However you can not normally ignore your government. If you don't pay your taxes, they'll come after you. If you don't follow their rules, they'll come after you.
You can always move elsewhere.
Libertarians, in particular, can fuck off to Somalia and enjoy the experience of living in a society with a practically non-existent government.
Yes, but that's because we live in a world where there are strong and powerful governments. If the libertarian fringe had their way, all governments (even ones like the US or China) would end up having a few hundred paper dragons, rubber stamping the occasional decision made in the "real world" of the pure free market.
When an individual or a corporation decides it will not (or will) go somewhere, and government doesn't get in the way, that is an actual *use* of freedom.
Only if you beg the question that anything the government does is un-free and that anything that not-the-government does is therefore free.
If the government chose not to censor, then who is going to censor? Apple doesn't have the power to send anybody to jail.
"Send to jail" isn't part of the definition of censorship.
Anti-government types define censorship as "suppression of free speech by government" and then claim, with perfect circular reasoning, that anything not done by the government can't be censorship.
If I define freedom as "the ability to trade entirely without interference by government" then any form of socialism is un-free.
If I define happiness as "believing in God and worshipping His awesomeness" then all atheists are unhappy.
Hint from a libertarian: Big Corp exists because of Big Government. The reverse is also true.
Big Corporations exist because that is the inevitable result of capitalism. For instance, the phrase "economies of scale" isn't just some made-up MBA buzzword. Bigger companies make more money for their shareholders.
The quaint libertarian idea that without "government interference" you'd have a perfectly level playing field of rugged individuals competing one-to-one in a free market is just fantasy. An entrepreneur is always going to employ lawyers, bookkeepers, secretaries, janitors, warehouse managers, IT staff, salesmen and the rest rather than waste his time doing all that himself. Then he and a fellow entrepreneur will realise they only need one lawyer (et alia) between their two businesses, and so it snowballs.
I always felt that the Tom Baker years was among the best of Dr Who
I assume the Tom Baker years coincided with your childhood viewing of Dr Who. There is no other excuse than rose-tinted spectacles for believing he was any good.
The modern David Tennant/Matt Smith Doctors are a much more interesting blend of comedy, horror, scifi and drama.
There's some very bad acting in Blakes 7 as well (apparently via the casting couch)
*cough* Servalan *cough*.
I always got the impression she had stepped out of a dogy porn film. She was an adolescent wet dream, so her total lack of acting ability was easy to overlook at the time.
You have to admit that the final finale was brilliant, though. "You're going to bring us back for another season? Oh, I think not..."
Although it still has the possibility of Avon somehow ducking and letting the circular firing squad just shoot itself, but that's somewhat unlikely given the length of the barrage.
I'd say it is up there as a season finale with the First World War Blackadder.
It may be blasphemy, but I think the U.S. "The Office" is at least as good as the original, though both are funny. Heck, at worst it's "accumulatively" as good as the original since there are tons more episodes, leading to more laughs total.
That's not how comedy works. A remake with four times as many episodes but a quarter the number of laughs per episode is NOT as funny as the original.
I happen to agree about the US The Office being as good (in a different way) as the original, but not by the terms of your argument.
Doesn't matter when they schedule it, as the only way I'll be able to get it will be on ez.tv or TPB. 8)
That's really telling it to them. I'm sure that will inspire TV producers to make all sorts of new drama instead of churning out profitable reality shows.
If you're not a freeloader, you can also buy all 4 series on DVD. I suspect that's the source for these "archivally-minded individuals".
YMBNH. When I copy all my music and videos and torrent them, I am just setting them free. Information has feelings too. I'm like Joy Adamson with the lions.
I used Endnote for both my thesis (two thesis actually) and papers and it gave me a really hard time. A new bug which has been around for months now freezes MS word if you cut/paste citations or delete them.
Cue the "well don't use MS Word " helpful comments in 3...2...
Ron Paul is a racist, elitist, lying, scheming little weasel of a fuck-bucket. But I wouldn't worry about defending him on slashdot, he has plenty of supporters here, who think that "liberty" means never having to say you're sorry.
"No place in a world of free and thinking beings" - you could equally say that for any religion, Christianity, Judaism and Islam among them. At some point I hope that humanity will grow up and not need a father figure any more. That will be the indication of our adulthood. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening in my lifetime.
There's nothing wrong with father figures provided they're not imaginary.
