I grew up working on a concentration camp so I know what you mean. It's laughable that people care so much about how we treat the Jews. These animals are not people. They're an infection and drain on resources.
Will you please stop calling yourselves pirates and a party?
Calling copyright infringement buys into your opponent's myth that sharing a song is just like shoplifting or ship-to-ship armed robbery and kidnapping. It makes light of the murderous thugs from Somalia and what their victims have suffered.
If your group doesn't have a stance on abortion, gun control, taxation, environment vs. industry and all the other things actual parties address, call yourselves what you are; an advocacy group or special interest. If your platform on those issues matches that of an existing party, then join your efforts with them instead of siphoning their efforts. Being a non-party is fine. You can champion your cause without being a party. Single issue parties are notorious for messing up elections and generally being useless. There's no need or advantage to being a party.
All that said, please keep up the good work of helping the world get real about copyright./won't be reading replies
Could tossing an anti-proton at a nucleus of mercury negate on proton to turn it into gold? i'm guessing "DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY".
If we could create anti-matter safely and reliably... seems like it could make for an efficient sort of nuclear reactor. Instead of getting isotopes you'd be unravelling the nuclear bonds.
The problem with kneejerk cynicism and paranoia is that if (when) there is a real threat we might not be prepared to respond to it. We might choose to not respond. Maybe the boy shouldn't be crying wolf so often, but the village should at least think about what to do when the wolf comes calling.
Let's take as a given that there is no cyberwar. Does that mean that China, Russia and anyone else with an interest in hurting the US isn't working on a plan to attack us? They might be able to keep a secret. The plans we make to thwart a cyber attack might be useful in dealing with some unforseable problem.
Are we pretending that the internet is unimportant to our economy and culture just because we don't trust anyone over 30?
If a panel of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, George Bush, a box of hair and Jeffrey Dahmer advised us to look both ways before crossing the street it would be good advice. We shouldn't dismiss what the gov't says out of kneejerk mistrust. Even if the gov't is out to get YOU (unlikely), they might be right about something anyway. Sure, we should question their motives and approach but on the merits of the claim... not by "is he wearing a suit".
If the only qualification for being a journalist is "having an email address", where do we get accountability? Real journalists take classes on ethics and have an employer who can fire them. It's easier to blackball a journalist out of the field than it is to prevent a blogger from posting.
i dislike the idea if bloggers as journalists more than i dislike people writing in a professional capacity and calling it blogging.
i would LOVE a multiplayer Portal thing. No weapons, just portals, turrets, cubes and pools of acid. The goal is to make an enemy fall into a fire, or drop cubes on each other's heads. It would be difficult to design, but awesome if it worked.
Multiplayer puzzles might be nice.
Or imagine one player is Gordon and the other is Chell with their respective equipment. i open a portal for you behind the guards and you spray them with red hot rebar. You could have team death match or CtF the same way. Each team gets one portal gunner and a the rest are goons.
As 2003 unfolded i often wondered if the left would have been so cynical and vehemently opposed to overthrowing Saddam if Clinton or Gore had ordered it. What would take the place of "no blood for oil" or "Bush == Hitler"? Would they have drawn Hitler mustaches on Gore's face? Or would they have seen that the UN inspections, no fly/drive zones and sanctions were about to end and realized that Saddam would have gone right back to producing WMDs, brutalizing his own people and invading his neighbors? Followed by another 30 years of that from his sons.
Clinton didn't care about the Iraqi people or what Saddam had done or would do. That's clear from the evidence of him doing virtually nothing. But we can only guess what Gore would have done. i voted for both of them, but would have been disappointed in him if he let Saddam stay in power.
So what then, is the difference between a subpoena and a warrant?
Google-fu says:
Subpoena is for telling people to appear in court. Warrants are instructions given to LE by judges (to say, search or arrest). They appear to be independent things. One does not seem to be needed for the other.
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I grew up working on a concentration camp so I know what you mean. It's laughable that people care so much about how we treat the Jews. These animals are not people. They're an infection and drain on resources.
How could a battery be too great?
Will you please stop calling yourselves pirates and a party?
Calling copyright infringement buys into your opponent's myth that sharing a song is just like shoplifting or ship-to-ship armed robbery and kidnapping. It makes light of the murderous thugs from Somalia and what their victims have suffered.
If your group doesn't have a stance on abortion, gun control, taxation, environment vs. industry and all the other things actual parties address, call yourselves what you are; an advocacy group or special interest. If your platform on those issues matches that of an existing party, then join your efforts with them instead of siphoning their efforts. Being a non-party is fine. You can champion your cause without being a party. Single issue parties are notorious for messing up elections and generally being useless. There's no need or advantage to being a party.
