I believe this to have been a joint false-flag operation conducted by Intel, the NSA and VW/Audi, to convince us that we should relinquish control of our Quattros to the machines. I knew there was something suspicious going on when they replaced the five-cylinder with a V6, but no one would listen...
I found the IMAX "experience" entertaining, while at the same time thinking that if I watched this movie from my couch in 2D and 720p, I would have turned the dreck off halfway through.
And I watched it on DVD, resized to 1024x768 on a crappy 14" laptop LCD (read: net result only slightly better than VHS!) and was blown away (the "science" behind the remote control of one's avatar not withstanding)... and I tend to be a purist, fidelity-wise!
Any young adult growing up today - in the post-test-ban treaty era - that considers a career in this direction is aware they'll still be dealing with very interesting problems... but that the closest they'll ever get to knowing if it really works is in the form of analyzing the results from subcritical tests or from computer simulations.
No, you have it backwards. It's the media producers who live off other people.
Yep. Just the other day, a "media producer" came to my home and ate all my food. Sarcastic? Yes, a little.
Considering how hard the **AA's are lobbying to have taxes levied on our recordable media, internet access fees and who knows how else, I'd say you don't have a leg to stand on.
If they're forcing me to compensate them for losses based on arbitrary made-up amounts for 'imaginary' lost sales then I will force them to compensate me by giving me free movies & tv shows based on my arbitrarily assigned figures for its value.
The problem with your idea of justice is that, unless you would've paid for those downloads in the first place, they won't suffer any sort of loss from your downloading.
Sorry; somehow I had missed your bittorrent comment. Still, I'm sure they have that angle covered; as has already been pointed out, this is hardly an attempt on the part of the entertainment industry to make up for fictitious losses, though they may spin it that way. This is about expanding and increasing profits. You will pay them more than you do whether you enjoy their entertainment or not (at least, that's their plan), and if you attempt to do anything about it, they'll be more than happy to make you pay more (possibly far more).
If they're forcing me to compensate them for losses based on arbitrary made-up amounts for 'imaginary' lost sales then I will force them to compensate me by giving me free movies & tv shows based on my arbitrarily assigned figures for its value.
The problem with your idea of justice is that, unless you would've paid for those downloads in the first place, they won't suffer any sort of loss from your downloading.
Furthermore, vaccines are known to introduce a wide foreign cellular material directly past our natural defenses in a way that seldom happens in nature. Are you even remotely aware of how fucked-up the cultivation process can be?
Of course, the corporations that sell these vaccines (and the regulatory agencies that are supposed to oversee them) have done a fairly efficient and successful job of making sure the information remains out of the mainstream. They've also made sure that you're branded a retard or lunatic if you attempt to point out the failures of the system.
There's an overwhelming amount of research showing that we have a huge problem with consistency and quality control. All kinds of bizarre, dangerous substances have been found in vaccines, including monkey and chicken DNA, viruses... nevermind the Thimerosal!
Many of the arguments against vaccinating don't necessarily have anything to do with it as a matter of principle but rather address the practical aspects of its implementation.
Apparently they are. Your kid will be exposed to more crap by crawling around on the carpet than by getting injected with a vaccine.
You have a completely convoluted 50's-era mentality of what is and isn't good for the human body that definitely does not jibe with the observations and discoveries we've made in recent decades.
It's actually extremely important that infants and toddlers be exposed to the wide variety of pathogens and microbes that are an essential part of our surroundings (your "crap on the carpet"), otherwise their immune systems fail to develop properly.
Research has clearly demonstrated that the more we sterilize our bodies and ourselves, the more it screws up our immune systems.
Anyone who can be irked to actually research it. These things are highly scrutinized by countless people during their development process. You might not understand it, but that doesn't mean you should try to burn it for being a witch.
The fucked-up thing is that it's even scarier when you research and do understand what actually gets puts in vaccines.
Contrary to the exaggerated claims of the pro-vaccine movement, not everyone who're against their use are uneducated, ill-informed Fundamentalists...
It really wouldn't be the end of the world if we returned to a paradigm where things initially cost more and got repaired instead of replaced.
