"One one side people scream up and down that the parents should know what games there kids are playing and what movies they are watching. The other side screams censorship when a parent tries to take some responsibility."
well IANAP, but if i had kids i would TEACH them enough so that they were themselves responsible and I wouldn't have to do either extreme. honestly if I didnt have my own PC that I could use with my door closed, I would have just waited till my parents went to bed to look at pr0n on the family PC.
I don't know what you would be scared of your teenage or preteen children seeing on the internet anyways. If its not naked ladies and sodomizing goats, neither of which i find particularly offensive, and its not more violence or language than they can see on the teevee and have used in the playground, then what are you afraid of? radical islamists? hip hop culture? the point is that if you tell your teen girls that there psychos that will try and rape them, and the boys that their penis's dont really have to be 12 inches, you have nothing to fear from the net.
I would much rather my kids (that i dont have) watched no TV and used the internet than the reverse. TV is just sick brainwashing. the internet is whatever you make it.
Actually where i work we have about 200-300 users and they all have flat pannels. why?
- saves desk space - better on the eyes - 17inch LCD's are around $250 CAD
see that last one is what makes everyone happy. especially accounting. who wants a big honking dinosaur, when you can have a sleek sexy flatter on the desk. Plus it looks really cool when you have executives from other companies come in to visit. executives are often moved by the little things.
In a world where a decent office machine is about 400 dollars, theres alot of room to move when people think you cant get an office PC for under a grand.
"''It is unfortunately going to add a little bit of complexity to consumers," said Reid Sullivan, vice president of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. ''In some cases, depending on the product, they may have to manually increase or decrease the time.""
"Fetus, embryo, pre-born child = innocent. Capital criminal = guilty."
Except that should read
fetus, embryo = not ALIVE not HUMAN capital criminal = A HUMAN BEING
you see, life does not begin for you when your mother got knocked up by the village idiot. life began when you became conscious of your own exsistance, not in utero.
regarding criminals, sure execute them. better make damn sure the laws and courts are completly right 100% of the time though. I think thats most peoples issue. What if they make music piracy a capital crime? being a smoker?
so lets recap. capital criminal = beyond a reasonable doubt, human and has been for some time.
collection of cells in utero = one day has the POTENTIAL to become human.
before your born you are not in control of your own life. you are not able to make decisions, you are not free. you are a parasitic collection of cells living inside another organism. you are a slave to that which made you come to be, your mother. Anyone who says that the mother shouldnt have the right to say what does and does not happen inside of her, is fucking stupid. anti abortion is quite simply, control over women. i raped you, your mine, take my seed and bring forth my young!
Please go thru your post and replace "god" with "the unconscious universe" and your spot on. why does someone have to do something? maybe it just happened. maybe the universe is "god".
"But the one answer Science always fails is; What (or who) started it all? The creator is still a fully plausible explanation."
it was the nature of the universe, statistically, that we were to come into being. the randomness of the universe brought us here. no forethought, no intelligence, just randomness.
of course upon reading your post I only have one question for you. If you believe in a 'god', who created her? SEE: recursion.
"I am also not anti-abortion. But abortion is not only a "medical procedure", and not only about a "woman's choice". A life is ended."
OK thats just dumb come on. A life has ended? everytime you kill an insect a "life" has ended, as in the cells of the particular creature no longer replicate. is a fetus a human being? no. a fetus is a parasite eating off its host. conciousness is what makes you human. are newborn babies aware of their own exsistance? have you ever met a baby? they dont know shit!!
but i also think this world really needs to invent suicide booths, so like maybe i have a different sense of what the value placed on a human life should be. you are not a special flower.
"Her mom is not stupid, but she does hit the wrong button on her mouse. To her, there's no difference -- they both click."
really? because stupid is exactly the word i would use to describe someone who didnt know left from right. thats pretty grade school.
what probably happened is the mother just liked being on the phone with her daughter and was intentionally making mistakes to prolong the conversation.
"Not that ironic - MS doesn't actually make those peripherals, they are re-badged from other OEMs"
what the hell. people can just make shit up and get modded for it? do you have any evidence of this? the guy above me posted some videos of them actually making the mice so um STUFU!!!
Do you know how hard it is to close an account with amazon? I found out that they were tracking me on other websites, after my full name came up while browsing some store. Thats a very scary thing to see happen. I demanded that they delete all trace of me from their systems.
