It's not persecution if you willingly submit yourself to stringent rules. The Pilgrims did not seek to oppress anyone; in fact, they even wrote up a bare-bones "constitution" (the Mayflower Compact) before landing. No one was forced to join their colony, and they did not conquer other colonies. Complaining about the Pilgrims is like complaining how the nutjobs who cut off their testicles and killed themselves waiting for the mothership infringed on your rights. It also wasn't the first colony in North America; you could just as well use the Jamestown settlement as the basis for your prejudiced view of American history.
Does anyone else think that "999" is too easy to hit accidentally? I wonder how many of these false calls were just little kids punching the numbers to play "music" or someone using the Dilbert random number generator. I think the USA's 911 is a better compromise.
GEM? I think you'd have a lot better chance of having a full operating system like OS/2 on the desktop than GEM running on DOS or some kind of 64-bit CPM.
Your entire post isn't very funny because it misses the whole irony of an atheist invoking the name of a nonexistent being. A joke about how "Oh my Dawkins!" or "Charles R. Darwin!" would be the most appropriate for an atheist would be much more entertaining.
First of all, I don't see a problem with an online school implementing this on their own, exclusively for exams, as long as the device can be disconnected and software removed afterwards. Don't like that? Try another school. Capitalism wins.
The real issue, I believe, is that the government seems to think it has the right to require that these devices be used. This will keep the price of these devices high and the slope nice and slippery.
So where will the line be drawn? Is the robot a humanoid once the order is placed, or once it comes off the assembly line? Or when the warranty runs out?
Stealing from a bank with a gun isn't nearly as violent as stealing from the same bank with dubious business practices.
I agree with everything else you said, but let's not introduce new vagaries into English; stealing through corrupt business practices is evil, not violent. People have set up their own personal moral systems such that they are reluctant to call evil what it is.
Whoever had the bright idea of privatizing a utility should be shot.
That would be the evil capitalists who developed the utilities. If it were up to government, we'd have one power "company" for the entire US. Instead of delivering power to remote areas the government would cut them vouchers for batteries, and people making over $50,000/year would pay a dollar per KWh while everyone making under $25,000 would get it for free.
No, really: what the heck are you talking about? Are you in the first grade? Do you know what a monarch is? Has the president declared himself a lifetime ruler, appointed by God?
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Don't waste your breath with the Europeans. They've spent generations propping up the "all American beer is piss" meme and refuse to reevaluate it.
On a side note, all Germans are goose-stepping fascists, all Brits have nasty teeth, and the French are surrender monkeys.
It's not persecution if you willingly submit yourself to stringent rules. The Pilgrims did not seek to oppress anyone; in fact, they even wrote up a bare-bones "constitution" (the Mayflower Compact) before landing. No one was forced to join their colony, and they did not conquer other colonies. Complaining about the Pilgrims is like complaining how the nutjobs who cut off their testicles and killed themselves waiting for the mothership infringed on your rights. It also wasn't the first colony in North America; you could just as well use the Jamestown settlement as the basis for your prejudiced view of American history.
I made one small error (90 for 100) and was modded down. Then someone responded with far more incorrect info and was modded up. See you in metamod!
"Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about sex on Usenet."
No need to read any further...
I'm sorry, I couldn't make out what you said because my RealPlayer was buffering.
It was the original Pentium from 60 to 90 MHz that had the floating-point bug. Don't feel bad: apparent at least two mods didn't know that either.
Does anyone else think that "999" is too easy to hit accidentally? I wonder how many of these false calls were just little kids punching the numbers to play "music" or someone using the Dilbert random number generator. I think the USA's 911 is a better compromise.
I'd humbly suggest that removing the phone from the house of an elderly, helpless, senile person is probably not a complete solution.
GEM? I think you'd have a lot better chance of having a full operating system like OS/2 on the desktop than GEM running on DOS or some kind of 64-bit CPM.
Oh, I see, well, that explains it.
It certainly would have helped if the author didn't use run-on sentences and misplaced apostrophes-- especially when writing to the FTC.
Pittsburg (no "H") is in California.
Your entire post isn't very funny because it misses the whole irony of an atheist invoking the name of a nonexistent being. A joke about how "Oh my Dawkins!" or "Charles R. Darwin!" would be the most appropriate for an atheist would be much more entertaining.
Ok. But what about the plastic cock?
First of all, I don't see a problem with an online school implementing this on their own, exclusively for exams, as long as the device can be disconnected and software removed afterwards. Don't like that? Try another school. Capitalism wins.
The real issue, I believe, is that the government seems to think it has the right to require that these devices be used. This will keep the price of these devices high and the slope nice and slippery.
... which is what VMS has done since 1977, but apparently everyone else is stuck with security models from 1976.
Let me get this straight: you were given personal security questions: and you don't know the answers? But a thief would? All righty!
So where will the line be drawn? Is the robot a humanoid once the order is placed, or once it comes off the assembly line? Or when the warranty runs out?
I agree with everything else you said, but let's not introduce new vagaries into English; stealing through corrupt business practices is evil, not violent. People have set up their own personal moral systems such that they are reluctant to call evil what it is.
To paraphrase George Washington, (like fire) a small government is merely a dangerous servant, while a large government is a fearful master.
That would be the evil capitalists who developed the utilities. If it were up to government, we'd have one power "company" for the entire US. Instead of delivering power to remote areas the government would cut them vouchers for batteries, and people making over $50,000/year would pay a dollar per KWh while everyone making under $25,000 would get it for free.
No for me, either. I'm not into bent Wookies.
Absolutely. You know, I've always thought of becoming a postmodern writer myself. The one thing that I have discovered, is that
He could, if it weren't for the vicious homocidal storms
When you're sodomized by a hurricane, you really feel it!
What are you talking about?
No, really: what the heck are you talking about? Are you in the first grade? Do you know what a monarch is? Has the president declared himself a lifetime ruler, appointed by God?