Hell's bells, I can't worry about this trifling matter--I
just heard on the radio that this
Emerald Ass Borer Beetle is coming to my area. It has to be stopped!
I'm going to call my congressman immediately...Doh! Never mind.
Actually, that part's pretty easy. The burden of legal proof is a little lower of a bar than the proof to ideologues and an uninformed public. That global temperatures over the past two centuries exhibit and upwards trend is pretty much proven. That atmospheric CO2 levels are tightly correlated to global temperature is pretty much proven. A mechanism to explain this is proven. That we have more C02 in the atmosphere than at any time in the past 800,000 years is pretty much proven.
Till then there's abiword & gnumeric. I only load openoffice when I absolutely need to.
Or when I have an extra ten minutes to kill waiting for it to load. Seriously, the only other Windows application that I have that loads so slowly is that pig QuickBooks.
That's true I'm sure. I watch some thirty minute shows on HGTV (Tivo'ed, of course) and there are two different commercial breaks with a few ads each. How is that even possible? It leaves about twenty-two minutes of show. If I didn't have a Tivo, there's no way I would ever watch those shows.
What is really incredible is that they then waste an additional minute recapping each time they get back from commercial breaks. Like I said, if it weren't for Tivo...
However, I guess I wouldn't watch any commercial if I didn't have to and, with the proliferation of DVRs, I still wonder how it's going to play out for networks.
Microsoft, the promise-anything, and ship whatever company
That's funny--good one. That's one of the things I like about/., there's always a few good sayings floating around. My all time/. favorite is still "asshat." I don't understand what it means, but it just sounds funny.
You just have to wonder just how dense the network executives really are.
How else can the non-subscription networks get paid? I'm not refuting what you're saying, but what is the business model that's going to pay to produce programming?
I never watch commercials unless I happen to be watching live commercial-driven TV, which isn't often. I always Tivo the few shows that I watch that aren't on HBO (The Wire is the best program on TV) and zip through the advertisements. If I'm watching a football game, I pause and go do other stuff to avoid the ads. So, if everyone does that, I can't see how they could create revenue without coming up with a way to force viewers to watch commercials.
I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with it under any president. I wasn't speaking to that. My point is that many people who are political do not address issues with a quest for the truth, but rather a quest for getting their agenda or point-of-view advanced.
But if you're asking is would be more supportive of rights curtailment under one candidate or another, the answer is no.
I hear ya dude. I was being facetious. It's the attitude that I get all of the time from people who think that Dells are some magical flawless creation, instead of what they are--average, ordinary, bargain-priced computers made for the unwashed masses.
No, it's much easier to be alarmist and only tell the part of the story that backs up what they want to project.
They are just hysterical parrots, mouthing what their overlords at the DNC have taught them. "Squawk! Bush evil! Squawk! Democrats Good! Squawk!"
Not that there aren't the same types on the other side of the aisle--just listen to most talk radio if you want an example. "Squawk! Democrats evil! Squawk! Bush Good! Squawk!"
I just wonder why the truth is always the first casualty in any political discussion. Probably because most people don't care about the truth; they either are just looking after their own interests or they merely want to feel morally superior.
Been doing thise for over five years. Since home users will bug th crap out of you, I switched to small business customers only. With your working hours, you obviously can't do that. Here's some things that I thought of:
-Liability Insurance
-Establish relationships with at least three suppliers and check prices. Being that you're a little fish, they won't save you any money on expensive components, but can save you quite a bit on little things.
-Keep business and personal purchases SEPERATE.
-Do not underprice your services
-Do not purchase inventory before you need it
-Do not build systems for people no matter how much they beg. When a customer screws up a Dell, it's becuase they (the customer) screwed it up; if they screw up a system that you built, it's because it wasn't a Dell.
Girls with some muscle are hot. Not to mention much more fun. I've never had much use for the purely decorative ones. I agree with you about the steroid laced body builder chicks though.
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm all about outdoor activities like road & mountain biking, backpacking, trail running etc. Crappin' hell--what do I want with a woman who can't keep up? Just to look like some emaciated runway trash while whining about that 12% grade up ahead? I want a woman with enough athleticism and attitude that I don't have to mollycoddle her like a child.
I have a friend whose wife is one of those undermuscled, waifish women. Everytime we do anything harder than walking around the mall, she bitches about the heat, the exertion, the spiders, etc... Consequently, he just stays home most of the time 'cause he doesn't want to deal with it.
At 5'9", 135lbs, my wife isn't overweight at all--she just has some muscle. She lives for a challenge and I couldn't be happier when I'm grinding up a 1/2 mile long lungbuster of a hill and she's matching me crank for crank.
