If only more people would watch a larger variety of news stations (like parent's example CBS & Fox), they'd actually get more balanced information. But most people watch the news that appeals to their predetermined political prejudices.
Yes, who is to say that "fifteen consenting adults cannot express their love through a committed set of relationships?"
If that relationship fell to pieces, just imaging the divorce court fees, and that'd be a hell of a lot of alimony, too.
Or could 4 people split off in divorce leaving the other 11 married? If they did that could 1 of the 4 member family stay married to 7 of the 11 member family?
And that's not even considering child support and custody. Does the larger family group automatically get custody?
"Anyway, if non-vanilla sex between consenting adults was wrong, they wouldn't enjoy it so much."
By this argument, it is OK for a person to do anything as long as they enjoy doing it. I bet there are a lot of serial killers, rapists, etc. that would love to see you make laws.
You think that the victims of serial killers and rapists are consenting?
No. But assisted suicide is still illegal (I think). That's killing between consenting adults.
I believe the grand-parent poster was phonetically spelling a regional variation of the words "I ain't".
In certain areas of the United States, the personal pronoun "I" is closer in pronunciation to the word "Ah" than to the word "eye".
Although, I believe that since it's a contraction, the appropriate spelling would be h'ain't. But, much like the Transliteration of languages such as Chinese and Arabic, there are multiple ways of transliterating of Hillbillese.
Similar to the variation of "It ain't". Example Female: Why thank you, sir. Male: T'ain't nothing, maam.
Well, you could use some twisted arguement like this.
Homosexual couples do not fulfill their biological responsibility to the human race through reproduction. They are ensuring that their contributions to the next generation do not occur, thus negating the potential existence, or life, of one or more unborn children. The negation of life is murder. Therefore, homosexual marriage is akin to murder.
In the original Odyssey, Polyphemus the Cyclops wasn't permanently blinded. But Homer realized that because of the prevailing blood-thirsty attitude of the times, it wouldn't sell. So he rewrote the more violent version and eradicated all references to the "nice" version.
Sure there was a lot of outcry from his fans, but money talks. He said later that the technology he needed to write it the way he really wanted wasn't mature enough to get his strory just right. Plus Poseidon needed a real reason to get all pissed off.
> "We'll be on Mars in 30 years" > > That statement is just as true as it was 30 years ago. Well, of course it is. Because we're powering the Martian colony with nuclear fusion!
Another difference would be the overall perception. Skydiving you see the world rushing up at you. Your brain generates the "I'm falling" sensation because of the stimuli.
In the plane your brain gets different information. There's no obvious tell-tale signs of falling. Instead the brain sees the walls of the plane. Without the other signs of falling, the brain conclude "I'm floating".
Maybe it's just the innate lack of confidence in human nature, but of course NASA's going to say that they were still able to get valuable information despite the crash. Their funding is probably on the line, and they don't wish to say "Oh yeah. That was a complete waste of money".
The program does something vastly different than its expected purpose.
They could get around this by branding the software as a video encoding program/hard drive clean-up utility. That way the clean-up isn't vastly different from the expected purpose.
He's had a lot of practice for emergencies because of all the procrastinating. Every deadline suddenly would become an emergency, then he's deal with it.
All an emergency does is eliminate the waiting period.
When people start feeling that what they're doing is not meaningful, then they take more sick days, begin looking for another job, and complain of health problems.
and read, post, moderate, metamoderate, and generally interact more on slashdot.
Hollywood, pay attention: we need something that interests us, not just something that looks pretty.
Ahhh! But the problem, you see, is that Hollywood does not take into account the opinions of the minority. The majority of the sheeple in the market far outweigh the number of people who want more than just effects in their movies.
Hollywood has no motivation to improve both plot and effects, as most consumers will pay for any drivle that comes out.
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Mainstream media is balanced CBS vs Fox
If only more people would watch a larger variety of news stations (like parent's example CBS & Fox), they'd actually get more balanced information. But most people watch the news that appeals to their predetermined political prejudices.
Yes, who is to say that "fifteen consenting adults cannot express their love through a committed set of relationships?"
If that relationship fell to pieces, just imaging the divorce court fees, and that'd be a hell of a lot of alimony, too.
Or could 4 people split off in divorce leaving the other 11 married? If they did that could 1 of the 4 member family stay married to 7 of the 11 member family?
And that's not even considering child support and custody. Does the larger family group automatically get custody?
You think that the victims of serial killers and rapists are consenting?
