Umm... How's about the fact that it's not the governments job to tell stores what they can and can't sell. It's censorship. Who are they to decide what is and what isn't decent?
I remember when Wal-mart was only selling censored copies of half-life with the gree blood. People yelled and screamed about how evil walmart was censoring games. Nevermind that walmart is a private company and if you don't like it you can simple shop somewhere else. The government wants to do basicly the same thing, you idoits applaud them.
If you don't want you're 9 year old kid to walk into a store and buy GTA: 1. Don't give him a ride to the store 2. Don't let him have enough money purchase it. 3. keep an eye on what they are doing on the computer.
You don't need the government fining stores and sending people to jail because Timmy was able to pull one over on the 16 year old cashier. This isn't good for anything or anyone.
Kids under 18 still smoke. Kids under 21 still drink. Kids under 17 still see R rated movies. Kids will still play "indecent" video games.
I dought anyone will have any chance of taking any girl to this kind of concert. It's going to be packed full of fat, sweaty nerds. It'll be worse than the opening night of Star Wars Episode 1.
I can't believe anyone would want to go to this, no matter how cool you think Final Fantasy is.
hmm.. I should probably read my post before I post. (sorry, I too went to a government school).
What I ment to say was that teachers who just have thier students memorize answers are stupid for teaching that way, even though there is a standard test. There is no reason for teachers to not keep teaching the reasoning, like they claim they did before. If they are just having the students just memorize answers, chances are they will forget for the test next year. Why not still just teach them properly? Probably because they are lazy and this forces them to actually make sure their students are learning or else lose your job.
So I agree that memorizing answers is stupid, but I dont' agree that the standard tests force the teachers to teach this way. It just makes sure that they are doing thier job, and it makes sure they are teaching what they are supposed to be teaching.
I had classes where instead of reading the book, we would just watch the movie. Math classes where if you just "tried" you would pass. Gym classes where it didn't matter if you climbed the rope, you just had to wear gym shorts. Writing classes where spelling and grammer didn't matter. WTF is that? That doesn't ensure that the kids learn. It only makes them stupid, lazy hippies.
And why throw out an entire sytem simply because a few retarded kids don't fit? Why not make a seperate system for the retards or just make some kind of exception?
I would guess more that the teachers are upset because now if they don't get the kids to learn something and pass the tests they can't get paid.
Oh my, sounds like my job! If I don't get my programs written and written well, my company won't make money so I won't get paid.
Teachers who say that it's stupid because now they just memorize answers for test are wrong. Surely the students remember things better if they not only know that 12X12 is 144 and the reasoning behind it. Not only would they do well on this test but on future test. Bottom line is that if they did their job they wouldn't have anything to bitch about. Same with school voucher programs.
Wow, what a dumb idea. Who would want to use that? Noone.
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The funny thing is that everyone who played doom when it first came out is at least in their 20's. Anyone that's really going to care about this movie is not going to be under 13.
that would be why I said "with the exception of a few".
Most people(not all, obviously) brought it on themselves.
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"All people who have contracted HIV are innocent victims."
No, with the exception of a few they are just stupid victims. It's 2004. We even have a stupid World AIDS day. It's sexually transmitted. That means that all you have to do is make sure that you don't have sex with someone who already has it. And don't use dirty needles. Simple! WTF is wrong with people.
"I shot Heroin, and slept wit' 20 guys!, I can't believe I got AIDS!" These people are morons. Evolution means to kill them off.
Wow dude, you're totally right, We should all move back to Europe and give the indians back thier land because the lost thier land in a war a long time ago.
What's you're solution? Give them all one hundred dollars? A thousand? A million? How about if we perform experaments on thier dead so maybe they can live again.
Fuck that.
What's the point of even having a war if you don't get to claim the right to what you were fighting about? Sorry that the indians were dancing around fire and banging drums like stupid hippies instead of inventing guns. Obvoisly the people back then didn't get along, they both needed the land, we fought, we won, they lost. That means that we get to tell them what to do.
I'm not going to deny the "continuity of society and it's institutions" it's the same old survial of the fittest. Our society was smarter and stronger than theres so they were wiped out. It's natural. Don't you hippies love nature?
And this guy is right. If your great-grandfather robs a bank gives the money to his son and invests it and makes a shit load of money which makes you're father rich, and then he pays for your college with that money, should you quit school? Shouldn't you be eating out of barrel for the rest of your life? How about your kids?
And I think you're ancestor caveman once killed once killed my ancestor caveman, so gimme some money.
You bet! I, for one, am glad that I'm not living in some mud hut because people had the sense to kill off a bunch of dirty savage hippies. They created the most prosperous country in the world. They allowed me to buy a nice little house, drive me a nice car and sit on my ass and play Half-Life 2.
