"Unless he can put up some solid proof, it's libel, and should be prosecuted as such"
The whole point is that he is not being prosecuted as he would be for libel. If the local paper libels me and I lay a lawsuit on them, the police are most definately not going to confiscate their presses and drag the editors to jail. The kind (what kind?... the wrong kind) people of Utah have intimidated this boy into fleeing the state... they are not (necesarilly) sluts and drunks, they are intolerant thugs and small minded authoritarian theocrats.
I thought it had a more european comics feel. More like Moebius than Shirow. Especially the cop's helmets.
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GITS is a fine, fine flick. I would reccomend most anything based on Shirow Masamune's manga, although the OAVs (especially Appleseed) tend to rape the plots. Black Magic M-66, and the later Dominion:Tank Police (avoid the first one) OAVs are good ones. But the comics are, as always, much better.
If The Matrix counts, then check out most any of Yuen Woo Peng's kung-fu movies. Wing Chun, Drunken Master, or Iron Monkey are great to start with.
Other anime that I would strongly reccomend: Ninja Scroll (The sequal, Ninja Reserection, is OK but too short), Doomed Megalopolis, Grey, Area 88, Project A-Ko, and Wings of Honneamise.
"Outlets for free speech must always exist, I am not some communist saying that everyone must attach their name to everything that they do. "
"My interest lies in the fact that many people in addition to the artists - like engineers and producers - make their living off of royalties."
Am I wrong or is using government legislation to insure employment for people displaced by technology far more socialistic than denying anonymity, which isn't necesarilly communist at all.
"It's also known that the Cyclops legend was inspired by elephant skulls found in caves (possibly Hannibal's elephants!) wherein the nasal opening looks like a large single eye socket."
Absolutely correct about the probable origin of the myth, but since the Cyclopes were mentioned in the Illiad (circa 900bc) the chances of their being Hannibal Barca's (crossed the Alps in 218bc) elephants is not likely.
I found the relevant US statute; "It is illegal for amateur radio operators to use codes and ciphers per part 97.117 of the FCC rules." (From The Cypherpunk mailinglist) It is interesting that compression is allowed, it seems the purpose of the encryption ban is to free up bandwidth (no way of telling if it's amatuer or not with encryption).
Anyone know of any international maritime treaties covering this?
Illegal where? The vast majority of a trip to Hawaii will be through international waters so unless it is prohibited by international maritime law what's the worry? Could it be illegal to, and I know this is insane but so is the legal system, recieve encrypted broadband transmissions?
What are you talking about? No really, your post seems to be missing a subject.
Assuming you are talking about OSS; If tax dollars are involved how would a propriatary liscense be better? or are you saying it should be public domain? If tax money is involved, all the taxpayers should get equal access.
Seriously, this makes no sense. It seems to be an excuse for a diatribe against the current administration. Judge Jackson, a registered Republican and Reagan apointee, is a leftist!?... yea, and I'm a Chinese jet pilot. Hell, calling Clinton and Gore leftists is a stretch... but I guess when you contrast them with the far right screwheads they could be seen as such.
Well since the post that spawned the one I answered used Neil Gaiman as an example I figured I'd throw Kurt in there too. I also use art rather loosely, more in Scott McCloud's 'anything that doesn't directly relate to survival' definition rather than specifically graphics. And ya got to admit, your bro is a great artist... wordsmith-wise.
Walt Kelley is irrelevant?! I've always considered his insights to be timeless, much like George Harriman's Krazy Kat strips. However, seeing as how you are completely ignorant of the history of the art (that Art Spiegelman guy he mentioned won a Pulitzer for one of his comics), it is no surprise you don't consider it such. What's more, you are afraid of getting trashed by 'elitists' yet blithely insult cartoonists by denying their work is art. That is elitism.
As for more great artists in the comics field; Gilbert Hernandez, Terry Moore, Dave Sim, Donna Barr, Shirow Masamune, Kurt Buseik, and Frank Miller come to mind immediately (their being alive and relevant should help you).
As for UF, I often find it humorous and having seen the progression in the quality of artwork by guys like Dave Sim or G.B.Trudeau since they started I don't mind the art much either.
