But does that qualify as "promoting the use of guns" in the eyes of the law?
As others have pointed out, the law would only be interested in this if Hollywood were, in fact, selling guns. Instead of movies.
But I have it on good authority (since I've lived and worked in Hollywood) that gun manufacturers do invest in movie production, in fact the whole military-industrial complex has a wretched history in this realm, so..
They do it well, however, so it may not be so easy to prove in court.;)
.. which means that Hollywood should be liable for promoting the use of guns for killing people whenever they show guns being used for killing people..
I'd kill to have The Criterion Collection shipped to me in one big box.
(Or, one small hard drive.)
Whatever. I just want all those movies..
Anyone know of good movie collection services that rock? I've seen a few of those "Columbia-House" style dealies, where you get one movie a month for 2 years, but that sucks.. I want them in one big package..
Its not so much if you've got skills these days, its if you can get skills, fast.
Mad skills are one thing. Going from zero to total competence is another thing. Focusing on strictly authority-based skills assessment are a sure-fire way to be left behind. Tech changes too fast for this to be an effective mode any more. The Meta-Skill of Skilling Oneself Quick is where its at.
Work on the Meta-Skills. Take any system, bend it to your will, use it for the task at hand. Accept no less.
Yeah, it was a pretty neat feature, and often-overlooked actually. It always seemed weird to me that there were a whole new generation of Linux hackers around who rejoiced when Knoppix&co. came out.. i mean, i was like "whatever, we've been able to do that with Linux since the beginning"..
Ummm... no, clueless plebian, the reason this is important to Your Rights Online is that it was a HIGHLY CENSORED report, which has now been found again, and is soon to be published.
Thus, you can decide for yourself, under terms of Freedom, not censorship, what the facts of this report were.
Should the Allies have censored the report? Should The American War Machine Have Such Rights to Censorship?
That is the point, and that is the reason it is in fact, news for nerds. Stuff that matters.
You may not find America's current passion for hiding the effects of its War Machine from the general public to be much of a big deal, but this story highlights why, in fact, it might behoove you to reconsider...
But destroying the mountain may actually have made a bigger impression. The city is man-made, and has grown over time, even within a person's lifetime. What man can make, man can destroy. The mountain, in contrast, would seem to be eternal; I think you underestimate the impression such an act would have made.
yeah, not to mention the fact that destroying a mountain instead of a population, as a demonstration to that population would've proved the compassion of the 'good guys' versus the insanity of the bad guys...
seems to me an opportunity was missed here. compare the Americans nuking Mt. Fuji with the Japanese raping China, and it would've/could've resulted in not just a military victory, but a moral one too.
But then, as has been pointed out, Militarists rarely value Morality over Mortality.
Showing the effects of just about any weapon of war will sicken a normal person. And yet, somehow, we keep on managing to figure out ways to dehumanize opponents enough to justify in our minds waging war on them.
Indeed. Show the population the TRUTH about their war machine, and they'll soon stop feeding dollars into it. This is just a plain fact. Censorship of the Products of War doesn't protect anyone but the perpetrators...
"National Security" usually means "keeping the population ignorant enough to not give a damn", you know..
Quite frankly, I'd assume that the high-ups in the US military saw the general public as little more than a hindrance to their objectives; at best, viewed in a patronising, paternalistic manner.
Nothing has changed, the US is still governed by its Cop Masters.
The observation of this phenomenon is what prompted FDR to warn of the impending techno-militaristic-fascist state currently dominating the US economy and society.. the 'we will protect you, do as we say' personality pervades US society today.
the fact is: OSX has to move to x86, to compete with the distro's!
in case you didn't know this, Linux runs on (existing) Mac hardware just as well as it does on x86 hardware.. OSX going to x86 is a retaliatory shot across the bows of Linux...
Its OSX which must compete with Linux, not the other way around. The 'ease of use' myth is about 2 years past due.. Knoppix and MEPIS are proving this, well and truly.
They're both 'as easy to use' as OSX is.. some would say easier, given how easy it is to keep software up to date on such systems (hint: easier than under OSX, yo!)
From the beginning. You could boot from it (if your BIOS supported it), or you could boot from the included floppy with the CD in the drive, and you would have a fully working system: no install required.
I used it to convince the company I was working for at the time that Linux was a viable Unix workstation alternative.. even in 1994, this worked just fine. We dumped DOS from our 486's and installed Linux.. and I've made my living out of implementing Linux solutions in business ever since..
Try MEPIS, dude. Get the Live CD, boot from it. Pretty sure it'll find your sound system and set it up for you.. and if you like what you see, install it onto hard disk.
The blueprints for the Saturn V were *NOT* lost. They are on micro-film at Marshall Space Flight Center. They're not going to be terribly useful: rocket-science has come a loooong way since the 70's, courtsey of a few other sciences (materials/manufacturing).
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But does that qualify as "promoting the use of guns" in the eyes of the law?
..
;)
As others have pointed out, the law would only be interested in this if Hollywood were, in fact, selling guns. Instead of movies.
But I have it on good authority (since I've lived and worked in Hollywood) that gun manufacturers do invest in movie production, in fact the whole military-industrial complex has a wretched history in this realm, so
They do it well, however, so it may not be so easy to prove in court.
.. which means that Hollywood should be liable for promoting the use of guns for killing people whenever they show guns being used for killing people ..
...
Now that is something I'd like to see
super cool. i'm gonna ask for this for christmas.
.. i guess E-Bay is the only choice.
wonder how to get the 'out of print' DVD's, though
I'd kill to have The Criterion Collection shipped to me in one big box.
.. I want them in one big package..
(Or, one small hard drive.)
Whatever. I just want all those movies..
