Quite possibly the most saintly of any human organization, the members of the National Chimney Sweeps of America have defended our nation and its democratic heritage from the evil denizens of corrupt political machinery.
American taxidermists have always championed feminist principles, often protecting innocent would-be victims of alley rape with their uncanny intuitive abilities and superhuman strength.
Yes, except that prior to say, 1960 or so, these salesmen were more properly known as con artists and flimflam men.
The only reason to allow people to be aggressive when selling something, is that their product might otherwise be desired except that people have a hard time discovering it. When they no longer desire it at all, and salesmen exist only to manipulate you into buying something totally worthless, then salesmanship itself is useless to society.
Society (and individuals like yourself, should you ever pull your head out of your ass) have the right to discuss whether that point has been reached, and also the right to limit it if it has.
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Why is it that Ralph Nader and his supporters are doing thier best to ingore how the US Electoral system acutally works?
You mean the part where he's allowed to vote however he likes, even for Nader? Oh, that's right, the democrats and republicans are colluding to make sure you have no choices but them... nevermind.
In truth, I was unaware of the current offerings. This I admit. Still, I will say I wonder if it's actually too little too late.
Also, my choice of tense, wording may be poor, but the english language isn't always ideal for some of the weirdest tenses a person might want to use... catch me sometime when discussing dumb time travel plots in movies.;)
Supposedly he wrote a pretty passable basic interpreter back in the day. Of course, he used free computer time to cross-compile (cross-assemble?) it, then turned around and whined like a bitch when people refused to buy the $1500 license. How many years later, and the man still refuses to release a free development enviroment to hobbyists?
Linux is great, don't get me wrong. I still learn new things that prove this... but me, and at least a few of my friends, the thing that hooked us, gcc didn't cost $200. Had he provided a free Visual Basic Hobbyist Edition, or better yet even c/c++... I doubt I would have ever felt a need.
Shame Kildall didn't live long enough to see linux squash Microsoft.
But it's true. Apache eventually won out over IIS, and what happened? 10 apache worms a week, every week for the past 2 years. And don't even get me started on the local exploits. Apache, the worst httpd ever!
If you had a bad run of luck, I wouldn't let you starve. What makes you think I want to live in a society where someone whose only blame is bad luck can starve on a streetcorner? Even me, the lower middle class guy, would have quite a few extra thousand dollars a year.
I'm not religious, btw.
Instead, thousands of my tax dollars get absorbed by the federal and state government, and lord knows how that gets used. Even if I would only spend a fraction of this on charity, certainly that is more than what the gov spends on it, in my name... and it tends to do a poor job of distinguishing between you, Bad Luck Guy, and your welfare nemesis, Worthless Crack Ho.
This behemoth of a government wasn't created to use the wealth of society for the benefit of the unfortunate, it was created so that your great grandchildren will wake up slaves.
Particularly troubling for my own concept network, which I first conceived when I mistakenly thought there was no such thing as an international search warrant. Oh well.
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In theory, they might want to fix some of the really broken laws that have been passed...
Unfortunately, the MTV generation (specifically the hip-hop and gangsta rap crowd) will vote the NY democrat Rangel back into office. You know, the author of our latest draft bill, the sponsor, and contradictorially, the guy screaming loudest that Dubya would institute a draft.
Mind you, Dubya is just as bad. Anyone ever stop to consider that both sides want this, and that they're doing a little theater show for us just so we don't realize what's going on?
You act as if they're somehow fundamental opposites. Unfortunately, their corruption is additive.
The same puppeteer has the Dubya sock puppet on his right hand, and the Lurch puppet on his left. He's so fat that the curtain no longer hides him, but I'm still supposed to believe him when he tells me I have a choice to make....
Temp job for some men's suits store, I installed a few things. Think the instructions I got included running a few REXX scripts. I also own a few amigas, and have the boxed sets of OS/2 going back all the way to 1.3.
Only OS/2 box of mine not in storage, is a microchannel 286 on the token ring segment. The Amigas are on the arcnet...
Zero reluctance to use an exacto knife and suture myself back up afterward. I may even covertly clone other tags walking down the street, and change my identity. Won't work when I'm under scrutiny, but should give me a little breathing room...
Big deal. You seem to think that when we talk government, that those in power give a shit if a DA in some backwater can make a case against a drug dealer... simply not the case.
When they use this the way they want to, there won't be such a thing as an illegal search.
Currency is printed by the fed, the biggest crook of all. And while the counterfeiters in Colombia and N. Korea do take a cut of the ill-gotten gains this way, and without permission at that, the crooks in charge trust them to not ruin it so completely that there is no wealth left to steal.
However, the fed can't have that same trust of joe sixpack, because he is an amateur crook, and might teach his buddies how to do the same. He is the biggest threat, and not to the economy... but rather to the scam itself.
If you bother writing your congressmen, add an extra sentence or two insisting that the government resume its right to coin money, and take it out of the hands of a private corporation owned by foreigners.
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I'd go for the first to support OS/2.
Quite possibly the most saintly of any human organization, the members of the National Chimney Sweeps of America have defended our nation and its democratic heritage from the evil denizens of corrupt political machinery.
American taxidermists have always championed feminist principles, often protecting innocent would-be victims of alley rape with their uncanny intuitive abilities and superhuman strength.
