Good for one can of Spam at your local grocery store?
Better than a slap in the face with a wet fish.
Have you eaten Spam lately? Maybe in 1940, it made sense, but now? No. Canned corned beef beats it hands down, ffs. Hell, I'd rather go peanut butter and banana. Sorry Hormel. You're done.
Anyone know of any of those "pray away the gay" camps...
If you feel the need to "pray away the gay", you'd be better off just accepting you're homo. Suck it up, go with the flow, a leopard can't change its spots, yada yada.
Feminism has officially always espoused gender equality as its primary goals.
I don't think that's true. The Suffragettes may have thought that way, but Gloria Steinam has always been a man hater, I think.
If you're lesbian, what is it you need men for? Sperm banks can suffice if you wish to procreate. We're happy to jack off into test tubes to supply. I'm with Rodney King: "Can't we all just get along?" We're different. That's all. One's not better than the other. My best friend wears her sex organs inside, and mine are outside. Big freakin' deal. Meh.
Got a brain? Do you use it? That's all that counts.
... a lot of women and men, who espouse essentially egalitarian ideals, avoid the feminist label and find sexism uncomfortable (most of whom would picket for, say, suffrage) avoid the "feminist" label.
"Feminist" == "for females, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else", so it's no surprise that many consider it a distasteful concept. It's hardly fair. Perhaps, it's somewhat justified to make up for milennia of (percieved?) wrongs, but it's still not right.
I like females who consider me their equal, and I prefer them to consider themselves my equal (or better; that's cool!). I do not understand face-painting Barbies who think their cleavage will get them anywhere any more than I understand First Squad football quarterbacks who think the same. We're all just people. If you can think, you're my kind of person; full stop. You've got some odd physical configuration stuff going WRT me (and vice versa) and we should just enjoy the difference. That's what Nature intended.
Uh huh. Rule 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions." It's a sick, sick world. I once had a GF who enjoyed being raped. It excited her. Now that I see the definition ("Sexual connection... without consent"), it wasn't actually rape. I had another GF who begged, "Use a rope!" WTF am I supposed to do with a rope?!? She was into bondage. So complicated, we are.
You know, not infringing on copyright in the first place.
Making a backup copy of something I paid good money for is infringing now.
A better alternative is avoid it. I won't buy your stuff. You won't get my money. Welcome to oblivion. I'll have a filet o' fish and curly fries with gravy, thanks.
Methinks you overestimate the value of your "nobody." The filter's a stupid club that smashes human thought from time to time. Computers and programming are still in infantcy.
You could NOT ignore the legal threat and MANY courts have found that an IP Address *does* equal an individual.
That's because US' tort law is broken, and your politicos have been bought and your LEOs have been "regulatory captured" into making civil problems criminal! US (and Euro) Judges are only now starting to get a clue, but there's still a long way to go down.
Before, you could just reply "No, I didn't. Prove it." Now, YOU have to pay to prove your innocence. Feature! The idiots are issuing DMCA takedowns of stuff they put up by themselves, ffs! The whole system is a crapfest! A quarter of a million dollars fine for making a backup copy of something I bought legally?!? Are you out of your fscking mind (rhetorical)?!?
[FWIW, I don't "pirate"; I advocate boycotting. Their !@#$'s not worth pirating.]
... and any persecution you might have easily faced prior to Six Strikes is delayed under the new program. Wouldn't you rather receive a warning from your ISP than be sent a bill or legal threat by the RIAA/MPAA?"
"Delayed." Very funny. You must be joking. Before, you got a legal threat, which you could pretty much ignore. An IP address != an individual. Now, "$moran" accuses you, and you have to pay to contest the accusation, or find another provider, and in the US, that's often not possible.
Six Strikes is evil incarnate. You pay for net access, and now who you're paying for that access is working for imbeciles against you. CAPITALISM!!!111
It doesn't make sense to bitch at someone for, you know, actually providing it.
The AC is the Karma Whore, and is failing miserably in understanding the concept. Offering useful information is Karma Whoring? No. Bitching about someone doing that as an AC, now that's serious Karma Whoring.
