My side is Europe. I don't know US history that well, hence the question how it's racist. In return I get a lot of rhetoric, a few accusations and some more rhetoric. Explanation, I got none.
Why do Democrat assume businesses are evil trying to hurt people?
The cynic in me would say "experience". The realist would simply say that businesses don't give a shit about people, they do what's profitable. If it was not profitable to dump large amounts of waste into the sea, businesses would not do it. They're not out to be "evil", they're out to maximize profits and minimize expenses. At some point, generating more profit means screwing someone else over because the point where lowering cost without screwing someone over is no longer possible.
So "there is a fair chance" is now translated to "it is known fact"?
What we have is allegations from the annoying orange. That's it. Their response was to have their source code audited for any possibility of collaboration with any state actor, which is more than I could say for Microsoft, Symantec or McAfee.
Germany has a law against reverse engineering? Last time I checked they actually had a provision for just making exactly that legal in their legal code concerning copyright...
Yes, allowing homebrew and allowing you to install your own OS would make you buy it. Maybe a few more. But that's not the goal. The console sales are the necessary evil, not the target. Consoles are often sold at minimal revenue, sometimes even at a loss, at least initially. What brings the money is licensing fee on games.
Ever noticed how console game tend to cost more than PC games? Even for the same game from the same developer? Take a wild guess where that extra money goes. Then ponder how much profit a console would have to turn to offset that.
Oh please. The original NES library was rife with low quality games that were shoveled out by the dozen. Mostly games made after movie titles, but far from exclusively.
And you don't want me to start on the games for the N64, many of which were gimmicky wannabe-3d games with poor graphics, poor steering and worse content. Superman64, anyone?
That's like saying printer manufacturers should charge more for their printers and stop creating more and more ridiculous locks on the ink.
The ink/games is what brings in the money. Selling a printer/console is one sale. Selling ink/games for it is basically a way to keep the revenue flowing long, long after you are already locked in.
If abortions are legal up to 18 years after birth, there would be VERY few adults in our society.
But it would be the good Christian way. Because what does the fifth commandment (fourth if you're catholic) say? "Honor Thy father and thy mother, so you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you."
What few want to say these days anymore that this means exactly that: Disobedient children can simply be killed (Deuteronomy 21:18–21). So much for the sanctity of life, eh?
Christianity and Islam both started as cults by your definition. So a religion is just a cult where the followers take up the mantle after the inventor died?
Is it possible in your little black-and-white world that thinking the Annoying Orange is simply and plainly a loonie doesn't automatically mean that I consider the bitch any better? You had an election last year, but no choice.
Back on topic: You wanted to show me some kind of proof that Kaspersky is spying for the Russians.
I am an auto-cannibal. I have a habit of biting the skin to the side of my fingernails. And I bit my tongue a few times. And during nosebleeds it did happen occasionally that the blood ran back and I swallowed it. Not exactly good eating, mind you...
But who would want to eat human meat as a nourishment source? The legal hassle alone is a nightmare. It is illegal, at least in my country, to own humans, so whoever was to be eaten would first of all have to agree to this. And let's be honest here, nobody wants to eat meat from anything that died of natural causes. Natural deaths usually mean that something was very wrong with the body, I wouldn't want to eat meat of such a source. Roadkill is just out, that's... icky. Since it's also illegal to kill someone even with their consent, what's left is suicide. And as far as I know, people planning to off themselves kinda prefer some kind of solitude for such endeavours. So by the time you find them, you probably don't want to eat them anymore.
1. Sentient by what definition? Careful, some alien species just might redefine sentient as whatever they think is and you are tasty with the right wine.
2. If you have a rational explanation that doesn't rely on imaginary friends I'd be willing to hear it. But, let's be honest here, even if that held any water, the whole thing is like 2.5 millennia old, and when I consider what else has been considered really a-ok back then, from slavery to some really creative ways of killing people that are kinda unconstitutional by now, I wouldn't really think that anything should get a free ride without at least first test whether it stands the test of time.
3. If you outlaw abortion, all you get is illegal abortions that endanger also the mother. Is that the christian way, you're condemned to bear that child or risk death trying to get rid of the parasite? Because that's basically your choice here. Yes, abortion was illegal until not so long in my country, and for all those times people existed that would get rid of your problem. For a price. Often the price was your life. But don't think that illegal equals does not exist. What world do you live in to think that just because something is illegal that people wouldn't do it?
I honestly can't see why human should be any more special than any other species on the planet. There's heaps of species with fewer specimen than us, every fucking tiger is more special than a human.
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My side is Europe. I don't know US history that well, hence the question how it's racist. In return I get a lot of rhetoric, a few accusations and some more rhetoric. Explanation, I got none.
Why do Democrat assume businesses are evil trying to hurt people?
The cynic in me would say "experience". The realist would simply say that businesses don't give a shit about people, they do what's profitable. If it was not profitable to dump large amounts of waste into the sea, businesses would not do it. They're not out to be "evil", they're out to maximize profits and minimize expenses. At some point, generating more profit means screwing someone else over because the point where lowering cost without screwing someone over is no longer possible.
