You're saying that other nations have no right to criticize a nation's domestic policy. If we didn't do that sixty years ago, all the masterminds of the Holocaust would have gotten away scott free. They were just creating and following domestic policy, too.
Nothing concerning the Far Side can be considered a waste of time. Going to your menial classes instead of reading Far Side...THAT'S wasting your youth.
And personally, I think Far Side cartoons are more educational than some of the crap I had to wade through in school.
Just because everybody does it doesn't make it right. When Mao Tse Tung instituted his "Great Cultural Revolution," he did it with the full approval of millions of enthusiastic subjects. Those millions of enthusiastic subjects then went on to kill about 20 million of their countrymen. Now, should we consider murder a good and noble means to political reform, simply because everybody was doing it (or at least not attempting to stop it?). Of course not. Murder is still murder, whether it's one person doing it or a million. And in some cases, if it's 60 million people breaking the law, then I have no sympathy for whatever happens to them.
I imagine this question has already been answered, but I still wonder - what's the point, exactly, of spam?
The Spamhaus Project says that "90% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe is sent by a hard-core group of under 200 spam outfits." Yet these companies/individuals know that their marketing hardly ever works (what's the reply rate of spam? Something like.0001%?). So why do they keep coming to work? Are they idiots? Or just malignant bastards? And why do companies keep using spam for advertising? Is it so much more cost-effective to use brain-dead spamvertising over something actually thought-out?
It makes you wonder what kids ten years from now are going to be saying about GTA3...
"What the hell? You mean I actually have to use a CONTROLLER? You mean I actually have to use my hands?"
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You're saying that other nations have no right to criticize a nation's domestic policy. If we didn't do that sixty years ago, all the masterminds of the Holocaust would have gotten away scott free. They were just creating and following domestic policy, too.
Nothing concerning the Far Side can be considered a waste of time. Going to your menial classes instead of reading Far Side...THAT'S wasting your youth. And personally, I think Far Side cartoons are more educational than some of the crap I had to wade through in school.
Actually from Mad Magazine.
Just because everybody does it doesn't make it right. When Mao Tse Tung instituted his "Great Cultural Revolution," he did it with the full approval of millions of enthusiastic subjects. Those millions of enthusiastic subjects then went on to kill about 20 million of their countrymen. Now, should we consider murder a good and noble means to political reform, simply because everybody was doing it (or at least not attempting to stop it?). Of course not. Murder is still murder, whether it's one person doing it or a million. And in some cases, if it's 60 million people breaking the law, then I have no sympathy for whatever happens to them.
I imagine this question has already been answered, but I still wonder - what's the point, exactly, of spam? The Spamhaus Project says that "90% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe is sent by a hard-core group of under 200 spam outfits." Yet these companies/individuals know that their marketing hardly ever works (what's the reply rate of spam? Something like .0001%?). So why do they keep coming to work? Are they idiots? Or just malignant bastards? And why do companies keep using spam for advertising? Is it so much more cost-effective to use brain-dead spamvertising over something actually thought-out?
It makes you wonder what kids ten years from now are going to be saying about GTA3... "What the hell? You mean I actually have to use a CONTROLLER? You mean I actually have to use my hands?"