The word is used as a derogatory term because our dominant screwball religions decided that a practice seen in the real world, amongst every mammalian species, doesn't fit in with a heterosexual, go-forth-and-multiply world view. This filters down through the ages into societies and so-called "separation of church and state" governments still scarred with arbitrary facets of religion such as the above, much to the aggravation of the psychological and genetic sciences and the people you consider 'shit-eaters', whose lives and sexual habits you have such a lack of information about.
You pretend to accept diversity with 'by all means, have your equality' and then condemn it almost in the same breath by inciting irrational hate by comparison with something entirely out of scope. These kinds of comparisons -- my personal favourite is equating all homosexuals with NAMBLA members -- solely aim to spread inaccuracies to fuel diatribes by other people. Your choice of imagery is specifically chosen to inflict harm on a cause you supported at the beginning of the same paragraph.
You should be thankful that your genetic makeup lies within the boundaries that your society has defined as "normal". Consider the outright lies that America held as truth during the last century. Imagine the hate you would have faced if you were born a 'nigger' during the 1940s. That's fear of difference and stereotyping in action. They're all alcoholics! They cook their children!
They eat shit!
Oh, and taking offense isn't a voluntary action when the poster is so loudly, and without invite, pidgeonholing people they clearly know nothing about. This includes me. When I personally start telling you about the things I do in my bedroom, then you can tell me what you think of it. I didn't give you an invite to tar me with your one-color brush.
The American president and his government has been elected by the people to represent their views as correctly as possible. To the world, this is America, sadly. You know as well as I that one person, or even a small collection of powerful people cannot seriously understand what the populace at large wants. There's too many variables. Yet, both the Australian and American people remain complacent locked into a system with many flaws.
Whether or not one American person or a thousand think differently to them, the President and the elected Government represents the country's stance on economics, trade, world relations, etc. Whether or not those thousand people think differently, they will still be injured should there be another attack. It might not be their direct fault, but it will still happen.
If the country's populace has chosen a leader or a government who doesn't really represent their views, then this is a reason for better education and understanding in this area, which is my point. How can _everyone_ vote in a leader who will represent them correctly on a global scale, when the majority has no idea of the world outside American walls?
I know your msg is now marked flamebait, but I want to comment anyway.
6000+ people dying in any way whatsoever is a human "tragedy". As another post said, more people died yesterday in equally morbid ways. What's special about the American saga is that the American people believed without a doubt that their safety and cherished freedom was untouchable.
During East Timor's crisis, my country, Australia, sent thousands of peace keepers into the trouble areas. We evacuated hundreds, if not thousands of refugees from East Timor, and returned those who wanted to go back safe and sound after the conflict ended. The statistic (and I hate to use that word) that was ignored most was this: over 20,000 people were killed before we lifted an administrative finger to help.
Those figures are ignored because East Timor and the region isn't considered a "civilised" region if the Westernised sense. East Timer took maybe 15 minutes of TV news a day here. America took over 4 days, non-stop. Why is this?
America, the free country, whose populace is on the whole ignorant to other country's racial wars, just had it's foot trod on, and now expects every other country to pay complete and utter attention while it rants about destroying economies and further un-balancing the world's trade weight.
Now, I'm no bigot on either side here. Australia plays just a small part of the global game, but it's culture is very close to America's. I won't pretend that I'm not a heavy-handed consumer, and sure I enjoy the freedom a "democracy" provides. However, the world is more than the US.
Next time Timor erupts, or something else just as horrific surfaces and gets a whopping 5 minutes of airtime just before the new series of Friends or reruns of Buffy, maybe paying a little more attention to what your country had to do with it, both to help and to provoke. Iran & Iraq came about because of meddling. Hussein was funded by the States. Osama was funded by the States.
Maybe not double-dipping in every global situation would keep America safe? Democracy, freedom, and all those other buzzwords come to be because somewhere, someone paid a price in the beginning. Call it tall poppy syndrome, but if America wants to be as loud and arrogant in its' world view, it should also realise that others will want to take it down.
This was coming... Tuesday was just the day it arrived. 6000+ died not because they deserved to, but because of Governmental arrogance that one was right and all else is wrong... and both sides contributed to this.