Do you realize that there probably wouldn't even be a Half-Life 2 if they didn't give all the Indians small pox? Did you even consider it?
Imagine sitting a stupid mud hut... starving from a bad winter... not playing Half-Life 2.
Actually how many billions does NASA cost us a month? NASA is definately not 'free'. Maybe it's free if you live outside the United States.
I personally would like to see Google have people that actually want to use the program, pay for the program, rather than have everyone pay for the program regardless of if they use it or not.
That's the exact story that I've always read since the day after the election. The percentage of kids wasn't any more than in 2000. Everyone expected that the kids would show up in a higher percentage than everyone else, but didn't. That's why its a story. No story said that the young turnout was less than 2000.
I went to Best Buy today to maybe get a Tivo. A salesmen asked me if I needed some help, and I asked him how the Tivo connects to the internet. He said I would need a phone line.
I read that I would need a phone line for at least the inital setup, but also read that I could use a broadband connection to connect it afterwards. I asked him if I would need to buy a seperate card or modem or nic card to connect to my internet connection and he said he didn't know! So I said thanks and left. NO SALE FOR YOU!
How the hell are you supposed to sell stuff, if you don't even know how it works? Instead of trying to scheeme the public with fancy half-ass rebates, they should focus on simply knowing what the hell they are selling.
Wow, the government artifically increasing the price of using a product. You're a god damn genius. That definately won't hurt the technology market or even keep the US uncompetitive with other contries that won't do your genius plan. Fuck the people that develop Linux or host free websites, they should charge for there software anyway.
Besides with all the taxes we already have to worry about, what's one more?
I hate people that always think of great plans the government can force "solutions" upon you. You are an idiot.
" Bush doesn't support it and wants a Constitutional amendment to ban it. "
Except that's a lie. The constitutional admendment wouldn't ban Gay Marrage! It will just give the states to decide if they are going to accept the marrage from another state.
Right now if you are gay in PA, you can go to Boston , get married and then the PA has to accept your gay marrage certificate. This amendment would simply allow PA to refuse to acknowledge the Gay marrage.
If the people in PA wanted to accept the gay marrage they could still vote to accept it. All the amendment would do is give the individual states more power over marrage.
The media, John Kerry and even George Bush don't tell you this. George Bush because he is pandering to the Christian right, everyone else because they are pandering to Gays. It's amazing how no one knows the truth.
Are you too stupid to realize that this is just another way for the government to take your money? You don't really have a choice do you? Watch no TV or pay a fee for TV, even if you don't watch the channels the fee goes toward.
What's wrong with the BBC simply charging for its services, like HBO? Or encryping thier broadcast and having people pay for a key to unlock the content? Works for HBO. They have great shows, and seem to be doing fine.
If the BBC suddenly had a ratings drop and people didn't feel like paying for it to watch it anymore, then they would go out of buisness. Under your fuck-up tax model they will get paid anyway, regardless if anyone uses their service or not. There is no accountablity. They could charge and show whatever they want. What are you going to do, throw out your TV and have no connection to any media at all?
And now they impose a tax on computers because someone might get news from thier website?!? Haven't they ever seen any of the hundreds of other sites that charge a small subscription fee?
Sounds like PBS or NPR in the US, only instead of the government taking your money to pay for it, the stations themselves can take your money to pay for it.
It blows my mind that anyone would think this is a good thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that back in the day, politicians actually did hold down real jobs. They didn't make enough being a politician to support themselves or their family. Being in congress only ment that when it was time to vote you would travel to washington and cast your vote on behalf of the people you represent. The rest of the time you would work a job like everyone else.
Imagine money we would save if we stopped paying senetor's $15,000 pention after serving for only 1 term.
"AP: Why did you change your mind and decide to put the original three movies out on DVD now?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with. "
wtf?
yes george people arn't going to buy star wars on DVD because they can download it off the internet. It has nothing to do with the fact that they already own 5 copies already, or the fact that you keep changing the movie from the original, or because the movie is 30 years old, or cause now when you watch it you think of Ep. 1 or Ep 2 and that makes you want to puke.
Sounds like george is setting himself up for bad DVD sales. I used to be a huge fan, but I don't plan on buying the DVDs... because I can download another copy off the internet.:)
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Yes, Im sure that they will keep it at 75 cents too.
At least until they rationalize that they need to raise more money.
I'm sure that because of this law all the kids in the UK are little darlings.
Umm... How's about the fact that it's not the governments job to tell stores what they can and can't sell. It's censorship. Who are they to decide what is and what isn't decent?
I remember when Wal-mart was only selling censored copies of half-life with the gree blood. People yelled and screamed about how evil walmart was censoring games. Nevermind that walmart is a private company and if you don't like it you can simple shop somewhere else.
The government wants to do basicly the same thing, you idoits applaud them.
