I am a Comcast business class data customer. I do not use Comcast home services. Other than lousy DSL, they are the only game in town. Recently, xfinity wifi AP's popping up around town. Guess what, I pay more for business class data but my account is not eligible for their wifi.
Fuck Comcast. Unfortunately I am on a 3 year contract, so even if I move I have to stick with them.
For the same reason the NSA has a mic and camera up everyones bunghole. We are a nation of apathetic, vapid, content consumers whose primary concerns are trivial and shallow.
My kingdom for mod points. This is also why I do not eat at chick-fil-a and chew out my girlfriend when she does. And she is bi, but lazy and apathetic politically.
I read all of the Ender stuff years ago. I did not know that Card was an active homophobe trying to get legislation passed then. No I won't touch his work with a 10 foot pole (or someone else's dick).
It makes sense that a hierarchy (hidden or otherwise formed). It is either human nature or so ingrained in our culture that there will always be those that step up and those that submit.
Regardless, a failure of one within such a proclaimed 'structureless' system is not necessarily a failure of the system, at that or any size.
The yardstick to measure success or failure by is whether "HL2E3" or "HL3" or "Half Life:Eternal Wait" or whatever it is titled now ever is released.
Instead of crapifying old titles (castlevania 3d metroid 3d??? ugh), how about picking up some good indie titles. I do not play much any more but I am sure there are that can make the system compelling.
Voting with your feet is nice, but the VPN payments the credit card companies are disallowing probably amount to lest than a tenth of one hundredth of one percent of their revenue. Even if every pissed off VPN customer took ALL their credit transactions elsewhere it would still be but a drop in the ocean compared to their quarterly income.
Therefore than can easily cowtow to whoever demanded this, be it the NSA or the MAFIAA.
Voting with your feet here does little, unless you get 100 friends to as well. And since we are all basement dwellers here, it is unlikely that we could muster up 10 friends between us all:-D
My pessimistic cynicism does not mean that you should not, however vote with your feet, I will as soon as I am able. I plan to walk to another country. I just do not know which one yet.
As the GP, not just the outside of the box. THe USPS has all the tracking data attached. Even if it is in a plain brown box with no company name on the return address or day-glo lettering reading "pr0n inside", they know who, when and where it came from.
My SQL is rusty, so how about a little meta-sql:
SELECT * from tbl_recipients WHERE tbl_senders.sender LIKE 'insert anti powers that be org here";
Overly simple I know, but perhaps you get the point?
Would you care if your wife/girlfriends package from adam and eve, or victorias secret was photoed?
How about the box your penis pump came in?
All your vitamins and supplements ordered online?
The point is not everyone WANTS THE GOVERNMENT TO HAVE DATA ON EVERY BIT OF THEIR PRIVATE LIFE!
It is people like you with the blase I dont care when someone is shoving a baseball bat in your ass that are helping the plutocracy ruin this country. Your complacence makes me ill.
You may get mad and say why not call it what it what it is, a lie, but there is a reason for doing it this way.
On the surface it looks like he is trying to cover his ass, perform damage control
Happens all the time in politics, and makes sense, on the surface.
However, I think there is a deeper reason. One, news that makes some of the public upset comes out. Step one is to deny. This gives the public what they want to hear, that it isn't true. Most go back to TMZ, or whatever other crap they do. Then when the lie is outed, you try to soften it some by saying it was a mistake, an erroor, or I misspoke. Some people will go WTF, but most are no longer paying attention. If enough are, you also have a scapegoat, the liar who misspoke. You can then, if needed chastise him/her in some way, placating another percentage of the public that is still paying attention (most aren't by now). By the time this is all done, the percentage that had the attention span and desire to follow it this far have dwindled down. Now the few that are left are left shouting into the wind, because the are too concerned with the celebrity du jour, or the sports scores to be bothered.
Now the few that are left that care are looked at like tinfoil hatters, and conspiracy nuts. Meanwhile things are back to business as usual.
Im [pause] mad [pause] Scotty [pause] fire up the warp engines [pause] Uhura hail the IAU [pause] Starfleet [pause] anybody. Well get [pause] a landing party and beam [pause] over [pause] and fix [pause] this.
It's not just the economic situation. I have an old P4 box running XP that is fine for most browsing and email. If you have the most common needs, there is no need for new hardware.
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Fuck Comcast. Unfortunately I am on a 3 year contract, so even if I move I have to stick with them.
