by filling the void the record companies should have filled. now iTunes dictates to the record companies the terms under which they operate. it's a power vacuum that the record companies should have filled when they had the opportunity, and they failed capitalize on that opportunity
they instead viewed digital content as a threat because they liked their model: $20 per CD, 60 cents to the artist, "only one song i like" to the consumer
now it's belt tightening time, if not outright extinction. artists can distribute online on their own terms. giving away free music with an online tip jar is still better money than the suffocating terms the record companies pay artists. and artists make their names online: who cares if the record company can hype you on mtv or the radio. myspace, facebook, hello?
hard to figure how the old record behemoths matter anynmore. their relevancy shrivels every day. sorry, dinosaurs. must suck to realize you're extinct. guess it's time to sue some more grandmothers out of spite i suppose
nothing but shortsighted assholes and losers. good fucking riddance to the whole lot of them
and you wonder why it's annoying? a social deficit is a social deficit. this is not an observation that compels me to hold the autistic's/ asperger's hand and be understanding, this is an observation that compels the autistic/ aspergers to understand they are out of line and out of place. this is a comment board, not a speech pathology center
the brittle feeble emphasis on grammar interferes with proper social communication. an obsession with grammar belies a mind out of touch with what is important in a conversation. if you are trying to have a conversation with someone about biotech, and they constantly change the subject to your sentence structure, the only proper response is SHUT THE FUCK UP
am i supposed to be understanding? am i supposed to indulge the socially malformed and coddle them? "oh yes, my sentence structure, let me fix that." "oh yes, i misspelled that word, let me fix that."
that's giving the brittle mind the wrong idea: that their mediocrity is relevant. it feeds the wrong idea. it is far more useful for me to tell them what every socially well-formed individual is thinking: SHUT THE FUCK UP. NO ONE CARES ABOUT THAT
and i love the fact that you replied to me after absorbing my post above. it was rude, hostile, and poorly formatted. hey, twatstain: PROVE MY POOR FORMATTING IS AN IMPEDIMENT TO COMMUNICATION AND STOP FUCKING RESPONDING TO ME. OTHERWISE, YOU UNDERMINE YOUR ENTIRE ARGUMENT
now if you will excuse me, it's 10 minutes to wapner. definitely, definitely, 10 minutes to wapner
the first teenage biohack will be vat-grown chicken mcnuggets to replace the real mcnuggets in their school cafeteria. this after 13 year old suzy mcqueasy visits a farm and it dawns on her for the first time where her hamburgers come from
that's the kind of "less genocide" teenagers are concerned with
the average person on the street can decipher text messages, slang, etc., without any trouble or mental fuzziness
however, there exists a certain inflexible segment of small-mined, petty, and mediocre people who believe it is somehow more important to focus on the color of the wrapping paper rather than gift
that's a metaphor for valuing cosmetics over content. it means i think your mind is shallow. can you comprehend a metaphor dear autistic turd? or not until i rigidly adhere to strunk & white's elements of style will your dim mind whir and click the meaning into place?
in which case, it is with PLEASURE that my poor formatting trips up such brittle minds. consider it a useful filter on my part: when i confront grammar nazis, i am ENCOURAGED to format poorly based on your brittle reactions. i would choose not to continue communicating with minds that work like yours. and my poor formatting achieves that. magical, huh?
your feeble mind's inability to get over that which normal folk have no trouble digesting mentally is a loud and clear signal for me to ignore you, continue on my way, and be happy brittle feeble minds like yours are tripped up and sent packing from the conversation
you'll notice that was a run on sentence. you'll notice i don't fucking care, and am happy not to care, considering the type of person who does care. i feel liberated from mediocrity by ignoring your concerns
capisce, you useless feeble dim bulb? oh, and by the way, if you're still reading at this point: IF YOU GOT THROUGH THAT MUCH NEGATIVE BULLSHIT, AS BADLY FORMATTED AS IT WAS, AND YOU'RE STILL READING, WHY. THE. FUCK. DO. YOU. FUCKING. CARE. SO. MUCH. ABOUT. GRAMMAR. YOU. FUCKING. BRITTLE. MINDED. TURD?
