"Why? You've heard the old saying "give a man a fish...?" Part of the point there is that the knowledge of fishing is more valuable than the actual fish, or the actual fishing is."
You're confusing copyrights with patents. Members of the RIAA don't produce any practical information, it is at best art.
"ZOMG! We can't let the Chinese get a hold of the lyrics of the latest Ashlee Simpson song! It's a matter of national security!"
"Targeted advertising by user opt-in newsletters and e-mail campaigns (unlike spamming) or internal market research to get a grasp on its customer base isn't unethical, in my opinion."
Prvacy violation or not, the information is obviously of value to the advertisers, especially if they're paying a third-party to collect it. If it's valuable enough for them to pay money for it, it's valuable enough for me not to part with it without seeing some of that money.
"Japan is absolutely correct to view mass immigration with suspicion."
Japan is absolutely hyporcritical about it, then. They saw no problem with mass emmigration, especially in the 1930's and 1940's. They'll go to the Philippines, annex the islands at the point of a rifle and shoot anybody that disagrees, but they won't allow Filipinos to voluntarily come to Japan to live and work?
Sure, what the Japanese did in the 1930's in the Philippines wasn't all that much better than what we did to them in the 1900's, but we at least let the Filipinos come here and become citizens nowadays.
"After an impeachment, the Executive Branch would be governed by a very careful Dick Cheney (because he would know that the American public was willing to hold the president accountable for any criminal activity)."
You missed the entire point of my example. Who came in after Nixon? Ford, who has the distinction of neve being on any of the ballots. What did Gerald Ford do, even after "knowing that the American public was willing to hold the president accountable for any criminal activity?" He pardoned Nixon.
If Bush were impeached and removed from office, I'll bet you any amount of money that the newly sworn in President Cheney would pardon Bush before the judge even puts the Bible down. The only way Bush will actually be convicted in a court and do time for what he did in office is if charges aren't pressed until after the next presidential election and a Democrat comes to power.
"How can we as the American people cope with a President that doesn't even acknowledge that what he's doing is illegial?"
We've done it before. Which reminds me: before you impeach Bush and remove him from office, remember who then gets sworn in.
Makes you wish we didn't vote for the two on the same ticket, doesn't it?
"How can we further cope with a Congress that hasn't already 'stopped the presses' by calling for immediate hearings on the matter?"
By whom, the same Congress that refuses to swear in oil executives when they come to talk about their windfall profits?
"but does 'freedom' include not being able to openly discuss laws and policies?"
As he said back in 2001, you're either with him or against him. And if you're against him, there are national security letters to keep you quiet.
If you don't like Bush's policies, you're de facto giving aid and comfort to the terrorists. Not even the Other Beloved Party, the Democrats, can stomach being accused of that.
"The telecommunications companies are regulated by Congress, illegally and unconstitutionally."
Selling time on a copper wire is commerce. If the wires used cross state lines, it's interstate commerce. Sounds consitutional to me.
"Communication is speech."
But communications mediums aren't. So long as they're not, say, giving different treatment to different communcations based on sender, recipient and/or content (e. g. by setting up the two-tiered Internet you're so vocally in favor of, which makes one doubt your commitmentment to your statements on free speech), the First Amendment doesn't touch on this.
Communications aren't blocked or otherwise hindered; if the NSA did that, the "terrorists" would know they've been made. This isn't a First Amendment issue, it's a Fourth Amendment one.
"Just see that every empire has its day, and the ones most responsible are those who elected, not those who were elected."
So you're insisting the chicken came before the egg? How are unhappy voters supposed to oust politicians in districts that are jerrymandered into being uncompetitive?
"I picked the candidate best suited to represent my family and I."
Nobody else can speak for you, but you can speak for other members of your family? Do you make sure your wife also puts you down on her ballot?
"nobody would want to know if someone was plotting another attack like that."
Lots of people are planning to blow up New York ("ZOMG, they voted for Hillary!"). Very, very few of them are credibly planning to blow up New York. If you find a credible threat, getting a warrant to listen in on their communications is little more than a formality.
If you're justified in tapping lines, you should have no problem getting a warrant and no need to fear the courts.
"The solution is to ship the consoles from Japan to the US."
Except they don't play US games. They'd have to open the box, open the case, swap chips, and then repackage it into a US box. It'd be easier to make a new 360 from scratch.
"You had a Tristar once... and you got rid of it? You fool!"
