I don't know if this is meant to be an insult against Andromeda, or praise, but neither is deserved.
If you're insulting, then I must say, despite my initial misgivings of "Hercules in Space", I was rather bewildered to discover that some episodes were on par with the best that TNG ever put out, and smited the crud that issued forth from Voyager week after week.
The episode where they are returning Rhade's body to his descendants, and Dylan notices the scar on his hand that shouldn't be there... it's actually pretty touching.
And it doesn't deserve praise, either. The episodes I've seen of the last season... they're incoherent. I think the script was written by random number generators.
The only show it can even be compared to is Earth: Final Conflict, another Roddenberry orphan. Season 1 was full of intrigue and wonder, season 5 was buffy the vampire slayer.
I don't believe in magic, and I'm not superstitious.
And I sure as hell don't believe your economics. I need not mention that those economics are voodooish even by the standards of the quacks that run economies, I suppose.
But what about the 1st Ammendment rights to peaceful assembly? Or does that only count for flights to DC for protests?
I'm not a constitutional scholar, and I have a vague layman's understanding of it. I can't quote more than a phrase or two of any of it. And I used to be ashamed of that.
Well, one day on the phone with a dipshit college student of a customer, he mentions to his roommate something about a flag, and the other says "we should just burn it". And they start arguing whether it's illegal to do so or not.
No wonder Dubya and the rest are allowed to sneak through attempts to ammend it against flag-burning. Have you followed his attempts to get that through congress? And it doesn't have to be ratified right away either, they can spend the next 100 years getting 2/3rds of the states to ratify the damn thing.
Refusing to submit to search = being fined for violating federal law, possible jailtime, and indefinite detention from several hours on up to several days.
Me != absurd.
You = boneheaded retard.
this confusion about rights and how far they extend has become all too common in this world in which government has become much too involved in areas far beyond the scope envisioned by the framers of the constitution = Thomas Jefferson spinning in his grave at 172,000ROM.
Try taking a car from a Ford lot and claiming "it's my right to travel so I'm not paying you any money", asshat.
Hint: No one suggested that we were dealing with freeloaders, and it's absurd to suggest that we were discussing anything like that.
Round two.
Who said you had a right to travel by any means you choose
Hint: I did. In the post you replied to. I specifically said that you have many rights, even those not listed. That would include traveling by any means you choose. Boat, airplane, bus, car, horse and buggy, dogsled, rocketship, Rocketcar Taxi.
Round Three.
get your shoes on and start walking
Hint: We were discussing air travel, and then we see innuendo that my only rights to travel are that of walking. That's right folks, not just planes are off limits, but cars too, apparently.
Round Four.
without taking on any further responsibilities?
Hint: It might be said that allowing TSA jerks to see you naked is a responsibility of a good air passenger, but if so, then it's only been said in unseen TSA propaganda pamphlets so far!
How do you tell who is a terrorist and who are the "good people". Better to get rid of all the guns. That is why I feel safer in the UK.
In my country, you get the benefit of the doubt.
And it's strange that anyone from the UK would be able to post to this discussion without feeling some kind of shame, haven't your camera operators already been disciplined for using them to ogle women? This discussion is about us not wanting our government to do the same to us.
Today folks, we will learn about a clause of this great document that says, more or less, you have many, many rights, and that it doesn't have to be listed in the Constitution or some other document for it to be a right. That's correct, it does not have to be listed, to be a right.
One example, plucked right out of the air (pun intended), is the right to travel freely. You don't have to present documents or internal passports to move within the US.
So, not do you only have the right to fly, technically, it is a violation of your rights to make you present identification.
But it gets better. You have the right to enter into contracts as you see fit, as an adult, but not into contracts that violate any of your rights... you can't sell yourself into slavery. One example of a contract you can enter into is paying $500 to fly to some city on the other side of the country. An example of a contract that is invalid, giving up your right to very intimate privacy such as revealing your nipples and buttcrack to a airport screener in return for being allowed to board.
you don't have to fly if it's that big of a deal for you.
Maybe he does have to fly. I can think of any number of contrived scenarios where there is no other option, really. Some quite plausible. A parent is dying on the other coast, and you only have a few hours left. Rocketcar Taxi Services is out of business for breaking speed laws...
