I can see not using some of those, but history? History isn't necessarily something you use consciously. A history education should provide a background which helps inform your opinions of the world, e.g. world history->understanding why Muslims may not like us very much, US History (assuming you are an American):Prohibition->understanding the failure of our current drug policies.
You may not use a lot of your high school education for profit or advancement, but that's not really the point. A lot of it is there to open your mind to different ideas and different ways of thinking, and in that sense (hopefully) people use it more than they realize.
Actually, DeBeers came under a lot of criticism in the late 90's for buying blood/conflict diamonds from Angola and Sierra Leone over the previous decade or so and making a lot of profit selling them internationally. Human rights activists campaigned to make blood/conflict diamonds illegal after reports on the RUF's control of diamond mines, their use of slave labor, and the fact that much of the money they made from diamond sales went into buying weapons. It wasn't blacks making money instead of whites; it was whites making money by selling arms to a particularly brutal and destructive army.
I'm not saying DeBeers isn't evil, or that they're happy with the idea of African ownership of diamonds mines, but it's hard say there's nothing bloody about diamonds coming from mines controlled by the RUF.
To be fair, $12,000 is less than my student loans after I graduated college. $12,000 is a pretty small investment if you are trying to start a small business. It's also very easy to rack up that much debt after financial disaster, e.g. loss of income earner, sick kid, natural disaster you don't have insurance for, etc.
Obviously you don't want any debt other than a mortgage and maybe a car payment, but I'd say 12K is small enough that it's not necessarily indicative of poor financial strategy.
Facts don't have owners, but specific compilations do. You can compile your own database of facts, but you can't copy and distribute someone else's (and people have been catching others doing exactly that for a long time by inserting a couple fake "facts", e.g. bad phone numbers).
You forgot being able to watch a recording on your laptop while on the toilet. I'm puzzled as to why MythTV doesn't advertise this feature a bit more, since it's one of my favorites.
That being said, you can't honestly suggest that MythTV is always a better choice than Tivo, unless you've conveniently forgotten about the teeming masses of people who couldn't install a capture card if their life depended on it. Ease is the killer feature for Tivo and bundled PVRs.
To me the concept of natural rights is not about what we have; it's about what we deserve merely for being human. Without society we still have rights, but we may lack the institutional power to assert them.
It is simply an appeal to authority designed to shut down debate around rights.
I agree that this is often the case.
The thing is, if there were such a thing as natural rights, they would be clear and self evident to all.
Non Sequitur. Certainly sub atomic particles exist, but it is only through a process of continual observation and analysis that we know of them at all. The rights we should have merely for being human will probably continue to be a controversial topic for quite some time, but that doesn't mean there is no one set of rights all humans deserve.
A website funded mostly by advertisements that is therefore immune to the temptation to sensationalize stories is reporting that a sports talk show host from WSHT was recently ejected from a meaningless sports event for calling the game with a HAM radio.
According to WSHT, host Johnson Jones was approached by NCAA officials right before they stop selling beer and all the fun is gone in a game between the University of Lousville and Oklahoma State, and was told that calling the game 'from an NCAA championship event "is against NCAA policies (and) we're revoking the (press) credential and need to ask you to leave the stadium, before we employ more (parenthesis) and 'nested "quo't'es" at you in a "vicious"' (manner)."'
Clearly, this is a sign our democratic meritocracy has finally collapsed under the weight of the jack booted thugs from college sporting events. The arguments from the N[azi]CAA that they have a right to revoke the press pass they gave him because he's competing with their services are obviously thinly veiled lies. The end of the world will follow shortly.
No no, it'd be "think any thing" to continue, and for the first time literally thinking "any thing" will actually work! We'll have to come up with a new quintessential n00b joke.
You forgot to point out that this prevents them from hearing the word of the Lord. Otherwise, I'm glad someone's finally said what the Bolshevik Hollywood media doesn't want you to know.
Communists don't kill people, totalitarian regimes that rush to fill power vacuums kill people. After all, it's not like we're going to vote for national health care and expansive well fare, then suddenly turn into mindless homicidal maniacs....
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The person who modifies the source and distributes the modifications (even in the form of a binary patch) is the one in violation.
Tivo already agreed to the GPL by distributing the original source (unless they have an explicit license).
I'm pretty sure Germany has extradition treaties with USA/Canada/the rest of Europe. Does that make most of us criminals?
Extradition treaties don't make one country's laws applicable in another, they allow people who commit crimes in one country to be returned to that country after fleeing to another.
I'm all for banning cars and planes when the imperfections inherent in cars and planes could potentially reveal information critical to national security. Argument by analogy is dumb.
Advertisers produce nothing of value, and add no value to the products they advertise
There's nothing valuable about people actually knowing a product exists? Or put another way, there's no value to me (the consumer) knowing a product exists that will meet a need I have?
I'm pretty anti-advertising, but that's mostly because of obnoxious, intrusive, and/or ubiquitous marketing. The fundamental purpose of advertising is to introduce the buyer and the seller, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Wasn't this an episode of the original The Tomorrow People, except that transit time felt like it took much longer than it really did, whereas the reality of time dilation would likely be the reverse?
