Cycling on it's own doesn't mean your fit. Also, if you are a cycler, I did ride my bike to school when I was 10, with a lot more than eight pounds in my backpack... closer to 14. I was able to do it, and your body does adapt.
You dope. We ALL have toll roads. Every time you buy gas, you are charged the toll that funds road maintenance. You seem so intelligent; I can't believe you never realized that obvious fact (gas taxes==the road tolls).
As for your comment "The further away you get from the people, the more fucked up things become"..... it's [retty much all levels that are flawed. After all, it was the dumbass LOCAL government that granted Comcast a monopoly in my city. Had they been smart, they'd have given us three or four companies to choose from.
I guess you elected stupid or selfish leaders then. My city has done very well rolling its own service. It's cheaper than Comcast and offers better service all around.
See, at the very least at the city level you can change something. Even if you're in NYC, your vote is one of only 8,274,527. That's a lot of people in the "community," but the flip side is that at the national level, you only count for one in 300,000,000. So.. which one do you have more hope of changing for the better?
Well, even the DNA samples have been called into question. Yes, if you actually recorded every single piece of DNA in a person, you'd probably have something close to foolproof. But not quite.
As it is though, I think we only look at a 130 some markers... so the changes of "collisions" are greatly increased. Also, it's been shown that some people actually have two sets of DNA. It's not been ascertained how many people may have two sets of DNA in them.
Well, my city managed to offer triple play over FTTH just fine, and without taxpayer money. I switched to them as soon as they offered service on my street, and for the same price I get more channels, which are not supercompressed (DVD quality, actually), phone service and internet.
Comcast, before my city started their own network, was offering 2MB / 768k internet. Shortly after, they bumped it up to 10MB I think, but still not syncronous. They haven't replaced any lines or done any upgrades whatsoever, so that tells me they always COULD offer that level of service, but didn't so they could squeeze more money out of people.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, since you're describing the same thing I did.
Here in Burlington though, the city IS offering their own services on their own lines. There's competition now, since Comcast has it's own lines. According to everything I read though, the city department WILL allow other companies to offer services over the city lines that compete with their own offerings.
Yeah because local, state and/or national governments have done such a wonderful job with their ownership of the Retirement plan (SS almost bankrupt)
I'd argue that's because it's at a federal level. The further away you get from "the people," the more fucked up things become. Besides, retirement planning (or lack thereof) is a personal issue. It doesn't really affect me whether or not you save for retirement. It does benefit everyone to have a reliable communications network.
the roads (rising tolls and decreasing maintenance)
What tolls? Oh, sorry, you live in a state with toll roads. Well, our roads here aren't perfect, but they're good enough, and I can get around at good speeds. The interstate is actually really well maintained.
the right-of-ways for cable tv lines (bribes to politicians to gain permanent monoopoly)
Um, that issue would be totally gone becaue the government would, you know, be getting the right of way and laying the cable.
and the government-owned schools (duh; where's the U.S. located on a world map? Who knows? Certainly not a gov't graduation.).
What a wide brush you paint with. I went to public school, and certainly know where the US is on a map. I actually learned enough in HS chemistry to get most through almost all of my college chemistry classes. Not bad.
Anything the government touches is doomed to provide poor service and/or esclating prices. The best way to solve a problem is to keep government as far away as possible, and instead introduce competition between multiple companies (i.e. have Comcast, Time-Warner, and Cox all competing to supply television/internet to your home). A free market solution is preferable to a poorly-run, poorly-managed government monopoly.
You're right, that's why my lights are always going out, and my electric bill is through the roof. Don't get me started on city water, or the fiber network my city rolled out... oh wait, all of those city provided services are reliable and reasonally priced.
And I now have 8MB syncronous internet, where as before I didn't even have the option of DSL (even though I was in city limits) and comcast offered only 2MB down, 768k up. Well, they did until the CITY rolled out its FTTH network.
