Ignoring the value or lunacy of any religion... it just raises some serious red flags for a religious organization to institute legal proceedings to hide one of its documents especially by using copyright rules. Do the LDS really want to be put in the same bed with the Scientologists?:)
"Secret" documents never remain so...
Disclosure: The older I get and the more I research, the more jaundiced my views become on the majority of religions.
Actually, its very rude to talk on your phone like that in the US as well. We just seem to have a lot more rude idiots that look like they're off their medication chatting into thin air.
(I love it when I'm making a purchasing decision and some moron starts jabbering out loud about whether they should buy 2% or skim milk right next to me. Then when I make a suggestion, they act like *I'm* the one looking psychotic:) ).
and then morons in a state county make him a *JUDGE*????????
Wow, he either had no opponent (common for judge elections) or his opponent in the race should gut and roast their research team.
"Using anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that D&D is bad is idiotic." -- quoted for Great Truth.
There's so much scientific evidence that imaginative play is critical for brain function from the very young to the very elderly that it is difficult to even want to bother to respond to the anti-play comments in this thread.
There is a certain segment of the population that tends to be "psychologically addictive" and it really doesn't matter what the target obsession is. Some target obsessions are better than others (e.g. D&D vs. gambling) but blaming the target is too easy and often extends into the crazy mindset of the "If I can't handle it, no one else can either" type of control-freakdom.
Gary took the idea of collaborative storytelling, mixed it with a standardized set of game mechanics -- and created what can be a highly creative and recreative form of entertainment. Kudos and I'd love to see his resting place festooned with d20 dice:)
I don't know... a LOT of people look pretty addicted to electricity and indoor plumbing. Won't someone think of the children!
(in other news, "addiction" no longer means anything because it means everything....)
I have a habit of buying CDs and books from Japan (yes, its my downfall).... the last CD I purchased from cdjapan had been clearly opened and "checked out" by "Customs" in the US. The labels they stuck on it even confused my local post office ("hey, boss. These labels don't make sense."). And I mean the mysterious goblins at the TSA/Customs opened the CD case, tearing the jacket sheet. Then the rewrap was a mess.
Wow, I feel so much safer..... idiots probably couldn't read Japanese and thought it was porn instead of music and were hoping for "hot asian babes on grits" action.
I'd vote for the Anarchist Party this time but they don't seem to be on the ballot. All I see is "Nanny-Fascists" and "Christo-Corporo-Fascists".
The problem is, every time I read something the RIAA lawyers have created (briefs, public statements, etc)... I'm often left with the impression that the RIAA doesn't exactly have Class A lawyers in their stable... maybe not even "Class C". My perception is that the RIAA has simply attracted the less competent lawyers who smelled "easy money"--> resulting in the repeated smackdown rulings from more and more judges.
The entertainment industry may have a legit gripe or two... but the RIAA antics simply obliterate them under a cloud of shit. I'll stop now before I derail into some rant involving Newton's line about creativity and "originality".
Short answer: yes... its obvious he has no clue whatsoever as to WHY the shuttles are being retired. The comparison with the Soyuz safety record is hilarious since their system is so matured and the kinks worked out decades ago. The Soyuz and its launch methods are dumb, stupid, and EXTREMELY reliable. Yeah, its a risk letting the Sovi--- I mean, Russians be our gateway to space for a while. Should have thought about that a few years ago? Shouldn't spend our time being such bleeping asses in the world arena to even our allies? Should choose our allies (or at least which of their factions) more carefully?
I'm one of those Dole/Buckley/Will old Republicans who no longer recognize their party because of its descent into fascism, christo-wingnut,... and well, everything else including the disguise of robber barons behind their 'corporation avatars'.
At the rate the Murdoch/Cheney/etc bandits are going I'm going to end up so 'progressive' their asses will ignite from my velocity in that direction.
Yes, people are *really* pissed --- including the ones who remember what conservative *used* to mean.:) That's why wingnut-in-his-own-way Ron Paul is getting such a good tailwind.
The real issue is that apparently Ballmer is now 100% incapable of saying anything that makes sense or has credibility anymore. One wonders how his department meetings go.... I'd say the shareholders should be worried but I'm coming to the conclusion that most corporations appear to run by psychotic maniacs with moronic tendencies anymore... in a good way.:)
Actually, after browsing this thread, I'd say the statement "Most Human Beings Are F*cking Loonies And Should Be Avoided" might be the conclusion some would draw.....
