Which is why we do it this way, what with the radioactive mice and all, instead of just selling our souls to Satan. We get to bring the other cool people along this way.
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Is that the book where they're guessing that nobody's brains were coordinated properly however many thousand years ago, and that's why everybody kept having God talk to them? Like, there was no integration, just this weird kind of conversation between the bits of the cerebral cortex that do creativity and analysis (I forget the name, the other part of the cortex that's not sensory) and the rest of the brain? And once the interface got transparent, language just showed up all at once in the form of the language structures the higher brain was using to talk to the rest of the brain?
That might not be right at all. I think I read the thing when I was like 10 and I probably made up my own explainations for everything I didn't get.
Why would he need to show up? He's got billions of dollars running through the machine that promotes him, so he can just sit on his ass all day. The little guys like Odin are the ones that have to cruise around looking for work.
Just figured that out now? I'm waiting until they at least get the vehicles done, when they can at least start pretending the game's actually finished.
Shit, man, he's probably gonna be in you're goddamn city at some point, he's trying to get you to agree with him, after all, just drive down and yell "Ashcroft's a fucktard!" It's not that much work. You probably won't even have to see any of those scary hippies with their infernal Puppets of Doom.
Seriously, I'm betting you think protests are dangerous, right? They're not, at all. Maybe WTO stuff, but they'll never have another one of those in the US again. It's like a barbeque, only with no food or water and nobody invited you. You yell some crap you may or may not understand ("No Blood for Oil?" Whatever.), at a wall or something because you'll never get to see whatever the hell it is you're protesting, then it starts raining and you go home. Unless you're meta-protesting Fred Phelps and he mistakes you for one of his kids and tries to rape you, you'll be fine. PATRIOT ACT protests aren't "cool" or whatever anyway, so there'll only ever be like a dozen old ladies there anyway.
"Do you want to have a good time?" said a voice from a doorway.
"As far as I can tell," said Ford, "I'm having one. Thanks."
"Are you rich?" said another.
This made Ford laugh.
He turned and opened his arms in a wide gesture. "Do I look rich?" he said.
"Don't know," said the girl. "Maybe, maybe not. Maybe you'll get rich. I have a very special service for rich people..."
"Oh yes?" said Ford, intrigued but careful. "And what's that?"
"I tell them it's OK to be rich."
Gunfire erupted from a window high above them, but it was only a bass player getting shot for playing the wrong riff three times in a row, and bass players are two a penny in Han Dold City.
Ford stopped and peered into the dark doorway.
"You what?" he said.
The girl laughed and stepped forward a little out of the shadow. She was tall, and had that kind of self-possessed shyness which is a great trick if you can do it.
"It's my big number," she said. "I have a Master's degree in Social Economics and can be very convincing. People love it. Especially in this city."
"Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.
Which is exactly why we have progressive taxation, you unconscionable idiot. We tax income because income is what you have left over after failing to reinvest your money in projects and enterprises that benefit society as a whole. The more income someone has, the less they must agree with what you wrote, therefore, we tax them more heavily in an attempt extract some value from a person who is otherwise a complete and utter drain on society.
You missed the point. They're not taxing the rich, they're taxing the productive. The tax is actually agressively anti-progressive, oddly enough.
You tax rich people to keep them from hoarding and just leeching off society. Progressive taxation is supposed to encourage the financing of large projects, as you pay less the more money you dump right back into charities or museums or whatever. If they lack the creative energy to act as a positive force on society, like most rich people, the government takes a portion of their money and does it for them.
This is not what the game was doing. The game was charging people in-game money for building intricate stuff that uses up the company's real-world server resources. The people who this affects most are the in-game philanthropists who spend their money on public-use cool stuff. The protesters are arguing that the company is hurting itself by discouraging the insane art projects that slow down the servers but attract new users needed to pay to upgrade the servers.
There is no point about so-called "progressive" taxation, because there is no economy for anybody to try and progress, or fail to progress, there's just a company that doesn't want to risk scaling up their MMORPG.
