Either way, I'm tired of supporting (through building walmarts, sending them our jobs, etc) a country that employes what is essentially slave labor to achieve such cheap prices. It's funny when people say "you have to compete on a global playing field,a s an employee". How in the hell does one compete with forced labor and massive human rights violations? How dare I not want to work in a place where the fire doors are chained shut and I'm forced to sleep on the floor under my desk! What a spoiled fucking american pig!
It's not their fault that they mindlessly obeyed government requests to violate civil liberties in persuit of the war on terr'ah!
Also, please give me retroactive immunity from anything the telcos might have found me doing during the period they wish to have retroactive immunity for.
China has shown a great deal of ill-will toward other nations, including America, as well as China's own people. Despite this, we happily build KFCs and Walmart's in their country and contract work and outsource jobs to them for pennies on the dollar. They are coming into their own in the global capitalist market, but without the included democracy of most other nations. This gives them the added benefit of have mass amounts of money and a lot of nimbleness. They don't have to deal with the red tape we do when they want to shift directions or enforce changes to industry.
We blew our wad last century. Our infrastructures are built and in place and done with. China is just now getting started and will have the benefit of building theirs with a new economy and the technology of the 21st century, instead of the 20th. In our lifetime, they'll probably become the real super-power; trumping the US.
So what kind of environmental damage does solar power do? How is paving the land in solar panels any different than paving it in concrete? Especially since these things will be massively concentrated in certain areas (after all, solar power farms would be pointless in the Northwest).
This is like someone bombing the Yellow Pages headquarters, because they include contact information for abortion clinics or planned parenthood clinics or universities that teach evolution as scientific theory, just because the bomber doesn't like them.
No, this is nothing like the drug dealer calling the cops because someone stole his stash. This is like a law abiding citizen doing something that another citizen does not like and the citizen who does not like it taking illegal actions to stop the law abiding citizen.
Sure, you can refuse service to anyone. They did not refuse service to this guy. What they did was SERVICED him. He went in. Bought items. They sold him the items. Then he walked out and they wanted to search his person. In fact, whether or not he purchased anything, they have no right to detain or search him. They are wage-monkeys with a nametag. They are not the law. And even the law must provide probable cause for searching you.
As soon as they start delivering by courier, I'm all over it.
I'm not a patron of the USPS. Anything I can't get sent by courier or handle online (like billing), obviously isn't very important to begin with. You'd be amazed how nice it is to have zero junkmail.:D
[quote]Stupid? He's doing what he should do in that situation. If I'm anywhere and six guys of ANY color start to threaten me, believe I'm grabbing my Sig. Pointing it at them is a different story, however. "Instead of leaving the scene to avoid a conflict" ?? Fuck you. This is a free country and we're allowed to be in public places without being threatened to leave. Nobody runs me off a place I have every legal right to be, period.[/quote]
You are an idiot.
Feeling threatened is not an excuse to leave the scene, go get a weapon and return to the scene. In fact, you are obligated under law to withdraw from a violent confrontation if it is at all possible. You are the type of gung-ho redneck idiot that gives the rest of Americans a bad name. "He done gave me a dirty look -- I'ma go get mah gun!".
If you feel threatened and have no means of withdrawing from a situation, you can take various actions in your defense and claim it as "self defense". What you CAN NOT do is wander off to get a weapon and then return. You are making the situation worse and you are no longer acting in self-defense, but antagonizing and provoking the situation, just as this kid clearly did. This kid WANTED a confrontation. They didn't threaten him. He just said he FELT threatened. "Feeling" threatened isn't an excuse to whip out a shotgun on someone.
It's unfortunate that there is a large swath of our society that spews ignorant bullshit like you do, but it surely does exist.
Wanting my taxes to go toward potentially extending or saving the lives of people who contribute a great deal to science, society and culture is "political spew"? Are you insane?! (You're clearly a coward, but that isn't the question here).
Our resources are spent on so many destructive processes that dwarf the amount spent on constructive ones. How can you possibly watch so many people suffer or die prematurely -- especially when you see what kind of people and personalities they are like you have been able to here -- and have anything but contempt for a society that places curing such ailments anywhere but in the top three priorities?
Developers are already reporting issues with the limited space provided by DVD on the XBOX 360 platform.
