Nazi Germany was not about to cross the Atlantic with landing ships, if you want to go that far. But it very likely would have come to that had the U.S. not intervened. That was a large, well funded and well maintained military machine that had already proven its dangerous intentions by stomping all over the majority of Europe. That's not exactly the situation we saw in Vietnam, Korea or Iraq. The direct attack upon America by the Japanese helped show that we indeed were involved if nothing else. Though the ethical use of our resulting nuclear force is highly debatable.
8mb broadband is more then enough for most people. Hell, my 3mb DSL was delightful. No, where they need to start is simply making broadband available. If you don't live within the city you're pretty much screwed. I was lucky enough to have lived not too far outside of a little one-intersection village that had a telephone hub in it, so I had DSL. If I had been a few more miles in any direction I would not have had that available to me, or anything for that matter. You can't even get cable television in most areas around here, let alone internet. You're pretty much stuck with super crappy and super expensive satellite internet or super crappy dial-up (super crappy by dial-up standards at that! Try 24.6kbps).
'not very fast, not very cheap Internet[..] And not very available either. Much more of the country is without than is with, I can assure you. The telecoms and cable companies don't care though. For some reason putting out a bit of money for a long-term payoff just doesn't register with corporations.
If one single person feels obligated to pay his/her hard earned cash on a movie for that reason alone and then feels "duped" afterwards then they got what they had coming. But they don't ever feel duped. People go just because it is a new film, not because it looks particularly enthralling. They pay the ridiculous admission price, sit with a group of friends and then go eat Buffalo Wings afterwards. They talk about the few flashy parts where CGI explosions happened and don't even remember just how much the movie sucked because their brain wasn't clicked on during that whole area. People are inherently stupid, the films they go to see and the music that choose to listen to is just an ideal example of such. The fact that the only way you can get people en mass to read is by heavily marketing a book for elementary school child is beyond pathetic.
Ah, perhaps I was too loose with words then. Our freedom, as in Americans. It may seem cold but I don't care too much about the rest of the world when our own country could quickly and easily be improved if we weed out the bullshit which is and has been holding it back.
That being said and basically off topic, I find your stab at "war heroes" offensive, we do not chose our wars, we only fight the ones our politicians tell us to. I have had friends die in combat and I have seen things you only dream of when you play video games. Whether you agree with the war in the middle east or not (which many in the military do not, at least at this present stage) slandering those that fight is uncalled for. That being said, me and my comrades do do what we do so that you have the freedom to debase us. You chose to fight. There hasn't been a war that has threatened "freedom" since Nazi Germany was running blitzkriegs across Europe. Politicians have a tendency to send people to their deaths for needless causes; i.e. to line their own pockets. People that enlist knowing that have little respect from me, as they show the tell-tale sign of blind patriotism. Furthermore, most people that enlist nowadays are uneducated persons trying to get a free ride through life (or perhaps college) because they have little to no other option. It's not my fault, it's the government's, and to a lesser extent everyone that willingly follows the government. I'm glad that we have had people willing to fight for freedom in the past when it was needed, but it hasn't been needed in a long time... Not in that way at least. If people really wanted to fight for freedom we would be in the streets of D.C. rioting right now.
Well, it is a couple of months until we hit the ballot boxes, but in the mean time, this is how I voiced my discontent:
1. Go to the complaint submission site and submit a complaint.
2. Put the url obscenitycrimes.org in the Report URL box.
3. Under the "type of obscenity" check box, check "other" and place this text in the description box: "Obscene waste of my tax dollars and obscene violation of the first amendment
I know that it won't do anything, but it makes me feel a little better anyway.
In fact, in texas right now, there is a couple suing a the state for allowing a moment of silence after the Pledge, because they say that a moment of silence actually means "go pray" And it does. What else would it mean? I don't think the moment of silence is for all of the "war heroes" that died in some convoluted war to "protect" said pledge, despite what the school tries to pass it off as. It is Texas though, so it's not very surprising. I had a teacher that wanted to pray after the Pledge of Allegiance and that was shut down quite quickly. However, immediately afterwards we began having a "moment of silence" instead. It's too ambiguous to do anything about, but it is a prayer session. It was then and it is now. If teachers and/or students want to pray they can pray on their own and to themselves. Hell, maybe they should try doing so before school anyway!
Though a Mayan prediction (and not even really of the End but a new beginning), I can't wait for the Apocalypse, or more specifically the Rapture. The moment when all the Christians world over suddenly disappear will be a great day!
