Many people balk at the stuff that is passed as 'art' by contemporary 'artists'. They can fairly call their 'work' art, because the artists have realized that beauty is subjective, and that by definition, everything and nothing is art depending on who you ask. Therefore an 'artist' has the right to call anything they want 'art'.
A very nice side effect of this definition, in my opinion, is the more subtle point that anyone can also label said 'art' as 'worthless crap' with equal weight and validity.
I am going to register AmishXXXChatboard.xxx right now...
Of course, the whole.xxx domain is a big silly waste of time. The prigs want to control and sanitize the net, and we all know that is never going to happen. The fun will be when people go register.xxx domain names that aren't in any way adult related. You know, 'FuffyBunniesandFuzzyDuckies.xxx', a site composed of nothing but cute pictures of fuzzy ducklings and baby bunnies.
Whoa, how is computer science less rigorous science? If anything, it is probably more rigorous than any other science field short of theoretical mathematics, since it is basically applied mathematics.
If all encryption is being banned, then it should make it trivial to start stealing passwords and bank card numbers from Pakistanis. We don't have an extradition treaty with them do we? Ready, set, crack!
but the new way actually does let you get complex things done faster.
Faster? Because frequently performed actions are at the front of the menu queue? If you want to do frequently performed actions faster, learn the hot key sequence. I will stomp the ass of a ribbon user ten times out of ten, because I know the hot keys. Fast users don't even look at the menu.
If they wanted to really improve things, they would research what hot key sequences were most used, and make those the simplest combos. And yes, the ribbon is ASS.
If there's one thing I've learned from watching 10,000 cop procedurals, it's that if the DA dares charge even en ex-cop with anything, all the other cops will "lose" evidence resulting in a 0% conviction rate, and then he won't get reelected because he'll seem incompetent.
What reality are you living in? Supposing that the cops actually did this, why would any DA not immediately haul the fool who tried to pull this up on evidence tampering charges? The DA chooses to press charges against people he can get convictions against. If cops that are breaking the law aren't getting charged, chances are it is simply because the DA doesn't see a case.
Fascism has historically been very hostile to socialistic/communistic movements. The Nazis were famous for their anti-socialism stance during the economic chaos in 1920s Germany, even going out and brawling in the streets with socialist supporters. While there isn't anything about fascism that requires it to be a 'right wing' point of view, I haven't heard of any groups that are historically left wing Fascists.
Being overly focussed on things you wished you had but cannot offer (personality, looks, money, status, banana's,..)
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The real reason why the Russians want to build this is to funnel troops and supplies through it, so they can RED DAWN our asses. And this time Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze are in no shape to save us...
Can someone explain to me, why the USA is so violent?
Are you being snide? I should kick your ass for that...
As an inhabitant of the USA, I think the biggest problem is the strong individualistic streak that we have. It seems like there are a lot of people who just get caught up in things and don't think of anyone but themselves, and culturally this is being reinforced. They want to be involved in everything, be the center of attention and have the world revolve around them. Short sighted people want immediate gratification and respect, and fuck you if you don't give it to them.
Most people here aren't like this though, just enough to make the rest of the world think we are a bunch of violent, impatient jerks.
So how many small crimes would you have to commit in other areas to reduce the police coverage in your targeted area before you commit the big crime at the real target?
wouldn't it just be easier to hack into the system and see where it is directing officers, and go break the law away from them? Or better yet, feed the computer false info, so it predicts crimes in areas you want the police to be when you are doing your big heist.
I don't know who this Jeffrey fellow is, but if he speaks in the same manner in which he writes, a conversation with him would end in oneself being speckled in phlegm.
For those who didn't read TFA, and in this particular case have a leg up on people who have, it can be summarized:
The west will lose a cyber war, because our metaphysical philosophy isn't a good as 'The East'.
Suppose that real names were required on WikiDickia. How do you verify that people are who they say they are?
Day 1 of wikipedia's new real people only campaign: I roll up and register that I am Stephen Hawking. How are you going to verify that? Unless, I start spouting off that the universe is actually a giant banana, chances are slim that you would even suspect that I am not who I claim to be.
I have no problem with them having a new hero with similar powers, someone who takes up the mantle but it obviously not the original nor ever claims to be such.
Agreed. its annoyingly stupid to rewrite a known character to reflect some passing 'politically correct' fad. More over, has anyone really thought about the 'why'? I thought Marvel got enough preaching about race issues out of its system by printing the unstoppable flow of X-men spinoffs. I get it Marvel, Mutants==Jews==gays==minorities==good people that just deserve a fair shake. Must you drag spider-man into it too?
even the Pope recently said that people need to go outside more
What does the pope know about anything? He is the head of a group of nut jobs that believe that contraceptives are murder. Fuck him, fuck him in his stupid pope hat. He is probably contributing a fair amount to the very problem which we are speaking about by perpetuating his ridiculous religious dogma.
