Where do you get this bullshit from? Do you make it up yourself, or let Rush make it up for you? Occupy IS the middle class, as well as the former middle class who are now poor.
That seems to be over at this point.
WTF? Yesterday 300 protesters were arrested in Los Angeles. Right now Occupy is hiking from Wall Street to the King Memorial in Washington DC to Georgia, following the Civil Rights Movement march. They're somewhere between DC and Georgia now. Both items were on the TV news this morning. To quote Twain, "reports of my death are greatly exagerated."
You might want to read an actual newspaper once in a while and stop listening to some damned AM radio drug junkie. Speqaking of which, you might want to lay off the cocaine, Mister Banker.
The bank isn't the problem, the government is. See my earlier response to the comment you're responding to.
Can anyone explain to me why store clerks aren't required to look at a signature ID before cashing a check? I'm being prosecuted by a store I've never set foot in, in a toiwn I've never even driven through.
In these situations you have to prove that you are Innocent which is damn near impossible.
My house was broken into and a box of blank checks stolen in April. I'm still dealing with the idiots at the Sangamon County State's Attorney office, who are harrassing me about -- get this -- bounced checks. Hell yes they bounced, I closed the account the day after the burglary. None of those bounced checks have my signature, so the State's Attorney is going to look damned foolish when the judge sees that the signature isn't mine.
It would be nice if government would help victims of identity theft instead of victimizing them further. I don't know who I'm voting for next election, but I know good and well who I'm voting against.
Yes they so, but they don't represent you or me. They represent the people who put them in office, the people who bankrolled their candidacy, the corporations.
America is still a very rich country. Even if we paid $10/gallon at the pump, we'd still be paying lower taxes than Germans (no VAT here and lower income and property tax).
I wonder how taxes stack up if you include your very expensive health care costs in your "taxes". Right-wingers all moan about how taxes will go up if we adopt universal health care like the less idiotic countries do, but I'd wager that taxes would rise less than the cost of insurance, because the insurance companies are parasitic middlemen who do nothing for health care except make it more expensive.
That money doesn't just go 'poof'. In Germany, you can get a free college education
Yep, add the cost of your student loans to your tax bill.
there's no painless way of digging out of the huge debt the US is already in.
Well, there is, but it won't happen. If you can somehow stimulate the economy, government gets a WHOLE lot more revenue without anyone's taxes going up. Oh, and BTW, US Federal taxes are lower than any time since the Truman administration, which makes me wonder WTF the teabaggers are thinking.
Who wants to have a collection of CDs when you can have all the music you want in your pocket, and find any song quicker than what it takes you to walk to your CD collection and find the CD you want to listen to.
I do, I don't want to lose my entire music collection because my hard drive dies. Reripping a CD is no problem, having to buy the music all over again is.
And the same happened to photos.
Well, digital photography is a bit different, since it's you who is producing the content. I don't even have a camera any more, I just use my phone. Seeing the photos on a 42 inch screen is far better than a littles 3x5 piece of paper. But again, you need backups. Way easier and cheaper than backing up physical photographs, with no loss of quality to boot.
Who wants to keep a huge library of books you will read only once?
Why BUY a book you're only going to read once? The library is free. I doubt there's a single book on my shelves that I've only read once.
Unions are too localized, unrecognized by the world community, and are often met with military actions.
Those are problems, but solvable ones.
Most are considered government bodies (communist party).
I wouldn't consider that kind of "union" a union at all. Unions are truly democratic bodies. Union members vote for its leadership and negotiators, and when a contract is negotiated, the members vote for or against ratification.
I'd like to see the AFL-CIO to become the WFL-CIO (World Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations).
You can't be much older than the geezer that coined the phrase intertubes
the people who create that product create wealth for the stockholder
Only true when the stock in question pays dividends. Speculation on its future price bears no relation to actual wealth created by the company and its employees.
Entirely true. Personally, I'd never buy a stock that didn't pay dividends, as I'm not a gambler.
The biggest problem I have with Windows (and MS products in general) is changes between releases. For example, what was wrong with XP's control panel? Why did they change the damned thing around making it so hard to find anything? Why couldn't I disable the "tap to click" feature from there? Why was the "settings" in IE in a completely different place in every release from 1 to 6?
