As someone who has witnessed the removal of an article on a mens rights activist and author by a radical feminist and lesbian moderator without a trace of irony or concern about conflict of interest or the evils of censorship I would state that Wikipedia is the finest example of group think and social conformity available in the western world outside of Face book of course! Fuck Wikipedia
"whenever i'm at the dmv and person after person responds "no" i always want to pipe up and ask them "why?" but it would be horribly out of line. i just can't understand the reasoning."
How about I have Hep C? Not that its any of your business.
"If we "waste" "trillions" reducing our CO2 output over a false alarm, then yes there might be a lot of upset people, of course the alternate bad side is that we don't spend those "trillions" billions of people will likely die from the ecological and economic collapse that will likely trigger the third world war."
Actually they wont be upset they will be dead,food poisoning and dirty water kill a lot of people in the 3rd world and refrigeration will save their lives. You might be comfortable with throwing them out of the liferaft just to be sure but what if your wrong?
"It's like acting - you have to exaggerate your emoting in order to get the emotional point across to your audience. With the urgency of the problem (i.e. it's starting to happen RIGHT NOW), you need to make huge claims to get people to move just a bit."
Trouble is my man is that global warming isn't and shouldn't be an emotional issue,its either true and provable, true but not provable (yet),or false one things for sure emoting has no place in establishing the facts.
After all what is acting but lying for fun?
"Oliver Wendell Holmes' quote about "yelling fire in crowded theater" is the most common example of why these rights are not absolute, and rightfully so."
well perhaps, this qoute was used to suppress objections to Americans being conscripted to fight in Europe during the first world war.
The use of this qoute is perhaps the best reason why these rights SHOULD be absolute.
"When you place an order for food, there is actually a contract. A valid contract requires: offer, acceptance, consideration and assent. Absent some extraordinary situation, the moment the restaurant starts making the food you've ordered, there's a contract. You're obligated to pay. Dine and dash is a sort of breach of contract. It's also conversion."
Conversion?I think you mean theft buddy,After you have eaten it i ain't getting it back and frankly i don't want it back!
Conversion is depriving me of my goods for a time with no intent to permanently keep them theft is the same but with the intent to permanently deprive me of them.
Thus car theft/car conversion joy riding
"Am I the only one that thinks Microsoft's resources would be better spent fixing some of the more serious complaints about Vista?"
Probably not but you might want to consider the possibility that if they could be fixed they wouldn't exist?
Mate compared to the time iv wasted rebooting, running and learning about registry cleaners, anti spyware, anti virus, defraging, and the rest?
Honestly learning linux has been a pin prick by comparison and i might add interesting, none of the above effort with windows at the time or later seemed like anything except what it was a complete waste of time and effort.
Trying to polish a turd achieves nothing except to get crap all over a good rag
Id have to agree never used it, never wanted it, never heard it mentioned by any user of any platform ever.
Iv been interested in computers for 30 years.
That's marketing folks stupid expensive solutions to non existent problems,however if anyone ever gets it to work could they please notify my bank? ANZ au?
If what they are using is state of the art id hate to think what ships with Vista
Well said, I couldn't agree more. If I had moderator points, you'd be getting some. They've managed to turn the US from a bastion of freedom and tolerance into a fascist state before our very eyes. Baby boomers are a blight on society.
In fuel injected engines with modern engine management isn't fuel use more a matter of work done rather than displacement?
my current car weighs 1400 kg has a 5.7 litre engine and uses about 10l/100km when driven sensibly ie mostly long trips i use public transport when possible.
car is dual fuel petrol/lpg liquid injection despite lpg in Australia being a butane/propane blend mileage and drive ability is excellent on a pare with petrol.
I recommend this type of system highly+ emissions of co2 are apparently 20% lower than when using petrol.
Wanted to swap 100 marketing drones for 1 cranky genius with vision,.....yeah didnt think so.
