Any doctor submitting too many blacklist candidates is probably incompetent -- one has to wonder why they are being sued so often. And any patient getting too many blacklist submissions is probably a litigious scammer.
Or the doctor is an ob-gyn... but you have a point, if even an ob-gyn has been sued 3 times, there might be a problem there. If a patient has sued 3 times, I'd say they're definitely a "pro".
"The Hurd" is the worst fucking (software) name of all time. Fortunately it's not a user-oriented product, the people who run it couldn't care less what it's called.
Hey, at least "The Passion of the Christ Online" would take some heat off of the *less* violent games, like Vice City, Counterstrike, Halo, and "Housepet Hunter" (ok, I made that one up)...
1. RIAA is busy [over]reacting to file-sharing 2. RIAA will never be able to stop file-sharing 3. There's gotta be a compromise. Maybe this is it.
Why would the RIAA wish to compromise? The most profitable demographics (meaning teenagers buying Puddle of Mudd or Britney, and yuppies re-buying the White Album) isn't buying fewer CD's because of the lawsuits, in fact the "bad publicity" is largely among people the RIAA sees as unprofitable troublemakers already.
I've tried to point out you don't need the biblical stuff in numberous conversations, but now there is something concrete I can show him.
Yeah, that'll work. Who was it who said you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into? If your friend's faith is strong enough, he'll maintain his beliefs to his (possibly early) grave, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. That's how it works.
I would say that perhaps CD's are not essential to the continued metabolic function of your body the way food and shelter are, but music and other forms of artistic expression are essential to many people's mental well-being, and to our society's greater good. An industry which has near-total control over access to a form of art is hurting a lot of people, and hurting The People as well, when they try to price-gouge (and digitally lock-down) part of our shared cultural heritage.
Well, that's the problem - everyone will. China can do it, India can do it, Russia can do it, Europe can do it. Maybe others will in the future too.
No they won't. When one country can eliminate any missile or rocket launch anywhere within seconds of leaving the tube, and then vaporize the launcher, or detect and destroy ships and armoured formations without having a single soldier or vehicle nearby, they will be able to do whatever they want. And the rest of the world will be at their mercy. No space launches, no military maneuvers, no industrial projects or public meetings or building a new manhole unless it's on the terms of the controlling power. Total global domination.
I admit, this is an extreme example, but if this sort of system was run by a government even more unilateralist/aggressive than the current American one, nobody else would have a chance.
I think all consumer-level CD players are probably made like crap these days. I have a boom box (JVC) and a bookshelf system (Aiwa!), and both have kaput CD players despite working fine otherwise. I run CD audio to my Aiwa from my DVD player. And my Sony Discman is starting to act funny lately... skips on brand-new CD's even with 40-second antishock on...
Aside from information YOU put on the internet, how much of your personal data (the useful stuff - SIN, phone #, address) is available? I suspect most identity theft is via much less "random" means - your physical trail of pre-approved credit card offers, credit card receipts in stores, your name and address on every piece of mail you get, etc.
They're intentionally built ugly. Echo, Element, the new VW van, you name it, they're made to appeal to people who want a "quirky" vehicle that will "stand out". These people don't want a generic Bronco-shaped SUV or cab-forward sedan that they can't find in a parking lot. Of course, like many trendy "quirky" things (eg Lisa Loeb's glasses, trucker hats), most other people hate them.
true, but eho are you to tell someone else what they should like?
I think Buffy was shitty tv, but apparently, I was in the minority.
Nice of you to acknowledge the "majority" of us. Actually, most people think Buffy the Vampire Slayer is crap without even watching it. My labmate went so far as to declare that it couldn't possibly be good with a title like that. At least you're willing to label it a matter of personal taste.
To do any significant game-related downloading, you need a fast internet connection. A LOT of users (self included) are still on dial-up, simply for cost reasons. If you add the cost of a required broadband link, plus a pay-per-play or subscription model for games, people will decide it's simply not worth their hard-earned money. I know people who pay $80/mo for their cable TV & internet, but they're double-income, middle class families. Students, young workers, and other lower-income people will not - often can not - pay through the ass just to play video games.
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Racist speech is the exact speech that *SHOULD* be protected and needs protected! Why? First of all, true racist speech can (and should) be rebutted instead of left festering hidden away somewhere.
