Happened before == will happen again Slopes are always slippery If it *can* be used for evil it *will* be, 100% of the time, always! The government really cares about *YOU* personally, and is out to get *YOU*
It would take pen, paper and about an hour to list all the concerts i've attended. Live performances are something special to me, even if i've seen the act several times. Trying to get autographs after the show is also good fun. Can't download that experience (yet).
For my brother who is about 10 years younger than me, gaining new music was a trivial matter. Click > Click > Wait > Enjoy. All it costs him is the time it takes to start the download and space on a hard drive.
Back in my day all we had for fun was a cliff and we had to buy or steal CDs. Do chores > Get allowance > take 45m train ride > find CD > come home > enjoy. Buying A meant not getting B (yet). If i didn't like A, i was still out the money. For me it was a big deal, a decision rather than a mere choice.
i wonder how this colored the significance of music for us. i don't know what it means or if it means anything at all. From my perspective it seems considerable. When you essentially have all the music ever made on your hard drive or a download away... it seems more disposable. It's a bundle of file and folder names. i look at my 300+ CDs and can almost feel what they cost me, i know when and where i bought them, i know what it feels like to move that damn shelf, the feeling of the case being cracked and the annoyance of the music skipping because the slot feeder has damaged it.
Anyone else thinking about this sort of thing./ties another onion to his belt
You don't own it then either. You're renting a license to listen to it for as long as you own the object. i know what you mean though. If i don't have a "hard copy" of it, it's just fluff on a hard drive.
That's not a progressive/regressive matter... that's just how some people are on fora. i can't reach through the screen to choke you, so you say stupid shit like "typical progressive".
Using progressive as a dismissive pejorative is just as childish, Mr. Kettle.
Maybe read the second sentence of my post? Or read the post at all before replying to it? Maybe use question marks to mark questions, not childish, unhelpful snark?
i was a 1N051 with an above TS clearance during the Clinton years. i taught LoAC stuff.
If a US Citizen is an enemy, they are fair game. Citizenship is a non-issue, enemy combatant trumps citizenship (and rightly so)
Drones/UAVs are NOT ROBOTS, they do not select targets or pull the trigger. By law they cannot.
Targeted killing is fine in combat. Popping a cap in Mrs. Merkel's ass right now would be illegal and a bad idea for many reasons. If we were fighting Germany, she'd be fair game because she is leader of enemy forces (civilian or not). Germany's minister of arts or some such would NOT be.
If the Taliban has a bomb factory (legit target) in a mosque/hospital/kitten orphanage (illegal target) it becomes a legit target, and for good reason. A AAA cannon mounted on the Eiffel Tower would be a legit target.
Civilian != Innocent - If Bob the Plumber makes a pipebomb he forgoes his protection under GenCon and is now an unlawful combatant.
i normally cheer for the ACLU, but i think they are defending the wrong people for the wrong reasons. This smells political.
Also, it ignores that hacking the website is not the same as hacking internal stuff. The classified internet stuff wasn't touched. They might have made KFC.com say "Burger King ruels! LOLOLOL", but they didn't find the secret ingredient that makes you crave chicken fornightly.
"Well, you used to need to declare war on another country."
FtFY
At least in US law, not declared == not war. In the same way that a man and woman who are living together, fucking and sharing household duties and bills aren't married unless they are married. Some people balk at this fact without realizing the correlation between declaration and winning. And the connection between declaration public support. Had we enforced the constitutional requirements for declaration of war or returning troops after 6 months... our history might be very different.
Also, if you're referring to Iraq and Afghanistan, go fark yourself. We had all the reason we needed, even if you didn't like the reasons (or to be honest, the person giving them).
As for things changing: that's an excuse and a poor excuse.
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
The "war on" metaphor has become trite. Can we just say what it is: The EU Parliament is investigating/opposing/*something* against ACTA. The way people use the word war has stripped it of effect. War used to be a big deal... no it just means arguement/conflict/opposition.
Sure we can use metaphors, but when we over use them or use them incorrectly, the original word loses meaning and the metaphor becomes "cute" at best.
Instead of giving them things to poop in, give them something that will help solve their real problems: Population. Give them condoms, IUDs, birth control patches, free vasectomies and tubal ligations. After about 30 years their problems will be MUCH more solvable.
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Happened before == will happen again
Slopes are always slippery
If it *can* be used for evil it *will* be, 100% of the time, always!
The government really cares about *YOU* personally, and is out to get *YOU*
Slashdot... news for paranoid cynics.
Yeah, we don't want to know about things we can buy. Like computers and books and video games and and and....
It would take pen, paper and about an hour to list all the concerts i've attended. Live performances are something special to me, even if i've seen the act several times. Trying to get autographs after the show is also good fun. Can't download that experience (yet).
For my brother who is about 10 years younger than me, gaining new music was a trivial matter. Click > Click > Wait > Enjoy. All it costs him is the time it takes to start the download and space on a hard drive.
