Send them to private school, or better yet practice the centuries-old practice of home schooling. Keep them away from the government.
Yes, because of course everyone can afford private school for their children or afford to have one parent stay home and teach. Or, here's a thought, how about fixing the actual problems instead of burying them or ignoring them? Oh, and there is no "centuries-old practice of home schooling". The centuries-old practice is child labor and illiteracy for the masses.
Within a couple of years kids will be able to carry around and exchange thumb drives large enough to hold ALL of the music produced in the last decade. Aside from cavity searches how exactly is the RIAA expecting to stop that kind of sharing activity?
Well, that certainly makes this case a bit more important.
Okay, and when Christianity and Islam make up over half of the world's religion bases and counting that other religions have similar creation stories with man being explicitly created, what in my statement is taking a "Protestant view"?
Actually, I said it was the American Protestant fundamentalist view. This actually rules out most of Protestant Christianity as well. The way you expressed your opinion assumes that Biblical literalism is the only valid interpretation of the Torah. The is a peculiarly American Protestant fundamentalist approach to scripture. Actually, in Catholic, Orthodox, and most Protestant forms of Christianity, the idea that we are "made in the image of God" has little to do with our physical form. Despite painting by Michelangelo and others, Christianity does not view God to be some bloke with a long beard sitting on top of a cloud passing out judgments.
You can even read Dante's Paradiso which shows a completely different concept of God than what the fundies throw out there. The Ciardi translation is best since there are excellent footnotes which explain some of the theology behind it. And this is from the middle ages, not some modernist ideal.
And even, for the sake of argument, we were to assume that Christianity and Islam both assume that God looks like a human being (which is absurd, but never mind that for now), you are still ignoring Hiduism, Buddhism, Taoism, the various tribal religions, animism and shaminism that are throughout the world. Buddhism, for example, is a non-theistic religion (although some have mistakenly referred to it as an atheistic religion). Basically, while Buddhism accepts that there may or may not be gods, they are irrellevant anyway since they are just other creatures on different levels of existence.
In short, your opinion is incredibly near sighted and provincial. Try to realize that there is a whole world out there that you are apparently unaware of.
Hopefully this will keep those worthless Baby Boomers from prematurely bankrupting Social Security with multiple prescriptions for their endless psychological disorders and sports injuries.
You were modded Troll, but you make a good point. Baby boomers have got to be the biggest pack of whiny, self-indulgent motherfuckers that ever lived on this planet. Even though they are all getting old now, they still act like a bunch of goddamn teenagers. The sooner they die off, the better America will be.
If you don't like it, get out. I, for one, am tired of your whining.
Typical fascist/redneck response. "Do what I say or get the fuck out!" You do realize the people "whining" have as much right to live in the US as you do, right? We have this little thing called democracy and free speech in America (at least theoretically, since dipshits like you would prefer to get rid of free speech for people you don't like) which allows people to (*gasp*) actually express opinions you may not agree with or even despise. You also have every right to express why you think they are wrong. I guess this particular aspect of democracy is inconvenient to you, but if you really can't stand it, then you are free to move to a country were only the "approved" version is allowed to be expressed.
there is no valid reason to change formats on the consumer side, even Blu-Rays are having trouble, even though they are "better",
Part of the problem is that we have now about reached the limit at which the human eye and human ear can notice any difference. The resolution of your eye is only so good, as is the audial resolution and frequency range of your ears. Beyond that, any increase is pointless. They need to focus on clarity and accuracy of sound and color more than resolution now.
music pirates are now responsible for 93% of all the world's nun rapes each year
So, the RIAA is saying that nuns are now pirating music and, as a result, feel an irresistable urge to point handguns at men and shriek "Fuck me, you hot studd!" It sounds like Jack Thompson is now working for the RIAA.
Well at least here in Cuyahoga County, Ohio we threw out the massively expensive and even more massively flawed Diebold systems and went with proven, reliable optical scan machines
They did the same thing in Virginia, and I imagine in many other states. At the voting places in Virginia, you would vote on paper in a booth, but they still had the old Diebold machines staged and unused in a separate area. I guess they had to settle for that since they couldn't have the Diebold CEO stocked so random passers-by could pelt him with fruit and excoriate themselves upon him.
Here's your very first clue in life, try to hang on to it: Programmers work every day in almost every industry with things so buggy.
And here's your first clue. Diebold is in the business of making ATMs. That's right. Literally billions of financial transactions, with multiple options and screens to go through on the UI, are performed every year using Diebold ATMs. Yet, they can't seem to get a simple voting machine to work as it should. And you think there is nothing fishy about that?
Insurance on your car or on the destruction you might cause to others?
In most (all?) states in the US you are required to have liability insurance to cover the damage you may cause to others. Collision insurance for your car is your own business.
