If it is the case that Continentals wi-fi system causes dangerous interference, then it can be drawn that the airports system causes dangerous interference. If I were Continental I would grasp onto this and move that the airports wireless access should also be shut down. The airport might realize that something is better than nothing.
"First, stop being an asshole. In China and NK, people can't protest period. We are a long way away from that."
Give the Democrats, Republicans, and Socialists such as yourself time.
"So, if 1000 protesters want to gather in front of the DNC, where are they going to stand? On the sidewalks?"
Yes
"What about the people who depend on thoes sidewalks to get from work to home and back?"
They can either walk through or go around.
"SHould the people who live and work there be inconvenienced because of protesters?"
That's a small price for living in a free country. Nobody has a 'right' from inconvenience.
"What gives the protesters greater rights than the citizens?"
The key is that there is nothing that grants either group greater rights.
"It's easy to sit in your idealistic chair and think in terms of SimCity. But out in the real world, things don't work like that."
Perhaps, for you, it is a game. For me it's serious business, and for any true American it's serious business.
"The protesters want to be in fron of the DNC for two reasons:
First, the press. They want to be out in front of the same cameras and be on CNN and the locan news. They want to be heard. That's all well and good, but they don't have a *right* to be on the news. They are just there to try and "steal the thunder" from the real event."
There's no guarantee that 'thunder' won't be stolen. It's a minor inconvenience, and if their message were so important and earth shaking, the thunder wouldn't be stolen in the first place.
"This leads into point two: Making trouble. If the protesters cannot get the cameras pointed their way, they will start trouble. Not always, but sometimes. The nore public the event, the more likely it is that someone in the crowd will start some shit just to get on CNN."
The troublemakers should be removed if they break the law.
"I was in a situation a few years back where my job was protested for 3 months. Every day, I passed protesters on the way to work and on the way home. For the most part, they held up signs and acted polite. I spoke with a few and they were all nice people. They kept clear of the roads and the entrance to my office, so it was OK."
See there, you survived it without a scratch. Good boy.
"But what if these people had been camping out on the sidewalks for 3 months? Could your city function without Main Street's sidewalks?"
In most jurisdictions there are laws against blocking traffic. Sidewalks, however, are open for all.
Nobody is talking about breaking the law, the thing is the creation of laws that limit free speech.
Yes, it would be ok if protestors came to my city. The length of time doesn't matter. You seem to me to be the gated community type. Protest is evidently 'ok' if you aren't exposed to it. Tell ya what junebug... Take your happy ass to China or North Korea. You aren't wanted or needed here. You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
I don't know about you, but I've been led to believe that all the public area from sea to shining sea, and all territories, states, and possessions are free speech areas. Of course, being ex-military, I refuse to accept the Orwellian newspeak (and newthink) to which you are susceptible.
The right to peacefully assemble in any public space should not be abridged just becuase some sanctimonius piece of shit on the opposing side thinks they can force the oppostion into silence.
It's people like you that make me think at times that I threw away far too much of my life defending the country and its Constitution.
There are a HUGE number of things that municpalities do that can be considered money losers. I get the feeling that JupiterResearch probably has some sort of vested interest in wi-fi networks.
As for "public/private" goes. Endeavors like that are always funded with tax money, but any income goes into private pockets. Which means that it STILL will be a money loser for municipalities.
I thank god that MS software is unsecure out of the box. Makes my bank accounts grow.
But, on the other hand, I hate it.
Your typical user comment is almost right on the money. Computers are treated like cars. The typical user just want to use their computer, not know how to work on it. That's our job, we are the new mechanics. So we might as well get used to it. There are those here on Slashdot that like to sneer at users and Microsoft, but they either are college kids, live in their parents basement, or don't have a business. Don't sneer at them, thank them for business. They need to learn how to say "Yes ma'am", "Yes sir", and "Here's your bill."
No, what goes around does not come around. The bombing of Dresden just brought the allies down to the level of Hitler and his ilk. Whenever 'we' commit the atrocities that the enemy commits then 'we' become no better than they.
Dresden was carpet bombed. Then it was bombed a 2nd time when the allies knew that emergency crews and civilians were exposed. It wasn't a 'surgical strike' to remove the ability of that city to support a war. It was an attempt to murder every last man, woman, and child. The timed 2nd strike certainly was extra effort.
If another country had done the same to the U.S., we'd be screaming bloody murder.
In no way were they discredited. Perhaps to your feeble thought process it was, but in no real way did you discredit anything.
"Learn to tell the difference between ad homiem attacks and calling someone an idiot because they are."
