Hmm, when I was 15 years old I would very much enjoy seeing pure, lustful sex videos - minus animal and gay sex. Perhaps such things should be on public TV, but it shouldn't be illegal for a father to introduce his teenage son to joys of adult life, with content pre-screened first not to gross out this particular teenager or encourage illegal/violent behavior towards women.
Rather than imposing your whiny will on others, go open a competing store
Why? It's a democracy. If I think current business laws do not benefit me, I am free to vote for politicians who will make life easier for small businesses and harder for WalMart. For example, we can simplify the tax code to make WalMart pay the same tax rate as my business would have to without expensive lawyers and offshore tax shelters. Or, we can make companies that want to sell stuff in US (besides raw natural resources like oil for which we don't have much choice yet) follow several essential US labor laws, such as workspace safety, minimum wage, and overtime pay and limits.
Oh well, there probably should be some songs about one's virgin wife being raped by the landlord before marriage as per order of the king (look up origins of the word "fuck" sometime). However, I don't see why I would want to hear about that every day, in every song. Or why such music needs to be sold in the same store as teddy bears. Mind you, I agree adults should have a right to buy it somewhere.
Yet another sign that today's huge companies are not delivering on any front - customer satisfaction, efficient use of resources, maximizing return to shareholders. Instead of the promised capitalist competition and efficiency, we are seeing economy locked down by companies that survive only based on buying and killing promising startups, bribing senators to pass laws that selectively benefit their business (like draconian patent system) and a "rich white boys" club that doesn't welcome any newcomers.
Under no sane market conditions would a company spend billions competing with itself by promoting two incompatible music file formats and device lines. Nobody would inflate device cost by including a WiFi chip if it's not going to be usable effectively. No company threatened by competition would introduce a brown device that squirts. We missed a chance to restore some sanity to software industry by implementing court imposed break up of Microsoft into OS and Application companies. Otherwise we would see some of the spirit of.com innovation today.
For me, CDs with swear lyrics are a specialty market that is adequately served by Internet/mail orders and adult stores. I don't see why a store that also sells toys and teen clothes would want to carry "50 cents" in the next isle. The real problem is that WalMart is a monopoly in many communities and there may not be another CD store for quite some distance. Rather than regulating there offerings, we should split up the company to promote competition. Then customers will have a variety of places to shop, "family-friendly" or not.
Sometimes we don't need a PhD to know some obvious facts in life. All of us, including you, know that bullies in school are total retards. Here is one "some kind of evidence" link for you. Perhaps you care to refute it?
And then make it a point to donate a few hundred/year to your favorite Linux developer, with a personal check in snail mail. This way you control exactly how much you want to give to each cause and also that every cent goes directly to the person writing code, with no administrative overhead. Most probably no taxes also, but lets keep this quiet...
Ouch! Not only NCC-74656 was not designed to last 300 years without any starbase service, but the only occupants alive from the original generation of the crew are going to be a hologram and possibly a vulcan! Let's hope they find that Borg transwarp conduits before the later take care of our carbon liveform infestation.
Apparently American education fails to inform students that Soviet Union was not considered a "third-world" country and that many actual third-world countries have lower rates of violence than US. In any case, I am sure 100K US students raped or severely beaten up in 2004 all just were not well adjusted and had it coming.
How is making blanket claims without backing them without any facts or arguments "fixing" anything? Do you think it's a coincidence that before Google we had all the search engines appearing with different innovative features - yahoo, excite, altavista, Ask Jeeves and now web search is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago?
Sure. But why should it be all of our missions to help Google make money and make us into corporate drones rather than individuals who can, with reasonable effort, start their own business in online advertising? We can easily pass laws that would prevent companies with too big a market share from buying remaining competitors or expanding into new areas.
It is generally believed that neolithic people found that by chewing this stuff if they had gum infections it helped to treat the condition.
Yeah right, and caveman also started drinking wine because it's good for the heart. Russians always pick off birch tar and chew it because it tastes good and gives you something to do. I never heard anything about gum health.
Google is a decent company, but they do evil simply by virtue of dominating the market and being impossible for a newcomer to compete with. To fulfill their corporate slogan they should agree to self-imposed restrictions against things like the Doubleclick deal.
