After reading your email exchange with him, I really don't see what good it will do. This guy is so enmeshed with the music industry that he's evidently lost all moral and ethical bearing. We all know that if you or I tried to bill a third party through a second party even though I don't have any business dealing with the third party that I would go to jail for fraud. The only way to head this off would be to let as many people know about this so they can check their bills (it will probably show up as a 'regulatory fee' which would mislead people into thinking it's a legal tax), and eventually send his ass, the collective asses of the record industry execs, and the ISP's asses up the river right into a jail cell for RICO violations.
He's proposing nothing more than legalized theft. Fuck him, the horse he rode in on, and the gay bathhouse he probagly hangs out in. I don't download music, movies, etc... He can go straight to hell.
Who says they don't have the resources? My theory IS within the realm of reason. Unless you are willing to say something like "Hey, we know the people that live in that area are backward, lack skills, and have no resources."
Who says that it's America? The most likely suspect would be an Islamic nutbag, or group of nutbags that want to cut primarily Islamic states from western influence.
"Afghanistan is now the #1 producer of cocaine and cannabis."
You forgot heroine(sp).
"Iraq has over 1 million civilian death by now and is close to complete anarchy."
I'd have to see the stats on the deaths. Does it include people that die of natural causes also?
As for anarchy, there will never be any. Local sheiks will always have control of their regions. Well, as much control as Islamic militants will allow.
Those games only suck because we have better games now, in comparison. At the time they were fantastic. Our memories of playing them, and thinking they were great are correct for the time. Wait a few years, and we'll be looking back at the games we play now and think "Geez, those things suck!"
The thing that really sticks out as being better back then as compared to now is game innovation. I'm not talking about eye candy. I'm talking about the game play experience. Everything being done now has already been done before... with shittier graphics.
As far as electronic gaming goes, it was probably Pong of all things. The first satisfying game was Ultima III, I even have the cloth map hanging on my wall. No idea where the little metal ankh is tho.
You guys think the Presidency is a dictatorship. Sure, Bush makes it seem that way.
The only thing the President can dictate is how government works. He can't make new laws... anything else he does is just a suggestion.
The President could, for instance, issue an executive order that federal marijuana laws not be enforced. He could issue an executive order that all government employees will use economy class, and first class travel is off-limits to all government employees. These wouldn't create laws, they just tell government employees how to do business.
Anyway, the President can't do much of anything. Sure, he can invade other countries as long as no war is declared, he doesn't have the power to declare. Everything you all would hope can be done cannot be done without the cooperation of the Senate and House, and will find challenges that bring those things in front of the Supreme Court.
The election is just to put a monkey in the oval office, nothing more.
First, I have not seen any proof that there is any god or gods. But, I do leave the answer open since things around us are stranger than we are willing to believe. The bible doesn't describe one god, just one god assigned to the Hebrew tribes. There are other gods mentioned in the bible, and if you take the bible at its word, in at least on case the Hebrew god personally battled another god.
For myself, I'll just take the universe at my perceived limits, and not try to attribute a larger force as its reason for being. If some being came and told me that it is 'god' and created the universe, I'd probably just laugh in his/her/its face unless it gave me some measure of proof, even then I wouldn't consider him/her/it as a god.
So, the question shouldn't be is/are there a god/gods. It should be 'did something fuck with humanity long ago?', and if so, why? In the infinity that contains the universe, and most likely other expansions considered universes outside of ours, there's no doubt that we aren't alone in the grand scheme of things, and that there are things out there that are larger, incomprehensibly more powerfull than us, and can either commit acts or make their committed acts look magical or supernatural.
They probably sleep very well at night. They are doing what people in business should do... make money. Make money any way you can. Make money no matter who you have to fuck over. Make money using any shady trick you can.
If web designers designed to the current specifications, and didn't use IE specific items, it really wouldn't matter. In other words... if web designers weren't lazy asses, and did it right, IE wouldn't have it's hold. Oh, it would probably still be there, but it would be just another browser in many.
The lists aren't enough. I want to know where the theives and murderers live because I don't want one living near me. I want a database of people that have used weapons in the commission of a crime! I want a database of people that don't think like I do! Is that a liberal down the street? There needs to be a list!
