Even though I wasn't around in the 50's, the world that my parents describe growing up in was a much safer place. There were criminals, but society didn't just give them a slap on the wrist when they were found.
Ah, the good old days. When were they, anyway? I forget those halcyon days when we didn't put up with no criminals, but put them straight into the pokey.
"I followed Jae and No-man through the silent corridors of the Penitentiary. The cells were all empty and the doors stood open. The autocams pivoted to aim at us as we passed by. Their plasma dart canisters, which I assumed were empty, hung menacingly from them. I knew what those things could do: they were designed for mob suppression, on the really, really good theory that a quick way to command the attention and respect of a band of Penitentiary inmates driven to insane rage by the monotony of four gray walls and constant subliminal suggestions of happy conformity would be to boil off the unlucky ones in the front row, leaving the rest of the group retching on the nauseating vapors. The plasma dart was a favorite weaseler toy. One had only to be careful not to use it on a weasel, for those fumes would corrode your lungs and your chest would cave in and you would have to be disposed of as toxic waste."
The subscription cost (often barely) covered the printing and distribution costs. The Internet is the printer and distributor now, so this is essentially free. That is to say, we don't pay the paper any longer, we pay the ISP.
I don't pay for the news, I pay for the pipe the news comes down. In 1980, the paper owned the pipe (print plant, trucks, newsboxes) and I would pay $0.50 a day or so for the paper. In 2010, Comcast owns the pipe and I read the paper online for free (free in the sense that the paper gets no money directly from me for it). If today the paper tried to charge me even 1980s prices for online access (say $10/month or so), I would tell them to stick it and read the news somewhere else.
The paper lost control of the pipe, and therefore lost control of the revenue stream. So why didn't some paper buy or become an ISP in between 1980 and 2010?
I'm not saying the system is perfect, but just because a piece of property was created in someone's mind doesn't have to mean that the property suddenly belongs to the planet after an arbitrary time period.
If I owned the copyright to Homer, the Greek, Roman, and Norse tales, and Shakespeare, then I could prevent any new work of narrative from ever being created and sold.
Question: why is there not a kindle version of your book on Amazon ? I'd like to buy it but I do not want the paper edition. Is there any way I can get a (paid) electronic version ? Thanks.
I haven't figured out Amazon's Kindle requirements ye. In the meantime, email sascoggin@gmail.com with your reply address of choice and I'll see if the publisher will spring for a complimentary pdf.
When the girl wrote that she was an aspiring actress/singer who wanted his work but could not afford it, I thought he should have sent her a copy gratis, not snarked that if she wanted to see a Broadway show it is $140 or you don't get in.
The link in my sig goes to a book for sale on Amazon. $20. If someone emails me and says they like the book but can't afford it, I will send them a pdf, no charge.
At least until I am as famous as this guy who I never heard of before.
Instead of allowing them to constantly add new programs and new spending, how about electing some folks on the platform to reduce spending until you have a balanced budget (which means you won't need any new taxes), and then reduce spending, which means you'll need less taxes.
Make some noise. At the state level, you might even get something done.
One of the biggest problems our government has is an inability to revisit past decisions; bad law, bad spending, obsolete law, obsolete spending. All they ever do is add; that's a key reason why taxes go up, freedoms narrow, and law-books only get heavier.
Why is this modded insightful? This is just a regurgitation of the tired old point of view that the government came from some mysterious place that the commentor is in no way responsible for.
We don't allow "them" to do anything. We vote for "them", over and over. The commentor wants "them" to spend less money on wasteful (meaning not of use to the commentor) programs and stop making "bad" (meaning not in line with the commentor's opinions) decisions.
Taxes go up because the voters want more spending. Simple as that. When the elderly mail back Social Security checks en masse, when Raytheon refunds contract money they couldn't spend, when the sugar industry tells Congress to let Caribbean sugar in without a tariff - basically, when unicorn pigs fly out of your deceased grandmothers ass - that is when your idealistic solutions will be implemented.
Next, it is not natural for a woman to have a monthly period. That's a side effect of birth control. Go all natural, and you probably get a couple periods every couple years.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that this lack of basic knowledge of the human female reproductive system is strongly correlated with the fact that you have a 5-digit user ID.
Hello? Slashdot? There are loud whooshing noises in my thread.
You can try to twist it all you want, but Sodomy has that name for a reason.