I actually grew up in former Soviet Union. After school you had to work home and try to get past bullies who threatened you with a knife and forced you to give up your pocket money. People would cover someone's head with a coat and then have everyone kick them so that the victim couldn't identify the offenders. Three girls got jealous of another girl dating a popular guy, so they impaled her with ski poles during a physical training class. They hid her body in the snow and it was not found until spring. If you think that a beating is always victim's fault you are a fucking moron.
It's an environment of learning where even circumventing campus computer security should be just regarded as being smarter than most people and considered an acceptable way to impress a girl. The only thing that should be punished is including contents of other people's removable drives in your coursework without giving credit. We don't want to be raising a generation of corporate drones who can never take the initiative to bend the rules and achieve true greatness.
Were you "well-adjusted and popular" with Alcoholics? Drug addicts? Thieves? Gang members? If you were, congratulations - you have a knack for surviving in a violent society. Either that, or you don't mind compromising your morals and using others to gain popularity yourself. Did you grow up in a rich white neighborhood? You didn't experience a typical public school then. But don't expect everyone to live in harmony with a bunch or retarded lowlifes.
So strong that you don't want to ask the candidates about their stance on global warming directly?
Me, I expect the government to ask scientific community to nominate experts in each area - such as Earth climate, economy, sociology - based on peer review process. These scientists will then prepare reports on what is going on in the world, what effects the changes will have on national interests and possible countermeasures for undesirable consequences. I would hate to have a politician declare him/herself an expert in science and implement policy based on his personal opinions.
Also, bullying and violence is absolutely not exclusive to the "slow" and pacifism is not exclusive to the "geniuses". The "protection" argument is stirctly bogus
This is a fine example of political correctness trumpeting obvious truths of life. If you are smart and get angry, you can think of many courses of action - a clever verbal retort, complaining to parents/teachers, a way to get the offender in trouble that doesn't involve hitting or simply congratulating yourself on being superior. You may even understand moral issues such as justice and peace and avoid or limit your retaliation altogether. On the other hand, the retarded can think of only one course of action and that involves using their fists.
Furthermore, smart children are likely to have different interests, dress style and language than the ones with average or low IQ. If you are the only one in the class that likes to tinker with computers and everyone else is only interested in drinking and smoking pot, you will naturally find yourself without friends who could defend you in a fight. Add a natural tendency of human being to harass someone different, and you get whipped even if aggression was not directly correlated to IQ or academic success.
It's hopeless to make talented students go to schools where even the most violent and the most stupid can not be denied admission. Gifted students will be bullied (sometimes literally) to death because of their different personality, tendency not to hang around in peer groups that can not understand them and plain jealousy. Besides, how exactly can a teacher lecture in a single class where some students are having trouble with multiplication tables and others have questions about derivatives?
Ideally, we need a system of student competitions that identifies talent and sponsors the winners for tuition in private, more challenging schools - as much for their protection as for accelerated education. This is unlikely to happen though because of both lack of money and current attitude of political correctness that allows "special needs" students to beat up gifted ones at will. In the meantime parents should step up to the plate, do home schooling the best they can and organize study groups where students can help each other get more information from books and Internet.
We do actually, it just involves non-inertial frames of reference. Roller-coasters do a good job of both generating and counteracting gravity. What we are having a little trouble with is generating impulse in a closed system.
Learning is learning, entertainment is entertainment. Star trek has way more fundamental problems with physics than Speed or Die Hard. People shouldn't get their science from TV.
Come on, why do you need a bed in space? It's not like springs and matresses are needed to relieve pressure on your weightless spine. Just wrap yourself in a blanket and tie corners to a wall to avoid floating away. Save the space for an eleptical machine to keep your muscles from atrophying instead. And leave some empty space on the floor for walking with magnetic boots or assisted with centrifugal force. On the second thought, this will require a module much larger than a truck and seriously spoil your view.
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Hmm, when I was 15 years old I would very much enjoy seeing pure, lustful sex videos - minus animal and gay sex. Perhaps such things should be on public TV, but it shouldn't be illegal for a father to introduce his teenage son to joys of adult life, with content pre-screened first not to gross out this particular teenager or encourage illegal/violent behavior towards women.
