No doubt it kept you in line but at what cost. How many people grew up with issues becuase of the borderline physical abuse they suffered. Its not about how bad the beatings are really, its about the anticipation and fear of a beating. That really messes with children's heads.
we agree, that showing the world, that despite the Vietnam catastrophe, America is willing and able to sometimes (not often enough, perhaps) go after vicious tyrants;
Is that worth it? Is throwing away thousands of american lives and seriously wounding tens of thousands of soilders worth it? Is it that important that the world knows we are willing and able? What kind of cock waving bullshit is that? Who the fucfk cares what the world thinks we are capable of, i dont give a damn what the world thinks about us, all i care about is american lives and american freedom, my civil liberties are more important to me than the foolish pride of feeling like a powerful country.
The problem with the "voting with your dollars" system is that some people have more votes than others. In the democracy i live in i prefer to think everyone is equal. Its sad but true though that you ARE voting with your dollars. Everyone should keep this in mind but really the best solution is not to play the game that the MAFIAA designed.
I'm pretty sure more than 35% of your paycheck ends up in the hands of corporations. Now are they stealing it? Well if copying a DVD is stealing then being brianwashed by the marketing of corporations is stealing too.
Meanwhile racism in America keeps some people thinking that somehow we have an advantage that can't be measured. So many people think that Chinese or Indian tech workers are somehow inferior. They are at this point but its not genetics keeping them back. Assuming we are better is only going to diminish our influence more and more. I'm taking a trip to Europe soon and its going to hurt. Americans used to travel abroad and everywhere they went their dollars went far. In Europe they don't want dollars, our influence is getting smaller and smaller and its even worse in Asia.
A lot of people blame the American standard of living for this. They say if we didn't have to pay so much for American workers then there wouldn't be outsourcing but its just BS. The cycle that the parent post outlined is a concise way of showing what is going on. The cycle is going to finally get broken when foreign workers CAN do the job and we are all left out of the loop.
A bicycle works pretty good for me for commuting. I know that it wont work for everyone but I think most people could do it. It is good for you to get exercise, it is good for the environment not to use a car. Your metabolism shoots up all day when you exercise in the morning, you have more energy all day. Also our road capacity is being overwhelmed, many more bikes can fit on roads than cars.
Also I know someone wants to reply and say that bikes are slow but its just not true. I go much faster than cars on the freeway during rush hour.
Also bikes are cheaper to buy and maintain, by a LOT.
Unmount is a regular command on some non-linux and non-windows systems. Remember that Linux technically uses umount as the command but unmount will work on many mainstream distro as far as I can tell.
Security is not a zero sum system. The more holes you patch the more secure the program gets. Yes i know that a patches can introduce new bugs but that is usually not the case. I think this concept is based on the idea that there is always X amounts of bugs out there so why fix it when you won't be doing any good.
What the anti-war and anti-troops (two distinct, sometimes linked groups with separate agendas) don't want is a source of public information that they cannot control or spin for their own purposes.
I'll bite...
Who is anti troops? The only people who are anti troops are the right wing nuts that want the troops to die because of their crazy religious beliefs. We all know that during Vietnam a lot of people WERE anti troops. It was a terrible thing but we moved past it. People understand not to blame the troops anymore. It's a really easy way to attack someone to say they are anti troops but it just isn't ever the case any more. By using this arguing tactic you are showing how morally bankrupt you are and how indefensible your position is.
If you are a company out do win at any cost what is the best strategy? The best plan is to tell everyone you will "do no evil" and then do it anyway. If your going to do evil you might as well lie about it. Maybe Google is going to do no evil but consider this; any company out do do evil will say they wont do evil, any company out to do good will say they wont do evil. Basically I am saying that Google's mission statement counts for nothing and we need to consider their actual actions. Judge for yourself, is their invasion of privacy evil? Is their acceptance of censorship abroad evil?
Remind me why we stopped the first time? Oh yeah, so we could "let peace have a chance."
It seemed to work to me. Iraq did not hijack any airplanes. Iraq didn't train or help in any way the highjackers. Iraq basically did not have WMDs. Seems like peace was working pretty well.
Yes i know, Saddam was a real asshole, a murderer even. Well if we are going to go around invading countries to control their domestic policy there are a lot of places we should be going. Lets invade Thailand so we can stop child prostitution. Lets invade Brazil so we can round up the drug dealers. Lets invade fucking the United Kingdom because they are more of a surveillance society than us. Look, we can't go around invading countries just because we don't like how it is being run. If that is our policy we should have invaded Saudi Arabia but we all know why that wont ever happen.
