DMV officials said they try to keep up with the latest acronyms, and that anyone who has an issue with their plate can contact their local DMV office to request a new one.
Lol. Don't they realise what else 'DMV' is an acronym for?
Easy. The muscular, well-trained jock is richer. Why? Because he can force the inferior, weak, whiney nerds to work for him or he will beat them up.
Lack of tools, especially technological toys, will condemn the geek to complete irrelevancy while superior people, who have taken good care of their bodies, will still have their physical prowess to rely upon.
Nah, the geeks will just invent some stupid pastime/game/sport to keep the jock-assholes busy and away from their shit.
We see our government running rough-shod over the laws it holds us to, and we think, why must I follow these laws too? If the gov't can remove freedoms, liberties and rights in the name of 'homeland security' why can't I too bend/break the rules in the name of 'financial security' for my family?
*blink* *blink* *blink* Surely this deserves +1000 insightful, rather than -1 troll? *blink*
..what are Americans going to do to make sure the government and the military practices what they preach?
Never gonna happen. The idea is to ensure that everyone else practices what you preach. One of the tactics to achieve this is to convince people that what you preach is motivated by something other than personal gain (i.e. dedication to truth, righteousness etc) and to imply that you yourself will of course follow the rules which you have 'discovered' in the 'big book of how to live right' and are laying-down as a public-service.
accused RealNetworks of "aiding and abetting piracy"
I don't. They have one of the most invasive programs next to adware/spyware.
It's going to take more than them becoming "The Pirate's Best Friend" for me to install their crappy software. I don't know what it is about Real - they always leave me feeling dirty when I see their software in action... Note that I don't say 'when I use their software'; I don't recall willingly using it; usually I'm trying to figure out how the auto-updater became active again and disabling it from starting.
Contrary to popular opinion, the legality of ripping files is not a given. I don't have the text in front of me, but I recall the legality being hinged on judicial interpretation of several seemingly obvious, but legally fuzzy terms (such as "home audio recording device," and whether or not said term includes computers).
Phew, it's lucky that noone gives a flying fuck what the law says otherwise people would feel as though their moral rights had been infringed-upon.
When the law differs substantially from what the majority of people feel is right (in this case that once you've bought some overpriced CD, having the right to listen to the contents using any of your audio devices) one can't help but come to the conclusion that the law is no longer something which exists to arbitrate amongst people (such as the convention that everyone drives on the same side of the road) but rather the means by which some minority exerts its will over the majority.
Under these circumstances, the appropriate and moral thing to do is for the majority to ignore the law and behave as their moral compass instructs - until the law is once again in-tune with the majority and no-longer a business tool.
The files included images of masturbation, public sex, contortionist sex, a transsexual striptease, a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows,
It occurs to me that when some company makes it harder to buy their product, the rational thing to do is to not buy it. This is one more reason to not buy the POS; how many do you need?
I mean, this is Apple through and through; make something shiny then use it as bait and as ppl come close, whack them with a stick. Keep making the POS shinier and the stick bigger and ppl try even harder to get the shiny thing. Doh!
You know there comes a time when people are facing jail time or imprisonment for protecting their own privacy and the weapon is a piece of tape that one must say, you know fuck it. I'm willing to fuck with them.
Enough people get that attitude and you'll see how useless their threats are. Civil disobedience FTW.
<megaphone-amplified-voice>hypergreatthing!! back in line!! countermeasures in 5, 4, 3,..</megaphone-amplified-voice>
I don't think mace would work so well in an environment with recirculated air.
Good call. Better mace everyone before they board the plane, then strap them into their seats. That way there may be a few false-positives but at least all potential terrorists are caught..
Would you put it past some of the security contractors to stage a "terrorist" (who conveniently escapes, so there's no messy trial for facts to come out at) to demonstrate the "need" for even more security theatre??
If I can think of it, surely they can as well...
