That's a typical Republican statement designed to shape the way people think about the other side. It has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with manipulation, which the Republicans have gotten very good at. Despite moral depravity that would make Clinton blush the Republicans will probably come out on top next election, too.
Facts don't matter that much in the political world. There's a great quote Iriving Becker that goes like this:
"If you don't like someone, the way he holds his spoon will make you furious; if you do like him, he can turn his plate over in your lap and you won't mind."
Most people have their minds made up ahead of time about a certain politician and then just rationalize their way out of any "facts." Just think about it. If a Democratic president was pulling the same crap that the current administration is the Republicans would be going ape, but because he's their man he can turn his plate over in their laps all he wants to.
Yes, but it'll just be a guy going from door to door with Darl decals and telling people that they need to place them over the name on the Linus model.
I think the post smacks more of frustration at living in a nation where the notion of such an idiotic lawsuit is even possible. Or possibly the poster doesn't live in the US. In that case I'll say "same goes for me."
It's actually not a Jihad on smoking. It's a Jihad on the jerks who do the smoking. It never ceases to amaze me how inconsiderate smokers are. They foul the air that other people have to breathe (in public) and then about 99% of them throw the cigarette butt on the ground. One smoker can ruin the air for dozens of yards around him/her. Never mind that no one else wants to breathe your smoke or look at all that garbage you leave, as long as you get what you want. Talk about entitled, narcissistic behavior.
Wow, you must have some enemies to get downmodded for a comment like that.
Google has been good at everything they've tried (but I wish they'd get a Mac version of Google Earth out). I can only imagine that this is a natural result of their work policy, which is to give each employee a certain amount of time to develop and work on their own ideas. With that much creative time given to so many bright people you're bound to have a company that starts branching out all over the place.
Yeah, because that crate of 300 rubber chickens from Shanghai really needs "privacy" as it makes its way from Dock 42 in Seattle to some anonymous Wal-Mart stockroom in Piedmont, Arizona
But you'll probably be a lot more interested in privacy when that rubber chicken makes its way from the Wal-Mart stockroom to your bedroom.
Is it really that much to ask that rudimentary spelling and grammar rules are obeyed?
Indeed. When it comes to spelling and grammar we are always quick to excuse ourselves, but what would you think of your favorite newspaper if you started seeing headlines and articles that confused your with you're? I'm pretty sure you might start wondering what else it was the editors were missing.
If your busines is in words then proper spelling and grammar are part of being professional.
but the real thing you're doing is plastering a big "I have something to hide, like trading kidding porn" sign to anybody willing to trace your communications in the first place.
So true. In fact, I would suggest that you stop using envelopes when mailing letters and just use postcards instead, that way everybody along the way can read them much more easily. You don't have anything to hide, do you?
No real reason for secret ballots either, now that I think about it. After all, you're not attemting to make an illegal vote.
The police ought to be able to search your house at will, too. If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear, right?
Oh, remember that sooner or later if you stop defending your freedoms you lose them. When it becomes illegal to criticize the government and you say "but that wasn't what I meant" it's just a tad too late.
Did anyone else look at that integrated iSight and think about the part in Cryptonomicon where the guy scripts his built in laptop camera to make a capture every 15 seconds or so? I'm curious as to how accessible that little camera will be.
Once the pesticides are no longer used, the genes will no longer confer any selective advantage. They'll then be subject to random mutations and errors and become quickly non-functional.
By "quickly" I assume you mean thousands of years? And when these genes which no longer "confer any selective advantage" have been subjected to random mutations could you please tell us precisely what those effects will be? Why do you feel that they will become non-functional and not possibly some new advantage to the plant which is also seriously disadvantageous to animals which previously fed on that plant? The ripples extend way beyond the plant in question.
Don't get me wrong, I love science, but dreams of riches cloud the mind. Ethics go out the window and morality becomes plastic in the face of so much profit to be made. Companies like Monsanto are fiddling with incredibly important stuff and doing it to make money and to shut out others from access to the basics of life.
Back in the late 1980's an import record shop in my area had the idea of putting together compilations on the fly for customers and burning them onto CD.
That was the digital version of a short lived service called Personics back in the late 80s. You could go into a store and make a compilation tape by choosing from a menu of songs and it would spit out a cassette tape for you at the cost of around $1 per song.
