"Warning: For sale, rental or private home use in the USA or Canada only."
That's an ambiguous sentence. I read it:
For sale (rental || private home use) in the USA or Canada only.
I bought it in the USA. The USA distributer licence holder got paid. What more do they want? Except to be free to charge more for the same thing in the UK.
Take your rednecks and blacks example. Have you ever heard of a bunch of blacks lynching a redneck? Dragging one behind their truck till he got dismembered? What are the chances of a black man denying a redneck a job or housing?
I take you haven't been to South Africa or Zimbabwe lately?
When the blacks (reds, greens etc) have the power, they do exactly the same things as the whites do when they have the power.
It's because we're all _human_. Learn to live with it. Learn to laugh with it...because if we all learn to get a sense of humour, perhaps we wouldn't feel the need to be quite so nasty to each other.
As a programmer, I find that split keyboards are worse than useless.
I need to be able to type single handed whilst holding manual/magazine/printout in the other.
What the hell is "information wants to be free" supposed to mean, anyway?
Have you heard of 'anthropormorphication'? This is where sentient characteristics are assigned to unsentient creatures or even inanimate objects.
So when a person says 'information wants to be free', they are looking at the apparent characteristics of what happens when information is released from captivity - ie. spreads, breeds, changes and seems to have a great time. (presuming that like creatures, that breeding is the same as having a great time;))
It's EXTREMELY different as schools and libraries are paid for by the government, they regulate them. Internet cafes are not owned by the government
And do tell....who owns the government? Whos money is used for the government to put filtering onto the schools and libraries?
Just because it's owned by everyone instead of one person doesn't make it any less wrong.
Making knowledge forbidden just makes it more attractive.
Making people fully informed and aware of such 'forbidden' things (and consequences thereof) would do wonders. Graphics depictions of the consequences of drink driving seems to have worked.
Why not let the kids watch porn in controlled situations so that the teacher is there to explain why the situations depicted therein are unrealistic, demeaning to the people taking part, and ultimately boring and repetitive.
I think what they are meaning here is that when the Govt pays millions for custom computer software, that they actually _own_ the software, with source, to do with however they like.
As opposed to consultants getting paid to provide software, and they then refuse to debug without extensive further payments, or even go out of business, leaving the govt with a horribly expensive piece of junk that is impossible to fix or upgrade.
And yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre being outlawed is crushing your right to free speech, as is the ability to libel people. Perhaps we all need to think a bit more before we post.
One guy actually did that. Everyone just looked at him, didn't see or smell a fire and so went back to watching the movie. The ushers took out the guy because he was yelling.
wtf? Mother Nature (who the F is god, show me...) made sex playful and enjoyable for one purpose, so that you make kids and it's a game (and as a side purpose, allows to make the humans proliferate...)
These christian people need to go see a psychologist, they are sick.
Never read Songs of Solomon huh? Admittedly you need a guide to understand the symbolism.
It was only later (around the time that they decided to make celibacy mandatory for priests) that some philosophers decided that sex for fun was bad.
There are good reasons to not fsck around, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying sex.
er, I would. And I do. I purposely do not own a car, and so 6-10 bags of groceries is quite hard to carry home.
www.tesco.com has apparently reached the top 10 ecom sites in the UK....so presumably some people other than me are buying.
I know this sounds stupid, but if the shit gets too deep, just purchase a book, or borrow it from the Library, and read the story. It costs a hell of a lot less than an HDTV and all the other crap.
If only. My local library seems to have thrown out most of the books and replaced them with newspapers, magazines and videos.
Amazon still has books...for how much longer? <conspiracy>
Then what, TVs will display encrypted content directly on their screens and people who want to watch PPV wrestling events will have to have a chip mounted along their optic nerve to decrypt the signal en route to the brain?
Then what, they put a chip in your brain to erase your memory so that you can't even replay it in your head without paying them for it again.
Not necessarily for pr0n, but when I'm coding, I sometimes like to have one hand holding the reference manual open.
