Because the speed limit is set so that retarded grandmothers can still drive. In other words: Way. Too. Low. To drive at that speed is boring and causes dangerous inattention, and WASTES TIME. Please don't give me that driver's ed bullshit: "See, Johnny broke the law and only got there 3 minutes sooner." The other day I drove from Reno to Martinez, CA in 2 hours and 50 minutes, and I was throttled back more than once by sightings of random tax agents, (highway patrol), as well as light rush hour traffic in Sacto. Here's the route: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=reno,+nv&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Reno,+NV&gl=us&ei=NBPQS7T-G4j-tAPJ4IXqDw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQ8gEwAA. See how much time I saved - and I could have saved a lot more. But no, free men deserve more misery from the Stupid Morals Police - and jackasses like you.
I've got a better idea. Let's all live in a fantasy world where everyone is rich no matter what they can do or not do. That's about as reasonable as your suggestion, isn't it? The things people want and are willing to pay for change. You might be the best buggy whip maker who ever lived, you're still not going to make a very good living in 2010. Getting rich off recorded music was an anomoly of the disparity between the ease of mass production of original recordings and the difficulty of copying those recordings. That's over and so therefore is the career potential - one that, in my opinion, did more damage than assistance to the production of great music. You can't turn back the clock - and you would be a fool to do so if you could. So, as I said earlier: get over it.
Maybe nobody cares because nobody sees it as wrong. Maybe the concept of copyright needs to be sunsetted. Copyright has always been contrary to natural law, but, for a couple hundred years, its advantages outweighed its costs. Maybe this is no longer true. I know that to a lot of people this is close to saying maybe our ideas about children and sex are outmoded, (and I am NOT saying that!), but to a lot of people, that's how what I am saying hits them. The strength of thier gut-reactions doesn't make their ideas correct. It doesn't make them wrong either, but It does make it likely that their ideas are not well considered. I don't care so much, and in my view it's much ado about nothing. Digital data is the most ephemeral substance I know of. Distribute it? Not unless you want copies made. End of story.
Dude, you are the one who needs psychological help. "he only deserves punishment and psychological treatment" Huh? So if he is ill, we should punish him for being ill? What is the source of all your anger? Childs was just doing his job. His managers were idiots. Childs allowed his managers' idiocy to inconvenience people, and that is not his fault. In fact, if he would have acted to prevent the inconveneince, he would have been guilty of dereliction. Hello?
Please, Mr. Calvin! Do you honestly believe that the gestalt of society and culture in the United States is doing anything even close to an optimum job of providing the nurturing that will best develop everyone to their full potential? OK, not optimum, how about 1% of optimum? 2%? The idea is not to "blame society" and thereby rob an individual of their dignity and self direction. The idea is to point out that we don't do a very good job, *so that we might improve*. Or you don't think any improvement in nurturing is possible? I think 5% is a realistic goal - let's start with that! Let's see if we can achieve 5% of optimum. Whatta ya say?
Leave Charley out of this. He was scapegoated by those sick fucks who did the murdering. Then by that opportunisic freak Bugliosi. The way society has treated Charles Manson is a perfect indictment of all that is patholigical in the United States.
You're right about Debt though!! Really, really right. Please read my sig for the solution.
Fair enough, but this is not the court of public opinion - this is slashdot where, despite a flurry of evidence to the contrary, we are indeed smarter than the average bear. So, my point stands - why all the fuss? We all got that he didn't commit an assault, he didn't do anything except be the victim of battery comitted by the guards. For that he was convicted of some trumped up felony.
My larger point is: what kind of horrible nightmare society are we living in where citizen/jurors display the sort of sheep-like mentality as evidenced by this verdict and the comments of one of that crew here? What can any of us do to reverse the trend towards this nighmare? What can any of us do to protect ourselves from this kind of breakdown?
See where I'm going? Bigger questions than the specific statute number of the particular trumped up felony applied here are what I expect us to be discussing. Not, over and over, clarification of what is really a trivial fact. A trumped up felony is a trumped up felony. Frankly, as far as I am concerned, the fact that the "media" mis-report such facts is a deliberate ploy to put a glamor on small minds, so that the bigger discussions are drowned out in the noise generated by correcting the mis-reporting. Worked pretty well this time, didn't it?
Oh for fuck's sake!! WHAT DO YOU CARE ABOUT???? That is what I was bringing to question.
Let me break it down for you: What is more important to you: that a man was convicted of a felony when he did nothing wrong, or the precise legal term for the particular felony of which he was unjustly convicted? Which of those two do you find more significant? A or B? Abject injustice or failure of precise terminology?
>> tell them that you won't do it, and if they persist, explain that you are going to contact authorities immediately.
No moron. You innocently stall, and then quit because "my sister in Ohio is sick." Leave town. DO NOT CONTACT THE POLICE EVER! They hate snitches as much as any other criminal gang, and will throw you under the bus just like that asshole Pisscarelli.
