There has yet to be a single psychic who has proven their supposed abilities. He's a fraud.
Latest example - he just had an accidend. How come he didn't see it coming?
Another example - my aunt would call him to locate missing items - he never found them. Instead, I would go over and find them, sometimes within a minute - and I'm not psychic.
He's a con artist. Also, since my aunt challenged me to prove he was a liar, I sent an email to the police in question, asking them if they ever heard of the guy... funny how he didn't predict THAT one either...
"Police psychics" won't work in jurisdictions where its illegal to engage in fortune telling, etc. There's a guy who was conning one of my aunts, claiming he had worked as a psychic for the Toronto Police Department. I pointed out to her that it was illegal, and he was a liar:
False Pretences
Pretending to practise witchcraft, etc.
365. Every one who fraudulently
(a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,
(b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or
(c)pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,
is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
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You being a Canadian and all it is really none of your business."
Why didn't you say the same about Iran and Saddam Huessein? After all, you being an American and all it is really none of your business.
Can you say "I am a hypocrite?" Truth hurts, doesn't it, hypocrite...
Fact is that bad US economic policy (the stock and housing bubbles) threatens global security, and that Bush is the #1 threat to world peace. Not the leaders of Iran or Iraq or North Korea.
Nope - the last machine is a BFH - "Big F*cking Hammer" - for when we find out this machine doesn't have an "OFF" switch.
Even places that are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, still put locks on the doors, "just in case." Ditto for an off switch, or, more appropriately, a "KILL" switch.
I read the article, and it sounds like its "marketing" - we all know that system memory can't be read the way they claim - by plugging into the hard drives. Sure, you'll pick up what was in swap, but if a person is smart and worried about security, they don't have swap - turn it off, and all memory goes bye-bye.
I started boycotting McDonalds the day they came out with McDonalds Pizza. I never tried one, because I felt it was unfair competition (and also because I think their advertising was and is directed improperly at little kids).
"Considering that they aren't allowed to take written notes, they might just forget where a piece of information came from."
Huh? I sat as a juror in a murder trial in February, and we were all given notebooks to write down anything we wanted to while we were in the jury box listening to testimony. Just like we were given copies of all the photos, the crime lab / dna results, etc. And bottles of water to bring with us into the courtroom.
"It powers the POS systems of a number of businesses, some of which you've probably visited in the past week"
I've been boycotting McDonalds since before the start of this millenium, when the WERE running their POS on SCO.
If you can point us all to a list of SCO customers, I'm sure we'd all like to take a shot at making a pitch to switch them to something - anything - else. SCO's loss is our gain.
Do you really want something as archaic as that? What next a box with 256 bytes of ram and toggles on the front so you can enter code manually bit by bit?
SCO has been making a lot of noise about how they still own any code they've developed since... but who cares? Its not like they can even sell THAT once judgment is made against them, because they will have lost their license.
No, I didn't "miss a stitch." I was pointing out that the big bang theory was only theorized in the middle of the last century, so any claim that "the church was acting slowly in moving people to a new view" cf. Galileo is total and utter bullshit. Like the attitudes of the religious right who have such a huge psychological investment in continuing to believe, and will use any argument rather than admit that they might be wrong.
Its the whole "sunk costs" thingee writ big.
Interestingly enough, the same treatments that work for some people with mental illnesses also seem to help cure their beliefs in religion. Not surprising, though... delusions are delusions.
So according to your way of thinking nobody should become a dentist, because they have high suicide rates, and nobody should be a native american, because they too have high suicide rates, and god forbid ANYONE be a teenage girl, or black...
So, since girls suicide rates are soaring, are you going to advocate they all start taking testosterone and getting sex changes? I doubt it.
Are you going to claim that, because blacks have a high suicide rate, that they should pull a Michael Jackson?
People are what they are... its when they don't accept it, or society (and people like you) don't accept it, that stupid things happen. You're part of the problem.
Cyrano's love for the beautiful Roxane, whom he is obliged to woo on behalf of a more conventionally handsome, but less articulate, friend, Christian de Neuvillette
"I take it you never read the fine print on your ticket then. It's even worse than the message they use on television: "By use of this ticket, the ticket holder agrees that: (a) he or she shall not transmit or aid in transmitting any information about the game which it grants admission, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the game"."
