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21) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #45 (Message 1381880)
Posted 3 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
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22) Message boards : Politics : NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily - revealed (Message 1381848)
Posted 3 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Robert:

I been opposed to the Patriot Act since before it became law. I did what I could to get the sheep to see what was going to happen if they allowed it to become law. They were blind. They believe that there will never be a rat ass bastard in the government. They wear rose colored glasses and believe in fairy tales.

We have a large number of people in this country who want government in all things financial, they call themselves democrats.

We have a large number of people in this country who what government in all things bedroom, they call themselves republicans.

They got together and as this program can serve both their goals, it got passed. It gets the government in everyone's business. Whenever those two groups of rat ass bastards get together on something it is generally bad for the country.

Unfortunately, there aren't a lot like me who are orthogonal and don't want government in the people's lives.

Now excuse me while I continue to bitch about the nanny state that the filthy republicans and democrats want to impose.

Don't get me started what the money laundering rules have imposed!

As for the Verizon stuff, worst kept secret I know of. Every landlord that has a cell site in America knows about it. It is a profit center for them. That government equipment closet they get a rent check for ...

Speaking of that, why are the ISP's or cell carriers going to pitch a bitch. The government is handing them cash for the records. It is a profit center.

Back to you regularly scheduled programming.
23) Message boards : Politics : Tax Avoidance & Evasion (Message 1381837)
Posted 3 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
IMV, before governments chase up business's & individuals for tax evasion/avoidance, they should first clean up their own departments....

Embarrassment for the Government

I think that is an unfair view, although albeit a correct one. It isn't the Government departments that need "cleaning up" per se, they aren't avoiding taxes, it is their contractors. What needs tightening up is the procedures for vetting contractors. From first hand knowledge I know the depth of the financial checks made on Government contractors to ensure financial viability during the course of any contract, therefore I am surprised that this slipped through the net.

Somehow I just don't get this tax avoidance outrage.

Your government imposes a fiduciary duty to the shareholder upon the BOD. Part of that duty is to maximize profit. Your government offers tax loopholes. Essentially your government has ordered them to take the loophole. Then you are upset when they do exactly what you ordered them to do? I don't get it.
24) Message boards : Politics : DEAD. Murder? usa internet LAW REFORM REQUIRED! (Message 1381676)
Posted 4 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Are you on a retainer from Fox?

No, but it is obvious you are on a retainer for MSNBC.

Just because Faux
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
doesn't make the story fake.
25) Message boards : Politics : NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily - revealed (Message 1381661)
Posted 4 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
my machine logged a dozen attempts from an IP in China to log on.

90% of the worlds hacking comes from there. That country is more of a threat to the Western world than Russia ever was duing[sic] the cold war.

You severely underestimate Soviet Russia.
26) Message boards : Politics : DEAD. Murder? usa internet LAW REFORM REQUIRED! (Message 1381660)
Posted 4 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Now just Why did he go to Hong Kong?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/14/china-newspaper-says-snowden-could-be-useful-to-china/
I think I smell a wumpus.


Really?

He said he wanted to go to Iceland, but that isn't where he went.
27) Message boards : Politics : NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily - revealed (Message 1381617)
Posted 4 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Interesting. Draw your own conclusions.
Author of "secure" operating systems the NSA
Snowden claims that the NSA has direct access to ISP's ISP's deny it.

Just have to wonder about that. Spooks are pretty good at their jobs. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it has a nice, quite complex to trigger, zero day backdoor built in.

OBW on an oddball non-standard port number, you don't think I run services on standard port numbers do you?, my machine logged a dozen attempts from an IP in China to log on.
28) Message boards : Politics : DEAD. Murder? usa internet LAW REFORM REQUIRED! (Message 1381384)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Now just Why did he go to Hong Kong?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/14/china-newspaper-says-snowden-could-be-useful-to-china/
I think I smell a wumpus.
29) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Was earth ever frozen over totally? (Message 1381378)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Gary your cynicism is showing. I tend to be more open minded, occasionally I learn new things.

I just remember the Soviet system of scientific publishing. All peer reviewed.
30) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Kitty Electric. (Message 1381347)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Never presuppose what I am going to do in the next 24 hours.

