2)Yeah y'all won a battle or two but make no mistake- the troops we already have stationed in your country could take over tomorrow before reinforcements even started on their way. And I've gotta think w/the direction your country has been moving politically the last few years our best ally may be your own military. They are probably tired of pussy footing around.
And this whole America Vs. UK thing may seemed far fetched, but when that new Hugh Grant movie comes out this month - well we might finally get pissed off enough to do something. (Not really - it comes out the day after Star Wars and like 3 people in the whole country will go see it)
Do you think everyone should have to have a small penus as well since you didn't get a large one?
Most people in the US that don't have insurance do so by choice.
I'd rather take my chances here than depend on social medicine. Rather than a small portion of your population receiving substandard care - you flip it around and a small minority can afford to get better than substandard care. The rest of you are stuck w/sucky healthcare.
And don't piss us off. We kicked your ass in '76 and we can do it again.
of something that happened when I was in highschool.
Me and a friend snuck out one night and t.p.'d a guys house that we knew. We even told him we'd be coming. But we waited until like 2 or 3 a.m. and he fell asleep watching out for us.
It was awesome - he woke up, looked outside and thought it had snowed. It was great - we told all our friends about it. I told my folks. They thought it was very funny.
Then they talked to my buddy's parents. And my dad comes to me and says, "Gary's parent's did not like what he did. They grounded him. It wouldn't be fair if nothing happened to you- you are grounded too."
The EU is saying "Hey we can't screw our own companies and rake in the taxes because the consumers have options. We have to make sure we screw everybody."
I know here you can let your children drink at home if supervised.
You can let your children handle a fire arm supervised.
and on and on.
But there needs to be a balance because some people just suck and should not be allowed to make decisions for their children.
Some idiot here in Phoenix, got high and bit his 2 year old's thumb off in order to combine their DNA. Neighbors found the 2 year old wandering the streets at night, naked, cold and w/out his thumb.
If I had found the father ( he coughed up the thumb a couple hours later during questioning at the police station - it was too damaged to reattach) I would have been hard pressed to think of a reason not to kill the guy.
Him and his drug addict wife have 4 kids.
Children need supervision and an authority to make decisions for them. The government steps in where parents neglect to do so. I have no problem with that.
Is the government great at it? No the fail sometimes too but you have to try. You can't just sit back and do nothing.
Are video games that big of a deal? I don't think so- but I really don't see why this is such a big thing. And it's not censorship. It is limits on children's behavior.
Just my 2 cents, that's all. I'm a relatively new dad (I have a 2 year old and a 1 year old) and I would really like to say 'let parents raise their kids' but now that I really notice what goes on w/children all the time (and I don't care if it's only 10% of the kids or whatever- one harmed child is way too many) I have learned that a lot of people are either incapable or unwilling to be responsible for their children.
I don't think the one will really affect the other.
The key to the approach, in my mind, is that you don't have a lot of options.
So, as others above has posted too, you just do what you have to do and say it is out of your hands. Fortunately it is unlikely any one will know better and you have a very good chance of getting away with it.
If you take the 'high road' you may get a harsh lesson in the realities of life - people don't always make the best choices. So sometimes you need to make choices for them. (Remember this is all in the confines of a job where roles, needs, etc. are clearly defined - so don't get on my case about telling others what to do)
The cool thing is you can still be an ambassador for open source and OS alternatives because you are on their side as opposed to being the gate keeper they hate for taking away what they enjoyed.
I think her point is that all the money it takes to go national is needed because of the jacked up system in place.
Isn't it supposed to be illegal to pay radio stations to play your music? Apparently everyone knows it still goes on.
As she says - the internet and technology are going to change a lot of this for the better and artists will be able to do it on their own w/out 6 million dollars and taking home more of the profit.
A friend of mine is in a band and they just came real close to signing. But the guy trying to work them into the deal blew it. He showed his hand too soon, trying to get them to change all kinds of things about their music to fit what he thought was more marketable.
They are going to go it on their own now. Produce their own CDs and use the web.
I think we will see more and more of this be successful and I'm glad.
IDE vs. SCSI is the big topic here when the authors are talking about how rapid advances in hardware vs. slow advances in bandwidth means it is becoming much more practical for more people to track everything that happens accross the internet.
The ramifications are important.
Also - how does this storage boon impact other kinds of surveillance?
This whole line of thought is a big part of making big brother a reality.
All I'm saying is the very first 2 items I looked at were completely unsubstantiated. I'm not saying software bugs don't cause problems.
But when I go to a site and the items that I have personal knowledge of, are in error, that makes me wonder about the others.
A lot of these are not confirmed software problems and there is very, very little in the way of any kind of proof or explanation on the sites linked.
