If more authority-loving people like you were around back then, the War of Independence would have been called "The damp squib" instead, and your current head of state would have been Queen Elizabeth II. And that probably would have been a good thing.
Yup. Can you imagine all the crumpets stands on Times Square???
Please remind me why half of Europe is not currently speaking German, why Japan and Germany lost in wars to a certain country and yet are world powers, how the economy fares in Basra today compared to the past decade, and two nations who within the past five years lost totalitarian regimes and are forming democratic institutions. Oh, and who right now is getting all of the money from Iraq's oil? (Hint: It ain't the USA.)
So what? Do you think that just because you HELPED Europe get rid of $GOODWIN_TRIGGER you deserve to have eternal gratitude from them? If that was the case, perhaps you really should be nicer to France since it helped you so much in your revolution.
Gambling is driven by greed, which is sometimes useful to society but is generally considered a vice.
I consider excessive greed to be a personality flaw; perhaps genetic or behavioral. I do not approve of an industry designed to prey upon this weakness. Compulsive gambling can destroy an individual and their families. Poverty, suicide, and despair may someday follow gambling into your life or the lives of your loved ones.
Gambling is simply a tax on people who don't understand statistics. In the end, the house always wins.
Last time I went to the [state-owned] casino, after plunking $20 in slots and getting back $10 (I took from the right pocket and put the winnings in the left pocket), I stood besides the roulette table.
Within 15 minutes, more than $5000 went from the pockets of foreigners into the table itself. Wow! That's $5000 less in taxes we gonna have to pay!
I had an interview with a company that supplies Wal-Mart with baked goods, and the interviewer mentioned that they were going to have to get ready for RFID because of them. He said "When a gorilla like Wal-Mart says jump, you jump."
Do RFID tags taste good? Are they nourishing? Do they offer fiber functionality?
It's also the carrier of porn and illegal copies of propritary software.
What's wrong with pr0n? You imply that pr0n is wrong?
Now, tell us what is wrong with watching a movie where a woman is having her vagina fucked by a man's erect penis in glorious colour on a wide-screen TV???
Is that because ***YOU*** cannot bear that sight?
Are you one of those fundamentalisht shitstrian assholes who want to control the minds of everyone?
There are other factors, of course, in this story of stupidity and illegality and ignorance. There is craziness. This is difficult to believe, but true, and has been widely reported: Christian fundamentalists in the U.S., who almost all support George Bush, have a plan to arrange the conversion or death of all the Jews, which they believe is predicted in their bible. There are numerous rationalizations and quotes from the Bible, but actually they are accomplishing this by encouraging the Israelis in a violent conflict with Arabs they cannot win. (There are 330 million Arabs, maybe 1 billion Muslims, and fewer than 5 million Jews in Israel.)
Given that, historically, jews have been responsible for a lot of trouble, this could help mankind in the long run. Hitler wasn't the first guy to try to eliminate jews, and he certainly won't be the last.
Hopefully, it will come to be that jews will realize that it is their religion that has been bringing them trouble, so they will simply discard it to the trash-heap of history, just like the french did over 200 years ago.
I live in America, and I'm not sure the rest of the world believes me when I say that the American people really don't want to run your country or own the world.
We don't doubt that for one second. It is clear that it is only a tiny fraction of the US population, the one that is in power in the White House, that wants to run our countries **AND** own the world.
It's not dangerous. I routinely bid upwards of $100,000 on spammer tool auctions. However, it should be said that I do it from outside the USA and with a throwaway account.
Wish that was the same at our place.. They gave us laptops, cellphones and digital cables so we can dial in from anywhere!
Add to that our manager likes to get his hands dirty and he calls you all the time off hours asking how to do stuff.
I heard a radio ad for this show this morning. The quote was "Ma'am, is it true that you started a relationship with this man for the purpose of downloading his personality?"
twenty five years ago was not that *radically* different from today.
I beg to differ.
There was no slashdot.
I mean really, what did people do at work back then?
Could we be on the verge of discovering the cause of the bursting of the bubble???
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Asshole yankees.
Within 15 minutes, more than $5000 went from the pockets of foreigners into the table itself. Wow! That's $5000 less in taxes we gonna have to pay!
Businesses don't.
That's because you didn't turn it on!
You painted yourself in a corner with your "bidzness"; sending mass-emails is just *** PLAIN STUPID *** nowadays.
Perhaps it's time to update your bidzness model? Why don't you use a **WEBSITE** to send your information rather than mass-emails???
Whacking-off wants to be free!!!
Another shining example of an intolerant politically-correctness minion.
Now, tell us what is wrong with watching a movie where a woman is having her vagina fucked by a man's erect penis in glorious colour on a wide-screen TV???
Is that because ***YOU*** cannot bear that sight?
Are you one of those fundamentalisht shitstrian assholes who want to control the minds of everyone?
Hopefully, it will come to be that jews will realize that it is their religion that has been bringing them trouble, so they will simply discard it to the trash-heap of history, just like the french did over 200 years ago.
It's not dangerous. I routinely bid upwards of $100,000 on spammer tool auctions. However, it should be said that I do it from outside the USA and with a throwaway account.
which fucking part of "shall make no fucking law" don't you fucking understand???
This could be a flying cup from Earth!!!!
Or it could be a new stupidity virus that escaped from that lab...