Oh, come on dude. I'm not even anti-french, but even I admit their government manages to throw in the towel anytime the going gets tough. The people, not so much, but like it or not, the government is generally an abstracted view of the people. Hence the reason Americans are despised, even if they don't, individually, subscribe to the foreign policy or general nationalistic arrogance of their more esteemed leaders. It sucks, but c'est la vie, after all.
Actually, our anger is not so much placed towards having to pay for a movie, it's for having to watch some pretty greedy assholes, on an epic scale, demanding more and more money from us while giving less and less. That's the nature of capitalism, I suppose, but that doesn't hide the fact that truly ridiculous greed is a horrible human sickness. Self-interest is one thing, or even eating the last slice of pizza without asking anybody else, but getting 400 million dollars as a severance package is beyond ridiculous.
It just so happens that an organization known for the overwhelming greed of its members is also telling us we are "bad people" because we downloaded a 99 cent mp3 (going by iTunes prices). The gall of some people is truly astonishing.
That is what pisses me off. It is but a symptom of the flaws in the system. I agree that if someone is pissed off solely because they were prohibited from stealing (or copying) and decided to kill some people, then they are completely out of touch with reality. I think a simmering anger and resentment for greedy fuckers in general is completely understandable, and while I'm not saying anyone should firebomb starbucks, I also wouldn't be surprised or think they were the worst persons in the universe for doing such. I don't condone it, but I do (somewhat) understand it.
Sorry, but if the user is working with 10 million documents, I'm pretty sure they're going to be content to wait. After all, it is TEN FUCKING MILLION DOCUMENTS.
Not all the time. There was a Kobold in the Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide expansion that followed you around for part of the story. Maybe it was that I was drunk while our group was playing, but he had "roffling" everytime he strummed on his lute and yelled "DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHH".
Other than him, though, I agree. Kobolds have gotta die.
Wow. Out of the tens of thousands of rounds I fired in my life, I've shot and killed precisely 2 things.
I mean, by your logic, a sword is used for one, and only one, thing; killing things. Funny how many people own swords or take fencing classes in college and have never actually killed *anything* with it.
I do, but only because they're obnoxious about their cars. Prius owners *can* be the same way as well. (I'm not trying to zing you, either, because you definitely did not come off as obnoxious.)
I was going to buy a prius, until I realized I could get a 2000$ kia pos and run it into the ground and still save hundreds of dollars in gas, over a thousand dollars in insurance, and about 24k on the car itself.
Sure, the I want to send the KIA careening off a cliff, but as far as fuel efficiency *and* economic efficiency goes, it's the best of both worlds.
Actually, I took his comment to be utterly different.
I had in mind a baseball bat to the mean bean machine, personally. I guess I just feel that, when a group of people becomes so exceptionally greedy, they deserve an exceptionally vindictive response. I hold no allusions that business was any different "back in the day". People were always willing to sacrifice morality for "phat loots". But just because that's the way it has always been doesn't mean we can't aspire to something greater. Sometimes it is debatable whether some ideal is "greater" than the status quo or not (take, example, abstinence before marriage - some people believe in this with an almost unmatched fervor, where others find it a ridiculous idea in general), but I think we can all agree that, while self-interest is good, there comes a point where it morphs from purely looking out for your family and into a true perversion. (Tycho, Adelphia, Enron, etc). It is in these cases, I think, we bust out the beanbag bat. And then every few weeks for a year, someone ninjas out from behind a garbage can and wacks them in the goody sack and then/flees.
As far as boycotting music from big record labels and bypassing software with obnoxious terms go - that's fine, up until they start blaming the dip in sales on "theft". Talk about a plan that backfires! The more you do to pinch their bottom line, the stronger their position for protection comes. I don't know the answer to this particular (pseudo-)paradox, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
Well, since I'm condoning it, I guess that having it come out of someone's ass first would also constitute me condoning both sodomy and bestiality, which makes me more or less guilty of the same thing!
For some reason, I just pictured a girl with gigantic tits jumping up and down on a trampoline followed immediately by Admiral Akbar yelling "it's a trap!"
responding to my own reply, since it seems i missed the point (yeah, i'm a bit tired. sue me.); all sorts of crazy shit goes on when you get closer and closer to 0 on the top and bottom. let's say for the top, you're going to 0 from the left, and have -0.00...0001 (a very small number, very close to zero - so close to zero, even an aerospace engineer would write it as zero, or an astronomer discussing angles of declination and right ascention -- i mean really, really, REALLY small), but on the bottom, you're going from the right (same magnitude number, just positive this time). you get... -1. but if you do both positive, it's 1. so which is it? -1? 1? hell if i know, but just because the other numbers are 1 doesn't mean 0/0 can be, just because 0 has a few special properties that other real numbers don't have.
then again, i only have a math minor, and haven't had an upper level math class in half a decade, and haven't worked in any job that required me to know anything other than basic arithmetic, so... i could be off on some of this. by a lot.
but that makes no sense. if you graph it in an equation, you have 1/0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000001 being a very large number indeed, but then you divide by an even smaller number (0) and then it suddenly goes to 1? i'm alot more content with it zooming off into positive or negative infinite than i am saying it's 1.