upside: any elicit drug, or pharmaceutical intellect property drugs, can be made
downside: hello nerve gas
results: all of the pluses and minuses of free computer code manipulations we are familiar with (intellectual property meltdown, hackers, etc.), replicated in the world of biochemistry. except this time, the script kiddies are playing with petri dishes
what took an entire universy research department, with all the pcr machines, southern blots, grad students, etc. 10 years ago, will 10 years from now be on the workbench of high school students
i'm all one for the relentless march of technology, and there is no putting pandora back in the box, but this leaves me feeling queasy
just like no mp3 ripping software can be blocked, no game playing bot can be blocked either
just pipe the video output and the keyboard input to another clean box
make it hardware pipes if need be
there is no way the software running on the box where WoW is installed can ever detect this, unless the bot acts particularly "bot like". in which case, put in random hesitations and repititions
and if this seems a bit extreme to you, consider that we live in a world where people actually pay people in china to play MMORPGs for them. just that fact alone seems insanely extreme to me, so i don't think this kind of hard hack bot is that ludicrous
in fact, in the world of online poker games, i am 100% certain such hardhack bots already exist, considering the profit motivation there and the anti-cheating measures in place there
this microsoft brain dump is obviously hokum, but in all seriousness, our ever growing hard drive densities, and the ubiquity of cameras nowadays, means the day is not far off when a newborn will be born and given a tiny innocuous camera implant on the side of his head, and his entire life will be videotaped
this is appealing and horrifying on a number of different levels
WoW's The Burning Crusade added the world of Draenor to Azeroth.
Which, while exciting, pales in comparison to the upcoming expansion pack Papers, Please, featuring the world of Orwellian. Orwellian will feature exciting new dungeons like "Guantanamo" and "Abu Ghraib".
i can't even begin to put into words how out of touch you are
let's just put it this way: list all the problems you have with democracy. now look at every other government type. conclusion: EVERY OTHER GOVT TYPE IS WORSE
get to work on the space ship there bub
or, accept that the great moderate middle is not on the cutting edge of fringe issues. nor ever they will be. but they get there, slowly. and when they get there, such as with gay rights, etc., then gay rights will be accepted and respected. but until they do, tough shit. don't like that deal? guess what: NO OTHER GOVT WORKS BETTER THAN THAT in terms of the issues you care about like gay rights
less filtered. the usa has a problem with the influence of $$$. remove all $ from the system. all political ads are paid for by a national fund. everyone gets the same amount of cash. any cash spent in any way to support a candidate outside the system will be punished. anyone can run. all they need is enough preliminary votes. the preliminary vote cap will be set high as to eliminate fringe and joke candidates like the libertarians and nader
1. the vast majority has always been more tolerant than one would suppose. common decency is the norm, not rabid pogroms. it is demagogues in power who lead with lies and propaganda that incites the usual suspects into committing atrocities against religious and racial minorities
2. in cases where the majority is intent on killing a racial or religious minority, why do you think a government besides democracy will protect citizens from that? more likely, it will inflame the persecution further (jews in the ussr, christians in saudi arabia, falun gong in china, etc.)
in other words, you somehow say that democracy incites persecution of minorities. on the contrary, it puts demagogues out of power and allows common decency to shine through. and even if it doesn't do that, every other form of government makes persecution of minorities worse. this entire issue is a stupid red herring
that's the will of the people. i didn't vote him, i think he's a stupid frat boy. i hate the ahole
but i respect that that is the will of the american people
i ALSO respect the fact that he did not win the popular vote in 2000. that without the retarded electoral college, al gore would have been president in 2000, and the last 8 years under gw bush would have never happened, IF the will of the people was unfiltered
in any nation that has practiced democracy, and in any nation that ever will practice democracy, there is the mainstream agenda, and a spectrum of fringe agendas. that's your majority and minority. the fringe agendas never will be respected, and never should be respected. because democracy is working exactly when fringe agendas don't get respected: the will of the people is the great moderate middle, not the loud stupid fringe, on any issue, right or left
and please, don't for once try to equate that bullshit with disrespecting racial minorities or religious minorities. completely different subject matter
is to be respected, if that nation does not respect the will of it's people
therefore, if the country is not democratic, anything goes: you as a citizen should not respect any law of your country
authority is not to be respected if authority is not accountable to the common citizen
if a government is accountable to theocrats, royals, despots, autocrats, or technocrats, that government is not to be respected, by its citizens, or the international community
because those governments certainly don't respect their citizens
only in a democracy are the will of the citizens respected, via the vote, so only in a democracy is the government accountable to its citizens, and only democratically elected governments are to be respected by its citizens and the international community
"I never said that might makes right... Might allows you to dictate what people perceive as being the truth."
