Zimmer
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Have you heard of insurance... you know from the private sector... they would have covered it (unless you bought el cheopo insurance and then it is your fault) :)
Also the NHS payed for it... right... wait NO! taxes did... so really your mom you dad and every other tax payer payed for it
Now to lighten the mood SMILEFACES!! :) :) :) :) :) :)
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Seashan if digip was correct shouldn't they only get hashes (why not just use javascript to hash it locally and just sned the hash over http (there was no SSL!!!!!!))... I am very disappointed in who ever decided to have no ssl!
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Heh luckilly the two there where my weak passwords... so my higher stuff is good. But WTF. where the passwords stored on a server or what. Has anyone hear of this thing called HASHING and SALT!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!
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Do you want US Healthcare reform in the US... or where you live, if you don't have...
Do you
Like it
OR
Hate it
Me?
I hate it (I don't really think that is a suprise)
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Do NOT use python 3k it is way to early!!
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IMHO way too much drug use, this stuff screws with you mind and body in ways that could be totally unknown, I don't know maybe I am to much of a tight wad but this is basically experimenting on you body, and it could cause damage that last forever.
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After a couple hours of being off of pandora (had to kill firefox and qt (Memory usage out of control http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1129/ri...moryusage.jpg)) and the url's I had from DownloadHelper still work they also all start with
http://audio-sjl-t1-2.pandora.com/access/?...6648&token=
and what token = is always 87 characters also the token is the same for two urls then changes for the next two so on (I can NOT identify a pattern).
Also from what I can find pandora does not use a user agent for the songs (the ones here and the one that are accessible once, because I used the iTunes Store User Agent (before I was doing some xml stuff with the iTMS)).
Also DingleBerries have you gotten any progress (also care to explain python httpMonitor)?
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Well I have been looking at pandora (and a way to get the files directly no proxy) and I have found that the addon DownloadHelper (firefox) detects media (flvs) and at the end of each song (so far the first and second audio) it gives a url that contains the next audio (even though it ends in .flv) and it is plable using vlc directly (even after the song and it is a diffrent url for each audio) also DownloadHelper always detects several other flvs but these always have the title of the page (so Pandora Radio Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music). Enjoy
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h3%5kr3w would you say food it addictive? Food can be addictive. From Wikipedia The term "addiction" is used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive psychological dependence So addiction can be to anything it is a "excessive psychological dependence" so I guess Marijuana can be addictive (BTW I am not a doctor but think about it, you can become addicted to anything, it may not be like Heroin (where I believe it is a chemical addiction (I believe it replaces you bodies natural pain killers so you become dependent on that for pain relief I believe)))
PLEASE CORRECT ME IF YOU THINK I AM WRONG this is hardly a founded fact just a view and my thought process.
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Um legal marijuana might not be so good when driving especially (also see California's experience with legalization and soon to be Michigan's problems)
From About.com
* Distorted perception (sights, sounds, time, touch)
* Problems with memory and learning
* Loss of coordination
* Trouble with thinking and problem-solving
* Increased heart rate, reduced blood pressure
Sometimes marijuana use can also produce anxiety, fear, distrust, or panic.
Marijuana legalized I think should go under the same rules as alcohol (so drinking driving etc is illegal), then again I don't think marijuana should be legalized at all (do to its effects and addictiveness etc)
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Great post (a couple back) h3%5kr3w. I guess I state something that has always been central to all of this enviment stuff etc. In my opinion the goverment should not be the one regulating the envimental controls etc so much. Before both the Great Depresion and the World Wars I and II the goverment was not so involved with all this "stuff", the goverments job was to protect the people etc (so police, fire,ambulance) and that was it, then the Great Depression came and the goverment got involved. The goverment needs to go back to the documents that shaped our nation The Decleration of Independance, Bill of Rights etc. That is it, there is no reason for the goverment to get so damn involved, that is what is wonderful about the free market and capatilism it regulates itself if now one interfiers if a company is doing a shity job they either go out of business or do a better job. Also the enviroment has gotton better without cap and trade and it will continue, there is no reason for this or any other bill, it improves itself. Of course I am talking about the US (Europe is so far away from this, is is ridiculous) because I live there and it was the topic thread.
