That last example is sure to ruffle your feathers, you stupid republican hick. Just because America has been a place where your rights were pretty much respected, as long as you weren't Black or an Indian, doesn't mean we don't need to aggressively protect those rights. Republicans used to spew all kinds of small government bullshit until they managed to win some elections, now, like you, they are defending all sorts of violations of our freedom to better exercises the power they have gained.
You came out of the gate showing your slanted view of the world. First you claim the government never abridged anyones speech rights, then you try to turn the tables on acadamia, the rights favorate target.
Yea, and since everyone patches there systems regularly, you make a valid point.
You moron. This is like saying "SUV's DON'T ROLL OVER because new ones come with active stability control."
Windows DOES automatically connect to unsecured access points. Especially considering that many many people don't use the SP2 wireless tools even if they have them, they use the linksys or Dlink connect tool that comes with wireless cards.
You dumbshit. What the hell would possibly convince you to voluntarily leave a 6 figure job to join the national guard? If it was college money, you could have saved an amount equal to what they are going to give you in the entire 8 years you have to enlist in about 2 months (Yes, no matter what they tell you, all enlistments to the military are for 8 years). An then you wouldn't risk dying in Iraq for no good reason. And you wouldn't have to wear a silly looking and uncomfortable uniform that is highly impractical.
Oh, AND you wouldn't have some shithead who can barely read yelling at you, calling you a dumshit, and making you do pushups until you throw up.
Personally, I have managed to convince several young patriotic americans to not join the army reserve. Unless they enjoy being treated like assholes for risking their lives and making huge sacrifices, just to see the US Government weasle out of paying promised benifits.
(ltbarcly has been in the army reserve for 7 years. He is currently pissed at them for making it impossible to recieve the student loan payments totalling $20,000 which were promised to him but not paid because of a system which intentionally makes it difficult to be paid (despite meeting all qualifications). This is called a bait and switch and is illegal in all other areas of the economy.)
If their so damn smart why can't they figure out a way to overcome?
In other news, an Associates Degree doesn't qualify you to wipe butt for tips.
And that $6300 a year? That's alot better than the previous $0, and of course they could have opted for disability insurance before they were disabled (assuming they weren't defective at birth).
500 years ago, people weren't reading, they weren't really doing much of anything productive.
Except growing food, raising livestock, getting married, raising children, defending themselves, scheming, talking with neighbors, and saying, "Someday Martha, one of our great great great great great... great grandchildren will grow up to post something stupid on something called the Internet."
I wonder if there were a huge leap second buildup whether people would just start waking up according to the absolute time rather than the political time.
Time is an arbitrary concept created by man. People get up according to when they have to be at work, and if that isn't sometime in the morning they get up when it is convenient for them. Some people have to be at work at 8, others at 9, some at 6 or 7. Where does politics come into this? All the government does is produce a standard benchmark time so we can communicate about time, and know that we will be understood.
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
Did he really? Unless this is Jesus the Hispanic fireman, I don't buy it. Either a magic supernatural man in the clouds helped you, or you are confused about it. Occham's Razor anyone?
To illustrate this point, I encourage people to read this: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2800& p=2 (the last post at the bottom). Compare that with what you hear people say about Jesus (the non-fireman one).
Months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles and there are 13 of them a year.
No, Months are a convenient way to refer to a part of the year. I doubt the extra precision of adding an extra month would be worth the hassle of implementing it. Maybe ancient farmers before the advent of things like "Slashdot" had to use calanders to figure things out, but when I look at the back of my frozen tacos the directions are the same year round.
When I say to my boss "I'm taking a week of vacation in August" he knows what I mean. "The new product needs to be ready by April", Gotcha. Beyond that Months don't mean a damn thing to us would be modern people, and so can be left alone.
What I don't understand is how up in arms you can get about it, when it is completely a non-issue. How would your life improve if there were the "proper" amount amount of months? Do you need it to by in sync with the moon so you know when to avoid werewolves? Asshat.
When I was a boy I lived on Government cheese and whatever people donated to the church. Whenever my mother didn't blow the foodstamps in the first three days of the month on shrimp and steaks for her dirtbag boyfriend things were a little better, but that was rare. I've gone to bed hungry having not eaten a thing for an entire day while my piece of crap mother literally fried shrimp.
Bull. You're telling me your budget was so tight that you could only spend $30 total, yet you had high speed internet? Either you're an idiot who is fantastic at staying on budget or more likely you're making things up.
I mean honestly.
