I'm not rich and not having wasted taxes sucked out of my income is only one small part of being a Libertarian. It's about PERSONAL FREEDOM. Ideals this country was founded upon.
- John Kerry and Theresa Heinz-Kerry. (Zing! Heinz-Kerry was married to a Republican senator before he died, and made public deragatory comments about Democrats back then)
The most important thing is that you have more important things in your life than politics, that you can discuss politics with your S.O. without getting enraged, and that you both have a good sense of humor to take the gentle barbs that are sure to be shot back and forth.
(I'm a Libertarian and just started dating a Democrat, if you're interested in labels.)
I'll tell you what in the heck that means. It is very simple: every unionized place I've ever visited has the braindead employees advancing and getting paid just as well as their better co-workers. Unions reward mobthink and are completely unfair, i.e. better performance is not necessarily met with better rewards in a union environment.
Perhaps that is why techs hate unions. By and large we are logical people that can see that the key to better working environments and better pay is a better grasp on your skills and making yourself more valuable.
Unionization in the tech field appeals only to those schleps that got into computers because everyone told them "it's a lucrative field." The people that love working with computers and are naturally good with them and have honed their skills would do well to repel unionization.
Just curious how these articles could be "censored." They are fucking listed right on the page. Did the government actually prevent them from being published? No. The stories just lack so much credibility that even the left-leaning media sources didn't give them much airtime.
You don't really need it to start in real time. Even if you have a decent cable/dsl connection and give it an hour head start*, you should be able to watch it all the way through.
* Warning: I pulled this calculation out of my ass.
Where do they plan on finding super-high bandwidth connections for home users?
It's already out there, cable and dsl. Do you think the entire DVD needs to be downloaded before you can start watching it? Time Warner already streams nearly DVD quality video to me, on-demand. Why couldn't TiVo do something similar.
I'll be surprised if the MPAA lets this happen though.
For me at least, it is and would remain much faster to to spend five minutes walking the two blocks to the video rental shop and just get one there, rather than waiting a couple hours for the movie to download.
Well then you are not in Netflix's target market of people that don't want to get off their ass and/or don't want to pay late fees.
Blockbuster is not in the business of renting movies, they're in the business of charging late fees...
Do they still call muslims "homicide bombers"? I stopped watching Fox when they started pushing war on Islam.
No, they call those people that strap a bomb to their body and try to kill as many people as possible a homicide bomber. A much more descriptive term than "suicide bomber." We WISH they were simply suicide bombers...
It just so happens they've all been muslim so far.
Where exactly have they been "pushing war on Islam"? Please show me a news article with this bias from Fox News. Perhaps you are getting confused, because it is Muslim extremists that are pushing for war against non-Muslims.
I am not saying you can find a completely unbiased source of news... at least until computer AI gets much better. But liberals like to pretend Fox News is biased just because it covers both sides of the story equally. They're not used to seeing the conservative side of the story presented so equally with the left.
I was just today reading about how the AP published a news article stating that a crowd of Bush supporters booed him when he wished Clinton well after surgery. They then removed the byline of the author (to protect him?) and sent out a followup story where they were a bit more accurate, saying the audience clapped at his well-wishes and 'oohed' at the news.
In reality if you listen to the tape of the event, he tells the crowd that Clinton has been hospitalized, the crowd goes "oooh" in reaction to the bad news, and then when he wishes him a speedy recovery, everyone claps loudly.
This was from the AP... supposedly an unbiased news source. To bad they employ liberals by and large.
As for libretarians, these would be a great party if they stopped electing members that dye themselves blue or spout off about aliens abducting them and fucking them in the ass. If you think the/. crowd is a bunch of tin foil hats, you should check out their meetings...thats the last time I let a geek friend drag me to see their politics. You'd honestly think Libs were closer in spirit to true republicans, but reality is no where close. Crossing over to the dems is far easier a transition...