If you'd have posted this pre-911, you'd have deserved a +5 insightful. As it is, simply regurgitating the two towers / hunt for the elusive pimpernel^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBin Laden story only deserves a +1:D
In a way it's quite entertaining to live in the time when Orwell's 1984 becomes reality. Who'd have thought it. I was always slightly concerned that some people in positions of power might see 1984 as a warning rather than as "a manual for creating the society of the future" which it so clearly is. Well done to all involved. Dedication to purpose beyond the call of duty. Mission accomplished.
For everyone, there is some threshold of governmental stupidity beyond which they will tolerate no more.
No, you're mistaken friend. Over 50% of people are like the proverbial frog being boiled alive slowly. Which is the problem. They are quite happy to be part of the machine and believe you are a terrorist for trying to wake them from their dream.
you enter into a whole new level of ways to get into trouble.
This is the problem. They force all manner of bullshit on us and set up laws to make it illegal to have a low tolerance to their bullshit. Then, the rest of the sheep who don't even notice that there's a problem enforce your punishment. It sucks. I just cannot get across how much it sucks. All of it.
How the hell did we get into the position where there's such a concept as 'the powers that be' ?
How did these asshats get to do whatever they like to us; monitor our every move with us all quaking in fear should we wish to live as free people?
Why do we play along? If we didn't, they're not gonna run the stupid system themselves, are they?
Of course, they can do this because they take all those societal-outcasts with an axe to grind and 'elevate' them by giving them a crappy uniform and some power. Maybe if our society wasn't so fractured, there'd be no 'them and us' situation so noone would be a 'security' guard and enforce every stupid rule they're told to without thinking.
It makes me despair that society has reached some dead-end where 'terrorist attack' would actually be a blessing. Something to break up the mindless drivel interspersed with gradual erosion of our freedom to just be. Maybe 'our leaders' secretly know that the 'terrorists' have a far freer society and the people have a better way of life. I mean; it can't be worse than this, can it? Are they coming to rescue us rather than kill us?
I never thought it would come to this. I'm utterly sick to death of living in the UK. All the land has been grabbed by some asshole, 1400 years before I was even born. They set up some bullshit and blatantly unfair 'legal system' to keep the power where it 'belongs' and we sheep are to suck it up until we die in our inner-city box after paying out of our ass just for the privilege of existing our whole lives. Turn on the radio and what can I hear? Radio four plays a 24-7 rolling American political party propaganda message. The interviewers suddenly blurt out their anti-muslim propaganda in a totally off-topic manner. What the fuck is going on? We're moments away from the society presented in V for Vendetta without the dashing nazi-inspired uniforms. Where will it end?
Is it just me or does this all suck? Discuss, five words or less.
You can't mean to suggest that the ENEMY aren't all EVIL and wanting to kill us? But but but that would mean the government is using fear to control us. Clearly such a suggestion impugnes the good character of politicians.
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Lol. Don't they realise what else 'DMV' is an acronym for?
Nah, the geeks will just invent some stupid pastime/game/sport to keep the jock-assholes busy and away from their shit.
The Japanese government will do *anything* to break that 1000-post-slashdot-article barrier.
Someone should set-up a head-to-head with 'slow'hosts - my money's on the snails.
There are lots of us who are the same flavour of 'insane' as him... No clue what your excuse for 'sanity' is. Wake up dude.
*blink* *blink* *blink* Surely this deserves +1000 insightful, rather than -1 troll? *blink*
etc.
Never gonna happen. The idea is to ensure that everyone else practices what you preach. One of the tactics to achieve this is to convince people that what you preach is motivated by something other than personal gain (i.e. dedication to truth, righteousness etc) and to imply that you yourself will of course follow the rules which you have 'discovered' in the 'big book of how to live right' and are laying-down as a public-service.
Nope, but BadAnalogyGuy taught him everything he knows.
Dude. Use a car analogy like everyone else, ffs!
Phew, it's lucky that noone gives a flying fuck what the law says otherwise people would feel as though their moral rights had been infringed-upon.
