And, of course, 'its' in my above post should contain an apostrophe.
Thus is the law of correcting another's grammar;-) You're right about the plural of media though... dang. No matter! I stand by my creative pluralization!
Again, your solution to crime is to get rid of the law. Yet, you don't want to get rid of the laws that others want to get rid of.
No, it's sad that you are not intelligent enough to understand that.
That makes you a hypocrite.
You are just another stupid, selfish, arrogant shithead who does not want to follow the law
You're just a sheep. In nazi germany, you would have happilly killed jews and midgets because you were following orders.
and does not want to get punished for following the law.
No, I do not want to get punished for following the law.
If I had my way, it would be open season on dirtbag junkies like you. You need to die, and if you have bred, your worthless offspring needs to die too.
The difference here is that smoking pot doesn't cause any harm, but making it illegal and breaking the law by using it causes harm.
There, fixed that for you.
Real fix: Don't make it illegal. TA-DAA, no more harm!
Or there's the evil way: Make something harmless illegal using false claims and racist rethoric, CREATE HARM, then keep changing the excuses for perpetuating this harm. All the while, use the legal system as a way to legitimize the harm you're causing.
I mean here we have a prime example, the US federal government sets up a site to let the general public let it know without the distortion of lobbyists
What's keeping the lobbyists from spamming that site?
So, something hurts people because said something is illegal, so we should make said something legal.
Shall we do that with robbery, burglary, murder, rape, child molestation, or just crimes you like commit?
The difference here is that smoking pot doesn't cause any harm, but making it illegal causes harm.
The red herrings you listed all cause harm and are illegal BECAUSE they cause harm.
BTW anyone who equates smoking pot to murder should be laughed at and ignored forever after. Or at least moded down for the troll he is. It's the same as a godwin, really.
> And it embodies, IMHO, a wider question about the freedom of the people to act as they wish...
And who the Hell thinks we are Free? Who the Hell even WANTS to be Free anymore? To listen to the talking heads on TV everyone is currently just stoked about the coming universal healthcare
What makes you say Canadians are less free than you?
When will there be a way to check a person's cough syrup intoxication level quickly and easily at a traffic stop?
Until there is such a check, legalizing cough syrup would make the current drunk driving problem many times more difficult in terms of detection and enforcement.
William
cough syrup impairs driving much MUCH more than cannabis.
Should we jail everyone who takes cough syrup at home?
So... Tools that make it even easier to strip the content from people who've spent their free time running websites that are expensive, using their bandwidth to do so? How is this democratic?
Don't make websites that suck and the People won't have to jetpack the suck out of it.
I guess as long as we can get links like that, it's fair to say that freedom of speech is still alive. Thanks for the info, it's infuriating, but I'd better be mad than be ignorant.
Free market purists always seem to portray Europe as some sort of example of the failure of limited socialism and mixed markets, but frankly I've never understood this.
They are not meant to be understood, they are meant to be believed. Blindly.
being able to find my LiveJournal account from my teen years doesn't mean that I am still that angsty. But I also see no reason to be embarrassed that I was like that at the time.
they put the scariness back into this movie. It was missing in T2
Because there's nothing scary about a monster that kills your family and morphs into their likeness, beckoning you home to a shiny, pointy death. Nor about mental-hospital rape, or killers impersonating police officers, or anything in T2.
IMHO console games normally have little if any problems than PC games
Console games have to pass the rigorous quality assurance process of the console manufacturers. PC games do not.
And this is not my humble opinion, this is coming from a former quality assurance project manager (I used to impress the beta testers by quoting the Sony Technical Requirement Checklist by heart).
I've seen games submitted against my advice and rejected by Sony or Nintendo for the very reasons I had bemoaned. On a PC, they just ignore the QA and ship it, with a "we'll patch it later if enough people complain" mantra (I got out of QA when consoles got connected to the net, the "patch it later" mentality ruins the whole process for me).
Oh, also, PCs have near-infinite hardware configuration possibilities, consoles have a handful of nearly identical models. It's actually harder to test for PCs, you have to do compatibility testing, constantly mess with device drivers... it's a helluva chore.
And yet, legions of scientists have found no problem with aspartame.
In 2005 the prestigious Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center at the European Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences published the results of their 3 year aspartame study on 1,800 rats, known as the Ramazzini Study. It was the most scrupulous and costly investigation of the chemical sweetener ever performed. Dr. Morando Soffritti led this groundbreaking research that revealed aspartame causes lymphomas and leukemia and is a âoemultipotential carcinogen.â
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And, of course, 'its' in my above post should contain an apostrophe.
Thus is the law of correcting another's grammar ;-)
You're right about the plural of media though... dang. No matter! I stand by my creative pluralization!
Again, your solution to crime is to get rid of the law. Yet, you don't want to get rid of the laws that others want to get rid of.
No, it's sad that you are not intelligent enough to understand that.
That makes you a hypocrite.
You are just another stupid, selfish, arrogant shithead who does not want to follow the law
You're just a sheep. In nazi germany, you would have happilly killed jews and midgets because you were following orders.
and does not want to get punished for following the law.
No, I do not want to get punished for following the law.
If I had my way, it would be open season on dirtbag junkies like you. You need to die, and if you have bred, your worthless offspring needs to die too.
You're a troll, a piece of shit. DIAF.
Why are industry statistics still endlessly repeated in the media?
