My mother dated a guy that worked as a maitre d' at a 5-star restaurant in Philadelphia back in the 80's and he used to tell us all sorts of disgusting shit that used to go on there, for instance, they would re-serve spreading butter (they were fancy schmancy so no foil wrapped crap there) and uneaten rolls...not to mention other uneaten side dishes. It was at the owner's direction to save money.
I don't even remember the name of the place anymore, as I was both a child and it was ages ago, but stories like that among other things (like the spoiled milk incident I talked about above) have made me very particular about checking my food. Probably annoys people at restaurants but I just can't eat the food unless I'm reasonably sure it's clean.
Why is it whenever someone criticizes Reagan or Bush (or any Republican for that matter) there is always someone at the ready to through Obama into the conversation? What the fuck does Fast and Furious or Obama have to do with Reagan, which was what I was directly responding to?
Is it to even the score or something? And if so, who the fuck is keeping score? Why does criticism of a Republican intimate support of a Democrat to so many people? It's not fucking binary; there are more than two states of being in politics.
I'm no Obama worshiper, I just don't see how my criticism of Reagan has any relation to Obama whatsoever. Also, my reference is historical fact. Yours is completely hypothetical.
Better yet, build yourself a little Faraday Cage and quarantine the stolen phone for a week or so, pretty much anyone sane will have given up the ghost long before then and just bought a new phone.
Or, even easier, wrap it in aluminum foil. Thieves have been making booster bags with foil lining to block RFID tags from setting off alarms since almost as long as the RFID alarms have existed in the first place...
What he was doing was running a 'lemonade stand' that just happened to not give a fuck if you were trading coke, heroin and any pill you could find in plain site and in fact built its entire existence on the fact that it was used for those purposes.
Because facilitating copyright infringement is totally equivalent to pushing drugs! Boy, I sure do love this brave new world...
My personal favorite to come out of the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan's address in 1987: "A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
What the fuck does that even mean? Reagan was such a corporate shill, although to be fair, one could argue that he was a corporate shill long before he got active in politics.
I always hate those things...I want to see the ketchup inside the container before I pour it all over my food, in case there's things growing in it. *gag*
I know that probably doesn't happen very often, but I just can't trust the sanctity of the condiments at a restaurant on blind faith.
Probably has to do with the fact that I was once served spoiled milk at a McDonald's when I was a kid; it was a hot day, and I just threw my head back and took a big knock of what turned out to be curdled milk...I still retch a little when thinking about it, and it was 25 years ago.
Can't you just throw those in the dishwasher? I swear someone told me they were dishwasher safe (as long as you let them dry thoroughly before using, and didn't use detergent like a retard), but I've never been lucky enough to own one and even if I did, don't know if I would dare try unless I was in your desperate situation.
I was actually present once when someone did that the other way around: they were banging on the back end of the bottle with the heel of their hand to try and get it started and the bottle literally separated in half right there in his hand. The neck end slipped through his fingers and crashed to the floor, spraying everyone sitting at our table (and a few tables around us) under their tables from the knees down with ketchup with some broken glass fragments thrown in for good measure.
The best part was his reaction to it, he was so completely unprepared for that possibility that for a few seconds he just kinda sat there with the busted end of the ketchup bottle in one hand (as it quickly emptied of the remaining ketchup onto his lap and the floor) with an expression much like the one on the T-1000's face when he gets blown up at the end of Terminator 2.
The fact is, any network which allows some fucktard's torrent or tentacle porn to make my SSH sessions become unusable is a piece of shit network which shouldn't be in business.
Who the fuck told you your SSH sessions were more important? Do you think your neighbor gives a rat's ass what the fuck you're doing on the internet?
This is precisely why traffic shaping is complete horseshit: it's completely arbitrary. What if my job is to watch and review movies and TV shows all day long? Under your definition, I'm sure that would be much less important than your SSH crap, but I assure you, to me, it's absolutely not.
What is "important" is subjective. You're no more important than me, and how I use my internet is none of your fucking concern. We pay the same rate, we get the same service, end of fucking story.
