Amen. I work at a college in Buffalo, and the students from downstate are just insufferable
If you think the students are bad trying being around the hunters from downstate. If there's a better argument for gun control than a drunk NYC'er running around with a loaded shotgun bragging about that 45 pound doe he bagged on posted property I don't know what it is......
Out of curiosity, how many of you have kept you analog cell phones?
I kept a tri-mode phone long after Verizon stopped selling them up until the point that they deactivated their AMPS network. Analog came in very handy at times:
1) When out in the boonies with just enough digital signal to send texts but not enough to make calls
2) At concerts/special events where the local tower got overloaded and calls wouldn't go through. Few people thought of forcing it to analog mode -- do this and you'd regain the ability to make calls.
A pack of hungry wolves (for that matter, hungry feral dogs) will hunt you down.
Humans are prettydangerouspray. Most animals (mammals at least) eventually learn this. Your odds of being attacked by a hungry wolf pack in North America are probably lower than your odds of being struck by lightning.
but Mellow Mushroom (based out of Atlanta I think) is an exception to the rule.
There's always exceptions. We did actually manage to eventually find a cool little pizzeria -- of course it was 45 minutes away. Here in the Northeast they are everywhere and most of them are pretty good. Hell, in my hometown the little Italian restaurants and pizzerias actually outnumber the fast food joints.
Bad as that may be it is still better than the DMCA
And being raped is better than being murdered but that still doesn't make it a good thing. In the ideal world we would have neither a DMCA nor a RIAA tax.
Also my country is not trying to force others to create harsher copyright laws
Your country would be doing it if it had a large and powerful industry that regarded copyrights as an important part of their business model. Canada has it's share of tariffs and other policies designed to protect domestic industries regarded as important. Note that I'm not saying that this makes it right -- just saying that the United States isn't the only country that looks out for the (perceived) best interests of domestic industries.
Let me know when they do a study about the effects of how reading slashdot hurts your brain
I thought I had found such a study once upon a time but it was really just a horrible image of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits while holding open the place where the sun doesn't shine. My brain hurts a lot now.
Have you ever seen a NYC subway rat? I assure you that they are that big;)
Either way though I think he was referring to a far more dangerous animal. One that Michael Bloomberg says you shouldn't have the ability to defend yourself against, unless you happen to be rich or well connected of course.
Actually, with respect, this is one that I'd have to agree with them on. Not so much New York City by itself but the Northeast as a whole or any other region with a large Italian-American population. One of the things I most despised about living in the South was the lack of good pizza. Southerners seem to think that good pizza comes from Little Caesars......
I think the response will be "So it looks like the record industry is suing a load of people who are ripping them off. Can't be bothered reading the legalese".
Then you need to be prepared to explain to them the actual reality of the RIAA campaign:
1) The people who are sued have no chance of successfully defending themselves, regardless of whether or not they actually "ripped off" RIAA. "Success" against the well financed RIAA legal team still leaves you broke.
2) RIAA has sued deceased Grandmothers that didn't even have a computer in the house.
3) RIAA's legal arguments (such as "making available") have been shot down time and time again.
4) RIAA typically has zero actual proof that you've shared anything.
5) RIAA has been known to use unlicensed and unaccountable "investigators" in violation of state law.
If you aren't prepared to explain the actual facts of the RIAA campaign to your friends and colleagues then you might as well be working for them. The reason John Q. Public is going to respond with "people are ripping them off" is because of people like you that don't want to make the effort to educate him.
That recordable media levy is the main reason that Canada doesn't have a DMCA. And the price is virtually non-existent.
That still doesn't justify it any better to my way of thinking. I have to help fund RIAA if I want to burn a copy of memtest86 or my favorite Linux distro? What's wrong with that picture?
Wolves and pumas were the only two real predators to be concerned of unless you were a child
Wolves are generally pretty leery of human beings and go out of their way to avoid us. Pumas are more hit and miss -- some will avoid and some will try to ambush you. A buddy of mine had one jump out of cover at him and wound up having to shoot the poor thing.
I think you forgot bears though. They will generally avoid you but if you surprise one or stumble upon Mama and her cubs you'd better have brought a change of underwear and a really big gun......
I realize your probably just trolling but you do know that NYC doesn't get it's water from the Hudson right? They get it from Upstate. It's one of the things I love to remind them about when they start bitching about how much money the city pays out in State taxes. "You can have your money back when you can secure your own water supply and stop sending us your felons"
About the only thing going for it is it ISN'T New Jersey.
Why do you feel that one individual with a gun should have so much power as to decide whether he wants to remove a single politician person of his choosing permanently from society?
Didn't he say that he disagrees with the shooting at politicians part? I think you can be pro-gun without being pro-assassination.....
Perhaps the level of gun crimes in the US has more to do with the intersection of guns and crime than with some causal relationship between one and the other.
You mean guns don't directly cause crime? Who'd of thunk it?
but the fact of the matter is that an automobile is a device which is designed to transport, whereas a gun is a device which is designed to wound or kill. Those are the facts.
