I knew the Iraq war was nonsense when I was listening to Colin Powell lie to the world at the U.N. Don't know whether you realized it at the time or not.
You seem to have (willfully?) missed my point. The nonsense you're spewing about North Korea is more neo-con fantasy, similar to that the Bush administration did for Iraq. Except yours is even farther out in space. Unless I'm missing a troll, you're fruity as a nut cake.
But I wouldn't mind sending our forces in to remove the North Korean government......A simple 2-3% tax on corporate earnings from the new United Korea until the cost is repaid, including a healthy payment to the family of any US solder who dies.
Nothing too big, so that it isn't painful enough to cause problems, but something to show that they have to do their part in paying for our services.
"The Iraq war will pay for itself." Dick Cheney, is that you?
It still gives me a little shock when I see someone express such breathtaking arrogance and ignorance.
You added a new twist, though, I have to hand it to you for suggesting that we levy a tax after "liberating" North Korea, to *literally* pay blood money to families of soldiers who die.
Most of the United States' problems around the world are exacerbated by the enforcer mentality behind much of our foreign policy, and you want to turn the U.S. into an openly mercenary state.
Bravo, sir, bravo. Tell the orderly to stop stealing your meds.
I use youmail for my VM provider. its great because I get texts if i want, transcripts if i want, emails if i want. I tend to stick with the emails (texts before my smart phone). I for the life of me cannot tell you the last time i actually listened to a VM, if i see you called, and i want to talk to you, i call you back.
Im sure other companies offer the same features, i know google does but to this 29 year old, this is spot on information
29? You aren't exactly a spring chicken...
Yes he is. And I infer from your post I would consider you to be a fetus.
And how many did the US kill (ostensibly) over 9/11? Millions?
Certainly not millions. If you include those civilians accidentally or mistakenly killed by the U.S. forces, plus the actual targets they were aiming at, I'm pretty certain it was far less than 200,000.
Still, that's a sickening number of humans to destroy so your defense contractor friends can make a... er, killing, as it were.
...At least this way the focus on finding and killing the hackers as gone up.
This caught my eye. Really? We've decide to kill the hackers? Somehow I don't think the president would sanction killing people who have not physically hurt U.S. citizens as a "proportionate response".
I was writing that last sentence seriously, but then thought, "hey, this is the president who ordered the killing of a U.S. citizen who just made some YouTube rants - of course he'd consider killing them.
But actually, no. The president will not order, or sanction, the killing of the douchebags who hacked Sony.
Yep, you really don't get it. Reply once again with points that slide past the actual issue, and go on with your life, satisfied that you put paid to some "copyright fanboi" on the internet.
You are correct! The value of the tea (let's say a few tons, to be generous) was more valuable than the ideas that created the most powerful nation with the largest economy the world has ever seen.
Well, 1) it was a flippant comment, but then 2) you went and riled me up by making that bogus comparison to physical artifacts.
People like you can't seem to wrap your heads around the difference between the physical product of some unit of manual labor, and the creation of an idea. Compare the value of all the tea in crates on docks in Boston harbor in 1776 against the intangible ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and tell me which was more valuable.
We could have this big conversation about it, but you just won't understand. I believe you when you say you "can also never figure out..." So, take this as a statement that here's another thing in the world that you cannot comprehend, and I'm done here.
Yes, the public should be allowed to profit from the work of others.
That's exactly true, and in fact that's the reason that the US Constitution plainly states that copyrights are to be granted only for limited times. The founders of this country clearly wanted the public to profit from the works of others, after as little as 14 years.
Well, yes, but when the constitution was written, 14 years after publication, the creator of the work was likely dead of the scurvy, or gout.
Yes, but those aren't the only choices. There's also a style that's comfortable, uncluttered, with warm colors, that I prefer. Oh, and with an indoor exercise pool.:-)
Textbook publishers are right up there with advertisers and telephone sanitizers. Shoot the bastards into space and be done with them.
Advertisers perform a useful service, but I really have to point out that sending the telephone sanitizers onto the colony ship resulted in the complete destruction of the Golgafrinchans. Why do so many people misperceive that point, and compare (group of people they believe are useless) with the telephone sanitizers?
...So, though was Hughes-Hallett, and she probably does not live in an exceptional custom house/concert hall.
Did you look at the slideshow? That house looks like a sterile, uncomfortable place to live. I see people who live in places like that and I wonder if their emotional landscape is as barren as their domiciles.
Cult classics are usually good movies (Big Lebowski), or really bad movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space).
Since this is just another shitty Seth Rogen movie, it will likely just be some odd historical footnote, perhaps identified by future scholars as the point where America lost its balls.
Yeah, I guess we should show we're not intimidated by North Korea. But really, corporations are.