What ever modern marketing is bringing to the masses who ever they might be it certainly isn't
"works of genius"
poorly conceived solutions to non existent or trivial problems would be more like it.
Never mind killing the lawyers lets string up the marketeers while theres still time,before the whole planet looks like the waste taker at the back of a walmart.
good for you dude!
the housing market in most countries is a giant ponzie scheme,fueled by peoples ignorance of inflation and the broken window fallacy ie they dont see , cant imagine what the money they spent on interest would have done for them if they had saved it and invested it in other areas.
As some one who has been a landlord in new zealand i can tell you the banks have all the good tenants
they pay a $20,000 0r $30,000 security deposit,maintain the property and often improve it for their landlord(the bank)at a loss to them,pay all the expenses attendant on the property pay three or four times at least the value of the property in rent(interest),sign 30 year leases without a second thought in return for being given the property at the end of the lease when the final payment is made(mortgage)and encourage others often at great length to do the same.
compare the lot of the small residential landlord whose every interaction with his tenants is coloured by their resentment about paying rent(not based on what they receive for it but the fact they pay it to someone they feel does not deserve it( by the way iv been homeless as a youth rent is shelter its only dead money if you have no objection to being cold smelly scared and interacting with nature on a more intimate level than most people appear to be comfortable with )
just as a pastime ask a proponent of this idea who is telling you that they made x amount on residential property to do a little back of an envelope math
add up interest lost on the deposit,rates,insurance, interest on the loan,improvements+interest spent to obtain them+interest deferred (ie if the money spent on the improvements had been invested elsewhere + bank fees+estate agent fees, etc etc blah blah over the life of the loan.
now take into account inflation for the period concerned income lost from other investment opportunities ie term deposits,share market etc
clue here in Australia $1.00 now buys what 0.9cents did at the introduction of decimal currency in 1967.
in my experience they simply wont do it and the conversation moves on this is because subconsciously at least they know that things are not what they seem.
every bank ad i have ever seen is an advertisement for the act of borrowing money seldom is any particular product mentioned usually an attempt is made to appeal to peoples baser instincts
ie show the world your better than joe with an expensive car, house or whatever or a common meme in nz/australia rent is dead money god only knows what in a fractional reserve system interest is supposed to be but paying interest(rent)to a giant landlord(bank) is less offensive to most people than paying rent to someone of most likely similar social class who is trying to get slightly higher up the economic pile.
the tragedy of this is that peoples productive lives are sucked out of them while they attempt to raise a family and enjoy some peace of mind while living in a investment instead of a home.
not saying buying a house is always a bad idea but at least be honest about your motivations and the realities of the situation.
i realise this is a gross simplification of the situation but this is./ after all
hint commercial property investment is carried out for rational reasons by rational people you may care to look there.
check out the lian li 60/61 series elegent,classic design, beautifully made,8 h/drive bays 4 optical,all aluminium,plenty of fans,(mines black but silvers nice)
but does that make it right to use humans as guinea pigs to 'speed up the pace of research'?
if they understand the risks why yes it does.
written as a man whos parents sighned permission 4 him 2 have a ground breaking skin graft in the 70s
skin grafts being a area of fast progress due to napalm at the time.
procedure went very well 4 me(graft still admired by doctors 2 day)
people own their bodies and if i broke my back 2morrow dahm rite id be available for stem cell research some problems dont have a down side risk for the people involved.
just my 2 cents worth
maybe soceitys can be better judged on how they treat the weak rather than how they support the strong? have to be pretty crappy health care before its worse than no access at all.seems fundimentaly mean spirited as well to spend billions on arms and say you cant afford thousands to cure injurys and disease. people run on luck thinking its good managment on their part
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As someone who has witnessed the removal of an article on a mens rights activist and author by a radical feminist and lesbian moderator without a trace of irony or concern about conflict of interest or the evils of censorship I would state that Wikipedia is the finest example of group think and social conformity available in the western world outside of Face book of course!
