Reached by satellite phone, God is quoted as saying, "The existence of the pope does not prove the reality of extraterrestrial life, but it does go a long way in that direction." Asked to comment about the pope's reported Nazi past, God assured the interviewer that the case was still open and would be brought up in any attempt to canonize "Herr Schnitzel, er, his holiness."
How long do you think a phone company that didn't let you connect to Verizon would last? Especially if that company were number 3 or 4 in the market? Does MS not understand that they are selling a service?
As for whether it's censorship, I don't think that's the point. The point is, it's stupid. It degrades their own product to the point that no one will want to use it. Kind of like Vista....
The point I was trying to make which you seem to have missed AGAIN is that there are two levels of law in this country, the purely legal and the constitutional. Law is trumped by the constitution. If multiple laws are being passed, and enforced, that are in contravention to the constitution, it is because we have crossed the line between poor legislation and tyranny, and we all know what T. Jefferson's solution to tyranny was. So stop crying and wetting your pants and DO something about that tyranny or STFU.
"what part of 'the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' do you not understand?"
The part where you treat a clause like it was sentence. That's legit when you're using the I Ching to tell fortunes. It's not when you're trying to understand the founding document of the United States.
Look at this guy's record. He has a long history of driving companies out of business, or having them bailed out by others. Remember, this guy literally couldn't find oil in Bahrain. Then he promised to run the country like a corporation. If it weren't for this long history of incompetence, you could suggest that maybe he's intentionally trying to screw things up. But he does have that history. He's a chronic screw up and that's more than enough explanation. If others are using his incompetence to further their own agendas, well, that's also his fault for not riding rough shod over them. The sign on Truman's desk didn't say, "The buck stops down the hall."
So what exactly is the difference between Cuba and China? Oh, that's right! China makes cheap shit for Walmart. And they support American corporations, which is what you right-wing loonies really mean when you talk about "spreading democracy." That is, spreading corporate influence around the globe. That's Cuba's real crime. They won't let the American corporations back in. Does anybody not understand this?
"Speaking of which, why does the title mention that the group is Christian? I'm sure there are non-Christians who won't be buying a Wii for the very reason that it's easy to access porn and difficult to put parental controls on it."
Because it is a prime principle of the Christian right to be anti-sex in any form. Anti-sex to the exclusion of being anti-war or anti-exploitation or anti-racist or anti-poverty or anti-anything that really matters to the lives of real human beings. It is precisely these Christian fundamentalist reactionaries who are so hung up on the largely mythological dangers of pornography who make all this noise. To bring up the statistical fact that some vanishingly small group of non-Christians also suffer from this very same mental peculiarity has nothing to do with the true nature of this story.
"I'm not saying it's a particularly good reason not to get a Wii, but don't judge religion, judge stupidity. (and please pass on the religion = stupidity comments, they are past tired.)"
Except that, with the exception of a very small percentage of scholarly intellectuals, the more religiously oriented a person is, the more likely they are to BE stupid. Sorry if this sounds like trolling, but you put the terms "religion" and "stupidity" on the table and you have to expect someone (like me) to raise the valid question of what, exactly, the relationship IS between the two. And, unfortunately, the latter varies directly with the former.
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Interestingly enough, despite the commonly accepted wisdom that the loss of the material stored at the Library of Alexandria was the result of successive burnings, an analysis by Luciano Canfora ("The Vanished Library") shows that it simply crumbled to dust because the ongpoing process by which it was continuously copied and recopied was interrupted. If you really want data to survive, you need to put it on something that will physically last, like the clay tablets from Mesopotamia. The notion that civilization somehow began at Sumer is a direct result of the fact that their documents survived burial in the ground for thousands of years. This is the standard to which you need to aspire.
Who knows, maybe you'll be the one to find evidence of a forgotten sea-faring neanderthal civilization no one knew about. Try to be a little more open minded.
They are now so hard up for recruits that they are sending recruiters to gay bars and promising them they can have their own tents together. All this while the Bush Crime Family goes around threatening to send "troops" into other countries that don't toe the line. No word yet on which Texas sheriff's department will be tapped for that duty.
Some squeeky little Indian son-of-a-bitch who can't tell a tension headache from a migraine charges you $80 for 15 of his precious minutes (for those who can't multiply, that's $320 AN HOUR) and sits there and tells you, "I don't have any answers, Mr. Franklin," and then throws you out of his office because you make him feel inferior by actually questioning his ability to tell a tension headache from a migraine and the little fuckers can't understand why people want to rant about their incompetance. Well, I for one think the bastards should be nationalized and paid a goddamned salary so they don't have any incentive to try to see more people than they can possibly treat in a competant manner.