The shooting down of the Iranian airliner being attributed to a software problem is supported by nothing more than some guy's claim. (I've spent time in the Combat Control Center of a carrier and I think this is bull)
While looking for the info. on that, I read the airbus crashing at an airshow stuff - no proof just allegations by the person who lost his job because of the incident.
All ready looking at the other posts I can see this is the case for many other 'bugs'. Interesting but not all too accurate.
They will charge you a fee and add it to whatever you pay now for sewage. They'll call it a Universal Fuel Recovery Fee.
Then they'll (the gov. folks as this will be originating from public systems) will take kick backs to give contracts to their friends to do the actual work. Then they'll pass laws requiring you to use a certain amount of the new fuel.
When you go to buy the new fuel you will pay another tax. This will be the Universal Fuel Access Fee.
Your life will get quite a bit more expensive while 15-20 white men between the ages of 55 and 65 (who are already incredibly rich) will profit enormously.
If they can't get all this in place - they will squash the technology.
There is a substantial difference between people and animals and it is such that the 'use' of animals (for food, labor, expirements, etc.) is acceptable while on the other hand the 'use' of humans is immoral and wrong.
They don't have feelings or a free will so your missing the boat big time. If they weren't such nasty little buggers they'd be food. Now at least a good use is being found for what normally is a disease vector that loves to destroy things.
Oh - almost forgot one - they don't 'care' either. You need to spend more time w/rats and watch a few eat their babies or each other.
Animals, like plants are a resource to be used. They are not people.
Oh and I'm not trolling and I know you'll think I'm a jerk but really this whole idea of placing animals on the same level as humans well it just really makes me a bit annoyed.
"Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades," he said.
And I thought these jerks were something unique to slashdot. You could show them a cold fusion powered flying, submarine car and they would go on and on about how it is nothing new and it's been around for years and they've had one that is twice as good for half the price for a long, long time.
For Crying out loud! Don't let your envy of someone else getting some attention turn you into such an idiot.
On another note, "Who Moved My Cheese" books will see a resurgence in sales when these little guys hit the mainstream.
It's a reference to the game VGA planets by Tim Wisseman. I think that's how you spell his name anyways.
There are quite a few sites on the web about and hosting games for VGA Planets.
The race I liked to play could steal fuel based on the capacity of their ship and a Gorbie was a huge ship. If you had one controled by this race, you effectively were a black hole of fuel stealing power. (and when you sucked all the fuel out of any enemy ship, you could take if over)
I have a bunch of sigs (tag lines when I got them) that were from VGA Planets when I used to use Blue Wave for mail on a BBS. (Before the whole web/internet thing really caught on)
You are so right! And I thought that was just a character from the show. But now that I realize he is a real person, well where else would you expect to find him hanging out?
I appreciate being modded up but I'm at the cap and just made some other posts that will very likely get modded down. So this doesn't do me a lot of good in my quest for 50 points for 50 days.
If youd've waited until after the others got modded down this would have really come in handy.
It has nothing to do w/satire or demographics. It's really simple. It's puppets doing crass things. That is way too funny. When the fat bear puppet literally "ripped a new one" I laughed so hard I thought I might hurt myself.
Have you seen the muppet posts floating around here lately? You've got to be quick to catch them before they are modded down into oblivion. I've read the sex one and the eating muppets one. Anyways-- they are hilarious because it's about puppets and people doing crass things.
I wont even notice. Usually I am busy when the new shows get aired. I watch the Simpsons 3 or 4 times a week but it is all syndication.
That's part of what makes it so awesome. Each time I watch an episode again it cracks me up as much as the first time. Plus I notice little things I missed the first time around.
I figure all the new episodes I've missed give me a buffer of at least a few years. And you know that the Simpsons are going to be on for a very long time on some channel.
Sort of like that 8 minutes of light we get after the sun goes out one day.
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2 things for you
1)I like your sig and agree
2)Yeah y'all won a battle or two but make no mistake- the troops we already have stationed in your country could take over tomorrow before reinforcements even started on their way. And I've gotta think w/the direction your country has been moving politically the last few years our best ally may be your own military. They are probably tired of pussy footing around.
And this whole America Vs. UK thing may seemed far fetched, but when that new Hugh Grant movie comes out this month - well we might finally get pissed off enough to do something. (Not really - it comes out the day after Star Wars and like 3 people in the whole country will go see it)
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dumb ass
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Really.
Do you think everyone should have to have a small penus as well since you didn't get a large one?
Most people in the US that don't have insurance do so by choice.
I'd rather take my chances here than depend on social medicine. Rather than a small portion of your population receiving substandard care - you flip it around and a small minority can afford to get better than substandard care. The rest of you are stuck w/sucky healthcare.
