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yes, the oh-so-evil "typically us-centric" view, katz.
let us all remember the aussies, who made the true contribution to the us space program.
of course, let's forget about the american nasa scientists who worked for at least a decade just at trying to get to the moon, and the teams of american astronauts who trained and trained for eva's, docking, just the rigor of flying the ship. and let's forget the american people, who financed the effort, and the american president, kennedy, who gave overwhelming support to the space program.
because of course, they all came from america, and because of that fact, they must all be evil. worship the little guy, down with big business. god damn capitalists.
sometimes, jon, i wish you would've been born in the ussr or china. there, at least, you would be happy at the lack of government breaches of civil rights... oh wait.
(note: i have nothing against australians and feel that their contribution was necessary. however, to just bash america in general for forgetting what was, in reality, a rather small and behind-the-scenes action, is nonsense.)
it doesn't matter whether or not it is "good programming". all that matters is whether or not people support it. good is subjective. dkny, for example, is good, no matter what the actual quality of the clothing. nike is good, even if your shoes fall apart in the first 10 minutes of wearing them. this is not due to a fault in the capitalistic system, however. it's due to a fault in humanity.
free market economy is the only system by which you have a choice. most people, on the other hand, choose to give up that choice in favor of looking good to others, which vaults trends to the highest level of good.
now, admittedly, pbs is wonderful. but i shouldn't be forced to pay for it against my will. nor should anyone else. it should compete in the economy, like everything else. and it could maintain it's quality of programming, and also gain a quality of goodness.
how? by being consistent. they could get a sponsor who knew the kind of programming that was going on, and who wouldn't interfere. and if that sponsor did interfere, it would be pbs' responsibility to not compromise, and stay true to their ideals. if they didn't, they are at fault. not capitalism. but if they didn't compromise, they would carve out a segment of the market, and stay alive.
don't insult capitalism for the faults of humanity. would you rather be compelled to pay for fox and their moronic programming against your will? no? didn't think so. so don't claim how noble it is to have the compulsion to pay for pbs.
A quiet day in a suburban neighborhood. Children play on the lawn in front of a large white house as dad pulls up in the family luxury car. As the family goes in the house, however, a black van rolls to a stop in front of it, marked: Ronald's Irrigation And Aeration
Suddenly the van doors fly open and 7 men in black suits pour out and secure the area. Two men go through the front door. The kids scream, Dad is sitting down pulling off his shoes and turning on the evening news.
RIAA Gunman 1: Put your hands in the air, sir, and no one has to get hurt.
Father: (Raising hands in air.) What is this?
RIAA Gunman 2 dashes across the room and hits Father in the back of the neck with the stock of the gun.
RIAA Gunman 1: (As Gunman 2 drags body out to van.) Maybe next time you'll think before you hum Britney Spears at work, fucking pirate.
learn your newspeak, man. the idea of luck and chance is not one which should be introduced into one's vocabulary. only from the party comes good, after all.
If people started flocking to libraries and copying whole books (maybe they have free copy day or something that makes it economically feasible) do you think they would just let it happen? Do you think they would allow their resources to be used to copy hundreds of books a day? Not a chance, but because the resource is net access and it's music instead of books it's suddenly okay?
Firstly, books are alright to copy. Books are information, albeit in somewhat physical form. The point remains, however, that information belongs to anyone. It should be truly communistic. The only thing which might make one slightly reserved about copying a book is the amount of resources which were expended to make it and the amount it would require to copy it.
Music, however, is a bunch of little friggin indentations on a CD or - in MP3 form - a bunch of electrical/magnetic impulses. It as near to pure information as one can get. And since that's true, it should be equally shared with all parties who want it. No one should be able to copyright, patent, or trademark pure information.
I think that it's just to showcase the idiocy of us Kansans and Missourians. The fact that a show would flop so thoroughly is, I'm sure, extraordinarily odd. Perhaps if there was any promotion at all in other venues, this wouldn't have been necessary.
Breaking them up isn't the answer. Just because Microsoft is good at what they do(marketing, not programming) doesn't mean that they should be punished. I saw a suggestion on the last Microsoft story to open source them, or any monopoly, so that the playing field would be leveled.
The best way to increase the percentage of "good" outcomes is to educate people about guns.
Sex, in the wrong hands, is a deadly weapon. Sex, when used by an uninformed person, can transmit STD's that can injure, impair, or kill another person. Sex, when used by an informed person, can be extremely pleasurable and lead to procreation(which is less pleasurable, yet necessary).