The result, both literally and metaphorically speaking, would be far more Mercedes (the W123's and W124's you still see driving the streets of the third world, not their new crap) and far fewer Chevettes and Kias...
How do you propose to grow an economy without someone to finance the businesses?
Economies grow through entrepreneurship. Apple and Google grow the economy. Whole foods grows the economy. Random guy with a family owned food mart who never expands does *not* grow the economy. The economy grows through businesses expanding and finding or creating new markets. You need rich people to do that! That doesn't mean they shouldn't have to live under the same rules as the rest of us, but what kind of communist fantasy-land do you think can maintain a modern economy without someone getting rich off of it?
Why does it always have to be about growth?? How about the health of the economy? Wallstreet spouts the bullshit notion that a healthy economy is one based on [unsustainable] growth, fueled by borrowing and spending. Nevermind where it actually leads us (i.e. right where we are now)...
This is a BAD ruling. And it's so obviously bad, given history and legal precedent, that I really have a hard time understanding how they could have decided that way.
It's really quite simple; it's known as a suitcase full of cash. Makes for quite the convincing legal argument.
I have a problem, I answer rhetorical questions even though I know they are.
My abacus is can represent 13 decimal digits. The binary number required to do that is 44 bits. So my abacus is can store about 5 1/2 bytes.
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I believe this to have been a joint false-flag operation conducted by Intel, the NSA and VW/Audi, to convince us that we should relinquish control of our Quattros to the machines. I knew there was something suspicious going on when they replaced the five-cylinder with a V6, but no one would listen...
I found the IMAX "experience" entertaining, while at the same time thinking that if I watched this movie from my couch in 2D and 720p, I would have turned the dreck off halfway through.
And I watched it on DVD, resized to 1024x768 on a crappy 14" laptop LCD (read: net result only slightly better than VHS!) and was blown away (the "science" behind the remote control of one's avatar not withstanding)... and I tend to be a purist, fidelity-wise!
...crappy art. So are my son's crayon drawings.
I hope you don't tell him that! :P
Any young adult growing up today - in the post-test-ban treaty era - that considers a career in this direction is aware they'll still be dealing with very interesting problems... but that the closest they'll ever get to knowing if it really works is in the form of analyzing the results from subcritical tests or from computer simulations.
Or so we hope (most of us, anyway)! :P
The backpack is the first of a series of similar systems to work without being strapped to a robot or attached to a cart.
Nope; it apparently has to be strapped to a human (a slave, no doubt). Definitely an improvement, efficiency-wise. :P
I hate posts with selectively capitalized words. It's so jarring. Really breaks up the the thought you're trying to convey.
I actually thought it enhanced them; parent certainly used them selectively enough. To each his own, I guess.
No, you have it backwards. It's the media producers who live off other people.
Yep. Just the other day, a "media producer" came to my home and ate all my food. Sarcastic? Yes, a little.
Considering how hard the **AA's are lobbying to have taxes levied on our recordable media, internet access fees and who knows how else, I'd say you don't have a leg to stand on.
The same could be said for Linux. Seriously, can I mod the subject Score:-1, Redundant?
If they're forcing me to compensate them for losses based on arbitrary made-up amounts for 'imaginary' lost sales then I will force them to compensate me by giving me free movies & tv shows based on my arbitrarily assigned figures for its value.
The problem with your idea of justice is that, unless you would've paid for those downloads in the first place, they won't suffer any sort of loss from your downloading.
Sorry; somehow I had missed your bittorrent comment. Still, I'm sure they have that angle covered; as has already been pointed out, this is hardly an attempt on the part of the entertainment industry to make up for fictitious losses, though they may spin it that way. This is about expanding and increasing profits. You will pay them more than you do whether you enjoy their entertainment or not (at least, that's their plan), and if you attempt to do anything about it, they'll be more than happy to make you pay more (possibly far more).
If they're forcing me to compensate them for losses based on arbitrary made-up amounts for 'imaginary' lost sales then I will force them to compensate me by giving me free movies & tv shows based on my arbitrarily assigned figures for its value.
