Cool. Sounds good for any newly constructed neighborhood. Lets goto Las Vegas and put it into practice. Oh wait. The housing market crashed like the titanic. Ok so lets dig up existing neighborhoods and put a turbine on every block. I'm sure that won't be a hassle for the local residents and it certainly won't kill every bird in the area.
Sorry man wind power just isn't sustainable. You're better off investing in a technology that has realistic power yields (nuclear).
People are beginning to wonder why they can't have a good medical care system without massive government expenditures.
Yea, those silly Europeans and Canadians are literally knocking down the doors to get a health care system like ours. HA! Give me a break, what planet are you on?
America is the only 1st World country where filing for bankruptcies for unpaid medical expenses exists. Think about that.
OP is not trolling. I never ever ever listen to the radio, unless it's NPR (which I LOVE). I have my ipod permanently hooked up.
My wife listens to the radio any time she's in a car. Between all of her presets (which she is swtiching between constantly) I hear maybe a pool of about 20 different songs. If I'm in the car with her for more than an hour I'll usually hear the same song two or three times. And it's ALL the same annoying poppy paper cutter shit. It's disgusting and annoying! It drives me fucking nuts. I often can't stand it and have to turn the radio off.
So yea, OP is right. Radio stations fucking suck. If you want unoriginal copy pasta music spoon fed to you over and over and over until your ears fucking barf your brains out, sure go ahead and listen to the radio.
Several fellow democratic Senators have introduced legislation titled the JUSTICE ACT. The JUSTICE ACT would introduce stronger safeguards and higher standards of judicial oversight for surveillance activity. It aims to reform the most abusive characteristics of the PATRIOT Act and would also roll back a controversial provision of the FISA Amendment Act that granted telecom companies retroactive immunity for their participation in the Bush administration's extralegal warrantless surveillance program.
The proposal is broadly endorsed by privacy advocates and civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Senator Feingold says that the goal of the act is to ensure that surveillance and intelligence-gathering activities are properly empowered while guaranteeing that rights are respected and investigative privileges are not misused.
As a voting constituent I urge you to publicly display your support for this act. Give Senator Feingold a call at (202)-224-5323 and tell him you have his support. Please get in front of the camera and promote this bill.
There will be opposition from the right but we have the majority to make this happen. Please respond telling me whether you're FOR or AGAINST this act. If you're against please explain why. Thank you.
Would you mind posting a citation for this? My wife is a teacher in the poorest area of our town and they are losing funding because state government is cutting education to trim the budget.:\
I recently saw an article somewhere (Google can probably find it) that describes how politicians would rather cut from education and social programs than release some non violent criminals to save some money.
Pi is an irrational number. This means it goes on forever. Thus it's safe to assume the set of numbers after 3.14.. are infinite. Is it right to say that it contains ALL possible combination of ALL numbers imaginable? For example. I could search for 1234567890 and it would be found in the numbers trailing Pi because they are infinite and at SOME point they will be present. Is my line of thinking correct?
Also extend this line of thought one step farther. The universe is infinite. There are an infinite amount of galaxies and within these infinite amount of galaxies are infinite number of planets. Of these infinite amounts of planets there are bound to be an infinite amount similar to earth. Since it's infinite and contains ALL possible combination of molecules/atoms is it safe to assume that SOMEWHERE in the universe there is a parallel earth with people exactly like me doing the exact same thing right now except one thing is different. Like a molecule or something.
Think of the TV show sliders, lots of similar parallel dimensions.
Can someone smarter than me chime in on this? (Sorry if this post is one big clump of text. The preview box isn't reflecting my HTML formatting)
Ok. I'll bite. Name another film where aliens come to earth and are imprisoned and treated with disregard. And become recognized by our legal system (they need licenses to breed), subject to inspection and eviction, etc. I really thought it was a refreshing perspective from the usual "aliens are here and they're gonna destroy the planet. Let's form a resistance! HUZZAH!"
Go see it. Money well spent. The film was really enjoyable (coming from a person who hates most Hollywood films). I think I was most impressed because it was a completely original idea and not a reboot or a sequel. I have to admit though I was partial I was familiar with some of Neil Blomkamp's earlier work.
Holy shit.....Can this not be more glaringly obviously corrupt? Obama hires lots of ex-RIAA lawyers which then uphold RIAA favored judgments. I'm fucking speechless because this judgment is so mind numbingly dumb. I think this needs to go to the supreme court (not that they will overturn it, but fuck SOMEONE with higher authority needs to say this is insane).