You kinda lost me at racist, care to explain how it's racist?
If you want new politicians, you first need to get a new population.
So, essentially, the US was the same it ever was. A country of rich guys not wanting to pay their tax.
So "there is a fair chance" is now translated to "it is known fact"?
What we have is allegations from the annoying orange. That's it. Their response was to have their source code audited for any possibility of collaboration with any state actor, which is more than I could say for Microsoft, Symantec or McAfee.
Yes, how dare governments work for its people instead of its corporations! Don't they know who pays them?
Germany has a law against reverse engineering? Last time I checked they actually had a provision for just making exactly that legal in their legal code concerning copyright...
I can either spend 50 bucks and play a game for a few hours or enjoy countless hours of digging through a console's inner workings FOR FREE?
That choice seems kinda easy.
Why would they want that?
Yes, allowing homebrew and allowing you to install your own OS would make you buy it. Maybe a few more. But that's not the goal. The console sales are the necessary evil, not the target. Consoles are often sold at minimal revenue, sometimes even at a loss, at least initially. What brings the money is licensing fee on games.
Ever noticed how console game tend to cost more than PC games? Even for the same game from the same developer? Take a wild guess where that extra money goes. Then ponder how much profit a console would have to turn to offset that.
Oh please. The original NES library was rife with low quality games that were shoveled out by the dozen. Mostly games made after movie titles, but far from exclusively.
And you don't want me to start on the games for the N64, many of which were gimmicky wannabe-3d games with poor graphics, poor steering and worse content. Superman64, anyone?
That's like saying printer manufacturers should charge more for their printers and stop creating more and more ridiculous locks on the ink.
The ink/games is what brings in the money. Selling a printer/console is one sale. Selling ink/games for it is basically a way to keep the revenue flowing long, long after you are already locked in.
Whatever. Am I going to hear where Kaspersky is spying for Russia?
If abortions are legal up to 18 years after birth, there would be VERY few adults in our society.
But it would be the good Christian way. Because what does the fifth commandment (fourth if you're catholic) say? "Honor Thy father and thy mother, so you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you."
What few want to say these days anymore that this means exactly that: Disobedient children can simply be killed (Deuteronomy 21:18–21). So much for the sanctity of life, eh?
Christianity and Islam both started as cults by your definition. So a religion is just a cult where the followers take up the mantle after the inventor died?
You know, 10 years ago people knew how to spot a joke and did actually mod it funny...
Where does she enter the equation?
Is it possible in your little black-and-white world that thinking the Annoying Orange is simply and plainly a loonie doesn't automatically mean that I consider the bitch any better? You had an election last year, but no choice.
Back on topic: You wanted to show me some kind of proof that Kaspersky is spying for the Russians.
They mostly adopted it because they invented it, I'd say.
"Known"? The Annoying Orange claiming something is now "known"?
OK, so who else takes care of orphans? And please don't say "adoption" unless you want to hear another rant.
Erh... as a man you also can't make a woman have an abortion. At least in my country, and I sure hope that's universal...
I am an auto-cannibal. I have a habit of biting the skin to the side of my fingernails. And I bit my tongue a few times. And during nosebleeds it did happen occasionally that the blood ran back and I swallowed it. Not exactly good eating, mind you...
But who would want to eat human meat as a nourishment source? The legal hassle alone is a nightmare. It is illegal, at least in my country, to own humans, so whoever was to be eaten would first of all have to agree to this. And let's be honest here, nobody wants to eat meat from anything that died of natural causes. Natural deaths usually mean that something was very wrong with the body, I wouldn't want to eat meat of such a source. Roadkill is just out, that's ... icky. Since it's also illegal to kill someone even with their consent, what's left is suicide. And as far as I know, people planning to off themselves kinda prefer some kind of solitude for such endeavours. So by the time you find them, you probably don't want to eat them anymore.
And all that hassle for that little usable meat?
Have a cow, man!
The main difference between a delusion, a cult and a religion is basically the amount of people sharing the delusion.
1. Sentient by what definition? Careful, some alien species just might redefine sentient as whatever they think is and you are tasty with the right wine.
2. If you have a rational explanation that doesn't rely on imaginary friends I'd be willing to hear it. But, let's be honest here, even if that held any water, the whole thing is like 2.5 millennia old, and when I consider what else has been considered really a-ok back then, from slavery to some really creative ways of killing people that are kinda unconstitutional by now, I wouldn't really think that anything should get a free ride without at least first test whether it stands the test of time.
3. If you outlaw abortion, all you get is illegal abortions that endanger also the mother. Is that the christian way, you're condemned to bear that child or risk death trying to get rid of the parasite? Because that's basically your choice here. Yes, abortion was illegal until not so long in my country, and for all those times people existed that would get rid of your problem. For a price. Often the price was your life. But don't think that illegal equals does not exist. What world do you live in to think that just because something is illegal that people wouldn't do it?
I honestly can't see why human should be any more special than any other species on the planet. There's heaps of species with fewer specimen than us, every fucking tiger is more special than a human.