On the other hand, we're paying a CD-R tax to give to Canadian recording artists.
Now, that REALLY frosts my ass. Sure, 95% of my CD-Rs are for pirating music... but not ONE SINGLE SONG EVER has been by a Canadian recording artist signed to a label, who are the only people getting any.
mmm, cause there's only so many doctors and nurses to go around?
Bzzt, wrong. Check the facts. The issue is that doctors can't get time in the facilities. Private facilities would increase the number of possible physician hours worked, and thus improve public health care.
Yeah, and we only need one brand of cornflakes too, and one car maker, and one computer maker too. Are there really people still so stupid they spout USSR propaganda like this with a straight face?
Business can thrive on one percent or less profit, despite what drug companies claim. Look at grocery retailers for an example.
Ah. Ignorant, stupid, and economically illiterate to boot (hint: It's TURNOVER that matters. Read an econ textbook, loser). A totally typical advocate of socialized health care. Thanks for playing -- come back when you grow a brain.
If you knew you were absolutely be executed in 90 days after being convicted of murder then I would put real money on the murder rate going down.
You'd win. It's been proven time and again that the magnitude of punishment is virtually irrelevant as a deterrent.
What *does* deter is the perceived probability of punishment -- if you're pretty sure you'll get caught and punished, then you don't commit the crime, usually. So the most draconian laws in the world won't make any difference whatsoever as long as apprehension rates hover in the mid single digits like they do today and the chance of being punished even if apprehended is similarly low as well...
Um... what difference? He says that abortion is none of the federal government's business, so it shouldn't prohibit it, and it shouldn't fund it either.
How on earth is this unlibertarian? I don't think money should be extorted from me at the point of a gun to pay for your abortion EITHER -- are you going to claim that makes me not a libertarian?
Hint: If you do you'll REALLY look like a COMPLETE idiot.
Does the child of a murderer deserve to die for the sins of his father?
No?
Then why should the child of a rapist?
Now, if you believe the Biblical prescription that the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the sons unto the seventh generation, then you've got a clear justification (assuming you believe the death penalty is justified for rape, of course) but short of that there doesn't seem to be a sound philosophical reason for treating pregnancy by rape different than any other pregnancy. Feel free to present one if there is but it's just escaped me....
Well, then how do you explain the exponentially higher level of gun-related deaths per-capita in the states, relative to other countries, like Canada?
Americans are crazy violent motherfuckers, that's why.
That is serious, really. If you just magically whisk away all gun-related crime, you will STILL have murder/assault rates five to eight times greater per capita in the US than in Canada. So it seems that the problem is not actually guns then, yes?
In reality, it's just plain demographics. If you compare Canada against a population of similar size and demographics -- say, Idaho, the Dakotas, and Kansas -- you'll see that crime rates are pretty much the same.
Not even as omnipotent as me with a Hummer and a postmount.50 cal.
"And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." -- Judges 1:19
Hell, they're not even interested in a totally non-free binary-only port.
Sure they are. They just don't see that the benefits match the costs.
The equation will balance a bit more once the OS X port is finished, but with no demand from the authoring side and just a couple million non-revenue-producing whiners on the playback side, it's reeeeeeeeeaaaaallllly hard for anyone with a clue to see how an argument convincing to a shareholder could be made that it would be worthwhile even then.
It'd make good business sense, too,... having the free software movement on their side would help them immeasurably.
If you actually have a quantifiable argument of sufficient quality to convince the Board of Directors, I can have it on Frank Casanova's desk within the day, and he can have it in front of the Board within a week.
you stupid shithead, you haven't got a fucking clue what you are talking about.
ANY TIME YOU CAN READ THE LABEL OF A PRODUCT IN A MOVIE OR TELEVISION SHOW, MONEY WAS PAID FOR THE PRODUCT'S APPEARANCE.
*heh*
Sorry to burst your bubble, but my girlfriend IS a PA (Just got promoted to PA2, actually:) and no matter what you would like to believe, the way I presented it above is the the way that things go on set more often than not. The director wants something, it's the PA's job to get that thing. What label is on it is utterly irrelevant next to getting the fucking shot in the can so everybody can go home.
Hang out on a set sometime when you're three hours over and everybody's hungry and tired. Nobody cares whether a label is showing or not. Nobody NOTICES whether a label is showing or not.
I won't stoop to your level of labelling other people 'stupid', but I will observe that you are most demonstratedly ignorant whereof you speak...
some of the funniest flames I've ever read (back when flaming on usenet was an artform).
Are there any Best Of... collections on the net anyplace still alive? The 'Hall of Flame' died years ago it seems, and I haven't found any replacements:(
macs are in movies usually because apple paid for them to be there
Very wrong indeed. Apple will provide equipment if asked (ie. Jurassic Park) but almost never actually puts cash on the table. That only happens when they want to do a major comarketing (ie. Mission Impossible, Independence Day) around the movie.
very, VERY rarely because the director wanted them to be or they were just randomly put there.
