Based on your post, I'm fairly sure that you're not from America and you don't realize how ridiculously broad our political idiocy has made the terms "fascist" and "socialist" over here.
The simplest way to explain the American use of the term "socialist" is that the term is applied to anything that would benefit people below the top 5% income bracket if it doesn't also help the people in the top 5% and/or corporations. In fact, the benefit to the top 5% and corporations generally has to outweigh any benefit to the lower 95% by a very large margin before it will no longer be decried as a socialist.
The American use of "fascist" is simpler. Any time a law is past that restricts someone in any way, shape or form from doing something they want to do (even if it's obviously beneficial like "it's illegal to inject yourself with Draino"), it's fascist and the political figure they dislike the most is now exactly like Hitler.
But then you have a minority of Americans, like me, who at least try to use the terms correctly. Sadly, by doing so,, we add to the confusion over what the hell everyone is talking about.
This concludes today's lesson on America's abuse of the English language. Thank you and good night.
How should someone who writes and records an album verify that the songs he wrote don't accidentally infringe a third party's copyright?
Nobody verifies this under the present system, so an individual releasing stuff isn't any different.
How should they promote it to listeners who aren't already streaming music in their vehicles? These listeners use FM radio because they don't already have a sufficiently expensive data plan or they aren't aware of the streaming sites.
Believe it or not, people hear music in places other than their cars.
Word of mouth, YouTube, free song downloads, send promo CDs to college and independent radio stations, set up accounts with the various social networks, opening for other bands... there are lots of ways to get your music in front of people. If you're good, you'll build a fan base and that fan base is the only thing you absolutely have to have to make a career out of music.
Dammit. I was ready to start selling aphid-burgers to starving third-world kids and now you say it won't save the world? What am I going to do with the 30,000 lbs of aphids I ordered after reading only the summary?
As a general rule in human history, privacy has been totally foreign. People always knew what their tribe, hamlet, neighborhood or building were up to. There wasn't an expectation of any sort of privacy, for anything from actions, to sexual activities, to hygeine. It just simply didn't happen.
And that's why there has never been an unsolved crime in all of human history!
This is the text message that caused the flying car accident that changed my life forever and left 3,000 people dead when I plowed into that skyscraper.
Has there been even one documented case of it actually affecting any man, woman, child, pet, livestock animal or anything else other than bacteria? No? Then why is everyone freaking out about this study? Do we not have better things to worry about other than a possible effect which hasn't been observed despite hundreds of millions of people being exposed to triclosan for decades?
I think we abuse the crap out of antibacterials and there are a number of unpleasant ramifications of that which would be good reasons to limit their use, but this just isn't one of those reasons.
But then the/. editors would have to come up with actual news, which can be hard to find, instead of using the pointless speculation and opinion pieces that are there for the taking.
An Apple fanboy writes an article praising the iphone using out of context quotes from the CEO of Paraben (not the DoJ) saying there have been cases where Paraben couldn't defeat iPhone encryption and a a DoJ official talking about hard drives (not the iPhone) saying that "if you pull the power on a drive that is whole-disk encrypted you have lost any chance of recovering that data" (which isn't true, btw). Then a second fanboy reads said article and translates it to "iPhone is the DOJ's worst nightmare" and submits it to Slashdot where samzenpus demonstrates the usual lack of even the barest hint off fact-checking and gives us a headline like this one.
Well, let's be accurate. 424 out of about 1500 stayed for the last day of the 10 day gathering and were also interested enough to vote. The 7500 who didn't attend didn't get a chance to vote nor did anyone who had to leave before the last day.
It would be virtually impossible to name names. The reclassification of Pluto (among other things) was the result of a vote held at the end an IAU General Assembly where only 424 out of roughly 9000 members actually voted.
I know that library books aren't free and I made no claim that they were.
We make library books available to people who couldn't afford them and we don't charge for that access (I'm assuming here that someone who can't afford to buy a book falls below the poverty level and doesn't pay taxes as a result). We do that because we believe that people should have access to those books. I'm simply taking a different viewpoint... it could equally be said that those books have a right to be available to people who could not otherwise afford them.
No no.. that was the old way they improved sites. These days, the way to improve the site is to convert the entire thing to one huge Flash object that takes forever to load and doesn't have pages that can be linked to from another site.
