> lack of quality is almost certainly intentional. > Um. Yeah
If it wasn't intentional, why build a bigger (more expensive) version? Because you have different customers. Of course the better one will cost more -- that's intentional.
What's terrifying is that 2 people thought that was insightful and one, interesting. It's a flat-out troll and unless you really do wear a tinfoil hat, you're being stupid.
> A week ago, an unpleasant experience with pirates gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend. > "Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away." > "Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
I know it's a troll, but if you're gonna try to make something up, at least make it believable. I've met some absolute friggin' dorks, and not a single one has ever said anything remotely like that. I'm surprised no one else commented on it.
If someone knows how to put music on the Internet, they sure as hell know how to download it and wouldn't be in the crappy fucking store in the first place!
> Actually, it's seems that it's not that far-fetched
It's an interesting idea, but what happened to the plane, if it didn't crash there. There were 4 missing planes. The people who had loved ones on that plane were interviewed. The plane had to go somewhere, so was it crashed into the ocean or something?
If it was all set-up (and the hijackers are still alive) what about the one that was "commandeered" by the passengers? And the cellphone calls? All set up? It's possible, and I don't trust the U.S. government one bit, but it's not with in the circle of likelyhood.
> Are you serious. . !? It'd be that big elephant shaped thing in the middle of your living room.
Yes I am, and I don't have an elephant in my living room, except the little jade statuette, so WTF are you talking about?
> Clue in, my man!
What do you expect me to search for? "Trade Center Hoax?" Nothing comes up but some really whacked out theories that can be torn to shreds in seconds.
> You're being willfully blind
And you're being wullfully paranoid.
> Nevermind then
I see, you can't be bothered to tell me any evidence to back up extraordinary claims. What's that saying about extraordinary evidence? I see none, ordinary or not, and your refusal to even give a single shred of a starting point is a good indicator you're trolling.
> Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, most people still completely believe that 9-11 was not a deliberate fabrication
Mountains of evidence? I'd like to meet you in person, just so that I can call you a liar to your face. I haven't seen a pebble of evidence, even a boulder, let alone a mountain. Please point me to this missing mountain.
> they believe this based on nothing more than the network news casts they watch.
The news and the fact that almost nothing would be gained by the government for doing it.
> Arab Hijackers (Ha several of them turned out to be still alive)...
That's funny. Did you know that Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin are all still alive, eating shoes to survive in my basement? It's just as real as your living hijackers.
> Yet the US points to Canada like we're the anti-christ for proposing to legalize pot.
No, the U.S. Gov does. Probably a large majority of Americans don't care if it's legalized there. Getting it legalized here is another matter entirely.
> I rather liked the fact that slashdot linked to the google version too.
Except that the 11 suggestions were listed as articles to get extra ad revenue for NYT. To get to those, you need to register. The google link was partially helpful.
Try using your fucking brain. The difference in MPG between compacts & full-sized is negligible compared to the MPG an SUV gets. Is that put plainly enough for your simpleton mind?
> Catholics have a rationale for their opposition to contraception and infanticide
Infanticide? Sure, killing babies is bad. I don't however, see how contraception is bad. If it's bad to put a little rubber thingy on your John Thomas to prevent kids, it is just as wrong to prevent them in another way. From an outside perspective, it just looks like they are being intentionally stupid about anything. But, religions never make any sense to me. Most of their rules have lost their reason and seem arbitrary or counterintuitive.
> People've been animating things since their early days,
Animating what? I don't understand how this fits into the discussion. What is being animated? Most parts of nature are already alive and are therefore pre-animated. Humans haven't been able to "animate," or "give life" to anything except chemical compounds forming DNA or something. What have people been animating "since their early days?" I don't think I get your point.
Not really, I just choose not to think of nature as a creature with a brain. Evidently, you have seen it before, but since I have not, and nature has never spoken to me, I stand by my assertion that it doesn't "think." It may very well have a spirit: that I cannot argue, as arguing spirituality is a big waste of time since there is nothing that can be proven.
I did not bring up religion at all. I mentioned spirituality, but that in not exclusive to religion.
