I think it is more a case of "the stupid are strong in their certainty, the intelligent are weak in their uncertainty". As for 'solid liberals' you don't know a damn thing about solid liberals but are certain in your stupidity.
Carrier sells phone to customer. Phone has s**twad of carrier apps that do 'update checking, etc...' to generate automatic traffic. Profit! Profit! Profit! As a quasi-ludite I have no cell phone, do you mean to tell me that automatic backround data transmissions and their potential impact on the bill are not stated up front in the contract?
What are you calling b.s. to? If at&t charged for 2,292 KB and according to you that can't be done even with all apps open, then att is an even bigger liar and thief.
Is knowledge a 'pet subject' to you, to be ignored at the discression of the parents? Perhaps it should be up to the parents whether or not their kids are taught to read, another obvious 'pet subject'. But most of all kids should have a permission slip from their parents if a teacher is expecting to teach kids how to 'think', the most subversive 'pet subject' of all time.
And I have never had a problem buying the things I need from other sources if one source makes it a stated policy to allow carrying guns into the store by the public.
Siding with the constitution? This is open to interpretation. For example, the 2nd amendment starts “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the defense of the country” which in fact is no longer true since we have a standing army. Since the premise is no longer true it is arguable that the conclusion derived from the premise is thus no longer valid.
In addition to this, since stores are allowed to refuse entry to people carring guns, it would appear that this is also constitutional, i.e., 'siding with the constitution'.
"The claim that Christians copied Christmas from a pagan holiday pops up a lot too, even though recent research suggests a strong possibility that it was the other way around."
The other way around? How could that be, seeing that Mithras worship/celebration was help on Dec. 25 long before christians moved his birthday there, as well as the Saturnalia being celebrated at the end of the year for centuries before Christ.
Shameful political opportunism? OMG! Are you sure? I thought we had banished that after Cheney called Democrats that didn't want to go to war against Iraq 'traitors'. We didn't?
closed and repressive societies will always have a significant advantage in many ways do to the nature of control by a dictator, but that is no reason to emulate them.
As for the social contract, can you get me a copy? The social contract is what people agree it is, and I seriously disagree with you.
On a side note, WTF is happening with this web site? It is practically unusable, I wait minutes for response and I have a t1 connection! It has taken me almost 10 minutes to post this response.
He says basically that this release is bad because it doesn't reveal wrong doing by the United States, and other things about the information released are damned embarassing! What he doesn't understand is, our right as citizens to know what our government is doing doesn't just extend to knowing about wrong doing, it basically EXTENDS TO EVERYTHING THEY DO, OTHERWISE HOW CAN WE DECIDE IF WE DON'T LIKE WHAT THEY ARE DOING???!!! (caps accidental but left for emphasis). I guess he doesn't understand that in a democracy the citizens are supposed to control the government, and how can they (we) do that if we don't know what they are doing? Err on the side of release.
I have to take exception to your twisted-knickers response. Secrecy is the poison of democracy, openness is it's salvation. I think the parent is perfectly correct: you spy on us, don't be surprise when we spy (read: learn what we are entitled to know in a democracy) on you.
" they oppose the FCC Chairman because they think he's trying to yank rushlimbaugh.com, glennbeck.com..."
Really, someone throws out an excuse and you suck it up like chocolate milk? They oppose the FCC because that is what defines the Republican Party: all opposition all the time, let there be no successes under Democrats. They are insane and it works because there are enough stupid people to believe their lies.
"The sooner we stop denying it and explicitly repudiate software patents as a matter of policy (as most every advanced nation already does), the sooner the damage to our economy stops."
It matters not how much damage is done to our economy: as long as 1 company can make a profit from it and afford to pay the appropriate politicians, it will remain just as it is.
"Democrats such as yourself screamed bloody murder about bailing out banks" Really? All I hear are the tea baggers, the lunatic arm of the Republican party, repeatedly denouncing the bank bailout and blaming the democrats.
"the increased taxes and regulations of the modern socialist nanny state crushes entrepreneurship and throws ever larger numbers of people out of work" And yet the Scandinavian do just that and maintain the highest level of happiness in the world. The god of Capitalism thinks nothing of you, stop worshiping it.
Works for me. We have been using Access as a front-end to postgreSQL for about 10 years, through ODBC, and except for one strange circumstance which we ended up programming around, the relationship has been excellent and productive. The DB has never failed, even in the face of the occasional flame-out by Access. Just be sure you keep the Access part well backed-up for when it burns down periodically.
You sure pull a lot of shit out of your ass for this post. For example, can you site evidence for this: "They're the same people who are upgrading their insulation, light bulbs, etc"
There is nothing more revolting than a person that mistakes their imagination for facts, then spreads it around. You sir are the asshole.
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I think it is more a case of "the stupid are strong in their certainty, the intelligent are weak in their uncertainty".
As for 'solid liberals' you don't know a damn thing about solid liberals but are certain in your stupidity.
"it's simply not the search engine's job to try to make us better rounded individuals"
No one is asking the search engine to "make us better rounded individuals" we're asking the search engine to stop making us "lopsided ignorant fools".
