They were going to suggest this, but everyone feels bad enough for what happened in Munich that they didn't want to use the term scalper and Germany in the same sentence. They were close to Godwin'ing themselves anyway, just leave them alone already! =)
...which one do I side with? Which one will get the Slashdot "little guy fighting the big guy" medal of honor? I just... I don't know. On one side you have a multi-billion dollar corporation that seems to want to make money... and then there's the same thing on the OTHER side. Oh noes!
I actually just have my base set so low so that I can read almost everything, so maybe you can't ignore overrated. I figured out pretty early on that there's so few posts that are actually trolls and flamebait that it's not even worth ignoring them. Nope, the mods mostly just use their points to get back at you for something, to try to squelch you out of view because they don't agree with what you have to say, or can't rub two words together to save their life and mod down is how they argue. Often times it's the modded down posts that are worth reading.
The only reason I'm posting this is because I actually enjoy watching people bicker over what rating my posts deserve. My first one has gone from -1 to 5 in the span of an hour or so, and my others have gone from funny to troll... it's just amazing to watch when you have very little else to do =)
True, but at this point who hasn't gone into their settings to completely ignore overrated, redundant and off-topic anyway? I just got hit with redundant for talking about CowboyNeal's taint on another story. If CowboyNeal's taint is redundant... actually... I guess that would explain a couple things. Nevermind.
Is rule number two that the mod point fairy only gives you mod points when you completely disagree with what someone has said but can't express your thoughts into a coherent or humorous paragraph?
I'd be more impressed if we could find the center of Slashdot... except that it's probably somewhere near CowboyNeal's taint. So, on second thought... maybe not.
The firm has been sending out invoices to Singapore companies since last week asking them to pay up."
Most companies aren't taking the invoices seriously because they ask for your checking account number before they can give you the money owed to you by the death of your long lost, rich relative.
Oh yeah... and because they were delivered by an 8 year-old male prostitute named Chen. When it absolutely, positively, has to be delivered there by a male prostitute: Singapore Express. It's everywhere you don't want your wife to be.
Then you were the one dumb enough to pay to be a citizen here, just to complain about it later. I would think that EARNING the right to be here, as you so aptly put it, would make it more obvious on how to change the country to fit your needs. Bitching here doesn't do you much good, nor does it change anyone's mind. I thought you were smart enough to know that already and just forgot where the exits were.
That explains a lot. Thank you. I'd wondered about that. One of the guys in the articles I referenced as nearly blind. It got me thinking about how a blind person would protect themselves from getting hit when both lanes have a "go" signal.
Faggot. Bet that isn't the first time you've been called that today
Well... no... you just did it an hour before, in your other anonymous post that was strangely similar to this one. A way of hedging your bet, I would guess.
Oh, and if you really want to insult someone twice anonymously, at least try to be creative in one of them instead of just letting the same tripe dribble off your lower lip. If it wasn't impressive enough the first time, why do you think it will be more cool the second? It will impress your high school friends more if you can use a thesaurus when you babble the same thing incoherently twice..
I thought this was going to be in reference to a flurry of bus-related accidents, like thesehere, but apparently Iowa just has the dumbest bus drivers evar. "Hey, great," I thought, "they're going to have buses that will sense when people are near and not let you hit them." Then come to find what it's really about... and I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or not.
Speaking of imagination... where is Atari now? Owned by a much larger company and used as a shield against lawsuits (it was made by Atari, no Vivendi, so you can only sue Atari)? Yeah. Good on ya.
Injecting, inhaling, coating yourself in, and/or swallowing something that makes you addicted to a substance does not constitute a disease. I believe, though I don't really care enough to look (for fear I'm probably wrong anyway), that the AMA called the addiction itself a disease, simply because being deprived of the addictive substance affects your body adversely.
Aside from that (and this is a stretch, but people with shiny hatwear will appreciate it), the FDA will not allow the sale of patches, pills or other methods to curb smoking habits as medical devices unless they can be used to cure a disease. It's the same thing that Kevin Trudeau guy got in trouble for. Only medicines can cure diseases, and only the FDA can approve medicines. So, unless it's a disease, these things cannot be marketed as cures, and the only way they can be marketed as cures is if the FDA approves them as medicines. How much money do you think is wrapped up in stop-smoking products?
