Well, in certain countries, you're allowed to have (consent) sex at the tender age of 16, but you're not allowed to smoke/drink until you are 18, and not allowed to gamble until 21.
The one that gets me is that here in the UK (and probably many other places too), you can have sex at 16, but you have to be 18 to rent a video of OTHER PEOPLE having sex.
My top 2 would be Parasites Lost and Luck of the Fryish. When bender offers to 'go get his kit' when Fry suggests a spot of grave robbing, I crack up every time.
I believe in the US, for example, the richest 1% bear 18% of the total tax burden."
With functional roads, I can get to work and earn X. With functional roads the top 1% can get all their employees to work and earn Y (where Y is orders of magnitude bigger than X). This can be applied to nearly every public service.
The top 1% may be disproportionately taxed, but they also receive a disproportionate advantage for the application of their tax money.
Prime Minister's Aid: Tony Tony.... hundreds of thousands of people from the British public, you know, the people that actually voted you and your two-faced party into power in the first place are lining the streets telling you not to get involved in an unjust and poorly thought out war in Iraq... what should we do prime minister
Tony Blair: Fuck em, George says "Go Go Go!".... just give 'em all free Cliff Richards Music or something. That should shut them up!
If you listen really really carefully, you can hear a faint cheer from the 2 people that A) listen to Cliff Richard and Jethro Tull and B) have mastered P2P music sharing.
Lots of things are still legal in merry olde England that are not legal elsewhere though...Magic Mushrooms
This is not true anymore, changed about a year ago. Used to be that you could buy them as long as they had not been dried. Was a shop in Camden in london that would sell them by the punnet and was quite amusing to see hordes of folks coming out with punnets of mushrooms on a saturday afternoon (no doubt in preperation for an interesting night).
However, the law was changed, and this has since been stopped. Apparently, the governement think it's better for kids to get blind drunk and smash up town centres (with relative impunity) instead.
He mentioned to a protester that in his home-country, people hunted [some animal - bears, was it?] all the time.
It was dogs actually, which made the piece particually funny as us English folk are known for our fondness of dogs (no jokes please!) and none more-so than huntsmen.
I do, and have spent some time in the US also. After having a gun pointed at me by a police officer because I didn't stand during the US national athem (the first half anyways) then I would argue that the GP is right. Although, could equaly have qualified his point with... "But not by much!".
On one hand, I find it sad that a network with the potential to unit the world, and bring us all closer together became the catalyst for such a sick, frenzied and unnecessary attack.
On the other hand, I am happy that my TCP-enabled pickaxe handle may have a market.
How on earth is it legit to tack a completely unrelated bill to another and pass them both under the same vote? Am I the only one who sees how unbelievably insane that is?
Surely anyone voting against the bill will be blasted for not securing US ports, even when it was a vote in protest to the anti-gambling legislation.
The way the US government goes around telling the world how to run their 'democracy' is so incredibly laughable at this point.
I am not sure a "history of fraud" defines a black hat (according to my defination anyway).
Having worked with some people from this kind of background I would say that having them around in any kind of hi-tech start-up is a geniune asset. High IQ comes with the terroritory and I have also found that uber-geeks (as most dedicated black-hats are, by default) have a deep pride and sense of ownerships in their projects. I think that 'black hat' behaviour is more about ego than they would like to admit, and egos can be good if they make the owner strive to make their project the best out there.
There definatly will be a few assholes that try to screw you over, but I am not sure that it is fair to say there are more of these people in the 'ex black-hat' community than in the general population.
Actually, I tend to feel that the copyright holders have an advantage that the 'jokers' are (currently) localized to a few sites. At least yourtube has a policy to remove disputed content... clone #10001 may not.
Home users are getting access to faster and faster internet lines and streaming AV is becoming as common as browsing HTML pages, it can't be too long before there are many many more 'yourtubes', some may be more reluctant to remove content based on a simple letter. If some user in one of the many countries that the US doesn't see eye to eye with, hosts some episode of 'friends' on his/her site, think a strongly worded letter would do the trick?
Something has to give.
The person that comes up with a model to get paid for generating content without requiring total control of the distribution mechanism isn't going to want for much, I can tell you!
