First of all your grammar just made me twitch a little bit. Replace "of" with "have", and please do it forever.
Second, Nature knows what it's doing, it's man that's got shit backwards. Nature is was able to extract the energy from oxygen, rather than hydrogen. The current biological configuration is acting on levels higher than simple materialism can afford. No need to propel biology with explosions of the type produced by hydrogen. See here for a (very basic) comparison of oxygen vs hydrogen.
Yeah, that's even better. These people that are talking about hanging out on the phone with these creeps have me baffled. Even if you look at it in the same light as biological war, eventually not just outright killing (hang up the phone) the virus (the creeps), provides a way for the virus (the creeps) to gain some bits of immunity (understanding) of the treatment (logic of keeping them on the phone in order to waste the creep's time) and thus provides them a sort of way to plan how to deal with it. And in that light, they're actually making things harder for not only the already gullible, but also for the ones that want to play these games.
Yeah that's a good point, but rather than keep them on the line, hang up, call your mom, "Hey mom, no one will EVER call you out of the blue to help with your computer unless they're trying to scam you. If anyone EVER calls to help you with a computer problem, and it's not me, hang up. Bye mom, I love you."
the aim is to teach them to hang up on truely clueless people themselves depriving them of some of their most important audience
Again, I don't get it. What are you teaching them? To hang up on true suckers? Silly, that's what they're after.
If everyone would just accept that it's impossible to 'get a call from microsoft out of the blue' or any other 'I'm just calling to help you' bullshit, then this whole thing would end. So rather than spend 30, 40, or 50 minutes on the phone, "scamming" these people, spend 10 or 15 minutes calling all of your friends and family that would probably be scammed, let them know what's happening, and go back to your regular day, then the world can proceed. But it's your own time, do as you wish. Thinking about it in the same terms that advertisers do, however, you will find that giving them (the scammers) your attention (your time) will probably only make them feel that it's working, and worth the troubles of calling another potential candidate.
The future, fuck the future, they want it all now, more and more and more.
See this is where you're wrong. They do care about the future, and this is why politicians are all about receiving money (more and more and more) any way they can. Eventually they plan to replace the ozone layer with dollar bills. Take it easy already.
Government isn't even government in this scenario. What are we supposed to believe, they didn't bribe any US officials? Bullshit. The US officials that they bribed, probably just figured out that they also bribed other governments and maybe they paid those officials more than they did the US officials, and now the US officials just want their cut. Dunno. Hard to tell what these mobsters are doing behind closed doors, but at this point I think it's safe to assume that it's all a matter of moving money. It's not like they'll use that money to better regulate HP on any level.
I think this is as good an answer as I'll get, thanks (and I will check out that book). It seems like since Regan (and don't take me as a left or right, I think that stuff is where all this shit starts anyway) took office, politics has been focused on a single world power. That power seems to be taking over all countries, America included. I used to wonder what it was like in Nazi-controlled Germany. How did the people put up with it? Now I know. It's that we're torn between following these insane laws, and either a civil war, or martial law. And frankly I can just barely see the difference anymore.
I wonder why the constitution ever had any power at all over the laws. Why did 9/11 bring such a change in our freedoms? We were told that 9/11 was a failure attempt at removing our freedoms. Yet that's exactly what happened. We lose our freedoms all in the name of not losing our freedoms?
I lost a game of Scrabble because my aunt wouldn't let me use "jeep". I claimed that since the letters aren't capital, it meant "short wheel-base four wheel drive vehicle". Didn't do any good.;)
I'd add frozen veggies into there too. They have all of the advantages of fresh with a lower risk of spoilage.
Canned veggies, though, should be your last resort. Only use those when no other veggies are available.
That's a very good point. When fresh veggies are frozen, most of the enzymes will remain alive (reanimate when thawed), where in cans they're dead. I'd like to point out that it's all in how you cook these veggies. Steaming until just warm throughout is best. If you're going to boil the veggies, canned or frozen doesn't matter.
If it does leak out, the drive will surely crash, and then you lose your data, and go buy another drive(s).
Seriously though, this is compacting more hardware into the same space as current technology, in order to fit into the current frame of things as they are, which is nice. But in my way of thinking, this is a lot more "stuff" crammed into a space that should maybe be bigger, and would seem to make crashes more likely. I bought a 2TB drive not long after they came out, had it in a RAID setup, and both drives crashed 3 days after I installed them.
I'm one that normally complains about (everything!) changes to hardware, but I wouldn't mind having larger hard drives, if it means having more stability.
If these people are worth spending the time to "poach" then they won't have a hard time finding a job.
