You want numbers? Sources? Check out http://drugwar.8m.com/charts2.htm#w
You can still say these numbers are "fudged" or that I have "an agenda," but there they are. By the way, everyone on earth who is above grond and breathing has "an agenda." The war on drugs is indeed a war on the poor. It disenfranchises them, and puts them to work for nearly nothing as convict laborers. Just look at how little crack one must posess to be guilty of a felony, and how much powder cocaine- rich people's drug of choice- it takes. By the way. I don't use drugs. Never did, never will, so it is not just potheads who see the war on drugs as a war on the poor by the aristocratic and upper middle classes. If you pay more attention to what's going on, I think you will see where I am coming from.
The vast majority of the prizon population are non-violent drug offenders. It is a war on the poor. Another disturbing trend is the rise of prizon labor. Prizoners manufacturing goods for nearly no pay will be the new form of slavery. That is why America incarcerates 4.4 million of its citizens, more than any other country. More even then China. Land of the free? Tell that to the non-violent drug offenders who are locked up.
Here is positive proof that the police are prejudiced. Just by being black, hispanic or poor, you are a suspect. Institutionalized racism and classism are a lot worse than people suspect.
When I tried Opera, I was fed a Monster ad for Cincinnati, Ohio. At no point did I fill out any forms to indicate my location. Even if my general location is all they knew, it was none of their business. It made me feel like I was being watched, and left me to wonder what other information opera had gathered. No matter what their documentation claims, they gathered information on me without my permission. All the people flaming me for my last post seem upset that I blasphemed their idol. Get over yourselves! I won't use opera, and will continue to tell people why.
It should surprise no one when a 12 bit display is advertised as a 16 bit display by a 2 bit company.
Palm needs to free BeOS! It does no one any good sitting on a shelf!
OS/X is a real version of UNIX, LINUX is a free knock-off of it made by several thousand amateur tinkerers without a common goal. LINUX is chaos. OSX is order.
Will Opera 7 be free of spyware in the basic version, or will they still want me to cough up $40 for my privacy? The current version has Cydoor integrated into it.
The reason people buy and build white boxes is to avoid the cheap garbage, and proprietary crap the big brand names the big name brand put into their PCs. Hewlett-Packard-Bell, Compaqard-Bell, they all suck. They have wimpy power supplies, sound and video integrated into the motherboard, and a general lack of upgradability. These are why white box enthusiasts avoid name brands. If white box sellers start selling unmarked name brand PCs, White box users will die and go to Dell.
Since the space elevator is from a sci-fi novel, why not use materials from a comic book, like adamantium. The fact that it doesn't really exist is such a minor detail. Let's focus on the big picture.
Here's a tip. Get a real job. Working for tips sucks. If you think you can make the customers give a damn whether you eat or starve, you are wrong. They don't care, and never will.
That Snopes reference is apples to oranges, since it refers to something in France, and in the stings I was writing about, the undercover cop is posing as the hooker, not the John. A Cop posing as a hooker must wait for John to offer to pay her for sex, she may not solicit them. Stings that go after the Johns are the ones I was talking about, and in the US, not France.
Quoting the article... "We do believe we achieved supersonic flight for the first time," Mr Paull said. Chuck Yeager didn't do that in the fifties did he? Naaaaw! That is just an urban legend, like the concorde.
This is a clearcut case of police entrapment. They posed as clients, and enticed the two hackers into commiting a crime, and then busted them. This is like prostitution stings where the undercover cop solicits prospective johns, instead of waiting for them to proposition her, and even denies being a cop if asked point blank. Entrapment is illegal and wrong. The ends do not justify the means.
If you are unemployed, and offered a job, you sign what they put in front of you, or they don't hire you. Most people don't even read those infernal agreements. More regulation of what can be put into these contracts are badly needed. As it is, they can make you sign away nearly all your civil rights, and damn near sell your soul.
A lot of people already call big dogs Dogzilla, and fat people Buttzilla. Adding "zilla" to things that are big fell into common useage a long time ago. Davezilla should tell Toho to suck Dickzilla.
