C'mon mods. He's named Thomas Hobbes, and says the state of nature is every man for himself (war of all against all), with all rights reserved for himself (that is, Man in the state of nature can kill you to take your wallet. You better hope you're bigger. He also says, quite famously, that life in a state of nature, is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short".
Now, you'll see that I was saying both posters were right. To see it as a troll would mean you didn't pay attention in social studies in high school.
It has something to do with figuring out how many representatives your area should have in government, because you give up your freedom to make your own laws to him.
It has something to do with figuring out how many police officers, firefighters, and paramedics your area needs in order to provide sufficient coverage, because you give up your freedom to kill the man who raped your daughter, burn down your old house, and have that cancer looked at by the spiritual surgeon.
It has something to do with figuring out if the school you went to is providing a good education because you're giving up your freedom to not have your child educated in a manner that is not agreed upon by your representatives.
It has something to do with figuring out if you are owed veteran benefits if you were in the military and deployed because you're giving someone else the right to protect yourself from all enemies, foreign and domestic
It has something to do with making sure that the various utilities are sufficient for your area, so that you don't have blackouts all the time, because you give up your right to your own land.
It has to do with things that could possibly be good. The only reason the government could possibly have for compiling information about you is because it wants to limit your freedom, because that really is the only purpose of government.
What the original poster didn't say, is that life without governance kind of sucks.
Pasyt year illicit drug users were also about 16 times more likely than nonusers to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft because one can't go grab a pack of joints for $5.00 from the corner store.
Seriously, dood, bad stat to pick. If drugs were legal, one wouldn't have to pay the outrageous black market prices, and addicts wouldn't have to steal (at least, not 16 times as much as those straightedge burglars)
They have these. Hell, my hometown of 3,000 has a hobby airport... and a plane factory about 10 miles away. $50,000 buys you a halfway-decent used plane.
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Big buttons for people wearing gloves? That's the best contribution the author can come up with in his requiem?
How about the ignition being in the center console so there's one less thing to split your kneecap in a crash? How about the collapsing steering column, once again helping to avoid turning the steering wheel into a death machine? How 'bout the fact that my '88 had a fully-modern EFI system with intake manifold injectors, 2 HO2S, and a MAF sensor, not that crap throttle-body, barometric pressure based crap everyone else had? How about having 9007 lights with reflector housings instead of those sealed-beam light scatterers?
I live in Central PA, and that car was unstoppable in the snow. The only thing I've driven that was close is my Jetta, and that has 4-wheel ABS and traction control. The SAAB certainly did not. And I'm no slipmatic driver either.
iPhone and Droid both work out to the exact same price with the minimum minute plan, unlimited internet (required on both) and unlimited texts. What are you talking about?
Assholes. They already do that. There's a couple of different "unlimited" plans, depending on how much AT&T thinks you'll use that specific phone on the network. I pay $30 for unlimited internet, others pay $15. No cheating and using a crap phone to activate and then changing SIMs either, if it's an AT&T branded phone, they know and kick you off your plan.
I once was flipping through my friend's Criminal Justice book, and the chapter on vehicular law began:
Cars and other vehicles are inherently different from homes and other buildings because they can move.
First, it was Denial. Then it was Anger, "But I lived in my car!!". Then, Bargaining. "Sir, I swear, I didn't see that car in my house's way." Then Depression, "Do we really need to make this clear?" and now, with this very thread, Acceptance.
Most smartphones are already set up like that! WinMo and iPhone both use this setup for sure, even if the radio is just a separate core on the same die. The application/OS processor talks to the radio using - ready for this? - good old AT commands over a serial line.
Well, I've been bitten by by damn lab computers too. Example: Locked the PC to go smoke a cig, come back. Computer now has a login prompt, and made no effort to save my session or anything, bye bye 10 pages.
They don't really mention an idle logoff time, and it must have been under 10 minutes.
Been a switch-hitter between Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows for years. For the past year or so, it's been Ubuntu and Vista. I'd say I spent equal time in both. I've got Ubuntu tweaked to my liking, and when I was mobile, usually used Linux because of the fast boot and wake-from-RAM times. Vista had to be there, well, because Linux multimedia just blows. It took me the good part of a week to get my laptop dock's S/PDIF port to work, and that was only after manually ripping out ALSA and building OSS4 from scratch, and even then, it only ever saw the S/PDIF port as 44.1kHz, 16-bit capable. That said, I enjoy using it, I'm not afraid of the command line, but we've still got a long way to go. I'm not quite yet comfortable with recommending Linux to firends and family. Kudos to getting back up to 1% though!
Windows 7 got clean-installed about a week ago. To me, the UI seems much smoother (No more bajillion clicks to get to a NIC's IP settings page), even the Start menu was given a once-over. To me, it's just as good as Windows 2000, and a marked improvement over XP. But who knows, It's only got a week of clutter on it yet.
