I'd mod you up. Not because I love Fox News. I pretty much hate Fox News...except I've been known to watch a video or three, of Andrew Napolitano on Youtube, defending Assange and taking on other unpopular topics that the right tries to ignore, no that's not it. I'd mod you up because Slashdot has an overpopulation of cock smoking MSNBC apologists.
It's too bad, I think they'd find me flexible and amenable to many of their "issues".
But with this "my shit don't stink" attitude, they can all go fuck themselves. No skin of my nose. I'm not vested in the mainstream outlets, I have no personal need to defend any of them, and pretend that I'm capable of unbiased metrics that will determine which is lying to us more.
in a fair market where customers can see what's going on, they will spot the guy who is over promising and under delivering. then take their business elsewhere.
libertarians are reluctant to spend other people's money.
Republicans and Democrats do not.
libertarians warn of the dangers of an authoritarian state.
Republicans and Democrats embrace the authoritarian state. It helps with their warfare/welfare agenda.
libertarians don't want to save the world, just their neighbors.
Republicans and Democrats each are 100% sure they know best how to save the world either from terror or poverty or inquality, at gun point if necessary. They don't give a rat's ass about their neighbors though.
real libertarians don't want to even be called Libertarian or libertarian, in fact they find the idea of collectivist labeling the domain of left brain sheeple.
when I was a kid, I was a democrat, then I grew up and became a republican, then I realized that both parties were filled with lying sons of bitches, and became Libertarian, then found that card carrying Libertarians are full of hot air, so I became libertarian (small L), then realized that I didn't fit that mold either.
Now I find most politicians, partisans, fox news, cnn, msnbc, etc, and a surprisingly large number of slashdotters to be lying, self deluded sacks of shit.
Don't be surprised if you fall into that category.
I heard that ubuntu lost horribly in the botnet performance test.
They couldn't get it to join....
bada bum!!!
thank you thank you..
be here all night..
we could lay you down, and fire a bullet at your head from about a 1000 meters up.
or we could drop the bullet on your head from a distance of 10 meters.
one will hurt.
the other, you won't feel a thing...
which is why my sharper users are actually the worst.
"knowledgeably dangerous" is what they are. they know more then everyone else, they know just enough to be dangerous.
and while I have no references or backing, I'm pretty sure all these lefty biased companies, as if that label actually means anything, like tech, entertainment industry, and what not are actually huge fucking statists, just like the right leaning companies
they have lobbyists and lawyers camped out in DC 24/7/365.
congress and the states make more then 40,000 new laws a year.
guess who is shaping that? not the people. mpaa, riaa, aapl, intc, ibm...etc
statists love government, be they from the false left or the false right.
one loves the welfare state, the other warfare state.
large companies love regulation.
regulate away.
large companies love taxes.
tax away.
you see they have the resources to influence and mold anything coming out of washington, they also have the resources to find ways to deal with anything coming out of washington.
small competitors and the individual? not so much.
but self described lefties and righties are dangerously knowledgeable. just enough knowledge to discredit the "other side"
but not enough knowledge to see the error of their own ways.
had mccain been in office, you'd see democrats in the street talking about fiscal irresponsibility and the debt.
republicans would be saying "just give it more time"
a sysadmin who walks into a com closet, cold room, etc, and takes his nifty little light macbook air, that he already owns, goes to plug in...
and no plug.
i can think of numerous other reasons.
i don't have the time for those where choice poses a challenge to them.
flagship = nascar
what wins on sunday sells on monday.
the flagship is benchmarked and touted on all the tech sites as a ferrari.
then they sell the average consumer kia's that are slower then last years model. sure it's cheaper, but it's a hunk of shit, and going in the wrong direction, as everything else incrementally gets more computing intensive...
no apologies for the bad car analogy.
The culture of growth used to be also a culture of contraction, due to a natural cycle. There was balance. Periods of expansion and contraction. People were responsible, bought only what they needed, saved like a squirrel during the good times, in preparation for the lean times.
Now this country is built on living the lifestyle you want NOW, by financing it on your future labor & productivity. And very few squirrel away during the good times, in preparation for the lean times.