Don't worry, the Jovians will probably just pass a bunch of opressive legislation to demoralize their population and then destabalize their economy to pay for blasting Mercury into the sun. We'll be fine.
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It's not questionable scientifically, it's fucking wrong. I mean, I'm sure there are child molesters with realy complicated mental problems that we don't understand well enough to treat in a way that we can trust, but at least the stereotypical child molesters they stick on Law and Order are pretty clearly just working with a hormonal imbalance that's fucking with their lower brain. That's completely treatable. I mean, that's the only reason they're not in mental institutions, they've got a pretty well-understood chemical problem, but they're otherwise functional.
I wonder if any of those three has actually done anything, you know, leader-ly yet. I mean, if you were the guy who's job it was to carry around shit to get it signed...
"Here, Steve, give this to Bush and tell him to pick "yes" or "no". Oh, and he can use the Hello Kitty stamp set today if he wants, he's been good this week" "Uhh, KILLEMALLANDLETGODSORTEMOUT ACT? Sure... I'll get that right to him... I'll just take a shortcut through the shredder room, yeah."
Shit, not even. I've been taped doing god knows how many ridiculous things over the years, I just don't know anybody with the equipment to rip if off the tape and post it anywhere. This is why it's good to have poor friends.
Met... res? Look, I never met Rez, and I'm sure as hell not going to name my standard unit of length after meeting him, you crazy-spelling foreign devil.
Plus he's a Republican. I figured he'd be a conservative from his fiction, but reading through his other articles, he's pretty solidly pro-Bush and anti-Dixie Chicks. He's a pretty good political writer though. It's not all that surprising, but it's really jarring to see how much more coherent he is than 90% of the political columns I see. I mean, he actually has a train of thought, that's light-years ahead of anything the NYT or the Wall Street Journal's put out in the last 5 years. Too bad I disagree with almost every one of his opinions except the mp3 one.
Even better, now two of my favorite political writers are Card and this guy.
Your excuse does NOT justify downloading bucketloads of mp3s "because I can't afford to buy CDs".
Why not?
Maybe if he stops buying CDs at the rate he would ordinarially and buys other things instead, but otherwise he's not even so much as affecting anyone other than himself.
The logical problem with bigamy: You can't marry another woman because you already married one. You entered a contract in which you both ceded control to each other. Now if you go marry another woman, you've unilaterally decreased the worth of your first wife in the relationship.
The logical problem with polygamy: Even if you all get married simultaneously, it's not a fair arrangement. Look at this situation, hypothetically. You and another guy both marry a woman. It works out OK for awhile, but now you're not getting any sex and your wife and the other guy spend all their time together. You're out of the loop. Now, if it was just your wife ignoring you, you could divorce her, and it'd hurt/help the both of you equally. But since there's three of you, divorce hurts you much more than either of them. You're now essentially an indentured servant. You're in a contract in which you've given up some of your freedom, and the other sides of the contract haven't given up as much.
No matter how you work it out, it's not going to be fair. 2 guys, 2 girls, they could have a nice polygamous relationship and cut you out. If you set it up so you can bring someone else in, then they could do the same thing until your share of the power in the marriage is insignificant.
The logical problem with beastiality: Cats can't consent to either marriage or sex. Fucking your cat is rape.
This is why that senator guy that was talking about "man-dog action" or whatever is an idiot. If you make that kind of argument, it's because you just don't understand the difference between marriage and slavery, or the concept of consent.
Do think anybody's passed a law against godawful literature? Maybe France?
I read about half of the Turner Diaries once. It's like ramming a giant poison-coated ball of barbed wire with "Kill the Niggers!" written all over it down your urethra. Dear Lord it sucks. I mean, I enjoy pointless explosions as much as the next ambulatory testosterone vessel, but Christ, I would think that at some point a man's ability to jack off over death and destruction would hit a ceiling before you could write a book like that. Seriously, I'd like to see how many typewriters this guy fused together with spooge before he finished that shitpile. It's not so much that it's racist, plenty of books are something-ist, but most aren't this fucking creepy. I'm always a little disturbed when I get the sense that a book I'm reading is hardcore porn, only targeted at people with some fetish so bizzare that I can't even recognize it.
