Bombs blow up people. Bombs have no place in politics.
Sorry, but I beg to differ - Mugabe is a prime example where a bomb would be a perfectly reasonable expression of opinion, and the Knesset would be another.
Join the club - I'm a libertarian and a fervent anti-Zionist and I regularly get modded back down to zero karma.
Here in the UK, the 'no platform for fascists' is regularly trotted out as a reasonable argument, where the 'let them speak, then show them they're stupid' is far more reasonable.
Unfortunately for most leftists here, I'm fairly physically imposing, so the violence won't work here:o)
Right now the US is not just divided, it's segmented. No one is a fan of the poor economy, high fuel prices, Gitmo controversy, the morass that is Iraq, and the perceived lack of leadership in Washington.
You say so? I say No! I'm making millions out of it all, and you lot can go screw.
I don't see (apart from a small subset of problems) why 64-bit support is important - perhaps you have a 64-bit processor and think that everything is automagically twice as good compared to us 32-bitters.
Do you have a current problem that requires 64-bit address space, or are you just a fanboi for the latest and greatest?
1) Just because you perform both tasks worse, doesn't mean it's less efficient. An example would be driving while talking on the cell phone. There's little debate that your driving skills are worsened when you do this, as you simply have less concentration to go around. Ok, fine, but that doesn't in fact mean it is detrimental to efficiency. If you need to drive somewhere that takes 20 minutes, and you need to set up something over the phone that takes 20 minutes, you save time doing both at once. Even if because you aren't concentrating as much on either it takes 25 minutes to complete both, you are still ahead.
I realise with driving there is a safety consideration in this case, but I am talking overall about task performance.
Sorry, but you can't ignore safety in that scenario - even talking while you are driving makes you more likely to cause an accident.
Personally, I'd rather stop and have the 'important' conversation, risking being late, than drive on and risk the accident.
But then, I never, ever answer my phone when I'm driving - if it's urgent, they will keep ringing me, and I will pull over and stop - if it's not, then who cares?
Your proposition would be much better situated on a train.
If the price is too high, you say "I'm not paying that" and you move on. You cannot realistically say "I'm not paying your price, but I'm going to go ahead and benefit from the expensive service you provide anyway"--unless you just want the content to go away.
From the producer's perspective, neither outcome produces income, so what's the difference?
Until the producers find the correct market rate for their products, they will always lose sales one way or another - it's simply a fact of life.
The vast array of products and services consuming available disposable income these days (mobile phones, ISP fees, games and consoles, etc.) will inevitably mean that 'old media' struggles to make the same profit as before.
Copyright infractions aren't the main source of their problems, their failure to adapt their pricing to take account of the pressure on disposable income is.
But the perception that this content is free is a direct result of the industry changing to a digital format, and failing to account for this change in their business model (instead preferring to gouge the public by charging way over the odds for the content on physical media).
I don't copy, except for backup and ease of access, and I certainly neither share nor download copyrighted material, but I have no sympathy for the short-sighted content producers who are trying to use the law to mitigate their own mistakes.
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If you want the best 'cunt' sketch, just look up Derek and Clive
George Carlin was funny, though not as much as Tom Lehrer - I find Lehrer's humour much more touching.
And if you want a song to play at George's funeral, Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury is perfect :o)
Well, if it's a singularity, it's the first, the one and only :o)
That's some sophisticated porn - are you sure it's not Greek?
Sorry, but I beg to differ - Mugabe is a prime example where a bomb would be a perfectly reasonable expression of opinion, and the Knesset would be another.
Here in the UK, the 'no platform for fascists' is regularly trotted out as a reasonable argument, where the 'let them speak, then show them they're stupid' is far more reasonable.
Unfortunately for most leftists here, I'm fairly physically imposing, so the violence won't work here :o)
FU, AC :o)
Just as it was Britain's turn in the 19th century, and it'll be either China or Russia next.
Given the choice, I'd give the Russians a turn - at least the rest of the world understands the Ashkenazi mindset :P
The Manchurian Project?
You say so? I say No! I'm making millions out of it all, and you lot can go screw.
©Dick Cheney
So what this leftie twat is doing is perverting the course of an election by deliberately trying to skew the information available to voters.
I'm no McCain fan (though he's about a zillion times better than the current chimpanzee), but I don't like to see this sort of tactic employed.
I don't see (apart from a small subset of problems) why 64-bit support is important - perhaps you have a 64-bit processor and think that everything is automagically twice as good compared to us 32-bitters.
Do you have a current problem that requires 64-bit address space, or are you just a fanboi for the latest and greatest?
Cromulate thyself, pseud!
Sorry, but you can't ignore safety in that scenario - even talking while you are driving makes you more likely to cause an accident.
Personally, I'd rather stop and have the 'important' conversation, risking being late, than drive on and risk the accident.
But then, I never, ever answer my phone when I'm driving - if it's urgent, they will keep ringing me, and I will pull over and stop - if it's not, then who cares?
Your proposition would be much better situated on a train.
Short attention spans are quite common, especially among programmers - interruptions are the norm, and should be dealt with in a calm manner.
Myself, I make the notes first, and if interrupted continue as if I was a ghost dog in the city.
Good old Saul of Tarsus - he can always be relied upon for a quote, because he had ill-informed and stupid opinions about everything.
If Christianity were about Christ, most of the interreligionist conflicts of the last 2000 years would not have happened.
Damn - just used my mod points, but a virtual +1 - Funny to you!
And I suppose 'I was only ordering followers' will prove to be a good enough excuse if you're a President :o)
Only if it's by the goolies :P
She is, however, allergic to pineapple...
You're not from Oldham or Rochdale, are you?
From the producer's perspective, neither outcome produces income, so what's the difference?
Until the producers find the correct market rate for their products, they will always lose sales one way or another - it's simply a fact of life.
The vast array of products and services consuming available disposable income these days (mobile phones, ISP fees, games and consoles, etc.) will inevitably mean that 'old media' struggles to make the same profit as before.
Copyright infractions aren't the main source of their problems, their failure to adapt their pricing to take account of the pressure on disposable income is.
I don't copy, except for backup and ease of access, and I certainly neither share nor download copyrighted material, but I have no sympathy for the short-sighted content producers who are trying to use the law to mitigate their own mistakes.