If you watched the England-Wales home international on Saturday (twll du pob Sais!), you'd have seen an awful lot of the use of the boot, mainly by England giving posession away.
I call BS. If you don't know enough about the situation to know what the goals of the wargame were, how do you have sufficiently detailed knowledge of the general's strategy to claim that it is identical to that used by Al-Qaeda (given, of course, that one accepts the premise that it was AQ and not Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders who were responsible for the resistance)?
Once the sun was a god, because we had no way of understanding what it was.
And if you're going to worship anything, why not the entity that brings life to the world?
The existence of most life (i.e. complex machines that consume solar energy directly or indirectly to act against the 2nd law of thermodynamics) on this planet is due to the sun's energy, so if anything at all is deserving of worship, the sun's a pretty good candidate.
So, to apply, the act that is facilitated would have to be punishable with imprisonment.
Is the act of downloading or of making available punishable by imprisonment in Sweden?
If so, then that's a seriously fucked-up society.
If not, then that part of the code doesn't apply, and the happy Pirates will be able to sail off into the sunset with cries of 'Arrrr!' and hefty swigs of rum.
There is no right to profit from your work. There is a right to try to profit from your work. The difference is subtle but very important; and frankly, I'm starting to get more than a bit sick of the copyright creeps demanding that all society and technology bend over backwards to help them profit.
Thankyou.
At last a succinct statement of how 'rights' in this context should operate.
Unfortunately, there's a system of laws that define rights, and it's severely broken where invisible property is concerned.
There's the right to exclusive distribution that's key to this case in particular, though I can't see how facilitating the possible infringement of copyright (is 'making available' without profiting really infringement, or just a spanner in the works of a failing business model?) amounts to actual infringement on behalf of the Pirate Bay.
It is great for IBM, since it allows them to sell consultancy based on the ODF standard while being completely agnostic as to which piece of software has produced the documents.
Being able to manage standards-based documents regardless of their source is good for IBM, their customers and ultimately the taxpayer since it removes the Microsoft lock-in.
What I would like to see is for ODF to supplant PDF as the document interchange standard - accessing the contents of PDFs programatically is a royal PITA, with or without Adobe's (shitty) API.
And it's an over sixty year old event, against the British. And from there we might as well start dragging up sixty century old biblical events justifying the current mid-east bloodshed.
There aren't any sixty century old events in the Bible - there are a few badly interpreted 35 century old or so "events" (like old Abe offering to kill Isaac, and God promising Isaac's descendants quite a lot of other peoples land), and some 31 century old or so propaganda about a religious splitter called Moses.
Fact is, the Zionist state was founded by terrorists (I notice no-one's picked up on my point about the Irgun and Stern gang's massacres post-foundation - perhaps the facts are inconvenient for pro-Zionists), and the behaviour of the Zionist state and its American backers is by any normal measure uncivilised and abhorrent.
Imagine, if you will, a situation in which the house next door has been forcibly annexed by a bunch of fanatics. Their friends move in, and suddenly they run out of room in the property they have annexed.
So they invade your house, taking over the nicest rooms (and the bathroom, kitchen and garden since they obviously have more right to food and water than you do - it says it in their book). They then proceed to tell you what you can and can't do in your house, and if you object, persecute you and starve you.
That's what happened in Palestine between 1948 and now, and if I was a Palestinian, I'd be mightily pissed off.
The only chance of a solution to the Zionist problem is for the USA to stop condoning their actions, and for international sanctions to force the thieving gits to play nicely and to withdraw to the land that, like it or not, they stole by terror in 1948.
Xenophobia would be a better term - it's simple "fear of the other".
I'm quite cool with people treating me with reserve because I'm of a different race/culture to them - I take people as I find them, and good people are good people regardless of race, culture or belief system while idiots/bastards/selfish twats are what they are regardless of race, culture or belief system.
Racism, to my mind, has to be consciously intended to be real - xenophobia is a natural state of mind and can be quickly overcome by friendship and good will.
I hate rascists with a passion, but I will always try to overcome xenophobia (whether on my part or on that of others) with a friendly word and a good deed.
As the first person in years to fail a SPS degree at Cambridge (many, many years ago:P), simply by deciding come finals time that I wasn't going to regurgitate all the Marxist bullshit that had got me a putative 2.1 in the previous years exam, I can say with complete confidence that sociology is complete crap.