Don't worry. Karma knows what's really going on. Karma Whoring to be modded "Funny" gets you reborn as coprolite.
The dictionary indicated that an object that hits the atmosphere is a meteor...
I just did "dict meteor", and you're right. It can be pretty amorphous. The word comes from French: things in the air, fr. ? high in air, raised off the ground; ? beyond + ?, ?, a suspension or hovering in the air, fr. ? to lift, raise up.
1. Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. [1913 Webster]
Then it offers this (emphasis mine):
Note: The term is especially applied to fireballs, and the masses of stone or other substances which sometimes fall to the earth; also to shooting stars and to ignes fatui. Meteors are often classed as: aerial meteors, winds, tornadoes, etc.; aqueous meteors, rain, hail, snow, dew, etc.; luminous meteors, rainbows, halos, etc.; and igneous meteors, lightning, shooting stars, and the like. [1913 Webster]
Finally, there's also this:
n 1: (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere [syn: {meteoroid}, {meteor}]
Which I think is the definition we ought to be going by here.
... and the dictionary definition of meteor is orthoginal to whether it's from a comet or other body of another name...
My understanding is that comets and meteors are quite different things. Comets are made of ice and dirt/rock but, more importantly, comets generally are on elliptical orbits beginning as far out as the Oort Cloud, so when they come in, they've had a lot more time and distance to accelerate than meteors. The latter may burn up coming through the atmosphere. Comets are going fast enough to punch right through.
Hell, more sensible than his plan is to catch the comet in a net and pull the net with a rocket.
First, how did a comet get into this discussion? Second, a net big enough to hold securely a large meteor? Third, it's actually more sensible to bolt a few jet assist (JATO Bottles) onto the side of it and just accelerate it. Once it hits aphelion, pulverize it into dust.
If you were looking for a job in the NSA/CIA/US military industrial complex, what better resume entry could you have?
Navy Seals. Army sniper. (Mossad|KGB|SAS|...) hitman. Foreign Legion. Personally, I don't consider Iran a terribly hard target.
Of course, you need to remember that that nitwit Mitnick is now considered a "systems security expert" by many. No, really! Nowadays, a genius IQ plus two bucks will get you a decent cup of coffee.
anyone who adopts the position that all government is inept and corrupt is only trying to obtain the power for private corporations to control your life and bleed you dry.
Oh, please. At the higher levels, you're damned right they are inept and corrupt. The line employees, not so much. I've had jobs with gov't and contracted to them. The managers are between a rock and a hard place (fixing stuff is mind boggling BS), but the people I rubbed shoulders with day to day knew what they were doing and cared. Some are still my best friends.
BTW, I do call myself a libertarian/Objectivist, and I'm no fan of corporates nor regulatory capture.
If it was open source, you'd have more people looking at the code.
That's the theory. I like to think it actually works, but it's been a long time since I looked at kernel code.
If it was closed source...
I can't even begin to care about people who use closed stuff. Perhaps it's a good thing that it even exists, so my ("moran") sister and Mom can use crypto (once they finally learn that crypto even exists and is needed), but it's hardly an optimal solution considering the black hats out there actively trying to pants us all (DoJ, DHS, TSA, ICE, AT&T, SCOTUS, I'm talking about you).
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" I have a gift for you." Then I attach a picture of something fresh my dog laid in the yard.
A pic of a female dog? What's that supposed to mean?
Good for one can of Spam at your local grocery store?
Better than a slap in the face with a wet fish.
Have you eaten Spam lately? Maybe in 1940, it made sense, but now? No. Canned corned beef beats it hands down, ffs. Hell, I'd rather go peanut butter and banana. Sorry Hormel. You're done.
Gloria Steinem is dissing men and dissing fashion and she's out having her hair streaked at Kenneth's.
Ka-ching! Thanks for metioning Camille. She always had a lovely way with words. She's one of my heroes/heroines.
Anyone know of any of those "pray away the gay" camps ...
If you feel the need to "pray away the gay", you'd be better off just accepting you're homo. Suck it up, go with the flow, a leopard can't change its spots, yada yada.
