So no need to have three people involved to change the color of your kids eyes. Just turn off the switch in the OCA2 gene and you should get the desired results.
he repeated mentioning of this guy taunting the animal irritates me, because it seems to imply it was his fault.
Let's see. On an average day at the zoo, there are several thousand people who visit this enclosure. During all the years this enclosure has been around and has had a tiger of some sort in it, not one person has ever been attacked, let alone killed.
Then one day, after drinking and some drug use, these asshats decide to stand on a fence around the enclosure, yell and taunt at a wild animal which is known to be able kill humans, possibly shoot it with a slingshot, and yet somehow, despite the actions of supposedly the smartest animal on the planet, it's not the guy's fault he got himself killed?
But it's not something he deserved to die for.
It's called being responsible for your actions. Put another way, survival of the fittest in all its glory.
A small minority want to get in your face about their beliefs and/or try to make insignificant changes in public policy.
Yeah. Those folks in Dover, PA weren't trying to make any significant public policy changes. They were just trying to rewrite the science curriculum to include a religious precept.
At the most, that vanishingly small minority is slightly annoying, but certainly not a threat of any sort.
Tell that to Matthew Shepherd.
and raise their families as they see fit, without a bunch of nanny-state lefties sticking their noses in.
Yeah! You tell 'em! How dare John Ashcroft tell me what is and what is not pornography. If I want my kids to see that mostly-nude statue of Geroge Washington, I can damn well show it to them. I don't need some nanny-state lefty telling me what my kids can or cannot see.
It never ceases to amaze me that Liberals can have so much hate towards Christians,
It never ceases to amaze me that Christians can have so much hate towards those who aren't Christians.
and yet go out of their way to excuse the most heinous behavior of Muslims.
and yet go out of their way to excuse the most heinous behavior of our troops occupying Iraq or torturing prisoners in Guantanamo.
Not only doesn't it make any sense, it's not terribly logical or consistent either.
Not only doesn't it make any sense, it's not terribly logical or consistent either.
So let's all just back off from the Christian hate and the passive-aggressive Christian bashing.
So let's all just back off from the atheist/agnostic hate and the passive-aggressive atheist/agnostic bashing.
How does a copyright holder lose their right to profit if a copy goes to someone who couldn't buy it in the first place?
It is irrelevant whether you could have afforded the product in the first place or not. The fact remains, you have the product, are using the product and have not compensated the person who created the product for their efforts.
DING DING DING!!!! You are correct. My mom was talking about this very subject last week. Her Honda has door locks which you can unlock from the inside. You can unlock the driver or passenger door individually by hand or the driver can use the switch to unlock all the doors at once.
She mentioned that she is no longer able to lock/unlock just her driver door by using the lock. When it gets taken in for its yearly checkup, she wants the place to look at her driver-side door lock. My dad claims there's no problem but obviously since it no longer works like it used to, there is a problem.
Making a copy of something, without harming the original is not stealing.
Huh. So if I sneak into a nuclear lab and take pictures of the original blueprints for a nuclear bomb and send those pictures to Iran, that's not stealing?
Me thinks the U.S. government might have something to about your definition of stealing.
If someone rips a CD they bought to their iPod, there is no loss to anyone and copyright is not needed.
Correct. You bought it, it's yours to do with as you please for YOUR OWN pleasure. Not you and 5 million of your closet "friends".
However, if I make copies of an original CD and then sell those copies on the street for say, $5, I am stealing because the original artists of the CD are not getting paid for their work. You can call it copyright infringement or any other term you want, but the fact remains the people who created the work are not getting paid for their efforts.
Maybe you find it acceptable to take something without paying for it but I don't.
Huh. I guess driving to Rhode Island from Harrisburg, via the Cross Bronx Expresway, for my last two years of school doesn't count. Nor does driving in Rhode Island, the entire length of the state. But maybe driving to and in Hoboken, NJ, Atlantic City, NJ via Philadelphia (as well as driving in Philadelphia), the areas outside New York, everywhere in or around Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD and surrounding cities, various parts of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, San Francisco and Santa Rosa as well as just east of Pittsburgh don't count either.