The married couple may want to be prompted for a password, when you install Linux it asks you. Simple. They would be prompted for a password. Not there at all in Windows; you get the password whether you want it or not.
I equate "less choice" as "less user friendly". I equate "having to hunt for shit" as being user-hostile. I equate "do it my way or you can't do it" as user hostile.
Even without tools or even intelligence a species can destroy the entire planet's ecosystem -- it happened once a few billion years ago, when the first life produced a deadly toxin in the atmosphere that killed almost everything alive.
Ignorance and superstition. Bats eat insects -- LOTS of insects. They do no harm to society, other animals, or anything else. Little brown bats are insectivores, eating moths, wasps, beetles, gnats, mosquitoes, midges and mayflies, among others. You like mosquitos, cockroaches, flies, and moths?
I only check my personal email every few days at the most, and I get little email; it's mostly IM and phone calls. Email was great before everybody had text phones and free calling. My work email, otoh, is open all the time. But I don't work with my friends.
Only if you have a reciever tuned to 33.8 Hz with great big speakers (you need a speaker capable of reproducing a tone that low, and few can). You can't hear EMF. ELFs are real, not just in Middle Earth! Most speakers, even the best, don't go down that far.
Hz was around before the car rental, iinm. And it honors a great man. MCS confused me for a minute, I remember (dimly, I do remember being annoyed that thay changed Cycles Per Second to Hz). I would have caught mCS.
Actually, I find that Linux is far easier to use than Windows. When a distro upgrade comes along, there are new perks that you learn. In Windows, an upgrade means you have to relearn the whole damned OS.
Someone who ran Mandrake eight years ago would have no trouble at all migrating to kubuntu 11. Someone running Windows 98 or XP at that time has to relearn everything when upgrading to Win 7.
The "Windows is easier and more user friendly" is a myth. It only seems that way because you kids grew up with Windows computers. My experience is far different. I bought a notebook with a "feature" I absolutely hated -- "tap to click". It took a MONTH to find out where to shutr it off. It was nowhere in the control panel, but in a little widget at the bar at the bottom of the screen, and about twenty mouse clicks from there. When I installed Linux on it, it took less than five minutes to find and change it.
How user friendly is having to reboot? Yes, Windows has gotten better about this, but it still sucks.
How user friendly is the need for AV software?
How user friendly is changing the entire menu system of an application around with every upgrade? How user friendly is that forty character antipiracy key? How user friendly is two dozen reboots for an OS upgrade (which includes all the apps you have to reinstall manually)? in Linux, an OS upgrade requires a single reboot.
How user friendly is having to type your password to log on to a machine behind locked doors that only you use?
How user friendly is a machine that when the power goes out, you restart it and all the apps and documents that were open are now closed? Restart a Linux box and it comes up exactly like you shut it down, unless you change that behavior. Windows doesn't even give you a choice.
How user friendly is doing things the Microsoft way instead of your own way? Actually, I want my computer to be obedient, not friendly. I don't care if it curses me as long as it does what I want it to do, how I want it to do it.
How user friendly is an OS that makes you reinstall every single app when you upgrade?
Can you name ONE thing about Windows that's more "user friendly?"* I use both OSes, do you? I'd be surprised if you've touched a Linux box in at least ten years.
I mean, I haven't had mod points here in like, forever.
There would be two possible reasons for this: 1. You do too much trolling 2. You comment too much.
I went years without mod points, despite excellent karma. Then I stopped posting for a few days (didn't have anything to say so I lurked), and lo and behold I was getting fifteen points every three days.
Oddly, great karma will keep you from getting mod points. What happens is, you make three or four highly rated comments, and you wind up with thirty responses each, half of which demand an answer. If you make a lot of insightful, interesting, informative, or even funny (despite the fact that funny gains no karma) comments, you'll probably wind up not moderating for a while.
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No, the treaty bans space based military action. Not that anyone is following that treaty...
Where do you get this bullshit from? Do you make it up yourself, or let Rush make it up for you? Occupy IS the middle class, as well as the former middle class who are now poor.
That seems to be over at this point.
WTF? Yesterday 300 protesters were arrested in Los Angeles. Right now Occupy is hiking from Wall Street to the King Memorial in Washington DC to Georgia, following the Civil Rights Movement march. They're somewhere between DC and Georgia now. Both items were on the TV news this morning. To quote Twain, "reports of my death are greatly exagerated."
