to each his own.. maybe everyone's not a goddamn alchoholic either eh?
there's nothing wrong with not hanging out with people... most the time i think its a waste of time... only occasionally doesn't anything actually entertaining happen... just my experience.. I'd rather be learning and expanding my mind, and/or having fun, than driving around complaining about how fucking bored I am, and how the town sucks, and do some drugs that eat my brain instead...
Which is what has been prophesized... the ones without the mark of the beast will be the ones who can't buy food, who can't do anything, who will be outcasts among the majority who will implant them...
I'm not a religious freak, but this is just too uncanny.. I might have to go to church this weekend.. or at least get some Bible time in..
Define limited scope? When do we draw the line? When we do draw then line, it's probably too late to stop it anyways so we're fucked.
If it didn't give 'them' any more information than 'they' already had, what the hell is the point?
The issue is that technology always grows in application. Sure right now it will only hold little bits of information. That's while the technology is in it's infancy. In 10 years God only knows what the hell these things will be used for and what they will store.
Uhm... yeah... how long do you think its going to take some kid to realize that he's got a goddamn chip in his fucking right hand when he goes to the airport and the ID scanner pulls up some info on him... and then he's going to be all the more fucking pissed that you never told him, and will hate you for life... besides all his friends will probably know too and you can damn well bet he'll ask you if he's got one too.. lie to him about that one and there goes the trust for life...
I with you 100% on this one... more and more lately I'm wishing that the entire Earth hadn't been mapped, or some big continent was out there not discovered yet.. I would love to just start everything from scratch, and try to do it right for once...
There's more to it than meets the eye. I used to think I was fine when I unchecked all the options too. But alas, Cydoor still installs, along with B3d. Thank god there is a free utility for removing the stupid Cydoor shit with a clone so Kazaa will still run.. or Grokster.. whichever you prefer..
I would have to disagree. There are a lot of geeks out here with their own brains. They don't seem to follow the leader very well. That's probably the exact kind of thing carnivore is protecting the government from...
Well opinion is opinion. Religion is based on opinion. Therefore your opinion is as good as the pope's. There is no factual basis, therefore no one has any more clue than anyone else. Amen.
For the love of God.. these people need to stop coming up with lame hair-brained schemes of copy protection so that they can be the Bill Gates of the music industry. Realize this: There will never be a scheme that will be fool proof. They may last more than a day, but don't hold your breath. There are way too many people out here that know what they are doing, and too many people out there that don't.
The industry is just going to have to _ADAPT_ to the changing economy and technology. What a goddamn concept eh?
Who thought this movie sucked a fat cock? God damn that was just horrid. My $6 would have been better spent on a hammer to bang on my head. It was like 3 hours of the same relentless shit over and over. Run, hide, run, fight, hide, run, run fight, run, hide. God damn.. oooh neat-o special effects.. that must be what I paid $6 to see...
I watched about a whole 2 hours or so of this shit and just said fuck it.. my ass hurts, the bastard in front of me gets up every 10 minutes to go smoke and comes back smelling like asshole, and this movie blows hard cock. So I left.
But hey if you all like it, more power to you. I like a story with a little more to it.
That's retarded. 'certain accepted practices in Warfare'? War is just a game... a really bloody, shitty, stupid game. You can do this to kill people, but not this or that... that makes a whole hell of a lot of sense..
Wrong, pot is not always measured in standard. Only when you're dealing in large quantities. When dealing in 1/4 oz and junk you always weigh it in grams. Even oz's are weighed in grams.
Same with coke.
As much as I hate what has been going on with all these companies, I have to admit that I agree with you.
People have to have their own brain.. they gotta be suspicious of everyone, and basically look out for their own well-being when things are looking either too good or too bad. If they don't, in the end it is basically they're own fault for trusting someone who was only looking out for THEIR own well-being... catch the drift?
Ok so if/when the RIAA/MPAA win their lawsuits, it will just be shut down. What's so hard to see about that? Just because they can't filter out copyrighted materials isn't going to stop these suits. They want blood.
I agree, but you also have to realize that there are many factors involved...
1. Their parents probably weren't following them around the house 24 hours a day to see what was going on. Who does?
2. It's very normal for kids to be rebellious and put up posters of whatever will draw a big reaction from their parents and whatnot. Watch the dirty movies, the violent movies; do whatever's not allowed...
3. When a kid has a hard day at school, then comes home to some more bitching and fighting and yelling or whatever, it only makes it worse. It can drive a person to the edge if you know what I mean. And it does drive a certain few OVER the edge.. I'm in school, I would know. I've seen it time and time again.
