The problem we have with your argument is that it can be said of civilization as well. Sometime in the future, the United States will collapse, its language will change, its entire culture will cease to exist, a relic for the people of the future to study. Why bother trying to prevent it? It is inevitable, all civilizations decline and collapse eventually.
The point is this is what we have been doing since the first city was founded tens of thousands of years ago. Do you think the people in ancient Izmir believed their city would last for thousands of years? It did, but they certainly knew most did not.
This is the cycle of life. Ascendence and decline, light and dark, life and death. So we live in a delusional age which arrogantly believes it will last forever. That doesn't mean you should be taking the opposite view, and argue that defeat is inevitable so forget about it.
Life is struggle
It is this struggle that defines who we are, that gives our life meaning. It is what allows our greatest moments of happiness and glory, for they are only as great as the despair and defeat we endure. We must strive to preserve our culture, to strengthen it, for that is ultimately our gift to our children, and our key to immortality. We may fail, but our humanity comes through striving despite the bad things that happen.
Yes, you have all those wonderful rights, but you don't have the right to free speech now do you? When Ernst Zundel is out of prison, then Canadians such as yourself can talk about how wonderful your country is.
When the economic conditions of Canada improve to the point beautiful young French women aren't driven from the countryside to lives of prostitution and drug abuse, then you can talk about freedom.
I go to Canada and I see a country that is being invaded by hordes of foreign elements, whose national character and heritage is beseiged endlessly to the point it is practically extent, a corrupt government which exhibits everything that is evil about their so called democracy and egalitarianism, and the quiet desperation of people with no future, no hope, and a nihilistic acceptance of it all.
The fundamental problem is that the analytical skills the mangerial class possess at the moment are very narrow. Sure, they can spot trends and utilize basic statistics to their advantage.
The problem with the tech boom wasn't the lack of analytical skills, it was a lack of historical understanding of what money is for, and what relationship securities have to money. I am still amazed when I think back to the days people actually believed dividend payments were irrelevant to valuing a particular security. Would anyone make that mistake if they actually knew why corporations were originally created?
Even today, the managerial class still has no idea why we have money, or where it really comes from.
Part of the reason this is never discussed is no one wants to know the truth, that the money is created by a select class of individuals in the government and federal reserve, and subsequently lent to banks and ultimately the people. No one wants to really know that wealth creation simply doesn't exist, and hasn't since the usury based economy was adopted in full after World War I.
But I leave the real discussion to Ezra Pound, a poet with whom I hope all slashdot readers become familiar:
Ezra Pound - What Money is For
We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception. I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. FIRST, Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, told his shareholders that they would profit because "the bank hath profit on the interest of all the moneys which it creates out of nothing." What then is this "money" the banker can create out of nothing"?
Let us be quite clear. Money is a measured title or claim. That is its basic difference from unmeasured claims, such as a man's right to take all you've got under war-time requisition, or as an invader or thief just taking it all. Money is a measure which the taker hands over when be acquires the goods he takes. And no further formality need occur during the transfer, though sometimes a receipt is given. The idea of justice inheres in ideas of measure, and money is a measure of value.
MEANS OF EXCHANGE Money is valid when people recognise it as a claim and hand over goods or do work up to the value printed on the face of the ticket, whether it is made of metal or paper. Money is a general sort of ticket which is its only difference from a railway or theatre ticket. If this statement seems childish let the reader think for a moment about different kinds of tickets.
A railway ticket is a measured ticket. A ticket from London to Brighton differs from one for London to Edinburgh. Both are measured, but in miles that always stay the same length. A money ticket, under a corrupt system, wobbles. For a long time the public has trusted people whose measure was shifty.
Another angle. Theatre tickets are timed. You would probably not accept a ticket for Row H, Seat 27, if it were not dated. When six people are entitled to the same seat at the same time the tickets are not particularly good. (Orage asked; Would you call it inflation to print tickets for every seat in the house?) You will hear money called "a medium of exchange," which means that it can circulate freely, as a measure of goods and services against one another, from hand to hand.