911 emergency service access, primarily. Most other justifications are kinda flaky, though.
Yes, except that prior to say, 1960 or so, these salesmen were more properly known as con artists and flimflam men.
The only reason to allow people to be aggressive when selling something, is that their product might otherwise be desired except that people have a hard time discovering it. When they no longer desire it at all, and salesmen exist only to manipulate you into buying something totally worthless, then salesmanship itself is useless to society.
Society (and individuals like yourself, should you ever pull your head out of your ass) have the right to discuss whether that point has been reached, and also the right to limit it if it has.
Why is it that Ralph Nader and his supporters are doing thier best to ingore how the US Electoral system acutally works?
You mean the part where he's allowed to vote however he likes, even for Nader? Oh, that's right, the democrats and republicans are colluding to make sure you have no choices but them... nevermind.
In truth, I was unaware of the current offerings. This I admit. Still, I will say I wonder if it's actually too little too late.
;)
Also, my choice of tense, wording may be poor, but the english language isn't always ideal for some of the weirdest tenses a person might want to use... catch me sometime when discussing dumb time travel plots in movies.
Yes. Now ask yourself, did they become available before or after I started using linux?
How about assuming that I didn't buy my first computer 6 months ago, asshat?
I started using linux 7 years ago, was it? (Early slackware, 3.0.something). Was it available then?
Both good examples, but you missed one. Mac OSX.
Supposedly he wrote a pretty passable basic interpreter back in the day. Of course, he used free computer time to cross-compile (cross-assemble?) it, then turned around and whined like a bitch when people refused to buy the $1500 license. How many years later, and the man still refuses to release a free development enviroment to hobbyists?
Linux is great, don't get me wrong. I still learn new things that prove this... but me, and at least a few of my friends, the thing that hooked us, gcc didn't cost $200. Had he provided a free Visual Basic Hobbyist Edition, or better yet even c/c++... I doubt I would have ever felt a need.
Shame Kildall didn't live long enough to see linux squash Microsoft.
But it's true. Apache eventually won out over IIS, and what happened? 10 apache worms a week, every week for the past 2 years. And don't even get me started on the local exploits. Apache, the worst httpd ever!
Oh wait. Never mind.
If you had a bad run of luck, I wouldn't let you starve. What makes you think I want to live in a society where someone whose only blame is bad luck can starve on a streetcorner? Even me, the lower middle class guy, would have quite a few extra thousand dollars a year.
I'm not religious, btw.
Instead, thousands of my tax dollars get absorbed by the federal and state government, and lord knows how that gets used. Even if I would only spend a fraction of this on charity, certainly that is more than what the gov spends on it, in my name... and it tends to do a poor job of distinguishing between you, Bad Luck Guy, and your welfare nemesis, Worthless Crack Ho.
This behemoth of a government wasn't created to use the wealth of society for the benefit of the unfortunate, it was created so that your great grandchildren will wake up slaves.
Particularly troubling for my own concept network, which I first conceived when I mistakenly thought there was no such thing as an international search warrant. Oh well.
In theory, they might want to fix some of the really broken laws that have been passed...
Unfortunately, the MTV generation (specifically the hip-hop and gangsta rap crowd) will vote the NY democrat Rangel back into office. You know, the author of our latest draft bill, the sponsor, and contradictorially, the guy screaming loudest that Dubya would institute a draft.
Mind you, Dubya is just as bad. Anyone ever stop to consider that both sides want this, and that they're doing a little theater show for us just so we don't realize what's going on?
You act as if they're somehow fundamental opposites. Unfortunately, their corruption is additive.
The same puppeteer has the Dubya sock puppet on his right hand, and the Lurch puppet on his left. He's so fat that the curtain no longer hides him, but I'm still supposed to believe him when he tells me I have a choice to make....
Unlikely. The waiting list for naturalization in Fantasyland is decades, you'll still be in this shithole.
Proud owner of a few STs. Wish I had a TT030 or Falcon... anyone have one they want to be rid of?
Temp job for some men's suits store, I installed a few things. Think the instructions I got included running a few REXX scripts. I also own a few amigas, and have the boxed sets of OS/2 going back all the way to 1.3.
Only OS/2 box of mine not in storage, is a microchannel 286 on the token ring segment. The Amigas are on the arcnet...
That's like 2 flamefests in one!
Zero reluctance to use an exacto knife and suture myself back up afterward. I may even covertly clone other tags walking down the street, and change my identity. Won't work when I'm under scrutiny, but should give me a little breathing room...
Big deal. You seem to think that when we talk government, that those in power give a shit if a DA in some backwater can make a case against a drug dealer... simply not the case.
When they use this the way they want to, there won't be such a thing as an illegal search.
You'd be welcome on my network, for what it's worth. Email me.
Currency is printed by the fed, the biggest crook of all. And while the counterfeiters in Colombia and N. Korea do take a cut of the ill-gotten gains this way, and without permission at that, the crooks in charge trust them to not ruin it so completely that there is no wealth left to steal.
However, the fed can't have that same trust of joe sixpack, because he is an amateur crook, and might teach his buddies how to do the same. He is the biggest threat, and not to the economy... but rather to the scam itself.
If you bother writing your congressmen, add an extra sentence or two insisting that the government resume its right to coin money, and take it out of the hands of a private corporation owned by foreigners.
I sold my eternal soul to Satan, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.