So, The Initiative For Software Choice is just another Microsoft FUD factory. If proprietaty software didn't cost so much, and wasn't being sold by crooks like Oracle in California, then legislatures wouldn't even be considering open source only laws. Microsoft, and the rest, did this to themselves, and this phony foundation won't undo it.
Just get Aunt Ginny a Web TV. She has no business using a real computer. Computers are for the techno-elite, not the masses. Unix should remain confusing and complicated, so those who can use it will continue to appear to be performing magic.;b
This guy is so upset that he is ranting and raving. He contradicts himself more than once. Do they really use words like pissing and fucking in serious op-ed pieces in the UK? Here in the US, swearing like that makes people stop taking you seriously. The author, Bill Thompson claims that Europe invented the web. That is a double-barreled lie. It is US technology. I would also like to know how subdividing the net into national versions will make it more global. I am going to go ahead and use some tired old cliches. Bill Thompson, without us in World War II, you limeys would all be singing Deutschland Uber Alles! You are upset because we are the reason the sun has set on the British Empire. And speaking of imperialism, when are you going to give the Faulkland Islands back to Argentina?
I am a Computer Repair Tech. My co-workers and I have noticed that the quality of the hardware the major manufacturers are making, and the quality of their support have gone to hell. Their products are made to be thrown away, like American cars in the '70s. Their help desk people are just reading off of their screens, and don't even understand what they are reading. When we have to call "the new HP" for example, we have gotten "Hello, my name is operator." They read that off the screen, and can't even insert their name. Having to call the manufacturers to get authorization, or for any reason makes us wonder why we ever got into this racket.
There is obviosly a huge market for prude friendly versions of Hollywood flicks. Hollywood should have been selling its products to this market, but since they didn't, some one else did. Deal with it. To the artists who feel their work is being violated, and have their panties in a bunch, I say, Boo Hoo Hoo. An idea, once expressed, isn't yours any more. You can't control what others do with it. If viewers only want part of your work, you can't force them to view or hear all of it. Deal with it.
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You want numbers? Sources? Check out http://drugwar.8m.com/charts2.htm#w You can still say these numbers are "fudged" or that I have "an agenda," but there they are. By the way, everyone on earth who is above grond and breathing has "an agenda." The war on drugs is indeed a war on the poor. It disenfranchises them, and puts them to work for nearly nothing as convict laborers. Just look at how little crack one must posess to be guilty of a felony, and how much powder cocaine- rich people's drug of choice- it takes. By the way. I don't use drugs. Never did, never will, so it is not just potheads who see the war on drugs as a war on the poor by the aristocratic and upper middle classes. If you pay more attention to what's going on, I think you will see where I am coming from.
The vast majority of the prizon population are non-violent drug offenders. It is a war on the poor. Another disturbing trend is the rise of prizon labor. Prizoners manufacturing goods for nearly no pay will be the new form of slavery. That is why America incarcerates 4.4 million of its citizens, more than any other country. More even then China. Land of the free? Tell that to the non-violent drug offenders who are locked up.
Here is positive proof that the police are prejudiced. Just by being black, hispanic or poor, you are a suspect. Institutionalized racism and classism are a lot worse than people suspect.
When I tried Opera, I was fed a Monster ad for Cincinnati, Ohio. At no point did I fill out any forms to indicate my location. Even if my general location is all they knew, it was none of their business. It made me feel like I was being watched, and left me to wonder what other information opera had gathered. No matter what their documentation claims, they gathered information on me without my permission. All the people flaming me for my last post seem upset that I blasphemed their idol. Get over yourselves! I won't use opera, and will continue to tell people why.
It should surprise no one when a 12 bit display is advertised as a 16 bit display by a 2 bit company. Palm needs to free BeOS! It does no one any good sitting on a shelf!
Now golddiggers can turn the rich husbands they have killed into what they married him for in the first place! It's sick! Sick sick sick!
I like AMD, but at that speed, you'll have to use a freezer chest as your case to keep an Athlon cool.
OS/X is a real version of UNIX, LINUX is a free knock-off of it made by several thousand amateur tinkerers without a common goal. LINUX is chaos. OSX is order.
Will Opera 7 be free of spyware in the basic version, or will they still want me to cough up $40 for my privacy? The current version has Cydoor integrated into it.
