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Call and bitch, it may take a while for them to do anything though.  Verizon has been having major network issues recently.

You don't want dailup.  The only reason you think it's worse than dialup is because you probably haven't used dialup recently.

Just... just re-emphasizing this. Because yeah. I still remember dial-up, very, very well. 20 kb/s was not a thing hat happened. 10 kb/s was not a thing that happened. You got 5, if you were lucky, with a 56k modem.

Is there any other options for broadband in your area? A land line would probably be more ideal, if it was possible, I think.

Ah, I actually missed that (am drowsy from food, heh.). Fortunately, 'like' gives enough leeway I can retroactively interpret it to mean people of temperament similar to yourself, rather than folks that are actually considering themselves this kind of strange not!Roman Catholic we're referring to

I'll admit I was working under the implication that you were referring to the more modern Catholicism from the inside, though. Take my apologizes for the mistake.

Anyway, I guess I just don't have that issue because even in a organization that is stereotypically evil I would want to judge people on individual merits. IE: I don't believe it is desirable or possible to sort the fruit without looking at each and every one.

And yeah, agreement here. It just makes doing that somewhat more difficult when the nice fruit is saying it's the same sort of fruit as the rotten stuff, even if it's not doing the same sort of things. It also says there might be some non-trivial issues with the nice fruit, that they're not willing or able to see or consciously make the separation themselves.

But yeah, I don't see a conventional war happening between the US and China at all. Too far removed from each other.

Um. Ah. Yeah. They'd have to go through parts of Russia (and then Canada, I guess) to get to us, I think, but if they were actually aiming for the US I'm not entirely sure how much Russia'd actually complain about it. Or be able to stop them without resorting to the boom.

I actually missed your post. I was responding to that other guy.

If you mean me, I never actually said you were At least in the last post I made relating to that stuff, anyway.

Quote from: Dsarker on January 01, 2012, 04:50:28 pm

And you have an easy-to-train army when you get invaded by China.

Lol if China decided to invade anyone, very few armies would be able to stop them.
>Korean war

Drones, maan. And those dog robot things that can cross slick ice and be like, "yeah, whatever." Why have child soldiers when you can have robot army?

Unless, of course, you intend to have both.

Why? Who benefits from this? The 'church' who loses followers? The followers who lose solidarity? Or, people like you. Who want to paint the church and everyone in it as evil and are whining about how hard that is too do in real life?

Mostly the followers, really, because it eliminates some blatant and massive hypocrisy from their beliefs. That very tangibly improves the actual faith side of the equation, even if it doesn't do much for the more primarily social aspect. It'd also help people like me, who has great respect for most of the basic teachings of the great spiritual figures of human history and would really rather like it if folks would be upfront about how they're relating to the legacy of those folks.

As for G-Flex, I think he just wants to make it easier to actually separate the people in the church that are evil (or at least terribly obsolete) by most standards from folks like you, who seem considerably more chill about things. It'd be a lot easier to tell the rotten fruit from the edible stuff if the edible stuff would stop putting itself in the same bin, so to speak.

I'll admit, the whole "I'm going to call and associate myself with X faith, but hold to basically none of the actually tenants of it, and actually practice Y" thing annoys the blazes out of me, too. It's very prevalent (The absolutely violent schism between a lot of evangelical Christians and the actual teachings of Jesus, ferex), and understandable if you're looking at it the way you're presenting it, Cript, but for folks that actually think 'good faith' (i.e. actually practicing the belief system one openly purports) is important, it's very much not good faith. It's doublethink, hypocrisy, and a terrible and pervasive contribution to sentiments against religion. It'd make folks on the outside a lot happier if everyone in the inside'd play it straight.

Can we go back to making fun of doomsayers now?

We're waiting for the december deadline to get down to some real mocking

In the meantime, anyone heard anything about someone doing something massively idiotic in preparation for the end of times?

... maybe see if you can swing it with the corporation to have some of the days that the courts are open, off? Say swap thursday-friday for staturday-sunday, or something like that. At the very least make inquiry as to if it'd be a possibility, I'd say. Sometimes that kind of thing can happen. Might be able to do hour shifts, too, at least some days. Depends on what you'd be doing as a CPA and how much your actual presence is needed during the standard work hours.

Quote from: palsch on January 01, 2012, 10:58:19 am

https://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2012/pre-1976

This is culture that belongs to us.  Culture that we have been deprived of. Culture that has been legally stolen and ransomed. Copyright is theft of the public domain. The best thing to do is return copyright to its original term.

Fourteen years sounds pretty fair for a single creative or innovative work, really. If you haven't done something new that's profitable by then, it's probably time to get back to work. Not that losing copyright prevents you from continuing to profit from the work, just gives other folks the chance to do a better job of it.

Why'd it get so long, again? Is it just because it allows (theoretically immortal) corporations to keep a stranglehold on stuff?