Wtf is an EU patriot? Someone who believes that all of Europe should be under the iron fist of unelected elites? Do such people still exist? I thought we got rid of them in WW2...
Hate speech, e.g. outright calls for violence, is and should be illegal in all civilized societies. Making threats, including thinly veiled ones, illegal isn't so much censorship as preserving public order.
This is clearly the far-left strategy:
1. Pretend to be against violence. 2. Ban violence. 3. Claim that speech you don't like is violence. 4. Ban any speech you don't like. 5. Beat the living fuck out of anyone saying things you don't like (after all, it's just self defense).
It should really have been obvious all along, but it wasn't until they rolled out the concept of "microagression" that people really started to clue in.
I don't even know which of these APKs (if any) is real any more. It's quite possible that Pete died years ago and now it's just a bunch of ACs pretending to be him and arguing with each other. How could anyone really tell the difference?
No, it's disreputable because reputable sources who have investigated formed a consensus that it's disreputable.
And of course "reputable" just means "ones I agree with". That's a cute shell game. Anyone who disagrees with you is disreputable because everyone who agrees with you agrees that they're disreputable!
He means attacking reputable media organizations, claiming they are part of some leftist conspiracy, calling them fake news and banning their staff from the White House for trying to get answers to difficult questions.
Of course he does. And, same as you, he defines "reputable" as left-wing media organizations which agree with him. Those are off limits - no criticism allowed! The right wing organizations which disagree with him? Hell, you can criticize them all you like!
How many people earth can feed in this time is the important question, which I think is hard to answer.
It can be broadly answered with "more". Increased CO2 is a good thing for the things we eat. So is more heat. Lack of water might become an issue but we can solve that with desalination and irrigation, so it's only really a problem for dirt poor places which can't manage to implement the needed technology. Which is the crux of the matter; global warming is primarily a problem for places which are already pretty shitty, and will get much shittier. We will either have to help them, or we will be facing waves of migrants and refugees which make the recent ones look like a slow trickle in comparison.
I don't think the Canadian PM cares about your constitution. Certainly the Canadian government has shown repeatedly that they don't care about free speech.
It's disreputable because left-leaning people say it's disreputable. By that logic CNN is disreputable because right-leaning people say it's disreputable.
Anyway, didn't you hear what the PM said? You're not allowed to criticize them; they're media! Where is the respect???
A New Hampshire man was arrested for biting a police dog while officers were investigating reports of a shooting in the town of Boscawen, police officials said on Tuesday.
Incidentally, while car drivers kill around 10 pedestrians a year jumping read lights, cyclists do not, which is the key difference.
The issue of pedestrian safety was highlighted earlier this year when cyclist Charlie Alliston, 20, was jailed for 18 months for knocking over and killing a woman as he sped through east London.
His victim Kim Briggs, 44, was crossing the street when she was struck by Allistonâ(TM)s racing bike, which it later emerged had no front brakes.
True. I wrote a couple reviews warning consumers against items which were obviously fraudulent; Amazon's response was to delete my reviews and send me an emailing warning that "repeated abuse will result in you no longer being able to post reviews". Apparently telling people that a "4k" camera isn't really 4k, and that a "2,000 watt power converter" won't handle more than 200 watts are both considered "abusive".
First, you're not going to get UHDTV over a 10 megabit link. You're not going to get very good HDTV over that.
Nonsense. Netflix does good quality HDTV at 5mbps. Using HEVC that could be further reduced to 3mbps.
UHDTV is a different ballgame but even that only requires 25 Mbps. This could, again, be reduced down to around 15 or so with HEVC. That's still a fuck of a long way away from gigabit speed.
Second, most of the world is on links faster than yours.
According to the latest figures I could find, something like half of the people in this world have NO internet access, so I'm going to say that this claim of yours is a load of shit.
What are you going to do, have broader band, broader-than-broad band and mega broadband?
No, I'm going to call it all broadband and then list the speed. You know, the way we've been doing it for over a decade now.
Gigabit to the home pioneered in Japan somewhere around 2000. You're eighteen years behind.
All of Japan could fit inside my home province, with enough room left over for two more Japans. Yet their population is 4 times larger than my entire country, and almost 10 times larger than my province. What Japan did in 2000 has dick all to do with what we can do here. Nor does it have any bearing on what we actually NEED, let alone what we should call it.
Also the gigabit standard wasn't even defined until 1998, so the idea that home connections at gigabit speeds were available in Japan 2 years later seems rather absurd. I guess by "available" you mean that the rich could pay to put one in, the same way I could buy a T3 line for $20,000 per month around that time.
Ten gigabits to the home FOR LESS THAN YOU ARE PAYING can be found in some towns in America, although the cable companies have done their damnest to have such things banned. The fact is, those providers exist and you would not be paying more, you'd be paying less.
That's wonderful for them. It still has nothing to do with anything.
Also I googled it; 10 gigabit to home costs far, far more than I'm paying, so again you're just way off.
