Well, anyone who wants to weaken the security of the HomeLand(insert-your-best-trumpet-'dum-dum'-for-ef fect) would be against this Legislatoin. Everyone whos not a leftist, pinko, commie knows that the PATRIOT ACT is vitally necessary in the new Post 9/11 America.
I for one look forward to the security that the US PATRIOT ACT II will bring to the Homeland. Anyone who would be against this effort is an enemey of the state -- an Anti-American if you will -- and is obviously involved with the Terrorists Themselves -- please notify your local HomeLand Security Office of any suspiscious Anti-American Activity.
Thank-you, Sincerely, The Deacon of the Bipartisan Party.
An informal poll: Who would buy a car with ANY plastic body panels - regardless of "sheen". If they were dull or otherwise? The tradeoff? The resulting decrease in weight of the car by 500lbs of sheet metal will save you $X(?) per year on gas, the planet Ytonnes of emissions etc etc etc.
I could care LESS about how much 'sheen' the panels have. Instead of pulling out of Kyoto, maybe the emissions targets could have been reached (in part) by the increased fuel savings/decreased resourecs into the product itself/decrease cost of recycling (shred/ship vs ship(heavy)&melt)...
I dont agree. If you are going to the trouble of specifically sending a Opera-specific css, wouldnt that be because you are INTENDING on having it work (unless you have other unspoken sinister motives) - wouldnt you specifically be testing w/ Opera in that case? the opera.css(whatever) sheet proves the point - someone at MSN actually is testing Opera.
in that case, they can see the page is f'ing borked when compared to NS && IE...
Typos that are inserted into something created so specifically is almost proof in-and-of-itself...
Military spending makes up more than half of the entire discretionary budget, the money that Congress and the administration can control. For FY 2003, military spending comprises 53% of all discretionary spending ($755 billion). This is an increase from the FY 2001 proportion of 48%. More money will be spent on the military next year than on all discretionary social programs combined
From that page, only 3% of that $755 is spent on "General Science, Space and Technology".
From this dandy page we learn that US Military spending ($396B) is almost 4X more than the #2 spender Russia ($60B). If you reel in your military spending youll have TONNES of money for NASA...
well, "appeasing union labour's job needs" better be there concern unless all the fat-rich bosses want to try and work the stations themselves... if they dont like dealing with Organized Labour, they can fucking starve. Have you ever heard the axiom "The Workers create the Wealth"?
as for voting with your "$" - its an idiotic idea created by plutocrats - dont be so damned foolish.
Should people pay for their "justice" by the policing they do themselves? or maybe by the laws they write? or maybe by the people they report to the Home-Land Security Office? what are you talking about..?
I find it funny that you buy the FoxNews boiler-plate "He's a STALINIST FASCIST!" character assasination... never confuse press with reality pal. youve bought The Noble Lie hook, line and sinker.
I'll take good knock down drag out fight with an old style, evil, klingon and those futuristic miniskirts over self-introspective psychobable crap anyday of the week.
Maybe those who think the world is more complex than a fist-fight are a minority then.
Californians don't realize it, but they're held in contempt throughout the rest of the world HA! i rather like californians (not hollywood stars -- who are kooks no matter what) progressive, peacefull, enlightened.
What, are you some kinda ignorant, rightinst, warmongering, plutocratic, fascist republican?
Very few were geeks, or even grunt-level office 9-to-5'ers
NO surprise there. The reality that modern work is soul-sucking and life-destroying is no secret. Not to those who made these life-changes described in the book -- and not to you or I.
The fact that in the US you must work for the man _or_ be poor (hungry) is no surprise. The trouble is that this failed ethos, to participate in an economy of mindless consumption instead of leading a fulfilling life is being exported by the US. This culture of workaholics seeks to undermine the desire for people to live a healthy, rewarding existence. In some places, reasonable material wealth is an acceptable state, one that provides shelter food and drink is all I require. But the compulsion by my peers, the expectation of the boss that i would make his corporate goals the centre of my life makes my soft/slow/subtle dissent very dangerous. If you refuse overtime your a slacker. Face time is everything. Work Work Work.
Psychotropic drugs aside, its no wonder people are shaking Modern-America(TM) off like Wet-On-A-Dog... only to find themselves disoriented and asking this question "what do i want to do with my life." I guarantee its not work 60hours a week to buy an SUV and sport the LatestAthleticFootwearBecauseTheSomaMachineSaysIts Cool.
All in all, this sounds loooong overdue. The fact that the protagonists are navel-gazing socialite-plutocrats leaving the reviewer alienated is even more telling.
and to anyone who wants to read this book: GET IT AT THE LIBRARY! Less pollution, cheaper -- you'll get to retire.05 hours earlier if you save that $15!