It's not like these kids were absolute freaks of nature. I know kids who would pull the same thing in a heartbeat in a fit of rage, if they had access to a certain few things they needed. It's a scary world, but its not the parents who are to blame.
My $.02
I see this is the beginning of the end. Like so many other posts quoting Ben Franklin, it may be truer than many believe. The second people start to believe this is a good idea, that's when it becomes acceptable for the government to do away with whatever they please. At least in their eyes.
The day of 911, when my teachers began talking about how everything was going to change from here on out, I knew that we were in for trouble. My biggest concern wasn't so much that they were changing laws, and making new ones that take away freedom. No, it was when I was hearing people saying it was okay, that it was for the better...
Can't anyone see that they are blatantly using 9/11 as a cover for doing WHATEVER they want to do. They have called it a war so that they can use whatever powers necessary to do whatever they have the slightest inclination to do.
We can't just sit back and say this is okay. Write your congressmen!!! I don't even put much stock in this action, but if enough of us do, we can pray that somehow it changes things.
Remember this?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world." -- Declaration of Independence
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It is very possible to fight back against a mental illness. I myself have just recently begun to do this very thing. Of course it is with the aid of medicine and therapy.
Comparing a movie about someone fighting AIDS and someone fighting a mental illness is just hogwash. Besides, this movie could inspire many who never realized they have such a problem, or that anyone else has these problems, to talk about it, and/or get some help.
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True! What I picked out of the movie wasn't so much about any details of his life, but what it could be like to be paranoid schizophrenic.
Having a family history of such diseases myself, it was terribly interesting. I especially liked how it was presented, because I was rooting for him the whole time, and when his own wife no longer believed him, I booed at her. Then at the end it was all clear that he really was schizophrenic, and it was shocking! Good movie!
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to each his own.. maybe everyone's not a goddamn alchoholic either eh?
there's nothing wrong with not hanging out with people... most the time i think its a waste of time... only occasionally doesn't anything actually entertaining happen... just my experience.. I'd rather be learning and expanding my mind, and/or having fun, than driving around complaining about how fucking bored I am, and how the town sucks, and do some drugs that eat my brain instead...
but that's just me..
The point would be??
Hey let's go cruise the ocean! Alright!
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Which is what has been prophesized... the ones without the mark of the beast will be the ones who can't buy food, who can't do anything, who will be outcasts among the majority who will implant them...
I'm not a religious freak, but this is just too uncanny.. I might have to go to church this weekend.. or at least get some Bible time in..
(Sorry about the long post. Just had a lot of thoughs going in my head about the subject.)
It's fine.. happens to us all...
Don't we all put controlled substances into our bodies?
Define limited scope? When do we draw the line? When we do draw then line, it's probably too late to stop it anyways so we're fucked.
If it didn't give 'them' any more information than 'they' already had, what the hell is the point?
The issue is that technology always grows in application. Sure right now it will only hold little bits of information. That's while the technology is in it's infancy. In 10 years God only knows what the hell these things will be used for and what they will store.
Uhm... yeah... how long do you think its going to take some kid to realize that he's got a goddamn chip in his fucking right hand when he goes to the airport and the ID scanner pulls up some info on him... and then he's going to be all the more fucking pissed that you never told him, and will hate you for life... besides all his friends will probably know too and you can damn well bet he'll ask you if he's got one too.. lie to him about that one and there goes the trust for life...
I with you 100% on this one... more and more lately I'm wishing that the entire Earth hadn't been mapped, or some big continent was out there not discovered yet.. I would love to just start everything from scratch, and try to do it right for once...
"And Jacobs' wife, Leslie, believes the chip could become a tamper-proof way to identify people in an increasingly insecure world. "
tamper-proof my ass.. if i ever got one of these in my goddamn body you can bet your life that I would be tryin to hack that shit...
"end up"
well if you believe there's not a damn thing anyone can do, i guess we're doomed...
There's more to it than meets the eye. I used to think I was fine when I unchecked all the options too. But alas, Cydoor still installs, along with B3d. Thank god there is a free utility for removing the stupid Cydoor shit with a clone so Kazaa will still run.. or Grokster.. whichever you prefer..
Ahh the power of unlimited advertising...
I would have to disagree. There are a lot of geeks out here with their own brains. They don't seem to follow the leader very well. That's probably the exact kind of thing carnivore is protecting the government from...
