It's amazing to me that people think $20/hour is a small amount of money. I make about half that and consider myself lucky. Minimum wage is even less and that's all many people make.
Amazing that slashdot is reaching 2.5 million users already. You are just wrong about the battery issue. As I have pointed out NiMH battery technology has been around since the 60s and lead-acid batteries can and have been used to make electric cars. They are a lot cheaper and more practical than NiMH or Lithium chemistries. When you are older and you take high school physics and chemistry you might even realize why.
The nuclear reactors that are running today use pretty much the same technology that was used in the 70s. Or did you miss the whole Fukushima disaster? Name a single US reactor that uses nuclear tech that was not available in the 70s.
I don't mean to burst your bubble but life is really not all that different from how it was in the 70s. Offhand it seems the differences can be summarized as: faster computers, internet, and cell phones. Other than that it's pretty much all the same shit, but shinier. And stuff breaks more now. And everything is now manufactured in China. And no more disco or bell bottoms. And soda cans don't have the pull off tabs anymore. That sort of thing. We were promised the world of the Jetsons or 2001, but what all we ended up with were minor changes.
I don't think anything is 'intended' to go inside the anus. It seems to be a pretty straightforward one way valve. From a biological perspective I think a good argument can be made that sticking anything up there is unnatural. And the large intestine certainly doesn't seem designed for sexual gratification in any way.
I sometimes wonder if it is the people who enjoy anal sex who are responsible for scat porn. I would guess that you would have to like the smell and taste and feel of fresh shit. Otherwise it's pretty disgusting.
Well being hot but unavailable is a crime, regardless of the reason. Or it should be. People don't like getting rejected, period. Whether the stated reason is that we're too ugly or too short or some version of "it's not you, it's me." doesn't change things all that much. But you still haven't described how a hot lesbian girl is any worse off than a hot hetero girl with a boyfriend.
For any hot lesbian who feels she is getting hassled too much let me make a suggestion. Cut your face up and eat a lot until you are no longer hot. End of problem. Hot girls who complain about how often they get "hassled" are some of the most unsympathetic creatures on earth. It's like a billionaire complaining that he doesn't know what to do with all his money. Time to break out the tiny violins.
And you do realize that 1984 wasn't an instruction manual, right? Totalitarianism has been discredited so many times in so many different twentieth century experiments that anyone who cannot see its failure is not open to reason anyway. You want a big government around to tell you what to do in every area of your life? Fine. Whatever floats your boat. I don't want to live in such a society. I think we should both have countries to live in.
What do you mean by 'civilization'? This prediction is about our entire species. Unless by 'civilization' you are referring to pre-human civilization. Of course some predict that the world will end this year. That prediction is no less scientific than this one.
Electric cars were not possible in the 70s? How do you figure? The lead-acid battery was invented in 1859. And nuclear power? Of course we didn't have that in the 70s either. Now maybe you are going to say that we have NiMH batteries now which are lighter and have greater energy density, although they are also much more expensive. They were invented in the late 60s. If we are able to switch to 100% nuclear power now then we could also have done so in the 1970s.
How exactly would limited liability corporations that are treated as individuals even exist without a government? I don't see how a Libertarian government could be any more cozy with megacorporations than they are now. Hell, they can't even fail. They are "too big to fail". The friendly government won't let them. I'm a Libertarian and I think corporations tend to be evil. Just assuming that Libertarians are automatically pro-corporation is wrong. Just because we are anti-government does not mean we are pro-corporation.
I was arrested and put in a jail cell and I was not strip searched. In fact I didn't even get my balls felt up like the TSA are so fond of doing. I did get severely beaten and slapped with false charges though.
The point about this ruling is not that it wasn't already being done. Clearly it was. But it now has the legitimacy of a supreme court ruling behind it and that is just pathetic and another sign of our decline into a true totalitarian police state. Guards pretty much already did anything they wanted to prisoners, who are often not even considered human beings with natural rights anyway, but now the fear would be that the scope of strip searches will be expanded as far as they possibly can. The supreme court has removed any doubt about its legality. Basically if a cop does it, it's legal. Well, as long as he arrests you for something afterward.
It sounds like you have never really had any dealings with the police. Let me give you a hint. That whole "Am I being detained; Am I free to go." thing annoys the hell out of them. And annoying a police officer is a defacto crime in itself. Go ahead and do it. But depending on the particular cop you might be severely beaten or even killed and accused of all sorts of crimes. This pattern of beating up suspects and then charging them with all kinds of contempt of cop charges is fairly common in the US.