I've driven in real traffic conditions since I was driving. During that time I ALWAYS use my turn signal. On that odd occasion I don't, I get upset at myself for not doing so. Using your turn signal isn't just a courtesy thing, it's a safety thing. You're letting everyone around you know what you're going to do so they can prepare themselves for your lane change.
Quit making excuses for your laziness. It takes 1 second to reach up and flip the turn signal.
If it doesn't, then you are likely in non-populous areas where the drivers typically don't know how to drive (e.g. PA - which is better around Philly/Pittsburgh than the rest of the state).
What?!!!! I want what you're smoking. I can attest to the pathetic driving capabilities of people from Philadelphia. Forget about stopping at a stop sign when there's oncoming traffic. Red light? Sure, we can fit five more cars through as the opposing traffic advances.
Merging traffic? Naw, you don't need to merge. Just stick your nose in. If the guy hits you, keep driving.
and required response time may not leave time for signaling or other kinds of politeness.
The only excuse for not using your turn signal is in an emergency situation or if you are the only car on the road at 2 AM. Other than that, turn signals should always be used.
And yes, I do use my turn signal every single time no matter where I'm at.
where the data was overwritten, and then melted with thermite.
WHAT?!!!! I'm hoping I'm parsing your sentence incorrectly because any hard drive subjected to thermite becomes nothing but a puddle of molten then solidified metal.
What I'm hoping you meant to say was that even though the hard drives in our surveillance plane had been subjected to thermite, parts of the drives remained intact enough so the data on the unmelted parts could be retrieved despite the data also having been overwritten.
Then they can pair up with the New York Times and USA Today in hiring bogus journalists.
You mean bogus journalists like Jeff Gannon? The guy who the White House vetted as a real journalist despite him not being one AND his involvement with gay escort service web sites?
While you are certainly entitled to buy whatever you want, no matter how overpriced it may be, you want to consider the words of Norman Borlaug in regards to organic foods:
If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition. As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter. If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more. It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.
From this article in Reason Magazine. For the record, I happened to see him in an interview last year and he repeated the same sentiments.
Thank you. That is the part that always gets ignored. Theories can only attempt to explain something that already exists. They're not making something up. To wit:
Gravity is a fact. The theory(s) that explain it and its effects are not facts.
They're engineers, what do you expect? They designed a system that made it easy to change the junctions without someone having to physically throw a switch to change the tracks. More than likely, no one, including the people who provide the specifications for this device, thought about security. The idea was to make the job of switching tracks easier.
I check to be sure what I buy is not made in China. As I'm buying the Calphalon One line, those are still made in the US (as far as I can tell). Also, the prices were at least 50% off list. In most cases they were 60% less. For example, a list $180 pan was $49.99 on sale. That's 72%.
The other lines, Contemporary and Simply for example, are probably the ones that are made in China.
Thanks though for the heads up on Amazon. I'll have to check to see what's there.
Look at Le Gourmet Chef. Look through their selections on that page. I happen to have one about 30 minutes from me and found out by accident on Black Friday some of the items were on sale. There is another place called Reading China & Glass down the road from them which also had Calphalon on sale though they were different pans from the same line. I went back down last week when I was off and picked up another pan at Reading.
I got the ones in the Calphalon One line, both infused anodized and non-stick. Interestingly, the price that was rung up for the one pan I got at the store was less than the sale price posted. About $10 less. Needless to say, I didn't say a word.
People like you and me aren't "doing our part" to "help the economy".
True and I don't care. One of my favorite things to say when I go out to yard sales is along the lines, "The economy would come to a screeching halt if people stopped by all this crap." Which of course is true. The only reason the economy keeps growing is because of people buying things they don't need. How many Billy Bass were sold when it came out?
