The US is not equal to California unless you let it happen. That being said, never trust Californians, especially Californian politicians, unless you like a nanny state.
We're going to build a wall and have volunteer Minutemen to keep conservatives out.
That would imply that Californians are bright enough to understand that actors act for a living, and aren't to be trusted with public policy because they put on a pretty face and pretend for a living; a fact not even in the slightest bit in evidence.
Not to mention that it has one of the highest GDPs of any state and is the world's 7th largest economy in addition to being a leader in innovation. Too bad the rest of the states can't seem to learn from California's success.
So that means there's a few people in California that know how to screw over the other 32 million idiots. Like it's that hard to trick a Californian...
WARNING: California contains people and ideas known to the State of Oregon to cause extreme stupidity, indecisiveness, selfishness and the inability to accept consequences for your own actions. Contact with California and it's inhabitants should be limited or eliminated if at all possible.
Studies have shown that chicks prefer them without foreskin. That pretty much ends the debate.
Studies have yet to include women in the real world, then. Women I've been with don't like the idea of circumcision in males for the same reason they themselves wouldn't want to be circumcised: Why chop up genitalia? All it does in practice is reduce the sensitivity of the glans and set yourself up to friction burn. I don't know about you, but the last place I'd rather not have reduced sensation and increased tendency to get an Indian burn is my penis.
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I'm pretty sure Treadwell was doing it first and longer, but Irwin was better known. Something about Australia having more people than bears tends to make fame spread faster or some such.
It sounds like you are trying to masturbate. Would you like some lubricant?
In a perfect world, people would realize that's why men evolved to have a foreskin in the first place and teach their sons to clean under there instead of mutilating genitalia...
More like they call us their lost province, which would be a little more historically accurate. Besides, America's 51st and 52nd states are Afghanistan and Saudi Israelia. Canada, by contrast, believes in peacekeeping, not policing.
Hopefully, you have some sort of alternative broadband provider. I humbly suggest you show Comcast what you think of them with your dollars and avail yourself of one of the alternatives.
Name one provider that doesn't charge 10 to 12 times what Comcast does per kilobyte-second.
If you could beat WoW, you'd have no reason to keep playing, and thus no reason to keep paying. WoW is unwinnable because it would violate their business model to provide a game someone can beat.
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Unlike hardware firewalls, software firewalls can monitor OUTGOING requests - AND they know which program is responsible.
It doesn't stop the root cause of the problem: Closed source software with no peer review to make sure it's not going to do things you don't want it to do in the first place. Personal firewalls are snake oil, and considered harmful because it lulls the user into thinking they're secure when they're less secure than ever.
Any possibilities that they might discuss their user set and work out a way to create two separately different browsers that can coexist peacefully?
Highly doubtful but not impossible. If they wanted to do that, at any point in IE's history they could have implemented, without adding their own proprietary tags, the W3C standards, and they didn't need Mozilla's blessing to do that first.
Thanks for moving to Oregon, the average IQ in California went up when you crossed the state line.
I'd say it doubled. California's average IQ is now 2.
By the way, Oregon's full. So is Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and every other place y'all export your shit to without any concern for your neighbors. Please take care of your own white trash instead of, as usual, exporting it on everybody else.
What really needs to happen, and I honestly, sincerely believe this, is every country to just agree on the following punishment for any spammer: Perp gets tied to a chair in a very public place, and perp's family, children (if any) and friends are required to witness. Perp has head smashed in with a hammer repeatedly until death, then invite the crowd to desecrate the corpse in any way they can think of. If done properly, all that will be left is a bloody greasemark, a smashed chair and some shredded rope, and a group of people that won't be spamming any time soon...
More and more security researchs come to the conclusion that personal firewalls are ineffective in controlling outbound traffic.
And utterly craps itself on every little power blip. The laptop has it's own built in UPS.:o) Not all of us are fortunate enough to live far enough away from California that they're not stealing electricity at below market prices after their legislature voted unanimously to pay any far-above-market price for electric.
And if you're Californian, shut some goddamn lights off, or build your own electric plants. The Columbia River's hydroelectric is for us, not you. Los Angeles to San Diego can ignore this, they were smart enough to make themselves electrically self-sufficient long before it became a problem, and Northern California (only Del Norte, Siskiyou and Modoc counties are "northern California", the rest is central or southern) is exempt because essentially nobody lives there to have lights to turn on.
More and more security research come to the conclusion that personal firewalls are ineffective in controlling outbound traffic.
Duh! You're telling us what we already know. Anybody who hasn't been paying attention and blindly goes with "The article is flawed! Personal firewalls *really* work!" should be modded down -1 Dumbass until they show me the source for their personal firewall.
And therein lies why I say Ma Bell should never have been broken up to begin with. Everybody ended up paying more for less service and less reliability than ever before. Shit, in Portland, Verizon can't even make the dialtone turn on 9 tries out of 10 today, and it costs twice as much for Verizon to not serve me now as it did for Pacific Northwest Bell to actually serve me 15 years ago.
I like it more when telcos get screwed, especially for essentially charging 8 times as much as cable due to the difference in bandwidth between your $50 cable connection and a $50 DSL connection.
The problem is that cable tv was originally introduced as a completely different product than was advertised to everyone, including the government. It was supposed to be commercial free, and much more consumer friendly.
Where in the world did you hear that load of tripe? Cable TV was originally the idea of some guy who lived in a neighborhood beyond a tall hill from all his region's television broadcasters, so not a single channel came in clear. So he had this great idea to get him and his neighbors to team up, buy some antenna cable and some permits, and ran a TV aerial up to the top of the hill, dropping all the neighbors who pitched in a connection to said antenna in exchange for a few bucks upkeep. I think you're confusing cable TV with The Disney Channel, which was formerly commercial free and a premium channel received via satellite (except in the middle east where it's still a commercial free premium channel) and more "consumer friendly" than your average television, but is now a three-format fractured shell of it's former self (both in format and in content).