People can adjust to contractions. But not if they're loaded up with bills and debt. If you're renting a big apartment, you move to a small apartment. If your paid-for-car costs too much to drive, you take public transportation, ride a bike, walk, or buy a used scooter. If you're commute is 100 miles, you get a different job, you move closer to your existing job. If you lose your job, you use your rainy day fund.
In the last several decades, contractions are increasingly viewed as absolutely negative, and at the first sign of a small contraction, central planners manipulate people so that the small contraction is prevented. This is done over and over, till the strategy fails, and nature gets her way eventually, and we see a huge contraction, that would test even the most responsible people, and for those who are severely leveraged out (just look at debt to income ratio), they have zero chance of adjusting. This is analogous to putting out every small fire in forests. Then one day, the whole thing goes up in a jaw dropping inferno.
The natural cycle of expansion/contraction clears out bad businesses, bad debts, reminds people to be responsible on a regular basis with minimal blood on the street, and prevents expansion for expansion's sake.
The side effects of a debt based society that embraces central planning, and the idea that we can expand forever, till the music stops, and people scramble for a chair...it is unsustainable. We're watching it in action, right here right now. This ain't a Republican thing, this ain't a Democrat thing. It's an "us" thing. The leadership of both parties have grandiose plans that are not sustainable. And the sheeple follow along as if it's only one party or the other that is insane... when the reality is, both parties are insane, and they are perfect mirror of their constituents......sorry for my long post with the slide into politics..it's a bad habit. But money, economics, politics, etc are all inseparable....
Google has acknowledged working with the intelligence agencies. The CEO of Google said "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of". They track and record everything they can.
If we're talking about a parabolic dish designed with a single focus point, and the shape of the dish can't be changed/morphed, then no, the focus point will not move relative to the dish. And as the energy source and/or dish move relative to each other, the amount of energy being focused on that single point will fall off from it's peak.
If the the reflector has multiple focus points, these multiple focus points will also not move relative to the surface (again assuming the reflector's surface cannot be changed/morphed/warped). But as the energy source and reflector move relative to each other, then the peak focused energy could move from focus point to focus point.
The focus point(s) can be sharp or diffuse.
They can't move relative to the reflector, unless the surface shape can distort or change.
Parent post almost sounds like sarcasm. But if it's serious, here are a few points you might consider:
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Do you really know the laws? There are thousands on the books, and thousands created each year.
Do you really know what's on your computer? If you're the average citizen, then there's a high probability that your computer has been or will be compromised at some point. "Hello Mr. Smith, we have some bad news for you. After forensic examination of your hard drive, we found evidence of money laundering, child pornography, and several thousand instances of copyright violation. But don't worry. We're going to make you an offer you can't refuse.
And you would not be able to rely on the common sense of law enforcement and the criminal justice system. You see, this is an adversarial process. It's not "Innocent to proven guilty". Law enforcement is tasked with making convictions, among other things. Numbers count. There's also this other little problem, the one of "low hanging fruit", ever heard of it? It's a reference to the fact that people tend to do as little as possible, and when that expresses itself in agents of the state, e.g. law enforcement, what you end up with is the majority of their efforts are expended on two bit criminals, and unlucky stupid people that are of no real threat to any one.
Here in the U.S., if I'm not mistaken, we're at the top of the list for the number of people imprisoned as a percentage of population. This leads me to believe that we incarcerate people for a lot of petty bullshit, especially the poor.
I agree, and I went ahead and transferred away my handful of domains from godaddy to enom. I'm sure enom has done bad things, but the point is to make godaddy aware that customers will take action ---I wrote them a nice email, pointing out many of the issues raised on nodaddy.com. Yea it's like spitting in the ocean, but one has to try. Perhaps someday we'll orchestrate a mass transfer day, where a whole bunch of us "reward" a chosen registar, while informing the others as to the reasons why.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd mod you up. Not because I love Fox News. I pretty much hate Fox News ...except I've been known to watch a video or three, of Andrew Napolitano on Youtube, defending Assange and taking on other unpopular topics that the right tries to ignore, no that's not it. I'd mod you up because Slashdot has an overpopulation of cock smoking MSNBC apologists.
It's too bad, I think they'd find me flexible and amenable to many of their "issues".