You might want to read an actual newspaper once in a while and stop listening to some damned AM radio drug junkie. Speqaking of which, you might want to lay off the cocaine, Mister Banker.
I like the Dead Kennedies' version better.
Drinkin' beer in the hot sun
I fough the law and I won.
I fought the law and
I won.
The bank isn't the problem, the government is. See my earlier response to the comment you're responding to.
Can anyone explain to me why store clerks aren't required to look at a signature ID before cashing a check? I'm being prosecuted by a store I've never set foot in, in a toiwn I've never even driven through.
In these situations you have to prove that you are Innocent which is damn near impossible.
My house was broken into and a box of blank checks stolen in April. I'm still dealing with the idiots at the Sangamon County State's Attorney office, who are harrassing me about -- get this -- bounced checks. Hell yes they bounced, I closed the account the day after the burglary. None of those bounced checks have my signature, so the State's Attorney is going to look damned foolish when the judge sees that the signature isn't mine.
It would be nice if government would help victims of identity theft instead of victimizing them further. I don't know who I'm voting for next election, but I know good and well who I'm voting against.
Thank you for that link, that was excellent.
They don't always represent
Yes they so, but they don't represent you or me. They represent the people who put them in office, the people who bankrolled their candidacy, the corporations.
I have no representation.
America is still a very rich country. Even if we paid $10/gallon at the pump, we'd still be paying lower taxes than Germans (no VAT here and lower income and property tax).
I wonder how taxes stack up if you include your very expensive health care costs in your "taxes". Right-wingers all moan about how taxes will go up if we adopt universal health care like the less idiotic countries do, but I'd wager that taxes would rise less than the cost of insurance, because the insurance companies are parasitic middlemen who do nothing for health care except make it more expensive.
That money doesn't just go 'poof'. In Germany, you can get a free college education
Yep, add the cost of your student loans to your tax bill.
there's no painless way of digging out of the huge debt the US is already in.
Well, there is, but it won't happen. If you can somehow stimulate the economy, government gets a WHOLE lot more revenue without anyone's taxes going up. Oh, and BTW, US Federal taxes are lower than any time since the Truman administration, which makes me wonder WTF the teabaggers are thinking.
Who wants to have a collection of CDs when you can have all the music you want in your pocket, and find any song quicker than what it takes you to walk to your CD collection and find the CD you want to listen to.
I do, I don't want to lose my entire music collection because my hard drive dies. Reripping a CD is no problem, having to buy the music all over again is.
And the same happened to photos.
Well, digital photography is a bit different, since it's you who is producing the content. I don't even have a camera any more, I just use my phone. Seeing the photos on a 42 inch screen is far better than a littles 3x5 piece of paper. But again, you need backups. Way easier and cheaper than backing up physical photographs, with no loss of quality to boot.
Who wants to keep a huge library of books you will read only once?
Why BUY a book you're only going to read once? The library is free. I doubt there's a single book on my shelves that I've only read once.
Unions are too localized, unrecognized by the world community, and are often met with military actions.
Those are problems, but solvable ones.
Most are considered government bodies (communist party).
I wouldn't consider that kind of "union" a union at all. Unions are truly democratic bodies. Union members vote for its leadership and negotiators, and when a contract is negotiated, the members vote for or against ratification.
I'd like to see the AFL-CIO to become the WFL-CIO (World Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations).
You can't be much older than the geezer that coined the phrase intertubes
Shit, Ted Stevens is older than my dad.
the people who create that product create wealth for the stockholder
Only true when the stock in question pays dividends. Speculation on its future price bears no relation to actual wealth created by the company and its employees.
Entirely true. Personally, I'd never buy a stock that didn't pay dividends, as I'm not a gambler.
What's wrong with hiring a few chemists and engineers as patent examiners?
Yes, they used to, but it's been decades since I've seen an innertube. I think bicycles still have them.
The biggest problem I have with Windows (and MS products in general) is changes between releases. For example, what was wrong with XP's control panel? Why did they change the damned thing around making it so hard to find anything? Why couldn't I disable the "tap to click" feature from there? Why was the "settings" in IE in a completely different place in every release from 1 to 6?
The married couple may want to be prompted for a password, when you install Linux it asks you. Simple. They would be prompted for a password. Not there at all in Windows; you get the password whether you want it or not.
