Comment Re:Thermonuclear war (Score 1) 219
"Tim Cook: wears the turtleneck, but doesn't fill the shoes""
Oh. I thought that was a foreskin.
"Tim Cook: wears the turtleneck, but doesn't fill the shoes""
Oh. I thought that was a foreskin.
No kidding. Every time I post a comment here on
Try pointing out that wind farms are a sWindle, don't integrate well into a grid system, don't produce at the needed times, and that Ken Lay was the first to jump in with both feet. I agree with you about nuclear plants, as I read "Normal Accidents" many years ago.
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I can only imagine what fun George Carlin could have with this...
Except you can't blame municipalities for the cost when they're pretty much the only part of government that's been trying to provide low-cost access. Many municipal governments have tried to set up as ISPs for their citizens, and the costs are typically far lower than what you see from the cable/DSL duopoly. They've been lobbied and sued and otherwise lawyered to death for the effort, but at least they're trying.
And while you can't fix size, you don't really need to. Most of the long-distance fiber backbones have already been run, and most of the US population lives in urban or suburban areas. The bulk of the land area of the US is rural, and they may not get cheap broadband anytime soon (it literally took an act of Congress to get them electricity and telephone after all), but they're a pretty small minority.
Hmmm.. I have electricity, but no telephone. I wonder what happened to all the money I paid for "rural communication" when I lived in metro areas?
Ok, I almost need healthcare after trying to read this.
NO Shit ^Wstuff!
It's cases like this that make me miss Groklaw even more. They'd have someone there in the court to report on all this, and explain the legal shenanigans going on, with links to prior cases of the people involved trying the same thing, and probably how Microsoft is funding them!
My Kingdom for mod points! (not saying that that I actually HAVE a Kingdom).
Could California just slide into the ocean and disappear already?
That would be great! It's a much shorter drive to Albuquerque for me, and I'd love to swim in the Pacific.
There's no constitutional or legal basis for them not releasing it
I am afraid that we are living in a world where the CONSTITUTION ain't worth a shit to those in power.
To us, the powerless the CONSTITUTION still means something - because it serves as a shield against abuse.
But to those living and working inside Washington D.C., the CONSTITUTION is anything but a mere piece of paper, as for them, POWER IS EVERYTHING.
Their subjugation of their subjects (aka, people like you and me) did not start yesterday. It started DECADES AGO, it's only now that they have gained so much power that they have become SO EMBOLDEN that they dare to publicly dis-regard the Constitution and everything that was stated inside the Constitution.
Who is to blame for it ? Them in Washington, D.C., or us, the voters who voted them in, every fucking four years, without fail ?
We (US citizens) are now beholden to and RULED by persons who have broken their oaths to uphold the Constitution. I am appalled at the brazen and callous attitudes of our elected AND appointed "leaders". This callousness first caught my attention while I watched Oliver North, a sworn officer in the US Military, brazenly challenge the very precepts he was supposed to uphold. My impression of him is that he is a traitor, a coward, and a war criminal, and should have been prosecuted as such.
While I wholeheartedly agree with your statements and sentiments, I must ask this of your last sentence (specifically, "the voters who voted them in, every fucking four years, without fail?"): What choices do we truly have in a rigged system? How can "we" correct the situation? I am convinced that the US (as a Constitutional Republic) is in the throes of failure, akin to the "bread and circuses" phase of the Roman Empire (or, the Roaming Umpire, for Firesign Theatre fans). All hail Caliuga (sp?). Let's trump the Ump!
We have jokes like What is a Rednecks last word "Hey Billy Bob!, Watch This!"...
I resemble that remark, you insensitive clod!
No, they were designed and built for the purpose of killing and destroying. Honestly, that apologistics makes me sick.
The devices were invented for the express purpose of killing things, nobody would have invented such an expensive device otherwise. And yes the intent of the action has everything to do with it, why else would they have invented the things in the first place? Target practice as a sport didn't exist until well after the invention of the firearm, it was not the cause of the invention of the firearm.
Please pardon me if I am making an untoward assumption about your perception of carrying firearms. For some people, firearms are necessary tools. When one lives in a remote area, carrying firearms is normal. One's choice of properly carried firearm(s) is dictated by local threats. I usually carry small caliber weapons (to deal with small threats, such as rabid skunks and raccoons, or the occasional rattlesnake), a shotgun, and a high- capacity rifle (to deal with packs of javelina, which have attacked me in the recent past). YMMV.
Play with a M1 rifle? No. Fire with supervision? As soon as they are big enough the kick won't knock them over.
+ 1^1000
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
