all political musical humour is bottom of the barrel
I think that political humor like this is not only funny, but a invaluable to keep our society going. It is so easy to get overly paranoid about an election ("Bush is going to win and kill us all" or "Kerry is going to win and kill us all"). It is dangerous to become overly involved emotionally when it comes to politics. That is the kind of thing that got Spain into its bloody civil war. Political humor like this it a good way to take a step back and realize that after this election, no matter who wins, the US will still exist. There have been countless close, polarized elections like this in the past and the US has faced much larger problems, and we are still here. Making light of a situation helps us put things in perspective sometimes.
Yes, and it would also be nice is there was a keg of Anchor Steam on the every corner with a beautiful woman in a bikini pumping it.
These guys need to ground their thinking a little. This isn't the utopia of wireless devices. If someone else was using my wireless device, the it would cost me cpu time, bandwitdth, battery life, etc. I can't afford to pay to make everyone elses experience better. This will not catch on.
I guess this means that these new discs would be even more sensitive to scratches. What they should do is put the discs in a small case with a protecting flap that the player slides open to read. Just like a floppy, where the data was stored on the magnetic disc on the inside of the case and was protected by the sliding thing. They really should have started doing this with dvds, but for this, it is almost mandatory.
this is the furthest thing from comedy i've seen in a while
Why? Is it because it just doesn't make you laugh, or because it makes fun of something that is very funny? Seriously, I am interested in why you don't think this is funny. Could you elaborate?
There were some other Woody Guthrie songs remade recently too. I think the story is that these were unreleased songs of his that he had not written music to, so Woody's daughter hired Billy Bragg and Wilco to put music to them and sing them. They are called Mermaid Avenue (samples, review) and Mermaid Avenue Volume II (samples, review) They are both pretty good cds, especially volume 1. I wonder what the copyright implications were one these, since they were unreleased. Does anyone know? Also, what was his daughter's opinion about the jibjab song?
The support for the war and suchlike (the terrorists are going to kill us if we don't attack!) along with all the "alerts" strongly supports this.
True, since the terrorists don't want to kill us. Or, wait, I forgot..... they do. In fact, they have tried to crash airplanes into buildings, set off dirty bombs, hijack planes, get nuclear weapons, etc. But how silly of us to be paranoid about terrorists trying to kill us. Thats not what terrorists do!!
Yea, I'm glad that you live in Canada too.
Other "holes" that are usually looked down upon, ummm, using, here in the USA are those of 9 year old boys and girls.
I guess you there in Canada are more enlightened.
You have to be kidding. You should really inform yourself before hating the US in such a way.
Illegal detainments in Iraq and Cuba.
They are not illegal by Geneva or any international body's standards. Are they getting the rights given by the US Constitution? No. But those are for American citizens not held as war prisoners.
Vast expansion of secret police powers via "Patriot Act".
Come on. You may think that the Patriot act gives to many powers to the government, and thats fine. But "secret police powers"?? And "vast expansion" of them? Thats a little to sensationalistic.
World's biggest Military budget (thats a guess) and a military commander chosen in hail of controversy.
Yes, that may be true, but are you worried that the US is going to take over your country? We didn't even take Iraq as our own. I think that its a good thing that countries like US, England, France, Germany, Japan, etc maintain a strong military to fight against any dictators that try to amass armies to get rid of democracies. Chosen in a hail of controversy? I don't know what you mean exactly, but I guess you are referring to Gore's recount request. The votes got recounted, and Bush still won.
I don't understand the hate that is beginning to be perpetuated against the US. The US has made some mistakes (like the intellegence about Iraq), and so we jumped the gun with Iraq. But why would that cause Europe to HATE us? If you look at it, we should NEVER have gone in there, but it is not the worst thing in the world. Saddam is gone, and now the Iraqis have freedom (at least relatively). And they are even kicking ass in soccer! (interesting and funny sidenote). I really think that it is important that we do not divide ourselves over what really amounts to politics. You disagree with the way the US runs it domestic and foriegn policy: ok, good. You think that the US would be best run by someone like maybe Nader: ok, thats interesting. But you hate the US and arrogant Bush loving Americans: not cool. Lets put thing in perspective before really harboring hate towards each other.
