I'm fond of a certain commentator's comment that despite all of the "disarmament agreements" we've had, the only way to get rid of nuclear weapons is to use them.
If you want to play a game that really shows the authors' bias, go play Sim City. Build a nuclear powerplant in your city and observe that it melts down in a period of time much faster than real power plants do.
No, that's not it. The Supreme Court does *interpret* the law. The reason that they have this power to declare laws "unconstitutional" is that they seized this power a number of years ago. There was a legal dispute and they declared some obscure law unconstitutional to set a precedent. They tried to give everyone involved what they wanted so no one would challenge their decision. The result is that the Supreme Court has this broad-ranging power that we see it exercise today.
I remember in the movie "The Worst Thing that Could Happen", which incidentally, I hated, there was one funny scene where there was a lady doing sign language for a man giving a speech. He got angry and shouted "Fuck You!" and the sign language lady raised her middle finger.
Right, they monitor your actions in public with no court order or warrant neccessary. You have lots more freedom in the UK than I could ever dream of in my country.
No, he is suggesting a reduction of government taxes and red tape so that the shops can do their thing without the dreaded VAT, the insane TV Licensing system, and their sky-high petrol taxes. Over here is sunny Hawaii, gas is about $2.50 a gallon and we have the highest gas taxes in the US.
We understand that more than half of your $6.50 is tax anyways.
Well, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. I hate annoying low speed limits, but beyond just wanting to be able to drive faster, perhaps some people on that side of the pond are getting fed up with government surveillence of their daily lives.
I definately agree. The ACLU has reduced itself to stupid stuff like trying to take "Under God" out of the pledge to our flag. There are much more real threats to our civil liberties than two words in the pledge.
Yes, they don't rely on money for adverts because if you own a television in Great Britain, you are required to purchase and annually renew a "TV License" that will set you back £126 each year. Click here for more information. Yep, I'm glad I don't live in that country with their sky-high taxes on everything and $8 per gallon gasoline, and the dreaded "value-added tax"! I know it sounds fecitious, but I don't think you get what you pay for when you pay those taxes!
I'm afraid that this problem is only going to grow exponentially for each generation as kids start to grow up on games and let them control their lives.
Actually, I disagree with you. I think that when people, like myself, who spent way too much time playing games as children have our own children, we'll relate to how we screwed up our own lives and hopefully not allow our children to do the same thing.
Movies are not just a medium for storytelling. They are also a medium for visual art.
If you want to see a movie for visual art, see "House of Flying Daggers." It is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The action is a lot like that in "The Matrix" although they don't have that whole "Matrix" situation to explain their spectacular stunts.
You might want to look into the fact that there are some things that we say that science and philosophy cannot do for us. For example, we can't solve the Halting Problem, but it's interesting to read about it!
Well, this makes sense, right, because it's not French music anymore, it's freedom music.
Ah yes, freedom music to listen to while I eat my freedom fries. When I finish that, I'm going to go down to Betty's Adult Megaplex and purchase a freedom tickler.
Alright, you've just reminded me of an off-topic joke that I'm going to get modded to hell for, but here it is:
A white man walks into a bar and sits down between a black man and an Indian. The Indian takes a drink, sighs, and says "Long ago we were many in this land, but now we are few." The black man takes a drink and says, "Long ago we were few in this land, but now we are many." The white man says, "That's because we haven't played cowboys and niggers yet!"
They have them in their Kunia, HI, and Mililani, HI stores as well. I'm not sure about their Honolulu, HI store, though - I think that it doesn't have them.
Wow, this sounds like a tax^h^h^hdeposit that my state government slapped on me last year.
You see, out here in the beautiful paradise of Hawai'i, the state government passed a law requiring us to pay a 5c deposit on every beverage container that we buy. The law says that we are supposed to return the bottles for a refund of the fee.
However, we have to drive to special designated recycling centers to get the deposit, AND, we must not crush the bottles or cans that we are turning in, as that would destroy the label indicating that the 5c deposit has been paid.
Basically, they set it up so that there's a 5c tax on every beverage container because unless their time is absolutely worthless, no one in their right mind is going to horde uncrushed containers so that they can get 5c a piece back for them.
In addition to that, there is also an additional penny per container "fee" to administer the program. Basically, we have a new tax thinly veiled as something to help the environment.
It seems I remember that when John Kerry was running for President, his supporters swore that George Bush, the President he wanted to replace, was costing us trillions of dollars by setting up a tax plan where fewer people paid taxes and the people who pay taxes pay less.