PS I've "read Leviticus in its entirety" several times.
Blasphemy also has that name for a reason.
Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
When you are fishing, sometimes the line gets snagged on a underground log or weeds. You can struggle for a while trying to get it free, but at some point to get on with fishing you have to cut the line and attach a new hook complete with new bait. Or sometimes your bait just isn't working for the conditions for what ever reason, to switch to new bait, you'd have to cut off the old bait. So basically it means one will be trying over again with a new approach by admitting a previous mistake.
I always thought the metaphor of cutting bait was slicing up other fish to use as bait, so cutting bait was preparing to fish as opposed to actually fishing. In that sense, fish or cut bait is a polite equivalent to shit or get off the pot.
The answer is greed, pure and simple. Whether people actually hear the music is irrelevant, the point is that a copy is made in the most extreme technical sense, and the greedy folks from ASCAP 'n pals want to charge everyone for that.
It gets worse. I bet very time a music file is transmitted over the internet, the electrons in the packet don't go straight through the routers. They get copied from one side to the other, therefore, digital copies are created. Pay up!!!!!
I once read a Science story about humans that hopped on a giant ship and accelerated to llghtspeed to visit a star with an earthlike planet. The humans inboard only aged two years, but 150 years passed-away back home..... whole countries rose and fell during that timespan. Totally impractical way to explore.
I have never heard of such a thing. Do you have a link?
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On impeachment: Why is that "crazy"? Impeachment is merely calling a formal inquiry.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disingenuous
Just get rotten.com to run a banner ad for these positions. Anyone who has ever been to that site is inured to anything anyone could post to MySpace.
Even though I wasn't around in the 50's, the world that my parents describe growing up in was a much safer place. There were criminals, but society didn't just give them a slap on the wrist when they were found.
Ah, the good old days. When were they, anyway? I forget those halcyon days when we didn't put up with no criminals, but put them straight into the pokey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-clean.svg
Reading about this weapon always reminds me of the one in E. M. Unfred's prison on the Moon:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13783502/Weaseljumper-Part-III
"I followed Jae and No-man through the silent corridors of the Penitentiary. The cells were all empty and the doors stood open. The autocams pivoted to aim at us as we passed by. Their plasma dart canisters, which I assumed were empty, hung menacingly from them. I knew what those things could do: they were designed for mob suppression, on the really, really good theory that a quick way to command the attention and respect of a band of Penitentiary inmates driven to insane rage by the monotony of four gray walls and constant subliminal suggestions of happy conformity would be to boil off the unlucky ones in the front row, leaving the rest of the group retching on the nauseating vapors. The plasma dart was a favorite weaseler toy. One had only to be careful not to use it on a weasel, for those fumes would corrode your lungs and your chest would cave in and you would have to be disposed of as toxic waste."
The news has always been free.
The subscription cost (often barely) covered the printing and distribution costs. The Internet is the printer and distributor now, so this is essentially free. That is to say, we don't pay the paper any longer, we pay the ISP.
I don't pay for the news, I pay for the pipe the news comes down. In 1980, the paper owned the pipe (print plant, trucks, newsboxes) and I would pay $0.50 a day or so for the paper. In 2010, Comcast owns the pipe and I read the paper online for free (free in the sense that the paper gets no money directly from me for it). If today the paper tried to charge me even 1980s prices for online access (say $10/month or so), I would tell them to stick it and read the news somewhere else.
The paper lost control of the pipe, and therefore lost control of the revenue stream. So why didn't some paper buy or become an ISP in between 1980 and 2010?
This would be more effective if Chinese people had real names.
I AP'd Latin.
Streisand effect.. I never heard of the review until they made such a stink trying to keep me from hearing about the review.
Really? It was on the front page of Google News and a lead story on at least two radio stations here the other day.
I would think that any Chinese citizen who knew their country's recent history would keep the fact that they had a high IQ to themselves.
I'm not saying the system is perfect, but just because a piece of property was created in someone's mind doesn't have to mean that the property suddenly belongs to the planet after an arbitrary time period.
If I owned the copyright to Homer, the Greek, Roman, and Norse tales, and Shakespeare, then I could prevent any new work of narrative from ever being created and sold.
http://ageofsail.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/the-lesser-of-two-weevils/
Question: why is there not a kindle version of your book on Amazon ? I'd like to buy it but I do not want the paper edition. Is there any way I can get a (paid) electronic version ? Thanks.