GUARANTEE OF FUTURE EXCHANGE We will have defined money properly when we have stated what it is in words that cannot be applied to anything else and when there is nothing about the essential nature of money that is omitted from our definition.
When Aristotle calls money "a guarantee of future exchange" that merely means that it is an undated ticket, that will be good when we want to use it. Tickets have sometimes stayed good for a century. When we do not hand over money at once
I still can't seem to find the specific text of that oath, at least on the first page of those search results... I am a busy man, and unfortunately don't have the time to read through hundreds of links on google. Thanks for the attempt though. None of the quoted material in the articles cited seem to be what I would call an oath. A promise perhaps, but not an oath.
Pragmatism doesn't inspire artists or warriors unfortunately. There is something to be said for ideals. They give meaning to life, and inspire even the worst among us to strive for something greater than themselves.
You may, to an extent, be able to rationalize this pragmatic nihilism, but history has proven it always accompanies decadence and decay. Cultures have only ascended in history when they struggle against all odds for the ideals they hold dear. As soon as a pragmatic managerial class evolves, decline ensues.
Also, philosophy aside, Kerry has stated on a number of occasions pulling out of Iraq before a stable, democratically elected government is in place is absolutely off the table. Thus, not only is your very Machiavellian political philosophy poorly defended, your association of that philosophy with Kerry is simply wrong. I think, more than anything else, you should be quite embarassed by your blatantly partisan politics and your inability to see that Kerry is not the savior you dream about when you handle your penis.
Hi there. I am very interested in these "loyalty oaths" of which you speak. Could you please provide a link that provides details on this? Perhaps even the textual content of said oaths? Thanks in advance for your contribution to public enlightenment.
I think a great way to revise the legal system is to replace all trials by court, with trials by ordeal, specifically combat.
Nothing makes my heart cringe more than watching some poor helpless shell of man, sitting there powerlessly letting the sophists spin their web of verbal obfuscation, all the while realizing he has indebted, and thus enslaved himself, for years simply to gain his freedom.
Far better I think, to fight for your freedom in a mediated, structured system of combat.
'94? I don't think so. It wasn't commercially available until the summer of 1996, Independence Day as I recall, only because a movie of the same name debuted that day as well.
Since so much of Nietzsche is a commentary on past philosophers, poets, and other artists, I do highly doubt you could have understand the vast majority of what he was saying as a teenager.
Pretty much every great thinker since Nietzsche has credited him with a profound contribution to modern thought. Your dismissal of him based on his appeal to youthful angst is, at its heart, an extreme example of intellectual naivete. For that reason, I won't respond further to your post. I just wanted to point out that you are not a particularly reliable source on the matter.
Whether it is hedonism or pessimism, utilitarianism or eudaemonism - all these ways of thinking that measure the value of thing in accordance with pleasure and pain , which are mere epiphenomena and wholly secondary, are ways of thinking that stay in the foreground and naivetes on which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artistic conscience will look down not without derision, nor without pity. Pity with you - that, of course, is not pity in your sense: it is not pity with social "distress", with "society" and its sick and unfortunate members, with those addicted to vice and maimed from the start, though the ground around us is littered with them; it is even less pity with grumbling, sorely pressed, rebellious slave strata who long for dominion, calling it "freedom". Our pity is a higher and more farsighted pity: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller - and there are moments when we behold your very pity with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this pity - when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable.
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin. its inventiveness and courage in enduring, persevering, interpreting and exploiting suffering and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? In man creature and creator are united: in man there is material, fragment, excess, clay, dirt, nonsense, chaos; but in man there is also creator, form giver, hammer, hardness, spectator divinity, and seventh day: do you understand this contrast? And that your pity is for the "creature in man". for what must be formed, broken, forged, torn, burnt, made incandescent, and purified - that which necessarily man and should suffer? And our pity - do you not comprehend for whom our converse pity is when it resists your pity as the worst of all pamperings and weaknesses?
Thus it is pity versus pity.
But to say it once more: there are higher problems than all problems of pleasure. pain. and pity; and every philosophy that stops with them is naive.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil - Aphorism 225
I was going to say, in major cities in the US, people are so busy they would never notice someone spraying freon onto a lock or using this bic trick. It takes less than 15 seconds to break a lock in most cases...