I'd like to know who the mac-loving fanboy piece of shit is who moderated this a troll. I have no problem with Macs, and I said nothing resembling a troll. The Macs ARE a lot more expensive than PCs, and better in many ways, but the expense is not worth it if you're just Surfing the 'net & sending EMail. A Mac would be overkill. Would you buy a $20,000 Sun Server to be a workstation? Probably not.
Woah, boy. I'm usually all for the Evil American Empire (that's only slight sarcasm, BTW), but that's a pretty bad idea. That's one thing we DON'T need to do, as no matter what happens, a large part of the world will blame us for anything. There would have to be compromises and neither side is willing to do that. Then everyone will hate us for "taking the other side." I say we wait until one side is eradicated, then we blame the other side & punish them into oblivion. Both sides are ultimately punushed.
> nature just doesn't think it's a better way to live and so they effectively extinct.
What a horribly ignorant statement. Nature just doesn't think. Period. It is not a creature with feelings, it has no idea of "a better life." It's along the same lines as my.sig.
Even if you DO believe in the spirituality of nature, how arrogant of you to suggest that you know what nature "wants?"
> [In the 3rd-world] medical technology has succeeded in raising the birth rate to what it is now.
You call that a success? I would think that a success, wrt 3rd world, would be FEWER people who are starving, or better conditions in which they can live (really, the latter).
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> lack of quality is almost certainly intentional.
> Um. Yeah
If it wasn't intentional, why build a bigger (more expensive) version? Because you have different customers. Of course the better one will cost more -- that's intentional.
> This is terrifyingly prophetic
What's terrifying is that 2 people thought that was insightful and one, interesting. It's a flat-out troll and unless you really do wear a tinfoil hat, you're being stupid.
> A week ago, an unpleasant experience with pirates gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
> "Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."
> "Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
I know it's a troll, but if you're gonna try to make something up, at least make it believable. I've met some absolute friggin' dorks, and not a single one has ever said anything remotely like that. I'm surprised no one else commented on it.
If someone knows how to put music on the Internet, they sure as hell know how to download it and wouldn't be in the crappy fucking store in the first place!
> Oh grow a brain.
Brilliant comeback. Even for a troll...
> He was an Egyptian Airline pilot.
Yes, one person. Where are the other 18 "innocents?" A single mistake does not a conspiracy make.
> Actually, it's seems that it's not that far-fetched
It's an interesting idea, but what happened to the plane, if it didn't crash there. There were 4 missing planes. The people who had loved ones on that plane were interviewed. The plane had to go somewhere, so was it crashed into the ocean or something?
If it was all set-up (and the hijackers are still alive) what about the one that was "commandeered" by the passengers? And the cellphone calls? All set up? It's possible, and I don't trust the U.S. government one bit, but it's not with in the circle of likelyhood.
> Are you serious. . !? It'd be that big elephant shaped thing in the middle of your living room.
Yes I am, and I don't have an elephant in my living room, except the little jade statuette, so WTF are you talking about?
> Clue in, my man!
What do you expect me to search for? "Trade Center Hoax?" Nothing comes up but some really whacked out theories that can be torn to shreds in seconds.
> You're being willfully blind
And you're being wullfully paranoid.
> Nevermind then
I see, you can't be bothered to tell me any evidence to back up extraordinary claims. What's that saying about extraordinary evidence? I see none, ordinary or not, and your refusal to even give a single shred of a starting point is a good indicator you're trolling.
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> YHBT, I think.
:)
I know, but I don't consider it "feeding" trolls. If no one points out troll lunacy, some might actually believe it.
> I wouldn't put it past Emperor Buh, seeing what various dictators have done in the past
Thankfully, since "Buh" is neither an emperor nor a dictator, there isn't a valid comparison.
> Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, most people still completely believe that 9-11 was not a deliberate fabrication
Mountains of evidence? I'd like to meet you in person, just so that I can call you a liar to your face. I haven't seen a pebble of evidence, even a boulder, let alone a mountain. Please point me to this missing mountain.
> they believe this based on nothing more than the network news casts they watch.
The news and the fact that almost nothing would be gained by the government for doing it.
> Arab Hijackers (Ha several of them turned out to be still alive)...
That's funny. Did you know that Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin are all still alive, eating shoes to survive in my basement? It's just as real as your living hijackers.
