Yep, this is completely ridiculous. I would love to see laws where people that build deliberate waste of resources into their products spend time in gaol. This is a ligitimate business strategy just like burglary is a ligitimate business strategy.
Perhaps the CIA was testing LSD or an experimental new drug at that site at that time to see what it would do to young army officers.
I doubt LSD would be capable of inducing clear halucinations, believed and remembered until the deathbed. Perhaps you should try it and see what it does, you may find you are aware that your perception has changed and hey, it may even open your mind somewhat...
If this isn't true, it's far more likely to be a hoax.
Unless the US and other countries have the balls to throw up a naval force and cordon off Cuba so the people of Cuba can handle it for themselves.
Woah! Slow down there. I would see the US taking action like this as being as bad, if not worse than Venezuela stepping in.
Why do people keep buying the fucked up "US spreads freedom" propaganda? The only freedom that the US spreads is freedom to do what the US says or freedom to die. Sorry, but your post is in the realm of dangerous crackpottery.
I've had banking on my phone for ages. Not just the mobile, but home phone, pay phone, any phone. And with the rates my carrier charges, it's actually cheaper using the voice service than the net.
This is a lie. There is nothing common at all about your personal interpretation that Bush and Cheney "murder for profit", this is simply YOU spinning something.
I think there is. They have interests in oil and military hardware. If they invaded Iraq to liberate the population, why were they so reluctant to go into Sierra Leone, which had much more pressing problems? Why are they ignoring Zimbabwe? Do these countries have enormous oil reserves? I know of many people in very public positions that ask these questions.
Yes, they are rhetorical questions. I hope they piss you off.
Why invade Afganistan when there are extremist goverments in North Korea, Iran and Burma? "Terrorists" are harboured throughout South East Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East. Why not invade countries in these other regions? If it was because Al-Qeada was responsible for the attack on New York, why were Saudi nationals allowed to fly out of the US when no one else was? I can't prove it, but I will state as fact that the only reason the US invaded Afganistan was to secure coastal access Central Asian oil, just to piss you off.
The number of civilians who died in Iraq is irrelevant. The fact remains that more than one person died. It is also a fact that the primary reason for the invasion was securing control of the oil fields.
Did that last bit really shit you? Let's scale the whole invasion thing down to a personal level for a moment.
Imagine someone who is addicted to herion has used up there stash. This junkie has lots of assorted guns. Now say this junkie knows a dealer with a big supply who is armed with a knife and a decoy pistol and is injured from being beat up a lot recently.
If the dealer was shot by the junkie in broad daylight and his supply of herion was suddenly controlled by the junkie, a reasonable person may assume that the shooting occured for the sole reason of securing the herion. You, on the other hand, would rant about being too fucking lazy to do any research into the facts of the case, and attack anyone who presented information on the case that points to cold blooded murder.
The fact is that people where killed in Iraq, the US administration knew that people would be killed, the US decided who got control of the oil and members of the US administration profited. That's not just murder, that's armed robbery. Pre-meditated. Criminal.
You might say that the junkie analogy is unfair because the US is in a superior moral position. If the US wants to be the world police, the US should as a first step submit to international law, including international war crime prosecutions. Otherwise the US is just a self-riteous vigilante thug and the junky analogy stands.
I really hope this is pissing you off. Anger puts people at higher risk of heart disease than smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. That's a fact that you can get off your own fat lazy arse to confirm if you want. Up to you.
Episodes IV - VI were also short sighted in that they created a situation whereby the last half hour of episode III was forced into a load of lame plot twists so that thay made sense.
That'd be my guess; the oil used to make plastic isn't that expensive... yet.
This raises an interesting question. As our oil reserves dry up, do we really want to turn our old discarded plastic into fuel and burn it?
I don't know enough about organic chemistry to know how easily the recovered hydrocarbons can be used to make new plastics, but I do think plastic is a better use for oil than fuel. TFA only seems to mention recycling copper wire and cars and while these are both worthy problems, it would be a real shame if we couldn't make plastics anymore because we'd burnt all the oil and all our waste reserves.
It worked. It broke the economy of the Soviet Union.
That's a bit of a stretch. Event if it had any effect on the USSR whatsoever, it scared other nations to the point where China, having pushed for treaties banning space weapons, felt nervous enough to develop their own.
This will in turn cause those Americans who view any attempt by any other country to have close to equal millitary power as an affront to God to develop the next generation of space weapons, kicking off another arms race. Violence begets violence, fear begets fear, stupidity begets stupidity.
