I don't watch Enterprise because in my opinion, who the fuck cares about what happened before TOS? Seriously folks, Gene Roddenberry didn't, obviously. Also, the entire series is rather lame.
BSG, otoh, is fairly cool. Yeah, there is the blowing up people in spaceships factor, but there's also the whole "We're refugee's trying to survive a genocidal enemy" thing to it. Kind of reminds me of the U.S. vs. The World.
With straight up numbers, yes. We also have more people then most industrialized nations (China being an exception, although I'm not sure if we all them industrialized or not), too. Per capita GB has more gun related crime and death then we do, though, and you folks have the most stringent laws.
Waving a gun around makes everyone less safe. Carrying one for protection makes you safer.
Which is truly sad. It's like the elections in Iraq. 60-70% voter turnout! When's the last time any district, much less any state, reported such a turn out for our elections and we've had them every four years for the past 200+ years! This past election especially! We don't have to have travel too far to get to our polling places, and if we do we can drive there in relative safety. We don't have to worry about terrorists bombing our polling places, we don't have to worry about insurgents coming in and mowing everyone down with machine gun fire! We probably have the safest elections in the world, and the turn out for them is abhorently low. It makes me SAD to associate with those of us in America who don't vote. People fucking died to make sure we didn't live in tyranny and we can't even get up and go vote? What. The. Fuck. Pisses me off.
The Iraqis who turned out today are more patriotic then those terrorists and insurgents, hell they're more patriotic then most of us Americans! Gods bless those Iraqis who voted today, may their grand experiment in democractic republicanism work as good as (if not better then) ours and go FUCK Syrica, Egypt and Iran!
I'm not saying that it's not breaking the law. I know it's breaking the law, but it's breaking the law in such a way as to bring attention to just how unjust it is.
I agree, you shouldn't have to face drivers who just don't know how to drive, but really, you already have that with our current licensing scheme. Buy a car with a roll cage, crush zones and front and side air bags is all I can say. Let the stupid ones kill themselves off. Sure it'd be really dangerous for a while, but then it'd taper back down to how dangerous it is now with licensed drivers not knowing how to drive.
To trade your gun to prevent getting shot is a fallacy. I have seen statistics (they were presented during a speech in one of my college course so I don't have an references for you) that countries with stricter gun laws then America does have higher death rates from gun related crime. Keeping guns out of the hands of lawful citizens puts lawful citizens at risk! Even in America, if you break it down by state, the states with the least amount of homocides from gun violence are those with the most lax gun laws! When criminals don't know who has a gun, what makes you think they'll draw on you (lets for the moment not count drive-by's as those are huge acts of cowardice), or for that matter even rob you! Those crooks want to live to spend their loot! Like you and me they don't want to die. They might not care if you die, but self-preservation runs just as strongly in them as it does you or I.
The best way to not get shot is to draw faster then the opponent. That might sound old-westerny but it's true and if I'm going to die from a gun shot wound, I'm gonna try and take down the other guy too! I really think our Founding Fathers and the authors of the Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments weren't actually drafted until a few years after the Constitution) were on the ball with that and saw how that would really translate through the ages. Those guys weren't the idiot politicians we have today, they were highly intelligent and mostly in touch with their constituents. Lets not second-guess 200+ years of history just because someone wants to pass the blame for their child's murder from t he murderer to an inanimate instrument.
Is only later in life you understand that the law is something you won't always agree with, but you have to obey anyway.
and then later on in life you learn which laws are really good ones (no murder, rape, robbery) and which ones are bad (no copying your legally owned multimedia, no sharing of books or music, etc.) and you defy the ones which you believe are bad.
I defy any law that goes against what it really means to be an American. No licenses for drivers, it's an infringement on our right to travel anonymously. No licenses for owning a gun, the Constitution puts no restriction on the ownership of firearms. No telling people whom they can and cannot (or how many they can) marry, only the Queen and the Church can do that (and neither one leads this country). I will also gladly go to jail in protest of these laws as I defy them if it ever comes to that. Civil disobediance against unjust laws is exactly what it means to be free.