An addiction to masturbation is quite the same way. As I'm sure many people here can attest to, without "getting the poison out," a person can be caused pain, become irritable, lose sleep, perform poorly at work or sports, can acquire jitters or shakes, and various other things that would be the same for a person who hasn't puffed on their death stick. Does that mean that I should get a fifteen minute spank break every two hours at work?
Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, MMOs, and many many other things that are considered addictions are not. They are merely a weakness of character. If they are actually addictions, then I should get my UFC tickets to be covered by my insurance, because I'm certainly ADDICTED to that.
If fire can be STOLEN from the gods, why can't it be STOLEN from you? The fire itself has no value, wants, needs or morals, but you do. Taking fire from someone when you have none without paying for it or asking if you can use it is not stealing? That's what you're saying? Perhaps that's true, but it's still fucking wrong. Stealing bread for your starving family is still stealing, stealing fire when you have none is still stealing, it's stealing regardless of if you can morally justify it or not.
Just because you disagree with where copyrights are now, and just because you feel that the MPAA and RIAA are evil, and just because you feel that they are unjustified and use harsh methods, doesn't justify stealing. Just because Microsoft has a huge market share, just because their stuff is expensive, just because you NEED it to run games or whatever else, does not justify stealing.
You don't like the law? Get it changed, hire a lawyer to defend you when you break it, or move. It's simple. Whining about it when it doesn't seem to go your way is a childlike mentality that I do not care to suffer. Arguing semantics and morals and justifications do nothing to further your side of the argument because you're either going to follow the law or not.
So yes, I repeat, enjoy your stolen goods. Keep stealing and keep justifying however you need to so you can be ok with it. Then we get to hear good stories about injustices and abuses in the legal system, your pity story that some big company was picking on you, or, if you don't get caught, how you really stuck it to that guy who thought he was all rich, creative, artistic, rich, or popular. That'll learn him.
AKs are covered under the 2nd amendment, you dense bit of humus. Do a bit of research on what the terms "well-regulated" and "militia" meant in the mid to late 18th century.
I wasn't aware that Benjamin Franklin held the patent for the AK in the early 18th century. Thank God (the Constitutional God, "the creator") we have you to let me know what the 2nd Amendment writers really intended. Everyone knows that every WASP family was supposed to get an AK, 3 hand grenades, a howitzer, a chain gun, atom bomb and the Cobra command center when they came of age (assuming they were baptized). You do know that when Heston said "from my cold dead hands"... you do know that he's dead, right?
Because I always thought that the second amendment covered black powder rifles to hunt, keep our government from "being evil" as Google would say, and to keep those damn Brits from keeping us from drinking our tea. I never knew they had the intention of covering ICBMs unequivocably.
Honestly, it's not a debate anymore, it's just who can say more $10 words and link Wikipedia more. Let's just make it easy... everyone who thinks that the 2nd Amendment covers anything higher than say... a shotgun, go ahead and freak me (add me to your foe list). This also includes anyone who thinks that copying movies, music, and books is not illegal. That way I can just see the little orange sticker and move on knowing that you are clearly insane. Also, for my ease of use, go ahead and post anything that you think will lose you karma or that you think is actually funny in AC. I would hate to miss it if I saw that little orange dunce cap next to your name.
It's not that I don't respect your right to banter witlessly (free speech), it's... well it's kinda like being gay. I don't care that you're gay, I don't care what you do as a gay, I don't even care if you get married or whatever (that doesn't somehow diminish my happy marriage)... I just really don't want to hear about exactly how gay you are. So yeah, if you guys could go ahead and make my freak list grow, I can be a whole lot happier =)
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Modding the last week or so seems to have been really stupid and harsh. Anymore there's no point in the system anyway.
What is it with you and the German references today? No, we're not giving anyone else gold stars!
Cause disruption, get junkmail. Lots... of junkmail.
I'm pretty sure the loser will be the first one who mentions Two Girls, One Cup.