Also, all you need is a drill and take it straight through the top of the security tag, basically precisely where the pin goes into the top. then it slides right apart.
Someone at a store didn't take mine off once, so I called back and asked her how the hell to get it off, since I was 15 at the time, with no car, and the mall was about an hour away, so just taking it back to have her fix it wasn't really an option. She said "uhm, try a really big magnet!"
My grandfather was a master welder, and had a magnet of truly epic proportions, so I took my shirt to his house to try to get the tag off. It wasn't budging. Finally I got pissed and took a cordless drill to it. It was off in about 2 seconds with no damage to the fabric.
... or so that part of the spectrum can be resold off to other companies for "phat loots", as it were?
The FCC isn't pushing HDTV for Sony and Samsung, they're pushing it because they're positively salivating at all the loads of cash they expect to get from Cingular and Verizon.
If people want eye candy inside of a wm which is still sane and doesn't attempt to take over your system why aren't more people looking at Enlightenment?
I just said how. If I make the social comment "bitches ain't shit", how is that, in any way, political? I never mentioned a law banning bitches or a political action committee to determine the best course of action toward curbing this trend through legislative means. There's a very easy way to separate the two: don't put them together. Just because there are aspects of society you may find distasteful, guess what? It's not the government's fucking job to regulate society unless it meets some pretty basic criteria. Are the social actions in question impacting the lives of others in society in a direct, meaningful, detrimental way, e.g. theft of life or property? If not, back the fuck off. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you can make a law to halt it. That's ludicrous.
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Oh, I don't think anyone around me can make decisions for themselves.
That's why, deep down, I wish I were a super villain and could eradicate them all.
Then the world would be safe.
Oh, come on dude. I'm not even anti-french, but even I admit their government manages to throw in the towel anytime the going gets tough. The people, not so much, but like it or not, the government is generally an abstracted view of the people. Hence the reason Americans are despised, even if they don't, individually, subscribe to the foreign policy or general nationalistic arrogance of their more esteemed leaders. It sucks, but c'est la vie, after all.
Of course it is detected at a distance! Haven't you ever seen battlestar gallactica?!
noob!
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Until a bunch of middle class suburban teenagers show up with a few baseball bats and beat him to death.
I guess that's a small price to pay for being safe from fraud, though.
Actually, our anger is not so much placed towards having to pay for a movie, it's for having to watch some pretty greedy assholes, on an epic scale, demanding more and more money from us while giving less and less. That's the nature of capitalism, I suppose, but that doesn't hide the fact that truly ridiculous greed is a horrible human sickness. Self-interest is one thing, or even eating the last slice of pizza without asking anybody else, but getting 400 million dollars as a severance package is beyond ridiculous.
It just so happens that an organization known for the overwhelming greed of its members is also telling us we are "bad people" because we downloaded a 99 cent mp3 (going by iTunes prices). The gall of some people is truly astonishing.
That is what pisses me off. It is but a symptom of the flaws in the system. I agree that if someone is pissed off solely because they were prohibited from stealing (or copying) and decided to kill some people, then they are completely out of touch with reality. I think a simmering anger and resentment for greedy fuckers in general is completely understandable, and while I'm not saying anyone should firebomb starbucks, I also wouldn't be surprised or think they were the worst persons in the universe for doing such. I don't condone it, but I do (somewhat) understand it.
Sorry, but if the user is working with 10 million documents, I'm pretty sure they're going to be content to wait. After all, it is TEN FUCKING MILLION DOCUMENTS.
Not all the time. There was a Kobold in the Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide expansion that followed you around for part of the story. Maybe it was that I was drunk while our group was playing, but he had "roffling" everytime he strummed on his lute and yelled "DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHH".
Other than him, though, I agree. Kobolds have gotta die.
The sole purpose is to shoot and kill things?
Wow. Out of the tens of thousands of rounds I fired in my life, I've shot and killed precisely 2 things.
I mean, by your logic, a sword is used for one, and only one, thing; killing things. Funny how many people own swords or take fencing classes in college and have never actually killed *anything* with it.
(I'm sorry, but you're wrong. G'day.)
no, a worse group. right alongside rapists, child molesters, and people who talk at the theatre.
I will *not* code in P.
I won't code in poop either.
I do, but only because they're obnoxious about their cars. Prius owners *can* be the same way as well. (I'm not trying to zing you, either, because you definitely did not come off as obnoxious.)
I was going to buy a prius, until I realized I could get a 2000$ kia pos and run it into the ground and still save hundreds of dollars in gas, over a thousand dollars in insurance, and about 24k on the car itself.
