"Yes, but can you guarantee that the spraypaint will not contaminate the ground water and kill all life within a three mile radius?"
What are you? Some kind of tree-hugging long-hair? Screw the environment when you got a statement to make! Just look at the protests in Canada and Washington state! Tons, and tons of trash left behind!
Let's face it, there are a bunch of idiots on both sides of the lines.
For instance the woman that called me up one day because she couldn't get here email from our server. After a few minutes I figure out that she can't get logged into her ISP, and refered her to them. Of course she get's pissed at me, and expects me to get her dialed in and logged in to her ISP. This person is an idiot.
Of course there's the tech support side where you can hear the gomer flipping through a notebook or typing into a database search, and as a community service to all I won't even address the fugitives from third world countries that can't even speak a fucking word of english, or understand clear english sentances unless they are repeated back very slowly and would be better off behind the fucking wheel of a taxi cab.
Yeah, yeah. Everybody is aware of how the Europeans are afraid of freedom, and do everything they can to make sure that freedom doesn't spread. Just look at Europe's history.
Hey guy, the 'war on drugs' is big business for everybody involved. The drug manufactureres, traffickers, and dealers get higher prices. The 'law enforcement' agencies get bigger, federally backed, budgets, and really good kickbacks (graft, bribes, (whatever you want to call it)). Take a look at local anti-drug operations. They alway, and I mean ALWAYS, happen right before the budget comes up for renewal. If you dig enough you'll find a bunch of local rich people that actually run the local drug business. It's not economical for 'law enforcement' agencies to actually 'win' the 'war on drugs' since if that happened their budgets would be slashed heavily, and for the same reason, drugs will never be decriminalized. In the mean time miscellaneous people get caught in the crossfire when money begins to matter.
The drug industry wins.
Law enforcement wins.
The rest of the people lose.
Ok, the 'settlement' is just goddamn stupid. I'd like to see Firestone try to get away with giving people a $20 coupon to settle the faulty 'AT' tires they produced.
This whole 'dark energy' crap is just that... crap. "We can't explain why it keeps expanding so let's invent 'dark energy' containing 'reverse gravity'. Nobody will ask us what the fuck it is, or ask for proof of existance because were scientists and are not open to questioning."
I'm inventing upside-down energy with a multiple 'sideways' gravity. SO THERE!
(no, I don't have to prove anything, TAKE THAT!)
Hey guy, didn't you get the memo? Everything should be free! So, if it's not free it will be stolen, and all objections to the theft will be met with total disregard for property rights and snide remarks from every beer swilling college going mama's boy! Yeah baby! How dare anyone expect to protect his/her software, and article! THE NERVE!
It's a damn shame the NASA budget keeps getting slashed when the fat fuckers in Washington feed their own porkbarrel budgets. Congress could fund NASA at a greater rate if they wanted, but they won't as long as they can funnel millions of dollars into such things as an experimental rail system that's less than a mile long and goes no where.
As for the tax cut. It's not just for the 'rich', EVERYBODY get's a lower tax rate. Screw the rich fucks that say they don't want it. THEY DON'T NEED IT. It's the lower income people that need it. Stopping the tax cut is just a way for those rich fucks to screw over the little guy again.
"How is this supposed to hit a single target accurately at 2,000 feet? I see no mentioning of any real precision. Is this designed just to spray everyone in a group with pain at long range? In that case, I can see human rights people protesting over this device if it indiscriminantly hits groups."
I dunno about you, but I always LEAVE THE AREA if there's a mob bent on destruction. If someone is stupid enough to hand around, they deserve whatever they get.
Hey, what's the point in making software if you cannot benefit financially from that effort? People other than yourself aren't living on mommy and daddy's money so they must work to make money so they can afford to live. 'free software' is good for juveniles, not for adults.
'like a book' should apply to software. Borlands license used to be 'like a book', and may still be. You could use it on any machine as long as it's being used once at any given moment, sell or trade it off, etc...