All sociological theory falls into two categories:
1) the bleeding obvious
2) meaningless drivel
Oh, and if you ever want to fail a sociology degree, just liberally quote Nietzsche (OK - liberally and Nietzsche don't sit well in the same sentence, but you get my drift).
I read it as "companies operating in other market sectors less favoured by the paid oligarchy that runs the US struggle to make a decent margin".
Hell, more gross profit than the bankers?
Either the pharmaceutical companies are all run by geniuses, or there's a serious imbalance that should be corrected by the government - I'd be inclined to levy a windfall tax just to see the bastards squirm.
Blowing the wall surrounding Gaza hardly counts as a 'terrorist' action - it's more a 'social good' action from the point of the people involved.
Sure, it pissed off the Israelis and their USAnian bitches (great call, Condolezza - Egypt surely should put them damn Pallies back in their box and make them starve...), but it gladdened the hearts of all fair minded people to see the residents of Gaza able to buy the necessities of life despite the wishes of the Zionist scum.
Another leading terrorist was Menachim Begin, who was a lawyer. His Irgun group were responsible for the bombing of the King David Hotel, and for several massacres of Arab villages after the establishment of the Zionist state.
Well, it's not surprising that people studying useful subjects are overrepresented among Islamists in the UK.
After all, who wants a sociologist in their terror cell?
More to the point, people studying proper subjects are more likely to encounter Islamists from other countries on their courses and to be influenced by them - since nobody is going to travel all the way from Iraq/Iran/Saudi/<insert hotbed of radicalism here> to study complete bollocks like sociology or any of the other pap degrees offered, it's no wonder that there aren't too many Islamist sociology and psychology students.
Oh, I accept that other people believe different things than I do, but I see no need to respect their belief systems and to give them equal weight to my own.
And no - I'm not an objectivist (though I am often objectionable) - I'm more of a meld between Wittgenstinian and Utilitarian, which is where I get my moral code from.
Strangely, the moral code that fits best with what can be deduced from utilitarian principles was promulgated by one Jesus of Nazareth some 2000 years ago, but it was immediately corrupted by Saul of Tarsus and became the whole church thing that blights our world today.
I don't normally reply to ACs, but I have one stepson who is profoundly autistic, and his twin brother is on the high-functioning side of Aspergers.
Both of them are different from the norm, and both are affected by their place on the autistic spectrum.
I'd agree with you that it's not a disease - more a collection of characteristics, but Aspergers is real, and it is debilitating to those who suffer from it.
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Bloody marvellous, it was!
There is a city called Wanking in China, though ;-)
I call BS. If you don't know enough about the situation to know what the goals of the wargame were, how do you have sufficiently detailed knowledge of the general's strategy to claim that it is identical to that used by Al-Qaeda (given, of course, that one accepts the premise that it was AQ and not Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders who were responsible for the resistance)?
But when the collective rewrites your brain through the medium of a papal edict, it's so much different, isn't it?
And if you're going to worship anything, why not the entity that brings life to the world?
The existence of most life (i.e. complex machines that consume solar energy directly or indirectly to act against the 2nd law of thermodynamics) on this planet is due to the sun's energy, so if anything at all is deserving of worship, the sun's a pretty good candidate.
Either that or the FSM :)
Ramen.
You've obviously never been to a good orgy :P
Oh, wait, this is /.
Among the major barriers are performance, reliability, scalability and security....
On a subnote, can any UK resident imagine taking Richard Whiteley seriously as a network guru?
In my day, it was punched cards.
Get off my lawn, stripling!
So, to apply, the act that is facilitated would have to be punishable with imprisonment.
Is the act of downloading or of making available punishable by imprisonment in Sweden?
If so, then that's a seriously fucked-up society.
If not, then that part of the code doesn't apply, and the happy Pirates will be able to sail off into the sunset with cries of 'Arrrr!' and hefty swigs of rum.
Thankyou.
At last a succinct statement of how 'rights' in this context should operate.
Unfortunately, there's a system of laws that define rights, and it's severely broken where invisible property is concerned.
There's the right to exclusive distribution that's key to this case in particular, though I can't see how facilitating the possible infringement of copyright (is 'making available' without profiting really infringement, or just a spanner in the works of a failing business model?) amounts to actual infringement on behalf of the Pirate Bay.
Let's see - 40 million sperm per transfer, each containing 1/2 a human genome - that's got to be the highest bandwidth ever concieved!
