And theoretically, Japan can't import women to act as prostitutes, but in reality it's fucking everywhere in Japan, and everybody knows it, and the police could care less. The real crime wasn't that he was working on an invalid visa, the crime was that the career made him money and didn't involve sucking cock.
No offense - we've never met, after all, and I haven't even seen your myspace page - but that's really dense. I need to know their license numbers because when I'm away for the weekend I leave my keys in the car, I often let other myspace members it if they need to make a quick drive, to get groceries or whatever.
Good quote, it's funny because it's true. My myspace pages (and I have like 7 or 8 of them) all list my name, address, license number, height, weight, and eye color. I don't understand old people not listing their license on their myspace pages. How are you supposed to know if it's really them?
. English speakers often think accents aren't important but they can completely change a word's meaning.
Yes, I am an English speaker, and throughout the day I often stumble across the recurring idea that accents are of no particular use to determing the meaning of a word. I would go so far as to say that I often think accents just aren't important. I'm glad Slashdot has you around to set things straight.
You need more than "the presence of water" to make for "the next New York City." An environment wildly hostile to human life, and devoid of the myriad of elements necessary for a sustainable friendly eco-system, is not going to support anything more than a couple guys in space suits, for the forseeable future.
I mostly think it's that censorship policies in China are arbitrary and change on a rapid basis. Recently blogspot has been flipping between working freely and needing a proxy, about every week or so. Recently flickr.com has been working fine (as it usually does), but uploading pictures will cause a 5-minute blockout of access to the site. This happens frequently, but usually flickr.com works normally after a few days.
Half a year ago, Wikipedia was entirely uncensored. Then, the Chinese language version was censored. Then, both were. Then, as of a couple weeks ago, China has decided to censor indivisual articles in the Chinese wikipedia (and a very few in the English wikipedia), but not censor the site entirely. Next month/week/year, their policy could be something different entirely.
ANyway, I don't think you can read too much into this.
Shanghai already has a local version - Toodou. I think I am in love with the girl from the video.
As long as the servers are fast and the local lingo is supported, I don't really see why a international company's offering would be any worse than a local's.
I have seen a lot of science programs in my day, and not once have I heard anybody ever say that astronomy or geology was demonstrating evolution. It wouldn't even make any sense. I'm more likely to believe you don't care for the Theory of Evolution for some theological reason, and have to make up straw-man counter-examples, just for the chance to say something bad about it.
Of course if you have any examples or astronomers evoking evolution, you could easily provide a link...
Oh wow, well if Europeans thought Ross Perot was a neo-Nazi, then it must be true! I would fully expect Europeans to have an extremely nuanced appreciation of an short-lived American political phenomenon from 14 years ago.
And maybe you don't know this, but "the greens" are not a single international political organization with a unified policy in every nation. How their politics are percieved in "Europe" (one big homogenous family, it would seem) really has little to do with the American Greens.
The pirate party got about.3% of the vote, why even bring them up? The Beer Drinker's party has managed about 5% of German voters, right?
The grandparent post rails on about how the lack of a third party shows Americans are stupid or something (maybe it's the fluoride in the water), but it should at least be considered that the US political system is arranged so that an emerging party really doesn't have much power, and could even be considered a vote wasted. The third parties that have risen have usually been single-issue protest votes, and their message co-opted by the main political parties.
That isn't true. The main reason people use DSLR's is for the larger, more sensitive sensors. P&S cameras will often have lenses *better* than DSLR's - for instance, Panasonic's FZ50, or Canon's S2, have lenses that yield demonstratably better results than any kit lens, or ultrazoom, and with superior f-stop coverage. Entry-level DSLR's will still manage to wipe the floor with these cameras, simply because the noise is so high.
The digital camera's lens could be the most expensive, impractical lens on the market, and it really wouldn't matter - the major problem with digital cameras is high noise (and/or noise reduction), not soft lenses. Really this is pretty obvious if you've ever used a P&S digital camera.
I think it's about time Godwin's Law gets modified to also include bringing up "1984" in any possible context. It's a book best read as a child, and bringing it up is just a chance to be self-righteous without making any salient point.
