The only way we are going to bootstrap Africa out of poverty is to get rid of all the robber barons and petty thieves that rule almost every country in Africa. I know I sound like a broken record here, but the rest of the world(including the US)
has sent pile after pile of money,food,and god knows what else to Africa only to have some murderous despot or another use that pile to buy guns,drugs,whores,palaces,tanks,planes,helicopters ,and damn near anything else with a price tag. The leaders need to be gotten rid of, then Africa will have prosperity.
THE ONLY THING TO FEAR IS THE TRUTH. The truth is Global Warming is a movie that has been playing on the news for 20 years
now. That's almost as long as Dark Side of the Moon's run.
The Ohio State University is only considered the best because they haven't played the Beavers yet. Go Beavs!!! And they only get a spaceport because our governor is a jackass.
We are all being led by the noses. All of the shouting on both sides takes our minds off the real problem.
The real problem that humanity has to defeat is fractionalism. We are given labels to name all that are not us, borders to keep at arms length all that are not us, and wars to instill fear in us against all that are not us. Everything that government does, including allowing the current twisted discourse on the theory of global warming, is a component of the plan to control all of our thoughts and deeds. What we believe is freedom of the press is just the most effective tool for managing us, there are no free thoughts anymore. Everything we believe has been fed to us to blind us to reality( including all of the conspiracy theories I am spouting ). We are slaves
Most of the time an atm in a bar isn't owned by any bank and keeping up with all the different encryption methods would be cost prohibitive unless everyone who owns atm's decided on one to use exclusively. You know that won't work because any encryption will be cracked and it would be "dog chasing tail" from then on. The pragmatic truth is that the fraud generated is cheaper than prevention and the publicity that comes with it's failure.
The collective works of Spider Robinson be sure to read all of the authors he mentions and listen to all the musicians also. I considered myself a huge fan of literature and music until I read his books. Luckily
I did read that first story, God is an Iron, and got hooked. Without that, Neal Stephenson and John D Mac-
Donald and Travis McGee would just be names.
My brother has the same problem. His ears, for whatever reason, do not transmit the higher frequencies properly. He tried banjo for about a year hoping to get his ears to work but they never did. A doctor surmises it has something to do with the how his tonsils and adenoids were removed but it could also be
genetic. Have no fear though, if tone deafness were deadly to a music career, Brittany Spears would be
completely unknown along with Gwen Stefani and every winner of that stupid Idol show.
This is easy to answer. Nobody has to bid to provide service.That is why your plan will fail. If you alter some ccompany's franchise agreement to stipulate servicing the municipal lines as a condition for allowing access to the locallity then you might get what your advocating, but most likely you will get a half finished project that will be another failed local government project. I just do nt ge where people think that any communications company will do the right thing for any reason other than the certain prospect of
losing their incorporation and being sold piecemeal at a surplus auction.
Soft in the head maybe. If we are only making it up to historically high temperatures then we aren't headed for disaster, we're headed to the climax of an epoch from which we shall invariably fall. When is the next ice age going to start? We are due for one, and it's a sure thing that your decendants will blame that on humans too if they inherit your keen intellect.
The point was that putting these two in charge of any amount of money is assinine. Whatever the goals are for it will soon be subsumed in a morass of shady dealing and outright thievery cloaked as incompetence( the reason they hired the Ex World Bank
president)
Yup the NYT doesn't want anyone to find out they used the same wire stories to fill their space as the BFE Times(Bum-fucked Egypt for those of you in Rio Linda)
Royalties to index a site for a search engine. This is the same chicken-shit thinking that causes cities to pass hotel room taxes. This era we live in where everybody has to make a buck on everybody elses back is the main reason life is so miserable these days. I would love it if search engines shut down for a week. Nobody goes anywhere on the net that they don't have the I.P.address for. Lets run the net like the old BBS days and see just how loud the little bitches squawk.No hits, No ad revenues, No nuthin, just a bunch of geeks gathering in well worn little niches in cyberspace and no commerce.
We rule the internet. It is the way it is because we needed much of what it has become. If we want to stop this crap from happening we have to pile scorn upon dickheads and embarass them, shame them into being useful and harmless same as we need to do to our elected officials who do not listen, embarass and shame the bastards into quitting or submitting.
A publicity whore and a guy who could find his financial ass with both hands and a map are going to take charge of a billion dollar trust. Hmm, Where are the whore houses going up? Can I apply for one?
That is exactly it. Trying to maximize distribution is starting to soften the market which means we either need to get to
work and make more customers or the distributors need to be less greedy and quit saturating the market.
