Never confuse our nature with our history. I have never seriously considered killing another person... ==== Obviously sir, you have never driven a car in Boston.
Ants, bees, and termites are, indeed, quite highly sophisticated and evolved in comparison to mere humans. Not one of their advanced cultures has ever launched a nuclear weapon. ==== But bees and ants have perfected racial and tribal genocide down to a fine art.
Replace "communists" with "terrorists" and you'll find that, 50 years on, there's very little difference. ==== I don't recall very many communists pledging to kill our civilians in the streets. And then, successfully making good on that pledge.
There's the difference.
Admittedly, "Terror" will be used in any case that may further the government's aims and such blatant political hackery must be watched and denounced. But does anyone remember Tim McVeigh? The point was never whether or not he had valid political opinions. The point was that he was an extremely toxic individual. If he had a website advocating the use of fuel-fert bombs on his political enemies, I would hope the feds would have had enough common sense to haul him away by his ankles before he got nice and ambitious...
The whole premise of the punk movement was that music made in a garage sounds better than music made in a mansion. True then. True now.
With digital recording technology coming down to the everyday retail level, in a few years you will see an explosion of homemade rock n roll made by folks with day jobs.
Yes, some of it will suck. But much of it will embarrass "professional rock stars" that couldn't survive 10 minutes without their RIAA-funded marketing departments.
The golden age of rock n roll is happening right here, right now and right under our noses for anyone willing to venture outside of the Clear Channel lowest common denominator radio ghetto.
Hey it's your choice. Nickeback & Creed. Or Guided By Voices & Wilco.
If you get subpoenaed, you should go out and but a few CDs of the artists in your download directory (on top of whatever advice your lawyer gives you). Claim that you bought those CDs only because of their exposure through the P2P format.
Why? A: You should support the good artists anyway. And you might be telling the honest truth about buying the cds from artists that would otherwise be obscured by a lack of Clear Channel airplay (about 99.998 % of all cool bands are ignored by Clear Channel. Clear Channel sucketh).
B: The prosecutor would then be placed into the embarrassing position of going after a paying customer. Remember that the jury will consist of consumers.
And for God's sake, only buy CDs from *NON* RIAA member labels (like Matador for example). If the prosecutor points out that the CDs you bought were distributed by a non RIAA client, that would further drive home the point that the RIAA does NOT represent all musicians! (And plus, you don't really want to actually give any money to those pigfaces do you?)
Considering what the USPS is actually tasked to do, the service is actually pretty reliable. And unlike most publicly run institutions, it does *not* hemorrhage money year after year.
Now if you want to talk about criminally inept public services, don't even get me started on the entire public school system.
4) It is too passive. I'd rather have them playing with their toys together inside, or playing with their friends outside. === Yes! Playing war with toy GUNS and mudball hand grenades!
Now wouldn't that just make you spill your herbal tea all over your your NPR newsletter?
Who modded this as a trol?...this is damn polite by Slashdot standards!
y'know, this hypersensitivity towards the notion of "americacentrism" (as you say) and the perceived slights that it hurls upon you really wears me down... the facts are thus:
the u.s. is the 3rd most populous country in the world, w/ a population of ~1/4 billion [infoplease.com] between 1/3 and 1/4 of the entire online population [internet.com] is from the u.s.
from those simple numbers, coupled with the fact that this is an english-language site, it's a simple conclusion that some content might crop up as u.s.-specific...just as chinese-langauge content on might tend in the direction of being specific to china consider this flamebait if you like but don't bitch about "americacentrism" because some users are discussing a television show
Man O Man just remember to Double tap and TERMINATE them. If you don't they will *swear* they were just collecting for charity when decided to bust a few caps
I don't smoke but I still think you are a whiny prick. You'll never be happy until you buy an oxygen tent and wrap it around your head.
Solution: Stop going to little league games just to sit in your car in a self righteous tizzy.
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Never confuse our nature with our history. I have never seriously considered killing another person...
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Obviously sir, you have never driven a car in Boston.
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Ants, bees, and termites are, indeed, quite highly sophisticated and evolved in comparison to mere humans. Not one of their advanced cultures has ever launched a nuclear weapon.
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But bees and ants have perfected racial and tribal genocide down to a fine art.
WTF! Oh that sucks!
