Of course he's awesome. He's awesome because God made him that way. And God clearly made him to test our faith. So he's awesomely like Satan, really.
Satan is awesome. Dude invented Rock Music. Knows how to party. Sure he invented marijuana also, after all, if God created it, why is considered an illegal drug?
When I was a child, I watched a lot of PBS... NOVA and other science shows. I found an interest in dinosaurs, evolution, archaeology and lots of things like this. By the time I was 10, I thought God was a stupid idea.
Just put more quality educational programs back on the air and teach the parents it's okay to be lazy.
(Caveat: I was pre-video-game era... it doesn't quite apply the same any longer.)
hmm, when i was a kid, i was forced to go to church. So when i was 15, i decided that the church as crazy, religion was stupid, and I did not want to be like these people. So I stopped getting involved, and 5 months later, I left home. I watched educational TV growing up, in fact, my church didn't try to tell us that the earth was only 6000 years old.
Why did I choose not to believe in God or Religion? Because I could tell that the people who were in charge of the church, the pastors, the deacons, the officials, didn't believe it themselves. They used religion to get rich. To spread their message. It had nothing to do with saving people, it had all to do with getting as many people as they could to the church and getting those people to give "tithes and offerings". They spend at least 20 mins each sermon going over how God gives to those who give, 100%, and shit like that. I got fed up with it.
Sad part is, people are still sheep, and still follow losers like the pastor at the church i went to (Christian Faith Center in Seattle, Pastor Casey Treat). An old druggy who "found" god, started a church and is rich as all fuck for it. The American Dream I guess.
First I thought this article was cool, but it's not, so i'm going to try to spice it up.
When I was 16 and taking drivers ed, i was in a position in my life where I either had to practice on a huge tank of a car (automatic) or drive my sisters VW Bug (stick). Well, my sister always stressed out and yelled at me, and the owner of the other car was always busy, so i didn't do too much practicing of my driving. So, just before the test, i had a dream where I was driving a stick, and it was a stress free enviroment and I was seeing how it went. How it felt to let the clutch out, switch the gear, etc.
Anyways, after that, I didn't have a problem driving stick shifts anymore. Ya, of course, someone might point out that I learned how to drive the stick in RL, but got the necessary practice in my dreams. So fuck you, I beat ya to it.
I'm hanging at your house. I see you have a copy of Big Black Atomizer CD. I pick the CD up, and:
1. I put the CD in my pocket, leave your house with it.
2. I put the CD in your computer, copy it to a USB Drive. I then leave your house without the CD, but a copy of it on my USB Drive.
Okay, folks. One of the above is stealing. The other isn't. Can you guess which one?
Yes, folks. #1 is stealing, since I deprived you of something you owned. Example #2 isn't stealing, i made a copy of it. Now, did i keep the record companies from making any money? That is debatable. Would i have bought that CD new? Would I have bought that CD used? If i bought it used, then the Music Industry doesn't get any money, only the used music industry does. And the CD I made a copy of was used, since it was owned by a person and not in the store. You understand? If me making a copy of the CD is considered "stealing" profit/revnue from the music corps, then Used Music Stores are doing some big time stealing.
I'm still waiting for my fucking Fiber Optics that was promised in the 1990's when the Gov gave permission to the phone companies to raise their prices because they are going to build a fiber optics network for their customers. http://www.newnetworks.com/BroadbandScandalIntro.htm
So, now I need to pay a tax to maybe get a better internet connection, even though I live in the fucking heart of Seattle? What, thru one of my 2 choices, Comcast and Centurylink? Really?
Will this tax keep them from sending me notices about how much bandwidth i use? Will this tax keep the internet free from corporate interests? Will this tax keep the net neutral? Will any of this tax go to the overbudgeted military?
Pretty sure I'm going to say, Fuck you, give me what I was paid for in the 90's, and NO NEW TAXES!!!!
I don't know about most you peeps, but i'm not getting out of my 60's. I have no desire to be old.
I come from a family that lives well into the 80's, and have decent health, but screw getting that old.
Even if they made advancements where I don't have poop in a diaper, I'm just not down.
I am not getting out of my 80's, short of putting my brain in some robotic/cyborg/android body. That would be okay.
