Even the nudity or sex that is present in the American media is mostly connected with violence, or someone being hurt implicitly by being cheated on by their partner/spouse.
So in Europe cheating spouses aren't hurtful? I remember when a certain French primeminister's wife and children stood beside his mistress and illegitimate children.
Both substances can be just as dangerous. Yet alcohol intoxication often leads to aggressive and violent behavior, while marijuana has the opposite effect.
People often assume that hemp is illegal because of its relationship to marijuana, the inverse is the case marijuana is illegal because of its relationship to hemp. No one really cared about marijuana until hemp products starting cutting into the profits of Hearst and Du Pont.
There are varied and independent sources for the existence of a man with that name, living in that part of the world and at that time in the past. Even the name of his "father" is known.
They're not even sure of the dates, some research into the position of stars and other evidence showed it was more likely that Jesus, if he was ever real, was born in spring/early summer.
The Bible itself hits that Jesus was born either in the spring or the late summer. The shepherds were in the fields with their flocks at night according to the story, that happens two times a year there, in the spring when the sheep are mating and in late summer when it's too hot to graze them during the day.
Our calender is based around a best guess of the birth date of someone who may or may not have existed and who claimed to be the son of God.
Jesus never directly claimed to be the begotten son of God. He only referred to God as his "father", according to Judeo/Christian/Islamic theology he's all of our "father".
I'm not a Christian either, but you should at least understand their theology before going around trying to discredit it.
It is a historical fact that a man named Jesus, who hailed from Nazareth lived about 2000 years ago. The only real debates are whether or not he was really the son of God and if he was really crucified.
After seeing that video where a russian soldier gets beheaded, I have vowed not to watching videos like this anymore.
I downloaded the whole "Chechnian War Crimes" series, the Russian soldier getting the knife in his throat wasn't the worst IMHO. You have them cutting people's fingers off, or shooting them off. Holding pistols to people's heads. A soldier on the field of battle must concede that he may die, but to torture and execute civillians is far worse.
If anything else, it desensitizes us about humanity.
Sorry, I don't buy it. Every time I see something like that, it makes me more sensitive about the suffering of others.
Some people seemed to be obsessed with watching these stuff almost to the level that they are addicted to it. Now that is pornographic.
Obscene perhaps, but you apparently don't know the meaning of "pornographic".
The Supreme Court unaminously ruled that the right to privacy attached to family even if the person in the photos is dead.
Consider this other possible motive.
It's been over 40 years since JFK was killed and there are still all kinds of wild theories about it. With the few people who have seen the Vince Foster death scene pictures there are already all kinds of wild theories about it. Imagine how much worse that would get if millions of us were allowed to examine those pictures.
Is it really about his family's rights, or could this be about keeping a lid on it?
Yeah, the band "Filter" had a song called "Hey, Man Nice Shot" that was about this incident. I had thought that they used that footage in the video for the song, but from searching now online, I don't think that's the case (anyone know?).
I don't think I ever saw the whole video, but the song was on the Demon Knight soundtrack.
I was outside playing at the time, I was a kid and didn't watch the news then, but my mother saw it live.
I thought the metaphor fits. It was also on topic and a witty quote.
Really? Let's take another look.
Joe Rogan said it best on News Radio: "Getting something off the internet once it's been posted is like trying to clean the pee out of a swimming pool."
Otherwise it is really, really disturbing that people actually want to watch this.
I'm searching Kazaa for it right now. I have one other suicide movie.
Back in the 1980's a Pittsburgh area politician was caught up in a corruption scandal, his solutionm was to blow his brains out at a press conference. Someone must have either stolen the original from a tv station or had their VCR running at home when the suicide happened live. That person/s encoded the video and it's available online. Bud Dwyer's suicide is on my HDD somewhere.
I want to find this one too. Disturbing, perhaps. I want to see it anyway.
