Well, it generally is released quicker and there are literally no advertisements? Even HBO has a little icon that bothers you everyone once and awhile, then between shows you have to watch a bunch of useless crap.
Im not sure why you think that media companies should offer more and better service for less. Thats pretty much the same opinion that companies are increasingly taking over the years with their employees, forcing two people per family to work 60 hour weeks for what they would have made in the 1970's with one of them working 40. So, more for less is not always the best idea. I would say that watching whatever movies you want should cost at least as much as the internet connection you need to stream them since movies are a luxury and the internet these days is more of a necessity.
I don't watch Fox. I can't stand any of their programs, its too far right and typically also borderline insane. I listen to NPR and read my news at BBC or Reuters. Sorry. I still don't perceive Obama as doing anything. He goes on vacation more than the average American, and pretty much sticks to party lines on everything whether it makes sense or not without actually trying to stick up for what he says. He is a good speaker, a charismatic person, and also seems like a nice person, but he doesn't actually do anything. Bin Laden would have been taken care of regardless no matter who was in office since thousands of people where already looking for him who were in positions to do so since Bush. Also, our economy literally has little to do with the our current president and more to do with congress since the debt is their responsibility. Under Bush and his "executive branch has all the power" regime along with the republican ruled Senate at the time it pretty much ruined our economy, but so far Obama has done nothing to make it better other than pretend to get congress to "get along" and "compromise". Sorry, they still aren't compromising nor are they getting along. I am democratic leaning, but Obama has been a big disappointment. All Obama did was be the figurehead in passing a hamstrung health care bill that doesn't make any sense in the real world nor has anything in common with liberty.
He didn't do any of that except Bin Laden, and even that was not due directly to his involvement. The military did that, and even as commander in chief he knows next to nothing about what actually happens day to day in the military. The rest of that, that was congress or fabricated. You can't prove a great depression would have ever happened, nor can you prove anything saved it from happening.
Well, at least you don't have Obama. He is a good speaker, and seems like a nice guy, but he doesn't do and hasn't done ANYTHING. He'd rather go on vacation, or while actually doing the duties of his office "talk" about doing something without backing it up. I suppose that's better than doing the wrong thing all the time like Bush did, but in a recession you sort of need politicians to try to do something, and try to make it right.
Uhhh, I am positive this sort of abuse happens in Canada. It happens anywhere where money is important to people. It may not be as bad as the US, but you can't say it doesn't happen.
Speak for yourself. There was 25 million underinsured in 2007 and 51 million uninsured now. Sure, technically "most" people have insurance, but a hell of a lot of people don't. Im one of them since I am a student and even though I work full time right now, no-one is willing to offer health insurance because they simply don't have to to get people who are willing to work. This being the case I have to get the crap insurance through my university that pays only for basic checkups, some medication for things you could probably get over on your own, and has a ridiculous co-pay then covers nothing else short of emergencies that are life threatening. Thankfully I am pretty healthy. However, my wife is also as student who works, and has had the misfortune in the past of getting an abscess in her tooth. Since this isn't even considered an emergency by insurance companies, the total costs for emergency room visits (because it reached critical status during a time when the student health center was closed) was about 3000 dollars then we still had to pay for the dentist to root canal and crown two of her teeth at about 4000 dollars. We didn't have the money so we had to ask for help from the hospital, who refused and forced us to simply pay it at 50 bucks a month. Then we had to charge the teeth on a credit card we couldn't even pay off before she had her teeth fixed. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting totally screwed disproportionately by this recession. We have the hardest time getting decent jobs since the more experienced older and laid-off people nab them, we don't get any benefits for the jobs we can get, we have no assets to fall back on, and we get insufficient income.
