Yes me. From the article, exact quote - copy pasted. Reading and comprehending are apparently different things. Read and comprehend the article, not just the headline.
"-----Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour.-----"
And destroying a tree on public property is still destroying a tree. Destroying a tree is different from taking a few twigs or snapping off a dead branch of a tree. And nobody would have called the police for a few twigs. To cut down a tree in a National Forest you need a permit by the way, those trees are on public property. The point being, and even though you seem to know that trees were and are used to build houses and boats and such, the point being that trees are valuable resources.
Brilliant. Next time you read the article, try to read past the first paragraph. Here is a exact, copy pasted quote from the article.
---"Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour....."
Thank you very much, you RTFA. And get off my lawn.
The article said the 'tree was stripped' - a twenty foot tree stripped bare. The kids said to the police officer 'but officer we only took a few branches that were dead' - If you are that police officer, do you wag your finger and say don't do it again now kids and walk away, or do you see a stripped tree, kids who are lying to you and decide you need to elevate this by taking the kids in and calling their parents? I don't think anybody except sex offenders should have DNA taken but the courts are seeing the DNA thing like fingerprints. That ship has already left the docks. You folks have missed that party a while ago. The police take you in, they are going to identify you. If you're a kid, you'll be identified and run through the database on missing and abused kids. If they find the kids are those missing kids whose mother/father ran off with them and no word left for the anguished custodial parent then the police are heros. If they don't run the check and the kids were missing/abducted and they all find out later after bad things have happened then the police are in a world of hurt for not doing their jobs. Instead we get the third option, the stupid parents who never taught their kids to respect property goes on the tube and whines about how his kids - after stripping a tree bare and were taken to the police station - were upset after getting caught.
Now I'm assuming, after reading the article, that someone didn't call the police because they saw kids pull just one branch down and I'm assuming that the police who said the tree was stripped were not lying. I also don't think that wanting to build something is a mitigating factor when you destroy something else that doesn't belong to you to build that thing.
You might want to read the article before all the 'WTF's' coming out your mouth. And that article that you didn't read said the tree was 'stripped' - not a few branches nipped off so you already have kids lying to the police even though there is a stripped tree. Do you think folks call the police just cause they see some kids pull off a dead branch? What's you going to do with every kid you bring to the police station? Make it easy and relaxing for them? What's the point of that? Take kids to the police station to scare them. And where have you been? Every time someone is taken to the police station they are fingerprinted and DNAed these days. If you are only now getting upset about the DNA thing, well, you missed that boat a while ago. Oh yeah, - get off my lawn kid.
Everyone who thinks it's perfectly okay for "kids (to be) destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it' that isn't on the property of their parents doesn't seem to have a clue about landscaping costs and the cost of trees. I doubt any of the people who think 'kids just want to have fun' have any property at all. Every tree on private property belongs to somebody, every tree on public property belongs to everyone. If the tree was damaged the parents of the kids should be held liable for the cost, if it was damaged badly enough that the tree needed to be replaced that money should have come from the parents who obviously didn't teach their kids to respect the property of others.
The article says "The children didn't realise they were doing anything wrong, they didn't deliberately set out to damage the tree." - That was the quote from their father, who further opines that the value of a tree is worth only a 'ticking off' by the police. Obviously he knows better now although it's hard to sympathetically judge the intelligence of someone who doesn't know that stripping every branch off of a tree would be damaging to that tree. Vandalism isn't 'good harmless fun' - anyone who thinks differently please relate stories of how you watched kids tear up your yards, property and valuable and how it wistfully reminded you of your childhoods.
Show someone fondling a breast and it's an R rating and kids can't see it. Show someone shooting that breast and any little kiddie is welcomed in. Crazy. A game that shows someone having sex with a prostitute then killing that prostitute for points and favors in the game already has my undying emnity and shouldn't even be up for sale since in my opinion it has crossed the line into depravity. I know that company, I haven't bought any of their games nor will I ever buy any of their games and anything that any congress or legislature can do to make it harder for children to get them is fine by me. And the other part of that is that every damn parent shouldn't be waiting for their government to protect and supervise their child. Parents need to get off their butts and know what their kids are up to and take care of all of this themselves.