If you want a crappy computer, why would you force yourself to use aol for a year? They are not giving any sort of extra discount on this computer. Look at this. This computer here is $15 dollars cheaper, and has the following specs: - Celeron 2.0 G - 128 MB mem (which is less, but an extra 128 is what, 30 bucks?) - 40 G harddrive (western digital) - Then some crappy on board hardware. Of course, this does not have a monitor, but those are also very cheap at this size (and I actually have a hard time not collecting free ones at this size somehow.)
...I will get to start my development of "Al Michaels: 2005". I will completely obliterate my competition! Time to put in my letter of resignation for the current job...
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I'm tired of being told to be afraid. Hurray for hope.
I agree. Not only does this book seem like a lame attempt for a guy to make a buck off of 1984 and Brave New World's fame, but the author should understand that its time to maybe express a little more hope. Of course, the guy has his right to "artistic expression," but I would more liken this to trying to sell some paperbacks to a hip teenage crowd. If these kids want to read something good, try going to the two giants of this genre, 1984 and Brave New World. People so often read these kinds of books and then talk about how "1984ish" our world is today or how we are heading towards a "Brave New World." I wonder how many people who make those comments have even read the books. In those books, the authors developed their own ideas, rather than the most common pop culture idea among teenagers ("OMG!!! Corporations are going to destroy the world!!!"). Boo.
(sorry for the rant, but I really wanted to get it out. I have heard too many people talk about those two books in the last week, and then admit they have never read them.)
That is an example of an independent wide scale news source that can only be provided by the internet. BTW, I think it is funny that Turner is complaining about this now that CNN doesn't get watched as much as other news channels.
Why is this site sucking right now (I mean functionally). It is very slow, and the wrong numbers of comments per article or poll is showing up, etc.
What is going on?
The ISS is pretty silly. It hasn't done anything really cool yet, just a few times. It seems to me like it is more of a political tool ("all the countries working together in peace for the good of mankind...bla...bla") than an exploratory tool.
I understand that you were not intentionally tricking people. And even though I don't know you, I really do suspect that you had only good intentions. I did not mean this post as an assault on you. But thats the thing... I don't know you. And neither does that company. What they should really do is hire you to create a good website under their supervision, to make sure that you are not stealing customer information. But thats their decision (even if it is poorly made). The problem is that there are dumb people out there (the majority) who don't look at the address and struggle so much with the web that they don't take the time to look at "details" like "this is not the official site". To put it this way, there have definitely been people who used your site thinking it was run by Odeon. And to be doing something like collecting customer information in their name (even if its not intentional on your part) is something that they need to worry about. The company does not know what your intentions are or what you are doing with the data. You seem honest, but the sad truth is that there are alot of scumbags out there who would love a couple million email addresses to sell to porno sites.
Yes, thats what he says, but how do we know that that is true? The answer is, we don't. When you try to convict a criminal, you don't ask him if he committed the crime, because he would probably just say no. I am sure the guy is not going to sell collected data to spammers, but how do we really know? I know nothing about this guy...
Ok, so whats your point? That is another non-issue. Yes, they are braking the law. I hope that the UK govenment cracks down on them.
Anyways... back to the topic of discussion...
This guy with the copycat website is not some kind of vigilante of the internet. His job is not to take the law into his own hands, especially if it involves stepping on some company's rights and some people's rights (the people being those who submit data unknowingly to his site).
I bet the guy is very well intentioned, but he needs to get real. If he is worried about this that much, he should find a legitimite solution to the problem.
Why is this a big deal? I read the 2 emails from Odeon and the one sent to them, and I don't see why Odeon is being outragous in asking them to take down the site. Sure, their site should work in other browsers, but that is not the issue. The issue is that some guy is tricking people into submitting info to his site instead of the Odeon site like they think that they are. Maybe he collects the data before he sends it to Odeon, maybe he doesn't like he says. I don't know him, and thats not even the issue. I can very well understand why a company does not want someone they don't know collecting their customers information in their name. What if they guy ends up getting caught selling all these names to spammers one day? Then Odeon would really look stupid for not taking action against the guy.