Yes, perhaps they can somehow patch the system so that their HD-DVD drives could play games. Now you'll be looking at a $400 system plus another $200 for the HD-DVD drive, while the PS3 comes with blu-ray and is a hundred bucks less already.
You must be imagining some super magic compression to crap a blu-ray disc worth of content on a DVD. Not to mention, the same super-magic compression could also be on the blu-ray disc, again blowing away the DVD.
All in all, the decision to go with DVD is a seriously limiting factor and seems weird that they chose it for a "next gen" system. How are they going to last the ten year product cycle that Sony has planned for the PS3, while using last-gen drives? Or are they going to start releasing systems with HD-DVD built-in and just expect every 360 owner to pony up another $400 or $500?
I just can't believe this hasn't become a bigger deal than it has in the media. It sickens me that we as a society believe that you must surrender yourself to any "authority" that wishes to investigate or impede you. Including the "authority" of a minimum wage management monkey at a Circuit City.
Why this guy didn't beat the dude's ass. Presumably, the management or the door-nazi or whatever intended to place a "citizens arrest", right? Well, you can be in SERIOUS trouble if you falsely imprison someone with a citizens arrest. So... why settle for anything less than at least making sure criminal charges are filed on Circuit City and their employees?
Also, cue the idiots who are going to say that you are obligated to yield to door-nazis, because... hey... if you aren't doing anything wrong and you don't have anything to hide, why do you care?
As much as I detest racism and bigots and racists, people are allowing idiots like Sharpton and Jackson and the news media to deceive them. The position they are taking is "you let some white kids go for hanging nooses in a tree, but you imprisoned some black kids who beat up a white kid".
While I'd be up for beating the hell out of any little snotty racist asshole that would hang nooses in a tree in an attempt to intimidate an entire group of people, I have to acknowledge the facts. And these facts are that:
1) These were unrelated incidents that occurred FOUR MONTHS APART. 2) Hanging a noose in a tree is not the same as beating someone up and sending them to the hospital. 3) The legal requirements for charging a youth (not an adult) with a non-violent "hate-crime" is far higher than charging a youth for assault and battery.
So we need to establish that these two events were NOT RELATED. So stop using the results of one to justify the desired results of the other.
Now, after we have done that -- let's look at what reportedly happened that landed these black kids in prison: The white kid was at a gas station and felt threatened by the black kids. So, instead of leaving the scene to avoid a conflict, he went to his truck, pulled out a shotgun and then returned, where they promptly beat his stupid ass.
Now, if some hick went to his vehicle and came back to me with a shotgun (especially in an area where I felt intimidated and threatened routinely because of my skin color), I would surely defend myself by beating his ass and disarming him before waiting to see if he intended to blow my fucking skull clean off my spine.
So should the kids be released? I believe so. But not because of ANYTHING relating to the supposed hypocrisy of the noose-tree incident.
It's too bad we put ridiculous priorities on things. Imagine what we could cure, probably including his terminal illness, if we only had a trillion dollars to spare on research.
Gee, if only there were some place we could find a trillion dollars in the last four or five years of the budget that was wasted and could have been better spent improving the world.
It's not going to matter, because they will make ala-carte so expensive that nobody will use it. It'll be this sort of "sure, we'll comply -- and fuck you -- it's going to be $20 per channel".
I'm fucking tired of paying through the nose so that I can have 10 religious channels, 15 infomercial channels and half a dozen "public access" channels where my hard earned tax money goes to provide facilities for nutjobs, lunatics, religious freaks and potheads to shake their jonk (Jim Spagg) or drone on with poor production on public "airwaves".
And don't even get me started on having to pay for TLC (The Ladies Channel), E! (Entertainment), Biography (which isn't biographies about INTERESTING people -- but only movie stars and musicians) and other similar pointless channels.
Not to mention... you know... paying for television that is filled with 25 minutes of *COMMERCIALS* per hour, per channel.
I don't understand how a JOURNALIST can get snowed by a company like SCO in the first place. Whatever happened to educating yourself, conducting some degree of investigation and then reporting? How is taking what the subject of your reporting says to you as gospel journalism, in any remote way? What is this guy -- Larry King?
