But please, let "us" not pretend that downloading illegal copies of copyrighted material represents some form of civil disobedience. It doesn't. It represents "us" once again taking the easy and apathetic route to instant personal gratification
An idea inculcated in individuals from infancy through advertising and credit card applications. Their snake oil has worked a little too well.
It's simple really, I just consider the source and shrug it off. I figure, when a discussion devolves to the point where one party is hurling strings of insults involving lineage and bodily functions, that is a strong indication they realize they have lost and have nothing meaningful left to contribute to the conversation.
I'm using force in the same sense as forcing your religion on people.
Apparently, your atrocious spelling is due to the fact that you have no dictionary, or don't know how to use one. Let me help --- you are possibly referring to
force: to impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably
It is not possible for me to impose myself on a public forum, unless I post so much that the forum is clogged and effectively unusable. You are free to ignore my posts. Yet you choose to come to me for more words of wisdom. That's not force.
(snip more pre-pubescent ranting)
You know, sumdumass, you are pretty pathetic as a troll. Well-crafted trolls typically have correct grammar and stay focused rather than rambling on from topic to topic. I'll take Flamebait for 200, Alex.
Have you priced a vacation trip to to disneyland/world/skiing/cruises/europe? How is such a large amount of money spent on those recreational activities ok but gambling is not.
Indeed. I love hearing about how drug laws are intended to protect people from themselves, yet we allow people to drive automobiles, mountain climb, play football, and engage in a plethora of other "safe" activities. Personally, I'd rather light up a doobie in the sanctity of my home than spend a bunch of money trekking to tourist traps to deal with a crowd of assholes accompanied by their bratty kids, cellphones, and discarded chicken bones and broken bottles.
You mean allowing a HUGE chunk of the population be addicted as opposed to a small manageable chunk?
That's all well and good except for one thing: You cannot show that a "huge chunk" of the population would become addicted to drugs.
And it doesn't matter if the dealer is selling their crack for $5 a pop, or $2.50 from the gov't, the addicts need to find the money to buy this crap somewhere.
Right. Everywhere I've lived there are roaming gangs of alcoholics and cigarette junkies breaking into apartments and stores, stealing items, and selling them in the pawn shops to support their habit. Give me a break.
You are just stupid. You can hold what I do against me. I shouldn't be able to hold what your ancestors did against you.
You have no possible way of knowing who my ancestors are, and yet you feel qualified to make statements about them. Go on, let it all out --- call my mother a sperm-drinking whore. I've heard it all before and am far beyond caring about all that grade-school nonsense.
You are forcing your opinion on me in the same ways the Jehovah's whitenesses do. You came to the forum and spouted your hatred, people didn't some and ask for it.
You might want to look up the definition of the word "force". I'm not knocking on your door. I'm posting on, as you say, a forum. If you don't like what you read on public forums, maybe you should stop visiting them. Not doing so indicates a psychological disturbance. Maybe you need conflict because religion just isn't giving you quite enough meaning in life.
You ancestors were worthless fagots who caused a battle to be lost and hundreds of people died because of it. Should I hold that against you?
You are quasi-literate and can't seem to put together a coherent thought. Should I hold that against you?
It does two things. It take the meaning of life away and then it empowers people like you who seem compelled to force that opinion on others because you don't agree with what they have come up with.
Right. I'm forcing you, with my mind-control lasers, to read my slashdot posts. Dude, lay off the crack pipe... seriously. Get some treatment.
But what religions do is unit people for common causes.
The most important of which seems to be exterminating people of different religions --- see witch trials, crusades, the Inquisition, etc.
They comfort the week and and give meaning to some people's life. This is something Science is in conflict with and for some it has became a direct replacement.
How exactly does science conflict with religion regarding giving meaning to life? Science has nothing to say about this.
So are you against all fiction books, cartoons and television?
There's a big difference --- the producers and consumers of Bugs Bunny, James Bond, and Star Wars don't promote those things as being real and don't attempt to substitute events depicted therein for science. It is understood that they are strictly entertainment.
