Doh, *kicks self for not previewing* ignore that wall of text.
I do agree a fence would be a far-fetched idea if it were to work, but with different leadership we could amend laws to support honest people that want to come to our country and prosper and be a part of our country instead of taking from it but not giving back. It is not entirely the immigrants' fault of course. Companies hiring people not legally here are just as much to blame if not more so, but when people are working but not part of the tax system, they don't pay taxes on earned wages nor do they pay income tax to state or the fed. gov. This hurts everyone that's legitimately here.
I don't see why it is government's job (federal, state or local) to be making ANY laws that state what grown adults choose to do in the privacy of their own home. Being against the establishment clause has more to do with State's rights being trampled on by the feds then any particular set of laws in a state. As far as Ron's stance on that, I honestly cannot tell you how he feels (though I could take a stab in the dark).
A nation in modern times can still be part of the global economy and not be completely tied into every little aspect of the world, such as the United States is at this time. By involving ourselves in every little mess in the world, we create more bitterness and anger against us then we do good. Being part of the U.N. and letting a foreign group make any decisions hurts us more then it helps us. Our founding fathers had no problems with trade with other countries, they just talked about not going to every little war that Europe and anyone else decided to have (which is exactly what we are doing now, except we are the big dog instead of the start up country).
I think we may be misunderstanding one another with regards to birthright citizenship, probably due more to my previous statement then anything. Immigrants that come to America, apply for proper citizenship and meld into the country are a very different people then those that try and sneak into the country to have a child so that they may stay to reap the benefits of all our social programs. In many previous generations people that immigrated here and generally wanted to assimilate into our culture. Sure they held on to some of their roots, but they did not demand we change for them. Much of our current immigration is not like this, specifically that of the Latinos immigrating north. You see this very often if you live in any of the states boarding along the US-Mexican boarder. Instead of coming here and learning English, appropriately apply for citizenship and working hard to fit in, they demand we place their language on par with English (I know we don't have English as a national language, but nearly everyone here does speak it, it is the common language used in nearly all aspects of American life). By getting rid of birthright citizenship it means only current citizens' children will become citizens and not people who are not legally here having a child become a citizen.
While this will certainly sound very mean-spirited is it really the US government's responsibility to take up moral causes? If so, whose moral should the US government take up? The majorities? If we did that we wouldn't be a very friendly place for a lot of non Christians now would we? For government to take any moral stance dangerous because we all cannot agree on which moral stance to take. Enforcing specific morals onto companies, such as those involved with the Darfur (which I will admit I do not know much about) is not what government is for and would be presumptuous of them (our gov.).
Hmm, your points on what people may put in their will are interesting. I didn't realize that was ever permissible. I looked at it in much simpler context (my mistake I realize now), such as for example: My mother was to pass away and she wanted me to have all the stuff in her home, why should I not get it? As her only son why shouldn't it just go to me and further more, why should the gov get any of that? I
I do agree a fence would be a far-fetched idea if it were to work, but with different leadership we could amend laws to support honest people that want to come to our country and prosper and be a part of our country instead of taking from it but not giving back. It is not entirely the immigrants' fault of course. Companies hiring people not legally here are just as much to blame if not more so, but when people are working but not part of the tax system, they don't pay taxes on earned wages nor do they pay income tax to state or the fed. gov. This hurts everyone that's legitimately here.
I don't see why it is government's job (federal, state or local) to be making ANY laws that state what grown adults choose to do in the privacy of their own home. Being against the establishment clause has more to do with State's rights being trampled on by the feds then any particular set of laws in a state. As far as Ron's stance on that, I honestly cannot tell you how he feels (though I could take a stab in the dark).
A nation in modern times can still be part of the global economy and not be completely tied into every little aspect of the world, such as the United States is at this time. By involving ourselves in every little mess in the world, we create more bitterness and anger against us then we do good. Being part of the U.N. and letting a foreign group make any decisions hurts us more then it helps us. Our founding fathers had no problems with trade with other countries, they just talked about not going to every little war that Europe and anyone else decided to have (which is exactly what we are doing now, except we are the big dog instead of the start up country).
I think we may be misunderstanding one another with regards to birthright citizenship, probably due more to my previous statement then anything. Immigrants that come to America, apply for proper citizenship and meld into the country are a very different people then those that try and sneak into the country to have a child so that they may stay to reap the benefits of all our social programs. In many previous generations people that immigrated here and generally wanted to assimilate into our culture. Sure they held on to some of their roots, but they did not demand we change for them. Much of our current immigration is not like this, specifically that of the Latinos immigrating north. You see this very often if you live in any of the states boarding along the US-Mexican boarder. Instead of coming here and learning English, appropriately apply for citizenship and working hard to fit in, they demand we place their language on par with English (I know we don't have English as a national language, but nearly everyone here does speak it, it is the common language used in nearly all aspects of American life). By getting rid of birthright citizenship it means only current citizens' children will become citizens and not people who are not legally here having a child become a citizen.
While this will certainly sound very mean-spirited is it really the US government's responsibility to take up moral causes? If so, whose moral should the US government take up? The majorities? If we did that we wouldn't be a very friendly place for a lot of non Christians now would we? For government to take any moral stance dangerous because we all cannot agree on which moral stance to take. Enforcing specific morals onto companies, such as those involved with the Darfur (which I will admit I do not know much about) is not what government is for and would be presumptuous of them (our gov.).
Hmm, your points on what people may put in their will are interesting. I didn't realize that was ever permissible. I looked at it in much simpler context (my mistake I realize now), such as for example: My mother was to pass away and she wanted me to have all the stuff in her home, why should I not get it? As her only son why shouldn't it just go to me and further more, why should the gov get any of that? I mean, she worked for it all and wants her son to at least benefit from her hard work after she is go
Nearly all the links you posted in regards to Ron Paul are why people DO support him. Most of what he wants would result in SMALLER federal government, which is suppose to be what the conservative party stands for. Unfortunately we have reached the point where neither controlling party has any desire for small government at all, leaving the true conservatives with voting for the lesser of two evils (and we've seen how well this works, evil is still evil after all).
Ron Paul has always been very verbal in his pro-life anti-abortion stance, so of course he wants to define life as starting at conception, since abortion would then be murder. Building a fence between on the US-Mexico boarder has become a huge issue since many people do not want people coming across the boarder illegally taking up resources from the system but not paying back into them.