'Standing up for your rights' or acting in any way that seems to challenge an officer's authority is a very dangerous thing to do. The police are just a gang and any officer you are dealing with is a gang member. So don't say anything to them that you wouldn't say to a ultra-violent gang member in south-central LA. To them "standing up for your rights" is the equivalent to "cruising for a bruising".
The only real defense when dealing with the police is a video camera, but filming them will probably get you beaten up and arrested on contempt of cop charges (or worse) for that alone. That *really* pisses them off. Best to at least wear a helmet to protect your head from being bashed against the pavement or hit with a night-stick. Never ever forget how violent those guys are. They will never miss an opportunity to 'get medieval' on you.
Making an arrest in the first place is usually associated with erratic and likely harmful behavior
Where there is smoke there is fire? The 'erratic and harmful' behavior is far more likely to be on the part of the police thugs. Those guys are looking for action. If they can't find someone actually committing a crime anyone will do. Even you. Perhaps one day you will find that out and you'll be lucky if all they do is beat you up and taser you and arrest you on made up charges and then enthusiastically strip search and cavity search you. The unlucky ones end up in the morgue after being accused of some kind of violent crime which only the police themselves were witness to.
He wasn't talking about laws. He was talking about the bully mentality of American LEOs and pseudo-LEOs. Having lived in several of the countries you listed I can tell you first hand that the cops and security personnel in those countries are much less likely to have been schoolyard bullies as children. I couldn't believe it at first, but LEOs outside the US are far more likely to be relatively normal people without any chips on their shoulders and without any violent cravings to bash your head in with their night sticks and torture you with their tasers and pepper spray while laughing joyously about it with their buddies. It has something to do with US culture. It encourages certain kinds of people to admire violence and seek jobs where they have opportunities to beat up people who cannot legally defend themselves against them and who are usually grossly outnumbered in any case.
As far as the US being a democracy, we actually aren't one. If we were a true democracy we would be able to abolish the DHS and TSA via direct popular vote. All we get to do is vote for people who then vote for which dictator we get to have. It's really a silly system. I think this is a perfect example of why a (constitutionally limited) true democracy would be preferable. Here's a situation where the majority is against a new kind of tyranny and yet there is nothing that we can do to stop it.
Would you rather drive for 48 hours or be raped? I prefer to only have my knob polished by attractive females, and I prefer not to have my anus or ass crack or even my scalp explored by curious, impatient, eager fingers. I honestly don't understand people who are willing to be sexually violated in order to avoid losing a few hundred dollars or being seriously inconvenienced.
It brings to mind that joke about Winston Churchill and a socialite:
"Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose I would." "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are just haggling about the price."
Most cheddar cheese is orange? Most cheddar I have seen is a shade of yellow. Also I don't think it is only Americans who find a British accent more appropriate for a medieval setting than American, Australian, Indian, Singaporean, New Zealand, Bahamanian, Jamaican, African or any other form of colonial English. Personally I would prefer to hear authentic Old English, but I don't think there are many actors who speak it and there is probably no one currently alive who speaks it the way it was truly spoken then.
Perhaps it sounded more like modern French or German than any dialect of modern English, but I would still argue that if you are going to use any form of modern English it should be from the country where English was 'invented' and that would in fact be England itself. Not any sort of simplified accent from the New World or any other distant colony like Australia, South Africa, or New Zealand. The fact is that British English is the only authentic English still spoken. The various UK accents (Irish and Scottish can be included) are certainly more directly descended from Old English than any form of colonial English. But perhaps Catalan or even Latin would sound more authentic than any dialect of modern English. I think the real problem is that many earthlings, particularly Americans, seem to have trouble reading subtitles.
What would a Jewish accent sound like? Would it be the same for Australian, New Zealand, South African, West Coast American, Midwest, Chicago, Boston, New York, and Southeast American (deep south) Jews. And would British Jews also have this Jewish accent regaredless of which part of England they are from? How about Eastern and Western European Jews? Would Russian Jews sound the same as Italian Jews or Dutch Jews?
I guess all Jews sound the same in the same way that all black people sound the same. Whether a black person is from Ethiopia or France or England or Germany or Spain or Australia or Canada or Costa Rica or Chile they all pretty much sound like they speak American Ghetto (ebonics) I suppose.
