so sorry to hear of your limitations, hope the rest of the world conforms to your oh-so-reasonable expectations...
...dingleberry
(ps i can write 'proper english' rings around a self-limited asshat like you, but i choose my own inimitable style because i enjoy word play...
pedantic, tiresome grammar nazis? not so much enjoyment...)
pps try googling archy and mehitabel, you illiterate snob...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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i'm moving from one house to another, and it will be -like- impossible to track down everyone and tell them i've moved ! ! !
i mean, think of all the utility companies i will have to *TRY* and track down to tell them this... all the companies i do business with who will be puzzled that their junk mail no longer reaches me... how will people know my new phone number ? ? ? sweet geebus, this is totally out of control ! ! !
oh well, guess it is so insurmountable, i just cain't nebber ebber move nowhere's else, no one will be able to figure it out...
oh, and you are a fuckwad, mason jar head...
if you can't stand a gratuitous insult and four-letter words, please get the fuck outta here, pantywaist...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
me too...
from this cursory summary, it appears the only tax left is one on -essentially- energy consumption ?
i don't know...
AND, i REALLY don't get the 'no corporate tax' idea AT ALL... (nor the no individual income tax, at that)
while -if i were king of amerika- i would slash the budget more than most (including 50-90% of our military industrial komplex budget), we still have to raise monies for some stuff... i am skeptical a mere energy tax would do it...
having just listened to another 'alternate economist' (of sorts, Richard Wolff) talk about how our korporate tax is W-A-Y skewed from what it once was, i'm just not seeing the no corporate tax angle... up until about the 50's-60's, for every dollar in taxes an individual paid, korporations paid a dollar fifty; *NOW*, for every dollar an individual pays, korporations pay 25 cents...
*some* (fictitious legal entities) are NOT paying their fair share anymore, on many levels...
they socialize their costs, and privatize their profits, and we 99% are left holding the bag...
just don't see how letting korporations off with ZERO tax is either fair or possible...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
wassamattau ! ? ! ? ! ?
*shhhhh*
the korporadoes (and their proxies, 'our' (sic) kongresskritters) don't want anyone to hear those inconvenient factoids: they want to loot social security and turn it into a private korporate killing field where grandma and grandpa will be fleeced...
its the neo-amerikan way ! ! !
thus they have to demonize social security before they 'rescue' it by privatizing it...
(which will then be the destruction of it...)
it is not social security which is 'worthless', it is the IOU's unka sam has been putting in the social security not-so-locked-box which are worthless...
it is a sham and a shame...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
1. while i *suppose* there is some 'value' in twittering twits and their twee tweets (although i'm pretty sure the 'revolutionary' usage of twitter is about .00001% of all tweets); i'm certain it is just like 90%+ of all cell phone calls: useless ego-twaddle...
as a public service to the NSA, here are 90% of all cell phone calls:
Hey man, what are you doin'?
nuthin', what are you doin'?
nuthin'...
you goin' over to jimmy-joes later ?
why, what's he doin' ?
nuthin'...
(continue ad nauseum...)
2. i am not sure where this new meme of 'good ads = good content' is coming from, but i disagree 1 000 000%
sure, there are about 1 in a 100 ads which are amusing, but i do NOT want to sit through 99 ads to get the 100th 'good' one...
the only 'good' ad, is one i don't see/hear...
besides, *even if* the 100th ad is funny, it is ONLY funny about 1 or two times; the other billion times i see/hear it, it ain't funny no mo'...
in short, ads are NOT about 'educating' or 'entertaining' consumers, they are about creating anxiety and brand loyalty...
the whole lot of (m)ad men, marketing droids, and -hell, why not- 'Human Resources' personnel can fall off the face of the planet, and it would be a better place...
yes, forget where i saw the article, but i was *extremely* impressed with her lucid reasoning and actual humanity...
...until i saw that her 'reasonableness' was actually 'forced' upon her as a result of a lawsuit where they screwed with someone videoing a traffic stop or some such, a year or so earlier...
remember kampers:
the price of freedom is eternal vigilance !
