An AC says, "Try voting for non-thugs the next time. Or convince non-thugs to run for elections if the other candidates are all thugs."
Well, yes. But I have no control over my fellow voters, who may not realise they're voting for thugs. The worst candidates often do none of the thuggery themselves, but engender an atmosphere where thugs thrive -- it's often hard to expose that.
People tend to apply (or misapply) the terms that comes closest to their understanding. Most presently have a vague idea that the "hard drive" is where their data lives, and to them, that IS the computer.
Back in the olden days when 2-floppy/no-HD systems were the rule, you heard "CPU" for the main box. Same principle, different details.
Or even tried and true gizmo... my test box has a Voodoo 3dfx graphics card. It worked fine with Ubuntu 5/6/7... until U8. U8 won't install -- AT ALL. Why? I've been informed that U8 *removed* support for this family of graphics cards. WTF?? It's not THAT old... Did I spend time looking for a driver that would work? Hell no... I concluded "U8 is not for me" and went on to something else.
I dunno about rat or long pig, but when I was a kid I roasted and ate a field mouse. It tasted exactly like prime beef. Which is somewhat to be expected, since it IS a red meat.
"Humans throughout their history have jumped at the chance to make war on fellow humans. It would be astounding if they didn't do the same to Neanderthals."
Chimps make war on other tribes of chimps too (remember the recent article here about how they actually use battle tactics, do border patrols, do organized genocide, etc.?) Neanderthals probably did the same. It's not a human thing, it's a PRIMATE thing. We humans just happen to be better at it than some of our former competitors. That's why they're "former" and we're in charge, rather than the reverse.
Being omnivorous scavengers is a great deal of why we're so successful as a species: Humans can and will make do with damnear any diet that approaches nutritious, or can be processed into being nutritious, even when other species can't make it. It may not be optimal but it'll be good enough for reproduction, and that's all nature cares about.
This particular incident happened in 1973. The equipment you propose then cost tens of thousands of dollars -- more than an average person made in a year.
My point still stands -- it is up to We The People to stand up to thugs in government. No one else is going to do it for us.
And yes, occasionally someone will get killed. That's the price of liberty.
Well, that's fine if you can plan when you'll have the thugs in camera-range... of course a proper thug will simply take the camera away from you, and as a proper sheep, you'll let them.:(
I understand the "randomness" is a matter of which of their 10000+ servers you happen to hit, and what is cached at that instant. Or something like that.
When I tried the Geico search link, the first display DID have a yellow ad band at the top. The page immediately reloaded, WITHOUT the ad band. WTF??
ALL of your sample links did the reload thing, but in the geico case it happened slowly enough that I could actually see the ad band, which DID contain text.
A while back I got a call from a Google salesman, wanting to sell me various keywords for about $300/month, so my website would pop up when those keywords were used.
So explain to me how this sales dude found my website in the first place, hmmmm??
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I got a similar call from Linkfish last week. They wanted to sell me those same keywords for $1300 and up, "for life". Meanwhile I was busy looking up info on the company, which turns out to be a subsidiary of eperks (whose reputation is far less than sterling). When I went to the eperks site, I found it had been hacked and was displaying some blackhat's logo instead.
Funny thing, linkfish's traffic is not only something like 0.0003% of Google's, it's only about 10x larger than what my main site already attracts.
That's absolutely fucking hilarious. Shake your father's hand for me!!
"Sometimes you can only fight fire with fire, and occasionally one must make a stand against harassment: most especially when it comes in the guise of a government or government official trying to abuse his standing."
Exactly my point!!!!
It's funny/sad to watch modern kids who think they're such rebels because they crusade against faceless entities like M$ and the RIAA, yet these same kids are the most likely to just knuckle under because Authority Packs A Gun, and who have no idea why their elders bristle at being treated like sheep.
Joy in the guy getting his comeuppance, does that fall under the same thing?
He'd previously sued me because my dogs barked at him when he was trespassing on my place and stealing my stuff (he also teased the dogs, then filed complaints when they barked -- mind you we lived right next to the airport runway, so what's this about noise??)
Far as I was concerned, justice was finally being done, and the Blind Lady deserved a good cheer.
Read my other response above. This was a single bad apple, not a corrupt department. The dept. itself would have fired his ass and maybe prosecuted him, if my neighbour had thought to file a complaint. I speak from firsthand experience, having myself filed such a complaint on my later neighbour the bad cop (same dept.) which incident I describe somewhere else in this discussion.
If the whole dept. is bad, or has reached the "US vs THEM" stage of fascism, well, maybe people should have stood up to the thugs before things reached such a sorry state, eh??
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This thread did give me the thought.. I wonder if we're gearing up to invade Mexico.
Not that this would be such a bad thing.. we could draft all the illegals and send them back to fight in Mexico!!
An AC says, "Try voting for non-thugs the next time. Or convince non-thugs to run for elections if the other candidates are all thugs."
Well, yes. But I have no control over my fellow voters, who may not realise they're voting for thugs. The worst candidates often do none of the thuggery themselves, but engender an atmosphere where thugs thrive -- it's often hard to expose that.
People tend to apply (or misapply) the terms that comes closest to their understanding. Most presently have a vague idea that the "hard drive" is where their data lives, and to them, that IS the computer.
