What kind of parents give there kids fast food every day?
It's cheap, fast, and filling; if you're working 2 jobs in the inner city, then maybe that lovingly prepared steamed vegetable platter might be hard to do.
Other options like bonds or CDs are paying such lousy interest rates, that it's not even worth looking at them.
Makes sense to buy short-term treasury bills; it's extremely easy to do, and if you get in the habit of it you will eventually start making more when they start paying out more. You will definitely get higher interest than in the bank.
And "two football fields" doesn't tell us much about the thing's actual size. Besides "football" having two different meanings, one of which has multiple field sizes, what kind of volume are we looking at here?
They mean American football, but even that is misleading; a football field on TV looks enormously huge, so if you've only seen one on TV you might think this asteroid is bigger than it really is...
Yes, it sounds like it has. Bitterness is like a poison pill, prepared out of anger, that you swallow yourself.
Bitterness is part of the normal spectrum of emotions; don't repress it. Don't be scared of negative emotions.
you succumb to crass tribalism and limit your ability to make decisions logically and dispassionately.
Tribalism? I am mocking the tribalism of others.
To me, it sounds like you have surrended choice and control over your own life to the false short term ideals of mainstream society.
I left mainstream society long ago.
If you had control over your own life, you wouldn't feel that repressed anger that all slaves feel when they see someone who is truly free.
I think you do not understand what "repressed" means. And you think the "indie rocker" type is "truly free"? They're slaves to their own image, which is sad.
A shaggy haired guy who's hair you'd love to cut
No desire to be a barber, thank you. Did you ever notice that everyone in the places you hang out has similar hair to yours? Were you ever tempted to shave your head just so you didn't conform so much?
Based on the article this doesn't involve a DMCA takedown, so a counter-notice would not be available here. Also, this kind of surprised me:
For Maxwell, this has been emblematic of everything that's wrong with the music industry. "[We are] aware of who the biggest bootleggers are," she said. "It's not the filesharers." While Collins has worked to make A Girl Like You freely available to his fans, she alleges that the same track is sold illegally "all over the internet". "Not by Edwyn, [but] by all sorts of respectable major labels whose licence to sell it ran out years ago and who do not account to him."
This is a bit suspicious; either he actually doesn't have the rights free and clear as he thinks, or he might want to get a new manager; she should call a lawyer to stop the infringing if it is, in fact, infringing (she says in the next paragraph that it would take a "lifetime" to stop this legally, which is absurd). But I find it highly unlikely "all sorts" of respectable major labels are selling this song. That's just silly. Wikipedia indicates the song was on two soundtracks, so maybe, at the most, two major labels are doing this.
They all had haircuts and jobs - they all raised families - they were all respectable people.
Then they weren't who I was talking about. I was referring to the 20-something, shaggy haired guys with overly tight jeans who belt out insipid, generic local-venue-alternarock while their parents pay for their Williamsburg apartments.
But maybe living in Brooklyn has made me bitter.
Indies. Those are the REAL musicians.
In my experience people who refer to themselves as Indies aren't very good.
This is yet another example of Corporations having more freedoms and rights, than people do.
Not really.
People can vote, but corporations can lobby.
People can lobby, too.
People go to jail when they break the law, corporations maybe pay a fine at most -- some in fact, seem to get money from the government for breaking the law.
I don't really see how you can jail an abstract legal entity like a corporation. They certainly do jail corporate officers for actions taken on behalf of their corporation. They also shut down corporations, too--look at Arthur Andersen, or any number of stores/real estate developments that are shut down because of health code or environmental violations.
This just in! A group of car insurance companies just sued several state governments because they have allowed drivers to operate vehicles at unauthorized speeds, which led to accidents and higher insurance costs! Insurance companies know this because bicyclists have been watching how fast cars go, and they go way too fast!
Analogy falls apart; the insurance company can't prevent drivers from driving. The ISP can certainly prevent anyone from downloading stuff through it.
The Magic Flute [wikipedia.org] is obviously an attack on the sacred institution of marriage, deviously engineered by The Homosexual Lobby.