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On your point about China etc being dirty polutioners we would not have a problem if everyone was at the level of pollution as the US but the US is considered to be dirty because there is this thing... it is called wind and it spreads the pollution around and the US is near Mexico, South America, China, and the rest of West (or East) Asia.
As for those blog postings I am quoting and linking to them because they show a difference of opinion and reason.
Here is a pdf (html-google.com) http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:A9qhEq...=clnk&gl=us
Also developing countries will not be harmed by stop using coal, but there is not a need to force it sense air quality IS GETTING BETTER.
Forest ARE GETTING BETTER
Also for a view on the orignal topic on Cap and Trade see http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/comment.p...omment.news.115
Of course the link show that those behind it are against global warming but where else can I get info that is against global bullshit then... well a site that is against it :)
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Um Vako do do you forget bob_s original thread topic was a US law. Yes I do find it said that we are shipping jobs elsewhere but in my opinion that is because of unions, we can't afford labor prices to compete with other places.
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Here is another article against global warming
When Al Gore lost his bid to become the country’s first “Environment President,” many of us thought the “global warming” scare would finally come to a well-deserved end. That hasn’t happened, despite eight good reasons this scam should finally be put to rest.It’s B-a-a-ck!
Similar scares orchestrated by radical environmentalists in the past--such as Alar, global cooling, the “population bomb,” and electromagnetic fields--were eventually debunked by scientists and no longer appear in the speeches or platforms of public officials. The New York Times recently endorsed more widespread use of DDT to combat malaria, proving Rachel Carson’s anti-pesticide gospel is no longer sacrosanct even with the liberal elite.
The scientific case against catastrophic global warming is at least as strong as the case for DDT, but the global warming scare hasn’t gone away. President Bush is waffling on the issue, rightly opposing the Kyoto Protocol and focusing on research and voluntary projects, but wrongly allowing his administration to support calls for creating “transferrable emission credits” for greenhouse gas reductions. Such credits would build political and economic support for a Kyoto-like cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
At the state level, some 23 states have already adopted caps on greenhouse gas emissions or goals for replacing fossil fuels with alternative energy sources. These efforts are doomed to be costly failures, as a new Heartland Policy Study by Dr. Jay Lehr and James Taylor documents. Instead of concentrating on balancing state budgets, some legislators will be working to pass their own “mini-Kyotos.”
Eight Reasons to End the Scam
Concern over “global warming” is overblown and misdirected. What follows are eight reasons why we should pull the plug on this scam before it destroys billions of dollars of wealth and millions of jobs.
1. Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth’s climate. More than 17,000 scientists have signed a petition circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine saying, in part, “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” (Go to www.oism.org for the complete petition and names of signers.) Surveys of climatologists show similar skepticism.
2. Our most reliable sources of temperature data show no global warming trend. Satellite readings of temperatures in the lower troposphere (an area scientists predict would immediately reflect any global warming) show no warming since readings began 23 years ago. These readings are accurate to within 0.01ºC, and are consistent with data from weather balloons. Only land-based temperature stations show a warming trend, and these stations do not cover the entire globe, are often contaminated by heat generated by nearby urban development, and are subject to human error.
3. Global climate computer models are too crude to predict future climate changes. All predictions of global warming are based on computer models, not historical data. In order to get their models to produce predictions that are close to their designers’ expectations, modelers resort to “flux adjustments” that can be 25 times larger than the effect of doubling carbon dioxide concentrations, the supposed trigger for global warming. Richard A. Kerr, a writer for Science, says “climate modelers have been ‘cheating’ for so long it’s almost become respectable.”
