I'd think you were joking, since there are so obviously other factors to be taken into consideration over that time period, but you're at +5 insightful. So, I feel I must point out: over those same decades Internet and computer adoption went up just a wee bit. Probably throws off the analysis slightly.
Firstly, you're wrong, we both know you wouldn't do that. Secondly, interest groups don't give money in illegal ways, so the federal judge would be able to do nothing except buy an expensive steak dinner for himself. Thirdly, if you apply those principles to your entire political career, you'll get about 23 dollars total campaign funds, and you won't get elected.
That's right, we're a democracy, government by the people. And ALL PEOPLE ACT LIKE THAT. There are about 10 people in the world with altruism glands big enough to turn down millions of dollars for no tangible cost, and they've all got better things to do than run for office.
Seems more likely that the legislators of tomorrow are the rich kids of today, who can afford as many CDs as they want. Even assuming the downloaders of today do become the legislators of tomorrow, why would a few memories of free Ja Rule make them refuse thousands or millions of dollars from RIAA lobbyists?
This was reported in the Tampa Tribune as a small page-6 blurb under the headline "New Largest Planet Sports Squishy Surface", a conclusion drawn from a quote by a scientist saying the planet has no firm surface. I almost cried.
Actually, no, I'm perfectly capable of fixing plumbing and emptying trash cans. If I hire someone to do it, it's because I don't have time or don't want to, not because I can't (which is usually the case with systems administration). I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with your general point, but you'll have to come up with a better argument.
It is similar, though, because trust in the system leads people with a 0.07999 BAC to think they're perfectly fine to drive. At.07999 BAC you're legal to drive, but still impaired.
What, do you think all those people driving when they're too drunk to walk are unaware that they're over the limit, or that all of them had rides that died on the way to the party?
What about the ones with whom the actress begs and pleads, the ones who receive every ounce of her effort to entice them into going after they've decided they don't want to?
No, but they can use very common and simple methods like search engines to find out things they don't know, instead of sitting and waiting for everything to be explained to them.
Wrong. "Whomever" is also the dative. In that sentence "whomever" is the subject of the clause, but the clause is dative, so the subject takes the dative.
I agree with your assessment of modern popular music, but I think your memory's a bit selective. A few dacades ago, the record industry was pushing Niel Sedaka, Styx, Journey, the Eagles, Michael Jackson, and other such pop and corporate-rock acts. Even excellent groups like The Who and the Yardbirds made shamelessly exploitative pop music in the mid-60s, and same for groups like Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult in the '70s and '80s.
Don't listen to popular music! There's plenty of good music available today - Opeth and Dream Theater and Pelican if you like metal, or a million different indie bands if you like that, or Gov't Mule and Phil Lesh & Friends and Widespread Panic if you like jam bands. Most cities also have local blues and jazz bands that you can watch any day of the week if you feel like it. And, a lot of older acts are still going - ZZ Top, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Heaven and Hell, The Who, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton... the list goes on and on. If you can't find good modern music you're not looking very hard.
Stupid moviegoer. The movie makes it quite clear without going so far as to explain it outright that everything was built in the past, that the current population can't even repair them. The masturbation network had been going for 300 years, the nuclear reactor was broken and unfixable by anyone alive, the medical machines operated by morons who obviously didn't know how they work, the crops grown by people who didn't know the first thing about farming.
The exception is the large demolition vehicle which couldn't fit in the stadium, which they seem to have built somehow. That should probably have been left out.
How is it moot? You pay Microsoft real, actual money, with which they buy food and healthcare and Ferraris, and in return they provide a software product, and some bandwidth with which to fix the bits they fucked up. That's not too much to ask for. Microsoft definitely should not be using their customers' bandwidth to provide THEIR patches. There's just no excuse for that.
Snakes on a Plane was an English movie. It's likely many people would default to commenting on it in English, probably without even thinking about it. No conspiracy necessary.
What constitutes getting a life, then? Most people I know who consider themselves to have lives spend their weekends getting drunk with friends and their weekdays waiting for the weekends. Is that better in any way than posting on slashdot, and using the tools available to find patterns in the discussions?
