Long ago, when bad things happened for reasons no one understood, the people of that time blamed "evil spirits" or "the devil" or witches or sorcerers. Folks were afraid. You can still see this occur in primitive societies. Someone will get sick or the weather will be bad or the cows will die and it'll be blamed on evil sorcerers. Sometimes, someone is accused and killed for doing their evil magic -- often a personal enemy or rival or someone envied.
Some modern folks don't believe in magic, but bad things still happen that they don't understand. People still get sick unpredictably. Now it gets blamed on "chemicals". People are afraid. Sometimes someone will be accused and harmed financially (but not killed) for using these "chemicals" -- often a political enemy or rival or someone envied.
Rather than asking for their god (or God) to protect them from evil, they ask their government. Rather than asking for a blessing before they eat their meals, they buy government-blessed "organic" foods. Like their ancestors, they fear becoming "polluted" by something bad.
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Fear, ignorance, and a lack of understanding shouldn't be the basis for decisions. The government makes a poor god and is unworthy or your faith.
Try being responsible for yourself. Instead of reacting, think. Instead of fearing, learn. Instead or harming or forcing (or killing), choose.
We should listen to a "scientific consensus" when they say climate change will kill us all, but we shouldn't listen to them when they say GM crops are safe?
No one can afford an HD TV. That's what the anti-Sony folks said about the Playstation 3. Also, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will both fail because no one wants to watch HD video. DVD forever. You can't tell the difference. No one is going to re-buy video anyway.
Public Funding of elections is what is really needed to stop this.
If you want politicians to be even more insulated from the needs of their constituents, public funding is the way to go. If you want elections to be even more biased in favor of incumbents, public funding is the way to go (unless you somehow believe the politicians would setup a funding source that puts themselves at a disadvantage).
The way to stop things like this is to limit power and cut budgets. The government shouldn't have the power or the money to do something like this in the first place.
Unlike the usual government spending. That's why we send the government our money. Because they are so much better at spending it than we are, with their vast wisdom, ruthless efficiency, and sterling track record for absolute success.
Once again our tax dollars are going to work for industry rather than the people.
So... Um... Maybe stop sending them? Perhaps try keeping the money in the hands of the folks who earned it?
(Oh, then it won't be working for "the people" either I guess, only for, you know, people.)
Are you by any chance beginning to notice a distinct pattern to your citations?
Sure. The leftist media has the same thought process as you: "This event doesn't support my political position, therefore it didn't happen."
Pretty convenient for you really. Leftist news media don't report politically damaging news. Non-leftist news media can be disbelieved without investigation. Therefore, all news supports socialism! And anything that doesn't support socialism isn't really news. It must save you a lot of useless critical thinking.
There's this thing called "Google" thats good for looking things like this up. I hear some non-socialists use it and trust it though, so feel free to disbelieve your eyes when it returns results you don't like.
I wouldn't put too much stock in any "science" from anyone at the Dept. of the Interior. Interior is a haven for folks who all share the same opinions and work towards the same agenda.
I don't care how popular it is. In my end-user experience the software is terrible. It may just be our IT Dept. It's been a long, long series of outages, failures, annoyances, usability issues, limitations, and general dread. It has never worked well.
I've setup systems built out of stuff I knew was just complete junk, and it worked better than our Checkpoint system. But it may just be our IT Dept.
Is there any way to get internal DNS to work for VPN users? Our IT Dept. can't do it. Is there any way to get it to authenticate VPN to Windows Active Directory in a company with multiple Active Directory domains? Our IT Dept. can't do it. Also, Secure Remote pops up and asks for a password about 20 times an hour unless Auto Login is enabled. Any ideas? Not to mention the "if you tell Secure Remote to connect to site A, then you can't access systems at site C" problem. That's too complicated.
Is there any way I can find out these answers myself so I can tell our IT Dept. how to do their jobs? That's one problem I have with the system is that there doesn't seem to be any readily-available documentation I can download and read.
If it's such a good system, then these types of questions shouldn't be impossible to answer like they apparently are for us. Maybe there's an extra make it not completely suck option we decided to save money on? Because it completely sucks for us.
