Perhaps I misunderstood the tone of your post, but you do realize I was agreeing with you, right? Inciting people to violence should be punishable (although what "inciting" is needs to be better defined), but some redneck yammering about how much he hates Jews should be tolerated, even though I would find him to be abhorent. If nothing else, it gives an outlet for various voices to be heard, whether Fascist, Republican (but then I repeat myself), Green, Democrat, Socialist, Communist, whatever, rather than letting some sets of the population steam while feeling powerless. Or, to quote that fat, limey bastard Churchill, "It is better to jaw, jaw, than to war, war."
Sorry, lefties. Your crazed desire to give the government as much power as humanly possible to regulate everybody's thought and living patterns to match your own is failing.
Um, you do realize that lots of people bashing your exalted Dear Leader Bush were harrassed by the FBI, not to mention all the legally protesting people at the RNC convention who were arrested and thrown in prison on false charges (though later released)? And then, of course, there is anti-flag burning legislation always brought up by Repugs. In red states, you can't lead anyone in a school prayer unless it is to the Protestant Fundamentalist version of God. I could go on, but really. Don't talk about the mote in your neighbor's eye when you have a whole beam in yours. Anti-hate speach legislation, while ill-founded, at least had at its heart the idea to stop the traditional practice of inflaming the mob's anger so as to go out and lynch minorities. Hardly in the same league as sending the Feds after people who simply disagree with Bush.
You hear that sound? It's the sound of Richard Warman shitting himself. Maybe he and Jack Thompson can start some kind of international law firm so they can get international ridicule now.
Historical basis for the state being sacred can be seen in the divine right of kings, or Roman Emperors claiming to be the descendants of gods, or pharaohs claiming to be gods
Or, all the right-wing nuts claiming that George W. Bush was put in the White House by God. The funny thing is they are the ones now mockingly referring to Obama as "The Messiah". Seems like a bit of psychological projection to me.
It's no denying that a lot of his students were pro-Spartan fascist trash. (Plato in particular!)
Jeez! I thought people who still couldn't get over losing the American Civil War were screwy. What's next? "That Thag was such a fucker for bashing in Og's skull!"?
You know, that would have been a much better post if you had simply titled it "Don't Panic". Hopefully, the estate of Douglas Adams (since he is, unfortunately, deceased) wouldn't go after you for copyright infringement. Of course, being on the other side of the Great Pond, I wish someone would take all of Margaret Mitchell's heirs and burn down their houses and sew their the land with salt. But, that's just me.
In the Internet era, you need to register your printing press with Go Daddy, Gandi, or another reputable registrar, or nobody will know how to connect to it.
GP was referring to printer registration, not domain name registration. Color printer registration is about keeping the cyan, magenta, yellow and black printing heads/plates/whatever printing in the correct positions relative to each other. The leaflet looks like it doesn't need careful registration at all to be printed correctly.
USA already has other public options: public schools and USPS Priority Mail over private schools and UPS 3 Day Select.
Yes. Among many others. I used to think General Jim's Army and Admiral Bob's Navy were jokes. But now we have Blackwater (or whatever they are calling themselves now).
So now we can send a message to Black Jack Pershing saying "For God's sake, stop shelling your own positions!" Unfortunately, 200 Doughboys perished while Windows needed rebooting.
are police gonna enter your home and approach you at your desk as ask to see your license?
I see you're beginning to get the idea. Now, to make the process more efficient, all they need to due is install a camera at the appropriate point and monitor it randomly.
Our understanding of physics wasn't "wrong" with Newton. It was just high-level models that broke down in special cases. Same thing here. It's still very useful.
Well, to pick even more nits, it's not even really "special cases" in which it breaks down. It simply breaks down in regions that the average human being does not normally experience (near light speed, sub-atomic levels, etc.). A lot of our better understanding of physics (among other things) comes about when we can measure things better and/or in regions that we used to not be able to measure. Such as with the LHC (whenever they can get it working).