Preventing the Supreme Court from ruling on Establishment Clause is something the feds have no business doing and should be a state issue or even a local issue, not the feds issue. I'm an atheist and certainly do not think laws should be made to keep us out of office simply because we choose not to believe in a god, but on the same token, every inch you give the feds, they take a mile. The state should be left to decide things for themselves.
Our forefathers warned us about entangling alliances with foreign powers which is exactly what the U.N. is, an entangled alliance between foreign powers <URL:http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1400.htm> .
Ending birthright citizenship would cause absolutely no problems for Americans but would considerably hamper illegal immigrants from crossing the board to have a child simply because doing so would allow it to be an American citizen. Being born on our soil does not make you an American. Having American citizen parents raising you with American beliefs and values makes you an American citizen, the rest is just paperwork.
With regards to abolishing the IRS: The more you allow the federal government to do, the more they will do. By allowing them to levy taxes (and they sure as hell do levy a nice chunk of change by the way) allows them to fund all these little projects that do absolutely nothing for the people and everything for big business and their own little pet projects (See the article for a perfection example of wasted tax dollars on ideas that have no merit).
The government shouldn't be telling corporations how to interact with foreign governments unless it poses a risk to our country. Your example does not hurt us in the least. If the American people do not approve of companies actions, they can stop supporting the company any time they wish.
I will agree with you that him being against gay marriage is a mark against him. It really is none of the governments business who wants to marry who.
I'm not for the elector college either but then I think the way we vote is poorly setup and only stays around because the two parties in control don't want it to go away, as it benefits them and pushes out any potential third party which may actually bring some needed change.
The estate tax should be repealed. If you read your own link, how can you possibly be against small families passing on what they earned themselves to their own family. Why should the government get ANYTHING when someone dies? I just can't understand this and am glad he wants to get this repealed.
Regarding racist remarks, you link doesn't show any of that (maybe the page changed or something or I may not have seen it). The NWO conspiracy thing is nuts, I'll grant you that.
All and all he has 3 marks against him and everything else for him. Can you possibly say this about any other candidate running?
Brendan
P.S. Anti-missile tech does not belong on our commercial airplanes nor will they do anything. I can't recall the last time I heard about a commercial jet being shot out of the sky. This just reeks of government wasting money.
See, the real problem here is that the people on this site are just to tech savvy. Could you imagine a judge listening to your defense and watching you present GPS data, then sayings "The data you are presenting is not a secure data set and could easily be forged. We therefore cannot accept it as adequate defense. Do you have anything else to say?"
Of course I couldn't see this happening but it would be a riot.
The loss prevention use of RFID is great but theives can bypass any form of security and disgruntled employees don't usually care if someone is stealing 100% of the time... 70% of the time the employee will let even a theif leave the store when the excuse the theif gives COULD make sense... so it's lose/lose there... even with sophisticated loss prevention measures that would use RFID to track products leaving the store. Customers can come up with a valid-seeming excuse to get past so called last-chance methods for loss prevention like receipt checker employees. "Oh I bought this last week and I had a question about it..."
I work for a grocery store and stopping people from steal is not nearly as easy as it seems. First, we have to see you actually steal the product. Next, if we do see you take an item and try and leave, we have to be sure to be at the door before you get there so we can stop you and say, blah blah blah, give me that back. This is where it gets interesting, if you refuse and push your way out the door and are now outside the store, I could go after you, but at this point the thief has shown a tendency towards violence and may actually assault you over whatever item they are taking. Is it really worth getting hurt over a $40 bottle of liquor?
Also, say you get out of the store and I go after you, tackle you and get back the product, in California, this thief could probably sue and win against the company. It really isn't worth the cost of the item being stolen.
Finally, to your example about the customer that said "Oh I bought this last week and I had a question about it...", what if they are actually telling the truth? By alienating this customer, even if they are lying (which you don't know anyway) you very well may be costing yourself a customer. Keeping a customer is a lot harder to do then losing a customer.
As far as RFID goes, I'd personally love it if we had a way to track every single item that enters and leaves the store. By knowing exactly what is leaving (whether paid for or not) we would then be able to implement better ordering systems that would likely do a better job keeping out of stocks at a minimum which would make us more money and please our customers (which makes us more money).
I don't think what you said would work at all. Putting your hand in a cooler of ice would actually cause your hand to shut down the radiator feature. From the article:
Grahn watched sled dogs through an infrared camera--and saw snouts and ears lit up like headlamps, indicating that the dogs were shedding excess body heat. But the cameras showed no heat loss through the dogs' feet. Snow under their paws prevented those radiators from opening. Heller and Grahn have found in the lab that the temperature under which the radiators shut down in humans is highly individual.
It kind of sounds like they use vacuum to remove the heat from the blood that circulates in the hand, which then goes directly back to the heart, and is then redistributed to the rest of the body, causing the entire body to cool faster.
Correct me if I am wrong but this is all about the broadcast flag and how it can be used to enforce the draconian copyright laws for televised content? If so, I remember having a very similar conversation with a friend back when all the talk about government taking back analogue channels back.
My thoughts were if the gov. takes back the analogue channels and the content providers only sent us digital information, they could then easily control exactly what is done with content by forcing all said devices to obey predefined rules. This all ties into the whole requirement of tvs needing special digital decoders after a said date (wasn't it anything made after 2005?). I saw this coming about that time, must have been almost two years ago now.
All I can say is I sure am glad I don't watch tv anymore.
I find it extremely unlikely that global warming is having any effect on the ocean floor. Head a mile off the coast of the pacific and swim down 20 feat. You'll notice a couple of things. One, it gets dark very quickly; meaning light doesn't get to travel far. Two, it gets very cold very fast; meaning the heat from the sun is not penetrating all that deeply.
To keep this on topic, cool submersible though. It would be incredible to really explore the very depths of the ocean just to see what kind of life we find. I'm sure there are many secrets waiting to be discovered.
This guy openly admits this is not a review, so I can't bash him for obvious bias. With that said, the guy obviously does not like the game, so I really cannot see why he'd take this much time to say so. He slames the game for needed a hefty hardware requirements (even though its a brand new game, therefore may not run on 3 year old hardware, duh), he slames it for having a corpse run penalty, and he finds both combat and the card game (diplomacy) boring. He never looks at crafting.
With all that said, I play vanguard and I will admit now it does lag a bit but then I don't really have an amazing video card. The environments look beautiful to me, much better then EQ2, which I did not care for. One cannot compare it to wow as they are completely different, one goes for realism the other looks kind of cartoony (it still looks awesome though).
