I long ago came to terms with the fact that people aren't perfect. I'm far from perfect and to expect perfection in others is silly. That said if you really object to someone's views on that level you have every right to reject them and I fully support you in that choice. I usually reserve that level of antipathy for political types but I must admit it does spill over occasionally. I despise what Jane Fonda did in Vietnam but I enjoy her movies. A huge proportion of Hollywood hates my religion yet I still watch their movies. I don't really hate people for their views although I do get angry sometimes. I think tolerance is important for a civilized society.
Don't forget the need to put cameras in everyone's houses so we can watch and make sure they aren't up to anything that might hurt someone. Saftey first!
Think about it. Our greatest right is the right to vote. If you can't trust people with a gun how in hell can you trust them to vote? This might explain everything.
I think most people realize that climate change is real. I think maybe they disagree most on the potential effects and if there really anything realistic to be done about it. You can debate all you want but until someone comes up with a real alternative to fossil fuel we're going to continue using it. Nuclear looked promising but it is a little too scary lately thanks to Chernobyl and Fukushima.
He just moved the decimal places. Any change in one side equivalent to the change in the other side means the ratio stays the same. I can't see the problem.
I don't doubt it at all. Maybe they can't get every little scrap but you can bet that anything they can get they will get. I wouldn't doubt that they have a lot more capability for this than you think either. I remember what was state of the art 30 years ago in the commercial world and it's incredible the changes and I'm more than confident that intelligence gathering has made at least as many leaps and bounds.
I don't know how their system works but years ago when sites demanded xp and ie for use I would tell my browser to lie to them. I set my user agent string to XP and IE although I was actually running linux with konqueror and 8 times out of 10 the site worked fine. Some I had to do from work since they actually used something specific to the systems they demanded.
It's the only logical point. I'm sick of the whole gay marriage issue. I could give a fuck one way or another since marriage is largely just a joke nowadays anyway. People fall madly in love, promise never to love another then find "the real love of their life" and move on. Rinse, repeat. 4 or 5 times isn't unusual. It's a joke why not let the queers in on it. That pretty much is the icing on top.
Massachusetts was one that surprised me the most. I met a couple of guys from Boston that were bigoted as hell. They seemed surprised that being from Georgia that I wasn't. I don't say that everyone I met from there was as that would be far from true. Mostly it just puzzled me because the impression I got from the media was that all those folks up North were more open minded and progressive than us backwards Southerners. I grew up friends with several black kids and sort of just got along pretty good. I do know that culturally white and blacks have many differences but when you end up overseas in the military you find that you have a lot more in common with a black guy from Detroit than a white guy from Frankfurt, Germany.
I've never had a problem with the Nvidia driver. I don't know about AMD's driver because it sucked so bad back a few years ago that I didn't bother ever trying it again. I might buy an AMD board and try it again now.
Things are not perfect, no. Of course, since we are talking about human beings here we can consider that things never will be perfect. For the most part here in middle Georgia when racism raises it's head it generally gets slapped down. It is not that it doesn't happen, it is that it is far less tolerated. Perfect it's not. I do remember being in the Air Force back in the 80's and at tech school my roommate was from upstate New York. I was shocked at how racist he was. He made most of the bigots I knew back home look pretty tame. I had been suffering from the same delusion most people have, that all racists are from the South. My time in the Air Force was pretty eye opening, some of the biggest bigots I met were from the New England states.
I'm from rural Georgia and during a trip to Birmingham, Alabama I felt like I had traveled back in time over 30 years. It reminded me a lot of the attitudes I saw in my youth. There are still a lot of people who were raised in a prejudiced environment but things have improved much. I was recently talking with a very country friend of mine who said something that would be labeled racist by most here although he probably didn't intend it as such, he called a guy a "black asshole." He stopped and kind of looked down for a second and said "I really shouldn't say it was because he was black, it ain't got nothing to do with that, he's just an asshole." I was kind of surprised that he made the distinction because for him identifying people by color is just natural.
We didn't get here overnight and we aren't getting out of the situation overnight. We are working toward changing to newer energy sources but it is going to take a long time. We didn't build all this infrastructure at once and there is no way to change it out instantly. Everything has to be balanced against cost and the technology has to arrive before anything can happen.
Not saying it is too hard. The problem is that it takes so long. It is going to be decades in the happening. We are working towards renewable energy. It isn't that no one wants green energy it is the cost that is the problems. We've got people yelling that it has to happen today and it's not going to.
I wonder, if we got rid of all that CO2 and the global temperature dropped 10 degrees or so and a few billion people starved to death would these people that think they have all the answers step up and admit responsibility? Moot point I guess because short of cutting off electricity to a few billion people there is no real answer to the CO2 problem.
That's not CO2 causing the smog in Beijing. Those are actual "dirty" particulates. Black Lung stuff. Burning coal in the last 50 years has become drastically better. Saying there have been no improvements is a lie. CO2 production isn't dropping but the truly poisonous stuff has largely been curtailed in the US. CO2 is a greenhouse gas not something causing Acid Rain. True it's helping warm the planet and disrupting the climate but then climate change is a fact of life on this planet. If you look at the output of a volcano such as the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines you'll see just how dirty mother nature can get. The incredible amount of sulfur dioxide pushed out by this one eruption was over 20 million tons. I think you'll see little reduction of CO2 without a massive change to another power source and currently the only viable alternative is Nuclear power but that comes with it's own problems.
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I long ago came to terms with the fact that people aren't perfect. I'm far from perfect and to expect perfection in others is silly. That said if you really object to someone's views on that level you have every right to reject them and I fully support you in that choice. I usually reserve that level of antipathy for political types but I must admit it does spill over occasionally. I despise what Jane Fonda did in Vietnam but I enjoy her movies. A huge proportion of Hollywood hates my religion yet I still watch their movies. I don't really hate people for their views although I do get angry sometimes. I think tolerance is important for a civilized society.
