Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate -- and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!
he was selfishly clinging on to any hope to save the mother of his children
And then he choked her. Makes total sense.
People forgot that it was his dream, not theirs.
Is the Odyssey only the dream of Homer? Or do some ideas become cultural touchstones that belong to everyone? Should we say that Homer's vision (no pun intended) of the Odyssey is the only applicable one, or do we each create our own ideas of what it could be? Does "O Brother Where Art Thou" cheapen the Odyssey, or does it make for a just as interesting telling?
So how about this: any person who is arrested who is not later convicted gets put in an section that offers unconditional apologies. At least then you don't see just an arrest record for the person, you also see that they were exonerated.
Home schooled kids don't generally have to put up with schoolyard bullies. (...) They don't learn to file the rough edges off their own personality, so that they can get along with others.
Dealing with schoolyard bullies fucked up my personality and made me a neurotic mess with other people. I'd rather have avoided that, given the option.
Also 22 hours is a shit ton of time to fill up. If you get bored easily, like to be able to shut your mind off for a bit, or like to lay down and just spread out, this doesn't help. It also probably doesn't make a sleeping girlfriend happy, but like any good Slashdotter, I can't reproduce that bug.
Not just that, but the Dred Scott decision made slavery legal in every territory and made it so that slaves couldn't be taken away without due process (making many believe that the supreme court would overrule northern laws against slavery). Southerners then felt no reason to compromise on any part of the issue (regardless of states rights).
What are you getting out of it? Advances in technology similar to what NASA produced in the 60s. The kind of materials science used to produce a space elevator or to last in space for years will directly be applicable to products here on earth. If we go for autonomous robots to do early exploration and construction for us, we could see new and interesting programming and advances in all fields of AI. When we get bases set up, we can get resources that are hard to acquire on Earth. We might set up bigger and better versions of Hubble and learn more about our universe. Is that enough?
We don't spend money on infrastructure, we spend money on pork. Infrastructure would be building out fiber optic networks like the TVA did with electricity. Pork is spending a few hundred million on a bridge to serve a very small number of people, just because it happens to be in a state of a very old senator.
It's not equivalent to tailing. It follows you onto private land. It follows you if you go outside their jurisdiction. It follows you even if the cops wouldn't normally bother with or have the resources to tail. (Some of the murkier areas of the 4th amendment aren't as worrying, purely because there isn't the manpower to actually look inside every car or peer inside every open window. If there were that level of staffing, I'd be pretty pissed.)
There have been quite a few monarchies lasting for far longer. Andorra was a monarchy for over 700 years. Japan can trace it's emperor back to 4th century AD (albeit with waxing and waning levels of actual power). Egypt alone has had several period of unbroken government with a longer time frame than that (1000 years, and 2 500 year periods). Venice was an independent republic for 1070 years (and only fell after Napoleon conquered it). We've done decently, but I'm reminded of the first half of the saying "Americans think 100 years is a long time ago. Europeans think 100 kilometers is a long way away".
The 14th amendment came long after the founders died, and many federal, state, and local laws are stupid and should be struck down. Regardless, a person should have absolute right over their own body and the processes within it. Telling someone they can't get an abortion means abrogating that persons right to control their own body. (Yes, I recognize that that should also apply to drugs. I support legalizing drugs too.)
The problem with asking "what did the founders do" is that many of the commonly done things in early America would be horrifying today. It was legal to beat criminal suspects until they confessed. There was rampant racism (even in the north). States didn't have to recognize the bill of rights. The first amendment didn't stop things like the Alien and Sedition Act (making any criticism of the president illegal).
Don't hold the founders on some pedestal of perfection. They were flawed men trying to make a government that was slightly less flawed than governments coming before it (both in terms of the Articles of Confederation and their former British government). We can look to them for guidance, but we shouldn't be completely beholden to their will.
If you walk into a blind alley and take a leak behind a dumpster, you're not trying to flash anyone (and probably wouldn't have any chance of doing so unless a nosy cop comes along). At worst it could be called a public health hazard.
4. Don't fraternize with students outside of school (i.e., party with them, hang out with them, etc.).
This one burned a high school teacher I knew. He was meeting a student outside of school and having conversations late in the night on the internet that were less than fully appropriate. As far as I (and the school district) know, he never got physical with her, but the writing was on the wall as soon as it all came out. It's a shame too, because he was probably the only English teacher that I had that I actually liked.
Most of those were democrats in name only (hence, Dixiecrats), because "Republican" was a dirty word to the south ever since Lincoln freed the slaves. After the civil rights legislation was put through by west coast and northeast democrats, most Dixiecrats went Republican to show the non-racist wing of the Democrat party their displeasure.
