I don't mean to kick you when you're down, but what you say is what the root of the problem is: nowadays Americans talk about real people, as if there are different classes of people.
I think the poster meant "real people" as opposed to "theoretical people we invent for the purposes of political arguments" - not "people who aren't A-rabs".
I have a favorite CD that was very badly scratched when a part came loose in my Discman. Luckily, I had made a copy for my brother (yes, naughty but lucky), so I asked him to give me a copy of that. Someday I may try and repair the original, with its deep circular scratch right around the last track... don't know if it's even possible though.
Lesbians are "less offensive" because all the religious types who do this crap are secretly aroused by the idea of two men having hot steamy gay intercourse, and so lash out more violently against it. And teaching boys about their bodies is of course sometimes good, it makes them men, whereas girls who know about their bodies are destined to be sluts. Filthy, nasty little sluts, instead of the obedient, righteous sexual chattel of one ignorant, prematurely-ejaculating man.
sometimes i see news shots from iraq showing a gunbattle in the street, and kids and adults are standing outside, in the street, watching. ever hear of a ricochet?
...They are "pinned down". They don't know the tactical situation, and are too afraid to make a move in any particular direction, because they could run right at people who would kill them. They're unarmed with no comms and can't alter the tactical situation, or their knowledge of it, either. In that situation, the human instinct is to stay put. Don't blame them if they get shot.
As for your father and his comrades, firing indiscriminately on all targets might have made them "safer" but it was technically a war crime. And I'm sure they weren't proud of it, but they stayed alive and were thankful for that. That's the real tragedy of war - that fucked-up things become ordinary to the ordinary people who feel they have to do them.
You do make the point that in real combat, "camping" is sometimes just good tactics. Alas, in AA you often hear complaints about campers. I never quite get this, unless the person is camping a remote corner of the map away from the action.
I used to joke Sarah Mclaughlin and Alanis Morissett[e] were actually the same person working for different labels.
Clearly, you need to listen to more Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette. Modern high-gloss production has a tendency to make people's sounds "converge", but even their most recent releases are quite dissimilar. Now, if you said the same about Creed/Nickelback/Finger 11 etc. I'd back you up 100%...
I remember seeing photocopies of that strip stuck in AD&D manuals in the bookstore I shopped at in my youth.
And I bet the unrepentant D&D purchasers thought they were hilarious, and showed them to all their friends, and they all had a good laugh. Bloodless revenge is sweet, sayeth the Lord.
So much for the spirit of the olympics. I'd have taken the laurel wreath and the vat of olive oil.
Don't kid yourself - the ancient Olympics had their share of sponsorship, and staggering rewards for succesful athletes. Fame, money, an adulating public, all these greeted a champion as he returned home. In effect, their city-state was their sponsor.
So do you believe movie actors should be able to sell pictures taken on the set before the movie is out?
There's a difference between selling pics and blogging. I think Sir Ian McKellen (for instance) should be allowed to post pics he takes on the set of a movie he's in on his website - it's great publicity and any producer would be an idiot to tell him he couldn't. Similarly, the IOC are in this case missing an opportunity to spread their publicity net even further, for free. I guess their bean-counters added up both columns and decided that *not* gagging their own athletes wouldn't generate enough revenue to be worthwhile. Fuvk 'em, without the athletes they would all have to get real jobs.
Yeah, what I now "have not" is a life, and $55/month to spend on other stuff. But it sure beats the 33.6 that my "56k" dialup pulled most of the time...
They're not sending the warmed (by 8'C) water directly back - it goes to drinking water supply. The CO2 thing IS super-scary though, imagine living by a lake like that (which people still do):-O
If Librarians wanted to protect your right to check out books anonymously, you could just leave a deposit greater than the value of the books you are checking out.
That would partly defeat one of the purposes of libraries - to make books available to all, regardless of monetary resources. A $30 deposit may not sound like much for you to borrow a couple of books, but some people don't even have $30 to *temporarily* part with. And Librarians may be government employees, but many of them have fought tooth and nail against the Patriot act, citing the privacy violation and "chilling effect" of their records getting into the hands of the REAL "Feds".
The evil ticket counter lady? She's one of us. She's a neighbor, a girlfriend, a mom, a daughter, an aunt... The evil guy at the liquor store who cards you?
They're just doing their job, if they don't ID you they could get fired (especially the liquor store clerk). They don't make the rules. It's the ones who make the rules who are "THEM". And by and large, THEY would be more than happy to see US subject to constant monitoring, censorship etc. in the interests of their Big Evil Plans (which generally involve becoming even more obscenely rich).
Even the Evil Cop who pulls you over has very little interest in locking you away forever, and quite possibly has better things to do than ensure that your "Guaranteed Total Anonymity In Public" is taken away.
