Do you know you have to go back 20 years to find a candidate that won with as much of the popular vote as Obama did? That we had two straight presidents that when they won their first term had LESS than 50% of the popular vote? The second of whom on his first term actually took the White House despite losing the popular vote.
And what sort of logical fallacy is that? He's partisan because 48% didn't vote for him? So I guess that makes McCain even more partisan because only 46% voted for him.
I switched to iTunes because it manages my library for me. Do you know what a pain it would be to organize my 18,009 song library by hand? Maybe you have that amount of free time, I sure as hell don't.
Wow, I was going to write that post. I lost my respect for Chrichton when he wrote Lost World, a sequel to the movie Jurassic Park, not his book (in the book, Malcom dies).
I never said knowledge was used for diplomacy. I said knowledge is used for blowing shit up. Guns aren't the only force out there. Do you have to take your shoes off at the airport because you might have a gun in them? Face it, if we lose the right to guns, we haven't lost much in the way of fighting, there are other ways to fight back (the violent type). When it comes down to it, guns are trivial in fighting back. They WILL have more. They WILL have better guns. Refusing to give up your pea-shooter at that time will just get you killed.
I don't understand your insistence that guns are the end all be all of this. If you're going to fight someone, you need to convince people to join you, guns won't do that. You need to be able to aggressively fight a larger, better armed force, guns are ok, but there are better ways. The only thing guns are really good for is last ditch defense at which point you're already fucked.
The right to disseminate information is our FIRST and foremost right. That's why it's the first amendment. The second was thrown it to protect it, but when it comes down to modern warfare, it's not that needed.
What's your point? If you're dead you can't shoot a gun either. A gun paints a big target on your back "I'm resisting! shoot at me!" A road side bomb that blows up when you're miles away.
The reason people laugh at the guy in Holy Grail is because of the complete jux-a-position of the situation. You've got a uneducated surf collecting dirt who's rambling on about the equalities in the system. And it scares the king. Sure, a fluffy bunny also scares the king, but you can't look to Monty Python for aguments, only abuse:)
Jesus 666 replied to the wrong guy. He needed to reply to you. I don't know if you read his post or not, but I'm wondering if you've ever heard the phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword".
There is nothing on this planet more powerful than knowledge. Everything is a root of it. Who's done more damage to America, back-woods militias with guns or guys with box cutters and a rudimentary ability to fly a plane?
If they take away your guns, you just make new ones. Physical tools without a purpose are useless. When it comes down to the end of the day, the ability to spread knowledge will be victorious against guns.
It is generally worrying to see the FCC's role as content cop to continuing expanding into the internet. Because they tend to act at the behest of america's most panicky and ideological idiots, I don't trust their objectivity or judgment.
Can't you set TiVo to strip commercials automatically? I live in Japan where it doesn't exist, just regular DVRs, so I don't know (Incidental side note, Japan even has commercials encouraging you to watch commercials). But you don't have to watch it the day of, you could record it and watch it later sans-CMs
This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives think libs are well-meaning but horribly misguided. Liberals think conservatives are evil (and this gets modded as insightful rather than flamebait!). And it's the conservatives who are "intolerant."
No, both side of the aisle thinks the other is the spawn of satan.
Also, this is like your 50000000000000000 post where you scape goat the CRA, please stop. From this
The CRA doesn't require loans to be made; it requires that the same rules apply to people seeking mortgages in poor neighborhoods as those buying in other neighborhoods. "Nor does the law require institutions to make high-risk loans that jeopardize their safety," according to the Fed's CRA Web site, "To the contrary, the law makes it clear that an institution's CRA activities should be undertaken in a safe and sound manner."
The CRA only applies to banks and thrifts whose deposits are insured by the FDIC. Mortgage companies like Countrywide Financial and fly-by-night cheapmortgage.com-type operations aren't CRA banks. Half of the subprime mortgages were made by companies that weren't covered by the CRA, and another 30 percent were written by organizations only loosely affiliated with CRA banks.
The CRA only works in designated low-income neighborhoods. As Rep. Jim McGovern noted in Hopkinton Wednesday, the CRA has nothing to do with a mortgage on a $500,000 home in Hopkinton, let alone a $800,000 home. This borrowing binge was a nationwide phenomenon.
Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama spoke to many in the Congressional Black Caucus and helped persuade 13 to switch their votes. Nine freshmen Democrats also switched to "yes" votes after a conference call with Obama in which he promised an economic stimulus bill would be a top priority if he is elected.
Republican John McCain also lobbied for the measure, according to aides who declined to release a list of lawmakers he called.
So, what? Are you trying to say that those of us who follow baseball can't do both? At any rate, the legislation is PASSED. We already broke their mail servers saying "fuck no!" once. By not watching baseball, will that accomplish anything? Should I skip the game to email my senator and tell him to vote no for legislation that's already gone through? (btw the twins didn't make it to the post-season, they lost the tie breaker, no one in Minneapolis is watching)
Instead bitching about sports do something like Link to who voted for the bill and maybe cross link with which of them are up for re-election and get people to vote them out.
Wow, copyright law is even more fucked up than I imagined. How did we get from "promote the arts and sciences" to "fuck off if you aren't in it for the benjamins"?
IANAL but my grandfather is. Back during the Duke rape trials, after the DA got disbarred, I asked my grandfather if he could get re-barred elsewhere. My grandfather didn't have to think 2 seconds before saying "not a chance in hell".
You could even give tree hugging players a quest to protect animal X. You have to slay all the people killing them without being killed by the animal or killing one yourself.
By the lack of screaming on/. I think I know the answer to my question, but I'm going to ask anyway. Are the digial channels DRMed?
I'm over in Japan and it's making its switch. I didn't look into it much and got a DVR that works with digital broadcasts, threw in a DVD to burn a show and got a nice error message telling me that I couldn't use that DVD because it didn't have CRPM (copyright protection management). CRPM DVDs aren't copiable, read as blank when stuck into a computer, and automatically delete the show off the DVR once burned. I haven't been able to check it, but have a sneaking suspicion they won't play in older non-DRMed players.
Yes, I did. Stupid typos;) I was referencing an Outland strip where Steve Dallas messes up the past and comes back to the future to find that Gary Larson is president and disputes are settled with games of checkers.
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Anyone have the count numbers of 04? How about 00? This sample size is way to small and thus meaningless.
Do you know you have to go back 20 years to find a candidate that won with as much of the popular vote as Obama did? That we had two straight presidents that when they won their first term had LESS than 50% of the popular vote? The second of whom on his first term actually took the White House despite losing the popular vote.
And what sort of logical fallacy is that? He's partisan because 48% didn't vote for him? So I guess that makes McCain even more partisan because only 46% voted for him.
I switched to iTunes because it manages my library for me. Do you know what a pain it would be to organize my 18,009 song library by hand? Maybe you have that amount of free time, I sure as hell don't.
Wow, I was going to write that post. I lost my respect for Chrichton when he wrote Lost World, a sequel to the movie Jurassic Park, not his book (in the book, Malcom dies).
The only decent thing he wrote was this.
I never said knowledge was used for diplomacy. I said knowledge is used for blowing shit up. Guns aren't the only force out there. Do you have to take your shoes off at the airport because you might have a gun in them? Face it, if we lose the right to guns, we haven't lost much in the way of fighting, there are other ways to fight back (the violent type). When it comes down to it, guns are trivial in fighting back. They WILL have more. They WILL have better guns. Refusing to give up your pea-shooter at that time will just get you killed.
I don't understand your insistence that guns are the end all be all of this. If you're going to fight someone, you need to convince people to join you, guns won't do that. You need to be able to aggressively fight a larger, better armed force, guns are ok, but there are better ways. The only thing guns are really good for is last ditch defense at which point you're already fucked.
The right to disseminate information is our FIRST and foremost right. That's why it's the first amendment. The second was thrown it to protect it, but when it comes down to modern warfare, it's not that needed.
What's your point? If you're dead you can't shoot a gun either. A gun paints a big target on your back "I'm resisting! shoot at me!" A road side bomb that blows up when you're miles away.
:)
The reason people laugh at the guy in Holy Grail is because of the complete jux-a-position of the situation. You've got a uneducated surf collecting dirt who's rambling on about the equalities in the system. And it scares the king. Sure, a fluffy bunny also scares the king, but you can't look to Monty Python for aguments, only abuse
Jesus 666 replied to the wrong guy. He needed to reply to you. I don't know if you read his post or not, but I'm wondering if you've ever heard the phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword".
