If conservative = "of the same faction as Dubya"... I might believe it.
If conservative = "hesitant to change things", not even close.
If conservative = "boiling the frog slowly"... well, then you're at least warm. Don't forget that liberals want to boil frogs too. Wish I could find the link of the New York Times editor in 1951, who at some awards banquet remarked how if they really told how things were, he'd be out of a job.
Because the labels are meaningless. It would be slightly more honest to just call them A and B, because the liberals certainly aren't all that intent on letting me keep any of my liberties (unless they are trivial... they're all for me being able to marry another man, but lord forbid I want to fly without having an internal passport) and the conservatives sure as hell aren't about "conserving" anything, whether that is just stodgy old traditions, our fast dwindling oil supplies, or even our tax revenue.
Actually, I've reached the conclusion that there is only one political party, even if it has two names, and gets to nominate two presidential candidates. Even if not literally true (as part of some tinfoilhat conspiracy) for practical purposes it's imperative to act as if that's the case. I want to barf everytime I hear that the Iraq situation is our most important problem... anyone that believes that is a fool.
Nice moderation. Offtopic maybe (if you're some fascist cretin that can't accept tangential threads), but troll? Since when is troll simply "something I don't believe/agree with" ?
I'm confused, you're clueful enough to realize money (in it's ideal form) is an abstract of work/effort... but you fail to see what it is in it's more corrupt actual form.
In truth, money is a loan from a central bank to a government, that due to interest can never be repaid. Think about it a moment, if you get a $100,000 home loan, you don't walk away with a brief case of bills (and even if you did, they can't be exchanged for gold), the bank assigns some numbers to your account briefly, which gets assigned to someone else's account who then lets you have a house.
All money is, is slavery to a bank, which gives permission for someone to transfer real property to you.
Haha. If I had a ReplayTV, then maybe your argument would carry some weight. Those are the guys that fight all the worthy causes, even winning a few. Tivo? All the series 2 bullshit, the obstacles they threw at people to disable the bash prompt... sorry. I buy hardware. If they sell it under cost, well, that's just dumb....
But I do credit them with kickass hardware. I'd buy one even if they did price them at profit... but services are for fools.
this isnt just about saving money, its about doing it your self
Oh, really? Do you select the proper chipsets, and hand-route the traces for custom boards? Write the VHDL for all the nifty FPGAs it needs?
What these people do, is the equivalent of adding some aftermarket fiberglass spoiler to your Honda Civic. I can respect the man that welds the frame himself, for his straight 8 hotrod, building the thing from scratch. But slapping some decals on the fenders, even if you scrubbed all the grime off them first, just doesn't count.
The parent poster may be a lamer that paid a lifetime subscription, but the proper way is some not-so-easy-to-google perl scripts, that scrape guide data off of tvguide.com and format it for the Tivo.
Nice when you have more than one, in that a computer under your direct control can manage it as if there is more than one. Who wants 3 tivo's all recording the same damn thing? Besides, some things like C band tv, just aren't supported by Tivo.
Who said it's necessary to subscribe? It took all of a week, for me to find someone else's perl scripts for writing my own guide data. Besides, as nice as Tivo is, it's the Apple iBook of PVRs when I really wanted an Alphaserver. Ever try to get 2 tivo's to coordinate, when you've hit a timeblock where you'll want heavy recording? They're just not that bright. I've got my central server farming out recording tasks of all the PVRs, managing things (not that my personal software is perfect either, it screws up from time to time...). My goal, is to get a DirecTivo series 1, and a Dish 721, so that I can retask my original tivos to C band, starchoice and broadcast. Wouldn't mind getting a Motorola DCT5200 either...
A generic PC architecture just isn't robust enough, unless you want to risk it barfing on the last play of the superbowl, or the last episode of the Sopranos.
