No, the Constitution tells you the only things the feds can do, the Bill of Rights says what they can't. The Bill of Rights is mostly for the states, since it's implied that since Congress isn't specifically given the power to make you shut up, it can't do it.
You're right that the Bill of Rights applies to individuals within a corporation just as much as anyone else, but the rights didn't originally apply to the corporation itself. For instance, Playboy can sell porn because, obviously, people made that porn, the monolith of Playboy is just paying them and selling it. However, once weird little things like equal protection started showing up, the difference became important. Is a black guy tax the same as a corporation tax? Right now, yes. You can't discriminate between the members of that contract and other individuals, but you also can't discriminate between individuals and the contract as a whole. You can come up with tricks like SEC rules, but at least nominally, you have to pretend that corporations are people beyond the people they're made up of.
Of course, they are both theories, but the thing with theories is that they're supposed to tell you something useful. Most of Newton's theories are pretty easily demonstrated to be wrong, but we still teach them, because they're the easiest way we have of figuring out how to play tennis on a train. Now, in my opinion, I think it's way easier to find useful concepts by assuming birds and lizards have a common ancestor somewhere than it is to try and psychoanalyze God to figure out which other animals he might've stuck that cool hormone in.
Of course, you can teach creationism if you want, but, much like explaining that Giant Invisible Cthlulu lives in the center of the earth and holds you down with his infinate tentacles, which, while they may appear to pull a consistent 9.8 m/s/s acceleration, are actually just subject to his whims, it doesn't really get us anywhere.
Economics: 10% bullshit and 90% unfocused profanity. Hey, we get hired to predict infinitesimally insignificant details about the future using less information than a real scientist gets from a single experiment. What else are we supposed to do, fuckhole? Oh, and invest in euros. They're rising short against the yen.
Ha! See how easy that shit is? Bet you even thought it meant something, didn't ya, fuckface?
They're still not contemptible. That was just mean. I mean, if you can pull yourself through two decades of living in that house with nothing worse than a few drug addictions, you're doing pretty fucking good.
Those kids have got to be Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off to the hundredth power by now, only with so many handlers that they never get the chance to escape from the whole thing. If I were an editor, I'd print everything they did, but only because I'm 90% sure that embarassing him that way is closest they're ever going to be able to get to killing his car.
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What the fuck? Jesus. That's the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. Is Mr. Crunchly the anthropomorphic saw blade or the talking desk? Does the nameplate on the desk with the big dot on it mean whichever one isn't Mr. Crunchly is Dot? Does the briefcase have a will of it's own, or is the desk just using it as some kind of puppet? What caused the desk to reject the outside world? Have the mime and the saw blade have no compassion for it's obvious mental illness? What the hell is the saw blade's problem with water that induces him to physically threaten the mime when he brings up the subject? How many chairs does a talking saw blade go through in a month anyway?
Every time I get freaked out by the number of flags we stick all over everything down here, I just look at you guys and suddenly we don't look so bad.
Name: Canadian Arrow
Rocket: red and white
Capsule parachute: red and white
Rocket tail: Maple leaf pattern
Team uniform: reverse Maple leaf pattern
Policy for austronaut protraits: a flag from wherever they're from, and another Canadian flag for good measure
Armadillo needs to get in on this. Replace the parachute with a giant inflatable Uncle Sam hat, paint it with stars and stripes, have it play "God Bless America" in space by venting compressed air and then belting out with a loudspeaker, spray red, white and blue smoke trails on the way down, drop country music CDs over France, that kind of thing.
Well, that much is obvious. NASA's just the best excuse Johnson could come up with for giving everybody in Texas free money.
It's not that it's so expensive to build a rocket, I mean, look at the French, but that there's only so much stuff that anybody wants to toss up there. Sure, Lockheed could make something that could dump your satilite on Mars, but nobody wants that. They've got NASA stuff laying around that can do anything anybody wants, so there's no reason to build anything new.
If you're doing 30-something launches a year, there's no point in investing billions in a slightly more efficient vehicle. And it's not like DirectTV's been building 20-ton geosyncronous satilites for years, just in case somebody builds something to launch them with. Why would you be speculating on the possibility that somebody's going to want that capability when you can try and bitch-slap the Chinese into buying another jet and make 10x the profit, right away.
I just think we're making the same mistake the sci-fi guys did back in the 50s. The reason they were convinced we'd have hypersonic jets and nuclear-powered everything was because they assumed high technology just generated it's own profits, largely from mysteriously ubiquitous lilly-white businessmen. Look at 2001. Where's the point in going to the moon? The only money anybody made was the videophone call back home. Can you even think of any reason Pan-Am would have for making that flight? Where were all the other guys on the plane going? Even if there were some profit to be made up there, it wouldn't be in the form of business meetings. You can have those in Iowa. At most, you'd have barely-airtight shipments of Mexicans getting sent up to run heavy machinery, not middle-class salarymen traveling millions of miles to have a business meeting in a lunar high-school cafeteria.
