I'm not a southerner, please don't put words in my mouth. If you have something to add, feel free, but please don't take personal offense. I'm confident you were not alive when this happened, and nothing I could have said should have any stake on you personally.
Sir, your combination of ignorance and arrogance offends me.
They were empty gestures, as was demonstrated by the behaviors that followed. I'm confident you can find where Lincoln himself said as much.
You're "sure I can find" Lincoln saying that the Emancipation Proclamation was an empty gesture? Then why not link it? Hey, two can play this game: I'm sure I can find Franklin Roosevelt saying Nazis make him piss his pants.
The Emancipation Proclamation was important as a propaganda tool at the time, and it's important as a first step towards true civil rights (and still celebrated today). Complaining about it is like complaining about celebrating Columbus Day when in fact Amerigo Vespucci was the first European explorer to actually make it the Americas.
You're completely missing the point because of race-based emotionalism. The South contended that none of the states in the North had the power to force them to change. Slavery was not the only issue these sides disagreed over, but it was, it seems, the 'last straw' as they knew what the transition would do to their economy
Race-based emotionalism? What? Let's get back to your position: you think that the secession was an economic decision. So, you contend that the South honestly thought making war with an industrial powerhouse was a good idea, when they had no factories, no trading partners, and could barely afford uniforms for their soldiers? How'd that work out for their economy, genius? Oh wait, the freeing of slaves was completely illusory, so it must not have done anything, right? Do yourself a favor and crack a history book-or heck, watch Ken Burns' documentary. Anything would be better than your current stupidity!
1) Abolitionism by the North had zero to do with African Americans, and had everything to do with eliminating the South's access to free labor.
It's a well-known fact that a slave economy retarded the economic growth of the South. A strong and healthy middle class is the key to a stable economy. So maybe you should thank the "damn Yankees" for that.
2) Lincoln did nearly nothing to 'free the slaves'. The abolitionist agenda was only about making them no longer slaves, it did not go so far as to make them actual people, in the eyes of the law. Dr King and others had to do that, roughly one hundred years later. And I quote, "Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring--when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children--black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics--will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"" Note how at the time of the speech, Dr King was still using future tense. This says a lot.
I guess the 14th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation were nothing? No, they were important steps, even if they did not complete the job.
3) The 'root cause of the American Civil War' was abolitionism, not human rights. The difference is distinct and clear, and the nuances of it put very much in perspective what Sherman's aims were - to destroy the Southern infrastructure. Which was the same aim as abolitionism.
Abolitionists did not want to destroy the Southern infrastructure. I'm sure they hoped that the South would willingly free its slaves, as had just about every other developed nation by that point (including the North). The South chose war over recognizing the rights of its slaves. Read the Confederate constitution if you'd like to find out more about the real reason for the Southern secession.
You can fight for the 'right' things the 'wrong' way, which includes the carpet bombing of Dresden and other German cities, the firebombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities, and the saturation bombing and other indiscriminant behavior in Vietnam.
So-when in history has anyone ever fought in accordance with your moral strictures?
Gamers are getting shafted more and more these days.
I think we should bond together and form some kind of consumer advocacy group, maybe offer some kind of "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" type trade mark for compliant games.
Here's what I would put in my own bill of rights:
1)Right to resell games - either on virtual games or real, at a price that I set.
2)Ability to play my game at a friend's house without having to redownload (there are broadband caps, you know-and the next generation of consoles probably won't even have a disc player).
3)No DLC that is on the physical disk.
4)No DRM. That is not to be confused with copy protection measures as it so often is on Slashdot. I mean actual DRM, where the OS enforces whether or not a game is "pirated."
Well, if you have something new to add, let's have a link. Otherwise you are just promoting knee-jerk cynicism, which only keeps Americans out of the voting booth.
Pompous sophistry is "cordial and coherent"? Hmm, no, I think the mods are right. The harder you try to sound unemotional and rational, the more ignorant you sound.
They're just too small to concentrate on two consoles, and it's a lot easier to target Win+360 than Win+PS3. They outsourced the Orange Box port to EA and it ended up sucking, big time. Rather than own up to the cheap port, Gabe Newell made some nasty comments about the how the PS3 sucks as a development platform.
Until Valve gets a lot bigger, I doubt we'll see any of their games on PS3.