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Having lived in Parkes since I was born and spending a lot of time out at the observatory with touristy friends, I'm glad the movie (which I enjoyed but wasn't actually filmed in Parkes, BTW) has gotten such a positive review from everyone on/. It's a massive construction on any scale, and it's truly beautiful to watch move at midnight... a thousand little fairy lights all shifting slowly way way up in the sky.:) A few of us used to lie on the grass beside the Tourist centre on summer nights after going out for dinner and such.. it's a 15 minute drive out from Parkes, but it's worth it, and there's the added bonus of playing on the jungle gym equipment by moonlight.;)
Principal town photography for the movie took place in a town 20 minutes from Parkes, Forbes. Parkes itself has changed a lot visually since then (of course, not much else has ) but Forbes has remained pretty much similar in building style to the 60's. Not putting Forbes down in any way, of course. We don't have any in fighting between us. No way.;P
The movie represents the town's ppl as a little crazed and should be taken with two handfulls of salt, but if you've ever had an interest in astronomy and have never seen a telescope in a sheep paddock, then pls see the movie and support real filmmaking. The group responsible, Working Dog Productions, debuted with The Castle (tho which I wasn't very fond of, recieved good reviews) and feature on The Panel, a weekly (?) comedy/review/interview show on national TV stations. Rob Sitch, along with a few other core members of the group, were previously in The D Generation, a great comedy programme on ABC, our non-commercial station in AU. They have a few CDs, and probably some videos out if you're interested in previous work.
Now that I'm sounding like a recorded advertisement from their marketting executive, I'll let someone else take the microphone.:)
This responce seems even worse than his first statement. Now it sounds like he's complaining about not being able to use Linux's codebase for Windows XX. And yes, they're probably happy with the BSD licence, precisely for that reason.
His statements lean towards getting the existing GPL changed or encouraging people to think less of it's current form, so that if Windows becomes open sourced, by matter of court, Microsoft's PR and marketting devisions won't have to deal with so much flak when we discover code taken/adapted from Linux.
Cover thine arse..
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I was under the impression that the porn industry was all about First Person Shooters.
I'm giving up mod points to reply to you.
The word is used as a derogatory term because our dominant screwball religions decided that a practice seen in the real world, amongst every mammalian species, doesn't fit in with a heterosexual, go-forth-and-multiply world view. This filters down through the ages into societies and so-called "separation of church and state" governments still scarred with arbitrary facets of religion such as the above, much to the aggravation of the psychological and genetic sciences and the people you consider 'shit-eaters', whose lives and sexual habits you have such a lack of information about.
You pretend to accept diversity with 'by all means, have your equality' and then condemn it almost in the same breath by inciting irrational hate by comparison with something entirely out of scope. These kinds of comparisons -- my personal favourite is equating all homosexuals with NAMBLA members -- solely aim to spread inaccuracies to fuel diatribes by other people. Your choice of imagery is specifically chosen to inflict harm on a cause you supported at the beginning of the same paragraph.
You should be thankful that your genetic makeup lies within the boundaries that your society has defined as "normal". Consider the outright lies that America held as truth during the last century. Imagine the hate you would have faced if you were born a 'nigger' during the 1940s. That's fear of difference and stereotyping in action. They're all alcoholics! They cook their children!
They eat shit!
Oh, and taking offense isn't a voluntary action when the poster is so loudly, and without invite, pidgeonholing people they clearly know nothing about. This includes me. When I personally start telling you about the things I do in my bedroom, then you can tell me what you think of it. I didn't give you an invite to tar me with your one-color brush.
The American president and his government has been elected by the people to represent their views as correctly as possible. To the world, this is America, sadly. You know as well as I that one person, or even a small collection of powerful people cannot seriously understand what the populace at large wants. There's too many variables. Yet, both the Australian and American people remain complacent locked into a system with many flaws.
Whether or not one American person or a thousand think differently to them, the President and the elected Government represents the country's stance on economics, trade, world relations, etc. Whether or not those thousand people think differently, they will still be injured should there be another attack. It might not be their direct fault, but it will still happen.
If the country's populace has chosen a leader or a government who doesn't really represent their views, then this is a reason for better education and understanding in this area, which is my point. How can _everyone_ vote in a leader who will represent them correctly on a global scale, when the majority has no idea of the world outside American walls?