The only non-city services I have are trash removal and natural gas.
Its not much use when shopping, but I dont fancy, going to uni, going home dropping the laptop off, going shopping, then going home. I generally put all my stuff in my bag at the beginning of a day, then dont get home till the evening. Another situation is having to go home to leave the laptop, before going to the union for a night out.
Well, that I can understand. Usually though I'll end up going back and forth... or I'd leave my laptop at home if I want to go somewhere right after. If I really had to have everything with me, I'd invest in a backpack type laptop bag, designed to protect the laptop and providing more storage space. I understand that's just me though.
The subway problem is more that the laptop is hard and can be damaged, but my books, papers, notes or change of clothes (lab coat, etc), while space filling/heavy dont need me to be careful with the bag.
Ya, true, which is why I personally would just leave it unless I needed it. Or invest in the aformentioned bag. My personal choice would be for a workable laptop, I can't imagine the Eeepc or whatever performs well or has a usable keyboard.. if I had one I'd likely smash it because I'm really picky about how a keyboard is laid out. Just my preference though..
I couldn't care less. Your dad doesn't carry my bag, I do. Listing the people who agree with you is useless.
Hmm, well my dad and you can't. Maybe you're just not very good at what you're trying to do.
And? Other people don't want to, and you're not them.
It seems you think your opinion is relevant to others purchases when the truth is I buy what I want for my needs, and what you think doesn't matter at all.
Well if you don't care what I think, why did you bother to respond? Personally I think whining about three extra pounds is useless. I'm guessing you've never been to the gym, because three pounds is very light, when you're talking about going from three to six. Seriously, if you think eight pounds total is a problem, you probably should re-examine your lifestyle.
My opinion becomes more relevent when you and other fat, lazy people complain about carrying three extra pounds and drive up health insurance premiums.
Not sure why you'd bring your laptop with you while shopping... what use would you have for it while shopping? As far as your subway woes, it doesn't sound like the laptop is the problem, it sounds like you have a lot of stuff you need to bring onto the subway. Take the laptop out but add more of whatever it is you're lugging around.. it's still a pain, is it not?
Hmm, my dad rode a motorcycle to work and had to bring a laptop back and forth. Never seemed a problem for him. Also, in NYC they have people on bikes deliverying pizzas, which I imagine are more difficult because you can't let them tip. Yet they seem to manage.
Oh ya, and I would ride my bike with a backpack full of books to and from my bus stop.
Oh, and while you might feel smart using a word like "jingoist" in your post, you come off looking really dumb when the poster to which you responded is an American..
Really? The same US that says "speech also has unrelated consequences?" That US? As far as your tirad on the death penality, the US has put innocent people to death. Yes, that's a rights violation.
Unless we have a system that will never put an innocent person to death, we shouldn't have a death penality. Since there's no such thing as a perfect system, there should be no such thing as a death penality.
We shouldn't. Service providers should be seperated from line ownership, and lines should be owned by the state or local municipalities. What really needs to be done is for Comcast to rot in hell though.
Has America gotten so fat and lazy that 6 to 8 lbs is considered a huge burden? I have a 15" notebook from 2001 and it's carrying case is no bigger than a standard messenger bag as well..
The government never has good intentions. Its only intentions are individuals all trying to gain more power for themselves. There's nothing more to it than that.
The only way to fix it is to get rid of all these agencies completely. Nor more FBI, nor more CIA, no more NSA, no more SEC, FTC, FCC. All gone. As an added bonus, we all get to keep a lot more of our money each paycheck.
Yes I do. I also, having done nothing but watched TV for even just one week, know that TV is no cure for boredom. If your entire life is TV, what exactly are you being distracted from?
And that's my point. They didn't write "all men share the same set of rights". They probably meant that (I share your interpretation), but the words they used were different, and can be read differently. As with all words.
Which is why it's important to understand their philosophy. If you do, you realize what they meant. Their writings are not meant to be independant and taken out of context. I don't know why someone would suggest that.
