Lets face it, he is a blessing in disguise. After him, nobody will ever dare make a movie about a game again. I mean it is not like anybody is still funding him after producing turd after turd right? Right? RIGHT?!?
This clearly shows just how dumb jocks are. How can an activity that has leaders and followers teach all of them leadership?
It is complete and utter bull of course, one of those dogmatic facts people have latched onto with no evidence whatsoever.
Really, THINK about what the term leadership means and how it works in a group. Leaders need followers, followers do not learn to lead. That is like saying being a soldier trains you to be an officer. Oh, no it doesn't. That is why officer training is a separate part.
His educated guess is after all based on the display of the radar gun.
Sorry but my ingrained sense of justice hates it when smarmy lawyers try to get their client of on technicalities. Odd that lawyers are so dispised in general because they rape the law yet everyone uses them to rape the law.
Just don't fucking speed, how fucking hard is that?
If you want someone to care about people find a socialist or a communist. Capitalist are not nice people, it is in their motto:
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens."
-- Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations, 1776)
Read it and try to understand its true meaning. Not the meaning for when you are well off and society is running smoothly but when there is some problem. Like say a disaster.
Adam Smith says that in a disaster, it is perfectly reasonable to charge a premium for emergency supplies and only a beggar would expect a fair price. For a capitalist, profits are the only thing that counts and the butch, the brewer and the baker under Adam Smith will let people die who can't pay the prices they charge. Of course, this also means that if ever something was to happen to them, they would be the ones doing the dying.
And it works, when society is doing well. You can life your entire life as a baker and never be faced with someone who is on the edge of starvation. I was a baker in my younger years and I never had someone beg for bread.
In practice supermarkets charge a "low" price for food and accept truly minuscule mark-ups on essential items. Eating in the west can truly be cheap, eating healthy is another matter. But this doesn't mean the Adam Smith way is a nice way. It is not for nothing that the poorer people often eat unhealthy, go and check the prices for healthy food (fresh vegetables) with the cost of absolute bottom line food. 50 cent frozen pizza etc. You can live on that for a day, no way you can cook a decent meal for that. So, the delivers off cheap food for all also deliver unhealthy food. Not so nice of them after all is it? Their profits are more important then the health of their customers.
Free choice? yes, you are free to eat bad. YOU are free to eat bad, because you can probably afford to eat better. But with ever lower wages and ever higher costs of living, a lot of people cannot. It is already well known that Africa is a dumping ground for western food that is no longer sellable in the west. Chicken refrozen a dozen times over is flooding the market, ruining the local industry. Profits of western capitalists again more important then decency.
Read up on the true effects of free market economy and you will see just how badly real capitalist are for people who do not belong to the elite. And you like me are most likely part of that elite or at least close enough not to be harmed by them to much. For now. Until something goes wrong. Like the economic crisis. Notice how the truly rich are not hurting at all. No, loosing 1 billion when you got a dozen is NOT hurting.
How do I beat my kid, take it to the doctor countless times, have it show up in school with bruises, be investigated for years and yet nobody stops me but monitoring my searches will work.
How do I rape kids under my care but get my church leaders to cover for me because Christ teaches that pedo's should be protected over children.
What is the best lube for a 6yr old because if I am going to rape a toddler I want it to slip in easy.
Children, the one-shot-kill for all who want to control the world, because if you are against whatever they propose then you are a pedo.
Two measures can protect children far easier. Kill catholics (a good idea in general) and simply give child services the resources they need to do their job at the lowest level. So a care worker doesn't have to monitor dozens of children in a day which simply can't be done and results in documents just being shoved around instead of just going around with a police escort and checking the living conditions.
But hey, that costs money and doesn't actually allow you to track every other thing.
US TV shows can't resist putting in the effects of sugar on kids. And nobody ever noticed that anywhere else in the world. Maybe because IT IS NOT TRUE. Yes you can energy from sugar but the human body has plenty of sugar all the time on a normal diet. It isn't going to hyper because you add more fuel to it, you just get fatter because the body can now store fat for later instead of burning it as it should.
