This isn't an ownership or rights thing, this is pushback against the "hack everything" lifestyle. A photoframe that doesn't give handjobs like the newer models isn't broken or worn out or unsuitable for its original purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it is sufficient: displaying photos.
As opposed to the conservative media lies, where they use the yadda yadda defense:
1-Upstanding citizen sees a suspicious character and calls the police.
2-yadda yadda yadda
3-Upstanding citizen is viciously attacked by the suspicious character and bravely defends himself with tragic results. (but that's what you get when you act suspiciously, amiright?)
That only works if you ignore what happened in the middle. Which is, Zimmerman got out of his car. Why would a person get out of the relative safety of his car when there was a dangerous person milling about?
In ddwrt, on a wrt54g, the standard power is something like 54mW, and the max power the firmware will allow is 255mW. That's way overdoing it. if something can run at 255mW for a shortened time, 54 mW should go forever.
What the fuck do you expect for a $100 piece of software? If you want guarantees, you have to pay for the testing. Shit, forget the OS. What about the hardware? I wouldn't trust my life to a desktop PC if my life depended on it.
It's quite simple really. Excessive taxation stifles economic growth reducing revenue and by the way reducing opportunity for all citizens to participate in the economy (meaning have jobs).
I didn't think cable companies were allowed to recompress the OTA signals? They just remultiplex the program streams into the QAM transport stream. Cable does have plenty of bandwidth though. I read a thing once where Comcast (I think it was) was designing their network to allow for a virtually unlimited number of channels by using on-demand streaming/multicasting. IE, the big channels are "on" all the time, but the channels in lesser demand aren't. So if nobody in a neighborhood is watching the Golf channel, its "slot" can be used for some other channel. By running fiber to the neighborhoods and carving them up into small enough groups, there is nothing they wouldn't theoretically be able to broadcast.
If you correct for socioeconomics, those differences disappear. In the US, the tests are biased toward the middle class and upper classes. They are culturally biased against poor people and the different ways intelligence manifests itself in those circumstances.
The problem with racists like you is that you cannot, or refuse to, differentiate culture from race. When a white guy does something bad, it reflects on him. But when a black guy does something bad, you saddle the entire race with blame for that individual's actions.
Of course tests can be culturally biased. Imagine giving a test written in England with UK idioms to kids from Montana. They aren't going to know what those idioms mean. That's the problem.
So do people walk around drinking alcohol all the time where you're from? Or do they exercise some self control and restrict their drinking to the evening.
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Yes. People being drunk when they oughtn't be causes all sorts of harm in just about every society on earth. I'm not saying this is a good reason to make alcohol illegal, but it's for sure not a shining example of how legalization makes things better.
That's the harm of prohibition. It allows people to say "hey, it's illegal, what more can we do?" Or "those criminals get what they deserve." But legalizing drugs has its own set of harms too.
Libertarianism has no such model. It is the opposite, really. It is about NOT letting a government push their preferences onto a population that might not have the same ones.
Ever notice the drug commercials? None of them address the underlying cause -- they address only the symptoms.
* Your dick doesn't work: Don't get exercise that could actually improve your blood flow. Don't eat right. Take this ridiculously expensive pill. Notice the age of the men on these commercials has dropped from what once was older mean, now the guys could be in their late 30s. WTF?
* Your cholesterol is thru the roof: Don't cut out fatty foods and fried goodies. Don't get exercise. Take this pill that has more side effects that the black plague.
First, you make the stupid assumption that people aren't already trying these things, or that they are suffering the effects of things that happened in the past. You can't tell someone to go back in time and live a healthier life. Secondly, who cares if they want to spend their money on dick pills? The reason there are so many drugs to treat symptoms is because nobody has figured out how to fix the underlying cause. By your logic, band-aids and casts should be banned- they just treat the symptoms, after all. My stupid cut should pull itself up by its bootstraps and quit bleeding all over the place by sheer force of will. If a germ gets in there and causes an infection, it serves me right for having weak skin. If my leg didn't want to be broken, it should have planned ahead and made itself out of titanium instead of stupid calcium.
It's all about the money -- and it should be illegal. America hates drugs? Start with big pharma. They kill more people every year than illegal drugs.
Maybe they do in gross numbers. But as a percentage of users? I doubt it.
If I had my way, I would dictate all pharm companies become non-profit. All money goes to R&D and moderate salaries. Then and only then would the research perhaps be about people and not profit.