6 months later and they still are sending me junk email. This is after talking on the phone and email, being notified that my account was closed multiple times (they jsut flagged it the first few times aparently), and also trying to close it myself. Do you know what their website says when you try and close your account? theres no way to do it! they scare you into keeeping your account open, offer to delete your CC number from the account, etc. then after repeatedly telling them to just close the fucking account already, they prompt you to email someone. said email recipient tells you its closed, then a week later you are still able to logon and all your info is still there.
I mean come on. a button that says "close account" like every other god damn website out there. is that too much to ask? screw amazon. I dont trust them one bit.
"Hmm...most every cell phone plan I know has free long distance."
what!!! you mean you can call japan for free? you should resell that! they dont have that where i live, you could make mad money as i think its about 20-40cents a minute to call there.
I wouldnt use a client that did that. my god. the whole idea about electronic comunications is that you can pause and formulate a really sweet response to someone. if someone sees you typing for 5 minutes it doesnt really look like your a genius with whitty replies, who just had to go afk for a sec.
"Now, they're trying to make us think we've failed in Iraq because there are still some die-hard insurgents and foreign mercenaries giving trouble."
erm this is kind of a crazy example you have given. wish you picked something less clouded. I believe that most people think that the US has failed in iraq because 1) people are dying enmasse every day 2) The US military cares more about policing then delivering humanitarian aid 3) bush and blair lied to invade the country. 4) the administration is blinded as to why a violent occupation is being rebelled against. this has gotten to a point where as you say, the people responsible for the attacks against coalition forces need to be labled "insurgents, terrorists, and foreigners" instead of "citizens" and people of iraq.
If someone came into your country and started trying to run the show, with the humanitarian apathy of the US govt, I think you might just pick up some stones to throw as well. The problem with the invasion of iraq is that it was irresponsible, had no exit strategy, and when being informed about the war in the buildup, it was expressly stated that the war would be short and have very few american casualties.
Kids, like most other people, dont like being lied to.
just tried the first sheet from their test pages. I dont see any dots, but I dont know if i can or not. Anyways this printer looks to have no dots and was purchased fairly recently.
...The rhetorical framework rests on three pillars (Weeks): "the assumption of the unique moral virtue of the United States, the assertion of its mission to redeem the world" by spreading its professed ideals and the 'American way of life,' and the faith in the nation's "divinely ordained destiny". The theological framework undercuts reasoned debate, and reduces policy issues to a choice between Good and Evil, thus reducing the threat of democracy. Critics can be dismissed as "anti-American," an interesting concept borrowed from the lexicon of totalitarianism. And the population must huddle under the umbrella of power, in fear that its way of life and destiny are under imminent threat...
you realize that terrorists are human beings too right? they are EXACTLY the same as you. I love the sheer ignorance that people like you perpetuate. the differences between you and me and a terrorist is motivation. these are some highly motivated people. you cant fight motivation with laws, or draconian police action. If that worked isreal would never get hit by terrorists right?
the problem is that terrorism is not the actual problem that people need to be fighting. the problem people need to be looking at is why. why do terrorists want to bomb america? why do they want to bomb the UK? the answer, is more complicated than "because they are evil" or "because they hate us". why do they have so much will and determination. You probably have never even considered DIEing for something you believe in have you? these people obviously have problems with the current system and are working in the only ways they can to try and change it. the ways they are trying, killing themselves, is pretty extreme wouldnt you say? does that not say that maybe theres some pretty big fucking problems with something that they care about? should we not be looking to address those complaints instead of fuelling the fires as the UK/US are currently doing in iraq?
I dont buy the crap that the ordinary terrorist wants to "Send us back to the middle ages". the terrorist is merely a pawn doing it out of anger or revenge from years of U.S. torture of the middle east. if americans blew up my house because they wanted the sweet oil underneath id be mighty fucking pissed about it to.
you cannot arrest away all the terrorists. your right, its very 19th century to think that you can fight terrorism with more violence and terror. the only way you can fight it is by sitting down and LISTENING. probably someone who goes to the firing range every week could not understand that so i do understand where you are coming from. your motivated by fear. plain and simple.
I would rather I died in a terrorist attack than have my taxes fund companies/governments that kill people half way around the globe. you do realize you are responsible for the actions of your ELECTED representives right? its what you call moral responsibility. killing is almost always the wrong solution. is dropping bombs on people from a command bunker more humane then strapping one to yourself and blowing a subway?
how can one side be completely evil and the other completely good?
"I don't see a SINGLE post suggesting sympathy for the people whose businesses, cars, property, and yes, even LIVES are threatened/damaged/ruined by the rioters."
