The patent, as shown by the myriad other examples given before, is BLOODY FUCKING OBVIOUS and never should have been granted if the US patent office were not goddamn overworked and judged on the "metric" of how many patents they grant each year.
The numbers say it pretty clearly, but the poorer you are the more kids you have (which seems extremely backwards, but it's true).
No, it's not extremely backwards. The poor are more likely to be bored and horny and have nothing to do but screw. And they're less likely to be educated about things like birth control and STD spread as well.
I won't say that it's wrong to think about birth control, but abstinence is at least a free way to do something which may explain why it was first used (beside religious considerations).
I won't say it's wrong to think about abstinence, but time and again we've seen that abstinence doesn't happen. Abstinence-only education actually makes it MORE likely, not less, for kids to engage in early/promiscuous sex.
The far better way to deal with it is first to see about improving the education of women in the developing world (educated women typically have fewer kids). And improving their wealth potential thereby leading them into population growth reduction in the same pattern as the developed world.
The problem is, the more backwards a society is, the (generally) more backwards their attitude towards women. The status of women's rights in most of Africa, most of the Middle East/Asian Muslim nations, and non-"large city" area South American countries (to say nothing of those fucktards in the FLDS in America/Mexico/Canada) is the trend. Want to know where the largest population boom areas are in India? Yep, they're in the poor caste areas. Want to know where the population growth is in Afghanistan? Just follow the sound of wife-beating.
What is needed is a combination of steps. Yes, it's harsh to suggest to people that they shouldn't have kids. Yes, you'll have those who push back on you. The problem we are addressing, though, is that currently the way to "get by" for the poor is to have kids. In "developing" nations, kids = little workers for your farm. In "developed" nations with a nanny state, kids = government support check for those who are living on the dole. And I don't mean people who are temporarily unemployed here, I mean the women (because the dads run the fuck off first chance they get) who start having kids at 15-16 years old and who have multiple kids without ever knowing which of the guys she was fucking around with that year is the father.
Oh, and before someone screams "racist" at me... I'm talking about the trash that showed up on our doorstep after Katrina just as much as I'm talking about the white trailer park trash. Same patterns. Race doesn't enter into it.
The japanese are a small island nation in which cordiality, community and honor are respected concepts.
The US is a gigantic "frontier" nation founded by the princible that a bunch of inbred religious fundamentalist rednecks ought to have the "freedom" to go into the wilderness and beat their wives.
Nonperishable food items (canned veg, dehydrated or canned soup with long shelf life, rice, flour, etc).
Drinking water. (Get a few of those water-delivery jugs, fill them up when your region gets a hurricane warning).
Flashlights, matches and candles for light. In addition to the long-lived "safety" candles, I have a few bags of cheap tealights.
Ample supply of firewood/charcoal and a grill or firepit to cook with. Having both isn't bad - they're both usable any old time.
Some rope, tarp, hammer and nails won't hurt you. If you're in a hurricane region, it won't hurt to install some locking flip latches and measure some plywood to cover easily-damaged or large windows. Beats having to repair the window after a hurricane and you don't have the "nail holes in the house" problem after. The flip latches will hold the plywood down perfectly snug.
A few board games and books just so you don't get fucking bored as hell.
Radio (either crank powered or stock spare batteries) so you can get weather and news reports.
There you go. Sure, there are people who will suggest a bunch of other crap, but that's the basics. If you're someone who goes camping with any regularity, you should have at least half of this crap on hand already.
Totalitarian government of any form wants to abolish trade unions.
The Retardicans are totalitarians not unlike the Fascists of Italy. Look at what they do: every single step the Retardicans take is raw corporatism, and they keep getting us into fucked-up wars to justify their being in office.
Republican - there are still actual Republicans around. The ones who were closer to the center, who understood that the "screaming aaugh kill the government anarchy for all the low tax fairy will bring us everything we want" types are fucking insane.
On the other hand, the party has been taken over by a bunch of wack-jobs and front-group maintainers like the Kochs. The "Tea Party" types, the Ron/Rand Paul types. Those are the Retardicans.
They claim to worship "Reagan", but don't know the fucking first thing about what Reagan actually said. For instance, take the recent stuff in Wisconsin and the constant Retardican attacks on trade unions in general. What did Reagan have to say about Unions?