I am fairly certain the name of the series was chosen when the original developer, Square, was on the verge of bankrupcy. They named the original Final Fantasy such because they thought it would be their final game. It ended up being far more popular than they thought it would be, and the company was saved.
I haven't really played a final fantasy game since FFIII on my SNES like 10 years ago. That said, maybe someone out there knows the story better than I do.
I had a similar problem with my IDE chipset. After installing SP2, DMA support was gone, and it was PIO only. This of course slowed things down immensely.
Uninstalled SP2 and the problem disappeared and I was back to full speed.
This is with the original nforce chipset. Anyone else experience this?
But the system of life can and will adjust, and compensate for extra carbon.
Life does adjust. Remember, before plants evolved, the atmosphere was nearly 100% CO2. Oxygen exists in the atmosphere only as a waste product of photosynthesis.
I don't own property in California, so fortunately, I am not affected by this proposed law.
Wrong answer, if not illegal. The "professional" list was in the same price range, maybe a few hundred more on average, but in the ballpark of the first list of ghetto properties.
Another spoiled brat raised to think the world owes him. I hate to tell you this, but discrimination is very much allowed in the US, EXCEPT for specific prohibitions, ie race, gender, family status, and religion. Many landlords refuse to rent to college students. They are irresponsible, trash the apartment, and have an attitude just like yours. They are perfectly entitled to make that choice.
If you wind up in court over a BS clause like "no firearms allowed" expect to pay someone's lawyer bills.
Again, I am sorry to say you are sadly mistaken. If one of my tenants is involved in a crime and I find he was in possession of a gun (or god forbid, he SHOOTS a gun on my property) I can evict him. This happens all the time, and is very much allowed.
Some of your tenants know the judge and his kids, too, you see
that is unlikely. I am in a very large metropolis.
what I do know is low-res is necessary for not just porn. Lots of older women will look much worse in hidef. facial wrinkles and lines will be much more apparent.
On the plus side, I think this could potentially alter the culture of hollywood. There is a certain depraved decadence that infests that culture, and by proxy our own culture at large. As beauty and physical attractiveness is a major aspect of that culture (and the business) I imagine many of these folks will have to live healthier lifestyles to maintain their beauty for a longer period of time. Perhaps with that change in lifestyle will come greater moral virtue as well.
These are apartments, not dormitories. They are on land owned by the University, leased to a private company. They are pretty much identical to suburban apartments anywhere in the country.
Its not the type of property that matters, its the TENANCY. Students rooming in any building do not have leasehold to the property. This is established law. The university could be putting up their students in mansions, it doesn't matter.
Basic rule, if the university can kick the students out at will, for any reason, the FCC rule you cite is irrelevant.
In any event you made the statement that no court would disallow the WiFi prohibition.
Only in regards to university housing. They are not tenants, and have no rights what so ever. The law you cite is not applicable.
Neither the FCC nor I care what you put in your lease contract, you can't put a blanket prohibition on WiFi access points. If you don't like it, you can find another country to own property in, rather than your tenants finding a new apartment.
First of all, I think it is rather presumptuous of you to associate yourself with the FCC in this manner. Secondly, we are not talking about law ratified by the representatives of the people, we are talking about an unelected government agency. Your belief that this agency rule is somehow above reproach is flawed. Lastly, my discussion of my own property is to refute the general statement made by you and others that I have no right to restrict what my tenants do or possess in their apartments. This is simply wrong.
Obviously not all contractual restrictions are void, but your implication that a lease contract is sacrosanct is also falling into the 90% of Sturgeon's Law.
Where did I say contracts are sacrosanct as you say? I did say that reasonableness applies, and statuary exemptions and restrictions apply. The law you cite seems to apply to leaseholds only, not to dorm situations or hotels. If you read back far enough, this is a revision of my position, or do you want me to bow before you and suck you dick?
And yes I am refering to you specifically, when you stated elsewhere in the thread that you would happily blacklist anyone who took you to court to uphold their rights (in this case to operate a WiFi access point) under the law. You may be able to bully your tenants into shutting down their WiFi access points, but they are still within their rights to do so.
