As I replied to the AC, the finality apparent in saying "no privacy, period, end of discussion" is just asking for the bizarre scenarios to be brought out.
While your second post does mention a "slow transition" to full privacy rights, your first post made no such note. And knowing how some other people are, I naturally took your first post to mean a 4 month old and a 17.9 year old would have the same expectation of privacy under your roof, which (extreme examples of teens needing 24/7 supervision aside) is just ridiculous.
I never said you "put the moves on her", I said "sexual harassment". And if your daughter has "no privacy, period, end of discussion", well, excuse me if I happen to have taken that to the extreme of, for example, demanding your daughter shower in a clear-as-crystal glass bathroom with clear-as-crystal curtains.
Same could be said about many communication methods. Case in point:
So many posts here are about not using AOL Instant Messenger, not having AOL Instant Messenger ect... This isn't an option for everyone. A huge portion of my friends use AOL Instant Messenger with ages that range from pre-pubescent family members to senior citizens. I have friends around the world with whom I'd have minimal communication if not for AOL Instant Messenger. AOL Instant Messenger allows me to keep touch with my friends and acquaintances abroad and at home in a single place that they will check often (too often). I deprive myself socially by not having an account. I don't care for it, but so many people I know use it I have no option. I just avoid saying or posting anything anything remotely incriminating.
Actually, scratch that last part. Since messages aren't stored in a central location, visible to everyone on the planet, there's no need to worry about what you said coming back to bite you in the ass 10 years down the road when a prospective employer googles your name.
I agree. It would be great to have a single portable device for both gaming and making phone calls, so long as it's a gaming device that can also make phone calls instead of a phone that can also play games (*cough*n-gage*cough*). My only question though, can it play UMDs? Not seeing anything one way or the other on that.
And you should always have your gadgets completely separated. [...] one for a flashlight, one for a fleshlight...
Wouldn't that only be true if they are working more than 689.66 hours per year? That's about 13.26 hours per week. Not in the industry, I cannot say if that is above or below the typical hours that they work. But it is not immediately apparent that $5000 a year is below minimum wage, since as far as I am aware, minimum wage is only specified by dollars per hour worked.
The problem is that wolves enjoy the taste of lamb, while lambs do not enjoy the taste of wolf. Wolves want to fight. Lambs do not.
Y'know, I never saw it like that before. I always saw the sheep of the analogy as being the equivalent of a toothless, clawless wolf. IE, "democracy is 2 wolves and a toothless, clawless wolf deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is re-arming the third wolf". But you see the sheep as an entirely different animal altogether.
I could probably bring up something about wolves in sheep's clothing getting into that democratic government, but I digress. Your post provided an interesting alternative take on the analogy, and I thank you for it.
It's called an analogy for a reason, it isn't meant to be a perfect example. -.-
The wolves are naturally armed, the lamb is not. Arming the lamb puts it on equal ground with the wolves, in essence making it a wolf in the context of the analogy. You raise interesting points about what is and is not liberty, but I think you still read too much into the analogy.:P
Only buy them if they are less than $20 (which is actually a loss for the company).
I'm curious why you think that. Once a company has earned back what it spent on development, isn't is all gravy from that point on, whether you're selling for $200 or $0.02? Obviously there are still manufacturing and shipping costs of the physical disc to account for, but are they really so high that it costs more than $20 per physical disc to go from manufacturing the disc up through delivery to my local Gamestop/Bestbuy/wherever?
As I understand it, "cracker" comes from the cracking of a whip by a slave owner. So everything else in GP's racist post aside, since a slave owner would most certainly be a responsible and hard-working white male (if you're managing slaves I'd imagine you'd have to be responsible and hard working, though not as much as the slaves themselves), I think GP's definition of cracker fits the origin better than yours does.
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So you mean they went after real pirates for once? :P
Secondly, if they are not issuing credit, WTF is "Bill Me Later"??? Just because they don't CALL it credit, it doesn't mean it is not!
Even completely ignoring that, they do also have an actual credit card.
anything else i can help you with?
I was always curious why we had to bailout the banks in 2008 if the FDIC exists. So the FDIC is basically an empty promise now?
and while DST can cause timekeeping bugs, it's unlikely to cause a worldwide meltdown.
All depends just how bad of a "timekeeping bug" it causes. DST already caused at least one person to be wrongfully imprisoned for 12 days.
I would also like to point out that these things are much more likely to break down the more frequently you change them..
No argument there. I'd be happy if DST was just done away with completely.
As I replied to the AC, the finality apparent in saying "no privacy, period, end of discussion" is just asking for the bizarre scenarios to be brought out.
