Who the hell is he? Someone who owns a copy of "Jerry Maguire," which gives him the right to do whatever he wants to it. Are you suggesting, then, that it should be illegal for someone to close their eyes during a gory battle scene in "Saving Private Ryan," lest they offend the directors "artistic vision?"
Christ. Fair use is more than copying a movie from my VCR to my computer.
Typical/. viewpoint. All about consumer liberty, unless of course, it's not about me and what I want. Tolerant of everything except opposing viewpoints.
Then leave. We have plenty of bigoted people here, if you want to buy a plane ticket and reduce that number by one, I for one would be glad to see it happen.
Who says they're "getting away with it?" In the write-up, Microsoft makes some thinly-veiled threats of upcoming lawsuits. This was just announced, they haven't gotten way with anything yet.
I've received several books, a few very good cigars, custom art, a home-made Alton Brown doll and a set of tea towels that have "Good Eats" woven into them...in Klingon.
I find that unlikely - for example, al-Queda are reputed to have trafficked heroin to fund their operations, but the Taleban were busily destroying poppy fields as being un-Islamic.
I'm not sure what in the hell you're talking about. It doesn't matter how Al Qaeda's money was obtained (and heroin trafficking was just a part of it), it matters what it was used for, namely funding the ruling Taliban in exchange for protection.
The players in this game are the US government and al-Queda - the Taleban are victims.
No, the victims were the women in Afghanistan who were not allowed even to go to school.
And the US simply didn't recognise the Taleban as a functioning government. They never tried to depose them before the current invasion.
They also imposed sanctions on the government, attempting to depose them without starting a war. Unfortunately, it came to that.
And if you buy the Taliban party line about hospitality, you're pretty gullible. He was practically running the country, by virtue of his using his vast economic resources to fund the cash-poor Taliban regime.
You are such an idiot. I'm really sorry that English has separate words for rigidly maintained military groups and loosely organized military groups. I'm sure that's "why they hate us."
"Osama! I read USA Today, and they described us as a 'paramilitary group'!" "What?! The outrage! They will pay for their crimes!"
I can't believe a post with so many blatant factual errors was actually modded up.
1) The US was not at war with, but considered the Taliban illegitimate rulers of Afghanistan prior to the attacks. When they started helping people kill Americans, the US went to war with them. (Oh, the horrible imperialism). 2) The Taliban only offered to extradite OBL to another country operating under Sharia (i.e. Muslim religious) law. The only other country that is fully operating under Sharia is Iran. 3) The US government did not help to establish the Taliban. And please do not attempt to say "But they gave them $43 million last year!" because they didn't. That $43 million was grain, medicine, and aid to the people of Afghanistan who were starving due to famine. 4) Being a member of political party in a foreign country is not a crime. Shooting at American soldiers is.
Quite simply, your assertion that American parents think their children aren't going to have sex is false. They're not stupid. Do they frequently wish that their children would not have sex either with their choice of partners, or not at all? Yes. Are they dumb enough to think they won't? No.
And I also fail to see what the president has to do with all of this.
As for my being "anti-foreigner," nothing could be further from the truth. I have traveled extensively and have many friends from foreign countries, but I'm not about to fall into the "European culture is more sophisticated" trap that has apparently engulfed you.
Um, Budweiser in America was named that over a century ago. It wasn't some globalist marketing ploy. Busch started a brewery and wanted to emulate the budweiser he had in Czechoslovakia, so that's what he called it.
Of course, it is pretty nasty. There are so many amazingly good American beers, it sucks that we're associated with the watery stuff that gets exported.
I was going to make a list of government screwups to counter your business screwups, but I have a wedding to go to next Saturday.
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"Is our children learning?"
Here's a good example of the stupidity you're citing. What really happened in that example is that Bush said, "Is..." then changed his mind about what he was going to say, then said "Are children learning?" This is exactly what happens when you take quotes out of context, misinterpret them, then use it to smear someone.
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And I have not found a single pro-warming post that does not either a) dismiss its opponents as simpletons or b) provide any non-anecdotal evidence. It may just be a Slashdot-related phenomenon, but is there anyone who can provide any good reason we should "act to stop global warming" other than "people who say we shouldn't are hicks" or "well, we might be right, so let's do it anyway"?