Either that or you run the scam, and, as soon as possible, ice your boss. "I never trusted that piece of shit." If you don't have the balls for the second procedure, follow the first one.
I love your line, "explain that you are going to contact authorities..."
"What happened to that guy, Fred, the new programmer?" "I haven't seen him around lately."
"Yeah, he had an accident."
"Oh."
Waste of taxpayer money number one million three hundred and eighty seven thousand five hundred and ninety three: *Homland* Security agents interacting with people who are LEAVING THE US.
Why are so many pedants fussing over the exact and specific charge he was convicted of. HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG, YET WAS CONVICTED OF A FELONY. You fucking moron.
Amen. Anyone who want to make snide remarks over the use the "sheeple" cliche should really take a good look at this case and the comment of this juror. The only thing that separates this juror from complete ovinity is that at least he had a guilty conscience, and he responded to the disquiet of his conscience by baring his crapulent soul in this forum. The rest of those jurors are fully vested members of the sheepulation.
You are absolutely correct in what you imply: there is a world-wide conspiracy!!
Here's the good news: the identity of the Conspirators is an open secret. We all know who they are, but, and this is the really good part: we don't have to prove it! We don't have to 'uncover' anything. All we have to do is make one simple change to our laws and, Bada Bing, the Conspirators are out of business. What change? Easy, outlaw fractional reserve banking. If a bank gets caught with less than 100% reserves, the entire board, and all the officers, should get automatic 20 year sentences without any parole.
Of course, (well, it is "of course" if you spend even one hour studying how our monetary system works), that would mean that we would have to completely revamp our monetary system. Oh golly gee! Please read my sig - Douglas had this all figured out in the '20s.
Excuse me? Not quite. Try Windows XP64. Unfortunately *that* is the best OS product MS has released in years. I say "unfortunately" because the sad truth is that MS, which used to lurch along making progress in fits and starts, but utimately *making* it, has apparently gone belly up on the progress-making capacity.
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Because the speed limit is set so that retarded grandmothers can still drive. In other words: Way. Too. Low. To drive at that speed is boring and causes dangerous inattention, and WASTES TIME. Please don't give me that driver's ed bullshit: "See, Johnny broke the law and only got there 3 minutes sooner." The other day I drove from Reno to Martinez, CA in 2 hours and 50 minutes, and I was throttled back more than once by sightings of random tax agents, (highway patrol), as well as light rush hour traffic in Sacto. Here's the route: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=reno,+nv&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Reno,+NV&gl=us&ei=NBPQS7T-G4j-tAPJ4IXqDw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQ8gEwAA. See how much time I saved - and I could have saved a lot more. But no, free men deserve more misery from the Stupid Morals Police - and jackasses like you.
He went AC so Mom wouldn't catch him talking dirty on the internet.
I've got a better idea. Let's all live in a fantasy world where everyone is rich no matter what they can do or not do. That's about as reasonable as your suggestion, isn't it? The things people want and are willing to pay for change. You might be the best buggy whip maker who ever lived, you're still not going to make a very good living in 2010. Getting rich off recorded music was an anomoly of the disparity between the ease of mass production of original recordings and the difficulty of copying those recordings. That's over and so therefore is the career potential - one that, in my opinion, did more damage than assistance to the production of great music. You can't turn back the clock - and you would be a fool to do so if you could. So, as I said earlier: get over it.
We are too fucking stupid. Sad but true.
Maybe nobody cares because nobody sees it as wrong. Maybe the concept of copyright needs to be sunsetted. Copyright has always been contrary to natural law, but, for a couple hundred years, its advantages outweighed its costs. Maybe this is no longer true. I know that to a lot of people this is close to saying maybe our ideas about children and sex are outmoded, (and I am NOT saying that!), but to a lot of people, that's how what I am saying hits them. The strength of thier gut-reactions doesn't make their ideas correct. It doesn't make them wrong either, but It does make it likely that their ideas are not well considered. I don't care so much, and in my view it's much ado about nothing. Digital data is the most ephemeral substance I know of. Distribute it? Not unless you want copies made. End of story.
>> What about musicians who are weak performers while a genius in the studio?
They aren't going to be rich. Get over it.
Dude, you are the one who needs psychological help. "he only deserves punishment and psychological treatment" Huh? So if he is ill, we should punish him for being ill? What is the source of all your anger? Childs was just doing his job. His managers were idiots. Childs allowed his managers' idiocy to inconvenience people, and that is not his fault. In fact, if he would have acted to prevent the inconveneince, he would have been guilty of dereliction. Hello?
Best. Sig. Ever! Still chuckling as I type. Thanks!
Booth was a dupe of the Fractional Reserve Banking conspriacy. So was Oswald.
About the fucking truth, ain't it!?
For "rational thinking", please see my sig...
