Meanwhile, has anybody noticed how more pervasive advertising is than it was before all the consolidation? Three minutes of content followed by four minutes of commercials. It's insane and obscene. I've never seen as much advertising in my whole life as I have in the last ten years. And these people complain they can't make any money? Gimme a break!
Yeah, it's disgusting. Every channel is turning into the "commercials and advertisements" channel. Also, now any sports arena that goes up has to have a financial backer's name in it. Everything is branded and logo'd. I'm far from anti-capitalist, but these corps need to show some restraint. Carnival barkers have more class.
There is a difference between the government *providing* health insurance, and *paying* for health insurance. The first is not accurate. The health insurance companies will still exist in some capacity or another, and will still charge out the ass for their insurance - partly because hospitals, doctors, and malpractice lawyers also charge out the ass. This won't change - not in the real world, anyway. The only real difference is, instead of paying directly to your ins company, it'll come out of your taxes now, and be middle managed by an entity well known for it's mismanagement of funds and wasteful spending - the big bureaucratic government. But I guess proponents are counting on the taxes of the rich to cover most of of the costs. Won't happen, no matter which party is in power, and I'd be very surprised if the costs didn't actually increase.
That struck me as funny too. After all, if they cremate someone, on a pyre or in a furnace, they cremate them, they don't "bury" them unless they specifically bury the ashes. If someone's ashes are on the mantle in a vase, or scattered to the winds, they aren't referred to as "buried".
We should come up with a new term maybe. (I like latin: Corpus dispositum)
Ah, no argument there. There are no more inquisitions and witch burnings as there once was (though a lot of the latter was more political than religious). And what Charlemagne did at the Massacre of Verden is unforgivable. Islam started out fairly enlightened, embracing much of the Greco-Roman classical sciences and such, but it seems to be regressing these days, with Wahibism, the Taliban, and constant warring between Sunnis and Shiites, a mirror of the bloody catholic/protestant wars.
According to guys like Roger Penrose, quantum computing is the basis for consciousness - providing the brain is a quantum computer of sorts. Interesting theory.
Quality of life under Sharia law is better than that in the bible belt? I sure wouldn't want to live under either circumstance, but it's not as if muslims never forciblytried to convert people the way those nasty christians did/do.
I'm not defending the religious zealots of christianity by any stretch, but islam, overall, is actually worse. We just don't hear that much about it's history and oppressions here in the west. And xtianity worse than Hitler, Mao, and Stalin put together? lol. I think hundreds of thousands of Russians, Chinese, and Germanic jews who lived under them might disagree on that point.
Of all the offenses betwixt the USA and Iran, I'd posit that the balance isn't even close to parity. The Iranians have a lot of IOU's due against the US. [Like enough to use one every day for a century.]
And in the spirit of parity,
Iran beats the drum of "USA the Great Satan" every day
Iran has sent agents over into Iraq to start insurgencies directly leading to the deaths of numerous US soldiers and untold numbers of Sunnis
Regards US and provocation: Afghanistan? -provoked via 9-11. Iraq? Debatable because the first Desert Gulf war never ended, it was a *cease fire* based on terms that Saddam consistently violated, regardless of the WMD charges. The sanctions did nothing but make Iraqis suffer under Saddam who used them as anti-US propaganda, and fueled the rise of Al Quaeda who objected to the US military presence in Saudi.
Iraq held 79 US citizens hostage under inhumane conditions for a year.
The main political voice of Iraq has denied the Holocaust and wants to see another nation utterly destroyed.
After the Earthquake of Bam, FEMA, USAID and OFDA sent in five airlifts of supplies for relief, including 1,146 tents, 4,448 kitchen sets, approximately 12,500 blankets, and 430 rolls of plastic sheeting amounting to a cost of $543,605. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sent in seven C-130s with approximately 68 tonnes of medical supplies and 2,000 blankets also assisting in relief.
How much did Iran help after Katrina?
Really? The US is no theocracy, no matter how much you may not like the xtian right. Not like Iran is. These comparisons are hyperbole. The kind of comments Ahmajinedad regularly makes about another nation (Israel) should be illustrative enough.
Speaking of, that's what I really want to see - dragons. It'd be sweet if they could eventually genetically engineer such a creature.. starting with dino DNA as a base.;) The "fire breathing" aspect would be quite the challenge though..
Not true. I have had plenty of access to such information and have always avoided looking at it. It's immoral.
I'm in the same situation. I dunno about immoral, but it's definitely unethical, not to mention, snooping could land me in serious legal trouble to boot.
I'm sure there are people who do this though, probably those of the "gossip" mindset who just have to nose into everything and everyone's business. That's just not my thing, don't care.
Eh, I really don't get the prequel bashing thing. Were the originals truly all that, in comparison? I was in in high school when the original Star Wars came out, and have a sentimental attachment to it, but in retrospect, those movies are old now and their flaws more obvious.