"I could only afford bread and water or shoes, that is until footlocker started serving crackers." But wait, you weren't even choosing among necessities!
"I think it's a good idea for people selling (luxury unecessary product) to offer (high end unecessary service) for people who are so dirt poor they can only scrap enough money together for one. THAT is the demographic you want to target to get rich!"
This might work, but it is only because people are stupid. I'll just order a (insert cheapest beverage here) and carry it around all night half full. Are they going to taste it to make sure it isn't warm? Fuck them.
Just to make it clear, you are saying, "Coffee shops will lose business because people won't go there, because they can get free internet elswhere. Also, people who will only go where there is free internet buy stuff, so although this wouldn't effect them anyway they continue to go out of there way to avoid it."
This is a specious argument. If you are going to buy the coffee anyway, you don't care if you HAVE to buy it, unless you are making some retarded statement.
The only people who will avoid going there are the people who either just want internet for free, or people who want to buy a coffee and sit there for 6 hours taking up space that could go to another customer. Frankly, I'll gladly let these kinds of people stay away.
Why would I go there when there are numerous other coffee shops that require nothing of the sort?
1. Because it doesn't affect you, since you are a paying customer.
2. Because the shop is less crowded with freeloaders.
3. Because you have internet at your house, so you must be going there for something besides internet, like coffee or girls (or guys?).
If I had $100 million, I'd probably design and build and fly my own rocket...
If you can't design a rocket now, you + $100m = a rich guy who still can't build a rocket. It's Rocket Science! (And I'm not asking. You can't do it, you're an idiot.)
Oh, and if I had $100m, I wouldn't give a flying f*** about rockets. I'd be way too busy swimming in my money bin anyway, and that ass who does my flying would just crash it.
You're right. When you go to System Profiler and look at Graphics and then Core Image, you see Unsupported. That made me think that it just didn't work.
I'm just pointing out that in the one place where core image is used in 10.4, it is disabled in non-gpu-accelerated macs. This doesn't say 'it scales down' to me, it says that it was intentionally told not to scale! Meaning the performance on non-accelerated macs must seriously suck, meaning it effectively doesn't work at all, even if it is possible.
The logic which says that the Chinese are stealing the Wests technology goes something like this:
1. Chinese get repeatedly caught stealing American technology again and again and again => (implies) the Chinese are stealing American technology
Not like this (as you characterize it):
2. Chinese are incapable of inventing => They must be stealing.
Then you point out 'western people's foolishness and selfishness'. Is this the same selfishness which caused millions of Chinese to starve? Oh, right, that was Mao. Is this the same foolishness that leads a country to make thinking that something is injust a crime, and saying so an arrestable offence? Oh, of course, this is China also. How many millions of Chinese have suffered so that the Party could save face, with modern-looking cities?
Why is it that America builds it's products in Chinese sweatshops? It is illegal in America to treat factory workers the way they are treated in China, though it is clear that China has no problem whoring it's workers out to the world. The hilarious thing is that China can never have a larger economy than the West, because then they would be producing more disposible crap than there is a market for. I suppose the Chinese themselves might buy some of it, but the vast majority can barely afford the tricycle they cart their goods down the dirt road to market on.
Who would have a use for storage that is volitile and non-recoverable?
Why, people doing illegal things! If I were part of a criminal enterprise which used computers, I would set up a computer with one of these drives and a DVD-R. I would modify the board to include two wires coming from the terminals of the battery and ending on a push button switch under the computer. Next I would epoxy the case shut.
Now, the only way to get the data off the ram drive would be to pull it out of the computer. However, any attempt to move the computer would cause switch to be thrown, shorting the battery and instantly and perfectly wiping the drive. At that point it's not even possible to determine what OS was on it. I might also add a mercury switch from a thermostat. Thus any attempt to move the computer will result in it wiping the disk.
Finally, and this is the most important step, I would run Windows. That way, even if the man comprimised my security, the virus of the week would have corrupted the drive before they could pull data off of it.
Criminals: feel free to pay me royalties with paypal.
Check out and assemble. Total Price: $617.66 Having ltbarcly to guide you in the right direction? Priceless.
(use 256mb dimm from mini in linux experimental box)
This is actually better than the superdrive, and anytime you want the latest and greatest optical drive you only have to scrounge up enough green to purchase the OEM version to put in your enclosure.
Even better than that is that you can use this drive on any computer you have, which is perfect. The only downside is that it is sortof bulky so it might not replace a superdrive for a powerbook, but for a mini you would have to be one anal dork to care.
