This is striking. That's the same percentage that voted for this administration. Infection rates are dropping and so are his approval ratings? Then they decide to boost support they drop health care for the poor?! OMG now it makes sense! It IS an infection! We need a national campaign to get their minds back. We have 50 million lost souls.:)
Imagine a time when you're no longer a teenager and have your own home.
If while at work, some neighbor kid is picking the locks to your home. He's pushing and pulling on the windows to see if they'll open. Perhaps seeing if reaching in from a dog door he can open the door lock.
After discovering the "insecurities" of your home, he lets himself in and does a walk through of your house. Perhaps taking a mental inventory of your music collection and admiring your PC setup. He leaves, stealing nothing.
You get home from work and figure out someone has been in your home. You call the police and they catch this kid while he's looking around inside another neighbors house.
Taking him to jail, all the time he's crying "but I just did it out of curiosity! They should be thankful I wasn't a *real* burglar". On and on he cries...
Grow up and start respecting other people's property. They didn't use you as an example; they punished you for the crime you committed.
JMHO
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Maybe the difference is his tone. Other scientists spout these numbers as if they're reading them off a cold piece of paper. This guy pauses and says, wait a minute folks, think about what that really means.
One poster says, sure I believe it's coming, but we'll just adapt. No big deal. We'll just engineer plants that are heat tolerant. I'm thinking sure, what a time saver, plants that grow and cook at the same time. I wonder what foodstuff he thinks will grow at 50c - 60c?
Our great-grandchildren no doubt will be cursing our memory.
From Wikipedia:
The term "virus" is often used in common parlance to describe all kinds of malware (malicious software), including those that are more properly classified as worms or trojans...
We all have our place in life... If yours is to split hairs, I'll concede.
BTW: Is there anything you want to add to the discussion or are you content in poking people with a stick?
FTA: "The creator of the copy-protection software, a British company called First 4 Internet, said the cloaking mechanism was not a risk. The company's team has worked regularly with big antivirus companies to ensure the safety of its software, and to make sure it is not picked up as a virus, he said."
First of all, I would like to know who these "big antivirus" companies are so I can stop using their product (assuming I might be). That or to make sure I never use or recommend them to others'.
We are in trouble when antivirus companies are in backroom negotiations with virus makers, I assume for profit, not to detect one virus in favor of another.
How can I trust they haven't negotiated other backroom deals with virus/spyware writers that let other viruses and spyware on my machine?
I want to know who these "anti" virus companies are!
"Sony BMG said the MediaMax copy protection system, which is supposed to stop people making illegal copies of CDs, has been used on 50 titles sold in North America."
Why do the keep emphasizing, "making illegal copies" when it is not illegal? I have the right to make as many copies as I want. What I cannot do is make un-authorized copies (fair use IS authorized) or distribute those copies.
Having made to 19 years old with this attitude, they should arrest and jail his parents for raising such a dumbass. His parents are raising kids that are not only a danger to themselves but also to society. If he has younger brothers and sisters they should be taken from the parents and placed in foster care for the safety of all.
You're right except there's no such thing as a "normal" person. I am average. And, as an average person, the price is too high. Especially when other options are availible at one third the price.
I'm sure they did their marketing surveys and they have a group they're appealing too. I'm not convienced the market they're attracting is average. In TFA they admit only 20% have the ability to even request the PPV in the first place.
That was my point. What was your's in trolling me?
For $17 one could easily go through 10 movies a month at Netflix. Granted you don't get to keep a hard copy unless you burn one. Walmart has shelves of it's movies at $9.
I suppose there's a market. This might appeal to a single mother who wants a copy of a Disney movie for her kids (assuming they're shown on PPV) or Spiderman. If someone only wants one movie a month I guess it's okay. But at two movies that's $34, three is 50+. I suspect this is going to get real expensive for some households real fast. But, then again, these are households that are already spending $90 a month for cable in the first place.
Oh sorry, I meant a million dollars a month, of course. Though Gates at least gives billions to charity.
In a month? From all his investments, interest, dividends, etc. I heard a number once that Bill Gates wakes up 12 million dollars richer then when he went to bed.
Asked about his wealth he said once you reach a certin level, more money doesn't matter. Things only get so good and once you can afford the best that's it. In other words food only gets so good, cars only get so good, clothes can only be made so good and once you afford the best more money after that doesn't buy you anything better then what you can already afford.
