One case of them kittens would be equivalent, or you could substitute one PITA mother-in-law. Would you like some ketchup with your soylent green? It's a nice color contrast.
People in the United States allowed a man who repeatedly declared that he had a mandate from, was chosen by, an invisible imaginary overlord to be their President for eight agonizing years. He managed to get elected not once but TWICE... even after four years those citizens hadn't recognized their error. Even after another four, the verdict still wasn't exactly a landslide victory for a replacement... some people STILL think he was in fact chosen by a god. How fucked up is THAT?
Worms can only spread so far; that's why I deliberately chose TRUCKLOAD for my metaphor. Mitterrand can only taint the apples in close proximity to him; the rest of the truckload is fine. The French people got screwed and manipulated by their own political system in the same way that Americans have. I suspect that, if asked, a majority of the French people are just as disgusted by the continued presence of this little-boy-loving pervert as is the OP. They might ultimately have to foot the blame for being suckered, but that doesn't mean they support him. Is the Culture Minister even an elected official? If he's appointed, that certainly shifts the blame significantly.
So because one Frenchman has a taste for little boys, that proves that all Frenchmen therefore have the same perverse behavior? One bad apple spoils the whole truckload?
Don't quit yer day job for a career in statistics or set theory. Well, maybe statistics, considering it's abused about the same as what you did.
That woman is a SERIOUS ectomorph. Her waistline is not disproportionate to the rest of her body. It is quite possible that she is just that thin, and probably not helping with a restricted diet and heavy exercise.
This is precisely the sort of solution I had suggested earlier for the threat of the UK's ubiquitous cameras becoming a tool for Big Brother: let them become part of an extended "neighborhood watch" program and keep the cops' and other agencies' hands OFF, unless and until an actual citizen reports something. I guess somebody was listening or thinking the same thought? Let the citizens monitor and control the system, not the enforcement arm (police) of Big Brother (guv'ment).
Indirectly we've all allowed this to take place, all of us, We The People. It required a rebellion, and we weren't up to it. The writing was on the wall, but nobody heeded it. Oh, we griped and grumbled, sure enough, labor unions rallied, comedians poked hateful fun, and writers waxed indignant, but still we didn't do what was actually required to put a stop to it.
Just who the hell do you expect to fix it? The very people who were responsible in the first place? What exactly would be their motivation? What, because they're really just good thoughtful people? Yeah, I think that ship sailed and sank.
"Thawte is offering a 1-year free VeriSign cert to those holding valid Personal Email Certificates; after that you pay."
Does this strategy sound familiar? It should... it's the same business strategy practiced by drug pushers: get 'em dependent and addicted, and then start demanding money. Make 'em an offer they can't refuse.
So is Thawte run by former drug pushers?
(Yes, I know the same question could be asked of Comcast and thousands of other companies. I'm singling Thawte out because of that word "trust" being involved here.)
I do indeed hope it's been just a temporary phenomenon whose end is near!
Can selfless behavior, or at least something like "enlightened self-interest", actually be taught and learned, though? I'm suspicious it might have a genetic predisposition. I guess we'll find out, if all those articles are true. Lord knows we've certainly been breeding evil people during my lifetime, at least.
Bill Engvall says they can still get away with that in Texas, at least. I guess that rest of now have to be even more crafty ourselves, in ridding the species of them without getting caught? Sucks to be a dumb assassin or one with ADD.
Which is precisely why corporate CEOs - and sundry other people at the top of various food chains - are likely to be the least ethical people you're going to meet. Ethically ambiguous people are thus more capable of making decisions that maximize profit, in true the-end-justifies-the-means fashion.
As a civilization, then, we're hypocrites: we talk a lot about ethics and rights and equality and such, but then THESE are the people we promote to the highest levels of both business and government. Is it any wonder all the talk goes unrewarded and stays largely just talk? Look at how many millions of people were, and are still, convinced that either Bush or Obama are actually ethical.
