I thought they said "electronic noise" and I was like "I've been doing that for almost 10 years now." I guess I don't have any insight, as I'm not an olfactory maven...
When I wake up in a bathtub full of ice, I am really going to be happier if I simply weigh 100 lbs less, rather than discovering I am without kidneys...
It's the principle of the matter...one day they're allowed to listen in on your innocuous phone calls, the next they are dragging you out of bed and summarily executing you in the street for "conspiracy to undermine American/family values" (whatever those are...). It's a slippery slope, and in my lifetime, politicians have only gotten scummier with time. I'm loathe to trust them with more power than they already wield / have given themselves. A free society does not find genesis in a blackbox, black op, surveillance culture.
It's like UF said about "Microsoft Genuine Advantage"..."we never said it was an advantage to the customer..."
This is true, but I still stand by my statement and would add "death penalty for such abusers of fiduciary trust as actors for the government." Its caveat is that such a nationalized program would be instituted ethically and in a balanced, controlled manner, but that's a bit too much to ask of Washington, I suppose.
I can understand a pragmatic criticism of that solution on the grounds you listed, as the government is (now more than ever, or maybe I *am* naive and it's just the same as it's always been) corrupt as fuck. Assuming viable, reliable, and fully-toothed oversight programs were put into place to mitigate such disgusting abuses of power, THEN my solution would be practical.
By legitimate, I meant by definition, the government should not strive to make a profit...it should (ideally) be a zero balance, and its agents are not ethically or morally justified in "skimming off the top". Which, as you noted, is the case.
I just thought were one of those militantly laissez-faire capitalist assholes. My bad.
Then again, is the sustained privatized system any better?
Heh, I really got an earful from my mom with Quake when I was going up the path to kill Shub Niggurath. Not to mention for my Slayer and Pantera discs. From Half-Life on, all gaming was done either in the basement, LAN parties, or at the gaming joint.
But when I was still in church, we had Goldeneye and then Perfect Dark...and in college, someone was offended that I called him a "fucking fag" for teabagging me in Halo (not a wholly inaccurate description given the context)...very Christian behavior, that wholesome teabagging and gloating, but God forbid you chastise someone with "strong" language!
At least the government does not have a legitimate incentive for profit. The more people who are permanently healthy, the less expenses the.gov has (which is ideal for it). With privatized pharmaceuticals, companies' incentive is to keep people buying their products...that is, never cure a disease, only treat it.
Not to mention that you shouldn't have to afford to not suffer from a painful/fatal nontransmissible disease over which you have no control, such as MS or Lupus.
Are there some people in the corporate world who want to cure disease instead of treat it? Yes. But I don't have much faith in most of humanity, and only slightly more in the government than in the private sector. I hold my opinion out of both idealism and cynicism. Who is naive now?
Never mind the whole pointing-of-the-gun part...kinda like "oh my god, why did you shoot that robber?? He just pointed a gun at you, it's not like he was going to shoot you."
Someone once said: "Never point a gun at a man unless you intend to shoot him. Never shoot a man unless you intend to kill him."
It's just another thing for us to blame our lack of MENTAL self-control on. I didn't see it, but I'm assuming the point of that episode was that people are still responsible (or should be held as such, anyways) for their actions.
Or in their speakers or amplifiers or equalization settings or other filtering devices or...or any multitude of devices in a high-end audio stack.
This strikes me as akin to slapping a big spoiler and some stickers on a stock car and expecting that to make it "wicked fast". In reality, that money could have been spent on other things that would actually make a difference, instead of making you look like a dumbass. But I guess some people think it is better to *look* high performance than to *be* high performance. And of course, in America, it is unethical to let stupid people keep their money.
Until they purchase governmental entities flat out instead of simply congressmen via campaign financing.
"I'm the secretary of state...brought to you by Carl's Junior."