Are you saying that as fact or as opinion? Think about your response hard as you can. One of those is slander, the other is merely an unsupported viewpoint. As for being 'whiney', it is your posts that are full of emotion and vitriol. Not mine.
"Jews do not consider themselves superior to other. All their "superiority" comes from them thinking of themselves as chosen people protected by the God."
All people who consider themselves superior do so because they consider themselves to be part of a higher order. Genetically, or religiously, it doesn't matter.
"Show me somebody who is not thinking of himself/herself as somebody very special."
Don't confuse group thought of superiority with personal hubris.
"Show me any religous group who is not thinking about themselves as having a special connection with their God."
Don't confuse a religious groups concept that everyone who isn't a member is going to go too their particular version of 'hell' with the Jewish complex that all non-Jews are less than human.
"About goyim thing. You need to understand the culture of Jewish isolationism to see that being goym means that person is different (in fact very different for religious people)."
It's a deragatory term, nothing less. Jewish apologists will never be able to gloss over that.
"P.S. Don't even try to figure life out by watching sitcoms."
That was just an example of how the use of the terms goy and goyim are culturally ingrained. I'm sure the use of 'Kaffir' was culturally ingrained enough in South Africa that it made it's way into television programming there.
"stereotype A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image. Since you apparently haven't learned anything about history, let me educate you. Jews, from the time of Pharoh to today, have met with an incredible amount of anti-semetism. This has been the case anywhere from Russia to America. (Richard Feynman couldn't get into Columbia because of racial quotas) The state of Israel was created to deal with this by providing a safe haven for jews, a new zion, especially after the Holocaust. (Zion An idealized, harmonious community; utopia.)"
Also...
The historic land of Israel as a symbol of the Jewish people. The Jewish people; Israel. A place or religious community regarded as sacredly devoted to God.
Your exclusion of the rest of the definition makes your position suspect. Of course, it's only natural that you try to leave out the exclusionary aspect of Zion.
"As for the Jews being racists, find one example that shows that the majority of the Jews have ever engaged in mass racism. As you cannot, I must conclude that you were either trolling, or a moronic "activist" whining about the plight of the Palestinians or Mumia Abu-Jamal"
No where did I mention the Palestinians or Mumia Abu-Jamal. The traditional position of Judaism is that they are superior to all non-Jews. It's so ingrained in their culture that they cavalierly toss about the words goy and goyim as if they were compliments, which they are not. Listen, sometime, to older Jews talk of non-Jews. They use the term as innocently as old ladies in the south use the terms 'colored' or 'negro'. It's no different than using the South African term "Kaffir."
As for mass racism goes... the oldest recored history of any form of genocide or 'racial cleansing' was perpetrated by the Hebrews.
Take for example the sitcom Will and Grace. The comment was made that they reminded he of 'Goy in the Mist', which equates Goy as gorillas, therefore animals.
Science fiction is Soylent Green, A.I., 2001. Of course, I'm biased as a 'hard sci-fi' fan, and discount FireFly, Andromeda (Hercules in space), Star Trek, etc... As nothing more than pulp action which has as little, or as much, merit as Starsky and Hutch. The problem about 'hard sci-fi' is that people just don't 'get it'.
Card is right about Star Trek. Not so much in that it is worn out, but that the time travel drek is worn out.
I could do without the 'space opera' and fantasy aspects that creep into what is called sci-fi lately. Where I live there is one book store, and what is their sci-fi shelves filled with? Fantasy, and way too much 'alternate history' crap, that's what. It's impossible to find greats such as Gateway, Ringworld, etc... Nothing that compells thought. Everything that is just total crap. Shit that can be written over a weekend using the same outline as any of the other crap. But, I guess that's what the consumer buys these days, so that's what they carry.
Free software does cause prices to go up. In the world we live in, the powers that be at companies that charge for anything have show that they failed Economic 101. Instead of dropping prices to bring in more business to regain sagging sales, they raise prices to try to bring in more profit. Which, inevitably, drives more customers away. They cut their own throats because they have an understanding of the economic process that is upside-down.
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If it is the case that Continentals wi-fi system causes dangerous interference, then it can be drawn that the airports system causes dangerous interference. If I were Continental I would grasp onto this and move that the airports wireless access should also be shut down. The airport might realize that something is better than nothing.
"First, stop being an asshole. In China and NK, people can't protest period. We are a long way away from that."
Give the Democrats, Republicans, and Socialists such as yourself time.
"So, if 1000 protesters want to gather in front of the DNC, where are they going to stand? On the sidewalks?"
