push-down all those moralizing laws from the Federal Gov't and let each state pass laws about these subjects based on the opinions of the state residents...not what politicians think the whole country wants. All the broke-ass southern states can ban abortion and the coasties can leave it legal. Cali can legalize pot and Texas can give you the death penalty for a dime. Then, you just pick the state you want to live in.
This country is too diverse and divided to have one set of laws for all. The Federal gov't has far too much power.
Please, I love the USA but all this "greatest country in the world" shit is starting to wear thin. Compared to modern European Nations such as the UK, Germany, Holland and France...please enumerate the ways in which the USA is better. I'm serious.
The Onion savages that corporation-killing George W. Bush every chance they get. Nobody who reads the Onion could possibly think the that the President supports them...would you support a publication that repeatedly pointed out you myriad of flaws, poor reasoning and simple idiocy?
I have a Thinkpad T40 for my work computer as I travel and work from home. It generally spends all its time on the table or the bag, rarely on my lap. It's nice to have a larg(er) screen when coding...1024x768 is rediculous. I would totally jump for one of these.
People insisting on the lowest possible price for a good did this. WalMart helped by bringing extra-cheap crap to the market knowing it would be gobbled up by people who don't think long-term. Pollution controls did not drive out industry, our desire to pay the lowest price did.
Sometimes you need to pay the lowest REASONABLE price. DO you want to buy the more expensive good that came from a green factory which employs your fellow countryman, or do you want the less expensive good from a polluting factory in another nation?
Ignorant, un-fettered consumerism is what has trashed our economy.
They haven't even begun working on this. They just now came up with the PLAN! I guess there isn't enough iPod or Blog news today to keep the Slashdot main page moving...
I only have breaks of a few minutes in which to post on slashdot. I prefer to ensure the concepts are trasmitted, rather than be a grammar/vocabulary pedant such as yourself. Perhaps if you learned a decent skill, rather than pushing your shitty 'game site', you would have a job like mine that pays well and keeps you busy?
Freshmen from MIT used some scrawny wood not representative of the thickness of an actual vessel of that age. Thinner wood burns more readily, eh? The myth doesn't mave much more math to it than a good highschool education would impart. Are you pissed because your tuition is so expensive?
I paid money for that DVD. It infuriates me that I must sit there and be told like a retard that copyright infringement is theft (it isn't) and all the punishments that could happen to me if I pirated the content. I BOUGHT THE FUCKING THING YOU DOUCHEBAGS!! And my DVD player won't let me skip it? Or even fast-forward it? Fuck you! It's happening more and more when I buy new DVDs.
It's the principle of the thing, and the reason I am buying fewer and fewer DVDs. I'll do without the 'extra features' if it means I can hit play and the movie begins playing INSTANTLY.
In 2005 America, you are suprised that people are pissed at having their time wasted?
Did you not read the subject of my post? Did you do as it asked? Probably not, or else you would know why I am concerned about the future of porn on a US-controlled internet.
They would be better off dumb-grading their heavy-duty wares for the low-end user, rather than manage two code bases...two support structures, two...two....two....
Oracle IS database...so it seems silly to get another completely unrelated code-tree to deal with. They should have acquired some sort of application server to sell paired with their DB like IBM does with WebSphere and DB2.
You think these companies run their data centers in India? All they have are some programmers and some call centers. If India dissapears, these companies can easily re-hire Americans at a higher cost to write code and answer phones. Or, outsource to a different country.
Even if you blow up the offices, as long as there are geeks, there will be IT. We can work from home even.
PATRIOT act time! No judge, no nothing. And all you need is a vague claim that you thought they were funding terrorists. See how easy? I mean, if the Prez can start a war by leaning on his intelligence agency to selectively interperate surveilance photos...shit man, they can do anything they want!
The FBI went after a porn-maker Max Hardcore over 5 titles containing fisting and golden showers. In California. All done consensually. This is obscene? It's not to my taste but nobody is being hurt here, why should it be illegal? It's not being broadcast, you must be 18 to buy it (18 is old enough to carry a gun and die for the nation) so why ban it?