Or Venus. Still not rotating. Still unexplained. It's taunting us.
Which solar system is this Venus in? The one I know is odd, but it still rotates. It just takes longer to rotate on its axis than it does to orbit the sun.
That would fall under "our understanding of orbital dynamics is wrong".
[creationist mode] Ha! So now even scientists admit that "orbital dynamics" is a fraud! The Earth really is flat and the center of the universe! AND TO MAKE MY POINT EVEN BETTER, I'LL PUT IT IN ALL CAPS!!!!! [/creationist mode]
I see, so when I am the best at building widgets, and you buy one of my widgets because
it is good quality and worth the price to you, this is theft?
Oh, I get it, I should *give* you the widget just because I have many and you have none. Even If I had
to buy materials and spend time to make the widget, I am evil, mean and nasty to not just give you one.
Reality is not an ECON 101 class.
America and Europe have made lots of "widgets" by simply stealing the raw materials from other people. You have heard of this whole "colonization" thing that went on for a few centuries, don't you? Now, colonization is less direct and occurs through the use of international corporations. You should try and actually find out about all the people even today who are kept in dire poverty through the conditions created by the conditions imposed by corporations levelling their power on corrupt and/or poor governments. Or, who are just outright killed when they are inconvenient. You realize America waged wars in South America for the sake of a goddamn fruit company? Or that America had the democratically elected leader of Iran murdered just to protect the interests of oil companies? Because, of course, we can't have the actual people democratically decide how to use the nation's natural resources. They are not really free unless they are being robbed blind by their corporate masters. And that's over and above the fact that so much wealth has already been stolen through centuries of outright theft.
You really don't think through anything, do you? Or perhaps you are willfully ignorant of what conditions are actually like in the rest of the world. But don't worry. At this rate, Americans will discovering that soon enough for themselves.
Yep. In the US, the more you earn, the higher your tax bracket. Believe me, the first time I got a smaller paycheck after working more hours, I asked.
That's absolute bullshit. When you reach a higher tax bracket, you get taxed at a higher rate on the money earned within that bracket. So, the first several thousand (is it $15k now?) doesn't get taxed at all. The next several thousand gets taxed at the next level and so on. It's only the amount that you earn within the particular bracket that gets taxed at that rate. You sir, know nothing about progressive taxation. And I think your story is a lie.
Gee, way to totally miss the point. You can have a "defined grammar and vocabulary" with the Redneck version of English, but that doesn't make it a real language. It is simply improper English spoken by a bunch of uneducated morons who don't know any better. It's the same with Ebonics. It's just ghetto talk by a bunch of morons who can't speak proper English. Just because some "academic" came along and defined a set of rules for it doesn't magically make it something other than what it is.
Actually, I believe the time has come to re-categorize internet providers as utilities. Most ISPs operate as either a monopoly or duopoly, have municipal districts and are considered to be an essential service for both business and home. All of these are common traits for a utility. It's time to start treating them as such.
Indeed. Internet service used to be a luxury, just like the telephone was when it first came out. Now, it is as much of a utility as phone service, perhaps even more of a utility since phones are starting to become obsolete.
Capital letters were an invention of Satan after he was thrown off the Anunaki space ship. He gave the first capital letter he invented, the letter L, to the Australian Aborigines who used it to hunt animals and wage war with each other. It is no coincidence that Viking battle axes are in the shape of the letter T and the Nazi Swastika uses 4 L's. I realized this while watching Sesame Street and having a nice glass of distilled water and pure grain alcohol. All those capital letters are shown by - wait for it - Monsters! It's all so very clear to me now! We must now take our capital letter to the moon so we can make an end of them and the moon-dwelling Nazis for all time!
What about "intellectual property" (an unusual choice of words given that most discussion of it these days seems to involve Hollywood movies or the audio output of the likes of Britney Spears).
Indeed. It's as bad as "South Park" being rated "for Mature Audiences"!