There are days I've pondered what that would be like.
Thank you. These words describe the *blind* in our world, and because I believe the Word of our Holy Father, The truth will be, and is, hidden from these people. These people proclaim they speak for Christ saying: hate, murder, death, kill is our Father's message saying that they are fundamentalist Christians even though the basic fundamental message or our Christ, doesn't even come close to what they preach.
They are blinded, as the Word tells us that they will be. Not unlike the KKK who use the Bible to spread their particular form of hate in God's word. Republicans actually believe, as do the KKK, that they are morally superior to everyone else.
What I read of our Father's Word is that these people (Republicans, as I interpret their message), are self proclaimed "Christians", those who are willing to accept the "mark" denying God's message. They do believe in what they're doing. They'll even murder you in God's name believing that what they're doing is God's work, as we've seen in Iraq.
War, hate, murder, death, kill was, and never has been, the message of our Holy Father's Word. Yet these people (Republicans) see fit to proclaim they are messengers of our Christ Jesus. Revelation come true. I believe more now than I ever have before.
Again, I am willing to take a hit on my karma. Go ahead "his helpers", mod me down.
What I like most about this new world order, is an event I'll never forget. Talking with a co-worker, who's a pounding the table Republican Bush supporter, that is now facing some minor charges. Very minor charges in my mind, and I hold no judgment against him but, nevertheless, accusations that are significant in his life...
"No problem, I am innocent." He declares. "I will be found innocent by a jury of my peers." This, being his basic defense and hope.
My response..., "You're no longer guaranteed a trial or even a defense for that matter."
Astonished, "What do you mean?" He says. "I am a patriotic American, I am a believer of 'The American Way', I voted Republican to preserve my way of life."
"What you voted for... my friend", I said, "let's put it this way..., you voted to take away the rights of the bad guys, well... because they're bad, right? To get even, and inflict justice against them."
"Yes I did.", He said. "And I'm proud of it!", pounding the table, "I voted Republican, I support Bush and I'm a patriotic American. These are *bad* people and nothing we can do to them is too harsh, even torture is too good for *them*."
"Well...", I said calmly, "Now, *you're* one of the bad guys."
You know what I will never forget for the rest of my life? The blank look I got in return. Those 10 seconds of his astounded epiphany will last me a life time.
I don't know who wrote the "I did not protest because..." stuff. But, I have personally seen it and experienced it in real time, in my own life, and I now know those words were spoken as was wisdom before their time.
I am seriously suspect of anyone pounding the table for any cause "x". I have proof, backed by psychology, that anyone pounding the table against any "x"... Well, you do the research yourself.
Anyone holding a candle to this administration, to me, is suspect.
A fundamental Christian Republican, in my research, would be begging the government to turn the other cheek. How did the fundamentals, of my Christ Jesus, get so turned around? The fundamentals of my Christ Jesus, is doctrine that these people (Republicans) have never accepted, or by choice have simply turned away from. And for the public record, my Christ? I *believe* you.
Reading Revelation, I never accepted, I could not believe so many "Christians" would accept the "mark" and turn away from the word of God. Not until Bush and his administration and his supporters, the "Christian 'Right'" did I begin to understand.
I believe now in His word more than I ever thought possible. "We are Christians, and speak for Christ", they say, "hate, war, murder, death, kill."
I never understood, until now, the truth Christ Jesus spoke of. That in the name of God, He said, people will murder you, believing that they're doing God's service.
My description?...Republicans, their goal and what they stand for.
In the USA, we have "churches" kicking out "Democrats" and self proclaimed "liberals" from their congregation as "un-godly", no longer welcome in their congregation. Un-holy, and unworthy of the message of "their" god. I am thankful that they are right. We are not worthy of the message of *their* god. *Our* God is Jesus Christ and his message of salvation.
BTW: I have been moderating and meta-moderating for years now. I already know that the "right" has plants at/. modding down anything that goes against current political policy. They have mod points and will "they" will mod me a troll. But, do you know what? I'll burn some Karma for the truth. This is a very true experience and it really happened and this is what I know to be true.
Let's just say that they have a limited gene pool. A list of email addresses of their children may be an attempt to promote marriage outside the family. Pedo's encouraged to apply.
I don't mind pissing off a government like China by hosting their citizen's rant that "we're not free".