ALL (repeat: ALL) secret/non-transparent organizations WILL become corrupted...
repeat: WILL become corrupted, P-E-R-I-O-D.
...*whatever* laws, rules, regs, guidelines, etc there are, without the oversight, without the authority, without the the resources, and without the will to enforce said laws, the 'law' becomes worse than meaningless: an appearance of lawfulness where there is none...
when 'laws' are enforced with extreme prejudice against the 99%, and all but unenforced against the 1%, that is called injustice and oppression...
yep...
i have NEVER, repeat NEVER 'pirated' ANYTHING (um, let us put in the qualifier 'knowingly'), and used to be quite the fuckwad about s/w pirating to anyone/everyone who would listen; but i have come to DESPISE Big Media and their like-minded evil minions of doom...
i
simply
will
not
buy
ANY
music,
ANY
DVDs,
basically ANYTHING
other than the stupid Dish network which i would cancel in a heartbeat if SWMBO would allow it...
(IF i can avoid Big Media: sometimes when SWMBO wants to see the latest chick flick, or take the grandbrats to the latest disney marketing opportunity, etc, what can you do ?)
otherwise, i got a couple hundred CD's of legal music that i listen to; i got archive.org (*really* surprised The They (tm) aren't angling to shut them down); and i got any of a million other things to do other than sit staring at the movin' pitchers...
FOAD, Big Media, your exclusionary gatekeeping days are over : not only can i live without your Big Media crap, i can live BETTER without it!
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
not to speak for him, but i *think* his point is, cpu, gpu, other hardware and software companies have been gaming 'benchmarks' *for-freaking-ever*...
it would hardly be surprising if ISPs rigged their benchmarks too...
gpu manufs went (and prob still do) to EXTREME lengths to try and game the various popular graphics benchmarks...
...and it worked ! they would beat the other guys by reverse-engineering the benchmark code, and figuring out how they could trick it, anticipate it, or otherwise game the testing software/hardware...
the point being -made in the concurrent article about leahy's cameo, and the subsequent private showing that wasn't a gift 'cause they gamed it- *whatever* 'laws' (how quaint), 'rules', 'regulations', 'guidelines', 'by-laws', or other strictures we mere 99% *attempt* to emplace upon our betters, is ONLY worth the enforcement we can engender...
if we can't enforce (even weak-tea laws), then laws are all but meaningless... in fact, *worse* than meaningless, because they offer the *appearance* of lawfulness, when there is none...
harsh laws for us 99%, with draconian enforcement; and squishy, malleable, hardly-worth-mentioning 'laws' for the 1%, and those unenforced, at that !
i am certain that is a sure-fire recipe for a stable society...
...and while i appreciate the service they are doing, i am not 100% certain *their* measurements are either correct, or are not being spoofed by my ISP (who i despise, but I HAVE NO CHOICE)...
to wit: starting at just before xmas 2011, our 3 Mbs DSL was *almost* unusable (and *was* -in fact- unusable for -you know- crazy stuff like watching videos or listening to music online) for almost 6 freaking MONTHS...
needless to say, calling our ISP resulted in nothing but lies and bullshit (and NOW they say we NEVER called during this 6 month period, the lying bastards!)...
the monthly report they gave me during this time showed the EXTREME variable speed, but didn't reflect that we were getting 1/10th to 1/20th the speed during our 'normal' usage time : from after-work-o-clock, to midnight...
sure, i bet if you measured at 3-4 in the morning, the speed was *somewhat* better; but for 90% of the time, IT SUCKED...
in any event, either they are not measuring 'real' performance, are taking random samples which didn't reflect our crappy service, or the ISP was spoofing the connection, who knows...
but -you know- putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse is always a good idea...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re: Re: Slowly but surely, obscurity will be a problem for them
i am thinking along the same lines, the *main* stumbling block to cutting the cord is SWMBO: likes to watch sports prob even more than i do (but i'm so pissed at Big Media, i'd sooner cut the cable and miss out on most sports)...
