Here in NE Ohio $8.75 hourly may be a bit more than Taco Bell pays, but it's right in the ballpark for working as an unskilled laborer in a plastics factory.
Now that is an ingenious idea! However, one potentialy fatal flaw would be terrorism. Can you imagine if somebody managed to hijack one of these things fly it into a populated area, and then through whatever means detonate it? For this idea to ever be accepted they would have to provide rock solid insurance something like that couldn't happen.
Many companys are eager to make ammends for customer service screwups to keep up a good reputation. You might do well to extract your vengeance upon QNX by calling up their customer service department, explaining your grievance, and then asking them to do what their conscience dictates they should do to set things right. This strategy doesn't work 100% of the time, but I've had good luck with it on numerous occasions, with remedies ranging from discounts to free services and merchandise. The worst thing that could happen is they refuse to deal with you; in which case you just take your business elsewhere. Of course this is all assuming you would ever have a desire to use their products for future projects.
The problem with this tagging idea is that in areas where many people visit there will be too many messages to sort through. Many of them will be spam, not particularly relevant, or just plain inflamatory. The solution to this problem would be to develope a moderation system where logged in users would rate each others comments. Comments with high ratings would be given higher visibility and comments with low ratings would be filtered according to the user's preference. Further, we could sort users by the ratings their comments receive and we could call this, erm, I know, karma! My idea is so perfect, what could possibly go wrong with it?
What about that washing machine company...uh, what's their name? Ah yes! 'Agilent'; now that's a pretty catchy and creative name for an American company.
If I spent my money according to my politics I'd have to live in a cave to avoid giving money to companies and causes I didn't agree with. Life is too short to fight unwinnable battles all of the time.
I beg to differ with your assessment of Time Warner; at least as far as the Road Runner cable internet service goes. It may be expensive at fifty five bucks monthly, but it's the only game in my town and I'm actually quite pleased with the quality of my connection. I dread the day when AOL/TW will decide to fold Road Runner into their AOL brand and make installation of their sucky software mandatory to connect to the service. My only complaint is that I hate AOL and
I detest feeding those bunch of fascists money to
further their censorship agenda. However, I hate browsing the internet with a 56k modem more;)
"Anyway, it's a quick way to get an anti-Windows mailing list with at least a 75% confidence I'd wager."
It's even worse than that. If Microsoft can match that information to employees of particular customers, they can better 'focus' their efforts to identify and discredit potential dissenters to Windows rollouts and upgrades.
I wasn't aware that Philips had already dabbled as
a content provider. Still, I'll stick to my guns with the assertion that their good will towards the consumer will only last so long as they feel it's convenient or profitable. I'm hoping that time will prove me wrong.
Thank you. If you go to the address that I left you will find a rather eye opening essay on vocabulary and our relationship to the government.
Go here and see if you could have passed the eigth
grade in 1895.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/1895finalexam.html
This site also has links and descriptions of the
U.S. Constitution that are eye opening as well.
Read the information on this page (http://come.to/foundation) and then tell me
about the differences between "rights" and
"priviledges". Then tell me which one applies to
you. "Driving", "reside or residing", "operating",
"vehicle", etc... are all words that have a very precise meaning in terms of law and what your relationship to the government is. Do you know why the Amish don't have to pay federal income taxes? (At least the more purist Amish don't) Because they don't "drive", they are not "employed", they don't have Social Security Numbers, and they studiously avoid any other legal hooks that would put them under federal jurisdiction. They have Constitutional rights while us driving suckers have civil rights; the distinction is very stark in terms of who is free and who lives with priviledges that can be granted or taken away at a whim of the government.
Now, while I and most "persons" cannot bring
themselves to part with their "vehicle", "people" like the Amish feel the trade is well worth their while. Don't think of the government as chipping away at your freedoms, because they stole those before you were born; just think of further government encroachments as refinements to your current state of slavery. The sad thing is that we
Americans could put a stop to this if only we would collectively wake up and take action with what rights and priviledges we still have, but alas that I think, is not meant to be. Perhaps our national anthem should be "If only I had a brain."