What Saddam did in his own country is completely wrong but Iraq did not claim to be a democracy. Saddam ordered the execution of people for resisting him. He murdered those people but American law doesn't apply there. We should take human rights violations seriously but Iraq is not the best place to start.
People expect glass cases at a jewelry store. Also you generally don't look at at the BACK of jewelry to decide if it is good. I'm talking about the average uneducated jewelry customer here.
You are looking at it from only one side, the consumer's. What you say would be true if there existed only one supplier. When you add more suppliers in free competition, the price is defined by competition among sellers.
I am looking at this from an economy as a whole. There are likely several suppliers of a commodity such as a DVD. Each supplier will follow certain economic laws that can be looked at individually or as a group. When you study a commodity initially you take competition into account. When you are figuring out how many of an item will sell at X price you consider your competitors prices. If you sell above your competitors prices you will sell very few. With multiple suppliers there may be a slight price drop but as the price goes down the number of units sold will go up.
However, by eroding the profits, it will drive suppliers out of the market and that will raise the prices.
You are still misunderstanding how economies work. If more suppliers leave it doesn't have to drive up the prices unless a near monopoly forms. At that point a lot of economic laws break down.
Of course, I'm not sure why the State (i.e. the public) must have anything to do with the primaries anyway? Why do the people PAY to have the Republicans and Democrats pick their candidates? This is not a Constitutionally mandated election. This is a way for large parties to use the machinery of the people and have the people pay for it.
Every government office in the country is made up of either Democrats or Republicans or a mixture of the 2. It doesn't surprise me that all the decisions they make will help established political parties at the cost of the people.
This whole idea is a misunderstanding of basic economics. The price of anything is based on the maximum price the seller can sell it for while maximizing the number of items sold. Basically, the cost of producing goods has nothing to do with what they are sold for. You first determine the most money you can make by selling an item, then you decide if the profit margin is thick enough for you. If you determine that people wont pay enough to make up the cost of the item you don't sell it. If you find out they will pay what it costs and then some you will almost certainly sell it.
It's that simple. Theft and fraud do not bring the price of goods up. When shopping carts are stolen from the supermarket it does not raise the cost of food. If they could have possibly raised the price before they would have already done it. Theft cuts into profits but it absolutely does not raise the price for the consumer.
Once again, merely possessing a fake ID is not a crime. It has to be demonstrated that you have fraudulent intent.
That was my point exactly. Now its almost trivial to prove intent when a minor gets a fake ID that says he is 21. Or someone is caught with a fake ID and stolen checks or credit cards.
This document is not necessarily illegal. A Fake ID is illegal to use to try to buy alcohol if you are underage but we don't have proof that is what happened here. Now a reasonable person can guess that its probably an illegal document but before that is determined for sure i would bet a court would hear the case about the DMCA violation.
"unmount" works fine for me. A couple of thoughts; Linux is not the only Os to use the command, some other OS' actually call it unmount. Also on most default installs of distros typing unmount works fine. Lastly I prefer my sig to be understandable by people who don't know the commands. All the words in my sig are real words that any adult will realize the meaning of, the only one that is not a properly spelled word is fsck but the word fuck is so often obscured with letters or symbols it seems natural to a reader.
Why would the end user be responsible? That's just silly. With that outlook Linux is going nowhere, thankfully most people will agree that this is crazy.
I just ride my bicycle. Fuck cars, fuck car insurance. It's a scam that burned through your wallet from both ends. Gas is expensive, insurance is expensive, not getting exercise is bad for you.
Clinton also signed NAFTA and all kinds of other nasts things into place. Just becuase someone dislikes Bush doesn't mean they like Clinton. I think the neo-cons realize that Bush is indefensible so they feel they can only attack Clinton who they assume is supported by anyone who disagrees with Bush.
Your point is valid though. It is likely that all presidents are going to want a national ID. Power corrupts and all of the recent presidents have wanted to expand their power.
What you are referring to is illegal is Australia and the USA. This is why extradition treaties exist. Sometimes a crime is committed that is illegal in both countries but the country it didn't happen in is the one that got hurt. This is a classic case of extradition.
Now you may have a problem with extradition at all but in this case it is a pretty vanilla case.