1. there are decent antennas which will give you a BETTER HD picture than the crappy digital signal through cable/sat, i'm seriously considering those simply for that reason alone...
'good' ones i saw start about 50-60 bucks, and depending on how handy you are, not too much trouble to install...
(go to tvfool.com, and they have all kinds of good advice on using OTA HD antenna, etc; as well as a program which will tell you what is/isn't available in your EXACT location...)
2. yes, as previous posters mentioned, netflix sux big time... selection has gone to shit... *LOVE* the *IDEA* of the service (and may pick up the amazon prime crap), but the selection is close to useless...
*used* to subscribe (the price 'increase' didn't mean anything to me, we ONLY did online streaming, don't give a shit about getting DVD's through the mail), but when they started pulling all sorts of content due to Big Media bullying, we dumped them...
too bad...
3. of course, the elephant in the room is: WE HAVE NO CHOICE for our ISP; in our so-called 'free market' 'capitalist' system, ALL THE FUCKERS collude with -apparently 'legal'- 'non-compete' agreements: I CAN'T GET A 'COMPETITOR' to our SHITTY DSL service, NO MATTER WHAT...
we went over 6 months with 3mb/sec service running about 1/10th to 1/20th of that speed; of course, the ISP didn't give a shit, and lied to us the whole time we complained...
(oh, AND -ON THEIR OWN- *said* the would compensate us in some fashion, never did, then we called back, and they gave us a whopping $25 off our bill for 6 months+ of crap service; when we called about *that*, they said we had NEVER CONTACTED them over the slow service: LYING SCUMBAG MOTHER FUCKERS: we called nearly weekly, 'chatted' online a handful of times, and all we got were lies and bullshit...)
3. getting to the point Big Media makes using their products so expensive and onerous, i'm about ready to simply throw the teevee out the window... screw those useless bastards...
you may have noticed a little bill thingy recently, i forget what its actually called, but it amounts to: Protect and Preserve the Health Insurance Industry's Rapacious Profits FOR-FUCKING-EVER...
something like that...
the whole point, was to 'force' ALL citizens to 'do business' with private, for-profit health insurance parasites; in other words, EXACTLY the principle you state (which i agree with), was overturned by the SCOTUS decision on this...
there is NOTHING to prevent the gummint from insisting we do ANYTHING they fucking want to, now... including buy this or that widget-crap from this or that private korporation...
(ps i am 100% for 'universal healthcare', 'single payer', gummint subsidized system; but NOT at the expense of preserving THE major problems with the current system: the health insurance parasites, Big Pharma, etc...)
in other words, your valid point no longer obtains: we are all vassals of the korporatocracy enforced by 'our' (sic) gummint...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
c'mon, reject, you know better: the gerrymandering you and i learned about in 7th grade civics class as evil and anti-democratic, is now -you know- officially double-plus GOOD ! ! !
BOTH parties (different faces of the same korporate duopoly) are in favor of gerrymandering, 'cause it makes for 'safe' districts... THEY DON'T want 'competition', they want to divide the spoils amongst themselves...
guess what ? we're the spoils...
just like, well, everything, it seems, kongresskritters simply legalize that which was illegal...
bribes ? ? ? no, you see, those are -you know- free speech units, not dollars to influence behavior... *snicker*
the system is broken and there are no courageous souls left to fight for us, only those looking to fleece us...
somewhat true-ish, but the root of the problem is THEY HAVE NO VOICE...
there is NO 'self-rule' in DC: the 'heart and soul' of small-dee democracy, the literal and figurative capitol, and the residents have ZERO say in how their own city is ruled...
if/when any mayor/etc tries to make ANY significant changes, they are slapped down by kongresskritters who exert near total CONTROL over DC...
it is NOT a 'normal' city in a lot of ways, and the total lack of any self-rule is the most egregious...
