It is the basis of most of what I have been arguing against for a very long time. We too should recognize no nationality. It doesn't exist except through the force of arms. It is a burden thrust upon us by the merchants who rob and pillage to protect their ill gotten gains.
...I think Sprawlmart and others, of course, has a lot to do with it. They're the ones who profit the most from trade with China.
When you think about it, Walmart is far from the first, and certainly not the last. And besides, there is no spoon! There are only trusts, and holding companie,s and banks, and wire transfers, and money laundering jewelery stores and casinos.
It's what's known in the trade as a "hostile takeover". It's just business. Those in charge will continue on as usual. In their world there is no US and China. That's an illusion for us to keep so we will be their slaves to defend it.
That's far too complicated. My "license" simply says, "Go nuts." I won't let anybody prohibit me from using and copying and distributing anything that contains any code that I wrote. You can't steal the sun from me...or something like that.
It's our dependence on domain name services that causes this. We should all create our own local host files and trade them. Just like we have a local contact list for email and such. It would also possibly prevent unwanted re-directs, where even your service provider can take you where they want to you go. Even though it would be a real pain, all links in a web page should use an IP address instead of "www...". And if we can't have a fixed IP for ourselves, we should at try to get a month long lease of disuse before it changes so we all will be easier to find whenever someone wants to put up their own page. When you advertise, put your IP address with your name that YOU wish to use for people to put into their personal contacts(host file). Keep a copy on a thumb drive to use on public machines. Sounds awful, but it could put an end to squatting. The present system helps nobody except the registrar business. And the GoDaddy thing should be a reminder of who has the power. Could it work? Possibly. There's nothing that says we can't do it now with the exception that the operating system might make it difficult to use a different host file than what's in the system folder. I am building a small host file for mine machine, but many pages still contain code that end up using the domain name service of the country it's in. I want my DNS server located at 127.0.0.1 It's only one I can truly trust.
No, actually AP and UPI are fine. The problem is that so many rely on them. It's very economical for the papers not to have to hire reporters. I personally don't care for it because I want as many takes on a story as possible, but now even the papers from China and Al Jazeera are just using them sometimes. Maybe so they can get the Google hits also. I guess the bloggers will have to fill in the gaps. But I still have a thing, justified or not, about regular reporters being a bit more leashed in by real professional editors and stuff. I kind of like to have a local paper's take. Something about familiarity with people you "know". Call me old fashioned, I supposed, but that's what I grew up with. I still suffer from conditioned reflex like everybody else. Don't take to mean I wish the bloggers to go away. They are very necessary, a bit more so with all the corporate consolidation happening now. It's just that there's so many of them. Separating the wheat from the chaff just became my job all of a sudden. Life's too short for this. It says a lot about Google that AP and UPI get most of the top hits. That's where the money is.
Yes and many "American" cars are made in Mexico and Canada. It's all a big mix up now. Canada and Mexico also have plenty of their own oil. Yet, due to bizarre business practices, they both need to import it. Are the Cubs from Chicago? Or the Pistons from Detroit? The Dodgers from Brooklyn? The Brewers from Milwaukee? Nobody is from where they say they are. There is no USA or EU. It's all Ford and Exxon and Mitsubishi. "Those are your nations today"
Of course, the thing -- and the only thing -- that these companies want is to make money.
Well, it turns out that's the way we have to play it. So if their only interest is to make money, then it is up to us, either through market forces or force of law to insure that a company will make more money when it looks out for the consumer's best interests, and that they will lose money if they don't.
To paraphrase one of the best quotes I've heard in quite a while: Don't try to appeal to their "better half". They might not have one. Always try to appeal to their self interest. -- spun
Or to put it a bit more crudely,...assure them that either their signature or their brains will be on the contract. -- Michael Corleone
Yes, and I'm in favor of granting citizenship to ex-slaves, but not runaways. That's a violation of my property rights. And I want my "property" back! They should wait until I sign them over. They should follow procedure. Failure to do so is an insult to those who have. It's no better to be the property of the state as you are under the present system than it is to be the property of an individual. But you are being held as property(prisoner) if you don't have a passport. The analogy is still holding up very well, thanks. In fact, it's gets stronger as the thought goes deeper.
You should consider of being a Libertarian is really what you want.
No thanks. I'm no believer in lone wolf economics either, with everybody clawing all over each other trying to flee a sinking ship.
The Democratic party is the lesser of 2 evils in the 2 party system we have.
You do not have a two party system. It is nothing but two faces of the same thing with the same ambitions of power, whose difference in methods are quite trivial to the point of being nonexistent. For the most part, they even keep the same friends. As long as we continue to live by instinct and conditioned response, I'm afraid we are stuck with the lizards. When we become human beings, we will understand that the rights of the individual must always be paramount to all else, and we will understand the value of cooperation over competition. It really cannot happen before then.
