Or has sex with underage boys/girls become the most vilified act in American culture?
I'm not condoning anything, but it's really getting out of hand. There are people dying by the thousands in this country and abroad, people in serious trouble with dope, women who aren't getting child support and who are getting beaten up, and yet with all these things going on, what America considers the most heinous crime is sex with children. I find it very bizarre that the same country that sobbed griveously over the death of Jon Benet Ramsey, who was dressed up like a hooker and paraded around in beauty contests before she turned 10, is chomping at the bit to put away pedophiles.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I see a little kid coming my way, I go the other direction. I would never address a child without his/her parent present, which is kind sad because when I was young, there were lots of adults who would talk to me. It would be kind of nice to be a buddy to some kid on the block, to find out what he/she is about, maybe even toss a ball around or something, but forget that. I don't need those problems.
As for the poor bastards who get themselves in a predicament with a kid, they might as well leave the country because their life is effectively over in this country.
Freedom requires skepticism of government motives. People have to understand and believe that, like Lord Acton said, power does corrupt. Not might or could, but does.
Or, in the case of post-911 America, is.
Well, it should be a gerund phrase, but you get the point.
Retailer Best Buy said this week that it will electronically process rebates for notebook PCs and PC accessories, eliminating the mail-in rebate.
the electronic rebate program for laptops will apply just to rebates Best Buy itself offers, and not third-party suppliers.
By the end of the two years, the retailer hopes to eliminate all mail-in rebates within its store
In the first week of February, the online rebates will be extended to a range of computer accessories
Over time, Best Buy will ask third-party vendors to get on board with Best Buy's electronic rebate system. However, the ability of Best Buy to process rebates from third-party vendors will vary by vendor
Is it just me or is every one of these statements contradicted in part by another statement in the article?
The Earth is 4 billion years old. Most weather information has been collected for 200 years or so. We could be affected by weather shifts that are part of a system that started 700 years ago. It's incredibly annoying when every time something weird happens weather-wise someone says "Global Warming!"
There's no way to assert definitively that your warm weather is because of the greenhouse effect. In fact, it almost certainly isn't. Global warming doesn't mean it gets hot everywhere. If that were true, you'd be seeing record highs simultaneously around the world.
The worst story I have heard about global warming was on NPR and some research group claimed that we are past the point of no return meaning that it doesn't matter what we do at this point, the permafrost is melting at an unstoppable rate and our world is going to change very rapidly into something uninhabitable.
Melting at an unstoppable rate? Change very rapidly into something uninhabitable? Exaggerate much?
The planet's climate has shifted drastically over the course of time without our interference. While there's no question the greenhouse effect is something we'd be better off without, there's no way to isolate its effect or assert conclusively we'd be immune from climactic changes if it had never happened. There are a handful of events which could conclude in our extinction; melting permafrost is far down on the list of things to worry about.
After cancelling Angel right before it's last season was to wrap up when it was the top show on the network Fox pretty muched showed it's ineptitude.
Angel was the top show on the network? The network with NFL football?
Angel was done. It jumped the shark when Cordelia died. With Fred gone, there wasn't much hope of it being interesting unless you think Harmony was a suitable female lead. Besides, Boreanaz put on so much weight he could barely fit in the frame. Vampires aren't supposed to wheeze when they kick someone, you know?
This article [hnn.us] shows that the wiretapping to US citizens by preseidential decree was started by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Typical end around, which we keep hearing ad nauseam from the current administration.
THE WIRETAP IS NOT THE ISSUE. SPY ON TERRORISTS TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT.
Eavesdropping on US citizens is warranted, provided you get a court order. Go to FISA, get it authorized. Make it a matter of record. They don't want to. It's not hard to figure out why.
Given that the wiretaps are in theory being used to track down suspected members of Al Qaeda, they would appear to be authorized by and well within the scope of the Sept. 18th resolution.
Key words: "in theory"
No one has an issue with wiretaps on suspected terrorists. All anyone wants is there to be some sort of record of who is being tapped. Wiretaps such as these are authorized within a secret court whose proceedings are not available to the public. The wiretaps can be made retroactively. The idea is that federal law enforcement can do their job protecting the country, but there still must be a paper trail for what they do to prevent them from abusing the privilege.
There is absolutely positively unequivocally no reason for them not to get a court order. It does not slow them down, nor does it jeopardize the secrecy of the operation. If they are not getting court orders for wiretaps, there is only one reason why.