Then again, i do not have stupid religious beliefs about an afterlife. Much like everything else on this earth, when I die, i will get recycled back into the universe. Works for me.
Anyways, i got about 20 years left, so i'm going to enjoy my time i got left smoking this weed, and playing video games. (yes, my goals and needs are simple).
When i die, my stuff will be easy access ('cept for for the porn, it's truecrypted, some things family doesn't need access to). Will they want it? I doubt it. But don't care. I will be dead.
So whatever happens after i die happens. I will be dead.
So, they gave the BBC permission to snoop on criminals then are surprised to find that the BBC abuses the privilege? Seriously? Those who do NOT learn from history are doomed to repeat history.
Man can NOT have unchecked power. At all. When you give someone power, you need to have checks and balances to keep that person from abusing that power, otherwise the power will get abused.
And we keep doing this over and over through out history. Will we ever learn?
Bullshit: Please cite how your taxes have "shot-up" since Obama took office. Is it because you have a job now, and thus are paying more in taxes than you were while unemployed during the Bush administration that makes you believe your taxes have "shot up?"
I don't pay taxes (well, i pay local shopping taxes), but since Obama has been in office, the price of food has gone up. Damn it, tuna was 75 cents a can, and now i have to pay $1.09? I used to be able to buy a 3lb thing of ground beef for $5, now it's almost $9.
"He looks foreign" in the latter part of the article, by the TSA agent asking for permission to put him through the wringer.
Did you happen to miss that?
Damn straight he looked foreign, if you aren't a Native American, then yes, you look foreign in this wonderful melting pot of a nation we call the United States of America.
That won't necessarily save you. They can still take money right out of your bank account or right out of your CC because you 'preauthorized' them to do so when you signed up. Barring that, they might just set your Paypal account to the negatives and send you to collections.
Get a 2nt account, make that your paypal account. When any money in put in the paypal account, move it immediately to your main account. They then can lock your account, but if you don't keep money in it, then it's not going to affect you much.
I recall on my//c I could type "VERIFY" (with no filename, or with no DOS booted) and it would return
COPYRIGHT (C) 1984 APPLE COMPUTER (beep!)
I heard a rumor, I'm not sure if it was urban legend or real, that some company pirated apple's rom into their apple 2 clone and it went to court. And in court, they had brought in a clone computer that was "not infringing" and the prosecution asked them to type "VERIFY" and hit return. The message that displayed on their machine closed the case.
Anyone know if that really happened?
Well, I got an Apple IIe, IIc, and IIgs, and a lazer 128 (IIc clone) and I'm way to lazy to hook them up and check it out.
Okay, read the article, doesn't actually say what he means by "app". Seems to me he is throwing a buzz word there.
A book is a book. Unless it's get made into a movie, then it's a script.
An app is a program. A book isn't a program, but an ebook needs a program. So, is this app the book with it's own reader? How fucking novel. (notice the play on the word novel).
.. I think quantity needed to be more important than quality for this project. Sure, they need to have a minimum standard of quality, but the idea was to free as much music as possible....
no, you are wrong.
Quality is important, because we can get the quality stuff for free. Sure, it might be copyrighted, but a lot of people don't give a damn about the copyright laws as they are being used by the Music and Movie industries. While I applaud what Musopen is doing, I believe they are hurting themselves by having crappy quality recordings in the collection.
This day and age, when you can get anything that can be digitalized for free, why the hell do you want to compete with good quality stuff with crappy quality stuff? Seriously, wtf?
Why do I want to listen to Bach with bad sound, errors, coughs and tape recording noise when I can listen to it without those problems?
The Beethoven's fifth you linked to is performed by a small town college orchestra, not the Musopen Symphony Orchestra (really the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, but I don't know if Musopen are allowed to say that in advertising!). Anyone can contribute to Musopen - you'll even find midi keyboard renditions there. It's better than nothing, is Musopen's philosophy.
During the Kickstarter, Aaron Dunn wrote to us and we discussed extensively whether we should get a few works by a "big name" orchestra, or several from a less-known one. We did blind listening tests, too.
