... where there certainly are several Europhiles in the American government who love to adopt laws like this into American society once they have been established "over there".
Well goody. Normally it's the other way around with draconian copyright laws. How good to know that your assholes are just as big as our assholes - both using "that other guy" as an excuse to push through their own rotten agenda.
I vividly remember one commentator saying "what we found in the studies was that a certain type of passenger was much more likely to survive. The type of person who does not wait in line for his turn, but goes through everything to get out."
That is actually what you do when you eat the Szechuan hot pot in Chengdu, China (Szechuan being the region in China famous for its spicy food). You have a bowl of sesame oil next to your plate and after you dip the meat/shrimp/fish in the hotpot (a bowl of boiling chili-oil, basically) you then either eat them like that (ouch) or run them through the sesame oil (with some other stuff, I think some vinegar too), which makes it edible for people like me. Actually, I think it improves the taste.
I'm pretty sure I can cover the penny they'd otherwise get by donating to the Salvation Army.
Or they could do the same things other people do, and go on a tour, sell merchandise, etc.: if extortion was the sole option they had, how come Chinese artists (in a market where piracy is much more rampant than in the Western world) do quite well?
I agree. I've seen people getting burned out mostly for doing things they didn't like but paid the bills. I'm happy that working in IT is what I love and my main problem is that I need to pick and choose - I'd love to do all the jobs coming my way but there's only so many hours in a day:)
A friend of mine was a project leader at HP (with a CS master, he'd climbed up). He found he actually started to hate the work there and decided to retrain as a professional photographer, at which he's quite successful. He's taken a pay-hit, but not so much it's hurting him.
For smart people with skills, there are *always* options. Just make sure you are able to keep up in the field you'd like to be in.
That's not entirely true. There are definitely those out there who will hold past experience against you.
Fools live on every corner. If they're doing the hiring, I've found it to my benefit to go somewhere else. Because at the end of the day, your co-workers were hired by the same person and if he's an idiot, chances are so are the ones he hired.
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's the first time the coroner ever came across someone dying in an embarrassing way and then, together with all the witnesses, decided to hide all of the evidence...
Not really: why would the coroner and the police officers all risk their reputation for a stranger? Even if he did die in a really embarrassing way, he's hardly the first to die with a gerbil up his anus, tied to a chair or something.
No it's not and especially not that calibre. Doing it yourself that way is easy to screw up and live, though you get to be deformed/have brain damage afterwards.
When I was in Switzerland stepping in front of trains was very popular as a form of suicide.
And people even survive the hit from the train. Okay, they lose a few limbs here and there. But it happens.
The best way is to have a doctor administer medication. First step: barbiturates to induce coma and make sure the patient doesn't feel anything. Step two: a lethal dose of muscle relaxant to paralyze the lungs and kill the patient.
No need to get on that stupid death-ride at all. Especially not if you can't get up or are very sick.
Rich people do not provide jobs because they feel like it. They provide them when they earn money on them. Taxes are raised on money earned, usually, so shouldn't be a huge disincentive to investment. You will always have more money after earning it and deducting expenses, and paying tax, than before.
As a freelancer, I grumble when paying taxes of course, but still: paying more tax is good because it means I have a higher profit. Even if I hate it:)
Actually, I meet quite a lot of otherwise intelligent and sane persons who really don't understand that difference emotionally. Yes, they can understand it intellectually but 5 minutes later it's still "but man, you sure earned a lot of money!" - no I didn't, I just collected a lot of government tax for them that I need to transfer at the end of the quarter. So I understand the GP frustration on that point. And I'm not sure about the proposed tax either: will it be on gross take or net income?
Class warfare never works for the benefit of the lower classes, because the truly wealthy will always make sure their wealth is untouched, any new taxes that are enacted, will only be a concern to the dwindling middle class.
And the first step in the war is propaganda, to try and prevent any new tax from even put in place. Tax evasion works so much better when you can prevent the tax from being there in the first place.
To me, the difference between porn and nudity is when the subject is being treated as an object, for sexual gratification. In other words, when it's exploiting stereotypes. And while I don't mind nudity, on or off stage, porn is a bit different because I don't like the way in which women are portrayed (usually - there are exceptions).
So would you like your mother to be displayed as a whore, for all to have? That is porn. Nudity is something completely different.
(a) It depends on where you come from and (b) the average results of the US may not be great but there are some excellent hospitals. And don't forget that something like a proton knife is available in the US but not commonly outside it (yet - some local hospitals are installing them currently). If you have a difficult to reach brain tumor, that may make the difference between life and death (or severe disabilities).