That's right, it's worse for a kid to see a breast, than it is to hear the word fuck, than it is to see a violent murder.
Shhh... They will hear you and starve my 2 month old while making her listen to eminem.
Now just to confirm that it's no more harmful for a teenager to see a nude human body or have a glass of red wine with parents at dinner time.
Rather than imposing your whiny will on others, go open a competing store
Why? It's a democracy. If I think current business laws do not benefit me, I am free to vote for politicians who will make life easier for small businesses and harder for WalMart. For example, we can simplify the tax code to make WalMart pay the same tax rate as my business would have to without expensive lawyers and offshore tax shelters. Or, we can make companies that want to sell stuff in US (besides raw natural resources like oil for which we don't have much choice yet) follow several essential US labor laws, such as workspace safety, minimum wage, and overtime pay and limits.
Oh well, there probably should be some songs about one's virgin wife being raped by the landlord before marriage as per order of the king (look up origins of the word "fuck" sometime). However, I don't see why I would want to hear about that every day, in every song. Or why such music needs to be sold in the same store as teddy bears. Mind you, I agree adults should have a right to buy it somewhere.
Yet another sign that today's huge companies are not delivering on any front - customer satisfaction, efficient use of resources, maximizing return to shareholders. Instead of the promised capitalist competition and efficiency, we are seeing economy locked down by companies that survive only based on buying and killing promising startups, bribing senators to pass laws that selectively benefit their business (like draconian patent system) and a "rich white boys" club that doesn't welcome any newcomers.
.com innovation today.
Under no sane market conditions would a company spend billions competing with itself by promoting two incompatible music file formats and device lines. Nobody would inflate device cost by including a WiFi chip if it's not going to be usable effectively. No company threatened by competition would introduce a brown device that squirts. We missed a chance to restore some sanity to software industry by implementing court imposed break up of Microsoft into OS and Application companies. Otherwise we would see some of the spirit of
For me, CDs with swear lyrics are a specialty market that is adequately served by Internet/mail orders and adult stores. I don't see why a store that also sells toys and teen clothes would want to carry "50 cents" in the next isle. The real problem is that WalMart is a monopoly in many communities and there may not be another CD store for quite some distance. Rather than regulating there offerings, we should split up the company to promote competition. Then customers will have a variety of places to shop, "family-friendly" or not.
Also "For getting laid"?
Sometimes we don't need a PhD to know some obvious facts in life. All of us, including you, know that bullies in school are total retards. Here is one "some kind of evidence" link for you. Perhaps you care to refute it?
And then make it a point to donate a few hundred/year to your favorite Linux developer, with a personal check in snail mail. This way you control exactly how much you want to give to each cause and also that every cent goes directly to the person writing code, with no administrative overhead. Most probably no taxes also, but lets keep this quiet...
Ouch! Not only NCC-74656 was not designed to last 300 years without any starbase service, but the only occupants alive from the original generation of the crew are going to be a hologram and possibly a vulcan! Let's hope they find that Borg transwarp conduits before the later take care of our carbon liveform infestation.
Apparently American education fails to inform students that Soviet Union was not considered a "third-world" country and that many actual third-world countries have lower rates of violence than US. In any case, I am sure 100K US students raped or severely beaten up in 2004 all just were not well adjusted and had it coming.
How is making blanket claims without backing them without any facts or arguments "fixing" anything? Do you think it's a coincidence that before Google we had all the search engines appearing with different innovative features - yahoo, excite, altavista, Ask Jeeves and now web search is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago?
Sure. But why should it be all of our missions to help Google make money and make us into corporate drones rather than individuals who can, with reasonable effort, start their own business in online advertising? We can easily pass laws that would prevent companies with too big a market share from buying remaining competitors or expanding into new areas.
It is generally believed that neolithic people found that by chewing this stuff if they had gum infections it helped to treat the condition.
Yeah right, and caveman also started drinking wine because it's good for the heart. Russians always pick off birch tar and chew it because it tastes good and gives you something to do. I never heard anything about gum health.