Slashdot Mirror
Does it still render html files? That was the stupidest damn feature ever.
Are you crazy? Death is a mug's game, I got so much to live for!
Which is why we do it this way, what with the radioactive mice and all, instead of just selling our souls to Satan. We get to bring the other cool people along this way.
Is that the book where they're guessing that nobody's brains were coordinated properly however many thousand years ago, and that's why everybody kept having God talk to them? Like, there was no integration, just this weird kind of conversation between the bits of the cerebral cortex that do creativity and analysis (I forget the name, the other part of the cortex that's not sensory) and the rest of the brain? And once the interface got transparent, language just showed up all at once in the form of the language structures the higher brain was using to talk to the rest of the brain?
That might not be right at all. I think I read the thing when I was like 10 and I probably made up my own explainations for everything I didn't get.
Follow up: Do you mind if we find the person that included that line ("wrote" is a little too strong a word) and beat him mercilessly... with sticks?
Why would he need to show up? He's got billions of dollars running through the machine that promotes him, so he can just sit on his ass all day. The little guys like Odin are the ones that have to cruise around looking for work.
Just figured that out now? I'm waiting until they at least get the vehicles done, when they can at least start pretending the game's actually finished.
Shit, man, he's probably gonna be in you're goddamn city at some point, he's trying to get you to agree with him, after all, just drive down and yell "Ashcroft's a fucktard!" It's not that much work. You probably won't even have to see any of those scary hippies with their infernal Puppets of Doom.
Seriously, I'm betting you think protests are dangerous, right? They're not, at all. Maybe WTO stuff, but they'll never have another one of those in the US again. It's like a barbeque, only with no food or water and nobody invited you. You yell some crap you may or may not understand ("No Blood for Oil?" Whatever.), at a wall or something because you'll never get to see whatever the hell it is you're protesting, then it starts raining and you go home. Unless you're meta-protesting Fred Phelps and he mistakes you for one of his kids and tries to rape you, you'll be fine. PATRIOT ACT protests aren't "cool" or whatever anyway, so there'll only ever be like a dozen old ladies there anyway.
-DNA, Duh.
Which is exactly why we have progressive taxation, you unconscionable idiot. We tax income because income is what you have left over after failing to reinvest your money in projects and enterprises that benefit society as a whole. The more income someone has, the less they must agree with what you wrote, therefore, we tax them more heavily in an attempt extract some value from a person who is otherwise a complete and utter drain on society.
You missed the point. They're not taxing the rich, they're taxing the productive. The tax is actually agressively anti-progressive, oddly enough.
You tax rich people to keep them from hoarding and just leeching off society. Progressive taxation is supposed to encourage the financing of large projects, as you pay less the more money you dump right back into charities or museums or whatever. If they lack the creative energy to act as a positive force on society, like most rich people, the government takes a portion of their money and does it for them.
This is not what the game was doing. The game was charging people in-game money for building intricate stuff that uses up the company's real-world server resources. The people who this affects most are the in-game philanthropists who spend their money on public-use cool stuff. The protesters are arguing that the company is hurting itself by discouraging the insane art projects that slow down the servers but attract new users needed to pay to upgrade the servers.
There is no point about so-called "progressive" taxation, because there is no economy for anybody to try and progress, or fail to progress, there's just a company that doesn't want to risk scaling up their MMORPG.
Then we will all be shot in our sleep. Duh.
Don't worry, the Jovians will probably just pass a bunch of opressive legislation to demoralize their population and then destabalize their economy to pay for blasting Mercury into the sun. We'll be fine.
It's not questionable scientifically, it's fucking wrong. I mean, I'm sure there are child molesters with realy complicated mental problems that we don't understand well enough to treat in a way that we can trust, but at least the stereotypical child molesters they stick on Law and Order are pretty clearly just working with a hormonal imbalance that's fucking with their lower brain. That's completely treatable. I mean, that's the only reason they're not in mental institutions, they've got a pretty well-understood chemical problem, but they're otherwise functional.