I mean, if a woman had an ingrown toenail that would cause a cost to society of millions then yes, it would be forcibly removed.
I'm not sure about that - it's pretty difficult to treat people who don't want treatment. Even if it costs money to society, the integrity of someones body is a quite important issue in law. We've had quite unpleasant experiences in the past with people who think that they should tell others what to do with their body, whether it was forced sterilization of undesirables, electroshock treatment, or not allowing (or forcing) women to have an abortion. If someone refuses a blood infusion nowadays, it's their right (Jehova's witnesses). Or if they refuse to eat or drink. The sole exception is where parents are deciding for children, who cannot yet make their wishes fully known and understood, and there the law is designed to try and protect the weaker party from harm.
And as for me: if a women wants to remove a fetus it has a bit more impact than removing a toenail. Compare it to removing a growth in the uterus. Apart from that, no big deal. It's her body. Not mine, nor yours, nor her employers or the states, or her husbands body. Hers alone. Anything else is a reduction of the woman to an object, used to fulfill the needs of others.
- (minor) the copyright on the old Star Wars movies will run out before the copyright on the new ones. He may want to play it safe there. - (major) I guess he feels no-one in their right mind would buy the new versions, given a choice.
Uhm, most films are about fictional characters. Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Harry Potter, Avatar, to name a few.
But it IS a defining moment, because hey, this guy is going to deliver our heroes to someplace safe. But he just shot someone. In cold blood. Can we trust this guy to bring our heroes safely to their destination? Who knows. We're excited and tense.
And now we have this new version. Where he politely follows the Geneva convention and Rules of Engagement of civilized people everywhere. No ambiguity - we can trust him. We wait for the inevitable discovery of his golden heart. Meh.
There is a huge difference there that changes the whole movie up to where he overcomes his greed. It's open heart surgery on a living movie. And I hate it.
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... where there certainly are several Europhiles in the American government who love to adopt laws like this into American society once they have been established "over there".
Well goody. Normally it's the other way around with draconian copyright laws. How good to know that your assholes are just as big as our assholes - both using "that other guy" as an excuse to push through their own rotten agenda.
This is the first time I see correct use of the word "assplode" :P
I vividly remember one commentator saying "what we found in the studies was that a certain type of passenger was much more likely to survive. The type of person who does not wait in line for his turn, but goes through everything to get out."
You (are (totally correct))
Untrusted apps? You mean I can't trust my cute little Bonzi Buddie? Shame on you, you nasty paranoid person! :)
This depends on the NDA. I've never signed an NDA that banned me from discussing stuff that is known publicly.
That is actually what you do when you eat the Szechuan hot pot in Chengdu, China (Szechuan being the region in China famous for its spicy food). You have a bowl of sesame oil next to your plate and after you dip the meat/shrimp/fish in the hotpot (a bowl of boiling chili-oil, basically) you then either eat them like that (ouch) or run them through the sesame oil (with some other stuff, I think some vinegar too), which makes it edible for people like me. Actually, I think it improves the taste.
I'm pretty sure I can cover the penny they'd otherwise get by donating to the Salvation Army.
Or they could do the same things other people do, and go on a tour, sell merchandise, etc.: if extortion was the sole option they had, how come Chinese artists (in a market where piracy is much more rampant than in the Western world) do quite well?
I agree. I've seen people getting burned out mostly for doing things they didn't like but paid the bills. I'm happy that working in IT is what I love and my main problem is that I need to pick and choose - I'd love to do all the jobs coming my way but there's only so many hours in a day :)
A friend of mine was a project leader at HP (with a CS master, he'd climbed up). He found he actually started to hate the work there and decided to retrain as a professional photographer, at which he's quite successful. He's taken a pay-hit, but not so much it's hurting him.
For smart people with skills, there are *always* options. Just make sure you are able to keep up in the field you'd like to be in.
I agree completely. Not sure where the OP lives, but perhaps this is a translation issue.
That's not entirely true. There are definitely those out there who will hold past experience against you.
Fools live on every corner. If they're doing the hiring, I've found it to my benefit to go somewhere else. Because at the end of the day, your co-workers were hired by the same person and if he's an idiot, chances are so are the ones he hired.
yes and no :)
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's the first time the coroner ever came across someone dying in an embarrassing way and then, together with all the witnesses, decided to hide all of the evidence...
Not really: why would the coroner and the police officers all risk their reputation for a stranger? Even if he did die in a really embarrassing way, he's hardly the first to die with a gerbil up his anus, tied to a chair or something.
