This parent might be Redundant, but I don't see how the statement fits any definition of flamebaiting. Is the expressed idea (mistakes may be made, persons misidentified as having information worth torturing for are in fact tortured) so far removed from the plausible?
Just register every domain against a unique entity -- a pain in the butt, but if this is the road we're headed down, I'm sure such a practice will become commonplace given the apparent risks vs rewards.
...is called "Making so much money it don't mean a damn thing if piracy happens."
Seriously, free porn has been electronically available since the 80s for anyone with a minute amount of knowledge and dedication. Who are the authors fooling?
(Corporations) "have the ability to transfer production from one country to another, to close a plant in one and reopen it elsewhere, to direct and redirect investment wherever the 'climate' is most favourable [to business]. . . . [I]t has enabled the corporation to play one workforce off against another in the pursuit of the cheapest and most compliant labour (which gives the misleading appearance of greater efficiency). . . [I]t has compelled regions and nations to compete with one another to try and attract investment by offering tax incentives, labour discipline, relaxed environmental and other regulations and publicly subsidised infrastructure. . . Thus has emerged the great paradox of our age, according to which those nations that prosper most (attract corporate investment) by most readily lowering their standard of living (wages, benefits, quality of life, political freedom). The net result of this system of extortion is a universal lowering of conditions and expectations in the name of competitiveness and prosperity."
Yes, it is a no-go in the US. The hardware has always been more expensive than 802.11b (and 802.11g too, after it's first few months of availability) and with 802.11a you're still stuck with archaic encryption options (unless you want to wrap it in something else...which you can do to anything, including the other, cheaper standards). My knee-jerk ballpark guess is that we're split about 65/30/5 among the standards (802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11a respectively).
MS Rep: Hey baby, how 'bout lettin' big daddy in on a piece o' that action? Y! Rep: Oh no you dit'in! Oh no you dit'in! (gesticulates the talk-to-the-hand)
Anyone know of any good, reliable, cheap, non-firewalled broadband in the DC Metro area?
Cavalier may fit the bill. And no, I don't work for them, though I am a customer (of both Cavtel and Verizon) and the one Verizon problem I have a year that takes 180 minutes of my time to fix is way more obnoxious than the 3 Cavtel problems I have a year that take a combined 60 minutes to fix.
...you need to power-cycle your DSL modem, disconnect everything but a single ethernet cable from your modem to your PC, reboot your PC, count to 30 while hopping on one foot, and say the alphabet backwards first before anyone at Verizon will turn on their brains and acknowledge they have a problem. Plus...28 minutes on the phone?? Pffft. You don't get the "real" tech support until they keep you on the line for at least 60 minutes.
"Americans" working for an average salary in the 5 digit range should welcome the competition, because it's "the reality of a global economy," but Halliburton, working for an average contract in the 10 digit range, doesn't need the competition and should instead receive no-bid contracts. I wonder why that is? Is Halliburton participating in the economy of some other globe we don't know about?
Though of course one cannot prove God exists in a laboratory (God basically says this itself if you read the Bible thoroughly enough), I believe creation and evolution need not be mutually exclusive. Anyone with a compelling reason they are needs to let the world know. Until then, this is a nondebate.
From TFA: "HFI's manufacturer guarantees 10 percent fuel savings, which likely won't interest car companies or consumers, Raman said. But a reduction of pollution emissions could spur broader use."
Umm...who *wouldn't* be interested in saving 10% on fuel costs? As if biodiesel wasn't making diesel tech attractive enough...this is a true no-brainer. Go-go-gadget hydrogen-power.
Yes, please please please, get these behemoths to market so they drive down the prices of 14" and 15" LCD models even more. I was just thinking about replacing my existing laptop, so this is welcome news.
In a few short years, users can expect to offer items at auction for free, with no fractional charges, as part of a package of services through which auction site operators make money on advertising, Verizon's chief executive said on Wednesday. The same chief executive was later seen singing "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa" by Napoleon XIV.
...in that the questioner appears to assume that "hacking" must be either "art" or "science." I defy anyone to thoroughly explain why it is necessarily and entirely one or the other -- because it very plainly is a mixture of both, imho.
In case you didn't notice, I stopped taking this seriously about 3 posts ago. Why you keep making these apparently genuine efforts to attack and insult me is anyone's guess, but at the top of my list is: you're in love with having the last word. So go ahead -- prove me wrong -- and shut yer trap already.
OK, up until this point it's been a harmless exchange, but that *really hurts*. I'm going to go cry in the corner and question my reason for living now, having been so utterly devastated by your merciless and unstoppable verbal assault. Please spare me!
Right now I'm thinking about doing a Weird Al-style parody of Bone Thugz N Harmony's "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" -- the working title is "Polish Trollish Troll." Can I book you for the video shoot?
What's outlandish is the notion that the criminal in this case somehow managed to fool countless defense teams and members of the legal system into thinking he was fit to stand trial when he was not. The guy is a career criminal. If he'd had even one chance of making an insanity defense against any of his numerous crimes, he'd have done it by now.
Seriously, this point doesn't need any more exploration. Either you get it or you don't.
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This parent might be Redundant, but I don't see how the statement fits any definition of flamebaiting. Is the expressed idea (mistakes may be made, persons misidentified as having information worth torturing for are in fact tortured) so far removed from the plausible?
...was starting the debate "who looks more like Mario, Lou Albano, or Ron Jeremy?"
Just register every domain against a unique entity -- a pain in the butt, but if this is the road we're headed down, I'm sure such a practice will become commonplace given the apparent risks vs rewards.