When faced with the problem of DDoS attacks, why would DALNet admins choose to disable file-swapping? how is it relevant to addressing the "root cause" of the DDoS?
Unless the perpetrators of the DDoS has something against file trading specifically... Do they know something we dont?
I am a god hater - because the concept of god is an excuse for complacency, ignorance and apathy. The idea fuels endless jihad-like wars from catholic/protestant battles in Ireland, spanish crusades, the puritan witch burnings, muslims stoning women in the street - all facilitated/fostered by religion. I am an advocate of personal responsibility, of deciding how youd like the world's future to be and making it so. Cultists navel gaze about why 'the creator' did this, or doesnt do that, what a waste of time.
There is no god, the only thing we have to rely on is one-another, and the "religion" come "idiot barrier" prevents 75% of Canadians (other 25% are atheists/agnostic) from participating in society. So yes, I hate "god". I also hate illiteracy, birth-defects and pollution.
"Abdacating" eh? Thinking for yourself has gotten you far.... How about "abdicating" then - big f'ing deal... I can use a spellcheck as well as you.
They are -- except in the USA where its a DMCA violation.
The chips are legal everywhere else (mostly) its actually having a copy of licensed product without having paid for it thats a problem... the chip itself is kosher.
I believe God meant us to do this. I find no other reason He coded his work with so many examples of how to do things. Like a textbook! If God had wanted sheep, He would have stopped there.
Oh for god's sake man - WAKE UP!
You people sound ridiculous trying to rationalize and rectify your cult by 'co-opting' reasonable scientific attitudes and this "god intended it" shit -- christ man, the bible is an effort to control the population (enslave them with bumb-in-the-night fearmongering at worst and baffle them with high ideals at best) and YOU CANT CAST it away even in the face of your desire to accept the world around you.
Please, do yourself a favour, answer yourself this: had you been born in some other place (india for instance) your parents would have bread-into-you the belief that Cows were gods on earth -- you would look at christians with disdain and disbleief.
Really, grow up man. If more of you dont start thinking for yourselves, taking responsibility for your actions instead of abdacating to a god we're all doomed.
Can someone please tell me why they enjoy Dave Berry's work?
I was given a copy of the DB book mentioned above -- from a nongeek friend -- because it was 'sooo funny'. I have tried many times to read it. I know DB is a fairly popular writer, and having managed to mildly enjoy some of his short articles - i tried again recently... its just not working for me.
I find DBs humour sophomoric, trite and obvious. The smug literary equivalent of Martha Stewart, I found the work to be like the film "Dumb and Dummer" in print. Funny like a fart in church, DB must appeal to those who need their witticisms spoon fed to them.
Im sorry for having to dissent here, but to those who havnt read Dave Berry: I suggest you keep it that way.
Use FLAC and make Perfect CD Quality copies of your CDs and make them available. File sizes are larger (get you to 100GB) and quality is perfect, so that anyone, can dload a some_album.flac, convert it to wav and recreate the CD. no more comprimise in audio quality.
Is pretty silly. That is what your local Library is for. Or your Mom-Pop Video/DVD rental place. It never ends to amaze me why people are compeled to accumulate masses of Media into collections. They are (mostly) rarely used beyond a small percentage of the discs... is spending tens-of-thousands of $ really a good idea in order that you may have this "stuff" in your posession?
Ive stopped buying all media, magazines, books, CDs, VHS or DVDs (dont own a DVDplayer). I will not BUY a single item when the only thing preventing ALL the worlds media being available on the internet is MPAA/RIAA/Whatever greed.
Intellectual Property is not real, and as such, spending hard earned dollars to build a library of "Fools Gold" with no real value is... silly.
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...and your brother (jeb) is the Govenor.... and overseer of the election Kartherine Harris actually PARTICIPATED in the GWB Bush campaign...
America had a election rigged then stolen, and no one cared.
..but the TV sure did allot of talking on the matter eh? Thank goodness youve got this excellent News Media to keep you properly informed eh?
Well, anyone who wants to weaken the security of the HomeLand(insert-your-best-trumpet-'dum-dum'-for-ef fect) would be against this Legislatoin. Everyone whos not a leftist, pinko, commie knows that the PATRIOT ACT is vitally necessary in the new Post 9/11 America.
I for one look forward to the security that the US PATRIOT ACT II will bring to the Homeland. Anyone who would be against this effort is an enemey of the state -- an Anti-American if you will -- and is obviously involved with the Terrorists Themselves -- please notify your local HomeLand Security Office of any suspiscious Anti-American Activity.
