It all started going to hell in Sept/Oct of the last year of Clinton's administration. Why? He was on the way out. Gore looked terrible. Bush even worse. When the economy is better, come back and explain to me how Bush made it better. Right now he's had plenty of time and it's only gotten worse and worse. Sure if you had some money saved up now is a good time to buy a car for 0 down and 0 interest, or to get a 5.0% home loan, but that doesn't mean the economy is good. Oh contraire. Look at all the real indicators. Unemployment, wage cuts, or look at the other side of the economy, stock prices, P&L, S&P. We're all screwed right now. If this is CLEANING IT UP, I'm not very impressed.
I got a little violent. Please don't view this as a threat to you. Hell I don't even know who you are. You are in NO DANGER. I repeat, the violent nature of this post is NOT A THREAT. It's a lame-ass technique of making a point. Please don't have me arrested by the "terror police". Thanks.
First Ammendment - Why is this even an argument? Republicans tend to want to censor speech more than the dems, so the dems win this one.
Gun Laws - ridiculous. 2nd ammendment is there in the CONSTITUTION. Republicans win this one.
4th Ammendment - Republicans want to search you, your house, your moms house etc in the name of the "war on drugs" and now the "war on terror" Dems aren't much fuckin' better. But dems are a little looser so dems win this one.
Abortion - Well in reality making it illegal doesn't prevent it from happening, it simply makes it punishable. so even if you are against abortion, you have to realize outlawing it is futile. Dems win this one. Women truly have a choice in reality. A choice between a safe & legal abortion or no abortion is better than a choice between a dangerous illegal abortion or no abortion. Even God would agree with this logic.
Corporate welfare vs worker rights/ Labor. Until I own a corporation, I have to consider myself a worker. Dems win this one. How anyone can vote for something that will reduce their wages, reduce their health care, make them work longer hours all so that some asshole in a board room can export thier job to india to make even more money is beyond me. WAKE THE FUCK UP. How 'bout a little self preservation!!!! Unless you own a corporation, you need to see the light!!!
Jails versus Education: hmm, spend money on educating our children so that they will be prepared to lead our country when they inherit it, or cut spending in schools and parks & rec programs only to eventually spend more money on jails to house our misguided uneducated forgotten youth? tough one here. gee, what should we do ? Democrats win. Republicans are greedy assholes who can afford private shools for their children. What about the rest of the nations. Those punk asses that are not getting education and resort to crime will hopefully rob your house you greedy fuckheads. (unfortunately you rich bastards live ina gated community, so they'll rob my house and the house of other working men and women, which is unfortunate because it's YOUR POLICY that destroyed thier chances of making it in this world).
Corporate friendly env. policy versus environmental friendly environmental policy. Hmm, in my short life time I've seen 200-500% growth in my home town. Land Development is BIG BUSINESS. It's sad to see them rape the land to build a shitload of cheap ass houses all crammed in tight next to eachother. If those greedy fucks would build one or two less houses per project then all the families that moved in would get yards and a little bit of privacy. Instead they are living in a future ghetto that frankly looked better as natural land. That's the friendliest of the land uses. Chemical plants, manufacturing plants, refineries, junk yards. SHEESH!!! This whole country will be one paved piece of shit in less than 50 years. It's fine if you own a big ass ranch in texas, who cares if your refinery pollutes the fuck out of some poor neighborhood in the wrong side of town. Maybe it will kill those "niggas" before you have to arrest them after they drop out of that shitty high school you wouldn't approve the tax dollars to fix up because you wanted some tax cuts to afford to pay off the crooked politician who allowed the refinery. FUCK!!! Democrats win this one too.
You see, aside from the gun thing, republican policy benefits only a small minority of wealthy assholes. The rest of us get screwed every which way in a increasingly painful cycle. We lose our jobs so our kids go to cheap schools which don't get good funding because money is going to corporations so our kids poor and pissed off do drugs or get pregnant or drop out or graduate and go to college despite the odds, then they lose their jobs and their kids go to crap schools, etc. etc. over and over again while more and more of us become poor and a few fortunate a-holes get richer and richer.
well, it can only go on for so long before we unite and kill you you fuckin rich assholes
Is that whenever a democrat is in office, there are plenty of jobs for American workers (white collar, blue collar, doesn't matter). Democratic presidents seem to create an environment that creates and fosters a middle class. Whenever a Republican is in office there are massive layoffs and jobs moving overseas. As soon as we get rid of Bush, we can start rebuilding the damage he's doing.
