When I read about how one group is pushing for censorship or monitoring, either directly or indirectly as it sounds in Australia's case, I always ask myself, "Don't these people understand that the monitoring and censorship will come back on them?"
Don't they understand that one day, someone may use this to curtail their rights?
And the thing that gets me about folks who want some sort of a theocracy is that they actually think the others, even ones of their own religion will want the same policies and rule the same. As if the Catholics, Episcopalians and the Baptists could agree on policies.
There's a reason Christianity is fragmented as it is and politicizing it would make it worse. There's also the issue of non-Christians being disenfranchised.
So how long before Aussies figure out that "encrypt everything" is a great idea?
Let's say you could do that. Then the government starts asking, "why is he encrypting"? Then they send the stormtroopers.
Or you could just unplug from the internet. Then the government asks "why has he unplugged from the internet?" Then they send in the stormtroopers.
As a small private citizen, you can't do shit that's safe. The Australians will have to learn from the Chinese how to surf under their government's noses.
Did anyone else have the thought that, here are the Japanese, designing and building spacecraft to further explore our Universe and progress mankind's knowledge.
Here are we, the US, once the leaders of space exploration, have spent billions of dollars to go back and relive some glory (Moon shot) and canceled that, we have canceled the Shuttle program with no other vehicle to replace it, and in the process put a halt to much basic research.
We're kind of like that pathetic ex High School jock that's trying to relive his glory days.
Rights?! Rights?! This is Soviet America you don't need Rights so move on already!
These searches and bullshit by the grunts with the badges and guns are just for us little people. When you fly in on a private jet, the HMS is, let's say, much more courteous.
Now peon, quit your bitching about the order of things and get back to work with the rest of us nobodies!
That's cute but if you put those small motherboards in a small case, what's going to happen with all that heat generated by the processor and all the other components for that matter?
Or put to it this way, if you have to put it in a large case to allow for enough air flow, what the point in having such a small motherboard?
From now on, if there's a project, company, or anything that's taking a very long tome to complete or doesn't look like it'll ever be completed, we can now say "It's been Duke Nukemed!"
A new manager becomes in charge of a project and the finish date gets pushed out: "Yeah, this new guy Duke Nukemed our project. I'm gonna be laid off!"
Obama has Duke Nukemed the Moon landing and Ares project - for a real World example.
Or, Polaroid was a great company but digital Duke Nukemed the company.
So does this mean I can't use GTA as an excuse as to why I robbed my neighbor anymore?
There's always Heavy Metal Music, Porn, and the internet to blame. Why, Ozzy just came out with a new album. That's a few robberies worth of excuses right there!
Bemusing really, isn't it. To objectify the taking of life is commonplace in cinema and literature, but its creation is taboo.
Someone bring back common sense.
It's the really small minority of people who are uptight up that stuff that as it as a taboo . I find that most people who are uptight about sex are the most repressed.
I wish the whole hardware architecture would change. The IBM PC was a hardware hack to begin with because IBM almost missed the PC boat and had to rush something out the door - and in the process made Microsoft what it is today. It was never designed properly. Over time to keep backward compatibility, the PC kept it's legacy crap.
If the hardware vendors got MS on board, they could change it and subsequently create some new machines with much better performance and the subsequent sales to go with it - it would bust the industry out of it's stagnation.
Time can be rewritten. He'll come back. Fix deepwater horizon, prevent the disaster and then none of this thread would have ever existed. I just wonder if my mod points would survive the change:)
But someone will have to sacrifice their life and ram their submersible into the well head deep below the water to seal it off.
Abandoning the contract early would probably cost the owner a great deal of money, though, and those guys are struggling enough as it is with the wild fluctuation in gas prices (the more it changes, the worse off they are).
I have a relative that used to manage a gas station (Mobile before Exxon). The contracts are so one sided that the station owner is more of an indentured servant than a business owner. Gas sales paid the bills - break even - the car wash was what enabled the station owner to actually take something home and feed the kids (grossed a million a year but after expenses take home was about $50K). Car wash and repair services and then maybe you can actually save money for the future.
Of course those figures were for his area. I'm sure a gas station in Beverley Hills probably does a little better.
there's no need to run Safari. Even then, I'd replace it. On an iMac, I noticed a lot of funky rendering problems with it: MarketWatch, Slashdot, Yahoo!, WSJ - look at the financial sites. Pages don't look right, the formatting is off or overlapping and other things are just wrong. And with this release, I didn't see anything about fixes for those things.
I once had Safari on my Windows box and removed it - the Windows version was even worse than the OSX one.
I second Chrome.
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Opera is the best porn browser.
I dunno, that singing fat lady kind of turns me off.
Speak for yourself. A lot of us like the fat-singing-hairy-milfs!
...or at least a queue that can be examined and the option to delete things before anything is printed.
email addresses for printers a dumb idea anyway. I very rarely print (legal documents that require a signature) and when I do, it's on something that costs a lot less than a HP printer - Brother or Kodak.
Good that you dumped AT&T - that's how the market is supposed to work.
I know a guy who has an iPhone who bitches about the service but keeps it. He says that he wishes that Apple spent more time on the phone part of the iPhone. He says it's a great device but crappy phone. He's keeping his and probably the next time I see him, he'll have the new one.