This is the same reason why the government allowed AT&T to have their monopoly on telephone service...it came with the caveat that they had to get telephone service available to everyone, even if it would cost more to run the lines to them then they would recoup for the service. If they hadn't mandated that, there likely would have been people without telephone service in their areas up until the 70's if not even today.
These guys just want to have their cake and eat it, too.
That had more to do with the fact that Kerry was totally uncharismatic, just like Romney. The guy behaves like a robot, I mean really, when he tells jokes he sounds like Data from Star Trek, pre-emotion chip, of course.
Liberal Republicans? Are you fucking kidding? The Republican Party has gone screaming waaaaaay to the right over the last couple decades. The moderates are being purged every election cycle. How many Goldwater Republicans are there these days?
You mean the grandmother that can barely turn the computer on? Is that the grandmother that should be snooping around on her computer to make sure little Jimmy isn't torrenting?
Don't be obtuse. You know perfectly well that the vast majority of the people in this country can barely use a fucking computer.
The USPS ran just fine for decades before they started fucking with it. Where else can you mail anything for less than a buck? UPS? FedEx? Nowhere. Which is exactly why they're trying to kill it off...
Once the USPS is gone, watch how much more it costs us to send things. I'm betting it'll only be a few weeks before UPS, FedEx, DHL, and all the other carriers arbitrarily raise their rates and blame it on the cost of gasoline.
One group set up free, donation-driven, volunteer-run libraries so that people could learn more about different things. The other had signs reading "GET THE GOVERMINT OUTTA MY MEDICAIRE!!!!!!" and "TEACHERS ARE BRAINWASHING OUR CHILDREN!!!!!!"
That about sums up the difference between those two groups.
To be honest, though, I knew the Tea Party was a fucking joke when they started on the birther nonsense, long before OWS even existed. You can ask Teabaggers today and still hear a bunch of retarded bullshit about how Obama wasn't born here, not to mention all the whispered "He's a Muslim!!!" as if that would even have a fucking bearing on the conversation.
You know, I honestly don't have a problem with metered billing, with three enormous caveats that I'm sure the ISPs would never in a million years agree to:
First, I want a new Telecommunications Act that opens up the lines similar to what Clinton did in the 90's with telephone. If you recall, after that passed, a plethora of 10-10-XXX long distance only carriers emerged, offering lower and lower cost per minute. We used to pay something like.25 a minute for long distance through MCI back in the day and within a few short years were down to a nickel using competitors services. This would require Forced-Access provisions, obviously, but the person that owns the lines is entitled to compensation at a fair market rate.
Secondly, I want the ISPs to be declared utilities once and for all and fall under the purview of the local utilities boards in the areas they service. That allows the public to have input into what is, for all intents and purposes, a monopoly. That way, when Comcast (for instance) decides to roll out some bullshit cap designed solely to kill Netflix and competitor VOD services, there would be hearings where they would have to explain their reasoning. Although, if the first point were to come to pass, the second would likely be unnecessary, as we would be able to go to a competitor.
Third, no more deep packet inspection, no more throttling, no more "traffic shaping", no more game playing. I pay you by the MB, what I do with those MBs is my own fucking business. Does the electric company give a shit what I'm using my power on? No, because it's none of their fucking business, and they get paid regardless. Ditto with bandwidth.
Those three things happen, I will be more than glad to pay for my usage. If not, they can take their newest fucking scheme to gouge the fuck out of us and shove it up their ass, because without those caveats, that's all this metering bullshit amounts to.
Personally, I've got my entire music collection available to me via Google Music. It took me ages to upload the 18k or so tracks (a week of overnights with upload maxed out), but now that it's all there, I've got it on anything running a web browser as well as my phone.
Now, I would never in a million years dump the files stored locally, but I sure as shit don't bother loading GBs of music onto an MP3 player or my phone when I go on trips anymore, nor waste time burning CD's for the car or any of that crap. To me, that is the only real benefit of the cloud...I would never trust it as a true backup, but it's handy when getting at the data isn't a matter of life and death. If Google Music went down while I was traveling, I would turn on the radio and deal with it.
