In fact another revealing finding from the Counterpoint survey was that while 95% of US men and 70% of women masturbate, this number is only 68% of men and 20% of women at MIT!
Come on MIT women, let's get on the ball (or something else) here.
You need to make the case for Congress based on a legitimate legal argument and evidence, and it will be most helpful if you can also make the case in a dozen words or less, based on something that the average Joe on the subnormal half of the bell curve can recognize as something he himself would get arrested or fired for doing.
Agreed. I have never, EVER heard anyone brag about how many facebook friends they had. Maybe this is something more common in junior high and high school, but in college, it's used as social interaction, not as a status symbol. At least in my experience.
People keep saying this, but it's a completely different era. Back in those days, VHS porn was really the ONLY way to get porn movies. In an age where you can log on and find anything you want in a matter of minutes, porn hardly drives industry formats anymore.
You don't make it clear which book you're talking about when you say "The Last Book" (Shadow or Children?) Of course, it's kind of moot, because they're both pretty fantastic.
Except that, as a previous poster pointed out, you do own something. You own a copy of the music. There is no license involved, except the one given to the distributer. There are laws against what you can do with your copy, but there is no licensing issue, regardless of what the RIAA says.
You exceeded the speed limit on your way to work today. I guarantee it. Did you get a ticket? No, because law enforcement is arbitrary and subject to the whims of the enforcers.
So? The fact that I wasn't ticketed doesn't change the fact that the people who were ticketed were breaking the law. Take it up with the law, not the cops. There are only so many cops. I'm sure the government would love to have the income that would come from ticketing every speeder, it's just not logistically feasible. 99% of people I know have neither GPS cell phones or EasyPasses, so that's somewhat moot.
It's possible. Transmitted through the mother for gay men or the father through lesbians. I'm no geneticist, but I know enough to know that you can't definitively rule out genes having some influence on homosexuality.
What's the difference? To me, "no problem" is a little more casual, but holds essentially the same meaning as "You're welcome." I might be more inclined to say the latter to someone older, but I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to be offended by the former.
...I think we can agree that the WORST controller is the n64 monstrosity. No hate for the console, but I can't fathom why they decided it was a good idea to create a controller where the analog stick was a ridged piece of hard plastic, and to design the controls around the fact that you can only hit 3/4ths of the buttons from either of the proper ways to hold it. I swear, it's the only controller that has given me blisters.
(BTW, my vote for best controller goes to the Dual Shock. Basically just an SNES controller with analog sticks and rumble.)
A few states have passed laws as such, but I think they've all been struck down by the courts. The fundamentalists keep on trying, though, wasting taxpayer money all the while.
Legal? Yes. Legitimate? That could be argued. But as has been said, this probably came from Google customers who were angry that essay-writing ads were showing up on their sites. Google decided they would rather have the revenue from the site owners rather than the shady essay-writing companies. I say, good for them. Even if it was (probably) purely financially motivated, I still support it.
"Fantastic" does not apply solely to games with swords and dragons -- GTA is fantastical in many ways. Furthermore, GTA sold well mainly because it is a fun game. There have been other games that have tried to copy the same style of storytelling and "realism" in the GTA games, but without the fun, and most of these games haven't come close to copying GTAs success.
However, I think you a very flawed in saying that realism wins out over fantasy in America. Final Fantasy is still one of the top selling game series. Madden is up there too, however. Shows like CSI and Grey's Anatomy, though hardly 'realistic', are probably not considered fantasy and are very successful. Shows like Lost and Heroes, however, are very fantastic and also garner fantastic ratings (well, Lost is falling, but that is for other reasons). I think my point is that American culture embraces a mix of both dramatic realism and escapism nearly equally. Some people completely shun realism, some completely shun fantasy, but most are okay with both.
If we were surviving solely on military might, you would maybe have a point. But since we are prospering more because of economic wealth than anything else, you just come off as foolish.
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I guess you could say it's in her jeans?