All that said, please keep up the good work of helping the world get real about copyright. /won't be reading replies
Fascintating.
Heh. So what we need is a trade route to the anti-matter universe (that won't annihilate both).
My sarcasmometer must be on the fritz. Did you mean this to be funny?
Could tossing an anti-proton at a nucleus of mercury negate on proton to turn it into gold? i'm guessing "DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY".
If we could create anti-matter safely and reliably... seems like it could make for an efficient sort of nuclear reactor. Instead of getting isotopes you'd be unravelling the nuclear bonds.
Fun stuff.
Substance dualism makes people stupid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPn5dXfTvA
No one in their right mind is literally thinking that. However comma it makes for a great strawman for the right to attack.
Ah, so you'd need a way to isolate it from... everything.
+1 Informative
Is anti-matter matter? Could we build stuff out of it?
It's curiouser and curiouser.
The problem with kneejerk cynicism and paranoia is that if (when) there is a real threat we might not be prepared to respond to it. We might choose to not respond. Maybe the boy shouldn't be crying wolf so often, but the village should at least think about what to do when the wolf comes calling.
Let's take as a given that there is no cyberwar. Does that mean that China, Russia and anyone else with an interest in hurting the US isn't working on a plan to attack us? They might be able to keep a secret. The plans we make to thwart a cyber attack might be useful in dealing with some unforseable problem.
Are we pretending that the internet is unimportant to our economy and culture just because we don't trust anyone over 30?
If a panel of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, George Bush, a box of hair and Jeffrey Dahmer advised us to look both ways before crossing the street it would be good advice. We shouldn't dismiss what the gov't says out of kneejerk mistrust. Even if the gov't is out to get YOU (unlikely), they might be right about something anyway. Sure, we should question their motives and approach but on the merits of the claim... not by "is he wearing a suit".
If the only qualification for being a journalist is "having an email address", where do we get accountability? Real journalists take classes on ethics and have an employer who can fire them. It's easier to blackball a journalist out of the field than it is to prevent a blogger from posting.
i dislike the idea if bloggers as journalists more than i dislike people writing in a professional capacity and calling it blogging.
Props++ for trying!
Send it to Valve. :)
Yeah, that's way funnier than my joke.
Your opinions aren't facts either.
i would LOVE a multiplayer Portal thing. No weapons, just portals, turrets, cubes and pools of acid. The goal is to make an enemy fall into a fire, or drop cubes on each other's heads. It would be difficult to design, but awesome if it worked.
Multiplayer puzzles might be nice.
Or imagine one player is Gordon and the other is Chell with their respective equipment. i open a portal for you behind the guards and you spray them with red hot rebar. You could have team death match or CtF the same way. Each team gets one portal gunner and a the rest are goons.
This too, shall pass.
As 2003 unfolded i often wondered if the left would have been so cynical and vehemently opposed to overthrowing Saddam if Clinton or Gore had ordered it. What would take the place of "no blood for oil" or "Bush == Hitler"? Would they have drawn Hitler mustaches on Gore's face? Or would they have seen that the UN inspections, no fly/drive zones and sanctions were about to end and realized that Saddam would have gone right back to producing WMDs, brutalizing his own people and invading his neighbors? Followed by another 30 years of that from his sons.
Clinton didn't care about the Iraqi people or what Saddam had done or would do. That's clear from the evidence of him doing virtually nothing. But we can only guess what Gore would have done. i voted for both of them, but would have been disappointed in him if he let Saddam stay in power.
vegetarianism:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061215090916.htm
And people's prejudices affect how food tastes:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716205208.htm
But IQ is a load of crap.
Same item, but on ScienceDaily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132655.htm
Yeah, how am I supposed to get this stolen car out of state without these cops finding me. Won't someone PLEASE think of the rights of criminals!
I have a God given right to buy a car, sign a loan and not make the payments. It's theft for them to take my money (my property) against my will.
George Bush doesn't care about people with electronics!
How about we called it Solargate? Solartanic? Solarpocalypse?
Losing Google Would Hit Chinese Reverse Engineering Hard
FTfY
Funny thing: our schools are packed with Chinese students and profs.
It's more like an iPod touch. An iPhone has a camera and can make calls.
Hitler hit it on the nose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_EcybyLJS8
So what then, is the difference between a subpoena and a warrant?
Google-fu says:
Subpoena is for telling people to appear in court. Warrants are instructions given to LE by judges (to say, search or arrest). They appear to be independent things. One does not seem to be needed for the other.
*shrugs*