Actually, in a previous/. discussion, someone mentioned the idea of hiding a secret message in spam. As it has been said before, often times the best way to keep a secret message from prying eyes is to make it look as though no secret message has been sent.
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I'm fond of a certain commentator's comment that despite all of the "disarmament agreements" we've had, the only way to get rid of nuclear weapons is to use them.
If you want to play a game that really shows the authors' bias, go play Sim City. Build a nuclear powerplant in your city and observe that it melts down in a period of time much faster than real power plants do.
You know, there are other ways of looking at all that aid money you would have us send to "developing" nations.
No, that's not it. The Supreme Court does *interpret* the law. The reason that they have this power to declare laws "unconstitutional" is that they seized this power a number of years ago. There was a legal dispute and they declared some obscure law unconstitutional to set a precedent. They tried to give everyone involved what they wanted so no one would challenge their decision. The result is that the Supreme Court has this broad-ranging power that we see it exercise today.
Did you mean Georgia Teck ?
Yeah, it sounds like George Carlin's "Ebonics Language Lesson"
I remember in the movie "The Worst Thing that Could Happen", which incidentally, I hated, there was one funny scene where there was a lady doing sign language for a man giving a speech. He got angry and shouted "Fuck You!" and the sign language lady raised her middle finger.
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Right, they monitor your actions in public with no court order or warrant neccessary. You have lots more freedom in the UK than I could ever dream of in my country.
We understand that more than half of your $6.50 is tax anyways.
Well, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. I hate annoying low speed limits, but beyond just wanting to be able to drive faster, perhaps some people on that side of the pond are getting fed up with government surveillence of their daily lives.
I definately agree. The ACLU has reduced itself to stupid stuff like trying to take "Under God" out of the pledge to our flag. There are much more real threats to our civil liberties than two words in the pledge.
Yes, they don't rely on money for adverts because if you own a television in Great Britain, you are required to purchase and annually renew a "TV License" that will set you back £126 each year. Click here for more information. Yep, I'm glad I don't live in that country with their sky-high taxes on everything and $8 per gallon gasoline, and the dreaded "value-added tax"! I know it sounds fecitious, but I don't think you get what you pay for when you pay those taxes!
Actually, I disagree with you. I think that when people, like myself, who spent way too much time playing games as children have our own children, we'll relate to how we screwed up our own lives and hopefully not allow our children to do the same thing.
If you want to see a movie for visual art, see "House of Flying Daggers." It is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The action is a lot like that in "The Matrix" although they don't have that whole "Matrix" situation to explain their spectacular stunts.
House of Flying Daggers
You might want to look into the fact that there are some things that we say that science and philosophy cannot do for us. For example, we can't solve the Halting Problem, but it's interesting to read about it!
If I'm not mistaken, they've been doing this with CPUs for a while too. They clock them down and remark them as the slower model.
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Ah yes, freedom music to listen to while I eat my freedom fries. When I finish that, I'm going to go down to Betty's Adult Megaplex and purchase a freedom tickler.
A white man walks into a bar and sits down between a black man and an Indian. The Indian takes a drink, sighs, and says "Long ago we were many in this land, but now we are few." The black man takes a drink and says, "Long ago we were few in this land, but now we are many." The white man says, "That's because we haven't played cowboys and niggers yet!"
They have them in their Kunia, HI, and Mililani, HI stores as well. I'm not sure about their Honolulu, HI store, though - I think that it doesn't have them.
You see, out here in the beautiful paradise of Hawai'i, the state government passed a law requiring us to pay a 5c deposit on every beverage container that we buy. The law says that we are supposed to return the bottles for a refund of the fee.
However, we have to drive to special designated recycling centers to get the deposit, AND, we must not crush the bottles or cans that we are turning in, as that would destroy the label indicating that the 5c deposit has been paid.
Basically, they set it up so that there's a 5c tax on every beverage container because unless their time is absolutely worthless, no one in their right mind is going to horde uncrushed containers so that they can get 5c a piece back for them.
In addition to that, there is also an additional penny per container "fee" to administer the program. Basically, we have a new tax thinly veiled as something to help the environment.
It seems I remember that when John Kerry was running for President, his supporters swore that George Bush, the President he wanted to replace, was costing us trillions of dollars by setting up a tax plan where fewer people paid taxes and the people who pay taxes pay less.
Actually, in a previous /. discussion, someone mentioned the idea of hiding a secret message in spam. As it has been said before, often times the best way to keep a secret message from prying eyes is to make it look as though no secret message has been sent.