First of all, stop being pedantic. Second, the statement "FAA forbids the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles over crowded areas" is begging the question. It is basically saying "X should be regulated, because X is forbidden." If that isn't assuming the initial point (petitio principii), I don't know what is.
I know, lets get the House to pass a bill that declares raping puppies illegal, and defunds Obamacare. Then when the senate rejects it, we can say they love to rape puppies!
Or, they are desparately trying to avoid hurting the people. Obamacare has already cost people with cuts in hours, lost coverage, and hiring freezes.
Clearly the Republicans are just trying to protect the middle class by shutting down the government, which will in turn cost a few hundred thousand Americans their paycheck for the foreseeable future. It's not like taking a billion dollars out of people's pockets every week will have any negative consequences on the wider economy. There won't be any cuts in wages or hours, and company hiring policies will blossom due to the uncertainty!
Why do I feel the urge to end this post with "U R HOMO. Ron Paul 2012!"??
Except that "ultraconservatives" aren't using this as a justification for rape? Nor do they have the backing of the state government when they say it?
It might not be rape, but using bullshit physiological explanations as justification for requiring a trans-vaginal ultrasound before abortion is pretty heinous. I guess they want to make government so small it can fit in a woman's uterus.
I know, let's have medicare stop paying for anesthesia when they go in to get their colonoscopy. Maybe then they'd sing a different tune.
I wouldn't mind them enforcing laws I don't like, as long as they were enforcing other laws, too. Did you know most jurisdictions have laws against following too closely? When is the last time somebody's gotten a ticket for that who didn't actually get in a wreck?
How about they follow the laws they are enforcing? I can't count the times I've seen a cop fiddling with his dash-mounted computer while driving. Or following too closely. Or not wearing a seatbelt. Or speeding. I once saw one doing all four of these at the same time!
Back on topic. I got really mad at my wife just the other day for checking her email at a red light. My argument is that if there's an emergency vehicle approaching the intersection, you will be less likely to notice. You will also be less likely to check for pedestrians or other vehicles when the light turns green.
And to the lady who was "just using her GPS" that's the same as reading a map. If you need to do it, pull over, set what you need to set, then get back on the road. It's not that hard to do, and you're not in that big of a hurry.
Nope. That's just an option so they can text you your password. For those of us without texting, that's not an option. It's not like Google wants to alienate old farts who just use a land line.
It's trivial to start up an account with Google with reasonable-sounding information. So you can be clever about it and make several such accounts, and even tie them to other services, like AOL or whatever the hell kids are into these days. I think the key is to cultivate these false identities on-line. Visit web pages that persona would visit. Post to forums that person would post on. And if you crank you tinfoil hat on just tight enough, you'll think of other things to do. Only surf as that person with your screen resolution set a certain way. Use a different browser, and never clear its cookies. Misspell the same word all the time.
All joking aside, I actually do have a fake Google + identity that I use to post negative reviews about places. I keep it civil, but you never know what a man might do if you say something negative about his brisket in Texas.
I have read about people using e-cigs to self-medicate for ulcerative colitis. Apparently it reduces the inflammation and likelihood of flares. I'm scared to try it, though because I can't find the research about nicotine's side-effects by itself. And I'm not exactly willing to get addicted to a drug based on the anecdotes of some health forum members.
Thanks for that. I just learned something about PayPal. It theoretically can't be used to buy porn or items that promote racial intolerance.
Skrill's not any better (in theory) than PayPal, from what I can tell. They don't let you buy porn, booze, or ammo either. Also they have a pretty broad freeze policy:
Skrill reserves the right to apply at its sole discretion prevention and detection procedures and suspend and freeze accounts or refuse the execution of transactions if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that an account is being or may be used in connection with any of the foregoing or if governmental authorities require so.
ProPay has an even longer list of disallowed transactions (animals, event tickets, culturally insensitive materials), but they seem to protect the user a bit more.
In the event ProPay does not complete a transaction on time or in the correct amount, according to our agreement with you, we will be liable for your losses or damages proximately caused by this failure.
Have you even looked at the cases the ACLU has fought? There's no attacking rights going on. They even supported Jerry Falwell, for fuck's sake. And that was AFTER Falwell said 9/11 was the ACLU's fault.
It's a great place to get used PLC components at a reasonable price. Also by the pound Lego is sometimes well priced (not that a grown man like me would be into children's toys).
