I think you are glossing over the fact that the Reagan debt is still with us and was financed by poor short term loans. This is equivalent to buying 3 houses on credit cards. It is extremely short sighted and dangerous. I leave it up to the reader to decide whether the first Bush recession was caused by an abandonment of Reaganomics or the fruition of it. Clinton understood that the Reagan debt, which is still with us, had to be paid before it destroyed the economy altogether. The boom we had may have been even better had the government not been saddled with such enormous debt(half the taxes paid by individuals was being used to pay the interest on the debt).
I find it more than a little frightening that a failed businessman who is obviously more than a little stupid is sitting at that desk. The only comfort I have is that his daddy and Dick are the ones who are really running the show. But then again, they're the same Corporate lacky's who help people like Enron out.
But most people don't care(or understand) as long as the bread and circuses continue.
What exactly is legit about religious opposition? There was religious opposition to a heliocentric model of the solar system, was that legit? There was relgious opposition to the removal of slavery, was that legit too?Cat
Actually as a for profit corporation you are prohibited from discriminating based on race or religion. It is not only illegal and unethical it is Un-American. Why don't you think you should follow the laws in this country?
Bad comparison. The NAACP and the KLAN are non-profits. For profit corporations may not discriminate based on race or religion. It is not only illegal it is Un-American.
Our boss is a pretty devout christian, and as the owner of the company it's at his discretion. However, to my knowledge, the only reasons we've ever taken anyone's site down are pirated software and because it was a fradulent order.
Basically, this is a legal issue, not a moral one. Whatever's illegal in Durham NC (where the company is incorporated) is forbidden by the TOS, plus porn.
That's pretty inconsistent since turning away customers because of their religious beliefs is illegal in North Carolina. It's also extremely un-american and I'm pretty sure it violates federal law as well. You guys could have you pants sued off for that one and I for one will be letting some people know that there is a ripe target available for a religious discrimination lawsuit. I hope your legal team is ready.
I'm not sure what you guys want. Maybe you all are just anarchists that don't believe in laws.
Why should we when Netmar doesn't? Netmar is violating North Carolina laws and possibly federal law when it discriminates based on religious content. They are not exempt from these laws because they are not a religous organization.
So this means that they could restrict content in such a fashion that no content dipicting blacks is allowed? How about Jews, no Jewish literature is allowed? I doubt it. It looks to me like these people are violating North Carolina law at the very least and perhaps violating the civil rights act of 1964.
Uh... in all likelihood the CEO or some other high-ranker is a Xian. Or they have a big client that happens to be an Xian organisation... either way, using the blanket term 'satan' gives them a pretty wide definition to play with when they want to chuck anyone sympathetic to 'the adversary' off the service, whomever that may be.
In Durham, North Carolina? You must be kidding. Isn't it illegal for a corporation to discriminate based on religion? I was just about to switch over to this company until I read the bit about satanic content. I could have overlooked the porn because it's a good strategy to keep your bandwidth costs low, but singling out a particular religion is over the top and as I said before probably illegal. Though I am temped to set up a mirror to http://infidels.org with them. It would not violate the TOS but I'm sure it would irritate the idiot christian.
Uh... in all likelihood the CEO or some other high-ranker is a Xian. Or they have a big client that happens to be an Xian organisation... either way, using the blanket term 'satan' gives them a pretty wide definition to play with when they want to chuck anyone sympathetic to 'the adversary' off the service, whomever that may be.
In Durham, North Carolina? You must be kidding. Isn't it illegal for a corporation to discriminate based on religion? I was just about to switch over to this company until I read the bit about satanic content. I could have overlooked the porn because it's a good strategy to keep your bandwidth costs low, but singling out a particular religion is over the top and as I said before probably illegal. Though I am temped to set up a mirror to http://infidels.org with them. It would not violate the TOS but I'm sure it would irritate the idiot christian.
Another possible application of this property would be in the field of solar energy. Since the nanotubes absorb light energy more efficiently than they dissipate the heat, it seems like an excellent material for all sorts of solar applications. Remember only the single walled nanotubes explode.
Well, I'm an educated, straight, white, christian, mexican male, aged 18-35, living in Mexico, and I don't envy you a damn thing.
I own a nice house and have a job doing what I love. I can walk on the street at night without fear of being shot by any maniac who bought a gun at the seven eleven, and my governmente is not breathing down my neck to protect Disney's encryption schemes. And, most of all, I don't feel like the world should envy me, nor do I confuse material prosperoty with hapiness.
I could say exactly the same thing, except I don't believe christian mythology. You can't buy guns at seven eleven, hell you can't even buy playboy there.
I lived overseas for a few years and it is amazing the misconceptions people have about the US. When I told people I lived in Texas they would immediately assume I had a six shooter and rode a horse.