Also, how does a guy who writes articles in a financial magazine about lawsuits get off calling *anyone* nerds?!
With the hatred and bias against agnostics and atheists in America, I can't think of anything I'd be more frightened to be found with than something like "The God Delusion" or "Atheist Universe" or "God is Not Great". I keep my person feelings to myself in public, because the deluded can't be changed, but it's still interesting reading. But the one thing I have learned is that any book that is even remotely controversial to the right-wings in this country is best read with a fake book sleeve covering it. Otherwise you will suffer an endless barrage of ignorance, prejudice and hate. I can only imagine what you'd get from a bunch of minimum wage power-tripping mother fuckers with a government database and a rifle who are "safeguarding our airports to protect freedom and baby jesus".
* American products become cheaper to foreign markets. This helps with the trade imbalances we currently have.
American products are cheaper. American employees paid less or offshored.
* Foreign products become more expensive to American consumers, also helping with trade deficits.
Most products sold to American consumers are foriegn products. American employees being paid less because of the first point above also have more difficulty affording most products they buy, because of the second point.
* It discourages foreign workers from sneaking into the US. Getting $4.00 an hour is suddenly not so much compared to what they get paid in their home country.
Doesn't matter, because we don't need them to come to America. We can just oursource and offshore to them in their own country.
SELECT, START... for the love of god man! Not exactly.
This is the original version of the code, designed for the NES controller. In many popular representations of the code, "Start" is added at the end of the sequence. This is because in many of the early occurrences of the code, "Start" had to be pressed before any effects of the code could be seen. In these cases, "Start" either started or unpaused the game. "Select" is also sometimes inserted at the end of the code, but in this instance, the code would be inputted at the title screen, and pressing "Select" usually switched the players option from one to two for cooperative play. The exact sequence varies from game to game, and has been adapted to fit the button layouts of different video game consoles.
Frankly, more children should drop out of school early and find something vocational to get into.
Better than having them interfere with the education of children who have potential and actually care to learn.
Besides, not everyone is meant for college. Even those of us who become very successful in life. So why delay their entrance into real life just for some lofty never-achievable ideal?
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Either way, I'm tired of supporting (through building walmarts, sending them our jobs, etc) a country that employes what is essentially slave labor to achieve such cheap prices. It's funny when people say "you have to compete on a global playing field,a s an employee". How in the hell does one compete with forced labor and massive human rights violations? How dare I not want to work in a place where the fire doors are chained shut and I'm forced to sleep on the floor under my desk! What a spoiled fucking american pig!
It's not their fault that they mindlessly obeyed government requests to violate civil liberties in persuit of the war on terr'ah!
Also, please give me retroactive immunity from anything the telcos might have found me doing during the period they wish to have retroactive immunity for.
Another way of looking at it is that China owns an enormous chunk of America.
Frankly, I don't really care. As long as they don't kill us or enslave us when they take over.
And now it's with China.
China has shown a great deal of ill-will toward other nations, including America, as well as China's own people. Despite this, we happily build KFCs and Walmart's in their country and contract work and outsource jobs to them for pennies on the dollar. They are coming into their own in the global capitalist market, but without the included democracy of most other nations. This gives them the added benefit of have mass amounts of money and a lot of nimbleness. They don't have to deal with the red tape we do when they want to shift directions or enforce changes to industry.
We blew our wad last century. Our infrastructures are built and in place and done with. China is just now getting started and will have the benefit of building theirs with a new economy and the technology of the 21st century, instead of the 20th. In our lifetime, they'll probably become the real super-power; trumping the US.
So what kind of environmental damage does solar power do? How is paving the land in solar panels any different than paving it in concrete? Especially since these things will be massively concentrated in certain areas (after all, solar power farms would be pointless in the Northwest).
Actually, not even quite that.
This is like someone bombing the Yellow Pages headquarters, because they include contact information for abortion clinics or planned parenthood clinics or universities that teach evolution as scientific theory, just because the bomber doesn't like them.
What does piracy have to do with file sharing?
Piracy is when I male ten thousand copies of a movie on DVD and sell it on the street for a couple bucks.
File sharing is when I make a copy of a cassette tape for a buddy.