What else is there? Look, if I see a vendor on eBay who doesn't use PayPal, my first thought isn't "oh, this person is a conscientious objector to PayPal's malfeasance." Instead, it's an instant scammer alert. The one time I used BidPay, I got scammed. Never again. On the other hand, it's way to easy for shitty buyers to screw you over on PayPal.
I don't know what the other options are, though. Even on Slashdot, there seems to be a lot of "don't use PayPal" but not a lot of "use $SERVICE instead" as an alternative.
Forgot about that one. I use my Yahoo! mail so seldom these days. I just checked it for fun after reading your comment. Saw that I had a couple of job offers. whoops. Guess I need to update my Monster profile. HA!
Somebody had actually added my GeoCities page as a reference for a pipe organ on Wikipedia. So I was rather proud of that back in the day. I did all the coding by hand back then, of course. Made a professional-looking report for freshman design class back in the nineties. Fun times.
I used it as storage, too. Resume, scanned in vacation photos, music, etc.
Is there anything Yahoo! hasn't fucked up? First they killed Geocities; OK that one is probably not bad. Then they Bing-ified Flickr, with complete disregard for community input. Trust me, there was a lot of input, even though most of it has been disappeared. Then sports, which we recently read about. Now groups. No wonder that CEO of theirs won't let people work from home. She wants to personally see the look of agony and defeat on her employees tired, worn faces as she takes their favorite projects and warps them into a monstrous, blinged-out, totally useless pile of shit.
Learned something new today, and I'm a Methodist. From UMC.org:
The resulting four components or "sides" of the quadrilateral are (1) Scripture, (2) tradition, (3) reason, and (4) experience. For United Methodists, Scripture is considered the primary source and standard for Christian doctrine.
Of course you said vertex, not side; therefore, you are a heretic who will burn in the fires of hell.
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First of all, stop being pedantic. Second, the statement "FAA forbids the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles over crowded areas" is begging the question. It is basically saying "X should be regulated, because X is forbidden." If that isn't assuming the initial point (petitio principii), I don't know what is.
I know, lets get the House to pass a bill that declares raping puppies illegal, and defunds Obamacare. Then when the senate rejects it, we can say they love to rape puppies!
Or, they are desparately trying to avoid hurting the people. Obamacare has already cost people with cuts in hours, lost coverage, and hiring freezes.
Clearly the Republicans are just trying to protect the middle class by shutting down the government, which will in turn cost a few hundred thousand Americans their paycheck for the foreseeable future. It's not like taking a billion dollars out of people's pockets every week will have any negative consequences on the wider economy. There won't be any cuts in wages or hours, and company hiring policies will blossom due to the uncertainty!
Why do I feel the urge to end this post with "U R HOMO. Ron Paul 2012!"??
They're like the guy who saws off the tree limb he's sitting on.
Or like this guy. Pipeline safety FTW!
Except that "ultraconservatives" aren't using this as a justification for rape? Nor do they have the backing of the state government when they say it?
It might not be rape, but using bullshit physiological explanations as justification for requiring a trans-vaginal ultrasound before abortion is pretty heinous. I guess they want to make government so small it can fit in a woman's uterus.
I know, let's have medicare stop paying for anesthesia when they go in to get their colonoscopy. Maybe then they'd sing a different tune.
where was the TSA?
They were too busy groping grandma, duh! Because if they don't, teh terrorists might win!!!
This type of enforcement is making it "safer" for the texters to do it while driving ... harder for this asshat to catch them.
Dammit, that's a good point. I always forget about unintended consequences. Ugh!
Excellent loophole. Next time you get pulled over for having your phone just say you were about to call to report a drunk driver.
I wouldn't mind them enforcing laws I don't like, as long as they were enforcing other laws, too. Did you know most jurisdictions have laws against following too closely? When is the last time somebody's gotten a ticket for that who didn't actually get in a wreck?
How about they follow the laws they are enforcing? I can't count the times I've seen a cop fiddling with his dash-mounted computer while driving. Or following too closely. Or not wearing a seatbelt. Or speeding. I once saw one doing all four of these at the same time!
Back on topic. I got really mad at my wife just the other day for checking her email at a red light. My argument is that if there's an emergency vehicle approaching the intersection, you will be less likely to notice. You will also be less likely to check for pedestrians or other vehicles when the light turns green.