Yes
"What about the people who depend on thoes sidewalks to get from work to home and back?"
They can either walk through or go around.
"SHould the people who live and work there be inconvenienced because of protesters?"
That's a small price for living in a free country. Nobody has a 'right' from inconvenience.
"What gives the protesters greater rights than the citizens?"
The key is that there is nothing that grants either group greater rights.
"It's easy to sit in your idealistic chair and think in terms of SimCity. But out in the real world, things don't work like that."
Perhaps, for you, it is a game. For me it's serious business, and for any true American it's serious business.
"The protesters want to be in fron of the DNC for two reasons:
First, the press. They want to be out in front of the same cameras and be on CNN and the locan news. They want to be heard. That's all well and good, but they don't have a *right* to be on the news. They are just there to try and "steal the thunder" from the real event."
There's no guarantee that 'thunder' won't be stolen. It's a minor inconvenience, and if their message were so important and earth shaking, the thunder wouldn't be stolen in the first place.
"This leads into point two: Making trouble. If the protesters cannot get the cameras pointed their way, they will start trouble. Not always, but sometimes. The nore public the event, the more likely it is that someone in the crowd will start some shit just to get on CNN."
The troublemakers should be removed if they break the law.
"I was in a situation a few years back where my job was protested for 3 months. Every day, I passed protesters on the way to work and on the way home. For the most part, they held up signs and acted polite. I spoke with a few and they were all nice people. They kept clear of the roads and the entrance to my office, so it was OK."
See there, you survived it without a scratch. Good boy.
"But what if these people had been camping out on the sidewalks for 3 months? Could your city function without Main Street's sidewalks?"
Can the country function without free speech?
In most jurisdictions there are laws against blocking traffic. Sidewalks, however, are open for all.
Nobody is talking about breaking the law, the thing is the creation of laws that limit free speech.
Yes, it would be ok if protestors came to my city. The length of time doesn't matter. You seem to me to be the gated community type. Protest is evidently 'ok' if you aren't exposed to it. Tell ya what junebug... Take your happy ass to China or North Korea. You aren't wanted or needed here. You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
I don't know about you, but I've been led to believe that all the public area from sea to shining sea, and all territories, states, and possessions are free speech areas. Of course, being ex-military, I refuse to accept the Orwellian newspeak (and newthink) to which you are susceptible.
The right to peacefully assemble in any public space should not be abridged just becuase some sanctimonius piece of shit on the opposing side thinks they can force the oppostion into silence.
It's people like you that make me think at times that I threw away far too much of my life defending the country and its Constitution.
There are a HUGE number of things that municpalities do that can be considered money losers. I get the feeling that JupiterResearch probably has some sort of vested interest in wi-fi networks.
As for "public/private" goes. Endeavors like that are always funded with tax money, but any income goes into private pockets. Which means that it STILL will be a money loser for municipalities.
I thank god that MS software is unsecure out of the box. Makes my bank accounts grow.
But, on the other hand, I hate it.
Your typical user comment is almost right on the money. Computers are treated like cars. The typical user just want to use their computer, not know how to work on it. That's our job, we are the new mechanics. So we might as well get used to it. There are those here on Slashdot that like to sneer at users and Microsoft, but they either are college kids, live in their parents basement, or don't have a business. Don't sneer at them, thank them for business. They need to learn how to say "Yes ma'am", "Yes sir", and "Here's your bill."
I won't say that I love it, but it certainly has a certain fallout effect that benefits my business.
It doesn't have Horny Housewives so it can't be that comprehensive.
Tell that to the ladies. Oh, forgot, you probably don't see many (intact) in your parents basement.
No, what goes around does not come around. The bombing of Dresden just brought the allies down to the level of Hitler and his ilk. Whenever 'we' commit the atrocities that the enemy commits then 'we' become no better than they.
OK, carpet bombed with firebombs. One is technique, the other is an ordinance.
Dresden was carpet bombed. Then it was bombed a 2nd time when the allies knew that emergency crews and civilians were exposed. It wasn't a 'surgical strike' to remove the ability of that city to support a war. It was an attempt to murder every last man, woman, and child. The timed 2nd strike certainly was extra effort.
If another country had done the same to the U.S., we'd be screaming bloody murder.
Maybe having some stoner chick in an ad is considered cool.
Believe your own propoganda if you wish. Soon you will try to tell me that up is really down.
In no way were they discredited. Perhaps to your feeble thought process it was, but in no real way did you discredit anything.
"Learn to tell the difference between ad homiem attacks and calling someone an idiot because they are."
