dude, say bye bye to legal flag burning in the US. #43 is pro flag burning amendment. I'm sure he and the republican dominated congress will get around to it after they outlaw abortion and eliminate environmental regulations. (I voted for Nader in a state where it made no difference).
Personally, I think that it should be mandated as part of our independence day celebration, that we should celebrate our freedom by burning a US flag. The practice would quickly come out of fasion as an act of protest.
no, because a decent sized police force is often more dangerous than NO police force. Then people need to carry around weapons to protect themselves from the police. Or haven't you been paying attention to LA or Wash. DC issues lately?
yes, go home, or to your privately funded church and worship freely.
Do not take MY tax dollars, and spend it on your twisted fucked up perverted interpretation of Christianity.
Or how about this: "render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's."
That is a quote from the dude himself, saying that you should give to God from your money BEFORE taxes. Your Taxes are money that belongs to Ceasar. So tithe from your gross, get a healthy good private school and church going. Don't give money to God that was rightfully Ceasar's. God doesn't fucking want or need it.
In fact, one of the school shootings a few years back was a kid who felt harassed by the Christian prayer group in his school. They told him that because he didn't join them, he would burn in hell.
Left with no hope, he decided to take them with him.
I live in Kansas, and I'm homeschooling my kid so I can teach him about evolution and cosmology, and he won't have to learn about that creationism bullcrap!
(warning: This is a test of the emergency trollcasting system. If this had been an actual troll, it would have been a little more subtle, and from an account that has not previously been associated with pro-religious rants)
they make that choice when they tease another kid. It may not have been obvious a few years ago, but it should be obvious now; if you tease that scrawny geek, you take the risk that he's going to come back with a gun and pop a cap in your brain pan.
It is now a stated and obvious risk. When one child teases another, they are taking that risk. It's just a fact. Not a threat.
No, the popular jocks just date rape their girlfriends.
Or did we all forget that one of the jocks at Columbine was involved in a situation where he raped his gf, and when she went to the authorities, they tried to hush it up, and offer her "early graduation" because they didn't want to lose their football star?
This isn't about a few sick kids, or social hierarchies and conformity. It's about a sick system. Fitness and teamwork are important concepts, but they should NEVER be above or at the expense of an academic or intellectual focus at a SCHOOL.
Heh, Norton Disk Edit. Probably ought to be outlawed by the DCMA. I edited the greeting text in DOS to say "CopyLeft - Micro$haft Winblows" blah blah blah. Basic kiddie stuff. So much fun.
I don't think this exploits anti-skip; that's simply buffering. This exploits ecc. Computer CDROMS use ECC because they can't afford to drop a bit here and there in case it's data. Since it's music, I think they're intentionally telling ecc that the data has an error, and it's unrecoverable because the checksum is intentionally wrong.
I don't know if ecc is enableable at the driver level, it may be a firmware thing. Anybody up for hacking the firmware of their CD ROM to disable ecc? That would probably do it - but then data CD's would be unreliable.
Japanese consumers have bought into the Minidisk in huge numbers. What makes you think they are any less intelligent than American consumers? It's all a matter of having control over the market.
Because, with a court order, the RIAA can get Napster's encryption protocol, and build a packet analyzer that de-encrypts the relevant fields, and automates the whole process for the voyeur.
The root of the whole problem is; when the technologists sold the recording industry on "digital technology" years ago, they told them all about the benefits, but apparently left out the one cruicial bit about information theory that says that you can't secure data transfers between two parties if one of the parties doesn't want it secured. It's a theoretical impossibility. Like honest politicians.
So the recording industry jumped headfirst into CD's - cheaper to produce, but able to command a higher price because of supposed higher audio quality (than Vinyl). Pure profit was the lure, but they didn't know that they were letting the genie out of the bottle.
So THEY say that nobody's forcing us to buy their CD's, nobody puts a gun to our head, so if we don't like the price, don't buy the music and shut up.
I say, nobody put a gun to their heads and made them switch to digital technology. The unfortunate (for them) reality is, once data is digital, you can try to control it, but ultimately, authoritarianism loses in the end. Or hasn't anyone noticed how often drivers obey speed limits?