Whether it's a movie or a religion that's false, neither of them are really harming you, personally... I wouldn't think.
Get real. Using the internet is a valuable skill that children in school should learn.
Agreed. Children need to learn, as soon as possible, how to download.mp3's and porn, how to properly craft a troll on Slashdot, how to distinguish between libs and cons when reading posts by anonymous strangers, and to indulge in that most important and cherished American pastime --- shopping. Giving children access to the internet has the added benefit of distracting them from using their cellphones and firing spitwads at the teachers.
Its (sic) physical work not mental. This is why wages should not be so high. Simple supply and demand. There's a lot of supply of workers and limited demand.
So what you're saying is that people of average (or below) intelligence should live on a limited income? How... humanitarian. Why should the intelligent be any more entitled to all that life has to offer simply because they have better DNA? Is that any different from the aristocrats who claim the world as their birthright because they were fortunate enough to be born into the right family? Hell, if we're going to have two classes of people, wouldn't it be more efficient --- for the "free market" --- to re-institute slavery?
It's because they have successfully defended their patents regarding CCGs and the concept of "tapping" for years.
They don't own the concept of tapping. Many card games feature rotation of a card by 90 degrees to indicate some effect --- you just can't call it tapping.
No purchase tax (I think you call it "sales tax") on internet goods... that's simply unbelievable.
The rules are as follows:
1) If the internet store has a physical presence in the state where the purchaser resides, the store must collect sales tax and remit it to the state.
2) Otherwise, in most (all?) states, it is the responsibility to pay the same amount of tax (called a use tax) directly to the state. This may be done, for instance, when filing the state income tax forms in April, provided the state collects income tax.
It's amazing any non-internet stores are open still unless you have a really-really low "sales tax"?
Where I live, the sales/use tax is 5% --- not unreasonable. Furthermore, if customers obey the law and pay their use tax (I do, sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H law-abiding citizen that I am) then that benefit to online retailers is nullified. However, I still have a wider selection, and pay less for goods purchased online, even taking shipping into account...
You know what puts local businesses at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting me? Lack of selection. For example, if I want to watch a film, I add it to my Netflix queue. Too many times I go to Ballbuster or Hollywood Video and they don't have the films I want to watch. Same with books, music, beer brewing supplies, cooking accesories, etc. I live in a city of 50,000 but do a good portion of my shopping online --- and it isn't to dodge the sales tax. Screw the local businesses. They dont cater to me.
Neither does he. You don't need LaTeX to write mathematics. The field got along quite well for a rather long time before LaTeX came to be.
Sure. For that matter, you don't need a computer, typewriter, ink, or paper either. Just draw figures in the sand with a stick like Archimedes. However, LaTeX is easy to learn, portable, and produces visually pleasing mathematics. Word processors are clumsy, non-portable, and produces mathematics that looks as if it were written by a sixth-grader.
Kidnappers and thieves need privacy to succeed more than I need it to keep them away. Less privacy would make people safer from kidnappers and thieves.
Really? So you assert that more automobiles would be stolen if they were all out of sight (say in garages) than if they were plainly visible?
I'm not stupid enough to believe that this will be normal behavior for thieves. Neither am I naive enough to believe that no thief will try this rather than drive through neighborhoods looking for cool stuff to steal.
Maybe someone who sees a photo decides they like your visible property, or your child, and decides to liberate them from you. They will know where to go.
I recently moved to a different state, and we get about 6 calls a day from 800 and 866 numbers -- always unknown caller. You have made my day. Welcome to my friends list.
Then you're lucky. At the local level, you actually may have more than a 0.00000001 probability of changing the rules. Get the word out. Hell, you might even get some free advertising from Cox if you contact them with a plan for getting this overturned. Do some petitioning.
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But please, let "us" not pretend that downloading illegal copies of copyrighted material represents some form of civil disobedience. It doesn't. It represents "us" once again taking the easy and apathetic route to instant personal gratification
An idea inculcated in individuals from infancy through advertising and credit card applications. Their snake oil has worked a little too well.
