Unfortunately, some of my tax dollars go to establising deities around the world, through the support of countries that are religion based (israel, saudi arabia). Given that our laws are determined by a 'majority rules' concept, then that means I do NOT have freedom of religion.
I, in effect, am forced to support these deities, because of our 'majority rules' system.
Are you saying my tax dollars AREN'T being used to establish religous institutions?
If you measure "repression on a per capita basis" as simply number of people per capita in jail, you are completely ignorring that this is mostly likely not "repression" as much as "enforcing the law".
How is 'enforcing the law' any different from 'repression'?
Are you saying that because something is the law, then that means it is valid, even if it's decided democratically?
Meanwhile, why should a minority party be forced to agree to the majority's decisions? How does 'majority rules' help the progression of society? Doesn't that repress the minority party?
Democracy: 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner.
Anything you compare to china on a "per-capita" basis is going to be skewed due to the sheer mass of their population. Why would population 'size' affect judgment that's inherently based on 'rate'? It's a perfectly valid statement to say that the chinese have more freedom than an American, based on the rate of imprisonment of Americans.
So why are you oppressed? Because the government tries to stop people from drugging themselves to death? So you don't think government should allow their people to 'have fun'? Or, are you saying weed is somehow BAD for you? Can you cite proof of that?
Move to China and see how much better you do there. What makes you think they want Americans living there? In case you haven't noticed, the only people that gets to move to other countries are those with lots and lots of money in the bank.
In addition, I would say that each of the millions of individual law that our country has on the books is one less freedom. People think of freedom as "freedom of speech" or "freedom of religion", but to many people that couldn't care any less about speech or religion (i certainly don't care about religion), then those freedoms are meaningless and only self-congratulatory. "WOO HOO WE CAN WORSHIP DEITY 2 INSTED OF DEITY 1!"
To me, freedom would also include the freedom to mod an X-Box, or not to have to shovel my sidewalk when it snows, or to smoke weed, sing "Happy Birthday" at a company, or make a duplicate of a DVD i bought. Those are my 'care-abouts'. Unfortunately, those are all illegal.
So, given that, I would say the US is one of the LEAST FREE countries in the world. How many laws do people in other countries have to follow?
And, why do people always say a Democracy is good? The average citizen is unlikely to notice if their heads of government comprise of an inherited monarchy or elected officials: both end up being authoritarian figures that only represents certain special interests. In a representative democracy, the government doesn't represent the people, it only represents the people that elected them. How is that any better than a king, who may be able to rule independently of what the mob decides?
Democracy: two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner.
Google could come back and say "Hey verizon, since you're building an ISP business based on OUR investments, how about if YOU pay US money to provide better service to Verizon customers?"
It could go both ways...
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They were all planned together in one big story, sorta like the Star Wars series. You can tell because the first Matrix was pretty weak by itself, but with the other two movies, it was more coherent and became stronger.
They'll never put out another Matrix movie, because, the story was said.
a) You could create a seperate "headers only" table to call out the sectional stories, rather than attach it to individual stories.
b) If you're going to attach sectional stories to the main page, you should keep it relevant to the topic it's being attached to. Label it: "Other science stories: " for example..
Actually, I AM trying to hide things from the federal government. Whethere it's terrorism, playing poker with friends, or speeding 25 in a 24mph zone, we all do things that are illegal.
Why? Because I live for my own sake, not for the sake of my government. I couldn't care less about the laws of this country. That's THEIR problem, not mine. Our government could be comprised of a monarchy or a fascist dictator, and my life would be no different, because I live outside of their laws, unlike you law abiding "follower" types. You are clearly the "follower" type, and NOT the "leader" type.
It's the GOVERNMENT'S job to catch me, not MY job to follow the law.
Raising kids to believe in mythology is child abuse. -- In the same vein, forcing kids to recite the "Pledge of Allegiance" is ALSO child abuse. What a HORRIBLE thing to do to a kid, to force them to swear loyalty to a capitalist politcal organization originally founded by racist slaveowners!
Loyalty should be earned, not assumed. Let's not assume that I, as an American, have anything in common with some red-state racist bible-thumper, or would do anything to support their aspirations through support of this militant sytem. Like I want to invade Iraq to establish Christianity and open up their oil fields for ExxonMobil to profit from.
We need to make government weaker, and not stronger. A strong government is dangerous, and is more likely to be controlled by special interests, instead of supporting public interests.
Well, to be fair, the constitution DID allow this guy to come to power, invade random third world countries, kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians, secretly kidnap and torture people, and so on.
When bad things happen, do you question the act, or do you question the system that allowed the act to happen in the first place? Where do you place your efforts in solving the bad problems? If a murder happens, do you blame the murderer and fix the murderer, knowing full well that there may be millions of other murderers that need to be individually fixed, or do you blame the system, and repair the system itself in one fell swoop, to prevent murders from happening again?