Let me make this simple for you: I learned on Sesame Street that sharing is GOOD. It's going to be more difficult than you think to reprogram the inner-workings of my psyche that were molded by watching educational television as a child in the 80s.
Personally, I think this is what makes the whole RIAA thing lunacy.
They aren't going after the people who take, they are going after the people who share. And when I say share, I don't mean distribute and sell. I mean actually share, as in give away freely something they own (lawfully or not), without expectation for compensation. To strangers, no less. How often do you see that nowadays?
It's weird that a country so hung-up on Christian morality would criminalize what is the most widespread act of generosity in the last generation, particularly among young people. It just goes to show you... no matter what they say, the Powers That Be (TM) will always choose money over morality when it comes right down to it. Remember that when they're shoving "family values" down our throat.
Your brain uncritically accepts the first information it gets in any new subject area as correct, whether it is or not.
If this is true, it is to the extent that a person hasn't matured past childhood when we accept everything taught to us simply because we don't have enough acquired information to think critically. In childhood, we find someone we trust and let them do the thinking for us which means we are ripe to believe in things which aren't necessarily true. Thus Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jesus.
Most of us grow out of this stage. The rest vote conservative.
And how exactly is taking congested motorway to travel long distance within urban sprawl is more efficient than traveling by local train or metro? Or bus, provided that there are bus lanes?
It's not. But when you have a commuting radius in excess of 60 miles, which is typical in California metro areas for example, you can't possibly reach every neighborhood with a train or a metro. Do you have any idea what it would cost to build a subway of that size? Not to mention that towns have already been laid out with commuters in mind, meaning services aren't convenient without a car and so forth. Not saying it's right, but it is what it is.
Have you ever lived in Southern California? Somehow I doubt it.
That really sucks if you live in a country with poor mass transportation like, uh... 90% of the United States. It's going to be mostly OK in many European countries, where mass transportation (including high-speed trains) is already a fact of life and renewable energies are being increasingly adopted. I am not saying it will be a walk in the park, because it won't be, but most wealthy countries consume too much energy and waste so much of it.
There's a good reason the US doesn't have the mass transporation of European countries.
The United States is bigger than all of them put together.
Mass transportation will never be efficient except in the most densely-populated urban areas, where people live and commute within a small radius of one another. That's just not going to happen in rural communities. Too, public transportation doesn't work in cities that are laid out over a large area, e.g. Los Angeles.
Driving isn't just a part of the American lifestyle, for many people it's part of who they are. We identify ourselves with our cars; rightly or wrongly, they are part of our psychological makeup. Anyone that wants to govern in this country knows that they must provide the citizenry with automobiles and fuel. They just have to. I don't know what's going to happen when the reserves are depleted. I mean, it's entire plausible we'd send our troops to war on account of oil.
So, in 2006, Samba is finally able to do what windows was able in 2000?
Um, no. LDAP and Kerberos weren't invented by Microsoft. They put the two together and called it Active Directory, straying away from the RFCs and throwing in all manner of tweaks that required extensive reverse engineering on the part of the Samba team to figure out. That means figuring out the protocol from the packets, which is an incredible feat, especially as Microsoft's protocol designs aren't easily discerned and contain all sorts of weird gotchas (purposefully).
There's a lot of complexity under that GUI of yours and, whether you want to believe it or not, Microsoft isn't such an innovative organization. Generally, they poach something that's already widely available and tweak it so it won't be interoperable with other systems. If you call that innovation, then I guess that speaks for itself.
There is a perception that it is a rare, chronic, and treatable disease.
It is.
It is.
It is.
HIV spreads through sexual contact, which is what makes it as prevalent as it is, but it's still relatively rare in the general population. If you are exposed to it, you're far less likely to actually gain the infection compared to other blood-borne illnesses like Hepatitis C. And if you are HIV positive, the likelihood of going into full-fledged AIDS is still relatively low, particularly if you take protease inhibitors, which can reduce your viral load to nil.
These people who think that it's not that big a deal, while being incredibly naive and stupid in their assumptions, aren't necessarily wrong. If you care for yourself properly, you can live a full life (though the meds aren't a party).
The reason Linux, Unix and MacOS don't have this problem is because there isn't a big enough user base to make figuring out how to infect these systems PROFITABLE.
Wrong. The reason these operating systems don't have this problem is because software (notably the browser) is generally run by people as an unprivileged user, not as the administrator (root). A Windows box has hooks all over the place to make installing software easy for people who don't grasp computing concepts very easily, notably the concept of user permissions. That's what gets exploited.
perhaps we should call this group "cryptosapiensis" as their ways include actually using their smarts to hide the fact they have smarts, so that people would not feel intimidated by them
I would call this group "pathetic" actually. Anyone who walks around acting stupid so stupid people won't feel stupid in their presence is... well, I'm sure there's a good word for someone who is ashamed of their talent. Oh right, Christian.
