I know what you're saying and it's often true: many attorneys do milk the system. But I have lawyers in my family, and number them among my friends....
weird, I consider family, well, family. no one in my family is my friend, because they are, well, my family.
Some I like, some I can't stand, but they are family, that's it.
I think basic algbra (sorry, they spent so much time teaching me geometry they forgot to teach me how to spell) is all people really need in life.
Anything after that isn't overly necessary for most people.
I could be wrong of course, but in my life, even with doing computer programing, I never needed very complicated math.
Problem solving though, they should teach more of, imo.
but i've been out of school for 20 or so years and i have no idea what they teach anymore, since I don't have kids. But i imagine they are still using the same text books I did. (that should be a joke, but sadly, it's probably not.)
Earlier today Obama said the sky is blue. Clearly he is a lying Socialist, and the sky is not blue.
Then I heard Glen Beck say that grass is green, which just proves he is a racist and a fascist, and now I can be sure that grass is not green.
In this brave new world, we determine reality by excluding the views of those whom we predetermine to be wrong. Welcome, and enjoy the stay... just don't plan on leaving any time soon.
The sky is grey because of pollution and the grass is brown because of global warming.
Let's see. If been on this internet thing since the early 90's.
Yes, it was sweet back then. No adds, no big commerical interested trying to control everything.
Telnet was the common connection, though cslip and ppp started coming out. IRC was just starting, so we had some chat communication.
the www was starting up, and you had lynx to browse it.
Then the internet started getting popular, people started getting their connections through companies, not thru the universities. The connections & WWW got better.
and where the people go, soon the advertising will appear, as that is the way or corporations.
And some of these corporations looked at the internet as a way to make money off people. The stupid ones tried to get you to pay top dollar for their services. Some of the smarter companies realized that people don't want to pay more money, so they started doing ad services to help webmasters make money on websites. Of course, they were helping themselves, mainly if you remember some of the things, like the chat logs of one of the big ad services getting leaked.
Since corporations are ONLY about GREED, they keep pushing and pushing what they can to get money.
This is why the internet is like it is today. It became popular, and the corps are taking advantage of that. So is it bad that google does 85% of advertising? I don't know, because it's not usually their ads I find so fucking annoying.
But I will say this. I don't expect any privacy when i'm online, and I find the services google provides a fair trade for the info they get out of me.
People need to understand, there is NO PRIVACY on the internet. None. It's not made for privacy, it can't be made for privacy.
And if you find you can't tell the ads from the content on the site, then you bitch at the site's owner, and get them to change it.
Personally, I'm a big fan of adblock plus & no script, but to each his own.
Ah, but if we give them condoms, we are encouraging fornication.
This seems like a textbook example of why churches are not the best agent for philanthropic missions.
Note to self: Use this as a talking point to republicans to demonstrate why tax breaks to churches are no substitute for actual social programs.
Church's should be non profit groups. They shouldn't get a tax break. It would stop on some of these seriously fake, oh wait, nm, they all are seriously fake.
Point stands. Tax breaks for religons is very stupid. And bias.
I'm not against GM, I'm against companies OWNING genes. It's the old story of proprietary vs open source... do you really want the food sources of humanities future controlled by corporations with only a profit motive and no humanitarian concerns?
You mean like it pretty much is now?
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Um, The Simpson's is a comedy Cartoon show, they do tend to poke fun at various things all the time. You don't hear the comic fan boys bitching.
The only reason they are bitching is probably because it hits close to home, and that's not The Simpson's producers fault, that's there own fault.
But of cry babies with barely any talent if you ask me. Swear to god all the anime from korea looks the same, at least jap's artist tend to make different looking anime.
I watched BSG religiously (and bitched like fuck after the final episode) but I never watched Caprica - I didn't want to have to watch another series just to have some small parts of the back story filled in, and Caprica didn't interest me as an independent series either.
Plus the BSG writers pretty much blew it for me when they discussed in a podcast during season 2 or 3 that they had no idea that the 'final five' thing was going to become what it did, they just realised that viewers had latched on to it as a mystery and then decided to run with it - the final five were all chosen much later on as well, just before they were revealed, so again the concept that the writers 'had a plan' was blown for me early on.