Clinical trials have shown that kids have no sugar rush UNLESS the parent who thinks kids get a sugar rush are present and then the kids do indeed become hyper active. So over-sensitive parents cause hyper-active children. Not sugar. (That parents infleuence the actions of they child is well known, simple experiment: put a baby who can crawl on a surface and let it crawl over a gap covered by a glass plate. The baby will have no reaction of its own to the height below it. If the mother shows delight then the baby will show it, and cross happily. If the mother shows horror, the baby will react in fear trying to determine what danger it is in. This is how we learn, how all animals with parents learn. But we can learn wrong if the input is wrong. Over-protective parents cause over-sensitive children. Yes, sometimes kids just need to walk it off and funnily enough, they do. Watch a child playing on its own. It falls, nobody panics, it continues.)
Same with coffee. Some writer probably thought it was funny and now everyone believes sitcom rules apply to the real world. Yes, cafine is different from sugar in that it is a drug and does have an effect but you need to be the kind who drinks energy drinks as if they were water, with no water. Not just a cup of coffee. Even half a dozen.
It think part of it is that people act the way they think they are supposed to act. And yes, that would be very intresting to study more because it might have a serious effect on health care. For instance the use of medication when it ain't needed. If you think you need a pill for everything, you will need a pill for everything and indeed get a pill for everything. The US is the most medicated nation on the planet and yet they aren't any healthier. What is all the non-needed drugs doing? Not just to health but to the health care costs? If media is causing people to think they have to behave in a bad way, perhaps it can be reversed as well. Less pill swallowing for every ailment in popular media content could perhaps translate to lower medicine costs?
You are right, soon is a bit longer for astronomers but they think in tens of thousands of years. On the back of an astronomers shirt: "If you see me running, go get some coffee, you got plenty of time".
Such events are ALWAYS relative to observation from earth because else you would be getting silly with the time differences.
For instance, we say the sun came up NOW and not 8 minutes ago when it really came up above the horizon but we now just seeing it. One of those fun things, that sun you see, isn't there, it was there 8 minutes ago. And that star you see twinkling could be billions of years old and long gone.
Get a super powerful telescope, travel deep into space at a speed greater then light and you could watch history unfold backwards. Who says you can never look back eh?
What are you? A communist? Charge more then is needed? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO DETERMINE WHAT SOMEONE ELSE CHARGES FOR A NON-ESSENTIAL ITEM.
God if this isn't the ultimate example of entitlement. Any company is required to sell a product to me at the absolute minimum or else they stink.
If Apple charged an infinite amount of money for an iPhone that would be entirely their business. They can charge any mark-up they can dream up (and sometimes they do) and that is the way things work in socialist/capitalist markets.
Or do you think a gold ring should be the price of gold? Fat chance. That I should sell you a drink based on the price of the ingredients? No more 6 euro coca-cola then. Oh but no. For most normal people non-essential products and services can be any price that the customer is willing to pay. And if the customer isn't? Then though luck for the seller, he will be left with unsold stock.
Apple should be required to sells its product at cost when you sell yourself at cost. Say the value of your brain. Then with your profit and a 699 dollar, you can buy an iPad. (For those doing the math, yes I am saying that he would have to pay people to sell himself).
If you can't afford the iPhone, then DON'T FUCKING BUY IT.
Oh and for even better proof the guy is a moron. Go ahead, what environment is needed for windows development? Go ahead, do IE development on a Mac or Linux. No, evil MS forces me to buy a windows license to do IE development. How mean!
For trees to be renewable you have to replant them. Waiting for a forest to regrow on its own, especially if the soil has been washed away is going to take a while, they are still waiting for the Sahara to regrow its forests.
Peak wood is not an unknown issue, there was a real problem at one time with finding the right trees for constructing sailing ships. Ever needing to be bigger you needed good long solid trees for the keel and especially the masts. And such trees take a long time to grow, longer then it takes to cut them down for the next armada.
And don't think that peak oil is just a matter of cars. We can work around petrol, but plastic? All those electric cars got tons of plastics in them, and that requires oil as well.
You had to go 250 miles from your home to get a date? Man, I knew geeks were hard up but that is extreme.
Or were you finished before the battery could recharge in 30 minutes and she lived 125 miles away? Try working on your staying power, maybe then you could find a girl in the same country/state.
