You can't take the people who think the moon landing is a hoax up to hubble and make them look. They don't belive hubble exists. If you could magnify the moons surface enough to show them through a land-based telescope, they would say you rigged it. People who think the moon landings were a hoax believe it as a religion. There is just no proving to someone that their beliefs are nonsense.
Cellphones don't make people stupid. People make people stupid. When cellphones are outlawed, only outlaws will have cellphones. I'll give up my cellphone when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. Join the National Cellphone Association.
For 1500 bucks you can get a pale immitation of a Tivo made by Hewlett-Packard-Bell that runs a microshaft OS. People will be lining up to buy those. Not! HP is already circling the drain, will this be the thing that sends them down it? Gateway had a PC for the living room a few years back that used the TV as the monitor. It flopped. History will repeat itself. Non-techies will avoid this. It will be too complicated. Techies will avoid this. It won't give us what we want.
Sometimes the damage doesn't show up right away. ESD damage frequently causes the difficult to diagnose intermittent failures that give repair technicians, and end users fits. If the guy telling you ESD is not a problem is working on commission, and selling something that could cause ESD, Don't believe him.
ESD is a very real problem. Don't trust a conveyor belt salesman who says it is not. He will say anything to get the product sold. If that conveyor belt is made of something non-conductive, plastic bins placed on it will generate static. Soles of shoes, if not grounded with a heelstrap geneate static. Once at work, My heelstrap had slipped off. I found this out when I touched my workbench, and got a nasty shock. If I had touched any electronics, they would have been toast! Fortunately, I did not have a system on the bench at that time.
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Care to explain that little crackpot theory of yours? Capitalism and socialism are both just economic theories, and both are equally dangerous, and neither is, in and of itself, as system of government. Capitalism and socialism are equally dangerous when people make them into a religion. Only the government can infringe of freedom? If my boss threatens to fire me from my job if I say I don't like a company policy, or "talk back" when he tells me something, then a business, not the government has infringed on my freedom of speech.
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Oops, A typo the Dis in Disney got chopped.
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It is just too bad that copyrights don't "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" any more, they stifle those things to prop up the bottom lines of greedy corporations. And "for limited times to authors and inventors." those corporations are not the authors or inventors, individual people are, and that limited time is getting longer and longer. It is not limited enough.ney has been dead a long time, and Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted. Michael Eisner didn't create him.
So, they are backing off their demand for the big cash because of the backlash, and trying to deny ever having said what they said. I guess it depends on what your definition of is is.
Vizinni, Does that word mean what you think it means? I do not think it means what you think it means.
Tweeky had a wearable computer on Buck Rogers is the 25th Century. I think it was called Dr. Theopolis. Can I get one of those, too? That would be cool.
Thank you for defending the lottery from troublemakers. The truth is that people do win every day! Send me $200, and I will tell you what you have won!
Thanks for that link. It may be just what my co-workers and I at Pomeroy have been looking for. The AFL-CIO affiliated unions can't be bothered with geeks.
Yes, bonded slavery has been replaced by wage slavery. Greedy businessmen think they own us. They would pay us nothing, and have taskmasters whipping us if they had their way. It is time organized labor got off its fat ass and protected the rights of all workers, not just dues paying members of their union. It seems that established unions have become just another business, and are no longer run by people who work in the industries they allegedly serve, or a lot more of us would join a union.
It seems that you agree with what I am saying but let the god part of it muddy the waters. The point I was hoping to make is that we must solve our problems ourselves, or they won't be solved. We can get others to help us, but not to do it for us. Twelve step programs start out by asking you to accept that you are powerless, and someone else, the "higher power" must fix things for you. Whether that's God, E.T., or Mommy, it is no different.
Saying Higher power instead of naming a particular God is just a dancearound. In 12 step programs, you must admit that you, personally are powerless. This is the first thing wrong with them. Next, you must turn to "Higher Power" for help. What else is this higher power but a deity? 12 step programs replace addiction to alcohol or street drugs, or gambling with addiction to the opium of the masses. They do not cure addiction.
