Sure, when the people are powerless, they don't kill each other as much. But the all important bit here is that when the people are powerless against each other, they are *especially* powerless against those who are entitled to have guns.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. An unarmed, docile population is one of those good intentions.
Dunno, a few con artists told some countries that their company should be in charge of issuing all the money, as loan, and then that company sets and gets interest on it. And all these countries need to do is tax people's income in order to pay for those interests.
Nowadays they both favor big government spending, taxes (direct or through inflation), interventionism (one sells it as defending itself the other as defending others), and overall reduction of personal liberties.
They disagree on the very important stuff though, like gay marriage and stem cell research.
The first thing to realise, regardless of which side of the debate you are, is that there is a lot more politics than science being done on climate change.
I believe this is why the acceptable term has now become 'climate change' rather than 'global warming'.
I'm pretty certain that we do influence the climate. But Parent has a very good point that argument without all the facts is still nothing more than rhetoric.
There are plenty of theories on either side of that debate, but way too much political pressure (agenda?) to even allow for any form of educated and intelligent debate.
Whoever thinks this is Al Gore vs. Big Oil definitely hasn't looked into it deeply enough.
If you want to reduce CO2, *plant trees*. Elaborating a CO2 tax scam is merely a tool for social control.
You have to be elected to be on the dev team. But you *have* to publish your source code. Take away secrecy and watch corruption take a few very large steps back.
It'll never be totally gone but hopefully it won't be as rampant as it is now.
Actually, my Matrox Impression Plus had 3D (OpenGL) acceleration. That was um... 1994?
The tricky thing then was to find *anything* but the 3 matrox-made sample (and crappy) games that would use it;) It was a real killer in 3D Studio and CAD though.
People are so scared of "terrorists", and associate Islam so closely with those terrorists, that they are scared to death of offending anyone that calls themselves a Muslim.
You bring up a good point... Though my response is likely to be slightly off topic.
Personally, I'm way more scared (and likely) of being the victim or some anti-terrorism measure than any kind of terrorist attack. Technically, pretty much everybody is now already a 'victim' of anti-terrorism.
Tragic as the events were, 9/11, 7/7, Madrid didn't really affect my life in any significant way. The response to these things certainly did. It majorly affected how I travel. It radically changed what plays on my TV. It gave excuses my government to trample on liberties I once took for granted. It launched a war that contributed significantly in making the US pretty much bankrupt.
Do us all a favor, beloved rulers: Next time a terrorist attack happens, please, just shrug it off and go on. Pretend to care like the PR firm says, read the little speech they wrote with a big fake tear at the corner of your eye... Then clean up, rebuild and move on. It'll cost less economically, morally, socially, and in just about every other respect.
If I could *buy* all that added cultural value, I probably would, and I do when it's available. I much much prefer owning a DVD and I do when they find it in their heart to release it. That is... If it's not a foreing movie the US idiots who bought the rights decided to completely butcher to make it more 'US friendly'.
You want my money? *LET ME BUY* What I want, when I want and at the same price as everybody else. Don't pollute my computer with DRM rootkit whatevers, don't treat me like a criminal, let me buy.
Give me a great big site with decent-quality downloads with a big shiny button that says "Like this movie/game/album? send us 10$ and we'll ship you a legal DVD and give half of that *to the artists*" Make me click through an ad of some related content for the download, I don't mind... You even get free targeted advertising out of the deal. Make me contribute some of my CPU cycles to that studio's render farm while it downloads. Be, you know.... Creative.
You know what would happen if The Pirate Bay or some equivalent could do something like that? *good* artists would make millions, and mediocre ones would stop peddling their crap.
Then again, I can only speak for myself. Maybe I'm the only person on earth with a tad of integrity left and nobody else would bother with the shiny button.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Send Will and the team 50 bucks and tell them you're sorry you had to pirate the game because you can't support DRM but you want him to keep making games.
Heck, if half the people who read this did it, I'm sure he could afford a new Corvette;)
Just add a note telling him to share with the team. I wonder how much money they'd make if someone started "sorry we like your game but not your overlords here's 40$" movement.
That could be quite a publicity stunt for the anti-DRM cause.
I entirely agree with you. But Obama's rumored approach reminds me of a close mix between the hitlerian youth and the stasi. Of course, none of it is done yet but it makes one ponder just how screwed the american people are when it comes to presidential choices.
This suggests that the urine was not part of the protest plans. The other buckets were apparently to flush toilets which is a pretty good idea for the environmentally conscious.
Well, if you'll remember the SPP meetings up in Canada, you'll also notice that it has been documented that the anarchists trying to start a riot sometimes *are* cops. Of course, they officially denied that. Check youtube for footage of these guys and tell me they behaved like peaceful demonstrators, rock in hand...
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Sure, when the people are powerless, they don't kill each other as much. But the all important bit here is that when the people are powerless against each other, they are *especially* powerless against those who are entitled to have guns.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. An unarmed, docile population is one of those good intentions.
This is how you deal with pesky debates that get in the way of a political agenda.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
Dunno, a few con artists told some countries that their company should be in charge of issuing all the money, as loan, and then that company sets and gets interest on it. And all these countries need to do is tax people's income in order to pay for those interests.
