The cultures where these issues do exist need weapons, or else the criminals become bolder. The citizens need to have the right to protect themselves, or else they become infantile, completely dependent on the state for their security, and the criminals become bolder. The people associate weapons with criminals, they perceive them as stronger, and the criminals become bolder and more numerous.
You can't castrate the citizens of a superpower and expect their culture to become docile overnight. It is not in their nature. Soon it will be such that the criminals themselves will be the true inheritors of their nation's history.
Correction. Fox executives are businessmen and like making money.
So is Kenneth Lay. So is Bernard Ebbers. So is Bernard Madoff.
An interest in acquiring money does not preclude anyone from letting their ideological biases and rationalizations influence their decisions. In fact, it encourages it, as that sort of single-mindedness tends to destroy empathy and creativity. These people are entirely reactionary, never novelty-seeking, and make their decisions based on immutable "truths" learned in childhood, which are really little more than a thin veneer of resentment for anyone who doesn't play the same status-climbing game they have devoted their lives to.
American Idol they understand. 24 they understand. Cowboys in space? WTF is this shit? Bury it!
Give me something to read, please, not something designed to assimilate me into another angry mob.
Oh, come now. Anger is a perfectly valid human emotion. If people didn't become angry over wrongdoing, they wouldn't have the courage to do set things right.
Actually, life begins at four billion years ago. Mitosis begins after fertilization.
And the people who whine about a thing being "natural" and another thing being "artificial", with the implication that "natural" is always better, should have been aborted. That's a stupidity we need to be proactive in weeding out of our genome.
About 3,213 workers were in the database, and other information included data on personal relationships, political affiliations, and employment histories
WTF do you think net neutrality is for? The word "regulation" does not only mean what talk radio ideologues want it to mean. Property rights themselves are regulation. Without the government to enforce them, there is no such thing as property. Every system has rules, and the rules must be enforced or the system collapses and all value is lost. In this case, the system is more valuable with participant neutrality than without.
I mean, do you want the internet to be like the mobile carriers, where talk is cheap but downloading a movie costs twenty thousand dollars? Yeah, that "free market" is working great by itself.
Nonsense. Our country celebrates achievement... at the Superbowl, at the World Series, at the Grammys, at the Oscars, at the Miss Universe Pageant, at American Idol.
People like to blame the no retard left behind mentality for our situation, but the anti-intellectual sentiment has been with this country since its inception. For every Jefferson and Franklin encouraging us to be exceptional in everything there is a Jackson and Hamilton ready to make us common and mercantile.
Let's face it: the killer app on the iPhone are two things: seamless integration among components (hardware/software) and now the App Store
No, the killer apps are the tolerable music player that syncs with iTunes and the first decent small-screen web browser.
(And why do you keep repeating this term "seamless integration"? If it were seamless, you wouldn't have to exit every application to run another, as if it were Palm OS, or DOS. That's a very big seam.)
You don't win a prize for being the biggest idiot in a console gaming thread retard.
And the Oscar goes to... Anonymous Coward, for his post "Butthurt Fanboy Wharrgarbl"!
"Thank you! Thank you! I couldn't have done it without Cheatos, obesity, and shame. I didn't win this just for me, I won this for everyone who attaches their identity to a corporation to derive some semblance of self-esteem. Thank you!"
Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.
Actually, those movies are popular because they show what a real man does in the face of adversity. Those cultures with gun control are so subservient to their governments that they are shocked to see an individual asserting himself against evil. That is also why there is nothing wrong with "western centeredness". The West is the light of the world. It was Western values that abolished the caste system, it was western science that brought industry to the subcontinent.
Apple's filtering benefits the consumer that doesn't want to have a lot of crap in their eco-system.
And they're doing such a great job of it too. Fart applications in the double digits, and yet not a single third party music player or email client that supersedes the very limited functionality of the bundled applications.
Quality control without the quality is simply control.
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The cultures where these issues do exist need weapons, or else the criminals become bolder. The citizens need to have the right to protect themselves, or else they become infantile, completely dependent on the state for their security, and the criminals become bolder. The people associate weapons with criminals, they perceive them as stronger, and the criminals become bolder and more numerous.
You can't castrate the citizens of a superpower and expect their culture to become docile overnight. It is not in their nature. Soon it will be such that the criminals themselves will be the true inheritors of their nation's history.
This is what happens to a country that takes people's guns away.
Correction. Fox executives are businessmen and like making money.
So is Kenneth Lay. So is Bernard Ebbers. So is Bernard Madoff.
