They can steal from my accounts
Maybe I'll get back to 0!
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But if they want to take away the property of the politicians and lobbyists and bureaucrats who are growing fat by taking out money from us, have at it.
BTW, did you know that 7 of the 10 wealthiest counties in the US are in the DC area, according to Forbes? Think about that: it's not LA, Vegas, Chicago, New York, .... it's near the national capital where all the wealthy ba*ds live.
Mine's the one with the reservations for Valley Forge ...
Though not as much. Tell someone you've gone deer hunting and they'll look at you as if you just told them you were "a long time assistant at a major collegiate sports program". (*) Even if you just enjoy shooting clay pigeons, some people (mostly overeducated urban busybody types) are ready to start a "Save the Clay" campaign. Fortunately, if they protest, I'll give them my address, then dupe them into the back yard, at which point it become legal for shooting an unauthorized intruder in this state. Or better, I'll tell them I'm herding deer for a fellow hunter (not legal here) and if they keep it up they can get arrested as well and have it ON THEIR RECORD when they try to join an animal rights group.
And honestly, WHY would you annoy someone with a gun who just wants to be left alone? Doesn't seem to be the wisest choice in the world. But I digress.
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(*) If you don't get this, don't ask; you can't unread something.
I know GM doesn't enjoy a great reputation, but they've been steadily upping their game over the last decade. And as someone who has OnStar, they have some great information about what works and what doesn't in this area, so it's nice to see that they can bring that to the table.
I dunno, @Frank 2, it seems to me that people use desktops/laptops differently from mobile devices like phones and fondleslabs. Notice that Apple didn't put EVERYTHING from iOS into Lion, just things that made sense (and even then, only if your hardware, like a touchpad, made it sensible). Apple is by no means perfect, but they've shown a pretty good sense of what they can leave out to make a better device/system/etc. I haven't really seen this with MS, who have a "kitchen sink! more is better! pack it in! tighten up!" approach.
... you can use a firewire or USB cable to enable target mode, the upgrade path is still too complicated. Apple figured this out about a decade ago.
Seriously, I've done about five or six Mac upgrades for myself + family + friends since then, and the Target mode makes this dead simple. Hook up cables, boot new computer, boot old one into target mode, choose what to transfer, and go make some coffee.
"But renewable oil is local, and so there's no need to ship it around the world."
Ah, but there is oil, and there is oil. The 'sweet light crude' is the most desirable and getting algae to make THAT will be trickier than getting them to make oil. And even then, there will likely be refining required, and in refining the economy of scale makes a huge difference in cost.
"The 10 largest companies in the world are all oil companies – and all are privately owned."
By this do you mean "owned by one person as opposed to owned by individual shareholders and investment companies" or "not state owned"? Big difference.
When we heard about library loans on a Kindle, we tried it and found that the book was still there LONG after it was supposed to be gone. I figured if it happened once, inadvertently, it would be easy to subvert the protocol and it would get hacked soon. Then of course publishers would pull out, and there y'go.
I see a lot of people here, and from reading them they tend to be non-Americans, thinking what he did was the right thing.
However, as a member of the military, ANY military, you are not supposed to leak information. Period. When you sign up for the military, that is made very clear, and by volunteering for the military, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of your own free will.
And while Julian Assange was likely not passing on military secrets to enemies of the state like Al Qaeda or China or Charlie Sheen, can you KNOW that? And can you KNOW that the representative in contact with you is who that contact claims to be?
This seems a pretty straightforward case. The rules say "Don't do X", the defendant was caught doing X. Not a lot of wiggle room there.
that I don't add anything to bacon and think anyone who does is a philistine. I can get the maple syrup, having tasted it once with spillover from a waffle hitting the bacon. Tasty, but not quite bacon. Heck, I'll even happily devour turkey bacon at the kosher deli near the house. (Best corned beef hash in the US, BTW, and friends from New York City agree.) But adding to bacon? No thanks.
However, the chocolate added to bacon is often Nutella which is, IIRC, of Italian origin. And it tastes like nuts, not chocolate. Blech!
You could argue, with the help of some adult beverage, that that's where things went wrong.
Everyone tells us to be tolerant, but I've never understood why I should tolerate such complete, utter, manic, raging, rot-inducing idiocy. Then again, that seems to be the most common state of humanity.
Once upon a time, I worked on a contract at AT&T. For legitimate reasons, someone there put certain tracking software on certain workstations and confirmed a suspicion about someone getting into financial systems where they didn't belong. Using someone else's workstation.
That this involved a contracting company associated with the Enron fiasco will surprise no one who ever dealt with them or their IT consulting spinoff, may they rot in bureaucratic hell.
Is it me, or is Google becoming a 'me, too' company like MicroSoft? They see something successful out there -- facebook, itunes, etc -- and come out with their own version that seems rather me-too-ish. I might be wrong, there may be B2B things they're doing that are mind-blowing, but the consumer-facing ones seem a bit ... derived, for lack of a better term.
When I was growing up, it was thought that people who left the Midwest went to the East Coast if they were smart, or West Coast if they were dumb. Now it seems the dumb people are going to Florida.
If I had to hazard a guess, the cold winter weather kills off or re-invigorates bad brain cells. In LA and Florida, the rot just keeps spreading.
Have you ever seen wolves attack an animal? Yeesh. I've seen a half-eaten bison calf, still alive (barely) after a wolf attack when I was elk hunting, and as cruel as industrial farming may be, they aren't THAT cruel.
Sorry, I still get nightmares and cold sweats about that calf. And as I said, I'm a hunter, I've cleaned and dressed animals.