I agree completely. That's why I was staring at 256-color GIFs, listening to Van Halen circa 1989, although the GIF format debuted around 1987 AFAIK.
;)
You have my sympathies.
...is called "Making so much money it don't mean a damn thing if piracy happens."
Seriously, free porn has been electronically available since the 80s for anyone with a minute amount of knowledge and dedication. Who are the authors fooling?
In the words of David Noble:
(Corporations) "have the ability to transfer production from one country to another, to close a plant in one and reopen it elsewhere, to direct and redirect investment wherever the 'climate' is most favourable [to business]. . . . [I]t has enabled the corporation to play one workforce off against another in the pursuit of the cheapest and most compliant labour (which gives the misleading appearance of greater efficiency). . . [I]t has compelled regions and nations to compete with one another to try and attract investment by offering tax incentives, labour discipline, relaxed environmental and other regulations and publicly subsidised infrastructure. . . Thus has emerged the great paradox of our age, according to which those nations that prosper most (attract corporate investment) by most readily lowering their standard of living (wages, benefits, quality of life, political freedom). The net result of this system of extortion is a universal lowering of conditions and expectations in the name of competitiveness and prosperity."
- from Progress Without People
Yes, it is a no-go in the US. The hardware has always been more expensive than 802.11b (and 802.11g too, after it's first few months of availability) and with 802.11a you're still stuck with archaic encryption options (unless you want to wrap it in something else...which you can do to anything, including the other, cheaper standards). My knee-jerk ballpark guess is that we're split about 65/30/5 among the standards (802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11a respectively).
MS Rep: Hey baby, how 'bout lettin' big daddy in on a piece o' that action?
Y! Rep: Oh no you dit'in! Oh no you dit'in! (gesticulates the talk-to-the-hand)
Anyone know of any good, reliable, cheap, non-firewalled broadband in the DC Metro area?
Cavalier may fit the bill. And no, I don't work for them, though I am a customer (of both Cavtel and Verizon) and the one Verizon problem I have a year that takes 180 minutes of my time to fix is way more obnoxious than the 3 Cavtel problems I have a year that take a combined 60 minutes to fix.
...you need to power-cycle your DSL modem, disconnect everything but a single ethernet cable from your modem to your PC, reboot your PC, count to 30 while hopping on one foot, and say the alphabet backwards first before anyone at Verizon will turn on their brains and acknowledge they have a problem. Plus...28 minutes on the phone?? Pffft. You don't get the "real" tech support until they keep you on the line for at least 60 minutes.
Don't you know how they troubleshoot already?
As Bill Hicks said: "We're a virus with shoes, OK?"
I am struggling to understand how this comment wasn't modded Funny.
LilGuy -- was there no irony in your post or am I just reading it completely wrong?
"Americans" working for an average salary in the 5 digit range should welcome the competition, because it's "the reality of a global economy," but Halliburton, working for an average contract in the 10 digit range, doesn't need the competition and should instead receive no-bid contracts. I wonder why that is? Is Halliburton participating in the economy of some other globe we don't know about?
Though of course one cannot prove God exists in a laboratory (God basically says this itself if you read the Bible thoroughly enough), I believe creation and evolution need not be mutually exclusive. Anyone with a compelling reason they are needs to let the world know. Until then, this is a nondebate.
From TFA: "HFI's manufacturer guarantees 10 percent fuel savings, which likely won't interest car companies or consumers, Raman said. But a reduction of pollution emissions could spur broader use."
Umm...who *wouldn't* be interested in saving 10% on fuel costs? As if biodiesel wasn't making diesel tech attractive enough...this is a true no-brainer. Go-go-gadget hydrogen-power.
See http://www.hitsongscience.com/technology.php for the developer's description, and1 710,1391951,00.html for The Guardian's write up.
see http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,1
Yes, please please please, get these behemoths to market so they drive down the prices of 14" and 15" LCD models even more. I was just thinking about replacing my existing laptop, so this is welcome news.
In a few short years, users can expect to offer items at auction for free, with no fractional charges, as part of a package of services through which auction site operators make money on advertising, Verizon's chief executive said on Wednesday. The same chief executive was later seen singing "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa" by Napoleon XIV.
...when MS is going to introduce the "throw-once" office chair!
...in that the questioner appears to assume that "hacking" must be either "art" or "science." I defy anyone to thoroughly explain why it is necessarily and entirely one or the other -- because it very plainly is a mixture of both, imho.
In case you didn't notice, I stopped taking this seriously about 3 posts ago. Why you keep making these apparently genuine efforts to attack and insult me is anyone's guess, but at the top of my list is: you're in love with having the last word. So go ahead -- prove me wrong -- and shut yer trap already.
OK, up until this point it's been a harmless exchange, but that *really hurts*. I'm going to go cry in the corner and question my reason for living now, having been so utterly devastated by your merciless and unstoppable verbal assault. Please spare me!
As the acronym-infatuated are wont to say -- LOL ;)
Right now I'm thinking about doing a Weird Al-style parody of Bone Thugz N Harmony's "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" -- the working title is "Polish Trollish Troll." Can I book you for the video shoot?
What's outlandish is the notion that the criminal in this case somehow managed to fool countless defense teams and members of the legal system into thinking he was fit to stand trial when he was not. The guy is a career criminal. If he'd had even one chance of making an insanity defense against any of his numerous crimes, he'd have done it by now.
Seriously, this point doesn't need any more exploration. Either you get it or you don't.