This is the old "right v. entitlement" problem. The way I see it, entitlements are things that just fall in your lap without requiring you to do anything in order to obtain them. Rights, on the other hand, must be exercised. So, if there is a right to fair use, we the consumers (dammit I hate that word!) must exercise that right by working to bypass whatever assinine protection rackets, er, schemes, the music-note-nazis place on CDs. If it is truly a right, they should let you out of jail after you crack the scheme.
Actually, it is not at all illegal to drink alcohol in Lynchburg, TN, with the logical exceptions of public intoxication, drunk driving, etc. The sale of alcohol in whatever county Lynchburg is situated is illegal, hence the popular rumors.
I'm with ya'. Bought a corporate desktop from Micron last month, pre-loaded with WIN ME! My IT dept. said "wipe the drive, install WIN 2000, and call us back." Will I suffer an unwarranted rectal intrusion if they happen to pre-load XP on the next one?
The first 3 sentences are actually more "insightful" than "funny." A guy named Furchgott at SUNY Downstate won the Nobel prize for his work with NO and blood flow in humans, which directly contributed to the development of Viagra (and the hordes of copycats to come).
I brushed my teeth with AIM for a time as a child. Don't know if they make it anymore. Now wouldn't the makers of AIM toothpaste (or gel) have some prior claim to those three letters, with which they might be able to prompt Steve Case's rectal insertion of same?
"In a like vein, most mental disorders...are rooted not on faulty reason, but rather on faulty
assumptions."
What mental disorders are these? Many mental disorders are increasingly recognized as being rooted in oddball neurotransmitter imbalances, and genetic predispositions influencing those chemical flubs. Claiming that mental disorders stem from faulty assumptions effectively places the "blame" for having a disorder on the person suffering it, whose "faulty assumptions" underlie his disease. More likely, whatever faulty assumptions he may possess are products of a deeper, less controllable cause.
Actually, Pfizer invented an ugly, smarmy way to extend its Prozac patent. It repackaged prozac in a pretty pink and green capsule, and named it "sarafem." This "not-prozac" wonderdrug is marketed for the treatment of PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder), a condition not recognized by psychiatric medicine, but aggressively hyped by Pfizer as something requiring medication (although not prozac, because (a) prozac's cheaper, and (b) prozac would be stigmatizing to all these essentially normal, healthy women).
Disclaimer: My only experience with this issue comes from reviewing clinical trials conducted at a supposedly public university.
Rights include "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." I require privacy to pursue my happinness with a minimum of embarrassment/legal trouble.
Seriously, though, haven't there always been hermits and misanthropes who migrate deep into the woods (or high into the hills) to avoid any unwelcome contact with others? Didn't Siddhartha spend a few years alone in that cave? If he had no right to privacy, who would've been within their right to set up a webcam there?
"Obviously, if a business does not wish to cater to French speaking people, they should not be forced to do so."
Yes, and Waffle House shouldn't have to serve those pesky black people if it doesn't want to, right? After all, it's part of our heritage in this great US of Assholes to hate people with different skin colors - why should the gubmint stick its nose where it doesn't belong and force us to change our ways (if not our attitudes)?
Aren't there some serious Constitutional issues here?
Seems to me one could make an "illegal search" argument against this, since the government is doing it (or does that only apply to the Federal govt.?). Further, and on a related rant, anyone besides my paranoid brain wonder if someone higher up than the schmucky TV execs had a hand in the creation of the "reality TV" shows, which also serve to introduce/reinforce the concept of 24/7 surveillance into popular culture?
"You also have to remember that if NASA does decide to start sending tourists into space, then one accident could mean the end of our space program."
What was Christa McCauliffe, if not NASA's first "space tourist?" And she WAS killed, along with the others, by NASA's insistence upon getting that bird up despite the known problems with o-rings. To your credit, though, this was the "end" of our space program for a number of years.
