Except that history clearly demonstrates, time and time again, what invariably happens when ordinary citizens are left with only their own morals to keep them honest - and it ain't pretty.
You fucking said it. Don't blame because you can't cite one example of "ordinary citizens" behaving in a way that "ain't pretty" just because they don't have the government breathing down their necks.
Sounds like you expected a simple, easy-to-debunk list of names instead of a coherent statement of my beliefs. Sorry to disappoint you.
Why would I care what you believe? I want to know what you can demonstrate. And your examples will only be easy to debunk only if they're . . . bunk.
Can you name any counter-examples of individuals in a similar position, who acted in a way that most of us would describe as "good"?
Um, I'm not the one running around claiming "that history clearly demonstrates, time and time again" something I can't give a single example of.
The only person I am ever with when no one is around is me. I don't steal shit just because no one is looking. And I'm an atheist, so I'm not worried about some cosmic spanking.
Do scumbags exist? I don't think there can be any question. Is each of us a scumbag kept in check by an external force? I don't think so.
Prices were unchanged, but each week there was a photocopied picture at the top of the list, measuring 15 by 3 centimetres, of either flowers or the eyes of real faces. The faces varied but the eyes always looked directly at the observer.
In weeks with eyes on the list, staff paid 2.76 times as much for their drinks as in weeks with flowers.
I'm a pretty light-duty office suite user. I keep my budget on oocalc, do DVD covers (for software releases) on oodraw, and a bit of writing on oowriter. I don't do much collaborative work (I hear that this is where MS Word shines), but I find oowriter's style system so useful that it makes using Word downright painful.
I couldn't get through TFA, but I think this guy misses some key points.
A lot of people have spent good money on HDTVs, and they're starving for content.
Both formats are mechanically compatible with each other and with DVD. This is a huge difference from the VHS/Beta situation.
The transition is cheap compared to VHS to DVD. New players play the old media, and they are much less expensive than the first generation of DVD players.
It is my opinion that the transition to HD will be pretty painless. Three years from now you'll be able to get a player that plays DVD, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray for $100, and we will have forgotten what all the fuss was about. Oh, and one of the formats will be relegated to leverage the studios use against the owners of the other format.
I have no idea where you are coming from. What in my post makes you think I wish misery on any human being? What does my post have to do with gangsters? What are you talking about?
Does the FCC have the authority to levy taxes? Isn't the FCC an executive agency? Have we stopped even pretending that we have a constitutional government?
"So what"? Are you serious? Not, "Gee, I guess I did resort to name calling in the first sentence of my post. Sorry about that. But the point stands, didn't you read Scientific journals in the early '70s?"
What "artists" are getting paid is in no way mine, or your problem.
Our society, rightly or wrongly, has decided that it is a legitimate function of government to protect people from business practices deemed unfair. Various forms of collusion, price fixing, and monopolistic practices for instance.
I'm not intimately familiar with the music industry. (Or more to the point, the music distribution and promotion industry.) I have seen many accounts of record companies engaging in practices that seem to fall into these categories.
So, to the extent that the courts and the market are "ours" it is "our" worry.
That said, I'm a big fan of the free market and I have problems of my own to occupy most of my worrying time.;-)
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You fucking said it. Don't blame because you can't cite one example of "ordinary citizens" behaving in a way that "ain't pretty" just because they don't have the government breathing down their necks.
Why would I care what you believe? I want to know what you can demonstrate. And your examples will only be easy to debunk only if they're . . . bunk.
Um, I'm not the one running around claiming "that history clearly demonstrates, time and time again" something I can't give a single example of.
The only person I am ever with when no one is around is me. I don't steal shit just because no one is looking. And I'm an atheist, so I'm not worried about some cosmic spanking.
Do scumbags exist? I don't think there can be any question. Is each of us a scumbag kept in check by an external force? I don't think so.
-Peter
Is that a no?
Or do you mean to say that "Josef Stalin, Jim Jones, and Saddam Hussein" are a representative sample of humanity?
-Peter
Could you name a few examples?
-Peter
Now, what do you think I meant?
-Peter
Wrong conclusion. Eyes make people nearly three times as thirsty as flowers.
-Peter
The JPFO says no.
-Peter
Sir, you just answered my question with a thoughtful, reasoned, polite, direct and correct reply.
We're going to have to ask to not to post here any more.
-Peter
I'm a pretty light-duty office suite user. I keep my budget on oocalc, do DVD covers (for software releases) on oodraw, and a bit of writing on oowriter. I don't do much collaborative work (I hear that this is where MS Word shines), but I find oowriter's style system so useful that it makes using Word downright painful.
Just one guy's experience.
-Peter
It is my opinion that the transition to HD will be pretty painless. Three years from now you'll be able to get a player that plays DVD, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray for $100, and we will have forgotten what all the fuss was about. Oh, and one of the formats will be relegated to leverage the studios use against the owners of the other format.
-Peter
I have no idea where you are coming from. What in my post makes you think I wish misery on any human being? What does my post have to do with gangsters? What are you talking about?
-Peter
China is still Communist, right? So the workers control the means of production. So who the hell is the union going to fight?
-Peter
No duh!
-Peter
Does the FCC have the authority to levy taxes? Isn't the FCC an executive agency? Have we stopped even pretending that we have a constitutional government?
-Peter
Modern incendiary grenades are adequate to destroy materials up to TS/SCI.
Hard drive platters are generally aluminum, which melts at 660C. Thermate grenades release molten iron at 2500C.
-Peter
PS: Slashdot eats my °s.
-P
I ride a motorcycle. I can also spell "donor".
-Peter
"So what"? Are you serious? Not, "Gee, I guess I did resort to name calling in the first sentence of my post. Sorry about that. But the point stands, didn't you read Scientific journals in the early '70s?"
Come on, man. Work with me.
-Peter
You went to Limbaugh on line two of your post. Don't play the wronged innocent with me, jackass.
-Peter
I'm glad you are able to cope with what I have to say by lumping me in with someone you don't like. That sounds much easier than resorting to reason.
FYI, I've voted in three presidential elections without voting for the Republican. Hope that doesn't shatter your pathetic world-view.
-Peter
Aaaaaah! Panic! Global cooling is BACK!!!!!
Time,
Newsweek,
etc.
-Peter
Our society, rightly or wrongly, has decided that it is a legitimate function of government to protect people from business practices deemed unfair. Various forms of collusion, price fixing, and monopolistic practices for instance.
I'm not intimately familiar with the music industry. (Or more to the point, the music distribution and promotion industry.) I have seen many accounts of record companies engaging in practices that seem to fall into these categories.
So, to the extent that the courts and the market are "ours" it is "our" worry.
That said, I'm a big fan of the free market and I have problems of my own to occupy most of my worrying time.
-Peter
Their knowledge about the quality of his political speech isn't a matter of Scientific debate.
-Peter
The side effects of consuming methanol include blindness and respiratory failure resulting in death.
In my opinion these are much more severe than the ethanol side effects of grabbing your sister's best friend's ass and throwing up on the lawn.
-Peter
But when, oh when, will I be able to natively boot Linux on my Intel Mac?
-Peter
That's bupkis!
And that's the end of my show! DONK!
-Peter
Okay, sorry dude.
Now will you please PUT DOWN THE GLOCK?
-Peter