Well, to be fair. Jesus Christ did, over and over, use the sheep metaphor to apply to, well, his "flock" and that imagery continues through many flavors of christianity. Catholic priests, for example, often talk about their "flock" and paints behaving as meek as sheep as a virtue.
So it isn't necessarily a hostility toward religion that would cause one to apply the label "sheep" to a religion that borrows the image itself.
Yes, but the definition of illegal isn't. [...] Even if they only used the most liberal standard in Europe, they'd box in quite a lot of undisputably hardcore pornography.
But that's one of the big problems, isn't it? The Arab countries, for example, have no use for this distinction, and would want their own standand. Meanwhile, the Netherlands and Poland are likely to have different standards as well.
Time after time, history has shown that classification is the first step to regulation: witness the ESRB ratings that were supposed to be advisory only, and legislators now wishing to hand the power to ban sales in "family" establishments to this private group.
So far, the maxim that the net "recognizes censorship as damage, and routes around it" has been true, but I for one would like to not have this tested too much.
But beware: while Ron Paul sometimes runs on the Libertrian ticket, he is anti-choice, scoring a 0% on NARAL's "pro-choice" scale.
Not inconsistent in the abstract with (big "L", the party) Libertarian thought, but definitely not in line with many (small "l") libertarians' thoughts.
We aren't using that because we have subsidies and trade protections for the sugar farmers.
That's a big part of it, but sugar ethanol isn't a big part of this also because we can grow corn in many more places that we can grow sugar - it needs the wet, hot land that comes with a tropical or subtropical environment. We grow sugar primarily in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana.
Why do you think the US is the only country in the world that uses corn sweetener instead of sugar (beet or cane) in Coca-Cola?
Actually, it's because of the protectionist tariffs that the monstrously powerful sugar lobby(particularly powerful in politically important Florida) pushes. Sugar is kept much, much more expensive in the US than it would be with free trade with the rest of the world, particularly our Carribean neighbors.
Utter nonsense - not everyone has the time & patience to download 1 gig files, then the knowledge to convert them to stanard DVD format so you don't have to watch on your PC.
Perhaps not, but they don't need to. They only need to know somebody who does. Fans of content generally like to share the joy, especially if they can get friends to supply them with free media.
Your suggestion is absurd. For any substantial interrogation, there are "professionals" who do the interrogating.
It's not absurd at all. Such professionals are not always the ones who actually do the interrogation. All too often it's left to the Lynndie Englands of the world to interogate, whether under orders or just because they think it's a good idea.
Ignore or try to diminish the phenomenon if you like, but there's no doubt that it happens.
Some private who finds a guy on the field and starts torturing him because his CO saw something cool on 24 and told him to -- is a crime. Nothing more, nothing less.
And so they should only try to punish it, and not try to prevent it?
Create some email addresses, and then don't use them, ever.
There's still a good chance you'll start getting spam, sooner or later. Having done this myself, I can only conclude that some spam list generators use dictionary attacks against MTAs, trying different usernames on known good domains until they find some userids where they don't get immediate bounces.
Even that aside, there's a difference from an employee selling your email address on the side (regrettably, very common), and corporate actions.
There are clues in the same sentence in that reference-laden riff. What famous mass media character was from Cleveland and made jokes about being a Bedouin? And, what TV show was the biggest event exactly 24 years ago this night?
Follow the link above for the answer. It was the most watched episode of any TV show in history.
Wireless controls on a warship (or a vessel likely to be in engaged in combat) seems like a really bad idea. One good jamming at the right frequency (or, say, an EMP), and the ship is dead in the water. Worse, they get your encryption key and now you're fighting on the enemy's side (and no, that's different from what Kirk did to the Reliant in STII:WoK).
Warships need to be hardened. The Galactica is the right idea - heavily shielded cables.
They're going to worry about it being viewable by the UNINITIATED? Like, the 3 of them who will see this movie?
Guys, you've already lobbed ten of these over the fence and saturated 2nd tier television stations with reruns of the myriad TV versions. ANYBODY (okay, anybody who was older than 6 when the last one came out) who is likely to see this stinker is pretty going to have to know at least the basics about Star Trek - except perhaps for that Bedouin family that's been lost in the deserts of Cleveland since the Korean war ended 24 years ago.
Of course, they'll probably have to find a mysterious advanced technology device from the past, with a drawing of Kirk embedded in its design along side a warning. No worries, that's actually Kirk's sister. Spock's father will play a role in having deceived the Andorians into helping form the Federation, and his mother will have hidden his lost sister away behind a mysterious hatch on a jungle moon. Everything will go topsy-turvy when the Klingons take off their masks and turn out to have been from Secion 31 the whole time, and everything will end with no satisfying explanation having been given for any of this. But by that time, everybody will have forgotten why they entered the theater in the first place.
I'm reminded of the excellent Michael Caine & Ben Kingsley comedy Without a Clue, in which Dr. Watson actually solved all of Holmes' cases, but Holmes got all the PR.
Watson tried to strike out on his own, but no one took "John Watson, the CRIME DOCTOR!" very seriously and would only consider what he said when Holmes would repeat it.