The reason people buy and build white boxes is to avoid the cheap garbage, and proprietary crap the big brand names the big name brand put into their PCs. Hewlett-Packard-Bell, Compaqard-Bell, they all suck. They have wimpy power supplies, sound and video integrated into the motherboard, and a general lack of upgradability. These are why white box enthusiasts avoid name brands. If white box sellers start selling unmarked name brand PCs, White box users will die and go to Dell.
Since the space elevator is from a sci-fi novel, why not use materials from a comic book, like adamantium. The fact that it doesn't really exist is such a minor detail. Let's focus on the big picture.
That was cool huh huh.
that frog we killed huh huh.
It won't croak again.
Here's a tip. Get a real job. Working for tips sucks. If you think you can make the customers give a damn whether you eat or starve, you are wrong. They don't care, and never will.
That Snopes reference is apples to oranges, since it refers to something in France, and in the stings I was writing about, the undercover cop is posing as the hooker, not the John. A Cop posing as a hooker must wait for John to offer to pay her for sex, she may not solicit them. Stings that go after the Johns are the ones I was talking about, and in the US, not France.
Everything is Snafu as usual at the National Anus Spelunking Administration.
Quoting the article... "We do believe we achieved supersonic flight for the first time," Mr Paull said. Chuck Yeager didn't do that in the fifties did he? Naaaaw! That is just an urban legend, like the concorde.
This is a clearcut case of police entrapment. They posed as clients, and enticed the two hackers into commiting a crime, and then busted them. This is like prostitution stings where the undercover cop solicits prospective johns, instead of waiting for them to proposition her, and even denies being a cop if asked point blank. Entrapment is illegal and wrong. The ends do not justify the means.
If you are unemployed, and offered a job, you sign what they put in front of you, or they don't hire you. Most people don't even read those infernal agreements. More regulation of what can be put into these contracts are badly needed. As it is, they can make you sign away nearly all your civil rights, and damn near sell your soul.
A lot of people already call big dogs Dogzilla, and fat people Buttzilla. Adding "zilla" to things that are big fell into common useage a long time ago. Davezilla should tell Toho to suck Dickzilla.
So, The Initiative For Software Choice is just another Microsoft FUD factory. If proprietaty software didn't cost so much, and wasn't being sold by crooks like Oracle in California, then legislatures wouldn't even be considering open source only laws. Microsoft, and the rest, did this to themselves, and this phony foundation won't undo it.
I don't think NASA's elevator stops on all floors.
Just get Aunt Ginny a Web TV. She has no business using a real computer. Computers are for the techno-elite, not the masses. Unix should remain confusing and complicated, so those who can use it will continue to appear to be performing magic. ;b
This guy is so upset that he is ranting and raving. He contradicts himself more than once. Do they really use words like pissing and fucking in serious op-ed pieces in the UK? Here in the US, swearing like that makes people stop taking you seriously. The author, Bill Thompson claims that Europe invented the web. That is a double-barreled lie. It is US technology. I would also like to know how subdividing the net into national versions will make it more global. I am going to go ahead and use some tired old cliches. Bill Thompson, without us in World War II, you limeys would all be singing Deutschland Uber Alles! You are upset because we are the reason the sun has set on the British Empire. And speaking of imperialism, when are you going to give the Faulkland Islands back to Argentina?
I am a Computer Repair Tech. My co-workers and I have noticed that the quality of the hardware the major manufacturers are making, and the quality of their support have gone to hell. Their products are made to be thrown away, like American cars in the '70s. Their help desk people are just reading off of their screens, and don't even understand what they are reading. When we have to call "the new HP" for example, we have gotten "Hello, my name is operator." They read that off the screen, and can't even insert their name. Having to call the manufacturers to get authorization, or for any reason makes us wonder why we ever got into this racket.
There is obviosly a huge market for prude friendly versions of Hollywood flicks. Hollywood should have been selling its products to this market, but since they didn't, some one else did. Deal with it. To the artists who feel their work is being violated, and have their panties in a bunch, I say, Boo Hoo Hoo. An idea, once expressed, isn't yours any more. You can't control what others do with it. If viewers only want part of your work, you can't force them to view or hear all of it. Deal with it.