Well, if your quoting "facts", the fact of the matter is that the 2nd amendment guarantees an individual (according to SCOTUS) right to keep and bear arms. If this bothers you I suggest you try and repeal the 2nd amendment. At least that would be more honest than trying to kill it with a thousand cuts. Good luck getting 38 states to ratify a repeal though......
And it's upheld by every third-world hellhole in existence. Your theory that more guns equals less crime/violence means Mexico, Columbia, and the whole of the Middle East should be veritable Gardens of Eden, yes?
Poverty has more to do with crime than gun ownership. How do you explain the low levels of gun violence in Switzerland despite the fact that nearly every Swiss male has a (Government-provided!) assault rifle and ammunition?
You advocate more guns; guns are there to make it easier to kill; therefore, you advocate greater ease of killing.
That's the same line of logic that the right-wingers use to condemn sex ed and condom distribution. Amazing how similar the partisans on the left and the right are when you strip away the individual issues, isn't it? You don't give a shit about logic -- you are only interested in pushing your agenda and taking away rights that you deem to be inconvenient or troublesome.
We abandoned them because we weren't able to defeat the North in spite of our overwhelming military superiority. In any case I don't want to argue about the Vietnam War because I suspect we would largely agree (it's not often I meet someone who knows the actual outcome of the Tet Offensive) -- my original point was and is that a force armed mostly with rifles can make life hell even for a modern army with better weapons. Do you disagree with that statement?
And apparently, they couldn't come up with a long term strategy that *was* good, which tends to support my point.
I suspect their long term strategy is to get the United States to withdraw so they can resume their civil war for control of the country. I think the Iraqi insurgents are less interested in bloodying the United States (as opposed to Al Quada) and more interested in craving out a piece of Iraq for their sect/tribe. I suppose time will tell.
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Amen. I work at a college in Buffalo, and the students from downstate are just insufferable
If you think the students are bad trying being around the hunters from downstate. If there's a better argument for gun control than a drunk NYC'er running around with a loaded shotgun bragging about that 45 pound doe he bagged on posted property I don't know what it is......
Out of curiosity, how many of you have kept you analog cell phones?
I kept a tri-mode phone long after Verizon stopped selling them up until the point that they deactivated their AMPS network. Analog came in very handy at times:
1) When out in the boonies with just enough digital signal to send texts but not enough to make calls
2) At concerts/special events where the local tower got overloaded and calls wouldn't go through. Few people thought of forcing it to analog mode -- do this and you'd regain the ability to make calls.
why pay more for the same crappy stuff sold in other stores?
Why buy crappy stuff to begin with?
Everyone knows the GPL is the solution to at least 7/16th of the world's problems.
Does that mean we can drop Linux (err, I'm sorry, GNU/Linux) boxes on the Middle East and create world peace?
But then you get to the point where I don't care any more either
Well congratulations I guess. You are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
A pack of hungry wolves (for that matter, hungry feral dogs) will hunt you down.
Humans are pretty dangerous pray. Most animals (mammals at least) eventually learn this. Your odds of being attacked by a hungry wolf pack in North America are probably lower than your odds of being struck by lightning.
but Mellow Mushroom (based out of Atlanta I think) is an exception to the rule.
There's always exceptions. We did actually manage to eventually find a cool little pizzeria -- of course it was 45 minutes away. Here in the Northeast they are everywhere and most of them are pretty good. Hell, in my hometown the little Italian restaurants and pizzerias actually outnumber the fast food joints.
I never understood the jokes.
You would if you were a New Yorker ;) Well, from the city anyway. Here in Upstate we generally reserve our jokes for Pennsyltucky
Distractions are bad.
I hope you appreciate the irony of saying that on Slashdot while sitting in your office "working" ;)
Bad as that may be it is still better than the DMCA
And being raped is better than being murdered but that still doesn't make it a good thing. In the ideal world we would have neither a DMCA nor a RIAA tax.
Also my country is not trying to force others to create harsher copyright laws
Your country would be doing it if it had a large and powerful industry that regarded copyrights as an important part of their business model. Canada has it's share of tariffs and other policies designed to protect domestic industries regarded as important. Note that I'm not saying that this makes it right -- just saying that the United States isn't the only country that looks out for the (perceived) best interests of domestic industries.
Let me know when they do a study about the effects of how reading slashdot hurts your brain
I thought I had found such a study once upon a time but it was really just a horrible image of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits while holding open the place where the sun doesn't shine. My brain hurts a lot now.
the rats aren't that big.
Have you ever seen a NYC subway rat? I assure you that they are that big ;)
Either way though I think he was referring to a far more dangerous animal. One that Michael Bloomberg says you shouldn't have the ability to defend yourself against, unless you happen to be rich or well connected of course.
Ask anyone who has lived in New York about pizza
Actually, with respect, this is one that I'd have to agree with them on. Not so much New York City by itself but the Northeast as a whole or any other region with a large Italian-American population. One of the things I most despised about living in the South was the lack of good pizza. Southerners seem to think that good pizza comes from Little Caesars......
I think the response will be "So it looks like the record industry is suing a load of people who are ripping them off. Can't be bothered reading the legalese".
