This gives me an idea of how I can get past Bush and Co. monitoring my internet usage. I'll be able to say with a straight face that I never searched for Porn, but rather I was hoping to find information about shellfish
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who is a political science major. He raised the point that in 10-20 years, politicians might regret what they had written in blogs. Imagine if John Q Polly is running for congressman, and someone digs up an old LiveJournal entry from back in his college days where he says something like "Screw the military. Every one of those dead US soldiers got what they deserved by working for the man". A stupid, impulsive comment which if brought to light would probally destroy his chances at office.
20-30 years ago his father might have said something like that in an editorial for the Berkley Daily, but on a web log it's a lot more accessable.
Just a random thought.
Government projects are generally extremely wasteful. Anything good the government would do will be done more efficiantly when the people involved are not coerced. And besides, if free individuals won't work together to make their own roads, why should they be forced to?
ok, I'll bite.
People, on an individual basis, are generally greedy and miopic (especially in this culture). They will only spend money on things that will benefit them instantly. They will not spend money on infrastructure that will benefit them in the long term.
Think about a small town out in the middle of no where that is only accessable by a small dirt road. The farmers in the area would want to spend the money on paving the road to help them get thier crops to the market in BigCity, but the local shop clerk wouldn't. All of his customers are in walking distance, and he only has to go into down 1-2 a month to get a few crates of supplies. In fact, anyone who didn't have a direct business link to an outside market wouldn't, even though it would benefit them. The farmer would be able to sell his crops easier, and would have more money to spend at the shop clerk's store, etc.
There is a lot of waste in the government, but saying that we should just abolish all of it and go to an anarchist system is just crazy. There are just some things that only the government can do.
I'm just surprised that AOL has taken this long to begin sending you advertisements via AIM. They have a near-monopoly on IM communications (near monopoly, I know that there are others out there, but everyone I know has an AIM name), and I'm hardly surprised that they have started to send people advertisements via IMs, since they put all of the resources and effort into maintaining the servers that people connnect to.
As someone that has a level 60 paladin, I can tell you one thing: Not all of us are 12 year old smacktards. It's a shame that 90% of the paladin community (LEEEERRROOOOYYY JEEEENNNNKKKIIIIINNNNNSSS) gives the rest of us a bad name.
that's right U.N., we control the internet. We invested research and infrastructure into the internet, and now we control it. U.N. you have a problem with that? You know what you should do, you should come and take it from us. Come and take it from us with your army. OH! WAIT A MINUTE! YOU DON'T HAVE AN ARMY! I guess that means you need to shut the fuck up, that's what I'd do if I didn't have an army. I would shut the fuck up. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP
warning that it could impinge on 'the amazing vehicle of e-mail marketing'.
What follows is my train of thought:
Impinge? Are they making things up now?
Correction: Impinge is a cromulent word.
Baring the sarcasm, I'm also concerned that laws outlawing murder will impinge (I'm learning new vocab!) on the amazing industry of selective human elimination services.
I have an image of Danish troops getting into ships that look like a cross between a WWII-era Higgins boat and a viking longship, and raiding and pillaging all along Canada's east coast. Just as they're done herding the poor canadien peasants into the church (which they're about to burn), a regiment of Mounties comes down the road and routes the invaders.
Maybe Canada will be able to kill two birds with one stone: Rename Quebec "danelaw" and give it to them in exchange for the danes stopping the raiding and pillaging.
As someone who lives in Pensylvania, but goes to school in Iowa, all I can say is that if the tax payers of Iowa want to help me pay to fill up my minivan, I'm not going to stop them.
Or they might embed spyware that's even more impossible to remove from your computer. You thought gator was hard to remove? Wait until he's coded into the kernel
This may be a new concept for you, so bear with me: Rich people can do things that poor people can't, and they tend to be able to do things before poor people can. This is a fact of life.
However, bear in mind that once a company is formed that can make a profitable round-trip to space for $250,000, they will have the funding to research and make the next generation of space vehicles that can do it for $200,000. Then $100,000.
Think of the first automobiles. Only a few 'wealthy elite' could buy them, but after a few decades, enough profit had been made off of those people, and enough money had been put back into research that soon pretty much everyone was able to get a car.
It's Modern-Day NASA, they will either (1) ignore it or (2) appoint a senator's son to be incharge of a subcommitte of the materials committee in charge of developing a new metal that can't be iced over.
World of Warcraft. Sure, you might think of it as just another MMORPG, but already I can see that it's far and away better than any other that I've played (DAoC, FFXI, and AC II ). Blizzard went after a lot of the 'great annoyances' that were present in other MMORPGs, and fixed them.
