how are you going to trap 10,000 cow farts? i know they are talking about digesting manure here, but i remmeber reading a rabid anti macdonalds article somewhere about how cow farts are contributing to global warming.
Youtube is being stupid right now, so I'm not sure if this will show what I want it to show, but they had an ep on Dirty Jobs where they visited a farm that did just that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvUBkVfHZM
er hate to break it to you dude but you didn't make it up the food chain. Unless, of course, you were complicit not only in your own birth but that of a few dudes before you!
First of all, great-great grandma was a total babe: Don't judge me.
Secondly, I have half a mind to go back and erase you from history, mister.
Hate to blow you out of the water but the US government does leak private details of foreign companies collected by it's national security agencies. A good example was the US government being caught red handed leaking secret wheat price bids from Canadian companies to local US suppliers collected by the NSA. So if the US is happy to stab a trading partner like Canada in the back what do you think they are doing to none aligned entities like China!
Quiet little boy. The adults are trying to have a conversation.
I was having a nice talk about when violence is a good thing, and you started making noise about how ignorant you are and how highly you value your own opinions.
You should really follow your own advice.
The person who modded that 'troll" is clearly abusing the moderation system.
"CPR is a very violent, lifesaving act. When done correctly it usually breaks ribs."
I'm not sure how I can cleverly say, "WTF." Unless the target is old/frail, breaking ribs will only happen if you are a sadist or caught up in the moment. If you get a chance to use CPR, calm down and relax... the target shouldn't end up like Evel Knieval after a failed jump.
What are the risks of CPR? Pressing on the chest can cause a sore chest, broken ribs or a collapsed lung.
It's hard to be clever when you're simply contradicting people out of sheer ignorance.
Oh, let me count the ways: I could beat him with a crowbar, I could beat him with a bat; I could beat him with a nine iron and I would beat him 'till he cracks!
Quiet little boy. The adults are trying to have a conversation.
I was having a nice talk about when violence is a good thing, and you started making noise about how ignorant you are and how highly you value your own opinions.
That is the meaning we are talking about here. Not CPR and not storms.
You brought up storms, called me a pedantic moron, and now you're declaring which is the One True Limited Definition and saying "we are not talking about storms".
And you don't understand the difference between one state's textbook committee, deciding for their state, and a "standard textbook distributed nationwide."
Yes, Texas' size does influence the publishers of the text book but there is NOTHING preventing school districts/states from contacting their textbook publishers and telling them they will not be buying textbooks with the Texas' standards.
[...] I'm sure they would find a way to do it and without much loss of profit.
So it's guaranteed statewide, and most probable nationwide.
You seem to be underestimating my understanding of the difference between "isolated personal bias" and "officially distributed bias" and overestimating your own.
Yes but thats not the meaning we are talking about is it? What kind of idiot would actually bring up the violent act of CPR into a discussion as to whether physical violence is bad or not? A pedantic moron with a stick up his ass thats who.
BWAHAHahaha, you're proven wrong, so you go for the ad hominem. What a twat. Keep fucking that chicken!
The supposed apolitical nature of textbooks is just an example of this. The GP was pointing out a specific example of a definite political bent
And I'm just pointing out that specific bends can cancel each other out through averages, but a distributed, entrenched, official bias is a far different beast.
I'm convinced that all of these media companies would make more money if they simply made everything available for sale online in a high-quality DRM-free version.
Ah, but THEY are convinced that VCRs* will kill Hollywood, and that cassettes* will kill the music industry. And they know more about the business than you, don't they? So politicians listen to them, since they know so much.
A justification that I see fairly often is that if someone couldn't possibly buy a product then piracy of that product is ethically neutral because you can't be causing a loss of sales. I disagree with that because it is still a violation of the right that the copyright owner has to control the distribution of copies;
I disagree with this since lost episodes of Doctor Who were recovered after being illegally copied, this kind of so-called "piracy" is not ethically neutral, it is ethically positive because it preserves culture that would have otherwise been lost by the short-sighted profit seeking and cost-cutting of their unfit legal guardians.
I respect the right of creators to own their ideas more than I respect the right to consume because I respect creators more than consumers. It takes ingenuity to create but none to consume
Ah, the red herring of "creators". Well, the problem is not with creators, they're not in charge of amassing the legal rights to content and then locking that away in musty vaults where it is left to rot. And you didn't start off with this red herring, you said "copyright owners" at first. You should remember who you're defending: The "copyright owners" consume more than they create.
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how are you going to trap 10,000 cow farts? i know they are talking about digesting manure here, but i remmeber reading a rabid anti macdonalds article somewhere about how cow farts are contributing to global warming.
Youtube is being stupid right now, so I'm not sure if this will show what I want it to show, but they had an ep on Dirty Jobs where they visited a farm that did just that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvUBkVfHZM
er hate to break it to you dude but you didn't make it up the food chain. Unless, of course, you were complicit not only in your own birth but that of a few dudes before you!
First of all, great-great grandma was a total babe: Don't judge me.
Secondly, I have half a mind to go back and erase you from history, mister.
Shouldn't TSA be given this detection technology to, ya know, help 'em out a little?
Well, TSA agents do have near-dolphin intelligence, but their senses aren't as well developed. I don't think they can pull it off.
Color me stupid, but it seems that stealthy and/or sophisticated attacks are absolutely not the point of terrorism.