I don't know enough about Sun's internal financials to say what their profit point is, but selling 1 system with a 10% margin is not as good as selling 3 systems with a 5% margin.
Of course, the more reasonbly priced the better, but I know you usually get what you pay for.
This is Slashdot, you'll lose an eye here faster than you will in a barfight for saying that free (beer and speech) GNU/Linux isn't better than costly (money and your soul) Windows!
Have you *ever* played Metroid? Samus is an action hero more along the lines of Kate Beckinsale in Underworld.
I've been playing Metroid for more than half of my life.
The worst thing they could possibly do is put a woman with gigantic breasts in that suit. They can still make the stylized breasts on the suit with a less endowed actress. I personally will refuse to watch the movie if they use a busty actress and there's no power suit.
My question for you now is have you ever *beaten* Metroid? One of the perks to beating the game is having Samus run around in a bikini while you play again.
OTOH, if the NSA has a good spam filter they use before reading my mail, i'd be happy if they could share the technology with the rest of the world.
Just look at this guy's name.
Mohammed Momin Khawaja
Consider the number of known Al-Queda operatived who have the first name Mohammed. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the NSA, FBI, and CIA routinely monitored the communications of everyone in the western hemisphere who has an Arabic name.
The last thing this movie needs is some bubble-brained ditz bouncing around Zebes in a slinky catsuit.
That's exactly what this movie needs. I just hope they pick a hot actress who CAN ACT!
What's great about Samus is that she totally whoops butt. And no fricken' Liv Tyler!
If Anna Nicole Smith wasn't so God awfully stupid, she would have been the perfect Samus. We need a smart, tough, busty woman with a nice rump to play Samus.
I'm thinking that Lynn McCrossin would be a good candidate.
It looks like a real dilemma where if you refuse to hire your replacement, you are fired without severance and are ineligible for unemployment benefits, and if you quit, you don't receive severance and are ineligible for unemployment.
The obvious answer is to incorrectly train your replacement. One of my former employers had been doing this one department at a time, having existing employees train their replacements and then dropping the axe on that department.
When it came to my depertment (Bankruptcy) I pleaded with my co-workers to leave some of the finer details out. No one wanted to, so when the time came for us to commit to paper the process we used to submit a bankruptcy claim to the courts, I made sure that I didn't remind anyone of omitted steps.
Sure enough, the axe came down on our department and we were shuffled off to other areas. Our replacements fucked up during the first month, they improperly completed a bankruptcy claim and submitted it to court. It was summarily thrown out, costing the company $50,000 in one day. I felt satisfied when the story drifted back to our location.
Remember boys and girls, if you're expected to train your replacement. Go along with it, but leave out some critical step and make sure that the replacement fucks up.
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard.
Fuck you buddy. No one has the right to tell someone what they can or can't do with something that they have purchased. If I wanted to ulock an AAC file with the intention of converting it to Ogg or MP3, that's my business.
Please explain to us how one can vandalize something that he or she owns. I'm sure we'd all like to hear your explaination.
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Even the nudity or sex that is present in the American media is mostly connected with violence, or someone being hurt implicitly by being cheated on by their partner/spouse.
So in Europe cheating spouses aren't hurtful? I remember when a certain French primeminister's wife and children stood beside his mistress and illegitimate children.
Both substances can be just as dangerous. Yet alcohol intoxication often leads to aggressive and violent behavior, while marijuana has the opposite effect.
People often assume that hemp is illegal because of its relationship to marijuana, the inverse is the case marijuana is illegal because of its relationship to hemp. No one really cared about marijuana until hemp products starting cutting into the profits of Hearst and Du Pont.
LK
It's not historical fact.
There are varied and independent sources for the existence of a man with that name, living in that part of the world and at that time in the past. Even the name of his "father" is known.
There is tangible evidence of this.
They're not even sure of the dates, some research into the position of stars and other evidence showed it was more likely that Jesus, if he was ever real, was born in spring/early summer.