Star wars, the program not the movie, was short sighted and stupid, like so many other millitary activities.
I see this as a big flaw. I have unoffensive ringtones I make myself and save as mp3s. I have given a few away to freinds too.
From what I've seen of the features in the iPhone, it's a step forward combined with a roughly equal step back. There are heaps of things like the ability to choose networks and read sims, quick access to phone functions amd this whole ring tone malarky that have been around for a while now, and Apple has just ignored them.
That and the limiting 3rd party devs to the web browser makes it appear just another product which has had its potential ruined by some wrong-headed whacko corporate superstition.
I'm sure with all the hype it will sell well enough, and probably be the iPod of the phone world, but I think it could have been so much better.
We use paper counting in Australia. We also have compulsory voting. If you don't vote, you get a fine so we tend to have high turnouts. We also get preliminary election results within a few hours of polls closing. Of course final results take longer, due to absentees, etc.
I mean I understand you're just trolling and all, but really, everything you posted was total bullshit. Even that bit about how Americans vote on issues, and Brits on personality! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
I miss the cover art. I miss spending hours looking at "The Wall" or "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd, or "Red Sails in the Sunset" by Midnight Oil. CD booklets just aren't the same.
These days, where possible, I'll choose vinyl over CD and then record and burn it. That way I can keep a good analog version, I still have the random access convenience of CD and when new technology arrives I can re-record the record.
Also, "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees isn't the same without a little record crackle.
Is it that manufacturers are putting out more and more 'safe' (read: crap) music
Where on earth did so many people on slashdot get the bizarre misapprehension that pop, lowest-common-denominator music is somehow more prevalent now than it's been in the past?
Yeah but "Lets Dance" by Chris Montez and everything recorded by Stacy Q weren't crap.
The cost of running this whole operation dramatically exceeds whatever they could make in settlements and verdicts. They arent doing it to extort as some claim, they are doing it to deter people from copying their stuff.
Whether they intend to profit directly from the extortative behaviour, or are using it as part of a greater business strategy is irrelevant. Their activities are illegal. If I were caught attempting this kind of behaviour as an individual, I'd be looking at gaol time.
I realize they believe in freedom of expression, but some things just don't need a venue, and child pornography is one of them.
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If they were hosting Neo-Nazi's, Black Panther, Anti-semtic, Islamic Jihadist stuff, sure ok that's free speech.
Just wait a minute here.
There seems to be a fairly resounding condemnation of kiddy porn here, but at the same time the parent and a few other posts appear to support freedom of speech for groups that promote hatred, violence and murder. I'm not supporting the sexual abuse of children, but is it really any worse than violence committed in front of or on children? Is kiddie pron any worse than dropping cluster bombs on civillian areas, where unexploded bomblets can go off, taking children's limbs with them? Is it fine to kill relatives of children in front of them? Is it okay to tell children they are sub human because of a fiction we call race? Or that they are condemned becuase of the religion they are born into?
This idea that sexual activity is somehow morally worse than violence is really fucked up. (pun intended)
Seriously, get some perspective, people. Child pron on the internet has as much moral right to exist as sites promoting Islamic Jihad or the Invasion of the Axis of Evil by the leader of the "free world".
I'm not condoning any of it, but if you truly support free speech, you have no argument against sites like this. They may at least make it a bit easier to track down who's committing the actual abuses.
Wow. That post answered the question in an un intended way. It seemed to me someone from outside the US asked for an insight into the idiocy of American politics, and it was answered as if the question came from someone for whom the democratic party means something. The answer was full of rhetoric and had little substance other than "the other side is just as bad".
To read between the lines, it appears your honest answer to the question was "I'm too stupid to give a shit."
I'm genuinely curious about this subject though. How much obvious criminal activity on the part of your administration does it take before you decide they should be locked up? Seriously.
And before anyone posts with another "I'm too stupid to give a shit" answer, let's just say for a fair percentage this is true. I'm interested in the views of people who will address the actual question.
After looking at the firehose and what doesn't get accepted, it amazes me that something this dumb can be posting material.
This morning my train was ten minutes late and when it arrived there wasn't enough room to squeeze on. After it left the station, an announcement came over saying that the next train would be delayed by another ~20 minutes because of a fault on the overhead lines. I drove to a station on another line and got a train which itself was running ten minutes.
When I got to the city, there were police and helicopters everywhere. Once in the office I found out that a man had shot three people, killing one, a block from where I work and a man hunt was underway.