Given that, we seriously have to start questioning the validity of the constitution itself. It IS a flawed system, originally written by wealthy slaveowners, designed to increase their wealth and capital. MILLIONS of people were killed by this government over the course of its history. Are people happier now than they were 300 years ago?? Remember, not everyone supported the Revolution.
It therefore is a perfectly valid stance to be against the existence of the Federal Government. Let the 50 states be their own countries. Monopolization of power is ALWAYS dangerous.
The point that George Lucas makes in THX is that the SYSTEM itself is a flawed dangerous, self sustaining entitity. The tragedy is that people live within the boundaries of such a system, but never question the system itself.
In america, we question our President. We SHOULD be questioning the essence of the Constitution itself. How the hell do we consider the Constitution a good thing, when it allows a person like Bush to be elected into power in the first place?
Is DEMOCRACY itself even a good thing? Would our lives be any different if the leader at the top was a monarch instead of a "elected"? I doubt it.
So what do we do now? Can we standardize on encrypted VoIP and email protocols now?
I wonder how long it is before they use NSA intercepts to implement other authoritarian measures, such as drug/copyright/misc law enforcement.
And, is anyone surprised that Vice President Dick "Go Fuck Yourself, we're gonna invade Iraq and torture/kidnap people for my profit" Cheney is pushing the whole spy-on-american-citizens philosophy as well? The guy is the single greatest point of all things evil in the world, and must be removed from power & influence immediately.
Just write when you feel like you should. Write only when it means something to you. Don't try to write for the sake of an audience. If you get bored with it, do something else. Or write about different things. Baseball audience doesn't want to hear about your views on music or politics or curling? Well too bad for them!
I am giving up photoshop for this, since I only use photoshop for photo retouching and don't need the complexities of a layered graphic design tool. In addition, it seems to be a fast, responsive product, something photoshop isn't.
I'd imagine are other photoshop users that are also going to drop it for Aperture.
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Yah they're waiting for the PS3 to come out. They want it to be released the same day as that.
Unfortunately, some of my tax dollars go to establising deities around the world, through the support of countries that are religion based (israel, saudi arabia). Given that our laws are determined by a 'majority rules' concept, then that means I do NOT have freedom of religion.
I, in effect, am forced to support these deities, because of our 'majority rules' system.
Are you saying my tax dollars AREN'T being used to establish religous institutions?
If you measure "repression on a per capita basis" as simply number of people per capita in jail, you are completely ignorring that this is mostly likely not "repression" as much as "enforcing the law".
How is 'enforcing the law' any different from 'repression'?
Are you saying that because something is the law, then that means it is valid, even if it's decided democratically?
Meanwhile, why should a minority party be forced to agree to the majority's decisions? How does 'majority rules' help the progression of society? Doesn't that repress the minority party?
Democracy: 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner.
Anything you compare to china on a "per-capita" basis is going to be skewed due to the sheer mass of their population.
Why would population 'size' affect judgment that's inherently based on 'rate'? It's a perfectly valid statement to say that the chinese have more freedom than an American, based on the rate of imprisonment of Americans.
So why are you oppressed? Because the government tries to stop people from drugging themselves to death?
So you don't think government should allow their people to 'have fun'? Or, are you saying weed is somehow BAD for you? Can you cite proof of that?
Move to China and see how much better you do there.
What makes you think they want Americans living there? In case you haven't noticed, the only people that gets to move to other countries are those with lots and lots of money in the bank.
Americans are imprisoned in America.
In addition, I would say that each of the millions of individual law that our country has on the books is one less freedom. People think of freedom as "freedom of speech" or "freedom of religion", but to many people that couldn't care any less about speech or religion (i certainly don't care about religion), then those freedoms are meaningless and only self-congratulatory. "WOO HOO WE CAN WORSHIP DEITY 2 INSTED OF DEITY 1!"
To me, freedom would also include the freedom to mod an X-Box, or not to have to shovel my sidewalk when it snows, or to smoke weed, sing "Happy Birthday" at a company, or make a duplicate of a DVD i bought. Those are my 'care-abouts'. Unfortunately, those are all illegal.
So, given that, I would say the US is one of the LEAST FREE countries in the world. How many laws do people in other countries have to follow?
And, why do people always say a Democracy is good? The average citizen is unlikely to notice if their heads of government comprise of an inherited monarchy or elected officials: both end up being authoritarian figures that only represents certain special interests. In a representative democracy, the government doesn't represent the people, it only represents the people that elected them. How is that any better than a king, who may be able to rule independently of what the mob decides?
Democracy: two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner.
Google could come back and say "Hey verizon, since you're building an ISP business based on OUR investments, how about if YOU pay US money to provide better service to Verizon customers?"
It could go both ways...
They were all planned together in one big story, sorta like the Star Wars series. You can tell because the first Matrix was pretty weak by itself, but with the other two movies, it was more coherent and became stronger.
They'll never put out another Matrix movie, because, the story was said.
very retro..