While your second post does mention a "slow transition" to full privacy rights, your first post made no such note. And knowing how some other people are, I naturally took your first post to mean a 4 month old and a 17.9 year old would have the same expectation of privacy under your roof, which (extreme examples of teens needing 24/7 supervision aside) is just ridiculous.
I think you missed the part where GP said "no privacy, period, end of discussion". Such finality deserves the shittest(sic) strawman ever. :P
I never said you "put the moves on her", I said "sexual harassment". And if your daughter has "no privacy, period, end of discussion", well, excuse me if I happen to have taken that to the extreme of, for example, demanding your daughter shower in a clear-as-crystal glass bathroom with clear-as-crystal curtains.
So many posts here are about not using AOL Instant Messenger, not having AOL Instant Messenger ect... This isn't an option for everyone. A huge portion of my friends use AOL Instant Messenger with ages that range from pre-pubescent family members to senior citizens. I have friends around the world with whom I'd have minimal communication if not for AOL Instant Messenger. AOL Instant Messenger allows me to keep touch with my friends and acquaintances abroad and at home in a single place that they will check often (too often). I deprive myself socially by not having an account. I don't care for it, but so many people I know use it I have no option. I just avoid saying or posting anything anything remotely incriminating.
Actually, scratch that last part. Since messages aren't stored in a central location, visible to everyone on the planet, there's no need to worry about what you said coming back to bite you in the ass 10 years down the road when a prospective employer googles your name.
My kids have no privacy, period, end of discussion.
Good luck convincing the judge that when your daughter drags you to court for sexual harassment.
Everyone has the right to some basic level of privacy. Some people just have a right to more, for lack of a better way of saying it.
And you should always have your gadgets completely separated. [...] one for a flashlight, one for a fleshlight...
I lol'd.
Confidential data dust. Don't breathe this.
I think we should secure our food from people who might poison it
Don't we already do that? Or is there a whoosh I'm missing?
$5000 a year - below minimum wage.
Wouldn't that only be true if they are working more than 689.66 hours per year? That's about 13.26 hours per week. Not in the industry, I cannot say if that is above or below the typical hours that they work. But it is not immediately apparent that $5000 a year is below minimum wage, since as far as I am aware, minimum wage is only specified by dollars per hour worked.
It's certainly below the poverty line though.
The problem is that wolves enjoy the taste of lamb, while lambs do not enjoy the taste of wolf. Wolves want to fight. Lambs do not.
Y'know, I never saw it like that before. I always saw the sheep of the analogy as being the equivalent of a toothless, clawless wolf. IE, "democracy is 2 wolves and a toothless, clawless wolf deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is re-arming the third wolf". But you see the sheep as an entirely different animal altogether.
I could probably bring up something about wolves in sheep's clothing getting into that democratic government, but I digress. Your post provided an interesting alternative take on the analogy, and I thank you for it.
I cannot say the same of Islam simply due to a lack of familiarity, but you realize, of course, that there is not one "Christian" church, right?
It's called an analogy for a reason, it isn't meant to be a perfect example. -.-
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The wolves are naturally armed, the lamb is not. Arming the lamb puts it on equal ground with the wolves, in essence making it a wolf in the context of the analogy. You raise interesting points about what is and is not liberty, but I think you still read too much into the analogy.
Nono, not SPINa, Spina. Obviously it's some new element not yet on the chart.
:P
And even if it were SPINa, that'd be Sulfur Phosphorus Iodine Sodium.
FSM is my chosen deity (so I know what the terms refer to) and I still have no clue what c0lo meant.
And yet, being an omniscient* being, He knew in advance that Adam and Eve would eat from that tree he put there.
*Depending on who you ask.
Shouldn't that be PEBSWAS?
You don't get it. How does the lamb survive?
commodore64_love left off an important part, at least as far as the versions that I am familiar with go.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
Only buy them if they are less than $20 (which is actually a loss for the company).
I'm curious why you think that. Once a company has earned back what it spent on development, isn't is all gravy from that point on, whether you're selling for $200 or $0.02? Obviously there are still manufacturing and shipping costs of the physical disc to account for, but are they really so high that it costs more than $20 per physical disc to go from manufacturing the disc up through delivery to my local Gamestop/Bestbuy/wherever?
Ah, thank you for informing me of additional definitions/origins for the term cracker.
"Force" and "free" don't belong together.
I disagree. Example, the 1st amendment "forces" government to allow us to have free speech (among other freedoms).
As I understand it, "cracker" comes from the cracking of a whip by a slave owner. So everything else in GP's racist post aside, since a slave owner would most certainly be a responsible and hard-working white male (if you're managing slaves I'd imagine you'd have to be responsible and hard working, though not as much as the slaves themselves), I think GP's definition of cracker fits the origin better than yours does.