I stopped keeping porn a long time ago. It's just too easy to stream the shit now, no need to take up valuable hard drive space or leave files around to be found by spouses and children.
You know why the MAFIAA is so pissed off about getting ripped off? Because it's cutting into the profits they make ripping other people off. Poor babies...
Are we going to start hating on people who track down their laptop thief and pose as a buyer in order to nail them?
That would do no good, as the police in most major areas couldn't give less of a shit about recovering lost property for private citizens unless there is a substantial dollar amount involved.
Seeing as how every movie download results in ELEVENTY TRILLION DOLLARS in damages to the studios, however, they're always at the ready to go kick in some kids door and taze his grandmother to catch little Jimmy red-handed torrenting this week's Game of Thrones.
If they are going to deceive you like that, then who's to say that they aren't terrorists or child porn distributors?
Money. Lots and lots of money.
Soon they'll all have their own private, but state-funded, police force, like Apple and REACT. I'm sure they'll be flash-banging people and murdering family pets in no time...that'll teach those filthy pirates!
Wasn't the bulk of the fiber backbone they all plug into paid for by taxpayers in the 90's during the Dot Com bubble? Maybe the people should be charging them similar fees for the bandwidth running along those pipes that they charge their end users...
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My mother dated a guy that worked as a maitre d' at a 5-star restaurant in Philadelphia back in the 80's and he used to tell us all sorts of disgusting shit that used to go on there, for instance, they would re-serve spreading butter (they were fancy schmancy so no foil wrapped crap there) and uneaten rolls...not to mention other uneaten side dishes. It was at the owner's direction to save money.
I don't even remember the name of the place anymore, as I was both a child and it was ages ago, but stories like that among other things (like the spoiled milk incident I talked about above) have made me very particular about checking my food. Probably annoys people at restaurants but I just can't eat the food unless I'm reasonably sure it's clean.
Why is it whenever someone criticizes Reagan or Bush (or any Republican for that matter) there is always someone at the ready to through Obama into the conversation? What the fuck does Fast and Furious or Obama have to do with Reagan, which was what I was directly responding to?
Is it to even the score or something? And if so, who the fuck is keeping score? Why does criticism of a Republican intimate support of a Democrat to so many people? It's not fucking binary; there are more than two states of being in politics.
I'm no Obama worshiper, I just don't see how my criticism of Reagan has any relation to Obama whatsoever. Also, my reference is historical fact. Yours is completely hypothetical.
Better yet, build yourself a little Faraday Cage and quarantine the stolen phone for a week or so, pretty much anyone sane will have given up the ghost long before then and just bought a new phone.
Or, even easier, wrap it in aluminum foil. Thieves have been making booster bags with foil lining to block RFID tags from setting off alarms since almost as long as the RFID alarms have existed in the first place...
What he was doing was running a 'lemonade stand' that just happened to not give a fuck if you were trading coke, heroin and any pill you could find in plain site and in fact built its entire existence on the fact that it was used for those purposes.
Because facilitating copyright infringement is totally equivalent to pushing drugs! Boy, I sure do love this brave new world...
My personal favorite to come out of the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan's address in 1987: "A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
What the fuck does that even mean? Reagan was such a corporate shill, although to be fair, one could argue that he was a corporate shill long before he got active in politics.
I always hate those things...I want to see the ketchup inside the container before I pour it all over my food, in case there's things growing in it. *gag*
I know that probably doesn't happen very often, but I just can't trust the sanctity of the condiments at a restaurant on blind faith.
Probably has to do with the fact that I was once served spoiled milk at a McDonald's when I was a kid; it was a hot day, and I just threw my head back and took a big knock of what turned out to be curdled milk...I still retch a little when thinking about it, and it was 25 years ago.
Can't you just throw those in the dishwasher? I swear someone told me they were dishwasher safe (as long as you let them dry thoroughly before using, and didn't use detergent like a retard), but I've never been lucky enough to own one and even if I did, don't know if I would dare try unless I was in your desperate situation.