China officially contains 55 minorities, pretty much every one which was over-ridden by Han Chinese, generally through the use of military force. China also exerted military control over Vietnam and other areas of Southeast Asia. The Yuan dynasty (kublai khan and all that) was Mongolian, but quickly Sinocized and from Beijing ruled over the largest empire ever, in the history of the world.
The lack of innovation wasn't enforced through religion. Chinese religion doesn't have a pope who can make edicts and call for crusades or fatwas. Among other explanations, I'd believe it to be because of an inefficient government, as well as a lack of foreign trade and the exchange of ideas with other nations, due to a cultural prejudice against anything foreign.
China has a long history of a meritocracy, longer than the West - you've heard of the Imperial Examinations, right? Or perhaps you believe the Indian caste system also exists in China? That would be wacky!
Basically, every single thing in your post was wrong. Seriously, go read a history book before making such ignorant posts.
Wow, if Apple should chance to release a product with great features, price, and usability, it might sell very well - assuming there's a market. I'm glad I have Slashdot to keep my informed on such developments.
I apologize in advance for linking to an Alan Parsons Project album, but currently released LPs often will make a point of having thicker, higher quality LPs than what you'd find on 60s or 70s releases, perhaps bragging on having 180 or 200 grams of vinyl. Really, "abysmal", with little starts on both sides? The only *abysmal* quality vinyl I ever saw was old punk releases, yuck.
Additionally, over the last 15 years, longer albums will be released as double LPs, rather than trying to stretch longer albums into an LP format.
Bad bass? I'm not a huge vinyl fan, but sometimes it's cheaper than the CDs, so when I used to buy albums (instead of just downloading the bittorrents) I would opt for the LP instead. I thought the bass was fine. I'd compare it against the CDs, it sounded approximately the same. I hear what you're saying with bass making the needle jump, but that problem was pretty much fixed around 1965. I can't help but suspect you have no idea what you're talking about.
You're playing word games to claim that the well-known definition of "Golden Age" isn't actually the definition of "Golden Age." A Golden Age is simply a period with an abundance of top-quality work. You can put it in the title of a Slashdot article, and every single person will know what is meant - including you, I'm sure, when you're not busy making up things to be pedantic about.
How the term supposedly originated, or the qualities of the period it is "often ascribed" to, is not the same as an actual definition.
Being famous in Belgium (population: about half that of the city I currently live in) doesn't mean they're genuinely famous. At leat not in the way most people think about fame.
I'm sure Universal will melt away, now that they can't rely on the massive profits from the profit-sharing of Google Ads.
If this proves to be a viable business opportunity, there's no reason Univeral can't change their mind later. At this time, they don't see the profit behind it. It's their videos and their decision, and they have spent a great deal more time and expertise anaylzing the issue than a bunch of Slashdot dittoheads.
Never been to Ramadi, but the idea that Baghdad is open warfare on the streets is a good laugh - as is the idea that nobody's got anything left to lose. How wildy close-minded.
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And theoretically, Japan can't import women to act as prostitutes, but in reality it's fucking everywhere in Japan, and everybody knows it, and the police could care less. The real crime wasn't that he was working on an invalid visa, the crime was that the career made him money and didn't involve sucking cock.
Why do you care?
No offense - we've never met, after all, and I haven't even seen your myspace page - but that's really dense. I need to know their license numbers because when I'm away for the weekend I leave my keys in the car, I often let other myspace members it if they need to make a quick drive, to get groceries or whatever.
Good quote, it's funny because it's true. My myspace pages (and I have like 7 or 8 of them) all list my name, address, license number, height, weight, and eye color. I don't understand old people not listing their license on their myspace pages. How are you supposed to know if it's really them?
Yes, I am an English speaker, and throughout the day I often stumble across the recurring idea that accents are of no particular use to determing the meaning of a word. I would go so far as to say that I often think accents just aren't important. I'm glad Slashdot has you around to set things straight.
No, there's no position being taken about sci-fi v. fantasy (personally I could care less). The midoclorians point really was extremely stupid.
