I was once walking home from a bar very late at night drunk off of my ass. A cop pulled up next to me and asked me what I was doing. I said I was walking home. He asked me if I was drunk and I said "of course, are you going to arrest me drunk walking?". He mumbled something and drove off.
If I was sober I probably would not have mouthed off to him but I am glad I did, it sure felt great.
Did you read the article. More then eight million slaves died on the ships crossing the atlantic. From disease mostly so it was a slow and painful death at that. I bet many ships threw their slaves overboard when dysentary was spreading to spare the crew.
Don't we have lots of "terrorists" in cuba, afghanistan, egypt, lebanon, syria, kuwait, iraq, western europoe etc.
We are already torturing these people why not conduct experiments at the same time. Strike that we are already experimenting by injecting them with new and classified drugs why not use that for scientific studies too?
We are not at war. Well we are at war but we are at war with a word. To quote a wiser man. "you remember when we declared war on drugs and now you can't buy drugs anymore? It will be just like that".
So you have bought into this eternal war. This war which will never end and gives the president any power he wants as long as the war exists.
No fucking wonder this country is going down the shithole.
They were not socialist. At least not the way you quoted socialism to be. You just hated them and their ideas and decided to call them socialist. Most republicans tend to do that. Anybody who disagrees with them is a fill-in-the-blank (socialist, marxist, communist, hippie, green nazi, feminazi, terrorist, hater of america etc).
"Walmart is largely doing it on the back of the taxpayers more than on the backs of the poor. Millions of dollars are spent providing public health care to their employees. So the true cost of Walmart products is partially hidden in your property and sales taxes."
The fact you can say this ought to ring some bells for you. The US is a socialist state. Corporations are the biggest proponents of socialism because they get lots of money from the govt, the govt educates people to work for them, the govt builds roads so they can transport their goods, the govt conducts espionage against foreign competitors, the govt markets their goods overseas etc.
So your university is exactly like wallmart is exactly like your professors. They are all socialist or they are all capitalists depends on how you look at it. Either way you are prey, you were prey when you were in school, you are prey now. You exist to be milked and you do it happily.
I tend to agree with you. The proper forum for this is impeachment. The president has committed felonies. This is not my opionion but the opinion of virtually every legal scholar who has spoken out on this matter.
The problem is what recourse do you have when you have a congress who values party loyalty above the constituion of the unites states? I certainly don't think the courts are an option in this case since they have been packed with republicans all the way up and down the chain. I certainly don't expect any of those nominees to have more of a loyalty to the constitution then the congress does.
Yes the EFF will lose this case, no I don't know what the alternative is. It seems like we are SOL on this one. Even if the congress changes parties in the next election it will be too late and nothing will be done (not that there is a whole lot of difference between them in the first place).
HA HA. You do realize there is a maximum limit to how much data you can pass into a stored proc and it's smaller then most XML documents real enterprises use don't you?
Yea, I tried that one but it sucked ass in the real world.
Wow man you are so much smarter then the army of IP lawyers MS has. I mean they spent years on this case, spent tens of thousands of dollars, paid millions of damages all for nothing. They just could have asked you and you would have slayed the court with your argument. DOH!. I can see you in court now.
"Your honor, I present to you the the feature of appleworks which uses shared memory back in the mid 80's! "
Judge: "Well OK then, I am struck by your insight and research, case dismissed!"
"They're doing it on the back of college students, who are mostly broke."
So? Wallmart is doing it on the backs of the poor who are broke too? Come to think of it every single person who works are your collage and your shareholders (if it's a private school) are also earning it at back of collage students.
You have something against capitalism or something? Capitalism says you take money off of anybody you can. Selling to the poor is more profitable then selling to the rich because there are so many more of them. Remember it was volkswagen who bought audi, chrystler who bought mercedes not the other way around.
Have you priced pocket PCs with cellular capability lately? Hardly value, some cost more then laptops.
"The interesting this is, there is very little overlap between the target markets here. And they have got all the bases covered."
Yea, same with linux except for the games bit. I would all for moving all gaming to dedicated boxes though, it would remove the "i can't switch to linux cos my games won't run" excuse.
People have repeatedly pointed out flat out lies she has written. Sure she is a propagandist and one of the most despicable talking heads on television but she is also a first class liar.
Having said that I did enjoy it when she kept talking about the shape of Bill Clinton's penis on TV. Great example of republican family values. But then again for a while the whereabouts of BIll Clintons penis and which orifices of monica it visited was the favorite topic of all republicans.
