republic: n.
1.
1. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
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1. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
3. often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
4. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
5. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.
democracy: n.
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
according to our friend the dictionary, a republic has a head (monarch or president) and a representative body (house, senate), while a democracy has every citizen voting on everything directly or through elected officials (house, senate). so far, republic wins.
you say you were joking, eh? who says i wasn't? and as someone who's played all (11? 12?) final fantasy games, i suggest that you get out more. you may not have discovered this yet - you're not the only one w/ a sense of humor. although you apparently have an underdeveloped one, or merely a bloated sense of pride which causes you to think that you're the only one around with a sense of humor.
a dead spot on "parallel analogy", eh? if you know anything about argumentation (as you obviously don't, as evidenced by your degeneration into flaming) you would know that a "dead spot" in an analogy lends discredit to it's status as an analogy. as you don't really have anything linking your concept to mine - here's the important part - it's not an analogy!
remind me how a null analogy, a wise-ass comment and licking square's proverbial asshole equates to a righteous smackdown?
God hates fanboy purists, so I'd keep one eye on passing storm clouds.
i'd be interested to see how a god i don't believe in would strike me down. in fact, i think it would be worth the death that would come from it. there's nothing to be purist about? at all? it makes me sad that you think that - enjoy your corrupted corporate existence then.
Braveheart 1 was a bastardization of actual history.
are you trying to say that final fantasy $NUMBER is closer to actual history? my point is that the story is being bastardized. not history. your point that braveheart is a far cry from the actual history of william wallace is completely unrelated to my point about breaveheart 2.
If they produce a sequel I don't like, well, that's life. There's no point in whining like a sissy over it.
you say that there's no point in whining about something you disagree with? if so, then why are you whining about my post? you obviously don't like it so why did you whine about it?
since when are there actual sequels to the final fantasy games? call me a purist but it feels like a bastardization of my favorite stories when there's a continuation made after the story has ended. it's as if there was a braveheart 2 being made.
it's not that americans are being ambushed in the parking lots or whatever. it's that at least some of the jobs being "taken" are manual, untrained labor. the people who desperately need money (ie - jobs) are having at least part of the employment market shut down because there are fewer entry-level positions availabe. you don't see CEO's or execs getting pissed off about this issue, because if they can pay workers less, that means they can bathe in yet more money. the people that are getting screwed by this situation are the ones at the bottom of the proverbial pecking order.
this seems like a step in the right direction for naysayers of linux who keep claiming that until linux has universal standards, it will never be very popular...
how does politics fit in w/ technology and science any better?
at any rate, society-as-a-whole's conception of being a nerd has anime mushed into it. it's not necessarily true, but stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. they are (or at least were at some point) largely true.
as any state official would tell you - there's a difference between "keeping tabs" and outright spying. the latter involves trickery and deceit. the former involves saying "hey, what are you doing today?".
maybe i'm being idealistic, but instead of spying on your children, why not raise them in such a way that they wouldn't feel a need to lie to you?
first off - what's wrong with wanting to have your cake and eat it too? everyone loves cake, and what's the use of having it if you can't eat it?
now what's all this about p2p being free? that certainly isn't true. p2p costs both time and money, often times more of both than tape-recording. with tape recording, all you have to buy is a $5 pack of 3 tapes, and all the time it takes is the time for the tape to play through. w/ p2p it costs whatever your internet connection costs - if you're using broadband (which is most likely for people downloading hoards of music) that's much more expensive than buying a set of tapes. and have you ever tried to download an entire album? getting an entire album of songs that are decent in quality is not exactly a one-click procedure
the RIAA is just pissed that money is going to iternet providers instead of them.
my point is the same as bono's - "They say that home-taping is killing music, which is bullshit. It isn't home-taping. Bad music is killing the music industry."
let me get this straight... i can lay down $18 for a cd that probably isn't even worth the disk it's recorded on (where can i sign up?!) or i can, for free, download the same crappy music which will probably only be a waste of my time.
mmm... good old "lesser of two evils"
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why don't you stop hiding behind anonymity? then we'll talk.
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to the average user, an operating system where you can freely tinker w/ stuff will probably never take off. but to people who have some computer knowledge, linux might be a good choice for them but like you said - they're afraid. and stuff like this (providing knowledge and easing the possible transition) is a good way to get people to switch. after all, the best way to combat fear is knowledge.
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you're right - we shouldn't try to get any new users to try linux instead of windows. how obvious! we should get more people to use windows to increase the popularity of linux. makes sense to me.
i'm so sick of all this "new people don't want anything but windows" shit. if that person is so locked into using windows that they're vehemently against trying anything else then there's no way to convince them to use linux - from the beginning of their computing experience or in the middle. it won't matter to them.