It's called a rubber, in popular parlance. You folks would rather spin your little fantasies about technological solutions than stand up to the religious weenies and point to the real source of the problem: too many people, and the demonization of birth control by a bunch of farm state morons who think that technology means praying to God for rain.
But not irreversibly so. I inherently mistrust long-term projections from short-term trends. Look at all of the projections that were made from the budget surpluses of the Clinton years. Where did they go? This public domain problem could turn on a dime, as virtually everything corrupted by a relatively small number of individuals whose hold on power, even as we speak, is eroding faster than the architecture in New Orleans. The only thing in doubt is how far the counterreaction to the total mismanagement by these characters will extend. Will it include a total reversal of their Reagan era deregulation or just a limited rollback of the most heinous abuses? Only time will tell.
POLITRON: 1) The quantum of dishonesty, commonly misspelled POLITION. 2) An inhabitant of Washingtron. 3) a variant of POLYTRON, the particle that allows the creation of multiply nucleated elements. See UNOBTAINIUM.
I don't recall trying to be funny. What do I look like, Bozo the Clown? Willard the Weatherman? Ronald TM-Donald? The Firesign Theater? Like one of the Social Studies teachers at Central High used to say, "It's all a BIG joke, isn't it?"
Whoosh yourself. I got it. You didn't get that I was extending your joke to include a jab at the guys who create the popups. You are not as smart as you think you are, Sonny.
those are advertisements created by really dumb advertisers who think that annoying the shit out of people is going to get them to buy stuff from them.
Excuse me. I don't known a huge amount about encryption techniques, but I strongly suspect using 16 characters rather than 6 is just a matter of the decryption program taking a couple of extra nanoseconds to crack. This is like door locks. They keep out the honest folks. The crooks are gonna break a window and ignore the lock. So, basically, we *are* talking about paranoia here, not rational security savvy. I think we may need to take back the word "paranoid" from the guys who think it means overly cautious. It doesn't. It means nuts in a particular clinically defined way.
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Reached by satellite phone, God is quoted as saying, "The existence of the pope does not prove the reality of extraterrestrial life, but it does go a long way in that direction." Asked to comment about the pope's reported Nazi past, God assured the interviewer that the case was still open and would be brought up in any attempt to canonize "Herr Schnitzel, er, his holiness."
How long do you think a phone company that didn't let you connect to Verizon would last? Especially if that company were number 3 or 4 in the market? Does MS not understand that they are selling a service?
As for whether it's censorship, I don't think that's the point. The point is, it's stupid. It degrades their own product to the point that no one will want to use it. Kind of like Vista....
The point I was trying to make which you seem to have missed AGAIN is that there are two levels of law in this country, the purely legal and the constitutional. Law is trumped by the constitution. If multiple laws are being passed, and enforced, that are in contravention to the constitution, it is because we have crossed the line between poor legislation and tyranny, and we all know what T. Jefferson's solution to tyranny was. So stop crying and wetting your pants and DO something about that tyranny or STFU.
The gas pump has now started asking for my zip code.... Isn't there an air base in Alaska where we can warehouse these characters?
Um, the constitution defines WHAT you can make illegal. You CANNOT outlaw things--like free speech--that are protected by the constitution.
What you missed, apparently, was a large part of your secondary education.
"what part of 'the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' do you not understand?"
The part where you treat a clause like it was sentence. That's legit when you're using the I Ching to tell fortunes. It's not when you're trying to understand the founding document of the United States.
Look at this guy's record. He has a long history of driving companies out of business, or having them bailed out by others. Remember, this guy literally couldn't find oil in Bahrain. Then he promised to run the country like a corporation. If it weren't for this long history of incompetence, you could suggest that maybe he's intentionally trying to screw things up. But he does have that history. He's a chronic screw up and that's more than enough explanation. If others are using his incompetence to further their own agendas, well, that's also his fault for not riding rough shod over them. The sign on Truman's desk didn't say, "The buck stops down the hall."
Elect a president who doesn't believe in government and watch the government begin to fail at everything.
So what exactly is the difference between Cuba and China? Oh, that's right! China makes cheap shit for Walmart. And they support American corporations, which is what you right-wing loonies really mean when you talk about "spreading democracy." That is, spreading corporate influence around the globe. That's Cuba's real crime. They won't let the American corporations back in. Does anybody not understand this?
"Speaking of which, why does the title mention that the group is Christian? I'm sure there are non-Christians who won't be buying a Wii for the very reason that it's easy to access porn and difficult to put parental controls on it."
