I have serious vision problems, and can't read pages heavily laden with flashing ads, so I run Adblock for everything but Google text ads. Block me, and people like me, if you want. But your page views will drop, and ultimately your ad revenue will suffer. As a matter of fact, it's my (our) page views that attract ads and support your site in the first place.
In other words, set up your ice-cream stand in your basement and you won't have freeloaders.
"Such a law is really just a legal excuse to do nasty things to anyone at all, at any time."
Bingo. It's not about "them." It's about YOU. Do you honestly think that real terrorists plot via email? Do you believe that the Govt. believes that? Silly boy. None of this surveillance shit, the security cams in every two-horse burg, the taps on every single electronic communication, is about "terrorism." It's about controlling people who have been taught to think that their lives are in imminent danger from terrorists every day, which they are not.
Some people read 1984 and liked what they saw. It's really that simple.
A few message boards? Why not stick to the Ubuntu boards? The people there are generally very helpful and not arrogant. They are also usually correct in their advice, unlike the windows boards I used to read, where 12-year olds were pulling really bad advice out of their asses.
But if the cops shot everybody, most especially the white children of Middle America, there'd be hell to pay. Better to scare the little shits off with tasers and rubber bullets and puke rays when they try to protest over tossing the quaint Geneva Conventions, that musty old Constitution, or the Magna Fuckin' Carta in the dustbin.
I used Automatix in my first Ubuntu install. No problems, but I took the warnings seriously, and for my second I simply hunted through the Ubuntu wiki and other places and installed all the codecs, etc., myself. The point is that all the unsafe stuff Automatix does is unnecessary -- why take the risk? The files are out there, not "in" Automatix -- just go get them and install them properly.
Seriously. Norton is the genital herpes of the PC world. People think they have to have it, but it doesn't really work (in truth, only a major brain upgrade could protect most of those folks), and it eats up so much of their processing power that eventually, when that drain is added to the weight of all the malware Norton hasn't blocked, they toss out their "worn out" (1 year old) PC and call Dell again.
Good for the economy, I suppose, but it makes me sick to watch it.
Did you know that Saddam actually hid the WMDs in Syria? That's why we couldn't find 'em. Absence of evidence is just evidence of diabolically clever guilt. Kaboom.
Did you know Dick Cheney and several score of his toadies actually believe that? And you don't think you can be nailed for having an encrypted partition?
"Nice" originally meant "ignorant" (Latin "nescius," not knowing). A bit later, it meant "stupid," then "slutty." Now you have a "nice" car. And civilization putters along nicely.
OK, it doesn't, but you can't blame nonstandard usage.
The cross-burning thing, I would say, is the least of the problems with Paul. There's a legitimate argument over protected speech there (not that Paul doesn't have a rich record of being a racist asshole).
But, more importantly, Paul has a long history of aligning himself with neo-fascist, white supremacist and Christian Reconstructionist groups. This man wants a fundamentalist, Taliban-esque theocracy run by white men. None for me, thanks.
whoever's at the switch is on the hook legally for any claim of excessive force, especially since the operator wouldn't be in any danger
Good luck with that. The identity of the operator will be classified under Homeland Security regulations. Just try to identify the operators of the surveillance drones now appearing over your city.
... or maybe just driving while black, or young, or poor in the wrong part of town. Yes, why mess with the excellent, highly professional police departments we have now? Besides, if this becomes common, the lads won't be able to dress up in their camo toy-soldier costumes and kick down the doors of weedy potheads, as is their wont.
I guess you weren't around for LEAA in the late 60s when Nixon gave brain-dead redneck cops all over the country the high-tech toys of the day (helicopters with gas dispensers, concussion grenades, rubber and wooden bullets, etc.) to play with. They were out the next day using them on damn near anyone in sight, including jaywalkers.
He generally does what he thinks is best, regardless of how the public is going to receive it, which is why people like me love him.
"The public" being most of the rest of the human race. So when this little piece of shit starts a war by lying to the electorate and kills ~300,000 civilians, shreds the constitution, and presides over the most breathtakingly incompetent and corrupt administration in recent history, he's just doing what he thinks is right? And that makes it OK, and you love him? And the fact that this little shithead didn't even know the difference between Shia and Sunni until this year doesn't bother you? Incredible.
Wrong again. Wal-Mart asks for picture ID from every [some random number] customer using a credit card. Apparently the register prompts the cashier to ask for it and will not complete the transaction until the cashier acknowledges that they have checked it.
Exactly. I have gone to a lot of trouble to make the ads on my pages as unobtrusive as possible, but it would be trivial for an ISP to replace my all-text Google Adsense ads and Amazon ads with flashing penis crap.
Worse yet, I wouldn't know it unless one of my readers complained -- how likely is that? It could be happening only at a local level with small ISPs and I'd never know. It sucks, and it most definitely is copyright infringement.
I can't believe they had the nerve to reference Carnivale in their pre-show promo clip last night. It was a great show (Clancy Brown as the preacher was abso-frigging-lutely brilliant) starved by budget cuts and finally cut short with a stupid rushed ending.
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I have serious vision problems, and can't read pages heavily laden with flashing ads, so I run Adblock for everything but Google text ads. Block me, and people like me, if you want. But your page views will drop, and ultimately your ad revenue will suffer. As a matter of fact, it's my (our) page views that attract ads and support your site in the first place.
In other words, set up your ice-cream stand in your basement and you won't have freeloaders.
Ex-CIA agent Larry Johnson has a different take on this incident:
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http://tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/sep/05/s
"Such a law is really just a legal excuse to do nasty things to anyone at all, at any time."