Here's a quote: "They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here or it will not be passed on to our children." - Ronald Reagan, Sept 1, 1980
On the other hand, where do we find people who want to abolish trade unions? Oh yeah - COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS and FASCISTS. "We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers' salaries and take away their right to strike." - Adolph Hitler, May 2, 1933
Benito Mussolini banned trade unions. Under Fascist corporatism, they were "enemies of the state." Kinda reminds me of the way the Republican Party works currently.
Stalin abolished all the unions. After all, under Communist rule they were "no longer necessary." And yet somehow the Retardicans say "Unions are communism."
Oh really?
The crossroads question today is, as these Retardicans reveal more and more of their true selves, will the people of America recognize them for what they are and tell them to go the fuck away?
Looks like the Retardicans are up to their old tricks.
"OMG the Bible is under attack! Better get out and vote Retardican you buck-toothed inbred hicks! Nevermind that we're taking away all the funding to try to educate your kids and stealing your homes and farmland out from underneath you, its Da Bible Under Attack!"
This kind of crap makes me sick to my stomach. Seriously. Texas has this one retard by the name of Dan Patrick - he's also responsible for the ultrasound bill these fundamentalist wack-jobs crammed through. He bought off his opponent in the 2006 senate race with underpriced stock in his radio station.
To call him a scumwad is an insult to scum everywhere.
Quoting from Wikipedia - which I don't normally do, but the link's been there a good long while even though Dumb Patrick is too cowardly to put his show on podcast - On January 27, 2011 on his radio show, Patrick defended his proposed 20% cuts to Texas education funding by saying that anything but engineering and medical research is "research nobody cares about" which he "will get rid of."
Of course, the judge is probably going to rule that "irrelevant" and deny it. That Sony-logo'ed swimming pool that magically appeared in his backyard is of course completely unrelated to any judicial rulings...
Actually, IANAL either, BUT I do know this much - if you give a false statement to the cops (whether a witness report, police report, or otherwise) you could be charged with:
- Giving a false statement to police. - Filing a false police report. - Impeding an official investigation.
Of course, if the cops lie about you or lie about what they saw or heard, good luck getting it overturned unless there's video evidence.
Actually, what they do is offer you a really fucking low "plea bargain" sentence, with a shit-ton of "extra added nastiness" if you force them to go to court. The Plea Bargain long ago stopped being a valid option and is now just a tool of coercion that leads to innocent people pleading guilty out of coercive fear.
And any judge, at any time, can decide you are "noncooperative" and simply throw the book at you. So your lawyer had really be damn good to get you out of that. IF you can afford a lawyer.
Well, increased awareness can be a vicious cycle with increased diagnosis.
ADHD overdiagnosis is a topic of some contention, of course, with many people believing that ADHD is overdiagnosed because some teachers (who are NOT medical professionals and should not be making medical recommendations) keep sending any student who isn't properly docile off until the parents give in and drug them.
Then again, having known an actual ADHD kid growing up, the difference between his behavior on and off meds was night-and-day. With meds, he could actually hold a conversation and do his homework. Off meds, he wound up after a few minutes running around pounding on stuff and traumatized the living hell out of his sister. So it's not that every kid with ADHD is misdiagnosed, either.
As for Asperger's... again, see "increased awareness." Is it possible that someone who are "merely antisocial" and "mild asperger's" may behave very similarly? Quite possibly. Could that lead to a misdiagnosis, or mis-self-diagnosis? Absolutely. Does it mean that maybe, they should see about at least an initial consult regarding the possibility? Not necessarily a bad idea.
Very few people who claim to be conservative actually want small government, most of them are a bunch of brain-dead freaks who don't even know what Ronald Reagan actually said and worship at the altar of that wack-job fundie nut sandwich Glenn Beck while they jerk off every night.
But to judge the medium by the likes of Activision, where the CEO is a major douchenozzle that has said milking any idea into a cookie cutter franchise is his one and only goal? Really not fair to the medium.
What's REALLY sad is that Activision started out as a very different entity - a game company that would give the ARTISTS, e.g. the programmers, credit for their works by putting their names on the box (which Atari refused to do).
From that humble beginning, to today where said fascist douchenozzle outright steals games from their creators and runs them into the ground by having worthless fucktard "barely capable of imitation" programmers from Neversoft churn out crappy add-ons to the series every 9 months.