The combat is ok. Nothing special but then I wouldn't say it was bad either. The diplomacy is actually a great deal of fun. I thought the story was pretty interesting that was being told in the Wood Elves capital. It did take me a little bit to figure out that the names of the cards ment absolutely nothing but once I "learned" how to play, it was a great deal of fun.
This guy also mentions the complexity of understanding how strong a mob is. Personally, I love it. Once again, he complains about having to "learn" how something works and seems generally annoyed that it doesn't work like EQ or wow.
I haven't tried crafting either but from what I have read it seems fairly complex and likely requiring a little learning. Not a bad thing in my book.
Another thing the guy mentions is the buggyness of the game. Playing right now, I have noticed a couple of bugs, but nothing even remotely resembling a game breaking bug. If anything it hurt the immersion a little bit but thats about it. Also, comparing it to wows release, while wow was a pretty stable game (possibly the most stable) they completely fell flat on their face with server hardware. It took Blizzard well over a year from release to finally get the hardware done right. It took them another year to finally start trying to stop having freaken maintainence every single Tuesday morning, first only being 4 hours, then going to 6. And that was planned downtime, and had nothing to do with unexpected downtime (though blizzard did give free play time so that was cool). Vanguard has always been up and running for me and isn't that laggy. I was even on a UK server from california and was still playing just fine. UK to Cali lag was less in vanguard then Cali to East coast play in wow, and its a brand new game that just hit the market. Wow still couldn't say that.
This game has a slight learning curve but that should keep out some of the riff raff anyway. Overall I like this game and find it a very nice change from wow, which really was EQ lite. It was fun and I enjoyed it, but it was definitely easy mode MMO (why else do you think it has 7 million players).
Letting users do whatever they want on company computers is a great way to have a lot of things go wrong very quickly. When you are at work, you are there to be working, not playing around on the internet, talking to your buddies, exchanging ims and emails an whatever else you could possibly be doing that has absolutely nothing to do with your job.
At my work, our computers are completely locked down and we cannot change anything, no matter how mundane. I personally thing this is great because I know that whenever I go to the computer, it will just work. If we could change things, I have no doubt a few of the employees would just have to screw with things and then when it didn't work, it would then screw up my job and cost the company a lot of money, not to mention cause my workers and I unneeded stress.
All this comes from someone who has several computers running from home with various operating systems doing various tasks. I could probably improve things at my work in regards to how tech is handled, but it is not my job. If I want to play sysadmin, I can do it with my own gear, on my own time.
As awesome as that sounds, and I would definitely buy it, Blizzard will never make a game that cool. The reason I say this is blizzard will want to pander to the lowest common denominator (good business really) and hardcore pvp and actual lose is not what the majority wants. I mean, in wow, pvp is almost entirely locked in a little box and kept away from anyone who doesn't want to see it. They even make the pvp servers carebearish compared to shadowbane and Dark Age of Cammy.
An awesome server idea for WoW would be a full pvp server where guilds could take over towns. There would be no alliance or horde player faction per say, though humans would certainly be welcomed in IF and SW, and orcs in UC and thunderbluff. They could leave the questing in but say a horde sakes an alliance faction town, all the npcs switch to horde offering the same quest for hordies and alliance couldn't use it. This would immediately cause the faction to really care about its towns, and it would make being part of a guild actually mean something. Of course this won't ever happen, but I can dream.
Every single time I see this exact same kind of story posted, I always wonder, what does it matter? Is it so hard to accept that maybe women are not as interested in the engineering fields as men are? I don't see why there is this cry to bring women into the loop when the doors are wide open. It is not like they are not allowed in.
Also, if we really want to think about gender gaps in professions, why are there not more male nurses? I had to spend a decent amount of time in ICU when my father was hospitalized because of his heartattack. He is very overweight and it was no small challenge for the staff there to help move him when it was required. I think there was one male nurse there who helped but he wasn't always on duty. Would it not make sense to make this position more appealing to men since it would be a boon to both patients and staff alike? Just something to think about.
Only getting 5 hours of sleep or so is not that uncommon amongst people that work nights. I work the night shift and I will typically go several days with only taking 5 hours of sleep. Eventually (usually after 4 or so days) I will get a full 8 to 10 once I get a day off but typically 5 hours is plenty.
I will say this is something you have to train your body to get use to but it is certainly doable without drugs.
I have a couple of concerns with the direction this article takes.
1. To say that any money spent on FTTH is money wasted due to the potential of this completely untested technology is really unfair to say the least. At this point we do not know if the new tech will even provide results. Also, there are many places that really do have terrible copper, especially in the consumer markets. Many old homes and apartments have copper that cannot even use current DSL, let alone attempting to use an even more intensive signal.
2. At the beginning of the article the person paints a picture of a guy going to his boss to tell them that we may have made a mistake in going with this FTTH idea. This is about the dumbest thing this person could do because a) The decision is made and cannot be undone and b) if the boss is not putting pressure on you do not bring up things that you cannot do anything about which will get your ass in trouble. It is never a good idea.
I can see where the person is coming from. We should be honest and come forth and say we should do this, even though we initially thought we should of done and did do that. Unfortunately our corporate climate has never been overly friendly to brute honesty. The last thing you want to do is stand up in a loud voice admitting guilt to the problem. It is like saying, "Well I ment to get it done, but x, y, and z happened." Sorry but ment to and what actually happened are two entirely different problems. Now your SOL.
While I have certainly see all of these particular items on your list indeed happen, for the most part I do not deal with most of that and I go to the movies often enough (once a month or more if better movies are out).
1) Expensive. Not just the ticket cost, but the cost of food is unbearable now.
This is definitly true, I cannot dispute that.
2) Less on story, more on special effects. Don't get me wrong, I really love special effects. But, there are a ton of movies with nothing BUT special effects, the plot is just trash.
This is true, but no one is making you go to these specific movies. The last few movies I have seen were not special effects movies at all.
3) Cell phones in movies really drive me nuts.
Maybe it is because I go to the movies in the middle of the day as opposed to after 6pm, but I cannot remember the last time someone's cell phone went off. I tend to go to movies when most of the theatre is empty though.
4) People who won't STFU in movies are worse. I can't tell you the last time I went to a movie and DIDN'T have some jack off yelling, laughing with his friends, standing up, etc. The movie theaters don't do jack about it these days also.
Same as the last bullet. I rarely have to deal with a bunch of people talking through a movie.
5) I am not amused about going to a movie, and hainvg to sit through 2 coke commericals, 4 car commericals, 2 fandago commericals, 1 about the snack bar, 1 about not using your cell, 2 commericals about the internet being evil and then, we finally get to the previews. The previews are my favorite part of the movie experience. Now, I am so annoyed by this point I can't even enjoy them.
