just pointing out that it wouldn't be that hard to just slip in a tax like that to pay for stuff as the guy suggests. add maybe $15 and i would place some decent money that 90% of people would never notice it if it was called something non-descritive, but enough to satisfy most people's curiosity on what it is, like "copyright protection surcharge". make something sound offical and people leave it alone for the most part (just like the idea that you can go almost anywhere by carrying a clipboard and looking serious)
maybe you should book an opthamolagist appointment soon, as you don't seem to have been able to read all of the parent post.
NO ONE (or atleast no one with brains) is blaming bush for the huricane. they're blaming him for not doing enough to prevent the damage (preperation for it) that it has caused. as the grandparent pointed out.
well, for the info, there already is a tax on the internet (well, on phones actually, but it carries over to the internet as most people use dialup or DSL, which uses phone lines) called the USF (universal service fee/fund http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/usfincrease.h tml). you likely never noticed it on your internet bill, but it's there if your ISP isn't footing the bill themselves (unlikely).
so, installing "forbiden" programs and changing a few settings constitutes a felony down there?
if they charged for things like that up here, i'd be doing about 40 years in prison. my school laptop has very little that came on it. junk like norton anti-virus has been removed, and replaced. settings have been changed all over it. fortunitly, the techs never look at my laptop, and the teacher incharge of things at the school is much brighter, though likely not a tech literate. i'm trusted that i know what the heck i'm doing, and i keep clear of actually illegal things, like trying to hack into the DND, or something.
i never saw this article the first time. and something of this nature warrents being duped, if only to make sure that more people read it and be careful. this is a freaking VIRUS WARNING!
with the price of a CD, i'm not gonna go buy a whole CD with one song i know that i like as i heard it legallly (radio). i'll download a bunch of the song to see if that song i heard is the only good one, or if the rest of the CD is worth listening to. if i like atleast 3/4 of the songs, i'll buy it (provided i can get it as more often that not, if it isn't britany spears or boy bands, the local music store hasn't even heard of it) if not, i'll keep that one song that i happen to like. i still say that the supidest move the recording industry made was when they eliminated a singles format. the CD burning booths idea for record stores were a good idea, too bad the people in charge are idiots.
well, you have to admit that SS has been pretty successful so far, but the problem is being in that there is a retirement boom coming and there aren't enough younger people to pick up the slack
Keep in mind that in the last 10 years this party---with the current PM as Finance Minister---has lowered Canada's gross federal debt from over 100% of GDP to under 70% of GDP, making it the only G8 country to have a balanced budget for the last 5 years running, and making it one of the least-indebted G8 nations.
and i might add that a good deal of the debt was built up the last time the conservitives were in power. i just don't trust them. they can't even do math! how do you incease spending, lower taxes, and things still balance? 2+2=3?
NDP doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of forming the goverment.
the bloc will never as they are only in quebec.
i don't particularly like the liberals (due to the whole ignoring the west for how many years), but i'm willing to give the new guy a fair shake at it.
If a law is not enforceable, then yes, I don't think that law should exist, and it should be necessary for people to produce systems that deal with a different set of rules.
all laws are enforcable. it's just a matter of whether it is worth the time/money/workforce to enforce said law.
and since the entertainment industry/others with interest in excessive copyright laws don't have to lift a finger after the law is passed, it is indeed worth it, they just shunt the duty to the law enforcement, who i'm sure have more important things to do.
Why people continue to accept Windows' problems without much ire is a mystery to me.
well, my thoughts on this.
1. microsoft has done a remarkable job of addicting the world to microsoft office, and office ain't going within 10 miles of linux. despite the fact that there are programs like openoffice, which i have tried, i still prefer microsoft office. could be that i'm simply used to how it runs.
2. microsoft has become the leading OS on the planet. go into the local computer software shop and tell me what percentage of the programs sold there run only on windows. i would say the number is very close to 100%. now, you can get some of those to run on linux, but that's gonna take some time and work, if it will work at all.