If there even was a Jesus, and I could show you his bones, you would just say they aren't the real thing. You have chosen to believe that someone once rose from the dead even though it is absurd, so I can't use reason to convince you. If someone slipped into a coma on a Friday, and came to on a Sunday 2000 years ago, someone could easily think they died and rose, but that wouldn't make it so. The dead stay dead.
There is no confirmation that Jesus even existed from the time he would have lived outside the New Testament except for Josephus' writings, which have been embellished by monks. A paper putting forth the theory that Josephus made Jesus up, and wrote the gospels was published by a group called the Society of Josephus. It is frequently suppressed. If Jesus really existed, and lived in the time of Herod, than our calendar system should be radically revised, as Herod was dead by 30 BC.
Those stupid asses don't even get it that they are killing the format. I hope they don't write checks against the money they think will be rolling in. Patents, copyrights and all so-called intellectual property laws have ceased to serve any useful purpose. Time to toss them into the dustbin of history.
Other religions believed in people rising from the dead, too. Some English are waiting for King Arthur to return. The resurected christ is just another myth. The dead stay dead. Be careful in church. If you take up serpents, they can bite you whether you have faith or not, and poison is still poison, jibber jabber is not speaking in new tongues.
Indeed. Nineteen devoutly religios believers thought God had ordered them to kill the infidels, by turning airplanes into weapons of mass destruction. Mao Tse Dong said religion is poison. Maybe he was right.
Jesus Christ is a fictional charachter invented by Flavius Josephus. The Roman idol Mithra was born December 25. It is all based on fiction. Why not be a Jedi?
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You can't take the people who think the moon landing is a hoax up to hubble and make them look. They don't belive hubble exists. If you could magnify the moons surface enough to show them through a land-based telescope, they would say you rigged it. People who think the moon landings were a hoax believe it as a religion. There is just no proving to someone that their beliefs are nonsense.
Hey Butthead, heh heh, heh heh, Who owns the moon? The same dude who owns uranus, Beavis Huh huh, huh huh, and the dingleberries, Huh huh, huh huh.
Cellphones don't make people stupid. People make people stupid. When cellphones are outlawed, only outlaws will have cellphones. I'll give up my cellphone when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. Join the National Cellphone Association.
For 1500 bucks you can get a pale immitation of a Tivo made by Hewlett-Packard-Bell that runs a microshaft OS. People will be lining up to buy those. Not! HP is already circling the drain, will this be the thing that sends them down it? Gateway had a PC for the living room a few years back that used the TV as the monitor. It flopped. History will repeat itself. Non-techies will avoid this. It will be too complicated. Techies will avoid this. It won't give us what we want.
Sometimes the damage doesn't show up right away. ESD damage frequently causes the difficult to diagnose intermittent failures that give repair technicians, and end users fits. If the guy telling you ESD is not a problem is working on commission, and selling something that could cause ESD, Don't believe him.
ESD is a very real problem. Don't trust a conveyor belt salesman who says it is not. He will say anything to get the product sold. If that conveyor belt is made of something non-conductive, plastic bins placed on it will generate static. Soles of shoes, if not grounded with a heelstrap geneate static. Once at work, My heelstrap had slipped off. I found this out when I touched my workbench, and got a nasty shock. If I had touched any electronics, they would have been toast! Fortunately, I did not have a system on the bench at that time.
Care to explain that little crackpot theory of yours? Capitalism and socialism are both just economic theories, and both are equally dangerous, and neither is, in and of itself, as system of government. Capitalism and socialism are equally dangerous when people make them into a religion. Only the government can infringe of freedom? If my boss threatens to fire me from my job if I say I don't like a company policy, or "talk back" when he tells me something, then a business, not the government has infringed on my freedom of speech.