Thank-you,
Sincerely,
The Deacon of the Bipartisan Party.
An informal poll: Who would buy a car with ANY plastic body panels - regardless of "sheen". If they were dull or otherwise? The tradeoff? The resulting decrease in weight of the car by 500lbs of sheet metal will save you $X(?) per year on gas, the planet Ytonnes of emissions etc etc etc.
I could care LESS about how much 'sheen' the panels have. Instead of pulling out of Kyoto, maybe the emissions targets could have been reached (in part) by the increased fuel savings/decreased resourecs into the product itself/decrease cost of recycling (shred/ship vs ship(heavy)&melt)...
f that, why would a "man-enough" choose to write a pc of software to EXTEND the market of the Apple Corporation?
Its obvious why Apple built ontop of *BSD && Mach, they dont get GNU's Freedom or atleast dont agree/care.
Keeping their player off of GNU/Linux is an obvious attempt to avoid legitimizing GNU/Linux (for what little worth it really would be).
Quicktime Player has not been ported for political/social reasons... so why would this person want to do it *for* them?
I dont agree. If you are going to the trouble of specifically sending a Opera-specific css, wouldnt that be because you are INTENDING on having it work (unless you have other unspoken sinister motives) - wouldnt you specifically be testing w/ Opera in that case? the opera.css(whatever) sheet proves the point - someone at MSN actually is testing Opera.
in that case, they can see the page is f'ing borked when compared to NS && IE...
Typos that are inserted into something created so specifically is almost proof in-and-of-itself...
Your right, it clearly states in the Bible(tm) that we were created by God(tm). Therefore, this hypothesis is phooey.
I mean really - lets be reasonable.
or Dell R&D Division who have valuable company secrets
So moderators, in lite of this golden nugget, is this post a wellcrafted flamebait by an expert karma-whore Troll or +1 Funny?
I spit out my coffee when i read that... Dell R&D hahahahahahaha
From this page:
Military spending makes up more than half of the entire discretionary budget, the money that Congress and the administration can control. For FY 2003, military spending comprises 53% of all discretionary spending ($755 billion). This is an increase from the FY 2001 proportion of 48%. More money will be spent on the military next year than on all discretionary social programs combined
From that page, only 3% of that $755 is spent on "General Science, Space and Technology".
From this dandy page we learn that US Military spending ($396B) is almost 4X more than the #2 spender Russia ($60B). If you reel in your military spending youll have TONNES of money for NASA...
For two cool Free Software approaches to robots see Fujitsu's project or even better, the Open PINO Platform
Yeah, Transformer Oil! Make sure you get the stuff with PCPs.
well, "appeasing union labour's job needs" better be there concern unless all the fat-rich bosses want to try and work the stations themselves... if they dont like dealing with Organized Labour, they can fucking starve. Have you ever heard the axiom "The Workers create the Wealth"?
as for voting with your "$" - its an idiotic idea created by plutocrats - dont be so damned foolish.
Should people pay for their "justice" by the policing they do themselves? or maybe by the laws they write? or maybe by the people they report to the Home-Land Security Office? what are you talking about..?
Mr. Daly spends several hours a week in a studio in his Manhattan apartment,
yet more evidence that we should eat the rich.
I find it funny that you buy the FoxNews boiler-plate "He's a STALINIST FASCIST!" character assasination... never confuse press with reality pal. youve bought The Noble Lie hook, line and sinker.
I'll take good knock down drag out fight with an old style, evil, klingon and those futuristic miniskirts over self-introspective psychobable crap anyday of the week.
Maybe those who think the world is more complex than a fist-fight are a minority then.
Californians don't realize it, but they're held in contempt throughout the rest of the world
HA! i rather like californians (not hollywood stars -- who are kooks no matter what) progressive, peacefull, enlightened.
What, are you some kinda ignorant, rightinst, warmongering, plutocratic, fascist republican?
Very few were geeks, or even grunt-level office 9-to-5'ers
s Cool.
.05 hours earlier if you save that $15!
NO surprise there. The reality that modern work is soul-sucking and life-destroying is no secret. Not to those who made these life-changes described in the book -- and not to you or I.
The fact that in the US you must work for the man _or_ be poor (hungry) is no surprise. The trouble is that this failed ethos, to participate in an economy of mindless consumption instead of leading a fulfilling life is being exported by the US. This culture of workaholics seeks to undermine the desire for people to live a healthy, rewarding existence. In some places, reasonable material wealth is an acceptable state, one that provides shelter food and drink is all I require. But the compulsion by my peers, the expectation of the boss that i would make his corporate goals the centre of my life makes my soft/slow/subtle dissent very dangerous. If you refuse overtime your a slacker. Face time is everything. Work Work Work.
