You speak as if you hate the "right", whatever that means.
Yeah, I'm a republican. I've got a disdain for democrats, alongside republicans. The republican party left my viewpoint long ago.
Where is the fiscally responsible party?
Ever since the 30's by deep spending around the Depression have we had a national debt to other sovereign nations. It is my understanding that peoples who have debt are never free. That applies to people as much as it applies to nations. We're trillions of dollars in debt, and going deeper each day. Our only way to "get rid" of the debt is to sell the one natural resource we have control over: our land. Mitch Daniels of Indiana did that to our road to Chicago.. some Australian and Spanish firm got it.
Where is the party that wants to reduce power to the federal government?
The only 2 parties that are of any power are Democrats and Republicans. Both are power mongers and will stop at nothing for more power. I believe that our second amendment is our kill switch for that abuse, but it takes a rather heavy handed majority for it to work. There are a few nutter parties, but they are inconsequential.
Where is the party that wants to break apart useless departments?
I couldnt vote in the 1988 elections, but did watch Bush I get in the White House on a fiscally responsible platform, along with breaking apart the Department of Education, as it is not sanctioned by the Constitution. Guess what: we got NCLB crap instead from his son. And why do we need a DOEd for that matter? Should that not be the states decision, rather than some federal office?
And yes, I disdain this country for what it has become. We have came from go-getters who came to this country for prosperity and to do what we wished. We now have a nanny government much worse than what our forefathers have left. Ive got to wonder if our country needs a true reset , or at least some sort of calamity that will shake the peoples of the USA to better than what we have now.
Then why do we accept the idea of lobbyists? Are they not as corrupt as the "4 families in Iceland"?
The politicians do not listen to the will of the people, in exception when a side offers lots of handouts. If I recall correctly, the founders said that poor people should not vote because they will vote for whomever gives the biggest handout, which is what we're seeing. After all, the inequity of poverty in the USA indicates that there's more poor than rich, so it'd be the "2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding what to have for supper".
Perhaps Heinlein's idea in Starship Troopers where one can vote after serving in the military is the proper choice. It'd be a "poverty check", intelligence test, and understanding our country all wrapped in one.
I always vote OUT the incumbent. I figure, even after 1 term, it's enough. Get somebody else in there.
Unless that person has done a damned good job in that role. That's where the research comes in handy, and I vote the incumbent. If I dont know some critter, the incumbent is out.
Before going to Verizon (my friends are all on it), I picked up a net10 phone. I used it some, until I needed to call 911 (saw a motorcycle wreck). I called 911 with 0 minutes as I was testing the phone and service.
The cell refused to send the call through. Signal had 3 bars. "Not Enough Minutes". That's when I decided to go to Verizon.
The cell company has no idea of your minute clock, and does not care. They use the restriction software on the phone to block calls that do not have enough minutes, INCLUDING 911.
No, we have a republic. Upper positions in government are insulated from the "rest of us".
Second, not all of us voted for Bush. IIRC, there was less than 50% turnout in '04, so 1/2 of the population either doesnt care, doesnt think their choice will have an effect, or is actively saying that all candidates stink.
I'm a student who also concurs. I have a good professor who has written books, and specifically makes 2.2c/1$. He told us that while we were playing chess one day. He pretty much hates the book publishers because of so many editions. Calculus just hasnt changed from the days of f'(x) and dP/dT, at least in undergrad calc.
He also gets no kickbacks from pushing the new version, but is very limited on what books he can "require". As in, from 2-3 publishers. If there are kickbacks, they seem to be contracts with the bookstore/university to publishers.
And the argument against the sphere: Can one have a multiple of PI atoms? Nope. Only whole numbers please.
Because of Carbon, a cube would make perfect sense, along with being able to verify the third root and the quadratic relating to the lattice structure.
> How nice would be an American Revolution Part II, I mean, Like the French Revolution as actually America has great influence in the political world scene, I can say that Politics as we know it [The GW Bush Mod V2.0] get easily adopted outside American borders. If any third world leader is a narc, or a thug still White House tells the world that he's a God send gift for the democracy and popular interests and that the TW Country is doing fine when the true is that the county it's fucked up.
???
> I know and hope that the next revolution will be there, I don't see it close as most of the people still numb, but when it happens, the conclusion will be that the political model will no longer be acceptable, I'll go for a multi representative government.. say 10 people that have the leadership 10 people with different backgrounds and insights. And special groups (Departments) of every socio economic aspect of the country administration: health, economy, education, kids etc..thats my 2cents
You DO realize that if we have a Civil War II, other countries that dont like us will try to take over too. It wont just be a civil war, but a WWIII setting, where our country is the main landmass. Yuck.
