Wow, a childhood friend of yours spent a few years in Texas? And he made a trite remark? You must certainly be the most qualified person here to talk about US society.
Socialism is the belief that the means of production should be in the hands of the government. If you contend that American liberalism advocates this, then I'll have to ask you for some evidence to support that view. If that is not your contention, then you really should refrain from making comments about word usage since you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
Somebody says that taking advantage of people is no way to live your life and he gets modded to +4 Interesting? There's no +1 Self-Evident mod, I guess.
Are you kidding? Dvorak is a prime mover behind SETI. He convinced us we weren't going to find any intelligent life here and that we'd better look for it in a Dvorak-free solar system.
Inside joke? More like annoying cliche. If I was at a party and someone asked what the meaning of life is and nobody said 42, I would be deeply surprised.
The CIA is indeed a foreign intelligence agency, but the grandparent post is correct: NSA does not, under usual circumstances, monitor "US persons." A US person is defined as a:
a) US citizen
b) Known permanent resident alien
c) Unincorporated association substantially composed of US citizens or resident aliens
d) Corporation is it is incorporated in the US and non directed or controlled by a foreign government.
The NSA is not allowed to collect on any of those entities; see Executive Order 12333 and USSID 18. Of course, there are exceptions, which keep getting broader and more numerous. But if you're a US citizen, you can be reasonably sure that the NSA is not collecting on you.
Considering that President Bush was the first President since his father to mention any sort of NASA initiative (and NASA funding was cut during the Clinton admin.), maybe you need to re-think your small-minded, uninformed comment.
Considering that President Bush is only the second President since his father, this isn't much of an accomplishment.
Every day there are news stories about car crashs, gas prices, and high emissions. But nobody ever reports on the simple usefulness of automobiles! Why must we constantly demonize cars?
Everybody already knows the Internet is great for communicating with your friends, doing research, and looking at high-quality pictures of naked women. No one is going to take it away from you.
On slashdot, does documenting a problem a with a medium automatically qualify as "demonizing" it? The Internet is a great tool, but that doesn't mean there are no downsides to it, nor that we shouldn't ever discuss those downsides.
I must be new here.
I had the same experience and it has made me a life-long Amazon.com customer.
I'm in the US Army, currently stationed in Korea. When I first got here, I didn't realize how long it sometimes takes for packages to be delivered to APO AP addresses; occasionally, it will take upwards of a month. So after waiting three weeks for a package to arrive, I wrote Amazon and asked if perhaps my shipment had been lost somewhere (you also can't use on-line tracking for items being sent to APO address).
Really, I just wanted to see if they could look into the situation, but instead they immediately sent out another shipment with everything I had ordered (over $100 in books and music). Eventually, I received both shipments and returned the replacement. But their willingness to go the extra mile for me made an impression.
All life is genetically designed to move forward, and if we deny this fundamental core of biology, in the name of being cheapskates, the consequence is inevitable.
What does that statement mean, exactly? It sounds like something you might find in a 3rd rate science fiction novel.
Life isn't genetically designed to do anything (except breed, I suppose), much less "move forward." Our genes are quite content to stay here on Earth, thank you very much. Evolution hasn't been working for millions of years to perfect some sort of brainy biped that can spread to other planets. We're just an accident. Hell, bacteria, speaking in evolutionary terms, are much more successful than we are. And you don't see them worrying about whether they'll stagnate and die unless they rocket themselves off to Mars.
I'm as much a proponent of the space program as anyone. It's inspiring, exciting, wonderful, and a whole bunch more adjectives. But the future of the human race -- except maybe in the long, long, long term -- doesn't depend on it, nor is it somehow preprogrammed into our chromosomes. That's just silly.
Actually it was a cool movie, going lightly on the monster makeup and relying heavily on the viewer's own imagination. It may be too subtle for the US market, clearly a UK film, dry and sharp. Think of it as the film as the sequel to Resident Evil, without Milla Jovovich but with an equally sexy Naomie Harris.
People who speak well of Resident Evil -- possibly the most boring movie ever made -- should not be making snide comments about the US market's lack of subtlety.
