On behalf of the Estate of JRR Tolkein I demand you Cease and Desist your use of the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property of the word "Tolkein".
The Intellectual Property "Tolkein" is patently integral to the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property known as "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and therefore, remains the property of The Estate.
You have 30 days to compl-RECURSION ERROR/DIV BY ZERO
I never said it was, just that the whole point of the franchise is really the fatalities and various violences. The actual combat is more or less filler.
I've heard from a lot of Lasik/Lasek/Whateverik patients that its not uncommon to get a fair bit past 20/20. I'm not sure if that has consequences when you need to look at something up close though, I know how horrible that feels when I'm wearing my glasses so I can only imagine how bad it must be to have your eyes do that to you... maybe it doesn't though.
18 IS way too young... if you willfully and deliberately handicap your children's development and maturity by treating them like half-animal creatures incapable of learning or rationality and ensuring they never have any sort of opportunity to learn freedom and responsibility. You can't simply restrict more and more for longer and longer and expect them to magically become adults at some point, the way our society raises children and treats teenagers produces teen behavior... not the other way around. The entirety of human history and pretty much the entire rest of the world is direct evidence of this.
tried that, also tried adding in their "no this is what we're going to search for" term with a minus sign, that didn't work either. I had to use BOTH at the same time to get it to Just Fucking Search.
Please stop fucking with my search results. When I type something in the search box I want you to search for exactly that and suggest possible typos. I don't want you to search for what I DIDN'T type, I don't want you to combine it with my previous results, I don't want you to assume I must have meant something else and search for some other word entirely because you THINK it's the same thing.
Sincerely, Everyone who's sick of searching for one thing and having something totally different returned.
So by your logic was the civil rights movement's breaking of the law morally wrong as well or are you playing favorites in this case because you think they aren't reaching some magical threshold of political activism despite NORML and so on.
Also you seem to have an intimate knowledge of what is and is not a good use for primate semen, would you care to share why you think I'm involved with it and how you became so familiar with the proper usage of monkey ejaculate?
Actually Dave that's a canine and if you could count a little higher you might notice it's in front of a bunch of molars that are built for chewing things that aren't meat. We're actually omnivores and do best on a mixed diet.
The problem is this entire thing is them pretending that people are doing exactly that. You can't claim you don't want people doing something and then secretly pay people to do (at least what is purposefully designed to LOOK like) exactly that. It's like the police claiming they don't want people jaywalking and then constantly paying people to jaywalk all the time all over the place.
That wasn't Davev2.0's argument though, his argument was one of MORALITY. That pot was immoral and pot smokers "have no self-control, no self-discipline, and no personal responsibility" not because of the pot itself but because of pot being illegal right now. Fundamentally his argument boils down to a personal attack on pot smokers and inherently relies on the assumption that the law is a perfect and infallible judge of morality. As he said: "If it is against the law and you don't need it, there is absolutely no excuse for having it or doing it."
The counter-argument to this is that we could just as easily outlaw other things without any real decent justification such as coffee or eating meat and then anyone who drank coffee or ate meat would fall into the class of people he includes pot smokers in.
The flaw here is that just because it IS illegal does not mean it's wrong, or that it SHOULD be illegal. Should the dope fiends act all surprised when they get in legal trouble? No, they're breaking the f#@%ing law, they should expect legal consequences. But that doesn't mean that they don't have a right to be outraged over the ridiculously excessive nature of those consequences, or disagree with the illegality of their actions entirely.
You don't need to eat meat or drink anything other than water. Lets outlaw coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, tea, the consumption of meat...
No one would be deprived of something they need like ACTUAL nutritional sustenance or water. They have no self-control, no self-discipline, and no personal responsibility and I have no doubt that you are one of them. They are victims of themselves, not society. If it is against the law and you don't need it, there is absolutely no excuse for having it or doing it.
You forgot one of the other major issues holding the US back: In a lot of other countries big time thinkers and producers range from being generally respected and appreciated to being the next best thing to a rock star. In America education is demonized and the educated are treated like shit while we idolize high profile conspicuous consumers and the uneducated.
Back on 2.0 even with every setting set to show as many comments as possible and filter none at all slashdot would STILL automatically block a lot of comments, completely silently so the only way to find them was by clicking "parent" on a reply that was indented a little more than normal, and often for no reason at all since they weren't even modded down most of the time.
Venus flytraps close in less than a second, and mimosa pudica will fold in on themselves very quickly after being touched. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0LFBM3hOLs)
If you mean comments that's been a problem for a while. I don't know why but ever since they loaded the comment system with web2.0 bullshit it's been habitually refusing to load all the comments even though I put no filtering in my settings AND keep clicking "more". What's even worse is that it hides comments invisibly.
I'm on a powerful desktop most of the time and I despise everything since they decided they just HAD to start using unresponsive web2.0 bullshit instead of a nice robust HTML reply page.
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Should've just ordered a Prescott and saved yourself the heater.
On behalf of the Estate of JRR Tolkein I demand you Cease and Desist your use of the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property of the word "Tolkein".
The Intellectual Property "Tolkein" is patently integral to the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property known as "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and therefore, remains the property of The Estate.
You have 30 days to compl-RECURSION ERROR/DIV BY ZERO
I never said it was, just that the whole point of the franchise is really the fatalities and various violences. The actual combat is more or less filler.