If we really wanna change the world, we'll have to first change the criteria we're using that allow such ethically unsound people to always wind up in positions making decisions for all the rest of us.
"That's a definite flaw in our legal system: someone has to be abused (at least) once before the courts can rule."
Do you realize that is the same dynamic at work in our free-market economic system? People have to get repeatedly abused by the system (e.g. corporations) before adjustments are made to stop the abuse (usually in the form of kludges rather than real solutions, but that's another discussion). I'm not saying that's the way it should be, merely that this is the way it is. This is DEscriptive, then, but we can choose to be PREscriptive when we work up enough collective bile and disgust over our treatment of each other to then do something permanent about it.
Really all of human history is like that: just one knee-jerk response after another, lather, rinse, and repeat. We're still learning the hard way, and sadly doing a lot of RE-learning on a routine basis.
Don't forget, though, that those asylum-seekers are bringing their reproductive urges with them, so you have to account for that as well. At least you do unless you're sterilizing them at the border.
Please don't split hairs over semantics I used in one paragraph, when the others that followed make it clear I was referring to usage. We don't disagree. If the basic fee structure is to be based upon actual usage, then there should at most be a VERY small fixed monthly fee in addition; otherwise it would amount to double-dipping, as you said. OTOH, I'm very publicly on record advocating forcing all the telecom companies to give/sell ownership of the wires back to the public domain, which might be too extreme a solution (real network neutrality) for your taste. I say we should make the telecom companies into contractors, contractors supporting and maintaining OUR network! Our telecom infrastructure should be as public as Linux; the telecom companies should then be to the network what Redhat and Novell are to Linux.
It seems that Britain has finally become the true antithesis of an Empire: rather than trying to expand, it wants to shrink and implode upon itself....
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One case of them kittens would be equivalent, or you could substitute one PITA mother-in-law. Would you like some ketchup with your soylent green? It's a nice color contrast.
You didn't even for a moment consider that perhaps 2D Boy might have fudged the statistics for just that reason? Sucker! ;-)
... Shakespeare plagiarized himself? Stop the presses!
.... floors?
If that sucker is yellow and vibrating in such a way that it produces something that sounds eerily like Tony Orlando, we're in trouble!
This screen capture of a dialog I saw tonight demonstrates that Mozilla is paying attention and doing something about it, though:
People in the United States allowed a man who repeatedly declared that he had a mandate from, was chosen by, an invisible imaginary overlord to be their President for eight agonizing years. He managed to get elected not once but TWICE... even after four years those citizens hadn't recognized their error. Even after another four, the verdict still wasn't exactly a landslide victory for a replacement... some people STILL think he was in fact chosen by a god. How fucked up is THAT?
Worms can only spread so far; that's why I deliberately chose TRUCKLOAD for my metaphor. Mitterrand can only taint the apples in close proximity to him; the rest of the truckload is fine. The French people got screwed and manipulated by their own political system in the same way that Americans have. I suspect that, if asked, a majority of the French people are just as disgusted by the continued presence of this little-boy-loving pervert as is the OP. They might ultimately have to foot the blame for being suckered, but that doesn't mean they support him. Is the Culture Minister even an elected official? If he's appointed, that certainly shifts the blame significantly.
So because one Frenchman has a taste for little boys, that proves that all Frenchmen therefore have the same perverse behavior? One bad apple spoils the whole truckload?
Don't quit yer day job for a career in statistics or set theory. Well, maybe statistics, considering it's abused about the same as what you did.
So...
1. squat
2. flush
3. repeat
4. errrr, profit?
Put the cork back in and stop the flow of whine, will ya? Somewhere there's an empty bottle missing its whine....
That woman is a SERIOUS ectomorph. Her waistline is not disproportionate to the rest of her body. It is quite possible that she is just that thin, and probably not helping with a restricted diet and heavy exercise.
This is precisely the sort of solution I had suggested earlier for the threat of the UK's ubiquitous cameras becoming a tool for Big Brother: let them become part of an extended "neighborhood watch" program and keep the cops' and other agencies' hands OFF, unless and until an actual citizen reports something. I guess somebody was listening or thinking the same thought? Let the citizens monitor and control the system, not the enforcement arm (police) of Big Brother (guv'ment).