IIRC, someone tried something similar not long ago with battery acid, although they were aiming to get the cash, not the coke, from the machines. Seems simple enough - dump some acid in the coinslot, and wait for the meltdown. I think it was found to be a criminal act, though.
On a similar topic, why not, instead of cooling the machine down, locate the thermometer and heat it until it reaches its limits and bursts? A cordless iron might suffice for this. Question then would be, how does the machine respond to a broken thermometer? Does it assume temperature=zero, and give away nickel cokes, or does it remember the highest temp reached before fuckover, and hold it's coke machine pinkie to the dispenser slot, demanding "one million dollars..."
Hey, no offense, but that drugco you worked for could spend 50% more on R&D, charge 50% less for its drugs, and realize substantially more profit, if it would simply cut marketing expenditures by roughly 50% (preferably more). Doesn't it sicken anyone else that americans have to pay twice as much for their celecoxib as canadians pay, for the dubious benefit of being able to watch more celebrex commercials on tv? And why in the fuck are they marketing Rx drugs direct to the public? At the same time they're brainwashing tv ad viewers to request their drug by name, they're ramping up their campaign to turn physicians into nothing more than lab-coat-and-stethescope pill pushers. People now ask their doctors for celebrex like they're asking their dealers for White Rhino. Thanks to the efforts of these drugcos, "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" has been reduced to "Dr. Grinn, Pill Pimp." Fucking profit monger subhuman drugco overlords really make me wanna McVeigh every headquarters and lab they own. last comment not serious. no harm to vile drugco overlords intended. this disclaimer may be harmful or fatal if swallowed.
Sorry, no cites to bear this out, but as I recall the rate of depression in adolescents is different from that in adults, owing primarily to the same raging hormone situation that make acne more prevalent in adolescents than in adults. IMHO, the suspension did not cause the suicide, but may have been just one more trigger. Suicidality is a state of mind that "empowers" one to discount the importance of other life-impacting events, like the suspension, and in that sense the suspension has a correlative, but not causal, role.
"Any court that upholds this kind of thing must be funny in the head"
This assumes that the court (comprised, as it often is, of good citizens) is permitted to read the "law." If that's not the case, then they can uphold or overturn all they want, they're still a bunch of dirty, stinking infringers.
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Dammit I hate to reply to a .sig, but wasn't Miranda the suspect in that case?
Screennames like "sexkitty" don't help.
This is the old "right v. entitlement" problem. The way I see it, entitlements are things that just fall in your lap without requiring you to do anything in order to obtain them. Rights, on the other hand, must be exercised. So, if there is a right to fair use, we the consumers (dammit I hate that word!) must exercise that right by working to bypass whatever assinine protection rackets, er, schemes, the music-note-nazis place on CDs. If it is truly a right, they should let you out of jail after you crack the scheme.
Actually, it is not at all illegal to drink alcohol in Lynchburg, TN, with the logical exceptions of public intoxication, drunk driving, etc. The sale of alcohol in whatever county Lynchburg is situated is illegal, hence the popular rumors.
DAMMIT! Why didn't they tell us that back in January?
I'm with ya'. Bought a corporate desktop from Micron last month, pre-loaded with WIN ME! My IT dept. said "wipe the drive, install WIN 2000, and call us back." Will I suffer an unwarranted rectal intrusion if they happen to pre-load XP on the next one?
The first 3 sentences are actually more "insightful" than "funny." A guy named Furchgott at SUNY Downstate won the Nobel prize for his work with NO and blood flow in humans, which directly contributed to the development of Viagra (and the hordes of copycats to come).
I brushed my teeth with AIM for a time as a child. Don't know if they make it anymore. Now wouldn't the makers of AIM toothpaste (or gel) have some prior claim to those three letters, with which they might be able to prompt Steve Case's rectal insertion of same?
