Ya gotta love Slashdot moderation. This is flamebait? Dubya wasn't a good president, but if you want to use the word evil to describe him then what words do you have left for Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot etc? He was misguided and we can all Monday morning quarterback because we have that luxury. I didn't vote for him, I didn't support the majority of his decisions but I find people who call him evil incredibly simple minded.
Go ahead and mod me flamebait or troll. It appears that is the necessary reaction to calling hyperbole what it is.
Two points. First, he isn't making a new allegation. Second, does the friggin' Telecom Immunity Bill ring a bell? Hellooooooo, McFly. They didn't decide to protect these people on a hypothetical.
Perhaps you're right and most likely there is something there. But you do realise that you can substitute almost any government bill in there and any industry and have a scary conspiracy theory.
Myself, I would prefer to have a bit more evidence before I break my pitchfork out.
I thought fingerprinting was reserved for people in jail?
In the UK not only are fingerprints taken, but DNA samples as well. It's all kept on one ginormous database.
Mind you, this isn't just for people in jail. It's for people that have been suspected of a crime or investigated whether they have been convicted, charged or even arrested for the crime. It isn't just serious crimes either; While I don't think they'll get your DNA for jaywalking, I read about a 10-year-old boy caught throwing eggs who is now in that database.
All I'm saying is having this info on your passport is pretty far down the list of what people, in the UK at least, should be up in arms about.
all you folks need to remeber that profanity is NOT covered in the first amendment, it protects political free speech, not calling each other names or the like.
It's scary how misguided you are. Here's the First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Kindly point out where it states that only political speech is covered. Profanity is most definitely covered by the First Amendment. You are thinking of obscenity which is a different animal and one that has had a shifting definition. Saying you're a fucking nitwit is entirely within my rights.
You have to decide what your time is worth and what you want to do with your life. I spent six years as a nuke on a submarine. Out at sea for most of a year; often standing watch port and starboard then doing maintenance, training, field days etc. on "off-duty" time.
I decided it wasn't worth it and I wanted a bit more out of life so I got out.
Yeah:-) it's 3 hours away from my home, Brussels (thanks to the Eurostar) and London is one of my favorite cities:-). I have already visited twice this winter:-)
Sure, if you value your freedom and liberties, come to London! Only CCTV cameras everywhere (currently estimated to be 14 per person in the UK), police with stop and search powers, metal detectors at tube stations if you fit the 'profile' and freedom of expression if you don't actually offend anyone (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1). But no fingerprinting at the border!
I'm an American and I live in London. I think the States have gone overboard but there is a funny European tendency to somehow not see what is going on in their own living room.
Oh well. I'm just waiting till Jacqui Smith requires me to have my national ID card.
This is such an oft-repeated and never thought about statement that it just pisses me off. I have worked for a pharmaceutical company and if you think they're trying to string people along with treatments rather than cure a disease you're a bloody fool.
Of course given your proclivity to create a conspiracy theory based on anything whether it exists or not makes me doubt anything would change your mind.
We already use the immune system to fight many cancers. Bladder cancer is often treated by filling the bladder via a catheter with a solution containing a strain of bovine tuberculosis originally developed as a tuberculosis vaccine.
It works by stimulating the immune system to fight the invader and it works quite well in killing off the cancerous tumours.
But it's frustrating to no end to drive past the subsidized housing on the way to work and see nicer cars than me. People crossing the street on iPhones and wearing brand new clothes. People that bitch they have no money but have plenty of money for 2 packs a day. Some people need to be taught the difference between Want and Need.
Frustrating? I think you are far too concerned with other people. Seriously, you sound like somebody who is doing well for himself so focus on your own life and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing, buying and how they live their lives.
"Codswallop"
You can be honest here... every time you use a word like that, girls tend to get *even further* away, right?
No seriously, if you used that word in public, random strangers would just punch you in the face for being such a douche bag.
As an American living in London I have an affinity for antiquated and bizarre English phrases. Besides 'codswallop' is a hell of a lot more fun to say than bullshit. Try it.
I know quite a few people with Macs that have no idea who Jobs is and don't care. It's anecdotal, sure, but I know more people with Macs than PCs. I still think there are a load of people who just want a computer for email, internet browsing, iTunes and an occasional video. Macs do appeal to those consumers quite well even if they're overkill for their needs.
As for your Harley analogy, how many bikers know, or care about, the Harley CEO?
I'm not saying losing Jobs wouldn't hurt Apple, just not for these 'cult of personality' reasons.
We know who Steve Jobs is because we're nerdy, we follow things like Apple's keynote address and read/. Do you honestly think the average consumer out there, you know, the ones who are buying up iPods, iPhones and switching to Macs are doing so out of adoration for Steve Jobs? They might be doing it on the merits, for fashion to follow the trends or whatever other reason but I seriously doubt it's due to a crush on a guy in a black turtleneck. Most people couldn't pick him out of a lineup.