You still have the option to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations. In fact, you probably will always have to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations, the way copyrights are being extended... but now you also have the option of hearing some solid renditions of Brahms symphonies by a professional Czech orchestra, for free. For ever.
I can get the stuff, without errors, for free. In fact, I have a few diffferent Beethoven's works on my computer now.
Here's the deal, shitty stuff is shitty. No one wants shitty stuff, mainly when you can still get the better quality of the same music for free (legal or not). I'm all for what Musopen is trying to do, but what is has done so far (from what i heard) hasn't been impressive. And this is supposed to be an example of legal free music? Seriously?
From my understanding the moonlight sonata wasn't even one of the pieces performed by the orchestra in the kickstarter campaign? It isn't listed at any of the links in the article. Musopen compiles a bunch of different music from many sources and so some if it is complete crap, but my impression was that the point of this project was to get some better recordings of a select group of pieces.
Cool of them. But if the quality is lacking, i can still get better music of the same type from piratebay. I'm cool with what the person is doing, but if the quality is sucking like people are saying (will check it out later), then honestly, it's a waste of time. All you are doing is adding fuel from the Music Industry saying that CC stuff is crappy quality compared to what they put out. And they'd be right. Don't make the AA right.
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Bill Nye is awesome.
Of course he's awesome. He's awesome because God made him that way. And God clearly made him to test our faith. So he's awesomely like Satan, really.
Satan is awesome. Dude invented Rock Music. Knows how to party. Sure he invented marijuana also, after all, if God created it, why is considered an illegal drug?
When I was a child, I watched a lot of PBS... NOVA and other science shows. I found an interest in dinosaurs, evolution, archaeology and lots of things like this. By the time I was 10, I thought God was a stupid idea.
Just put more quality educational programs back on the air and teach the parents it's okay to be lazy.
(Caveat: I was pre-video-game era... it doesn't quite apply the same any longer.)
hmm, when i was a kid, i was forced to go to church. So when i was 15, i decided that the church as crazy, religion was stupid, and I did not want to be like these people. So I stopped getting involved, and 5 months later, I left home. I watched educational TV growing up, in fact, my church didn't try to tell us that the earth was only 6000 years old.
Why did I choose not to believe in God or Religion? Because I could tell that the people who were in charge of the church, the pastors, the deacons, the officials, didn't believe it themselves. They used religion to get rich. To spread their message. It had nothing to do with saving people, it had all to do with getting as many people as they could to the church and getting those people to give "tithes and offerings". They spend at least 20 mins each sermon going over how God gives to those who give, 100%, and shit like that. I got fed up with it.
Sad part is, people are still sheep, and still follow losers like the pastor at the church i went to (Christian Faith Center in Seattle, Pastor Casey Treat). An old druggy who "found" god, started a church and is rich as all fuck for it. The American Dream I guess.
Right... indiscriminate disease is punishment from a deity.
Sounds like an asshole to me.
Maybe you missed the book in the old testament, it's called "Job".
And it proves that if God existed, he's an asshole.
First I thought this article was cool, but it's not, so i'm going to try to spice it up.
When I was 16 and taking drivers ed, i was in a position in my life where I either had to practice on a huge tank of a car (automatic) or drive my sisters VW Bug (stick). Well, my sister always stressed out and yelled at me, and the owner of the other car was always busy, so i didn't do too much practicing of my driving.
So, just before the test, i had a dream where I was driving a stick, and it was a stress free enviroment and I was seeing how it went. How it felt to let the clutch out, switch the gear, etc.
Anyways, after that, I didn't have a problem driving stick shifts anymore. Ya, of course, someone might point out that I learned how to drive the stick in RL, but got the necessary practice in my dreams. So fuck you, I beat ya to it.
Okay everyone.
Real world lesson time.
I'm hanging at your house. I see you have a copy of Big Black Atomizer CD. I pick the CD up, and:
1. I put the CD in my pocket, leave your house with it.
2. I put the CD in your computer, copy it to a USB Drive. I then leave your house without the CD, but a copy of it on my USB Drive.
Okay, folks. One of the above is stealing. The other isn't. Can you guess which one?
