I have an airplane. I can fly over your house and look at you all day every day and you can't stop me. There simply is no right to not be observe red or filmed when outside.
A friend of mine has been an artist (singer - songwriter - band leader) since the 1980s. I don't want to out her here without asking her, but she has pretty much seen her ability to survive as a musician destroyed. She was never getting rich, but 5 thousand CDs sold *at least* paid for the time and money spent to make them. Now they are selling a couple hundred and everyone else gets it free. I am no "never pirated a thing in my life" saint, but you really can do real damage to real people, not just "THE MAN". On a related note, in the 80s a friend's parents tried to run a store selling software. They gave up after awhile because all the kids - INCLUDING THEIR OWN - had everything pirated for free BEFORE it hit their store.
True if you are a "make them into Soylent Green" type AnnRandian asshole living in your parent's basement.
Should I tell my mother and mother-in-law that their years of work and paying taxes have earned them catfood and living behind the dumpster for retirement, or do you want to do that?
I thought it was a pathetic interview in a way. Gene Simmons is a smart man and is trying to reconcile how acting like a horny annoying 8th grader make him more money than anything else he can think of. Deep down he is aware of how pathetic he is. Terri Gross should have taken him up on his offer and said something like "I've had better" afterwards;)
Ham radio operators - the original geeks of the 20th century - had to make a LOT of their gear back in the day and some still do.
We were "makers" of model rockets back in the 70s and now I have a kid, I am again.
Agree that this is a new label on old wine.
I can personally pay my bills, so I am not complaining for my own sake.
Where I live in the DC metro area housing STILL isn't cheap for any decent neighborhood compared to much of the country, so YMMV if you live in Kansas or something. Say you had a family making $100K in 2006. A decent house anyplace that you would send your kids to school and isn't 100 miles out in BFE is going to be $300K or more. So you put $20K down and finance $280. That is WELL WITHIN conservative debt-income ratios. Come January 2008 and your house is worth $500K. You feel like you're doing well. You take out a $50K loan at rock-bottom rates and do some renovations and additions. You figure that added $80K to the value of the house and you have a nice equity cushion still. This all would have been considered prudent and smart by almost anyone. Well now it is 2011, the house is worth maybe $250K *IF* you could get anyone to ignore all the short sales and foreclosures. Your wife loses here job and you take a pay cut. Now the difference between income and expenses will barely feed your family and your new lower paying job isn't looking that promising. Your wife has no luck finding anything at all. You can't move without walking away from your house and ruining your credit. This isn't the story of profligate people buying a Rolls Royce and 4 hot tubs with a $40K income. This is real live decent hard working Americans getting totally fucked.
Gotta raise the BS flag. Plenty of good honest hard working people are totally boned right now. Maybe you live out in BFE, but in many major metro areas buying a cheap house is living in the hood and watching your kids dodge bullets or living 100 miles from the office. These are people with good educations and good jobs that didn't buy houses worth 5 or 10 times their income. But they're screwed royal right now and maybe if they're 40+ have no realistic expectation of EVER getting back to where they were.
As a pilot, I can say that right before touchdown I am looking out the windshield, not at the GPS. Also note that GPS units certified for aircraft use have RAIM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_Autonomous_Integrity_Monitoring), which makes it hard to spoof the GPS. It would alert you promptly it had gone offline.
A Finnish foreign exchange student that came to live in my preppy upper-middle-class East Coast neighborhood has highly surprised to not see car chases, explosions, police shootings, robberies, gang fights, pimps, hos, and drug dealers crowding the streets. Seems her ENTIRE frame of reference about the ENTIRE USA was watching old Beretta reruns! Speaking of which, Cockatoos were also noticeable by their absence. And the the French foreign-exchange students were puzzled by the lack of horses - as in used for daily transportation and cattle drive horses, not girls learning to ride English and dress up like upper class tossers for a fox hunt. WTF? They thought they were spending a year in rural Montana or perhaps the set of Gunsmoke?????? They seemed puzzled to find out it would take DAYS to drive to parts of the country where cowboys are common.
"After all, if an Indian abroad takes a job from somebody else he does so based on his talents"
Let me fix that for you:
"After all, if an Indian abroad takes a job from somebody else he does so based on his talents or the fact he/she will be a virtual slave on an H1B visa and put up with wages no American that could do the job would tolerate"
There you go.
A country with extensive experience in Antarctica will develop skills and technology that will make them superior at cold climate warfare. Likewise a moon base, while useless perhaps in a terrestrial conflict, will certainly mean the country that built it has a superior high-tech infrastructure that can be used for other things as well.
*meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, the world's greatest power contends with stone-age fucktards and donkey bombs...............
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All that is true, but there is just no legal framework to stop it.
Can we stick to the last two centuries please?
I have an airplane. I can fly over your house and look at you all day every day and you can't stop me. There simply is no right to not be observe red or filmed when outside.
