"Government setting aside your money, so that it can be commingled with everyone else's money, and used to pay for someone else's hernia operation, and when you need your hip replacement, they tell you that they used up the money on cotton balls and alcohol swabs for the other guy."
this is what people see socialized medicine as leading to.
will that be what actually happens? probably,based on the fact i've yet to see the government not screw anything this complex up yet.
by and large, if your not a total failure, and own a few screwdrivers, you can replace the cords on most anything. personally, i've taken to using 'appliance extension cords' for almost everything. they are a far heavier duty cord, and the plug is oriented so that the cord comes out the side or bottom, along the wall, vs sticking outward. The cords come as short as 3 feet, which is what i like about them. I plug my stuff into these, hide that plug behind something, and put the heavy duty cord into the wall. If i have to replace a cord in something, i use one of these as a replacement if possible.
as it turns out, large swaths of random cheep electronics *don't have internal fuses*
however, you can get a darn large number of free microwave ovens by looting the ones people set next to dumpsters and replacing the fuse they blew in it.
it was not the *last* time i accidentally involved myself in the electrical circuit, but hey, some people die stepping out of the bathtub, and others take 11 bullets to the torso and walk to the hospital.
if you're going to defeat the safeties on an electrical plug, a cut off bit of electrical cord with the plug still on one in does wonders.
thats how i did it the first time. the wall heater i touched the live ends to never worked right again after that.
i was just thinking the same thing. this has been available on macs for ages. hell, i even used it to get a windows laptop online through my mac when we only had 1 ethernet jack.
he's purporting that, oil deposits, in the form and structure they are in at this stage, could not be over 10,000 years old. He is saying, that, if the oil deposits where really millions of years old, that there layout, format, and structure within the ground would be fundamentally different (at least, thats the impression i got from his statement).
when i was in college, i started out taking notes with a pencil in spiral bound notebooks. i found out fast that by the end of the semester, what with lugging that notebook around in my backpack, that the first 50+ pages appeared blank by the end of the semester. pencil literally wore off/smudged away from the jostling in the backpack. i converted to pen, and carrying the notebooks in 2 zip up binders. (1 for monday wednesday friday classes, and another for tuesday thursday classes)
not having your notes self erase > not having to mark out and re-write when you make a mistake.
taking a whole 5 seconds to explain why they are ticketing them, vs 3 seconds of explanation. OH THE TRAGEDY! where ever will i get those 2 seconds back?! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS WILL DO TO MY PORTFOLIO!?? my stock options? YOU SICK MONSTER!/rant
sudo, mod this one up.
i could not agree more. there are lots of things that i've found clips of on youtube that lead me to finding and buying CD's of that work.
The problem with this is, say you watch a video on youtube that someone has put music on. Now, you don't know the song or artist, and you watch your video of some cats doing funny stuff, and go on your way.
Now with what they are trying to do, you might get your happy, cat-loving self sued, because the guy that put the video up was using copyrighted music, and you watched it. Now, i know there is the whole "not knowing the law is no excuse for violating it" thing, but there has to be a practical limit.
At this point, we know that youtube mutes videos with copyrighted music, or replaces it with music that is public domain, or removes the video entirely at times, just to protect grouchy rights holders. Armed with this knowledge, you expect to be able to watch videos on youtube, without the risk of getting in trouble for 'receiving stolen goods' and/or 'pirating music' (Because it got loaded into your ram in a temporary cache?) Who set this stupid precedent anyways?).
Hopefully, this case will set some decent standards so that don't treat the public like guilty before proven innocent criminals.
converting file format types can often lead to loss of quality. its not just moving a file from point a to point b, its converting data from type 1, to type 2. and sometimes, depending on the methods used and the intelligence/skill of the person doing it, loss happens.
because eventually we're going to find one that *is* stable, and the chemistry world will got tits over assholes to learn more about it. At great entertainment value to the rest of the world.
let me rephrase,
What i really was trying to say (poorly) what should happen when someone takes the publicly available information, puts it on the internet, and advertises "here is a list of the assholes that voted against you!"
now, we know that the person that put that list up is not going to go kneecap someone, but by broadcasting it, they give it to the unwashed masses, who have been known from time to time to do some rash and unpleasant things. In doing so, they've done something of a dis-service to the people that signed the petition.
what I'm saying is, I think there should be some logical restrictions of what you can do with that sort of information. yes its publicly available, but does that translate to available for anyone to disseminate to outraged members of this or that group? unfortunately, as it stands, that seems to be the case.
personally, i think that the information should be semi-restricted. As in, you can go into the office and look at the list, but you can't make copies and take them out. a simple step like this does wonders to ensure that the only mildly enraged masses don't do anything rash.
sure, there are a few dedicated jerks who will go see the list, memorize a few addresses, and go set a dog turd on fire on a doorstep or worse, but minor restriction of the information does a lot to prevent rash action.
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"Government setting aside your money, so that it can be commingled with everyone else's money, and used to pay for someone else's hernia operation, and when you need your hip replacement, they tell you that they used up the money on cotton balls and alcohol swabs for the other guy."
this is what people see socialized medicine as leading to.
will that be what actually happens? probably,based on the fact i've yet to see the government not screw anything this complex up yet.