I enjoyed BSG somewhat, and not enough to think watching Caprica was a big deal, until I watch some Caprica, then I realized it was actually a pretty good show.
You shouldn't judge stuff by what you think it might be, you should judge stuff based on what it actually is.
You might not end up liking Caprica, but you didn't even bother giving it a chance.
C isn't portable. If I write something in Java it will probably (for a very high value of "probably" too) work on any of a dozen platforms. If I write something in C I have to port it. Porting it costs programmer time and we've already established that programmer time is more costly than machine time. In theory C could be made to be somewhat portable (It would still have to be compiled on every platform and the binaries distributed separately), but in practice this would require a lot of OS vendors that hate each other to standardize a lot of APIs. It's probably not going to happen.
How did this get +5 insightful? C was the first portable language.
If you know something you're considering buying potentially directly hurts the workers making them, do you buy it anyway?
Yes. I buy products made on assembly lines with nonzero accident rates, made from metals mined under dangerous conditions (ALL of them are), made from oil drilled and refined under dangerous conditions, processed using energy from coal mined under dangerous conditions, transported over dangerous roads, etc.
Fact is, every product -- even those made entirely in 1st world Western countries -- required some danger somewhere in its manufacturing process. You can fairly claim that Chinese manufacturing is unnecessarily dangerous, but you can't set the bar at zero.
Accidents happen.
Unsafe working conditions aren't accidents, they are purposely bad conditions set to produce cheaper items at the cost of the health or lives of it's workers.
You can spin it how you want, but we are abusing the people of 3rd world companies by allowing our companies to manufacture items there.
We, as humans on earth, should be treating our fellow humans better.
For the curious, Article 2, Section 2: "[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur."
Treaties of the United States have to be ratified by the Senate. This is hardly news.
Wow, did you not even bother to read the summary? I can understand not reading the article, but the summary makes it clear that Obama isn't considering it a treaty.
Here, let me quote it for you:
That said, these academics suggested that Obama does not have the authority to unilaterally sign the accord, which has been in the works for three years and is nearly final. Instead, they said, it should be considered a treaty, necessitating two-thirds Senate approval."
You do notice it's being called an accord and the scholars are saying it's actually a treaty?
blaming facebook is just shifting responsibility and personal accountability away from you when things go wrong because you weren't discreet
If only the system works like you described. Like someone said earlier, you have more to worry about from OTHER people's posts than you really do your own. Let's say I make a Facebook page - but I don't enter any information but my name and photo. I don't add any of my friends, I basically be a social outcast and hermit on Facebook.
Facebook still allows people to tag "nothings" in photos, so they can tag me in a photo and I won't get ANY notification because the Tag itself won't like to my page - instead it'll just say my name when they hover over it. A potential employer does some research on me - and they find that I have a facebook account but can't see anything but my picture. They then continue their goolge search and see a random picture someone put up of me with my tag on it and know its me because of the photo.
Damn - all I did was enter my name and a good photo of myself - and my reputation got ruined outside of my control.
Replace your "good" photo with a picture of your cat. Now they have nothing to compare that it's really you.
I wonder what happens if we continue to expand our knowledge about exoplanets at the current rate but we don't discover life on another planet by the year 2100. Fermi's Paradox bugs the hell out of me. I can't see how we are unique... but I also can't see why the evidence of other civilizations wouldn't be obvious.
Fermi's Paradox is nothing but fluff.
Even if every solar system had 1 inhabitable planet, with people just like us, we still wouldn't know it.
How many probes have we sent beyond our own solar system? Let alone to another one? And not to mention how long it would take for any reports to be sent back, if they even could be.
We still discover new animals and plant life on our own planet, and it's way smaller then any distance to another solar system.
And if some other intelligent life was able to cross the vast distances to our planet, I don't think they'd want us to know about them anyways. Seriously, we can't run our own planet decently, so why the hell would anyone else want us to know about them? Let alone risk the chance that we'd get access to tech that would make it so we can spread our love of war, greed, and hypocrisy across the cosmos.