And not looking at the keyboard?? Guess you've never used keyboards from different countries/timeperiods have you? The symbols that you need for coding are all over the place!
Ditch the windows key....what's wrong with Ctrl-Esc?
You really think all information "wants to be free"? Fine. Gimme all your passwords. While you're at, it give me whatever information is necessary to drain your bank account.
Sure thing. Just give me your real name, address, time you will be doing the transaction, time and place the police can pick you up, and the accounts you've placed your ill gotten gains.
This information will also want to be free.
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So why should it be illegal to sell your vote?
It's just the difference between voting for someone who only _promises_ to give you more money and voting for someone who _does_ give you money.
That's an ambiguous sentence. I read it :
For sale (rental || private home use) in the USA or Canada only.
I bought it in the USA. The USA distributer licence holder got paid. What more do they want? Except to be free to charge more for the same thing in the UK.
I take you haven't been to South Africa or Zimbabwe lately?
When the blacks (reds, greens etc) have the power, they do exactly the same things as the whites do when they have the power.
It's because we're all _human_. Learn to live with it. Learn to laugh with it...because if we all learn to get a sense of humour, perhaps we wouldn't feel the need to be quite so nasty to each other.
I need to be able to type single handed whilst holding manual/magazine/printout in the other.
insert joke about one-handed typing
Have you heard of 'anthropormorphication'? This is where sentient characteristics are assigned to unsentient creatures or even inanimate objects.
So when a person says 'information wants to be free', they are looking at the apparent characteristics of what happens when information is released from captivity - ie. spreads, breeds, changes and seems to have a great time. (presuming that like creatures, that breeding is the same as having a great time ;))
Understand now?
And do tell....who owns the government? Whos money is used for the government to put filtering onto the schools and libraries?
Just because it's owned by everyone instead of one person doesn't make it any less wrong.
Making knowledge forbidden just makes it more attractive.
Making people fully informed and aware of such 'forbidden' things (and consequences thereof) would do wonders. Graphics depictions of the consequences of drink driving seems to have worked.
Why not let the kids watch porn in controlled situations so that the teacher is there to explain why the situations depicted therein are unrealistic, demeaning to the people taking part, and ultimately boring and repetitive.
As opposed to consultants getting paid to provide software, and they then refuse to debug without extensive further payments, or even go out of business, leaving the govt with a horribly expensive piece of junk that is impossible to fix or upgrade.
Happens all to often *sigh*
Never heard of redundancy? What would happen as your brain cells died? Had an accident? You need unspecialised cells to try and take over.
Plus, smart people can do more with _less_ effort (ie. more efficient).
Or I could be talking out my arse *shrug*
One guy actually did that. Everyone just looked at him, didn't see or smell a fire and so went back to watching the movie. The ushers took out the guy because he was yelling.
Perhaps he should have shouted 'Money!!' ;)
These christian people need to go see a psychologist, they are sick.
Never read Songs of Solomon huh? Admittedly you need a guide to understand the symbolism.
It was only later (around the time that they decided to make celibacy mandatory for priests) that some philosophers decided that sex for fun was bad.
There are good reasons to not fsck around, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying sex.
er, I would. And I do. I purposely do not own a car, and so 6-10 bags of groceries is quite hard to carry home.
www.tesco.com has apparently reached the top 10 ecom sites in the UK....so presumably some people other than me are buying.
Other than that, yes I agree.
If only. My local library seems to have thrown out most of the books and replaced them with newspapers, magazines and videos.
Amazon still has books...for how much longer? <conspiracy>
Then what, they put a chip in your brain to erase your memory so that you can't even replay it in your head without paying them for it again.
And not looking at the keyboard?? Guess you've never used keyboards from different countries/timeperiods have you? The symbols that you need for coding are all over the place!
Ditch the windows key....what's wrong with Ctrl-Esc?
Sure thing. Just give me your real name, address, time you will be doing the transaction, time and place the police can pick you up, and the accounts you've placed your ill gotten gains. This information will also want to be free.