I'm sure most cops are generally good people, but they do tend to think that your business is their business (like if you're doing something weird-looking but perfectly legal), and to prioritize law and order over individual rights. That's why THEY like to give them new powers to watch/control us, because they know most police will happily exercise them, in the honest belief that they're protecting us by doing so.
So if you don't want to show your papersss, SCHNELL! to travel, you get to travel by slower, less comfortable means. Unless you're rich, and can rent a plane just for you, or own your own plane, and travel unchecked and unmonitored. Once again, two sets of rules, one for the masses, one for the chosen few.
If librarians could use a system that would let you check out books anonymously and still get their books back, I'm sure they would. Librarians tend to be very concerned about civil rights and freedom, but they also need to be able to hunt you down if you don't bring back that copy of "Catcher in the Rye". Just thought I'd make the point.
Since "crazy" is (roughly) defined as "having aberrant or extremely unusual thought processes compared to the norm", I don't think the Mind CAN go crazy. It just changes, and if it decides to eliminate the simple Eloi who depend on it, then who's to say that's crazy thinking? The Eloi, who barely think at all?
When competition is based solely on price, quality becomes a virtual non-issue. Ever had a stick of RAM (let alone, heaven forbid, a HD) fail 3 months after you bought it? Sure, you might get an exchange at the store (if you bothered to keep the receipt) but your inconvenience and possible lost work means you lost something - because quality is not an issue to the manufacturer, as long as the units function going out the factory door.
Sadly, "branded" hardware seems to be equally shiatty in a lot of cases, but they have marginally more interest in QA because you'll remember "yeah, my Acme mobo cacked out the night before my big stats project was due, boy Acme sure do suck!"
At least in the days of the 19th century robber barons there was accountability; they weren't hiding behind diaphanous boards of directors.
They just hid behind the immunity of vast wealth, armies of hired goons, and bought legislation. But I suppose you did know exactly who to blame when things went all pear-shaped...
Wow, that's great news. I liked the book, it was a very cutting portrayal of the idiocy of the "drug war", AND the idiocy of being a total stoner. PKD was one of the best, no doubt about it.
The dedication (to all his friends who'd died, been permanently injured, or gone to jail because of their drug habits) was one of the saddest things I've ever read.
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However, because Hollywood royally fucked the first book in the ass until it died of blood loss...
Well, I guess you definitely read LoEG #2... *shudder*
Aren't those "worms"?
Oh! I remember. He's in Lord of the Rings. King of um, somewhere, right? I don't remember him decapitating anyone though.
I don't mean to kick you when you're down, but what you say is what the root of the problem is: nowadays Americans talk about real people, as if there are different classes of people.
I think the poster meant "real people" as opposed to "theoretical people we invent for the purposes of political arguments" - not "people who aren't A-rabs".
I have a favorite CD that was very badly scratched when a part came loose in my Discman. Luckily, I had made a copy for my brother (yes, naughty but lucky), so I asked him to give me a copy of that. Someday I may try and repair the original, with its deep circular scratch right around the last track... don't know if it's even possible though.
Lesbians are "less offensive" because all the religious types who do this crap are secretly aroused by the idea of two men having hot steamy gay intercourse, and so lash out more violently against it. And teaching boys about their bodies is of course sometimes good, it makes them men, whereas girls who know about their bodies are destined to be sluts. Filthy, nasty little sluts, instead of the obedient, righteous sexual chattel of one ignorant, prematurely-ejaculating man.
Works great as long as you don't mind the fact that your data could become corrupt at any time.
And this is an improvement over floppy disks how? Being able to lose MORE data doesn't seem like progress...
As for your father and his comrades, firing indiscriminately on all targets might have made them "safer" but it was technically a war crime. And I'm sure they weren't proud of it, but they stayed alive and were thankful for that. That's the real tragedy of war - that fucked-up things become ordinary to the ordinary people who feel they have to do them.
You do make the point that in real combat, "camping" is sometimes just good tactics. Alas, in AA you often hear complaints about campers. I never quite get this, unless the person is camping a remote corner of the map away from the action.
I used to joke Sarah Mclaughlin and Alanis Morissett[e] were actually the same person working for different labels.
Clearly, you need to listen to more Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette. Modern high-gloss production has a tendency to make people's sounds "converge", but even their most recent releases are quite dissimilar. Now, if you said the same about Creed/Nickelback/Finger 11 etc. I'd back you up 100%...
I remember seeing photocopies of that strip stuck in AD&D manuals in the bookstore I shopped at in my youth.
And I bet the unrepentant D&D purchasers thought they were hilarious, and showed them to all their friends, and they all had a good laugh. Bloodless revenge is sweet, sayeth the Lord.
