Now lets put those next to the most violent films of the same period and see who comes off looking worse. Even just put them against the Saw films. 'Torture porn' I believe they call them...says it all really.
How about we put video games against the Best Picture nominees for this year? One involves a guy who cuts his own arm off. Another about a guy who beats people up for a living. One about Natalie Portman, bulemic, petrified, batshit crazy, and did I mention violent? Two are about about violent revenge. And then there's Inception.
In 2008, they said if I voted for John McCain my civil liberties would be further eroded for sake of the safety of the State. My freedoms would be restricted without legislation with the complicity of the courts....
And they were right!
That's amazing. I will be borrowing that in the future.
The origin goes back to the Vietnam War, variants of "They said if I voted for Goldwater we'd get into a war in Vietnam. Well, I did, and they were right!"
When was the last time you complained to your representatives about defense spending? Or the education budget? Or the overreaching power of the FBI? This is your government. Participate in it.
Those of us who ARE so anti-government see attempting to participate in the government as some combination of futile, counterproductive, and dangerous.
(Some subset of those BECAME more anti-government when attempting to participate and getting form letters saying "thank you for your comments but Representative Chaetham takes the opposite position so tough shit". Of course Candidate Howe takes the same position as her opponent Chaetham...)
I recall a science fiction story where the Chinese invented a realistic robot toddler. The US government, in its infinite wisdom, made a law that anyone who wanted to have a real kid had to care for one of these robot kids for a period of time. To make a long story short, after a generation the Chinese Army rolled in and took over the depopulated United States.
In other news, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned and handed over power to the military, ousted by a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who demanded his removal.
To summarise the article: indie cafes bad, but on the First of Some Month Starbucks will give you free internet for as long as you want. Not "a major chain of coffee houses" but STARBUCKS.
Furthermore, not one indy cafe is named and shamed. Is this phenomenon real or is it just something to fill the ad-hole? I work in NYC with a bunch of other geeks, and if any significant number of cafes had a policy like this, I'd expect to have heard about it. Now, NYC is a big place and it's possible the offending cafes are concentrated where the geeks I know aren't, but I'm still suspicious.
I find nothing as amusing as the rage of the entitled. You live in the most free society on Earth (or so you're fond of bragging anyway)
Actually our government likes to say that. Left-wing types fearing a US dictatorship usually do not.
Try telling that to people who have been unable to oust their dictator for 30 years and got hit with tear gas, rubber bullets, live ammo, and speeding vehicles when they tried to do something about it.
Yeah, but when our government tries to help out with ousting dictators, we get a lot of bad press for it and are told not to interfere, by pretty much everyone (including the left wing types who fear a US dictatorship).
Americans being oppressed by their own government? Ha! Gimme a freaking break! Get out of your suburban bore-hole and travel a little in this world before you start complaining about the evils of government.
The fact that other governments suck FAR worse does not mean that our government is not a problem and is not getting worse.
The "terrorist target" argument is getting a bit tiresome on/. If you're really that paranoid, sit in the house and don't move. High speed trains have been running all over the world for decades and I don't know of any that have been blown up.
Throw out the "terrorist" argument and you might as well stick with airplanes. They are faster, and require a less extensive infrastructure.
"I creates images which pass validation without the explicit permission of Sony. This would circumvent the protection."
That's something the lawyers can argue about all day. Personally I'd argue it isn't circumvention, any more than opening a safe by entering the combination is circumvention of the safe lock. I doubt it'll ever make it to court, though.
Messianic regime... don't you idiots always go on about "god bless" and "in god we trust" and shit.
"God bless" is like "geseundheit", it's just something you say when someone sneezes. "In god we trust" is on our money, but I've never heard it come up in any other context.
Your constitution might say your church and state are separate, but how likely is it that an open atheist could get into the presidency?
About as likely as a Catholic, a divorcee, or a black man.
How many in your government believe Israel was given by god to the jews?
Probably none of them, but I haven't polled them.
Who had the first nukes?
Oh, got us there. Yep, that was the US.
Who is the only country to have used nukes directly on foreign people,
Hey, that would be the US again.
and not just in war against Japan, but also in peace against the Bikini islands?
We moved the people off the atoll first.
Hmmm, sounds like a messianic regime with apocalyptic weaponry
No one's denying the US has apocalyptic weaponry.
Well barbaric is easy. Bikini Islands again,
Nuking a few islands with nobody on them doesn't even come close to the bar for barbaric.
