" I especially have concerns about joseph smith his background."...? More questions that can be raised by the bastard son of a hewbrew girl being reaised by a poverty stricken carpenter? Or several fishermen, tax collectors and other ne'erdowells? Or a drunken, wife beating, pedophilic, Arab trader?
... a pox on all your houses (of god/fraud/self-agrandisement).
I would follow a proven god, for a while, until I found out the secret of how to become a god myself.
HELLO FRIEND
I am writing you in confidence because I would like to share the secret of how to be a proven God. This secret is worth $20 MILLION DOLLARS per year to each person who becomes God, but if you will just send me a check for $50,000 (to cover the taxes) I will be happy to share it with you.
As proof of good faith on my part, please send me your bank account number, branch, and access code, and other information, and I will DEPOSIT $10,000.00 IN YOUR ACCOUNT.
Do not ignore this letter. The last person who broke the chain ended up having $10,000 withdrawn from his account instead of deposited. He also got back his ex-wife, and his mother-in-law arose from the dead and insisted on moving in with them. His television now only gets reality tv shows, and his radio only plays Britney Speares. His Mac was stolen and replaced by a Windows Millenium PC. His toilet backs up on a regular basis, as does his own personal plumbing. He is truly one of the cursed. So have faith, my friend, and start counting your riches as your own God.
Depending on which side of the fence you're sitting on - one mans' atheist is another mans' antichrist.
Sort of like spam - the spammers feel they're sending me "important stuff" and I want to send them an alien anal probe in return.
So how about antitheist (as rejecting all belief in religion/spiritualism/supernatural/etc).
a nuclear weapon with "Made in China" printed on it?
... so now I should be able to pick one up at the local Wal-Mart? Great! Quick - someone pass me a shoe in a bag so I can start podium-thumping and make my list of demands.
Is it a tyranny to ask people to pick up after their dogs? Or is this something that is reasonable, and affects the health of everyone?
As the owner of 3 VERY LARGE dogs (total weight close to 400 pounds), I would be quite happy to see the fine for not "stoop and scooping" raised to $3000 *plus* 1 month in jail, convertible to community service.
There are so many people with "rats on a rope" who don't pick up. And some of the owners of larger dogs are also at fault.
Fines only work if they hurt. Otherwise they really aren't a disincentive, just another "nuisance tax" grab.
.. except that now because everyone is going to triple-check, its going to take 3 times a long to execute a trade, so your firm now develops a reputation of being REALLY SLOW at executing orders, so customers end up losing money and going elsewhere.
They should have shut their mouths, swallowed the pill, and realized that once in a while shit happens.
I would have fired her too. I would fire anyone who's not able to use a keyboard
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Seriously, you've never made a typo on a system you weren't familiar with?
Imagine following the screen prompts written in "ingrish"
1. For enter order, enter order in box for entry, press function key order entry label except if order entry not for local market then enter order in label box global <p> 2. Confirm order press label function confirm if not order more than limit daily trade then print else function key prompt answer yes else answer no. <p> 3. Cancel order press CTL-ALT-DEL. <p> 4. Do not immerse in water. Do not use while shower. Some assembly requires. Batteries not include. Void where law say no tickee - no washee.
IBM once had a sales rep who made a $20M mistake. He figured his job was up. He was told "Fire you? We just spent $20M on your education!"
There's also they would need a cover story. If they said they were selling the stock the stock price would drop suddenly. And they'd be screwed. They need to say they are holding and slowly sell it back if they don't want the loss to be really bad.
You've been taking lessons from SCO and BayStar, haven't you?
You're right, of course. As long as they don't sell it, its an asset on the books at cost price, so its only a paper loss. Of course, at year-end, they're fucked, but thats a bit of a ways off...
"Why should I bother to run a wireless node? I can just leech off my neighbors."
"Why should I bother to run a wireless node? I'm paying for this line, I'm not giving it away to complete strangers."
"Why should I bother to run a wireless node? As soon as some asshole tunneling through me starts pissing people off, I'll get caught in the crossfire."
Just some of the many reasons this isn't gonna happen anytime soon.
... but it's already happening... I found out from the wiki that there's even one in my own town, and its got several THOUSAND members/users.
People *do* like to share. Also, its a good way to get to know people in your immediate vicinity, so they don't necessarily have to stay strangers.
ISPs would still be needed to host your sites, provide DNS services, Mail services, etc. Novices would rely on them especially.