Although if a local theater showed The Interview as an act of defiance, I'd be torn about going to see it. The event could be fun, but on the other hand, I'd be watching yet another shitty Seth Rogen movie.
Really, it'd be like going to see a comedian who's being threatened with arrest for obscenity, but instead of Lenny Bruce, it's Carrot Top.
Funny, but in your post you could substitute "The United States" for "Apple", and "which doesn't torture people" for "not built on top of slavery conditions", and the point stands.
Of course, "The United States" was *also* "built on top of slavery conditions", but you can't make an omelet and so on...
If I taught my kid that there is absolutely no god, end of story, then I guess you could claim I was indoctrinating him/her. But in fact, 1) I did not identify as an atheist and 2) I didn't mention whether I even have children, or if I did, how I would raise them (which is none of your business anyway).
You have no idea what you're talking about. You're trying to argue against an argument for atheism WHICH I DID NOT MAKE. My reference to people begging a magic Sky Daddy is certainly a derisive description of religion, but so what? My point was not that atheists are correct, or even that I was one - you made an assumption.
If you want to be all mad at any random public derision of religion, that's not my problem. I wasn't advancing a religious argument, and I will not argue religion with you - from your specious logic, it's obvious that would be a waste of my time.
And you're *still* wrong about anything in what I wrote being circular reasoning - you just made that up. You're a very dim bulb.
Sorry dude, but your post didn't make any fucking sense. Whatsoever.
I said it was no worse than religious indoctrination by parents, which is completely legal. I also said I thought he was a bit of a dick. Lots of legal things are still dickish.
What exactly is it you don't understand about that? Don't answer now, think about it as you snap the chin strap on your helmet, and ponder it on the short bus ride to school.
I'm (pretty?) sure you're joking. If parents can make their children attend lessons on Sunday about begging a magic Sky Daddy for things, then requiring a child to play certain videogames is well within the realm of the legal. Although, I still think he's a bit of an asshole, but then I think that about people with sincerely held religious beliefs as well.
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I knew the Iraq war was nonsense when I was listening to Colin Powell lie to the world at the U.N. Don't know whether you realized it at the time or not.
You seem to have (willfully?) missed my point. The nonsense you're spewing about North Korea is more neo-con fantasy, similar to that the Bush administration did for Iraq. Except yours is even farther out in space. Unless I'm missing a troll, you're fruity as a nut cake.
No, I wouldn't...
But I wouldn't mind sending our forces in to remove the North Korean government... ...A simple 2-3% tax on corporate earnings from the new United Korea until the cost is repaid, including a healthy payment to the family of any US solder who dies.
Nothing too big, so that it isn't painful enough to cause problems, but something to show that they have to do their part in paying for our services.
"The Iraq war will pay for itself." Dick Cheney, is that you?
It still gives me a little shock when I see someone express such breathtaking arrogance and ignorance.
You added a new twist, though, I have to hand it to you for suggesting that we levy a tax after "liberating" North Korea, to *literally* pay blood money to families of soldiers who die.
Most of the United States' problems around the world are exacerbated by the enforcer mentality behind much of our foreign policy, and you want to turn the U.S. into an openly mercenary state.
Bravo, sir, bravo. Tell the orderly to stop stealing your meds.
I use youmail for my VM provider. its great because I get texts if i want, transcripts if i want, emails if i want. I tend to stick with the emails (texts before my smart phone). I for the life of me cannot tell you the last time i actually listened to a VM, if i see you called, and i want to talk to you, i call you back.
Im sure other companies offer the same features, i know google does but to this 29 year old, this is spot on information
29? You aren't exactly a spring chicken...
Yes he is. And I infer from your post I would consider you to be a fetus.
And how many did the US kill (ostensibly) over 9/11? Millions?
Certainly not millions. If you include those civilians accidentally or mistakenly killed by the U.S. forces, plus the actual targets they were aiming at, I'm pretty certain it was far less than 200,000.
Still, that's a sickening number of humans to destroy so your defense contractor friends can make a... er, killing, as it were.
Oh yes, I completely agree that you are correct. You have decimated my argument.
Says the person posting on Slashdot trying to exert the fact that he is smarter than everyone......
Says the person meta-criticizing a /. criticism, and who also apparently cannot tell the difference between the words "exert" and "assert".
...At least this way the focus on finding and killing the hackers as gone up.
This caught my eye. Really? We've decide to kill the hackers? Somehow I don't think the president would sanction killing people who have not physically hurt U.S. citizens as a "proportionate response".
I was writing that last sentence seriously, but then thought, "hey, this is the president who ordered the killing of a U.S. citizen who just made some YouTube rants - of course he'd consider killing them.
But actually, no. The president will not order, or sanction, the killing of the douchebags who hacked Sony.