You don't think you'd use it? Don't be so sure. Even back in 1991, I was regularly maxing out a 100 megabit Ethernet. Between TV, telephony, X11, and software development with a NAS, you can generate a fair bit. (Yes, you could get TV on the Internet in '91. The application was nv, it supported PAL and NTSC transmissions, and was generally pretty good.)
x11 and telephony generate insignificant amounts of traffic for home use; the fact that you would even mention them in the context of this discussion is hilarious. As far as TV goes, codecs were shit in 91 which is why you can now compress a 4.5 GB DVD down to something like 500 megabytes without appreciable quality loss. Of course DVDs weren't even a thing until the late 90s so I have no fucking clue what kind of compression your TV thingy was using; whatever it was it still has zero bearing on what we are doing today.
Just to put things into perspective, the average hard drive in 1991 was 40 megabytes. The largest possible drive you could have had would have been 240 MB. Maxing out your 100mbit connection with file transfers would have meant that you would have filled those drives in 3.2 seconds, and 19.2 seconds respectively. Except, of course, that you could never have done that because the drive speeds themselves were only in the neighbourhood of around 7 mbps; less than a tenth of your 100 Mbit Ethernet.
Which, of course, brings us to your 100 megabit Ethernet itself... which you claim to have magically had in 1991 despite the fact that the actual 802.3u standard wasn't formalized until 1995, and consumer devices didn't start appearing until some time after that.
All of which means that you're either horribly confused about a lot of stuff, or totally full of shit, or some combination of the two.
A few tribes run casinos but most do not. Many reservations are in remote areas with no customer base for gaming. Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota, which contains the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, is the poorest county in America.
I'm aware of that; my point was that there's no reason why the feds should be responsible for this. I wouldn't expect the federal government to step in and provide broadband service to some hillbillies in kentucky; no reason for them to be providing it to any native tribe either.
The more prosperous tribes have little interest in helping less fortunate tribes. There is little solidarity.
I'm aware of this also, which is why it makes me laugh when sjws and such try to make these kinds of things into a "white man vs The Natives" issue.
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If you had something better you would have presented it instead of shitting on capitalism.
Wtf is an EU patriot? Someone who believes that all of Europe should be under the iron fist of unelected elites? Do such people still exist? I thought we got rid of them in WW2 ...
"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." -- U.S. major justifying bombing and shelling civilian areas in BÃn Tre.
Quotes like these are evidence that fake news is not a recent phenomenon. The New York Times made that one up in 1968.
No one expects the European Inquisition?
Hate speech, e.g. outright calls for violence, is and should be illegal in all civilized societies. Making threats, including thinly veiled ones, illegal isn't so much censorship as preserving public order.
This is clearly the far-left strategy:
1. Pretend to be against violence.
2. Ban violence.
3. Claim that speech you don't like is violence.
4. Ban any speech you don't like.
5. Beat the living fuck out of anyone saying things you don't like (after all, it's just self defense).
It should really have been obvious all along, but it wasn't until they rolled out the concept of "microagression" that people really started to clue in.
I don't even know which of these APKs (if any) is real any more. It's quite possible that Pete died years ago and now it's just a bunch of ACs pretending to be him and arguing with each other. How could anyone really tell the difference?
Hard to take a bite out of crime without a 2th.
Amazingly enough, China's demands are much more reasonable and straightforward than those of the EU.
No, it's disreputable because reputable sources who have investigated formed a consensus that it's disreputable.
And of course "reputable" just means "ones I agree with". That's a cute shell game. Anyone who disagrees with you is disreputable because everyone who agrees with you agrees that they're disreputable!
He means attacking reputable media organizations, claiming they are part of some leftist conspiracy, calling them fake news and banning their staff from the White House for trying to get answers to difficult questions.
Of course he does. And, same as you, he defines "reputable" as left-wing media organizations which agree with him. Those are off limits - no criticism allowed! The right wing organizations which disagree with him? Hell, you can criticize them all you like!
Yeah that must be it.
How many people earth can feed in this time is the important question, which I think is hard to answer.
It can be broadly answered with "more". Increased CO2 is a good thing for the things we eat. So is more heat. Lack of water might become an issue but we can solve that with desalination and irrigation, so it's only really a problem for dirt poor places which can't manage to implement the needed technology. Which is the crux of the matter; global warming is primarily a problem for places which are already pretty shitty, and will get much shittier. We will either have to help them, or we will be facing waves of migrants and refugees which make the recent ones look like a slow trickle in comparison.
And then it was snuffed out by the extinction event that was caused by much more energetic lifeforms that outcompeted.
It was? Weird. I could swear I've seen at least a few trees in my lifetime ...
Yeah, the worst system except for all the rest.
I don't think the Canadian PM cares about your constitution. Certainly the Canadian government has shown repeatedly that they don't care about free speech.
It's disreputable because left-leaning people say it's disreputable. By that logic CNN is disreputable because right-leaning people say it's disreputable.
Anyway, didn't you hear what the PM said? You're not allowed to criticize them; they're media! Where is the respect???
