I'd agree that Wil Wheaton has a good general point. However, when I've gotten video from iTunes (music videos not TV shows though), I get an.m4v that will play in VLC
The young new actors from the Harry Potter films seem to be doing a good job with avoiding this, taking on a bunch of different roles. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) in a production of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play) comes to mind as an example.
By the way, your post reminds me of the Metallica and Green Day fans that have freaked out about those bands' new direction.
I recall seeing Nimoy's photography endeavors being discussed in an Onion article a couple years back, one of those AV Club ones where the content is real
Yeah, I'm also inclined to focus on why the abuse could drive certain people to suicide, rather than focusing on the existence of the abuse itself. You have a point, that it's not (necessarily?) a problem with the targeted individual.
The solution to Holocaust deniers is not to stifle everyone's freedom of speech. Let them say their piece, then let the rest of us refute, rebuke, and roundly mock.
Agreed. Better to address it out in the open rather than try to sweep it under the rug. Also, I suspect that trying to censor conspiracy theorists helps fuel their paranoia/persecution complex, and helps bring them undue sympathy.
I suspect there are a few actual conspiracies amongst all the crazy BS such as Holocaust denial.
Lots of people use the iPad for travel, and even serious work. It may be somewhat less likely people would use the Amazon tablet for that, but many would at least use it to check web email...
Indeed, the first time I saw an iPad in the wild was on a train. The person happened to be passing the time with a game of some sort at the time. This was on August 5th 2010, a few months after release. (I recall some programmers at my university working with them in the spring, not quite "in the wild")
I do occasionally miss having Internet access while on vacation.
those big debts seem different from the small-scale consumer debts that this harassment seems to be associated with. (if someone defaulted one of those big debts, they'd have issues, but other issues)
Myself: I borrowed some $ from Mom for apartment startup expenses. That kind of thing is still a debt, but different from owing HyperMegaBank. Likewise, Mom and Dad saved up for most of the bill for my 1st Bachelors. (they wouldn't pay for grad school, but I don't particularly feel like another couple years in school anyway)
At my current address, I get a lot of mail that's aimed at the previous occupant of the apartment. Also, the cable company took a couple extra days to hook up my Internet because the address was flagged due to the previous occupant's issues.
I've seen Dad get mail for a deadbeat relative occasionally as well.
It _is_ still a problem with phone number reuse though. Annoyed one of Mom's friends once. I already had a cell, so I avoided that issue on my personal phone, but my office phone got a lot of calls looking for the previous person with that number for what seemed like non-debt reasons. I simply said that the person is not at the number anymore.
Reminds me of the "Every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up" aphormism attribute to Shakespeare.
I agree that some people are motivated by religion to do positive things, some negative, with a continuum between the two. Whether it's better or worse than they'd be otherwise is a whole other discussion.
By the way, that is just begging for an In Soviet Russia reference, but that would be Orthodox instead of Catholic.:)
maybe they don't like the governments that we support with oil money? I figure many fundamentalist nutjobs would be fundamentalist nutjobs anyway, no matter what we do, but no sense in just making things worse.
that movie was awesome and funny, unrealistic though it may be reminds me of my high school, open minded but not quite that much so (was starting to go downhill in practice, though)
incidentally, reminded of a sarcastic S.H.I.T acronym for my real school. RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) as South Henrietta Institute Of Technology
I think such things could still be appreciated as culture/history/mythology/literature/etc. even if you're not religious or not a follower of that particular religion
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it seems jasno sees both types of offenses as a pretext for inappropriate police/government activity
theoretically, the legislature could vote differently after hearing executive and other objections
I admit Ron Paul seems like a better idea than the rest of the GOP presidential candidate brain trust ... should the guy try a 3rd party run?
"scratch that. going to fucking kill ourselves, not google."
quote from the end of Dr. Strangelove I presume?
would you mind giving further details?