Why not just take it one step further and force their employees to work for free? Only then would you know for sure whether they were in it for a good reason, and not filthy money.
These commercials now about one kid in 110 being autistic. No fracking way is this possible. ADHD? Same thing. When I was a kid back in the 70s, kids were hyper. It's normal. Now? Drug the poor things until they comply.
Yeah, let's keep doing it they way we used to do it. Those little freaks should be mocked and beaten until they quit flapping their hands and chasing butterflies. If they can't just sack up and act normal, they deserve to live unfulfilled, unhappy, unproductive lives.
People think a pill can solve anything. Want to lose weight? Take in fewer calories than you burn. Make sure those calories are good calories like fruits, veggies, lean meats like fish, turkey. Actually exercise. Almost no one was fat when I was a kid. Fat people were rare. Now? Almost 40% of Americans are considered fat. Why? The crap that passes for our food should be illegal. We need to become like Europe and ban all the junk. When it's about profit, the people get screwed. What's next? Soylent Green?
You know why people were so skinny? Because food was expensive and there wasn't enough of it for a lot of people. That this is now a much smaller problem is a triumph of society. Why don't you worry about your own shit and let other people get fat if they want to? Buy some stock in Pfizer and laugh all the way to the bank.
So what do we do about kids with bad parents? Just give up? Punish them for daring to be born into bad circumstances. Yes, good parents can make students better. But we don't have to let bad parents ruin good kids. The teachers just have to, you know, do what the profession was invented to do and fill in the gaps where parents fail their kids. We'd never have needed to invent schools if parents were good at educating their kids.
I'm mostly libertarian, but I fear a society where this would occur. It would look like the fucking Walking Dead. Have you been in communities with drug problems? It is terrifying.
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This isn't an ownership or rights thing, this is pushback against the "hack everything" lifestyle. A photoframe that doesn't give handjobs like the newer models isn't broken or worn out or unsuitable for its original purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it is sufficient: displaying photos.
Unless Martin committed an act in furtherance of the laws he could have intended to commit, he was free to wander around intending to commit a crime.
As opposed to the conservative media lies, where they use the yadda yadda defense:
1-Upstanding citizen sees a suspicious character and calls the police.
2-yadda yadda yadda
3-Upstanding citizen is viciously attacked by the suspicious character and bravely defends himself with tragic results. (but that's what you get when you act suspiciously, amiright?)
That only works if you ignore what happened in the middle. Which is, Zimmerman got out of his car. Why would a person get out of the relative safety of his car when there was a dangerous person milling about?
In ddwrt, on a wrt54g, the standard power is something like 54mW, and the max power the firmware will allow is 255mW. That's way overdoing it. if something can run at 255mW for a shortened time, 54 mW should go forever.
What the fuck do you expect for a $100 piece of software? If you want guarantees, you have to pay for the testing. Shit, forget the OS. What about the hardware? I wouldn't trust my life to a desktop PC if my life depended on it.
A computer is a computer as far as they are concerned.
Shouldn't it be?
How dare those users try and use your precious network in ways that are convenient to them! Static addresses? Jesus.
In the world maybe, but in the US, there are slightly more dogs than people under the age of 18 (78 million versus 72 million).
This has been proven wrong time after time. Your halfway competent driver is just a lucky one. The car can react far faster than you can.
Ambulance drivers are usually far better drivers than the rest. .
Not based on what I've seen.
Way up since when? Prices were very high in the months before the economy crashed. Compared to then, they are down.
Currently there have been a LOT of new regulations piled atop all kinds of businesses,
Like what?
Except for the part where the president detailed his reaction and the moderator confirmed it.
It's quite simple really. Excessive taxation stifles economic growth reducing revenue and by the way reducing opportunity for all citizens to participate in the economy (meaning have jobs).
The Laffer curve has two sides.
I didn't think cable companies were allowed to recompress the OTA signals? They just remultiplex the program streams into the QAM transport stream. Cable does have plenty of bandwidth though. I read a thing once where Comcast (I think it was) was designing their network to allow for a virtually unlimited number of channels by using on-demand streaming/multicasting. IE, the big channels are "on" all the time, but the channels in lesser demand aren't. So if nobody in a neighborhood is watching the Golf channel, its "slot" can be used for some other channel. By running fiber to the neighborhoods and carving them up into small enough groups, there is nothing they wouldn't theoretically be able to broadcast.
Because life is worth more than money. And most bank robbers get caught.
