Only in some back-woods country that hasn't caught up with the future--or in the USA. What's an "inch"?? Is it anything like a furlong? (snicker snicker)
I've got a problem with both. How can you know when you walk out of your house that you will be accused of a crime later in the afternoon? What if I don't have a state-issued driver license or ID? Am I still allowed to walk down the sidewalk (hint: yes)
Do you think that a potential terrorist really cares how easy to use Google is, or that they make the information more readily available? In a world without Google Earth, would he fire up his browser, learn that the information is not readily available, and give up, saying, "Well, I couldn't possibly just go out and buy this stuff from the source, so I think I just won't bomb Parliament!"
there was a survey of theaters that showed that the vast majority had no policy against showing NC-17 rated movies.
Careful there... was it the vast majority of theaters or the vast majority of theater chains? If the 3 largest theater CHAINS, which control most of the theaters out there do have policies against showing NC-17 movies, then the grandparent poster's point would be valid.
If you'd be so kind as to read my parent post you'll understand that it is not a matter of religious pressure but rather normal social morality outside of a religious group that makes showing NC-17 films both unprofitable for a theater and unpopular among the local patrons.
What non-religious "social morality" causes people to not want to send teenagers off to a movie theater showing NC-17 films?
This argument usually comes from people who aren't passionate about anything. It must be exhausting to sit at home every day laughing at and criticizing other people who are out there living life.
If you go into it with lower expectations and take the time to actually read the profiles rather than look at the pictures, you can meet some very nice people.
Consider yourself lucky. If you and your friends were kids today and did this, you'd all be committed to the nearest children's psychiatric hospital and pumped full of enough Ritalin to make you nice docile conforming numb-bots.
We have to be careful between the balance of violence and non-violence influences in society. If we never have any exposure of violence in any form then we become a society of Welfare Pussies who are incapable of responding to anything which might appear violent in nature. If we only have exposure to violence then we end up a society of synics who don't give a shit or one giant anger management class.
You have to be careful when you throw facts like this out there without citing sources. There is no evidence of a causal relationship between exposure to violence in media and actual violent behavior.
Otherwise, you make a good point about our system only showing kids two extreme sides of conflict resolution!
Reminds me of the time when they started inflating CDROM speeds, and you could no longer rely on the number behind the X. "36X CDROM??? Well we have 100X hahahahah!!!!!"
Music Label: We grant ourselves the authority to do anything we want inside or outside your house, to you and your family, with or without notice, including but not limited to: erasing your wedding photos, replacing all your music with Milli Vanilli's Greatest hits, recording you singing in the shower, ruining your kid's christmas, getting you fired from your job, anally raping your poodle with a steel toothbrush, and force-feeding you your own dead grandmother's ashes. You hereby agree to hold Music Label harmless and you expressly waive all rights to damages, compensatory and punitive, arising from Music Label's actions.
Joe Consumer: What is a rootkit? Is it dangero---WHOA NEW ALBUM ADVERTISED AT ME! MUST BUY IT NOW!!! MUST BUY IT NOW!!!
Well I for one never even heard of it until today, and I would bet that the slashdot readers who don't study obscure web technology all day do appreciate being "lectured" as to what AJAX is.
Before anyone starts spouting about how fascist the French government is and how this could never happen in the USA, keep in mind that web sites are routinely taken down in the USA by government AND corporations (as if there is any difference anymore). A site can be taken down entirely because of urging from a [corporation/gov.official], without any judicial oversite whatsoever if they say it threatens [profits/national security]. In addition, who knows how many newsletters, sites, or blogs were never even published due to [corporate/government] intimidation and the threat of [a ruined credit rating/getting on the wrong watch list]?
Ahh, but you were fooled again!! The DAY-VIL encased that spider in amber just to TEST YOUR FAITH! Just like all the dinosaur bones and all those gamma rays that supposedly come from that fictonal outer space! Yup all the DAY-VIL'S work!!! PRAAAYZZZ JEEEEBUS!!! PRAAAYZZZ JEEEEBUS!!! [gurrgle] Blaaarrrgghhhannnnn! [froth] [epileptic fit]
I was skeptical, but now that I've watched the video, my mind is made up: This has got to be the most idiotic idea ever to come out of Nintendo.
Who is going to sit there flailing their arms around or running around their living room just to play a video game? What if there are more than one person in the room? There are reasons (mostly involving falling) that parents don't let their kids play football in the living room.
Visual presentation is the responsibility of the browser. If a site is unusable with huge fonts, this is the fault of the web designer making incorrect assumptions about the user's browser.
One beef I have with your (relatively well thought out) post:
Upwords of 90% of the USA claims to be Christian. Many of our national holidays are Christian-based. Christians control all three branches of our federal government, and most state and local governments. Christian symbolism, including churches, crosses, billboards with Christian messages, etc., appear almost everywhere in the country virtually unopposed.
I don't think it's fair to complain about Christians being the butt of a few jokes. I wish my particular religious group was this persecuted.
You can't compare janitors and telemarketers. Last I checked, janitors were not paid to annoy people at dinnertime, scam the elderly, and defraud mobile phone users.
Telemarketers have no excuse. There is plenty of other low-wage work for when you are at the bottom of your rope, ethical work that doesn't involve the stuff that telemarketers do.
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Only in some back-woods country that hasn't caught up with the future--or in the USA. What's an "inch"?? Is it anything like a furlong? (snicker snicker)
John Doe.
I've got a problem with both. How can you know when you walk out of your house that you will be accused of a crime later in the afternoon? What if I don't have a state-issued driver license or ID? Am I still allowed to walk down the sidewalk (hint: yes)
The chamber of commerce is a business organization, not an arm of the government.
You mean there's a difference between business interests and government interests? When did this happen and why didn't I get the memo?