Fucking trolls...
> Yet the US points to Canada like we're the anti-christ for proposing to legalize pot.
No, the U.S. Gov does. Probably a large majority of Americans don't care if it's legalized there. Getting it legalized here is another matter entirely.
> I rather liked the fact that slashdot linked to the google version too.
Except that the 11 suggestions were listed as articles to get extra ad revenue for NYT. To get to those, you need to register. The google link was partially helpful.
> You just got modded "Informative" for not getting the joke.
He got the joke, dick, he was just pointing out a misspelling, which was certainly not part of the joke.
> Only poor people are crazy. Rich people are excentric!
So you watch Smallville too, eh? BTW, it's eccentric.
Try using your fucking brain. The difference in MPG between compacts & full-sized is negligible compared to the MPG an SUV gets. Is that put plainly enough for your simpleton mind?
> Catholics have a rationale for their opposition to contraception and infanticide
Infanticide? Sure, killing babies is bad. I don't however, see how contraception is bad. If it's bad to put a little rubber thingy on your John Thomas to prevent kids, it is just as wrong to prevent them in another way. From an outside perspective, it just looks like they are being intentionally stupid about anything. But, religions never make any sense to me. Most of their rules have lost their reason and seem arbitrary or counterintuitive.
> People've been animating things since their early days,
Animating what? I don't understand how this fits into the discussion. What is being animated? Most parts of nature are already alive and are therefore pre-animated. Humans haven't been able to "animate," or "give life" to anything except chemical compounds forming DNA or something. What have people been animating "since their early days?" I don't think I get your point.
> > Nature just doesn't think. Period.
> Arrogant, eh ?
Not really, I just choose not to think of nature as a creature with a brain. Evidently, you have seen it before, but since I have not, and nature has never spoken to me, I stand by my assertion that it doesn't "think." It may very well have a spirit: that I cannot argue, as arguing spirituality is a big waste of time since there is nothing that can be proven.
I did not bring up religion at all. I mentioned spirituality, but that in not exclusive to religion.
I'd like to know who the mac-loving fanboy piece of shit is who moderated this a troll. I have no problem with Macs, and I said nothing resembling a troll. The Macs ARE a lot more expensive than PCs, and better in many ways, but the expense is not worth it if you're just Surfing the 'net & sending EMail. A Mac would be overkill. Would you buy a $20,000 Sun Server to be a workstation? Probably not.
Fag.
> Daddy USA needs to step in and lay down the law
Woah, boy. I'm usually all for the Evil American Empire (that's only slight sarcasm, BTW), but that's a pretty bad idea. That's one thing we DON'T need to do, as no matter what happens, a large part of the world will blame us for anything. There would have to be compromises and neither side is willing to do that. Then everyone will hate us for "taking the other side." I say we wait until one side is eradicated, then we blame the other side & punish them into oblivion. Both sides are ultimately punushed.
> Goodwin's law already covers GWB.
That's interesting. In this case, does saying someone is covered by "Godwin's Law" then mean that you have invoked it?
> Ingen nordlys her
You nordlys her... You brought her!
> Hitler no longer poses a threat.
Well, I guess you didn't know that He is still alive, with the Aryans inside the Earth! Ha!
> Ars (if I remember) provides the ability to edit the post within the first 10 minutes.
I hate to add to an offtopic thread, but, can anyone see drawbacks to allowing editing of posts until someone responds to the post?
> how much of the world should we exploit rather than leaving for biological diversity?
Wait until the icecaps & (ant)artic zones melt, then we can use all that space to grow food! See? I'm ekko-logical.
> nature just doesn't think it's a better way to live and so they effectively extinct.
.sig.
What a horribly ignorant statement. Nature just doesn't think. Period. It is not a creature with feelings, it has no idea of "a better life." It's along the same lines as my
Even if you DO believe in the spirituality of nature, how arrogant of you to suggest that you know what nature "wants?"
> [In the 3rd-world] medical technology has succeeded in raising the birth rate to what it is now.
You call that a success? I would think that a success, wrt 3rd world, would be FEWER people who are starving, or better conditions in which they can live (really, the latter).