What gives me pause is if I open up my server, abet even just one directory, for anyone to use as a host, what's to protect me from bad people using it to host material that could get me arrested in my own country.
If it's a matter of free speech I'm all for that. But, once I open up my server, what if it turns out I'm hosting material plans for the next 9/11? I don't think I'm comfortable with level of risk.
I might be able to beat it given the chance to explain. But what are the odds I'd even get a trial? I'd just disappear and never be heard from again.
It's an invalid copyright premise I don't recognize. Assuming the photographer is not God, my image is not their intellectual property.
I just read a/. on game programmers complaining that voice over actors are demanding rights that are totally unrealistic. That's the way I feel about photographers who think they own an image I've paid them to record.
The way my brain works is that everything I have paid for, I own. The automatic assignment of copyright for only particular acts of creation, as in photography, is protectionism.
Someone at McDonalds has labored night and day to create for me the Big Mac. It's a creation of immense intellect. But, after I've paid for it, I'll be damned if I need their permission to eat it.
If you look around the room you're sitting in, everything reflecting light is a product of someone's intellect. How often to you ask permission from the Standard company to take a dump? What do you mean it's "your" toilet? When was the last time you asked your automobile "creator" if you could fill your tank with petrol? Or the drywall creator if it was okay to put a nail in "his" drywall so you can hang a picture in your own home?
I'm not going to respect any law that says a photographer still owns an image that I've paid them to record. I'm Sorry. If they want to try and water mark it, I'll PhotoShop it out. If Walmart won't print it, I'll go somewhere else.
Maybe this is starting to sound trollish. But I'm starting to get sick and tired of this copyright protectionism and people claiming they still own something after I have paid them for it.
I understand photographers think that all I have paid for is one piece of paper when I pay them to record an image. Respectfully, I disagree. When I pay a photographer to record an image, I own the product I've paid for, the image I have paid them to record.
Just because that's how I think, doesn't necessarily make it right. But, because it's the way I think, I'll ignore any pseudo claim photographers make on a product they want me to pay for yet they still want to own.
I wish I could get away with that. I sell my car in the Autotrader and I'm paid $5000.00 but I still own it. I think the photographers should go for it so long as they can get away with it. But I think they're seeing that technology is making their antiquated business model, well... antiquated.
I am going to patent a line of obfuscation undergarments and make a fortune. Using metal microfilament thread woven into a mesh. You'll be able to choose between a smilie face, a finger flipping the TSA the bird and for the more adventurous, the John Holmes line (only available as boxers).
I'm curious. If someone is "pressured" into the trunk of his car and then taken to some obscure spot, does it mean he was not kidnapped because he got into the trunk voluntarily?
Try to keep in mind the Niemoeller effect. It has strong implications and is represented in your argument. You seem to be at level 4.
A while back DNA tracking was implimented for convicted sex offenders; a good idea at the time. A little later it spread to all convicted felons. Today, they take a swab of your DNA and enter your profile into a national database when you're accused of a felony. Soon it will be standard booking procedure for all detentions. I will live long enough to see DNA swabbing common for any interaction with the judicial system including traffic offenses and police visiting your home because your neighbor complained about loud music.
I think what Niemoeller was describing is human nature, not tin foil hats. We're all frogs in a pot of ever increasing hot water. I have an inherent distrust of government. I don't think that's paranoid; I think that it's not only healthy but justified.
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What may be giving Gates so much heartburn is that Microsoft announced their version of the future as centralized computing with Microsoft as the "central". Everything, including your data, housed off site, on Microsoft servers and accessed through leased versions of their software.
If Google does develop Goffice and gives you, say, 10 gig. All your documents, spreadsheets, presentations on Google servers, they will have accomplished what Microsoft has wanted to do but can't. And, all without the cost of leased software, Microsoft's vision of their future revenue. No wonder he's scared. Like Linux, how can he compete with free.
I'm not sure Gates is scared that Google will take over Microsoft as it is now but that Google will take over what Microsoft plans to do in the future.
This is the way it works, so go ahead and start making plans to leave. I am. I figure my retirement will stretch further in another country anyway. Somewhere like Belize. I can get a coastal villa for $50K and a full time maid and cook for $40 a month. I can hire a full time bartender who will make me drinks with little umbrellas in them for $25 a month. But I digress.
