This is assinine. Where will "full and immediate disclosure" take place? Will it be a website? What percentage of households with web access will hunt down this info.? Will it be a TV special (with viewership comparable to the debates)? What percentage of voters are going to tune in to such broadcast disclosure, compared to the percentage that will see more and hear more of one candidate, and possibly even assume s/he's running uncontested? Hearing that "Mr. Jones took $2 million from the Rape Our Planet League last year" is nothing compared with not hearing Mrs. Smith at all (or will they also say, "Mrs. Smith got no money from anybody, 'cause she's never been seen or heard, and we're not sure she really exists?"). The disclosure argument is flawed because there's TOO MUCH TO DISCLOSE, and nobody can take it all in and make any comprehensive sense of it. Easy solution? Take that voluntary $1 donation from your tax paperwork, make it $5 and compulsory, and fund campaigns that way. Keep the greedy swine money out of it.
"'we have to get our customers back,' Rosen told executives at various major labels..."
This phrase has a couple of possble connotations. First would be "we need to bring our former customers back into the fold, and offer them some incentive to once again lavish our industry with extravagant and entirely unearned gifts of their precious, precious cash." This is, of course, not bloody likely, given that Hillary the Harpie views "customers" in much the same way as a vampire bat views an Argentinian cow.
The second, and much more likely, interpretation of her statement, is that the RIAA must seek some revenge against those who perhaps used to be paying customers, but were swayed by the RIAA's own retail guerilla tactics to pursue a different path, i.e., file sharing. This interpretation actually likens Hillary the Harpie's strategy to that of the US government, under the leadership of the winged monkey, in pursuing "war" against a methodology called terrorism (which is about as bright, in my book, as pursuing war against methodologies like pragmatism, or immunochemical histology, but then winged monkeys ain't made to be bright). I'd have the same advice for H the H as I have for W the Schmuck - give peace a chance, and, for the love of all that is decent and right, STEP DOWN NOW!
But is this really so horrible? Look at the earlier story about ISPs cutting off customers whose infected machines are taking indecent liberties with the ISP's servers. If MS wants to force feed its users updates to patch their gaping security holes (ahem, to "add new functionality"), then maybe they're just trying to be responsible with the stellar(crappy) product they know they unleashed on this unsuspecting world (OK, so most of us suspect it by now). 90% of users ain't gonna do it, the ISP's gonna shut yer ass down if its not done, so why is it so horrible that MS reserves the right to do it for you? After all, they're an ISP, too, you know.
Trying to be nice to MS 'cause I'm writing this on my W98 box at work, and I never read the EULA.
Tolerance of differing opinions is what made the USA a great nation. I'll admit to being a bit ashamed of those who don't recognize the "minority" views on this as legitimate. I disagree with a national "day of prayer" (because I'm an athiest), and I'm "unamerican." I disagree with the piling on of unnecessary and ill-conceived laws to rob me of my liberty and enrich some bogus software maker, and I'm supposed to be "ashamed." I was called a communist yesterday for disagreeing with the assertion that war is our only option. I prefer the term "fundamentalist pacifist."
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"We gave up HUGE civil liberties during the war, because it was necessary to win the war."
I'm sure alot of the Japanese Americans who were "inconvenienced" (internment/inconvencience, what's the difference, right RM?) during WWII would see things differently. This is a balancing act for the govt., to be sure, but hyper-reactivity by hawkish proclaimers does not lend itself well to balancing. By seeing and responding to only one angle of this multifaceted issue, those who would bomb now and forget about asking questions later reveal the true nature of their response - anger is always a secondary emotion to fear. Fear is understandable. We all feel it right now. But while it's comforting for some to cover up that primary emotion with tough talk, it's also dangerous to those who might listen, and to the nation as a whole.
The terrorists indicated to passengers that they had a bomb. The (possibly fictitious) bomb would have been detonated if any resistance was encountered. Additionally, hijacking has traditionally been a form of hostage-taking, not mass murder. The passengers most likely held out some hope that if they complied, they might be released safely when the plane landed (wherever the hijackers were taking it). This was an especially devious and loathsome yet novel strategy employed by the terrorists, and it proved at least 75% effective.
Would YOU want to go to work every day in the second iteration of a building that was once bombed and then subsequently airplaned to death within a single decade? If rebuilt, it will be hit again. NYC real estate is valuable, but not THAT valuable.
From the only inside account released thus far (Barbara Olsen - disrespected her republickin' positions on just about every political issue, but she did herself proud in her final moments, and I shall bash her name no more), the hijackers used boxcutters. Not techno-laser-weapons, not photon particle disintegrators, not even good old fashioned lead slugs travelling at high velocity, but FREAKIN' BOX CUTTERS to assume control of at least that particular plane. Whatever happened to the US Air Marshalls?!? Guess most of 'em got fired after all the hijacking scares of the '70s passed. It's a damn shame, because even one US Air Marshall on each of those planes could've made a HUGE difference. Live, let a buncha people die needlessly, and learn. Let's not forget the "learn" part now, eh, FAA?