Please, Mr. Calvin! Do you honestly believe that the gestalt of society and culture in the United States is doing anything even close to an optimum job of providing the nurturing that will best develop everyone to their full potential? OK, not optimum, how about 1% of optimum? 2%? The idea is not to "blame society" and thereby rob an individual of their dignity and self direction. The idea is to point out that we don't do a very good job, *so that we might improve*. Or you don't think any improvement in nurturing is possible? I think 5% is a realistic goal - let's start with that! Let's see if we can achieve 5% of optimum. Whatta ya say?
It's morons like you who have nearly destroyed the United States. Please fuck off and die.
>> Now with Win 7 working wonderfully
And the Iraq war won...
Leave Charley out of this. He was scapegoated by those sick fucks who did the murdering. Then by that opportunisic freak Bugliosi. The way society has treated Charles Manson is a perfect indictment of all that is patholigical in the United States.
You're right about Debt though!! Really, really right. Please read my sig for the solution.
Fair enough, but this is not the court of public opinion - this is slashdot where, despite a flurry of evidence to the contrary, we are indeed smarter than the average bear. So, my point stands - why all the fuss? We all got that he didn't commit an assault, he didn't do anything except be the victim of battery comitted by the guards. For that he was convicted of some trumped up felony.
My larger point is: what kind of horrible nightmare society are we living in where citizen/jurors display the sort of sheep-like mentality as evidenced by this verdict and the comments of one of that crew here? What can any of us do to reverse the trend towards this nighmare? What can any of us do to protect ourselves from this kind of breakdown?
See where I'm going? Bigger questions than the specific statute number of the particular trumped up felony applied here are what I expect us to be discussing. Not, over and over, clarification of what is really a trivial fact. A trumped up felony is a trumped up felony. Frankly, as far as I am concerned, the fact that the "media" mis-report such facts is a deliberate ploy to put a glamor on small minds, so that the bigger discussions are drowned out in the noise generated by correcting the mis-reporting. Worked pretty well this time, didn't it?
>> someone may even explicitly take a moment to personally tell you, "fuck off, peon."
Oh! That's what they meant when they said, "It is a bug." "We have no plans to fix it."
OH HORSESHIT! Pundits just pun. People who *use* their computers are shocked how much better they run with an SSD. End of story.
Oh for fuck's sake!! WHAT DO YOU CARE ABOUT???? That is what I was bringing to question.
Let me break it down for you: What is more important to you: that a man was convicted of a felony when he did nothing wrong, or the precise legal term for the particular felony of which he was unjustly convicted? Which of those two do you find more significant? A or B? Abject injustice or failure of precise terminology?
Moron.
>> tell them that you won't do it, and if they persist, explain that you are going to contact authorities immediately.
No moron. You innocently stall, and then quit because "my sister in Ohio is sick." Leave town. DO NOT CONTACT THE POLICE EVER! They hate snitches as much as any other criminal gang, and will throw you under the bus just like that asshole Pisscarelli.
Either that or you run the scam, and, as soon as possible, ice your boss. "I never trusted that piece of shit." If you don't have the balls for the second procedure, follow the first one.
I love your line, "explain that you are going to contact authorities..."
"What happened to that guy, Fred, the new programmer?" "I haven't seen him around lately."
"Yeah, he had an accident."
"Oh."
We are all sick with jealousy of the guys who are already in prison getting good hard ass poundings. Against their "will".
Thus the glee when we hear about another guy getting ready to enter wonderland - "I might be next! *swoon*
Waste of taxpayer money number one million three hundred and eighty seven thousand five hundred and ninety three: *Homland* Security agents interacting with people who are LEAVING THE US.
What The Fuck???
Why are so many pedants fussing over the exact and specific charge he was convicted of. HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG, YET WAS CONVICTED OF A FELONY. You fucking moron.
Amen. Anyone who want to make snide remarks over the use the "sheeple" cliche should really take a good look at this case and the comment of this juror. The only thing that separates this juror from complete ovinity is that at least he had a guilty conscience, and he responded to the disquiet of his conscience by baring his crapulent soul in this forum. The rest of those jurors are fully vested members of the sheepulation.
You are absolutely correct in what you imply: there is a world-wide conspiracy!!
Here's the good news: the identity of the Conspirators is an open secret. We all know who they are, but, and this is the really good part: we don't have to prove it! We don't have to 'uncover' anything. All we have to do is make one simple change to our laws and, Bada Bing, the Conspirators are out of business. What change? Easy, outlaw fractional reserve banking. If a bank gets caught with less than 100% reserves, the entire board, and all the officers, should get automatic 20 year sentences without any parole.
Of course, (well, it is "of course" if you spend even one hour studying how our monetary system works), that would mean that we would have to completely revamp our monetary system. Oh golly gee! Please read my sig - Douglas had this all figured out in the '20s.
Excuse me? Not quite. Try Windows XP64. Unfortunately *that* is the best OS product MS has released in years. I say "unfortunately" because the sad truth is that MS, which used to lurch along making progress in fits and starts, but utimately *making* it, has apparently gone belly up on the progress-making capacity.