A man is arrested for drunk driving. He is booked and released on bond. Not having a ride home, at his request the police call his friend Joe, they explain the situation, and ask that he come get his friend. At 2am Joe gets out of bed, gets dressed and goes to pick up his friend. Rather than to take him home, at his friends request, Joe takes him back to his car. He drops him off and then goes home and back to bed. His friend gets back in his car, still under the influence, takes off and this time kills someone in a collision. Later that morning Joe is woken up by the police and arrested for vehicular manslaughter. He contributed by taking his friend to his car rather than home making him just as guilty. It's that law in where everybody involved is guilty of murder even if they didn't pull the trigger.
A mother has a 19 year old daughter living with her. The daughter has friends over and they're listening to music. It turns out they also had alcohol. The mother did not buy the alcohol, she didn't even know they had any. The mother goes upstairs to bed. Later, the friends leave, under the influence, and kill someone in an auto accident. The mother is arrested for vehicular manslaughter. Again, the contributory guilt. The mother asleep in bed is "just as guilty" as the drunk driver. The mother contributed by negligence not stopping them from drinking even though she didn't know they were.
In both these cases these "victims" of our laws were found innocent by a jury. But that's the point. The laws already exist in the U.S. to be arrested and considered guilty for anything, whether you did the crime of not. Property can be seized without trial in direct conflict with our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The only thing standing between you and prison are not the protections afforded by the Constitution or even common sense, it's 12 people in a jury box.
Ever do laundry and pour the bleach in without measuring? You're a felon. It is against federal law to use that product inconstant with it's product labeling. A felony punishable by many years in prison.
It's not laws that keep me free and when socialites values change with the wind, so does my freedoms from an oppressive government. The laws in the United States are not dissimilar to those in 1930's Germany. Our SS and take you from your home, imprison you without charges, without access to legal counsel, hold secret trials, convict and punish you in secret. All the time your family is filling out missing person's reports and stapling posters to telephone polls with your picture.
Our freedoms do not exist on paper. They only exist in the minds or our citizens.
Go ahead and plan on leaving if that's how you feel. But I'd ask that you stay only because I'd want you on my jury if I'm ever unfortunate enough to be caught up in one of our police squad raids. You and people like you are the only reason I'm free, not because of any law. Stay just long enough for me to build my retirement to Belize. At least there I can avoid trial with a payment to a judge that's half the cost of an attorney defending me here.
In a past life I worked for a data processing equipment manufacture. Our top of the line machine had a direct competitor. The competition sold their competing model for about 10% - 20% less then we sold ours.
In our office we had a salesman who sold to federal, state, city governments who had to deal with bidding. The law is that when bidding apples to apples the lowest bid must be taken. When the government makes a purchase, they write a request for bid, specify what they want, send it to all their suppliers and take the lowest bid amount.
He had an "in" with his accounts and they all wanted our machine over the competition. However, with the competition selling for less, legally they were bound to purchase the lower cost alternative.
The got around this in how they wrote the request for bid. They would take the manufacturing and option specifications for each machine and write the bid in such a way as to include items that only our equipment had.
This could be a simple as including a second power switch that we had but the competition didn't have. I.E. Must be able to turn on/off equipment from either the front or rear. They would load the request for bid with such items so that the competition would not be able to quote apples to apples.
When the bids returned, even though the competition was a lower cost, they could reject the bid because it did not include all the specifications listed. They could then purchase our machine even though it more expensive.
The difference between the two machines were like Toyota vs. Honda. Both equally able to do the job. Strictly speaking, they should have taken the lower cost of the two. But when they had a preference they just worked around the bidding laws. It was common practice and common knowledge and that was 15 years ago.
I remember this study from college. I don't have my books and have been trying to find this study for years. I thought it was fascinating. Once the rats reached a certain mass they went neurotic. Obsessive compulsive, self mutilating... Maybe a sixth component needs added to the basic 5 of survival. Privacy.
Thanks for searching out who did it!
You treat your doctor the same way? Maybe the reason you're having bad experiences is your pride and disrespect for mankind in general. I know you'd be the last on my list.
As far as my mechanic? I had my breaks done on Tuesday. On my way I stopped at Starbucks and got his favorite coffee and met him as he opened the shop. I consistently get twice the work done at half the price.
