Do you really want your tax dollars going toward research for Soccer (Football everywhere else in the world) and video game sounds?
Yes.
Oh wait. We are bashing Republicans here. Down with those ignorant Christian rednecks!
We're (or, I guess, I'm) not bashing Republicans. We're bashing people who are using (and fueling) the rampant anti-intellectual, anti-science movement for the purposes of justifying the corporatism and self-interested corruption and cronyism which are rotting our government like a malignancy. Buying into the false dichotomy of Dem vs. Rep is in support of this status quo.
Well, okay. I confess I'm against ignorance, and I think extremist Christians running (among other things) the USAF is a Bad Thing. Nothing wrong with Christians generally though, they seem to be generally kind, well-intentioned folks.
I'm religious but I figure it's God's job to enforce his rules, not mine.
If he disapproves of cloning or babies from same-sex couples, then He'll strike them down. If not then I guess He approves. (shrug) Not my laws; not my job to enforce them on others.
I commend this attitude. I grew up in a deeply-devout christian sect. Eventually I came to the conclusion that it just doesn't matter what the answer to The Question of God really is. If you live the best you can, hurt others as infrequently as possible (and maybe help a little!), no "supreme being" is going to fuck you over for not bowing or clapping at the right time. It just isn't a relevant issue.
If you want the ritual and then choose to proclaim that the ritual means something to you, then by all means, have at it. If you want to enter into a contract with someone, you should do so. The mixing of the two is what makes marriage such a mess.
Or, to paraphrase a great leader:
Kang: Civil unions for all.
[crowd boos]
Very well, no civil unions for anyone.
[crowd boos]
Hmm... Civil unions for some, miniature American flags for
others.
[crowd cheers and waves miniature flags]
Personally, I think "civil unions for all" is the most rational path. Marriage is between two people and their beliefs and values. A government body has no business "licensing" marriage.
If homosexuality could somehow increase the chances of survival of the species, then it would surely become a dominant gene.
Ready to have your mind blown? Homosexuality does increase the chances of survival of the species! Yeah, I said it. Have you ever looked at the gender makeup of a human/social services university or masters program? 75-80% female, and maybe between a third to half of the men are gay. That's up to 10x the rate of (male) homosexuality in the general population! Interesting that so many more gay men are interested in working to support others, isn't it?
To put it another way, it is an advantage to the cycle of reproduction that not every adult is a parent. Additional caregivers have value to the species. Gays have been having sex and getting pregnant since before we were sapiens. It's a good thing we have their genetic diversity. In fact, it's not hard to argue that the western "nuclear family" is more detrimental to the species than the queers ever could be. We developed as communities (tribes, villages, etc) with shared parenting responsibilities. A smaller group of caregivers results in less care and supervision of the offspring.
I guess using these arguments you could try to make a case that gays reproducing with each other reduces their value to the species, but in this culture, if you don't have a family you're forever alone. I guess we'll find out soon, either way.
And by "soon" I mean in another few hundred thousand years at the earliest. We'll all be in the cloud by then anyway though, so who cares.
if you tweet that you want to destroy an airport you will probably get a visit from someone interested in prosecuting you no matter how serious you were.
If I chose to state "I intend to set off a bomb in Benton, OK tomorrow", am I committing some kind of crime in the US? I mean, someone always wants to prosecute you for something, but is this a legitimate infraction of law?
"Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.
(you play the race card, but Obama's own pastor is a well-documented racist)
I am unable to find compelling evidence that Wright's so-called racism is anything but GOP gorilla dust. Can anyone direct me to some context to the accusations?
It's one thing to be deluded that Obama is The One, but to think Joe Biden displays intelligence is to disregard virtually everything he says and the fact that he doesn't even realize what or why the things he says might be regarded as pathological.
That whole "Obama is a God" meme is not only an absurd fabrication, but it's a tired old strawman, too. Using that rhetoric makes you sound ignorant, which is not conducive to serious debate.
Even assuming Biden is not intelligent, which I would dispute, he is not President, so we're talking apples and oranges here. If you want to look at pathology, it's hard to support the argument that Palin is in better mental health than Biden. I'm happy to hear you try, though! This time using facts and citations, please.
Yeah... a hell of a lot of Europeans thought the same thing back in 00/01 about Bush jnr. That he was so damn stupid/daft/incompetent that there's no way he would pull enough votes.
