i don't understand your thinking. you believe it is possible to tame the beast and make it act responsibly
i don't believe that. the beast is the beast. you need weapons to skewer it, its the only thing it understands. we have a weapon, wikileaks, to skewer the beast. you believe somehow that the beast can be made to act civilized and moral. LOL. good to luck to you friend. this is a brawl in a pit with a thug, not a civics lesson. your entire understanding of the nature of what you are up against is all wrong. mccarthy didn't die, and he never will. you need to skewer him, not tame him, and by skewer i mean do to mccarthy what mccarthy would do to his smear victims: embarrass him and humble him into submission. except not with lies, but with the truth of their duplicitous ways
i have no intent of denigrating the good name of the iranian people
but if the harping on stuxnet and such is a sign that there is little tolerance for the military junta/ theocracy that is the iranian government, then let a thousand disparaging comment flow. screw those basij assholes and their PR window dressing of a supercomputer
it's not like the iranian people themselves would disagree with my dim view of their government. seeing as their government has no problem massacring them if they have the audacity to demand human dignity and democracy
and if they do, is the nominally exciting part the nudity and sex, or the minilevel where you get to throw stones at the adulterous apostates until they are dead?
it's just one guy. wikileaks is larger than one man. assange knows this. you should know it to
it's a failure of most people that we get all caught up in the personalities, and forget the principles. it's true of anything political
say the USA lock assange up for the rest of his life. and? will that stop wikileaks? will that stop people from using wikileaks or bringing material to wikileaks? will that stop other wikileaks-like projects?
whatever!
the IDEA matters, the PERSON is irrelevant. assange would be the first to say this to you. they can do anything they want to him, they haven't destroyed his fame, and what made his name, and the idea he started
you can assassinate a man. you can smear his good name. but you can't stop HIS IDEA
THAT'S what is important
one man is brought down, but the cause continues unabated. i'm not afraid, are you afraid? i'm angered, are you angered?
so stop freaking out over the personality, focus on the principles. nothing's changed
if avatar didn't have any 3D profit hike, the grosses would still put it at the most profitable movie ever, just in movie theatre box office receipts. i personally think 3D is a dumb gimmick, my point has nothing to do with 3D at all: movie theatres are obviously not dying. in fact, even if 3D is a dumb gimmick, it shows there is new technological life in the theatre, nevermind solid economic performance
arcades have been dead, not dying, for over a decade
and theatres just experienced the most profitable movie ever made last year: avatar. so i don't really understand why you think of them as the same when they are very different
would you pay much attention to someone saying "television and player pianos are dead". what? what with the false contrived linking of two totally media phenomena?
I thought I was decent at the game. A couple of years ago, I ate at Mott Street and played some high school kids. I should have scouted the competition before dumping in the quarters. Blackheart + Sentinel + Juggernaut doesn't cut it. After 4 perfect scores with infinite combos against me (damn Magneto and Cable!), I realized my arcade days are long over. But it was kind of weird to lose to HIGH SCHOOL students: shouldn't it have been some 40+ geezer beating me?
i worked on a tour boat. i would go on the roof of the boat, and lie out in the sun... right under the rotating radar. i said i was a dumb teenager. i wonder if my testicles produce viable sperm...
the question of course is if there is any health significance to minutely cooking your brain. the human body can take certain mechanical, chemical, thermal, radiation, or other abuses, with constant exposure, resulting in no changes whatsoever. while at the same time, other types of the same kind of abuses, to the tiniest of degrees, have serious health consequences
the only thing you can really say is beware anyone who can say for certain that the effect is completely harmless, or definitely harmful. they are liars. the simple truth is, no one knows
as well we should. all that water? pure h2 in the presence of so many oxidizers is not going to survive on any planet. and the only reason we have so much o2 is because of the actions of life
true. except because of our robust magnetosphere we keep all of our hydrogen and oxygen. yes venus does replenish some of it internally, but you'll notice both mars and venus are very low in hydrogen and oxygen: weak or no magnetosphere, plus geological time spans, and your water is gone baby gone;-(
if you plan on retiring soon, and you have your money in internet company investments, you will retire poor, and you deserve to, for your aggressive investment approach when you should be conservative
if you aren't planning on retiring soon, then take some risk for potential greater reward and invest in an internet company. but don't whine about it if your investment doesn't pan out: no risk, no reward, same as its always been
the rush of the lemmings is all done by rich, well-connected investors this time around, a select few, rather than mom and pop investors like last time around. there has been a trend away from going public in recent years, and sticking with private investors. why deal with the SEC and obsessing over stock market valuation? the stock market is becoming a thing of the past. which is part of a larger story away from the citizen investor and a return to the days of plutocrats and a class structured society, the death of the middle class
so, since dot-com crash 2.0 is all about rich assholes losing their money out of blind greed, i ready my world's tiniest violin
"I couldn't really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating," he explained, "Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version. Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, "Jesus Christ!"... It's a movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a whole underwater world, so the pricetag is high. We just didn't have any takers on an R-rated movie with that pricetag."