(of course, that is they way the kongresskritters like it, so that is the way it will stay...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
do i own my own body, or not ?
answer that, and you've answered the abortion issue...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 2 rules to be an atheist
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as i have said, you appear incapable of rational discourse untainted by your received catechism; locked in an authoritarian mode that brooks no logical assault on your beliefs...
telling a person who lacks awareness of a new concept is at least possible; but a person who simply refuses to acknowledge the validity of a concept because it will conflict with their 'faith' (*snicker*), is impossible to reason with...
(Hint: the problem is that pesky word 'reason'; so-called 'faith' allows for no reason...)
*sigh*
i mean, FORGET about even having a meta-conversation about you (AND your ilk) continuously BITCHING about 'everyone' 'attacking' you by name-calling... (*gasp* it is -like- the *worst*, it makes me sniffle and cry...)
...you just come back with your childish bullshit:
'mommy, that mean man said bad words, he must not know anything...'
what an "argument"... works every time, huh, xtian ?
(seriously, i'm embarrassed for you: you either do not notice, or are pointedly ignoring the multiple 'whooshes' that go over your head...)
*and* -regardless of YOUR 'faith'- many -if not most- of your xtian brothers and sisters have NO problem with: 'he is not of our 'faith', therefore evil, therefore it is not only 'good' that we kill him, but our God commands us to do so !'
oh ? you say you're not *that* fundie ? you're not *that* old testament ? you're one of them-there hippie-jesus, new testament type xtians ?
sure you are...
when/if those faux-moral bastards enforced a theocracy, i KNOW EXACTLY whose side you are on, i don't give a crap what lies you tell yourself and us...
sanctimonious xtians bitching about how they are repressed and 'persecuted' ? yeah, what's not to love about that hypocritical crybabying...
tell me, xtian, how many atheist channels are there on tee vee ? (and -no- the cartoon channel doesn't count) how many religious/xtian channels ?
tell me, how many xtian radio stations can you tune in where you're at ? i know where i live, its approximately a million; but, so far, i ain't found ONE atheist station...
uh huh, yo' sho' is persecuted...
um,*HOW MANY* politicians 'come out' as atheists again ? could you run those numbers down for me ? ? ? ...and, um, HOW MANY politicians profess to be religious/xtian ?
here, i'll tell you that one: approximately 100%, minus about a handful in the whole stupid country...
wow, that sho' is some upside-down persecution there, bible boy...
i'm wondering, in your neck of the woods, if you told everyone you were xtian, would they even bat an eyelash ?
is it something they just assumed ? or possibly not even an issue of any significance ? ...possibly ?
i'm betting that is the experience of 99.99% of amerikans...
there's no stupid fucking crybaby xtians being 'persecuted' in amerika, THEY are doing whatever persecution is being done to people...
stay in your stupid god-house and get fleeced by your stupid church 'fathers', what the fuck to i care; but start imposing your stupid skydaddy myths on me through the laws/gummint, and i will kick your stupid ass straight to whatever hell you believe in...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
no, it proves you are as a child, incapable of adult conversation, and you run and hide behind the skirts of your religion at every point you are checkmated...
you take EVERY opportunity to deflect whatever actual debate is going on to CONSTANTLY harp on your adversaries 'attacking' you with normal name-calling, and then equating that as xtian persecution...
grow a pair, milquetoast...
(Tips and Tricks for surfing the inertnet webs: EVERYONE gets cussed out for being a moron, not just stupid xtian crybabies...)
IF -as you prove- you are unable or unwilling to hold a debate with your opponents -on the inertnet tubes, for dog's sake!- without bitching about what people are (often justifiably) calling you, YOU ARE A PUSSY and a coward...
(um, not to mention a world class hypocrite: because you may not use 4-letter words, does not mean you aren't insulting and 'attacking' your opponents, too, dimbulb)
no, keep on with your faith-based idiocy, xtian hypocrite, you only serve to denigrate your own cause...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
excellent, the authoritarian trifecta:
ignorant, delusional, and resistant to logic and rational thinking ! ! !
congrats, YOU are part of the problem why thisy here 'civilization' is circling the drain...
*PLEASE* rapture the fuck out of here and leave us reality-based nekkid apes alone...