It is time to invade California and restore order. I know we have our problems abroad but they pale to the importance of the job we have ahead of us bringing Caliornia out of its current drug induced coma. I live in Oregon and hearing this sends a chill dowm my back.
Imagine if the disease affecting them gets going here and we start doing stupid things like
charging bartenders with a crime if one of their patrons causes an accident.Oh yeah, i forgot, that already happened.I guess we could just hang the lawyers and hope for
This article hatched a thought in my head about a purchase I made on Ebay years ago. It was a collection of records an old metalhead was cleaning out and I bought a lot of 15 for 30$ because I wanted to try the whole Ebay thing. The lot was random and I ended up with some Yngwie and Iced Earth and Misfits albums but the jewel of the lot was the European release of the Scorpions-Virgin Killer. Now for any historian of metal you know what I had, for the rest I'll just say it would not be healthy for you to display the cover picture today. I finally had to burn it because I was so paranoid about somebody turning me in as a sex offender. Does that seem right. A classic album like that. The picture on the cover was taken in 75 and it wasn't against the law then, but now it'll get you a heap of crap.
False advertising used to be illegal. Now it's called differing opinions. Damn, the more I see ISP's fight this the more I'm convinced that we are missing something. They shouldn't be this afraid of making law out of a gentleman's agreement.
When I first started surfing the web it was so frightening and wonderful, like the first time inside a domed stadium. It is an enclosed space but that space is so vast you can't perceive it all at once. Now it is becoming increasingly fractured
by the limitations of my own imagination so I don't need somebody else putting walls up for me. Visit ten sites a day that you've never seen before,Now, before some suit makes it impossible.
Of an old saying I hold near and dear to my heart. The saying is of course "They couldn't be dumber if they cut off their own heads". Do the British think we're happy to hear this? Do they think it will help sales making this rather terse admission? They are acting like the little brother who tells mom you didn't split the cookies (you just convinced her you didn't take them) right and it wasn't fair that you got more. All the while knowing he will get his cookies and no punishment because he supposedly is too little or stupid to know better. The whole nyah nyah thing is really amusing too.
They were probably thinking "We'll get those cheeky insurrectionists and they'll look like idiots"
I never said he was innocent I just said nobody got him off the prosecution didn't convince te jury he did it. I personally think he did it but that isn't proof.
Nobody got O.J. off. He was innocent when he walked into the courtroom and the prosecution never convinced the jury otherwise pure and simple. It was the most exactly textbook example of how our justice system was designed to work I have ever witnessed. We have been deluding ourselves for years in that we tend to side with the police in their assessment of
guilt or innocence. I know that everybody says they don't trust the police,but in practice the accused is already convicted
just because the cops arrested them, in our minds anyway. look at that poor guy they had all hepped up over the olympic park bombing in Atlanta. His life was destroyed just as surely as if the FBI had put a bullet in his head and he was a damn hero. I chuckled a bit when Eric Rudolph(AKA The Real Bomber) was caught dumpster diving years later and there was just a little blurb about him being suspected of the olympic park bombing. I wondered just where the press had learned to be so circumspect. The one that really got me going was the Amy Smart kidnapping though. After all the hubbub about the Ramseys
Amy's parents were under a huge microscope. I lived in Vegas at the time and every other article was an I wonder piece about how it all seemed just a little too pat the way the little sister stuck to her story about the crazy bearded guy
and how the sheriff really might be doing a disservice to his community by allowing the family so much privacy and space.
I got the general idea that people were looking at that investigation saying "your just going to screw it up like they did in Colorado and the parents will get off scot free". Well time passed and by and by Amy was found and the guy who had was crazy and bearded and the parents were indeed non-complicite but I never ever heard anybody say "Well I'm Glad he sheriff didn't listen to my rantings, We would have been the biggest asses in the world if he had"
The only artists who would suffer from the demise of big music are the manufactured sensations that make up the top 40 airwaves. Honestly, I want to know,deep down in your heart,
Could you live without another new Ashley Simspon album? I could and that is what the fight is about with the RIAA right now,protecting the system that allows for huge profits on negligable outlays for talent. Interest in many artists does not generate the same cash flow
because everybody wants a cut so the less individual artists there are the less money that has to go for managers and pressings and studio time and distribution. The RIAA wasn't always evil because when the PMRC was at full strength the organization was helping artists fight censorship so I know it used to stand for freedom, I just wonder whose freedom they stand for now.
I would love to see the proof on that mathmatically. I have an itching feeling that one day we will find out that we have been operating under assumptions that are at least as asinine as the flat earth theory or the belief in the existance of any GOD
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The only way we are going to bootstrap Africa out of poverty is to get rid of all the robber barons and petty thieves that rule almost every country in Africa. I know I sound like a broken record here, but the rest of the world(including the US) has sent pile after pile of money,food,and god knows what else to Africa only to have some murderous despot or another use that pile to buy guns,drugs,whores,palaces,tanks,planes,helicopters ,and damn near anything else with a price tag. The leaders need to be gotten rid of, then Africa will have prosperity.