I haven't figured out Amazon's Kindle requirements ye. In the meantime, email sascoggin@gmail.com with your reply address of choice and I'll see if the publisher will spring for a complimentary pdf.
And the first a is pronounced as the first a in "atta boy", not as the o in "odd".
And the Tourette's Party chairman's point is duly noted.
When the girl wrote that she was an aspiring actress/singer who wanted his work but could not afford it, I thought he should have sent her a copy gratis, not snarked that if she wanted to see a Broadway show it is $140 or you don't get in.
The link in my sig goes to a book for sale on Amazon. $20. If someone emails me and says they like the book but can't afford it, I will send them a pdf, no charge.
At least until I am as famous as this guy who I never heard of before.
Instead of allowing them to constantly add new programs and new spending, how about electing some folks on the platform to reduce spending until you have a balanced budget (which means you won't need any new taxes), and then reduce spending, which means you'll need less taxes.
Make some noise. At the state level, you might even get something done.
One of the biggest problems our government has is an inability to revisit past decisions; bad law, bad spending, obsolete law, obsolete spending. All they ever do is add; that's a key reason why taxes go up, freedoms narrow, and law-books only get heavier.
Why is this modded insightful? This is just a regurgitation of the tired old point of view that the government came from some mysterious place that the commentor is in no way responsible for.
We don't allow "them" to do anything. We vote for "them", over and over. The commentor wants "them" to spend less money on wasteful (meaning not of use to the commentor) programs and stop making "bad" (meaning not in line with the commentor's opinions) decisions.
Taxes go up because the voters want more spending. Simple as that. When the elderly mail back Social Security checks en masse, when Raytheon refunds contract money they couldn't spend, when the sugar industry tells Congress to let Caribbean sugar in without a tariff - basically, when unicorn pigs fly out of your deceased grandmothers ass - that is when your idealistic solutions will be implemented.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/bristol/10332975.stm
Basically some bones from a German cathedral could be places as having lived in England due to isotopes in the teeth.
This helped confirm the bones were of a 10th century English princess.
It was that, and the label on the box which read "10th Century English Princess".
Next, it is not natural for a woman to have a monthly period. That's a side effect of birth control. Go all natural, and you probably get a couple periods every couple years.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that this lack of basic knowledge of the human female reproductive system is strongly correlated with the fact that you have a 5-digit user ID.
Hello? Slashdot? There are loud whooshing noises in my thread.
You can try to twist it all you want, but Sodomy has that name for a reason.
PS I've "read Leviticus in its entirety" several times.
Blasphemy also has that name for a reason.
Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
When you are fishing, sometimes the line gets snagged on a underground log or weeds. You can struggle for a while trying to get it free, but at some point to get on with fishing you have to cut the line and attach a new hook complete with new bait. Or sometimes your bait just isn't working for the conditions for what ever reason, to switch to new bait, you'd have to cut off the old bait. So basically it means one will be trying over again with a new approach by admitting a previous mistake.
I always thought the metaphor of cutting bait was slicing up other fish to use as bait, so cutting bait was preparing to fish as opposed to actually fishing. In that sense, fish or cut bait is a polite equivalent to shit or get off the pot.
Fark Creator Anoints Self Emperor, Declares Martial Law
28th Amendment: That Duke sucks shall not be denied or abridged.
The answer is greed, pure and simple. Whether people actually hear the music is irrelevant, the point is that a copy is made in the most extreme technical sense, and the greedy folks from ASCAP 'n pals want to charge everyone for that.
It gets worse. I bet very time a music file is transmitted over the internet, the electrons in the packet don't go straight through the routers. They get copied from one side to the other, therefore, digital copies are created. Pay up!!!!!
I once read a Science story about humans that hopped on a giant ship and accelerated to llghtspeed to visit a star with an earthlike planet. The humans inboard only aged two years, but 150 years passed-away back home..... whole countries rose and fell during that timespan. Totally impractical way to explore.
I have never heard of such a thing. Do you have a link?
I need to download a German accented voice so when my computer says, "Your papers, please." it will sound authentic.
The Canadians wondered why everyone didn't just grab a bowl of poutine in between periods.
The Mexicans were busy mowing my lawn.