On my secondary computer, which lacks a sleep/suspend-mode, I just keep all my web browser tabs open to whatever I was last viewing*, including YouTube videos. So, every time I restart the browser/computer, the videos reload. Whoops!
*In Firefox, I deliberately crash the web browser in order to restore my tabs. I should really just bookmark all of them, but it's just easier this way.
Something similar happens in the U.S., but they are usually panhandlers. Wiring money, while available, isn't a daily activity.
It's usually, "I need money to buy a bus ticket" or some such thing. Though, I have heard of some adopting Australian accents and claiming to need money to get to the Australian embassy.
I'm almost motivate enough to start a database of panhandlers. Their pictures can be taken using camera phones and their locations tracked. It'd be a good public service, until they sue me.
Instead of a Firefox plug-in, someone could run a scrubbed DNS server with all spam domains removed. (It could just redirect those pages to a blank page.) Then just point your requests at that server.
It'd probably be cheaper to find domains that are legitimate and then block everything else.
Well, the Byzantine Empire lasted an additional 1000 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. And by the time the Western half fell, they were fairly spartan Christians.
Okay, actually, I've heard that China has historically had a problem with manufacturing control going back to its communist days (and probably even pre-communist). For instance, some of their factories produced good copies of AK-47s and other military equipment, while the others would produce pieces of junk. Leaders of industrial and agricultural areas would overestimate the amount of rice grown, steel produced, or goods manufactured. There was competition among these leaders and their claims would apparently grow quite outlandish. This was a major problem during the Great Leap Forward.
I think I heard a while ago that each province reports its own economic growth (in addition to the national GDP growth figures). Problem is that each province is reporting growth figures so high that they can't actually average out to be the national GDP. So, this problem may still persist.
This problem exists in Western countries as well: no one wants to be the guy who says the party's over.
Apparently, there have been problems with trademarks with AirSoft guns. See the Wikipedia article.
AirSoft guns may fall under trademark problems because they look too real, something that squirt guns may not have a problem with it, depending on how close they match. There are also a lot of old designs that are out of production, never trademarked, or so widely copied that a trademark is pointless. There are a lot of copies of Winches 1892s and 1894s, for example, as well as numerous Colt and Remington black powder revolvers.
Well, I took a Logic & Reasoning course (in the Philosophy department) that covered content similar to Randi. It covered logic and the various types of reasoning (utilitarianism and whatnot). Not exactly the same thing since it doesn't teach a student to see through magic tricks, but it is useful versus health and audio quacks.
I don't how many of those makers you listed count as "mass produced". Korth is limited run as far as I can tell (according to Google) and their firearms cost twice as much as one from S&W Precision Center.
Now, if you meant Glock, Sig, H&K, Beretta, and others, well then you're probably correct since those definitely are mass production manufacturers. (Of course, Beretta owns Smith & Wesson... and Taurus, and some others. Maybe Sako -- I can't remember.) And they are damned good manufacturers who produce good guns at good prices.
I could criticize European "elite" guns for being overpriced and too "beautified". Some European firearms look like they come from a post-modern dance troupe. I don't need a gun to look beautiful, I just need it to work within a certain set of specifications. (Which eventually leads to Russian-designed firearms, which look like total ass. But they work.)
No one in the U.S. invented the automobile (or airplane for that matter), but there were people who made those things better. Henry Ford's major contribution was making them cheap. The Wright Brothers did a lot of the early advancements, but I hear they later held up U.S. plane development by suing other manufacturers.
We American's don't hate all government programs, just anything by the larger government organizations. We don't trust the federal government, and the individual state governments may be just as bad or worse. Politicians are always looking to suck money from federal coffers in order to pay for local schemes (and basically buy votes). This would be similar to taxing Denmark to pay for healthcare in Poland.
A big part of the U.S. political system is Federalism (and/or States' Rights). The idea is that each state is a stand-alone unit unless it becomes involved in external affairs (interstate commerce, international affairs, national defense, etc.). An individual state can pass its own laws to create any sort of program it wants. However, it can't drag in the other states or should derive funding from them. If enough states actually wanted national healthcare, an amendment to the constitution should be passed, forcing the rest to comply.