Once upon a time Feanor (employee) created the Silmarils, and they were pretty nice. The gods (management) took notice of Feanor's creation and said, "Hey Feanor, we've got a project for which the Silmarils would come in really handy, so would you kindly hand them over". Feanor then said, "Fuck you, I made these on my own time and if you want them then make some up for yourselves!" The gods then replied, "Were sorry,
but were afraid that were going to have to let you go for your attitude unless you come off of the Silmarils." Feanor replied, "Fine, then let me go." The gods then said, "We'll also make sure that you never work in this town again." Feanor laughed, " Good I don't want to work here anyways." The gods then left Feanor with a final admoninition, " Oh yeah, well see about that! Who will pay you more than we did for the kind of work you do here? You'll really miss the paycheck if nothing else about this job." Feanor was silent; yes he would miss the paycheck, but the Silmarils were worth it!
Don't forget that some aspects of visual wiring in the brain occur in growth stages from infancy on up. An adult brain may have some plasticity, but it remains to be seen what the limitations of it's abilities to adapt to these implants are.
It's somebodies signature here, but I forget who.
I just liked it and saved it in my ever growing favorite quotes file. Glad you liked it, my sig when I use it goes like this, but it's rather too large and it's a hassle to use it.
"in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as "bacon" and "murder" --Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
How about Princess Mononoke? It's a great example of the genre and I enjoyed watching it very much. It has many of the tried and true anime cliches along with a rather unique and warm hearted storyline. It's almost worth seeing for the forest spirits, or 'maraca headed guys' like my friends and I who've seen it call them. I would go so far as to say that Princess Mononuke is to most anime what Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is to most kung foo movies. So, for what it's worth, I highly recommend Princess Mononuke because it stands on it's own as a great animated film.
"This is how language evolves - the improper becomes accepted."
Yeah, but on the inside, I wince every time I hear someone say "methodology" when the word "method" would be the appropriate usage in the given context.
I guess in the end it's up to the listener to think and form their own rational opinions rather than being spoon-fed misinformation. All we can do is to be aware of such misdirections when they occur and try not to let them poison a good clean debate about important issues.
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Nice Troll.
Here in NE Ohio $8.75 hourly may be a bit more than Taco Bell pays, but it's right in the ballpark for working as an unskilled laborer in a plastics factory.
Now that is an ingenious idea! However, one potentialy fatal flaw would be terrorism. Can you imagine if somebody managed to hijack one of these things fly it into a populated area, and then through whatever means detonate it? For this idea to ever be accepted they would have to provide rock solid insurance something like that couldn't happen.
Many companys are eager to make ammends for customer service screwups to keep up a good reputation. You might do well to extract your vengeance upon QNX by calling up their customer service department, explaining your grievance, and then asking them to do what their conscience dictates they should do to set things right. This strategy doesn't work 100% of the time, but I've had good luck with it on numerous occasions, with remedies ranging from discounts to free services and merchandise. The worst thing that could happen is they refuse to deal with you; in which case you just take your business elsewhere. Of course this is all assuming you would ever have a desire to use their products for future projects.
The problem with this tagging idea is that in areas where many people visit there will be too many messages to sort through. Many of them will be spam, not particularly relevant, or just plain inflamatory. The solution to this problem would be to develope a moderation system where logged in users would rate each others comments. Comments with high ratings would be given higher visibility and comments with low ratings would be filtered according to the user's preference. Further, we could sort users by the ratings their comments receive and we could call this, erm, I know, karma! My idea is so perfect, what could possibly go wrong with it?
What about that washing machine company...uh, what's their name? Ah yes! 'Agilent'; now that's a pretty catchy and creative name for an American company.
If I spent my money according to my politics I'd have to live in a cave to avoid giving money to companies and causes I didn't agree with. Life is too short to fight unwinnable battles all of the time.
I beg to differ with your assessment of Time Warner; at least as far as the Road Runner cable internet service goes. It may be expensive at fifty five bucks monthly, but it's the only game in my town and I'm actually quite pleased with the quality of my connection. I dread the day when AOL/TW will decide to fold Road Runner into their AOL brand and make installation of their sucky software mandatory to connect to the service. My only complaint is that I hate AOL and
I detest feeding those bunch of fascists money to
further their censorship agenda. However, I hate browsing the internet with a 56k modem more;)
"Anyway, it's a quick way to get an anti-Windows mailing list with at least a 75% confidence I'd wager."
It's even worse than that. If Microsoft can match that information to employees of particular customers, they can better 'focus' their efforts to identify and discredit potential dissenters to Windows rollouts and upgrades.
