Hopefully by the time these 2 decades have passed, the EU and/or China will have become strong enough superpowers to keep the US in check, and we won't have to put up with any more of their senseless wars that don't seem to benefit anyone other than US corporations and the right-wing warhawks they're in league with.
Yes, I know, -1 Flamebait, but I promise you at least 90% of the world is wishing the same thing. Well, maybe not many will be wishing for China as the new global superpower, but personally I'd settle for that if it meant a balance of power. Anything to keep the US from flouting its military might around unchecked.
Parent is probably french. One of the exceptions in the french language is that "paie" and "paye" are both acceptable (as in, officially, by the Académie Francaise) spellings for the word "pay". They're homonyms anyway, they sound the same when pronounced.
Wow, I can't believe that got modded informative. The joke doesn't even pretend to be subtle, and yet it managed to have someone with the humanity of a robot reply to it in all seriousness.
Good going mods. --- I DON'T REALLY MEAN THIS BECAUSE, SEE, THIS IS SARCASM. AND I'M POINTING IT OUT. MOD ME INSIGHTFUL PLZ.
"I was stating that the fact that the average american donates more money than the average citizen of any other country suggests that we are inherently not bullies."
The average american donates LESS than the average citizen of most developed nations in terms of percentage of salary. The total donated is more, yes, but that's only because you have higher salaries.
http://www.foreignaidwatch.org/print.php?sid=792
Now look at this list. Who exactly is the recipient of your "foreign aid"? The biggest amount of money goes to buy Israel new tanks to destroy Palestinian villages with, or to Egypt as a guarantee that they leave Israel alone, and so on and so forth. Looking at that list, I see very little humanitarian aid coming from the US, it's all kickbacks to allies and 3rd world dictatorships that choose to support you.
But your (false) beliefs are understandable. http://cfrterrorism.org/policy/fo reignaid.html
"A 2001 poll sponsored by the University of Maryland showed that most Americans think the United States spends about 24 percent of its annual budget on foreign aid--more than 24 times the actual figure."
It must be nice thinking you're the center of the world.
Why is there always someone who manages to get modded up on some silly semantics game? Thank you, dear reader, for pointing out to us that music is a product created by someone. Clearly, without your wise observation, we'd have kept on believing that it was a mysterious aural force that materialized itself on our airwaves every full moon. FFS. We're obviously talking about something else here: music made by artists who love what they do and only care about creating the most meaningful art they can, and music designed in big label studios whose entire focus is selling an image to a commercial demographic.
Thank you, come again.
In our next episode, we find out that the dictionary definition of "nigger" refers to anyone of a disadvantaged social class! Remember to point this out after every GNAA post, and your karma will skyrocket up there alongside KFG or kjella!
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "I for one welcome our new X overlords". You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what Kent says on the show right? Isn't it? I for one welcome our new insect overlords. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to obtain a +5 comment in this situation. God what a clever, smart guy you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Soviet Russia jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you're so funny!
Umm...I was told when I was a child that they do this xxxx9.99 pricing to avoid entering a higher sales tax bracket (here in Canada at least). Could someone confirm/deny? Because "it sounds less expensive" seems like a pretty silly reason...not that we haven't seen things far more retarded from marketing drones.
Is that why the PS2 is an absolute horror to program for (as seen by the poor-looking games that come out on it)? Having Linux (which the PS2 does) doesn't seem to have made development any easier. Xbox and GC games still look and run far better. The developers that don't have a huge budget can't afford to make PS2 games, they flock to Xbox.
As far as philosophy goes, I *do* want Sony to have the PS3 development open. But if the PS2 is anything to go by, the developers will spend too much of their time fighting the hardware rather than making me good games. That's definitely something I don't want as a gamer.
I couldn't get contact lenses because my eyes are so sensitive (read: I'm a pussy) that I don't dare let anything touch them. I tried for hours to put on contacts and always failed. I saw the surgery clinic while I was in the neighborhood, figured I could go in and ask questions...and next thing you know I'm scheduled for surgery 45 minutes later.