They were going to suggest this, but everyone feels bad enough for what happened in Munich that they didn't want to use the term scalper and Germany in the same sentence. They were close to Godwin'ing themselves anyway, just leave them alone already! =)
...which one do I side with? Which one will get the Slashdot "little guy fighting the big guy" medal of honor? I just... I don't know. On one side you have a multi-billion dollar corporation that seems to want to make money... and then there's the same thing on the OTHER side. Oh noes!
I actually just have my base set so low so that I can read almost everything, so maybe you can't ignore overrated. I figured out pretty early on that there's so few posts that are actually trolls and flamebait that it's not even worth ignoring them. Nope, the mods mostly just use their points to get back at you for something, to try to squelch you out of view because they don't agree with what you have to say, or can't rub two words together to save their life and mod down is how they argue. Often times it's the modded down posts that are worth reading.
The only reason I'm posting this is because I actually enjoy watching people bicker over what rating my posts deserve. My first one has gone from -1 to 5 in the span of an hour or so, and my others have gone from funny to troll... it's just amazing to watch when you have very little else to do =)
That's genius! Do you rent them for... $0.10? Mwaa hahahahaha (that way you're not off-topic)!
True, but at this point who hasn't gone into their settings to completely ignore overrated, redundant and off-topic anyway? I just got hit with redundant for talking about CowboyNeal's taint on another story. If CowboyNeal's taint is redundant... actually... I guess that would explain a couple things. Nevermind.
So that's the reason... that bitch!
Is rule number two that the mod point fairy only gives you mod points when you completely disagree with what someone has said but can't express your thoughts into a coherent or humorous paragraph?
I wish I had mod points for you two. For $0.10 apiece you can pretend I modded you up.
I'd be more impressed if we could find the center of Slashdot... except that it's probably somewhere near CowboyNeal's taint. So, on second thought... maybe not.
The firm has been sending out invoices to Singapore companies since last week asking them to pay up."
Most companies aren't taking the invoices seriously because they ask for your checking account number before they can give you the money owed to you by the death of your long lost, rich relative.
Oh yeah... and because they were delivered by an 8 year-old male prostitute named Chen. When it absolutely, positively, has to be delivered there by a male prostitute: Singapore Express. It's everywhere you don't want your wife to be.
What'd you do, Ray?
Then you were the one dumb enough to pay to be a citizen here, just to complain about it later. I would think that EARNING the right to be here, as you so aptly put it, would make it more obvious on how to change the country to fit your needs. Bitching here doesn't do you much good, nor does it change anyone's mind. I thought you were smart enough to know that already and just forgot where the exits were.
My mistake.
Ah, the good ol' overrated (I disagree) mod.
The exits are north and south, pick one.
That explains a lot. Thank you. I'd wondered about that. One of the guys in the articles I referenced as nearly blind. It got me thinking about how a blind person would protect themselves from getting hit when both lanes have a "go" signal.
Here you ask your friends for references. In Soviet Slashdot, friends reference you Natalie Portman!
Well... no... you just did it an hour before, in your other anonymous post that was strangely similar to this one. A way of hedging your bet, I would guess.
Oh, and if you really want to insult someone twice anonymously, at least try to be creative in one of them instead of just letting the same tripe dribble off your lower lip. If it wasn't impressive enough the first time, why do you think it will be more cool the second? It will impress your high school friends more if you can use a thesaurus when you babble the same thing incoherently twice..
I thought this was going to be in reference to a flurry of bus-related accidents, like these here, but apparently Iowa just has the dumbest bus drivers evar. "Hey, great," I thought, "they're going to have buses that will sense when people are near and not let you hit them." Then come to find what it's really about... and I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or not.
Speaking of imagination... where is Atari now? Owned by a much larger company and used as a shield against lawsuits (it was made by Atari, no Vivendi, so you can only sue Atari)? Yeah. Good on ya.
Injecting, inhaling, coating yourself in, and/or swallowing something that makes you addicted to a substance does not constitute a disease. I believe, though I don't really care enough to look (for fear I'm probably wrong anyway), that the AMA called the addiction itself a disease, simply because being deprived of the addictive substance affects your body adversely.