I'm a Libertarian, and I'll tell you the first problem was you went to their meeting. First of all, if you go to any political meeting, you're always going to meet up with the die-hards of the group. Now take a group that is marginalized by the two-party shitfest we have now, and of course you're going to get some wackjobs showing up at the meetings.
We need libertarians to win more congressional seats, and then we may get some voting reform that will allow people to vote for a 3rd party candidate without feeling like they've thrown their vote away.
If you: want something that looks good, requires no installation headaches, has a great user interface, then buy a TiVo and get the lifetime subscription.
If you: want to build your own custom box that does whatever you want but requires a complex installation and looks like shit, go with a homebrew.
The parent poster may be a lamer that paid a lifetime subscription, but the proper way is some not-so-easy-to-google perl scripts, that scrape guide data off of tvguide.com and format it for the Tivo.
Allow me to provide a legend for the above paragraph.
Lamer == Guy supporting a company that made a great product.
The National Enquirer, Matt Drudge, or Faux News reports some half-baked erroneous bullshit.
The 'legitimate' news organizations pick it up and report it from there.
Yeah, because the liberal news organizations never slant their headlines and quotes, right?
Let me explain, legitimate is not equivalent to liberal. Just because a news organization is not liberal doesn't mean it's biased. Maybe you're used to biased media. Please go to www.foxnews.com, and report back with a biased news article. I'd like to read one of those.
I don't know what my neighborhood is. There is my town, which has maybe a little less than 10k households, but there are neighboring towns also.
Well, definition of neighbor is "a person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another."
So a traditional neighborhood would be, in my mind, the houses that are within a small radius of your house, maybe an eighth or a quarter mile in all directions.
It would be newsworthy if it was the news that describe the new business model of valve with steam, but it has been done a long time ago. Or it would be newsworthy if it was the news that talks about the protocol behind steam, or the news that talk about some problem/success related to steam, or the people behind steam, or the community accepting/rejecting steam, or something new about half life2/cs/modding.
What you mean is, it would be newsworthy TO YOU, in those cases.
To hundreds of thousands of other people that are waiting for this game to be released, it is newsworthy that we are one major step closer.
If they get even 5% participation across the US, an incredible feat by website standards, they would have on the average, less than 25 households in a neighborhood. That's a pretty minimal selection of people.
You're thinking "on average." I'm thinking, what if everyone in my neighborhood got on here and we could plan things, talk about problems in our area, etc?
I don't see what the point of making neighborhoods so small is; I can easily get to at least 10,000 households by foot in my average, suburban town.
This site isn't intended as a dating service, trying to hook you up with people you could physically get to... it's about bringing people who are in a literal neighborhood closer together. I don't know about you, but my neighborhood doesn't have anywhere near 10,000 homes.
If you want to communicate with your neighbors and find out their interests, why not just ask them face to face?
Because their face is inside their house, probably near their computer?
You act like this is anti-social, yet it's the exact opposite. The idea behind this kind of networking is to find people in your neighborhood that you can relate to and interact with in Actual Reality.
But you propose I go around my neighborhood knocking on random doors to locate these people? Other than at neighborhood parties (which could be easily organized through a site like i-neighborhoods), how often are you really able to meet more than just your immediate next-door neighbors in a relaxed setting?
Even that is hard enough. "Umm, Fido is shitting on my yard again, dude."
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Because there is no human endeavor which will eventually fail once.
I imagine someone in a location where fireworks are legal could rig up a poor mans version using something similar to a Potato Cannon (the pneumatic type).
Correct. These are the same people you read about in the Darwin Awards.
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I'm not rich and not having wasted taxes sucked out of my income is only one small part of being a Libertarian. It's about PERSONAL FREEDOM. Ideals this country was founded upon.
There are plenty of real-life examples of party crossovers among couples. Such as:
- Democratic adviser
James Carville and his wife, Republican adviser Mary Matalin.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver.