The problem with your idea of justice is that, unless you would've paid for those downloads in the first place, they won't suffer any sort of loss from your downloading.
In other news, a full-size school bus equipped with a 5000hp jet turbine is now faster than a Honda Civic...
I don't get why people try to protect children. Lock the god damn things in a cage or throw them all in the deepest hole you can find...
It sounds like those might have been places where you spent a lot of your own childhood... :P
Where am I supposed to skip to if I'm starting in .nz?
The answer should be obvious: Antarctica!
Surely you jest - this site shows the beauty that is out there ;)
My eyes!!!
A penny jar that had engraved markings on the side to tell you how much money you had (approx) if you only put pennies in it
No 'jump to conclusions' mat??
Furthermore, vaccines are known to introduce a wide...
That should have read "...a wide variety." Sorry for the sloppy typo.
Of course, the corporations that sell these vaccines (and the regulatory agencies that are supposed to oversee them) have done a fairly efficient and successful job of making sure the information remains out of the mainstream. They've also made sure that you're branded a retard or lunatic if you attempt to point out the failures of the system.
There's an overwhelming amount of research showing that we have a huge problem with consistency and quality control. All kinds of bizarre, dangerous substances have been found in vaccines, including monkey and chicken DNA, viruses... nevermind the Thimerosal!
Many of the arguments against vaccinating don't necessarily have anything to do with it as a matter of principle but rather address the practical aspects of its implementation.
Apparently they are. Your kid will be exposed to more crap by crawling around on the carpet than by getting injected with a vaccine.
You have a completely convoluted 50's-era mentality of what is and isn't good for the human body that definitely does not jibe with the observations and discoveries we've made in recent decades.
It's actually extremely important that infants and toddlers be exposed to the wide variety of pathogens and microbes that are an essential part of our surroundings (your "crap on the carpet"), otherwise their immune systems fail to develop properly.
Research has clearly demonstrated that the more we sterilize our bodies and ourselves, the more it screws up our immune systems.
Anyone who can be irked to actually research it. These things are highly scrutinized by countless people during their development process. You might not understand it, but that doesn't mean you should try to burn it for being a witch.
The fucked-up thing is that it's even scarier when you research and do understand what actually gets puts in vaccines.
Contrary to the exaggerated claims of the pro-vaccine movement, not everyone who're against their use are uneducated, ill-informed Fundamentalists...
It really wouldn't be the end of the world if we returned to a paradigm where things initially cost more and got repaired instead of replaced.
The result, both literally and metaphorically speaking, would be far more Mercedes (the W123's and W124's you still see driving the streets of the third world, not their new crap) and far fewer Chevettes and Kias...
Doesn't sound too bad to me!
How do you propose to grow an economy without someone to finance the businesses?
Economies grow through entrepreneurship. Apple and Google grow the economy. Whole foods grows the economy. Random guy with a family owned food mart who never expands does *not* grow the economy. The economy grows through businesses expanding and finding or creating new markets. You need rich people to do that! That doesn't mean they shouldn't have to live under the same rules as the rest of us, but what kind of communist fantasy-land do you think can maintain a modern economy without someone getting rich off of it?
Why does it always have to be about growth?? How about the health of the economy? Wallstreet spouts the bullshit notion that a healthy economy is one based on [unsustainable] growth, fueled by borrowing and spending. Nevermind where it actually leads us (i.e. right where we are now)...
This is a BAD ruling. And it's so obviously bad, given history and legal precedent, that I really have a hard time understanding how they could have decided that way.
It's really quite simple; it's known as a suitcase full of cash. Makes for quite the convincing legal argument.
I have a problem, I answer rhetorical questions even though I know they are. My abacus is can represent 13 decimal digits. The binary number required to do that is 44 bits. So my abacus is can store about 5 1/2 bytes.
OCD andAspergers?! :P
...offers what T-Mobile is calling 4G-like speeds up to 21 Mbps.
Sweet! One step closer towards my eventual goal: to reach my monthly download cap in an infinitely brief span of time!
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