I'm pro civil war too for pretty much the same reason. Corporations have more rights than Americans, and the politicians won't do anything about it. That is grounds for removal of government.
Movies are a prime example of my theory.
How much money is spent on advertising a movie? What percentage is that of the total cost? How much do the theatres themselves advertise? How much of that is the total cost? In short, how much money is used (I'd love to say wasted) telling me to go see a movie that I already know that I want to see because of the natural free advertising that takes place every day? (Look up movie listings through the movie theatre's website, see articles on CNN / imdb, hear from friends, hear countless plugs on TV [not ads]). All of those communications costs the film crew zero dollars. Those affect me. Then you buy an ad on TV or in a magazine. Trust me, I'll almost never see it. Even if I did, why would I go to a movie that I didn't learn about from a more trusted and objective source? Why would I even by aware of your commercial?
That's just movies. It gets far, far worse than that. Company A buys products from Company B which buys from Company C which buys from Company A. 'A' gets investor pressure (or anything, really) and starts a marketing campaign to get more customers, thus increasing the price to 'B'. Now 'B' needs to market and/or raise prices to break even with the change, costing more to 'C', and now 'C' must do the same, causing 'A' to choke. These 3 companies are now in a little inflation loop which will hurt not only these companies, but every other customer to 'A' 'B' and 'C'. My little theory says that our complete and stupid over-exposure to advertising is now responsible for a significant portion of the change in cost of every product, thus wages, thus inflation. Now of course currently oil is slated to bring the price of every product up by a decent amount too, but I mean aside from that.
In short, not only do I find advertising annoying and insulting, I find it threatening.
I was surprised, I really did like it. It's kind of odd that it is raunchy but also has a feel-good attitude. I thought the humor was going to be too low-ball but it's just about right. Every joke worked on me.
I feel anything I say about what I liked or dislike in the movie won't really help. What would help is this: I don't like dumb & dumber(er) or the ace venturas. I like anchorman (especially brick) and kevin smith movies. I like Jim Carrey's pseudo comedies such as bruce almighty and truman show.
I think that gives a better indication of if your friend will like the movie.
Anyway if any of your friends are ashamed of being older virgins, this should make them feel better. It's not at all preachy. If any of them are actively trying to not be virgins, this'll motivate the hell out of them. Best of luck.
I saw 40 year old virgin with my girly yesterday (wait am I kicked out of slashdot?). Anyway I saw the trailer, however I'm in the greater Boston area (err, Hudson, about 40 minutes west of Boston).
I prefer they outright lie than the fake speak we get from most companies. "No comment" is the most insulting thing anyone can say when faced with inquisitive minds.
Personally, I'd rather a flat out lie where the truth is eventually revealed. Another example:
Age 4: Is santa real? Yes
Age 5: Is santa real? Yes
Age 6: Is santa real? No
versus
Age 4: Is santa real? I cannot confirm or deny the existance of santa.
Age 5: Is santa real? I plead the 5th
Age 6: Is santa real? It is against our policy as parents to talk about that which might affect our child in a harmful way.
I won't defend Russia, China, etc except to say they were premature in their attempt. It's fascism that's the enemy, not communism. A changing government is a ripe condition for corruption, and that's what happened.
On another note, captialism isn't all peaches either. If everyone acted as I do, the economy would collapse in short order. Right now we are relying on those who are greedy. By not being greedy, I know that I run a great risk of being repressed economically then socially, but morally I cannot do it. I certainly don't think myself as better than anyone else, I just made a different choice.
Maybe that's the real solution. Let the people who want to make the transistion do so. Let them set up communities, towns, cities, etc. We'll out number the other folk one day. As long as their greed doesn't turn to corruption, there's hope for humanity yet.
Personally I don't see any reason that socialism and free market should be mutually exclusive. I support the free market economy, and hate every restriction including: making it illegal for government workers to strike, attacking unions, and tariffs. That's right, unions are pivotal to free market economies. Making them illegal regulates the labor market making the venture one-sided towards corporations.
