Who do you think should be presedent? Gary Lawson? Should we settle things with a game of checkers?
Face it, lawyers are in their proper place, running our lives.
Oh! Unlawful combatants! Those fuckers deserve to be water-boarded and tortured (water boarding isn't torture!). Since they're unlawful the only tribunal they should get is a wall and ten men with guns! What do their uniforms look like again?
How is this insightful? That happened over 63 years ago, during an international war (do believe it was call World War II) on an independent state, with (at the time) brand new weaponry. Sure it's easier to launch the weapons now, but it's a lot harder once the effects are really well known (see 1950-1980, called them "commies" back then).
This is a country that blurs out buildings on TV shows so people won't know where they are. It's ridiculous sometimes. The entire screen will be a giant blur except for the staffer's head floating in the middle. On the news, if a building is shown, half the time it'll be from an odd angle that won't allow you to make out the surrounding area or blurred out all together.
Actually, you don't even need that. You can get your mail with just the Zip and block number (large city or small town). That's why the zips were made.
You appropriately got modded down, but I thought maybe some one should explain to you, not everywhere has the same geography/city layout. Before you ignorantly posted this, you might have wanted to experience Japan by at least looking through streetview and you would realize what you suggest is near impossible for a large percentage of the population. There are very beautiful houses with immaculate gardens that are surrounded by walls and then there are apartment builds or duplexes built on top of each other and almost nothing in between.
Re:to all those bagging NASA..
on
NASA Turns 50
·
· Score: 1
Bonus question: How many of you have billions of dollars at your disposal? That's right, silence.
Soviet Russia put spacecraft in orbit, so I guess they were perfect, too.
The only place I can see smoking bans as being ok, is public buildings, like govt. buildings where you may not have a choice to go there to take care of business. Other than that, this is the nanny state approach. If smoking is so bad, then ban the sale of cigarettes, otherwise it should be free choice of establishments whether they allow it or not.
No, banning the sale of cigarettes because they're "bad" is the nanny state approach. What the government is doing is putting restrictions on a controlled substance, like how you can't get alcohol in places after 2AM. It has nothing to do with what private businesses allow, but what the government allows us to do with the specific controlled substance.
And, I hate to break it to you, but sometimes people NEED a nanny because they're either too selfish to realize how their actions effect other people or they're morons.
If this trend keeps up it will be only a matter of time before restaurants start handing you a joint with your menu.
You got it completely wrong. If this keeps up, it's only a matter of time before you check into a hotel and there's a hooker with coke on her tits waiting on your bed.
Yes, I want more legislation outlawing harmful plants. Why the fuck is my representative sitting on his ass while poison oak is growing out there like mad?
All drugs are plants? Wow, I really do want to get me a plant that will grow meth and LSD. Also, on the subject of you being uneducated, heroin doesn't grow naturally. Opium does and the poppy seeds are then chemically processed to produce heroin, thus not natural. The same for crack (substitute poppy seeds with cocaine).
I want to grow me a crack tree. Where do I get one? Oh, that's right, I have to chemically process cocaine to get it, making crack artificial. Same for heroin. Your argument is a red herring. Those should be legal too but HIGHLY regulated.
It seems like your only argument for pot being illegal is that it can impair driving. So can alcohol, it's legal. So can Tylonal PM, it's legal. So can studying all night for a test, it's legal. So can the flu, I don't see legislation for outlawing getting the flu. However, no one suffering from any of those impairments should be allowed behind the wheel of a car.
1. Yes, people should not drive while attending collage. An ex-girlfriend's roommate did once. She'd stay awake the night before studying for an exam, wound up falling asleep at the wheel and rolled her SUV, killing her boyfriend. (This IS a true). So, following your logic, college, or at least exams, should be illegal. That being said, I am for pro-legalization, but allowing people to drive while high should not be legal.
2. First, I loathe tobacco. However, you're a moron. "These days"?!? Try 15 years ago you couldn't sit in a restaurant without some asshole's cigarette smoke killing the flavor of your food. I'm only 28 but I can still remember smoking "sections" on airplanes. However, walking through that smoke will not get you the buzz that the person actually smoking the cigarette is getting. What's that? You get a buzz from smoking a cigarette? Yes, you do. People don't just do it for fashion, you know. You can't get high just walking through a puff of smoke. Alcohol is legal. Do you think all bus drivers are drunk?
3. No one said that making pot legal would me a plethora of people smoking in a parking lot. You could make Amsterdam style coffee shops. Legal only on personal property, etc. Legal != presence everywhere
Sorry your parents were such shitty writers and did get a real job. I personally have no qualms about rich brats getting large sums of money left to them. Their parents earned it and saved it up wisely throughout their life time. That's how children benefit. They get money and actual property, all of which is taxed. If your parents made any money off their works and wanted to leave it to you, not a problem at all.