And to the lady who was "just using her GPS" that's the same as reading a map. If you need to do it, pull over, set what you need to set, then get back on the road. It's not that hard to do, and you're not in that big of a hurry.
If a ship can be called "she," so can a software emulation of a female voice. I can just picture it now.
She cannae take much more of it, Captain.
I think you mean "it," Mr. Scott.
Nope. That's just an option so they can text you your password. For those of us without texting, that's not an option. It's not like Google wants to alienate old farts who just use a land line.
Reminds me of this article about the failings of extrapolation. Those graphs look like perfectly reasonable first-order Bode plots to me.
It's trivial to start up an account with Google with reasonable-sounding information. So you can be clever about it and make several such accounts, and even tie them to other services, like AOL or whatever the hell kids are into these days. I think the key is to cultivate these false identities on-line. Visit web pages that persona would visit. Post to forums that person would post on. And if you crank you tinfoil hat on just tight enough, you'll think of other things to do. Only surf as that person with your screen resolution set a certain way. Use a different browser, and never clear its cookies. Misspell the same word all the time.
All joking aside, I actually do have a fake Google + identity that I use to post negative reviews about places. I keep it civil, but you never know what a man might do if you say something negative about his brisket in Texas.
No I think that's his argument for disbanding the TSA.
I have read about people using e-cigs to self-medicate for ulcerative colitis. Apparently it reduces the inflammation and likelihood of flares. I'm scared to try it, though because I can't find the research about nicotine's side-effects by itself. And I'm not exactly willing to get addicted to a drug based on the anecdotes of some health forum members.
Skrill's not any better (in theory) than PayPal, from what I can tell. They don't let you buy porn, booze, or ammo either. Also they have a pretty broad freeze policy:
Skrill reserves the right to apply at its sole discretion prevention and detection procedures and suspend and freeze accounts or refuse the execution of transactions if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that an account is being or may be used in connection with any of the foregoing or if governmental authorities require so.
ProPay has an even longer list of disallowed transactions (animals, event tickets, culturally insensitive materials), but they seem to protect the user a bit more.
In the event ProPay does not complete a transaction on time or in the correct amount, according to our agreement with you, we will be liable for your losses or damages proximately caused by this failure.
As long as they don't fuck with the 21st Amendment, I'll be fine.
Have you even looked at the cases the ACLU has fought? There's no attacking rights going on. They even supported Jerry Falwell, for fuck's sake. And that was AFTER Falwell said 9/11 was the ACLU's fault.
It's a great place to get used PLC components at a reasonable price. Also by the pound Lego is sometimes well priced (not that a grown man like me would be into children's toys).
What else is there? Look, if I see a vendor on eBay who doesn't use PayPal, my first thought isn't "oh, this person is a conscientious objector to PayPal's malfeasance." Instead, it's an instant scammer alert. The one time I used BidPay, I got scammed. Never again. On the other hand, it's way to easy for shitty buyers to screw you over on PayPal.
I don't know what the other options are, though. Even on Slashdot, there seems to be a lot of "don't use PayPal" but not a lot of "use $SERVICE instead" as an alternative.
Forgot about that one. I use my Yahoo! mail so seldom these days. I just checked it for fun after reading your comment. Saw that I had a couple of job offers. whoops. Guess I need to update my Monster profile. HA!
Somebody had actually added my GeoCities page as a reference for a pipe organ on Wikipedia. So I was rather proud of that back in the day. I did all the coding by hand back then, of course. Made a professional-looking report for freshman design class back in the nineties. Fun times.
I used it as storage, too. Resume, scanned in vacation photos, music, etc.
Is there anything Yahoo! hasn't fucked up? First they killed Geocities; OK that one is probably not bad. Then they Bing-ified Flickr, with complete disregard for community input. Trust me, there was a lot of input, even though most of it has been disappeared. Then sports, which we recently read about. Now groups. No wonder that CEO of theirs won't let people work from home. She wants to personally see the look of agony and defeat on her employees tired, worn faces as she takes their favorite projects and warps them into a monstrous, blinged-out, totally useless pile of shit.
Learned something new today, and I'm a Methodist. From UMC.org:
The resulting four components or "sides" of the quadrilateral are (1) Scripture, (2) tradition, (3) reason, and (4) experience. For United Methodists, Scripture is considered the primary source and standard for Christian doctrine.
Of course you said vertex, not side; therefore, you are a heretic who will burn in the fires of hell.
Han shot first!
Wait... what forum is this again?