There is also something to be said for keeping guns off planes in general; a belligerent idiot with a gun in an enclosed space like a plane is pretty bad even if they're not a terrorist.
Eh, I didn't say we should arm the passengers. I said we should put an armed air marshal or two on every flight......
Well, we could just accept the fact that nothing can make us completely safe from terrorists and personally I'd rather live with the 0.00000001% chance of dying in a terrorist attack than surrender my civil liberties and live in fear. Something tells me that this isn't very likely to happen though.
Guess I'll be driving for the foreseeable future. It's not all bad though -- you get to control the music selection and don't have to put up with shitty food and horrible customer service;)
But, unless we totally scrap the system and go back to the 1960's security measures (not freaking likely given the level of politician and media inspired fear), I'll settle for a system that results in less hassle when I fly.
Why not scrap the system and use the money we are wasting to put an armed air marshal or two on every flight? I don't think box-cutters are going to be particularly effective against firearms....
Wouldn't it be ironic if they actually were virgins? "Your going to put WHAT in WHERE?", "Ouch! Ow! Ouch! Stop it! That hurts!" Hardly my idea of a good time;)
There are some people who think you can replace economic growth in the private sector with economic growth in the public sector and it's the same thing
It's not the same thing by any means but certain public sector investments do lead to economic growth in the private sector. Hoover Dam provided the electricity to grow Las Vegas. The interstate highway system helped to grow the trucking industry. NASA helped to spawn the commercial satellite industry. Etc, etc, etc.
but in the free world, pork financed with debt is an inflationary measure that doesn't increase the actual size of the economy.
What's pork? Would money sent to Minnesota to fix that bridge have qualified as "pork"? One man's pork is another man's "economic development".
Comrade Stalin would be proud of "9/11 changed everything" and our People's Liberation Army of Iraq.
Any form of blockade (especially an Oil one) against a nation at war
I think you are confused as to the meaning of the word 'blockade'. We didn't blockade Japan to prevent her from importing oil -- we refused to supply her with American oil. Bit of a difference there.
FDR and his staff collaborated on many schemes to get the USA into WW2 and their intention to do so is not in dispute. Japan took the bait before Germany; I don't care what FDR said to either nation, his actions to both nations were hostile and they obviously knew it (while the American public did not.)
I would still dispute the notion that FDR desired a war with Japan. He didn't shrink from it once it happened but his focus was always on Germany.
If this is a negative collaboration then FDR's actions are by definition conspiracy.
Well if you want to split hairs then I suppose you are right. Any agreement by two or more people can be labeled as a 'conspiracy'. What I would dispute is the notion that FDR knew Pearl Harbor was coming and allowed it to happen to further his agenda -- how was his agenda served by going to war with Japan? There was no guarantee that we would get involved in Europe until Hitler was stupid enough to declare war on the United States.
No, pot smokers who speed lead us off the road right into a tree;p
Hahaha, true enough. Reminds me of a joke: What's the difference between a stoned driver and a drunk driver? The drunk driver blows right past the stop sign without even slowing down. The stoned driver stops at the stop sign and waits for it to turn green.
I agree. They shouldn't be selling 10/15/20+ mbit connections if they can't provide that speed to the end users. I wouldn't hold them accountable if their network can't handle the provisioned speeds during unforeseen events (like the cell networks not keeping up during the VA Tech shootings) but if they can't meet the provisioned speed a majority of the time then they need to upgrade their damn network or stop selling those speed tiers.
I guess it's easier to market if you use great big BOLD letters that say "10 megabits" and little tiny ones in 4 point font preceding them that say "Up to"
Who gets to decide how traffic is metered? If it had been metered back in the late 90s/early 2000s with typical usage levels of the time I doubt we'd have all these wonderful video on demand services.
Metered bandwidth is a death blow to innovation.....
That is a slippery slope, friend. You have chosen to live in a society and by extension have chosen to live by society's rules.
Didn't that society also make a few promises to the people that decided to live in it? Like freedom of speech, freedom to keep and bear arms, freedom against self-incrimination, etc, etc, etc?