Modern (US style) socialism doesn't say you should not earn a lot of money. It says you should pay enough taxes to cover the needs of the less fortunate (and the military, farmers, loggers, miners, ranchers etc).
So the professors are practicing what they preached. They are earning money and they are paying taxes.
I think you confused your socialist teachers with budhist teachers. Budhists believe in a life lived simply and humbly without accumulating wealth. Christ tought the same thing but christians as a general rule do not follow that bit of advice from him.
"hat I said was that I have not yet seen any studies that took those factors I mentioned into account and still showed clear indication that human action causes global warming. I asked for links to them and said that I would very much like to read them. "
Well it's not my responsiblity to make sure you have read all the studies. Neither is it my responsibility to present the links to you so you can do the research. Even if I gave you the links I highly doubt you would read them let alone have the proper background in physics, mathermatics, meteorology, or statistics to be able understand them.
The vast majority of the people on this planet are incabable of reading or interpreting proper scientific papers and this includes climatology and meteorology. At some point you have to admit that you lack the background and have to accept the word of experts. That's all to it.
I would not fix my own TV, I would not fix my own plumbing, I do not demand to be taken to pluto so I can see it with my very own eyes before I believe it exists.
So if you want to read the papers yourself go right ahead. They are on the web, scattered around. There are lots of web sites which have gathered this information for you as well.
While you are at it you should also do some reasarch into whether pluto exists or not. There is no sense in taking the word of mere scientists on this matter.
Some of the increases in the CO2 level in the pre-industrial times corrolates to burning off of the forests to make farmland. You will see an increase and then a slight decrease as the bruning stops and people get farming.
But really I don't think you care about any logic or facts. You simply presume that all the scientists who have been studying this phenomenon all their lives are stupid, inept, communists, or are out to get you somehow.
I mean only you are smart enough to take into account fluctuations in the CO2 level pre-industry, those communist scientists are too stupid to take that into consideration right?
You make very important point. Countries can go broke trying to use nuclear energy. I don't think the problem is solvable until humanity as a whole starts thinking differently about having children. If each couple limited themselves to two children we could make a difference almost overnight but it's not going to happen.
MSSQL can't take an XML document and then parse it and store it as a parsed structure. It can return queries as XML but even that hasn't been around very long.
The taliban were popular with some percentage of the population (probably around 30-40% but that's just a rough guess). The point is that karzai was not popular with any of the population. Most of the people in afghanistan lived (and still live) under some reigional warlord. Karzai is only alive today because he is surrounded by US secret service agents.
To me the most facinating aspect of the afghanistan shenanigans was the very convenient and time death of Ahmad Shah Masood. Masood was the most popular leader of the northern alliance and was a hero to every afghan who detested the taliban.
Lucky for the US and karzai he died just before the US invasion. If he had lived the afghans would have revolted at the suggestion that someone like karzai would be running their country.
"What I'm driving at is I believe that part of the rationale behind remaining in Iraq was to ensure that whoever does wind up running the country is at least reasonably malleable."
There is a lot of rationalization but I still don't see a lot of rationale. Look at how easy afghanistan was. We put a puppet in there and rigged the election. Easy breezy.
"The corporations rely on the consumer. If they were to withdraw the above, they go broke."
Only if they sell nothing else. Even a company like GM will not go out of business if they stopped selling cars.
"If some consumers are left out, other business will provide it. I"
Only if there is not a monoply, there is not a high barrier to entry, one corporations does not own all the natural materials or infrastructure, only if one company does not get executives of the other company thrown in jail or killed.
All those things happen in third world countries. Hell in a lot of first world countries there are only one or two providers for some critical item like power, dairy, cellular service, etc and they collude to keep prices high.
Finally If you succeed in weaking the govt the country will quickly be dominated by monopolies. There will be no such thing as competition. As soon as a competitior pops up they will be driven out of business by the monopoly who will make sure their vendors stop selling to the little guy or lose the business of the monopoly.
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I was once walking home from a bar very late at night drunk off of my ass. A cop pulled up next to me and asked me what I was doing. I said I was walking home. He asked me if I was drunk and I said "of course, are you going to arrest me drunk walking?". He mumbled something and drove off.
If I was sober I probably would not have mouthed off to him but I am glad I did, it sure felt great.
Did you read the article. More then eight million slaves died on the ships crossing the atlantic. From disease mostly so it was a slow and painful death at that. I bet many ships threw their slaves overboard when dysentary was spreading to spare the crew.