Things without pork at Cracker Barrel: Eggs, Toast, Hashbrown casserole, Biscuits, Jelly, Apple Butter, Fried Apples, Turkey Sausage, Grits, Chicken Fried Chicken, Chicken Fried Steak, Fried Chicken Tenderloin, Buttermilk Pancakes, Pecan Pancakes, Blueberry Pancakes, French Toast, Eggs-in-the-Basket, Yogurt Parfait, Granola with Fruit and Yogurt, Oatmeal with Fried Apples, Oatmeal with Pecans, Oatmeal with Raisins, Oatmeal with Bananas, Blueberry Muffin, Bran Muffin, Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Special K, Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes, Wheaties, Egg Sandwich, Steak Biscuit, Sourdough Toast, Tenderloin Steak Biscuit, Half Pound Hamburger, Turkey Breast Sandwich, Grilled Chicken Tenderloin Sandwich, Chicken Salad Sandwich, Fried Chicken Tenderloin Sandwich, Catfish Sandwich, Grilled Meatloaf Sandwich, Open Faced Roast Beef, Onion Rings, Baked Potato, Steak Fries, Grilled Haddock, Lemon Pepper Grilled Rainbow Trout, Grilled Sirloin Steak, Rib Eye Steak, Roast Beef Dinner, Catfish Platter, Fried Shrimp Platter, Chicken and Dumplings, Hamburger Steak, Fried Chicken Livers, Beef Stew, Fried Okra, Coleslaw, Dumplings, Carrots, Corn, Apple Sauce, Grilled Chicken Salad, Turkey Salad, Fried Chicken salad, Chicken Salad salad, Garden Salad, Tossed Salad, Chicken and Dressing, Chicken Pot Pie, Turkey and Dressing, Butter Baked Chicken, Broccoli Cheddar Chicken, Fried Cod, Chicken and Rice, Homestyle Chicken
And that isn't even all the stuff on the menu that doesn't include pork, either, because I tried to leave out anything that sounded too repetitive and skipped desserts, drinks, kids meals and all the stuff that could be prepared with the pork left out.
I think you just didn't bother reading the menu very well or asking the server any questions about the dishes.
Not a good analogy. Your computer wouldn't automatically be replaced in 24 hours, unlike your dog's semen.
If you're that worried about it, though, you should should probably masturbate your dog and store the semen in the freezer until you get back from vacation. That way you'll have your precious dog-spooge waiting for you when you get home.
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I think you nay have missed the joke. Don't feel bad. Subtlety is kinda rare around these parts.
There are no ingredients lists on raw fish and, even if there was, it wouldn't indicate what the fish was fed.
If you're browsing the web while you're sleeping and screwing, you're doing it wrong.
Inquisitive means "inclined to ask questions", not "inclined to ask intelligent questions."
That bottom 50% includes unemployed, homeless, people who make far less than poverty level income, children, retired people with no income, etc.
You're actually complaining that people with no income aren't paying their fair share of income taxes.
Could you be more of a douche?
To do that, he'd have to write a GUI in Visual Basic.
Perhaps if you clicked the link on that page that says "See Reviews"....
Based on your post, I'm fairly sure that you're not from America and you don't realize how ridiculously broad our political idiocy has made the terms "fascist" and "socialist" over here.
The simplest way to explain the American use of the term "socialist" is that the term is applied to anything that would benefit people below the top 5% income bracket if it doesn't also help the people in the top 5% and/or corporations. In fact, the benefit to the top 5% and corporations generally has to outweigh any benefit to the lower 95% by a very large margin before it will no longer be decried as a socialist.
The American use of "fascist" is simpler. Any time a law is past that restricts someone in any way, shape or form from doing something they want to do (even if it's obviously beneficial like "it's illegal to inject yourself with Draino"), it's fascist and the political figure they dislike the most is now exactly like Hitler.
But then you have a minority of Americans, like me, who at least try to use the terms correctly. Sadly, by doing so,, we add to the confusion over what the hell everyone is talking about.
This concludes today's lesson on America's abuse of the English language. Thank you and good night.
How should someone who writes and records an album verify that the songs he wrote don't accidentally infringe a third party's copyright?
Nobody verifies this under the present system, so an individual releasing stuff isn't any different.
How should they promote it to listeners who aren't already streaming music in their vehicles? These listeners use FM radio because they don't already have a sufficiently expensive data plan or they aren't aware of the streaming sites.
Believe it or not, people hear music in places other than their cars.
Word of mouth, YouTube, free song downloads, send promo CDs to college and independent radio stations, set up accounts with the various social networks, opening for other bands... there are lots of ways to get your music in front of people. If you're good, you'll build a fan base and that fan base is the only thing you absolutely have to have to make a career out of music.
Dammit. I was ready to start selling aphid-burgers to starving third-world kids and now you say it won't save the world? What am I going to do with the 30,000 lbs of aphids I ordered after reading only the summary?
As a general rule in human history, privacy has been totally foreign. People always knew what their tribe, hamlet, neighborhood or building were up to. There wasn't an expectation of any sort of privacy, for anything from actions, to sexual activities, to hygeine. It just simply didn't happen.
And that's why there has never been an unsolved crime in all of human history!
This is the text message that caused the flying car accident that changed my life forever and left 3,000 people dead when I plowed into that skyscraper.
Don't text while flying.