I'm not saying people shouldn't buy things they don't need, we all need diversions, but think long and hard about how long you will use it. A video game, while not a necessity, can provide long-term enjoyment but only if the people who bought don't get bored with it after it 2 or 3 games.
At the rate I'm going with saving for a house, I'll be at a 50% down payment of my target price. Take out a 30 year mortgage to get the low payment then pay it off early.
True story. I used to work for a brokerage firm and got real lucky on a stock I owned. I took the money I earned from it, as well as money I had saved and the trade in from my then car, to purchase a new car (yeah, I know. But it was my first car. I'm allowed). My monthly payment was $100. I paid the car off in 3 years and am still driving that car 10 years later.
But why do you automatically equate drinking with getting wasted?
Because, as the other respondent to your question mentioned, the vast majority of people, particularly young, equate drinking with getting wasted. That's the thing to do. Get wasted dude, I was so drunk last night, etc.
I drink now and then myself. In fact, I'll probably have a drink tonight. However, when I was younger I most certainly drank too much (though not nearly as much as others) at times. In fact, I know for a fact that one time I drove when I was legally drunk. Another time I knew I wasn't coherent enough to drive and told the waitress to not serve me any more alcohol the rest of the night no matter if I asked. Both times were when I was younger yet legally able to drink. Imagine the lack of judgement from a 15 year-old.
As far as being rated Flamebait, eh, no big deal. There are those on here who will always mod you down if you say anything remotely against drinking or drugs.
The message of the last 10-15 years seems to be "consume, consume, consume".
Then don't buy things (as someone below your comment has said) if you don't need them. Or, you might be interested in trying what these folksset out to do.
I won't say I've gone anywhere near as far as these folks have done (I just picked up three Calphalon pans which were at least 50% off regular price as replacements), but as a rule, I don't buy something unless I absolutely need it. Cell phone? Don't have. Newest, latest, blingiest PC? Nope. 18 different electronic devices? Nada.
It's amazing how much money people can accumulate if they exercise a bit of self-control. I mean supposedly we're the smartest animals on this ball of rock, dirt and water. How about we use some of that intelligence.
Part of the reason was because it wasn't approved software. I work for state government and while our OA (Office of Administration) sets what is and is not approved, each agency, as far as I know, has some leeway in what software they can install.
For example, due to PCI compliance requirments, we've had to seek out a new FTP client which is secure. We've settled on WinSCP. That program does not appear on our 'approved' software list.
The other reason that dingbat wanted only IE was probably due to lack of knowledge about what FF was/is. Either that or she was throwing her weight around. It wouldn't be the first time. A bit OT, but when positions became open in that agency, until right after I left, she absolutely refused to allow anyone from in-house to apply for those positions. Her opinion was you had to move out to move up. So I left and the area that I managed went to hell. This was in violation of state hiring policy but our wonderful union couldn't be bothered to call her out on that. They were too worried about how much more to raise the 'fair share' fee on us non-union members.
So, there are two reasons why she had this policy.
Mozilla thus far has neglected to develop tools to help IT departments deploy and manage Firefox,
That, right there, is probably the number one reason more folks in the corporate world don't deploy FF. As far as I know, there is no easy way to push FF out to a desktop regardless if it's Windows, Mac or Linux.
The other reason is this narrow-minded mindset that some folks higher up the food chain than the IT department have about anything that isn't Microsoft. I know of one place where I worked that the CIO all but had an apoplectic seizure when she found FF was being used by some of the IT folks (fortunately, after I left). She then ordered that only IE will be used.
I, and several others where I currently work, use FF. The only thing we have to do is make sure we keep up with the updates as per our Bureau head. In fact, the only time I use IE is when I am on our intranet. For external sites, it's FF all the way. Never had a problem, not even on Microsoft's site when pulling down patches or updates.
If those two issues can be resolved, easy way to deploy and breaking of the mindset, you would see FF's usage climb. Granted, you'd still have to deal with people who don't know what a browser is but that's a whole other issue.