That what bothers me the most. The trend around the world is to cut money where there is no immediate return, everyone wants a quick buck. A nation's future is in the investment they put in research and science. But who am i to be listened to, when big corps have a hold on all the elected officials ?
It's great that we could expand to many different planets. The leap between the Moon, Mars and an extra solar planet is so enormous though that the only thing this tells us is that we may be able to more closely identify where we should listen to for signals.
the way man has abused this planet, it's a good thing the others are too far away to ruin them also.
We haven't had a major terrorist incident in the US for a while. Why?
A: There hasn't been any credible ability to do so by the bad guys
B: Nobody wants to harm the US any more
C: The counterterrorism efforts have prevented such an attack
How about:
D: 9-11 was partly staged by insiders in the American Government to move their agenda across.
While I am not a conspiracy theorist, that is looking way more likely then any other answer.
We didn't improve our security since then, it's a joke. but we did increase our military spending, got some vice president's company making a shit load of money from jobs, and should I mention that our gas price went up through the roof while the oil companies were posting record breaking profits?
And then during this last decade, our business sector criminally abuses it's power, 'causes a big economic spin down, way too many people lost houses, jobs, and what happens?
Our government gives money to the criminals, not the victims.
Seems to me our government does NOT have our interests at heart.
Every company always hypes their games as the best, and worse here is Blizzard, who has an actual good record for games they did, um, like what, 10 years ago now?
Since then though, what do they have to show? ya, WoW, and being bought by one of the crappiest publishing companies out there.
Starcraft 2 came out, but i'm not impressed. More of the same crap from the past. Which isn't as popular as it once was.
Now we will have Diablo 3. A game based on a gaming genre that has sort of passed us by. Sure, we have some click fests come out recently, Torchlight being one. But is this that big of a deal as people are making?
I know people who are talking about this like it's going to be the game of the decade, and they haven't even played it. They got their money down on something they are hoping will give them the same feeling they had 10 years ago, but it won't.
A friend of mine was talking up Duke Nuke'm Forever or whatever it's going to be called, providing is does actually get released. "Ya, this game is going to be so fucking cool to play" says my friend. I reply "Sure it will. For like 10 mins, then after the 'fuck ya, it's finally done' moments, you better hope there's some sort of decent story in it, or plays well. Because I wouldn't put it past a company to put out whatever just because they know the hype of the game will sell copies".
Of course, he was too stoned to even realize I was talking.
But you need a 3G data card in the netbook if you want to just leave it in situ and ssh in to it; the iphone and this box can juat be plugged in and left there -- (for as long as the battery lasts) -- you can be wherever you like.
So your saying you can leave it somewhere running on it's battery for about an hour?
It seems, and this is my opinion, that high frucose corn syrup and other "sweeteners" they use these days are more the problem. We need to get back to putting sugar in our junk food.
While it's up to us to monitor what we and our kids (if it applies to you) eat, but it's pretty hard to avoid HFCS in stuff, since it's in almost everything that used to have sugar in it.
Of course, the companies that use it don't care, since it's cheaper then sugar, and since they are corporations and only care about squeezing every extra profit they can.
So, we need to not only monitor what we are eating, we need to hold the companies accountable for the crap they are using in their products also.
Of course, that will never happen until after the revolution...
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I know what you're saying and it's often true: many attorneys do milk the system. But I have lawyers in my family, and number them among my friends. ...
weird, I consider family, well, family. no one in my family is my friend, because they are, well, my family.
Some I like, some I can't stand, but they are family, that's it.
Of course, we don't really worry to much with "heresy", but damn they want us to narc on our neighbors, report any "suspious" activity we see.
That's the start, of course. Soon we'll be just like them.
As long as rule 34 isn't touched, it's all cool.
You don't know its buggy until you've bought and played it.
Don't buy it before you play it.
I download my games to try before i buy.
Fallout New Vegas is not getting bought, even though I loved Fallout 3.
