"The First Amendment was a dead letter until the 1940s-1950s."
Back to history class for you and those that modded you up. Benjamin Franklin and our other Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves at your words.
"As someone who has moved to the US only about four years ago, I can say that it still is a great country. There is still the possibility to fix the government's wrongdoings - and there are really great people here in the US."
As someone that's been here for 31 years - take off your blinders already. You're sorely misinformed about the reality of this nation.
Border Patrol/DHS can legally stop and harass you within 100 miles of the country border, search you without warrant, etc. Guess where Arizona falls in line? Almost the entirety of the state.
Ain't no 'border' to protect, they're just moving everything inland to begin racial profiling and furtherance of the prison-industrial complex (like Mississippi has already done and has been doing since the mid-90s.)
"We came up with the modern national park (Yosemite was the first)"
Wrong. Royal Park in Australia with Yellowstone happening a few months afterwards. Source: I'm a former Parks and Recreations Ranger (18 months service.)
"we have a great deal of ecological and geographic diversity"
Only in the areas you don't really want to live in, excepting a few parts of California, Arizona, Texas, and most of the Appalachian mountain range.
"some lovely people."
SOME is the key word here.
"We have some fantastic cultural things"
Almost every last one a bastardization of things from other cultures, right down to the current form of Christianity.
"It's a shame that our government is working overtime to make our beautiful country such an unwelcoming place to everyone else."
It's an equal shame that you espouse the benefits of America while you sit on your ass and do nothing to change the government or force it into submission.
"Sorry; hopefully we'll come to our senses soon enough."
"Did you read what I said? I didn't advocate the UK as a better place, but as a convenient place to get EU citizenship to go to other countries in the EU that are better. "
You could've picked a whole fucking other better country. Like Germany, or Norway.
"I used to travel to the UK quite regularly. I will probably never return, now"
Nor will I. My 'investor' tried to blackball my name in Australia over a couple thousand dollars (of which I still fully intend to repay once these lawsuits are over with.)
Not only do you not get privacy, but assholes over there will flat-out lie about what you've done in order to get business you created diverted over to them.
Plus their banksters are more corrupt than the USA banksters.
Only thing I'd go back to the UK for is to fuck a couple of cute bois and a few slutty girls I met while in Eton/Dorney.
Also - there are arcades that will convert tokens back to traditional currency, and they do it legally. That's my big point. I've played in plenty of them back in the 80s and 90s.
" The judge found that since Bitcoins may be used to purchase goods and services, and more importantly, can be converted to conventional currencies, it is a form of currency"
And while many places do not re-convert into traditional currencies, there are some that do very similar things (such as getting more tokens from a chance machine at an arcade, which is a payout of a good and service.)
So what the fuck makes this any different than those? They function pretty much 100% identically.
As the saying goes and still holds true, if you can't do it, do it in Java/Javascript.
Including critical security vulnerabilities like that, which you wouldn't get in ASM or C/C+/C++/C#/#! without being a complete fucking idiot even BEFORE Java.
"The fact is, the fruit that we know as oranges didn't exists without genetic modification by man."
Your fact is bullshit. The oranges we have were found in nature, and those particular traits carried on via cloning and creating a monoculture. No genetic modification done at all.
Go take a trip to the ORIGINAL parent Navel Orange trees at the corner of Arlington and Magnolia in Riverside, California. Yet again, more plaques describe the finding of these in South America, being shipped up to Washington, then brought down to California.
Now, that's not to say some new cultivars are not genetically modified. We've got oranges with pomegranate genes inserted so they produce a red fruit similar to a blood orange but with more of the vitamin content you'd find from a pomegranate. But the fact of the matter is, the navel orange is not a GMO. The valencia orange is a hybrid, simply created via cross-breeding. Emerald oranges are native to Thailand. India has its own natural and sweet orange crop. Not many commercially-available cultivars are GMO, at all.
Bet you there's plenty of wild citrus that is immune to this, given it's guaranteed to have wildly different DNA versus the mono-culture cloning of the same plant over and over again.
Actually, this is the word of a former Apple employee with direct ties to their manufacturing lines which still exist today and still produce Apple hardware.
Try again when you even know the person you're talking about.
Above me is the perfect example of an idiot that got hit by the Reality Distortion Field. Also the perfect example of an idiot (claiming BOFH status in their name, no less) that obviously doesn't work on the manufacturing end of things.
Come back when you have Intel and AMD knocking on your door for your LED cooling solutions, which they want retrofitted for their products.
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"The First Amendment was a dead letter until the 1940s-1950s."
Back to history class for you and those that modded you up. Benjamin Franklin and our other Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves at your words.
"As someone who has moved to the US only about four years ago, I can say that it still is a great country. There is still the possibility to fix the government's wrongdoings - and there are really great people here in the US."
As someone that's been here for 31 years - take off your blinders already. You're sorely misinformed about the reality of this nation.
Border Patrol/DHS can legally stop and harass you within 100 miles of the country border, search you without warrant, etc. Guess where Arizona falls in line? Almost the entirety of the state.
Ain't no 'border' to protect, they're just moving everything inland to begin racial profiling and furtherance of the prison-industrial complex (like Mississippi has already done and has been doing since the mid-90s.)
"We came up with the modern national park (Yosemite was the first)"
Wrong. Royal Park in Australia with Yellowstone happening a few months afterwards. Source: I'm a former Parks and Recreations Ranger (18 months service.)
"we have a great deal of ecological and geographic diversity"
Only in the areas you don't really want to live in, excepting a few parts of California, Arizona, Texas, and most of the Appalachian mountain range.
"some lovely people."
SOME is the key word here.
"We have some fantastic cultural things"
Almost every last one a bastardization of things from other cultures, right down to the current form of Christianity.