Because that industy owns those medias.
There, fixed that for you.
Real fix: Don't make it illegal. TA-DAA, no more harm!
Or there's the evil way: Make something harmless illegal using false claims and racist rethoric, CREATE HARM, then keep changing the excuses for perpetuating this harm. All the while, use the legal system as a way to legitimize the harm you're causing.
I mean here we have a prime example, the US federal government sets up a site to let the general public let it know without the distortion of lobbyists
What's keeping the lobbyists from spamming that site?
So, something hurts people because said something is illegal, so we should make said something legal.
Shall we do that with robbery, burglary, murder, rape, child molestation, or just crimes you like commit?
The difference here is that smoking pot doesn't cause any harm, but making it illegal causes harm.
The red herrings you listed all cause harm and are illegal BECAUSE they cause harm.
BTW anyone who equates smoking pot to murder should be laughed at and ignored forever after. Or at least moded down for the troll he is. It's the same as a godwin, really.
> And it embodies, IMHO, a wider question about the freedom of the people to act as they wish...
And who the Hell thinks we are Free? Who the Hell even WANTS to be Free anymore? To listen to the talking heads on TV everyone is currently just stoked about the coming universal healthcare
What makes you say Canadians are less free than you?
When will there be a way to check a person's cough syrup intoxication level quickly and easily at a traffic stop?
Until there is such a check, legalizing cough syrup would make the current drunk driving problem many times more difficult in terms of detection and enforcement.
William
cough syrup impairs driving much MUCH more than cannabis.
Should we jail everyone who takes cough syrup at home?
IBesides, there are plenty of sci-fi stories that are about "radical political transformation" as well. "1984"? "Brave New World"?
Star Trek springs to mind. Bunch of workaholic communists... in SPACE!
I'm staring at my window now, waiting for a pig fly-by.
This is time that would be better spent building a reinforced, manure-proof umbrella.
Use the chat or Skype for talking, and the Wave functions for posting maps and stuff
because Google has created a spec for voice over XMPP (used by google talk), it is definitely possible that wave clients and apps could make use of voice.
So... Tools that make it even easier to strip the content from people who've spent their free time running websites that are expensive, using their bandwidth to do so? How is this democratic?
Don't make websites that suck and the People won't have to jetpack the suck out of it.
Even if they did, what the fuck does it matter?
It matters that the guy up there said that Europeans and Americans were seperate species pre-columbus.
They were not.
I was incredibly disappointed with how Gattaca handled its genetic engineering premise.
I am incredibly disapointed in your inability to understand Gattaca's character development premise.
Guantanamo acting as a handy distraction while other "secret" prisons remain open
I guess as long as we can get links like that, it's fair to say that freedom of speech is still alive.
Thanks for the info, it's infuriating, but I'd better be mad than be ignorant.
The Vikings didn't interbreed with the natives when they came here, not that I've heard of anyway. Nice try, though.
Yes they did. Nice try at being smart, BIG FAIL though.
Free market purists always seem to portray Europe as some sort of example of the failure of limited socialism and mixed markets, but frankly I've never understood this.
They are not meant to be understood, they are meant to be believed. Blindly.
15th century? People allllways forget the vikings.
Are you conscious?
Can you prove it?
[hint: no]
I can prove it if I'm responsive and coherent.
In the literal sense, "conscientia" means knowledge-with, that is, shared knowledge.
Your conscious self dies every night.
Bullshit. Just because it gets disconnected from the stimuli of the senses doesn't mean it's dead. If you had ever had a lucid dream, you'd know it.
In some Native American cultures, you have one name before you are an adult, and another after.
Name your kid "John Smith" while in College, and legally change his name to something unique right before graduation.
Like "The Doctor"? :)
being able to find my LiveJournal account from my teen years doesn't mean that I am still that angsty. But I also see no reason to be embarrassed that I was like that at the time.
Your hope is duly noted : )
they put the scariness back into this movie. It was missing in T2
Because there's nothing scary about a monster that kills your family and morphs into their likeness, beckoning you home to a shiny, pointy death.
Nor about mental-hospital rape, or killers impersonating police officers, or anything in T2.
Pfff.
IMHO console games normally have little if any problems than PC games
Console games have to pass the rigorous quality assurance process of the console manufacturers. PC games do not.
And this is not my humble opinion, this is coming from a former quality assurance project manager (I used to impress the beta testers by quoting the Sony Technical Requirement Checklist by heart).
I've seen games submitted against my advice and rejected by Sony or Nintendo for the very reasons I had bemoaned. On a PC, they just ignore the QA and ship it, with a "we'll patch it later if enough people complain" mantra (I got out of QA when consoles got connected to the net, the "patch it later" mentality ruins the whole process for me).
Oh, also, PCs have near-infinite hardware configuration possibilities, consoles have a handful of nearly identical models. It's actually harder to test for PCs, you have to do compatibility testing, constantly mess with device drivers... it's a helluva chore.
And yet, legions of scientists have found no problem with aspartame.
In 2005 the prestigious Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center at the European Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences published the results of their 3 year aspartame study on 1,800 rats, known as the Ramazzini Study. It was the most scrupulous and costly investigation of the chemical sweetener ever performed. Dr. Morando Soffritti led this groundbreaking research that revealed aspartame causes lymphomas and leukemia and is a âoemultipotential carcinogen.â
And the FDA covers up data about aspartame.