What mental disorders are these? Many mental disorders are increasingly recognized as being rooted in oddball neurotransmitter imbalances, and genetic predispositions influencing those chemical flubs. Claiming that mental disorders stem from faulty assumptions effectively places the "blame" for having a disorder on the person suffering it, whose "faulty assumptions" underlie his disease. More likely, whatever faulty assumptions he may possess are products of a deeper, less controllable cause.
Disclaimer: My only experience with this issue comes from reviewing clinical trials conducted at a supposedly public university.
We can do that today, only it's called a "trigger."
Just one minor criticism of your otherwise outstanding point: We still very much need separation of church and state. Visit www.au.org to learn why.
Seriously, though, haven't there always been hermits and misanthropes who migrate deep into the woods (or high into the hills) to avoid any unwelcome contact with others? Didn't Siddhartha spend a few years alone in that cave? If he had no right to privacy, who would've been within their right to set up a webcam there?
Yes, and Waffle House shouldn't have to serve those pesky black people if it doesn't want to, right? After all, it's part of our heritage in this great US of Assholes to hate people with different skin colors - why should the gubmint stick its nose where it doesn't belong and force us to change our ways (if not our attitudes)?
Have they been to Tauzin's website yet?
Seems to me one could make an "illegal search" argument against this, since the government is doing it (or does that only apply to the Federal govt.?). Further, and on a related rant, anyone besides my paranoid brain wonder if someone higher up than the schmucky TV execs had a hand in the creation of the "reality TV" shows, which also serve to introduce/reinforce the concept of 24/7 surveillance into popular culture?
What was Christa McCauliffe, if not NASA's first "space tourist?" And she WAS killed, along with the others, by NASA's insistence upon getting that bird up despite the known problems with o-rings. To your credit, though, this was the "end" of our space program for a number of years.
On a similar topic, why not, instead of cooling the machine down, locate the thermometer and heat it until it reaches its limits and bursts? A cordless iron might suffice for this. Question then would be, how does the machine respond to a broken thermometer? Does it assume temperature=zero, and give away nickel cokes, or does it remember the highest temp reached before fuckover, and hold it's coke machine pinkie to the dispenser slot, demanding "one million dollars..."
Hope we don't slashdot the freedb!
So there is a silver lining to this cloud...
Hey, no offense, but that drugco you worked for could spend 50% more on R&D, charge 50% less for its drugs, and realize substantially more profit, if it would simply cut marketing expenditures by roughly 50% (preferably more). Doesn't it sicken anyone else that americans have to pay twice as much for their celecoxib as canadians pay, for the dubious benefit of being able to watch more celebrex commercials on tv? And why in the fuck are they marketing Rx drugs direct to the public? At the same time they're brainwashing tv ad viewers to request their drug by name, they're ramping up their campaign to turn physicians into nothing more than lab-coat-and-stethescope pill pushers. People now ask their doctors for celebrex like they're asking their dealers for White Rhino. Thanks to the efforts of these drugcos, "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" has been reduced to "Dr. Grinn, Pill Pimp." Fucking profit monger subhuman drugco overlords really make me wanna McVeigh every headquarters and lab they own. last comment not serious. no harm to vile drugco overlords intended. this disclaimer may be harmful or fatal if swallowed.
Sorry, no cites to bear this out, but as I recall the rate of depression in adolescents is different from that in adults, owing primarily to the same raging hormone situation that make acne more prevalent in adolescents than in adults. IMHO, the suspension did not cause the suicide, but may have been just one more trigger. Suicidality is a state of mind that "empowers" one to discount the importance of other life-impacting events, like the suspension, and in that sense the suspension has a correlative, but not causal, role.
This assumes that the court (comprised, as it often is, of good citizens) is permitted to read the "law." If that's not the case, then they can uphold or overturn all they want, they're still a bunch of dirty, stinking infringers.
That what I said when they asked me how that fresh QP could possibly be for personal use.
Yes, if by "not so healthy" you mean "nonexistent," and by "children" you mean "figments of paranoid imaginations."