Sorry, but you can't go back to a(/n admittedly beautiful) letter of "screw you" as a way to override the United States Constitution, the highest law of the land. The DoI defines the philosophy of liberty, then declares that the British government had been molesting the rights and lives of millions, that the colonies will immediately separate from Britain, and finally lists all the reasons why. Therefore it is irrelevant that the specific phrase, "Free Speech" goes unmentioned in the DoI, for the Right is specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights, a direct element of the aforementioned United States Constitution.
The real issue here is that it is the British government that is trying to globally ban videos that are hosted in another country when it is clearly not their place to do so. They can ask Google to ban said videos from being viewed by British IPs, but to tell Google to outright delete the videos because they're "bad in the UK" seems like a foreign power attempting to dictate another country. See, if this was simply an independent choice on Google's part to remove these videos, then yes that would be another issue. Even if a British -company- asked Google to pull the videos, it might just be different. But the British government is getting involved with affairs concerning what American people are viewing, with content hosted in the USA, based solely on the idea that these videos are not allowed in Britain. If I'm Google, I suggest my previous idea of keeping British IP addresses from viewing the requested videos so as to not get Google banned from Britain for violating their laws. However, there is zero obligation on Google's part whatsoever to deprive the people of America, or of any other non-British territory, simply because agents working for the British Prime Minister said they should. Only if another country requests IP bans for ranges from their own country should Google/YouTube feel any sort of obligation to comply.
I enjoy your way of thinking. Except for the guillotines. As far as I can remember, the US Revolution was the successful one, while the French revolution was the bloody massacre. If you want a model, go for the first one.
Nostalgia trip? Please. Doom 3 reminded me of Doom 1&2 once and that was when I heard the item pickup sound from the original doom games when I grabbed a new keycard. Otherwise it was a slow, annoying mess of a game that was advanced, but apparently so advanced that they forgot to program in -ambient lighting.- It was either bright or pitch black and makes for a good game does not. Doom 1 and 2 were fast, fun games, fighting off dozens of imps and cacodemons with your plasma gun, chaingun, rocket launcher, shotgun, all of which kicked ass.
The weapons in Doom 3 felt weak. The monsters felt bland. The environments even more so. Sure, the nightmare of Hell in the classic DOOMs was a technicolor one, but it was fun. Remember that word? FUN. Like the kind of fun you'd have with your friends as they cheered over your shoulder while you fended off a Cyberdemon and his barons.
Who remembers the blistering red and blue walls of the 3rd episode, the floating eyeballs, the pink and violet colored demons? The secret doors with the ammo and the blue-faced health supercharge inside; the player running in sprint mode across a large landscape as forty lost souls slowly screamed towards you from the distance; creeping around dark corners with only 3 rounds left in your shotgun only to find a room full of imps and a backpack on the other end; the rocking music that kicked you along the shores of hell, knee deep in the dead. The orgasmic excitement of picking up a berserk health pack and punching imps into blasted, bloody chunks? Hell yeah. Classic doom was fun.
Who remembers the FUN of Doom 3's shadow-drowned, drab gray rooms? I sure don't.
I've been thinking of the whole multi-track thing for ages too. Including movies! Music track, vocal track, sound effects track. These would be unbelievably awesome opportunities for aspiring amateurs everywhere. Start off by working with Grade-A material(which of course you must only use for remixes, but still..) to know what's out there and what it's like.
"Ron doesn't even know what the Constitution says. From his "Texas Straight Talk" column: "Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government's hostility to religion."
There is no reference to God in the Constitution."
..are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights...
Looks good to me. There's certainly a reference to a god of some form here.
Interesting note: Paul is not a creationist. From the same quote where he said he doesn't completely trust evolution, he says he doesn't trust creationism as the end-all-be-all answer, too.
"That strongly suggests to me that he's incapable of basic reasoning. That's what. (I'm going to leave the whole pro-life thing off that list to avoid the inevitable flamewar.)"
We make no qualms about voting for people for believe in a magic man in the sky who created the worlds in seven days, yet when we have someone who doesn't completely believe a scientific theory 100% who isn't a scientist, we rush to condemn him as a heretic.