I know this is becoming a cliché but if you haven't already done so, I strongly recommend reading the book "The Running Man". It was written by Stephen King under the name Richard Bachman. Fundementally different from the movie and a much better concept. To give you a taster, there is no 'arena' like in the movie. The contestent goes out into the world, and everyone is encouraged to report sightings. I have already seen a programme like this (without the kill on site thing of course). So we are moving that way.
Perhaps they did, but a kid turned up and found out how you had gotten the sports results and then went back to the point where your future self gave them to you and managed to steal them while HIS other self was desperately trying to avoid having intercourse with his mother but was not careful enough to avoid teaching Chuck Berry how to play rock and roll!
I'm telling you man, I'm no huge fan of Joss Wheddon (never did get into Buffy) but with this show he created a masterpiece.
Just out of interest, did you follow Buffy from the beginning? If not, you might be having the same problem here.
I was a huge fan of Buffy and Firefly and more recently (after many years on my 'todo' list) I am starting to work my way through Angel. The writing in Buffy (especially series 1-3, before Wheadon became less involved) was just as intelligent as Firefly. I would probably describe both series' as 'masterpieces' but for both you had to have an understanding of the characters and environment. It takes a few episodes of Buffy to see past the, "Beverly Hills 90210" setting and into Joss' Genius. The blending of fighting real monsters and fighting the 'monsters' of going through adolescene is sublime at times. One particular episode in season 3 called 'The Zeppo' (after Marx brother) is especially inspired here, placing the end of the world as a subplot (with about 5 mins of total air time) to the struggle of one of the group to find their identity. Truely excellent.
If you are ever in a position where you are looking for a series to follow, give it another try. Series 1 is excellent but does still have the characters 'finding their feet'. Once you get into season 2 and 3, I can guarentee very good entertainment.
I may soon be in a position to recommend Angel too, but I am only about half way through season 1 right now.
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Well, in certain countries, you're allowed to have (consent) sex at the tender age of 16, but you're not allowed to smoke/drink until you are 18, and not allowed to gamble until 21.
The one that gets me is that here in the UK (and probably many other places too), you can have sex at 16, but you have to be 18 to rent a video of OTHER PEOPLE having sex.
You be the judge!
Can I be the clandestine military tribunal?
The author seems to equate dense with good
The irony of this is so elegantly compact I am concern a singularity may form around the vacinity of this article.
Dear Sir,
I am confused by your units of measurement.
Please explain to me how many assloads can be found in a fucktonne.
Thanks
My top 2 would be Parasites Lost and Luck of the Fryish. When bender offers to 'go get his kit' when Fry suggests a spot of grave robbing, I crack up every time.
Just one question - is he worse than Blunkett?
Yes, but not by much.
"They are disproportionately heavily taxed.
I believe in the US, for example, the richest 1% bear 18% of the total tax burden."
With functional roads, I can get to work and earn X. With functional roads the top 1% can get all their employees to work and earn Y (where Y is orders of magnitude bigger than X). This can be applied to nearly every public service.
The top 1% may be disproportionately taxed, but they also receive a disproportionate advantage for the application of their tax money.
Prime Minister's Aid: Tony Tony.... hundreds of thousands of people from the British public, you know, the people that actually voted you and your two-faced party into power in the first place are lining the streets telling you not to get involved in an unjust and poorly thought out war in Iraq... what should we do prime minister
Tony Blair: Fuck em, George says "Go Go Go!".... just give 'em all free Cliff Richards Music or something. That should shut them up!
If you listen really really carefully, you can hear a faint cheer from the 2 people that A) listen to Cliff Richard and Jethro Tull and B) have mastered P2P music sharing.
Think even further outside the box: 1) Learn to rock climb.
Insightful??
Did nobody consider that rock climbing with early onset arthritis, would be a pretty fucking seriously extreme sport?!
This is not true anymore, changed about a year ago. Used to be that you could buy them as long as they had not been dried. Was a shop in Camden in london that would sell them by the punnet and was quite amusing to see hordes of folks coming out with punnets of mushrooms on a saturday afternoon (no doubt in preperation for an interesting night).
However, the law was changed, and this has since been stopped. Apparently, the governement think it's better for kids to get blind drunk and smash up town centres (with relative impunity) instead.
Thats in the middle of the redlight district you filthy...... oh wait...
He mentioned to a protester that in his home-country, people hunted [some animal - bears, was it?] all the time.
It was dogs actually, which made the piece particually funny as us English folk are known for our fondness of dogs (no jokes please!) and none more-so than huntsmen.
