people have said you can't run in ropers (cowboy boots), I've done it, almost as fast as in sneakers. Not that I'm very fast in any case, but people I could keep up with in sneakers I could still keep up with in ropers.
(it's usually easier when they're not leather soled ropers, if they are your running surface makes all the difference)
I consider Roosevelt was a horrible thing to happen. He received fan mail from Hitler and Benito Mussolini before the war. They all three had more or less the same goals, until Hitler decided to go on a Jew killing rampage and Mussolini went into Africa. Look into the Blue Eagle and the NRA thugs (not the rifle association) to see why I feel this way, he was going for all out socialism.
I'm of the Libertarian persuasion, "do no harm". If what you're selling, no matter what it is, endangers people in ways not stated or expected then you need to shape up or face the gavel. This covers everything, silverware, food, etc... If you're wearing a bullet proof vest and you get shot in the leg, that's not the vest makers fault. If you're wearing a bullet proof vest and it gives you, and everyone else who wears one like it a horrible skin rash because it's full of nasty chemicals like Walmart shoes from China then you need to take corrective action of face the gavel.
I haven't fully figured out how to get rid of frivolous lawsuits yet. Loser pays seems to be a decent idea, but that doesn't always work.
There is a limit to the amount of profit a car manufacturer on an individual car in the U.S. This only applies to basic passenger cars, not luxury cars or trucks. The answer? This is why the big 3 pushed trucks and SUV's so hard - which granted a large part of their customers wanted, but they largely ignored another large crowd that wanted small U.S. made economy cars. They produced crap instead, so we bought Japanese. Thank you Uncle Sam.
Some Americans With Disabilities Act rules apply only to companies of certain size, as in number of employees. Compliance is incredibly expensive in many cases. Some companies put the brakes on at a certain number of employees due to the expense of compliance sentencing said companies to stagnate growth at a certain size giving their mega corporation competitors an upper hand. Thank You Uncle Sam. The same can be said of certain FDA regulations and any other regulatory agency you can name.
My sister works for the Department of Agriculture. She writes checks to farmers to not grow crops.
Here's an idea: KEEP THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT OUT OF IT
Unless something really needs regulating, leave it the hell alone. Food? Fine we need an FDA to make sure our food isn't nasty and contaminated. They probably overstep their usefulness in some cases, and under step it in others, but that's expected.
Yes, we do need an agency to keep track of Plutonium and Uranium. Just saying, yeah, track that.
We need an EPA - but it needs to know it's place.
ATF? We don't need that. It's a redundant agency originally created for tax purposes, not what they're doing now. It's also limiting freedom.
No government regulation usually helps huge companies by keeping the small competitors down. Create an agency to regulate an industry, then the companies buy the candidates they want and put them in the regulatory committees. The little guys can't do that.
As Skadet points out above everyone wants to be the really cool character and not a minion. Where in outright fantasy everyone has potential to become something, regular Sci-Fi that doesn't really work.
So what happens? A different type of Sci-Fi.
"Retro Futuristic" sci-fi can work, such as things along the lines of Flash Gordon, or possibly post-apocalyptic sci-fi can work, think slightly more futuristic Mad Max. I could see an MMORPG based on Mad Max working out great, and if you move up event that causes society to collapse a couple of hundred years you've got yourself one heck of a game.
Last but not least, a favorite in retro Sci-Fi: Steampunk. Steampunk is sci-fi that has everything that makes fantasy games great.
Though not exactly fitting into any of the three but fitting squarely in the middle of all of them - I could see an MMORPG based on Skies of Arcadia taking off. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and Pirate themes all in one game? WIN!
I moved out of Phoenix 12 years ago, but I never actually had problems with them aside from 1 traffic ticket the whole time I was there. I did have to call them to, my truck was broken into, I was actually surprised they finger printed when they were obviously dealing with a junky stealing stereo's for a fix.
This guy's obviously already been in court. ACLU time, and even up to the supreme court. The Phoenix police department is about to get a federal raping.
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Oh, I've on many numerous occasions described the difference between the different meanings of free. Heck, I started writing a book, I need to get back to that actually. In an early draft of my book I went into "Libre" vs. "Gratis" but my reviewers have steered me away from that, they said it's to confusing and they don't like the use of "non American" words.
I gave it a shot.
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One particular hater I'm thinking of uses the term "they" to refer to Linux. I could not beat the concept into his head Linux is not a company.
I still run into Linux bashers that don't understand that Linux isn't just a command line.
