i've heard the "3rd party = throwing vote away" every election, and it has always rung hollow. voting for a 3rd party is about asking the big 2 to court your vote in a future election by shifting policies towards that 3rd party. you ought to vote for the guy you think would do best, always.
think the democrats don't care enough about the environment? vote green, if enough people vote green, the democrats will start shifting their platform towards those people to get them on board. this, of course, applies to the republicans: do you think the republicans aren't concerned enough about social policy? probably not, 'cause you're reading slashdot. but, if you were, you can vote for the constitution party. if the republicans can find more votes there than they can in the middle, they'll shift that way.
i disagree that is the point of terrorism. the point of terrorism is to create unrest and provoke reprisals against your people. oppressive laws is just gravy; you think your average terrorist, who'd like to see the world run by taliban-like governments, is thinking, "oh yes, now they'll have a lot of oppressive laws! that'll teach them."? if he thinks oppressive laws are such a punishment, why isn't he fighting the libertarian fight in his country of origin? when was the last time you saw a hamas fighter with a "gov't out of my womb" sign?
i also disagree that nobody wants to enter the US. and even if it were true, are you really suggesting america is losing the travel industry because it's disallowing locked luggage and pointy objects onto planes? how many families out there looking for travel destination are going, "well, new york ought to be nice this time of year... i'll just take my lucky steak knife onto the plane- oh, wait. i cant' do that? well, that's okay. i'll just lock into my luggage- you're kidding. i can't lock my luggage?! fuck it, new place: let's go kiev."
(also, no fair using the sins of the german politicians as evidence of america's problems.)
and, lastly, she didn't get arrested because she "thinks breadboards are kewl." what are you expecting the police to do when they see a shirt like that? recognize the 555 timer on it? i bet you after someone explained to them what the hoodie was, they were still lost as to what it is.
maybe the terrorists have won; but don't mistake this incident with support for your foregone conclusion. she would've been in a lot of trouble on september 10th of 2001, too. here's a little experiment: without telling them the story, or even giving them a setting, show that device to someone non-technical (bonus points if they're in law enforcement), and ask them what they think it probably is.
i wonder where you get your idea of free market. how are you defining "free", here? free to follow coyote-san's certified rules of economic practices? free to place themselves out of business because coyote-san doesn't like their products?
if you mean free in the way it is usually meant: free to make whatever economic choices they want to, then m$ is behaving in perfect harmony with the free market system, since the economic choices are its own. by what right do you tell a company that it must deal with people it doesn't want to? by what right do you set the price for the goods being sold by another?
if you had a sweet shop and you gave a nephew a lollipop but charged others a dollar for one, are you a predatory businessman? the answer is "no". you're just excersing your right to set whatever price you want for your goods. to think otherwise is empty rhetoric and re-defining "free" to mean "subject to coyote-san".
A movie of these sort of epic proportions comes along only once in a while, so when it's greeted by such terrible reviews, I, for one, have to stand up for it. Shame on you all!
This movie has taken a lot of flak for it's unconventional (although stylistcially brilliant) off center, titled shots which invariably end in a wipe. Could this be because the movie hit too close to home and critics everywhere felt a need to deflect and focus on the "bad", "horrible" and "mind-blowingly drab and awful" acting of John Travolta and writing of the screen play? The critics would have you think that's not so, but we know that it is!
Finally a movie comes along that shows us how important Eucledian geometry, limits and integration are to taking back the world. Finally a movie comes along that shows how simple and powerful 1000 year old atomic weapons are. Finally a movie that shows with unflinching honesty the human condition when locked in cages.
"Independence Day" would have us believe that men who only had a refresher course could fly a jet fighter, without even spending the required week in the simulator! I think we now know better. "Independence Day" would have us believe that an alien race uses MacOs, "Battlefield Earth" didn't use such ridiculous plot devices! This movie showed us so clearly and crisply the techonology and scheming nature of a capitalist alien race that the movie goer went home as if he were twice zapped with the "knowledge gun". This is not even getting into the painstaking details that went into this movie... like the universal want of gold, the amazing plot twists in virtual dance with logic, and special effects.