Well, it's true that the government only cares about the bigger fish in the sea here, but that's actually due to the nature of democracy, or our republic--the more "pull" or influence you have, the more you get shit done, and big businesses inherently get more influence.
Businesses getting more influence is not democracy. That is a slide towards corporate government, commonly known as Fascism.
Don't take this as support for one-man-one-vote, though. Then politicians cater not to the so-called "elite", but the middle of the bell curve.
No, politicians do cater to the elite. The media is used to get those in the "middle of the bell curve" to vote for who the elite want. Why do you think Bush's popularity took so long to wane? All the information you needed to know how horrible his presidency was going to be was available before he even campaigned. Lots of people predicted that everything would get this bad under a Bush presidency. For fuck's sake, even the frigging Onion predicted this.
Congrats, that's like 6 levels deep in a/. thread without it degrading into a ridiculous, irrational argument.
Oh yeah? Well HITLER could go on for a while without getting irrational too! I guess they are all just a bunch of sicko Nazi perverts, then! [sorry, couldn't resist]
Not to nit-pick, but trial judges don't make precedent. You need at least one stage of appeal before there is any court that the decision is binding on. Right now, the decision is only binding on this particular proceeding.
"Marketing company devoted to selling/marketing products produced by other companies in return for a share of their profits" sounds like what record companies have been doing for almost a century?
Record Companies? Hell, you can go back at least to ancient Rome for something like this. Perhaps even in ancient Egypt there was a town crier paid to shout "Come to Imhotep's Medical Emporium! Buy one brain surgery, get the second one absolutely free! Imhotep! His prices are insane!"
It seems obvious to me that this has been a long-term plan enacted by people who did not care whether their goal would ever occur during their own lifetimes
why?
Because families like the Bush family, the Clinton family, the Kennedy family, and so on are in this for the long haul. They increase their wealth and power in their own lifetime, but then they also look at the "long term investment" for their family and their class of people. This is how monarchs retained their power throughout the centuries. We really are just cattle to them, and what do you think will happen when we are no longer useful?
It's too late, Diana! There's nothing left in you that I can live with! You're one of Howard's humanoids, and, if I stay with you, I'll be destroyed! Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You are television incarnate, Diana, indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. The daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split-seconds and instant replays. You are madness, Diana, virulent madness, and everything you touch dies with you. Well, not me. Not while I can still feel pleasure and pain and love.
Basically, forget television. It is an expensive waste of time. Go out and have fun. Take your daughter out to the park. Get out and enjo a nice sunny day, like we had today where I live. The hell with television. Its time has passed.
And yes, downloading music without paying for it is STEALING
I believe the people who run this site would disagree with you, and they aren't being sued anytime soon. Now, for bonus points, would you please explain why it takes 90 years after the death of the artist for something to be in the public domain?
No, the defence was: "If I hadn't followed those orders I would have been executed on the spot".
No, the defense actually was "Befehl ist befehl" (orders are orders). In other words, the denial of responsibility by bucking it up to the next highest link in the chain of command. Try wiki. Note also where it says:
"Thus, under Nuremberg Principle IV, "defense of superior orders" is not a defense for war crimes, although it might influence a sentencing authority to lessen the penalty. Nuremberg Principle IV states:
'The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.'"[emphasis added]
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Yes, because of course everyone can afford private school for their children or afford to have one parent stay home and teach. Or, here's a thought, how about fixing the actual problems instead of burying them or ignoring them? Oh, and there is no "centuries-old practice of home schooling". The centuries-old practice is child labor and illiteracy for the masses.
Well, that certainly makes this case a bit more important.
Actually, I said it was the American Protestant fundamentalist view. This actually rules out most of Protestant Christianity as well. The way you expressed your opinion assumes that Biblical literalism is the only valid interpretation of the Torah. The is a peculiarly American Protestant fundamentalist approach to scripture. Actually, in Catholic, Orthodox, and most Protestant forms of Christianity, the idea that we are "made in the image of God" has little to do with our physical form. Despite painting by Michelangelo and others, Christianity does not view God to be some bloke with a long beard sitting on top of a cloud passing out judgments.
You can even read Dante's Paradiso which shows a completely different concept of God than what the fundies throw out there. The Ciardi translation is best since there are excellent footnotes which explain some of the theology behind it. And this is from the middle ages, not some modernist ideal.
And even, for the sake of argument, we were to assume that Christianity and Islam both assume that God looks like a human being (which is absurd, but never mind that for now), you are still ignoring Hiduism, Buddhism, Taoism, the various tribal religions, animism and shaminism that are throughout the world. Buddhism, for example, is a non-theistic religion (although some have mistakenly referred to it as an atheistic religion). Basically, while Buddhism accepts that there may or may not be gods, they are irrellevant anyway since they are just other creatures on different levels of existence.