$324,500,000 minus 1/3 for lawyer = $216,333,333.33
$216,333,333.33 divided by 60,000 people = $3,605.56 each
Of course they'll have to pay tax as well.
This is taking into account, I'm assuming, only the difference between what they made at their job, and what they could have made if they had been "poached" and taking into account the time taken to get to court. They aren't taking into account (and this is probably what the programmer is griping about) that they should also take into account the future of what they would have made in say 10 or 20 years. Because they also stole that from them, as did the guy that would have stolen the ipod for $400.
Bullshit. Werewolves are very real. They're a part of the entertainment industry. Have you never seen a werewolf movie? The same is true with those other things that you brought up. They're real, but not in the way that science would care to investigate.
Commonly to today's world, "science" is everything but the belief in God. Nowhere in any science* will you find the concept of God. That was my point. Not very ridiculous.
It's a good question to ask, "Who created the scientific method?" To me, the scientific method seems embedded in Nature itself and not invented by anyone. I'm not religious, at all. However I do believe in God. To not seems to be as silly as not believing in the scientific method.
It's an important shade of meaning here. The people *DO* have those rights. The government is actively disregarding those rights but they do exist.
That something is written on paper somewhere is supposed to mean something? Why? If I write on a piece of paper that I get all of your money, do I get it? Nothing means anything unless the people that make up the populace stick to it. Currently in America the authoritarians have learned to speak in a forceful way, and if/when The People reject their logic, The People may find themselves getting arrested for resisting arrest, if you know what I mean. This is the state of things among the people that live in the place that is commonly referred to as America, not what's written on the paper that resides in the same area.
You're acting like the relationship between government and the general population is one of some sort of mutual respect governed by laws of etiquette -- I respect you, and I expect that you'll respect me back.
BAM! This. This is the issue. Lack of mutual respect. When you're a civilian, there's a public and private. When you're in the FBI, CIA, White House, IRS, DEA, or military, everything is public (but you're not a part of that public, you are elite). And it's never questioned.
But our laws do not recognize the rights of machines themselves.
Because they are non-sentient property. Ask again once AI is achieved.
What about how the computers store information for their own use (example: evercookies)? I know it's not the "mind" of the computer doing what it wants but it's certainly not the user either.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You're right, but that applies once you get an expensive lawyer, only. Otherwise, all the legal stuff that protects us is worthless.
And it's silly to think that machines could be held accountable. But the people that program them...
Yes, baking cake is exactly the same as building a pyramid that includes, not only higher levels of mathematics, but extremely accurate placement of tons of stones. Look around you buddy and tell me, what would the chances be of gathering people that are capable of such mathematics, and the ability to enslave those people.
Maybe you would say that the mathematicians were the ones designing the layout, and slaves were merely doing the physical labor. But the laborers would have also had to have been extremely good at things like carving, at the very least, which would have had to been learned at some point, granting them more respect from these whip-wielding mathematicians. Of course there's also the problem that folks like you have, in explaining how the hell so few would have controlled so many. I mean we're talking 1 slave-beating mathematician to, what, 1,000 - 10,000 slaves? How did he/she do it? No, indeed there was something else that empowered these people to complete such an undertaking, not fear. This was something that took more than an entire generation to complete.
Threats are effective, but they will never ever ever enable this type of work to be completed. I don't know how the pyramids were built, no one does. But there's one thing for sure: It was not a divided people.
I wish I could get people to stop fucking me in the ass, but they seem to think it'll make me bake a better cake. And they want that cake to be perfect. There's no other way. I am powerless because of my fear of getting fucked the ass, I guess?
Slave and skilled craftsman is not mutually exclusive and there is nothing that says that one can't be both.
Jesus - fuck me-in-the-ass - Christ! Where is the hell did you come from? And where did the ass-hat that modded you "Insightful" come from? How in the hell would anyone, ever, ever (!) be able to enslave someone, and also get their best performance from them? The construction project that took place for the building of the great pyramid would have had to either been some alien shit, or a large group of individuals working together in harmony. The work there is just to good to have been beat out of people. If that weren't the case, people would just be bullying doctors to make them healthy, and there would be no need for insurance.
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First of all your grammar just made me twitch a little bit. Replace "of" with "have", and please do it forever.
Second, Nature knows what it's doing, it's man that's got shit backwards. Nature is was able to extract the energy from oxygen, rather than hydrogen. The current biological configuration is acting on levels higher than simple materialism can afford. No need to propel biology with explosions of the type produced by hydrogen. See here for a (very basic) comparison of oxygen vs hydrogen.