Republicans are only good for rich people, not working people of any colored collar.
and sent his earnings to his terror cell's slush fund, would Microsoft be funding terrorists.
Money changes hands, that's the way things work. Some money will eventually end up in terrorists hands, but that doesn't mean everyone who touched it along the way is funding terrorism. There is a difference between paying a criminal for a CD, who then turns around and gives that money to a terrorist cell, and directly contributing to the terror cell. How many degrees of seperation are required before one is deemed not-guilty of funding terrorism? Is the US MINT funding terrorism?
Jesus Christ we are truly coming up to the end of the world, or at least the end of a "free" America. Seems some multinational corporations will use the fear of terrorism and drugs and "piracy" to censor, incarcerate and control everyone who is less wealthy or disagrees with them. When will we fight back, not against the stupid ass purchased politicians, not by trying to play their game of "who can bribe the most" but by "attacking" directly these corporations. One day we'll wake up and even the soccer moms will realize that Disney, AOLTW, Exxon, etc control every major decision that is made in this world, and she and her children are either their slaves or their casualties. When money is diverted from education to tax cuts for corporations, it's her children suffering to make these corps a little bit more powerful. Some day they'll realize it. When that day comes even the soccer moms will drive thier suv/minivans into disneyland and take arms against the greedy corrupt leaders of this world, the executives of these transnational corporations. I can't wait, because until then, until we hit rock bottom, it's all downhill. I don't look forward to sliding further down this slippery slope of losing all our liberties to make it that much easier for 6 fucking assholes to go from 1000000000000000000000000 trillion dollars net wealth to 1000000000000000000000000000 gazillion dollars in net wealth. But once we reach the breaking point, look out. You'll have a nation, or an entire world of poor ass angry fuckin people rioting in the streets and taking down these fuck heads. Until then life is gonna continue to suck. For the rest of us anyway.
ok, but that hasn't stopped some people from trying to get richer. most rich people, actually try to get richer. whether by good or evil means, as long as the ends are them getting richer. Nice to see an exception to the rule.
is the best tabbed browser I've ever used. True, it's a wrapper for IE and only works on windoze, but still, it's the best. And I love phoenix, but Crazy Browser keeps me coming back for more.
how many companies have developed great things in their R&D labs only to have the parent go belly-up on them. The resulting tech is either swiped up by the company that buys their remains, or given away for free to the community at large, or lost and gone forever*.
They're expecting teens/early 20s people to be positive about something?
get off. I can't buy it. All I see are bloggers bitchin and whining unless it's about pr0n.
I think Dr. Pepper would be better off paying them to diss their competition. THat's a natural fit for people this age.
Then agian, maybe that's my generation (mid 20s). Maybe early 20s are happy and shit. Maybe they aren't cynical bastards full of pessimism.
I doubt it;-).
How the hell do you use a pin, if you don't have the card. I'm pretty sure the ATM doesn't let me type in my card number.
Sure I could make a card, if I had the right equipment and had the card for long enough to make it, but in that case I could just as easily use the card.
I guess if I were super clever and I owned a business that used ATM's at the POS I could rig a line sniffer or something to save the ATM card info, then make some cards, then do this hack 15 times until I got the pin #, then I could steal 300.00 a day.
but if I owned a business why would I need to steal money?
Wonder how long before we get soft mobos similar to softmodems or winmodems.
MS provides some of the func and you get a huge discount on the mobo, but it only works with XP200X and eats up the extra GHZ you paid intel for to replace the perfectly good, equally fast, totally "free as in liberty" and "illegal" computer you're using to read this.
As if the big ass kite tethered to your person is the most ideal way to spy. Oh yeah, I'll be doing that around the nearest military base. Whatever.
I'd be better off going to the nearest hill with a telescope.
(btw, I'm not a spy. so fuck off carnivore!)
Isn't it obvious that everything spirals in a funky multi-dimensional way.
stars, galaxies, quarks. The all spiral out like a big fractal.
from one angle it looks like a simple spin, from another like a spiral. And in space time like a straight line? not sure,
but I know one thing, on the other side of the vortex is more of the same - same but different.
I have DirecTV with Tivo Dual Tuner, and it's great. I can watch two channels at the same time, and thanks to the built in buffer I get to scroll back in time and see what I missed. Great for sports. The problem is that I have a nice TV with dual video inputs that wants to run PIP, but the Tivo doesn't have dual outputs. If tivo were to either add dual outputs or make their own pip control I'd be living large.