Psychotropic drugs aside, its no wonder people are shaking Modern-America(TM) off like Wet-On-A-Dog... only to find themselves disoriented and asking this question "what do i want to do with my life." I guarantee its not work 60hours a week to buy an SUV and sport the LatestAthleticFootwearBecauseTheSomaMachineSaysIt
All in all, this sounds loooong overdue. The fact that the protagonists are navel-gazing socialite-plutocrats leaving the reviewer alienated is even more telling.
and to anyone who wants to read this book: GET IT AT THE LIBRARY! Less pollution, cheaper -- you'll get to retire
When faced with the problem of DDoS attacks, why would DALNet admins choose to disable file-swapping? how is it relevant to addressing the "root cause" of the DDoS?
Unless the perpetrators of the DDoS has something against file trading specifically... Do they know something we dont?
an atheist and a god-hater
I am a god hater - because the concept of god is an excuse for complacency, ignorance and apathy. The idea fuels endless jihad-like wars from catholic/protestant battles in Ireland, spanish crusades, the puritan witch burnings, muslims stoning women in the street - all facilitated/fostered by religion. I am an advocate of personal responsibility, of deciding how youd like the world's future to be and making it so. Cultists navel gaze about why 'the creator' did this, or doesnt do that, what a waste of time.
There is no god, the only thing we have to rely on is one-another, and the "religion" come "idiot barrier" prevents 75% of Canadians (other 25% are atheists/agnostic) from participating in society. So yes, I hate "god". I also hate illiteracy, birth-defects and pollution.
"Abdacating" eh? Thinking for yourself has gotten you far....
How about "abdicating" then - big f'ing deal... I can use a spellcheck as well as you.
Make the mod chips legal
They are -- except in the USA where its a DMCA violation.
The chips are legal everywhere else (mostly) its actually having a copy of licensed product without having paid for it thats a problem... the chip itself is kosher.
I believe God meant us to do this. I find no other reason He coded his work with so many examples of how to do things. Like a textbook! If God had wanted sheep, He would have stopped there.
Oh for god's sake man - WAKE UP!
You people sound ridiculous trying to rationalize and rectify your cult by 'co-opting' reasonable scientific attitudes and this "god intended it" shit -- christ man, the bible is an effort to control the population (enslave them with bumb-in-the-night fearmongering at worst and baffle them with high ideals at best) and YOU CANT CAST it away even in the face of your desire to accept the world around you.
Please, do yourself a favour, answer yourself this: had you been born in some other place (india for instance) your parents would have bread-into-you the belief that Cows were gods on earth -- you would look at christians with disdain and disbleief.
Really, grow up man. If more of you dont start thinking for yourselves, taking responsibility for your actions instead of abdacating to a god we're all doomed.
Can someone please tell me why they enjoy Dave Berry's work?
I was given a copy of the DB book mentioned above -- from a nongeek friend -- because it was 'sooo funny'. I have tried many times to read it. I know DB is a fairly popular writer, and having managed to mildly enjoy some of his short articles - i tried again recently... its just not working for me.
I find DBs humour sophomoric, trite and obvious. The smug literary equivalent of Martha Stewart, I found the work to be like the film "Dumb and Dummer" in print. Funny like a fart in church, DB must appeal to those who need their witticisms spoon fed to them.
Im sorry for having to dissent here, but to those who havnt read Dave Berry: I suggest you keep it that way.
Use FLAC and make Perfect CD Quality copies of your CDs and make them available. File sizes are larger (get you to 100GB) and quality is perfect, so that anyone, can dload a some_album.flac, convert it to wav and recreate the CD. no more comprimise in audio quality.
oh, and another reason not to watch FoxNews: Terrible, one-sided, sensationalist, half-wit, half-assed crap.
a nice DVD library
Is pretty silly. That is what your local Library is for. Or your Mom-Pop Video/DVD rental place. It never ends to amaze me why people are compeled to accumulate masses of Media into collections. They are (mostly) rarely used beyond a small percentage of the discs... is spending tens-of-thousands of $ really a good idea in order that you may have this "stuff" in your posession?
Ive stopped buying all media, magazines, books, CDs, VHS or DVDs (dont own a DVDplayer). I will not BUY a single item when the only thing preventing ALL the worlds media being available on the internet is MPAA/RIAA/Whatever greed.
Intellectual Property is not real, and as such, spending hard earned dollars to build a library of "Fools Gold" with no real value is... silly.
- that is, I hang 'em outside in a tree to help keep the starlings out of my yard.
What kind of asshole are you that dosnt want birds in his yard?