I love how people rag on the poor when we have a giant military budget which buys useless shit like F-35s (what's the projected cost on that one,
3 *T*rillion with over 1 Trillion spent?), a huge prison gulag (the highest prison pop. in the world in the land of the free, "black budget" projects for God knows what (black budget=blank check), routine expensive luxury trips for politicians, corporate welfare that does not havve to be paid back and other gov't abuse and waste, and so on and so on. But please, don't let reality spoil your hatred for poor citizens who could use a hand.
I heard that you can get the older Blackberries as an Obamaphone, so why dosen't the gov't have Safelink provide wireless data with that, or at least offer it for 5 - 10$ You can also buy a low end tablet for less than 50 now. Usualy the screen isn't too good, and the Android OS is an older version, but that should be enough for most web browsing. Why don't local gov'ts then roll out city wide WI-FI (and tell the companies who try to stop this "fuck you" instead of kow towing to them), and offer tablets at a low cost, and let low income people know about the budget tablets, or even help subsidise them? These are just rough ideas but the point is the means are available to enable everyone to have internet access just that people needs to put thought into this and actualy roll these programs out.
Nice idealistic view, but go to jail/prisons or just some of the neighborhoods around you, or most other countries and you will find "survival of the fittest" and raw animalistic brutality among humans is alive and well.
Driving a 2+ ton death machine is a PRIVLIDGE and not a RIGHT. If you hit and kill soneone, pray that THEY don't sue, and if you are stupid/panicky enough to drive away, then really start praying that you won't be sucking Bubba's dick for the next 10 years.
When Yahweh stops by and says "Hi", and I mean physicaly and not just in your mind, let me know.
Remember, everybody's religion is the only true religion and its this kind of bullshit that turned me agnostic
"Tablets are a complete mess right now. We can't seem to decide if we want them to replace all of our devices or only a few of them."
There is nothing wrong with the tablets, it's the PEOPLE that have problems.
If you do web browsing, videos, maybe a game of Angry Birds or Candy Crush, and not much else you go with an Android/iOS tablet.
If you do more serious tasks such as office work, video editing, programming, or you play the more "heavier" games, you go with a "cinvertable" tablet
running Windows with an Intel Atom processor, and had a detatchable keyboard, or you just get a traditional laptop.
What about this is hard to understand?
....I'm playing the saddest tune on the world's tiniest violin for them...NOT.
Glad to see the pigs shitting their pants. Not feeling so much like facist supermen now, are they?
Lets just lock everybody up, and if someone can prove they have no criminal tendancies, then release him/her. Much easier that way. Good day and Sieg Heil.
Ewww.. this is gwtting close to the days of "batch processing", where you would write/debug your program on paper, then go to the keypunch machine to translate it to machine code on punch cards or paper tape (or have some one do it for you), then you would submit the punch cards/tape to the operator who would run your prog through the machine (along with other people's), then you would come back hours or the next day to retrieve the print out of what your prog outputted (meanwhile hoping the.operator did not lose your prog/tamper with it or the comp. didn't break down before your prog had a chance to run). Yes, the bad old days.:|
If you are very good at d... sucking, being a yes man and selling your soul and selling out your coworkers and being a scumbag, then probaly yes. These.kinds of people are known as "Useful Idiots".
....that he put together scripts and executables s0 well that he never had to tweak a single thing even once when some unexpected condition in the software he was testing got thrown his way? That he never had one thing, bug or other happen that required him to dive into his program to fix? And he came up with something like this which no doubt took years or decades of practice and training coding other things to be able to to come up with something so intelligent and well written, and now he can't even do basic coding after 6 years?! And I mean not just getting a bit rusty and having to check a reference manual now and then, but not being able to do anything beyond "Hello World"? Either this is bullshit, or he has developed some medical/neurological problem during the past 6 years which in this case, his career is the least of his problems.
you dope everyone up to be sombies and force them to wear straitjackets 24/7, no, there is no tech to stop this.
How about social changes like getting rid of the demonization of groups by the major Abrahamic religions for starters....
How about Ethernet/WiFI===>cheap smart tv box===>good quality non-smart tv? The boxes are small enough now to simply mount to the back of your set or hide somewhere and if the box gets bricked/turned into a storage device for illicit material that a bot net uses, you simply replace the box and throw away/grind it down.
Free HBO? That was the cool thing to do.....in the 1980s
(Having grown up in the 80s, I remember this well, along with IRoc cars, La Bamba (movie and song remake), and casette tape Walkmans)
Except how effective is that Glock going to be against the local SWAT team? Or how about that rusting AK-47 buried in your backyard against a military that has a massive arsonal including a nuclear stockpile capable of wiping out all of human civilization several times over? Is it time yet to bend over and spread those buttcheeks or run far away from the US?
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I love how people rag on the poor when we have a giant military budget which buys useless shit like F-35s (what's the projected cost on that one, 3 *T*rillion with over 1 Trillion spent?), a huge prison gulag (the highest prison pop. in the world in the land of the free, "black budget" projects for God knows what (black budget=blank check), routine expensive luxury trips for politicians, corporate welfare that does not havve to be paid back and other gov't abuse and waste, and so on and so on. But please, don't let reality spoil your hatred for poor citizens who could use a hand.
