Stop calling football "soccer", and start calling the sport that you guys play but no-one else does "American football", which is a far more accurate term for it.
You have to face it on this one - both history and worldwide usage are not on your side.:-)
Perhaps.. but your missing one key important detail about America here.... We ARE NUMBER 1!!! WE ARE NUMBER 1!!! WE ARE NUMBER 1!!!
I agree with a previous poster who is upset for dissing on wal-mart.. Wal-Mart is a wonderful store.
I mean they offer dirt cheap prices!
The most important part thoe is when you walk into a wal-mart you are greeted by a 90 year old guy on oxygen and with a walker that says "welcome to walmart can i help you?" in some crazy i'm about to die voice and of course your like no no no its ok thanks anway and quickly walk away so you won't get whatever he has:)
Now you tell me, who else is gonna give that man a job? NO ONE thats right.. not small local businesses either.. go wal-mart! helping the people who can't walk or breathe one store at a time!!
I can't even give away the naked group photo of the slashdot editors...
I think it costs me money instead of being valuable.. each time I: mv slasheditorsnaked.jpg to a different folder, i can never copy anything there again...
OK I'm really confused now.. I got this email from the post above I placed saying someone has give modded me up +1. So i go back to look at all the comments and choose to read at level 3 to see my post easier.. Gee at the time now(10 mins after i got the email) there are no level 3 posts..
Ok i'm thinkin i'll go to my preferences & see how/why it was modded back down. Well I go there and there is nothing listed for that comment as rated +1 interesting as the email tells me or anything bringing it back down to 2.
So what gives? Are the slashdot editors lowering comments they don't like or approve of?
heres the email headers below.. and i still haven't got any email sayin I was modded back down.. Seriously what gives here?
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"Theft of cable TV costs the industry an estimated $6 billion a year, according to the National Cable Television Association."
So they are suing them for 170,000 each.. at that rate there is only roughly a little more then 35,000 people in the US stealing cable. Doesn't seem like very many people to be worried about.. and thats spread out across the whole US.. wonder if those stats include Sat Theft too?
What they should really do to win independence is the following:
Eliminate all free software, Give every citizen pirated copies of Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP plus a plethora of other programs as well.
MS & other big companies freak out over the rampant copyright violations and potential lost revenue and calculate that Taiwan owes them 500 billion dollars or so in license fees!
In light of this CHINA decides it doesn't want that headache of a bill when they re-unify and drops demands for unification of the two countrys(province & country what ever) and now taiwan is free to be their own country(and in trouble with all those licenses they now own)..
Of Course if they proceed to support open source software, china will notice how many good programs and programmers they are turning out and will want to re-unify faster and take the island by force..
I have been paying $3 a month for 50 months (so far) to "rent" a set-top cable descrambler, that probably cost the cable company $20 in bulk. Also, I pay $1.35 "remote control rental" for the remote for that box... $65 so far. Why? "Because it is part of the cost of service."
Then sir! yer an idiot! what you describe is subsidizing stuff for your self... what they are doing now is making people who have there own modem subsidize people who don't... thats whats wrong about it!
you say: This involves them doing the standard, is your modem turned on, is it working, is the green light flashing.... you don't have a green light, oh its your own modem, so how do you tell if thats working ?
You do realize the people that they have working the "LEVEL 1" call centers are complete morons right? They are probably over-qualified if they are taken from the welfare to jobs progams. You'd think if you explain to a level one tech that yes your compitent and you've already done some basic check troubleshooting(like being able to ping the local edge router for example, but nothing else) would make it so that you dunt have to listen to them say: ok go the left corner of your screen and hit the start button with one click of your mouse, now go to control panels and click once... and etc etc etc...
If anything they want everyone to use the same modem so they're dumb ass level 1 techs have a slim to none chance of ever helping someone out.. I really do hope those people don't make more then minimum wage too!