Also, what type of government would allow game theory to promulgate multiple parties? From my understanding, all game theory leads to 2 actors, let alone 10.
And lastly, we do not need a national "education" administration, nor do we need economy, nor kids offices. How does a federal office walled in a violent city represent the whole country? It shouldnt under any circumstances. There's a reason why our Constitution granted powers to the people and the states, rather than in federal. Do you think having hundreds of departments full of unelected workers is going to do any good? If you do, go drive to the BMV in your state and tell me quality of service is top notch!
Federal first needs a good housecleaning. As in, we need to dismantle every department and office. We need a complete turnover of Congress and Senate, remove every judge including supremes, and replace the president with one that will protect and defend the Constitution. Political figures of power (Judicial, Executive, Congressional) should be placed under watch for extreme violations of the Constitution, in which their life should be forfeit after due process. Elected officials should be banned from office if they signed or authored a bill which is nullified by the Supreme Court, but also puts term limits on Judges at 1 term of 10 years. None of that noise of lifetime appointments.
There's ways to make the Constitution better, but damn, its pretty good already. It pretty much works today as it would have 200 years ago. Too bad the politicians dont follow it.
And do you know what solves the horror movie stuff?
Going hunting for deer.
When you put either buckshot or a razer-tipped arrow down its gut and watch it writhe in pain before its last breath, you know what terror and horror is... And you were the one that caused it. Chainsaws and fingernail freddy dont scare me. To me, they're boring. Instead, when you shoot arrows or bullets, or catch and skin a fish, you know what life is and how to snuff it out.
I did it when I was 12. I killed animals 3x the size of myself. And watching a deer writhe in pain before you take your pistol (you ALWAYS carry a pistol, even if you have a rifle) and shoot it in the head just does something... Either you like it or abhor it. I could do it if that meant eating or not, but I choose not to.
Hell, when I was younger, I sure didnt ask to get some "mature game". That mark wasnt even around then. You bought/downloaded/copied a game to see if it was good.
Whoops. That Leisure Suit Larry is mature, I guess. Oh well.
These days, people just download what they cant buy. If 16 yr old cant buy said game, just rip it from piratebay. Really, who cares?
We instead ought to vote for the worst candidate instead of the best.
There's 300 million people in our country, more than enough to enact change if they cared. There's one way to make them care: make this country go in the shitter worse than africas countries. We can do this by voting the worst candidate in, regardless of democrat or republican.
I personally would go 8 yrs of repub and 4 years of dem just for the facts that repubs love wars, and dems love "feel good" laws, regardless of unintended consequences. And laws are almost never un-passed, so we have even more quagmire of laws and warmongering. Mix that with ever-lowering currency, sky rocketing fuel, and the ever looming disaster of social security bankruptcy, and we have a social revolt.
If we can get 100 mill, we could do real change, as in kick all the politicians in DC on their asses into the sea. A little House-cleaning would be a good thing.
If you know the proper medical procedure to insert catheters, bladder infection risk is minor. Also, infection risk is only really present in long term catheters (1+ days).
We're talking a few minutes for draining, and a few minutes for "refilling".
I find power and intelligence sexually attractive. Looks are second, third would be money. My current gf is quiet and reserved, yet has a powerful seductive evil streak. That's something I encourage her to bring out more.
One technique is to use a catheter to drain as much urine out of your bladder first. Then, when one has "clean" urine, they can then insert the catheter and reinsert urine. Be aware, that one has to prime the catheter with pure urine (no air).
It's kinda dirty, but it does work 100%.
And before that, for 2 days, drink as much water as one can. Yeah, you might come close to water poisoning, but it does dilute toxins and metabolic products.
> But is that really going to work in the long term? I'm fairly certain that the people behind these companies are fairly intelligent and are going to figure out the bit about wrapping traffic in high priority protocols, or encryption, or what be it. So what's the next step: they look at traffic patterns. HTTPS to access your bank is going to look quite different from someone using a P2P protocol encapsulated in HTTPS to download a GB of data.
Well, of course it will look different. The idea is here that there is so much bits flying around, that they cannot afford (cpu wise) to monitor and correctly analyze traffic. Even this day, ISP's dont watch the source field on the IP header due to extensive cpu demands.