If you correct for socioeconomics, those differences disappear. In the US, the tests are biased toward the middle class and upper classes. They are culturally biased against poor people and the different ways intelligence manifests itself in those circumstances.
The problem with racists like you is that you cannot, or refuse to, differentiate culture from race. When a white guy does something bad, it reflects on him. But when a black guy does something bad, you saddle the entire race with blame for that individual's actions.
Of course tests can be culturally biased. Imagine giving a test written in England with UK idioms to kids from Montana. They aren't going to know what those idioms mean. That's the problem.
So do people walk around drinking alcohol all the time where you're from? Or do they exercise some self control and restrict their drinking to the evening.
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Yes. People being drunk when they oughtn't be causes all sorts of harm in just about every society on earth. I'm not saying this is a good reason to make alcohol illegal, but it's for sure not a shining example of how legalization makes things better.
That's the harm of prohibition. It allows people to say "hey, it's illegal, what more can we do?" Or "those criminals get what they deserve." But legalizing drugs has its own set of harms too.
Libertarianism has no such model. It is the opposite, really. It is about NOT letting a government push their preferences onto a population that might not have the same ones.
Hey Seattle Sutton, it doesn't work that way. Calories in versus calories out is an archaic paradigm.
Ever notice the drug commercials? None of them address the underlying cause -- they address only the symptoms.
* Your dick doesn't work: Don't get exercise that could actually improve your blood flow. Don't eat right. Take this ridiculously expensive pill. Notice the age of the men on these commercials has dropped from what once was older mean, now the guys could be in their late 30s. WTF?
* Your cholesterol is thru the roof: Don't cut out fatty foods and fried goodies. Don't get exercise. Take this pill that has more side effects that the black plague.
First, you make the stupid assumption that people aren't already trying these things, or that they are suffering the effects of things that happened in the past. You can't tell someone to go back in time and live a healthier life. Secondly, who cares if they want to spend their money on dick pills? The reason there are so many drugs to treat symptoms is because nobody has figured out how to fix the underlying cause. By your logic, band-aids and casts should be banned- they just treat the symptoms, after all. My stupid cut should pull itself up by its bootstraps and quit bleeding all over the place by sheer force of will. If a germ gets in there and causes an infection, it serves me right for having weak skin. If my leg didn't want to be broken, it should have planned ahead and made itself out of titanium instead of stupid calcium.
It's all about the money -- and it should be illegal. America hates drugs? Start with big pharma. They kill more people every year than illegal drugs.
Maybe they do in gross numbers. But as a percentage of users? I doubt it.
If I had my way, I would dictate all pharm companies become non-profit. All money goes to R&D and moderate salaries. Then and only then would the research perhaps be about people and not profit.
Why not just take it one step further and force their employees to work for free? Only then would you know for sure whether they were in it for a good reason, and not filthy money.
These commercials now about one kid in 110 being autistic. No fracking way is this possible. ADHD? Same thing. When I was a kid back in the 70s, kids were hyper. It's normal. Now? Drug the poor things until they comply.
Yeah, let's keep doing it they way we used to do it. Those little freaks should be mocked and beaten until they quit flapping their hands and chasing butterflies. If they can't just sack up and act normal, they deserve to live unfulfilled, unhappy, unproductive lives.
People think a pill can solve anything. Want to lose weight? Take in fewer calories than you burn. Make sure those calories are good calories like fruits, veggies, lean meats like fish, turkey. Actually exercise. Almost no one was fat when I was a kid. Fat people were rare. Now? Almost 40% of Americans are considered fat. Why? The crap that passes for our food should be illegal. We need to become like Europe and ban all the junk. When it's about profit, the people get screwed. What's next? Soylent Green?
You know why people were so skinny? Because food was expensive and there wasn't enough of it for a lot of people. That this is now a much smaller problem is a triumph of society. Why don't you worry about your own shit and let other people get fat if they want to? Buy some stock in Pfizer and laugh all the way to the bank.
So what do we do about kids with bad parents? Just give up? Punish them for daring to be born into bad circumstances. Yes, good parents can make students better. But we don't have to let bad parents ruin good kids. The teachers just have to, you know, do what the profession was invented to do and fill in the gaps where parents fail their kids. We'd never have needed to invent schools if parents were good at educating their kids.
So, legalize every drug in existence.
I'm mostly libertarian, but I fear a society where this would occur. It would look like the fucking Walking Dead. Have you been in communities with drug problems? It is terrifying.