Then I logged on to/. and saw a whole bunch of articles about Microsoft losing out and now this crud about the RIAA and I thought, at least I can still go to/. for some mindlessly predictable mundanity.
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This has been commonly speculated for years. Why do you think Mork spent so long on Earth? C'mon, Mindy wasn't that hot.
Crypto!! You're not supposed to be posting on Slashdot. Get back to the invasion site immediately!
Yep, this is completely ridiculous. I would love to see laws where people that build deliberate waste of resources into their products spend time in gaol. This is a ligitimate business strategy just like burglary is a ligitimate business strategy.
I'm not green.
I doubt LSD would be capable of inducing clear halucinations, believed and remembered until the deathbed. Perhaps you should try it and see what it does, you may find you are aware that your perception has changed and hey, it may even open your mind somewhat...
If this isn't true, it's far more likely to be a hoax.
Woah! Slow down there. I would see the US taking action like this as being as bad, if not worse than Venezuela stepping in.
Why do people keep buying the fucked up "US spreads freedom" propaganda? The only freedom that the US spreads is freedom to do what the US says or freedom to die. Sorry, but your post is in the realm of dangerous crackpottery.
I've had banking on my phone for ages. Not just the mobile, but home phone, pay phone, any phone. And with the rates my carrier charges, it's actually cheaper using the voice service than the net.
I think there is. They have interests in oil and military hardware. If they invaded Iraq to liberate the population, why were they so reluctant to go into Sierra Leone, which had much more pressing problems? Why are they ignoring Zimbabwe? Do these countries have enormous oil reserves? I know of many people in very public positions that ask these questions.
Yes, they are rhetorical questions. I hope they piss you off.
Why invade Afganistan when there are extremist goverments in North Korea, Iran and Burma? "Terrorists" are harboured throughout South East Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East. Why not invade countries in these other regions? If it was because Al-Qeada was responsible for the attack on New York, why were Saudi nationals allowed to fly out of the US when no one else was? I can't prove it, but I will state as fact that the only reason the US invaded Afganistan was to secure coastal access Central Asian oil, just to piss you off.
The number of civilians who died in Iraq is irrelevant. The fact remains that more than one person died. It is also a fact that the primary reason for the invasion was securing control of the oil fields.
Did that last bit really shit you? Let's scale the whole invasion thing down to a personal level for a moment.
Imagine someone who is addicted to herion has used up there stash. This junkie has lots of assorted guns. Now say this junkie knows a dealer with a big supply who is armed with a knife and a decoy pistol and is injured from being beat up a lot recently.
If the dealer was shot by the junkie in broad daylight and his supply of herion was suddenly controlled by the junkie, a reasonable person may assume that the shooting occured for the sole reason of securing the herion. You, on the other hand, would rant about being too fucking lazy to do any research into the facts of the case, and attack anyone who presented information on the case that points to cold blooded murder.
The fact is that people where killed in Iraq, the US administration knew that people would be killed, the US decided who got control of the oil and members of the US administration profited. That's not just murder, that's armed robbery. Pre-meditated. Criminal.
You might say that the junkie analogy is unfair because the US is in a superior moral position. If the US wants to be the world police, the US should as a first step submit to international law, including international war crime prosecutions. Otherwise the US is just a self-riteous vigilante thug and the junky analogy stands.
I really hope this is pissing you off. Anger puts people at higher risk of heart disease than smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. That's a fact that you can get off your own fat lazy arse to confirm if you want. Up to you.
Excellent point, although not 100% accurate.
Episodes IV - VI were also short sighted in that they created a situation whereby the last half hour of episode III was forced into a load of lame plot twists so that thay made sense.
Episodes I - III were definitely stupid.
This raises an interesting question. As our oil reserves dry up, do we really want to turn our old discarded plastic into fuel and burn it?
I don't know enough about organic chemistry to know how easily the recovered hydrocarbons can be used to make new plastics, but I do think plastic is a better use for oil than fuel. TFA only seems to mention recycling copper wire and cars and while these are both worthy problems, it would be a real shame if we couldn't make plastics anymore because we'd burnt all the oil and all our waste reserves.
That's a bit of a stretch. Event if it had any effect on the USSR whatsoever, it scared other nations to the point where China, having pushed for treaties banning space weapons, felt nervous enough to develop their own.
This will in turn cause those Americans who view any attempt by any other country to have close to equal millitary power as an affront to God to develop the next generation of space weapons, kicking off another arms race. Violence begets violence, fear begets fear, stupidity begets stupidity.