Free market does not require there to be any classes, and socialism doesn't regulate people's lives. What socialism is, is trust and intelligence. There are four situations: Neither of us fight. I fight you, you don't fight me. You fight me, I don't fight you. We fight eachother. Capitalism is the last, socialism is the first. The spoils are far greater when we do not fight eachother at all, however we have fear and distrust of this circumstance, and out of our fear we attack. We have conquered this in the most part in many areas, economics not being one of them. It's easy for two, ten or even a thousand people to realize this simultaneously (this is how we got out of The Jungle) but for millions to is tough. The only threat to it is someone who thinks it won't work and plans accordingly. I just don't know how to fix that. Communism doesn't assume people not to be greedy, it assumes people to not act greedy for the good of themselves and the future. It's not asking much, but many people just aren't good people.
Checking if the IDE cable worked itself loose without moving the computer from its place and leaving it turned on. So I am reaching round the side and blindly feeling around for the cable and I suddenly feel something like an electric shock (which turned out just be accidentally touching the cpu fan blades). I very quickly remove my hand snagging it on one of the many sharp pieces of metal sticking out of old cases. It was quite cool to be able to see my muscles moving around as a huge piece of skin flopped open exposing the tendons in my hands.
I was learning communications in a class with a professor doing a pretty poor job. He mentioned "CTS" without saying what it meant. I have a lappy in front of me to view the lecture slides so I did a quick search. Finally I knew that when a communication needs to occur, a computer sends out a Cattle Tracking System.
"We need to identify unique users on the web. It's fundamental. We need to know how many people visit, what they read, for how long, how often they return, and at what frequency. These are the 'atoms' of our metrics. Without this knowledge we really can't do much."
As a side note - America's disdain for socialism is rooted in the innate distrust of government and a belief in the "American Dream." Americans don't like taxes (ask the English about that)so establishing a broad social net funded by high tax rates is very unlikely.
I'm going to call a bit of good ol' ignorance on this point (not on the poster but on the Americans he refers to). Socialism is classless. Anyone with a government connection would be a higher class than someone without, so either there is no government, or it's ubiquitous (which is the same thing, btw). The issue really is the path that Communist State countries have taken on their way to Communism (attempted anyway: there has never been a communist country). Corrupt politicians were abundant (and still are in the same area despite Democracy) and a lack of an infrastructure couldn't support the movement. The collapse was thus blamed on the system rather than the underlying infrastructure and corruption problems, and this is still hurting us today. Now anything that even appears socialist is frowned upon due to the mis-association.
(/wonders what America will do when it figures out its most socialist institution is insurance)
I have had a few items pop in my head which I thought were "totally awesome" and if successfully employed, worth many many monies.
As for the search engine, how about a little checkbox that says "No Business". What's a business? Someone who sells something (loosely). Anyway it'd take a heck of a lot of work to implement and define, but that's a checkbox I'd have thoroughly molested. I'd also want to make a thesaurus that edits words as you type.
I run windows on one of my computers because of hardware issues. I have two other computers, both run gentoo. At any rate I think your argument is silly. Nice chatting with you.
Oh, and I do keep my system clean. I don't get infections because I make sure I don't. Funny that you jump to that conclusion. No, what I said is that I want to be able to install a patch without playing by someone else's rules. Gee, I hope you don't explode like that when someone says they want ketchup but the place only has mustard.
Err I gotta say no, you're taking a subjective view. In reality it doesn't matter what is causing the frustration, all that matters is the amount. Society tells us what it's ok to die for, but that doesn't really matter. A rose is a rose.
I'll install the next service patch as soon as Microsoft let's me decide which browser to do it with. Where's the network install (aka downloadable) patch?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm pro civil war too for pretty much the same reason. Corporations have more rights than Americans, and the politicians won't do anything about it. That is grounds for removal of government.
Many women are just duped into thinking buying an expensive ring is required and expected. Too much TV and cinema me thinks.
Movies are a prime example of my theory.
