Well, what did it for me is the press rolling out everyone who's suffering, and exploiting it for ratings. Husbands who've lost wives, mom's who've lost children. Certainly we have compassion for these people, but to spend a half hour filming their unthinkable grief... the only thing worse is watching it. It's exploitation of the worst kind.
Hmm, the whole time I watched the news I never thought of exploitation. I thought they were sharing the grief of others with me and I did indeed emphasize with the victims' families and won't to help. But then again, I am a very optimistic person. I don't go around trying to see the bad things in situations. And so I was thinking about the tragedy, not the ratings and exploitation.
Hmmm, so you have no problem with our giving hundreds of millions of dollars to feed the people of a terrorist-harboring nation, while we have our own homeless walking the streets? Give me hundreds of millions of dollars and I could build oppulent homeless hotels and feed them too for free for years to come.
The side fact is that most homeless Americans choose to be homeless. It's not that hard to go get a job. We're already spending billions of dollars on welfare, food stamps, etc. What more do you want us to do? My tax money already has to go to support dozens of other Americans who won't work or can't work.
Though I do agree in this case its seems senseless to give money to other countries when they walk around the streets cursing America.
How close are these descriptions to everyone you know? If you want to understand these monsters we have only to look into our own hearts.
Our own hearts? You are sitting here stereotyping and saying everyone is a potential terrorist? Are you nuts or just clueless? So what if these terrorists were well educated, etc. The teens who shot up Columbine were white, education, upper class people. Does this mean all people with these attributes will go shooting schools? I have no such tendancies and thus I don't need to look into my heart. Your major faults are the fact that you A) stereotype people and B) don't hold people accountable for their actions...rather they don't choose to do something but do it because they are well educated, liek black jeans, etc.
USA is a great country with peaceloving and intelligent people. However, most of you feel hate and want blood as revenge. There has even been stories on CNN how many people want to join the army and risk their lives to retaliate.
Hmm, I want to retaliate but I do not feel hate or revenge. However, in this case, retaliation is required. This is war and the blood of the victims cries out for justice. Ignoring the issue won't make it go away. We must eliminate these people so that this will not happen again, and so that all of the victims did not die in vain. I suppose you don't understand these concepts.
No think about it. How can you expect people in Afghanistan to not react the same way you do? How can you expect them to silently accept the death of their loved ones without wanting revenge?
Hmm, I don't recall America hijacking any planes and killing thousands of innocents. Since these terrorists have declared war on America, and since the government there harbors them, I believe the people of Arghanistan have already made the decision theirselves and can suffer any consequences of such.
Please, go out and talk about peace. Get your leaders to understand that violence creates more violence. Don't let the world slip into a storm of hate.
Oh, I am sure peace is going to end terrorism. No, its just going to give them a blank check to go kill whoever they want since nobody will ever bring them to justice. Get a clue
But I absolutely don't want my country to have to support more violence. That's what I have a big problem with. I think that George W. Bush was very irresponsible for demanding that every country has to support the upcoming bombings or face bombings themselves. That gives no room whatsoever for a peaceloving anti-terrorism country and that is absolutely wrong!
Unfortunately being a fence-sitting pacifist won't get you far in this world. Perhaps you can go talk to the citizens of Tibet and see how much it helped them. It is a shame you don't care about fighting for your way of life. I suppose if terrorists were to attack your country, you'd still be shouting "Let's not fight back...maybe they will leave us alone". By refusing to do anything to stop the terrorism, you're condoning it and supporting it. And unless your country harbors terrorists, then I don't believe your statement is correct where you say Bush demanded that your country support bombings or face bombing theirselve. Furthermore, Bush has never mentioned any specific method of retaliation, so why do you assume it is bombs?
The article (but not the poster) says this is the first DVD+RW drive which is important. DVD-RAM won't play in video DVD players, and DVD-RW only plays in the newer DVD players. DVD+RW is supposed to work in all of them. That's their big selling point and the reason they thought the world needed another standard. I've been waiting for these for quite a while as its the best format for recording/storing home movies in terms of quality and durability.
But... is is sleazy? You're damn right it is. It even sounds, from the tone of the article, like this isn't a common practice. Is it wrong? Probably.
