Only one? Bothe Bush and Cheney have DUIs on their records. It's sad whan an old criminal like me has a better police record (IE, "none") than both the President and Vice President.
Of course, our previous Governor is headed for prison, as is some clown (Klutzo the Clown, in fact) who used to be a policeman but who is now knows ans "Klutzo the Child Molester".
My elected officials and law enforcement officials are such wonderful people! At least I don't live in Chicago!
Not like the boy who called "wolf", more like the woman who cried "rape". If I find myself in one of these databases, I'm going to call the nice people who helped me out with my divorce and bankruptcy.
There are laws against slander, and the government has deep pockets.
-mcgrew
PS- We have the best government money can buy. I split my vote between the Greens and the Libertarians. The foreign owned multinational corporations bribe the Republicrats, why waste my vote on a candidate whose interests are diametrically opposed to my own? A vote for a Republicrat is a vote against America. Why else would this bullshit even occur?
Most IT people still think Web 2.0 is an overhyped buzzword, but that might not matter:
Guilty as charged, sir.
This article is BS - someone needs to maintain the machines, network, reset passwords, update software, maintain databases, train clusers, etc. IT is changing? Hmmph, the sun is coming up tomorrow, too.
I hope you're wrong too, but I fear you're right. I expected cars to be driving themselves by now. OTOH, paralell parking is about the hardest thing for a human to do.
I never saw what the probelem with self-driving cars was. Edge recognition has been around for a couple of decades, as has item avoidance (it's how video games work; heck I wrote a battle tank game on a 1mz Sinclair a quarter century ago). Aside from being able to read traffic signs (and OCR has been around for at least 15 years) I really don't see what the problem is.
Of course, I never saw why it took so long to heat/AC the back seat, either. =(
"...twenty year old piece of machinery needs upkeep."
In other "news", What is now a supercompuer will fit in your hand in a few years. Researchers achieve amazing memory density. And so on.
What would be news (for nerds, stuff that matters) would be "aging solar panels repaired, here's how they did it", "Researchers build supercomputer out of 1,000 networked cell phones", or "new memory device with no moving parts has greater capacity than the largest hard drives and can be manufactured for twenty dollars per unit".
Wake me up when there's something to see here and I can stop moving along.
Thats the nicest thing anybody's said to me all week! Thanks! But I'm hoping I'll not have to look for any kind of work again, I'm planning on retiring in a few years.
I'm a nerd, I understand how computers work, and can study the machine. I have a saying I often repeat: a man (or machine) can beat me, cut me, shoot me, bludgeon me, but only a woman can hurt me.
I have a lot of control over any device I can study and understand. I'll never understand real women, and have no control whatever over them. You've heard of women who have cut off men's penises or castrated them? Fortunately that never happened to me.
No, it would be nice to be able to read, or watch the scenery go by as I was travelling. But it would be even nicer to be able to get home from a bar without staggering or calling a cab! I try not to drink farther than staggering distance.
Of course, when I retire I may just stop getting sober.
Your analogy makes no sense. You say hacking a phone wouldn't control anything outside the phone, but your perception of the world is completely inside your brain - there is no "outside". As Pink Floyd aptly noted, "all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be". You don't see with your eyes, you see with your brain. Take out the visual cortex and you're blind, even if your eyes are perfect.
Your brain is your life. You cannot experience anything that isn't processed through your brain. Using a phone as an analogy to your brain means there IS NO conversation outside the phone.
If I control your brain, I control YOU. And I may not even need an implant to do it. There is no way you can know whether or not you are in a coma right now dreaming about this conversation. I may not, in fact, exist. I may be only a figment of your imagination.
"system" is the noun. "Online media distribution" is a multi-word adjective. And if you loose a case, it means you lost on purpose. Look it up in a dictionary; "loose" is a completely different verb than "lose". If you loose your dog, you may lose him.
Yes, you less than literate nerd wannabes often annoy me (and it's Monday, I never quite got the hang of Mndays). Are there no native English speakers here?
I thought we were talking about the RIAA, not getting laid (the "big Bang" refers to my 300 pound ex-girlfriend, of course).
Oh wait, this is about the RIAA's lawyers, I guess we ARE talking about getting fucked!
More seriously (or less humorously), the headline is offtopic and completely false. Your not having any proof of my wrongdoing is NOT my "getting off on a technicality". You've never robbed a bank, so is your never having been convicted of bank robbery "getting off on a technicality?"
We're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. It's thinking like this, where lack of evidence of your guilt means you "got off on a technicality", is what's got us heading towards the police state I maintain we are already in.
For those of you who disagree that the US already is a police state, I should blog about how my 4th amendment rights have been violated twice this year alone, once on Memorial day (ironically, the day we supposedly honor those who died defending the Constitution) when the cops searched my garage without warrant, consent, or even my knowledge (they later told me they had) looking for another ex-girlfriend (the skinny, flat chested, bow legged toothless one) who had been walking around with a broom looking for my house and scaring the neighbors (she does kind of look like a witch).
