I'm never paying for music or movies ever again, and I'm the local dealer in such things for everyone I know, so they don't pay either.
Personally, I love it. All these entertainment industry guys, who thought they were god's gift to the universe and that they were curing cancer and bringing about world peace, are all in a hissy fit as they see their precioussssssss business model eaten alive by technology in the hands of the people. No more Ferraris for you guys, you crack addled, misogynist sacks of pig shit. Ha ha ha ha! Bend over and take it hard, boys! The strap-on of ever increasing technology is coming for you! The future is a butch dominatrix with PMS.
Well, I guess then your example proves that in a system where there's government funded security for public figures, it's the "crazies" that end up pulling off an assassination attempt before those with political motives.
Not really, no. It was merely an illustrative example of *a* crazy to underscore the point that there are reasons for high security other than the politically discombobulated. For an example of the other type, you only need go back to the Kennedy assassination. Even the most insane and convoluted conspiracy theories involve political motivations.
Non-sane people, though, are harder to read.
That's an invalid blanket statement. "Non-sane" can be the guy who wanders skid row talking to himself (easy read) all the way to the type depicted on the show Dexter (nigh impossible to read). Although I sometimes doubt the existence of the super-serial killer types of fiction. When I see interviews with captured serial killers, I get a seriously weird vibe from them no matter how normal they try to act. I dunno... maybe I just missed my true calling as a profiler.:)
Perhaps our "leaders" should not have so much security. Might make them concentrate a little more on not having policies which ruin so many lives and drive people to want to murder them, eh?
John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan because Hinckley was obsessed on Jodie Foster. Public figures, political or not, are lightning rods for every type of kook under the sun.
I'm sorry we don't live in the rosy, bunny filled universe you seem to desire, but that's the way things are.
Hey, say what negative things you will about Muslim reaction to those Danish cartoons or rumors of Koran flushing, and what a pack of blithering crybabies they were, the bottom line is that, for the most part, IT WORKED.
Theo van Gogh isn't making anti-Islam films anymore, is he? Just find anything depicting Islam negatively on the USA's vast televised wasteland outside of "24", and even that pussed out in the end. Just more ex-Russians and EEEEVIL white businessmen at the bottom of things.
Read Sum Of All Fears and then watch the movie. What's missing? And that was pre-9/11.
So while I personally oppose murder and violence, it IS a solution that has shown effectiveness.
I just can't give a femtoshit about being nice nice to Islam or its followers anymore. I tried to see them as just a religion with a few extremsists like they claimed, but if you REALLY look hard, well... you either see it or not, and no words of mine will ever change anyone's opinion on such a volatile topic. I just have been given no reason to shed even a single water molecule tear when anything Islamic is criticized.
Maybe the words of former Muslims, people who lived and breathed it and fled, will have more effect.
No, we're going down the tubes because we have valuable law enforcement resources sitting in bathroom stalls all day busting idiots. I still can't figure out why Senator Craigslist was even arrested in the first place. He was trying to make a sort of pass in some secret Gay Jedi Code? OK. Is gay sex illegal in Idaho? Was there any clear intent to have the sex *IN* the bathroom? I guess I'm just not privy to the what's on those Gay Decoder Rings.
Yeah, and I would hardly hold it up as a valid example of real science fiction that tried to accurate predict the future. Cripes, you might as well complain that Far Out Space Nuts wasn't very accurate.
That's a bit of a cheap shot. Hubble has been in operation for 17 years and has been a vital research tool. The tech for this new technique is, well, NEW.
I never get the "we owe it to the shareholders" mentality. there's two basic shareholder types:
1. Day traders or people looking for a quick buck. If they can even explain what your company does, it's a good day on that front. Fuck those guys.
2. Institutional investors who would probably rather you planned for the long term anyway because *they* do.
Theoretically if they'd put the overall business health ahead of other concerns, such as their personal greed or, and this is hard for many self proclaimed freemaketers to grasp, ahead of a pack of stockholders only looking for a quick buck, the good things will arise from the general prosperity. I know the Left refuses to abandon their "Prosperity = Evil" religion, but that's the way it is. You get that plus the Right's "Quick Gain = Holy Grail" and the whole thing is a mess.
Nah. I haven't really been a fan of any team since they became high paid clubs for thugs. You might as well ask me which organized crime family is my favorite.