Firstly, I don't do the blacklisting. There are several agencies that compile data from housing courts around the country. It also doesn't matter if the tenant prevails or fails. If your name appears on a docket as a tenant, you are on the list. Not every landlord uses them, but you can be damned sure if you live in a municipality that has rent control laws of any kind EVERY landlord uses them.
Unless you have grossly mistated your position, you were stating that you'd seek retribution (via blacklisting) against anyone who successfully sued to enforce their rights. If that is the case, you are a reprehensible creature.
Once again, success is irrelevant. End up in housing court, whether the landlord sues you or you sue the landlord, and you will be on the list.
Also, regarding my pleasure in blacklisting tenants, it wasn't about wifi access points. It was about people like you who think you have a right to have 50 people over at your apartment every weekend. Your rights end where my rights begin. People like you don't understand that rights are not these written bits of words strung together, but guidelines that help us all get along. Screaming "my rights" endlessly is not going to help in the matter. So future advice, work with your landlord, be nice, and learn to negotiate.
Go to a landlord and start proclaiming your rights and you will be disappointed. Good luck out there whenever you enter the real world. It sounds like you will need it.
But you're not talking about the same issue, the problem here is that some landlords seem to think that they can LEGALLY get tenants to sign away rights guaranteed by the federal government in a lease or EULA. You can't do that
Again, as a general principle, you can very well request people give up their freedom. Have you ever heard of an employment contract? Courts have upheld the right of landlords to forbid tenants from possessing firearms, a right guaranteed by the US constitution. What more do you want?
Now, I have previously been presented with some info that the FCC specifically bans thetype of contractual restriction described in the article IF AND ONLY IF the tenant has exclusive control over the property in some form of leasehold interest.
Since this was an administrative code ruling, my suspicion is that it could be challenged under a variety of circumstances.
Also, re the firearm clause of my lease, I own property in one of the most liberal cities in the country that is quite protective of tenants.
Come to Chicago and walk through Pilsen, the Chinatown in Uptown, Devon avenue (through the Indian, Pakistani and Jewish communities), the West end of Ukranian Villiage or Wicker Park, or Polonia.
Pilsen: burned out buildings, extremely crime ridden. location of one of the larger housing projects near roosevelt.
Chinatown in Uptown: most of those people are southeast asian, but whatever. Argyle street is absolutely horrible. I can still remember the smell of the rotting flesh in the summer. Things have improved, but only because non-immigrants are moving in because its cheaper than areas south of irving park road.
Devon Ave: Also looks like shit. A few nice restaurants, but most of the same thing. Definitely cleaner than the other places you mentioned however. I still think west of clark sucks however, and the charming art deco architecture on much of the street is a stark contrast to the rest of the crap. East of clark is much nicer.
Ukranian Villiage or Wicker Park: Hipsterville. Wicker Park has no ethnic identity, save for the random shootings perpetrated by hispanics every once in a while. Ukranian Village is a similar story, but an early stage of development. Inferior access to public transporation will probably limit its development.
Polonia: No idea where that is. Maybe further down milwaukee? milwaukee and irving? Yeah, its ok there.
Then, when you've had a taste of Chicago's immigrant communities, walk through the projects on the West or South sides. These are inhabited mostly by US citizens. Believe me when I say you'll notice a difference.
those are predominantly black neighborhoods. Why don't you compare the neighborhoods you cite to Edison Park? Or Linoln Park? Or Lakeview? or Beverly? Are you a racist?
Finally, notice the current trend in most US cities where immigrants are increasingly moving to Suburbs, rather than in the urban center.
This is because cities are too expensive for them. Because non-immigrants prefer to live there.
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I'm just curious, but what is it about this device that sucks so bad? It seems pretty spiffy to me.
The problem we have with your argument is that it can be said of civilization as well. Sometime in the future, the United States will collapse, its language will change, its entire culture will cease to exist, a relic for the people of the future to study. Why bother trying to prevent it? It is inevitable, all civilizations decline and collapse eventually.
The point is this is what we have been doing since the first city was founded tens of thousands of years ago. Do you think the people in ancient Izmir believed their city would last for thousands of years? It did, but they certainly knew most did not.
