But that has nothing to do with anything, does it? It's just a way of trying to say some people are better then others, when in reality, we are all the same.
That's kind of the point, right? Why does someone who has been here several generations have any right to say that other immigrants aren't welcome? Didn't America used to have the name, 'The Great Melting Pot'?
It strikes me as hypocritical for anyone who wasn't a native America (and perhaps even them, too if you want to argue pedantics about who was here 'first') and therefore at one point an immigrant, to want to try to keep immigrants out. They have as much right to be here as you do.
I do not see the point of allowing unskilled people into our borders. Why would we do that? For what purpose?
Oh, I don't know. Perhaps because they are people who, like you, and want to live in a free country where you have a chance to pursue your dreams. If you look at America's history, immigrants seem to be hard working and ambitious. Quite frankly, we could use more of that right now, and not just a bunch of stupid complacence idiots who think the most important thing to be focusing on is teaching creationism in schools.
By your logic, shouldn't we expel all the white people who are unskilled, and let in all the African, Hispanic, Asian, and Arabic people who are educated and skilled? Go see how that flies with the Republican party.
Unless you are of native American descent, you have no fucking right to complain about the immigrants anyway, seeing as how you are one...
The really sad thing is that dipshit Gingritch isn't interested in advancing science or human knowledge, but simply engaging in a petty dick waving contest with China over who can get to the moon first. Its a shallow attempt by a shallow man to prove that the USA is the greatest country on Earth. If anything good comes out of such a venture, it will be purely accidental.
Back in college I worked for a very large computer retailer. One of the things the managers there did, was take hardware that they couldn't sell, and just store it in the back room. They wouldn't discount it, because their bonuses were dependent on the margin they maintained for the quarter, and if you dump a bunch of laptops at a discount, it adds up very quickly. Anyway, this went on for years, with each manager just piling up the problem for the next guy to deal with, before rotating into some new position at a new store. Eventually, someone in corporate caught wind of this, and took some steps to dump the old hardware. They put it on sale one weekend for a few hours before yanking it, because even a few hours of discount caused a ping on the corporate servers when they detected a sharp drop in margin at the store. That caused whatever corporate flunky to get cold feet, and start sweating his bonus for the quarter. So, back to the warehouse it all went.
I don't know what was more appalling, the stupidity or the greed. AMERICA, LIVE THE DREAM!
Where did you get the moronic idea that you cannot waive a right?
If that were so, I could write up a contract that says that by signing this, Obfuscant, is now my indentured servant. Upon you signing it, would you be my personal slave? Clearly this isn't remotely legal.
I suspect (not an legal expert on the topic), that there is some confusion over 'rights'. You can waive being read your Miranda rights when being arrested, but I doubt you could ever waive the right to have Miranda rights or any of the other rights that are enumerated in the bill of rights. Clearly this can be a murky subject.
Btw, the offer to buy you as a slave for $50 is a valid one, if you are willing and we can get around that whole, 'completely illegal' thing. I need an indentured servant to make snarky posts for me on/.
And these people are protesting what, exactly? That they might have to pay $8 in a theater to see the latest, oppressively stupid instalment of the "Transformers" franchise instead of getting to download it for free? Yeah, these guys are real crusaders for social justice.
Just because their method of displaying their discord isn't particularly proactive, doesn't mean that they don't have a legitimate complaint. While specific individuals might have varying motives, I get the impression that Anon's objections to big media is less about getting a few free torrents, and more about the control and power corporations exercise over individuals in society.
From your tone, I am guessing that you are unimpressed with them, so I will cast down the gauntlet: What is a better way to deal with corporations attempts to erode your rights in the name of greater profits? You going to hit em with the big guns, and write a letter to your congressman?
I recently had an insight about Anon's activities. The reason hactivisim is gaining strength as a movement is because people are disenfranchised with society and seen conventional avenues of affecting change as a waste of time. The 'man' has a tight grip on the media, politicians and the police are being increasingly militarized for use on peaceful protesters.
People are unhappy with the status quo. Unless change starts happening now and fast, I predict Anon's numbers and targets to grow substantially in the coming years.
We need an amendment that prohibits the taking of public property for private use without just compensation.
Who are you going to compensate? How are you going to figure out how much to pay who ever you compensate? If you roll back the copyright on MLK's 'I have a dream speech', are you going to mail a check for $1.21 to everybody in the USA?
This is a bad ruling, because it sets a president that allows for congress to monkey (further) with copyright. And, it seems to be a well established pattern that congress can be bought, more or less if you have money to throw about (e.g. those assholes at Disney). So basically this means that you can buy works out of public domain if you want to spend the cash it will take.