I have to say, your Sig does inverse wonders for your arguments.
google 'fear and loathing in Silithus' its hilarious.
by and large, if your not a total failure, and own a few screwdrivers, you can replace the cords on most anything. personally, i've taken to using 'appliance extension cords' for almost everything. they are a far heavier duty cord, and the plug is oriented so that the cord comes out the side or bottom, along the wall, vs sticking outward. The cords come as short as 3 feet, which is what i like about them. I plug my stuff into these, hide that plug behind something, and put the heavy duty cord into the wall. If i have to replace a cord in something, i use one of these as a replacement if possible.
sudo mod this one up.
as it turns out, large swaths of random cheep electronics *don't have internal fuses*
however, you can get a darn large number of free microwave ovens by looting the ones people set next to dumpsters and replacing the fuse they blew in it.
and all this makes the most fantastically horrid smelling smoke, and impressive large blue and white sparks. so yeah, don't go mixing and matching.
it was not the *last* time i accidentally involved myself in the electrical circuit, but hey, some people die stepping out of the bathtub, and others take 11 bullets to the torso and walk to the hospital.
if you're going to defeat the safeties on an electrical plug, a cut off bit of electrical cord with the plug still on one in does wonders.
thats how i did it the first time. the wall heater i touched the live ends to never worked right again after that.
you're thinking of iran, not iraq numbnuts.
i was just thinking the same thing. this has been available on macs for ages. hell, i even used it to get a windows laptop online through my mac when we only had 1 ethernet jack.
if i had mod points, i'd mod you up.
i love the formatting of the response as a program outline.
woosh.
he's purporting that, oil deposits, in the form and structure they are in at this stage, could not be over 10,000 years old. He is saying, that, if the oil deposits where really millions of years old, that there layout, format, and structure within the ground would be fundamentally different
(at least, thats the impression i got from his statement).
just a one of those refillable mechanical pencils, 0.7 HB i think.
when i was in college, i started out taking notes with a pencil in spiral bound notebooks. i found out fast that by the end of the semester, what with lugging that notebook around in my backpack, that the first 50+ pages appeared blank by the end of the semester. pencil literally wore off/smudged away from the jostling in the backpack. i converted to pen, and carrying the notebooks in 2 zip up binders. (1 for monday wednesday friday classes, and another for tuesday thursday classes)
not having your notes self erase > not having to mark out and re-write when you make a mistake.
so what you are saying is, the annoying musical animated fruit-loops box from minority report is mere decades away?
not really, i just get tired of the whole "wasting people's time" argument when it does not actually apply.
taking a whole 5 seconds to explain why they are ticketing them, vs 3 seconds of explanation. OH THE TRAGEDY! where ever will i get those 2 seconds back?! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS WILL DO TO MY PORTFOLIO!?? my stock options? YOU SICK MONSTER! /rant
sudo, mod this one up.
i could not agree more. there are lots of things that i've found clips of on youtube that lead me to finding and buying CD's of that work.
The problem with this is, say you watch a video on youtube that someone has put music on. Now, you don't know the song or artist, and you watch your video of some cats doing funny stuff, and go on your way.
Now with what they are trying to do, you might get your happy, cat-loving self sued, because the guy that put the video up was using copyrighted music, and you watched it. Now, i know there is the whole "not knowing the law is no excuse for violating it" thing, but there has to be a practical limit.
At this point, we know that youtube mutes videos with copyrighted music, or replaces it with music that is public domain, or removes the video entirely at times, just to protect grouchy rights holders. Armed with this knowledge, you expect to be able to watch videos on youtube, without the risk of getting in trouble for 'receiving stolen goods' and/or 'pirating music' (Because it got loaded into your ram in a temporary cache?) Who set this stupid precedent anyways?).
Hopefully, this case will set some decent standards so that don't treat the public like guilty before proven innocent criminals.
converting file format types can often lead to loss of quality. its not just moving a file from point a to point b, its converting data from type 1, to type 2. and sometimes, depending on the methods used and the intelligence/skill of the person doing it, loss happens.
and after enough conversions, you'll have nearly as good a video quality as watching a camrip on youtube!
because eventually we're going to find one that *is* stable, and the chemistry world will got tits over assholes to learn more about it. At great entertainment value to the rest of the world.
let me rephrase,
What i really was trying to say (poorly) what should happen when someone takes the publicly available information, puts it on the internet, and advertises "here is a list of the assholes that voted against you!" now, we know that the person that put that list up is not going to go kneecap someone, but by broadcasting it, they give it to the unwashed masses, who have been known from time to time to do some rash and unpleasant things.
In doing so, they've done something of a dis-service to the people that signed the petition.
what I'm saying is, I think there should be some logical restrictions of what you can do with that sort of information. yes its publicly available, but does that translate to available for anyone to disseminate to outraged members of this or that group? unfortunately, as it stands, that seems to be the case.
personally, i think that the information should be semi-restricted. As in, you can go into the office and look at the list, but you can't make copies and take them out. a simple step like this does wonders to ensure that the only mildly enraged masses don't do anything rash.
sure, there are a few dedicated jerks who will go see the list, memorize a few addresses, and go set a dog turd on fire on a doorstep or worse, but minor restriction of the information does a lot to prevent rash action.
You make an excellent point. If i had mod points, i'd be modding you up.