I triied to fill it with Alcohol. I triied to fill it with sex! I tried really hard to fill it with sex! I triied to fill it with Cocaine and heroin and everything you can think of! (chorus amen!) But then something appeared to me: (chorus Preach on, brother!) The caterpillar D-9 Bulldozer! (chorus Praise Caterpillah!)
Quake I: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, Ministry. Quake II: Well, I put in my Superstar DJ Keoki CD, but really, any Hip-Hop/Techno will do.
Actually, people can be fanatically atheist-atheism is a faith that there is no god. I think it's more that you can go from fanatic to completely laid back about religion.
There's also a reason that Freud named several complexes after Greek mythical characters, vide "Oedipus Complex." The reason those stories have lasted is that they describe experiences many of us go through, if only emotionally. That's also why the characters are "archetypes." They are our interiors, lived out in real life. Oedipus is the part of us that hates our fathers, and is confused by that, embodied in a tragic character. Luke Skywalker is our heroic but childish side, lived out on the screen. (For a good analysis of some of the issues of age, check out Iron John by Robert Bly. Really good analysis of what people, especially men, go through on the road to maturity.
I've seen wind power attempted. Actually, being from Hawaii, I've seen a LOT of harebrained schemes. Like the one where you pump cold water from the bottom of the ocean and let it pour over turbines, or the wave power things or any number of weird projects. The fact is, there is plenty of energy if you know how to harness it. But as long as we keep buying fossil fuels, there is no incentive to research new power.
So you've never heard Andrea Dworkin and her Canadian colleague (whose name I can't remember) say that all pornography equals rape? Note that they don't stop at "suggests rape to men" or what have you, but the act of creating and viewing porn, in their minds, is the same as rape.
To answer your question, yes it should, but I don't think it is. Lawyers deal in the truth and a jury is supposed to make a decision based on facts presented in the trial. Now, a sharp lawyer will certainly use that, but it won't stop other people from doing the same thing.
Gee, Officer Krupke, it's a social disease! We're sick in the head.
Of course, given that it's the parents of the victims, its more like that Bloom County where Steve Dallas debates who he should sue for having his back broken by Sean Penn: Not Sean or his wife Madonna (Juries love celebrities, and they both might come back for retribution) not Opus, who got him into this mess (opus has no money) No, he should sue the Nikolta Camera Company, for being criminally negligent in not warning him about the possible results of photgraphing psychotic celebrities!
So of course, the victims don't sue the killer or his negligent parents, they sue the ultra-rich entertainment types.
On a scale with Hitler? Unless you're one of the revisionists who thinks the Holocaust is a hoax, I would have to argue with your comparison. A few thousand Kosovars is hardly on a scale with millions of assorted ethnic "undesirables." Besides which, the US is apparently supporting the KLA, which has more than the term "army" in common with the IRA.
And while we're mulling it over, why is it that only the murder of six American tourists got Rwanda back into the news, when nearly a million people have been killed in an inter-tribal war? Why all the heartache about what boils down to an old feud in Serbia, when old feuds all over the world which are costing way more lives get little or no attention? And, in point of fact, most of the Kosovars are simply being herded out of Serbia in mass deportations, not slaughtered. Granted, it's a horrible situation. But it's getting way more airplay than other horrors that deserve equal attention.
What was it Jefferson said? "It is better that a hundred guilty men go free than to have one innocent man be jailed." We're getting to the point where curiosity equals danger and criminal activity in this country. There needs to be a serious reexamination of our laws in regards to the digital realm. Is stealing phone service or copying a piece of software the same as stealing a physical object? Should they be subject to the same penalties? I fully believe it is the telcos that are pushing prosecution of people like Mitnick to such ridiculous lengths. Sure, he committed a crime. So, (technically) did a DJ in hawaii in the sixties-he was caught with pot dust on his clothes, and the prosecution was pushing for a 20 year sentence. It's the same kind of thing.
Oh, and Rob... Where the hell did "Ultra Monkeys" come from on my main page? Just curious, cause a Hawaii band has a song called Ultra Monkey.
blah blah blah biological warfare, and no private entity should be allowed to do that. blah blah blah
No private entity? How about, no entity, period? No one, not even the government, should consider it within their rights to fuck with genetics for the purpose of bio-warfare.
