Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs
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While we're at it, every "pagan" I've ever met follows a fairly recently concocted hodgepodge of dozens of individual, mutually contradictory bits of pre-Christian religions, along with a healthy dose of made-up nonsense. "Wicca" dates back to the 1920s, at best.
So yeah, I look down on it.
Does it make much difference if something was completely made-up out of thin air 50 or 100 years ago, or thousands of years ago?
Ok, in addition to your misspelling of the word grammar, I'd like to point out that the phrase "Bad grammar" is POOR grammar! If you're going to critique someone else's English, at least get it right yourself.
The difference is, we still know that they meant "grammar" instead of "grammer" and "poor" instead of "bad." The sentence still made logical sense, even if it used poor grammar and spelling.
I still have no idea what was meant by: "Police departments suddenly faced gangs are looking for help on the gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites. "
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs
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"fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them"
Replace slaves with captives held without reason or trial
and how is this diffrent than the current US Administration?
Replace "wars" with "grandpa," "slaves" with "naps" and "slaughtered civilians" with "baked cookies" and how is that different from my grandma?
Nothing new there, Bill has always put himself above such petty things as rules he expects others to obey.
That's why it's good to be the boss. You get to take long lunches, come in to work late, and date your employees.
Actually being the boss and dating an employee would be putting you at a lot of risk for a lawsuit if problems developed in the relationship. He asks her out, she says no, six months later she doesn't get a promotion that she thinks she deserves... is it retaliation for saying no, or just because she doesn't deserve a promotion?
Every workplace on earth (or at least in the US) has a policy in the employee rules warning against office romances. Even ones that are owned and managed by husband-and-wife couples.
Sniping works against those who don't understand eBay.
I think there's two types of people commenting on here: those who don't understand eBay, and those who don't understand human psychology.
If someone bids $100 as their max bid, and they get sniped at the last minute by someone who bids $100.05, well surely they originally thought their max bid would be $100, but what's the harm in throwing in an extra 10 cents to win the auction? I think most people would pay the extra 10 cents if that means they could win the auction. Maybe they wouldn't pay an extra dollar, or ten or twenty (but I'm sure some people would be willing to throw in that extra money to win.)
This was moded funny, but I don't seem to get the joke. If you are implying that the extra information given, 0.074 liters/100 Km is useless, then I assure you it's not. This is how we
It's from the Simpsons-
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it." - Abe "Grandpa" Simpson
Or you can go the other way entirely - chuck the dayjob in the can, go fully indie, live, eat, breath code, love what you do, and people don't get on your back about it, because you're an entrepreneur, and it's understandable that you dedicate 20 hours a day to your baby.
Normally a good suggestion, but the original poster indicated a problem with self-motivation, which would probably be a disaster if they went into business for themselves. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, I guess.
After all, this information is being posted out there, specifically for others to view. If you put a sign in your front yard declaring how much you hate the government, you shouldn't act too surprised when the government reads it.
Yeah, I see what you're saying.. the information is in a public forum. My main problem isn't that they're legally able to do this, but that they feel the need to collect as much information as possible on every person on earth.
I wouldn't feel comfortable being trailed by government agents every time I left the house, them taking notes on everything I do... even if I wasn't doing anything wrong, even if I was in public places.
Little known fact: he posted a bulletin on his Myspace page inviting his friends over for a barbeque. Even provided a link to google maps so they could find his place.
Next they're going to look at his top 8 to crack down on the rest of Al Quaeda. It's only a matter of time before the war on terror is over, thanks to this datamining of Myspace.
If you leave a phone in a taxi, can you really consider it 'stolen'?
If the person who finds it uses the service that they're not authorized to use, I would imagine that counts for something in the realm of stealing.
Say you find a wallet full of cash. I'm not sure of the legality of keeping it for yourself, and it's a jerky thing to do anyway , but it's definitely illegal to try to use the credit cards that you're not authorized to use. Using their phone service without permission is probably similar.