This man needs a big, heavy, spiky clue-stick, to whack the other representatives and other government officials with. Internet Caucus doesn't seem to be doing a very good job.
I guess we missed another very important question. For US, the problem is, finding like-minded politicians to support. If Rep. Boucher is the ONLY one, well, that's kind of a desperate situation. We need to find or sway others. But if there ARE others, it would be nice to know who they are, so we know to whom we should lend our support.
No, it's God's perfect and unerring Word. It doesn't say "about 30 cubits".
What I'm doing is pointing out the most obvious flaw. One that exposes the folly of Biblical literalism. And I would characterize it as more than "some" Christians. I'd say MOST Christians (who actually take the time to read the Bible) make that mistake.
It's my personaly belief that God put this passage in the Bible in exactly this way as a signal: Hey, it's my Word, but it's written on imperfect paper, in imperfect ink, transcribed by VERY imperfect humans. Don't take it all THAT seriously.
I remember when Magic first came out too. Pretty much everyone in the gaming scene was kind of getting sick of all the game companies trying to suck money out of them by updating new editions of the games so everyone would have to buy all new rule books, at ever increasing prices. So everyone decided to switch to Magic. Less time consuming, more portable, easier to rope-in newbies.
It became VERY difficult to find people who were willing to spend the time and effort to do RPG's or Wargames. And it was the rich fucks who spent the most money on cards that did better. I watched a few games, and I "got it". That was the end of gaming for me. A small group of hard core role players and I gamed for like 7 years after that, but you just didn't see the following anymore, especially at cons.
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dude, say bye bye to legal flag burning in the US. #43 is pro flag burning amendment. I'm sure he and the republican dominated congress will get around to it after they outlaw abortion and eliminate environmental regulations. (I voted for Nader in a state where it made no difference).
Personally, I think that it should be mandated as part of our independence day celebration, that we should celebrate our freedom by burning a US flag. The practice would quickly come out of fasion as an act of protest.
no, because a decent sized police force is often more dangerous than NO police force. Then people need to carry around weapons to protect themselves from the police. Or haven't you been paying attention to LA or Wash. DC issues lately?
yes, go home, or to your privately funded church and worship freely.
Do not take MY tax dollars, and spend it on your twisted fucked up perverted interpretation of Christianity.
Or how about this: "render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's."
That is a quote from the dude himself, saying that you should give to God from your money BEFORE taxes. Your Taxes are money that belongs to Ceasar. So tithe from your gross, get a healthy good private school and church going. Don't give money to God that was rightfully Ceasar's. God doesn't fucking want or need it.
In fact, one of the school shootings a few years back was a kid who felt harassed by the Christian prayer group in his school. They told him that because he didn't join them, he would burn in hell.
Left with no hope, he decided to take them with him.
Some (most) Christians just don't "get it".
I live in Kansas, and I'm homeschooling my kid so I can teach him about evolution and cosmology, and he won't have to learn about that creationism bullcrap!
(warning: This is a test of the emergency trollcasting system. If this had been an actual troll, it would have been a little more subtle, and from an account that has not previously been associated with pro-religious rants)
they make that choice when they tease another kid. It may not have been obvious a few years ago, but it should be obvious now; if you tease that scrawny geek, you take the risk that he's going to come back with a gun and pop a cap in your brain pan.
It is now a stated and obvious risk. When one child teases another, they are taking that risk. It's just a fact. Not a threat.
No, the popular jocks just date rape their girlfriends.
Or did we all forget that one of the jocks at Columbine was involved in a situation where he raped his gf, and when she went to the authorities, they tried to hush it up, and offer her "early graduation" because they didn't want to lose their football star?
This isn't about a few sick kids, or social hierarchies and conformity. It's about a sick system. Fitness and teamwork are important concepts, but they should NEVER be above or at the expense of an academic or intellectual focus at a SCHOOL.
I dunno. Charlie Pride is not all that bad. . . Like the article sez; pre Garth.
