Stella wasn't the one who served coffee forty degrees higher than it should have been served and she wasn't the one who used defective foam. You'd probably want to give the Darwin Award to people who were told "4 out of 5 doctors prefer Marlboro" too. Please go to fucking Somalia and leave me alone.
Because absolutely every conflict in the entire world is an epic struggle between good and evil! You don't mean struggle between good and evil. You mean conflict. Say conflict.
Analog, especially VHS, is the ultimate form of DRM. With normal DRM, there is a possibility that you will be able to crack the product due to the power of DVD Jon et al. With VHS, it will always look like grainy shit with horrible sound. (Vinyl is a bit better in this respect but playing it on any but the most expensive laser record players will decrease the amount of useful information and make it that more likely to skip. (CDs skip too, but something that you scratch to play by definition will lose more information upon playing.)
The sale of VHS is down to nearly nothing now. It's a complete niche market. Analog is worse than DRM because DRM can be cracked but Analog always looks and sounds crappy.
I hate Dubya too but he's not pure evil. At least he isn't advocating genocide. McCarthyism, yes, genocide, no.
Mother Teresa did provide help to a lot of Indian children but she was also very close with brutal dictators. Gandhi claimed he would have to have his body split into two pieces before splitting India, ignoring the brewing brutalities between Hindus and Muslims, before sanctioning the split. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized many of his writings on civil rights, including his dissertation. All three were amazing people who made amazingly good contributions to society but "pure good" is something that not even they can attain, although Gandhi comes close. They are also very rare examples.
Let me rephrase. What is the better solution than protesting for a national issue? You mention local politics, but that doesn't work if you want to change Roe v. Wade or the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
What he really means is a story answering the question "How much of your principles should you sacrifice to get your principles accepted?" i.e. "When do the ends stop justifying the means?". That is not Good versus Evil and becomes severely distorted when you try to make it such, although a "good vs evil" may be the backdrop for a "where ends stop justifying means". (For example, the war with the Cylons is the backdrop for A Measure of Salvation.)
The best stories don't answer deep philosophical questions, they raise them.
Have you ever agnized over doing the right thing versus doing the easy thing?
Nowhere near as much as I have agonized over doing two things which could both be considered good or evil depending on whom you ask. There is rarely a clearly defined evil and even when there is a clear evil (World War II) there is rarely a clearly defined good thing to do. There are many actions taken by the Allies during World War II that are still sharply criticized and debated to this day. The atomic bomb is probably the most famous one, followed closely by internment camps. The struggle between a pearly white good and pure evil is unrealistic, lazy, and annoying. It is less realistic than a twentysomething party girl and a killer android from the future. (Although I suspect you are talking in a more general sense of good versus evil in which case I'm probably violently agreeing with you.) Many real battles have no clear good guy and no clear bad guy. Just look at the Middle East in recent times.
There's always the possibility of the "easy" choice being better--"choose your battles" and "he who fights and runs away" are often justifications. Clear-cut choices are usually very quickly taken.
And if it weren't for this lawsuit system we'd still be sucking down asbestos. If a few people getting a free wrist strap and a few lawyers getting too rich are the price for not sucking down asbestos, then I'll pay the price.
So people who live in some major city are banned from protesting? And if something in national politics is a problem with no local solution, then there's no right to protest?
To the three people discussing how Hitler isn't evil: I only put the "other than Hitler" comment so that parent wouldn't try to hit the low-hanging fruit. Thank you for proving my point though.
You're kidding me, right? Name me one person in the real world who is completely evil, other than Hitler. Then name me one person who is completely good. After three days of debate of the actual goodness of the latter, then we can talk about the realism of that plot device. It's natural only in that it's lazy.
Of course, if you run anything other than KDE you will have to run both KDE's libs and the libs of whatever WM you're using. As a person who hates the GNOME/KDE interface belief of making things like Windows and OSX(this is a bad idea because it misleads people) I don't want to load up libraries for something I'm never using.
