Frankly it is good that the people have no clue as to how deeply they are raped. If they had a clue it would be like the French Revolution with gutters filled with blood at every intersection.
God love'em, the youth of today they think it's so bad. Pray tell how are people raped these days?
The murder rate is the lowest it's ever been.
The local constable (Police/Sheriff) cannot have you jail or executed on his own whim or that of the mob, and the burden of proof to put you in jail is actually a fairly steep barrier for the police to overcome.
Basic education is free, many for forms of higher education are nearly so.
There are many forms of free health care.
The poor pay absolutley no taxes. (When you get more back than you put in, that's the same as no taxes. In the US they pay out $50k for services, in addition to cash for every poor person in the country.
The military can no longer pull you off the street and make a conscript out of you. They no longer put you in prison for being gay, and the being punished for speaking out about problems has become much more rare. (Sure they might kick you out, but they used to put you in assignments that would get you killed.)
The level of freedom of movement, reguardless of the extra airport security, has never been freer
Nearly all forms of plagues that used to regularly wholesale wipe out large portions of the population have been delt with.
So again how are they being raped?
And for fuck sake, if you are going to quote historical event's such as the French revolution have at least a minimum understanding of what they're about. I'd hardly call the conditions in Europe or the US even remotely similar to what was going on in France when they started lining up the nobles for the chopping block.
I'm no lawyer, but I read that as, "We're the government, we can't be sued except when we want to be sued and even then we'll define the conditions of the jurisdiction in which our lawsuit will take place as it suits us," (so to speak).
Not exactly a government by the people for the people.
Actually that's exactly what it is. People are bad enough these days with civil lawsuits (which by the way have their own conditions and limitations, imagine if they could sue over any little thing and the government had to let them do it.
I don't like roads, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of them.
I don't like the police, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of them
I don't like public schools, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of them.
I think black people should be slaves, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of the 13th Amendment.
The government is elected by the people, and for the most part works for the people. What you are hinting at would be legal anarchy at best, a tyranny of the wealthy at it's worst who could employ vast pools of lawyers to strip away every right and freedom you currently enjoy.
Most states already have laws that make it a misdemeanor fine for having an obscured plate.
Mud, having it in your window where it was difficult to read, etc will get you a fine if the cop is bored enough to pull you over in Missouri.
There are tons of little fines they can pull you over for, but generally those are the excuse in order to check your identity and see if you are wanted or to take a peek in your car for contraband.
Most criminals are caught do to vehicle and traffic violations, unlike in the movies, where everything is dramatic gun battles and last minute saves.
Ahh, but there is the magic of insurance, unless you are stupid and didn't read your policy, if the other driver's insurance refuses to pay, yours typically is required to. Then it becomes a battle for the lawyers and no longer has anything to do with you.
I've been in enough accidents over the years to see this play out, as long as you are not using some company that advertises aggressively towards people with a "less than perfect" driving record, generally the insurance company will not go out of its way to fuck you over.
Hell I'm a republican, and I'd pony up $100 to see that as well, but it'd probably never happen, politicians are a bunch of phonies for the most part, and I'd doubt that many have the spine to do so.
It could be just like bumb fighting, but with people who don't smell of piss and cheap wine.
Social security, medicare, welware, farm subsidies (to keep food prices down), not to mention the latest (I'm stupid for getting a house I can't afford) buyouts, FEMA funding(Handouts of idiots who live in flood zones and are acually surprised when it floods badly every ten years, won't evacuate when their told to, and then have the nerve to whine that they are not getting enough money to repeat the whole process in the same fucking spot.), and I could go on and on and on. Let's not forget that a large chunk of State spending is on welfare programs.
And you would be mistaken in doing so. Call anything you like welfare, but that doesn't make it so.
When I pay in alot in every month and can plan on getting very little out at the other end, because they are giving it all away to someone else, I'd call that welfare.
