So, while the natives are doing their sacrificial dance around the flame and we sit in the big cauldron, we should remain informed and alert, fully aware of what's happening as the hairy guy in the funny hat puts the flaming torch at the base and we start enjoying a terminal hot bath, knowing full well that Tarzan will come and save us?
Life's no Hollywood movie. People DO get boiled in cauldrons and we ARE screwed unless we act. Being alert and informed isn't enough.
ow can you possibly go to China and not expect these sort of massive privacy/rights violations? Because for a second people might be thinking China might at least try to be nice for a change, at least to foreigners with whom they might want to do business.
Chinese authorities initially considered tying all 6.8 million tickets to individuals .. and then it says..
The plan [tried once in Germany] was aimed at deterring scalpers... Why don't they just attach them to people's scalps. Scalpers can then go about their business in the traditional fashion, possibly as was once practiced at the original Olympics thousands of years ago.
.. it brings up serious concerns for privacy and identity theft. Coming from a nation that brings up serious concerns for pretty much every other human right I can think of, this comes as no surprise.
Now where is the nerd-bit to this article? Apart from the fact that there's the word 'internet-based' in the summary. I mean, not everything on the internet is nerd.
Is rule number two that the mod point fairy only gives you mod points when you completely disagree with what someone has said but can't express your thoughts into a coherent or humorous paragraph? Yep. That would be it. And rule #3 is that I will get modded redundant/offtopic or something because I'm agreeing with you and we're not talking about music anymore.
I wish I had mod points for you two. For $0.10 apiece you can pretend I modded you up. Mod Point Rule #1: The Mod Point Fairy only gives you mod points when you don't want them.
mwahahahahahaaaaaaa!! When will they learn? And considering for less than 10c you can copy it from a mate, that's even better value, without breaking the license agreement any more or less than you were implying.. heh heh heh!
So now we're meant to pay ten cents for the right to imagine we have imaginary property? I think they are anticipating the death of radio, which is essentially the same thing except they determine what kind of rubbish you listen to in between the ads. Here you get to pay 10c per song to choose what kind of rubbish you want to listen to whilst (probably) having to read ads anyway.
Well, this is not the way you read bible, from first page to the last.
That's why the world is full of zealots who tout the bible as being some book that solves all your problems, having read only scraps of it (usually Romans and maybe some other new testament books) and having practically NO idea what else is in there or how much contradiction there is to work through. Add to that a total ignorance of who is believed to have written what and who decided which books are in and out and all that jazz.
So "Do you read the bible" is a question that is asked by the fools that think they can claim knowledge of a text without reading all of it. It's like "have you read Dickens?" and saying "yes" if you read one of those books with short summaries of 20 great stories.
Canada on strike! Canadians strike back?
The only question that remains is, will the government listen?" Depends who is holding whose short and curlies. Is Google and several other companies bigger than hollywood? Google, for example, isn't in a position to, say, produce movies that make Canada look like a country of war criminals, whereas Hollywood knows no moral bounds.
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funny, you don't look like you're in the diamond business...
So, while the natives are doing their sacrificial dance around the flame and we sit in the big cauldron, we should remain informed and alert, fully aware of what's happening as the hairy guy in the funny hat puts the flaming torch at the base and we start enjoying a terminal hot bath, knowing full well that Tarzan will come and save us?
Life's no Hollywood movie. People DO get boiled in cauldrons and we ARE screwed unless we act. Being alert and informed isn't enough.
.. it brings up serious concerns for privacy and identity theft. Coming from a nation that brings up serious concerns for pretty much every other human right I can think of, this comes as no surprise.
...which one do I side with? Maybe it'd be different if it was Viacom versus [porn/skank/goatse]tube or you[porn/skank/goatse].Maybe the result will Com-via-You-tube.
Now where is the nerd-bit to this article? Apart from the fact that there's the word 'internet-based' in the summary. I mean, not everything on the internet is nerd.
.. but I can feel a whole lot of bacon/pork/rashers/pig/swine jokes coming on. Yum yum!
That's why the world is full of zealots who tout the bible as being some book that solves all your problems, having read only scraps of it (usually Romans and maybe some other new testament books) and having practically NO idea what else is in there or how much contradiction there is to work through. Add to that a total ignorance of who is believed to have written what and who decided which books are in and out and all that jazz.
So "Do you read the bible" is a question that is asked by the fools that think they can claim knowledge of a text without reading all of it. It's like "have you read Dickens?" and saying "yes" if you read one of those books with short summaries of 20 great stories.
..the evildoers need to be removed a bit more selectively. .. and hopefully without so much killing as is typical of revolutions.