Yeah, riiight... and by reading this post you agree to pay me a million bucks... same principle.
the only reason for fair use is because of copyright law - without copyright law to restrict usage, ANYONE could copy ANYTHING. They want the benefits of copyright law, they have to take the parts that benifit consumers as well.
Bunch of spoiled rotten little mumble mumble mumble mumble....
I'm pretty sure the Feds care about illegal drug use, given that according to wikipedia 57% of the federal prison population are there for drug offences.
... well, the feds could start with the current occupant of the White House... except that guy's white and well-connected.
Most other countries don't care about use, they care about drug dealing. A few elections ago, a pot activist political candidate in Canada lit up in front of a cop and said, "Aren't you going to arrest me for smoking a joint?" The cop looked around, then said to him, "I'm sorry sir, but nobody's lodged a formal complaint."
People don't care.Personally, I can't stand the smell of it, or of tobacco, but if I had to decide which of the two to ban, it would be cigarettes, not joints, based on long-term health problems. Then again, while I'm against the death penalty, I'd have no problem throwing the switch on tobacco manufacturing executives for mass murder.
The CDC puts it at 440,000 deaths per year from smoking. Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of death. other links.
They will be setting up their AlterNets on their own palmtops, using lilypad meshes, bluetooth, and wifi. The school systems will be as useful as a room full of Apple ][s.
Within 10 years you'll be able to roll up your screen, type on a virtual keyboard, and have your screen communicate with both your system unit (attached to your belt, in your pocket or purse, or doubling as your phone) and everyone else in the local mesh, and via the mesh, the outside world.
The church did in fact do a backflip when the steady-state theory died. I remember when I was a kid, the books I checked out of the library only had the steady-state universe theory. It took quite a whole before big gang made it into the kids' reference section, and by then I had an "adult" (12 and up) card.
Remeber what got everyone in a twist - the moons of Jupiter. That another heavenly body would have moons that rotated around it was too much... they HAD to rotate around the earth - everything, all the epicycles, etc., was based on that.:-)
"Homosexuality, no matter what else it is, is incredibly hard to satisfy because you're a distinct minority and you're going to be facing a lot of rejection even in a perfectly homosexual-friendly environment vis a vis your otherwise identical heterosexual twin. No parent really wants to set their kids up for that sort of pain if they can help it so if homosexuality does end up being determined as biologically determined, a "cure" will be found, and in the vast majority of cases used.
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I think that the question of rejection isn't a big issue - after all, if it is, most slashdotters would have slicked their wrists long ago:-)
On the "no parent" thing, when I had "the talk" that every parent has with their children, I told both my daughters that the ONLY criteria I had was whether they were happy, and not being taken advantage of. As far as I was (and am) concerned, who they go out with is their choice - I don't care about ethnicity, nationality, religion, economic, social, gender preference, age, or any other criterion, provided they're happy. Remember the "Its better to have a crust of bread on a rooftop..."?
By being totally accepting about this sort of thing, I ended up with them both coming to me when they had questions about their boyfriends, guys in general ("yes, almost all men are dickheads"), and other, unrelated stuff.
Why do I hold to this position? Because I really do care more about whether they're happy, than if they "measure up" to "my expectations." I love them, I'm proud of them, and they know it.
As for "cures" - who says its a disease that needs curing? I should imagine that most guys would want as many gay guys around as possible - reduces the potential competition for women... and with the sex ratio so imbalanced in China, we'd better hope they become a LOT more open about same-sex relationships, or they could very easily go to war to find "war brides".
1920? Which constitutional amendment was that? I see the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, but that's far from a declaration that men and women are equal.
In a few years all the kids will have laptops. Heck, they don't need the school system for chat, im, videos, email, sms, web surfing and posting, music, etc - they just need a recent cell phone.
And you can be sure that cell phone has a lot more than a measly 100 megs.
Since when does porn cause rape? TV shows that depict rape sound a more likely cause. Cultural values that promote inequality between men and women sound more likely. Speaking of which, when is the US going to finally declare that men and women are equal?
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There has yet to be a single psychic who has proven their supposed abilities. He's a fraud.
Latest example - he just had an accidend. How come he didn't see it coming?
Another example - my aunt would call him to locate missing items - he never found them. Instead, I would go over and find them, sometimes within a minute - and I'm not psychic.
He's a con artist. Also, since my aunt challenged me to prove he was a liar, I sent an email to the police in question, asking them if they ever heard of the guy ... funny how he didn't predict THAT one either ...