A better solution would be to throw this out, and rule that the treaty as negotiated, was unconstitutional. Would it really kill us to have to go back an re-negotiate a single treaty in order to preserve the intent of the Constitution? I think not.
Still what hasn't been accounted for is the amount of energy required to produce the polymer.
Good question. I was wondering something along the same line, mainly: Where does all this green energy come from? Because, unless you are very careful in how you generate this energy, won't you end up pumping more CO2 into the air to scrub that same CO2 out of the air? Thermodynamics might have things to say about how effective this strategy is.
Even 'green' technology has hidden costs that will probably release CO2. Suppose I go out in the middle of a really hot desert with a bucket of water, and a magnifying glass and generate electricity by using generating steam. The manufacture of the infrastructure elements will probably generate CO2.
The lobbyists and politicians seem to be oblivious/callous to the problems with this legislation. The question is how to communicate to them that it is completely unacceptable on all levels. I wonder if a general strike could be organized? I am sure that if the internet stopped working for a day, that would get everyone's attention. If this issue causes Joe Average to flood the offices of the Politicians with angry calls, it will be dead legislation within an hour.
This looks like it was cut and paste from some sort of official spreadsheet or list. Wasn't there a massive antitrust lawsuit back in the 1970s where the government came down down hard on Pay for Play radio stations? The snippet I pasted above looks to my untrained eye like prices for playing singles. Could you expand on where you got this info, DCTech?
The reason you have all these versions isn't huge problems with the game system(s), its that there is a fundamental flaw in traditional RPG publishing. Once you sell someone a set of rules, you have to keep paying the bills and you have a hard time selling just accessories. I think that publishers keep re-writing things so they can keep re-selling core rulebooks to people.
Microsoft has the same problem. Once they sell you a good word processor, you never really need to buy another one. What features on office 2010 are there that you didn't have on office 97? The core product is EXACTLY the same.
Lyonnaise de Garantie is the problem here, not the French government. Sure, this is a bad ruling, but that happens all the time in court systems. Simply put, they are trying to litigate away someone's opinion of them. I find this sort of behavior to be the most base form of bullying, and I feel obligated to contribute to the 'Streisand Effect'...
In my opinion, the French firm Lyonnaise de Garantie to a man, are worse than crooks. They are the most foul and debase degenerates, slime of the lowest order. Fuck them, they are pox on the world and a waste of air. To call them a pack of worthless cunts would bring shame to roving packs of worthless cunts. Jean-Luc Berho, the VP of the company cannot bring himself to orgasm without unless he chokes a dog to death. Jean-Jacques Olivié, the president of that slithering pack of reptilians, cannot be trusted not to accidentally choke himself to death if left unattended with a stale croissant. May he catch syphilis from a drunken Armenian mule. Insurance frauds could learn something from these thieves, as could lamprey and other tubular blood sucking vermin.
But, hey, I could be wrong. After all, it is just an opinion.
. I agree that outright fighting isn't the answer but begging isn't going to work either. I'd suggest impeachments
You really think you can get anyone impeached? Unless they are busted in a FBI corruption sting, I'd say your chances are about zero.
The reason why we are stuck with these idiots and petty tyrants leading us is because 70% of the population just doesn't give a fuck. They want their SUVs and big screen cable TV, and they don't give a damn if somebody passes a law that allows indefinite detention of 'Terrorists'.
This isn't something you'd want to use for covert, peacetime operations.
..unless you want to send a message to someone that their secret uranium processing facility isn't fooling anyone and that you can drop in a cruise missile anytime you feel like it.
What the fuck are are you even talking about? Most of the people I listed were systematically murdered by their own government's racist genocidal policies. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Pol Pot, Joe Stalin, and Adolph Hitler's internal murder campaigns had nothing to do with any American Foreign policy decisions. The Balkans have been trying to ethnically cleanse each other since WW1, and I think you will have a hard time hanging China's actions in Tibet on the French, the British, or America.
Moreover, suppose what you said actually makes ANY sense. How would that even be relevant to the observation that I was making that your government cannot be trusted to have your best interests at heart?
Vint Cerf is both right and wrong. He is correct that the government isn't trampling on your rights if it does not provide Internet access and a computer for it's population. But on the flip side, if it expressly denies you access to a communications medium it is denying you a basic human right.
To cast it in another light: Would it be acceptable for a government to outlaw Jewish people from driving on public freeways? Of course not. But nobody expects the government to buy everybody a car and a tank full gas.
