Helping poor people who are down and out and need healthcare is good. Those people can often return to the workforce and continue contributing. Even if they do not, this is a human life we are talking about. If you want to let someone starve for the want of a medical procedure perfected 50 years ago...you're pretty damn heartless.
Retirement? I assume you mean social security. The program that everyone pays into and everyone gets a pay-out from? Yeah that's fine.
Now let's see...Super-V-Chip. The feature everyone pays for when they buy a TV, but only lazy parents benefit from it because it allows them to dhelter their child from the world. Not quite the same, son. Not quite the same.
I'm also 100% against the Child Tax Credit, which is welfare for poor over-breeding trash written right into the tax code.
Hey, if every TV has the super-V-chip, the purchase price of TVs will increase to cover the cost of this new feature.
But I don't want the feature. Why must it be mandatory? WHy not let the parents pay an extra $30.00 for the set with the Super-V-chip feature, and let the rest of use save that money.
I didn't buy the more expensive DVD player with component output because I didn't need that feature and I didn't want to pay for it.
This isn't like paying more in taxes to keep poor people fed, clothed and treated medically. This is a convenience to lazy parents.
I want to save money on a feature I'll never use. I want to buy a TV without this Super-V-Chip in it. I can't? Oh joy. Perhaps the parents should pay MORE for a TV with MORE FEATURES instead of the government forcing everyone to pay for it.
I don't see why the under-performers in our society need to get the biggest (relative) incentives to breed! Perhaps we should be giving at least the same incentives to child-bearing couples of every socio-economic class instead of cutting most of them off at the middle-middle-class mark.
Those people cannot afford children. Even with all the free tax credits and rebates subsidized by the child-less people of the USA, these people can't hack it. They made bad decisions and over-estimated their earning potential...and we're all going to get to bail them out of their stupid choices. Wonderful.
The troller gets 4 points for being funny, and the guy complaining about the troll gets a troll moderation!
It kinda works out, because the troll WAS funny, and the complainer could have put little more effort into his post. -1 is fine, but it should be -1 overrated IMHO.
Once you download a song from emusic.com, you can download it again over and over! My experience was that even though I cancelled service for a year (had gotten all the music I wanted at the time) when I re-joined I could download every song I had ever bought from them. I dunno if this is policy or they liked me or what.
I guess I'm an eMusic fan-boy...I just love the small/indie/obscure tracks and the pure MP3 files.
Right, what about 3oz of talcum powder that has anthrax in it?
Nobody 'puts themselves in my place' when interacting with me at my job, those TSA goons shoulda known what the customers were going to be like. Don't like it? Quit!
Tired of people apologizing for the illiterate mumbling goons I've encountered at security checkpoints.
The TSA is doing their job about as well as the airlines are doing THEIR jobs! The TSA is totally funded by the public, and if you don't like one of the low-buck airlines you were dissing, you are welcome to pay a little more you cheap bastard and get good service.
It's not always about YOU! It's not supposed to 'make you feel better' you addled-brained twat, it's supposed to clarify the state of mind of the sender! Would you have preferred that the sender put a big ol' grin in there?:D That said, I use emoticons for team communication, but not for formal documents. A yes/no email regarding a potential deal doesn't sound like a formal document to me.
A popular torrent, even if you restrict the settings on your client, and put a hurt on the average cablemodem connection. I have to turn bittorrent off during the day, otherwise even very low data rates hose the latency on the VPN to work.
How soon until you're required to seed a new patch for X hours in order to download it in the first place, sucking up your bandwidth that you paid for.
Only 10 tries are allowed. Do you want to increase the risk of the destruction of your data because some TSA goon tried to guess a password? I would think they would give up before 10 attempts but might try one or two maybe.
Artificially reducing the re-try count to 1 seems to increase risk of data loss with negligible increase in security...but I'm no security expert.
So you tell me to pick one of the two parties, get inside, and change it to what I want? The problem is that we have only two parties in which to place all the people in this nation. We need more options, as no party seems to represent even most of a person's beliefs. People can't find a reflection of themselves in either R or D so they vote for the least offensive party.
You exhibit the typical naieve beliefs of the Libertarian. Congresspeople and Senators come and go, political appointees come and go. Government once supported and subsidized slavery, are you confused that government "changed it's mind" and passed new laws to prevent the slavery that previous laws encouraged?
That's how government works! Sheesh...uninformed voters...
Sounded like there was more going on, more details in the sound coming from behind me. This is compared to the Dolby soundtack on the same Extended Edition DVDs, listened to on fairly low-end consumer grade gear. The 5.1 speakers came in box together!
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No jack-ass, I like the segmentation offered by islands like Facebook.
WTF? Part of the appeal of many of these sites is that it is restricted in some manner that that current users enjoy.
'Open social networks' is greed-speak for 'easier SPAM access' AFAIAC.
What the fuck kind of 'geek' are you anyway? Fucking imbecile...
Helping poor people who are down and out and need healthcare is good. Those people can often return to the workforce and continue contributing. Even if they do not, this is a human life we are talking about. If you want to let someone starve for the want of a medical procedure perfected 50 years ago...you're pretty damn heartless.
Retirement? I assume you mean social security. The program that everyone pays into and everyone gets a pay-out from? Yeah that's fine.
