of war without even noticing it if it is done correctly. For example simply allowing private companies to duplicate software and pumping stolen software onto the market can actually harm the economy of the US.
Conversely the US might be attacking China right now by creating a deliberate economic emergency such that China loses great sums of money and delays military development. For example China has a nuclear submarine base which may be a lot less important to them now that their economy is suffering.
That reply makes no sense at all. Assuming that pot were at a reasonable price if made legal the dope dealers would have even greater incentive to push a user towards more profitable, illegal drugs. The illegal channels would stay open and might be even harder to close down. Pot is bulky and smelly compared to other drugs. That means that a shipment that also contains pot is more likely to be detected. Also consider the harm that a motorcycle with its handle bars filled with heroin can do compared to the same handle bars filled with pot. In other words legalizing pot could cause greater harm from stronger drugs in many ways. But above all it would send the message that getting high is OK. We need our young people to know that we are more than willing to throw them into oblivion if they get high even once.
Then you would argue that drunk driving is not a crime. The average adult has probably driven drunk at least once. Often nobody is killed. But it is still a serious crime.
More people are killed in the commission of a bicycle theft than in bank robberies. Because people have limited vision bicycle theft rarely results in much of a jail sentence. The truth is that 10 years on the first offense would be a very reasonable sentence. Before you protest just how many miles are driven in cars because people don't want the hassle of trying to lock a bicycle or carry locks and chains with them?
Cops make overtime. Judges are hired. Prison contracts are lucrative as are the endless jobs provided by having a local prison. Lawyers love dopers. Bail bondsmen make a fortune on dopers. Western union exists primarily to ferry money to bondsmen. Unemployed wretches get good jobs lecturing addicts at "rehab" centers. Buy stock in a drug rehab and retire rich. Ambulance services as well as emergency room employees get fat on dopers.Undertakers, funeral homes, grave yards and firearms sales all are boosted by drug use.
In other words there is a serious ulterior motive for society not to cure drug use.
I am old enough to have lived in an area both before and after drugs entered the neighborhood.
And flat out once drugs infest a neighborhood it is a terror justifying Draconian measures of almost limitless extent to stomp out any degree of illegal drug use. If we had a choice of exterminating 20 million Americans to only wipe out half of all illegal drug use I would vote to open the death camps and lite up the ovens.
You just have to live around the dead babies, flying bullets, and better class 13 year olds turned hooker to get their fix to understand.But if you ever live it you will hate drug users worse than Charles Bronson with a fresh box of ammo.
I've always felt that about the time IBM released its own version of Linux we would feel Microsoft crashing and burning without mercy. IBM has the resources to do some really wild things with Linux.
OK, so we submerge the entire PC into some sort of super cold, non conductive substance. So just how fast would a super cold, quantum computer compute? Would I finish writing its software before I began or would the software vanish as soon as i peeked at its output?
It is a rotten shame that Australia now has to battle with censorship. Obviously America and Europe also have a running battle with those that would control what we see and read.
Any man that would censor what I read is my mortal enemy. I hope others will not be willing to play nice with such ilk. Censorship is always evil.
Perhaps good will is more important in your situation than partial ownership of software. Unless you feel that a great deal of money is involved you might be better off smiling and asking for nothing at all.
In all seriousness I do wonder to what degree privacy software has been created or released by government agents. Anything from PC main boards or components as well as encryption software could be altered to aid the government prior to sale or release to the public. There is some evidence that such things have already been done in relation to potential foreign enemies.
Yes, and your government had one heck of a time designing that firewall.
Sadly high school degrees have been degraded by requiring less and less of students in the US. Still, employers really want them as well as college degrees.
But the real ice breaker is when you can demonstrate work that is original and of blatantly obvious value to prospective employers. For example if you can create a real killer of a game and let the prospective employer know that it is your work you will gt the job and get paid big time.