U.S. schools don't have to take similar measures, we already largely avoid mathematics. Really though, is it such a bad thing? Highschool is too generalized as is, instead of really letting students focus on what will be important and helpful for them in the future. Higher level math courses do not help most students and prove to be nothing more than a time sink. If you're going to go into a field that requires it, or simply want to soak up the knowledge, then take advanced math classes by all means. Otherwise, I'd say that anything over algebra and geometry (even those, perhaps) are largely useless to most folks.
This is why you don't use unproven technology. You get shafted. And this isn't the first time such an incident has been out in the public eye either. Now if only Troika would have known that before getting fucked around by Valve, having to rush Bloodlines and ultimately being dissolved because of its failure.
No marketing? Their was a fairly widespread beta, as well as two games before it. Sequels don't really need much marketing, that's why publishers like them. They theoretically make oodles of money without much being put in.
I've been buying DRM free music for decades. I go down to the record store (or online) and purchase an album. I guess that's the difference between me and teenyboppers that want to use the latest Top 10 single as a cellphone ring; I enjoy musicians who are worth listening to, not untalented one-hit-wonders spewed out of MTV and local radio stations.
I hate it enough when my ISP decides to filter e-mail at the source. I don't get spam regardless, and sometimes actual people sending me actual attachments don't make it through because it "could be a dangerous file". It's yet another one of those things that keep stupid people "safe" (and stupid forever).
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I am consistently pleased that I do not live in California, their politicians only help stress that feeling.
I AM!!!
8mb broadband is more then enough for most people. Hell, my 3mb DSL was delightful. No, where they need to start is simply making broadband available. If you don't live within the city you're pretty much screwed. I was lucky enough to have lived not too far outside of a little one-intersection village that had a telephone hub in it, so I had DSL. If I had been a few more miles in any direction I would not have had that available to me, or anything for that matter. You can't even get cable television in most areas around here, let alone internet. You're pretty much stuck with super crappy and super expensive satellite internet or super crappy dial-up (super crappy by dial-up standards at that! Try 24.6kbps).
Ah, perhaps I was too loose with words then. Our freedom, as in Americans. It may seem cold but I don't care too much about the rest of the world when our own country could quickly and easily be improved if we weed out the bullshit which is and has been holding it back.
1. Go to the complaint submission site and submit a complaint.
2. Put the url obscenitycrimes.org in the Report URL box.
3. Under the "type of obscenity" check box, check "other" and place this text in the description box: "Obscene waste of my tax dollars and obscene violation of the first amendmentI know that it won't do anything, but it makes me feel a little better anyway.
I know that it made me feel a little better.I'm still hoping that Latin will make a comeback, personally. I want a job where I can go out and catch Christians for the Colosseum games.
Microsoft will never go away, so bend over, pass the Vaseline, and enjoy! Linux can coexist, but more so as foreplay.
Though a Mayan prediction (and not even really of the End but a new beginning), I can't wait for the Apocalypse, or more specifically the Rapture. The moment when all the Christians world over suddenly disappear will be a great day!
Dumb-ass, morally righteous Christian assholes.
U.S. schools don't have to take similar measures, we already largely avoid mathematics. Really though, is it such a bad thing? Highschool is too generalized as is, instead of really letting students focus on what will be important and helpful for them in the future. Higher level math courses do not help most students and prove to be nothing more than a time sink. If you're going to go into a field that requires it, or simply want to soak up the knowledge, then take advanced math classes by all means. Otherwise, I'd say that anything over algebra and geometry (even those, perhaps) are largely useless to most folks.
This is why you don't use unproven technology. You get shafted. And this isn't the first time such an incident has been out in the public eye either. Now if only Troika would have known that before getting fucked around by Valve, having to rush Bloodlines and ultimately being dissolved because of its failure.
No marketing? Their was a fairly widespread beta, as well as two games before it. Sequels don't really need much marketing, that's why publishers like them. They theoretically make oodles of money without much being put in.
Nope. TV is also pretty worthless, as can be read in another one of my posts... ;)
Wow, I would feel so sorry to have interfered with any of those things, you know, what with each and every one of them being completely worthless...
I've been buying DRM free music for decades. I go down to the record store (or online) and purchase an album. I guess that's the difference between me and teenyboppers that want to use the latest Top 10 single as a cellphone ring; I enjoy musicians who are worth listening to, not untalented one-hit-wonders spewed out of MTV and local radio stations.
Fuck television. I want decent internet up here in the forested hills. The FCC does a great job at smacking down anything that might be useful.
I hate it enough when my ISP decides to filter e-mail at the source. I don't get spam regardless, and sometimes actual people sending me actual attachments don't make it through because it "could be a dangerous file". It's yet another one of those things that keep stupid people "safe" (and stupid forever).