Sorry, but there is a HUGE difference between COMEDY pain and HORROR pain.
I hate to break it to you, but Will E. Coyote is NOT real. Yeah yeah, I ruined your innocent child like look on the world with this but I don't care. Guess the story is right about one thing.
But if you can't see a difference between these old cartoons and the Saw horror series then you are either a person who thinks extreme graphic violence is funny or you feel way to much empathy for a cartoon character.
But you are a classic example of the story here. There is an increasing attitude of "fuck everyone else" in this world. It is perhaps a natural up and down motion in society, but they can lead to extremes.
There is a saying "If you are not a socialist when young, you don't have a heart. If you are not a capitalist when you are old, then you no money". It makes sense, but what if people already are selfish assholes when they are young? They are hardly going to get nicer as they get older. Could be a very selfish society in 30-40 years.
I think people forget all the stuff Labour did when they were fresh in power.
And then the daily reality of ruling Britain and fighting on two fronts set in and we got all the crap, same as with the conservatives before. And a LOT of people seem to have forgotten what the conservatives got kicked out of government for.
Britain is in a away even more arrogant then the US (yes, that is possible Canadian readers) because at least US confidence is based on something. The UK has been nothing since the 60's but still acts like it is a major power. Right now it has a debt that is equal or even higher then trouble nations like Greece/Spain/Italy/US but with even fewer means of getting out of it. They can't even properly equip their army anymore. One minister left a note for his successor: "There is no more money". UK citizens LOVE the Greece crisis because it stops them having to look at their own economy that is not so much circling the drain as leaping into it.
That the conservatives are scrapping this ID card is not because they don't like it, Labour took the idea from them, but a sign that the country has to cut money everywhere. Even spare chance like this.
And with calls for thougher laws on immigration, some kind of ID system is going to be needed. I think this law is just on hold until the money can be found and if it can't... well then the UK has worse things to worry about. No ID? Then no food-stamps for you.
It will be very intresting to see what is going to happen in the UK in the period this goverment gets to rule (summer 2010). Two wars, world wide economic problems, highest debt ever, schotland not represented (they voted labour) in the government... it has been said that who ever would win this election would ensure they wouldn't rule again for another decade. I think this might be true.
Blair/Brown and Bush both must have looked at their successors and thought "SUCKER!".
I went and lost my passport a while back and yes, in Holland that is required. So all I did was answer some basic questions. Fathers first name: Don't know. Mothers first Name: XXX (none of your business). Okay, here is your new ID.
My point was NOT about CP, but about when you allow censorship of one thing, you open the flood gates for censoring of everything else.
As I predicted, you would tear me down for promoting CP, because I dare to argue against restriction of free speech.
It don't matter what rules for censorship you come up with, someone else will extend them. The proof? Check the list of banned sites by the Australian internet filter. That was for CP. So what are sites about drugs and suicide and other ideas unrelated to CP doing on that list?
READ the quote I linked and try to see past "but I don't like jews either" and realize that no matter who YOU are, if that list is allowed, then you are going to be on it sooner or later. The nazi's were never going to run out of people they considered to a drain on society and the censors are never going to run out of material they find objectionable.
But hey, no worries because anyone who dares to argue against censorship with you, is a pedo right?
Gosh, Windows Mobile is the dogs bollocks? Pity that nobody is going to find out because absolutely nobody buys WM phones. Check the sale statistics. EVERYONE does better. Even linux has a larger share (especially if you realize Android is based on it).
So either you are wrong or everyone else is. Somehow I think you are.
Really, if you go and defend a badly selling product, come up with counters as to why it sells so badly other then the defence "I bought it, so it must be great because else I must have been a real idiot for buying it".
Yes, obviously child porn is bad... that this is already a horrible piece of dogmatic reasoning, is not even the worsed of it. What is next?
Read up on "The people vs Harry Flint". Why did so many people come to the defence of a porn peddler? A crude porn peddler at that? Why defend a guy selling smuts with a few crude and insulting attackings on decent public people thrown in? (Some child porn addicts call this parody/satire) Because of this:
It might be one of the most paraphrased quotes in history but it remains extremely valid. Remember, the guy who said it was a nazi symphatizer. Or to put it in this context, the anti-porn peddler hit by anti-depravity laws.
