Well, I am forty years old, and I say, one thing banned from freedom of speech is one thing too many.
My mother died at 82 years of age, and she maintained the same principle, that censorship in any form is wrong.
How fucking old are you, douchebag, that makes you think you have the right to say what should and should not be censored.
Free speech means that you can advocate genocide or murder. Censoring political speech means that only the approved message gets heard.
Free speech mean you can make fraudulent claims. Limiting free speech means acres of red tape before anyone can make an innovative product offering.
Free speech means fighting words that can provoke an attack. Common fucking sense says don't call people names when they are carrying a pipe wrench.
Oh by the way, if you want to come to Texas and fight me because I called you a douchebag, you are welcome to.
BABEL FISH :
The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy recieved not from its own carrier but from those around it, It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. the practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any language.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anhthing so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes like this : "I refuse to prove that I exist", says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But", says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? it could not have evolved by chance. it proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh that was easy" says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
So, as you say, God must exist. I for one do believe in the existence of a deity. The difference between theists and athests is a simple one.
A theist looks around the world and sees evidence that a creator had a hand in shaping what is, and an atheist looks that the same world and does not see that evidence. I could point to any number of things which I believe indicates divine influence.
DNA seems to me to be a prime example. It is such an incredibly beautiful and complex object that I believe it does show that more than random chance influenced its development.
You haven't met my cat. Sure the humans are staff, but our dogs are part of her family. To the point of sleeping with a front paw over the chihuahua.
More disturbing was the time she went into heat and tried to convince my Jack Russell terrier to mate with her. I am ever so glad the dog didn't respond.
Mississippi also is a relatively poor state. I tell you what. Why don't you try and house, clothe, and feed a family of four on a salary of 8 dollars / hour. Or lets say you and your spouse is working, and each person works at around 8 dollars / hour. If you are only working 1 full time job each, that puts your weekly gross income at 640 dollars / week. After taxes and insurance (if you are lucky enough to afford health insurance) you are probably pulling in about 500 / week. So you are getting around 2000 per month. A 2 bedroom apartment (if both children are the same sex) will cost you what, 700 a month? If its a 3 bedroom you can expect 850? so you have between 1300 and 1150 a month left. I am going to say there is 1225 left and split the difference.
Then there are utilities. Lets say electricity eats another 200 a month, and water about 75. Now you are down to around 950 a month left. Telephones? another 30 a month. Down to 920. Car payment, can't afford one, lets say you have a 20 year old clunker. Gasoline, how about 100 a month in gas. Down to 820 dollars. Or about 200 a month per person. We haven't considered car insurance, clothing, cell phones, cable or internet. Or credit card bills or anything else you may want to buy. Or any of the million emergencies that can eat up that remaining 800 dollars you have left.
Now, how much more expensive is healthy food that cheap junk food. Pasta is cheap. So you eat a lot of pasta. Do you remember all the Ramen you ate in college?
People, obesity is a problem because a lot of people eat crap food. As a result, they are hungrier more often and their body stores the crap food as fat. And when people are poor, they buy crap food. Mississippi is a relatively poor state.
For all you know, NewYorkCountryLawyer could have a history of dealing with lithograph artists, and he could even be into lithography himself as a hobby.
Secondly, why are you so offended that he used jargon particular to artists? Even if he did appropriate the term, it seems to be a fairly straightforward abbreviation of the word lithograph, which every single person reading slashdot apparently understood.
Some men prefer ugly women. In fact, men do some surprising things when there aren't women available. Well, perhaps not so surprising if you have ever been in prison.
Okay, I am a little confused. So, Mark Cuban, who made his money by selling an overpriced albatross of a business to yahoo is weighing in on the value of giving free services to the public. And Mark Cuban's former business was broadcast.com. A business which, as I recall, focused on delivering FREE content using advertising as a method of monetizing the company's FREE (to the public) service.
Its not that they can't make money offering free. They can, have and will. The problem is that they know that its literally impossible to be the king of the mountain forever. But that won't stop them from trying. And that is exactly what will kill them.
As an internet forum commentator, I am an expert on talking out my ass on subjects I know little or nothing about, and I am sure many of my fellow slashdotters can relate. Thus, I can recognize that Mark Cuban seems to be talking out of his ass. The above quote seems to say that succeeding in a business but failing to innovate will cause you to lose your preeminent position in an industry. But then he blames it on the fact that the business model includes delivering free content instead of the competitor that improved on the service being provided.
Does Cuban suck RIAA cock every morning in order to wake up rather than drink coffee? If your basketball team loses to another franchise (and Cuban should understand this one), then this means that the other team played better. It isn't the fault of the fans who watched the game. Cuban is blaming the consumer for a company getting its ass kicked by another company. It obviously doesn't matter whether the service you are delivering is free or not. What Cuban is mouthing off about actually seems to be the idea of a competitor taking your position. Much the same way that Infoseek or Altavista are no longer credible search engines whereas Google is now part of the vocabulary of kindergartners.