Yeah something tells me that wouldn't work so well today.
Mortal Kombat without the (often hilariously) excessive violence is more or less like going to a strip club to look at shoes.
Afaik there's never been any real conclusive proof that vision loss comes from eye "fatigue".
I've heard from a lot of Lasik/Lasek/Whateverik patients that its not uncommon to get a fair bit past 20/20. I'm not sure if that has consequences when you need to look at something up close though, I know how horrible that feels when I'm wearing my glasses so I can only imagine how bad it must be to have your eyes do that to you... maybe it doesn't though.
18 IS way too young... if you willfully and deliberately handicap your children's development and maturity by treating them like half-animal creatures incapable of learning or rationality and ensuring they never have any sort of opportunity to learn freedom and responsibility. You can't simply restrict more and more for longer and longer and expect them to magically become adults at some point, the way our society raises children and treats teenagers produces teen behavior... not the other way around. The entirety of human history and pretty much the entire rest of the world is direct evidence of this.
Oh it gets even worse than that, that's at least more or less the same word, I've had google flat out search for something else entirely.
tried that, also tried adding in their "no this is what we're going to search for" term with a minus sign, that didn't work either. I had to use BOTH at the same time to get it to Just Fucking Search.
Dear Google,
Please stop fucking with my search results. When I type something in the search box I want you to search for exactly that and suggest possible typos. I don't want you to search for what I DIDN'T type, I don't want you to combine it with my previous results, I don't want you to assume I must have meant something else and search for some other word entirely because you THINK it's the same thing.
Sincerely,
Everyone who's sick of searching for one thing and having something totally different returned.
So by your logic was the civil rights movement's breaking of the law morally wrong as well or are you playing favorites in this case because you think they aren't reaching some magical threshold of political activism despite NORML and so on.
Also you seem to have an intimate knowledge of what is and is not a good use for primate semen, would you care to share why you think I'm involved with it and how you became so familiar with the proper usage of monkey ejaculate?
Actually Dave that's a canine and if you could count a little higher you might notice it's in front of a bunch of molars that are built for chewing things that aren't meat. We're actually omnivores and do best on a mixed diet.
The problem is this entire thing is them pretending that people are doing exactly that. You can't claim you don't want people doing something and then secretly pay people to do (at least what is purposefully designed to LOOK like) exactly that. It's like the police claiming they don't want people jaywalking and then constantly paying people to jaywalk all the time all over the place.
That wasn't Davev2.0's argument though, his argument was one of MORALITY. That pot was immoral and pot smokers "have no self-control, no self-discipline, and no personal responsibility" not because of the pot itself but because of pot being illegal right now. Fundamentally his argument boils down to a personal attack on pot smokers and inherently relies on the assumption that the law is a perfect and infallible judge of morality. As he said: "If it is against the law and you don't need it, there is absolutely no excuse for having it or doing it."
The counter-argument to this is that we could just as easily outlaw other things without any real decent justification such as coffee or eating meat and then anyone who drank coffee or ate meat would fall into the class of people he includes pot smokers in.
The flaw here is that just because it IS illegal does not mean it's wrong, or that it SHOULD be illegal. Should the dope fiends act all surprised when they get in legal trouble? No, they're breaking the f#@%ing law, they should expect legal consequences. But that doesn't mean that they don't have a right to be outraged over the ridiculously excessive nature of those consequences, or disagree with the illegality of their actions entirely.
You don't need to eat meat or drink anything other than water. Lets outlaw coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, tea, the consumption of meat...
No one would be deprived of something they need like ACTUAL nutritional sustenance or water. They have no self-control, no self-discipline, and no personal responsibility and I have no doubt that you are one of them. They are victims of themselves, not society. If it is against the law and you don't need it, there is absolutely no excuse for having it or doing it.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/files/2010/09/mac01.jpg
Between enormously inflated prices for absolute cut rate hardware and their forced upgrade treadmill they're doing great.
You forgot one of the other major issues holding the US back: In a lot of other countries big time thinkers and producers range from being generally respected and appreciated to being the next best thing to a rock star. In America education is demonized and the educated are treated like shit while we idolize high profile conspicuous consumers and the uneducated.
Back on 2.0 even with every setting set to show as many comments as possible and filter none at all slashdot would STILL automatically block a lot of comments, completely silently so the only way to find them was by clicking "parent" on a reply that was indented a little more than normal, and often for no reason at all since they weren't even modded down most of the time.
Odds are they just upped the ante on that game.
So they'll just kidnap you and murder you AFTER they're done with you?
Venus flytraps close in less than a second, and mimosa pudica will fold in on themselves very quickly after being touched. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0LFBM3hOLs)
Second question: Why can't slashdot actually show all comments anymore? Why hide comments invisibly even when I set not to filter ANYTHING?
If you mean comments that's been a problem for a while. I don't know why but ever since they loaded the comment system with web2.0 bullshit it's been habitually refusing to load all the comments even though I put no filtering in my settings AND keep clicking "more". What's even worse is that it hides comments invisibly.
I'm on a powerful desktop most of the time and I despise everything since they decided they just HAD to start using unresponsive web2.0 bullshit instead of a nice robust HTML reply page.
And that's the sort of fuck up I'm talking about. Along with the more blatant ones like, say, rapes, murders, and massacres.