Baseball is a precision sport. It takes a certain degree of sophistication to appreciate. You self-apply the name "CockMonster", so I'm guessing you're not the most subtle and sophisticated guy out there.
Apologies, I'm reposting this from a few months ago, but I thought it was appropriate:
The faded gold lettering on the door says "Philip Marlowe." My digs aren't in the greatest part of town, but that suits me just fine. I'm a blogger-one of the few honest ones out there. Work was a little slow-I was spending some time on important research-reading Slashdot. I was just about to hit the submit button on a post entitled "Frosty Piss!" when the dame shrugged her way through my door. If I'd have known what was going to happen next, I would have stuck to trolling.
She was tall for an Oriental, but not unappealing. She wore a black silk dress cut in traditional Chinese manner, studded with soft pink roses. Her eyes were black and silky as the dress. They didn't stay still. "Are you Marlowe?" she asked, scanning the room.
"Sure," I replied diffidently.
"Your blogging reputation proceeds you. The Chinese government has a job for you."
"Nuts to that. I don't work for commies."
"I could make it worth your while, Mr. Marlowe."
"If I sold out to every fancy-pants who walked through that door, would I be working in this place?"
"I understand your position, Marlowe, but listen. There's a 24-year-old kid who got beaten to death while in police custody. The police say it was from playing hide-and-seek. We need an official investigation, and you're the best investigational blogger we know."
"Sure it wasn't from 'ring around the rosie'?" I smirked nastily. She took a sharp breath.
"Listen, Marlowe, don't you want to help improve the situation? I know you've had certain...shall we say...run-ins with hyperactive authority figures in the past. Surely this could help your reputation."
"MY reputation?" I practically yelled. "Lady, I've been called a troll, a spammer, and an astroturfer more times than you can count on your abacus. I've been modded down, banned, accused of violating TOSs, but I'm still here. So don't think you can tell me about my reputation. I'll do it for $100/day plus expenses."
"Very good, Mr. Marlowe," she purred.
"Oh, and one more thing," I stood up and got my hat. "I'd better be on the official Chinese government blogroll by sundown, or you're gonna have to find yourself a new patsy."
It's entirely plausible to the average gamer for Sony to say "The RTC fix is incompatible with OtherOS, so we had to disable it, our hands are tied!"
1)No it's not "entirely plausible".
2)This didn't happen, the "fix" was to wait for the clock to roll over to a valid date. It had nothing to do with OtherOS. But don't let that stop you from littering the board with your half-baked conspiracy theories!
What, what an muddled, illogical attempt to conflate seizures with using cell phones or even drunk driving. It's "irrational" to ban people who have seizures? I suspect you haven't ever seen someone having a seizure. If you had, you'd definitely take your chances on the highway full of drunks vs. one full of epileptics.
I think the drug companies are pretty happy with the current system. If they could change anything, they'd stop the Indian companies from making affordable generics.
Stupid doctors are as much to blame for this as the FDA. When a drug company's patent is about to expire, they often superficially change the molecular structure of the popular drug so that they can get a new patent. Then they start the marketing blitz to "ask your doctor about" the new drug. Smart doctors will prescribe the proven cure over the patent cash-in drugs.
Hmmm...which do you know less about, linguistics, or brevity? Tough choice, but I'm going to say linguistics. You seem to think the word "fuck" only refers to the literal act of copulation.
Comics are a worse mess than ever now. I used to read when I was a kid, and I tried to buy some Green Lanterns lately. The "Blackest Night" crossover does not have a printed checklist in the comics, they are already printing trade paperbacks with part of the story in them mere months after the publishing of the original comics. I gave up. DC, if you want anyone who's not a total comics freak to read your stories, you need to have a checklist, and a "Blackest Night: Chapter [X]" on the cover of each book. They had no problem doing this in the 80's and 90's. Did you forget how?
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I'm not a southerner, please don't put words in my mouth. If you have something to add, feel free, but please don't take personal offense. I'm confident you were not alive when this happened, and nothing I could have said should have any stake on you personally.
Sir, your combination of ignorance and arrogance offends me.
They were empty gestures, as was demonstrated by the behaviors that followed. I'm confident you can find where Lincoln himself said as much.