If you don't want you're 9 year old kid to walk into a store and buy GTA:
1. Don't give him a ride to the store
2. Don't let him have enough money purchase it.
3. keep an eye on what they are doing on the computer.
You don't need the government fining stores and sending people to jail because Timmy was able to pull one over on the 16 year old cashier. This isn't good for anything or anyone.
Kids under 18 still smoke.
Kids under 21 still drink.
Kids under 17 still see R rated movies.
Kids will still play "indecent" video games.
It's a waste of Tax dollars.
I dought anyone will have any chance of taking any girl to this kind of concert. It's going to be packed full of fat, sweaty nerds. It'll be worse than the opening night of Star Wars Episode 1.
I can't believe anyone would want to go to this, no matter how cool you think Final Fantasy is.
hmm.. I should probably read my post before I post. (sorry, I too went to a government school).
What I ment to say was that teachers who just have thier students memorize answers are stupid for teaching that way, even though there is a standard test. There is no reason for teachers to not keep teaching the reasoning, like they claim they did before. If they are just having the students just memorize answers, chances are they will forget for the test next year. Why not still just teach them properly? Probably because they are lazy and this forces them to actually make sure their students are learning or else lose your job.
So I agree that memorizing answers is stupid, but I dont' agree that the standard tests force the teachers to teach this way. It just makes sure that they are doing thier job, and it makes sure they are teaching what they are supposed to be teaching.
I had classes where instead of reading the book, we would just watch the movie. Math classes where if you just "tried" you would pass. Gym classes where it didn't matter if you climbed the rope, you just had to wear gym shorts. Writing classes where spelling and grammer didn't matter. WTF is that? That doesn't ensure that the kids learn. It only makes them stupid, lazy hippies.
And why throw out an entire sytem simply because a few retarded kids don't fit? Why not make a seperate system for the retards or just make some kind of exception?
I would guess more that the teachers are upset because now if they don't get the kids to learn something and pass the tests they can't get paid.
Oh my, sounds like my job! If I don't get my programs written and written well, my company won't make money so I won't get paid.
Teachers who say that it's stupid because now they just memorize answers for test are wrong. Surely the students remember things better if they not only know that 12X12 is 144 and the reasoning behind it. Not only would they do well on this test but on future test. Bottom line is that if they did their job they wouldn't have anything to bitch about. Same with school voucher programs.
Wow, I think there is more to this whole name thing than meets the eye.
Republicans call the country a Republic all the time.
Democrats refer to it as a Democracy.
Liberal has been a term that republicans say has been hijacked by the "left", but is always used to describe the most left leaning people.
What if republicans just turned Liberal into a dirty word to help keep the Libertarians down?
Of course there is the Green party, but they are just a bunch of stupid hippies.
Wow, what a dumb idea. Who would want to use that? Noone.
The funny thing is that everyone who played doom when it first came out is at least in their 20's. Anyone that's really going to care about this movie is not going to be under 13.
that would be why I said "with the exception of a few". Most people(not all, obviously) brought it on themselves.
"All people who have contracted HIV are innocent victims."
No, with the exception of a few they are just stupid victims. It's 2004. We even have a stupid World AIDS day.
It's sexually transmitted. That means that all you have to do is make sure that you don't have sex with someone who already has it. And don't use dirty needles. Simple! WTF is wrong with people.
"I shot Heroin, and slept wit' 20 guys!, I can't believe I got AIDS!" These people are morons. Evolution means to kill them off.
Ok here you go:
Lord of the Rings, The
The entire 3 films wrapped up in a little over 2 hours!.
I'd bet mod points that the parent of the parrent is a dirty hippie.
Wow, and if you violate this UN law or whatever, the UN will probably umm...send you a letter.
DEAR GOD NOOOO!!!!
The UN sucks, it's not really relavent for anything.
Wow dude, you're totally right, We should all move back to Europe and give the indians back thier land because the lost thier land in a war a long time ago.
What's you're solution? Give them all one hundred dollars? A thousand? A million? How about if we perform experaments on thier dead so maybe they can live again.
Fuck that.
What's the point of even having a war if you don't get to claim the right to what you were fighting about? Sorry that the indians were dancing around fire and banging drums like stupid hippies instead of inventing guns. Obvoisly the people back then didn't get along, they both needed the land, we fought, we won, they lost. That means that we get to tell them what to do.
I'm not going to deny the "continuity of society and it's institutions" it's the same old survial of the fittest. Our society was smarter and stronger than theres so they were wiped out. It's natural. Don't you hippies love nature?
And this guy is right. If your great-grandfather robs a bank gives the money to his son and invests it and makes a shit load of money which makes you're father rich, and then he pays for your college with that money, should you quit school? Shouldn't you be eating out of barrel for the rest of your life? How about your kids?
