it is still a better deal for you if you have socialised health care Amen to that. Now, how can we get the Mammonists to see that publicly funded education has similar benefits for the greater community?
Surely, a country that educates its most talented young people will be more prosperous than one that educates its wealthiest young people?
And yet, here we are with graduates toiling as wage slaves and denied "real" jobs until their late twenties. This is sad when you consider that the greatest minds of our civilisation made their greatest contributions before turning 30.
[Large corporate boardroom filled with suited executives]
Exec #1: Item six on the agenda: "The Meaning of Life" Now uh, Harry, you've had some thoughts on this.
Exec #2: Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren't wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this "soul" does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
Exec #3: What was that about hats again?
Exec #2: Oh, Uh... people aren't wearing enough.
Exec #1: Is this true?
Exec #4: Certainly. Hat sales have increased but not pari passu, as our research...
Exec #3: [Interrupting] "Not wearing enough"? enough for what purpose?
Exec #5: Can I just ask, with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted...
[looking out window]
Exec #5: Has anyone noticed that building there before?
I mean, I submitted this in an entirely different month:
"Tinfoil hat" for your home blocks comms; Wednesday June 27, @01:06PM; Rejected
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You're just going to end up ruining it for everyone else when the government notices the lucrative market for free CDs and applies a whopping 300% tax. if this becomes more common I reckon most govt tax agencies would be happy *cough*lobbyists*cough* to define it as a "gift" in which case the tax is calculated on the value of the cd.
What would make that interesting is people's arguments for any inherent value of these free Prince cds over and above material, manufacturing, freight costs etc.
Hey, look at that its Accountants' New Year's Eve and i'm sounding like one...help~!
Reagan was also one of the most staunch supporters of the Polish Solidarnosë movement, leading to the end of Polish dictatorship. The Poles, today, are talking about a Mount Rushmore-like memorial to those who spearheaded the movement. Reagan is to be enshrined there as well. This had nothing to do with supporting the Polish Trade Union movement and everything to do with blocking Soviet influence in Poland. So please don't paint Reagan up as some altruistic leader. This ploy is exactly the reason that US troops face up against US weaponry and US trained militia in Afghanistan. Great policy!
if there's one thing we have it's space. too right, why else would our little weasel consider burying 300,000 tonnes of radioactive waste around about here?
What about how he left office with a budget deficit larger than the combined total of all of his 39 predecessors, the icy freeze in relations with the Soviet Union, sending military supplies to Iran in blatant contradiction of stated policy, having no clue about what his national security advisers were doing and the human rights abuses in Central America?
But I guess he looks pretty good compared to the current fella.
it was a logical step to bring war to space as sad as that is. Look on the bright side, there's gotta be some great film ideas in these developments.
a war in space... a far far away star... wars... ok it needs some work, maybe some dialog, character development, kooky monsters for the kids. Come and see me in a few years.
Apart from the technology not being ready yet, we are faced with the usual trouble of how to get heavy hardware up there. Laser systems, magnets and giant Hoovers are not generally lightweight items. There's also the issue of whether we want to have nuclear stuff in orbit.
coondoggie writes to tell us, Van Cutter Romney sends us word and TropicalCoder is the reader who submitted the story... kdawson, you are indeed a breath of fresh air!
that is one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard heard=read. I really need to get out more. Perhaps you where reading out aloud? In which case you may indeed need to get out more.
Humans have compassion for beings they have never seen by "things they have never seen" I guess you mean we feel for people who have suffered once we learn about this suffering via the 6 o'clock news? I don't see how "not seeing" makes any difference. Chimps are known to help out strangers for no reward. As for the other points, I'm sure we'll observe animals displaying abstraction and creativity if don't wipe them out first.
I would have just assumed Bob Dylan first heard a CD at about the same time I did sometime in the early 80s, and that he made up his mind back then. good point, and I'm not having a go at you - however, isn't the Dylan quote that GP is referring to in a recent interview in Rolling Stone?
its no surprise that soon we'll have our next generation born partially deaf or with their ears insensitive to certain frequencies...the quality of audio will not matter anymore about 5-10 years down the line. how on earth did this get modded insightful?
1. is hearing damage subsequently encoded into one's genes?
2. do these genetic changes appear in the general population in, not generational spans, but 5-10 years?
The CD's sampling rate is only 44.1kHz 16 bit IIRC my gosh, you mean that when I scan those tab books at 8bit greyscale and 300dpi I am not making a perfect copy!?