I still run into Linux bashers who think "free" is the same as share ware as one of them said "there's always a hook in free software".
I'm not calling all of them uneducated, but there is a large share of them.
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Mostly from uneducated haters, but there's no lack of it.
Oh, and in lots of cases, it IS ready for the desktop. Either in a managed environment with a guru at the top, for those who know what they're doing, and for locked down spoon fed distros.
It's the 91st day The 19th hour the 50th minute of that hour the 44th second of that minute.
Here's a picture of the very same time code reader I looked at the time on. This picture was taken the last day of last year - guess how you can tell last year was a leap year?
The sad part is a large portion of the world populace can't keep up with complicated topics. Of course that may be a good enough reason to "fail" them anyways.
Well, in my particular example - stack these facts.
1. An unknown messages me - not the other way around
2. If someone was off put by something like this not realizing what was going on - I'm probably better off not talking to them anyways.
3. They messaged me.
You're stupid if you're not at least a little suspicious of someone messaging you out of the blue that you've had no prior contact with. (especially if you're in legal litigation)
On the occasion I get messaged by a random stranger that seems half way legit I just give them a Turing Test made up on the spot. It's usually something lame like "Joe and Pete were on a bus, Pete has four nickles Joe has six pennies between the two of them what type of vehicle were they on?". I usually apologize for that in advanced. The machines fail every time, but the best one I saw called me weird for saying it, asked what I meant, then about two minutes later gave me the right answer telling me a person was checking logs. (I was spending the time in between screwing with the bot)
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I just pictured Bill Gates in boots and hat.
The problem is I couldn't picture him that way without seeing him getting roped and everyone nearby laughing ecstatically.
I can't help but picture him in the stereotypical big hat with a star, rhine stones, and fringed shirt.
Sure it does, it shows dedication and experience!
people have said you can't run in ropers (cowboy boots), I've done it, almost as fast as in sneakers. Not that I'm very fast in any case, but people I could keep up with in sneakers I could still keep up with in ropers.
(it's usually easier when they're not leather soled ropers, if they are your running surface makes all the difference)
You're right, it was FDR that was the big screw up, his cousin did a little better job.
Of course I just fed the troll.
I consider Roosevelt was a horrible thing to happen. He received fan mail from Hitler and Benito Mussolini before the war. They all three had more or less the same goals, until Hitler decided to go on a Jew killing rampage and Mussolini went into Africa. Look into the Blue Eagle and the NRA thugs (not the rifle association) to see why I feel this way, he was going for all out socialism.
I'm of the Libertarian persuasion, "do no harm". If what you're selling, no matter what it is, endangers people in ways not stated or expected then you need to shape up or face the gavel. This covers everything, silverware, food, etc... If you're wearing a bullet proof vest and you get shot in the leg, that's not the vest makers fault. If you're wearing a bullet proof vest and it gives you, and everyone else who wears one like it a horrible skin rash because it's full of nasty chemicals like Walmart shoes from China then you need to take corrective action of face the gavel.
I haven't fully figured out how to get rid of frivolous lawsuits yet. Loser pays seems to be a decent idea, but that doesn't always work.
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The cause is the effect, the effect is the cause. It's going to take an outside force to break the two apart.
You didn't actually read my post did you?
There is a limit to the amount of profit a car manufacturer on an individual car in the U.S. This only applies to basic passenger cars, not luxury cars or trucks. The answer? This is why the big 3 pushed trucks and SUV's so hard - which granted a large part of their customers wanted, but they largely ignored another large crowd that wanted small U.S. made economy cars. They produced crap instead, so we bought Japanese. Thank you Uncle Sam.
Some Americans With Disabilities Act rules apply only to companies of certain size, as in number of employees. Compliance is incredibly expensive in many cases. Some companies put the brakes on at a certain number of employees due to the expense of compliance sentencing said companies to stagnate growth at a certain size giving their mega corporation competitors an upper hand. Thank You Uncle Sam. The same can be said of certain FDA regulations and any other regulatory agency you can name.
My sister works for the Department of Agriculture. She writes checks to farmers to not grow crops.
Here's an idea:
KEEP THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT OUT OF IT
Unless something really needs regulating, leave it the hell alone. Food? Fine we need an FDA to make sure our food isn't nasty and contaminated. They probably overstep their usefulness in some cases, and under step it in others, but that's expected.
Yes, we do need an agency to keep track of Plutonium and Uranium. Just saying, yeah, track that.
