Aww... that's too bad. Let me shed a tear for the poor people with dial-up. Oh wait, nevermind. I don't give a shit. I only recently got 256k DSL, but guess where I used to go for internet access? Yep. The library. It wasn't hard. I just had to wait in line. That was it.
Yeah, see, most people of color tend to prefer to spend that on, I don't know, diapers and baby formula.
I know it's a bit out of context, but that's one fucked up thing to say. You might as well say: "Most black people are too busy pumping out ghetto children to get on the 'net." And besides, formula comes out of food stamps anyway. It's not like they're really paying out of pocket.
How much have you given to campaigns for politicians who want to increase internet access?
Zero. From what I see of my neighborhood, folks get enough already. Hell, they certainly eat a lot better than I do. And how the women on the street love to shop for expensive clothes, makeup, etc. I've been shopping with them myself and I'm appalled at how much they spend. I mean... I spend maybe $10-20 a year on clothes and they will drop $50 like it's nothing.
And just so you know, these same people think my plan of retiring from the military is stupid. Why work 20 years just for a retirement? Why not quit and mooch off the government right now? Good question. The answer: I'm willing to work for a *slightly* higher quality of life (in the future anyway). That's the key difference: I'm willing to work. Not that I care for it. I'm a pretty lazy guy, but these folks are more lazy than me. Giving them internet access won't change that.
You know, there might be people out there with jobs, on welfare, struggling to keep up, but that's not what I see. I live in the 2nd worst neighborhood in my city and I see people getting by quite nicely on the labors of others, so I find it quite disgusting when people suggest more taxes go to the "poor".
And by the way, I'm sure if you imported some poor folks from other countries, they'd be disgusted too, seeing such lazy people living quite comfortably indeed. Have you ever seen real poverty? How far outside the US have you ventured? I've seen real poverty. People living in mud huts, certainly malnourished, burning wood in barrels to keep warm, with no electricity, water, sewage, etc. Now those are people I feel sorry for. They have basically no opportunities in life. Folks in the US have plenty. Anybody can get a job here. It may not be fun, but a job's a job.
You know what I'd support? An foreign exchange program. Import hard-working foreigners and permanently deport the lazy pieces of shit we've more than enough of in this country. While we're at it, let's deport all the assholes who want to enable said lazy people on the backs of those who do work. I would gladly stake my tax dollars on that!
The poor people you see must be doing something wrong. All the parasites on my street use money from unemployment and social security checks to pay for their internet access.
Not that they use it to get "good jobs". Even if they wanted a good job AND they cared to get one (why work if you don't have to?), they don't have the skills to get a good job. And the web is not going to help them all that much there.
This kid I knew had Jaws and we always thought it was one of those games without a real ending... or just too damn difficult, like Friday the 13th. So, this one time, this other friend of mine was over and I was playing it and he asked if that's all the game had was that little map and repetative play, so the other kid and I start making up this story about how you get a submarine and then you get the stealth bomber and then you go to the mountains and fight a yeti, etc, etc. So, of course, he calls bullshit on us, but eventually I get the submarine thingy and of course we lay it on, with "See... we told you. And you didn't believe us!"
Now, I'd played the game for countless hours before, but it just so happens that I unexpectingly killed Jaws. It kinda ruined our whole crazy story:/
Also consider, is the PR office of the Air Force Labs staffed by actual service men/women? If so, you got to wonder if our military isn't teaching our soldiers enough about enemy weapons?
Well, let me set you straight on that one. It's the Air Force. Most Air Force members get training only on M-16s and that only annually. So, in short, the majority of Air Force members have the same amount of knowledge about foreign firearms as your typical civilian.
"The broadcast flag protects free, over-the-air digital television programming from unauthorized redistribution over the Internet without restricting the consumer's ability to copy programming or enjoy it anywhere within a personal at-home network."
From wikipedia:
"Possible restrictions include inability to save a digital program to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage, inability to make secondary copies of recorded content (in order to share or archive), forceful reduction of quality when recording (such as reducing high-definition video to the resolution of standard TVs), and inability to skip over commercials."
So is the open letter lying outright? There seems to be a conflict here... what am I missing?
It's repugnant because it is not human. What is the point of being alive if you can't touch and feel and listen and eat and sleep and make love and sing and do all of these human things? What is the advantage of elegance and efficiency if you are no longer yourself, no longer human?
By that sort of logic, people who are mute are leaning towards being inhuman. Or anyone that's fasting, for that matter.
Why do you assume that being a cyborg means no emulation of tactile functions? As for eating and sleeping... I could do without. And love-making and singing I already do without.
