This is OK with you?What ever happened to letting someone have their say? The Indymedia guys were "whinging" about the "free speech zones", but they did not want to allow free speech for the conventions.
I first thought it said that they were doing to use Rodan (instead of Norad) to stop out-of-bounds planes. Come to think of it, the Rodan solution might be more effective.
We allow laser enforcement of air traffic laws. Pretty soon, this includes the use of laser swords. The governments contract out to the Joint European Defense Institute to do the enforcing. Pretty soon, these laser-sword weilding do-gooders in their cool-looking robes start meddling in everyone's affairs, not just airplanes.
That is correct. More on topic, the Democratic and Republican Parties are private organizations. They are within their rights (and expressing their Constitutional rights of assembly) to bar non-members and those of opposing parties from their meetings and assemblies. Someone making the rules at their own private meeting should not have been included as a Jeff.Muzzle.
Turns out that the government contracted this one to Dr. Evil. Thanks to the not-so-good Doctor, his friend Dr. Alan Parsons, and a squadron of sharks with "laser "cannons mounted on their foreheads, the problem of out-of-bounds planes quickly ended.
Your paraphrasings were not correct, especially of the first quotation.
Basically, the two statements were ones that you introduced in your posting. They were not in the parents. I'm not interested in your new creations: feel free to evaluate them yourself.
"[When it comes to speaking your mind about almost anything, few countries or people have it as good as the people of the United States, even in this post-September 11 world.] This does not appear to be true."
Depends on what you mean by "few". A significant majority of the countries are worse than the United States on this list, and all the rest of the countries with really large population rank worse than the United States.
"I am of the opinion that there are quite a few places, and people, in the world who can say whatever they damn well please. "
The countries you can do this in (or do a lot of it, if not all) are surprisingly few. Even in Canada, which you named, there is a province with laws to censor your private speech if it is in the wrong language (a strong bit of ethnic-related fascism that remains only a distant possibility in the US, despite the efforts of Pat Buchanan and others on behalf of "English Only")
"The Dixie Chicks learned the 'hard way' that if they voice an unpopular political opinion, their fans will punish them economically"
Last time I heard, the Dixies' sales figures increased a little as a result of that flap. This kind of "punishment" is good for the bank account!
Here's a link to Indymedia's shut down the convention! page. I guess these Indymedia guys have a right to hold whatever event they want unmolested, but those who do not have Indymedia's opinions do not have any such right. The idea of "shutting down" a meeting you do not like is (or should be considered) quite un-American.
It is not quite fair to include the Rep and Dem conventions there. All they were doing was practicing the forgotten right, the Constitutional right to assembly".
I visited several protester sites, and several of them claimed that their goal was to "shut down" the conventions. Given that they were out to deny someone's rights and disrupt their meeting, some sort of separation was warranted. Maybe not as extreme, but something needed to be done to stop those who were out to "shut down" the peaceable assembly of those who did not share their opinions.
I have no problem with protests, except when they are trying to disrupt or silence someone else's speech or event.
"I guess he used a typewriter, it was written in 1965 after all."
I'm sure he has it somewhere. I read on a right-wing blog that all the fonts appearing in the article were proportional TrueType fonts which were first used in Microsoft Office very recently.
"I believe the local vernacular is "shared.""
In the local vernacular, the term "shared" is used a lot for file sharing. It is technically, legally, and morally impossible to steal when participating in file sharing, as files end up duplicated and nothing is taken, let alone stolen
If someone had "shared" Intel's magazine, Intel would still have it, and the other person would be in possession of a perfect copy of the one that Intel had. This is not what happened here.
"Is it the first major pro game publisher to announce cellphones as a target?"
Knowing that there will be all these drivers out there, not only talking on the cell phone, but playing the latest version of "Driv3r", really makes me rest assured that the roads will be safe.
I forgot to add, that your argument is way off. The channels are being censored not because they are dumped for cheap, but because the government does not want you to see the content..
I am again reminded of my friends who had to get an "illicit" dish account in order to watch what they wanted. They like watching a few different news channels. At the time, the Canadian government only allowed one in, arguing that "one was enough". Since when is the government to decide that just one viewpoint is enough?
As for "dumping", I like it: it means that prices are so much lower.
"You're missing that media and culture are as entirely susceptible to market manipulation as anything else."
I am not missing it. I am asserting that perception of "manipulation" is not reason to censor anything. "Market manipulation" is not an excuse for censorship.
"The a reason why American culture would steam-roll Canada"
This would only happen if Canadians happened to like it in the first place. Why not let each Canadian choose?
"In any trade agreement, selling something for cheaper than the cost of production is considered dumping"
So? What does this have to do with anything?
"Now, since it's impossible to charge duty or tarriffs to stop this dumping of media content over our borders, another way needs to be taken to handle this. Legislation was chosen to do this."
And it is a particularly draconian legislation that is designed to censor "outside" content. The only silver lining here is the rise of Internet browsing at the expense of TV watching: Internet browsing is not censored yet. Canadians are allowed to choose for themselves here, unlike with TV.
"The King of the UAE comes to the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio) when he needs medical care."
(gets off plane). "Cleveland in Ohio, yes? Such smells, like we do not have in desert! Many pardons. Now when can I meet Drew Carey? And if you please, take me to Great Fame Museum of Rocks.... Please, hotel is nice, and TV is nice too, but add Minaret Channel, and I will be rather pleased."