You're "sure I can find" Lincoln saying that the Emancipation Proclamation was an empty gesture? Then why not link it? Hey, two can play this game: I'm sure I can find Franklin Roosevelt saying Nazis make him piss his pants.
The Emancipation Proclamation was important as a propaganda tool at the time, and it's important as a first step towards true civil rights (and still celebrated today). Complaining about it is like complaining about celebrating Columbus Day when in fact Amerigo Vespucci was the first European explorer to actually make it the Americas.
You're completely missing the point because of race-based emotionalism. The South contended that none of the states in the North had the power to force them to change. Slavery was not the only issue these sides disagreed over, but it was, it seems, the 'last straw' as they knew what the transition would do to their economy
Race-based emotionalism? What? Let's get back to your position: you think that the secession was an economic decision. So, you contend that the South honestly thought making war with an industrial powerhouse was a good idea, when they had no factories, no trading partners, and could barely afford uniforms for their soldiers? How'd that work out for their economy, genius? Oh wait, the freeing of slaves was completely illusory, so it must not have done anything, right? Do yourself a favor and crack a history book-or heck, watch Ken Burns' documentary. Anything would be better than your current stupidity!
1) Abolitionism by the North had zero to do with African Americans, and had everything to do with eliminating the South's access to free labor.
It's a well-known fact that a slave economy retarded the economic growth of the South. A strong and healthy middle class is the key to a stable economy. So maybe you should thank the "damn Yankees" for that.
2) Lincoln did nearly nothing to 'free the slaves'. The abolitionist agenda was only about making them no longer slaves, it did not go so far as to make them actual people, in the eyes of the law. Dr King and others had to do that, roughly one hundred years later. And I quote, "Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring--when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children--black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics--will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"" Note how at the time of the speech, Dr King was still using future tense. This says a lot.
I guess the 14th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation were nothing? No, they were important steps, even if they did not complete the job.
3) The 'root cause of the American Civil War' was abolitionism, not human rights. The difference is distinct and clear, and the nuances of it put very much in perspective what Sherman's aims were - to destroy the Southern infrastructure. Which was the same aim as abolitionism.
Abolitionists did not want to destroy the Southern infrastructure. I'm sure they hoped that the South would willingly free its slaves, as had just about every other developed nation by that point (including the North). The South chose war over recognizing the rights of its slaves. Read the Confederate constitution if you'd like to find out more about the real reason for the Southern secession.
You can fight for the 'right' things the 'wrong' way, which includes the carpet bombing of Dresden and other German cities, the firebombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities, and the saturation bombing and other indiscriminant behavior in Vietnam.
So-when in history has anyone ever fought in accordance with your moral strictures?
Gamers are getting shafted more and more these days.
I think we should bond together and form some kind of consumer advocacy group, maybe offer some kind of "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" type trade mark for compliant games.
Here's what I would put in my own bill of rights:
1)Right to resell games - either on virtual games or real, at a price that I set.
2)Ability to play my game at a friend's house without having to redownload (there are broadband caps, you know-and the next generation of consoles probably won't even have a disc player).
3)No DLC that is on the physical disk.
4)No DRM. That is not to be confused with copy protection measures as it so often is on Slashdot. I mean actual DRM, where the OS enforces whether or not a game is "pirated."
These are my rules, what do you think?
Well, if you have something new to add, let's have a link. Otherwise you are just promoting knee-jerk cynicism, which only keeps Americans out of the voting booth.
The urinal is the proper place to take Wikileaks!
I'll be here all week. Thanks!
Dunno why this is modded troll, but I love your arcade restoration site page.
Well, at least with a Bluray you can take it to a friend's house.
Pompous sophistry is "cordial and coherent"? Hmm, no, I think the mods are right. The harder you try to sound unemotional and rational, the more ignorant you sound.
They're just too small to concentrate on two consoles, and it's a lot easier to target Win+360 than Win+PS3. They outsourced the Orange Box port to EA and it ended up sucking, big time. Rather than own up to the cheap port, Gabe Newell made some nasty comments about the how the PS3 sucks as a development platform.
Until Valve gets a lot bigger, I doubt we'll see any of their games on PS3.
Baseball is a precision sport. It takes a certain degree of sophistication to appreciate. You self-apply the name "CockMonster", so I'm guessing you're not the most subtle and sophisticated guy out there.