If anybody actually sees this comment (it's yesterday's story), I'm sure to get a "well, if you'd not pick such losere as girlfriends (although they'd spell it "loosers") you wouldn';t have trouble wit hthe cops - which is exactly my point. I'm a law abiding citizen, I should have no trouble with the authorities regardless of who I associate with.
God but I love technology! The old WWII vets are all worried about losing their mobility when the state determnes they're no longer fit to drive. By the time I'm that old (and I have gray hair and a white beard already) I'll have Sally.
Military implications? Pshaw, I want my car to drive me home when I'm too drunk to drive myself!
I'm not arguing for socialism. Where did you come up with that?
Nor am I saying all rich are idle rich; although the rich seem to have the opinion that the poor are all the idle poor.
Nor am I saying unearned income isn't taxed; it is. But it is taxed at a lower rate than the average workers' income, at least by the US Federal government.
I agree that charging a set amount is unfair. The vehicle registration taxes you mention are an excellent example.
A flat tax would be fair IF, and it's a big if, there were no deductions. But there always are deductions, and they always favor the rich against the poor.
The renter (an note I'm a homowner) pays propery tax when he pays his rent. The landlord (most of whom aren't rich) then deducts that tax, plus any interst he is paying if a mortgage is held on the rental property. The renter should be able to deduct his rent, but can't.
An example of a truly regressive tax is Social Security tax. It's capped at $75k, so Joe Schmoe who is by no means rich and his employer are is paying the same amount every year as Larry Ellison and Sun on Ellison's paycheck. Then the government takes this regressive tax, "borrows" it to pay for the Iraq war, and whines that Social Security will go broke in X years. Well DUH, make Ellison and Sun pay the same 15% SS tax I and my employer do instead of the <1% they pay now, and Social Security will be solvent longer than anyone now alive will live.
And the more money one has, the more benefit one gets from government.
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Only one? Bothe Bush and Cheney have DUIs on their records. It's sad whan an old criminal like me has a better police record (IE, "none") than both the President and Vice President.
Of course, our previous Governor is headed for prison, as is some clown (Klutzo the Clown, in fact) who used to be a policeman but who is now knows ans "Klutzo the Child Molester".
My elected officials and law enforcement officials are such wonderful people! At least I don't live in Chicago!
-mcgrew
Not like the boy who called "wolf", more like the woman who cried "rape". If I find myself in one of these databases, I'm going to call the nice people who helped me out with my divorce and bankruptcy.
There are laws against slander, and the government has deep pockets.
-mcgrew
PS- We have the best government money can buy. I split my vote between the Greens and the Libertarians. The foreign owned multinational corporations bribe the Republicrats, why waste my vote on a candidate whose interests are diametrically opposed to my own? A vote for a Republicrat is a vote against America. Why else would this bullshit even occur?
Most IT people still think Web 2.0 is an overhyped buzzword, but that might not matter:
Guilty as charged, sir.
This article is BS - someone needs to maintain the machines, network, reset passwords, update software, maintain databases, train clusers, etc. IT is changing? Hmmph, the sun is coming up tomorrow, too.
-mcgrew
Again?? Damn.
OTOH, at least George Broussard isn't on the team, or we'd have "The rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace 4ever"
It seems Armadillo is DOOMed. OW! OW! STOP HITTING ME!!
-mcgrew
I hope you're wrong too, but I fear you're right. I expected cars to be driving themselves by now. OTOH, paralell parking is about the hardest thing for a human to do.
I never saw what the probelem with self-driving cars was. Edge recognition has been around for a couple of decades, as has item avoidance (it's how video games work; heck I wrote a battle tank game on a 1mz Sinclair a quarter century ago). Aside from being able to read traffic signs (and OCR has been around for at least 15 years) I really don't see what the problem is.
Of course, I never saw why it took so long to heat/AC the back seat, either. =(
-mcgrew
"...twenty year old piece of machinery needs upkeep."
In other "news", What is now a supercompuer will fit in your hand in a few years. Researchers achieve amazing memory density. And so on.
What would be news (for nerds, stuff that matters) would be "aging solar panels repaired, here's how they did it", "Researchers build supercomputer out of 1,000 networked cell phones", or "new memory device with no moving parts has greater capacity than the largest hard drives and can be manufactured for twenty dollars per unit".
Wake me up when there's something to see here and I can stop moving along.
-mcgrew
Sometimes I wonder if in 10 years we will still be using mechanical hard drives
I wondered that 20 years ago. I'm still wondering.
-mcgrew
What was a supercomputer when I got my firs computer (A Sinclair 1mz w/ 4k memory) is now called a "mobile phone".
=mcgrew
Thats the nicest thing anybody's said to me all week! Thanks! But I'm hoping I'll not have to look for any kind of work again, I'm planning on retiring in a few years.
Please keep up the good work, I salute you.
Unfortunately it seems I'll be dead before that happens
What, I'm 55, are you even older than me? It's not going to be that long; they already have one that parks itself on the market.
Like I said, I'd have a brain implant for medical reasons; I have an implant in my eye. But I sure as hell wouldn't want it connected to the internet!
And we nerds who could hack the hardware would be menaces to society!