"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
"'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'" --a Tweet sent by Sarah Palin in response to being ridiculed for inventing the word "refudiate," proudly mistaking her illiteracy for literary genius, July 18, 2010 (NOTE: after attending 5 different colleges, she eventually graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism - "before her selection to run on the GOP ticket, she explained that her curiosity and love of writing made journalism a natural choice.")
"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010
"[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008
''Dr. Laura: don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend. rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence'' isn't American, not fair'')'' —Sarah Palin, in a Twitter message coming to the defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk radio host who apologized and decided to retire from her highly-rated program after using the N-word on the air 11 times in 5 minutes, Aug. 18, 2010
I could continue, but I just don't have time to list all the examples of her poor intellectual qualifications.
let's not be naive enough to think that without politicians pulling the strings we'd magically unite and destroy our corporate masters.
There's nothing magical about coming to terms with adversaries in order to deal with a common threat. I think gun control is a very good idea that would help bring our country's crime and murder rate down dramatically. I would happily set that aside to deal with massive corruption and a broken system of mediation. The common ground is an interest in freedom of thought and action, and the current system is bad for those things. It isn't naive, it's American.
Son of a bitch, don't give them any bloody ideas man!
Give them ideas? Man, they already had the idea, pressed the disks, promoted like mad, and your brother and your best friend already want them for Christmas.
It was probably them who put the idea in the GP in the first place. With radios. And magnets.
I think I am entitled to have an opposing opinion, just as you are entitled to have yours. Don't be rude to people you don't know, even if you aren't face-to-face with them.
An opinion is one thing, but you're just copy-pasting a block of text anywhere you can. That sounds more like astroturf propaganda to me.
Despite all the ad hominem up in here, I feel compelled to respond.
It's very colorful comparing a DoS to burning a house down. If you actually examine the actions required and the result, it seems pretty clear to me that a DDoS is far closer to a mass sit-in than it is to arson. People gather in a location (site) and interrupt business at that site by their presence. When they leave, the building (or the site) is still intact. No one is killed or beaten, no property has been damaged (the servers, warehouses, offices, etc).
In addition, I hear you asserting that dissatisfaction with copyright law is based solely on a childish impulse to infringe on copyright holders by distributing pop music at no cost. Do you sincerely believe this? I don't. The death of the public domain, ownership of language, income in perpetuity for a single act - these are just a couple of injustices now codified in law around the world. You may not agree with the actions of the protesters, but it seems intellectually lazy to claim that "free stuff" is the only reason anyone cares.
This is a new technology, a game-changer. Suddenly we can use charcoal to write on cave walls. It's everywhere, and essentially free with every cooked meal, but the verbal historians are telling us that it is illegal. Suddenly, for the first time in human history, a technology has made perfect duplication a reality. We can't just dive back under the covers and pretend it didn't happen, but people with immense wealth and power are working flat out to get us to do just that.
I don't believe this is a civil rights issue per se, but I think it is absolutely reasonable to compare the current actions to that movement.
I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?
i agree with this ther is no rasin to use gramar it just limits the cretivtiy of thoes of us who no the diffrence the point is taht u understand me not if its easy to read or whatever only the gramer natzis care anyway sincerely alamedastone
Imagine if they had searched him. "I got stopped and searched over my shoe inserts. Those fucking morons couldn't tell the difference between a pico projector device and a bomb. Fuck you TSA!"
Not only that, imagine if they had been grizzly bears!
But they weren't. They were thugs creating a hazardous situation (the line) in the name of security rules which they failed to follow. Imagine that.
Slashdot Mirror
when playing it, I was never frustrated, or angry, but thoroughly enjoying the experience
You must be a masochist. I love Minecraft, but I've done my share of shrieking profanities at my monitor.
"Dear diary, I finally found a diamond deposit! OMG, it's a six-block vein! I just have to get out over that lava field... what was that noise?"
Do you really want your tax dollars going toward research for Soccer (Football everywhere else in the world) and video game sounds?
Yes.
Oh wait. We are bashing Republicans here. Down with those ignorant Christian rednecks!
We're (or, I guess, I'm) not bashing Republicans. We're bashing people who are using (and fueling) the rampant anti-intellectual, anti-science movement for the purposes of justifying the corporatism and self-interested corruption and cronyism which are rotting our government like a malignancy. Buying into the false dichotomy of Dem vs. Rep is in support of this status quo.