I understand that the IMEI isn't used for network access. They're not having all devices simply report the IMEI, they're making sure that IMEI matches up with a person. Therefore, they can't steal someone else's IMEI, and I would assume stealing someone's SIM card data is gonna raise some flags in a billing system here. And even if you do (or buy a pre-paid SIM), they've got your phone tied to someone.
I'm not saying its going to solve any problems, I just think its kind of a crack-job comment to call it an invasion of privacy. Where did this right suddenly come from? You certainly didn't have that right with a land-line. It was quite obvious where a phone call was coming from.
Yeah, FUCK AT&T. I had a Tilt (HTC TyTn II) stolen from me. They would deactivate the SIM, but not the phone itself. Then, they could tell me that my phone was on the network but not where. Thanks for making such a big market for stolen phones, assbags.
Seven bonded T1s from Level3, shared among 648 Penn State student pirates. The kicker? Cable is in my roommates name and he doesn't want to get cable access, and the company won't let you have two accounts at one address!
Did you really just give me something that entertained me from MY GOVERNMENT? And I mean, made me chuckle for actual intellectual reasons, not for "How the hell did THAT guy get elected?"
They must be having a snowball fight in Hell right now.
Perhaps they were saying that the 850MHz network is 90% built out, but not necessarily on yet?
Where I'm currently living (small city), when we got 3G service, it went from none at all to holy-shit-5-bars-everywhere-in-the-county HSPA service. One morning, I woke up, and the phone rang without the usual barrage of speaker interference, and the service is amazing. Not only that, but on the exact day that AT&T Engineering said they would turn it on.
Yeah, I'm a happy AT&T customer, but I know for sure that it's not like this everywhere. In my hometown, they have a few towers, but all EDGE-only. Most of the time I'm roaming on a local provider (Immix) that's not too reliable, and data speeds suck so bad I can't even stream Pandora on low-quality. I'm just sayin' their comment may not be complete bullshit.
I think traffic circles are great. However, you're right about people not knowing what to do. My city just replaced 4 lights on an access road with roundabouts, and you aughta see how many skid marks are there from cars just sailing straight through the intersection instead of going 180 degrees around to circle to keep going straight!
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C'mon mods. He's named Thomas Hobbes, and says the state of nature is every man for himself (war of all against all), with all rights reserved for himself (that is, Man in the state of nature can kill you to take your wallet. You better hope you're bigger. He also says, quite famously, that life in a state of nature, is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short".
Now, you'll see that I was saying both posters were right. To see it as a troll would mean you didn't pay attention in social studies in high school.
In a state of nature...
It has something to do with figuring out how many representatives your area should have in government, because you give up your freedom to make your own laws to him.
It has something to do with figuring out how many police officers, firefighters, and paramedics your area needs in order to provide sufficient coverage, because you give up your freedom to kill the man who raped your daughter, burn down your old house, and have that cancer looked at by the spiritual surgeon.
It has something to do with figuring out if the school you went to is providing a good education because you're giving up your freedom to not have your child educated in a manner that is not agreed upon by your representatives.
It has something to do with figuring out if you are owed veteran benefits if you were in the military and deployed because you're giving someone else the right to protect yourself from all enemies, foreign and domestic
It has something to do with making sure that the various utilities are sufficient for your area, so that you don't have blackouts all the time, because you give up your right to your own land.
It has to do with things that could possibly be good. The only reason the government could possibly have for compiling information about you is because it wants to limit your freedom, because that really is the only purpose of government.
What the original poster didn't say, is that life without governance kind of sucks.
In other words,
Seriously, dood, bad stat to pick. If drugs were legal, one wouldn't have to pay the outrageous black market prices, and addicts wouldn't have to steal (at least, not 16 times as much as those straightedge burglars)
They have these. Hell, my hometown of 3,000 has a hobby airport... and a plane factory about 10 miles away. $50,000 buys you a halfway-decent used plane.
Big buttons for people wearing gloves? That's the best contribution the author can come up with in his requiem?
How about the ignition being in the center console so there's one less thing to split your kneecap in a crash? How about the collapsing steering column, once again helping to avoid turning the steering wheel into a death machine? How 'bout the fact that my '88 had a fully-modern EFI system with intake manifold injectors, 2 HO2S, and a MAF sensor, not that crap throttle-body, barometric pressure based crap everyone else had? How about having 9007 lights with reflector housings instead of those sealed-beam light scatterers?
I live in Central PA, and that car was unstoppable in the snow. The only thing I've driven that was close is my Jetta, and that has 4-wheel ABS and traction control. The SAAB certainly did not. And I'm no slipmatic driver either.
Nope. Press is a mass noun, like the water or the data.
*woosh*
The sound of a joke, over your head, joining the Mile High Club.
iPhone and Droid both work out to the exact same price with the minimum minute plan, unlimited internet (required on both) and unlimited texts. What are you talking about?
Assholes. They already do that. There's a couple of different "unlimited" plans, depending on how much AT&T thinks you'll use that specific phone on the network. I pay $30 for unlimited internet, others pay $15. No cheating and using a crap phone to activate and then changing SIMs either, if it's an AT&T branded phone, they know and kick you off your plan.
