With winters getting warmer every year, it's only a matter of time before we are up to our necks in industrially poisoned ocean.
Speak for yourself... I live in the "Great American Desert" namely Nebraska and the closest ocean is probably 900-1000 miles off and about 1500 feet below. But on your behalf Nebraska does sit upon one of the largest unground sea/aquifier in the world and if the water table rose a few hundred feet we might be treading water along with you.
Now I use it to report bad drivers and routinely see people get pulled over by cops cuz of it;-) [after following them around the city...].
And you sir are an ASSHOLE 9-1-1 was meant for actual emergencies; not some buthead that cut you off in traffic. For all other non-emergencies use the local access number for reporting "crimes".
We have stated our position. IIRC it was OVERWHELMINGLY defeated by our congress critters (IMHO deservedly so.) This treaty is just a feeble attempt at making us feel omnimpotent like we can change a complex ecosystem such as the climate.
Someone more wise than me stated that 1 volcanic eruption releases more greenhouse gasses than has ever be attributed to mankind. We are but mere ants upon the scale of the world; what we fsck up mother nature will fix, albeit maybe not to our liking but she will fix it.
To fund the system, a small charge would be paid by the consumer, the bank, or both
Yea right.... the bank will absorb the costs. What's next your going to tell me professional wrestling is real.
What should happen is we have some checks and balances in the system. Right now if you have a blemish on your credit report it takes an act of congress to get something changed the credit agencies only let you change something because the law says they have to; the law doesn't say make it easy. I say change the law to make the "burden of proof" on the corporation not the consumer.
And My opinion is that people that work at your place of employment (hopefully your self-employed) are assholes and morally bankrupt.
Just because you cash a paycheck doesn't mean you fall into the corporate march. Maybe you believe you can a/effect (can't remember which is proper in this context) change by maybe writing better algorithms or even convincing your coworkers to take a stand and just say no to all the rush it out the door. Yea most likely it is the David vs. Goliath battle but hey that is not the worst you could be.... you could be a stockholder DEMANDING more profits no matter what.
You say the Navy still uses sextants in case all power is lost and no land availiable.
What I want to know it is 0300 local time and the weather is dense fog just how in Davy Jones locker is a sextant going to help?
If the tables were turned, and the Canadian government was trolling through American's e-mail accounts, the hue and cry from the south would be deafening. Right now, the only thing deafening is the silence as the American people allow their own government to trample the rights and freedoms that were bought and paid for in one Revolution, 2 World Wars, and countless other military and civil actions.
Please explain.... The 2 World Wars -- the US was doing everything under the sun to stay OUT of; we just wanted to enrich our pockets by selling our goods to the highest bidder. If Japan hadn't messed up Germany's plan, There would be no EU Ya'll would probably know how to speak German.
BTW Can we get the loans we granted to MOST of Europe repaid? Oh I forgot you guys were in trouble and needed help so we forgave the loans.
I do admit we might seem to influence other cultures but it's not like we FORCED you accept McDonalds/Coca Cola/ People saw a money making opportunity and opened a business in a foreign country employing foreign workers taking your hard earned money that you were going to spend on "what"?
I have to agree with you here I live in a Midwestern state where the average income is LOTS more that 2$ a day but where most everything else (exception gas/fuel prices) is comparitivly reasonable.
I do not pay $2000/mo for a nice 3 bedroom house so I can live off of a $40,000 salary rather comfortably, yes I don't eat caviar nor do I drink 40-50 dollar bottles of wine. I also don't have a car payment/credit card bill to take 30-35% of my monthly income either.
It is all about living within your means.... you only have $14 dollars a week coming in your not going to be able to spend $28 dollars a week (unless you're the US Government) without getting into a financial bind.
Please excuse this somewhat off topic idea. I plant Monsanto's corn in my field. You plant Monsanto's corn in your field. Are the starch/sugar content exactly the same? I would tend to say NO but I am not a Bio Engineer. Therefore these crops have other mitigating circumstances that in no logical way can be called "copying a set of genes". The corn you plant today is SIMILIAR to what you planted last year but the starch/sugar content along with the shape of the kernel can be Vastly different from the "finished" content. To me; a layman it's similiar to the difference between Linux, OSX , and Windows they all are Operating sytems but they get to the final results very differently.
Having been involved in the process for the TWIC card, I can tell you that security experts are involved. I can also tell you that a well-designed smart card based ID system is much harder to crack than the exisiting government ID badges
And I believe that a few Franklins covertly given to the person can also be used for an almost complete verification.