I can't believe he forgot to mention ICO. That is quite possibly the most emotionally affecting game of all time. The last stretch of the game from the bridge back to the throne room and then the ending was chock full of so much feeling that I wanted to burst. Never have I felt so sad, vengeful, and happy all at the same time. I definitely suggest ICO to anyone who wants an extraordinary experience. Oh in case you didn't know, this was the debut game of the Shadow of the Colossus guys.
The PS3 isn't exactly super high tech - the XBox360 can do pretty much everything the PS3 can and looks how much less IT costs. Sony just screwed up big time. BIG time. Of course, they can't admit to that.
Hm. To me, it seems that they're saying that "the security of a Free State" is the people's right to keep and bear arms. This militia of the People keeping and bearing those arms to keep our freedoms safe is necessary in order to keep that freedom going, and that militia shall not be infringed.
Here's how they stay on the same level: Those without weapons work their way up the weapon food chain. If you have a knife and another guy has a pistol, you sneak up on him and kill him, then take his pistol. Then find someone with a shotgun, sneak up on them, bullet in the brainpan, take their shotgun. Someone with an automatic rifle? Wait for them to come by, blam, take the AR. It keeps going up and up and up. If done properly, people will have bombers, fighter jets, and missiles. The government will literally have to start lobbing nuclear warheads at its own territory. What good is it to rule a country if there is nothing left to rule? The brilliant thing is that soldiers are still technically the people so they'll have to start executing and 'neutralizing' their own children in this hypothetical war, and I'm sure even soldiers have their own limits. If a bomber pilot's target is the town of his own family, chances are he'll give his superiors the finger even if it means his own death(if he's worth a damn.)
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Sorry, but you can't go back to a(/n admittedly beautiful) letter of "screw you" as a way to override the United States Constitution, the highest law of the land. The DoI defines the philosophy of liberty, then declares that the British government had been molesting the rights and lives of millions, that the colonies will immediately separate from Britain, and finally lists all the reasons why. Therefore it is irrelevant that the specific phrase, "Free Speech" goes unmentioned in the DoI, for the Right is specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights, a direct element of the aforementioned United States Constitution.
The real issue here is that it is the British government that is trying to globally ban videos that are hosted in another country when it is clearly not their place to do so. They can ask Google to ban said videos from being viewed by British IPs, but to tell Google to outright delete the videos because they're "bad in the UK" seems like a foreign power attempting to dictate another country. See, if this was simply an independent choice on Google's part to remove these videos, then yes that would be another issue. Even if a British -company- asked Google to pull the videos, it might just be different. But the British government is getting involved with affairs concerning what American people are viewing, with content hosted in the USA, based solely on the idea that these videos are not allowed in Britain. If I'm Google, I suggest my previous idea of keeping British IP addresses from viewing the requested videos so as to not get Google banned from Britain for violating their laws. However, there is zero obligation on Google's part whatsoever to deprive the people of America, or of any other non-British territory, simply because agents working for the British Prime Minister said they should. Only if another country requests IP bans for ranges from their own country should Google/YouTube feel any sort of obligation to comply.
I enjoy your way of thinking. Except for the guillotines. As far as I can remember, the US Revolution was the successful one, while the French revolution was the bloody massacre. If you want a model, go for the first one.
God I wish I could mod parent up.
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Looks like we finally have a real use for all those tin foil hats.
So the ultimate rights stealer would be if we sent our children into Iraq. Then we could say, "Won't anyone think of the children troops!" Eureka!
Nostalgia trip? Please. Doom 3 reminded me of Doom 1&2 once and that was when I heard the item pickup sound from the original doom games when I grabbed a new keycard. Otherwise it was a slow, annoying mess of a game that was advanced, but apparently so advanced that they forgot to program in -ambient lighting.- It was either bright or pitch black and makes for a good game does not. Doom 1 and 2 were fast, fun games, fighting off dozens of imps and cacodemons with your plasma gun, chaingun, rocket launcher, shotgun, all of which kicked ass.
The weapons in Doom 3 felt weak. The monsters felt bland. The environments even more so. Sure, the nightmare of Hell in the classic DOOMs was a technicolor one, but it was fun. Remember that word? FUN. Like the kind of fun you'd have with your friends as they cheered over your shoulder while you fended off a Cyberdemon and his barons.