(*AND* too stupid to boot to UNDERSTAND the arguments made against their sky daddy...)
you see, i don't want a theocracy whether it is a 'bad' one like islam, or a -you know- 'good' one like xtianity...
*snicker*
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: When Every Practical Economic Idea Is Political Suicide, Something's Wrong With Politics
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmm
...dingleberry
(ps i can write 'proper english' rings around a self-limited asshat like you, but i choose my own inimitable style because i enjoy word play...
pedantic, tiresome grammar nazis? not so much enjoyment...)
pps try googling archy and mehitabel, you illiterate snob...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: SOPA/PIPA Wakes Up Internet Giants To Realize They Need To Be More Engaged In DC
Re: Re: Re: Easy to go elsewhere?
M.
G.
i'm moving from one house to another, and it will be -like- impossible to track down everyone and tell them i've moved ! ! !
i mean, think of all the utility companies i will have to *TRY* and track down to tell them this... all the companies i do business with who will be puzzled that their junk mail no longer reaches me... how will people know my new phone number ? ? ? sweet geebus, this is totally out of control ! ! !
oh well, guess it is so insurmountable, i just cain't nebber ebber move nowhere's else, no one will be able to figure it out...
oh, and you are a fuckwad, mason jar head...
if you can't stand a gratuitous insult and four-letter words, please get the fuck outta here, pantywaist...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: When Every Practical Economic Idea Is Political Suicide, Something's Wrong With Politics
Re: Ok - I'm confused.
from this cursory summary, it appears the only tax left is one on -essentially- energy consumption ?
i don't know...
AND, i REALLY don't get the 'no corporate tax' idea AT ALL... (nor the no individual income tax, at that)
while -if i were king of amerika- i would slash the budget more than most (including 50-90% of our military industrial komplex budget), we still have to raise monies for some stuff... i am skeptical a mere energy tax would do it...
having just listened to another 'alternate economist' (of sorts, Richard Wolff) talk about how our korporate tax is W-A-Y skewed from what it once was, i'm just not seeing the no corporate tax angle... up until about the 50's-60's, for every dollar in taxes an individual paid, korporations paid a dollar fifty; *NOW*, for every dollar an individual pays, korporations pay 25 cents...
*some* (fictitious legal entities) are NOT paying their fair share anymore, on many levels...
they socialize their costs, and privatize their profits, and we 99% are left holding the bag...
just don't see how letting korporations off with ZERO tax is either fair or possible...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: When Every Practical Economic Idea Is Political Suicide, Something's Wrong With Politics
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmm
*shhhhh*
the korporadoes (and their proxies, 'our' (sic) kongresskritters) don't want anyone to hear those inconvenient factoids: they want to loot social security and turn it into a private korporate killing field where grandma and grandpa will be fleeced...
its the neo-amerikan way ! ! !
thus they have to demonize social security before they 'rescue' it by privatizing it...
(which will then be the destruction of it...)
it is not social security which is 'worthless', it is the IOU's unka sam has been putting in the social security not-so-locked-box which are worthless...
it is a sham and a shame...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Apparently A Debate: Would Twitter Benefit If Users Had To Pay To Use It?
as a public service to the NSA, here are 90% of all cell phone calls:
Hey man, what are you doin'?
nuthin', what are you doin'?
nuthin'...
you goin' over to jimmy-joes later ?
why, what's he doin' ?
nuthin'...
(continue ad nauseum...)
2. i am not sure where this new meme of 'good ads = good content' is coming from, but i disagree 1 000 000%
sure, there are about 1 in a 100 ads which are amusing, but i do NOT want to sit through 99 ads to get the 100th 'good' one...
the only 'good' ad, is one i don't see/hear...
besides, *even if* the 100th ad is funny, it is ONLY funny about 1 or two times; the other billion times i see/hear it, it ain't funny no mo'...
in short, ads are NOT about 'educating' or 'entertaining' consumers, they are about creating anxiety and brand loyalty...
the whole lot of (m)ad men, marketing droids, and -hell, why not- 'Human Resources' personnel can fall off the face of the planet, and it would be a better place...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: UK Judge Rules Even Archived News Articles Can Be In Contempt Of Court
Re:
...until i saw that her 'reasonableness' was actually 'forced' upon her as a result of a lawsuit where they screwed with someone videoing a traffic stop or some such, a year or so earlier...
remember kampers:
the price of freedom is eternal vigilance !
