I used an e-cig to quit tobacco completely -- day one. Eight months later I was still using an e-cig but had cut out nicotine completely. Twelve months later I had stopped using an e-cig at all. It's now been four months since I put down the e-cig for the last time.
There are lots of ways to quit -- the cold turkey argument holds no water. It's just the kind of thing that gets bandied about when cigarette smoking and quitting gets mentioned -- it's a meme.
Furthermore, harm reduction is a perfectly rational and useful goal to pursue -- if people don't want to or can't quit, then providing them with options which reduce the harm they do to themselves should be promoted and not decried. There's really very little harm is using nicotine responsibly and if people choose to do so it's really nobody else's business. In the same way it's nobody else's business if someone chooses to use caffeine, for example.
Customs authorities should be encouraged to do more to educate the traveling public and entrants into the United States about these issues. In particular, points of entry into the United States are underused venues for educating the public about the threat to our economy (and to public safety) posed by counterfeit and pirate products. Customs forms should be amended to require the disclosure of pirate or counterfeit items being brought into the United States.
Meh...every soldier everywhere lives in a Kill or Be Killed situation. And nearly everyone decides to err on the side of self preservation.
Err -- yes. Self preservation -- no.
Clearly it was kill or be killed for those in a gunship facing down individuals on foot with cameras and tripods. Same goes for those children in the van -- certainly it was a case of "them or us" from the point of view of those in a gunship. Self preservation in a kill or be killed situation -- give me a fucking break.
Oh, I'm aware of Moffat's previous writing credits on Dr. Who. I'm just not sure he can be the saviour of the entire series as you seem to think. I hope he can be, but I also think that the series tone might now be too firmly entrenched down the wrong path. If I had my own TARDIS, I would go back to when they were looking to bring the series back and see to it that RTD never got the gig and Moffat did.
...pointlessly-camped-up shitly-written waste of a good concept...
You've managed to succinctly sum up my feeling about the whole series since this latest reboot. Not that I haven't watched it all and had a few fun times here and there, though. Annoyingly, I've enjoyed almost all the actors and their performances, so frustrations with the show always stemmed from what you describe above. I hope Moffat can be the saviour you think he will be. When I saw his 2007 series Jekyll with James Nesbitt I looked at that and thought, "Now, this is the type of thing I was hoping they would do when they brought Dr. Who back". I'm not sure they can go that far now as the campiness seems ingrained into the series at this point.
You really should step away from this topic -- you haven't got a clue. First life in prison and now just beat the tar out of them -- neither approach is effective. Prohibition doesn't work.
That, there's a ton of families out there ruined by abusive jerks with drug problems that probably should be behind bars for life or at least taken out of society.
Make sure you include all those abusive jerk alcoholics at AA when you round up all the addicts and lock them up. Life in prison for being an addict -- yeah, that will definitely will fix things up no problem.
The kids that want to go to the library already do. Their parents usually are readers also and tought them by example.
The idea is to give those kids who don't go another reason to go. If they don't go because they're not that interested in books, then they might go because of games. Once there, they might discover that books (or one of the other things on offer) hold something of interesting for them as well.
Also, I'm not sure why a kid would want to go to the library to play video games. Most kids have what they need to play at home.
Seems like wasted money to me.
The same reason people go for books -- not everyone can afford to buy every game they would like to experience. Most kids from a certain economic background might "have what they need", but there are significant sections of society that don't. Libraries provide public access to cultural materials -- this is simply recognizing that games are of cultural significance and should therefore be included in what's on offer.
Maybe you can inform us of how you 'change' to accomodate the fact that people are takuing your output for free and not paying a single penny?
"We haven't done any of our own thinking on the issue -- give us an answer."
Perhaps all of the very experienced business owners here at slashdot could emerge from moms basement and explain how you make a living that way with music?
laughable.
What makes you think that you are entitled to make a living from making music at all? Was the fletcher entitled to making a living from producing arrows? Or the blacksmith entitled to making a living for making horse shoes? Surely we need legislation to resurrect those industries who have suffered far longer than any perceived suffering the music industry claims. What about the baker? He's seen the mom and pop version of his industry assailed by supermarkets for years. We surely need to help those mom and pop bakers out first as their plight has been ongoing long before we even had the internet. The same can be said for the mom and pop butcher.
