However, don't forget that intervention *is* the purpose of government. It is the official mechanism for imposing the will of the people, whatever that will happens to be.
That is a really scary sentence and one that I don't think you've thought through. The purpose of the government is to enforce the laws not to impose the 'will of the people' willy nilly. That shifts like the wind and is often counter to what needs to be done, should be done and is right to do. There is such a thing as tyranny of the masses.
Sure, some corporate practices suck. But putting the government in charge of disseminating speech is not something I want to see in any society. The answer isn't putting government in charge but rather in allowing more people to provide more services. That's a free market.
Do you really want politicians in charge of what people say over the internet? Give me a capitalist: or more realistically, a dozen companies forced to provide the service that the customer want.
No, a parody is only a parody if you know what it is parodying. Something can still be funny; it can still stand as a good song or an amusing piss-take but if you don't know what it is parodying how can you say it is a good parody?
I'm not disagreeing that his songs can stand alone and be funny. But if you don't know Michael Jackson made a song called 'Beat It', how can you say that 'Eat It' is a good parody?
Not to get too far off topic here and I'm not supporting the banking bailout, but as an expat American who lives in the UK I've experienced both healthcare systems. I prefer the American one because shit gets done.
And so this isn't completely a personal analogy, I work for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies here and the whole system is broken. Hence the neverending stories of postcode lotteries and politicians arguing over who will 'fix' the NHS. The American system isn't perfect but it's leaps and bounds ahead of this system.
I think this form of distribution benefits Weird Al far more most other artists. While many nerds here believe he has created music for the ages, his songs work best when they're topical. Amish Paradise is funniest when it is held in comparison to Gangsta's Paradise. Same goes for Eat It and all of his parodies. To appreciate a parody you need to know the original.
This way of distributing his songs allows him to seize on any momentary pop culture phenomenon and have the general public, those who don't read/. or go to math camp, buy them.
They do look at portfolios but some agencies might specialise in making car adverts while another does financial institutions. Because I can make a wonderful sports car advert, draping a semi-naked woman over a bank counter might not be effective. That might be a bad example because it actually could work, but you get the idea.
It can be annoying, but I hardly think it's that big of a deal. I don't work in IT, I work as a creative in advertising, but I've had to take 'tests' when applying for a job. I'm given a sample brief and asked to come up with a campaign concept.
I'm given those tests because agencies work differently with different accoutns and some people are just not good fits from one to another. I would imagine the potential exists for an IT professional with a glowing CV to still be a poor choice in a particular company. At least they're not testing your social skills as well.
Freedom of speech does apply to everyone, good job. However, that's not the issue here. Every hear the Holmes quote about falsely shouting fire? How about fighting words? I suggest a First Amendment refresher to go with your obsessing over Maths.
Okay, Denver proved the police state and you're going to lose sleep over a McCain Supreme Court? Mod me troll, offtopic or flamebait, but this is asinine. I'm so tired of Anonymous Cowards here making non-sequiturs and people talking about a Main Stream Media entity. You, Anonymous Coward, are an idiot. If you think that Fox News, the NY Times, the WSJ and MSNBC are all playing to a single idea formed in an 'echo chamber' I'm amazed you have the brain capacity to find your damned keyboard.
I suspect you have to be gullible and paranoid with a dash of guilty conscience thrown in to fall for this scam.
Hey you... yeah you. The fat guy with cheetoh stained fingers and an external drive loaded with furry porn. Mod me up or I'll take all your action figures out of their original packaging.
Why not vote against it?
Why not punish the people who draft bills that are too broad in scope or have insane riders on them and let them know that if they want laws passed they should learn to be concise? Or how about actually standing up for their constituents?
What the hell is wrong with the government working for the people it's supposed to represent for a freaking change?
It was a device that deviated from what what the TSA workers considered normal.
I'm not completely in disagreement with you, but this means that the TSA needs to be kept up to date with all bleeding edge devices worldwide. MP3 players from Japan can look quite different than the bog standard iPod. I've seen mobiles in Europe that I never saw back in the States. If they are only looking for things that they saw on their last trip to Best Buy, that's going to be a problem.
This seems like the same old, same old to me. So what makes this clever is that they are hiding the spam and phishing in topical ways? I'm sorry, but I don't see this as being more effective or likely to gain them any more suckers. Spam is spam, it doesn't matter if they dress it up in a 'current' way it won't fool anybody that wasn't fooled before.
"According to this email, I can buy Viagra and support the Obama campaign!"
I call BS. Apples don't "just work" any more than XP machines do. Wireless networking is hell if you want WPA encryption.
Well I call shenanigans on you. I have a Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro and I use a wireless network with WPA encryption at home and at work. It really does just work. What the hell is so difficult about it for you?
And damned if you don't. I was just reading about a new study that found people who slept more than 6 or 7 hours a night were likely to die younger. I believe it was a BBC story, but I'm having trouble digging it up on google. Here are a couple of older studies though.
I have trouble sleeping more than 7 hours. During the week I get 6 hours a night on average. I spent several years in the navy getting 4 or less but I functioned well and survived.
Go to sleep when you're tired. Get up when you wake up. That's probably the amount your body needs.
Space based weapons? Not aiming for flamebait here. If we had a weapon system deployed in that sucker (which I'm pretty sure is rather possible, a big treaty no-no most likely) wouldn't it be a nice way to make sure no evidence fell to earth by toasting the "bus sized" satellite? I wouldn't imagine there are too many ways to get busted over putting weapons into space. Having one fall to earth, however, might be a very simple way to get caught. Crazy conspiracy theory? Maybe, just a thought.
