here is the story
You are confused about how porn is protected, porn is protected under free speech as long as it doesn't depict anything illegal(child sex etc) and as long as it is not marketed towards children. In this case, it clearly was marketed towards children because not many adults look for their porn by typing in mis-spellings of disney words.....
Heh, well there was a ruling a while back against a guy who made porn sites with domains that were common mis-spellings of Disney names. He got into trouble, like he should have, because most of the people spelling Disney names wrong are kids....
That being said, i don't agree with this decision, because while a pro-gay site may be offensive to Falwell's followers, they are adults(though if they are looking for Falwell's webiste and can't spell his name, one has to question their intelligence....) and can simply turn off the page. However, marketing porn to kids is a different story.
Faulty analogy alert!
Guess what, I have a right to be safe from other individuals who are out to harm me, you DON'T have a right to drive. Most states have laws requiring you to either have proof that you can afford a lawsuit or buy car insurance. Get you and your tinfoil hat buddies together and pool your money to start your own insurance company. Or just don't drive a car, bike to work, ride a bus/train.
It seems a lot of people on here get mad whenever the government starts to get overbearing, but then these same people want the government to step in whenever they see "abuse" by a private company who isn't a monopoly. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
So let me get this straight, you seem very upset about "big government" mandating you have car insurance, but you want government to stop car insurance companies to not be able to give customers discounts who VOLUNTEER to have stuff monitored on their car.......
This makes no sense, you seem mad about government regulation, but you want to answer it with, government regulation!
You can't have both......
Um, for governments you can say that, but guess what, car insurance is privately owned, if you don't like it, don't go with that company, siimple as that. Let them know you don't like it, if they lose more revenue than they stand to gain,
Heh, the interesting thing about Japan is that they fucked up the business side really bad, and to this day have not really done much to fix it. They just tried to get the government to spend their way out of recession by building lots of "roads to nowhere" and severe protectionism. The Japanese national debt is 140% of their GDP, the US is only at about 60%, though a key difference is that in japan the debt is almost all domestically held... Koizumi promised to reform, and has had some success, but not nearly enough to make a lasting impact. Japan still has some of the most interesting technology in the world(such as in consumer electronics, robotics, and nuclear research), but their ecnomy is still suffering from the "zombie corporations", corporations who have no hope of ever turning a profit and are only kept alive by continued loans which they will never be able to repay, despite the fact that the nominal interest rate in Japan is 0%. This in turns sucks all the available loans away from small businesses who might be able to grow and expand.
Lesson learned: if you can't manage your economy, you are fucked no matter how many engineers you have, and, as it seems the US will soon learn, if you don't have anybody making anything(engineering, manufacturing), you are fucked. It's a hard balance, but it's important.
Also note: China is on the EXACT same path as Japan, right down to the bad loans. The only difference is that China's population is 10x that of Japan.....
The reason why the US is loosing jobs has more to do with incredibly bad, corporate sponsored trade deals(that involve the US borrowing $500 Billion/year to prop up those bad trade deals--and bad US tax policy that make productive individuals bear the costs imposed by corporate welfare cases.
Heh, that is what makes fighting outsourcing by starting your own business even harder. Small businesses who provide a very large number of the jobs in this country get taxed much more than multi-billion dollar corporations. Why? Becuase corporations can afford lobbyists and political kickbacks. Of course the tax breaks they get don't go towards giving US citizens who pay the bills good jobs, they go to the executive board while they lay people off claiming that they need to be more "competive". I understand the need to be competetive, and you can't just shut the country up, but how is giving rich people even more money that you and I paid for helping to make us any more competitive?
Small businesses do have group lobbyists, but they don't have nearly the clout that huge corporations do.
We need to get money out of politics, which is why you should vote Gallagher in 04!
In the screenshots, such as this the frogs are talking in Chinese, not Japanese...
Its very doubtful there was an official version....maybe a hacked Chinese version?
My chinese is a bit rusty and the screen is low res, so I can't make out the last character, but the first four are:
jiegou shih ni
Which means something about your results, I guess the last character is kind of important!
