..you aren't going to score any kind of points against these guys...
When every sentient being on the planet comes to an awareness of how these pieces of shit have (further) subverted the USAnian legal (have even made reached their tentacles toward other countries) in the name of spreading their appallingly shitty 'music', they will be given the wide berth they deserve. Having no customers will not go unnoticed.
[Maximum irony points to them for finding a way to make people pay $9000+ for a single crappy tune, rather than the actual value of $0.005]
It almost seems as if the batch of "super" mosquitoes can tell when I'm about drifting off to sleep- they only seem to start flying around my exposed face/head when I'm either asleep or just about drifting off - not alert and waiting to swat them with the zapper in hand.
They've probably evolved so far as to be far smarter than you and are laughing their asses off as they keep you awake, whilst simultaneously trying to train you to use a mosquito net:D
...to the point of only eating certain M&M's because one of the dyes isn't completely animal-free
bah! that's borderline enjoying-your-food (not that i'm saying m&m`s are food). everyone knows that the 'safe' m&m`s touch the 'unsafe' ones in the packet so any '_real_' vegan will avoid m&m`s altogether. -- warning: post may contain failed attempt at humor.
In politics we see this in the clustering of positions. It makes sens for the Democrats to be just slightly more liberal than the Republicans, so that they can capture the votes of people that are somewhat liberal republicans.
That's one of the many things that's wrong with politics today; no-one seems to have any beliefs any more; they just take polls and tell the people what they are believed to want to hear; utterly pointless, vacuous wastes of space.
And then there's parties; also wrong wrong wrong; I want to travel from A to B; I use google maps to plan my route; then I divide up the set of directions into two groups, randomly; I choose one group of partial directions and try to navigate to my destination with them; after I fail I choose the other partial group and try again; I repeat until the end of time, stopping occasionally to whine that I never get to B.... doh!
Hmm. So you're saying that me sharing my wifi with my neighbors is irresponsible? I thought it was called "being nice".
Despite that mummy told you sharing your toys is being nice (correct in my opinion); the us government and big business knows better; sharing is immoral and illegal and 'not nice'. It seems mothers the world over are misguided:S
Surely it's obvious that salespeople that work for ISP's (like their whole evil salesperson community) will say whatever they think will get customers to purchase their product; then, once the sale is over and the money transferred, reality kicks-in. ISP's just have more control over the product because it's an ongoing service that can be controlled and turned into something other than what was sold. To me, at least, it's as simple as that. They've sold you a top-of-the-range maserati and have covertly swapped-it-out for a pinto - hoping you won't notice and even if you dom, "fuck you customer, prove it's a pinto."
..Comcast could solve it really easily - just stop advertising "unlimited" bandwidth and publish the monthly transfer quotas.
Sure. They're gonna stop having their cake and eating it... Up next, mother theresa makes world president; usa gets back within its borders; riaa stops being evil. News! at 10pm! etc..
The fact that no studies provide any evidence of a link between the vaccines and autism is an minor inconvenience to be ignored
Something can be true without a study which provides 'proof' that it is so; even if there's 'proof' that it's not true, it still may be.
Even with the best intentions, mistakes can be made. Of course, in today's world, lots of very powerful people have a vested interest in making the results of studies come out the way that suits them and the means to make it happen. People know this and so even with a study demonstrating the safety, effectiveness and value-for-money of highly-dangerous-overpriced-and-placebo-like-chemical-number-2395472038957, many people will ignore the results of well-conducted studies. This is the price we because of the societally-warping effect of those people who've managed to accumulate large quantities of wealth and power in equal measure to their increased fascination with self-interest. These people sow uncertainty and reap the rewards later.
If something bad happens, it's usually just bad luck.
