The RIAA is not affiliated with the government in any way ...other than drafting the legislation and paying "election contributions" to the target legislators. And whatever parties, gifts, and other bribery granted to ensure successful passage of whatever law RIAA has written this time.
"not affiliated", you say? B.S. Pulling the strings is most definitely an affiliation.
RTFPost. It says "at some point". As in, a single point in time. Not "throughout the course of human history", or something similar, that would make you have an actual point.
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If the Europeans can riot over soccer games, we can riot over...hey, wait!
I love the pictures, where they've run 5000 people through the "pedestrian gate", and not the "vehicle gate".
This also reminds me of the time I visited a hotel store on beanie-baby shipment day...talk about a room full of bighairs waiting to kill anything that jumped early! I got to taunt them (and live) by buying a single, older beanie from the (bottom of the) existing pile.
Me: "Excuse me {to the person hogging the line}, I'm ready to pay for this."
BH: "Wheredidyougetthatfrom!?"
Me: "From the pile over there."
BH: "Nohellyoudidn't!"
By time bighair found another instance of the same beanie in the pile, I had paid and escaped.
You folks who still watch movies after all this legislation are like a pack of beaten wives. Why should you even bother going out of your way to feed The Racket? "Because you love them!"
Grow a pair, eat a sammich, and don't give The Racket your piece of mindshare.
'Ah, yes. The "War of Northern Aggression." An "illegal" war. When the godless Yankee hordes did rape and pillage the fair, gentile, Southern Way of Life (tm). The natural-born right of our accepted ranks to claim domain, replaced with the chaotic squalor of democracy. Were it not for Jim Crow, we would have lost everything...'
This, of course, would imply the Republican Party has been waging illegal war nearly since its inception, and for much the same reasons.
The worst part is, parent's line of bullshit was modded up.:/
I'd say this issue won't show up on colleges' radars when evaluating applicants. Aptitude, communication ability, community involvement, etc. remain the prime factors, because they reflect applicants' abilities, and not the school system's capabilities.
Nope, "270 ramp" as in 270 degrees, like you'd find in a cloverleaf. Earlier this year, some genius tried to drive around one of those too quickly (in an SUV, of course), and the authorities had to resort to dental records to I.D. the body and the vehicle (through insurance records).
But then again I dont actually remember seeing a bend on a US highway.
hahahha, now that's funny!
What isn't funny, is that curves in the highway aren't necessary to require swerving, although I periodically hear about someone taking an exit ramp or turn too quickly.
IIRC, I've seen three SUVs roll...
two were Explorers, one was a Rover of some type.
all three were avoiding a collision, one was avoiding a stolen car chase.
all ended up on their tops
one rolled several times, lost its top completely, and spread bodies and toys across the dry highway.
one merely slid/spun on its top, and remained on the wet highway.
one rolled onto a concrete divider (12 inches wide?), slicing the cab in half.
Then, there was the Jeep Cherokee which exploded after a rear-end collision, immolating a family of 3, and the SUV of some type which tried to drive a 270 ramp at 50mph, and exploded in the trees. I didn't see those, but they do happen.
...but I'm not so sure about the significance of the content, what did they write/read in 19th Century?
You've got to be kidding me. Nice troll, although I won't use the mod point.
The short version: lots of journalistic (and not-so-journalistic) items.
The list version: What was there to read/write about from 1836-1922? For starters, in stream-of-conciousness order: Events: Texas Independence, American "Westward Expansion", The "Wild West" (tm), Trans-Atlantic Cable, "Second Industrial Revolution", multiple Gold Rushes, multiple Waves of Migration to the U.S., Suez Canal, Panama Canal, multiple Assassinations, Global Colonization, Italy and Germany each unite, Prohibition, Jack the Ripper, The Irish Potato Famine Wars: Mexican-American, Crimean, Ruso-Japanese, American Civil, Franco-Prussian, Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, Boer I and II, WW-I, Russian Civil. Civ. Advancements/Inventions: Electricity, Flight, Automobile, Refrigeration, Communism, Steel, Alumin(i)um, Radio, (Modern) Rocketry, (modern) Explosives Wonders Darwin's Voyage, Women's Suffrage Innovation/Invention Telegraph, Telephone, (Farming) Combine, Motion Pictures, Photography, Audio Recording, Incandescent Light Bulb, Breech-loaded Firearm, Automatic Firearm, Federal Reserve System, National Park Service, Pasteurization, Typewriter, Standard rules for Baseball, Basketball, and various types of Football. Industries Petroleum, Railroad, Steam boats, Aviation, Automotive. Discovery Electromagnetism, Relativity, Evolution, Nuclear Physics. The Arts Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Verdi, Wagner, Rodin, Stravinsky, Clemens, Poe, Doyle.
