> Obviously the fnord agency is trying to get our youth preprogrammed and conditioned to accept monitoring as a normal part of membership in our society.
Grade school has ALWAYS been a place of indoctrination, intended to get kids get used to being good "cogs in the machine." Getting up and at school on time and presentable, submitting to authority, accepting being not an individual but a part of a hierarchy, accepting and following ridiculous rules, standing in lines, etc. etc.
Aesthetic Photoshop fictions are fine when you are selling soap. Publishing altered photos of company employees while they are supposed to be cleaning up an environmental disaster is over the line.
In the meantime, Jerry Seinfeld will just have to learn to live with 'the people who get onto the moving walkway and just stand there. Like it's a ride.'"
If I'm at an airport, and have plenty of time, why should I walk on a moving walkway, only to get to the gate earlier and wait longer? So maybe I can get more crotch sweat going, and stink up the cabin more?
Seinfeld is an annoying, whining, self-congratulatory, overrated asshole.
And Verizon should be shamed for this asinine handling of the situation. Not only was he actively serving and quite busy... but he fucking died for Christ's sake. Assholes
Oh for fucks sake, chill. It was some low paid drone in a call center who made the original decision. Not exactly an executive decision.
But when the executive decision came down, Verizon ended up making it right, which is how things are supposed to work, right? And they are "assholes" for that?
If the house ALWAYS won, they would be out of business very quickly.
Sometimes, that "sufficient period of time" never happens for some lucky people. Plenty of people have hit jackpots for very large sums, and will NEVER return all their winnings to the casino.
You remind me of the people who hate classical music, and think that everyone who listens to classical music is just trying to impress other people.
You obviously have no clue about the appeal of fine dining. That's OK. But spare me the attitude that just because you have no appreciation for such things, that everyone else who does is somehow a fake.
Waxing is overrated. Looks and feels great for the first few days. But you have to let the hair grow back long enough for the wax to take hold of the hair for the next waxing. That's measured in weeks, and means having to put up with stubble most of the time.
That's the law in Colorado as well. It is ENTERING the intersection on a red light that is illegal. It is not illegal to be in the intersection when the light turns red.
A lot of people view the descendants of Tolkien as the official guardians of the lore, and would be annoyed if someone else tried to hijack that (although the result couldn't possibly be worse than the cartoons). People like the feeling of officialness.
Yeah. Because the "official" continuation of the Dune series by Brian Herbert was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good.
Not a "serious game"? It can be a serious as people want to make it, complete with chess clocks and tournament rules.
> I think most people will have the integrity to not to cheat at it.
You have obviously never played it... um... "seriously".
It is not "cheating" to play a word you know is not in the dictionary, any more than it is "cheating" to bet big on a poor hand in poker. A big part of the game is getting your opponent to challenge true words (and thus lose a turn) or not challenge false words.
It was probably the cyber attack that was the last straw. The PRC probably did unload on Google with all the hacking power they could afford, and Google went, "fuck this shit, we're outta here".
The proposed law means and intends "table salt" and everyone knows that. Should this law be passed, that's how it will be applied: to ordinary table salt.
Laws are not written as formulations and are not intended to be read as such. It is a long-standing legal tradition to assume "the ordinary"meaning of words in laws when there is any ambiguity (see statutory interpretation)
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> Obviously the fnord agency is trying to get our youth preprogrammed and conditioned to accept monitoring as a normal part of membership in our society.
Grade school has ALWAYS been a place of indoctrination, intended to get kids get used to being good "cogs in the machine." Getting up and at school on time and presentable, submitting to authority, accepting being not an individual but a part of a hierarchy, accepting and following ridiculous rules, standing in lines, etc. etc.
> playing the pseudo-libertarian "no physical force => legal => moral" card.
At least that "pseudo-libertarian" concept is defined.
We are all waiting for you to define "morality"
I disagree. There are many examples of people doing things with no regard for sex.
Just one example: A man heroically dives on top of a live grenade. dies, but ends up saving his platoon..
There are things that motivate some people that go beyond sex.
> The photograph IS the proof.
No, the photograph is EVIDENCE.
