I agree, I was going to say the same thing. It was written by a 16 year old, had to of been...
Which is apparently the average mental age of most elligible voters in the US.
Have you listened to actual 'man on the street' interviews lately? Geez...especially the young, 18yr old girls they often find...seriously scary that they can legally pull a voting lever....
Already demonstrated in Canada - the Robocall scandal. Basically the Conservative government *allegedly* (because there's no direct proof) called up a bunch of Liberal party supporters and told them their polling station had moved. Of course, people who knew better voted at their proper polling stations, but crowds gathered at the fake locations do attest to the effectiveness at voter disenfranchisement.
And, just so this type thing doesn't happen again, let's print it here for clarification:
This election year, in order to make sure no large lines disenfranchise anyone, the Republicans vote on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
The Democrats (since they are incumbents for the Presidency) will vote the next day Wednesday, November 7, 2012.
Please...advise everyone you know, so that this year, there is no confusion,and everyone's vote gets counted correctly.
That's "nice"....but that modified electric '72 datsun....is basically loaded with batteries and likely about drained after that one drag race.
A fun, powerful, big block gasoline car, is something that is practical for me...I could use it for my daily driver (short drive to work)....etc.
If you can get the electrics to be practical as my main car (I like to drive my sports cars all the time, that's what I bought them for...no garage queens), then I'll take it.
Actually, the larger SAE plug will NOT fit in some cars with the conventional J1772 connector due to a lack of clearance around the socket. So, it is not correct to say that it is entirely backward compatible...
I'm sure someone will come up with and sell and adapter as needed.
We have them for cell phones as they change....why not for charging cars too?
Nope, but I am old enough to remember when gas was only a few cents per gallon, and we had big engine cars that looked good, sounded good and were a blast to drive!!! When it was more fun to save your money for replacing the tires you smoked...rather than for gas to run the car.
You're only as old as you feel....and frankly, I don't think I'll ever grow out of having fun...and driving a powerful sports car or muscle car is one of life's great pleasures.
Life's too short to worry about little shit all the time....enjoy your few years you have on earth, do what makes you happy.
Yeah...but hydrocarbon fuel...allows for very fun vehicles!!!
Man, if they could make gas this way...abundant and cheap, we could get away from all the stupid gas regulations on cars, and get back to building cars with BIG engines that are fun to drive around again!!!
Doctors that go through years and years of school and training...coming out with huge student loans...don't have the same right as a plumber to try to make as good a life as they can from their skills?
People that make medical instruments....shouldn't be able to make a profit?
Where's the incentive for anyone to go into medicine if they can't make a profit and make a good life from the work they've dedicated their lives too?
You expect the best and brightest to work and sacrifice a great deal of their life times....for purely altruistic means?
At this point you are too late in the game. You will be spending more on the electric bill that you get out of bitcoins.
Like I mentioned above...I have a ton of computers in my house running 24/7 anyway...so, might as well have them running this during off cycles...I never turn anything off, so might as well put them to some use, eh?
Using a CPU stopped being profitable long ago, unless your power is free, but even then unless you have a company worth of computers, you're not going to get much out of it. A good GPU, like something recent from ATI, is slightly profitable, depending on your electrical rates. FPGA based mining equipment is far more power efficient and should remain profitable for quite some time, but isn't cheap.
Well, my thoughts were:
1. It might be fun and educational for a project
2. I have a ton of computers running 24/7 at my house anyway (I never turn them off), so I might as well put those empty cycles to use.
3. It isn't like I watch my electric bill anyway....it is levelized billing....and besides, any computer use of electricity is so dwarfed by the requirements of the AC through most of the year (only now is it starting to turn off from time to time where I live) that any impact of Bitcoin mining won't be even a blip on my financial radar.
Oh, please. The United States has always leaned right. Fox is a little right of center in the U.S., which is about 45 degrees of center for the rest of the world. MSNBC is closer to the center of the rest of the world. The Workers World Party, or the Socialist Workers Party is "very left", not MSNBC. Do you even know what "left-wing" means? Try this: Left-Right Politics [wikipedia.org].
Err....not sure why you're trying to compare how the US is to the rest of the world....we ARE talking about the US on a US centric site after all.
:)
What the rest of the world thinks or how it leans, isn't relevant to the conversation going on here...