And don't forget the emergence on the global stage of hamburgers and hot dogs.
And you know all that "Middle America" stuff that's been talked about on the news lately? That demographic and geographic developed during this time period.
In general, however, people wrote about what was happening at the time, and what they thought would happen in the future. The realities of 1836 were significantly different from those of 1920's, and this collection should represent a daily telling of the differences. I expect some histories to be rewritten as more eyes view the condensed version.
And as other posters have mentioned, this is a huge boon for genealogical studies.
It has many, many established churches. And many more established restaurants. The Bill of Rights prescribes that government may not enact laws that respect one of these types of establishment. I leave it as an exercise for the reader, to determine which one is which.
In addition, any democracy may be considered to have a state religion when its electoral majority votes in accordance with their clergy.
So that sounds plausible, but I'd like to see a link between AOL and the jury that handed down the decision. I think it's more likely at least some jurorsassociated the pair with the crap in their inbox, and influenced the sentencing up from the minimums.
"There's nothing to see here...please move along...no pictures please...blahblahblahblah."
We are still not a religious state. Yes, we are. Have been, most recently since January, 2001.
Why is everyone convinced we are? Hmmm....abortion rights? Stem Cell research? "faith-based initiatives?" Tom Delay extolling the admission of China into WTO as a wonderful opportunity for the Christian mission? Gay marriage? The "marriage penalty?" Opposition to every single legislative concept that would allow somebody else to act in discord with religion?
50 years ago white people couldn't marry black people. Irrelevant to this topic.
50 years ago a president added 'under god' to the pledge of allegiance to show we were a god fearing nation....at the clergy's request.
more than fifty years ago the scopes monkey trial brought creationism out of the classroom....and the same people who currently run the White House and Congress have been trying to force, sneak, and otherwise hack creationism back into the classroom ever since, if it ever actually left.
We were a religious country for about 150 years. And we still are, and still will be. Not to be confused with religious rule, nice try though.
We have made so many strides against it, moving towards secularism, that's its ridiculous. And it doesn't matter when the theocracy legislates against anything contrary to their religion, and controls the public resources for their own gain.
People think because Bush got elected that suddenly we're a religious theocracy. They're correct.
Its just not true. Yes, it is. When 2/3 of the government is run by a party which itself is driven by taliban, that's a theocracy.
Abortion is still legal. Gay Marriage is becoming legal. In which states? And who wants federal prohibition of the "unholy" unions? Oh yeah, that's right.
All sorts of non-religious things are happening. Boogedy, boogedy.
[snip abandonment text...]
You don't like Bush, that's fine. Bush is a placeholder for a party, and we see through him.
Say it. stop saying we're becoming a crazy religious state. No, because I'm not a liar.
Lesseee, what nonsense has been stepped on this year (steppers listed in parens)?
Curse of the Canadiens: Nobody who beats the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL playoffs wins the Stanley Cup. (Tampa Bay Lightning)
Curse of the Babe: The Red Sox will never win a World Series after trading Babe Ruth in 1920. (The "BoSox" win 8 straight to dispatch the two best teams in baseball to win the WS)
Curse of the Swamp: University of Georgia has lost 13 of the last 14 annual football games against rival University of Florida. (UGA wins 31-24)
Sun always shines on Sunshine State football: The "big three" Florida football programs (U. of Florida, Florida State U., U. of Miami) are too good to all lose on the same day. (all three lose for the first time since 1978, courtesy U. North Carolina, U. Maryland, U. Georgia)
So given the above silliness that has been stepped on this year, I wouldn't bank on this Redskins thing. Besides, if it doesn't hold, consider it a silver lining to have dismissed a bit of nonsense.
Zilla Wafer: looks vaguely like the real thing, smells different, tastes different, crunches different; an imposter! And with any luck, will be turned to pixel pie by the Real G.
I feel compelled to see this movie, as redemption for being stupid enough to buy a ticket for Zilla Wafer in '98.
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The RIAA is not affiliated with the government in any way
...other than drafting the legislation and paying "election contributions" to the target legislators. And whatever parties, gifts, and other bribery granted to ensure successful passage of whatever law RIAA has written this time.
"not affiliated", you say? B.S. Pulling the strings is most definitely an affiliation.
If you had stolen the $$ in goods that you stole in music
...then you would actually be stealing something, instead of copying against the racket.
