If someone in your family has a land line and dies, you can continue using the land line contract and have a phone installed in a new location. You can end your contract at any time and get some percentage of the 70000 yen "deposit" back, but many families opt to keep the contract open and give it to their kids when they finally move out of the house.
starts with Sherlock Holmes ruminating on "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" and winds up explaining why open source is good for businesses even if it isn't always good for software vendors
Does he explain how software companies that go out of business leave their clients in the lurch?
I don't follow. I am the parent that the person who I was replying to was replying to (recursion abounds!).
I did not make any assumption in my original post that "human being" was restricted to "Man". As such, there is no contradiction on this point. "Man" gets rights when he is born. "Human beings" get rights as a result of their existence.
Y2K was a heady time. Money flowed to engineers like sewage to the open sea.
If we can bring back the panic atmosphere, we can relive those days!
Panic! All our computer systems need to be protected against terrorists! Hire me to fix your systems!
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So that's why I've been getting these.ag spams...
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I think there's a problem of terminology here. The lady isn't deserving of anything. If the country was a pond, she'd be the crud that lived on the bottom. But she's our crud and because of that we take pity on her.
We realize that it could be any one of us on the bottom of that pond, but we also need to realize that even the bottommost dreg can raise itself off the floor. The goal of welfare should be to encourage and enable those dregs to lift themselves off the floor with a minimum of assistance. Rawls expounds on this concept of the safety net, but IMO goes a little overboard advocating what amounts to be a neo-Communist state ala Finland or Sweden.
The welfare system is to be judged on how well it lifts people from the bottom and returns them to productivity. When people find themselves unable to escape from the jaws of the system, something is seriously wrong and probably lacking in the system. However, tossing the system wholesale is wrongheaded IMO. A revamping and rethinking of strategies to help welfare recipients rather than simply handing them a check would be far better than tossing the baby out with the bathwater and relying on private charities who are simply not equipped to help at this time.
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The problem with your conjecture is that people *are* drawn to the right by arguments such as yours. Your overstatement and exaggeration of the right's opinions is exactly the kind of thing that "middle America" doesn't want to have any part of. Additionally, the elitism displayed by the anti-right wingers in this thread is palpable and is representative of the typical bombastic liberal commentator. If liberals could learn to temper their rhetoric with humor (Michael Moore isn't a good example because his jokes fall flat when the listener isn't of the same political bent as he), they could gain a much larger base as their ideas regarding social liberty is much closer to the mainstream than the Right's.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words... <Insert goatse here>
Your assumption that Man and Human Being are synonymous is incorrect.
The set of Human Being is a superset of Man in which Fetus, Man, and Human Dead are contained. Each of these groups has its own set of rights to which it is entitled. This is why crack-smoking mothers get their babies taken away from them and why bulldozing of cemeteries is considered taboo.
The right wing has attached the right to healthy gestation to the fetus, so smoking or drinking is considered 'child' abuse and abortion is considered murder.
Give a man a fish and he'll club you over the head with it until you turn over your wallet?
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First off, congrats on being the first person in the history of this website to use the term 'looser' correctly. Could this mark a turning point in Slashdot's history?
Second, I think the fact that people gravitate towards the right wing and Republican media is that the typical liberal simply doesn't understand how to talk to 'the common man'. Telling the average person that they are bad for believing certain things, bad for saying certain things, bad for belonging to the wrong race, bad for being of the wrong gender, bad for simply existing and using up precious global resources while others are starving across the globe, and bad for having values that may result in the automatic judging of others doesn't endear anyone to the leftist cause.
The Republican/Right Wing press is much more liberal in the Millian sense. (One must not look to the far Right Wing where the Neo Nazis reside, just as one must not look to the far Left Wing where Communists make their home, because these are simply aberrations of the mainstream Left and Right wings.) The Right Wing's ideology as espoused by the Right Wing media is that every man is an island and his place in society should be decided upon his skills and his contributions to society. No one is owed anything beyond the rights bestowed at birth and attempts to provide one with something necessarily entails taking something from another.
This egalitarianism is exactly the kind of thing that most Americans believe in the core of their being. They look at racial preferences as being completely contrary to the concept of racial equality. They look at abortion as the murder of an innocent human being. They look upon lenient judges as shirkers of responsibility. And they look at those who would take from them to give to others as thieves.
The right wing plays to these people and the message resonates, not because the right wing is crafty in forming their message but because the people who believe this ARE the right wing.
I'm reading Posner now. A very chilling passage lies on page 160 where Posner analyzes the British and German government's treatment of suspected enemy sympathizers and 'enemies within' during WWII. The book was reprinted in 2000, quite a ways before 9/11, so the parallels that can be made are quite disturbing.
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If someone in your family has a land line and dies, you can continue using the land line contract and have a phone installed in a new location. You can end your contract at any time and get some percentage of the 70000 yen "deposit" back, but many families opt to keep the contract open and give it to their kids when they finally move out of the house.
starts with Sherlock Holmes ruminating on "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" and winds up explaining why open source is good for businesses even if it isn't always good for software vendors
Does he explain how software companies that go out of business leave their clients in the lurch?
You only get the source if you get the binaries. You don't get the binaries from Lindows unless you pay them.
Nothing to see here.
Can they really do better than Dell, Gateway, or any other dedicated system builder who has attempted to provide Linux systems and given up?
Wouldn't the DIY'er who is attracted to Linux more likely download Debian or buy RedHat or SuSE? What's the benefit?