uh, what?
you just contradicted yourself directly in two sentences
the whole point of socially liberal societies is that YOU decide what the truth is, and are free to say whatever you want on the issue. not simply the military organization that wins all the battles
meanwhile, when you say the victor decides the truth after a war, you ARE saying might makes right. EXACTLY THE SAME THING
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by filling the void the record companies should have filled. now iTunes dictates to the record companies the terms under which they operate. it's a power vacuum that the record companies should have filled when they had the opportunity, and they failed capitalize on that opportunity
they instead viewed digital content as a threat because they liked their model: $20 per CD, 60 cents to the artist, "only one song i like" to the consumer
now it's belt tightening time, if not outright extinction. artists can distribute online on their own terms. giving away free music with an online tip jar is still better money than the suffocating terms the record companies pay artists. and artists make their names online: who cares if the record company can hype you on mtv or the radio. myspace, facebook, hello?
hard to figure how the old record behemoths matter anynmore. their relevancy shrivels every day. sorry, dinosaurs. must suck to realize you're extinct. guess it's time to sue some more grandmothers out of spite i suppose
nothing but shortsighted assholes and losers. good fucking riddance to the whole lot of them
i'm a big fat ugly rude obnoxious disgusting happy proud troll
so shut the fuck up and suck my dick, you fucking twat
xoxoxoxoxox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly
he could blink. that's it. yes or no. and with that ability, letter by letter, he wrote a book (with the help of some very patient nurses/ assistants)
it's coming out as a movie soon too i think
and you wonder why it's annoying? a social deficit is a social deficit. this is not an observation that compels me to hold the autistic's/ asperger's hand and be understanding, this is an observation that compels the autistic/ aspergers to understand they are out of line and out of place. this is a comment board, not a speech pathology center
the brittle feeble emphasis on grammar interferes with proper social communication. an obsession with grammar belies a mind out of touch with what is important in a conversation. if you are trying to have a conversation with someone about biotech, and they constantly change the subject to your sentence structure, the only proper response is SHUT THE FUCK UP
am i supposed to be understanding? am i supposed to indulge the socially malformed and coddle them? "oh yes, my sentence structure, let me fix that." "oh yes, i misspelled that word, let me fix that."
that's giving the brittle mind the wrong idea: that their mediocrity is relevant. it feeds the wrong idea. it is far more useful for me to tell them what every socially well-formed individual is thinking: SHUT THE FUCK UP. NO ONE CARES ABOUT THAT
and i love the fact that you replied to me after absorbing my post above. it was rude, hostile, and poorly formatted. hey, twatstain: PROVE MY POOR FORMATTING IS AN IMPEDIMENT TO COMMUNICATION AND STOP FUCKING RESPONDING TO ME. OTHERWISE, YOU UNDERMINE YOUR ENTIRE ARGUMENT
now if you will excuse me, it's 10 minutes to wapner. definitely, definitely, 10 minutes to wapner
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kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
ah, "progress"
rude unwelcome truth over placid pointless white lies
that's my motto
the first teenage biohack will be vat-grown chicken mcnuggets to replace the real mcnuggets in their school cafeteria. this after 13 year old suzy mcqueasy visits a farm and it dawns on her for the first time where her hamburgers come from
that's the kind of "less genocide" teenagers are concerned with
"Historians Recreate Source Code of First 404 Error Message"
(truth be told, quick scanning the headlines, that's what my brain registered)
someone should make sure you stay away from lab equipment
(if you don't laugh at that comment, which was the intention, then perhaps it's a serious comment after all)
i understand the answer already
the truth is, your mind is brittle and inflexible
the average person on the street can decipher text messages, slang, etc., without any trouble or mental fuzziness
however, there exists a certain inflexible segment of small-mined, petty, and mediocre people who believe it is somehow more important to focus on the color of the wrapping paper rather than gift
that's a metaphor for valuing cosmetics over content. it means i think your mind is shallow. can you comprehend a metaphor dear autistic turd? or not until i rigidly adhere to strunk & white's elements of style will your dim mind whir and click the meaning into place?