More alarming than the extinction rate of languages is the level of ignorance and stupidity being displayed by the posters you reference.
From the "babel is good" error-filled logic to the "who cares (its not my language)?".... browsing this thread brings to mind "My God, its full of idiots!"
(karma burn in progress)
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It makes the fat lazy asses in HR even fatter and lazier. They won't even look at someone without those papers anymore.
I counted up the number of certs and costs to maintain them.... and it was one of my decision factors to move to "career #3"...
I've heard tell legends of small cults of people who actually use Works but during my decades of travels as an IT wizard, I've only encountered one who actually *used* it.
Typically people only use it until they figure out it is mostly incompatible with the rest of the freaking world... even within Microsoft's world.
The Constitution is not an "assignment of rights". It is a set of LIMITATIONs on the government and what it may do. The last piece of the Bill of Rights specifically says that the enumeration of specific rights does not make other natural rights vaporize. Besides, the 4th Amendment is basically about privacy even if it doesn't specifically use the word. "Habeus Corpus" is also *assumed* in the Constitution since it references it.
They never should have called it the Bill of Rights..... I guess it was just easier to say than "The Bill of Restrictions on the Government".
Considering the number of YOUNG people I encounter who can't handle even modest technology - I always find it somewhat annoying when someone uses "the old guy looking at a 707 cockpit" sort of analogy (especially when there's a lot of airline pilots in that age range). I'm 50...yeah, a lot of my peers are incompetent at modern tech.... but then I find about the same number of younglings are incompetent as technologies or the side-effects of using them as well (e.g. well, Suzy --- who did you THINK would visit you after you plastered all your personal data on MySpace, hmmm? Bob, go get adaware, install it, and follow the....... okay, pull up your browse...... okay, get your INTERNET started, eh?)
I spend way too much time sysadmin'ing young people who can't figure out baseline technologies (computers, basic tool software, gadgets, electronics) to use the "old guy" metaphor.
Its more like the 80/20 model --- 80% of the population were too busy throwing poop at each other down at the waterhole rather than attending the monolith meeting.
As a result, the 20% of the monkeys who did attend still have to carry the load for the those 80% monkeys.
Exactly.... Steve apparently hasn't considered the vast number of Apple-ites who will now commence to work with the buttonless iPhone WHILE DRIVING......
With buttons, I can learn the locations and dial/type away without taking my eyes off of more important things.
Touchscreens and glide stroke pads have their uses --- but clicky buttons *definitely* have their uses as well.
Voice control addresses the issue a bit but we're talking to that large crowd of "more money than brains" monkeys we have to maneuver around in life.
"they arent going after people that they dont have fairly good cases against."
That one part of your post just blew a hole so large in your zeppelin there's nothing to burst into flame.
Ah well.
Of course, they need to stop buying slaves that produce the sanitized "corporate-safe" garbage that drives me to tell car salesmen "just leave the damn radio out, okay?"
I'm finding music that holds my interest in other countries and other vastly remote time periods anymore.
So know we know that Rick Cotton is completely insane... any other spokesmen and lawyers want to admit they're lost grip on reality?
You can't even have a meaningful discussion with this sort, only make sure they aren't allowed near any shiny red buttons.
first issue is that "file sharing" is not automatically the illegal sharing of copyright violated files.
More credibility may be had if one uses "copyright violation" or "illegal file sharing"... as I sit here torrenting a blizzard game patch and torrenting some linux packages I note that driving a car does not equal "hit and run". But then murk and word-fogging seem to be standard ops for people who equate copyright violation (civil) with piracy (mayhem, murder, etc).
Wow.... talk about shooting oneself in both feet and then turning the gun on the free hand......
The only conclusion I can draw is that the idiots of the RIAA know nothing about history... particularly entertainment, recording, and broadcast history.
Therefore, I hope they do it and that every radio station in the country stops playing music... then we can get back to live music by local performers who make and sell their own CDs.
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Ignoring the value or lunacy of any religion... it just raises some serious red flags for a religious organization to institute legal proceedings to hide one of its documents especially by using copyright rules. Do the LDS really want to be put in the same bed with the Scientologists? :)
"Secret" documents never remain so...