"Your papers please, Mein Herr" - classic lines from US movies and British movies that let us know we were in the presense of evil Nazi minions. It was used to remind us what we were fighting for, freedom from a dictatorial government where your every move was noted, logged, filed and cross referenced for ties to subversive elements in society. How things have changed.
Dear Coward,
It brings tears to my eyes to read an unattributed, cursing fit of uncalled for outrage from a Anonymous Coward. Just like the old days of the web when anyone with a computer and a connection could and would spit forth their entertaining Jerry Springer type of values and morality. All that venom because I made a mistake in a link? I admit that I tend to not see anything with the "i" from iPod in it and I didn't see that one. I queried 'CD' from Wiki and quickly saw the Phillips attribution and thought I was home. My mistake. That doesn't make me a troll or any other creature that lives under a bridge. At least two posts in this thread give the proper link and the fact that Phillips and not Sony created the CD format is still true. Also, unlike Sony formats, the CD format isn't locked down and is used by one and all. Sorry if that upsets you. But 'low-brow?' , now that's uncalled for. And really, it doesn't make any sense at all. Low brow would have been me putting a goatse link in or perhaps calling someone a "fucking low-brow troll" - now that one would have made me pretty low-brow. But I'd never do that since that would be classless.:-)
Sorry about that, my eyes have come to ignor instances of the "i" when used. All those iPod wannabes. Here's the quote and the correct link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc
"In the early 1970s, using video Laserdisc technology, Philips' researchers started experiments with "audio-only" optical discs, initially with wideband frequency modulation FM and later digitized PCM audio signals. The compact disk was thus developed by Philips from its own 12 inch Philips Laservision disks."
I already knew that Phillips and not Sony developed the CD. In my store of useless information. Additionally, it was not and is not a closed down proprietary format which nullifies your point anyways. I do also remember that Phillips has been none to happy with the locked down and drm'ed music discs sent out and wants those to not carry the 'CD' label on them.
You know, I miss the old days when you go and flame folks and get flamed back. Anyone know of any places like that?:-)
The last Sony products I bought were Walkman Cassette players and a Trinitron TV. Back then those products were values for the money. Now I look at everything from digital camcorders to various music players and see no good value. I see locked in technology that would cost me more to own so I find something else to buy that does give me value and quality for my money. The article mentions Betamax, the memory stick and that stupid mini-disc, all examples of proprietary, expensive and locked down technologies from Sony. If Blu-Ray is the same it'll have the same fate as the other products Sony has tried to pawn off on us. It'll smell like a turd but they'll have pretty girls and advertisements telling us that's flower perfume we're smelling but it'll still be turd. Sony thinks that they have the video game players locked in because of the PS1 and PS2 and they reason that those folks will migrate to whatever nonsense Sony puts down in front of them. This was the reasoning with the mini-disc and the memory stick as well. Sony thought they had the personal music player market locked up. I mean after all, wasn't the walkman the most popular thing on the planet? Folks won't mind if we lock them into our Sony's expensive stuff. Only it didn't work that way, other music players came and other memory options came out and that market once owned by Sony was gone with the wind. The article writer Jonathan V. Last is right, Sony is a prisoner of their own internal logic and keeps making the same fatal mistakes.