That also sounds like a Steven King short story called (IIRC) The Jaunt, where teleportation to Mars was nearly instantaneous for outside observers, but if you were awake when you traveled your consciousness perceived the transit time as nearly infinite.
They'd be in a lot of legal trouble if they called it PassiveAggressiveStorm, since my girlfriend has already patented the idea, trademarked the name, and holds the copyright on a number of creative implementations.
We'll need replicators before we have holodecks, because who would want to waste their time farming or disposing of waste? Round the clock orgy fantasies won't create food (although they are the best possible way to starve to death).
So it occurs naturally, but in much lower concentrations than those currently measured in us and a lot of the food we eat. What's your point? I ask because my first impression was that you were attempting to contradict the parent, but the quoted material seems to support his position.
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I'm not entirely sure what your point is, but I do like your sig. :)
I thought Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC were the (mostly) White Family Channels.
The Black Family Channel just happens to reveal their target demographic in their name.
I can see not using some of those, but history? History isn't necessarily something you use consciously. A history education should provide a background which helps inform your opinions of the world, e.g. world history->understanding why Muslims may not like us very much, US History (assuming you are an American):Prohibition->understanding the failure of our current drug policies.
You may not use a lot of your high school education for profit or advancement, but that's not really the point. A lot of it is there to open your mind to different ideas and different ways of thinking, and in that sense (hopefully) people use it more than they realize.
Actually, DeBeers came under a lot of criticism in the late 90's for buying blood/conflict diamonds from Angola and Sierra Leone over the previous decade or so and making a lot of profit selling them internationally. Human rights activists campaigned to make blood/conflict diamonds illegal after reports on the RUF's control of diamond mines, their use of slave labor, and the fact that much of the money they made from diamond sales went into buying weapons. It wasn't blacks making money instead of whites; it was whites making money by selling arms to a particularly brutal and destructive army.
I'm not saying DeBeers isn't evil, or that they're happy with the idea of African ownership of diamonds mines, but it's hard say there's nothing bloody about diamonds coming from mines controlled by the RUF.
To be fair, $12,000 is less than my student loans after I graduated college. $12,000 is a pretty small investment if you are trying to start a small business. It's also very easy to rack up that much debt after financial disaster, e.g. loss of income earner, sick kid, natural disaster you don't have insurance for, etc.
Obviously you don't want any debt other than a mortgage and maybe a car payment, but I'd say 12K is small enough that it's not necessarily indicative of poor financial strategy.
Facts don't have owners, but specific compilations do. You can compile your own database of facts, but you can't copy and distribute someone else's (and people have been catching others doing exactly that for a long time by inserting a couple fake "facts", e.g. bad phone numbers).
You forgot being able to watch a recording on your laptop while on the toilet. I'm puzzled as to why MythTV doesn't advertise this feature a bit more, since it's one of my favorites.
That being said, you can't honestly suggest that MythTV is always a better choice than Tivo, unless you've conveniently forgotten about the teeming masses of people who couldn't install a capture card if their life depended on it. Ease is the killer feature for Tivo and bundled PVRs.
Shh, don't tell anyone, but I made that all up.
"Taxibot confessions"
No no, it'd be "think any thing" to continue, and for the first time literally thinking "any thing" will actually work! We'll have to come up with a new quintessential n00b joke.
You forgot to point out that this prevents them from hearing the word of the Lord. Otherwise, I'm glad someone's finally said what the Bolshevik Hollywood media doesn't want you to know.
Communists don't kill people, totalitarian regimes that rush to fill power vacuums kill people. After all, it's not like we're going to vote for national health care and expansive well fare, then suddenly turn into mindless homicidal maniacs....
The person who modifies the source and distributes the modifications (even in the form of a binary patch) is the one in violation.
Tivo already agreed to the GPL by distributing the original source (unless they have an explicit license).
So if you integrate this into your lines it could be a factor in your chance to multiply?
Why yes, I am a big hit at parties.
They were about to write them down when the computer was destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. I guess we'll find out in 11 months or so.
On the plus side, the staff has quicker access to the nearest janitorial supply closet.
I'm all for banning cars and planes when the imperfections inherent in cars and planes could potentially reveal information critical to national security. Argument by analogy is dumb.
Perhaps if you were more open minded, you'd have more good times....
I'm pretty anti-advertising, but that's mostly because of obnoxious, intrusive, and/or ubiquitous marketing. The fundamental purpose of advertising is to introduce the buyer and the seller, and there's nothing wrong with that.
They'd be in a lot of legal trouble if they called it PassiveAggressiveStorm, since my girlfriend has already patented the idea, trademarked the name, and holds the copyright on a number of creative implementations.
I kid, I kid.
We'll need replicators before we have holodecks, because who would want to waste their time farming or disposing of waste? Round the clock orgy fantasies won't create food (although they are the best possible way to starve to death).
So it occurs naturally, but in much lower concentrations than those currently measured in us and a lot of the food we eat. What's your point? I ask because my first impression was that you were attempting to contradict the parent, but the quoted material seems to support his position.