Bah! - no offence to you in particular but that's a crock of shit and something which is repeated again and again without thought. There's no such thing as 'luck'; there's just cause and effect and most of the time you see very little of the causes of the effects you witness.
eg. You get mugged on the way home and put into a coma; that's not luck, it's a chain of causes and effects operating within the life of the person who mugged you; all his experiences shaped him and he responded in a particular way when he saw you based on his current perceived needs and his current state of mind and shaping experiences. cause and effect.
eg2. you 'catch' autism. it's not luck, it's cause and effect where *something* affects the normal development process; whether that be an environmental factor which interferes with the complicated choreography controlled by dna or maybe the dna had degenerated to the point where the instructions were no longer able to specify the necessary steps or maybe something else; either way, it's not a result of randomness or 'the gods laughing at you', it's cause and effect where we don't see the causes.
eg3. you win the lottery; it's cause and effect. the balls fall out of the chute within the lottery machine. because of the many possible minor variations in the way the balls sit within the chute, the minor variations of air pressure and moisture and grease on the balls and dust and (etc.etc.etc) and the speed and timing of the release of the balls etc, which exhibit minor variations themselves despite attempts to control them.. the compound initial conditions which are the n-dimensional coordinates into an n-dimensional problem-space where n is large and each dimension is a causal vector are magnified along repeatable pathways via the laws of physics to lead to some outcome. you chose your winning numbers by a similar process; all your experiences, subtle associations between numbers and things; vague sense of fascination or superstition regarding certain numbers; various mental processes by which you attempt to simulate randomness within your mind to overcome all of the numerological effects you're aware of, your skill at simulating randomness etc.etc.etc - and many more, all lead to a particular outcome; again specified by an vector onto a different set of cause-axes. no randomness or luck played a part, it's just so complicated and immeasurable that we call it luck or randomness.
i could go on but i'm unable to describe coherently what's in my mind; hope you get the gist.
There's also no evidence that this lawyer is using the system as a weapon against an individual, simply because his immorality has been brought into the public view.
You surely cannot expect us to believe that you'd prefer an America where:
* people consider each other's welfare to be important
* those in power are working for the people they represent
* those in power aren't corrupt
* those in power don't invade foreign countries to steal their natural resources and murder the poplulace
* corporations all have worthwhile products and advertise them to you in a life-enhancing manner
* the future of mankind is considered to be important
* people say what they mean and do what they've said they'll do
I'm mean really, how far would football as 'sport' have gotten if every team was required to have their own shape of ball? Yes, I realise the USAnians have already made a start on this:D but at least they share the ball between two parties; both of whom have several indirect common goals.
Whatever happened to:
a) 'hey, look what I can do'
b) 'cool; if I take what you did and add *this*..'
c) 'omg yeah, waaay cool'
d) goto b
now it's: a) 'hey, look what I can do' b) 'cool; if I take what you did and add *this*..' c) 'you little bitch, you STOLE MY idea. now ur gonna pay' d) goto jail:S
Other forms include calling working-class or uneducated people names (such as proles, scallies etc) so that 'we' may think of them as less-than-human, so that when 'we' take advantage of their inadequacies, 'we' won't feel as bad as 'we' should.
If you can't decide whether or not you want a snack that is sweet of salty, marketers should help you, the customer, to come to the decision most appropriate to your current condition by providing suitable education and information. Instead of inane bullshit, pretty girls etc in advertising, provide information which will be of long-term use!
Your whole industry demonstrates shocking short-sightedness, stupidity and lack of understanding of the long-term backlash which will occur when those people you've been taking advantage of for generations reach a critical mass of intellectual capacity and realise what's been done to them. Just wait and see. I, for one, wouldn't want to be in your shoes (or industry.) This applies to governments and many other well-organised groups of abusers, too.
In terms of a bird singing, then the copyright is yours, but if you record a lecture, then that is a copy of the professor's performance of it, and so it is his or hers
That's only because we (by which I mean you, Americans) have the arrogance to believe that the bird has less rights because of its inability to make a rational argument demonstrating its right under natural law to control distribution rights of sounds which exist purely as a side-effect of its mind. With the possible exception of it being unable to afford a lawyer or having the stupidity or arrogance to take that course of action.
