Firstly, not everything has to be kid friendly. In fact, I'm happy if most of the world isn't kid friendly- and I had that opinion when I was 13, too.
Secondly, they've heard it all and worse before... yes, irrespective of what ages they are. They've heard fuck before and know what it means- trust me.
Some people have a metabolism which lends itself to storing energy as fat more readily. So you could say that some people put on weight easier (or even far easier) than others- but to say they have no control over their weight?
I might be able to accept that someone would have a psychological reason, rather than physiological reason, for an inability to control their weight. But that shouldn't be a free pass to discounted health care- if you can't control your weight, either accept you'll have a reduced quality of life and increased health care payments... or do something about it, including getting treatment.
To pull out the ever-present car analogy, that's like saying because driving very fast gives me great pleasure, I have no control over my speed. I'm blameless! Blameless I say! *zoom*...
Not bad considering the number of questions directly relating to America. I mean, how many Americans could answer the question: "What was Harold Holt most famous for?"
As an Australian I have often wondered about this myself. For example, in American TV shows it's almost impossible to find an episode of anything WITHOUT showing an American flag. Is this because the flags really are there and the producers are simply reflecting reality, or is this a false image of the amount of flags in a typical American workplace/home/street/etc?
Amen to this. Seriously. I'm sick of two bit scripts being covered up by a hojillion dollars worth of fake-looking CGI. Star Wars, I'm looking at you...
If all copyright infringement stopped today, do you honestly think they would stop?
No.
Litigation is wielded by these people as a tool to increase revenue, much as a crowbar is wielded by street thugs to convince passers-by to "settle" their claims. Until thrown in jail or shot, this extremely profitable venue will continue with even more lunacy (suing people for having over 250gb of hard drive space, for instance- that's probable cause for a large media repository right there!)
These are the people that claimed the VCR would destroy Hollywood, that iPods were nothing but repositories for stolen music, and all the while making large hard drives, CD burners, blank discs and all the paraphernalia required to commit large-scale piracy. And believe you me, they would be screaming for all of the above to be made illegal if they weren't already making a killing off 'em.
After all, if the losses for media piracy exceeded the profits from making media-piracy enabling hardware, they won't do it. But they do, yet still scream about piracy... the hypocrisy abounds.
After several minutes of trying I can't even put into words just how much I disagree with everything about this statement. I award you zero points, and may FSM have mercy on your soul.
As an Australian who fervently opposes Chairman Rudd's censorship bill...
There is one advantage I can see to all of this. Big Brother will block anything illegal and offensive to me, right? So I can download absolutely anything I DO find since it MUST be legal. After all, the censorship is perfect!
Yes, but a lot of mainstream hardware still doesn't have drivers. IE, the MinTV Digital Tuner Card I bought yesterday which the salesman *assured* me ran Linux, but actually didn't.
Returning that today, and yes they will know why...
... belongs in the philosophy class, not science. Science is a set of facts seeking a conclusion to support them- Intelligent Design is a conclusion seeing a set of facts to support it.
In a philosophy or comparative religions class? Absolutely- go nuts! Be sure to include a whole bunch of other religious theory, including Hindu creation myths etc. Would be a fun class.
I will bet $100 AUD (Or about 50 UK pounds) that there will be absolutely no jailtime served by anyone involved in the loss of this data, with the possible exception of the poor soul who found it.
Not the first time it's happened by far, and it certainly won't be the last... would you trust a surveillance society that can't even keep track of its own inventory?
You are running for the position of president of Iran. The opposition, who has been in power for eight years (piggybacking on the votes of religious segment of Iran) have fielded the most unpopular president in the history of Iran.
Based upon your platform of reform and change, you have a huge amount of popularity abroad and a fair bit at home- you know that, if elected, you could do so much good in the nation of Iran. You have a reform plan and a heap of ideas- but there's one problem. You're a Christian, and there are a lot of Muslims in Iran who would *never* vote for you simply because of your religious affiliations- you have to swear on the Koran just to hold office, after all, and the national motto is "In Allah we Trust". Still, not every Iranian is religious and you attend an Islamic church- there's a lot about Islam you agree with, after all, even if you know that your heart really belongs to Christianity. Just to touch things off, you're also white in a nation of mostly arabs, which most Iranians can see past but some just simply refuse to.
