>I just think it's fucking insane that you let the police have guns over there
Myself, I think it's insane to have laws prohibiting law-abiding citizens from concealed carry without a permit. The bad guys already carry concealed without a permit, leaving the unarmed, law-abiding citizen at their mercy. If the thugs knew there was at least an even-money chance their next victim would shoot back...
Remember - those who oppose the use of force will forever be at the mercy of those who don't.
I will take freedom and risk over a police state and big brother any day.
Did you ever think about the irony of cops who treat every traffic stop as if they've just pulled over a mass murderer? Approach from both sides, stay behind the driver, weapon holsters unsnapped, at the ready, hand sometimes on their weapon while they assess the threat level and decide if the occupants have guns - meanwhile, the driver is sitting there, probably having seen stories about excessive force used by police, and he *knows* that person walking up behind him is in fear for their life AND that they have a gun.
All we, the US, has to do is allow special visa's for foreign doctors to immigrate with the stipulation that they work in some sort of affordable health care for 5 years. I know, it needs a lot of fleshing out. The point is that the real problem in health care today is the utter lack of competition. The health care industry in America has managed to free itself from free market economics and we already HAVE defacto socialized health care, it's just run by industry instead of government and happens to exempt all those pesky poor people.
Honestly, how come, *EVERY TIME* there's a clearance sale on state legislators, I miss it? Hmmm? Is there a special list I have to be on? What's the deal here?
>I think the bigger thing people need to do is start voting with their votes.
I agree. We should never re-elect an incumbent, ever. Power and influence start to grow around them. No matter how "good" they seem, send them home to live with the consequences of their actions while in office. But, it'll never happen that way because as I said earlier "The bottom line is that Joe Average just doesn't mind being pushed around as long as he's comfortable"
Honestly, consumers just need to start voting with their dollars - don't buy copy-protected DVDs, don't buy CDs until RIAA knocks off intimidating people, don't patronize lawsuit-happy companies.
The bottom line is that Joe Average just doesn't mind being pushed around as long as he's comfortable. Very discouraging for the future of free will, independent thinking, privacy, security, liberty and other non-socialist, non-communist ideals in the USA.
>The rewards are enormous. China could completely destroy our networks and economy in a single day with a well coordinated strike.
To what end? Conquest of what? China destroying our (US) economy would be shooting themselves in the foot with a bazooka. "We" buy an enormous amount of Chinese goods.
Can you imagine the "flight 93" reaction of this country if an invading army set foot on our shores?
I don't discount that they might do things to damage the US, and I suggest everyone think about how you'll get along if they do, just in case. I just don't see what the Chinese *gain* by destroying the US either politically or economically.
Are you frustrated at the loss of freedom and responsibility in America, while the growth of government and taxes continues unabated? Do you want to live in strong communities where your rights are respected, and people exercise responsibility for themselves and in their dealings with each other?
>I wonder if soon we'll see a prohibition on this sort of data mining...
And the usual thing will happen - the companies and servers will move overseas. The only hope is if it starts to effect (affect?) elected officials - then governments will probably take steps to curtail this kind of activity, 1st amendment rights or not.
>Well, at least they have started their education in not trusting authority, and learning that those in authority will lie to you. >This is one of the lessons that most people don't get, until much later in life.
I wonder what if one of the students had brought a gun that day? Maybe shot the hooded teacher who rattled the door?
>post such opinions in public (omg !), disregarding the retarded "we must stick to the middle of the >road" mentality. Moderation is not about > telling people what you think of their opinion.
The story should be presented without editorial comment, however. After that it's open season.
That said, I guess we'll start using fluffy bunnies to sniff out bombs instead of machines. We wouldn't want to violate the Robot Bill of Rights, eh?
I had a look at a couple of the page mock-ups on the site. The information seems organized in a much better way than on the Wiki-species page. If the actual site turns out to be as good as the examples I will use it frequently.