Aside from that (and this is a stretch, but people with shiny hatwear will appreciate it), the FDA will not allow the sale of patches, pills or other methods to curb smoking habits as medical devices unless they can be used to cure a disease. It's the same thing that Kevin Trudeau guy got in trouble for. Only medicines can cure diseases, and only the FDA can approve medicines. So, unless it's a disease, these things cannot be marketed as cures, and the only way they can be marketed as cures is if the FDA approves them as medicines. How much money do you think is wrapped up in stop-smoking products?
An addiction to masturbation is quite the same way. As I'm sure many people here can attest to, without "getting the poison out," a person can be caused pain, become irritable, lose sleep, perform poorly at work or sports, can acquire jitters or shakes, and various other things that would be the same for a person who hasn't puffed on their death stick. Does that mean that I should get a fifteen minute spank break every two hours at work?
Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, MMOs, and many many other things that are considered addictions are not. They are merely a weakness of character. If they are actually addictions, then I should get my UFC tickets to be covered by my insurance, because I'm certainly ADDICTED to that.
If fire can be STOLEN from the gods, why can't it be STOLEN from you? The fire itself has no value, wants, needs or morals, but you do. Taking fire from someone when you have none without paying for it or asking if you can use it is not stealing? That's what you're saying? Perhaps that's true, but it's still fucking wrong. Stealing bread for your starving family is still stealing, stealing fire when you have none is still stealing, it's stealing regardless of if you can morally justify it or not.
Just because you disagree with where copyrights are now, and just because you feel that the MPAA and RIAA are evil, and just because you feel that they are unjustified and use harsh methods, doesn't justify stealing. Just because Microsoft has a huge market share, just because their stuff is expensive, just because you NEED it to run games or whatever else, does not justify stealing.
You don't like the law? Get it changed, hire a lawyer to defend you when you break it, or move. It's simple. Whining about it when it doesn't seem to go your way is a childlike mentality that I do not care to suffer. Arguing semantics and morals and justifications do nothing to further your side of the argument because you're either going to follow the law or not.
So yes, I repeat, enjoy your stolen goods. Keep stealing and keep justifying however you need to so you can be ok with it. Then we get to hear good stories about injustices and abuses in the legal system, your pity story that some big company was picking on you, or, if you don't get caught, how you really stuck it to that guy who thought he was all rich, creative, artistic, rich, or popular. That'll learn him.
AKs are covered under the 2nd amendment, you dense bit of humus. Do a bit of research on what the terms "well-regulated" and "militia" meant in the mid to late 18th century.
I wasn't aware that Benjamin Franklin held the patent for the AK in the early 18th century. Thank God (the Constitutional God, "the creator") we have you to let me know what the 2nd Amendment writers really intended. Everyone knows that every WASP family was supposed to get an AK, 3 hand grenades, a howitzer, a chain gun, atom bomb and the Cobra command center when they came of age (assuming they were baptized). You do know that when Heston said "from my cold dead hands"... you do know that he's dead, right?
Because I always thought that the second amendment covered black powder rifles to hunt, keep our government from "being evil" as Google would say, and to keep those damn Brits from keeping us from drinking our tea. I never knew they had the intention of covering ICBMs unequivocably.
Honestly, it's not a debate anymore, it's just who can say more $10 words and link Wikipedia more. Let's just make it easy... everyone who thinks that the 2nd Amendment covers anything higher than say... a shotgun, go ahead and freak me (add me to your foe list). This also includes anyone who thinks that copying movies, music, and books is not illegal. That way I can just see the little orange sticker and move on knowing that you are clearly insane. Also, for my ease of use, go ahead and post anything that you think will lose you karma or that you think is actually funny in AC. I would hate to miss it if I saw that little orange dunce cap next to your name.
It's not that I don't respect your right to banter witlessly (free speech), it's... well it's kinda like being gay. I don't care that you're gay, I don't care what you do as a gay, I don't even care if you get married or whatever (that doesn't somehow diminish my happy marriage)... I just really don't want to hear about exactly how gay you are. So yeah, if you guys could go ahead and make my freak list grow, I can be a whole lot happier =)
Thanks for your cooperation.