I wonder if any of those three has actually done anything, you know, leader-ly yet. I mean, if you were the guy who's job it was to carry around shit to get it signed...
"Here, Steve, give this to Bush and tell him to pick "yes" or "no". Oh, and he can use the Hello Kitty stamp set today if he wants, he's been good this week"
"Uhh, KILLEMALLANDLETGODSORTEMOUT ACT? Sure... I'll get that right to him... I'll just take a shortcut through the shredder room, yeah."
Look, who are you going to believe, NORAD or Matthew Broderick?
Ham radio space station? Shit, no wonder my smell-o-scope never picks up anything but Doritos and B.O.
Shit, not even. I've been taped doing god knows how many ridiculous things over the years, I just don't know anybody with the equipment to rip if off the tape and post it anywhere. This is why it's good to have poor friends.
Met... res? Look, I never met Rez, and I'm sure as hell not going to name my standard unit of length after meeting him, you crazy-spelling foreign devil.
But real football could damage our delicate organs!
And we need our organs to survive.
Plus he's a Republican. I figured he'd be a conservative from his fiction, but reading through his other articles, he's pretty solidly pro-Bush and anti-Dixie Chicks. He's a pretty good political writer though. It's not all that surprising, but it's really jarring to see how much more coherent he is than 90% of the political columns I see. I mean, he actually has a train of thought, that's light-years ahead of anything the NYT or the Wall Street Journal's put out in the last 5 years. Too bad I disagree with almost every one of his opinions except the mp3 one.
Even better, now two of my favorite political writers are Card and this guy.
Your excuse does NOT justify downloading bucketloads of mp3s "because I can't afford to buy CDs".
Why not?
Maybe if he stops buying CDs at the rate he would ordinarially and buys other things instead, but otherwise he's not even so much as affecting anyone other than himself.
You can't marry another woman because you already married one. You entered a contract in which you both ceded control to each other. Now if you go marry another woman, you've unilaterally decreased the worth of your first wife in the relationship.
Even if you all get married simultaneously, it's not a fair arrangement. Look at this situation, hypothetically. You and another guy both marry a woman. It works out OK for awhile, but now you're not getting any sex and your wife and the other guy spend all their time together. You're out of the loop. Now, if it was just your wife ignoring you, you could divorce her, and it'd hurt/help the both of you equally. But since there's three of you, divorce hurts you much more than either of them. You're now essentially an indentured servant. You're in a contract in which you've given up some of your freedom, and the other sides of the contract haven't given up as much.
No matter how you work it out, it's not going to be fair. 2 guys, 2 girls, they could have a nice polygamous relationship and cut you out. If you set it up so you can bring someone else in, then they could do the same thing until your share of the power in the marriage is insignificant.
Cats can't consent to either marriage or sex. Fucking your cat is rape.
This is why that senator guy that was talking about "man-dog action" or whatever is an idiot. If you make that kind of argument, it's because you just don't understand the difference between marriage and slavery, or the concept of consent.
Do think anybody's passed a law against godawful literature? Maybe France?
I read about half of the Turner Diaries once. It's like ramming a giant poison-coated ball of barbed wire with "Kill the Niggers!" written all over it down your urethra. Dear Lord it sucks. I mean, I enjoy pointless explosions as much as the next ambulatory testosterone vessel, but Christ, I would think that at some point a man's ability to jack off over death and destruction would hit a ceiling before you could write a book like that. Seriously, I'd like to see how many typewriters this guy fused together with spooge before he finished that shitpile. It's not so much that it's racist, plenty of books are something-ist, but most aren't this fucking creepy. I'm always a little disturbed when I get the sense that a book I'm reading is hardcore porn, only targeted at people with some fetish so bizzare that I can't even recognize it.
'Hijacker' defies US court with cry to Allah
If they never manage to actually hijack anything, they're not really hijackers, are they? The Cubans never even got the boat untied.