But with this "my shit don't stink" attitude, they can all go fuck themselves. No skin of my nose. I'm not vested in the mainstream outlets, I have no personal need to defend any of them, and pretend that I'm capable of unbiased metrics that will determine which is lying to us more.
in a fair market where customers can see what's going on, they will spot the guy who is over promising and under delivering. then take their business elsewhere.
That's no moon.
That's Ron Jeremy.
libertarians are reluctant to spend other people's money.
Republicans and Democrats do not.
libertarians warn of the dangers of an authoritarian state.
Republicans and Democrats embrace the authoritarian state. It helps with their warfare/welfare agenda.
libertarians don't want to save the world, just their neighbors.
Republicans and Democrats each are 100% sure they know best how to save the world either from terror or poverty or inquality, at gun point if necessary. They don't give a rat's ass about their neighbors though.
real libertarians don't want to even be called Libertarian or libertarian, in fact they find the idea of collectivist labeling the domain of left brain sheeple.
when I was a kid, I was a democrat, then I grew up and became a republican, then I realized that both parties were filled with lying sons of bitches, and became Libertarian, then found that card carrying Libertarians are full of hot air, so I became libertarian (small L), then realized that I didn't fit that mold either.
Now I find most politicians, partisans, fox news, cnn, msnbc, etc, and a surprisingly large number of slashdotters to be lying, self deluded sacks of shit.
Don't be surprised if you fall into that category.
I didn't make the world. I just live in it.
I heard that ubuntu lost horribly in the botnet performance test. They couldn't get it to join.... bada bum!!! thank you thank you.. be here all night..
and yet, for the state to remove vice, requires the state have a gun. and you have none.
I hope we roast some corn this weekend.
~eom
we could lay you down, and fire a bullet at your head from about a 1000 meters up. or we could drop the bullet on your head from a distance of 10 meters. one will hurt. the other, you won't feel a thing...
You're fucking delusional. They are equally bad, and any Democrats outside of California, born in the 1940s knows this.
the best part is when anyone thinks there are true lefties any more. you have statists, that pose as lefties or righties, then you have sheep.
which is why my sharper users are actually the worst.
"knowledgeably dangerous" is what they are. they know more then everyone else, they know just enough to be dangerous.
and while I have no references or backing, I'm pretty sure all these lefty biased companies, as if that label actually means anything, like tech, entertainment industry, and what not are actually huge fucking statists, just like the right leaning companies
they have lobbyists and lawyers camped out in DC 24/7/365.
congress and the states make more then 40,000 new laws a year.
guess who is shaping that? not the people. mpaa, riaa, aapl, intc, ibm ...etc
statists love government, be they from the false left or the false right.
one loves the welfare state, the other warfare state.
large companies love regulation.
regulate away.
large companies love taxes.
tax away.
you see they have the resources to influence and mold anything coming out of washington, they also have the resources to find ways to deal with anything coming out of washington.
small competitors and the individual? not so much.
but self described lefties and righties are dangerously knowledgeable. just enough knowledge to discredit the "other side"
but not enough knowledge to see the error of their own ways.
had mccain been in office, you'd see democrats in the street talking about fiscal irresponsibility and the debt.
republicans would be saying "just give it more time"
a sysadmin who walks into a com closet, cold room, etc, and takes his nifty little light macbook air, that he already owns, goes to plug in ...
and no plug.
i can think of numerous other reasons.
i don't have the time for those where choice poses a challenge to them.
flagship = nascar what wins on sunday sells on monday. the flagship is benchmarked and touted on all the tech sites as a ferrari. then they sell the average consumer kia's that are slower then last years model. sure it's cheaper, but it's a hunk of shit, and going in the wrong direction, as everything else incrementally gets more computing intensive... no apologies for the bad car analogy.
The culture of growth used to be also a culture of contraction, due to a natural cycle. There was balance. Periods of expansion and contraction. People were responsible, bought only what they needed, saved like a squirrel during the good times, in preparation for the lean times.
Now this country is built on living the lifestyle you want NOW, by financing it on your future labor & productivity. And very few squirrel away during the good times, in preparation for the lean times.
People can adjust to contractions. But not if they're loaded up with bills and debt. If you're renting a big apartment, you move to a small apartment. If your paid-for-car costs too much to drive, you take public transportation, ride a bike, walk, or buy a used scooter. If you're commute is 100 miles, you get a different job, you move closer to your existing job. If you lose your job, you use your rainy day fund.