"obviously child porn is bad". I call this dogmatic because it leaves no room for argument, this is the classic tactic of the dictator. "Obviously X is bad" has been used countless times. Put communism in place for X and you got the McCarthy trials. Put independent woman and you got the witch hunts. And you can't argue against it, because it is obvious. You get to the point that just arguing against it becomes a crime by itself.
Child porn is the moralists dream. Nobody can argue that sex with a toddler should be allowed, so you have won the entire argument and then it becomes just a matter of constantly increasing the definition of child and eventually porn. Different countries have different ages of consent. Do you REALLY want the entire world to have to accept the age of consent of the most puritan nation on earth? Plenty of arguments to raise the age to 21. Say bye bye to any porn and once you accepted that to any nudity. Venus the Milo? Could be under 21, FORBIDDEN!
One of the indicators that the people who want to introduce these bans have not so hidden agenda's is that they talk bull shit. Japan is introducing censorship because of international pressure. Funny, Japan goes on whaling despite international pressure. It keep denying its warcrimes despite international pressure. But the one thing that could benefit the Japanese content industry like Sony, that they act upon. Oh, you don't see how censorhip of CP can benefit Sony?
Simple, file sharing networks are filled with CP and copyrighted content. Ban them for the CP and the copyrighted content follows. Freedom of exchange information means CP. Can't be helped, just asked the people behind Freenet. By its very nature the founders of freenet support CP because that has become the ultimate test of free anonymous speech. If you support that people have the right, the need, to be able to share any document without fear of reprisal, then you support the exchange of CP in practice.
It is simple really, freedom is the freedom to do really bad things. If you are free to drink, then you are free to drink yourself to death. If you are free to buy a rope, then you are free to hang yourself (remember that one of the first things they do when you freedom is removed in a jail, you are stopped from having the means to commit suicide).
Freedom is not some limited concept. You can't say: "well you can't do these things because a lot of people find them disgusting" because there will always be someone somewhere who finds something disgusting. You might not like 2 girls 1 cup but you would like it even less if all the content of the world had to pass through the approval of some Utah citizen.
But because of Dogma, if you want to protect freedom, you are defending the CP peddlers. It is almost impossible to fight this and I am fairly certain we will come to regret this. "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom away". "Why, I was thinking of you my dear, I killed your freedom to protect you."
It is THE Greek crisis. Not just any Greek crisis but THE one.
A Greek crisis would be a crisis of a certain type.
The Greek crisis refers to the one most talked about at the moment.
See: a confidence crisis vs the banking crisis. The banking crisis is the recent one, a banking crisis is just a crisis involving banks.
Yet another instance where a poster worth their salt would perform their appointed duties and correct submitted text, but a Slashdot poster fails to do so.
Note that my comment is funny. Anyone pointing out errors in my post is just sad.;)
Adobe wants web content to just run anywhere? When the plugin they sell doesn't run everywhere and in places it does run, it often runs poorly?
Where is Flash for BSD? For AMD64? Oh, wait, when Adobe speaks about the net, they mean IE.
Adobe, the reason Apple hates your guts is because you never ever supported their OS properly until you absolutely had to.
Oh and I hate your guts too, just a little bit more then Steve Jobs in fact, so I hope he rapes your stinking rotting corpse and eats your babies. Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is worth cheering on.
It is simple, after meeting Guinan and Data (if you don't get the reference, hand in your geek card right now) he got a marvelous idea. He would publish a book a century after his death, collect the royalties, transport them back in time and be the richest man on the planet thanks to reverse inflation. And all that with not a single demand to sign an autograph or appear on chat shows.
The OLD original book would still have been free of copyright. Copyright would NOT have been extended on the ORIGINAL book. He just hoped that the NEW edition with its own new copyright would be worth buying from him for the new content.
But the OLD content would have been free of copyright. So basically, Mark Twain wanted people to pay him for freshly written new content.
That is not gaming the system, that is called selling stuff. nobody complains that the baker wants paid for his bread today even if you bought bread of him yesterday. New stuff, new payment.