(snip juvenile baiting)
It's simple really, I just consider the source and shrug it off. I figure, when a discussion devolves to the point where one party is hurling strings of insults involving lineage and bodily functions, that is a strong indication they realize they have lost and have nothing meaningful left to contribute to the conversation.
I'm using force in the same sense as forcing your religion on people.
Apparently, your atrocious spelling is due to the fact that you have no dictionary, or don't know how to use one. Let me help --- you are possibly referring to
force: to impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably
It is not possible for me to impose myself on a public forum, unless I post so much that the forum is clogged and effectively unusable. You are free to ignore my posts. Yet you choose to come to me for more words of wisdom. That's not force.
(snip more pre-pubescent ranting)
You know, sumdumass, you are pretty pathetic as a troll. Well-crafted trolls typically have correct grammar and stay focused rather than rambling on from topic to topic. I'll take Flamebait for 200, Alex.
Have you priced a vacation trip to to disneyland/world/skiing/cruises/europe? How is such a large amount of money spent on those recreational activities ok but gambling is not.
Indeed. I love hearing about how drug laws are intended to protect people from themselves, yet we allow people to drive automobiles, mountain climb, play football, and engage in a plethora of other "safe" activities. Personally, I'd rather light up a doobie in the sanctity of my home than spend a bunch of money trekking to tourist traps to deal with a crowd of assholes accompanied by their bratty kids, cellphones, and discarded chicken bones and broken bottles.
You mean allowing a HUGE chunk of the population be addicted as opposed to a small manageable chunk?
That's all well and good except for one thing: You cannot show that a "huge chunk" of the population would become addicted to drugs.
And it doesn't matter if the dealer is selling their crack for $5 a pop, or $2.50 from the gov't, the addicts need to find the money to buy this crap somewhere.
Right. Everywhere I've lived there are roaming gangs of alcoholics and cigarette junkies breaking into apartments and stores, stealing items, and selling them in the pawn shops to support their habit. Give me a break.
Preface: It IS the governments responsibility to protect it's citizens.
Not from themselves. You should look into who is REALLY being protected with prohibition laws.
You are just stupid. You can hold what I do against me. I shouldn't be able to hold what your ancestors did against you.
You have no possible way of knowing who my ancestors are, and yet you feel qualified to make statements about them. Go on, let it all out --- call my mother a sperm-drinking whore. I've heard it all before and am far beyond caring about all that grade-school nonsense.
You are forcing your opinion on me in the same ways the Jehovah's whitenesses do. You came to the forum and spouted your hatred, people didn't some and ask for it.
You might want to look up the definition of the word "force". I'm not knocking on your door. I'm posting on, as you say, a forum. If you don't like what you read on public forums, maybe you should stop visiting them. Not doing so indicates a psychological disturbance. Maybe you need conflict because religion just isn't giving you quite enough meaning in life.
You ancestors were worthless fagots who caused a battle to be lost and hundreds of people died because of it. Should I hold that against you?
... seriously. Get some treatment.
You are quasi-literate and can't seem to put together a coherent thought. Should I hold that against you?
It does two things. It take the meaning of life away and then it empowers people like you who seem compelled to force that opinion on others because you don't agree with what they have come up with.
Right. I'm forcing you, with my mind-control lasers, to read my slashdot posts. Dude, lay off the crack pipe
I guess you don't believe in God, but you can't say he doesn't exist either so get off the high horse.
Uhh, God doesn't exist. Next.
If you'd like to refute that, I'll need proof that something doesn't exist. Have fun with that.
The positive real number whose square is zero does not exist. Next.
But what religions do is unit people for common causes.
The most important of which seems to be exterminating people of different religions --- see witch trials, crusades, the Inquisition, etc.
They comfort the week and and give meaning to some people's life. This is something Science is in conflict with and for some it has became a direct replacement.
How exactly does science conflict with religion regarding giving meaning to life? Science has nothing to say about this.
So are you against all fiction books, cartoons and television?
There's a big difference --- the producers and consumers of Bugs Bunny, James Bond, and Star Wars don't promote those things as being real and don't attempt to substitute events depicted therein for science. It is understood that they are strictly entertainment.