Still waiting for the front page to finish loading... maybe I'll make coffee while I wait.
Seriously, they need to re-think their bandwidth. If it loads slow on DSL, dialup users are screwed.
I don't think there's any lost tax`revenue - I'm pretty certain I paid sales tax on the hundreds of used CDs I bought in Florida. People are going t spend a certain amount on entertainment and I don't think it matters if it's on new CDs or used.
Exactly the point I made in both emails I sent to the @#$@# idiots legislating "for me". It's not like we have a lot of extra money to throw away for the RIAA in the first place either. I TRIED to vote for someone who had at least HALF a clue. I really did. =(
Let me take this opportunity to repeat my mantra: "Never, ever vote for an incumbent politician"
I'd bet this is a classic case of politicians having been lobbied at length and passing legislation in hopes of, or exchange for, campaign donations. Maybe it's time to format government, reinstall the OS (not the BS) and reboot.
They are also looking at releasing the whole BBC archive to viewers as well.....
So how long before we can get this on Linux? or the PS3?
And how long is 'reasonable'...?
Hard telling - the story you linked to is already 3 years old. I'd say "reasonable" is already in the rearview mirror.
>Based on this post, it should be noted that if you play any music from a SoundExchange member, you are required to pay royalties on a play of a >non-member's music, and that non-member cannot claim those royalties without giving up the right to work outside of SoundExchange. Quite a racket the >RIAA has there.
It's unilateral garbage. National Association of Realtors does the same thing - the broker joins to get his/her listings in the MLS and one of the stipulations is that anyone who works for that broker also must also join NAR. A very dirty scam, I think.
>and I doubt the people who are complaining about no response are going to look any more favorably on an automatic response.
Sure they would - at least it's an acknowledgment. Send the auto reply.
Personally, I use a whitelisted acct for people I really want to hear from. The rest I let yahoo or hotmail filter out the spam and change the address if it starts to get spammy.
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>I just think it's fucking insane that you let the police have guns over there
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Myself, I think it's insane to have laws prohibiting law-abiding citizens from concealed carry without a permit. The bad guys already carry concealed without a permit, leaving the unarmed, law-abiding citizen at their mercy. If the thugs knew there was at least an even-money chance their next victim would shoot back
Remember - those who oppose the use of force will forever be at the mercy of those who don't.
Did you ever think about the irony of cops who treat every traffic stop as if they've just pulled over a mass murderer? Approach from both sides, stay behind the driver, weapon holsters unsnapped, at the ready, hand sometimes on their weapon while they assess the threat level and decide if the occupants have guns - meanwhile, the driver is sitting there, probably having seen stories about excessive force used by police, and he *knows* that person walking up behind him is in fear for their life AND that they have a gun.
All we, the US, has to do is allow special visa's for foreign doctors to immigrate with the stipulation that they work in some sort of affordable health care for 5 years. I know, it needs a lot of fleshing out. The point is that the real problem in health care today is the utter lack of competition. The health care industry in America has managed to free itself from free market economics and we already HAVE defacto socialized health care, it's just run by industry instead of government and happens to exempt all those pesky poor people.
Honestly, how come, *EVERY TIME* there's a clearance sale on state legislators, I miss it? Hmmm? Is there a special list I have to be on? What's the deal here?
I don't mind MS demanding anything they want. I wonder more about the people who agree to *pay*.
He should have given MS a two word reply, beginning with the letter "F" and dropped the matter. Go develop for MAC or Linux.
>I think the bigger thing people need to do is start voting with their votes.
I agree. We should never re-elect an incumbent, ever. Power and influence start to grow around them. No matter how "good" they seem, send them home to live with the consequences of their actions while in office. But, it'll never happen that way because as I said earlier "The bottom line is that Joe Average just doesn't mind being pushed around as long as he's comfortable"
Truly a sad situation in America today.