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The banking and automotive industry.
Lets face it, he is a blessing in disguise. After him, nobody will ever dare make a movie about a game again. I mean it is not like anybody is still funding him after producing turd after turd right? Right? RIGHT?!?
This clearly shows just how dumb jocks are. How can an activity that has leaders and followers teach all of them leadership?
It is complete and utter bull of course, one of those dogmatic facts people have latched onto with no evidence whatsoever.
Really, THINK about what the term leadership means and how it works in a group. Leaders need followers, followers do not learn to lead. That is like saying being a soldier trains you to be an officer. Oh, no it doesn't. That is why officer training is a separate part.
His educated guess is after all based on the display of the radar gun.
Sorry but my ingrained sense of justice hates it when smarmy lawyers try to get their client of on technicalities. Odd that lawyers are so dispised in general because they rape the law yet everyone uses them to rape the law.
Just don't fucking speed, how fucking hard is that?
Any capitalist will answer: profit.
If you want someone to care about people find a socialist or a communist. Capitalist are not nice people, it is in their motto:
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens."
-- Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations, 1776)
Read it and try to understand its true meaning. Not the meaning for when you are well off and society is running smoothly but when there is some problem. Like say a disaster.
Adam Smith says that in a disaster, it is perfectly reasonable to charge a premium for emergency supplies and only a beggar would expect a fair price. For a capitalist, profits are the only thing that counts and the butch, the brewer and the baker under Adam Smith will let people die who can't pay the prices they charge. Of course, this also means that if ever something was to happen to them, they would be the ones doing the dying.
And it works, when society is doing well. You can life your entire life as a baker and never be faced with someone who is on the edge of starvation. I was a baker in my younger years and I never had someone beg for bread.
In practice supermarkets charge a "low" price for food and accept truly minuscule mark-ups on essential items. Eating in the west can truly be cheap, eating healthy is another matter. But this doesn't mean the Adam Smith way is a nice way. It is not for nothing that the poorer people often eat unhealthy, go and check the prices for healthy food (fresh vegetables) with the cost of absolute bottom line food. 50 cent frozen pizza etc. You can live on that for a day, no way you can cook a decent meal for that. So, the delivers off cheap food for all also deliver unhealthy food. Not so nice of them after all is it? Their profits are more important then the health of their customers.
Free choice? yes, you are free to eat bad. YOU are free to eat bad, because you can probably afford to eat better. But with ever lower wages and ever higher costs of living, a lot of people cannot. It is already well known that Africa is a dumping ground for western food that is no longer sellable in the west. Chicken refrozen a dozen times over is flooding the market, ruining the local industry. Profits of western capitalists again more important then decency.
Read up on the true effects of free market economy and you will see just how badly real capitalist are for people who do not belong to the elite. And you like me are most likely part of that elite or at least close enough not to be harmed by them to much. For now. Until something goes wrong. Like the economic crisis. Notice how the truly rich are not hurting at all. No, loosing 1 billion when you got a dozen is NOT hurting.
So the google query will be:
Children, the one-shot-kill for all who want to control the world, because if you are against whatever they propose then you are a pedo.
Two measures can protect children far easier. Kill catholics (a good idea in general) and simply give child services the resources they need to do their job at the lowest level. So a care worker doesn't have to monitor dozens of children in a day which simply can't be done and results in documents just being shoved around instead of just going around with a police escort and checking the living conditions.
But hey, that costs money and doesn't actually allow you to track every other thing.
US TV shows can't resist putting in the effects of sugar on kids. And nobody ever noticed that anywhere else in the world. Maybe because IT IS NOT TRUE. Yes you can energy from sugar but the human body has plenty of sugar all the time on a normal diet. It isn't going to hyper because you add more fuel to it, you just get fatter because the body can now store fat for later instead of burning it as it should.
