What this guys is doing is indeed illegal, but not immoral; when our government is unwilling or unable to enforce or prosecute laws it becomes incumbent upon non-sanctioned individuals to protect society by doing so.
Bruce, we've been over the five stages of grief a million times: I keep telling you, you're stuck at Anger and you need to move on.
Here in Holland loud commercials have been illegal for many years.
Here, whenever someones complains, they state the technical means by which they achieve the desired loudness (compression), and then act as if that was a fact of life they had no control over. I gotta say, Holland has a lot of laws I envy.
I'd love to have a better idea of the point of vue of the people shooting at me, if I had that rather pressing problem. I'd help me think of ways to avoid getting shot.
I don't think a 12 year old in his parents basement playing the Taliban against an actual U.S. military member really provides the "point of vue[sic]" you are looking for.
You don't think your strawman is pretty enough? Awwwww, poor grammar nazi, you haz a sad.
Knowing G.I.s, they'd likely take turns playing Taliban while on actual deployment, since a shitload of G.I.s are avid gamers
I'd love to have a better idea of the point of vue of the people shooting at me, if I had that rather pressing problem. I'd help me think of ways to avoid getting shot.
Franklin didn't invent the lightning conductor - he only figured out how it worked. People before him figured out that a big metal spike stuck in the ground will attract lightning, and could be used to protect a building. They just didn't know why. There are ancient buddhist temples with lightning rods on. The modern design was invented in Russia, a bit before Franklin made his contribution to the theory side.
In fact the human species is the only one to expand to all 7 continents plus the oceans and even space.
Bacteria did it long before us.
And amongst the many many things you're wrong about is the amount of meat I had this week (a LOT, wow was I ever full). Don't you ever tire of being wrong? Don't you think it would be less tiring to just shut the fuck up already?
There's about ten times as many people in the U.S. as in Canada, so they have comparable removal requests. The spying on citizens numbers are many to none though.
we the voters shouldn't get our opinions from people who are paid to make us laugh
paradoxically or ironically, I would recommend the BBC series "A Century Of Self" as a bit of an eye opener
Seen it, but re-read the bit of the GP's post I carefully quoted. Do you see how he's saying that voters should get their opinions from professional opinion-givers instead of laugh-givers? Doesn't that submission to authority make you wanna just... puke? The mere concept of people who have the authority to tell you what your opinions should be... ugh. I taste bile.
Hobbies are clearly different than vocations, don't you think?
I was going through my messages and I know I already blew off your reply with an insult, but on second glance that word caught my eye...
"The idea of vocation is central to the Christian belief that God has created each person with gifts and talents oriented toward specific purposes and a way of life."
AH! There's your problem, you're trying to make the world fit a religious belief.
Would you let an electrician be a newspaper editor? Or political commentator? Or statesman? What if I'm talking about Ben Franklin?
Was Leonardo da Vinci's vocation painting? Or sculpting? Or engineering? Or botany? Or anatomy?
Was Isaac Asimov a mere science fiction writer, or a bible historian? Or maybe he was a scholar?
Are you starting to get a glimpse of what I'm hinting at? Do you understand that someone's job title doesn't invalidate anything else they might be capable of? Maybe the nasa engineer only does it for the money, but his true vocation is the theater and he's too responsible a father to risk that lifestyle in this economy.
A comedian can be an ignorant twit, or an insightful observer of human nature, and being a comedian does not grant any more or any less value to their words.
You seem to forget that out of ALL the animals in the world humans are on top of the food chain. Your argument now has no basis on which to stand on. Have a nice day.
You seem to forget that this thread started with "All humans have managed to do is delude themselves into believing that they are superior to every other species on the planet". Your argument is based only on your own smug sense of unwarranted superiority. I hope you get herpes.
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! If you're going to "avoid circumstances" then you might as well just stay home, and surrender to the first bastard to kick your door down.
"clearly avoidable circumstances"
Are you even from earth? Or, this dimension? Are you writing from the afterlife or something? Jesus H. Christ.
"Sir, bunch of people standing around, should we shoot them?" "Obviously this is an unavoidable circumstance, soldier, there is no conceivable way that you could NOT shoot a bunch of people walking around, they're clearly asking for it, can't be avoided."
Clearly unavoidable. I know every time I see a bunch of people chatting at a street corner, they unavoidably get shot up from a gunship.
with a combat unit that the US is fighting against
That is one of the lies they told to cover up their murders. Or maybe you believe it was the same combat unit that killed Pat Tillman? You know, the imaginary one? Did you doubt the story of how Pat died when you heard it?
I don't really consider "toning it down" to actually be dumbing yourself down. Speaking in a manner that isn't a pretentious a-hole is like speaking another language.
I learned to "dumb it down" decades ago, but I don't think that using correct terminology is being pretentious or shitting on those who can't.