The 2nd Book of the Lodge clearly states in SpiceQube 13:69, "In the first days beasts of humongous proportions dwelt upon the earth and unto them came Qube and he made them to eat hot stones and to expell licorice balls from their rear ends that they might lick the monoliths and sing the praises of SpyceT"
The meaning of this passage is that you are a foolish meatbag and that Qube will trample your soul with boots spiked with #2 pencils.
It's obviously true since the 1st book of the Lodge in Birdman 7:11 it clearly states,"This is the shit and woe unto the pedestrian who walketh the street of the lodge and believith not our shit."
"All these great truths I am about to show you are nothing but shameless lies" -Introduction, The Book of Bokonnen
I agree that the bible should be read by all (as well as other religous/philosophical texts)and I definately think historical works on the subject should be read by all. I would personally recomend The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hiram Maccoby, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox, and (in a more general sense) The Varieties of Religous Experience by William James (worth it just for the comparison of christian and pagan orgasms... seriously). Remember that while many events in the bible have been verified, many are also patently absurd.
As for the morality of country folk; We're talking about people whose idea of christian morality is beating queers to death, dragging black folks to death behind their pickups, and burning crosses in the yards of anyone whose religous beliefs don't march lockstep with theirs. Screw country folk, they don't read the bible they just listen to hate mongering TV preachers. Thus the community standards that are strengthened by the close-knittedness of said community are themselves unenlightened and therefore they are making sure their children are just as ignorant and intollerant as they are.
Your definition of moral matches my definition of enlightened. Religion is not required to live ethically.
Heh, slipped my mind. I really should have asked what does it offer that Be doesn't offer me (me not being a developer).
You can do something with Be's OpenTracker and OpenDeskbar. Which brings me to a question: could AtheOS implement the open Tracker and Deskbar? If the liscense on them is loose enough could it make AtheOS a viable opensource Be clone? And (going to a higher flight of fancy), if portability can be implemented, could it be a backdoor to Be on modern PPC hardware?
It has been scientifically proven that those who refuse to believe in the little bang theory are assholes. I could show you the math, but you would have to chop three fingers off first (you'll understand once you see it). I'm also fairly sure Satan was being strait with me on this one... he knows I'll burn his house down, urinate in his gastank, and paint his dog blue if he shits me. And I have acted to save the souls of my fellow men, I've got about 50 so far... I keep 'em in a bigassed jar buried under an exact replica of the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (it's O.K. unless ya lick it) in my backyard.
And what kind of braindead meat bag doesn't know that the earth revolves around the hottub at the Choo-Choo hotel in Chattanooga Tennessee? I can prove that too, although it involves ingestion of a sub-leathal amount of belladonna.
"depends on how you count. If your criterium is 'what place is a holy place for most religions' then you have a point. "
Yeah he's got a point, too bad it's on the top of his head.
"I'll swallow your soul!" -Unidentified Kandarian Demon
How can anyone with a shred of dignity consider doing a job that a machine can do better? Dignity of labour is a crock, let the machines replace them, increase taxes on automated industries, use the increased tax revenue to retrain the unemployed, repeat as necesary. Then perhaps students can earn their tuition without having to be wage slaves. Hell, it could be a huge boon to the erotic dancing industry... until they get replaced with pleasure droids.
Your malthusean fear of population explosion is just as unfounded now as it was when first formulated. In addition, the countries that have the infrastructure and know-how to implement massive automation have, for the most part, zero or negative population growth.
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That's a rather simplistic definition of gnosis. Like defining hubris (deific presumption? it's a hard one to translate) as pride, or logos (thought made into reality) as word; they are a bit more complicated than that. Remember we are talking about a people that had four different words for love each with it's own implications. Gnosis is usually defined, at least in this context, as 'personal knowledge of god' implying an experience in which one feels himself to be part of the godhead. Gnostics believed that, through various means, one could experience godhood oneself and that true knowledge of god could only come through this personal experience. Agnostic then would translate as 'lacking personal knowledge of god', and of course claiming otherwise would be an act of monumental hubris (I might not know how to define it, but I know how to use it;^)). So you are both right, gnosis has to do with higher powers and knowledge.
