You do realize that for each person (why do they have to be drug addicts, and why do they have to be overweight?) that died from Vioxx, more than 100 may have decided that they would rather use a different pain treatment, than risk the possibility of suddenly dying from an unexpected heart attack? Ooops, the corporate multinationals don't want you to think about that, only that good Pharmaceuticals are eliminating pain created by the evil fat drug users.
People don't send the item until you've paid. Once you've paid, if they don't send it, there is no tracking number to magically save you. Also, saying "There IS a tracking number" or "there ISN'T a tracking number" is *still* a he said/she said situation.
Congress did not declare war, so you sort of answered your own question here.
Also, the United Nations did not approve this action, so it is a unilateral rogue nation action. In terms of international law, it is no different than Iraq invading Kuwait. (Except, we gave Iraq the go-ahead when they asked us about it in advance, so that we could use it as an excuse to attack them. Look it up.)
Both of you lack imagination if you cannot see how it is useful.
For one, No, I am not going to GO OUT and PAY MONEY to dance just to get fit. Nor do I know how to dance, if I am left to choose my own moves. I have no clue what to do, and it's way too late to start learning (I'm 32).
DDR is the ONLY time I have EVER excercized in my life and enjoyed it. And, before construction encroached on our open spaces, the wife & I played at least 6 songs every day. Good fun. I wipe the floor with her and am pretty much undefeatable by any of my friends (but 8 year old asian kids can kick my ass of course).
I can't bike due to my knee, I don't have an IPOD or any desire for a portable audio player, and fuck having to excercise during daylight. You sit here and decry something many people have found valuable, and for what? To proclaim your elitism?
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t of it, and give me the code to unlock the engine in its entirety.
I downloaded saves for pretty much every PS2 game I have, and pushed them to my memory cards (yes, I use 4 including one for swap).
I'm still mad as hell that my X-Box soul calibur 2 isn't fully unlocked like my PS2 soul calibur 2.
Fuck it all. Give me the engine I paid for. You want a challenge? Go through the levels yourself.
Now chipping ex cons (provided that it is the law at the time they commit their crime, and that it is part of the sentence) seem altogether more reasonable to me.
Yes. Because we need to keep a close eye on the 59% of federal prisoners that are nonviolent drug offenders, mostly from simple marijuana posession. We wouldn't want anything happening. Ever.
More than 50% of the prison populace are non-violent drug offenders who do more time on average (10y) than murderers (6y) (sorry, don't have the source to those numbers anymore, they came out around 1995 so they obviously are not current).
That makes them political prisoners in my book. How dare anyone smoke a flower that we don't like them to smoke? (Yet, last I checked, I could legally go down to the store and buy poison that would actually kill me if ingested. A minor point, but still. And of cousre, I can legally have my penis removed, but not smoke a flower.)
So now, when they grow older and get a job, and can actually afford $17 cds full of Christian crap, they wont be able to spend it because you wont let them. So you will force them to borrow it from a friend, or simply download it from the NEXT person who will put it up on the internet.
Yeah. Really smart. No wonder your store is failing. Those people were about to BUY your cd and now you wont sell them anymore in the future. You're an idiot.
I own over 400 real cds, and haven't stepped foot inside a recordstore since the 1990s. You're in an industry that does not need to exist anymore; get out now while you can.
And if you have any stock in telegraph companies, or abacus companies, I suggest you divest yourself of that as well.
Be that as it may (I wouldn't know, I wouldn't compress anything in a less-than-ubiquitous format), UNCOMPRESSING it takes 5 to 10 times longer than RAR, and the savings I have noticed have been less than 2%. Saving 2% space for 500% time is not a worthy tradeoff to one with 3M downstream and 3T storage.:D
7Z completely blows and is the most worthless piece of crap I've ever seen. I mean really........ 30 minutes to unzip 700M on a p4-2.8gHz vs 3 minutes to do it with a zip? I'm exaggerating, but that's what it felt like.
RAR is only better than ZIP because of their excellent command-line options for chunking into multiple files with parody. Before they added that, RAR was an abomination!
We live in a society, we do not expect someone to lie to us and tell us there is a fire when there is not
You mean like the administration's lies about Weapons of Mass destruction? We were all supposed to fly into a panic and attack Iraq based on that, right? I hate to break it to you, but people are lied to all the time. I would almost say most of the time. It's not about expectations. It's about being capable of rational thought.