This is entirely true and I hate it with a passion as well. Your completely dead on in this regard.
6) Movie studios are tossing out good movies, and replacing it with quick easy to make movies that can line their pockets with quick green cash.
This just confuses me. Maybe because I have a wide venue of theatres to visit, but I always get to see the specific movies that appeal to me. Maybe this is a problem where only one or two theatres exist.
7) The bathrooms are like the bathrooms in Grand Central station. You don't wanna use them.
You definitly visit the wrong theatres then because the two theatres I go to typically have clean bathrooms. Are they spotless, no, but they are pretty damn good for public bathrooms.
With all that said, I enjoy going to see a movie with a friend as I treat is as a nice way to get out of the house and see a movie on a big screen with better sound then I have at home. I go for the movie as much as just doing something that is not at home. Maybe the movie going experience is just not what you really want?
As many have already said, Slackware makes you learn. I started using linux on and off about the time Slack 8.0 came out. I read up on all the different distros and this one was said to be stable, straight forward, and probably the hardest to learn. I figured, hmm, lets try.
I found that everything I just typed was true, except the hard part. It is so straight forward and on the main slackware site, there is an entire book done in html (which you can buy, I did later on just for reference) on how to go from nothing to a fully running system with different services running and everything. I found that because it was so straight forward, it was infact easier in the end becuase the software only did what I wanted it to do. If I couldn't tell it what to do, it just did not happen.
In other distros of the time, many wanted to do it for me, or would try and stop me froming doing something potentially harmful. Nothing is worse then being in X, opening a console, su over, and you still get access denied when trying to do something. This will not happen in slack. It does what you say, and does not try and baby you or pretend your stupid.
I highly recommend anyone that really wants to learn linux to give slack a real honest try.
Brendan
Still have to deal with ISPs
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Own the Last Mile
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While the idea of setting up community networks then buying bandwidth to be shared amongst everyone certainly is appealing to many of us, there are many more people that just wouldn't be interesting. Not to mention, it would be a brutal fight with the incumbent telcos and cable companies.
Even once the network is built in said local community, I am sure the telcos would try and rack up as huge a cost for the higher bandwidth lines just because. Now, this would not be a problem if the government was on our side, but lets face it, demo or repub, they both belong to big business. With most of if not all of our government on company payroll, I find it near impossible for community networks to become the norm and not the extremely rare exception that they are now. I hope I am wrong.
Brendan
So a 15 year-old kid had an icon on his home computer (not at school) that depicted a gun shooting a head with text saying, Kill Mr. Teachersname. The kid had absolutely no disciplinary action on his record before this incident. In fact, the only reason the teacher ever found out was because another kid saw this icon, presumably while visiting the offender, and reported it.
I do not see how this can be made out to be a real threat. A very poor taste of a joke, certainly, but a threat? No way. Now, maybe if the offending kid had this icon at school, or maybe had a drawing of it on a paper that was being handed over to the teacher, I could understand that as a threat. But this, no way.
I think the teacher and the school district definitely overreacted.
ZF is probably my favorite instance as well. I love how you can choose to do parts of it or all of it. And the temple event was just brillant. Remember before they nerfed it how much of a pain it was? I loved it.
Probably my favorite WOW quest of all time though has to be The Mechanical Yeti Quest. You basically go to winterspring, talk to a goblin who has you collect a bunch of stuff to make a summonable pet 3 times that is a combat pet. The cool part of the quest though is once yuo get him built you have to go show him off to 3 of the goblin's friends. The yeti then chances the different goblins around. Its halarious. Definitly worth checking out if you still play the game.
Depending on what your killing and how efficient at it you are, probably 50-100 gold an hour. The actual coin drops you get may only be about 20 gold an hour, while the rest would all be made up of using the in-game auction house to sell dropped items. Example, many humanoid mobs drop cloth that can be sold, as well as dragon type mobs can be skinned for rare scales that are value to sell. I personally grind on humanoids for the coin/cloth drops I get and the occasional item to sell.
Re:Big Brother and the iTunes Company
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I actually work for Safeway and can reliably tell you that companies pay us to place their product in a specific spot in the store. Safeway feels that a large portion of its profits come from these vendor deals rather then actual product sales. This does not mean product sales are useless, but that we make a very large percentage of our money off product placement.
As far as tracking sales with the club card. For instance, the safeway cards that do not have magnetic stripes but rather just a barcode, that barcode does not hold a lot of information. The other club cards with the magnetic strip can actually made to link to your checking account for shopping at Vons. Of course a pin number is tacked on for a bare level of security. I find that the vast majority of customers will have a club card with correct information as well. Also many of them have the card connected to their bank accounts.
As far as employees not using their club card, I have never heard an employee say they refuse to use the card as it tracks sales (I mean, heck, this company pays your freaken checks, they have all your information ANYWAY). Most employees that do not have cards are really just to damn lazy to fill out a peice of paper.
Speaking of iTunes, yes they are tracking what you download, not sure if they ask or not, though I'm sure its in the eula, but if they asked and you said yes, I do not see the problem. Do not like it, do not use them for your music needs.
Of course the grocery store is setup in specific ways to get customers to buy more products. Enslavement of the grocery store? Are you kidding me? Most grocery stores do not make you walk counterclockwise at all. The only grocery store I can think that does this is Food for Less. Ralph's (Kruegers), Vons (Safeway), and Albertsons surely do not. I will agree that we have specific environments setup and we purposely try to make the shopping experience as calming as possible. Naturally we want you to stay longer to purchase more food.
Want a tip on good grocery shopping practices? Stay on the perimeter of the store the entire shopping trip and you will be able to get all the food you "need" and none of the stuff in the middle that cost a lot more.
Example, when you walk into most grocery stores, You can hug that left (or right) wall and you'll enter into produce, then on to Dairy, meat, maybe pass by floral (not necessary but always around the perimeter), and typically see a Bakery and Deli closer to the front. By going to all these spots you get almost everything you need.
Want to save money? Avoid the frozen food aisle. It has some of the highest markups on product, and most of it is very bad for you anyway. Just for shits and giggles, try this idea once. Stay on the perimeter and shop only in the departments. Then after your done, head to the middle for the few other items you may need such as some bake products, cereal and maybe some can goods (typically all within two aisles of each other as well).
A final note about codebaring, yes this is against the law and it is fruad. Everyone who partakes in this activity will only drive the cost of products upward, or the wages of the people working for the companies downward. If your stealing from any establishment you obviously care for no one and about nothing but yourself because your actions, no matter how small they seem, affect everyone else around you.