in which case, it is with PLEASURE that my poor formatting trips up such brittle minds. consider it a useful filter on my part: when i confront grammar nazis, i am ENCOURAGED to format poorly based on your brittle reactions. i would choose not to continue communicating with minds that work like yours. and my poor formatting achieves that. magical, huh?
your feeble mind's inability to get over that which normal folk have no trouble digesting mentally is a loud and clear signal for me to ignore you, continue on my way, and be happy brittle feeble minds like yours are tripped up and sent packing from the conversation
you'll notice that was a run on sentence. you'll notice i don't fucking care, and am happy not to care, considering the type of person who does care. i feel liberated from mediocrity by ignoring your concerns
capisce, you useless feeble dim bulb? oh, and by the way, if you're still reading at this point: IF YOU GOT THROUGH THAT MUCH NEGATIVE BULLSHIT, AS BADLY FORMATTED AS IT WAS, AND YOU'RE STILL READING, WHY. THE. FUCK. DO. YOU. FUCKING. CARE. SO. MUCH. ABOUT. GRAMMAR. YOU. FUCKING. BRITTLE. MINDED. TURD?
xoxoxoxoxoxox
why the hell do you think your spelling/ grammar/ greek mythology nazi ways are going to impress me?
why the hell do you grammar nazis try so hard?
there's no reason to make bottle rockets
there's no reason to make napster
there's no reason to master electronic sampling in music
do you really think a teenager finds nothing compelling about a quick and easy way to make any chemical he wants in his gym locker?
upside: any elicit drug, or pharmaceutical intellect property drugs, can be made
downside: hello nerve gas
results: all of the pluses and minuses of free computer code manipulations we are familiar with (intellectual property meltdown, hackers, etc.), replicated in the world of biochemistry. except this time, the script kiddies are playing with petri dishes
what took an entire universy research department, with all the pcr machines, southern blots, grad students, etc. 10 years ago, will 10 years from now be on the workbench of high school students
i'm all one for the relentless march of technology, and there is no putting pandora back in the box, but this leaves me feeling queasy
maybe it's just the GM wasabi in my sushi
just like no mp3 ripping software can be blocked, no game playing bot can be blocked either
just pipe the video output and the keyboard input to another clean box
make it hardware pipes if need be
there is no way the software running on the box where WoW is installed can ever detect this, unless the bot acts particularly "bot like". in which case, put in random hesitations and repititions
and if this seems a bit extreme to you, consider that we live in a world where people actually pay people in china to play MMORPGs for them. just that fact alone seems insanely extreme to me, so i don't think this kind of hard hack bot is that ludicrous
in fact, in the world of online poker games, i am 100% certain such hardhack bots already exist, considering the profit motivation there and the anti-cheating measures in place there
taking reservations for transatlantic flights in 1880
or selling land on the moon... wait a second!?
this microsoft brain dump is obviously hokum, but in all seriousness, our ever growing hard drive densities, and the ubiquity of cameras nowadays, means the day is not far off when a newborn will be born and given a tiny innocuous camera implant on the side of his head, and his entire life will be videotaped
this is appealing and horrifying on a number of different levels
and it is probably only 5-10 years off
WoW's The Burning Crusade added the world of Draenor to Azeroth.