We don't need no stinking API. Just make a web app. I'm developing an advanced scientific RPN calculator for the iPhone using nothing but HTML, Javascript and CSS.
Hell, I don't even have to own an iPhone to test it.
1. A game is more immersive. 2. The game probably gets a lot more thought put into it than a horror movie. 3. The horror movie genre has become the "virtual snuff film" genre and caters to sick fucks.
Mod me flame bait for #3 if you must, but I completely stand by it.
They're releasing a "Art Of Bioshock" book. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an "Art Of Hostel" or "Art Of Saw" book.
can you imagine how different things would be on the world stage today if al gore was in the white house?
No. And anyone who claims they can is full of shit.
I find Bush to be a simpering little fuck and I, too, can't wait until he's out of office, but I profiled Gore as having a level of insanity just below the surface way back when he was VP. I really don't want to know how he would have handled 9/11. I do NOT trust that man any more than I trust the idiot Bush.
I just wish people in other fields, politics, religion, law, philosophy, etc would admit when they are baffled as readily as the scientists do.
Lawyer: My client is suing BigBox Corporation, but for the life of me I don't understand why because my client pretty much inflicted the harm on himself.
Politician: I have no idea how to solve everyone's problems. I figured once in office I'd consult some experts and the latest theory on any particular issue.
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I'm never paying for music or movies ever again, and I'm the local dealer in such things for everyone I know, so they don't pay either.
Personally, I love it. All these entertainment industry guys, who thought they were god's gift to the universe and that they were curing cancer and bringing about world peace, are all in a hissy fit as they see their precioussssssss business model eaten alive by technology in the hands of the people. No more Ferraris for you guys, you crack addled, misogynist sacks of pig shit. Ha ha ha ha! Bend over and take it hard, boys! The strap-on of ever increasing technology is coming for you! The future is a butch dominatrix with PMS.
Well, I guess then your example proves that in a system where there's government funded security for public figures, it's the "crazies" that end up pulling off an assassination attempt before those with political motives.
Not really, no. It was merely an illustrative example of *a* crazy to underscore the point that there are reasons for high security other than the politically discombobulated. For an example of the other type, you only need go back to the Kennedy assassination. Even the most insane and convoluted conspiracy theories involve political motivations.
Non-sane people, though, are harder to read.
That's an invalid blanket statement. "Non-sane" can be the guy who wanders skid row talking to himself (easy read) all the way to the type depicted on the show Dexter (nigh impossible to read). Although I sometimes doubt the existence of the super-serial killer types of fiction. When I see interviews with captured serial killers, I get a seriously weird vibe from them no matter how normal they try to act. I dunno... maybe I just missed my true calling as a profiler. :)
Perhaps our "leaders" should not have so much security. Might make them concentrate a little more on not having policies which ruin so many lives and drive people to want to murder them, eh?
John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan because Hinckley was obsessed on Jodie Foster. Public figures, political or not, are lightning rods for every type of kook under the sun.
I'm sorry we don't live in the rosy, bunny filled universe you seem to desire, but that's the way things are.
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
Tomorrow people living in Sydney will...
There's Tomorrow People in Sydney? Does Torchwood know about this?
Yeah, but 99% of Slashdotters never read TFA, so what of it? :-)
:D
For the record, I didn't.
...murder and violence.
Hey, say what negative things you will about Muslim reaction to those Danish cartoons or rumors of Koran flushing, and what a pack of blithering crybabies they were, the bottom line is that, for the most part, IT WORKED.
Theo van Gogh isn't making anti-Islam films anymore, is he? Just find anything depicting Islam negatively on the USA's vast televised wasteland outside of "24", and even that pussed out in the end. Just more ex-Russians and EEEEVIL white businessmen at the bottom of things.
Read Sum Of All Fears and then watch the movie. What's missing? And that was pre-9/11.
So while I personally oppose murder and violence, it IS a solution that has shown effectiveness.
I'm just sayin' is all.
I don't even see drunk Irish... chanting death to anything
Oh, you're just not hanging out in the *good* bars. :)
I just can't give a femtoshit about being nice nice to Islam or its followers anymore. I tried to see them as just a religion with a few extremsists like they claimed, but if you REALLY look hard, well... you either see it or not, and no words of mine will ever change anyone's opinion on such a volatile topic. I just have been given no reason to shed even a single water molecule tear when anything Islamic is criticized.