There are only a few times where I want to watch more than 2 channels at one time. It would only happen the one week when all 4 sports are happening at the same time.
ESPN
ESPN2
CBS
ABC
ESPN NEWS
FOX SPORTS
TBS
WGN
that's 8, I could see up to 12 for extreme fans, or if you buy one of those full court passes or NFL or NBA or what have you packages then maybe you'd want more.
1) your neighbors won't be able to see the porn and 2) This is an entirely different technology than the previous window switching technology - electrochromic
Electrochromic windows went from clear to dark-tinted, like the new fancy rear view mirrors and welding caps. These new ones go from clear to white - which is much cooler, literally.
here's a quote from the pop-sci article linked below
"The first residential smart windows arrived this year, and they're not electrochromic. In ThermoView's Alter-Lite windows, two panes surround a film embedded with randomly arranged, light-absorbing particles that provide natural shade. When subjected to a voltage, they instantly align to let light pass. The SPD-Smart light control technology that makes the windows possible was developed by Research Frontiers Inc., which has licensed it to 18 other companies--including Mercedes-Benz for a sunroof and Inspectech Aero Service for private-jet windows. Cost: $100 extra per square foot. "
"We understand this site has been a very valuable tool and are working together to find a solution to make sure that the tool is available to the public in some way."
As in we'll maintain it, and we'll charge you to look at it.
Perhaps I'm just used to interpreting these things from other evil things and having been burned in the past (CDDB?) we don't trust anyone again.
Still, it sounds an awful lot like they are going to try to steal all the data as their own.
Slashdot Mirror
you actually make sense and have opened my eyes a bit. thanks.
It all started going to hell in Sept/Oct of the last year of Clinton's administration. Why? He was on the way out. Gore looked terrible. Bush even worse. When the economy is better, come back and explain to me how Bush made it better. Right now he's had plenty of time and it's only gotten worse and worse. Sure if you had some money saved up now is a good time to buy a car for 0 down and 0 interest, or to get a 5.0% home loan, but that doesn't mean the economy is good. Oh contraire. Look at all the real indicators. Unemployment, wage cuts, or look at the other side of the economy, stock prices, P&L, S&P. We're all screwed right now. If this is CLEANING IT UP, I'm not very impressed.
I got a little violent. Please don't view this as a threat to you. Hell I don't even know who you are. You are in NO DANGER. I repeat, the violent nature of this post is NOT A THREAT. It's a lame-ass technique of making a point. Please don't have me arrested by the "terror police". Thanks.
First Ammendment - Why is this even an argument? Republicans tend to want to censor speech more than the dems, so the dems win this one.
Gun Laws - ridiculous. 2nd ammendment is there in the CONSTITUTION. Republicans win this one.
4th Ammendment - Republicans want to search you, your house, your moms house etc in the name of the "war on drugs" and now the "war on terror" Dems aren't much fuckin' better. But dems are a little looser so dems win this one.
Abortion - Well in reality making it illegal doesn't prevent it from happening, it simply makes it punishable. so even if you are against abortion, you have to realize outlawing it is futile. Dems win this one. Women truly have a choice in reality. A choice between a safe & legal abortion or no abortion is better than a choice between a dangerous illegal abortion or no abortion. Even God would agree with this logic.
Corporate welfare vs worker rights/ Labor. Until I own a corporation, I have to consider myself a worker. Dems win this one. How anyone can vote for something that will reduce their wages, reduce their health care, make them work longer hours all so that some asshole in a board room can export thier job to india to make even more money is beyond me. WAKE THE FUCK UP. How 'bout a little self preservation!!!! Unless you own a corporation, you need to see the light!!!
Jails versus Education: hmm, spend money on educating our children so that they will be prepared to lead our country when they inherit it, or cut spending in schools and parks & rec programs only to eventually spend more money on jails to house our misguided uneducated forgotten youth? tough one here. gee, what should we do ?
Democrats win. Republicans are greedy assholes who can afford private shools for their children. What about the rest of the nations. Those punk asses that are not getting education and resort to crime will hopefully rob your house you greedy fuckheads. (unfortunately you rich bastards live ina gated community, so they'll rob my house and the house of other working men and women, which is unfortunate because it's YOUR POLICY that destroyed thier chances of making it in this world).
