When you get punched in the noce you have 2 choices, punch back and continue punching until the threat is GONE, or do nothing and accept the fact that it will continue to happen regardless of what action you take.
Bullshit. The world is not black and white and neither are your options.
Got punched in the face? Analyze the situation, figure out why you got punched in the face and take a-p-r-o-p-r-i-a-t-e action to reduce the chance of it happening again to an acceptable level. Maybe that means killing the guy punching you. Maybe it means using a different swing on the playground. Maybe it just means kicking the guy in the nads. Maybe it means calling your older brother over to intimidate the guy.
Whatever the case, your simplistic analogy has no place in the real world.
Make your choice, stick by it, and shut the hell up.
Yeah, because changing your mind in response to new information is just not macho. Grow up pequito.
Yes, with the help of our politicians and their backers.
The country that was once the home of the free and land of the brave is now the home of the fearful and land of the brain-washed.
Live free or die, it is the New Hampshire state motto. Yet most people have been convinced that they need to give away their freedom so that they won't die.
You are paranoid and very bitter about something in your weak agenda.
I'm not paranoid at all. It's the cowards like you, anonymous or otherwise, who have succumbed to terrorism and live in a constant state of paranoia. I have no fear of terrorism, I'll take that infinitesimal risk of dying in a terrorist attack over the slow death by a thousand cuts that our own government is pushing on us.
Nonetheless, given the emotional and perjorative tone of calling people like me cowards and sheep, it is entirely possible your thinking is in fact more emotional than logical, and not based on consistent principle as such.
Ah, so that's the root of your knee-jerkin response. Don't like it, so you go all whacky jousting at windmills. Well, you seem to be good at it, keep it up if it makes you feel better.
Also known as "employer of record" - they exist for independents who need "big corp" sorts of benefits like access to health insurance. Here is one that I haved used in the past - MyBizOffice. Despite the stupid, formerly-trendy name, they are one of the largest out there and do a pretty good job of things.
Or perhaps I could have pointed out that his contention that mini-vans are usually driven with few passengers is pretty bogus. People don't buy mini-vans to feel safer, nor to feel sexy. They buy them because they need them to haul kids around, full stop. Sure mom will use them alone during the day to do errands, but then she often ends up making use of the large cargo space for groceries and other homestuffs, in which case the passenger capacity is not really wasted either.
But I thought it was just simpler to point out that "Acuras" are not a type of car but merely a brand and thus by implication anyone making comparisons with them doesn't know what the hell he is talking about.
Where's the luxury in having to drive a couple thousand miles when flying is faster and safer? The delay from having to show ID is probably less than the time you take to fill up your gas tank!
Flying may be safer than driving on a per mile basis, but it is the most risky way to travel on a per trip basis. The delay was never the issue, and if you think it was, then you need to re-read my post.
If you have an objection in principle to the security thing, that's would be a different point. But don't kid yourself that you are opting out of the herd of sheeple.
I suggest you look up the history of the term "potemkin" - if you knew the meaning you would have figured out that I indeed do have an objection "in principle." In fact, if you had even read my post at all you should been able to figure out that I am all about the principle, I never even once mentioned delay or timeliness.
Even if minivans get marginally better mileage than SUVs, they still both have very poor (passenger*miles)/gallon, because they are both usually driven with few passengers. An acura, on the other hand, gets better mileage than either of them, and is also lighter and more meuverable...
This year, I drove more than any year before. Mostly because I am sick of the potemkin security at the airports. Although I had to go through the ID song-and-dance to get my driver's license, that was a mostly one-time thing. So when I drive I am not on anyone's list. I buy my gas with cash and pay for the motel rooms with cash too. The only thing that gets me are the plate cameras at the tollbooths, and the cell towers when I leave my phone on.
I'm not paranoid. I don't think anyone is out to get me. But driving is the closest thing we have to feasible anonymous travel nowadays -- you need id to board a plane, you even need id to buy a train-ticket - even though the people who 'check' the id wouldn't know a forgery unless it had "FAKE" stamped across it in big red letters. And don't even think about walking a couple of thousand miles, that just isn't going to happen.