But it does not matter. It could be the shallowest reason, or no reason at all. The entire point of having rights, is that you don't need to ask for permission to exercise them, or justify their use. And even if we're going to get into tired arguments about abuse of rights, if such a thing is possible, not wanting to be digitally undressed by a TSA mouthbreather just to go on a trip is not one of them.
But all you're doing is helping to encourage others who can't possibly use it to continue doing so. You're the guy standing up in an AA meeting saying you don't see what the big deal, you like to have a drink on the weekend once in awhile, and it never hurt you.
Windows autocalculates the subnet when you type in an IP. Ive never seen it guess wrong.
We give out 64.x.x.x IPs. They need to have 255.255.255.0 subnets the way the our DSLAMs are set up. It's a class A IP though, so it autocalculates 255.0.0.0. However, we have a few 216.x.x.x IPs also. And while I don't see so many of those, I distinctly remember the customer saying "it already has 255.0.0.0 in there". The first is dumb, even people with 1.x.x.x - 126.x.x.x IPs are rarely on a network segment with 16 million other hosts. On the latter, it's just plain wrong. Score 0 for M$.
IPv6?? ROFL. thats just a lie. Ive never seen any PC that didnt have just one TCP/IP stack per interface ona default install.
New Dells. Has happened too often for me to chalk it up as a fluke. And it doesn't also include IPv4, it only has one. The wrong one. Score 0 for Dell.
typing the dots has no effect because MS assumes that you are typing the dots and moves the cursor to the next octet when a dot is typed.
Confuses the customer. If it's already there, they don't have to type it. When they don't, then it bitches about invalid octets. Score 0 for M$.
start menu -> control pannel -> network connections -> MENU -> view -> details
Wow, yet another way to do it. That's exactly what I need. Time will tell if this one is consistent, or inconsistent like the others. Judgement reserved.
When you click "use the following IP address" it doesnt let you obtain dns automatically. IT unghosted all the fields, not just some of them.
Then why does it have another radio selector? I only mentioned it because it sometimes seems to work, other times doesn't. If the top radio button set does, why put the other in their to confuse the casual user? Score 0 for M$.
of course on linux you can enter commands to change just about everything so that is, in your world, the easiest because i could just say ' ifconfig interface XXX add x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x ' or some such similar thing.
Yeh, nice isn't it? A single command, that nails 3 of the numbers right away, and only one more to add the nameservers to/etc/resolv.conf. I bet that would even beat the 3.5minutes it takes for me to help an OSX user configure their machine... Score 1 for unix.
Dufus, he asked about copy rights. Not property rights. At the bottom of some copyrighted material do you see a (P)? No, it's (C) because it's C-O-P-Y right.
So, even though you don't get it, you answered the question perfectly. Capitalism only needs property rights, and not imaginary, propagandized quasi-property rights.
I'd do one better, if I were the judge. I'd sentence the kid to submitting a court document showing accurate breakdown of each of the artists he pilfered, by ratio. Then I'd make him mail off checks to each one of them.
Oh, and then I'd stick the RIAA with the court costs. Shit, what's the career path to being a judge again?
More to the point, is it not just a little bit dumb that a command with "config" as part of its name cannot config anything? Should have been called ipview.
In the literal sense, OSX is in the "anything but windows" category. Is it not?
Everything except the incarnations of Windows is (even MSDOS!).
Now, that might be unfair to several OSs, OSX included, it wasn't intended as a slight. The 1 rule guide to not hating computing is "anything but windows".
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I don't know if this is meant to be an insult against Andromeda, or praise, but neither is deserved.
If you're insulting, then I must say, despite my initial misgivings of "Hercules in Space", I was rather bewildered to discover that some episodes were on par with the best that TNG ever put out, and smited the crud that issued forth from Voyager week after week.
The episode where they are returning Rhade's body to his descendants, and Dylan notices the scar on his hand that shouldn't be there... it's actually pretty touching.
And it doesn't deserve praise, either. The episodes I've seen of the last season... they're incoherent. I think the script was written by random number generators.
The only show it can even be compared to is Earth: Final Conflict, another Roddenberry orphan. Season 1 was full of intrigue and wonder, season 5 was buffy the vampire slayer.
I'd love to see "Buffy the Cardassian Slayer" too!