Actually, I think I'm a personal libertarian and an organizational democrat. Because I believe that people should be able to do as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone doing it. At the same time, I believe that companies like M$, and more importantly, like Dow Chemicals and the like, should have the crap hammered out of them if they screw up. I just can't buy that "leaving everyone alone to do things their way" crap that too many libertarians believe in. I had a friend in high school who was libertarian, arguing that we shouldn't have zoning laws, at which point I mentioned that given the way corporate america has handled itself in the past, that would leave us with chemical plants pumping toxic smoke in the inner city, next to schools.
Well, I think that's why Oracle is letting people download the software for linux free. After all, that gives poor people like me an incentive to develop for it yadda yadda yadda.
Guy whose name I can't remember:"I don't know, I liked Empire."
Dante: "WHAT? What about Jedi?"
GWNICR: "Well, y'see, in Star Wars, you had the death star all finished. Nothing but storm troopers and empire types on the thing. So when Luke blows it up, it's like 'great!'"
Dante: "Yeah, so?"
GWNICR: "So in Jedi, the death star wasn't finished. I mean, there must have been all kinds of independent contractors and so on working on the thing. Guys with families and stuff. So when they blow it up..."
I can't remember the rest.
Anyway. What I found funny about the review was the comment that he could imagine Mark Hamill being a big star, but not Harrison Ford.
From what I've heard the acting of that boy (anakin (sp)) is really bad. The boy sucks, he's worse that mccalley calkin (sp; and I don't care). I just hope that the majority of the movie has more scenes with the true jedi's.
Of course, you realize that his acting has to be bad, to match Mark Hamill's. I just hope my dream of playing Anakin in the sequels comes true.
There's a cartoonist named Ted Rall that should really be commenting on this topic. I think some of you have (unintentionally) ripped your comments from his cartoons. Anyway, one of his cartoons has two rich suits talking at dinner. Suit 1: "Do you ever think that all the people we've screwed over will ever get wise to all our tricks and leave us hanging from lampposts?"
Suit 2: "Have some more champagne!"
So we've got our work cut out for us. Get rid of some of 'em, they'll start listening. Maybe if someone assassinated some High up officials in the government, one of whom shares a surname with the Master of Funk, another of whom is called by the term for a bull attack, and yet others whose names I can't think of, and no one cared, we'd get people's attention.
The world's always changing, Tones. See, I just changed your name to Tones. The world was changing a million years ago, it'l be changing a million years from now (assuming we don't screw it up before then.) Of course, it's changing faster now. At least, technology is changing faster.
Anyone else think that too much security/prosperity/leisure time is poison for a society? I mean, seems to me, that stuff breeds pedophilia and the like. Just my opinion.
Try: The Fray for an example of what I consider an excellent arts site. And, more importantly, what I think is the perfect use for the net: people communicating. Not point to point, but rather giving everyone a chance to see what they have to say. Also, check out This for a pretty cool analysis of what the web is doing to us.
People in the third world are starving. People are being ethnically clensed in Indonesia, Africa and the Balkans as we speak. Those people take risks. THEY
are really out of the mainstream.
I forget who wrote it, but I read a column in which the writer said "anyone who has a 'no fear' sticker on their car or tshirt in their wardrobe should be forced to make a water run down sniper alley in Bosnia."
I think the anonymity of the net is one of the worst things there about the entire thing. My name's Andrew Kickertz, what's yours? One of the great things about the enlightenment, the reformation, and every other transforming movements was the fact that the people involved were out there on the front lines. I'm not saying Jefferson was out there on bunker hill with a musket, but like many of the founding fathers, he risked his life by letting the british know who he was. Martin Luther risked his by signing his name to the 99 theses (not feces, kids.) On/. we call the people without login names Anonymous Cowards, but are we who call ourselves by our nicknames any less cowardly? Accountability is the first step towards credibility. Start by signing your name. Note: this is not aimed at people like the proud Commander of Taco Bell, after all, we all know HIS name.
Slashdot Mirror
From Snow Crash: "Wait a second. Is this thing a drug, a language, or a religion?" "What's the difference?"
Uh, Drugs're bad, 'mkay?
I triied to fill it with Alcohol.
I triied to fill it with sex!
I tried really hard to fill it with sex!