Feminism has officially always espoused gender equality as its primary goals.
I don't think that's true. The Suffragettes may have thought that way, but Gloria Steinam has always been a man hater, I think.
If you're lesbian, what is it you need men for? Sperm banks can suffice if you wish to procreate. We're happy to jack off into test tubes to supply. I'm with Rodney King: "Can't we all just get along?" We're different. That's all. One's not better than the other. My best friend wears her sex organs inside, and mine are outside. Big freakin' deal. Meh.
Got a brain? Do you use it? That's all that counts.
Where are these girls now? I think i can help them out.
One of them, I wish I knew. The other, better not to go there.
... a lot of women and men, who espouse essentially egalitarian ideals, avoid the feminist label and find sexism uncomfortable (most of whom would picket for, say, suffrage) avoid the "feminist" label.
"Feminist" == "for females, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else", so it's no surprise that many consider it a distasteful concept. It's hardly fair. Perhaps, it's somewhat justified to make up for milennia of (percieved?) wrongs, but it's still not right.
I like females who consider me their equal, and I prefer them to consider themselves my equal (or better; that's cool!). I do not understand face-painting Barbies who think their cleavage will get them anywhere any more than I understand First Squad football quarterbacks who think the same. We're all just people. If you can think, you're my kind of person; full stop. You've got some odd physical configuration stuff going WRT me (and vice versa) and we should just enjoy the difference. That's what Nature intended.
Uh huh. Rule 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions." It's a sick, sick world. I once had a GF who enjoyed being raped. It excited her. Now that I see the definition ("Sexual connection ... without consent"), it wasn't actually rape. I had another GF who begged, "Use a rope!" WTF am I supposed to do with a rope?!? She was into bondage. So complicated, we are.
By the way, ... Damn, you people phreaque me out.
You know, not infringing on copyright in the first place.
Making a backup copy of something I paid good money for is infringing now.
A better alternative is avoid it. I won't buy your stuff. You won't get my money. Welcome to oblivion. I'll have a filet o' fish and curly fries with gravy, thanks.
This is NOT a ticket. You only pay this if you contest the complaint.
However, if you get five more of them, expect to be nailed to a cross. Have a nice day.
But nobody wants to hear it ...
Methinks you overestimate the value of your "nobody." The filter's a stupid club that smashes human thought from time to time. Computers and programming are still in infantcy.
There is no cost to file a complaint under six strikes, UNLESS you appeal. Therefore, you must appeal in order to discourage complaints.
Love it. The Judo principle. :-) Turn it back against them.
You could NOT ignore the legal threat and MANY courts have found that an IP Address *does* equal an individual.
That's because US' tort law is broken, and your politicos have been bought and your LEOs have been "regulatory captured" into making civil problems criminal! US (and Euro) Judges are only now starting to get a clue, but there's still a long way to go down.
Before, you could just reply "No, I didn't. Prove it." Now, YOU have to pay to prove your innocence. Feature! The idiots are issuing DMCA takedowns of stuff they put up by themselves, ffs! The whole system is a crapfest! A quarter of a million dollars fine for making a backup copy of something I bought legally?!? Are you out of your fscking mind (rhetorical)?!?
[FWIW, I don't "pirate"; I advocate boycotting. Their !@#$'s not worth pirating.]
... and any persecution you might have easily faced prior to Six Strikes is delayed under the new program. Wouldn't you rather receive a warning from your ISP than be sent a bill or legal threat by the RIAA/MPAA?"
"Delayed." Very funny. You must be joking. Before, you got a legal threat, which you could pretty much ignore. An IP address != an individual. Now, "$moran" accuses you, and you have to pay to contest the accusation, or find another provider, and in the US, that's often not possible.
Six Strikes is evil incarnate. You pay for net access, and now who you're paying for that access is working for imbeciles against you. CAPITALISM!!!111
Exactly my point.
ensuring we continue to have the vibrant, competitive wireless market that delivers innovative products and solid service to meet consumers' needs.
Since when do we have that?