I didn't say it should be hidden away or anything. What I meant was that it justified criticism. Basically, what you said:-) BUT anybody expressing true racist opinions should expect to get trashed in debate. By "shit-disturbers" I meant the people who scream "racism!" when you say O.J. Simpson is guilty, or conversely, the whites who cry "reverse racism!" all the time... Not the minority speech that needs to be protected.
If you doubt it, just try to start up a conversation on how Darwinism might apply to different races of human.
Well, sadly, the topic has forever been tainted by the spectre of genocide/eugenics/colonialism, but more important, some discussions of this topic will be based on VERY shaky data. For example, as far as I know, there are NO un-culturally-biased data comparing intelligence, simply because all intelligence tests are culturally biased. "Races" of humans are so similar in most ways that they are really only different-LOOKING.
There are some genetic disease frequency differences, and I don't think any black person is going to call you a racist for saying that the sickle-cell anemia trait evolved in Africans to help protect them from malaria (an African disease).
Nobody's going to dispute that on the average, Tutsis are taller than Hutus, possibly through centuries of sexual selection where one group thought short was sexy and the other that tall was. There's some Darwinism for you.
It's once you start making culturally-biased arguments about race and inherent ability that people get offended. What do I mean by "culturally-biased"? Well, a crude example is an IQ test which asks you to pick the odd one out from a group of objects: a cup, a bottle, a plate and a hollow gourd with the neck cut off...
Universities haven't become less tolerant of free speech in my experience. More accurately, it's not considered acceptable to voice poorly-supported fringe opinions (you'll be quickly rebutted with the facts), or espouse hate against a group of people. So, racist speech is not acceptable (and shouldn't be), and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure you're going to point out numerous cases where somebody said something that was construed as hateful and was attacked for it, but please make a distinction between a vocal minority of shit-disturbers (who can be of any background/race/religion), the sensible majority (also diverse), and the administration (weasels).
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Any doctor submitting too many blacklist candidates is probably incompetent -- one has to wonder why they are being sued so often. And any patient getting too many blacklist submissions is probably a litigious scammer.
Or the doctor is an ob-gyn... but you have a point, if even an ob-gyn has been sued 3 times, there might be a problem there. If a patient has sued 3 times, I'd say they're definitely a "pro".
I was thinking of the tunnel sentry robots from Patlabor 2 myself...
Deadpan humour loses a lot in a text-only medium.
If you only watch the tentacle-monster infested Hentai titles, you will really miss the real beauty of this wonderful genre.
I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much.
Looks like you were the only one here to remember his name...
"The Hurd" is the worst fucking (software) name of all time. Fortunately it's not a user-oriented product, the people who run it couldn't care less what it's called.
Hey, at least "The Passion of the Christ Online" would take some heat off of the *less* violent games, like Vice City, Counterstrike, Halo, and "Housepet Hunter" (ok, I made that one up)...
1. RIAA is busy [over]reacting to file-sharing
2. RIAA will never be able to stop file-sharing
3. There's gotta be a compromise. Maybe this is it.
Why would the RIAA wish to compromise? The most profitable demographics (meaning teenagers buying Puddle of Mudd or Britney, and yuppies re-buying the White Album) isn't buying fewer CD's because of the lawsuits, in fact the "bad publicity" is largely among people the RIAA sees as unprofitable troublemakers already.
I've tried to point out you don't need the biblical stuff in numberous conversations, but now there is something concrete I can show him.
Yeah, that'll work. Who was it who said you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into? If your friend's faith is strong enough, he'll maintain his beliefs to his (possibly early) grave, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. That's how it works.
CDs are luxury items...
I would say that perhaps CD's are not essential to the continued metabolic function of your body the way food and shelter are, but music and other forms of artistic expression are essential to many people's mental well-being, and to our society's greater good. An industry which has near-total control over access to a form of art is hurting a lot of people, and hurting The People as well, when they try to price-gouge (and digitally lock-down) part of our shared cultural heritage.
Well, that's the problem - everyone will. China can do it, India can do it, Russia can do it, Europe can do it. Maybe others will in the future too.
No they won't. When one country can eliminate any missile or rocket launch anywhere within seconds of leaving the tube, and then vaporize the launcher, or detect and destroy ships and armoured formations without having a single soldier or vehicle nearby, they will be able to do whatever they want. And the rest of the world will be at their mercy. No space launches, no military maneuvers, no industrial projects or public meetings or building a new manhole unless it's on the terms of the controlling power. Total global domination.