The way its going....single payer is going to be all that's left...if we can't somehow turn this thing around and vote O out of office...and repeal the worst parts of his Obamacare law....
Should Twitter also censor disparaging comments about Mohammed in Muslim countries?
If it's specifically illegal there, then unfortunately yes.
If you can't abide by the laws in a certain country, you shouldn't go there, and this applies to companies as well as individuals on holiday. It is up to the people in that country to choose their own laws.
But, if they don't have physical offices or whatever there...then, no....they shouldn't be subject to the local laws.
Access isn't the same as physical presence....and with the internet, you don't need physical presence any longer...eh?
Does anyone know of a good site with a primer on how to put together a good hardware set up (or at least a reasonable one) for mining bitcoins...and hooking into the system?
I've looked at the little info on the bitcoin and associated sites, but nothing really coherent to read on how to get started from beginning to end.
I read this as well as neowin because I figured the truth is somewhere in between.
Kinda like how I like to switch between MSNBC and Fox News....try to balance things out.
However, of late...MSNBC seems to be going really far off to the very left edge...so, sometimes I have to mix them with a little CNN and regular NBC...to keep more of a balance.
Fox is pretty far right at times...but man, MSNBC...gets very close to the deep end much more so on their side from my observations past months...
But, it is always good to listen and read as many views on any subject you are interested in....you never learn anything new, if you just listen to someone that parrots your current views on said subject...
don't know about you, but for me, that's a total and complete show-stopper. keep your religion to yourself. do what you want with your family and church, but it HAS to stay out of public laws.
I don't care for the abortion stance, etc, either....however, I don't really see that kind of social change that they could make really if Mitt is president.
I do however, fear for our economy and our foreign policies, etc....if Obama is re-elected, especially if he's no longer burdened with needing to get re-elected....
I truly see Obama re-elected as a threat to the US, with Romney...I think his fiscal ideas might help, or at least won't be as hurtful as O's....and I'm not fearful of his social/religious agenda....he's saying what he needs to for the far right to vote for him, but I don't think he really pushes that, nor would that make it through a mixed congress.
With those fears and thoughts...I have to think of Mitt as the lessor of two evils in this election year.
Uh, not their mission or charter? Care to tell me exactly what the fuck their mission and charter is, if it's somehow not trying to keep citizens safe from products produced by companies with crystal-clear motives (greed, profit), driven by executives with less-than-average morals?
The FDA is largely toothless....
I mean, recently, the FDA was ruled to NOT have the authority to shut down food processing plants that have multiple health/cleanliness/etc infractions.....
You'd kinda think that was a given, wouldn't you?
Nope...big business have their people (both parties) in the positions that run oversight organizations like the FDA...and they pull all the teeth from those organizations, they're just there symbolically these days....
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Which is apparently the average mental age of most elligible voters in the US.
Have you listened to actual 'man on the street' interviews lately? Geez...especially the young, 18yr old girls they often find...seriously scary that they can legally pull a voting lever....
And, just so this type thing doesn't happen again, let's print it here for clarification:
This election year, in order to make sure no large lines disenfranchise anyone, the Republicans vote on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
The Democrats (since they are incumbents for the Presidency) will vote the next day Wednesday, November 7, 2012.
Please...advise everyone you know, so that this year, there is no confusion,and everyone's vote gets counted correctly.
Would actually work on anyone?
A fun, powerful, big block gasoline car, is something that is practical for me...I could use it for my daily driver (short drive to work)....etc.
If you can get the electrics to be practical as my main car (I like to drive my sports cars all the time, that's what I bought them for...no garage queens), then I'll take it.
Until then..gimme cheap gas.
And what about all the drive through daiquiri shops down here that would go out of business if everyone thought as you do....?
BINGO!
I'm sure someone will come up with and sell and adapter as needed.
We have them for cell phones as they change....why not for charging cars too?
Wait...maybe I should patent that.....
Nope, but I am old enough to remember when gas was only a few cents per gallon, and we had big engine cars that looked good, sounded good and were a blast to drive!!! When it was more fun to save your money for replacing the tires you smoked...rather than for gas to run the car.
You're only as old as you feel....and frankly, I don't think I'll ever grow out of having fun...and driving a powerful sports car or muscle car is one of life's great pleasures.