Spinning doesn't work. (Watch the video) They are so effective at heating up the target, the metal starts to burn off, even when the missile is spinning. It doesn't have enough time to cool off before it comes back around to be heated again. People really underestimate exactly how much power these things are putting on target. The test demos of one, shooting at ground targets was causing the air inside a six foot wide steal pipe target to heat up so fast that the air presure inside causing the targets to pop like baloons.
Also aluminium and steel only have to be heated up a little, no where near melting point before they loose alot of their strength. The targets tend to warp and then come appart at flight speeds.
Things internally like fuel, electronics, and external sensors tend too loose the fight long before the outer skin comes appart.
Probably nothing because I've already sold it/given it away to a friend. My 4 year old Home theater PC, which does have Vista on it atm, will be going to a buddy (He's the Linux enthusiast in our little group.) next year to be used for parts for a machine for his dad.
I got tired of trying to find parts and there are also relability issues once they get past the 5 year mark, so better to upgrade once in a while and just move on, though it does seem my upgrades are starting to stretch out longer and longer appart as thing are just not moving as fast as they used to.
Yeah, I don't much care fore the sound set up either, but to be fair it was complete crap on XP as well.
Frankly they need to scrap that and rework it from scratch to take into account the simple fact that most people now have anywhere from 2-5 audio devices hooked to their computer and a dozen different programs that all need their levels not to be messed with by each other.
Define decent machine, and no it does not require a dedicated video card.
I've got an AMD X2 3800 machine, from like 4 years ago, sitting in the corner running it just fine.
You can find hardware that old at "here I don't want it anymore prices". So unless you are homeless or a dirty hippy, exactly how hard is it to upgrade?
Yawn.... the first 100 posts of "Why I hate Vista and MS is the devil, any other OS is better post" will prove their point.
75% of the whiners haven't ever installed it, and the other 25% tried to put it on a 6 year old budget "Dude I got Dell" computer the first month after it went public.
I don't even think there is even a dead horse anymore to beat. You guys are just masterbating now.
Considering they are using materials you can goto the store and buy and build your own projects in your garage, I'm not exactly sure what you dissapointed about.
That and one of the engineers who worked on the engine design, built a little one and put it on his bycicle, which now can hit 60mph in under 8 seconds.
If that isn't a giant leap forward for mankind, I don't know what is.
Google just love's info, everyone's info. Well that little gold mine of user's info, they planned on keeping for themselves is is rapidly turning into the biggest lawsuit/criminal evidence subpoena on the planet. So much for profiting from it.
All that money you were making from it, have fun paying it all and then some to the hundreds of lawyers you are going to have to put on the payroll to defend it.
Here's a little secret for you guys, you can't turn over what you don't have. Stop tracking every thing we do and it'll be amazing how many lawsuits will stall before they even get started.
I'm against genetic manupulation or screening of fetuses, but what I am for is a more natural solution to the problem.
Reintroduce the larger land preditors in all countries and ban all automobiles, with an emphasis around schools, especially colleges. That would take care of two problems at once. Too many stupid people and global warming.
So let me get this straight: Individual citizens armed with handguns and rifles and shotguns are going to go up against government forces, who have artillery, cruise missiles, and attack helicopters?
So unless 2nd amendment advocates are going to actually advocate private ownership of stinger missiles and anti-tank weapons and what-not, it makes no sense at all.
You watch too many movies. Who exactly do you think makes up the military in the US? Other than shooting protesting hippies, which deserve to be shot just on principle, your typical soldier's loyalty is with the people.
Even so that doesn't invalidate the need for the 2nd Amendment. There are plenty of other people that the feds that need to be kept at bay from ones, person & property.
Amway/Kirby Vaccuum salesmen, Jehova witnesses, the neighbors dog that keeps shitting on the front lawn, gang members (aka poor people), rioters/looters (aka poor people), criminals (aka poor people), and that crazy X that keeps trying to light your house of fire.
Hardly flamebait. Everyone was dumping on them pretty bad.