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i've heard the "3rd party = throwing vote away" every election, and it has always rung hollow. voting for a 3rd party is about asking the big 2 to court your vote in a future election by shifting policies towards that 3rd party. you ought to vote for the guy you think would do best, always.
think the democrats don't care enough about the environment? vote green, if enough people vote green, the democrats will start shifting their platform towards those people to get them on board. this, of course, applies to the republicans: do you think the republicans aren't concerned enough about social policy? probably not, 'cause you're reading slashdot. but, if you were, you can vote for the constitution party. if the republicans can find more votes there than they can in the middle, they'll shift that way.
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i disagree that is the point of terrorism. the point of terrorism is to create unrest and provoke reprisals against your people.
oppressive laws is just gravy; you think your average terrorist, who'd like to see the world run by taliban-like governments, is thinking, "oh yes, now they'll have a lot of oppressive laws! that'll teach them."? if he thinks oppressive laws are such a punishment, why isn't he fighting the libertarian fight in his country of origin? when was the last time you saw a hamas fighter with a "gov't out of my womb" sign?
i also disagree that nobody wants to enter the US. and even if it were true, are you really suggesting america is losing the travel industry because it's disallowing locked luggage and pointy objects onto planes? how many families out there looking for travel destination are going, "well, new york ought to be nice this time of year... i'll just take my lucky steak knife onto the plane- oh, wait. i cant' do that? well, that's okay. i'll just lock into my luggage- you're kidding. i can't lock my luggage?! fuck it, new place: let's go kiev."
(also, no fair using the sins of the german politicians as evidence of america's problems.)
and, lastly, she didn't get arrested because she "thinks breadboards are kewl." what are you expecting the police to do when they see a shirt like that? recognize the 555 timer on it? i bet you after someone explained to them what the hoodie was, they were still lost as to what it is.
maybe the terrorists have won; but don't mistake this incident with support for your foregone conclusion. she would've been in a lot of trouble on september 10th of 2001, too. here's a little experiment: without telling them the story, or even giving them a setting, show that device to someone non-technical (bonus points if they're in law enforcement), and ask them what they think it probably is.
i wonder where you get your idea of free market. how are you defining "free", here? free to follow coyote-san's certified rules of economic practices? free to place themselves out of business because coyote-san doesn't like their products?
if you mean free in the way it is usually meant: free to make whatever economic choices they want to, then m$ is behaving in perfect harmony with the free market system, since the economic choices are its own. by what right do you tell a company that it must deal with people it doesn't want to? by what right do you set the price for the goods being sold by another?
if you had a sweet shop and you gave a nephew a lollipop but charged others a dollar for one, are you a predatory businessman? the answer is "no". you're just excersing your right to set whatever price you want for your goods. to think otherwise is empty rhetoric and re-defining "free" to mean "subject to coyote-san".
alex.
A movie of these sort of epic proportions comes along only once in a while, so when it's greeted by such terrible reviews, I, for one, have to stand up for it. Shame on you all!
This movie has taken a lot of flak for it's unconventional (although stylistcially brilliant) off center, titled shots which invariably end in a wipe. Could this be because the movie hit too close to home and critics everywhere felt a need to deflect and focus on the "bad", "horrible" and "mind-blowingly drab and awful" acting of John Travolta and writing of the screen play? The critics would have you think that's not so, but we know that it is!
Finally a movie comes along that shows us how important Eucledian geometry, limits and integration are to taking back the world. Finally a movie comes along that shows how simple and powerful 1000 year old atomic weapons are. Finally a movie that shows with unflinching honesty the human condition when locked in cages.
"Independence Day" would have us believe that men who only had a refresher course could fly a jet fighter, without even spending the required week in the simulator! I think we now know better. "Independence Day" would have us believe that an alien race uses MacOs, "Battlefield Earth" didn't use such ridiculous plot devices! This movie showed us so clearly and crisply the techonology and scheming nature of a capitalist alien race that the movie goer went home as if he were twice zapped with the "knowledge gun". This is not even getting into the painstaking details that went into this movie... like the universal want of gold, the amazing plot twists in virtual dance with logic, and special effects.
Thank You,
John Lead-With-Your-Name Travolta