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Well opinion is opinion. Religion is based on opinion. Therefore your opinion is as good as the pope's. There is no factual basis, therefore no one has any more clue than anyone else. Amen.
For the love of God.. these people need to stop coming up with lame hair-brained schemes of copy protection so that they can be the Bill Gates of the music industry. Realize this: There will never be a scheme that will be fool proof. They may last more than a day, but don't hold your breath. There are way too many people out here that know what they are doing, and too many people out there that don't.
The industry is just going to have to _ADAPT_ to the changing economy and technology. What a goddamn concept eh?
that would kind of defeat the whole purpose... where's the incentive for people to run the networks then...
Who thought this movie sucked a fat cock? God damn that was just horrid. My $6 would have been better spent on a hammer to bang on my head. It was like 3 hours of the same relentless shit over and over. Run, hide, run, fight, hide, run, run fight, run, hide. God damn.. oooh neat-o special effects.. that must be what I paid $6 to see...
I watched about a whole 2 hours or so of this shit and just said fuck it.. my ass hurts, the bastard in front of me gets up every 10 minutes to go smoke and comes back smelling like asshole, and this movie blows hard cock. So I left.
But hey if you all like it, more power to you. I like a story with a little more to it.
That's retarded. 'certain accepted practices in Warfare'? War is just a game... a really bloody, shitty, stupid game. You can do this to kill people, but not this or that... that makes a whole hell of a lot of sense..
Wrong, pot is not always measured in standard. Only when you're dealing in large quantities. When dealing in 1/4 oz and junk you always weigh it in grams. Even oz's are weighed in grams. Same with coke.
As much as I hate what has been going on with all these companies, I have to admit that I agree with you. People have to have their own brain.. they gotta be suspicious of everyone, and basically look out for their own well-being when things are looking either too good or too bad. If they don't, in the end it is basically they're own fault for trusting someone who was only looking out for THEIR own well-being... catch the drift?
Ok so if/when the RIAA/MPAA win their lawsuits, it will just be shut down. What's so hard to see about that? Just because they can't filter out copyrighted materials isn't going to stop these suits. They want blood.
I agree, but you also have to realize that there are many factors involved... 1. Their parents probably weren't following them around the house 24 hours a day to see what was going on. Who does? 2. It's very normal for kids to be rebellious and put up posters of whatever will draw a big reaction from their parents and whatnot. Watch the dirty movies, the violent movies; do whatever's not allowed... 3. When a kid has a hard day at school, then comes home to some more bitching and fighting and yelling or whatever, it only makes it worse. It can drive a person to the edge if you know what I mean. And it does drive a certain few OVER the edge.. I'm in school, I would know. I've seen it time and time again. It's not like these kids were absolute freaks of nature. I know kids who would pull the same thing in a heartbeat in a fit of rage, if they had access to a certain few things they needed. It's a scary world, but its not the parents who are to blame. My $.02
But it was way too Bohring for me har har :) Just had to say that..
I see this is the beginning of the end. Like so many other posts quoting Ben Franklin, it may be truer than many believe. The second people start to believe this is a good idea, that's when it becomes acceptable for the government to do away with whatever they please. At least in their eyes.
The day of 911, when my teachers began talking about how everything was going to change from here on out, I knew that we were in for trouble. My biggest concern wasn't so much that they were changing laws, and making new ones that take away freedom. No, it was when I was hearing people saying it was okay, that it was for the better...
Can't anyone see that they are blatantly using 9/11 as a cover for doing WHATEVER they want to do. They have called it a war so that they can use whatever powers necessary to do whatever they have the slightest inclination to do.
We can't just sit back and say this is okay. Write your congressmen!!! I don't even put much stock in this action, but if enough of us do, we can pray that somehow it changes things.
Remember this?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world." -- Declaration of Independence
It is very possible to fight back against a mental illness. I myself have just recently begun to do this very thing. Of course it is with the aid of medicine and therapy.
Comparing a movie about someone fighting AIDS and someone fighting a mental illness is just hogwash. Besides, this movie could inspire many who never realized they have such a problem, or that anyone else has these problems, to talk about it, and/or get some help.
True! What I picked out of the movie wasn't so much about any details of his life, but what it could be like to be paranoid schizophrenic.
Having a family history of such diseases myself, it was terribly interesting. I especially liked how it was presented, because I was rooting for him the whole time, and when his own wife no longer believed him, I booed at her. Then at the end it was all clear that he really was schizophrenic, and it was shocking! Good movie!