Honestly, consumers just need to start voting with their dollars - don't buy copy-protected DVDs, don't buy CDs until RIAA knocks off intimidating people, don't patronize lawsuit-happy companies.
The bottom line is that Joe Average just doesn't mind being pushed around as long as he's comfortable. Very discouraging for the future of free will, independent thinking, privacy, security, liberty and other non-socialist, non-communist ideals in the USA.
>The rewards are enormous. China could completely destroy our networks and economy in a single day with a well coordinated strike.
To what end? Conquest of what? China destroying our (US) economy would be shooting themselves in the foot with a bazooka. "We" buy an enormous amount of Chinese goods.
Can you imagine the "flight 93" reaction of this country if an invading army set foot on our shores?
I don't discount that they might do things to damage the US, and I suggest everyone think about how you'll get along if they do, just in case. I just don't see what the Chinese *gain* by destroying the US either politically or economically.
Zulupad, I think. It's a windows and mac application only. http://www.gersic.com/zulupad/
I've been struggling with this myself, to a point. How about a personal wiki, such as Didiwiki, that runs locally?
I also save web pages as "Web Page, Complete". It now occurs to me that I should make a specific directory for those pages.
From their site:
>I wonder if soon we'll see a prohibition on this sort of data mining...
And the usual thing will happen - the companies and servers will move overseas. The only hope is if it starts to effect (affect?) elected officials - then governments will probably take steps to curtail this kind of activity, 1st amendment rights or not.
Or, if Aunt Sally send you one of those bloody e-cards, you can kiss your e-mail address goodbye.
>was spam free for quite a while, but in the last few years, the enterprise wide
>address book has clearly been harvested (some 10000+ addresses)
How about whitelisting the people you *want* to receive mail from and use a yahoo, gmail or some such for everything else?
>Well, at least they have started their education in not trusting authority, and learning that those in authority will lie to you.
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>This is one of the lessons that most people don't get, until much later in life.
I wonder what if one of the students had brought a gun that day? Maybe shot the hooded teacher who rattled the door?
hmph
>Lincoln Chafee
I'm waiting for http://www.larouchepub.com/ Lyndon LaRouche to jump back in. Or maybe Ross Perot.
>post such opinions in public (omg !), disregarding the retarded "we must stick to the middle of the >road" mentality. Moderation is not about
> telling people what you think of their opinion.
The story should be presented without editorial comment, however. After that it's open season.
That said, I guess we'll start using fluffy bunnies to sniff out bombs instead of machines. We wouldn't want to violate the Robot Bill of Rights, eh?
Still waiting for the front page to finish loading
Seriously, they need to re-think their bandwidth. If it loads slow on DSL, dialup users are screwed.
Let me take this opportunity to repeat my mantra:
"Never, ever vote for an incumbent politician"
I'd bet this is a classic case of politicians having been lobbied at length and passing legislation in hopes of, or exchange for, campaign donations. Maybe it's time to format government, reinstall the OS (not the BS) and reboot.
>Jay Singala noted a story which points out
...
Pity Jay didn't provide a link to that story
>Stereotyping is generally considered wrong
Is a stereotype anything like a generalization?
Hard telling - the story you linked to is already 3 years old. I'd say "reasonable" is already in the rearview mirror.
>Based on this post, it should be noted that if you play any music from a SoundExchange member, you are required to pay royalties on a play of a >non-member's music, and that non-member cannot claim those royalties without giving up the right to work outside of SoundExchange. Quite a racket the >RIAA has there.
It's unilateral garbage. National Association of Realtors does the same thing - the broker joins to get his/her listings in the MLS and one of the stipulations is that anyone who works for that broker also must also join NAR. A very dirty scam, I think.
>and I doubt the people who are complaining about no response are going to look any more favorably on an automatic response.
Sure they would - at least it's an acknowledgment. Send the auto reply.
Personally, I use a whitelisted acct for people I really want to hear from. The rest I let yahoo or hotmail filter out the spam and change the address if it starts to get spammy.