In your world people are mini-dictators of their own little world.
In the real world(TM), the same holds true.
The mini-dictators just sometimes hide their feelings. Wouldn't it be a better world if everyone had their biases out in the open?
So there's some store that won't allow gay nigger midgets to enter. Big deal! There's bound to be another store that'll give them discounts.
That's the way it should be, anyway. But since we're victims of the system, the entrepreneurial gay nigger midgets will never amass enough capital to start their own businesses, in order to offer discounts to their people. So "the people" clamor for laws saying businesses cannot ban gay nigger midgets from entering their establishments, which mollifies the people enough for them to not clamor for fundamentally changing the system.
Sure, they SHOULD have known. But when someone is waving your dream in your face, it is hard to think logically.
Agreed. However, membership in Pre-Paid Legal is only $27 a month in most states (some states it's lower), and gets you unlimited phone time to ask the attorneys questions; up-to-10-page document review; traffic assistance; IRS audit assistance; and a 25% discount on anything not covered.
There are also other similar plans, but being a member of Pre-Paid Legal I can only talk about what I know. (My brother has one through work, which is half the cost but has fewer benefits as well.)
So, given that this service exists and costs less per month than most cell phones, it is truly a shame that musicians both haven't heard about it, and haven't used it to negotiate their contracts.
Alternately, forget the "legal insurance" aspect and just go to an attorney. Whether you have attorney friends in your circle or not, you can generally get a document reviewed for at most a couple hundred dollars. For something as important as potential millions, what's a couple hundred?
I'm not sure the issue is being unable to think logically; I believe the issue is they are unwilling to think logically, since they're too busy on their tiptoes reaching for the pie in the sky.
I completely agree, but I would argue that "good behavior" is not effectively modeled by physically abusing those who you hope would model you. (Yes, this is an issue for me. And, yes, I am glad I did not alert the authorities because I likely wouldn't have attended college.)
And, "physically abusing" means causing any sort of physical pain. I do not agree that "discipline" must needs include "physical shock".
But then, I never intend to have kids, so watch me vote!
I'm not sure that's a bad thing. For one, it might help convince retailers to improve their security setup so that this type of exploit is no longer valid. That would prevent a lot of loss; perhaps with more short-term expense than they would have liked.
Also, it's evolution in action: I think everything illegal should be posted on the web with instructions and links to suppliers (who may or may not be in collusion with the authorities!).
Then, when people start moving towards the dark side, at least they'd be easier to catch. (Like Santa's Little Helper, "If he runs away, he'll be easy to catch!")
Well, we wouldn't have tides without the moon, and without a sun to capture/create the Earth the moon wouldn't have formed, so...
Also, many stars had to explode to get us to where we are today, which includes having the ability to trap hydrogen on the denser planet, so it could also be argued that without the sun we wouldn't be able to perform fusion, either.
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Reminds me of that Warren Zevon song from Transverse City, "Run Straight Down", which starts out with a chanted:
They are now shifting their focus from a member-centric model to an ad supported model. If you don't think that will work out for them then you'd better sell all of your Google and Microsoft stock because that is exactly their plans for the future too.
I think it will work. I think it's really amazing cool that it will work, also, because it validates some people's foresight of the future: that money will increasingly become obsolete (not all at once).
Once we achieve nanotechnology, we'll be able to create any good from dirt and sunlight. Services are a slightly different story; we'd be able to create robots to perform the services, so no human would need to work.
In a pre-nanotech society (but one rapidly approaching nanotech), it makes sense that as much as possible, goods and services would be available to humans at no cost, and the companies would make their money via advertising. This is, largely, one company giving another company pieces of paper in order for both companies to continue to provide something for free to citizens.
So what I'm getting at is, enjoy the free stuff because there will be even more of it in the future!
But what happens when parenting suddenly becomes ILLEGAL? i.e. a parent spanking his child, and ending up in jail for domestic violence (it has happened, in LA if i recall correctly).
I don't see anything wrong with that: physical abuse is not a substitute for "parenting".