"Police psychics" won't work in jurisdictions where its illegal to engage in fortune telling, etc. There's a guy who was conning one of my aunts, claiming he had worked as a psychic for the Toronto Police Department. I pointed out to her that it was illegal, and he was a liar:
"but what about smaller areas where a warrant at 3am means having to wrest an old man out of bed?"
Then you wake them up. Or you do your job properly, and plan better, so you don't have to go and bother someone at 3am.
" You being a Canadian and all it is really none of your business."
Why didn't you say the same about Iran and Saddam Huessein? After all, you being an American and all it is really none of your business.
Can you say "I am a hypocrite?" Truth hurts, doesn't it, hypocrite ...
Fact is that bad US economic policy (the stock and housing bubbles) threatens global security, and that Bush is the #1 threat to world peace. Not the leaders of Iran or Iraq or North Korea.
Nope - the last machine is a BFH - "Big F*cking Hammer" - for when we find out this machine doesn't have an "OFF" switch.
Even places that are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, still put locks on the doors, "just in case." Ditto for an off switch, or, more appropriately, a "KILL" switch.
I read the article, and it sounds like its "marketing" - we all know that system memory can't be read the way they claim - by plugging into the hard drives. Sure, you'll pick up what was in swap, but if a person is smart and worried about security, they don't have swap - turn it off, and all memory goes bye-bye.
I started boycotting McDonalds the day they came out with McDonalds Pizza. I never tried one, because I felt it was unfair competition (and also because I think their advertising was and is directed improperly at little kids).
Hope that's a "right enough" reason for you :-)
"Considering that they aren't allowed to take written notes, they might just forget where a piece of information came from."
Huh? I sat as a juror in a murder trial in February, and we were all given notebooks to write down anything we wanted to while we were in the jury box listening to testimony. Just like we were given copies of all the photos, the crime lab / dna results, etc. And bottles of water to bring with us into the courtroom.
I wanted the heathkit with the 4004.
Instead, ended up years a few later with some CoCos.
"It powers the POS systems of a number of businesses, some of which you've probably visited in the past week"
I've been boycotting McDonalds since before the start of this millenium, when the WERE running their POS on SCO.
If you can point us all to a list of SCO customers, I'm sure we'd all like to take a shot at making a pitch to switch them to something - anything - else. SCO's loss is our gain.
Do you really want something as archaic as that? What next a box with 256 bytes of ram and toggles on the front so you can enter code manually bit by bit?
SCO has been making a lot of noise about how they still own any code they've developed since ... but who cares? Its not like they can even sell THAT once judgment is made against them, because they will have lost their license.
They're effectively out of business.
No, I didn't "miss a stitch." I was pointing out that the big bang theory was only theorized in the middle of the last century, so any claim that "the church was acting slowly in moving people to a new view" cf. Galileo is total and utter bullshit. Like the attitudes of the religious right who have such a huge psychological investment in continuing to believe, and will use any argument rather than admit that they might be wrong.
Its the whole "sunk costs" thingee writ big.
Interestingly enough, the same treatments that work for some people with mental illnesses also seem to help cure their beliefs in religion. Not surprising, though ... delusions are delusions.
So according to your way of thinking nobody should become a dentist, because they have high suicide rates, and nobody should be a native american, because they too have high suicide rates, and god forbid ANYONE be a teenage girl, or black ...
So, since girls suicide rates are soaring, are you going to advocate they all start taking testosterone and getting sex changes? I doubt it.
Are you going to claim that, because blacks have a high suicide rate, that they should pull a Michael Jackson?
People are what they are ... its when they don't accept it, or society (and people like you) don't accept it, that stupid things happen. You're part of the problem.
linky
"I take it you never read the fine print on your ticket then. It's even worse than the message they use on television: "By use of this ticket, the ticket holder agrees that: (a) he or she shall not transmit or aid in transmitting any information about the game which it grants admission, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the game"."
Yeah, riiight ... and by reading this post you agree to pay me a million bucks ... same principle.
the only reason for fair use is because of copyright law - without copyright law to restrict usage, ANYONE could copy ANYTHING. They want the benefits of copyright law, they have to take the parts that benifit consumers as well.
Bunch of spoiled rotten little mumble mumble mumble mumble ....