Don't we have lots of "terrorists" in cuba, afghanistan, egypt, lebanon, syria, kuwait, iraq, western europoe etc.
We are already torturing these people why not conduct experiments at the same time. Strike that we are already experimenting by injecting them with new and classified drugs why not use that for scientific studies too?
We are not at war. Well we are at war but we are at war with a word. To quote a wiser man. "you remember when we declared war on drugs and now you can't buy drugs anymore? It will be just like that".
So you have bought into this eternal war. This war which will never end and gives the president any power he wants as long as the war exists.
No fucking wonder this country is going down the shithole.
"'I had professors who were strong socialists.."
They were not socialist. At least not the way you quoted socialism to be. You just hated them and their ideas and decided to call them socialist. Most republicans tend to do that. Anybody who disagrees with them is a fill-in-the-blank (socialist, marxist, communist, hippie, green nazi, feminazi, terrorist, hater of america etc).
"Walmart is largely doing it on the back of the taxpayers more than on the backs of the poor. Millions of dollars are spent providing public health care to their employees. So the true cost of Walmart products is partially hidden in your property and sales taxes."
The fact you can say this ought to ring some bells for you. The US is a socialist state. Corporations are the biggest proponents of socialism because they get lots of money from the govt, the govt educates people to work for them, the govt builds roads so they can transport their goods, the govt conducts espionage against foreign competitors, the govt markets their goods overseas etc.
So your university is exactly like wallmart is exactly like your professors. They are all socialist or they are all capitalists depends on how you look at it. Either way you are prey, you were prey when you were in school, you are prey now. You exist to be milked and you do it happily.
Only 8.9 million? Why would they license it if they can get it so cheap after the fact?
I tend to agree with you. The proper forum for this is impeachment. The president has committed felonies. This is not my opionion but the opinion of virtually every legal scholar who has spoken out on this matter.
The problem is what recourse do you have when you have a congress who values party loyalty above the constituion of the unites states? I certainly don't think the courts are an option in this case since they have been packed with republicans all the way up and down the chain. I certainly don't expect any of those nominees to have more of a loyalty to the constitution then the congress does.
Yes the EFF will lose this case, no I don't know what the alternative is. It seems like we are SOL on this one. Even if the congress changes parties in the next election it will be too late and nothing will be done (not that there is a whole lot of difference between them in the first place).
HA HA. You do realize there is a maximum limit to how much data you can pass into a stored proc and it's smaller then most XML documents real enterprises use don't you?
Yea, I tried that one but it sucked ass in the real world.
Wow man you are so much smarter then the army of IP lawyers MS has. I mean they spent years on this case, spent tens of thousands of dollars, paid millions of damages all for nothing. They just could have asked you and you would have slayed the court with your argument. DOH!. I can see you in court now.
"Your honor, I present to you the the feature of appleworks which uses shared memory back in the mid 80's! "
Judge: "Well OK then, I am struck by your insight and research, case dismissed!"
Dude that would rock!
So does MS owe nothing for years of infringement? Does this patch remove any obligation they may have had for selling infringing products?
If so this seems perverted to me. Kind of not getting a speeding ticket because you have slowed down.
"They're doing it on the back of college students, who are mostly broke."
So? Wallmart is doing it on the backs of the poor who are broke too? Come to think of it every single person who works are your collage and your shareholders (if it's a private school) are also earning it at back of collage students.
You have something against capitalism or something? Capitalism says you take money off of anybody you can. Selling to the poor is more profitable then selling to the rich because there are so many more of them. Remember it was volkswagen who bought audi, chrystler who bought mercedes not the other way around.
LOL that's funny. Cos nobody in africa has power!. Ya that's funny dude.
"2. Value+ = , Pocket PC, Windows CE"
Have you priced pocket PCs with cellular capability lately? Hardly value, some cost more then laptops.
"The interesting this is, there is very little overlap between the target markets here. And they have got all the bases covered."
Yea, same with linux except for the games bit. I would all for moving all gaming to dedicated boxes though, it would remove the "i can't switch to linux cos my games won't run" excuse.
How about having the phone circuitry on the laptop and having a relatively dumb bluethooth handset? That would be ideal for me.
People have repeatedly pointed out flat out lies she has written. Sure she is a propagandist and one of the most despicable talking heads on television but she is also a first class liar.