It is laughable, I'll give you that. It's laughable that an industry feels it's entitled to survive no matter what may come. The level of entitlement displayed and articulated borders on delusional. Music might be culturally significant and of value, but it doesn't need an industry to remain so. This is the origin of the delusion -- confusing the value of the industry with the cultural value of the artistic output -- they are not equivalent nor necessarily linked.
We weren't talking about the price of tea in China. We were discussing why the ACTA is being fought by the European Union. Please stay on topic.
It only looks off topic if you quote your interlocutor out of context. Let's look at the actual context:
Also, are you really serious about us economy being closed? Did you forget China and Taiwan, the Indian coders and phone support, even us mail manual processing being offshored to Singapore? You can't be serious.
Which was in response to this:
Unlike the US, that has an economy that is mostly closed...
Claiming to be subject to a violation of logic (an Ad Hominem) on the one hand, but then blatantly quoting out of context on the other in order to deliver a snide and condescending reply is really inconsistent -- at best.
What annoys me is that it's not the technical specs that are hard to follow, but that the manufacturers spin out so many derivative products and seem to purposely muddy the waters with their naming/numbering conventions. I can lookup charts for performance and whatnot, but those charts become excessively bloated due to product proliferation that the chore is not in understanding what can perform where I want, but wading through the overabundance of data to make that final determination.
When I have an upgrade to do it takes me about two weeks of poking around before I'm close to making a decision. And that's not because I'm indecisive, but because there's just too many products by each manufacturer that are too similar. It takes time to realize that products "X", "Y" and "Z" by company "A" are all really the same product within minimal tolerances, but named quite differently or in a way where the one with the higher product number associated with it is actually the inferior product.
I used to enjoy hardware and making purchases, but now I just see it as an annoying chore. Maybe I've just gotten old and have less patience, but when looking to upgrade these days it certainly seem more like work -- rather than fun.
My generation? I was born in 1965 -- what year were you born in?
You guys just don't get it -- you've been decoded and deterritorialized -- there's no going back now. The genetic code of music distribution has been cracked and laid bare -- now that it's simply 1's and 0's you cannot exert the control you once could. Trying to legislate that control back will fail -- it will, and you likely know it too.
And here's another flash for you -- music doesn't need an industry in order for it to be culturally significant. Let me repeat that, music doesn't need an industry in order for it to be culturally significant. Personally, I think an industry can easily survive -- but not for those who can't see the nature of reality as it is presently -- and that's not dependent upon one's generation -- it's dependent upon one's thinking. But don't worry, there's always the haberdasher:
"What size do you wear sir? Sorry, we only have that in an eight. Do you wear black?" And so forth.
Eventually people will start realizing that infringing is illegal and it prevents many of us (music producers) from making a living.
Why should I care whether you can make a living or not?
I might care about the continued production of content (the music itself), but you most certainly are not necessary for that to continue. You might believe you are and you might believe you are entitled to make a living doing what you've always done, but that in no way makes it so. Many industries have changed over time and left people out of work and their old roles redundant -- we didn't legislate to keep those industries in limbo and those old roles viable -- nor should we legislate to keep your industry in limbo or your role viable.
It's the, "but, but, we're so important" attitude that really bites my ass. No, you're not -- you're Artie Fufkin -- now bend over and ask us all to collectively kick your ass. C'mon, for a man -- do it.
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I used an e-cig to quit tobacco completely -- day one. Eight months later I was still using an e-cig but had cut out nicotine completely. Twelve months later I had stopped using an e-cig at all. It's now been four months since I put down the e-cig for the last time.
There are lots of ways to quit -- the cold turkey argument holds no water. It's just the kind of thing that gets bandied about when cigarette smoking and quitting gets mentioned -- it's a meme.