The Bible itself hits that Jesus was born either in the spring or the late summer. The shepherds were in the fields with their flocks at night according to the story, that happens two times a year there, in the spring when the sheep are mating and in late summer when it's too hot to graze them during the day.
Our calender is based around a best guess of the birth date of someone who may or may not have existed and who claimed to be the son of God.
Jesus never directly claimed to be the begotten son of God. He only referred to God as his "father", according to Judeo/Christian/Islamic theology he's all of our "father".
I'm not a Christian either, but you should at least understand their theology before going around trying to discredit it.
LK
This guy's real, Jesus wasn't.
It is a historical fact that a man named Jesus, who hailed from Nazareth lived about 2000 years ago. The only real debates are whether or not he was really the son of God and if he was really crucified.
LK
I feel like such a n00b when a story brings out the old timers like you.
LK
After seeing that video where a russian soldier gets beheaded, I have vowed not to watching videos like this anymore.
I downloaded the whole "Chechnian War Crimes" series, the Russian soldier getting the knife in his throat wasn't the worst IMHO. You have them cutting people's fingers off, or shooting them off. Holding pistols to people's heads. A soldier on the field of battle must concede that he may die, but to torture and execute civillians is far worse.
If anything else, it desensitizes us about humanity.
Sorry, I don't buy it. Every time I see something like that, it makes me more sensitive about the suffering of others.
Some people seemed to be obsessed with watching these stuff almost to the level that they are addicted to it. Now that is pornographic.
Obscene perhaps, but you apparently don't know the meaning of "pornographic".
LK
The Supreme Court unaminously ruled that the right to privacy attached to family even if the person in the photos is dead.
Consider this other possible motive.
It's been over 40 years since JFK was killed and there are still all kinds of wild theories about it. With the few people who have seen the Vince Foster death scene pictures there are already all kinds of wild theories about it. Imagine how much worse that would get if millions of us were allowed to examine those pictures.
Is it really about his family's rights, or could this be about keeping a lid on it?
LK
Yeah, the band "Filter" had a song called "Hey, Man Nice Shot" that was about this incident. I had thought that they used that footage in the video for the song, but from searching now online, I don't think that's the case (anyone know?).
I don't think I ever saw the whole video, but the song was on the Demon Knight soundtrack.
I was outside playing at the time, I was a kid and didn't watch the news then, but my mother saw it live.
LK
Really? Let's take another look.
Joe Rogan said it best on News Radio: "Getting something off the internet once it's been posted is like trying to clean the pee out of a swimming pool."
It's a SIMILE Bitch!
Or have I been trolled?
Yes, and the troll set me up for a fantastic spike.
^^Now, THAT is a metaphor.
LK
Otherwise it is really, really disturbing that people actually want to watch this.
I'm searching Kazaa for it right now. I have one other suicide movie.
Back in the 1980's a Pittsburgh area politician was caught up in a corruption scandal, his solutionm was to blow his brains out at a press conference. Someone must have either stolen the original from a tv station or had their VCR running at home when the suicide happened live. That person/s encoded the video and it's available online. Bud Dwyer's suicide is on my HDD somewhere.
I want to find this one too. Disturbing, perhaps. I want to see it anyway.
LK
It's all about volume baby!
I don't know enough about Sun's internal financials to say what their profit point is, but selling 1 system with a 10% margin is not as good as selling 3 systems with a 5% margin.
Remember, VOLUME!!!!
LK
Selling $199 computers at Walmart is not the road ahead for Sun Microsystems!
I think that would be a great move for Sun.
Solaris still kicks ass on big, BIG, database servers. Making money on the low end can help to bolster them on the high end.
LK
Under consideration is raising the price of online singles up to $1.25 to $2.49, or bundling less desirable tracks with hot singles.
This is exactly what lead to rampant music piracy in the first place. I am NOT going to pay $18 for a cd that has 5 songs that I like on it.