Guns, in the wrong hands, are deadly weapons. Guns, when used by an uninformed person, can injure, impair, or kill another person. Guns, when used by an informed person, can be used for sports(which is not as horrible as some people think; do you know how long you can live off of the cost of one bullet?) and recreation(popping off a few rounds at the range is very relaxing).
Yet, with sex, we have a massive information campaign to make people understand. Guns, which are just as deadly and hurtful, are supressed and hidden. Why do you think kids kill other kids with guns? Because they're malicious? Because guns are bad? No, because they can use them and they don't understand them.
If people do not understand guns, they will never stop killing other people with them. You'll never make the rates go down without making people respect the power that is contained within that barrel.
There's a good case to be made there. What if iCrave had just put an opening page in front of everything else with two links, the same on your standard porn site w/ a modification, "I live in Canada" and "I don't live in Canada". Then they could use the precedent that all the porn sites out there have already set...
...is that it ruins the genre for all the other movies out there. What producer is gonna take a space movie seriously for a while? Or, even worse, what producer will do a sci-fi movie that relies on *gasp* actual character development instead of computer graphics?
The answer is that they won't, and this movie is to blame. That's truly the depressing thing about this movie.
And we can stop listening to radios, or watching TV, or going outside and looking at the billboards with the subliminal messages that are controlled my the MPAA. And eating anything you don't grow yourself is just totally out of the question cuz the MPAA knows where you live and will poison you if you are opposed to them. We can't ever sleep either cuz the MPAA helicopters might come by and take us in the middle of the night and we'll spend hours tortured in one of their secret underground lairs.
</sarcasm>
But seriously, come off of your soapbox. Its nifty you have such a romantic, naive view of the world that you feel opposed to the MPAA, but they're a conglomeration that has their hands in everything. Unless you're gonna boycott quite a bit, stop complainin about Katz under false pretenses.
My problem with my mother is that, generally, I hate Microsoft. I know my mother knows a guy who knows a guy who works at Microsoft. At any rate, my mother uses Win9x.
My problem is that my mother totally endorses Microsoft and (this though indirectly) totalitarianism. These are the biggest threats to our freedoms today. Why support them even indirectly?
Consider, however, what would happen if you didn't close your tags...
Now, personally, I usually consider not closing tags to be a minor annoyance. However, smelling a rose, rotten apple, and runny dog turd combination would be rather detrimental and I would spend the rest of my life cowering in the corner, wondering how my computer could do such a thing to me.
For far too long(considering that its been 2 years and i'm only a teen) I've been saying that anarchy is the only way for true liberty to flourish. With anarchy, your rights are boundless, and so are everyone else's.
And not only is it good for liberty, its good for natural selection too. Smart kill the stupid, strong kill the weak, it leads to a better society.
Anyone remember that Nickelodeon show, "Pete & Pete"? This story sounds like a bad episode of that. I can just imagine people hooking up walkie-talkies to signal amplifiers and taping down the transmit button...
Thats such a good point. So if you're out in the open, say doing stuff with your friends, the FBI has a right to have a tail on you at all times just because they think you might commit a crime sometime in your life?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin
Imagine being in a place everyday where you are forced to wear the same orange jumpsuit as everyone else, respond to a number instead of a name, and are generally treated like a criminal. The educational reforms sweeping the nation are scary, no?
Your jumpsuit is necessary to make sure you aren't comparing yourself with other kids, envying them and starting fights. What they really mean is that its so you're all the same homogenous mixture so that you all blend, and there aren't anymore weirdos left roaming the halls wearing all black.
Your number is on that ID card you have to wear, or else leave the school. The ID card used to be for identifying you so that they knew you were a student, but it gains more and more functionality, until you're being called by number, just because its easier.
And you're treated like a criminal so you don't disturb others' learning. No free speech, because controversy never leads to knowledge, opposing views always confuse you, better to follow the thoughts of those that came before. Unreasonable search and seizure? Sure, because one never knows what you might be hiding in that locker that they *force* you to use. And of course, you can't hang out with the people you want, for some may be bad influences. You'll conspire, and then you'll go on a massive killing spree. So, instead of associating with them, you leave the rebels alone, until one day they disappear from school entirely.
So let's see... uniforms, identification by numbers, no freedom of speech, unreasonable search and seizure, no freedom of association, people disappearing on the whim of admins. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? Wonder when we'll get the tattoos...