I've actually watched several shows on the Shroud both on the History channel and the Discovery and Science channels, and all three sources (two of which are run by the same parent company) both claim that carbon dating is going to be inaccurate no matter what because of layers of caked on pollen and other microscopic life from over the centuries. All other evidence aside, I'd like to see an accurate dating of the Shroud (I'm a science buff and ardent Catholic-converted-to-Pagan) just to see the Pope choke as he tries to explain this "mystery".
Okay, I understand (somewhat) what you're doing and saying.
Unfortunately "Morse Code" isn't "complete" in the above sense - you can't arbitrarily concatenate its characters - "eee" would be equivalent to "s" etc. The problem with the above is that you can't tap in the middle of the stream, without knowing start position of a character, and one bit lost garbles whole stream.
Now, the above statement could explain to some degree genetic variations (good and bad). One bit is lost, the whole stream is garbled, and you come up with something other then what you wanted.
hrm. But at the speeds neurons talk to each other, is that space really so significant as to not be binary? I'm not talking about computer bits and bytes, just pure binary. Remember, the human computer works much differently then the silicon and metal (I use metal generically, knowing that copper, gold, silver and other good conductors are used) ones.
I would think that with the recent scandals of NYT reporters bending, molding and completely making up the "truth", that people on/. would not actually use them as a source anymore. I know they are a lot less credible then CBS. At least CBS fired and reprimanded the people responsible for memogate. When's the last time the NYT fired someone for making up a story?
The RIAA has no legal standing outside of the USA, that's why they're going after the small-fish. Unfortunately they are only hurting their own bottom line by not taking measures to go after the big pirates.
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I love DS9. It's a great premise, and it and Voyager (mediocre at best, which is better then Enterprise) were well thought out.
What are those? Are they like PXs on military bases?
I don't watch Enterprise because in my opinion, who the fuck cares about what happened before TOS? Seriously folks, Gene Roddenberry didn't, obviously. Also, the entire series is rather lame.
BSG, otoh, is fairly cool. Yeah, there is the blowing up people in spaceships factor, but there's also the whole "We're refugee's trying to survive a genocidal enemy" thing to it. Kind of reminds me of the U.S. vs. The World.
Yeah except TOS actually reflected the issues and morals of the time.
What they wrote couldn't be worse then The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis. ;p
That is interesting. I'll have to do some research on my own now. Damnit, I hate working. ;p
With straight up numbers, yes. We also have more people then most industrialized nations (China being an exception, although I'm not sure if we all them industrialized or not), too. Per capita GB has more gun related crime and death then we do, though, and you folks have the most stringent laws.
Waving a gun around makes everyone less safe. Carrying one for protection makes you safer.
Which is truly sad. It's like the elections in Iraq. 60-70% voter turnout! When's the last time any district, much less any state, reported such a turn out for our elections and we've had them every four years for the past 200+ years! This past election especially! We don't have to have travel too far to get to our polling places, and if we do we can drive there in relative safety. We don't have to worry about terrorists bombing our polling places, we don't have to worry about insurgents coming in and mowing everyone down with machine gun fire! We probably have the safest elections in the world, and the turn out for them is abhorently low. It makes me SAD to associate with those of us in America who don't vote. People fucking died to make sure we didn't live in tyranny and we can't even get up and go vote? What. The. Fuck. Pisses me off.
The Iraqis who turned out today are more patriotic then those terrorists and insurgents, hell they're more patriotic then most of us Americans! Gods bless those Iraqis who voted today, may their grand experiment in democractic republicanism work as good as (if not better then) ours and go FUCK Syrica, Egypt and Iran!
I'm not saying that it's not breaking the law. I know it's breaking the law, but it's breaking the law in such a way as to bring attention to just how unjust it is.
I agree, you shouldn't have to face drivers who just don't know how to drive, but really, you already have that with our current licensing scheme. Buy a car with a roll cage, crush zones and front and side air bags is all I can say. Let the stupid ones kill themselves off. Sure it'd be really dangerous for a while, but then it'd taper back down to how dangerous it is now with licensed drivers not knowing how to drive.
