thats what i figure, I know a few people who work animal farms in my area, none of them work on farms where the owners or staff would care if somebody took pictures.
now I will admit, the chicken processing plant i worked at way back would probably not like it, but, honestly despite it being nasty, anybody whos been around chickens much knows they are nasty filthy animals anyway.....
I do not truck with abusing animals, but, im not gonna go vegan like a few nuts I know keep trying to convense me I should....
oh and about the spitting...yeah, its kinda like a friend of mines grandparents, they raise ostrich and similar birds for meat, they had to go to a double fense a couple years back after some idiot stuck a hand threw the fence, got a chunk taken out of his arm, then sued them..(despite HUGE warning signs in 3 languages AND with images)
people are dumb.....(stupid really)....but any farmer with a no pictures/filming policy is ashamed of their operation, and thats not a farmer i would buy from.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Corporatized farming. Such animal abuse was rare before.
well said bf, and Gwiz, I agree with part of what you said, BUT I also see where unrestrained capitalism is the cause of alot of the worlds problems, corporatism is also known as fascism, its when the corporations own or run the govt, and this has been true for a very long time, its just gotten alot worse during my lifetime, accelerated, it sucks.
you look at the US, and you see that our right insist we have the best medical system in the world, the rest of the developed world look at us and scoff, yes we may have some of the best clinics, but thats only if you can afford them.
the cost of medical care has gone up up up, in no small part thanks to insurance companies...
What I feel needs to happen is, "We The People" need to take back our nation/govt, then, use that power to reign in the corporate powers that are the root of the problem.
a great example would be broadband providers oligarchy, most of these big companies took our money, in exchange for expanding/building infrastructure to ensure americans had broadband access, then, they pocketed it....THEN they made agreements with eachother not to compete, they also try and use legal means to stop local municipalities from providing competing services, because they dont want to loose their massive profits.
the way i see it, they should all be hit with price fixing charges/suets and fined, use the fines to encourage other providers to build area's up.
rather then giving out money first, make it an award for doing a good job, encourage competition encourage advancement.....
a good example would be googles fiber...70bucks a month for 1gbit sync, when the best i can get here is 100/20 out of comcast at 115/mo, or 35/15 out of frontier.....
honestly, we need to kick these aholes in the nuts....
makes me sick having my friends in Japan and Korea, and hk and tw and hell even the Philippines tell me they have faster net then I have, and it costs less.... and they have tons of choices for providers compared to us......
i could list tv options, or dozens of other day to day things where our options are limited......hell we have 1 choice of store chain locally here, safeway, if we wana drive 15min, we have more choices, BUT safeway paid off local govts to keep out competing chains even after those chains bought land and got permits....
if your service was sold to frontier DO NOT UPGRADE, they are trying to get people to change contracts/plans because they have changed the plans from sync to async, their best plan in my area went from offering 50/20 to 35/15, and there are ZERO sync plans now, (cant get 35/35)
thanks for the video, I still cant find the one I had that shows "bullying" on a bus...."bullying" being name calling and a bit of shoving......
when i was in school that would have been a good day.....this coming from a fat, geeky red head(aka fire crotch) that got untold amounts of shit from people from preschool all the way thru highschool....
My view is, society for far to long has been doing all it can to keep stupid people from killing/harming themselves.
watch the movie idocracy and i really feel thats where we are headed...
I say, if people are so weak/stupid they are going to off themselves over words, LET THEM, dont rty and stop it.....there genes shouldnt be in the genepool if they are that weak.
if somebody is so stupid they blow off some fingers or a hand with fireworks, let them, just dont give them disability when they do....dont punish the rest of us for the actions of total rtards....
mind, I dont think most mentally disabled people are even close to as stupid as some of the true moron rednecks I have worked with....i mean the kinda guy who will smoke a cig as they use gasoline to clean engine parts....
bah....I say again, we need to stop coddling the stupid....let natural selection decide who breeds and who offs themselves.
but,but,but....that would go against the american way, to create once and have a perpetual stream of income from it.....or at least thats what the likes of OOTB and BoB and such want....
I do agree with you....hell, I know people who are artists who would agree with you....gotta keep creating and working to keep getting paid.....but then again, every artist I know whos made money off their art also worked other jobs and understand that they need to keep working/creating to keep getting money.
nice ad-hom......little note for you, my great grandfather used the term "boy" alot, he had never lived in the south, infact he was born and raised here in the northwest, he used the term boy when referring to younger males AND even males his own age who refused to grow up.
people who want to be "different" by being the same as all their peers.
im a geek, I hate dealing with apple, I can build a far better system for the same or less money then a mac, I can get a far better media player for the same price or less the an ipod, and i can get a far better phone with android or the like for the same money or less then an iphone....