Yeah, isn't it? Don't they run around with spears, jumping in the air, and singing? Don't tell us that Sally and National Geographic have been lying to us all these years!
They can't use that 200 dollars worth of rice to send out scam emails.
Face it, the 'third world', especially African countries, are shit because what they want is shit. They've gotten all sorts of aid from bare nakked dollars to farming equipment. They aren't any better for it because they don't want better. The only way they can be help out is if we stopped helping them all together. There's a reason there are "please do not feed the animals" signs... one is so peope don't get their freakin fingers bitten off, the other is so the animals don't become dependant on handouts. It applies to humans also (yes, we are all animals).
"We get lied to every day, by the government, church, our coworkers, neighbors, pretty much everyone. We sort of expect it, though. Very few people buy in to a religion wholesale and stop questioning anything related to it. Unless you're a fanatic and stupid to boot, you realize that some of it is crap. Even though churches claim that morality and truth are the highest law, and they don't lie, cheat, or steal. "
So, now with Wikipedia, we get to collectively lie to ourselves where the 'truth' becomes a middle area of belief instead of the absolute it should be. Where people get upset with Wikipedia is that they finally recognize it as a collective lie, and realize that Jimbo and company end up owning their contribution to that collective lie.
"I have a problem with them dictating what I can and can't do with their stuff, especially when they'd previously indicated that I can do this. And no, I don't have boot camp. I don't care about boot camp. I have computers running Linux, Windows, and MacOS all throughout my house. (I'm a CTO / Software engineer, I have about a dozen computers in my house right now)"
After you purchase the product, that particular, invidual product is no longer "their stuff".
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After reading your email exchange with him, I really don't see what good it will do. This guy is so enmeshed with the music industry that he's evidently lost all moral and ethical bearing. We all know that if you or I tried to bill a third party through a second party even though I don't have any business dealing with the third party that I would go to jail for fraud. The only way to head this off would be to let as many people know about this so they can check their bills (it will probably show up as a 'regulatory fee' which would mislead people into thinking it's a legal tax), and eventually send his ass, the collective asses of the record industry execs, and the ISP's asses up the river right into a jail cell for RICO violations.
He's proposing nothing more than legalized theft. Fuck him, the horse he rode in on, and the gay bathhouse he probagly hangs out in. I don't download music, movies, etc... He can go straight to hell.
the scientists are seeing the results they want to see, and not what the results actually are. That would both invalidate, and validate their claims.
The dumbass is using 'Esq.' in his title. It's a sure sign of a small penis.
Who says they don't have the resources? My theory IS within the realm of reason. Unless you are willing to say something like "Hey, we know the people that live in that area are backward, lack skills, and have no resources."
Who says that it's America? The most likely suspect would be an Islamic nutbag, or group of nutbags that want to cut primarily Islamic states from western influence.
"Afghanistan is now the #1 producer of cocaine and cannabis."
You forgot heroine(sp).
"Iraq has over 1 million civilian death by now and is close to complete anarchy."
I'd have to see the stats on the deaths. Does it include people that die of natural causes also?
As for anarchy, there will never be any. Local sheiks will always have control of their regions. Well, as much control as Islamic militants will allow.
They should write songs because they love it, not because they get paid. SONGS WANT TO BE FREE! FREE THE SONGS!
Perhaps they need someone that know what they are doing, such as, in the Iraq and South Africa... such as
The funding will probably get cut, and the game will end up being a web based flash thing playable only by robots.
Those games only suck because we have better games now, in comparison. At the time they were fantastic. Our memories of playing them, and thinking they were great are correct for the time. Wait a few years, and we'll be looking back at the games we play now and think "Geez, those things suck!"
The thing that really sticks out as being better back then as compared to now is game innovation. I'm not talking about eye candy. I'm talking about the game play experience. Everything being done now has already been done before... with shittier graphics.
As far as electronic gaming goes, it was probably Pong of all things. The first satisfying game was Ultima III, I even have the cloth map hanging on my wall. No idea where the little metal ankh is tho.
You could do things like standing on the balcony while yelling "I'm the president bitch!", and shoot people the bird.