Do you think that a potential terrorist really cares how easy to use Google is, or that they make the information more readily available? In a world without Google Earth, would he fire up his browser, learn that the information is not readily available, and give up, saying, "Well, I couldn't possibly just go out and buy this stuff from the source, so I think I just won't bomb Parliament!"
Why? Because "seeing boobies is bad for kids" is a moral that people free from religious indoctrination naturally have?
I suggest you take a trip to Europe and ask around.
there was a survey of theaters that showed that the vast majority had no policy against showing NC-17 rated movies.
Careful there... was it the vast majority of theaters or the vast majority of theater chains? If the 3 largest theater CHAINS, which control most of the theaters out there do have policies against showing NC-17 movies, then the grandparent poster's point would be valid.
If you'd be so kind as to read my parent post you'll understand that it is not a matter of religious pressure but rather normal social morality outside of a religious group that makes showing NC-17 films both unprofitable for a theater and unpopular among the local patrons.
What non-religious "social morality" causes people to not want to send teenagers off to a movie theater showing NC-17 films?
You think google needs to recruit? I'd be willing to bet they shred more resumes each week than many companies receive all year.
How about we just drop all the silly cyber-words and start calling it what it is: Fraud.
This argument usually comes from people who aren't passionate about anything. It must be exhausting to sit at home every day laughing at and criticizing other people who are out there living life.
If you go into it with lower expectations and take the time to actually read the profiles rather than look at the pictures, you can meet some very nice people.
That sounds like code for "Let's Go Hoggin!!!"
(I keeeed I keeeed!!)
Consider yourself lucky. If you and your friends were kids today and did this, you'd all be committed to the nearest children's psychiatric hospital and pumped full of enough Ritalin to make you nice docile conforming numb-bots.
For your own good, of course.
We have to be careful between the balance of violence and non-violence influences in society. If we never have any exposure of violence in any form then we become a society of Welfare Pussies who are incapable of responding to anything which might appear violent in nature. If we only have exposure to violence then we end up a society of synics who don't give a shit or one giant anger management class.
You have to be careful when you throw facts like this out there without citing sources. There is no evidence of a causal relationship between exposure to violence in media and actual violent behavior.
Otherwise, you make a good point about our system only showing kids two extreme sides of conflict resolution!
Reminds me of the time when they started inflating CDROM speeds, and you could no longer rely on the number behind the X. "36X CDROM??? Well we have 100X hahahahah!!!!!"
Music Label: We grant ourselves the authority to do anything we want inside or outside your house, to you and your family, with or without notice, including but not limited to: erasing your wedding photos, replacing all your music with Milli Vanilli's Greatest hits, recording you singing in the shower, ruining your kid's christmas, getting you fired from your job, anally raping your poodle with a steel toothbrush, and force-feeding you your own dead grandmother's ashes. You hereby agree to hold Music Label harmless and you expressly waive all rights to damages, compensatory and punitive, arising from Music Label's actions.
Joe Consumer: What is a rootkit? Is it dangero---WHOA NEW ALBUM ADVERTISED AT ME! MUST BUY IT NOW!!! MUST BUY IT NOW!!!
Well I for one never even heard of it until today, and I would bet that the slashdot readers who don't study obscure web technology all day do appreciate being "lectured" as to what AJAX is.
Before anyone starts spouting about how fascist the French government is and how this could never happen in the USA, keep in mind that web sites are routinely taken down in the USA by government AND corporations (as if there is any difference anymore). A site can be taken down entirely because of urging from a [corporation/gov.official], without any judicial oversite whatsoever if they say it threatens [profits/national security]. In addition, who knows how many newsletters, sites, or blogs were never even published due to [corporate/government] intimidation and the threat of [a ruined credit rating/getting on the wrong watch list]?
A soldier's job is to do what he/she's told, not what they think is right.
This is a good recipe for genocide.
Ahh, but you were fooled again!! The DAY-VIL encased that spider in amber just to TEST YOUR FAITH! Just like all the dinosaur bones and all those gamma rays that supposedly come from that fictonal outer space! Yup all the DAY-VIL'S work!!! PRAAAYZZZ JEEEEBUS!!! PRAAAYZZZ JEEEEBUS!!! [gurrgle] Blaaarrrgghhhannnnn! [froth] [epileptic fit]
I was skeptical, but now that I've watched the video, my mind is made up: This has got to be the most idiotic idea ever to come out of Nintendo.
Who is going to sit there flailing their arms around or running around their living room just to play a video game? What if there are more than one person in the room? There are reasons (mostly involving falling) that parents don't let their kids play football in the living room.
Visual presentation is the responsibility of the browser. If a site is unusable with huge fonts, this is the fault of the web designer making incorrect assumptions about the user's browser.
One beef I have with your (relatively well thought out) post:
Upwords of 90% of the USA claims to be Christian. Many of our national holidays are Christian-based. Christians control all three branches of our federal government, and most state and local governments. Christian symbolism, including churches, crosses, billboards with Christian messages, etc., appear almost everywhere in the country virtually unopposed.
I don't think it's fair to complain about Christians being the butt of a few jokes. I wish my particular religious group was this persecuted.
Oh please. Somebody call the Waaaaaaaahmbulance!
You can't compare janitors and telemarketers. Last I checked, janitors were not paid to annoy people at dinnertime, scam the elderly, and defraud mobile phone users.
Telemarketers have no excuse. There is plenty of other low-wage work for when you are at the bottom of your rope, ethical work that doesn't involve the stuff that telemarketers do.
I wonder what would be a fitting punishment for someone who uses the nonsense word "virii"
THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS VIRII.
THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS VIRII.
THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS VIRII.
Keep reading it, and try to let it sink in.