1. number of nuclear weapons 2. kill count 3. military size 4. countries destroyed 5. number of broken treaties 6. skin lightness 7. number of deaths by pollution 8. number of McDonalds establishments
Add them up and if you score high enough, congrats! You're a first-world country. Let's go kill some Iraqis.
I guess that was the gist of the movement all along. No surprise here. Of course we're still dealing with those sort of people here in the US who want everyone to go to Hell if they're not deathly afraid of their bodies.
Well it's obvious CNN is trying to get people to vote dem-rep in every possible way, but that's interesting. I never thought they'd have some preference with the good-guys.
it possible that people are not buying CDs because they are not interested in the music any more?
No! Don't ever say that! Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong! People don't buy shitty CDs by loser pop artists because of piracy!
Heh, sorry. But, well, thanks to P2P, the music industry gets to extort millions of dollars and blame Kazaa for the fact that nobody wants to buy their junk. It's absolutely hilarious that they're trying to do away with this cash cow of theirs.
Of course! As well as all P2P users, music lovers, people with CD burners, anyone under 25, everyone who has an eyepatch or a peg leg, moviegoers, DVD owners, people with computers that don't crash every two seconds and catch viruses every time you log on, game players, Linux, and of course those shadow guys in the iPod commercials.
Psychotic gorilla-esque CEOs who steal massive amounts of cash and kill every other company in existence, however, are exempt.
I'd list all the other pirates but there are only so many nouns in the dictionary.
We're already locked in by the patent system. Why do you think Photoshop is the top image editor? Innovation? Oh yeah right. Adobe owns every patent that makes an imaging program worth buying or creating.
I don't know if you can get rid of the patent system without - oh say - bombing the patent office into oblivion. Patents create and support absolute monopolies, and those monopolies have the brunt control of the law. If you did away the current patent or copyright systems, innovation would flourish and these companies wouldn't have the complete control they have now.
So, I don't see it happening, though it'd be great if, by some incomprehensible chance, the system were done away with.
Also cause you can make thousands of dollars by extorting a customer, as opposed to a measly $7 off a crappy CD. P2P has been a cash cow for corporate-controlled America.
Seems everyone's used to the government lying. It's kinda funny how far this one went though; even Bush's desperate attempt to get away with it using the famous phrase "weapons of mass destruction related program activities" has been shot down miserably.
Nothing in particular to hide. It's just none of your damn business
Precisely. Though, there's never a need to say you have nothing to hide. When somebody wants to go shovel up information about you, that means there's something wrong with them, not you.
Just thought I'd drop by and say that anyone who thinks you owe them your info is the malicious one.
Thought I'd drop by in the midst of meta-moderating:
Anyone who's stance relies on the phrase "Everyone who sees the flaws in my argument is stoopid" never had an ounce of credibility to begin with. It's just a disclaimer for the insecure.
The rest of you can save your reprisals for somebody who has a clue what he's talking about; don't waste it on someone who will reply over and over again with "you're stupid and wrong cause I think ur dumb".
Did you ever get this daunting feeling like that won't happen? The act makes it easier for the government to do whatever it wants to anyone it wants. I have serious doubts they'd just let it go and not, at least, follow it up with a similar set of laws.
Meh, authority needs not obey authority's rules. THey'll just crash another few planes if they need to. Woopdydoo to it all.
Obviously there's no conspiracy, but that never stopped Fox from trying to invent one. Dan had the misfortune of giving a report that could hurt the reputation of another psychotic conservative, and Fox was never one to stand by while people blatantly unclose facts to the public, as facts have always been the biggest blow to the conservative standpoint and could ruin them.
Hence we learned that the documents "could, if looked at the right way, maybe twisted a little, might possibly under some circumstances be fake, so you must obey Bush."
People here and there might want to believe whatever Fox tells them in order to keep them away from other news sources - and that's fine; people can think what they want - but all too often they need to be put in their place and reminded that believing every unfounded claim Fox makes is just leading them to a dead end.
"This is Fox News reminding you that unbiased networks are wrong. Jerry Springer is next."
Either way, we can thank our lucky stars for one thing: We now know that most users of MovieLink have penises. I'm SO glad we managed to work that out, also that companies are concerned with what's in my pants.
Well most of it has a fairly obvious explanation: Very few politicians would dare speak out against the republican party while they have control of America. Wouldn't want a family member to disappear or anything. But the the other problem is that most of the media is controlled by conservatives, not so much the White House, and the most damaging elements to a conservative's concepts are the facts and nonconservative testimonies, so the facts are simply being changed to fit a few aristocrats' political ideals.
It centers mostly around Fox News, which is now indistinguishable from Jerry Springer and preaches Bush on every possible occasion. You'd notice they're using this opportunity to make people stop watching CBS news. They're hardly even trying to hide it - even the biggest idiot who watches Fox News and Ricky Lake daily can point this out.
If you ever saw Outfoxed, it sheds quite a bit of light on these tactics. You'd have better luck getting your news from the bearded guy on the street who says the world will end tomorrow than to listen to the abundance of conservative nut jobs on tv.