Forbidding violent videogames from minors is not an attack against a teenager's freedom. It is a protection of the PARENTS' WILL.
Actually, it's an attack on the retailer and the publisher. The retailer will decide not to carry any items which could possibly bring a $1,000 liability for the $5 the retailer would earn from the sale. And therefore the publisher will stop making these games, since no retailer will carry them.
Trying to legislate morality is always a bad idea.
An AC beat me to the meat of the reply, which is that the jurors are supposed to vote their conscience.
However, I do have something to add: a link to FIJA, the Fully Informed Juror Association.
Basically, if you disagree with the law, as a juror, you do not have to decide based on the law. You can say "not guilty" even though the prosecutor has pictures of the accused taking a toke from a bong.
Existing code can be recompiled with modern compilers which exploit large register sets to offset lack of hardware-level OOO.
I saw this quote, and wondered why CPU manufacturers don't create a chip that is flexible. So instead of 8 registers, or 32, or 64, it would allow the programmer to address L1 cache as "registers" and to set aside a variable portion of L1 cache for the program's needs.
Their site. Their rules. No matter how bizaare and arbitrary.
Absolutely. And the corrolary: my money. My rules. None of it will flow towards Slashdot.
Well, maybe if I get an apology, because nowhere was it stated "if you moderate this you will lose all mod points forever" and anyway isn't using the fucking mod points the whole fucking point of having a fucking mod system?
Yeah, if you want your mod points taken away forever like mine were from some incident in the past that I was not made aware of so I have no idea what caused it, and likewise have no idea what to do to fix it.
Perhaps, purchase a subscription? Not when I'm treated that way...
You're absolutely right. I just don't see the benefit to the time and money spent on a relationship, because mating is no longer attractive to me. I want to reproduce myself mentally, not physically.
I'm not being glib, and I'm sure many will point and say "sour grapes!" but I assure you that's not the case. I can see the future and it does not include children for me, so what's the point of dancing the mating dance?
And, everyone's a creep. Some are creepier than others, but everybody has their price. I like the idea of soul mates; mine is myself.
[...] or always having a boy/girlfriend just to have _someone_, since anyone, no matter what kind of creep, is better than being alone.
God damn you hit the nail on the head. I no longer have relationships becaues I don't need creeps. (Or children; with nano I'll live forever, blah blah blah.)
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Why isn't shortcutting trespassing? Just because there's something attractive somewhere doesn't take away my property rights!
And, once they're stuck to something, how do you get them in?
You're right, it's not realistic, nor does it sound terribly convenient either!
In the real world(TM), the same holds true.
The mini-dictators just sometimes hide their feelings. Wouldn't it be a better world if everyone had their biases out in the open?
So there's some store that won't allow gay nigger midgets to enter. Big deal! There's bound to be another store that'll give them discounts.
That's the way it should be, anyway. But since we're victims of the system, the entrepreneurial gay nigger midgets will never amass enough capital to start their own businesses, in order to offer discounts to their people. So "the people" clamor for laws saying businesses cannot ban gay nigger midgets from entering their establishments, which mollifies the people enough for them to not clamor for fundamentally changing the system.
Seriously, we should start up a collection to purchase 163 MP3 players, and educate the people who make the laws that control the rest of us.
Or at least, entertain them! ;-)
A purchase on iTunes is not a license to distribute, which you will be doing as soon as you get the first chunk from BitTorrent.
(phritz had a decent response, but missed that you specified you would be uploading (parts of) the file.)
Agreed. However, membership in Pre-Paid Legal is only $27 a month in most states (some states it's lower), and gets you unlimited phone time to ask the attorneys questions; up-to-10-page document review; traffic assistance; IRS audit assistance; and a 25% discount on anything not covered.
There are also other similar plans, but being a member of Pre-Paid Legal I can only talk about what I know. (My brother has one through work, which is half the cost but has fewer benefits as well.)
So, given that this service exists and costs less per month than most cell phones, it is truly a shame that musicians both haven't heard about it, and haven't used it to negotiate their contracts.