You forgot The Matrix. The sequels decided to tread more philosophical ground and also made the machines not be evil demons, and yet Slashdot only likes the first movie. I guess the new Slashdot likes Ludditism.
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Stella wasn't the one who served coffee forty degrees higher than it should have been served and she wasn't the one who used defective foam. You'd probably want to give the Darwin Award to people who were told "4 out of 5 doctors prefer Marlboro" too. Please go to fucking Somalia and leave me alone.
Because absolutely every conflict in the entire world is an epic struggle between good and evil! You don't mean struggle between good and evil. You mean conflict. Say conflict.
Yes, we all know what McDonalds should have done.
Analog, especially VHS, is the ultimate form of DRM. With normal DRM, there is a possibility that you will be able to crack the product due to the power of DVD Jon et al. With VHS, it will always look like grainy shit with horrible sound. (Vinyl is a bit better in this respect but playing it on any but the most expensive laser record players will decrease the amount of useful information and make it that more likely to skip. (CDs skip too, but something that you scratch to play by definition will lose more information upon playing.)
At least he's not a Scientologist.
The sale of VHS is down to nearly nothing now. It's a complete niche market. Analog is worse than DRM because DRM can be cracked but Analog always looks and sounds crappy.
I hate Dubya too but he's not pure evil. At least he isn't advocating genocide. McCarthyism, yes, genocide, no. Mother Teresa did provide help to a lot of Indian children but she was also very close with brutal dictators. Gandhi claimed he would have to have his body split into two pieces before splitting India, ignoring the brewing brutalities between Hindus and Muslims, before sanctioning the split. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized many of his writings on civil rights, including his dissertation. All three were amazing people who made amazingly good contributions to society but "pure good" is something that not even they can attain, although Gandhi comes close. They are also very rare examples.
Let me rephrase. What is the better solution than protesting for a national issue? You mention local politics, but that doesn't work if you want to change Roe v. Wade or the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
What he really means is a story answering the question "How much of your principles should you sacrifice to get your principles accepted?" i.e. "When do the ends stop justifying the means?". That is not Good versus Evil and becomes severely distorted when you try to make it such, although a "good vs evil" may be the backdrop for a "where ends stop justifying means". (For example, the war with the Cylons is the backdrop for A Measure of Salvation.)
The best stories don't answer deep philosophical questions, they raise them.
There's always the possibility of the "easy" choice being better--"choose your battles" and "he who fights and runs away" are often justifications. Clear-cut choices are usually very quickly taken.
And if it weren't for this lawsuit system we'd still be sucking down asbestos. If a few people getting a free wrist strap and a few lawyers getting too rich are the price for not sucking down asbestos, then I'll pay the price.
So people who live in some major city are banned from protesting? And if something in national politics is a problem with no local solution, then there's no right to protest?
You even used bad grammar and spelling, like a Slashdot editor!
To the three people discussing how Hitler isn't evil: I only put the "other than Hitler" comment so that parent wouldn't try to hit the low-hanging fruit. Thank you for proving my point though.
You're kidding me, right? Name me one person in the real world who is completely evil, other than Hitler. Then name me one person who is completely good. After three days of debate of the actual goodness of the latter, then we can talk about the realism of that plot device. It's natural only in that it's lazy.
Of course, if you run anything other than KDE you will have to run both KDE's libs and the libs of whatever WM you're using. As a person who hates the GNOME/KDE interface belief of making things like Windows and OSX(this is a bad idea because it misleads people) I don't want to load up libraries for something I'm never using.
They aren't using GNOME, but they are using GTK. They're creating their own interface for it although they used GNOME while designing the interface.
No, I'm referring to 90% of the comments any time the Matrix is brought up.
DeLorean...that's the one that goes back in time, right?
Have fun with your sweatshop labor. OLPC is based on ideology.
I hate Macs too, and I hated Opera until they made it free as well.
If the movies sucked that badly there would be no piracy.
You forgot The Matrix. The sequels decided to tread more philosophical ground and also made the machines not be evil demons, and yet Slashdot only likes the first movie. I guess the new Slashdot likes Ludditism.