You guys think the Presidency is a dictatorship. Sure, Bush makes it seem that way.
The only thing the President can dictate is how government works. He can't make new laws... anything else he does is just a suggestion.
The President could, for instance, issue an executive order that federal marijuana laws not be enforced. He could issue an executive order that all government employees will use economy class, and first class travel is off-limits to all government employees. These wouldn't create laws, they just tell government employees how to do business.
Anyway, the President can't do much of anything. Sure, he can invade other countries as long as no war is declared, he doesn't have the power to declare. Everything you all would hope can be done cannot be done without the cooperation of the Senate and House, and will find challenges that bring those things in front of the Supreme Court.
The election is just to put a monkey in the oval office, nothing more.
As far as the collapse goes... the sooner the better.
That's probably pretty much the situation. I'm surprised they don't demand the shipping boxes with the UPS labels also.
First, I have not seen any proof that there is any god or gods. But, I do leave the answer open since things around us are stranger than we are willing to believe. The bible doesn't describe one god, just one god assigned to the Hebrew tribes. There are other gods mentioned in the bible, and if you take the bible at its word, in at least on case the Hebrew god personally battled another god.
For myself, I'll just take the universe at my perceived limits, and not try to attribute a larger force as its reason for being. If some being came and told me that it is 'god' and created the universe, I'd probably just laugh in his/her/its face unless it gave me some measure of proof, even then I wouldn't consider him/her/it as a god.
So, the question shouldn't be is/are there a god/gods. It should be 'did something fuck with humanity long ago?', and if so, why? In the infinity that contains the universe, and most likely other expansions considered universes outside of ours, there's no doubt that we aren't alone in the grand scheme of things, and that there are things out there that are larger, incomprehensibly more powerfull than us, and can either commit acts or make their committed acts look magical or supernatural.
They probably sleep very well at night. They are doing what people in business should do... make money. Make money any way you can. Make money no matter who you have to fuck over. Make money using any shady trick you can.
It's the American way.
Evidently there's a working Phantom prototype out there somewhere.
If web designers designed to the current specifications, and didn't use IE specific items, it really wouldn't matter. In other words... if web designers weren't lazy asses, and did it right, IE wouldn't have it's hold. Oh, it would probably still be there, but it would be just another browser in many.
The lists aren't enough. I want to know where the theives and murderers live because I don't want one living near me. I want a database of people that have used weapons in the commission of a crime! I want a database of people that don't think like I do! Is that a liberal down the street? There needs to be a list!
Yeah, isn't it? Don't they run around with spears, jumping in the air, and singing? Don't tell us that Sally and National Geographic have been lying to us all these years!
They can't use that 200 dollars worth of rice to send out scam emails.
Face it, the 'third world', especially African countries, are shit because what they want is shit. They've gotten all sorts of aid from bare nakked dollars to farming equipment. They aren't any better for it because they don't want better. The only way they can be help out is if we stopped helping them all together. There's a reason there are "please do not feed the animals" signs... one is so peope don't get their freakin fingers bitten off, the other is so the animals don't become dependant on handouts. It applies to humans also (yes, we are all animals).
"We get lied to every day, by the government, church, our coworkers, neighbors, pretty much everyone. We sort of expect it, though. Very few people buy in to a religion wholesale and stop questioning anything related to it. Unless you're a fanatic and stupid to boot, you realize that some of it is crap. Even though churches claim that morality and truth are the highest law, and they don't lie, cheat, or steal. "
So, now with Wikipedia, we get to collectively lie to ourselves where the 'truth' becomes a middle area of belief instead of the absolute it should be. Where people get upset with Wikipedia is that they finally recognize it as a collective lie, and realize that Jimbo and company end up owning their contribution to that collective lie.
"I have a problem with them dictating what I can and can't do with their stuff, especially when they'd previously indicated that I can do this. And no, I don't have boot camp. I don't care about boot camp. I have computers running Linux, Windows, and MacOS all throughout my house. (I'm a CTO / Software engineer, I have about a dozen computers in my house right now)"
After you purchase the product, that particular, invidual product is no longer "their stuff".
How did you get an attractive woman into your parents basement?