The file formats are entirely different. You'd think this would matter. It is a tech site, after all. Or are you one of those who has tried to jam a 5.25" floppy disk into your CD-ROM drive? Hey, it's a diskette, right?
"Well, there goes my argument, then. You found one rich, black man"
I was responding to your absolutist argument where you did indeed say "Zero". Such an argument does easily "go".
Actually, I found an interesting little paragraph about the humble beginnings of the "scandal CEO's":
"The nation's current It Villain, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, was the son of a Newark, N.J., police detective. Global Crossing's Gary Winnick grew up in Roslyn, N.Y., where his father worked in food services. Adelphia's John Rigas is the son of Greek immigrants...."
from "Slate": http://slate.msn.com/id/2066965/
Maybe the Branson/Eton types are just better at not getting caught!
"The world would be saved in capitalism were regulated. The closer we get to lasseiz-faire, the closer we get to feudalism"
The place in the world where capitalism is the most regulated is North Korea. Do you want the world to be saved by turning it into this? Besides, you have it backwards: the more such regulation we have, the closer we get to feudalism. Look into the middle ages: the feudal system had a level of economic regulation that would be considered extremely high right now.
"Furthermore, of all the recent fraud scandals concerning mass quantities of corporate money (Tyco, Adelphia, Enron, Global Crossing, etc, etc), how many of those indicted were not, in fact, rich, white males?"
"Wealth is still propagated largely through inheritance and social connections"
Most millionaires are actually wealthy from their own efforts.
"if you don't believe the historical racial distribution of wealth has any continuing effect"
What is the name of the first corrupt "rich white old" CEO that comes to mind? Bet it is Ken Lay. His childhood: "His father, Omer, tried selling farm equipment and working in a feed store, but became a Baptist minister after bankruptcy forced the family to seek refuge with relatives"
Commuting the hacker death penalty to a mere "blue screen of death" penalty might be in order. While we are at it, institute such a penalty for the bozos as NYT for making us type Elmer Fudd, pw Wabbit in order to read their info.
"Running a tabletop role playing game easy enough. Just take your laptop, run "nethack", and it takes care of itself..... "
Let's listen in for a couple of minutes while the DM runs the game using Nethack for his source:
"Blue screen of death? I make a saving throw!"
"What do you mean, I am attacked by a Bonzi Buddy?" "Donno. It just appeared on the screen."
"This is interesting. Did you know that if you give this guy in Nigeria 13,000 gold pieces, he will pay you back 30,000,000 gold pieces and bump you up to a tenth-level character?"
"What do you mean, my sword's damage was not increased +20? I used C1ALiS on it!"
The best RPG campaign I remember is one where the DM had no books, no maps, no rules. He had just a ten-sided die. It beat just about all campaigns where there are books and graph paper scattered all over the table.
It is dead in Russia, but not in China. Last time I checked, the Communist Party was still in power there.
"I guess something bad happened to your family back in china causing you to have a strong grudge against it?"
Perhaps he is a Tibetan, or perhaps he is a relative of the 30,000,000 or so Chinese civilians executed by Communist policies (at gunpoint or by government-ordered famine) in mainland China. That might piss him off a little.
How is Guantanamo "not better"? Please compare the number of people who died in each. Do you believe that there have been large-scale massacres at Guantanamo?
"Software pirates are not fulfilling a need in their law-breaking..."
Maybe they are, maybe they are not (regardless of whether or not the actions to fulfill the need are legal or not). Whether something is a need or not depends on the individual involved.
"I would hardly equate pirating the latest music movie or game with stealing bread to sustain your life."
Especially when this analogy is bad. In "Les Miz" terms, what we have here is the relentless cop going after the guy for baking a loaf that copied someone else's load, and then eating this new loaf he baked.
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The file formats are entirely different. You'd think this would matter. It is a tech site, after all. Or are you one of those who has tried to jam a 5.25" floppy disk into your CD-ROM drive? Hey, it's a diskette, right?
I prefer having to make the moral choice between the rocket launcher and the land-shark gun.