I would also include "cleanliness" and "antibiotics" into your rant. Your immune system develops to be strong the more dirt and filth you are exposed to, and the less antibiotics you use to help yourself out when you get sick. I was a super clean little kid, and I used to get sick all the time. My parents fed me antibiotics so I would get well. Around 15 my parents heard that antibiotics are bad to give kids too much and I stopped being made to take them. Later I stopped caring if I get dirty and clean my hands only if I get too much dirt, or I get poop or pee on them. Right now I am "lucky" if I get sick once a year. I haven't been sick for over a year at this point unless you count hangovers or something.
The paranoid "I'm sane and the whole world is mad", "I'm one of an elite few 'non idiots'?" You would set yourself up as a new elite forcing your own viewpoint on everyone else. And you still think you're better?
I am not elite, I am just not an idiot like 60 percent of the population. I have nothing that is totally unprovable to tell me whether or not people can do as they please. I also have no ambition for telling others to do what I feel they should do, I just have a problem with people telling me what I can and can't do when it literally doesn't harm any other person. This is infinitely better than the standard.
Let me tell you something - I have been in a lawless place. And it is unpleasant to say the least. And my life has been in very serious danger as a result. Have you ever been in a place where the rule of law breaks down? You may not realise it but the current state of affairs you have in your nice sheltered life is almost infinitely better. Are you cold? Hungry? Is someone pointing a gun at you?
Irrelevant. Just because something is better here than somewhere else doesn't mean its as good as it can get nor does it mean we should ignore the inequalities and injustice present. If everyone felt like you nothing would ever improve, Maybe thats why these other areas are so shitty, because they accept it.
Oh, and if you ever want change, you'd better start showing some respect to that "mob of morons" or they'll never ever listen to you. You should hardly be surprised people only listen to people who show them respect, and you would be very surprised by just how intelligent the average man is. My goodness the ego of it all. Why does everyone always assume they'd rule better than the people who do? And who says (look at some research on this) legalizing drugs represents an improvement on the current situation? That is certainly not proven. It is still very much debated.
I never said I would rule better, I just said that the people who are ruling are bad at it. I also give respect where respect is due, and most people don't deserve it. Legalizing drugs would A) end the violence in Mexico due to drugs, B) Remove gang's source of income to finance more crime, and C) Its just the right thing to do. Or do you think its OK for people to tell you what you put in your body?
It is precisely what is happening. Morality being forced on us by laws that were created by a ruling class of people. This ruling class uses religion and other tricks to get idiots to vote in their favor. A sane person can vote, but it gets drown out by all the other voters who typically follow some organized religion or other organization. Its mob rule. There is nowhere on this earth you can go without having subjective morality forced on you through laws short of Antartica and maybe you could get away lawless in a jungle somewhere. I would like prostitution and drugs to be legalized. Many Americans think these things are immoral. I do not. It will never happen because we have a mob of morons voting along party or religious lines.
You are wrong. Completely and utterly wrong. I can prove it easy. Is prostitution moral? Some people say it is, some people say it isn't. Legalized prostitution in Nevada doesn't hurt anyone, in fact it provides jobs. Is it immoral to let consenting adults have sex while providing jobs? Is pornography immoral? Some people say it is, some people say it isn't. Pornography (no not child porn) is also providing jobs and not hurting people, and its done among consenting adults. Arguing there is absolute morality means you are arguing that some god or something else created it. You cannot prove anything like a god exists, so you cannot prove that a god created morality. If morality is human behavior, then its subjective since each human being has slightly or drastically different behavior.
Simply untrue. Post an anti-Apple remark sometime and you will have your inbox bombarded in a matter of minutes. One time I said something to the effect of "Some Apple products are overpriced". Within 30 minutes I had 20 replies from Slashdot users all defending Apple's prices, and it ranged from civil retorts (although they still didn't really address my point) to downright trolling.