I beg to differ. Do you happen to remember the last time Oprah was sued? There was a show about Mad Cow disease and she made the off-handed comment that it 'stopped her from eating hamburgers'.
Beef sales plummeted the next day and she was sued by the meat industry for defamation. I don't understand the attraction and slavish devotion she engenders in her followers, but she has a hell of a lot of pull.
Germany was picked to contrast her with Merkel but I'm certain her minions would kick Putin's ass on her say-so as well.
When will Americans stop confusing their country with the whole planet?
Not for nothing, but what other woman on the planet can rival Oprah? Who do you have in whatever country your anonymously cowarding from? I'm an American living in the UK with a European wife but I haven't seen anything quite like Oprah on this continent. Even Angela Merkel has limited power. God help Germany if Oprah ever told her legions of followers to invade.
The navy pulled mine out even though I had no problems. If you go on submarines it's automatic. I suppose it beats getting an abscess while out on patrol with only a corpsman equipped with motrin.
Okay, okay. Besides railways, television, the electric motor, the flushing toilet, steam engines, computers, seed drills, tanks, custards, cat flaps, jet engines, world wide web and penicillin; what have the British ever done for us?
Well, yes, of course. It's impossible to make an album of 12 songs that universally appeals to everyone, unless it's a Greatest Hits album.
You've hit upon why the RIAA's business model is flawed. The recording industry has moved away from making music that appeals to a specific audience to trying to make albums that sell to everyone. The lowest common denominator has given us Britney Spears, Pussycat Dolls and endless boy bands and tripe. If major labels focused on creating music that certain people like and others don't, they won't sell a bazillion copies but they'll create fans and have a solid consumer base. One of my favourite labels is Hellcat Records; they make music that 99.5% of the population wouldn't like, but I do. I buy a great deal of their albums.
And of those albums, many of them are chock full of tracks that I like.
Stop being a killjoy. I for one welcome new analogies as it can be difficult to constantly use the Apollo program and cars. Analogies are like bread knives; they can take a whole loaf of information and slice it into easily digestible pieces.
This requires that good people, and good lawyers, fight much *harder against these azzholes. Please remember that the French RIAA (forgot its acronym) recently sued motherfscking *sourceforge!
Any plan that requires the participation of good lawyers needs a really good plan B.
You kind of went off on a tangent there. Actually, the entire post was a tangent. As far as anyone in the USA accessing anything on the internet: What is the government censoring? Please be specific here as I'm no longer in the USA and am curious what I can get here in Europe that you can't. I know of many blacklisted sites/subjects but that has more to do with internet providers than the government deciding that a certain word is verboten to search for.
Please enlighten me as to what specifically you in America can not access or search for because of government censorship.
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Ya gotta love Slashdot moderation. This is flamebait? Dubya wasn't a good president, but if you want to use the word evil to describe him then what words do you have left for Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot etc? He was misguided and we can all Monday morning quarterback because we have that luxury. I didn't vote for him, I didn't support the majority of his decisions but I find people who call him evil incredibly simple minded.
Go ahead and mod me flamebait or troll. It appears that is the necessary reaction to calling hyperbole what it is.
Perhaps you're right and most likely there is something there. But you do realise that you can substitute almost any government bill in there and any industry and have a scary conspiracy theory.
Myself, I would prefer to have a bit more evidence before I break my pitchfork out.
In the UK not only are fingerprints taken, but DNA samples as well. It's all kept on one ginormous database.
Mind you, this isn't just for people in jail. It's for people that have been suspected of a crime or investigated whether they have been convicted, charged or even arrested for the crime. It isn't just serious crimes either; While I don't think they'll get your DNA for jaywalking, I read about a 10-year-old boy caught throwing eggs who is now in that database.
All I'm saying is having this info on your passport is pretty far down the list of what people, in the UK at least, should be up in arms about.
It's scary how misguided you are. Here's the First Amendment.
Kindly point out where it states that only political speech is covered. Profanity is most definitely covered by the First Amendment. You are thinking of obscenity which is a different animal and one that has had a shifting definition. Saying you're a fucking nitwit is entirely within my rights.
You have to decide what your time is worth and what you want to do with your life. I spent six years as a nuke on a submarine. Out at sea for most of a year; often standing watch port and starboard then doing maintenance, training, field days etc. on "off-duty" time.
I decided it wasn't worth it and I wanted a bit more out of life so I got out.
Sure, if you value your freedom and liberties, come to London! Only CCTV cameras everywhere (currently estimated to be 14 per person in the UK), police with stop and search powers, metal detectors at tube stations if you fit the 'profile' and freedom of expression if you don't actually offend anyone (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1). But no fingerprinting at the border!
