By that logic it's wrong to force people to fund any programs if they don't want them.
Yes including Welfare, Schools, victim support groups, anything.
It's called living in a representative democracy. You don't get a direct say in any of these things. I'd love to stop having my tax dollars stop funding LOTS of things. My option is to elect representatives that reflect my desires and hope they aren't corrupt (heh).
As long as pork barrel dollars are funding garbage I don't care about, I'm fine with them funding at least one thing I DO care about.
Or were you going to get people to fund Welfare and Education and Food Stamps voluntarily too?
That's ridiculous. I'm not going to risk detention, lawful or otherwise to prove a fucking point, when I can simply wait 6 hours, file a complaint, and get someone fired.
Amtrack security are not police. They are hired security. Nevertheless I'm not going to Don Quixote them in public. I'll do something more permanent after the fact when I'm not risking a huge waste of my time that I will not get recompense for.
Taking useful cooking implements away from non-criminal citizens is never an acceptable solution.
UK citizens no longer have a leg to stand on in any arguement regarding civil rights if they support this shit.
The way to prevent knife crime is to NOT have mercy on perpetrators. IOW, Death Penalty.
Removing useful kitchen knives from the majority of the population is not acceptable. Yes I'm saying I'd rather have my knives than have some fuckwit perpetrator live.
Tell ya what though, make fucking sure Gordon Ramsey and The Naked Chef have to obey this on TV and I'll at least get some entertainment from that.
The Watcher WAS the Fifth Doctor. His appearance was masked by the "veil of time". I don't think there was any energy transfer. If there was the regeneration would't have botched, and he wouldn't have had to rely on the Zero Room.
The person who made the initial complaint should be forced to make a public apology. Why is this person's identity being protected? Why was the family denied the right to confront their accusers?
Not going to happen. That right refers to interaction with the government, not a corporation. Same reason that Forum Admins can squelch or ban you and not be guilty of abrogating your Free Speech right. It DOES NOT APPLY when interacting with a corporation on its private property.
Two of the family members are attorneys. I guarantee there will be civil suits against both the airline and the person who made the complaint, and the smart money is on the family winning.
Re-read the relevant "security" legislation. Not going to happen. Any such case would be summarily dismissed.
Not saying it's right, but that's the legislative landscape we (in the US) live in. There's pretty much nothing further they can do. The "at will" clauses on your tickets pretty much give the airline the right to tell you to fuck off if they don't like the slogan on your T-shirt, and you have no recourse beyond refund (if they are feeling kind).
And the airline is entitled to provide service or not on their sole discretion. They're stupid to do it, to be sure, business ain't what it was, but they're not obliged to follow the recommendation of the FBI if they perceive a traveler of being somehow disruptive.
All of this "wouldn't happen if they were white" bullshit aside, a rule of thumb I've always followed (since this garbage went into effect anyhow) was "Don't say stupid shit anywhere near a plane or airport."
I fly as seldom as I possibly can, mainly because I want nothing to do with the whole process, but I'm not about to waste my own time by "protesting against the man" and saying stupid shit. I'll use my common sense and try to get through the flight with minimal time and effort.
And yea, if I was arabic, I think I'd be even more careful about what I said. Doesn't make what happened right, but there's such a thing as common fucking sense. You want to protest, go block traffic down by city hall. Don't fuck with a corporation on it's own soil and expect to get through without a hassle. Complain after the fact? sure! just don't be surprised when you get yanked off the plane.
Furthermore, the Constitution does not specify that the church and the state must be separate. It specifies that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Giving tax breaks to religions that fit the official definition thereof neither establishes nor infringes. Therefore, it is constitutional. You might argue that the government's definition of religion is a de facto form of establishment, but I would disagree. Would you prefer that the Constitution mentioned religion and that the government had no definition thereof?
I would prefer that the Constitution specified that "religion should in no way or on no basis be respected, specified or supported. It is on a whole mainly a source of strife, warmaking and hatred, and has no place in the governance of rational men."
