What Faux News failed to tell you is that socialism isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Regimentism is.
Please define that word you just made up.
Socialism can't work without forcing everybody to the same set of rigid rules.
Yea, standards suck, don't they? Better to just let everybody do their own thing all the time and hope for the best. BTW, how was your drive to work on those socialism-funded roads? Was it worse than, say, traveling on a rutted wagon path through the woods? Or perhaps you would rather be forced to pay highwaymen a daily ransom to travel on their "privately-owned" roads?
The rest of your post, being obviously nothing more than a childish rant against coworkers you perceive to be less motivated yet more entitled than thou (funny, I don't hear them bellyaching...), is not worth responding to.
Seriously; I can think of one or two companies I've worked for, who illegally use MS and other proprietary products, that I would cherish the opportunity to return the fucking they gave me when I was wrongfully terminated for calling them out on their crimes.
Had I realized that I can actually be compensated for narcing on the rat bastards, I'd have done it years ago...
So? Being a suspect or person of interest doesn't mean a damn thing.
If by "a damn thing" you mean "you won't be constantly harassed and intimidated by police," then you're absolutely correct.
Face it, it doesn't matter if you actually commit a crime; being the overgrown bullies they are, cops will fuck with you endlessly if they think you might have so much as considered it... which only serves to further my point that you should never talk to cops.
Interesting aside to that story: according to the cops who "made the bust" (read: accidentally stumbled onto the operation like the Keystone Kops they are):
The officers didn't have a search warrant, so they knocked on the door of the apartment and asked the occupants for permission to come in. They consented, Tomkins said.
"They probably thought if they didn't, we'd suspect something," Tomkins said. "Or they thought, 'I'll let them in -- they probably won't find anything.'"
Anyone who's ever met a meth dealer/cook (and here in the Meth Capital of the World, I've met more than my fair share) can tell you, something about the officer's story doesn't add up; drug dealers don't just let cops into their homes, especially when they're sitting on enough poison to ensure a long, long prison sentence. I could almost believe it if the dealers were geeking their balls off and thus fairly unaware of their surroundings; but again, based on my experience, anyone with $35 million worth of drugs around the house probably aren't users, and sure as hell aren't knowingly letting the fuzz through the door without a fight.
He tracked the phone to the trunk of a car, told the police, and they did nothing.
Consequently, if anything happens to the vehicle he tracked the phone to or the person who owns it, your friend will become suspect #1, all because he made the mistake of talking to the police.
Makes me wonder... was the research conducted like so many political polls in the U.S., in which the controllers deliberately limit their sample to groups who will give them the desired result?
About 6 months ago, I bought a milk crate filled with DIVX discs from a flea market for $5. I thought, 'surely by now someone has cracked the encryption for this long-defunct format!'
I would say the joke's on me, but 5 bucks isn't a bad price for an old school, sturdy milk crate, even if it was full of useless junk.
I was thinking more Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Rhapsody, MSN Music Store, the Wal-Mart music store (didn't know they had one? Maybe that's why it failed)... probably a few more I'm overlooking.
In that case, you're comparing apples to oranges; the thing about a streaming service like Rhapsody is, it's not technically your library - to the contrary, you're paying Real a monthly fee for the right to listen to music stored in their library. As it is their music (or rather, music they have paid for the right to stream), they have the right to add or remove tracks without user consent.
I can't speak for the other services, as I've never been a customer of them, but I know with Rhapsody you have the option to plunk down an extra dollar for DRM free MP3's of tracks. Once you download the MP3 (which Rhapsody makes a huge pain in the ass for some reason), it's yours to do with as you please.
...customers may well find their libraries vanishing, and what copies they have unplayable with the DRM servers disappeared. It wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened.
Just because the bouts are choreographed and often pre-determined, doesn't mean it's not a physically demanding sport with a high risk of injury and possibility of death.
So, in other words, "socialist" has no meaning at all and thus can mean anything you want it to be. Convenient.
Says the person who provided the ambiguous reference they now choose to disagree with... convenient indeed.
The "General Welfare" of society, not of each individual person
right; and considering the base word of 'socialism' is society, not individual, I feel that validates my point.
Seeing as all the powers of the federal government are set out in the articles, please explain in detail how the powers enumerated in the articles and amendments are "socialist".
I already pointed out 2 areas of the Constitution (Preamble / BoR) which establish that ours is a form of socialist governance, as opposed to a monarchy or communist governance. If you can't see the forest for the trees at this point, nothing I say is going to keep you from walking smack into a redwood.
Of course, as you seem to believe yourself the expert on the topic, how about you explain to me how a constitutional republic with democratically elected leadership is not socialism, and if not socialism than what is it?
Why should car owners have to understand anything (I'm not talking about the need to change the oil or keep up the tire pressure).