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This is striking. That's the same percentage that voted for this administration. Infection rates are dropping and so are his approval ratings? Then they decide to boost support they drop health care for the poor?! OMG now it makes sense! It IS an infection! We need a national campaign to get their minds back. We have 50 million lost souls.
Imagine a time when you're no longer a teenager and have your own home.
If while at work, some neighbor kid is picking the locks to your home. He's pushing and pulling on the windows to see if they'll open. Perhaps seeing if reaching in from a dog door he can open the door lock.
After discovering the "insecurities" of your home, he lets himself in and does a walk through of your house. Perhaps taking a mental inventory of your music collection and admiring your PC setup. He leaves, stealing nothing.
You get home from work and figure out someone has been in your home. You call the police and they catch this kid while he's looking around inside another neighbors house.
Taking him to jail, all the time he's crying "but I just did it out of curiosity! They should be thankful I wasn't a *real* burglar". On and on he cries...
Grow up and start respecting other people's property. They didn't use you as an example; they punished you for the crime you committed.
JMHO
Maybe the difference is his tone. Other scientists spout these numbers as if they're reading them off a cold piece of paper. This guy pauses and says, wait a minute folks, think about what that really means.
One poster says, sure I believe it's coming, but we'll just adapt. No big deal. We'll just engineer plants that are heat tolerant. I'm thinking sure, what a time saver, plants that grow and cook at the same time. I wonder what foodstuff he thinks will grow at 50c - 60c?
Our great-grandchildren no doubt will be cursing our memory.
From Wikipedia: The term "virus" is often used in common parlance to describe all kinds of malware (malicious software), including those that are more properly classified as worms or trojans...
We all have our place in life... If yours is to split hairs, I'll concede.
BTW: Is there anything you want to add to the discussion or are you content in poking people with a stick?
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FTA: "The creator of the copy-protection software, a British company called First 4 Internet, said the cloaking mechanism was not a risk. The company's team has worked regularly with big antivirus companies to ensure the safety of its software, and to make sure it is not picked up as a virus, he said."
First of all, I would like to know who these "big antivirus" companies are so I can stop using their product (assuming I might be). That or to make sure I never use or recommend them to others'.
We are in trouble when antivirus companies are in backroom negotiations with virus makers, I assume for profit, not to detect one virus in favor of another.
How can I trust they haven't negotiated other backroom deals with virus/spyware writers that let other viruses and spyware on my machine?
I want to know who these "anti" virus companies are!
"Sony BMG said the MediaMax copy protection system, which is supposed to stop people making illegal copies of CDs, has been used on 50 titles sold in North America."
Why do the keep emphasizing, "making illegal copies" when it is not illegal? I have the right to make as many copies as I want. What I cannot do is make un-authorized copies (fair use IS authorized) or distribute those copies.
Having made to 19 years old with this attitude, they should arrest and jail his parents for raising such a dumbass. His parents are raising kids that are not only a danger to themselves but also to society. If he has younger brothers and sisters they should be taken from the parents and placed in foster care for the safety of all.
You're right except there's no such thing as a "normal" person. I am average. And, as an average person, the price is too high. Especially when other options are availible at one third the price.
I'm sure they did their marketing surveys and they have a group they're appealing too. I'm not convienced the market they're attracting is average. In TFA they admit only 20% have the ability to even request the PPV in the first place.
That was my point. What was your's in trolling me?
For $17 one could easily go through 10 movies a month at Netflix. Granted you don't get to keep a hard copy unless you burn one. Walmart has shelves of it's movies at $9.
I suppose there's a market. This might appeal to a single mother who wants a copy of a Disney movie for her kids (assuming they're shown on PPV) or Spiderman. If someone only wants one movie a month I guess it's okay. But at two movies that's $34, three is 50+. I suspect this is going to get real expensive for some households real fast. But, then again, these are households that are already spending $90 a month for cable in the first place.
Just one password? The company I'm currently at we have seperate logons and passwords for the following:
Windows
UNIX
MAin Company Application
VPN
Cybershift
Magellan
TrackIT
Mtrack
Projects Application
Exchange/Email
Telephone
Change Management
I gave up on a postit notes a long time ago and now use a spreadsheet I have linked from my desktop.
_Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH_.
It's TRUE! It's TRUE!
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Oh sorry, I meant a million dollars a month, of course. Though Gates at least gives billions to charity.