This is why I've always thought that alien-invasion type movies don't really make much sense.
They don't if the goal is to enslave or to take resources. However, it makes a lot of sense if, you want to wipe out potential future sources of competition for said galactic resources...
Make drug test failure (for obvious illicit substances) an automatic expulsion with no recourse.
yeah, that is a FANTASTIC idea. That way the kid who is on drugs has absolutely no chance to finish a normal education and they can get right to work on the only group that will have them: Criminals.
Not so. Medieval armour up to the 14th century had hip belts that supported the weight of the leg armour on the pelvis.
Not a medieval armor expert, but didn't they have even better after the 14th century? I think that was the point of an arming doublet, a jacket or coat that was worn under say, plate maile that had straps and hooks for fastening armor on. I would imagine with such a garment that you could re-adjust where weigh was carried to a great degree.
If I want a movie with deep plot and themes, then you're right. Transformers is a lower quality work. On the other hand, sometimes I want to watch robots blowing each other up. In that case, Transformers is an extremely high quality work.
Implicit in your statement is the idea that you cannot have both. There is no reason why you cannot have movies that have some depth, story, character development, and big fucking explosions. Look at a movie like Aliens. It had close quarters machine gun battles with alien monsters, and got Sigourney Weaver a best actress nomination.
As long as you are willing to settle for the crap that Michael Bay dishes up, you won't get better. Demand more, and Hollywood will give you what you want.
TSA says it will instruct screeners how to make repeated attempts to screen young children without invasive pat-downs. The instructions should reduce the number of pat-downs on children, TSA says.
Introducing the new, and improved TSA...NOW WITH 10% LESS GROPE!
Fly the friendly Skies!
No, the logical end is to give everyone who flies a sedative.
That has also been done before in a movie: The fifth element. Interesting to note the movie depicted other elements of a police state, such as the 'multi pass', and 'police controls'
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Second, THAT'S ART?!
Many people balk at the stuff that is passed as 'art' by contemporary 'artists'. They can fairly call their 'work' art, because the artists have realized that beauty is subjective, and that by definition, everything and nothing is art depending on who you ask. Therefore an 'artist' has the right to call anything they want 'art'.
A very nice side effect of this definition, in my opinion, is the more subtle point that anyone can also label said 'art' as 'worthless crap' with equal weight and validity.
I am going to register AmishXXXChatboard.xxx right now...
.xxx domain is a big silly waste of time. The prigs want to control and sanitize the net, and we all know that is never going to happen. The fun will be when people go register .xxx domain names that aren't in any way adult related. You know, 'FuffyBunniesandFuzzyDuckies.xxx', a site composed of nothing but cute pictures of fuzzy ducklings and baby bunnies.
Of course, the whole
Whoa, how is computer science less rigorous science? If anything, it is probably more rigorous than any other science field short of theoretical mathematics, since it is basically applied mathematics.
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If all encryption is being banned, then it should make it trivial to start stealing passwords and bank card numbers from Pakistanis. We don't have an extradition treaty with them do we? Ready, set, crack!
The greatest trick the catholic church ever pulled was convincing the world that god did exist.
but the new way actually does let you get complex things done faster.
Faster? Because frequently performed actions are at the front of the menu queue? If you want to do frequently performed actions faster, learn the hot key sequence. I will stomp the ass of a ribbon user ten times out of ten, because I know the hot keys. Fast users don't even look at the menu.
If they wanted to really improve things, they would research what hot key sequences were most used, and make those the simplest combos. And yes, the ribbon is ASS.
If there's one thing I've learned from watching 10,000 cop procedurals, it's that if the DA dares charge even en ex-cop with anything, all the other cops will "lose" evidence resulting in a 0% conviction rate, and then he won't get reelected because he'll seem incompetent.
What reality are you living in? Supposing that the cops actually did this, why would any DA not immediately haul the fool who tried to pull this up on evidence tampering charges? The DA chooses to press charges against people he can get convictions against. If cops that are breaking the law aren't getting charged, chances are it is simply because the DA doesn't see a case.
Fascism has historically been very hostile to socialistic/communistic movements. The Nazis were famous for their anti-socialism stance during the economic chaos in 1920s Germany, even going out and brawling in the streets with socialist supporters. While there isn't anything about fascism that requires it to be a 'right wing' point of view, I haven't heard of any groups that are historically left wing Fascists.
Being overly focussed on things you wished you had but cannot offer (personality, looks, money, status, banana's, ..)
SWM 29, owns massive banana farm in upstate new york. Called 'Banana King' by fortune magazine in 2009. Currently building a summer mansion out of frieze dried bananas in baja, California. I have donated several million bananas to various charitable institutions for wayward primates. looking for a girl to share life with. no freaks, plz.
