actually, louis is a minority of those who do say words fully. and the point in citing him was to note how saying "n-word" is so incredibly stupid and useless:) everybody knows what you meant there. it is no better than just saying "nigger" and being done with it.
oh, that's bullshit. or you missed the point. why skip the full word, why hide behind a substitute ? or, as louis ck put it, why try to plant it in the listeners' minds ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ
or what about the interesting phenomena where black people may use word "nigger", but others (caucasians, asians, indians etc) may not ?
it's not the only example, of course, but one that seems to illustrate the state of censorship in the usa fairly well.
they don't say it because they are afraid. whether they are afraid from corporations or govt makes little effective difference. also, "in the right context" means "self-censoring a bit less"...
and this is the great thing about america - some americans will rationalise everything to show how america is the greatest and how any problems pointed out actually are GREAT:)
(and i do think the american self-censorship regime is slightly better than govt-imposed censorship. i just can't agree with it being all fine and dandy)
as i noted in another comment, does it make that much difference whether it's self censorship because you fear consequences by corporations as opposed to consequences from a government ?:)
Europe has some rather strict hate crime laws because of a certain incident that happened during the 30s and 40s. It'd be nice if they had strong free speech laws, but their history has led them down a different path.
is that usa market ? in europe it seems to be the opposite - very hard to find decent it people, and competition is very fierce. people get pulled in from other countries more and more.
it depends on the card. if you have a card w/o chip (haven't seen them in europe... for a long time), it might work. if your card has both, there are almost no places where magstripe will work. can't recall a single place that was not using chip in the last couple of years
if i suddenly got interested in cyanide, i'd be a bit worried that the seller on that site sits in some fbi office and would try to talk me into poisoning something right after that.
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pfft. lions. we're talking about ice insects from outer space here
actually, louis is a minority of those who do say words fully. and the point in citing him was to note how saying "n-word" is so incredibly stupid and useless :)
everybody knows what you meant there. it is no better than just saying "nigger" and being done with it.
oh, that's bullshit. or you missed the point. why skip the full word, why hide behind a substitute ?
or, as louis ck put it, why try to plant it in the listeners' minds ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ
or what about the interesting phenomena where black people may use word "nigger", but others (caucasians, asians, indians etc) may not ?
it's not the only example, of course, but one that seems to illustrate the state of censorship in the usa fairly well.
they don't say it because they are afraid. whether they are afraid from corporations or govt makes little effective difference. also, "in the right context" means "self-censoring a bit less"...
and this is the great thing about america - some americans will rationalise everything to show how america is the greatest and how any problems pointed out actually are GREAT :)
(and i do think the american self-censorship regime is slightly better than govt-imposed censorship. i just can't agree with it being all fine and dandy)
as i noted in another comment, does it make that much difference whether it's self censorship because you fear consequences by corporations as opposed to consequences from a government ? :)
sure self censorship is not exactly the same. but does it make that much difference in the end ? :)
Europe has some rather strict hate crime laws because of a certain incident that happened during the 30s and 40s.
It'd be nice if they had strong free speech laws, but their history has led them down a different path.
why do american "news" people say "n-word" ?
what fun can you make out of "press 1 for English" ?
ah, thanks. is there any hope that everything would be working eventually, or is there some problem with closed blobs or whatnot ?
ok, what does not work then ? ;)
it also seems that somebody had to make this change... article has this quote:
"difficult software bug from the one which grounded flights"
well, spellchecker did not complain, so we're all set...
kilometres.
cha-ching.
9 out of 10 healthcare websites run oracle... oops
if that is insurance for dentist services, not me personally. if you are younger than 18, dental care is free, but not after that :/
is that usa market ? in europe it seems to be the opposite - very hard to find decent it people, and competition is very fierce. people get pulled in from other countries more and more.
oh, saying sorry is a different topic.
dear bp, now is a chance to pretend you did not know this was going on and sue that company out of existence
calling slashdot a forum gives credibility to the statement above. well, up to the "not paid" part
that sounds like no true scotsman, just on a larger scale
because another country that can pool resources will just come over and kill or exile half of your population. be it russia, china or whatever.
it depends on the card. if you have a card w/o chip (haven't seen them in europe... for a long time), it might work. if your card has both, there are almost no places where magstripe will work. can't recall a single place that was not using chip in the last couple of years
and you can also help by mapping the region with the openstreetmap humanitarian team :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan_(2013)
this should help rescue teams and relief workers
don't scientists use utc for these things ? if not, they definitely should :)
the latter part sounds like the beginning on "manna" - computer system in a short story somebody linked to in ./ recently.
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
creepy.
if i suddenly got interested in cyanide, i'd be a bit worried that the seller on that site sits in some fbi office and would try to talk me into poisoning something right after that.