In my mind, there is a self serving value in giving away free content to your consumers that Cuban has overlooked. It means your competitors can't use lower prices to drive you out of the market. Instead, it forces that "Black Swan" company to improve on the services you are offering. In fact, whether or not the service you are providing is free doesn't matter a fucking bit.
Microsoft charges an outrageous amount of money for its operating system. Linux is free. And Microsoft has a 90% market share. Is Windows a better operating system? Yet, Microsoft is still dominating the market because they fight like hell to stay on top. What would Cuban advise Microsoft on this issue?
when you see your BlackSwan company appear and you know they will kick your ass, rather than ramping up to try to compete, get out. Sell.
Perhaps this fight to win, never quit attitude is why the Dallas Mavericks keep winning championships. Oh right, nevermind.
No he is not kidding. No one said it is okay to act irresponsibly or cause the death of said minor. You really need to stop being so damned stupid.
She was convicted under anti-hacking laws for not following the terms of service of a website. Are you so fucking oblivious you don't know why people are agreeing with this decision?
Why don't we just eliminate all civil liberties and allow the government to throw people in jail for any reason or no reason. Why the fuck bother having trials anyway if the government can do the equivalent of charging you with one crime because what you did wasn't illegal by any other crime they can define? The legal system isn't a moral code, and the government can't be allowed to randomly assign a crime and prosecute you for that crime when what you did has no relation to what you are being charged with. It's like being charged with bank robbery because you were busted with a joint. Sure, you broke the law, but you didn't rob a bank.
Lady is a term that denotes female nobility. It has adapted to mean any woman of good breeding or manners. However, The number of "Ladies" that were complete bitches and/or evil, sadistic twats is uncountable.
We now apply the word lady today to any adult female, and it shows more the breeding and manners of "Amouth" then of the person to whom the label "lady" has been applied.
What do you think of Pandeyas ethical and moral stance?
He is completely exempt from the ethics and morals.
I have never experienced anything similar.
When I discuss with more experienced people than me, so baxnar the.
You might need to be ready to walk over corpses to become millionaire?
I know many rich who have not. They have managed very well with mostly pretty cleaner.
- Such as Hans Pandeya may not play with the big guns.
- None of the Wallenberg family to take him with seaweed.
Not really sure what he is saying, but I find it humorous.
That is true but we are talking about child molestation, and the abuse of the child when she is made to be a subject of pornographic pictures. This is not what you could call victimless. This is because even if she is right under the legal limit, we as a society have decided that allowing people under the age of majority as the subject of erotic photos or films is unacceptable
This issue is at what point does it stop being child pornography. An adult female dressed up in catholic school girl clothes diddling herself gets closer to that line than if that same adult female was wearing a sexy nightie. A picture of an actual catholic school girl(minor) diddling herself is child pornography, even if she were wearing adult clothing. But, the issue is does taking the actual real face of that catholic schoolgirl and pasting it on top of the adult make the picture child pornography?
I would have to say yes.
Lets say I photoshop a picture of you. I put your face on another person's body, and thus make it seems that you were cheating on your spouse. Your spouse sees the picture and is pissed because he or she sees it as a picture of you cheating. That picture is about you, even if it is faked. Using the face of a real minor makes it about that minor, and even if part of the picture, or most of it, is not her, her face makes her the subject of the picture.
Now, to respond to you comment about prostitution, the prostitutes are the victims in that scenario. While there are a few prostitutes that can not be called victims (such as the workers at the Bunny Ranch), many are trapped in a cycle of abuse and self destruction. Sometimes, arresting these prostitutes is the only chance they have of escaping their situation. And it doesn't even work well. But you can't claim prostitution as a victimless crime, especially when the average starting age of a prostitute in the US is 13.
300 would have been a good choice, but I would have loved it if they had shown Braveheart.
William Wallace: There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.
William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
The sad truth in all this is that once you say that it is all right to censor anything, you have already lost the war. Now each item that the Australian government (not the public, but those in control) finds objectionable will come under review and may be censored. This is the slippery slope we all scream about until we are hoarse.
Each step down this path will have the same excuse, "It's for the children".
I wonder how long it will be until the Australian government censors news articles for the "fear effect" such uncensored information might have on the children.
I will say it again, once you accept that censorship is acceptable, then it is only a matter of how much will be censored.
Slashdot Mirror
Or the IP address identifies the NAT enabled router that is actually exposed to the Internet.
Well, I am forty years old, and I say, one thing banned from freedom of speech is one thing too many.