3. people are very much used to the windows UI. people don't want to have to get used to something new. i personally run both linux and windows on my computer, but i am usually on windows as that is where all my stuff is. 90% of the programs i use don't have a linux equivilent (mostly games) [nitpick] oh, and about that "wearing properly-warm clothing" bit. that has little to do with catch the flu or colds. the reason why cold and flu rates jump in the winter is everyone is indoors clustered together and the virus can spread much more easily. [/nitpick]
i am begining to feel like i'm the only person in the world who uses (relitivlely) proper english in IM/online games. i'm wont to spell something wrong or use basic shorthand (brb, etc.) though often grammer and capitalization goes out the window and i sometimes miss puntuation when i'm in a hurry.
i have a pretty large vocabulary, but i'm often needing spell/gammer check when i write, as i can speak the words, but can't rememeber how to spell them and phonetic spelling seems to work less and less.
i usually spend 1-2 hours on IM, as it's handier than the phone when a lot of my friends aren't in the same country as me, though i met most of the people initialy IRL (while on vacations, friend of a friend, and a few online only friends)
well, i often spend a lot of time of the computer, due to the fact that over the past few years, canadian winters (alteast where i live) have been as bad as the american rumors about them. that and i also live 15 miles out of town and the closest person to my age is my little sister (5 years differance), so through the net is most of my friends, both people i know IRL and stictly online. my friends list spans the globe. Canada, US, Britian, Austrailia, New Zealand, etc. though i'm not really much of a social person face-to-face and i never have been.
as my fine-motor control is fairly poor, and thus my writing is unreadable to everyone except me (and sometimes i can't read it) i use a laptop for my schoolwork. i got my first home computer when i was 7 (back in 1998) . i started out on the net about 3 months later. i played video games basically every day, though i was outside a lot of the time (not many worries about pedophiles or kidnappers in a town of 100 people). i use the net about 2-4 hours a day during the winter, when i can't get outside, though only about 1-2 hours, if at all, during the summer. i'm out cycling, or we're on vacation, or on a day trip, or something else. i'm one of the best people with computers in the school, though i can't hack it with programing (i've always sucked with other languages too. sucked in french class.)
though i'm likely an exception on how things have worked out.
some aspects of genetics are inescapable. i'm a decent example. i'm normal weight (170 lbs, 5'11) yet my blood pressure just borders on high. same as my dad's when he was my age.
The interesting question is whether the aggressor could be right at any time. I think not. The Bush administration seem to think otherwise. This is the question worth debating, not whether a country should defend itself or not.
interesting point. though, basically, all the US's problems right now are being caused by the cold war, which ended about 15 years ago.
brief history of bin laden
in 1979 the USSR occupied afganistan. the afganies didn't like it and the US, with it's "policy of containment" didn't either. there was a small milita, namey the mujahideen, who really didn't like the russians. take a guess who the leader of this litle band was. anyway, the US though "hey, these guys wanna fight. we want them out, and we can't get out hands in it though. they'll probabley get stomped in a few months, but it'll annoy the russians." so, they sent in CIA people to train the guys. they also gave them money, weapons, and inteligence. and they didn't phenominal. the US never expected them to do so well. they were kicking butt with hit and run attacks. ride in, blow up some stuff, run like hell back to the caves. then. the soviet union came apart. they pulled out of afganistan. and they just wasted the country on the way out. pour gas, toss match, run away. the country was devistated. and the US basically went "well, thanks for killing the russians. bye now." and left. bin laden (being of the saudi arabia royalty) had a lot of money, and help to rebuild. so, people there generaly like him and that's likely why he hasn't been found. the basic thinking (AFAIK) is "well, i don't like that he's blowing up buildings, but he did help us, so i won't help him, but i won't help the US either."
i'm not saying that 9/11 was justified, but i can see where the hatred of america comes from.
take a fracking history class. in WWI, hitler was a corprol in the german army. in WWII, he was the guy-in-charge. japan was germany's ally in WWII, they didn't have anything to do with WWI (AFAIK)
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the problem is the man at the top of the system, who then creates the levels immediately below him.
this report on a flamewar is likely gonna start several new ones here. this is throwing a burning torch out the window.
just pointing out that it wouldn't be that hard to just slip in a tax like that to pay for stuff as the guy suggests. add maybe $15 and i would place some decent money that 90% of people would never notice it if it was called something non-descritive, but enough to satisfy most people's curiosity on what it is, like "copyright protection surcharge". make something sound offical and people leave it alone for the most part (just like the idea that you can go almost anywhere by carrying a clipboard and looking serious)
which is definetly a problem in this case, when your mailbox is under several feet of water, if not in the middle of the ocean by now.
this is already a massive mess, which is being made much worse incompitence/malice.