If each state passes its own laws, some will succeed and others will fail. Some of the successful laws may spread to other states and possibly lead to national laws or a Constitutional amendment.
We don't trust corporations either. But it is far easier to punish corporations than it is to punish governments. Governments tend to invoke "sovereign immunity" to avoid lawsuits and prosecution. For example, the federal government doesn't have to obey its own environmental laws.
Which Fourier were you referriing to? There was Joseph Fourier (mathematician) and Charles Fourier (utopian socialist)? The latter is the one that apparently influenced Marx (according to Wikipedia*).
*WINTBT
"Roger and Me" was probably his least offensive documentary. I actually watched it in an economics class. Knowing of Moore's opinions (now), he was probably sending a "bad corporation" message, while my economics class analyzed from the perspective of an incompetent city government that wasted money on poor plans. The only thing I've heard (but I'm not sure), is that the timeline of events was screwed up. (For one, Reagan visited flint in 1979, not during the '80s, when the film occurred.)
In Bowling for Columbine, there aren't a lot of specific "lies", but there are half-truths and information left unsaid. It is not that he lies, it is that he deceptively edits and "gives his opinion" on things. This is what people dislike about him. I suppose his skill at editing and film creation are definitely signs of a great filmmaker, but his ethics suck.
The bomber memorial feature was not honoring the bombing of Vietnam, the plaque said it was for shooting down a MiG with a defensive cannon (a rare feat) and for the crew who served it. Sure, the bomber was probably involved in bombing North Vietnam, but the memorial was for that.
Heston definitely said the words he said (as Moore claimed defending his film against detractors), however, the context of his words were changed to make it seem as if he was being more callous in the face of Columbine (one speech was from just after the event, while the other was a year later at North Carolina -- his wardrobe changes slightly between the scenes, but can be hard to notice). The 1999 NRA's meeting could not be cancelled due to charter rules (they must gather at least once a year for elections and other things), but many events were cancelled out of respect (Moore actually editted out the part of Heston's speech that mentioned the cancellations). Additionally, those meetings are set up a year or two in advance due to the number of people who attend (20-40,000). The Denver meeting coincided with Columbine by pure chance.
It did portay that the KKK and the NRA as being similar and linked together. Such links would likely be nonexistent as the NRA was founded by Union officers, some of who the KKK would rather see dead (both General Sheridan and Ulysses S. Grant served as NRA presidents; Grant had outlawed the KKK in 1871). These officers had been concerned over the marksmanship of their troops, so they wanted an organization to promote accuracy and use of the shooting sports among the general population.
There are others. There are no outright "lies", but there are half-truths, omissions, and a lot of emotion and opinion. An unwary viewer could fall victim to these traps.
To give an example: Two items seeking investment in england around 1775 was the steam powered troop transport and the machine gun. The companies proposed to invest in inventing and developing these. Neither stock offering for these was subsrcibed. As a result the english lost the war in America.
Well, some of those technologies were not well-refined. The French had some sort of "steam tricycle" around this time for hauling around artillery, but it was too expensive and difficult to maintain, so was abandoned. But, it takes thousands of miles of railroads for trains to be effective at moving goods and people. That wasn't going to pop-up in 1775.
Hell, I'd like to the U.S. to apply Mexico's immigration laws to Mexicans. Let's put it this way: Mexico has a fence on it's border with Guatemala. Yet, they have the temerity to complain about any of our border fences. Foreigners can't own land and can only have a job if they prove in all certainty that no existing Mexican citizen can perform that job (and they have to re-prove this every so often).
A lot of people are angered over the whole border situation. One third of all border patrol agents are on the Canadian border. The only problem is, most illegal immigrants don't come from Canada. And if they are concerned about terrorists and they like, it would be easier to perform background checks and screenings at Canadian airports, given that no one is going to cross the polar ice cap.
