No. The sad part is how many supposedly intelligent Slashdotters think it's perfectly reasonable to compare a Democratic Republic, with elected representatives, to a communist state. The difference between the two, in case you didn't notice, is that in the USA when the government makes bad decisions you can protest publicly and vote them out of office. When you do that in China, lines of tanks roll down Tianamen Square and you disappear.
That's nice if you have a full-featured web browser on your cell phone. Otherwise, I like to call and make sure when I'm checking out of my room on a business trip that I have enough room on my credit card.
Those numbers are meaningless without considering the total volume of mail. The percentage of spam from country A may be greater than that from country B, even though country B sends a larger number of emails. In that case, filtering country A would be more efficient and effective.
That seems fair, considering that motorcycles (most of which can carry two people) are allowed in the HOV with only a driver. Some really small cars like the Metro and Insight get motorcycle-like fuel efficiency.
No MUD requires a "wretched DOS box"; what you're seeing is Windows' wretched telnet client. You should either go to hilgraeve.com and get the free HTPE upgrade or download another decent client. I like Tera Term as a freebie, but zMUD is a non-free, sophisticated MUD client.
I played on Apocalypse in the 1990s. I still have an immortal character with which I check in from time to time.
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Of course, there's always Galactic Trader, but it's more a 1D VT100 adaptation of the Elite game than a MUD. And don't try to use zMUD with it, either.
Essentially, the Protestants/Puritans/Quakers/etc who first came to the U.S. from England were a bunch of sexually repressed religious prudes (or at least that's how they act in public).
Says TubeSteak, calling through his time-portal internet connection in 1620.
Puritans and Quakers are subsets of the set of Protestants.
Lumping the Puritan sect in with other Protestants is laughably shortsighted.
They still live in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Englad, New York, etc.
Another uneducated misuse of terms. "New Englad [sic]" is a term denoting the northeastern United States. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, and Vermont (you forgot that one) are all members of this area.
The other group of asshats we can blame are the hellfire & damnation preachers (Methodists, Baptists, & others) who swept through the middle of the United States.
I'll admit I don't know how they were then, but the Methodists have gotten pretty liberal of late-- probably starting from the merger.
On a separate note I have absolutely no clue why the the United States is so against nudity of any kind and how sex is such a hush-hush topic that parents can't even openly talk to their children about.
No, it's not.
Sorry, but I can't allow summary judgements be made by high-ID Slashdotters without protest. Obviously we're not against nudity of any kind here as you can get magazines with nude pictures in them from most any bookstore, newsstand, or library; see nude art in museums; see nude people in movies and on cable TV...
What I think many people DO want to do is decide when and how to introduce the biological and emotional facets of sexuality to children instead of having that decision forced on them by the state, the mass media, public schools, or special interests. I, myself, can't see why anyone wouldn't want to introduce their children to the physiological differences between males and females at a pretty early age and explain the sexual details a little later-- hopefully a good while before puberty shocks them-- but I won't push those ideals on other parents who insist on procrastinating to their children's detriment.
Madonna is a long-established artist, so she may be an exception. But recently signed acts make most of their money from concerts-- because record company contracts ensure that the artists start out as impoverished indentured servants to the industry by charging the artists themselves for the costs of doing business: promotion, recording sessions, mixing, mastering, incidental costs, etc. Most of these are paid for by the artist and any money they receive is actually an advance. So a new artist is already at least a million in the hole by the time the record hits the shelves.
Madonna has been raking it in since her second album in 1985, so I doubt she remembers the days when she was too poor to buy shiny new boob-cones or underwear fancy enough to wear outside.
I particularly like the MPAA ads that threaten you if you dare to download movies. Meanwhile, you're watching a legally purchased or rented DVD. It's just like the copy protection schemes that ultimately only inconvenience the legitimate user.
Kinda kills the drive to innovate when you do all the work and someone else gets the reward. That being said, I don't think Locke envisioned a natural right to innovate but many thinkers who subscribed to his basic ideas did-- and they're the ones who penned the Constitution.
