Well, perhaps if you are so useless that you can't buy you own healthcare you deserve to die. I pay all of mine out of pocket, and I can't think of a better thing to spend money on.
Oh, I forgot, no personal responsibility in this country. Right. Nevermind, I guess your health is my problem.
PS, just wondering if you would pay my rent and buy me food too? I need those to live as well... Oh, and coffee.
I got pretty much the same advice from everyone I asked at the law firm I work for, but they recommend that you say "Yes, I'd love to take the breathalizer after I consult my counsel", then remember NOT to sign the form they will poke under your nose saying that you refused the test. You still go to jail, you might just keep your license. Oh, and there's supposed to be some helpful precedent related to requesting coulsel (at least in Texas)
We should obviously focus on the time machine, as when it's completed we can make sure the holographic memory is/was right around the corner. Hell, perhaps I can send back some of that holographic memory already filled with pr0n and thus releave the load on the internet.
Do-dee-do la-de-da... Hmm... looks like it didn't work. damn. nevermind. Good thing azerus is already running.
Morality is very personal, and further I suggest that evolution has built in a certain "morality" for every kind of life. It seems to me that the real world (aka, nature and us) exsist in an amoral state. Any morality we or other life may have is instilled by instinct or training. I still don't see why we are responsible for taking care of everything. Whatever it is we have doesn't carry that price. Keep in mind, I do believe that we should act in the best intrest of the species, which probably means taking responsibility for our actions and taking care of our world. But we don't have to. We can kill ourselves and take who/what ever with us, no biggie. Still all natural whether we call it good or bad, either way.
Ok, it's about time I had a post modded flamebait. But here goes:
Pick some other animals (I've not looked into it, but I'm sure it's happened) manage to kill each other off. Perhaps one eats all of the other species then dies of starvation or some such. Everyone just shrugs and says "oh, that's nature for ya". Humans cause some change or hunt something to extinction and all of a sudden it's not natural? Can someone explain to me exactly when and how we aquired this bizare moral responsibility? I can see how it could easily be in out best interest not to hunt things to extinctction, but I don't see why we're judged by a different standard then other animals... How could anything we do be un-natural as we are just as much a product of nature as anything else... So let's clone and kill away, perhaps killing ourselves in the process. It's natural, and it's not wrong... Hey, nature is a tough place where wimps eat changing habitat death. sorry for ranting.
Here in Austin, we get things like NPR and things like 'so and so helped pay for this' and then right back to it. I approve. As far as product placement, seems to me that it may be a good thing. If revenue comes from advertising, and advertising is integrated into the product (the show), then the incentive to limit distribution dissappears. We are one step closer to "Did you miss part of tonight's show? Grab the torrent! Send it to your friends!". And I know what you're going to say next, but if the ad placement becomes too intrusive (ie. breaks the show) then no one will watch it. Just as you and your wife discovered. Perhaps you would put up with it a little more if it resulted in more reasonable treatment of the end user.
What about Unreal? Loved it. We had a running joke: "Is your distance perfectly calibrated so that your penis will not rot or fall off?" You know, because you had to stand in just the right spot to survive sometimes. C'mon, I was maybe 10, I don't really remember much about it, just that it was funny. oh, and the time we wrote a program to poke random memory locations. I don't reccomend it.
Um, ok. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I just installed a fresh copy of opera today, and it didn't even mention it's email or news support. I can only assume they're still there, but how can you complain when it's still small and fast and quietly has those features for those who want them?
I'm sick of DST. Just get up earlier if you want more daylight. Easy. In fact, time zones in general piss me off. I pick up the phone and call halfway around the world, for all intents and purposes it's the same time everywhere. Why isn't it called the same time? Life would be easy. Who gives a damn it the sun rises at 4:00PM? What difference does it make? You still have to consult a lookup table to figure out what time it is there now, why not just label it the same and know that the sun will be in the middle of the sky at a different time.
I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!
Sorry for the rant, couldn't help it on this topic.
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Oh, I forgot, no personal responsibility in this country. Right. Nevermind, I guess your health is my problem.
PS, just wondering if you would pay my rent and buy me food too? I need those to live as well... Oh, and coffee.
I got pretty much the same advice from everyone I asked at the law firm I work for, but they recommend that you say "Yes, I'd love to take the breathalizer after I consult my counsel", then remember NOT to sign the form they will poke under your nose saying that you refused the test. You still go to jail, you might just keep your license. Oh, and there's supposed to be some helpful precedent related to requesting coulsel (at least in Texas)
No, they're just actually drunk.