Whoosh. He is saying that fewer people are flying because they don't wan't to be strip searched and sexually assaulted. Not because they are afraid of so called "terrorists".
Calling any branch of economics "scientific" is a joke. All of economics is more religion than science. As someone pointed out in another thread there is no control for any economic experiment you want to perform. The scientific method cannot be used in economics.
How about we come up with an application, something like what Make Love not Spam was for spammers, which is a screensaver that sends DMCA takedown notices at random regarding thousands of randomly generated IP addresses. If we could somehow find the IP addresses from some RIAA and MPAA executives or their attorneys that would be even better.
But bringing down the whole system from within sounds like an interesting idea to me. Yeah, there would be a huge amount of collateral damage, but it would be worth it. Just imagine if even 50% of Americans lost their internet connection due to this deal. The political fallout would be massive.
Another thing it could do is send DMCA notices to Google for nearly every major corporation in America or every single one that does not come out publicly against this new scheme. Can you imagine what would happen if all of the large commercial websites were removed from Google searches for 14 days at a time? The DMCA was intended for use against us, but maybe we can also use it against them.
In college I couldn't decide what I wanted to do. First I was an English major. Thought I wanted to write novels. Then I switched to Electrical Engineering. My parents were paying for it, but after 5 years they said to hell with it and I was dumped into the job market with 2 years of English and 3 years of Electrical Engineering.
During my EE degree I took programming courses and I discovered that I absolutely loved it. Assembly language, C, Pascal... It was all great. I loved the process of building a kind of machine from nothing and then winding it up and watching it go. I wrote lots of programs and spent more time on coding than I probably should have somewhat to the detriment of my math and physics classes.
I was dumped from the academic world around '91 and I searched for programming jobs for literally years. I guess it was mostly looking through newspaper ads. Maybe other stuff as well. I can't remember. Every single ad, without exception, had a requirement of 2 years of experience minimum and a CS degree. Only very rarely did I see a job that only required the CS degree. Those were the "no experience necessary" jobs. Boy was that depressing. I always thought I would enjoy working as a programmer because I really do love programming for its own sake. It doesn't even seem like work. It's fun.
I was sad about it but never bitter because it made sense to me. As some have pointed out you can't just get a job in most other serious professions without a degree. Why should we expect to do so in computer science?
I eventually took a job doing CAD for a manufacturer and just stayed there for more than a decade after college because it was better than washing dishes or something.
So the merit based world you guys are describing seems totally alien to me. I wish some of you would describe how you got the job in the first place. I've never seen a programmer listing that didn't require either a degree or years of work experience and nearly always both. It seriously is like you guys are describing something that happened on another planet.
It just so happens that I have experience doing both plumbing and IT and plumbing is a hell of a lot easier intellectually speaking. There isn't all that much to learn really. Water flows downhill. Now commercial plumbing may be more challenging. Wouldn't know about that. But residential plumbing is easy.
Once in Precheck, TSA still checks names against terrorism watch lists before every flight, just as it does for other travelers. If a passenger is cleared for Precheck screening, a code is embedded in a traveler's boarding pass.
Precheck members usually get to use security lines set up for first-class and elite-level frequent fliers. But Precheck travelers actually don't know if they will get to use the easy screening until the TSA officer checking IDs actually scans the boarding pass. If the pass has the code, a Precheck passenger is steered to a separate screening lane for what amounts to old-style airport screening.
TSA says Precheck members are selected randomly for regular screening to enhance security. But that unpredictability irks frequent travelers. The agency doesn't make travelers go to the end of the regular screening line, however, but instead slips them into the front of the regular queue.
IOW, your $100 doesn't buy you a free pass from the gropedown at all. You're still subject to random rapescanning and sexual molestation. You know how it goes with things that sound too good to be true.
So these morons are really stupid enough to fire 1/3 to 1/2 of their customer base just to make the media cunts happy? I pay over $100 / month for my internet service. If my ISP really enforces this I am going to look into other options for the cheapest possible internet connection.
Although I think there is a local ISP who is not in on this stupid deal. I just checked and they now have even faster connections than my ISP. I may have to just switch to them when this goes into effect and tell them exactly why they are losing me as a customer.
The first step is to start using private trackers. And the smaller the better. Invites for the best ones are going to become even more like gold dust. The second step is to look into fast anonymous VPNs preferably based outside the US.