Disclosure: The older I get and the more I research, the more jaundiced my views become on the majority of religions.
Actually, its very rude to talk on your phone like that in the US as well. We just seem to have a lot more rude idiots that look like they're off their medication chatting into thin air. (I love it when I'm making a purchasing decision and some moron starts jabbering out loud about whether they should buy 2% or skim milk right next to me. Then when I make a suggestion, they act like *I'm* the one looking psychotic :) ).
and then morons in a state county make him a *JUDGE*???????? Wow, he either had no opponent (common for judge elections) or his opponent in the race should gut and roast their research team.
Actually it sounds more like we have a couple who are having issues with their medication management O.o
("those are MY photons! You can't use them!!")
"Using anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that D&D is bad is idiotic." -- quoted for Great Truth. There's so much scientific evidence that imaginative play is critical for brain function from the very young to the very elderly that it is difficult to even want to bother to respond to the anti-play comments in this thread. There is a certain segment of the population that tends to be "psychologically addictive" and it really doesn't matter what the target obsession is. Some target obsessions are better than others (e.g. D&D vs. gambling) but blaming the target is too easy and often extends into the crazy mindset of the "If I can't handle it, no one else can either" type of control-freakdom. Gary took the idea of collaborative storytelling, mixed it with a standardized set of game mechanics -- and created what can be a highly creative and recreative form of entertainment. Kudos and I'd love to see his resting place festooned with d20 dice :)
I don't know... a LOT of people look pretty addicted to electricity and indoor plumbing. Won't someone think of the children! (in other news, "addiction" no longer means anything because it means everything....)
I have a habit of buying CDs and books from Japan (yes, its my downfall) .... the last CD I purchased from cdjapan had been clearly opened and "checked out" by "Customs" in the US. The labels they stuck on it even confused my local post office ("hey, boss. These labels don't make sense."). And I mean the mysterious goblins at the TSA/Customs opened the CD case, tearing the jacket sheet. Then the rewrap was a mess.
Wow, I feel so much safer ..... idiots probably couldn't read Japanese and thought it was porn instead of music and were hoping for "hot asian babes on grits" action.
I'd vote for the Anarchist Party this time but they don't seem to be on the ballot. All I see is "Nanny-Fascists" and "Christo-Corporo-Fascists".
The problem is, every time I read something the RIAA lawyers have created (briefs, public statements, etc) ... I'm often left with the impression that the RIAA doesn't exactly have Class A lawyers in their stable... maybe not even "Class C". My perception is that the RIAA has simply attracted the less competent lawyers who smelled "easy money"--> resulting in the repeated smackdown rulings from more and more judges.
The entertainment industry may have a legit gripe or two... but the RIAA antics simply obliterate them under a cloud of shit. I'll stop now before I derail into some rant involving Newton's line about creativity and "originality".
Short answer: yes... its obvious he has no clue whatsoever as to WHY the shuttles are being retired. The comparison with the Soyuz safety record is hilarious since their system is so matured and the kinks worked out decades ago. The Soyuz and its launch methods are dumb, stupid, and EXTREMELY reliable. Yeah, its a risk letting the Sovi--- I mean, Russians be our gateway to space for a while. Should have thought about that a few years ago? Shouldn't spend our time being such bleeping asses in the world arena to even our allies? Should choose our allies (or at least which of their factions) more carefully?
I'm one of those Dole/Buckley/Will old Republicans who no longer recognize their party because of its descent into fascism, christo-wingnut, ... and well, everything else including the disguise of robber barons behind their 'corporation avatars'.
At the rate the Murdoch/Cheney/etc bandits are going I'm going to end up so 'progressive' their asses will ignite from my velocity in that direction.
Yes, people are *really* pissed --- including the ones who remember what conservative *used* to mean. :) That's why wingnut-in-his-own-way Ron Paul is getting such a good tailwind.
I wish I could fit your post on a bumper sticker..... I'd slap it on all my cars and my .sigs as well ...