And now you know the part that the right wing leaves off of their explanation of what's left out of the history books.
"We have proof, when PI is expended out to (some number), there is a message"...
Of course, pi is normal in binary. Every possible message will occur eventually. So if we expand pi far enough, we might even find a positive review for Carrot Top's act. Turns out that math can be wrong.
If you believe in god, why would the existence of aliens prove that god doesn't exist?
Because aliens (almost certainly) won't believe in the Bible. At all. And unlike the past, where Christians would beat other strange cultures over the head until they said "fine, we'll believe your silly shit over our silly shit", these aliens either won't be close to us or will be more advanced than us. And good luck preaching to aliens that God loves them, even though he only told his message to a relative handful of people in one corner of one planet, and left everyone else in the universe to drift, rather than setting up a broadcast beacon to transmit to the universe. Space, is much, much bigger than the shepherds and nomads of 2000+ years ago could have imagined, and it shows in everything they wrote.
Damn, I was going to make a comment on how you didn't mention the Rhye's and Fall of Civilization mod, before I reread your name and realized you were missing a letter.:\
Agreed. Civ 3 just seemed to scream "THE COMPUTER IS A CHEATING BASTARD" at me, even on low levels. And when you add in that it seemed damn near impossible to get any of the necessary resources on a consistent basis (no iron or copper? You're screwed), I just stopped caring.
Of course, Civ 4 is also nice for it's modability. Fall From Heaven 2 is really fun and is leaps and bounds more complicated than any of the Civ 4 offical versions.
If you have imaginary property, I'll give you all the imaginary rights you want, and you can put a nice big imaginary fence around that property (and I say the same to corporations).
Options for money: Sell the originals yourself. Get paid before you do the work. Get a day job (either as an artist, or doing something else and having art as a hobby).
Many on Slashdot do creative work too, we just happen to sell our time to others and give up our rights to the work. If what you want to do isn't economical, I'll be sure to weep for you right after I weep for blacksmiths, coopers, and buggy whip makers.
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Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate -- and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!
he was selfishly clinging on to any hope to save the mother of his children
And then he choked her. Makes total sense.
People forgot that it was his dream, not theirs.
Is the Odyssey only the dream of Homer? Or do some ideas become cultural touchstones that belong to everyone? Should we say that Homer's vision (no pun intended) of the Odyssey is the only applicable one, or do we each create our own ideas of what it could be? Does "O Brother Where Art Thou" cheapen the Odyssey, or does it make for a just as interesting telling?
Why does Star Wars still take over the minds of small boys?
Lightsabers, laser guns, explosions, aliens, and magical powers. Oh, and Leia in a metal bikini didn't hurt either.
So how about this: any person who is arrested who is not later convicted gets put in an section that offers unconditional apologies. At least then you don't see just an arrest record for the person, you also see that they were exonerated.
Home schooled kids don't generally have to put up with schoolyard bullies. (...) They don't learn to file the rough edges off their own personality, so that they can get along with others.
Dealing with schoolyard bullies fucked up my personality and made me a neurotic mess with other people. I'd rather have avoided that, given the option.
It will be interesting to see what the generation that grows up with HD thinks.
grows up
thinks
I'm not sure either of these will happen in the first place.
The brain can swallow big mistakes a lot more than little ones. Then again, Jar Jar was in the "so bad it's horrible" territory.
It's more like if you told people that their scraps of paper could no longer be used to get food. I think we'd all go pretty apeshit over that.
Also 22 hours is a shit ton of time to fill up. If you get bored easily, like to be able to shut your mind off for a bit, or like to lay down and just spread out, this doesn't help. It also probably doesn't make a sleeping girlfriend happy, but like any good Slashdotter, I can't reproduce that bug.
Not just that, but the Dred Scott decision made slavery legal in every territory and made it so that slaves couldn't be taken away without due process (making many believe that the supreme court would overrule northern laws against slavery). Southerners then felt no reason to compromise on any part of the issue (regardless of states rights).
What are you getting out of it? Advances in technology similar to what NASA produced in the 60s. The kind of materials science used to produce a space elevator or to last in space for years will directly be applicable to products here on earth. If we go for autonomous robots to do early exploration and construction for us, we could see new and interesting programming and advances in all fields of AI. When we get bases set up, we can get resources that are hard to acquire on Earth. We might set up bigger and better versions of Hubble and learn more about our universe. Is that enough?
We don't spend money on infrastructure, we spend money on pork. Infrastructure would be building out fiber optic networks like the TVA did with electricity. Pork is spending a few hundred million on a bridge to serve a very small number of people, just because it happens to be in a state of a very old senator.
Many of them are state owned corporations. Good luck suing a foreign country.