Nowadays they both favor big government spending, taxes (direct or through inflation), interventionism (one sells it as defending itself the other as defending others), and overall reduction of personal liberties.
They disagree on the very important stuff though, like gay marriage and stem cell research.
We all know from hentai about multi-limb ancient creatures from asia...
Quick, somebody write a patch to gcc so you can 'hear' the name of each function call!
You can most certainly go "Oh sh*t!" after typing:
sudo cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sda
Sudo doesn't prevent you from being clueless. It just gives you a moment to think before you type in your password.
The first thing to realise, regardless of which side of the debate you are, is that there is a lot more politics than science being done on climate change.
I believe this is why the acceptable term has now become 'climate change' rather than 'global warming'.
I'm pretty certain that we do influence the climate. But Parent has a very good point that argument without all the facts is still nothing more than rhetoric.
There are plenty of theories on either side of that debate, but way too much political pressure (agenda?) to even allow for any form of educated and intelligent debate.
Whoever thinks this is Al Gore vs. Big Oil definitely hasn't looked into it deeply enough.
If you want to reduce CO2, *plant trees*. Elaborating a CO2 tax scam is merely a tool for social control.
You have to be elected to be on the dev team. But you *have* to publish your source code. Take away secrecy and watch corruption take a few very large steps back.
It'll never be totally gone but hopefully it won't be as rampant as it is now.
Heck JFK might have been right.
Actually, my Matrox Impression Plus had 3D (OpenGL) acceleration. That was um... 1994?
The tricky thing then was to find *anything* but the 3 matrox-made sample (and crappy) games that would use it ;) It was a real killer in 3D Studio and CAD though.
People are so scared of "terrorists", and associate Islam so closely with those terrorists, that they are scared to death of offending anyone that calls themselves a Muslim.
You bring up a good point... Though my response is likely to be slightly off topic.
Personally, I'm way more scared (and likely) of being the victim or some anti-terrorism measure than any kind of terrorist attack. Technically, pretty much everybody is now already a 'victim' of anti-terrorism.
Tragic as the events were, 9/11, 7/7, Madrid didn't really affect my life in any significant way. The response to these things certainly did. It majorly affected how I travel. It radically changed what plays on my TV. It gave excuses my government to trample on liberties I once took for granted. It launched a war that contributed significantly in making the US pretty much bankrupt.
Do us all a favor, beloved rulers: Next time a terrorist attack happens, please, just shrug it off and go on. Pretend to care like the PR firm says, read the little speech they wrote with a big fake tear at the corner of your eye... Then clean up, rebuild and move on. It'll cost less economically, morally, socially, and in just about every other respect.
Amen.
I think the DHS is now in charge of all prodding.
If I could *buy* all that added cultural value, I probably would, and I do when it's available. I much much prefer owning a DVD and I do when they find it in their heart to release it. That is... If it's not a foreing movie the US idiots who bought the rights decided to completely butcher to make it more 'US friendly'.
You want my money? *LET ME BUY* What I want, when I want and at the same price as everybody else. Don't pollute my computer with DRM rootkit whatevers, don't treat me like a criminal, let me buy.
Give me a great big site with decent-quality downloads with a big shiny button that says "Like this movie/game/album? send us 10$ and we'll ship you a legal DVD and give half of that *to the artists*" Make me click through an ad of some related content for the download, I don't mind... You even get free targeted advertising out of the deal. Make me contribute some of my CPU cycles to that studio's render farm while it downloads. Be, you know.... Creative.
You know what would happen if The Pirate Bay or some equivalent could do something like that? *good* artists would make millions, and mediocre ones would stop peddling their crap.
Then again, I can only speak for myself. Maybe I'm the only person on earth with a tad of integrity left and nobody else would bother with the shiny button.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Government is only incompetent if you assume that its goal is to serve the people. As a self-serving entity, it is pretty darn impressive.
Same goes for President.
but hey, what's 3000 kilometres....
14912.87 furlong
Send Will and the team 50 bucks and tell them you're sorry you had to pirate the game because you can't support DRM but you want him to keep making games.
Heck, if half the people who read this did it, I'm sure he could afford a new Corvette ;)
Just add a note telling him to share with the team. I wonder how much money they'd make if someone started "sorry we like your game but not your overlords here's 40$" movement.
That could be quite a publicity stunt for the anti-DRM cause.
I entirely agree with you. But Obama's rumored approach reminds me of a close mix between the hitlerian youth and the stasi. Of course, none of it is done yet but it makes one ponder just how screwed the american people are when it comes to presidential choices.
This suggests that the urine was not part of the protest plans. The other buckets were apparently to flush toilets which is a pretty good idea for the environmentally conscious.
Well, if you'll remember the SPP meetings up in Canada, you'll also notice that it has been documented that the anarchists trying to start a riot sometimes *are* cops. Of course, they officially denied that. Check youtube for footage of these guys and tell me they behaved like peaceful demonstrators, rock in hand...
Our own country eh? Sure we get to manage it... So long as the queen agrees.