This is the cycle of life. Ascendence and decline, light and dark, life and death. So we live in a delusional age which arrogantly believes it will last forever. That doesn't mean you should be taking the opposite view, and argue that defeat is inevitable so forget about it.
Life is struggle
It is this struggle that defines who we are, that gives our life meaning. It is what allows our greatest moments of happiness and glory, for they are only as great as the despair and defeat we endure. We must strive to preserve our culture, to strengthen it, for that is ultimately our gift to our children, and our key to immortality. We may fail, but our humanity comes through striving despite the bad things that happen.
Yes, you have all those wonderful rights, but you don't have the right to free speech now do you? When Ernst Zundel is out of prison, then Canadians such as yourself can talk about how wonderful your country is.
When the economic conditions of Canada improve to the point beautiful young French women aren't driven from the countryside to lives of prostitution and drug abuse, then you can talk about freedom.
I go to Canada and I see a country that is being invaded by hordes of foreign elements, whose national character and heritage is beseiged endlessly to the point it is practically extent, a corrupt government which exhibits everything that is evil about their so called democracy and egalitarianism, and the quiet desperation of people with no future, no hope, and a nihilistic acceptance of it all.
The fundamental problem is that the analytical skills the mangerial class possess at the moment are very narrow. Sure, they can spot trends and utilize basic statistics to their advantage.
The problem with the tech boom wasn't the lack of analytical skills, it was a lack of historical understanding of what money is for, and what relationship securities have to money. I am still amazed when I think back to the days people actually believed dividend payments were irrelevant to valuing a particular security. Would anyone make that mistake if they actually knew why corporations were originally created?
Even today, the managerial class still has no idea why we have money, or where it really comes from.
Part of the reason this is never discussed is no one wants to know the truth, that the money is created by a select class of individuals in the government and federal reserve, and subsequently lent to banks and ultimately the people. No one wants to really know that wealth creation simply doesn't exist, and hasn't since the usury based economy was adopted in full after World War I.
But I leave the real discussion to Ezra Pound, a poet with whom I hope all slashdot readers become familiar:
Ezra Pound - What Money is For
We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception. I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. FIRST, Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, told his shareholders that they would profit because "the bank hath profit on the interest of all the moneys which it creates out of nothing." What then is this "money" the banker can create out of nothing"?
Let us be quite clear. Money is a measured title or claim. That is its basic difference from unmeasured claims, such as a man's right to take all you've got under war-time requisition, or as an invader or thief just taking it all. Money is a measure which the taker hands over when be acquires the goods he takes. And no further formality need occur during the transfer, though sometimes a receipt is given. The idea of justice inheres in ideas of measure, and money is a measure of value.
MEANS OF EXCHANGE
Money is valid when people recognise it as a claim and hand over goods or do work up to the value printed on the face of the ticket, whether it is made of metal or paper. Money is a general sort of ticket which is its only difference from a railway or theatre ticket. If this statement seems childish let the reader think for a moment about different kinds of tickets.
A railway ticket is a measured ticket. A ticket from London to Brighton differs from one for London to Edinburgh. Both are measured, but in miles that always stay the same length. A money ticket, under a corrupt system, wobbles. For a long time the public has trusted people whose measure was shifty.
Another angle. Theatre tickets are timed. You would probably not accept a ticket for Row H, Seat 27, if it were not dated. When six people are entitled to the same seat at the same time the tickets are not particularly good. (Orage asked; Would you call it inflation to print tickets for every seat in the house?) You will hear money called "a medium of exchange," which means that it can circulate freely, as a measure of goods and services against one another, from hand to hand.
GUARANTEE OF FUTURE EXCHANGE
We will have defined money properly when we have stated what it is in words that cannot be applied to anything else and when there is nothing about the essential nature of money that is omitted from our definition.
When Aristotle calls money "a guarantee of future exchange" that merely means that it is an undated ticket, that will be good when we want to use it. Tickets have sometimes stayed good for a century. When we do not hand over money at once
I still can't seem to find the specific text of that oath, at least on the first page of those search results... I am a busy man, and unfortunately don't have the time to read through hundreds of links on google. Thanks for the attempt though. None of the quoted material in the articles cited seem to be what I would call an oath. A promise perhaps, but not an oath.