I see nowhere in the document any language which says 'community' means the locality in which the business operates. This is a huge hole which will be exploited by a prohibitionist government.
What does China have to do with anything? China is not in the EU. I'm quite sure had I made that post from the UK, or France, or the Netherlands or Germany that there would be no problem.
Sounds like you are a "True Patriot" who can't stand some constructive criticism of his nation. I love the USA and that is why I still live here. I feel it can be saved from what I see as an attack by irrational religionists.
2) Currently, yes. This gov't has no problems skipping over established traditions if it is legal to do so. I know of no laws that require the Federal Gov't to persue legal channels and work with other gov'ts WRT the internet.
3) Ah you got me. Stronger than MOST of Europe. Which implies there are European nations with even stronger free speech than the USA? Perhaps those nations will be able to determine what is allowed on the network, a superior solution to the US?
With the current government in power in the USA, much credence is being given to fronge religious peoples. It is quite possible considering the new Justices being appointed to the SCOTUS would change the flavor of the court and result in challenges to pornography protection being successful!
Personally, I'd rather be forbidden to use racist speech on the internet than to be forbidden pornography! Racism hurts people and divides societies, pornography does not despite all the complaining from the moralizers.
Religious people have no problem telling non-believers that the non-believer will suffer un-ending pain in hell. That's not a very nice thing to say. In fact, it's patently insulting for you to tell me that your un-provable religion is the one and only true faith in the face of so many competitors. From my point of view they are all equally viable...but you have some special insight? Seems pretty arrogant and insulting to me. I'm incapable of telling which one is correct, but Mr. Christian is?
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push-down all those moralizing laws from the Federal Gov't and let each state pass laws about these subjects based on the opinions of the state residents...not what politicians think the whole country wants. All the broke-ass southern states can ban abortion and the coasties can leave it legal. Cali can legalize pot and Texas can give you the death penalty for a dime. Then, you just pick the state you want to live in.
This country is too diverse and divided to have one set of laws for all. The Federal gov't has far too much power.
Nor as ridiculous as a Spelling/Grammar flame on Slashdot is.
Nearly every non-trivial forum software produced in the last 5 years has a built-in spell check.
Slashdot does not. A Nerd site? Bah...we should have grammar checking by now.
Please, I love the USA but all this "greatest country in the world" shit is starting to wear thin. Compared to modern European Nations such as the UK, Germany, Holland and France...please enumerate the ways in which the USA is better. I'm serious.
The Onion savages that corporation-killing George W. Bush every chance they get. Nobody who reads the Onion could possibly think the that the President supports them...would you support a publication that repeatedly pointed out you myriad of flaws, poor reasoning and simple idiocy?
I have a Thinkpad T40 for my work computer as I travel and work from home. It generally spends all its time on the table or the bag, rarely on my lap. It's nice to have a larg(er) screen when coding...1024x768 is rediculous. I would totally jump for one of these.
People insisting on the lowest possible price for a good did this. WalMart helped by bringing extra-cheap crap to the market knowing it would be gobbled up by people who don't think long-term. Pollution controls did not drive out industry, our desire to pay the lowest price did.
Sometimes you need to pay the lowest REASONABLE price. DO you want to buy the more expensive good that came from a green factory which employs your fellow countryman, or do you want the less expensive good from a polluting factory in another nation?
Ignorant, un-fettered consumerism is what has trashed our economy.
They don't care, the factories in China that produce the majority of WalMart's goods spew pollution wholesale.
They haven't even begun working on this. They just now came up with the PLAN!
I guess there isn't enough iPod or Blog news today to keep the Slashdot main page moving...
I only have breaks of a few minutes in which to post on slashdot. I prefer to ensure the concepts are trasmitted, rather than be a grammar/vocabulary pedant such as yourself. Perhaps if you learned a decent skill, rather than pushing your shitty 'game site', you would have a job like mine that pays well and keeps you busy?
Splogs are actually selling something that people might find usefull.
I can't do it, I can't comprehend how it could happen, therefore it is Magic!