My prediction, whoever wins the X-prize will be all the hell over Jay Lenno for a week, and then we'll hear about how they went out of business 6 months later. Some insipid freak of nature on Fox News will make a ".space bust!" LOLOMGROFAL!!1 joke and we'll be right back where we started.
The problem with that would be that whatever information all the phones throw out would be lost. You could get rid of noise and glitches, but you wouldn't be able to recover extremes in the sound or anything like that. Same problem with video, you'd probably be able to build pretty high-resolution images, but you'd still have color problems.
What's the difference between Arnold and Gary Coleman?
Arnold's taller.
The right man for the times is whichever one can be fashioned into a crude explosive device powerful enough to sink California into the Pacific. If Arnold's power supply can pull it off, more power to him, until he overloads and takes the lot of you with him.
Well, she also failed to mention that Arnold's president's grandfather on his father's side was a Nazi sympathizer whom FDR had to freeze the assets of because of the way he bought the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and it's plant at Auschwitz from Fritz Thyssen and then continued to use only slave laborers to manufacture steel that was sold exclusively to the Nazis from 1939 untill 1942 when the Justice Department caught him and kept him from spending the 1.5 million he had made until after the war, but I'm not bitching because NO ONE FUCKING CARES.
It's a nice thought, but the reason MEChA hasn't gotten off the internet is because real news can hire people that actually know enough spanish to acurately translate all this stuff, as opposed to running it through babelfish and assuming that "para" must mean "for" since words never have more than one definition.
Plus, even Dan Rather isn't so retina-bleachingly white that has a heart attack over the idea that back in the 60s when random Mexicans got beaten up by cops and drunken sailors every other day, some of them wrote overdramatic but vague manifestos about sticking together.
But, just for the excersize, I swapped in Aryan and white, and I still don't think that the founding principle of Nazism was to cover for other white people who jumped the border into Germany from Poland.
You say that now, but by the time Word impeaches it's 5th president with the porn folder summaries and Outlook inbox backups it hides in there, you'll have a certain twisted appreciation of it.
Seriously, innane MS "features" fucked both Blair and Deibold already, and it's only September. By next year they'll have a bluescreen that forwards any files with "bribe" in them to the Times.
Seriously though, from what I understand, bittorent isn't impartial in terms of your location on the internet. It hooks people that are nearby together, so if you're not on a neck of the internet with lots of people downloading, you end up getting leftovers. Or, now that I think of it, that might be archive.org's thingy, but I think bittorent does it too.
Anybody else know that "The Way Things Really Work" book? I got it as a present a few years ago, I think. Making fun of "The Way Things Work" with these big overcomplicated flow-chart cartoons about the photo shop guys stealing all the pictures of your wife in her bathing suit. Alternately stupid and funny. The only one I really remember is the one explaining how airport P.A.s work. The guy eats a bunch of "garble lozenges" first and covers the microphone with a "mumble mitten" and whatever. I know he did one for why it rains on weekends, but I don't remeber any of it.
Artsy people have stuff to do, they don't like things that completely fail to work with regularity.
Read the Salmon of Doubt (stuff of Douglas Adams' they edited together after he died), it might explain that mindset better. For instance, he has the one article he writes with the little palm thing he bought at the airport. He goes through everything that's good about it, everything that's bad about it, and concludes that it's not better than his laptop and decides never to use it again. Sure, it might be a great piece of technology, and he's fully aware of that, but he needs something to write things on, and the crappy thumb-keyboard isn't it. Even if he can use it in the bath.
If digital photography or Unreal 2K3 is the best way to get your point across, then you use it, if the fact that you're using digital photography or Unreal 2K3 is your point, then you might as well be stapling elephant turds to a hunk of posterboard.
In any case, "artistic types" are irrelevant to the whole situation. Artists produce art, artistic types have parties and hand out money to people who are much smarter than them. They go wherever the cool is. That might be Unreal mods at some point, but whether you have rich fanboys to mooch off of has little impact on whether or not your medium has any actual artists working in it.
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No, the Constitution tells you the only things the feds can do, the Bill of Rights says what they can't. The Bill of Rights is mostly for the states, since it's implied that since Congress isn't specifically given the power to make you shut up, it can't do it.
