Comment Re:Again? (Score 2) 200
"At least the NSA can be voted out of office." Explain how.
Congress funds the NSA. All you need to do is vote for representatives that will cut the funding.
"At least the NSA can be voted out of office." Explain how.
Congress funds the NSA. All you need to do is vote for representatives that will cut the funding.
Who are you going to believe, Snowden or the NSA? Keep in mind that one has been caught red handed lying to Congress and the media over and over and over again.
While the other violated his NDAs and is now wanted for treason.
At least the NSA can be voted out of office.
the main difference is that people in your group tend to tell other people what to do, and atheists tend not to tell people what to do.
I guess this hits the nail with the hammer
In the end, religion is like having a penis. It's ok to have one, and it's ok to be proud of it. But if you're going to take it out and attempt to shove it down my throat, we are going to have a bit of a problem.
My great-grandma was a remarkable woman, practical, restrained & wise. Same can't be said for most of the occupants of the Oval Office for the past 40 years.
The difference is that the occupants of the Oval Office were elected, and could be thrown out every 4 years. Same can't be said for the great-grandma that rules Great Britain.
Celsius is arbitrary too.
In metric, one millileter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree celcius - which is exactly one percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point.
In the American system, the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?" is "Go fuck yourself", because the American arbitrary roller-coaster makes it impossible directly relate any of those quantities.
Why the hell are we talking about the Fahrenheit scale.
Because the marketing droids who came up with the press release are based in the U.S., the only country next to Birma to use this arbitrary roller-coaster as an official standard.
nless you are a Brazilian plumber.
Mod parent up.
When comparing the US with the UK, I'd choose the US within a second. At least the US isn't ruled by a great-grandma.
Considering they're responsible for nearly 100,000 deaths per year from flooding the streets with guns, no one owes you any damn examples.
So in your reasoning, anyone associated with the Taxed Enough Already group, is guilty of "violently attempting to overthrow the government" because some of their affiliated politicians are attempting to protect their interpretation of the second amendment through non-violent means such as the court system and congress?
You, sir, are a genuine idiot.
And although I'm very much pro gun control, I do feel that it is people who kill people, not guns. Guns don't pull their own trigger. If you want someone dead, you can choose a lot more methods other than guns. The only reasons I'm pro gun control is that with so much weapons on the street, impulse murders are way higher than they should be, and the chances of innocent kids finding weapons and killing themselves are way too high.
I wonder if I wear a number of HIGH powered IR LED's on my hat/person, if that would blind out these officer cameras?
You mean like this?
This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot -- now I want to own one!
Because you can't have the government competing with them in an area that they might, someday, begin to consider serving.
There is only one reason for the government to step in: make it easier for smaller ISPs to start shop. I'd love to start a small ISP in my area, but it is practically impossible.
So fuck you California. It's one thing if you dumb liberals infect your own state. It's another if you have a chilling effect on the entire US (and perhaps even around the world).
Nobody forces cellphone vendors to manufacture phones for the California market. They are free to sell their phones elsewhere. Only the future will tell whether or not vendors will comply with the state law or just choose to sell their phones elsewhere.
One example of this would be California's CARB compliance crap. When I bought a generator a few years ago (are you ready for an earthquake?), I found out that it isn't that simple to just go on Amazon and get one. Noooo, you need one that is specifically made for the California market because some idiot in the air board decided to create additional rules, just for CA.
Secretly I hope that the next Iphone won't have the killswitch and won't be sold in California. Let's see how long the treehuggers are still in control of this State after that.
MS got its market dominance by making a deal with IBM, not by creating a great product. Apple got its market dominance by cultivating an image, not by creating a great product.
...which is a completely irrelevant way to measure quality of the market.
The carriers (read: AT&T, Verizon, Comcast etc) who use carrier grade equipment don't care about market dominance by deals or market dominance by image. They care about what works. Routers are not consumer products.
I've been doing Linux admin in some fashion or another for 20+ years, so in many ways I'm part of the "old guard".
I guess we're part of a similar generation, although I have about 5 years less (started in 1997 with Linux).
The argument about small being better, making programs that do one thing well, etc is a good design element that's worked for years.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Yes, it has worked for years, and that's why you like it. You (we?) are now that "old generation" that I was referring to, and I'm not about to become a grumpy old admin.
Let me give you another example, which is geared a bit more towards my current profession. In the last couple of years, I worked for two large vendors of networking equipment. Vendor R used your way of doing things: each network protocol has its own daemon. So you end up having ospfd, isisd, bgpd etc. Worked just fine. I also worked for vendor J, who used one big binary: rpd handles just about every routing protocol you can imagine. Is J bad and is R good? According to the market, J is doing very well, while R has been acquired and assimilated by a another company.
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