No, this is nothing like the drug dealer calling the cops because someone stole his stash. This is like a law abiding citizen doing something that another citizen does not like and the citizen who does not like it taking illegal actions to stop the law abiding citizen.
Sure, you can refuse service to anyone. They did not refuse service to this guy. What they did was SERVICED him. He went in. Bought items. They sold him the items. Then he walked out and they wanted to search his person. In fact, whether or not he purchased anything, they have no right to detain or search him. They are wage-monkeys with a nametag. They are not the law. And even the law must provide probable cause for searching you.
As soon as they start delivering by courier, I'm all over it.
:D
I'm not a patron of the USPS. Anything I can't get sent by courier or handle online (like billing), obviously isn't very important to begin with. You'd be amazed how nice it is to have zero junkmail.
[quote]Stupid? He's doing what he should do in that situation. If I'm anywhere and six guys of ANY color start to threaten me, believe I'm grabbing my Sig. Pointing it at them is a different story, however. "Instead of leaving the scene to avoid a conflict" ?? Fuck you. This is a free country and we're allowed to be in public places without being threatened to leave. Nobody runs me off a place I have every legal right to be, period.[/quote]
You are an idiot.
Feeling threatened is not an excuse to leave the scene, go get a weapon and return to the scene. In fact, you are obligated under law to withdraw from a violent confrontation if it is at all possible. You are the type of gung-ho redneck idiot that gives the rest of Americans a bad name. "He done gave me a dirty look -- I'ma go get mah gun!".
If you feel threatened and have no means of withdrawing from a situation, you can take various actions in your defense and claim it as "self defense". What you CAN NOT do is wander off to get a weapon and then return. You are making the situation worse and you are no longer acting in self-defense, but antagonizing and provoking the situation, just as this kid clearly did. This kid WANTED a confrontation. They didn't threaten him. He just said he FELT threatened. "Feeling" threatened isn't an excuse to whip out a shotgun on someone.
It's unfortunate that there is a large swath of our society that spews ignorant bullshit like you do, but it surely does exist.
Wanting my taxes to go toward potentially extending or saving the lives of people who contribute a great deal to science, society and culture is "political spew"? Are you insane?! (You're clearly a coward, but that isn't the question here).
Our resources are spent on so many destructive processes that dwarf the amount spent on constructive ones. How can you possibly watch so many people suffer or die prematurely -- especially when you see what kind of people and personalities they are like you have been able to here -- and have anything but contempt for a society that places curing such ailments anywhere but in the top three priorities?
Developers are already reporting issues with the limited space provided by DVD on the XBOX 360 platform.
Yes, perhaps they can somehow patch the system so that their HD-DVD drives could play games. Now you'll be looking at a $400 system plus another $200 for the HD-DVD drive, while the PS3 comes with blu-ray and is a hundred bucks less already.
You must be imagining some super magic compression to crap a blu-ray disc worth of content on a DVD. Not to mention, the same super-magic compression could also be on the blu-ray disc, again blowing away the DVD.
All in all, the decision to go with DVD is a seriously limiting factor and seems weird that they chose it for a "next gen" system. How are they going to last the ten year product cycle that Sony has planned for the PS3, while using last-gen drives? Or are they going to start releasing systems with HD-DVD built-in and just expect every 360 owner to pony up another $400 or $500?
I just can't believe this hasn't become a bigger deal than it has in the media. It sickens me that we as a society believe that you must surrender yourself to any "authority" that wishes to investigate or impede you. Including the "authority" of a minimum wage management monkey at a Circuit City.
Why this guy didn't beat the dude's ass. Presumably, the management or the door-nazi or whatever intended to place a "citizens arrest", right? Well, you can be in SERIOUS trouble if you falsely imprison someone with a citizens arrest. So... why settle for anything less than at least making sure criminal charges are filed on Circuit City and their employees?
Also, cue the idiots who are going to say that you are obligated to yield to door-nazis, because... hey... if you aren't doing anything wrong and you don't have anything to hide, why do you care?
As much as I detest racism and bigots and racists, people are allowing idiots like Sharpton and Jackson and the news media to deceive them. The position they are taking is "you let some white kids go for hanging nooses in a tree, but you imprisoned some black kids who beat up a white kid".