Which is why you're essentially fucked by definition if your entire work is only words, as in philosophy. And sorry, the reference to context doesn't solve that problem, it only complicates it because it increases the amount of words that need interpretation. Only an actual, factual context, as in physical reality, can dissolve ambiguities finally.
Sorry, that's not true. You're talking about a legal document verus a philosophical one. Philosophic writings will go into great depth on the topic; unless you're reading the cliff notes version, or only one small work, its almost impossible to totally misunderstand the philosophy. Much of philosophy is logic.
Going back to the Declaration, that was an open letter to the king / parlament. Since I don't think they subscribed to the founders philosophy, its likely that anyone living at that time would understand what is meant by "all men are created equal." It's hard to read Shakespear; no one uses that form of english anymore, but it's not that words have changed meanings, its because the memes of the day have changed. In the philosophy I've read (I minored in Philosophy), I haven't come across many memes.. they are trying to be clear so that others understand.
How is MS abusing their monopoly here? Oh, they're not.. so what's your point? MS isn't doing anything different in this case than any other company would.
Pretty amusing. But it does make me wonder about other environmental factors. Strong radio broadcasts, lots of static electricity in the air, etc. Not saying Monster cables are worth more than standard ones, but I think there might be something to be said for shielding cables.
Also, I would wonder if the shielding matters more or less to digital speakers.
No, I think you're pretty much spot on. I almost left web development because of ASP, which is basically PHP but using VB keywords. I was glad when Asp.Net came to save MS project teams from that horrid language. Why anyone seriously considers script a good way to build an application is beyond me.
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They should be taking a lot more. My wife and I together make less than six figures, and OUR effective tax rate is 25.5%. Tell me how that's fair.
Interesting indeed. Read up more from that link. Some people have different DNA for their skin / hair than they do their heart / liver.
Cycling on it's own doesn't mean your fit. Also, if you are a cycler, I did ride my bike to school when I was 10, with a lot more than eight pounds in my backpack... closer to 14. I was able to do it, and your body does adapt.
You dope. We ALL have toll roads. Every time you buy gas, you are charged the toll that funds road maintenance. You seem so intelligent; I can't believe you never realized that obvious fact (gas taxes==the road tolls).
No, you're the dope. Toll roads do NOT include roads funded by other means. A gas tax is not a toll, by definition.
As for your comment "The further away you get from the people, the more fucked up things become"..... it's [retty much all levels that are flawed. After all, it was the dumbass LOCAL government that granted Comcast a monopoly in my city. Had they been smart, they'd have given us three or four companies to choose from.
I guess you elected stupid or selfish leaders then. My city has done very well rolling its own service. It's cheaper than Comcast and offers better service all around.
See, at the very least at the city level you can change something. Even if you're in NYC, your vote is one of only 8,274,527. That's a lot of people in the "community," but the flip side is that at the national level, you only count for one in 300,000,000. So.. which one do you have more hope of changing for the better?
Well, even the DNA samples have been called into question. Yes, if you actually recorded every single piece of DNA in a person, you'd probably have something close to foolproof. But not quite.
As it is though, I think we only look at a 130 some markers... so the changes of "collisions" are greatly increased. Also, it's been shown that some people actually have two sets of DNA. It's not been ascertained how many people may have two sets of DNA in them.
Well, my city managed to offer triple play over FTTH just fine, and without taxpayer money. I switched to them as soon as they offered service on my street, and for the same price I get more channels, which are not supercompressed (DVD quality, actually), phone service and internet.
Comcast, before my city started their own network, was offering 2MB / 768k internet. Shortly after, they bumped it up to 10MB I think, but still not syncronous. They haven't replaced any lines or done any upgrades whatsoever, so that tells me they always COULD offer that level of service, but didn't so they could squeeze more money out of people.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, since you're describing the same thing I did.