The problem was that I still had very sensitive eyes: the doctor couldn't do the proper surgery where a machine "readies" your eye. This surgery only takes a couple of hours of convalescence. Instead he had to grate my eyes with a knife (he puts something in them to prevent you from feeling anything) and I had to keep my eyes fully closed for 3 days until my mutant healing powers kicked in. Fortunately it was during summer and I had no job or social obligations (har har).
One year later, my vision hasn't weakened, despite heavy gaming and use of the PC. This was without doubt the only personal expense I ever paid that benefitted me. I don't regret it one bit and urge everyone to go for it.
Think of the GPL and BSD licenses as P2P apps. One of them forces you to share the files you're downloading (think Bittorrent) in order to benefit the entire community wether you like it or not, while the other lets you decide what to do, including turning off sharing while you leech away (Kazaa, Napster), something which most people in those communities tend to do.
Just because Kazaa is more free in the literal sense doesn't mean it's a better choice. One look at the Bittorrent and Kazaa communities and it becomes obvious which one is more advantageous.
I've never watched Star Trek (gasp! well I did see the one with Khan), so perhaps that explains why no one else (to my knowledge: I'm reading at a high treshhold) has mentionned it, but couldn't the Romulans just be wearing armors or something? Since the odds of having a war movie where the combatants never encounter one another are slim, the Romulans will probably be wearing masks or helmets or some such, hiding their bodies. Technically you didn't see the Nazgul King's face either in LOTR:ROTK.
Is budget cuts the reason why we have 30-second-long scenes where the only thing moving on the screen is the lips of the character?
Or the reason why Rurouni Kenshin spends 5 episodes doing "powering up discussions" and then another 5 episodes jumping towards his enemy while exciting music plays in the background, and in the end you don't even see him slashing the ****ing opponent, because conveniently, "KENSHIN IS 2 FAST A SWORDSMAN 4 U 2 C!"
"Israel is 0.05% of the land held by arab nations. You'd really deny a few Jews such a small patch of dirt?"
I always see this argument coming from pro-Israel folks. People like you keep grouping Arabs as if they were some sort of Borg collective. I've often heard people say ridiculous things like "if Egypt and Jordan cared about the Palestinians, they'd let them move into their countries".
It's NOT a Borg collective. It doesn't matter how many Arab countries there are in the world, and how much land they cover. All that matters is that a bunch of civilians (who just happen to be Arab, but that's of no importance), who have their own past, their own culture, had the land they lived on given to someone else (even though there already were jews, and they were coexisting). And then they were kicked out of their homes, and to this day are still being kicked out of their homes and denied basic human dignity and rights, all in the name of Zionism and the expansion of Israel. At the same time a bunch of military men waged war against each other: but that doesn't matter. The Palestinian people are CIVILIANS, and they should not be punished for the military conflicts of others.
Heh...as I wrote this, I remembered a recent article that mentionned an old Palestinian man who had been kicked out of his home and watched it being destroyed 3 times in his lifetime. The latest was during the latest Gaza "terrist hunt". Haha, not but seriously, how can anyone still believe Israel is a Good Guy (tm)?
""Eskimo" is a derogatory term originally applied by Francophones ("Esquimaux") and meaning "eaters of raw meat"."
Huh? I'm french canadian, and I don't see the connection. And the french language did not radically change since the 17th century to the point where we'd have such important words completely disappear.
"eaters of raw meat" would be literally translated as "mangeurs de viande crue". I've thought of every synonym possible (for example, nourrishment instead of eating) and none of them match.
It was about Canadians. The joke went something like:
"The sad thing about Canada is that they could've gotten british culture, french cooking and american technology. Instead they got french technology, british cooking and american culture."