Businesses, cars and property mean NOTHING if people are not allowed to "disturb the peace". How in the world you think damage to businesses and cars should ever be a reason to torture people with microwave death rays, is amazing to me. then i remembered you live in a perminant state of FEAR being an american. In that way I am able to slightly identify your responses. THey arent logical, or even make sense, but fear is hardly ever "logical".
"But then again, why should they get sympathy? They're working a job, running a local business, making a living, supporting a family...you know, all those things that the "anti-globalization protestors" (really fancy way of saying unemployed vandals) are supposedly "protecting"..."
if people dont think this persons "reality" isnt acurate, maybe they should re read that last paragraph again. Let me just say I had no idea people protesting the government dont deserve sympathy. its the same line of reasoning that says that suicide bombers are pussies or whatever, cowards, i believe is what they say.
whoes more of a coward? you hiding behind the police state, or someone willing to risk there LIFE to change the system?
"It's great we're in Iraq, we're accomplishing good things in the majority of the country where the psychotic terrorists aren't an everyday event."
you simply havent watched any footage from over there have you? my guess is you just watch the snippets on the news. blowing people up and torturing them is not "good things" in my book. are troops deploying food and water to the masses? can they keep the power on 24x7 for the big cities? are they assisting in the hospitals giving care to the injured? or are compasionate civilians doing that while the american army kills things. thats the entire fucking point of an army right? to kill? or do you have some illusion about how and why people are trained to go to war.
"in North America, Europe, Eastern Europe and in many parts of Asia the standard of living has never been higher. So I don't exactly see the masses wanting to "rock the boat.""
and that makes it right? I completely forgot that I have to wait till i am personally being represed to fight back. other people? FUCK EM! I'll wait till the boots in my face. Whats that? no ones left to help me? uhoh
"and keeps our officers out of harm's way, it's a god-send"
and here i thought that citizens are more important than officers in society. after all, dont we pay them to protect us? or do we pay them to protect us from what.. ourselves?
the double standard that apparently people from the military and police forces are some how "better" or "smarter" "more right" then normal humans is insane. kill idiots? idiots like people that dont tow the party line? thats what america is about, i keep forgetting. its about killing "idiots"
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"One one side people scream up and down that the parents should know what games there kids are playing and what movies they are watching. The other side screams censorship when a parent tries to take some responsibility."
well IANAP, but if i had kids i would TEACH them enough so that they were themselves responsible and I wouldn't have to do either extreme. honestly if I didnt have my own PC that I could use with my door closed, I would have just waited till my parents went to bed to look at pr0n on the family PC.
I don't know what you would be scared of your teenage or preteen children seeing on the internet anyways. If its not naked ladies and sodomizing goats, neither of which i find particularly offensive, and its not more violence or language than they can see on the teevee and have used in the playground, then what are you afraid of? radical islamists? hip hop culture? the point is that if you tell your teen girls that there psychos that will try and rape them, and the boys that their penis's dont really have to be 12 inches, you have nothing to fear from the net.
I would much rather my kids (that i dont have) watched no TV and used the internet than the reverse. TV is just sick brainwashing. the internet is whatever you make it.
Actually where i work we have about 200-300 users and they all have flat pannels. why?
- saves desk space
- better on the eyes
- 17inch LCD's are around $250 CAD
see that last one is what makes everyone happy. especially accounting. who wants a big honking dinosaur, when you can have a sleek sexy flatter on the desk.
Plus it looks really cool when you have executives from other companies come in to visit. executives are often moved by the little things.
In a world where a decent office machine is about 400 dollars, theres alot of room to move when people think you cant get an office PC for under a grand.
"''It is unfortunately going to add a little bit of complexity to consumers," said Reid Sullivan, vice president of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. ''In some cases, depending on the product, they may have to manually increase or decrease the time.""
Wholly mother of god....
"Since the Washington Post is the most liberal major newspaper in the US right now I doubt they will be doing this administration any favors."
I always thought the Washington Post was hardcore right wing. Is that really what passes for the left in america?
News sources i consider to be leftist:
www.guardian.co.uk
www.cbc.ca
is washington post like these sources? i had no idea and am generally curious if thats the perception in america.
"Fetus, embryo, pre-born child = innocent.
Capital criminal = guilty."