Sheesh, I'm not even preordering Diable 3, even though I enjoyed Diablo 2.
The only games I preorder are my EQ2 expansions, because i'm stupid enough to to play a MMORPG.
I think basic algbra (sorry, they spent so much time teaching me geometry they forgot to teach me how to spell) is all people really need in life.
Anything after that isn't overly necessary for most people.
I could be wrong of course, but in my life, even with doing computer programing, I never needed very complicated math.
Problem solving though, they should teach more of, imo.
but i've been out of school for 20 or so years and i have no idea what they teach anymore, since I don't have kids. But i imagine they are still using the same text books I did. (that should be a joke, but sadly, it's probably not.)
Dang, the cops are so lazy in the UK they don't even walk a beat
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Damn, the cops are so cool in the UK because they like to surf.
okay, sorry, i would be funnier, but i got arrested for a pic of me smoking weed on facebook and the cops came over and "confiscated" my stash.
Earlier today Obama said the sky is blue. Clearly he is a lying Socialist, and the sky is not blue.
Then I heard Glen Beck say that grass is green, which just proves he is a racist and a fascist, and now I can be sure that grass is not green.
In this brave new world, we determine reality by excluding the views of those whom we predetermine to be wrong. Welcome, and enjoy the stay... just don't plan on leaving any time soon.
The sky is grey because of pollution and the grass is brown because of global warming.
Let's see. If been on this internet thing since the early 90's.
Yes, it was sweet back then. No adds, no big commerical interested trying to control everything.
Telnet was the common connection, though cslip and ppp started coming out.
IRC was just starting, so we had some chat communication.
the www was starting up, and you had lynx to browse it.
Then the internet started getting popular, people started getting their connections through companies, not thru the universities. The connections & WWW got better.
and where the people go, soon the advertising will appear, as that is the way or corporations.
And some of these corporations looked at the internet as a way to make money off people. The stupid ones tried to get you to pay top dollar for their services. Some of the smarter companies realized that people don't want to pay more money, so they started doing ad services to help webmasters make money on websites. Of course, they were helping themselves, mainly if you remember some of the things, like the chat logs of one of the big ad services getting leaked.
Since corporations are ONLY about GREED, they keep pushing and pushing what they can to get money.
This is why the internet is like it is today. It became popular, and the corps are taking advantage of that. So is it bad that google does 85% of advertising? I don't know, because it's not usually their ads I find so fucking annoying.
But I will say this. I don't expect any privacy when i'm online, and I find the services google provides a fair trade for the info they get out of me.
People need to understand, there is NO PRIVACY on the internet. None. It's not made for privacy, it can't be made for privacy.
And if you find you can't tell the ads from the content on the site, then you bitch at the site's owner, and get them to change it.
Personally, I'm a big fan of adblock plus & no script, but to each his own.
Ah, but if we give them condoms, we are encouraging fornication.
This seems like a textbook example of why churches are not the best agent for philanthropic missions.
Note to self: Use this as a talking point to republicans to demonstrate why tax breaks to churches are no substitute for actual social programs.
Church's should be non profit groups. They shouldn't get a tax break. It would stop on some of these seriously fake, oh wait, nm, they all are seriously fake.
Point stands. Tax breaks for religons is very stupid. And bias.
I'm not against GM, I'm against companies OWNING genes. It's the old story of proprietary vs open source... do you really want the food sources of humanities future controlled by corporations with only a profit motive and no humanitarian concerns?
You mean like it pretty much is now?
And here is an article on this exploit technique:
http://www.dailytech.com/USB+Drive+Malware+Exploit+Windows+7+Flaw+in+Apparent+Espionage+Effort/article19065.htm
http://www.dailytech.com/USB+Drive+Malware+Exploit+Windows+7+Flaw+in+Apparent+Espionage+Effort/article19065.htm
What, you can't actually make a link?
Um, The Simpson's is a comedy Cartoon show, they do tend to poke fun at various things all the time. You don't hear the comic fan boys bitching.
