the republican party is incredibly successful at turning the victims of their legislation into their voter base. democrats SUCK at messaging.
It's funny because the most heavily Republican areas here in the south were controlled 100% by Democrats for a century. Ask black folks how that turned out.
In case you're scratching your head look up "bull connor" in wikipedia and start from there.
You are telling me that the insured rates for "poorer" areas has gone up because we now have a law that say that you have to buy insurance? How is that an improvement?
Show me a study that shows how much the health of people and the quality of health care has improved and what the price changes of said health care and I might find that interesting.
Just because they now have "health care" doesn't mean life got any better for them or those that have to pay for their health care.
Who says they have health care? I have a friend who was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She had a crummy job and - guess what - no health insurance. It seems that making a law that says "you have to buy health insurance" doesn't really mean anything when people don't have enough money to buy health insurance.
The saddest part is that in the unlikely event that she lives until next April she'll get dinged a couple thousand bucks at tax time. That'll sure help her.
Thankfully the hospital is providing care to her for free, so we're paying for it one way or another.
I'm old enough to remember them saying that the worlds rainforests would be gone by 2010. That the water would be so polluted by 2000 that we wouldn't have anything to drink. That north america would be a desert by 2012, and southern canada would be semi-tropical by 2015. Fear mongering is the way money grubbers make money.
Oh, and those predictions? They came out while I was in grade school...in the 1980's, still got the pamphlets and handouts somewhere for them.
You also forgot about civilization ending on 9/9/1999, 12/31/1999, and then again on 2/29/2000.
We're headed straight into a wall where we'll have people without any skills we need and who are unable, financially or otherwise, to gain desirable skills, as well as higher unemployment across the board. We can't wish them away and they deserve decency as much as the next person.
So, what do we do? Give them spoons and pay them to dig holes?
Do you think the free cell phone program doesn't exist? That it's made up by Republicans? The program originated in 1984 - so, yes, it was made up by Republicans. Tricked you.
Anyway, it exists, although it's not exactly a iPhone that people get. But they do have some value:
Government plans that mean computer users deemed to have damaged national security, the economy or the environment will face a life sentence have been criticised by experts who warn that the new law could be used to target legitimate whistleblowers.
Could be? Come on - targeting whistleblowers is the point. It's not about damaging national security, the economy or the environment - it's about damaging somebody's political career.
I've said that same thing before. I happen to BE competent professional in certain security matters, so that affects my point of view.
On the other hand, the most popular locks, Kwikset and Master lock, are obviously not designed to be secure against a knowledgeable or determined advesary. They are designed to discourage your neighbor from casually getting into your stuff, and that's pretty clear from looking at the product and feeling how lightweight it is. Maybe that's what people want most of the time - a lock sufficient to make it rather inconvenient for the average person to walk in, not something that's going to keep the locksmith out when you lose your key.
My front door has a pretty decent kwikset lock that I can personally pick. But the door also has a window large enough to walk through in addition to a window on each side.
Unless you have a solid steel door the lock isn't relevant.
I've done a little bit of standup and improv. In improv, the cardinal rule is you always agree with whatever was just said, never disagree. You then expand on that last line and keep the bit rolling.
Hecklers are best dealt with in the exact same way, at least when you can't ignore them. Make them part of the act and it totally disarms their only weapon.
A better response would have been something along the lines of "I'm sorry, was it getting lonely in the shelter without me?"
I find that local backups are better than cloud backups.
I do both. As far as I'm concerned it's simply stupid to not have local copies of everything that's important to my business, particularly given that hard drives cost something like $40/TB at this point. I keep stuff in "the cloud" for easy access, but I insist on keeping local copies of everything.
I make my customers do this, too. Their music is in the cloud for one purpose only: to ease distribution. They have to keep local copies of everything. They bitch and moan but it sure as hell beats losing everything.
There are many different ways that Ebola can reach out and touch people who are not from Ebola Land, shutting down foreign visas is not the solution.
Exactly. That's why I don't encrypt passwords on any of my machines. Passwords can be brute forced so they're not a solution.
I also have no locks on my doors. Someone can use C4 to blow them up and render them useless. Locks aren't a solution.
Sometimes, even if you can find some way around the proposed idea it doesn't mean the idea isn't good, just that it isn't complete. Nobody said it was. But shutting down travel directly from ebolaland is an obvious first step.