Free speech isn't limited only to resonable speech, it must also be extended to unreasonable speech.
"This implied right to freedom of speech already is limited under various state and federal laws - for example, libel and slander are illegal. In states such as NSW there are anti-vilification laws under which you can be punished if you publish material that could be deemed to incite hatred or violence."
I can't agree with libel and slander laws, that's what civil courts are for. As for anti-vilification laws... even those idiots should have the freedom to make their speech.
"At least in Australia, because we don't traditionally talk about having a 'right' to 'free speech' as such, it seems that we value using our speech wisely and responsibly _as well as_ valuing the freedom that we do have to speak our minds."
Of course you don't. You have no free speech to talk about. Just try to speak your mind about something the government has a diametrically opposite viewpoint on.
Here's where all the 'modem tax' rumors come in. Despite the urban legend, long distance phone carriers try to push through some kind of rate on internet calls every year. Last year they wanted local calls to ISP's to be billed on a per-minute basis. The scenario the guy described wouldn't surprise me at all.
It doesn't seem to me as if this is a very well thought out determination. It DOES seem to me that the memory 'shortage' cuts across all boundries of people including those who's use of technology is limited due to economic or ideological influences. 'Our' generation (I'll use the 'our' here since I am 35) is one that has had exposure to more, and a wider range of, synthetics in our environment. Plastics being the largest, and most prevelent of those. There are plastics in every day use that closely resemble human hormones, such as estrogen.
It's a case of "let's blame computers for something we haven't (or are to lazy) to look at deeply and scientifically."
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I know. My response was intended as a parody also.
As for the squirrels... If ya get enough of em you can actually make a decent fur coat.
You forgot the long-hairs.
"Yes, but can you guarantee that the spraypaint will not contaminate the ground water and kill all life within a three mile radius?"
What are you? Some kind of tree-hugging long-hair? Screw the environment when you got a statement to make! Just look at the protests in Canada and Washington state! Tons, and tons of trash left behind!
Let's face it, there are a bunch of idiots on both sides of the lines.
For instance the woman that called me up one day because she couldn't get here email from our server. After a few minutes I figure out that she can't get logged into her ISP, and refered her to them. Of course she get's pissed at me, and expects me to get her dialed in and logged in to her ISP. This person is an idiot.
Of course there's the tech support side where you can hear the gomer flipping through a notebook or typing into a database search, and as a community service to all I won't even address the fugitives from third world countries that can't even speak a fucking word of english, or understand clear english sentances unless they are repeated back very slowly and would be better off behind the fucking wheel of a taxi cab.
Yeah, yeah. Everybody is aware of how the Europeans are afraid of freedom, and do everything they can to make sure that freedom doesn't spread. Just look at Europe's history.
In my opinion they should have had the CIA put bullets into the heads of these individuals to avoid any 'international incidents'.
Hey guy, the 'war on drugs' is big business for everybody involved. The drug manufactureres, traffickers, and dealers get higher prices. The 'law enforcement' agencies get bigger, federally backed, budgets, and really good kickbacks (graft, bribes, (whatever you want to call it)). Take a look at local anti-drug operations. They alway, and I mean ALWAYS, happen right before the budget comes up for renewal. If you dig enough you'll find a bunch of local rich people that actually run the local drug business. It's not economical for 'law enforcement' agencies to actually 'win' the 'war on drugs' since if that happened their budgets would be slashed heavily, and for the same reason, drugs will never be decriminalized. In the mean time miscellaneous people get caught in the crossfire when money begins to matter.
The drug industry wins.
Law enforcement wins.
The rest of the people lose.
Ok, the 'settlement' is just goddamn stupid. I'd like to see Firestone try to get away with giving people a $20 coupon to settle the faulty 'AT' tires they produced.
This whole 'dark energy' crap is just that... crap. "We can't explain why it keeps expanding so let's invent 'dark energy' containing 'reverse gravity'. Nobody will ask us what the fuck it is, or ask for proof of existance because were scientists and are not open to questioning."