RTFPost. It says "at some point". As in, a single point in time. Not "throughout the course of human history", or something similar, that would make you have an actual point.
Print ads can be flipped past.
Television ads can be avoided by Changing the Channel.
Recorded television ads can be avoided by skipping/fast-forward.
Web ads can be blocked or otherwise not requested.
All of these are methods of preserving mental bandwidth for content that we specifically requested.
If the Europeans can riot over soccer games, we can riot over...hey, wait!
I love the pictures, where they've run 5000 people through the "pedestrian gate", and not the "vehicle gate".
This also reminds me of the time I visited a hotel store on beanie-baby shipment day...talk about a room full of bighairs waiting to kill anything that jumped early! I got to taunt them (and live) by buying a single, older beanie from the (bottom of the) existing pile.
Me: "Excuse me {to the person hogging the line}, I'm ready to pay for this."
BH: "Wheredidyougetthatfrom!?"
Me: "From the pile over there."
BH: "Nohellyoudidn't!"
By time bighair found another instance of the same beanie in the pile, I had paid and escaped.
You folks who still watch movies after all this legislation are like a pack of beaten wives. Why should you even bother going out of your way to feed The Racket? "Because you love them!"
Grow a pair, eat a sammich, and don't give The Racket your piece of mindshare.
I think the mission was looking really thin, until he found that fuel powerup over the Pacific. Then it was smooth sailing the rest of the way.
'Ah, yes. The "War of Northern Aggression." An "illegal" war. When the godless Yankee hordes did rape and pillage the fair, gentile, Southern Way of Life (tm). The natural-born right of our accepted ranks to claim domain, replaced with the chaotic squalor of democracy. Were it not for Jim Crow, we would have lost everything...'
:/
This, of course, would imply the Republican Party has been waging illegal war nearly since its inception, and for much the same reasons.
The worst part is, parent's line of bullshit was modded up.
Bleh.
...because the religion declares evolution to be counter-religious. Like witches, but different.
I'd say this issue won't show up on colleges' radars when evaluating applicants. Aptitude, communication ability, community involvement, etc. remain the prime factors, because they reflect applicants' abilities, and not the school system's capabilities.
Compromise gets projects done.
...and redone, and redone, and redone...
How the hell am I supposed to defend a flag with a 2 SECOND delay? Even heavies can jink out of that.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and several subscriptions.
Nope, "270 ramp" as in 270 degrees, like you'd find in a cloverleaf. Earlier this year, some genius tried to drive around one of those too quickly (in an SUV, of course), and the authorities had to resort to dental records to I.D. the body and the vehicle (through insurance records).
I have to say that, given the choice between being run over and watching an SUV roll, I'll take "watching the SUV roll" 10 out of 10 times.
hahahha, now that's funny!
What isn't funny, is that curves in the highway aren't necessary to require swerving, although I periodically hear about someone taking an exit ramp or turn too quickly.
IIRC, I've seen three SUVs roll...
Then, there was the Jeep Cherokee which exploded after a rear-end collision, immolating a family of 3, and the SUV of some type which tried to drive a 270 ramp at 50mph, and exploded in the trees. I didn't see those, but they do happen.
...but I'm not so sure about the significance of the content, what did they write/read in 19th Century?
You've got to be kidding me. Nice troll, although I won't use the mod point.
The short version: lots of journalistic (and not-so-journalistic) items.
The list version:
What was there to read/write about from 1836-1922? For starters, in stream-of-conciousness order:
Events: Texas Independence, American "Westward Expansion", The "Wild West" (tm), Trans-Atlantic Cable, "Second Industrial Revolution", multiple Gold Rushes, multiple Waves of Migration to the U.S., Suez Canal, Panama Canal, multiple Assassinations, Global Colonization, Italy and Germany each unite, Prohibition, Jack the Ripper, The Irish Potato Famine
Wars: Mexican-American, Crimean, Ruso-Japanese, American Civil, Franco-Prussian, Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, Boer I and II, WW-I, Russian Civil.
Civ. Advancements/Inventions: Electricity, Flight, Automobile, Refrigeration, Communism, Steel, Alumin(i)um, Radio, (Modern) Rocketry, (modern) Explosives
Wonders Darwin's Voyage, Women's Suffrage
Innovation/Invention Telegraph, Telephone, (Farming) Combine, Motion Pictures, Photography, Audio Recording, Incandescent Light Bulb, Breech-loaded Firearm, Automatic Firearm, Federal Reserve System, National Park Service, Pasteurization, Typewriter, Standard rules for Baseball, Basketball, and various types of Football.