Do you have a more precise quote from Tocqueville? That comment sounds like a predecessor to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law ("90% of everything is crap")
I'd agree that Wil Wheaton has a good general point. .m4v that will play in VLC
However, when I've gotten video from iTunes (music videos not TV shows though), I get an
I don't think that having recently died should preclude criticism of what a person did while alive
The young new actors from the Harry Potter films seem to be doing a good job with avoiding this, taking on a bunch of different roles. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) in a production of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play) comes to mind as an example.
By the way, your post reminds me of the Metallica and Green Day fans that have freaked out about those bands' new direction.
are you joking about Shatner or did you mistake Shatner for Takei?
I recall seeing Nimoy's photography endeavors being discussed in an Onion article a couple years back, one of those AV Club ones where the content is real
Yeah, I'm also inclined to focus on why the abuse could drive certain people to suicide, rather than focusing on the existence of the abuse itself.
You have a point, that it's not (necessarily?) a problem with the targeted individual.
The solution to Holocaust deniers is not to stifle everyone's freedom of speech. Let them say their piece, then let the rest of us refute, rebuke, and roundly mock.
Agreed.
Better to address it out in the open rather than try to sweep it under the rug.
Also, I suspect that trying to censor conspiracy theorists helps fuel their paranoia/persecution complex, and helps bring them undue sympathy.
I suspect there are a few actual conspiracies amongst all the crazy BS such as Holocaust denial.
Lots of people use the iPad for travel, and even serious work. It may be somewhat less likely people would use the Amazon tablet for that, but many would at least use it to check web email...
Indeed, the first time I saw an iPad in the wild was on a train. The person happened to be passing the time with a game of some sort at the time. This was on August 5th 2010, a few months after release. (I recall some programmers at my university working with them in the spring, not quite "in the wild")
I do occasionally miss having Internet access while on vacation.
those big debts seem different from the small-scale consumer debts that this harassment seems to be associated with. (if someone defaulted one of those big debts, they'd have issues, but other issues)
Myself:
I borrowed some $ from Mom for apartment startup expenses. That kind of thing is still a debt, but different from owing HyperMegaBank.
Likewise, Mom and Dad saved up for most of the bill for my 1st Bachelors. (they wouldn't pay for grad school, but I don't particularly feel like another couple years in school anyway)
The idea of wasting a scammer's time and resources reminds me of http://www.419eater.com/ (even though this is a non-419 example)
At my current address, I get a lot of mail that's aimed at the previous occupant of the apartment.
Also, the cable company took a couple extra days to hook up my Internet because the address was flagged due to the previous occupant's issues.
I've seen Dad get mail for a deadbeat relative occasionally as well.
It _is_ still a problem with phone number reuse though. Annoyed one of Mom's friends once. I already had a cell, so I avoided that issue on my personal phone, but my office phone got a lot of calls looking for the previous person with that number for what seemed like non-debt reasons. I simply said that the person is not at the number anymore.
"When you read the Bible, the Bible reads you."
Reminds me of the "Every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up" aphormism attribute to Shakespeare.
I agree that some people are motivated by religion to do positive things, some negative, with a continuum between the two. Whether it's better or worse than they'd be otherwise is a whole other discussion.
By the way, that is just begging for an In Soviet Russia reference, but that would be Orthodox instead of Catholic. :)
maybe they don't like the governments that we support with oil money?
I figure many fundamentalist nutjobs would be fundamentalist nutjobs anyway, no matter what we do, but no sense in just making things worse.
I'm inclined to see the point of implementing eugenics in a way that doesn't just amount to racist BS.
whatever you say about security theater and such, the government does seem serious about securing its own stuff.
that movie was awesome and funny, unrealistic though it may be
reminds me of my high school, open minded but not quite that much so (was starting to go downhill in practice, though)
incidentally, reminded of a sarcastic S.H.I.T acronym for my real school.
RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) as South Henrietta Institute Of Technology
I think such things could still be appreciated as culture/history/mythology/literature/etc. even if you're not religious or not a follower of that particular religion