I don't normally respond to ACs but this one time I'll make an exception.
Repeat after me: Iran is not a threat. Iran is not a threat. Iran will not attack its neighbors or the U.S. Iran will not attack its neighbors or the U.S.
Threatening other countries who have threatened you does not make you a threat. Nor does saying stupid things like wiping Israel off the map. The vast majority of things that Ahmadinejad is saying is purely for internal support.
This is the same kind of nonsense that was used to justify invading and now occupation of Iraq. They were an imminent threat, remember? They posed a grave danger to world peace, remember? They had were producing weapons of mass destruction, remember?
Iran will not attack its neighbors unless they attack first. The fact that they are going forward with their nuclear program, as allowed under the UN Charter and IAEA conditions, does not mean they are planning on attacking anyone. I guess the concept of mutually assured destruction doesn't ring a bell with you.
The only country currently threatening to attack and/or invade another country is the U.S.
Let me ask this question: if you were being threatened by the playground bully, wouldn't you think of ways of defending yourself?
Though I'm not from Canada, the same nonsensical prattlings occur from time to time here in the U.S from our elected officials. From now on, whenever I hear this clap-trap being spouted, I'll reply with the following:
I'll give you my support for "cleaning up the internet" when you clean up the bribery, corruption and kickbacks in your profession.
As the article from 2005 that I linked to in a comment from yesterday, advertisers are going apeshit over people like me who delete cookies and skew their traffic results.
Oh boo hoo, cry me a river. Produce something people want and they'll come back time and again and you won't have to worry about your traffic.
As I continue to say in situations like this, this isn't a problem if you don't have Flash installed. They can't force you to watch something if you can't see it in the first place.
Just another reason not to have Flash on you ones system.
Isn't just accepted practice to do cookie maintenance every few weeks?
Weeks? How about every day? Close Firefox, BAM!, all data gone.
That said, my position allows me to see the files and such on peoples machines (remotely) and let me tell you, I've seen cookies on machines that are years old. Up to three years in some cases.
Then again, companies are going apeshit over people deleting cookies because they can't accurately track you and are making a concerted effort to convince people to not delete cookies.
Sorry bubs, I tell everyone I deal with, "Delete your cookies when you're done surfing about. It helps keep the spyware at bay." Amazing how gullible people can be.
what freedom were Hitler's werewolves fighting for?
They were fighting to free their country from the occupying forces. Regardless of whether they were on the wrong end of the fight to begin with, once their country was invaded, they became freedom fighters.
Or are you trying to say that those people who, during the American Revolution, attacked British subjects and those who wanted to stay united with Great Britain, were terrorists?
Can you prove that Linux didn't cause the hardware problem?
If keys on my keyboard stick in the down position or the CD drive won't eject, I can't think of any way to blame Linux for that.
Besides, what you sited, to me at least, is hardware related, not software. If it were software related, then installing Firefox, Quicktime or any other software that didn't come with your system, could potentially invalidate your warranty.
"Sorry, we do not honor our hardware warranty when you run Linux."
I would ask the rep to point out where in their warranty this is stated. If it's not in the warranty, they have to honor the request. If they refuse to honor the request, go to your state's Attorney General and file a complaint. After that, post your comments on every blog you can find related to computers. Nothing gets accomplished more quickly than when bad PR is involved.
As someone higher up said, what does what software one has loaded on your system have to do with malfunctioning hardware?
If Americans did have a high level of technical knowledge, the amount of spyware infections (and related matters) would be significantly lower. Considering we lead the world in malware creation, that argues for a lower level of technical knowledge.
Punch the monkey to win money! Give us your email address and we'll send you free offers! Install this program to prevent infections!
Let's put it this way: I went to the dentist recently and the girl who was going to scrape my teeth asked what I did and where I worked. When I told her I work in IT and for a specific government agency, she said that she wished she knew more about computers but she didn't have the time to figure them out.
So, we have someone who admits they don't know enough about a subject yet aren't willing to take the time to learn more about it. Yup, this America. If it isn't easy, we're not interested.
I'm in Dauphin County and was born and raised here. Other than vacations, I spent two years away for my last two years of schooling.
I pass through Lebanon County on my way to New York twice a year though I've been to LVC once or twice.
I thought that my township had an electronic recycling program once or twice a year but I didn't see it last year and so far haven't seen it this year. Right now all I have is a 10+ year old monitor (from my 95 days) so I can hang on to it for now and even when I move until I find a suitable place to dispose of it.
we should just let them die in firey car accidents,
The problem is that like drunk driving, in the majority of cases, it is the other person who gets the worst of it, not the person doing the driving.
