Strange, I coulda swore I saw something someplace that said the death rate is the same for everybody - One life, one death.
Personally, with my current health state, I don't want to live forever. And yes, I live in what most believe to be the most technologically advanced society on the planet, however, medical technology ain't cheap. What good is top-notch health care if you can't afford it?
The other, slightly less, logical explanation is that the difference in mass can simply be explained by the number of missing ballpoint pens in the universe.
But that doesn't explain where all those goddamned clothes hangers come from.
It's not so much that they want someone to sue, but companies have to demonstrate that they took care to avoid unnecessary losses. Having a support contract with a company such as Redhat goes a long way to absolving managers of responsibility if something bad happens.
It also helps cut down on insurance premiums against data loss if the company can show a support contract to a recognised software vendor. RedHat is one, so is Microsoft.
Shelleytherepublican is *satire* people. Out of the 10 or 11 passionate replies in this thread, only one person seems to have noticed that. Everyone else, consider yourselves trolled.
Tru dat.
But how many people REALLY believe this satire is for real? My sister, goddess love her, really believes that Bush is not only right but the best president ever, that the Iraqis had WMDs, that the Iraqis were getting ready to use said WMDs on the US, and only President Bush can save us.
If fluxbox had a "start button" and icons on the desktop by default, I'd agree, but it doesn't. As it is, I have Ctrl+F1 setup to bring up the root menu, which is handy when I'm running a maximized application.
Maybe if enough scumbag IP holding companies extort enough money out of big corporations, those corporations will lobby congress to get the patent laws changed.
Sounds plausible, til you think it through.
A megacorp pushing through legislation to eliminate patent troll lawsuits would possibly also step on said megacorp's ability to sue its competitors down to the point where they can be snapped up dirt cheap, looted, & the remains dumped into the sewer. I don't see any megacorp pushing for that because a litigated takeover is cheaper than actually coming up with the Next Brilliant Idea.
Cause it sure looks like neither the best interests of the country and its citizens, nor general sanity are enough to get them to do anything.
Personally, I consider the thought of getting all the government I pay for to be a frightening thought.
A $200 Linux PC at Walmart, I can't tell whether to be happy that it actually being sold? or to be sad that it is being sold by the biggest corporation in the world.:(
Kinda like seeing your ex-wife drive off a cliff after a messy divorce...
My settop box is running a Via 600 MHz processor, 512 meg of RAM on a mini-itx motherboard, feeding AVIs to a tv screen. It also runs KDE. Picture quality is pretty good, considering.
I think I can punch it up to a gig of memory if memory serves me right. Can't remember off the top of my head what model number the motherboard is, I've had it for like 3 years...
Many that join peace groups and agitate for violence are actually undercover police in both Canada and the US. Some got caught on video at some summit in Ontario. The idiots had standard issue police boots, holding bottles and were shouted down but the regular (peaceful) protesters.
Well, then, when those people are violent, and get arrested, they probably won't have to worry about whether they're on a list of violent people that are regularly arrested, will they? And since they're actually cops, you won't care if they ARE arrested, right? Even stipulating the existence of such, why should you care? If that guy throws a bottle, does that mean that you have to one-up him and throw a brick at some poor woman walking by on the sidewalk? Of course not.
Ah, but take your normal uniformed cop in the streets, who isn't clued up about the undercovers in the midst of the protesters, but 'briefed' on the 'possibility' that the protest will turn violent at the drop of a hat, and they'll be ready to retaliate at the first thrown object. Just look at Kent State, where the guardsmen just came off a trucker's strike that was within inches of turning massively violent. All it would take would be one thrown bottle and a riot could break out. And what better way to discredit a protest than to instigate a riot? "Hey, we're not talking about peaceful hippie types here, this group caused a riot!" looks good to government spin doctors, particularly if there's some footage showing bottles & bricks flying out of the center of the protesters into the cops. The possibility is there to create their own incident to justify clamping down on things even more. This is an old concept, well documented in history.
As I understand it inclusion on this list does not bar people entering Canada, but is rather a tool for evaluating if they have a criminal record. If it is a ticket for jaywalking that got them on the list that would be crazy, but these are arrests for real crimes, so why shouldn't they wind up in a criminal database.
You can get arrested for 'criminal tresspass' for protesting outside the 'free speech zones' tucked far away from the media circus at the 'main event'. Welcome to the Brave New World...
If these kinds of arrests and convictions are typical of the arrests of these two, then they shouldn't be on this database. Thirty eight arrests sounds pretty serious, til you look at what the arrests were for. Somehow I doubt there were any for burglary, assault (unless the cops filed them for the arrestees 'assaulting' their riot batons with their heads), or murder, else these guys would still be in jail irregardless of their political connections.
