We need a new metaphor for "criticize" than violence. "Rachel Maddow eviscerated Ron Paul!" "Ron Paul put Rachel Maddow in a head lock, then decaptitated her with a spork!"
"It wasn't morally ambiguous to: Drop a nuke on Hiroshima killing 80,000 civilians? (USA) Firebomb Dresden and kill 50,000 civilians? (UK, USA) Conduct the largest mass rape in history? (Russia) Ship 200,000 civilians to work camps in Siberia where almost all of them died? (Russia)
It must be nice to see the world in black and white where only the "other side" should have any doubts about the actions of its leadership."
You're confusing civilian with innocent civilian. You're also confusing old law of armed conflict with current law of armed conflict. You're also confusing "civilians too close to war making capability" with "bombing the suburbs". You're confusing 1940s technology with 1990s technology. You're confusing allies via common enemy with allies who were the good guys.
As long as the "world economy" continues to rely on what we in the west call "fiat money" -- that is, money that is not backed by anything tangible, and is only "valued" by its relation to the money of other nations -- then the "world economy" will remain on a shaky basis, national economies will be vulnerable to other nations with malicious intent, and national economies will fail.
*sigh* For the 8000th time, fiat currencies are fine (see: History). Backed currencies have their own flaws, flaws that people *selling* gold won't talk about (see: History). Beck is a shill and/or madman, time to stop listening to him. Ron Paul isn't much better. Gold would be a terrible idea because we have very little of it. The IMF could crush a gold backed dollar on a whim. Silver would be better, but not by much. We have silver, but we'd still be vulnerable to other nations dumping supplies.
The problem lies in a currency that is controlled by private banks, rather than the people. The Greenback and colonial scrip were fantastic currencies, backed by nothing more than "you can pay your taxes with it and thereby avoid jail" and "control of supply and demand". Fractional reserve lending at interest is what's killing our money. It's wouldn't be enough to stop the gov't from borrowing money (the govenment does NOT print money). Every time someone takes a loan or swipes a credit card, new money is willed into existence by a private bank with a profit motive and no interest in the good of the people.
Piracy is armed robbery, kidnapping and murder at sea.
So unless Garry is patrolling the Horn of Africa in a PT boat this has nothing to do with piracy.
Some descriptivist halfwit will chime in "but but but langwijez chanj LOOL0LOLL0!"....
Allowing copyright owners to call copyright infringment piracy makes the trivial sound grave, and the grave seem trivial. When you misuse the word piracy you are contributing to the problem of our insane IP laws. You're letting them win.
Imagine if we started calling all Germans Nazis instead of Germans. A descriptivist would call this evolution of language, but it would be applying the label of a group that committed horrific crimes against humanity to people who did not. It would eventually rob the word Nazi of it horror and add that horror to the innocent.
Don't be confused by the pop culture tendency to call any machine that doesn't have a pilot inside it a robot. For instance, UAVs and the Battle Bots are not robots, they are piloted remotely like the RC cars you had as a kid.
There's a problem with this thinking in that ignorant people will point to OED to show that their misuse of a word or use on a non-word is correct. Let UrbanDictionary document mistakes and abuses. We ought to have ONE source that's sane and not enslaved to caprice and ignorance.
Historic starts with a consonant sound, so that should be "a historic".
I understand putting LOL and OMG because they are abbr. but putting in a word that is originally formed from a misspelling is a bit of an insult for the American language. I thought only correctly spelled words went into the dictionary?
1337 is not a mispelling of elite. It's a different word. It started as a respelling, but took on a different meaning. SEALs are elite, but they aren't 1337, unless they, as individuals, are video gamers and qualify as 1337.
Though i am with you on the degradation of dictionaries.
Dictionaries are usually written by a useless class of people called descriptivists who devoutly record every mistake as gospel in the "evolution" of language.
Case in point: OMG is an abbreviation (like CIA or FBI), not an acronym. LoL is an acronym because we can say it as if it were a word (as are SCUBA and NASA). We have TWO word because they have TWO different meanings.
i thought it was that primes have TWO divisors, one AND itself (itself being something other than one). One has one divisor, and does not me the AND requirement (or the two divisors requirement). Or that's what they told us in school in the 80s.
If you don't like something, don't give a +1 or a Like. In systems where there's like and dislike it quickly becomes a trolling ground where people try to be/do things that are disliked. IT REWARDS NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR. It also becomes like Digg where people go back and forth burying and raising stuff for whatever petty reason. Heck, look no further than/. for what happens when people can use voting systems to punish and silence. There's more abuse than proper use.
i wish more people understood this (and mod points for you). All the budget fighting is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The problem is what our money IS.
Yeah, but paranoia is so in these days, so stop throwing a wet blanket on their fun. Makes them feel important and they think it will impress the girl at the campus bookstore.
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Yes. My wife and i ditched cable and cancelled our BlockBuster delivery service and now watch only Hulu+. No regrets so far.
Hamlet dies. Real people generally die just the once.
Yeah! Popular websites suck! Because I don't like them neither should anyone else.
We need a new metaphor for "criticize" than violence. "Rachel Maddow eviscerated Ron Paul!" "Ron Paul put Rachel Maddow in a head lock, then decaptitated her with a spork!"