Pragmatism doesn't inspire artists or warriors unfortunately. There is something to be said for ideals. They give meaning to life, and inspire even the worst among us to strive for something greater than themselves.
You may, to an extent, be able to rationalize this pragmatic nihilism, but history has proven it always accompanies decadence and decay. Cultures have only ascended in history when they struggle against all odds for the ideals they hold dear. As soon as a pragmatic managerial class evolves, decline ensues.
Also, philosophy aside, Kerry has stated on a number of occasions pulling out of Iraq before a stable, democratically elected government is in place is absolutely off the table. Thus, not only is your very Machiavellian political philosophy poorly defended, your association of that philosophy with Kerry is simply wrong. I think, more than anything else, you should be quite embarassed by your blatantly partisan politics and your inability to see that Kerry is not the savior you dream about when you handle your penis.
Yes, thats right. They didn't go to Yale University, thus they cannot be legitimate presidential candidates.
Hi there. I am very interested in these "loyalty oaths" of which you speak. Could you please provide a link that provides details on this? Perhaps even the textual content of said oaths? Thanks in advance for your contribution to public enlightenment.
He, you added the page without logging in. Now we have your IP address! bwahahaha!
I think a great way to revise the legal system is to replace all trials by court, with trials by ordeal, specifically combat.
Nothing makes my heart cringe more than watching some poor helpless shell of man, sitting there powerlessly letting the sophists spin their web of verbal obfuscation, all the while realizing he has indebted, and thus enslaved himself, for years simply to gain his freedom.
Far better I think, to fight for your freedom in a mediated, structured system of combat.
'94? I don't think so. It wasn't commercially available until the summer of 1996, Independence Day as I recall, only because a movie of the same name debuted that day as well.
Since so much of Nietzsche is a commentary on past philosophers, poets, and other artists, I do highly doubt you could have understand the vast majority of what he was saying as a teenager.
Pretty much every great thinker since Nietzsche has credited him with a profound contribution to modern thought. Your dismissal of him based on his appeal to youthful angst is, at its heart, an extreme example of intellectual naivete. For that reason, I won't respond further to your post. I just wanted to point out that you are not a particularly reliable source on the matter.
Whether it is hedonism or pessimism, utilitarianism or eudaemonism - all these ways of thinking that measure the value of thing in accordance with pleasure and pain , which are mere epiphenomena and wholly secondary, are ways of thinking that stay in the foreground and naivetes on which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artistic conscience will look down not without derision, nor without pity. Pity with you - that, of course, is not pity in your sense: it is not pity with social "distress", with "society" and its sick and unfortunate members, with those addicted to vice and maimed from the start, though the ground around us is littered with them; it is even less pity with grumbling, sorely pressed, rebellious slave strata who long for dominion, calling it "freedom". Our pity is a higher and more farsighted pity: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller - and there are moments when we behold your very pity with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this pity - when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable .
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin. its inventiveness and courage in enduring, persevering, interpreting and exploiting suffering and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? In man creature and creator are united: in man there is material, fragment, excess, clay, dirt, nonsense, chaos; but in man there is also creator, form giver, hammer, hardness, spectator divinity, and seventh day: do you understand this contrast? And that your pity is for the "creature in man". for what must be formed, broken, forged, torn, burnt, made incandescent, and purified - that which necessarily man and should suffer? And our pity - do you not comprehend for whom our converse pity is when it resists your pity as the worst of all pamperings and weaknesses?
Thus it is pity versus pity.
But to say it once more: there are higher problems than all problems of pleasure. pain. and pity; and every philosophy that stops with them is naive.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil - Aphorism 225
I used to have a 1984 Chevy Caprice Classic with power everything. That's not a luxury car.
I was going to say, in major cities in the US, people are so busy they would never notice someone spraying freon onto a lock or using this bic trick. It takes less than 15 seconds to break a lock in most cases...