I'm all for people who drive drunk getting in accidents and killing themselves. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. The same with texting. The people who are doing the texting while driving aren't usually the ones who get killed or maimed.
To see the effects of saving your money rather than spending, look at the japanese economy from the last ten years or so. People were hoarding money like mad and the japanese prime rate was as low as.25% (yes, a quarter of a percent) trying to get people to spend money (it's now at a whopping.5%).
Considering how dependent the U.S. economy is on people continuing to spend money, even to the point of having a negative savings rate, any substantial increase in savings will have a detrimental effect on the economy. In fact, since that report came out, the savings rate has doubled to -1%.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for the laugh. I needed it.
What country are you from? This is America. We don't do proper financial planning or even basic financial planning. Financial planning means figuring out how to pay for the $100/month cell phone bill out of our next paycheck because we're so overextended in debt. In fact, a recent suvey showed that 40% of those surveyed said they were living paycheck to paycheck, and that included people making over $100K/year.
If the people of this country were truly concerned about financial planning, check cashing companies would be out of business and the economy would tank because people wouldn't be spending money on useless things like a $100/month cell phone plan.
You're even worse off than I am. According to a quick BMI, I'm at 21.1 - 21.9 which is supposed to be a healthy number for my height and weight.
What's really annoying is when I see a 40x29 pair of pants but can't find a 30x29 pair. In other words, if you look like an inverted pear, you're fine. If you're fit and trim, too bad.
For years (at least 10) I've been trying to get stores to increase their selection size, including writing to their respective HQs. No luck. So I've given up going to these stores and wrote about how stores are refusing to stock clothes for the fit and trim.
And I'm not the only one. I happened to come across a blog title 'Some Small Sense' about a girl in NY who is 4' 8" and 98 lbs who is having an even harder time finding clothes. One would think that living in Manhattan it wouldn't be that big a deal but nope, the stores refuse (and refuse is the correct word) to stock clothes she can wear.
I guess the only options left are twofold:
1) buy a few shares of stock in each store, show up at a shareholders meeting and ask in open session why the stores are costing the shareholders 5-10% in sales by refusing to stock said clothes OR
2) file a class-action, discrimination lawsuit
Neither is appealing but both are the only options left.
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I don't normally respond to ACs but this one time I'll make an exception.
Repeat after me: Iran is not a threat. Iran is not a threat. Iran will not attack its neighbors or the U.S. Iran will not attack its neighbors or the U.S.
Threatening other countries who have threatened you does not make you a threat. Nor does saying stupid things like wiping Israel off the map. The vast majority of things that Ahmadinejad is saying is purely for internal support.
This is the same kind of nonsense that was used to justify invading and now occupation of Iraq. They were an imminent threat, remember? They posed a grave danger to world peace, remember? They had were producing weapons of mass destruction, remember?
Iran will not attack its neighbors unless they attack first. The fact that they are going forward with their nuclear program, as allowed under the UN Charter and IAEA conditions, does not mean they are planning on attacking anyone. I guess the concept of mutually assured destruction doesn't ring a bell with you.
The only country currently threatening to attack and/or invade another country is the U.S.
Let me ask this question: if you were being threatened by the playground bully, wouldn't you think of ways of defending yourself?
Personally, anyone found to be a participant in voter fraud should be barred for life from voting.
Work on the broken mod point distribution code?
so little time.
Though I'm not from Canada, the same nonsensical prattlings occur from time to time here in the U.S from our elected officials. From now on, whenever I hear this clap-trap being spouted, I'll reply with the following:
I'll give you my support for "cleaning up the internet" when you clean up the bribery, corruption and kickbacks in your profession.
Oh boo hoo, cry me a river. Produce something people want and they'll come back time and again and you won't have to worry about your traffic.
As I continue to say in situations like this, this isn't a problem if you don't have Flash installed. They can't force you to watch something if you can't see it in the first place.
Just another reason not to have Flash on you ones system.
Weeks? How about every day? Close Firefox, BAM!, all data gone.
That said, my position allows me to see the files and such on peoples machines (remotely) and let me tell you, I've seen cookies on machines that are years old. Up to three years in some cases.
Then again, companies are going apeshit over people deleting cookies because they can't accurately track you and are making a concerted effort to convince people to not delete cookies.
Sorry bubs, I tell everyone I deal with, "Delete your cookies when you're done surfing about. It helps keep the spyware at bay." Amazing how gullible people can be.
They were fighting to free their country from the occupying forces. Regardless of whether they were on the wrong end of the fight to begin with, once their country was invaded, they became freedom fighters.
Or are you trying to say that those people who, during the American Revolution, attacked British subjects and those who wanted to stay united with Great Britain, were terrorists?