I did rename WGA* everythign to WGA*.bak. I couldn't kill the WGA process becuazse ti kept restarting. The result was at the next reboot I got "ntkernal.exe is corrupt. Please replace from the original..." In other words, I've been 100% crapware free but finally MICROSOFT screwed up my system by installing a worm with Windows Update!
I'm surprised you've managed to keep a running copy of Windows, since you obviously have no qualms about messing with system files without forseeing the consequences, but somehow it's Microsoft's fault.
"I deleted huge chunks out of the registry, and now Windows won't start! Damn Microsoft!"
Right, those Buddhists in Tibet and Christians under Stalin were just slaying people left and right.:rolleyes:
Actually the Buddhist government of Tibet was a pretty brutal religious dictatorship before China took over. Of course, they replaced one dictatorship with another, but don't pretend that things were all sunshine and lollypops before the commies rolled in.
Government Seizure... This is so roads can run straight government buildings aren't held up by individuals houses etc. In such cases the government is supposed to pay you a biut more than your house is worth. If you driven around Britain you'd understand it takes forever because their roads aren't straight. I'm surprised you catagorize your rights to money with your right to freedom, in fact I think that's part of the problem.
Building roads is a legitimate usage of eminent domain. Seizing somebody's house to build a new Walmart is not.
Yeah, we should have gone through a six-month source selection process to find the lowest bidder to help out after Katrina. That would have been way better than slapping money on the table to get food and shelter to those people.
I get the sarcasm, but I'm not sure that the rebuilding effort after Katrina is the example you want to give for the benefits of government quickly slapping money on the table to get food and shelter to those people. It's still a mess to this day.
There are many MA clubs where sparring with or without protective gear is allowed. There are also mixed-martial arts clubs where you can learn and practice (sparr) strikes, throws, grapple, and do submissions just like you see on Spike TV, or Ultimate Fighting. Why not go join them where the skill levels are high (so you dont get killed by accident), and competition is stiff?
Those places don't let you just show up and fight- you have to train hard, and I'd guess most of the people in these nerd-fight-clubs aren't willing/able to put in the hard physical work to become skilled in an actual combat sport.
That, and they might not like it as much when they're actually getting hit hard by people who know what they're doing.
The teams I've been on have always handled stress by Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc. deathmatching. What's the appeal of brawling? Same thrill of victory, longer-lasting agony of defeat.
No-one who has ever brawled (for fun) would say that. (yeah, I can understand being in a real life-or-death fight isn't fun.) But sparring/sport fighting is great.
The same thrill of victory? Hardly.
There's nothing like the thrill of a good fight. I like video games as much as the next guy, but there's no comparison. To paraphrase Fight Club, after fighting, it's like the rest of the world has the volume turned down.
But will they have the deleted prologue with Jamie Lee Curtis as Buckaroo's mom? And Old Biff fading out of existence in 2015? And Tron's love scene? And the original Ewok song? And the giant octopus in the cave with the pirate ship? And the old dodgy special effects where you can see the mattes shifting aroudn the flying tie fighters? And the bit where Servo and Crow save Mike's life? And the grown-up Wesley Crusher scene?
If you can somehow insert all of that into an 8-hour version of David Lynch's Dune, I'm there.
Uh...this is almost not funny. I remember some calculations done back at the beginning of the war a few years back, and the bill was looking like around $2,000 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. For a family of 4, that's $8,000! (And it must be twice that by now...)
Well, you use the phrase "man, woman and child" but really it's only going to be the child that ends up paying for this, far down the road.
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While we're at it, every "pagan" I've ever met follows a fairly recently concocted hodgepodge of dozens of individual, mutually contradictory bits of pre-Christian religions, along with a healthy dose of made-up nonsense. "Wicca" dates back to the 1920s, at best.
So yeah, I look down on it.
Does it make much difference if something was completely made-up out of thin air 50 or 100 years ago, or thousands of years ago?