I have a huge problem giving up my SS# which when I was in the military was also one of the 3 things I had to disclose to an enemy... name,rank serial # which also happened to be my SS#. A smart enemy [wc]ould store that information to defeat the opponents when that information is used to open bank accounts,home mortages,rolexes,or penis enlargent pills.
My military service required a Confidential Security Clearance therefore having being investigated by the FBI I "really" had no problems with my fingerprints being put into the national database along with my military information but today when any 11 year kid with a script kit can access that info all of a sudden my information can't be trusted to be only viewed by people with similiar Security Clearances but also by the geek that lives in his parents basement who has an uber elite group of friends that could make EVERYONES life miserable.
Identifying someone by an "Universal" number/RFID/National Identity card is akin to drawing a bullseye on the back of my neck so some asshole knows that I am important enough to have a connection with the government.
If I was a "terrorist" I would attack the infrastructure of a nation that I wanted to defeat. That is a helluva lot easier than attacking the military (which is trained to handle that kind of situation).
People need to realize that if our railroads could be attacked your next trip down to the 7-11 might end up with shelves being empty.
Yes I am dreaming a bit here but so was Tom Clancy when he described a 9/11 attack about 5 years earlier.
Stupid people need to be protected from themselves, and from the rest of us when there pc becomes infected with a trojan and becomes a spam bot because they use IE.....
And you are an authority on stupid people?
It is people like you that force manufactures to the extra expense of labeling their product with IDIOTIC sayings like coffe is hot, using this electric product in the bathtub is a bad idea. Darwin was right let Nature take care of natural selection.
Frankly, who gives a rip? If someone wants to run IE, let em. Some people still smoke too despite all the evidence of health problems, huge cost, etc. You can't cure stupidity.
Yes you can cure stupidity.... it is called education. Educate your users, in the early days of the internet; people typed in capital letters and the community made that a cardinal sin by saying you were shouting. It can be done but it is something that will be a challenge for someone that has little patience.
If you even convert one person to FF over IE you have made your and their lives easier.
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With winters getting warmer every year, it's only a matter of time before we are up to our necks in industrially poisoned ocean. ... I live in the "Great American Desert" namely Nebraska and the closest ocean is probably 900-1000 miles off and about 1500 feet below. But on your behalf Nebraska does sit upon one of the largest unground sea/aquifier in the world and if the water table rose a few hundred feet we might be treading water along with you.
Speak for yourself
Now I use it to report bad drivers and routinely see people get pulled over by cops cuz of it ;-) [after following them around the city...].
And you sir are an ASSHOLE 9-1-1 was meant for actual emergencies; not some buthead that cut you off in traffic. For all other non-emergencies use the local access number for reporting "crimes".
We have stated our position. IIRC it was OVERWHELMINGLY defeated by our congress critters (IMHO deservedly so.) This treaty is just a feeble attempt at making us feel omnimpotent like we can change a complex ecosystem such as the climate. Someone more wise than me stated that 1 volcanic eruption releases more greenhouse gasses than has ever be attributed to mankind. We are but mere ants upon the scale of the world; what we fsck up mother nature will fix, albeit maybe not to our liking but she will fix it.
To fund the system, a small charge would be paid by the consumer, the bank, or both Yea right.... the bank will absorb the costs. What's next your going to tell me professional wrestling is real. What should happen is we have some checks and balances in the system. Right now if you have a blemish on your credit report it takes an act of congress to get something changed the credit agencies only let you change something because the law says they have to; the law doesn't say make it easy. I say change the law to make the "burden of proof" on the corporation not the consumer.
And My opinion is that people that work at your place of employment (hopefully your self-employed) are assholes and morally bankrupt. Just because you cash a paycheck doesn't mean you fall into the corporate march. Maybe you believe you can a/effect (can't remember which is proper in this context) change by maybe writing better algorithms or even convincing your coworkers to take a stand and just say no to all the rush it out the door. Yea most likely it is the David vs. Goliath battle but hey that is not the worst you could be.... you could be a stockholder DEMANDING more profits no matter what.
You say the Navy still uses sextants in case all power is lost and no land availiable. What I want to know it is 0300 local time and the weather is dense fog just how in Davy Jones locker is a sextant going to help?
Hmm how about third worlders now have a chance to earn money and gain computer skills while participating in recreational activities.