For public smokers, I hope only that they are forced to sit in small, poorly ventilated rooms filled with smoke of a type they find unbearable for hours on end, every single day of their lives, until they die or quit smoking in public
Listening to people whine about it is punishment enough. If I knew who you were, I'd blow smoke in your face every time I saw you.
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I'm not condoning anything, but it's really getting out of hand. There are people dying by the thousands in this country and abroad, people in serious trouble with dope, women who aren't getting child support and who are getting beaten up, and yet with all these things going on, what America considers the most heinous crime is sex with children. I find it very bizarre that the same country that sobbed griveously over the death of Jon Benet Ramsey, who was dressed up like a hooker and paraded around in beauty contests before she turned 10, is chomping at the bit to put away pedophiles.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I see a little kid coming my way, I go the other direction. I would never address a child without his/her parent present, which is kind sad because when I was young, there were lots of adults who would talk to me. It would be kind of nice to be a buddy to some kid on the block, to find out what he/she is about, maybe even toss a ball around or something, but forget that. I don't need those problems.
As for the poor bastards who get themselves in a predicament with a kid, they might as well leave the country because their life is effectively over in this country.
Yuck.
Or, in the case of post-911 America, is.
Well, it should be a gerund phrase, but you get the point.
Retailer Best Buy said this week that it will electronically process rebates for notebook PCs and PC accessories, eliminating the mail-in rebate.
the electronic rebate program for laptops will apply just to rebates Best Buy itself offers, and not third-party suppliers.
By the end of the two years, the retailer hopes to eliminate all mail-in rebates within its store
In the first week of February, the online rebates will be extended to a range of computer accessories
Over time, Best Buy will ask third-party vendors to get on board with Best Buy's electronic rebate system. However, the ability of Best Buy to process rebates from third-party vendors will vary by vendor
Is it just me or is every one of these statements contradicted in part by another statement in the article?
Internet wins
White House administrator appears on television singing "Mr. Roboto"
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
I'm Kilroy, gosh darn it. -- President Bush
?!?
It's official. No opinion exists on which everyone is in agreement. I'm going to go listen to Radiohead and sulk.
Not as horrible as those nasty little squares of pizza they served that day.
Yuck.
Then I guess I'll start bogarting that joint again.
Equating a car with a MP3 file? Hey, I think your Orrin Hatch poster is hung crooked. I know it's hard to get straight with his shifty eyes.
The Earth is 4 billion years old. Most weather information has been collected for 200 years or so. We could be affected by weather shifts that are part of a system that started 700 years ago. It's incredibly annoying when every time something weird happens weather-wise someone says "Global Warming!"
There's no way to assert definitively that your warm weather is because of the greenhouse effect. In fact, it almost certainly isn't. Global warming doesn't mean it gets hot everywhere. If that were true, you'd be seeing record highs simultaneously around the world.
Melting at an unstoppable rate? Change very rapidly into something uninhabitable? Exaggerate much?
The planet's climate has shifted drastically over the course of time without our interference. While there's no question the greenhouse effect is something we'd be better off without, there's no way to isolate its effect or assert conclusively we'd be immune from climactic changes if it had never happened. There are a handful of events which could conclude in our extinction; melting permafrost is far down on the list of things to worry about.
Angel was the top show on the network? The network with NFL football?
Angel was done. It jumped the shark when Cordelia died. With Fred gone, there wasn't much hope of it being interesting unless you think Harmony was a suitable female lead. Besides, Boreanaz put on so much weight he could barely fit in the frame. Vampires aren't supposed to wheeze when they kick someone, you know?
Typical end around, which we keep hearing ad nauseam from the current administration.
THE WIRETAP IS NOT THE ISSUE. SPY ON TERRORISTS TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT.
Eavesdropping on US citizens is warranted, provided you get a court order. Go to FISA, get it authorized. Make it a matter of record. They don't want to. It's not hard to figure out why.
Key words: "in theory"
No one has an issue with wiretaps on suspected terrorists. All anyone wants is there to be some sort of record of who is being tapped. Wiretaps such as these are authorized within a secret court whose proceedings are not available to the public. The wiretaps can be made retroactively. The idea is that federal law enforcement can do their job protecting the country, but there still must be a paper trail for what they do to prevent them from abusing the privilege.