But no one every told me about personal responsibility. I blame society and the government!
"oh, what's it called now?"
"urectum"
(Ok, from memory, so it may not be quite right)
Do-dee-do la-de-da... Hmm... looks like it didn't work. damn. nevermind. Good thing azerus is already running.
My god, please tell me you looked that up. Please.
Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!
Wait, wrong show... is this offtopic then?
Looks like the last word in your post was somehow croped. Wierd 'cause there is a period there. I sure you meant "don't actually work yet."
Morality is very personal, and further I suggest that evolution has built in a certain "morality" for every kind of life. It seems to me that the real world (aka, nature and us) exsist in an amoral state. Any morality we or other life may have is instilled by instinct or training.
I still don't see why we are responsible for taking care of everything. Whatever it is we have doesn't carry that price.
Keep in mind, I do believe that we should act in the best intrest of the species, which probably means taking responsibility for our actions and taking care of our world. But we don't have to. We can kill ourselves and take who/what ever with us, no biggie. Still all natural whether we call it good or bad, either way.
Ok, it's about time I had a post modded flamebait. But here goes:
Pick some other animals (I've not looked into it, but I'm sure it's happened) manage to kill each other off. Perhaps one eats all of the other species then dies of starvation or some such. Everyone just shrugs and says "oh, that's nature for ya".
Humans cause some change or hunt something to extinction and all of a sudden it's not natural? Can someone explain to me exactly when and how we aquired this bizare moral responsibility? I can see how it could easily be in out best interest not to hunt things to extinctction, but I don't see why we're judged by a different standard then other animals... How could anything we do be un-natural as we are just as much a product of nature as anything else...
So let's clone and kill away, perhaps killing ourselves in the process. It's natural, and it's not wrong... Hey, nature is a tough place where wimps eat changing habitat death. sorry for ranting.
Too bad that if you believe in the flood and ID and such, you wouldn't think that the earth was even around 70 million years ago.... oops.
Chuck Norris
Try this one instead... I believe it was first.
Here in Austin, we get things like NPR and things like 'so and so helped pay for this' and then right back to it. I approve. As far as product placement, seems to me that it may be a good thing. If revenue comes from advertising, and advertising is integrated into the product (the show), then the incentive to limit distribution dissappears. We are one step closer to "Did you miss part of tonight's show? Grab the torrent! Send it to your friends!".
And I know what you're going to say next, but if the ad placement becomes too intrusive (ie. breaks the show) then no one will watch it. Just as you and your wife discovered. Perhaps you would put up with it a little more if it resulted in more reasonable treatment of the end user.
Perhaps instead of a screwdriver and rope (which took 2 days) they should have used an inanimate carbon rod.
This is some sort of christmas joke, right?
What about Unreal? Loved it. We had a running joke: "Is your distance perfectly calibrated so that your penis will not rot or fall off?"
You know, because you had to stand in just the right spot to survive sometimes.
C'mon, I was maybe 10, I don't really remember much about it, just that it was funny.
oh, and the time we wrote a program to poke random memory locations. I don't reccomend it.
Um, ok. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I just installed a fresh copy of opera today, and it didn't even mention it's email or news support. I can only assume they're still there, but how can you complain when it's still small and fast and quietly has those features for those who want them?
Why is this modded funny? Maybe I just don't get it... (I mean the joke)
Damn, why don't we just network our homes and offices with that stuff?
As silly as it looks, I like the double period. So there.
Although I admit I wouldn't use it on anything important...
I'm sick of DST. Just get up earlier if you want more daylight. Easy. In fact, time zones in general piss me off. I pick up the phone and call halfway around the world, for all intents and purposes it's the same time everywhere. Why isn't it called the same time? Life would be easy. Who gives a damn it the sun rises at 4:00PM? What difference does it make? You still have to consult a lookup table to figure out what time it is there now, why not just label it the same and know that the sun will be in the middle of the sky at a different time.
I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!
Sorry for the rant, couldn't help it on this topic.
Yeah, if you mod this guy down, how's he going to take advantage of the /. user base to get a free ipod?
You must be new here.
Oh, wait, you're not. Sorry.
Oh, and statistics can be used to prove anything. 17% of all people know that.