The situation with most DVD copying (by people other than professional pirates) is downloading via Bit Torrent - go on, go to a bit torrent site and look for DVDs, you will find literally tens of millions of copies of various DVDs currently seeding right now.
That's fundamentally digital and is a very different scale than what happened with audio and video tapes.
Compare a twentieth generation audio cassette or video tape copy and a twentieth generation CD copy and then get back to us and tell us that they're the same situation.
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Who is it that you think is still living, Luke Skywalker or Leia Organa?
I know Slashdot readers often have a hard time telling the difference, but try to stay with us here. These are characters, not people.
Well, to be fair. Jesus Christ did, over and over, use the sheep metaphor to apply to, well, his "flock" and that imagery continues through many flavors of christianity. Catholic priests, for example, often talk about their "flock" and paints behaving as meek as sheep as a virtue.
So it isn't necessarily a hostility toward religion that would cause one to apply the label "sheep" to a religion that borrows the image itself.
You don't understand...
When you die in New Jersey, you die in real life !
...What do you want for a place where the primary crop is dental floss?
Time after time, history has shown that classification is the first step to regulation: witness the ESRB ratings that were supposed to be advisory only, and legislators now wishing to hand the power to ban sales in "family" establishments to this private group.
So far, the maxim that the net "recognizes censorship as damage, and routes around it" has been true, but I for one would like to not have this tested too much.
But beware: while Ron Paul sometimes runs on the Libertrian ticket, he is anti-choice, scoring a 0% on NARAL's "pro-choice" scale.
Not inconsistent in the abstract with (big "L", the party) Libertarian thought, but definitely not in line with many (small "l") libertarians' thoughts.
Think of the slogans - "Putting God back into the machine!"
Soylent Fuel is missionaries!
Ignore or try to diminish the phenomenon if you like, but there's no doubt that it happens. And so they should only try to punish it, and not try to prevent it?
On the other hand, I hear that Harry Knowles is considering her as a design consultant for Ain't It Cool News.
Right! After all, it's got less space than a Nomad...
How lame!
We also shouldn't forget Crashdown. His death was also really significant.
I would say that Kat was a bigger character than Billy was. Her death was well done.
Careful, you can't be so certain.
Create some email addresses, and then don't use them, ever.
There's still a good chance you'll start getting spam, sooner or later. Having done this myself, I can only conclude that some spam list generators use dictionary attacks against MTAs, trying different usernames on known good domains until they find some userids where they don't get immediate bounces.
Even that aside, there's a difference from an employee selling your email address on the side (regrettably, very common), and corporate actions.
There are clues in the same sentence in that reference-laden riff. What famous mass media character was from Cleveland and made jokes about being a Bedouin? And, what TV show was the biggest event exactly 24 years ago this night?
Follow the link above for the answer. It was the most watched episode of any TV show in history.
Wireless controls on a warship (or a vessel likely to be in engaged in combat) seems like a really bad idea. One good jamming at the right frequency (or, say, an EMP), and the ship is dead in the water. Worse, they get your encryption key and now you're fighting on the enemy's side (and no, that's different from what Kirk did to the Reliant in STII:WoK).
Warships need to be hardened. The Galactica is the right idea - heavily shielded cables.
They're going to worry about it being viewable by the UNINITIATED? Like, the 3 of them who will see this movie?
Guys, you've already lobbed ten of these over the fence and saturated 2nd tier television stations with reruns of the myriad TV versions. ANYBODY (okay, anybody who was older than 6 when the last one came out) who is likely to see this stinker is pretty going to have to know at least the basics about Star Trek - except perhaps for that Bedouin family that's been lost in the deserts of Cleveland since the Korean war ended 24 years ago.
Of course, they'll probably have to find a mysterious advanced technology device from the past, with a drawing of Kirk embedded in its design along side a warning. No worries, that's actually Kirk's sister. Spock's father will play a role in having deceived the Andorians into helping form the Federation, and his mother will have hidden his lost sister away behind a mysterious hatch on a jungle moon. Everything will go topsy-turvy when the Klingons take off their masks and turn out to have been from Secion 31 the whole time, and everything will end with no satisfying explanation having been given for any of this. But by that time, everybody will have forgotten why they entered the theater in the first place.
No, but he might be the Kumquat Haagen-Dazs.
Don't be silly. That sort of thing is reserved for true war crimes, like DRM.
I'm reminded of the excellent Michael Caine & Ben Kingsley comedy Without a Clue, in which Dr. Watson actually solved all of Holmes' cases, but Holmes got all the PR.
Watson tried to strike out on his own, but no one took "John Watson, the CRIME DOCTOR!" very seriously and would only consider what he said when Holmes would repeat it.
Not true.
The situation with most DVD copying (by people other than professional pirates) is downloading via Bit Torrent - go on, go to a bit torrent site and look for DVDs, you will find literally tens of millions of copies of various DVDs currently seeding right now.
That's fundamentally digital and is a very different scale than what happened with audio and video tapes.
That's pretty disingenuous.
Compare a twentieth generation audio cassette or video tape copy and a twentieth generation CD copy and then get back to us and tell us that they're the same situation.