So my job is to imagine reasons why I should let you control my actions, when I am driving lawfully (or speeding 10MPH over the limit!)? Yes, you're definitely an asshole, and everyone else seems to have come to this consensus. I'll brake, you'll rear-end me, and I'll sue you. It will be fun. Bring it.
........how do people in the right lane get over, if by law they have to be going slower (becuase they cannot pass) than the lane to their left? The kindness of strangers? What strange world do I keep hearing about, where passing on the right is illegal? I've never been to that world, but it sounds like a fascinating voyage.
Actually, you should try getting a ticket and going to traffic school. This happened over half my life ago (when I was 16), and we learned such things directly from the mouth of the government, including: You have NO OBLIGATION IN THE SLIGHTEST to move out of the left lane, or go a single MPH faster than the speed limit. And, you CAN drive up to 10 MPH below the speed limit. Every speed limit is a 10MPH range. 55 means 45-55 is acceptible. You're so incredibly self-righteous you're willing to redefine reality to suit you.
You get behind me, I slam my breaks, you rear end me, I sue you, end of story.
No, going faster doesn't equal "less reaction time". You made that up, just now. At higher speeds, you are supposed to follow at a farther distance. This makes up for the increased speed. I always try to leave enough room that, if a brick wall were to materialize and stop traffic dead, that I would still have time to brake without rear-ending them.
No, actually, suing someone who deliberately cuts wires to your utilities is a GOOD thing becuase it makes it so that this person has financial incentive to not do that to future customers. This is not "bad sevice", it is negligence. Bad service is not having extra napkins with my meal. Negligence is throwing my meal in my lap and damaging my pants. If the contractor messed up a box, and ANOTHER one had to come to fix it, it could cost several hundred dollars. It is certainly worth the $55 or so it takes to file a Warrant In Debt against the contractor to pay for fixing his mess. Make no mistake that were the situation in reverse, you would be sued. You're doing nobody a service here. Courts get paid for their time, as do lawyers. Suing someone does not take away from someone else (except who you're suing:)). Small claims court cases do not take away from criminal prosecutions. They are separate courts. In short, your whole post stinks.
Do I really think RIAA spying on P2P would be from European universities? No, but Europe has an RIAA equivalent that also sues people. Anyway, that's a strawman(?) if I've ever heard one.
The lists work by adding addresses that have busted people, and other suspicious blocks. I've had two cease and desists, one from the studios, and one from Microsoft. If it wasn't for PeerGuardian, I would have had to stop using p2p altogether because a C&D would quickly become a civil suit if I didn't CEASE AND DESIST IMMEDIATELY. A suit I would likely not win against a major corporation.
If it weren't for PeerGuardian, I would have dropped out in 2001.
Your post is nothing but FUD. PeerGuardian and the like is keeping p2p alive. You are acting like it is killing p2p. You are, quite frankly, completely and utterly full of shit.
What is going on is a TECHNOLOGY WAR. If you can't keep up in the arms race, you will simply become collateral damage in the long run.
The fact that you didn't take him to small claims court for doing so (or at least file a complaint with the state contractor board) makes you complicit in his crime, and actually encourages him to continue to do so. Thanks for looking out for the rest of us. Laziness = complicity.
Home invasion rates are much higher in UK than in USA, because we have guns here.
D.C. has much greater crime than the urban areas of northern virginia which are RIGHT NEXT TO D.C. D.C. has outlawed handguns, so only outlaws have handguns (1 murder per day, approximately, and D.C. has been the #1 per capita murder city for several of the past 15 years). Virginia allows concealed weapons. I don't fear the streets of a VA city the way I fear the streets of DC...
A good sticker to put on your back door is one that is a picture of a gun which says "Nothing in this house is worth your life." Home invasions are typically done during business hours in america, nowadays, because people are scared of being shot.
They should be. I have a right to shoot someone in my own house. Technically, I have to be cornered to do so. That can be arranged.
I try to repost stories about what I call the "Technology War" to my blog. Slashdot covers most of it quite well, but there are a lot of disturbing trends in technology being used to OPPRESS, rather than HELP, the human race. It's sad.
I signed up during the Anthrax attacks. Answered no mail at all for 4 months, got removed from all junk mail lists (they caught on that I was actually alive about 3 years later).
For $9/month, I can ensure that all my bills are paid.
The level of service isn't what it used to be (2001-2004), but it's still worth the $9 compared to buying stamps, envelopes, and doing it all myself,
And the CD they sell you, with your data, is really nice to have. But just buy one every 3 years, it's cheaper that way.
When i watch youtube videos, I play them fullscreen. On my 36-inch TV. My TV has been connected to my computer since 1995. It's been 11 years. Get with the times, bub.
Wow. That's an even more retarded explanation than I could have thought of. This is why we were supposed to cheer at pep rallies at school too? They were fucking stupid.
Last time it took so long to decompress a file, I was on an 8088. I'd rather have my download be 10% longer, than wait 50% longer for it to unzip. I'm actually at the computer waiting, when unzipping. When downloading, I'm asleep or at work and a few extra minutes of download doesn't matter. I can't stand 7zip, or the fact that the installer doesn't correctly associate the.7z extension with the application! So I have to say "open with", then GUESS which of the 5-or-so binaries to use (all in \program files\7zip\).... And hope. Plug and play? Not even close. Hopefully they fixed that in newer versions.
wait.. that's not a television! that's just a white screen. I thought we were talking about TVs. Imagine how happy I was when I saw that I could get a 120-inch tv for $260 hahaha:)
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So my job is to imagine reasons why I should let you control my actions, when I am driving lawfully (or speeding 10MPH over the limit!)? Yes, you're definitely an asshole, and everyone else seems to have come to this consensus. I'll brake, you'll rear-end me, and I'll sue you. It will be fun. Bring it.
