One day I thought, "What if one day Steven Hawking had the most blinding insightful revelation anyone has ever had, but it was just after all his muscle control was lost?"
So I wrote this. (Disclaimer: No physicists were actually harmed in the writing of this play.)
Are you kidding? Fox will jump on this like an ugly centipede.
Sean Hannity: Some people are saying that Mr. Obama makes obeisance to Mecca every night and kisses a picture of bin Laden. We are not saying that we agree with that, but here is a vivid recreation of what that would look like if it were true.
education - yes AFFORDABLE healthcare - yes housing - capable of taking +40C in the summer and -40C in winter schooling - how is this different to education?
Education: okay, probably when you take into account the whole student body, not just elite academies. Healthcare: surely you jest with me. Housing: your use of communistic units brings your patriotism into question. Schooling: grammar fail disqualification.
You get 1 out of 4. In MLB you would have a chance if you are a middle infielder with stellar defensive skills, in the NHL you would be a failure as a goalie.
So everyone who owns or has seen the Simpson's movie is liable for child porn? Is it me or didn't Bart go skateboarding naked in the movie, including showing his "talent".
If I draw two stick figures in a suggestive manner, is that child porn? How old is a stick figure?
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” ~O2BNTEXAS
Looks like somebody got passed over for editor of the Harvard Law Review.
'not to go to the moon in this decade and not do the other things, not because they are hard, but because not doing so is easy'
Or something like that.
Or maybe "we resist the jingoist impulse to spend money we don't have to go to someplace we have already been, not because it is easy, but because all the frigging redneck flag-waving mouthbreathers are making it hard".
From the Guardian article: "...we had a Salon Premium programme that involved gating off a very small amount of content on the site...."
Yeah, well if I am going out to get groceries, and I have a choice of two stores to go to, and I know that one of them is usually out of milk and eggs, guess what? I am not going to go to that one to get everything else on my list, then go to the other one to get the milk and eggs. I will head straight to the store I know has everything I need.
Probably because, as President Coolidge put it, "The business of America is business." Fair use by individuals on the Internet is not a profitable activity in terms of dollars, even though it is great for society. On the other hand, selling an authorized copy of some work that you have a copyright on is a very profitable activity.
So, yes, in the America we live in (the one controlled by corporations), it is worse to violate a copyright than to abuse the legal system in order to deprive a person of their right to fair use.
All we need is some rampant nationalism and we are up Godwin Creek without a Fuhrer.
Now lets say you have a huge catalog of songs you'd like to defend. You're a big mega corporation so what you do is you hire developers to analyze songs for fingerprints and -- funny how pedantic algorithms get to be -- submit anything over the 'safe harbor' limit to Control Gate C (that being the legal arm which churns out thousands of take down notices).
If I am the CEO of a mega corporation, then I know the value of good will to generate goodwill and I will put some kind of human at Control Gate C who will put a stopper on the mindless sharks in my legal department who would sully my business' positive reputation by suing dancing toddlers.
In the gold rush, the people who made money weren't the prospectors but the people who sold the prospectors shovels.
Why do I write out a $100+ check to Comcast every month, but if boston.com starts to charge $1 a month, I'm going to tell them to get bent? Comcast is just a pipe, but I need the pipe.
What if boston.com was the pipe and the content? Home delivery of the Globe is about $45 a month. What if the Globe started their own ISP, wired or wireless, and undercut Comcast? $25 a month for high-speed internet, and boston.com is the home page for free?
I know everyone likes to assume that Microsoft is being evil here, but wouldn't the more realistic assumption be that they were just being incompetent?
Probably. But since incompetence is the plausible deniability of evil it's sometimes hard to tell.
"incompetence is the plausible deniability of evil"
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but you are just a first-post-waiting bot. Not impressed.
The system first posts non-stop, its creator having to take the role of an automata to repeatedly refresh the page.
The printer I'm getting ready to market kills less kittens.
Fewer. Fewer kittens use less kitty litter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlTAxTvKkY
Liberté, égal........
La connexion réseau a été interrompue.
I believe the movie you're looking for starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
Just because it's been done before doesn't mean it can't be remade with more special effects, a higher budget and worse actors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_at_a_Funeral_(2007_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_at_a_Funeral_(2010_film)
One day I thought, "What if one day Steven Hawking had the most blinding insightful revelation anyone has ever had, but it was just after all his muscle control was lost?"
So I wrote this. (Disclaimer: No physicists were actually harmed in the writing of this play.)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19550880/GUT-The-Grand-Unified-Theory-A-oneact-play-with-seven-blackouts
Are you kidding? Fox will jump on this like an ugly centipede.