You're right that the Bill of Rights applies to individuals within a corporation just as much as anyone else, but the rights didn't originally apply to the corporation itself. For instance, Playboy can sell porn because, obviously, people made that porn, the monolith of Playboy is just paying them and selling it. However, once weird little things like equal protection started showing up, the difference became important. Is a black guy tax the same as a corporation tax? Right now, yes. You can't discriminate between the members of that contract and other individuals, but you also can't discriminate between individuals and the contract as a whole. You can come up with tricks like SEC rules, but at least nominally, you have to pretend that corporations are people beyond the people they're made up of.
Of course, they are both theories, but the thing with theories is that they're supposed to tell you something useful. Most of Newton's theories are pretty easily demonstrated to be wrong, but we still teach them, because they're the easiest way we have of figuring out how to play tennis on a train. Now, in my opinion, I think it's way easier to find useful concepts by assuming birds and lizards have a common ancestor somewhere than it is to try and psychoanalyze God to figure out which other animals he might've stuck that cool hormone in.
Of course, you can teach creationism if you want, but, much like explaining that Giant Invisible Cthlulu lives in the center of the earth and holds you down with his infinate tentacles, which, while they may appear to pull a consistent 9.8 m/s/s acceleration, are actually just subject to his whims, it doesn't really get us anywhere.
Economics: 10% bullshit and 90% unfocused profanity. Hey, we get hired to predict infinitesimally insignificant details about the future using less information than a real scientist gets from a single experiment. What else are we supposed to do, fuckhole? Oh, and invest in euros. They're rising short against the yen.
Ha! See how easy that shit is? Bet you even thought it meant something, didn't ya, fuckface?
They're still not contemptible. That was just mean. I mean, if you can pull yourself through two decades of living in that house with nothing worse than a few drug addictions, you're doing pretty fucking good.
Those kids have got to be Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off to the hundredth power by now, only with so many handlers that they never get the chance to escape from the whole thing. If I were an editor, I'd print everything they did, but only because I'm 90% sure that embarassing him that way is closest they're ever going to be able to get to killing his car.
What the fuck? Jesus. That's the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. Is Mr. Crunchly the anthropomorphic saw blade or the talking desk? Does the nameplate on the desk with the big dot on it mean whichever one isn't Mr. Crunchly is Dot? Does the briefcase have a will of it's own, or is the desk just using it as some kind of puppet? What caused the desk to reject the outside world? Have the mime and the saw blade have no compassion for it's obvious mental illness? What the hell is the saw blade's problem with water that induces him to physically threaten the mime when he brings up the subject? How many chairs does a talking saw blade go through in a month anyway?
- Name: Canadian Arrow
- Rocket: red and white
- Capsule parachute: red and white
- Rocket tail: Maple leaf pattern
- Team uniform: reverse Maple leaf pattern
- Policy for austronaut protraits: a flag from wherever they're from, and another Canadian flag for good measure
Armadillo needs to get in on this. Replace the parachute with a giant inflatable Uncle Sam hat, paint it with stars and stripes, have it play "God Bless America" in space by venting compressed air and then belting out with a loudspeaker, spray red, white and blue smoke trails on the way down, drop country music CDs over France, that kind of thing.What good is exploration if the explorer dies before the rest of us can learn from their experiences (e.g. midflight)?
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"Second stage ready?"
"Second stage ready."
"Ok, in 3... 2... 1..."
*FWOOOM*
"Right, so, the second stage has some problems then?"
You can always learn at least that much.
Well, that much is obvious. NASA's just the best excuse Johnson could come up with for giving everybody in Texas free money.
It's not that it's so expensive to build a rocket, I mean, look at the French, but that there's only so much stuff that anybody wants to toss up there. Sure, Lockheed could make something that could dump your satilite on Mars, but nobody wants that. They've got NASA stuff laying around that can do anything anybody wants, so there's no reason to build anything new.
If you're doing 30-something launches a year, there's no point in investing billions in a slightly more efficient vehicle. And it's not like DirectTV's been building 20-ton geosyncronous satilites for years, just in case somebody builds something to launch them with. Why would you be speculating on the possibility that somebody's going to want that capability when you can try and bitch-slap the Chinese into buying another jet and make 10x the profit, right away.
I just think we're making the same mistake the sci-fi guys did back in the 50s. The reason they were convinced we'd have hypersonic jets and nuclear-powered everything was because they assumed high technology just generated it's own profits, largely from mysteriously ubiquitous lilly-white businessmen. Look at 2001. Where's the point in going to the moon? The only money anybody made was the videophone call back home. Can you even think of any reason Pan-Am would have for making that flight? Where were all the other guys on the plane going? Even if there were some profit to be made up there, it wouldn't be in the form of business meetings. You can have those in Iowa. At most, you'd have barely-airtight shipments of Mexicans getting sent up to run heavy machinery, not middle-class salarymen traveling millions of miles to have a business meeting in a lunar high-school cafeteria.