Wow, someone really feels bad about being inferior to the geeks around here, lots of unwarranted downmods.
I'm fine inside a skyscraper with a standard vertical window. If it tilts out so that I feel like I'm leaning over the edge, that's the trigger.
At the G.C., though, i couldn't get within 20 feet of the edge where the observation point was. How that Native American tribe gets people to do the Skywalk thing, I have no idea.
Eh, I like to go on the edges and lean over; what scares you thrills me. Bigger plane windows sounds great to me.
Those troops on the ground and in the air on that day are THE VERY SAME PEOPLE who put out the propaganda about the WMD's, Tillman, and Lynch!
No, you idiot, the people telling you "those were insurgents" are the same mouthpieces telling you lie after lie after lie, and you swallow and swallow and swallow, and then you come here and vomit that shit up all over this thread.
Those soldiers are tools, they were told to look for insurgents to shoot, and they saw RPGs when looking at a camera because they wanted to see a rocket launcher like they were told they would find, they acted as they were conditioned to react. Covering up the murders they committed on the orders of someone else only serves to allow them to be given more orders to look for people to shoot, and one of these days some kid walking around with a rolled up poster is going to be murdered, and you'll be fine with it because you value loyalty and submission to authority above human life.
The article doesn't mention the fact that the organizers have yet to be granted a permit for the joint rally. Also it should be noted that if granted (which is likely), the "million moderate march" will be limited to no more than 25,000 people, per the permit application.
"These three groups, have listed on their permit applications that they will generate 25,000 people for their event," said the official, emphasizing that that is the groups' estimate
Some people understand the difference between a limit and an estimate, and some people don't. Even when emphasized.
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what exactly are the middle ground topics that keep 500M people addicted to FB?
Who's sleeping with whom.
What this guys is doing is indeed illegal, but not immoral; when our government is unwilling or unable to enforce or prosecute laws it becomes incumbent upon non-sanctioned individuals to protect society by doing so.
Bruce, we've been over the five stages of grief a million times: I keep telling you, you're stuck at Anger and you need to move on.
he claims that since a robot registered the e-mail accounts, you aren’t infringing on any person’s rights.
I doubt that it’d fly, actually, but who knows.
Oh, it certainly wouldn't fly with Jean-Luc Picard, that's for sure.
It already has.
Here in Holland loud commercials have been illegal for many years.
Here, whenever someones complains, they state the technical means by which they achieve the desired loudness (compression), and then act as if that was a fact of life they had no control over. I gotta say, Holland has a lot of laws I envy.
I'd love to have a better idea of the point of vue of the people shooting at me, if I had that rather pressing problem. I'd help me think of ways to avoid getting shot.
I don't think a 12 year old in his parents basement playing the Taliban against an actual U.S. military member really provides the "point of vue[sic]" you are looking for.
You don't think your strawman is pretty enough? Awwwww, poor grammar nazi, you haz a sad.
You know what will get those soldiers out of harm's way? QUITTING THE WAR!
Seriously
You break it, you bought it.
Knowing G.I.s, they'd likely take turns playing Taliban while on actual deployment, since a shitload of G.I.s are avid gamers
I'd love to have a better idea of the point of vue of the people shooting at me, if I had that rather pressing problem. I'd help me think of ways to avoid getting shot.
Franklin didn't invent the lightning conductor - he only figured out how it worked. People before him figured out that a big metal spike stuck in the ground will attract lightning, and could be used to protect a building. They just didn't know why. There are ancient buddhist temples with lightning rods on. The modern design was invented in Russia, a bit before Franklin made his contribution to the theory side.
He invented it too .
Of all the things that started out in the good ol' US of A, this is second only to the lightning rod in "things that need to reach global acceptance".
What about the layouter, the graphics guy, the printer, the corrector and 20 other people who might have a PDF?
A simple process involving massive doses of LSD and repeated electroshocks. They'll be at peace with themselves in no time.
The Pentagon didn't really 'buy' the books. They paid for them. There's a difference.
Explain how?
Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner are "artists" at heart?
Have you read their EULAs? I mean really read them? It brings a tear to my eyes when I do, man.
Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham gave this statement: 'DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing
Why exactly is the publisher cooperating?
Because publishers always cooperate when someone decides to buy the entire first print of one of their books. It's exactly what they live for.
In fact the human species is the only one to expand to all 7 continents plus the oceans and even space.
Bacteria did it long before us.
And amongst the many many things you're wrong about is the amount of meat I had this week (a LOT, wow was I ever full). Don't you ever tire of being wrong? Don't you think it would be less tiring to just shut the fuck up already?