Back in my day all we had for fun was a cliff and we had to buy or steal CDs. Do chores > Get allowance > take 45m train ride > find CD > come home > enjoy. Buying A meant not getting B (yet). If i didn't like A, i was still out the money. For me it was a big deal, a decision rather than a mere choice.
i wonder how this colored the significance of music for us. i don't know what it means or if it means anything at all. From my perspective it seems considerable. When you essentially have all the music ever made on your hard drive or a download away... it seems more disposable. It's a bundle of file and folder names. i look at my 300+ CDs and can almost feel what they cost me, i know when and where i bought them, i know what it feels like to move that damn shelf, the feeling of the case being cracked and the annoyance of the music skipping because the slot feeder has damaged it.
Anyone else thinking about this sort of thing. /ties another onion to his belt
Mod up please!
Thanks. Interesting stuff.
You don't own it then either. You're renting a license to listen to it for as long as you own the object. i know what you mean though. If i don't have a "hard copy" of it, it's just fluff on a hard drive.
Verses of a song. Chuck versus the MP3 Player.
That's not a progressive/regressive matter... that's just how some people are on fora. i can't reach through the screen to choke you, so you say stupid shit like "typical progressive".
Using progressive as a dismissive pejorative is just as childish, Mr. Kettle.
Maybe read the second sentence of my post? Or read the post at all before replying to it? Maybe use question marks to mark questions, not childish, unhelpful snark?
Could someone give us non-math geeks an explaination of this that does not include the following words: manifold homologous homeomorphic?
i'll read the wiki page too, but i'm hoping someone here will take a crack at explaining in it plain English.
Also: What does this mean? What are the applications? Not that it has to have any to be interesting.
Hehe.
i wonder why this sort of joke that i've earn funny 5 gets offtopic this time around.
Pick a name!
In an alternate universe this is the first post of the thread. By refreshing the page in *this* universe it's more like the 3rd.
Agreed. i think that's how "TV" should be. Networks are obsolete.
Was this a serious question or pendantry?
i was a 1N051 with an above TS clearance during the Clinton years. i taught LoAC stuff.
If a US Citizen is an enemy, they are fair game. Citizenship is a non-issue, enemy combatant trumps citizenship (and rightly so)
Drones/UAVs are NOT ROBOTS, they do not select targets or pull the trigger. By law they cannot.
Targeted killing is fine in combat. Popping a cap in Mrs. Merkel's ass right now would be illegal and a bad idea for many reasons. If we were fighting Germany, she'd be fair game because she is leader of enemy forces (civilian or not). Germany's minister of arts or some such would NOT be.
If the Taliban has a bomb factory (legit target) in a mosque/hospital/kitten orphanage (illegal target) it becomes a legit target, and for good reason. A AAA cannon mounted on the Eiffel Tower would be a legit target.
Civilian != Innocent - If Bob the Plumber makes a pipebomb he forgoes his protection under GenCon and is now an unlawful combatant.
i normally cheer for the ACLU, but i think they are defending the wrong people for the wrong reasons. This smells political.
i got married on Sunday (3.14).
i know which parts are the labia and the clit. The vulva wasn't mentioned in my health class i think. *shrugs*
Let's talk about some voice acting we liked.
My favorite example of voice acting is Bioshock. Withing that my favorite is Armin Shimerman.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001734/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1094581/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEjqY3_bCDk
His speech at the beginning of the game gave me chills.
i checked the wikipedia entry for fanny (as Brit slang), which linked to vulva. i've forgotten which part was the vulva so i clicked.
That page is NSfW!
And not a bookmark.
That's not pedantic. It's right. i wish i had mod points for you. His tongue is the input, the lollypop is the output.
Also, it ignores that hacking the website is not the same as hacking internal stuff. The classified internet stuff wasn't touched. They might have made KFC.com say "Burger King ruels! LOLOLOL", but they didn't find the secret ingredient that makes you crave chicken fornightly.
"Well, you used to need to declare war on another country."
FtFY
At least in US law, not declared == not war. In the same way that a man and woman who are living together, fucking and sharing household duties and bills aren't married unless they are married. Some people balk at this fact without realizing the correlation between declaration and winning. And the connection between declaration public support. Had we enforced the constitutional requirements for declaration of war or returning troops after 6 months... our history might be very different.
Also, if you're referring to Iraq and Afghanistan, go fark yourself. We had all the reason we needed, even if you didn't like the reasons (or to be honest, the person giving them).
As for things changing: that's an excuse and a poor excuse.
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
The "war on" metaphor has become trite. Can we just say what it is: The EU Parliament is investigating/opposing/*something* against ACTA. The way people use the word war has stripped it of effect. War used to be a big deal... no it just means arguement/conflict/opposition.
Sure we can use metaphors, but when we over use them or use them incorrectly, the original word loses meaning and the metaphor becomes "cute" at best.
Yeah, i totally slew that apple tree. i didn't enjoy it's flavor anymore than you enjoyed your steak last night. So it's not like we sadists.
Totally. I didn't abuse my wife, I killed her outright. Sure it took a minute or two to bleed out, but after that she was fine.
Instead of giving them things to poop in, give them something that will help solve their real problems: Population. Give them condoms, IUDs, birth control patches, free vasectomies and tubal ligations. After about 30 years their problems will be MUCH more solvable.