Furthermore, harm reduction is a perfectly rational and useful goal to pursue -- if people don't want to or can't quit, then providing them with options which reduce the harm they do to themselves should be promoted and not decried. There's really very little harm is using nicotine responsibly and if people choose to do so it's really nobody else's business. In the same way it's nobody else's business if someone chooses to use caffeine, for example.
Customs authorities should be encouraged to do more to educate the traveling public and entrants into the United States about these issues. In particular, points of entry into the United States are underused venues for educating the public about the threat to our economy (and to public safety) posed by counterfeit and pirate products.
Customs forms should be amended to require the disclosure of pirate or counterfeit items being brought into the United States.
[x] One eye patch.
[x] One peg leg.
Radially challenged.
He didn't abbreviate or pluralize -- Max Power.
Inconceivable!
Meh...every soldier everywhere lives in a Kill or Be Killed situation. And nearly everyone decides to err on the side of self preservation.
Err -- yes. Self preservation -- no.
Clearly it was kill or be killed for those in a gunship facing down individuals on foot with cameras and tripods. Same goes for those children in the van -- certainly it was a case of "them or us" from the point of view of those in a gunship. Self preservation in a kill or be killed situation -- give me a fucking break.
Oh, I'm aware of Moffat's previous writing credits on Dr. Who. I'm just not sure he can be the saviour of the entire series as you seem to think. I hope he can be, but I also think that the series tone might now be too firmly entrenched down the wrong path. If I had my own TARDIS, I would go back to when they were looking to bring the series back and see to it that RTD never got the gig and Moffat did.
...pointlessly-camped-up shitly-written waste of a good concept...
You've managed to succinctly sum up my feeling about the whole series since this latest reboot. Not that I haven't watched it all and had a few fun times here and there, though. Annoyingly, I've enjoyed almost all the actors and their performances, so frustrations with the show always stemmed from what you describe above. I hope Moffat can be the saviour you think he will be. When I saw his 2007 series Jekyll with James Nesbitt I looked at that and thought, "Now, this is the type of thing I was hoping they would do when they brought Dr. Who back". I'm not sure they can go that far now as the campiness seems ingrained into the series at this point.
...a time vortex doesn't have smoke
The time tunnel had smoke.
Iran has the highest rate of addicts in the world:
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/special-wire/iran-tops-world-drug-addiction-rate-list-report-03805.html
You really should step away from this topic -- you haven't got a clue. First life in prison and now just beat the tar out of them -- neither approach is effective. Prohibition doesn't work.
That, there's a ton of families out there ruined by abusive jerks with drug problems that probably should be behind bars for life or at least taken out of society.
Make sure you include all those abusive jerk alcoholics at AA when you round up all the addicts and lock them up. Life in prison for being an addict -- yeah, that will definitely will fix things up no problem.
The kids that want to go to the library already do. Their parents usually are readers also and tought them by example.
The idea is to give those kids who don't go another reason to go. If they don't go because they're not that interested in books, then they might go because of games. Once there, they might discover that books (or one of the other things on offer) hold something of interesting for them as well.
Also, I'm not sure why a kid would want to go to the library to play video games. Most kids have what they need to play at home.
Seems like wasted money to me.
The same reason people go for books -- not everyone can afford to buy every game they would like to experience. Most kids from a certain economic background might "have what they need", but there are significant sections of society that don't. Libraries provide public access to cultural materials -- this is simply recognizing that games are of cultural significance and should therefore be included in what's on offer.
Hoser.
Th industry too lazy to change?
Yes, as evidenced by your very next line:
Maybe you can inform us of how you 'change' to accomodate the fact that people are takuing your output for free and not paying a single penny?
"We haven't done any of our own thinking on the issue -- give us an answer."
Perhaps all of the very experienced business owners here at slashdot could emerge from moms basement and explain how you make a living that way with music?
laughable.
What makes you think that you are entitled to make a living from making music at all? Was the fletcher entitled to making a living from producing arrows? Or the blacksmith entitled to making a living for making horse shoes? Surely we need legislation to resurrect those industries who have suffered far longer than any perceived suffering the music industry claims. What about the baker? He's seen the mom and pop version of his industry assailed by supermarkets for years. We surely need to help those mom and pop bakers out first as their plight has been ongoing long before we even had the internet. The same can be said for the mom and pop butcher.