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simple mistake. at any rate, republic is still > democracy. unless, you know, you don't like definitions.
republic:
n.
1.
1. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
2.
1. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
3. often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
4. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
5. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.
democracy:
n.
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
according to our friend the dictionary, a republic has a head (monarch or president) and a representative body (house, senate), while a democracy has every citizen voting on everything directly or through elected officials (house, senate).
so far, republic wins.
the problem with this is that america isn't a democracy. it's a republic - when was the last time you voted for or against a law?
a dead spot on "parallel analogy", eh? if you know anything about argumentation (as you obviously don't, as evidenced by your degeneration into flaming) you would know that a "dead spot" in an analogy lends discredit to it's status as an analogy. as you don't really have anything linking your concept to mine - here's the important part - it's not an analogy!
remind me how a null analogy, a wise-ass comment and licking square's proverbial asshole equates to a righteous smackdown?
i'd be interested to see how a god i don't believe in would strike me down. in fact, i think it would be worth the death that would come from it. there's nothing to be purist about? at all? it makes me sad that you think that - enjoy your corrupted corporate existence then.
Braveheart 1 was a bastardization of actual history.
are you trying to say that final fantasy $NUMBER is closer to actual history? my point is that the story is being bastardized. not history. your point that braveheart is a far cry from the actual history of william wallace is completely unrelated to my point about breaveheart 2.
If they produce a sequel I don't like, well, that's life. There's no point in whining like a sissy over it.
you say that there's no point in whining about something you disagree with? if so, then why are you whining about my post? you obviously don't like it so why did you whine about it?
since when are there actual sequels to the final fantasy games? call me a purist but it feels like a bastardization of my favorite stories when there's a continuation made after the story has ended. it's as if there was a braveheart 2 being made.
it's not that americans are being ambushed in the parking lots or whatever. it's that at least some of the jobs being "taken" are manual, untrained labor. the people who desperately need money (ie - jobs) are having at least part of the employment market shut down because there are fewer entry-level positions availabe. you don't see CEO's or execs getting pissed off about this issue, because if they can pay workers less, that means they can bathe in yet more money. the people that are getting screwed by this situation are the ones at the bottom of the proverbial pecking order.
mmm... that will get in the way. perhaps we could use the new emulator to emulate a compatible distro? (see: hack)
this seems like a step in the right direction for naysayers of linux who keep claiming that until linux has universal standards, it will never be very popular...
at any rate, society-as-a-whole's conception of being a nerd has anime mushed into it. it's not necessarily true, but stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. they are (or at least were at some point) largely true.
what now? flaimbait? /me scratches head.
bounty hunters take note: worm/viri writers are easy money.
it's not a bug that IE doesn't save you time/energy/hassle - it's a feature!
i've waited for this for so long... and yes! dear god, yes!
a better one is "does money need yet more money?"
someone remind me why i'm going to a small, cheap-ass liberal arts school, again? something about useful education?
as any state official would tell you - there's a difference between "keeping tabs" and outright spying. the latter involves trickery and deceit. the former involves saying "hey, what are you doing today?".
maybe i'm being idealistic, but instead of spying on your children, why not raise them in such a way that they wouldn't feel a need to lie to you?
i can't wait 'till re-entry, when the superheating of the inflatable spaceship will cause it to pop like a balloon in an industrial oven.
now what's all this about p2p being free? that certainly isn't true. p2p costs both time and money, often times more of both than tape-recording. with tape recording, all you have to buy is a $5 pack of 3 tapes, and all the time it takes is the time for the tape to play through. w/ p2p it costs whatever your internet connection costs - if you're using broadband (which is most likely for people downloading hoards of music) that's much more expensive than buying a set of tapes. and have you ever tried to download an entire album? getting an entire album of songs that are decent in quality is not exactly a one-click procedure
the RIAA is just pissed that money is going to iternet providers instead of them.
replace "home-taping" with "downloading".
let me get this straight... i can lay down $18 for a cd that probably isn't even worth the disk it's recorded on (where can i sign up?!) or i can, for free, download the same crappy music which will probably only be a waste of my time. mmm... good old "lesser of two evils"
dont' you mean "cthulhu for president!" ?
why don't you stop hiding behind anonymity? then we'll talk.
to the average user, an operating system where you can freely tinker w/ stuff will probably never take off. but to people who have some computer knowledge, linux might be a good choice for them but like you said - they're afraid. and stuff like this (providing knowledge and easing the possible transition) is a good way to get people to switch. after all, the best way to combat fear is knowledge.
i'm so sick of all this "new people don't want anything but windows" shit. if that person is so locked into using windows that they're vehemently against trying anything else then there's no way to convince them to use linux - from the beginning of their computing experience or in the middle. it won't matter to them.