Osama bin Laden has turned this country into a nation of cowards. There is not much I can do about it, but at least I still have the luxury of opting out of the herd of sheeple.
Is this the collider that could possibly create a black hole that would destroy the planet?
Definietly. If there aren't any black holes near by, it is inevitable that a Large Hard-On Collider would create them, swordfights get old fast...
Go ahead and mod me down for being juvenile, I deserve it. But this story is so ripe with opportunity for homoerotic innuendo that I can't help but make a crack or two.
Of course, the counter argument is that this isn't a license on an electronic device so much as a license fee for the assumed pirated music that it will hold, so the artists should get a cut by default.
Except that the only artists who even stand a chance of getting a cut of the 'pirate tax' are those that have signed with major studios. This is just another way for the big, established corps to raise the barrier to entry for any upstarts. Corporate socialism at its finest.
but the inability to effect that outcome by yourself doesn't make your personal choice to not participate any less virtuous.
"Inability" is not the question here. He, as everyone else in a similar situation, does have the ability to quit his job. Thus the virtuousness is a function of his personal choice. The charity of a poor man is more virtuous than the same charity of a rich man.
Because BitTorrent has also partnered with CacheLogic which provides Internet Caching solutions. You pay your subscriptions to legally access the content and you can now use BitTorrent not only to download from your peers but from strategically placed caches.
And how is this better than simply using Akamai's strategically placed caches to automagically download directly from via http?
Unless you are of rare talent, your labor is fungible within the company. If you go to another project for the same company, then another engineer who would have worked on that project can now do the work you found to be distasteful. But you are still enabling the company to produce the distasteful work.
Either you are OK with being a contributor to the work product that you find distasteful or not. You can quit, or you could do a wholly different task within the company (like move from developer to marketing) so that you don't 'free up' someone else to do the work. But otherwise, you might as well just do it yourself and see if you might be able to influence it to be less distasteful than originally planned.
Whether you're a sailer or whether you're a freighter, You're stayin afloat, stayin afloat. Feel the bubbles breakin and everybody shakin, And were stayin' afloat, stayin' afloat. Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' afloat, stayin' afloat. Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' afloat.
Well now, I get low and I get high, And if I can't get either, I'm still dry . Got the winds of heaven on my shoes. I'm a bubblin' man and I just can't lose. You know it's all right. It's ok. I'll sail to see another day. We can try to understand The disco science effect on man.
Boat's goin nowhere. somebody help me. Somebody help me, yeah. Boat's goin nowhere. somebody help me. Somebody help me, yeah. stayin afloat.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a sailin' man: no time to talk. Bubbles loud and waves are warm, I've been tossed around since I was born. And now it's all right. It's ok. And you may look the other way. We can try to understand The disco science effect on man.
The pro-copyright crowd loves to scream "theft" when the crime is technically copyright infringement and even though a person has a new copy, the original copy owner hasn't lost possession of his copy.
But here I think "theft" is the right term.
These works were published and purchased under the terms of copyright at the time - that after a specified number of years ownership would transfer to the public domain - we would all own it.
When copyrights are unilaterally extended, as has been the case many times recently, the public is deprived of the ownership that they were promised under the original agreement. In this case, we have something that is tangibly missing - public ownership of the work and I think that fits the definition of theft far better than making copies does.
How about, instead, an israeli about to get killed by a palestinian suicide bomber?
1) That is reserved for people who say "the united states of israel." 2) How funny it is that your sig is about banning circumcision and yet you are a knee-jerker on the israel-vs-the-palestinians issue. Don't stand to close to the mohell.
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When you get punched in the noce you have 2 choices, punch back and continue punching until the threat is GONE, or do nothing and accept the fact that it will continue to happen regardless of what action you take.
Bullshit. The world is not black and white and neither are your options.
Got punched in the face? Analyze the situation, figure out why you got punched in the face and take a-p-r-o-p-r-i-a-t-e action to reduce the chance of it happening again to an acceptable level. Maybe that means killing the guy punching you. Maybe it means using a different swing on the playground. Maybe it just means kicking the guy in the nads. Maybe it means calling your older brother over to intimidate the guy.