I heard that you can get the older Blackberries as an Obamaphone, so why dosen't the gov't have Safelink provide wireless data with that, or at least offer it for 5 - 10$ You can also buy a low end tablet for less than 50 now. Usualy the screen isn't too good, and the Android OS is an older version, but that should be enough for most web browsing. Why don't local gov'ts then roll out city wide WI-FI (and tell the companies who try to stop this "fuck you" instead of kow towing to them), and offer tablets at a low cost, and let low income people know about the budget tablets, or even help subsidise them? These are just rough ideas but the point is the means are available to enable everyone to have internet access just that people needs to put thought into this and actualy roll these programs out.
"The republicans have saved us from slavery" You do realise the Republican party of 1863 is not the same Republican party of today, right?
Heh, I had a hand me down TI 99/4a connected to a portable black and white tv set in 1986. Off lawn-NOW!
Nice idealistic view, but go to jail/prisons or just some of the neighborhoods around you, or most other countries and you will find "survival of the fittest" and raw animalistic brutality among humans is alive and well.
Driving a 2+ ton death machine is a PRIVLIDGE and not a RIGHT. If you hit and kill soneone, pray that THEY don't sue, and if you are stupid/panicky enough to drive away, then really start praying that you won't be sucking Bubba's dick for the next 10 years.
I went through a simaler program in the early 1980s only the premise was incase we got abducted (the whole "Stranger Danger" histeria).
The bigger threat comes from the huge mansions and govt offices throughout the country. But keep buying into the smokescreen
This is just d....d...Darw.....Darwi.... ah, that was close!
When Yahweh stops by and says "Hi", and I mean physicaly and not just in your mind, let me know. Remember, everybody's religion is the only true religion and its this kind of bullshit that turned me agnostic
"Tablets are a complete mess right now. We can't seem to decide if we want them to replace all of our devices or only a few of them." There is nothing wrong with the tablets, it's the PEOPLE that have problems. If you do web browsing, videos, maybe a game of Angry Birds or Candy Crush, and not much else you go with an Android/iOS tablet. If you do more serious tasks such as office work, video editing, programming, or you play the more "heavier" games, you go with a "cinvertable" tablet running Windows with an Intel Atom processor, and had a detatchable keyboard, or you just get a traditional laptop. What about this is hard to understand?
....I'm playing the saddest tune on the world's tiniest violin for them...NOT. Glad to see the pigs shitting their pants. Not feeling so much like facist supermen now, are they?
Lets just lock everybody up, and if someone can prove they have no criminal tendancies, then release him/her. Much easier that way. Good day and Sieg Heil.
IRC had bots for decades
Whats in the algorithim: if $offender = poor { $sentence = $sentence + 5 } if $offender = homeless { $sentence = $sentence + 10 } if $offender = latino { $sentence = $sentence * 2 } elseif $offender = black { $sentence = $sentence * 3 }
Ewww.. this is gwtting close to the days of "batch processing", where you would write/debug your program on paper, then go to the keypunch machine to translate it to machine code on punch cards or paper tape (or have some one do it for you), then you would submit the punch cards/tape to the operator who would run your prog through the machine (along with other people's), then you would come back hours or the next day to retrieve the print out of what your prog outputted (meanwhile hoping the.operator did not lose your prog/tamper with it or the comp. didn't break down before your prog had a chance to run). Yes, the bad old days. :|
If you are very good at d... sucking, being a yes man and selling your soul and selling out your coworkers and being a scumbag, then probaly yes. These.kinds of people are known as "Useful Idiots".
....that he put together scripts and executables s0 well that he never had to tweak a single thing even once when some unexpected condition in the software he was testing got thrown his way? That he never had one thing, bug or other happen that required him to dive into his program to fix? And he came up with something like this which no doubt took years or decades of practice and training coding other things to be able to to come up with something so intelligent and well written, and now he can't even do basic coding after 6 years?! And I mean not just getting a bit rusty and having to check a reference manual now and then, but not being able to do anything beyond "Hello World"? Either this is bullshit, or he has developed some medical/neurological problem during the past 6 years which in this case, his career is the least of his problems.
you dope everyone up to be sombies and force them to wear straitjackets 24/7, no, there is no tech to stop this. How about social changes like getting rid of the demonization of groups by the major Abrahamic religions for starters....
Schools ==> sKOolz. Idiocracy is comming....... (look at how kids "mature" into adults now compared to even 40 years ago. ::shudders::)
How about Ethernet/WiFI===>cheap smart tv box===>good quality non-smart tv? The boxes are small enough now to simply mount to the back of your set or hide somewhere and if the box gets bricked/turned into a storage device for illicit material that a bot net uses, you simply replace the box and throw away/grind it down.
Free HBO? That was the cool thing to do.....in the 1980s (Having grown up in the 80s, I remember this well, along with IRoc cars, La Bamba (movie and song remake), and casette tape Walkmans)
I think I might go over and "citizen's arrest it" and hold it over at my house, then call the police........Someday
Except how effective is that Glock going to be against the local SWAT team? Or how about that rusting AK-47 buried in your backyard against a military that has a massive arsonal including a nuclear stockpile capable of wiping out all of human civilization several times over? Is it time yet to bend over and spread those buttcheeks or run far away from the US?
How do I use one of those fobs with my Android phone?