Oh and yeah, good luck with the whole voting thing. Somebody who has the White House can appropriate far more money, control far more people and rig many more votes than someone who doesn't. You'd be astounded at how many people think we found WMDs in Iraq: A third to a half of the public last I read.
Democracy was doomed a long time ago, but it's even more useless when the people in office have mastered every information-control technique of the Nazi party, China and Hussein combined, and have the media on their side to boot.
That's what Fox told us to believe, so by God, it's the conspiracy theory we have to believe!
I'm so glad Fox proved themselves so thoroughly on the issue: "We think Kerry r bad. People who don't believe us r conspiring aliens who will eat your brains."
Nice story, but I wouldn't put it in a history book. It might fit better into the Fantasy section or next to one of those weight-loss books.
So, here we go. I know this won't wash away the corporate thought-control, but this'll be useful to by-passers:
Companies have always wanted to believe that they own what you've paid for. It's nothing new that they don't want you to copy your disks. The "don't copy that floppy" propaganda film has been around for a long time now.
Things have indeed changed. There once was a time when companies had to take responsibility for their incompetence and downfalls. Can you believe that? It was a rough age. But things have changed. Now Joe Stupid will open a company that sells Tetris clones. It will fail and the company will go out of business from lack of profit. Why? Because of piracy of course. Those people who dare to copy paid-for data to a paid-for disks are now the reason dead-end companies and badly-managed corporations fail. It's a golden age for people who can't uphold a business and would gladly screw their customers.
And of course things much nicer now that the movie and book industries have discovered this. Now George Lucas knows the REAL reason Star Wars II didn't top the box-office charts, and Joe Fitness Psycho knows the REAL reason that weight-loss book wasn't flying off the shelfs. We now know who's fault it is, and if companies need to get extort millions and millions of dollars in cash from random people in order to end this, they're willing to make that sacrifice.
Y'know this is actually becoming interesting, isn't it? Troll-mods have now lost a total of four whole points in order to flame anonymously; talk about cutting your nose in spite your face.
Ah well I'm sure this'll come up in meta-moderation, and a few mindless kids will be put in their place. In which case, hey, maybe this is a good thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh oh. Backfire.
It basically goes by the following:
1. number of nuclear weapons
2. kill count
3. military size
4. countries destroyed
5. number of broken treaties
6. skin lightness
7. number of deaths by pollution
8. number of McDonalds establishments
Add them up and if you score high enough, congrats! You're a first-world country. Let's go kill some Iraqis.
Well at least we now know what the Nazi stance on Linux is.
"Murderous psychos against porn!"
I guess that was the gist of the movement all along. No surprise here. Of course we're still dealing with those sort of people here in the US who want everyone to go to Hell if they're not deathly afraid of their bodies.
Well it's obvious CNN is trying to get people to vote dem-rep in every possible way, but that's interesting. I never thought they'd have some preference with the good-guys.
Unfair to fix an election? Nawww.
That's like calling Bin Laden to express why you think it's unfair to want to destroy the world.
But it IS nice to have that phone number...
it possible that people are not buying CDs because they are not interested in the music any more?
No! Don't ever say that! Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong! People don't buy shitty CDs by loser pop artists because of piracy!
Heh, sorry. But, well, thanks to P2P, the music industry gets to extort millions of dollars and blame Kazaa for the fact that nobody wants to buy their junk. It's absolutely hilarious that they're trying to do away with this cash cow of theirs.
OUCH! my KARMA!
Yes I suck for doing that.
All iPod users are pirates?
Of course! As well as all P2P users, music lovers, people with CD burners, anyone under 25, everyone who has an eyepatch or a peg leg, moviegoers, DVD owners, people with computers that don't crash every two seconds and catch viruses every time you log on, game players, Linux, and of course those shadow guys in the iPod commercials.
Psychotic gorilla-esque CEOs who steal massive amounts of cash and kill every other company in existence, however, are exempt.
I'd list all the other pirates but there are only so many nouns in the dictionary.
I'm still waiting for him to fall off a stage and explode after running around like an enraged madman during a speech.
We're already locked in by the patent system. Why do you think Photoshop is the top image editor? Innovation? Oh yeah right. Adobe owns every patent that makes an imaging program worth buying or creating.
I don't know if you can get rid of the patent system without - oh say - bombing the patent office into oblivion. Patents create and support absolute monopolies, and those monopolies have the brunt control of the law. If you did away the current patent or copyright systems, innovation would flourish and these companies wouldn't have the complete control they have now.
So, I don't see it happening, though it'd be great if, by some incomprehensible chance, the system were done away with.
I put my comment sort order on Newest First, as digging through that gigantic pile of replies to whoever happens to post first is not my thing.
In a perfect world, everyone would do this and eliminate the "first post 0wnz u" system.
Also cause you can make thousands of dollars by extorting a customer, as opposed to a measly $7 off a crappy CD. P2P has been a cash cow for corporate-controlled America.
I dunno if the Iraqis would agree with you there.
Seems everyone's used to the government lying. It's kinda funny how far this one went though; even Bush's desperate attempt to get away with it using the famous phrase "weapons of mass destruction related program activities" has been shot down miserably.