The only reason they are bitching is probably because it hits close to home, and that's not The Simpson's producers fault, that's there own fault.
But of cry babies with barely any talent if you ask me. Swear to god all the anime from korea looks the same, at least jap's artist tend to make different looking anime.
It's time we the consumers start suing the companies.
wait, the lawyers will win again, damn.
this reality is starting to suck.
I watched BSG religiously (and bitched like fuck after the final episode) but I never watched Caprica - I didn't want to have to watch another series just to have some small parts of the back story filled in, and Caprica didn't interest me as an independent series either.
Plus the BSG writers pretty much blew it for me when they discussed in a podcast during season 2 or 3 that they had no idea that the 'final five' thing was going to become what it did, they just realised that viewers had latched on to it as a mystery and then decided to run with it - the final five were all chosen much later on as well, just before they were revealed, so again the concept that the writers 'had a plan' was blown for me early on.
I enjoyed BSG somewhat, and not enough to think watching Caprica was a big deal, until I watch some Caprica, then I realized it was actually a pretty good show.
You shouldn't judge stuff by what you think it might be, you should judge stuff based on what it actually is.
You might not end up liking Caprica, but you didn't even bother giving it a chance.
C isn't portable. If I write something in Java it will probably (for a very high value of "probably" too) work on any of a dozen platforms. If I write something in C I have to port it. Porting it costs programmer time and we've already established that programmer time is more costly than machine time. In theory C could be made to be somewhat portable (It would still have to be compiled on every platform and the binaries distributed separately), but in practice this would require a lot of OS vendors that hate each other to standardize a lot of APIs. It's probably not going to happen.
How did this get +5 insightful? C was the first portable language.
Yes. I buy products made on assembly lines with nonzero accident rates, made from metals mined under dangerous conditions (ALL of them are), made from oil drilled and refined under dangerous conditions, processed using energy from coal mined under dangerous conditions, transported over dangerous roads, etc.
Fact is, every product -- even those made entirely in 1st world Western countries -- required some danger somewhere in its manufacturing process. You can fairly claim that Chinese manufacturing is unnecessarily dangerous, but you can't set the bar at zero.
Accidents happen.
Unsafe working conditions aren't accidents, they are purposely bad conditions set to produce cheaper items at the cost of the health or lives of it's workers.
You can spin it how you want, but we are abusing the people of 3rd world companies by allowing our companies to manufacture items there.
We, as humans on earth, should be treating our fellow humans better.
For the curious, Article 2, Section 2:
"[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur."
Treaties of the United States have to be ratified by the Senate. This is hardly news.
Wow, did you not even bother to read the summary? I can understand not reading the article, but the summary makes it clear that Obama isn't considering it a treaty.
Here, let me quote it for you:
That said, these academics suggested that Obama does not have the authority to unilaterally sign the accord, which has been in the works for three years and is nearly final. Instead, they said, it should be considered a treaty, necessitating two-thirds Senate approval."
You do notice it's being called an accord and the scholars are saying it's actually a treaty?
blaming facebook is just shifting responsibility and personal accountability away from you when things go wrong because you weren't discreet
If only the system works like you described. Like someone said earlier, you have more to worry about from OTHER people's posts than you really do your own. Let's say I make a Facebook page - but I don't enter any information but my name and photo. I don't add any of my friends, I basically be a social outcast and hermit on Facebook.
Facebook still allows people to tag "nothings" in photos, so they can tag me in a photo and I won't get ANY notification because the Tag itself won't like to my page - instead it'll just say my name when they hover over it. A potential employer does some research on me - and they find that I have a facebook account but can't see anything but my picture. They then continue their goolge search and see a random picture someone put up of me with my tag on it and know its me because of the photo.
Damn - all I did was enter my name and a good photo of myself - and my reputation got ruined outside of my control.
Replace your "good" photo with a picture of your cat. Now they have nothing to compare that it's really you.
I wonder what happens if we continue to expand our knowledge about exoplanets at the current rate but we don't discover life on another planet by the year 2100. Fermi's Paradox bugs the hell out of me. I can't see how we are unique... but I also can't see why the evidence of other civilizations wouldn't be obvious.