As it stands, let them know you actually have a college degree and the lawyers are instantly trying to get rid of you. The goal of the lawyers is to get the most gullible, brainless retards they can on the jury pool. Anyone with actual capacity to understand the facts of the case is someone they don't want on the jury because those are the people who will be able to see through their misdirection and who will question what they are leaving out.
So they're absolutely providing a way to check usage. The jury's out on whether or not it's a "good" way, but seeing as you haven't used it you are in no way capable of making that judgement.
Bullshit. They've been promising that for a decade. Comcrap and Cox, the same.
It's still fucking vaporware there same as everywhere else.
Now you're just making things up. It doesn't mention that anywhere in the article.
Now you just proved you're a fucking braindead tool.
There is a finite amount of bandwidth.
If you measure max capacity x number of seconds in the month, perhaps.
If you underuse one second, though, you cannot make up for it by going "extra fast" later. Bandwidth is a MOMENTARY capacity, not something that can be stored for later use.
Once you get this simple fact to store correctly in your warped, defective brain, you will start to understand why "bandwidth caps" are meaningless to usage and serve no rational purpose.
The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea.
Option 3: make the providers start obeying truth-in-advertising laws and actually fucking invest in network capacity again rather than pushing dishonest "up to X speed" plans where the users never see even a third of it.
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Prior, Schmior.
The patent, as shown by the myriad other examples given before, is BLOODY FUCKING OBVIOUS and never should have been granted if the US patent office were not goddamn overworked and judged on the "metric" of how many patents they grant each year.
The numbers say it pretty clearly, but the poorer you are the more kids you have (which seems extremely backwards, but it's true).
No, it's not extremely backwards. The poor are more likely to be bored and horny and have nothing to do but screw. And they're less likely to be educated about things like birth control and STD spread as well.
For fuck's sake, 40% of the male african population still thinks that raping a virgin can cure aids!
I won't say that it's wrong to think about birth control, but abstinence is at least a free way to do something which may explain why it was first used (beside religious considerations).
I won't say it's wrong to think about abstinence, but time and again we've seen that abstinence doesn't happen. Abstinence-only education actually makes it MORE likely, not less, for kids to engage in early/promiscuous sex.
The far better way to deal with it is first to see about improving the education of women in the developing world (educated women typically have fewer kids). And improving their wealth potential thereby leading them into population growth reduction in the same pattern as the developed world.
The problem is, the more backwards a society is, the (generally) more backwards their attitude towards women. The status of women's rights in most of Africa, most of the Middle East/Asian Muslim nations, and non-"large city" area South American countries (to say nothing of those fucktards in the FLDS in America/Mexico/Canada) is the trend. Want to know where the largest population boom areas are in India? Yep, they're in the poor caste areas. Want to know where the population growth is in Afghanistan? Just follow the sound of wife-beating.
What is needed is a combination of steps. Yes, it's harsh to suggest to people that they shouldn't have kids. Yes, you'll have those who push back on you. The problem we are addressing, though, is that currently the way to "get by" for the poor is to have kids. In "developing" nations, kids = little workers for your farm. In "developed" nations with a nanny state, kids = government support check for those who are living on the dole. And I don't mean people who are temporarily unemployed here, I mean the women (because the dads run the fuck off first chance they get) who start having kids at 15-16 years old and who have multiple kids without ever knowing which of the guys she was fucking around with that year is the father.
Oh, and before someone screams "racist" at me... I'm talking about the trash that showed up on our doorstep after Katrina just as much as I'm talking about the white trailer park trash. Same patterns. Race doesn't enter into it.
Slim and large, please.
Oh, so you want a Macbook Air-type device then.
This is why I term most of the Tea Party groups "Ree Tardiers" and the majority of Republicans "Retardicans" these days.
As evidenced by crap like this that they spew all the time, they clearly lack any semblance of higher brain functions.
The japanese are a small island nation in which cordiality, community and honor are respected concepts.
The US is a gigantic "frontier" nation founded by the princible that a bunch of inbred religious fundamentalist rednecks ought to have the "freedom" to go into the wilderness and beat their wives.
See the difference?
Blankets and sleeping bags.
Nonperishable food items (canned veg, dehydrated or canned soup with long shelf life, rice, flour, etc).
Drinking water. (Get a few of those water-delivery jugs, fill them up when your region gets a hurricane warning).
Flashlights, matches and candles for light. In addition to the long-lived "safety" candles, I have a few bags of cheap tealights.