Probably because you weren't at work, you lazy bum!
Because I don't want to miss a thing!
The one they play when you're living at **** Mountain!
When is Slashdot going to learn that there are readers OTHER than the Americ... ...Oh, nevermind.
Come on MIT women, let's get on the ball (or something else) here.
Hmm... Bush lied, people died?
...as long as you're interested in FPSs, FPSs, and more FPSs (with some racing!)
Agreed. I have never, EVER heard anyone brag about how many facebook friends they had. Maybe this is something more common in junior high and high school, but in college, it's used as social interaction, not as a status symbol. At least in my experience.
People keep saying this, but it's a completely different era. Back in those days, VHS porn was really the ONLY way to get porn movies. In an age where you can log on and find anything you want in a matter of minutes, porn hardly drives industry formats anymore.
The Beatles are the only band whose quality is sacrosanct.
You don't make it clear which book you're talking about when you say "The Last Book" (Shadow or Children?) Of course, it's kind of moot, because they're both pretty fantastic.
Except that, as a previous poster pointed out, you do own something. You own a copy of the music. There is no license involved, except the one given to the distributer. There are laws against what you can do with your copy, but there is no licensing issue, regardless of what the RIAA says.
I'm sure Google could use their face recognition software (which you can use to search google images now, for, I guess, porn).
So? The fact that I wasn't ticketed doesn't change the fact that the people who were ticketed were breaking the law. Take it up with the law, not the cops. There are only so many cops. I'm sure the government would love to have the income that would come from ticketing every speeder, it's just not logistically feasible. 99% of people I know have neither GPS cell phones or EasyPasses, so that's somewhat moot.
It's possible. Transmitted through the mother for gay men or the father through lesbians. I'm no geneticist, but I know enough to know that you can't definitively rule out genes having some influence on homosexuality.
You heard it folks! Let's round those Arabs into internment camps!
What's the difference? To me, "no problem" is a little more casual, but holds essentially the same meaning as "You're welcome." I might be more inclined to say the latter to someone older, but I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to be offended by the former.
...I think we can agree that the WORST controller is the n64 monstrosity. No hate for the console, but I can't fathom why they decided it was a good idea to create a controller where the analog stick was a ridged piece of hard plastic, and to design the controls around the fact that you can only hit 3/4ths of the buttons from either of the proper ways to hold it. I swear, it's the only controller that has given me blisters. (BTW, my vote for best controller goes to the Dual Shock. Basically just an SNES controller with analog sticks and rumble.)
A few states have passed laws as such, but I think they've all been struck down by the courts. The fundamentalists keep on trying, though, wasting taxpayer money all the while.
Legal? Yes. Legitimate? That could be argued. But as has been said, this probably came from Google customers who were angry that essay-writing ads were showing up on their sites. Google decided they would rather have the revenue from the site owners rather than the shady essay-writing companies. I say, good for them. Even if it was (probably) purely financially motivated, I still support it.
Generally, the only way I get through BS essays is to interject things like that into them ^_^;
"Fantastic" does not apply solely to games with swords and dragons -- GTA is fantastical in many ways. Furthermore, GTA sold well mainly because it is a fun game. There have been other games that have tried to copy the same style of storytelling and "realism" in the GTA games, but without the fun, and most of these games haven't come close to copying GTAs success. However, I think you a very flawed in saying that realism wins out over fantasy in America. Final Fantasy is still one of the top selling game series. Madden is up there too, however. Shows like CSI and Grey's Anatomy, though hardly 'realistic', are probably not considered fantasy and are very successful. Shows like Lost and Heroes, however, are very fantastic and also garner fantastic ratings (well, Lost is falling, but that is for other reasons). I think my point is that American culture embraces a mix of both dramatic realism and escapism nearly equally. Some people completely shun realism, some completely shun fantasy, but most are okay with both.
If we were surviving solely on military might, you would maybe have a point. But since we are prospering more because of economic wealth than anything else, you just come off as foolish.