Indirectly we've all allowed this to take place, all of us, We The People. It required a rebellion, and we weren't up to it. The writing was on the wall, but nobody heeded it. Oh, we griped and grumbled, sure enough, labor unions rallied, comedians poked hateful fun, and writers waxed indignant, but still we didn't do what was actually required to put a stop to it.
Just who the hell do you expect to fix it? The very people who were responsible in the first place? What exactly would be their motivation? What, because they're really just good thoughtful people? Yeah, I think that ship sailed and sank.
Does this strategy sound familiar? It should... it's the same business strategy practiced by drug pushers: get 'em dependent and addicted, and then start demanding money. Make 'em an offer they can't refuse.
So is Thawte run by former drug pushers?
(Yes, I know the same question could be asked of Comcast and thousands of other companies. I'm singling Thawte out because of that word "trust" being involved here.)
Was it attacked by a blender?
I do indeed hope it's been just a temporary phenomenon whose end is near!
Can selfless behavior, or at least something like "enlightened self-interest", actually be taught and learned, though? I'm suspicious it might have a genetic predisposition. I guess we'll find out, if all those articles are true. Lord knows we've certainly been breeding evil people during my lifetime, at least.
Bill Engvall says they can still get away with that in Texas, at least. I guess that rest of now have to be even more crafty ourselves, in ridding the species of them without getting caught? Sucks to be a dumb assassin or one with ADD.
Which is precisely why corporate CEOs - and sundry other people at the top of various food chains - are likely to be the least ethical people you're going to meet. Ethically ambiguous people are thus more capable of making decisions that maximize profit, in true the-end-justifies-the-means fashion.
As a civilization, then, we're hypocrites: we talk a lot about ethics and rights and equality and such, but then THESE are the people we promote to the highest levels of both business and government. Is it any wonder all the talk goes unrewarded and stays largely just talk? Look at how many millions of people were, and are still, convinced that either Bush or Obama are actually ethical.
If we really wanna change the world, we'll have to first change the criteria we're using that allow such ethically unsound people to always wind up in positions making decisions for all the rest of us.
Troll? Jeez, what a rough crowd.
Great... that's precisely what we need: mutant tofu to go with our irradiated mercury-soaked sushi.
Those laws were themselves originally knee-jerks. Follow the money.
Do you realize that is the same dynamic at work in our free-market economic system? People have to get repeatedly abused by the system (e.g. corporations) before adjustments are made to stop the abuse (usually in the form of kludges rather than real solutions, but that's another discussion). I'm not saying that's the way it should be, merely that this is the way it is. This is DEscriptive, then, but we can choose to be PREscriptive when we work up enough collective bile and disgust over our treatment of each other to then do something permanent about it.
Really all of human history is like that: just one knee-jerk response after another, lather, rinse, and repeat. We're still learning the hard way, and sadly doing a lot of RE-learning on a routine basis.
Don't forget, though, that those asylum-seekers are bringing their reproductive urges with them, so you have to account for that as well. At least you do unless you're sterilizing them at the border.
*dux*
Please don't split hairs over semantics I used in one paragraph, when the others that followed make it clear I was referring to usage. We don't disagree. If the basic fee structure is to be based upon actual usage, then there should at most be a VERY small fixed monthly fee in addition; otherwise it would amount to double-dipping, as you said. OTOH, I'm very publicly on record advocating forcing all the telecom companies to give/sell ownership of the wires back to the public domain, which might be too extreme a solution (real network neutrality) for your taste. I say we should make the telecom companies into contractors, contractors supporting and maintaining OUR network! Our telecom infrastructure should be as public as Linux; the telecom companies should then be to the network what Redhat and Novell are to Linux.
It seems that Britain has finally become the true antithesis of an Empire: rather than trying to expand, it wants to shrink and implode upon itself....