I wouldn't go with anything from Checkpoint. Maybe it's just our IT Dept, but we have never-ending problems. I think our total number of days in the last 2 years without firewall/VPN problems has been zero.
Everyone else in the world forgot to ask you what you wanted. Normally, they'd check with you, because your needs and wants are more important than theirs but it completely slipped their minds this time.
Maybe buy them all a nice birthday gift this year and then they'll think of you when they see/use it. It'll act as a reminder.
What's the REAL price of us needing to buy oil from countries who hate us, exactly, and how do you measure that?
What's the REAL price of buying ethanol from farmers who might not precisely hate me, but want to steal from me? It seems like you're offering me the choice between 2 groups that intend to harm me.
I'll take the low price in that situation.
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy an E85 vehicle or E85 fuel...
Yeah. No one would ever support forcing that. Just like no one would ever support forcing people to buy gas with 10% ethanol when they don't want it. Just like no one would ever support forcing people to buy biodiesel when they don't want it. Never.
I really don't see anything positive to be gained by anyone by continuing this conversation at this point, do you?
I think it would be positive if you'd agree to stop forcing people to do things against their will for your own personal gain. Or stop advocating they be forced. Freedom is positive. (Although it makes it harder to cash in at someone else's expense.)
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Long ago, when bad things happened for reasons no one understood, the people of that time blamed "evil spirits" or "the devil" or witches or sorcerers. Folks were afraid. You can still see this occur in primitive societies. Someone will get sick or the weather will be bad or the cows will die and it'll be blamed on evil sorcerers. Sometimes, someone is accused and killed for doing their evil magic -- often a personal enemy or rival or someone envied.
Some modern folks don't believe in magic, but bad things still happen that they don't understand. People still get sick unpredictably. Now it gets blamed on "chemicals". People are afraid. Sometimes someone will be accused and harmed financially (but not killed) for using these "chemicals" -- often a political enemy or rival or someone envied.
Rather than asking for their god (or God) to protect them from evil, they ask their government. Rather than asking for a blessing before they eat their meals, they buy government-blessed "organic" foods. Like their ancestors, they fear becoming "polluted" by something bad.
.
Fear, ignorance, and a lack of understanding shouldn't be the basis for decisions. The government makes a poor god and is unworthy or your faith.
Try being responsible for yourself. Instead of reacting, think. Instead of fearing, learn. Instead or harming or forcing (or killing), choose.
I'd think bees have killed far more people than mobile phones ever have.
Cell phones have saved many, many lives. They give people the ability to call for help when they need it.
There's a scientific consensus that GM crops are safe.
We should listen to a "scientific consensus" when they say climate change will kill us all, but we shouldn't listen to them when they say GM crops are safe?
6) It's reported in the news media.
Some argument that might seem "obvious" (to you) isn't necessarily a "correct" argument.
Sorry. You're not all-knowing, nor are you the center of the universe.
A long time ago, is was "obvious" what was causing the problems in a certain northeastern town. So they burned those witches and everyone felt better.
Media Hysteria
No one likes it. It's been spreading. It makes everyone unhappy. And bees are a lot smaller than people, so it probably kills them outright.
No one can afford an HD TV. That's what the anti-Sony folks said about the Playstation 3. Also, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will both fail because no one wants to watch HD video. DVD forever. You can't tell the difference. No one is going to re-buy video anyway.
That's what they said.
Public Funding of elections is what is really needed to stop this.
If you want politicians to be even more insulated from the needs of their constituents, public funding is the way to go. If you want elections to be even more biased in favor of incumbents, public funding is the way to go (unless you somehow believe the politicians would setup a funding source that puts themselves at a disadvantage).
The way to stop things like this is to limit power and cut budgets. The government shouldn't have the power or the money to do something like this in the first place.
Why not use this money to start classes covering how to fight back against multi-billion dollar corporations ...
Why not earn your own money and use it for your own reasons on whatever you want?
This is heavily F'd up
Unlike the usual government spending. That's why we send the government our money. Because they are so much better at spending it than we are, with their vast wisdom, ruthless efficiency, and sterling track record for absolute success.