I agree that Internet access should not be explicitly enumerated as a human right, but only because it should be self evident as being a basic utility that should be provided to all citizens equally. A country might not have the capacity to deliver electricity to its citizens, but if it does, I would expect that it would be provided in a fair and equal fashion. This would fall under the 'pursuit of happiness' clause where an individual would not be prohibited from acquiring and using a resource if they chose to.
You do not need a gun to live your life well. You can trust your government to protect you.
I'm sure that there are some Libyans, Syrians, Iraqis and North Koreans that might take issue with your statements. Oh, and Jews. And Tibetans. And Bosnians. And Cambodians. And Chinese. And like, Half of Africa. But those are just the few I could rattle off in 30 seconds, there might be more.
This guys is obviously not a programmer. As an experienced programmer, I try to write code that will be so good, it will solve the problem that I am being presented with, that I may move on to new problems and projects and never have to revisit something twice.
This NEVER happens. It may be days, months, or weeks later but they come back. Sometimes its a stray bug I missed. More often, the client/user has come up with some new feature request that they just cannot live without and they must have.
In any event, the iron clad rule of development is: you write it in a week, you support it for eternity. So with that in mind, give them your code. If you wrote anything worthwhile, they will come back with more requests and then you can negotiate for raises and such. If you do this, don't go for the jugular in your demands. Negotiate small projects and raises. Again, over time, as they see your value you can move into more responsibilities and pay.
the problem is that it presents an image that doesn't reflect what people expect when they see a photo - which is a duplicate of what they would see if they could see it with their own eyes.
Yes, I hate it when I am flying through the galactic core, and I notice a super nova that I have a poster of, and I am like, OMFG, they totally shopped that photo.
I am pretty sure nobody is going to be looking at this object with 'their own eyes' for a very long time, if ever.
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But that has nothing to do with anything, does it? It's just a way of trying to say some people are better then others, when in reality, we are all the same.
That's kind of the point, right? Why does someone who has been here several generations have any right to say that other immigrants aren't welcome? Didn't America used to have the name, 'The Great Melting Pot'?
It strikes me as hypocritical for anyone who wasn't a native America (and perhaps even them, too if you want to argue pedantics about who was here 'first') and therefore at one point an immigrant, to want to try to keep immigrants out. They have as much right to be here as you do.
Looks like we need to step it up a bit.
FTFY
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I do not see the point of allowing unskilled people into our borders. Why would we do that? For what purpose?
Oh, I don't know. Perhaps because they are people who, like you, and want to live in a free country where you have a chance to pursue your dreams. If you look at America's history, immigrants seem to be hard working and ambitious. Quite frankly, we could use more of that right now, and not just a bunch of stupid complacence idiots who think the most important thing to be focusing on is teaching creationism in schools.
By your logic, shouldn't we expel all the white people who are unskilled, and let in all the African, Hispanic, Asian, and Arabic people who are educated and skilled? Go see how that flies with the Republican party.
Unless you are of native American descent, you have no fucking right to complain about the immigrants anyway, seeing as how you are one...
The really sad thing is that dipshit Gingritch isn't interested in advancing science or human knowledge, but simply engaging in a petty dick waving contest with China over who can get to the moon first. Its a shallow attempt by a shallow man to prove that the USA is the greatest country on Earth. If anything good comes out of such a venture, it will be purely accidental.
Back in college I worked for a very large computer retailer. One of the things the managers there did, was take hardware that they couldn't sell, and just store it in the back room. They wouldn't discount it, because their bonuses were dependent on the margin they maintained for the quarter, and if you dump a bunch of laptops at a discount, it adds up very quickly. Anyway, this went on for years, with each manager just piling up the problem for the next guy to deal with, before rotating into some new position at a new store. Eventually, someone in corporate caught wind of this, and took some steps to dump the old hardware. They put it on sale one weekend for a few hours before yanking it, because even a few hours of discount caused a ping on the corporate servers when they detected a sharp drop in margin at the store. That caused whatever corporate flunky to get cold feet, and start sweating his bonus for the quarter. So, back to the warehouse it all went.
I don't know what was more appalling, the stupidity or the greed. AMERICA, LIVE THE DREAM!
Give me some black helicopters, man! Won't someone think of the black helicopters?
Where did you get the moronic idea that you cannot waive a right?
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If that were so, I could write up a contract that says that by signing this, Obfuscant, is now my indentured servant. Upon you signing it, would you be my personal slave? Clearly this isn't remotely legal.