Google is a decent company, but they do evil simply by virtue of dominating the market and being impossible for a newcomer to compete with. To fulfill their corporate slogan they should agree to self-imposed restrictions against things like the Doubleclick deal.
I actually grew up in former Soviet Union. After school you had to work home and try to get past bullies who threatened you with a knife and forced you to give up your pocket money. People would cover someone's head with a coat and then have everyone kick them so that the victim couldn't identify the offenders. Three girls got jealous of another girl dating a popular guy, so they impaled her with ski poles during a physical training class. They hid her body in the snow and it was not found until spring. If you think that a beating is always victim's fault you are a fucking moron.
It's an environment of learning where even circumventing campus computer security should be just regarded as being smarter than most people and considered an acceptable way to impress a girl. The only thing that should be punished is including contents of other people's removable drives in your coursework without giving credit. We don't want to be raising a generation of corporate drones who can never take the initiative to bend the rules and achieve true greatness.
Were you "well-adjusted and popular" with Alcoholics? Drug addicts? Thieves? Gang members? If you were, congratulations - you have a knack for surviving in a violent society. Either that, or you don't mind compromising your morals and using others to gain popularity yourself. Did you grow up in a rich white neighborhood? You didn't experience a typical public school then. But don't expect everyone to live in harmony with a bunch or retarded lowlifes.
So strong that you don't want to ask the candidates about their stance on global warming directly?
Me, I expect the government to ask scientific community to nominate experts in each area - such as Earth climate, economy, sociology - based on peer review process. These scientists will then prepare reports on what is going on in the world, what effects the changes will have on national interests and possible countermeasures for undesirable consequences. I would hate to have a politician declare him/herself an expert in science and implement policy based on his personal opinions.
Also, bullying and violence is absolutely not exclusive to the "slow" and pacifism is not exclusive to the "geniuses". The "protection" argument is stirctly bogus
This is a fine example of political correctness trumpeting obvious truths of life. If you are smart and get angry, you can think of many courses of action - a clever verbal retort, complaining to parents/teachers, a way to get the offender in trouble that doesn't involve hitting or simply congratulating yourself on being superior. You may even understand moral issues such as justice and peace and avoid or limit your retaliation altogether. On the other hand, the retarded can think of only one course of action and that involves using their fists.
Furthermore, smart children are likely to have different interests, dress style and language than the ones with average or low IQ. If you are the only one in the class that likes to tinker with computers and everyone else is only interested in drinking and smoking pot, you will naturally find yourself without friends who could defend you in a fight. Add a natural tendency of human being to harass someone different, and you get whipped even if aggression was not directly correlated to IQ or academic success.
It's hopeless to make talented students go to schools where even the most violent and the most stupid can not be denied admission. Gifted students will be bullied (sometimes literally) to death because of their different personality, tendency not to hang around in peer groups that can not understand them and plain jealousy. Besides, how exactly can a teacher lecture in a single class where some students are having trouble with multiplication tables and others have questions about derivatives?
Ideally, we need a system of student competitions that identifies talent and sponsors the winners for tuition in private, more challenging schools - as much for their protection as for accelerated education. This is unlikely to happen though because of both lack of money and current attitude of political correctness that allows "special needs" students to beat up gifted ones at will. In the meantime parents should step up to the plate, do home schooling the best they can and organize study groups where students can help each other get more information from books and Internet.
We do actually, it just involves non-inertial frames of reference. Roller-coasters do a good job of both generating and counteracting gravity. What we are having a little trouble with is generating impulse in a closed system.
Learning is learning, entertainment is entertainment. Star trek has way more fundamental problems with physics than Speed or Die Hard. People shouldn't get their science from TV.
Come on, why do you need a bed in space? It's not like springs and matresses are needed to relieve pressure on your weightless spine. Just wrap yourself in a blanket and tie corners to a wall to avoid floating away. Save the space for an eleptical machine to keep your muscles from atrophying instead. And leave some empty space on the floor for walking with magnetic boots or assisted with centrifugal force. On the second thought, this will require a module much larger than a truck and seriously spoil your view.