Freedom of speech does mean "the right to enter the public arena of ideas and try your damndest to influence policy," however it does not mean that everyone has to listen or even to hear you. In other words, just as you're free to state your ideas, the mass media is just as free to ignore you.
It depends on when the misspelling first occurs. For instance, if the original spelling of a certain word is closer to "color" rather than "colour," when the crown's english starts to spell it colour, are they wrong or right?
The input field is not flash, but the fancy box around it is. It looks like the input field is supposed to sit on top of the flash box, but yeah, that flash bug pretty much ensures the flash app will steal all keystrokes from that area of the screen.
If you use a flash blocker, you can use the input field and complete the form.
Yup. I had a hard drive fail in my home machine (#$!#$ piece of junk Maxtor drives). I went to the local CompUSA to get a new Seagate SATA drive. I needed the drive quickly, and I remembered they had good prices on Seagate SATA drives from the last time I went there to buy one. These days I buy Seagate. They're stable and long-lasting quiet drives. A little pricier, but worth the extra expense. Suprisingly.. no Seagate SATAs. They had tons of Seagate IDE drives (including a juicy new 750GB IDE drive). They had lots of non-Seagate SATA drives, but I'll be damned if I ever buy a crap Maxtor drive again). So I was a little disappointed and went to check out the Best Buy a few buildings down. I knew they usually didn't have the selection that CompUSA had.. but this time they had SATA Seagate drives. Amazing.
I have had far less problems with refurb'd products than with new ones. See, when they're refurbished, they fix what's broken.
It seems more often they just put the original product back in the box and re-shrink wrap it, or at least it's not easy to differentiate those from actually refurbished items.
Along the lines of your SCSI story, one time I wanted a sound card and I wanted it that day, so I drove to Fry's (45 minute trip). I bought a good-quality Soundblaster card (I liked the brand), not even noticed the tag that showed that it had been returned. I opened up the box... and inside was a cheap low-end card. It was even a no-name brand instead of Creative. So... next day I drove back (grrr) and returned it, grabbed a -new- sound card, opened it in the car to make sure I was getting what I paid for, and resolved not to buy those re-shrink-wrapped packages again.
One of the funniest, most well adjusted people I know was molested at six; it doesn't scar you for life, a savage beating from bullies just might though.
Tell that to Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke. It varies from person to person just how molestation might affect them, depending on a number of factors including the personality of the molestee and the type of molestation and the duration it went on for. Some people handle it well and it doesn't affect them much, such as your aquaintance. Some people are permanently damaged and just can't function (like with Hardwicke). And some (such as myself) have gotten quite skilled in building masks that hide any damage done so that we simply seem as normal as possible. You just can't tell how kids are going to handle it.
I suspect that this probably wouldn't have happened in the first place if people in that area had bothered to participate in their local elections before being humiliated on an international scale.
Really? Do you seriously know the people running for the board of education? Around here you only know about those people if they've truly f'ed up, but a new person running for the office.. no one ever hears anything about them until they see a name on a ballot (And I refuse to vote on a race I don't know anything about).
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Not everyone is a "huge Internet nerd" (even those of us who've been around on the 'Net for over a decade) It's not exactly a joke story that has been so steeped in the public consciousness that everyone should be aware of it.
Comparing Gears of War to Cars isn't really fair since Cars is not your typical softcore game. Instead, it's a product tie-in game. It didn't sell because it's a softcore game, it sold because it had a built-in fanbase from a very popular (especially with kids) movie with a lot of marketing muscle behind it. The casual or softcore nature had little to do with its sales; if it were more of a hardcore game with a billion options to customize McQueen or tons of optional/unlockable content it still would have sold well since the quality of the movie and Disney's ties with companies like Walmart guarenteed a certain number of copies would fly off the shelves. Sadly, game quality had little to do with the sales.