In a month? From all his investments, interest, dividends, etc. I heard a number once that Bill Gates wakes up 12 million dollars richer then when he went to bed.
Asked about his wealth he said once you reach a certin level, more money doesn't matter. Things only get so good and once you can afford the best that's it. In other words food only gets so good, cars only get so good, clothes can only be made so good and once you afford the best more money after that doesn't buy you anything better then what you can already afford.
There are days I've pondered what that would be like.
Thank you. These words describe the *blind* in our world, and because I believe the Word of our Holy Father, The truth will be, and is, hidden from these people. These people proclaim they speak for Christ saying: hate, murder, death, kill is our Father's message saying that they are fundamentalist Christians even though the basic fundamental message or our Christ, doesn't even come close to what they preach.
They are blinded, as the Word tells us that they will be. Not unlike the KKK who use the Bible to spread their particular form of hate in God's word. Republicans actually believe, as do the KKK, that they are morally superior to everyone else.
What I read of our Father's Word is that these people (Republicans, as I interpret their message), are self proclaimed "Christians", those who are willing to accept the "mark" denying God's message. They do believe in what they're doing. They'll even murder you in God's name believing that what they're doing is God's work, as we've seen in Iraq.
War, hate, murder, death, kill was, and never has been, the message of our Holy Father's Word. Yet these people (Republicans) see fit to proclaim they are messengers of our Christ Jesus. Revelation come true. I believe more now than I ever have before.
Again, I am willing to take a hit on my karma. Go ahead "his helpers", mod me down.
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What I like most about this new world order, is an event I'll never forget. Talking with a co-worker, who's a pounding the table Republican Bush supporter, that is now facing some minor charges. Very minor charges in my mind, and I hold no judgment against him but, nevertheless, accusations that are significant in his life...
"No problem, I am innocent." He declares. "I will be found innocent by a jury of my peers." This, being his basic defense and hope.
My response..., "You're no longer guaranteed a trial or even a defense for that matter."
Astonished, "What do you mean?" He says. "I am a patriotic American, I am a believer of 'The American Way', I voted Republican to preserve my way of life."
"What you voted for... my friend", I said, "let's put it this way..., you voted to take away the rights of the bad guys, well... because they're bad, right? To get even, and inflict justice against them."
"Yes I did.", He said. "And I'm proud of it!", pounding the table, "I voted Republican, I support Bush and I'm a patriotic American. These are *bad* people and nothing we can do to them is too harsh, even torture is too good for *them*."
"Well...", I said calmly, "Now, *you're* one of the bad guys."
You know what I will never forget for the rest of my life? The blank look I got in return. Those 10 seconds of his astounded epiphany will last me a life time.
I don't know who wrote the "I did not protest because..." stuff. But, I have personally seen it and experienced it in real time, in my own life, and I now know those words were spoken as was wisdom before their time.
I am seriously suspect of anyone pounding the table for any cause "x". I have proof, backed by psychology, that anyone pounding the table against any "x"... Well, you do the research yourself.
Anyone holding a candle to this administration, to me, is suspect.
A fundamental Christian Republican, in my research, would be begging the government to turn the other cheek. How did the fundamentals, of my Christ Jesus, get so turned around? The fundamentals of my Christ Jesus, is doctrine that these people (Republicans) have never accepted, or by choice have simply turned away from. And for the public record, my Christ? I *believe* you.
Reading Revelation, I never accepted, I could not believe so many "Christians" would accept the "mark" and turn away from the word of God. Not until Bush and his administration and his supporters, the "Christian 'Right'" did I begin to understand.
I believe now in His word more than I ever thought possible. "We are Christians, and speak for Christ", they say, "hate, war, murder, death, kill."
I never understood, until now, the truth Christ Jesus spoke of. That in the name of God, He said, people will murder you, believing that they're doing God's service.
My description?
In the USA, we have "churches" kicking out "Democrats" and self proclaimed "liberals" from their congregation as "un-godly", no longer welcome in their congregation. Un-holy, and unworthy of the message of "their" god. I am thankful that they are right. We are not worthy of the message of *their* god. *Our* God is Jesus Christ and his message of salvation.
BTW: I have been moderating and meta-moderating for years now. I already know that the "right" has plants at
Mod away "his helpers", mod away.