You are a fanboi. That is why you even see some division at all. I have never heard of a windows fanboy nor have I ever seen one. Most people who know enough about computers to even reach fanboy status agree that Windows works most of the time, and its relatively easy, but it doesn't have everything. For example, I wouldn't try to do scientific computations on a Windows machine, simply because on Linux there is a wealth of software to do it better. Windows is in such widespread use that most people don't even know other things exists other than possibly Apple, and most people see Apple as a luxury item they may or may not be able to afford. These people just use windows because they bought their PC at Walmart or Costco for 500 bucks. Now, home PC builders (those that may be pro-Windows) usually are building gaming rigs, and they pick windows solely because OS X doesn't have a lot of gaming support, and they are too dense to figure out you can run a virtual machine. So their defense is, they don't like Apple because they can't game and its more expensive than building their own machine. Its a perfectly reasonable reason to not buy an Apple product. Furthermore, Apple is so expensive that they are pretty much forcing people who don't have disposable income to avoid their products. You can't say that someone is anti-Apple because they can't afford to ever really try out their products.
Sounds pretty spot on. The only thing I would argue is that human beings possess a large frontal lobe, you know, the area that lets us solve problems and have self control. Apparently fanboys, those who claim to be intelligent about their choices and thus in a round-about way claim they have a well functioning frontal lobe in fact do not, since their first instinct is to repeat the same things over and over and then browbeat. If someone told me my android phone was a piece of shit, I would simply tell them they are an idiot for even making it their business.
I can find innumerable examples that legality is as subjective as fairness. Drugs, prostitution, speed limits, speeding ticket prices, parking tickets. etc. etc. Legality is supposed to make it so civilization continues to function efficiently without inhibiting the freedoms of people, and is supposed to make it so people are not taken advantage of. That is fairness.
Irrelevant. Once something becomes trash it is public property. This is the same justification police, FBI, CIA and private investigators use to search through your trash without a warrant.
"Like his father" not his father. Furthermore, you would have to prove that the individual knowingly threw the item away so it could be easily pilfered. That is not easy to do since they don't even know who threw away the rock in the first place. If you were to throw away a diamond ring, you rescind ownership of it and it becomes public property. It doesn't matter if you didn't mean to do it, you still did it. Maybe you should be more careful with your things. Things become public property once they become trash. This is the same argument police, FBI, CIA and private detectives use to justify going through your trash for evidence without a warrant.
Better yet, nuke the moon with the entire arsenal of Russia and then we all can collect moon rocks from our back yards and basements (as they break through our rooftops).
- It could, however, be logically and philosophically argued though that if there is a God that created our universe he's been proven to be an asshole and not a loving or caring all powerful entity.
Biases : Atheist, Former Christian, Mathematician PhD student with a MS. I would argue that god hasn't proven to be an asshole at all assuming they exist, unless you assume stories from the religions man created actually happened. The universe seems pretty fair to me, that is, energy and matter flow from one place to another in predictable or soon to be predictable patterns and you can expect consequences of this. Things seem pretty fair until you throw in human social interactions.
Maybe they should make accusations of mental illness. There really should be no debate as to if there is a god or not, considering there is literally no way to prove there is or isn't. We may as well debate whether or not that outside the universe, there exists a sea of cottage cheese that little purple cheese guppies flop around in while shitting out bricks of unobtainium. Admittedly, religion is a bit different than a full fledged mental illness, however believing in anything that isn't verifiable physically is pretty much the same thing as believing that Santa squeezes his fat ass down chimneys and deposits gifts or coal depending on how good of a little one you are. I believe there may be a god, but I am not about to tell someone there is unless I actually have proof beyond hallucinations my brain may have time to time when I am desperate, under the influence of drugs, or in pain.
I.e., if the OP's problem is porn and/or a shitty girlfriend/wife he's not really solving his problem by severing his connection to the new stuff (new internet porn). If in fact he is dealing with the aforementioned, he needs to solve his main problem, which is having a shit relationship and being a pushover to the point he is actually considering not looking at porn anymore. I suppose I am inserting details which may not be true where details are vacant, but I see no other reason the internet would be such bad influence that one would consider dropping it. Even if you waste your time on it daily, you will find other ways to waste your time.
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Well, it generally is released quicker and there are literally no advertisements? Even HBO has a little icon that bothers you everyone once and awhile, then between shows you have to watch a bunch of useless crap.