As a quick warning, I would be very careful about any article posted on religioustolerance.org. I'm not sure about the site's entire history, but these days it is a Church of Scientology front group and all content there will be filtered through that bias. It states for instance that anti-cult groups are usually criminal organizations and that the Cult Awareness Network filed for bankruptcy because of the lawsuits against it. The site doesn't mention that the hundreds of lawsuits were filed by Scientologists who use the legal system as a method of harassment against any detractor it considers a threat.
In the Church of Satan article it also fudges around with the truth a bit by saying there's a similarity between that church and the Church of Scientology by stating that in both cases there are so many versions of "the truth" that it's impossible to seperate reality from fake history. In Scientology's case though, we know the real history; it simply doesn't agree with L. Ron Hubbard's description of his own history.
Because of that I'd be a bit distrustful of the site's articles, though likely those that deal with neither Scientology nor its critics (such as the Satanism article) will be more accurate.
Around here, people are always chanting about public transportation. "Don't drive to work, why not take the bus?" Why would I rather drive to work? Because otherwise I'd have to sit with the people on the bus. Hell, I'd rather take my chances with 20 people chosen completely at random from the population.. but not the people on the bus. I apparently live along a rather "special" route.
I quit the bus altogether after having to sit two days in a row next to the woman who would be shouting non-stop the whole trip about how state law gave her the right to kill anyone who "messes" with her kids, and how all those jews at the bank stole all her money.. this would continue whether anyone listened or not, regardless of circumstance. Yeah, that was enough of that.
Where I live (East Bay... east of SF), people hold doors open for me all the time, and I then. Usually when they don't it's because they never saw me. It's common enough around where I live.
Actually I would say there are quite a few cult-like aspects to the Catholic Church, and Catholicism is saddled with over a thousand years of baggage from when it ceased to be much about religion and salvation and more like a business or new world order of the time.
Real religions are generally predicated on openness. All members of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc are encouraged to study the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc. In contrast, only a few upper echelon members of the Church of Scientology are aware of what the religion is all about, and the "church" is extremely aggressive in ensuring the secrecy of those secrets. The lower level members of the church are not allowed access to such knowledge (likely because if they heard the stories without years of conditioning first, they'd reject it outright as bad sci-fi nonsense).
Uhhh.. no, there are a lot of dollars on the line for linux. Just because many of the developers don't get paid and most of the software is available free of charge does not mean that there has not been a great deal of commercial investment in Linux/FOSS.
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Do you seriously think Howard Dean would have had a better chance in the last election than Kerry?
If you thought the smear campaign of the Swift Boat folks was bad, Rove would have been giggling in glee at the ammunition he could have thrown at Dean.
He wouldn't have even had to lie, either (though I'm sure the temptation would be hard to resist). Howard Dean is simply far more progressive than a plurality of Americans is willing to accept. They want candidates a little more centrist like (Bill) Clinton. Dean has some support on the west coast and the northeast, but you need a lot more than those Democratic power bases to win a national election. You need the South. You need the Southeast. You need the mid-west. Etc.
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The "men behind the curtain" pick the candidates. Kerry was probably 'selected' from the crop of democratic contenders because
If when you said "Kerry was selected from the crop of democratic contenders" you meant "chosen by the few people who bothered to vote in the primaries," then yeah, that's pretty accurate.
Seriously though, who the fuck doesn't know about water poisoning?
Most people don't.
Not seen the adverts on TV about ecstasy killing through over-water consumption??
No, not really. I'm not sure what channels you've been watching, but on the ones I've seen (Fox, Food network, Sci-Fi, ABC a few times), no such commercials have aired. The ones I've seen are general "drugs are bad, don't do them. Pot will lead to ecstasy use and cocaine, just you wait and see."
Or the news reports where they run down exactly how much water can be fatal, and how to avoid the dangers?
The only reason I remember was I recalled hearing of a college student who died from drinking too much water as a frat stunt. It was one of the stupidest things I'd heard, so it stuck with me. Again though, it's not something that's in the news a lot, and really only made for a "slow news day" story.