I wasn't aware that Philips had already dabbled as
a content provider. Still, I'll stick to my guns with the assertion that their good will towards the consumer will only last so long as they feel it's convenient or profitable. I'm hoping that time will prove me wrong.
"Too bad this won't last. >p> Phillips will be fall in back the line after a few major US distributors express their discontent. "
No, Philips will fall back into line when a content provider buys a controlling interest in them or when, like with Sony, it's the other way around.
Thank you. If you go to the address that I left you will find a rather eye opening essay on vocabulary and our relationship to the government.
Go here and see if you could have passed the eigth
grade in 1895.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/1895finalexam.html
This site also has links and descriptions of the
U.S. Constitution that are eye opening as well.
That's what you think! You should have heard him
going on and on about being plagerized. I finaly
had to post on the topic to get him to shut up.
I like your sig, but you should give Pravin Lal the proper credit for it.
Read the information on this page (http://come.to/foundation) and then tell me
about the differences between "rights" and
"priviledges". Then tell me which one applies to
you. "Driving", "reside or residing", "operating",
"vehicle", etc... are all words that have a very precise meaning in terms of law and what your relationship to the government is. Do you know why the Amish don't have to pay federal income taxes? (At least the more purist Amish don't) Because they don't "drive", they are not "employed", they don't have Social Security Numbers, and they studiously avoid any other legal hooks that would put them under federal jurisdiction. They have Constitutional rights while us driving suckers have civil rights; the distinction is very stark in terms of who is free and who lives with priviledges that can be granted or taken away at a whim of the government.
Now, while I and most "persons" cannot bring
themselves to part with their "vehicle", "people" like the Amish feel the trade is well worth their while. Don't think of the government as chipping away at your freedoms, because they stole those before you were born; just think of further government encroachments as refinements to your current state of slavery. The sad thing is that we
Americans could put a stop to this if only we would collectively wake up and take action with what rights and priviledges we still have, but alas that I think, is not meant to be. Perhaps our national anthem should be "If only I had a brain."
Once upon a time Feanor (employee) created the Silmarils, and they were pretty nice. The gods (management) took notice of Feanor's creation and said, "Hey Feanor, we've got a project for which the Silmarils would come in really handy, so would you kindly hand them over". Feanor then said, "Fuck you, I made these on my own time and if you want them then make some up for yourselves!" The gods then replied, "Were sorry,
but were afraid that were going to have to let you go for your attitude unless you come off of the Silmarils." Feanor replied, "Fine, then let me go." The gods then said, "We'll also make sure that you never work in this town again." Feanor laughed, " Good I don't want to work here anyways." The gods then left Feanor with a final admoninition, " Oh yeah, well see about that! Who will pay you more than we did for the kind of work you do here? You'll really miss the paycheck if nothing else about this job." Feanor was silent; yes he would miss the paycheck, but the Silmarils were worth it!
Don't forget that some aspects of visual wiring in the brain occur in growth stages from infancy on up. An adult brain may have some plasticity, but it remains to be seen what the limitations of it's abilities to adapt to these implants are.
I could care less if it works as well; I for one will never use anything touched by filthy Tleilaxu hands!
It's somebodies signature here, but I forget who.
I just liked it and saved it in my ever growing favorite quotes file. Glad you liked it, my sig when I use it goes like this, but it's rather too large and it's a hassle to use it.
"in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as "bacon" and "murder" --Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
Your sig reminds me of another sig, it goes like this, "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around."
"Shall we next create false gods to rule over us?
How proud we have become, and how blind..." --Sister Miriam Godwinson, We Must Dissent
How about Princess Mononoke? It's a great example of the genre and I enjoyed watching it very much. It has many of the tried and true anime cliches along with a rather unique and warm hearted storyline. It's almost worth seeing for the forest spirits, or 'maraca headed guys' like my friends and I who've seen it call them. I would go so far as to say that Princess Mononuke is to most anime what Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is to most kung foo movies. So, for what it's worth, I highly recommend Princess Mononuke because it stands on it's own as a great animated film.
"This is how language evolves - the improper becomes accepted."
Yeah, but on the inside, I wince every time I hear someone say "methodology" when the word "method" would be the appropriate usage in the given context.
I guess in the end it's up to the listener to think and form their own rational opinions rather than being spoon-fed misinformation. All we can do is to be aware of such misdirections when they occur and try not to let them poison a good clean debate about important issues.
Thanks, I'll have to do that, as well as rereading the one book in the series that I do possess.