When the law differs substantially from what the majority of people feel is right (in this case that once you've bought some overpriced CD, having the right to listen to the contents using any of your audio devices) one can't help but come to the conclusion that the law is no longer something which exists to arbitrate amongst people (such as the convention that everyone drives on the same side of the road) but rather the means by which some minority exerts its will over the majority.
Under these circumstances, the appropriate and moral thing to do is for the majority to ignore the law and behave as their moral compass instructs - until the law is once again in-tune with the majority and no-longer a business tool.
Link!?
It occurs to me that when some company makes it harder to buy their product, the rational thing to do is to not buy it. This is one more reason to not buy the POS; how many do you need?
I mean, this is Apple through and through; make something shiny then use it as bait and as ppl come close, whack them with a stick. Keep making the POS shinier and the stick bigger and ppl try even harder to get the shiny thing. Doh!
Dude. I for one resent what you're implying. I'm perfectly happy to join you in glorious revolution*.
* as long as it doesn't coincide with Friends and you serve lattes.
<megaphone-amplified-voice>hypergreatthing!! back in line!! countermeasures in 5, 4, 3,
Good call. Better mace everyone before they board the plane, then strap them into their seats. That way there may be a few false-positives but at least all potential terrorists are caught..
Seven years, three months and five days' worth.
If you'd have posted this pre-911, you'd have deserved a +5 insightful. As it is, simply regurgitating the two towers / hunt for the elusive pimpernel^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBin Laden story only deserves a +1
In a way it's quite entertaining to live in the time when Orwell's 1984 becomes reality. Who'd have thought it. I was always slightly concerned that some people in positions of power might see 1984 as a warning rather than as "a manual for creating the society of the future" which it so clearly is. Well done to all involved. Dedication to purpose beyond the call of duty. Mission accomplished.
No, you're mistaken friend. Over 50% of people are like the proverbial frog being boiled alive slowly. Which is the problem. They are quite happy to be part of the machine and believe you are a terrorist for trying to wake them from their dream.
This is the problem. They force all manner of bullshit on us and set up laws to make it illegal to have a low tolerance to their bullshit. Then, the rest of the sheep who don't even notice that there's a problem enforce your punishment. It sucks. I just cannot get across how much it sucks. All of it.
How the hell did we get into the position where there's such a concept as 'the powers that be' ?
How did these asshats get to do whatever they like to us; monitor our every move with us all quaking in fear should we wish to live as free people?
Why do we play along? If we didn't, they're not gonna run the stupid system themselves, are they?
Of course, they can do this because they take all those societal-outcasts with an axe to grind and 'elevate' them by giving them a crappy uniform and some power. Maybe if our society wasn't so fractured, there'd be no 'them and us' situation so noone would be a 'security' guard and enforce every stupid rule they're told to without thinking.
It makes me despair that society has reached some dead-end where 'terrorist attack' would actually be a blessing. Something to break up the mindless drivel interspersed with gradual erosion of our freedom to just be. Maybe 'our leaders' secretly know that the 'terrorists' have a far freer society and the people have a better way of life. I mean; it can't be worse than this, can it? Are they coming to rescue us rather than kill us?
I never thought it would come to this. I'm utterly sick to death of living in the UK. All the land has been grabbed by some asshole, 1400 years before I was even born. They set up some bullshit and blatantly unfair 'legal system' to keep the power where it 'belongs' and we sheep are to suck it up until we die in our inner-city box after paying out of our ass just for the privilege of existing our whole lives. Turn on the radio and what can I hear? Radio four plays a 24-7 rolling American political party propaganda message. The interviewers suddenly blurt out their anti-muslim propaganda in a totally off-topic manner. What the fuck is going on? We're moments away from the society presented in V for Vendetta without the dashing nazi-inspired uniforms. Where will it end?
Is it just me or does this all suck? Discuss, five words or less.
You can't mean to suggest that the ENEMY aren't all EVIL and wanting to kill us? But but but that would mean the government is using fear to control us. Clearly such a suggestion impugnes the good character of politicians.
All that matters is how efficiently the US military can kill people.