We need an EPA - but it needs to know it's place.
ATF? We don't need that. It's a redundant agency originally created for tax purposes, not what they're doing now. It's also limiting freedom.
No government regulation usually helps huge companies by keeping the small competitors down. Create an agency to regulate an industry, then the companies buy the candidates they want and put them in the regulatory committees. The little guys can't do that.
As Skadet points out above everyone wants to be the really cool character and not a minion. Where in outright fantasy everyone has potential to become something, regular Sci-Fi that doesn't really work.
So what happens? A different type of Sci-Fi.
"Retro Futuristic" sci-fi can work, such as things along the lines of Flash Gordon, or possibly post-apocalyptic sci-fi can work, think slightly more futuristic Mad Max. I could see an MMORPG based on Mad Max working out great, and if you move up event that causes society to collapse a couple of hundred years you've got yourself one heck of a game.
Last but not least, a favorite in retro Sci-Fi: Steampunk. Steampunk is sci-fi that has everything that makes fantasy games great.
Though not exactly fitting into any of the three but fitting squarely in the middle of all of them - I could see an MMORPG based on Skies of Arcadia taking off. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and Pirate themes all in one game? WIN!
It's supposed to read:
1. Wear silly hats
2. Arrest people for making fun of silly hat wearer
3. ??????
4. Profit!
Instead the king is pulling a:
1. Wear silly hats
2. Arrest people for making fun of silly hat wearer
3. Ruin lives needlessly
4. ???????
There is no profit!
Bah, I work as a government contractor with an HSPD 12, my prints are filed. Guess I better stay reputable, not a problem anyway.
I moved out of Phoenix 12 years ago, but I never actually had problems with them aside from 1 traffic ticket the whole time I was there. I did have to call them to, my truck was broken into, I was actually surprised they finger printed when they were obviously dealing with a junky stealing stereo's for a fix.
This guy's obviously already been in court. ACLU time, and even up to the supreme court. The Phoenix police department is about to get a federal raping.
Oh, I've on many numerous occasions described the difference between the different meanings of free. Heck, I started writing a book, I need to get back to that actually. In an early draft of my book I went into "Libre" vs. "Gratis" but my reviewers have steered me away from that, they said it's to confusing and they don't like the use of "non American" words.
I gave it a shot.
One particular hater I'm thinking of uses the term "they" to refer to Linux. I could not beat the concept into his head Linux is not a company.
I still run into Linux bashers that don't understand that Linux isn't just a command line.
I still run into Linux bashers who think "free" is the same as share ware as one of them said "there's always a hook in free software".
I'm not calling all of them uneducated, but there is a large share of them.
Mostly from uneducated haters, but there's no lack of it.
Oh, and in lots of cases, it IS ready for the desktop. Either in a managed environment with a guru at the top, for those who know what they're doing, and for locked down spoon fed distros.
Well, I know how to tell time.
It's the 91st day
The 19th hour
the 50th minute of that hour
the 44th second of that minute.
Here's a picture of the very same time code reader I looked at the time on. This picture was taken the last day of last year - guess how you can tell last year was a leap year?
So it might just be ZULU 092, or April 2nd, in ZULU land - here in the Central United states it's still 091:19:54:44
So it might just be ZULU 092, or April 2nd, in ZULU land - here in the Central United states it's still 091:19:50:44.
Sufficiently vague!
Now - am I the one who looks bad for not catching on or more closely being uncertain, or is it you for being to vague and complex?
And the response that passes the test!
Inside of Flipper or outside?
If speak in manner of Yoda you do, keep up with it a bot can not.
The sad part is a large portion of the world populace can't keep up with complicated topics. Of course that may be a good enough reason to "fail" them anyways.
Well, in my particular example - stack these facts.
1. An unknown messages me - not the other way around
2. If someone was off put by something like this not realizing what was going on - I'm probably better off not talking to them anyways.
3. They messaged me.
You're stupid if you're not at least a little suspicious of someone messaging you out of the blue that you've had no prior contact with. (especially if you're in legal litigation)
On the occasion I get messaged by a random stranger that seems half way legit I just give them a Turing Test made up on the spot. It's usually something lame like "Joe and Pete were on a bus, Pete has four nickles Joe has six pennies between the two of them what type of vehicle were they on?". I usually apologize for that in advanced. The machines fail every time, but the best one I saw called me weird for saying it, asked what I meant, then about two minutes later gave me the right answer telling me a person was checking logs. (I was spending the time in between screwing with the bot)