Except that should read
fetus, embryo = not ALIVE not HUMAN
capital criminal = A HUMAN BEING
you see, life does not begin for you when your mother got knocked up by the village idiot. life began when you became conscious of your own exsistance, not in utero.
regarding criminals, sure execute them. better make damn sure the laws and courts are completly right 100% of the time though. I think thats most peoples issue. What if they make music piracy a capital crime? being a smoker?
so lets recap.
capital criminal = beyond a reasonable doubt, human and has been for some time.
collection of cells in utero = one day has the POTENTIAL to become human.
before your born you are not in control of your own life. you are not able to make decisions, you are not free. you are a parasitic collection of cells living inside another organism. you are a slave to that which made you come to be, your mother. Anyone who says that the mother shouldnt have the right to say what does and does not happen inside of her, is fucking stupid. anti abortion is quite simply, control over women. i raped you, your mine, take my seed and bring forth my young!
yeah 1950 called, they want their morality back.
is this flamebait day or something?
slashdot needs the pageviews?
Please go thru your post and replace "god" with "the unconscious universe" and your spot on. why does someone have to do something? maybe it just happened. maybe the universe is "god".
"But the one answer Science always fails is; What (or who) started it all? The creator is still a fully plausible explanation."
it was the nature of the universe, statistically, that we were to come into being. the randomness of the universe brought us here. no forethought, no intelligence, just randomness.
of course upon reading your post I only have one question for you. If you believe in a 'god', who created her? SEE: recursion.
"I am also not anti-abortion. But abortion is not only a "medical procedure", and not only about a "woman's choice". A life is ended."
OK thats just dumb come on. A life has ended? everytime you kill an insect a "life" has ended, as in the cells of the particular creature no longer replicate. is a fetus a human being? no. a fetus is a parasite eating off its host. conciousness is what makes you human. are newborn babies aware of their own exsistance? have you ever met a baby? they dont know shit!!
but i also think this world really needs to invent suicide booths, so like maybe i have a different sense of what the value placed on a human life should be. you are not a special flower.
"Her mom is not stupid, but she does hit the wrong button on her mouse. To her, there's no difference -- they both click."
really? because stupid is exactly the word i would use to describe someone who didnt know left from right. thats pretty grade school.
what probably happened is the mother just liked being on the phone with her daughter and was intentionally making mistakes to prolong the conversation.
"Not that ironic - MS doesn't actually make those peripherals, they are re-badged from other OEMs"
what the hell. people can just make shit up and get modded for it? do you have any evidence of this? the guy above me posted some videos of them actually making the mice so um STUFU!!!
"I've lost track of the number of casual computer users I've known who were confused by multi-button mice."
A HA hahahahah ahahhhahhahahahaha haha ahahahahah ha ha ha...
seriously. please dont let these people breed.
Do you know how hard it is to close an account with amazon? I found out that they were tracking me on other websites, after my full name came up while browsing some store. Thats a very scary thing to see happen. I demanded that they delete all trace of me from their systems.
6 months later and they still are sending me junk email. This is after talking on the phone and email, being notified that my account was closed multiple times (they jsut flagged it the first few times aparently), and also trying to close it myself. Do you know what their website says when you try and close your account? theres no way to do it! they scare you into keeeping your account open, offer to delete your CC number from the account, etc. then after repeatedly telling them to just close the fucking account already, they prompt you to email someone. said email recipient tells you its closed, then a week later you are still able to logon and all your info is still there.
I mean come on. a button that says "close account" like every other god damn website out there. is that too much to ask? screw amazon. I dont trust them one bit.
"Hmm...most every cell phone plan I know has free long distance."
what!!! you mean you can call japan for free? you should resell that! they dont have that where i live, you could make mad money as i think its about 20-40cents a minute to call there.
I wouldnt use a client that did that. my god. the whole idea about electronic comunications is that you can pause and formulate a really sweet response to someone. if someone sees you typing for 5 minutes it doesnt really look like your a genius with whitty replies, who just had to go afk for a sec.
"Now, they're trying to make us think we've failed in Iraq because there are still some die-hard insurgents and foreign mercenaries giving trouble."
erm this is kind of a crazy example you have given. wish you picked something less clouded. I believe that most people think that the US has failed in iraq because
1) people are dying enmasse every day
2) The US military cares more about policing then delivering humanitarian aid
3) bush and blair lied to invade the country.
4) the administration is blinded as to why a violent occupation is being rebelled against. this has gotten to a point where as you say, the people responsible for the attacks against coalition forces need to be labled "insurgents, terrorists, and foreigners" instead of "citizens" and people of iraq.
If someone came into your country and started trying to run the show, with the humanitarian apathy of the US govt, I think you might just pick up some stones to throw as well. The problem with the invasion of iraq is that it was irresponsible, had no exit strategy, and when being informed about the war in the buildup, it was expressly stated that the war would be short and have very few american casualties.