Yeah, I didn't RTFA. Just a knee-jerk reaction whenever Diebold and voting are used in the same sentence.
Regardless, my point still stands: count the paper ballots. If the percentages are still off by as much as Black Box counted, then we know two things: 1) the scanning machines accurately recorded the people's vote and 2) for whatever reason, there were areas in New Hampshire who were more pro-Hillary than the polls indicated.
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On a related note, all persons with blue eyes are apparently related to one distant ancestor.
So no need to have three people involved to change the color of your kids eyes. Just turn off the switch in the OCA2 gene and you should get the desired results.
As a side note, it's nice to know I'm a mutant.
Let's see. On an average day at the zoo, there are several thousand people who visit this enclosure. During all the years this enclosure has been around and has had a tiger of some sort in it, not one person has ever been attacked, let alone killed.
Then one day, after drinking and some drug use, these asshats decide to stand on a fence around the enclosure, yell and taunt at a wild animal which is known to be able kill humans, possibly shoot it with a slingshot, and yet somehow, despite the actions of supposedly the smartest animal on the planet, it's not the guy's fault he got himself killed?
But it's not something he deserved to die for.
It's called being responsible for your actions. Put another way, survival of the fittest in all its glory.
Sex?
Yeah. Those folks in Dover, PA weren't trying to make any significant public policy changes. They were just trying to rewrite the science curriculum to include a religious precept.
At the most, that vanishingly small minority is slightly annoying, but certainly not a threat of any sort.
Tell that to Matthew Shepherd.
and raise their families as they see fit, without a bunch of nanny-state lefties sticking their noses in.
Yeah! You tell 'em! How dare John Ashcroft tell me what is and what is not pornography. If I want my kids to see that mostly-nude statue of Geroge Washington, I can damn well show it to them. I don't need some nanny-state lefty telling me what my kids can or cannot see.
It never ceases to amaze me that Liberals can have so much hate towards Christians,
It never ceases to amaze me that Christians can have so much hate towards those who aren't Christians.
and yet go out of their way to excuse the most heinous behavior of Muslims.
and yet go out of their way to excuse the most heinous behavior of our troops occupying Iraq or torturing prisoners in Guantanamo.
Not only doesn't it make any sense, it's not terribly logical or consistent either.
Not only doesn't it make any sense, it's not terribly logical or consistent either.
So let's all just back off from the Christian hate and the passive-aggressive Christian bashing.
So let's all just back off from the atheist/agnostic hate and the passive-aggressive atheist/agnostic bashing.
Are we clear?
It is irrelevant whether you could have afforded the product in the first place or not. The fact remains, you have the product, are using the product and have not compensated the person who created the product for their efforts.
Could this news item from Sweden have anything to do with these possible fines?
DING DING DING!!!! You are correct. My mom was talking about this very subject last week. Her Honda has door locks which you can unlock from the inside. You can unlock the driver or passenger door individually by hand or the driver can use the switch to unlock all the doors at once.
She mentioned that she is no longer able to lock/unlock just her driver door by using the lock. When it gets taken in for its yearly checkup, she wants the place to look at her driver-side door lock. My dad claims there's no problem but obviously since it no longer works like it used to, there is a problem.
Huh. So if I sneak into a nuclear lab and take pictures of the original blueprints for a nuclear bomb and send those pictures to Iran, that's not stealing?
Me thinks the U.S. government might have something to about your definition of stealing.
If someone rips a CD they bought to their iPod, there is no loss to anyone and copyright is not needed.
Correct. You bought it, it's yours to do with as you please for YOUR OWN pleasure. Not you and 5 million of your closet "friends".
However, if I make copies of an original CD and then sell those copies on the street for say, $5, I am stealing because the original artists of the CD are not getting paid for their work. You can call it copyright infringement or any other term you want, but the fact remains the people who created the work are not getting paid for their efforts.
Maybe you find it acceptable to take something without paying for it but I don't.