Everyone should live for a time in another country, it would bring us all closer to understanding each other and humble us all a bit. Too bad dumbya never did this.
And then what's to stop a blackhat from writing software for the nic that continues to perform its firewall duties but also works as a zombie? I can see someone using this to make an unwitting corporation into a DOS giant. Or maybe I'm missing something.
... regardless of whether or not file sharing is WRONG. It's certainly illegal. Always has been regardless of whether the file is stored on a hard drive or tranferred to a cassette tape or cd.
You are wrong. It is perfectly legal for me to share all of my shakespeare, my copies of the federalist papers, MP3 files of music I create, Linux source code, Linux distro ISOs, etc..
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Yes, you can tell the Tivo to pad the beginning or ending time of certain shows.
Kids are the reason we bought our Tivo. Getting up after their bedtime and interrupting the sopranos was not good. They almost saw some things they are not at all ready for. Now when the kids get up for the third time it doesn't matter.
Tivo is the first expensive gadget that my wife apologized to me for bitching me out about buying. It's now her Tivo.
Why on earth would corrupt Texas oil men want to promote fuel efficient vehicles? Since most of the crude oil comes from overseas the big american oil companies make money based on how much oil they refine. If production or consumption slows, OPEC will simply raise the price of oil and keep the same profit margin. In fact it's in their best interest to slow production so they can keep the golden goose alive as long as possible.
Ok that covers Dick and Dumbya. Now as to government momentum as a whole is concerned. I have been starting to think that perhaps the strategy that the US government is taking is to use up all foriegn oil as soon as possible. The OPEC nations(sans venezuela) are all despotic regimes. As such they tend to spend a lot of money suppressing their people and retaining power. None of these countries seem to be planning for a future without oil. If the oil stoped flowing tomorrow, what would these countries do for income? Would the US be interested in holding Israel back any longer? All ambivalence about Israel would surely vanish and our "friendly" relations with the Saudis would evaporate as quickly. Let's look at the Saudi situation for a moment. People usually think the Saudis are extremely rich but what most people don't realize is that Saudi Arabia has been running a huge deficit.
The Saudi royal family has had to deal with a great deal of opposition in the last few years and it has been increaingly difficult to appease or suppress the public. Certainly their dealings with the west do not go over well with saudi subjects, yet their diplomats continue to tell us that they have their people's support. It's clear that they have conflicting desires, they need our money but they would also like to cut our throats. Likewise I think the US government is more interested in keeping the region only marginally stable, enough to keep the middle eastern leaders preoccupied while we buy up all the oil. And convince them to spend their profits on our weapons, to use on each other of course.
Once the technique is perfected, we'll have a supermarket of acceptable clone sources. Which person do you wish to clone? The smart one or the dumb one? The beautiful one or the plain one? The white one or the black one?
And, given the choice, would you rather have a child the natural way, or a clone of someone with admirable genes?
I find it odd that roughly 99% of the population feels this way. Most people abhor the thought of cloning people yet somehow feel that if the technique is perfected, everyone will use it. Does this mean they secretly want to have clones for their own children?
It reminds me of a survey once down about drug use. People were asked, "if drugs became legal tomorrow, would you use them?" 90% said no. Then when asked, "If drugs became legal tomorrow, would your neighbor use them?" 70% said yes.
Why are people so eager to believe their fellow human is more likely to do somthing they wouldn't do? Why are people so afraid of the unknown?
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The long-run consequences, however, must be considered.
Do our leaders ever really consider long term consequences? Perhaps they do but they don't seem to communicate to us that they do(but they do give us some great bread and circuses). I find it disturbing that the U.S. has no real long term planning in place. We should have a goal that we are striving for that will help all of mankind. Preferably something other than perpetual war against some drugs and or some terrorists.
Where do we want to be as a society in a hundred years? A thousand?
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I think you are glossing over the fact that the Reagan debt is still with us and was financed by poor short term loans. This is equivalent to buying 3 houses on credit cards. It is extremely short sighted and dangerous. I leave it up to the reader to decide whether the first Bush recession was caused by an abandonment of Reaganomics or the fruition of it. Clinton understood that the Reagan debt, which is still with us, had to be paid before it destroyed the economy altogether. The boom we had may have been even better had the government not been saddled with such enormous debt(half the taxes paid by individuals was being used to pay the interest on the debt).
I find it more than a little frightening that a failed businessman who is obviously more than a little stupid is sitting at that desk. The only comfort I have is that his daddy and Dick are the ones who are really running the show. But then again, they're the same Corporate lacky's who help people like Enron out.
But most people don't care(or understand) as long as the bread and circuses continue.
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Yes, the phrase "No expectation of privacy" can go a long way.
I don't find the noise annoying at all. In fact I wish we had those frogs here. I find the sound, especially the chorus, quite soothing.
Why aren't you keeping your car for ten years in the first place?
