BTW I am from the UK and I grow more ashamed of the people who govern it almost every day.
Then don't just be ashamed, but use the 4 boxes - soap, ballot, jury, ammo (although using the last one may be difficult in the UK, which, like pretty much every authoritarian regime, loves to disarm it's citizens). If you want freedom, you have to work for it, and since the UK isn't Cuba or North Korea Mk.2 yet, you should start voicing your opinion on freedom in the UK right now.
Of course not. Natural selection is a nice thing. But sadly, AIDS can be gained by a number of things *besides* being a slut and having unprotected sex with strangers. You may even be infected during birth *shock*. Just take a look at Africa...
Because, if you use latin terms, it's easier for doctors speaking different primary languages to communicate with each other. A US doc may be able to speak Japanese to some degree, but he'll face some difficulties if he's to work with a Japanese doc, because they use German instead of Latin for their medspeak (I think) and well, while learning a bit of Japanese is one thing, learning all the medical terms in Japanese as well is a bit difficult. Latin is the English of the medical word.
I'm no psychologist/psychiatrist, but isn't Psychopathy just an old, outdated term for Sociopathy which now is almost only used in criminal science and colloquial speech?
Problem is, they a) don't but b) instead break the suspension. I didn't really mind the ads in Rainbow Six: Vegas, mainly because they were designed to fit in (more or less) and weren't too intrusive either (I would mind them in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory though, but my game does not connect to the Internet - come on, American ads on a North Korean rocket base?), but I still was a bit angry about the fact that while the publisher made more money with these ads, they didn't lower the price.
Microsoft
RIAA/MPAA (yay, TPB!)
Electronic Arts
The Republican Party
The Democrat Party
Capitalism/Communism/Socialism/Corporatism (well, you've got to pick one not to boycott here)
The right to bear arms (NOEZ! GUNS KILL PEOPLE!)
Emacs
Vim
CowboyNeal
FIRST POSTers
Red links to articles
Ads on the Internet (yay, AdBlock Plus!)
Left 4 Dead 2 (aka Zombies 8 my brain)
Scientology (except for Xenu, who is our new overlord)
Intelligent Design
Soviet Russia
People opposing tinfoil hats (iEl MEX...TINFOIL HAT ES EL MEJOR!)
Slashdot 2.0 (at least we'd probably do if we could)
Surveillance
The UK (aka Oceania)
Sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads
Over 9000 memes that have no place on pseudo-intellectual/.
Feel free to expand the list however you'd like to.
If my child gets harmed by reading something on the Internet I failed at parenting. Young children shouldn't be allowed to use the Internet alone, older children should be able to coup with most of what they see (you know, one of the jobs of parents is to prepare their children for the big mean world out there).
I'm quite willing to believe this, but are there really any other options besides taking away children from abusive parents? Of course, people could try to fix the current care system though...
A lot of authoritarian states (including Nazi Germany and a number of middle-eastern states today) encouraged private ownership of firearms because presenting a foreign threat and stressing that individuals have to be ready to defend their country against foreign aggressors is a very easy way of promoting xenophobia.
Nazi Germany may have encouraged certain people to own guns, but the government still required all but government workers, NSDAP members and, to some degree, hunters to acquire licenses, and they certainly also disarmed a lot of people. I have to admit though that I don't really know a lot about gun control laws in the Middle East, but according to what I've read about Iran, they are even worse (government has the sole right to distribute arms), especially since the Shah are gone (gun control laws where strict under their regime as well, though not really enforced in the countryside). Feel free to point out counterexamples to this though, I'd really be interested in reading them.
If a family fails so much at parenting that they have to be supervised by the government to do their job, I really don't think that it would change anything. Sure, it might prevent the parents from beating the crap out of their children, but if they do that, taking away the children is a better idea anyways, or do you really expect them to turn into loving, good-citizen parents just because Big Brother is watching? I'm not as opposed to surveillance as most of the/. crowd, but this...they aren't just completely invading *private* homes, it's also completely stupid - that is, if it weren't just to increase government power. Yes, the UK is really becoming a Stalinist state, slow maybe, but they sure are. And like in every authoritarian state, they already disarmed their citizens. I'd get out of that country ASAP if I'd be living there.
Yes Al Gore is a hypocrite. He's done nothing to change his lifestyle, still drving SUVS everywhere, while telling all the rest of us to stop consuming so much energy. But then that's typical of kings, nobility, and other leaders. They believe the rules don't apply to them, because they are in a separate, better class than us mere commoners. i.e. Non-equality.
Well, he's a politician, no? "Hypocracy" may be a stupid misspelling, but if applied correctly, it describes most nation's governments quite well...
The Secret Service protects other government officials (mainly the President, the VP, embassy personnel etc); the federal courts have their own executive, which, yes, is the US Marshals Service.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, when did *you* retire, Sir?
Ah, thanks for the correction then :) .
BTW I am from the UK and I grow more ashamed of the people who govern it almost every day.
Then don't just be ashamed, but use the 4 boxes - soap, ballot, jury, ammo (although using the last one may be difficult in the UK, which, like pretty much every authoritarian regime, loves to disarm it's citizens). If you want freedom, you have to work for it, and since the UK isn't Cuba or North Korea Mk.2 yet, you should start voicing your opinion on freedom in the UK right now.
