So... you bring up your kids responsibly, others seem not to. Why are you worrying about other people's kids?
Didn't you listen to Hillary Clinton? Remember "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child?" That's the kind of attitude you're fighting against. There are people who believe that if parents don't do a good enough job raising their children, then it is society's job to raise them instead.
Countless examples. I like the "CD lens cleaner discs",
since when did the discs -touch- the lens???
I have one of these. Essentially what it is is a blank cd with a tiny little brush connected to one part of CD. As the CD spins, the light brush does contact the lens.
Call me a cynical conspiracy theorist, but you're assuming that we'd be TOLD that said "software-stars" are simply composites. I can't imagine it would be terribly hard for a studio to release a movie using composite characters without any mention that the stars are not real people. Any rumors that fly could easily be denied, squashed, or dismissed as urban legends by "authorities".
All of that would be impossible given the way Holleywood operates today. No major stars are seen only on the big screen.
It is pathetic that a movie studio can simply run a commercial with glowing praise from no-name critics, or known ones that they have purchased, and claim it to be "the year's most XXXXX movie", and the clueless hordes will rush out and see it.
I don't think anyone believes the "acclaims" in movie advertisements anymore. When even the crappiest of the crap gets "audiences love it," and "rave reviews," they become meaningless. No one trusts movie advertisements since ALL movies get excessive praise in the ads.
According to them, GL's directing style is to look like he's thinking really really hard, then shout "We need to do it again. I need more energy, people! Energy!"
Considering how lifeless the acting was in episodes 1 and 2, even that's a surprise.
a) the Bell's TOS typically sucks. Especially compared to ISP's like Speakeasy and Megapath. E.g., they do not allow you to run servers.
Eh? I have Pacbell DSL and they allow me to run servers. I specifically chose not to get AT&T/Excite's Cable service because they don't allow servers. Quick easy install, it's rarely down, it always runs at 1.5Mbps/128kps, at a reasonable price. Tech support truly sucks, but I don't expect good tech support from anyone anymore.
Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.
Fair enough, but that saying has a much different meaning from the original.
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I don't think i could say "I dunno, I just don't use it" because it sounds extremely lame and makes me look like an idiot.
Why? If I'm not interested in the service anymore, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with a "I no longer use it" reply. I canceled my cabel TV service over a year ago because I found over a month's period that the only programs I was watching were on the broadcast channels. If I no longer use it, why should I have to pay for it?
Sorry, but even when the console was new and in all the stores, the games were still super-expensive, often $200, which was just insane for a single game.
This is why the East Coast kicks all the ass in the world, really.
Yeah, those blizzards and hurricanes must be great fun.
How on earth do all you Californians deal with it?
How? Because they almost never happen. The last major one in the Bay Area was in 1989. Before that? Probably the one by Eureka in 1922. The last to do a major amount of damage? 1906. Every one since the 1989 quake has been just a tiny little rumbling.
Trivial. Folks who don't live here sometimes seem under the impression that we're constantly shutting down due to earthquakes. Fact is, in northern California, you're probably only going to be in a major quake once in your life.
On the other hand, I was a little nervous when I worked on the second floor of a building in San Francisco that was made of 50-year old unreinforced brick.
Fun fact: California gets a bad earthquake rap, but 10 of the 15 largest earthquakes recorded in the US (including the top 8) were in Alaska. The greatest recorded earthquake in the contiguous United States was located in Missouri, not a place that usually comes to mind when one thinks "earthquake."
Another "How the hell did that get damaged?" story:
I worked at a company where we had to ship desktops out to various parts of the country. The desktop was just fine when it was placed in the box, it had been ghosted, everything worked well. The receiver complained that nothing happened when the computer was turned on, so they shipped it back. True enough, when I plugged it in, it didn't turn on. It looked ok on the outside, no dents in the case, then I opened it up.. and the drive bay was just a mass of twisted metal, still screwed into the case. The motion had knocked out the memory SIMMS which were lying on the bottom of the case. I still don't know what happened to that thing, though I suspect someone opened the case and started hammering around inside. Why though, is a complete mystery.
Do you have any links for this? I've been trying to find firmware upgrades for the horribly buggy AD-600A (something that can fix the frequent playback freezes), but Apex doesn't offer any upgrades at all for that model, at least not through their web site.
Fewer children == lower population. A lower population is definitely a "good thing," and simply encouraging people to have fewer children is the best moral way of accomplishing this.
Anyway, my point was about the guy beign slaped as flaimebait for calling the guy that wanted to erradicate poverty by taking their fertility away an "ANIMAL".
It's his opinion. It's not a flame.
Crude personal attacks should always be considered "flamebait." But I wouldn't moderate down, since I prefer moderating good posts up instead...
Just that i don't find sterilizing the way to solve poverty. They will always be poor that way. So it's hypocrat. If you don't care, then do nothing. But don't suggest sterilizing their women.
Hey I'm not suggesting flying in there and steralizing people against their will. But a reward for people who ask to for vascectomies (I'm not so sure about tubal ligations -- those are generally pretty dangerous) is something I could go for -- yes, even in America.
Yet you can't figure out how to get an account on/.???
Can't? Or doesn't want to? What does he have to gain by making an account? Impressing some guys on Slashdot? Yeah, that'd be really high up on my priority list too.
But i'd mod this up. Why can a guy say "eliminate them by peacefully driving them to extinction"
Extinction? Perhaps you haven't been paying much but there are way too many people in many parts of the world, and they are in absolutely no danger of dying out, even under the original poster's proposed idea.
Microsoft has lots of $$$, but the MPAA/RIAA still has much more political influence, especially with the Democratic Party, which will bend over whenever the MPAA/RIAA asks it to.