So a transmission hidden in noise is new again? Is this like a combination of stego and throwing out chaff to confuse the radar? It's what it sounds like to me. And not very efficient either. And just how precise do the resisters or the wire have to be? What happens over time as the characteristics of the wire and resisters change? And isn't random noise kinda quantum in a way? "What's more, eavesdropping on the line will naturally alter the level of thermal noise, so Alice and Bob will know that someone is listening in." emphasis mine.
Like I said, believe what you want. I got history on my side. I don't know much, nor care about your silly theories. I'm dealing with simple animal psychology. 2 and 2 still equals 4 in my world. Don't know how it works with you kids and your new new math, but it seems to be messing with your brain.
I'm in a very good mood. Pray to your god you never see me mad. Goddamn retard! You haven't BEGUN to see "Troll"! When you do, you'll be crying for a week! Dumbshit! Hiding behind your little moderator points because you're stupider than I am and can't think of anything to say. Have fun in your dreamland fascist utopia! Real karma is sneaking up to bite you on the ass real good. You let me know how life is in Hell, won't you? Or are you homesick, and trying to recreate your hell right here? Do us a favor and keep your personal problems to your damn self! The world's in bad enough shape without you crybabies muckin' it up with your spoiled little tantrums! Somebody really needs to slap you around a little bit... Whack the shit out of your tiny, little brain that's going so unused. Learn how to walk upright, and quit throwing your crap into the street for everybody to step in. You better hope the world never unites! Where's that cucumber? I wanna ram ya one more time!
Absolutely not. They will sic the WTO on those commie so-an-so's, and have this document declared as propaganda used to restrict trade. It will go down similar to what happened over GM foods.
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It is the basis of most of what I have been arguing against for a very long time. We too should recognize no nationality. It doesn't exist except through the force of arms. It is a burden thrust upon us by the merchants who rob and pillage to protect their ill gotten gains.
...I think Sprawlmart and others, of course, has a lot to do with it. They're the ones who profit the most from trade with China.
When you think about it, Walmart is far from the first, and certainly not the last. And besides, there is no spoon! There are only trusts, and holding companie,s and banks, and wire transfers, and money laundering jewelery stores and casinos.
"What did I just say?"* :-)
*Dr. Julius Hibbert
It's what's known in the trade as a "hostile takeover". It's just business. Those in charge will continue on as usual. In their world there is no US and China. That's an illusion for us to keep so we will be their slaves to defend it.
They're taking their queues from from the RIAA and Sony. I hope nobody's surprised by this.
I suppose so, but I grant no exclusivity.. Whatever has a piece of me is mine also.
That's far too complicated. My "license" simply says, "Go nuts." I won't let anybody prohibit me from using and copying and distributing anything that contains any code that I wrote. You can't steal the sun from me...or something like that.
I see it as sarcasm, and that's the way I'm going to take it. I certainly cannot take it seriously. That's for sure.
I feel your pain :-)
It's our dependence on domain name services that causes this. We should all create our own local host files and trade them. Just like we have a local contact list for email and such. It would also possibly prevent unwanted re-directs, where even your service provider can take you where they want to you go. Even though it would be a real pain, all links in a web page should use an IP address instead of "www...". And if we can't have a fixed IP for ourselves, we should at try to get a month long lease of disuse before it changes so we all will be easier to find whenever someone wants to put up their own page. When you advertise, put your IP address with your name that YOU wish to use for people to put into their personal contacts(host file). Keep a copy on a thumb drive to use on public machines. Sounds awful, but it could put an end to squatting. The present system helps nobody except the registrar business. And the GoDaddy thing should be a reminder of who has the power. Could it work? Possibly. There's nothing that says we can't do it now with the exception that the operating system might make it difficult to use a different host file than what's in the system folder. I am building a small host file for mine machine, but many pages still contain code that end up using the domain name service of the country it's in. I want my DNS server located at 127.0.0.1 It's only one I can truly trust.
No, actually AP and UPI are fine. The problem is that so many rely on them. It's very economical for the papers not to have to hire reporters. I personally don't care for it because I want as many takes on a story as possible, but now even the papers from China and Al Jazeera are just using them sometimes. Maybe so they can get the Google hits also. I guess the bloggers will have to fill in the gaps. But I still have a thing, justified or not, about regular reporters being a bit more leashed in by real professional editors and stuff. I kind of like to have a local paper's take. Something about familiarity with people you "know". Call me old fashioned, I supposed, but that's what I grew up with. I still suffer from conditioned reflex like everybody else. Don't take to mean I wish the bloggers to go away. They are very necessary, a bit more so with all the corporate consolidation happening now. It's just that there's so many of them. Separating the wheat from the chaff just became my job all of a sudden. Life's too short for this. It says a lot about Google that AP and UPI get most of the top hits. That's where the money is.