Whatever the case, your simplistic analogy has no place in the real world.
Make your choice, stick by it, and shut the hell up.
Yeah, because changing your mind in response to new information is just not macho. Grow up pequito.
Basically, I agree. But maybe they do want to do it aswell.
Congratulations. You have been successfully terrorized.
Have a nice day.
Enough groceries for a month will easily fit into even a subcompact.
Spoken like someone who has no kids.
Osama bin Laden turned us into cowards?
Yes, with the help of our politicians and their backers.
The country that was once the home of the free and land of the brave is now the home of the fearful and land of the brain-washed.
Live free or die, it is the New Hampshire state motto. Yet most people have been convinced that they need to give away their freedom so that they won't die.
You are paranoid and very bitter about something in your weak agenda.
I'm not paranoid at all. It's the cowards like you, anonymous or otherwise, who have succumbed to terrorism and live in a constant state of paranoia. I have no fear of terrorism, I'll take that infinitesimal risk of dying in a terrorist attack over the slow death by a thousand cuts that our own government is pushing on us.
Nonetheless, given the emotional and perjorative tone of calling people like me cowards and sheep, it is entirely possible your thinking is in fact more emotional than logical, and not based on consistent principle as such.
Ah, so that's the root of your knee-jerkin response. Don't like it, so you go all whacky jousting at windmills. Well, you seem to be good at it, keep it up if it makes you feel better.
I (together with my wife) bought a Dodge Caravan last year.
You do not have kids?
Also known as "employer of record" - they exist for independents who need "big corp" sorts of benefits like access to health insurance. Here is one that I haved used in the past - MyBizOffice. Despite the stupid, formerly-trendy name, they are one of the largest out there and do a pretty good job of things.
Or perhaps I could have pointed out that his contention that mini-vans are usually driven with few passengers is pretty bogus. People don't buy mini-vans to feel safer, nor to feel sexy. They buy them because they need them to haul kids around, full stop. Sure mom will use them alone during the day to do errands, but then she often ends up making use of the large cargo space for groceries and other homestuffs, in which case the passenger capacity is not really wasted either.
But I thought it was just simpler to point out that "Acuras" are not a type of car but merely a brand and thus by implication anyone making comparisons with them doesn't know what the hell he is talking about.
Where's the luxury in having to drive a couple thousand miles when flying is faster and safer? The delay from having to show ID is probably less than the time you take to fill up your gas tank!
Flying may be safer than driving on a per mile basis, but it is the most risky way to travel on a per trip basis. The delay was never the issue, and if you think it was, then you need to re-read my post.
If you have an objection in principle to the security thing, that's would be a different point. But don't kid yourself that you are opting out of the herd of sheeple.
I suggest you look up the history of the term "potemkin" - if you knew the meaning you would have figured out that I indeed do have an objection "in principle." In fact, if you had even read my post at all you should been able to figure out that I am all about the principle, I never even once mentioned delay or timeliness.
Even if minivans get marginally better mileage than SUVs, they still both have very poor (passenger*miles)/gallon, because they are both usually driven with few passengers. An acura, on the other hand, gets better mileage than either of them, and is also lighter and more meuverable...
Oh, Really?
This year, I drove more than any year before. Mostly because I am sick of the potemkin security at the airports. Although I had to go through the ID song-and-dance to get my driver's license, that was a mostly one-time thing. So when I drive I am not on anyone's list. I buy my gas with cash and pay for the motel rooms with cash too. The only thing that gets me are the plate cameras at the tollbooths, and the cell towers when I leave my phone on.
I'm not paranoid. I don't think anyone is out to get me. But driving is the closest thing we have to feasible anonymous travel nowadays -- you need id to board a plane, you even need id to buy a train-ticket - even though the people who 'check' the id wouldn't know a forgery unless it had "FAKE" stamped across it in big red letters. And don't even think about walking a couple of thousand miles, that just isn't going to happen.
Osama bin Laden has turned this country into a nation of cowards. There is not much I can do about it, but at least I still have the luxury of opting out of the herd of sheeple.
Is this the collider that could possibly create a black hole that would destroy the planet?