Actually The Magic Flute was a deeply symbolic work based on freemason philosophy, and could be intepreted on an attack on the religious institutions of the age.
Far from it; the bald, white space-marine is one of the most over-used characters in modern gaming. But it increasingly rare that they are lone heroes.
Actually, for certain genres (I'm thinking traditional adventure, and 3-d platform), the beautiful young white female is the most over-used character.
He had a gentleman's agreement to work on the chip it seems from the litigation. Once the university caught on, he tucked his tail and screwed Intel over, so much for the Gentleman part, the a-hole should have owned up to the actual verbal deal with Intel in court, so the suit by the university was null and void, and took his walking papers (and/or lawsuit) from the university like a real man.
The story says the University sought a patent, not him. He can't control what they do, I assume.
Can you imagine being immortal like Duncan, and being buried alive? Assuming the soil was to hard to be clawed through, it would be an awful way to spend an eternity.
Nothing is too hard to claw through given enough time.
3. Most print newspapers have journalist with a very liberal slant, and people don't want that anymore, witness the success of Fox News and online bloggers.
That's a myth concocted by the right to explain why they don't win every election even though they claim they represent a majority of Americans. The only explanation would be someone was "deceiving" all those red-blooded Americans into voting socialist. Journalists, as a class, tend to slant slightly liberal on a personal level (as do people with college educations in general, and I believe in this day and age most journalists have one), but 95% of news, especially local news, doesn't really have much to do with politics, and a lot of the the other 5% they manage more or less to keep their biases out of it. On the national level there are plenty of conservative-leaning newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times.
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I disagree.
Here she is for real.
What kind of parents give there kids fast food every day?
It's cheap, fast, and filling; if you're working 2 jobs in the inner city, then maybe that lovingly prepared steamed vegetable platter might be hard to do.
Makes sense. I reward my children with candy after they mug people.
Other options like bonds or CDs are paying such lousy interest rates, that it's not even worth looking at them.
Makes sense to buy short-term treasury bills; it's extremely easy to do, and if you get in the habit of it you will eventually start making more when they start paying out more. You will definitely get higher interest than in the bank.
And "two football fields" doesn't tell us much about the thing's actual size. Besides "football" having two different meanings, one of which has multiple field sizes, what kind of volume are we looking at here?
They mean American football, but even that is misleading; a football field on TV looks enormously huge, so if you've only seen one on TV you might think this asteroid is bigger than it really is...
Adobe yesterday chummed the waters around Flash and AIR as cross-platform app dev environments for mobile devices.
Literally?
Yes, it sounds like it has. Bitterness is like a poison pill, prepared out of anger, that you swallow yourself.
Bitterness is part of the normal spectrum of emotions; don't repress it. Don't be scared of negative emotions.
you succumb to crass tribalism and limit your ability to make decisions logically and dispassionately.
Tribalism? I am mocking the tribalism of others.
To me, it sounds like you have surrended choice and control over your own life to the false short term ideals of mainstream society.
I left mainstream society long ago.
If you had control over your own life, you wouldn't feel that repressed anger that all slaves feel when they see someone who is truly free.
I think you do not understand what "repressed" means. And you think the "indie rocker" type is "truly free"? They're slaves to their own image, which is sad.
A shaggy haired guy who's hair you'd love to cut
No desire to be a barber, thank you. Did you ever notice that everyone in the places you hang out has similar hair to yours? Were you ever tempted to shave your head just so you didn't conform so much?
This is a bit suspicious; either he actually doesn't have the rights free and clear as he thinks, or he might want to get a new manager; she should call a lawyer to stop the infringing if it is, in fact, infringing (she says in the next paragraph that it would take a "lifetime" to stop this legally, which is absurd). But I find it highly unlikely "all sorts" of respectable major labels are selling this song. That's just silly. Wikipedia indicates the song was on two soundtracks, so maybe, at the most, two major labels are doing this.
since an Objectivist society would never work without upwards of 95% rational actors
No offense, but 95% of Objectivists aren't rational people. It's a third rate philosophy set forth in fourth rate books by a fifth rate mind.