My prediction, whoever wins the X-prize will be all the hell over Jay Lenno for a week, and then we'll hear about how they went out of business 6 months later. Some insipid freak of nature on Fox News will make a ".space bust!" LOLOMGROFAL!!1 joke and we'll be right back where we started.
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So, what the fuck's with AMD and asian bondage slaves?
The problem with that would be that whatever information all the phones throw out would be lost. You could get rid of noise and glitches, but you wouldn't be able to recover extremes in the sound or anything like that. Same problem with video, you'd probably be able to build pretty high-resolution images, but you'd still have color problems.
What's the difference between Arnold and Gary Coleman?
Arnold's taller.
The right man for the times is whichever one can be fashioned into a crude explosive device powerful enough to sink California into the Pacific. If Arnold's power supply can pull it off, more power to him, until he overloads and takes the lot of you with him.
Well, she also failed to mention that Arnold's president's grandfather on his father's side was a Nazi sympathizer whom FDR had to freeze the assets of because of the way he bought the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and it's plant at Auschwitz from Fritz Thyssen and then continued to use only slave laborers to manufacture steel that was sold exclusively to the Nazis from 1939 untill 1942 when the Justice Department caught him and kept him from spending the 1.5 million he had made until after the war, but I'm not bitching because NO ONE FUCKING CARES.
It's a nice thought, but the reason MEChA hasn't gotten off the internet is because real news can hire people that actually know enough spanish to acurately translate all this stuff, as opposed to running it through babelfish and assuming that "para" must mean "for" since words never have more than one definition.
Plus, even Dan Rather isn't so retina-bleachingly white that has a heart attack over the idea that back in the 60s when random Mexicans got beaten up by cops and drunken sailors every other day, some of them wrote overdramatic but vague manifestos about sticking together.
But, just for the excersize, I swapped in Aryan and white, and I still don't think that the founding principle of Nazism was to cover for other white people who jumped the border into Germany from Poland.
You say that now, but by the time Word impeaches it's 5th president with the porn folder summaries and Outlook inbox backups it hides in there, you'll have a certain twisted appreciation of it.
Seriously, innane MS "features" fucked both Blair and Deibold already, and it's only September. By next year they'll have a bluescreen that forwards any files with "bribe" in them to the Times.
And Farscape just stole the X-38.
Well, what do you expect? Let the damn Krauts get ahold of a stupid goddamn fucking telnet client and they'll be marching through Houston by Tuesday.
Fucker.
We just like to fuck with you.
Seriously though, from what I understand, bittorent isn't impartial in terms of your location on the internet. It hooks people that are nearby together, so if you're not on a neck of the internet with lots of people downloading, you end up getting leftovers. Or, now that I think of it, that might be archive.org's thingy, but I think bittorent does it too.
Usually that's how it works. I think they call it "experience".
Yes.
He's fine, he's just busy trying to buy Saddam Hussein on the black market.
Somebody totally needs to organize a debate between Coulter and the Apple hippie chick. That would be fucking hilarious.
Right, giant-ass smoke bombs in the stratosphere to keep the machines from using solar power.
"Scorched the sky" was just Morpheus being all cool and uninformative.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he was going to stab him, but he had to have been getting his blood all over the knife for a reason.
Anybody else know that "The Way Things Really Work" book? I got it as a present a few years ago, I think. Making fun of "The Way Things Work" with these big overcomplicated flow-chart cartoons about the photo shop guys stealing all the pictures of your wife in her bathing suit. Alternately stupid and funny. The only one I really remember is the one explaining how airport P.A.s work. The guy eats a bunch of "garble lozenges" first and covers the microphone with a "mumble mitten" and whatever. I know he did one for why it rains on weekends, but I don't remeber any of it.
Artsy people have stuff to do, they don't like things that completely fail to work with regularity.
Read the Salmon of Doubt (stuff of Douglas Adams' they edited together after he died), it might explain that mindset better. For instance, he has the one article he writes with the little palm thing he bought at the airport. He goes through everything that's good about it, everything that's bad about it, and concludes that it's not better than his laptop and decides never to use it again. Sure, it might be a great piece of technology, and he's fully aware of that, but he needs something to write things on, and the crappy thumb-keyboard isn't it. Even if he can use it in the bath.
If digital photography or Unreal 2K3 is the best way to get your point across, then you use it, if the fact that you're using digital photography or Unreal 2K3 is your point, then you might as well be stapling elephant turds to a hunk of posterboard.
In any case, "artistic types" are irrelevant to the whole situation. Artists produce art, artistic types have parties and hand out money to people who are much smarter than them. They go wherever the cool is. That might be Unreal mods at some point, but whether you have rich fanboys to mooch off of has little impact on whether or not your medium has any actual artists working in it.