Don't know about anyone else, but when I drop a year's salary on something, I like to know how it works. Considering that warranties don't last forever, I recommend others do the same.
Why should they have to understand the "need" for a reboot?
See above response. Of course, that may be jumping to conclusions; perhaps this is one of those sentiments only technicians and sysadmins can understand...
Rebooting may well be a valid diagnostic technique, but it doesn't make it any more acceptable for the car manufacturer.
Why not? It's a computer; computers need to be rebooted occasionally... especially when they run M$ software. How is that technical detail of computing a fault of the auto manufacturer?
I suppose it would be a valid complaint that they put inferior software on their vehicles, considering how much the damn things cost... so, point conceded.
Their anger was not directed at you as a mechanic.
Then why was I the one getting yelled at? Answer: Because I was the one delivering the bad news; I guess few people actually take the old saying 'don't shoot the messenger' seriously these days... damn you, Leonidas!
Their anger is directed toward the maker who can't get a car to run in the 21st century without "crashing".
"For new car owners whose MyFord Touch systems crash, both Ford dealerships and Ford-sponsored websites have been recommending that owners disconnect the black (negative) lead to the battery for several minutes, reconnect, then run the car for at least five minutes to reboot the MyFord Touch system
As much as it chagrins me to jump to the defense of either company, I can tell you from professional experience that pulling the negative cable for 3-5 minutes has been a valid diagnostic tool/repair ever since they started putting computers in cars.
Owners have complained that this is extremely inconvenient, even dangerous in many situations, and should not be required of owners who have paid tens-of-thousands of dollars for their new cars.
No more dangerous than your typical 16-year-old.
Idiot car owners are a lot like idiot users: They don't understand thing 1 about the system they're using, but they won't hesitate to jump your ass and bitch endlessly the first time it does something they don't like.
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I guess that means Capitalism is an Antisocial-ism.
Not by design, but in it's current incarnation, I'm inclined to agree.
It feels as though capitalism passed its prime some time ago...
That would be funny if not for the fact it also sounds quite plausible....
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I always wanted to be an Airwolf!
Do svdanya, mutha fucka!!!!
Please, please run for office.
What Faux News failed to tell you is that socialism isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Regimentism is.
Please define that word you just made up.
Socialism can't work without forcing everybody to the same set of rigid rules.
Yea, standards suck, don't they? Better to just let everybody do their own thing all the time and hope for the best. BTW, how was your drive to work on those socialism-funded roads? Was it worse than, say, traveling on a rutted wagon path through the woods? Or perhaps you would rather be forced to pay highwaymen a daily ransom to travel on their "privately-owned" roads?
The rest of your post, being obviously nothing more than a childish rant against coworkers you perceive to be less motivated yet more entitled than thou (funny, I don't hear them bellyaching...), is not worth responding to.
willing to unionize
Fox News told me that's Socialism!
It is.
What Faux News failed to tell you is that socialism isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Seriously; I can think of one or two companies I've worked for, who illegally use MS and other proprietary products, that I would cherish the opportunity to return the fucking they gave me when I was wrongfully terminated for calling them out on their crimes.
Had I realized that I can actually be compensated for narcing on the rat bastards, I'd have done it years ago...
So? Being a suspect or person of interest doesn't mean a damn thing.
If by "a damn thing" you mean "you won't be constantly harassed and intimidated by police," then you're absolutely correct.
Face it, it doesn't matter if you actually commit a crime; being the overgrown bullies they are, cops will fuck with you endlessly if they think you might have so much as considered it... which only serves to further my point that you should never talk to cops.
Unless you like getting fucked with, I guess.
I'm not, and yes it does. Unfortunately, no appropriate Futurama references came to mind.
POT! Small amount of Pot!
You're going down, dirtbag!
The officers didn't have a search warrant, so they knocked on the door of the apartment and asked the occupants for permission to come in. They consented, Tomkins said.
"They probably thought if they didn't, we'd suspect something," Tomkins said. "Or they thought, 'I'll let them in -- they probably won't find anything.'"
Anyone who's ever met a meth dealer/cook (and here in the Meth Capital of the World, I've met more than my fair share) can tell you, something about the officer's story doesn't add up; drug dealers don't just let cops into their homes, especially when they're sitting on enough poison to ensure a long, long prison sentence. I could almost believe it if the dealers were geeking their balls off and thus fairly unaware of their surroundings; but again, based on my experience, anyone with $35 million worth of drugs around the house probably aren't users, and sure as hell aren't knowingly letting the fuzz through the door without a fight.
He tracked the phone to the trunk of a car, told the police, and they did nothing.
Consequently, if anything happens to the vehicle he tracked the phone to or the person who owns it, your friend will become suspect #1, all because he made the mistake of talking to the police.
Not what I would call a representative sample.