An interest in acquiring money does not preclude anyone from letting their ideological biases and rationalizations influence their decisions. In fact, it encourages it, as that sort of single-mindedness tends to destroy empathy and creativity. These people are entirely reactionary, never novelty-seeking, and make their decisions based on immutable "truths" learned in childhood, which are really little more than a thin veneer of resentment for anyone who doesn't play the same status-climbing game they have devoted their lives to.
American Idol they understand. 24 they understand. Cowboys in space? WTF is this shit? Bury it!
<Nelson>Ha ha!</Nelson>
I have to admit, I'm glad I'll never touch Palm OS or Symbian ever again.
The executives at Fox are conservative morons, and they hate science, even things that pretend to be "sciency".
Give me something to read, please, not something designed to assimilate me into another angry mob.
Oh, come now. Anger is a perfectly valid human emotion. If people didn't become angry over wrongdoing, they wouldn't have the courage to do set things right.
Software was originally given away freely. It's important to remember that.
No, not really.
Go back in time to 1960 and sell them for several hundred million each.
Everyone who enjoys developing for Series 60, say "aye". Everyone who considers J2ME useful, say "aye".
*crickets*
Yeah. There's the relevance of your billion smartphones.
Actually, life begins at four billion years ago. Mitosis begins after fertilization.
And the people who whine about a thing being "natural" and another thing being "artificial", with the implication that "natural" is always better, should have been aborted. That's a stupidity we need to be proactive in weeding out of our genome.
Oh, and btw, the fact that a lame comedian leads the user write-in vote is truly a sad statement on our society.
What do you mean, our society? Who let you in?
About 3,213 workers were in the database, and other information included data on personal relationships, political affiliations, and employment histories
And what's wrong with that? There are plenty of websites that track corporate political donations and rank companies as employers. Seems only fair.
Hey, smart guy, why don't you go lookup the percentage of foreclosures on loans that were beneficiaries of that regulation.
why not foster a more competitive market as well?
WTF do you think net neutrality is for? The word "regulation" does not only mean what talk radio ideologues want it to mean. Property rights themselves are regulation. Without the government to enforce them, there is no such thing as property. Every system has rules, and the rules must be enforced or the system collapses and all value is lost. In this case, the system is more valuable with participant neutrality than without.
I mean, do you want the internet to be like the mobile carriers, where talk is cheap but downloading a movie costs twenty thousand dollars? Yeah, that "free market" is working great by itself.
Ethics like that are the reason some cultures foster third-world shitholes.
Nonsense. Our country celebrates achievement... at the Superbowl, at the World Series, at the Grammys, at the Oscars, at the Miss Universe Pageant, at American Idol.
People like to blame the no retard left behind mentality for our situation, but the anti-intellectual sentiment has been with this country since its inception. For every Jefferson and Franklin encouraging us to be exceptional in everything there is a Jackson and Hamilton ready to make us common and mercantile.
Your momma so fat, Soviet Russia in her!
Let's face it: the killer app on the iPhone are two things: seamless integration among components (hardware/software) and now the App Store
No, the killer apps are the tolerable music player that syncs with iTunes and the first decent small-screen web browser.
(And why do you keep repeating this term "seamless integration"? If it were seamless, you wouldn't have to exit every application to run another, as if it were Palm OS, or DOS. That's a very big seam.)
We are so doomed.
Perhaps you are, if you get in the way. Practical eugenics will happen, and there isn't much you can do to stop it.
If not hair color, then intelligence? Who are you to say which traits are trivial and which are worth enhancing?
You don't win a prize for being the biggest idiot in a console gaming thread retard.
And the Oscar goes to... Anonymous Coward, for his post "Butthurt Fanboy Wharrgarbl"!
"Thank you! Thank you! I couldn't have done it without Cheatos, obesity, and shame. I didn't win this just for me, I won this for everyone who attaches their identity to a corporation to derive some semblance of self-esteem. Thank you!"
Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.
Actually, those movies are popular because they show what a real man does in the face of adversity. Those cultures with gun control are so subservient to their governments that they are shocked to see an individual asserting himself against evil. That is also why there is nothing wrong with "western centeredness". The West is the light of the world. It was Western values that abolished the caste system, it was western science that brought industry to the subcontinent.
You read words you did not want to read. HA HA!
You did it again! HA HA!
That the Internet can't ever replace newspapers and proper reporting.
I think some kids are on your lawn, maybe you'd better go scare them off.
Apple's filtering benefits the consumer that doesn't want to have a lot of crap in their eco-system.
And they're doing such a great job of it too. Fart applications in the double digits, and yet not a single third party music player or email client that supersedes the very limited functionality of the bundled applications.
Quality control without the quality is simply control.