I'm using this exact setup right now and it works perfectly.
As an added bonus you can use the external enclosure with ata hd's as well.
When you point to ANYTHING of substance in my life that is changed by the PATRIOT act, I'll take comments like this seriously. --ifwm
When you point to ANYTHING of substance in my life that is changed by the HALOCAUST, I'll take comments like this seriously. --White Protestant in NAZI Germany
No, they aren't on the same level of seriousness, but the logic applies equally in both statements.
I hope you now see why you are wrong. What you are doing is called 'special pleading'. It demonstrates your utter lack of knowledge of logical fallacies.
An American Citizen was arrested on American soil, and the government claims they can hold him without trial as long as they like.
Now I'll let you in on a secret: It's dirtbags like you, who put politics ahead of constitutional rights, that are to blame. If it wasn't your boy Bush doing this you would be all over it.
However, whenever anybody is asked to site a case in which some poor schmuck actually got shafted by these laws, they suddenly fall silent.
The first rule of Patriot Act is don't talk about Patriot Act.
Seriously though, the nasty thing about this stuff is that it all goes to an oversight court, the dealings of which are all secret.
For example, when the ACLU sued the government related to these laws, they couldn't even talk about the trial in public, not because it was ongoing, but because it was classified.
So no, you don't hear about the abuses, because they are illegal to talk about, as that would be revealing a secret.
In other news, the government is arresting and holding american citizens on american soil and declairing that they can keep them in jail forever without trial. Not scary at all, keep it moving, nothing to see here.
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If anyone can give actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech, I'd love to hear it.
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This is a bullshit challenge. Constitutionality is defined to be what the Supreme Court says is constitutional.
However, we can certainly dredge up the Alien and Sedition Acts, though that example is dated. How about "free speech zones"?
How about this: http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=
That last example is sure to ruffle your feathers, you stupid republican hick. Just because America has been a place where your rights were pretty much respected, as long as you weren't Black or an Indian, doesn't mean we don't need to aggressively protect those rights. Republicans used to spew all kinds of small government bullshit until they managed to win some elections, now, like you, they are defending all sorts of violations of our freedom to better exercises the power they have gained.
You came out of the gate showing your slanted view of the world. First you claim the government never abridged anyones speech rights, then you try to turn the tables on acadamia, the rights favorate target.
Yea, and since everyone patches there systems regularly, you make a valid point.
You moron. This is like saying "SUV's DON'T ROLL OVER because new ones come with active stability control."
Windows DOES automatically connect to unsecured access points. Especially considering that many many people don't use the SP2 wireless tools even if they have them, they use the linksys or Dlink connect tool that comes with wireless cards.
You dumbshit. What the hell would possibly convince you to voluntarily leave a 6 figure job to join the national guard? If it was college money, you could have saved an amount equal to what they are going to give you in the entire 8 years you have to enlist in about 2 months (Yes, no matter what they tell you, all enlistments to the military are for 8 years). An then you wouldn't risk dying in Iraq for no good reason. And you wouldn't have to wear a silly looking and uncomfortable uniform that is highly impractical.
Oh, AND you wouldn't have some shithead who can barely read yelling at you, calling you a dumshit, and making you do pushups until you throw up.
Personally, I have managed to convince several young patriotic americans to not join the army reserve. Unless they enjoy being treated like assholes for risking their lives and making huge sacrifices, just to see the US Government weasle out of paying promised benifits.
(ltbarcly has been in the army reserve for 7 years. He is currently pissed at them for making it impossible to recieve the student loan payments totalling $20,000 which were promised to him but not paid because of a system which intentionally makes it difficult to be paid (despite meeting all qualifications). This is called a bait and switch and is illegal in all other areas of the economy.)
If their so damn smart why can't they figure out a way to overcome?
In other news, an Associates Degree doesn't qualify you to wipe butt for tips.
And that $6300 a year? That's alot better than the previous $0, and of course they could have opted for disability insurance before they were disabled (assuming they weren't defective at birth).
500 years ago, people weren't reading, they weren't really doing much of anything productive.
... great grandchildren will grow up to post something stupid on something called the Internet."
& p=2 (the last post at the bottom). Compare that with what you hear people say about Jesus (the non-fireman one).
Except growing food, raising livestock, getting married, raising children, defending themselves, scheming, talking with neighbors, and saying, "Someday Martha, one of our great great great great great
I wonder if there were a huge leap second buildup whether people would just start waking up according to the absolute time rather than the political time.