This is nothing new. I've gotten pretyped letters from charities and animal rights organizations that you sign and mail to them. Of course the difference I think is that the companies I have seen all collect them and forward them on at once...so there is no confusion as to who is behind it. Microsoft seems to have the customers sending directly to the government.
I don't understand why some networks still insist on getting an ident reply before letting you connect. I mean really, that just means I need to map a port on ICS to allow mIRC to send back a random fake ident response.
Most servers use it to verify your IP..nobody uses it for username anymore
I've noticed something here. A sure fire way to get a story posted is to simply mention how company x (big bad business) is screwing group Y over (victim)...throw in a few smart-ass remarks (bait), and maybe a few exagerations (scare tactics) and wham...its frontpage news.
Yeah, those horrible pieces of shit. They should all die for trying to find ways for people to actually pay their bandwidth bills, so that all those web sites you like to visit can actually afford to stay up, you arrogant, selfish piece of shit.
If you're trying to pay your bandwidth using web ads, then you really need to find a new business to be in.
So I read the yahoo article saying how annoying popup ads are...I close the article and up pops an ad. Unfortunately I have gotten so much practice lately I close them before I even see what company they are.
4) I want some dumb people to crew a ship, not just the super-geniuses that Trek staffs Federation ships with.
Plenty of those on Voyager. Just look at Kim and Tuvok. Any alien can come on board, know nothing about the technology, and yet still manage to circumvent the security and take a shuttle or transporter whenever they feel like it. "Lock them out".. "too late captain"... I think those are written in the inside cover of the writer's manual. "Use the tractor beam!" "I can't keep a lock captain". I wished captain janeway would have once just said "well use the phasers then"
Actually, it *was* mentioned in the show. I think it was in the motion picture, the scene where they showed the lounge... "All these ships were called Enterprise..."
In Star Trek: The Motion Picture Special Edition, Paramount will use CG graphics to insert the new Enterprise into those pictures. Also the opening scene will be changed so that VGR fires first and barely misses the klingons, thus making their attack of the cloud merely self-defense. Finally, VGR will be replaced by the Pluto Kupiter express because we all know there will be no more voyager missions nor any mission to pluto.
I've seen everyone recommend against taking UGO to court because A) legal fees are high and B) you won't see your money. But I don't think thats the point. Your whole point should be to put UGO out of business and prevent them from screwing less-informed websites. A class action suit would do nicely, or perhaps the collection agency someone mentioned. At any rate, its a simple matter of breech of contract. And if they can't afford to pay you, they can't afford to fight in court either.
Did IETF ever make a standard? The last thing I read was they were fighting endlessly over three proposals. If they would make a standard, this whole thing would be moot. You'd have 20 or 30 client programs all talking to each other, and eventually AOL would start losing market share.
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There is really no reason to spend time in the sun. Everyone knows that UV radiation causes permanent cellular damage, including premature aging, cancer, moles, keratosis, pterygium, and cataracts. With the ozone layer going, it will only get worse. And the vitamin D thing? Everyone knows you can get it from milk now. Besides, the U.S. government has classified most of the population as obese, and as we all know, fat people can't generate vitamin D too well. You'd be much better spending all your time in the dark...maybe in caves like our ancestors did. Then thousands of years from now, you can ring a civil siren and all the people of light will come to your door so you can eat them.
The Dark Ages were a factor in this. Had we not been held back by religious fundamentalism for several hundred years we might very well be well into the galactic empire stage by now.
What a clever troll. Let's forget about the black plague and feudalism and blame it all on religion.
Wow, so there were no violent video games before 2001? Amazing!
>First: You are correct that last year saw the
>lowest youth violence rate in recent time (aka
>about since 1983). However, so far this year the
>youth violence rate has gone up at an alarming
>rate. You cannot deny that this is at least in
>part due to the media.
>reasoning. Violent video games are not a good way
>to be preparing for "real life". And sometimes we
>wonder why there are so many violent acts
>committed by young people unable to tell the
>difference between fantasy and reality... It's no
>wonder they tend to get confused.
So how is shielding childrem from violent videogames going to help them fix their mental problem of not being able to distinguish fantasy and reality? In fact, I think desensitation can help prepare someone to cope with the bad things in this world, rather than making them unable to function, or worse, making them go "try" those bad things to learn about them.
I grew up in the 80's playing every video game there is, and I have no desire to kill someone or torture them or anyting else. The "examples" of today that do need to be in a psychiatric ward...simple as that, and it has little to do with video games.
