I just fixed all of my watches (I have 9, it turns out) because I'm tired of pulling my phone out of my pocket, pulling it out of its slipcase, and turning it on, then turning it off, putting it back in its slipcase, and putting it back in my pocket, just to know what time it is.
With a wristwatch it's a glance, maybe a twist of my arm and a glance, and I hardly realize I've done it most times, I just know what time it is.
And, yes, a watch is as much a piece of jewelry as any other accessory. But almost all cellphones are marketed and selected based on their blingy aspects, so there's no differentiation between them and watches, there.
There's no reason to force people off of incandescents. If we can find more value in fluorescents we will. It does no good to save pennies a year on energy if we're paying dollars in quality of life. We'll all be using LED bulbs soon, anyway. Much easier to get the colors right there.
If you have evidence that banks are committing crimes, bring them up to my Attorney General. His job is to stop that even if it's the Fed that's doing it.
As for my being saddled with debt, I don't vote Republican, so I count myself blameless in that.
They shred in the wash if they're in your pocket when your pants are washed. The linen fibers makes them a little more sturdy than other papers but they're not like handkercheifs.
Well, if the damage is the same as the last time, there's a chance they could patch it for re-entry using parts sent up from Baikonur. Maybe not even have to use the escape capsule.
Just a chance, though. I highly doubt the structure of the vehicle was designed for that sort of maintainability. But you never know. Duct tape works extremely well in space.
Right. We are the government. So when you hide your "private financial transactions" that are only feasible using public money, you're committing an offense against all of us.
The rest of your rant simply confuses what it means to live in a society. You help make the rules. You don't get to make them yourself, and you don't get to ignore them just because you have the means to. As for what the Constitution says or doesn't say, the Legislature is allowed to extend it as it sees fit and the Judiciary is allowed to interpret it as it sees fit; again, you only get to vote on who's in your segment of the legislature, and they get to vote on the people the President says should be in the Judiciary.
If you want your transactions to be private, don't do them using paper that's only got "value" because of the public.
You act like you're entitled by some "right" to store your wealth in foldable form that you can bury in a shoebox instead of a pile of treasure that you have to sit guard over night and day.
You don't. You also don't have a right to drive a car or practice medicine. That's how things go. Government is going to govern where democracy deems government should govern. Even the Constitution is amendable.
You explicitly authorize Paypal to make withdrawals in certain situations when you open the account. Funding your account from your bank on your orders, getting money from your bank to cover payments they're making on your orders, and covering chargebacks of money you collected through them, are authorized.
You do not authorize them to do it capriciously. That is what they were being accused of by people who either did not understand the terms of service or chose to slander the company.
I disagree. Without the shuttle, and the orbital missions it enabled and was needed to service, most of NASA would have simply shut down, and other launch endeavors would have moved into private development, which they mostly have anyway. And a much smaller NASA, without a primary mission as big as the shuttle's, would have likely ended up being killed or further reduced to a few boffins and a coffee machine.
Even with a big NASA and a known end to the shuttle program, we don't have a realistic plan to go to Mars. And really, there ain't much for us on the Moon. We really were making up shit to do by the last couple of missions.
What the shuttle and orbital missions have done in the meantime is take all of the skunk-works engineering that went into Apollo and morphed rocket science into a profession of verifying the reliability and safety of the product. And it's allowed us to develop a much better sense of what it takes to survive long durations in space. Things that are absolutely critical for future missions to other planets.
Sadly, I stopped trying with that channel, so I've been blissfully unawares that they were doing the wrasslin'. It still makes me a tad nauseous to know it, now, though.
If you want to a vehicle of fungible value that the government printed and protects, then you'll have to abide by the rules that prevent crimes from being done with that vehicle.
"if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" is not justification for a search of your person or your home; but spending money, like driving the freeway, is the use of a public infrastructure and no longer a private act.
If you want to keep your crimes secret, barter. I'm not paying for a treasury and a rule of law and a stable business climate so you can have dollar-for-dollar value for your criminally transacted dollars any more.
I didn't say that things that are private are crimes.
I said that someone who makes a lot of noise about keeping his transactions private is so likely to be doing something that the police should know about that I am safe in assuming so.
If you're making transactions with your cash that you wouldn't willingly make with a credit card, then you're doing exactly what I'm talking about.
I can't deal with criminals who are hiding their transactions using money that I paid to have printed and that has value only because the system of laws that I pay for knows the difference between tyrannical transgressions against human rights and simple methods of preventing crime.
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You aren't "winning" by any chance, are you, chuckles?
I just fixed all of my watches (I have 9, it turns out) because I'm tired of pulling my phone out of my pocket, pulling it out of its slipcase, and turning it on, then turning it off, putting it back in its slipcase, and putting it back in my pocket, just to know what time it is.
With a wristwatch it's a glance, maybe a twist of my arm and a glance, and I hardly realize I've done it most times, I just know what time it is.
And, yes, a watch is as much a piece of jewelry as any other accessory. But almost all cellphones are marketed and selected based on their blingy aspects, so there's no differentiation between them and watches, there.
So you're advocating for un-free software?
Good.
If you think the teabaggers are not conservatives, or that the conservatives are not behind the teabaggers, you're falling for it.
There's no reason to force people off of incandescents. If we can find more value in fluorescents we will. It does no good to save pennies a year on energy if we're paying dollars in quality of life. We'll all be using LED bulbs soon, anyway. Much easier to get the colors right there.