My father talked my mother into getting a ip4s, i hate that stupid thing, shes constantly asking for help with it, shes got to install itunes on all her systems to be able to get pictures and videos she makes off the stupid thing....UGGG!!!!
I much prefer my cowon c2, or samsung DAP/PMP(mp3 players), they both "just work" no need for 3rd party crapware, support for better more common audio formats(flac and ogg).
ootb, as a long time internet and IRL troll, i can tell you, your skills are marginal at best, the only reason people respond to you at all is because its so easy to counter troll you....
you need to go to IRC bootcamp to learn to troll properly.
I use to be a big DnD fan, but, after the actions of WoC over the years, I have long since decided to not support them in any way, infact, I wont even play DnD anymore if the person bought the books and gave WoC money.
this is for you WoC, you lost a long time fan and lover of table top RPG's due to your BS actions such as this...
google around for what spiking is, it was possible to "spike" somebody but, not the way described and not via "hacking", my grandmother got spiked once the phone company replaced her phone the next day(was an accident, they where trying to find a bad something or other on the exchange and didnt disconnect something so a few peoples phones got damaged, no big deal really, i kinda think it was used to find bad caps, since a spike is one way to pop a weak cap)
again though, the story dosnt add up, the teacher would have to be at the old time phone exchange and would have to know how to physically do it, nothing was automated back then...
i have only seen it once, and it was a 4 square block area due to lightning strikes(4 on the same exchange in a short period)
anything hooked to the phone lines coming out of the area of the exchange effected was smoked, i knew 6 people in that area who where very lucky to have APC surge protectors(before apc went to crap), they all had their phone line running thru the apc, every one of them's apc was fried, as was the computer and phone hooked to the apc.....
apc covered it, the phone company also covered it but it took them 14 months to pay off, then they only paid back a % of the lost in money the rest was given via discounts on your phone bill.....(im really not kidding, i wish i was...)
but, thats the only time I have heard of a major loss due to phone line surges.....funny enough, there was also damage in some cases to stuff on the normal power in some homes due to surge threw computers/fax machiens.....(yeah, again, i was like WTF....but i saw it with my own eyes)
in the end, it sold alot of apc and triplite UPS's after word got out that APC and TripLite where paying out faster then the phone company was.....
oh and yes it made the papers, and there was even a pretty detailed explanation of what happened, in effect the surge protection between the exchange and the homes/businesses connected had fuzed with the first strike.....the pictures where interesting, im sure the company that made the surge suppression system had to pay out or got sued as well....because clearly i didnt work at all....
FOSS is good when it works, the real problem is, much of the time it dosnt just work, the amount of time spent supporting foss is a business environment is higher then that of using commercial solutions.
I say this having been there, and also speaking from what a friend who works in IT at google has said.
many insisted going linux would drop costs and mean less support issues for google internally, this isnt true, they have been tracking it for years, they actually more then quadrupled their support calls and need to send a tech out, mostly due to the fact that some of the software they switched to has bugs, and the users cant reinstall/update them when somethings broken(they have them to locked down)
Linux is not really ready for prime on the desktop, BSD is better but still isnt really "ready for prime" as a desktop OS, its great for a server or appliance but, its really at this point not a desktop os.
solaris is decent on the desktop but its also very weird to use for a normal pc user, again not really ready for prime as a desktop OS.
so that leaves mac and windows.....mac costs to much and has far less software to choose from to do a specific job then windows, so many companies dont want to sink money into the apple eco system...
also having worked for a company that was 75% Apple Mac use when I started, I can tell you, Apple support was and I hear still is HORRIBLE, business support contracts that state you will get a problem resolved in 24hrs.....more like a week or 2 to get somebody from apple out to on site repair when the contract clearly states 24hrs.....
also getting apple specific software problems dealt with......takes MONTHS, on the other hand, we would put a ticket in with ms, and have somebody calling us within 20min, and normally a beta fix to test within a few days(sometimes same day), yeah MS arent the best company, and they do alot of dickheadish things, but, their support for corporate is far and above any other company i have dealt with......(dont get me started on adobe and autodesk......they SUCK DONKY DONG!!!)
the way i see it, MS is going to be foreced to do more deals on their os and keep dropping the price, and eventually they will drop the price of their office suit as well...
till then for home users/geeks theres always technet :)
sorry to have to say this, as i dislike modern repuglicans, but the repug party was the one for freeing slaves(endling slavery), dem's back then(or what became dem party) where the ones pushing hard to keep their slaves....
pretty fucked up if you look how it is today....then again, republicans where the first to size with the people against pipa/sopa and many dem's kept supporting it even after it was clearly dead.....
not really, that test detects many brands of lotion as explosives and the people doing the tests know it, they once took away the airport wheel chair i was using(sever arthritis) and made me use another because it had "explosive" residue on it....ROFL.....