If you truly believe in these true freedom of SPEECH, then you wouldn't mind someone releasing snake oil saying that it will cure AIDS when it really gives you a bacterial infection
Bad example (strawman?). It is very easy to falsify "is this room really on fire?" It is not easy to falsify a medical cure without expensive medical studies. Apples and oranges. Totally bogus comparison.
Your radium pills example proves my first point, that people lie all the time and you need to think for yourself. However, the argument is about yelling fire in a crowded theatre is irrelevant again, because this is not something easily falsifiable like "Do I smell smoke?". And the laws about yelling fire in a crowded theatre were on the books back then, and did nothing to stop it. So I'm not sure what your point is other than to extend an already poor metaphor.
If the fire is outside, the person yelling could inform the theatre of that. "Hey! There is a fire outside! That way. Everybody, you go this way." It would be morally irresponsible to report a true disaster without giving additional helpful information. And the additional data of the fire's location would lend greatly to the credibility of yelling "fire". But if I just hear some random dude yell "Fire" in a theatre -- i AM indeed going to sit tight for a couple of minutes, see what everyone ELSE does (because in a herd setting often times survival comes from doing the OPPOSITTE of what everyone else is doing -- wait and see what exit they clog, and then choose a different exit.) I am NOT going to trample people to death when there's no real fire. And if I do, it's my own damn fault, not the messenger.
Now, if there really is a fire, is trampling people to get out first wrong? I don't think it is legally. It's self-defense, or more specifically self-preservation. The issue of people getting trampled is only an issue if THERE IS NO FIRE. Trampling someone to death over fiction is wrong, and it's not the messenger.
To make a thinly-stretched metaphor of my own, we are currently trampling Iraqi civilians based on the administration's intelligence services screaming "Fire" in a crowded Middle East political arena. Because everyone "did not expect someone to lie to us and tell us there is a fire [in Iraq] when there is not", we are now there, trampling civilians, on a daily basis, over a fire that did not exist. The problem is that the military machine has to obey its intelligence without questioning or thinking for itself. Of course, a military SHOULD work that way, but an individual human being should take things into consideration before injuring others.
Muslim Palestians electing a government that wants to destroy Isreal, a threat to their national security, is not the slighest bit different than Christian Americans electing a government that wants to destroy Iraq/Afghanistan/Iraq, a threat to our national security.
Pirates & Emporers is worth watching. It's relevant, and if you liked Schoolhouse Rock, it's just plain funny.
No, Sir. YOU are not understanding. The government came and forcefully seized the videotapes from several private establishments. Any right they had to release the tape was trampled upon. They were never given a choice and are not allowed to have their own tapes.
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You do realize that for each person (why do they have to be drug addicts, and why do they have to be overweight?) that died from Vioxx, more than 100 may have decided that they would rather use a different pain treatment, than risk the possibility of suddenly dying from an unexpected heart attack? Ooops, the corporate multinationals don't want you to think about that, only that good Pharmaceuticals are eliminating pain created by the evil fat drug users.
the UK government has been doing that for awhile now...
People don't send the item until you've paid. Once you've paid, if they don't send it, there is no tracking number to magically save you. Also, saying "There IS a tracking number" or "there ISN'T a tracking number" is *still* a he said/she said situation.
Also, the United Nations did not approve this action, so it is a unilateral rogue nation action. In terms of international law, it is no different than Iraq invading Kuwait. (Except, we gave Iraq the go-ahead when they asked us about it in advance, so that we could use it as an excuse to attack them. Look it up.)
What an idiot. That was so obvious he should have thought of it before submitting his post. Parent, you rule for totally calling him on it.
Both of you lack imagination if you cannot see how it is useful. For one, No, I am not going to GO OUT and PAY MONEY to dance just to get fit. Nor do I know how to dance, if I am left to choose my own moves. I have no clue what to do, and it's way too late to start learning (I'm 32). DDR is the ONLY time I have EVER excercized in my life and enjoyed it. And, before construction encroached on our open spaces, the wife & I played at least 6 songs every day. Good fun. I wipe the floor with her and am pretty much undefeatable by any of my friends (but 8 year old asian kids can kick my ass of course). I can't bike due to my knee, I don't have an IPOD or any desire for a portable audio player, and fuck having to excercise during daylight. You sit here and decry something many people have found valuable, and for what? To proclaim your elitism?
