A game based on parts of the Bible could get an M rating as well.
Nah, it only gets a T rating.
If the game is anything like the books, it's based on modern American Christian teachings, which are mostly derived from post-civil war writings of various evangelists, and have little to nothing to do with the Bible, other than referencing some of the names.
Unfortunately the bullet in the head probably wasn't earned because he was a scum-sucking Internet bottom feeder but because he was a scum-sucking Internet bottom feeder who didn't pay up.
Not "spying on Americans" but spying on foreigners contacting Americans. The calls that are being data mined are those originating outside of the U.S. by people or countries that are known terrorist supporters.
No, you're getting two separate programs confused.
The warrantless wiretapping is only for international calls (with origin either inside or outside the United States, but at least one party has to be outside).
The data mining does not include listening to any content of the phone calls, just caller, receiver, time, and duration. This information includes data on purely domestic calls.
He shops at a store and the expectation is he will aid that store in preventing shop lifting so as to keep his price lower.
He did nothing to hinder any efforts to reduce shoplifting.
And reducing shoplifting will do nothing to keep prices lower. This is such an obvious nonsense argument that corporations always put out for every policy they have. Right - they're not trying to increase their profits. Everything they do is for your convenience.
Bullshit. Prices depend, solely, on what people will pay for something.
If something can't be sold for less than what it takes to manufacture it, then it won't be made.
What keeps prices down is competition from other stores. No store will ever lower its prices simply because its costs have gone down. Less shoplifting will mean more profits, not lower prices for you. Yeah, when I worked in PR, I did my part in spreading this nonsense myself. But it is nonsense.
Everyone needs to cooperate to make it work. He didn't want to...
He was the only one in the situation that was trying to "make it work". Yes, it would have been easier to simply give in to his illegal detention, but he refused to go along with it. He stood up for his rights and, by extension, yours and mine. That's how freedom works. Not by making it easy for everybody to slowly chip away at our rights.
Until then I am not voting, and encourage everyone within earshot not to vote.
Maybe when voter turnout gets to be less than 20% they will start to notice.
So, in other words, the message you're sending them is "Unless you do what I want, I'll just ignore you and let you do whatever you want".
Yeah, good plan. To express your disapproval of government power-grabbing, you're going to help them grab more.
the price for even the cheapest Falcon9 to LEO is 35 million, with a suggested price of 4 million for a three day stay and the Dragon capsule being capable of carrying 7 people this can't possibly be profitable
$4 million is just the room charge.
Transportation is extra.
You don't want to know what delivery costs for the pizza.
still think that the idea is valid, and if it were done right, would be a multibillion-dollar industry. Whoever takes up the cause now, though, would have to fight [...] the trials and tribulations of starting a new business...
There are still several options available for online grocery shopping. Many existing physical stores, such as Safeway, have online shopping/delivery available. These stores, of course, have the advantage over WebVan that they already have a widely distributed presence so can serve a much larger area from the start.
I liked the idea of WebVan, too, but never lived in a neighborhood they delivered to.
I just tried to look at my blog on livejournal, and got a 403 error, not 404. Intermittent errors are quite common on lj, so I thought I'd try again later.
So then I checked my Netflix queue, and couldn't get to it (got a 404 error there, though, not a "nice \"we're dead\" message" - two sites in a row indicate the problem might be local.
Good thing slashdot was my next stop, not one of the many others. I had no idea all those sites were run out of the same location in SF.
San Francisco has always seemed to me to be a strange place to run a server farm. Aside from the crazy drunk homeless people, you also have occasional earthquakes, and some of the most expensive real estate on earth. An acre in Arizona can cost the same as a square foot in SF, so how come all these places are in SF and not the middle of the desert? Or Alaska, if you want to save on air conditioning...
So you're saying advertisers trying to reach the affluent trend-setters on the internet should advertise on the sites with the least (recorded) traffic?
interesting way to put it, but yes!
WooHOO! I'm gonna make a mint selling advertising space on my blog then! I absolutely guarantee it will get less recorded hits than Slashdot, or your money back!
...they contracted the software, and it was delivered to their specifications. Sony can't blame the people who wrote the software for doing what was asked.