I don't even know why people bother with the DMCA. It's US-only
For the time being. Come back to me in 1-5 years. I guarantee other countries will have their own DMCA. Canada is next. Mark my words. You seriously underestimate the global influence the RIAA/MPAA have. Just look at Sweden. They were able to pressure the local authorities to raid TPB and bring them to court and pass wiretapping laws which allow authorities to pursue file sharers. Insane!
The MPAA/RIAA will only lose influence when the American dollar finally takes a dump.
What's wrong with biometrics? Maybe somebody could explain to me why more keyboards don't ship with biometrics built in? Instead of remembering 25 different passwords each with their own ridiculous rules you could just scan your finger. It could even work when you want to make CC purchase or login to your email.
Fuck....Nevermind the fact that if you've ever been in the military your SSN has been passed around more than a two dollar whore. Such much for security through obscurity:\
Show them you know math! You can't use numbers, those are human constructs. Although maybe you could use Roman numerals. You could try to use an XY system and draw something like sin or cos, although they may not understand our coordinate system. I think I'd go with using geometric shapes to represent PI or something. Like this picture here.
Thing is, how do you punish a corporation that owns the government for manslaughter? Remember, a corporation is a "legal person" so you can't punish an employee for obeying the will of the company.
I understand your reason for lack of concern. But hear MY concern. During the MPAA's pursuit against piracy the freedoms of the internet will be trampled on:( So sure they won't catch 99% of all pirates but that doesn't mean we won't see federal legislation requiring ISP's to log records, even more powerful DMCA, and other such bullshit along the way. I have hopes that we'll win though. There are more of us and we are smarter. But casualties along the way will occur and that saddens me.
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Cool. Sounds good for any newly constructed neighborhood. Lets goto Las Vegas and put it into practice. Oh wait. The housing market crashed like the titanic. Ok so lets dig up existing neighborhoods and put a turbine on every block. I'm sure that won't be a hassle for the local residents and it certainly won't kill every bird in the area.
Sorry man wind power just isn't sustainable. You're better off investing in a technology that has realistic power yields (nuclear).
People are beginning to wonder why they can't have a good medical care system without massive government expenditures.
Yea, those silly Europeans and Canadians are literally knocking down the doors to get a health care system like ours. HA! Give me a break, what planet are you on?
America is the only 1st World country where filing for bankruptcies for unpaid medical expenses exists. Think about that.
OP is not trolling. I never ever ever listen to the radio, unless it's NPR (which I LOVE). I have my ipod permanently hooked up.
My wife listens to the radio any time she's in a car. Between all of her presets (which she is swtiching between constantly) I hear maybe a pool of about 20 different songs. If I'm in the car with her for more than an hour I'll usually hear the same song two or three times. And it's ALL the same annoying poppy paper cutter shit. It's disgusting and annoying! It drives me fucking nuts. I often can't stand it and have to turn the radio off.
So yea, OP is right. Radio stations fucking suck. If you want unoriginal copy pasta music spoon fed to you over and over and over until your ears fucking barf your brains out, sure go ahead and listen to the radio.
Let me know how that worked out for racial integration in schools....oh wait.
Geez don't be so tough on them. One outage and they become useless. unloyal BASTARD!
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Senator XXXXX,
Several fellow democratic Senators have introduced legislation titled the JUSTICE ACT. The JUSTICE ACT would introduce stronger safeguards and higher standards of judicial oversight for surveillance activity. It aims to reform the most abusive characteristics of the PATRIOT Act and would also roll back a controversial provision of the FISA Amendment Act that granted telecom companies retroactive immunity for their participation in the Bush administration's extralegal warrantless surveillance program.
The proposal is broadly endorsed by privacy advocates and civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Senator Feingold says that the goal of the act is to ensure that surveillance and intelligence-gathering activities are properly empowered while guaranteeing that rights are respected and investigative privileges are not misused.
As a voting constituent I urge you to publicly display your support for this act. Give Senator Feingold a call at (202)-224-5323 and tell him you have his support. Please get in front of the camera and promote this bill.
There will be opposition from the right but we have the majority to make this happen. Please respond telling me whether you're FOR or AGAINST this act. If you're against please explain why. Thank you.
Steve Ballmer: "Who ate all the GOD DAMN SALSA!!!! I BOUGHT IT TO EAT SPECIFICALLY WITH MY LIME TOSITOS!!!!!" *throws chair across the room*
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Would you mind posting a citation for this? My wife is a teacher in the poorest area of our town and they are losing funding because state government is cutting education to trim the budget. :\
I recently saw an article somewhere (Google can probably find it) that describes how politicians would rather cut from education and social programs than release some non violent criminals to save some money.