"WHAT I have to buy a second card, it's not free/can't run off the bios chip in the MB, WTF!!??"
The funny thing that now that the PhysX cards are Rago (It's in there) you still are going to have to buy a second video card to keep your frame rate up and increase the number of physX objects. Of course with this arrangement your GPU is less speciallized thant he PhysX hardware and can be used for all the CUDA applications.
I'm going to end up laughing if the physX ends up running better on the dedicated cards which by the way are below $100 now, verses a new $300-500 CUDA enabled video card. Typically dedicated hardware is faster than anything else.
Reguardless this will finally put to bed the whole "chicken or the egg" argument for widespread physics support in games. At least for those that don't have Intel graphics.
Even the top people on the losing side of World War 2 got trials and lawyers. You are saying that the people in Guantanamo Bay have carried out significantly worse acts than the people who stood in the Nuremburg trials?
The Nuremburg trials was more about what order should they be hung in, rather than whether or not the accused were guilty.
Your taxes are artificially low. Personally, I consider that contempt.
No our spending is artificially high, they need to lay off the handout entitlements and push people towards taking care of themselves, or move to Europe if they want the government to provide everything for them.
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God love'em, the youth of today they think it's so bad. Pray tell how are people raped these days?
The murder rate is the lowest it's ever been.
The local constable (Police/Sheriff) cannot have you jail or executed on his own whim or that of the mob, and the burden of proof to put you in jail is actually a fairly steep barrier for the police to overcome.
Basic education is free, many for forms of higher education are nearly so.
There are many forms of free health care.
The poor pay absolutley no taxes. (When you get more back than you put in, that's the same as no taxes. In the US they pay out $50k for services, in addition to cash for every poor person in the country.
The military can no longer pull you off the street and make a conscript out of you. They no longer put you in prison for being gay, and the being punished for speaking out about problems has become much more rare. (Sure they might kick you out, but they used to put you in assignments that would get you killed.)
The level of freedom of movement, reguardless of the extra airport security, has never been freer
Nearly all forms of plagues that used to regularly wholesale wipe out large portions of the population have been delt with.
So again how are they being raped?
And for fuck sake, if you are going to quote historical event's such as the French revolution have at least a minimum understanding of what they're about. I'd hardly call the conditions in Europe or the US even remotely similar to what was going on in France when they started lining up the nobles for the chopping block.
Not exactly a government by the people for the people.
Actually that's exactly what it is. People are bad enough these days with civil lawsuits (which by the way have their own conditions and limitations, imagine if they could sue over any little thing and the government had to let them do it.
I don't like roads, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of them.
I don't like the police, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of them
I don't like public schools, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of them.
I think black people should be slaves, I'm going to sue the government to get rid of the 13th Amendment.
The government is elected by the people, and for the most part works for the people. What you are hinting at would be legal anarchy at best, a tyranny of the wealthy at it's worst who could employ vast pools of lawyers to strip away every right and freedom you currently enjoy.
"Two men enter, one man leaves!"
"Next up voting on drilling for oil, gentlemen choose your weapons."
"The GOP senator chooses the Chain saw and the Democrate chooses the spiked mase."
Mud, having it in your window where it was difficult to read, etc will get you a fine if the cop is bored enough to pull you over in Missouri.
There are tons of little fines they can pull you over for, but generally those are the excuse in order to check your identity and see if you are wanted or to take a peek in your car for contraband.
Most criminals are caught do to vehicle and traffic violations, unlike in the movies, where everything is dramatic gun battles and last minute saves.
I've been in enough accidents over the years to see this play out, as long as you are not using some company that advertises aggressively towards people with a "less than perfect" driving record, generally the insurance company will not go out of its way to fuck you over.
It could be just like bumb fighting, but with people who don't smell of piss and cheap wine.
Check your numbers and then try it again.
And you would be mistaken in doing so. Call anything you like welfare, but that doesn't make it so. When I pay in alot in every month and can plan on getting very little out at the other end, because they are giving it all away to someone else, I'd call that welfare.