Ok, in addition to your misspelling of the word grammar, I'd like to point out that the phrase "Bad grammar" is POOR grammar! If you're going to critique someone else's English, at least get it right yourself.
The difference is, we still know that they meant "grammar" instead of "grammer" and "poor" instead of "bad."
The sentence still made logical sense, even if it used poor grammar and spelling.
I still have no idea what was meant by:
"Police departments suddenly faced gangs are looking for help on the gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites. "
"fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them"
Replace slaves with captives held without reason or trial
and how is this diffrent than the current US Administration?
Replace "wars" with "grandpa," "slaves" with "naps" and "slaughtered civilians" with "baked cookies"
and how is that different from my grandma?
Nothing new there, Bill has always put himself above such petty things as rules he expects others to obey.
That's why it's good to be the boss. You get to take long lunches, come in to work late, and date your employees.
Actually being the boss and dating an employee would be putting you at a lot of risk for a lawsuit if problems developed in the relationship. He asks her out, she says no, six months later she doesn't get a promotion that she thinks she deserves... is it retaliation for saying no, or just because she doesn't deserve a promotion?
Every workplace on earth (or at least in the US) has a policy in the employee rules warning against office romances.
Even ones that are owned and managed by husband-and-wife couples.
Sniping works against those who don't understand eBay.
I think there's two types of people commenting on here: those who don't understand eBay, and those who don't understand human psychology.
If someone bids $100 as their max bid, and they get sniped at the last minute by someone who bids $100.05, well surely they originally thought their max bid would be $100, but what's the harm in throwing in an extra 10 cents to win the auction?
I think most people would pay the extra 10 cents if that means they could win the auction. Maybe they wouldn't pay an extra dollar, or ten or twenty (but I'm sure some people would be willing to throw in that extra money to win.)
you misspelled "libertarian"
What, you'd expect a libertarian to protect you?
I'd expect them to laugh at me for not being able to afford my own protection.
bacon doesn't come from the head--learn your basic butchering!
jowl bacon does.
rods per hogshead?
This was moded funny, but I don't seem to get the joke. If you are implying that the extra information given, 0.074 liters/100 Km is useless, then I assure you it's not. This is how we
It's from the Simpsons-
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it." - Abe "Grandpa" Simpson
Barbie Horse Adventures has given Microsoft a lot of grief. Why was this made backward compatible before Splinter Cell?
My guess is because it was a lot easier/cheaper/faster to make Barbie Horse Adventures backwards compatable.
Or you can go the other way entirely - chuck the dayjob in the can, go fully indie, live, eat, breath code, love what you do, and people don't get on your back about it, because you're an entrepreneur, and it's understandable that you dedicate 20 hours a day to your baby.
Normally a good suggestion, but the original poster indicated a problem with self-motivation, which would probably be a disaster if they went into business for themselves.
Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, I guess.
There's the old saying about people on their deathbed- no one ever wishes they spent more time at work.
After all, this information is being posted out there, specifically for others to view. If you put a sign in your front yard declaring how much you hate the government, you shouldn't act too surprised when the government reads it.
Yeah, I see what you're saying.. the information is in a public forum.
My main problem isn't that they're legally able to do this, but that they feel the need to collect as much information as possible on every person on earth.
I wouldn't feel comfortable being trailed by government agents every time I left the house, them taking notes on everything I do... even if I wasn't doing anything wrong, even if I was in public places.
How do you think they found Zarqawi?
Little known fact: he posted a bulletin on his Myspace page inviting his friends over for a barbeque.
Even provided a link to google maps so they could find his place.
Next they're going to look at his top 8 to crack down on the rest of Al Quaeda.
It's only a matter of time before the war on terror is over, thanks to this datamining of Myspace.
If you leave a phone in a taxi, can you really consider it 'stolen'?
If the person who finds it uses the service that they're not authorized to use, I would imagine that counts for something in the realm of stealing.
Say you find a wallet full of cash. I'm not sure of the legality of keeping it for yourself, and it's a jerky thing to do anyway , but it's definitely illegal to try to use the credit cards that you're not authorized to use. Using their phone service without permission is probably similar.