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I'd think you were joking, since there are so obviously other factors to be taken into consideration over that time period, but you're at +5 insightful. So, I feel I must point out: over those same decades Internet and computer adoption went up just a wee bit. Probably throws off the analysis slightly.
Firstly, you're wrong, we both know you wouldn't do that. Secondly, interest groups don't give money in illegal ways, so the federal judge would be able to do nothing except buy an expensive steak dinner for himself. Thirdly, if you apply those principles to your entire political career, you'll get about 23 dollars total campaign funds, and you won't get elected.
The "choice" is between multiple people who will fail equally to represent me.
That's right, we're a democracy, government by the people. And ALL PEOPLE ACT LIKE THAT. There are about 10 people in the world with altruism glands big enough to turn down millions of dollars for no tangible cost, and they've all got better things to do than run for office.
Seems more likely that the legislators of tomorrow are the rich kids of today, who can afford as many CDs as they want. Even assuming the downloaders of today do become the legislators of tomorrow, why would a few memories of free Ja Rule make them refuse thousands or millions of dollars from RIAA lobbyists?
This was reported in the Tampa Tribune as a small page-6 blurb under the headline "New Largest Planet Sports Squishy Surface", a conclusion drawn from a quote by a scientist saying the planet has no firm surface. I almost cried.
Actually, no, I'm perfectly capable of fixing plumbing and emptying trash cans. If I hire someone to do it, it's because I don't have time or don't want to, not because I can't (which is usually the case with systems administration). I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with your general point, but you'll have to come up with a better argument.
It is similar, though, because trust in the system leads people with a 0.07999 BAC to think they're perfectly fine to drive. At .07999 BAC you're legal to drive, but still impaired.
What, do you think all those people driving when they're too drunk to walk are unaware that they're over the limit, or that all of them had rides that died on the way to the party?
Man, you're an idiot if you think the people at defcon are that sort.
What about the ones with whom the actress begs and pleads, the ones who receive every ounce of her effort to entice them into going after they've decided they don't want to?
Still matches the same, though, because * also matches the empty string.
Wrong. "Whomever" is also the dative. In that sentence "whomever" is the subject of the clause, but the clause is dative, so the subject takes the dative.
I agree with your assessment of modern popular music, but I think your memory's a bit selective. A few dacades ago, the record industry was pushing Niel Sedaka, Styx, Journey, the Eagles, Michael Jackson, and other such pop and corporate-rock acts. Even excellent groups like The Who and the Yardbirds made shamelessly exploitative pop music in the mid-60s, and same for groups like Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult in the '70s and '80s.
Don't listen to popular music! There's plenty of good music available today - Opeth and Dream Theater and Pelican if you like metal, or a million different indie bands if you like that, or Gov't Mule and Phil Lesh & Friends and Widespread Panic if you like jam bands. Most cities also have local blues and jazz bands that you can watch any day of the week if you feel like it. And, a lot of older acts are still going - ZZ Top, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Heaven and Hell, The Who, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton... the list goes on and on. If you can't find good modern music you're not looking very hard.
Stupid moviegoer. The movie makes it quite clear without going so far as to explain it outright that everything was built in the past, that the current population can't even repair them. The masturbation network had been going for 300 years, the nuclear reactor was broken and unfixable by anyone alive, the medical machines operated by morons who obviously didn't know how they work, the crops grown by people who didn't know the first thing about farming.
The exception is the large demolition vehicle which couldn't fit in the stadium, which they seem to have built somehow. That should probably have been left out.
How is it moot? You pay Microsoft real, actual money, with which they buy food and healthcare and Ferraris, and in return they provide a software product, and some bandwidth with which to fix the bits they fucked up. That's not too much to ask for. Microsoft definitely should not be using their customers' bandwidth to provide THEIR patches. There's just no excuse for that.
So do you pay lots of money to gentoo, demonoid, and thepiratebay, then?
(If so, I think you're doing it wrong.)
Snakes on a Plane was an English movie. It's likely many people would default to commenting on it in English, probably without even thinking about it. No conspiracy necessary.
I believe I wasn't the first AC...
What constitutes getting a life, then? Most people I know who consider themselves to have lives spend their weekends getting drunk with friends and their weekdays waiting for the weekends. Is that better in any way than posting on slashdot, and using the tools available to find patterns in the discussions?