Apologies, I'm reposting this from a few months ago, but I thought it was appropriate:
The faded gold lettering on the door says "Philip Marlowe." My digs aren't in the greatest part of town, but that suits me just fine. I'm a blogger-one of the few honest ones out there. Work was a little slow-I was spending some time on important research-reading Slashdot. I was just about to hit the submit button on a post entitled "Frosty Piss!" when the dame shrugged her way through my door. If I'd have known what was going to happen next, I would have stuck to trolling.
She was tall for an Oriental, but not unappealing. She wore a black silk dress cut in traditional Chinese manner, studded with soft pink roses. Her eyes were black and silky as the dress. They didn't stay still. "Are you Marlowe?" she asked, scanning the room.
"Sure," I replied diffidently.
"Your blogging reputation proceeds you. The Chinese government has a job for you."
"Nuts to that. I don't work for commies."
"I could make it worth your while, Mr. Marlowe."
"If I sold out to every fancy-pants who walked through that door, would I be working in this place?"
"I understand your position, Marlowe, but listen. There's a 24-year-old kid who got beaten to death while in police custody. The police say it was from playing hide-and-seek. We need an official investigation, and you're the best investigational blogger we know."
"Sure it wasn't from 'ring around the rosie'?" I smirked nastily. She took a sharp breath.
"Listen, Marlowe, don't you want to help improve the situation? I know you've had certain...shall we say...run-ins with hyperactive authority figures in the past. Surely this could help your reputation."
"MY reputation?" I practically yelled. "Lady, I've been called a troll, a spammer, and an astroturfer more times than you can count on your abacus. I've been modded down, banned, accused of violating TOSs, but I'm still here. So don't think you can tell me about my reputation. I'll do it for $100/day plus expenses."
"Very good, Mr. Marlowe," she purred.
"Oh, and one more thing," I stood up and got my hat. "I'd better be on the official Chinese government blogroll by sundown, or you're gonna have to find yourself a new patsy."
Just remember not to go *too* rouge, or people will think you're a whore.
"Darl McBride" just isn't a real name, people. You gotta come up with a more convincing villain name, like, say, "Gorgeous McRib."
Touche, my suzerain!
It's entirely plausible to the average gamer for Sony to say "The RTC fix is incompatible with OtherOS, so we had to disable it, our hands are tied!"
1)No it's not "entirely plausible".
2)This didn't happen, the "fix" was to wait for the clock to roll over to a valid date. It had nothing to do with OtherOS. But don't let that stop you from littering the board with your half-baked conspiracy theories!
You despise Sony, yet you spent $2,000 on PS3 downloadable games? Nerd rage troll detected!
What, what an muddled, illogical attempt to conflate seizures with using cell phones or even drunk driving. It's "irrational" to ban people who have seizures? I suspect you haven't ever seen someone having a seizure. If you had, you'd definitely take your chances on the highway full of drunks vs. one full of epileptics.
I think the drug companies are pretty happy with the current system. If they could change anything, they'd stop the Indian companies from making affordable generics.
It's classy? Does the blindness come with a tuxedo?
Stupid doctors are as much to blame for this as the FDA. When a drug company's patent is about to expire, they often superficially change the molecular structure of the popular drug so that they can get a new patent. Then they start the marketing blitz to "ask your doctor about" the new drug. Smart doctors will prescribe the proven cure over the patent cash-in drugs.
Hmmm...which do you know less about, linguistics, or brevity? Tough choice, but I'm going to say linguistics. You seem to think the word "fuck" only refers to the literal act of copulation.
WTF is an asshat? Just say 'asshole', or if you're feeling scholarly, 'malcontent.' There's no need to invent odd words to call attention to yourself.
Leave It To Beaver? That'd never make it into the App Store, sorry!
Comics are a worse mess than ever now. I used to read when I was a kid, and I tried to buy some Green Lanterns lately. The "Blackest Night" crossover does not have a printed checklist in the comics, they are already printing trade paperbacks with part of the story in them mere months after the publishing of the original comics. I gave up. DC, if you want anyone who's not a total comics freak to read your stories, you need to have a checklist, and a "Blackest Night: Chapter [X]" on the cover of each book. They had no problem doing this in the 80's and 90's. Did you forget how?