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Doh, *kicks self for not previewing* ignore that wall of text.
I do agree a fence would be a far-fetched idea if it were to work, but with different leadership we could amend laws to support honest people that want to come to our country and prosper and be a part of our country instead of taking from it but not giving back. It is not entirely the immigrants' fault of course. Companies hiring people not legally here are just as much to blame if not more so, but when people are working but not part of the tax system, they don't pay taxes on earned wages nor do they pay income tax to state or the fed. gov. This hurts everyone that's legitimately here.
I don't see why it is government's job (federal, state or local) to be making ANY laws that state what grown adults choose to do in the privacy of their own home. Being against the establishment clause has more to do with State's rights being trampled on by the feds then any particular set of laws in a state. As far as Ron's stance on that, I honestly cannot tell you how he feels (though I could take a stab in the dark).
A nation in modern times can still be part of the global economy and not be completely tied into every little aspect of the world, such as the United States is at this time. By involving ourselves in every little mess in the world, we create more bitterness and anger against us then we do good. Being part of the U.N. and letting a foreign group make any decisions hurts us more then it helps us. Our founding fathers had no problems with trade with other countries, they just talked about not going to every little war that Europe and anyone else decided to have (which is exactly what we are doing now, except we are the big dog instead of the start up country).
I think we may be misunderstanding one another with regards to birthright citizenship, probably due more to my previous statement then anything. Immigrants that come to America, apply for proper citizenship and meld into the country are a very different people then those that try and sneak into the country to have a child so that they may stay to reap the benefits of all our social programs. In many previous generations people that immigrated here and generally wanted to assimilate into our culture. Sure they held on to some of their roots, but they did not demand we change for them. Much of our current immigration is not like this, specifically that of the Latinos immigrating north. You see this very often if you live in any of the states boarding along the US-Mexican boarder. Instead of coming here and learning English, appropriately apply for citizenship and working hard to fit in, they demand we place their language on par with English (I know we don't have English as a national language, but nearly everyone here does speak it, it is the common language used in nearly all aspects of American life). By getting rid of birthright citizenship it means only current citizens' children will become citizens and not people who are not legally here having a child become a citizen.
While this will certainly sound very mean-spirited is it really the US government's responsibility to take up moral causes? If so, whose moral should the US government take up? The majorities? If we did that we wouldn't be a very friendly place for a lot of non Christians now would we? For government to take any moral stance dangerous because we all cannot agree on which moral stance to take. Enforcing specific morals onto companies, such as those involved with the Darfur (which I will admit I do not know much about) is not what government is for and would be presumptuous of them (our gov.).
Hmm, your points on what people may put in their will are interesting. I didn't realize that was ever permissible. I looked at it in much simpler context (my mistake I realize now), such as for example: My mother was to pass away and she wanted me to have all the stuff in her home, why should I not get it? As her only son why shouldn't it just go to me and further more, why should the gov get any of that? I
I do agree a fence would be a far-fetched idea if it were to work, but with different leadership we could amend laws to support honest people that want to come to our country and prosper and be a part of our country instead of taking from it but not giving back. It is not entirely the immigrants' fault of course. Companies hiring people not legally here are just as much to blame if not more so, but when people are working but not part of the tax system, they don't pay taxes on earned wages nor do they pay income tax to state or the fed. gov. This hurts everyone that's legitimately here. I don't see why it is government's job (federal, state or local) to be making ANY laws that state what grown adults choose to do in the privacy of their own home. Being against the establishment clause has more to do with State's rights being trampled on by the feds then any particular set of laws in a state. As far as Ron's stance on that, I honestly cannot tell you how he feels (though I could take a stab in the dark). A nation in modern times can still be part of the global economy and not be completely tied into every little aspect of the world, such as the United States is at this time. By involving ourselves in every little mess in the world, we create more bitterness and anger against us then we do good. Being part of the U.N. and letting a foreign group make any decisions hurts us more then it helps us. Our founding fathers had no problems with trade with other countries, they just talked about not going to every little war that Europe and anyone else decided to have (which is exactly what we are doing now, except we are the big dog instead of the start up country). I think we may be misunderstanding one another with regards to birthright citizenship, probably due more to my previous statement then anything. Immigrants that come to America, apply for proper citizenship and meld into the country are a very different people then those that try and sneak into the country to have a child so that they may stay to reap the benefits of all our social programs. In many previous generations people that immigrated here and generally wanted to assimilate into our culture. Sure they held on to some of their roots, but they did not demand we change for them. Much of our current immigration is not like this, specifically that of the Latinos immigrating north. You see this very often if you live in any of the states boarding along the US-Mexican boarder. Instead of coming here and learning English, appropriately apply for citizenship and working hard to fit in, they demand we place their language on par with English (I know we don't have English as a national language, but nearly everyone here does speak it, it is the common language used in nearly all aspects of American life). By getting rid of birthright citizenship it means only current citizens' children will become citizens and not people who are not legally here having a child become a citizen. While this will certainly sound very mean-spirited is it really the US government's responsibility to take up moral causes? If so, whose moral should the US government take up? The majorities? If we did that we wouldn't be a very friendly place for a lot of non Christians now would we? For government to take any moral stance dangerous because we all cannot agree on which moral stance to take. Enforcing specific morals onto companies, such as those involved with the Darfur (which I will admit I do not know much about) is not what government is for and would be presumptuous of them (our gov.). Hmm, your points on what people may put in their will are interesting. I didn't realize that was ever permissible. I looked at it in much simpler context (my mistake I realize now), such as for example: My mother was to pass away and she wanted me to have all the stuff in her home, why should I not get it? As her only son why shouldn't it just go to me and further more, why should the gov get any of that? I mean, she worked for it all and wants her son to at least benefit from her hard work after she is go
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/03/04 Those who failure to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Brendan
Nearly all the links you posted in regards to Ron Paul are why people DO support him. Most of what he wants would result in SMALLER federal government, which is suppose to be what the conservative party stands for. Unfortunately we have reached the point where neither controlling party has any desire for small government at all, leaving the true conservatives with voting for the lesser of two evils (and we've seen how well this works, evil is still evil after all).
Ron Paul has always been very verbal in his pro-life anti-abortion stance, so of course he wants to define life as starting at conception, since abortion would then be murder. Building a fence between on the US-Mexico boarder has become a huge issue since many people do not want people coming across the boarder illegally taking up resources from the system but not paying back into them.
