"...You want to stop being treated like criminals? Well then stop acting like them. With each act of your "non violent protest" you only prove that the threat of these penalities is a non-factor in people's decisions to pirate content online. As a result, we only get stiffer penalties and more draconian laws in an effort by the industry to add a larger sum to the left hand column of the subconscious cost/benefit analysis that occurs within the average person's mind before bootlegging content online..."
I think you've forgotten the lessons of non-violent protest: you don't stop your protest because the power in question has increased the severity of the punishment; you continue to break the unjust law and bear the punishment in the eyes of the conscious world and hope to see the realization in the eyes of the Citizen. Soon, enough people are going to awake and see that these people in prison don't deserve to be there.
"...Strings have not been observed. There is nothing that predicts their existence outside of emotional physicists. They do not exist. QED..."
Just because something hasn't been observed by our paltry technological methods doesn't mean it doesn't exist (this includes the Higgs Boson, gravitons, dark matter, etc.). Seems to me your proof and your attitude leans more towards the pedantic and the dogmatic rather than a true scientific mindset. Science always has an open mind; that's rule number one. That supercedes, and is the basis for, the scientifc method.
"...And if I'm not mistaken, string theory has yet to predict or even support a single observation that hasn't already been done by another, largely simpler, theory...."
Really? And which theory is that? (Be careful here).
And you're correct; string theory hasn't been supported by any observations of its predictive power, mainly because the basis of the theory, the strings, are far too small to be measured. Still, seems extreme to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The maths seem to be interesting and solve some problems physicists have with our current physical theories, so I think string theory will evolve until it does predict something that can be observed and then it can be put to the real test.
Haha, well it's better to be a fucknut posting on slashdot that to be a fucknut parent of a child (not necessarily saying you are one); one carries consequences and one doesn't. That's only my opinion, but I think I can get a lot of support on this one.
And you missed my point; you're very happy that the FCC is cracking down on perverse programming so that this government agency can protect your children for you, but my point is that it's your responsibility as a parent, not society's, to raise and protect your child. There is going to be perversion on television; the very existence of the FCC itself should sound the alarm that maybe television isn't the best place for a young child, especially not until you teach them and prepare them for what they are probably going to see, both on television and in real life, at some point in their existence. Knowledge and education is one of the best protections against the unexpected.
And feel free to demand all the laws you want. Some people think that it is powerhungry dictators and bomb-throwing anarchists who destroy democracies, but I think it is parents who demand that the government protect their children at all costs while at the same time relinquishing their own parental responsibilities who do more damage to free socieites. Yeah, that means you.
"...So it's my job as a father to know and watch what my children is exposed to..."
Um, yeah. You're a parent, you chose to bring a life into the world, you made a choice to accept the responsibility of rearing a child. That includes, among other things, knowing what your child is exposed to and helping him/her be prepared for such things. If you're going to let Spongebob Squarepants raise your child and then complain when your children are exposed to something that you have not prepared them for, (such as sex and violence, you know, being human), then you, IMO, don't deserve to be a parent. But anyone can be a parent, it's not based on merit. Funny how you have to have a license to drive a car, but any fucknut can have children.
I tremble in ecstatic anticipation of how much this film will to suck. I laugh in joy and dance at the thought of the tarnishment of the hack who was D. Adams and his precious magnum opus. I cannot wait for this piece of shit to drop upon the waiting fans, mouths open, eyes blazing with hope. I will laugh and sing and feel free.
There are no words for the joy that courses within me.
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Is she cute?
Sorry, would you mind speaking english! :)
When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did.
"...And while your opinion about Buddhism is duly noted, I kind of don't care. .."
Wow, good comeback! I'm going to store that one away for future use. You, Sir, are a master of wit and words.
Hehe; I hear Klingons are dangerously unpredictable too.
[kirk] I......HAVE HAD......ENOUGH OF........YOU!!!!!!! [/kirk]
Way to go, Slashdot.
Rather: Neal, hire an editor.
Someone is obviously not wearing their tinfoil hat.
"...Makes you wonder what Homer would do to Ned with this thing..."
No, no it really doesn't.
I think you've forgotten the lessons of non-violent protest: you don't stop your protest because the power in question has increased the severity of the punishment; you continue to break the unjust law and bear the punishment in the eyes of the conscious world and hope to see the realization in the eyes of the Citizen. Soon, enough people are going to awake and see that these people in prison don't deserve to be there.
That's revolution. Time will tell who prevails.
"...Strings have not been observed. There is nothing that predicts their existence outside of emotional physicists. They do not exist. QED..." Just because something hasn't been observed by our paltry technological methods doesn't mean it doesn't exist (this includes the Higgs Boson, gravitons, dark matter, etc.). Seems to me your proof and your attitude leans more towards the pedantic and the dogmatic rather than a true scientific mindset. Science always has an open mind; that's rule number one. That supercedes, and is the basis for, the scientifc method.
"...And if I'm not mistaken, string theory has yet to predict or even support a single observation that hasn't already been done by another, largely simpler, theory. ..."
Really? And which theory is that? (Be careful here).
And you're correct; string theory hasn't been supported by any observations of its predictive power, mainly because the basis of the theory, the strings, are far too small to be measured. Still, seems extreme to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The maths seem to be interesting and solve some problems physicists have with our current physical theories, so I think string theory will evolve until it does predict something that can be observed and then it can be put to the real test.
And you missed my point; you're very happy that the FCC is cracking down on perverse programming so that this government agency can protect your children for you, but my point is that it's your responsibility as a parent, not society's, to raise and protect your child. There is going to be perversion on television; the very existence of the FCC itself should sound the alarm that maybe television isn't the best place for a young child, especially not until you teach them and prepare them for what they are probably going to see, both on television and in real life, at some point in their existence. Knowledge and education is one of the best protections against the unexpected.
And feel free to demand all the laws you want. Some people think that it is powerhungry dictators and bomb-throwing anarchists who destroy democracies, but I think it is parents who demand that the government protect their children at all costs while at the same time relinquishing their own parental responsibilities who do more damage to free socieites. Yeah, that means you.
"...So it's my job as a father to know and watch what my children is exposed to..."
Um, yeah. You're a parent, you chose to bring a life into the world, you made a choice to accept the responsibility of rearing a child. That includes, among other things, knowing what your child is exposed to and helping him/her be prepared for such things. If you're going to let Spongebob Squarepants raise your child and then complain when your children are exposed to something that you have not prepared them for, (such as sex and violence, you know, being human), then you, IMO, don't deserve to be a parent. But anyone can be a parent, it's not based on merit. Funny how you have to have a license to drive a car, but any fucknut can have children.
From the outside, it seems the system is rife with jusrisdictional and definitional issues.
Welcome to Amerika.
There are no words for the joy that courses within me.
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