Ample supply of firewood/charcoal and a grill or firepit to cook with. Having both isn't bad - they're both usable any old time.
Some rope, tarp, hammer and nails won't hurt you.
If you're in a hurricane region, it won't hurt to install some locking flip latches and measure some plywood to cover easily-damaged or large windows. Beats having to repair the window after a hurricane and you don't have the "nail holes in the house" problem after. The flip latches will hold the plywood down perfectly snug.
A few board games and books just so you don't get fucking bored as hell.
Radio (either crank powered or stock spare batteries) so you can get weather and news reports.
There you go. Sure, there are people who will suggest a bunch of other crap, but that's the basics. If you're someone who goes camping with any regularity, you should have at least half of this crap on hand already.
Totalitarian government of any form wants to abolish trade unions.
The Retardicans are totalitarians not unlike the Fascists of Italy. Look at what they do: every single step the Retardicans take is raw corporatism, and they keep getting us into fucked-up wars to justify their being in office.
Republican - there are still actual Republicans around. The ones who were closer to the center, who understood that the "screaming aaugh kill the government anarchy for all the low tax fairy will bring us everything we want" types are fucking insane.
On the other hand, the party has been taken over by a bunch of wack-jobs and front-group maintainers like the Kochs. The "Tea Party" types, the Ron/Rand Paul types. Those are the Retardicans.
They claim to worship "Reagan", but don't know the fucking first thing about what Reagan actually said. For instance, take the recent stuff in Wisconsin and the constant Retardican attacks on trade unions in general. What did Reagan have to say about Unions?
Here's a quote:
"They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here or it will not be passed on to our children." - Ronald Reagan, Sept 1, 1980
On the other hand, where do we find people who want to abolish trade unions? Oh yeah - COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS and FASCISTS.
"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers' salaries and take away their right to strike." - Adolph Hitler, May 2, 1933
Benito Mussolini banned trade unions. Under Fascist corporatism, they were "enemies of the state." Kinda reminds me of the way the Republican Party works currently.
Stalin abolished all the unions. After all, under Communist rule they were "no longer necessary." And yet somehow the Retardicans say "Unions are communism."
Oh really?
The crossroads question today is, as these Retardicans reveal more and more of their true selves, will the people of America recognize them for what they are and tell them to go the fuck away?
Looks like the Retardicans are up to their old tricks.
"OMG the Bible is under attack! Better get out and vote Retardican you buck-toothed inbred hicks! Nevermind that we're taking away all the funding to try to educate your kids and stealing your homes and farmland out from underneath you, its Da Bible Under Attack!"
This kind of crap makes me sick to my stomach. Seriously. Texas has this one retard by the name of Dan Patrick - he's also responsible for the ultrasound bill these fundamentalist wack-jobs crammed through. He bought off his opponent in the 2006 senate race with underpriced stock in his radio station.
To call him a scumwad is an insult to scum everywhere.
Quoting from Wikipedia - which I don't normally do, but the link's been there a good long while even though Dumb Patrick is too cowardly to put his show on podcast - On January 27, 2011 on his radio show, Patrick defended his proposed 20% cuts to Texas education funding by saying that anything but engineering and medical research is "research nobody cares about" which he "will get rid of."
Sigh.
I am saying - the rulings stink. Nothing this joke of a judge does passes the smell test.
Something else is going on, and I'm willing to bet there is money changing hands to "ensure correct rulings" somewhere.
That's what happens when the judge is on the corporate payroll.
Geohot's lawyers should.
Of course, the judge is probably going to rule that "irrelevant" and deny it. That Sony-logo'ed swimming pool that magically appeared in his backyard is of course completely unrelated to any judicial rulings...
IANAL but IMO you are allowed to lie.
Actually, IANAL either, BUT I do know this much - if you give a false statement to the cops (whether a witness report, police report, or otherwise) you could be charged with:
- Giving a false statement to police.
- Filing a false police report.
- Impeding an official investigation.
Of course, if the cops lie about you or lie about what they saw or heard, good luck getting it overturned unless there's video evidence.
That's what they want you to believe, at least.
Actually, what they do is offer you a really fucking low "plea bargain" sentence, with a shit-ton of "extra added nastiness" if you force them to go to court. The Plea Bargain long ago stopped being a valid option and is now just a tool of coercion that leads to innocent people pleading guilty out of coercive fear.