2 weeks ago with comcast there was an outage in our area(could ping the routers) and i had to go through all that, and after much pain i asked the level 1 dweeb to try and ping my assigned IP. She/He/It said that her/his/its ping program was not working and could not verify it for me. I asked if he/she/it could then ping from the command line on his/her/its desktop and they had no idea what i was talking about!!!! So then i asked to be passed off to the next level tech so i could talk to someone who might be able to help me or i could realisticly explain my problem too. but the the DUMB ASS LEVEL 1 tech said he/she/it could not transfer to a higher level tech until she diaganosed my problem.
So I then mentioned that she/he/it was unable to diagnose my problem(in their eyes) cuz there ping tool was down and they should transfer as a result of that, but no they said! because of that i'd have to wait until thier network came back up and they could test & they said they would not know when that would be and just to try and call back through out the day...
::sigh:: ok i hope they make less then minimum wage!
from the article "Customers who lease their modem from AT&T will have their lease fee reduced by $7, paying an additional $3 per month for the modem."
And the customers that own their own modem are having they're bill increased by 7 dollars.... So essentially by owning your own modem, your now helping to subsidize the cost of users who don't want to buy their own modem but lease it.. That seems very wrong to me, hell completely wrong.. why should I have to pay 7 dollars to have my own modem as opposed to 3 dollars to rent it? I smell some lawsuits here..
Today it was announced Stallman is boycotting linuxtoday.com until it changes its name to the "correct" gnulinuxtoday.com and now recoomends everyone use Windows in protest until this change is made across the GNU/Linux world!
Black people being 3/5 of a person had nothing to do with whether they are human or not, it was for population statistics, which had only to do with representation in Congress.
NO but it does have to do with the founding fathers not being as forward thinkers as most people liked. it was for population for the census to decide how many reps came from each state. And they were not citizens.. they were property. and they where no considered humans back then.. property.. you could kill one, and then you had to pay the owner compensation, but you would not go to jail.. so it just validates my point
and you sir need to read history, for you are the apparent moron.. it can be fixed thoe.. go read
I don't understand people who claim that humanity doesn't need some form of mass control. Without a system of laws, morals, and controls we would have anarchy.
Religion is a forced(look at history and most places in world today) form of mass control. Laws, Morals don't need to be contrived from somthing like that.(USSR being one very bad example, still forced, but not religious(glorification of their leaders aside)).
So you think withour Religion we would have Anarchy? I think without religion we would have had a lot less wars in the past 5000 years..
Obviously I am not going to convince you that God exists,
and thats why the soviet union did so well.. they were experts of free thought.
Yes and that was the first failed nation huh? You point out one attempt, and they also sough to exterminate all religion..did i once say do that? people can belive what they like as long as they dunt put it on me.. I think Communism was a little different in case you haven't noticed.
of course america never had an ounce of innovation or free thought, because our founding fathers were too religious..
Your right! lets make black people 3/5 of a person! all are founding fathers were not total religious zealots.. in fact if you know anything about it most of them saw a need from seperation of church and state.. or did you forget why a lot of euro's came over here in the first place? Ever here of Quakers?
its good to think before making such generic, unsubstantiated statements like that.
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Stop calling football "soccer", and start calling the sport that you guys play but no-one else does "American football", which is a far more accurate term for it.
:-)
You have to face it on this one - both history and worldwide usage are not on your side.
Perhaps.. but your missing one key important detail about America here.... We ARE NUMBER 1!!! WE ARE NUMBER 1!!! WE ARE NUMBER 1!!!
To be honest, does one fire in one cybercafe really justify the closure of all such establishments?
:)
No of course not! It justifies the closure of the entire internet for safety reasons however! please unplug your computer now
--see thats a joke people.. humor.. itz a good thing..
I agree with a previous poster who is upset for dissing on wal-mart.. Wal-Mart is a wonderful store.
I mean they offer dirt cheap prices!