I'm inventing upside-down energy with a multiple 'sideways' gravity. SO THERE!
(no, I don't have to prove anything, TAKE THAT!)
Hey guy, didn't you get the memo? Everything should be free! So, if it's not free it will be stolen, and all objections to the theft will be met with total disregard for property rights and snide remarks from every beer swilling college going mama's boy! Yeah baby! How dare anyone expect to protect his/her software, and article! THE NERVE!
It's a damn shame the NASA budget keeps getting slashed when the fat fuckers in Washington feed their own porkbarrel budgets. Congress could fund NASA at a greater rate if they wanted, but they won't as long as they can funnel millions of dollars into such things as an experimental rail system that's less than a mile long and goes no where.
As for the tax cut. It's not just for the 'rich', EVERYBODY get's a lower tax rate. Screw the rich fucks that say they don't want it. THEY DON'T NEED IT. It's the lower income people that need it. Stopping the tax cut is just a way for those rich fucks to screw over the little guy again.
"How is this supposed to hit a single target accurately at 2,000 feet? I see no mentioning of any real precision. Is this designed just to spray everyone in a group with pain at long range? In that case, I can see human rights people protesting over this device if it indiscriminantly hits groups."
I dunno about you, but I always LEAVE THE AREA if there's a mob bent on destruction. If someone is stupid enough to hand around, they deserve whatever they get.
Yeah, yeah. Ok, buddy, when your man enough to post as something other than AC I'll consider you something other than a liberal fuck.
Welcome to the exciting industry! Your now just a step above the people who make Nike shoes!
Ok, enlighten me. Grant me the benefit our your expansive wisdom.
Hey, what's the point in making software if you cannot benefit financially from that effort? People other than yourself aren't living on mommy and daddy's money so they must work to make money so they can afford to live. 'free software' is good for juveniles, not for adults.
'like a book' should apply to software. Borlands license used to be 'like a book', and may still be. You could use it on any machine as long as it's being used once at any given moment, sell or trade it off, etc...
The computer is 'like a car'
Free speech isn't limited only to resonable speech, it must also be extended to unreasonable speech. "This implied right to freedom of speech already is limited under various state and federal laws - for example, libel and slander are illegal. In states such as NSW there are anti-vilification laws under which you can be punished if you publish material that could be deemed to incite hatred or violence." I can't agree with libel and slander laws, that's what civil courts are for. As for anti-vilification laws... even those idiots should have the freedom to make their speech. "At least in Australia, because we don't traditionally talk about having a 'right' to 'free speech' as such, it seems that we value using our speech wisely and responsibly _as well as_ valuing the freedom that we do have to speak our minds." Of course you don't. You have no free speech to talk about. Just try to speak your mind about something the government has a diametrically opposite viewpoint on.
The deficiency in Natalie Portman and hot grits posts has been giving me a considerable amount of concern, but no longer.
Tell us how you really feel.
I agree. If they pursue you, sue their asses off for harrassment.
Here's where all the 'modem tax' rumors come in. Despite the urban legend, long distance phone carriers try to push through some kind of rate on internet calls every year. Last year they wanted local calls to ISP's to be billed on a per-minute basis. The scenario the guy described wouldn't surprise me at all.
They do it because being gay or being perceived to be gay is trendy.
I didn't expect the spanish inquisition.
(ok, somebody hadda get there first)
It doesn't seem to me as if this is a very well thought out determination. It DOES seem to me that the memory 'shortage' cuts across all boundries of people including those who's use of technology is limited due to economic or ideological influences. 'Our' generation (I'll use the 'our' here since I am 35) is one that has had exposure to more, and a wider range of, synthetics in our environment. Plastics being the largest, and most prevelent of those. There are plastics in every day use that closely resemble human hormones, such as estrogen. It's a case of "let's blame computers for something we haven't (or are to lazy) to look at deeply and scientifically."