Fuck Wikipedia
"whenever i'm at the dmv and person after person responds "no" i always want to pipe up and ask them "why?" but it would be horribly out of line. i just can't understand the reasoning."
How about I have Hep C? Not that its any of your business.
"If we "waste" "trillions" reducing our CO2 output over a false alarm, then yes there might be a lot of upset people, of course the alternate bad side is that we don't spend those "trillions" billions of people will likely die from the ecological and economic collapse that will likely trigger the third world war."
Actually they wont be upset they will be dead,food poisoning and dirty water kill a lot of people in the 3rd world and refrigeration will save their lives.
You might be comfortable with throwing them out of the liferaft just to be sure but what if your wrong?
"Informative? Moderators, are you high?"
Oh yeah!
Thus spoke every addict since the begining of time,no offence dude
Amen brother Amen
No1 rule for a happy life,
Dont care about anything more than the person whos problem it is cares about it.
try this (got it off the techreport page)
discsupport@seagate.com
"It's like acting - you have to exaggerate your emoting in order to get the emotional point across to your audience. With the urgency of the problem (i.e. it's starting to happen RIGHT NOW), you need to make huge claims to get people to move just a bit." Trouble is my man is that global warming isn't and shouldn't be an emotional issue,its either true and provable, true but not provable (yet),or false one things for sure emoting has no place in establishing the facts. After all what is acting but lying for fun?
"Oliver Wendell Holmes' quote about "yelling fire in crowded theater" is the most common example of why these rights are not absolute, and rightfully so." well perhaps, this qoute was used to suppress objections to Americans being conscripted to fight in Europe during the first world war. The use of this qoute is perhaps the best reason why these rights SHOULD be absolute.
"When you place an order for food, there is actually a contract. A valid contract requires: offer, acceptance, consideration and assent. Absent some extraordinary situation, the moment the restaurant starts making the food you've ordered, there's a contract. You're obligated to pay. Dine and dash is a sort of breach of contract. It's also conversion." Conversion?I think you mean theft buddy,After you have eaten it i ain't getting it back and frankly i don't want it back! Conversion is depriving me of my goods for a time with no intent to permanently keep them theft is the same but with the intent to permanently deprive me of them. Thus car theft/car conversion joy riding
"Am I the only one that thinks Microsoft's resources would be better spent fixing some of the more serious complaints about Vista?" Probably not but you might want to consider the possibility that if they could be fixed they wouldn't exist?
Mate compared to the time iv wasted rebooting, running and learning about registry cleaners, anti spyware, anti virus, defraging, and the rest? Honestly learning linux has been a pin prick by comparison and i might add interesting, none of the above effort with windows at the time or later seemed like anything except what it was a complete waste of time and effort. Trying to polish a turd achieves nothing except to get crap all over a good rag
Id have to agree never used it, never wanted it, never heard it mentioned by any user of any platform ever. Iv been interested in computers for 30 years. That's marketing folks stupid expensive solutions to non existent problems,however if anyone ever gets it to work could they please notify my bank? ANZ au? If what they are using is state of the art id hate to think what ships with Vista
Well said, I couldn't agree more. If I had moderator points, you'd be getting some. They've managed to turn the US from a bastion of freedom and tolerance into a fascist state before our very eyes. Baby boomers are a blight on society.
In fuel injected engines with modern engine management isn't fuel use more a matter of work done rather than displacement? my current car weighs 1400 kg has a 5.7 litre engine and uses about 10l/100km when driven sensibly ie mostly long trips i use public transport when possible. car is dual fuel petrol/lpg liquid injection despite lpg in Australia being a butane/propane blend mileage and drive ability is excellent on a pare with petrol. I recommend this type of system highly+ emissions of co2 are apparently 20% lower than when using petrol.