"I became A-7713. After that I had no other name." -Elie Wiesel
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let us all remember the aussies, who made the true contribution to the us space program.
of course, let's forget about the american nasa scientists who worked for at least a decade just at trying to get to the moon, and the teams of american astronauts who trained and trained for eva's, docking, just the rigor of flying the ship. and let's forget the american people, who financed the effort, and the american president, kennedy, who gave overwhelming support to the space program.
because of course, they all came from america, and because of that fact, they must all be evil. worship the little guy, down with big business. god damn capitalists.
sometimes, jon, i wish you would've been born in the ussr or china. there, at least, you would be happy at the lack of government breaches of civil rights... oh wait.
(note: i have nothing against australians and feel that their contribution was necessary. however, to just bash america in general for forgetting what was, in reality, a rather small and behind-the-scenes action, is nonsense.)
it doesn't matter whether or not it is "good programming". all that matters is whether or not people support it. good is subjective. dkny, for example, is good, no matter what the actual quality of the clothing. nike is good, even if your shoes fall apart in the first 10 minutes of wearing them. this is not due to a fault in the capitalistic system, however. it's due to a fault in humanity.
free market economy is the only system by which you have a choice. most people, on the other hand, choose to give up that choice in favor of looking good to others, which vaults trends to the highest level of good.
now, admittedly, pbs is wonderful. but i shouldn't be forced to pay for it against my will. nor should anyone else. it should compete in the economy, like everything else. and it could maintain it's quality of programming, and also gain a quality of goodness.
how? by being consistent. they could get a sponsor who knew the kind of programming that was going on, and who wouldn't interfere. and if that sponsor did interfere, it would be pbs' responsibility to not compromise, and stay true to their ideals. if they didn't, they are at fault. not capitalism. but if they didn't compromise, they would carve out a segment of the market, and stay alive.
don't insult capitalism for the faults of humanity. would you rather be compelled to pay for fox and their moronic programming against your will? no? didn't think so. so don't claim how noble it is to have the compulsion to pay for pbs.
get it? get it?
i'm so punny...
dude! where do you think i got rattler race?
Ronald's
Irrigation
And
Aeration
Suddenly the van doors fly open and 7 men in black suits pour out and secure the area. Two men go through the front door. The kids scream, Dad is sitting down pulling off his shoes and turning on the evening news.
RIAA Gunman 1: Put your hands in the air, sir, and no one has to get hurt.
Father: (Raising hands in air.) What is this?
RIAA Gunman 2 dashes across the room and hits Father in the back of the neck with the stock of the gun.
RIAA Gunman 1: (As Gunman 2 drags body out to van.) Maybe next time you'll think before you hum Britney Spears at work, fucking pirate.
learn your newspeak, man. the idea of luck and chance is not one which should be introduced into one's vocabulary. only from the party comes good, after all.
I'm going to wait until they get the smartgun link as part of the package instead of optional.
But if Nader gets 5%, there will be a bill passed within a month to require 8% for federal funding...
Firstly, books are alright to copy. Books are information, albeit in somewhat physical form. The point remains, however, that information belongs to anyone. It should be truly communistic. The only thing which might make one slightly reserved about copying a book is the amount of resources which were expended to make it and the amount it would require to copy it.
Music, however, is a bunch of little friggin indentations on a CD or - in MP3 form - a bunch of electrical/magnetic impulses. It as near to pure information as one can get. And since that's true, it should be equally shared with all parties who want it. No one should be able to copyright, patent, or trademark pure information.
OW!!! I've got a bunch of sand in my eye!!
I think that it's just to showcase the idiocy of us Kansans and Missourians. The fact that a show would flop so thoroughly is, I'm sure, extraordinarily odd. Perhaps if there was any promotion at all in other venues, this wouldn't have been necessary.
Breaking them up isn't the answer. Just because Microsoft is good at what they do(marketing, not programming) doesn't mean that they should be punished. I saw a suggestion on the last Microsoft story to open source them, or any monopoly, so that the playing field would be leveled.
Its all the lawyers' fault, you realise. We should put them on a rocket and send it to the sun, really...
Sex, in the wrong hands, is a deadly weapon. Sex, when used by an uninformed person, can transmit STD's that can injure, impair, or kill another person. Sex, when used by an informed person, can be extremely pleasurable and lead to procreation(which is less pleasurable, yet necessary).