They've been warning us with those "feel left in" ads for months now. There were no hijackers. They siezed control of the planes with the same secret voodoo technology with which they've made all their porn pages disappear. Contacted for comment, the head of Yahoo! opined, "Shut up you moron. That's a terrible joke."
"Boy, those guys are going to get clobbered but good..."
Let's round up the defective spooks and snoops, load 'em on a 747, and crash it into [insert name of irrationally selected structure/individual/race of people].
Acts of war are committed by one nation-state against another. We the ashen-faced know well who the "another" was, but is there a nation-state responsible for these attacks? This probably means organized violence in response, but not war.
C'mon - your local community college can offer you a cheap/free course in realtime grammar checking. It doesn't hurt to know how to do it without clippy. Besides, grammar just ain't all that important in this modern world. Look at our pResident.
"Because the privileged have earned their privileges."
So, by being squeezed out through a vagina named Bush or Carnegie or Vanderbilt one earns more priviledge than another of more mortal birthing? Fuck that nonsense. Priviledge is not always earned. It's largely bestowed, and merit is rarely a consideration. Ask your CEO how many cans of spam (the alternative meat product) s/he's consumed. Ask your janitor how many company-expense-account golf games s/he's been invited to. And then get your elitist ass to the peace corp and do some good before your misguided notion of how shit works finds you penniless and hating with all your might those pussies of priviledge from whence you did not arise.
"Making bucketloads of cash ENDING other people's misery"
You incorrectly imply here that the pig-at-trough industry is curing disease. This is not the goal of the drugcos. They prolong the lives of people with HIV so that those people can continue to buy their outrageously overpriced product. They find cheaper ways to make insulin instead of curing diabetes. There is virtually zero novel vaccine research and production in this country because vaccines are a one-time (read: non-profitable) deal. And on that last point, let's hope you don't get tetanus anytime soon, 'cause there's a severe shortage of that vaccine owing to the shutdown of manufacturing facilities because of the lack of revenue produced by those labs.
Drugcos are not knights in shining armor that some people make them out to be. The industry is parasitic, and like any parasite, it aims to bleed its host until that host is of no more use to it (i.e., dead or poor). The industry does not exist for a cure.
I've tried TPF and gone back to Zonealarm after TPF squeezed my DSL bandwidth to sub-14.4 modem speeds. Everything from my browser to my mail client to my beloved gnutella clients became unusable. Lose Tiny, re-install Zonealarm, problem solved.
"the judicial branch is by no means in the pocket of corporate America."
Right on! From the looks of Fat Tony and the Coke Can Man, they've moved right out of the pocket and are now firmly implanted in the rectal cavity of said corporate 'murka. Just 'cause these judges occassionaly twitch and seize like a gerbil dying from "ass"phyxiation and bother their corporate hosts, we shouldn't leap to the assumption that they're any less the property of their masters.
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This is assinine. Where will "full and immediate disclosure" take place? Will it be a website? What percentage of households with web access will hunt down this info.? Will it be a TV special (with viewership comparable to the debates)? What percentage of voters are going to tune in to such broadcast disclosure, compared to the percentage that will see more and hear more of one candidate, and possibly even assume s/he's running uncontested? Hearing that "Mr. Jones took $2 million from the Rape Our Planet League last year" is nothing compared with not hearing Mrs. Smith at all (or will they also say, "Mrs. Smith got no money from anybody, 'cause she's never been seen or heard, and we're not sure she really exists?"). The disclosure argument is flawed because there's TOO MUCH TO DISCLOSE, and nobody can take it all in and make any comprehensive sense of it. Easy solution? Take that voluntary $1 donation from your tax paperwork, make it $5 and compulsory, and fund campaigns that way. Keep the greedy swine money out of it.
This phrase has a couple of possble connotations. First would be "we need to bring our former customers back into the fold, and offer them some incentive to once again lavish our industry with extravagant and entirely unearned gifts of their precious, precious cash." This is, of course, not bloody likely, given that Hillary the Harpie views "customers" in much the same way as a vampire bat views an Argentinian cow.
The second, and much more likely, interpretation of her statement, is that the RIAA must seek some revenge against those who perhaps used to be paying customers, but were swayed by the RIAA's own retail guerilla tactics to pursue a different path, i.e., file sharing. This interpretation actually likens Hillary the Harpie's strategy to that of the US government, under the leadership of the winged monkey, in pursuing "war" against a methodology called terrorism (which is about as bright, in my book, as pursuing war against methodologies like pragmatism, or immunochemical histology, but then winged monkeys ain't made to be bright). I'd have the same advice for H the H as I have for W the Schmuck - give peace a chance, and, for the love of all that is decent and right, STEP DOWN NOW!
Can't keep up with the drugco mergers and acquisitions? Stick with homegrown.
Still, maybe I got some MS karma for my whorin' efforts?
Trying to be nice to MS 'cause I'm writing this on my W98 box at work, and I never read the EULA.
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"My Country... Wrong"
"Stunning" (verb used as an adjective) or "overreaching" (verb used as a verb).
Screw the interviews - let's just flash his bios. Renders my PC impotent every time I try.