I triied to fill it with Cocaine and heroin and everything you can think of!
(chorus amen!)
But then something appeared to me:
(chorus Preach on, brother!)
The caterpillar D-9 Bulldozer!
(chorus Praise Caterpillah!)
Quake I: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, Ministry. Quake II: Well, I put in my Superstar DJ Keoki CD, but really, any Hip-Hop/Techno will do.
Actually, people can be fanatically atheist-atheism is a faith that there is no god. I think it's more that you can go from fanatic to completely laid back about religion.
There's also a reason that Freud named several complexes after Greek mythical characters, vide "Oedipus Complex." The reason those stories have lasted is that they describe experiences many of us go through, if only emotionally. That's also why the characters are "archetypes." They are our interiors, lived out in real life. Oedipus is the part of us that hates our fathers, and is confused by that, embodied in a tragic character. Luke Skywalker is our heroic but childish side, lived out on the screen. (For a good analysis of some of the issues of age, check out Iron John by Robert Bly. Really good analysis of what people, especially men, go through on the road to maturity.
Calvin: I like to verb words. Remember when "access" was just a thing you had? Now it's something you do. It got verbed.
I've seen wind power attempted. Actually, being from Hawaii, I've seen a LOT of harebrained schemes. Like the one where you pump cold water from the bottom of the ocean and let it pour over turbines, or the wave power things or any number of weird projects. The fact is, there is plenty of energy if you know how to harness it. But as long as we keep buying fossil fuels, there is no incentive to research new power.
So you've never heard Andrea Dworkin and her Canadian colleague (whose name I can't remember) say that all pornography equals rape? Note that they don't stop at "suggests rape to men" or what have you, but the act of creating and viewing porn, in their minds, is the same as rape.
To answer your question, yes it should, but I don't think it is. Lawyers deal in the truth and a jury is supposed to make a decision based on facts presented in the trial. Now, a sharp lawyer will certainly use that, but it won't stop other people from doing the same thing.
Gee, Officer Krupke, it's a social disease! We're sick in the head.
Of course, given that it's the parents of the victims, its more like that Bloom County where Steve Dallas debates who he should sue for having his back broken by Sean Penn: Not Sean or his wife Madonna (Juries love celebrities, and they both might come back for retribution) not Opus, who got him into this mess (opus has no money) No, he should sue the Nikolta Camera Company, for being criminally negligent in not warning him about the possible results of photgraphing psychotic celebrities!
So of course, the victims don't sue the killer or his negligent parents, they sue the ultra-rich entertainment types.
Sigh.
On a scale with Hitler? Unless you're one of the revisionists who thinks the Holocaust is a hoax, I would have to argue with your comparison. A few thousand Kosovars is hardly on a scale with millions of assorted ethnic "undesirables." Besides which, the US is apparently supporting the KLA, which has more than the term "army" in common with the IRA.
And while we're mulling it over, why is it that only the murder of six American tourists got Rwanda back into the news, when nearly a million people have been killed in an inter-tribal war? Why all the heartache about what boils down to an old feud in Serbia, when old feuds all over the world which are costing way more lives get little or no attention? And, in point of fact, most of the Kosovars are simply being herded out of Serbia in mass deportations, not slaughtered.
Granted, it's a horrible situation. But it's getting way more airplay than other horrors that deserve equal attention.
What was it Jefferson said? "It is better that a hundred guilty men go free than to have one innocent man be jailed." We're getting to the point where curiosity equals danger and criminal activity in this country. There needs to be a serious reexamination of our laws in regards to the digital realm. Is stealing phone service or copying a piece of software the same as stealing a physical object? Should they be subject to the same penalties? I fully believe it is the telcos that are pushing prosecution of people like Mitnick to such ridiculous lengths. Sure, he committed a crime. So, (technically) did a DJ in hawaii in the sixties-he was caught with pot dust on his clothes, and the prosecution was pushing for a 20 year sentence. It's the same kind of thing.
Oh, and Rob... Where the hell did "Ultra Monkeys" come from on my main page? Just curious, cause a Hawaii band has a song called Ultra Monkey.
blah blah blah biological warfare, and no private entity should be allowed to do that. blah blah blah
No private entity? How about, no entity, period? No one, not even the government, should consider it within their rights to fuck with genetics for the purpose of bio-warfare.