I think they probably missed one important specification:
It was supposed to do it without anybody knowing about it.
Censorship-empowered governments are fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
If censorship and democracy were truly black and white issues, as your statement seems to suggest, we wouldn't be having this debate. What it comes down to is the fact that some amount of censorship is, in fact, the will of the people.
I'm not the GP, but I think he is correct. Just not in a single step:
Once you've given any group the power to decide what you can and can't read/watch/play, then eventually that group (whether the original members in whom you've vested that power or not) will begin to give you only information that's in their own best interests. At this point, you cannot make informed decisions on who and what to vote for, and democracy is over, replaced by the ruling class to whom you've given power.
Of course, what else the GP could have said is that censorship is fundamentally incompatible with freedom. A pure democracy could, and, as we've seen many examples of in US History, would take away the freedom of those who are not in the majority.
Because a majority of the people can be temporarily tricked into thinking something is a good idea is not a good reason to do it.
Which is the reason that we have a constitutional republic, and not a democracy.
Yeah, that was in one of my letters to her that her staff never bothered to send me even a form letter response for.
"You say you were mislead about the war. I wasn't mislead. How come you were? A significant part of your job is to research these things yourself and keep yourself better informed than I am. What were you doing instead?"
The government should be held to an even higher standard as it is important that the temporary powers that are granted are not abused.
They are.
The emails were not supposed to be deleted. It is claimed that it was an "accident."
How convenient.
Rove: After we got the subpoena, I meant to hit the "forward" button to send them all to congress, but I guess I accidentally hit the "delete then purge the trash then wipe all backup tapes" button instead.
Gonzales: Man, why do we even have that button?
All: HAHAHAHAHA!
While not technically illegal, these actions by the current administration are distasteful and demonstrate Bush's continuing disrespect for the office of the President of the USA.
Actually, in addition to being distasteful and demonstrative of Bush's disrespect for the office, it's quite likely that they were also illegal.
It is illegal under the Hatch Act of 1939 to use political office and federal funds for campaigning for any particular candidates. The 8 fired attorneys all allege that they were fired for refusing to do so. Numerous witnesses so far have supported these claims, including Monica Gooding's recent testimony in which she stated that the Republican party had engaged in vote caging as recently as the 2004 election despite a 1986 supreme court injunction ordering them to stop.
Gonzales has, of course, denied them, but has claimed that beyond very vague "performance reasons" he can't remember why they were fired, or even who fired them.
Of course, what's really scary about this is not that 8 US Attorneys refused abuse their office to promote Republican party political campaigns, but that 85 of them didn't.
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Well, I'd say there are many, many problems with making such a movie, but I don't know if a complete lack of threat is one of them.
I mean, did you, at any moment, think that any of the characters in the original movies were actually going to die?
And even when one did, did you expect him to stay dead?
Besides, it's grand Star Trek tradition anyway:
"Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Gomez beam down to a planet. Guess which one isn't coming back."
You think anybody in Congress has ever flown standby?
Or even knows what it is?
Meh, still works.
Mark Twain wrote that "There are three kinds of homicide: Felonious, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
No, you're getting two separate programs confused.
The warrantless wiretapping is only for international calls (with origin either inside or outside the United States, but at least one party has to be outside).
The data mining does not include listening to any content of the phone calls, just caller, receiver, time, and duration. This information includes data on purely domestic calls.
I think you mean "odometer".
Your speedometer doesn't keep any records.
And, you can use your car with a broken odometer - you just have to disclose that fact when/if you sell it. Or, in some areas, re-register it.
He did nothing to hinder any efforts to reduce shoplifting.
And reducing shoplifting will do nothing to keep prices lower. This is such an obvious nonsense argument that corporations always put out for every policy they have. Right - they're not trying to increase their profits. Everything they do is for your convenience.
Bullshit. Prices depend, solely, on what people will pay for something.
If something can't be sold for less than what it takes to manufacture it, then it won't be made.
What keeps prices down is competition from other stores. No store will ever lower its prices simply because its costs have gone down. Less shoplifting will mean more profits, not lower prices for you. Yeah, when I worked in PR, I did my part in spreading this nonsense myself. But it is nonsense.