Have you watched the original three lately? They're not much better in comparison - except maybe episode IV. "Return of the Jedi" should have been named "Muppets in Space". The opening scenes of Jabba's lair were really silly, like muppets gone wild. Granted, Jar Jar was really annoying, but no more silly really than those short fat teddy bears on Endor, and their victory over the occupying stormtroopers just flew in the face of all credibility . (I know they're called Ewoks, but they looked like children and dwarves in really bad suits to me - which is exactly what they were).
I think, if anything, what ailed the prequels is that their plots got bogged down in dialog and complex politics; they weren't the same happy-go-lucky simple shoot-em-ups that the original three were.
For one thing, you'd have to prove it's "hatemongering" - easier said than done. I know I once spelled it " Osama" by accident. I'm not an Obama fan, but it was not intentional -it made the meaning of what I was saying much less clear. It's not beyond the realm of belief. Years of Al Queada news coverage might make it habitual for the ticker typer to type, though it was still a sloppy thing to do; especially more than once; the second time is perhaps suspect. I haven't seen the "Hussein" thing though.
As to these "studies", umm. link? I wonder who funded or ran these studies?
I think you are confusing "massive" and "strongly interacting".The whole point of "dark matter" is that it interacts gravitationally with ordinary matter, but almost never in any other way. >
Well, that explains a lot. This is why we can't find the elusive Higgs boson, they're obviously all out there in deep space hiding as dark matter!
lol, that's sorta true, (it's a mutt language alright) but more the other way around.
English (Anglisc) was originally a Germanic language group brought over from the Angles/Saxons/Jutes, but other than inevitable mixing with the Latin speaking Celts of Britain, Norse was introduced by way of the Viking invasions, and French by way of Invading Normans.. so really, it's they that pursued English down the alleyway and beat it unconscious.
That's pretty much true of any tool, in the broadest sense. It can be used to help or hurt, for "good" or "evil"; whether it's medicine, a hammer, a car, a knife, a laser, etc.. regardless of what purpose it was originally designed for.
Ultimately it always comes down to the human wielding it. Which is kinda scary.
"Begs the question" doesn't really bother me, if used sparingly, I think in the right circumstance it makes sense to say, but what does bug me (besides ubiquitous "likes") are statements that are always prefaced with, "..in terms of - ". People (ab)use that to sound more authoritative.
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As does the US, well, at least from China.
Iran is not Iraq. They have a western standard of living, despite your ignorance of the region.
The US does not get all it's military grade tech from China. There's a huge gulf between consumer level tech and military tech.
Meanwhile, has anybody noticed how more pervasive advertising is than it was before all the consolidation? Three minutes of content followed by four minutes of commercials. It's insane and obscene. I've never seen as much advertising in my whole life as I have in the last ten years. And these people complain they can't make any money? Gimme a break!
Yeah, it's disgusting. Every channel is turning into the "commercials and advertisements" channel. Also, now any sports arena that goes up has to have a financial backer's name in it. Everything is branded and logo'd. I'm far from anti-capitalist, but these corps need to show some restraint. Carnival barkers have more class.
There is a difference between the government *providing* health insurance, and *paying* for health insurance. The first is not accurate. The health insurance companies will still exist in some capacity or another, and will still charge out the ass for their insurance - partly because hospitals, doctors, and malpractice lawyers also charge out the ass. This won't change - not in the real world, anyway. The only real difference is, instead of paying directly to your ins company, it'll come out of your taxes now, and be middle managed by an entity well known for it's mismanagement of funds and wasteful spending - the big bureaucratic government. But I guess proponents are counting on the taxes of the rich to cover most of of the costs. Won't happen, no matter which party is in power, and I'd be very surprised if the costs didn't actually increase.
That struck me as funny too. After all, if they cremate someone, on a pyre or in a furnace, they cremate them, they don't "bury" them unless they specifically bury the ashes. If someone's ashes are on the mantle in a vase, or scattered to the winds, they aren't referred to as "buried".
We should come up with a new term maybe. (I like latin: Corpus dispositum)
Ah, no argument there. There are no more inquisitions and witch burnings as there once was (though a lot of the latter was more political than religious). And what Charlemagne did at the Massacre of Verden is unforgivable. Islam started out fairly enlightened, embracing much of the Greco-Roman classical sciences and such, but it seems to be regressing these days, with Wahibism, the Taliban, and constant warring between Sunnis and Shiites, a mirror of the bloody catholic/protestant wars.
According to guys like Roger Penrose, quantum computing is the basis for consciousness - providing the brain is a quantum computer of sorts. Interesting theory.
Quality of life under Sharia law is better than that in the bible belt? I sure wouldn't want to live under either circumstance, but it's not as if muslims never forciblytried to convert people the way those nasty christians did/do.
I'm not defending the religious zealots of christianity by any stretch, but islam, overall, is actually worse. We just don't hear that much about it's history and oppressions here in the west. And xtianity worse than Hitler, Mao, and Stalin put together? lol. I think hundreds of thousands of Russians, Chinese, and Germanic jews who lived under them might disagree on that point.
Of all the offenses betwixt the USA and Iran, I'd posit that the balance isn't even close to parity. The Iranians have a lot of IOU's due against the US. [Like enough to use one every day for a century.]