Well, okay. I confess I'm against ignorance, and I think extremist Christians running (among other things) the USAF is a Bad Thing. Nothing wrong with Christians generally though, they seem to be generally kind, well-intentioned folks.
I'm religious but I figure it's God's job to enforce his rules, not mine.
If he disapproves of cloning or babies from same-sex couples, then He'll strike them down. If not then I guess He approves. (shrug) Not my laws; not my job to enforce them on others.
I commend this attitude. I grew up in a deeply-devout christian sect. Eventually I came to the conclusion that it just doesn't matter what the answer to The Question of God really is. If you live the best you can, hurt others as infrequently as possible (and maybe help a little!), no "supreme being" is going to fuck you over for not bowing or clapping at the right time. It just isn't a relevant issue.
If you want the ritual and then choose to proclaim that the ritual means something to you, then by all means, have at it. If you want to enter into a contract with someone, you should do so. The mixing of the two is what makes marriage such a mess.
Or, to paraphrase a great leader:
Kang: Civil unions for all.
[crowd boos]
Very well, no civil unions for anyone.
[crowd boos]
Hmm... Civil unions for some, miniature American flags for
others.
[crowd cheers and waves miniature flags]
Personally, I think "civil unions for all" is the most rational path. Marriage is between two people and their beliefs and values. A government body has no business "licensing" marriage.
If homosexuality could somehow increase the chances of survival of the species, then it would surely become a dominant gene.
Ready to have your mind blown? Homosexuality does increase the chances of survival of the species! Yeah, I said it. Have you ever looked at the gender makeup of a human/social services university or masters program? 75-80% female, and maybe between a third to half of the men are gay. That's up to 10x the rate of (male) homosexuality in the general population! Interesting that so many more gay men are interested in working to support others, isn't it?
To put it another way, it is an advantage to the cycle of reproduction that not every adult is a parent. Additional caregivers have value to the species. Gays have been having sex and getting pregnant since before we were sapiens. It's a good thing we have their genetic diversity. In fact, it's not hard to argue that the western "nuclear family" is more detrimental to the species than the queers ever could be. We developed as communities (tribes, villages, etc) with shared parenting responsibilities. A smaller group of caregivers results in less care and supervision of the offspring.
I guess using these arguments you could try to make a case that gays reproducing with each other reduces their value to the species, but in this culture, if you don't have a family you're forever alone. I guess we'll find out soon, either way.
And by "soon" I mean in another few hundred thousand years at the earliest. We'll all be in the cloud by then anyway though, so who cares.
i wonder what the printers in battlestar galactica would look like..
They look like us.
Is it made of very small rocks?
No, apparently churches.
if you tweet that you want to destroy an airport you will probably get a visit from someone interested in prosecuting you no matter how serious you were.
If I chose to state "I intend to set off a bomb in Benton, OK tomorrow", am I committing some kind of crime in the US? I mean, someone always wants to prosecute you for something, but is this a legitimate infraction of law?
God damn, I hope not.
"Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."
"And you wrote the software."
"Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.
(you play the race card, but Obama's own pastor is a well-documented racist)
I am unable to find compelling evidence that Wright's so-called racism is anything but GOP gorilla dust. Can anyone direct me to some context to the accusations?
It's one thing to be deluded that Obama is The One, but to think Joe Biden displays intelligence is to disregard virtually everything he says and the fact that he doesn't even realize what or why the things he says might be regarded as pathological.
That whole "Obama is a God" meme is not only an absurd fabrication, but it's a tired old strawman, too. Using that rhetoric makes you sound ignorant, which is not conducive to serious debate.
Even assuming Biden is not intelligent, which I would dispute, he is not President, so we're talking apples and oranges here. If you want to look at pathology, it's hard to support the argument that Palin is in better mental health than Biden. I'm happy to hear you try, though! This time using facts and citations, please.
Careful... you might offend the greys. Been probed lately?
No, but I'm going out tonight. Fingers crossed!
Yeah... a hell of a lot of Europeans thought the same thing back in 00/01 about Bush jnr. That he was so damn stupid/daft/incompetent that there's no way he would pull enough votes.
And he didn't.
Ok scared guy, demonstrate it.