he gave up the next pirates of the caribbean to do a bioshock movie. this is the guy who directed the american version of the ring. it would have been amazing. alas, tis not to be
they don't flaunt their nationalism, but its there and its quiet and its real
i see something concrete in response coming out of this as more likely than if europeans or americans were attacked
c'mon ottawa, do something. show that at least somebody has a backbone in response to these provocations. london or washington dc wouldn't, and didn't, do anything
yes. like libraries, roads, bridges, military health care... whenever people pool their money to cover expenses, like uh INSURANCE, it's evil socialism, never just financial common sense, right?
[In a Tiny Town 3D Kiosk, confronted with numerous menacing-looking targets, Edwards shoots a cardboard little girl] Zed: May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die? James Edwards: Well, she was the only one that actually seemed dangerous at the time, sir. Zed: How'd you come to that conclusion? James Edwards: Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it. [pause] James Edwards: Or do I owe her an apology? [pause] James Edwards: That's a good shot though...
and please note the response from another guy about tort reform
the lie is that the hard working pay for the healthcare of the lazy under universal healthcare. the truth is the hard working can't afford health insurance under voluntary insurance, and others freeload by avoiding the bill, under our current system. we already have universal healthcare: when those without insurance avoid the bill, the hospital passes the bill along to the state, and you pay for them with your taxes. this is the way it has been for decades. do you want lower premiums? then read the link above, understand the simple math why voluntary insurance makes your premiums so high
now you know reality. step out of the realm of the propagandized
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i don't understand your thinking. you believe it is possible to tame the beast and make it act responsibly
i don't believe that. the beast is the beast. you need weapons to skewer it, its the only thing it understands. we have a weapon, wikileaks, to skewer the beast. you believe somehow that the beast can be made to act civilized and moral. LOL. good to luck to you friend. this is a brawl in a pit with a thug, not a civics lesson. your entire understanding of the nature of what you are up against is all wrong. mccarthy didn't die, and he never will. you need to skewer him, not tame him, and by skewer i mean do to mccarthy what mccarthy would do to his smear victims: embarrass him and humble him into submission. except not with lies, but with the truth of their duplicitous ways
do you really think its working?
i think they just proved in the middle east that fear doesn't actually work out as a motivator
i have no intent of denigrating the good name of the iranian people
but if the harping on stuxnet and such is a sign that there is little tolerance for the military junta/ theocracy that is the iranian government, then let a thousand disparaging comment flow. screw those basij assholes and their PR window dressing of a supercomputer
it's not like the iranian people themselves would disagree with my dim view of their government. seeing as their government has no problem massacring them if they have the audacity to demand human dignity and democracy
do you think iranian games have a hot coffee mod?
and if they do, is the nominally exciting part the nudity and sex, or the minilevel where you get to throw stones at the adulterous apostates until they are dead?
it's just one guy. wikileaks is larger than one man. assange knows this. you should know it to
it's a failure of most people that we get all caught up in the personalities, and forget the principles. it's true of anything political
say the USA lock assange up for the rest of his life. and? will that stop wikileaks? will that stop people from using wikileaks or bringing material to wikileaks? will that stop other wikileaks-like projects?
whatever!
the IDEA matters, the PERSON is irrelevant. assange would be the first to say this to you. they can do anything they want to him, they haven't destroyed his fame, and what made his name, and the idea he started
you can assassinate a man. you can smear his good name. but you can't stop HIS IDEA
THAT'S what is important
one man is brought down, but the cause continues unabated. i'm not afraid, are you afraid? i'm angered, are you angered?
so stop freaking out over the personality, focus on the principles. nothing's changed
"theatres are limping" says random yahoo on internet
box office revenue says otherwise
so i'll go with cold hard figures on this one
if avatar didn't have any 3D profit hike, the grosses would still put it at the most profitable movie ever, just in movie theatre box office receipts. i personally think 3D is a dumb gimmick, my point has nothing to do with 3D at all: movie theatres are obviously not dying. in fact, even if 3D is a dumb gimmick, it shows there is new technological life in the theatre, nevermind solid economic performance
arcades have been dead, not dying, for over a decade
and theatres just experienced the most profitable movie ever made last year: avatar. so i don't really understand why you think of them as the same when they are very different
would you pay much attention to someone saying "television and player pianos are dead". what? what with the false contrived linking of two totally media phenomena?