That said, my gnosis weighs a ton!... and AtheOS (I'd translate it as No God)looks allright but what does it offer that Be doesn't?
"Isn't also blatantly ironic to want to protect a system that is based on exactly the opposite of freedom of speech, Nazism, with free speech. You reap what you sow should be the catch phrase here."
Yes it should, you reap Naziism if you sow limitations on free speach.
"They were always excellent at flattening other countries (Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Irak, etc) but were they ever flattened themselves. And by flattened I mean literally flattened."
Yes. Find a picture of Atlanta or Savanah in 1865. As for why we haven't been invaded in the past century, aleutians aside, it's called a navy. Unless Canada or Mexico (speaking of french imperialism) decide to invade us, you gotta get through our navy. You french should appreciate this since the Brits kicked Boney's ass due mainly to their navy.
Speaking of Boney, what about Napoleonic items? A buddy of mine has a Klingenthal sabre from 1809 with the imperial crest on the hilt. Some frog cuirasser could well have slaughtered innocent spaniards, germans, russians, austrians, greeks, arabs, brits, itallians, etc., etc. with it. Where did my buddy procure this sword? Why france of course, you don't seem to care much when it's your own power mad dictator slaughtering people, but reminders of your collaborationist past are just to much for your tender sensibilities I suppose.
Such high moral ground from a country that still hires mercenaries so it's own citizens don't have to pay for it's boneheaded foriegn policy.... or help us flatten Iraq. Speaking of the Legion, it was a virtual retirement camp for ex-Waffen SS troopers after WWII, whats a little memorabilia when you get real Statschuffel troops?
I don't demand higher quality. On the rare occasions I play modern games (Quake3, Starfleet Command) I just don't get into them the way I can still get into a game of Jumpman. Graphics-wise, the "quality" of modern games blows Jman away. As for fun, give me Jumpman and a few disposable joysticks any damn day of the week.
The ends (a continuing stream of revenue from intellectual property) do not justify the means (abrogation of the 1st,4th, and 5th amendments).
What an absurd cliche anyway. Can you really think of no situations where the ends did justify the means? Most of the citezens of the US of A certainly believe that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (means) were justified by the ending of the Pacific War (ends). I believe the counter-cliche is "You gotta break some eggs to make an omellete".
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The whole point is that he is not being prosecuted as he would be for libel. If the local paper libels me and I lay a lawsuit on them, the police are most definately not going to confiscate their presses and drag the editors to jail. The kind (what kind?... the wrong kind) people of Utah have intimidated this boy into fleeing the state... they are not (necesarilly) sluts and drunks, they are intolerant thugs and small minded authoritarian theocrats.
"Never underestimate the power of a V12 engine!"
If The Matrix counts, then check out most any of Yuen Woo Peng's kung-fu movies. Wing Chun, Drunken Master, or Iron Monkey are great to start with.
Other anime that I would strongly reccomend: Ninja Scroll (The sequal, Ninja Reserection, is OK but too short), Doomed Megalopolis, Grey, Area 88, Project A-Ko, and Wings of Honneamise.
"My interest lies in the fact that many people in addition to the artists - like engineers and producers - make their living off of royalties."
Am I wrong or is using government legislation to insure employment for people displaced by technology far more socialistic than denying anonymity, which isn't necesarilly communist at all.
Absolutely correct about the probable origin of the myth, but since the Cyclopes were mentioned in the Illiad (circa 900bc) the chances of their being Hannibal Barca's (crossed the Alps in 218bc) elephants is not likely.
Anyone know of any international maritime treaties covering this?
Can we stretch this offtopic thread any further?
Will the NetAdmin ever call me with the mailserver password so I can do some work instead of wasting my time on /.?
Plural subject requires plural predicate... and I would have pluralised 'dog' too, but that's a style issue.
Now it's my turn to receive a pedantic pummeling...Flame on, I'm gone.
"Don't do it Bart, don't do it!"
"Oh I gots to, I gots to."
Assuming you are talking about OSS; If tax dollars are involved how would a propriatary liscense be better? or are you saying it should be public domain? If tax money is involved, all the taxpayers should get equal access.