Because lonestar, your my father's uncles cousin's brother's former roommate.
And why he avoids youtube
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=xDj7gvc_dsA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxDj7gvc_dsA
The experts who analyzed the pits said they may have contained a wooden post.
So, first moon post?
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the filet mignon.
No. He would say, "go fuck yourself."
For the same reason the NSA has a mic and camera up everyones bunghole. We are a nation of apathetic, vapid, content consumers whose primary concerns are trivial and shallow.
It was used to better effect in Robinson's mars trilogy.
In Soviet Russia, snesors installed correctly, rocket installed upside down.
when I need to call std::terminate.
I don't know, but technically it is a "poly-metal alloy".
I read all of the Ender stuff years ago. I did not know that Card was an active homophobe trying to get legislation passed then. No I won't touch his work with a 10 foot pole (or someone else's dick).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth
Regardless, a failure of one within such a proclaimed 'structureless' system is not necessarily a failure of the system, at that or any size.
The yardstick to measure success or failure by is whether "HL2E3" or "HL3" or "Half Life:Eternal Wait" or whatever it is titled now ever is released.
There's no place for rational discourse here, whoever posts the most anti-MS screed gets voted up regardless of facts.
I am going to test your theory.
MS Sucks balls, They have since 1978. In fact Gates dropped out because everyone's balls at Harvard were chafed from staying damp with Gates saliva.
Balmer is CEO now, because he even has a ball in his name.
If you look deep in the resources in shell32.dll, there is a string that reads, "insert balls into CD-ROM for a 'Gates job'."
Here we are (hopefully) harnessing it for our own safety.
Instead of crapifying old titles (castlevania 3d metroid 3d??? ugh), how about picking up some good indie titles. I do not play much any more but I am sure there are that can make the system compelling.
Therefore than can easily cowtow to whoever demanded this, be it the NSA or the MAFIAA.
Voting with your feet here does little, unless you get 100 friends to as well. And since we are all basement dwellers here, it is unlikely that we could muster up 10 friends between us all :-D
My pessimistic cynicism does not mean that you should not, however vote with your feet, I will as soon as I am able. I plan to walk to another country. I just do not know which one yet.
I prefer a rounded tonne of ass, thank you. It is more shapely.
My SQL is rusty, so how about a little meta-sql:
SELECT * from tbl_recipients WHERE tbl_senders.sender LIKE 'insert anti powers that be org here";
Overly simple I know, but perhaps you get the point?
How about the box your penis pump came in?
All your vitamins and supplements ordered online?
The point is not everyone WANTS THE GOVERNMENT TO HAVE DATA ON EVERY BIT OF THEIR PRIVATE LIFE!
It is people like you with the blase I dont care when someone is shoving a baseball bat in your ass that are helping the plutocracy ruin this country. Your complacence makes me ill.
Would that be "synerpick" or "icergy"?
You may get mad and say why not call it what it what it is, a lie, but there is a reason for doing it this way.
On the surface it looks like he is trying to cover his ass, perform damage control
Happens all the time in politics, and makes sense, on the surface.
However, I think there is a deeper reason. One, news that makes some of the public upset comes out. Step one is to deny. This gives the public what they want to hear, that it isn't true. Most go back to TMZ, or whatever other crap they do. Then when the lie is outed, you try to soften it some by saying it was a mistake, an erroor, or I misspoke. Some people will go WTF, but most are no longer paying attention. If enough are, you also have a scapegoat, the liar who misspoke. You can then, if needed chastise him/her in some way, placating another percentage of the public that is still paying attention (most aren't by now). By the time this is all done, the percentage that had the attention span and desire to follow it this far have dwindled down. Now the few that are left are left shouting into the wind, because the are too concerned with the celebrity du jour, or the sports scores to be bothered.
Now the few that are left that care are looked at like tinfoil hatters, and conspiracy nuts. Meanwhile things are back to business as usual.
Im [pause] mad [pause] Scotty [pause] fire up the warp engines [pause] Uhura hail the IAU [pause] Starfleet [pause] anybody. Well get [pause] a landing party and beam [pause] over [pause] and fix [pause] this.
Hey MS. Targeted ads, pot, kettle, black something or other. Sigh.
It's not just the economic situation. I have an old P4 box running XP that is fine for most browsing and email. If you have the most common needs, there is no need for new hardware.