I equate "less choice" as "less user friendly". I equate "having to hunt for shit" as being user-hostile. I equate "do it my way or you can't do it" as user hostile.
The population of the earth stayed relatively under control for centuries do to bloody wars, famines, plagues and the like.
And now that they're gone, the population rise is decreasing.
Even without tools or even intelligence a species can destroy the entire planet's ecosystem -- it happened once a few billion years ago, when the first life produced a deadly toxin in the atmosphere that killed almost everything alive.
The toxin was oxygen.
Ignorance and superstition. Bats eat insects -- LOTS of insects. They do no harm to society, other animals, or anything else. Little brown bats are insectivores, eating moths, wasps, beetles, gnats,
mosquitoes, midges and mayflies, among others. You like mosquitos, cockroaches, flies, and moths?
You wouldn't like your neighborhood without bats.
I only check my personal email every few days at the most, and I get little email; it's mostly IM and phone calls. Email was great before everybody had text phones and free calling. My work email, otoh, is open all the time. But I don't work with my friends.
LOL! You're sitting at 0, and he's at +3. Nobody notices MOST ACs because most ACs don't contribute much if anything to the discussion.
BTW, mods, I'm offtopic. Please mod accordingly, this comment was aimed at the parent only.
The freq discussed here are not in the hertzian freq range, but much lower. More in the 6 - 8 cycles range
Hz = cps. 6-8 cycles = 6-8 Hz.
Only if you have a reciever tuned to 33.8 Hz with great big speakers (you need a speaker capable of reproducing a tone that low, and few can). You can't hear EMF. ELFs are real, not just in Middle Earth! Most speakers, even the best, don't go down that far.
Hz was around before the car rental, iinm. And it honors a great man. MCS confused me for a minute, I remember (dimly, I do remember being annoyed that thay changed Cycles Per Second to Hz). I would have caught mCS.
Actually, I find that Linux is far easier to use than Windows. When a distro upgrade comes along, there are new perks that you learn. In Windows, an upgrade means you have to relearn the whole damned OS.
Someone who ran Mandrake eight years ago would have no trouble at all migrating to kubuntu 11. Someone running Windows 98 or XP at that time has to relearn everything when upgrading to Win 7.
The "Windows is easier and more user friendly" is a myth. It only seems that way because you kids grew up with Windows computers. My experience is far different. I bought a notebook with a "feature" I absolutely hated -- "tap to click". It took a MONTH to find out where to shutr it off. It was nowhere in the control panel, but in a little widget at the bar at the bottom of the screen, and about twenty mouse clicks from there. When I installed Linux on it, it took less than five minutes to find and change it.
How user friendly is having to reboot? Yes, Windows has gotten better about this, but it still sucks.
How user friendly is the need for AV software?
How user friendly is changing the entire menu system of an application around with every upgrade? How user friendly is that forty character antipiracy key? How user friendly is two dozen reboots for an OS upgrade (which includes all the apps you have to reinstall manually)? in Linux, an OS upgrade requires a single reboot.
How user friendly is having to type your password to log on to a machine behind locked doors that only you use?
How user friendly is a machine that when the power goes out, you restart it and all the apps and documents that were open are now closed? Restart a Linux box and it comes up exactly like you shut it down, unless you change that behavior. Windows doesn't even give you a choice.
How user friendly is doing things the Microsoft way instead of your own way? Actually, I want my computer to be obedient, not friendly. I don't care if it curses me as long as it does what I want it to do, how I want it to do it.
How user friendly is an OS that makes you reinstall every single app when you upgrade?
Can you name ONE thing about Windows that's more "user friendly?"* I use both OSes, do you? I'd be surprised if you've touched a Linux box in at least ten years.
*"Pretty" != "User friendly"
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I mean, I haven't had mod points here in like, forever.
There would be two possible reasons for this:
1. You do too much trolling
2. You comment too much.
I went years without mod points, despite excellent karma. Then I stopped posting for a few days (didn't have anything to say so I lurked), and lo and behold I was getting fifteen points every three days.
Oddly, great karma will keep you from getting mod points. What happens is, you make three or four highly rated comments, and you wind up with thirty responses each, half of which demand an answer. If you make a lot of insightful, interesting, informative, or even funny (despite the fact that funny gains no karma) comments, you'll probably wind up not moderating for a while.