Your sarcasm producer, it's not loaded.
Yep, you really don't get it. Reply once again with points that slide past the actual issue, and go on with your life, satisfied that you put paid to some "copyright fanboi" on the internet.
You are correct! The value of the tea (let's say a few tons, to be generous) was more valuable than the ideas that created the most powerful nation with the largest economy the world has ever seen.
Good job sir, bravo.
Well, 1) it was a flippant comment, but then 2) you went and riled me up by making that bogus comparison to physical artifacts.
People like you can't seem to wrap your heads around the difference between the physical product of some unit of manual labor, and the creation of an idea. Compare the value of all the tea in crates on docks in Boston harbor in 1776 against the intangible ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and tell me which was more valuable.
We could have this big conversation about it, but you just won't understand. I believe you when you say you "can also never figure out..." So, take this as a statement that here's another thing in the world that you cannot comprehend, and I'm done here.
Yes, the public should be allowed to profit from the work of others.
That's exactly true, and in fact that's the reason that the US Constitution plainly states that copyrights are to be granted only for limited times. The founders of this country clearly wanted the public to profit from the works of others, after as little as 14 years.
Well, yes, but when the constitution was written, 14 years after publication, the creator of the work was likely dead of the scurvy, or gout.
Yes, but those aren't the only choices. There's also a style that's comfortable, uncluttered, with warm colors, that I prefer. Oh, and with an indoor exercise pool. :-)
Textbook publishers are right up there with advertisers and telephone sanitizers. Shoot the bastards into space and be done with them.
Advertisers perform a useful service, but I really have to point out that sending the telephone sanitizers onto the colony ship resulted in the complete destruction of the Golgafrinchans. Why do so many people misperceive that point, and compare (group of people they believe are useless) with the telephone sanitizers?
...So, though was Hughes-Hallett, and she probably does not live in an exceptional custom house/concert hall.
Did you look at the slideshow? That house looks like a sterile, uncomfortable place to live. I see people who live in places like that and I wonder if their emotional landscape is as barren as their domiciles.
How do you spell cult classic? #INTERVIEW
Cult classics are usually good movies (Big Lebowski), or really bad movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space).
Since this is just another shitty Seth Rogen movie, it will likely just be some odd historical footnote, perhaps identified by future scholars as the point where America lost its balls.
Yeah, I guess we should show we're not intimidated by North Korea. But really, corporations are.
Although if a local theater showed The Interview as an act of defiance, I'd be torn about going to see it. The event could be fun, but on the other hand, I'd be watching yet another shitty Seth Rogen movie.
Really, it'd be like going to see a comedian who's being threatened with arrest for obscenity, but instead of Lenny Bruce, it's Carrot Top.
Funny, but in your post you could substitute "The United States" for "Apple", and "which doesn't torture people" for "not built on top of slavery conditions", and the point stands.
Of course, "The United States" was *also* "built on top of slavery conditions", but you can't make an omelet and so on...
I don't know why I'm sometimes slow to recognize a troll.
Anyway, good one. Have a nice life.
If I taught my kid that there is absolutely no god, end of story, then I guess you could claim I was indoctrinating him/her. But in fact, 1) I did not identify as an atheist and 2) I didn't mention whether I even have children, or if I did, how I would raise them (which is none of your business anyway).
You moron.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You're trying to argue against an argument for atheism WHICH I DID NOT MAKE. My reference to people begging a magic Sky Daddy is certainly a derisive description of religion, but so what? My point was not that atheists are correct, or even that I was one - you made an assumption.
If you want to be all mad at any random public derision of religion, that's not my problem. I wasn't advancing a religious argument, and I will not argue religion with you - from your specious logic, it's obvious that would be a waste of my time.
And you're *still* wrong about anything in what I wrote being circular reasoning - you just made that up. You're a very dim bulb.
Sorry dude, but your post didn't make any fucking sense. Whatsoever.
I said it was no worse than religious indoctrination by parents, which is completely legal. I also said I thought he was a bit of a dick. Lots of legal things are still dickish.
What exactly is it you don't understand about that? Don't answer now, think about it as you snap the chin strap on your helmet, and ponder it on the short bus ride to school.
Ponce is the only ship of the United States Navy that is named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
And a good thing too, nobody would know what the fuck is going on if there were 15 ships and a submarine all named Ponce.
"Is your name not Bruce?"
I'm (pretty?) sure you're joking. If parents can make their children attend lessons on Sunday about begging a magic Sky Daddy for things, then requiring a child to play certain videogames is well within the realm of the legal. Although, I still think he's a bit of an asshole, but then I think that about people with sincerely held religious beliefs as well.
and future coders will cost a lot less, guaranteed.
Yes, so do buggy-whip assemblers.