Nope, It's == it is, its == belonging to it. If you're going to try to be a Grammar Nazi, at least be right.
The irony here is too strong for the human mind to bear. I feel like some poor space miner accidentally finding themselves stepping in a black hole of stupidity.
but this is the real world, people do other things while driving. as such everyone should be driving as if the person in front of them, behind them, and driving towards them is going to kill them. defensive driving is the most important thing IMO when it comes to driving.
It is the single most valuable lesson you get from riding a motorcycle. If as a 'biker you don't use defensive riding, you're unlikely to last very long unscathed.
Sure, but then there's the reverse. Last week, little Tommy took his dad's gun and went outside where little Joey was playing on the swings, pulled it out, and said "If you ever give me a wedgie again, I'll use this!"... and then he ran home and put it back. Now every day at school, little Tommy smiles and does a finger-gun at little Joey. Little Joey is terrified and pees his pants several times, but won't tell anyone why because he's afraid Tommy will shoot him. Doesn't seem like such an unreasonable rule now, does it?
well, to be fair, i see nothing wrong with what tommy did. If joey is harassing him, hes gotta do what hes gotta do. if that means instilling fear in his bully (because thats what joey is, in your story, a bully) to keep him from harassing him, good for tommy! Fuck joey, why do we care if joey is hurt by the actions of the person that he was being a bully to?
That is the completely bullshit line that wankburgers like Jon Katz used in his legendarily bad "hellmouth" series about Columbine. No, being bullied does not give you the right to cold-bloodedly murder your tormentors even assuming the bullying took place and was purely one-directional.
I would not be impressed with a car whose controls were all on one giant touchscreen, and indeed wouldn't drive one.
Satnav is fair enough, and maybe a clock. But if it has the air vent/AC controls, light switches, radio, music player or whatever then it is a bad idea.
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However you can not normally ignore your government. If you don't pay your taxes, they'll come after you. If you don't follow their rules, they'll come after you.
You can always move elsewhere.
Libertarians, in particular, can fuck off to Somalia and enjoy the experience of living in a society with a practically non-existent government.
Yes, I know that's not even fair.
Yes, but that's because we live in a world where there are strong and powerful governments. If the libertarian fringe had their way, all governments (even ones like the US or China) would end up having a few hundred paper dragons, rubber stamping the occasional decision made in the "real world" of the pure free market.
No corporation is sufficiently large to be confused with larger governments.
Not yet. But they're certainly sufficiently large to be confused with smaller governments.
When an individual or a corporation decides it will not (or will) go somewhere, and government doesn't get in the way, that is an actual *use* of freedom.
Only if you beg the question that anything the government does is un-free and that anything that not-the-government does is therefore free.
"Send to jail" isn't part of the definition of censorship.
Anti-government types define censorship as "suppression of free speech by government" and then claim, with perfect circular reasoning, that anything not done by the government can't be censorship.
If I define freedom as "the ability to trade entirely without interference by government" then any form of socialism is un-free.
If I define happiness as "believing in God and worshipping His awesomeness" then all atheists are unhappy.
And so on.
Hint from a libertarian: Big Corp exists because of Big Government. The reverse is also true.
Big Corporations exist because that is the inevitable result of capitalism. For instance, the phrase "economies of scale" isn't just some made-up MBA buzzword. Bigger companies make more money for their shareholders.
The quaint libertarian idea that without "government interference" you'd have a perfectly level playing field of rugged individuals competing one-to-one in a free market is just fantasy. An entrepreneur is always going to employ lawyers, bookkeepers, secretaries, janitors, warehouse managers, IT staff, salesmen and the rest rather than waste his time doing all that himself. Then he and a fellow entrepreneur will realise they only need one lawyer (et alia) between their two businesses, and so it snowballs.
[mumbles something about 4 boxes] since soap ballot and jury ain't working, i think we all know whats left
Nuking them from orbit? Perhaps a bit harsh.
It was not a financial success because, interestingly, people in the US thought it was a commie propaganda movie
Nothing surprises me any longer about a country that could elect Ronald Regan and George W Bush as heads of State.
I always felt that the Tom Baker years was among the best of Dr Who
I assume the Tom Baker years coincided with your childhood viewing of Dr Who. There is no other excuse than rose-tinted spectacles for believing he was any good.