I have been hearing stories about the Border Patrol on the Mexican border. Basically, all competent and aggressive border agents are reassigned and sent somewhere else (i.e. the Canadian border) or given crap duties. Patrol shifts are organized to give three one-hour "unwatched" intervals every day. Drug smugglers and illegal immigrants of course use this time to cross the border. And it's all done on purpose.
There seems to be two forces at work: businesses who want cheap labor and "worker's paradise"-types who see illegal immigrants as a part of achieving revolution (or something). When George W. Bush ignores the cross-border flow, that's business. And when state universities issue free identification to illegal immigrants, that's the worker's revolution. Neither want to see the gravy train end.
In some of those countries, there may be popular support for the death penalty (from what I hear). The only problem is that their great leaders roped them into the European Union which has saddled them with certain rules. There is also popular support for restricting immigration in some of those countries, but many leaders refuse to act (not unlike the U.S.).
As for Islamic theocracies, there is a difference between not allowing homosexuals to marry and collapsing a wall on them.
Well, the KKK's motivating factor was not religious, though religious beliefs sometimes factored into it. They didn't like Catholics, most likely because most blacks were Catholic. They were also against Catholic schools because those educated blacks. Jews were not liked by them either, but, to be fair, almost everyone in the world behaved the same way to Jews (maybe not as killing as much, though). And they also hated Yankee carpetbaggers.
Religion was never their primary factor, though they sometimes claimed it to be. It was mostly revenge for the Civil War and the changes they were fighting against.
Given MarkusQ's persistance in this debate and the YouTube link in his signature, I can come to only one conclusion: MarkusQ is an astroturfer for the Socialist Establishment. He must be teaming up with the aliens who tried to probe me.
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On my secondary computer, which lacks a sleep/suspend-mode, I just keep all my web browser tabs open to whatever I was last viewing*, including YouTube videos. So, every time I restart the browser/computer, the videos reload. Whoops!
*In Firefox, I deliberately crash the web browser in order to restore my tabs. I should really just bookmark all of them, but it's just easier this way.
Something similar happens in the U.S., but they are usually panhandlers. Wiring money, while available, isn't a daily activity.
It's usually, "I need money to buy a bus ticket" or some such thing. Though, I have heard of some adopting Australian accents and claiming to need money to get to the Australian embassy.
I'm almost motivate enough to start a database of panhandlers. Their pictures can be taken using camera phones and their locations tracked. It'd be a good public service, until they sue me.
Instead of a Firefox plug-in, someone could run a scrubbed DNS server with all spam domains removed. (It could just redirect those pages to a blank page.) Then just point your requests at that server.
It'd probably be cheaper to find domains that are legitimate and then block everything else.
New York isn't part of America.
There's a whole 'nother world outside the coasts.
Well, the Byzantine Empire lasted an additional 1000 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. And by the time the Western half fell, they were fairly spartan Christians.
They don't need a picture, just a weight sensor on the floor.
Fortunately, this will transfer huge amounts of money to thin people. The thin people will commit straw purchases so others may receive more food.
Judging by the export scandal, maybe not.
Okay, actually, I've heard that China has historically had a problem with manufacturing control going back to its communist days (and probably even pre-communist). For instance, some of their factories produced good copies of AK-47s and other military equipment, while the others would produce pieces of junk. Leaders of industrial and agricultural areas would overestimate the amount of rice grown, steel produced, or goods manufactured. There was competition among these leaders and their claims would apparently grow quite outlandish. This was a major problem during the Great Leap Forward.
I think I heard a while ago that each province reports its own economic growth (in addition to the national GDP growth figures). Problem is that each province is reporting growth figures so high that they can't actually average out to be the national GDP. So, this problem may still persist.
This problem exists in Western countries as well: no one wants to be the guy who says the party's over.
Apparently, there have been problems with trademarks with AirSoft guns. See the Wikipedia article.