The real reason why the Russians want to build this is to funnel troops and supplies through it, so they can RED DAWN our asses. And this time Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze are in no shape to save us...
Can someone explain to me, why the USA is so violent?
Are you being snide? I should kick your ass for that...
As an inhabitant of the USA, I think the biggest problem is the strong individualistic streak that we have. It seems like there are a lot of people who just get caught up in things and don't think of anyone but themselves, and culturally this is being reinforced. They want to be involved in everything, be the center of attention and have the world revolve around them. Short sighted people want immediate gratification and respect, and fuck you if you don't give it to them.
Most people here aren't like this though, just enough to make the rest of the world think we are a bunch of violent, impatient jerks.
Apparently Ceglia posted on his FB page, 'Lolz, shopping zoidberg's contracts, I am teh 733tz0r!'
So how many small crimes would you have to commit in other areas to reduce the police coverage in your targeted area before you commit the big crime at the real target?
wouldn't it just be easier to hack into the system and see where it is directing officers, and go break the law away from them? Or better yet, feed the computer false info, so it predicts crimes in areas you want the police to be when you are doing your big heist.
I don't know who this Jeffrey fellow is, but if he speaks in the same manner in which he writes, a conversation with him would end in oneself being speckled in phlegm.
For those who didn't read TFA, and in this particular case have a leg up on people who have, it can be summarized:
The west will lose a cyber war, because our metaphysical philosophy isn't a good as 'The East'.
Suppose that real names were required on WikiDickia. How do you verify that people are who they say they are?
Day 1 of wikipedia's new real people only campaign: I roll up and register that I am Stephen Hawking. How are you going to verify that? Unless, I start spouting off that the universe is actually a giant banana, chances are slim that you would even suspect that I am not who I claim to be.
I have no problem with them having a new hero with similar powers, someone who takes up the mantle but it obviously not the original nor ever claims to be such.
Agreed. its annoyingly stupid to rewrite a known character to reflect some passing 'politically correct' fad. More over, has anyone really thought about the 'why'? I thought Marvel got enough preaching about race issues out of its system by printing the unstoppable flow of X-men spinoffs. I get it Marvel, Mutants==Jews==gays==minorities==good people that just deserve a fair shake. Must you drag spider-man into it too?
even the Pope recently said that people need to go outside more
What does the pope know about anything? He is the head of a group of nut jobs that believe that contraceptives are murder. Fuck him, fuck him in his stupid pope hat. He is probably contributing a fair amount to the very problem which we are speaking about by perpetuating his ridiculous religious dogma.
This is why I've always thought that alien-invasion type movies don't really make much sense.
They don't if the goal is to enslave or to take resources. However, it makes a lot of sense if, you want to wipe out potential future sources of competition for said galactic resources...
That'll work about as well as outlawing prostitution has worked for the last several thousand years.
Outlawing prostitution has worked, if your goal was to have a reason to arrest prostitutes....
yes, but when you are finished with the treatment, doctors will tell you, 'You are golden'....
Make drug test failure (for obvious illicit substances) an automatic expulsion with no recourse.
yeah, that is a FANTASTIC idea. That way the kid who is on drugs has absolutely no chance to finish a normal education and they can get right to work on the only group that will have them: Criminals.
Not so. Medieval armour up to the 14th century had hip belts that supported the weight of the leg armour on the pelvis.
Not a medieval armor expert, but didn't they have even better after the 14th century? I think that was the point of an arming doublet, a jacket or coat that was worn under say, plate maile that had straps and hooks for fastening armor on. I would imagine with such a garment that you could re-adjust where weigh was carried to a great degree.
If I want a movie with deep plot and themes, then you're right. Transformers is a lower quality work. On the other hand, sometimes I want to watch robots blowing each other up. In that case, Transformers is an extremely high quality work.
Implicit in your statement is the idea that you cannot have both. There is no reason why you cannot have movies that have some depth, story, character development, and big fucking explosions. Look at a movie like Aliens. It had close quarters machine gun battles with alien monsters, and got Sigourney Weaver a best actress nomination.
As long as you are willing to settle for the crap that Michael Bay dishes up, you won't get better. Demand more, and Hollywood will give you what you want.
TSA says it will instruct screeners how to make repeated attempts to screen young children without invasive pat-downs. The instructions should reduce the number of pat-downs on children, TSA says.
Introducing the new, and improved TSA...NOW WITH 10% LESS GROPE! Fly the friendly Skies!
No, the logical end is to give everyone who flies a sedative.
That has also been done before in a movie: The fifth element. Interesting to note the movie depicted other elements of a police state, such as the 'multi pass', and 'police controls' I AM A MEAT POPCICLE!