Now, could they create a selective filter that analyzes every 10 packets and watches for anomalies? Yes, but that is highly unlikely except for the big guys.
> If you can trust the user, sure. If the user is allocated a certain data transfer rate and prioritizes among their own tasks, sure. The thing is, you can trust person X to say that they are lower priority than person Y. In most of the cases that I've seen, ISPs over-commit their bandwidth, so switching to a pay-for-bandwidth model would be disastrous in the context of their current model.
For starters, we dont give a user an option to set priority over other users. The only case where that would happen is for "corporate" charges.They would undoubtedly get higher overall priority.
As for the over-committing of bandwidth, get them for false advertising if they sell X rate and only provide X-Y rate. When they get hit for multiple thousands per user, they will learn to not lie, even if that means they offer 2 scales: guaranteed bandwidth and average bandwidth (128k/128k ~ 768k/384k). They can just set the contention ratio and backbone connections so the guaranteed is always there, no matter what. Even that is 2 phone lines of bandwidth, decent for minimum guaranteed.
We allow them a monopoly, so they should provide a minimum standard of service, or we should fracture them again. There's no reason we should be put over a barrel over basic infrastructure.
Ok. Lets say your viewpoint is true: some traffic is more important than others. That point is substantiated by the fact we have interactive sessions (http, ssh) and bulk data transfers (bt, ftp).
My logical "hacker" choice is to wrap everything around the high priority protocol. After all, http was never meant for large files, yet most file servers are purely http.
In reality, priority should be set by the user as part of the interface, and not by anybody else. Thanks to congestion algorithms, the lowest common priority would win out between 2 people. The user should also set "phone bandwidth" so if one wanted 2 lines for today, they could get it. That's the ideal network: you buy the pipe, and you set the service as you want. More bandwidth? More money.
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You speak as if you hate the "right", whatever that means.
Yeah, I'm a republican. I've got a disdain for democrats, alongside republicans. The republican party left my viewpoint long ago.
Where is the fiscally responsible party?
Ever since the 30's by deep spending around the Depression have we had a national debt to other sovereign nations. It is my understanding that peoples who have debt are never free. That applies to people as much as it applies to nations. We're trillions of dollars in debt, and going deeper each day. Our only way to "get rid" of the debt is to sell the one natural resource we have control over: our land. Mitch Daniels of Indiana did that to our road to Chicago.. some Australian and Spanish firm got it.
Where is the party that wants to reduce power to the federal government?
The only 2 parties that are of any power are Democrats and Republicans. Both are power mongers and will stop at nothing for more power. I believe that our second amendment is our kill switch for that abuse, but it takes a rather heavy handed majority for it to work. There are a few nutter parties, but they are inconsequential.
Where is the party that wants to break apart useless departments?
I couldnt vote in the 1988 elections, but did watch Bush I get in the White House on a fiscally responsible platform, along with breaking apart the Department of Education, as it is not sanctioned by the Constitution. Guess what: we got NCLB crap instead from his son. And why do we need a DOEd for that matter? Should that not be the states decision, rather than some federal office?
And yes, I disdain this country for what it has become. We have came from go-getters who came to this country for prosperity and to do what we wished. We now have a nanny government much worse than what our forefathers have left. Ive got to wonder if our country needs a true reset , or at least some sort of calamity that will shake the peoples of the USA to better than what we have now.
Then why do we accept the idea of lobbyists? Are they not as corrupt as the "4 families in Iceland"?
The politicians do not listen to the will of the people, in exception when a side offers lots of handouts. If I recall correctly, the founders said that poor people should not vote because they will vote for whomever gives the biggest handout, which is what we're seeing. After all, the inequity of poverty in the USA indicates that there's more poor than rich, so it'd be the "2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding what to have for supper".
Perhaps Heinlein's idea in Starship Troopers where one can vote after serving in the military is the proper choice. It'd be a "poverty check", intelligence test, and understanding our country all wrapped in one.
I always vote OUT the incumbent. I figure, even after 1 term, it's enough. Get somebody else in there.
Unless that person has done a damned good job in that role. That's where the research comes in handy, and I vote the incumbent. If I dont know some critter, the incumbent is out.
Bzzt. Wrong analogy alert.
Correct analogy: It's like buying a house but you gotta buy/create the chairs, table, and other furnishings to make it YOUR home.
And woyuldnt'cha know, you can either use your time and port programs or purchase a programmers time to port for you.
Im sure if you drink enough wine, it will.
It'd be fun to disassemble, thats for sure.