I'm a nerd, I understand how computers work, and can study the machine. I have a saying I often repeat: a man (or machine) can beat me, cut me, shoot me, bludgeon me, but only a woman can hurt me.
I have a lot of control over any device I can study and understand. I'll never understand real women, and have no control whatever over them. You've heard of women who have cut off men's penises or castrated them? Fortunately that never happened to me.
However, you might want to meet my ex-wife. There are more of these stories, called "The Paxil Diaries"
-mcgrew
I don't know, but it troubles me anyway. Were they stupid? Maybe, but you shouldn't be able to lose your home from stupidity either.
No, it would be nice to be able to read, or watch the scenery go by as I was travelling. But it would be even nicer to be able to get home from a bar without staggering or calling a cab! I try not to drink farther than staggering distance.
Of course, when I retire I may just stop getting sober.
Your analogy makes no sense. You say hacking a phone wouldn't control anything outside the phone, but your perception of the world is completely inside your brain - there is no "outside". As Pink Floyd aptly noted, "all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be". You don't see with your eyes, you see with your brain. Take out the visual cortex and you're blind, even if your eyes are perfect.
Your brain is your life. You cannot experience anything that isn't processed through your brain. Using a phone as an analogy to your brain means there IS NO conversation outside the phone.
If I control your brain, I control YOU. And I may not even need an implant to do it. There is no way you can know whether or not you are in a coma right now dreaming about this conversation. I may not, in fact, exist. I may be only a figment of your imagination.
-mcgrew
There is nothing in your post I would disagree with.
"system" is the noun. "Online media distribution" is a multi-word adjective. And if you loose a case, it means you lost on purpose. Look it up in a dictionary; "loose" is a completely different verb than "lose". If you loose your dog, you may lose him.
Yes, you less than literate nerd wannabes often annoy me (and it's Monday, I never quite got the hang of Mndays). Are there no native English speakers here?
Mod this post "pedantically offtopic"
-mcgrew
I thought we were talking about the RIAA, not getting laid (the "big Bang" refers to my 300 pound ex-girlfriend, of course).
Oh wait, this is about the RIAA's lawyers, I guess we ARE talking about getting fucked!
More seriously (or less humorously), the headline is offtopic and completely false. Your not having any proof of my wrongdoing is NOT my "getting off on a technicality". You've never robbed a bank, so is your never having been convicted of bank robbery "getting off on a technicality?"
We're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. It's thinking like this, where lack of evidence of your guilt means you "got off on a technicality", is what's got us heading towards the police state I maintain we are already in.
For those of you who disagree that the US already is a police state, I should blog about how my 4th amendment rights have been violated twice this year alone, once on Memorial day (ironically, the day we supposedly honor those who died defending the Constitution) when the cops searched my garage without warrant, consent, or even my knowledge (they later told me they had) looking for another ex-girlfriend (the skinny, flat chested, bow legged toothless one) who had been walking around with a broom looking for my house and scaring the neighbors (she does kind of look like a witch).
If anybody actually sees this comment (it's yesterday's story), I'm sure to get a "well, if you'd not pick such losere as girlfriends (although they'd spell it "loosers") you wouldn';t have trouble wit hthe cops - which is exactly my point. I'm a law abiding citizen, I should have no trouble with the authorities regardless of who I associate with.
-mcgrew
God but I love technology! The old WWII vets are all worried about losing their mobility when the state determnes they're no longer fit to drive. By the time I'm that old (and I have gray hair and a white beard already) I'll have Sally.
Military implications? Pshaw, I want my car to drive me home when I'm too drunk to drive myself!
-mcgrew
I'm not arguing for socialism. Where did you come up with that?
Nor am I saying all rich are idle rich; although the rich seem to have the opinion that the poor are all the idle poor.
Nor am I saying unearned income isn't taxed; it is. But it is taxed at a lower rate than the average workers' income, at least by the US Federal government.
I agree that charging a set amount is unfair. The vehicle registration taxes you mention are an excellent example.
A flat tax would be fair IF, and it's a big if, there were no deductions. But there always are deductions, and they always favor the rich against the poor.
The renter (an note I'm a homowner) pays propery tax when he pays his rent. The landlord (most of whom aren't rich) then deducts that tax, plus any interst he is paying if a mortgage is held on the rental property. The renter should be able to deduct his rent, but can't.
An example of a truly regressive tax is Social Security tax. It's capped at $75k, so Joe Schmoe who is by no means rich and his employer are is paying the same amount every year as Larry Ellison and Sun on Ellison's paycheck. Then the government takes this regressive tax, "borrows" it to pay for the Iraq war, and whines that Social Security will go broke in X years. Well DUH, make Ellison and Sun pay the same 15% SS tax I and my employer do instead of the <1% they pay now, and Social Security will be solvent longer than anyone now alive will live.
And the more money one has, the more benefit one gets from government.
Thank you!
International calls from inside US are monitored
International calls to inside US are monitored
Well, I'm safe, thank God! All my friends are either hookers, dope dealers, bookies, gun deaaskskJHKJH&(*^([no carrier]
Good point, without some knowlege of mechanics it would be hard to tell if he did a halfassed job.
Spoken like a true nerd!