Sean Hannity: Some people are saying that Mr. Obama makes obeisance to Mecca every night and kisses a picture of bin Laden. We are not saying that we agree with that, but here is a vivid recreation of what that would look like if it were true.
Old political truism: Every Congressman is a pork-seeking self-centered bought-and-paid-for idiot. Except for my representative. He's okay.
Dr. Dre can suck my dick,
that bitch got no PhD,
I lost count of mine,
I got stupid whack degrees.
What if the enemy has a copy of the Art of War also?
compared to the US?
education - yes
AFFORDABLE healthcare - yes
housing - capable of taking +40C in the summer and -40C in winter
schooling - how is this different to education?
Education: okay, probably when you take into account the whole student body, not just elite academies.
Healthcare: surely you jest with me.
Housing: your use of communistic units brings your patriotism into question.
Schooling: grammar fail disqualification.
You get 1 out of 4. In MLB you would have a chance if you are a middle infielder with stellar defensive skills, in the NHL you would be a failure as a goalie.
During the election, about 95% of African-Americans voted for Barack Hussein Obama due solely to the color of his skin.
And 95% of McCain voters voted for McCain due solely to the color of his neck.
Ford can do whatever it wants to. If you don't like it, buy a Chevy.
So everyone who owns or has seen the Simpson's movie is liable for child porn? Is it me or didn't Bart go skateboarding naked in the movie, including showing his "talent".
If I draw two stick figures in a suggestive manner, is that child porn? How old is a stick figure?
The stick figures are old enough to do this:
http://www.fliptomania.com/shop/product/132.html
I hope that the male stick figure applied the formula:
B4I4Q, RU/18, QT pi?
Very well said!
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
~O2BNTEXAS
Looks like somebody got passed over for editor of the Harvard Law Review.
'not to go to the moon in this decade and not do the other things, not because they are hard, but because not doing so is easy'
Or something like that.
Or maybe "we resist the jingoist impulse to spend money we don't have to go to someplace we have already been, not because it is easy, but because all the frigging redneck flag-waving mouthbreathers are making it hard".
Ironic, given how much commentators liked to compare him to JFK back in the campaign. Kennedy had foresight.
JFK saw the big picture. There was a big problem. He proposed a big solution.
Four decades later, maybe the picture, problem, and solution have changed a tad?
From the Guardian article:
"...we had a Salon Premium programme that involved gating off a very small amount of content on the site...."
Yeah, well if I am going out to get groceries, and I have a choice of two stores to go to, and I know that one of them is usually out of milk and eggs, guess what? I am not going to go to that one to get everything else on my list, then go to the other one to get the milk and eggs. I will head straight to the store I know has everything I need.
Probably because, as President Coolidge put it, "The business of America is business." Fair use by individuals on the Internet is not a profitable activity in terms of dollars, even though it is great for society. On the other hand, selling an authorized copy of some work that you have a copyright on is a very profitable activity.
So, yes, in the America we live in (the one controlled by corporations), it is worse to violate a copyright than to abuse the legal system in order to deprive a person of their right to fair use.
All we need is some rampant nationalism and we are up Godwin Creek without a Fuhrer.
Now lets say you have a huge catalog of songs you'd like to defend. You're a big mega corporation so what you do is you hire developers to analyze songs for fingerprints and -- funny how pedantic algorithms get to be -- submit anything over the 'safe harbor' limit to Control Gate C (that being the legal arm which churns out thousands of take down notices).
If I am the CEO of a mega corporation, then I know the value of good will to generate goodwill and I will put some kind of human at Control Gate C who will put a stopper on the mindless sharks in my legal department who would sully my business' positive reputation by suing dancing toddlers.
And his brother is the guy who makes every moving car which rear ends a parked car go up in the air.
Does he also make those fancy monitors that project what is on the screen out into the room and onto any passing dinosaur?
In the gold rush, the people who made money weren't the prospectors but the people who sold the prospectors shovels.
Why do I write out a $100+ check to Comcast every month, but if boston.com starts to charge $1 a month, I'm going to tell them to get bent? Comcast is just a pipe, but I need the pipe.
What if boston.com was the pipe and the content? Home delivery of the Globe is about $45 a month. What if the Globe started their own ISP, wired or wireless, and undercut Comcast? $25 a month for high-speed internet, and boston.com is the home page for free?
I know everyone likes to assume that Microsoft is being evil here, but wouldn't the more realistic assumption be that they were just being incompetent?
Probably. But since incompetence is the plausible deniability of evil it's sometimes hard to tell.
"incompetence is the plausible deniability of evil"
fish waffle, that is great sig material.
And Berlin, Mass.
"Stop it, you creeps," angry phone call-based.
But yeah, the editors and most of the submitters not knowed the English.
"Stop it you!" creeps angry phone. (call-based)