Sometimes I think that these guys that crave these helpless divas are just insecure or something.
Are you kidding? A reasoned, informed opinion written without calling someone a dumbass, asshat or other insult on/.? Wow, I would say that you must be new here but your UID says otherwise.
I guess we're not going to convince each other on this topic, but since I've just shown you 3 things that DON'T give us any extra real security, how about you show me three losses of freedom that actually do improve security in a measurable and meaningful way.
The frightening thing is that I don't disagree with you except possibly on the one point: extra airport security. I just don't think that trying to prevent people from carrying on knives/box cutters/flamethrowers is that intrusive on our rights.
It seems that all of the other posters just assume that I am for all of the other "security" measures when I am not. They're probably illegal and definitely a step towards the total control of the population by the corporatacracy.
I do appreciate that you at least just stated facts and your opinions without resorting to personal attacks.
Others did not. But that's just the way that it is on/.; dissenting opinions (or perceived dissenting opinions) are usually shouted down
without regard for the facts. I don't even think that half of the people here believe what they themselves write, I just think that they like to argue. Case in point:
this guy GreenSwirl, who went off on me about the Patriot Act (which I do not
support). It turns out that in a previous discussion he stated that he
supports the placing of cameras in all public classrooms. Hypocrisy?
I will let you decide.
Freedom is real, but security is only an illusion.
I would submit that *freedom* is also only an illusion. The only way you have complete personal freedom is under anarchy. Every form of government places some controls on it's citizens. Name a *free* country. I bet I can tell you what freedom they curtail.
What the hell does Bush have to do with it anyway? The world is not really run by governments, but by financial interests. Our electoral system sees to that. The world has become and will contiue to become one big corporatacracy; that or it will be taken over by some fanatics like these Islamofacists. Either way...POOF...there go your freedoms.
From one of your previous posts: I am in favor of all putting webcams in all public classrooms and on all uniformed cops. They are our public servants. If they don't like being watched, there must be a reason.
In regard to living in a police state, I don't disagree with what you're saying. There is always a serious danger when the government starts moving in on our rights. However, in certain times, citizens of countries are expected to have some of their rights curtailed *temporarily*. It happened in the Civil War, WWI, WWII and others. Probably also in public health emergencies.
In every society, we are asked to trade some freedom for security. This is a horrible analogy, but think of the example of seatbelts. In order to lessen our chance of dying in a car crash, we have a restriction placed on our freedom. I think that where we are disagreeing is the point at which the line should be drawn. My only point is that I *personally* don't have anything against the extra scrutiny at the airport even though I am inconvenienced by it more than most.
To get millions, one would have to assume terrorist organizations had either nukes or hella better CBWs than even we have. And, if they did, given the facts about American (in)security, I'm pretty sure that someone's ass would be glowing by now.
I'm not sure what "hella better CBWs" are, but I wouldn't put it past North Korea or Iran to provide nukes to terrorists. Maybe you've heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Millions of deaths would certainly be possible if a nuclear weapon were detonated in Manhattan.
So, I think your statement about millions engages in a wee bit (and by that, for the sarcasm impaired, I mean a whole bunch) of hyperbole.
In short, stop being such an
fscking coward and learn to model situations rationally.
In short, why don't you learn to be respectful of other people's opinions?
Calling someone a coward when you really don't know them is uncalled for and
just plain rude. That attitude and lack of social skills probably has
something to do with why you are soon to be unemployed (http://www.ancar.org)
again.
Yeah, that's what *we* thought twenty years ago. Unfortunately, there's a whole industry built up around this so-called War on Drugs and they're not going to let marijuana be decriminalized, much less legalized. How many cops would we have to "downsize" if they legalized it?
You know, when I was in college taking Spanish, they taught us to use "estadounidense" instead of "americano" because, obviously, there are a number of countries in "America."
So, when I went to Mexico, I was talking to an elderly gentleman in the zocolo in Oaxaca and he asked me where I was from. Wanting to show him that I was culturally sensitive, I said "Soy estadounidense" ("I am a Citizen of the USA"). He frowned and replied, "No, eres Americano!" (("No, you are an American!").
Now I just say that I'm an American and everyone knows what I mean.
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Hell's bells, I can't worry about this trifling matter--I just heard on the radio that this Emerald Ass Borer Beetle is coming to my area. It has to be stopped! I'm going to call my congressman immediately...Doh! Never mind.