If you have evidence that banks are committing crimes, bring them up to my Attorney General. His job is to stop that even if it's the Fed that's doing it.
As for my being saddled with debt, I don't vote Republican, so I count myself blameless in that.
They shred in the wash if they're in your pocket when your pants are washed. The linen fibers makes them a little more sturdy than other papers but they're not like handkercheifs.
Well, if the damage is the same as the last time, there's a chance they could patch it for re-entry using parts sent up from Baikonur. Maybe not even have to use the escape capsule.
Just a chance, though. I highly doubt the structure of the vehicle was designed for that sort of maintainability. But you never know. Duct tape works extremely well in space.
Right. We are the government. So when you hide your "private financial transactions" that are only feasible using public money, you're committing an offense against all of us.
The rest of your rant simply confuses what it means to live in a society. You help make the rules. You don't get to make them yourself, and you don't get to ignore them just because you have the means to. As for what the Constitution says or doesn't say, the Legislature is allowed to extend it as it sees fit and the Judiciary is allowed to interpret it as it sees fit; again, you only get to vote on who's in your segment of the legislature, and they get to vote on the people the President says should be in the Judiciary.
If you want your transactions to be private, don't do them using paper that's only got "value" because of the public.
You act like you're entitled by some "right" to store your wealth in foldable form that you can bury in a shoebox instead of a pile of treasure that you have to sit guard over night and day.
You don't. You also don't have a right to drive a car or practice medicine. That's how things go. Government is going to govern where democracy deems government should govern. Even the Constitution is amendable.
You explicitly authorize Paypal to make withdrawals in certain situations when you open the account. Funding your account from your bank on your orders, getting money from your bank to cover payments they're making on your orders, and covering chargebacks of money you collected through them, are authorized.
You do not authorize them to do it capriciously. That is what they were being accused of by people who either did not understand the terms of service or chose to slander the company.
eBay would be dead in the water without Paypal, which is why they bought it.
Almost excruciatingly false.
eBay could have set up its own payments system where you deposit money ahead of time and debit your account as you buy things there.
eBay could also have set up a fungible payments system that could be used with any website, mimicking Paypal in every way (except the crusty ways).
They realized that Paypal was popular, well-understood, easy to use, expensive to replicate, and cheap to own.
So they pwned it. L33terally.
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There's always the coming revolution against the Conservatives who are buying up and tearing down our democracies.
I disagree. Without the shuttle, and the orbital missions it enabled and was needed to service, most of NASA would have simply shut down, and other launch endeavors would have moved into private development, which they mostly have anyway. And a much smaller NASA, without a primary mission as big as the shuttle's, would have likely ended up being killed or further reduced to a few boffins and a coffee machine.
Even with a big NASA and a known end to the shuttle program, we don't have a realistic plan to go to Mars. And really, there ain't much for us on the Moon. We really were making up shit to do by the last couple of missions.
What the shuttle and orbital missions have done in the meantime is take all of the skunk-works engineering that went into Apollo and morphed rocket science into a profession of verifying the reliability and safety of the product. And it's allowed us to develop a much better sense of what it takes to survive long durations in space. Things that are absolutely critical for future missions to other planets.
Yup. Suddenly it's not the shuttle's last mission after all...
Take-off is more stress on the physical components because the forces are bigger.
Re-entry is a glide, even the part at several thousand mph with the flaming heat-shield isn't that forceful or jarring.
You're mistaking running PR on the sexy part of a mundane but critical mission with making up a mission to do something sexy just to get PR.
If NASA weren't publicly funded, it couldn't give a crap about how the proles view its scientific mission, it would only try to please the science.
Enjoy the robot. You paid for it, and it's spectacular.
Why should "finance" be anonymous?
You're using the government's own printed scrip, backed by the government's health and stability, all of which is costly to all of us.
If you want to conduct anonymous transactions, print your own money. It's just paper. But good luck getting anyone to trust its worth.
You didn't wait long enough, and probably used the wrong container.
The right container is your alimentary canal.
Swallow a liter of Canola Oil.
Wait at least two days.
Tell us what your results are.
Long carbon chains can be pushed from behind while wriggling thermally.
O2 will just bounce off.
Not if it's a superfluid that's made of AIR.
"Air tight" doesn't promise to hold H2 anyway.
Sadly, I stopped trying with that channel, so I've been blissfully unawares that they were doing the wrasslin'. It still makes me a tad nauseous to know it, now, though.
No, the proper form is:
If you want to a vehicle of fungible value that the government printed and protects, then you'll have to abide by the rules that prevent crimes from being done with that vehicle.
"if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" is not justification for a search of your person or your home; but spending money, like driving the freeway, is the use of a public infrastructure and no longer a private act.
If you want to keep your crimes secret, barter. I'm not paying for a treasury and a rule of law and a stable business climate so you can have dollar-for-dollar value for your criminally transacted dollars any more.
Shame on you for being so illogical.
I didn't say that things that are private are crimes.
I said that someone who makes a lot of noise about keeping his transactions private is so likely to be doing something that the police should know about that I am safe in assuming so.
If you're making transactions with your cash that you wouldn't willingly make with a credit card, then you're doing exactly what I'm talking about.
I can deal with nosy people.
I can't deal with criminals who are hiding their transactions using money that I paid to have printed and that has value only because the system of laws that I pay for knows the difference between tyrannical transgressions against human rights and simple methods of preventing crime.