I once was flipping through my friend's Criminal Justice book, and the chapter on vehicular law began:
Cars and other vehicles are inherently different from homes and other buildings because they can move.
First, it was Denial. Then it was Anger, "But I lived in my car!!". Then, Bargaining. "Sir, I swear, I didn't see that car in my house's way." Then Depression, "Do we really need to make this clear?" and now, with this very thread, Acceptance.
Most smartphones are already set up like that! WinMo and iPhone both use this setup for sure, even if the radio is just a separate core on the same die. The application/OS processor talks to the radio using - ready for this? - good old AT commands over a serial line.
Well, I've been bitten by by damn lab computers too. Example: Locked the PC to go smoke a cig, come back. Computer now has a login prompt, and made no effort to save my session or anything, bye bye 10 pages.
They don't really mention an idle logoff time, and it must have been under 10 minutes.
I got karma to burn.
Been a switch-hitter between Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows for years. For the past year or so, it's been Ubuntu and Vista. I'd say I spent equal time in both. I've got Ubuntu tweaked to my liking, and when I was mobile, usually used Linux because of the fast boot and wake-from-RAM times. Vista had to be there, well, because Linux multimedia just blows. It took me the good part of a week to get my laptop dock's S/PDIF port to work, and that was only after manually ripping out ALSA and building OSS4 from scratch, and even then, it only ever saw the S/PDIF port as 44.1kHz, 16-bit capable. That said, I enjoy using it, I'm not afraid of the command line, but we've still got a long way to go. I'm not quite yet comfortable with recommending Linux to firends and family. Kudos to getting back up to 1% though!
Windows 7 got clean-installed about a week ago. To me, the UI seems much smoother (No more bajillion clicks to get to a NIC's IP settings page), even the Start menu was given a once-over. To me, it's just as good as Windows 2000, and a marked improvement over XP. But who knows, It's only got a week of clutter on it yet.
I understand that the IMEI isn't used for network access. They're not having all devices simply report the IMEI, they're making sure that IMEI matches up with a person. Therefore, they can't steal someone else's IMEI, and I would assume stealing someone's SIM card data is gonna raise some flags in a billing system here. And even if you do (or buy a pre-paid SIM), they've got your phone tied to someone.
I'm not saying its going to solve any problems, I just think its kind of a crack-job comment to call it an invasion of privacy. Where did this right suddenly come from? You certainly didn't have that right with a land-line. It was quite obvious where a phone call was coming from.
Using a fake IMEI isn't privacy, dood. It's using the network incorrectly, and could cause problems for other users if there was an IMEI collision.
To use the oft-famous car analogy, it's like stealing a plate from the junkyard and using it on your car. Not a right. At all.
Yeah, FUCK AT&T. I had a Tilt (HTC TyTn II) stolen from me. They would deactivate the SIM, but not the phone itself. Then, they could tell me that my phone was on the network but not where. Thanks for making such a big market for stolen phones, assbags.
And pink is red and orange is yellow!
Taxes paid for the DARPA-funded research you use everyday, grandparent.
Oh wow. Yeah, those are massive. Ours are tiny little things with a garden in the middle that's removed every October.
Seven bonded T1s from Level3, shared among 648 Penn State student pirates. The kicker? Cable is in my roommates name and he doesn't want to get cable access, and the company won't let you have two accounts at one address!
Not even close, dood. I'm not going to kill a family of 4 if I crash my computer because I'm on the damn net too much.
EDGE here is faster than my apartment-provided internet connection, you insensitive clod! (and HSDPA blows it out of the water)
Did you really just give me something that entertained me from MY GOVERNMENT? And I mean, made me chuckle for actual intellectual reasons, not for "How the hell did THAT guy get elected?"
They must be having a snowball fight in Hell right now.
When was the last time you could go to the music store and get free music? Or, more importantly, when was the last time you could download a Chevy?
Perhaps they were saying that the 850MHz network is 90% built out, but not necessarily on yet?
Where I'm currently living (small city), when we got 3G service, it went from none at all to holy-shit-5-bars-everywhere-in-the-county HSPA service. One morning, I woke up, and the phone rang without the usual barrage of speaker interference, and the service is amazing. Not only that, but on the exact day that AT&T Engineering said they would turn it on.
Yeah, I'm a happy AT&T customer, but I know for sure that it's not like this everywhere. In my hometown, they have a few towers, but all EDGE-only. Most of the time I'm roaming on a local provider (Immix) that's not too reliable, and data speeds suck so bad I can't even stream Pandora on low-quality. I'm just sayin' their comment may not be complete bullshit.
I think traffic circles are great. However, you're right about people not knowing what to do. My city just replaced 4 lights on an access road with roundabouts, and you aughta see how many skid marks are there from cars just sailing straight through the intersection instead of going 180 degrees around to circle to keep going straight!