There actually is, but only for espionage, (violent) piracy and treason. No executions have been carried out though since August '64.
No, that's my wife!
medical terms in Japanese
Uh, that should read German of course. Damn my sleepiness and lack of coffee.
Of course not. Natural selection is a nice thing. But sadly, AIDS can be gained by a number of things *besides* being a slut and having unprotected sex with strangers. You may even be infected during birth *shock*. Just take a look at Africa...
Because, if you use latin terms, it's easier for doctors speaking different primary languages to communicate with each other. A US doc may be able to speak Japanese to some degree, but he'll face some difficulties if he's to work with a Japanese doc, because they use German instead of Latin for their medspeak (I think) and well, while learning a bit of Japanese is one thing, learning all the medical terms in Japanese as well is a bit difficult. Latin is the English of the medical word.
The appendix actually has it's use - it's a "reservoir" for various bacteria. And earlobes exist to warm the ear and maintain balance, I think.
So if you get raped and get AIDS, it's because of your lifestyle? Damn these girls in their miniskirts. They were asking for it!
I'm no psychologist/psychiatrist, but isn't Psychopathy just an old, outdated term for Sociopathy which now is almost only used in criminal science and colloquial speech?
How is achieving a "natural" score 5 post important, anyways?
Problem is, they a) don't but b) instead break the suspension. I didn't really mind the ads in Rainbow Six: Vegas, mainly because they were designed to fit in (more or less) and weren't too intrusive either (I would mind them in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory though, but my game does not connect to the Internet - come on, American ads on a North Korean rocket base?), but I still was a bit angry about the fact that while the publisher made more money with these ads, they didn't lower the price.
CowboyNeal?
Alright...
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Microsoft
RIAA/MPAA (yay, TPB!)
Electronic Arts
The Republican Party
The Democrat Party
Capitalism/Communism/Socialism/Corporatism (well, you've got to pick one not to boycott here)
The right to bear arms (NOEZ! GUNS KILL PEOPLE!)
Emacs
Vim
CowboyNeal
FIRST POSTers
Red links to articles
Ads on the Internet (yay, AdBlock Plus!)
Left 4 Dead 2 (aka Zombies 8 my brain)
Scientology (except for Xenu, who is our new overlord)
Intelligent Design
Soviet Russia
People opposing tinfoil hats (iEl MEX...TINFOIL HAT ES EL MEJOR!)
Slashdot 2.0 (at least we'd probably do if we could)
Surveillance
The UK (aka Oceania)
Sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads
Over 9000 memes that have no place on pseudo-intellectual
Feel free to expand the list however you'd like to.
If my child gets harmed by reading something on the Internet I failed at parenting. Young children shouldn't be allowed to use the Internet alone, older children should be able to coup with most of what they see (you know, one of the jobs of parents is to prepare their children for the big mean world out there).
I'm quite willing to believe this, but are there really any other options besides taking away children from abusive parents? Of course, people could try to fix the current care system though...
A lot of authoritarian states (including Nazi Germany and a number of middle-eastern states today) encouraged private ownership of firearms because presenting a foreign threat and stressing that individuals have to be ready to defend their country against foreign aggressors is a very easy way of promoting xenophobia.
Nazi Germany may have encouraged certain people to own guns, but the government still required all but government workers, NSDAP members and, to some degree, hunters to acquire licenses, and they certainly also disarmed a lot of people.
I have to admit though that I don't really know a lot about gun control laws in the Middle East, but according to what I've read about Iran, they are even worse (government has the sole right to distribute arms), especially since the Shah are gone (gun control laws where strict under their regime as well, though not really enforced in the countryside). Feel free to point out counterexamples to this though, I'd really be interested in reading them.
If a family fails so much at parenting that they have to be supervised by the government to do their job, I really don't think that it would change anything. Sure, it might prevent the parents from beating the crap out of their children, but if they do that, taking away the children is a better idea anyways, or do you really expect them to turn into loving, good-citizen parents just because Big Brother is watching? I'm not as opposed to surveillance as most of the /. crowd, but this...they aren't just completely invading *private* homes, it's also completely stupid - that is, if it weren't just to increase government power. Yes, the UK is really becoming a Stalinist state, slow maybe, but they sure are. And like in every authoritarian state, they already disarmed their citizens. I'd get out of that country ASAP if I'd be living there.
Tell that to the Iranians.
Yes Al Gore is a hypocrite. He's done nothing to change his lifestyle, still drving SUVS everywhere, while telling all the rest of us to stop consuming so much energy. But then that's typical of kings, nobility, and other leaders. They believe the rules don't apply to them, because they are in a separate, better class than us mere commoners. i.e. Non-equality.
Well, he's a politician, no? "Hypocracy" may be a stupid misspelling, but if applied correctly, it describes most nation's governments quite well...
The Secret Service protects other government officials (mainly the President, the VP, embassy personnel etc); the federal courts have their own executive, which, yes, is the US Marshals Service.
Gas prices.
...will this service belong to the old or the new TPB owners?
You require more Vespene Gas!