Alternately, forget the "legal insurance" aspect and just go to an attorney. Whether you have attorney friends in your circle or not, you can generally get a document reviewed for at most a couple hundred dollars. For something as important as potential millions, what's a couple hundred?
I'm not sure the issue is being unable to think logically; I believe the issue is they are unwilling to think logically, since they're too busy on their tiptoes reaching for the pie in the sky.
And, "physically abusing" means causing any sort of physical pain. I do not agree that "discipline" must needs include "physical shock".
But then, I never intend to have kids, so watch me vote!
Oh great, give the government another reason to make parenting require a license. (Not that I completely disagree with the idea...)
GODDAMMIT you made me blow my hit.
I'm not sure that's a bad thing. For one, it might help convince retailers to improve their security setup so that this type of exploit is no longer valid. That would prevent a lot of loss; perhaps with more short-term expense than they would have liked.
Also, it's evolution in action: I think everything illegal should be posted on the web with instructions and links to suppliers (who may or may not be in collusion with the authorities!).
Then, when people start moving towards the dark side, at least they'd be easier to catch. (Like Santa's Little Helper, "If he runs away, he'll be easy to catch!")
Also, many stars had to explode to get us to where we are today, which includes having the ability to trap hydrogen on the denser planet, so it could also be argued that without the sun we wouldn't be able to perform fusion, either.
I used to know what that was the chemical symbol for...
I think it will work. I think it's really amazing cool that it will work, also, because it validates some people's foresight of the future: that money will increasingly become obsolete (not all at once).
Once we achieve nanotechnology, we'll be able to create any good from dirt and sunlight. Services are a slightly different story; we'd be able to create robots to perform the services, so no human would need to work.
In a pre-nanotech society (but one rapidly approaching nanotech), it makes sense that as much as possible, goods and services would be available to humans at no cost, and the companies would make their money via advertising. This is, largely, one company giving another company pieces of paper in order for both companies to continue to provide something for free to citizens.
So what I'm getting at is, enjoy the free stuff because there will be even more of it in the future!
Billy Ray: "You guys are a couple of bookies!"
That was back in March. Has anything happened since then?
OK, you wallow in your "Score: 0, Offtopic" crapulence while I discuss issues with the adults.
I don't see anything wrong with that: physical abuse is not a substitute for "parenting".
Actually, it's an attack on the retailer and the publisher. The retailer will decide not to carry any items which could possibly bring a $1,000 liability for the $5 the retailer would earn from the sale. And therefore the publisher will stop making these games, since no retailer will carry them.
Trying to legislate morality is always a bad idea.
Because most people don't know what that phrase really means.
However, I do have something to add: a link to FIJA, the Fully Informed Juror Association.
Basically, if you disagree with the law, as a juror, you do not have to decide based on the law. You can say "not guilty" even though the prosecutor has pictures of the accused taking a toke from a bong.
I saw this quote, and wondered why CPU manufacturers don't create a chip that is flexible. So instead of 8 registers, or 32, or 64, it would allow the programmer to address L1 cache as "registers" and to set aside a variable portion of L1 cache for the program's needs.
Absolutely. And the corrolary: my money. My rules. None of it will flow towards Slashdot.
Well, maybe if I get an apology, because nowhere was it stated "if you moderate this you will lose all mod points forever" and anyway isn't using the fucking mod points the whole fucking point of having a fucking mod system?
Sorry, that was venting.
Perhaps, purchase a subscription? Not when I'm treated that way...
I'm not being glib, and I'm sure many will point and say "sour grapes!" but I assure you that's not the case. I can see the future and it does not include children for me, so what's the point of dancing the mating dance?
And, everyone's a creep. Some are creepier than others, but everybody has their price. I like the idea of soul mates; mine is myself.
At least it's not a braid...
God damn you hit the nail on the head. I no longer have relationships becaues I don't need creeps. (Or children; with nano I'll live forever, blah blah blah.)