How much money is spent on advertising a movie? What percentage is that of the total cost? How much do the theatres themselves advertise? How much of that is the total cost? In short, how much money is used (I'd love to say wasted) telling me to go see a movie that I already know that I want to see because of the natural free advertising that takes place every day? (Look up movie listings through the movie theatre's website, see articles on CNN / imdb, hear from friends, hear countless plugs on TV [not ads]). All of those communications costs the film crew zero dollars. Those affect me. Then you buy an ad on TV or in a magazine. Trust me, I'll almost never see it. Even if I did, why would I go to a movie that I didn't learn about from a more trusted and objective source? Why would I even by aware of your commercial?
That's just movies. It gets far, far worse than that. Company A buys products from Company B which buys from Company C which buys from Company A. 'A' gets investor pressure (or anything, really) and starts a marketing campaign to get more customers, thus increasing the price to 'B'. Now 'B' needs to market and/or raise prices to break even with the change, costing more to 'C', and now 'C' must do the same, causing 'A' to choke. These 3 companies are now in a little inflation loop which will hurt not only these companies, but every other customer to 'A' 'B' and 'C'. My little theory says that our complete and stupid over-exposure to advertising is now responsible for a significant portion of the change in cost of every product, thus wages, thus inflation. Now of course currently oil is slated to bring the price of every product up by a decent amount too, but I mean aside from that.
In short, not only do I find advertising annoying and insulting, I find it threatening.
I was surprised, I really did like it. It's kind of odd that it is raunchy but also has a feel-good attitude. I thought the humor was going to be too low-ball but it's just about right. Every joke worked on me.
I feel anything I say about what I liked or dislike in the movie won't really help. What would help is this: I don't like dumb & dumber(er) or the ace venturas. I like anchorman (especially brick) and kevin smith movies. I like Jim Carrey's pseudo comedies such as bruce almighty and truman show.
I think that gives a better indication of if your friend will like the movie.
Anyway if any of your friends are ashamed of being older virgins, this should make them feel better. It's not at all preachy. If any of them are actively trying to not be virgins, this'll motivate the hell out of them. Best of luck.
I saw 40 year old virgin with my girly yesterday (wait am I kicked out of slashdot?). Anyway I saw the trailer, however I'm in the greater Boston area (err, Hudson, about 40 minutes west of Boston).
I prefer they outright lie than the fake speak we get from most companies. "No comment" is the most insulting thing anyone can say when faced with inquisitive minds.
Personally, I'd rather a flat out lie where the truth is eventually revealed. Another example:
Age 4: Is santa real? Yes
Age 5: Is santa real? Yes
Age 6: Is santa real? No
versus
Age 4: Is santa real? I cannot confirm or deny the existance of santa.
Age 5: Is santa real? I plead the 5th
Age 6: Is santa real? It is against our policy as parents to talk about that which might affect our child in a harmful way.
Except #1 isn't associated with #2 or #3, and if you have a different email address than IM name, #2 and #3 are disjointed too. They can't tell man.
Take #3 and divide it by #4, multiply it by 100 if it's rechargable. That's your new #3.
I agree however I believe at least 50% of our battery life extension will come from developing ways to use less stored energy instead of storing more.
Wow. That's probably the first upwards spiral I've ever heard of.
Now I'd be having flashbacks of acid/base...
I have flashbacks of Ace of Base.
Felt like a million what?
I won't defend Russia, China, etc except to say they were premature in their attempt. It's fascism that's the enemy, not communism. A changing government is a ripe condition for corruption, and that's what happened.
On another note, captialism isn't all peaches either. If everyone acted as I do, the economy would collapse in short order. Right now we are relying on those who are greedy. By not being greedy, I know that I run a great risk of being repressed economically then socially, but morally I cannot do it. I certainly don't think myself as better than anyone else, I just made a different choice.
Maybe that's the real solution. Let the people who want to make the transistion do so. Let them set up communities, towns, cities, etc. We'll out number the other folk one day. As long as their greed doesn't turn to corruption, there's hope for humanity yet.
Personally I don't see any reason that socialism and free market should be mutually exclusive. I support the free market economy, and hate every restriction including: making it illegal for government workers to strike, attacking unions, and tariffs. That's right, unions are pivotal to free market economies. Making them illegal regulates the labor market making the venture one-sided towards corporations.