There is absolutely positively unequivocally no reason for them not to get a court order. It does not slow them down, nor does it jeopardize the secrecy of the operation. If they are not getting court orders for wiretaps, there is only one reason why.
They are not using them for intended purposes.
Personally, I think this is what makes the whole RIAA thing lunacy.
They aren't going after the people who take, they are going after the people who share. And when I say share, I don't mean distribute and sell. I mean actually share, as in give away freely something they own (lawfully or not), without expectation for compensation. To strangers, no less. How often do you see that nowadays?
It's weird that a country so hung-up on Christian morality would criminalize what is the most widespread act of generosity in the last generation, particularly among young people. It just goes to show you ... no matter what they say, the Powers That Be (TM) will always choose money over morality when it comes right down to it. Remember that when they're shoving "family values" down our throat.
If I take the CDs in my collection I don't like and put them outside my apartment so anyone on the street can pick them up, I'm breaking the law?
If this is true, it is to the extent that a person hasn't matured past childhood when we accept everything taught to us simply because we don't have enough acquired information to think critically. In childhood, we find someone we trust and let them do the thinking for us which means we are ripe to believe in things which aren't necessarily true. Thus Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jesus.
Most of us grow out of this stage. The rest vote conservative.
It's not. But when you have a commuting radius in excess of 60 miles, which is typical in California metro areas for example, you can't possibly reach every neighborhood with a train or a metro. Do you have any idea what it would cost to build a subway of that size? Not to mention that towns have already been laid out with commuters in mind, meaning services aren't convenient without a car and so forth. Not saying it's right, but it is what it is.
Have you ever lived in Southern California? Somehow I doubt it.
Oh, and bullshit right back to you.
There's a good reason the US doesn't have the mass transporation of European countries.
The United States is bigger than all of them put together.
Mass transportation will never be efficient except in the most densely-populated urban areas, where people live and commute within a small radius of one another. That's just not going to happen in rural communities. Too, public transportation doesn't work in cities that are laid out over a large area, e.g. Los Angeles.
Driving isn't just a part of the American lifestyle, for many people it's part of who they are. We identify ourselves with our cars; rightly or wrongly, they are part of our psychological makeup. Anyone that wants to govern in this country knows that they must provide the citizenry with automobiles and fuel. They just have to. I don't know what's going to happen when the reserves are depleted. I mean, it's entire plausible we'd send our troops to war on account of oil.
Oh, wait.
Um, no. LDAP and Kerberos weren't invented by Microsoft. They put the two together and called it Active Directory, straying away from the RFCs and throwing in all manner of tweaks that required extensive reverse engineering on the part of the Samba team to figure out. That means figuring out the protocol from the packets, which is an incredible feat, especially as Microsoft's protocol designs aren't easily discerned and contain all sorts of weird gotchas (purposefully).
There's a lot of complexity under that GUI of yours and, whether you want to believe it or not, Microsoft isn't such an innovative organization. Generally, they poach something that's already widely available and tweak it so it won't be interoperable with other systems. If you call that innovation, then I guess that speaks for itself.
It is.
It is.
It is.
HIV spreads through sexual contact, which is what makes it as prevalent as it is, but it's still relatively rare in the general population. If you are exposed to it, you're far less likely to actually gain the infection compared to other blood-borne illnesses like Hepatitis C. And if you are HIV positive, the likelihood of going into full-fledged AIDS is still relatively low, particularly if you take protease inhibitors, which can reduce your viral load to nil.
These people who think that it's not that big a deal, while being incredibly naive and stupid in their assumptions, aren't necessarily wrong. If you care for yourself properly, you can live a full life (though the meds aren't a party).
Wrong. The reason these operating systems don't have this problem is because software (notably the browser) is generally run by people as an unprivileged user, not as the administrator (root). A Windows box has hooks all over the place to make installing software easy for people who don't grasp computing concepts very easily, notably the concept of user permissions. That's what gets exploited.
Do you know where I can download that? Rad!
I would call this group "pathetic" actually. Anyone who walks around acting stupid so stupid people won't feel stupid in their presence is ... well, I'm sure there's a good word for someone who is ashamed of their talent. Oh right, Christian.
As Popeye says, "I am what I am."
rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.n/kernel/drivers/usb/storage should do it.
Oh, right. Windows.
And it is never too early to ask for more money.
Listening to people whine about it is punishment enough. If I knew who you were, I'd blow smoke in your face every time I saw you.