Good news is you seem to have worked out a fool proof way of putting the worst man in the drivers seat,i guess its a start
Wanted to swap 100 marketing drones for 1 cranky genius with vision,.....yeah didnt think so. What ever modern marketing is bringing to the masses who ever they might be it certainly isn't "works of genius" poorly conceived solutions to non existent or trivial problems would be more like it. Never mind killing the lawyers lets string up the marketeers while theres still time,before the whole planet looks like the waste taker at the back of a walmart.
Perhaps its worth saying that the Gimp is superior to Photoshop if you have no money!
Amen brother thanks Rob :)
good for you dude! the housing market in most countries is a giant ponzie scheme,fueled by peoples ignorance of inflation and the broken window fallacy ie they dont see , cant imagine what the money they spent on interest would have done for them if they had saved it and invested it in other areas. As some one who has been a landlord in new zealand i can tell you the banks have all the good tenants they pay a $20,000 0r $30,000 security deposit,maintain the property and often improve it for their landlord(the bank)at a loss to them,pay all the expenses attendant on the property pay three or four times at least the value of the property in rent(interest),sign 30 year leases without a second thought in return for being given the property at the end of the lease when the final payment is made(mortgage)and encourage others often at great length to do the same. compare the lot of the small residential landlord whose every interaction with his tenants is coloured by their resentment about paying rent(not based on what they receive for it but the fact they pay it to someone they feel does not deserve it( by the way iv been homeless as a youth rent is shelter its only dead money if you have no objection to being cold smelly scared and interacting with nature on a more intimate level than most people appear to be comfortable with ) just as a pastime ask a proponent of this idea who is telling you that they made x amount on residential property to do a little back of an envelope math add up interest lost on the deposit,rates,insurance, interest on the loan,improvements+interest spent to obtain them+interest deferred (ie if the money spent on the improvements had been invested elsewhere + bank fees+estate agent fees, etc etc blah blah over the life of the loan. now take into account inflation for the period concerned income lost from other investment opportunities ie term deposits,share market etc clue here in Australia $1.00 now buys what 0.9cents did at the introduction of decimal currency in 1967. in my experience they simply wont do it and the conversation moves on this is because subconsciously at least they know that things are not what they seem. every bank ad i have ever seen is an advertisement for the act of borrowing money seldom is any particular product mentioned usually an attempt is made to appeal to peoples baser instincts ie show the world your better than joe with an expensive car, house or whatever or a common meme in nz/australia rent is dead money god only knows what in a fractional reserve system interest is supposed to be but paying interest(rent)to a giant landlord(bank) is less offensive to most people than paying rent to someone of most likely similar social class who is trying to get slightly higher up the economic pile. the tragedy of this is that peoples productive lives are sucked out of them while they attempt to raise a family and enjoy some peace of mind while living in a investment instead of a home. not saying buying a house is always a bad idea but at least be honest about your motivations and the realities of the situation. i realise this is a gross simplification of the situation but this is ./ after all
hint commercial property investment is carried out for rational reasons by rational people you may care to look there.
because we dont want it to happen again?
check out the lian li 60/61 series elegent,classic design, beautifully made,8 h/drive bays 4 optical,all aluminium,plenty of fans,(mines black but silvers nice)
but does that make it right to use humans as guinea pigs to 'speed up the pace of research'? if they understand the risks why yes it does. written as a man whos parents sighned permission 4 him 2 have a ground breaking skin graft in the 70s skin grafts being a area of fast progress due to napalm at the time. procedure went very well 4 me(graft still admired by doctors 2 day) people own their bodies and if i broke my back 2morrow dahm rite id be available for stem cell research some problems dont have a down side risk for the people involved. just my 2 cents worth
re folding maybe because it dosnt seem to run under linux? just a thought
maybe soceitys can be better judged on how they treat the weak rather than how they support the strong? have to be pretty crappy health care before its worse than no access at all.seems fundimentaly mean spirited as well to spend billions on arms and say you cant afford thousands to cure injurys and disease. people run on luck thinking its good managment on their part