The modern David Tennant/Matt Smith Doctors are a much more interesting blend of comedy, horror, scifi and drama.
I'll still take Tom Baker or Peter Davison over Matt Smith or David Tenant any day of the week.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Yours happens to be tragically wrong.
I think we all know why, unless we're rightwing nutjobs.
There's some very bad acting in Blakes 7 as well (apparently via the casting couch)
*cough* Servalan *cough*.
I always got the impression she had stepped out of a dogy porn film. She was an adolescent wet dream, so her total lack of acting ability was easy to overlook at the time.
You have to admit that the final finale was brilliant, though. "You're going to bring us back for another season? Oh, I think not..."
Although it still has the possibility of Avon somehow ducking and letting the circular firing squad just shoot itself, but that's somewhat unlikely given the length of the barrage.
I'd say it is up there as a season finale with the First World War Blackadder.
It may be blasphemy, but I think the U.S. "The Office" is at least as good as the original, though both are funny. Heck, at worst it's "accumulatively" as good as the original since there are tons more episodes, leading to more laughs total.
That's not how comedy works. A remake with four times as many episodes but a quarter the number of laughs per episode is NOT as funny as the original.
I happen to agree about the US The Office being as good (in a different way) as the original, but not by the terms of your argument.
Doesn't matter when they schedule it, as the only way I'll be able to get it will be on ez.tv or TPB. 8)
That's really telling it to them. I'm sure that will inspire TV producers to make all sorts of new drama instead of churning out profitable reality shows.
I just saw him on Celebrity Pointless a few days ago and he was fine.
If you're not a freeloader, you can also buy all 4 series on DVD. I suspect that's the source for these "archivally-minded individuals".
YMBNH. When I copy all my music and videos and torrent them, I am just setting them free. Information has feelings too. I'm like Joy Adamson with the lions.
I used Endnote for both my thesis (two thesis actually) and papers and it gave me a really hard time. A new bug which has been around for months now freezes MS word if you cut/paste citations or delete them.
Cue the "well don't use MS Word " helpful comments in 3...2...
Apart, of course, from everything by Robert A Heinlein, that must be the most over-rated science fiction book ever.
Ron Paul is a racist, elitist, lying, scheming little weasel of a fuck-bucket. But I wouldn't worry about defending him on slashdot, he has plenty of supporters here, who think that "liberty" means never having to say you're sorry.
"No place in a world of free and thinking beings" - you could equally say that for any religion, Christianity, Judaism and Islam among them. At some point I hope that humanity will grow up and not need a father figure any more. That will be the indication of our adulthood. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening in my lifetime.
There's nothing wrong with father figures provided they're not imaginary.
Nope, It's == it is, its == belonging to it. If you're going to try to be a Grammar Nazi, at least be right.
The irony here is too strong for the human mind to bear. I feel like some poor space miner accidentally finding themselves stepping in a black hole of stupidity.
but this is the real world, people do other things while driving. as such everyone should be driving as if the person in front of them, behind them, and driving towards them is going to kill them. defensive driving is the most important thing IMO when it comes to driving.
It is the single most valuable lesson you get from riding a motorcycle. If as a 'biker you don't use defensive riding, you're unlikely to last very long unscathed.
Sure, but then there's the reverse. Last week, little Tommy took his dad's gun and went outside where little Joey was playing on the swings, pulled it out, and said "If you ever give me a wedgie again, I'll use this!" ... and then he ran home and put it back. Now every day at school, little Tommy smiles and does a finger-gun at little Joey. Little Joey is terrified and pees his pants several times, but won't tell anyone why because he's afraid Tommy will shoot him. Doesn't seem like such an unreasonable rule now, does it?
well, to be fair, i see nothing wrong with what tommy did. If joey is harassing him, hes gotta do what hes gotta do. if that means instilling fear in his bully (because thats what joey is, in your story, a bully) to keep him from harassing him, good for tommy! Fuck joey, why do we care if joey is hurt by the actions of the person that he was being a bully to?
That is the completely bullshit line that wankburgers like Jon Katz used in his legendarily bad "hellmouth" series about Columbine. No, being bullied does not give you the right to cold-bloodedly murder your tormentors even assuming the bullying took place and was purely one-directional.
Satnav is fair enough, and maybe a clock. But if it has the air vent/AC controls, light switches, radio, music player or whatever then it is a bad idea.