This must be the ultimate wet dream of the MAFIA. If the ISPs actually enforce this I think I may actually have to start boycotting them by not buying any more blu-rays or music CDs. unless they are used and even that may not be a great idea.
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It's amazing to me that people think $20/hour is a small amount of money. I make about half that and consider myself lucky. Minimum wage is even less and that's all many people make.
Amazing that slashdot is reaching 2.5 million users already. You are just wrong about the battery issue. As I have pointed out NiMH battery technology has been around since the 60s and lead-acid batteries can and have been used to make electric cars. They are a lot cheaper and more practical than NiMH or Lithium chemistries. When you are older and you take high school physics and chemistry you might even realize why.
The nuclear reactors that are running today use pretty much the same technology that was used in the 70s. Or did you miss the whole Fukushima disaster? Name a single US reactor that uses nuclear tech that was not available in the 70s.
I don't mean to burst your bubble but life is really not all that different from how it was in the 70s. Offhand it seems the differences can be summarized as: faster computers, internet, and cell phones. Other than that it's pretty much all the same shit, but shinier. And stuff breaks more now. And everything is now manufactured in China. And no more disco or bell bottoms. And soda cans don't have the pull off tabs anymore. That sort of thing. We were promised the world of the Jetsons or 2001, but what all we ended up with were minor changes.
I don't think anything is 'intended' to go inside the anus. It seems to be a pretty straightforward one way valve. From a biological perspective I think a good argument can be made that sticking anything up there is unnatural. And the large intestine certainly doesn't seem designed for sexual gratification in any way.
I sometimes wonder if it is the people who enjoy anal sex who are responsible for scat porn. I would guess that you would have to like the smell and taste and feel of fresh shit. Otherwise it's pretty disgusting.
Well being hot but unavailable is a crime, regardless of the reason. Or it should be. People don't like getting rejected, period. Whether the stated reason is that we're too ugly or too short or some version of "it's not you, it's me." doesn't change things all that much. But you still haven't described how a hot lesbian girl is any worse off than a hot hetero girl with a boyfriend.
For any hot lesbian who feels she is getting hassled too much let me make a suggestion. Cut your face up and eat a lot until you are no longer hot. End of problem. Hot girls who complain about how often they get "hassled" are some of the most unsympathetic creatures on earth. It's like a billionaire complaining that he doesn't know what to do with all his money. Time to break out the tiny violins.
And you do realize that 1984 wasn't an instruction manual, right? Totalitarianism has been discredited so many times in so many different twentieth century experiments that anyone who cannot see its failure is not open to reason anyway. You want a big government around to tell you what to do in every area of your life? Fine. Whatever floats your boat. I don't want to live in such a society. I think we should both have countries to live in.
What do you mean by 'civilization'? This prediction is about our entire species. Unless by 'civilization' you are referring to pre-human civilization. Of course some predict that the world will end this year. That prediction is no less scientific than this one.
Electric cars were not possible in the 70s? How do you figure? The lead-acid battery was invented in 1859. And nuclear power? Of course we didn't have that in the 70s either. Now maybe you are going to say that we have NiMH batteries now which are lighter and have greater energy density, although they are also much more expensive. They were invented in the late 60s. If we are able to switch to 100% nuclear power now then we could also have done so in the 1970s.
How exactly would limited liability corporations that are treated as individuals even exist without a government? I don't see how a Libertarian government could be any more cozy with megacorporations than they are now. Hell, they can't even fail. They are "too big to fail". The friendly government won't let them. I'm a Libertarian and I think corporations tend to be evil. Just assuming that Libertarians are automatically pro-corporation is wrong. Just because we are anti-government does not mean we are pro-corporation.
I was arrested and put in a jail cell and I was not strip searched. In fact I didn't even get my balls felt up like the TSA are so fond of doing. I did get severely beaten and slapped with false charges though.
The point about this ruling is not that it wasn't already being done. Clearly it was. But it now has the legitimacy of a supreme court ruling behind it and that is just pathetic and another sign of our decline into a true totalitarian police state. Guards pretty much already did anything they wanted to prisoners, who are often not even considered human beings with natural rights anyway, but now the fear would be that the scope of strip searches will be expanded as far as they possibly can. The supreme court has removed any doubt about its legality. Basically if a cop does it, it's legal. Well, as long as he arrests you for something afterward.