No, no, he has a time-share...and the Empire has really gone lax on regulating real estate fraud with all the kickbacks they get from that industry. I'm sure he wants to get out of it, but contracts will screw you. How was he to predict that "arboreal condo" was actually a frickin' tree fort? The beds on the Falcon are probably way more comfortable than some lashed together bamboo mat, even with his size.
I) Er sagte mir, daß er nach Hause gehe, aber ich weiß, daß er zum Kino geht. II) Wäre ich da, hätte ich ihm den Arsch aufgerissen.
Yeah, have/be is annoying but at least consistent, three genders I have learned to deal with, but prefer the implicit single one of English, excepting pronouns, which is fine. As a kid, I always thought "transitive" meant "in transit" and "intransitive" meant "not in transit" (IE not moving), which, as you said, is quite confusing.
Yeah, auf Deutsch it's "Konjunktiv", for which there are two forms:
I) Quoting a person (there is no equivalent in English): "he said he would buy the computer." II) Hypothetical (same as English subjunctive, as noted above)
French and Italian both strike me as being more difficult than German...since German is VERY strict grammatically, there are very few exceptions to grammar and pronunciation rules (and most of those are cognates or are otherwise borrowed from other languages...for example, downloaden - to download (some people say herunterladen, but the English cognate is much more common, ime), or "Oldtimers", pronounced as in English, in referring to classic cars (which baffles me, since the Germans were pretty much the first to commercially build automobiles...)).
Don't think American's use collective nouns? Bull. Don't think British English uses the subjective form? They must not be watching TV.
He said subJUNCtive. The hypothetical tense.
If I were you...
If I was you...
The first is hypothetical (subjunctive), the second is what you ask in attempting to determine whether that temporary mind/body switch you "experienced" was a product of hallucinogen consumption or it actually happened.
I only know this because German was my second major...I never learned this in *any* English class (even the ones focusing on language and not literature).
And oddly enough, in my experience, grammatical proficiency in writing seems to negatively correlate with getting laid. Fuck...
I'm sure anyone engaging in such activity in this country will be labelled a terrorist...so do it at your own risk. I do not endorse this behavior in any way, shape, or form.
Now, off to the sporting goods store to pick up a baseball bat and a ski-mask...
Hence why partisanship is crap, considering the rifts in the Democratic party and more notably the Republican party. I think "small government" Republicans are at best 1:1 with neocons and religious fanatics (when they aren't one and the same). Then you've got Kucinich and Dodd in the same party where the Dems are concerned.
Moral of the story: America, ALWAYS vote on the issues, NEVER based on the letter next to someone's name.
As a content creator, I can assure you that it is massively clear, but you keep clinging to some belief that copyright theft is somehow a good thing for the person you took the product from if it helps you sleep at nights.
As a "content creator", I can assure you that you are wrong. There are very few "commissioned" artists these days, and for everyone to expect they can become one is ludicrous. However, if you simply produce "content" for the love of music or art or what-have-ye, then profit is secondary to greatness, both of reknown and of your own ability to forge your mental conceptions into concrete representation. As long as you are credited as the creator of whatever content you make, I don't see the problem...it's free advertising, and notoriety is worth far more than a flat buck. And if your content REALLY is THAT good, people will offer you money for more of it, even if they can get it for free (even legitimately). People ask if I've got CD's all the time, and I say all my music is free for download, and they still want to buy a CD. You can't buy that sort of thing.
Of course, there will always be those out there (primarily pop musicians) who will create crap for the purposes of making money. Hence filler tracks. Hence "contract fulfillment" via quantity over quality. Which dilutes art. Yay capitalism!
But definitely, if someone takes credit for your creations, it's time to lay the smack down. Per Barnum: "I don't care what you say about me as long as you spell my name right."
Nobody in this country seems to realize that the "decider" is supposed to be the legislature and the president is the "doer" of the will of the legislature (they call it the "executive branch" for a reason...). "Things would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship," he said...
So if being an executor = "decider", then I really hope someone rich names me as the executor of their will:
"To my son, Bob,"...*erasure onomatopoeia*...*scribble scribble*... "To djasbestos, I leave my entire estate."