I admit, this is an extreme example, but if this sort of system was run by a government even more unilateralist/aggressive than the current American one, nobody else would have a chance.
It stinks. It makes the FBI look like hired enforcers.
Well, they are. Might as well call a spade a spade.
Nope. Regular CD's, no crippleware or copy protection. Just shitty planned-obsolescence hardware.
I think all consumer-level CD players are probably made like crap these days. I have a boom box (JVC) and a bookshelf system (Aiwa!), and both have kaput CD players despite working fine otherwise. I run CD audio to my Aiwa from my DVD player. And my Sony Discman is starting to act funny lately... skips on brand-new CD's even with 40-second antishock on...
Aside from information YOU put on the internet, how much of your personal data (the useful stuff - SIN, phone #, address) is available? I suspect most identity theft is via much less "random" means - your physical trail of pre-approved credit card offers, credit card receipts in stores, your name and address on every piece of mail you get, etc.
They're intentionally built ugly. Echo, Element, the new VW van, you name it, they're made to appeal to people who want a "quirky" vehicle that will "stand out". These people don't want a generic Bronco-shaped SUV or cab-forward sedan that they can't find in a parking lot. Of course, like many trendy "quirky" things (eg Lisa Loeb's glasses, trucker hats), most other people hate them.
Now they're "Freedom Points".
Good god, I'm a geek.
true, but eho are you to tell someone else what they should like?
I think Buffy was shitty tv, but apparently, I was in the minority.
Nice of you to acknowledge the "majority" of us. Actually, most people think Buffy the Vampire Slayer is crap without even watching it. My labmate went so far as to declare that it couldn't possibly be good with a title like that. At least you're willing to label it a matter of personal taste.
(Offspring, I believe)
To do any significant game-related downloading, you need a fast internet connection. A LOT of users (self included) are still on dial-up, simply for cost reasons. If you add the cost of a required broadband link, plus a pay-per-play or subscription model for games, people will decide it's simply not worth their hard-earned money. I know people who pay $80/mo for their cable TV & internet, but they're double-income, middle class families. Students, young workers, and other lower-income people will not - often can not - pay through the ass just to play video games.
I refer all readers to the Geek Heirarchy.
Racist speech is the exact speech that *SHOULD* be protected and needs protected! Why? First of all, true racist speech can (and should) be rebutted instead of left festering hidden away somewhere.
:-) BUT anybody expressing true racist opinions should expect to get trashed in debate. By "shit-disturbers" I meant the people who scream "racism!" when you say O.J. Simpson is guilty, or conversely, the whites who cry "reverse racism!" all the time... Not the minority speech that needs to be protected.
I didn't say it should be hidden away or anything. What I meant was that it justified criticism. Basically, what you said
If you doubt it, just try to start up a conversation on how Darwinism might apply to different races of human.
Well, sadly, the topic has forever been tainted by the spectre of genocide/eugenics/colonialism, but more important, some discussions of this topic will be based on VERY shaky data. For example, as far as I know, there are NO un-culturally-biased data comparing intelligence, simply because all intelligence tests are culturally biased. "Races" of humans are so similar in most ways that they are really only different-LOOKING.
There are some genetic disease frequency differences, and I don't think any black person is going to call you a racist for saying that the sickle-cell anemia trait evolved in Africans to help protect them from malaria (an African disease).
Nobody's going to dispute that on the average, Tutsis are taller than Hutus, possibly through centuries of sexual selection where one group thought short was sexy and the other that tall was. There's some Darwinism for you.
It's once you start making culturally-biased arguments about race and inherent ability that people get offended. What do I mean by "culturally-biased"? Well, a crude example is an IQ test which asks you to pick the odd one out from a group of objects: a cup, a bottle, a plate and a hollow gourd with the neck cut off...
Universities haven't become less tolerant of free speech in my experience. More accurately, it's not considered acceptable to voice poorly-supported fringe opinions (you'll be quickly rebutted with the facts), or espouse hate against a group of people. So, racist speech is not acceptable (and shouldn't be), and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure you're going to point out numerous cases where somebody said something that was construed as hateful and was attacked for it, but please make a distinction between a vocal minority of shit-disturbers (who can be of any background/race/religion), the sensible majority (also diverse), and the administration (weasels).
I wonder if I could win an election using that platform...
No, but there's a book called "Gor" you might enjoy.