Huh. I guess driving to Rhode Island from Harrisburg, via the Cross Bronx Expresway, for my last two years of school doesn't count. Nor does driving in Rhode Island, the entire length of the state. But maybe driving to and in Hoboken, NJ, Atlantic City, NJ via Philadelphia (as well as driving in Philadelphia), the areas outside New York, everywhere in or around Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD and surrounding cities, various parts of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, San Francisco and Santa Rosa as well as just east of Pittsburgh don't count either.
I've driven in real traffic conditions since I was driving. During that time I ALWAYS use my turn signal. On that odd occasion I don't, I get upset at myself for not doing so. Using your turn signal isn't just a courtesy thing, it's a safety thing. You're letting everyone around you know what you're going to do so they can prepare themselves for your lane change.
Quit making excuses for your laziness. It takes 1 second to reach up and flip the turn signal.
What?!!!! I want what you're smoking. I can attest to the pathetic driving capabilities of people from Philadelphia. Forget about stopping at a stop sign when there's oncoming traffic. Red light? Sure, we can fit five more cars through as the opposing traffic advances.
Merging traffic? Naw, you don't need to merge. Just stick your nose in. If the guy hits you, keep driving.
and required response time may not leave time for signaling or other kinds of politeness.
The only excuse for not using your turn signal is in an emergency situation or if you are the only car on the road at 2 AM. Other than that, turn signals should always be used.
And yes, I do use my turn signal every single time no matter where I'm at.
WHAT?!!!! I'm hoping I'm parsing your sentence incorrectly because any hard drive subjected to thermite becomes nothing but a puddle of molten then solidified metal.
What I'm hoping you meant to say was that even though the hard drives in our surveillance plane had been subjected to thermite, parts of the drives remained intact enough so the data on the unmelted parts could be retrieved despite the data also having been overwritten.
Allow/Deny?
You mean bogus journalists like Jeff Gannon? The guy who the White House vetted as a real journalist despite him not being one AND his involvement with gay escort service web sites?
Or did you mean bogus journalists like FEMA used for a quickie press conference?
Those who live in glass houses and all that. . .
But we do have mammals that lay eggs.
Which is a pretty good argument for why there is no designer (first comment has permalink).
While you are certainly entitled to buy whatever you want, no matter how overpriced it may be, you want to consider the words of Norman Borlaug in regards to organic foods:
From this article in Reason Magazine. For the record, I happened to see him in an interview last year and he repeated the same sentiments.
Gravity is a fact. The theory(s) that explain it and its effects are not facts.
Here are two links which cover this topic:
Link 1
Link 2
They're engineers, what do you expect? They designed a system that made it easy to change the junctions without someone having to physically throw a switch to change the tracks. More than likely, no one, including the people who provide the specifications for this device, thought about security. The idea was to make the job of switching tracks easier.
Which succeeded.
I check to be sure what I buy is not made in China. As I'm buying the Calphalon One line, those are still made in the US (as far as I can tell). Also, the prices were at least 50% off list. In most cases they were 60% less. For example, a list $180 pan was $49.99 on sale. That's 72%.
The other lines, Contemporary and Simply for example, are probably the ones that are made in China.
Thanks though for the heads up on Amazon. I'll have to check to see what's there.
I got the ones in the Calphalon One line, both infused anodized and non-stick. Interestingly, the price that was rung up for the one pan I got at the store was less than the sale price posted. About $10 less. Needless to say, I didn't say a word.
True and I don't care. One of my favorite things to say when I go out to yard sales is along the lines, "The economy would come to a screeching halt if people stopped by all this crap." Which of course is true. The only reason the economy keeps growing is because of people buying things they don't need. How many Billy Bass were sold when it came out?
I'm not saying people shouldn't buy things they don't need, we all need diversions, but think long and hard about how long you will use it. A video game, while not a necessity, can provide long-term enjoyment but only if the people who bought don't get bored with it after it 2 or 3 games.