And I think you're ancestor caveman once killed once killed my ancestor caveman, so gimme some money.
You bet! I, for one, am glad that I'm not living in some mud hut because people had the sense to kill off a bunch of dirty savage hippies. They created the most prosperous country in the world. They allowed me to buy a nice little house, drive me a nice car and sit on my ass and play Half-Life 2.
Do you realize that there probably wouldn't even be a Half-Life 2 if they didn't give all the Indians small pox? Did you even consider it?
Imagine sitting a stupid mud hut... starving from a bad winter... not playing Half-Life 2.
"NASA's is free"
Actually how many billions does NASA cost us a month? NASA is definately not 'free'. Maybe it's free if you live outside the United States.
I personally would like to see Google have people that actually want to use the program, pay for the program, rather than have everyone pay for the program regardless of if they use it or not.
Cheers to Canada for the Loser pays legal system. Jeers to Canada for tax on all blank media.
That's the exact story that I've always read since the day after the election. The percentage of kids wasn't any more than in 2000. Everyone expected that the kids would show up in a higher percentage than everyone else, but didn't. That's why its a story. No story said that the young turnout was less than 2000.
I went to Best Buy today to maybe get a Tivo. A salesmen asked me if I needed some help, and I asked him how the Tivo connects to the internet. He said I would need a phone line.
I read that I would need a phone line for at least the inital setup, but also read that I could use a broadband connection to connect it afterwards. I asked him if I would need to buy a seperate card or modem or nic card to connect to my internet connection and he said he didn't know! So I said thanks and left. NO SALE FOR YOU!
How the hell are you supposed to sell stuff, if you don't even know how it works? Instead of trying to scheeme the public with fancy half-ass rebates, they should focus on simply knowing what the hell they are selling.
Wow, the government artifically increasing the price of using a product. You're a god damn genius. That definately won't hurt the technology market or even keep the US uncompetitive with other contries that won't do your genius plan. Fuck the people that develop Linux or host free websites, they should charge for there software anyway.
Besides with all the taxes we already have to worry about, what's one more?
I hate people that always think of great plans the government can force "solutions" upon you. You are an idiot.
" Bush doesn't support it and wants a Constitutional amendment to ban it. "
Except that's a lie. The constitutional admendment wouldn't ban Gay Marrage! It will just give the states to decide if they are going to accept the marrage from another state.
Right now if you are gay in PA, you can go to Boston , get married and then the PA has to accept your gay marrage certificate. This amendment would simply allow PA to refuse to acknowledge the Gay marrage.
If the people in PA wanted to accept the gay marrage they could still vote to accept it. All the amendment would do is give the individual states more power over marrage.
The media, John Kerry and even George Bush don't tell you this. George Bush because he is pandering to the Christian right, everyone else because they are pandering to Gays. It's amazing how no one knows the truth.
I can smell the bullshit from here.
Are you too stupid to realize that this is just another way for the government to take your money? You don't really have a choice do you? Watch no TV or pay a fee for TV, even if you don't watch the channels the fee goes toward.
What's wrong with the BBC simply charging for its services, like HBO? Or encryping thier broadcast and having people pay for a key to unlock the content? Works for HBO. They have great shows, and seem to be doing fine.
If the BBC suddenly had a ratings drop and people didn't feel like paying for it to watch it anymore, then they would go out of buisness. Under your fuck-up tax model they will get paid anyway, regardless if anyone uses their service or not. There is no accountablity. They could charge and show whatever they want. What are you going to do, throw out your TV and have no connection to any media at all?
And now they impose a tax on computers because someone might get news from thier website?!? Haven't they ever seen any of the hundreds of other sites that charge a small subscription fee?
Sounds like PBS or NPR in the US, only instead of the government taking your money to pay for it, the stations themselves can take your money to pay for it.
It blows my mind that anyone would think this is a good thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that back in the day, politicians actually did hold down real jobs. They didn't make enough being a politician to support themselves or their family. Being in congress only ment that when it was time to vote you would travel to washington and cast your vote on behalf of the people you represent. The rest of the time you would work a job like everyone else.
Imagine money we would save if we stopped paying senetor's $15,000 pention after serving for only 1 term.
From the artical:
... because I can download another copy off the internet. :)
"AP: Why did you change your mind and decide to put the original three movies out on DVD now?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with. "
wtf?
yes george people arn't going to buy star wars on DVD because they can download it off the internet. It has nothing to do with the fact that they already own 5 copies already, or the fact that you keep changing the movie from the original, or because the movie is 30 years old, or cause now when you watch it you think of Ep. 1 or Ep 2 and that makes you want to puke.
Sounds like george is setting himself up for bad DVD sales. I used to be a huge fan, but I don't plan on buying the DVDs