Two other options -
a) You could create a seperate "headers only" table to call out the sectional stories, rather than attach it to individual stories.
b) If you're going to attach sectional stories to the main page, you should keep it relevant to the topic it's being attached to. Label it: "Other science stories: " for example..
Well, there's only ONE reason Pixar has been so good: Producer/Director/Writer John Lasseter.
If the merger causes Lasseter to leave, then yah, they're screwed. They should put him on the new board, instead of Jobs.
Yes it was so good, one of the best fighting games ever... meanwhile, THE best fighting game was just as well on the dreamcast: Soul Calibur.
Damm.. WTF happend to the dreamcast? it was soo good.
Actually, I AM trying to hide things from the federal government. Whethere it's terrorism, playing poker with friends, or speeding 25 in a 24mph zone, we all do things that are illegal.
Why? Because I live for my own sake, not for the sake of my government. I couldn't care less about the laws of this country. That's THEIR problem, not mine. Our government could be comprised of a monarchy or a fascist dictator, and my life would be no different, because I live outside of their laws, unlike you law abiding "follower" types. You are clearly the "follower" type, and NOT the "leader" type.
It's the GOVERNMENT'S job to catch me, not MY job to follow the law.
Please work to make the system secure, even from government intrusion.
Governments come and go.. no need to drag yourself into their mess.
Raising kids to believe in mythology is child abuse.
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In the same vein, forcing kids to recite the "Pledge of Allegiance" is ALSO child abuse. What a HORRIBLE thing to do to a kid, to force them to swear loyalty to a capitalist politcal organization originally founded by racist slaveowners!
Loyalty should be earned, not assumed. Let's not assume that I, as an American, have anything in common with some red-state racist bible-thumper, or would do anything to support their aspirations through support of this militant sytem. Like I want to invade Iraq to establish Christianity and open up their oil fields for ExxonMobil to profit from.
We need to make government weaker, and not stronger. A strong government is dangerous, and is more likely to be controlled by special interests, instead of supporting public interests.
Well, to be fair, the constitution DID allow this guy to come to power, invade random third world countries, kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians, secretly kidnap and torture people, and so on.
When bad things happen, do you question the act, or do you question the system that allowed the act to happen in the first place? Where do you place your efforts in solving the bad problems? If a murder happens, do you blame the murderer and fix the murderer, knowing full well that there may be millions of other murderers that need to be individually fixed, or do you blame the system, and repair the system itself in one fell swoop, to prevent murders from happening again?
Given that, we seriously have to start questioning the validity of the constitution itself. It IS a flawed system, originally written by wealthy slaveowners, designed to increase their wealth and capital. MILLIONS of people were killed by this government over the course of its history. Are people happier now than they were 300 years ago?? Remember, not everyone supported the Revolution.
It therefore is a perfectly valid stance to be against the existence of the Federal Government. Let the 50 states be their own countries. Monopolization of power is ALWAYS dangerous.
One of the greatest orwellian movies ever made.
The point that George Lucas makes in THX is that the SYSTEM itself is a flawed dangerous, self sustaining entitity. The tragedy is that people live within the boundaries of such a system, but never question the system itself.
In america, we question our President. We SHOULD be questioning the essence of the Constitution itself. How the hell do we consider the Constitution a good thing, when it allows a person like Bush to be elected into power in the first place?
Is DEMOCRACY itself even a good thing? Would our lives be any different if the leader at the top was a monarch instead of a "elected"? I doubt it.
So the fourth amendment to the constitution isn't a law anymore?
/filling up the tank with gasoline //pouring it on discussion forum ///lighting match .. 3.. 2.. 1..
So what do we do now? Can we standardize on encrypted VoIP and email protocols now?
I wonder how long it is before they use NSA intercepts to implement other authoritarian measures, such as drug/copyright/misc law enforcement.
And, is anyone surprised that Vice President Dick "Go Fuck Yourself, we're gonna invade Iraq and torture/kidnap people for my profit" Cheney is pushing the whole spy-on-american-citizens philosophy as well? The guy is the single greatest point of all things evil in the world, and must be removed from power & influence immediately.
Freee maaars!
See you at the Party!
"The entire core of Mars is made of ice. The reactor melts it, and it makes air!" - arnie
now, let's see if we find some alien artifacts...
Just write when you feel like you should. Write only when it means something to you. Don't try to write for the sake of an audience. If you get bored with it, do something else. Or write about different things. Baseball audience doesn't want to hear about your views on music or politics or curling? Well too bad for them!
Can't you hook up 4x 7TB Xserve RAIDs to a PowerMac and use that?
Actually, it is competing with photoshop.
I am giving up photoshop for this, since I only use photoshop for photo retouching and don't need the complexities of a layered graphic design tool. In addition, it seems to be a fast, responsive product, something photoshop isn't.
I'd imagine are other photoshop users that are also going to drop it for Aperture.
My guess is that it all comes from needing a programmable graphics card to do image processing with the GPU.