Preventing the Supreme Court from ruling on Establishment Clause is something the feds have no business doing and should be a state issue or even a local issue, not the feds issue. I'm an atheist and certainly do not think laws should be made to keep us out of office simply because we choose not to believe in a god, but on the same token, every inch you give the feds, they take a mile. The state should be left to decide things for themselves.
Our forefathers warned us about entangling alliances with foreign powers which is exactly what the U.N. is, an entangled alliance between foreign powers <URL:http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1400.htm> .
Ending birthright citizenship would cause absolutely no problems for Americans but would considerably hamper illegal immigrants from crossing the board to have a child simply because doing so would allow it to be an American citizen. Being born on our soil does not make you an American. Having American citizen parents raising you with American beliefs and values makes you an American citizen, the rest is just paperwork.
With regards to abolishing the IRS: The more you allow the federal government to do, the more they will do. By allowing them to levy taxes (and they sure as hell do levy a nice chunk of change by the way) allows them to fund all these little projects that do absolutely nothing for the people and everything for big business and their own little pet projects (See the article for a perfection example of wasted tax dollars on ideas that have no merit).
The government shouldn't be telling corporations how to interact with foreign governments unless it poses a risk to our country. Your example does not hurt us in the least. If the American people do not approve of companies actions, they can stop supporting the company any time they wish.
I will agree with you that him being against gay marriage is a mark against him. It really is none of the governments business who wants to marry who.
I'm not for the elector college either but then I think the way we vote is poorly setup and only stays around because the two parties in control don't want it to go away, as it benefits them and pushes out any potential third party which may actually bring some needed change.
The estate tax should be repealed. If you read your own link, how can you possibly be against small families passing on what they earned themselves to their own family. Why should the government get ANYTHING when someone dies? I just can't understand this and am glad he wants to get this repealed.
Regarding racist remarks, you link doesn't show any of that (maybe the page changed or something or I may not have seen it). The NWO conspiracy thing is nuts, I'll grant you that.
All and all he has 3 marks against him and everything else for him. Can you possibly say this about any other candidate running?
Brendan
P.S. Anti-missile tech does not belong on our commercial airplanes nor will they do anything. I can't recall the last time I heard about a commercial jet being shot out of the sky. This just reeks of government wasting money.
Completely off topic:
See, the real problem here is that the people on this site are just to tech savvy. Could you imagine a judge listening to your defense and watching you present GPS data, then sayings "The data you are presenting is not a secure data set and could easily be forged. We therefore cannot accept it as adequate defense. Do you have anything else to say?"
Of course I couldn't see this happening but it would be a riot.
I work for a grocery store and stopping people from steal is not nearly as easy as it seems. First, we have to see you actually steal the product. Next, if we do see you take an item and try and leave, we have to be sure to be at the door before you get there so we can stop you and say, blah blah blah, give me that back. This is where it gets interesting, if you refuse and push your way out the door and are now outside the store, I could go after you, but at this point the thief has shown a tendency towards violence and may actually assault you over whatever item they are taking. Is it really worth getting hurt over a $40 bottle of liquor?
Also, say you get out of the store and I go after you, tackle you and get back the product, in California, this thief could probably sue and win against the company. It really isn't worth the cost of the item being stolen.
Finally, to your example about the customer that said "Oh I bought this last week and I had a question about it...", what if they are actually telling the truth? By alienating this customer, even if they are lying (which you don't know anyway) you very well may be costing yourself a customer. Keeping a customer is a lot harder to do then losing a customer.
As far as RFID goes, I'd personally love it if we had a way to track every single item that enters and leaves the store. By knowing exactly what is leaving (whether paid for or not) we would then be able to implement better ordering systems that would likely do a better job keeping out of stocks at a minimum which would make us more money and please our customers (which makes us more money).
I don't think what you said would work at all. Putting your hand in a cooler of ice would actually cause your hand to shut down the radiator feature. From the article:
Grahn watched sled dogs through an infrared camera--and saw snouts and ears lit up like headlamps, indicating that the dogs were shedding excess body heat. But the cameras showed no heat loss through the dogs' feet. Snow under their paws prevented those radiators from opening. Heller and Grahn have found in the lab that the temperature under which the radiators shut down in humans is highly individual.
It kind of sounds like they use vacuum to remove the heat from the blood that circulates in the hand, which then goes directly back to the heart, and is then redistributed to the rest of the body, causing the entire body to cool faster.
Brendan
Correct me if I am wrong but this is all about the broadcast flag and how it can be used to enforce the draconian copyright laws for televised content? If so, I remember having a very similar conversation with a friend back when all the talk about government taking back analogue channels back.
My thoughts were if the gov. takes back the analogue channels and the content providers only sent us digital information, they could then easily control exactly what is done with content by forcing all said devices to obey predefined rules. This all ties into the whole requirement of tvs needing special digital decoders after a said date (wasn't it anything made after 2005?). I saw this coming about that time, must have been almost two years ago now.
All I can say is I sure am glad I don't watch tv anymore.
Brendan
I find it extremely unlikely that global warming is having any effect on the ocean floor. Head a mile off the coast of the pacific and swim down 20 feat. You'll notice a couple of things. One, it gets dark very quickly; meaning light doesn't get to travel far. Two, it gets very cold very fast; meaning the heat from the sun is not penetrating all that deeply.
To keep this on topic, cool submersible though. It would be incredible to really explore the very depths of the ocean just to see what kind of life we find. I'm sure there are many secrets waiting to be discovered.
Brendan
This guy openly admits this is not a review, so I can't bash him for obvious bias. With that said, the guy obviously does not like the game, so I really cannot see why he'd take this much time to say so. He slames the game for needed a hefty hardware requirements (even though its a brand new game, therefore may not run on 3 year old hardware, duh), he slames it for having a corpse run penalty, and he finds both combat and the card game (diplomacy) boring. He never looks at crafting.
With all that said, I play vanguard and I will admit now it does lag a bit but then I don't really have an amazing video card. The environments look beautiful to me, much better then EQ2, which I did not care for. One cannot compare it to wow as they are completely different, one goes for realism the other looks kind of cartoony (it still looks awesome though).
The combat is ok. Nothing special but then I wouldn't say it was bad either. The diplomacy is actually a great deal of fun. I thought the story was pretty interesting that was being told in the Wood Elves capital. It did take me a little bit to figure out that the names of the cards ment absolutely nothing but once I "learned" how to play, it was a great deal of fun.
This guy also mentions the complexity of understanding how strong a mob is. Personally, I love it. Once again, he complains about having to "learn" how something works and seems generally annoyed that it doesn't work like EQ or wow.