Time is an arbitrary concept created by man. People get up according to when they have to be at work, and if that isn't sometime in the morning they get up when it is convenient for them. Some people have to be at work at 8, others at 9, some at 6 or 7. Where does politics come into this? All the government does is produce a standard benchmark time so we can communicate about time, and know that we will be understood.
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
Did he really? Unless this is Jesus the Hispanic fireman, I don't buy it. Either a magic supernatural man in the clouds helped you, or you are confused about it. Occham's Razor anyone?
To illustrate this point, I encourage people to read this: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2800
Months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles and there are 13 of them a year.
No, Months are a convenient way to refer to a part of the year. I doubt the extra precision of adding an extra month would be worth the hassle of implementing it. Maybe ancient farmers before the advent of things like "Slashdot" had to use calanders to figure things out, but when I look at the back of my frozen tacos the directions are the same year round.
When I say to my boss "I'm taking a week of vacation in August" he knows what I mean. "The new product needs to be ready by April", Gotcha. Beyond that Months don't mean a damn thing to us would be modern people, and so can be left alone.
What I don't understand is how up in arms you can get about it, when it is completely a non-issue. How would your life improve if there were the "proper" amount amount of months? Do you need it to by in sync with the moon so you know when to avoid werewolves? Asshat.
Kid, you don't know poor.
When I was a boy I lived on Government cheese and whatever people donated to the church. Whenever my mother didn't blow the foodstamps in the first three days of the month on shrimp and steaks for her dirtbag boyfriend things were a little better, but that was rare. I've gone to bed hungry having not eaten a thing for an entire day while my piece of crap mother literally fried shrimp.
I know more about poor than almost anybody.
Let me explain something to you. You could afford to do both. You chose not to, probably because it would have cut into your drinking.
Bull. You're telling me your budget was so tight that you could only spend $30 total, yet you had high speed internet? Either you're an idiot who is fantastic at staying on budget or more likely you're making things up.
I mean honestly.
"I could only afford bread and water or shoes, that is until footlocker started serving crackers." But wait, you weren't even choosing among necessities!
"I think it's a good idea for people selling (luxury unecessary product) to offer (high end unecessary service) for people who are so dirt poor they can only scrap enough money together for one. THAT is the demographic you want to target to get rich!"
This might work, but it is only because people are stupid. I'll just order a (insert cheapest beverage here) and carry it around all night half full. Are they going to taste it to make sure it isn't warm? Fuck them.
Just to make it clear, you are saying, "Coffee shops will lose business because people won't go there, because they can get free internet elswhere. Also, people who will only go where there is free internet buy stuff, so although this wouldn't effect them anyway they continue to go out of there way to avoid it."
This is a specious argument. If you are going to buy the coffee anyway, you don't care if you HAVE to buy it, unless you are making some retarded statement.
The only people who will avoid going there are the people who either just want internet for free, or people who want to buy a coffee and sit there for 6 hours taking up space that could go to another customer. Frankly, I'll gladly let these kinds of people stay away.
Why would I go there when there are numerous other coffee shops that require nothing of the sort?
1. Because it doesn't affect you, since you are a paying customer.
2. Because the shop is less crowded with freeloaders.
3. Because you have internet at your house, so you must be going there for something besides internet, like coffee or girls (or guys?).
i don't want to make love to a plastic bag filled with water,
Do you think I could borrow it?
If I had $100 million, I'd probably design and build and fly my own rocket...
If you can't design a rocket now, you + $100m = a rich guy who still can't build a rocket. It's Rocket Science! (And I'm not asking. You can't do it, you're an idiot.)
Oh, and if I had $100m, I wouldn't give a flying f*** about rockets. I'd be way too busy swimming in my money bin anyway, and that ass who does my flying would just crash it.
You're right. When you go to System Profiler and look at Graphics and then Core Image, you see Unsupported. That made me think that it just didn't work.
I'm just pointing out that in the one place where core image is used in 10.4, it is disabled in non-gpu-accelerated macs. This doesn't say 'it scales down' to me, it says that it was intentionally told not to scale! Meaning the performance on non-accelerated macs must seriously suck, meaning it effectively doesn't work at all, even if it is possible.
Standard benchmark numbers might be quoted, but they might also be fabrications.
Would you trust the US to gauge our success in Iraq? If so you are very naive.
Nice strawman, can I borrow it sometime?