Yeah, well, you don't need to camp out for weeks to get tickets to a Star Trek movie. In fact, the producers might camp out for weeks in front of your house to get you to go see it.
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Wow, a childhood friend of yours spent a few years in Texas? And he made a trite remark? You must certainly be the most qualified person here to talk about US society.
Well, it's news for nerds.
Socialism is the belief that the means of production should be in the hands of the government. If you contend that American liberalism advocates this, then I'll have to ask you for some evidence to support that view. If that is not your contention, then you really should refrain from making comments about word usage since you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
Somebody says that taking advantage of people is no way to live your life and he gets modded to +4 Interesting? There's no +1 Self-Evident mod, I guess.
Are you kidding? Dvorak is a prime mover behind SETI. He convinced us we weren't going to find any intelligent life here and that we'd better look for it in a Dvorak-free solar system.
Because "rootkit" sounds cool, like a plumber's tool or some sort of kinky sexual practice.
Uri can't help you here, man. Unless he could power wikimedia... with his mind!
Rise and fall my ass!
a) US citizen
b) Known permanent resident alien
c) Unincorporated association substantially composed of US citizens or resident aliens
d) Corporation is it is incorporated in the US and non directed or controlled by a foreign government.
The NSA is not allowed to collect on any of those entities; see Executive Order 12333 and USSID 18. Of course, there are exceptions, which keep getting broader and more numerous. But if you're a US citizen, you can be reasonably sure that the NSA is not collecting on you.
I really, really hope you're not comparing the struggle for free movies to the struggle for civil rights.
Who wants to buy a $509 Mini?
Considering that President Bush is only the second President since his father, this isn't much of an accomplishment.
The fact that there is no governing body does not imply that there are no rules.
I wish I had some idea of what you are talking about.
Everybody already knows the Internet is great for communicating with your friends, doing research, and looking at high-quality pictures of naked women. No one is going to take it away from you.
On slashdot, does documenting a problem a with a medium automatically qualify as "demonizing" it? The Internet is a great tool, but that doesn't mean there are no downsides to it, nor that we shouldn't ever discuss those downsides. I must be new here.
Office building?! HR Manager?! What horrors we suffer in the name of success....
I'm in the US Army, currently stationed in Korea. When I first got here, I didn't realize how long it sometimes takes for packages to be delivered to APO AP addresses; occasionally, it will take upwards of a month. So after waiting three weeks for a package to arrive, I wrote Amazon and asked if perhaps my shipment had been lost somewhere (you also can't use on-line tracking for items being sent to APO address).
Really, I just wanted to see if they could look into the situation, but instead they immediately sent out another shipment with everything I had ordered (over $100 in books and music). Eventually, I received both shipments and returned the replacement. But their willingness to go the extra mile for me made an impression.
Strangely, IMDB recommends Miller's Crossing to people who enjoyed From Justin to Kelly. I can't get my mind around that.
Read the Fight Club quote. Then read the one from Keynes. Now you know the difference between pretentiousness and wit.
What does that statement mean, exactly? It sounds like something you might find in a 3rd rate science fiction novel.
Life isn't genetically designed to do anything (except breed, I suppose), much less "move forward." Our genes are quite content to stay here on Earth, thank you very much. Evolution hasn't been working for millions of years to perfect some sort of brainy biped that can spread to other planets. We're just an accident. Hell, bacteria, speaking in evolutionary terms, are much more successful than we are. And you don't see them worrying about whether they'll stagnate and die unless they rocket themselves off to Mars.
I'm as much a proponent of the space program as anyone. It's inspiring, exciting, wonderful, and a whole bunch more adjectives. But the future of the human race -- except maybe in the long, long, long term -- doesn't depend on it, nor is it somehow preprogrammed into our chromosomes. That's just silly.
People who speak well of Resident Evil -- possibly the most boring movie ever made -- should not be making snide comments about the US market's lack of subtlety.
Yeah, well, you don't need to camp out for weeks to get tickets to a Star Trek movie. In fact, the producers might camp out for weeks in front of your house to get you to go see it.