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I've never understood this whole "look people in the eye" thing. Sure, occasional eye contact is good, but it skeeves me out when everybody seems to want to stare at me the entire time we're talking.
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Let's not focus on the website layout, the unnecessarily long article, her looks or what you might think you know about "sociopaths" and all managers clearly being manipulative swindlers.
Ah, but what you're missing is that the page is *designed* to induce critical thinking--you have to figure out which one is the correct definition!:)
Reminds me of Discordian stuff that devolves into:
[lengthy explanation of semi-nonsensical philosophy* which eventually concludes that order and chaos are both a lie] Grasshopper: "...so all this is true?" Master: "What, are you serious? Haven't you been listening to anything I've been saying?! Don't trust me! Think for yourself!"
* Or maybe I'm just not smart enough to untangle it.
Tor Ekeland, who had just returned from visiting Auernheimer at the federal corrections institute in Allenwood, PA., told the Daily Dot in a video interview.
Yeah, I love how in cop shows the police are always shown to "lose" when they catch a guy who is actually aware of his right to a lawyer. Let's just yell at him and try to pressure him into admitting guilt before his lawyer can get here; then everything will be okay. The "make for the door to get him to admit" maneuver is practically a standardized cinematic technique now. And they usually portray the guys who know their rights as smug sleazebags who "did it but we can't prove it yet."
We're intentionally being conditioned to think that we *shouldn't* ask for a lawyer in those circumstances when the opposite is true.
How do you know that Biblical characters never really existed? They're just in a different history book. The fact that it's a religious one rather than a secular one doesn't automatically mean it's 100% lies and fabrications.
And even if everyone *could* stream, the ISPs wouldn't put down extra lines; they'd just lower bandwidth caps and hike prices and then complain that they are being put-upon.
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. Its verb form, "to stream", refers to the process of delivering media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.
a) provider = DVD player b) received and presented by = TV
If we (I) want to be particularly bloody-minded and pedantic about it, anything you play from a DVD player is "streaming" as it's traveling over the wires connecting your DVD player and TV/monitor. After all, it's presented as a constant stream, isn't it? And you can pause streaming content, can't you? It's a rather nebulous term like "The Cloud", AKA "put it on somebody else's server."
I also laugh inside every time I run into a site that talks about streaming, yet the video file can still be grabbed by DownloadHelper, as it's not streaming even by the more normal definition.
You don't need to if you're in a city state, i.e. Athens, which I thought was the point you were going for. And if you're all in one city, do you really need to know how to read or write to vote properly? You'll hear most of what you need to know via word of mouth, I would hope.
I have no idea how you could possibly win. You've been so blindly led to believe that you have your true freedom that you have allowed them to take it piece by piece in a bloodless coup. You gave up all that your great-great-great-great grandfathers died for, all in the hope of being the next famous rich bitch.
Well, that seems a wee bit unfair. I'm not even the right gender to be a 'rich bitch.'
Monty: You see I don't, I don't work with any exact boundaries of the law because I wasn't consulted when the god damn laws were made. No, instead nameless, faceless politicians, the so called protectors of the moral majority decide what is right and what is wrong. I mean come on. I govern my life around my own personal code of ethics, and I suggest that you do the same. That way if, within the constructs of my own morality, I were to do something that is considered illegal, so be it. I feel no guilt whatsoever and furthermore, if I were to buckle under the social weight of the system by adhering to laws that I do not truly believe in then I would be extinguishing the very fire of patriotism and individuality. So in sense, by having sex with Natasha, I'd be preserving the rights our forefathers fought and died for, right? Mitch: Well, uhh... Monty: That was a rhetorical question.
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I've never understood this whole "look people in the eye" thing. Sure, occasional eye contact is good, but it skeeves me out when everybody seems to want to stare at me the entire time we're talking.
Let's not focus on the website layout, the unnecessarily long article, her looks or what you might think you know about "sociopaths" and all managers clearly being manipulative swindlers.
But that's already 4 strikes... ;)
Charisma Carpenter
He loved dogs and even had a girlfriend.
You might recall that he ended up killing/assisting-in-suicide them both, however.
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You can be cynical and angry, or naive and screwed.
Ah, but what you're missing is that the page is *designed* to induce critical thinking--you have to figure out which one is the correct definition! :)
Reminds me of Discordian stuff that devolves into:
[lengthy explanation of semi-nonsensical philosophy* which eventually concludes that order and chaos are both a lie]
Grasshopper: "...so all this is true?"