He'd only had klingon women before then. Not easy to be courageous around them, unless you want it bitten off...
Tramiel, is that you?
Plain wrong. I know for a fact there are twice as many optimists out there...
Because it's part of the OS. Even on OSX!
I don't believe in magic, and I'm not superstitious.
And I sure as hell don't believe your economics. I need not mention that those economics are voodooish even by the standards of the quacks that run economies, I suppose.
Or thinking of moving there?
Check out my dumbest idea ever (Cable modem)
Or here.
900mhz interferes with Proxim wireless. I can't give up wireless Apple Newton, not after finally making it work.
Wouldn't it be shorter to just say "Oceania ID Card" ?
9th Ammendment
That alone is enough, is it not?
But what about the 1st Ammendment rights to peaceful assembly? Or does that only count for flights to DC for protests?
I'm not a constitutional scholar, and I have a vague layman's understanding of it. I can't quote more than a phrase or two of any of it. And I used to be ashamed of that.
Well, one day on the phone with a dipshit college student of a customer, he mentions to his roommate something about a flag, and the other says "we should just burn it". And they start arguing whether it's illegal to do so or not.
No wonder Dubya and the rest are allowed to sneak through attempts to ammend it against flag-burning. Have you followed his attempts to get that through congress? And it doesn't have to be ratified right away either, they can spend the next 100 years getting 2/3rds of the states to ratify the damn thing.
It represents a limit on the power of government
TSA = Federal agency.
Refusing to submit to search = being fined for violating federal law, possible jailtime, and indefinite detention from several hours on up to several days.
Me != absurd.
You = boneheaded retard.
this confusion about rights and how far they extend has become all too common in this world in which government has become much too involved in areas far beyond the scope envisioned by the framers of the constitution = Thomas Jefferson spinning in his grave at 172,000ROM.
Today, on Name that Fallacy!
Try taking a car from a Ford lot and claiming "it's my right to travel so I'm not paying you any money", asshat.
Hint: No one suggested that we were dealing with freeloaders, and it's absurd to suggest that we were discussing anything like that.
Round two.
Who said you had a right to travel by any means you choose
Hint: I did. In the post you replied to. I specifically said that you have many rights, even those not listed. That would include traveling by any means you choose. Boat, airplane, bus, car, horse and buggy, dogsled, rocketship, Rocketcar Taxi.
Round Three.
get your shoes on and start walking
Hint: We were discussing air travel, and then we see innuendo that my only rights to travel are that of walking. That's right folks, not just planes are off limits, but cars too, apparently.
Round Four.
without taking on any further responsibilities?
Hint: It might be said that allowing TSA jerks to see you naked is a responsibility of a good air passenger, but if so, then it's only been said in unseen TSA propaganda pamphlets so far!
you have to be prepared to pay for it
Yeh. You have to pay for it. What you don't have to do, is allow some TSA asshat to undress you.
They are businesses, and they have the right to restrict access to their property any way they want to.
That's funny, I never heard that Delta and United are the ones doing all this. Isn't it some federal agency?
How do you tell who is a terrorist and who are the "good people". Better to get rid of all the guns. That is why I feel safer in the UK.
In my country, you get the benefit of the doubt.
And it's strange that anyone from the UK would be able to post to this discussion without feeling some kind of shame, haven't your camera operators already been disciplined for using them to ogle women? This discussion is about us not wanting our government to do the same to us.
Wow, our tax dollars at work. They should all be fired, especially for the "we're sorry, but we have to follow procedures" part.
How many of these have to happen, how often, before Mullah Jihadster can slip right through because they are wasting time checking toddlers for C4?
Today folks, we will learn about a clause of this great document that says, more or less, you have many, many rights, and that it doesn't have to be listed in the Constitution or some other document for it to be a right. That's correct, it does not have to be listed, to be a right.
One example, plucked right out of the air (pun intended), is the right to travel freely. You don't have to present documents or internal passports to move within the US.
So, not do you only have the right to fly, technically, it is a violation of your rights to make you present identification.
But it gets better. You have the right to enter into contracts as you see fit, as an adult, but not into contracts that violate any of your rights... you can't sell yourself into slavery. One example of a contract you can enter into is paying $500 to fly to some city on the other side of the country. An example of a contract that is invalid, giving up your right to very intimate privacy such as revealing your nipples and buttcrack to a airport screener in return for being allowed to board.
you don't have to fly if it's that big of a deal for you.