I once had an internet tough guy actually show up at my house after i counter trolled him into a blind rage, i even gave him my real addy, he about pissed himself when he saw me.....
he was under the weird impression that people use pictures of themselves as their avatars on forums and messenger apps......LOL
was quite funny he showed up and instead of a skinny little girl found a 6'1" erik the red looking mofo (big ginger viking lookin fellow) he suddenly went from rage to abject apology......his buddy he brought with him about pissed himself to.....it was a riot.....
saddly, EA is more likely to use this as an excuse to never make another simcity game if it dosnt sell well, after all, it flopping, and that coudnt be because people where pissed about the shitty moves they made with online only and poor server support....
sadly this is typical of game companies today, and they wotn sell the IP even if they think the franchise is not worth continuing, because they dont want anybody else making money off it either.
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Re: C'mon over and take pictures
now I will admit, the chicken processing plant i worked at way back would probably not like it, but, honestly despite it being nasty, anybody whos been around chickens much knows they are nasty filthy animals anyway.....
I do not truck with abusing animals, but, im not gonna go vegan like a few nuts I know keep trying to convense me I should....
oh and about the spitting...yeah, its kinda like a friend of mines grandparents, they raise ostrich and similar birds for meat, they had to go to a double fense a couple years back after some idiot stuck a hand threw the fence, got a chunk taken out of his arm, then sued them..(despite HUGE warning signs in 3 languages AND with images)
people are dumb.....(stupid really)....but any farmer with a no pictures/filming policy is ashamed of their operation, and thats not a farmer i would buy from.
On the post: States Continue To Make Photographing Or Taping Farms A Crime
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Corporatized farming. Such animal abuse was rare before.
you look at the US, and you see that our right insist we have the best medical system in the world, the rest of the developed world look at us and scoff, yes we may have some of the best clinics, but thats only if you can afford them.
the cost of medical care has gone up up up, in no small part thanks to insurance companies...
What I feel needs to happen is, "We The People" need to take back our nation/govt, then, use that power to reign in the corporate powers that are the root of the problem.
a great example would be broadband providers oligarchy, most of these big companies took our money, in exchange for expanding/building infrastructure to ensure americans had broadband access, then, they pocketed it....THEN they made agreements with eachother not to compete, they also try and use legal means to stop local municipalities from providing competing services, because they dont want to loose their massive profits.
the way i see it, they should all be hit with price fixing charges/suets and fined, use the fines to encourage other providers to build area's up.
rather then giving out money first, make it an award for doing a good job, encourage competition encourage advancement.....
a good example would be googles fiber...70bucks a month for 1gbit sync, when the best i can get here is 100/20 out of comcast at 115/mo, or 35/15 out of frontier.....
honestly, we need to kick these aholes in the nuts....
makes me sick having my friends in Japan and Korea, and hk and tw and hell even the Philippines tell me they have faster net then I have, and it costs less.... and they have tons of choices for providers compared to us......
i could list tv options, or dozens of other day to day things where our options are limited......hell we have 1 choice of store chain locally here, safeway, if we wana drive 15min, we have more choices, BUT safeway paid off local govts to keep out competing chains even after those chains bought land and got permits....
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Re: Tsk...
when i was in school that would have been a good day.....this coming from a fat, geeky red head(aka fire crotch) that got untold amounts of shit from people from preschool all the way thru highschool....
My view is, society for far to long has been doing all it can to keep stupid people from killing/harming themselves.
watch the movie idocracy and i really feel thats where we are headed...
I say, if people are so weak/stupid they are going to off themselves over words, LET THEM, dont rty and stop it.....there genes shouldnt be in the genepool if they are that weak.
if somebody is so stupid they blow off some fingers or a hand with fireworks, let them, just dont give them disability when they do....dont punish the rest of us for the actions of total rtards....
mind, I dont think most mentally disabled people are even close to as stupid as some of the true moron rednecks I have worked with....i mean the kinda guy who will smoke a cig as they use gasoline to clean engine parts....
bah....I say again, we need to stop coddling the stupid....let natural selection decide who breeds and who offs themselves.
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I do agree with you....hell, I know people who are artists who would agree with you....gotta keep creating and working to keep getting paid.....but then again, every artist I know whos made money off their art also worked other jobs and understand that they need to keep working/creating to keep getting money.
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seems to fit you well, boy.
On the post: Apple Disapproves Sweatshop Game That, Perhaps, Hits A Little Too Close To Home
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im a geek, I hate dealing with apple, I can build a far better system for the same or less money then a mac, I can get a far better media player for the same price or less the an ipod, and i can get a far better phone with android or the like for the same money or less then an iphone....