I haven't tried crafting either but from what I have read it seems fairly complex and likely requiring a little learning. Not a bad thing in my book.
Another thing the guy mentions is the buggyness of the game. Playing right now, I have noticed a couple of bugs, but nothing even remotely resembling a game breaking bug. If anything it hurt the immersion a little bit but thats about it. Also, comparing it to wows release, while wow was a pretty stable game (possibly the most stable) they completely fell flat on their face with server hardware. It took Blizzard well over a year from release to finally get the hardware done right. It took them another year to finally start trying to stop having freaken maintainence every single Tuesday morning, first only being 4 hours, then going to 6. And that was planned downtime, and had nothing to do with unexpected downtime (though blizzard did give free play time so that was cool). Vanguard has always been up and running for me and isn't that laggy. I was even on a UK server from california and was still playing just fine. UK to Cali lag was less in vanguard then Cali to East coast play in wow, and its a brand new game that just hit the market. Wow still couldn't say that.
This game has a slight learning curve but that should keep out some of the riff raff anyway. Overall I like this game and find it a very nice change from wow, which really was EQ lite. It was fun and I enjoyed it, but it was definitely easy mode MMO (why else do you think it has 7 million players).
Letting users do whatever they want on company computers is a great way to have a lot of things go wrong very quickly. When you are at work, you are there to be working, not playing around on the internet, talking to your buddies, exchanging ims and emails an whatever else you could possibly be doing that has absolutely nothing to do with your job.
At my work, our computers are completely locked down and we cannot change anything, no matter how mundane. I personally thing this is great because I know that whenever I go to the computer, it will just work. If we could change things, I have no doubt a few of the employees would just have to screw with things and then when it didn't work, it would then screw up my job and cost the company a lot of money, not to mention cause my workers and I unneeded stress.
All this comes from someone who has several computers running from home with various operating systems doing various tasks. I could probably improve things at my work in regards to how tech is handled, but it is not my job. If I want to play sysadmin, I can do it with my own gear, on my own time.
As awesome as that sounds, and I would definitely buy it, Blizzard will never make a game that cool. The reason I say this is blizzard will want to pander to the lowest common denominator (good business really) and hardcore pvp and actual lose is not what the majority wants. I mean, in wow, pvp is almost entirely locked in a little box and kept away from anyone who doesn't want to see it. They even make the pvp servers carebearish compared to shadowbane and Dark Age of Cammy.
An awesome server idea for WoW would be a full pvp server where guilds could take over towns. There would be no alliance or horde player faction per say, though humans would certainly be welcomed in IF and SW, and orcs in UC and thunderbluff. They could leave the questing in but say a horde sakes an alliance faction town, all the npcs switch to horde offering the same quest for hordies and alliance couldn't use it. This would immediately cause the faction to really care about its towns, and it would make being part of a guild actually mean something. Of course this won't ever happen, but I can dream.
Brendan
Every single time I see this exact same kind of story posted, I always wonder, what does it matter? Is it so hard to accept that maybe women are not as interested in the engineering fields as men are? I don't see why there is this cry to bring women into the loop when the doors are wide open. It is not like they are not allowed in.
Also, if we really want to think about gender gaps in professions, why are there not more male nurses? I had to spend a decent amount of time in ICU when my father was hospitalized because of his heartattack. He is very overweight and it was no small challenge for the staff there to help move him when it was required. I think there was one male nurse there who helped but he wasn't always on duty. Would it not make sense to make this position more appealing to men since it would be a boon to both patients and staff alike? Just something to think about.
Brendan
Wouldn't myspace take the cake on this one? Seriously, I'd rather gouge out my own eyes then shift through any of that.
Only getting 5 hours of sleep or so is not that uncommon amongst people that work nights. I work the night shift and I will typically go several days with only taking 5 hours of sleep. Eventually (usually after 4 or so days) I will get a full 8 to 10 once I get a day off but typically 5 hours is plenty.
I will say this is something you have to train your body to get use to but it is certainly doable without drugs.
Brendan
I have a couple of concerns with the direction this article takes.
1. To say that any money spent on FTTH is money wasted due to the potential of this completely untested technology is really unfair to say the least. At this point we do not know if the new tech will even provide results. Also, there are many places that really do have terrible copper, especially in the consumer markets. Many old homes and apartments have copper that cannot even use current DSL, let alone attempting to use an even more intensive signal.
2. At the beginning of the article the person paints a picture of a guy going to his boss to tell them that we may have made a mistake in going with this FTTH idea. This is about the dumbest thing this person could do because a) The decision is made and cannot be undone and b) if the boss is not putting pressure on you do not bring up things that you cannot do anything about which will get your ass in trouble. It is never a good idea.
I can see where the person is coming from. We should be honest and come forth and say we should do this, even though we initially thought we should of done and did do that. Unfortunately our corporate climate has never been overly friendly to brute honesty. The last thing you want to do is stand up in a loud voice admitting guilt to the problem. It is like saying, "Well I ment to get it done, but x, y, and z happened." Sorry but ment to and what actually happened are two entirely different problems. Now your SOL.
Brendan
While I have certainly see all of these particular items on your list indeed happen, for the most part I do not deal with most of that and I go to the movies often enough (once a month or more if better movies are out).
1) Expensive. Not just the ticket cost, but the cost of food is unbearable now.
This is definitly true, I cannot dispute that.
2) Less on story, more on special effects. Don't get me wrong, I really love special effects. But, there are a ton of movies with nothing BUT special effects, the plot is just trash.
This is true, but no one is making you go to these specific movies. The last few movies I have seen were not special effects movies at all.
3) Cell phones in movies really drive me nuts.
Maybe it is because I go to the movies in the middle of the day as opposed to after 6pm, but I cannot remember the last time someone's cell phone went off. I tend to go to movies when most of the theatre is empty though.
4) People who won't STFU in movies are worse. I can't tell you the last time I went to a movie and DIDN'T have some jack off yelling, laughing with his friends, standing up, etc. The movie theaters don't do jack about it these days also.
Same as the last bullet. I rarely have to deal with a bunch of people talking through a movie.
5) I am not amused about going to a movie, and hainvg to sit through 2 coke commericals, 4 car commericals, 2 fandago commericals, 1 about the snack bar, 1 about not using your cell, 2 commericals about the internet being evil and then, we finally get to the previews. The previews are my favorite part of the movie experience. Now, I am so annoyed by this point I can't even enjoy them.