Pi is an irrational number. This means it goes on forever. Thus it's safe to assume the set of numbers after 3.14.. are infinite. Is it right to say that it contains ALL possible combination of ALL numbers imaginable? For example. I could search for 1234567890 and it would be found in the numbers trailing Pi because they are infinite and at SOME point they will be present. Is my line of thinking correct?
Also extend this line of thought one step farther. The universe is infinite. There are an infinite amount of galaxies and within these infinite amount of galaxies are infinite number of planets. Of these infinite amounts of planets there are bound to be an infinite amount similar to earth. Since it's infinite and contains ALL possible combination of molecules/atoms is it safe to assume that SOMEWHERE in the universe there is a parallel earth with people exactly like me doing the exact same thing right now except one thing is different. Like a molecule or something .
Think of the TV show sliders, lots of similar parallel dimensions.
Can someone smarter than me chime in on this? (Sorry if this post is one big clump of text. The preview box isn't reflecting my HTML formatting)
Have fun replacing it when it fails. In my head I imagine something like this.
Ok. I'll bite. Name another film where aliens come to earth and are imprisoned and treated with disregard. And become recognized by our legal system (they need licenses to breed), subject to inspection and eviction, etc. I really thought it was a refreshing perspective from the usual "aliens are here and they're gonna destroy the planet. Let's form a resistance! HUZZAH!"
Go see it. Money well spent. The film was really enjoyable (coming from a person who hates most Hollywood films). I think I was most impressed because it was a completely original idea and not a reboot or a sequel. I have to admit though I was partial I was familiar with some of Neil Blomkamp's earlier work.
FWIW District 9 was based on one of his short films titled "Alive in Joburg. Watch it here.
Also I enjoyed Tetra Vaal, an amaing short film about a police bot in South Africa. Stunning CGI. Enjoy =)
Good luck with that. The constitution isn't exactly followed today. See (Habeas Corpus, The Federal Reserve, etc etc)
Holy shit.....Can this not be more glaringly obviously corrupt? Obama hires lots of ex-RIAA lawyers which then uphold RIAA favored judgments. I'm fucking speechless because this judgment is so mind numbingly dumb. I think this needs to go to the supreme court (not that they will overturn it, but fuck SOMEONE with higher authority needs to say this is insane).
No, perhaps it was just wishful thinking :\
I don't even know why people bother with the DMCA. It's US-only
For the time being. Come back to me in 1-5 years. I guarantee other countries will have their own DMCA. Canada is next. Mark my words. You seriously underestimate the global influence the RIAA/MPAA have. Just look at Sweden. They were able to pressure the local authorities to raid TPB and bring them to court and pass wiretapping laws which allow authorities to pursue file sharers. Insane!
The MPAA/RIAA will only lose influence when the American dollar finally takes a dump.
deliver a complete working attack in a plug-in cartridge that could be used by anyone with a few private minutes with the machine.
It's not a bug! It's a feature!
What's wrong with biometrics? Maybe somebody could explain to me why more keyboards don't ship with biometrics built in? Instead of remembering 25 different passwords each with their own ridiculous rules you could just scan your finger. It could even work when you want to make CC purchase or login to your email.
Fuck....Nevermind the fact that if you've ever been in the military your SSN has been passed around more than a two dollar whore. Such much for security through obscurity :\
Show them you know math! You can't use numbers, those are human constructs. Although maybe you could use Roman numerals. You could try to use an XY system and draw something like sin or cos, although they may not understand our coordinate system. I think I'd go with using geometric shapes to represent PI or something. Like this picture here.
Thing is, how do you punish a corporation that owns the government for manslaughter? Remember, a corporation is a "legal person" so you can't punish an employee for obeying the will of the company.
FTFY
If he did break the law, he needs to accept the consequences. If he didn't break the law, he should rebut the accusation.
The same thing could be said about Rosa Parks. She was also breaking the law. Just because it's a law doesn't make it right.
Stop fighting two wars and reduce your military budget.
I understand your reason for lack of concern. But hear MY concern. During the MPAA's pursuit against piracy the freedoms of the internet will be trampled on :( So sure they won't catch 99% of all pirates but that doesn't mean we won't see federal legislation requiring ISP's to log records, even more powerful DMCA, and other such bullshit along the way. I have hopes that we'll win though. There are more of us and we are smarter. But casualties along the way will occur and that saddens me.