Wish I had some mod points for this one. I agree one hundred percent in everything he says. Or as Chevy Chase said once in some movie a long time ago - "Well said, well spoken"
What he said. Now I'll actually buy the thing. I didn't buy the one they have out now since it's not Star Wars as I saw it. It's nice to have cooler explosions and all of that but it's not what I remember. It's not Star Wars and so it never got a penny of my money. About freaking time. Lucas would have been a fine tin horn dictator with his 'my way or the highway' mentality. Fortunately he's not that dictator and only lord over a few movies. It's stupid and arrogant of him to have tried to keep the original from us and it will forever leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Madonna, like U2 can charge whatever they like for their tickets. Who cares really. I wouldn't go to see either of them if you paid me money to do so. The last good U2 CD was Joshua Tree and the last Madonna CD was - well whatever CD she might make sometime in the future that would be worth a damn cause there isn't one yet. Nope, the price of their tickets, of anyones tickets are there because they think the market will bear the price. It doesn't have anything to do with P2P or bittorrent or any of that. Those things bring record sales up and concert attendance up - not the other way around. So if you want to raise ticket prices to what those tickets sell for on Ebay then do so and don't whine and say file sharing made me do it if some folks balk at the price. Man up.
If it takes a village to raise a child then it only takes one village idiot (Berman) to screw that child up. Those rat bastards who took Roddenberry's ideas and totally screwed them up can all die in a fire. They can take their own ideas about how to do characters and stories to make them 'edgier' 'darker' or whatever and write their own characters and their own stories and quit raping the memory of Star Trek. That's assuming they have any talent of their own which I doubt other than to be able to fasten themselves like leeches onto somebody else's ideas and somebody else's science fiction/fantasy universe. Pompous idiots without an ounce of creativity sucking at the teat of dead authors and dead creators and who try to bask in the reflected light of their betters.
So unless Gene Roddenberry rises from the dead and decides to do something with Star Trek (which does not include changing what's already in the can - do you hear me George (die in a fire) Lucas?) then leave it alone. This means you Rick Berman/Paramount. The market will of course decide as it has with most remakes and recycled ideas and put them in the garbage disposal as they should. Personally you idea recycling bastards can take your Starsky and Hutch remake, your Dukes of Hazzard remake, your Star Trek 'remake',your upcoming Dallas remake and any movie starring or featuring Owen Wilson/Johnny Jackass whatever his last name is and shove them up the bodily orifice they came from. I won't buy one movie ticket, one dvd, I won't even watch a preview on Apple or even bittorrent a copy of your festering efforts. And so metaphorically speaking of course, may you all die in fires. (saw that term used on Fark (Duke sucks)and thought it was funny)
Okay, rant over, I feel better now. - Please nobody actually die in a fire.
All this is very good and important as we fill the evolutionary gaps. While it will never be enough to convince the 'god did it' crowd it does make the rest of us feel better seeing the evidence pile up. But my original thought when reading this story was wondering when scientists will be able to determine whether lawyers are more closely related to snakes or to slime molds. I'm crossing my fingers for slime molds. I like snakes.
That's almost as ridiculous as saying that Joseph Goebbels isn't a Nazi either. I mean, he was a propagandist for the Nazi's wasn't he? So how could he be a nazi as well? Well guess what, they don't have to find you strapped with explosives to determine you're one of the bad guys.
A big fat screw you to the game companies for thinking I'm going to spend a single penny to let you screw over my computer with your root kits and Starforce and whatever else bit of crap you have to make me more miserable. You've taught me that I don't need a game that much. I won't be treated like a criminal, I won't be a slave to the install disk or a intrusive copy protection scheme that only annoys me, makes it hard to play and installs spyware, bloatware and anything else I don't want on my computer. No sale ass monkeys.
Oh yeah, I'm there. The marketing people have found yet another way to grab my money by repackaging the stuff I already have. Sort of. More or less. I'll still buy it. And now - for something completely different.
How intellectually lazy is it to say that 'christians are busy killing abortion doctors and burning clinics' when clearly it's a few and not the many. What you have done is a logical fallacy and completely incorrect. Some is not all. Two is not all. You said 'They are too busy killing doctors and burning clinics.' So to you, all Christians are killing doctors and burning clinics. I haven't seen any clinics burned today, doctors killed today or yesterday - or the day before. One fellow I remember, Paul Hill, killed a doctor in Florida. He was sentenced and executed for his crime. You would have to run a counter at the bottom of an article trying to count the number of people killed every day in the name of Allah. So no, it's not the same. It's not equivalent at all. And glib, throw away, illogical statements such as the one you made do not provide moral equivalence to the argument.