This is entirely true and I hate it with a passion as well. Your completely dead on in this regard.
6) Movie studios are tossing out good movies, and replacing it with quick easy to make movies that can line their pockets with quick green cash.
This just confuses me. Maybe because I have a wide venue of theatres to visit, but I always get to see the specific movies that appeal to me. Maybe this is a problem where only one or two theatres exist.
7) The bathrooms are like the bathrooms in Grand Central station. You don't wanna use them.
You definitly visit the wrong theatres then because the two theatres I go to typically have clean bathrooms. Are they spotless, no, but they are pretty damn good for public bathrooms.
With all that said, I enjoy going to see a movie with a friend as I treat is as a nice way to get out of the house and see a movie on a big screen with better sound then I have at home. I go for the movie as much as just doing something that is not at home. Maybe the movie going experience is just not what you really want?
As many have already said, Slackware makes you learn. I started using linux on and off about the time Slack 8.0 came out. I read up on all the different distros and this one was said to be stable, straight forward, and probably the hardest to learn. I figured, hmm, lets try.
I found that everything I just typed was true, except the hard part. It is so straight forward and on the main slackware site, there is an entire book done in html (which you can buy, I did later on just for reference) on how to go from nothing to a fully running system with different services running and everything. I found that because it was so straight forward, it was infact easier in the end becuase the software only did what I wanted it to do. If I couldn't tell it what to do, it just did not happen.
In other distros of the time, many wanted to do it for me, or would try and stop me froming doing something potentially harmful. Nothing is worse then being in X, opening a console, su over, and you still get access denied when trying to do something. This will not happen in slack. It does what you say, and does not try and baby you or pretend your stupid.
I highly recommend anyone that really wants to learn linux to give slack a real honest try.
Brendan
While the idea of setting up community networks then buying bandwidth to be shared amongst everyone certainly is appealing to many of us, there are many more people that just wouldn't be interesting. Not to mention, it would be a brutal fight with the incumbent telcos and cable companies. Even once the network is built in said local community, I am sure the telcos would try and rack up as huge a cost for the higher bandwidth lines just because. Now, this would not be a problem if the government was on our side, but lets face it, demo or repub, they both belong to big business. With most of if not all of our government on company payroll, I find it near impossible for community networks to become the norm and not the extremely rare exception that they are now. I hope I am wrong. Brendan
So a 15 year-old kid had an icon on his home computer (not at school) that depicted a gun shooting a head with text saying, Kill Mr. Teachersname. The kid had absolutely no disciplinary action on his record before this incident. In fact, the only reason the teacher ever found out was because another kid saw this icon, presumably while visiting the offender, and reported it. I do not see how this can be made out to be a real threat. A very poor taste of a joke, certainly, but a threat? No way. Now, maybe if the offending kid had this icon at school, or maybe had a drawing of it on a paper that was being handed over to the teacher, I could understand that as a threat. But this, no way. I think the teacher and the school district definitely overreacted.
I think we are missing the real issue here. BSD is dead, so really for Linus to even bring it up is to beat a dead horse.
ZF is probably my favorite instance as well. I love how you can choose to do parts of it or all of it. And the temple event was just brillant. Remember before they nerfed it how much of a pain it was? I loved it.
Probably my favorite WOW quest of all time though has to be The Mechanical Yeti Quest. You basically go to winterspring, talk to a goblin who has you collect a bunch of stuff to make a summonable pet 3 times that is a combat pet. The cool part of the quest though is once yuo get him built you have to go show him off to 3 of the goblin's friends. The yeti then chances the different goblins around. Its halarious. Definitly worth checking out if you still play the game.
Depending on what your killing and how efficient at it you are, probably 50-100 gold an hour. The actual coin drops you get may only be about 20 gold an hour, while the rest would all be made up of using the in-game auction house to sell dropped items. Example, many humanoid mobs drop cloth that can be sold, as well as dragon type mobs can be skinned for rare scales that are value to sell. I personally grind on humanoids for the coin/cloth drops I get and the occasional item to sell.
I actually work for Safeway and can reliably tell you that companies pay us to place their product in a specific spot in the store. Safeway feels that a large portion of its profits come from these vendor deals rather then actual product sales. This does not mean product sales are useless, but that we make a very large percentage of our money off product placement.
As far as tracking sales with the club card. For instance, the safeway cards that do not have magnetic stripes but rather just a barcode, that barcode does not hold a lot of information. The other club cards with the magnetic strip can actually made to link to your checking account for shopping at Vons. Of course a pin number is tacked on for a bare level of security. I find that the vast majority of customers will have a club card with correct information as well. Also many of them have the card connected to their bank accounts.
As far as employees not using their club card, I have never heard an employee say they refuse to use the card as it tracks sales (I mean, heck, this company pays your freaken checks, they have all your information ANYWAY). Most employees that do not have cards are really just to damn lazy to fill out a peice of paper.
Speaking of iTunes, yes they are tracking what you download, not sure if they ask or not, though I'm sure its in the eula, but if they asked and you said yes, I do not see the problem. Do not like it, do not use them for your music needs.
Of course the grocery store is setup in specific ways to get customers to buy more products. Enslavement of the grocery store? Are you kidding me? Most grocery stores do not make you walk counterclockwise at all. The only grocery store I can think that does this is Food for Less. Ralph's (Kruegers), Vons (Safeway), and Albertsons surely do not. I will agree that we have specific environments setup and we purposely try to make the shopping experience as calming as possible. Naturally we want you to stay longer to purchase more food.
Want a tip on good grocery shopping practices? Stay on the perimeter of the store the entire shopping trip and you will be able to get all the food you "need" and none of the stuff in the middle that cost a lot more.
Example, when you walk into most grocery stores, You can hug that left (or right) wall and you'll enter into produce, then on to Dairy, meat, maybe pass by floral (not necessary but always around the perimeter), and typically see a Bakery and Deli closer to the front. By going to all these spots you get almost everything you need.
Want to save money? Avoid the frozen food aisle. It has some of the highest markups on product, and most of it is very bad for you anyway. Just for shits and giggles, try this idea once. Stay on the perimeter and shop only in the departments. Then after your done, head to the middle for the few other items you may need such as some bake products, cereal and maybe some can goods (typically all within two aisles of each other as well).
A final note about codebaring, yes this is against the law and it is fruad. Everyone who partakes in this activity will only drive the cost of products upward, or the wages of the people working for the companies downward. If your stealing from any establishment you obviously care for no one and about nothing but yourself because your actions, no matter how small they seem, affect everyone else around you.