Master: "What, are you serious? Haven't you been listening to anything I've been saying?! Don't trust me! Think for yourself!"
* Or maybe I'm just not smart enough to untangle it.
I have to say in this case, the GP's invocation of DKE is *in itself* an instance of displaying the DKE.
Tor Ekeland, who had just returned from visiting Auernheimer at the federal corrections institute in Allenwood, PA., told the Daily Dot in a video interview.
Woooosh
Yeah, I love how in cop shows the police are always shown to "lose" when they catch a guy who is actually aware of his right to a lawyer. Let's just yell at him and try to pressure him into admitting guilt before his lawyer can get here; then everything will be okay. The "make for the door to get him to admit" maneuver is practically a standardized cinematic technique now. And they usually portray the guys who know their rights as smug sleazebags who "did it but we can't prove it yet."
We're intentionally being conditioned to think that we *shouldn't* ask for a lawyer in those circumstances when the opposite is true.
an englishman who's luggage
Hey come on, you just got done telling us Englishmen and luggage are two different offenses. Now you're just being mean.
How do you know that Biblical characters never really existed? They're just in a different history book. The fact that it's a religious one rather than a secular one doesn't automatically mean it's 100% lies and fabrications.
<mpaa>*readies writing implement* And which charity was this, again?</mpaa> :)
And even if everyone *could* stream, the ISPs wouldn't put down extra lines; they'd just lower bandwidth caps and hike prices and then complain that they are being put-upon.
From Wikipedia:
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. Its verb form, "to stream", refers to the process of delivering media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.
a) provider = DVD player
b) received and presented by = TV
If we (I) want to be particularly bloody-minded and pedantic about it, anything you play from a DVD player is "streaming" as it's traveling over the wires connecting your DVD player and TV/monitor. After all, it's presented as a constant stream, isn't it? And you can pause streaming content, can't you? It's a rather nebulous term like "The Cloud", AKA "put it on somebody else's server."
I also laugh inside every time I run into a site that talks about streaming, yet the video file can still be grabbed by DownloadHelper, as it's not streaming even by the more normal definition.
Zediva Permanently Shut Down; Forced to Pay MPAA Nearly Two Million
I recall there was a video rental service that did pretty much that (pop the DVD in a drive at the rental location and stream the video).
Naturally, they got sued out of existence.
(not sure if that's close enough of a comparison for you...it is slightly different conceptually as the consumer never *mounted* the DVD)
On the plus side, if it's a new enough title, maybe all the mouthbreathers haven't had a chance to scratch the DVD all the way to hell and back yet.
They had that "eyePhone" episode too, where they were jamming Bluetooth headsets into people's eyes.
On Slashdot it is...
I think a lot of /.ers would say the U.S. shouldn't be doing the first thing, either.
or didn't communicate outside of their village.
You don't need to if you're in a city state, i.e. Athens, which I thought was the point you were going for. And if you're all in one city, do you really need to know how to read or write to vote properly? You'll hear most of what you need to know via word of mouth, I would hope.
<formletter>My opponent sucks because he is a...
[_] terrorist
[X] pedophile
'MURICA!
</formletter>
What, so we can be forced to remove every statement that can be interpreted as being anti-Islam from the Internet for everyone? No thanks.
If you want to be stupid and block stuff in your own country, fine, but leave me out of it.
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I have no idea how you could possibly win. You've been so blindly led to believe that you have your true freedom that you have allowed them to take it piece by piece in a bloodless coup. You gave up all that your great-great-great-great grandfathers died for, all in the hope of being the next famous rich bitch.
Well, that seems a wee bit unfair. I'm not even the right gender to be a 'rich bitch.'
Monty: You see I don't, I don't work with any exact boundaries of the law because I wasn't consulted when the god damn laws were made. No, instead nameless, faceless politicians, the so called protectors of the moral majority decide what is right and what is wrong. I mean come on. I govern my life around my own personal code of ethics, and I suggest that you do the same. That way if, within the constructs of my own morality, I were to do something that is considered illegal, so be it. I feel no guilt whatsoever and furthermore, if I were to buckle under the social weight of the system by adhering to laws that I do not truly believe in then I would be extinguishing the very fire of patriotism and individuality. So in sense, by having sex with Natasha, I'd be preserving the rights our forefathers fought and died for, right?
Mitch: Well, uhh...
Monty: That was a rhetorical question.