THE ONLY THING TO FEAR IS THE TRUTH. The truth is Global Warming is a movie that has been playing on the news for 20 years now. That's almost as long as Dark Side of the Moon's run.
Few of the horses in his cavalcade were said to be over 14 hands, thus it may be inferred that he did indeed die from falling off a pony.
The Ohio State University is only considered the best because they haven't played the Beavers yet. Go Beavs!!! And they only get a spaceport because our governor is a jackass.
We are all being led by the noses. All of the shouting on both sides takes our minds off the real problem. The real problem that humanity has to defeat is fractionalism. We are given labels to name all that are not us, borders to keep at arms length all that are not us, and wars to instill fear in us against all that are not us. Everything that government does, including allowing the current twisted discourse on the theory of global warming, is a component of the plan to control all of our thoughts and deeds. What we believe is freedom of the press is just the most effective tool for managing us, there are no free thoughts anymore. Everything we believe has been fed to us to blind us to reality( including all of the conspiracy theories I am spouting ). We are slaves
Most of the time an atm in a bar isn't owned by any bank and keeping up with all the different encryption methods would be cost prohibitive unless everyone who owns atm's decided on one to use exclusively. You know that won't work because any encryption will be cracked and it would be "dog chasing tail" from then on. The pragmatic truth is that the fraud generated is cheaper than prevention and the publicity that comes with it's failure.
The collective works of Spider Robinson be sure to read all of the authors he mentions and listen to all the musicians also. I considered myself a huge fan of literature and music until I read his books. Luckily I did read that first story, God is an Iron, and got hooked. Without that, Neal Stephenson and John D Mac- Donald and Travis McGee would just be names.
1. Stand on dick 2. Point and yell "I'm standing on my dick and I like it!" 3. Step off dick and apologize for waking natives.
My brother has the same problem. His ears, for whatever reason, do not transmit the higher frequencies properly. He tried banjo for about a year hoping to get his ears to work but they never did. A doctor surmises it has something to do with the how his tonsils and adenoids were removed but it could also be genetic. Have no fear though, if tone deafness were deadly to a music career, Brittany Spears would be completely unknown along with Gwen Stefani and every winner of that stupid Idol show.
This is easy to answer. Nobody has to bid to provide service.That is why your plan will fail. If you alter some ccompany's franchise agreement to stipulate servicing the municipal lines as a condition for allowing access to the locallity then you might get what your advocating, but most likely you will get a half finished project that will be another failed local government project. I just do nt ge where people think that any communications company will do the right thing for any reason other than the certain prospect of losing their incorporation and being sold piecemeal at a surplus auction.
Soft in the head maybe. If we are only making it up to historically high temperatures then we aren't headed for disaster, we're headed to the climax of an epoch from which we shall invariably fall. When is the next ice age going to start? We are due for one, and it's a sure thing that your decendants will blame that on humans too if they inherit your keen intellect.
The point was that putting these two in charge of any amount of money is assinine. Whatever the goals are for it will soon be subsumed in a morass of shady dealing and outright thievery cloaked as incompetence( the reason they hired the Ex World Bank president)
Yup the NYT doesn't want anyone to find out they used the same wire stories to fill their space as the BFE Times(Bum-fucked Egypt for those of you in Rio Linda)
Royalties to index a site for a search engine. This is the same chicken-shit thinking that causes cities to pass hotel room taxes. This era we live in where everybody has to make a buck on everybody elses back is the main reason life is so miserable these days. I would love it if search engines shut down for a week. Nobody goes anywhere on the net that they don't have the I.P.address for. Lets run the net like the old BBS days and see just how loud the little bitches squawk.No hits, No ad revenues, No nuthin, just a bunch of geeks gathering in well worn little niches in cyberspace and no commerce. We rule the internet. It is the way it is because we needed much of what it has become. If we want to stop this crap from happening we have to pile scorn upon dickheads and embarass them, shame them into being useful and harmless same as we need to do to our elected officials who do not listen, embarass and shame the bastards into quitting or submitting.
A publicity whore and a guy who could find his financial ass with both hands and a map are going to take charge of a billion dollar trust. Hmm, Where are the whore houses going up? Can I apply for one?
That is exactly it. Trying to maximize distribution is starting to soften the market which means we either need to get to work and make more customers or the distributors need to be less greedy and quit saturating the market.