Even many of the "foreign" cars are made here.
Yes and many "American" cars are made in Mexico and Canada. It's all a big mix up now. Canada and Mexico also have plenty of their own oil. Yet, due to bizarre business practices, they both need to import it. Are the Cubs from Chicago? Or the Pistons from Detroit? The Dodgers from Brooklyn? The Brewers from Milwaukee? Nobody is from where they say they are. There is no USA or EU. It's all Ford and Exxon and Mitsubishi. "Those are your nations today"
Of course, the thing -- and the only thing -- that these companies want is to make money.
...assure them that either their signature or their brains will be on the contract. -- Michael Corleone
Well, it turns out that's the way we have to play it. So if their only interest is to make money, then it is up to us, either through market forces or force of law to insure that a company will make more money when it looks out for the consumer's best interests, and that they will lose money if they don't.
To paraphrase one of the best quotes I've heard in quite a while: Don't try to appeal to their "better half". They might not have one. Always try to appeal to their self interest. -- spun
Or to put it a bit more crudely,
Wow, video (on demand and more) via the phone lines.
Yeah, I think I saw something like that at their exhibit at the Worlds Fair...in 1963!
I guess they still haven't quite got all the bugs worked out.
"The future is fun!
The future is fair!
You may already have won!
You may already be there!
Welcome to the future!"
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Got a cigarette??
Well!! Obviously YOU don't speak the language!
Got milk?
Kind of a second reply:
He is in favor of immigration. Legal immigration.
Yes, and I'm in favor of granting citizenship to ex-slaves, but not runaways. That's a violation of my property rights. And I want my "property" back! They should wait until I sign them over. They should follow procedure. Failure to do so is an insult to those who have. It's no better to be the property of the state as you are under the present system than it is to be the property of an individual. But you are being held as property(prisoner) if you don't have a passport. The analogy is still holding up very well, thanks. In fact, it's gets stronger as the thought goes deeper.
You should consider of being a Libertarian is really what you want.
No thanks. I'm no believer in lone wolf economics either, with everybody clawing all over each other trying to flee a sinking ship.
The Democratic party is the lesser of 2 evils in the 2 party system we have.
You do not have a two party system. It is nothing but two faces of the same thing with the same ambitions of power, whose difference in methods are quite trivial to the point of being nonexistent. For the most part, they even keep the same friends. As long as we continue to live by instinct and conditioned response, I'm afraid we are stuck with the lizards. When we become human beings, we will understand that the rights of the individual must always be paramount to all else, and we will understand the value of cooperation over competition. It really cannot happen before then.
I'm confident that you will run out long before you get there, Mad Max :-)
So a transmission hidden in noise is new again? Is this like a combination of stego and throwing out chaff to confuse the radar? It's what it sounds like to me. And not very efficient either. And just how precise do the resisters or the wire have to be? What happens over time as the characteristics of the wire and resisters change? And isn't random noise kinda quantum in a way? "What's more, eavesdropping on the line will naturally alter the level of thermal noise, so Alice and Bob will know that someone is listening in." emphasis mine.
Like I said, believe what you want. I got history on my side. I don't know much, nor care about your silly theories. I'm dealing with simple animal psychology. 2 and 2 still equals 4 in my world. Don't know how it works with you kids and your new new math, but it seems to be messing with your brain.
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I'm in a very good mood. Pray to your god you never see me mad. Goddamn retard! You haven't BEGUN to see "Troll"! When you do, you'll be crying for a week! Dumbshit! Hiding behind your little moderator points because you're stupider than I am and can't think of anything to say. Have fun in your dreamland fascist utopia! Real karma is sneaking up to bite you on the ass real good. You let me know how life is in Hell, won't you? Or are you homesick, and trying to recreate your hell right here? Do us a favor and keep your personal problems to your damn self! The world's in bad enough shape without you crybabies muckin' it up with your spoiled little tantrums! Somebody really needs to slap you around a little bit... Whack the shit out of your tiny, little brain that's going so unused. Learn how to walk upright, and quit throwing your crap into the street for everybody to step in. You better hope the world never unites! Where's that cucumber? I wanna ram ya one more time!
They should just go the other way, and pick out the very worst ones. Something along the the lines of Leonard Pinth-Garnell.
Absolutely not. They will sic the WTO on those commie so-an-so's, and have this document declared as propaganda used to restrict trade. It will go down similar to what happened over GM foods.