Trillian: What are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot? Marvin: You think you've got problems. What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't even bother answering. I'm 50,000 times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer.
When you say "fire"...do you mean in the colloquial sense of informing someone their services are no longer required or something that involves petrol and matches?
Either way I win, I just want to know whether or not to bring marshmallows.
It's almost to the point I feel a need to call you out on this as being literally true so no one can call you a liar but that truth being represented in such a way as to mask the real situation.
There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics
While it is not part of either Libre or Open Office, Evolution is a fantastic Outlook stand-in and available on most Linux distributions. On Windows, there is also Thunderbird (with Lightning extension for calendar support)
Because they can look at those graphs and decide that you are now a Person of Interest due to said associations. It's like Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon but with SWAT teams and Spooks. You talk to someone who talks to someone who talks to someone who makes an anti-govt comment and now you are guilty by association. For all we know you could be part of a terrorist cell with that person! Clearly, We the Government must now spy on you to ensure that you and your dirty anti-American friend of a friend don't foment some plot against the interests of the United States.
While I agree with you that there is most likely no "Creator" I take umbrage at the logical jump you make to saying that we therefore have no inherent rights. Rights don't have to be granted by anyone - man, God, or dog - they are an integral part of being human.
Additionally, Utilitarianism is not without its own pitfalls. Evil acts such as murder or even genocide can be conducted in clear conscience so long as "the greatest good" is achieved "for the greatest number" aka "You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet".
So, to conclude, I would rather stick with the silly Deists who say that I have "certain unalienable Rights" by the simple virtue of being human rather than being a potential means to an end
We need to take a 0 tolerance approach to the possession of alcohol.
Please tell me you forgot to add the [sarcasm] tag to that sentence, We tried zero-tolerance in regard to alcohol for ten years; it was a flaming failure. If anything, alcohol prohibition made alcohol easier to acquire and more widespread than ever before. It achieved the exact opposite of its stated goals.
Fast forward ninety years and you can see the same thing with drugs, especially cannabis.
Prohibition does not work. Period. Full stop.
The problem is not people drinking, it's people using alcohol as an excuse to abdicate themselves from responsibility.
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Kool-aid or single-malt scotch?
Ah, the reboot, cure of all Microsoft-related problems
No, just trollbait
Microsoft presents Marvin the Paranoid Android!
Trillian: What are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?
Marvin: You think you've got problems. What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't even bother answering. I'm 50,000 times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer.
Hey! Don't get the National Transportation Authority involved in this shit, they haven't (yet) been shown to be a bunch of sociopaths...
Up to the point they put you in one of those fashionable white jackets...
When you say "fire"...do you mean in the colloquial sense of informing someone their services are no longer required or something that involves petrol and matches?
Either way I win, I just want to know whether or not to bring marshmallows.
This are America so no.
It's almost to the point I feel a need to call you out on this as being literally true so no one can call you a liar but that truth being represented in such a way as to mask the real situation.
There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics
The right to consume?
Seriously, I'm pretty sure this is the one right that even our current administration would not dare to mess with.
the ponytailed twat
Is that a reference to Larry Ellison?
While it is not part of either Libre or Open Office, Evolution is a fantastic Outlook stand-in and available on most Linux distributions. On Windows, there is also Thunderbird (with Lightning extension for calendar support)
...who has a flashback to Team America with that headline?
Tech Industry: I'm sorry, but we must be firm with you. Stop spying, or else...
NSA: Or else what?
Tech Industry: Or else we will be very very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.
Because they can look at those graphs and decide that you are now a Person of Interest due to said associations. It's like Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon but with SWAT teams and Spooks. You talk to someone who talks to someone who talks to someone who makes an anti-govt comment and now you are guilty by association. For all we know you could be part of a terrorist cell with that person! Clearly, We the Government must now spy on you to ensure that you and your dirty anti-American friend of a friend don't foment some plot against the interests of the United States.
No, we are a hybrid bicameral system that includes elements of a Republic and a Representative Democracy.
Which one is which? /me ducks
Citation please?
While I agree with you that there is most likely no "Creator" I take umbrage at the logical jump you make to saying that we therefore have no inherent rights. Rights don't have to be granted by anyone - man, God, or dog - they are an integral part of being human.
Additionally, Utilitarianism is not without its own pitfalls. Evil acts such as murder or even genocide can be conducted in clear conscience so long as "the greatest good" is achieved "for the greatest number" aka "You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet".
So, to conclude, I would rather stick with the silly Deists who say that I have "certain unalienable Rights" by the simple virtue of being human rather than being a potential means to an end
Two words: Commerce Clause. Your argument is now invalid.
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This is /. I call shenanigans on his claims of a "wife"...blow-up dolls don't count!
He's assuaged feelings of white guilt for the foreseeable future?
If the cable you are using has HDCP enabled then yes it is hard, because that is how it was designed.
Pork, largesse, and corruption mostly, with a sprinkling of sociopathic megalomania on top.
We need to take a 0 tolerance approach to the possession of alcohol.
Please tell me you forgot to add the [sarcasm] tag to that sentence, We tried zero-tolerance in regard to alcohol for ten years; it was a flaming failure. If anything, alcohol prohibition made alcohol easier to acquire and more widespread than ever before. It achieved the exact opposite of its stated goals.
Fast forward ninety years and you can see the same thing with drugs, especially cannabis.
Prohibition does not work. Period. Full stop.
The problem is not people drinking, it's people using alcohol as an excuse to abdicate themselves from responsibility.