Fermi's Paradox is nothing but fluff.
Even if every solar system had 1 inhabitable planet, with people just like us, we still wouldn't know it.
How many probes have we sent beyond our own solar system? Let alone to another one? And not to mention how long it would take for any reports to be sent back, if they even could be.
We still discover new animals and plant life on our own planet, and it's way smaller then any distance to another solar system.
And if some other intelligent life was able to cross the vast distances to our planet, I don't think they'd want us to know about them anyways. Seriously, we can't run our own planet decently, so why the hell would anyone else want us to know about them? Let alone risk the chance that we'd get access to tech that would make it so we can spread our love of war, greed, and hypocrisy across the cosmos.
That what bothers me the most. The trend around the world is to cut money where there is no immediate return, everyone wants a quick buck.
A nation's future is in the investment they put in research and science.
But who am i to be listened to, when big corps have a hold on all the elected officials ?
It's time for a change of government then.
It's great that we could expand to many different planets. The leap between the Moon, Mars and an extra solar planet is so enormous though that the only thing this tells us is that we may be able to more closely identify where we should listen to for signals.
the way man has abused this planet, it's a good thing the others are too far away to ruin them also.
Playing devil's advocate here...
We haven't had a major terrorist incident in the US for a while. Why?
B: Nobody wants to harm the US any more
C: The counterterrorism efforts have prevented such an attack
How about:
D: 9-11 was partly staged by insiders in the American Government to move their agenda across.
While I am not a conspiracy theorist, that is looking way more likely then any other answer.
We didn't improve our security since then, it's a joke. but we did increase our military spending, got some vice president's company making a shit load of money from jobs, and should I mention that our gas price went up through the roof while the oil companies were posting record breaking profits?
And then during this last decade, our business sector criminally abuses it's power, 'causes a big economic spin down, way too many people lost houses, jobs, and what happens?
Our government gives money to the criminals, not the victims.
Seems to me our government does NOT have our interests at heart.
Every company always hypes their games as the best, and worse here is Blizzard, who has an actual good record for games they did, um, like what, 10 years ago now?
Since then though, what do they have to show? ya, WoW, and being bought by one of the crappiest publishing companies out there.
Starcraft 2 came out, but i'm not impressed. More of the same crap from the past. Which isn't as popular as it once was.
Now we will have Diablo 3. A game based on a gaming genre that has sort of passed us by. Sure, we have some click fests come out recently, Torchlight being one. But is this that big of a deal as people are making?
I know people who are talking about this like it's going to be the game of the decade, and they haven't even played it. They got their money down on something they are hoping will give them the same feeling they had 10 years ago, but it won't.
A friend of mine was talking up Duke Nuke'm Forever or whatever it's going to be called, providing is does actually get released. "Ya, this game is going to be so fucking cool to play" says my friend. I reply "Sure it will. For like 10 mins, then after the 'fuck ya, it's finally done' moments, you better hope there's some sort of decent story in it, or plays well. Because I wouldn't put it past a company to put out whatever just because they know the hype of the game will sell copies".
Of course, he was too stoned to even realize I was talking.
But you need a 3G data card in the netbook if you want to just leave it in situ and ssh in to it; the iphone and this box can juat be plugged in and left there -- (for as long as the battery lasts) -- you can be wherever you like.
So your saying you can leave it somewhere running on it's battery for about an hour?
It seems, and this is my opinion, that high frucose corn syrup and other "sweeteners" they use these days are more the problem. We need to get back to putting sugar in our junk food.
While it's up to us to monitor what we and our kids (if it applies to you) eat, but it's pretty hard to avoid HFCS in stuff, since it's in almost everything that used to have sugar in it.
Of course, the companies that use it don't care, since it's cheaper then sugar, and since they are corporations and only care about squeezing every extra profit they can.
So, we need to not only monitor what we are eating, we need to hold the companies accountable for the crap they are using in their products also.
Of course, that will never happen until after the revolution...