Errrr.... no. The typical product placement is like this.
DIRECTOR: "Computer! Get me a @W(#&%$@!! computer on the set!!"
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: "Hey you! Gimme that computer!"
... and the chances are about 80% that in a production environment the closest "that computer" will be a Mac of some sort.
we don't have any (even attemped) censorship of the net.
One word: Québec.
One poor sucker had the Gestapo^H^H^H^H^H^HQPP break down the door and confiscate his server for the heinous -- HEINOUS, I SAY!!! -- crime of having an English-only website.
Check your facts, bucko.
Two, what banning of books? Give some examples.
*snort*
You must not lift your head out of the sand more than once a year if you don't know about the constant legal troubles Little Sisters gets into trying to bring in lesbian erotica for instance.
Exercise: google.com "little sisters british columbia censorship customs". 10 pages of Canadian book banning-related reading pleasure for your detestably, pathetically, ignorant self.
More annoying to me personally, something like half the catalogue of Paladin Press consists of books the possession of which is a federal offense.
Check your facts, bucko.
Hmmm, shall I go on here?...nah. Suffice it to say, Canada does indeed suck, Glytch has no fucking clue whatsoever, ignore the ignorant nonsense he spews.
You're final argument made me so angry that I wanted to kick your spotty, greasy-haired head in. How dare you, you little prick.
That was a damn fine troll, wasn't it?:) And I only got one Offtopic on it, even though I posted at +2 and everything. Hmph. Are the moderators ASLEEP?
one of the reasons that the Vikings didn't make permanent settlements in what is now Canada was the result of a "Mini-Ice Age" that occurred during the 15th Century.
Off by 500 years and it's the other way around, they colonized during a warm period. Far warmer than now -- Greenland really WAS green at the time, that name wasn't just an early real estate agent doing the PR.
So although it does definitely seem to be warmer now than a couple centuries back, it's still nowhere near as hot as a millenium back, and since the human race didn't die off then I have a bit of an issue crediting the Chicken Littles who foretell global catastrophe from a degree or two over the next century.
make sure your appointment letter says the exact same job title as the jobs list (e.g. Computer Systems Analyst,
Note that one well. When I got one several years back my letter said just "Systems Analyst", not "COMPUTER Systems Analyst".
You wouldn't BELIEVE how hard it is to convince a good ol' Customs boy that if the job is programming, it's OBVIOUSLY "Computer" Systems Analyst even if it doesn't say that exactly...
Well you should care. It certainly turns my stomach to know that kids not much older than my little nephew are making clothes and shoes in the name of the almighty corporate share price.
Hmmmmmm.
So you would feel much better if kids not much older than your little nephew were starving to death, working as prostitutes, or stealing to survive instead of having a comparatively safe, comfortable, and highly paid job in the garment industry?
Fuck, some people like this guy are such idiots it makes me want to puke. Wake up and smell the coffee (or cliché of your choice). The real world is a harsh place, you know. Who do you think would feed these children if they DIDN'T have a job? People who actually care about the welfare of children should be BLESSING the garment industry for taking them off the streets, not trying to put them back on.
Or maybe people like cyber-vandal aren't REALLY the complete fucking idiots they appear to be. Maybe they just don't like it that the under-6 prostitute supply is drying up in Bangkok as the former prostitutes move into the garment industry and other "expolitative" industries, and they're trying to get the kids out of a job so that there's a bigger labor pool for their sick pedophiliac urges. But maybe not.
Personally, probably 85% of my wardrobe has some tech company or other's logo on it...
because the logo doesn't add any value to the clothes
...because said articles of clothing were available to me for free. Free, to me, is a significant value, outweighing pretty much any other consideration attached to clothing oneself.
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do they look back at that music as silly bubblegum stuff.
...
Well, I don't.
Then again, I was listening to Black Flag, Violent Femmes, Dead Kennedys
On the other hand, we're paying a CD-R tax to give to Canadian recording artists.
... but not ONE SINGLE SONG EVER has been by a Canadian recording artist signed to a label, who are the only people getting any.
Now, that REALLY frosts my ass. Sure, 95% of my CD-Rs are for pirating music
But you can't run fiber to a helicopter!
Sure you can.
You just can't fly it very far...
mmm, cause there's only so many doctors and nurses to go around?
Bzzt, wrong. Check the facts. The issue is that doctors can't get time in the facilities. Private facilities would increase the number of possible physician hours worked, and thus improve public health care.