Who remembers the blistering red and blue walls of the 3rd episode, the floating eyeballs, the pink and violet colored demons? The secret doors with the ammo and the blue-faced health supercharge inside; the player running in sprint mode across a large landscape as forty lost souls slowly screamed towards you from the distance; creeping around dark corners with only 3 rounds left in your shotgun only to find a room full of imps and a backpack on the other end; the rocking music that kicked you along the shores of hell, knee deep in the dead. The orgasmic excitement of picking up a berserk health pack and punching imps into blasted, bloody chunks? Hell yeah. Classic doom was fun.
Who remembers the FUN of Doom 3's shadow-drowned, drab gray rooms? I sure don't.
Karma to burn? Worried? Because of women? But this is the Internets, good sir!
I've been thinking of the whole multi-track thing for ages too. Including movies! Music track, vocal track, sound effects track. These would be unbelievably awesome opportunities for aspiring amateurs everywhere. Start off by working with Grade-A material(which of course you must only use for remixes, but still..) to know what's out there and what it's like.
There is no reference to God in the Constitution."
..are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights...
Looks good to me. There's certainly a reference to a god of some form here.
Interesting note: Paul is not a creationist. From the same quote where he said he doesn't completely trust evolution, he says he doesn't trust creationism as the end-all-be-all answer, too.
"That strongly suggests to me that he's incapable of basic reasoning. That's what. (I'm going to leave the whole pro-life thing off that list to avoid the inevitable flamewar.)"
We make no qualms about voting for people for believe in a magic man in the sky who created the worlds in seven days, yet when we have someone who doesn't completely believe a scientific theory 100% who isn't a scientist, we rush to condemn him as a heretic.
You, sir, have made a religion out of science.
He got double digits in Iowa(4th, 10%) Nevada(2nd, 14%) and Louisiana as well. For shame, America, that we are convinced by those who do no research.
I can't believe he forgot to mention ICO. That is quite possibly the most emotionally affecting game of all time. The last stretch of the game from the bridge back to the throne room and then the ending was chock full of so much feeling that I wanted to burst. Never have I felt so sad, vengeful, and happy all at the same time. I definitely suggest ICO to anyone who wants an extraordinary experience. Oh in case you didn't know, this was the debut game of the Shadow of the Colossus guys.
"Apparently the TSA has forgotten that this is America and we go where we like when we like and how we like (unless we're in prison, of course)"
If the rule passes, it shall be a most interesting commentary on America, won't it?
The new space hotel sounds great, but a flight to space conflicts with the part of my schedule where I'm slated to die during the apocalypse.
Future headline:
NO MORE GUITARISTS - ALL TEACHERS SUED
RIAA innocently shrugs shoulders and says, "wot?"
Hey - check out the mod score. It's been modded informative! The identity thief is at it again and has marked your assumptions as being correct!
The PS3 isn't exactly super high tech - the XBox360 can do pretty much everything the PS3 can and looks how much less IT costs. Sony just screwed up big time. BIG time. Of course, they can't admit to that.
It so happens when in a society there are so many laws and so many prisons to fill, most unknown, every innocent man becomes a criminal.
Hm. To me, it seems that they're saying that "the security of a Free State" is the people's right to keep and bear arms. This militia of the People keeping and bearing those arms to keep our freedoms safe is necessary in order to keep that freedom going, and that militia shall not be infringed.
Here's how they stay on the same level: Those without weapons work their way up the weapon food chain. If you have a knife and another guy has a pistol, you sneak up on him and kill him, then take his pistol. Then find someone with a shotgun, sneak up on them, bullet in the brainpan, take their shotgun. Someone with an automatic rifle? Wait for them to come by, blam, take the AR. It keeps going up and up and up. If done properly, people will have bombers, fighter jets, and missiles. The government will literally have to start lobbing nuclear warheads at its own territory. What good is it to rule a country if there is nothing left to rule? The brilliant thing is that soldiers are still technically the people so they'll have to start executing and 'neutralizing' their own children in this hypothetical war, and I'm sure even soldiers have their own limits. If a bomber pilot's target is the town of his own family, chances are he'll give his superiors the finger even if it means his own death(if he's worth a damn.)
What's wrong with everyone having the right to equally defend themselves from criminals and others who wish to do them harm?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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