I suspect (not an legal expert on the topic), that there is some confusion over 'rights'. You can waive being read your Miranda rights when being arrested, but I doubt you could ever waive the right to have Miranda rights or any of the other rights that are enumerated in the bill of rights. Clearly this can be a murky subject.
Btw, the offer to buy you as a slave for $50 is a valid one, if you are willing and we can get around that whole, 'completely illegal' thing. I need an indentured servant to make snarky posts for me on
And these people are protesting what, exactly? That they might have to pay $8 in a theater to see the latest, oppressively stupid instalment of the "Transformers" franchise instead of getting to download it for free? Yeah, these guys are real crusaders for social justice.
Just because their method of displaying their discord isn't particularly proactive, doesn't mean that they don't have a legitimate complaint. While specific individuals might have varying motives, I get the impression that Anon's objections to big media is less about getting a few free torrents, and more about the control and power corporations exercise over individuals in society.
From your tone, I am guessing that you are unimpressed with them, so I will cast down the gauntlet: What is a better way to deal with corporations attempts to erode your rights in the name of greater profits? You going to hit em with the big guns, and write a letter to your congressman?
I recently had an insight about Anon's activities. The reason hactivisim is gaining strength as a movement is because people are disenfranchised with society and seen conventional avenues of affecting change as a waste of time. The 'man' has a tight grip on the media, politicians and the police are being increasingly militarized for use on peaceful protesters.
People are unhappy with the status quo. Unless change starts happening now and fast, I predict Anon's numbers and targets to grow substantially in the coming years.
We need an amendment that prohibits the taking of public property for private use without just compensation.
Who are you going to compensate? How are you going to figure out how much to pay who ever you compensate? If you roll back the copyright on MLK's 'I have a dream speech', are you going to mail a check for $1.21 to everybody in the USA?
This is a bad ruling, because it sets a president that allows for congress to monkey (further) with copyright. And, it seems to be a well established pattern that congress can be bought, more or less if you have money to throw about (e.g. those assholes at Disney). So basically this means that you can buy works out of public domain if you want to spend the cash it will take.
A better solution would be to throw this out, and rule that the treaty as negotiated, was unconstitutional. Would it really kill us to have to go back an re-negotiate a single treaty in order to preserve the intent of the Constitution? I think not.
I'd be way too busy traveling, chasing women
You are doing it wrong. If you win the powerball, you don't have to chase women, they chase you.
Still what hasn't been accounted for is the amount of energy required to produce the polymer.
Good question. I was wondering something along the same line, mainly: Where does all this green energy come from? Because, unless you are very careful in how you generate this energy, won't you end up pumping more CO2 into the air to scrub that same CO2 out of the air? Thermodynamics might have things to say about how effective this strategy is.
Even 'green' technology has hidden costs that will probably release CO2. Suppose I go out in the middle of a really hot desert with a bucket of water, and a magnifying glass and generate electricity by using generating steam. The manufacture of the infrastructure elements will probably generate CO2.
The lobbyists and politicians seem to be oblivious/callous to the problems with this legislation. The question is how to communicate to them that it is completely unacceptable on all levels. I wonder if a general strike could be organized? I am sure that if the internet stopped working for a day, that would get everyone's attention. If this issue causes Joe Average to flood the offices of the Politicians with angry calls, it will be dead legislation within an hour.
Commercial Regular Rotation for Rock, Alt, Urban (8 weeks) R&R indicator stage 1 (small markets - 10 stations) .$ 15000
R&R indicator stage 2 (medium & small markets - 25 stations) $ 30000
Regional (non-charting) (10-15 stations) $8000
BDS Promotion (7-10 stations) $15000
This looks like it was cut and paste from some sort of official spreadsheet or list. Wasn't there a massive antitrust lawsuit back in the 1970s where the government came down down hard on Pay for Play radio stations? The snippet I pasted above looks to my untrained eye like prices for playing singles. Could you expand on where you got this info, DCTech?
The reason you have all these versions isn't huge problems with the game system(s), its that there is a fundamental flaw in traditional RPG publishing. Once you sell someone a set of rules, you have to keep paying the bills and you have a hard time selling just accessories. I think that publishers keep re-writing things so they can keep re-selling core rulebooks to people.
Microsoft has the same problem. Once they sell you a good word processor, you never really need to buy another one. What features on office 2010 are there that you didn't have on office 97? The core product is EXACTLY the same.
In those days we created characters on parchment made from jaguar hides and used dice carved from the femur of a wooly mammoth.
Bah, you whippersnappers have it easy. In my day, we didn't play D&D, we just went outside an stabbed real beholders and dragons...