Im not sure why you think that media companies should offer more and better service for less. Thats pretty much the same opinion that companies are increasingly taking over the years with their employees, forcing two people per family to work 60 hour weeks for what they would have made in the 1970's with one of them working 40. So, more for less is not always the best idea. I would say that watching whatever movies you want should cost at least as much as the internet connection you need to stream them since movies are a luxury and the internet these days is more of a necessity.
Thats a PR fumble, but it doesn't mean there aren't valid reasons for the hike.
I don't watch Fox. I can't stand any of their programs, its too far right and typically also borderline insane. I listen to NPR and read my news at BBC or Reuters. Sorry. I still don't perceive Obama as doing anything. He goes on vacation more than the average American, and pretty much sticks to party lines on everything whether it makes sense or not without actually trying to stick up for what he says. He is a good speaker, a charismatic person, and also seems like a nice person, but he doesn't actually do anything. Bin Laden would have been taken care of regardless no matter who was in office since thousands of people where already looking for him who were in positions to do so since Bush. Also, our economy literally has little to do with the our current president and more to do with congress since the debt is their responsibility. Under Bush and his "executive branch has all the power" regime along with the republican ruled Senate at the time it pretty much ruined our economy, but so far Obama has done nothing to make it better other than pretend to get congress to "get along" and "compromise". Sorry, they still aren't compromising nor are they getting along. I am democratic leaning, but Obama has been a big disappointment. All Obama did was be the figurehead in passing a hamstrung health care bill that doesn't make any sense in the real world nor has anything in common with liberty.
He didn't do any of that except Bin Laden, and even that was not due directly to his involvement. The military did that, and even as commander in chief he knows next to nothing about what actually happens day to day in the military. The rest of that, that was congress or fabricated. You can't prove a great depression would have ever happened, nor can you prove anything saved it from happening.
Well, at least you don't have Obama. He is a good speaker, and seems like a nice guy, but he doesn't do and hasn't done ANYTHING. He'd rather go on vacation, or while actually doing the duties of his office "talk" about doing something without backing it up. I suppose that's better than doing the wrong thing all the time like Bush did, but in a recession you sort of need politicians to try to do something, and try to make it right.
Uhhh, I am positive this sort of abuse happens in Canada. It happens anywhere where money is important to people. It may not be as bad as the US, but you can't say it doesn't happen.
Speak for yourself. There was 25 million underinsured in 2007 and 51 million uninsured now. Sure, technically "most" people have insurance, but a hell of a lot of people don't. Im one of them since I am a student and even though I work full time right now, no-one is willing to offer health insurance because they simply don't have to to get people who are willing to work. This being the case I have to get the crap insurance through my university that pays only for basic checkups, some medication for things you could probably get over on your own, and has a ridiculous co-pay then covers nothing else short of emergencies that are life threatening. Thankfully I am pretty healthy. However, my wife is also as student who works, and has had the misfortune in the past of getting an abscess in her tooth. Since this isn't even considered an emergency by insurance companies, the total costs for emergency room visits (because it reached critical status during a time when the student health center was closed) was about 3000 dollars then we still had to pay for the dentist to root canal and crown two of her teeth at about 4000 dollars. We didn't have the money so we had to ask for help from the hospital, who refused and forced us to simply pay it at 50 bucks a month. Then we had to charge the teeth on a credit card we couldn't even pay off before she had her teeth fixed. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting totally screwed disproportionately by this recession. We have the hardest time getting decent jobs since the more experienced older and laid-off people nab them, we don't get any benefits for the jobs we can get, we have no assets to fall back on, and we get insufficient income.
I would also include "cleanliness" and "antibiotics" into your rant. Your immune system develops to be strong the more dirt and filth you are exposed to, and the less antibiotics you use to help yourself out when you get sick. I was a super clean little kid, and I used to get sick all the time. My parents fed me antibiotics so I would get well. Around 15 my parents heard that antibiotics are bad to give kids too much and I stopped being made to take them. Later I stopped caring if I get dirty and clean my hands only if I get too much dirt, or I get poop or pee on them. Right now I am "lucky" if I get sick once a year. I haven't been sick for over a year at this point unless you count hangovers or something.