Are you saying that as fact or as opinion? Think about your response hard as you can. One of those is slander, the other is merely an unsupported viewpoint. As for being 'whiney', it is your posts that are full of emotion and vitriol. Not mine.
Also, instead of attacking my points, you attack me. This shows that you have no logical defense.
I can only conclude that you are an apologist for Jewish racism.
"Jews do not consider themselves superior to other. All their "superiority" comes from them thinking of themselves as chosen people protected by the God."
All people who consider themselves superior do so because they consider themselves to be part of a higher order. Genetically, or religiously, it doesn't matter.
"Show me somebody who is not thinking of himself/herself as somebody very special."
Don't confuse group thought of superiority with personal hubris.
"Show me any religous group who is not thinking about themselves as having a special connection with their God."
Don't confuse a religious groups concept that everyone who isn't a member is going to go too their particular version of 'hell' with the Jewish complex that all non-Jews are less than human.
"About goyim thing. You need to understand the culture of Jewish isolationism to see that being goym means that person is different (in fact very different for religious people)."
It's a deragatory term, nothing less. Jewish apologists will never be able to gloss over that.
"P.S. Don't even try to figure life out by watching sitcoms."
That was just an example of how the use of the terms goy and goyim are culturally ingrained. I'm sure the use of 'Kaffir' was culturally ingrained enough in South Africa that it made it's way into television programming there.
"stereotype A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
Since you apparently haven't learned anything about history, let me educate you. Jews, from the time of Pharoh to today, have met with an incredible amount of anti-semetism. This has been the case anywhere from Russia to America. (Richard Feynman couldn't get into Columbia because of racial quotas) The state of Israel was created to deal with this by providing a safe haven for jews, a new zion, especially after the Holocaust. (Zion An idealized, harmonious community; utopia.)"
Also...
The historic land of Israel as a symbol of the Jewish people.
The Jewish people; Israel.
A place or religious community regarded as sacredly devoted to God.
Your exclusion of the rest of the definition makes your position suspect. Of course, it's only natural that you try to leave out the exclusionary aspect of Zion.
"As for the Jews being racists, find one example that shows that the majority of the Jews have ever engaged in mass racism. As you cannot, I must conclude that you were either trolling, or a moronic "activist" whining about the plight of the Palestinians or Mumia Abu-Jamal"
No where did I mention the Palestinians or Mumia Abu-Jamal. The traditional position of Judaism is that they are superior to all non-Jews. It's so ingrained in their culture that they cavalierly toss about the words goy and goyim as if they were compliments, which they are not. Listen, sometime, to older Jews talk of non-Jews. They use the term as innocently as old ladies in the south use the terms 'colored' or 'negro'. It's no different than using the South African term "Kaffir."
As for mass racism goes... the oldest recored history of any form of genocide or 'racial cleansing' was perpetrated by the Hebrews.
Take for example the sitcom Will and Grace. The comment was made that they reminded he of 'Goy in the Mist', which equates Goy as gorillas, therefore animals.
The paper is just a way for the Jews, and supporters to perpetuate one stereotype and one racist outlook.
The stereotype is that Jews are victimized. This time by 'God', 'Mother nature', and/nor 'selection'.
The racist outlook is that Jews are naturally more intelligent than non-Jews, therefore superior racially.
over 110? Beats me. Half the people I know have an I.Q. over 100.
Science fiction is Soylent Green, A.I., 2001. Of course, I'm biased as a 'hard sci-fi' fan, and discount FireFly, Andromeda (Hercules in space), Star Trek, etc... As nothing more than pulp action which has as little, or as much, merit as Starsky and Hutch. The problem about 'hard sci-fi' is that people just don't 'get it'.
Card is right about Star Trek. Not so much in that it is worn out, but that the time travel drek is worn out.
I could do without the 'space opera' and fantasy aspects that creep into what is called sci-fi lately. Where I live there is one book store, and what is their sci-fi shelves filled with? Fantasy, and way too much 'alternate history' crap, that's what. It's impossible to find greats such as Gateway, Ringworld, etc... Nothing that compells thought. Everything that is just total crap. Shit that can be written over a weekend using the same outline as any of the other crap. But, I guess that's what the consumer buys these days, so that's what they carry.
It really is kind of depressing.
No, they'll still have grammar marms then also.
Free software does cause prices to go up. In the world we live in, the powers that be at companies that charge for anything have show that they failed Economic 101. Instead of dropping prices to bring in more business to regain sagging sales, they raise prices to try to bring in more profit. Which, inevitably, drives more customers away. They cut their own throats because they have an understanding of the economic process that is upside-down.
Their about 2500 years too late.