And yet, here you are commenting on a troll article.
Yes, telling people to not respond. I didn't read the article nor will I read any more. PETA will cease to matter when ad revenue on PETA clickbaits moves toward $0.
Sure, just like there are not 2 Fords in the parking lot, but 2 Ford automobiles, and not 3 Pepsis on the table, but 3 Pepsi drinks, and not 4 Dells in the marketing department, but 4 Dell computers.
Speakers, not corporate lawyers, determine language use, even if corporations wish it were otherwise.
True, but they have a deeper worry here. They don't want their trademark to become a generic (and thus subject to being lost) so they have to make sure it's used properly at all times. While they can't change the way people talk they can have some influence over how folks write.
Plenty of trademarks have become genericized, Kleenex is a great example. Here's a good list:
Making that list is a mixed blessing. It means that you've owned a market to the point that people equate any product in the market to your own. On the other hand, you can lose control of such a trademark.
Lego are actively researching alternative materials from which to make their blocks, so your criticism is merely illustrating your lack of knowledge of the subject, and not a well-thought-out attack on Lego.
Unless I missed it, the "attack" was on Greenpeace who cluelessly badgered Lego to quit licensing the Shell logo for use in their products which are *made of oil*.
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Here in the US it'll be about 300 years until we're coal free because we have so much of the stuff. Too bad Denmark ran out so quickly :(
The Democrats had complete control of Congress and the Executive Branch and they passed what they wanted to pass.
If that's true, then the Republicans never managed to block passing of the budget until the 11th hour.
You need to look to see how this bill was passed. The Republicans couldn't block it due to Harry Reid playing fast and loose with the rules.
the republican party is incredibly successful at turning the victims of their legislation into their voter base. democrats SUCK at messaging.
It's funny because the most heavily Republican areas here in the south were controlled 100% by Democrats for a century. Ask black folks how that turned out.
In case you're scratching your head look up "bull connor" in wikipedia and start from there.
You are telling me that the insured rates for "poorer" areas has gone up because we now have a law that say that you have to buy insurance? How is that an improvement?
Show me a study that shows how much the health of people and the quality of health care has improved and what the price changes of said health care and I might find that interesting.
Just because they now have "health care" doesn't mean life got any better for them or those that have to pay for their health care.
Who says they have health care? I have a friend who was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She had a crummy job and - guess what - no health insurance. It seems that making a law that says "you have to buy health insurance" doesn't really mean anything when people don't have enough money to buy health insurance.
The saddest part is that in the unlikely event that she lives until next April she'll get dinged a couple thousand bucks at tax time. That'll sure help her.
Thankfully the hospital is providing care to her for free, so we're paying for it one way or another.
I'm old enough to remember them saying that the worlds rainforests would be gone by 2010. That the water would be so polluted by 2000 that we wouldn't have anything to drink. That north america would be a desert by 2012, and southern canada would be semi-tropical by 2015. Fear mongering is the way money grubbers make money.
Oh, and those predictions? They came out while I was in grade school...in the 1980's, still got the pamphlets and handouts somewhere for them.
You also forgot about civilization ending on 9/9/1999, 12/31/1999, and then again on 2/29/2000.
Good job dealing with the congitive dissonance of having voted for a gangster.
What are you talking about? I have not voted for a Republican. Ever.
Whoosh.....
We're headed straight into a wall where we'll have people without any skills we need and who are unable, financially or otherwise, to gain desirable skills, as well as higher unemployment across the board. We can't wish them away and they deserve decency as much as the next person.
So, what do we do? Give them spoons and pay them to dig holes?
I'm still waiting for my FREE iPhone from the government that Republicans always talk about but can never provide a link to the sign-up page.
http://www.obamaphone.com/get-...
That was hard.
Do you think the free cell phone program doesn't exist? That it's made up by Republicans? The program originated in 1984 - so, yes, it was made up by Republicans. Tricked you.
Anyway, it exists, although it's not exactly a iPhone that people get. But they do have some value:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Government plans that mean computer users deemed to have damaged national security, the economy or the environment will face a life sentence have been criticised by experts who warn that the new law could be used to target legitimate whistleblowers.
Could be? Come on - targeting whistleblowers is the point. It's not about damaging national security, the economy or the environment - it's about damaging somebody's political career.