"what does Bob Dylan know about what music sounds like" is not the sort of position I would prefer to defend. Allow me. Bob Dylan is 66 years old. Rather than the gp stating in the terms that you use to paraphrase, the intent was that Dylan's perception of sound may have changed. Being a lifelong career musician he would have a higher internal sense of psychoacoustics than the average Joe. Perhaps his power of recall is also advanced. The thing is, his hearing will no doubt have changed quite a deal over the past 40 years. In his mind, he may be recalling the aural sense he experienced from those old recordings, but this can't be stacked against hearing modern recordings on cds with his no doubt degraded hearing. Just a thought.
Uhmmmmmmmmm.... yeah, its a bit ambiguous. im trying to summarise one of the age-old excuses used by MS zealots to explain why Apache is top of the pile in statistics for website hosts. The IIS folk usually say that IIS is installed on more physical servers.
This poll is the first time I've even heard it. Same goes for blook IANA linguist, but, to be lingua franka, i reckon your www dialectica has been pwned
'The Stored Communications Act is very important,' former federal prosecutor and counter-terrorism specialist Andrew McCarthy told United Press International. But the future of the law now hangs in the balance.
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Some observers warned that the ruling might hamper federal counter-terrorism efforts. Oh no, they've amused some Slashdotters. That's about it, honestly, your average American doesn't know who Joe McCarthy was and has no notion of the reign of terror his inquisition brought about. and here I was thinking that was an actual McCarthy quote until the quote came to the PatriotAct. but then, my only knowledge of McCarthy era us politics comes from the Dead Kennedys.
There is no more expectation of privacy in a plaintext email than there is in an open-face postcard. If you want privacy, take steps to encrypt it you could always sign into gmail using ssl - gmail doesn't display your ip when sending, so only google has a co... oh, hang on...
Especially with provisions of Section 508 and the ADA (and foreign counterparts) that ban discrimination against blind people, who use computers through screen readers that render text as speech or braille. some sites are including an audio option.
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Surely, a country that educates its most talented young people will be more prosperous than one that educates its wealthiest young people?
And yet, here we are with graduates toiling as wage slaves and denied "real" jobs until their late twenties. This is sad when you consider that the greatest minds of our civilisation made their greatest contributions before turning 30.
[Large corporate boardroom filled with suited executives]
Exec #1: Item six on the agenda: "The Meaning of Life" Now uh, Harry, you've had some thoughts on this.
Exec #2: Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren't wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this "soul" does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
Exec #3: What was that about hats again?
Exec #2: Oh, Uh... people aren't wearing enough.
Exec #1: Is this true?
Exec #4: Certainly. Hat sales have increased but not pari passu, as our research...
Exec #3: [Interrupting] "Not wearing enough"? enough for what purpose?
Exec #5: Can I just ask, with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted...
[looking out window]
Exec #5: Has anyone noticed that building there before?
"Tinfoil hat" for your home blocks comms; Wednesday June 27, @01:06PM; Rejected
If you want to keep up with news like this (recall that "news" comes from Middle English for "new thing") just drop New Scientist and Scientific American into your RSS reader.
What would make that interesting is people's arguments for any inherent value of these free Prince cds over and above material, manufacturing, freight costs etc.
Hey, look at that its Accountants' New Year's Eve and i'm sounding like one...help~!
But I guess he looks pretty good compared to the current fella.
a war in space
Apart from the technology not being ready yet, we are faced with the usual trouble of how to get heavy hardware up there. Laser systems, magnets and giant Hoovers are not generally lightweight items. There's also the issue of whether we want to have nuclear stuff in orbit.
coondoggie writes to tell us, Van Cutter Romney sends us word and TropicalCoder is the reader who submitted the story ... kdawson, you are indeed a breath of fresh air!
1. is hearing damage subsequently encoded into one's genes?
2. do these genetic changes appear in the general population in, not generational spans, but 5-10 years?
But surely white-crackers* only become crumbly when deep-fried?
* my apols, I only just learned what that means and am referring to it as a way of integrating it in my system memory ... brutherrrrrr - polywanna
Not sure if you call fireworks crackers in the USA, but its the 1st thing I thought when reading the subject.
Japan: whales are the cockroaches of the oceans
IIS marketer: Apache just has more websites running per server
A: at the end of your Armies
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