Which, while exciting, pales in comparison to the upcoming expansion pack Papers, Please, featuring the world of Orwellian. Orwellian will feature exciting new dungeons like "Guantanamo" and "Abu Ghraib".
dude. democracy=rule by the people
you call it "proletarian dictatorship"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
that's like "dry water" or "bright darkness"
i can't even begin to put into words how out of touch you are
let's just put it this way: list all the problems you have with democracy. now look at every other government type. conclusion: EVERY OTHER GOVT TYPE IS WORSE
get to work on the space ship there bub
or, accept that the great moderate middle is not on the cutting edge of fringe issues. nor ever they will be. but they get there, slowly. and when they get there, such as with gay rights, etc., then gay rights will be accepted and respected. but until they do, tough shit. don't like that deal? guess what: NO OTHER GOVT WORKS BETTER THAN THAT in terms of the issues you care about like gay rights
congratulations, welcome to reality. deal with it
less filtered. the usa has a problem with the influence of $$$. remove all $ from the system. all political ads are paid for by a national fund. everyone gets the same amount of cash. any cash spent in any way to support a candidate outside the system will be punished. anyone can run. all they need is enough preliminary votes. the preliminary vote cap will be set high as to eliminate fringe and joke candidates like the libertarians and nader
and go to borda or approval voting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
it would be very hard to do, entrenched interests, ignorance, inertia, and all that, but it's obviously the right thing to do. cross your fingers
1. the vast majority has always been more tolerant than one would suppose. common decency is the norm, not rabid pogroms. it is demagogues in power who lead with lies and propaganda that incites the usual suspects into committing atrocities against religious and racial minorities
2. in cases where the majority is intent on killing a racial or religious minority, why do you think a government besides democracy will protect citizens from that? more likely, it will inflame the persecution further (jews in the ussr, christians in saudi arabia, falun gong in china, etc.)
in other words, you somehow say that democracy incites persecution of minorities. on the contrary, it puts demagogues out of power and allows common decency to shine through. and even if it doesn't do that, every other form of government makes persecution of minorities worse. this entire issue is a stupid red herring
that's the will of the people. i didn't vote him, i think he's a stupid frat boy. i hate the ahole
but i respect that that is the will of the american people
i ALSO respect the fact that he did not win the popular vote in 2000. that without the retarded electoral college, al gore would have been president in 2000, and the last 8 years under gw bush would have never happened, IF the will of the people was unfiltered
in any nation that has practiced democracy, and in any nation that ever will practice democracy, there is the mainstream agenda, and a spectrum of fringe agendas. that's your majority and minority. the fringe agendas never will be respected, and never should be respected. because democracy is working exactly when fringe agendas don't get respected: the will of the people is the great moderate middle, not the loud stupid fringe, on any issue, right or left
and please, don't for once try to equate that bullshit with disrespecting racial minorities or religious minorities. completely different subject matter
is to be respected, if that nation does not respect the will of it's people
therefore, if the country is not democratic, anything goes: you as a citizen should not respect any law of your country
authority is not to be respected if authority is not accountable to the common citizen
if a government is accountable to theocrats, royals, despots, autocrats, or technocrats, that government is not to be respected, by its citizens, or the international community
because those governments certainly don't respect their citizens
only in a democracy are the will of the citizens respected, via the vote, so only in a democracy is the government accountable to its citizens, and only democratically elected governments are to be respected by its citizens and the international community
"A liberal society gives people the impression they know what's going on"
if you honestly believe that, you are low iq, a paranoid schizophrenic, or some combination of the two
adios moron
neutrality doesn't consider the philosophical and political attitude and agendas of various organizations?
so neutrality has no judgment on a japanese regime that was outwardly imperialistic, ultranationalist and racist?
it's all the same to the american regime- whatever the americna regime stood for?
so you think neutrality is morally inert?
"I never said that might makes right...
Might allows you to dictate what people perceive as being the truth."
uh, what?
you just contradicted yourself directly in two sentences
the whole point of socially liberal societies is that YOU decide what the truth is, and are free to say whatever you want on the issue. not simply the military organization that wins all the battles
meanwhile, when you say the victor decides the truth after a war, you ARE saying might makes right. EXACTLY THE SAME THING