"Plus he'd be too altruistic to accept money and he'd just play for your team for free."
A lot of the problems with Data are taken care of if you remove that emotion chip and replace it with a Bender chip. To say the least, he becomes a lot more fun at poker parties.
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This is OK with you?What ever happened to letting someone have their say? The Indymedia guys were "whinging" about the "free speech zones", but they did not want to allow free speech for the conventions.
Captain Trips? So soon? Go back to sleep. Your time is soon enough.
I first thought it said that they were doing to use Rodan (instead of Norad) to stop out-of-bounds planes. Come to think of it, the Rodan solution might be more effective.
Don't you love the smell of self-immolating grammer nazis in the morning?
We allow laser enforcement of air traffic laws. Pretty soon, this includes the use of laser swords. The governments contract out to the Joint European Defense Institute to do the enforcing. Pretty soon, these laser-sword weilding do-gooders in their cool-looking robes start meddling in everyone's affairs, not just airplanes.
That is correct. More on topic, the Democratic and Republican Parties are private organizations. They are within their rights (and expressing their Constitutional rights of assembly) to bar non-members and those of opposing parties from their meetings and assemblies. Someone making the rules at their own private meeting should not have been included as a Jeff.Muzzle.
"Minime! Stop humping the DC-10!!!
Basically, the two statements were ones that you introduced in your posting. They were not in the parents. I'm not interested in your new creations: feel free to evaluate them yourself.
Depends on what you mean by "few". A significant majority of the countries are worse than the United States on this list, and all the rest of the countries with really large population rank worse than the United States.
The countries you can do this in (or do a lot of it, if not all) are surprisingly few. Even in Canada, which you named, there is a province with laws to censor your private speech if it is in the wrong language (a strong bit of ethnic-related fascism that remains only a distant possibility in the US, despite the efforts of Pat Buchanan and others on behalf of "English Only")
"The Dixie Chicks learned the 'hard way' that if they voice an unpopular political opinion, their fans will punish them economically"
Last time I heard, the Dixies' sales figures increased a little as a result of that flap. This kind of "punishment" is good for the bank account!
Here's a link to Indymedia's shut down the convention! page. I guess these Indymedia guys have a right to hold whatever event they want unmolested, but those who do not have Indymedia's opinions do not have any such right. The idea of "shutting down" a meeting you do not like is (or should be considered) quite un-American.
I visited several protester sites, and several of them claimed that their goal was to "shut down" the conventions. Given that they were out to deny someone's rights and disrupt their meeting, some sort of separation was warranted. Maybe not as extreme, but something needed to be done to stop those who were out to "shut down" the peaceable assembly of those who did not share their opinions.
I have no problem with protests, except when they are trying to disrupt or silence someone else's speech or event.
I'm sure he has it somewhere. I read on a right-wing blog that all the fonts appearing in the article were proportional TrueType fonts which were first used in Microsoft Office very recently.
I had a matchbox full of mint-condition, unfolded, bagged and carded issues of "Action Comics #1". My mother found them and threw them out!
If someone had "shared" Intel's magazine, Intel would still have it, and the other person would be in possession of a perfect copy of the one that Intel had. This is not what happened here.
Count me in, if you make it worth my while: Double the prize every 18 months.
Knowing that there will be all these drivers out there, not only talking on the cell phone, but playing the latest version of "Driv3r", really makes me rest assured that the roads will be safe.
I am again reminded of my friends who had to get an "illicit" dish account in order to watch what they wanted. They like watching a few different news channels. At the time, the Canadian government only allowed one in, arguing that "one was enough". Since when is the government to decide that just one viewpoint is enough?
As for "dumping", I like it: it means that prices are so much lower.
I am not missing it. I am asserting that perception of "manipulation" is not reason to censor anything. "Market manipulation" is not an excuse for censorship.
"The a reason why American culture would steam-roll Canada"
This would only happen if Canadians happened to like it in the first place. Why not let each Canadian choose?
"In any trade agreement, selling something for cheaper than the cost of production is considered dumping"
So? What does this have to do with anything?
"Now, since it's impossible to charge duty or tarriffs to stop this dumping of media content over our borders, another way needs to be taken to handle this. Legislation was chosen to do this."
And it is a particularly draconian legislation that is designed to censor "outside" content. The only silver lining here is the rise of Internet browsing at the expense of TV watching: Internet browsing is not censored yet. Canadians are allowed to choose for themselves here, unlike with TV.
I wondered about that too. I bet that if you ask the guy "Spell K.K.K.", he will get it wrong.
We will have some idea this is going on when we start finding metal fingers in our Wendy's chili.
Only when properly buffed and waxed, mind you.
(gets off plane). "Cleveland in Ohio, yes? Such smells, like we do not have in desert! Many pardons. Now when can I meet Drew Carey? And if you please, take me to Great Fame Museum of Rocks.... Please, hotel is nice, and TV is nice too, but add Minaret Channel, and I will be rather pleased."
"Plus he'd be too altruistic to accept money and he'd just play for your team for free." A lot of the problems with Data are taken care of if you remove that emotion chip and replace it with a Bender chip. To say the least, he becomes a lot more fun at poker parties.
I already see the plot for the sequel to Rambo III a-brewin'