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No doubt it kept you in line but at what cost. How many people grew up with issues becuase of the borderline physical abuse they suffered. Its not about how bad the beatings are really, its about the anticipation and fear of a beating. That really messes with children's heads.
Pretty much the rest of the oceans and all the land...
we agree, that showing the world, that despite the Vietnam catastrophe, America is willing and able to sometimes (not often enough, perhaps) go after vicious tyrants;
Is that worth it? Is throwing away thousands of american lives and seriously wounding tens of thousands of soilders worth it? Is it that important that the world knows we are willing and able? What kind of cock waving bullshit is that? Who the fucfk cares what the world thinks we are capable of, i dont give a damn what the world thinks about us, all i care about is american lives and american freedom, my civil liberties are more important to me than the foolish pride of feeling like a powerful country.
The problem with the "voting with your dollars" system is that some people have more votes than others. In the democracy i live in i prefer to think everyone is equal. Its sad but true though that you ARE voting with your dollars. Everyone should keep this in mind but really the best solution is not to play the game that the MAFIAA designed.
I'm pretty sure more than 35% of your paycheck ends up in the hands of corporations. Now are they stealing it? Well if copying a DVD is stealing then being brianwashed by the marketing of corporations is stealing too.
Meanwhile racism in America keeps some people thinking that somehow we have an advantage that can't be measured. So many people think that Chinese or Indian tech workers are somehow inferior. They are at this point but its not genetics keeping them back. Assuming we are better is only going to diminish our influence more and more. I'm taking a trip to Europe soon and its going to hurt. Americans used to travel abroad and everywhere they went their dollars went far. In Europe they don't want dollars, our influence is getting smaller and smaller and its even worse in Asia.
A lot of people blame the American standard of living for this. They say if we didn't have to pay so much for American workers then there wouldn't be outsourcing but its just BS. The cycle that the parent post outlined is a concise way of showing what is going on. The cycle is going to finally get broken when foreign workers CAN do the job and we are all left out of the loop.
A bicycle works pretty good for me for commuting. I know that it wont work for everyone but I think most people could do it. It is good for you to get exercise, it is good for the environment not to use a car. Your metabolism shoots up all day when you exercise in the morning, you have more energy all day. Also our road capacity is being overwhelmed, many more bikes can fit on roads than cars.
Also I know someone wants to reply and say that bikes are slow but its just not true. I go much faster than cars on the freeway during rush hour.
Also bikes are cheaper to buy and maintain, by a LOT.
unmount works fine for me as a command...
Unmount is a regular command on some non-linux and non-windows systems. Remember that Linux technically uses umount as the command but unmount will work on many mainstream distro as far as I can tell.
Security is not a zero sum system. The more holes you patch the more secure the program gets. Yes i know that a patches can introduce new bugs but that is usually not the case. I think this concept is based on the idea that there is always X amounts of bugs out there so why fix it when you won't be doing any good.
What the anti-war and anti-troops (two distinct, sometimes linked groups with separate agendas) don't want is a source of public information that they cannot control or spin for their own purposes.
I'll bite...
Who is anti troops? The only people who are anti troops are the right wing nuts that want the troops to die because of their crazy religious beliefs. We all know that during Vietnam a lot of people WERE anti troops. It was a terrible thing but we moved past it. People understand not to blame the troops anymore. It's a really easy way to attack someone to say they are anti troops but it just isn't ever the case any more. By using this arguing tactic you are showing how morally bankrupt you are and how indefensible your position is.
If you are a company out do win at any cost what is the best strategy? The best plan is to tell everyone you will "do no evil" and then do it anyway. If your going to do evil you might as well lie about it. Maybe Google is going to do no evil but consider this; any company out do do evil will say they wont do evil, any company out to do good will say they wont do evil. Basically I am saying that Google's mission statement counts for nothing and we need to consider their actual actions. Judge for yourself, is their invasion of privacy evil? Is their acceptance of censorship abroad evil?
Thats the idea...
Remind me why we stopped the first time? Oh yeah, so we could "let peace have a chance."
It seemed to work to me. Iraq did not hijack any airplanes. Iraq didn't train or help in any way the highjackers. Iraq basically did not have WMDs. Seems like peace was working pretty well.
Yes i know, Saddam was a real asshole, a murderer even. Well if we are going to go around invading countries to control their domestic policy there are a lot of places we should be going. Lets invade Thailand so we can stop child prostitution. Lets invade Brazil so we can round up the drug dealers. Lets invade fucking the United Kingdom because they are more of a surveillance society than us. Look, we can't go around invading countries just because we don't like how it is being run. If that is our policy we should have invaded Saudi Arabia but we all know why that wont ever happen.