"Meh? How was Maul evil? He had horns? All of these guys are evil only because they're on the wrong side, not because they really establish their respective characters at all."
What the? You sound like one of them terrist sympathisers! Maul is evil because he's jealous of the Jedis' freedom, and that is that!
"If all these codecs are MPEG-4 (e.g. DIVX, XVID, 3IVX, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) does that mean that they're all playable in something like a DVD player that has MPEG-4 compatibility?"
I don't know about official DVD players, but I watch my movies on my Xbox, and because it's modded, I can watch XviD videos on it with the Xbox port of the codec. Image quality on TV isn't as nice as on my PC monitor, but decent enough considering you can put 6-7 movies per DVD-R disc.
"Come on. It's one thing to try and claim that p2p is being 'abused' by the users but when you develop something to hide where the data is coming from you're doing it to hide illegal activity."
So what you're saying is that the only reason why someone would want privacy is because they're criminals? I guess you're one of the people who don't mind the Patriot Act.
Some people, including me, don't like having their downloads exposed for some powerful entity (corporate or otherwise) to see. The Chinese dissidents using Freenet to swap information would agree.
"I mean, of course record companies have a "virtual monopoly" on making records. But canned air makers have a "virtual monopoly" on canned air. Super glue makers have a "virtual monopoly" on super glue. So what? "
Not quite so simple. It IS a virtual monopoly because 95% of the worldwide distribution is at the hands of 5 RIAA-member companies: Sony, EMI, BMG, Universal, and Time Warner. Just because there are other companies that belong in the remaining 5% doesn't mean you can compare it to an industry where companies have healthy competition going with no price-fixing/gouging deals.
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Hopefully by the time these 2 decades have passed, the EU and/or China will have become strong enough superpowers to keep the US in check, and we won't have to put up with any more of their senseless wars that don't seem to benefit anyone other than US corporations and the right-wing warhawks they're in league with.
Yes, I know, -1 Flamebait, but I promise you at least 90% of the world is wishing the same thing. Well, maybe not many will be wishing for China as the new global superpower, but personally I'd settle for that if it meant a balance of power. Anything to keep the US from flouting its military might around unchecked.
Parent is probably french. One of the exceptions in the french language is that "paie" and "paye" are both acceptable (as in, officially, by the Académie Francaise) spellings for the word "pay". They're homonyms anyway, they sound the same when pronounced.
Wow, I can't believe that got modded informative. The joke doesn't even pretend to be subtle, and yet it managed to have someone with the humanity of a robot reply to it in all seriousness.
Good going mods. --- I DON'T REALLY MEAN THIS BECAUSE, SEE, THIS IS SARCASM. AND I'M POINTING IT OUT. MOD ME INSIGHTFUL PLZ.
"I was stating that the fact that the average american donates more money than the average citizen of any other country suggests that we are inherently not bullies."
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The average american donates LESS than the average citizen of most developed nations in terms of percentage of salary. The total donated is more, yes, but that's only because you have higher salaries.
http://www.foreignaidwatch.org/print.php?sid=79
Now look at this list. Who exactly is the recipient of your "foreign aid"? The biggest amount of money goes to buy Israel new tanks to destroy Palestinian villages with, or to Egypt as a guarantee that they leave Israel alone, and so on and so forth. Looking at that list, I see very little humanitarian aid coming from the US, it's all kickbacks to allies and 3rd world dictatorships that choose to support you.
But your (false) beliefs are understandable.
http://cfrterrorism.org/policy/f
"A 2001 poll sponsored by the University of Maryland showed that most Americans think the United States spends about 24 percent of its annual budget on foreign aid--more than 24 times the actual figure."
It must be nice thinking you're the center of the world.