Hey thanks for the Baltimore Wi-Fi link! I can't use it but I know a few that really can..
They call it "Anonymous Coward" for a reason, don't they....
You know exactly where you can insert your "much needed tourist and investment dollars".
Thank you and have a nice day!
They're fat because carbohydrates are dirt cheap compared to protein.
Nice attitude there. Let them eat cake indeed..
off topic as hell..
When are they gonna stop fooling around and start engineering Carmen Electra clones that have a thing for network admins...
Replace "communists" with "terrorists" and you'll find that, 50 years on, there's very little difference.
====
I don't recall very many communists pledging to kill our civilians in the streets. And then, successfully making good on that pledge.
There's the difference.
Admittedly, "Terror" will be used in any case that may further the government's aims and such blatant political hackery must be watched and denounced. But does anyone remember Tim McVeigh? The point was never whether or not he had valid political opinions. The point was that he was an extremely toxic individual. If he had a website advocating the use of fuel-fert bombs on his political enemies, I would hope the feds would have had enough common sense to haul him away by his ankles before he got nice and ambitious...
Three cheers for elitist bullshit!
The whole premise of the punk movement was that music made in a garage sounds better than music made in a mansion. True then. True now.
With digital recording technology coming down to the everyday retail level, in a few years you will see an explosion of homemade rock n roll made by folks with day jobs.
Yes, some of it will suck. But much of it will embarrass "professional rock stars" that couldn't survive 10 minutes without their RIAA-funded marketing departments.
The golden age of rock n roll is happening right here, right now and right under our noses for anyone willing to venture outside of the Clear Channel lowest common denominator radio ghetto.
Hey it's your choice. Nickeback & Creed. Or Guided By Voices & Wilco.
Never underestimate the power of ego and greed - both of which would play here. Too many arsonists stick around to watch the fire - or call it in....
Agreed. someone mod this up please!
The actual cost of running this would be relatively insignificant...
If you get subpoenaed, you should go out and but a few CDs of the artists in your download directory (on top of whatever advice your lawyer gives you). Claim that you bought those CDs only because of their exposure through the P2P format.
Why?
A: You should support the good artists anyway. And you might be telling the honest truth about buying the cds from artists that would otherwise be obscured by a lack of Clear Channel airplay (about 99.998 % of all cool bands are ignored by Clear Channel. Clear Channel sucketh).
B: The prosecutor would then be placed into the embarrassing position of going after a paying customer. Remember that the jury will consist of consumers.
And for God's sake, only buy CDs from *NON* RIAA member labels (like Matador for example). If the prosecutor points out that the CDs you bought were distributed by a non RIAA client, that would further drive home the point that the RIAA does NOT represent all musicians! (And plus, you don't really want to actually give any money to those pigfaces do you?)
Considering what the USPS is actually tasked to do, the service is actually pretty reliable. And unlike most publicly run institutions, it does *not* hemorrhage money year after year.
Now if you want to talk about criminally inept public services, don't even get me started on the entire public school system.
4) It is too passive. I'd rather have them playing with their toys together inside, or playing with their friends outside.
===
Yes! Playing war with toy GUNS and mudball hand grenades!
Now wouldn't that just make you spill your herbal tea all over your your NPR newsletter?
In the movies, murdering bad guys usually don't have families that care about and love them. In the real world, they do.
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well yeah, but fuck 'em.
Who modded this as a trol?...this is damn polite by Slashdot standards!
y'know, this hypersensitivity towards the notion of "americacentrism" (as you say) and the perceived slights that it hurls upon you really wears me down...
the facts are thus:
the u.s. is the 3rd most populous country in the world, w/ a population of ~1/4 billion [infoplease.com]
between 1/3 and 1/4 of the entire online population [internet.com] is from the u.s.
from those simple numbers, coupled with the fact that this is an english-language site, it's a simple conclusion that some content might crop up as u.s.-specific...just as chinese-langauge content on might tend in the direction of being specific to china
consider this flamebait if you like but don't bitch about "americacentrism" because some users are discussing a television show
Man O Man just remember to Double tap and TERMINATE them. If you don't they will *swear* they were just collecting for charity when decided to bust a few caps
I don't smoke but I still think you are a whiny prick. You'll never be happy until you buy an oxygen tent and wrap it around your head. Solution: Stop going to little league games just to sit in your car in a self righteous tizzy.