You dismissed the chair analogy. I think it's apt. Have you ever seen how much antique chairs can go for? If you get money from your parents works, then dammit, I want money from the chairs my great-great-grandfather built when they're re-sold. However, since I just have to be happy with the cash he left through the generations, so will you. You deserve only that. My children deserve only that. My grandchildren deserve only that.
If you're parents' books fell into the public domain, I could download them from a reputable (as opposed to pirate) place online for free. That's the problem with creating imaginary things. And before you boo-hoo about some sort of van Gogh effect where the art isn't popular until after the artist's death, all I have to say is tough titties. Are you a "Communist hippie who's under the delusion that if you strip anyone of privileges from the start it'd make us equal?" (Though I am impressed that you realized that copyright is a privilege, not a right).
Oh! I totally misunderstood. See I thought humans had foundational rights and citizens had a right to vote for the leaders charged with protecting them.
Thanks for letting me know it's cool to have a slave as long as he's not American.
Recent studies of anti-lock brakes and safety have discovered that ABS doesn't improve safety in general. It improves braking, by letting people brake faster and smoother, Either it's you I don't trust or your studies. Do you know how ABS works? If you did, you'd know they are anything but smooth. In fact, if you ever did anything so simple as to listen to car talk, you'd know people call in thinking their cars are broken when the ABS kicks in.
I hate to break it to you, but wii Sports is ummm a sports game. Sports by nature have very little content. What did you want, unlockables? Oh, they're there in training mode, not hard, but there (unlockables don't belong in sports games aanyway).
What did you want from tennis? some complicated system where you have to run your player around with the nunchuck only to have it go flying out of your hand as you deperately try to swing the wiimote in your other hand?
or maybe you wanted the bowling game to come with a 10lbs addition for the wiimote to have the weight of a real bowling ball?
You say the Wii is a rubbish console, but what good has the PS3 and Xbox2 brought us? Sweat... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Dammit! where are mod points when I need them? Seriously, Nintendo's offer of 1:1 is much closer than it's competitors. Pushing a button on a controler is much farther from swinging a bat then the Wiimote is.
Like some people further down, I don't want 1:1. There was a reason I never made the baseball team in high school. Let me hit my homeruns!
How is this interesting when he didn't even RTFS?
An album for a dollar. I can play on anything I normally play on? No, a dollar for an album you can listen to once that can play only on your computer. So, no ringtones, no SMS (what's this got to do with music), and no iPod.
I dunno, I didn't RTF, but I did read the comments and summary. From what those people (who also didn't RTF) I think your math is a little off. Lala is $0.80 to listen to it once, not as long as you like
Slashdot Mirror
Who do you think should be presedent? Gary Lawson? Should we settle things with a game of checkers? Face it, lawyers are in their proper place, running our lives.
Oh! Unlawful combatants! Those fuckers deserve to be water-boarded and tortured (water boarding isn't torture!). Since they're unlawful the only tribunal they should get is a wall and ten men with guns! What do their uniforms look like again?
How is this insightful? That happened over 63 years ago, during an international war (do believe it was call World War II) on an independent state, with (at the time) brand new weaponry. Sure it's easier to launch the weapons now, but it's a lot harder once the effects are really well known (see 1950-1980, called them "commies" back then).
You're right. You can get away with the postal code and then from the chome on (if you type it in yahoo! it'll ask you for your chome.)
This is a country that blurs out buildings on TV shows so people won't know where they are. It's ridiculous sometimes. The entire screen will be a giant blur except for the staffer's head floating in the middle. On the news, if a building is shown, half the time it'll be from an odd angle that won't allow you to make out the surrounding area or blurred out all together.
Actually, you don't even need that. You can get your mail with just the Zip and block number (large city or small town). That's why the zips were made.
You appropriately got modded down, but I thought maybe some one should explain to you, not everywhere has the same geography/city layout. Before you ignorantly posted this, you might have wanted to experience Japan by at least looking through streetview and you would realize what you suggest is near impossible for a large percentage of the population. There are very beautiful houses with immaculate gardens that are surrounded by walls and then there are apartment builds or duplexes built on top of each other and almost nothing in between.
Bonus question: How many of you have billions of dollars at your disposal? That's right, silence.
Soviet Russia put spacecraft in orbit, so I guess they were perfect, too.
The only place I can see smoking bans as being ok, is public buildings, like govt. buildings where you may not have a choice to go there to take care of business. Other than that, this is the nanny state approach. If smoking is so bad, then ban the sale of cigarettes, otherwise it should be free choice of establishments whether they allow it or not.
No, banning the sale of cigarettes because they're "bad" is the nanny state approach. What the government is doing is putting restrictions on a controlled substance, like how you can't get alcohol in places after 2AM. It has nothing to do with what private businesses allow, but what the government allows us to do with the specific controlled substance.
And, I hate to break it to you, but sometimes people NEED a nanny because they're either too selfish to realize how their actions effect other people or they're morons.
If this trend keeps up it will be only a matter of time before restaurants start handing you a joint with your menu.
You got it completely wrong. If this keeps up, it's only a matter of time before you check into a hotel and there's a hooker with coke on her tits waiting on your bed.