I don't give a fuck if they are British-owned or not, and neither does anyone else, except for you and the other astroturfers
Aesthetic Photoshop fictions are fine when you are selling soap. Publishing altered photos of company employees while they are supposed to be cleaning up an environmental disaster is over the line.
If I'm at an airport, and have plenty of time, why should I walk on a moving walkway, only to get to the gate earlier and wait longer? So maybe I can get more crotch sweat going, and stink up the cabin more?
Seinfeld is an annoying, whining, self-congratulatory, overrated asshole.
Oh for fucks sake, chill. It was some low paid drone in a call center who made the original decision. Not exactly an executive decision.
But when the executive decision came down, Verizon ended up making it right, which is how things are supposed to work, right? And they are "assholes" for that?
> The House always wins.
.... over a sufficient period of time.
If the house ALWAYS won, they would be out of business very quickly.
Sometimes, that "sufficient period of time" never happens for some lucky people. Plenty of people have hit jackpots for very large sums, and will NEVER return all their winnings to the casino.
There are plenty of people who make a living playing poker on the internet.
OK, how about this: A blackjack dealer tells a customer he has won $11 million dollars.
Should the casino have to pay the customer $11 million dollars because of a faulty dealer?
You remind me of the people who hate classical music, and think that everyone who listens to classical music is just trying to impress other people.
You obviously have no clue about the appeal of fine dining. That's OK. But spare me the attitude that just because you have no appreciation for such things, that everyone else who does is somehow a fake.
> Oh come on, mean pranks are a part of life, and this is no different.
Let me guess. You live, or have lived, in a frat house. Or are a Mason. Or are sixteen years old.
Waxing is overrated. Looks and feels great for the first few days. But you have to let the hair grow back long enough for the wax to take hold of the hair for the next waxing. That's measured in weeks, and means having to put up with stubble most of the time.
> All because people are scared of offending muslims.
The are not scared of offending Muslims, per se. They are scared of being murdered. Their fear is not unfounded and is with precedent.
That's the law in Colorado as well. It is ENTERING the intersection on a red light that is illegal. It is not illegal to be in the intersection when the light turns red.
Yeah. Because the "official" continuation of the Dune series by Brian Herbert was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good.
Not a "serious game"? It can be a serious as people want to make it, complete with chess clocks and tournament rules.
> I think most people will have the integrity to not to cheat at it.
You have obviously never played it... um... "seriously".
It is not "cheating" to play a word you know is not in the dictionary, any more than it is "cheating" to bet big on a poor hand in poker. A big part of the game is getting your opponent to challenge true words (and thus lose a turn) or not challenge false words.
> It's just generated from sonar data instead of an artists interpretation.
I'm guessing an artist was involved.
Why is there no noise? How would the software know what parts should be yellow, and what parts should be black?
I guess it's too much to ask of a mainstream magazine to just give us the image, without tweaking it by hand to make it all purty.
Oh FFS. It's not like they are going to be flipping burgers, or in a homeless shelter any time soon.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/nikkicatsouras.net (McAfee Site Advisor) says:
Tech-Link Blog says ( http://www.tech-linkblog.com/nikki-catsouras-being-used-to-spread-malware )
It is also hosted on a Russian server (not that that is evidence of anything, per se, but it would not give me the 'warm and fuzzies')
From http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/nikkicatsouras.net (McAfee Site Advisor, makers of McAfee Anti Virus)
Also, it's hosted on a Russian server.
From: http://www.tech-linkblog.com/nikki-catsouras-being-used-to-spread-malware
"Nikki Catsouras being used to spread Malware"
Ummm...
It was probably the cyber attack that was the last straw. The PRC probably did unload on Google with all the hacking power they could afford, and Google went, "fuck this shit, we're outta here".
I'd bet any amount of money on it.
The proposed law means and intends "table salt" and everyone knows that. Should this law be passed, that's how it will be applied: to ordinary table salt.
Laws are not written as formulations and are not intended to be read as such. It is a long-standing legal tradition to assume "the ordinary"meaning of words in laws when there is any ambiguity (see statutory interpretation)