No wonder the missus says I've got a big pipe...
:P
Being able to manage standards-based documents regardless of their source is good for IBM, their customers and ultimately the taxpayer since it removes the Microsoft lock-in.
What I would like to see is for ODF to supplant PDF as the document interchange standard - accessing the contents of PDFs programatically is a royal PITA, with or without Adobe's (shitty) API.
Ms Clintstone is most definitely owned by lobbyists.
...if you try sometime you find
You get what you need
In this case, what the RIAA need is beyond my powers of description, but involves red hot pokers and a large gentleman of peculiar tastes.
There aren't any sixty century old events in the Bible - there are a few badly interpreted 35 century old or so "events" (like old Abe offering to kill Isaac, and God promising Isaac's descendants quite a lot of other peoples land), and some 31 century old or so propaganda about a religious splitter called Moses.
Fact is, the Zionist state was founded by terrorists (I notice no-one's picked up on my point about the Irgun and Stern gang's massacres post-foundation - perhaps the facts are inconvenient for pro-Zionists), and the behaviour of the Zionist state and its American backers is by any normal measure uncivilised and abhorrent.
Imagine, if you will, a situation in which the house next door has been forcibly annexed by a bunch of fanatics. Their friends move in, and suddenly they run out of room in the property they have annexed.
So they invade your house, taking over the nicest rooms (and the bathroom, kitchen and garden since they obviously have more right to food and water than you do - it says it in their book). They then proceed to tell you what you can and can't do in your house, and if you object, persecute you and starve you.
That's what happened in Palestine between 1948 and now, and if I was a Palestinian, I'd be mightily pissed off.
The only chance of a solution to the Zionist problem is for the USA to stop condoning their actions, and for international sanctions to force the thieving gits to play nicely and to withdraw to the land that, like it or not, they stole by terror in 1948.
I'm quite cool with people treating me with reserve because I'm of a different race/culture to them - I take people as I find them, and good people are good people regardless of race, culture or belief system while idiots/bastards/selfish twats are what they are regardless of race, culture or belief system.
Racism, to my mind, has to be consciously intended to be real - xenophobia is a natural state of mind and can be quickly overcome by friendship and good will.
I hate rascists with a passion, but I will always try to overcome xenophobia (whether on my part or on that of others) with a friendly word and a good deed.
As the first person in years to fail a SPS degree at Cambridge (many, many years ago :P), simply by deciding come finals time that I wasn't going to regurgitate all the Marxist bullshit that had got me a putative 2.1 in the previous years exam, I can say with complete confidence that sociology is complete crap.
All sociological theory falls into two categories:
1) the bleeding obvious
2) meaningless drivel
Oh, and if you ever want to fail a sociology degree, just liberally quote Nietzsche (OK - liberally and Nietzsche don't sit well in the same sentence, but you get my drift).
Hell, more gross profit than the bankers?
Either the pharmaceutical companies are all run by geniuses, or there's a serious imbalance that should be corrected by the government - I'd be inclined to levy a windfall tax just to see the bastards squirm.
Sure, it pissed off the Israelis and their USAnian bitches (great call, Condolezza - Egypt surely should put them damn Pallies back in their box and make them starve...), but it gladdened the hearts of all fair minded people to see the residents of Gaza able to buy the necessities of life despite the wishes of the Zionist scum.
Your point was what, exactly?
Sociologist's mindset: "What completely obvious statement can I make about this ticking thing?"
After all, who wants a sociologist in their terror cell?
More to the point, people studying proper subjects are more likely to encounter Islamists from other countries on their courses and to be influenced by them - since nobody is going to travel all the way from Iraq/Iran/Saudi/<insert hotbed of radicalism here> to study complete bollocks like sociology or any of the other pap degrees offered, it's no wonder that there aren't too many Islamist sociology and psychology students.
And no - I'm not an objectivist (though I am often objectionable) - I'm more of a meld between Wittgenstinian and Utilitarian, which is where I get my moral code from.
Strangely, the moral code that fits best with what can be deduced from utilitarian principles was promulgated by one Jesus of Nazareth some 2000 years ago, but it was immediately corrupted by Saul of Tarsus and became the whole church thing that blights our world today.
Both of them are different from the norm, and both are affected by their place on the autistic spectrum.
I'd agree with you that it's not a disease - more a collection of characteristics, but Aspergers is real, and it is debilitating to those who suffer from it.