It's the kids who put too much stock into their station in school life that get wicked depressed when they're not part of the cool clique.
You speak of that like it's different from the adult world where your choices are be a joiner or a loner. In the former case you sacrifice your dignity and individuality (unless you are a true-believer), and in the latter you sacrifice social/economic connections. Decisions, decisions.
Oh come on. I did the same kind of shit when I was in high school. How do kids react when it first starts to dawn on them that maybe the powers that be don't have their best interests at heart, that most people are liars and hypocrites, and that there is little real justice in the world? Some use drugs and alcohol. Some bury their heads in books. Some go out with their peers and fuck like rabbits. And some write sadistic essays and death lists. It's a part of growing up. Don't read too much into it.
Look, the guy was a fascist, plain and simple. The US is a democracy. He was actively seeking to destroy our country. There is no other way to put it, and this "Well, you shouldn't hate him so much cus he only didn't want you to watch movies a certain way" is a straw man. He deserved to die, horribly --- too bad he lived as long as he did.
so, you're all dancing arround his grave because he didn't want you to enjoy your movies the way you see fit? Grow up. Seriously.
If you think that's why people are dancing, then you are the one who needs to grow up. Piss on that bastard and more generally on what he represented --- that if you have enough money you can buy the laws in our "democracy". May he roast in hell.
Substitute orthogonal for perpendicular. Say that A is the origin, and that say B is on the x-axis. Use the given lengths to calculate the coordinates of the other vertices. Take each line segment joining two points to be a vector. The angle theta (in 3-space) between two nonzero vectors u and v is given by the relation:
cos(theta)=(u , v)/|u||v|
where (,) is the dot product of the vectors. If the dot product is zero, the vectors are orthogonal.
You have a point, if the only purpose of college is job training. Some of us believe that a university education is about molding tomorrow's great thinkers by not only providing education in their area of expertise, but also giving them a well-rounded education. Of course, this is opposed to corporate interests that demand that a person does one thing only and does it well, doesn't ask questions, and doesn't think how their work relates to or impacts the world at large.
I didn't turn anything around. But I am not my own property, as evidenced by points given in my previous post. I hope I am not government or corporate property. Perhaps human beings should transcend being property.
That's a good question. If I own myself, then I should be able to dispose of myself any way I please, as long as I don't violate someone else's property rights. However, I am not legally allowed to commit suicide. Nor may I sell myself into slavery (in the U.S.) On the other hand, when I was younger, the government could have potentially drafted me into the military to send me to a place I didn't want to go, forced me to sleep within a certain period of the day, and forced me to go out and kill other people, thereby depriving them of their lives. So, I'll fire your question right back at you? Whose property am I?
So what you are saying is that property rights were handed down from where? God? No one uttered a syllable, masturbated, or picked a blade of grass until the angels flew down with their contracts and started parceling out property rights? What about chimpanzees, bees, lions, polar bears? Do they not communicate, eat, and move around? How is this possible? I've never been approached by a dog to grant it permission to defecate in my yard. You should probably rethink your position.
Free Markets and Free Enterprise don't mean the freedom of Enterprise to do whatever the heck they feel like. It means a freedom for people to engage in enterprise (you know, selling things to each other) as long as they're both willing and able to do so. Nothing in this is contradictory with democracy or against human rights.
Tell that to the people of Bolivia after their water supply was privatized.
Democracy, privacy, and human rights are antithetical to the "free market". We either get to rule ourselves, or the corporations get to rule us. Guess which way it's turning out?
For those that bitch about high executive salaries, that's what they're often really getting paid for: They're people who've established they're good at staying ahead of the wave, surfing its leading edge and keeping their companies hugely profitable. If your ability can keep your company on the leading edge of the equilibrium wave, making $500m more a year than a company that rode the top of the wave, isn't it worth paying you $50m for that edge?
I've never regarded CDs to be as durable as either analog tape...
You have GOT to be kidding. I have had too many tapes fail because of drop-outs, runners, and breakage. Cassette tapes are horrible.
The main problem is quite simply overpopulation. I've often wished I could wake up one morning and discover that around 70%-75% of the global population had simply disappeared during the night. The sociological improvement that would be experienced by the 25% that were left would be astronomical.
Globally, that would leave us at about a 1900 AD population level. In 100 years, we'd be right back where we are today.
To quote Rupert Giles: Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell... musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is... it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible. It should be, um, smelly.
Furthermore, books don't give me a headache; but reading from a monitor for a long time does. I also like the feel of the book in my hands, the sound made by the pages as I turn them, and the way it looks on a shelf beside my other books. Here's hoping physical books are around for a long time to come.
I am so glad that you care so much for human life that you are willing to get rid of your firearms... and mine as well. In the US, the number of people killed in automobile accidents is about twice the number killed by firearms. Please be vocal and condemn the government for not banning automobiles that not only kill our beloved citizens, but also contribute to demand for oil, wars fought over oil, smog, and other collateral damage to our environment and citizenry.
If it came to that the labels would love it. You probably only have a few friends with whom you'd go to the time and trouble of sharing in this fashion.
Ahh. But, they share with a friend, who shares with a friend. Before you know it, Kevin Bacon has a copy, and then the world!
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Point 4 is one of the nicest trolls I've seen in a long time. Good work.
It's the kids who put too much stock into their station in school life that get wicked depressed when they're not part of the cool clique.
You speak of that like it's different from the adult world where your choices are be a joiner or a loner. In the former case you sacrifice your dignity and individuality (unless you are a true-believer), and in the latter you sacrifice social/economic connections. Decisions, decisions.