*rolls eyes*
Why is there always someone who manages to get modded up on some silly semantics game? Thank you, dear reader, for pointing out to us that music is a product created by someone. Clearly, without your wise observation, we'd have kept on believing that it was a mysterious aural force that materialized itself on our airwaves every full moon. FFS. We're obviously talking about something else here: music made by artists who love what they do and only care about creating the most meaningful art they can, and music designed in big label studios whose entire focus is selling an image to a commercial demographic.
Thank you, come again.
In our next episode, we find out that the dictionary definition of "nigger" refers to anyone of a disadvantaged social class! Remember to point this out after every GNAA post, and your karma will skyrocket up there alongside KFG or kjella!
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "I for one welcome our new X overlords". You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what Kent says on the show right? Isn't it? I for one welcome our new insect overlords. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to obtain a +5 comment in this situation. God what a clever, smart guy you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Soviet Russia jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you're so funny!
-Stewie
With this, my hard drive speed increased a lot, if you know what I mean, and I think you do!
However, I don't know about "longer lasting". I guess it depends on the person. Mine becomes a floppy after 2 minutes.
Who cares? It's not like we read them anyway :)
Umm...I was told when I was a child that they do this xxxx9.99 pricing to avoid entering a higher sales tax bracket (here in Canada at least). Could someone confirm/deny? Because "it sounds less expensive" seems like a pretty silly reason...not that we haven't seen things far more retarded from marketing drones.
Is that why the PS2 is an absolute horror to program for (as seen by the poor-looking games that come out on it)? Having Linux (which the PS2 does) doesn't seem to have made development any easier. Xbox and GC games still look and run far better. The developers that don't have a huge budget can't afford to make PS2 games, they flock to Xbox.
As far as philosophy goes, I *do* want Sony to have the PS3 development open. But if the PS2 is anything to go by, the developers will spend too much of their time fighting the hardware rather than making me good games. That's definitely something I don't want as a gamer.
I couldn't get contact lenses because my eyes are so sensitive (read: I'm a pussy) that I don't dare let anything touch them. I tried for hours to put on contacts and always failed. I saw the surgery clinic while I was in the neighborhood, figured I could go in and ask questions...and next thing you know I'm scheduled for surgery 45 minutes later.
The problem was that I still had very sensitive eyes: the doctor couldn't do the proper surgery where a machine "readies" your eye. This surgery only takes a couple of hours of convalescence. Instead he had to grate my eyes with a knife (he puts something in them to prevent you from feeling anything) and I had to keep my eyes fully closed for 3 days until my mutant healing powers kicked in. Fortunately it was during summer and I had no job or social obligations (har har).
One year later, my vision hasn't weakened, despite heavy gaming and use of the PC. This was without doubt the only personal expense I ever paid that benefitted me. I don't regret it one bit and urge everyone to go for it.
"I'm not letting someone else hydrate my food."
You Americans are so puritanical...you need to come visit Germany sometimes.
One analogy can explain it quite clearly IMO:
Think of the GPL and BSD licenses as P2P apps. One of them forces you to share the files you're downloading (think Bittorrent) in order to benefit the entire community wether you like it or not, while the other lets you decide what to do, including turning off sharing while you leech away (Kazaa, Napster), something which most people in those communities tend to do.
Just because Kazaa is more free in the literal sense doesn't mean it's a better choice. One look at the Bittorrent and Kazaa communities and it becomes obvious which one is more advantageous.
I've never watched Star Trek (gasp! well I did see the one with Khan), so perhaps that explains why no one else (to my knowledge: I'm reading at a high treshhold) has mentionned it, but couldn't the Romulans just be wearing armors or something? Since the odds of having a war movie where the combatants never encounter one another are slim, the Romulans will probably be wearing masks or helmets or some such, hiding their bodies. Technically you didn't see the Nazgul King's face either in LOTR:ROTK.
Is budget cuts the reason why we have 30-second-long scenes where the only thing moving on the screen is the lips of the character?