"It's a shame that our government is working overtime to make our beautiful country such an unwelcoming place to everyone else."
It's an equal shame that you espouse the benefits of America while you sit on your ass and do nothing to change the government or force it into submission.
"Sorry; hopefully we'll come to our senses soon enough."
You should speak for yourself, first, Sir.
"Did you read what I said? I didn't advocate the UK as a better place, but as a convenient place to get EU citizenship to go to other countries in the EU that are better. "
You could've picked a whole fucking other better country. Like Germany, or Norway.
"I used to travel to the UK quite regularly. I will probably never return, now"
Nor will I. My 'investor' tried to blackball my name in Australia over a couple thousand dollars (of which I still fully intend to repay once these lawsuits are over with.)
Not only do you not get privacy, but assholes over there will flat-out lie about what you've done in order to get business you created diverted over to them.
Plus their banksters are more corrupt than the USA banksters.
Only thing I'd go back to the UK for is to fuck a couple of cute bois and a few slutty girls I met while in Eton/Dorney.
"At retail, an 8GB DIMM with no exceptional features is ~$60."
I see them for much lower than that on pricewatch. Knock 30% off your price.
Maybe they're going for out of the box comparisons?
Durrrrrr.
Also - there are arcades that will convert tokens back to traditional currency, and they do it legally. That's my big point. I've played in plenty of them back in the 80s and 90s.
" The judge found that since Bitcoins may be used to purchase goods and services, and more importantly, can be converted to conventional currencies, it is a form of currency"
And while many places do not re-convert into traditional currencies, there are some that do very similar things (such as getting more tokens from a chance machine at an arcade, which is a payout of a good and service.)
So what the fuck makes this any different than those? They function pretty much 100% identically.
I have proof of the gov't trying to get me charged with extortion. Now I have proof from the headers to show my case.
Quit believing them, because you're gonna get fucked by them. You need to fight them back and my own case is a matter of supposed 'national security'
Thankfully I don't follow half of their unconstitutional instructions.
You trust the gov't, you're next in line to fall.
Get your logic circuits set right, slashdotters.
Want to see my proof? I'll hand it out, even thought the gov't says not to because it endangers national security.
So do you want it? It's embarassingly simple shit to - just a forged email header.
Given the design of most ships, would it not make more sense to align them sideways/perpendicular to their travel path to clear the way?
I mean we're at LEAST looking at a 1:3 ratio of dimensions, here.
Take your goddamned userbase and leverage it, assholes.
Force either 16:9, 4:3, 3:2, or 16:10, or tell them to go fuck themselves with a rubber hose.
If you can't do that then you're not worth the tax money and donations we send your fucking way.
Especially how much they and the supreme court got paid to allow this obvious violation of checks and balances in concert to occur.
Watch this be a matter of national security.
Bet none of you have the balls to ask now that I've posed the issue.
Watch the administration run over your sorry asses because you won't fight.
Fucking cowards.
And this surprises anybody, how?
As the saying goes and still holds true, if you can't do it, do it in Java/Javascript.
Including critical security vulnerabilities like that, which you wouldn't get in ASM or C/C+/C++/C#/#! without being a complete fucking idiot even BEFORE Java.
Fucking idiots.
To save face, none of you people know shit about what I'm talking about.
Quit thinking you know shit, assholes.
you're getting fooled via numerical proof
quit talking shit about that which you know nothing about.
Virgin detected.
No, in this case the hybridization was done by grafting, not genetic modification. Again, you know NOTHING.
" If there were a wild citrus species which was immune, they'd be mining it for genes."
Not necessarily. It'd cost a huge fortune to mount a global hunt for wild species with immunity. Cheaper to try to engineer it yourself.
Source: Research director for multinational horticultural corporation.
"The fact is, the fruit that we know as oranges didn't exists without genetic modification by man."
Your fact is bullshit. The oranges we have were found in nature, and those particular traits carried on via cloning and creating a monoculture. No genetic modification done at all.
Go take a trip to the ORIGINAL parent Navel Orange trees at the corner of Arlington and Magnolia in Riverside, California. Yet again, more plaques describe the finding of these in South America, being shipped up to Washington, then brought down to California.
Now, that's not to say some new cultivars are not genetically modified. We've got oranges with pomegranate genes inserted so they produce a red fruit similar to a blood orange but with more of the vitamin content you'd find from a pomegranate. But the fact of the matter is, the navel orange is not a GMO. The valencia orange is a hybrid, simply created via cross-breeding. Emerald oranges are native to Thailand. India has its own natural and sweet orange crop. Not many commercially-available cultivars are GMO, at all.
Key word: CULTIVATED.
Bet you there's plenty of wild citrus that is immune to this, given it's guaranteed to have wildly different DNA versus the mono-culture cloning of the same plant over and over again.
Wrong.
Go take yourself a trip to the Citrus State Park in Riverside, California, and go learn about the history of the orange, which came from Brazil.
This is why I'm glad I drive an older car that doesn't rely upon so much electronic crap.
I don't have to worry about the extra electronic crap failing on top of mechanical failures. I only have to worry about mechanical failures.
Sheer stupidity all in the name of making everything electronic-controlled, and 'accessible.'
Actually, this is the word of a former Apple employee with direct ties to their manufacturing lines which still exist today and still produce Apple hardware.
Try again when you even know the person you're talking about.
Above me is the perfect example of an idiot that got hit by the Reality Distortion Field. Also the perfect example of an idiot (claiming BOFH status in their name, no less) that obviously doesn't work on the manufacturing end of things.
Come back when you have Intel and AMD knocking on your door for your LED cooling solutions, which they want retrofitted for their products.