The US has a law on the books that when a US soldier is held in the Hague to be tried at the International Court, the US has a right to go and get him.
Nothing special, just one of those typical little USian acts of "fuck the rest of the world, USA, USA!" that inexplicably causes some people to despise the US.
How about if God really wants us to hear something, he pops on down to Times Square in person and lays it out in clear simple words?
Until such time, the Bible is a book that was written by men, translated by men, and interpreted by men. And there's far better books out there to base one's morality on.
I'd hardly call this enlightenment. We got a very strong nationalist vibe going on at the moment and after the recent premature fall of the government the US cock has temporarily been removed to free the mouth for pleasing the voters instead.
We'll come up with a good excuse of our own to control the Internets soon enough though, freedom is scary.
What can we do to make IT, development, and computer science a friendlier place for everyone?
I'm sure there are things that can be done. Whether it is a good idea to do them is a different story though.
And while we're at it, may I suggest we do the same for the less glamorous industries? Let's have more female truck drivers, female garbage disposal workers, female sewer cleaners and all the other less glamorous jobs that are male-dominated.
If we're going to work based on the presumption that it's all nurture and nature plays no role whatsoever, let's go all the way.
I absolutely agree. Before women were forced at gunpoint to shake their booty on MTV we were a lot more polite to them. Of course, we didn't actually allow them to vote, get an education or to come out of the kitchen, but that is very much besides the point.
We've been treating women as second-rate citizens for fucking millennia, and the argument that it's due to pop-culture and porn gets modded insightful?
I think that motive & intent matter a whole lot more than the "who".
Ehmm, that is pretty much the whole idea behind the concept of a hate crime. The difference between "I'm gonna kill that guy for his money", "I'm gonna kill that guy because he's pointing a gun at me" and "I'm gonna kill that guy because he's a filthy faggot".
The dutch probably didn't do that. Just a wild guess.
Actually, we did. And then we noticed that may not be the best approach and we forced the main ISP to make the phone lines available to anyone who wanted to start an ISP over ADSL.
Separation of infrastructure and service. Try it, it works. Of course, in yank country that would be "hating freedom", "destroying job creators" and other anti-monopolist tripe.
Although actually posing the question instead of wildly speculating is a major improvement, I have my doubts as to just how representative the average Slashdot commenter is for the average pirate;-)
In international waters, the captain is god. He is judge, jury, executioner and priest all at the same time.
So yeah, under the guise of a libertarian paradise these guys are going through a lot of trouble to reinvent dictatorship. Not that there's anything wrong with that as long as the dictator is relatively benign of course.
How can we predict what the global climate will do? After all, we can't even get the local weather right!!
When I give a firm kick to a bucket half-full of water I can't predict the movements of each individual molecule of water either, but I can make a reasonable assumption I'm going to get wet feet. And sore toes.
You assume we still have a functioning democracy, and not a sham. This is a bad assumption. There's less variation between Democrats and Republicans than there was internally in the Communist Party in the USSR. The electoral system is locked down to ensure that no third party ever arises. We have no voice whatsoever.
Oh, but you do. Now all you need to do is educate a majority of the electorate to actually use it properly for a change...oh, never mind, you're fucked.
Yet at the same time oil gets more and more expensive while power generation as well as transfer gets more and more cheap.
I'm sure there was a point where replacing the horse and buggy infrastructure with one suitable for gasoline powered vehicles wasn't economically interesting either.
As for power outlets being dangerous to children...we seem to manage quite well with houses full of the damn things.
I agree. The problem that I've found as an Aspie, however, is that a lot of neurotypical people don't know how to express these rules, and especially the principles underlying them, in a language that I understand.
One of my favorite examples has always been when 2 people who know each other but aren't close friends cross one another in the street. The "unwritten code of conduct" as I've come to call it dictates that it is polite to inquire about the well-being of the other individual(in some languages the greeting even contains this part by default), but at the same time one should not go too far into detail when answering the same question. Finding the proper balance on how long to keep talking and what about is incredibly difficult for many folks with autism to judge. The only way to really learn is to go out there and mess up time and time again, but to do it around people who are willing and honest enough to correct without being an asshole about it.
No, the answer is for more and more countries around the world is to tell the US and to a lesser extent countries like France to go and fuck themselves.
Now if only we could make a start convincing our governments to represent our interests instead of those of the US...
The breakdown of family might also be caused because, finally, after many thousands of years, women have the right to go out, make their own money and live their own lives, instead of having to spend their days cleaning, cooking and waiting for the man of the house to get home.
Once a woman has her own skills and her own income, she can afford to stop ignoring the shortcomings of her husband and make her own choices.
But of course, it could also be because some antiquities in robes think it's wrong for consenting adults to enjoy physical pleasure without the intention of procreation. Because God forbid human beings give each other pleasure instead of grief.
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As as been explained many times on this very website, piracy isn't theft because we're making copies, not depriving the owner of the original.
In other words, instead of taking out the trash, we're duplicating it so we can each have a bag of smelly junk in our very own homes ;)
Grandparent either misread or misquoted.
The US has a law on the books that when a US soldier is held in the Hague to be tried at the International Court, the US has a right to go and get him.
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Nothing special, just one of those typical little USian acts of "fuck the rest of the world, USA, USA!" that inexplicably causes some people to despise the US.
It would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy or alcoholic drinks.
Awrighty, in that case I'll have 63 oz of coke and 1 oz of rum please!
How about if God really wants us to hear something, he pops on down to Times Square in person and lays it out in clear simple words?
Until such time, the Bible is a book that was written by men, translated by men, and interpreted by men. And there's far better books out there to base one's morality on.