"a person's level of athority in any organization is inversely proportional to said person's inteligence."
Can't get punative damages without actual damages. Try again...
well, that never stopped the **AA...
maybe you should book an opthamolagist appointment soon, as you don't seem to have been able to read all of the parent post.
NO ONE (or atleast no one with brains) is blaming bush for the huricane. they're blaming him for not doing enough to prevent the damage (preperation for it) that it has caused. as the grandparent pointed out.
well, for the info, there already is a tax on the internet (well, on phones actually, but it carries over to the internet as most people use dialup or DSL, which uses phone lines) called the USF (universal service fee/fund http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/usfincrease.h tml). you likely never noticed it on your internet bill, but it's there if your ISP isn't footing the bill themselves (unlikely).
so, installing "forbiden" programs and changing a few settings constitutes a felony down there?
if they charged for things like that up here, i'd be doing about 40 years in prison. my school laptop has very little that came on it. junk like norton anti-virus has been removed, and replaced. settings have been changed all over it. fortunitly, the techs never look at my laptop, and the teacher incharge of things at the school is much brighter, though likely not a tech literate. i'm trusted that i know what the heck i'm doing, and i keep clear of actually illegal things, like trying to hack into the DND, or something.
i never saw this article the first time. and something of this nature warrents being duped, if only to make sure that more people read it and be careful. this is a freaking VIRUS WARNING!
with the price of a CD, i'm not gonna go buy a whole CD with one song i know that i like as i heard it legallly (radio). i'll download a bunch of the song to see if that song i heard is the only good one, or if the rest of the CD is worth listening to. if i like atleast 3/4 of the songs, i'll buy it (provided i can get it as more often that not, if it isn't britany spears or boy bands, the local music store hasn't even heard of it) if not, i'll keep that one song that i happen to like. i still say that the supidest move the recording industry made was when they eliminated a singles format. the CD burning booths idea for record stores were a good idea, too bad the people in charge are idiots.
easy. more g/m dogs! (dog-eat-dog world)
well, you have to admit that SS has been pretty successful so far, but the problem is being in that there is a retirement boom coming and there aren't enough younger people to pick up the slack
Keep in mind that in the last 10 years this party---with the current PM as Finance Minister---has lowered Canada's gross federal debt from over 100% of GDP to under 70% of GDP, making it the only G8 country to have a balanced budget for the last 5 years running, and making it one of the least-indebted G8 nations.
and i might add that a good deal of the debt was built up the last time the conservitives were in power. i just don't trust them. they can't even do math! how do you incease spending, lower taxes, and things still balance? 2+2=3?
NDP doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of forming the goverment.
the bloc will never as they are only in quebec.
i don't particularly like the liberals (due to the whole ignoring the west for how many years), but i'm willing to give the new guy a fair shake at it.
Think it won't happen? Get back with me in 15 years and we'll see in what state the intellectual 'property' laws are in.
i would imagine they will be in a worse/more tilted to the corperations state than they are now. but that's just the pessimist in me..
If a law is not enforceable, then yes, I don't think that law should exist, and it should be necessary for people to produce systems that deal with a different set of rules.
all laws are enforcable. it's just a matter of whether it is worth the time/money/workforce to enforce said law.
and since the entertainment industry/others with interest in excessive copyright laws don't have to lift a finger after the law is passed, it is indeed worth it, they just shunt the duty to the law enforcement, who i'm sure have more important things to do.
well, that's the reason for me. this is all i've been waiting for to make the switch.
this begs the question : how do you know that you're virus-free if you never have an anti-virus scan?
eliminating risky behavior isn't an end all be all. you can be the most careful person in the world and a piano can still fall on you.
Why people continue to accept Windows' problems without much ire is a mystery to me.
well, my thoughts on this.
1. microsoft has done a remarkable job of addicting the world to microsoft office, and office ain't going within 10 miles of linux. despite the fact that there are programs like openoffice, which i have tried, i still prefer microsoft office. could be that i'm simply used to how it runs.
2. microsoft has become the leading OS on the planet. go into the local computer software shop and tell me what percentage of the programs sold there run only on windows. i would say the number is very close to 100%. now, you can get some of those to run on linux, but that's gonna take some time and work, if it will work at all.