But that's just me using common sense and reading history.
Trivialy easy to determine if it's a wireless device. TURN OFF THE WIRELESS NETWORK. If the device goes away, it's wireless. Then simply change the security configuration on the network, and problem solved. The offending device is no longer on the network, and its physical location is irrelevant.
Elsewise, if it doesn't go away, it's a wired device, and normal network investigation should work just fine.
Replace bikes with cars and pedestrians with bikes and you'll see why some motorists would prefer not to have cyclists in their path.
We've got a great network of bike trails here, but unfortunately a large population of cyclists that refuse to use them, even when they are riding parallel to them. That doesn't make drivers any more sympathetic...
Our local gov'ts across 3 counties have spent and continue to spend tens of millions of dollars building a network of well maintained and designed bike trails.
The militant cyclists in the area ignore them and ride on 45 MPH roads, even when the bike trail is 10 feet away. Then they run red lights so they don't have to stop and "break their pace".
So pushing for more bike paths doesn't work.
Hell here in FL it's not illegal to ride on sidewalks, you just have to pick a set of rules and obey it. If you're on the sidewalk, you're a pedestrian. If you're on the road, you're a vehicle. Most of the cyclists around here (the ones in the Lance Armstrong wannabe getups anyhow) prefer to ignore both sets of rules.
The length of time without using an ATI product probably has a lot to do with the problems being SO bad that the GP swore off ATI products for life. I know I did after getting screwed twice and having driver support dropped for ATI hardware that I bought when Windows 95 came out, and then later a similar issue with an ATI TV Tuner. Can't remember which windows release that was, but that was the final straw.
I don't care how much they've "improved" they'll never get another dime of my money. Buggy drivers can be fixed. Dropping support for hardware less than a year old is unforgivable.
I could not agree more. These people seem to take pleasure in being a complete obstacle. For the life of me, I cannot understand why someone would willingly drive slowly in the left lane it's insane and definitely a major contributing factor to this problem.
Generally these people have pathetic, meaningless lives, and screwing up someone else's commute is the only way they can exhrt any control over another person, and thereby their environment. They think enforcing their idea of correct driving, rather than just getting the F out of the way and engaging actual courtesy, is the correct path of action.
If people maintained a reaonable distance (the 1 car lenhgth for each 10 mph) you wouldn't have this effect, or if it occurred it wouldn't be so bad.
Sadly, automated traffic lights train people not to do this. If traffic is flowing with a lesser interval, the first time an interval of that size passes over the sensor, it triggers a light change. Result: the car leaving the large gap just makes it through the light, and everyone behind him gets screwed.
Therefore, drivers that have learned this by observation make every effort NOT to be behind the guy leaving a gap.
Next we have longevity. Downloadable content will soon surpass quality and availability to blu-ray, without the hassles and headaches. Drop another 90 points.
I don't know about you, but DRM on downloadable content (and you can't possibly be naive enough to think the studios will allow real, useful, desirable HD content without DRM) troubles me a hell of a lot more than DRM on physical media that I can put my hands on.
It's far far easier for content to "accidentally" be deleted when you won't have any tangible proof with which to do anything about it.
Sony knows full well that if they actually USE any of the hypothetical destructive DRM in blu-ray, their format can die as quickly as it was born (see Divx).
Also, truly useful downloadable content requires available and USABLE bandwidth. With ISPs all over the place jumping on the "bill higher for people who actually use the bandwidth" train, people aren't going to want to pay for content AND pay per-gigabyte for the pipes to get it. That's liable to be a far bigger headache than going to the store (which generally takes less time than downloading an HD movie) or ordering on line.
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By that logic it's wrong to force people to fund any programs if they don't want them.
Yes including Welfare, Schools, victim support groups, anything.
It's called living in a representative democracy. You don't get a direct say in any of these things. I'd love to stop having my tax dollars stop funding LOTS of things. My option is to elect representatives that reflect my desires and hope they aren't corrupt (heh).