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Let's just say that they have a limited gene pool. A list of email addresses of their children may be an attempt to promote marriage outside the family. Pedo's encouraged to apply.
I don't mind pissing off a government like China by hosting their citizen's rant that "we're not free".
What gives me pause is if I open up my server, abet even just one directory, for anyone to use as a host, what's to protect me from bad people using it to host material that could get me arrested in my own country.
If it's a matter of free speech I'm all for that. But, once I open up my server, what if it turns out I'm hosting material plans for the next 9/11? I don't think I'm comfortable with level of risk.
I might be able to beat it given the chance to explain. But what are the odds I'd even get a trial? I'd just disappear and never be heard from again.
It's an invalid copyright premise I don't recognize. Assuming the photographer is not God, my image is not their intellectual property.
I just read a
The way my brain works is that everything I have paid for, I own. The automatic assignment of copyright for only particular acts of creation, as in photography, is protectionism.
Someone at McDonalds has labored night and day to create for me the Big Mac. It's a creation of immense intellect. But, after I've paid for it, I'll be damned if I need their permission to eat it.
If you look around the room you're sitting in, everything reflecting light is a product of someone's intellect. How often to you ask permission from the Standard company to take a dump? What do you mean it's "your" toilet? When was the last time you asked your automobile "creator" if you could fill your tank with petrol? Or the drywall creator if it was okay to put a nail in "his" drywall so you can hang a picture in your own home?
I'm not going to respect any law that says a photographer still owns an image that I've paid them to record. I'm Sorry. If they want to try and water mark it, I'll PhotoShop it out. If Walmart won't print it, I'll go somewhere else.
Maybe this is starting to sound trollish. But I'm starting to get sick and tired of this copyright protectionism and people claiming they still own something after I have paid them for it.
I understand photographers think that all I have paid for is one piece of paper when I pay them to record an image. Respectfully, I disagree. When I pay a photographer to record an image, I own the product I've paid for, the image I have paid them to record.
Just because that's how I think, doesn't necessarily make it right. But, because it's the way I think, I'll ignore any pseudo claim photographers make on a product they want me to pay for yet they still want to own.
I wish I could get away with that. I sell my car in the Autotrader and I'm paid $5000.00 but I still own it. I think the photographers should go for it so long as they can get away with it. But I think they're seeing that technology is making their antiquated business model, well... antiquated.
I am going to patent a line of obfuscation undergarments and make a fortune. Using metal microfilament thread woven into a mesh. You'll be able to choose between a smilie face, a finger flipping the TSA the bird and for the more adventurous, the John Holmes line (only available as boxers).
I'm curious. If someone is "pressured" into the trunk of his car and then taken to some obscure spot, does it mean he was not kidnapped because he got into the trunk voluntarily?
Try to keep in mind the Niemoeller effect. It has strong implications and is represented in your argument. You seem to be at level 4.
A while back DNA tracking was implimented for convicted sex offenders; a good idea at the time. A little later it spread to all convicted felons. Today, they take a swab of your DNA and enter your profile into a national database when you're accused of a felony. Soon it will be standard booking procedure for all detentions. I will live long enough to see DNA swabbing common for any interaction with the judicial system including traffic offenses and police visiting your home because your neighbor complained about loud music.
I think what Niemoeller was describing is human nature, not tin foil hats. We're all frogs in a pot of ever increasing hot water. I have an inherent distrust of government. I don't think that's paranoid; I think that it's not only healthy but justified.
What may be giving Gates so much heartburn is that Microsoft announced their version of the future as centralized computing with Microsoft as the "central". Everything, including your data, housed off site, on Microsoft servers and accessed through leased versions of their software.
If Google does develop Goffice and gives you, say, 10 gig. All your documents, spreadsheets, presentations on Google servers, they will have accomplished what Microsoft has wanted to do but can't. And, all without the cost of leased software, Microsoft's vision of their future revenue. No wonder he's scared. Like Linux, how can he compete with free.
I'm not sure Gates is scared that Google will take over Microsoft as it is now but that Google will take over what Microsoft plans to do in the future.
This is the way it works, so go ahead and start making plans to leave. I am. I figure my retirement will stretch further in another country anyway. Somewhere like Belize. I can get a coastal villa for $50K and a full time maid and cook for $40 a month. I can hire a full time bartender who will make me drinks with little umbrellas in them for $25 a month. But I digress.