Yeah, that's even better. These people that are talking about hanging out on the phone with these creeps have me baffled. Even if you look at it in the same light as biological war, eventually not just outright killing (hang up the phone) the virus (the creeps), provides a way for the virus (the creeps) to gain some bits of immunity (understanding) of the treatment (logic of keeping them on the phone in order to waste the creep's time) and thus provides them a sort of way to plan how to deal with it. And in that light, they're actually making things harder for not only the already gullible, but also for the ones that want to play these games.
Yeah that's a good point, but rather than keep them on the line, hang up, call your mom, "Hey mom, no one will EVER call you out of the blue to help with your computer unless they're trying to scam you. If anyone EVER calls to help you with a computer problem, and it's not me, hang up. Bye mom, I love you."
Seems like a solid plan to me.
Never admit you are scamming them
How are you scamming them?
the aim is to teach them to hang up on truely clueless people themselves depriving them of some of their most important audience
Again, I don't get it. What are you teaching them? To hang up on true suckers? Silly, that's what they're after.
If everyone would just accept that it's impossible to 'get a call from microsoft out of the blue' or any other 'I'm just calling to help you' bullshit, then this whole thing would end. So rather than spend 30, 40, or 50 minutes on the phone, "scamming" these people, spend 10 or 15 minutes calling all of your friends and family that would probably be scammed, let them know what's happening, and go back to your regular day, then the world can proceed. But it's your own time, do as you wish. Thinking about it in the same terms that advertisers do, however, you will find that giving them (the scammers) your attention (your time) will probably only make them feel that it's working, and worth the troubles of calling another potential candidate.
The future, fuck the future, they want it all now, more and more and more.
See this is where you're wrong. They do care about the future, and this is why politicians are all about receiving money (more and more and more) any way they can. Eventually they plan to replace the ozone layer with dollar bills. Take it easy already.
Government isn't even government in this scenario. What are we supposed to believe, they didn't bribe any US officials? Bullshit. The US officials that they bribed, probably just figured out that they also bribed other governments and maybe they paid those officials more than they did the US officials, and now the US officials just want their cut. Dunno. Hard to tell what these mobsters are doing behind closed doors, but at this point I think it's safe to assume that it's all a matter of moving money. It's not like they'll use that money to better regulate HP on any level.
THEM: Hi this is Microsoft and...
US: hang up
Done. Fuck this war.
I found that book here. Thanks for the heads-up!
Cheers!
I think this is as good an answer as I'll get, thanks (and I will check out that book). It seems like since Regan (and don't take me as a left or right, I think that stuff is where all this shit starts anyway) took office, politics has been focused on a single world power. That power seems to be taking over all countries, America included. I used to wonder what it was like in Nazi-controlled Germany. How did the people put up with it? Now I know. It's that we're torn between following these insane laws, and either a civil war, or martial law. And frankly I can just barely see the difference anymore.
I wonder why the constitution ever had any power at all over the laws. Why did 9/11 bring such a change in our freedoms? We were told that 9/11 was a failure attempt at removing our freedoms. Yet that's exactly what happened. We lose our freedoms all in the name of not losing our freedoms?
Happy 9/11 anniversary!
Human DNA seems to yield far more intelligence than any other sequence we've yet encountered.
Very good point. Intelligence is as intelligence does. Have you ever heard of Simon G Powell?
I lost a game of Scrabble because my aunt wouldn't let me use "jeep". I claimed that since the letters aren't capital, it meant "short wheel-base four wheel drive vehicle". Didn't do any good. ;)
I'd add frozen veggies into there too. They have all of the advantages of fresh with a lower risk of spoilage. Canned veggies, though, should be your last resort. Only use those when no other veggies are available.
That's a very good point. When fresh veggies are frozen, most of the enzymes will remain alive (reanimate when thawed), where in cans they're dead. I'd like to point out that it's all in how you cook these veggies. Steaming until just warm throughout is best. If you're going to boil the veggies, canned or frozen doesn't matter.
I bought a 2TB drive not long after they came out, had it in a RAID setup, and both drives crashed 3 days after I installed them.
I mean I bought (2) 2 TB drives.
If it does leak out, the drive will surely crash, and then you lose your data, and go buy another drive(s). Seriously though, this is compacting more hardware into the same space as current technology, in order to fit into the current frame of things as they are, which is nice. But in my way of thinking, this is a lot more "stuff" crammed into a space that should maybe be bigger, and would seem to make crashes more likely. I bought a 2TB drive not long after they came out, had it in a RAID setup, and both drives crashed 3 days after I installed them.