If everyone gets to pick and choose which ones they want to abide by and not, then that becomes anarchy
So pot-smokers and people who exceed the speed limit lead us down the road to anarchy?
Provoking Japan to get the USA in WW2 early WAS actually long term thinking on FDR's part (and sneaky.)
I agreed with everything else you said but this line is conspiracy theory bs. FDR didn't have to provoke Japan to get the USA into WW2 -- he was already in the process of provoking Germany. He had already agreed with Churchill that the European Front would be the priority if Japan couldn't be kept out of the war. Our Navy was escorting Atlantic convoys as early as March 1941 and even had orders to sink German U-boats on sight. The USS Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk over a month before Pearl Harbor. For all practical purposes we were already at war with Germany before Pearl Harbor even happened.
FDR tried to bully Japan into giving up her ambitions in China but the notion that he desired a war with them doesn't survive a serious examination of the historical evidence. His focus was always on Europe and Nazi Germany. FDR even sent a note to Emperor Hirohito the day before Pearl Harbor trying to restart diplomatic talks.
Are these kinds of investigations really inherently bad in and of themselves or is it just the way the RIAA has handled the court procedings after the fact?
Depends on if you see anything "bad" with unlicensed investigative agencies using unproven/untested/unverified software written by god-knows-who to track down alleged copyright infringement based on the "making available" argument with no knowledge of whether or not the alleged copyright infringer actually uploaded any copies of the file(s) in question.
they violate laws in their investigations
Wait, so you just asked if these kinds of investigations are really inherently bad and then later spoke of the fact that they violate the law in the process of those investigations? Didn't you just answer your own question?
I hear ya there brother who knows what kind of schemes they are hatching in that 263kb install file! Such poor reasoning...
That's the whole point. Who knows. This guysaid it better than I can: "If I'm going to be using a program for traffic that's as controversial these days as bittorrent it had better be able to demonstrate what it's doing under the hood."
I do like rTorrent a lot. Especially for something that I want to seed for a good long while -- my Linux box runs 24/7 whereas my Windows box is only turned on when I need to use it.
utorrent isn't open-source. And I'm not brave enough to use a closed-source client from a company that has signed agreements with the RIAA and MPAA, particularly when open-source alternatives are available.
The latter is far more likely than the former to have the desired effect. It seems to me that downloading whatever you want has been proven repeatedly to be used by the RIAA to justify their tactics.
Oh, I wasn't downloading whatever I want to make a point to RIAA. I was downloading whatever I want because it was free. I think most people would acknowledge on some level that it's wrong to do that -- what I would dispute is that the person who engages in file-sharing deserves to be punished more harshly than the person who shoplifts a CD.
If somebody got a $222,000 fine for shoplifting a $20 CD I'm fairly certain that it would cause public outrage and probably be ruled unconstitutional. Funny RIAA uses the civil system to accomplish what the criminal system would acknowledge as being completely disproportional to the "crime" that was committed......
Well, if bloat is your issue then I've found the Linux command line client rTorrent to be my personal favorite. When I'm going to be seeding something for the long term (like the new Fedora version that just came out) I'm usually doing so in rTorrent running in a detached screen. That way I don't have to keep my Windows box running 24/7 just to seed something.
As far as GUI clients though I've always been partial to Azureus. To each their own I guess.....
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There is also something to be said for keeping guns off planes in general; a belligerent idiot with a gun in an enclosed space like a plane is pretty bad even if they're not a terrorist.
Eh, I didn't say we should arm the passengers. I said we should put an armed air marshal or two on every flight......
And we're right back where we started
Well, we could just accept the fact that nothing can make us completely safe from terrorists and personally I'd rather live with the 0.00000001% chance of dying in a terrorist attack than surrender my civil liberties and live in fear. Something tells me that this isn't very likely to happen though.