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Who the hell is he? Someone who owns a copy of "Jerry Maguire," which gives him the right to do whatever he wants to it. Are you suggesting, then, that it should be illegal for someone to close their eyes during a gory battle scene in "Saving Private Ryan," lest they offend the directors "artistic vision?"
Christ. Fair use is more than copying a movie from my VCR to my computer.
Typical /. viewpoint. All about consumer liberty, unless of course, it's not about me and what I want. Tolerant of everything except opposing viewpoints.
Whereas, in the rest of the world and in all history prior to the current era, people were honest.
Grow up and read some history. People don't change.
I'm not sure how you could classify Friends selling out as "terrifying."
Then leave. We have plenty of bigoted people here, if you want to buy a plane ticket and reduce that number by one, I for one would be glad to see it happen.
Who says they're "getting away with it?" In the write-up, Microsoft makes some thinly-veiled threats of upcoming lawsuits. This was just announced, they haven't gotten way with anything yet.
And if you buy the Taliban party line about hospitality, you're pretty gullible. He was practically running the country, by virtue of his using his vast economic resources to fund the cash-poor Taliban regime.
We have channels like that too, only in the US, we're allowed to choose whether or not we want to pay for and watch them.
You are such an idiot. I'm really sorry that English has separate words for rigidly maintained military groups and loosely organized military groups. I'm sure that's "why they hate us."
"Osama! I read USA Today, and they described us as a 'paramilitary group'!"
"What?! The outrage! They will pay for their crimes!"
How can Congress declare war against a non-state?
I can't believe a post with so many blatant factual errors was actually modded up.
1) The US was not at war with, but considered the Taliban illegitimate rulers of Afghanistan prior to the attacks. When they started helping people kill Americans, the US went to war with them. (Oh, the horrible imperialism).
2) The Taliban only offered to extradite OBL to another country operating under Sharia (i.e. Muslim religious) law. The only other country that is fully operating under Sharia is Iran.
3) The US government did not help to establish the Taliban. And please do not attempt to say "But they gave them $43 million last year!" because they didn't. That $43 million was grain, medicine, and aid to the people of Afghanistan who were starving due to famine.
4) Being a member of political party in a foreign country is not a crime. Shooting at American soldiers is.
Quite simply, your assertion that American parents think their children aren't going to have sex is false. They're not stupid. Do they frequently wish that their children would not have sex either with their choice of partners, or not at all? Yes. Are they dumb enough to think they won't? No.
And I also fail to see what the president has to do with all of this.
As for my being "anti-foreigner," nothing could be further from the truth. I have traveled extensively and have many friends from foreign countries, but I'm not about to fall into the "European culture is more sophisticated" trap that has apparently engulfed you.
What's truly amazing is how wrong you are about what Americans actually think.
Oh, and spare me the "European society and culture" bullshit, you pretentious fuckwit.
I think think insurance would be astronomically higher if you give people that much incentive to run off with the rental car, don't you?
What's truly funny is that the I Am Canadian guy has since up and moved to Los Angeles.
Um, Budweiser in America was named that over a century ago. It wasn't some globalist marketing ploy. Busch started a brewery and wanted to emulate the budweiser he had in Czechoslovakia, so that's what he called it.
Of course, it is pretty nasty. There are so many amazingly good American beers, it sucks that we're associated with the watery stuff that gets exported.
Of course, that happened because the market wasn't free to begin with, no?
There's nothing hard to understand, unless you're a slashbot trying to be clever.
Dude, Slashdot's high school leftists are going to be enraged by this.
I was going to make a list of government screwups to counter your business screwups, but I have a wedding to go to next Saturday.
Here's a good example of the stupidity you're citing. What really happened in that example is that Bush said, "Is..." then changed his mind about what he was going to say, then said "Are children learning?" This is exactly what happens when you take quotes out of context, misinterpret them, then use it to smear someone.
And I have not found a single pro-warming post that does not either a) dismiss its opponents as simpletons or b) provide any non-anecdotal evidence. It may just be a Slashdot-related phenomenon, but is there anyone who can provide any good reason we should "act to stop global warming" other than "people who say we shouldn't are hicks" or "well, we might be right, so let's do it anyway"?
Only on Slashdot could this be described as "informative."