You also know that the opposition leader favours the policies of the previous administration, which has harmed Iran both internationally and domestically. You know that the policies of fear, racism and doubt have no place in modern politics, but it's hard convincing the Iranian hardliners about that. They've discovered fear to be a very useful tool, thank you very much, and they're happy to use it against you. These people need to be stopped- but they won't elect a muslim. It's impossible.
What would you do?
Now, that was a pretty thinly veiled metaphor if I do say so myself, but my point remains. So? So what if he's a Muslim? Almost everything bad people have to say about Islam (oppression of women, violent, restricts liberty, strange rituals, etc) can be said about Christianity too. Do people honestly think that if they elect a Muslim to president, he'll round up all the Christians and have them shot? Force people to convert? Has any Christian president forced people to convert to Christianity? Hardly.
Barrack Obama isn't a Muslim. But if he was, it should not be an issue in the slightest. Australia (my country) had a firmly atheist Prime Minister and the world didn't end. In fact, Australia went along quite nicely, thank you very much.
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Internet? What's that?
Surely you mean the Global Child Rape Terror-Tubes, right?
Firstly, not everything has to be kid friendly. In fact, I'm happy if most of the world isn't kid friendly- and I had that opinion when I was 13, too.
Secondly, they've heard it all and worse before... yes, irrespective of what ages they are. They've heard fuck before and know what it means- trust me.
Possibly.
Alternatively, this business of suing people has become so lucrative... do you honestly think that will stop them?
Ridiculous, sorry.
Some people have a metabolism which lends itself to storing energy as fat more readily. So you could say that some people put on weight easier (or even far easier) than others- but to say they have no control over their weight?
I might be able to accept that someone would have a psychological reason, rather than physiological reason, for an inability to control their weight. But that shouldn't be a free pass to discounted health care- if you can't control your weight, either accept you'll have a reduced quality of life and increased health care payments... or do something about it, including getting treatment.
To pull out the ever-present car analogy, that's like saying because driving very fast gives me great pleasure, I have no control over my speed. I'm blameless! Blameless I say! *zoom*...
I'm an Australian and I got:
You answered 22 out of 33 correctly â" 66.67 %
Not bad considering the number of questions directly relating to America. I mean, how many Americans could answer the question: "What was Harold Holt most famous for?"
As an Australian I have often wondered about this myself. For example, in American TV shows it's almost impossible to find an episode of anything WITHOUT showing an American flag. Is this because the flags really are there and the producers are simply reflecting reality, or is this a false image of the amount of flags in a typical American workplace/home/street/etc?
Amen to this. Seriously. I'm sick of two bit scripts being covered up by a hojillion dollars worth of fake-looking CGI. Star Wars, I'm looking at you...
If all copyright infringement stopped today, do you honestly think they would stop?
No.
Litigation is wielded by these people as a tool to increase revenue, much as a crowbar is wielded by street thugs to convince passers-by to "settle" their claims. Until thrown in jail or shot, this extremely profitable venue will continue with even more lunacy (suing people for having over 250gb of hard drive space, for instance- that's probable cause for a large media repository right there!)
These are the people that claimed the VCR would destroy Hollywood, that iPods were nothing but repositories for stolen music, and all the while making large hard drives, CD burners, blank discs and all the paraphernalia required to commit large-scale piracy. And believe you me, they would be screaming for all of the above to be made illegal if they weren't already making a killing off 'em.
After all, if the losses for media piracy exceeded the profits from making media-piracy enabling hardware, they won't do it. But they do, yet still scream about piracy... the hypocrisy abounds.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Today the terrorist CAN get hazardous chemicals.
Enough said.