Freshmen from MIT used some scrawny wood not representative of the thickness of an actual vessel of that age. Thinner wood burns more readily, eh? The myth doesn't mave much more math to it than a good highschool education would impart. Are you pissed because your tuition is so expensive?
I paid money for that DVD. It infuriates me that I must sit there and be told like a retard that copyright infringement is theft (it isn't) and all the punishments that could happen to me if I pirated the content. I BOUGHT THE FUCKING THING YOU DOUCHEBAGS!! And my DVD player won't let me skip it? Or even fast-forward it? Fuck you! It's happening more and more when I buy new DVDs.
It's the principle of the thing, and the reason I am buying fewer and fewer DVDs. I'll do without the 'extra features' if it means I can hit play and the movie begins playing INSTANTLY.
In 2005 America, you are suprised that people are pissed at having their time wasted?
Did you not read the subject of my post? Did you do as it asked? Probably not, or else you would know why I am concerned about the future of porn on a US-controlled internet.
I'd rather live on a net where I can't talk about Nazis, than on one where puritanical hypocrits prevent me from seeing boobs!
They would be better off dumb-grading their heavy-duty wares for the low-end user, rather than manage two code bases...two support structures, two...two....two....
Oracle IS database...so it seems silly to get another completely unrelated code-tree to deal with. They should have acquired some sort of application server to sell paired with their DB like IBM does with WebSphere and DB2.
You think these companies run their data centers in India? All they have are some programmers and some call centers. If India dissapears, these companies can easily re-hire Americans at a higher cost to write code and answer phones. Or, outsource to a different country.
Even if you blow up the offices, as long as there are geeks, there will be IT. We can work from home even.
Fool.
PATRIOT act time! No judge, no nothing. And all you need is a vague claim that you thought they were funding terrorists. See how easy? I mean, if the Prez can start a war by leaning on his intelligence agency to selectively interperate surveilance photos...shit man, they can do anything they want!
The FBI went after a porn-maker Max Hardcore over 5 titles containing fisting and golden showers. In California. All done consensually. This is obscene? It's not to my taste but nobody is being hurt here, why should it be illegal? It's not being broadcast, you must be 18 to buy it (18 is old enough to carry a gun and die for the nation) so why ban it?
I see nowhere in the document any language which says 'community' means the locality in which the business operates. This is a huge hole which will be exploited by a prohibitionist government.
What does China have to do with anything? China is not in the EU. I'm quite sure had I made that post from the UK, or France, or the Netherlands or Germany that there would be no problem.
Sounds like you are a "True Patriot" who can't stand some constructive criticism of his nation. I love the USA and that is why I still live here. I feel it can be saved from what I see as an attack by irrational religionists.
1) Google "War On Pornography".
2) Currently, yes. This gov't has no problems skipping over established traditions if it is legal to do so. I know of no laws that require the Federal Gov't to persue legal channels and work with other gov'ts WRT the internet.
3) Ah you got me. Stronger than MOST of Europe. Which implies there are European nations with even stronger free speech than the USA? Perhaps those nations will be able to determine what is allowed on the network, a superior solution to the US?
With the current government in power in the USA, much credence is being given to fronge religious peoples. It is quite possible considering the new Justices being appointed to the SCOTUS would change the flavor of the court and result in challenges to pornography protection being successful!
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Perhaps this is what concerns the EU? Have you not heard of the "anti-obscenity" squad/taskforce/whatever being put together by the FBI? Google "War On Pornography" if you don't like my sample here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
Personally, I'd rather be forbidden to use racist speech on the internet than to be forbidden pornography! Racism hurts people and divides societies, pornography does not despite all the complaining from the moralizers.
Pornography and other sexual pastimes performed between consenting adults is under threat in the united states as we speak.
I don't think you can say that the USA has the "most free speech".
Religious people have no problem telling non-believers that the non-believer will suffer un-ending pain in hell. That's not a very nice thing to say. In fact, it's patently insulting for you to tell me that your un-provable religion is the one and only true faith in the face of so many competitors. From my point of view they are all equally viable...but you have some special insight? Seems pretty arrogant and insulting to me. I'm incapable of telling which one is correct, but Mr. Christian is?
It goes both ways.