To trade your gun to prevent getting shot is a fallacy. I have seen statistics (they were presented during a speech in one of my college course so I don't have an references for you) that countries with stricter gun laws then America does have higher death rates from gun related crime. Keeping guns out of the hands of lawful citizens puts lawful citizens at risk! Even in America, if you break it down by state, the states with the least amount of homocides from gun violence are those with the most lax gun laws! When criminals don't know who has a gun, what makes you think they'll draw on you (lets for the moment not count drive-by's as those are huge acts of cowardice), or for that matter even rob you! Those crooks want to live to spend their loot! Like you and me they don't want to die. They might not care if you die, but self-preservation runs just as strongly in them as it does you or I.
The best way to not get shot is to draw faster then the opponent. That might sound old-westerny but it's true and if I'm going to die from a gun shot wound, I'm gonna try and take down the other guy too! I really think our Founding Fathers and the authors of the Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments weren't actually drafted until a few years after the Constitution) were on the ball with that and saw how that would really translate through the ages. Those guys weren't the idiot politicians we have today, they were highly intelligent and mostly in touch with their constituents. Lets not second-guess 200+ years of history just because someone wants to pass the blame for their child's murder from t he murderer to an inanimate instrument.
Is only later in life you understand that the law is something you won't always agree with, but you have to obey anyway.
and then later on in life you learn which laws are really good ones (no murder, rape, robbery) and which ones are bad (no copying your legally owned multimedia, no sharing of books or music, etc.) and you defy the ones which you believe are bad.
I defy any law that goes against what it really means to be an American. No licenses for drivers, it's an infringement on our right to travel anonymously. No licenses for owning a gun, the Constitution puts no restriction on the ownership of firearms. No telling people whom they can and cannot (or how many they can) marry, only the Queen and the Church can do that (and neither one leads this country). I will also gladly go to jail in protest of these laws as I defy them if it ever comes to that. Civil disobediance against unjust laws is exactly what it means to be free.
I've actually watched several shows on the Shroud both on the History channel and the Discovery and Science channels, and all three sources (two of which are run by the same parent company) both claim that carbon dating is going to be inaccurate no matter what because of layers of caked on pollen and other microscopic life from over the centuries. All other evidence aside, I'd like to see an accurate dating of the Shroud (I'm a science buff and ardent Catholic-converted-to-Pagan) just to see the Pope choke as he tries to explain this "mystery".
I think you mean suspended ;p, and it seems that technology will always be feared by those who don't know jack didly about it.
Don't feel bad, I didn't either. ;p
Too true.
Okay, I understand (somewhat) what you're doing and saying.
Unfortunately "Morse Code" isn't "complete" in the above sense - you can't arbitrarily concatenate its characters - "eee" would be equivalent to "s" etc.
The problem with the above is that you can't tap in the middle of the stream, without knowing start position of a character, and one bit lost garbles whole stream.
Now, the above statement could explain to some degree genetic variations (good and bad). One bit is lost, the whole stream is garbled, and you come up with something other then what you wanted.
Or am I just reading too much into this?
Now thats something I could live with.
Care to actually put that into practice as an act of civil disobediance?
there's one for Linux called mp32ogg
If you use Gentoo, it's in portage.
No wonder why conservatives like to use the paper in their arguments...*sighs*
hrm. But at the speeds neurons talk to each other, is that space really so significant as to not be binary? I'm not talking about computer bits and bytes, just pure binary. Remember, the human computer works much differently then the silicon and metal (I use metal generically, knowing that copper, gold, silver and other good conductors are used) ones.
I would think that with the recent scandals of NYT reporters bending, molding and completely making up the "truth", that people on /. would not actually use them as a source anymore. I know they are a lot less credible then CBS. At least CBS fired and reprimanded the people responsible for memogate. When's the last time the NYT fired someone for making up a story?
Agreed my friend.
Here here!
Sorry for the "meetoo!" post, but your comment required it. (:
The RIAA has no legal standing outside of the USA, that's why they're going after the small-fish. Unfortunately they are only hurting their own bottom line by not taking measures to go after the big pirates.
Don't you mean daemons? :p
It should mean for both. Lying is lying is lying and making false accusations is just as bad as lying.