Anyone know of good movie collection services that rock? I've seen a few of those "Columbia-House" style dealies, where you get one movie a month for 2 years, but that sucks
Its not so much if you've got skills these days, its if you can get skills, fast.
Mad skills are one thing. Going from zero to total competence is another thing. Focusing on strictly authority-based skills assessment are a sure-fire way to be left behind. Tech changes too fast for this to be an effective mode any more. The Meta-Skill of Skilling Oneself Quick is where its at.
Work on the Meta-Skills. Take any system, bend it to your will, use it for the task at hand. Accept no less.
I'm not Malicious!
Yeah, it was a pretty neat feature, and often-overlooked actually. It always seemed weird to me that there were a whole new generation of Linux hackers around who rejoiced when Knoppix&co. came out .. i mean, i was like "whatever, we've been able to do that with Linux since the beginning" ..
Funny how things go in waves.
.. and, what better way to bring tyrants down than to have them using Microsoft software, right?
I mean, sure. Tyrants need computing too. No reason they should be allowed to use Free/Open Source Software to do their repression...
Geezuz, you clueless plebeian.
Its Jesus, dude. Christ.
Ummm... no, clueless plebian, the reason this is important to Your Rights Online is that it was a HIGHLY CENSORED report, which has now been found again, and is soon to be published.
...
...
Thus, you can decide for yourself, under terms of Freedom, not censorship, what the facts of this report were.
Should the Allies have censored the report? Should The American War Machine Have Such Rights to Censorship?
That is the point, and that is the reason it is in fact, news for nerds. Stuff that matters.
You may not find America's current passion for hiding the effects of its War Machine from the general public to be much of a big deal, but this story highlights why, in fact, it might behoove you to reconsider
Clueless plebians, tsch tsch,
But destroying the mountain may actually have made a bigger impression. The city is man-made, and has grown over time, even within a person's lifetime. What man can make, man can destroy. The mountain, in contrast, would seem to be eternal; I think you underestimate the impression such an act would have made.
yeah, not to mention the fact that destroying a mountain instead of a population, as a demonstration to that population would've proved the compassion of the 'good guys' versus the insanity of the bad guys...
seems to me an opportunity was missed here. compare the Americans nuking Mt. Fuji with the Japanese raping China, and it would've/could've resulted in not just a military victory, but a moral one too.
But then, as has been pointed out, Militarists rarely value Morality over Mortality.
Showing the effects of just about any weapon of war will sicken a normal person. And yet, somehow, we keep on managing to figure out ways to dehumanize opponents enough to justify in our minds waging war on them.
..
Indeed. Show the population the TRUTH about their war machine, and they'll soon stop feeding dollars into it. This is just a plain fact. Censorship of the Products of War doesn't protect anyone but the perpetrators...
"National Security" usually means "keeping the population ignorant enough to not give a damn", you know
Quite frankly, I'd assume that the high-ups in the US military saw the general public as little more than a hindrance to their objectives; at best, viewed in a patronising, paternalistic manner.
.. the 'we will protect you, do as we say' personality pervades US society today.
Nothing has changed, the US is still governed by its Cop Masters.
The observation of this phenomenon is what prompted FDR to warn of the impending techno-militaristic-fascist state currently dominating the US economy and society
Build a few Saturns and we could probably finish the space station in ten launches instead of 28.
yeah, but re-design those plans using modern technology, and maybe we'd only need 3 or 4 of them. get the point?
Bash and Korn shell do NOT run on Windows;
look, its running on my Windows PC, therefore: it runs on Windows. It doesn't matter that it 'needs' CYGWIN.DLL, because: THIS IS A WINDOWS THING.
the fact is: OSX has to move to x86, to compete with the distro's!
.. OSX going to x86 is a retaliatory shot across the bows of Linux...
.. Knoppix and MEPIS are proving this, well and truly.
.. some would say easier, given how easy it is to keep software up to date on such systems (hint: easier than under OSX, yo!)
in case you didn't know this, Linux runs on (existing) Mac hardware just as well as it does on x86 hardware
Its OSX which must compete with Linux, not the other way around. The 'ease of use' myth is about 2 years past due
They're both 'as easy to use' as OSX is
From the beginning. You could boot from it (if your BIOS supported it), or you could boot from the included floppy with the CD in the drive, and you would have a fully working system: no install required.
.. even in 1994, this worked just fine. We dumped DOS from our 486's and installed Linux .. and I've made my living out of implementing Linux solutions in business ever since..
I used it to convince the company I was working for at the time that Linux was a viable Unix workstation alternative
Ok, but does bash or ksh run on windows? This is for their own OS, not unix.
Of course it does, silly.
Hey, Yggdrasil was a major distribution too.. or don't you remember that era?
I still rue the day I chucked my small bundle of Plug N' Play Yggdrasil releases in the dustbin.. those were some classic CD's.
Try MEPIS, dude. Get the Live CD, boot from it. Pretty sure it'll find your sound system and set it up for you .. and if you like what you see, install it onto hard disk.
Lets hear how that goes..
Sorry, but Knoppix was not the first Live CD.
The first Live CD was Yggdrasil. You young whippresnappers would do well to learn how to say that word, yo!
See kids, this is why you shouldn't use Yahoo, and discover IRC instead.
.. its not good for you, you know.
All this control over your speech
What, you've never heard of this wonderful thing called 'video'?
You can still see him, blowing hard...
What? You mean Carl Sagan lied to me?!
Carl Sagan is a big blow-hard.
The blueprints for the Saturn V were *NOT* lost. They are on micro-film at Marshall Space Flight Center. They're not going to be terribly useful: rocket-science has come a loooong way since the 70's, courtsey of a few other sciences (materials/manufacturing).