True, but not all open-source projects who have lost senior developers are named after convicted murderers. (I'm not saying there is such a project now, either, mind you.)
I know, Microsoft have paid the police to do this, to discredit a Linux FS?
Totally, dude. Like, this one time, Micro$uxx paid this chick to be this like hardcore open-source dude's girlfriend, and like, she made him chili with peanuts in it, which he like would like totally have died if he ate it? Way of the world, man *massssssivvvee toooooke* way of the fuckin' world.
Ma'am, this is the electric company. Would you mind checking something out for us? Is your refrigerator running? Yes? Well... you'd better go catch it, then! *haw haw haw*/hangs up
Thank you for bringing out what I've been thinking since I heard that this was what they were calling it!
...except you forgot to add that this quote was meant to express Nietzsche's take on love, and not in some mythical book called "Life in Hell"--which was a late revision of multiple sources, not entirely unlike the Bible or the U.S. Constitution in that regard--but in "Love is Hell," which preceded the other "...is Hell" books. Special +1 Informatives for anyone who can list the other philosophers whose theories of life were discussed on this same page of "Love is Hell." (I can't actually remember, but I think one was Kierkegaard.)
In other words, the word "idiot," as the grandparent poster and many other posters here use it, means "someone who doesn't have the specialized knowledge I do (though I have little knowledge of anything else)."
Do I think children should be able to buy porn? Sure - why not? Kids are gonna get their hands on it anyway - whether from the net or other friends - and I think that it being freely available will make exploring sexuality less stimatizing.
You seem to be assuming that porn teaches something about sex. I (sort of) agree, but what it's teaching is not very... realistic, and what it's leaving out is important. If the goal is to make discovering sexuality less traumatizing, why not insist on good sex education?
Keeping it locked away from curious eyes doesn't keep kids from finding it, doesn't keep them from having sex if they want, and seems to just be a pointless burden for retailers.
Sure, they'll almost certainly find it; but with good education (and maybe a more sexually healthy culture?), it would not be as compelling and I expect the demand might well fall. As for the last point, I could care less what is a burden for retailers who want to sell porn to minors. Seriously, have you been in some of these shops? I don't plan to have kids, but I wouldn't send them into one.
My analogy is imperfect, true. But since Pearl Harbor was mentioned, I thought it would be sufficient to focus on the Pacific theater. I guess a better analogy might be Belgium or some such (for their Waffles of Mass Deliciousness, of course).
For the analogy to work, your non-cowardly ex-isolationists would have to declare war on Japan, and then inexplicably divert the bulk of military force to conquering, say, Indonesia.
At a faculty meeting last year, an opponent of a new policy of the administration read off a litany of complaints about it, one of which was that it was "highly unprecedented."
The grandparent post gets a +4, Insightful even though it misses the point. What part of "why" doesn't he understand? If we don't know why those values are what they are, then they are mere facts, incapable of explaining anything: "Light travels at the speed of light because that's the speed at which light travels."
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Good point. Thyme will tell. ;-)
(P.S. bellwether + fairweather = bellweather?)
True, but not all open-source projects who have lost senior developers are named after convicted murderers. (I'm not saying there is such a project now, either, mind you.)
I know, Microsoft have paid the police to do this, to discredit a Linux FS?
Totally, dude. Like, this one time, Micro$uxx paid this chick to be this like hardcore open-source dude's girlfriend, and like, she made him chili with peanuts in it, which he like would like totally have died if he ate it? Way of the world, man *massssssivvvee toooooke* way of the fuckin' world.
Ma'am, this is the electric company. Would you mind checking something out for us? Is your refrigerator running? Yes? Well ... you'd better go catch it, then! *haw haw haw* /hangs up
...except you forgot to add that this quote was meant to express Nietzsche's take on love, and not in some mythical book called "Life in Hell"--which was a late revision of multiple sources, not entirely unlike the Bible or the U.S. Constitution in that regard--but in "Love is Hell," which preceded the other "...is Hell" books. Special +1 Informatives for anyone who can list the other philosophers whose theories of life were discussed on this same page of "Love is Hell." (I can't actually remember, but I think one was Kierkegaard.)
Yeah, and those hot young pages were leading Foley on.
Hell is BT?
One of the better Chapters in your life, would you say? ;-)
Oh, poo, I misquoted.
Today is apparently the day for the word "funner," which also showed up in this story about the new movie, "Jesus Camp."
Said one of the campers, "We're kinda being trained to be warriors," said another, "only in a funner way."
asshats. recursive. funner!
Asshats. Recursive. Funner!!
ASSHATS! RECURSIVE! FUNNERER!!!
</M-5>
*puff of smoke*
Cheaters never lose, and losers never win.
But cheaters are losers.
Ergo, there are no cheaters!
Not to mention decades of training.
There's a name for a Beowulf cluster of brains: a conversation.
In other words, the word "idiot," as the grandparent poster and many other posters here use it, means "someone who doesn't have the specialized knowledge I do (though I have little knowledge of anything else)."
Two words: anal douche.
You seem to be assuming that porn teaches something about sex. I (sort of) agree, but what it's teaching is not very ... realistic, and what it's leaving out is important. If the goal is to make discovering sexuality less traumatizing, why not insist on good sex education?
Keeping it locked away from curious eyes doesn't keep kids from finding it, doesn't keep them from having sex if they want, and seems to just be a pointless burden for retailers.
Sure, they'll almost certainly find it; but with good education (and maybe a more sexually healthy culture?), it would not be as compelling and I expect the demand might well fall. As for the last point, I could care less what is a burden for retailers who want to sell porn to minors. Seriously, have you been in some of these shops? I don't plan to have kids, but I wouldn't send them into one.
My analogy is imperfect, true. But since Pearl Harbor was mentioned, I thought it would be sufficient to focus on the Pacific theater. I guess a better analogy might be Belgium or some such (for their Waffles of Mass Deliciousness, of course).
For the analogy to work, your non-cowardly ex-isolationists would have to declare war on Japan, and then inexplicably divert the bulk of military force to conquering, say, Indonesia.
That's rather the point, isn't it?
Never trust a translator. There's no "having" in it, only "doing" (prattein).
At a faculty meeting last year, an opponent of a new policy of the administration read off a litany of complaints about it, one of which was that it was "highly unprecedented."
Because their language's daddy was French.
I agree, but it's funny that you would say that, and then use "wonderful" to mean "awful."
The grandparent post gets a +4, Insightful even though it misses the point. What part of "why" doesn't he understand? If we don't know why those values are what they are, then they are mere facts, incapable of explaining anything: "Light travels at the speed of light because that's the speed at which light travels."