'cause private facilities duplicate existing resources
Yeah, and we only need one brand of cornflakes too, and one car maker, and one computer maker too. Are there really people still so stupid they spout USSR propaganda like this with a straight face?
Business can thrive on one percent or less profit, despite what drug companies claim. Look at grocery retailers for an example.
Ah. Ignorant, stupid, and economically illiterate to boot (hint: It's TURNOVER that matters. Read an econ textbook, loser). A totally typical advocate of socialized health care. Thanks for playing -- come back when you grow a brain.
If you knew you were absolutely be executed in 90 days after being convicted of murder then I would put real money on the murder rate going down.
You'd win. It's been proven time and again that the magnitude of punishment is virtually irrelevant as a deterrent.
What *does* deter is the perceived probability of punishment -- if you're pretty sure you'll get caught and punished, then you don't commit the crime, usually. So the most draconian laws in the world won't make any difference whatsoever as long as apprehension rates hover in the mid single digits like they do today and the chance of being punished even if apprehended is similarly low as well...
Um ... what difference? He says that abortion is none of the federal government's business, so it shouldn't prohibit it, and it shouldn't fund it either.
How on earth is this unlibertarian? I don't think money should be extorted from me at the point of a gun to pay for your abortion EITHER -- are you going to claim that makes me not a libertarian?
Hint: If you do you'll REALLY look like a COMPLETE idiot.
What if the woman got pregnant from being raped?
Does the child of a murderer deserve to die for the sins of his father?
No?
Then why should the child of a rapist?
Now, if you believe the Biblical prescription that the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the sons unto the seventh generation, then you've got a clear justification (assuming you believe the death penalty is justified for rape, of course) but short of that there doesn't seem to be a sound philosophical reason for treating pregnancy by rape different than any other pregnancy. Feel free to present one if there is but it's just escaped me....
How can the man call himself a libertarian when he's profoundly anti-choice about abortion?
How can you call yourself a human being when you obviously have the IQ of a wet teabag?
The man is in favor of FREEDOM, therefore he is a libertarian. That means IT DOESN'T MATTER what his beliefs are because he won't impose them on YOU.
Sheesh. Get a clue.
Would you go to sexwithmidgets.com with your grandmother sitting next to you?
Errrrrrrmmmmm...
Actually, MY grandmother ASKED to see where this internet thingy had all the dirty pictures.
Depends on how cool your granny is, I guess...
The logical next step...
No.
The logical next step has already been taken by Apple.
Cf. the history of the automobile industry.
Well, then how do you explain the exponentially higher level of gun-related deaths per-capita in the states, relative to other countries, like Canada?
Americans are crazy violent motherfuckers, that's why.
That is serious, really. If you just magically whisk away all gun-related crime, you will STILL have murder/assault rates five to eight times greater per capita in the US than in Canada. So it seems that the problem is not actually guns then, yes?
In reality, it's just plain demographics. If you compare Canada against a population of similar size and demographics -- say, Idaho, the Dakotas, and Kansas -- you'll see that crime rates are pretty much the same.
Not as omnipotent as advertised, I guess.
.50 cal.
Not even as omnipotent as me with a Hummer and a postmount
"And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."
-- Judges 1:19
I think we've moved on past needing HIS help...
Hell, they're not even interested in a totally non-free binary-only port.
... having the free software movement on their side would help them immeasurably.
Sure they are. They just don't see that the benefits match the costs.
The equation will balance a bit more once the OS X port is finished, but with no demand from the authoring side and just a couple million non-revenue-producing whiners on the playback side, it's reeeeeeeeeaaaaallllly hard for anyone with a clue to see how an argument convincing to a shareholder could be made that it would be worthwhile even then.
It'd make good business sense, too,
If you actually have a quantifiable argument of sufficient quality to convince the Board of Directors, I can have it on Frank Casanova's desk within the day, and he can have it in front of the Board within a week.
So put up or shut up.
> Apple is not now, nor have they ever been, a friend of the open source movement.
What about all the source from Darwin they've given back to the community, despite no obligation whatsoever to?
Apple doesn't give away competitive advantages. That means they're a business run for the benefit of shareholders. Well, DUH.
Back under the bridge, troll.
Flaming is just like picking a fight in a bar.
Except you don't (generally) get hurt.
End of story.
1st!
you stupid shithead, you haven't got a fucking clue what you are talking about.
:) and no matter what you would like to believe, the way I presented it above is the the way that things go on set more often than not. The director wants something, it's the PA's job to get that thing. What label is on it is utterly irrelevant next to getting the fucking shot in the can so everybody can go home.
ANY TIME YOU CAN READ THE LABEL OF A PRODUCT IN A MOVIE OR TELEVISION SHOW, MONEY WAS PAID FOR THE PRODUCT'S APPEARANCE.