Free market does not require there to be any classes, and socialism doesn't regulate people's lives. What socialism is, is trust and intelligence.
There are four situations: Neither of us fight. I fight you, you don't fight me. You fight me, I don't fight you. We fight eachother. Capitalism is the last, socialism is the first. The spoils are far greater when we do not fight eachother at all, however we have fear and distrust of this circumstance, and out of our fear we attack. We have conquered this in the most part in many areas, economics not being one of them. It's easy for two, ten or even a thousand people to realize this simultaneously (this is how we got out of The Jungle) but for millions to is tough. The only threat to it is someone who thinks it won't work and plans accordingly. I just don't know how to fix that. Communism doesn't assume people not to be greedy, it assumes people to not act greedy for the good of themselves and the future. It's not asking much, but many people just aren't good people.
Checking if the IDE cable worked itself loose without moving the computer from its place and leaving it turned on. So I am reaching round the side and blindly feeling around for the cable and I suddenly feel something like an electric shock (which turned out just be accidentally touching the cpu fan blades). I very quickly remove my hand snagging it on one of the many sharp pieces of metal sticking out of old cases. It was quite cool to be able to see my muscles moving around as a huge piece of skin flopped open exposing the tendons in my hands.
This should be a college entrance requirement.
I was learning communications in a class with a professor doing a pretty poor job. He mentioned "CTS" without saying what it meant. I have a lappy in front of me to view the lecture slides so I did a quick search. Finally I knew that when a communication needs to occur, a computer sends out a Cattle Tracking System.
"We need to identify unique users on the web. It's fundamental. We need to know how many people visit, what they read, for how long, how often they return, and at what frequency. These are the 'atoms' of our metrics. Without this knowledge we really can't do much."
So... radio doesn't exist?
As a side note - America's disdain for socialism is rooted in the innate distrust of government and a belief in the "American Dream." Americans don't like taxes (ask the English about that)so establishing a broad social net funded by high tax rates is very unlikely.
I'm going to call a bit of good ol' ignorance on this point (not on the poster but on the Americans he refers to). Socialism is classless. Anyone with a government connection would be a higher class than someone without, so either there is no government, or it's ubiquitous (which is the same thing, btw). The issue really is the path that Communist State countries have taken on their way to Communism (attempted anyway: there has never been a communist country). Corrupt politicians were abundant (and still are in the same area despite Democracy) and a lack of an infrastructure couldn't support the movement. The collapse was thus blamed on the system rather than the underlying infrastructure and corruption problems, and this is still hurting us today. Now anything that even appears socialist is frowned upon due to the mis-association.
(/wonders what America will do when it figures out its most socialist institution is insurance)
I have had a few items pop in my head which I thought were "totally awesome" and if successfully employed, worth many many monies.
As for the search engine, how about a little checkbox that says "No Business". What's a business? Someone who sells something (loosely). Anyway it'd take a heck of a lot of work to implement and define, but that's a checkbox I'd have thoroughly molested. I'd also want to make a thesaurus that edits words as you type.
I.. I love lamp.
I run windows on one of my computers because of hardware issues. I have two other computers, both run gentoo. At any rate I think your argument is silly. Nice chatting with you.
Oh, and I do keep my system clean. I don't get infections because I make sure I don't. Funny that you jump to that conclusion. No, what I said is that I want to be able to install a patch without playing by someone else's rules. Gee, I hope you don't explode like that when someone says they want ketchup but the place only has mustard.
Err I gotta say no, you're taking a subjective view. In reality it doesn't matter what is causing the frustration, all that matters is the amount. Society tells us what it's ok to die for, but that doesn't really matter. A rose is a rose.
Just wait until someone kills his/herself in protest of something in a game. We're not far from that. I think that'll settle your argument nicely.
I'll install the next service patch as soon as Microsoft let's me decide which browser to do it with. Where's the network install (aka downloadable) patch?
VB code gives you a boner?