They all had haircuts and jobs - they all raised families - they were all respectable people.
Then they weren't who I was talking about. I was referring to the 20-something, shaggy haired guys with overly tight jeans who belt out insipid, generic local-venue-alternarock while their parents pay for their Williamsburg apartments.
But maybe living in Brooklyn has made me bitter.
Indies. Those are the REAL musicians.
In my experience people who refer to themselves as Indies aren't very good.
This is yet another example of Corporations having more freedoms and rights, than people do.
Not really. People can vote, but corporations can lobby.
People can lobby, too.
People go to jail when they break the law, corporations maybe pay a fine at most -- some in fact, seem to get money from the government for breaking the law.
I don't really see how you can jail an abstract legal entity like a corporation. They certainly do jail corporate officers for actions taken on behalf of their corporation. They also shut down corporations, too--look at Arthur Andersen, or any number of stores/real estate developments that are shut down because of health code or environmental violations.
If your business depends entirely on you having a presence on MySpace, you're doing something wrong.
If you're an indie rock musician, you were already doing something wrong. Get a job and a haircut.
However, it is now a MySpace problem because the site apparently has no mechanism or system to fix the problem the label created.
Or obligation.
This just in! A group of car insurance companies just sued several state governments because they have allowed drivers to operate vehicles at unauthorized speeds, which led to accidents and higher insurance costs! Insurance companies know this because bicyclists have been watching how fast cars go, and they go way too fast!
Analogy falls apart; the insurance company can't prevent drivers from driving. The ISP can certainly prevent anyone from downloading stuff through it.
I have avoided Bioshock for that reason. I'm not enthusiastic about how it demonizes objectivism for a cheap plot point.
How do you know it's a cheap plot point if you haven't played it? Maybe it's a very profound plot point?
The Magic Flute [wikipedia.org] is obviously an attack on the sacred institution of marriage, deviously engineered by The Homosexual Lobby.
Actually The Magic Flute was a deeply symbolic work based on freemason philosophy, and could be intepreted on an attack on the religious institutions of the age.
I realised it wasn't fun anymore, it was just for friends
Yes, nothing fun about socializing with friends.
Far from it; the bald, white space-marine is one of the most over-used characters in modern gaming. But it increasingly rare that they are lone heroes.
Actually, for certain genres (I'm thinking traditional adventure, and 3-d platform), the beautiful young white female is the most over-used character.
He had a gentleman's agreement to work on the chip it seems from the litigation. Once the university caught on, he tucked his tail and screwed Intel over, so much for the Gentleman part, the a-hole should have owned up to the actual verbal deal with Intel in court, so the suit by the university was null and void, and took his walking papers (and/or lawsuit) from the university like a real man.
The story says the University sought a patent, not him. He can't control what they do, I assume.
Jail the stockholders.
A large percentage of those will be corporations themselves, or trusts (like pension funds).
I chose soylent green iirc.
I think you mean Make Room! Make Room! Good book.
light(ish) reading with plenty of topics to discuss.
In a high school literature I'd hope you'd want heavy reading.
Can you imagine being immortal like Duncan, and being buried alive? Assuming the soil was to hard to be clawed through, it would be an awful way to spend an eternity.
Nothing is too hard to claw through given enough time.
3. Most print newspapers have journalist with a very liberal slant, and people don't want that anymore, witness the success of Fox News and online bloggers.
That's a myth concocted by the right to explain why they don't win every election even though they claim they represent a majority of Americans. The only explanation would be someone was "deceiving" all those red-blooded Americans into voting socialist. Journalists, as a class, tend to slant slightly liberal on a personal level (as do people with college educations in general, and I believe in this day and age most journalists have one), but 95% of news, especially local news, doesn't really have much to do with politics, and a lot of the the other 5% they manage more or less to keep their biases out of it. On the national level there are plenty of conservative-leaning newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times.