And don't piss us off. We kicked your ass in '76 and we can do it again.
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of something that happened when I was in highschool.
Me and a friend snuck out one night and t.p.'d a guys house that we knew. We even told him we'd be coming. But we waited until like 2 or 3 a.m. and he fell asleep watching out for us.
It was awesome - he woke up, looked outside and thought it had snowed. It was great - we told all our friends about it. I told my folks. They thought it was very funny.
Then they talked to my buddy's parents. And my dad comes to me and says, "Gary's parent's did not like what he did. They grounded him. It wouldn't be fair if nothing happened to you- you are grounded too."
The EU is saying "Hey we can't screw our own companies and rake in the taxes because the consumers have options. We have to make sure we screw everybody."
Losers.
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I know here you can let your children drink at home if supervised.
You can let your children handle a fire arm supervised.
and on and on.
But there needs to be a balance because some people just suck and should not be allowed to make decisions for their children.
Some idiot here in Phoenix, got high and bit his 2 year old's thumb off in order to combine their DNA. Neighbors found the 2 year old wandering the streets at night, naked, cold and w/out his thumb.
If I had found the father ( he coughed up the thumb a couple hours later during questioning at the police station - it was too damaged to reattach) I would have been hard pressed to think of a reason not to kill the guy.
Him and his drug addict wife have 4 kids.
Children need supervision and an authority to make decisions for them. The government steps in where parents neglect to do so. I have no problem with that.
Is the government great at it? No the fail sometimes too but you have to try. You can't just sit back and do nothing.
Are video games that big of a deal? I don't think so- but I really don't see why this is such a big thing. And it's not censorship. It is limits on children's behavior.
Just my 2 cents, that's all. I'm a relatively new dad (I have a 2 year old and a 1 year old) and I would really like to say 'let parents raise their kids' but now that I really notice what goes on w/children all the time (and I don't care if it's only 10% of the kids or whatever- one harmed child is way too many) I have learned that a lot of people are either incapable or unwilling to be responsible for their children.
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I don't think the one will really affect the other.
The key to the approach, in my mind, is that you don't have a lot of options.
So, as others above has posted too, you just do what you have to do and say it is out of your hands. Fortunately it is unlikely any one will know better and you have a very good chance of getting away with it.
If you take the 'high road' you may get a harsh lesson in the realities of life - people don't always make the best choices. So sometimes you need to make choices for them. (Remember this is all in the confines of a job where roles, needs, etc. are clearly defined - so don't get on my case about telling others what to do)
The cool thing is you can still be an ambassador for open source and OS alternatives because you are on their side as opposed to being the gate keeper they hate for taking away what they enjoyed.
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My favorite method at this time is to just shut off whatever I need to shut off. Limit access where it needs to be limited.
Then when the questions start flying I just shrug and try to look dumb. "I don't know what happened to your ability to download porn at work."
They wont know what's going on and most people despite all reason believe that computers act in a random and hurtful manner of their own volition.
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Just go buy your kid the game if you think it's o.k.
What's the big deal?
Like the movies. You want to take them to a PG 17 movie when they are 6 - go ahead.
Wanna get your 13 year old liquored up - go buy some beer and let 'em drink at home. No problem.
Your argument makes no sense.
"That decision places a lot of weight on me that I don't need"
What weight is that? Getting off your ass and going w/your kid to buy a video game?
This doesn't stop you from parenting your kid, it stops kids from parenting themselves.
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34.5 are fraudulent.
(The half is one that was authentic but slightly modified)
Please pack the arm in dry ice and send by the fastest method of shipping available to:
3443 N. Central Ave.
Suite 1100
Phoenix, AZ 85012
thanks.
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I think her point is that all the money it takes to go national is needed because of the jacked up system in place.
Isn't it supposed to be illegal to pay radio stations to play your music? Apparently everyone knows it still goes on.
As she says - the internet and technology are going to change a lot of this for the better and artists will be able to do it on their own w/out 6 million dollars and taking home more of the profit.
A friend of mine is in a band and they just came real close to signing. But the guy trying to work them into the deal blew it. He showed his hand too soon, trying to get them to change all kinds of things about their music to fit what he thought was more marketable.
They are going to go it on their own now. Produce their own CDs and use the web.
I think we will see more and more of this be successful and I'm glad.
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stool pidgeon
They had better not - I will sue.
IDE vs. SCSI is the big topic here when the authors are talking about how rapid advances in hardware vs. slow advances in bandwidth means it is becoming much more practical for more people to track everything that happens accross the internet.
The ramifications are important.
Also - how does this storage boon impact other kinds of surveillance?
This whole line of thought is a big part of making big brother a reality.
Just a thought.
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the fact that thin people are 4.8 times more likely to develope ALS and I've got to confess that I'm somewhat glad that I haven't kept any of my new years resolutions.