I got rid of it because I was tired of the graphical and sound glitches. It uses the same chip as this NEX and has the same problems. So I sold it on eBay and now have a SWC DX2 that sits on top of my SNES (which uses S-VHS output). I use my front-loading NES now with its composite outputs, but if I ever feel the need to safe shelf space again, I'll use the A/V Famicom and my 72-to-60 pin converter (looks silly but saves horizontal space).
" But there's the possibility that life in meteorites was just burned away traveling through the atmosphere at high speeds."
If enough of a meteorite made it thorugh to his the surface (especially those that cuase impact craters), why wouldn't something inside of it also survive?
Stuff rains down on us from space all the time, including comets (at least where "all the time" is in geological terms). If there was something that could be alive on a comet that could harm us, something like it would have come down and killed us all by now.
Both you and the parent aren't reading what they wrote. SELECT COUNT (*) is accurate, it was SHOW TABLE STATUS that gives the estimate (as it should, IMO).
"Raped and murdered someone? One count rape + one count murder."
No, that's double jeopardy. Unless you raped a different person than you murdered, or at least did the two acts on two different occasions, the entire attack must be considered a single act.
This is why we have different degrees of murder to begin with.
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"Why? You've heard the old saying "give a man a fish...?" Part of the point there is that the knowledge of fishing is more valuable than the actual fish, or the actual fishing is."
You're confusing copyrights with patents. Members of the RIAA don't produce any practical information, it is at best art.
"ZOMG! We can't let the Chinese get a hold of the lyrics of the latest Ashlee Simpson song! It's a matter of national security!"
For the same reason why this will all go away once some member of Congress reminds their peers of Russia's oil reserves.
"it expresses the will of the U.S. Congress"
Whatever happened to expressing the will of the people?
"And you are, in the form of the reduced price the service can sell whatever it was they sold you where the information was gathered."
You're assuming I am interested in buying their product, before or after their advertising campaign.
"What did you part with, BTW?"
Peace and quiet and freedom from being annoyed by advertisers and their so-called survey takers.
"Targeted advertising by user opt-in newsletters and e-mail campaigns (unlike spamming) or internal market research to get a grasp on its customer base isn't unethical, in my opinion."
Prvacy violation or not, the information is obviously of value to the advertisers, especially if they're paying a third-party to collect it. If it's valuable enough for them to pay money for it, it's valuable enough for me not to part with it without seeing some of that money.
"I'm going to take it that Filipina is referring to nationality as opposed to ethnicity."
In most countries in the world, especially Japan, there's no difference between the two.
"Japan is absolutely correct to view mass immigration with suspicion."
Japan is absolutely hyporcritical about it, then. They saw no problem with mass emmigration, especially in the 1930's and 1940's. They'll go to the Philippines, annex the islands at the point of a rifle and shoot anybody that disagrees, but they won't allow Filipinos to voluntarily come to Japan to live and work?
Sure, what the Japanese did in the 1930's in the Philippines wasn't all that much better than what we did to them in the 1900's, but we at least let the Filipinos come here and become citizens nowadays.
"After an impeachment, the Executive Branch would be governed by a very careful Dick Cheney (because he would know that the American public was willing to hold the president accountable for any criminal activity)."
You missed the entire point of my example. Who came in after Nixon? Ford, who has the distinction of neve being on any of the ballots. What did Gerald Ford do, even after "knowing that the American public was willing to hold the president accountable for any criminal activity?" He pardoned Nixon.
If Bush were impeached and removed from office, I'll bet you any amount of money that the newly sworn in President Cheney would pardon Bush before the judge even puts the Bible down. The only way Bush will actually be convicted in a court and do time for what he did in office is if charges aren't pressed until after the next presidential election and a Democrat comes to power.
Well, I've got this Nigerian robot that keeps on emailing me...
"How can we as the American people cope with a President that doesn't even acknowledge that what he's doing is illegial?"
We've done it before. Which reminds me: before you impeach Bush and remove him from office, remember who then gets sworn in.
Makes you wish we didn't vote for the two on the same ticket, doesn't it?
"How can we further cope with a Congress that hasn't already 'stopped the presses' by calling for immediate hearings on the matter?"
By whom, the same Congress that refuses to swear in oil executives when they come to talk about their windfall profits?
"but does 'freedom' include not being able to openly discuss laws and policies?"
As he said back in 2001, you're either with him or against him. And if you're against him, there are national security letters to keep you quiet.
If you don't like Bush's policies, you're de facto giving aid and comfort to the terrorists. Not even the Other Beloved Party, the Democrats, can stomach being accused of that.