Come on now. There's plenty of reason to jump on the present administration but this isn't one of them. Every company, every public figure, every organization with an ounce of good sense takes a bit of care with public relations. They have to do so, otherwise folks, organizations and other countries who mean them harm and no good will own the field. If you are the United States military and you only let the liberal pressdanistas define what is reported and said and discussed about you then you're going to have major public relations problems. In other words, if that next door neighbor of yours who doesn't like you is the only one who speaks about you to anyone and everyone guess what everyone is going to think about you? It would be a good idea for you to be able to speak for yourself about who you are and the military in the United States, run by elected civilians, should be able to do the same thing. The very fact that so many of you automatically run to the 'propaganda' tag instead of the 'public relations' tag goes to show that the effort at public relations is needed.
That movie sounds interesting. More interesting than those Matrix movies sitting on my dvd shelf unwatched. A shame we won't be able to see your reedit, I'm sure there must be some law against improving movies since the folks who originally make them do their best to not improve a movie via remake or sequel.
Yah, I'm sure that the business model the evil business folks would like us to follow is the one where we don't own anything. Microcrap wants to rent Word and Excel to us and try to find a paper manual in anything you buy anymore. Soon they'll be able to turn our software off or our tv's off. Heck, I forgot to take Doom 3 out of one of my disk drives and couldn't figure out why my computer wouldn't let me burn some files on another drive. I don't even want to buy games anymore with rootkits and other things done to my computer in order to allow me to play a game I bought on my computer. All part of the effort to take our stuff and our rights to do with it as we wish. Screw them.
What is that fiery orb in the sky? I'm pretty sure the incidence of skin cancer in geeks is way way below that of the rest of the population. Now if we're talking carpel tunnel syndrome then we're into geek territory. But the sun? Geeks live indoors.
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Yes me. From the article, exact quote - copy pasted. Reading and comprehending are apparently different things. Read and comprehend the article, not just the headline. "-----Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour.-----" And destroying a tree on public property is still destroying a tree. Destroying a tree is different from taking a few twigs or snapping off a dead branch of a tree. And nobody would have called the police for a few twigs. To cut down a tree in a National Forest you need a permit by the way, those trees are on public property. The point being, and even though you seem to know that trees were and are used to build houses and boats and such, the point being that trees are valuable resources.
Brilliant. Next time you read the article, try to read past the first paragraph. Here is a exact, copy pasted quote from the article. ---"Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour....." Thank you very much, you RTFA. And get off my lawn.
The article said the 'tree was stripped' - a twenty foot tree stripped bare. The kids said to the police officer 'but officer we only took a few branches that were dead' - If you are that police officer, do you wag your finger and say don't do it again now kids and walk away, or do you see a stripped tree, kids who are lying to you and decide you need to elevate this by taking the kids in and calling their parents? I don't think anybody except sex offenders should have DNA taken but the courts are seeing the DNA thing like fingerprints. That ship has already left the docks. You folks have missed that party a while ago. The police take you in, they are going to identify you. If you're a kid, you'll be identified and run through the database on missing and abused kids. If they find the kids are those missing kids whose mother/father ran off with them and no word left for the anguished custodial parent then the police are heros. If they don't run the check and the kids were missing/abducted and they all find out later after bad things have happened then the police are in a world of hurt for not doing their jobs. Instead we get the third option, the stupid parents who never taught their kids to respect property goes on the tube and whines about how his kids - after stripping a tree bare and were taken to the police station - were upset after getting caught. Now I'm assuming, after reading the article, that someone didn't call the police because they saw kids pull just one branch down and I'm assuming that the police who said the tree was stripped were not lying. I also don't think that wanting to build something is a mitigating factor when you destroy something else that doesn't belong to you to build that thing.