My father talked my mother into getting a ip4s, i hate that stupid thing, shes constantly asking for help with it, shes got to install itunes on all her systems to be able to get pictures and videos she makes off the stupid thing....UGGG!!!!
I much prefer my cowon c2, or samsung DAP/PMP(mp3 players), they both "just work" no need for 3rd party crapware, support for better more common audio formats(flac and ogg).
On the post: Senator Fido Wants To Create Official Ambassador For Hollywood's Interests
Re: Re: Re: Well, nothing worth sniping at.
you need to go to IRC bootcamp to learn to troll properly.
On the post: Spanish Government Bows Down To US Pressures Again, Pushes SOPA-Like Law To Appease Hollywood
Re: Re: Good for Spain!
On the post: Wizards Of The Coast Kills Popular Kickstarter Project Based On Questionable Trademark Claim
use to be
this is for you WoC, you lost a long time fan and lover of table top RPG's due to your BS actions such as this...
On the post: Rep. Gohmert's Record For Stunning Technological Ignorance Is Broken By... Rep. Gohmert
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again though, the story dosnt add up, the teacher would have to be at the old time phone exchange and would have to know how to physically do it, nothing was automated back then...
On the post: Rep. Gohmert's Record For Stunning Technological Ignorance Is Broken By... Rep. Gohmert
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anything hooked to the phone lines coming out of the area of the exchange effected was smoked, i knew 6 people in that area who where very lucky to have APC surge protectors(before apc went to crap), they all had their phone line running thru the apc, every one of them's apc was fried, as was the computer and phone hooked to the apc.....
apc covered it, the phone company also covered it but it took them 14 months to pay off, then they only paid back a % of the lost in money the rest was given via discounts on your phone bill.....(im really not kidding, i wish i was...)
but, thats the only time I have heard of a major loss due to phone line surges.....funny enough, there was also damage in some cases to stuff on the normal power in some homes due to surge threw computers/fax machiens.....(yeah, again, i was like WTF....but i saw it with my own eyes)
in the end, it sold alot of apc and triplite UPS's after word got out that APC and TripLite where paying out faster then the phone company was.....
oh and yes it made the papers, and there was even a pretty detailed explanation of what happened, in effect the surge protection between the exchange and the homes/businesses connected had fuzed with the first strike.....the pictures where interesting, im sure the company that made the surge suppression system had to pay out or got sued as well....because clearly i didnt work at all....
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On the post: California Attorney General Claims Foreign Companies Using 'Pirated' Software Represent Unfair Competition
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I say this having been there, and also speaking from what a friend who works in IT at google has said.
many insisted going linux would drop costs and mean less support issues for google internally, this isnt true, they have been tracking it for years, they actually more then quadrupled their support calls and need to send a tech out, mostly due to the fact that some of the software they switched to has bugs, and the users cant reinstall/update them when somethings broken(they have them to locked down)
Linux is not really ready for prime on the desktop, BSD is better but still isnt really "ready for prime" as a desktop OS, its great for a server or appliance but, its really at this point not a desktop os.
solaris is decent on the desktop but its also very weird to use for a normal pc user, again not really ready for prime as a desktop OS.
so that leaves mac and windows.....mac costs to much and has far less software to choose from to do a specific job then windows, so many companies dont want to sink money into the apple eco system...
also having worked for a company that was 75% Apple Mac use when I started, I can tell you, Apple support was and I hear still is HORRIBLE, business support contracts that state you will get a problem resolved in 24hrs.....more like a week or 2 to get somebody from apple out to on site repair when the contract clearly states 24hrs.....
also getting apple specific software problems dealt with......takes MONTHS, on the other hand, we would put a ticket in with ms, and have somebody calling us within 20min, and normally a beta fix to test within a few days(sometimes same day), yeah MS arent the best company, and they do alot of dickheadish things, but, their support for corporate is far and above any other company i have dealt with......(dont get me started on adobe and autodesk......they SUCK DONKY DONG!!!)
the way i see it, MS is going to be foreced to do more deals on their os and keep dropping the price, and eventually they will drop the price of their office suit as well...
till then for home users/geeks theres always technet :)
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pretty fucked up if you look how it is today....then again, republicans where the first to size with the people against pipa/sopa and many dem's kept supporting it even after it was clearly dead.....
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he was under the weird impression that people use pictures of themselves as their avatars on forums and messenger apps......LOL
was quite funny he showed up and instead of a skinny little girl found a 6'1" erik the red looking mofo (big ginger viking lookin fellow) he suddenly went from rage to abject apology......his buddy he brought with him about pissed himself to.....it was a riot.....
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sadly this is typical of game companies today, and they wotn sell the IP even if they think the franchise is not worth continuing, because they dont want anybody else making money off it either.
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