Since you have nothing to lose...experiment time!
I was actually present once when someone did that the other way around: they were banging on the back end of the bottle with the heel of their hand to try and get it started and the bottle literally separated in half right there in his hand. The neck end slipped through his fingers and crashed to the floor, spraying everyone sitting at our table (and a few tables around us) under their tables from the knees down with ketchup with some broken glass fragments thrown in for good measure.
The best part was his reaction to it, he was so completely unprepared for that possibility that for a few seconds he just kinda sat there with the busted end of the ketchup bottle in one hand (as it quickly emptied of the remaining ketchup onto his lap and the floor) with an expression much like the one on the T-1000's face when he gets blown up at the end of Terminator 2.
The fact is, any network which allows some fucktard's torrent or tentacle porn to make my SSH sessions become unusable is a piece of shit network which shouldn't be in business.
Who the fuck told you your SSH sessions were more important? Do you think your neighbor gives a rat's ass what the fuck you're doing on the internet?
This is precisely why traffic shaping is complete horseshit: it's completely arbitrary. What if my job is to watch and review movies and TV shows all day long? Under your definition, I'm sure that would be much less important than your SSH crap, but I assure you, to me, it's absolutely not.
What is "important" is subjective. You're no more important than me, and how I use my internet is none of your fucking concern. We pay the same rate, we get the same service, end of fucking story.
This is why I never bought the whole "we should leave more things up to the states to decide" line of argument
As someone living in Wisconsin, I completely agree.
I shudder to think how much worse the fuckheads in this state's government would have screwed us if they'd had more power. They did enough damage with the power they have. We've got a full-blown witch hunt going on right now over people who signed a recall petition against Governor Walker, our Supreme Court justices are physically assaulting each other, disenfranchisement efforts are in full swing, and women now have to prove to a doctor they're not being coerced before they're allowed to have an abortion (because, you know, there are tons of forced abortions in this country, am I right?) and allowing schools to restrict sex-ed programs to abstinence-only...
Luckily we can still recall our reps, although they did everything they could to try and take that right away from us, too.
This is the same reason why the government allowed AT&T to have their monopoly on telephone service...it came with the caveat that they had to get telephone service available to everyone, even if it would cost more to run the lines to them then they would recoup for the service. If they hadn't mandated that, there likely would have been people without telephone service in their areas up until the 70's if not even today.
These guys just want to have their cake and eat it, too.
That had more to do with the fact that Kerry was totally uncharismatic, just like Romney. The guy behaves like a robot, I mean really, when he tells jokes he sounds like Data from Star Trek, pre-emotion chip, of course.
Although we can't rule out the difficulties in Ohio, either.
If it wasn't for the liberal republicans
That was when you went full retarded.
Liberal Republicans? Are you fucking kidding? The Republican Party has gone screaming waaaaaay to the right over the last couple decades. The moderates are being purged every election cycle. How many Goldwater Republicans are there these days?
Guess I won't be posting on any more websites hosted in New York.
What a great way to drive business away from your state. How long before they're all relocated in Jersey? Days?
You mean the grandmother that can barely turn the computer on? Is that the grandmother that should be snooping around on her computer to make sure little Jimmy isn't torrenting?
Don't be obtuse. You know perfectly well that the vast majority of the people in this country can barely use a fucking computer.
The USPS ran just fine for decades before they started fucking with it. Where else can you mail anything for less than a buck? UPS? FedEx? Nowhere. Which is exactly why they're trying to kill it off...
Once the USPS is gone, watch how much more it costs us to send things. I'm betting it'll only be a few weeks before UPS, FedEx, DHL, and all the other carriers arbitrarily raise their rates and blame it on the cost of gasoline.
I see OWNS is so superior to the Tea party.
One group set up free, donation-driven, volunteer-run libraries so that people could learn more about different things. The other had signs reading "GET THE GOVERMINT OUTTA MY MEDICAIRE!!!!!!" and "TEACHERS ARE BRAINWASHING OUR CHILDREN!!!!!!"