"Terrorism" is the magic word that makes the red tape disappear from your budget request.
We need a new enviromental protection agency to protect us from the enviroment.
EPA: Stubborn Environment Refusing To Meet Civilization Halfway/a/
Hate to blow you out of the water but the US government does leak private details of foreign companies collected by it's national security agencies. A good example was the US government being caught red handed leaking secret wheat price bids from Canadian companies to local US suppliers collected by the NSA. So if the US is happy to stab a trading partner like Canada in the back what do you think they are doing to none aligned entities like China!
Canada? Wait, I thought it was European companies and the UK helped.
Or are you talking about a different government-agency-aided case of industrial espionage?
That's my age.
Don't panic.
Quiet little boy. The adults are trying to have a conversation.
I was having a nice talk about when violence is a good thing, and you started making noise about how ignorant you are and how highly you value your own opinions.
You should really follow your own advice.
The person who modded that 'troll" is clearly abusing the moderation system.
"CPR is a very violent, lifesaving act. When done correctly it usually breaks ribs."
I'm not sure how I can cleverly say, "WTF." Unless the target is old/frail, breaking ribs will only happen if you are a sadist or caught up in the moment. If you get a chance to use CPR, calm down and relax... the target shouldn't end up like Evel Knieval after a failed jump.
What are the risks of CPR?
Pressing on the chest can cause a sore chest, broken ribs or a collapsed lung.
It's hard to be clever when you're simply contradicting people out of sheer ignorance.
The statues of justice are always blindfolded, not blind...
You know how blind people often wear sunglasses to hide their useless eyes? Guess hat they wore back before sunglasses were invented. Go on, guess...
how can you beat a successful spammer?
Oh, let me count the ways: I could beat him with a crowbar, I could beat him with a bat; I could beat him with a nine iron and I would beat him 'till he cracks!
Only probably nationwide if school districts/states sit on their hands and do nothing.
You optimist, you :)
During the founding of the United States, it was religious leaders who were adamant that church and state be separated.
Them and Jefferson, and Texas apparently wants to pretend he never existed.
Quiet little boy. The adults are trying to have a conversation.
I was having a nice talk about when violence is a good thing, and you started making noise about how ignorant you are and how highly you value your own opinions.
You should really follow your own advice.
That is the meaning we are talking about here. Not CPR and not storms.
You brought up storms, called me a pedantic moron, and now you're declaring which is the One True Limited Definition and saying "we are not talking about storms".
You really are a fucking moron.
And you don't understand the difference between one state's textbook committee, deciding for their state, and a "standard textbook distributed nationwide."
Yes, Texas' size does influence the publishers of the text book but there is NOTHING preventing school districts/states from contacting their textbook publishers and telling them they will not be buying textbooks with the Texas' standards.
[...] I'm sure they would find a way to do it and without much loss of profit.
So it's guaranteed statewide, and most probable nationwide.
You seem to be underestimating my understanding of the difference between "isolated personal bias" and "officially distributed bias" and overestimating your own.
Yes but thats not the meaning we are talking about is it? What kind of idiot would actually bring up the violent act of CPR into a discussion as to whether physical violence is bad or not? A pedantic moron with a stick up his ass thats who.
BWAHAHahaha, you're proven wrong, so you go for the ad hominem. What a twat. Keep fucking that chicken!
The supposed apolitical nature of textbooks is just an example of this. The GP was pointing out a specific example of a definite political bent
And I'm just pointing out that specific bends can cancel each other out through averages, but a distributed, entrenched, official bias is a far different beast.
"theft of labor"
Tempus fugit.
I went to see Iron Man 2 recently, and do you know what there was an advert for? Sex and The City 2.
"He made her watch his action movie, so she'll make him watch her chick flick! We're brilliant! This advertisement scheme CAN'T fail!"
Why would they care if I stick in the DVD or play the torrent, they've got their cash???
They want you to physically handle the DVD in the hopes that you'll break it and buy another one.
Stealing movies is not very different from stealing medicines, food or anything else.
No, but copying movies is very different from stealing bread.
I'm not sure how funny Look Around You would be to people who didn't grow up with the educational shows that were created in the UK in the '80s
The answer is: VERY funny.
I'm convinced that all of these media companies would make more money if they simply made everything available for sale online in a high-quality DRM-free version.
Ah, but THEY are convinced that VCRs* will kill Hollywood, and that cassettes* will kill the music industry. And they know more about the business than you, don't they? So politicians listen to them, since they know so much.
*Replace technology with current equivalent.
A justification that I see fairly often is that if someone couldn't possibly buy a product then piracy of that product is ethically neutral because you can't be causing a loss of sales. I disagree with that because it is still a violation of the right that the copyright owner has to control the distribution of copies;
I disagree with this since lost episodes of Doctor Who were recovered after being illegally copied, this kind of so-called "piracy" is not ethically neutral, it is ethically positive because it preserves culture that would have otherwise been lost by the short-sighted profit seeking and cost-cutting of their unfit legal guardians.
I respect the right of creators to own their ideas more than I respect the right to consume because I respect creators more than consumers. It takes ingenuity to create but none to consume
Ah, the red herring of "creators". Well, the problem is not with creators, they're not in charge of amassing the legal rights to content and then locking that away in musty vaults where it is left to rot. And you didn't start off with this red herring, you said "copyright owners" at first. You should remember who you're defending: The "copyright owners" consume more than they create.