Back in the olden days when 2-floppy/no-HD systems were the rule, you heard "CPU" for the main box. Same principle, different details.
Exactly my experience. It makes the customer feel appreciated and part of the process, rather than feeling stupid as just a wallet to be milked.
Let me guess, your shop also considers preserving customers' data paramount.
Or even tried and true gizmo... my test box has a Voodoo 3dfx graphics card. It worked fine with Ubuntu 5/6/7... until U8. U8 won't install -- AT ALL. Why? I've been informed that U8 *removed* support for this family of graphics cards. WTF?? It's not THAT old... Did I spend time looking for a driver that would work? Hell no... I concluded "U8 is not for me" and went on to something else.
Don't forget the excellent pro-gun, pro-self-defense, and pro-states-rights laws recently passed by the Montana legislature.
http://thehighroad.us/showthread.php?t=409178
scroll down to letter from Gary Marbut
text of bill
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billhtml/HB0228.htm
This bill goes a long ways toward restoring and protecting our rights across the board. It is based on normal people, not corner cases. Very good law.
"Well....if you had any balls, you could turn London into Baghdad instead of waiting for the US to liberate you."
From what I read about Britain's floods of immigrants, this is already well underway.
Could almost describe California....
I dunno about rat or long pig, but when I was a kid I roasted and ate a field mouse. It tasted exactly like prime beef. Which is somewhat to be expected, since it IS a red meat.
That's what I like about Jewish law -- it can be flexible in the event of real need, rather than head-banging self-destructive stubborn.
"Humans throughout their history have jumped at the chance to make war on fellow humans. It would be astounding if they didn't do the same to Neanderthals."
Chimps make war on other tribes of chimps too (remember the recent article here about how they actually use battle tactics, do border patrols, do organized genocide, etc.?) Neanderthals probably did the same. It's not a human thing, it's a PRIMATE thing. We humans just happen to be better at it than some of our former competitors. That's why they're "former" and we're in charge, rather than the reverse.
Being omnivorous scavengers is a great deal of why we're so successful as a species: Humans can and will make do with damnear any diet that approaches nutritious, or can be processed into being nutritious, even when other species can't make it. It may not be optimal but it'll be good enough for reproduction, and that's all nature cares about.
This particular incident happened in 1973. The equipment you propose then cost tens of thousands of dollars -- more than an average person made in a year.
My point still stands -- it is up to We The People to stand up to thugs in government. No one else is going to do it for us.
And yes, occasionally someone will get killed. That's the price of liberty.
Well, that's fine if you can plan when you'll have the thugs in camera-range... of course a proper thug will simply take the camera away from you, and as a proper sheep, you'll let them. :(
And at that resolution it's sure one angry-lookin' star... I'd hate to think of the disposition of, say, a red giant.
The goggles! They do nothing!!
I understand the "randomness" is a matter of which of their 10000+ servers you happen to hit, and what is cached at that instant. Or something like that.
No idea, tho he said nothing to trigger my scam-radar. Either way, he got no money from me.
So what's your solution -- let the thugs have their way??
When I tried the Geico search link, the first display DID have a yellow ad band at the top. The page immediately reloaded, WITHOUT the ad band. WTF??
ALL of your sample links did the reload thing, but in the geico case it happened slowly enough that I could actually see the ad band, which DID contain text.
What do they sell?? Doublespeak, which is to say, keywords!
A while back I got a call from a Google salesman, wanting to sell me various keywords for about $300/month, so my website would pop up when those keywords were used.
So explain to me how this sales dude found my website in the first place, hmmmm??
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I got a similar call from Linkfish last week. They wanted to sell me those same keywords for $1300 and up, "for life". Meanwhile I was busy looking up info on the company, which turns out to be a subsidiary of eperks (whose reputation is far less than sterling). When I went to the eperks site, I found it had been hacked and was displaying some blackhat's logo instead.
Funny thing, linkfish's traffic is not only something like 0.0003% of Google's, it's only about 10x larger than what my main site already attracts.
That's absolutely fucking hilarious. Shake your father's hand for me!!
"Sometimes you can only fight fire with fire, and occasionally one must make a stand against harassment: most especially when it comes in the guise of a government or government official trying to abuse his standing."
Exactly my point!!!!
It's funny/sad to watch modern kids who think they're such rebels because they crusade against faceless entities like M$ and the RIAA, yet these same kids are the most likely to just knuckle under because Authority Packs A Gun, and who have no idea why their elders bristle at being treated like sheep.
Joy in the guy getting his comeuppance, does that fall under the same thing?
He'd previously sued me because my dogs barked at him when he was trespassing on my place and stealing my stuff (he also teased the dogs, then filed complaints when they barked -- mind you we lived right next to the airport runway, so what's this about noise??)
Far as I was concerned, justice was finally being done, and the Blind Lady deserved a good cheer.
Read my other response above. This was a single bad apple, not a corrupt department. The dept. itself would have fired his ass and maybe prosecuted him, if my neighbour had thought to file a complaint. I speak from firsthand experience, having myself filed such a complaint on my later neighbour the bad cop (same dept.) which incident I describe somewhere else in this discussion.
If the whole dept. is bad, or has reached the "US vs THEM" stage of fascism, well, maybe people should have stood up to the thugs before things reached such a sorry state, eh??