3. people are very much used to the windows UI. people don't want to have to get used to something new. i personally run both linux and windows on my computer, but i am usually on windows as that is where all my stuff is. 90% of the programs i use don't have a linux equivilent (mostly games)
[nitpick]
oh, and about that "wearing properly-warm clothing" bit. that has little to do with catch the flu or colds. the reason why cold and flu rates jump in the winter is everyone is indoors clustered together and the virus can spread much more easily.
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the preview and submit buttons should be further apart.
should be "bussiness that never existed"
and the "**AA"
ok, the people who use an ad blocker, are not very likely to be clicking on an ad in the first place, ad blocker or no ad blocker.
so how does the ad blocker detract from the bussiness that newer existed?
oh, wait, they're learning from the **IA!
i am begining to feel like i'm the only person in the world who uses (relitivlely) proper english in IM/online games. i'm wont to spell something wrong or use basic shorthand (brb, etc.) though often grammer and capitalization goes out the window and i sometimes miss puntuation when i'm in a hurry.
i have a pretty large vocabulary, but i'm often needing spell/gammer check when i write, as i can speak the words, but can't rememeber how to spell them and phonetic spelling seems to work less and less.
i usually spend 1-2 hours on IM, as it's handier than the phone when a lot of my friends aren't in the same country as me, though i met most of the people initialy IRL (while on vacations, friend of a friend, and a few online only friends)
well, i often spend a lot of time of the computer, due to the fact that over the past few years, canadian winters (alteast where i live) have been as bad as the american rumors about them. that and i also live 15 miles out of town and the closest person to my age is my little sister (5 years differance), so through the net is most of my friends, both people i know IRL and stictly online. my friends list spans the globe. Canada, US, Britian, Austrailia, New Zealand, etc. though i'm not really much of a social person face-to-face and i never have been.
as my fine-motor control is fairly poor, and thus my writing is unreadable to everyone except me (and sometimes i can't read it) i use a laptop for my schoolwork. i got my first home computer when i was 7 (back in 1998) . i started out on the net about 3 months later. i played video games basically every day, though i was outside a lot of the time (not many worries about pedophiles or kidnappers in a town of 100 people). i use the net about 2-4 hours a day during the winter, when i can't get outside, though only about 1-2 hours, if at all, during the summer. i'm out cycling, or we're on vacation, or on a day trip, or something else. i'm one of the best people with computers in the school, though i can't hack it with programing (i've always sucked with other languages too. sucked in french class.)
though i'm likely an exception on how things have worked out.
nature vs. nurture again.
i subscribe to both, as (un)common sense says.
some aspects of genetics are inescapable. i'm a decent example. i'm normal weight (170 lbs, 5'11) yet my blood pressure just borders on high. same as my dad's when he was my age.
The interesting question is whether the aggressor could be right at any time. I think not. The Bush administration seem to think otherwise. This is the question worth debating, not whether a country should defend itself or not.
interesting point. though, basically, all the US's problems right now are being caused by the cold war, which ended about 15 years ago.
brief history of bin laden
in 1979 the USSR occupied afganistan. the afganies didn't like it and the US, with it's "policy of containment" didn't either. there was a small milita, namey the mujahideen, who really didn't like the russians. take a guess who the leader of this litle band was. anyway, the US though "hey, these guys wanna fight. we want them out, and we can't get out hands in it though. they'll probabley get stomped in a few months, but it'll annoy the russians." so, they sent in CIA people to train the guys. they also gave them money, weapons, and inteligence. and they didn't phenominal. the US never expected them to do so well. they were kicking butt with hit and run attacks. ride in, blow up some stuff, run like hell back to the caves. then. the soviet union came apart. they pulled out of afganistan. and they just wasted the country on the way out. pour gas, toss match, run away. the country was devistated. and the US basically went "well, thanks for killing the russians. bye now." and left. bin laden (being of the saudi arabia royalty) had a lot of money, and help to rebuild. so, people there generaly like him and that's likely why he hasn't been found. the basic thinking (AFAIK) is "well, i don't like that he's blowing up buildings, but he did help us, so i won't help him, but i won't help the US either."
i'm not saying that 9/11 was justified, but i can see where the hatred of america comes from.
you are either
a) stupid,
b) ignorant, or
c) trolling
take a fracking history class. in WWI, hitler was a corprol in the german army. in WWII, he was the guy-in-charge. japan was germany's ally in WWII, they didn't have anything to do with WWI (AFAIK)