Bingo. It's not about "them." It's about YOU. Do you honestly think that real terrorists plot via email? Do you believe that the Govt. believes that? Silly boy. None of this surveillance shit, the security cams in every two-horse burg, the taps on every single electronic communication, is about "terrorism." It's about controlling people who have been taught to think that their lives are in imminent danger from terrorists every day, which they are not.
Some people read 1984 and liked what they saw. It's really that simple.
we don't need no stinking badgers.
"[A]t what point does a language reach a point where it should no longer evolve?"
Uh, how about "never"? What a bizarre sentiment. How do you plan to enforce such a restriction?
You have a power socket mounted in a housing at the edge of your front yard that you use for your xmas displays. OK if I plug my AC into it?
A few message boards? Why not stick to the Ubuntu boards? The people there are generally very helpful and not arrogant. They are also usually correct in their advice, unlike the windows boards I used to read, where 12-year olds were pulling really bad advice out of their asses.
Aw, that's sweet.
But if the cops shot everybody, most especially the white children of Middle America, there'd be hell to pay. Better to scare the little shits off with tasers and rubber bullets and puke rays when they try to protest over tossing the quaint Geneva Conventions, that musty old Constitution, or the Magna Fuckin' Carta in the dustbin.
I used Automatix in my first Ubuntu install. No problems, but I took the warnings seriously, and for my second I simply hunted through the Ubuntu wiki and other places and installed all the codecs, etc., myself. The point is that all the unsafe stuff Automatix does is unnecessary -- why take the risk? The files are out there, not "in" Automatix -- just go get them and install them properly.
Seriously. Norton is the genital herpes of the PC world. People think they have to have it, but it doesn't really work (in truth, only a major brain upgrade could protect most of those folks), and it eats up so much of their processing power that eventually, when that drain is added to the weight of all the malware Norton hasn't blocked, they toss out their "worn out" (1 year old) PC and call Dell again.
Good for the economy, I suppose, but it makes me sick to watch it.
No, no, GIN-ux. Comes with a big bottle. Helps a lot.
Did you know that Saddam actually hid the WMDs in Syria? That's why we couldn't find 'em. Absence of evidence is just evidence of diabolically clever guilt. Kaboom.
Did you know Dick Cheney and several score of his toadies actually believe that? And you don't think you can be nailed for having an encrypted partition?
"Nice" originally meant "ignorant" (Latin "nescius," not knowing). A bit later, it meant "stupid," then "slutty." Now you have a "nice" car. And civilization putters along nicely.
OK, it doesn't, but you can't blame nonstandard usage.
The cross-burning thing, I would say, is the least of the problems with Paul. There's a legitimate argument over protected speech there (not that Paul doesn't have a rich record of being a racist asshole).
But, more importantly, Paul has a long history of aligning himself with neo-fascist, white supremacist and Christian Reconstructionist groups. This man wants a fundamentalist, Taliban-esque theocracy run by white men. None for me, thanks.
whoever's at the switch is on the hook legally for any claim of excessive force, especially since the operator wouldn't be in any danger
Good luck with that. The identity of the operator will be classified under Homeland Security regulations. Just try to identify the operators of the surveillance drones now appearing over your city.
... or maybe just driving while black, or young, or poor in the wrong part of town. Yes, why mess with the excellent, highly professional police departments we have now? Besides, if this becomes common, the lads won't be able to dress up in their camo toy-soldier costumes and kick down the doors of weedy potheads, as is their wont.
I guess you weren't around for LEAA in the late 60s when Nixon gave brain-dead redneck cops all over the country the high-tech toys of the day (helicopters with gas dispensers, concussion grenades, rubber and wooden bullets, etc.) to play with. They were out the next day using them on damn near anyone in sight, including jaywalkers.
He generally does what he thinks is best, regardless of how the public is going to receive it, which is why people like me love him.
"The public" being most of the rest of the human race. So when this little piece of shit starts a war by lying to the electorate and kills ~300,000 civilians, shreds the constitution, and presides over the most breathtakingly incompetent and corrupt administration in recent history, he's just doing what he thinks is right? And that makes it OK, and you love him? And the fact that this little shithead didn't even know the difference between Shia and Sunni until this year doesn't bother you? Incredible.
Funny you should ask. I saw 'em just the other day on TV, standing in line for the latest shiny horseshit.
You're doin' a heck of a job, Generation iPod.
Oh, perhaps because Monday is the 60th anniversary of whatever happened happening, someone wrote a press release, and these clowns printed it as news.
Wrong again. Wal-Mart asks for picture ID from every [some random number] customer using a credit card. Apparently the register prompts the cashier to ask for it and will not complete the transaction until the cashier acknowledges that they have checked it.
Exactly. I have gone to a lot of trouble to make the ads on my pages as unobtrusive as possible, but it would be trivial for an ISP to replace my all-text Google Adsense ads and Amazon ads with flashing penis crap.
Worse yet, I wouldn't know it unless one of my readers complained -- how likely is that? It could be happening only at a local level with small ISPs and I'd never know. It sucks, and it most definitely is copyright infringement.
Please step out of the vehicle, sir.
"Blog" and "mashup" (as "mash-up") are both in the OED, both as draft entries for the next edition. No "podcast" yet, but give 'em six months.
The OED is a descriptive dictionary, not a prescriptive usage manual. But I'm sure John Simon and Andy Rooney are outraged right along with you.
I can't believe they had the nerve to reference Carnivale in their pre-show promo clip last night. It was a great show (Clancy Brown as the preacher was abso-frigging-lutely brilliant) starved by budget cuts and finally cut short with a stupid rushed ending.
if your music sounds good on an iPod, you're listening to crap.