Hate to tell you but open source software is not the same as new jerusalem (or the beginning of a new heaven and earth). Open source software is nice, but it is not earth shattering and is not going to change our lives much at all. I really see no reason why he should take one of the most important things in the Christian faith and try to equate it something as mundane as software. Katz needs to get a clue. Now I'll go read the article...
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Hmm, the whole time I watched the news I never thought of exploitation. I thought they were sharing the grief of others with me and I did indeed emphasize with the victims' families and won't to help. But then again, I am a very optimistic person. I don't go around trying to see the bad things in situations. And so I was thinking about the tragedy, not the ratings and exploitation.
The side fact is that most homeless Americans choose to be homeless. It's not that hard to go get a job. We're already spending billions of dollars on welfare, food stamps, etc. What more do you want us to do? My tax money already has to go to support dozens of other Americans who won't work or can't work.
Though I do agree in this case its seems senseless to give money to other countries when they walk around the streets cursing America.
Our own hearts? You are sitting here stereotyping and saying everyone is a potential terrorist? Are you nuts or just clueless? So what if these terrorists were well educated, etc. The teens who shot up Columbine were white, education, upper class people. Does this mean all people with these attributes will go shooting schools? I have no such tendancies and thus I don't need to look into my heart. Your major faults are the fact that you A) stereotype people and B) don't hold people accountable for their actions...rather they don't choose to do something but do it because they are well educated, liek black jeans, etc.
USA is a great country with peaceloving and intelligent people. However, most of you feel hate and want blood as revenge. There has even been stories on CNN how many people want to join the army and risk their lives to retaliate.
Hmm, I want to retaliate but I do not feel hate or revenge. However, in this case, retaliation is required. This is war and the blood of the victims cries out for justice. Ignoring the issue won't make it go away. We must eliminate these people so that this will not happen again, and so that all of the victims did not die in vain. I suppose you don't understand these concepts.
No think about it. How can you expect people in Afghanistan to not react the same way you do? How can you expect them to silently accept the death of their loved ones without wanting revenge?
Hmm, I don't recall America hijacking any planes and killing thousands of innocents. Since these terrorists have declared war on America, and since the government there harbors them, I believe the people of Arghanistan have already made the decision theirselves and can suffer any consequences of such.
Please, go out and talk about peace. Get your leaders to understand that violence creates more violence. Don't let the world slip into a storm of hate.
Oh, I am sure peace is going to end terrorism. No, its just going to give them a blank check to go kill whoever they want since nobody will ever bring them to justice. Get a clue
Unfortunately being a fence-sitting pacifist won't get you far in this world. Perhaps you can go talk to the citizens of Tibet and see how much it helped them. It is a shame you don't care about fighting for your way of life. I suppose if terrorists were to attack your country, you'd still be shouting "Let's not fight back...maybe they will leave us alone". By refusing to do anything to stop the terrorism, you're condoning it and supporting it. And unless your country harbors terrorists, then I don't believe your statement is correct where you say Bush demanded that your country support bombings or face bombing theirselve. Furthermore, Bush has never mentioned any specific method of retaliation, so why do you assume it is bombs?
No its DVD+RW. DVD-RW is a different standard. Check out this article/a for more info.
The article (but not the poster) says this is the first DVD+RW drive which is important. DVD-RAM won't play in video DVD players, and DVD-RW only plays in the newer DVD players. DVD+RW is supposed to work in all of them. That's their big selling point and the reason they thought the world needed another standard. I've been waiting for these for quite a while as its the best format for recording/storing home movies in terms of quality and durability.
This is nothing new. I've gotten pretyped letters from charities and animal rights organizations that you sign and mail to them. Of course the difference I think is that the companies I have seen all collect them and forward them on at once...so there is no confusion as to who is behind it. Microsoft seems to have the customers sending directly to the government.
Most servers use it to verify your IP..nobody uses it for username anymore
I've noticed something here. A sure fire way to get a story posted is to simply mention how company x (big bad business) is screwing group Y over (victim)...throw in a few smart-ass remarks (bait), and maybe a few exagerations (scare tactics) and wham...its frontpage news.