No. But assisted suicide is still illegal (I think).
That's killing between consenting adults.
Your point about the placement or omission of the apostrophe is valid.
It's probably a different transliteration scheme. Like pinyin, Wade-Giles, or IPA for Chinese.
I believe the grand-parent poster was phonetically spelling a regional variation of the words "I ain't".
In certain areas of the United States, the personal pronoun "I" is closer in pronunciation to the word "Ah" than to the word "eye".
Although, I believe that since it's a contraction, the appropriate spelling would be h'ain't. But, much like the Transliteration of languages such as Chinese and Arabic, there are multiple ways of transliterating of Hillbillese.
Similar to the variation of "It ain't".
Example
Female: Why thank you, sir.
Male: T'ain't nothing, maam.
Well, you could use some twisted arguement like this.
Homosexual couples do not fulfill their biological responsibility to the human race through reproduction. They are ensuring that their contributions to the next generation do not occur, thus negating the potential existence, or life, of one or more unborn children. The negation of life is murder. Therefore, homosexual marriage is akin to murder.
The article summary forgot emotive features
Trust the parent comment to be the first time in quite a while I didn't preview. damn.
This problem can be conquored with adequate shielding
or a waiver.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/27/123125 1&tid=97&tid=214
or a waiver.
Transporter controls from Start Trek?
God = 376
Yeah, but most of those uses were immediately followed by "damn", "damned" or "dammit"; or preceded by "Oh my".
In the original Odyssey, Polyphemus the Cyclops wasn't permanently blinded. But Homer realized that because of the prevailing blood-thirsty attitude of the times, it wouldn't sell. So he rewrote the more violent version and eradicated all references to the "nice" version.
Sure there was a lot of outcry from his fans, but money talks. He said later that the technology he needed to write it the way he really wanted wasn't mature enough to get his strory just right. Plus Poseidon needed a real reason to get all pissed off.
> "We'll be on Mars in 30 years"
>
> That statement is just as true as it was 30 years ago. Well, of course it is. Because we're powering the Martian colony with nuclear fusion!
And moving around Mars in flying cars.
"There goes my idea for the iPodato!"
Thank you for playing, Dan Quayle.
That would be "iPodatoe".
Another difference would be the overall perception.
Skydiving you see the world rushing up at you. Your brain generates the "I'm falling" sensation because of the stimuli.
In the plane your brain gets different information. There's no obvious tell-tale signs of falling. Instead the brain sees the walls of the plane. Without the other signs of falling, the brain conclude "I'm floating".
Imagine the ass-chewing those poor engineers got.
Maybe it's just the innate lack of confidence in human nature, but of course NASA's going to say that they were still able to get valuable information despite the crash. Their funding is probably on the line, and they don't wish to say "Oh yeah. That was a complete waste of money".
The program does something vastly different than its expected purpose.
They could get around this by branding the software as a video encoding program/hard drive clean-up utility. That way the clean-up isn't vastly different from the expected purpose.
Yeah, but other people (most managers) probably don't see eye to eye with you on that point.
They completely ignore or have come to expect the overtime. But they still view the work day as theirs becasue that's what they pay you for.
Lemme guess. You're not allowed to own a firearm, are you?
He's had a lot of practice for emergencies because of all the procrastinating. Every deadline suddenly would become an emergency, then he's deal with it.
All an emergency does is eliminate the waiting period.
When people start feeling that what they're doing is not meaningful, then they take more sick days, begin looking for another job, and complain of health problems.
and read, post, moderate, metamoderate, and generally interact more on slashdot.
Thanks for relieving a bit of ignorance. I guess it was just my Euro/Amercano-centric brain at work again, eh?
Careful about wishing for book-to-movie conversions. Especially if you enjoyed the book.
Movies can (and usually do in my experience) suck big time compared to the books. As in The Postman. Excellent Book. Abysmally disappointing movie.
It has a "league of extrordinary gentlemen" feel to it, and that was the vilest shitstain to hit celluloid in the history of film.
Did you even see the second Matrix movie?
On another note. Was Captain Nemo Persian or whatever in any other source before the league of extrordinary gentlemen came out?
Hollywood, pay attention: we need something that interests us, not just something that looks pretty.
Ahhh! But the problem, you see, is that Hollywood does not take into account the opinions of the minority. The majority of the sheeple in the market far outweigh the number of people who want more than just effects in their movies.
Hollywood has no motivation to improve both plot and effects, as most consumers will pay for any drivle that comes out.