I'm an American and I live in London. I think the States have gone overboard but there is a funny European tendency to somehow not see what is going on in their own living room.
Oh well. I'm just waiting till Jacqui Smith requires me to have my national ID card.
This is such an oft-repeated and never thought about statement that it just pisses me off. I have worked for a pharmaceutical company and if you think they're trying to string people along with treatments rather than cure a disease you're a bloody fool.
Of course given your proclivity to create a conspiracy theory based on anything whether it exists or not makes me doubt anything would change your mind.
Bugger, forgot the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_Calmette-Gu%C3%A9rin I'm familiar with it in that I've had to use a lot of studies with a product called Immucyst that is essentially just this strain.
We already use the immune system to fight many cancers. Bladder cancer is often treated by filling the bladder via a catheter with a solution containing a strain of bovine tuberculosis originally developed as a tuberculosis vaccine.
It works by stimulating the immune system to fight the invader and it works quite well in killing off the cancerous tumours.
Frustrating? I think you are far too concerned with other people. Seriously, you sound like somebody who is doing well for himself so focus on your own life and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing, buying and how they live their lives.
As an American living in London I have an affinity for antiquated and bizarre English phrases. Besides 'codswallop' is a hell of a lot more fun to say than bullshit. Try it.
I know quite a few people with Macs that have no idea who Jobs is and don't care. It's anecdotal, sure, but I know more people with Macs than PCs. I still think there are a load of people who just want a computer for email, internet browsing, iTunes and an occasional video. Macs do appeal to those consumers quite well even if they're overkill for their needs.
As for your Harley analogy, how many bikers know, or care about, the Harley CEO?
I'm not saying losing Jobs wouldn't hurt Apple, just not for these 'cult of personality' reasons.
I figure one of these days I'll just get the data from a disc left on a train seat next to me. Won't have to pay anything for it.
Codswallop.
/. Do you honestly think the average consumer out there, you know, the ones who are buying up iPods, iPhones and switching to Macs are doing so out of adoration for Steve Jobs? They might be doing it on the merits, for fashion to follow the trends or whatever other reason but I seriously doubt it's due to a crush on a guy in a black turtleneck. Most people couldn't pick him out of a lineup.
We know who Steve Jobs is because we're nerdy, we follow things like Apple's keynote address and read
I beg to differ. Do you happen to remember the last time Oprah was sued? There was a show about Mad Cow disease and she made the off-handed comment that it 'stopped her from eating hamburgers'.
Beef sales plummeted the next day and she was sued by the meat industry for defamation. I don't understand the attraction and slavish devotion she engenders in her followers, but she has a hell of a lot of pull.
Germany was picked to contrast her with Merkel but I'm certain her minions would kick Putin's ass on her say-so as well.
Not for nothing, but what other woman on the planet can rival Oprah? Who do you have in whatever country your anonymously cowarding from? I'm an American living in the UK with a European wife but I haven't seen anything quite like Oprah on this continent. Even Angela Merkel has limited power. God help Germany if Oprah ever told her legions of followers to invade.
The navy pulled mine out even though I had no problems. If you go on submarines it's automatic. I suppose it beats getting an abscess while out on patrol with only a corpsman equipped with motrin.
What are music videos today if they aren't promotional tools to sell albums?
Please, God, let no one say 'art'.
Okay, okay. Besides railways, television, the electric motor, the flushing toilet, steam engines, computers, seed drills, tanks, custards, cat flaps, jet engines, world wide web and penicillin; what have the British ever done for us?
How could you leave off Monty Python?
You've hit upon why the RIAA's business model is flawed. The recording industry has moved away from making music that appeals to a specific audience to trying to make albums that sell to everyone. The lowest common denominator has given us Britney Spears, Pussycat Dolls and endless boy bands and tripe. If major labels focused on creating music that certain people like and others don't, they won't sell a bazillion copies but they'll create fans and have a solid consumer base. One of my favourite labels is Hellcat Records; they make music that 99.5% of the population wouldn't like, but I do. I buy a great deal of their albums.
And of those albums, many of them are chock full of tracks that I like.
Stop being a killjoy. I for one welcome new analogies as it can be difficult to constantly use the Apollo program and cars. Analogies are like bread knives; they can take a whole loaf of information and slice it into easily digestible pieces.
Any plan that requires the participation of good lawyers needs a really good plan B.
You kind of went off on a tangent there. Actually, the entire post was a tangent. As far as anyone in the USA accessing anything on the internet: What is the government censoring? Please be specific here as I'm no longer in the USA and am curious what I can get here in Europe that you can't. I know of many blacklisted sites/subjects but that has more to do with internet providers than the government deciding that a certain word is verboten to search for.
Please enlighten me as to what specifically you in America can not access or search for because of government censorship.
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