Why? there's no reason we have to stick with the current dns solution exclusively. OpenDNS and Open NIC are examples, and over time we can evolve others. A lot of us host our own servers - that won't change, except that now we won't have to worry about our ISPs trying to prevent us from doing that, or charging more dineros.
Why would Uncle Sam need to tax the ISP when he can tax your purchase of wireless equipment and require you to register and for manufacturers to include software in your equipment to report your taxable bandwidth usage?
Flash the software in your equipment - problem solved. Besides, since you're in control, you can determine who you connect to - refuse to allow the devices to route the packets with a destination that matches Uncle Sam's "call-home" address, or purposefully poison your own or the groups' dns server so that "call-home" traffic goes to/dev/null
Screws over users due to spam... can't complain to their ISP when spammers send their junk at you.
Makes it harder for spammers to send junk to you - you have the whole chain from sender to recipient, and can blackhole a spammer much easier. Also, since everyone in the chain is acting like an ISP node, anyone blackholing the spammer protects everyone else downrange.
Screws over users... limited/no bandwidth/ultra-high latency to your pal across the world, due to no benefit for ISPs to provide you the wires to get there.
My guess - you didn't read the link to the wiki - some users will maintain wire lines and act as gateways for others, same as they do today.
Screws over webmasters... can't get the content out, anywhere, because the world is full of local congestion and traffic takes forever to reach its destination. Kind of like Freenet... the only content you get to download, is whatever everyone else wants, I guess.
Again, my guess is you didn't read the wiki. The more users in a mesh, the better the performance, sort of like bittorrent. Add in the more clued users running squid or other caching proxies and there's a good chance that a lot of your content will be available quicker.
Besides, who gives a fuck about so-called "webmasters"? I mean, really - give a fuckhead a copy of Frontpage and he/she/it thinks they're the webs' gift from God.
More than 99% of the so-called "content" on the web could disappear tomorrow, and people would be happier - no more "brochureware", for example. Look at how spam levels dropped when the.ru domains had their little outage. All those "nice phishers who just want to help you confirm your personal info" had to suck wind for a day.
Its going to happen, so get used to it. We already have 54mbps wifi equipment - who's to say we won't have 1gbps wifi in a decade?
Its not going to matter in 5-10 years, as everyone will have their own wifi node and connect through local meshes to everyone else and say a big Fuck You to regulation.
Look at the incentives:
Screws over ISPs (bypasses them)
Screws over Uncle Sam (can't have ISP collect tax)
Screws over RIAA (can't complain to your ISP)
Screws over MPAA (can't complain to your ISP)
Screws over DMCA, PATRIOT (no more takedown notices to ISPs)
The Internet doesn't just route around damage - it also routes around unpopular policies.
As you can see from this press release by one of the telco incumbents just after it passed, this is THE ONLY ASPECT of the Internet that the CRTC regulates.
With today's CRTC decision, Canada becomes the only major industrialized country to regulate retail rates for Internet telephony. That is inconsistent with the CRTC's past decisions not to regulate Internet and wireless services, which today are highly competitive components of the telecommunications sector.
There's a fundamental difference between regulating prices and adding an extra tax.
The book has a LOT of filler if you're not a Windows user. From TFA:
This is critical, because many programmers will find that the most challenging aspects of getting started with PHP and MySQL, are simply getting them installed and working, along with a Web server, such as Apache
A lot of the people here won't be having that problem,,, for those who do, snag a distro, and use the money you saved by not buying a Winders license on your development box or this book to buy a a half-dozen books on php, mysql, javascript and css.
Just knowing php and mysql is not enough any more. People expect some interactivity (menus, showing/hiding columns, rows, paragraphs, etc) on the client side w/o having to keep hitting the server every time they click on something.
Trying to do everything in php and mysql is actually harder than doing it right.
You HAD A SWITCH! You bastard. I hade to buy SEPARATE green and amber monitors, split the display cable in 2, put the monitors side-by-side, and cross my eyes!
Got some nice 3-D text effects that way, though...
Sun developing for linux is ultimately counterproductive to its own long term future.
Not necessarily - and actually probably quite the opposite. The whole idea was to get *away* from being *just a hardware vendor*, and sell all sorts of support services.
Someone should whack them with a cluestick - everyone knows there are severe penalties for early withdrawal (from a new market).
Me, I'd settle for one of those open-air autogyro James-Bond-style craft - no nead for a prerotator (as discussed on their site), cheaper to obtain, to run, store, and looks like a ton of fun.
Wonder if you could combine an autogyro with an untralight and get the best of both worlds?