Clinical trials have shown that kids have no sugar rush UNLESS the parent who thinks kids get a sugar rush are present and then the kids do indeed become hyper active. So over-sensitive parents cause hyper-active children. Not sugar. (That parents infleuence the actions of they child is well known, simple experiment: put a baby who can crawl on a surface and let it crawl over a gap covered by a glass plate. The baby will have no reaction of its own to the height below it. If the mother shows delight then the baby will show it, and cross happily. If the mother shows horror, the baby will react in fear trying to determine what danger it is in. This is how we learn, how all animals with parents learn. But we can learn wrong if the input is wrong. Over-protective parents cause over-sensitive children. Yes, sometimes kids just need to walk it off and funnily enough, they do. Watch a child playing on its own. It falls, nobody panics, it continues.)
Same with coffee. Some writer probably thought it was funny and now everyone believes sitcom rules apply to the real world. Yes, cafine is different from sugar in that it is a drug and does have an effect but you need to be the kind who drinks energy drinks as if they were water, with no water. Not just a cup of coffee. Even half a dozen.
It think part of it is that people act the way they think they are supposed to act. And yes, that would be very intresting to study more because it might have a serious effect on health care. For instance the use of medication when it ain't needed. If you think you need a pill for everything, you will need a pill for everything and indeed get a pill for everything. The US is the most medicated nation on the planet and yet they aren't any healthier. What is all the non-needed drugs doing? Not just to health but to the health care costs? If media is causing people to think they have to behave in a bad way, perhaps it can be reversed as well. Less pill swallowing for every ailment in popular media content could perhaps translate to lower medicine costs?
You are right, soon is a bit longer for astronomers but they think in tens of thousands of years. On the back of an astronomers shirt: "If you see me running, go get some coffee, you got plenty of time".
Such events are ALWAYS relative to observation from earth because else you would be getting silly with the time differences.
For instance, we say the sun came up NOW and not 8 minutes ago when it really came up above the horizon but we now just seeing it. One of those fun things, that sun you see, isn't there, it was there 8 minutes ago. And that star you see twinkling could be billions of years old and long gone.
Get a super powerful telescope, travel deep into space at a speed greater then light and you could watch history unfold backwards. Who says you can never look back eh?
What are you? A communist? Charge more then is needed? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO DETERMINE WHAT SOMEONE ELSE CHARGES FOR A NON-ESSENTIAL ITEM.
God if this isn't the ultimate example of entitlement. Any company is required to sell a product to me at the absolute minimum or else they stink.
If Apple charged an infinite amount of money for an iPhone that would be entirely their business. They can charge any mark-up they can dream up (and sometimes they do) and that is the way things work in socialist/capitalist markets.
Or do you think a gold ring should be the price of gold? Fat chance. That I should sell you a drink based on the price of the ingredients? No more 6 euro coca-cola then. Oh but no. For most normal people non-essential products and services can be any price that the customer is willing to pay. And if the customer isn't? Then though luck for the seller, he will be left with unsold stock.
Apple should be required to sells its product at cost when you sell yourself at cost. Say the value of your brain. Then with your profit and a 699 dollar, you can buy an iPad. (For those doing the math, yes I am saying that he would have to pay people to sell himself).
If you can't afford the iPhone, then DON'T FUCKING BUY IT.
Oh and for even better proof the guy is a moron. Go ahead, what environment is needed for windows development? Go ahead, do IE development on a Mac or Linux. No, evil MS forces me to buy a windows license to do IE development. How mean!
For trees to be renewable you have to replant them. Waiting for a forest to regrow on its own, especially if the soil has been washed away is going to take a while, they are still waiting for the Sahara to regrow its forests.
Peak wood is not an unknown issue, there was a real problem at one time with finding the right trees for constructing sailing ships. Ever needing to be bigger you needed good long solid trees for the keel and especially the masts. And such trees take a long time to grow, longer then it takes to cut them down for the next armada.
And don't think that peak oil is just a matter of cars. We can work around petrol, but plastic? All those electric cars got tons of plastics in them, and that requires oil as well.
You had to go 250 miles from your home to get a date? Man, I knew geeks were hard up but that is extreme.
Or were you finished before the battery could recharge in 30 minutes and she lived 125 miles away? Try working on your staying power, maybe then you could find a girl in the same country/state.
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Sorry, but there is a HUGE difference between COMEDY pain and HORROR pain.
I hate to break it to you, but Will E. Coyote is NOT real. Yeah yeah, I ruined your innocent child like look on the world with this but I don't care. Guess the story is right about one thing.