Oops, A typo the Dis in Disney got chopped.
It is just too bad that copyrights don't "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" any more, they stifle those things to prop up the bottom lines of greedy corporations. And "for limited times to authors and inventors." those corporations are not the authors or inventors, individual people are, and that limited time is getting longer and longer. It is not limited enough.ney has been dead a long time, and Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted. Michael Eisner didn't create him.
Didn't mama ever tell you, Touch it, and you'll go blind?
So, they are backing off their demand for the big cash because of the backlash, and trying to deny ever having said what they said. I guess it depends on what your definition of is is. Vizinni, Does that word mean what you think it means? I do not think it means what you think it means.
Tweeky had a wearable computer on Buck Rogers is the 25th Century. I think it was called Dr. Theopolis. Can I get one of those, too? That would be cool.
Thank you for defending the lottery from troublemakers. The truth is that people do win every day! Send me $200, and I will tell you what you have won!
Thanks for that link. It may be just what my co-workers and I at Pomeroy have been looking for. The AFL-CIO affiliated unions can't be bothered with geeks.
Yes, bonded slavery has been replaced by wage slavery. Greedy businessmen think they own us. They would pay us nothing, and have taskmasters whipping us if they had their way. It is time organized labor got off its fat ass and protected the rights of all workers, not just dues paying members of their union. It seems that established unions have become just another business, and are no longer run by people who work in the industries they allegedly serve, or a lot more of us would join a union.
It seems that you agree with what I am saying but let the god part of it muddy the waters. The point I was hoping to make is that we must solve our problems ourselves, or they won't be solved. We can get others to help us, but not to do it for us. Twelve step programs start out by asking you to accept that you are powerless, and someone else, the "higher power" must fix things for you. Whether that's God, E.T., or Mommy, it is no different.
Saying Higher power instead of naming a particular God is just a dancearound. In 12 step programs, you must admit that you, personally are powerless. This is the first thing wrong with them. Next, you must turn to "Higher Power" for help. What else is this higher power but a deity? 12 step programs replace addiction to alcohol or street drugs, or gambling with addiction to the opium of the masses. They do not cure addiction.
If there even was a Jesus, and I could show you his bones, you would just say they aren't the real thing. You have chosen to believe that someone once rose from the dead even though it is absurd, so I can't use reason to convince you. If someone slipped into a coma on a Friday, and came to on a Sunday 2000 years ago, someone could easily think they died and rose, but that wouldn't make it so. The dead stay dead.
There is no confirmation that Jesus even existed from the time he would have lived outside the New Testament except for Josephus' writings, which have been embellished by monks. A paper putting forth the theory that Josephus made Jesus up, and wrote the gospels was published by a group called the Society of Josephus. It is frequently suppressed. If Jesus really existed, and lived in the time of Herod, than our calendar system should be radically revised, as Herod was dead by 30 BC.
This is the latest shot in the spyware VS. privacyware war. I hope my favorite privacyware, Pest Patrol, can catch this one.
Those stupid asses don't even get it that they are killing the format. I hope they don't write checks against the money they think will be rolling in. Patents, copyrights and all so-called intellectual property laws have ceased to serve any useful purpose. Time to toss them into the dustbin of history.
Other religions believed in people rising from the dead, too. Some English are waiting for King Arthur to return. The resurected christ is just another myth. The dead stay dead. Be careful in church. If you take up serpents, they can bite you whether you have faith or not, and poison is still poison, jibber jabber is not speaking in new tongues.
Indeed. Nineteen devoutly religios believers thought God had ordered them to kill the infidels, by turning airplanes into weapons of mass destruction. Mao Tse Dong said religion is poison. Maybe he was right.
Jesus Christ is a fictional charachter invented by Flavius Josephus. The Roman idol Mithra was born December 25. It is all based on fiction. Why not be a Jedi?
More like corn hole. huh huh, huh huh.