Corporate friendly env. policy versus environmental friendly environmental policy. Hmm, in my short life time I've seen 200-500% growth in my home town. Land Development is BIG BUSINESS. It's sad to see them rape the land to build a shitload of cheap ass houses all crammed in tight next to eachother. If those greedy fucks would build one or two less houses per project then all the families that moved in would get yards and a little bit of privacy. Instead they are living in a future ghetto that frankly looked better as natural land. That's the friendliest of the land uses. Chemical plants, manufacturing plants, refineries, junk yards. SHEESH!!! This whole country will be one paved piece of shit in less than 50 years. It's fine if you own a big ass ranch in texas, who cares if your refinery pollutes the fuck out of some poor neighborhood in the wrong side of town. Maybe it will kill those "niggas" before you have to arrest them after they drop out of that shitty high school you wouldn't approve the tax dollars to fix up because you wanted some tax cuts to afford to pay off the crooked politician who allowed the refinery. FUCK!!! Democrats win this one too.
You see, aside from the gun thing, republican policy benefits only a small minority of wealthy assholes. The rest of us get screwed every which way in a increasingly painful cycle. We lose our jobs so our kids go to cheap schools which don't get good funding because money is going to corporations so our kids poor and pissed off do drugs or get pregnant or drop out or graduate and go to college despite the odds, then they lose their jobs and their kids go to crap schools, etc. etc. over and over again while more and more of us become poor and a few fortunate a-holes get richer and richer.
well, it can only go on for so long before we unite and kill you you fuckin rich assholes
Is that whenever a democrat is in office, there are plenty of jobs for American workers (white collar, blue collar, doesn't matter). Democratic presidents seem to create an environment that creates and fosters a middle class. Whenever a Republican is in office there are massive layoffs and jobs moving overseas. As soon as we get rid of Bush, we can start rebuilding the damage he's doing.
Republicans are only good for rich people, not working people of any colored collar.
and sent his earnings to his terror cell's slush fund, would Microsoft be funding terrorists. Money changes hands, that's the way things work. Some money will eventually end up in terrorists hands, but that doesn't mean everyone who touched it along the way is funding terrorism. There is a difference between paying a criminal for a CD, who then turns around and gives that money to a terrorist cell, and directly contributing to the terror cell. How many degrees of seperation are required before one is deemed not-guilty of funding terrorism? Is the US MINT funding terrorism? Jesus Christ we are truly coming up to the end of the world, or at least the end of a "free" America. Seems some multinational corporations will use the fear of terrorism and drugs and "piracy" to censor, incarcerate and control everyone who is less wealthy or disagrees with them. When will we fight back, not against the stupid ass purchased politicians, not by trying to play their game of "who can bribe the most" but by "attacking" directly these corporations. One day we'll wake up and even the soccer moms will realize that Disney, AOLTW, Exxon, etc control every major decision that is made in this world, and she and her children are either their slaves or their casualties. When money is diverted from education to tax cuts for corporations, it's her children suffering to make these corps a little bit more powerful. Some day they'll realize it. When that day comes even the soccer moms will drive thier suv/minivans into disneyland and take arms against the greedy corrupt leaders of this world, the executives of these transnational corporations. I can't wait, because until then, until we hit rock bottom, it's all downhill. I don't look forward to sliding further down this slippery slope of losing all our liberties to make it that much easier for 6 fucking assholes to go from 1000000000000000000000000 trillion dollars net wealth to 1000000000000000000000000000 gazillion dollars in net wealth. But once we reach the breaking point, look out. You'll have a nation, or an entire world of poor ass angry fuckin people rioting in the streets and taking down these fuck heads. Until then life is gonna continue to suck. For the rest of us anyway.
I hate caps. I wish I still lived in the bay area. the mecca of all things tech.
Jeesh, what a lame ass investment that turned out to be. It's refreshing to know I'm not any stupider than microsoft.
You mean it needs to involve the sex industry, and evovle from there.
IM/webcams/aol/usenet/blogs/
Slashdot and video game consoles are about the only tech thing I can think of that wasn't first pioneered by porn.
ok, but that hasn't stopped some people from trying to get richer. most rich people, actually try to get richer. whether by good or evil means, as long as the ends are them getting richer. Nice to see an exception to the rule.
is the best tabbed browser I've ever used. True, it's a wrapper for IE and only works on windoze, but still, it's the best. And I love phoenix, but Crazy Browser keeps me coming back for more.
how many companies have developed great things in their R&D labs only to have the parent go belly-up on them. The resulting tech is either swiped up by the company that buys their remains, or given away for free to the community at large, or lost and gone forever*.