ALL (repeat: ALL) secret/non-transparent organizations WILL become corrupted...
repeat: WILL become corrupted, P-E-R-I-O-D.
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Here's The Proposal The FCC Says Doesn't Exist To Move Network Diagnostics To Proprietary Servers
my point still obtains...
when 'laws' are enforced with extreme prejudice against the 99%, and all but unenforced against the 1%, that is called injustice and oppression...
power does not devolve voluntarily, kampers...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Yet Another Study Shows You Can Compete With Piracy
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i have NEVER, repeat NEVER 'pirated' ANYTHING (um, let us put in the qualifier 'knowingly'), and used to be quite the fuckwad about s/w pirating to anyone/everyone who would listen; but i have come to DESPISE Big Media and their like-minded evil minions of doom...
i
simply
will
not
buy
ANY
music,
ANY
DVDs,
basically ANYTHING
other than the stupid Dish network which i would cancel in a heartbeat if SWMBO would allow it...
(IF i can avoid Big Media: sometimes when SWMBO wants to see the latest chick flick, or take the grandbrats to the latest disney marketing opportunity, etc, what can you do ?)
otherwise, i got a couple hundred CD's of legal music that i listen to; i got archive.org (*really* surprised The They (tm) aren't angling to shut them down); and i got any of a million other things to do other than sit staring at the movin' pitchers...
FOAD, Big Media, your exclusionary gatekeeping days are over : not only can i live without your Big Media crap, i can live BETTER without it!
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Telcos Deny Trying To Turn FCC's Open Network Diagnostics Into A Closed, Proprietary Affair
Re: Re: Comments
it would hardly be surprising if ISPs rigged their benchmarks too...
gpu manufs went (and prob still do) to EXTREME lengths to try and game the various popular graphics benchmarks...
...and it worked ! they would beat the other guys by reverse-engineering the benchmark code, and figuring out how they could trick it, anticipate it, or otherwise game the testing software/hardware...
the point being -made in the concurrent article about leahy's cameo, and the subsequent private showing that wasn't a gift 'cause they gamed it- *whatever* 'laws' (how quaint), 'rules', 'regulations', 'guidelines', 'by-laws', or other strictures we mere 99% *attempt* to emplace upon our betters, is ONLY worth the enforcement we can engender...
if we can't enforce (even weak-tea laws), then laws are all but meaningless... in fact, *worse* than meaningless, because they offer the *appearance* of lawfulness, when there is none...
harsh laws for us 99%, with draconian enforcement; and squishy, malleable, hardly-worth-mentioning 'laws' for the 1%, and those unenforced, at that !
i am certain that is a sure-fire recipe for a stable society...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Telcos Deny Trying To Turn FCC's Open Network Diagnostics Into A Closed, Proprietary Affair
i am a sam knows participant...
to wit: starting at just before xmas 2011, our 3 Mbs DSL was *almost* unusable (and *was* -in fact- unusable for -you know- crazy stuff like watching videos or listening to music online) for almost 6 freaking MONTHS...
needless to say, calling our ISP resulted in nothing but lies and bullshit (and NOW they say we NEVER called during this 6 month period, the lying bastards!)...
the monthly report they gave me during this time showed the EXTREME variable speed, but didn't reflect that we were getting 1/10th to 1/20th the speed during our 'normal' usage time : from after-work-o-clock, to midnight...
sure, i bet if you measured at 3-4 in the morning, the speed was *somewhat* better; but for 90% of the time, IT SUCKED...
in any event, either they are not measuring 'real' performance, are taking random samples which didn't reflect our crappy service, or the ISP was spoofing the connection, who knows...
but -you know- putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse is always a good idea...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: MPAA Points To Its Roster Of Crappy Online Services And Asks What We're Complaining About
Re: Re: Slowly but surely, obscurity will be a problem for them
1. there are decent antennas which will give you a BETTER HD picture than the crappy digital signal through cable/sat, i'm seriously considering those simply for that reason alone...