I have been reduced to buying a used cassette from a store for $2.00 and then downloading the tracks from Kazaa.
LK
Of course, the more reasonbly priced the better, but I know you usually get what you pay for.
This is Slashdot, you'll lose an eye here faster than you will in a barfight for saying that free (beer and speech) GNU/Linux isn't better than costly (money and your soul) Windows!
LK
damn dude you got some issues, that lady looks like a dude.
Except for the big pendulous breasts, right?
LK
Mohammed is the most common name on the planet, that doesn't mean that it is more common than every other name combined.
LK
Have you *ever* played Metroid? Samus is an action hero more along the lines of Kate Beckinsale in Underworld.
I've been playing Metroid for more than half of my life.
The worst thing they could possibly do is put a woman with gigantic breasts in that suit. They can still make the stylized breasts on the suit with a less endowed actress. I personally will refuse to watch the movie if they use a busty actress and there's no power suit.
My question for you now is have you ever *beaten* Metroid? One of the perks to beating the game is having Samus run around in a bikini while you play again.
LK
OTOH, if the NSA has a good spam filter they use before reading my mail, i'd be happy if they could share the technology with the rest of the world.
Just look at this guy's name.
Mohammed Momin Khawaja
Consider the number of known Al-Queda operatived who have the first name Mohammed. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the NSA, FBI, and CIA routinely monitored the communications of everyone in the western hemisphere who has an Arabic name.
They can't have that much spam to weed through.
LK
just hope they don't try to make Samus "sexy".
Um, I disagree. Samus should be a babe.
The last thing this movie needs is some bubble-brained ditz bouncing around Zebes in a slinky catsuit.
That's exactly what this movie needs. I just hope they pick a hot actress who CAN ACT!
What's great about Samus is that she totally whoops butt. And no fricken' Liv Tyler!
If Anna Nicole Smith wasn't so God awfully stupid, she would have been the perfect Samus. We need a smart, tough, busty woman with a nice rump to play Samus.
I'm thinking that Lynn McCrossin would be a good candidate.
LK
What have to do "the improvements in economy" with the launching of nuclear missiles?
If India and Pakistan need each other to thrive economically, they are less likely to try to kill each other. It makes perfect sense.
LK
It looks like a real dilemma where if you refuse to hire your replacement, you are fired without severance and are ineligible for unemployment benefits, and if you quit, you don't receive severance and are ineligible for unemployment.
The obvious answer is to incorrectly train your replacement. One of my former employers had been doing this one department at a time, having existing employees train their replacements and then dropping the axe on that department.
When it came to my depertment (Bankruptcy) I pleaded with my co-workers to leave some of the finer details out. No one wanted to, so when the time came for us to commit to paper the process we used to submit a bankruptcy claim to the courts, I made sure that I didn't remind anyone of omitted steps.
Sure enough, the axe came down on our department and we were shuffled off to other areas. Our replacements fucked up during the first month, they improperly completed a bankruptcy claim and submitted it to court. It was summarily thrown out, costing the company $50,000 in one day. I felt satisfied when the story drifted back to our location.
Remember boys and girls, if you're expected to train your replacement. Go along with it, but leave out some critical step and make sure that the replacement fucks up.
LK
STFU!
RTFA!
In 30 seconds of reading you can find out that NEC estimates up to 80 hours in MD players.
LK
So what you're saying is that my favorite album would be 20% longer on this.
Sweet!
To the Mac fanatics, Apple can do no wrong.
I used to be one of them. Until I got tired of making excuses and blaming everyone but Apple.
LK
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard.
Fuck you buddy. No one has the right to tell someone what they can or can't do with something that they have purchased. If I wanted to ulock an AAC file with the intention of converting it to Ogg or MP3, that's my business.
Please explain to us how one can vandalize something that he or she owns. I'm sure we'd all like to hear your explaination.
LK
they took the picture of your house while your mistress was parked outside?
LK