Why would I give a fuck about moderation? Nothing would make me happier than for this very post to be modded negative-fucking-five
Take it DOWN, DOWN TO CHINATOWN!!!
The real horror of this is that we are potentially facing an *extinction* of the real films.
Is it really a horror?
I mean, books and stories have been altered over time for thousands of years. Why should movies be this stagnant work of art?
Maybe if you think of them as painting or statues... but still, I don't think its horrific.
I am fairly certain the name of the series was chosen when the original developer, Square, was on the verge of bankrupcy. They named the original Final Fantasy such because they thought it would be their final game. It ended up being far more popular than they thought it would be, and the company was saved.
I haven't really played a final fantasy game since FFIII on my SNES like 10 years ago. That said, maybe someone out there knows the story better than I do.
I had a similar problem with my IDE chipset. After installing SP2, DMA support was gone, and it was PIO only. This of course slowed things down immensely.
Uninstalled SP2 and the problem disappeared and I was back to full speed.
This is with the original nforce chipset. Anyone else experience this?
But the system of life can and will adjust, and compensate for extra carbon.
Life does adjust. Remember, before plants evolved, the atmosphere was nearly 100% CO2. Oxygen exists in the atmosphere only as a waste product of photosynthesis.
And your "blacklist" doesn't exist.
Why don't you read this article
I don't own property in California, so fortunately, I am not affected by this proposed law.
Wrong answer, if not illegal. The "professional" list was in the same price range, maybe a few hundred more on average, but in the ballpark of the first list of ghetto properties.
Another spoiled brat raised to think the world owes him. I hate to tell you this, but discrimination is very much allowed in the US, EXCEPT for specific prohibitions, ie race, gender, family status, and religion. Many landlords refuse to rent to college students. They are irresponsible, trash the apartment, and have an attitude just like yours. They are perfectly entitled to make that choice.
If you wind up in court over a BS clause like "no firearms allowed" expect to pay someone's lawyer bills.
Again, I am sorry to say you are sadly mistaken. If one of my tenants is involved in a crime and I find he was in possession of a gun (or god forbid, he SHOOTS a gun on my property) I can evict him. This happens all the time, and is very much allowed.
Some of your tenants know the judge and his kids, too, you see
that is unlikely. I am in a very large metropolis.
That just left a sick thought in my head.
those whores in porn are just disgusting.
what I do know is low-res is necessary for not just porn. Lots of older women will look much worse in hidef. facial wrinkles and lines will be much more apparent.
On the plus side, I think this could potentially alter the culture of hollywood. There is a certain depraved decadence that infests that culture, and by proxy our own culture at large. As beauty and physical attractiveness is a major aspect of that culture (and the business) I imagine many of these folks will have to live healthier lifestyles to maintain their beauty for a longer period of time. Perhaps with that change in lifestyle will come greater moral virtue as well.
These are apartments, not dormitories. They are on land owned by the University, leased to a private company. They are pretty much identical to suburban apartments anywhere in the country.
Its not the type of property that matters, its the TENANCY. Students rooming in any building do not have leasehold to the property. This is established law. The university could be putting up their students in mansions, it doesn't matter.
Basic rule, if the university can kick the students out at will, for any reason, the FCC rule you cite is irrelevant.
In any event you made the statement that no court would disallow the WiFi prohibition.
Only in regards to university housing. They are not tenants, and have no rights what so ever. The law you cite is not applicable.
Neither the FCC nor I care what you put in your lease contract, you can't put a blanket prohibition on WiFi access points. If you don't like it, you can find another country to own property in, rather than your tenants finding a new apartment.
First of all, I think it is rather presumptuous of you to associate yourself with the FCC in this manner. Secondly, we are not talking about law ratified by the representatives of the people, we are talking about an unelected government agency. Your belief that this agency rule is somehow above reproach is flawed. Lastly, my discussion of my own property is to refute the general statement made by you and others that I have no right to restrict what my tenants do or possess in their apartments. This is simply wrong.
Obviously not all contractual restrictions are void, but your implication that a lease contract is sacrosanct is also falling into the 90% of Sturgeon's Law.