I thought I was decent at the game. A couple of years ago, I ate at Mott Street and played some high school kids. I should have scouted the competition before dumping in the quarters. Blackheart + Sentinel + Juggernaut doesn't cut it. After 4 perfect scores with infinite combos against me (damn Magneto and Cable!), I realized my arcade days are long over. But it was kind of weird to lose to HIGH SCHOOL students: shouldn't it have been some 40+ geezer beating me?
i worked on a tour boat. i would go on the roof of the boat, and lie out in the sun... right under the rotating radar. i said i was a dumb teenager. i wonder if my testicles produce viable sperm...
the question of course is if there is any health significance to minutely cooking your brain. the human body can take certain mechanical, chemical, thermal, radiation, or other abuses, with constant exposure, resulting in no changes whatsoever. while at the same time, other types of the same kind of abuses, to the tiniest of degrees, have serious health consequences
the only thing you can really say is beware anyone who can say for certain that the effect is completely harmless, or definitely harmful. they are liars. the simple truth is, no one knows
at night or dusk, i will walk by street lights and they will flicker on or off
i think i've turned into an RF generator
all kidding aside, the street lights DO flicker on or off as i near them. i'm sufficiently spooked about it
as well we should. all that water? pure h2 in the presence of so many oxidizers is not going to survive on any planet. and the only reason we have so much o2 is because of the actions of life
true. except because of our robust magnetosphere we keep all of our hydrogen and oxygen. yes venus does replenish some of it internally, but you'll notice both mars and venus are very low in hydrogen and oxygen: weak or no magnetosphere, plus geological time spans, and your water is gone baby gone ;-(
specifically, an induced magnetosphere:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Induced_magnetosphere
but it is very weak, so the solar wind penetrates deeply, into the exosphere, meaning venus is losing its hydrogen and oxygen
Deinococcus radiodurans takes your puny solar radiation, chews on it, and spits it out as not worthy of food. Go ahead, try and kill me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
if you plan on retiring soon, and you have your money in internet company investments, you will retire poor, and you deserve to, for your aggressive investment approach when you should be conservative
if you aren't planning on retiring soon, then take some risk for potential greater reward and invest in an internet company. but don't whine about it if your investment doesn't pan out: no risk, no reward, same as its always been
so what was your point again?
the rush of the lemmings is all done by rich, well-connected investors this time around, a select few, rather than mom and pop investors like last time around. there has been a trend away from going public in recent years, and sticking with private investors. why deal with the SEC and obsessing over stock market valuation? the stock market is becoming a thing of the past. which is part of a larger story away from the citizen investor and a return to the days of plutocrats and a class structured society, the death of the middle class
so, since dot-com crash 2.0 is all about rich assholes losing their money out of blind greed, i ready my world's tiniest violin
http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74095
he gave up the next pirates of the caribbean to do a bioshock movie. this is the guy who directed the american version of the ring. it would have been amazing. alas, tis not to be
they don't flaunt their nationalism, but its there and its quiet and its real
i see something concrete in response coming out of this as more likely than if europeans or americans were attacked
c'mon ottawa, do something. show that at least somebody has a backbone in response to these provocations. london or washington dc wouldn't, and didn't, do anything
i don't think the us govt will do a good job managing healthcare. there will be lots of bureaucracy and waste
i just think it will do a better job than the bullshit system we had before. where we had even more bureaucracy and waste
yes. like libraries, roads, bridges, military health care... whenever people pool their money to cover expenses, like uh INSURANCE, it's evil socialism, never just financial common sense, right?
i don't know. "just hurry up and die already if you are poor or middle class" doesn't sound intelligent to me
[In a Tiny Town 3D Kiosk, confronted with numerous menacing-looking targets, Edwards shoots a cardboard little girl]
Zed: May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?
James Edwards: Well, she was the only one that actually seemed dangerous at the time, sir.
Zed: How'd you come to that conclusion?
James Edwards: Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it.
[pause]
James Edwards: Or do I owe her an apology?
[pause]
James Edwards: That's a good shot though...
yes, this tired lie
read this please, to know the truth:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1996634&cid=35211362
and please note the response from another guy about tort reform
the lie is that the hard working pay for the healthcare of the lazy under universal healthcare. the truth is the hard working can't afford health insurance under voluntary insurance, and others freeload by avoiding the bill, under our current system. we already have universal healthcare: when those without insurance avoid the bill, the hospital passes the bill along to the state, and you pay for them with your taxes. this is the way it has been for decades. do you want lower premiums? then read the link above, understand the simple math why voluntary insurance makes your premiums so high
now you know reality. step out of the realm of the propagandized