And any judge, at any time, can decide you are "noncooperative" and simply throw the book at you. So your lawyer had really be damn good to get you out of that. IF you can afford a lawyer.
Well, increased awareness can be a vicious cycle with increased diagnosis.
ADHD overdiagnosis is a topic of some contention, of course, with many people believing that ADHD is overdiagnosed because some teachers (who are NOT medical professionals and should not be making medical recommendations) keep sending any student who isn't properly docile off until the parents give in and drug them.
Then again, having known an actual ADHD kid growing up, the difference between his behavior on and off meds was night-and-day. With meds, he could actually hold a conversation and do his homework. Off meds, he wound up after a few minutes running around pounding on stuff and traumatized the living hell out of his sister. So it's not that every kid with ADHD is misdiagnosed, either.
As for Asperger's... again, see "increased awareness." Is it possible that someone who are "merely antisocial" and "mild asperger's" may behave very similarly? Quite possibly. Could that lead to a misdiagnosis, or mis-self-diagnosis? Absolutely. Does it mean that maybe, they should see about at least an initial consult regarding the possibility? Not necessarily a bad idea.
I'm in favor of any law on the book...enforce it...enforce them all.
Sure.
We'll start by making you hire a flagman to travel 30 ft in front of your car to warn off any horse-drawn carriages lest you spook the horses.
Dumbass.
Very few people who claim to be conservative actually want small government, most of them are a bunch of brain-dead freaks who don't even know what Ronald Reagan actually said and worship at the altar of that wack-job fundie nut sandwich Glenn Beck while they jerk off every night.
There, fixed that for you.
But to judge the medium by the likes of Activision, where the CEO is a major douchenozzle that has said milking any idea into a cookie cutter franchise is his one and only goal? Really not fair to the medium.
What's REALLY sad is that Activision started out as a very different entity - a game company that would give the ARTISTS, e.g. the programmers, credit for their works by putting their names on the box (which Atari refused to do).
From that humble beginning, to today where said fascist douchenozzle outright steals games from their creators and runs them into the ground by having worthless fucktard "barely capable of imitation" programmers from Neversoft churn out crappy add-ons to the series every 9 months.
Frightening isn't it?
And this is why anyone with half a brain doesn't want to waste their time fucking around with Linux.
I wish I could get called more often.
As it stands, let them know you actually have a college degree and the lawyers are instantly trying to get rid of you. The goal of the lawyers is to get the most gullible, brainless retards they can on the jury pool. Anyone with actual capacity to understand the facts of the case is someone they don't want on the jury because those are the people who will be able to see through their misdirection and who will question what they are leaving out.
Read the judge's ridiculous "decisions" regarding what she would and wouldn't allow into the courtroom. And the Jury Instructions she wrote.
Then see if you can call her a "respected jurist" without breaking into a snigger.
where a jury, you know as in regular people,
There's your first mistake.
They've opened up the jury pool to the point where "jury" equates to "twelve fucking retards who can barely velcro their own shoes."
And the people who use them always love to say "well if everybody just used Apple nobody would have viruses."
Nevermind the fact that the moment this happened, even those devices would be targeted by a ton of remote-rooting attacks.
It's not obvious, but if you log into Comcast.net and access your account properties, you will find your % of usage under "User & Settings" tab.
No. You can't. It's not there.
So they're absolutely providing a way to check usage. The jury's out on whether or not it's a "good" way, but seeing as you haven't used it you are in no way capable of making that judgement.
Bullshit. They've been promising that for a decade. Comcrap and Cox, the same.
It's still fucking vaporware there same as everywhere else.
Now you're just making things up. It doesn't mention that anywhere in the article.
Now you just proved you're a fucking braindead tool.
There is a finite amount of bandwidth.
If you measure max capacity x number of seconds in the month, perhaps.
If you underuse one second, though, you cannot make up for it by going "extra fast" later. Bandwidth is a MOMENTARY capacity, not something that can be stored for later use.
Once you get this simple fact to store correctly in your warped, defective brain, you will start to understand why "bandwidth caps" are meaningless to usage and serve no rational purpose.
The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea.
Option 3: make the providers start obeying truth-in-advertising laws and actually fucking invest in network capacity again rather than pushing dishonest "up to X speed" plans where the users never see even a third of it.