- John Kerry and Theresa Heinz-Kerry. (Zing! Heinz-Kerry was married to a Republican senator before he died, and made public deragatory comments about Democrats back then)
The most important thing is that you have more important things in your life than politics, that you can discuss politics with your S.O. without getting enraged, and that you both have a good sense of humor to take the gentle barbs that are sure to be shot back and forth.
(I'm a Libertarian and just started dating a Democrat, if you're interested in labels.)
I'll tell you what in the heck that means. It is very simple: every unionized place I've ever visited has the braindead employees advancing and getting paid just as well as their better co-workers. Unions reward mobthink and are completely unfair, i.e. better performance is not necessarily met with better rewards in a union environment.
Perhaps that is why techs hate unions. By and large we are logical people that can see that the key to better working environments and better pay is a better grasp on your skills and making yourself more valuable.
Unionization in the tech field appeals only to those schleps that got into computers because everyone told them "it's a lucrative field." The people that love working with computers and are naturally good with them and have honed their skills would do well to repel unionization.
Unions: Helping The Lowest Common Denominator Advance!®
Not only that, but the NPR link is the same...
Just curious how these articles could be "censored." They are fucking listed right on the page. Did the government actually prevent them from being published? No. The stories just lack so much credibility that even the left-leaning media sources didn't give them much airtime.
You don't really need it to start in real time. Even if you have a decent cable/dsl connection and give it an hour head start*, you should be able to watch it all the way through.
* Warning: I pulled this calculation out of my ass.
Where do they plan on finding super-high bandwidth connections for home users?
It's already out there, cable and dsl. Do you think the entire DVD needs to be downloaded before you can start watching it? Time Warner already streams nearly DVD quality video to me, on-demand. Why couldn't TiVo do something similar.
I'll be surprised if the MPAA lets this happen though.
For me at least, it is and would remain much faster to to spend five minutes walking the two blocks to the video rental shop and just get one there, rather than waiting a couple hours for the movie to download.
Well then you are not in Netflix's target market of people that don't want to get off their ass and/or don't want to pay late fees.
Blockbuster is not in the business of renting movies, they're in the business of charging late fees...
Do they still call muslims "homicide bombers"? I stopped watching Fox when they started pushing war on Islam.
No, they call those people that strap a bomb to their body and try to kill as many people as possible a homicide bomber. A much more descriptive term than "suicide bomber." We WISH they were simply suicide bombers...
It just so happens they've all been muslim so far.
Where exactly have they been "pushing war on Islam"? Please show me a news article with this bias from Fox News. Perhaps you are getting confused, because it is Muslim extremists that are pushing for war against non-Muslims.
I am not saying you can find a completely unbiased source of news... at least until computer AI gets much better. But liberals like to pretend Fox News is biased just because it covers both sides of the story equally. They're not used to seeing the conservative side of the story presented so equally with the left.
I was just today reading about how the AP published a news article stating that a crowd of Bush supporters booed him when he wished Clinton well after surgery. They then removed the byline of the author (to protect him?) and sent out a followup story where they were a bit more accurate, saying the audience clapped at his well-wishes and 'oohed' at the news.
In reality if you listen to the tape of the event, he tells the crowd that Clinton has been hospitalized, the crowd goes "oooh" in reaction to the bad news, and then when he wishes him a speedy recovery, everyone claps loudly.
This was from the AP... supposedly an unbiased news source. To bad they employ liberals by and large.
As for libretarians, these would be a great party if they stopped electing members that dye themselves blue or spout off about aliens abducting them and fucking them in the ass. If you think the /. crowd is a bunch of tin foil hats, you should check out their meetings...thats the last time I let a geek friend drag me to see their politics. You'd honestly think Libs were closer in spirit to true republicans, but reality is no where close. Crossing over to the dems is far easier a transition...
I'm a Libertarian, and I'll tell you the first problem was you went to their meeting. First of all, if you go to any political meeting, you're always going to meet up with the die-hards of the group. Now take a group that is marginalized by the two-party shitfest we have now, and of course you're going to get some wackjobs showing up at the meetings.