Not all of them
Canada ............. 10
U.S.A. 128
There's about ten times as many people in the U.S. as in Canada, so they have comparable removal requests. The spying on citizens numbers are many to none though.
we the voters shouldn't get our opinions from people who are paid to make us laugh
paradoxically or ironically, I would recommend the BBC series "A Century Of Self" as a bit of an eye opener
Seen it, but re-read the bit of the GP's post I carefully quoted. Do you see how he's saying that voters should get their opinions from professional opinion-givers instead of laugh-givers? Doesn't that submission to authority make you wanna just... puke? The mere concept of people who have the authority to tell you what your opinions should be... ugh. I taste bile.
Hobbies are clearly different than vocations, don't you think?
I was going through my messages and I know I already blew off your reply with an insult, but on second glance that word caught my eye...
"The idea of vocation is central to the Christian belief that God has created each person with gifts and talents oriented toward specific purposes and a way of life."
AH! There's your problem, you're trying to make the world fit a religious belief.
Would you let an electrician be a newspaper editor? Or political commentator? Or statesman? What if I'm talking about Ben Franklin?
Was Leonardo da Vinci's vocation painting? Or sculpting? Or engineering? Or botany? Or anatomy?
Was Isaac Asimov a mere science fiction writer, or a bible historian? Or maybe he was a scholar?
Are you starting to get a glimpse of what I'm hinting at? Do you understand that someone's job title doesn't invalidate anything else they might be capable of? Maybe the nasa engineer only does it for the money, but his true vocation is the theater and he's too responsible a father to risk that lifestyle in this economy.
A comedian can be an ignorant twit, or an insightful observer of human nature, and being a comedian does not grant any more or any less value to their words.
You seem to forget that out of ALL the animals in the world humans are on top of the food chain. Your argument now has no basis on which to stand on. Have a nice day.
You seem to forget that this thread started with "All humans have managed to do is delude themselves into believing that they are superior to every other species on the planet". Your argument is based only on your own smug sense of unwarranted superiority. I hope you get herpes.
"clearly avoidable circumstances"
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! If you're going to "avoid circumstances" then you might as well just stay home, and surrender to the first bastard to kick your door down.
"clearly avoidable circumstances"
Are you even from earth? Or, this dimension? Are you writing from the afterlife or something? Jesus H. Christ.
"Sir, bunch of people standing around, should we shoot them?"
"Obviously this is an unavoidable circumstance, soldier, there is no conceivable way that you could NOT shoot a bunch of people walking around, they're clearly asking for it, can't be avoided."
Clearly unavoidable. I know every time I see a bunch of people chatting at a street corner, they unavoidably get shot up from a gunship.
Psssst: you're insane
with a combat unit that the US is fighting against
That is one of the lies they told to cover up their murders. Or maybe you believe it was the same combat unit that killed Pat Tillman? You know, the imaginary one? Did you doubt the story of how Pat died when you heard it?
I don't really consider "toning it down" to actually be dumbing yourself down. Speaking in a manner that isn't a pretentious a-hole is like speaking another language.
I learned to "dumb it down" decades ago, but I don't think that using correct terminology is being pretentious or shitting on those who can't.
Wow, someone really feels bad about being inferior to the geeks around here, lots of unwarranted downmods.
Yeah, that's a better way of phrasing it. Edges.
I'm fine inside a skyscraper with a standard vertical window. If it tilts out so that I feel like I'm leaning over the edge, that's the trigger.
At the G.C., though, i couldn't get within 20 feet of the edge where the observation point was. How that Native American tribe gets people to do the Skywalk thing, I have no idea.
Eh, I like to go on the edges and lean over; what scares you thrills me.
Bigger plane windows sounds great to me.
It's not that hard to be a funnyman.
You're an ignorant twit.
Those troops on the ground and in the air on that day are THE VERY SAME PEOPLE who put out the propaganda about the WMD's, Tillman, and Lynch!
No, you idiot, the people telling you "those were insurgents" are the same mouthpieces telling you lie after lie after lie, and you swallow and swallow and swallow, and then you come here and vomit that shit up all over this thread.
Those soldiers are tools, they were told to look for insurgents to shoot, and they saw RPGs when looking at a camera because they wanted to see a rocket launcher like they were told they would find, they acted as they were conditioned to react. Covering up the murders they committed on the orders of someone else only serves to allow them to be given more orders to look for people to shoot, and one of these days some kid walking around with a rolled up poster is going to be murdered, and you'll be fine with it because you value loyalty and submission to authority above human life.
The article doesn't mention the fact that the organizers have yet to be granted a permit for the joint rally. Also it should be noted that if granted (which is likely), the "million moderate march" will be limited to no more than 25,000 people, per the permit application.
"These three groups, have listed on their permit applications that they will generate 25,000 people for their event," said the official, emphasizing that that is the groups' estimate
Some people understand the difference between a limit and an estimate, and some people don't. Even when emphasized.