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RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl
tcp100 noted an article running at fox about
The RIAA suing a 12 Year Old girl: "'I got really scared. My stomach is all turning,' Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother."
He's whoring karma with an AC post... Right...
Presidents are elected through the electoral college, not through popular vote.
57 million means nothing. Most people don't vote. Trying to draw a parallel between the two doesn't mean anything.
When asked for comment, Lord Ebenezer Perriwinkle said "Let her die then, and decrease the surplus population!"
He then ran off in his golden carraige, oblivious to the fact that his team of horses trampled a crippled child as he sipped his tea in the velour-lined coach.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
> This would be laugh out loud hilarious if it weren't so horribly tragic...
Oh, the hilarity!
Somebody set us up the blooper!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Um, the US has a bunch more citizens than the number that voted in the last election. Look here.
According to these numbers, less than 20 percent of the population uses file sharing services - and I doubt that ALL of the people who use file sharing services use them for illegal purposes - either using them to transfer personal data, downloaded it and installed it but don't use it anymore, etc. I'd be really curious to know exactly how The Yankee Group established those statistics and who funded the study.
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
Moderators should have to pass a quiz indicating they have a sense of irony and a knowledge of current events.
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In the meantime, did you know the War on Iraq is just about equal in cost to WWI? And is more expensive than all of our wars prior to WWI plus Desert Storm combined? And that the whitehouse says that George Bush's $87 Billion is anywhere from $55 to $75 billion too little? (The plan is that the french, germans, and russians will pay the shortfall.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A
-- Presidents are not elected by popular vote --
Otherwise, states like California (that give driver's licenses to ILLEGAL ALIENS) would have too much influence over elections.
The anger has less to do with the electoral college and more to do with the incredible discrepencies and shady goings-on that overshadowed Florida. There were reports of entire districts being turned away at the polls. The state of Florida admitted to not only having a truckfull of ballots go completely missing for a matter or hours, but that they also completely lost a few of them. Add in 1 Catherine Harris coming up with creative ways to avoid, omit or close down recounts and 1 supreme court which, in its incredible fairness, stopped the entire process until it decided on the case, and then gave them 2 days to finish it after that.
On top of all that, Earlier in the day I had already checked Florida off because every single exit poll had Gore completely clobbering Bush. Those are the things that the public should be outraged about, not the electoral college, and I think that those who are complaining are complaining about that.
....sigh...
Disclaimer: I voted for neither Bush nor Gore.
Election process 101 for the 80 millionth time: We don't have a popular vote. We don't have one because we didn't count one. If a state has 5 million registered voters, they stop counting the votes after they count 51% of that total for any one candidate. This means that the remaining 49% of votes were never counted by CNN or anyone else.
Further compounding the problem (for those of us who don't like Bush) is another little detail of the process - that is - the counting of absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are always counted last because they are labor intensive to count. In the example state mentioned above, not a single absentee ballot would have ever been counted.Why is that statistically significant? Because the overwhelming majority of absentee ballots are cast by overseas military personnel, who vote Republican by something like a 2 to 1 margin. A given state would have to count up all its regular ballots and still not have a 1% victory margin for either candidate to even open the first absentee ballot. This means that almost no overseas military votes got counted in the "popular vote" of the 2000 presidential election, and if there were such a count, it would demonstrate a clear Bush victory.
Now, move on with life, and get your people talking about freedom rather than rubber stamping whatever the **AA happens to shit out so that I can vote for something besides a warmongering idiot in the next election.
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
People, please stop using the term "begs the question" to mean "brings up the issue of" or anything of that nature. To "beg the question" is essentially to have an argumant such that p->q, where p and q can be themeselve complex propositions, but all comes out true, i.e., it is a tautology. (for those with no discretion whatsoever, a tautology is basically a circular argument.)
So, please please please for the sake of the preservation of all subtelty in language, remember simply that "beg the question" is a statement of logical nature, and a negative one at that. To beg the question is to argue from a logically falacious posistion, to be inherently wrong in your thinking about an issue. It is not merely a "hey, if you're gonna talk about this, make sure you consider this other thing as well, 'cause they're related."
please.
Oh, and a +5 interesting? Are moderators insane? Yes! Why? becasue only insane people moderate. Now there is an example of begging-the-question.