I know your msg is now marked flamebait, but I want to comment anyway.
6000+ people dying in any way whatsoever is a human "tragedy". As another post said, more people died yesterday in equally morbid ways. What's special about the American saga is that the American people believed without a doubt that their safety and cherished freedom was untouchable.
During East Timor's crisis, my country, Australia, sent thousands of peace keepers into the trouble areas. We evacuated hundreds, if not thousands of refugees from East Timor, and returned those who wanted to go back safe and sound after the conflict ended. The statistic (and I hate to use that word) that was ignored most was this: over 20,000 people were killed before we lifted an administrative finger to help.
Those figures are ignored because East Timor and the region isn't considered a "civilised" region if the Westernised sense. East Timer took maybe 15 minutes of TV news a day here. America took over 4 days, non-stop. Why is this?
America, the free country, whose populace is on the whole ignorant to other country's racial wars, just had it's foot trod on, and now expects every other country to pay complete and utter attention while it rants about destroying economies and further un-balancing the world's trade weight.
Now, I'm no bigot on either side here. Australia plays just a small part of the global game, but it's culture is very close to America's. I won't pretend that I'm not a heavy-handed consumer, and sure I enjoy the freedom a "democracy" provides. However, the world is more than the US.
Next time Timor erupts, or something else just as horrific surfaces and gets a whopping 5 minutes of airtime just before the new series of Friends or reruns of Buffy, maybe paying a little more attention to what your country had to do with it, both to help and to provoke. Iran & Iraq came about because of meddling. Hussein was funded by the States. Osama was funded by the States.
Maybe not double-dipping in every global situation would keep America safe? Democracy, freedom, and all those other buzzwords come to be because somewhere, someone paid a price in the beginning. Call it tall poppy syndrome, but if America wants to be as loud and arrogant in its' world view, it should also realise that others will want to take it down.
This was coming... Tuesday was just the day it arrived. 6000+ died not because they deserved to, but because of Governmental arrogance that one was right and all else is wrong... and both sides contributed to this.
Having lived in Parkes since I was born and spending a lot of time out at the observatory with touristy friends, I'm glad the movie (which I enjoyed but wasn't actually filmed in Parkes, BTW) has gotten such a positive review from everyone on /. It's a massive construction on any scale, and it's truly beautiful to watch move at midnight... a thousand little fairy lights all shifting slowly way way up in the sky. :) A few of us used to lie on the grass beside the Tourist centre on summer nights after going out for dinner and such.. it's a 15 minute drive out from Parkes, but it's worth it, and there's the added bonus of playing on the jungle gym equipment by moonlight. ;)
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:)
Principal town photography for the movie took place in a town 20 minutes from Parkes, Forbes. Parkes itself has changed a lot visually since then (of course, not much else has ) but Forbes has remained pretty much similar in building style to the 60's. Not putting Forbes down in any way, of course. We don't have any in fighting between us. No way.
The movie represents the town's ppl as a little crazed and should be taken with two handfulls of salt, but if you've ever had an interest in astronomy and have never seen a telescope in a sheep paddock, then pls see the movie and support real filmmaking. The group responsible, Working Dog Productions, debuted with The Castle (tho which I wasn't very fond of, recieved good reviews) and feature on The Panel, a weekly (?) comedy/review/interview show on national TV stations. Rob Sitch, along with a few other core members of the group, were previously in The D Generation, a great comedy programme on ABC, our non-commercial station in AU. They have a few CDs, and probably some videos out if you're interested in previous work.
Now that I'm sounding like a recorded advertisement from their marketting executive, I'll let someone else take the microphone.
This responce seems even worse than his first statement. Now it sounds like he's complaining about not being able to use Linux's codebase for Windows XX. And yes, they're probably happy with the BSD licence, precisely for that reason. His statements lean towards getting the existing GPL changed or encouraging people to think less of it's current form, so that if Windows becomes open sourced, by matter of court, Microsoft's PR and marketting devisions won't have to deal with so much flak when we discover code taken/adapted from Linux. Cover thine arse..
Good points, and usually correct. However, Sega was started as a coin-op exporting company formed after WWII by David(?) Rosen.