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I think that political humor like this is not only funny, but a invaluable to keep our society going. It is so easy to get overly paranoid about an election ("Bush is going to win and kill us all" or "Kerry is going to win and kill us all").
It is dangerous to become overly involved emotionally when it comes to politics. That is the kind of thing that got Spain into its bloody civil war.
Political humor like this it a good way to take a step back and realize that after this election, no matter who wins, the US will still exist. There have been countless close, polarized elections like this in the past and the US has faced much larger problems, and we are still here.
Making light of a situation helps us put things in perspective sometimes.
I guess, but I didn't know that they made them like this originally. Do you have a link to a picture of this?
Yes, and it would also be nice is there was a keg of Anchor Steam on the every corner with a beautiful woman in a bikini pumping it. These guys need to ground their thinking a little. This isn't the utopia of wireless devices. If someone else was using my wireless device, the it would cost me cpu time, bandwitdth, battery life, etc. I can't afford to pay to make everyone elses experience better. This will not catch on.
I guess this means that these new discs would be even more sensitive to scratches.
What they should do is put the discs in a small case with a protecting flap that the player slides open to read.
Just like a floppy, where the data was stored on the magnetic disc on the inside of the case and was protected by the sliding thing. They really should have started doing this with dvds, but for this, it is almost mandatory.
Why? Is it because it just doesn't make you laugh, or because it makes fun of something that is very funny?
Seriously, I am interested in why you don't think this is funny. Could you elaborate?
There were some other Woody Guthrie songs remade recently too. I think the story is that these were unreleased songs of his that he had not written music to, so Woody's daughter hired Billy Bragg and Wilco to put music to them and sing them.
They are called Mermaid Avenue (samples, review) and Mermaid Avenue Volume II (samples, review)
They are both pretty good cds, especially volume 1.
I wonder what the copyright implications were one these, since they were unreleased. Does anyone know? Also, what was his daughter's opinion about the jibjab song?
True, since the terrorists don't want to kill us.
Or, wait, I forgot..... they do. In fact, they have tried to crash airplanes into buildings, set off dirty bombs, hijack planes, get nuclear weapons, etc.
But how silly of us to be paranoid about terrorists trying to kill us. Thats not what terrorists do!!
Yea, I'm glad that you live in Canada too. Other "holes" that are usually looked down upon, ummm, using, here in the USA are those of 9 year old boys and girls. I guess you there in Canada are more enlightened.
They are not illegal by Geneva or any international body's standards. Are they getting the rights given by the US Constitution? No. But those are for American citizens not held as war prisoners.
Come on. You may think that the Patriot act gives to many powers to the government, and thats fine. But "secret police powers"?? And "vast expansion" of them? Thats a little to sensationalistic.
Yes, that may be true, but are you worried that the US is going to take over your country? We didn't even take Iraq as our own. I think that its a good thing that countries like US, England, France, Germany, Japan, etc maintain a strong military to fight against any dictators that try to amass armies to get rid of democracies. Chosen in a hail of controversy? I don't know what you mean exactly, but I guess you are referring to Gore's recount request. The votes got recounted, and Bush still won.
I don't understand the hate that is beginning to be perpetuated against the US. The US has made some mistakes (like the intellegence about Iraq), and so we jumped the gun with Iraq. But why would that cause Europe to HATE us? If you look at it, we should NEVER have gone in there, but it is not the worst thing in the world. Saddam is gone, and now the Iraqis have freedom (at least relatively). And they are even kicking ass in soccer! (interesting and funny sidenote).
I really think that it is important that we do not divide ourselves over what really amounts to politics.
You disagree with the way the US runs it domestic and foriegn policy: ok, good.
You think that the US would be best run by someone like maybe Nader: ok, thats interesting.
But you hate the US and arrogant Bush loving Americans: not cool.
Lets put thing in perspective before really harboring hate towards each other.
If you want a crappy computer, why would you force yourself to use aol for a year? They are not giving any sort of extra discount on this computer.
Look at this. This computer here is $15 dollars cheaper, and has the following specs:
- Celeron 2.0 G
- 128 MB mem (which is less, but an extra 128 is what, 30 bucks?)