You might want to read the article before all the 'WTF's' coming out your mouth. And that article that you didn't read said the tree was 'stripped' - not a few branches nipped off so you already have kids lying to the police even though there is a stripped tree. Do you think folks call the police just cause they see some kids pull off a dead branch? What's you going to do with every kid you bring to the police station? Make it easy and relaxing for them? What's the point of that? Take kids to the police station to scare them. And where have you been? Every time someone is taken to the police station they are fingerprinted and DNAed these days. If you are only now getting upset about the DNA thing, well, you missed that boat a while ago. Oh yeah, - get off my lawn kid.
Everyone who thinks it's perfectly okay for "kids (to be) destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it' that isn't on the property of their parents doesn't seem to have a clue about landscaping costs and the cost of trees. I doubt any of the people who think 'kids just want to have fun' have any property at all. Every tree on private property belongs to somebody, every tree on public property belongs to everyone. If the tree was damaged the parents of the kids should be held liable for the cost, if it was damaged badly enough that the tree needed to be replaced that money should have come from the parents who obviously didn't teach their kids to respect the property of others. The article says "The children didn't realise they were doing anything wrong, they didn't deliberately set out to damage the tree." - That was the quote from their father, who further opines that the value of a tree is worth only a 'ticking off' by the police. Obviously he knows better now although it's hard to sympathetically judge the intelligence of someone who doesn't know that stripping every branch off of a tree would be damaging to that tree. Vandalism isn't 'good harmless fun' - anyone who thinks differently please relate stories of how you watched kids tear up your yards, property and valuable and how it wistfully reminded you of your childhoods.
Show someone fondling a breast and it's an R rating and kids can't see it. Show someone shooting that breast and any little kiddie is welcomed in. Crazy. A game that shows someone having sex with a prostitute then killing that prostitute for points and favors in the game already has my undying emnity and shouldn't even be up for sale since in my opinion it has crossed the line into depravity. I know that company, I haven't bought any of their games nor will I ever buy any of their games and anything that any congress or legislature can do to make it harder for children to get them is fine by me. And the other part of that is that every damn parent shouldn't be waiting for their government to protect and supervise their child. Parents need to get off their butts and know what their kids are up to and take care of all of this themselves.
"Your papers please, Mein Herr" - classic lines from US movies and British movies that let us know we were in the presense of evil Nazi minions. It was used to remind us what we were fighting for, freedom from a dictatorial government where your every move was noted, logged, filed and cross referenced for ties to subversive elements in society. How things have changed.
I can't believe that joke hasn't been posted yet.
Dear Coward, It brings tears to my eyes to read an unattributed, cursing fit of uncalled for outrage from a Anonymous Coward. Just like the old days of the web when anyone with a computer and a connection could and would spit forth their entertaining Jerry Springer type of values and morality. All that venom because I made a mistake in a link? I admit that I tend to not see anything with the "i" from iPod in it and I didn't see that one. I queried 'CD' from Wiki and quickly saw the Phillips attribution and thought I was home. My mistake. That doesn't make me a troll or any other creature that lives under a bridge. At least two posts in this thread give the proper link and the fact that Phillips and not Sony created the CD format is still true. Also, unlike Sony formats, the CD format isn't locked down and is used by one and all. Sorry if that upsets you. But 'low-brow?' , now that's uncalled for. And really, it doesn't make any sense at all. Low brow would have been me putting a goatse link in or perhaps calling someone a "fucking low-brow troll" - now that one would have made me pretty low-brow. But I'd never do that since that would be classless. :-)
Sorry about that, my eyes have come to ignor instances of the "i" when used. All those iPod wannabes. Here's the quote and the correct link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc "In the early 1970s, using video Laserdisc technology, Philips' researchers started experiments with "audio-only" optical discs, initially with wideband frequency modulation FM and later digitized PCM audio signals. The compact disk was thus developed by Philips from its own 12 inch Philips Laservision disks." I already knew that Phillips and not Sony developed the CD. In my store of useless information. Additionally, it was not and is not a closed down proprietary format which nullifies your point anyways. I do also remember that Phillips has been none to happy with the locked down and drm'ed music discs sent out and wants those to not carry the 'CD' label on them. You know, I miss the old days when you go and flame folks and get flamed back. Anyone know of any places like that? :-)