Because it is a prime principle of the Christian right to be anti-sex in any form. Anti-sex to the exclusion of being anti-war or anti-exploitation or anti-racist or anti-poverty or anti-anything that really matters to the lives of real human beings. It is precisely these Christian fundamentalist reactionaries who are so hung up on the largely mythological dangers of pornography who make all this noise. To bring up the statistical fact that some vanishingly small group of non-Christians also suffer from this very same mental peculiarity has nothing to do with the true nature of this story.
"I'm not saying it's a particularly good reason not to get a Wii, but don't judge religion, judge stupidity. (and please pass on the religion = stupidity comments, they are past tired.)"
Except that, with the exception of a very small percentage of scholarly intellectuals, the more religiously oriented a person is, the more likely they are to BE stupid. Sorry if this sounds like trolling, but you put the terms "religion" and "stupidity" on the table and you have to expect someone (like me) to raise the valid question of what, exactly, the relationship IS between the two. And, unfortunately, the latter varies directly with the former.
Interestingly enough, despite the commonly accepted wisdom that the loss of the material stored at the Library of Alexandria was the result of successive burnings, an analysis by Luciano Canfora ("The Vanished Library") shows that it simply crumbled to dust because the ongpoing process by which it was continuously copied and recopied was interrupted. If you really want data to survive, you need to put it on something that will physically last, like the clay tablets from Mesopotamia. The notion that civilization somehow began at Sumer is a direct result of the fact that their documents survived burial in the ground for thousands of years. This is the standard to which you need to aspire.
Who knows, maybe you'll be the one to find evidence of a forgotten sea-faring neanderthal civilization no one knew about. Try to be a little more open minded.
They are now so hard up for recruits that they are sending recruiters to gay bars and promising them they can have their own tents together. All this while the Bush Crime Family goes around threatening to send "troops" into other countries that don't toe the line. No word yet on which Texas sheriff's department will be tapped for that duty.
"A bunch of faggots who never served in the military"
You mean like Dick Cheney and the rest of the chicken hawks?
Some squeeky little Indian son-of-a-bitch who can't tell a tension headache from a migraine charges you $80 for 15 of his precious minutes (for those who can't multiply, that's $320 AN HOUR) and sits there and tells you, "I don't have any answers, Mr. Franklin," and then throws you out of his office because you make him feel inferior by actually questioning his ability to tell a tension headache from a migraine and the little fuckers can't understand why people want to rant about their incompetance. Well, I for one think the bastards should be nationalized and paid a goddamned salary so they don't have any incentive to try to see more people than they can possibly treat in a competant manner.
What? George Bush didn't reproduce?
It's called a rubber, in popular parlance. You folks would rather spin your little fantasies about technological solutions than stand up to the religious weenies and point to the real source of the problem: too many people, and the demonization of birth control by a bunch of farm state morons who think that technology means praying to God for rain.
But not irreversibly so. I inherently mistrust long-term projections from short-term trends. Look at all of the projections that were made from the budget surpluses of the Clinton years. Where did they go? This public domain problem could turn on a dime, as virtually everything corrupted by a relatively small number of individuals whose hold on power, even as we speak, is eroding faster than the architecture in New Orleans. The only thing in doubt is how far the counterreaction to the total mismanagement by these characters will extend. Will it include a total reversal of their Reagan era deregulation or just a limited rollback of the most heinous abuses? Only time will tell.
Yum! Neanderthal steak!
POLITRON: 1) The quantum of dishonesty, commonly misspelled POLITION. 2) An inhabitant of Washingtron. 3) a variant of POLYTRON, the particle that allows the creation of multiply nucleated elements. See UNOBTAINIUM.
Let me guess. They take the inverse of your IQ and the folks with the highest score get to moderate. Is that about right?
I don't recall trying to be funny. What do I look like, Bozo the Clown? Willard the Weatherman? Ronald TM-Donald? The Firesign Theater? Like one of the Social Studies teachers at Central High used to say, "It's all a BIG joke, isn't it?"
Whoosh yourself. I got it. You didn't get that I was extending your joke to include a jab at the guys who create the popups. You are not as smart as you think you are, Sonny.
those are advertisements created by really dumb advertisers who think that annoying the shit out of people is going to get them to buy stuff from them.
Excuse me. I don't known a huge amount about encryption techniques, but I strongly suspect using 16 characters rather than 6 is just a matter of the decryption program taking a couple of extra nanoseconds to crack. This is like door locks. They keep out the honest folks. The crooks are gonna break a window and ignore the lock. So, basically, we *are* talking about paranoia here, not rational security savvy. I think we may need to take back the word "paranoid" from the guys who think it means overly cautious. It doesn't. It means nuts in a particular clinically defined way.