Cherryh is one of my favorite authors; the way she depicts alien cultures and concepts ("Hunter of Worlds," "Serpent's Reach," among others) is incredible, simultaneously alien and strange and yet very very human. "Hunter of Worlds," in particular, remains one of my favorite novels of all time. Her "Morgaine" novels are very good, too, especially when you consider that "Gate of Ivrel" was her first novel.
I read this as corporate-idiotese for "Goddamn you pirate fuckers! Do you have any idea how much money we blew blowing the lawmakers? You bastards owe us for the money we spent, not to mention all the money piracy is still costing us, so you all need to shut up and stop trying to kill our failed business model!"
So far from the tree has Apple fallen, Burning their karma patent-trollin'; So committed to this course of action, And to alienating every smartphone faction, They've even set up a patent troll proxy -- Can't fix their broken rep with a ton of epoxy.
Of course not. It's so much more fun to sit back and laugh at all the people killing and oppressing each other in your name. Schadenfreude is the only thing that could possibly prevent an immortal, omniscient being from destroying itself out of sheer boredom.
Can you imagine if you _did_ live in Iran and they had this technology? Or even worse, somewhere in the Bible Belt?
"We detected traces of semen, lubricant, and paper acid on your fingers! You have obviously been engaging in non-procreational sex acts for enjoyment, and even worse, you've been reading books! Paperback books! You are obviously a subversive and must be punished!!"
The tragicomic part is when people have to click through 4 pages of account options, to find out how to undo that one absent-minded click, and then wade through another 4 pages just to find that page with the checkbox they have to uncheck.
I thought it was a standalone co-produced with Dreamworks called World of Kungfupandacraft. I guess they're not getting Jack Black or Dustin Hoffman to do voice acting for WoK, then, eh?:(
Shhh, don't try to argue logic with a religiot. It just confuses them. They might, after all, in a moment of confusion, run out into the streets and play chicken with and headbutt a bus, just to get the painful evil rational thoughts out of their heads. Yea dibbil come aooooooooout!!
Hmm, wait. Now that I think of it, maybe arguing logic with them wouldn't be so bad at all?
Separation of church and state means what it says for the most part, and works in both directions(emphasis mine): Keep the church out of the government and keep the government out of the church.
Wow. You whooshed so badly I could hear it from across the ocean.
So, which theocracy run by a secretive, Byzantine, obfuscatory religion do you live in? I'm sure the abused children the guys in the skirts are keeping in the seminary (or is that semenary?) will be so glad to learn that the government should butt out of it. After all, what happens on holey ground stays on holey ground, right?
I also wonder if placing these mandatory reporting requirements on religious institutions and personnel would run afoul of the Establishment or Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.
...the State trying to place these mandatory reporting requirements on private religious institutions should be seen as an attempt by the government to regulate religious practices and a violation of separation of church and state.
IANAA (I am not an American) but my understanding of the separation of church and state goes like this: the church is not above secular law. While people may be free to practice their religion, it is also required that the practices of their religion not violate secular law. By your argument, if your secretive Byzantine obfuscatory religion ("we're just plain folks, really! Our all-male leaders just like to wear dresses, that's all!") believes that drinking human blood and eating human flesh was the path to Enlightenment, then they should be allowed to do so, right? After all, who are they harming, really? Nothing to see here, please move on, I hear the other church down the road is having a Bingo night.
Going by that argument, the exploitation of children really isn't anything to look twice at, in the big picture, is it?
I can just see this bishop saying this, at the interrogation:
"Why are you all making such a big fuss about all this? It's not like there's anything wrong, really, about looking at pictures of young boys, is there? I've been known to do it from time to time, too. And he's a priest, for God's sake! Everyone knows priests are men of integrity and probity! I should know, I'm one, too! It's not like he'd ever do anything even remotely illegal or immoral with, or based on, those photos!"
I laughed so hard I nearly spewed coffee on my monitor.
Innovate? Listen? Do either of those words go with the movie industry?
As long as the movie industry and the Eff-You-A-A continue to think in terms of formulas, whether their "successful movie formula" or their "how to squeeze money from people without bothering with actual brain activity formula" they're going to continue to moulder away. When it comes to making a movie, how often is it other than some hackneyed (they'll insist it's "tried-and-true") plot that watches like it was put together by a committee? When it comes to figuring out what they're doing wrong, how often is it other than blaming something, usually piracy, _anything_ but their own lack of vision? Never happen. They're going to continue doing what they've always done and wonder why it's all going down the toilet.
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The answer to "why" is generally "money." Somewhere, someone is making money off of American soldiers being in Afghanistan.
I always thought the plural of "prius" was "shitboxen."
Cherryh is one of my favorite authors; the way she depicts alien cultures and concepts ("Hunter of Worlds," "Serpent's Reach," among others) is incredible, simultaneously alien and strange and yet very very human. "Hunter of Worlds," in particular, remains one of my favorite novels of all time. Her "Morgaine" novels are very good, too, especially when you consider that "Gate of Ivrel" was her first novel.