Industries Petroleum, Railroad, Steam boats, Aviation, Automotive.
Discovery Electromagnetism, Relativity, Evolution, Nuclear Physics.
The Arts Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Verdi, Wagner, Rodin, Stravinsky, Clemens, Poe, Doyle.
And don't forget the emergence on the global stage of hamburgers and hot dogs.
And you know all that "Middle America" stuff that's been talked about on the news lately? That demographic and geographic developed during this time period.
In general, however, people wrote about what was happening at the time, and what they thought would happen in the future. The realities of 1836 were significantly different from those of 1920's, and this collection should represent a daily telling of the differences. I expect some histories to be rewritten as more eyes view the condensed version.
And as other posters have mentioned, this is a huge boon for genealogical studies.
It has many, many established churches. And many more established restaurants. The Bill of Rights prescribes that government may not enact laws that respect one of these types of establishment. I leave it as an exercise for the reader, to determine which one is which.
In addition, any democracy may be considered to have a state religion when its electoral majority votes in accordance with their clergy.
So that sounds plausible, but I'd like to see a link between AOL and the jury that handed down the decision. I think it's more likely at least some jurorsassociated the pair with the crap in their inbox, and influenced the sentencing up from the minimums.
The Republican party has become the Theocratic party.
In the generic sense, consider them "taliban".
"There's nothing to see here...please move along...no pictures please...blahblahblahblah."
...at the clergy's request.
...and the same people who currently run the White House and Congress have been trying to force, sneak, and otherwise hack creationism back into the classroom ever since, if it ever actually left.
We are still not a religious state.
Yes, we are. Have been, most recently since January, 2001.
Why is everyone convinced we are?
Hmmm....abortion rights? Stem Cell research? "faith-based initiatives?" Tom Delay extolling the admission of China into WTO as a wonderful opportunity for the Christian mission? Gay marriage? The "marriage penalty?" Opposition to every single legislative concept that would allow somebody else to act in discord with religion?
50 years ago white people couldn't marry black people.
Irrelevant to this topic.
50 years ago a president added 'under god' to the pledge of allegiance to show we were a god fearing nation.
more than fifty years ago the scopes monkey trial brought creationism out of the classroom.
We were a religious country for about 150 years.
And we still are, and still will be. Not to be confused with religious rule, nice try though.
We have made so many strides against it, moving towards secularism, that's its ridiculous.
And it doesn't matter when the theocracy legislates against anything contrary to their religion, and controls the public resources for their own gain.
People think because Bush got elected that suddenly we're a religious theocracy.
They're correct.
Its just not true.
Yes, it is. When 2/3 of the government is run by a party which itself is driven by taliban, that's a theocracy.
Abortion is still legal. Gay Marriage is becoming legal.
In which states? And who wants federal prohibition of the "unholy" unions? Oh yeah, that's right.
All sorts of non-religious things are happening.
Boogedy, boogedy.
[snip abandonment text...]
You don't like Bush, that's fine.
Bush is a placeholder for a party, and we see through him.
Say it. stop saying we're becoming a crazy religious state.
No, because I'm not a liar.
I completely agree. My place is a wreck, but wow.
Lesseee, what nonsense has been stepped on this year (steppers listed in parens)?
Curse of the Canadiens: Nobody who beats the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL playoffs wins the Stanley Cup. (Tampa Bay Lightning)
Curse of the Babe: The Red Sox will never win a World Series after trading Babe Ruth in 1920. (The "BoSox" win 8 straight to dispatch the two best teams in baseball to win the WS)
Curse of the Swamp: University of Georgia has lost 13 of the last 14 annual football games against rival University of Florida. (UGA wins 31-24)
Sun always shines on Sunshine State football: The "big three" Florida football programs (U. of Florida, Florida State U., U. of Miami) are too good to all lose on the same day. (all three lose for the first time since 1978, courtesy U. North Carolina, U. Maryland, U. Georgia)
So given the above silliness that has been stepped on this year, I wouldn't bank on this Redskins thing. Besides, if it doesn't hold, consider it a silver lining to have dismissed a bit of nonsense.
Boogedy, Boogedy!
Wow, propaganda. I will reply to this in a while.
Zilla Wafer: looks vaguely like the real thing, smells different, tastes different, crunches different; an imposter! And with any luck, will be turned to pixel pie by the Real G.
I feel compelled to see this movie, as redemption for being stupid enough to buy a ticket for Zilla Wafer in '98.