Heh, Norton Disk Edit. Probably ought to be outlawed by the DCMA. I edited the greeting text in DOS to say "CopyLeft - Micro$haft Winblows" blah blah blah. Basic kiddie stuff. So much fun.
Not only can the record be ruined by a scratch, but how about dust-welds, or just plain wear?
I don't think this exploits anti-skip; that's simply buffering. This exploits ecc. Computer CDROMS use ECC because they can't afford to drop a bit here and there in case it's data. Since it's music, I think they're intentionally telling ecc that the data has an error, and it's unrecoverable because the checksum is intentionally wrong.
I don't know if ecc is enableable at the driver level, it may be a firmware thing. Anybody up for hacking the firmware of their CD ROM to disable ecc? That would probably do it - but then data CD's would be unreliable.
Japanese consumers have bought into the Minidisk in huge numbers. What makes you think they are any less intelligent than American consumers? It's all a matter of having control over the market.
screw that.
Quake.
Yeah, and a taller one is planned in Chicago. SO what? That Chinese pile is vapor man.
ST is also the world's largest office building. It's Mecca to Dilbert fans everywhere.
yes, but KL does NOT have decent Pizza, nor do they have the Bulls.
Shit yeah, they could do it off the Stratosphere. Think of all the people that would sign up JUST for conventions.
Because, with a court order, the RIAA can get Napster's encryption protocol, and build a packet analyzer that de-encrypts the relevant fields, and automates the whole process for the voyeur.
The root of the whole problem is; when the technologists sold the recording industry on "digital technology" years ago, they told them all about the benefits, but apparently left out the one cruicial bit about information theory that says that you can't secure data transfers between two parties if one of the parties doesn't want it secured. It's a theoretical impossibility. Like honest politicians.
So the recording industry jumped headfirst into CD's - cheaper to produce, but able to command a higher price because of supposed higher audio quality (than Vinyl). Pure profit was the lure, but they didn't know that they were letting the genie out of the bottle.
So THEY say that nobody's forcing us to buy their CD's, nobody puts a gun to our head, so if we don't like the price, don't buy the music and shut up.
I say, nobody put a gun to their heads and made them switch to digital technology. The unfortunate (for them) reality is, once data is digital, you can try to control it, but ultimately, authoritarianism loses in the end. Or hasn't anyone noticed how often drivers obey speed limits?
This man needs a big, heavy, spiky clue-stick, to whack the other representatives and other government officials with. Internet Caucus doesn't seem to be doing a very good job.
I guess we missed another very important question. For US, the problem is, finding like-minded politicians to support. If Rep. Boucher is the ONLY one, well, that's kind of a desperate situation. We need to find or sway others. But if there ARE others, it would be nice to know who they are, so we know to whom we should lend our support.
No, it's God's perfect and unerring Word. It doesn't say "about 30 cubits".
What I'm doing is pointing out the most obvious flaw. One that exposes the folly of Biblical literalism. And I would characterize it as more than "some" Christians. I'd say MOST Christians (who actually take the time to read the Bible) make that mistake.
It's my personaly belief that God put this passage in the Bible in exactly this way as a signal: Hey, it's my Word, but it's written on imperfect paper, in imperfect ink, transcribed by VERY imperfect humans. Don't take it all THAT seriously.
Should we throw out the part where Pi=3?
I know Christians who believe that D&D is evil. In fact, some of them believe that ANYTHING that distracts one from worship of God is EVIL.
My son has Pokemon Monopoly.
Collecting killed ALL gaming.
I remember when Magic first came out too. Pretty much everyone in the gaming scene was kind of getting sick of all the game companies trying to suck money out of them by updating new editions of the games so everyone would have to buy all new rule books, at ever increasing prices. So everyone decided to switch to Magic. Less time consuming, more portable, easier to rope-in newbies.
It became VERY difficult to find people who were willing to spend the time and effort to do RPG's or Wargames. And it was the rich fucks who spent the most money on cards that did better. I watched a few games, and I "got it". That was the end of gaming for me. A small group of hard core role players and I gamed for like 7 years after that, but you just didn't see the following anymore, especially at cons.