Whether it's a movie or a religion that's false, neither of them are really harming you, personally... I wouldn't think.
Ask Salman Rushdie about that.
Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.
--- Bill Hicks
Get real. Using the internet is a valuable skill that children in school should learn.
.mp3's and porn, how to properly craft a troll on Slashdot, how to distinguish between libs and cons when reading posts by anonymous strangers, and to indulge in that most important and cherished American pastime --- shopping. Giving children access to the internet has the added benefit of distracting them from using their cellphones and firing spitwads at the teachers.
Agreed. Children need to learn, as soon as possible, how to download
That depends on what the definition of "is" is.
Its (sic) physical work not mental. This is why wages should not be so high. Simple supply and demand. There's a lot of supply of workers and limited demand.
... humanitarian. Why should the intelligent be any more entitled to all that life has to offer simply because they have better DNA? Is that any different from the aristocrats who claim the world as their birthright because they were fortunate enough to be born into the right family? Hell, if we're going to have two classes of people, wouldn't it be more efficient --- for the "free market" --- to re-institute slavery?
So what you're saying is that people of average (or below) intelligence should live on a limited income? How
For example:
L5R --- bowing.
Call of Cthulhu --- exhausting
It's because they have successfully defended their patents regarding CCGs and the concept of "tapping" for years.
They don't own the concept of tapping. Many card games feature rotation of a card by 90 degrees to indicate some effect --- you just can't call it tapping.
No purchase tax (I think you call it "sales tax") on internet goods ... that's simply unbelievable.
The rules are as follows:
1) If the internet store has a physical presence in the state where the purchaser resides, the store must collect sales tax and remit it to the state.
2) Otherwise, in most (all?) states, it is the responsibility to pay the same amount of tax (called a use tax) directly to the state. This may be done, for instance, when filing the state income tax forms in April, provided the state collects income tax.
It's amazing any non-internet stores are open still unless you have a really-really low "sales tax"?
Where I live, the sales/use tax is 5% --- not unreasonable. Furthermore, if customers obey the law and pay their use tax (I do, sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H law-abiding citizen that I am) then that benefit to online retailers is nullified. However, I still have a wider selection, and pay less for goods purchased online, even taking shipping into account...
in the U.S.
You know what puts local businesses at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting me? Lack of selection. For example, if I want to watch a film, I add it to my Netflix queue. Too many times I go to Ballbuster or Hollywood Video and they don't have the films I want to watch. Same with books, music, beer brewing supplies, cooking accesories, etc. I live in a city of 50,000 but do a good portion of my shopping online --- and it isn't to dodge the sales tax. Screw the local businesses. They dont cater to me.
It's not our culture anymore. Culture is created and owned by corporations and doled out to the masses --- for a fee, of course.
Neither does he. You don't need LaTeX to write mathematics. The field got along quite well for a rather long time before LaTeX came to be.
Sure. For that matter, you don't need a computer, typewriter, ink, or paper either. Just draw figures in the sand with a stick like Archimedes. However, LaTeX is easy to learn, portable, and produces visually pleasing mathematics. Word processors are clumsy, non-portable, and produces mathematics that looks as if it were written by a sixth-grader.
Kidnappers and thieves need privacy to succeed more than I need it to keep them away. Less privacy would make people safer from kidnappers and thieves.
Really? So you assert that more automobiles would be stolen if they were all out of sight (say in garages) than if they were plainly visible?
I'm not stupid enough to believe that this will be normal behavior for thieves. Neither am I naive enough to believe that no thief will try this rather than drive through neighborhoods looking for cool stuff to steal.
So what should I be scared of?
Maybe someone who sees a photo decides they like your visible property, or your child, and decides to liberate them from you. They will know where to go.
I recently moved to a different state, and we get about 6 calls a day from 800 and 866 numbers -- always unknown caller. You have made my day. Welcome to my friends list.
Then you're lucky. At the local level, you actually may have more than a 0.00000001 probability of changing the rules. Get the word out. Hell, you might even get some free advertising from Cox if you contact them with a plan for getting this overturned. Do some petitioning.