The most important part thoe is when you walk into a wal-mart you are greeted by a 90 year old guy on oxygen and with a walker that says "welcome to walmart can i help you?" in some crazy i'm about to die voice and of course your like no no no its ok thanks anway and quickly walk away so you won't get whatever he has
Now you tell me, who else is gonna give that man a job? NO ONE thats right.. not small local businesses either.. go wal-mart! helping the people who can't walk or breathe one store at a time!!
WEll Hell on the other end of the scale...
I can't even give away the naked group photo of the slashdot editors...
I think it costs me money instead of being valuable.. each time I: mv slasheditorsnaked.jpg to a different folder, i can never copy anything there again...
And now i've gotten 2nd email saying its +1 again.. lets see if that one sticks or magically dissapears like the first
OK I'm really confused now.. I got this email from the post above I placed saying someone has give modded me up +1. So i go back to look at all the comments and choose to read at level 3 to see my post easier.. Gee at the time now(10 mins after i got the email) there are no level 3 posts..
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Ok i'm thinkin i'll go to my preferences & see how/why it was modded back down. Well I go there and there is nothing listed for that comment as rated +1 interesting as the email tells me or anything bringing it back down to 2.
So what gives? Are the slashdot editors lowering comments they don't like or approve of?
heres the email headers below.. and i still haven't got any email sayin I was modded back down.. Seriously what gives here?
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from the comcast article
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/10/00222
Your comment is currently scored 3.
"Theft of cable TV costs the industry an estimated $6 billion a year, according to the National Cable Television Association."
So they are suing them for 170,000 each.. at that rate there is only roughly a little more then 35,000 people in the US stealing cable. Doesn't seem like very many people to be worried about.. and thats spread out across the whole US.. wonder if those stats include Sat Theft too?
What they should really do to win independence is the following:
Eliminate all free software, Give every citizen pirated copies of Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP plus a plethora of other programs as well.
MS & other big companies freak out over the rampant copyright violations and potential lost revenue and calculate that Taiwan owes them 500 billion dollars or so in license fees!
In light of this CHINA decides it doesn't want that headache of a bill when they re-unify and drops demands for unification of the two countrys(province & country what ever) and now taiwan is free to be their own country(and in trouble with all those licenses they now own)..
Of Course if they proceed to support open source software, china will notice how many good programs and programmers they are turning out and will want to re-unify faster and take the island by force..
See how this can work out only for the worst?
:)
Actually, My brother works for a local Cable-provider, and they make 10-13 dollars an hour.
If he works in level 1 tech support he is WAY overpaid!
I have been paying $3 a month for 50 months (so far) to "rent" a set-top cable descrambler, that probably cost the cable company $20 in bulk. Also, I pay $1.35 "remote control rental" for the remote for that box... $65 so far. Why? "Because it is part of the cost of service."
Then sir! yer an idiot! what you describe is subsidizing stuff for your self... what they are doing now is making people who have there own modem subsidize people who don't... thats whats wrong about it!
you say: This involves them doing the standard, is your modem turned on, is it working, is the green light flashing.... you don't have a green light, oh its your own modem, so how do you tell if thats working ?
You do realize the people that they have working the "LEVEL 1" call centers are complete morons right? They are probably over-qualified if they are taken from the welfare to jobs progams. You'd think if you explain to a level one tech that yes your compitent and you've already done some basic check troubleshooting(like being able to ping the local edge router for example, but nothing else) would make it so that you dunt have to listen to them say: ok go the left corner of your screen and hit the start button with one click of your mouse, now go to control panels and click once... and etc etc etc...
If anything they want everyone to use the same modem so they're dumb ass level 1 techs have a slim to none chance of ever helping someone out.. I really do hope those people don't make more then minimum wage too!
2 weeks ago with comcast there was an outage in our area(could ping the routers) and i had to go through all that, and after much pain i asked the level 1 dweeb to try and ping my assigned IP. She/He/It said that her/his/its ping program was not working and could not verify it for me. I asked if he/she/it could then ping from the command line on his/her/its desktop and they had no idea what i was talking about!!!!