Here in Burlington though, the city IS offering their own services on their own lines. There's competition now, since Comcast has it's own lines. According to everything I read though, the city department WILL allow other companies to offer services over the city lines that compete with their own offerings.
Yeah because local, state and/or national governments have done such a wonderful job with their ownership of the Retirement plan (SS almost bankrupt)
I'd argue that's because it's at a federal level. The further away you get from "the people," the more fucked up things become. Besides, retirement planning (or lack thereof) is a personal issue. It doesn't really affect me whether or not you save for retirement. It does benefit everyone to have a reliable communications network.
the roads (rising tolls and decreasing maintenance)
What tolls? Oh, sorry, you live in a state with toll roads. Well, our roads here aren't perfect, but they're good enough, and I can get around at good speeds. The interstate is actually really well maintained.
the right-of-ways for cable tv lines (bribes to politicians to gain permanent monoopoly)
Um, that issue would be totally gone becaue the government would, you know, be getting the right of way and laying the cable.
and the government-owned schools (duh; where's the U.S. located on a world map? Who knows? Certainly not a gov't graduation.).
What a wide brush you paint with. I went to public school, and certainly know where the US is on a map. I actually learned enough in HS chemistry to get most through almost all of my college chemistry classes. Not bad.
Anything the government touches is doomed to provide poor service and/or esclating prices. The best way to solve a problem is to keep government as far away as possible, and instead introduce competition between multiple companies (i.e. have Comcast, Time-Warner, and Cox all competing to supply television/internet to your home). A free market solution is preferable to a poorly-run, poorly-managed government monopoly.
You're right, that's why my lights are always going out, and my electric bill is through the roof. Don't get me started on city water, or the fiber network my city rolled out... oh wait, all of those city provided services are reliable and reasonally priced.
And I now have 8MB syncronous internet, where as before I didn't even have the option of DSL (even though I was in city limits) and comcast offered only 2MB down, 768k up. Well, they did until the CITY rolled out its FTTH network.
The only non-city services I have are trash removal and natural gas.
Its not much use when shopping, but I dont fancy, going to uni, going home dropping the laptop off, going shopping, then going home. I generally put all my stuff in my bag at the beginning of a day, then dont get home till the evening. Another situation is having to go home to leave the laptop, before going to the union for a night out.
Well, that I can understand. Usually though I'll end up going back and forth... or I'd leave my laptop at home if I want to go somewhere right after. If I really had to have everything with me, I'd invest in a backpack type laptop bag, designed to protect the laptop and providing more storage space. I understand that's just me though.
The subway problem is more that the laptop is hard and can be damaged, but my books, papers, notes or change of clothes (lab coat, etc), while space filling/heavy dont need me to be careful with the bag.
Ya, true, which is why I personally would just leave it unless I needed it. Or invest in the aformentioned bag. My personal choice would be for a workable laptop, I can't imagine the Eeepc or whatever performs well or has a usable keyboard.. if I had one I'd likely smash it because I'm really picky about how a keyboard is laid out. Just my preference though..
I couldn't care less. Your dad doesn't carry my bag, I do. Listing the people who agree with you is useless.
Hmm, well my dad and you can't. Maybe you're just not very good at what you're trying to do.
And? Other people don't want to, and you're not them.
It seems you think your opinion is relevant to others purchases when the truth is I buy what I want for my needs, and what you think doesn't matter at all.
Well if you don't care what I think, why did you bother to respond? Personally I think whining about three extra pounds is useless. I'm guessing you've never been to the gym, because three pounds is very light, when you're talking about going from three to six. Seriously, if you think eight pounds total is a problem, you probably should re-examine your lifestyle.
My opinion becomes more relevent when you and other fat, lazy people complain about carrying three extra pounds and drive up health insurance premiums.