I've never really understood this need to do the "homebrew PVR" thing. Sure, people still build their own cars today, even though Fords and Chevys are pretty nice... but they're $100,000 labor of love hotrods. These things are jalopy AMC pacers with hamsters on treadmills under the hood.
Minimum of sarcasm, serious question that calls the parent post's assertion into doubt.
I have plenty of PCMCIA cards, including some weird ones. But I've never even heard of a TV tuner cardbus card... and the parent didn't hint that that was what he had meant.
So shove your flamebait mod up your ass, crackmoderator.
Insightful? If they're avoiding it, I doubt that they're unaware... notification in this case actually means "harassment".
But since you're so afraid that they won't pay (once we translate all your not-so-subtle trolling bullshit) why don't we just institute debt slavery and debtor's prison. Torture might also be in order for some of the worst offenders.
I'll go one further. Telco's should be forced to provide ANI to me at a modest fee, maybe $5 per month. This CallerID bullshit is all but worthless, even when clever PBX tricks aren't being used.
A federally mandated phone blackhole list would be even better yet. Each person gets 5-20 blackhole slots, that can be bound to any published blackhole list. In 2 weeks, we'd have all of their numbers on these things, everyone would be subscribed to them, and we could finally get this shit under control. The DNC list is a joke.
Not a movie, dumbass. Google AFR I believe, practically any transuranic is fuel, and it eats way more than the 3% you can expect out of a traditional reactor. The waste has shorter half-lifes than traditional reactors, and less of it, overall. It's weapon proliferation-resistant, both the fuel in its ideal form, and the waste, aren't that good for making bombs.
And if that doesn't make it a good idea, then this pretty much clinches it. Congress killed funding for more research and a bigger prototype a few years back...
You're just a little confused about the true purpose of cctv. When you've finally 1984'd your entire nation, then you'll be able to see how well they work. Well, you'll at least be able to guess, based on how many of your friends and neighbors mysteriously disappear with no explanation.
So even when everything is documented, it's still easy to claim day is night, and red is blue. Let me tell you a story about Comrade Withers, an Inner Party member, who has earned the a medal of the Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class...
Yes, because all we did in Iraq, is point bigger guns at them, and the fight was over.
Has anyone noticed that we've had to occupy the country with infantry that carries guess what, *rifles*.
If we can't use firearms against a government, why is the US military using the same damn thing to occupy Iraq, instead of all our superweapons? Maybe because air superiority, tanks, and missiles wouldn't be the most effective and/or PRable tactics over there? What, do you think they're going to nuke Seattle if there is another protest?
The 2nd Ammendment is indeed a check and balance.
I must admit you're onto something with the cameras, with a little work, you might realize that proper regulation is impossible, and that it's better to do away with them entirely.
As I remember, it was you guys that made us paranoid in the first place. And when we snubbed your banking overlords in 1811, they sicced you guys on us yet again. Now your banking overlords rule here anyway, our crazies militiaize, and those that really understand *wish* they were crazy enough to train in those militias.
They have the means and will to eliminate those that "get more out of insurance than they ever paid". It doesn't make sense to not figure out who they are in advance, and get rid of them pre-emptively. They write the laws, it's not illegal. 90% or more of us could easily get by putting the premiums into a savings account, and tucking it away for when bad things happen. 7% of the remaining would just be on the wrong side of the accident, they could pay for it eventually, but it happens a bit too early... only the remaining 3% or so actually have something so catastrophic happen, they couldn't hope to pay for it.
Would gladly give some of mine, if it meant they weren't slaves to insurance.
You really didn't think you had a right to travel, did you? I for one welcome our new internal passports, those terrorists are sneaky, and we must fight them with all the bureacracy we can!
What it can do, is force everyone into driving with a black box. Driving without one will become prohibitively expensive, even though the statistics will show that with/without doesn't really affect the actual numbers.
Insurance is about getting you to pay for something that won't ever likely happen... want me to prove it? Keep having stupid accidents, and see if they don't drop you.