Tolerance of differing opinions is what made the USA a great nation. I'll admit to being a bit ashamed of those who don't recognize the "minority" views on this as legitimate. I disagree with a national "day of prayer" (because I'm an athiest), and I'm "unamerican." I disagree with the piling on of unnecessary and ill-conceived laws to rob me of my liberty and enrich some bogus software maker, and I'm supposed to be "ashamed." I was called a communist yesterday for disagreeing with the assertion that war is our only option. I prefer the term "fundamentalist pacifist."
I'm sure alot of the Japanese Americans who were "inconvenienced" (internment/inconvencience, what's the difference, right RM?) during WWII would see things differently. This is a balancing act for the govt., to be sure, but hyper-reactivity by hawkish proclaimers does not lend itself well to balancing. By seeing and responding to only one angle of this multifaceted issue, those who would bomb now and forget about asking questions later reveal the true nature of their response - anger is always a secondary emotion to fear. Fear is understandable. We all feel it right now. But while it's comforting for some to cover up that primary emotion with tough talk, it's also dangerous to those who might listen, and to the nation as a whole.
The terrorists indicated to passengers that they had a bomb. The (possibly fictitious) bomb would have been detonated if any resistance was encountered. Additionally, hijacking has traditionally been a form of hostage-taking, not mass murder. The passengers most likely held out some hope that if they complied, they might be released safely when the plane landed (wherever the hijackers were taking it). This was an especially devious and loathsome yet novel strategy employed by the terrorists, and it proved at least 75% effective.
Would YOU want to go to work every day in the second iteration of a building that was once bombed and then subsequently airplaned to death within a single decade? If rebuilt, it will be hit again. NYC real estate is valuable, but not THAT valuable.
From the only inside account released thus far (Barbara Olsen - disrespected her republickin' positions on just about every political issue, but she did herself proud in her final moments, and I shall bash her name no more), the hijackers used boxcutters. Not techno-laser-weapons, not photon particle disintegrators, not even good old fashioned lead slugs travelling at high velocity, but FREAKIN' BOX CUTTERS to assume control of at least that particular plane. Whatever happened to the US Air Marshalls?!? Guess most of 'em got fired after all the hijacking scares of the '70s passed. It's a damn shame, because even one US Air Marshall on each of those planes could've made a HUGE difference. Live, let a buncha people die needlessly, and learn. Let's not forget the "learn" part now, eh, FAA?
They've been warning us with those "feel left in" ads for months now. There were no hijackers. They siezed control of the planes with the same secret voodoo technology with which they've made all their porn pages disappear. Contacted for comment, the head of Yahoo! opined, "Shut up you moron. That's a terrible joke."
Let's round up the defective spooks and snoops, load 'em on a 747, and crash it into [insert name of irrationally selected structure/individual/race of people].
Acts of war are committed by one nation-state against another. We the ashen-faced know well who the "another" was, but is there a nation-state responsible for these attacks? This probably means organized violence in response, but not war.
C'mon - your local community college can offer you a cheap/free course in realtime grammar checking. It doesn't hurt to know how to do it without clippy. Besides, grammar just ain't all that important in this modern world. Look at our pResident.
So, by being squeezed out through a vagina named Bush or Carnegie or Vanderbilt one earns more priviledge than another of more mortal birthing? Fuck that nonsense. Priviledge is not always earned. It's largely bestowed, and merit is rarely a consideration. Ask your CEO how many cans of spam (the alternative meat product) s/he's consumed. Ask your janitor how many company-expense-account golf games s/he's been invited to. And then get your elitist ass to the peace corp and do some good before your misguided notion of how shit works finds you penniless and hating with all your might those pussies of priviledge from whence you did not arise.
It's Clippy, operating from beyond the grave...
You incorrectly imply here that the pig-at-trough industry is curing disease. This is not the goal of the drugcos. They prolong the lives of people with HIV so that those people can continue to buy their outrageously overpriced product. They find cheaper ways to make insulin instead of curing diabetes. There is virtually zero novel vaccine research and production in this country because vaccines are a one-time (read: non-profitable) deal. And on that last point, let's hope you don't get tetanus anytime soon, 'cause there's a severe shortage of that vaccine owing to the shutdown of manufacturing facilities because of the lack of revenue produced by those labs.
Drugcos are not knights in shining armor that some people make them out to be. The industry is parasitic, and like any parasite, it aims to bleed its host until that host is of no more use to it (i.e., dead or poor). The industry does not exist for a cure.
Solution? Skin fencing!
The Ethical Topograph? The Conscientious Map?
I've tried TPF and gone back to Zonealarm after TPF squeezed my DSL bandwidth to sub-14.4 modem speeds. Everything from my browser to my mail client to my beloved gnutella clients became unusable. Lose Tiny, re-install Zonealarm, problem solved.
Right on! From the looks of Fat Tony and the Coke Can Man, they've moved right out of the pocket and are now firmly implanted in the rectal cavity of said corporate 'murka. Just 'cause these judges occassionaly twitch and seize like a gerbil dying from "ass"phyxiation and bother their corporate hosts, we shouldn't leap to the assumption that they're any less the property of their masters.
Yeah, but it's really the endodust you have to look out for.
Can't they leave poor mafiaboy alone, already?!?