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Yea Flash is an Open standard....
I keep seeing that. If that's true then why is it that I must get updates from Adobe in order for Flash to function?
Don't they understand that one day, someone may use this to curtail their rights?
And the thing that gets me about folks who want some sort of a theocracy is that they actually think the others, even ones of their own religion will want the same policies and rule the same. As if the Catholics, Episcopalians and the Baptists could agree on policies.
There's a reason Christianity is fragmented as it is and politicizing it would make it worse. There's also the issue of non-Christians being disenfranchised.
So how long before Aussies figure out that "encrypt everything" is a great idea?
Let's say you could do that. Then the government starts asking, "why is he encrypting"? Then they send the stormtroopers.
Or you could just unplug from the internet. Then the government asks "why has he unplugged from the internet?" Then they send in the stormtroopers.
As a small private citizen, you can't do shit that's safe. The Australians will have to learn from the Chinese how to surf under their government's noses.
Here are we, the US, once the leaders of space exploration, have spent billions of dollars to go back and relive some glory (Moon shot) and canceled that, we have canceled the Shuttle program with no other vehicle to replace it, and in the process put a halt to much basic research.
We're kind of like that pathetic ex High School jock that's trying to relive his glory days.
Rights?! Rights?! This is Soviet America you don't need Rights so move on already!
These searches and bullshit by the grunts with the badges and guns are just for us little people. When you fly in on a private jet, the HMS is, let's say, much more courteous.
Now peon, quit your bitching about the order of things and get back to work with the rest of us nobodies!
Well, if it's genetic, then there's nothing we can do.
Or put to it this way, if you have to put it in a large case to allow for enough air flow, what the point in having such a small motherboard?
A new manager becomes in charge of a project and the finish date gets pushed out: "Yeah, this new guy Duke Nukemed our project. I'm gonna be laid off!"
Obama has Duke Nukemed the Moon landing and Ares project - for a real World example.
Or, Polaroid was a great company but digital Duke Nukemed the company.
We can do this! Come on! Who's with me!?
... he’s putting his litigious experience to some use, getting his law degree at McGill University in Montreal.
So, he went to the Darkside.
See what happens when you bully kids?
So does this mean I can't use GTA as an excuse as to why I robbed my neighbor anymore?
There's always Heavy Metal Music, Porn, and the internet to blame. Why, Ozzy just came out with a new album. That's a few robberies worth of excuses right there!
Bemusing really, isn't it. To objectify the taking of life is commonplace in cinema and literature, but its creation is taboo. Someone bring back common sense.
It's the really small minority of people who are uptight up that stuff that as it as a taboo . I find that most people who are uptight about sex are the most repressed.
All underage people are banned from drinking alcohol because some have problems with it.
Alcohol has negative affects on the developing brain. In reality, we probably shouldn't allow people to drink alcohol until they're 25 - when most people's brains mature fully.
...and all kinds of contact sport gets softened up and dumbed down,....
Softened up - yes. Dumbed down? I think that's always been the case.
BPA has been linked to obesity and many cancers, and worst of all (dumm, dumm, DAHHHH) adult male sexual dysfunction.
So I have a medical excuse for looking at porn?
Yee Haw!
If the hardware vendors got MS on board, they could change it and subsequently create some new machines with much better performance and the subsequent sales to go with it - it would bust the industry out of it's stagnation.
At least, that's what a bald headed RIAA lawyer, his pinky to his mouth, and demanding sharks with laser beams says. His name is Dr. Evil, JD.
EVERYONE! Click on the links, transfer money to Google and bankrupt BP!
Time can be rewritten. He'll come back. Fix deepwater horizon, prevent the disaster and then none of this thread would have ever existed. I just wonder if my mod points would survive the change :)
But someone will have to sacrifice their life and ram their submersible into the well head deep below the water to seal it off.
Abandoning the contract early would probably cost the owner a great deal of money, though, and those guys are struggling enough as it is with the wild fluctuation in gas prices (the more it changes, the worse off they are).
I have a relative that used to manage a gas station (Mobile before Exxon). The contracts are so one sided that the station owner is more of an indentured servant than a business owner. Gas sales paid the bills - break even - the car wash was what enabled the station owner to actually take something home and feed the kids (grossed a million a year but after expenses take home was about $50K). Car wash and repair services and then maybe you can actually save money for the future.
Of course those figures were for his area. I'm sure a gas station in Beverley Hills probably does a little better.
In metro Atlanta, BP stations charge on average 11 cents more than everyone else for gas; which apparently isn't a local problem.
I once had Safari on my Windows box and removed it - the Windows version was even worse than the OSX one.
I second Chrome.
Opera is the best porn browser.
I dunno, that singing fat lady kind of turns me off.
Speak for yourself. A lot of us like the fat-singing-hairy-milfs!
I didn't see this coming.
Well, if you're reading about the Spanish Inquisition, then....shit, I don't know where to take this....
email addresses for printers a dumb idea anyway. I very rarely print (legal documents that require a signature) and when I do, it's on something that costs a lot less than a HP printer - Brother or Kodak.
I know a guy who has an iPhone who bitches about the service but keeps it. He says that he wishes that Apple spent more time on the phone part of the iPhone. He says it's a great device but crappy phone. He's keeping his and probably the next time I see him, he'll have the new one.