- 40 G harddrive (western digital)
- Then some crappy on board hardware.
Of course, this does not have a monitor, but those are also very cheap at this size (and I actually have a hard time not collecting free ones at this size somehow.)
Did you just compare programming to sports??? Wow.
...I will get to start my development of "Al Michaels: 2005". I will completely obliterate my competition!
Time to put in my letter of resignation for the current job...
I agree. Not only does this book seem like a lame attempt for a guy to make a buck off of 1984 and Brave New World's fame, but the author should understand that its time to maybe express a little more hope. Of course, the guy has his right to "artistic expression," but I would more liken this to trying to sell some paperbacks to a hip teenage crowd.
If these kids want to read something good, try going to the two giants of this genre, 1984 and Brave New World. People so often read these kinds of books and then talk about how "1984ish" our world is today or how we are heading towards a "Brave New World." I wonder how many people who make those comments have even read the books.
In those books, the authors developed their own ideas, rather than the most common pop culture idea among teenagers ("OMG!!! Corporations are going to destroy the world!!!").
Boo.
(sorry for the rant, but I really wanted to get it out. I have heard too many people talk about those two books in the last week, and then admit they have never read them.)
That is an example of an independent wide scale news source that can only be provided by the internet.
BTW, I think it is funny that Turner is complaining about this now that CNN doesn't get watched as much as other news channels.
Why is this site sucking right now (I mean functionally). It is very slow, and the wrong numbers of comments per article or poll is showing up, etc. What is going on?
...we put a man on the moooooon...
*turns radio off*
I hate that song.
The ISS is pretty silly. It hasn't done anything really cool yet, just a few times. It seems to me like it is more of a political tool ("all the countries working together in peace for the good of mankind...bla...bla") than an exploratory tool.
These new high tech computers tell us clearly everything we need to know.
I understand that you were not intentionally tricking people. And even though I don't know you, I really do suspect that you had only good intentions. I did not mean this post as an assault on you.
But thats the thing... I don't know you. And neither does that company. What they should really do is hire you to create a good website under their supervision, to make sure that you are not stealing customer information.
But thats their decision (even if it is poorly made).
The problem is that there are dumb people out there (the majority) who don't look at the address and struggle so much with the web that they don't take the time to look at "details" like "this is not the official site". To put it this way, there have definitely been people who used your site thinking it was run by Odeon. And to be doing something like collecting customer information in their name (even if its not intentional on your part) is something that they need to worry about.
The company does not know what your intentions are or what you are doing with the data. You seem honest, but the sad truth is that there are alot of scumbags out there who would love a couple million email addresses to sell to porno sites.
Yes, thats what he says, but how do we know that that is true? The answer is, we don't.
When you try to convict a criminal, you don't ask him if he committed the crime, because he would probably just say no.
I am sure the guy is not going to sell collected data to spammers, but how do we really know? I know nothing about this guy...
Ok, so whats your point? That is another non-issue. Yes, they are braking the law. I hope that the UK govenment cracks down on them. Anyways... back to the topic of discussion... This guy with the copycat website is not some kind of vigilante of the internet. His job is not to take the law into his own hands, especially if it involves stepping on some company's rights and some people's rights (the people being those who submit data unknowingly to his site). I bet the guy is very well intentioned, but he needs to get real. If he is worried about this that much, he should find a legitimite solution to the problem.
I will have no more faith in Slashdot moderating. This is the funniest damn thing I have ever read.
Why is this a big deal? I read the 2 emails from Odeon and the one sent to them, and I don't see why Odeon is being outragous in asking them to take down the site.
Sure, their site should work in other browsers, but that is not the issue.
The issue is that some guy is tricking people into submitting info to his site instead of the Odeon site like they think that they are. Maybe he collects the data before he sends it to Odeon, maybe he doesn't like he says. I don't know him, and thats not even the issue.
I can very well understand why a company does not want someone they don't know collecting their customers information in their name. What if they guy ends up getting caught selling all these names to spammers one day? Then Odeon would really look stupid for not taking action against the guy.