Vietnam with the agent orange polution and napalm on villages,
Yeah, war gets pretty barbaric. You don't need defoliants and napalm to make it so; the whole idea is barbaric.
Iraq with cluster munitions and the overt and deliberate massacre of civillians,
Would those be the civilians with the army uniforms and firearms, or the civilians attempting to drive explosive-laden vehicles through the checkpoints?
and on and on and on. The US is the most barbaric nation in the history of the known universe.
ROTFL. All the stuff you said about the US could be 100% true, and that still wouldn't be the case, not by a long shot. Read some history. Uganda under Idi Amin, the USSR under Stalin. The Mongols under Genghis Khan. Do a little reading on what the Roman Empire was like -- and remember they're the ones who made a point of not being barbarians.
this hypothetical "sister in a bikini", if she went topless, would probably be arrested here.
Fun fact: it's legal for women to go topless in NYC. Less fun fact: It's damn near freezing in NYC right now, so toplessness and bikinis are right out for most people.
So they found that 70 out of 82 children with autism and bowel disease tested positive for the measles virus. How many healthy children of the same age tested positive for the measles virus? How many children with bowel disease but NOT autism?
Oh, wait, there's no controls at all. While an uncontrolled study can occasionally find the truth (e.g. the aspirin/Reye's syndrome link; no controlled study was ever done, but on the other hand, Reye's has just about disappeared), it's still not very good evidence.
Is your inducement the chance to do science (i.e. food, shelter, office, equipment and contacts) or the money you take home each month?
Both, of course.
If you think a science fair should be some sort of contract with "terms", you're already lost.
It's a contest. It IS a contract with terms. Why enter a contest you're not going to get a fair shot at, when you could do whatever else you want instead.
People who are making 30k a year (especially single people!) and don't have disposable income either need to move to a cheaper state (I live in New Mexico) or need to learn how to manage their money better.
Um, if you make $30,000 in an expensive state like NY, you can't exactly just "move to a cheaper state", because your job is in NY.
that american govt is so sensitive about freedom of information of chinese people, whereas trying to censor/suppress anything that wikileaks discloses about american government, to american people ?
Is the US government soliciting and obtaining Chinese government classified documents and then broadcasting their contents worldwide? No, they are not. There's no irony or hypocrisy here. Give the Devil his due, why don't you?
We do the opposite in the US. It's great that you can afford a China-made iPod with an unemployment check, isn't it?
Well, when you put it that way, FUCK YEAH! I mean, the "opposite" is I work my ass off producing the iPod, and then my wages don't even stretch far enough to buying one. I'd rather get stuff for sitting on my ass than work hard for no reward.
...but his premises are suspect. If one accepts that an American should have no more or less concern for the job-seeker in Mumbai than the one in Seattle, then it is certainly not wrong to help set up an offshore help desk.
However, the idea that the only reason one would have more concern for the American than the Indian is "tribalism" is suspect. Consider the end result of offshoring helpdesk jobs. We'd end up with no such jobs in America. Then where would this job-seeker be? Unemployed and with no prospect of future employment. He'd have helped fashion the rope used to hang himself. Is pursuing short-term gain at the cost of long term harm to oneself unethical? I suppose there's disagreement on that subject, but I think it's an argument worth considering, one more sophisticated than mere tribalism.
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How about we put video games against the Best Picture nominees for this year? One involves a guy who cuts his own arm off. Another about a guy who beats people up for a living. One about Natalie Portman, bulemic, petrified, batshit crazy, and did I mention violent? Two are about about violent revenge. And then there's Inception.
Well, if you're into that. Because without violence, the only reason for virtual reality is porn.
The origin goes back to the Vietnam War, variants of "They said if I voted for Goldwater we'd get into a war in Vietnam. Well, I did, and they were right!"
Those of us who ARE so anti-government see attempting to participate in the government as some combination of futile, counterproductive, and dangerous.
(Some subset of those BECAME more anti-government when attempting to participate and getting form letters saying "thank you for your comments but Representative Chaetham takes the opposite position so tough shit". Of course Candidate Howe takes the same position as her opponent Chaetham...)
I recall a science fiction story where the Chinese invented a realistic robot toddler. The US government, in its infinite wisdom, made a law that anyone who wanted to have a real kid had to care for one of these robot kids for a period of time. To make a long story short, after a generation the Chinese Army rolled in and took over the depopulated United States.
Were the demonstrations planned in coffeeshops?