Star wars, the program not the movie, was short sighted and stupid, like so many other millitary activities.
I see this as a big flaw. I have unoffensive ringtones I make myself and save as mp3s. I have given a few away to freinds too.
From what I've seen of the features in the iPhone, it's a step forward combined with a roughly equal step back. There are heaps of things like the ability to choose networks and read sims, quick access to phone functions amd this whole ring tone malarky that have been around for a while now, and Apple has just ignored them.
That and the limiting 3rd party devs to the web browser makes it appear just another product which has had its potential ruined by some wrong-headed whacko corporate superstition.
I'm sure with all the hype it will sell well enough, and probably be the iPod of the phone world, but I think it could have been so much better.
We use paper counting in Australia. We also have compulsory voting. If you don't vote, you get a fine so we tend to have high turnouts. We also get preliminary election results within a few hours of polls closing. Of course final results take longer, due to absentees, etc.
I mean I understand you're just trolling and all, but really, everything you posted was total bullshit. Even that bit about how Americans vote on issues, and Brits on personality! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I miss the cover art. I miss spending hours looking at "The Wall" or "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd, or "Red Sails in the Sunset" by Midnight Oil. CD booklets just aren't the same.
These days, where possible, I'll choose vinyl over CD and then record and burn it. That way I can keep a good analog version, I still have the random access convenience of CD and when new technology arrives I can re-record the record.
Also, "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees isn't the same without a little record crackle.
Yeah but "Lets Dance" by Chris Montez and everything recorded by Stacy Q weren't crap.
Oh wait...
Whether they intend to profit directly from the extortative behaviour, or are using it as part of a greater business strategy is irrelevant. Their activities are illegal. If I were caught attempting this kind of behaviour as an individual, I'd be looking at gaol time.
Ummmmm..... I'll take fairies, thanks.
Yes. And the reason tables became popular is because that is the thing IKEA decided to build.
You got an Insightful for the crap?!?!?
Yes and no...
I quite like STFU. It stands for something, but when you read it as a word, it's kinda like "stuff you". I think that's kinda neat.
IANAL, on the other hand....
IANAL annoys the b'jesus out of me. What is that, some kind of Apple butt plug?
That probly just people typing it the way they say it.
Just wait a minute here.
There seems to be a fairly resounding condemnation of kiddy porn here, but at the same time the parent and a few other posts appear to support freedom of speech for groups that promote hatred, violence and murder. I'm not supporting the sexual abuse of children, but is it really any worse than violence committed in front of or on children? Is kiddie pron any worse than dropping cluster bombs on civillian areas, where unexploded bomblets can go off, taking children's limbs with them? Is it fine to kill relatives of children in front of them? Is it okay to tell children they are sub human because of a fiction we call race? Or that they are condemned becuase of the religion they are born into?
This idea that sexual activity is somehow morally worse than violence is really fucked up. (pun intended)
Seriously, get some perspective, people. Child pron on the internet has as much moral right to exist as sites promoting Islamic Jihad or the Invasion of the Axis of Evil by the leader of the "free world".
I'm not condoning any of it, but if you truly support free speech, you have no argument against sites like this. They may at least make it a bit easier to track down who's committing the actual abuses.
No I will not, for reasons outlined in your post and many, many others.
I feel sick.
Wow. That post answered the question in an un intended way. It seemed to me someone from outside the US asked for an insight into the idiocy of American politics, and it was answered as if the question came from someone for whom the democratic party means something. The answer was full of rhetoric and had little substance other than "the other side is just as bad".
To read between the lines, it appears your honest answer to the question was "I'm too stupid to give a shit."
I'm genuinely curious about this subject though. How much obvious criminal activity on the part of your administration does it take before you decide they should be locked up? Seriously.
And before anyone posts with another "I'm too stupid to give a shit" answer, let's just say for a fair percentage this is true. I'm interested in the views of people who will address the actual question.
This morning my train was ten minutes late and when it arrived there wasn't enough room to squeeze on. After it left the station, an announcement came over saying that the next train would be delayed by another ~20 minutes because of a fault on the overhead lines. I drove to a station on another line and got a train which itself was running ten minutes.
When I got to the city, there were police and helicopters everywhere. Once in the office I found out that a man had shot three people, killing one, a block from where I work and a man hunt was underway.
Then I logged on to /. and saw a whole bunch of articles about Microsoft losing out and now this crud about the RIAA and I thought, at least I can still go to /. for some mindlessly predictable mundanity.