4. The IPCC did not prove that human activities are causing global warming. Alarmists frequently quote the executive summaries of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations organization, to support their predictions. But here is what the IPCC’s latest report, Climate Change 2001, actually says about predicting the future climate: “The Earth’s atmosphere-ocean dynamics is chaotic: its evolution is sensitive to small perturbations in initial conditions. This sensitivity limits our ability to predict the detailed evolution of weather; inevitable errors and uncertainties in the starting conditions of a weather forecast amplify through the forecast. As well as uncertainty in initial conditions, such predictions are also degraded by errors and uncertainties in our ability to represent accurately the significant climate processes.”
5. A modest amount of global warming, should it occur, would be beneficial to the natural world and to human civilization. Temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period (roughly 800 to 1200 AD), which allowed the Vikings to settle presently inhospitable Greenland, were higher than even the worst-case scenario reported by the IPCC. The period from about 5000-3000 BC, known as the “climatic optimum,” was even warmer and marked “a time when mankind began to build its first civilizations,” observe James Plummer and Frances B. Smith in a study for Consumer Alert. “There is good reason to believe that a warmer climate would have a similar effect on the health and welfare of our own far more advanced and adaptable civilization today.”
6. Efforts to quickly reduce human greenhouse gas emissions would be costly and would not stop Earth’s climate from changing. Reducing U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to 7 percent below 1990’s levels by the year 2012--the target set by the Kyoto Protocol--would require higher energy taxes and regulations causing the nation to lose 2.4 million jobs and $300 billion in annual economic output. Average household income nationwide would fall by $2,700, and state tax revenues would decline by $93.1 billion due to less taxable earned income and sales, and lower property values. Full implementation of the Kyoto Protocol by all participating nations would reduce global temperature in the year 2100 by a mere 0.14 degrees Celsius.
7. Efforts by state governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are even more expensive and threaten to bust state budgets. After raising their spending with reckless abandon during the 1990s, states now face a cumulative projected deficit of more than $90 billion. Incredibly, most states nevertheless persist in backing unnecessary and expensive greenhouse gas reduction programs. New Jersey, for example, collects $358 million a year in utility taxes to fund greenhouse gas reduction programs. Such programs will have no impact on global greenhouse gas emissions. All they do is destroy jobs and waste money.
8. The best strategy to pursue is “no regrets.” The alternative to demands for immediate action to “stop global warming” is not to do nothing. The best strategy is to invest in atmospheric research now and in reducing emissions sometime in the future if the science becomes more compelling. In the meantime, investments should be made to reduce emissions only when such investments make economic sense in their own right.
This strategy is called “no regrets,” and it is roughly what the Bush administration has been doing. The U.S. spends more on global warming research each year than the entire rest of the world combined, and American businesses are leading the way in demonstrating new technologies for reducing and sequestering greenhouse gas emissions.
Time for Common Sense
The global warming scare has enabled environmental advocacy groups to raise billions of dollars in contributions and government grants. It has given politicians (from Al Gore down) opportunities to pose as prophets of doom and slayers of evil corporations. And it has given bureaucrats at all levels of government, from the United Nations to city councils, powers that threaten our jobs and individual liberty.
It is time for common sense to return to the debate over protecting the environment. An excellent first step would be to end the “global warming” scam.
From http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results..._Is_a_Scam.html
Oh and for the horable act of deforestation
Lots of Americans feel bad when they see images of trees being cut down, because they've been told that America's running out of forestland.Carl Ross, of the group, Save America's Forests, says we've cut way too much.
"The loss of natural forests in America is a crisis," he said. "And we will lose species forever, and they'll go extinct, if we don't take action now."
Other environmental groups run ads warning of the dire consequences.
But The U.S. Agriculture Department says America has 749 million acres of forestland. In 1920, we had 735 million acres of forest.
We have more forest now. How can that be? One reason is technology that allows us to grow five times more food per acre — so we need less farmland. Lots of what once was farmland has reverted to forest.