AirSoft guns may fall under trademark problems because they look too real, something that squirt guns may not have a problem with it, depending on how close they match. There are also a lot of old designs that are out of production, never trademarked, or so widely copied that a trademark is pointless. There are a lot of copies of Winches 1892s and 1894s, for example, as well as numerous Colt and Remington black powder revolvers.
Well, I took a Logic & Reasoning course (in the Philosophy department) that covered content similar to Randi. It covered logic and the various types of reasoning (utilitarianism and whatnot). Not exactly the same thing since it doesn't teach a student to see through magic tricks, but it is useful versus health and audio quacks.
I don't how many of those makers you listed count as "mass produced". Korth is limited run as far as I can tell (according to Google) and their firearms cost twice as much as one from S&W Precision Center.
Now, if you meant Glock, Sig, H&K, Beretta, and others, well then you're probably correct since those definitely are mass production manufacturers. (Of course, Beretta owns Smith & Wesson... and Taurus, and some others. Maybe Sako -- I can't remember.) And they are damned good manufacturers who produce good guns at good prices.
I could criticize European "elite" guns for being overpriced and too "beautified". Some European firearms look like they come from a post-modern dance troupe. I don't need a gun to look beautiful, I just need it to work within a certain set of specifications. (Which eventually leads to Russian-designed firearms, which look like total ass. But they work.)
So, you could say that a Ph.D. at Immigration Services is equivalent to a +5 Insightful on Slashdot...
No one in the U.S. invented the automobile (or airplane for that matter), but there were people who made those things better. Henry Ford's major contribution was making them cheap. The Wright Brothers did a lot of the early advancements, but I hear they later held up U.S. plane development by suing other manufacturers.
We American's don't hate all government programs, just anything by the larger government organizations. We don't trust the federal government, and the individual state governments may be just as bad or worse. Politicians are always looking to suck money from federal coffers in order to pay for local schemes (and basically buy votes). This would be similar to taxing Denmark to pay for healthcare in Poland.
A big part of the U.S. political system is Federalism (and/or States' Rights). The idea is that each state is a stand-alone unit unless it becomes involved in external affairs (interstate commerce, international affairs, national defense, etc.). An individual state can pass its own laws to create any sort of program it wants. However, it can't drag in the other states or should derive funding from them. If enough states actually wanted national healthcare, an amendment to the constitution should be passed, forcing the rest to comply.
If each state passes its own laws, some will succeed and others will fail. Some of the successful laws may spread to other states and possibly lead to national laws or a Constitutional amendment.
We don't trust corporations either. But it is far easier to punish corporations than it is to punish governments. Governments tend to invoke "sovereign immunity" to avoid lawsuits and prosecution. For example, the federal government doesn't have to obey its own environmental laws.
Which Fourier were you referriing to? There was Joseph Fourier (mathematician) and Charles Fourier (utopian socialist)? The latter is the one that apparently influenced Marx (according to Wikipedia*). *WINTBT
"Roger and Me" was probably his least offensive documentary. I actually watched it in an economics class. Knowing of Moore's opinions (now), he was probably sending a "bad corporation" message, while my economics class analyzed from the perspective of an incompetent city government that wasted money on poor plans. The only thing I've heard (but I'm not sure), is that the timeline of events was screwed up. (For one, Reagan visited flint in 1979, not during the '80s, when the film occurred.)
In Bowling for Columbine, there aren't a lot of specific "lies", but there are half-truths and information left unsaid. It is not that he lies, it is that he deceptively edits and "gives his opinion" on things. This is what people dislike about him. I suppose his skill at editing and film creation are definitely signs of a great filmmaker, but his ethics suck.
The bomber memorial feature was not honoring the bombing of Vietnam, the plaque said it was for shooting down a MiG with a defensive cannon (a rare feat) and for the crew who served it. Sure, the bomber was probably involved in bombing North Vietnam, but the memorial was for that.