In short, your opinion is incredibly near sighted and provincial. Try to realize that there is a whole world out there that you are apparently unaware of.
No, it doesn't. Believe it or not, there are many other religions apart from modern American Protestant fundamentalism.
You were modded Troll, but you make a good point. Baby boomers have got to be the biggest pack of whiny, self-indulgent motherfuckers that ever lived on this planet. Even though they are all getting old now, they still act like a bunch of goddamn teenagers. The sooner they die off, the better America will be.
Typical fascist/redneck response. "Do what I say or get the fuck out!" You do realize the people "whining" have as much right to live in the US as you do, right? We have this little thing called democracy and free speech in America (at least theoretically, since dipshits like you would prefer to get rid of free speech for people you don't like) which allows people to (*gasp*) actually express opinions you may not agree with or even despise. You also have every right to express why you think they are wrong. I guess this particular aspect of democracy is inconvenient to you, but if you really can't stand it, then you are free to move to a country were only the "approved" version is allowed to be expressed.
Part of the problem is that we have now about reached the limit at which the human eye and human ear can notice any difference. The resolution of your eye is only so good, as is the audial resolution and frequency range of your ears. Beyond that, any increase is pointless. They need to focus on clarity and accuracy of sound and color more than resolution now.
So, the RIAA is saying that nuns are now pirating music and, as a result, feel an irresistable urge to point handguns at men and shriek "Fuck me, you hot studd!" It sounds like Jack Thompson is now working for the RIAA.
They did the same thing in Virginia, and I imagine in many other states. At the voting places in Virginia, you would vote on paper in a booth, but they still had the old Diebold machines staged and unused in a separate area. I guess they had to settle for that since they couldn't have the Diebold CEO stocked so random passers-by could pelt him with fruit and excoriate themselves upon him.
And here's your first clue. Diebold is in the business of making ATMs. That's right. Literally billions of financial transactions, with multiple options and screens to go through on the UI, are performed every year using Diebold ATMs. Yet, they can't seem to get a simple voting machine to work as it should. And you think there is nothing fishy about that?
In most (all?) states in the US you are required to have liability insurance to cover the damage you may cause to others. Collision insurance for your car is your own business.
Well, that's certainly more eloquent than "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"
Businesses getting more influence is not democracy. That is a slide towards corporate government, commonly known as Fascism.
No, politicians do cater to the elite. The media is used to get those in the "middle of the bell curve" to vote for who the elite want. Why do you think Bush's popularity took so long to wane? All the information you needed to know how horrible his presidency was going to be was available before he even campaigned. Lots of people predicted that everything would get this bad under a Bush presidency. For fuck's sake, even the frigging Onion predicted this.
The police were probably simply told that they were arresting a pirate. They thought he might whip out a cutlass or try to shoot them with a musket.
Oh yeah? Well HITLER could go on for a while without getting irrational too! I guess they are all just a bunch of sicko Nazi perverts, then! [sorry, couldn't resist]
Not to nit-pick, but trial judges don't make precedent. You need at least one stage of appeal before there is any court that the decision is binding on. Right now, the decision is only binding on this particular proceeding.
Record Companies? Hell, you can go back at least to ancient Rome for something like this. Perhaps even in ancient Egypt there was a town crier paid to shout "Come to Imhotep's Medical Emporium! Buy one brain surgery, get the second one absolutely free! Imhotep! His prices are insane!"
Unless, of course, you are a DC judge. Then, you would sue him for millions of dollars.
Because families like the Bush family, the Clinton family, the Kennedy family, and so on are in this for the long haul. They increase their wealth and power in their own lifetime, but then they also look at the "long term investment" for their family and their class of people. This is how monarchs retained their power throughout the centuries. We really are just cattle to them, and what do you think will happen when we are no longer useful?
Um, nothing? Do you think anyone would notice a difference?
You mean like, when Chris Hansen busts his own son?
Basically, forget television. It is an expensive waste of time. Go out and have fun. Take your daughter out to the park. Get out and enjo a nice sunny day, like we had today where I live. The hell with television. Its time has passed.
I believe the people who run this site would disagree with you, and they aren't being sued anytime soon. Now, for bonus points, would you please explain why it takes 90 years after the death of the artist for something to be in the public domain?
You must be new here.
No, the defense actually was "Befehl ist befehl" (orders are orders). In other words, the denial of responsibility by bucking it up to the next highest link in the chain of command. Try wiki. Note also where it says:
"Thus, under Nuremberg Principle IV, "defense of superior orders" is not a defense for war crimes, although it might influence a sentencing authority to lessen the penalty. Nuremberg Principle IV states:
'The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.'" [emphasis added]