But if you can't see a difference between these old cartoons and the Saw horror series then you are either a person who thinks extreme graphic violence is funny or you feel way to much empathy for a cartoon character.
But you are a classic example of the story here. There is an increasing attitude of "fuck everyone else" in this world. It is perhaps a natural up and down motion in society, but they can lead to extremes.
There is a saying "If you are not a socialist when young, you don't have a heart. If you are not a capitalist when you are old, then you no money". It makes sense, but what if people already are selfish assholes when they are young? They are hardly going to get nicer as they get older. Could be a very selfish society in 30-40 years.
I think people forget all the stuff Labour did when they were fresh in power.
And then the daily reality of ruling Britain and fighting on two fronts set in and we got all the crap, same as with the conservatives before. And a LOT of people seem to have forgotten what the conservatives got kicked out of government for.
Britain is in a away even more arrogant then the US (yes, that is possible Canadian readers) because at least US confidence is based on something. The UK has been nothing since the 60's but still acts like it is a major power. Right now it has a debt that is equal or even higher then trouble nations like Greece/Spain/Italy/US but with even fewer means of getting out of it. They can't even properly equip their army anymore. One minister left a note for his successor: "There is no more money". UK citizens LOVE the Greece crisis because it stops them having to look at their own economy that is not so much circling the drain as leaping into it.
That the conservatives are scrapping this ID card is not because they don't like it, Labour took the idea from them, but a sign that the country has to cut money everywhere. Even spare chance like this.
And with calls for thougher laws on immigration, some kind of ID system is going to be needed. I think this law is just on hold until the money can be found and if it can't... well then the UK has worse things to worry about. No ID? Then no food-stamps for you.
It will be very intresting to see what is going to happen in the UK in the period this goverment gets to rule (summer 2010). Two wars, world wide economic problems, highest debt ever, schotland not represented (they voted labour) in the government... it has been said that who ever would win this election would ensure they wouldn't rule again for another decade. I think this might be true.
Blair/Brown and Bush both must have looked at their successors and thought "SUCKER!".
I went and lost my passport a while back and yes, in Holland that is required. So all I did was answer some basic questions. Fathers first name: Don't know. Mothers first Name: XXX (none of your business). Okay, here is your new ID.
Is that foolproof enough for you?
My point was NOT about CP, but about when you allow censorship of one thing, you open the flood gates for censoring of everything else.
As I predicted, you would tear me down for promoting CP, because I dare to argue against restriction of free speech.
It don't matter what rules for censorship you come up with, someone else will extend them. The proof? Check the list of banned sites by the Australian internet filter. That was for CP. So what are sites about drugs and suicide and other ideas unrelated to CP doing on that list?
READ the quote I linked and try to see past "but I don't like jews either" and realize that no matter who YOU are, if that list is allowed, then you are going to be on it sooner or later. The nazi's were never going to run out of people they considered to a drain on society and the censors are never going to run out of material they find objectionable.
But hey, no worries because anyone who dares to argue against censorship with you, is a pedo right?
Gosh, Windows Mobile is the dogs bollocks? Pity that nobody is going to find out because absolutely nobody buys WM phones. Check the sale statistics. EVERYONE does better. Even linux has a larger share (especially if you realize Android is based on it).
So either you are wrong or everyone else is. Somehow I think you are.
Really, if you go and defend a badly selling product, come up with counters as to why it sells so badly other then the defence "I bought it, so it must be great because else I must have been a real idiot for buying it".
Yes, obviously child porn is bad... that this is already a horrible piece of dogmatic reasoning, is not even the worsed of it. What is next?
Read up on "The people vs Harry Flint". Why did so many people come to the defence of a porn peddler? A crude porn peddler at that? Why defend a guy selling smuts with a few crude and insulting attackings on decent public people thrown in? (Some child porn addicts call this parody/satire) Because of this:
First they came...
It might be one of the most paraphrased quotes in history but it remains extremely valid. Remember, the guy who said it was a nazi symphatizer. Or to put it in this context, the anti-porn peddler hit by anti-depravity laws.