As long as pork barrel dollars are funding garbage I don't care about, I'm fine with them funding at least one thing I DO care about.
Or were you going to get people to fund Welfare and Education and Food Stamps voluntarily too?
That's ridiculous. I'm not going to risk detention, lawful or otherwise to prove a fucking point, when I can simply wait 6 hours, file a complaint, and get someone fired.
Amtrack security are not police. They are hired security. Nevertheless I'm not going to Don Quixote them in public. I'll do something more permanent after the fact when I'm not risking a huge waste of my time that I will not get recompense for.
Go have your "revolution" on your own time.
Taking useful cooking implements away from non-criminal citizens is never an acceptable solution.
UK citizens no longer have a leg to stand on in any arguement regarding civil rights if they support this shit.
The way to prevent knife crime is to NOT have mercy on perpetrators. IOW, Death Penalty.
Removing useful kitchen knives from the majority of the population is not acceptable. Yes I'm saying I'd rather have my knives than have some fuckwit perpetrator live.
Tell ya what though, make fucking sure Gordon Ramsey and The Naked Chef have to obey this on TV and I'll at least get some entertainment from that.
The Watcher WAS the Fifth Doctor. His appearance was masked by the "veil of time". I don't think there was any energy transfer. If there was the regeneration would't have botched, and he wouldn't have had to rely on the Zero Room.
Ramen, brother.
Well, much as I think NPR are a bunch of idiots, deus ex machina is more of a literary plot device than an actual deity.
Not that that makes him a deus ex machina, but it makes NPR slightly less ridiculous. I guess.
So don't do business with Air-Tran. I don't. For reasons very like this.
That doesn't mean that they're compelled to act any differently, barring legislation, bankruptcy, or acts of non-existent Deities.
Fuck, buy shit tons of stock (if they're publically traded) and make it policy that they behave better. Nothing else you can do.
The person who made the initial complaint should be forced to make a public apology. Why is this person's identity being protected? Why was the family denied the right to confront their accusers?
Not going to happen. That right refers to interaction with the government, not a corporation. Same reason that Forum Admins can squelch or ban you and not be guilty of abrogating your Free Speech right. It DOES NOT APPLY when interacting with a corporation on its private property.
Two of the family members are attorneys. I guarantee there will be civil suits against both the airline and the person who made the complaint, and the smart money is on the family winning.
Re-read the relevant "security" legislation. Not going to happen. Any such case would be summarily dismissed.
Not saying it's right, but that's the legislative landscape we (in the US) live in. There's pretty much nothing further they can do. The "at will" clauses on your tickets pretty much give the airline the right to tell you to fuck off if they don't like the slogan on your T-shirt, and you have no recourse beyond refund (if they are feeling kind).
Don't like it? get a law.
And the airline is entitled to provide service or not on their sole discretion. They're stupid to do it, to be sure, business ain't what it was, but they're not obliged to follow the recommendation of the FBI if they perceive a traveler of being somehow disruptive.
All of this "wouldn't happen if they were white" bullshit aside, a rule of thumb I've always followed (since this garbage went into effect anyhow) was "Don't say stupid shit anywhere near a plane or airport."
I fly as seldom as I possibly can, mainly because I want nothing to do with the whole process, but I'm not about to waste my own time by "protesting against the man" and saying stupid shit. I'll use my common sense and try to get through the flight with minimal time and effort.
And yea, if I was arabic, I think I'd be even more careful about what I said. Doesn't make what happened right, but there's such a thing as common fucking sense. You want to protest, go block traffic down by city hall. Don't fuck with a corporation on it's own soil and expect to get through without a hassle. Complain after the fact? sure! just don't be surprised when you get yanked off the plane.
You are smoking crack. Or you're doing something unspeakable with your CFL bulbs. There's no other explanation.
You're wrong, you're an idiot, or you're both.