I've noticed that the time has come for a worldwide revolution. No doubt others have noticed this far earlier than myself. These people cannot be allowed to hamstring us further. They make ludicrous rules and we enforce them, upon each other! There needs to be a critical mass of dissenters or nothing will change.
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When every sentient being on the planet comes to an awareness of how these pieces of shit have (further) subverted the USAnian legal (have even made reached their tentacles toward other countries) in the name of spreading their appallingly shitty 'music', they will be given the wide berth they deserve. Having no customers will not go unnoticed.
[Maximum irony points to them for finding a way to make people pay $9000+ for a single crappy tune, rather than the actual value of $0.005]
According to this http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html page we 'should' really be using GiB, MiB, KiB etc instead of GB, MB and kB.
e.g.
They've probably evolved so far as to be far smarter than you and are laughing their asses off as they keep you awake, whilst simultaneously trying to train you to use a mosquito net
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/seagull.asp
How do you account for this animated gif of a seagull sneaking into a shop and stealing a bag of crisps?
i.e. killing iraqi civillians.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-troops-investigated-over-iraqi-massacres-470920.html etc
bah! that's borderline enjoying-your-food (not that i'm saying m&m`s are food). everyone knows that the 'safe' m&m`s touch the 'unsafe' ones in the packet so any '_real_' vegan will avoid m&m`s altogether.
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warning: post may contain failed attempt at humor.
That's one of the many things that's wrong with politics today; no-one seems to have any beliefs any more; they just take polls and tell the people what they are believed to want to hear; utterly pointless, vacuous wastes of space.
And then there's parties; also wrong wrong wrong; I want to travel from A to B; I use google maps to plan my route; then I divide up the set of directions into two groups, randomly; I choose one group of partial directions and try to navigate to my destination with them; after I fail I choose the other partial group and try again; I repeat until the end of time, stopping occasionally to whine that I never get to B.... doh!
Despite that mummy told you sharing your toys is being nice (correct in my opinion); the us government and big business knows better; sharing is immoral and illegal and 'not nice'. It seems mothers the world over are misguided
Clearly you don't live in the 'real world'. Well done
Surely it's obvious that salespeople that work for ISP's (like their whole evil salesperson community) will say whatever they think will get customers to purchase their product; then, once the sale is over and the money transferred, reality kicks-in. ISP's just have more control over the product because it's an ongoing service that can be controlled and turned into something other than what was sold. To me, at least, it's as simple as that. They've sold you a top-of-the-range maserati and have covertly swapped-it-out for a pinto - hoping you won't notice and even if you dom, "fuck you customer, prove it's a pinto."
Sure. They're gonna stop having their cake and eating it... Up next, mother theresa makes world president; usa gets back within its borders; riaa stops being evil. News! at 10pm! etc..
As is usually the case, my mod points have expired before I'm able to find anything really worth modding. Then your post appears...
+1 on each axis: { insightful, interesting, underrated }
Something can be true without a study which provides 'proof' that it is so; even if there's 'proof' that it's not true, it still may be.
Even with the best intentions, mistakes can be made. Of course, in today's world, lots of very powerful people have a vested interest in making the results of studies come out the way that suits them and the means to make it happen. People know this and so even with a study demonstrating the safety, effectiveness and value-for-money of highly-dangerous-overpriced-and-placebo-like-chemical-number-2395472038957, many people will ignore the results of well-conducted studies. This is the price we because of the societally-warping effect of those people who've managed to accumulate large quantities of wealth and power in equal measure to their increased fascination with self-interest. These people sow uncertainty and reap the rewards later.