'good' ones i saw start about 50-60 bucks, and depending on how handy you are, not too much trouble to install...
(go to tvfool.com, and they have all kinds of good advice on using OTA HD antenna, etc; as well as a program which will tell you what is/isn't available in your EXACT location...)
2. yes, as previous posters mentioned, netflix sux big time... selection has gone to shit... *LOVE* the *IDEA* of the service (and may pick up the amazon prime crap), but the selection is close to useless...
*used* to subscribe (the price 'increase' didn't mean anything to me, we ONLY did online streaming, don't give a shit about getting DVD's through the mail), but when they started pulling all sorts of content due to Big Media bullying, we dumped them...
too bad...
3. of course, the elephant in the room is: WE HAVE NO CHOICE for our ISP; in our so-called 'free market' 'capitalist' system, ALL THE FUCKERS collude with -apparently 'legal'- 'non-compete' agreements: I CAN'T GET A 'COMPETITOR' to our SHITTY DSL service, NO MATTER WHAT...
we went over 6 months with 3mb/sec service running about 1/10th to 1/20th of that speed; of course, the ISP didn't give a shit, and lied to us the whole time we complained...
(oh, AND -ON THEIR OWN- *said* the would compensate us in some fashion, never did, then we called back, and they gave us a whopping $25 off our bill for 6 months+ of crap service; when we called about *that*, they said we had NEVER CONTACTED them over the slow service: LYING SCUMBAG MOTHER FUCKERS: we called nearly weekly, 'chatted' online a handful of times, and all we got were lies and bullshit...)
3. getting to the point Big Media makes using their products so expensive and onerous, i'm about ready to simply throw the teevee out the window... screw those useless bastards...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks
Re: um, actually...
something like that...
the whole point, was to 'force' ALL citizens to 'do business' with private, for-profit health insurance parasites; in other words, EXACTLY the principle you state (which i agree with), was overturned by the SCOTUS decision on this...
there is NOTHING to prevent the gummint from insisting we do ANYTHING they fucking want to, now... including buy this or that widget-crap from this or that private korporation...
(ps i am 100% for 'universal healthcare', 'single payer', gummint subsidized system; but NOT at the expense of preserving THE major problems with the current system: the health insurance parasites, Big Pharma, etc...)
in other words, your valid point no longer obtains: we are all vassals of the korporatocracy enforced by 'our' (sic) gummint...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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BOTH parties (different faces of the same korporate duopoly) are in favor of gerrymandering, 'cause it makes for 'safe' districts... THEY DON'T want 'competition', they want to divide the spoils amongst themselves...
guess what ? we're the spoils...
just like, well, everything, it seems, kongresskritters simply legalize that which was illegal...
bribes ? ? ? no, you see, those are -you know- free speech units, not dollars to influence behavior... *snicker*
the system is broken and there are no courageous souls left to fight for us, only those looking to fleece us...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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Re: because democracy fails in DC
there is NO 'self-rule' in DC: the 'heart and soul' of small-dee democracy, the literal and figurative capitol, and the residents have ZERO say in how their own city is ruled...
if/when any mayor/etc tries to make ANY significant changes, they are slapped down by kongresskritters who exert near total CONTROL over DC...
it is NOT a 'normal' city in a lot of ways, and the total lack of any self-rule is the most egregious...
(of course, that is they way the kongresskritters like it, so that is the way it will stay...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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Re: Ethics
answer that, and you've answered the abortion issue...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
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virtual mafiaa poop = stinks like shit, but squelches growth...
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i can see that...
On the post: UK Pensioner Could Face Arrest For Atheist Poster
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M.
G.