Once again our tax dollars are going to work for industry rather than the people.
So... Um... Maybe stop sending them? Perhaps try keeping the money in the hands of the folks who earned it?
(Oh, then it won't be working for "the people" either I guess, only for, you know, people.)
It will never be able to be used to help in public schools because it doesn't pay union dues.
You've summed up 10,000 words in less than 25. As the "random guy" in question, I salute you without sarcasm.
You'd be surprised how badly that impacts page views and ad hits.
So he's telling everyone about his experiences so we can judge whether we want to try Vista or not based partly on that information.
Are you by any chance beginning to notice a distinct pattern to your citations?
Sure. The leftist media has the same thought process as you: "This event doesn't support my political position, therefore it didn't happen."
Pretty convenient for you really. Leftist news media don't report politically damaging news. Non-leftist news media can be disbelieved without investigation. Therefore, all news supports socialism! And anything that doesn't support socialism isn't really news. It must save you a lot of useless critical thinking.
Here's another one.
There's this thing called "Google" thats good for looking things like this up. I hear some non-socialists use it and trust it though, so feel free to disbelieve your eyes when it returns results you don't like.
I wouldn't put too much stock in any "science" from anyone at the Dept. of the Interior. Interior is a haven for folks who all share the same opinions and work towards the same agenda.
Here's an example of their "science":
Gov't researchers caught planting false ESA evidence
I'm not complaining about the hardware.
I don't care how popular it is. In my end-user experience the software is terrible. It may just be our IT Dept. It's been a long, long series of outages, failures, annoyances, usability issues, limitations, and general dread. It has never worked well.
I've setup systems built out of stuff I knew was just complete junk, and it worked better than our Checkpoint system. But it may just be our IT Dept.
Is there any way to get internal DNS to work for VPN users? Our IT Dept. can't do it.
Is there any way to get it to authenticate VPN to Windows Active Directory in a company with multiple Active Directory domains? Our IT Dept. can't do it.
Also, Secure Remote pops up and asks for a password about 20 times an hour unless Auto Login is enabled. Any ideas?
Not to mention the "if you tell Secure Remote to connect to site A, then you can't access systems at site C" problem. That's too complicated.
Is there any way I can find out these answers myself so I can tell our IT Dept. how to do their jobs? That's one problem I have with the system is that there doesn't seem to be any readily-available documentation I can download and read.
If it's such a good system, then these types of questions shouldn't be impossible to answer like they apparently are for us. Maybe there's an extra make it not completely suck option we decided to save money on? Because it completely sucks for us.
One of the disgruntled users who they "forgot to check with" will fork Firefox and pair it down to the bare essentials of a browser.
Good. Then they'll be happy instead of disgruntled and there will be more browser choices. It's win-win.
I wouldn't go with anything from Checkpoint. Maybe it's just our IT Dept, but we have never-ending problems. I think our total number of days in the last 2 years without firewall/VPN problems has been zero.
What happened?
Everyone else in the world forgot to ask you what you wanted. Normally, they'd check with you, because your needs and wants are more important than theirs but it completely slipped their minds this time.
Maybe buy them all a nice birthday gift this year and then they'll think of you when they see/use it. It'll act as a reminder.
Please tell us what zookeepers and botanists think about net neutrality next. Thanks in advance.
What was the old record?
What's the REAL price of us needing to buy oil from countries who hate us, exactly, and how do you measure that?
What's the REAL price of buying ethanol from farmers who might not precisely hate me, but want to steal from me? It seems like you're offering me the choice between 2 groups that intend to harm me.
I'll take the low price in that situation.
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy an E85 vehicle or E85 fuel...
Yeah. No one would ever support forcing that. Just like no one would ever support forcing people to buy gas with 10% ethanol when they don't want it. Just like no one would ever support forcing people to buy biodiesel when they don't want it. Never.
I really don't see anything positive to be gained by anyone by continuing this conversation at this point, do you?
I think it would be positive if you'd agree to stop forcing people to do things against their will for your own personal gain. Or stop advocating they be forced. Freedom is positive. (Although it makes it harder to cash in at someone else's expense.)