While I'd be up for beating the hell out of any little snotty racist asshole that would hang nooses in a tree in an attempt to intimidate an entire group of people, I have to acknowledge the facts. And these facts are that:
1) These were unrelated incidents that occurred FOUR MONTHS APART.
2) Hanging a noose in a tree is not the same as beating someone up and sending them to the hospital.
3) The legal requirements for charging a youth (not an adult) with a non-violent "hate-crime" is far higher than charging a youth for assault and battery.
So we need to establish that these two events were NOT RELATED. So stop using the results of one to justify the desired results of the other.
Now, after we have done that -- let's look at what reportedly happened that landed these black kids in prison: The white kid was at a gas station and felt threatened by the black kids. So, instead of leaving the scene to avoid a conflict, he went to his truck, pulled out a shotgun and then returned, where they promptly beat his stupid ass.
Now, if some hick went to his vehicle and came back to me with a shotgun (especially in an area where I felt intimidated and threatened routinely because of my skin color), I would surely defend myself by beating his ass and disarming him before waiting to see if he intended to blow my fucking skull clean off my spine.
So should the kids be released? I believe so. But not because of ANYTHING relating to the supposed hypocrisy of the noose-tree incident.
It's too bad we put ridiculous priorities on things. Imagine what we could cure, probably including his terminal illness, if we only had a trillion dollars to spare on research.
Gee, if only there were some place we could find a trillion dollars in the last four or five years of the budget that was wasted and could have been better spent improving the world.
Hmm.
Can't think of any place, whatsoever.
It's not going to matter, because they will make ala-carte so expensive that nobody will use it. It'll be this sort of "sure, we'll comply -- and fuck you -- it's going to be $20 per channel".
I'm fucking tired of paying through the nose so that I can have 10 religious channels, 15 infomercial channels and half a dozen "public access" channels where my hard earned tax money goes to provide facilities for nutjobs, lunatics, religious freaks and potheads to shake their jonk (Jim Spagg) or drone on with poor production on public "airwaves".
And don't even get me started on having to pay for TLC (The Ladies Channel), E! (Entertainment), Biography (which isn't biographies about INTERESTING people -- but only movie stars and musicians) and other similar pointless channels.
Not to mention... you know... paying for television that is filled with 25 minutes of *COMMERCIALS* per hour, per channel.
I don't understand how a JOURNALIST can get snowed by a company like SCO in the first place. Whatever happened to educating yourself, conducting some degree of investigation and then reporting? How is taking what the subject of your reporting says to you as gospel journalism, in any remote way? What is this guy -- Larry King?
Also, how does a guy who writes articles in a financial magazine about lawsuits get off calling *anyone* nerds?!
Sorry, but my PS3 isn't being spent on energy-bill-increasing cycles to benefit drug companies.
With the hatred and bias against agnostics and atheists in America, I can't think of anything I'd be more frightened to be found with than something like "The God Delusion" or "Atheist Universe" or "God is Not Great". I keep my person feelings to myself in public, because the deluded can't be changed, but it's still interesting reading. But the one thing I have learned is that any book that is even remotely controversial to the right-wings in this country is best read with a fake book sleeve covering it. Otherwise you will suffer an endless barrage of ignorance, prejudice and hate. I can only imagine what you'd get from a bunch of minimum wage power-tripping mother fuckers with a government database and a rifle who are "safeguarding our airports to protect freedom and baby jesus".
No, it's not.
Huh? How are these good?
* American products become cheaper to foreign markets. This helps with the trade imbalances we currently have.
American products are cheaper. American employees paid less or offshored.
* Foreign products become more expensive to American consumers, also helping with trade deficits.
Most products sold to American consumers are foriegn products. American employees being paid less because of the first point above also have more difficulty affording most products they buy, because of the second point.
* It discourages foreign workers from sneaking into the US. Getting $4.00 an hour is suddenly not so much compared to what they get paid in their home country.
Doesn't matter, because we don't need them to come to America. We can just oursource and offshore to them in their own country.
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Frankly, more children should drop out of school early and find something vocational to get into.
Better than having them interfere with the education of children who have potential and actually care to learn.
Besides, not everyone is meant for college. Even those of us who become very successful in life. So why delay their entrance into real life just for some lofty never-achievable ideal?