Not sure why you'd bring your laptop with you while shopping... what use would you have for it while shopping? As far as your subway woes, it doesn't sound like the laptop is the problem, it sounds like you have a lot of stuff you need to bring onto the subway. Take the laptop out but add more of whatever it is you're lugging around.. it's still a pain, is it not?
Hmm, my dad rode a motorcycle to work and had to bring a laptop back and forth. Never seemed a problem for him. Also, in NYC they have people on bikes deliverying pizzas, which I imagine are more difficult because you can't let them tip. Yet they seem to manage.
Oh ya, and I would ride my bike with a backpack full of books to and from my bus stop.
Oh, and while you might feel smart using a word like "jingoist" in your post, you come off looking really dumb when the poster to which you responded is an American..
Don't feel so bad, you still got re-elected as President.
Really? The same US that says "speech also has unrelated consequences?" That US? As far as your tirad on the death penality, the US has put innocent people to death. Yes, that's a rights violation.
Unless we have a system that will never put an innocent person to death, we shouldn't have a death penality. Since there's no such thing as a perfect system, there should be no such thing as a death penality.
We shouldn't. Service providers should be seperated from line ownership, and lines should be owned by the state or local municipalities. What really needs to be done is for Comcast to rot in hell though.
It's also "ultra-unusable."
Has America gotten so fat and lazy that 6 to 8 lbs is considered a huge burden? I have a 15" notebook from 2001 and it's carrying case is no bigger than a standard messenger bag as well..
The government never has good intentions. Its only intentions are individuals all trying to gain more power for themselves. There's nothing more to it than that.
The only way to fix it is to get rid of all these agencies completely. Nor more FBI, nor more CIA, no more NSA, no more SEC, FTC, FCC. All gone. As an added bonus, we all get to keep a lot more of our money each paycheck.
Yes I do. I also, having done nothing but watched TV for even just one week, know that TV is no cure for boredom. If your entire life is TV, what exactly are you being distracted from?
And that's my point. They didn't write "all men share the same set of rights". They probably meant that (I share your interpretation), but the words they used were different, and can be read differently. As with all words.
Which is why it's important to understand their philosophy. If you do, you realize what they meant. Their writings are not meant to be independant and taken out of context. I don't know why someone would suggest that.
Which is why you're essentially fucked by definition if your entire work is only words, as in philosophy. And sorry, the reference to context doesn't solve that problem, it only complicates it because it increases the amount of words that need interpretation. Only an actual, factual context, as in physical reality, can dissolve ambiguities finally.
Sorry, that's not true. You're talking about a legal document verus a philosophical one. Philosophic writings will go into great depth on the topic; unless you're reading the cliff notes version, or only one small work, its almost impossible to totally misunderstand the philosophy. Much of philosophy is logic.
Going back to the Declaration, that was an open letter to the king / parlament. Since I don't think they subscribed to the founders philosophy, its likely that anyone living at that time would understand what is meant by "all men are created equal." It's hard to read Shakespear; no one uses that form of english anymore, but it's not that words have changed meanings, its because the memes of the day have changed. In the philosophy I've read (I minored in Philosophy), I haven't come across many memes.. they are trying to be clear so that others understand.
How is MS abusing their monopoly here? Oh, they're not.. so what's your point? MS isn't doing anything different in this case than any other company would.
What nonsense. Digital is not fool-proof. All it means is that with enough interference you lose ALL of the signal.
Pretty amusing. But it does make me wonder about other environmental factors. Strong radio broadcasts, lots of static electricity in the air, etc. Not saying Monster cables are worth more than standard ones, but I think there might be something to be said for shielding cables.
Also, I would wonder if the shielding matters more or less to digital speakers.
No, I think you're pretty much spot on. I almost left web development because of ASP, which is basically PHP but using VB keywords. I was glad when Asp.Net came to save MS project teams from that horrid language. Why anyone seriously considers script a good way to build an application is beyond me.
I agree, given that only half of the code was Ada code. Maybe it was all the non-Ada code that saved the project from Ada.