Meh. Nothing changes.
organise = organize
Speak english properly, Wanker.
Nothing in particular to hide. It's just none of your damn business
Precisely. Though, there's never a need to say you have nothing to hide. When somebody wants to go shovel up information about you, that means there's something wrong with them, not you.
Just thought I'd drop by and say that anyone who thinks you owe them your info is the malicious one.
Anyone that thinks otherwise is probably a fool.
Thought I'd drop by in the midst of meta-moderating:
Anyone who's stance relies on the phrase "Everyone who sees the flaws in my argument is stoopid" never had an ounce of credibility to begin with. It's just a disclaimer for the insecure.
The rest of you can save your reprisals for somebody who has a clue what he's talking about; don't waste it on someone who will reply over and over again with "you're stupid and wrong cause I think ur dumb".
Nice to see the people supporting this aren't mindless racist nazi-ish flamers.
Did you ever get this daunting feeling like that won't happen? The act makes it easier for the government to do whatever it wants to anyone it wants. I have serious doubts they'd just let it go and not, at least, follow it up with a similar set of laws.
Meh, authority needs not obey authority's rules. THey'll just crash another few planes if they need to. Woopdydoo to it all.
Obviously there's no conspiracy, but that never stopped Fox from trying to invent one. Dan had the misfortune of giving a report that could hurt the reputation of another psychotic conservative, and Fox was never one to stand by while people blatantly unclose facts to the public, as facts have always been the biggest blow to the conservative standpoint and could ruin them.
Hence we learned that the documents "could, if looked at the right way, maybe twisted a little, might possibly under some circumstances be fake, so you must obey Bush."
People here and there might want to believe whatever Fox tells them in order to keep them away from other news sources - and that's fine; people can think what they want - but all too often they need to be put in their place and reminded that believing every unfounded claim Fox makes is just leading them to a dead end.
"This is Fox News reminding you that unbiased networks are wrong. Jerry Springer is next."
Either way, we can thank our lucky stars for one thing: We now know that most users of MovieLink have penises. I'm SO glad we managed to work that out, also that companies are concerned with what's in my pants.
Well most of it has a fairly obvious explanation: Very few politicians would dare speak out against the republican party while they have control of America. Wouldn't want a family member to disappear or anything. But the the other problem is that most of the media is controlled by conservatives, not so much the White House, and the most damaging elements to a conservative's concepts are the facts and nonconservative testimonies, so the facts are simply being changed to fit a few aristocrats' political ideals.
It centers mostly around Fox News, which is now indistinguishable from Jerry Springer and preaches Bush on every possible occasion. You'd notice they're using this opportunity to make people stop watching CBS news. They're hardly even trying to hide it - even the biggest idiot who watches Fox News and Ricky Lake daily can point this out.
If you ever saw Outfoxed, it sheds quite a bit of light on these tactics. You'd have better luck getting your news from the bearded guy on the street who says the world will end tomorrow than to listen to the abundance of conservative nut jobs on tv.
Oh and yeah, good luck with the whole voting thing. Somebody who has the White House can appropriate far more money, control far more people and rig many more votes than someone who doesn't. You'd be astounded at how many people think we found WMDs in Iraq: A third to a half of the public last I read.
Democracy was doomed a long time ago, but it's even more useless when the people in office have mastered every information-control technique of the Nazi party, China and Hussein combined, and have the media on their side to boot.
That's what Fox told us to believe, so by God, it's the conspiracy theory we have to believe!
I'm so glad Fox proved themselves so thoroughly on the issue: "We think Kerry r bad. People who don't believe us r conspiring aliens who will eat your brains."
Nice story, but I wouldn't put it in a history book. It might fit better into the Fantasy section or next to one of those weight-loss books.
So, here we go. I know this won't wash away the corporate thought-control, but this'll be useful to by-passers:
Companies have always wanted to believe that they own what you've paid for. It's nothing new that they don't want you to copy your disks. The "don't copy that floppy" propaganda film has been around for a long time now.
Things have indeed changed. There once was a time when companies had to take responsibility for their incompetence and downfalls. Can you believe that? It was a rough age. But things have changed. Now Joe Stupid will open a company that sells Tetris clones. It will fail and the company will go out of business from lack of profit. Why? Because of piracy of course. Those people who dare to copy paid-for data to a paid-for disks are now the reason dead-end companies and badly-managed corporations fail. It's a golden age for people who can't uphold a business and would gladly screw their customers.
And of course things much nicer now that the movie and book industries have discovered this. Now George Lucas knows the REAL reason Star Wars II didn't top the box-office charts, and Joe Fitness Psycho knows the REAL reason that weight-loss book wasn't flying off the shelfs. We now know who's fault it is, and if companies need to get extort millions and millions of dollars in cash from random people in order to end this, they're willing to make that sacrifice.
Y'know this is actually becoming interesting, isn't it? Troll-mods have now lost a total of four whole points in order to flame anonymously; talk about cutting your nose in spite your face.
Ah well I'm sure this'll come up in meta-moderation, and a few mindless kids will be put in their place. In which case, hey, maybe this is a good thing.