Yes, it is. But were meth legal and controlled, you wouldn't have morons who suck at chemistry blowing their houses up.
Yes, it is. I thought everyone on slashdot railed against Big Pharma and their patents (or was it just RIAA and copyright?).
Tables have four legs, and so do horses. Don't be an ASS (Angle Side Side, while similar, ASS triangles are not equal)
Yes, I want more legislation outlawing harmful plants. Why the fuck is my representative sitting on his ass while poison oak is growing out there like mad?
All drugs are plants? Wow, I really do want to get me a plant that will grow meth and LSD. Also, on the subject of you being uneducated, heroin doesn't grow naturally. Opium does and the poppy seeds are then chemically processed to produce heroin, thus not natural. The same for crack (substitute poppy seeds with cocaine).
I want to grow me a crack tree. Where do I get one? Oh, that's right, I have to chemically process cocaine to get it, making crack artificial. Same for heroin. Your argument is a red herring. Those should be legal too but HIGHLY regulated.
It seems like your only argument for pot being illegal is that it can impair driving. So can alcohol, it's legal. So can Tylonal PM, it's legal. So can studying all night for a test, it's legal. So can the flu, I don't see legislation for outlawing getting the flu. However, no one suffering from any of those impairments should be allowed behind the wheel of a car.
Couple of things:
1. Yes, people should not drive while attending collage. An ex-girlfriend's roommate did once. She'd stay awake the night before studying for an exam, wound up falling asleep at the wheel and rolled her SUV, killing her boyfriend. (This IS a true). So, following your logic, college, or at least exams, should be illegal. That being said, I am for pro-legalization, but allowing people to drive while high should not be legal.
2. First, I loathe tobacco. However, you're a moron. "These days"?!? Try 15 years ago you couldn't sit in a restaurant without some asshole's cigarette smoke killing the flavor of your food. I'm only 28 but I can still remember smoking "sections" on airplanes. However, walking through that smoke will not get you the buzz that the person actually smoking the cigarette is getting. What's that? You get a buzz from smoking a cigarette? Yes, you do. People don't just do it for fashion, you know. You can't get high just walking through a puff of smoke. Alcohol is legal. Do you think all bus drivers are drunk?
3. No one said that making pot legal would me a plethora of people smoking in a parking lot. You could make Amsterdam style coffee shops. Legal only on personal property, etc. Legal != presence everywhere
Sorry your parents were such shitty writers and did get a real job. I personally have no qualms about rich brats getting large sums of money left to them. Their parents earned it and saved it up wisely throughout their life time. That's how children benefit. They get money and actual property, all of which is taxed. If your parents made any money off their works and wanted to leave it to you, not a problem at all.
You dismissed the chair analogy. I think it's apt. Have you ever seen how much antique chairs can go for? If you get money from your parents works, then dammit, I want money from the chairs my great-great-grandfather built when they're re-sold. However, since I just have to be happy with the cash he left through the generations, so will you. You deserve only that. My children deserve only that. My grandchildren deserve only that.
If you're parents' books fell into the public domain, I could download them from a reputable (as opposed to pirate) place online for free. That's the problem with creating imaginary things. And before you boo-hoo about some sort of van Gogh effect where the art isn't popular until after the artist's death, all I have to say is tough titties. Are you a "Communist hippie who's under the delusion that if you strip anyone of privileges from the start it'd make us equal?" (Though I am impressed that you realized that copyright is a privilege, not a right).
Yes, just generally not innovative in a good way...
Oh! I totally misunderstood. See I thought humans had foundational rights and citizens had a right to vote for the leaders charged with protecting them.
Thanks for letting me know it's cool to have a slave as long as he's not American.
Thank God! Man, I'd shoot myself... ;)
I hate to break it to you, but wii Sports is ummm a sports game. Sports by nature have very little content. What did you want, unlockables? Oh, they're there in training mode, not hard, but there (unlockables don't belong in sports games aanyway).
What did you want from tennis? some complicated system where you have to run your player around with the nunchuck only to have it go flying out of your hand as you deperately try to swing the wiimote in your other hand?
or maybe you wanted the bowling game to come with a 10lbs addition for the wiimote to have the weight of a real bowling ball?
You say the Wii is a rubbish console, but what good has the PS3 and Xbox2 brought us? Sweat... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Dammit! where are mod points when I need them? Seriously, Nintendo's offer of 1:1 is much closer than it's competitors. Pushing a button on a controler is much farther from swinging a bat then the Wiimote is.
Like some people further down, I don't want 1:1. There was a reason I never made the baseball team in high school. Let me hit my homeruns!
I had to re-read your comment three times. I kept getting bored and distracted halfway through...
I know you probably posted this before the AC, but scroll up. An AC wrote you a perl script to do it
I dunno, I didn't RTF, but I did read the comments and summary. From what those people (who also didn't RTF) I think your math is a little off. Lala is $0.80 to listen to it once, not as long as you like