You need more than "the presence of water" to make for "the next New York City." An environment wildly hostile to human life, and devoid of the myriad of elements necessary for a sustainable friendly eco-system, is not going to support anything more than a couple guys in space suits, for the forseeable future.
Half a year ago, Wikipedia was entirely uncensored. Then, the Chinese language version was censored. Then, both were. Then, as of a couple weeks ago, China has decided to censor indivisual articles in the Chinese wikipedia (and a very few in the English wikipedia), but not censor the site entirely. Next month/week/year, their policy could be something different entirely.
ANyway, I don't think you can read too much into this.
As long as the servers are fast and the local lingo is supported, I don't really see why a international company's offering would be any worse than a local's.
Of course if you have any examples or astronomers evoking evolution, you could easily provide a link...
And maybe you don't know this, but "the greens" are not a single international political organization with a unified policy in every nation. How their politics are percieved in "Europe" (one big homogenous family, it would seem) really has little to do with the American Greens.
The pirate party got about .3% of the vote, why even bring them up? The Beer Drinker's party has managed about 5% of German voters, right?
The grandparent post rails on about how the lack of a third party shows Americans are stupid or something (maybe it's the fluoride in the water), but it should at least be considered that the US political system is arranged so that an emerging party really doesn't have much power, and could even be considered a vote wasted. The third parties that have risen have usually been single-issue protest votes, and their message co-opted by the main political parties.
The digital camera's lens could be the most expensive, impractical lens on the market, and it really wouldn't matter - the major problem with digital cameras is high noise (and/or noise reduction), not soft lenses. Really this is pretty obvious if you've ever used a P&S digital camera.
I think it's about time Godwin's Law gets modified to also include bringing up "1984" in any possible context. It's a book best read as a child, and bringing it up is just a chance to be self-righteous without making any salient point.
Does OSHA count? Most people are in favor of consumer protection and civil liability.
Ha, that would have made it *impossible* for them to shoot the kangaroos.
The lack of innovation wasn't enforced through religion. Chinese religion doesn't have a pope who can make edicts and call for crusades or fatwas. Among other explanations, I'd believe it to be because of an inefficient government, as well as a lack of foreign trade and the exchange of ideas with other nations, due to a cultural prejudice against anything foreign.
China has a long history of a meritocracy, longer than the West - you've heard of the Imperial Examinations, right? Or perhaps you believe the Indian caste system also exists in China? That would be wacky!
Basically, every single thing in your post was wrong. Seriously, go read a history book before making such ignorant posts.
Wow, if Apple should chance to release a product with great features, price, and usability, it might sell very well - assuming there's a market. I'm glad I have Slashdot to keep my informed on such developments.
Additionally, over the last 15 years, longer albums will be released as double LPs, rather than trying to stretch longer albums into an LP format.
Bad bass? I'm not a huge vinyl fan, but sometimes it's cheaper than the CDs, so when I used to buy albums (instead of just downloading the bittorrents) I would opt for the LP instead. I thought the bass was fine. I'd compare it against the CDs, it sounded approximately the same. I hear what you're saying with bass making the needle jump, but that problem was pretty much fixed around 1965. I can't help but suspect you have no idea what you're talking about.
Did you not read the part where he said he doesn't play PC games? Most non-gamers don't give a fuck about Geforce 7900s or whatever.
How the term supposedly originated, or the qualities of the period it is "often ascribed" to, is not the same as an actual definition.
Being famous in Belgium (population: about half that of the city I currently live in) doesn't mean they're genuinely famous. At leat not in the way most people think about fame.
And if I could mod your sig...
Nintendo. Seriously. It makes perfect sense, because from reading Slashdot fanboys, these are the three companies that really can do no wrong.
If this proves to be a viable business opportunity, there's no reason Univeral can't change their mind later. At this time, they don't see the profit behind it. It's their videos and their decision, and they have spent a great deal more time and expertise anaylzing the issue than a bunch of Slashdot dittoheads.
No, you're talking about the wrong kind of famous person. I think the grandparent post meant the kind of famous people that most people have heard of.
Never been to Ramadi, but the idea that Baghdad is open warfare on the streets is a good laugh - as is the idea that nobody's got anything left to lose. How wildy close-minded.