Yes, folks. #1 is stealing, since I deprived you of something you owned. Example #2 isn't stealing, i made a copy of it. Now, did i keep the record companies from making any money? That is debatable. Would i have bought that CD new? Would I have bought that CD used? If i bought it used, then the Music Industry doesn't get any money, only the used music industry does. And the CD I made a copy of was used, since it was owned by a person and not in the store. You understand? If me making a copy of the CD is considered "stealing" profit/revnue from the music corps, then Used Music Stores are doing some big time stealing.
I'm still waiting for my fucking Fiber Optics that was promised in the 1990's when the Gov gave permission to the phone companies to raise their prices because they are going to build a fiber optics network for their customers. http://www.newnetworks.com/BroadbandScandalIntro.htm
So, now I need to pay a tax to maybe get a better internet connection, even though I live in the fucking heart of Seattle? What, thru one of my 2 choices, Comcast and Centurylink? Really?
Will this tax keep them from sending me notices about how much bandwidth i use?
Will this tax keep the internet free from corporate interests?
Will this tax keep the net neutral?
Will any of this tax go to the overbudgeted military?
Pretty sure I'm going to say, Fuck you, give me what I was paid for in the 90's, and NO NEW TAXES!!!!
I don't know about most you peeps, but i'm not getting out of my 60's. I have no desire to be old.
I come from a family that lives well into the 80's, and have decent health, but screw getting that old.
Even if they made advancements where I don't have poop in a diaper, I'm just not down.
I am not getting out of my 80's, short of putting my brain in some robotic/cyborg/android body. That would be okay.
Then again, i do not have stupid religious beliefs about an afterlife. Much like everything else on this earth, when I die, i will get recycled back into the universe. Works for me.
Anyways, i got about 20 years left, so i'm going to enjoy my time i got left smoking this weed, and playing video games. (yes, my goals and needs are simple).
When i die, my stuff will be easy access ('cept for for the porn, it's truecrypted, some things family doesn't need access to). Will they want it? I doubt it. But don't care. I will be dead.
So whatever happens after i die happens. I will be dead.
So, they gave the BBC permission to snoop on criminals then are surprised to find that the BBC abuses the privilege? Seriously? Those who do NOT learn from history are doomed to repeat history.
Man can NOT have unchecked power. At all. When you give someone power, you need to have checks and balances to keep that person from abusing that power, otherwise the power will get abused.
And we keep doing this over and over through out history. Will we ever learn?
If they didn't like TSA Sucks shirts, I'd go with Fuck Delta shirts next time.
My taxes have shot up
Bullshit: Please cite how your taxes have "shot-up" since Obama took office. Is it because you have a job now, and thus are paying more in taxes than you were while unemployed during the Bush administration that makes you believe your taxes have "shot up?"
I don't pay taxes (well, i pay local shopping taxes), but since Obama has been in office, the price of food has gone up. Damn it, tuna was 75 cents a can, and now i have to pay $1.09? I used to be able to buy a 3lb thing of ground beef for $5, now it's almost $9.
Damn you Obama!!!!!!
"He looks foreign" in the latter part of the article, by the TSA agent asking for permission to put him through the wringer.
Did you happen to miss that?
Damn straight he looked foreign, if you aren't a Native American, then yes, you look foreign in this wonderful melting pot of a nation we call the United States of America.
That won't necessarily save you. They can still take money right out of your bank account or right out of your CC because you 'preauthorized' them to do so when you signed up. Barring that, they might just set your Paypal account to the negatives and send you to collections.
Get a 2nt account, make that your paypal account. When any money in put in the paypal account, move it immediately to your main account. They then can lock your account, but if you don't keep money in it, then it's not going to affect you much.
I recall on my //c I could type "VERIFY" (with no filename, or with no DOS booted) and it would return
COPYRIGHT (C) 1984 APPLE COMPUTER (beep!)
I heard a rumor, I'm not sure if it was urban legend or real, that some company pirated apple's rom into their apple 2 clone and it went to court. And in court, they had brought in a clone computer that was "not infringing" and the prosecution asked them to type "VERIFY" and hit return. The message that displayed on their machine closed the case.
Anyone know if that really happened?