You're all wrong. Herzog Zwei (Sega Genesis) is the first RTS of note. Warcraft (1) comes out a couple years later. Plenty of strategy games before and after it, and at least a dozen genres... but most until then were turn-based.
It amazes me that people don't know what an RTS is.
You mean like if we wake up one morning, and all the uranium in the world has turned into chalk?
WTF?!
Nuclear (fission), even if we want hog wild, would see us through the next 2 centuries or so. If we acted even mildly wise, and used that time to develop fusion... well, at that point, it would be an end to our foreseeable energy problems.
Someone found a better link for me a few weeks back on slashdot, but I must have lost it. Until then, I'd never heard of it, only knowing about pebble beds. Don't worry let your hippy side worry though, Congress killed IFR a few years back.
Hell, supposedly we wouldn't have to mine more fission fuel for a hundred years, it would be more difficult to use the fuel for weapons than to make your own weapons-grade stuff, and the contrived scenarios where things could go wrong are so absurd that even the fearmongers would have trouble not breaking into a small grin while listening.
Or they could use new reactor designs that burn up all the long-lived nasty stuff, leaving only isotopes with short half-lives.
Some of them can be run on virtually anything, not just uranium and plutonium... we could literally use some of the waste as fuel, and detoxify it all at the same time.
You all miss the point. There are new reactor designs that are not only meltdown safe, but produce virtually 0% long half-life products. We could supply what, 95% or more of the US's current and project electricity needs with nuclear, if only people weren't retards. Think how much your gas prices would drop, when people at the pump aren't competing for the same petroleum that the power companies are.
Hell, even now, as much as we've run our country's prospects into the ground, fission just might see us through until we wised up, and started funding real fusion research (instead of squabbling over whether an over-funded, bad-idea pork barrel project is placed in Japan or France).
If you think a financial depression of the 1930s is bad, wait until we have a energy depression in 2030.
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If conservative = "of the same faction as Dubya"... I might believe it.
If conservative = "hesitant to change things", not even close.
If conservative = "boiling the frog slowly"... well, then you're at least warm. Don't forget that liberals want to boil frogs too. Wish I could find the link of the New York Times editor in 1951, who at some awards banquet remarked how if they really told how things were, he'd be out of a job.
Because the labels are meaningless. It would be slightly more honest to just call them A and B, because the liberals certainly aren't all that intent on letting me keep any of my liberties (unless they are trivial... they're all for me being able to marry another man, but lord forbid I want to fly without having an internal passport) and the conservatives sure as hell aren't about "conserving" anything, whether that is just stodgy old traditions, our fast dwindling oil supplies, or even our tax revenue.
Actually, I've reached the conclusion that there is only one political party, even if it has two names, and gets to nominate two presidential candidates. Even if not literally true (as part of some tinfoilhat conspiracy) for practical purposes it's imperative to act as if that's the case. I want to barf everytime I hear that the Iraq situation is our most important problem... anyone that believes that is a fool.
Nice moderation. Offtopic maybe (if you're some fascist cretin that can't accept tangential threads), but troll? Since when is troll simply "something I don't believe/agree with" ?
I'm confused, you're clueful enough to realize money (in it's ideal form) is an abstract of work/effort... but you fail to see what it is in it's more corrupt actual form.
In truth, money is a loan from a central bank to a government, that due to interest can never be repaid. Think about it a moment, if you get a $100,000 home loan, you don't walk away with a brief case of bills (and even if you did, they can't be exchanged for gold), the bank assigns some numbers to your account briefly, which gets assigned to someone else's account who then lets you have a house.
All money is, is slavery to a bank, which gives permission for someone to transfer real property to you.
Haha. If I had a ReplayTV, then maybe your argument would carry some weight. Those are the guys that fight all the worthy causes, even winning a few. Tivo? All the series 2 bullshit, the obstacles they threw at people to disable the bash prompt... sorry. I buy hardware. If they sell it under cost, well, that's just dumb....