Furthermore, the Constitution does not specify that the church and the state must be separate. It specifies that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Giving tax breaks to religions that fit the official definition thereof neither establishes nor infringes. Therefore, it is constitutional. You might argue that the government's definition of religion is a de facto form of establishment, but I would disagree. Would you prefer that the Constitution mentioned religion and that the government had no definition thereof?
I would prefer that the Constitution specified that "religion should in no way or on no basis be respected, specified or supported. It is on a whole mainly a source of strife, warmaking and hatred, and has no place in the governance of rational men."
But that's just me using common sense and reading history.
Me too.
Greenpeace are a bunch of attention whores.
Fuck them.
That is all.
Stupid comment system:
that was "an arrogant and uninformed retort"
Preview showed it fine.
Sure there are. Why, you could be an exploiter, or a sycophant, or -- well, that's it, really.
An ignorant and asinine response.
An arrogant
And the wine.
regarding point 2:
Trivialy easy to determine if it's a wireless device. TURN OFF THE WIRELESS NETWORK. If the device goes away, it's wireless. Then simply change the security configuration on the network, and problem solved. The offending device is no longer on the network, and its physical location is irrelevant.
Elsewise, if it doesn't go away, it's a wired device, and normal network investigation should work just fine.
It's those in the employ of Macrovision and the like that are most strident in trying to convince publishers that their product is actually needed.
Our local gov'ts across 3 counties have spent and continue to spend tens of millions of dollars building a network of well maintained and designed bike trails.
The militant cyclists in the area ignore them and ride on 45 MPH roads, even when the bike trail is 10 feet away. Then they run red lights so they don't have to stop and "break their pace".
So pushing for more bike paths doesn't work.
Hell here in FL it's not illegal to ride on sidewalks, you just have to pick a set of rules and obey it. If you're on the sidewalk, you're a pedestrian. If you're on the road, you're a vehicle. Most of the cyclists around here (the ones in the Lance Armstrong wannabe getups anyhow) prefer to ignore both sets of rules.
Well, I'm fairly sure that Hans' knowledge of "tail packing" will expand significantly now.
The length of time without using an ATI product probably has a lot to do with the problems being SO bad that the GP swore off ATI products for life. I know I did after getting screwed twice and having driver support dropped for ATI hardware that I bought when Windows 95 came out, and then later a similar issue with an ATI TV Tuner. Can't remember which windows release that was, but that was the final straw.
I don't care how much they've "improved" they'll never get another dime of my money. Buggy drivers can be fixed. Dropping support for hardware less than a year old is unforgivable.
Generally these people have pathetic, meaningless lives, and screwing up someone else's commute is the only way they can exhrt any control over another person, and thereby their environment. They think enforcing their idea of correct driving, rather than just getting the F out of the way and engaging actual courtesy, is the correct path of action.
Sadly, automated traffic lights train people not to do this. If traffic is flowing with a lesser interval, the first time an interval of that size passes over the sensor, it triggers a light change. Result: the car leaving the large gap just makes it through the light, and everyone behind him gets screwed.
Therefore, drivers that have learned this by observation make every effort NOT to be behind the guy leaving a gap.
I don't know about you, but DRM on downloadable content (and you can't possibly be naive enough to think the studios will allow real, useful, desirable HD content without DRM) troubles me a hell of a lot more than DRM on physical media that I can put my hands on.
It's far far easier for content to "accidentally" be deleted when you won't have any tangible proof with which to do anything about it.
Sony knows full well that if they actually USE any of the hypothetical destructive DRM in blu-ray, their format can die as quickly as it was born (see Divx).
Also, truly useful downloadable content requires available and USABLE bandwidth. With ISPs all over the place jumping on the "bill higher for people who actually use the bandwidth" train, people aren't going to want to pay for content AND pay per-gigabyte for the pipes to get it. That's liable to be a far bigger headache than going to the store (which generally takes less time than downloading an HD movie) or ordering on line.
I'll stick with physical media, thanks.