What exactly is legit about religious opposition? There was religious opposition to a heliocentric model of the solar system, was that legit? There was relgious opposition to the removal of slavery, was that legit too?Cat
You sir, are an idiot.
Actually as a for profit corporation you are prohibited from discriminating based on race or religion. It is not only illegal and unethical it is Un-American. Why don't you think you should follow the laws in this country?
Bad comparison. The NAACP and the KLAN are non-profits. For profit corporations may not discriminate based on race or religion. It is not only illegal it is Un-American.
Cat
So this means that they could restrict content in such a fashion that no content dipicting blacks is allowed? How about Jews, no Jewish literature is allowed? I doubt it. It looks to me like these people are violating North Carolina law at the very least and perhaps violating the civil rights act of 1964.
Cat
Uh... in all likelihood the CEO or some other high-ranker is a Xian. Or they have a big client that happens to be an Xian organisation... either way, using the blanket term 'satan' gives them a pretty wide definition to play with when they want to chuck anyone sympathetic to 'the adversary' off the service, whomever that may be. In Durham, North Carolina? You must be kidding. Isn't it illegal for a corporation to discriminate based on religion? I was just about to switch over to this company until I read the bit about satanic content. I could have overlooked the porn because it's a good strategy to keep your bandwidth costs low, but singling out a particular religion is over the top and as I said before probably illegal. Though I am temped to set up a mirror to http://infidels.org with them. It would not violate the TOS but I'm sure it would irritate the idiot christian.
Cat
Indoor plumbing, electricity and automobiles were only for the rich at one time. The rich are always the early adopters.
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Another possible application of this property would be in the field of solar energy. Since the nanotubes absorb light energy more efficiently than they dissipate the heat, it seems like an excellent material for all sorts of solar applications. Remember only the single walled nanotubes explode.
Or how about simple everyday lightning?
I lived overseas for a few years and it is amazing the misconceptions people have about the US. When I told people I lived in Texas they would immediately assume I had a six shooter and rode a horse.
Everyone should live for a time in another country, it would bring us all closer to understanding each other and humble us all a bit. Too bad dumbya never did this.
Cat
And then what's to stop a blackhat from writing software for the nic that continues to perform its firewall duties but also works as a zombie? I can see someone using this to make an unwitting corporation into a DOS giant. Or maybe I'm missing something.
Cat
Yes, you can tell the Tivo to pad the beginning or ending time of certain shows.
Kids are the reason we bought our Tivo. Getting up after their bedtime and interrupting the sopranos was not good. They almost saw some things they are not at all ready for. Now when the kids get up for the third time it doesn't matter.
Tivo is the first expensive gadget that my wife apologized to me for bitching me out about buying. It's now her Tivo.
Cat
Why on earth would corrupt Texas oil men want to promote fuel efficient vehicles? Since most of the crude oil comes from overseas the big american oil companies make money based on how much oil they refine. If production or consumption slows, OPEC will simply raise the price of oil and keep the same profit margin. In fact it's in their best interest to slow production so they can keep the golden goose alive as long as possible.
Ok that covers Dick and Dumbya. Now as to government momentum as a whole is concerned. I have been starting to think that perhaps the strategy that the US government is taking is to use up all foriegn oil as soon as possible. The OPEC nations(sans venezuela) are all despotic regimes. As such they tend to spend a lot of money suppressing their people and retaining power. None of these countries seem to be planning for a future without oil. If the oil stoped flowing tomorrow, what would these countries do for income? Would the US be interested in holding Israel back any longer? All ambivalence about Israel would surely vanish and our "friendly" relations with the Saudis would evaporate as quickly. Let's look at the Saudi situation for a moment. People usually think the Saudis are extremely rich but what most people don't realize is that Saudi Arabia has been running a huge deficit.
The Saudi royal family has had to deal with a great deal of opposition in the last few years and it has been increaingly difficult to appease or suppress the public. Certainly their dealings with the west do not go over well with saudi subjects, yet their diplomats continue to tell us that they have their people's support. It's clear that they have conflicting desires, they need our money but they would also like to cut our throats. Likewise I think the US government is more interested in keeping the region only marginally stable, enough to keep the middle eastern leaders preoccupied while we buy up all the oil. And convince them to spend their profits on our weapons, to use on each other of course.
Cat
Will it go to the kingdom of make believe?
"Can you open the pod bay doors, trolley?; I knew that you could."
It reminds me of a survey once down about drug use. People were asked, "if drugs became legal tomorrow, would you use them?" 90% said no. Then when asked, "If drugs became legal tomorrow, would your neighbor use them?" 70% said yes.
Why are people so eager to believe their fellow human is more likely to do somthing they wouldn't do? Why are people so afraid of the unknown?
Cat
Where do we want to be as a society in a hundred years? A thousand?
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