But I do credit them with kickass hardware. I'd buy one even if they did price them at profit... but services are for fools.
this isnt just about saving money, its about doing it your self
Oh, really? Do you select the proper chipsets, and hand-route the traces for custom boards? Write the VHDL for all the nifty FPGAs it needs?
What these people do, is the equivalent of adding some aftermarket fiberglass spoiler to your Honda Civic. I can respect the man that welds the frame himself, for his straight 8 hotrod, building the thing from scratch. But slapping some decals on the fenders, even if you scrubbed all the grime off them first, just doesn't count.
The parent poster may be a lamer that paid a lifetime subscription, but the proper way is some not-so-easy-to-google perl scripts, that scrape guide data off of tvguide.com and format it for the Tivo.
Nice when you have more than one, in that a computer under your direct control can manage it as if there is more than one. Who wants 3 tivo's all recording the same damn thing? Besides, some things like C band tv, just aren't supported by Tivo.
Who said it's necessary to subscribe? It took all of a week, for me to find someone else's perl scripts for writing my own guide data. Besides, as nice as Tivo is, it's the Apple iBook of PVRs when I really wanted an Alphaserver. Ever try to get 2 tivo's to coordinate, when you've hit a timeblock where you'll want heavy recording? They're just not that bright. I've got my central server farming out recording tasks of all the PVRs, managing things (not that my personal software is perfect either, it screws up from time to time...). My goal, is to get a DirecTivo series 1, and a Dish 721, so that I can retask my original tivos to C band, starchoice and broadcast. Wouldn't mind getting a Motorola DCT5200 either...
A generic PC architecture just isn't robust enough, unless you want to risk it barfing on the last play of the superbowl, or the last episode of the Sopranos.
I've never really understood this need to do the "homebrew PVR" thing. Sure, people still build their own cars today, even though Fords and Chevys are pretty nice... but they're $100,000 labor of love hotrods. These things are jalopy AMC pacers with hamsters on treadmills under the hood.
Minimum of sarcasm, serious question that calls the parent post's assertion into doubt.
I have plenty of PCMCIA cards, including some weird ones. But I've never even heard of a TV tuner cardbus card... and the parent didn't hint that that was what he had meant.
So shove your flamebait mod up your ass, crackmoderator.
Insightful? If they're avoiding it, I doubt that they're unaware... notification in this case actually means "harassment".
But since you're so afraid that they won't pay (once we translate all your not-so-subtle trolling bullshit) why don't we just institute debt slavery and debtor's prison. Torture might also be in order for some of the worst offenders.
Nothing is more sacred than usury, after all.
I'll go one further. Telco's should be forced to provide ANI to me at a modest fee, maybe $5 per month. This CallerID bullshit is all but worthless, even when clever PBX tricks aren't being used.
A federally mandated phone blackhole list would be even better yet. Each person gets 5-20 blackhole slots, that can be bound to any published blackhole list. In 2 weeks, we'd have all of their numbers on these things, everyone would be subscribed to them, and we could finally get this shit under control. The DNC list is a joke.
Not a movie, dumbass. Google AFR I believe, practically any transuranic is fuel, and it eats way more than the 3% you can expect out of a traditional reactor. The waste has shorter half-lifes than traditional reactors, and less of it, overall. It's weapon proliferation-resistant, both the fuel in its ideal form, and the waste, aren't that good for making bombs.
And if that doesn't make it a good idea, then this pretty much clinches it. Congress killed funding for more research and a bigger prototype a few years back...
You're just a little confused about the true purpose of cctv. When you've finally 1984'd your entire nation, then you'll be able to see how well they work. Well, you'll at least be able to guess, based on how many of your friends and neighbors mysteriously disappear with no explanation.
So even when everything is documented, it's still easy to claim day is night, and red is blue. Let me tell you a story about Comrade Withers, an Inner Party member, who has earned the a medal of the Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class...