I do, and have spent some time in the US also. After having a gun pointed at me by a police officer because I didn't stand during the US national athem (the first half anyways) then I would argue that the GP is right. Although, could equaly have qualified his point with... "But not by much!".
Good night John-Boy!
On one hand, I find it sad that a network with the potential to unit the world, and bring us all closer together became the catalyst for such a sick, frenzied and unnecessary attack.
On the other hand, I am happy that my TCP-enabled pickaxe handle may have a market.
Actually, most kids seem quite conservative and conformist these days
You should come to the UK and describe the kids here as that. You would probably get to conser... right before the house brick hit you.
How on earth is it legit to tack a completely unrelated bill to another and pass them both under the same vote? Am I the only one who sees how unbelievably insane that is?
Surely anyone voting against the bill will be blasted for not securing US ports, even when it was a vote in protest to the anti-gambling legislation.
The way the US government goes around telling the world how to run their 'democracy' is so incredibly laughable at this point.
I am not sure a "history of fraud" defines a black hat (according to my defination anyway).
Having worked with some people from this kind of background I would say that having them around in any kind of hi-tech start-up is a geniune asset. High IQ comes with the terroritory and I have also found that uber-geeks (as most dedicated black-hats are, by default) have a deep pride and sense of ownerships in their projects. I think that 'black hat' behaviour is more about ego than they would like to admit, and egos can be good if they make the owner strive to make their project the best out there.
There definatly will be a few assholes that try to screw you over, but I am not sure that it is fair to say there are more of these people in the 'ex black-hat' community than in the general population.
Maybe that won't stop some jokers though.
Actually, I tend to feel that the copyright holders have an advantage that the 'jokers' are (currently) localized to a few sites. At least yourtube has a policy to remove disputed content... clone #10001 may not.
Home users are getting access to faster and faster internet lines and streaming AV is becoming as common as browsing HTML pages, it can't be too long before there are many many more 'yourtubes', some may be more reluctant to remove content based on a simple letter. If some user in one of the many countries that the US doesn't see eye to eye with, hosts some episode of 'friends' on his/her site, think a strongly worded letter would do the trick?
Something has to give.
The person that comes up with a model to get paid for generating content without requiring total control of the distribution mechanism isn't going to want for much, I can tell you!
I know this is becoming a cliché but if you haven't already done so, I strongly recommend reading the book "The Running Man". It was written by Stephen King under the name Richard Bachman. Fundementally different from the movie and a much better concept. To give you a taster, there is no 'arena' like in the movie. The contestent goes out into the world, and everyone is encouraged to report sightings. I have already seen a programme like this (without the kill on site thing of course). So we are moving that way.
Perhaps they did, but a kid turned up and found out how you had gotten the sports results and then went back to the point where your future self gave them to you and managed to steal them while HIS other self was desperately trying to avoid having intercourse with his mother but was not careful enough to avoid teaching Chuck Berry how to play rock and roll!
Did you ever think about THAT?
Awesome :) Forgot about that, I'll have to check it out.
Don't bother. It was crap! Great promise, poor implementation.
I'm telling you man, I'm no huge fan of Joss Wheddon (never did get into Buffy) but with this show he created a masterpiece.
Just out of interest, did you follow Buffy from the beginning? If not, you might be having the same problem here.
I was a huge fan of Buffy and Firefly and more recently (after many years on my 'todo' list) I am starting to work my way through Angel. The writing in Buffy (especially series 1-3, before Wheadon became less involved) was just as intelligent as Firefly. I would probably describe both series' as 'masterpieces' but for both you had to have an understanding of the characters and environment. It takes a few episodes of Buffy to see past the, "Beverly Hills 90210" setting and into Joss' Genius. The blending of fighting real monsters and fighting the 'monsters' of going through adolescene is sublime at times. One particular episode in season 3 called 'The Zeppo' (after Marx brother) is especially inspired here, placing the end of the world as a subplot (with about 5 mins of total air time) to the struggle of one of the group to find their identity. Truely excellent.
If you are ever in a position where you are looking for a series to follow, give it another try. Series 1 is excellent but does still have the characters 'finding their feet'. Once you get into season 2 and 3, I can guarentee very good entertainment.
I may soon be in a position to recommend Angel too, but I am only about half way through season 1 right now.
Google has been trying hard to be break into the Enterprise market
Last one to Vulcan is a rotten egg!