At the rate I'm going with saving for a house, I'll be at a 50% down payment of my target price. Take out a 30 year mortgage to get the low payment then pay it off early.
True story. I used to work for a brokerage firm and got real lucky on a stock I owned. I took the money I earned from it, as well as money I had saved and the trade in from my then car, to purchase a new car (yeah, I know. But it was my first car. I'm allowed). My monthly payment was $100. I paid the car off in 3 years and am still driving that car 10 years later.
Because, as the other respondent to your question mentioned, the vast majority of people, particularly young, equate drinking with getting wasted. That's the thing to do. Get wasted dude, I was so drunk last night, etc.
I drink now and then myself. In fact, I'll probably have a drink tonight. However, when I was younger I most certainly drank too much (though not nearly as much as others) at times. In fact, I know for a fact that one time I drove when I was legally drunk. Another time I knew I wasn't coherent enough to drive and told the waitress to not serve me any more alcohol the rest of the night no matter if I asked. Both times were when I was younger yet legally able to drink. Imagine the lack of judgement from a 15 year-old.
As far as being rated Flamebait, eh, no big deal. There are those on here who will always mod you down if you say anything remotely against drinking or drugs.
Then don't buy things (as someone below your comment has said) if you don't need them. Or, you might be interested in trying what these folks set out to do.
I won't say I've gone anywhere near as far as these folks have done (I just picked up three Calphalon pans which were at least 50% off regular price as replacements), but as a rule, I don't buy something unless I absolutely need it. Cell phone? Don't have. Newest, latest, blingiest PC? Nope. 18 different electronic devices? Nada.
It's amazing how much money people can accumulate if they exercise a bit of self-control. I mean supposedly we're the smartest animals on this ball of rock, dirt and water. How about we use some of that intelligence.
Part of the reason was because it wasn't approved software. I work for state government and while our OA (Office of Administration) sets what is and is not approved, each agency, as far as I know, has some leeway in what software they can install.
For example, due to PCI compliance requirments, we've had to seek out a new FTP client which is secure. We've settled on WinSCP. That program does not appear on our 'approved' software list.
The other reason that dingbat wanted only IE was probably due to lack of knowledge about what FF was/is. Either that or she was throwing her weight around. It wouldn't be the first time. A bit OT, but when positions became open in that agency, until right after I left, she absolutely refused to allow anyone from in-house to apply for those positions. Her opinion was you had to move out to move up. So I left and the area that I managed went to hell. This was in violation of state hiring policy but our wonderful union couldn't be bothered to call her out on that. They were too worried about how much more to raise the 'fair share' fee on us non-union members.
So, there are two reasons why she had this policy.
That, right there, is probably the number one reason more folks in the corporate world don't deploy FF. As far as I know, there is no easy way to push FF out to a desktop regardless if it's Windows, Mac or Linux.
The other reason is this narrow-minded mindset that some folks higher up the food chain than the IT department have about anything that isn't Microsoft. I know of one place where I worked that the CIO all but had an apoplectic seizure when she found FF was being used by some of the IT folks (fortunately, after I left). She then ordered that only IE will be used.
I, and several others where I currently work, use FF. The only thing we have to do is make sure we keep up with the updates as per our Bureau head. In fact, the only time I use IE is when I am on our intranet. For external sites, it's FF all the way. Never had a problem, not even on Microsoft's site when pulling down patches or updates.
If those two issues can be resolved, easy way to deploy and breaking of the mindset, you would see FF's usage climb. Granted, you'd still have to deal with people who don't know what a browser is but that's a whole other issue.
Nelson Muntz: Ha Ha!
There, it's been said. Let's move on.
Yeah, I didn't RTFA. Just a knee-jerk reaction whenever Diebold and voting are used in the same sentence.
Regardless, my point still stands: count the paper ballots. If the percentages are still off by as much as Black Box counted, then we know two things: 1) the scanning machines accurately recorded the people's vote and 2) for whatever reason, there were areas in New Hampshire who were more pro-Hillary than the polls indicated.