It was a spy satellite. This would most likely contain data that you wouldn't want falling into other people's hands. Particularly those you spy on. It doesn't seem to me that this would require weapons to want it shot down. I think the straightforward answer here makes the most sense.
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That is a really scary sentence and one that I don't think you've thought through. The purpose of the government is to enforce the laws not to impose the 'will of the people' willy nilly. That shifts like the wind and is often counter to what needs to be done, should be done and is right to do. There is such a thing as tyranny of the masses.
Sure, some corporate practices suck. But putting the government in charge of disseminating speech is not something I want to see in any society. The answer isn't putting government in charge but rather in allowing more people to provide more services. That's a free market.
Do you really want politicians in charge of what people say over the internet? Give me a capitalist: or more realistically, a dozen companies forced to provide the service that the customer want.
If we can put a black man with a funny name in the White House then surely we can put a man on the moon again!
No, a parody is only a parody if you know what it is parodying. Something can still be funny; it can still stand as a good song or an amusing piss-take but if you don't know what it is parodying how can you say it is a good parody?
I'm not disagreeing that his songs can stand alone and be funny. But if you don't know Michael Jackson made a song called 'Beat It', how can you say that 'Eat It' is a good parody?
Not to get too far off topic here and I'm not supporting the banking bailout, but as an expat American who lives in the UK I've experienced both healthcare systems. I prefer the American one because shit gets done.
And so this isn't completely a personal analogy, I work for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies here and the whole system is broken. Hence the neverending stories of postcode lotteries and politicians arguing over who will 'fix' the NHS. The American system isn't perfect but it's leaps and bounds ahead of this system.
You can appreciate the song, you can rock out to it and groove even. But you can't appreciate the parody without knowing what it is parodying.
I think this form of distribution benefits Weird Al far more most other artists. While many nerds here believe he has created music for the ages, his songs work best when they're topical. Amish Paradise is funniest when it is held in comparison to Gangsta's Paradise. Same goes for Eat It and all of his parodies. To appreciate a parody you need to know the original.
This way of distributing his songs allows him to seize on any momentary pop culture phenomenon and have the general public, those who don't read /. or go to math camp, buy them.
They do look at portfolios but some agencies might specialise in making car adverts while another does financial institutions. Because I can make a wonderful sports car advert, draping a semi-naked woman over a bank counter might not be effective. That might be a bad example because it actually could work, but you get the idea.
It can be annoying, but I hardly think it's that big of a deal. I don't work in IT, I work as a creative in advertising, but I've had to take 'tests' when applying for a job. I'm given a sample brief and asked to come up with a campaign concept.
I'm given those tests because agencies work differently with different accoutns and some people are just not good fits from one to another. I would imagine the potential exists for an IT professional with a glowing CV to still be a poor choice in a particular company. At least they're not testing your social skills as well.
Freedom of speech does apply to everyone, good job. However, that's not the issue here. Every hear the Holmes quote about falsely shouting fire? How about fighting words? I suggest a First Amendment refresher to go with your obsessing over Maths.
Hell is other mathematicians.
Okay, Denver proved the police state and you're going to lose sleep over a McCain Supreme Court? Mod me troll, offtopic or flamebait, but this is asinine. I'm so tired of Anonymous Cowards here making non-sequiturs and people talking about a Main Stream Media entity. You, Anonymous Coward, are an idiot. If you think that Fox News, the NY Times, the WSJ and MSNBC are all playing to a single idea formed in an 'echo chamber' I'm amazed you have the brain capacity to find your damned keyboard.
Steve Jobs is alive and Slashdot isn't even covering it. This place blows.
I suspect you have to be gullible and paranoid with a dash of guilty conscience thrown in to fall for this scam.
Hey you... yeah you. The fat guy with cheetoh stained fingers and an external drive loaded with furry porn. Mod me up or I'll take all your action figures out of their original packaging.
Or until Jeremy Clarkson uses one to ride over a delicate ecosystem.
You must be new here.
It was more advanced than tinypox.
Look on the bright side. Now we won't have a bunch of freeloading hippies clogging up the tubes.
Dice, shmice. More cowbell is all that's needed to solve the equation.
I'm not completely in disagreement with you, but this means that the TSA needs to be kept up to date with all bleeding edge devices worldwide. MP3 players from Japan can look quite different than the bog standard iPod. I've seen mobiles in Europe that I never saw back in the States. If they are only looking for things that they saw on their last trip to Best Buy, that's going to be a problem.
This seems like the same old, same old to me. So what makes this clever is that they are hiding the spam and phishing in topical ways? I'm sorry, but I don't see this as being more effective or likely to gain them any more suckers. Spam is spam, it doesn't matter if they dress it up in a 'current' way it won't fool anybody that wasn't fooled before.
"According to this email, I can buy Viagra and support the Obama campaign!"
Well I call shenanigans on you. I have a Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro and I use a wireless network with WPA encryption at home and at work. It really does just work. What the hell is so difficult about it for you?
And damned if you don't. I was just reading about a new study that found people who slept more than 6 or 7 hours a night were likely to die younger. I believe it was a BBC story, but I'm having trouble digging it up on google. Here are a couple of older studies though.
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2002/C/20025782.html
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/02_08_Kripke.html
I have trouble sleeping more than 7 hours. During the week I get 6 hours a night on average. I spent several years in the navy getting 4 or less but I functioned well and survived.
Go to sleep when you're tired. Get up when you wake up. That's probably the amount your body needs.
It was a spy satellite. This would most likely contain data that you wouldn't want falling into other people's hands. Particularly those you spy on. It doesn't seem to me that this would require weapons to want it shot down. I think the straightforward answer here makes the most sense.