Actually, I think I'm a personal libertarian and an organizational democrat. Because I believe that people should be able to do as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone doing it. At the same time, I believe that companies like M$, and more importantly, like Dow Chemicals and the like, should have the crap hammered out of them if they screw up. I just can't buy that "leaving everyone alone to do things their way" crap that too many libertarians believe in. I had a friend in high school who was libertarian, arguing that we shouldn't have zoning laws, at which point I mentioned that given the way corporate america has handled itself in the past, that would leave us with chemical plants pumping toxic smoke in the inner city, next to schools.
Well, I think that's why Oracle is letting people download the software for linux free. After all, that gives poor people like me an incentive to develop for it yadda yadda yadda.
Actually, I thought it was this
Hope this helps!
I can see it now: "We're not crackers, we're trailer trash!"
Actually, tho, "cracker" has always meant, to me, something like a really stupid klan member.
I read enough of his review of jedi. Lets leave him hanging from a fire escape.
Ah, grasshopper, you seem to have a lack of understanding. People generally do not remember movie critics.
See, what I think is great is stuff like Clerks:
Guy whose name I can't remember:"I don't know, I liked Empire."
Dante: "WHAT? What about Jedi?"
GWNICR: "Well, y'see, in Star Wars, you had the death star all finished. Nothing but storm troopers and empire types on the thing. So when Luke blows it up, it's like 'great!'"
Dante: "Yeah, so?"
GWNICR: "So in Jedi, the death star wasn't finished. I mean, there must have been all kinds of independent contractors and so on working on the thing. Guys with families and stuff. So when they blow it up..."
I can't remember the rest.
Anyway. What I found funny about the review was the comment that he could imagine Mark Hamill being a big star, but not Harrison Ford.
From what I've heard the acting of that boy (anakin (sp)) is really bad. The boy sucks, he's worse that mccalley calkin (sp; and I don't care). I just hope that
the majority of the movie has more scenes with the true jedi's.
Of course, you realize that his acting has to be bad, to match Mark Hamill's. I just hope my dream of playing Anakin in the sequels comes true.
Flame Away!!
There's a cartoonist named Ted Rall that should really be commenting on this topic. I think some of you have (unintentionally) ripped your comments from his cartoons. Anyway, one of his cartoons has two rich suits talking at dinner.
Suit 1: "Do you ever think that all the people we've screwed over will ever get wise to all our tricks and leave us hanging from lampposts?"
Suit 2: "Have some more champagne!"
So we've got our work cut out for us. Get rid of some of 'em, they'll start listening. Maybe if someone assassinated some High up officials in the government, one of whom shares a surname with the Master of Funk, another of whom is called by the term for a bull attack, and yet others whose names I can't think of, and no one cared, we'd get people's attention.
Yeah.
The world's always changing, Tones. See, I just changed your name to Tones. The world was changing a million years ago, it'l be changing a million years from now (assuming we don't screw it up before then.) Of course, it's changing faster now. At least, technology is changing faster.
Anyone else think that too much security/prosperity/leisure time is poison for a society? I mean, seems to me, that stuff breeds pedophilia and the like. Just my opinion.
As always, Andrew Kickertz
Try: The Fray for an example of what I consider an excellent arts site. And, more importantly, what I think is the perfect use for the net: people communicating. Not point to point, but rather giving everyone a chance to see what they have to say. Also, check out This for a pretty cool analysis of what the web is doing to us.
As always, Andrew Kickertz
I find it funny that all the christian posts have no name attached to them. (sorry if I missed anyone, this is a generalization.)
As always, Andrew Kickertz
I forget who wrote it, but I read a column in which the writer said "anyone who has a 'no fear' sticker on their car or tshirt in their wardrobe should be forced to make a water run down sniper alley in Bosnia."
I think the anonymity of the net is one of the worst things there about the entire thing. My name's Andrew Kickertz, what's yours? One of the great things about the enlightenment, the reformation, and every other transforming movements was the fact that the people involved were out there on the front lines. I'm not saying Jefferson was out there on bunker hill with a musket, but like many of the founding fathers, he risked his life by letting the british know who he was. Martin Luther risked his by signing his name to the 99 theses (not feces, kids.) On