I downloaded saves for pretty much every PS2 game I have, and pushed them to my memory cards (yes, I use 4 including one for swap).
I'm still mad as hell that my X-Box soul calibur 2 isn't fully unlocked like my PS2 soul calibur 2.
Fuck it all. Give me the engine I paid for. You want a challenge? Go through the levels yourself.
That makes them political prisoners in my book. How dare anyone smoke a flower that we don't like them to smoke? (Yet, last I checked, I could legally go down to the store and buy poison that would actually kill me if ingested. A minor point, but still. And of cousre, I can legally have my penis removed, but not smoke a flower.)
Yeah. Really smart. No wonder your store is failing. Those people were about to BUY your cd and now you wont sell them anymore in the future. You're an idiot.
I own over 400 real cds, and haven't stepped foot inside a recordstore since the 1990s. You're in an industry that does not need to exist anymore; get out now while you can.
And if you have any stock in telegraph companies, or abacus companies, I suggest you divest yourself of that as well.
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Be that as it may (I wouldn't know, I wouldn't compress anything in a less-than-ubiquitous format), UNCOMPRESSING it takes 5 to 10 times longer than RAR, and the savings I have noticed have been less than 2%. Saving 2% space for 500% time is not a worthy tradeoff to one with 3M downstream and 3T storage. :D
Thanks for pointing that out. I really was baffled. Hahaha, silly me.
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Dear Sir: I might actually find your post funny, even if it's making fun of me, if only it were not too vague for me to comprehend. :)
RAR is only better than ZIP because of their excellent command-line options for chunking into multiple files with parody. Before they added that, RAR was an abomination!
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You, sir, must have no ability to imagine or visualize. Don't feel bad; it's a side-effect of the blandness the parent-poster talked about.
Your radium pills example proves my first point, that people lie all the time and you need to think for yourself. However, the argument is about yelling fire in a crowded theatre is irrelevant again, because this is not something easily falsifiable like "Do I smell smoke?". And the laws about yelling fire in a crowded theatre were on the books back then, and did nothing to stop it. So I'm not sure what your point is other than to extend an already poor metaphor.
If the fire is outside, the person yelling could inform the theatre of that. "Hey! There is a fire outside! That way. Everybody, you go this way." It would be morally irresponsible to report a true disaster without giving additional helpful information. And the additional data of the fire's location would lend greatly to the credibility of yelling "fire". But if I just hear some random dude yell "Fire" in a theatre -- i AM indeed going to sit tight for a couple of minutes, see what everyone ELSE does (because in a herd setting often times survival comes from doing the OPPOSITTE of what everyone else is doing -- wait and see what exit they clog, and then choose a different exit.) I am NOT going to trample people to death when there's no real fire. And if I do, it's my own damn fault, not the messenger.
Now, if there really is a fire, is trampling people to get out first wrong? I don't think it is legally. It's self-defense, or more specifically self-preservation. The issue of people getting trampled is only an issue if THERE IS NO FIRE. Trampling someone to death over fiction is wrong, and it's not the messenger.
To make a thinly-stretched metaphor of my own, we are currently trampling Iraqi civilians based on the administration's intelligence services screaming "Fire" in a crowded Middle East political arena. Because everyone "did not expect someone to lie to us and tell us there is a fire [in Iraq] when there is not", we are now there, trampling civilians, on a daily basis, over a fire that did not exist. The problem is that the military machine has to obey its intelligence without questioning or thinking for itself. Of course, a military SHOULD work that way, but an individual human being should take things into consideration before injuring others.
And I talk about it here: http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2006/04/14/294/
I'm sick of that tired argument.
Pirates & Emporers is worth watching. It's relevant, and if you liked Schoolhouse Rock, it's just plain funny.
You just proved him right, actually. ha ha
So you've changed your argument now, huh?
No, Sir. YOU are not understanding. The government came and forcefully seized the videotapes from several private establishments. Any right they had to release the tape was trampled upon. They were never given a choice and are not allowed to have their own tapes.
Really. I mean.... the government confiscates my property so I can release it? And 4+4 = -3.
Except the part they found clearly belongs to a military craft, if you read about what types of engines are used in which craft.