And the number "40,000,000" doesn't come up on my list of "potential overflows to watch out for". What's special about 40 million?
I've said that same thing before. I happen to BE competent professional in certain security matters, so that affects my point of view.
On the other hand, the most popular locks, Kwikset and Master lock, are obviously not designed to be secure against a knowledgeable or determined advesary. They are designed to discourage your neighbor from casually getting into your stuff, and that's pretty clear from looking at the product and feeling how lightweight it is. Maybe that's what people want most of the time - a lock sufficient to make it rather inconvenient for the average person to walk in, not something that's going to keep the locksmith out when you lose your key.
My front door has a pretty decent kwikset lock that I can personally pick. But the door also has a window large enough to walk through in addition to a window on each side.
Unless you have a solid steel door the lock isn't relevant.
Now maybe we can finally move on to locking up those with pictures of people illegally downloading music or drawings of addicts using heroin.
Or people in possession of certain dead plants. Oh, wait.
If you really want to speed up the line, introduce some competition.
You must be new here. Free markets never work, haven't you heard?
I'm thinking "MeToo" would work well....
How about $324M plus 1000 frozen eggs?
I've done a little bit of standup and improv. In improv, the cardinal rule is you always agree with whatever was just said, never disagree. You then expand on that last line and keep the bit rolling.
Hecklers are best dealt with in the exact same way, at least when you can't ignore them. Make them part of the act and it totally disarms their only weapon.
A better response would have been something along the lines of "I'm sorry, was it getting lonely in the shelter without me?"
I find that local backups are better than cloud backups.
I do both. As far as I'm concerned it's simply stupid to not have local copies of everything that's important to my business, particularly given that hard drives cost something like $40/TB at this point. I keep stuff in "the cloud" for easy access, but I insist on keeping local copies of everything.
I make my customers do this, too. Their music is in the cloud for one purpose only: to ease distribution. They have to keep local copies of everything. They bitch and moan but it sure as hell beats losing everything.
Fucking moron, go back to masturbating in your "Apocalypse Shelter" to videos of Rand Paul.
"Go back"? I never stopped. I was typing with my other hand.
Instead it effectively increases your stamina by relieving fatigue caused by carrying the heavy tool.
Could solve a problem that guys like myself have to live with.
There are many different ways that Ebola can reach out and touch people who are not from Ebola Land, shutting down foreign visas is not the solution.
Exactly. That's why I don't encrypt passwords on any of my machines. Passwords can be brute forced so they're not a solution.
I also have no locks on my doors. Someone can use C4 to blow them up and render them useless. Locks aren't a solution.
Sometimes, even if you can find some way around the proposed idea it doesn't mean the idea isn't good, just that it isn't complete. Nobody said it was. But shutting down travel directly from ebolaland is an obvious first step.
And yet, here you are commenting on a troll article.
Yes, telling people to not respond. I didn't read the article nor will I read any more. PETA will cease to matter when ad revenue on PETA clickbaits moves toward $0.
Remember? Rule #1 of the internet? PETA wants attention, positive or negative. Just ignore them. Please.
Sure, just like there are not 2 Fords in the parking lot, but 2 Ford automobiles, and not 3 Pepsis on the table, but 3 Pepsi drinks, and not 4 Dells in the marketing department, but 4 Dell computers.
Speakers, not corporate lawyers, determine language use, even if corporations wish it were otherwise.
True, but they have a deeper worry here. They don't want their trademark to become a generic (and thus subject to being lost) so they have to make sure it's used properly at all times. While they can't change the way people talk they can have some influence over how folks write.
Plenty of trademarks have become genericized, Kleenex is a great example. Here's a good list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Making that list is a mixed blessing. It means that you've owned a market to the point that people equate any product in the market to your own. On the other hand, you can lose control of such a trademark.
Companies like LEGO don't want that to happen.
Lego are actively researching alternative materials from which to make their blocks, so your criticism is merely illustrating your lack of knowledge of the subject, and not a well-thought-out attack on Lego.
Unless I missed it, the "attack" was on Greenpeace who cluelessly badgered Lego to quit licensing the Shell logo for use in their products which are *made of oil*.
It's chewing gum for the job seeker, no more, no less.
Yes. Good, tasty, onion-flavored chewing gum.