Which is why biting a dog isn't a crime.
A New Hampshire man was arrested for biting a police dog while officers were investigating reports of a shooting in the town of Boscawen, police officials said on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
True. The other benefit of buying such a car is that you also don't have to save as much money for retirement since it won't be nearly as long.
Incidentally, while car drivers kill around 10 pedestrians a year jumping read lights, cyclists do not, which is the key difference.
The issue of pedestrian safety was highlighted earlier this year when cyclist Charlie Alliston, 20, was jailed for 18 months for knocking over and killing a woman as he sped through east London.
His victim Kim Briggs, 44, was crossing the street when she was struck by Allistonâ(TM)s racing bike, which it later emerged had no front brakes.
https://www.express.co.uk/news...
Sorry to hear about your financial problems :(
You actually expect this lunatic to be consistent / rational?
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Whatever you say Gene.
True. I wrote a couple reviews warning consumers against items which were obviously fraudulent; Amazon's response was to delete my reviews and send me an emailing warning that "repeated abuse will result in you no longer being able to post reviews". Apparently telling people that a "4k" camera isn't really 4k, and that a "2,000 watt power converter" won't handle more than 200 watts are both considered "abusive".
First, you're not going to get UHDTV over a 10 megabit link. You're not going to get very good HDTV over that.
Nonsense. Netflix does good quality HDTV at 5mbps. Using HEVC that could be further reduced to 3mbps.
UHDTV is a different ballgame but even that only requires 25 Mbps. This could, again, be reduced down to around 15 or so with HEVC. That's still a fuck of a long way away from gigabit speed.
Second, most of the world is on links faster than yours.
According to the latest figures I could find, something like half of the people in this world have NO internet access, so I'm going to say that this claim of yours is a load of shit.
What are you going to do, have broader band, broader-than-broad band and mega broadband?
No, I'm going to call it all broadband and then list the speed. You know, the way we've been doing it for over a decade now.
Gigabit to the home pioneered in Japan somewhere around 2000. You're eighteen years behind.
All of Japan could fit inside my home province, with enough room left over for two more Japans. Yet their population is 4 times larger than my entire country, and almost 10 times larger than my province. What Japan did in 2000 has dick all to do with what we can do here. Nor does it have any bearing on what we actually NEED, let alone what we should call it.
Also the gigabit standard wasn't even defined until 1998, so the idea that home connections at gigabit speeds were available in Japan 2 years later seems rather absurd. I guess by "available" you mean that the rich could pay to put one in, the same way I could buy a T3 line for $20,000 per month around that time.
Ten gigabits to the home FOR LESS THAN YOU ARE PAYING can be found in some towns in America, although the cable companies have done their damnest to have such things banned. The fact is, those providers exist and you would not be paying more, you'd be paying less.
That's wonderful for them. It still has nothing to do with anything.
Also I googled it; 10 gigabit to home costs far, far more than I'm paying, so again you're just way off.
You don't think you'd use it? Don't be so sure. Even back in 1991, I was regularly maxing out a 100 megabit Ethernet. Between TV, telephony, X11, and software development with a NAS, you can generate a fair bit. (Yes, you could get TV on the Internet in '91. The application was nv, it supported PAL and NTSC transmissions, and was generally pretty good.)
x11 and telephony generate insignificant amounts of traffic for home use; the fact that you would even mention them in the context of this discussion is hilarious. As far as TV goes, codecs were shit in 91 which is why you can now compress a 4.5 GB DVD down to something like 500 megabytes without appreciable quality loss. Of course DVDs weren't even a thing until the late 90s so I have no fucking clue what kind of compression your TV thingy was using; whatever it was it still has zero bearing on what we are doing today.
Just to put things into perspective, the average hard drive in 1991 was 40 megabytes. The largest possible drive you could have had would have been 240 MB. Maxing out your 100mbit connection with file transfers would have meant that you would have filled those drives in 3.2 seconds, and 19.2 seconds respectively. Except, of course, that you could never have done that because the drive speeds themselves were only in the neighbourhood of around 7 mbps; less than a tenth of your 100 Mbit Ethernet.
Which, of course, brings us to your 100 megabit Ethernet itself ... which you claim to have magically had in 1991 despite the fact that the actual 802.3u standard wasn't formalized until 1995, and consumer devices didn't start appearing until some time after that.
All of which means that you're either horribly confused about a lot of stuff, or totally full of shit, or some combination of the two.
A few tribes run casinos but most do not. Many reservations are in remote areas with no customer base for gaming. Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota, which contains the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, is the poorest county in America.
I'm aware of that; my point was that there's no reason why the feds should be responsible for this. I wouldn't expect the federal government to step in and provide broadband service to some hillbillies in kentucky; no reason for them to be providing it to any native tribe either.
The more prosperous tribes have little interest in helping less fortunate tribes. There is little solidarity.
I'm aware of this also, which is why it makes me laugh when sjws and such try to make these kinds of things into a "white man vs The Natives" issue.