The only state with over a million slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Hprisoners.
Yes, Texas law should be a model for everything.
........how do people in the right lane get over, if by law they have to be going slower (becuase they cannot pass) than the lane to their left? The kindness of strangers? What strange world do I keep hearing about, where passing on the right is illegal? I've never been to that world, but it sounds like a fascinating voyage.
You get behind me, I slam my breaks, you rear end me, I sue you, end of story.
And the RFID-in-tires was posted anonymously here, and I chose to repost it.
Nice try, though. BUT thanks. My blog broke its previous daily visitor record of 414 and there are still 2 or 3 hrs left before midnite GMT :)
No, going faster doesn't equal "less reaction time". You made that up, just now. At higher speeds, you are supposed to follow at a farther distance. This makes up for the increased speed. I always try to leave enough room that, if a brick wall were to materialize and stop traffic dead, that I would still have time to brake without rear-ending them.
Thanks, it did!
I read that twice... and just don't get it. But it sounds very useful, I've had chronic back problems since May.
No, actually, suing someone who deliberately cuts wires to your utilities is a GOOD thing becuase it makes it so that this person has financial incentive to not do that to future customers. This is not "bad sevice", it is negligence. Bad service is not having extra napkins with my meal. Negligence is throwing my meal in my lap and damaging my pants. If the contractor messed up a box, and ANOTHER one had to come to fix it, it could cost several hundred dollars. It is certainly worth the $55 or so it takes to file a Warrant In Debt against the contractor to pay for fixing his mess. Make no mistake that were the situation in reverse, you would be sued. You're doing nobody a service here. Courts get paid for their time, as do lawyers. Suing someone does not take away from someone else (except who you're suing :)). Small claims court cases do not take away from criminal prosecutions. They are separate courts. In short, your whole post stinks.
The lists work by adding addresses that have busted people, and other suspicious blocks. I've had two cease and desists, one from the studios, and one from Microsoft. If it wasn't for PeerGuardian, I would have had to stop using p2p altogether because a C&D would quickly become a civil suit if I didn't CEASE AND DESIST IMMEDIATELY. A suit I would likely not win against a major corporation.
If it weren't for PeerGuardian, I would have dropped out in 2001.
Your post is nothing but FUD. PeerGuardian and the like is keeping p2p alive. You are acting like it is killing p2p. You are, quite frankly, completely and utterly full of shit.
What is going on is a TECHNOLOGY WAR. If you can't keep up in the arms race, you will simply become collateral damage in the long run.
Thus: You are wrong. This actually makes it harder.
The fact that you didn't take him to small claims court for doing so (or at least file a complaint with the state contractor board) makes you complicit in his crime, and actually encourages him to continue to do so. Thanks for looking out for the rest of us. Laziness = complicity.
I wouldn't pay $10/month for something that limited! Fuck that!
D.C. has much greater crime than the urban areas of northern virginia which are RIGHT NEXT TO D.C. D.C. has outlawed handguns, so only outlaws have handguns (1 murder per day, approximately, and D.C. has been the #1 per capita murder city for several of the past 15 years). Virginia allows concealed weapons. I don't fear the streets of a VA city the way I fear the streets of DC...
A good sticker to put on your back door is one that is a picture of a gun which says "Nothing in this house is worth your life." Home invasions are typically done during business hours in america, nowadays, because people are scared of being shot.
They should be. I have a right to shoot someone in my own house. Technically, I have to be cornered to do so. That can be arranged.
I try to repost stories about what I call the "Technology War" to my blog. Slashdot covers most of it quite well, but there are a lot of disturbing trends in technology being used to OPPRESS, rather than HELP, the human race. It's sad.
How does it compare with Paytrust? ( http://www.paytrust.com/ )
For $9/month, I can ensure that all my bills are paid.
The level of service isn't what it used to be (2001-2004), but it's still worth the $9 compared to buying stamps, envelopes, and doing it all myself,
And the CD they sell you, with your data, is really nice to have. But just buy one every 3 years, it's cheaper that way.
Paytrust keeps me responsible!
When i watch youtube videos, I play them fullscreen. On my 36-inch TV. My TV has been connected to my computer since 1995. It's been 11 years. Get with the times, bub.
Because that is a lyric. "Any color that you'd like, as long as it's black."
w0rd. .
you tell 'em! .
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Wow. That's an even more retarded explanation than I could have thought of. This is why we were supposed to cheer at pep rallies at school too? They were fucking stupid.
Last time it took so long to decompress a file, I was on an 8088. I'd rather have my download be 10% longer, than wait 50% longer for it to unzip. I'm actually at the computer waiting, when unzipping. When downloading, I'm asleep or at work and a few extra minutes of download doesn't matter. I can't stand 7zip, or the fact that the installer doesn't correctly associate the .7z extension with the application! So I have to say "open with", then GUESS which of the 5-or-so binaries to use (all in \program files\7zip\).... And hope. Plug and play? Not even close. Hopefully they fixed that in newer versions.
Very interesting. But.......... you say 720p, but the panels they list only go up to 600 horizontal lines. Confusion ensues on my part :)
That's it?! I paid $1,200 for my 36'-inch CRT. That's comparable!
wait.. that's not a television! that's just a white screen. I thought we were talking about TVs. Imagine how happy I was when I saw that I could get a 120-inch tv for $260 hahaha :)