Oh come on. I did the same kind of shit when I was in high school. How do kids react when it first starts to dawn on them that maybe the powers that be don't have their best interests at heart, that most people are liars and hypocrites, and that there is little real justice in the world? Some use drugs and alcohol. Some bury their heads in books. Some go out with their peers and fuck like rabbits. And some write sadistic essays and death lists. It's a part of growing up. Don't read too much into it.
Look, the guy was a fascist, plain and simple. The US is a democracy. He was actively seeking to destroy our country. There is no other way to put it, and this "Well, you shouldn't hate him so much cus he only didn't want you to watch movies a certain way" is a straw man. He deserved to die, horribly --- too bad he lived as long as he did.
so, you're all dancing arround his grave because he didn't want you to enjoy your movies the way you see fit? Grow up. Seriously.
If you think that's why people are dancing, then you are the one who needs to grow up. Piss on that bastard and more generally on what he represented --- that if you have enough money you can buy the laws in our "democracy". May he roast in hell.
file sharing != copyright infringement != stealing
Substitute orthogonal for perpendicular. Say that A is the origin, and that say B is on the x-axis. Use the given lengths to calculate the coordinates of the other vertices. Take each line segment joining two points to be a vector. The angle theta (in 3-space) between two nonzero vectors u and v is given by the relation:
/|u||v|
cos(theta)=(u , v)
where (,) is the dot product of the vectors. If the dot product is zero, the vectors are orthogonal.
Isn't that what accredited degree programs are all about?
You have a point, if the only purpose of college is job training. Some of us believe that a university education is about molding tomorrow's great thinkers by not only providing education in their area of expertise, but also giving them a well-rounded education. Of course, this is opposed to corporate interests that demand that a person does one thing only and does it well, doesn't ask questions, and doesn't think how their work relates to or impacts the world at large.
I don't know. Some people earn decent pay once they learn to "suck" something else.
I didn't turn anything around. But I am not my own property, as evidenced by points given in my previous post. I hope I am not government or corporate property. Perhaps human beings should transcend being property.
If you don't own you, then who does?
That's a good question. If I own myself, then I should be able to dispose of myself any way I please, as long as I don't violate someone else's property rights. However, I am not legally allowed to commit suicide. Nor may I sell myself into slavery (in the U.S.) On the other hand, when I was younger, the government could have potentially drafted me into the military to send me to a place I didn't want to go, forced me to sleep within a certain period of the day, and forced me to go out and kill other people, thereby depriving them of their lives. So, I'll fire your question right back at you? Whose property am I?
So what you are saying is that property rights were handed down from where? God? No one uttered a syllable, masturbated, or picked a blade of grass until the angels flew down with their contracts and started parceling out property rights? What about chimpanzees, bees, lions, polar bears? Do they not communicate, eat, and move around? How is this possible? I've never been approached by a dog to grant it permission to defecate in my yard. You should probably rethink your position.
Free Markets and Free Enterprise don't mean the freedom of Enterprise to do whatever the heck they feel like. It means a freedom for people to engage in enterprise (you know, selling things to each other) as long as they're both willing and able to do so. Nothing in this is contradictory with democracy or against human rights.
Tell that to the people of Bolivia after their water supply was privatized.
You have human rights to the exact extent that you have property rights; they are fundamentally inseparable.
How do you figure? How is my right to speak or move or breathe air tied to my property rights --- unless you consider me someone's property?
Democracy, privacy, and human rights are antithetical to the "free market". We either get to rule ourselves, or the corporations get to rule us. Guess which way it's turning out?
For those that bitch about high executive salaries, that's what they're often really getting paid for: They're people who've established they're good at staying ahead of the wave, surfing its leading edge and keeping their companies hugely profitable. If your ability can keep your company on the leading edge of the equilibrium wave, making $500m more a year than a company that rode the top of the wave, isn't it worth paying you $50m for that edge?
In a word, Enron.
I've never regarded CDs to be as durable as either analog tape ...
You have GOT to be kidding. I have had too many tapes fail because of drop-outs, runners, and breakage. Cassette tapes are horrible.
The main problem is quite simply overpopulation. I've often wished I could wake up one morning and discover that around 70%-75% of the global population had simply disappeared during the night. The sociological improvement that would be experienced by the 25% that were left would be astronomical.
Globally, that would leave us at about a 1900 AD population level. In 100 years, we'd be right back where we are today.
To quote Rupert Giles: Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell... musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is... it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible. It should be, um, smelly.
Furthermore, books don't give me a headache; but reading from a monitor for a long time does. I also like the feel of the book in my hands, the sound made by the pages as I turn them, and the way it looks on a shelf beside my other books. Here's hoping physical books are around for a long time to come.
I am so glad that you care so much for human life that you are willing to get rid of your firearms ... and mine as well. In the US, the number of people killed in automobile accidents is about twice the number killed by firearms. Please be vocal and condemn the government for not banning automobiles that not only kill our beloved citizens, but also contribute to demand for oil, wars fought over oil, smog, and other collateral damage to our environment and citizenry.
Or, you could just STFU.
Touche!
Yeah, but like any good zombie, it keeps digging it's way back out of the ground.
Just draw a line around the perimeter of Washington DC with a magic marker. That'll fix it.
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If it came to that the labels would love it. You probably only have a few friends with whom you'd go to the time and trouble of sharing in this fashion.
Ahh. But, they share with a friend, who shares with a friend. Before you know it, Kevin Bacon has a copy, and then the world!