"some funkadelic 'music OCR' thing that lets you scan sheet music and transforms it automagically into MIDI files"
Your sister, sir, is worse than Hitler!!!
(I will retract my statement if she's actually using it to drive instruments. If she's using it as background music on her web page, you need to hold an intervention, NOW!)
Why can't these browsers have a IE compatability setting? It'd probably just need to spoof the browser ID. Then automatically email webmaster@idiot_site telling them they're a shithead and worse than Hitler.
I am the very model of a modern online trendsetter
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I was kind of tounge in cheek pointing out that this is a typical case where the rabid Free-Marketers would chime in. In my opinion, they're right, for the reasons you state.
But you lose me right about here:
"Human life is valuable. I'd support free bussing to get people out of danger even if they were idiots for being there in the first place. However, their homes are less valuable. If they're dependant on government assistance for having someplace to live, the government should at least find someplace cheaper to put them..."
Government has a bad habit of exempting itself from the rules that they make everybody else play by. I figure that low-lying land that's uneconomical to build on because of insurance costs would be attractive for an eminent domain grab, to put civic services, like, say, public housing on. Whoops, we're back where we started.
"If those homeowners and businesses had to pay a MARKET cost for insurance, how many would have built there? And if there wasn't a FEMA (which has historically compensated flood/hurricane victims even or especially if uninsured) would people be so lasseiz-faire about their families, dwellings, and belongings in the path of destruction?"
So... you're saying that the Free Market could have ensured that this disaster could have been much less worse?;-)
Why are those people dying at the Superdome? George Bush hates Black people.
Why did the Supreme Court make such a WRONG ruling on Kelo v. New London? George Bush hates Black people.
How do you get rid of thousands of unsightly poor people in order to push forward your urban redevelopment plan? George Bush hates Black people.
When was the last flooding study done for New Orleans? George Bush hates Black people.
What do you call someone that votes to re-elect the current regime after seeing just the tip of the iceberg at Abu Grahib? George Bush hates Black people.
Why didn't the Army Corps of Engineers get the requested funding to upgrade the levees? George Bush hates Black people.
Where were the evacuation buses before the storm hit, mr Mayor? George Bush hates Black people.
Why was FEMA so slow in providing assistance? George Bush hates Black people.
What did the looter say to the rescue pilot? George Bush hates Black people.
Where was the National Guard? George Bush hates Black people.
Has the Army Corps of Engineers ever had a project that wasn't a deadly disaster? George Bush hates Black people.
What do you call 10,000 drowned niggas? George Bush hates Black people.
What color is a baby dying from dehydration? George Bush hates Black people.
What did the rapist say to the nine-year old girl in the womens' restroom at the convention center? George Bush hates Black people.
Who's gonna get me down off my roof? George Bush hates Black people.
Why did FEMA prevent the Red Cross from providing assistance? George Bush hates Black people.
What did the fifteen-year-old crack addict say when he shot you in the face? George Bush hates Black people.
My plan to save New Orleans ^W^W Des Moines from the inevetiable ravages of global warming:
Build nukes - NOW no electricity generation from fossil fuels in 20 years
Kill McDonalds' - everyone goes on a forced vegetarian diet. No more bovine flatulence cluttering up the atmosphere. And it's more healthy, too.
Seqways for all - no more private transport burning fossil fuels.
Plant a million forests - You know those great plains that are experiencing a precipitous population drop that those wackos want to re-introduce buffalo to ? Plant trees over the whole area, and re-intorduce elk instead. Trees are Nature's carbon sink. Build up a corps of woodmen to look after these crucial trees, and then cut them down. (These woodsmen could also keep in check any big bad wolves, who also reside in forests.) Seal this lumber up in the deepest mineshafts, so their trapped carbon never endangers our oceanfront beachhouses ever again!
Cities on stilts - why do you think the Jestsons live in a purple martin house?!!!
If you make me dictator with a solid gold Cadillac and agree to follow my eminently rational and simple plan, along with any whims I have along the way, like, say damming up the Mississippi and making it flow backward, I can 100% guarentee that you will be safe from any nasty storm surge.