Lyonnaise de Garantie is the problem here, not the French government. Sure, this is a bad ruling, but that happens all the time in court systems. Simply put, they are trying to litigate away someone's opinion of them. I find this sort of behavior to be the most base form of bullying, and I feel obligated to contribute to the 'Streisand Effect'...
In my opinion, the French firm Lyonnaise de Garantie to a man, are worse than crooks. They are the most foul and debase degenerates, slime of the lowest order. Fuck them, they are pox on the world and a waste of air. To call them a pack of worthless cunts would bring shame to roving packs of worthless cunts. Jean-Luc Berho, the VP of the company cannot bring himself to orgasm without unless he chokes a dog to death. Jean-Jacques Olivié, the president of that slithering pack of reptilians, cannot be trusted not to accidentally choke himself to death if left unattended with a stale croissant. May he catch syphilis from a drunken Armenian mule. Insurance frauds could learn something from these thieves, as could lamprey and other tubular blood sucking vermin.
But, hey, I could be wrong. After all, it is just an opinion.
. I agree that outright fighting isn't the answer but begging isn't going to work either. I'd suggest impeachments
You really think you can get anyone impeached? Unless they are busted in a FBI corruption sting, I'd say your chances are about zero.
The reason why we are stuck with these idiots and petty tyrants leading us is because 70% of the population just doesn't give a fuck. They want their SUVs and big screen cable TV, and they don't give a damn if somebody passes a law that allows indefinite detention of 'Terrorists'.
This isn't something you'd want to use for covert, peacetime operations.
..unless you want to send a message to someone that their secret uranium processing facility isn't fooling anyone and that you can drop in a cruise missile anytime you feel like it.
What the fuck are are you even talking about? Most of the people I listed were systematically murdered by their own government's racist genocidal policies. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Pol Pot, Joe Stalin, and Adolph Hitler's internal murder campaigns had nothing to do with any American Foreign policy decisions. The Balkans have been trying to ethnically cleanse each other since WW1, and I think you will have a hard time hanging China's actions in Tibet on the French, the British, or America.
Moreover, suppose what you said actually makes ANY sense. How would that even be relevant to the observation that I was making that your government cannot be trusted to have your best interests at heart?
Try out a projector. It is easy to jump to a 120" screen. I think that the OP was correct in calling a 52" screen tiny.
Vint Cerf is both right and wrong. He is correct that the government isn't trampling on your rights if it does not provide Internet access and a computer for it's population. But on the flip side, if it expressly denies you access to a communications medium it is denying you a basic human right.
To cast it in another light: Would it be acceptable for a government to outlaw Jewish people from driving on public freeways? Of course not. But nobody expects the government to buy everybody a car and a tank full gas.
I agree that Internet access should not be explicitly enumerated as a human right, but only because it should be self evident as being a basic utility that should be provided to all citizens equally. A country might not have the capacity to deliver electricity to its citizens, but if it does, I would expect that it would be provided in a fair and equal fashion. This would fall under the 'pursuit of happiness' clause where an individual would not be prohibited from acquiring and using a resource if they chose to.
You do not need a gun to live your life well. You can trust your government to protect you.
I'm sure that there are some Libyans, Syrians, Iraqis and North Koreans that might take issue with your statements. Oh, and Jews. And Tibetans. And Bosnians. And Cambodians. And Chinese. And like, Half of Africa. But those are just the few I could rattle off in 30 seconds, there might be more.
This guys is obviously not a programmer. As an experienced programmer, I try to write code that will be so good, it will solve the problem that I am being presented with, that I may move on to new problems and projects and never have to revisit something twice.
This NEVER happens. It may be days, months, or weeks later but they come back. Sometimes its a stray bug I missed. More often, the client/user has come up with some new feature request that they just cannot live without and they must have.
In any event, the iron clad rule of development is: you write it in a week, you support it for eternity. So with that in mind, give them your code. If you wrote anything worthwhile, they will come back with more requests and then you can negotiate for raises and such. If you do this, don't go for the jugular in your demands. Negotiate small projects and raises. Again, over time, as they see your value you can move into more responsibilities and pay.
the problem is that it presents an image that doesn't reflect what people expect when they see a photo - which is a duplicate of what they would see if they could see it with their own eyes.
Yes, I hate it when I am flying through the galactic core, and I notice a super nova that I have a poster of, and I am like, OMFG, they totally shopped that photo.
I am pretty sure nobody is going to be looking at this object with 'their own eyes' for a very long time, if ever.