Congress passes the laws that spell out federal crimes, some low level clerk writing stuff on boxes does not define laws. Maybe there is such an insane law, but without actual reference to it I'll assume there is not and live without fear of discarding a USPS shipping envelope unused.
To specifically address this, here's a quote from "American Government and Politics Today" (published by Thomas/Wadsworth), under the Bureaucracy chapter (which is where the USPS falls... directly under the executive branch which is supposed to carry out laws passed by Congress):
"Because Congress is unable to oversee the day-to-day administration of its programs, it must delegate certain powers to administrative agencies. Congress delegates the power to implement legislation to agencies through what is called enabling legislation. For example, the Federal Trade Commission was created by the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, the Equal Opportunity Commission was created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. The enabling legislation generally specifies the name, purpose, composition, functions and powers of the agency.
In theory, the agencies should put into effect laws passed by Congress. Laws are often drafted in such vague and general terms, however, that they provide little guidance to agency administrators as to how the laws should be implemented. This means that the agencies themselves must decide how best to carry out the wishes of Congress.
The discretion given to administrative agencies is not accidental. Congress has long realized that it lacks the technical expertise and the resources to monitor the implementation of its laws. Hence, the administrative agency is created to fill the gaps. The gap-filling role requires tha agency to formulate administrative rules (regulations) to put flesh on the bones of law. But it also forces the agency itself to become an unelected policymaker."
If mail theft, mail fruad and tampering with mailboxes can be federal offenses, then so could using USPS packaging for something other than its intended purpose.
I'd just be happy if I could get a copy of James Burke's Connections. Man, that was a good series.
While I thought Connections was a rather poor follow-up, might I recommend the Day the Universe Changed? It's a bit dated, but still good stuff, and can be had on eMule/eDonkey.
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Dialup is a horribly slow
Aww... that's too bad. Let me shed a tear for the poor people with dial-up. Oh wait, nevermind. I don't give a shit. I only recently got 256k DSL, but guess where I used to go for internet access? Yep. The library. It wasn't hard. I just had to wait in line. That was it.
Yeah, see, most people of color tend to prefer to spend that on, I don't know, diapers and baby formula.
I know it's a bit out of context, but that's one fucked up thing to say. You might as well say: "Most black people are too busy pumping out ghetto children to get on the 'net." And besides, formula comes out of food stamps anyway. It's not like they're really paying out of pocket.
How much have you given to campaigns for politicians who want to increase internet access?
Zero. From what I see of my neighborhood, folks get enough already. Hell, they certainly eat a lot better than I do. And how the women on the street love to shop for expensive clothes, makeup, etc. I've been shopping with them myself and I'm appalled at how much they spend. I mean... I spend maybe $10-20 a year on clothes and they will drop $50 like it's nothing.
And just so you know, these same people think my plan of retiring from the military is stupid. Why work 20 years just for a retirement? Why not quit and mooch off the government right now? Good question. The answer: I'm willing to work for a *slightly* higher quality of life (in the future anyway). That's the key difference: I'm willing to work. Not that I care for it. I'm a pretty lazy guy, but these folks are more lazy than me. Giving them internet access won't change that.
You know, there might be people out there with jobs, on welfare, struggling to keep up, but that's not what I see. I live in the 2nd worst neighborhood in my city and I see people getting by quite nicely on the labors of others, so I find it quite disgusting when people suggest more taxes go to the "poor".
And by the way, I'm sure if you imported some poor folks from other countries, they'd be disgusted too, seeing such lazy people living quite comfortably indeed. Have you ever seen real poverty? How far outside the US have you ventured? I've seen real poverty. People living in mud huts, certainly malnourished, burning wood in barrels to keep warm, with no electricity, water, sewage, etc. Now those are people I feel sorry for. They have basically no opportunities in life. Folks in the US have plenty. Anybody can get a job here. It may not be fun, but a job's a job.
You know what I'd support? An foreign exchange program. Import hard-working foreigners and permanently deport the lazy pieces of shit we've more than enough of in this country. While we're at it, let's deport all the assholes who want to enable said lazy people on the backs of those who do work. I would gladly stake my tax dollars on that!
The poor people you see must be doing something wrong. All the parasites on my street use money from unemployment and social security checks to pay for their internet access.
Not that they use it to get "good jobs". Even if they wanted a good job AND they cared to get one (why work if you don't have to?), they don't have the skills to get a good job. And the web is not going to help them all that much there.