And they estimate it should only cost about 10% more than a comparable sized fixed wing aircraft, with similar range, and all this with very short takeoff and landing; and probably safer than either fixed wing or helicopters to boot.
Any time you add complexity, you increase the chance for failure. So far, no manufacturer has agreed to make these available (according to CarterCopter) as either a kit or a fully-assembled craft. I think fixed-wing craft of comparable cost will be safer.
Well, why not go for 13.n/2, which would mean a bone-rattling subwoofer under every second seat. Women would be glued to their seats (literally, after a few minutes of deep rumblings and throbbings).
Upside: Repeat, repeat, repeat and nauseum ticket sales, doesn't really matter what you're showing, no plot, no actors, no film, its all good. Just the soundtrack in a dark room.
Downside: After a while theatre smells like a fish market.
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Now watch someone try to say it orbits the sun - it doesn't!
So how about antitheist (as rejecting all belief in religion/spiritualism/supernatural/etc).
As the owner of 3 VERY LARGE dogs (total weight close to 400 pounds), I would be quite happy to see the fine for not "stoop and scooping" raised to $3000 *plus* 1 month in jail, convertible to community service.
There are so many people with "rats on a rope" who don't pick up. And some of the owners of larger dogs are also at fault.
Fines only work if they hurt. Otherwise they really aren't a disincentive, just another "nuisance tax" grab.
You have just purchased $251 million dollars of SCO futures.
Have a nice day.
BTW: Corrected url for engrish.com http://www.engrish.com/
They should have shut their mouths, swallowed the pill, and realized that once in a while shit happens.
Imagine following the screen prompts written in "ingrish"
IBM once had a sales rep who made a $20M mistake. He figured his job was up. He was told "Fire you? We just spent $20M on your education!"You're right, of course. As long as they don't sell it, its an asset on the books at cost price, so its only a paper loss. Of course, at year-end, they're fucked, but thats a bit of a ways off ...
Besides, who gives a fuck about so-called "webmasters"? I mean, really - give a fuckhead a copy of Frontpage and he/she/it thinks they're the webs' gift from God.
More than 99% of the so-called "content" on the web could disappear tomorrow, and people would be happier - no more "brochureware", for example. Look at how spam levels dropped when the .ru domains had their little outage. All those "nice phishers who just want to help you confirm your personal info" had to suck wind for a day.
Its going to happen, so get used to it. We already have 54mbps wifi equipment - who's to say we won't have 1gbps wifi in a decade?
Look at the incentives:
- Screws over ISPs (bypasses them)
- Screws over Uncle Sam (can't have ISP collect tax)
- Screws over RIAA (can't complain to your ISP)
- Screws over MPAA (can't complain to your ISP)
- Screws over DMCA, PATRIOT (no more takedown notices to ISPs)
The Internet doesn't just route around damage - it also routes around unpopular policies.The applicable taxes are GST and HST/QST/PST (depending on which province you live in).
The CRTC has said they will regulate the pricing of VoIP to allow for more competition (so the current incumbents can't shut out competitors). That's pretty much it. background story that explains it - just before the law was passed
As you can see from this press release by one of the telco incumbents just after it passed, this is THE ONLY ASPECT of the Internet that the CRTC regulates.
There's a fundamental difference between regulating prices and adding an extra tax.Up here, our maximum fine for not poop-and-scooping is $300 (and the average is $35-$50), whereas the province next door is $2,000.00.
Guess what? With a $2,000 fine, EVERYONE gets their sht together.
The book has a LOT of filler if you're not a Windows user. From TFA:
A lot of the people here won't be having that problemJust knowing php and mysql is not enough any more. People expect some interactivity (menus, showing/hiding columns, rows, paragraphs, etc) on the client side w/o having to keep hitting the server every time they click on something.
Trying to do everything in php and mysql is actually harder than doing it right.
Got some nice 3-D text effects that way, though ...
Someone should whack them with a cluestick - everyone knows there are severe penalties for early withdrawal (from a new market).
Me, I'd settle for one of those open-air autogyro James-Bond-style craft - no nead for a prerotator (as discussed on their site), cheaper to obtain, to run, store, and looks like a ton of fun.
Wonder if you could combine an autogyro with an untralight and get the best of both worlds?
Upside: Repeat, repeat, repeat and nauseum ticket sales, doesn't really matter what you're showing, no plot, no actors, no film, its all good. Just the soundtrack in a dark room.
Downside: After a while theatre smells like a fish market.
Maybe he likes them really young for a reason - he's imprinted on an old Burma Shave ad: