Words are just fine to fight fascism, right up to the point when there is some fascism to fight. Civil society/democracy does not apply to the fascists, so you need to reach for the guns which you melted down because words were your salvation within your (now rapidly shrinking) democracy.
A soviet Ghandi and his followers would all have ended up in the gulag.
Okay, you convinced me, I shall now find out what the lying weasels say they stand for and their lying weasel party's position on different topics. Thus i will totally be able to choose which bunch of lying weasels will best represent me when they get in power and are bribed by the highest bidder to make political decisions.
Electric power might be a contender here, as you could use the 3 hours you will spend being x-rayed, swabbed, fingerprinted and cavity-searched before each flight to charge the battery.
Obviously we need a robo-asimov to replace him, then. Maybe it would be possible to scale up the robot that writes stuff like Lost ( it uses the processor from a 1980's digital alarm clock ) ?
The heck with RMS, I am looking forward to editing 1080i video with the clouds using my awesome 60 kilobyte/second virgin media upstream. Cloud computing FTW!
Maybe now that Orwell's 1984 is coming true, they are working on Animal Farm? 'Local processing good, remote processing bad' turning into 'Local processing good, remote processing better'?
Well, what good purpose are you serving by revealing this? You should emulate the government secrecy and cover up any deaths of confidential informants. And deny having any data about it to cover up. And deny that wikileaks exists. And give Assange a fat consulting contract and a huge pension.
Dang it, we done had vcrs back in my day, sonny! That's nigh on thirty-five years ago! We knew scheduled television sucked, that is why we bought them expensive u-matic do-hickeys! (Well, that and the sepia films of lady's ankles)
I tested your theory by fastening my htc desire to an lg renoir with an elastic band. Still fits in my pocket and is not too heavy. I have used holsters before ( for crackberry and nokia n95 ), and found that it just put the phones in harm's way ( broke the crackberry's screen when I shoved a box with my hip ) and got tangled with seat belts and cables and door handles. Usually the holsters would spit the phone out onto the floor or the holster itself would fall in two.
I concur. My first mobile phone was powered by six AA nicads, approximately 40% of the volume of the phone. The last half dozen phones have been powered by some kind of electrical after-eight mint occupying maybe 10% of the volume. I would be happy if the phone doubled in thickness and all that extra space was used by a battery that held six times the charge.
When were they 'duped into the patriot act and tsa gropings'? The population don't get a choice. Every few years the population gets to vote for a party which then does what the hell it likes until the next election.
Why build all that infrastructure? Surely there have been enough developments in accuracy to deliver things ballistically? Caveat: It might suit some goods more than others.
I googled for some more information about wayland, but all i found out was that the head developer is called Susan and she favours wipe-clean clothing. No shortage of pictures, though.
What does it matter that they can't read the text? PDFs aren't about content, they are about preserving the layout. At least that is what it seems like to me when I am foolish enough to try and read PDFs on a device with a different number of pixels than the person who made the PDF file. If the content matters at all, someone should invent a technology that allows text to be tagged somehow with indicators of the MEANING of that portion of text, like 'this is a title', and let the display device render the text according to how the reader can best view it. It sounds crazy, and it may take a few decades to do, but think of the benefits.
I take issue with your assertion that gun control has led to safety. Gun control is quite recent, we were a relatively safe place before gun control, we remain a relatively safe place. I agree that we should all have the right to defend ourselves using minimum force, however in the absence of an easy way to become fifty years younger, this would indicate some kind of weapon. For any americans who are shouting 'get some C.S. gas or pepper spray or a taser already, or at the very least a baton', those are also illegal here.
Taking guns away is totally worth it. We aren't allowed guns here in the UK and as a result we are completely safe. Apart from the occasional terror attack. And the couple of shootings a week. And the criminals with guns. And not being able to defend yourself or your family.
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Words are just fine to fight fascism, right up to the point when there is some fascism to fight. Civil society/democracy does not apply to the fascists, so you need to reach for the guns which you melted down because words were your salvation within your (now rapidly shrinking) democracy.
A soviet Ghandi and his followers would all have ended up in the gulag.
Okay, you convinced me, I shall now find out what the lying weasels say they stand for and their lying weasel party's position on different topics. Thus i will totally be able to choose which bunch of lying weasels will best represent me when they get in power and are bribed by the highest bidder to make political decisions.
Electric power might be a contender here, as you could use the 3 hours you will spend being x-rayed, swabbed, fingerprinted and cavity-searched before each flight to charge the battery.
Wouldn't all the stories revolve around Adam Sandler?
Obviously we need a robo-asimov to replace him, then. Maybe it would be possible to scale up the robot that writes stuff like Lost ( it uses the processor from a 1980's digital alarm clock ) ?
I recall the TRace ON thing from the pre-publicity articles in the press at the time. (ie back in the day)
The heck with RMS, I am looking forward to editing 1080i video with the clouds using my awesome 60 kilobyte/second virgin media upstream. Cloud computing FTW!
Maybe now that Orwell's 1984 is coming true, they are working on Animal Farm?
'Local processing good, remote processing bad' turning into 'Local processing good, remote processing better'?
Well, what good purpose are you serving by revealing this? You should emulate the government secrecy and cover up any deaths of confidential informants. And deny having any data about it to cover up. And deny that wikileaks exists. And give Assange a fat consulting contract and a huge pension.
Dang it, we done had vcrs back in my day, sonny! That's nigh on thirty-five years ago! We knew scheduled television sucked, that is why we bought them expensive u-matic do-hickeys! (Well, that and the sepia films of lady's ankles)
I tested your theory by fastening my htc desire to an lg renoir with an elastic band. Still fits in my pocket and is not too heavy.
I have used holsters before ( for crackberry and nokia n95 ), and found that it just put the phones in harm's way ( broke the crackberry's screen when I shoved a box with my hip ) and got tangled with seat belts and cables and door handles. Usually the holsters would spit the phone out onto the floor or the holster itself would fall in two.
I concur. My first mobile phone was powered by six AA nicads, approximately 40% of the volume of the phone. The last half dozen phones have been powered by some kind of electrical after-eight mint occupying maybe 10% of the volume.
I would be happy if the phone doubled in thickness and all that extra space was used by a battery that held six times the charge.
When were they 'duped into the patriot act and tsa gropings'? The population don't get a choice. Every few years the population gets to vote for a party which then does what the hell it likes until the next election.
:-) hehe, thanks, that has cheered me up no end. I am happy to join the ranks of idiots that have risen to the bait.
End of Microsoft, you surely jest! Windows phones will soon eclipse Android and iPhone.
Microsoft are still recruiting shills, right?
Re: your sig.
'Intensive'?
Not to put myself on a pedal-stool, but your grammar is a damp squid.
Leaked cables are double-plus ungood.
Do we know that an inclination change was not followed by a subsequent inclination change that returned the craft to the original inclination?
..it should read 'Looking like a cross between a space shuttle and another thing, but not a predator drone'?
Why build all that infrastructure? Surely there have been enough developments in accuracy to deliver things ballistically? Caveat: It might suit some goods more than others.
I googled for some more information about wayland, but all i found out was that the head developer is called Susan and she favours wipe-clean clothing. No shortage of pictures, though.
I assume you are a hooker who uses this as a test for vice cops?
What does it matter that they can't read the text? PDFs aren't about content, they are about preserving the layout. At least that is what it seems like to me when I am foolish enough to try and read PDFs on a device with a different number of pixels than the person who made the PDF file.
If the content matters at all, someone should invent a technology that allows text to be tagged somehow with indicators of the MEANING of that portion of text, like 'this is a title', and let the display device render the text according to how the reader can best view it. It sounds crazy, and it may take a few decades to do, but think of the benefits.
I take issue with your assertion that gun control has led to safety. Gun control is quite recent, we were a relatively safe place before gun control, we remain a relatively safe place.
I agree that we should all have the right to defend ourselves using minimum force, however in the absence of an easy way to become fifty years younger, this would indicate some kind of weapon. For any americans who are shouting 'get some C.S. gas or pepper spray or a taser already, or at the very least a baton', those are also illegal here.
Taking guns away is totally worth it. We aren't allowed guns here in the UK and as a result we are completely safe. Apart from the occasional terror attack. And the couple of shootings a week. And the criminals with guns. And not being able to defend yourself or your family.