And in the spirit of parity, Iran beats the drum of "USA the Great Satan" every day
Iran has sent agents over into Iraq to start insurgencies directly leading to the deaths of numerous US soldiers and untold numbers of Sunnis
Regards US and provocation: Afghanistan? -provoked via 9-11. Iraq? Debatable because the first Desert Gulf war never ended, it was a *cease fire* based on terms that Saddam consistently violated, regardless of the WMD charges. The sanctions did nothing but make Iraqis suffer under Saddam who used them as anti-US propaganda, and fueled the rise of Al Quaeda who objected to the US military presence in Saudi.
Iraq held 79 US citizens hostage under inhumane conditions for a year.
The main political voice of Iraq has denied the Holocaust and wants to see another nation utterly destroyed.
After the Earthquake of Bam, FEMA, USAID and OFDA sent in five airlifts of supplies for relief, including 1,146 tents, 4,448 kitchen sets, approximately 12,500 blankets, and 430 rolls of plastic sheeting amounting to a cost of $543,605. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sent in seven C-130s with approximately 68 tonnes of medical supplies and 2,000 blankets also assisting in relief.
How much did Iran help after Katrina?
I dunno.. seems about even to me.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe it's caused by the Great A'Tuin and those 4 elephants.
Really? The US is no theocracy, no matter how much you may not like the xtian right. Not like Iran is. These comparisons are hyperbole. The kind of comments Ahmajinedad regularly makes about another nation (Israel) should be illustrative enough.
I can not believe that I got a +4 Insightful for that.
I can. Maybe there are even slashdot bots that mod up anything with the phrase, "Bush's fault" in it. ;-D
In which case, I should be modded up now too!
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Until Apple patents their own "iSpear". Unfortunately for them, they won't be very effective as the spear tips will have rounded edges.
Speaking of, that's what I really want to see - dragons. It'd be sweet if they could eventually genetically engineer such a creature.. starting with dino DNA as a base. ;) The "fire breathing" aspect would be quite the challenge though..
Step right up to see the glowing wooly mammoths! Yay!
Not true. I have had plenty of access to such information and have always avoided looking at it. It's immoral.
I'm in the same situation. I dunno about immoral, but it's definitely unethical, not to mention, snooping could land me in serious legal trouble to boot.
I'm sure there are people who do this though, probably those of the "gossip" mindset who just have to nose into everything and everyone's business. That's just not my thing, don't care.
Eh, I really don't get the prequel bashing thing. Were the originals truly all that, in comparison? I was in in high school when the original Star Wars came out, and have a sentimental attachment to it, but in retrospect, those movies are old now and their flaws more obvious.
Have you watched the original three lately? They're not much better in comparison - except maybe episode IV. "Return of the Jedi" should have been named "Muppets in Space". The opening scenes of Jabba's lair were really silly, like muppets gone wild. Granted, Jar Jar was really annoying, but no more silly really than those short fat teddy bears on Endor, and their victory over the occupying stormtroopers just flew in the face of all credibility . (I know they're called Ewoks, but they looked like children and dwarves in really bad suits to me - which is exactly what they were).
I think, if anything, what ailed the prequels is that their plots got bogged down in dialog and complex politics; they weren't the same happy-go-lucky simple shoot-em-ups that the original three were.
For one thing, you'd have to prove it's "hatemongering" - easier said than done. I know I once spelled it " Osama" by accident. I'm not an Obama fan, but it was not intentional -it made the meaning of what I was saying much less clear. It's not beyond the realm of belief. Years of Al Queada news coverage might make it habitual for the ticker typer to type, though it was still a sloppy thing to do; especially more than once; the second time is perhaps suspect. I haven't seen the "Hussein" thing though.
As to these "studies", umm. link? I wonder who funded or ran these studies?
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I think you are confusing "massive" and "strongly interacting".The whole point of "dark matter" is that it interacts gravitationally with ordinary matter, but almost never in any other way. >
Well, that explains a lot. This is why we can't find the elusive Higgs boson, they're obviously all out there in deep space hiding as dark matter!
lol, that's sorta true, (it's a mutt language alright) but more the other way around. English (Anglisc) was originally a Germanic language group brought over from the Angles/Saxons/Jutes, but other than inevitable mixing with the Latin speaking Celts of Britain, Norse was introduced by way of the Viking invasions, and French by way of Invading Normans.. so really, it's they that pursued English down the alleyway and beat it unconscious.
That's pretty much true of any tool, in the broadest sense. It can be used to help or hurt, for "good" or "evil"; whether it's medicine, a hammer, a car, a knife, a laser, etc.. regardless of what purpose it was originally designed for.
Ultimately it always comes down to the human wielding it. Which is kinda scary.
I can see the packaging already.. Gorton's Space Filets
Lindsey Lohan will be the doctors Companion.
Good luck getting her to show up for the shoot sober, if at all..
"Begs the question" doesn't really bother me, if used sparingly, I think in the right circumstance it makes sense to say, but what does bug me (besides ubiquitous "likes") are statements that are always prefaced with, "..in terms of - ". People (ab)use that to sound more authoritative.