Well, I got an Apple IIe, IIc, and IIgs, and a lazer 128 (IIc clone) and I'm way to lazy to hook them up and check it out.
Okay, read the article, doesn't actually say what he means by "app". Seems to me he is throwing a buzz word there.
A book is a book. Unless it's get made into a movie, then it's a script.
An app is a program. A book isn't a program, but an ebook needs a program. So, is this app the book with it's own reader? How fucking novel. (notice the play on the word novel).
Look, I'm a fan, but seriously, "app"? Fuck off.
Right...
When Apple does it - evil.
When Google does the same thing it's okay, because Google has only goodness and altruism in its heart.
So someone walks up and punches you in the face and you stand there and take it? really?
It's the Christian thing to do.
Why would anyone care about that? It isn't like being a jew grants you magic powers for evil or something.
Kasparov is famous for being a world chess chamion and a leader opposing putin. Being a jew is only important if you are a fucking stupid bigot.
Just sayin.
Jews are the children of God, so ya, they got magic powers for evil or something.
dang jewish god made me reply to the wrong post.
The radical leftist press, e.g. alternet and the Huffington Post will of course either ignore this or suddenly decide to defend Putin. Why?
He's not a rocker chick
He's a Jew.
Jews are the children of God, so they are better then us gentiles.
Let's get all medieval and put to death anyone who believes in Evolution!!!! That should stop these horrible facts from getting out!!!!
.. ...
I think quantity needed to be more important than quality for this project. Sure, they need to have a minimum standard of quality, but the idea was to free as much music as possible.
no, you are wrong.
Quality is important, because we can get the quality stuff for free. Sure, it might be copyrighted, but a lot of people don't give a damn about the copyright laws as they are being used by the Music and Movie industries. While I applaud what Musopen is doing, I believe they are hurting themselves by having crappy quality recordings in the collection.
This day and age, when you can get anything that can be digitalized for free, why the hell do you want to compete with good quality stuff with crappy quality stuff? Seriously, wtf?
Why do I want to listen to Bach with bad sound, errors, coughs and tape recording noise when I can listen to it without those problems?
The Beethoven's fifth you linked to is performed by a small town college orchestra, not the Musopen Symphony Orchestra (really the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, but I don't know if Musopen are allowed to say that in advertising!). Anyone can contribute to Musopen - you'll even find midi keyboard renditions there. It's better than nothing, is Musopen's philosophy.
During the Kickstarter, Aaron Dunn wrote to us and we discussed extensively whether we should get a few works by a "big name" orchestra, or several from a less-known one. We did blind listening tests, too.
You still have the option to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations. In fact, you probably will always have to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations, the way copyrights are being extended... but now you also have the option of hearing some solid renditions of Brahms symphonies by a professional Czech orchestra, for free. For ever.
I can get the stuff, without errors, for free. In fact, I have a few diffferent Beethoven's works on my computer now.
Here's the deal, shitty stuff is shitty. No one wants shitty stuff, mainly when you can still get the better quality of the same music for free (legal or not). I'm all for what Musopen is trying to do, but what is has done so far (from what i heard) hasn't been impressive. And this is supposed to be an example of legal free music? Seriously?
From my understanding the moonlight sonata wasn't even one of the pieces performed by the orchestra in the kickstarter campaign? It isn't listed at any of the links in the article. Musopen compiles a bunch of different music from many sources and so some if it is complete crap, but my impression was that the point of this project was to get some better recordings of a select group of pieces.
Cool of them. But if the quality is lacking, i can still get better music of the same type from piratebay. I'm cool with what the person is doing, but if the quality is sucking like people are saying (will check it out later), then honestly, it's a waste of time. All you are doing is adding fuel from the Music Industry saying that CC stuff is crappy quality compared to what they put out. And they'd be right. Don't make the AA right.
I don't know about you, but I support musicians by seeing them live at gigs i.e. seeing them earn their money.
I don't.
I hate large crowds of people. Shit, I hate small crowds of , nm, I just hate people. Mainly in public gatherings.
Iran earlier this month said it plans to move key ministries and state bodies off the public Internet to protect them from such attacks
One wonders why they were on the internet (public or otherwise) to begin with.