Has there been even one documented case of it actually affecting any man, woman, child, pet, livestock animal or anything else other than bacteria? No? Then why is everyone freaking out about this study? Do we not have better things to worry about other than a possible effect which hasn't been observed despite hundreds of millions of people being exposed to triclosan for decades?
I think we abuse the crap out of antibacterials and there are a number of unpleasant ramifications of that which would be good reasons to limit their use, but this just isn't one of those reasons.
But then the /. editors would have to come up with actual news, which can be hard to find, instead of using the pointless speculation and opinion pieces that are there for the taking.
You forgot possibility #4...
An Apple fanboy writes an article praising the iphone using out of context quotes from the CEO of Paraben (not the DoJ) saying there have been cases where Paraben couldn't defeat iPhone encryption and a a DoJ official talking about hard drives (not the iPhone) saying that "if you pull the power on a drive that is whole-disk encrypted you have lost any chance of recovering that data" (which isn't true, btw). Then a second fanboy reads said article and translates it to "iPhone is the DOJ's worst nightmare" and submits it to Slashdot where samzenpus demonstrates the usual lack of even the barest hint off fact-checking and gives us a headline like this one.
It's been over 60 years. It's long since time to stop blaming Hitler.
Oh, wait. No it isn't. Guilty is fucking guilty no matter how much time has passed.
Almost all food is based on the same DNA which only only contains four base pairs, thus all food must taste the same.
Facebook claims to have 800 million users. That means 6.1 billion serial killers are out there!
Well, let's be accurate. 424 out of about 1500 stayed for the last day of the 10 day gathering and were also interested enough to vote. The 7500 who didn't attend didn't get a chance to vote nor did anyone who had to leave before the last day.
It would be virtually impossible to name names. The reclassification of Pluto (among other things) was the result of a vote held at the end an IAU General Assembly where only 424 out of roughly 9000 members actually voted.
I know that library books aren't free and I made no claim that they were.
We make library books available to people who couldn't afford them and we don't charge for that access (I'm assuming here that someone who can't afford to buy a book falls below the poverty level and doesn't pay taxes as a result). We do that because we believe that people should have access to those books. I'm simply taking a different viewpoint... it could equally be said that those books have a right to be available to people who could not otherwise afford them.
No no.. that was the old way they improved sites. These days, the way to improve the site is to convert the entire thing to one huge Flash object that takes forever to load and doesn't have pages that can be linked to from another site.
Shipping options generally work that way. The slower the shipping method, the cheaper it is.
Things without pork at Cracker Barrel:
Eggs, Toast, Hashbrown casserole, Biscuits, Jelly, Apple Butter, Fried Apples, Turkey Sausage, Grits, Chicken Fried Chicken, Chicken Fried Steak, Fried Chicken Tenderloin, Buttermilk Pancakes, Pecan Pancakes, Blueberry Pancakes, French Toast, Eggs-in-the-Basket, Yogurt Parfait, Granola with Fruit and Yogurt, Oatmeal with Fried Apples, Oatmeal with Pecans, Oatmeal with Raisins, Oatmeal with Bananas, Blueberry Muffin, Bran Muffin, Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Special K, Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes, Wheaties, Egg Sandwich, Steak Biscuit, Sourdough Toast, Tenderloin Steak Biscuit, Half Pound Hamburger, Turkey Breast Sandwich, Grilled Chicken Tenderloin Sandwich, Chicken Salad Sandwich, Fried Chicken Tenderloin Sandwich, Catfish Sandwich, Grilled Meatloaf Sandwich, Open Faced Roast Beef, Onion Rings, Baked Potato, Steak Fries, Grilled Haddock, Lemon Pepper Grilled Rainbow Trout, Grilled Sirloin Steak, Rib Eye Steak, Roast Beef Dinner, Catfish Platter, Fried Shrimp Platter, Chicken and Dumplings, Hamburger Steak, Fried Chicken Livers, Beef Stew, Fried Okra, Coleslaw, Dumplings, Carrots, Corn, Apple Sauce, Grilled Chicken Salad, Turkey Salad, Fried Chicken salad, Chicken Salad salad, Garden Salad, Tossed Salad, Chicken and Dressing, Chicken Pot Pie, Turkey and Dressing, Butter Baked Chicken, Broccoli Cheddar Chicken, Fried Cod, Chicken and Rice, Homestyle Chicken
And that isn't even all the stuff on the menu that doesn't include pork, either, because I tried to leave out anything that sounded too repetitive and skipped desserts, drinks, kids meals and all the stuff that could be prepared with the pork left out.
I think you just didn't bother reading the menu very well or asking the server any questions about the dishes.
Not a good analogy. Your computer wouldn't automatically be replaced in 24 hours, unlike your dog's semen.
If you're that worried about it, though, you should should probably masturbate your dog and store the semen in the freezer until you get back from vacation. That way you'll have your precious dog-spooge waiting for you when you get home.