Having said that I did enjoy it when she kept talking about the shape of Bill Clinton's penis on TV. Great example of republican family values. But then again for a while the whereabouts of BIll Clintons penis and which orifices of monica it visited was the favorite topic of all republicans.
Modern (US style) socialism doesn't say you should not earn a lot of money. It says you should pay enough taxes to cover the needs of the less fortunate (and the military, farmers, loggers, miners, ranchers etc).
So the professors are practicing what they preached. They are earning money and they are paying taxes.
I think you confused your socialist teachers with budhist teachers. Budhists believe in a life lived simply and humbly without accumulating wealth. Christ tought the same thing but christians as a general rule do not follow that bit of advice from him.
"hat I said was that I have not yet seen any studies that took those factors I mentioned into account and still showed clear indication that human action causes global warming. I asked for links to them and said that I would very much like to read them. "
Well it's not my responsiblity to make sure you have read all the studies. Neither is it my responsibility to present the links to you so you can do the research. Even if I gave you the links I highly doubt you would read them let alone have the proper background in physics, mathermatics, meteorology, or statistics to be able understand them.
The vast majority of the people on this planet are incabable of reading or interpreting proper scientific papers and this includes climatology and meteorology. At some point you have to admit that you lack the background and have to accept the word of experts. That's all to it.
I would not fix my own TV, I would not fix my own plumbing, I do not demand to be taken to pluto so I can see it with my very own eyes before I believe it exists.
So if you want to read the papers yourself go right ahead. They are on the web, scattered around. There are lots of web sites which have gathered this information for you as well.
While you are at it you should also do some reasarch into whether pluto exists or not. There is no sense in taking the word of mere scientists on this matter.
I call bullshit. MS SQL server 2000 can't take an XML and save it as a parsed node tree.
Some of the increases in the CO2 level in the pre-industrial times corrolates to burning off of the forests to make farmland. You will see an increase and then a slight decrease as the bruning stops and people get farming.
But really I don't think you care about any logic or facts. You simply presume that all the scientists who have been studying this phenomenon all their lives are stupid, inept, communists, or are out to get you somehow.
I mean only you are smart enough to take into account fluctuations in the CO2 level pre-industry, those communist scientists are too stupid to take that into consideration right?
You make very important point. Countries can go broke trying to use nuclear energy. I don't think the problem is solvable until humanity as a whole starts thinking differently about having children. If each couple limited themselves to two children we could make a difference almost overnight but it's not going to happen.
MSSQL can't take an XML document and then parse it and store it as a parsed structure. It can return queries as XML but even that hasn't been around very long.
The taliban were popular with some percentage of the population (probably around 30-40% but that's just a rough guess). The point is that karzai was not popular with any of the population. Most of the people in afghanistan lived (and still live) under some reigional warlord. Karzai is only alive today because he is surrounded by US secret service agents.
To me the most facinating aspect of the afghanistan shenanigans was the very convenient and time death of Ahmad Shah Masood. Masood was the most popular leader of the northern alliance and was a hero to every afghan who detested the taliban.
Lucky for the US and karzai he died just before the US invasion. If he had lived the afghans would have revolted at the suggestion that someone like karzai would be running their country.
That's right. If you weaken the govt (in reality the legislature branch of the govt) two things will happen.
1) The overloaded courts will be even more backed up and people appointed for life will have full power over our lives.
2) Corporations will have a hayday. Imagine walmart with 100 times more power!.
"What I'm driving at is I believe that part of the rationale behind remaining in Iraq was to ensure that whoever does wind up running the country is at least reasonably malleable."
There is a lot of rationalization but I still don't see a lot of rationale. Look at how easy afghanistan was. We put a puppet in there and rigged the election. Easy breezy.
"The corporations rely on the consumer. If they were to withdraw the above, they go broke."
Only if they sell nothing else. Even a company like GM will not go out of business if they stopped selling cars.
"If some consumers are left out, other business will provide it. I"
Only if there is not a monoply, there is not a high barrier to entry, one corporations does not own all the natural materials or infrastructure, only if one company does not get executives of the other company thrown in jail or killed.
All those things happen in third world countries. Hell in a lot of first world countries there are only one or two providers for some critical item like power, dairy, cellular service, etc and they collude to keep prices high.
Finally If you succeed in weaking the govt the country will quickly be dominated by monopolies. There will be no such thing as competition. As soon as a competitior pops up they will be driven out of business by the monopoly who will make sure their vendors stop selling to the little guy or lose the business of the monopoly.