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This gives me an idea of how I can get past Bush and Co. monitoring my internet usage. I'll be able to say with a straight face that I never searched for Porn, but rather I was hoping to find information about shellfish
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who is a political science major. He raised the point that in 10-20 years, politicians might regret what they had written in blogs. Imagine if John Q Polly is running for congressman, and someone digs up an old LiveJournal entry from back in his college days where he says something like "Screw the military. Every one of those dead US soldiers got what they deserved by working for the man". A stupid, impulsive comment which if brought to light would probally destroy his chances at office. 20-30 years ago his father might have said something like that in an editorial for the Berkley Daily, but on a web log it's a lot more accessable. Just a random thought.
ok, I'll bite.
People, on an individual basis, are generally greedy and miopic (especially in this culture). They will only spend money on things that will benefit them instantly. They will not spend money on infrastructure that will benefit them in the long term. Think about a small town out in the middle of no where that is only accessable by a small dirt road. The farmers in the area would want to spend the money on paving the road to help them get thier crops to the market in BigCity, but the local shop clerk wouldn't. All of his customers are in walking distance, and he only has to go into down 1-2 a month to get a few crates of supplies. In fact, anyone who didn't have a direct business link to an outside market wouldn't, even though it would benefit them. The farmer would be able to sell his crops easier, and would have more money to spend at the shop clerk's store, etc.
There is a lot of waste in the government, but saying that we should just abolish all of it and go to an anarchist system is just crazy. There are just some things that only the government can do.
In addition to a Megabytes -> Library of congresses conversion, we now have a conversion of Frances to USD. I make 4.5833e-8 Frances last year!
I'm just surprised that AOL has taken this long to begin sending you advertisements via AIM. They have a near-monopoly on IM communications (near monopoly, I know that there are others out there, but everyone I know has an AIM name), and I'm hardly surprised that they have started to send people advertisements via IMs, since they put all of the resources and effort into maintaining the servers that people connnect to.
such concepts as:
and let us not forget the rampent use of:
that's in the linux kernel
As someone that has a level 60 paladin, I can tell you one thing: Not all of us are 12 year old smacktards. It's a shame that 90% of the paladin community (LEEEERRROOOOYYY JEEEENNNNKKKIIIIINNNNNSSS) gives the rest of us a bad name.
yeah, that's something to brag about.
that's right U.N., we control the internet. We invested research and infrastructure into the internet, and now we control it. U.N. you have a problem with that? You know what you should do, you should come and take it from us. Come and take it from us with your army. OH! WAIT A MINUTE! YOU DON'T HAVE AN ARMY! I guess that means you need to shut the fuck up, that's what I'd do if I didn't have an army. I would shut the fuck up. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP
Yes. He is also the brother of Banjulhu!
Compared to the margin he won by when he was first elected, 2004 was a blowout for him!
What follows is my train of thought:
Impinge? Are they making things up now?
Correction: Impinge is a cromulent word.
Baring the sarcasm, I'm also concerned that laws outlawing murder will impinge (I'm learning new vocab!) on the amazing industry of selective human elimination services.
Maybe Canada will be able to kill two birds with one stone: Rename Quebec "danelaw" and give it to them in exchange for the danes stopping the raiding and pillaging.
As someone who lives in Pensylvania, but goes to school in Iowa, all I can say is that if the tax payers of Iowa want to help me pay to fill up my minivan, I'm not going to stop them.
He's not indescent
He's not immoral
He's just a president that likes a little oral
Or they might embed spyware that's even more impossible to remove from your computer. You thought gator was hard to remove? Wait until he's coded into the kernel
It's a tough job, but as an American, I'm willing to do my part.
However, bear in mind that once a company is formed that can make a profitable round-trip to space for $250,000, they will have the funding to research and make the next generation of space vehicles that can do it for $200,000. Then $100,000.
Think of the first automobiles. Only a few 'wealthy elite' could buy them, but after a few decades, enough profit had been made off of those people, and enough money had been put back into research that soon pretty much everyone was able to get a car.
It's Modern-Day NASA, they will either (1) ignore it or (2) appoint a senator's son to be incharge of a subcommitte of the materials committee in charge of developing a new metal that can't be iced over.
Ironically, Her Brother is more of a 'Damsel in Distress'
With this administration? About the same time George W agrees to go to the Hague for war crimes trials.
Hey, are you saying that episodes 1 and 2 weren't professional?
Maybe they can put the 'Internet Monitoring Council' on the top 10 floors of the UN building.
World of Warcraft. Sure, you might think of it as just another MMORPG, but already I can see that it's far and away better than any other that I've played (DAoC, FFXI, and AC II ). Blizzard went after a lot of the 'great annoyances' that were present in other MMORPGs, and fixed them.
Ingolfke Confirms it: BSD is dying