Then you need to be prepared to explain to them the actual reality of the RIAA campaign:
1) The people who are sued have no chance of successfully defending themselves, regardless of whether or not they actually "ripped off" RIAA. "Success" against the well financed RIAA legal team still leaves you broke.
2) RIAA has sued deceased Grandmothers that didn't even have a computer in the house.
3) RIAA's legal arguments (such as "making available") have been shot down time and time again.
4) RIAA typically has zero actual proof that you've shared anything.
5) RIAA has been known to use unlicensed and unaccountable "investigators" in violation of state law.
If you aren't prepared to explain the actual facts of the RIAA campaign to your friends and colleagues then you might as well be working for them. The reason John Q. Public is going to respond with "people are ripping them off" is because of people like you that don't want to make the effort to educate him.
That recordable media levy is the main reason that Canada doesn't have a DMCA. And the price is virtually non-existent.
That still doesn't justify it any better to my way of thinking. I have to help fund RIAA if I want to burn a copy of memtest86 or my favorite Linux distro? What's wrong with that picture?
Wolves and pumas were the only two real predators to be concerned of unless you were a child
Wolves are generally pretty leery of human beings and go out of their way to avoid us. Pumas are more hit and miss -- some will avoid and some will try to ambush you. A buddy of mine had one jump out of cover at him and wound up having to shoot the poor thing.
I think you forgot bears though. They will generally avoid you but if you surprise one or stumble upon Mama and her cubs you'd better have brought a change of underwear and a really big gun......
Must be all those pollutants in the river.
I realize your probably just trolling but you do know that NYC doesn't get it's water from the Hudson right? They get it from Upstate. It's one of the things I love to remind them about when they start bitching about how much money the city pays out in State taxes. "You can have your money back when you can secure your own water supply and stop sending us your felons"
About the only thing going for it is it ISN'T New Jersey.
Well, there is that ;)
And how do you propose I stop anyone who doesn't read Slashdot from buying new music?
Baseball bats and firearms? ;)
Oh, you mean how do you convince them ;) Well, (in all seriousness) I'd start by showing them Ray's blog.
ecent study showed that if New Zealand was offered a benevolent dictator and ran things better than now - most would ok it.
The only problem with that is that for every Augustus or Marcus Aurelius you also you have a Nero or Commodus.
I'll take my checks, balances and inalienable rights over a "benevolent" dictator any day of the week.
Why do you feel that one individual with a gun should have so much power as to decide whether he wants to remove a single politician person of his choosing permanently from society?
Didn't he say that he disagrees with the shooting at politicians part? I think you can be pro-gun without being pro-assassination.....
Canada isn't worse than the U.S. on this matter.
At least in the U.S. I can buy CD-Rs without paying a tax to copyright holders whose copyrights I've never violated......
Perhaps the level of gun crimes in the US has more to do with the intersection of guns and crime than with some causal relationship between one and the other.
You mean guns don't directly cause crime? Who'd of thunk it?
but the fact of the matter is that an automobile is a device which is designed to transport, whereas a gun is a device which is designed to wound or kill. Those are the facts.
Well, if your quoting "facts", the fact of the matter is that the 2nd amendment guarantees an individual (according to SCOTUS) right to keep and bear arms. If this bothers you I suggest you try and repeal the 2nd amendment. At least that would be more honest than trying to kill it with a thousand cuts. Good luck getting 38 states to ratify a repeal though......
And it's upheld by every third-world hellhole in existence. Your theory that more guns equals less crime/violence means Mexico, Columbia, and the whole of the Middle East should be veritable Gardens of Eden, yes?
Poverty has more to do with crime than gun ownership. How do you explain the low levels of gun violence in Switzerland despite the fact that nearly every Swiss male has a (Government-provided!) assault rifle and ammunition?
You advocate more guns; guns are there to make it easier to kill; therefore, you advocate greater ease of killing.
That's the same line of logic that the right-wingers use to condemn sex ed and condom distribution. Amazing how similar the partisans on the left and the right are when you strip away the individual issues, isn't it? You don't give a shit about logic -- you are only interested in pushing your agenda and taking away rights that you deem to be inconvenient or troublesome.
because we abandoned them.
We abandoned them because we weren't able to defeat the North in spite of our overwhelming military superiority. In any case I don't want to argue about the Vietnam War because I suspect we would largely agree (it's not often I meet someone who knows the actual outcome of the Tet Offensive) -- my original point was and is that a force armed mostly with rifles can make life hell even for a modern army with better weapons. Do you disagree with that statement?
And apparently, they couldn't come up with a long term strategy that *was* good, which tends to support my point.
I suspect their long term strategy is to get the United States to withdraw so they can resume their civil war for control of the country. I think the Iraqi insurgents are less interested in bloodying the United States (as opposed to Al Quada) and more interested in craving out a piece of Iraq for their sect/tribe. I suppose time will tell.
Some seem to think that Truman or whomever was president at the time
With that grasp of history it's no wonder you are so naive. I'll give you a hint: It was the President that's now featured on the dime.
Should have just stuck to my mathematics, science, and computers.
Try reading some history books too. Even if you never come to agree with me on geopolitics it would still be to your benefit.