Or maybe, just maybe, were you in school for the days your biology teacher went into how water affects the human body, why we need i, what happens if we've too much?
Almost no one over the age of 30 remembers a single thing from their high school biology class.
Both the woman and the station are liable. Since the station was hosting the competition, they had the responsibility of doing due diligence. Especially since the DJ was warned this was a hazardous activity and the woman was not.
An advertiser's job is to convince you to buy his stuff. Lying and tricking can be involved a good amount of the time but often "department store store-wide sale 30% off this Saturday" and "Free 19" LCD monitor with the purchase of so-and-so computer while supplies last" aren't lies.
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Freedom of speech does mean "the right to enter the public arena of ideas and try your damndest to influence policy," however it does not mean that everyone has to listen or even to hear you. In other words, just as you're free to state your ideas, the mass media is just as free to ignore you.
It depends on when the misspelling first occurs. For instance, if the original spelling of a certain word is closer to "color" rather than "colour," when the crown's english starts to spell it colour, are they wrong or right?
If you use a flash blocker, you can use the input field and complete the form.
Yup. I had a hard drive fail in my home machine (#$!#$ piece of junk Maxtor drives). I went to the local CompUSA to get a new Seagate SATA drive. I needed the drive quickly, and I remembered they had good prices on Seagate SATA drives from the last time I went there to buy one. These days I buy Seagate. They're stable and long-lasting quiet drives. A little pricier, but worth the extra expense. Suprisingly.. no Seagate SATAs. They had tons of Seagate IDE drives (including a juicy new 750GB IDE drive). They had lots of non-Seagate SATA drives, but I'll be damned if I ever buy a crap Maxtor drive again). So I was a little disappointed and went to check out the Best Buy a few buildings down. I knew they usually didn't have the selection that CompUSA had.. but this time they had SATA Seagate drives. Amazing.
It seems more often they just put the original product back in the box and re-shrink wrap it, or at least it's not easy to differentiate those from actually refurbished items.
Along the lines of your SCSI story, one time I wanted a sound card and I wanted it that day, so I drove to Fry's (45 minute trip). I bought a good-quality Soundblaster card (I liked the brand), not even noticed the tag that showed that it had been returned. I opened up the box... and inside was a cheap low-end card. It was even a no-name brand instead of Creative. So... next day I drove back (grrr) and returned it, grabbed a -new- sound card, opened it in the car to make sure I was getting what I paid for, and resolved not to buy those re-shrink-wrapped packages again.
Tell that to Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke. It varies from person to person just how molestation might affect them, depending on a number of factors including the personality of the molestee and the type of molestation and the duration it went on for. Some people handle it well and it doesn't affect them much, such as your aquaintance. Some people are permanently damaged and just can't function (like with Hardwicke). And some (such as myself) have gotten quite skilled in building masks that hide any damage done so that we simply seem as normal as possible. You just can't tell how kids are going to handle it.
Really? Do you seriously know the people running for the board of education? Around here you only know about those people if they've truly f'ed up, but a new person running for the office.. no one ever hears anything about them until they see a name on a ballot (And I refuse to vote on a race I don't know anything about).
Comparing Gears of War to Cars isn't really fair since Cars is not your typical softcore game. Instead, it's a product tie-in game. It didn't sell because it's a softcore game, it sold because it had a built-in fanbase from a very popular (especially with kids) movie with a lot of marketing muscle behind it. The casual or softcore nature had little to do with its sales; if it were more of a hardcore game with a billion options to customize McQueen or tons of optional/unlockable content it still would have sold well since the quality of the movie and Disney's ties with companies like Walmart guarenteed a certain number of copies would fly off the shelves. Sadly, game quality had little to do with the sales.
In the Church of Satan article it also fudges around with the truth a bit by saying there's a similarity between that church and the Church of Scientology by stating that in both cases there are so many versions of "the truth" that it's impossible to seperate reality from fake history. In Scientology's case though, we know the real history; it simply doesn't agree with L. Ron Hubbard's description of his own history.