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You do realize that Snopes just tells people what THEY want you to believe, don't you?
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Verbalizing nounification is the most powerful weapon the enemies of clear speech have!
Your sister, sir, is worse than Hitler!!!
(I will retract my statement if she's actually using it to drive instruments. If she's using it as background music on her web page, you need to hold an intervention, NOW!)
Hell, he shoulda played along, took the job, and pissed in the punchbowl at the company Christmas party. That'd show them!
That, and they probably thought a FOSS weinie would work for peanuts -- hell, they usually work for free!
It's the black one.
Or was this one of them rumors you hear on the internets?
Why can't these browsers have a IE compatability setting? It'd probably just need to spoof the browser ID. Then automatically email webmaster@idiot_site telling them they're a shithead and worse than Hitler.
"Less space than a Nomad. No wireless. Lame."
" It has to exist first!"
It's possible to write an emulator and run Linux (or anything else) on a totally imaginary architecture.
(The Internet Archive has it, though...)
One of the many little-known perks of being a /. subscriber! (The football phone is still my favorite!)
But it would be SO worth it.
In my opinion, they're right, for the reasons you state.
But you lose me right about here:
"Human life is valuable. I'd support free bussing to get people out of danger even if they were idiots for being there in the first place. However, their homes are less valuable. If they're dependant on government assistance for having someplace to live, the government should at least find someplace cheaper to put them..."
Government has a bad habit of exempting itself from the rules that they make everybody else play by. I figure that low-lying land that's uneconomical to build on because of insurance costs would be attractive for an eminent domain grab, to put civic services, like, say, public housing on. Whoops, we're back where we started.
So... you're saying that the Free Market could have ensured that this disaster could have been much less worse? ;-)
Like The Palms?
Repost of pornalized version of the review in 5... 4...
I don't like music.
I just like stealing things.
George Bush hates Black people.
Why did the Supreme Court make such a WRONG ruling on Kelo v. New London?
George Bush hates Black people.
How do you get rid of thousands of unsightly poor people in order to push forward your urban redevelopment plan?
George Bush hates Black people.
When was the last flooding study done for New Orleans?
George Bush hates Black people.
What do you call someone that votes to re-elect the current regime after seeing just the tip of the iceberg at Abu Grahib?
George Bush hates Black people.
Why didn't the Army Corps of Engineers get the requested funding to upgrade the levees?
George Bush hates Black people.
Where were the evacuation buses before the storm hit, mr Mayor?
George Bush hates Black people.
Why was FEMA so slow in providing assistance?
George Bush hates Black people.
What did the looter say to the rescue pilot?
George Bush hates Black people.
Where was the National Guard?
George Bush hates Black people.
Has the Army Corps of Engineers ever had a project that wasn't a deadly disaster?
George Bush hates Black people.
What do you call 10,000 drowned niggas?
George Bush hates Black people.
What color is a baby dying from dehydration?
George Bush hates Black people.
What did the rapist say to the nine-year old girl in the womens' restroom at the convention center?
George Bush hates Black people.
Who's gonna get me down off my roof?
George Bush hates Black people.
Why did FEMA prevent the Red Cross from providing assistance?
George Bush hates Black people.
What did the fifteen-year-old crack addict say when he shot you in the face?
George Bush hates Black people.
turns out the kids were just using Firefox.
Sorry about that whole destroying your life thing.
-- The Mgt.
That sounds more like an MP3 player than a real automobile. /dirty American
Yeah, but have you ever driven the candle truck over your speaker bracelet? Man, what a disaster that was!
My idiot brother is squandering a pretty penny on bricks, the fool!
I really have no interest in your reminescences about your sordid love-life!
If you make me dictator with a solid gold Cadillac and agree to follow my eminently rational and simple plan, along with any whims I have along the way, like, say damming up the Mississippi and making it flow backward, I can 100% guarentee that you will be safe from any nasty storm surge.
You do realize that Snopes just tells people what THEY want you to believe, don't you?