Almost the world over (excepting third-world countries) organized, government supported educations systems have been dumbing-down their curricula to accommodate the lowest-common-denominator for decades.
The sad thing is that, in a lot of third-world countries (Indonesia comes to mind for me, but then I'm sure there are others), organized government-supported education systems tend to be pretty good. They largely adopted the Western Model (Indonesia modeled the Dutch system) but never dumbed it down. Don't blame America's dumbing-down solely on liberals, though (although obviously you should to an extent). Conservatives have heavily put their hand into dumbing down as well. It's almost a culture to put idiots on a pedastal, and eschew "elites" who might actually have two or more functioning brain cells. But then, yes, there is the liberal side where you can't make anyone feel bad because they don't do as well academically, which is just as retarded.
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Perhaps I misunderstood the tone of your post, but you do realize I was agreeing with you, right? Inciting people to violence should be punishable (although what "inciting" is needs to be better defined), but some redneck yammering about how much he hates Jews should be tolerated, even though I would find him to be abhorent. If nothing else, it gives an outlet for various voices to be heard, whether Fascist, Republican (but then I repeat myself), Green, Democrat, Socialist, Communist, whatever, rather than letting some sets of the population steam while feeling powerless. Or, to quote that fat, limey bastard Churchill, "It is better to jaw, jaw, than to war, war."
Um, you do realize that lots of people bashing your exalted Dear Leader Bush were harrassed by the FBI, not to mention all the legally protesting people at the RNC convention who were arrested and thrown in prison on false charges (though later released)? And then, of course, there is anti-flag burning legislation always brought up by Repugs. In red states, you can't lead anyone in a school prayer unless it is to the Protestant Fundamentalist version of God. I could go on, but really. Don't talk about the mote in your neighbor's eye when you have a whole beam in yours. Anti-hate speach legislation, while ill-founded, at least had at its heart the idea to stop the traditional practice of inflaming the mob's anger so as to go out and lynch minorities. Hardly in the same league as sending the Feds after people who simply disagree with Bush.
You hear that sound? It's the sound of Richard Warman shitting himself. Maybe he and Jack Thompson can start some kind of international law firm so they can get international ridicule now.
Or, all the right-wing nuts claiming that George W. Bush was put in the White House by God. The funny thing is they are the ones now mockingly referring to Obama as "The Messiah". Seems like a bit of psychological projection to me.
Jeez! I thought people who still couldn't get over losing the American Civil War were screwy. What's next? "That Thag was such a fucker for bashing in Og's skull!"?
You know, that would have been a much better post if you had simply titled it "Don't Panic". Hopefully, the estate of Douglas Adams (since he is, unfortunately, deceased) wouldn't go after you for copyright infringement. Of course, being on the other side of the Great Pond, I wish someone would take all of Margaret Mitchell's heirs and burn down their houses and sew their the land with salt. But, that's just me.
GP was referring to printer registration, not domain name registration. Color printer registration is about keeping the cyan, magenta, yellow and black printing heads/plates/whatever printing in the correct positions relative to each other. The leaflet looks like it doesn't need careful registration at all to be printed correctly.
Yes. Among many others. I used to think General Jim's Army and Admiral Bob's Navy were jokes. But now we have Blackwater (or whatever they are calling themselves now).
In Soviet Russia, stupid memes recirculate YOU!
So now we can send a message to Black Jack Pershing saying "For God's sake, stop shelling your own positions!" Unfortunately, 200 Doughboys perished while Windows needed rebooting.
I see you're beginning to get the idea. Now, to make the process more efficient, all they need to due is install a camera at the appropriate point and monitor it randomly.
Well, to pick even more nits, it's not even really "special cases" in which it breaks down. It simply breaks down in regions that the average human being does not normally experience (near light speed, sub-atomic levels, etc.). A lot of our better understanding of physics (among other things) comes about when we can measure things better and/or in regions that we used to not be able to measure. Such as with the LHC (whenever they can get it working).