They might have been thinking that it was more understandable than a little icon that looks like it has either something to do with wireless or sound. Since it's generally referred to as an RSS feed maybe they should just have used an icon of a fork instead.
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That's a typical Republican statement designed to shape the way people think about the other side. It has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with manipulation, which the Republicans have gotten very good at. Despite moral depravity that would make Clinton blush the Republicans will probably come out on top next election, too.
But we need those organizations to counteract the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfeld bullshit. Unless, of course, you are hostile to the ideals of democracy.
Yes, but it'll just be a guy going from door to door with Darl decals and telling people that they need to place them over the name on the Linus model.
"Attack the day like birds of prey
Or scavengers under cover."
I think the post smacks more of frustration at living in a nation where the notion of such an idiotic lawsuit is even possible. Or possibly the poster doesn't live in the US. In that case I'll say "same goes for me."
Not only that, but according to the sentence he's also now out of the closet.
There is something mechanical and technical happening when you copy something to a hard drive as well. Or floppy-style media.
It's actually not a Jihad on smoking. It's a Jihad on the jerks who do the smoking. It never ceases to amaze me how inconsiderate smokers are. They foul the air that other people have to breathe (in public) and then about 99% of them throw the cigarette butt on the ground. One smoker can ruin the air for dozens of yards around him/her. Never mind that no one else wants to breathe your smoke or look at all that garbage you leave, as long as you get what you want. Talk about entitled, narcissistic behavior.
Google has been good at everything they've tried (but I wish they'd get a Mac version of Google Earth out). I can only imagine that this is a natural result of their work policy, which is to give each employee a certain amount of time to develop and work on their own ideas. With that much creative time given to so many bright people you're bound to have a company that starts branching out all over the place.
But you'll probably be a lot more interested in privacy when that rubber chicken makes its way from the Wal-Mart stockroom to your bedroom.
Yes, it does. Good thing I don't make my living with words.
Indeed. When it comes to spelling and grammar we are always quick to excuse ourselves, but what would you think of your favorite newspaper if you started seeing headlines and articles that confused your with you're? I'm pretty sure you might start wondering what else it was the editors were missing.
If your busines is in words then proper spelling and grammar are part of being professional.
So true. In fact, I would suggest that you stop using envelopes when mailing letters and just use postcards instead, that way everybody along the way can read them much more easily. You don't have anything to hide, do you?
No real reason for secret ballots either, now that I think about it. After all, you're not attemting to make an illegal vote.
The police ought to be able to search your house at will, too. If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear, right?
Oh, remember that sooner or later if you stop defending your freedoms you lose them. When it becomes illegal to criticize the government and you say "but that wasn't what I meant" it's just a tad too late.
Did anyone else look at that integrated iSight and think about the part in Cryptonomicon where the guy scripts his built in laptop camera to make a capture every 15 seconds or so? I'm curious as to how accessible that little camera will be.
It's still plagiarism if you don't attribute it or try to pass it off as your own writing.
By "quickly" I assume you mean thousands of years? And when these genes which no longer "confer any selective advantage" have been subjected to random mutations could you please tell us precisely what those effects will be? Why do you feel that they will become non-functional and not possibly some new advantage to the plant which is also seriously disadvantageous to animals which previously fed on that plant? The ripples extend way beyond the plant in question.
Don't get me wrong, I love science, but dreams of riches cloud the mind. Ethics go out the window and morality becomes plastic in the face of so much profit to be made. Companies like Monsanto are fiddling with incredibly important stuff and doing it to make money and to shut out others from access to the basics of life.
We really should be mad as hell.
So what you're saying is that Java is being ridden out of town on a Rail?
That was the digital version of a short lived service called Personics back in the late 80s. You could go into a store and make a compilation tape by choosing from a menu of songs and it would spit out a cassette tape for you at the cost of around $1 per song.
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They might have been thinking that it was more understandable than a little icon that looks like it has either something to do with wireless or sound. Since it's generally referred to as an RSS feed maybe they should just have used an icon of a fork instead.
The song is called Witch Hunt from the album Moving Pictures. Great dark scary intro. You can visualize the mob with pitchforks and torches.
I know what you mean. The point on mine keeps getting mashed down.
Yes, and it's DRMed with a fruitkit.
Very funny. :-)