I'm pretty sure the Feds care about illegal drug use, given that according to wikipedia 57% of the federal prison population are there for drug offences.
Most other countries don't care about use, they care about drug dealing. A few elections ago, a pot activist political candidate in Canada lit up in front of a cop and said, "Aren't you going to arrest me for smoking a joint?" The cop looked around, then said to him, "I'm sorry sir, but nobody's lodged a formal complaint."
People don't care.Personally, I can't stand the smell of it, or of tobacco, but if I had to decide which of the two to ban, it would be cigarettes, not joints, based on long-term health problems. Then again, while I'm against the death penalty, I'd have no problem throwing the switch on tobacco manufacturing executives for mass murder.
The CDC puts it at 440,000 deaths per year from smoking. Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of death. other links.
They will be setting up their AlterNets on their own palmtops, using lilypad meshes, bluetooth, and wifi. The school systems will be as useful as a room full of Apple ][s.
Within 10 years you'll be able to roll up your screen, type on a virtual keyboard, and have your screen communicate with both your system unit (attached to your belt, in your pocket or purse, or doubling as your phone) and everyone else in the local mesh, and via the mesh, the outside world.
The church did in fact do a backflip when the steady-state theory died. I remember when I was a kid, the books I checked out of the library only had the steady-state universe theory. It took quite a whole before big gang made it into the kids' reference section, and by then I had an "adult" (12 and up) card.
Remeber what got everyone in a twist - the moons of Jupiter. That another heavenly body would have moons that rotated around it was too much ... they HAD to rotate around the earth - everything, all the epicycles, etc., was based on that. :-)
"Homosexuality, no matter what else it is, is incredibly hard to satisfy because you're a distinct minority and you're going to be facing a lot of rejection even in a perfectly homosexual-friendly environment vis a vis your otherwise identical heterosexual twin. No parent really wants to set their kids up for that sort of pain if they can help it so if homosexuality does end up being determined as biologically determined, a "cure" will be found, and in the vast majority of cases used. "
I think that the question of rejection isn't a big issue - after all, if it is, most slashdotters would have slicked their wrists long ago :-)
On the "no parent" thing, when I had "the talk" that every parent has with their children, I told both my daughters that the ONLY criteria I had was whether they were happy, and not being taken advantage of. As far as I was (and am) concerned, who they go out with is their choice - I don't care about ethnicity, nationality, religion, economic, social, gender preference, age, or any other criterion, provided they're happy. Remember the "Its better to have a crust of bread on a rooftop ..."?
By being totally accepting about this sort of thing, I ended up with them both coming to me when they had questions about their boyfriends, guys in general ("yes, almost all men are dickheads"), and other, unrelated stuff.
Why do I hold to this position? Because I really do care more about whether they're happy, than if they "measure up" to "my expectations." I love them, I'm proud of them, and they know it.
As for "cures" - who says its a disease that needs curing? I should imagine that most guys would want as many gay guys around as possible - reduces the potential competition for women ... and with the sex ratio so imbalanced in China, we'd better hope they become a LOT more open about same-sex relationships, or they could very easily go to war to find "war brides".
No problemo. Feel free to email me if you want to continue it in a less public fashion.
The ERA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendmen t would fix that. For 35 years, its been before congress, and they continually refuse to ratify it. Can't expect too much from an old boys club.
In a few years all the kids will have laptops. Heck, they don't need the school system for chat, im, videos, email, sms, web surfing and posting, music, etc - they just need a recent cell phone.
And you can be sure that cell phone has a lot more than a measly 100 megs.
So explain how all this requires them to monitor chat conversations.
It doesn't.
Its a "we will be nosy because we can" thing.
What are they going to do when kids routinely set up their own encrypted AlterNets in a few years?
Right - nothing. Because they won't be able to do squat.
Since when does porn cause rape? TV shows that depict rape sound a more likely cause. Cultural values that promote inequality between men and women sound more likely. Speaking of which, when is the US going to finally declare that men and women are equal?
Yes. Instead of keeping it from them, sit down with them and find out what they're looking at. Most of it isn't that bad.
Its like one of my sisters - she was always complaining that her son and his friend were always surfing asian porn sites.
Years later, shes saying "Thank god they're just surfing asian porn sites."
As far as she's concerned, as long as there's no sign they're "getting into" gay porn, she doesn't care.
(note to self - must plant gay porn on nephew's computer :-)