No-one with a life gives a shit. It's fiction. It's all made up. It doesn't have to make sense or be internally consistent to some idea of canon. Canon matters to religions, because people feel the need for religions not to contradict themselves.
In sci-fi, even using the word makes you look like a twat.
Not quite standard. In American English, I think you'd call it a plus intersection on a four-lane, divided highway, with a gap in the median, for waiting.
He pulled out of the gap in the median, having already passed his 'Stop' sign on his way to the gap.
Exactly : ZoneAlarm does something very similar and my GF, who is not the most technically able, has found herself quite capable of managing the decisions.
Many cyclists are very bad, and cause their own accidents. I can promise you that this wasn't the case here.
I was cycling close to the curb, on the inside lane of a dual carriageway. It was broad daylight. He had come out of a side street on the opposite side, and stopped in the central reservation waiting for a car to pass, before crossing straight over. He then looked both ways (straight at me) and pulled across my road, to cross into another sidestreet. I braked as hard as I could, the back wheel swung out and I took the impact into the side of his van directly onto the side of my helmet and my right shoulder, doing maybe 15mph. My head was fine, my shoulder was seriously dislocated, and has never quite been the same.
It was absolutely my right of way. He admitted full responsibility, and error. He also picked me up off the street and took me and the tangled remains of my bike immediately to the nearest hospital in his freshly-dented van. He asked if I wanted him to stay, he phoned the police to report an accident, and left his contact details (accurate) with me and the hospital.
It is quite scary they way a car driver can pull up at the stop sign on the side road, look directly at you then continue through the stop sign cutting you off.
Too true. And I've got a completely mangled right shoulder blade as Exhibit A from exactly this thing happening to me (bicycle rather than a motorbike). To this day, I'd swear that not only did he see me, but that we'd made eye-contact and acknowledged each other's existence.
Really? Imagine: i) if the US hadn't cracked the Japanese codes, and the Battle of Midway had turned into Japanese victory on the scale of the actual Allied victory ii) The US would've had to commit troops to the Pacific and not Europe iii) No D-Day landings iv) The Nazis get to fight the Russians on one front only v) A possible complete Nazi victory in Eurasia
That would've been because the Axis powers were morally right?
If there is ever a reliable way to distinguish advertising from editorial content {such a thing actually was nearly mandated in the UK once but was rejected}, then it will end up being used in ways that benefit the consumer more than the advertiser.
Even now, whenever I watch US TV I get phased by the lack of a station/programme ID between the programs and the commercials.
You didn't even take any notice that this point was answered in the post you were replying to.
Abuse of monopoly power to conquer a new market is illegal, and MS have been convicted of it in the US and the EU. Free market capitalism needs a level playing field.
Look up information on the Pentagon Papers, if you are interested. The New York Times published top secret documents that had been leaked to them. The Whitehouse tried to stop them, the Supreme Court rules 6-3 that they couldn't.
Good point, but the Pentagon Papers case did not lay a solid grounding for the public-interest defense. The ruling basically did not say the NYT could not be prosecuted for publishing, merely that they could not be restrained from doing so in advance, because the papers were not sufficiently important to national security (Near v. Minnesota [1931]).
The Pentagon could have brought another case post-publication for publishing confidential information, but chose not too.
You completely fail to understand that there is no objective measure whatsoever by which to rate pornography. You either like it or you don't.
You continue to believe that you are capable of making objective aesthetic judgements amount subjective material. And that those objective judgements have some merit beyond "This is what I like" and "This is what I don't like".
They don't, ok? Your opinions on vivid (like your opinions on Mozart, Miles Davis, Hitchcock, Fellini, Shakespeare, Monet, and my opinions on all these subjects, too) are just that: opinions. There are no standards or sets of aesthetic values to which any artistic is forced to aspire in order to be judged "good"; there are only opinions.
You cannot tell the difference between your opinion and an objective statement about somethings merit (which is ridiculous because in the realm of creative processes, no objective set of standards exist).
No. I'm saying describing something "boring, uninspired" is a subjective judgement, in which your personal preferences and peccadilloes are far more important than any objective qualities of the thing described.
judicial impartiality is guaranteed by the lifetime nature of the appointment
Well, thats the theory. The only problem is, it's bollocks.
Partisan presidents (of all hues) appoint justices who are to their opinions on hot topics -- abortion, stem cells, gun control, illegal wiretaps -- whatever. The idea that the Supreme Court judge every issue dispassionately and without regard to their personal, political and religious beliefs is absolute claptrap.
Justices could go against their political sponsors opinions, but its been 30 years since the sort people with the balls to do that have even been nominated.