A few weeks later, I cautiously passed a man drifting between lanes, looked over and saw that he was busy changing clothes (including pants) while juggling a cellphone from one shoulder to the other.
If we reduce carbon emissions in the manner the environmental radicals are suggesting, there will still be mass starvation-- it will just be us causing it directly by plunging the world economy into depression.
That is why the Global Cooling Foundation [globalcool...dation.org] has been created, to organize an effort to reduce the well-known and understood atmospheric carbon surplus, by using oceanic phytoplankton to sequester atmospheric carbon in the biosphere.
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No. The sad part is how many supposedly intelligent Slashdotters think it's perfectly reasonable to compare a Democratic Republic, with elected representatives, to a communist state. The difference between the two, in case you didn't notice, is that in the USA when the government makes bad decisions you can protest publicly and vote them out of office. When you do that in China, lines of tanks roll down Tianamen Square and you disappear.
That's nice if you have a full-featured web browser on your cell phone. Otherwise, I like to call and make sure when I'm checking out of my room on a business trip that I have enough room on my credit card.
Those numbers are meaningless without considering the total volume of mail. The percentage of spam from country A may be greater than that from country B, even though country B sends a larger number of emails. In that case, filtering country A would be more efficient and effective.
That seems fair, considering that motorcycles (most of which can carry two people) are allowed in the HOV with only a driver. Some really small cars like the Metro and Insight get motorcycle-like fuel efficiency.
I played on Apocalypse in the 1990s. I still have an immortal character with which I check in from time to time.
Of course, there's always Galactic Trader, but it's more a 1D VT100 adaptation of the Elite game than a MUD. And don't try to use zMUD with it, either.
Puritans and Quakers are subsets of the set of Protestants. Lumping the Puritan sect in with other Protestants is laughably shortsighted.
Another uneducated misuse of terms. "New Englad [sic]" is a term denoting the northeastern United States. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, and Vermont (you forgot that one) are all members of this area.I'll admit I don't know how they were then, but the Methodists have gotten pretty liberal of late-- probably starting from the merger.Sorry, but I can't allow summary judgements be made by high-ID Slashdotters without protest. Obviously we're not against nudity of any kind here as you can get magazines with nude pictures in them from most any bookstore, newsstand, or library; see nude art in museums; see nude people in movies and on cable TV...
What I think many people DO want to do is decide when and how to introduce the biological and emotional facets of sexuality to children instead of having that decision forced on them by the state, the mass media, public schools, or special interests. I, myself, can't see why anyone wouldn't want to introduce their children to the physiological differences between males and females at a pretty early age and explain the sexual details a little later-- hopefully a good while before puberty shocks them-- but I won't push those ideals on other parents who insist on procrastinating to their children's detriment.
Yay for Club Gitmo!
Madonna has been raking it in since her second album in 1985, so I doubt she remembers the days when she was too poor to buy shiny new boob-cones or underwear fancy enough to wear outside.
I think that's where the French keep theirs.
I particularly like the MPAA ads that threaten you if you dare to download movies. Meanwhile, you're watching a legally purchased or rented DVD. It's just like the copy protection schemes that ultimately only inconvenience the legitimate user.
Kinda kills the drive to innovate when you do all the work and someone else gets the reward. That being said, I don't think Locke envisioned a natural right to innovate but many thinkers who subscribed to his basic ideas did-- and they're the ones who penned the Constitution.
... when they don't honor ours-- or our extradition treaty?
This doesn't work too well when there's only one adult in the car. I guess we really do need one of those automated vehicles now!
Other cons: freedom of movement will no longer be voluntary.
Peter: You mean Ron Lumbergh, the Innatrode guy, the young guy?
Actually, his spelling was a heck of a lot better. Why did you try to reproduce the same text that appears at the top of this article anyway?
Only the Sith believe in absolutes.
Well, you do brew it from a sock. What did you expect it to taste like?
If we reduce carbon emissions in the manner the environmental radicals are suggesting, there will still be mass starvation-- it will just be us causing it directly by plunging the world economy into depression.