Definietly. If there aren't any black holes near by, it is inevitable that a Large Hard-On Collider would create them, swordfights get old fast...
Go ahead and mod me down for being juvenile, I deserve it. But this story is so ripe with opportunity for homoerotic innuendo that I can't help but make a crack or two.
Cool - I didn't know CERN was on the web :)
Fuck, that was funny! +6 to you my friend.
No, they were waiting for legitimate customers to install it so they could try out their hacks in the real world. See sig.
Rrrright. Because no legitimate customers have been running vista for months already.
Of course, the counter argument is that this isn't a license on an electronic device so much as a license fee for the assumed pirated music that it will hold, so the artists should get a cut by default.
Except that the only artists who even stand a chance of getting a cut of the 'pirate tax' are those that have signed with major studios. This is just another way for the big, established corps to raise the barrier to entry for any upstarts. Corporate socialism at its finest.
You do know that memtest86 is on knoppix cds? just type memtest at the boot prompt
It is also on ubuntu live cds, right there on the boot menu.
but the inability to effect that outcome by yourself doesn't make your personal choice to not participate any less virtuous.
"Inability" is not the question here. He, as everyone else in a similar situation, does have the ability to quit his job. Thus the virtuousness is a function of his personal choice. The charity of a poor man is more virtuous than the same charity of a rich man.
Because BitTorrent has also partnered with CacheLogic which provides Internet Caching solutions. You pay your subscriptions to legally access the content and you can now use BitTorrent not only to download from your peers but from strategically placed caches.
And how is this better than simply using Akamai's strategically placed caches to automagically download directly from via http?
Better safe than sorry, right?
After all, as long as you are safe, what do you care who is sorry?
Request that you not be placed on this project.
I believe that to be a cop-out.
Unless you are of rare talent, your labor is fungible within the company. If you go to another project for the same company, then another engineer who would have worked on that project can now do the work you found to be distasteful. But you are still enabling the company to produce the distasteful work.
Either you are OK with being a contributor to the work product that you find distasteful or not. You can quit, or you could do a wholly different task within the company (like move from developer to marketing) so that you don't 'free up' someone else to do the work. But otherwise, you might as well just do it yourself and see if you might be able to influence it to be less distasteful than originally planned.
With this knowledge, no one will be able to touch my son's boat at the next Boy Scout's boat race!!!
Just as long as you are there to give it an underwater zerbert to keep the effect going.
Whether you're a sailer or whether you're a freighter,
You're stayin afloat, stayin afloat.
Feel the bubbles breakin and everybody shakin,
And were stayin' afloat, stayin' afloat.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' afloat, stayin' afloat.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' afloat.
Well now, I get low and I get high,
And if I can't get either, I'm still dry .
Got the winds of heaven on my shoes.
I'm a bubblin' man and I just can't lose.
You know it's all right. It's ok.
I'll sail to see another day.
We can try to understand
The disco science effect on man.
Boat's goin nowhere. somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Boat's goin nowhere. somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah. stayin afloat.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a sailin' man: no time to talk.
Bubbles loud and waves are warm,
I've been tossed around since I was born.
And now it's all right. It's ok.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The disco science effect on man.
The pro-copyright crowd loves to scream "theft" when the crime is technically copyright infringement and even though a person has a new copy, the original copy owner hasn't lost possession of his copy.
But here I think "theft" is the right term.
These works were published and purchased under the terms of copyright at the time - that after a specified number of years ownership would transfer to the public domain - we would all own it.
When copyrights are unilaterally extended, as has been the case many times recently, the public is deprived of the ownership that they were promised under the original agreement. In this case, we have something that is tangibly missing - public ownership of the work and I think that fits the definition of theft far better than making copies does.
How about, instead, an israeli about to get killed by a palestinian suicide bomber?
1) That is reserved for people who say "the united states of israel."
2) How funny it is that your sig is about banning circumcision and yet you are a knee-jerker on the israel-vs-the-palestinians issue. Don't stand to close to the mohell.
in every single aspect of life you can imagination, moderation always wins. balance always wins.
Tell that to all the people in North Korea. Or Saudi Arabia.