Seriously, this makes no sense. It seems to be an excuse for a diatribe against the current administration. Judge Jackson, a registered Republican and Reagan apointee, is a leftist!?... yea, and I'm a Chinese jet pilot. Hell, calling Clinton and Gore leftists is a stretch... but I guess when you contrast them with the far right screwheads they could be seen as such.
As for more great artists in the comics field; Gilbert Hernandez, Terry Moore, Dave Sim, Donna Barr, Shirow Masamune, Kurt Buseik, and Frank Miller come to mind immediately (their being alive and relevant should help you).
As for UF, I often find it humorous and having seen the progression in the quality of artwork by guys like Dave Sim or G.B.Trudeau since they started I don't mind the art much either.
"What's a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?"
The meaning of this passage is that you are a foolish meatbag and that Qube will trample your soul with boots spiked with #2 pencils.
It's obviously true since the 1st book of the Lodge in Birdman 7:11 it clearly states,"This is the shit and woe unto the pedestrian who walketh the street of the lodge and believith not our shit."
"All these great truths I am about to show you are nothing but shameless lies" -Introduction, The Book of Bokonnen
As for the morality of country folk; We're talking about people whose idea of christian morality is beating queers to death, dragging black folks to death behind their pickups, and burning crosses in the yards of anyone whose religous beliefs don't march lockstep with theirs. Screw country folk, they don't read the bible they just listen to hate mongering TV preachers. Thus the community standards that are strengthened by the close-knittedness of said community are themselves unenlightened and therefore they are making sure their children are just as ignorant and intollerant as they are.
Your definition of moral matches my definition of enlightened. Religion is not required to live ethically.
You can do something with Be's OpenTracker and OpenDeskbar. Which brings me to a question: could AtheOS implement the open Tracker and Deskbar? If the liscense on them is loose enough could it make AtheOS a viable opensource Be clone? And (going to a higher flight of fancy), if portability can be implemented, could it be a backdoor to Be on modern PPC hardware?
And what kind of braindead meat bag doesn't know that the earth revolves around the hottub at the Choo-Choo hotel in Chattanooga Tennessee? I can prove that too, although it involves ingestion of a sub-leathal amount of belladonna.
"depends on how you count. If your criterium is 'what place is a holy place for most religions' then you have a point. "
Yeah he's got a point, too bad it's on the top of his head.
"I'll swallow your soul!" -Unidentified Kandarian Demon
Your malthusean fear of population explosion is just as unfounded now as it was when first formulated. In addition, the countries that have the infrastructure and know-how to implement massive automation have, for the most part, zero or negative population growth.
That said, my gnosis weighs a ton!... and AtheOS (I'd translate it as No God)looks allright but what does it offer that Be doesn't?
Yes it should, you reap Naziism if you sow limitations on free speach.
"They were always excellent at flattening other countries (Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Irak, etc) but were they ever flattened themselves. And by flattened I mean literally flattened."
Yes. Find a picture of Atlanta or Savanah in 1865. As for why we haven't been invaded in the past century, aleutians aside, it's called a navy. Unless Canada or Mexico (speaking of french imperialism) decide to invade us, you gotta get through our navy. You french should appreciate this since the Brits kicked Boney's ass due mainly to their navy.
Speaking of Boney, what about Napoleonic items? A buddy of mine has a Klingenthal sabre from 1809 with the imperial crest on the hilt. Some frog cuirasser could well have slaughtered innocent spaniards, germans, russians, austrians, greeks, arabs, brits, itallians, etc., etc. with it. Where did my buddy procure this sword? Why france of course, you don't seem to care much when it's your own power mad dictator slaughtering people, but reminders of your collaborationist past are just to much for your tender sensibilities I suppose.
Such high moral ground from a country that still hires mercenaries so it's own citizens don't have to pay for it's boneheaded foriegn policy.... or help us flatten Iraq. Speaking of the Legion, it was a virtual retirement camp for ex-Waffen SS troopers after WWII, whats a little memorabilia when you get real Statschuffel troops?
What an absurd cliche anyway. Can you really think of no situations where the ends did justify the means? Most of the citezens of the US of A certainly believe that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (means) were justified by the ending of the Pacific War (ends). I believe the counter-cliche is "You gotta break some eggs to make an omellete".