The paranoid "I'm sane and the whole world is mad", "I'm one of an elite few 'non idiots'?" You would set yourself up as a new elite forcing your own viewpoint on everyone else. And you still think you're better?
I am not elite, I am just not an idiot like 60 percent of the population. I have nothing that is totally unprovable to tell me whether or not people can do as they please. I also have no ambition for telling others to do what I feel they should do, I just have a problem with people telling me what I can and can't do when it literally doesn't harm any other person. This is infinitely better than the standard.
Let me tell you something - I have been in a lawless place. And it is unpleasant to say the least. And my life has been in very serious danger as a result. Have you ever been in a place where the rule of law breaks down? You may not realise it but the current state of affairs you have in your nice sheltered life is almost infinitely better. Are you cold? Hungry? Is someone pointing a gun at you?
Irrelevant. Just because something is better here than somewhere else doesn't mean its as good as it can get nor does it mean we should ignore the inequalities and injustice present. If everyone felt like you nothing would ever improve, Maybe thats why these other areas are so shitty, because they accept it.
Oh, and if you ever want change, you'd better start showing some respect to that "mob of morons" or they'll never ever listen to you. You should hardly be surprised people only listen to people who show them respect, and you would be very surprised by just how intelligent the average man is. My goodness the ego of it all. Why does everyone always assume they'd rule better than the people who do? And who says (look at some research on this) legalizing drugs represents an improvement on the current situation? That is certainly not proven. It is still very much debated.
I never said I would rule better, I just said that the people who are ruling are bad at it. I also give respect where respect is due, and most people don't deserve it. Legalizing drugs would A) end the violence in Mexico due to drugs, B) Remove gang's source of income to finance more crime, and C) Its just the right thing to do. Or do you think its OK for people to tell you what you put in your body?
It is precisely what is happening. Morality being forced on us by laws that were created by a ruling class of people. This ruling class uses religion and other tricks to get idiots to vote in their favor. A sane person can vote, but it gets drown out by all the other voters who typically follow some organized religion or other organization. Its mob rule. There is nowhere on this earth you can go without having subjective morality forced on you through laws short of Antartica and maybe you could get away lawless in a jungle somewhere. I would like prostitution and drugs to be legalized. Many Americans think these things are immoral. I do not. It will never happen because we have a mob of morons voting along party or religious lines.
You are wrong. Completely and utterly wrong. I can prove it easy. Is prostitution moral? Some people say it is, some people say it isn't. Legalized prostitution in Nevada doesn't hurt anyone, in fact it provides jobs. Is it immoral to let consenting adults have sex while providing jobs? Is pornography immoral? Some people say it is, some people say it isn't. Pornography (no not child porn) is also providing jobs and not hurting people, and its done among consenting adults. Arguing there is absolute morality means you are arguing that some god or something else created it. You cannot prove anything like a god exists, so you cannot prove that a god created morality. If morality is human behavior, then its subjective since each human being has slightly or drastically different behavior.
Too bad morality can be subjective.
Simply untrue. Post an anti-Apple remark sometime and you will have your inbox bombarded in a matter of minutes. One time I said something to the effect of "Some Apple products are overpriced". Within 30 minutes I had 20 replies from Slashdot users all defending Apple's prices, and it ranged from civil retorts (although they still didn't really address my point) to downright trolling.