After several minutes of trying I can't even put into words just how much I disagree with everything about this statement. I award you zero points, and may FSM have mercy on your soul.
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Fallout 3. Portal. GTA 4.
There's plenty of games labelled Adults Only. Don't know if they bring new concepts apart from Portal, however...
Won't be buying any more Dell hardware for a while!
So far it's working out great! Haven't had my net cut off y
As an Australian who fervently opposes Chairman Rudd's censorship bill...
There is one advantage I can see to all of this. Big Brother will block anything illegal and offensive to me, right? So I can download absolutely anything I DO find since it MUST be legal. After all, the censorship is perfect!
Pirate bay here I come!
Yes, but a lot of mainstream hardware still doesn't have drivers. IE, the MinTV Digital Tuner Card I bought yesterday which the salesman *assured* me ran Linux, but actually didn't.
Returning that today, and yes they will know why...
The modding... why does it only go up to +5? Why?!
Thank you, parent and parent of parent. Will do for the future.
As usual, Penny Arcade predicted the future. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/)
Technician: Our webs are down, sir. We can't log in!
Agent: Which webs?
Technician: All of them.
Technician: They've penetrated our code walls. They're stealing the Internet!
Agent: We'll need to hack all IPs simultaneously.
... belongs in the philosophy class, not science. Science is a set of facts seeking a conclusion to support them- Intelligent Design is a conclusion seeing a set of facts to support it.
In a philosophy or comparative religions class? Absolutely- go nuts! Be sure to include a whole bunch of other religious theory, including Hindu creation myths etc. Would be a fun class.
But as science? ... Do not want.
Silly citizen. The rules apply to you, not us.
Or destroy it.
Seriously, blowtorch it to ashes. What USB stick? The data isn't irreplaceable.
I will bet $100 AUD (Or about 50 UK pounds) that there will be absolutely no jailtime served by anyone involved in the loss of this data, with the possible exception of the poor soul who found it.
Not the first time it's happened by far, and it certainly won't be the last... would you trust a surveillance society that can't even keep track of its own inventory?
Doesn't matter. Diebold decides the results, not the courts...
Allow me to establish a hypothetical.
You are running for the position of president of Iran. The opposition, who has been in power for eight years (piggybacking on the votes of religious segment of Iran) have fielded the most unpopular president in the history of Iran.
Based upon your platform of reform and change, you have a huge amount of popularity abroad and a fair bit at home- you know that, if elected, you could do so much good in the nation of Iran. You have a reform plan and a heap of ideas- but there's one problem. You're a Christian, and there are a lot of Muslims in Iran who would *never* vote for you simply because of your religious affiliations- you have to swear on the Koran just to hold office, after all, and the national motto is "In Allah we Trust". Still, not every Iranian is religious and you attend an Islamic church- there's a lot about Islam you agree with, after all, even if you know that your heart really belongs to Christianity. Just to touch things off, you're also white in a nation of mostly arabs, which most Iranians can see past but some just simply refuse to.
You also know that the opposition leader favours the policies of the previous administration, which has harmed Iran both internationally and domestically. You know that the policies of fear, racism and doubt have no place in modern politics, but it's hard convincing the Iranian hardliners about that. They've discovered fear to be a very useful tool, thank you very much, and they're happy to use it against you. These people need to be stopped- but they won't elect a muslim. It's impossible.
What would you do?
Now, that was a pretty thinly veiled metaphor if I do say so myself, but my point remains. So? So what if he's a Muslim? Almost everything bad people have to say about Islam (oppression of women, violent, restricts liberty, strange rituals, etc) can be said about Christianity too. Do people honestly think that if they elect a Muslim to president, he'll round up all the Christians and have them shot? Force people to convert? Has any Christian president forced people to convert to Christianity? Hardly.
Barrack Obama isn't a Muslim. But if he was, it should not be an issue in the slightest. Australia (my country) had a firmly atheist Prime Minister and the world didn't end. In fact, Australia went along quite nicely, thank you very much.