"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
"'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'" --a Tweet sent by Sarah Palin in response to being ridiculed for inventing the word "refudiate," proudly mistaking her illiteracy for literary genius, July 18, 2010 (NOTE: after attending 5 different colleges, she eventually graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism - "before her selection to run on the GOP ticket, she explained that her curiosity and love of writing made journalism a natural choice.")
"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010
"[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008
''Dr. Laura: don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend. rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence'' isn't American, not fair'')'' —Sarah Palin, in a Twitter message coming to the defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk radio host who apologized and decided to retire from her highly-rated program after using the N-word on the air 11 times in 5 minutes, Aug. 18, 2010
I could continue, but I just don't have time to list all the examples of her poor intellectual qualifications.
let's not be naive enough to think that without politicians pulling the strings we'd magically unite and destroy our corporate masters.
There's nothing magical about coming to terms with adversaries in order to deal with a common threat. I think gun control is a very good idea that would help bring our country's crime and murder rate down dramatically. I would happily set that aside to deal with massive corruption and a broken system of mediation. The common ground is an interest in freedom of thought and action, and the current system is bad for those things. It isn't naive, it's American.
Son of a bitch, don't give them any bloody ideas man!
Give them ideas? Man, they already had the idea, pressed the disks, promoted like mad, and your brother and your best friend already want them for Christmas.
It was probably them who put the idea in the GP in the first place. With radios. And magnets.
*crinkle of tinfoil*
I think I am entitled to have an opposing opinion, just as you are entitled to have yours. Don't be rude to people you don't know, even if you aren't face-to-face with them.
An opinion is one thing, but you're just copy-pasting a block of text anywhere you can. That sounds more like astroturf propaganda to me.
Despite all the ad hominem up in here, I feel compelled to respond.
It's very colorful comparing a DoS to burning a house down. If you actually examine the actions required and the result, it seems pretty clear to me that a DDoS is far closer to a mass sit-in than it is to arson. People gather in a location (site) and interrupt business at that site by their presence. When they leave, the building (or the site) is still intact. No one is killed or beaten, no property has been damaged (the servers, warehouses, offices, etc).
In addition, I hear you asserting that dissatisfaction with copyright law is based solely on a childish impulse to infringe on copyright holders by distributing pop music at no cost. Do you sincerely believe this? I don't. The death of the public domain, ownership of language, income in perpetuity for a single act - these are just a couple of injustices now codified in law around the world. You may not agree with the actions of the protesters, but it seems intellectually lazy to claim that "free stuff" is the only reason anyone cares.
This is a new technology, a game-changer. Suddenly we can use charcoal to write on cave walls. It's everywhere, and essentially free with every cooked meal, but the verbal historians are telling us that it is illegal. Suddenly, for the first time in human history, a technology has made perfect duplication a reality. We can't just dive back under the covers and pretend it didn't happen, but people with immense wealth and power are working flat out to get us to do just that.
I don't believe this is a civil rights issue per se, but I think it is absolutely reasonable to compare the current actions to that movement.
"anon are newfags compared to you."
I dunno, that rather high UID says otherwise.
You should talk.
EMI is on the edge of defaulting on its CitiGroup loan and being foreclosed upon.
Any speculation on what kind of bonuses the execs will receive?
Who knows, but my guess is it would be roughly equivalent to the current retirement benefits of the rest of the company.
It cost the RIAA $16 for every dollar they collected with the lawsuits
Some attorneys I've talked to about it the say quite the opposite, that given the way their scheme worked, the probably turned a profit.
The attorneys' schemes always turn a profit, but we're talking about the RIAA!
*snicker*
Lawyer jokes are never offtopic.
Compromise, how about: it'sn't ?
I much prefer 'tisn't.
Most spoken languages are not detailed tho, there is lots of ambiguity. If you want it to be short and informative, you should use Math.
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I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?
i agree with this ther is no rasin to use gramar it just limits the cretivtiy of thoes of us who no the diffrence the point is taht u understand me not if its easy to read or whatever only the gramer natzis care anyway sincerely alamedastone
Imagine if they had searched him. "I got stopped and searched over my shoe inserts. Those fucking morons couldn't tell the difference between a pico projector device and a bomb. Fuck you TSA!"
Not only that, imagine if they had been grizzly bears!
But they weren't. They were thugs creating a hazardous situation (the line) in the name of security rules which they failed to follow. Imagine that.