This kid I knew had Jaws and we always thought it was one of those games without a real ending... or just too damn difficult, like Friday the 13th. So, this one time, this other friend of mine was over and I was playing it and he asked if that's all the game had was that little map and repetative play, so the other kid and I start making up this story about how you get a submarine and then you get the stealth bomber and then you go to the mountains and fight a yeti, etc, etc. So, of course, he calls bullshit on us, but eventually I get the submarine thingy and of course we lay it on, with "See... we told you. And you didn't believe us!"
:/
Now, I'd played the game for countless hours before, but it just so happens that I unexpectingly killed Jaws. It kinda ruined our whole crazy story
Also consider, is the PR office of the Air Force Labs staffed by actual service men/women? If so, you got to wonder if our military isn't teaching our soldiers enough about enemy weapons?
Well, let me set you straight on that one. It's the Air Force. Most Air Force members get training only on M-16s and that only annually. So, in short, the majority of Air Force members have the same amount of knowledge about foreign firearms as your typical civilian.
I'm sure I won't notice a difference at all with this douche.
See, thing is, you admit he's a douche. He may not be the worst, but it's nice to see him arrested for the principle of the matter.
"Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago."
From the open letter:
"The broadcast flag protects free, over-the-air digital television programming from unauthorized redistribution over the Internet without restricting the consumer's ability to copy programming or enjoy it anywhere within a personal at-home network."
From wikipedia:
"Possible restrictions include inability to save a digital program to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage, inability to make secondary copies of recorded content (in order to share or archive), forceful reduction of quality when recording (such as reducing high-definition video to the resolution of standard TVs), and inability to skip over commercials."
So is the open letter lying outright? There seems to be a conflict here... what am I missing?
SB on the subject.
And it'll happen again.
Does this make sense to anyone?
Goodbye.
Me am unhappy to answer your question. Sixty-fore is double thirty-too. Need double amount of memory. Simple!
Hello.
The article itself reads like a nazi handbook.
What nazi handbooks have you been reading?
You haven't been denied the right to vote
Nope. And you have?
I've been sentenced for a D.U.I. offense. My 3rd one.
And we're supposed to feel sorry for this guy?
Touché
Man, I really feel sorry for you. On all counts. Enjoying these experiences is part of what life is all about.
No need to feel sorry for me... I enjoy life in a different way, tending towards critical thought, creativity and expression. To each his own, eh?
It's likely that if I knew more about you, I would find the way you live your life as unappealing as you belive mine to be.
It's repugnant because it is not human. What is the point of being alive if you can't touch and feel and listen and eat and sleep and make love and sing and do all of these human things? What is the advantage of elegance and efficiency if you are no longer yourself, no longer human?
By that sort of logic, people who are mute are leaning towards being inhuman. Or anyone that's fasting, for that matter.
Why do you assume that being a cyborg means no emulation of tactile functions? As for eating and sleeping... I could do without. And love-making and singing I already do without.
Not every spammer is as successful as Scott Richter (who agreed to pay $7 million).
Remember, he's not a spammer... he's a high-volume e-mail deployer.
It is hard to imagine anything more repugnant than the 'trans-human' cyborg 'life' you are describing here.
I just don't understand. In what way is this repugnant? Being a transhuman cyborg sounds far more elegant and efficient than being a bio-organism.
To specifically address this, here's a quote from "American Government and Politics Today" (published by Thomas/Wadsworth), under the Bureaucracy chapter (which is where the USPS falls... directly under the executive branch which is supposed to carry out laws passed by Congress):
If mail theft, mail fruad and tampering with mailboxes can be federal offenses, then so could using USPS packaging for something other than its intended purpose.
To see the difference between the two engines, I thought I'd try a vanity search ("firstname lastname") and on yahoo, the results were as follows:
1,930 when on page 1
1,920 when on page 2
484 on pages 3 to 7
To be fair, google does the same thing, only with far less wildly inflated initial results:
212 when on page 1
211 when on pages 2-3
210 when on pages 4-5
209 when on page 6
Windows 2000 was advertised before it's release as only having 7 events that would necessitate a reboot.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday?
Any others?
Here's a few.
I'd just be happy if I could get a copy of James Burke's Connections. Man, that was a good series.
While I thought Connections was a rather poor follow-up, might I recommend the Day the Universe Changed? It's a bit dated, but still good stuff, and can be had on eMule/eDonkey.
libertarian good guys
Haha thanks, I stopped reading here because this made me laugh out loud.
What's so bad about libertarians?
"We'll catch that wasc'lly Google! Huhuhuhuhuh...."
How sad... he's devolved from this to this and finally into Elmer Fudd...
I want Intel Inside. It's got a catchy dah-dee-dah tune.
No, no, no... that's Duracell's tune. Intel is thunk-dum-dum-dunk.