You're sick.
And you're scared enough to post anonymously.
Can you blame him? Who wants to be the target of a guy with a working death ray?
Uhhuh... not me!
And let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new death-ray wielding overlords!
No it's not and especially not that calibre. Doing it yourself that way is easy to screw up and live, though you get to be deformed/have brain damage afterwards.
When I was in Switzerland stepping in front of trains was very popular as a form of suicide.
And people even survive the hit from the train. Okay, they lose a few limbs here and there. But it happens.
The best way is to have a doctor administer medication. First step: barbiturates to induce coma and make sure the patient doesn't feel anything. Step two: a lethal dose of muscle relaxant to paralyze the lungs and kill the patient.
No need to get on that stupid death-ride at all. Especially not if you can't get up or are very sick.
Rich people do not provide jobs because they feel like it. They provide them when they earn money on them. Taxes are raised on money earned, usually, so shouldn't be a huge disincentive to investment. You will always have more money after earning it and deducting expenses, and paying tax, than before.
As a freelancer, I grumble when paying taxes of course, but still: paying more tax is good because it means I have a higher profit. Even if I hate it :)
Actually, I meet quite a lot of otherwise intelligent and sane persons who really don't understand that difference emotionally. Yes, they can understand it intellectually but 5 minutes later it's still "but man, you sure earned a lot of money!" - no I didn't, I just collected a lot of government tax for them that I need to transfer at the end of the quarter. So I understand the GP frustration on that point. And I'm not sure about the proposed tax either: will it be on gross take or net income?
Class warfare never works for the benefit of the lower classes, because the truly wealthy will always make sure their wealth is untouched, any new taxes that are enacted, will only be a concern to the dwindling middle class.
And the first step in the war is propaganda, to try and prevent any new tax from even put in place. Tax evasion works so much better when you can prevent the tax from being there in the first place.
Every group promoting an idea has it's share of idiots. The more so when it's not (yet) mainstream. Remember Christine O'Donnell?
To me, the difference between porn and nudity is when the subject is being treated as an object, for sexual gratification. In other words, when it's exploiting stereotypes. And while I don't mind nudity, on or off stage, porn is a bit different because I don't like the way in which women are portrayed (usually - there are exceptions).
So would you like your mother to be displayed as a whore, for all to have? That is porn. Nudity is something completely different.
(a) It depends on where you come from and (b) the average results of the US may not be great but there are some excellent hospitals. And don't forget that something like a proton knife is available in the US but not commonly outside it (yet - some local hospitals are installing them currently). If you have a difficult to reach brain tumor, that may make the difference between life and death (or severe disabilities).
I mean, if a woman had an ingrown toenail that would cause a cost to society of millions then yes, it would be forcibly removed.
I'm not sure about that - it's pretty difficult to treat people who don't want treatment. Even if it costs money to society, the integrity of someones body is a quite important issue in law. We've had quite unpleasant experiences in the past with people who think that they should tell others what to do with their body, whether it was forced sterilization of undesirables, electroshock treatment, or not allowing (or forcing) women to have an abortion. If someone refuses a blood infusion nowadays, it's their right (Jehova's witnesses). Or if they refuse to eat or drink. The sole exception is where parents are deciding for children, who cannot yet make their wishes fully known and understood, and there the law is designed to try and protect the weaker party from harm.
And as for me: if a women wants to remove a fetus it has a bit more impact than removing a toenail. Compare it to removing a growth in the uterus. Apart from that, no big deal. It's her body. Not mine, nor yours, nor her employers or the states, or her husbands body. Hers alone. Anything else is a reduction of the woman to an object, used to fulfill the needs of others.
Two things:
- (minor) the copyright on the old Star Wars movies will run out before the copyright on the new ones. He may want to play it safe there.
- (major) I guess he feels no-one in their right mind would buy the new versions, given a choice.
Uhm, most films are about fictional characters. Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Harry Potter, Avatar, to name a few.
But it IS a defining moment, because hey, this guy is going to deliver our heroes to someplace safe. But he just shot someone. In cold blood. Can we trust this guy to bring our heroes safely to their destination? Who knows. We're excited and tense.
And now we have this new version. Where he politely follows the Geneva convention and Rules of Engagement of civilized people everywhere. No ambiguity - we can trust him. We wait for the inevitable discovery of his golden heart. Meh.
There is a huge difference there that changes the whole movie up to where he overcomes his greed. It's open heart surgery on a living movie. And I hate it.