Life's too short to worry about little shit all the time....enjoy your few years you have on earth, do what makes you happy.
I do...
Nope...I'd rather fill my car up with good old gasoline....and hot rod around town in it!!
Man, if they could make gas this way...abundant and cheap, we could get away from all the stupid gas regulations on cars, and get back to building cars with BIG engines that are fun to drive around again!!!
Bring back the muscle car!!
Really?
Doctors that go through years and years of school and training...coming out with huge student loans...don't have the same right as a plumber to try to make as good a life as they can from their skills?
People that make medical instruments....shouldn't be able to make a profit?
Where's the incentive for anyone to go into medicine if they can't make a profit and make a good life from the work they've dedicated their lives too?
You expect the best and brightest to work and sacrifice a great deal of their life times....for purely altruistic means?
Like I mentioned above...I have a ton of computers in my house running 24/7 anyway...so, might as well have them running this during off cycles...I never turn anything off, so might as well put them to some use, eh?
Well, my thoughts were:
1. It might be fun and educational for a project
2. I have a ton of computers running 24/7 at my house anyway (I never turn them off), so I might as well put those empty cycles to use.
3. It isn't like I watch my electric bill anyway....it is levelized billing....and besides, any computer use of electricity is so dwarfed by the requirements of the AC through most of the year (only now is it starting to turn off from time to time where I live) that any impact of Bitcoin mining won't be even a blip on my financial radar.
Err....not sure why you're trying to compare how the US is to the rest of the world....we ARE talking about the US on a US centric site after all.
What the rest of the world thinks or how it leans, isn't relevant to the conversation going on here...
The way its going....single payer is going to be all that's left...if we can't somehow turn this thing around and vote O out of office...and repeal the worst parts of his Obamacare law....
What's wrong with that....?
And aside from some states...you can still smoke in bars as far as I know...at least we still have that freedom of choice here where I live....
But, if they don't have physical offices or whatever there...then, no....they shouldn't be subject to the local laws.
Access isn't the same as physical presence....and with the internet, you don't need physical presence any longer...eh?
I've looked at the little info on the bitcoin and associated sites, but nothing really coherent to read on how to get started from beginning to end.
Anyone know of such a tutorial/site? Links?
Kinda like how I like to switch between MSNBC and Fox News....try to balance things out.
However, of late...MSNBC seems to be going really far off to the very left edge...so, sometimes I have to mix them with a little CNN and regular NBC...to keep more of a balance.
Fox is pretty far right at times...but man, MSNBC...gets very close to the deep end much more so on their side from my observations past months...
But, it is always good to listen and read as many views on any subject you are interested in....you never learn anything new, if you just listen to someone that parrots your current views on said subject...
So...Germany is another country without free speech guarantee laws?
Is Twitter based in Germany, or a German company?
If not...why the fuck would they have to abide by any laws in Germany?
I hope that day comes LONG after I'm dead and buried....
Driving a high powered sports car is one of life's fine pleasures!!!
Seriously? What about:
1. Obamacare (the road to socialized medicine)
2. End of Don't Ask Don't Tell in the military?
3. Cutting oil production (I am directly impacted on this one living in the Gulf area).
4. Expansion (massive) of Federal Entitlement Programs
I don't care for the abortion stance, etc, either....however, I don't really see that kind of social change that they could make really if Mitt is president.
I do however, fear for our economy and our foreign policies, etc....if Obama is re-elected, especially if he's no longer burdened with needing to get re-elected....
I truly see Obama re-elected as a threat to the US, with Romney...I think his fiscal ideas might help, or at least won't be as hurtful as O's....and I'm not fearful of his social/religious agenda....he's saying what he needs to for the far right to vote for him, but I don't think he really pushes that, nor would that make it through a mixed congress.
With those fears and thoughts...I have to think of Mitt as the lessor of two evils in this election year.
The FDA is largely toothless....
I mean, recently, the FDA was ruled to NOT have the authority to shut down food processing plants that have multiple health/cleanliness/etc infractions.....
You'd kinda think that was a given, wouldn't you?
Nope...big business have their people (both parties) in the positions that run oversight organizations like the FDA...and they pull all the teeth from those organizations, they're just there symbolically these days....