It's always amusing to see how people fail to see that there isn't really any difference in how you call your god and that they are taking their big invisible friends far too important when they start attacking other religions...
Illegal? Seriously, is there anybody besides you and the RIAA and you who cares around here? Yes, developers/writers/whatever should be paid for their work, but only if they a) deserve it and b) their work isn't full of DRM (in case of software). If nobody involved in distributing the book, even if it's great, receive any money from someone who buys the book, how does it matter? Why should I pay Amazon or some guy on eBay, when they don't provide me with what I want and also weren't even involved in the process of creating the book?
[Insert rant about how Microsoft should rather take time patching their old systems (or even better: creating a new one that actually would be _useful_ and _nice to use_) instead of developing new ones]
Are you serious? You should read some xkcd, these comics tell you a lot about Youtube users (if you have the luck not to have to experience them in person).
Still, it's one thing to remove videos of people mugging other people with knifes, but it's another thing to remove every video about knifes. That's like removing Diet Coke and Mentos videos, you can have a lot of fun with it, but if you force someone to drink the stuff, he won't feel very well either I guess...
Well, in that case, ban stupid people. It won't be easier to enact than enacting a ban on gun videos (Streisand effect, anyone? Whoever wants to watch gun videos just uses a proxy or looks somewhere else, it isn't like Youtube is the only website where you can watch videos), but at least, it would make sense.
Of course there are more people shooting other people in NY than in, say, London. When people are helpless against the (gun owning) criminals, they have to do what they tell them, or die. It takes a lot of either courage or stupidity to attack someone pointing a gun at you while you are unarmed, so usually, no one shoots. But in the US, you can actually defend yourself against criminals, though if both people draw a gun, not only the chance to get away from the criminal rises, but also the chance that someone gets shot.
Still, living in a country with very tight gun control and skyrocketing crime (just look at the statistics. Austria can't do s**t against criminals), I'd prefer to take the risk of getting shot but also be able to defend myself to being completely helpless in a criminal's paradise.
As long as their programming isn't faulty, combat robots do not engage enemies until told so from their operator, which usually is a soldier - and this soldier usually is held responsible for "his" robots. At least in the US military, they did already make sure that someone pays for it if the robots screw up.
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It's always amusing to see how people fail to see that there isn't really any difference in how you call your god and that they are taking their big invisible friends far too important when they start attacking other religions...
+1 Knowledge of advanced mathematic
I really don't want to feel like the next grammar nazi that finds this post.
Cue hot grits joke in 3..2..1..
Be glad you weren't playing as a Boomer on a Versus server.
You know that the government isn't your big daddy, always there to help when you need it?
Illegal? Seriously, is there anybody besides you and the RIAA and you who cares around here? Yes, developers/writers/whatever should be paid for their work, but only if they a) deserve it and b) their work isn't full of DRM (in case of software). If nobody involved in distributing the book, even if it's great, receive any money from someone who buys the book, how does it matter? Why should I pay Amazon or some guy on eBay, when they don't provide me with what I want and also weren't even involved in the process of creating the book?
RtCW: Enemy Territory?
I'd probably would look pretty badly because of my constant diarrhea, I guess.
Well, maybe she might get interested in the Zombie Survival Guide, at least. Doesn't cover the writing part though.
Not seeing the difference between a request to mod you up and a funny little joke is even more pathetic. Out
Soul: A music genre originating in the United States that combines gospel music as well as rhythm and blues.
You forgot about the chairs.
Naming yourself AFGNCAAP? Wouldn't that mean that you are likely to be eaten by a grue?
CowboyNeal.
[Insert rant about how Microsoft should rather take time patching their old systems (or even better: creating a new one that actually would be _useful_ and _nice to use_) instead of developing new ones]
Oh no! They are already trying to DoS Slashdot!
2+3=5
Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
I've got a even better solution.
Are you serious? You should read some xkcd, these comics tell you a lot about Youtube users (if you have the luck not to have to experience them in person).
Still, it's one thing to remove videos of people mugging other people with knifes, but it's another thing to remove every video about knifes. That's like removing Diet Coke and Mentos videos, you can have a lot of fun with it, but if you force someone to drink the stuff, he won't feel very well either I guess...
Well, in that case, ban stupid people. It won't be easier to enact than enacting a ban on gun videos (Streisand effect, anyone? Whoever wants to watch gun videos just uses a proxy or looks somewhere else, it isn't like Youtube is the only website where you can watch videos), but at least, it would make sense.
Of course there are more people shooting other people in NY than in, say, London. When people are helpless against the (gun owning) criminals, they have to do what they tell them, or die. It takes a lot of either courage or stupidity to attack someone pointing a gun at you while you are unarmed, so usually, no one shoots. But in the US, you can actually defend yourself against criminals, though if both people draw a gun, not only the chance to get away from the criminal rises, but also the chance that someone gets shot.
Still, living in a country with very tight gun control and skyrocketing crime (just look at the statistics. Austria can't do s**t against criminals), I'd prefer to take the risk of getting shot but also be able to defend myself to being completely helpless in a criminal's paradise.
As long as their programming isn't faulty, combat robots do not engage enemies until told so from their operator, which usually is a soldier - and this soldier usually is held responsible for "his" robots. At least in the US military, they did already make sure that someone pays for it if the robots screw up.
Isn't that pretty much the qualification for every high position, regardless if it's a political one or in a company?