Guns, in the wrong hands, are deadly weapons. Guns, when used by an uninformed person, can injure, impair, or kill another person. Guns, when used by an informed person, can be used for sports(which is not as horrible as some people think; do you know how long you can live off of the cost of one bullet?) and recreation(popping off a few rounds at the range is very relaxing).
Yet, with sex, we have a massive information campaign to make people understand. Guns, which are just as deadly and hurtful, are supressed and hidden. Why do you think kids kill other kids with guns? Because they're malicious? Because guns are bad? No, because they can use them and they don't understand them.
If people do not understand guns, they will never stop killing other people with them. You'll never make the rates go down without making people respect the power that is contained within that barrel.
Since the US is a nation, that while it fought evil, has never felt evil, it cannot recognize evil in its own home.
There's a good case to be made there. What if iCrave had just put an opening page in front of everything else with two links, the same on your standard porn site w/ a modification, "I live in Canada" and "I don't live in Canada". Then they could use the precedent that all the porn sites out there have already set...
Daemon
...is that it ruins the genre for all the other movies out there. What producer is gonna take a space movie seriously for a while? Or, even worse, what producer will do a sci-fi movie that relies on *gasp* actual character development instead of computer graphics?
The answer is that they won't, and this movie is to blame. That's truly the depressing thing about this movie.
And we can stop listening to radios, or watching TV, or going outside and looking at the billboards with the subliminal messages that are controlled my the MPAA. And eating anything you don't grow yourself is just totally out of the question cuz the MPAA knows where you live and will poison you if you are opposed to them. We can't ever sleep either cuz the MPAA helicopters might come by and take us in the middle of the night and we'll spend hours tortured in one of their secret underground lairs.
</sarcasm>
But seriously, come off of your soapbox. Its nifty you have such a romantic, naive view of the world that you feel opposed to the MPAA, but they're a conglomeration that has their hands in everything. Unless you're gonna boycott quite a bit, stop complainin about Katz under false pretenses.
The Typo Daemon
My problem with my mother is that, generally, I hate Microsoft. I know my mother knows a guy who knows a guy who works at Microsoft. At any rate, my mother uses Win9x.
My problem is that my mother totally endorses Microsoft and (this though indirectly) totalitarianism. These are the biggest threats to our freedoms today. Why support them even indirectly?
Cheers
The Typo Daemon
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Consider, however, what would happen if you didn't close your tags...
Now, personally, I usually consider not closing tags to be a minor annoyance. However, smelling a rose, rotten apple, and runny dog turd combination would be rather detrimental and I would spend the rest of my life cowering in the corner, wondering how my computer could do such a thing to me.
Typo Daemon
And not only is it good for liberty, its good for natural selection too. Smart kill the stupid, strong kill the weak, it leads to a better society.
TypoDaemon
Anyone remember that Nickelodeon show, "Pete & Pete"? This story sounds like a bad episode of that. I can just imagine people hooking up walkie-talkies to signal amplifiers and taping down the transmit button...
Typo Daemon
Thats such a good point. So if you're out in the open, say doing stuff with your friends, the FBI has a right to have a tail on you at all times just because they think you might commit a crime sometime in your life?
Very good point...
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Ben Franklin
Imagine being in a place everyday where you are forced to wear the same orange jumpsuit as everyone else, respond to a number instead of a name, and are generally treated like a criminal. The educational reforms sweeping the nation are scary, no?
Your jumpsuit is necessary to make sure you aren't comparing yourself with other kids, envying them and starting fights. What they really mean is that its so you're all the same homogenous mixture so that you all blend, and there aren't anymore weirdos left roaming the halls wearing all black.
Your number is on that ID card you have to wear, or else leave the school. The ID card used to be for identifying you so that they knew you were a student, but it gains more and more functionality, until you're being called by number, just because its easier.
And you're treated like a criminal so you don't disturb others' learning. No free speech, because controversy never leads to knowledge, opposing views always confuse you, better to follow the thoughts of those that came before. Unreasonable search and seizure? Sure, because one never knows what you might be hiding in that locker that they *force* you to use. And of course, you can't hang out with the people you want, for some may be bad influences. You'll conspire, and then you'll go on a massive killing spree. So, instead of associating with them, you leave the rebels alone, until one day they disappear from school entirely.
So let's see... uniforms, identification by numbers, no freedom of speech, unreasonable search and seizure, no freedom of association, people disappearing on the whim of admins. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? Wonder when we'll get the tattoos...
"I became A-7713. After that I had no other name."
-Elie Wiesel
"Work is liberty."
Daemon