It's not equivalent to tailing. It follows you onto private land. It follows you if you go outside their jurisdiction. It follows you even if the cops wouldn't normally bother with or have the resources to tail. (Some of the murkier areas of the 4th amendment aren't as worrying, purely because there isn't the manpower to actually look inside every car or peer inside every open window. If there were that level of staffing, I'd be pretty pissed.)
There have been quite a few monarchies lasting for far longer. Andorra was a monarchy for over 700 years. Japan can trace it's emperor back to 4th century AD (albeit with waxing and waning levels of actual power). Egypt alone has had several period of unbroken government with a longer time frame than that (1000 years, and 2 500 year periods). Venice was an independent republic for 1070 years (and only fell after Napoleon conquered it). We've done decently, but I'm reminded of the first half of the saying "Americans think 100 years is a long time ago. Europeans think 100 kilometers is a long way away".
The 14th amendment came long after the founders died, and many federal, state, and local laws are stupid and should be struck down. Regardless, a person should have absolute right over their own body and the processes within it. Telling someone they can't get an abortion means abrogating that persons right to control their own body. (Yes, I recognize that that should also apply to drugs. I support legalizing drugs too.)
The problem with asking "what did the founders do" is that many of the commonly done things in early America would be horrifying today. It was legal to beat criminal suspects until they confessed. There was rampant racism (even in the north). States didn't have to recognize the bill of rights. The first amendment didn't stop things like the Alien and Sedition Act (making any criticism of the president illegal).
Don't hold the founders on some pedestal of perfection. They were flawed men trying to make a government that was slightly less flawed than governments coming before it (both in terms of the Articles of Confederation and their former British government). We can look to them for guidance, but we shouldn't be completely beholden to their will.
If you walk into a blind alley and take a leak behind a dumpster, you're not trying to flash anyone (and probably wouldn't have any chance of doing so unless a nosy cop comes along). At worst it could be called a public health hazard.
4. Don't fraternize with students outside of school (i.e., party with them, hang out with them, etc.).
This one burned a high school teacher I knew. He was meeting a student outside of school and having conversations late in the night on the internet that were less than fully appropriate. As far as I (and the school district) know, he never got physical with her, but the writing was on the wall as soon as it all came out. It's a shame too, because he was probably the only English teacher that I had that I actually liked.
Snowflake won't have enough waist room in anything less!
Fixed. And now it's got the benefit of being sadly true.
Most of those were democrats in name only (hence, Dixiecrats), because "Republican" was a dirty word to the south ever since Lincoln freed the slaves. After the civil rights legislation was put through by west coast and northeast democrats, most Dixiecrats went Republican to show the non-racist wing of the Democrat party their displeasure.
And now you know the part that the right wing leaves off of their explanation of what's left out of the history books.
"We have proof, when PI is expended out to (some number), there is a message"...
Of course, pi is normal in binary. Every possible message will occur eventually. So if we expand pi far enough, we might even find a positive review for Carrot Top's act. Turns out that math can be wrong.
If you believe in god, why would the existence of aliens prove that god doesn't exist?
Because aliens (almost certainly) won't believe in the Bible. At all. And unlike the past, where Christians would beat other strange cultures over the head until they said "fine, we'll believe your silly shit over our silly shit", these aliens either won't be close to us or will be more advanced than us. And good luck preaching to aliens that God loves them, even though he only told his message to a relative handful of people in one corner of one planet, and left everyone else in the universe to drift, rather than setting up a broadcast beacon to transmit to the universe. Space, is much, much bigger than the shepherds and nomads of 2000+ years ago could have imagined, and it shows in everything they wrote.
Damn, I was going to make a comment on how you didn't mention the Rhye's and Fall of Civilization mod, before I reread your name and realized you were missing a letter. :\
Agreed. Civ 3 just seemed to scream "THE COMPUTER IS A CHEATING BASTARD" at me, even on low levels. And when you add in that it seemed damn near impossible to get any of the necessary resources on a consistent basis (no iron or copper? You're screwed), I just stopped caring.
Of course, Civ 4 is also nice for it's modability. Fall From Heaven 2 is really fun and is leaps and bounds more complicated than any of the Civ 4 offical versions.
If you have imaginary property, I'll give you all the imaginary rights you want, and you can put a nice big imaginary fence around that property (and I say the same to corporations).
Options for money:
Sell the originals yourself.
Get paid before you do the work.
Get a day job (either as an artist, or doing something else and having art as a hobby).
Many on Slashdot do creative work too, we just happen to sell our time to others and give up our rights to the work. If what you want to do isn't economical, I'll be sure to weep for you right after I weep for blacksmiths, coopers, and buggy whip makers.