Everyone needs to cooperate to make it work. He didn't want to...
He was the only one in the situation that was trying to "make it work". Yes, it would have been easier to simply give in to his illegal detention, but he refused to go along with it. He stood up for his rights and, by extension, yours and mine. That's how freedom works. Not by making it easy for everybody to slowly chip away at our rights.
So, in other words, the message you're sending them is "Unless you do what I want, I'll just ignore you and let you do whatever you want".
Yeah, good plan. To express your disapproval of government power-grabbing, you're going to help them grab more.
I think the problem is that it was, as the GP said, "like WoW".
It should have been like D&D.
Depends on whose brain it was simulating, I suppose.
$4 million is just the room charge.
Transportation is extra.
You don't want to know what delivery costs for the pizza.
I liked the idea of WebVan, too, but never lived in a neighborhood they delivered to.
I just tried to look at my blog on livejournal, and got a 403 error, not 404. Intermittent errors are quite common on lj, so I thought I'd try again later.
So then I checked my Netflix queue, and couldn't get to it (got a 404 error there, though, not a "nice \"we're dead\" message" - two sites in a row indicate the problem might be local.
Good thing slashdot was my next stop, not one of the many others. I had no idea all those sites were run out of the same location in SF.
San Francisco has always seemed to me to be a strange place to run a server farm. Aside from the crazy drunk homeless people, you also have occasional earthquakes, and some of the most expensive real estate on earth. An acre in Arizona can cost the same as a square foot in SF, so how come all these places are in SF and not the middle of the desert? Or Alaska, if you want to save on air conditioning...
An opt-in system that requires people to remember to carry around a pager-sized device will never be "representative".
I'm going to go build my Firefly subchannel transmitter right now!
You mean, unlike the very concept of space travel at all?
I think they probably missed one important specification:
It was supposed to do it without anybody knowing about it.
It worked, didn't it?
If there's one in the Salt Lake City airport, I've never been able to find it.
There was one in Chicago though, last time I went through there, about 4 years ago.
Also, St. Louis has one, in the middle of the D gates.
In Seattle and SFO, now, you can't even smoke on the sidewalks out front anymore.
I'm not the GP, but I think he is correct. Just not in a single step:
Once you've given any group the power to decide what you can and can't read/watch/play, then eventually that group (whether the original members in whom you've vested that power or not) will begin to give you only information that's in their own best interests. At this point, you cannot make informed decisions on who and what to vote for, and democracy is over, replaced by the ruling class to whom you've given power.
Of course, what else the GP could have said is that censorship is fundamentally incompatible with freedom. A pure democracy could, and, as we've seen many examples of in US History, would take away the freedom of those who are not in the majority.
Because a majority of the people can be temporarily tricked into thinking something is a good idea is not a good reason to do it.
Which is the reason that we have a constitutional republic, and not a democracy.
Yeah, that was in one of my letters to her that her staff never bothered to send me even a form letter response for.
"You say you were mislead about the war. I wasn't mislead. How come you were? A significant part of your job is to research these things yourself and keep yourself better informed than I am. What were you doing instead?"
They are.
The emails were not supposed to be deleted. It is claimed that it was an "accident."
How convenient.
Rove: After we got the subpoena, I meant to hit the "forward" button to send them all to congress, but I guess I accidentally hit the "delete then purge the trash then wipe all backup tapes" button instead.
Gonzales: Man, why do we even have that button?
All: HAHAHAHAHA!
Actually, in addition to being distasteful and demonstrative of Bush's disrespect for the office, it's quite likely that they were also illegal.
It is illegal under the Hatch Act of 1939 to use political office and federal funds for campaigning for any particular candidates. The 8 fired attorneys all allege that they were fired for refusing to do so. Numerous witnesses so far have supported these claims, including Monica Gooding's recent testimony in which she stated that the Republican party had engaged in vote caging as recently as the 2004 election despite a 1986 supreme court injunction ordering them to stop.
Gonzales has, of course, denied them, but has claimed that beyond very vague "performance reasons" he can't remember why they were fired, or even who fired them.
Of course, what's really scary about this is not that 8 US Attorneys refused abuse their office to promote Republican party political campaigns, but that 85 of them didn't.