Just think how much money they'd be saving if they were looking at amateur-tons.
(With my apologies to Piers Anthony)
What websites do they monitor so I can fire up my Windows 95 machine and make an entrance?
Put all the speeches on YouTube and let the public access them. That way the playing field is level.
After all, it would be a horrible thing if someone in Japan wasn't doing the same thing as everyone else. How shameful!
If keys on my keyboard stick in the down position or the CD drive won't eject, I can't think of any way to blame Linux for that.
Besides, what you sited, to me at least, is hardware related, not software. If it were software related, then installing Firefox, Quicktime or any other software that didn't come with your system, could potentially invalidate your warranty.
I would ask the rep to point out where in their warranty this is stated. If it's not in the warranty, they have to honor the request. If they refuse to honor the request, go to your state's Attorney General and file a complaint. After that, post your comments on every blog you can find related to computers. Nothing gets accomplished more quickly than when bad PR is involved.
As someone higher up said, what does what software one has loaded on your system have to do with malfunctioning hardware?
In other words, Diebold wants to see the proprietary scoring format used to judge who should be awarded the contract.
Why does that sound familiar?
You must have missed my previous comment.
If Americans did have a high level of technical knowledge, the amount of spyware infections (and related matters) would be significantly lower. Considering we lead the world in malware creation, that argues for a lower level of technical knowledge.
Punch the monkey to win money! Give us your email address and we'll send you free offers! Install this program to prevent infections!
Let's put it this way: I went to the dentist recently and the girl who was going to scrape my teeth asked what I did and where I worked. When I told her I work in IT and for a specific government agency, she said that she wished she knew more about computers but she didn't have the time to figure them out.
So, we have someone who admits they don't know enough about a subject yet aren't willing to take the time to learn more about it. Yup, this America. If it isn't easy, we're not interested.
Hmmm, sounds like what I see on my commute into and out of the city every day. Particularly the running red light part.
I guess this is what happens when you don't have a competent police force (or any police).
I'm in Dauphin County and was born and raised here. Other than vacations, I spent two years away for my last two years of schooling.
I pass through Lebanon County on my way to New York twice a year though I've been to LVC once or twice.
I thought that my township had an electronic recycling program once or twice a year but I didn't see it last year and so far haven't seen it this year. Right now all I have is a 10+ year old monitor (from my 95 days) so I can hang on to it for now and even when I move until I find a suitable place to dispose of it.
I'm about 20 minutes from the border with Lancaster County, mind if I drop my old electronics at your place and you take care of them for me?
The problem is that like drunk driving, in the majority of cases, it is the other person who gets the worst of it, not the person doing the driving.
I'm all for people who drive drunk getting in accidents and killing themselves. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. The same with texting. The people who are doing the texting while driving aren't usually the ones who get killed or maimed.
Considering how dependent the U.S. economy is on people continuing to spend money, even to the point of having a negative savings rate, any substantial increase in savings will have a detrimental effect on the economy. In fact, since that report came out, the savings rate has doubled to -1%.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for the laugh. I needed it.
What country are you from? This is America. We don't do proper financial planning or even basic financial planning. Financial planning means figuring out how to pay for the $100/month cell phone bill out of our next paycheck because we're so overextended in debt. In fact, a recent suvey showed that 40% of those surveyed said they were living paycheck to paycheck, and that included people making over $100K/year.
If the people of this country were truly concerned about financial planning, check cashing companies would be out of business and the economy would tank because people wouldn't be spending money on useless things like a $100/month cell phone plan.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
You're even worse off than I am. According to a quick BMI, I'm at 21.1 - 21.9 which is supposed to be a healthy number for my height and weight.
What's really annoying is when I see a 40x29 pair of pants but can't find a 30x29 pair. In other words, if you look like an inverted pear, you're fine. If you're fit and trim, too bad.
For years (at least 10) I've been trying to get stores to increase their selection size, including writing to their respective HQs. No luck. So I've given up going to these stores and wrote about how stores are refusing to stock clothes for the fit and trim.
And I'm not the only one. I happened to come across a blog title 'Some Small Sense' about a girl in NY who is 4' 8" and 98 lbs who is having an even harder time finding clothes. One would think that living in Manhattan it wouldn't be that big a deal but nope, the stores refuse (and refuse is the correct word) to stock clothes she can wear.
I guess the only options left are twofold:
1) buy a few shares of stock in each store, show up at a shareholders meeting and ask in open session why the stores are costing the shareholders 5-10% in sales by refusing to stock said clothes OR
2) file a class-action, discrimination lawsuit
Neither is appealing but both are the only options left.