MS patches before have caused considerable slowdown and possible icompatabilities before(that isn't to say they are the only ones with bad patches). If your computer slows down or has a problem, it's a minor inconvience, imagine what would happend if a life support machine went down. There is no way that MS can test for every conceivable setup, they just try to get the most general problem down and rely on others to test them on their systems.
The problem is using an operating system that was meant for the home/server for a much different purpose, in this case running life support machines. The things were built 8 years ago, but even then there were OSs made for embedded systems. Now there is real-time embedded linux. While I'm not going to say it's perfect, it has what is needed and nothing more
The more features you add to a system, the more places you have to exploit it. Minimalism in design is always key:P
So Hrathgar carries Hrunting into a bar. The bartender asks him "Why the long face", and Hrathgar cuts his head off with Hrunting singing, "A hrunting we will go, a hrunting we will go!" *Rimshot
Pointless bicycle lock story: At my college(Penn State) there are a lot of bikes, though usually there are not very many problems with security. However, I saw something very funny when I walked past a bike rack: the owner of the bike chained the front wheel of the bike to the rack, however by the time I got there, an enterprising thief had stolen everything but the front wheel. I wonder if lock warranties cover that:P
(I'm talking about the card itself, not the 2TB, as the headline is misleading), this sounds like an attempt to get around having to pay foriegn firms a licensing fee, much like EDVD, which is not used outside China. I will believe this when I see it, till then I'll remain skeptical. It could just be used as a way to leverage a lower licensing fee from SD cards.
Heh, doubtful. The movie industry does not like China. China invented it's own DVD standard, but nobody uses it. The next DVD standards will likely come from Japan again.
Newsflash: Bill Clinton is not running for president!
Guess what, a man does not stand for his entire party.
Yes Clinton did a lot for the Chinese, and I don't really like him for that. But guess what, there is something in the Democratic party that seems to be missing from the neo-conservative wing of the Republican party: independent thought.
I would like to address another issue, since you brought up flip-flops, lets talk about your boy Bush for a second, shall we:
Steel tariffs: Initially for them, but when he saw he could get into hot water in swing states such as Florida for them, he became against the tariffs.
Department of Homeland Security: Initially for it, but when he saw that it was going to be popular, first he tried to sabotage it by putting in some anti-labor provisions so the democrats would vote it down. Didn't work out the way he thought, he all of a sudden became for it.
9/11 commision: Initially against it, then when he saw that it was politically popular, embraced it.
During the campaign and in his early presidency he was all about touting how wonderful Kenny-boy was and how de-regulation would cause untold prosperity in this country. Then of course after Enron went bust, he was all about touting corporate responsibility, and the need for a stronger SEC.(is that flip-flops I hear?)
Then there was his promise to fund "No child left behind", then decided not to. hmmmm.....sounds like W. came down on BOTH sides of that issue as well.
First our reason to go to war was that "Saddam was an immediate threat", then after it was found out that the intelligence was greatly exagerrated, if not all together faked, Bush decided that this was a war to liberate the Iraqi people, which leads me to my all time favorite Bush flip-flop:
During the 2000 campaign he said that the United States military should never be used to go on nation building excersises. I think the flip-flop is pretty evident in that one.
So basically on everything but taxes, I don't know where W. stands. Maybe you should vote for Nader because everyone knows where he stands.
Bush is not a moderate, he is not a conservative, it's really new waters were he is at.
How amazingly childish. Seriously, grow up, names like "dumbocrats" are not likely to win anyone to your side. I enjoy engaging in political debates, but not with people who have the emotional level of a 7 year old. Grow up. You just repeated a bunch of rhetoric without offering anything new or insightful. You say that democrats aren't even human, hardy har har.
When you are a big boy come back and maybe we can talk.
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You are confused about how porn is protected, porn is protected under free speech as long as it doesn't depict anything illegal(child sex etc) and as long as it is not marketed towards children. In this case, it clearly was marketed towards children because not many adults look for their porn by typing in mis-spellings of disney words.....
that a simple google search for "Fallwell" will recommend that you try "Falwell" instead. Jeez people......