Or the reason why Rurouni Kenshin spends 5 episodes doing "powering up discussions" and then another 5 episodes jumping towards his enemy while exciting music plays in the background, and in the end you don't even see him slashing the ****ing opponent, because conveniently, "KENSHIN IS 2 FAST A SWORDSMAN 4 U 2 C!"
WTF!?
"Israel is 0.05% of the land held by arab nations. You'd really deny a few Jews such a small patch of dirt?"
I always see this argument coming from pro-Israel folks. People like you keep grouping Arabs as if they were some sort of Borg collective. I've often heard people say ridiculous things like "if Egypt and Jordan cared about the Palestinians, they'd let them move into their countries".
It's NOT a Borg collective. It doesn't matter how many Arab countries there are in the world, and how much land they cover. All that matters is that a bunch of civilians (who just happen to be Arab, but that's of no importance), who have their own past, their own culture, had the land they lived on given to someone else (even though there already were jews, and they were coexisting). And then they were kicked out of their homes, and to this day are still being kicked out of their homes and denied basic human dignity and rights, all in the name of Zionism and the expansion of Israel. At the same time a bunch of military men waged war against each other: but that doesn't matter. The Palestinian people are CIVILIANS, and they should not be punished for the military conflicts of others.
Heh...as I wrote this, I remembered a recent article that mentionned an old Palestinian man who had been kicked out of his home and watched it being destroyed 3 times in his lifetime. The latest was during the latest Gaza "terrist hunt". Haha, not but seriously, how can anyone still believe Israel is a Good Guy (tm)?
""Eskimo" is a derogatory term originally applied by Francophones ("Esquimaux") and meaning "eaters of raw meat"."
Huh? I'm french canadian, and I don't see the connection. And the french language did not radically change since the 17th century to the point where we'd have such important words completely disappear.
"eaters of raw meat" would be literally translated as "mangeurs de viande crue". I've thought of every synonym possible (for example, nourrishment instead of eating) and none of them match.
Do you have a link to where you read this?
It was about Canadians. The joke went something like:
"The sad thing about Canada is that they could've gotten british culture, french cooking and american technology. Instead they got french technology, british cooking and american culture."
You kids don't know what you want. That's why you're still kids: because you're stupid!
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun!
"Meh? How was Maul evil? He had horns? All of these guys are evil only because they're on the wrong side, not because they really establish their respective characters at all."
What the? You sound like one of them terrist sympathisers! Maul is evil because he's jealous of the Jedis' freedom, and that is that!
"If all these codecs are MPEG-4 (e.g. DIVX, XVID, 3IVX, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) does that mean that they're all playable in something like a DVD player that has MPEG-4 compatibility?"
I don't know about official DVD players, but I watch my movies on my Xbox, and because it's modded, I can watch XviD videos on it with the Xbox port of the codec. Image quality on TV isn't as nice as on my PC monitor, but decent enough considering you can put 6-7 movies per DVD-R disc.
"By: Joe Baldwin
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT "
What arrogance! I wish the Canadians would really bomb the Baldwins.
"Come on. It's one thing to try and claim that p2p is being 'abused' by the users but when you develop something to hide where the data is coming from you're doing it to hide illegal activity."
So what you're saying is that the only reason why someone would want privacy is because they're criminals? I guess you're one of the people who don't mind the Patriot Act.
Some people, including me, don't like having their downloads exposed for some powerful entity (corporate or otherwise) to see. The Chinese dissidents using Freenet to swap information would agree.
"I mean, of course record companies have a "virtual monopoly" on making records. But canned air makers have a "virtual monopoly" on canned air. Super glue makers have a "virtual monopoly" on super glue. So what? "
Not quite so simple. It IS a virtual monopoly because 95% of the worldwide distribution is at the hands of 5 RIAA-member companies: Sony, EMI, BMG, Universal, and Time Warner. Just because there are other companies that belong in the remaining 5% doesn't mean you can compare it to an industry where companies have healthy competition going with no price-fixing/gouging deals.