It's a very green environmentally too!
I know we can call the food...Soylent Green!
Also aluminium and steel only have to be heated up a little, no where near melting point before they loose alot of their strength. The targets tend to warp and then come appart at flight speeds.
Things internally like fuel, electronics, and external sensors tend too loose the fight long before the outer skin comes appart.
How about cutting wellfare in half and have ten times the money. Exactly how many poor people do we really need anyway?
I got tired of trying to find parts and there are also relability issues once they get past the 5 year mark, so better to upgrade once in a while and just move on, though it does seem my upgrades are starting to stretch out longer and longer appart as thing are just not moving as fast as they used to.
Frankly they need to scrap that and rework it from scratch to take into account the simple fact that most people now have anywhere from 2-5 audio devices hooked to their computer and a dozen different programs that all need their levels not to be messed with by each other.
It can be infuriating at times.
I've got an AMD X2 3800 machine, from like 4 years ago, sitting in the corner running it just fine.
You can find hardware that old at "here I don't want it anymore prices". So unless you are homeless or a dirty hippy, exactly how hard is it to upgrade?
(with each driver being run having been fully audited by microsoft, and everything tested beforehand to make sure it works)
So kind of like an Apple? Do something that everyone raves about, but get put down for it. Sounds fair to me.
75% of the whiners haven't ever installed it, and the other 25% tried to put it on a 6 year old budget "Dude I got Dell" computer the first month after it went public.
I don't even think there is even a dead horse anymore to beat. You guys are just masterbating now.
That and one of the engineers who worked on the engine design, built a little one and put it on his bycicle, which now can hit 60mph in under 8 seconds.
If that isn't a giant leap forward for mankind, I don't know what is.
All that money you were making from it, have fun paying it all and then some to the hundreds of lawyers you are going to have to put on the payroll to defend it.
Here's a little secret for you guys, you can't turn over what you don't have. Stop tracking every thing we do and it'll be amazing how many lawsuits will stall before they even get started.
I've had one or two prof's like that. The latest ones though just send me PDF files from hell now. No trees were killed......and all that.
Reintroduce the larger land preditors in all countries and ban all automobiles, with an emphasis around schools, especially colleges. That would take care of two problems at once. Too many stupid people and global warming.
You watch too many movies. Who exactly do you think makes up the military in the US? Other than shooting protesting hippies, which deserve to be shot just on principle, your typical soldier's loyalty is with the people.
Even so that doesn't invalidate the need for the 2nd Amendment. There are plenty of other people that the feds that need to be kept at bay from ones, person & property.
Amway/Kirby Vaccuum salesmen, Jehova witnesses, the neighbors dog that keeps shitting on the front lawn, gang members (aka poor people), rioters/looters (aka poor people), criminals (aka poor people), and that crazy X that keeps trying to light your house of fire.
"WHAT I have to buy a second card, it's not free/can't run off the bios chip in the MB, WTF!!??"
The funny thing that now that the PhysX cards are Rago (It's in there) you still are going to have to buy a second video card to keep your frame rate up and increase the number of physX objects. Of course with this arrangement your GPU is less speciallized thant he PhysX hardware and can be used for all the CUDA applications.
I'm going to end up laughing if the physX ends up running better on the dedicated cards which by the way are below $100 now, verses a new $300-500 CUDA enabled video card. Typically dedicated hardware is faster than anything else.
Reguardless this will finally put to bed the whole "chicken or the egg" argument for widespread physics support in games. At least for those that don't have Intel graphics.
The Nuremburg trials was more about what order should they be hung in, rather than whether or not the accused were guilty.
No our spending is artificially high, they need to lay off the handout entitlements and push people towards taking care of themselves, or move to Europe if they want the government to provide everything for them.
Based on that alone you'd thunk that the Germans had successfully invaded. The roads though are dead give away that they weren't.