The real issue is that apparently Ballmer is now 100% incapable of saying anything that makes sense or has credibility anymore. One wonders how his department meetings go .... I'd say the shareholders should be worried but I'm coming to the conclusion that most corporations appear to run by psychotic maniacs with moronic tendencies anymore... in a good way. :)
Actually, after browsing this thread, I'd say the statement "Most Human Beings Are F*cking Loonies And Should Be Avoided" might be the conclusion some would draw.....
More alarming than the extinction rate of languages is the level of ignorance and stupidity being displayed by the posters you reference. From the "babel is good" error-filled logic to the "who cares (its not my language)?" .... browsing this thread brings to mind "My God, its full of idiots!"
(karma burn in progress)
It makes the fat lazy asses in HR even fatter and lazier. They won't even look at someone without those papers anymore. I counted up the number of certs and costs to maintain them .... and it was one of my decision factors to move to "career #3"...
I've heard tell legends of small cults of people who actually use Works but during my decades of travels as an IT wizard, I've only encountered one who actually *used* it. Typically people only use it until they figure out it is mostly incompatible with the rest of the freaking world... even within Microsoft's world.
The Constitution is not an "assignment of rights". It is a set of LIMITATIONs on the government and what it may do. The last piece of the Bill of Rights specifically says that the enumeration of specific rights does not make other natural rights vaporize. Besides, the 4th Amendment is basically about privacy even if it doesn't specifically use the word. "Habeus Corpus" is also *assumed* in the Constitution since it references it. They never should have called it the Bill of Rights ..... I guess it was just easier to say than "The Bill of Restrictions on the Government".
Considering the number of YOUNG people I encounter who can't handle even modest technology - I always find it somewhat annoying when someone uses "the old guy looking at a 707 cockpit" sort of analogy (especially when there's a lot of airline pilots in that age range). I'm 50 ...yeah, a lot of my peers are incompetent at modern tech.... but then I find about the same number of younglings are incompetent as technologies or the side-effects of using them as well (e.g. well, Suzy --- who did you THINK would visit you after you plastered all your personal data on MySpace, hmmm? Bob, go get adaware, install it, and follow the....... okay, pull up your browse...... okay, get your INTERNET started, eh?)
I spend way too much time sysadmin'ing young people who can't figure out baseline technologies (computers, basic tool software, gadgets, electronics) to use the "old guy" metaphor.
Its more like the 80/20 model --- 80% of the population were too busy throwing poop at each other down at the waterhole rather than attending the monolith meeting.
As a result, the 20% of the monkeys who did attend still have to carry the load for the those 80% monkeys.
Exactly.... Steve apparently hasn't considered the vast number of Apple-ites who will now commence to work with the buttonless iPhone WHILE DRIVING...... With buttons, I can learn the locations and dial/type away without taking my eyes off of more important things. Touchscreens and glide stroke pads have their uses --- but clicky buttons *definitely* have their uses as well. Voice control addresses the issue a bit but we're talking to that large crowd of "more money than brains" monkeys we have to maneuver around in life.
"they arent going after people that they dont have fairly good cases against." That one part of your post just blew a hole so large in your zeppelin there's nothing to burst into flame. Ah well.
Of course, they need to stop buying slaves that produce the sanitized "corporate-safe" garbage that drives me to tell car salesmen "just leave the damn radio out, okay?" I'm finding music that holds my interest in other countries and other vastly remote time periods anymore.
So know we know that Rick Cotton is completely insane... any other spokesmen and lawyers want to admit they're lost grip on reality? You can't even have a meaningful discussion with this sort, only make sure they aren't allowed near any shiny red buttons.
So basically, we need to hunt them down, break their fingers, shoot them in the knees and then gut them and leave them to dry in the sun. I'm in.... :)
first issue is that "file sharing" is not automatically the illegal sharing of copyright violated files. More credibility may be had if one uses "copyright violation" or "illegal file sharing" ... as I sit here torrenting a blizzard game patch and torrenting some linux packages I note that driving a car does not equal "hit and run". But then murk and word-fogging seem to be standard ops for people who equate copyright violation (civil) with piracy (mayhem, murder, etc).
Wow.... talk about shooting oneself in both feet and then turning the gun on the free hand...... The only conclusion I can draw is that the idiots of the RIAA know nothing about history... particularly entertainment, recording, and broadcast history. Therefore, I hope they do it and that every radio station in the country stops playing music... then we can get back to live music by local performers who make and sell their own CDs.