I would have signed it something like: "Love from your cellmate and best boyfriend on C block - glad you beat the nun-porn rap"
A friend of mine has been an artist (singer - songwriter - band leader) since the 1980s. I don't want to out her here without asking her, but she has pretty much seen her ability to survive as a musician destroyed. She was never getting rich, but 5 thousand CDs sold *at least* paid for the time and money spent to make them. Now they are selling a couple hundred and everyone else gets it free. I am no "never pirated a thing in my life" saint, but you really can do real damage to real people, not just "THE MAN". On a related note, in the 80s a friend's parents tried to run a store selling software. They gave up after awhile because all the kids - INCLUDING THEIR OWN - had everything pirated for free BEFORE it hit their store.
True if you are a "make them into Soylent Green" type AnnRandian asshole living in your parent's basement. Should I tell my mother and mother-in-law that their years of work and paying taxes have earned them catfood and living behind the dumpster for retirement, or do you want to do that?
I thought it was a pathetic interview in a way. Gene Simmons is a smart man and is trying to reconcile how acting like a horny annoying 8th grader make him more money than anything else he can think of. Deep down he is aware of how pathetic he is. Terri Gross should have taken him up on his offer and said something like "I've had better" afterwards ;)
Ham radio operators - the original geeks of the 20th century - had to make a LOT of their gear back in the day and some still do. We were "makers" of model rockets back in the 70s and now I have a kid, I am again. Agree that this is a new label on old wine.
Same reason all 2 year old squirrels know what a car is.
I can personally pay my bills, so I am not complaining for my own sake. Where I live in the DC metro area housing STILL isn't cheap for any decent neighborhood compared to much of the country, so YMMV if you live in Kansas or something. Say you had a family making $100K in 2006. A decent house anyplace that you would send your kids to school and isn't 100 miles out in BFE is going to be $300K or more. So you put $20K down and finance $280. That is WELL WITHIN conservative debt-income ratios. Come January 2008 and your house is worth $500K. You feel like you're doing well. You take out a $50K loan at rock-bottom rates and do some renovations and additions. You figure that added $80K to the value of the house and you have a nice equity cushion still. This all would have been considered prudent and smart by almost anyone. Well now it is 2011, the house is worth maybe $250K *IF* you could get anyone to ignore all the short sales and foreclosures. Your wife loses here job and you take a pay cut. Now the difference between income and expenses will barely feed your family and your new lower paying job isn't looking that promising. Your wife has no luck finding anything at all. You can't move without walking away from your house and ruining your credit. This isn't the story of profligate people buying a Rolls Royce and 4 hot tubs with a $40K income. This is real live decent hard working Americans getting totally fucked.
Gotta raise the BS flag. Plenty of good honest hard working people are totally boned right now. Maybe you live out in BFE, but in many major metro areas buying a cheap house is living in the hood and watching your kids dodge bullets or living 100 miles from the office. These are people with good educations and good jobs that didn't buy houses worth 5 or 10 times their income. But they're screwed royal right now and maybe if they're 40+ have no realistic expectation of EVER getting back to where they were.
I guess that explains the booming economy from 2008 to now then.
Ahh - just FYI - plenty of airplanes are built from carbon fiber right now ;)
+100000! Hmmm - Our program says NO INSURANCE FOR YOU!
No shit. If you have your pick of hundreds, you don't have time to screw them all.
As a pilot, I can say that right before touchdown I am looking out the windshield, not at the GPS. Also note that GPS units certified for aircraft use have RAIM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_Autonomous_Integrity_Monitoring), which makes it hard to spoof the GPS. It would alert you promptly it had gone offline.
ROFLMAO
A Finnish foreign exchange student that came to live in my preppy upper-middle-class East Coast neighborhood has highly surprised to not see car chases, explosions, police shootings, robberies, gang fights, pimps, hos, and drug dealers crowding the streets. Seems her ENTIRE frame of reference about the ENTIRE USA was watching old Beretta reruns! Speaking of which, Cockatoos were also noticeable by their absence. And the the French foreign-exchange students were puzzled by the lack of horses - as in used for daily transportation and cattle drive horses, not girls learning to ride English and dress up like upper class tossers for a fox hunt. WTF? They thought they were spending a year in rural Montana or perhaps the set of Gunsmoke?????? They seemed puzzled to find out it would take DAYS to drive to parts of the country where cowboys are common.
Because no one would ever think of going to the GROUND STATION that supports it and pulling the plug.
Compare 1930 and 1950. I bet the "future" came about 20 years early thanks to the war.
Wish I had mod points!
"After all, if an Indian abroad takes a job from somebody else he does so based on his talents" Let me fix that for you: "After all, if an Indian abroad takes a job from somebody else he does so based on his talents or the fact he/she will be a virtual slave on an H1B visa and put up with wages no American that could do the job would tolerate" There you go.
A country with extensive experience in Antarctica will develop skills and technology that will make them superior at cold climate warfare. Likewise a moon base, while useless perhaps in a terrestrial conflict, will certainly mean the country that built it has a superior high-tech infrastructure that can be used for other things as well. *meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, the world's greatest power contends with stone-age fucktards and donkey bombs...............
I plan to use both, since BOTH are true!
Wish I had mod points + 1 Try looking at it as a parent. Every kid's show has the father as a clueless idiot.