I did rename WGA* everythign to WGA*.bak. I couldn't kill the WGA process becuazse ti kept restarting.
The result was at the next reboot I got "ntkernal.exe is corrupt. Please replace from the original..."
In other words, I've been 100% crapware free but finally MICROSOFT screwed up my system by installing a worm with Windows Update!
I'm surprised you've managed to keep a running copy of Windows, since you obviously have no qualms about messing with system files without forseeing the consequences, but somehow it's Microsoft's fault.
"I deleted huge chunks out of the registry, and now Windows won't start! Damn Microsoft!"
Right, those Buddhists in Tibet and Christians under Stalin were just slaying people left and right. :rolleyes:
Actually the Buddhist government of Tibet was a pretty brutal religious dictatorship before China took over.
Of course, they replaced one dictatorship with another, but don't pretend that things were all sunshine and
lollypops before the commies rolled in.
Have you read Patriot Act I and II?
If he has, he'd be a few steps ahead of the legislators who actually voted for it.
Government Seizure...
This is so roads can run straight government buildings aren't held up by individuals houses etc.
In such cases the government is supposed to pay you a biut more than your house is worth.
If you driven around Britain you'd understand it takes forever because their roads aren't straight.
I'm surprised you catagorize your rights to money with your right to freedom, in fact I think that's part of the problem.
Building roads is a legitimate usage of eminent domain.
Seizing somebody's house to build a new Walmart is not.
Yeah, we should have gone through a six-month source selection process to find the lowest bidder to help out after Katrina. That would have been way better than slapping money on the table to get food and shelter to those people.
I get the sarcasm, but I'm not sure that the rebuilding effort after Katrina is the example you want to give for the benefits of government quickly slapping money on the table to get food and shelter to those people.
It's still a mess to this day.
There are many MA clubs where sparring with or without protective gear is allowed. There are also mixed-martial arts clubs where you can learn and practice (sparr) strikes, throws, grapple, and do submissions just like you see on Spike TV, or Ultimate Fighting. Why not go join them where the skill levels are high (so you dont get killed by accident), and competition is stiff?
Those places don't let you just show up and fight- you have to train hard, and I'd guess most of the people in these nerd-fight-clubs aren't willing/able to put in the hard physical work to become skilled in an actual combat sport.
That, and they might not like it as much when they're actually getting hit hard by people who know what they're doing.
The teams I've been on have always handled stress by Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc. deathmatching. What's the appeal of brawling? Same thrill of victory, longer-lasting agony of defeat.
No-one who has ever brawled (for fun) would say that. (yeah, I can understand being in a real life-or-death fight isn't fun.) But sparring/sport fighting is great.
The same thrill of victory?
Hardly.
There's nothing like the thrill of a good fight. I like video games as much as the next guy, but there's no comparison. To paraphrase Fight Club, after fighting, it's like the rest of the world has the volume turned down.
But will they have the deleted prologue with Jamie Lee Curtis as Buckaroo's mom? And Old Biff fading out of existence in 2015? And Tron's love scene? And the original Ewok song? And the giant octopus in the cave with the pirate ship? And the old dodgy special effects where you can see the mattes shifting aroudn the flying tie fighters? And the bit where Servo and Crow save Mike's life? And the grown-up Wesley Crusher scene?
If you can somehow insert all of that into an 8-hour version of David Lynch's Dune, I'm there.
Uh...this is almost not funny. I remember some calculations done back at the beginning of the war a few years back, and the bill was looking like around $2,000 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. For a family of 4, that's $8,000! (And it must be twice that by now...)
Well, you use the phrase "man, woman and child" but really it's only going to be the child that ends up paying for this, far down the road.
The good news is you'll get your $18 back since we don't need to fund the Spanish-American War anymore.
The bad news is they're going to add a tax of $5000/year to your phone bill to fund the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and possibly Iran.