I guess we're just warming up for another "Desktop Linux is Dead" article 3 months from now when Fry's gives up on this silly venture.
As my first and dearest fan, I have to tell you that I am hopped up on speed at the moment and have taken to writing lengthy treatises on the reasons for conservative radio's beating liberal radio senseless and the state of the welfare system in the U.S.
Oh yeah, FP muthafuckas!
Frommers
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Careful, their server's not going to be able to handle all the coming users.
I don't follow. I am the parent that the person who I was replying to was replying to (recursion abounds!).
I did not make any assumption in my original post that "human being" was restricted to "Man". As such, there is no contradiction on this point. "Man" gets rights when he is born. "Human beings" get rights as a result of their existence.
Y2K was a heady time. Money flowed to engineers like sewage to the open sea.
If we can bring back the panic atmosphere, we can relive those days!
Panic! All our computer systems need to be protected against terrorists! Hire me to fix your systems!
So that's why I've been getting these .ag spams...
I think there's a problem of terminology here. The lady isn't deserving of anything. If the country was a pond, she'd be the crud that lived on the bottom. But she's our crud and because of that we take pity on her.
We realize that it could be any one of us on the bottom of that pond, but we also need to realize that even the bottommost dreg can raise itself off the floor. The goal of welfare should be to encourage and enable those dregs to lift themselves off the floor with a minimum of assistance. Rawls expounds on this concept of the safety net, but IMO goes a little overboard advocating what amounts to be a neo-Communist state ala Finland or Sweden.
The welfare system is to be judged on how well it lifts people from the bottom and returns them to productivity. When people find themselves unable to escape from the jaws of the system, something is seriously wrong and probably lacking in the system. However, tossing the system wholesale is wrongheaded IMO. A revamping and rethinking of strategies to help welfare recipients rather than simply handing them a check would be far better than tossing the baby out with the bathwater and relying on private charities who are simply not equipped to help at this time.
Hacking, partying, and cuties
Choose two.
The problem with your conjecture is that people *are* drawn to the right by arguments such as yours. Your overstatement and exaggeration of the right's opinions is exactly the kind of thing that "middle America" doesn't want to have any part of. Additionally, the elitism displayed by the anti-right wingers in this thread is palpable and is representative of the typical bombastic liberal commentator. If liberals could learn to temper their rhetoric with humor (Michael Moore isn't a good example because his jokes fall flat when the listener isn't of the same political bent as he), they could gain a much larger base as their ideas regarding social liberty is much closer to the mainstream than the Right's.
If a picture is worth a thousand words... <Insert goatse here>
Shouldn't that be h2k3, then? Yeesh, geeks and their 0-based indices.
Alcohol?
Is EVERYONE going to this thing going to be under 21?
Your assumption that Man and Human Being are synonymous is incorrect.
The set of Human Being is a superset of Man in which Fetus, Man, and Human Dead are contained. Each of these groups has its own set of rights to which it is entitled. This is why crack-smoking mothers get their babies taken away from them and why bulldozing of cemeteries is considered taboo.
The right wing has attached the right to healthy gestation to the fetus, so smoking or drinking is considered 'child' abuse and abortion is considered murder.
Give a man a fish and he'll club you over the head with it until you turn over your wallet?
First off, congrats on being the first person in the history of this website to use the term 'looser' correctly. Could this mark a turning point in Slashdot's history?
Second, I think the fact that people gravitate towards the right wing and Republican media is that the typical liberal simply doesn't understand how to talk to 'the common man'. Telling the average person that they are bad for believing certain things, bad for saying certain things, bad for belonging to the wrong race, bad for being of the wrong gender, bad for simply existing and using up precious global resources while others are starving across the globe, and bad for having values that may result in the automatic judging of others doesn't endear anyone to the leftist cause.
The Republican/Right Wing press is much more liberal in the Millian sense. (One must not look to the far Right Wing where the Neo Nazis reside, just as one must not look to the far Left Wing where Communists make their home, because these are simply aberrations of the mainstream Left and Right wings.) The Right Wing's ideology as espoused by the Right Wing media is that every man is an island and his place in society should be decided upon his skills and his contributions to society. No one is owed anything beyond the rights bestowed at birth and attempts to provide one with something necessarily entails taking something from another.
This egalitarianism is exactly the kind of thing that most Americans believe in the core of their being. They look at racial preferences as being completely contrary to the concept of racial equality. They look at abortion as the murder of an innocent human being. They look upon lenient judges as shirkers of responsibility. And they look at those who would take from them to give to others as thieves.
The right wing plays to these people and the message resonates, not because the right wing is crafty in forming their message but because the people who believe this ARE the right wing.
Mirror here
Give a man a fish and he'll expect cradle to grave fish welfare.
Teach a man to fish and he'll complain that you aren't providing lifetime fishing employment.
What are the limitations of flash RAM? At some point will we be able to rid ourselves of all these moving parts?
That's simply a continuance of policy. Nothing new to see here.
Move along. Move along.
The empirical data is inconclusive.
I'm reading Posner now. A very chilling passage lies on page 160 where Posner analyzes the British and German government's treatment of suspected enemy sympathizers and 'enemies within' during WWII. The book was reprinted in 2000, quite a ways before 9/11, so the parallels that can be made are quite disturbing.
It was officially abolished when the Japanese-American Citizens were put into camps during WWII.