The logic which says that the Chinese are stealing the Wests technology goes something like this:
1. Chinese get repeatedly caught stealing American technology again and again and again => (implies) the Chinese are stealing American technology
Not like this (as you characterize it):
2. Chinese are incapable of inventing => They must be stealing.
Then you point out 'western people's foolishness and selfishness'. Is this the same selfishness which caused millions of Chinese to starve? Oh, right, that was Mao. Is this the same foolishness that leads a country to make thinking that something is injust a crime, and saying so an arrestable offence? Oh, of course, this is China also. How many millions of Chinese have suffered so that the Party could save face, with modern-looking cities?
Why is it that America builds it's products in Chinese sweatshops? It is illegal in America to treat factory workers the way they are treated in China, though it is clear that China has no problem whoring it's workers out to the world. The hilarious thing is that China can never have a larger economy than the West, because then they would be producing more disposible crap than there is a market for. I suppose the Chinese themselves might buy some of it, but the vast majority can barely afford the tricycle they cart their goods down the dirt road to market on.
That is IF THEY WERE ACTUALLY MIPS CHIPS!!!!
A 386 and an Opteron are both x86. One is fast and the other is slow.
The Godson and the MIPS are both 'mips instruction set' processors. One is fast (says you) and the other is ????.
There is no way to know until somebody that isn't chinese get's one and benchmarks it.
Allow me to clue you in.
Who would have a use for storage that is volitile and non-recoverable?
Why, people doing illegal things! If I were part of a criminal enterprise which used computers, I would set up a computer with one of these drives and a DVD-R. I would modify the board to include two wires coming from the terminals of the battery and ending on a push button switch under the computer. Next I would epoxy the case shut.
Now, the only way to get the data off the ram drive would be to pull it out of the computer. However, any attempt to move the computer would cause switch to be thrown, shorting the battery and instantly and perfectly wiping the drive. At that point it's not even possible to determine what OS was on it. I might also add a mercury switch from a thermostat. Thus any attempt to move the computer will result in it wiping the disk.
Finally, and this is the most important step, I would run Windows. That way, even if the man comprimised my security, the virus of the week would have corrupted the drive before they could pull data off of it.
Criminals: feel free to pay me royalties with paypal.
I see. So how is this working? Maybe I'll be less jaded about it when third parties start using it, but as it is there isn't much to see.
False. Core image is disabled if the GPU can't support it. It just doesn't work.
This is easy enough to achieve.
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Get the cheapest Mini. 499.
Go to www.newegg.com.
Add a Toshiba DL dvd-r drive: 39.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
Add an external firewire/USB2 enclosure: 35.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
For sanity add 512MB crucial memory: 42.68
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
Check out and assemble.
Total Price: $617.66
Having ltbarcly to guide you in the right direction? Priceless.
(use 256mb dimm from mini in linux experimental box)
This is actually better than the superdrive, and anytime you want the latest and greatest optical drive you only have to scrounge up enough green to purchase the OEM version to put in your enclosure.
Even better than that is that you can use this drive on any computer you have, which is perfect. The only downside is that it is sortof bulky so it might not replace a superdrive for a powerbook, but for a mini you would have to be one anal dork to care.
I'm using this exact setup right now and it works perfectly.
As an added bonus you can use the external enclosure with ata hd's as well.
When you point to ANYTHING of substance in my life that is changed by the PATRIOT act, I'll take comments like this seriously. --ifwm
When you point to ANYTHING of substance in my life that is changed by the HALOCAUST, I'll take comments like this seriously. --White Protestant in NAZI Germany
No, they aren't on the same level of seriousness, but the logic applies equally in both statements.
I hope you now see why you are wrong. What you are doing is called 'special pleading'. It demonstrates your utter lack of knowledge of logical fallacies.
What is there to exagerate?
An American Citizen was arrested on American soil, and the government claims they can hold him without trial as long as they like.
Now I'll let you in on a secret: It's dirtbags like you, who put politics ahead of constitutional rights, that are to blame. If it wasn't your boy Bush doing this you would be all over it.
However, whenever anybody is asked to site a case in which some poor schmuck actually got shafted by these laws, they suddenly fall silent.
The first rule of Patriot Act is don't talk about Patriot Act.
Seriously though, the nasty thing about this stuff is that it all goes to an oversight court, the dealings of which are all secret.
For example, when the ACLU sued the government related to these laws, they couldn't even talk about the trial in public, not because it was ongoing, but because it was classified.
So no, you don't hear about the abuses, because they are illegal to talk about, as that would be revealing a secret.
In other news, the government is arresting and holding american citizens on american soil and declairing that they can keep them in jail forever without trial. Not scary at all, keep it moving, nothing to see here.