There is nothing on this planet more powerful than knowledge. Everything is a root of it. Who's done more damage to America, back-woods militias with guns or guys with box cutters and a rudimentary ability to fly a plane?
If they take away your guns, you just make new ones. Physical tools without a purpose are useless. When it comes down to the end of the day, the ability to spread knowledge will be victorious against guns.
My wife. She is irrationally afraid of flying in the US even with all of the meaningless theatrics. Outside of the US, she's fine.
What do you think political parties are?
It is generally worrying to see the FCC's role as content cop to continuing expanding into the internet. Because they tend to act at the behest of america's most panicky and ideological idiots, I don't trust their objectivity or judgment.
Good thing the FCC only affects America
Can't you set TiVo to strip commercials automatically? I live in Japan where it doesn't exist, just regular DVRs, so I don't know (Incidental side note, Japan even has commercials encouraging you to watch commercials). But you don't have to watch it the day of, you could record it and watch it later sans-CMs
This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives think libs are well-meaning but horribly misguided. Liberals think conservatives are evil (and this gets modded as insightful rather than flamebait!). And it's the conservatives who are "intolerant."
No, both side of the aisle thinks the other is the spawn of satan.
Also, this is like your 50000000000000000 post where you scape goat the CRA, please stop. From this
The CRA only applies to banks and thrifts whose deposits are insured by the FDIC. Mortgage companies like Countrywide Financial and fly-by-night cheapmortgage.com-type operations aren't CRA banks. Half of the subprime mortgages were made by companies that weren't covered by the CRA, and another 30 percent were written by organizations only loosely affiliated with CRA banks.
Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama spoke to many in the Congressional Black Caucus and helped persuade 13 to switch their votes. Nine freshmen Democrats also switched to "yes" votes after a conference call with Obama in which he promised an economic stimulus bill would be a top priority if he is elected. Republican John McCain also lobbied for the measure, according to aides who declined to release a list of lawmakers he called.
From The article on Yahoo!
Not to be a grammar nazi or anything as I'm far from perfect, but if the check is made out for $700B, it's not exactly blank ;)
So, what? Are you trying to say that those of us who follow baseball can't do both? At any rate, the legislation is PASSED. We already broke their mail servers saying "fuck no!" once. By not watching baseball, will that accomplish anything? Should I skip the game to email my senator and tell him to vote no for legislation that's already gone through? (btw the twins didn't make it to the post-season, they lost the tie breaker, no one in Minneapolis is watching)
Instead bitching about sports do something like Link to who voted for the bill and maybe cross link with which of them are up for re-election and get people to vote them out.
Wow, copyright law is even more fucked up than I imagined. How did we get from "promote the arts and sciences" to "fuck off if you aren't in it for the benjamins"?
Wasn't there also a ruling that said downloads off of P2P don't count as backups? Or was that something the RIAA was trying to push?
Not sure why I wasted the time typing this.
Because it was a fun read :)
To prevent redundancy Here and Here
IANAL but my grandfather is. Back during the Duke rape trials, after the DA got disbarred, I asked my grandfather if he could get re-barred elsewhere. My grandfather didn't have to think 2 seconds before saying "not a chance in hell".
You're kidding me, right? I thought everyone knew about Supply Side Jesus!
Funny, yes. Informative?!?
Why does my ass hurt?
-posted on an iMac G5
You could even give tree hugging players a quest to protect animal X. You have to slay all the people killing them without being killed by the animal or killing one yourself.
By the lack of screaming on /. I think I know the answer to my question, but I'm going to ask anyway. Are the digial channels DRMed?
I'm over in Japan and it's making its switch. I didn't look into it much and got a DVR that works with digital broadcasts, threw in a DVD to burn a show and got a nice error message telling me that I couldn't use that DVD because it didn't have CRPM (copyright protection management). CRPM DVDs aren't copiable, read as blank when stuck into a computer, and automatically delete the show off the DVR once burned. I haven't been able to check it, but have a sneaking suspicion they won't play in older non-DRMed players.
Yes, I did. Stupid typos ;) I was referencing an Outland strip where Steve Dallas messes up the past and comes back to the future to find that Gary Larson is president and disputes are settled with games of checkers.