""Guitar Hero" doesn't even come close to truly playing guitar."
Neither do most rock stars.
"See how the real heroes don't look at a screen to know what notes to play next."
Yeah, real guitarists have all three chords memorized.
"The telecommunications companies are regulated by Congress, illegally and unconstitutionally."
Selling time on a copper wire is commerce. If the wires used cross state lines, it's interstate commerce. Sounds consitutional to me.
"Communication is speech."
But communications mediums aren't. So long as they're not, say, giving different treatment to different communcations based on sender, recipient and/or content (e. g. by setting up the two-tiered Internet you're so vocally in favor of, which makes one doubt your commitmentment to your statements on free speech), the First Amendment doesn't touch on this.
Communications aren't blocked or otherwise hindered; if the NSA did that, the "terrorists" would know they've been made. This isn't a First Amendment issue, it's a Fourth Amendment one.
"Just see that every empire has its day, and the ones most responsible are those who elected, not those who were elected."
So you're insisting the chicken came before the egg? How are unhappy voters supposed to oust politicians in districts that are jerrymandered into being uncompetitive?
"I picked the candidate best suited to represent my family and I."
Nobody else can speak for you, but you can speak for other members of your family? Do you make sure your wife also puts you down on her ballot?
"nobody would want to know if someone was plotting another attack like that."
Lots of people are planning to blow up New York ("ZOMG, they voted for Hillary!"). Very, very few of them are credibly planning to blow up New York. If you find a credible threat, getting a warrant to listen in on their communications is little more than a formality.
If you're justified in tapping lines, you should have no problem getting a warrant and no need to fear the courts.
"I've always wondered what huge companies get by turning over data to the Feds."
If you don't cooperate, you get whisked away to an undisclosed location. National security letters and all that.
"The solution is to ship the consoles from Japan to the US."
Except they don't play US games. They'd have to open the box, open the case, swap chips, and then repackage it into a US box. It'd be easier to make a new 360 from scratch.
Yeah, the project has probably fallen through, but somebody somewhere will finally follow through with this. It's only a matter of time.
"You had a Tristar once... and you got rid of it? You fool!"
I got rid of it because I was tired of the graphical and sound glitches. It uses the same chip as this NEX and has the same problems. So I sold it on eBay and now have a SWC DX2 that sits on top of my SNES (which uses S-VHS output). I use my front-loading NES now with its composite outputs, but if I ever feel the need to safe shelf space again, I'll use the A/V Famicom and my 72-to-60 pin converter (looks silly but saves horizontal space).
" But there's the possibility that life in meteorites was just burned away traveling through the atmosphere at high speeds."
If enough of a meteorite made it thorugh to his the surface (especially those that cuase impact craters), why wouldn't something inside of it also survive?
"Let's just use the definitions of most normal people and not perverts."
What's normal? What makes someone a pervert? Better include that in your law.
"Killing and murder are NOT the same."
Then you had best differentiate between the two in your law.
"they would not put others under extreme duress and they would not inflict their drunken behavior on others."
You're assuming that the duress or intoxication was forced upon them by somebody else.
"Oh, but our shortages of the PS2 at launch? They were definately real. Definately."
Stuff rains down on us from space all the time, including comets (at least where "all the time" is in geological terms). If there was something that could be alive on a comet that could harm us, something like it would have come down and killed us all by now.
Both you and the parent aren't reading what they wrote. SELECT COUNT (*) is accurate, it was SHOW TABLE STATUS that gives the estimate (as it should, IMO).
Oh, and one more thing:
"Raped and murdered someone? One count rape + one count murder."
No, that's double jeopardy. Unless you raped a different person than you murdered, or at least did the two acts on two different occasions, the entire attack must be considered a single act.
This is why we have different degrees of murder to begin with.
"You shall not do anything (including murder) to someone else, which you would not like done to you."
Problem 1: Masochists, or otherwise differing defintions of "what you would have done unto you."
"If you know to do good and do it not you have likewise broken the law."
Problem 2: What if it was "good" to kill someone? What if I murdered somebody to harvest organs to save others?
"In the event you do not keep these rules all the time,"
Problem 3: Even while under extreme duress? What about intoxication, or other form of incapacitation?
"whatever you have done to others will be done to you and you will receive no mercy because you are not merciful to others."
Problem 4: How do you mete out punishment without violating your first sentence?
"The above are 70 words and should work very well for us all if obeyed by all."
I'd disagree.