Maybe he does have to fly. I can think of any number of contrived scenarios where there is no other option, really. Some quite plausible. A parent is dying on the other coast, and you only have a few hours left. Rocketcar Taxi Services is out of business for breaking speed laws...
But it does not matter. It could be the shallowest reason, or no reason at all. The entire point of having rights, is that you don't need to ask for permission to exercise them, or justify their use. And even if we're going to get into tired arguments about abuse of rights, if such a thing is possible, not wanting to be digitally undressed by a TSA mouthbreather just to go on a trip is not one of them.
Funny that you consider bizarre abstractions and bundles of "rights" to be not only the definition of property, but the "simplest" one.
Rights aren't property, nor are properties rights. Granting them equivalence only muddles definitions.
You're probably sincere and honest.
But all you're doing is helping to encourage others who can't possibly use it to continue doing so. You're the guy standing up in an AA meeting saying you don't see what the big deal, you like to have a drink on the weekend once in awhile, and it never hurt you.
Windows autocalculates the subnet when you type in an IP. Ive never seen it guess wrong.
/etc/resolv.conf. I bet that would even beat the 3.5minutes it takes for me to help an OSX user configure their machine...
We give out 64.x.x.x IPs. They need to have 255.255.255.0 subnets the way the our DSLAMs are set up. It's a class A IP though, so it autocalculates 255.0.0.0. However, we have a few 216.x.x.x IPs also. And while I don't see so many of those, I distinctly remember the customer saying "it already has 255.0.0.0 in there". The first is dumb, even people with 1.x.x.x - 126.x.x.x IPs are rarely on a network segment with 16 million other hosts. On the latter, it's just plain wrong. Score 0 for M$.
IPv6?? ROFL. thats just a lie. Ive never seen any PC that didnt have just one TCP/IP stack per interface ona default install.
New Dells. Has happened too often for me to chalk it up as a fluke. And it doesn't also include IPv4, it only has one. The wrong one. Score 0 for Dell.
typing the dots has no effect because MS assumes that you are typing the dots and moves the cursor to the next octet when a dot is typed.
Confuses the customer. If it's already there, they don't have to type it. When they don't, then it bitches about invalid octets. Score 0 for M$.
start menu -> control pannel -> network connections -> MENU -> view -> details
Wow, yet another way to do it. That's exactly what I need. Time will tell if this one is consistent, or inconsistent like the others. Judgement reserved.
When you click "use the following IP address" it doesnt let you obtain dns automatically. IT unghosted all the fields, not just some of them.
Then why does it have another radio selector? I only mentioned it because it sometimes seems to work, other times doesn't. If the top radio button set does, why put the other in their to confuse the casual user? Score 0 for M$.
of course on linux you can enter commands to change just about everything so that is, in your world, the easiest because i could just say ' ifconfig interface XXX add x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x ' or some such similar thing.
Yeh, nice isn't it? A single command, that nails 3 of the numbers right away, and only one more to add the nameservers to
Score 1 for unix.
Dufus, he asked about copy rights. Not property rights. At the bottom of some copyrighted material do you see a (P)? No, it's (C) because it's C-O-P-Y right.
So, even though you don't get it, you answered the question perfectly. Capitalism only needs property rights, and not imaginary, propagandized quasi-property rights.
I'd do one better, if I were the judge. I'd sentence the kid to submitting a court document showing accurate breakdown of each of the artists he pilfered, by ratio. Then I'd make him mail off checks to each one of them.
Oh, and then I'd stick the RIAA with the court costs. Shit, what's the career path to being a judge again?
More to the point, is it not just a little bit dumb that a command with "config" as part of its name cannot config anything? Should have been called ipview.
Those people are the least comprehensible of all. I wonder if he is a sexual masochist too, or if he is only a IT masochist.
In the literal sense, OSX is in the "anything but windows" category. Is it not?
Everything except the incarnations of Windows is (even MSDOS!).
Now, that might be unfair to several OSs, OSX included, it wasn't intended as a slight. The 1 rule guide to not hating computing is "anything but windows".