Add to that : frequently conservative justices retire during conservative administrations and vice versa, thereby preserving the balance of power.
Incidentally, does anyone else think that a Supreme Court that is appointed by the executive (because, lets face it, Congressional ratification means jackshit if the same part holds both) somewhat defeats the object of judicial impartiality?
spent about 5 minutes skipping through each in search of a scene with some perceptible passion and/or heat
Puh-lease. Don't try and pass off your personal preference for certain types of porn for some sort of objective aesthetic judgement. Wouldn't it be dull if everyone found the same sorts of things arousing?
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No-one with a life gives a shit. It's fiction. It's all made up.
It doesn't have to make sense or be internally consistent to some idea of canon. Canon matters to religions, because people feel the need for religions not to contradict themselves.
In sci-fi, even using the word makes you look like a twat.
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Not quite standard. In American English, I think you'd call it a plus intersection on a four-lane, divided highway, with a gap in the median, for waiting.
He pulled out of the gap in the median, having already passed his 'Stop' sign on his way to the gap.
Actually, its GoldFish.
Exactly : ZoneAlarm does something very similar and my GF, who is not the most technically able, has found herself quite capable of managing the decisions.
I was cycling close to the curb, on the inside lane of a dual carriageway. It was broad daylight. He had come out of a side street on the opposite side, and stopped in the central reservation waiting for a car to pass, before crossing straight over. He then looked both ways (straight at me) and pulled across my road, to cross into another sidestreet. I braked as hard as I could, the back wheel swung out and I took the impact into the side of his van directly onto the side of my helmet and my right shoulder, doing maybe 15mph. My head was fine, my shoulder was seriously dislocated, and has never quite been the same.
It was absolutely my right of way. He admitted full responsibility, and error. He also picked me up off the street and took me and the tangled remains of my bike immediately to the nearest hospital in his freshly-dented van. He asked if I wanted him to stay, he phoned the police to report an accident, and left his contact details (accurate) with me and the hospital.
Really? Imagine:
i) if the US hadn't cracked the Japanese codes, and the Battle of Midway had turned into Japanese victory on the scale of the actual Allied victory
ii) The US would've had to commit troops to the Pacific and not Europe
iii) No D-Day landings
iv) The Nazis get to fight the Russians on one front only
v) A possible complete Nazi victory in Eurasia
That would've been because the Axis powers were morally right?
You didn't even take any notice that this point was answered in the post you were replying to.
Abuse of monopoly power to conquer a new market is illegal, and MS have been convicted of it in the US and the EU. Free market capitalism needs a level playing field.
The thing I don't like on TV are all the repeats... (or "dupes" as they're known in the trade).
The Pentagon could have brought another case post-publication for publishing confidential information, but chose not too.
I went and sat in the bleachers in Oakland. It cost $8.
You completely fail to understand that there is no objective measure whatsoever by which to rate pornography. You either like it or you don't.
You continue to believe that you are capable of making objective aesthetic judgements amount subjective material. And that those objective judgements have some merit beyond "This is what I like" and "This is what I don't like".
They don't, ok? Your opinions on vivid (like your opinions on Mozart, Miles Davis, Hitchcock, Fellini, Shakespeare, Monet, and my opinions on all these subjects, too) are just that: opinions. There are no standards or sets of aesthetic values to which any artistic is forced to aspire in order to be judged "good"; there are only opinions.
You cannot tell the difference between your opinion and an objective statement about somethings merit (which is ridiculous because in the realm of creative processes, no objective set of standards exist).
This is because you are a cretin.
OK. I get the point. Your opinions aren't opinions, they're unimpeachable, incontrovertible facts, and anyone who doesn't agree is wrong.
Happy?
No. I'm saying describing something "boring, uninspired" is a subjective judgement, in which your personal preferences and peccadilloes are far more important than any objective qualities of the thing described.
Partisan presidents (of all hues) appoint justices who are to their opinions on hot topics -- abortion, stem cells, gun control, illegal wiretaps -- whatever. The idea that the Supreme Court judge every issue dispassionately and without regard to their personal, political and religious beliefs is absolute claptrap.
Justices could go against their political sponsors opinions, but its been 30 years since the sort people with the balls to do that have even been nominated.
Add to that : frequently conservative justices retire during conservative administrations and vice versa, thereby preserving the balance of power.
Or the Supreme Court.
Incidentally, does anyone else think that a Supreme Court that is appointed by the executive (because, lets face it, Congressional ratification means jackshit if the same part holds both) somewhat defeats the object of judicial impartiality?
However you want to spin it: Not afloat = out of business.
Talking about porn makes about as much sense as dancing about mathematics.