So then i asked to be passed off to the next level tech so i could talk to someone who might be able to help me or i could realisticly explain my problem too. but the the DUMB ASS LEVEL 1 tech said he/she/it could not transfer to a higher level tech until she diaganosed my problem.
So I then mentioned that she/he/it was unable to diagnose my problem(in their eyes) cuz there ping tool was down and they should transfer as a result of that, but no they said! because of that i'd have to wait until thier network came back up and they could test & they said they would not know when that would be and just to try and call back through out the day...
::sigh:: ok i hope they make less then minimum wage!
from the article "Customers who lease their modem from AT&T will have their lease fee reduced by $7, paying an additional $3 per month for the modem."
And the customers that own their own modem are having they're bill increased by 7 dollars.... So essentially by owning your own modem, your now helping to subsidize the cost of users who don't want to buy their own modem but lease it.. That seems very wrong to me, hell completely wrong.. why should I have to pay 7 dollars to have my own modem as opposed to 3 dollars to rent it? I smell some lawsuits here..
Glad I have Comcast Cable modem here in PA..
Why All Americans of course!
:)
We're #1 !!!!!!
we're #1 !!!!!!!!!!!
yeah its a flame-bait
but a funny-underrated-flamebait
Did i mention we're #1?
I just gotta ask: Does it involve sheep somehow?
:)
How long can silent electronics last in space?"
If there is no one there to listen to it, is it really silent? Ahhhhhh
It seems that in addition to labs1
there is also labs.google.com
labs2.google.com
labs3.google.com
labs front page works(right now) the rest don't, and links off of labs, try to go to labs1 and crash and burn...
I put in: Slashdot & penis and it bombed!!
:)
Great! So how long before we discover FAQ's format have actually been granted a Patent by the USPO to some lucky individual out there ;)
Today it was announced Stallman is boycotting linuxtoday.com until it changes its name to the "correct" gnulinuxtoday.com and now recoomends everyone use Windows in protest until this change is made across the GNU/Linux world!
:) someone's gotta do it ;)
So hes complaining(possibly rightly, thats a whole other issue) that its not called GNU/Linux and declines to speak to groups not using that...
But the article he writes in response is posted on a site called linuxworld.com and not gnulinuxworld.com
I find that amusing..
You, sir, are a moron.
:)
thanks i've been told that a few times before
Black people being 3/5 of a person had nothing to do with whether they are human or not, it was for population statistics, which had only to do with representation in Congress.
NO but it does have to do with the founding fathers not being as forward thinkers as most people liked. it was for population for the census to decide how many reps came from each state. And they were not citizens.. they were property. and they where no considered humans back then.. property.. you could kill one, and then you had to pay the owner compensation, but you would not go to jail.. so it just validates my point
and you sir need to read history, for you are the apparent moron.. it can be fixed thoe.. go read
Its not uber-hackers!!!
IT's PHREAKERS
Why can't anyone figure this out correctly?
I don't understand people who claim that humanity doesn't need some form of mass control. Without a system of laws, morals, and controls we would have anarchy.
:) because he doesn't exist.
Religion is a forced(look at history and most places in world today) form of mass control. Laws, Morals don't need to be contrived from somthing like that.(USSR being one very bad example, still forced, but not religious(glorification of their leaders aside)).
So you think withour Religion we would have Anarchy? I think without religion we would have had a lot less wars in the past 5000 years..
Obviously I am not going to convince you that God exists,
your right
and thats why the soviet union did so well.. they were experts of free thought.
:)
Yes and that was the first failed nation huh? You point out one attempt, and they also sough to exterminate all religion..did i once say do that? people can belive what they like as long as they dunt put it on me.. I think Communism was a little different in case you haven't noticed.
of course america never had an ounce of innovation or free thought, because our founding fathers were too religious..
Your right! lets make black people 3/5 of a person! all are founding fathers were not total religious zealots.. in fact if you know anything about it most of them saw a need from seperation of church and state.. or did you forget why a lot of euro's came over here in the first place? Ever here of Quakers?
its good to think before making such generic, unsubstantiated statements like that.
Look at your own