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I would like to point to the clearcuts on Mt. Hood National Forest and remind you that National Forests are not owned by Weyerhauser.
The US is not equal to California unless you let it happen. That being said, never trust Californians, especially Californian politicians, unless you like a nanny state.
That would imply that Californians are bright enough to understand that actors act for a living, and aren't to be trusted with public policy because they put on a pretty face and pretend for a living; a fact not even in the slightest bit in evidence.
How many other states value stupid people higher than smart people like California? Is it such a bad thing stupid people kill themselves accidentally?
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So that means there's a few people in California that know how to screw over the other 32 million idiots. Like it's that hard to trick a Californian...
WARNING: California contains people and ideas known to the State of Oregon to cause extreme stupidity, indecisiveness, selfishness and the inability to accept consequences for your own actions. Contact with California and it's inhabitants should be limited or eliminated if at all possible.
Studies have yet to include women in the real world, then. Women I've been with don't like the idea of circumcision in males for the same reason they themselves wouldn't want to be circumcised: Why chop up genitalia? All it does in practice is reduce the sensitivity of the glans and set yourself up to friction burn. I don't know about you, but the last place I'd rather not have reduced sensation and increased tendency to get an Indian burn is my penis.
I'm pretty sure Treadwell was doing it first and longer, but Irwin was better known. Something about Australia having more people than bears tends to make fame spread faster or some such.
In a perfect world, people would realize that's why men evolved to have a foreskin in the first place and teach their sons to clean under there instead of mutilating genitalia...
More like they call us their lost province, which would be a little more historically accurate. Besides, America's 51st and 52nd states are Afghanistan and Saudi Israelia. Canada, by contrast, believes in peacekeeping, not policing.
Name one provider that doesn't charge 10 to 12 times what Comcast does per kilobyte-second.
If you could beat WoW, you'd have no reason to keep playing, and thus no reason to keep paying. WoW is unwinnable because it would violate their business model to provide a game someone can beat.
How about jumping from trampoline to pool or better yet, basketball hoop? Remember, always dunk the basketball, and not your face. Or how about missing the trampoline, flying over a fence, and landing in the neighbor's yard? Smokey Bear hates trampolines, too.
It doesn't stop the root cause of the problem: Closed source software with no peer review to make sure it's not going to do things you don't want it to do in the first place. Personal firewalls are snake oil, and considered harmful because it lulls the user into thinking they're secure when they're less secure than ever.
Highly doubtful but not impossible. If they wanted to do that, at any point in IE's history they could have implemented, without adding their own proprietary tags, the W3C standards, and they didn't need Mozilla's blessing to do that first.
I'd say it doubled. California's average IQ is now 2.
By the way, Oregon's full. So is Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and every other place y'all export your shit to without any concern for your neighbors. Please take care of your own white trash instead of, as usual, exporting it on everybody else.
What really needs to happen, and I honestly, sincerely believe this, is every country to just agree on the following punishment for any spammer: Perp gets tied to a chair in a very public place, and perp's family, children (if any) and friends are required to witness. Perp has head smashed in with a hammer repeatedly until death, then invite the crowd to desecrate the corpse in any way they can think of. If done properly, all that will be left is a bloody greasemark, a smashed chair and some shredded rope, and a group of people that won't be spamming any time soon...
And utterly craps itself on every little power blip. The laptop has it's own built in UPS. :o) Not all of us are fortunate enough to live far enough away from California that they're not stealing electricity at below market prices after their legislature voted unanimously to pay any far-above-market price for electric.
And if you're Californian, shut some goddamn lights off, or build your own electric plants. The Columbia River's hydroelectric is for us, not you. Los Angeles to San Diego can ignore this, they were smart enough to make themselves electrically self-sufficient long before it became a problem, and Northern California (only Del Norte, Siskiyou and Modoc counties are "northern California", the rest is central or southern) is exempt because essentially nobody lives there to have lights to turn on.
Duh! You're telling us what we already know. Anybody who hasn't been paying attention and blindly goes with "The article is flawed! Personal firewalls *really* work!" should be modded down -1 Dumbass until they show me the source for their personal firewall.
Diebold's still in business? How?
And therein lies why I say Ma Bell should never have been broken up to begin with. Everybody ended up paying more for less service and less reliability than ever before. Shit, in Portland, Verizon can't even make the dialtone turn on 9 tries out of 10 today, and it costs twice as much for Verizon to not serve me now as it did for Pacific Northwest Bell to actually serve me 15 years ago.
I like it more when telcos get screwed, especially for essentially charging 8 times as much as cable due to the difference in bandwidth between your $50 cable connection and a $50 DSL connection.
We came from that. Then AOL, Compuserve, and the vast majority of FidoNet largely ceased to exist.
Where in the world did you hear that load of tripe? Cable TV was originally the idea of some guy who lived in a neighborhood beyond a tall hill from all his region's television broadcasters, so not a single channel came in clear. So he had this great idea to get him and his neighbors to team up, buy some antenna cable and some permits, and ran a TV aerial up to the top of the hill, dropping all the neighbors who pitched in a connection to said antenna in exchange for a few bucks upkeep. I think you're confusing cable TV with The Disney Channel, which was formerly commercial free and a premium channel received via satellite (except in the middle east where it's still a commercial free premium channel) and more "consumer friendly" than your average television, but is now a three-format fractured shell of it's former self (both in format and in content).