So much for the spirit of the olympics. I'd have taken the laurel wreath and the vat of olive oil.
Don't kid yourself - the ancient Olympics had their share of sponsorship, and staggering rewards for succesful athletes. Fame, money, an adulating public, all these greeted a champion as he returned home. In effect, their city-state was their sponsor.
So do you believe movie actors should be able to sell pictures taken on the set before the movie is out?
There's a difference between selling pics and blogging. I think Sir Ian McKellen (for instance) should be allowed to post pics he takes on the set of a movie he's in on his website - it's great publicity and any producer would be an idiot to tell him he couldn't. Similarly, the IOC are in this case missing an opportunity to spread their publicity net even further, for free. I guess their bean-counters added up both columns and decided that *not* gagging their own athletes wouldn't generate enough revenue to be worthwhile. Fuvk 'em, without the athletes they would all have to get real jobs.
"Gay Games" is a much better-sounding name. Guess the IOC's grinching is the Gay Games' gain (say that 5 times fast).
Yeah, what I now "have not" is a life, and $55/month to spend on other stuff. But it sure beats the 33.6 that my "56k" dialup pulled most of the time...
I believe that the top-quality ones are Zeiss-Ikon.
/cyberpunk nerd
They're not sending the warmed (by 8'C) water directly back - it goes to drinking water supply. The CO2 thing IS super-scary though, imagine living by a lake like that (which people still do) :-O
If Librarians wanted to protect your right to check out books anonymously, you could just leave a deposit greater than the value of the books you are checking out.
That would partly defeat one of the purposes of libraries - to make books available to all, regardless of monetary resources. A $30 deposit may not sound like much for you to borrow a couple of books, but some people don't even have $30 to *temporarily* part with. And Librarians may be government employees, but many of them have fought tooth and nail against the Patriot act, citing the privacy violation and "chilling effect" of their records getting into the hands of the REAL "Feds".
The evil ticket counter lady? She's one of us. She's a neighbor, a girlfriend, a mom, a daughter, an aunt... The evil guy at the liquor store who cards you?
They're just doing their job, if they don't ID you they could get fired (especially the liquor store clerk). They don't make the rules. It's the ones who make the rules who are "THEM". And by and large, THEY would be more than happy to see US subject to constant monitoring, censorship etc. in the interests of their Big Evil Plans (which generally involve becoming even more obscenely rich).
Even the Evil Cop who pulls you over has very little interest in locking you away forever, and quite possibly has better things to do than ensure that your "Guaranteed Total Anonymity In Public" is taken away.
I'm sure most cops are generally good people, but they do tend to think that your business is their business (like if you're doing something weird-looking but perfectly legal), and to prioritize law and order over individual rights. That's why THEY like to give them new powers to watch/control us, because they know most police will happily exercise them, in the honest belief that they're protecting us by doing so.
So if you don't want to show your papersss, SCHNELL! to travel, you get to travel by slower, less comfortable means. Unless you're rich, and can rent a plane just for you, or own your own plane, and travel unchecked and unmonitored. Once again, two sets of rules, one for the masses, one for the chosen few.
If librarians could use a system that would let you check out books anonymously and still get their books back, I'm sure they would. Librarians tend to be very concerned about civil rights and freedom, but they also need to be able to hunt you down if you don't bring back that copy of "Catcher in the Rye". Just thought I'd make the point.
Since "crazy" is (roughly) defined as "having aberrant or extremely unusual thought processes compared to the norm", I don't think the Mind CAN go crazy. It just changes, and if it decides to eliminate the simple Eloi who depend on it, then who's to say that's crazy thinking? The Eloi, who barely think at all?
When competition is based solely on price, quality becomes a virtual non-issue. Ever had a stick of RAM (let alone, heaven forbid, a HD) fail 3 months after you bought it? Sure, you might get an exchange at the store (if you bothered to keep the receipt) but your inconvenience and possible lost work means you lost something - because quality is not an issue to the manufacturer, as long as the units function going out the factory door.
Sadly, "branded" hardware seems to be equally shiatty in a lot of cases, but they have marginally more interest in QA because you'll remember "yeah, my Acme mobo cacked out the night before my big stats project was due, boy Acme sure do suck!"
At least in the days of the 19th century robber barons there was accountability; they weren't hiding behind diaphanous boards of directors.
They just hid behind the immunity of vast wealth, armies of hired goons, and bought legislation. But I suppose you did know exactly who to blame when things went all pear-shaped...
Wow, that's great news. I liked the book, it was a very cutting portrayal of the idiocy of the "drug war", AND the idiocy of being a total stoner. PKD was one of the best, no doubt about it.
The dedication (to all his friends who'd died, been permanently injured, or gone to jail because of their drug habits) was one of the saddest things I've ever read.