Maybe the words of former Muslims, people who lived and breathed it and fled, will have more effect.
http://www.islam-watch.org/
You win the thread.
"This is why we're going down the tubes."
No, we're going down the tubes because we have valuable law enforcement resources sitting in bathroom stalls all day busting idiots. I still can't figure out why Senator Craigslist was even arrested in the first place. He was trying to make a sort of pass in some secret Gay Jedi Code? OK. Is gay sex illegal in Idaho? Was there any clear intent to have the sex *IN* the bathroom? I guess I'm just not privy to the what's on those Gay Decoder Rings.
Heh heh... privy...
Anyone remember the television show "Space 1999"?
Yeah, and I would hardly hold it up as a valid example of real science fiction that tried to accurate predict the future. Cripes, you might as well complain that Far Out Space Nuts wasn't very accurate.
and it's 50,000 times cheaper than Hubble
That's a bit of a cheap shot. Hubble has been in operation for 17 years and has been a vital research tool. The tech for this new technique is, well, NEW.
I never get the "we owe it to the shareholders" mentality. there's two basic shareholder types: 1. Day traders or people looking for a quick buck. If they can even explain what your company does, it's a good day on that front. Fuck those guys. 2. Institutional investors who would probably rather you planned for the long term anyway because *they* do.
Theoretically if they'd put the overall business health ahead of other concerns, such as their personal greed or, and this is hard for many self proclaimed freemaketers to grasp, ahead of a pack of stockholders only looking for a quick buck, the good things will arise from the general prosperity. I know the Left refuses to abandon their "Prosperity = Evil" religion, but that's the way it is. You get that plus the Right's "Quick Gain = Holy Grail" and the whole thing is a mess.
:-)
Summary: ideologies are mental illnesses.
Nah. I haven't really been a fan of any team since they became high paid clubs for thugs. You might as well ask me which organized crime family is my favorite.
Yeah, but Packers fans are not human. I think the OP was referring strictly to human activity.
I hate Microsoft OSes and Office apps, and pretty much everything about them.
I am a total Mac head.
But I loves me my XBox 360.
That must say something good about the thing. Yes? Maybe? Or not? Never mind. (kicks pebble)
We don't need no stinking API. Just make a web app. I'm developing an advanced scientific RPN calculator for the iPhone using nothing but HTML, Javascript and CSS.
Hell, I don't even have to own an iPhone to test it.
http://www.testiphone.com/
Best horror "movie" out right now is Bioshock. :)
I think there's three reasons:
1. A game is more immersive.
2. The game probably gets a lot more thought put into it than a horror movie.
3. The horror movie genre has become the "virtual snuff film" genre and caters to sick fucks.
Mod me flame bait for #3 if you must, but I completely stand by it.
They're releasing a "Art Of Bioshock" book. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an "Art Of Hostel" or "Art Of Saw" book.
Whatever, sparky. If you didn't understand the comment, you could have just ignored it.
...for new AG:
1. Andy Griffith as Matlock
2. The corpse of Ayn Rand
3. Harvey Birdman
4. One of the Easter Island moai
5. Nora, the piano playing cat
6. Judge Judy
All of them superior to Alberto Gonzales.
can you imagine how different things would be on the world stage today if al gore was in the white house?
No. And anyone who claims they can is full of shit.
I find Bush to be a simpering little fuck and I, too, can't wait until he's out of office, but I profiled Gore as having a level of insanity just below the surface way back when he was VP. I really don't want to know how he would have handled 9/11. I do NOT trust that man any more than I trust the idiot Bush.
Yes, and possibly lunar soon. I know lots of folks pooh pooh aerospace, but it has its moments. And I get to play with the niftiest toys. :)
killing some time while watching soups
Is that some Food Network show or something?
I just wish people in other fields, politics, religion, law, philosophy, etc would admit when they are baffled as readily as the scientists do.
Lawyer: My client is suing BigBox Corporation, but for the life of me I don't understand why because my client pretty much inflicted the harm on himself.
Politician: I have no idea how to solve everyone's problems. I figured once in office I'd consult some experts and the latest theory on any particular issue.
Minister: Seriously, I got nothin'.