I'm one that normally complains about (everything!) changes to hardware, but I wouldn't mind having larger hard drives, if it means having more stability.
Seriously, hack into their computers and activate their cameras.
Would you please? That would be awesome. I'm running an older version of slackware on this PC, and can't get the camera to work.
If these people are worth spending the time to "poach" then they won't have a hard time finding a job.
$324,500,000 minus 1/3 for lawyer = $216,333,333.33 $216,333,333.33 divided by 60,000 people = $3,605.56 each
Of course they'll have to pay tax as well.
This is taking into account, I'm assuming, only the difference between what they made at their job, and what they could have made if they had been "poached" and taking into account the time taken to get to court. They aren't taking into account (and this is probably what the programmer is griping about) that they should also take into account the future of what they would have made in say 10 or 20 years. Because they also stole that from them, as did the guy that would have stolen the ipod for $400.
Bullshit. Werewolves are very real. They're a part of the entertainment industry. Have you never seen a werewolf movie? The same is true with those other things that you brought up. They're real, but not in the way that science would care to investigate.
Commonly to today's world, "science" is everything but the belief in God. Nowhere in any science* will you find the concept of God. That was my point. Not very ridiculous.
It's a good question to ask, "Who created the scientific method?" To me, the scientific method seems embedded in Nature itself and not invented by anyone. I'm not religious, at all. However I do believe in God. To not seems to be as silly as not believing in the scientific method.
It's an important shade of meaning here. The people *DO* have those rights. The government is actively disregarding those rights but they do exist.
That something is written on paper somewhere is supposed to mean something? Why? If I write on a piece of paper that I get all of your money, do I get it? Nothing means anything unless the people that make up the populace stick to it. Currently in America the authoritarians have learned to speak in a forceful way, and if/when The People reject their logic, The People may find themselves getting arrested for resisting arrest, if you know what I mean. This is the state of things among the people that live in the place that is commonly referred to as America, not what's written on the paper that resides in the same area.
You're acting like the relationship between government and the general population is one of some sort of mutual respect governed by laws of etiquette -- I respect you, and I expect that you'll respect me back.
BAM! This. This is the issue. Lack of mutual respect. When you're a civilian, there's a public and private. When you're in the FBI, CIA, White House, IRS, DEA, or military, everything is public (but you're not a part of that public, you are elite). And it's never questioned.
Three letters bro, "NSA".
But our laws do not recognize the rights of machines themselves.
Because they are non-sentient property. Ask again once AI is achieved.
What about how the computers store information for their own use (example: evercookies)? I know it's not the "mind" of the computer doing what it wants but it's certainly not the user either.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You're right, but that applies once you get an expensive lawyer, only. Otherwise, all the legal stuff that protects us is worthless.
And it's silly to think that machines could be held accountable. But the people that program them...
Yes, baking cake is exactly the same as building a pyramid that includes, not only higher levels of mathematics, but extremely accurate placement of tons of stones. Look around you buddy and tell me, what would the chances be of gathering people that are capable of such mathematics, and the ability to enslave those people.
Maybe you would say that the mathematicians were the ones designing the layout, and slaves were merely doing the physical labor. But the laborers would have also had to have been extremely good at things like carving, at the very least, which would have had to been learned at some point, granting them more respect from these whip-wielding mathematicians. Of course there's also the problem that folks like you have, in explaining how the hell so few would have controlled so many. I mean we're talking 1 slave-beating mathematician to, what, 1,000 - 10,000 slaves? How did he/she do it? No, indeed there was something else that empowered these people to complete such an undertaking, not fear. This was something that took more than an entire generation to complete.
Threats are effective, but they will never ever ever enable this type of work to be completed. I don't know how the pyramids were built, no one does. But there's one thing for sure: It was not a divided people.
I wish I could get people to stop fucking me in the ass, but they seem to think it'll make me bake a better cake. And they want that cake to be perfect. There's no other way. I am powerless because of my fear of getting fucked the ass, I guess?
Slave and skilled craftsman is not mutually exclusive and there is nothing that says that one can't be both.
Jesus - fuck me-in-the-ass - Christ! Where is the hell did you come from? And where did the ass-hat that modded you "Insightful" come from? How in the hell would anyone, ever, ever (!) be able to enslave someone, and also get their best performance from them? The construction project that took place for the building of the great pyramid would have had to either been some alien shit, or a large group of individuals working together in harmony. The work there is just to good to have been beat out of people. If that weren't the case, people would just be bullying doctors to make them healthy, and there would be no need for insurance.