I'd hardly call this enlightenment. We got a very strong nationalist vibe going on at the moment and after the recent premature fall of the government the US cock has temporarily been removed to free the mouth for pleasing the voters instead.
We'll come up with a good excuse of our own to control the Internets soon enough though, freedom is scary.
It's the lolcats. They're in ur websitez, buying ur bookz.
Does anything work that doesn't require me to sign my soul over to the Devil?
Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits, held aloft by penisbirds and a beowulf cluster of GNAA trolls.
Good times, good times.
What can we do to make IT, development, and computer science a friendlier place for everyone?
I'm sure there are things that can be done. Whether it is a good idea to do them is a different story though.
And while we're at it, may I suggest we do the same for the less glamorous industries? Let's have more female truck drivers, female garbage disposal workers, female sewer cleaners and all the other less glamorous jobs that are male-dominated.
If we're going to work based on the presumption that it's all nurture and nature plays no role whatsoever, let's go all the way.
I absolutely agree. Before women were forced at gunpoint to shake their booty on MTV we were a lot more polite to them. Of course, we didn't actually allow them to vote, get an education or to come out of the kitchen, but that is very much besides the point.
We've been treating women as second-rate citizens for fucking millennia, and the argument that it's due to pop-culture and porn gets modded insightful?
I think that motive & intent matter a whole lot more than the "who".
Ehmm, that is pretty much the whole idea behind the concept of a hate crime. The difference between "I'm gonna kill that guy for his money", "I'm gonna kill that guy because he's pointing a gun at me" and "I'm gonna kill that guy because he's a filthy faggot".
I haven't seen a floppy disk "save" icon in ages
Yet I see, and use, it every day.
It's in excel and all that.
The dutch probably didn't do that. Just a wild guess.
Actually, we did. And then we noticed that may not be the best approach and we forced the main ISP to make the phone lines available to anyone who wanted to start an ISP over ADSL.
Separation of infrastructure and service. Try it, it works. Of course, in yank country that would be "hating freedom", "destroying job creators" and other anti-monopolist tripe.
Although actually posing the question instead of wildly speculating is a major improvement, I have my doubts as to just how representative the average Slashdot commenter is for the average pirate ;-)
In international waters, the captain is god. He is judge, jury, executioner and priest all at the same time.
So yeah, under the guise of a libertarian paradise these guys are going through a lot of trouble to reinvent dictatorship. Not that there's anything wrong with that as long as the dictator is relatively benign of course.
and any pretension of the posters on this site having higher than average intelligence is laughable.
But...but...we know how to replace a graphics card? And, like, lots of totally inside joke star something references?
Honestly, the old GNAA, penis bird and Natalie Portman trolls were better than the global warming threads.
How can we predict what the global climate will do? After all, we can't even get the local weather right!!
When I give a firm kick to a bucket half-full of water I can't predict the movements of each individual molecule of water either, but I can make a reasonable assumption I'm going to get wet feet. And sore toes.
Worse even, grammar Nazi crushed while trying to correct a goddamn quarterback.
That's like closing the door of your own locker while you're in it and giving yourself a wedgie while you're at it.
Unless you're into that of course.
You assume we still have a functioning democracy, and not a sham. This is a bad assumption. There's less variation between Democrats and Republicans than there was internally in the Communist Party in the USSR. The electoral system is locked down to ensure that no third party ever arises. We have no voice whatsoever.
Oh, but you do. Now all you need to do is educate a majority of the electorate to actually use it properly for a change...oh, never mind, you're fucked.
Yet at the same time oil gets more and more expensive while power generation as well as transfer gets more and more cheap.
I'm sure there was a point where replacing the horse and buggy infrastructure with one suitable for gasoline powered vehicles wasn't economically interesting either.
As for power outlets being dangerous to children...we seem to manage quite well with houses full of the damn things.
Think of the stuff you could wear in public claiming religious persecution whenever you get hassled...
Where do I sign up to be a Pussy Preacher? I'll use that scene out of From Dusk till Dawn as inspiration :)
bash to politicians who don't have the guts to do what they should.
Politicians should do what they have been elected to do.
In other words, don't bash the politicians, bash the bloody voters.
I agree. The problem that I've found as an Aspie, however, is that a lot of neurotypical people don't know how to express these rules, and especially the principles underlying them, in a language that I understand.
One of my favorite examples has always been when 2 people who know each other but aren't close friends cross one another in the street. The "unwritten code of conduct" as I've come to call it dictates that it is polite to inquire about the well-being of the other individual(in some languages the greeting even contains this part by default), but at the same time one should not go too far into detail when answering the same question. Finding the proper balance on how long to keep talking and what about is incredibly difficult for many folks with autism to judge. The only way to really learn is to go out there and mess up time and time again, but to do it around people who are willing and honest enough to correct without being an asshole about it.
No, the answer is for more and more countries around the world is to tell the US and to a lesser extent countries like France to go and fuck themselves.
Now if only we could make a start convincing our governments to represent our interests instead of those of the US...
I reject your hypotheses that hearing the words of our holy Lord is caused exclusively by mental illness...
Some of those shamans were really into the whole magic mushroom thing as well.
I'll add a different argument.
The breakdown of family might also be caused because, finally, after many thousands of years, women have the right to go out, make their own money and live their own lives, instead of having to spend their days cleaning, cooking and waiting for the man of the house to get home.
Once a woman has her own skills and her own income, she can afford to stop ignoring the shortcomings of her husband and make her own choices.
But of course, it could also be because some antiquities in robes think it's wrong for consenting adults to enjoy physical pleasure without the intention of procreation. Because God forbid human beings give each other pleasure instead of grief.