A man is arrested for drunk driving. He is booked and released on bond. Not having a ride home, at his request the police call his friend Joe, they explain the situation, and ask that he come get his friend. At 2am Joe gets out of bed, gets dressed and goes to pick up his friend. Rather than to take him home, at his friends request, Joe takes him back to his car. He drops him off and then goes home and back to bed. His friend gets back in his car, still under the influence, takes off and this time kills someone in a collision. Later that morning Joe is woken up by the police and arrested for vehicular manslaughter. He contributed by taking his friend to his car rather than home making him just as guilty. It's that law in where everybody involved is guilty of murder even if they didn't pull the trigger.
A mother has a 19 year old daughter living with her. The daughter has friends over and they're listening to music. It turns out they also had alcohol. The mother did not buy the alcohol, she didn't even know they had any. The mother goes upstairs to bed. Later, the friends leave, under the influence, and kill someone in an auto accident. The mother is arrested for vehicular manslaughter. Again, the contributory guilt. The mother asleep in bed is "just as guilty" as the drunk driver. The mother contributed by negligence not stopping them from drinking even though she didn't know they were.
In both these cases these "victims" of our laws were found innocent by a jury. But that's the point. The laws already exist in the U.S. to be arrested and considered guilty for anything, whether you did the crime of not. Property can be seized without trial in direct conflict with our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The only thing standing between you and prison are not the protections afforded by the Constitution or even common sense, it's 12 people in a jury box.
Ever do laundry and pour the bleach in without measuring? You're a felon. It is against federal law to use that product inconstant with it's product labeling. A felony punishable by many years in prison.
It's not laws that keep me free and when socialites values change with the wind, so does my freedoms from an oppressive government. The laws in the United States are not dissimilar to those in 1930's Germany. Our SS and take you from your home, imprison you without charges, without access to legal counsel, hold secret trials, convict and punish you in secret. All the time your family is filling out missing person's reports and stapling posters to telephone polls with your picture.
Our freedoms do not exist on paper. They only exist in the minds or our citizens.
Go ahead and plan on leaving if that's how you feel. But I'd ask that you stay only because I'd want you on my jury if I'm ever unfortunate enough to be caught up in one of our police squad raids. You and people like you are the only reason I'm free, not because of any law. Stay just long enough for me to build my retirement to Belize. At least there I can avoid trial with a payment to a judge that's half the cost of an attorney defending me here.
In a past life I worked for a data processing equipment manufacture. Our top of the line machine had a direct competitor. The competition sold their competing model for about 10% - 20% less then we sold ours.
In our office we had a salesman who sold to federal, state, city governments who had to deal with bidding. The law is that when bidding apples to apples the lowest bid must be taken. When the government makes a purchase, they write a request for bid, specify what they want, send it to all their suppliers and take the lowest bid amount.
He had an "in" with his accounts and they all wanted our machine over the competition. However, with the competition selling for less, legally they were bound to purchase the lower cost alternative.
The got around this in how they wrote the request for bid. They would take the manufacturing and option specifications for each machine and write the bid in such a way as to include items that only our equipment had.
This could be a simple as including a second power switch that we had but the competition didn't have. I.E. Must be able to turn on/off equipment from either the front or rear. They would load the request for bid with such items so that the competition would not be able to quote apples to apples.
When the bids returned, even though the competition was a lower cost, they could reject the bid because it did not include all the specifications listed. They could then purchase our machine even though it more expensive.
The difference between the two machines were like Toyota vs. Honda. Both equally able to do the job. Strictly speaking, they should have taken the lower cost of the two. But when they had a preference they just worked around the bidding laws. It was common practice and common knowledge and that was 15 years ago.
I remember this study from college. I don't have my books and have been trying to find this study for years. I thought it was fascinating. Once the rats reached a certain mass they went neurotic. Obsessive compulsive, self mutilating... Maybe a sixth component needs added to the basic 5 of survival. Privacy.
Thanks for searching out who did it!
You treat your doctor the same way? Maybe the reason you're having bad experiences is your pride and disrespect for mankind in general. I know you'd be the last on my list.
As far as my mechanic? I had my breaks done on Tuesday. On my way I stopped at Starbucks and got his favorite coffee and met him as he opened the shop. I consistently get twice the work done at half the price.