So, do you think you can get me a date with GLaDOS? I'm just _dying_ to do some "research" with her...
I read this as corporate-idiotese for "Goddamn you pirate fuckers! Do you have any idea how much money we blew blowing the lawmakers? You bastards owe us for the money we spent, not to mention all the money piracy is still costing us, so you all need to shut up and stop trying to kill our failed business model!"
So far from the tree has Apple fallen,
Burning their karma patent-trollin';
So committed to this course of action,
And to alienating every smartphone faction,
They've even set up a patent troll proxy --
Can't fix their broken rep with a ton of epoxy.
God does not play dice.
Of course not. It's so much more fun to sit back and laugh at all the people killing and oppressing each other in your name. Schadenfreude is the only thing that could possibly prevent an immortal, omniscient being from destroying itself out of sheer boredom.
After all, they're just there to distract you from the telescreens that have always been there. Big Brother Is Watching You!
Whoosh much?
Can you imagine if you _did_ live in Iran and they had this technology? Or even worse, somewhere in the Bible Belt?
"We detected traces of semen, lubricant, and paper acid on your fingers! You have obviously been engaging in non-procreational sex acts for enjoyment, and even worse, you've been reading books! Paperback books! You are obviously a subversive and must be punished!!"
The tragicomic part is when people have to click through 4 pages of account options, to find out how to undo that one absent-minded click, and then wade through another 4 pages just to find that page with the checkbox they have to uncheck.
...you'll probably see something like this:
"Facebook, in an agreement with the FTC... blah blah blah... more blah blah... legalese blah... more verbose crap no one will bother to read blah..."
(and finally at the bottom of the page, in big blinking letters)
"CLICK HERE TO (opt-in to our new privacy policy and) CONTINUE USING FACEBOOK"
I thought it was a standalone co-produced with Dreamworks called World of Kungfupandacraft. I guess they're not getting Jack Black or Dustin Hoffman to do voice acting for WoK, then, eh? :(
I love how you managed to sneak a reference to Nietzshe in to an article about the Westboron Butthead "Church."
Shhh, don't try to argue logic with a religiot. It just confuses them. They might, after all, in a moment of confusion, run out into the streets and play chicken with and headbutt a bus, just to get the painful evil rational thoughts out of their heads. Yea dibbil come aooooooooout!!
Hmm, wait. Now that I think of it, maybe arguing logic with them wouldn't be so bad at all?
Separation of church and state means what it says for the most part, and works in both directions (emphasis mine): Keep the church out of the government and keep the government out of the church.
Wow. You whooshed so badly I could hear it from across the ocean.
So, which theocracy run by a secretive, Byzantine, obfuscatory religion do you live in? I'm sure the abused children the guys in the skirts are keeping in the seminary (or is that semenary?) will be so glad to learn that the government should butt out of it. After all, what happens on holey ground stays on holey ground, right?
I also wonder if placing these mandatory reporting requirements on religious institutions and personnel would run afoul of the Establishment or Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.
...the State trying to place these mandatory reporting requirements on private religious institutions should be seen as an attempt by the government to regulate religious practices and a violation of separation of church and state.
IANAA (I am not an American) but my understanding of the separation of church and state goes like this: the church is not above secular law. While people may be free to practice their religion, it is also required that the practices of their religion not violate secular law. By your argument, if your secretive Byzantine obfuscatory religion ("we're just plain folks, really! Our all-male leaders just like to wear dresses, that's all!") believes that drinking human blood and eating human flesh was the path to Enlightenment, then they should be allowed to do so, right? After all, who are they harming, really? Nothing to see here, please move on, I hear the other church down the road is having a Bingo night.
Going by that argument, the exploitation of children really isn't anything to look twice at, in the big picture, is it?
I can just see this bishop saying this, at the interrogation:
"Why are you all making such a big fuss about all this? It's not like there's anything wrong, really, about looking at pictures of young boys, is there? I've been known to do it from time to time, too. And he's a priest, for God's sake! Everyone knows priests are men of integrity and probity! I should know, I'm one, too! It's not like he'd ever do anything even remotely illegal or immoral with, or based on, those photos!"
I laughed so hard I nearly spewed coffee on my monitor.
Innovate? Listen? Do either of those words go with the movie industry? As long as the movie industry and the Eff-You-A-A continue to think in terms of formulas, whether their "successful movie formula" or their "how to squeeze money from people without bothering with actual brain activity formula" they're going to continue to moulder away. When it comes to making a movie, how often is it other than some hackneyed (they'll insist it's "tried-and-true") plot that watches like it was put together by a committee? When it comes to figuring out what they're doing wrong, how often is it other than blaming something, usually piracy, _anything_ but their own lack of vision? Never happen. They're going to continue doing what they've always done and wonder why it's all going down the toilet.