Still shaping...
This is not a real reply, I am just trying to shape the indents in the full reply set.
Carrier sells phone to customer.
Phone has s**twad of carrier apps that do 'update checking, etc...' to generate automatic traffic.
Profit! Profit! Profit!
As a quasi-ludite I have no cell phone, do you mean to tell me that automatic backround data transmissions and their potential impact on the bill are not stated up front in the contract?
What are you calling b.s. to? If at&t charged for 2,292 KB and according to you that can't be done even with all apps open, then att is an even bigger liar and thief.
Is knowledge a 'pet subject' to you, to be ignored at the discression of the parents? Perhaps it should be up to the parents whether or not their kids are taught to read, another obvious 'pet subject'. But most of all kids should have a permission slip from their parents if a teacher is expecting to teach kids how to 'think', the most subversive 'pet subject' of all time.
And I have never had a problem buying the things I need from other sources if one source makes it a stated policy to allow carrying guns into the store by the public.
Siding with the constitution? This is open to interpretation. For example, the 2nd amendment starts “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the defense of the country” which in fact is no longer true since we have a standing army. Since the premise is no longer true it is arguable that the conclusion derived from the premise is thus no longer valid.
In addition to this, since stores are allowed to refuse entry to people carring guns, it would appear that this is also constitutional, i.e., 'siding with the constitution'.
"The claim that Christians copied Christmas from a pagan holiday pops up a lot too, even though recent research suggests a strong possibility that it was the other way around."
The other way around? How could that be, seeing that Mithras worship/celebration was help on Dec. 25 long before christians moved his birthday there, as well as the Saturnalia being celebrated at the end of the year for centuries before Christ.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
Or, as my mother puts it, "Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most".
I quit buying their coffee when they decided that people wearing guns could come into their stores and gave a b.s. answer when asked why.
Shameful political opportunism? OMG! Are you sure? I thought we had banished that after Cheney called Democrats that didn't want to go to war against Iraq 'traitors'. We didn't?
closed and repressive societies will always have a significant advantage in many ways do to the nature of control by a dictator, but that is no reason to emulate them.
As for the social contract, can you get me a copy? The social contract is what people agree it is, and I seriously disagree with you.
On a side note, WTF is happening with this web site? It is practically unusable, I wait minutes for response and I have a t1 connection! It has taken me almost 10 minutes to post this response.
He says basically that this release is bad because it doesn't reveal wrong doing by the United States, and other things about the information released are damned embarassing! What he doesn't understand is, our right as citizens to know what our government is doing doesn't just extend to knowing about wrong doing, it basically EXTENDS TO EVERYTHING THEY DO, OTHERWISE HOW CAN WE DECIDE IF WE DON'T LIKE WHAT THEY ARE DOING???!!! (caps accidental but left for emphasis). I guess he doesn't understand that in a democracy the citizens are supposed to control the government, and how can they (we) do that if we don't know what they are doing? Err on the side of release.
I have to take exception to your twisted-knickers response. Secrecy is the poison of democracy, openness is it's salvation. I think the parent is perfectly correct: you spy on us, don't be surprise when we spy (read: learn what we are entitled to know in a democracy) on you.
Do you always accept the products of your imagination as fact?
" they oppose the FCC Chairman because they think he's trying to yank rushlimbaugh.com, glennbeck.com..."
Really, someone throws out an excuse and you suck it up like chocolate milk?
They oppose the FCC because that is what defines the Republican Party: all opposition all the time, let there be no successes under Democrats. They are insane and it works because there are enough stupid people to believe their lies.
How is mental illness working for you? From here it doesn't look good.
"The sooner we stop denying it and explicitly repudiate software patents as a matter of policy (as most every advanced nation already does), the sooner the damage to our economy stops."
It matters not how much damage is done to our economy: as long as 1 company can make a profit from it and afford to pay the appropriate politicians, it will remain just as it is.
"Democrats such as yourself screamed bloody murder about bailing out banks"
Really? All I hear are the tea baggers, the lunatic arm of the Republican party, repeatedly denouncing the bank bailout and blaming the democrats.
"the increased taxes and regulations of the modern socialist nanny state crushes entrepreneurship and throws ever larger numbers of people out of work"
And yet the Scandinavian do just that and maintain the highest level of happiness in the world. The god of Capitalism thinks nothing of you, stop worshiping it.
Works for me. We have been using Access as a front-end to postgreSQL for about 10 years, through ODBC, and except for one strange circumstance which we ended up programming around, the relationship has been excellent and productive. The DB has never failed, even in the face of the occasional flame-out by Access. Just be sure you keep the Access part well backed-up for when it burns down periodically.
Sniff. How sad. I cry you a river. Life is just so unfair, and this is one of the true biggies.
You sure pull a lot of shit out of your ass for this post.
For example, can you site evidence for this:
"They're the same people who are upgrading their insulation, light bulbs, etc"
There is nothing more revolting than a person that mistakes their imagination for facts, then spreads it around. You sir are the asshole.