We need libertarians to win more congressional seats, and then we may get some voting reform that will allow people to vote for a 3rd party candidate without feeling like they've thrown their vote away.
Heres one
Bzzzt. Sorry. That's an editorial you linked to. The top of the page says VIEWS.
Thanks for playing, please try again!
Someone please link me to a biased fox NEWS article.
I'm so sick of this TiVo vs Homebuilt debate.
If you: want something that looks good, requires no installation headaches, has a great user interface, then buy a TiVo and get the lifetime subscription.
If you: want to build your own custom box that does whatever you want but requires a complex installation and looks like shit, go with a homebrew.
The parent poster may be a lamer that paid a lifetime subscription, but the proper way is some not-so-easy-to-google perl scripts, that scrape guide data off of tvguide.com and format it for the Tivo.
Allow me to provide a legend for the above paragraph.
Lamer == Guy supporting a company that made a great product.
Proper way == Cheapskate's route.
The National Enquirer, Matt Drudge, or Faux News reports some half-baked erroneous bullshit.
The 'legitimate' news organizations pick it up and report it from there.
Yeah, because the liberal news organizations never slant their headlines and quotes, right?
Let me explain, legitimate is not equivalent to liberal. Just because a news organization is not liberal doesn't mean it's biased. Maybe you're used to biased media. Please go to www.foxnews.com, and report back with a biased news article. I'd like to read one of those.
Maybe it'll have the side effect of someone loooking at it, also.
Then I think you'll have to choose a different artist.
I don't know what my neighborhood is. There is my town, which has maybe a little less than 10k households, but there are neighboring towns also.
Well, definition of neighbor is "a person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another."
So a traditional neighborhood would be, in my mind, the houses that are within a small radius of your house, maybe an eighth or a quarter mile in all directions.
It would be newsworthy if it was the news that describe the new business model of valve with steam, but it has been done a long time ago.
Or it would be newsworthy if it was the news that talks about the protocol behind steam, or the news that talk about some problem/success related to steam, or the people behind steam, or the community accepting/rejecting steam, or something new about half life2/cs/modding.
What you mean is, it would be newsworthy TO YOU, in those cases.
To hundreds of thousands of other people that are waiting for this game to be released, it is newsworthy that we are one major step closer.
This level of unprofessionalism is unacceptable.
I agree.
But then again I'm referring to your comment on slashdot.
If they get even 5% participation across the US, an incredible feat by website standards, they would have on the average, less than 25 households in a neighborhood. That's a pretty minimal selection of people.
You're thinking "on average." I'm thinking, what if everyone in my neighborhood got on here and we could plan things, talk about problems in our area, etc?
I don't see what the point of making neighborhoods so small is; I can easily get to at least 10,000 households by foot in my average, suburban town.
This site isn't intended as a dating service, trying to hook you up with people you could physically get to... it's about bringing people who are in a literal neighborhood closer together. I don't know about you, but my neighborhood doesn't have anywhere near 10,000 homes.
You must live in L.A. proper.
If you want to communicate with your neighbors and find out their interests, why not just ask them face to face?
Because their face is inside their house, probably near their computer?
You act like this is anti-social, yet it's the exact opposite. The idea behind this kind of networking is to find people in your neighborhood that you can relate to and interact with in Actual Reality.
But you propose I go around my neighborhood knocking on random doors to locate these people? Other than at neighborhood parties (which could be easily organized through a site like i-neighborhoods), how often are you really able to meet more than just your immediate next-door neighbors in a relaxed setting?
Even that is hard enough. "Umm, Fido is shitting on my yard again, dude."
Because there is no human endeavor which will eventually fail once.
You fail English. Possible.
NPR has a cool piece regarding how radio may not be the best approach to looking for ET life.
IRONIC.
What I like to do is secure the page with the form on it, and then send the important data over an insecure channel.
I imagine someone in a location where fireworks are legal could rig up a poor mans version using something similar to a Potato Cannon (the pneumatic type).
Correct. These are the same people you read about in the Darwin Awards.