If you have to make the choice not to drink 1 second at a time, that is what you have to do. Make Bill W. your best friend for life.

31) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Curious how dogs reflect human behavior (Message 1381346)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Hmmmmm. I was sure that someone would comment about why people always want what someone else has even if it is the exact same thing. I guess I was wrong.

I could comment, but then this thread would end up over in politics. You can fill in the blanks.
32) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Was earth ever frozen over totally? (Message 1381342)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
I also have a feeling that supporters of such theories tend to only use data that supports the theory they are trying to simulate.

Change that to support their paycheck. +1
33) Message boards : Politics : The downfall of the current regime (Message 1381246)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Haven't seen anyone in here lately say the government needs to spend more.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=70246

Not looking very hard.
34) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: DENIAL (Message 1381240)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
I recall the girls playing beach volleyball in your Olympic Stadium

Really, well done. Seeing as it was in Horseguards Parade in central London.

2012 Beach Volleyball


OT - Is it me or why in most every shot of the empty seats do the rows look crooked? Were the girls practicing when the construction crew was measuring it out?

35) Message boards : Politics : The downfall of the current regime (Message 1381206)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
A billion spent by the government generates a few bureaucrat jobs and a bunch of people addicted to welfare, with a small amount of tax recapture from the bureaucrat salaries.

A billion spent by fat cats generates a ton of minimum wage jobs filled by illegals [Americans won't work for minimum wage, welfare pays more] and no tax recapture as income taxes off the jobs is zero.

A billion spent by JPL/NASA generates a bunch of high paying high skill jobs a bunch of new tech to be exploited by the private sector and about 10 billion in tax recapture.


I'm just waiting for H&R block to go under because they won't be doing tax refund loans this year because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Tax Act. I dang well wouldn't want to be a tax preparer for the next couple of years, telling people who have gotten big refunds all their lives, this year you have to write a big check because you don't have health insurance which you can't afford.

36) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: DENIAL (Message 1381144)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
... just random words that are links to who knows what...

So indeed, you are just playing word games and trolling with no interest in reality.

You could try the method of quoting used in papers everywhere and fully supported by the BBCode here. However it doesn't work well when you wish to spread FUD.

[ quote = [ url = http://www.warmersrule.com/claptrap ] http://www.warmersrule.com/claptrap[ /url ] Cow farts in upperwestsoutheasttown CO2 levels rise worldwide [ /quote ]

Yes, it doesn't work very well to spread FUD. But putting pure BS toll headlines on random links works much better to spread FUD.

[ url = http://www.warmersrule.com/claptrap ] CO2 Levels still on the rise, temperature is going up, man must stop it. [ /url ]

You do that so well across all the threads you post in. Everyone should have one thing they can be proud of.
37) Message boards : Politics : NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily - revealed (Message 1381141)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
And none of this is new. Ask any Mason if the government persecutes people who talk where the government can't have an agent listen in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_Freemasonry

Power creates paranoia.
38) Message boards : Politics : DEAD. Murder? usa internet LAW REFORM REQUIRED! (Message 1381135)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.


You seem to repeat this maxim ad nauseum.
Almost like Nancy Reagan's "Just say no".

You proffer a so called superior understanding yet offer nothing of substance other than pedantry.

Extra Extra - Read All About It!
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/14/world/asia/hong-kong-boyce-snowden/
Former criminal tells his story.

Says, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
39) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1381067)
Posted 5 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
Betty Rubble would have had one?
40) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: DENIAL (Message 1380875)
Posted 6 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
All unnecessary. We have the numbers in that we are directly measuring what is in the atmosphere and by the beauty or radio-isotope analysis, we can directly measure where the CO2 in the atmosphere has come from.

But still you won't post numbers.
How clearer can you get?:

... the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is going up by 15 billion tons a year, and humans are emitting 30 billion tons a year. So nature's net balance must be an absorption of 15 billion tons a year from the air...

Wow you are capable of posting numbers, not just random words that are links to who knows what, because you refuse to say what they are. I learned long ago from your posts in other threads to not click on your links.

However you still have not addressed how much is excess. And remember it is you who used the word excess so it is incumbent upon you to define what it means, preferably with error bars if you expect to be taken seriously.




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