What Saddam did in his own country is completely wrong but Iraq did not claim to be a democracy. Saddam ordered the execution of people for resisting him. He murdered those people but American law doesn't apply there. We should take human rights violations seriously but Iraq is not the best place to start.
People expect glass cases at a jewelry store. Also you generally don't look at at the BACK of jewelry to decide if it is good. I'm talking about the average uneducated jewelry customer here.
You are looking at it from only one side, the consumer's. What you say would be true if there existed only one supplier. When you add more suppliers in free competition, the price is defined by competition among sellers.
I am looking at this from an economy as a whole. There are likely several suppliers of a commodity such as a DVD. Each supplier will follow certain economic laws that can be looked at individually or as a group. When you study a commodity initially you take competition into account. When you are figuring out how many of an item will sell at X price you consider your competitors prices. If you sell above your competitors prices you will sell very few. With multiple suppliers there may be a slight price drop but as the price goes down the number of units sold will go up.
However, by eroding the profits, it will drive suppliers out of the market and that will raise the prices.
You are still misunderstanding how economies work. If more suppliers leave it doesn't have to drive up the prices unless a near monopoly forms. At that point a lot of economic laws break down.
Of course, I'm not sure why the State (i.e. the public) must have anything to do with the primaries anyway? Why do the people PAY to have the Republicans and Democrats pick their candidates? This is not a Constitutionally mandated election. This is a way for large parties to use the machinery of the people and have the people pay for it.
Every government office in the country is made up of either Democrats or Republicans or a mixture of the 2. It doesn't surprise me that all the decisions they make will help established political parties at the cost of the people.
This whole idea is a misunderstanding of basic economics. The price of anything is based on the maximum price the seller can sell it for while maximizing the number of items sold. Basically, the cost of producing goods has nothing to do with what they are sold for. You first determine the most money you can make by selling an item, then you decide if the profit margin is thick enough for you. If you determine that people wont pay enough to make up the cost of the item you don't sell it. If you find out they will pay what it costs and then some you will almost certainly sell it.
It's that simple. Theft and fraud do not bring the price of goods up. When shopping carts are stolen from the supermarket it does not raise the cost of food. If they could have possibly raised the price before they would have already done it. Theft cuts into profits but it absolutely does not raise the price for the consumer.
Once again, merely possessing a fake ID is not a crime. It has to be demonstrated that you have fraudulent intent.
That was my point exactly. Now its almost trivial to prove intent when a minor gets a fake ID that says he is 21. Or someone is caught with a fake ID and stolen checks or credit cards.
This document is not necessarily illegal. A Fake ID is illegal to use to try to buy alcohol if you are underage but we don't have proof that is what happened here. Now a reasonable person can guess that its probably an illegal document but before that is determined for sure i would bet a court would hear the case about the DMCA violation.
"unmount" works fine for me. A couple of thoughts; Linux is not the only Os to use the command, some other OS' actually call it unmount. Also on most default installs of distros typing unmount works fine. Lastly I prefer my sig to be understandable by people who don't know the commands. All the words in my sig are real words that any adult will realize the meaning of, the only one that is not a properly spelled word is fsck but the word fuck is so often obscured with letters or symbols it seems natural to a reader.
You could have maybe wrote your own list before seeing theirs and compared.
Short Answer: No
Why would the end user be responsible? That's just silly. With that outlook Linux is going nowhere, thankfully most people will agree that this is crazy.
I just ride my bicycle. Fuck cars, fuck car insurance. It's a scam that burned through your wallet from both ends. Gas is expensive, insurance is expensive, not getting exercise is bad for you.
Clinton also signed NAFTA and all kinds of other nasts things into place. Just becuase someone dislikes Bush doesn't mean they like Clinton. I think the neo-cons realize that Bush is indefensible so they feel they can only attack Clinton who they assume is supported by anyone who disagrees with Bush.
Your point is valid though. It is likely that all presidents are going to want a national ID. Power corrupts and all of the recent presidents have wanted to expand their power.
What you are referring to is illegal is Australia and the USA. This is why extradition treaties exist. Sometimes a crime is committed that is illegal in both countries but the country it didn't happen in is the one that got hurt. This is a classic case of extradition.
Now you may have a problem with extradition at all but in this case it is a pretty vanilla case.