"obviously child porn is bad". I call this dogmatic because it leaves no room for argument, this is the classic tactic of the dictator. "Obviously X is bad" has been used countless times. Put communism in place for X and you got the McCarthy trials. Put independent woman and you got the witch hunts. And you can't argue against it, because it is obvious. You get to the point that just arguing against it becomes a crime by itself.
Child porn is the moralists dream. Nobody can argue that sex with a toddler should be allowed, so you have won the entire argument and then it becomes just a matter of constantly increasing the definition of child and eventually porn. Different countries have different ages of consent. Do you REALLY want the entire world to have to accept the age of consent of the most puritan nation on earth? Plenty of arguments to raise the age to 21. Say bye bye to any porn and once you accepted that to any nudity. Venus the Milo? Could be under 21, FORBIDDEN!
One of the indicators that the people who want to introduce these bans have not so hidden agenda's is that they talk bull shit. Japan is introducing censorship because of international pressure. Funny, Japan goes on whaling despite international pressure. It keep denying its warcrimes despite international pressure. But the one thing that could benefit the Japanese content industry like Sony, that they act upon. Oh, you don't see how censorhip of CP can benefit Sony?
Simple, file sharing networks are filled with CP and copyrighted content. Ban them for the CP and the copyrighted content follows. Freedom of exchange information means CP. Can't be helped, just asked the people behind Freenet. By its very nature the founders of freenet support CP because that has become the ultimate test of free anonymous speech. If you support that people have the right, the need, to be able to share any document without fear of reprisal, then you support the exchange of CP in practice.
It is simple really, freedom is the freedom to do really bad things. If you are free to drink, then you are free to drink yourself to death. If you are free to buy a rope, then you are free to hang yourself (remember that one of the first things they do when you freedom is removed in a jail, you are stopped from having the means to commit suicide).
Freedom is not some limited concept. You can't say: "well you can't do these things because a lot of people find them disgusting" because there will always be someone somewhere who finds something disgusting. You might not like 2 girls 1 cup but you would like it even less if all the content of the world had to pass through the approval of some Utah citizen.
But because of Dogma, if you want to protect freedom, you are defending the CP peddlers. It is almost impossible to fight this and I am fairly certain we will come to regret this. "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom away". "Why, I was thinking of you my dear, I killed your freedom to protect you."
It is THE Greek crisis. Not just any Greek crisis but THE one.
A Greek crisis would be a crisis of a certain type.
The Greek crisis refers to the one most talked about at the moment.
See: a confidence crisis vs the banking crisis. The banking crisis is the recent one, a banking crisis is just a crisis involving banks.
Yet another instance where a poster worth their salt would perform their appointed duties and correct submitted text, but a Slashdot poster fails to do so.
Note that my comment is funny. Anyone pointing out errors in my post is just sad. ;)
I think from the tone, his tongue is firmly up Balmers back side.
Adobe wants web content to just run anywhere? When the plugin they sell doesn't run everywhere and in places it does run, it often runs poorly?
Where is Flash for BSD? For AMD64? Oh, wait, when Adobe speaks about the net, they mean IE.
Adobe, the reason Apple hates your guts is because you never ever supported their OS properly until you absolutely had to.
Oh and I hate your guts too, just a little bit more then Steve Jobs in fact, so I hope he rapes your stinking rotting corpse and eats your babies. Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is worth cheering on.
It is simple, after meeting Guinan and Data (if you don't get the reference, hand in your geek card right now) he got a marvelous idea. He would publish a book a century after his death, collect the royalties, transport them back in time and be the richest man on the planet thanks to reverse inflation. And all that with not a single demand to sign an autograph or appear on chat shows.
The OLD original book would still have been free of copyright. Copyright would NOT have been extended on the ORIGINAL book. He just hoped that the NEW edition with its own new copyright would be worth buying from him for the new content.
But the OLD content would have been free of copyright. So basically, Mark Twain wanted people to pay him for freshly written new content.
That is not gaming the system, that is called selling stuff. nobody complains that the baker wants paid for his bread today even if you bought bread of him yesterday. New stuff, new payment.
Actually, it would be like saying Turing was bad because he way gay, which he was and people did.
Humanity, not very nice at all.