My mother died at 82 years of age, and she maintained the same principle, that censorship in any form is wrong.
How fucking old are you, douchebag, that makes you think you have the right to say what should and should not be censored.
Free speech means that you can advocate genocide or murder. Censoring political speech means that only the approved message gets heard.
Free speech mean you can make fraudulent claims. Limiting free speech means acres of red tape before anyone can make an innovative product offering.
Free speech means fighting words that can provoke an attack. Common fucking sense says don't call people names when they are carrying a pipe wrench.
Oh by the way, if you want to come to Texas and fight me because I called you a douchebag, you are welcome to.
Douchebag.
BABEL FISH : The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy recieved not from its own carrier but from those around it, It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. the practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any language. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anhthing so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes like this : "I refuse to prove that I exist", says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But", says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? it could not have evolved by chance. it proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh that was easy" says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
umm, okay. So, If I were to prove the existence of any of these things, would that prove the existence of God to you?
Elvis Presley did exist.
Witches exist.
Santa Claus existed.
So, as you say, God must exist. I for one do believe in the existence of a deity. The difference between theists and athests is a simple one.
A theist looks around the world and sees evidence that a creator had a hand in shaping what is, and an atheist looks that the same world and does not see that evidence. I could point to any number of things which I believe indicates divine influence.
DNA seems to me to be a prime example. It is such an incredibly beautiful and complex object that I believe it does show that more than random chance influenced its development.
Harvard Law School is thinking on teaching a class in shutting the hell up.
Just don't feed the kids once a day out of a food bowl and you're good to go.
You haven't met my cat. Sure the humans are staff, but our dogs are part of her family. To the point of sleeping with a front paw over the chihuahua.
More disturbing was the time she went into heat and tried to convince my Jack Russell terrier to mate with her. I am ever so glad the dog didn't respond.
No kidding, I was having sex at 15, and I was entering 10th grade. I know I skipped a grade but really? 8th grade?
OMG dude that is about the funniest post I have read all day.
Mississippi also is a relatively poor state. I tell you what. Why don't you try and house, clothe, and feed a family of four on a salary of 8 dollars / hour. Or lets say you and your spouse is working, and each person works at around 8 dollars / hour. If you are only working 1 full time job each, that puts your weekly gross income at 640 dollars / week. After taxes and insurance (if you are lucky enough to afford health insurance) you are probably pulling in about 500 / week. So you are getting around 2000 per month. A 2 bedroom apartment (if both children are the same sex) will cost you what, 700 a month? If its a 3 bedroom you can expect 850? so you have between 1300 and 1150 a month left. I am going to say there is 1225 left and split the difference.
Then there are utilities. Lets say electricity eats another 200 a month, and water about 75. Now you are down to around 950 a month left. Telephones? another 30 a month. Down to 920. Car payment, can't afford one, lets say you have a 20 year old clunker. Gasoline, how about 100 a month in gas. Down to 820 dollars. Or about 200 a month per person. We haven't considered car insurance, clothing, cell phones, cable or internet. Or credit card bills or anything else you may want to buy. Or any of the million emergencies that can eat up that remaining 800 dollars you have left.
Now, how much more expensive is healthy food that cheap junk food. Pasta is cheap. So you eat a lot of pasta. Do you remember all the Ramen you ate in college?
Researchers discovered to no one's surprise that a healthy diet can cost up to 10 times more than the crap food, junk food diet that the vast majority of people eat. So, is it any wonder that obesity is a problem? People buy lots of carbohydrate foods because they are cheap. That allows them to stretch their meager food budget to the end of the month, with only an occasional stop by the church food pantry to beg.
People, obesity is a problem because a lot of people eat crap food. As a result, they are hungrier more often and their body stores the crap food as fat. And when people are poor, they buy crap food. Mississippi is a relatively poor state.
I want to weigh -10 kilos. Will it teach me to do that?
Okay, slow down the judgment there tyrione.
For all you know, NewYorkCountryLawyer could have a history of dealing with lithograph artists, and he could even be into lithography himself as a hobby.
Secondly, why are you so offended that he used jargon particular to artists? Even if he did appropriate the term, it seems to be a fairly straightforward abbreviation of the word lithograph, which every single person reading slashdot apparently understood.
Well, I don't see anyone mining plastic, but the robots surely could recycle us to synthesize plastic.
Some men prefer ugly women. In fact, men do some surprising things when there aren't women available. Well, perhaps not so surprising if you have ever been in prison.
Wait, uh, we weren't talking about linux?
As an internet forum commentator, I am an expert on talking out my ass on subjects I know little or nothing about, and I am sure many of my fellow slashdotters can relate. Thus, I can recognize that Mark Cuban seems to be talking out of his ass. The above quote seems to say that succeeding in a business but failing to innovate will cause you to lose your preeminent position in an industry. But then he blames it on the fact that the business model includes delivering free content instead of the competitor that improved on the service being provided.