Bah! - no offence to you in particular but that's a crock of shit and something which is repeated again and again without thought. There's no such thing as 'luck'; there's just cause and effect and most of the time you see very little of the causes of the effects you witness.
eg. You get mugged on the way home and put into a coma; that's not luck, it's a chain of causes and effects operating within the life of the person who mugged you; all his experiences shaped him and he responded in a particular way when he saw you based on his current perceived needs and his current state of mind and shaping experiences. cause and effect.
eg2. you 'catch' autism. it's not luck, it's cause and effect where *something* affects the normal development process; whether that be an environmental factor which interferes with the complicated choreography controlled by dna or maybe the dna had degenerated to the point where the instructions were no longer able to specify the necessary steps or maybe something else; either way, it's not a result of randomness or 'the gods laughing at you', it's cause and effect where we don't see the causes.
eg3. you win the lottery; it's cause and effect. the balls fall out of the chute within the lottery machine. because of the many possible minor variations in the way the balls sit within the chute, the minor variations of air pressure and moisture and grease on the balls and dust and (etc.etc.etc) and the speed and timing of the release of the balls etc, which exhibit minor variations themselves despite attempts to control them.. the compound initial conditions which are the n-dimensional coordinates into an n-dimensional problem-space where n is large and each dimension is a causal vector are magnified along repeatable pathways via the laws of physics to lead to some outcome. you chose your winning numbers by a similar process; all your experiences, subtle associations between numbers and things; vague sense of fascination or superstition regarding certain numbers; various mental processes by which you attempt to simulate randomness within your mind to overcome all of the numerological effects you're aware of, your skill at simulating randomness etc.etc.etc - and many more, all lead to a particular outcome; again specified by an vector onto a different set of cause-axes. no randomness or luck played a part, it's just so complicated and immeasurable that we call it luck or randomness.
i could go on but i'm unable to describe coherently what's in my mind; hope you get the gist.
There's also no evidence that this lawyer is using the system as a weapon against an individual, simply because his immorality has been brought into the public view.
You surely cannot expect us to believe that you'd prefer an America where:
* people consider each other's welfare to be important
* those in power are working for the people they represent
* those in power aren't corrupt
* those in power don't invade foreign countries to steal their natural resources and murder the poplulace
* corporations all have worthwhile products and advertise them to you in a life-enhancing manner
* the future of mankind is considered to be important
* people say what they mean and do what they've said they'll do
That's just crazy-talk...
That sentence is MINE, BITCH! (Patent #9023092384092384.)
Early settlements will be accepted etc..
I'm mean really, how far would football as 'sport' have gotten if every team was required to have their own shape of ball? Yes, I realise the USAnians have already made a start on this :D but at least they share the ball between two parties; both of whom have several indirect common goals.
:S
Whatever happened to:
a) 'hey, look what I can do'
b) 'cool; if I take what you did and add *this*..'
c) 'omg yeah, waaay cool'
d) goto b
now it's:
a) 'hey, look what I can do'
b) 'cool; if I take what you did and add *this*..'
c) 'you little bitch, you STOLE MY idea. now ur gonna pay'
d) goto jail
* Warning: similarity detected between two things contained within the universe. Lawyers are being dispatched to your location. do - not - move! *
*Sigh* - 'Tired of the "this idea is mine and noone else's" now. Please stop.
This meme is all too commonly seen.
Other forms include calling working-class or uneducated people names (such as proles, scallies etc) so that 'we' may think of them as less-than-human, so that when 'we' take advantage of their inadequacies, 'we' won't feel as bad as 'we' should.
If you can't decide whether or not you want a snack that is sweet of salty, marketers should help you, the customer, to come to the decision most appropriate to your current condition by providing suitable education and information. Instead of inane bullshit, pretty girls etc in advertising, provide information which will be of long-term use!
Your whole industry demonstrates shocking short-sightedness, stupidity and lack of understanding of the long-term backlash which will occur when those people you've been taking advantage of for generations reach a critical mass of intellectual capacity and realise what's been done to them. Just wait and see. I, for one, wouldn't want to be in your shoes (or industry.) This applies to governments and many other well-organised groups of abusers, too.
Why is five the maximum score? Also, why cannot we have more than one axis simultaneously?
I've noticed that the time has come for a worldwide revolution. No doubt others have noticed this far earlier than myself. These people cannot be allowed to hamstring us further. They make ludicrous rules and we enforce them, upon each other! There needs to be a critical mass of dissenters or nothing will change.