Which solar system is this Venus in? The one I know is odd, but it still rotates. It just takes longer to rotate on its axis than it does to orbit the sun.
[creationist mode] Ha! So now even scientists admit that "orbital dynamics" is a fraud! The Earth really is flat and the center of the universe! AND TO MAKE MY POINT EVEN BETTER, I'LL PUT IT IN ALL CAPS!!!!! [/creationist mode]
Nah, cause Russia is no longer the "Evil, Godless Soviet Union". China, on the other hand, might motivate us.
Reality is not an ECON 101 class.
America and Europe have made lots of "widgets" by simply stealing the raw materials from other people. You have heard of this whole "colonization" thing that went on for a few centuries, don't you? Now, colonization is less direct and occurs through the use of international corporations. You should try and actually find out about all the people even today who are kept in dire poverty through the conditions created by the conditions imposed by corporations levelling their power on corrupt and/or poor governments. Or, who are just outright killed when they are inconvenient. You realize America waged wars in South America for the sake of a goddamn fruit company? Or that America had the democratically elected leader of Iran murdered just to protect the interests of oil companies? Because, of course, we can't have the actual people democratically decide how to use the nation's natural resources. They are not really free unless they are being robbed blind by their corporate masters. And that's over and above the fact that so much wealth has already been stolen through centuries of outright theft.
You really don't think through anything, do you? Or perhaps you are willfully ignorant of what conditions are actually like in the rest of the world. But don't worry. At this rate, Americans will discovering that soon enough for themselves.
That's absolute bullshit. When you reach a higher tax bracket, you get taxed at a higher rate on the money earned within that bracket. So, the first several thousand (is it $15k now?) doesn't get taxed at all. The next several thousand gets taxed at the next level and so on. It's only the amount that you earn within the particular bracket that gets taxed at that rate. You sir, know nothing about progressive taxation. And I think your story is a lie.
Well, this is the UK. So, if there is any doubt, they can just get the police to replay the footage.
Gee, way to totally miss the point. You can have a "defined grammar and vocabulary" with the Redneck version of English, but that doesn't make it a real language. It is simply improper English spoken by a bunch of uneducated morons who don't know any better. It's the same with Ebonics. It's just ghetto talk by a bunch of morons who can't speak proper English. Just because some "academic" came along and defined a set of rules for it doesn't magically make it something other than what it is.
So does Redneck, but I don't see why we should glorify that either. Proper language use allows for clearer thinking.
Indeed. Internet service used to be a luxury, just like the telephone was when it first came out. Now, it is as much of a utility as phone service, perhaps even more of a utility since phones are starting to become obsolete.
Capital letters were an invention of Satan after he was thrown off the Anunaki space ship. He gave the first capital letter he invented, the letter L, to the Australian Aborigines who used it to hunt animals and wage war with each other. It is no coincidence that Viking battle axes are in the shape of the letter T and the Nazi Swastika uses 4 L's. I realized this while watching Sesame Street and having a nice glass of distilled water and pure grain alcohol. All those capital letters are shown by - wait for it - Monsters! It's all so very clear to me now! We must now take our capital letter to the moon so we can make an end of them and the moon-dwelling Nazis for all time!
So, Obama is a Ninja?
Indeed. It's as bad as "South Park" being rated "for Mature Audiences"!
The sad thing is that, in a lot of third-world countries (Indonesia comes to mind for me, but then I'm sure there are others), organized government-supported education systems tend to be pretty good. They largely adopted the Western Model (Indonesia modeled the Dutch system) but never dumbed it down. Don't blame America's dumbing-down solely on liberals, though (although obviously you should to an extent). Conservatives have heavily put their hand into dumbing down as well. It's almost a culture to put idiots on a pedastal, and eschew "elites" who might actually have two or more functioning brain cells. But then, yes, there is the liberal side where you can't make anyone feel bad because they don't do as well academically, which is just as retarded.
I see what you did there. Have trouble keeping the lint off your black shirt?