The last Sony products I bought were Walkman Cassette players and a Trinitron TV. Back then those products were values for the money. Now I look at everything from digital camcorders to various music players and see no good value. I see locked in technology that would cost me more to own so I find something else to buy that does give me value and quality for my money. The article mentions Betamax, the memory stick and that stupid mini-disc, all examples of proprietary, expensive and locked down technologies from Sony. If Blu-Ray is the same it'll have the same fate as the other products Sony has tried to pawn off on us. It'll smell like a turd but they'll have pretty girls and advertisements telling us that's flower perfume we're smelling but it'll still be turd. Sony thinks that they have the video game players locked in because of the PS1 and PS2 and they reason that those folks will migrate to whatever nonsense Sony puts down in front of them. This was the reasoning with the mini-disc and the memory stick as well. Sony thought they had the personal music player market locked up. I mean after all, wasn't the walkman the most popular thing on the planet? Folks won't mind if we lock them into our Sony's expensive stuff. Only it didn't work that way, other music players came and other memory options came out and that market once owned by Sony was gone with the wind. The article writer Jonathan V. Last is right, Sony is a prisoner of their own internal logic and keeps making the same fatal mistakes.
Ya, Compact Disc - developed by Phillips, not Sony. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i I heard it turned out really well.
Wish I had some mod points for this one. I agree one hundred percent in everything he says. Or as Chevy Chase said once in some movie a long time ago - "Well said, well spoken"
What he said. Now I'll actually buy the thing. I didn't buy the one they have out now since it's not Star Wars as I saw it. It's nice to have cooler explosions and all of that but it's not what I remember. It's not Star Wars and so it never got a penny of my money. About freaking time. Lucas would have been a fine tin horn dictator with his 'my way or the highway' mentality. Fortunately he's not that dictator and only lord over a few movies. It's stupid and arrogant of him to have tried to keep the original from us and it will forever leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Madonna, like U2 can charge whatever they like for their tickets. Who cares really. I wouldn't go to see either of them if you paid me money to do so. The last good U2 CD was Joshua Tree and the last Madonna CD was - well whatever CD she might make sometime in the future that would be worth a damn cause there isn't one yet. Nope, the price of their tickets, of anyones tickets are there because they think the market will bear the price. It doesn't have anything to do with P2P or bittorrent or any of that. Those things bring record sales up and concert attendance up - not the other way around. So if you want to raise ticket prices to what those tickets sell for on Ebay then do so and don't whine and say file sharing made me do it if some folks balk at the price. Man up.
If it takes a village to raise a child then it only takes one village idiot (Berman) to screw that child up. Those rat bastards who took Roddenberry's ideas and totally screwed them up can all die in a fire. They can take their own ideas about how to do characters and stories to make them 'edgier' 'darker' or whatever and write their own characters and their own stories and quit raping the memory of Star Trek. That's assuming they have any talent of their own which I doubt other than to be able to fasten themselves like leeches onto somebody else's ideas and somebody else's science fiction/fantasy universe. Pompous idiots without an ounce of creativity sucking at the teat of dead authors and dead creators and who try to bask in the reflected light of their betters. So unless Gene Roddenberry rises from the dead and decides to do something with Star Trek (which does not include changing what's already in the can - do you hear me George (die in a fire) Lucas?) then leave it alone. This means you Rick Berman/Paramount. The market will of course decide as it has with most remakes and recycled ideas and put them in the garbage disposal as they should. Personally you idea recycling bastards can take your Starsky and Hutch remake, your Dukes of Hazzard remake, your Star Trek 'remake',your upcoming Dallas remake and any movie starring or featuring Owen Wilson/Johnny Jackass whatever his last name is and shove them up the bodily orifice they came from. I won't buy one movie ticket, one dvd, I won't even watch a preview on Apple or even bittorrent a copy of your festering efforts. And so metaphorically speaking of course, may you all die in fires. (saw that term used on Fark (Duke sucks)and thought it was funny) Okay, rant over, I feel better now. - Please nobody actually die in a fire.