"It wasn't morally ambiguous to: Drop a nuke on Hiroshima killing 80,000 civilians? (USA)
Firebomb Dresden and kill 50,000 civilians? (UK, USA)
Conduct the largest mass rape in history? (Russia)
Ship 200,000 civilians to work camps in Siberia where almost all of them died? (Russia)
It must be nice to see the world in black and white where only the "other side" should have any doubts about the actions of its leadership."
You're confusing civilian with innocent civilian. You're also confusing old law of armed conflict with current law of armed conflict. You're also confusing "civilians too close to war making capability" with "bombing the suburbs". You're confusing 1940s technology with 1990s technology. You're confusing allies via common enemy with allies who were the good guys.
As long as the "world economy" continues to rely on what we in the west call "fiat money" -- that is, money that is not backed by anything tangible, and is only "valued" by its relation to the money of other nations -- then the "world economy" will remain on a shaky basis, national economies will be vulnerable to other nations with malicious intent, and national economies will fail.
*sigh* For the 8000th time, fiat currencies are fine (see: History). Backed currencies have their own flaws, flaws that people *selling* gold won't talk about (see: History). Beck is a shill and/or madman, time to stop listening to him. Ron Paul isn't much better. Gold would be a terrible idea because we have very little of it. The IMF could crush a gold backed dollar on a whim. Silver would be better, but not by much. We have silver, but we'd still be vulnerable to other nations dumping supplies.
The problem lies in a currency that is controlled by private banks, rather than the people. The Greenback and colonial scrip were fantastic currencies, backed by nothing more than "you can pay your taxes with it and thereby avoid jail" and "control of supply and demand". Fractional reserve lending at interest is what's killing our money. It's wouldn't be enough to stop the gov't from borrowing money (the govenment does NOT print money). Every time someone takes a loan or swipes a credit card, new money is willed into existence by a private bank with a profit motive and no interest in the good of the people.
Is it someone who 'high schools'?
Maybe subby meant high school students.
Piracy is armed robbery, kidnapping and murder at sea.
So unless Garry is patrolling the Horn of Africa in a PT boat this has nothing to do with piracy.
Some descriptivist halfwit will chime in "but but but langwijez chanj LOOL0LOLL0!"....
Allowing copyright owners to call copyright infringment piracy makes the trivial sound grave, and the grave seem trivial. When you misuse the word piracy you are contributing to the problem of our insane IP laws. You're letting them win.
Imagine if we started calling all Germans Nazis instead of Germans. A descriptivist would call this evolution of language, but it would be applying the label of a group that committed horrific crimes against humanity to people who did not. It would eventually rob the word Nazi of it horror and add that horror to the innocent.
Bullets make an impact. Death would have an effect or would affect a character.
Descriptivist excuses in 3... 2... 1....
Robots are, by definition, autonomous.
Don't be confused by the pop culture tendency to call any machine that doesn't have a pilot inside it a robot. For instance, UAVs and the Battle Bots are not robots, they are piloted remotely like the RC cars you had as a kid.
There's a problem with this thinking in that ignorant people will point to OED to show that their misuse of a word or use on a non-word is correct. Let UrbanDictionary document mistakes and abuses. We ought to have ONE source that's sane and not enslaved to caprice and ignorance.
Historic starts with a consonant sound, so that should be "a historic".
I understand putting LOL and OMG because they are abbr. but putting in a word that is originally formed from a misspelling is a bit of an insult for the American language. I thought only correctly spelled words went into the dictionary?
1337 is not a mispelling of elite. It's a different word. It started as a respelling, but took on a different meaning. SEALs are elite, but they aren't 1337, unless they, as individuals, are video gamers and qualify as 1337.
Though i am with you on the degradation of dictionaries.
Dictionaries are usually written by a useless class of people called descriptivists who devoutly record every mistake as gospel in the "evolution" of language.
Case in point: OMG is an abbreviation (like CIA or FBI), not an acronym. LoL is an acronym because we can say it as if it were a word (as are SCUBA and NASA). We have TWO word because they have TWO different meanings.
i thought it was that primes have TWO divisors, one AND itself (itself being something other than one). One has one divisor, and does not me the AND requirement (or the two divisors requirement). Or that's what they told us in school in the 80s.
If this force or particle exists, it's likely to have always been there. The word new seems inappropriate.
Copyright infringment is NOT piracy. Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery, kidnapping and murder.
The line is "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!".
You might like a movie from 28 years ago called TRON. That's what you described.
This must be some newly invented meaning for the word "new".
Stop, or I'll say stop again. Please, Mr. Criminal.
Think it through.
If you don't like something, don't give a +1 or a Like. In systems where there's like and dislike it quickly becomes a trolling ground where people try to be/do things that are disliked. IT REWARDS NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR. It also becomes like Digg where people go back and forth burying and raising stuff for whatever petty reason. Heck, look no further than /. for what happens when people can use voting systems to punish and silence. There's more abuse than proper use.
i wish more people understood this (and mod points for you). All the budget fighting is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The problem is what our money IS.
Either we will solve it, or it will solve us.
We don't have a food shortage so much as a people surplus.
Their number's what?
Yeah, but paranoia is so in these days, so stop throwing a wet blanket on their fun. Makes them feel important and they think it will impress the girl at the campus bookstore.