Makes me wonder... was the research conducted like so many political polls in the U.S., in which the controllers deliberately limit their sample to groups who will give them the desired result?
About 6 months ago, I bought a milk crate filled with DIVX discs from a flea market for $5. I thought, 'surely by now someone has cracked the encryption for this long-defunct format!'
I would say the joke's on me, but 5 bucks isn't a bad price for an old school, sturdy milk crate, even if it was full of useless junk.
I was thinking more Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Rhapsody, MSN Music Store, the Wal-Mart music store (didn't know they had one? Maybe that's why it failed)... probably a few more I'm overlooking.
In that case, you're comparing apples to oranges; the thing about a streaming service like Rhapsody is, it's not technically your library - to the contrary, you're paying Real a monthly fee for the right to listen to music stored in their library. As it is their music (or rather, music they have paid for the right to stream), they have the right to add or remove tracks without user consent.
I can't speak for the other services, as I've never been a customer of them, but I know with Rhapsody you have the option to plunk down an extra dollar for DRM free MP3's of tracks. Once you download the MP3 (which Rhapsody makes a huge pain in the ass for some reason), it's yours to do with as you please.
...customers may well find their libraries vanishing, and what copies they have unplayable with the DRM servers disappeared. It wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened.
Indeed.
In fact... forget the V8 and $2/gal gasoline!
Whoever modded this down either has A) no sense of humor, B) a super-inflated sense of self worth, or C) both.
That's right funny shit.
I believe falsification of evidence is the charge you're looking for.
Forgery seems an appropriate charge as well.
0.o
Appropriately graphic analogy... now get the hell away from me with that thing you sadist!
Do we count honesty as nice?
Quite the contrary: telling someone a truth they don't want to hear is one of the fastest ways to be labeled an dick, in my experience.
I'll take being an honest asshole over a lying one any day of the week.
Really.
Just because the bouts are choreographed and often pre-determined, doesn't mean it's not a physically demanding sport with a high risk of injury and possibility of death.
So, in other words, "socialist" has no meaning at all and thus can mean anything you want it to be. Convenient.
Says the person who provided the ambiguous reference they now choose to disagree with... convenient indeed.
The "General Welfare" of society, not of each individual person
right; and considering the base word of 'socialism' is society, not individual, I feel that validates my point.
Seeing as all the powers of the federal government are set out in the articles, please explain in detail how the powers enumerated in the articles and amendments are "socialist".
I already pointed out 2 areas of the Constitution (Preamble / BoR) which establish that ours is a form of socialist governance, as opposed to a monarchy or communist governance. If you can't see the forest for the trees at this point, nothing I say is going to keep you from walking smack into a redwood.
Of course, as you seem to believe yourself the expert on the topic, how about you explain to me how a constitutional republic with democratically elected leadership is not socialism, and if not socialism than what is it?
Why should car owners have to understand anything (I'm not talking about the need to change the oil or keep up the tire pressure).
Don't know about anyone else, but when I drop a year's salary on something, I like to know how it works. Considering that warranties don't last forever, I recommend others do the same.
Why should they have to understand the "need" for a reboot?
See above response. Of course, that may be jumping to conclusions; perhaps this is one of those sentiments only technicians and sysadmins can understand...
Rebooting may well be a valid diagnostic technique, but it doesn't make it any more acceptable for the car manufacturer.
Why not? It's a computer; computers need to be rebooted occasionally... especially when they run M$ software. How is that technical detail of computing a fault of the auto manufacturer?
I suppose it would be a valid complaint that they put inferior software on their vehicles, considering how much the damn things cost... so, point conceded.
Their anger was not directed at you as a mechanic.
Then why was I the one getting yelled at? Answer: Because I was the one delivering the bad news; I guess few people actually take the old saying 'don't shoot the messenger' seriously these days... damn you, Leonidas!
Their anger is directed toward the maker who can't get a car to run in the 21st century without "crashing".
Thank goodness they don't put M$ on the ECM!
"For new car owners whose MyFord Touch systems crash, both Ford dealerships and Ford-sponsored websites have been recommending that owners disconnect the black (negative) lead to the battery for several minutes, reconnect, then run the car for at least five minutes to reboot the MyFord Touch system
As much as it chagrins me to jump to the defense of either company, I can tell you from professional experience that pulling the negative cable for 3-5 minutes has been a valid diagnostic tool/repair ever since they started putting computers in cars.
Owners have complained that this is extremely inconvenient, even dangerous in many situations, and should not be required of owners who have paid tens-of-thousands of dollars for their new cars.
No more dangerous than your typical 16-year-old.
Idiot car owners are a lot like idiot users: They don't understand thing 1 about the system they're using, but they won't hesitate to jump your ass and bitch endlessly the first time it does something they don't like.