You are a fanboi. That is why you even see some division at all. I have never heard of a windows fanboy nor have I ever seen one. Most people who know enough about computers to even reach fanboy status agree that Windows works most of the time, and its relatively easy, but it doesn't have everything. For example, I wouldn't try to do scientific computations on a Windows machine, simply because on Linux there is a wealth of software to do it better. Windows is in such widespread use that most people don't even know other things exists other than possibly Apple, and most people see Apple as a luxury item they may or may not be able to afford. These people just use windows because they bought their PC at Walmart or Costco for 500 bucks. Now, home PC builders (those that may be pro-Windows) usually are building gaming rigs, and they pick windows solely because OS X doesn't have a lot of gaming support, and they are too dense to figure out you can run a virtual machine. So their defense is, they don't like Apple because they can't game and its more expensive than building their own machine. Its a perfectly reasonable reason to not buy an Apple product. Furthermore, Apple is so expensive that they are pretty much forcing people who don't have disposable income to avoid their products. You can't say that someone is anti-Apple because they can't afford to ever really try out their products.
Its been quite a while since we were tree dwelling primates.
Sounds pretty spot on. The only thing I would argue is that human beings possess a large frontal lobe, you know, the area that lets us solve problems and have self control. Apparently fanboys, those who claim to be intelligent about their choices and thus in a round-about way claim they have a well functioning frontal lobe in fact do not, since their first instinct is to repeat the same things over and over and then browbeat. If someone told me my android phone was a piece of shit, I would simply tell them they are an idiot for even making it their business.
I can find innumerable examples that legality is as subjective as fairness. Drugs, prostitution, speed limits, speeding ticket prices, parking tickets. etc. etc. Legality is supposed to make it so civilization continues to function efficiently without inhibiting the freedoms of people, and is supposed to make it so people are not taken advantage of. That is fairness.
Irrelevant. Once something becomes trash it is public property. This is the same justification police, FBI, CIA and private investigators use to search through your trash without a warrant.
"Like his father" not his father. Furthermore, you would have to prove that the individual knowingly threw the item away so it could be easily pilfered. That is not easy to do since they don't even know who threw away the rock in the first place. If you were to throw away a diamond ring, you rescind ownership of it and it becomes public property. It doesn't matter if you didn't mean to do it, you still did it. Maybe you should be more careful with your things. Things become public property once they become trash. This is the same argument police, FBI, CIA and private detectives use to justify going through your trash for evidence without a warrant.
Better yet, nuke the moon with the entire arsenal of Russia and then we all can collect moon rocks from our back yards and basements (as they break through our rooftops).
What is legal or illegal is supposed to be an approximation of fairness.
- It could, however, be logically and philosophically argued though that if there is a God that created our universe he's been proven to be an asshole and not a loving or caring all powerful entity.
Biases : Atheist, Former Christian, Mathematician PhD student with a MS. I would argue that god hasn't proven to be an asshole at all assuming they exist, unless you assume stories from the religions man created actually happened. The universe seems pretty fair to me, that is, energy and matter flow from one place to another in predictable or soon to be predictable patterns and you can expect consequences of this. Things seem pretty fair until you throw in human social interactions.
Maybe they should make accusations of mental illness. There really should be no debate as to if there is a god or not, considering there is literally no way to prove there is or isn't. We may as well debate whether or not that outside the universe, there exists a sea of cottage cheese that little purple cheese guppies flop around in while shitting out bricks of unobtainium. Admittedly, religion is a bit different than a full fledged mental illness, however believing in anything that isn't verifiable physically is pretty much the same thing as believing that Santa squeezes his fat ass down chimneys and deposits gifts or coal depending on how good of a little one you are. I believe there may be a god, but I am not about to tell someone there is unless I actually have proof beyond hallucinations my brain may have time to time when I am desperate, under the influence of drugs, or in pain.
I.e., if the OP's problem is porn and/or a shitty girlfriend/wife he's not really solving his problem by severing his connection to the new stuff (new internet porn). If in fact he is dealing with the aforementioned, he needs to solve his main problem, which is having a shit relationship and being a pushover to the point he is actually considering not looking at porn anymore. I suppose I am inserting details which may not be true where details are vacant, but I see no other reason the internet would be such bad influence that one would consider dropping it. Even if you waste your time on it daily, you will find other ways to waste your time.