Where did I say contracts are sacrosanct as you say? I did say that reasonableness applies, and statuary exemptions and restrictions apply. The law you cite seems to apply to leaseholds only, not to dorm situations or hotels. If you read back far enough, this is a revision of my position, or do you want me to bow before you and suck you dick?
And yes I am refering to you specifically, when you stated elsewhere in the thread that you would happily blacklist anyone who took you to court to uphold their rights (in this case to operate a WiFi access point) under the law. You may be able to bully your tenants into shutting down their WiFi access points, but they are still within their rights to do so.
Firstly, I don't do the blacklisting. There are several agencies that compile data from housing courts around the country. It also doesn't matter if the tenant prevails or fails. If your name appears on a docket as a tenant, you are on the list. Not every landlord uses them, but you can be damned sure if you live in a municipality that has rent control laws of any kind EVERY landlord uses them.
Unless you have grossly mistated your position, you were stating that you'd seek retribution (via blacklisting) against anyone who successfully sued to enforce their rights. If that is the case, you are a reprehensible creature.
Once again, success is irrelevant. End up in housing court, whether the landlord sues you or you sue the landlord, and you will be on the list.
Also, regarding my pleasure in blacklisting tenants, it wasn't about wifi access points. It was about people like you who think you have a right to have 50 people over at your apartment every weekend. Your rights end where my rights begin. People like you don't understand that rights are not these written bits of words strung together, but guidelines that help us all get along. Screaming "my rights" endlessly is not going to help in the matter. So future advice, work with your landlord, be nice, and learn to negotiate.
Go to a landlord and start proclaiming your rights and you will be disappointed. Good luck out there whenever you enter the real world. It sounds like you will need it.
But you're not talking about the same issue, the problem here is that some landlords seem to think that they can LEGALLY get tenants to sign away rights guaranteed by the federal government in a lease or EULA. You can't do that
Again, as a general principle, you can very well request people give up their freedom. Have you ever heard of an employment contract? Courts have upheld the right of landlords to forbid tenants from possessing firearms, a right guaranteed by the US constitution. What more do you want?
Now, I have previously been presented with some info that the FCC specifically bans thetype of contractual restriction described in the article IF AND ONLY IF the tenant has exclusive control over the property in some form of leasehold interest.
Since this was an administrative code ruling, my suspicion is that it could be challenged under a variety of circumstances.
Also, re the firearm clause of my lease, I own property in one of the most liberal cities in the country that is quite protective of tenants.
Come to Chicago and walk through Pilsen, the Chinatown in Uptown, Devon avenue (through the Indian, Pakistani and Jewish communities), the West end of Ukranian Villiage or Wicker Park, or Polonia.
Pilsen: burned out buildings, extremely crime ridden. location of one of the larger housing projects near roosevelt.
Chinatown in Uptown: most of those people are southeast asian, but whatever. Argyle street is absolutely horrible. I can still remember the smell of the rotting flesh in the summer. Things have improved, but only because non-immigrants are moving in because its cheaper than areas south of irving park road.
Devon Ave: Also looks like shit. A few nice restaurants, but most of the same thing. Definitely cleaner than the other places you mentioned however. I still think west of clark sucks however, and the charming art deco architecture on much of the street is a stark contrast to the rest of the crap. East of clark is much nicer.
Ukranian Villiage or Wicker Park: Hipsterville. Wicker Park has no ethnic identity, save for the random shootings perpetrated by hispanics every once in a while. Ukranian Village is a similar story, but an early stage of development. Inferior access to public transporation will probably limit its development.
Polonia: No idea where that is. Maybe further down milwaukee? milwaukee and irving? Yeah, its ok there.
Then, when you've had a taste of Chicago's immigrant communities, walk through the projects on the West or South sides. These are inhabited mostly by US citizens. Believe me when I say you'll notice a difference.
those are predominantly black neighborhoods. Why don't you compare the neighborhoods you cite to Edison Park? Or Linoln Park? Or Lakeview? or Beverly? Are you a racist?
Finally, notice the current trend in most US cities where immigrants are increasingly moving to Suburbs, rather than in the urban center.
This is because cities are too expensive for them. Because non-immigrants prefer to live there.