Actually, that part's pretty easy. The burden of legal proof is a little lower of a bar than the proof to ideologues and an uninformed public. That global temperatures over the past two centuries exhibit and upwards trend is pretty much proven. That atmospheric CO2 levels are tightly correlated to global temperature is pretty much proven. A mechanism to explain this is proven. That we have more C02 in the atmosphere than at any time in the past 800,000 years is pretty much proven.
Post hoc, ergo prompter hoc.
Till then there's abiword & gnumeric. I only load openoffice when I absolutely need to.
Or when I have an extra ten minutes to kill waiting for it to load. Seriously, the only other Windows application that I have that loads so slowly is that pig QuickBooks.
http://dansguardian.org/
Okay, knock it off...I just about sprayed a mouthful of gin and tonic all over my keyboard and monitor. Luckily only a little came up through my nose.
That's true I'm sure. I watch some thirty minute shows on HGTV (Tivo'ed, of course) and there are two different commercial breaks with a few ads each. How is that even possible? It leaves about twenty-two minutes of show. If I didn't have a Tivo, there's no way I would ever watch those shows.
What is really incredible is that they then waste an additional minute recapping each time they get back from commercial breaks. Like I said, if it weren't for Tivo...
However, I guess I wouldn't watch any commercial if I didn't have to and, with the proliferation of DVRs, I still wonder how it's going to play out for networks.
Microsoft, the promise-anything, and ship whatever company
/., there's always a few good sayings floating around. My all time /. favorite is still "asshat." I don't understand what it means, but it just sounds funny.
That's funny--good one. That's one of the things I like about
You just have to wonder just how dense the network executives really are.
How else can the non-subscription networks get paid? I'm not refuting what you're saying, but what is the business model that's going to pay to produce programming?
I never watch commercials unless I happen to be watching live commercial-driven TV, which isn't often. I always Tivo the few shows that I watch that aren't on HBO (The Wire is the best program on TV) and zip through the advertisements. If I'm watching a football game, I pause and go do other stuff to avoid the ads. So, if everyone does that, I can't see how they could create revenue without coming up with a way to force viewers to watch commercials.
I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with it under any president. I wasn't speaking to that. My point is that many people who are political do not address issues with a quest for the truth, but rather a quest for getting their agenda or point-of-view advanced.
But if you're asking is would be more supportive of rights curtailment under one candidate or another, the answer is no.
I hear ya dude. I was being facetious. It's the attitude that I get all of the time from people who think that Dells are some magical flawless creation, instead of what they are--average, ordinary, bargain-priced computers made for the unwashed masses.
No, it's much easier to be alarmist and only tell the part of the story that backs up what they want to project.
They are just hysterical parrots, mouthing what their overlords at the DNC have taught them. "Squawk! Bush evil! Squawk! Democrats Good! Squawk!"
Not that there aren't the same types on the other side of the aisle--just listen to most talk radio if you want an example. "Squawk! Democrats evil! Squawk! Bush Good! Squawk!"
I just wonder why the truth is always the first casualty in any political discussion. Probably because most people don't care about the truth; they either are just looking after their own interests or they merely want to feel morally superior.
Been doing thise for over five years. Since home users will bug th crap out of you, I switched to small business customers only. With your working hours, you obviously can't do that. Here's some things that I thought of:
-Liability Insurance
-Establish relationships with at least three suppliers and check prices. Being that you're a little fish, they won't save you any money on expensive components, but can save you quite a bit on little things.
-Keep business and personal purchases SEPERATE.
-Do not underprice your services
-Do not purchase inventory before you need it
-Do not build systems for people no matter how much they beg. When a customer screws up a Dell, it's becuase they (the customer) screwed it up; if they screw up a system that you built, it's because it wasn't a Dell.
Girls with some muscle are hot. Not to mention much more fun. I've never had much use for the purely decorative ones. I agree with you about the steroid laced body builder chicks though.
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm all about outdoor activities like road & mountain biking, backpacking, trail running etc. Crappin' hell--what do I want with a woman who can't keep up? Just to look like some emaciated runway trash while whining about that 12% grade up ahead? I want a woman with enough athleticism and attitude that I don't have to mollycoddle her like a child.
I have a friend whose wife is one of those undermuscled, waifish women. Everytime we do anything harder than walking around the mall, she bitches about the heat, the exertion, the spiders, etc... Consequently, he just stays home most of the time 'cause he doesn't want to deal with it.
At 5'9", 135lbs, my wife isn't overweight at all--she just has some muscle. She lives for a challenge and I couldn't be happier when I'm grinding up a 1/2 mile long lungbuster of a hill and she's matching me crank for crank.