They're expecting teens/early 20s people to be positive about something? get off. I can't buy it. All I see are bloggers bitchin and whining unless it's about pr0n. I think Dr. Pepper would be better off paying them to diss their competition. THat's a natural fit for people this age. Then agian, maybe that's my generation (mid 20s). Maybe early 20s are happy and shit. Maybe they aren't cynical bastards full of pessimism. I doubt it ;-).
but didn't know how.
I know, I know. Mod me as necessary.
How the hell do you use a pin, if you don't have the card. I'm pretty sure the ATM doesn't let me type in my card number.
Sure I could make a card, if I had the right equipment and had the card for long enough to make it, but in that case I could just as easily use the card.
I guess if I were super clever and I owned a business that used ATM's at the POS I could rig a line sniffer or something to save the ATM card info, then make some cards, then do this hack 15 times until I got the pin #, then I could steal 300.00 a day.
but if I owned a business why would I need to steal money?
Is there some easier way to use the pin #???
Wonder how long before we get soft mobos similar to softmodems or winmodems.
MS provides some of the func and you get a huge discount on the mobo, but it only works with XP200X and eats up the extra GHZ you paid intel for to replace the perfectly good, equally fast, totally "free as in liberty" and "illegal" computer you're using to read this.
Uggh. Progress?
As if the big ass kite tethered to your person is the most ideal way to spy. Oh yeah, I'll be doing that around the nearest military base. Whatever. I'd be better off going to the nearest hill with a telescope. (btw, I'm not a spy. so fuck off carnivore!)
Isn't it obvious that everything spirals in a funky multi-dimensional way. stars, galaxies, quarks. The all spiral out like a big fractal. from one angle it looks like a simple spin, from another like a spiral. And in space time like a straight line? not sure, but I know one thing, on the other side of the vortex is more of the same - same but different.
PAVE THE PLANET
Fucking bullshit. You call this progress?
Somedays I'm ashamed to be human.
I have DirecTV with Tivo Dual Tuner, and it's great. I can watch two channels at the same time, and thanks to the built in buffer I get to scroll back in time and see what I missed. Great for sports. The problem is that I have a nice TV with dual video inputs that wants to run PIP, but the Tivo doesn't have dual outputs. If tivo were to either add dual outputs or make their own pip control I'd be living large. There are only a few times where I want to watch more than 2 channels at one time. It would only happen the one week when all 4 sports are happening at the same time. ESPN ESPN2 CBS ABC ESPN NEWS FOX SPORTS TBS WGN that's 8, I could see up to 12 for extreme fans, or if you buy one of those full court passes or NFL or NBA or what have you packages then maybe you'd want more.
Free turkeys for the entire month of November and free ham the entire month of december.
And 20% off coupons every other day.
sounds like a great idea to me.
I'm in.
(510) THE-SCAM is my phone number too.
That's (510) 843-7226.
I realize that
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1) your neighbors won't be able to see the porn and
2) This is an entirely different technology than the previous window switching technology - electrochromic
Electrochromic windows went from clear to dark-tinted, like the new fancy rear view mirrors and welding caps. These new ones go from clear to white - which is much cooler, literally.
here's a quote from the pop-sci article linked below
"The first residential smart windows arrived this year, and they're not electrochromic. In ThermoView's Alter-Lite windows, two panes surround a film embedded with randomly arranged, light-absorbing particles that provide natural shade. When subjected to a voltage, they instantly align to let light pass. The SPD-Smart light control technology that makes the windows possible was developed by Research Frontiers Inc., which has licensed it to 18 other companies--including Mercedes-Benz for a sunroof and Inspectech Aero Service for private-jet windows. Cost: $100 extra per square foot. "
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/article/0,161
I can't wait to see the public indecency laws coming from this.
"I was watching pr0n in the privacy of my own home." - porn viewer
"My 13 yr old could see through your flimsy window shade" - mom
"You showed porn to your neighbors! How dare you violate the terms of service of your pay-per-view purchase" - cable company
"We understand this site has been a very valuable tool and are working together to find a solution to make sure that the tool is available to the public in some way." As in we'll maintain it, and we'll charge you to look at it. Perhaps I'm just used to interpreting these things from other evil things and having been burned in the past (CDDB?) we don't trust anyone again. Still, it sounds an awful lot like they are going to try to steal all the data as their own.