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I thought they said "electronic noise" and I was like "I've been doing that for almost 10 years now." I guess I don't have any insight, as I'm not an olfactory maven...
You could just bring Hymie to clobber anyone yakking on their phone.
"Man, I wish he'd stuff that phone up his ass."
"Not a problem..."
"AAAIEEEEEEE"
When I wake up in a bathtub full of ice, I am really going to be happier if I simply weigh 100 lbs less, rather than discovering I am without kidneys...
It's the principle of the matter...one day they're allowed to listen in on your innocuous phone calls, the next they are dragging you out of bed and summarily executing you in the street for "conspiracy to undermine American/family values" (whatever those are...). It's a slippery slope, and in my lifetime, politicians have only gotten scummier with time. I'm loathe to trust them with more power than they already wield / have given themselves. A free society does not find genesis in a blackbox, black op, surveillance culture.
It's like UF said about "Microsoft Genuine Advantage"..."we never said it was an advantage to the customer..."
You do know slavery is already illegal, right?
This is true, but I still stand by my statement and would add "death penalty for such abusers of fiduciary trust as actors for the government." Its caveat is that such a nationalized program would be instituted ethically and in a balanced, controlled manner, but that's a bit too much to ask of Washington, I suppose.
I can understand a pragmatic criticism of that solution on the grounds you listed, as the government is (now more than ever, or maybe I *am* naive and it's just the same as it's always been) corrupt as fuck. Assuming viable, reliable, and fully-toothed oversight programs were put into place to mitigate such disgusting abuses of power, THEN my solution would be practical.
By legitimate, I meant by definition, the government should not strive to make a profit...it should (ideally) be a zero balance, and its agents are not ethically or morally justified in "skimming off the top". Which, as you noted, is the case.
I just thought were one of those militantly laissez-faire capitalist assholes. My bad.
Then again, is the sustained privatized system any better?
Heh, I really got an earful from my mom with Quake when I was going up the path to kill Shub Niggurath. Not to mention for my Slayer and Pantera discs. From Half-Life on, all gaming was done either in the basement, LAN parties, or at the gaming joint.
But when I was still in church, we had Goldeneye and then Perfect Dark...and in college, someone was offended that I called him a "fucking fag" for teabagging me in Halo (not a wholly inaccurate description given the context)...very Christian behavior, that wholesome teabagging and gloating, but God forbid you chastise someone with "strong" language!
At least the government does not have a legitimate incentive for profit. The more people who are permanently healthy, the less expenses the .gov has (which is ideal for it). With privatized pharmaceuticals, companies' incentive is to keep people buying their products...that is, never cure a disease, only treat it.
Not to mention that you shouldn't have to afford to not suffer from a painful/fatal nontransmissible disease over which you have no control, such as MS or Lupus.
Are there some people in the corporate world who want to cure disease instead of treat it? Yes. But I don't have much faith in most of humanity, and only slightly more in the government than in the private sector. I hold my opinion out of both idealism and cynicism. Who is naive now?
All the more reason to nationalize pharmaceuticals, or at the very least reform the drug patent system.
I wish...my company probably would not pay for licensing of that process...then we'd HAVE to get rid of the idiots we have working overseas.
Actually, the 13th step of the capitol building is at exactly 5,280 ft.
Never mind the whole pointing-of-the-gun part...kinda like "oh my god, why did you shoot that robber?? He just pointed a gun at you, it's not like he was going to shoot you."
Someone once said: "Never point a gun at a man unless you intend to shoot him. Never shoot a man unless you intend to kill him."
It's just another thing for us to blame our lack of MENTAL self-control on. I didn't see it, but I'm assuming the point of that episode was that people are still responsible (or should be held as such, anyways) for their actions.
I can see where this would be preferable for a professional venue or recording studio, but for most people's situation, I agree.
Or in their speakers or amplifiers or equalization settings or other filtering devices or...or any multitude of devices in a high-end audio stack.