Sure, the I want to send the KIA careening off a cliff, but as far as fuel efficiency *and* economic efficiency goes, it's the best of both worlds.
I still fucking hate that car, though. >.<
Actually, I took his comment to be utterly different.
/flees.
I had in mind a baseball bat to the mean bean machine, personally. I guess I just feel that, when a group of people becomes so exceptionally greedy, they deserve an exceptionally vindictive response. I hold no allusions that business was any different "back in the day". People were always willing to sacrifice morality for "phat loots". But just because that's the way it has always been doesn't mean we can't aspire to something greater. Sometimes it is debatable whether some ideal is "greater" than the status quo or not (take, example, abstinence before marriage - some people believe in this with an almost unmatched fervor, where others find it a ridiculous idea in general), but I think we can all agree that, while self-interest is good, there comes a point where it morphs from purely looking out for your family and into a true perversion. (Tycho, Adelphia, Enron, etc). It is in these cases, I think, we bust out the beanbag bat. And then every few weeks for a year, someone ninjas out from behind a garbage can and wacks them in the goody sack and then
As far as boycotting music from big record labels and bypassing software with obnoxious terms go - that's fine, up until they start blaming the dip in sales on "theft". Talk about a plan that backfires! The more you do to pinch their bottom line, the stronger their position for protection comes. I don't know the answer to this particular (pseudo-)paradox, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
It ends where we drag these people out of their houses and lynch them with their own intestines. As for when it ends - well. I hope sometime soon.
Well, since I'm condoning it, I guess that having it come out of someone's ass first would also constitute me condoning both sodomy and bestiality, which makes me more or less guilty of the same thing!
Which takes it a few steps farther.
For example, I codone these judges should be taken out back and whipped within an inch of their respective lives with a giant whale penis.
I guess that makes me guilty of aggravated assault and attempted murder with a whale wang.
Somehow, I don't feel all that bad about it. *shrug*
Yeah. It won't have any impact at all on the ultra poor living in New Orleans. *rolls eyes*
Oh. I'm so glad you could explain "how the planet works" so succinctly. I guess we can tell all those scientists to focus on new stuff, then.
For some reason, I just pictured a girl with gigantic tits jumping up and down on a trampoline followed immediately by Admiral Akbar yelling "it's a trap!"
fun times.
Aye, i'm well aware there are times when it's undefined :] when was it, every (pi) or something? i forget the frequency. :)
responding to my own reply, since it seems i missed the point (yeah, i'm a bit tired. sue me.); all sorts of crazy shit goes on when you get closer and closer to 0 on the top and bottom. let's say for the top, you're going to 0 from the left, and have -0.00...0001 (a very small number, very close to zero - so close to zero, even an aerospace engineer would write it as zero, or an astronomer discussing angles of declination and right ascention -- i mean really, really, REALLY small), but on the bottom, you're going from the right (same magnitude number, just positive this time). you get... -1. but if you do both positive, it's 1. so which is it? -1? 1? hell if i know, but just because the other numbers are 1 doesn't mean 0/0 can be, just because 0 has a few special properties that other real numbers don't have.
then again, i only have a math minor, and haven't had an upper level math class in half a decade, and haven't worked in any job that required me to know anything other than basic arithmetic, so... i could be off on some of this. by a lot.
but that makes no sense. if you graph it in an equation, you have 1/0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000001 being a very large number indeed, but then you divide by an even smaller number (0) and then it suddenly goes to 1? i'm alot more content with it zooming off into positive or negative infinite than i am saying it's 1.
Also, all you need is a drill and take it straight through the top of the security tag, basically precisely where the pin goes into the top. then it slides right apart.
Someone at a store didn't take mine off once, so I called back and asked her how the hell to get it off, since I was 15 at the time, with no car, and the mall was about an hour away, so just taking it back to have her fix it wasn't really an option. She said "uhm, try a really big magnet!"
My grandfather was a master welder, and had a magnet of truly epic proportions, so I took my shirt to his house to try to get the tag off. It wasn't budging. Finally I got pissed and took a cordless drill to it. It was off in about 2 seconds with no damage to the fabric.
... or so that part of the spectrum can be resold off to other companies for "phat loots", as it were?
The FCC isn't pushing HDTV for Sony and Samsung, they're pushing it because they're positively salivating at all the loads of cash they expect to get from Cingular and Verizon.
I just said how. If I make the social comment "bitches ain't shit", how is that, in any way, political? I never mentioned a law banning bitches or a political action committee to determine the best course of action toward curbing this trend through legislative means. There's a very easy way to separate the two: don't put them together. Just because there are aspects of society you may find distasteful, guess what? It's not the government's fucking job to regulate society unless it meets some pretty basic criteria. Are the social actions in question impacting the lives of others in society in a direct, meaningful, detrimental way, e.g. theft of life or property? If not, back the fuck off. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you can make a law to halt it. That's ludicrous.