Guess I'll be driving for the foreseeable future. It's not all bad though -- you get to control the music selection and don't have to put up with shitty food and horrible customer service ;)
But, unless we totally scrap the system and go back to the 1960's security measures (not freaking likely given the level of politician and media inspired fear), I'll settle for a system that results in less hassle when I fly.
Why not scrap the system and use the money we are wasting to put an armed air marshal or two on every flight? I don't think box-cutters are going to be particularly effective against firearms....
And they STAY virgins!
Wouldn't it be ironic if they actually were virgins? "Your going to put WHAT in WHERE?", "Ouch! Ow! Ouch! Stop it! That hurts!" Hardly my idea of a good time ;)
I mean Ninjas are good, but last time I checked .357 SIG > Ninjas, if you're any good with a firearm.
.45s have more stopping power ;) Either way though I hope the ninja doesn't have his own ranged weapon....
as they're the only ones not worried about arriving at their destination late
But what if they are late arriving in paradise and someone else gets the virgins?
wonderful piece of technology known as the polygraph before..... don't polygraphs also rely (in part) on body temperature, heart rate and respiration?
There are some people who think you can replace economic growth in the private sector with economic growth in the public sector and it's the same thing
It's not the same thing by any means but certain public sector investments do lead to economic growth in the private sector. Hoover Dam provided the electricity to grow Las Vegas. The interstate highway system helped to grow the trucking industry. NASA helped to spawn the commercial satellite industry. Etc, etc, etc.
but in the free world, pork financed with debt is an inflationary measure that doesn't increase the actual size of the economy.
What's pork? Would money sent to Minnesota to fix that bridge have qualified as "pork"? One man's pork is another man's "economic development".
Comrade Stalin would be proud of "9/11 changed everything" and our People's Liberation Army of Iraq.
Geessh, hyperbole much do you?
Any form of blockade (especially an Oil one) against a nation at war
I think you are confused as to the meaning of the word 'blockade'. We didn't blockade Japan to prevent her from importing oil -- we refused to supply her with American oil. Bit of a difference there.
FDR and his staff collaborated on many schemes to get the USA into WW2 and their intention to do so is not in dispute. Japan took the bait before Germany; I don't care what FDR said to either nation, his actions to both nations were hostile and they obviously knew it (while the American public did not.)
I would still dispute the notion that FDR desired a war with Japan. He didn't shrink from it once it happened but his focus was always on Germany.
If this is a negative collaboration then FDR's actions are by definition conspiracy.
Well if you want to split hairs then I suppose you are right. Any agreement by two or more people can be labeled as a 'conspiracy'. What I would dispute is the notion that FDR knew Pearl Harbor was coming and allowed it to happen to further his agenda -- how was his agenda served by going to war with Japan? There was no guarantee that we would get involved in Europe until Hitler was stupid enough to declare war on the United States.
No, pot smokers who speed lead us off the road right into a tree ;p
Hahaha, true enough. Reminds me of a joke: What's the difference between a stoned driver and a drunk driver? The drunk driver blows right past the stop sign without even slowing down. The stoned driver stops at the stop sign and waits for it to turn green.
I agree. They shouldn't be selling 10/15/20+ mbit connections if they can't provide that speed to the end users. I wouldn't hold them accountable if their network can't handle the provisioned speeds during unforeseen events (like the cell networks not keeping up during the VA Tech shootings) but if they can't meet the provisioned speed a majority of the time then they need to upgrade their damn network or stop selling those speed tiers.
I guess it's easier to market if you use great big BOLD letters that say "10 megabits" and little tiny ones in 4 point font preceding them that say "Up to"
Civil disobedience in modern society just gets you in a lot of trouble.
Stupid Rosa Parks and her civil disobedience. Could have avoided all that hassle if she had just given up her seat......
Who gets to decide how traffic is metered? If it had been metered back in the late 90s/early 2000s with typical usage levels of the time I doubt we'd have all these wonderful video on demand services.
Metered bandwidth is a death blow to innovation.....
That is a slippery slope, friend. You have chosen to live in a society and by extension have chosen to live by society's rules.