This strikes me as akin to slapping a big spoiler and some stickers on a stock car and expecting that to make it "wicked fast". In reality, that money could have been spent on other things that would actually make a difference, instead of making you look like a dumbass. But I guess some people think it is better to *look* high performance than to *be* high performance. And of course, in America, it is unethical to let stupid people keep their money.
Until they purchase governmental entities flat out instead of simply congressmen via campaign financing. "I'm the secretary of state...brought to you by Carl's Junior."
No, no, he has a time-share...and the Empire has really gone lax on regulating real estate fraud with all the kickbacks they get from that industry. I'm sure he wants to get out of it, but contracts will screw you. How was he to predict that "arboreal condo" was actually a frickin' tree fort? The beds on the Falcon are probably way more comfortable than some lashed together bamboo mat, even with his size.
I) Er sagte mir, daß er nach Hause gehe, aber ich weiß, daß er zum Kino geht.
II) Wäre ich da, hätte ich ihm den Arsch aufgerissen.
Yeah, have/be is annoying but at least consistent, three genders I have learned to deal with, but prefer the implicit single one of English, excepting pronouns, which is fine. As a kid, I always thought "transitive" meant "in transit" and "intransitive" meant "not in transit" (IE not moving), which, as you said, is quite confusing.
And I thought my porn was safe with AV and spyware/adware blockers and cookie cleaners and...
Yeah, auf Deutsch it's "Konjunktiv", for which there are two forms:
I) Quoting a person (there is no equivalent in English): "he said he would buy the computer."
II) Hypothetical (same as English subjunctive, as noted above)
French and Italian both strike me as being more difficult than German...since German is VERY strict grammatically, there are very few exceptions to grammar and pronunciation rules (and most of those are cognates or are otherwise borrowed from other languages...for example, downloaden - to download (some people say herunterladen, but the English cognate is much more common, ime), or "Oldtimers", pronounced as in English, in referring to classic cars (which baffles me, since the Germans were pretty much the first to commercially build automobiles...)).
If I were you...
If I was you...
The first is hypothetical (subjunctive), the second is what you ask in attempting to determine whether that temporary mind/body switch you "experienced" was a product of hallucinogen consumption or it actually happened.
I only know this because German was my second major...I never learned this in *any* English class (even the ones focusing on language and not literature).
And oddly enough, in my experience, grammatical proficiency in writing seems to negatively correlate with getting laid. Fuck...
Well, we Americans need to get off our asses like our friends in the UK have done with traffic cameras: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1037031,00.html
I'm sure anyone engaging in such activity in this country will be labelled a terrorist...so do it at your own risk. I do not endorse this behavior in any way, shape, or form.
Now, off to the sporting goods store to pick up a baseball bat and a ski-mask...
Hence why partisanship is crap, considering the rifts in the Democratic party and more notably the Republican party. I think "small government" Republicans are at best 1:1 with neocons and religious fanatics (when they aren't one and the same). Then you've got Kucinich and Dodd in the same party where the Dems are concerned.
Moral of the story: America, ALWAYS vote on the issues, NEVER based on the letter next to someone's name.
Of course, there will always be those out there (primarily pop musicians) who will create crap for the purposes of making money. Hence filler tracks. Hence "contract fulfillment" via quantity over quality. Which dilutes art. Yay capitalism!
But definitely, if someone takes credit for your creations, it's time to lay the smack down. Per Barnum: "I don't care what you say about me as long as you spell my name right."
Nobody in this country seems to realize that the "decider" is supposed to be the legislature and the president is the "doer" of the will of the legislature (they call it the "executive branch" for a reason...). "Things would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship," he said...
...*erasure onomatopoeia*...*scribble scribble*... "To djasbestos, I leave my entire estate."
So if being an executor = "decider", then I really hope someone rich names me as the executor of their will:
"To my son, Bob,"
That'll do nicely.
Holy crap, that thing looks like a ninja. +1 for keeping shotguns around for those AND for the zombies.