It sounds like you have never really had any dealings with the police. Let me give you a hint. That whole "Am I being detained; Am I free to go." thing annoys the hell out of them. And annoying a police officer is a defacto crime in itself. Go ahead and do it. But depending on the particular cop you might be severely beaten or even killed and accused of all sorts of crimes. This pattern of beating up suspects and then charging them with all kinds of contempt of cop charges is fairly common in the US.
'Standing up for your rights' or acting in any way that seems to challenge an officer's authority is a very dangerous thing to do. The police are just a gang and any officer you are dealing with is a gang member. So don't say anything to them that you wouldn't say to a ultra-violent gang member in south-central LA. To them "standing up for your rights" is the equivalent to "cruising for a bruising".
The only real defense when dealing with the police is a video camera, but filming them will probably get you beaten up and arrested on contempt of cop charges (or worse) for that alone. That *really* pisses them off. Best to at least wear a helmet to protect your head from being bashed against the pavement or hit with a night-stick. Never ever forget how violent those guys are. They will never miss an opportunity to 'get medieval' on you.
Making an arrest in the first place is usually associated with erratic and likely harmful behavior
Where there is smoke there is fire? The 'erratic and harmful' behavior is far more likely to be on the part of the police thugs. Those guys are looking for action. If they can't find someone actually committing a crime anyone will do. Even you. Perhaps one day you will find that out and you'll be lucky if all they do is beat you up and taser you and arrest you on made up charges and then enthusiastically strip search and cavity search you. The unlucky ones end up in the morgue after being accused of some kind of violent crime which only the police themselves were witness to.
He wasn't talking about laws. He was talking about the bully mentality of American LEOs and pseudo-LEOs. Having lived in several of the countries you listed I can tell you first hand that the cops and security personnel in those countries are much less likely to have been schoolyard bullies as children. I couldn't believe it at first, but LEOs outside the US are far more likely to be relatively normal people without any chips on their shoulders and without any violent cravings to bash your head in with their night sticks and torture you with their tasers and pepper spray while laughing joyously about it with their buddies. It has something to do with US culture. It encourages certain kinds of people to admire violence and seek jobs where they have opportunities to beat up people who cannot legally defend themselves against them and who are usually grossly outnumbered in any case.
As far as the US being a democracy, we actually aren't one. If we were a true democracy we would be able to abolish the DHS and TSA via direct popular vote. All we get to do is vote for people who then vote for which dictator we get to have. It's really a silly system. I think this is a perfect example of why a (constitutionally limited) true democracy would be preferable. Here's a situation where the majority is against a new kind of tyranny and yet there is nothing that we can do to stop it.
You do realize that not everyone likes the taste of boot sole? Would you be willing to be penetrated anally in order to fly?
Would you rather drive for 48 hours or be raped? I prefer to only have my knob polished by attractive females, and I prefer not to have my anus or ass crack or even my scalp explored by curious, impatient, eager fingers. I honestly don't understand people who are willing to be sexually violated in order to avoid losing a few hundred dollars or being seriously inconvenienced.
It brings to mind that joke about Winston Churchill and a socialite:
"Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"
"My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose I would."
"Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"
"Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"
"Madam, we've already established that. Now we are just haggling about the price."
China, which has a far superior train system, has airport like security at its stations.
When did this start? I took a few Chinese trains about 12 years ago and there wasn't any security at all.
I quite like extreme weather. Mild weather is boring. I just hope we actually get to see some during my lifetime instead of 10,000 years from now.
Most cheddar cheese is orange? Most cheddar I have seen is a shade of yellow. Also I don't think it is only Americans who find a British accent more appropriate for a medieval setting than American, Australian, Indian, Singaporean, New Zealand, Bahamanian, Jamaican, African or any other form of colonial English. Personally I would prefer to hear authentic Old English, but I don't think there are many actors who speak it and there is probably no one currently alive who speaks it the way it was truly spoken then.
Perhaps it sounded more like modern French or German than any dialect of modern English, but I would still argue that if you are going to use any form of modern English it should be from the country where English was 'invented' and that would in fact be England itself. Not any sort of simplified accent from the New World or any other distant colony like Australia, South Africa, or New Zealand. The fact is that British English is the only authentic English still spoken. The various UK accents (Irish and Scottish can be included) are certainly more directly descended from Old English than any form of colonial English. But perhaps Catalan or even Latin would sound more authentic than any dialect of modern English. I think the real problem is that many earthlings, particularly Americans, seem to have trouble reading subtitles.