Does Cuban suck RIAA cock every morning in order to wake up rather than drink coffee? If your basketball team loses to another franchise (and Cuban should understand this one), then this means that the other team played better. It isn't the fault of the fans who watched the game. Cuban is blaming the consumer for a company getting its ass kicked by another company. It obviously doesn't matter whether the service you are delivering is free or not. What Cuban is mouthing off about actually seems to be the idea of a competitor taking your position. Much the same way that Infoseek or Altavista are no longer credible search engines whereas Google is now part of the vocabulary of kindergartners.
In my mind, there is a self serving value in giving away free content to your consumers that Cuban has overlooked. It means your competitors can't use lower prices to drive you out of the market. Instead, it forces that "Black Swan" company to improve on the services you are offering. In fact, whether or not the service you are providing is free doesn't matter a fucking bit.
Microsoft charges an outrageous amount of money for its operating system. Linux is free. And Microsoft has a 90% market share. Is Windows a better operating system? Yet, Microsoft is still dominating the market because they fight like hell to stay on top. What would Cuban advise Microsoft on this issue?
Perhaps this fight to win, never quit attitude is why the Dallas Mavericks keep winning championships. Oh right, nevermind.
No he is not kidding. No one said it is okay to act irresponsibly or cause the death of said minor. You really need to stop being so damned stupid.
She was convicted under anti-hacking laws for not following the terms of service of a website. Are you so fucking oblivious you don't know why people are agreeing with this decision?
Why don't we just eliminate all civil liberties and allow the government to throw people in jail for any reason or no reason. Why the fuck bother having trials anyway if the government can do the equivalent of charging you with one crime because what you did wasn't illegal by any other crime they can define? The legal system isn't a moral code, and the government can't be allowed to randomly assign a crime and prosecute you for that crime when what you did has no relation to what you are being charged with. It's like being charged with bank robbery because you were busted with a joint. Sure, you broke the law, but you didn't rob a bank.
Lady is a term that denotes female nobility. It has adapted to mean any woman of good breeding or manners. However, The number of "Ladies" that were complete bitches and/or evil, sadistic twats is uncountable.
We now apply the word lady today to any adult female, and it shows more the breeding and manners of "Amouth" then of the person to whom the label "lady" has been applied.
nope seems to be back up again
Not really sure what he is saying, but I find it humorous.
Of course they aren't worried, they just sold a website for 7.8 Million. I wouldn't be worried with close to 8 million dollars, would you?
Wow, yeah I remember loading games onto my Commodore using the "Datassette" cassette tape data drive. And learning to program in Basic.
That is true but we are talking about child molestation, and the abuse of the child when she is made to be a subject of pornographic pictures. This is not what you could call victimless. This is because even if she is right under the legal limit, we as a society have decided that allowing people under the age of majority as the subject of erotic photos or films is unacceptable
This issue is at what point does it stop being child pornography. An adult female dressed up in catholic school girl clothes diddling herself gets closer to that line than if that same adult female was wearing a sexy nightie. A picture of an actual catholic school girl(minor) diddling herself is child pornography, even if she were wearing adult clothing. But, the issue is does taking the actual real face of that catholic schoolgirl and pasting it on top of the adult make the picture child pornography?
I would have to say yes.
Lets say I photoshop a picture of you. I put your face on another person's body, and thus make it seems that you were cheating on your spouse. Your spouse sees the picture and is pissed because he or she sees it as a picture of you cheating. That picture is about you, even if it is faked. Using the face of a real minor makes it about that minor, and even if part of the picture, or most of it, is not her, her face makes her the subject of the picture.
Now, to respond to you comment about prostitution, the prostitutes are the victims in that scenario. While there are a few prostitutes that can not be called victims (such as the workers at the Bunny Ranch), many are trapped in a cycle of abuse and self destruction. Sometimes, arresting these prostitutes is the only chance they have of escaping their situation. And it doesn't even work well. But you can't claim prostitution as a victimless crime, especially when the average starting age of a prostitute in the US is 13.
300 would have been a good choice, but I would have loved it if they had shown Braveheart.
William Wallace: There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.
William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
The sad truth in all this is that once you say that it is all right to censor anything, you have already lost the war. Now each item that the Australian government (not the public, but those in control) finds objectionable will come under review and may be censored. This is the slippery slope we all scream about until we are hoarse.
Each step down this path will have the same excuse, "It's for the children".
I wonder how long it will be until the Australian government censors news articles for the "fear effect" such uncensored information might have on the children.
I will say it again, once you accept that censorship is acceptable, then it is only a matter of how much will be censored.