*heh*
Sorry to burst your bubble, but my girlfriend IS a PA (Just got promoted to PA2, actually
Hang out on a set sometime when you're three hours over and everybody's hungry and tired. Nobody cares whether a label is showing or not. Nobody NOTICES whether a label is showing or not.
I won't stoop to your level of labelling other people 'stupid', but I will observe that you are most demonstratedly ignorant whereof you speak...
some of the funniest flames I've ever read (back when flaming on usenet was an artform).
:(
Are there any Best Of... collections on the net anyplace still alive? The 'Hall of Flame' died years ago it seems, and I haven't found any replacements
macs are in movies usually because apple paid for them to be there
.... no. The typical product placement is like this.
Very wrong indeed. Apple will provide equipment if asked (ie. Jurassic Park) but almost never actually puts cash on the table. That only happens when they want to do a major comarketing (ie. Mission Impossible, Independence Day) around the movie.
very, VERY rarely because the director wanted them to be or they were just randomly put there.
Errrr
DIRECTOR: "Computer! Get me a @W(#&%$@!! computer on the set!!"
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: "Hey you! Gimme that computer!"
... and the chances are about 80% that in a production environment the closest "that computer" will be a Mac of some sort.
we don't have any (even attemped) censorship of the net.
...nah. Suffice it to say, Canada does indeed suck, Glytch has no fucking clue whatsoever, ignore the ignorant nonsense he spews.
One word: Québec.
One poor sucker had the Gestapo^H^H^H^H^H^HQPP break down the door and confiscate his server for the heinous -- HEINOUS, I SAY!!! -- crime of having an English-only website.
Check your facts, bucko.
Two, what banning of books? Give some examples.
*snort*
You must not lift your head out of the sand more than once a year if you don't know about the constant legal troubles Little Sisters gets into trying to bring in lesbian erotica for instance.
Exercise: google.com "little sisters british columbia censorship customs". 10 pages of Canadian book banning-related reading pleasure for your detestably, pathetically, ignorant self.
More annoying to me personally, something like half the catalogue of Paladin Press consists of books the possession of which is a federal offense.
Check your facts, bucko.
Hmmm, shall I go on here?
You're final argument made me so angry that I wanted to kick your spotty, greasy-haired head in. How dare you, you little prick.
:) And I only got one Offtopic on it, even though I posted at +2 and everything. Hmph. Are the moderators ASLEEP?
That was a damn fine troll, wasn't it?
one of the reasons that the Vikings didn't make permanent settlements in what is now Canada was the result of a "Mini-Ice Age" that occurred during the 15th Century.
Off by 500 years and it's the other way around, they colonized during a warm period. Far warmer than now -- Greenland really WAS green at the time, that name wasn't just an early real estate agent doing the PR.
So although it does definitely seem to be warmer now than a couple centuries back, it's still nowhere near as hot as a millenium back, and since the human race didn't die off then I have a bit of an issue crediting the Chicken Littles who foretell global catastrophe from a degree or two over the next century.
Show me your karma first. How am I to know whether you're a true alpha male?
Heh. I'm capped at 50 -- can we talk?
make sure your appointment letter says the exact same job title as the jobs list (e.g. Computer Systems Analyst,
Note that one well. When I got one several years back my letter said just "Systems Analyst", not "COMPUTER Systems Analyst".
You wouldn't BELIEVE how hard it is to convince a good ol' Customs boy that if the job is programming, it's OBVIOUSLY "Computer" Systems Analyst even if it doesn't say that exactly...
Well you should care. It certainly turns my stomach to know that kids not much older than my little nephew are making clothes and shoes in the name of the almighty corporate share price.
Hmmmmmm.
So you would feel much better if kids not much older than your little nephew were starving to death, working as prostitutes, or stealing to survive instead of having a comparatively safe, comfortable, and highly paid job in the garment industry?
Fuck, some people like this guy are such idiots it makes me want to puke. Wake up and smell the coffee (or cliché of your choice). The real world is a harsh place, you know. Who do you think would feed these children if they DIDN'T have a job? People who actually care about the welfare of children should be BLESSING the garment industry for taking them off the streets, not trying to put them back on.
Or maybe people like cyber-vandal aren't REALLY the complete fucking idiots they appear to be. Maybe they just don't like it that the under-6 prostitute supply is drying up in Bangkok as the former prostitutes move into the garment industry and other "expolitative" industries, and they're trying to get the kids out of a job so that there's a bigger labor pool for their sick pedophiliac urges. But maybe not.
I don't wear clothes with logos all over them,
...
Personally, probably 85% of my wardrobe has some tech company or other's logo on it
because the logo doesn't add any value to the clothes
...because said articles of clothing were available to me for free. Free, to me, is a significant value, outweighing pretty much any other consideration attached to clothing oneself.