Sometimes I think that these guys that crave these helpless divas are just insecure or something.
Are you kidding? A reasoned, informed opinion written without calling someone a dumbass, asshat or other insult on /.? Wow, I would say that you must be new here but your UID says otherwise.
Yes and also Czechoslovakia in 1968: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_spring
I do appreciate that you at least just stated facts and your opinions without resorting to personal attacks.
I take that back--you were one of the ones who made assumptions and resorted to a personal attack. Thanks for that, BTW.
The frightening thing is that I don't disagree with you except possibly on the one point: extra airport security. I just don't think that trying to prevent people from carrying on knives/box cutters/flamethrowers is that intrusive on our rights.
It seems that all of the other posters just assume that I am for all of the other "security" measures when I am not. They're probably illegal and definitely a step towards the total control of the population by the corporatacracy.
I do appreciate that you at least just stated facts and your opinions without resorting to personal attacks. Others did not. But that's just the way that it is on /.; dissenting opinions (or perceived dissenting opinions) are usually shouted down
without regard for the facts. I don't even think that half of the people here believe what they themselves write, I just think that they like to argue. Case in point:
this guy GreenSwirl, who went off on me about the Patriot Act (which I do not
support). It turns out that in a previous discussion he stated that he
supports the placing of cameras in all public classrooms. Hypocrisy?
I will let you decide.
Freedom is real, but security is only an illusion.
I would submit that *freedom* is also only an illusion. The only way you have complete personal freedom is under anarchy. Every form of government places some controls on it's citizens. Name a *free* country. I bet I can tell you what freedom they curtail.
What the hell does Bush have to do with it anyway? The world is not really run by governments, but by financial interests. Our electoral system sees to that. The world has become and will contiue to become one big corporatacracy; that or it will be taken over by some fanatics like these Islamofacists. Either way...POOF...there go your freedoms.
From one of your previous posts:
I am in favor of all putting webcams in all public classrooms and on all uniformed cops. They are our public servants. If they don't like being watched, there must be a reason.
Need I say more?
For the millionth time, I am *only* talking about the extra airline security. Maybe switch to decaf.
Laydees and gennelmen! I give you the perfect example of those who ignore history being doomed to repeat it!
Laydees and gennelmen! I give you the perfect example of those who use clichés as a substitute for rational thought.
Do you mean like the Civil War, WWI, & WWII when we lost some of our rights temporarily and then got them back?
In regard to living in a police state, I don't disagree with what you're saying. There is always a serious danger when the government starts moving in on our rights. However, in certain times, citizens of countries are expected to have some of their rights curtailed *temporarily*. It happened in the Civil War, WWI, WWII and others. Probably also in public health emergencies.
In every society, we are asked to trade some freedom for security. This is a horrible analogy, but think of the example of seatbelts. In order to lessen our chance of dying in a car crash, we have a restriction placed on our freedom. I think that where we are disagreeing is the point at which the line should be drawn. My only point is that I *personally* don't have anything against the extra scrutiny at the airport even though I am inconvenienced by it more than most.
I'm not sure what "hella better CBWs" are, but I wouldn't put it past North Korea or Iran to provide nukes to terrorists. Maybe you've heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Millions of deaths would certainly be possible if a nuclear weapon were detonated in Manhattan.
So, I think your statement about millions engages in a wee bit (and by that, for the sarcasm impaired, I mean a whole bunch) of hyperbole.
I think that you're confusing "exaggeration" with "hyperbole." Please see the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
In short, stop being such an fscking coward and learn to model situations rationally.
In short, why don't you learn to be respectful of other people's opinions? Calling someone a coward when you really don't know them is uncalled for and just plain rude. That attitude and lack of social skills probably has something to do with why you are soon to be unemployed (http://www.ancar.org) again.
Yeah, that's what *we* thought twenty years ago. Unfortunately, there's a whole industry built up around this so-called War on Drugs and they're not going to let marijuana be decriminalized, much less legalized. How many cops would we have to "downsize" if they legalized it?
You know, when I was in college taking Spanish, they taught us to use "estadounidense" instead of "americano" because, obviously, there are a number of countries in "America."
So, when I went to Mexico, I was talking to an elderly gentleman in the zocolo in Oaxaca and he asked me where I was from. Wanting to show him that I was culturally sensitive, I said "Soy estadounidense" ("I am a Citizen of the USA"). He frowned and replied, "No, eres Americano!" (("No, you are an American!").
Now I just say that I'm an American and everyone knows what I mean.