What would a Jewish accent sound like? Would it be the same for Australian, New Zealand, South African, West Coast American, Midwest, Chicago, Boston, New York, and Southeast American (deep south) Jews. And would British Jews also have this Jewish accent regaredless of which part of England they are from? How about Eastern and Western European Jews? Would Russian Jews sound the same as Italian Jews or Dutch Jews?
I guess all Jews sound the same in the same way that all black people sound the same. Whether a black person is from Ethiopia or France or England or Germany or Spain or Australia or Canada or Costa Rica or Chile they all pretty much sound like they speak American Ghetto (ebonics) I suppose.
Whoosh. He is saying that fewer people are flying because they don't wan't to be strip searched and sexually assaulted. Not because they are afraid of so called "terrorists".
Calling any branch of economics "scientific" is a joke. All of economics is more religion than science. As someone pointed out in another thread there is no control for any economic experiment you want to perform. The scientific method cannot be used in economics.
How about we come up with an application, something like what Make Love not Spam was for spammers, which is a screensaver that sends DMCA takedown notices at random regarding thousands of randomly generated IP addresses. If we could somehow find the IP addresses from some RIAA and MPAA executives or their attorneys that would be even better.
But bringing down the whole system from within sounds like an interesting idea to me. Yeah, there would be a huge amount of collateral damage, but it would be worth it. Just imagine if even 50% of Americans lost their internet connection due to this deal. The political fallout would be massive.
Another thing it could do is send DMCA notices to Google for nearly every major corporation in America or every single one that does not come out publicly against this new scheme. Can you imagine what would happen if all of the large commercial websites were removed from Google searches for 14 days at a time? The DMCA was intended for use against us, but maybe we can also use it against them.
In college I couldn't decide what I wanted to do. First I was an English major. Thought I wanted to write novels. Then I switched to Electrical Engineering. My parents were paying for it, but after 5 years they said to hell with it and I was dumped into the job market with 2 years of English and 3 years of Electrical Engineering.
During my EE degree I took programming courses and I discovered that I absolutely loved it. Assembly language, C, Pascal... It was all great. I loved the process of building a kind of machine from nothing and then winding it up and watching it go. I wrote lots of programs and spent more time on coding than I probably should have somewhat to the detriment of my math and physics classes.
I was dumped from the academic world around '91 and I searched for programming jobs for literally years. I guess it was mostly looking through newspaper ads. Maybe other stuff as well. I can't remember. Every single ad, without exception, had a requirement of 2 years of experience minimum and a CS degree. Only very rarely did I see a job that only required the CS degree. Those were the "no experience necessary" jobs. Boy was that depressing. I always thought I would enjoy working as a programmer because I really do love programming for its own sake. It doesn't even seem like work. It's fun.
I was sad about it but never bitter because it made sense to me. As some have pointed out you can't just get a job in most other serious professions without a degree. Why should we expect to do so in computer science?
I eventually took a job doing CAD for a manufacturer and just stayed there for more than a decade after college because it was better than washing dishes or something.
So the merit based world you guys are describing seems totally alien to me. I wish some of you would describe how you got the job in the first place. I've never seen a programmer listing that didn't require either a degree or years of work experience and nearly always both. It seriously is like you guys are describing something that happened on another planet.
It just so happens that I have experience doing both plumbing and IT and plumbing is a hell of a lot easier intellectually speaking. There isn't all that much to learn really. Water flows downhill. Now commercial plumbing may be more challenging. Wouldn't know about that. But residential plumbing is easy.
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IOW, your $100 doesn't buy you a free pass from the gropedown at all. You're still subject to random rapescanning and sexual molestation. You know how it goes with things that sound too good to be true.
So these morons are really stupid enough to fire 1/3 to 1/2 of their customer base just to make the media cunts happy? I pay over $100 / month for my internet service. If my ISP really enforces this I am going to look into other options for the cheapest possible internet connection.
Although I think there is a local ISP who is not in on this stupid deal. I just checked and they now have even faster connections than my ISP. I may have to just switch to them when this goes into effect and tell them exactly why they are losing me as a customer.
The first step is to start using private trackers. And the smaller the better. Invites for the best ones are going to become even more like gold dust. The second step is to look into fast anonymous VPNs preferably based outside the US.
This must be the ultimate wet dream of the MAFIA. If the ISPs actually enforce this I think I may actually have to start boycotting them by not buying any more blu-rays or music CDs. unless they are used and even that may not be a great idea.