Heh, well there was a ruling a while back against a guy who made porn sites with domains that were common mis-spellings of Disney names. He got into trouble, like he should have, because most of the people spelling Disney names wrong are kids....
That being said, i don't agree with this decision, because while a pro-gay site may be offensive to Falwell's followers, they are adults(though if they are looking for Falwell's webiste and can't spell his name, one has to question their intelligence....) and can simply turn off the page. However, marketing porn to kids is a different story.
being able to project porn onto boobs! The possibilities are limitless
Faulty analogy alert!
Guess what, I have a right to be safe from other individuals who are out to harm me, you DON'T have a right to drive. Most states have laws requiring you to either have proof that you can afford a lawsuit or buy car insurance. Get you and your tinfoil hat buddies together and pool your money to start your own insurance company. Or just don't drive a car, bike to work, ride a bus/train.
It seems a lot of people on here get mad whenever the government starts to get overbearing, but then these same people want the government to step in whenever they see "abuse" by a private company who isn't a monopoly. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
So let me get this straight, you seem very upset about "big government" mandating you have car insurance, but you want government to stop car insurance companies to not be able to give customers discounts who VOLUNTEER to have stuff monitored on their car.......
This makes no sense, you seem mad about government regulation, but you want to answer it with, government regulation!
You can't have both......
Um, for governments you can say that, but guess what, car insurance is privately owned, if you don't like it, don't go with that company, siimple as that. Let them know you don't like it, if they lose more revenue than they stand to gain,
Heh, the interesting thing about Japan is that they fucked up the business side really bad, and to this day have not really done much to fix it. They just tried to get the government to spend their way out of recession by building lots of "roads to nowhere" and severe protectionism. The Japanese national debt is 140% of their GDP, the US is only at about 60%, though a key difference is that in japan the debt is almost all domestically held... Koizumi promised to reform, and has had some success, but not nearly enough to make a lasting impact. Japan still has some of the most interesting technology in the world(such as in consumer electronics, robotics, and nuclear research), but their ecnomy is still suffering from the "zombie corporations", corporations who have no hope of ever turning a profit and are only kept alive by continued loans which they will never be able to repay, despite the fact that the nominal interest rate in Japan is 0%. This in turns sucks all the available loans away from small businesses who might be able to grow and expand.
Lesson learned: if you can't manage your economy, you are fucked no matter how many engineers you have, and, as it seems the US will soon learn, if you don't have anybody making anything(engineering, manufacturing), you are fucked. It's a hard balance, but it's important.
Also note: China is on the EXACT same path as Japan, right down to the bad loans. The only difference is that China's population is 10x that of Japan.....
The reason why the US is loosing jobs has more to do with incredibly bad, corporate sponsored trade deals(that involve the US borrowing $500 Billion/year to prop up those bad trade deals--and bad US tax policy that make productive individuals bear the costs imposed by corporate welfare cases.
Heh, that is what makes fighting outsourcing by starting your own business even harder. Small businesses who provide a very large number of the jobs in this country get taxed much more than multi-billion dollar corporations. Why? Becuase corporations can afford lobbyists and political kickbacks. Of course the tax breaks they get don't go towards giving US citizens who pay the bills good jobs, they go to the executive board while they lay people off claiming that they need to be more "competive". I understand the need to be competetive, and you can't just shut the country up, but how is giving rich people even more money that you and I paid for helping to make us any more competitive?
Small businesses do have group lobbyists, but they don't have nearly the clout that huge corporations do.
We need to get money out of politics, which is why you should vote Gallagher in 04!
In the screenshots, such as this the frogs are talking in Chinese, not Japanese...
Its very doubtful there was an official version....maybe a hacked Chinese version?
My chinese is a bit rusty and the screen is low res, so I can't make out the last character, but the first four are:
jiegou shih ni
Which means something about your results, I guess the last character is kind of important!
FP!
Karma to burn, Gallagher for prez in 2k4!