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All I'm saying is the very first 2 items I looked at were completely unsubstantiated. I'm not saying software bugs don't cause problems.
But when I go to a site and the items that I have personal knowledge of, are in error, that makes me wonder about the others.
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A lot of these are not confirmed software problems and there is very, very little in the way of any kind of proof or explanation on the sites linked.
The shooting down of the Iranian airliner being attributed to a software problem is supported by nothing more than some guy's claim. (I've spent time in the Combat Control Center of a carrier and I think this is bull)
While looking for the info. on that, I read the airbus crashing at an airshow stuff - no proof just allegations by the person who lost his job because of the incident.
All ready looking at the other posts I can see this is the case for many other 'bugs'. Interesting but not all too accurate.
.
You must be new to how this kind of thing works.
They will not pay you - here is what they'll do.
They will charge you a fee and add it to whatever you pay now for sewage. They'll call it a Universal Fuel Recovery Fee.
Then they'll (the gov. folks as this will be originating from public systems) will take kick backs to give contracts to their friends to do the actual work. Then they'll pass laws requiring you to use a certain amount of the new fuel.
When you go to buy the new fuel you will pay another tax. This will be the Universal Fuel Access Fee.
Your life will get quite a bit more expensive while 15-20 white men between the ages of 55 and 65 (who are already incredibly rich) will profit enormously.
If they can't get all this in place - they will squash the technology.
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actualy we ARE animals.
as Mr. McLaughlin would say, "Wrong!"
There is a substantial difference between people and animals and it is such that the 'use' of animals (for food, labor, expirements, etc.) is acceptable while on the other hand the 'use' of humans is immoral and wrong.
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yeah - they are wrong.
They make the same mistake but just apply it in the other direction. They don't value human life above that of an animal either.
Once again - very annoying.
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yeah - don't worry. It's a rat, not your mom.
They don't have feelings or a free will so your missing the boat big time. If they weren't such nasty little buggers they'd be food. Now at least a good use is being found for what normally is a disease vector that loves to destroy things.
Oh - almost forgot one - they don't 'care' either. You need to spend more time w/rats and watch a few eat their babies or each other.
Animals, like plants are a resource to be used. They are not people.
Oh and I'm not trolling and I know you'll think I'm a jerk but really this whole idea of placing animals on the same level as humans well it just really makes me a bit annoyed.
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"Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades," he said.
And I thought these jerks were something unique to slashdot. You could show them a cold fusion powered flying, submarine car and they would go on and on about how it is nothing new and it's been around for years and they've had one that is twice as good for half the price for a long, long time.
For Crying out loud! Don't let your envy of someone else getting some attention turn you into such an idiot.
On another note, "Who Moved My Cheese" books will see a resurgence in sales when these little guys hit the mainstream.
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It's a reference to the game VGA planets by Tim Wisseman. I think that's how you spell his name anyways.
There are quite a few sites on the web about and hosting games for VGA Planets.
The race I liked to play could steal fuel based on the capacity of their ship and a Gorbie was a huge ship. If you had one controled by this race, you effectively were a black hole of fuel stealing power. (and when you sucked all the fuel out of any enemy ship, you could take if over)
I have a bunch of sigs (tag lines when I got them) that were from VGA Planets when I used to use Blue Wave for mail on a BBS. (Before the whole web/internet thing really caught on)
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You are so right! And I thought that was just a character from the show. But now that I realize he is a real person, well where else would you expect to find him hanging out?
Very funny by the way.
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I appreciate being modded up but I'm at the cap and just made some other posts that will very likely get modded down. So this doesn't do me a lot of good in my quest for 50 points for 50 days.
If youd've waited until after the others got modded down this would have really come in handy.
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You're thinking too hard.
As I've posted above - Greg the Bunny is funny.
It has nothing to do w/satire or demographics. It's really simple. It's puppets doing crass things. That is way too funny. When the fat bear puppet literally "ripped a new one" I laughed so hard I thought I might hurt myself.
Have you seen the muppet posts floating around here lately? You've got to be quick to catch them before they are modded down into oblivion. I've read the sex one and the eating muppets one. Anyways-- they are hilarious because it's about puppets and people doing crass things.
That's all there is to it.
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I wont even notice. Usually I am busy when the new shows get aired. I watch the Simpsons 3 or 4 times a week but it is all syndication.
That's part of what makes it so awesome. Each time I watch an episode again it cracks me up as much as the first time. Plus I notice little things I missed the first time around.
I figure all the new episodes I've missed give me a buffer of at least a few years. And you know that the Simpsons are going to be on for a very long time on some channel.
Sort of like that 8 minutes of light we get after the sun goes out one day.
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