Kids, like most other people, dont like being lied to.
"You can format a 300GB drive as either FAT32 or NTFS in less than 10 seconds."
/q switch.
You can do that in windows too. Just make sure "quick format" is checked. Or if your doing it from the command line employ the
If i didnt learn that like 5 years ago i could not even begin to count the hours i would have wasted.
"On this side of the Atlantic..."
Actually no part of British Columbia borders on the Atlantic, much less the other side of it.
ah chomsky you my only friend..
another post by the brilliant scent cone.
you realize that terrorists are human beings too right? they are EXACTLY the same as you. I love the sheer ignorance that people like you perpetuate. the differences between you and me and a terrorist is motivation. these are some highly motivated people. you cant fight motivation with laws, or draconian police action. If that worked isreal would never get hit by terrorists right?
the problem is that terrorism is not the actual problem that people need to be fighting. the problem people need to be looking at is why. why do terrorists want to bomb america? why do they want to bomb the UK? the answer, is more complicated than "because they are evil" or "because they hate us". why do they have so much will and determination. You probably have never even considered DIEing for something you believe in have you? these people obviously have problems with the current system and are working in the only ways they can to try and change it. the ways they are trying, killing themselves, is pretty extreme wouldnt you say? does that not say that maybe theres some pretty big fucking problems with something that they care about? should we not be looking to address those complaints instead of fuelling the fires as the UK/US are currently doing in iraq?
I dont buy the crap that the ordinary terrorist wants to "Send us back to the middle ages". the terrorist is merely a pawn doing it out of anger or revenge from years of U.S. torture of the middle east. if americans blew up my house because they wanted the sweet oil underneath id be mighty fucking pissed about it to.
you cannot arrest away all the terrorists. your right, its very 19th century to think that you can fight terrorism with more violence and terror. the only way you can fight it is by sitting down and LISTENING. probably someone who goes to the firing range every week could not understand that so i do understand where you are coming from. your motivated by fear. plain and simple.
I would rather I died in a terrorist attack than have my taxes fund companies/governments that kill people half way around the globe. you do realize you are responsible for the actions of your ELECTED representives right? its what you call moral responsibility. killing is almost always the wrong solution. is dropping bombs on people from a command bunker more humane then strapping one to yourself and blowing a subway?
how can one side be completely evil and the other completely good?
personally i blame religion. that shits gotta go/
Businesses, cars and property mean NOTHING if people are not allowed to "disturb the peace". How in the world you think damage to businesses and cars should ever be a reason to torture people with microwave death rays, is amazing to me. then i remembered you live in a perminant state of FEAR being an american. In that way I am able to slightly identify your responses. THey arent logical, or even make sense, but fear is hardly ever "logical".
"But then again, why should they get sympathy? They're working a job, running a local business, making a living, supporting a family...you know, all those things that the "anti-globalization protestors" (really fancy way of saying unemployed vandals) are supposedly "protecting"..."
if people dont think this persons "reality" isnt acurate, maybe they should re read that last paragraph again. Let me just say I had no idea people protesting the government dont deserve sympathy. its the same line of reasoning that says that suicide bombers are pussies or whatever, cowards, i believe is what they say.
whoes more of a coward? you hiding behind the police state, or someone willing to risk there LIFE to change the system?
"It's great we're in Iraq, we're accomplishing good things in the majority of the country where the psychotic terrorists aren't an everyday event."
you simply havent watched any footage from over there have you? my guess is you just watch the snippets on the news. blowing people up and torturing them is not "good things" in my book. are troops deploying food and water to the masses? can they keep the power on 24x7 for the big cities? are they assisting in the hospitals giving care to the injured? or are compasionate civilians doing that while the american army kills things. thats the entire fucking point of an army right? to kill? or do you have some illusion about how and why people are trained to go to war.
and that makes it right?
I completely forgot that I have to wait till i am personally being represed to fight back. other people? FUCK EM! I'll wait till the boots in my face. Whats that? no ones left to help me? uhoh
"and keeps our officers out of harm's way, it's a god-send"
and here i thought that citizens are more important than officers in society. after all, dont we pay them to protect us? or do we pay them to protect us from what.. ourselves?
the double standard that apparently people from the military and police forces are some how "better" or "smarter" "more right" then normal humans is insane. kill idiots? idiots like people that dont tow the party line? thats what america is about, i keep forgetting. its about killing "idiots"