It is time to invade California and restore order. I know we have our problems abroad but they pale to the importance of the job we have ahead of us bringing Caliornia out of its current drug induced coma. I live in Oregon and hearing this sends a chill dowm my back. Imagine if the disease affecting them gets going here and we start doing stupid things like charging bartenders with a crime if one of their patrons causes an accident.Oh yeah, i forgot, that already happened.I guess we could just hang the lawyers and hope for
This article hatched a thought in my head about a purchase I made on Ebay years ago. It was a collection of records an old metalhead was cleaning out and I bought a lot of 15 for 30$ because I wanted to try the whole Ebay thing. The lot was random and I ended up with some Yngwie and Iced Earth and Misfits albums but the jewel of the lot was the European release of the Scorpions-Virgin Killer. Now for any historian of metal you know what I had, for the rest I'll just say it would not be healthy for you to display the cover picture today. I finally had to burn it because I was so paranoid about somebody turning me in as a sex offender. Does that seem right. A classic album like that. The picture on the cover was taken in 75 and it wasn't against the law then, but now it'll get you a heap of crap.
False advertising used to be illegal. Now it's called differing opinions. Damn, the more I see ISP's fight this the more I'm convinced that we are missing something. They shouldn't be this afraid of making law out of a gentleman's agreement. When I first started surfing the web it was so frightening and wonderful, like the first time inside a domed stadium. It is an enclosed space but that space is so vast you can't perceive it all at once. Now it is becoming increasingly fractured by the limitations of my own imagination so I don't need somebody else putting walls up for me. Visit ten sites a day that you've never seen before,Now, before some suit makes it impossible.
Amen to that. I wish that newfangled Ubuntu had it in the distro, it can be a bitch going to look for it every time I gear up another box
Of an old saying I hold near and dear to my heart. The saying is of course "They couldn't be dumber if they cut off their own heads". Do the British think we're happy to hear this? Do they think it will help sales making this rather terse admission? They are acting like the little brother who tells mom you didn't split the cookies (you just convinced her you didn't take them) right and it wasn't fair that you got more. All the while knowing he will get his cookies and no punishment because he supposedly is too little or stupid to know better. The whole nyah nyah thing is really amusing too. They were probably thinking "We'll get those cheeky insurrectionists and they'll look like idiots"
I never said he was innocent I just said nobody got him off the prosecution didn't convince te jury he did it. I personally think he did it but that isn't proof.
Nobody got O.J. off. He was innocent when he walked into the courtroom and the prosecution never convinced the jury otherwise pure and simple. It was the most exactly textbook example of how our justice system was designed to work I have ever witnessed. We have been deluding ourselves for years in that we tend to side with the police in their assessment of guilt or innocence. I know that everybody says they don't trust the police,but in practice the accused is already convicted just because the cops arrested them, in our minds anyway. look at that poor guy they had all hepped up over the olympic park bombing in Atlanta. His life was destroyed just as surely as if the FBI had put a bullet in his head and he was a damn hero. I chuckled a bit when Eric Rudolph(AKA The Real Bomber) was caught dumpster diving years later and there was just a little blurb about him being suspected of the olympic park bombing. I wondered just where the press had learned to be so circumspect. The one that really got me going was the Amy Smart kidnapping though. After all the hubbub about the Ramseys Amy's parents were under a huge microscope. I lived in Vegas at the time and every other article was an I wonder piece about how it all seemed just a little too pat the way the little sister stuck to her story about the crazy bearded guy and how the sheriff really might be doing a disservice to his community by allowing the family so much privacy and space. I got the general idea that people were looking at that investigation saying "your just going to screw it up like they did in Colorado and the parents will get off scot free". Well time passed and by and by Amy was found and the guy who had was crazy and bearded and the parents were indeed non-complicite but I never ever heard anybody say "Well I'm Glad he sheriff didn't listen to my rantings, We would have been the biggest asses in the world if he had"
The only artists who would suffer from the demise of big music are the manufactured sensations that make up the top 40 airwaves. Honestly, I want to know,deep down in your heart, Could you live without another new Ashley Simspon album? I could and that is what the fight is about with the RIAA right now,protecting the system that allows for huge profits on negligable outlays for talent. Interest in many artists does not generate the same cash flow because everybody wants a cut so the less individual artists there are the less money that has to go for managers and pressings and studio time and distribution. The RIAA wasn't always evil because when the PMRC was at full strength the organization was helping artists fight censorship so I know it used to stand for freedom, I just wonder whose freedom they stand for now.
I would love to see the proof on that mathmatically. I have an itching feeling that one day we will find out that we have been operating under assumptions that are at least as asinine as the flat earth theory or the belief in the existance of any GOD