I am not a libertarian, but I believe the stock response to a question like that is that the market will sort this out. Once people reach the decision that these games are bad, they will stop buying the products.
In the libertarian utopia, marketing either doesn't exist or doesn't have an effect.
I couldn't agree more. I was shooting when I was 8 years old, and I learned proper safety and respect through an NRA program. You learn that firearms are not playthings, and that they are to be treated with the utmost respect for safety and maintenance.
It seems that a lot of people want to pretend that firearms don't exist, or if they don't have them, no one else does. Thus, children's ignorance of firearms and their natural curiosity for an item they see all the time, and well, that's how kids get shot by accident. Kids need to be educated about firearm safety, especially in parts of the country like mine, where a lot of very vocal people want to not just ban guns, but ban the very notion that they exist, and therefore should not even educate their kids about them.
You can put all the loaded-chamber indicators and magazine latch safety gizmos you want on guns, but if kids aren't taught basic safety, it won't matter.
FPS and other violent vids may exacerbate this already significant problem, I don't know, but it seems to me that it might.
I have an Apple ][ plus down in my garage, and there is no Open Apple key on it. I don't think that key appeared until the Apple ][e. On that Apple ][, if Ctl-C doesn't help, you reach around the back and turn it off and then on again.
Yes, our population is larger, but only 30% of those eligible to vote in the U.S. actually vote, so the numbers are perhaps very comparable. Manual counting and paper ballots may be just the ticket.
Well, technically, it was the CEO of Diebold that said that, not the company itself in, say, a press release. That doesn't mean that it's not something to worry about, but mis-attributing the quote only hurts the point you're trying to make. The question is, what role does Diebold's CEO have in product design?
Well, how likely is it that the ISP knew it was the girl? I doubt the girl's name is the one on the account at the ISP. The ISP turned over the info they had, but how did they know it was a little girl?
I mean, this whole thing is lame, but the subpoaena was undoubtedley for the Mom's ISP account.
Where do you think SCO got the money for the lawsuit? A former boss of mine, who's now involved in the VC community, asserts that Microsoft assisted SCO with some funding for the lawsuit, that they put SCO up to it.
Enron is currently undergoing re-organization under Chapter 11. They're not gone, just enjoying the protection of the courts from paying back all the people they scammed.
Those sentences you refer to are sentences for the various officers offered up to be sacrificed. The engineer of the entire scam, the founder of the company, Kenneth Lay, is as free as you are.
The biggest problem, as I see it, for anyone who may win this recall, is how on earth do you plan to get the state house, which is dominated handily by Democrats, to play ball with you in Sacramento after you defeated their guy in the executive branch?
This is one thing that most people aren't talking about. It's one thing to offer slogans and platitudes, but when it comes down to business, how are you going to get the Democratic leadership in the state assembly to give you one minute of their time? I see Arnold winning, and then getting *nothing* done, because hey, if I was a Democratic member of the state house, I wouldn't want to work with you or any of the other usurpers. I'd be more than happy to watch you twist in the wind, unable to build any consensus, totally ineffective because what you did was wrong.
As a life long resident of the Golden State, this whole thing is a travesty. Too bad we didn't recall Pete Wilson, the father of this entire mess, when we had the chance.
I mean, really, isn't it just a question of which one looks better to you? You can run all the stuff for each one. I think GNOME looks slicker than KDE's 'PlaySkool' style, but I just use KDE because SuSE plays nicer with it, I think.
Ahhh... Yes. You haven't lived until you have to modify the source code of the Prism2 driver to include the 3Com 3CRWE77A thingamabobs...
I found the the wireless support just horrible. Worthless... I had to hunt and hunt. I'm just lucky I can read Spanish, because the only web site in the world that could possibly be of any help to me in this case was from a Spanish site. It's so half-assed, and it's not as though it's all that new. No excuse, simply no excuse.
Try the linux-wlan-ng wireless stuff. It worked for me. None of the SuSE included wireless stuff worked. And worse, it wasn't telling you that it didn't work. It just sort of quietly didn't do anything. I was beginning to wonder if all those GUI applets were like those buttons you push when you want to cross the street.
I can only speak from my experience with Konqueror and RPM's on SuSE, but whenever I download an RPM, and view it with Konqueror, it has a button on it that says "Install with YaST". It's pretty forehead when it comes to installing stuff, at least RPMs.
I would expect that the others have similar functionality. Of course, that only works with RPMs. Naturally, 2/3 of the stuff I find myself needing don't distribute in RPM, so it's only half a solution.
So... you're in favor of a poll tax? Good luck with that. They're kind of unconstitutional.
Amendment XXIV -- The right of citizens to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice-President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax
Thanks for playing, though.
Also, let me get this straight: poor people don't deserve any help? All they do is commit crime? Those kids don't deserve access to an education because their parents don't make enough money?
In case you haven't noticed, major combat operations are over.
Oh yeah, you're talking about the permanent war. The one that will destroy us all, except the ones wealthy enough to live in compounds patrolled by armed guards.. while the rest of attend classes at re-education centers.
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War is war, diplomacy is what you do to avoid war, which is horrendous and always immoral. It's immoral for a nation to find glory in warfare. Those that do are doomed to fail.
No, it's for US cities. The urban warfare thing is for anywhere, but they train for it here. A couple of years ago, the Marines invaded my home town, as practice for a similar scenario elsewhere.
Same thing happened to me after arriving in Southampton from France after staying in Ireland for 5 months. Single males traveling to England from Ireland were always suspect in those days.