(not)
as i have said, you appear incapable of rational discourse untainted by your received catechism; locked in an authoritarian mode that brooks no logical assault on your beliefs...
telling a person who lacks awareness of a new concept is at least possible; but a person who simply refuses to acknowledge the validity of a concept because it will conflict with their 'faith' (*snicker*), is impossible to reason with...
(Hint: the problem is that pesky word 'reason'; so-called 'faith' allows for no reason...)
*sigh*
i mean, FORGET about even having a meta-conversation about you (AND your ilk) continuously BITCHING about 'everyone' 'attacking' you by name-calling... (*gasp* it is -like- the *worst*, it makes me sniffle and cry...)
...you just come back with your childish bullshit:
'mommy, that mean man said bad words, he must not know anything...'
what an "argument"... works every time, huh, xtian ?
(seriously, i'm embarrassed for you: you either do not notice, or are pointedly ignoring the multiple 'whooshes' that go over your head...)
*and* -regardless of YOUR 'faith'- many -if not most- of your xtian brothers and sisters have NO problem with: 'he is not of our 'faith', therefore evil, therefore it is not only 'good' that we kill him, but our God commands us to do so !'
oh ? you say you're not *that* fundie ? you're not *that* old testament ? you're one of them-there hippie-jesus, new testament type xtians ?
sure you are...
when/if those faux-moral bastards enforced a theocracy, i KNOW EXACTLY whose side you are on, i don't give a crap what lies you tell yourself and us...
sanctimonious xtians bitching about how they are repressed and 'persecuted' ? yeah, what's not to love about that hypocritical crybabying...
tell me, xtian, how many atheist channels are there on tee vee ? (and -no- the cartoon channel doesn't count) how many religious/xtian channels ?
tell me, how many xtian radio stations can you tune in where you're at ? i know where i live, its approximately a million; but, so far, i ain't found ONE atheist station...
uh huh, yo' sho' is persecuted...
um,*HOW MANY* politicians 'come out' as atheists again ? could you run those numbers down for me ? ? ? ...and, um, HOW MANY politicians profess to be religious/xtian ?
here, i'll tell you that one: approximately 100%, minus about a handful in the whole stupid country...
wow, that sho' is some upside-down persecution there, bible boy...
i'm wondering, in your neck of the woods, if you told everyone you were xtian, would they even bat an eyelash ?
is it something they just assumed ? or possibly not even an issue of any significance ? ...possibly ?
i'm betting that is the experience of 99.99% of amerikans...
there's no stupid fucking crybaby xtians being 'persecuted' in amerika, THEY are doing whatever persecution is being done to people...
stay in your stupid god-house and get fleeced by your stupid church 'fathers', what the fuck to i care; but start imposing your stupid skydaddy myths on me through the laws/gummint, and i will kick your stupid ass straight to whatever hell you believe in...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
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On the post: UK Pensioner Could Face Arrest For Atheist Poster
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you take EVERY opportunity to deflect whatever actual debate is going on to CONSTANTLY harp on your adversaries 'attacking' you with normal name-calling, and then equating that as xtian persecution...
grow a pair, milquetoast...
(Tips and Tricks for surfing the inertnet webs: EVERYONE gets cussed out for being a moron, not just stupid xtian crybabies...)
IF -as you prove- you are unable or unwilling to hold a debate with your opponents -on the inertnet tubes, for dog's sake!- without bitching about what people are (often justifiably) calling you, YOU ARE A PUSSY and a coward...
(um, not to mention a world class hypocrite: because you may not use 4-letter words, does not mean you aren't insulting and 'attacking' your opponents, too, dimbulb)
no, keep on with your faith-based idiocy, xtian hypocrite, you only serve to denigrate your own cause...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
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ignorant, delusional, and resistant to logic and rational thinking ! ! !
congrats, YOU are part of the problem why thisy here 'civilization' is circling the drain...
*PLEASE* rapture the fuck out of here and leave us reality-based nekkid apes alone...
(*AND* too stupid to boot to UNDERSTAND the arguments made against their sky daddy...)
you see, i don't want a theocracy whether it is a 'bad' one like islam, or a -you know- 'good' one like xtianity...
*snicker*
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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