MS patches before have caused considerable slowdown and possible icompatabilities before(that isn't to say they are the only ones with bad patches). If your computer slows down or has a problem, it's a minor inconvience, imagine what would happend if a life support machine went down. There is no way that MS can test for every conceivable setup, they just try to get the most general problem down and rely on others to test them on their systems. :P
The problem is using an operating system that was meant for the home/server for a much different purpose, in this case running life support machines. The things were built 8 years ago, but even then there were OSs made for embedded systems. Now there is real-time embedded linux. While I'm not going to say it's perfect, it has what is needed and nothing more
The more features you add to a system, the more places you have to exploit it. Minimalism in design is always key
Though oddly enough, in a search for Smoove B a site that links to the onion itself is at the bottom of the first page....
So Hrathgar carries Hrunting into a bar. The bartender asks him "Why the long face", and Hrathgar cuts his head off with Hrunting singing, "A hrunting we will go, a hrunting we will go!"
*Rimshot
will they sue The Onion for managing to be the first result for a google search for the?
Pointless bicycle lock story: At my college(Penn State) there are a lot of bikes, though usually there are not very many problems with security. However, I saw something very funny when I walked past a bike rack: the owner of the bike chained the front wheel of the bike to the rack, however by the time I got there, an enterprising thief had stolen everything but the front wheel. I wonder if lock warranties cover that :P
(I'm talking about the card itself, not the 2TB, as the headline is misleading), this sounds like an attempt to get around having to pay foriegn firms a licensing fee, much like EDVD, which is not used outside China. I will believe this when I see it, till then I'll remain skeptical. It could just be used as a way to leverage a lower licensing fee from SD cards.
we must vote for Gallagher(the comic) in 04! See sig for more info!
Yay karma burn!
Off-topic but interesting nonetheless, the top listing for a search of "the" on google yields the onion. Hooray!
My prediction: lynx will make a comeback and overtake them all!
boycott ZDnet India!
Heh, doubtful. The movie industry does not like China. China invented it's own DVD standard, but nobody uses it. The next DVD standards will likely come from Japan again.
Newsflash: Bill Clinton is not running for president!
Guess what, a man does not stand for his entire party.
Yes Clinton did a lot for the Chinese, and I don't really like him for that. But guess what, there is something in the Democratic party that seems to be missing from the neo-conservative wing of the Republican party: independent thought.
I would like to address another issue, since you brought up flip-flops, lets talk about your boy Bush for a second, shall we:
Steel tariffs: Initially for them, but when he saw he could get into hot water in swing states such as Florida for them, he became against the tariffs.
Department of Homeland Security: Initially for it, but when he saw that it was going to be popular, first he tried to sabotage it by putting in some anti-labor provisions so the democrats would vote it down. Didn't work out the way he thought, he all of a sudden became for it.
9/11 commision: Initially against it, then when he saw that it was politically popular, embraced it.
During the campaign and in his early presidency he was all about touting how wonderful Kenny-boy was and how de-regulation would cause untold prosperity in this country. Then of course after Enron went bust, he was all about touting corporate responsibility, and the need for a stronger SEC.(is that flip-flops I hear?)
Then there was his promise to fund "No child left behind", then decided not to. hmmmm.....sounds like W. came down on BOTH sides of that issue as well.
First our reason to go to war was that "Saddam was an immediate threat", then after it was found out that the intelligence was greatly exagerrated, if not all together faked, Bush decided that this was a war to liberate the Iraqi people, which leads me to my all time favorite Bush flip-flop:
During the 2000 campaign he said that the United States military should never be used to go on nation building excersises. I think the flip-flop is pretty evident in that one.
So basically on everything but taxes, I don't know where W. stands. Maybe you should vote for Nader because everyone knows where he stands.
Bush is not a moderate, he is not a conservative, it's really new waters were he is at.
How amazingly childish. Seriously, grow up, names like "dumbocrats" are not likely to win anyone to your side. I enjoy engaging in political debates, but not with people who have the emotional level of a 7 year old. Grow up. You just repeated a bunch of rhetoric without offering anything new or insightful. You say that democrats aren't even human, hardy har har.
When you are a big boy come back and maybe we can talk.