Yeah, those horrible pieces of shit. They should all die for trying to find ways for people to actually pay their bandwidth bills, so that all those web sites you like to visit can actually afford to stay up, you arrogant, selfish piece of shit.
If you're trying to pay your bandwidth using web ads, then you really need to find a new business to be in.
I don't think people have a problem with ads on websites. I think they have a problem when the ads won't stay in window where they belong.
So I read the yahoo article saying how annoying popup ads are...I close the article and up pops an ad. Unfortunately I have gotten so much practice lately I close them before I even see what company they are.
Not much happening on the TRON front but you can read about all the developments at Corona
This guy doesn't understand how an election works and he gets modded to insightful. Amazing
4) I want some dumb people to crew a ship, not just the super-geniuses that Trek staffs Federation ships with.
Plenty of those on Voyager. Just look at Kim and Tuvok. Any alien can come on board, know nothing about the technology, and yet still manage to circumvent the security and take a shuttle or transporter whenever they feel like it. "Lock them out" .. "too late captain"... I think those are written in the inside cover of the writer's manual. "Use the tractor beam!" "I can't keep a lock captain". I wished captain janeway would have once just said "well use the phasers then"
Actually, it *was* mentioned in the show. I think it was in the motion picture, the scene where they showed the lounge... "All these ships were called Enterprise..."
In Star Trek: The Motion Picture Special Edition, Paramount will use CG graphics to insert the new Enterprise into those pictures. Also the opening scene will be changed so that VGR fires first and barely misses the klingons, thus making their attack of the cloud merely self-defense. Finally, VGR will be replaced by the Pluto Kupiter express because we all know there will be no more voyager missions nor any mission to pluto.
I've seen everyone recommend against taking UGO to court because A) legal fees are high and B) you won't see your money. But I don't think thats the point. Your whole point should be to put UGO out of business and prevent them from screwing less-informed websites. A class action suit would do nicely, or perhaps the collection agency someone mentioned. At any rate, its a simple matter of breech of contract. And if they can't afford to pay you, they can't afford to fight in court either.
Did IETF ever make a standard? The last thing I read was they were fighting endlessly over three proposals. If they would make a standard, this whole thing would be moot. You'd have 20 or 30 client programs all talking to each other, and eventually AOL would start losing market share.
There is really no reason to spend time in the sun. Everyone knows that UV radiation causes permanent cellular damage, including premature aging, cancer, moles, keratosis, pterygium, and cataracts. With the ozone layer going, it will only get worse. And the vitamin D thing? Everyone knows you can get it from milk now. Besides, the U.S. government has classified most of the population as obese, and as we all know, fat people can't generate vitamin D too well. You'd be much better spending all your time in the dark...maybe in caves like our ancestors did. Then thousands of years from now, you can ring a civil siren and all the people of light will come to your door so you can eat them.
The Dark Ages were a factor in this. Had we not been held back by religious fundamentalism for several hundred years we might very well be well into the galactic empire stage by now.
What a clever troll. Let's forget about the black plague and feudalism and blame it all on religion.
This means 911 location tracking will work in space? Might be good for those space walks gone awry.
Wow, so there were no violent video games before 2001? Amazing!
>First: You are correct that last year saw the
>lowest youth violence rate in recent time (aka
>about since 1983). However, so far this year the
>youth violence rate has gone up at an alarming
>rate. You cannot deny that this is at least in
>part due to the media.
>reasoning. Violent video games are not a good way
>to be preparing for "real life". And sometimes we
>wonder why there are so many violent acts
>committed by young people unable to tell the
>difference between fantasy and reality... It's no
>wonder they tend to get confused.
So how is shielding childrem from violent videogames going to help them fix their mental problem of not being able to distinguish fantasy and reality? In fact, I think desensitation can help prepare someone to cope with the bad things in this world, rather than making them unable to function, or worse, making them go "try" those bad things to learn about them.
I grew up in the 80's playing every video game there is, and I have no desire to kill someone or torture them or anyting else. The "examples" of today that do need to be in a psychiatric ward...simple as that, and it has little to do with video games.
Hate to tell you but open source software is not the same as new jerusalem (or the beginning of a new heaven and earth). Open source software is nice, but it is not earth shattering and is not going to change our lives much at all. I really see no reason why he should take one of the most important things in the Christian faith and try to equate it something as mundane as software. Katz needs to get a clue. Now I'll go read the article...