That about sums up the difference between those two groups.
To be honest, though, I knew the Tea Party was a fucking joke when they started on the birther nonsense, long before OWS even existed. You can ask Teabaggers today and still hear a bunch of retarded bullshit about how Obama wasn't born here, not to mention all the whispered "He's a Muslim!!!" as if that would even have a fucking bearing on the conversation.
You know, I honestly don't have a problem with metered billing, with three enormous caveats that I'm sure the ISPs would never in a million years agree to:
First, I want a new Telecommunications Act that opens up the lines similar to what Clinton did in the 90's with telephone. If you recall, after that passed, a plethora of 10-10-XXX long distance only carriers emerged, offering lower and lower cost per minute. We used to pay something like .25 a minute for long distance through MCI back in the day and within a few short years were down to a nickel using competitors services. This would require Forced-Access provisions, obviously, but the person that owns the lines is entitled to compensation at a fair market rate.
Secondly, I want the ISPs to be declared utilities once and for all and fall under the purview of the local utilities boards in the areas they service. That allows the public to have input into what is, for all intents and purposes, a monopoly. That way, when Comcast (for instance) decides to roll out some bullshit cap designed solely to kill Netflix and competitor VOD services, there would be hearings where they would have to explain their reasoning. Although, if the first point were to come to pass, the second would likely be unnecessary, as we would be able to go to a competitor.
Third, no more deep packet inspection, no more throttling, no more "traffic shaping", no more game playing. I pay you by the MB, what I do with those MBs is my own fucking business. Does the electric company give a shit what I'm using my power on? No, because it's none of their fucking business, and they get paid regardless. Ditto with bandwidth.
Those three things happen, I will be more than glad to pay for my usage. If not, they can take their newest fucking scheme to gouge the fuck out of us and shove it up their ass, because without those caveats, that's all this metering bullshit amounts to.
Personally, I've got my entire music collection available to me via Google Music. It took me ages to upload the 18k or so tracks (a week of overnights with upload maxed out), but now that it's all there, I've got it on anything running a web browser as well as my phone.
Now, I would never in a million years dump the files stored locally, but I sure as shit don't bother loading GBs of music onto an MP3 player or my phone when I go on trips anymore, nor waste time burning CD's for the car or any of that crap. To me, that is the only real benefit of the cloud...I would never trust it as a true backup, but it's handy when getting at the data isn't a matter of life and death. If Google Music went down while I was traveling, I would turn on the radio and deal with it.
I stopped keeping porn a long time ago. It's just too easy to stream the shit now, no need to take up valuable hard drive space or leave files around to be found by spouses and children.
Or 4D even!!!!!!!
It gets even better when you read about stories like this one, where RIAA member owned VEVO was busted illegally streaming a football game at an event at Sundance a couple years ago.
And let's not even get into Hollywood Accounting...
You know why the MAFIAA is so pissed off about getting ripped off? Because it's cutting into the profits they make ripping other people off. Poor babies...
Are we going to start hating on people who track down their laptop thief and pose as a buyer in order to nail them?
That would do no good, as the police in most major areas couldn't give less of a shit about recovering lost property for private citizens unless there is a substantial dollar amount involved.
Seeing as how every movie download results in ELEVENTY TRILLION DOLLARS in damages to the studios, however, they're always at the ready to go kick in some kids door and taze his grandmother to catch little Jimmy red-handed torrenting this week's Game of Thrones.
If they are going to deceive you like that, then who's to say that they aren't terrorists or child porn distributors?
Money. Lots and lots of money.
Soon they'll all have their own private, but state-funded, police force, like Apple and REACT. I'm sure they'll be flash-banging people and murdering family pets in no time...that'll teach those filthy pirates!
Wasn't the bulk of the fiber backbone they all plug into paid for by taxpayers in the 90's during the Dot Com bubble? Maybe the people should be charging them similar fees for the bandwidth running along those pipes that they charge their end users...