Didn't that society also make a few promises to the people that decided to live in it? Like freedom of speech, freedom to keep and bear arms, freedom against self-incrimination, etc, etc, etc?
If everyone gets to pick and choose which ones they want to abide by and not, then that becomes anarchy
So pot-smokers and people who exceed the speed limit lead us down the road to anarchy?
Provoking Japan to get the USA in WW2 early WAS actually long term thinking on FDR's part (and sneaky.)
I agreed with everything else you said but this line is conspiracy theory bs. FDR didn't have to provoke Japan to get the USA into WW2 -- he was already in the process of provoking Germany. He had already agreed with Churchill that the European Front would be the priority if Japan couldn't be kept out of the war. Our Navy was escorting Atlantic convoys as early as March 1941 and even had orders to sink German U-boats on sight. The USS Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk over a month before Pearl Harbor. For all practical purposes we were already at war with Germany before Pearl Harbor even happened.
FDR tried to bully Japan into giving up her ambitions in China but the notion that he desired a war with them doesn't survive a serious examination of the historical evidence. His focus was always on Europe and Nazi Germany. FDR even sent a note to Emperor Hirohito the day before Pearl Harbor trying to restart diplomatic talks.
Are these kinds of investigations really inherently bad in and of themselves or is it just the way the RIAA has handled the court procedings after the fact?
Depends on if you see anything "bad" with unlicensed investigative agencies using unproven/untested/unverified software written by god-knows-who to track down alleged copyright infringement based on the "making available" argument with no knowledge of whether or not the alleged copyright infringer actually uploaded any copies of the file(s) in question.
they violate laws in their investigations
Wait, so you just asked if these kinds of investigations are really inherently bad and then later spoke of the fact that they violate the law in the process of those investigations? Didn't you just answer your own question?
Next you'll tell me that they have libraries and schools or something crazy like that ;)
Quark - "28 million dead? Can't we just wound some of them?"
If that same individual has a platoon of robots instead, the villagers are dead as soon as the order is issued.
That's why Dr. Soong worked so hard on that ethical program that was lacking in his first model android.... ;)
I hear ya there brother who knows what kind of schemes they are hatching in that 263kb install file! Such poor reasoning...
That's the whole point. Who knows. This guy said it better than I can: "If I'm going to be using a program for traffic that's as controversial these days as bittorrent it had better be able to demonstrate what it's doing under the hood."
I do like rTorrent a lot. Especially for something that I want to seed for a good long while -- my Linux box runs 24/7 whereas my Windows box is only turned on when I need to use it.
Azureus was great until they pushed Vuze down.
It takes less than 10 seconds to disable Vuze and verison 2.x is still supported in any event.....
utorrent seems to be one of the most popular.
utorrent isn't open-source. And I'm not brave enough to use a closed-source client from a company that has signed agreements with the RIAA and MPAA, particularly when open-source alternatives are available.
The latter is far more likely than the former to have the desired effect. It seems to me that downloading whatever you want has been proven repeatedly to be used by the RIAA to justify their tactics.
Oh, I wasn't downloading whatever I want to make a point to RIAA. I was downloading whatever I want because it was free. I think most people would acknowledge on some level that it's wrong to do that -- what I would dispute is that the person who engages in file-sharing deserves to be punished more harshly than the person who shoplifts a CD.
If somebody got a $222,000 fine for shoplifting a $20 CD I'm fairly certain that it would cause public outrage and probably be ruled unconstitutional. Funny RIAA uses the civil system to accomplish what the criminal system would acknowledge as being completely disproportional to the "crime" that was committed......
Personally, I hope they all burn in hell.
Well, if bloat is your issue then I've found the Linux command line client rTorrent to be my personal favorite. When I'm going to be seeding something for the long term (like the new Fedora version that just came out) I'm usually doing so in rTorrent running in a detached screen. That way I don't have to keep my Windows box running 24/7 just to seed something.
As far as GUI clients though I've always been partial to Azureus. To each their own I guess.....