But Ross says we don't really have more forests. "We have more areas, in America, with trees on them, that's true. But we have less that are natural," he said.
He's right that many of the oldest trees have been cut down, and about 7 percent of America's forests have been planted by man, but that still means that 93 percent are natural.
Ross is also concerned that loss of old-growth forest is leading to a loss of biodiversity. But while some species have decreased, the populations of many others animals have actually increased in the past 75 years.
Michael Shermer says many people believe America is destroying the forests because environment groups need to scare people to raise money.
"The fear is there," he said, "because, if your goal is to raise funds you have to scare people. You can't tell people things are getting better, and here's the data. You have to tell people things are worse."
The truth, however, is that today in the United States there are two acres of forestland for every single person, and America is growing more trees than it cuts.
Also here is a link on overfishing
http://www.fishnet-usa.com/then_now.html
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whedgit the code in your example (it was more of a "stab" at evolution than a real question) :)
Vako Entropy???
Entropy - Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society. so Nothing deteriorates :)
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DarkBlueBox whoever gives the services installs it of you do it your self (it isn't that hard) or that has been my experience in the US.
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whedgit ok with that comparison, how did it come from nothing?
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because corporations are pumping money into politicians/news organizations/fake science companies/etc to cloud the field, create controversy, and spread lies...
That can be attributed to those pro global warming as well using the leverage from fear to get what they want, power and money
Ironically, many of the folk that say "the earth goes from hot periods to cold all the time" frequently also say that the earth is 6000 years old. Very contradictoryGive me the scientists that say that.
we're accelerating it to a level the earth may not be able to handle.is it the earth that can't handle it or those who want Florida to stay the same heat, and the politicians and scientist who want there money and power... There have been times that the earth has been wormer and even if it is happening faster now (evidence? Computer Models that have the Greenhouse Gas 10 fold of the real measure). People and the earth have handle the heat before it is just those who don't want change on them but on others that like global warming (politicians and scientist want to keep money and power to stay the same NO change, eviromentalist want to keep power).
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Seshan I did not believe the swine flu bull shit for a second, just like global warming.
Um Vako Global warming is bullshit and the link I gave you was a BRITISH study, also that is a problem with the left they just say your a moron because you have a different view instead if presenting tangible evidence. Obama's EPA just shot down a 98 page report about the lies of global warming, not because of science, but just saying basically that they where morons.
Vako I don't understand how you can believe in global warming please watch the Youtube playlist I link to above it will show you that global warming is just a power and money drive, power for politicians and evirometalist (power to control your life) and money for scientist (to get funding for what they want to study) they show that in the link above. Of course you are to closed minded. So who is the real moron, the one willing to debate and look at the issue or the one of blind belief calling all others morons?
Also what is wrong with debating evolution, if your side is so strong and logical, the only thing debate will bring is more people coming to your side.
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digip you still lable it as dirty but it isn't. Also in supply and demand if supply is to low to feed the demand prices go UP
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Almost done watching the videos and the global warming theory just makes me laugh, it is hilarity.
More videos, diffrent series there was a video before this but it was removed!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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I was trying to remember a point, I now have...
We are the ones polluting the US and the big cars etc...
but Mexico South America, India, China, Japan, Asia are much worse, and the pollution spreads we are not nearly as bad it isn't are so called bad habits it is pollution from those places not us!
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Ok here is a youtube playlist with all 8 parts of the series, it is so good I am downloading it :)
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Vako I have been checking out the website a little more sense bob_s posted about the dates and there is nothing critical or global warming it seems it is just a biased agenda driven based website for global warming
Your words put it best
used to drive a biased agenda.so stop complaining that I have a biased agenda (saving money, horable I know) and then give me a link that is biased (IMO more than me I am fine with improving resource usage etc as long as it follows logical points not pushed by a bunch of bull shit).
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US Healthcare... Like it or Hate it
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grr edit is screwing up or something I ment to edit grr SMILES :) :) :)