Now let's see...Super-V-Chip. The feature everyone pays for when they buy a TV, but only lazy parents benefit from it because it allows them to dhelter their child from the world. Not quite the same, son. Not quite the same.
I'm also 100% against the Child Tax Credit, which is welfare for poor over-breeding trash written right into the tax code.
Hey, if every TV has the super-V-chip, the purchase price of TVs will increase to cover the cost of this new feature.
But I don't want the feature. Why must it be mandatory? WHy not let the parents pay an extra $30.00 for the set with the Super-V-chip feature, and let the rest of use save that money.
I didn't buy the more expensive DVD player with component output because I didn't need that feature and I didn't want to pay for it.
This isn't like paying more in taxes to keep poor people fed, clothed and treated medically. This is a convenience to lazy parents.
I want to save money on a feature I'll never use. I want to buy a TV without this Super-V-Chip in it.
I can't? Oh joy. Perhaps the parents should pay MORE for a TV with MORE FEATURES instead of the government forcing everyone to pay for it.
I don't see why the under-performers in our society need to get the biggest (relative) incentives to breed! Perhaps we should be giving at least the same incentives to child-bearing couples of every socio-economic class instead of cutting most of them off at the middle-middle-class mark.
Those people cannot afford children. Even with all the free tax credits and rebates subsidized by the child-less people of the USA, these people can't hack it. They made bad decisions and over-estimated their earning potential...and we're all going to get to bail them out of their stupid choices. Wonderful.
I mean, I can configure crappy old Windows to my liking too....I thought Macs just 'did the right thing'.
GP's default terminal behavior sounds like the wrong thing.
The troller gets 4 points for being funny, and the guy complaining about the troll gets a troll moderation!
It kinda works out, because the troll WAS funny, and the complainer could have put little more effort into his post. -1 is fine, but it should be -1 overrated IMHO.
Once you download a song from emusic.com, you can download it again over and over! My experience was that even though I cancelled service for a year (had gotten all the music I wanted at the time) when I re-joined I could download every song I had ever bought from them. I dunno if this is policy or they liked me or what.
I guess I'm an eMusic fan-boy...I just love the small/indie/obscure tracks and the pure MP3 files.
Thanks for clearing this up. I hate the vain IMers who use 'LOL' instead of typing out the ha ha has or using the phrase 'I'm laughing out loud' too!
Perhaps we can combine forces and release an informative newsletter!
How funny that our tax dollars are being used to help a beligerant corporation make it's case, but why doesn't the common citizen get such help?
Maybe I'm missing something here...
I believe possessing equipment which violates the DMCA is a crime now.
So I guess, which is the worst penalty?
Right, what about 3oz of talcum powder that has anthrax in it?
Nobody 'puts themselves in my place' when interacting with me at my job, those TSA goons shoulda known what the customers were going to be like. Don't like it? Quit!
Tired of people apologizing for the illiterate mumbling goons I've encountered at security checkpoints.
You can abuse emoticons just as liars and scumbags put on a grin as they stab you in the back.
Ms. Feldman surely wouldn't expect a stone-faced monotone from a person informing her of a lost deal in person....would she?
The TSA is doing their job about as well as the airlines are doing THEIR jobs! The TSA is totally funded by the public, and if you don't like one of the low-buck airlines you were dissing, you are welcome to pay a little more you cheap bastard and get good service.
We can't opt-out of the TSA.
It's not always about YOU! It's not supposed to 'make you feel better' you addled-brained twat, it's supposed to clarify the state of mind of the sender! Would you have preferred that the sender put a big ol' grin in there? :D That said, I use emoticons for team communication, but not for formal documents. A yes/no email regarding a potential deal doesn't sound like a formal document to me.
A popular torrent, even if you restrict the settings on your client, and put a hurt on the average cablemodem connection. I have to turn bittorrent off during the day, otherwise even very low data rates hose the latency on the VPN to work.
How soon until you're required to seed a new patch for X hours in order to download it in the first place, sucking up your bandwidth that you paid for.
Only 10 tries are allowed. Do you want to increase the risk of the destruction of your data because some TSA goon tried to guess a password? I would think they would give up before 10 attempts but might try one or two maybe.
Artificially reducing the re-try count to 1 seems to increase risk of data loss with negligible increase in security...but I'm no security expert.
So you tell me to pick one of the two parties, get inside, and change it to what I want? The problem is that we have only two parties in which to place all the people in this nation. We need more options, as no party seems to represent even most of a person's beliefs. People can't find a reflection of themselves in either R or D so they vote for the least offensive party.
That's fucked up. We need more choices.
You exhibit the typical naieve beliefs of the Libertarian. Congresspeople and Senators come and go, political appointees come and go. Government once supported and subsidized slavery, are you confused that government "changed it's mind" and passed new laws to prevent the slavery that previous laws encouraged?
That's how government works! Sheesh...uninformed voters...
I'm no affcionado...my Receiver and 5.1 speakers-in-a-box cost $400 a few years ago.
Way more action behind my head.
Sounded like there was more going on, more details in the sound coming from behind me. This is compared to the Dolby soundtack on the same Extended Edition DVDs, listened to on fairly low-end consumer grade gear. The 5.1 speakers came in box together!
...oh, you meant the poster?