Hmmmm as your quote described "gain computer skills" pray tell me how clicking on a do you want to kill something button is considered computer skill?
That is what is wrong today with computers.... someone that knows how to click on a dialog box is considered an "elite" computer user.
If the tables were turned, and the Canadian government was trolling through American's e-mail accounts, the hue and cry from the south would be deafening. Right now, the only thing deafening is the silence as the American people allow their own government to trample the rights and freedoms that were bought and paid for in one Revolution, 2 World Wars, and countless other military and civil actions. Please explain.... The 2 World Wars -- the US was doing everything under the sun to stay OUT of; we just wanted to enrich our pockets by selling our goods to the highest bidder. If Japan hadn't messed up Germany's plan, There would be no EU Ya'll would probably know how to speak German. BTW Can we get the loans we granted to MOST of Europe repaid? Oh I forgot you guys were in trouble and needed help so we forgave the loans. I do admit we might seem to influence other cultures but it's not like we FORCED you accept McDonalds/Coca Cola/ People saw a money making opportunity and opened a business in a foreign country employing foreign workers taking your hard earned money that you were going to spend on "what"?
I have to agree with you here I live in a Midwestern state where the average income is LOTS more that 2$ a day but where most everything else (exception gas/fuel prices) is comparitivly reasonable. I do not pay $2000/mo for a nice 3 bedroom house so I can live off of a $40,000 salary rather comfortably, yes I don't eat caviar nor do I drink 40-50 dollar bottles of wine. I also don't have a car payment/credit card bill to take 30-35% of my monthly income either. It is all about living within your means.... you only have $14 dollars a week coming in your not going to be able to spend $28 dollars a week (unless you're the US Government) without getting into a financial bind.
Please excuse this somewhat off topic idea. I plant Monsanto's corn in my field. You plant Monsanto's corn in your field. Are the starch/sugar content exactly the same? I would tend to say NO but I am not a Bio Engineer. Therefore these crops have other mitigating circumstances that in no logical way can be called "copying a set of genes". The corn you plant today is SIMILIAR to what you planted last year but the starch/sugar content along with the shape of the kernel can be Vastly different from the "finished" content. To me; a layman it's similiar to the difference between Linux, OSX , and Windows they all are Operating sytems but they get to the final results very differently.
Having been involved in the process for the TWIC card, I can tell you that security experts are involved. I can also tell you that a well-designed smart card based ID system is much harder to crack than the exisiting government ID badges And I believe that a few Franklins covertly given to the person can also be used for an almost complete verification.
I have a huge problem giving up my SS# which when I was in the military was also one of the 3 things I had to disclose to an enemy... name,rank serial # which also happened to be my SS#. A smart enemy [wc]ould store that information to defeat the opponents when that information is used to open bank accounts,home mortages,rolexes,or penis enlargent pills. My military service required a Confidential Security Clearance therefore having being investigated by the FBI I "really" had no problems with my fingerprints being put into the national database along with my military information but today when any 11 year kid with a script kit can access that info all of a sudden my information can't be trusted to be only viewed by people with similiar Security Clearances but also by the geek that lives in his parents basement who has an uber elite group of friends that could make EVERYONES life miserable. Identifying someone by an "Universal" number/RFID/National Identity card is akin to drawing a bullseye on the back of my neck so some asshole knows that I am important enough to have a connection with the government. If I was a "terrorist" I would attack the infrastructure of a nation that I wanted to defeat. That is a helluva lot easier than attacking the military (which is trained to handle that kind of situation). People need to realize that if our railroads could be attacked your next trip down to the 7-11 might end up with shelves being empty. Yes I am dreaming a bit here but so was Tom Clancy when he described a 9/11 attack about 5 years earlier.
Stupid people need to be protected from themselves, and from the rest of us when there pc becomes infected with a trojan and becomes a spam bot because they use IE..... And you are an authority on stupid people? It is people like you that force manufactures to the extra expense of labeling their product with IDIOTIC sayings like coffe is hot, using this electric product in the bathtub is a bad idea. Darwin was right let Nature take care of natural selection.
Frankly, who gives a rip? If someone wants to run IE, let em. Some people still smoke too despite all the evidence of health problems, huge cost, etc. You can't cure stupidity. Yes you can cure stupidity.... it is called education. Educate your users, in the early days of the internet; people typed in capital letters and the community made that a cardinal sin by saying you were shouting. It can be done but it is something that will be a challenge for someone that has little patience. If you even convert one person to FF over IE you have made your and their lives easier.