Can you find an instance of Apple ever giving MP3's to play in the iPod?
"Well, there goes my argument, then. You found one rich, black man" I was responding to your absolutist argument where you did indeed say "Zero". Such an argument does easily "go".
"The nation's current It Villain, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, was the son of a Newark, N.J., police detective. Global Crossing's Gary Winnick grew up in Roslyn, N.Y., where his father worked in food services. Adelphia's John Rigas is the son of Greek immigrants...." from "Slate": http://slate.msn.com/id/2066965/ Maybe the Branson/Eton types are just better at not getting caught!
The place in the world where capitalism is the most regulated is North Korea. Do you want the world to be saved by turning it into this? Besides, you have it backwards: the more such regulation we have, the closer we get to feudalism. Look into the middle ages: the feudal system had a level of economic regulation that would be considered extremely high right now.
Find out who led Fannie-Mae into its scandal....
Most millionaires are actually wealthy from their own efforts.
"if you don't believe the historical racial distribution of wealth has any continuing effect"
What is the name of the first corrupt "rich white old" CEO that comes to mind? Bet it is Ken Lay. His childhood: "His father, Omer, tried selling farm equipment and working in a feed store, but became a Baptist minister after bankruptcy forced the family to seek refuge with relatives"
Your point would be better if it did not include an example of your racism.
Realize that for fast driving, this penalty is gets imposed automatically during the act.
Commuting the hacker death penalty to a mere "blue screen of death" penalty might be in order. While we are at it, institute such a penalty for the bozos as NYT for making us type Elmer Fudd, pw Wabbit in order to read their info.
And the boys would always help pull the leeches off each others legs, until that one fateful day: "Billy! Stop pulling! That's not a leech!!!"
You've only been saying that ever since you plunked down the $20,000 to complete your robot..... your GIRL robot.
Let's listen in for a couple of minutes while the DM runs the game using Nethack for his source:
"Blue screen of death? I make a saving throw!"
"What do you mean, I am attacked by a Bonzi Buddy?" "Donno. It just appeared on the screen."
"This is interesting. Did you know that if you give this guy in Nigeria 13,000 gold pieces, he will pay you back 30,000,000 gold pieces and bump you up to a tenth-level character?"
"What do you mean, my sword's damage was not increased +20? I used C1ALiS on it!"
The best RPG campaign I remember is one where the DM had no books, no maps, no rules. He had just a ten-sided die. It beat just about all campaigns where there are books and graph paper scattered all over the table.
"And while id was looking down.
Unreal stole its gaming crown..."
It is dead in Russia, but not in China. Last time I checked, the Communist Party was still in power there.
"I guess something bad happened to your family back in china causing you to have a strong grudge against it?"
Perhaps he is a Tibetan, or perhaps he is a relative of the 30,000,000 or so Chinese civilians executed by Communist policies (at gunpoint or by government-ordered famine) in mainland China. That might piss him off a little.
How is Guantanamo "not better"? Please compare the number of people who died in each. Do you believe that there have been large-scale massacres at Guantanamo?
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George Bush (either one!). Please research their childhoods. Do you honestly think that their backgrounds are similar?
Maybe they are, maybe they are not (regardless of whether or not the actions to fulfill the need are legal or not). Whether something is a need or not depends on the individual involved.
Especially when this analogy is bad. In "Les Miz" terms, what we have here is the relentless cop going after the guy for baking a loaf that copied someone else's load, and then eating this new loaf he baked.
A skull and bones conspiracy waco? This hot off the press: both Bush and Kerry like french fries too. They are the same man!!!.
According to the Swedish Chef filter,, this becomes:
"Yerrr, meteees. Um gesh dee bork, bork!.. noo vhee oone-a ooff us velks zee plunk, zee vhule-a croo gues tu Defy Junes' lucker. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Yerrrr. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!"
That does it, this really sucks. I was just about to get my copy of "Fernando" too.
Unless you play online boardgames, or like certain cartoons (like that Loadstar Runner thing), is there any real need for it?