I'm wondering if former and current heads of the FBI still indulge in the time-honored tradition of its founder, that of spying on everybody likely to be able to wield some kind of power and maintaining a blackmail file on them. If the answer is 'yes', what makes you so sure Congress can sit on the FBI at all? Congresscritters, despite all evidence to the contrary, are humans, and humans do screw up and have things in their past they really don't want outted. Consider a certain cocaine snorting frat boy who cleaned up. What would happen to his support base if somebody found out something really juicy, if say, for instance, one of his sainted daughters had had an abortion or something?
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Personally, with my current health state, I don't want to live forever. And yes, I live in what most believe to be the most technologically advanced society on the planet, however, medical technology ain't cheap. What good is top-notch health care if you can't afford it?
Not to mention your latency. FPS are gonna suck on this net...
We better jump on that before the real estate developers invade. otherwise, we'll be up to our asses in telemarketters...
Downside, they're judging us all by William Shatner.
Walking bird, standing dog, big eye, big eye, snake, archer, pyramid.
But that doesn't explain where all those goddamned clothes hangers come from.
So who didn't look under the couch???
It also helps cut down on insurance premiums against data loss if the company can show a support contract to a recognised software vendor. RedHat is one, so is Microsoft.
Nobody ever got fired for specifying Microsoft...
Been watching a lotta Star Trek fanfic video lately, eh?
Tru dat.
But how many people REALLY believe this satire is for real? My sister, goddess love her, really believes that Bush is not only right but the best president ever, that the Iraqis had WMDs, that the Iraqis were getting ready to use said WMDs on the US, and only President Bush can save us.
What do you consider 'crimes against humanity'? And does abortion and/or masturbation count as genocide as they both deny life to possible people?
Guess I better find all those unpaid parking tickets, eh?
Possibly this would do, if it were updated?
Sounds plausible, til you think it through.
A megacorp pushing through legislation to eliminate patent troll lawsuits would possibly also step on said megacorp's ability to sue its competitors down to the point where they can be snapped up dirt cheap, looted, & the remains dumped into the sewer. I don't see any megacorp pushing for that because a litigated takeover is cheaper than actually coming up with the Next Brilliant Idea.
Personally, I consider the thought of getting all the government I pay for to be a frightening thought.
Kinda like seeing your ex-wife drive off a cliff after a messy divorce...
Haven't had the chance to test out the SATA connection on mine yet, but the motherboard's been stable as a rock here for 3 years at 600 MHz...
I think I can punch it up to a gig of memory if memory serves me right. Can't remember off the top of my head what model number the motherboard is, I've had it for like 3 years...
Same here. Why no fluxbox?
Good times, good times...
The protections are in there. They're just being ignored for the sake of politics.
Firing squads, armed with flying chairs.
"The other guys" were trying to develope their own bomb. The United States just got there first.
Ah, but take your normal uniformed cop in the streets, who isn't clued up about the undercovers in the midst of the protesters, but 'briefed' on the 'possibility' that the protest will turn violent at the drop of a hat, and they'll be ready to retaliate at the first thrown object. Just look at Kent State, where the guardsmen just came off a trucker's strike that was within inches of turning massively violent. All it would take would be one thrown bottle and a riot could break out. And what better way to discredit a protest than to instigate a riot? "Hey, we're not talking about peaceful hippie types here, this group caused a riot!" looks good to government spin doctors, particularly if there's some footage showing bottles & bricks flying out of the center of the protesters into the cops. The possibility is there to create their own incident to justify clamping down on things even more. This is an old concept, well documented in history.
You can get arrested for 'criminal tresspass' for protesting outside the 'free speech zones' tucked far away from the media circus at the 'main event'. Welcome to the Brave New World...
If these kinds of arrests and convictions are typical of the arrests of these two, then they shouldn't be on this database. Thirty eight arrests sounds pretty serious, til you look at what the arrests were for. Somehow I doubt there were any for burglary, assault (unless the cops filed them for the arrestees 'assaulting' their riot batons with their heads), or murder, else these guys would still be in jail irregardless of their political connections.
I'm wondering if former and current heads of the FBI still indulge in the time-honored tradition of its founder, that of spying on everybody likely to be able to wield some kind of power and maintaining a blackmail file on them. If the answer is 'yes', what makes you so sure Congress can sit on the FBI at all? Congresscritters, despite all evidence to the contrary, are humans, and humans do screw up and have things in their past they really don't want outted. Consider a certain cocaine snorting frat boy who cleaned up. What would happen to his support base if somebody found out something really juicy, if say, for instance, one of his sainted daughters had had an abortion or something?