Does this mean he's going to outlaw Six Strikes and break up the telco/ISP/provider territorial monopolies too?
It doesn't make sense to bitch at someone for, you know, actually providing it.
The AC is the Karma Whore, and is failing miserably in understanding the concept. Offering useful information is Karma Whoring? No. Bitching about someone doing that as an AC, now that's serious Karma Whoring.
Don't worry. Karma knows what's really going on. Karma Whoring to be modded "Funny" gets you reborn as coprolite.
[apologies to whores everywhere]
The dictionary indicated that an object that hits the atmosphere is a meteor ...
I just did "dict meteor", and you're right. It can be pretty amorphous. The word comes from French:
things in the air, fr. ? high in air, raised off the ground; ? beyond + ?, ?, a suspension or hovering in the air, fr. ? to lift, raise up.
1. Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. [1913 Webster]
Then it offers this (emphasis mine):
Note: The term is especially applied to fireballs, and the masses of stone or other substances which sometimes fall to the earth; also to shooting stars and to ignes fatui. Meteors are often classed as: aerial meteors, winds, tornadoes, etc.; aqueous meteors, rain, hail, snow, dew, etc.; luminous meteors, rainbows, halos, etc.; and igneous meteors, lightning, shooting stars, and the like. [1913 Webster]
Finally, there's also this:
n 1: (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere [syn: {meteoroid}, {meteor}]
Which I think is the definition we ought to be going by here.
First, how did a comet get into this discussion?
I'm not an astrophysicist ...
Nor am I.
... and the dictionary definition of meteor is orthoginal to whether it's from a comet or other body of another name ...
My understanding is that comets and meteors are quite different things. Comets are made of ice and dirt/rock but, more importantly, comets generally are on elliptical orbits beginning as far out as the Oort Cloud, so when they come in, they've had a lot more time and distance to accelerate than meteors. The latter may burn up coming through the atmosphere. Comets are going fast enough to punch right through.
Of course, I could be mistaken.
Hell, more sensible than his plan is to catch the comet in a net and pull the net with a rocket.
First, how did a comet get into this discussion? Second, a net big enough to hold securely a large meteor? Third, it's actually more sensible to bolt a few jet assist (JATO Bottles) onto the side of it and just accelerate it. Once it hits aphelion, pulverize it into dust.
If you were looking for a job in the NSA/CIA/US military industrial complex, what better resume entry could you have?
Navy Seals. Army sniper. (Mossad|KGB|SAS|...) hitman. Foreign Legion. Personally, I don't consider Iran a terribly hard target.
Of course, you need to remember that that nitwit Mitnick is now considered a "systems security expert" by many. No, really! Nowadays, a genius IQ plus two bucks will get you a decent cup of coffee.
anyone who adopts the position that all government is inept and corrupt is only trying to obtain the power for private corporations to control your life and bleed you dry.
Oh, please. At the higher levels, you're damned right they are inept and corrupt. The line employees, not so much. I've had jobs with gov't and contracted to them. The managers are between a rock and a hard place (fixing stuff is mind boggling BS), but the people I rubbed shoulders with day to day knew what they were doing and cared. Some are still my best friends.
BTW, I do call myself a libertarian/Objectivist, and I'm no fan of corporates nor regulatory capture.
If it was open source, you'd have more people looking at the code.
That's the theory. I like to think it actually works, but it's been a long time since I looked at kernel code.
If it was closed source ...
I can't even begin to care about people who use closed stuff. Perhaps it's a good thing that it even exists, so my ("moran") sister and Mom can use crypto (once they finally learn that crypto even exists and is needed), but it's hardly an optimal solution considering the black hats out there actively trying to pants us all (DoJ, DHS, TSA, ICE, AT&T, SCOTUS, I'm talking about you).
Now, I guess I'll be off to Gitmo.
X-PGP-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x48EE77B1AC94E4B7
Just gotta say, Hollywood Accounting!. BULLSHIT!
+2 Internets for knowing how to use "inculcated", or knowing it even exists.
Behind Blue Eyes.
Even better!