Furthermore, not one indy cafe is named and shamed. Is this phenomenon real or is it just something to fill the ad-hole? I work in NYC with a bunch of other geeks, and if any significant number of cafes had a policy like this, I'd expect to have heard about it. Now, NYC is a big place and it's possible the offending cafes are concentrated where the geeks I know aren't, but I'm still suspicious.
Actually our government likes to say that. Left-wing types fearing a US dictatorship usually do not.
Yeah, but when our government tries to help out with ousting dictators, we get a lot of bad press for it and are told not to interfere, by pretty much everyone (including the left wing types who fear a US dictatorship).
The fact that other governments suck FAR worse does not mean that our government is not a problem and is not getting worse.
Throw out the "terrorist" argument and you might as well stick with airplanes. They are faster, and require a less extensive infrastructure.
That's something the lawyers can argue about all day. Personally I'd argue it isn't circumvention, any more than opening a safe by entering the combination is circumvention of the safe lock. I doubt it'll ever make it to court, though.
Perhaps, but you have to account for Hollywood accounting.
No, it doesn't. It creates images which pass the validation.
"God bless" is like "geseundheit", it's just something you say when someone sneezes. "In god we trust" is on our money, but I've never heard it come up in any other context.
About as likely as a Catholic, a divorcee, or a black man.
Probably none of them, but I haven't polled them.
Oh, got us there. Yep, that was the US.
Hey, that would be the US again.
We moved the people off the atoll first.
No one's denying the US has apocalyptic weaponry.
Nuking a few islands with nobody on them doesn't even come close to the bar for barbaric.
Yeah, war gets pretty barbaric. You don't need defoliants and napalm to make it so; the whole idea is barbaric.
Would those be the civilians with the army uniforms and firearms, or the civilians attempting to drive explosive-laden vehicles through the checkpoints?
ROTFL. All the stuff you said about the US could be 100% true, and that still wouldn't be the case, not by a long shot. Read some history. Uganda under Idi Amin, the USSR under Stalin. The Mongols under Genghis Khan. Do a little reading on what the Roman Empire was like -- and remember they're the ones who made a point of not being barbarians.
So is the US, though the term hadn't been invented yet. Look up the Sons of Liberty, who the British called the "Sons of Violence".
Fun fact: it's legal for women to go topless in NYC.
Less fun fact: It's damn near freezing in NYC right now, so toplessness and bikinis are right out for most people.
I prefer a heavyweight decrapifier.
So they found that 70 out of 82 children with autism and bowel disease tested positive for the measles virus. How many healthy children of the same age tested positive for the measles virus? How many children with bowel disease but NOT autism?
Oh, wait, there's no controls at all. While an uncontrolled study can occasionally find the truth (e.g. the aspirin/Reye's syndrome link; no controlled study was ever done, but on the other hand, Reye's has just about disappeared), it's still not very good evidence.
The complication is that it's hard to distinguish a high level of inherited stupidity from mild autism.
Both, of course.
It's a contest. It IS a contract with terms. Why enter a contest you're not going to get a fair shot at, when you could do whatever else you want instead.
True. But he IS an expert on lying to create Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Which makes him eminently qualified to judge Wakefield.
Um, if you make $30,000 in an expensive state like NY, you can't exactly just "move to a cheaper state", because your job is in NY.
Is the US government soliciting and obtaining Chinese government classified documents and then broadcasting their contents worldwide? No, they are not. There's no irony or hypocrisy here. Give the Devil his due, why don't you?
Well, when you put it that way, FUCK YEAH! I mean, the "opposite" is I work my ass off producing the iPod, and then my wages don't even stretch far enough to buying one. I'd rather get stuff for sitting on my ass than work hard for no reward.
So who are they bringing in to replace him? Ivan Boesky? Bernie Madoff? Richard Hatch?
...but his premises are suspect. If one accepts that an American should have no more or less concern for the job-seeker in Mumbai than the one in Seattle, then it is certainly not wrong to help set up an offshore help desk.
However, the idea that the only reason one would have more concern for the American than the Indian is "tribalism" is suspect. Consider the end result of offshoring helpdesk jobs. We'd end up with no such jobs in America. Then where would this job-seeker be? Unemployed and with no prospect of future employment. He'd have helped fashion the rope used to hang himself. Is pursuing short-term gain at the cost of long term harm to oneself unethical? I suppose there's disagreement on that subject, but I think it's an argument worth considering, one more sophisticated than mere tribalism.