Of course, after my time in Belfast, I came to understand that the IRA would probably never accept an American into their ranks, precisely because of NORAID. Since most of the IRA's money came from the US, they weren't going to put their cash flow at risk by having some American get caught for a bombing.
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In the libertarian utopia, marketing either doesn't exist or doesn't have an effect.
I heard a kid got killed by a car. If it saves just one precious little angel, isn't it worth it to ban cars?
It seems that a lot of people want to pretend that firearms don't exist, or if they don't have them, no one else does. Thus, children's ignorance of firearms and their natural curiosity for an item they see all the time, and well, that's how kids get shot by accident. Kids need to be educated about firearm safety, especially in parts of the country like mine, where a lot of very vocal people want to not just ban guns, but ban the very notion that they exist, and therefore should not even educate their kids about them.
You can put all the loaded-chamber indicators and magazine latch safety gizmos you want on guns, but if kids aren't taught basic safety, it won't matter.
FPS and other violent vids may exacerbate this already significant problem, I don't know, but it seems to me that it might.
I have an Apple ][ plus down in my garage, and there is no Open Apple key on it. I don't think that key appeared until the Apple ][e. On that Apple ][, if Ctl-C doesn't help, you reach around the back and turn it off and then on again.
Rumors. Anecdotes. First, determine the point you'd like to make, then find data that supports your conclusion.
There's a reason why the "fellows" at the AEI can't get real jobs in real research.
Yes, our population is larger, but only 30% of those eligible to vote in the U.S. actually vote, so the numbers are perhaps very comparable. Manual counting and paper ballots may be just the ticket.
Well, technically, it was the CEO of Diebold that said that, not the company itself in, say, a press release. That doesn't mean that it's not something to worry about, but mis-attributing the quote only hurts the point you're trying to make. The question is, what role does Diebold's CEO have in product design?
Get an advanced or professional degree. There's an incentive program for people with advanced degrees. Even ones from the United States.
I mean, this whole thing is lame, but the subpoaena was undoubtedley for the Mom's ISP account.
Fish and bats would miss them. So would spiders. I don't know about fish, but bats are people, too.
Where do you think SCO got the money for the lawsuit? A former boss of mine, who's now involved in the VC community, asserts that Microsoft assisted SCO with some funding for the lawsuit, that they put SCO up to it.
Move to California. Geez, do live in DC or something?
Yeah, but with the job prospects out there, 10% of of zero is zero. Nothing to lose, man. Nothing to lose.
Those sentences you refer to are sentences for the various officers offered up to be sacrificed. The engineer of the entire scam, the founder of the company, Kenneth Lay, is as free as you are.
This is one thing that most people aren't talking about. It's one thing to offer slogans and platitudes, but when it comes down to business, how are you going to get the Democratic leadership in the state assembly to give you one minute of their time? I see Arnold winning, and then getting *nothing* done, because hey, if I was a Democratic member of the state house, I wouldn't want to work with you or any of the other usurpers. I'd be more than happy to watch you twist in the wind, unable to build any consensus, totally ineffective because what you did was wrong.
As a life long resident of the Golden State, this whole thing is a travesty. Too bad we didn't recall Pete Wilson, the father of this entire mess, when we had the chance.
I mean, really, isn't it just a question of which one looks better to you? You can run all the stuff for each one. I think GNOME looks slicker than KDE's 'PlaySkool' style, but I just use KDE because SuSE plays nicer with it, I think.
I found the the wireless support just horrible. Worthless... I had to hunt and hunt. I'm just lucky I can read Spanish, because the only web site in the world that could possibly be of any help to me in this case was from a Spanish site. It's so half-assed, and it's not as though it's all that new. No excuse, simply no excuse.
Try the linux-wlan-ng wireless stuff. It worked for me. None of the SuSE included wireless stuff worked. And worse, it wasn't telling you that it didn't work. It just sort of quietly didn't do anything. I was beginning to wonder if all those GUI applets were like those buttons you push when you want to cross the street.
I would expect that the others have similar functionality. Of course, that only works with RPMs. Naturally, 2/3 of the stuff I find myself needing don't distribute in RPM, so it's only half a solution.
Amendment XXIV -- The right of citizens to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice-President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax
Thanks for playing, though.
Also, let me get this straight: poor people don't deserve any help? All they do is commit crime? Those kids don't deserve access to an education because their parents don't make enough money?
Oh yeah, you're talking about the permanent war. The one that will destroy us all, except the ones wealthy enough to live in compounds patrolled by armed guards.. while the rest of attend classes at re-education centers.
Fascist
War is war, diplomacy is what you do to avoid war, which is horrendous and always immoral. It's immoral for a nation to find glory in warfare. Those that do are doomed to fail.
How do you deter with the prospect of death someone who is willing to die in the process of killing you?
No, it's for US cities. The urban warfare thing is for anywhere, but they train for it here. A couple of years ago, the Marines invaded my home town, as practice for a similar scenario elsewhere.
Of course, after my time in Belfast, I came to understand that the IRA would probably never accept an American into their ranks, precisely because of NORAID. Since most of the IRA's money came from the US, they weren't going to put their cash flow at risk by having some American get caught for a bombing.
Uranium from Niger, anyone? Ready to launch chemical weapons in 45 minutes?
Oh yeah, those aren't lies. I forgot.
Except for that guy at the airport who was detained for holding an anti-Bush sign...