In other words, A hentai Serial Experiments Lain.
Egads.
I dont give 2 shits what their website says.
Before going to Verizon (my friends are all on it), I picked up a net10 phone. I used it some, until I needed to call 911 (saw a motorcycle wreck). I called 911 with 0 minutes as I was testing the phone and service.
The cell refused to send the call through. Signal had 3 bars. "Not Enough Minutes". That's when I decided to go to Verizon.
And that would be called fraud.
Fraud on the Telco's part; selling messages to spam, and receiving spam
And 911 is disabled when you run out of minutes.
The cell company has no idea of your minute clock, and does not care. They use the restriction software on the phone to block calls that do not have enough minutes, INCLUDING 911.
No, we have a republic. Upper positions in government are insulated from the "rest of us".
Second, not all of us voted for Bush. IIRC, there was less than 50% turnout in '04, so 1/2 of the population either doesnt care, doesnt think their choice will have an effect, or is actively saying that all candidates stink.
I'm a student who also concurs. I have a good professor who has written books, and specifically makes 2.2c/1$. He told us that while we were playing chess one day. He pretty much hates the book publishers because of so many editions. Calculus just hasnt changed from the days of f'(x) and dP/dT, at least in undergrad calc.
He also gets no kickbacks from pushing the new version, but is very limited on what books he can "require". As in, from 2-3 publishers. If there are kickbacks, they seem to be contracts with the bookstore/university to publishers.
And the argument against the sphere: Can one have a multiple of PI atoms? Nope. Only whole numbers please.
Because of Carbon, a cube would make perfect sense, along with being able to verify the third root and the quadratic relating to the lattice structure.
> How nice would be an American Revolution Part II, I mean, Like the French Revolution as actually America has great influence in the political world scene, I can say that Politics as we know it [The GW Bush Mod V2.0] get easily adopted outside American borders. If any third world leader is a narc, or a thug still White House tells the world that he's a God send gift for the democracy and popular interests and that the TW Country is doing fine when the true is that the county it's fucked up.
???
> I know and hope that the next revolution will be there, I don't see it close as most of the people still numb, but when it happens, the conclusion will be that the political model will no longer be acceptable, I'll go for a multi representative government.. say 10 people that have the leadership 10 people with different backgrounds and insights. And special groups (Departments) of every socio economic aspect of the country administration: health, economy, education, kids etc..thats my 2cents
You DO realize that if we have a Civil War II, other countries that dont like us will try to take over too. It wont just be a civil war, but a WWIII setting, where our country is the main landmass. Yuck.
Also, what type of government would allow game theory to promulgate multiple parties? From my understanding, all game theory leads to 2 actors, let alone 10.
And lastly, we do not need a national "education" administration, nor do we need economy, nor kids offices. How does a federal office walled in a violent city represent the whole country? It shouldnt under any circumstances. There's a reason why our Constitution granted powers to the people and the states, rather than in federal. Do you think having hundreds of departments full of unelected workers is going to do any good? If you do, go drive to the BMV in your state and tell me quality of service is top notch!
Federal first needs a good housecleaning. As in, we need to dismantle every department and office. We need a complete turnover of Congress and Senate, remove every judge including supremes, and replace the president with one that will protect and defend the Constitution. Political figures of power (Judicial, Executive, Congressional) should be placed under watch for extreme violations of the Constitution, in which their life should be forfeit after due process. Elected officials should be banned from office if they signed or authored a bill which is nullified by the Supreme Court, but also puts term limits on Judges at 1 term of 10 years. None of that noise of lifetime appointments.
There's ways to make the Constitution better, but damn, its pretty good already. It pretty much works today as it would have 200 years ago. Too bad the politicians dont follow it.
And do you know what solves the horror movie stuff?
Going hunting for deer.
When you put either buckshot or a razer-tipped arrow down its gut and watch it writhe in pain before its last breath, you know what terror and horror is... And you were the one that caused it. Chainsaws and fingernail freddy dont scare me. To me, they're boring. Instead, when you shoot arrows or bullets, or catch and skin a fish, you know what life is and how to snuff it out.
I did it when I was 12. I killed animals 3x the size of myself. And watching a deer writhe in pain before you take your pistol (you ALWAYS carry a pistol, even if you have a rifle) and shoot it in the head just does something... Either you like it or abhor it. I could do it if that meant eating or not, but I choose not to.
Hell, when I was younger, I sure didnt ask to get some "mature game". That mark wasnt even around then. You bought/downloaded/copied a game to see if it was good.