Yes, because all we did in Iraq, is point bigger guns at them, and the fight was over.
Has anyone noticed that we've had to occupy the country with infantry that carries guess what, *rifles*.
If we can't use firearms against a government, why is the US military using the same damn thing to occupy Iraq, instead of all our superweapons? Maybe because air superiority, tanks, and missiles wouldn't be the most effective and/or PRable tactics over there? What, do you think they're going to nuke Seattle if there is another protest?
The 2nd Ammendment is indeed a check and balance.
I must admit you're onto something with the cameras, with a little work, you might realize that proper regulation is impossible, and that it's better to do away with them entirely.
As I remember, it was you guys that made us paranoid in the first place. And when we snubbed your banking overlords in 1811, they sicced you guys on us yet again. Now your banking overlords rule here anyway, our crazies militiaize, and those that really understand *wish* they were crazy enough to train in those militias.
This is europe we're talking about. Being a jew isn't illegal, only distasteful and worthy of ridicule. Get your facts straight.
They have the means and will to eliminate those that "get more out of insurance than they ever paid". It doesn't make sense to not figure out who they are in advance, and get rid of them pre-emptively. They write the laws, it's not illegal. 90% or more of us could easily get by putting the premiums into a savings account, and tucking it away for when bad things happen. 7% of the remaining would just be on the wrong side of the accident, they could pay for it eventually, but it happens a bit too early... only the remaining 3% or so actually have something so catastrophic happen, they couldn't hope to pay for it.
Would gladly give some of mine, if it meant they weren't slaves to insurance.
You really didn't think you had a right to travel, did you? I for one welcome our new internal passports, those terrorists are sneaky, and we must fight them with all the bureacracy we can!
Everyone, join me in a 2 minute hate!
What it can do, is force everyone into driving with a black box. Driving without one will become prohibitively expensive, even though the statistics will show that with/without doesn't really affect the actual numbers.
Insurance is about getting you to pay for something that won't ever likely happen... want me to prove it? Keep having stupid accidents, and see if they don't drop you.
You're all wrong. Herzog Zwei (Sega Genesis) is the first RTS of note. Warcraft (1) comes out a couple years later. Plenty of strategy games before and after it, and at least a dozen genres... but most until then were turn-based.
It amazes me that people don't know what an RTS is.
You mean like if we wake up one morning, and all the uranium in the world has turned into chalk?
WTF?!
Nuclear (fission), even if we want hog wild, would see us through the next 2 centuries or so. If we acted even mildly wise, and used that time to develop fusion... well, at that point, it would be an end to our foreseeable energy problems.
This is the best I could find.
Someone found a better link for me a few weeks back on slashdot, but I must have lost it. Until then, I'd never heard of it, only knowing about pebble beds. Don't worry let your hippy side worry though, Congress killed IFR a few years back.
Hell, supposedly we wouldn't have to mine more fission fuel for a hundred years, it would be more difficult to use the fuel for weapons than to make your own weapons-grade stuff, and the contrived scenarios where things could go wrong are so absurd that even the fearmongers would have trouble not breaking into a small grin while listening.
Or they could use new reactor designs that burn up all the long-lived nasty stuff, leaving only isotopes with short half-lives.
Some of them can be run on virtually anything, not just uranium and plutonium... we could literally use some of the waste as fuel, and detoxify it all at the same time.
You all miss the point. There are new reactor designs that are not only meltdown safe, but produce virtually 0% long half-life products. We could supply what, 95% or more of the US's current and project electricity needs with nuclear, if only people weren't retards. Think how much your gas prices would drop, when people at the pump aren't competing for the same petroleum that the power companies are.
Hell, even now, as much as we've run our country's prospects into the ground, fission just might see us through until we wised up, and started funding real fusion research (instead of squabbling over whether an over-funded, bad-idea pork barrel project is placed in Japan or France).
If you think a financial depression of the 1930s is bad, wait until we have a energy depression in 2030.