In the last several decades, contractions are increasingly viewed as absolutely negative, and at the first sign of a small contraction, central planners manipulate people so that the small contraction is prevented. This is done over and over, till the strategy fails, and nature gets her way eventually, and we see a huge contraction, that would test even the most responsible people, and for those who are severely leveraged out (just look at debt to income ratio), they have zero chance of adjusting. This is analogous to putting out every small fire in forests. Then one day, the whole thing goes up in a jaw dropping inferno. The natural cycle of expansion/contraction clears out bad businesses, bad debts, reminds people to be responsible on a regular basis with minimal blood on the street, and prevents expansion for expansion's sake. The side effects of a debt based society that embraces central planning, and the idea that we can expand forever, till the music stops, and people scramble for a chair ...it is unsustainable. We're watching it in action, right here right now. This ain't a Republican thing, this ain't a Democrat thing. It's an "us" thing. The leadership of both parties have grandiose plans that are not sustainable. And the sheeple follow along as if it's only one party or the other that is insane... when the reality is, both parties are insane, and they are perfect mirror of their constituents... ...sorry for my long post with the slide into politics ..it's a bad habit. But money, economics, politics, etc are all inseparable....
You're a goddamn bootlicker. This ain't about being wrong. This is about power and the corruption that follows.
I don't know why parent was modded down.
Google has acknowledged working with the intelligence agencies. The CEO of Google said "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of". They track and record everything they can.
Let's be honest shall we?
If we're talking about a parabolic dish designed with a single focus point, and the shape of the dish can't be changed/morphed, then no, the focus point will not move relative to the dish. And as the energy source and/or dish move relative to each other, the amount of energy being focused on that single point will fall off from it's peak.
If the the reflector has multiple focus points, these multiple focus points will also not move relative to the surface (again assuming the reflector's surface cannot be changed/morphed/warped). But as the energy source and reflector move relative to each other, then the peak focused energy could move from focus point to focus point.
The focus point(s) can be sharp or diffuse.
They can't move relative to the reflector, unless the surface shape can distort or change.
j
looks like some boot-licking mod took a shot at your karma.
Do you really know the laws? There are thousands on the books, and thousands created each year.
Do you really know what's on your computer? If you're the average citizen, then there's a high probability that your computer has been or will be compromised at some point. "Hello Mr. Smith, we have some bad news for you. After forensic examination of your hard drive, we found evidence of money laundering, child pornography, and several thousand instances of copyright violation. But don't worry. We're going to make you an offer you can't refuse.
And you would not be able to rely on the common sense of law enforcement and the criminal justice system. You see, this is an adversarial process. It's not "Innocent to proven guilty". Law enforcement is tasked with making convictions, among other things. Numbers count. There's also this other little problem, the one of "low hanging fruit", ever heard of it? It's a reference to the fact that people tend to do as little as possible, and when that expresses itself in agents of the state, e.g. law enforcement, what you end up with is the majority of their efforts are expended on two bit criminals, and unlucky stupid people that are of no real threat to any one.
Here in the U.S., if I'm not mistaken, we're at the top of the list for the number of people imprisoned as a percentage of population. This leads me to believe that we incarcerate people for a lot of petty bullshit, especially the poor.
Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
yes, let's leave it to law enforcement to strike a proper balance. that sounds like it will work. uh huh.
you must be new here...
What could possibly GLOW wrong!?
absolutely, and we'll pay to have a couple of botnets to get the message out!
Unberiebabo!
http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Jo_koy_is_asian-c2lh.html
p.s. my best friend is of Chinese descent, and I, of Mexican/Czech descent...we trade jokes all the time. He sent me the above link.
I agree, and I went ahead and transferred away my handful of domains from godaddy to enom. I'm sure enom has done bad things, but the point is to make godaddy aware that customers will take action ---I wrote them a nice email, pointing out many of the issues raised on nodaddy.com. Yea it's like spitting in the ocean, but one has to try. Perhaps someday we'll orchestrate a mass transfer day, where a whole bunch of us "reward" a chosen registar, while informing the others as to the reasons why.
or not.