It is laughable, I'll give you that. It's laughable that an industry feels it's entitled to survive no matter what may come. The level of entitlement displayed and articulated borders on delusional. Music might be culturally significant and of value, but it doesn't need an industry to remain so. This is the origin of the delusion -- confusing the value of the industry with the cultural value of the artistic output -- they are not equivalent nor necessarily linked.
He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him.
*Throws a Tribble at Kirk*
Is that the sound you make when you taste it? Oooooo mammy!
We weren't talking about the price of tea in China. We were discussing why the ACTA is being fought by the European Union. Please stay on topic.
It only looks off topic if you quote your interlocutor out of context. Let's look at the actual context:
Also, are you really serious about us economy being closed? Did you forget China and Taiwan, the Indian coders and phone support, even us mail manual processing being offshored to Singapore? You can't be serious.
Which was in response to this:
Unlike the US, that has an economy that is mostly closed...
Claiming to be subject to a violation of logic (an Ad Hominem) on the one hand, but then blatantly quoting out of context on the other in order to deliver a snide and condescending reply is really inconsistent -- at best.
What annoys me is that it's not the technical specs that are hard to follow, but that the manufacturers spin out so many derivative products and seem to purposely muddy the waters with their naming/numbering conventions. I can lookup charts for performance and whatnot, but those charts become excessively bloated due to product proliferation that the chore is not in understanding what can perform where I want, but wading through the overabundance of data to make that final determination.
When I have an upgrade to do it takes me about two weeks of poking around before I'm close to making a decision. And that's not because I'm indecisive, but because there's just too many products by each manufacturer that are too similar. It takes time to realize that products "X", "Y" and "Z" by company "A" are all really the same product within minimal tolerances, but named quite differently or in a way where the one with the higher product number associated with it is actually the inferior product.
I used to enjoy hardware and making purchases, but now I just see it as an annoying chore. Maybe I've just gotten old and have less patience, but when looking to upgrade these days it certainly seem more like work -- rather than fun.
The beaver bag? The pelt package?
My generation? I was born in 1965 -- what year were you born in?
You guys just don't get it -- you've been decoded and deterritorialized -- there's no going back now. The genetic code of music distribution has been cracked and laid bare -- now that it's simply 1's and 0's you cannot exert the control you once could. Trying to legislate that control back will fail -- it will, and you likely know it too.
And here's another flash for you -- music doesn't need an industry in order for it to be culturally significant. Let me repeat that, music doesn't need an industry in order for it to be culturally significant. Personally, I think an industry can easily survive -- but not for those who can't see the nature of reality as it is presently -- and that's not dependent upon one's generation -- it's dependent upon one's thinking. But don't worry, there's always the haberdasher:
"What size do you wear sir? Sorry, we only have that in an eight. Do you wear black?" And so forth.
Eventually people will start realizing that infringing is illegal and it prevents many of us (music producers) from making a living.
Why should I care whether you can make a living or not?
I might care about the continued production of content (the music itself), but you most certainly are not necessary for that to continue. You might believe you are and you might believe you are entitled to make a living doing what you've always done, but that in no way makes it so. Many industries have changed over time and left people out of work and their old roles redundant -- we didn't legislate to keep those industries in limbo and those old roles viable -- nor should we legislate to keep your industry in limbo or your role viable.
It's the, "but, but, we're so important" attitude that really bites my ass. No, you're not -- you're Artie Fufkin -- now bend over and ask us all to collectively kick your ass. C'mon, for a man -- do it.
I think you'll find that taking off and nuking the entire site from orbit is the only way to be sure.
You already don't have to go there ever again. I've never been there and I'm still alive.
Correction: You've never been there so don't yet exist. Me neither. *poof*
I'd call mine Gary:
God/Flanders: *Gasp* My unicorn! Oh, what have they done to you, Gary?"
In relation to the Jean Charles de Menezes case, the officer in charge, Cressida Dick, has actually been promoted:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/12/menezes-london
Not much accountability going around in the U.K.