Whoops. That Leisure Suit Larry is mature, I guess. Oh well.
These days, people just download what they cant buy. If 16 yr old cant buy said game, just rip it from piratebay. Really, who cares?
We instead ought to vote for the worst candidate instead of the best.
There's 300 million people in our country, more than enough to enact change if they cared. There's one way to make them care: make this country go in the shitter worse than africas countries. We can do this by voting the worst candidate in, regardless of democrat or republican.
I personally would go 8 yrs of repub and 4 years of dem just for the facts that repubs love wars, and dems love "feel good" laws, regardless of unintended consequences. And laws are almost never un-passed, so we have even more quagmire of laws and warmongering. Mix that with ever-lowering currency, sky rocketing fuel, and the ever looming disaster of social security bankruptcy, and we have a social revolt.
If we can get 100 mill, we could do real change, as in kick all the politicians in DC on their asses into the sea. A little House-cleaning would be a good thing.
Cheese and pepperoni.
Oh wait, wrong question.
If you know the proper medical procedure to insert catheters, bladder infection risk is minor. Also, infection risk is only really present in long term catheters (1+ days).
We're talking a few minutes for draining, and a few minutes for "refilling".
Ill shoot.
I find power and intelligence sexually attractive. Looks are second, third would be money. My current gf is quiet and reserved, yet has a powerful seductive evil streak. That's something I encourage her to bring out more.
So, what's my philosophy on life?
...And redeem her for a valuable prize.
Down with the queen!
One technique is to use a catheter to drain as much urine out of your bladder first. Then, when one has "clean" urine, they can then insert the catheter and reinsert urine. Be aware, that one has to prime the catheter with pure urine (no air).
It's kinda dirty, but it does work 100%.
And before that, for 2 days, drink as much water as one can. Yeah, you might come close to water poisoning, but it does dilute toxins and metabolic products.
> But is that really going to work in the long term? I'm fairly certain that the people behind these companies are fairly intelligent and are going to figure out the bit about wrapping traffic in high priority protocols, or encryption, or what be it. So what's the next step: they look at traffic patterns. HTTPS to access your bank is going to look quite different from someone using a P2P protocol encapsulated in HTTPS to download a GB of data.
Well, of course it will look different. The idea is here that there is so much bits flying around, that they cannot afford (cpu wise) to monitor and correctly analyze traffic. Even this day, ISP's dont watch the source field on the IP header due to extensive cpu demands.
Now, could they create a selective filter that analyzes every 10 packets and watches for anomalies? Yes, but that is highly unlikely except for the big guys.
> If you can trust the user, sure. If the user is allocated a certain data transfer rate and prioritizes among their own tasks, sure. The thing is, you can trust person X to say that they are lower priority than person Y. In most of the cases that I've seen, ISPs over-commit their bandwidth, so switching to a pay-for-bandwidth model would be disastrous in the context of their current model.
For starters, we dont give a user an option to set priority over other users. The only case where that would happen is for "corporate" charges.They would undoubtedly get higher overall priority.
As for the over-committing of bandwidth, get them for false advertising if they sell X rate and only provide X-Y rate. When they get hit for multiple thousands per user, they will learn to not lie, even if that means they offer 2 scales: guaranteed bandwidth and average bandwidth (128k/128k ~ 768k/384k). They can just set the contention ratio and backbone connections so the guaranteed is always there, no matter what. Even that is 2 phone lines of bandwidth, decent for minimum guaranteed.
We allow them a monopoly, so they should provide a minimum standard of service, or we should fracture them again. There's no reason we should be put over a barrel over basic infrastructure.
Ok. Lets say your viewpoint is true: some traffic is more important than others. That point is substantiated by the fact we have interactive sessions (http, ssh) and bulk data transfers (bt, ftp).
My logical "hacker" choice is to wrap everything around the high priority protocol. After all, http was never meant for large files, yet most file servers are purely http.
In reality, priority should be set by the user as part of the interface, and not by anybody else. Thanks to congestion algorithms, the lowest common priority would win out between 2 people. The user should also set "phone bandwidth" so if one wanted 2 lines for today, they could get it. That's the ideal network: you buy the pipe, and you set the service as you want. More bandwidth? More money.
And if that happened, I cant see the USA being out of a interesting work, either artistically or technologically.
Also, Iron Man was a great example of how Hollywood has no original ideas. They instead raid the old coffers of comic books and movie-ize them.