Heston definitely said the words he said (as Moore claimed defending his film against detractors), however, the context of his words were changed to make it seem as if he was being more callous in the face of Columbine (one speech was from just after the event, while the other was a year later at North Carolina -- his wardrobe changes slightly between the scenes, but can be hard to notice). The 1999 NRA's meeting could not be cancelled due to charter rules (they must gather at least once a year for elections and other things), but many events were cancelled out of respect (Moore actually editted out the part of Heston's speech that mentioned the cancellations). Additionally, those meetings are set up a year or two in advance due to the number of people who attend (20-40,000). The Denver meeting coincided with Columbine by pure chance.
It did portay that the KKK and the NRA as being similar and linked together. Such links would likely be nonexistent as the NRA was founded by Union officers, some of who the KKK would rather see dead (both General Sheridan and Ulysses S. Grant served as NRA presidents; Grant had outlawed the KKK in 1871). These officers had been concerned over the marksmanship of their troops, so they wanted an organization to promote accuracy and use of the shooting sports among the general population.
There are others. There are no outright "lies", but there are half-truths, omissions, and a lot of emotion and opinion. An unwary viewer could fall victim to these traps.
Well, some of those technologies were not well-refined. The French had some sort of "steam tricycle" around this time for hauling around artillery, but it was too expensive and difficult to maintain, so was abandoned. But, it takes thousands of miles of railroads for trains to be effective at moving goods and people. That wasn't going to pop-up in 1775.
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Hell, I'd like to the U.S. to apply Mexico's immigration laws to Mexicans. Let's put it this way: Mexico has a fence on it's border with Guatemala. Yet, they have the temerity to complain about any of our border fences. Foreigners can't own land and can only have a job if they prove in all certainty that no existing Mexican citizen can perform that job (and they have to re-prove this every so often).
A lot of people are angered over the whole border situation. One third of all border patrol agents are on the Canadian border. The only problem is, most illegal immigrants don't come from Canada. And if they are concerned about terrorists and they like, it would be easier to perform background checks and screenings at Canadian airports, given that no one is going to cross the polar ice cap.
I have been hearing stories about the Border Patrol on the Mexican border. Basically, all competent and aggressive border agents are reassigned and sent somewhere else (i.e. the Canadian border) or given crap duties. Patrol shifts are organized to give three one-hour "unwatched" intervals every day. Drug smugglers and illegal immigrants of course use this time to cross the border. And it's all done on purpose.
There seems to be two forces at work: businesses who want cheap labor and "worker's paradise"-types who see illegal immigrants as a part of achieving revolution (or something). When George W. Bush ignores the cross-border flow, that's business. And when state universities issue free identification to illegal immigrants, that's the worker's revolution. Neither want to see the gravy train end.
Since rats only live about five years, maybe they develope cancer in their "old age".
The term "USian" is offensive. Please stop using it.
The proper term for Mexico is the United Mexican States. Do we go around calling them UMSians? No, we do not because it would be stupid and offensive.
In some of those countries, there may be popular support for the death penalty (from what I hear). The only problem is that their great leaders roped them into the European Union which has saddled them with certain rules. There is also popular support for restricting immigration in some of those countries, but many leaders refuse to act (not unlike the U.S.).
As for Islamic theocracies, there is a difference between not allowing homosexuals to marry and collapsing a wall on them.
Well, the KKK's motivating factor was not religious, though religious beliefs sometimes factored into it. They didn't like Catholics, most likely because most blacks were Catholic. They were also against Catholic schools because those educated blacks. Jews were not liked by them either, but, to be fair, almost everyone in the world behaved the same way to Jews (maybe not as killing as much, though). And they also hated Yankee carpetbaggers.
Religion was never their primary factor, though they sometimes claimed it to be. It was mostly revenge for the Civil War and the changes they were fighting against.
To be fair to Disney, at least one of those films was hard to market: Princess Mononoke. They could have just titled it Bloodbath 6: The Bloodening.
Given MarkusQ's persistance in this debate and the YouTube link in his signature, I can come to only one conclusion: MarkusQ is an astroturfer for the Socialist Establishment. He must be teaming up with the aliens who tried to probe me.