All this is very good and important as we fill the evolutionary gaps. While it will never be enough to convince the 'god did it' crowd it does make the rest of us feel better seeing the evidence pile up. But my original thought when reading this story was wondering when scientists will be able to determine whether lawyers are more closely related to snakes or to slime molds. I'm crossing my fingers for slime molds. I like snakes.
That's almost as ridiculous as saying that Joseph Goebbels isn't a Nazi either. I mean, he was a propagandist for the Nazi's wasn't he? So how could he be a nazi as well? Well guess what, they don't have to find you strapped with explosives to determine you're one of the bad guys.
A big fat screw you to the game companies for thinking I'm going to spend a single penny to let you screw over my computer with your root kits and Starforce and whatever else bit of crap you have to make me more miserable. You've taught me that I don't need a game that much. I won't be treated like a criminal, I won't be a slave to the install disk or a intrusive copy protection scheme that only annoys me, makes it hard to play and installs spyware, bloatware and anything else I don't want on my computer. No sale ass monkeys.
Oh yeah, I'm there. The marketing people have found yet another way to grab my money by repackaging the stuff I already have. Sort of. More or less. I'll still buy it. And now - for something completely different.
How intellectually lazy is it to say that 'christians are busy killing abortion doctors and burning clinics' when clearly it's a few and not the many. What you have done is a logical fallacy and completely incorrect. Some is not all. Two is not all. You said 'They are too busy killing doctors and burning clinics.' So to you, all Christians are killing doctors and burning clinics. I haven't seen any clinics burned today, doctors killed today or yesterday - or the day before. One fellow I remember, Paul Hill, killed a doctor in Florida. He was sentenced and executed for his crime. You would have to run a counter at the bottom of an article trying to count the number of people killed every day in the name of Allah. So no, it's not the same. It's not equivalent at all. And glib, throw away, illogical statements such as the one you made do not provide moral equivalence to the argument.
Come on now. There's plenty of reason to jump on the present administration but this isn't one of them. Every company, every public figure, every organization with an ounce of good sense takes a bit of care with public relations. They have to do so, otherwise folks, organizations and other countries who mean them harm and no good will own the field. If you are the United States military and you only let the liberal pressdanistas define what is reported and said and discussed about you then you're going to have major public relations problems. In other words, if that next door neighbor of yours who doesn't like you is the only one who speaks about you to anyone and everyone guess what everyone is going to think about you? It would be a good idea for you to be able to speak for yourself about who you are and the military in the United States, run by elected civilians, should be able to do the same thing. The very fact that so many of you automatically run to the 'propaganda' tag instead of the 'public relations' tag goes to show that the effort at public relations is needed.
That movie sounds interesting. More interesting than those Matrix movies sitting on my dvd shelf unwatched. A shame we won't be able to see your reedit, I'm sure there must be some law against improving movies since the folks who originally make them do their best to not improve a movie via remake or sequel.
Yah, I'm sure that the business model the evil business folks would like us to follow is the one where we don't own anything. Microcrap wants to rent Word and Excel to us and try to find a paper manual in anything you buy anymore. Soon they'll be able to turn our software off or our tv's off. Heck, I forgot to take Doom 3 out of one of my disk drives and couldn't figure out why my computer wouldn't let me burn some files on another drive. I don't even want to buy games anymore with rootkits and other things done to my computer in order to allow me to play a game I bought on my computer. All part of the effort to take our stuff and our rights to do with it as we wish. Screw them.
What is that fiery orb in the sky? I'm pretty sure the incidence of skin cancer in geeks is way way below that of the rest of the population. Now if we're talking carpel tunnel syndrome then we're into geek territory. But the sun? Geeks live indoors.