It's already the case. Here in Georgia you have to have a background check before you can buy a weapon.
It's coming. In fact go buy 2 tons of fertilizer and see what happens. I bet some people come ask you why you bought it if you don't have a farm.
I know you don't see it. I pity you.
They are having problems with the plastic Uranium.
Don't forget the need to put cameras in everyone's houses so we can watch and make sure they aren't up to anything that might hurt someone. Saftey first!
Think about it. Our greatest right is the right to vote. If you can't trust people with a gun how in hell can you trust them to vote? This might explain everything.
I think most people realize that climate change is real. I think maybe they disagree most on the potential effects and if there really anything realistic to be done about it. You can debate all you want but until someone comes up with a real alternative to fossil fuel we're going to continue using it. Nuclear looked promising but it is a little too scary lately thanks to Chernobyl and Fukushima.
He just moved the decimal places. Any change in one side equivalent to the change in the other side means the ratio stays the same. I can't see the problem.
I don't doubt it at all. Maybe they can't get every little scrap but you can bet that anything they can get they will get. I wouldn't doubt that they have a lot more capability for this than you think either. I remember what was state of the art 30 years ago in the commercial world and it's incredible the changes and I'm more than confident that intelligence gathering has made at least as many leaps and bounds.
You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
I don't know how their system works but years ago when sites demanded xp and ie for use I would tell my browser to lie to them. I set my user agent string to XP and IE although I was actually running linux with konqueror and 8 times out of 10 the site worked fine. Some I had to do from work since they actually used something specific to the systems they demanded.
It's the only logical point. I'm sick of the whole gay marriage issue. I could give a fuck one way or another since marriage is largely just a joke nowadays anyway. People fall madly in love, promise never to love another then find "the real love of their life" and move on. Rinse, repeat. 4 or 5 times isn't unusual. It's a joke why not let the queers in on it. That pretty much is the icing on top.
This will probably wind up in the Supreme Court eventually. I've been looking forward to that day.
Massachusetts was one that surprised me the most. I met a couple of guys from Boston that were bigoted as hell. They seemed surprised that being from Georgia that I wasn't. I don't say that everyone I met from there was as that would be far from true. Mostly it just puzzled me because the impression I got from the media was that all those folks up North were more open minded and progressive than us backwards Southerners. I grew up friends with several black kids and sort of just got along pretty good. I do know that culturally white and blacks have many differences but when you end up overseas in the military you find that you have a lot more in common with a black guy from Detroit than a white guy from Frankfurt, Germany.
I've never had a problem with the Nvidia driver. I don't know about AMD's driver because it sucked so bad back a few years ago that I didn't bother ever trying it again. I might buy an AMD board and try it again now.
Things are not perfect, no. Of course, since we are talking about human beings here we can consider that things never will be perfect. For the most part here in middle Georgia when racism raises it's head it generally gets slapped down. It is not that it doesn't happen, it is that it is far less tolerated. Perfect it's not. I do remember being in the Air Force back in the 80's and at tech school my roommate was from upstate New York. I was shocked at how racist he was. He made most of the bigots I knew back home look pretty tame. I had been suffering from the same delusion most people have, that all racists are from the South. My time in the Air Force was pretty eye opening, some of the biggest bigots I met were from the New England states.
I'm from rural Georgia and during a trip to Birmingham, Alabama I felt like I had traveled back in time over 30 years. It reminded me a lot of the attitudes I saw in my youth. There are still a lot of people who were raised in a prejudiced environment but things have improved much. I was recently talking with a very country friend of mine who said something that would be labeled racist by most here although he probably didn't intend it as such, he called a guy a "black asshole." He stopped and kind of looked down for a second and said "I really shouldn't say it was because he was black, it ain't got nothing to do with that, he's just an asshole." I was kind of surprised that he made the distinction because for him identifying people by color is just natural.
We didn't get here overnight and we aren't getting out of the situation overnight. We are working toward changing to newer energy sources but it is going to take a long time. We didn't build all this infrastructure at once and there is no way to change it out instantly. Everything has to be balanced against cost and the technology has to arrive before anything can happen.
Not saying it is too hard. The problem is that it takes so long. It is going to be decades in the happening. We are working towards renewable energy. It isn't that no one wants green energy it is the cost that is the problems. We've got people yelling that it has to happen today and it's not going to.
I wonder, if we got rid of all that CO2 and the global temperature dropped 10 degrees or so and a few billion people starved to death would these people that think they have all the answers step up and admit responsibility? Moot point I guess because short of cutting off electricity to a few billion people there is no real answer to the CO2 problem.
Maybe he's talking about the Dinosaurs.
That's not CO2 causing the smog in Beijing. Those are actual "dirty" particulates. Black Lung stuff. Burning coal in the last 50 years has become drastically better. Saying there have been no improvements is a lie. CO2 production isn't dropping but the truly poisonous stuff has largely been curtailed in the US. CO2 is a greenhouse gas not something causing Acid Rain. True it's helping warm the planet and disrupting the climate but then climate change is a fact of life on this planet. If you look at the output of a volcano such as the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines you'll see just how dirty mother nature can get. The incredible amount of sulfur dioxide pushed out by this one eruption was over 20 million tons. I think you'll see little reduction of CO2 without a massive change to another power source and currently the only viable alternative is Nuclear power but that comes with it's own problems.
They aren't quite dead yet but their pulse is getting pretty weak.
I think he meant his favorite networks.