Because of that I'd be a bit distrustful of the site's articles, though likely those that deal with neither Scientology nor its critics (such as the Satanism article) will be more accurate.
As long as world governments continue to give incentives for people to have kids.. eh.. I don't see it happening.
No, about half a state up.
I quit the bus altogether after having to sit two days in a row next to the woman who would be shouting non-stop the whole trip about how state law gave her the right to kill anyone who "messes" with her kids, and how all those jews at the bank stole all her money.. this would continue whether anyone listened or not, regardless of circumstance. Yeah, that was enough of that.
Where I live (East Bay... east of SF), people hold doors open for me all the time, and I then. Usually when they don't it's because they never saw me. It's common enough around where I live.
Actually I would say there are quite a few cult-like aspects to the Catholic Church, and Catholicism is saddled with over a thousand years of baggage from when it ceased to be much about religion and salvation and more like a business or new world order of the time.
Real religions are generally predicated on openness. All members of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc are encouraged to study the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc. In contrast, only a few upper echelon members of the Church of Scientology are aware of what the religion is all about, and the "church" is extremely aggressive in ensuring the secrecy of those secrets. The lower level members of the church are not allowed access to such knowledge (likely because if they heard the stories without years of conditioning first, they'd reject it outright as bad sci-fi nonsense).
Uhhh.. no, there are a lot of dollars on the line for linux. Just because many of the developers don't get paid and most of the software is available free of charge does not mean that there has not been a great deal of commercial investment in Linux/FOSS.
If you thought the smear campaign of the Swift Boat folks was bad, Rove would have been giggling in glee at the ammunition he could have thrown at Dean.
He wouldn't have even had to lie, either (though I'm sure the temptation would be hard to resist). Howard Dean is simply far more progressive than a plurality of Americans is willing to accept. They want candidates a little more centrist like (Bill) Clinton. Dean has some support on the west coast and the northeast, but you need a lot more than those Democratic power bases to win a national election. You need the South. You need the Southeast. You need the mid-west. Etc.
If when you said "Kerry was selected from the crop of democratic contenders" you meant "chosen by the few people who bothered to vote in the primaries," then yeah, that's pretty accurate.
Most people don't.
Not seen the adverts on TV about ecstasy killing through over-water consumption??
No, not really. I'm not sure what channels you've been watching, but on the ones I've seen (Fox, Food network, Sci-Fi, ABC a few times), no such commercials have aired. The ones I've seen are general "drugs are bad, don't do them. Pot will lead to ecstasy use and cocaine, just you wait and see."
Or the news reports where they run down exactly how much water can be fatal, and how to avoid the dangers?
The only reason I remember was I recalled hearing of a college student who died from drinking too much water as a frat stunt. It was one of the stupidest things I'd heard, so it stuck with me. Again though, it's not something that's in the news a lot, and really only made for a "slow news day" story.
Or maybe, just maybe, were you in school for the days your biology teacher went into how water affects the human body, why we need i, what happens if we've too much?
Almost no one over the age of 30 remembers a single thing from their high school biology class.
Both the woman and the station are liable. Since the station was hosting the competition, they had the responsibility of doing due diligence. Especially since the DJ was warned this was a hazardous activity and the woman was not.
Not everyone knows that.
I' not telling you that drinking water is not safe, but I am telling you that drinking too much water is not safe.
Again, seriously, not that many people actually know this. It's not that common knowledge, though it probably should be.
Of course they won't. This is all about putting more restrictions on the existing system rather than offering the user a tradeoff.
The kids shrug it off or think it's funny. It's the parents that go ballistic and start crying.
You're talking about porn. In such a context the above quote brought up... interesting mental images.
You, uhh... have a site for that? (.xxx domain only, please)
An advertiser's job is to convince you to buy his stuff. Lying and tricking can be involved a good amount of the time but often "department store store-wide sale 30% off this Saturday" and "Free 19" LCD monitor with the purchase of so-and-so computer while supplies last" aren't lies.