Enough money to crush the DMCA's backers and eject the politicians responsible for it.
Microsoft would never do such a thing. They love the DMCA. Expect them to use it a lot more in the future.
Thundercats [vpga.com] was the best cartoon of the time.
But we were talking best Disney Afternoon cartoon. Thundercats was a Rankin/Bass creation using a lot of Japanese artists (had a very anime look and feel), as was the successor, Silverhawks (heheh, who remembers that?). If you want to open it up to mid-80's cartoons in general, you'd have to include more quality works like Robotech as well.
* It doesn't build without Sun JDK. We're looking into porting to gcj, but it's quite a way to go. Since gcj in any gcc prior to 3.1 is rather sucky, this was not even possible for a 7.x release.
Ah yes, Java. "Write once, run anywhere(1)." *snicker*
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Didn't you listen to Hillary Clinton? Remember "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child?" That's the kind of attitude you're fighting against. There are people who believe that if parents don't do a good enough job raising their children, then it is society's job to raise them instead.
I have one of these. Essentially what it is is a blank cd with a tiny little brush connected to one part of CD. As the CD spins, the light brush does contact the lens.
Aww, Ralph Nader would be proud of you.
All of that would be impossible given the way Holleywood operates today. No major stars are seen only on the big screen.
I don't think anyone believes the "acclaims" in movie advertisements anymore. When even the crappiest of the crap gets "audiences love it," and "rave reviews," they become meaningless. No one trusts movie advertisements since ALL movies get excessive praise in the ads.
Considering how lifeless the acting was in episodes 1 and 2, even that's a surprise.
Eh? I have Pacbell DSL and they allow me to run servers. I specifically chose not to get AT&T/Excite's Cable service because they don't allow servers. Quick easy install, it's rarely down, it always runs at 1.5Mbps/128kps, at a reasonable price. Tech support truly sucks, but I don't expect good tech support from anyone anymore.
Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.
Fair enough, but that saying has a much different meaning from the original.
Why? If I'm not interested in the service anymore, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with a "I no longer use it" reply. I canceled my cabel TV service over a year ago because I found over a month's period that the only programs I was watching were on the broadcast channels. If I no longer use it, why should I have to pay for it?
CNN has it under the US section. It's not a large enough story to make it to the front page.
Yeah, those blizzards and hurricanes must be great fun.
How on earth do all you Californians deal with it?
How? Because they almost never happen. The last major one in the Bay Area was in 1989. Before that? Probably the one by Eureka in 1922. The last to do a major amount of damage? 1906. Every one since the 1989 quake has been just a tiny little rumbling.
Trivial. Folks who don't live here sometimes seem under the impression that we're constantly shutting down due to earthquakes. Fact is, in northern California, you're probably only going to be in a major quake once in your life.
On the other hand, I was a little nervous when I worked on the second floor of a building in San Francisco that was made of 50-year old unreinforced brick.
Fun fact: California gets a bad earthquake rap, but 10 of the 15 largest earthquakes recorded in the US (including the top 8) were in Alaska. The greatest recorded earthquake in the contiguous United States was located in Missouri, not a place that usually comes to mind when one thinks "earthquake."
Maybe your friend is just hard of.. feeling. Yeah...
I worked at a company where we had to ship desktops out to various parts of the country. The desktop was just fine when it was placed in the box, it had been ghosted, everything worked well. The receiver complained that nothing happened when the computer was turned on, so they shipped it back. True enough, when I plugged it in, it didn't turn on. It looked ok on the outside, no dents in the case, then I opened it up.. and the drive bay was just a mass of twisted metal, still screwed into the case. The motion had knocked out the memory SIMMS which were lying on the bottom of the case. I still don't know what happened to that thing, though I suspect someone opened the case and started hammering around inside. Why though, is a complete mystery.
Fewer children == lower population. A lower population is definitely a "good thing," and simply encouraging people to have fewer children is the best moral way of accomplishing this.
Anyway, my point was about the guy beign slaped as flaimebait for calling the guy that wanted to erradicate poverty by taking their fertility away an "ANIMAL".
It's his opinion. It's not a flame.
Crude personal attacks should always be considered "flamebait." But I wouldn't moderate down, since I prefer moderating good posts up instead...
Hey I'm not suggesting flying in there and steralizing people against their will. But a reward for people who ask to for vascectomies (I'm not so sure about tubal ligations -- those are generally pretty dangerous) is something I could go for -- yes, even in America.
Fewer children is always a good thing.
Can't? Or doesn't want to? What does he have to gain by making an account? Impressing some guys on Slashdot? Yeah, that'd be really high up on my priority list too.
Extinction? Perhaps you haven't been paying much but there are way too many people in many parts of the world, and they are in absolutely no danger of dying out, even under the original poster's proposed idea.
Microsoft has lots of $$$, but the MPAA/RIAA still has much more political influence, especially with the Democratic Party, which will bend over whenever the MPAA/RIAA asks it to.
Enough money to crush the DMCA's backers and eject the politicians responsible for it.
Microsoft would never do such a thing. They love the DMCA. Expect them to use it a lot more in the future.
But we were talking best Disney Afternoon cartoon. Thundercats was a Rankin/Bass creation using a lot of Japanese artists (had a very anime look and feel), as was the successor, Silverhawks (heheh, who remembers that?). If you want to open it up to mid-80's cartoons in general, you'd have to include more quality works like Robotech as well.
Mmmmm....Cheetara...
Rrrowl.
Ah yes, Java. "Write once, run anywhere(1)." *snicker*
(1) With (non-trivial) restrictions.