Who's trying to force culture on the rest of the world here? We're just geeks "talking" in a forum.
That's one of the big problems with the whole world today. If you simply voice an opinion, you're considered to be "forcing" your ideas on people. Do you have any idea how many times I've been called racist because I suggest we might want to enforce our borders a bit?
It's a bullying tactic used by those with no facts or reason. In other worlds, it's used by 99% of humanity.
I love it when I get called racist for criticizing Islam. Islam is a race? Huh???
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I'd expect you to be charged with vandalism and fined, not jailed for 10 years, or get beaten by a mob.
Seriously, is that difficult to understand what I and others are criticizing here?
No one is defending vandalism. We're criticizing a government overreaction. And others who claim direct experience in Thai culture say that insulting the king there could get you lynched, and they seem perfectly fine with that. "It's just their way." I'm sorry but I find that horrific in any country.
I don't finish futzing with a box until I replace it years later. This is for both Mac and Windows.
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f you have to ask why then you have failed at international diplomacy.
You are mistaking discussion for advocacy. I'm analyzing an event and a general approach to a freedom, not negotiating a weapons treaty.
If you don't know anything about the subject, then you should not claim to be an expert at it.
Gosh, then it's a good thing I didn't claim to be an expert then, isn't it? I'm just one guy expressing a personal opinion on an open message board. That really does BOTHER some folks, though.
If you want to disrespect and trash a foreign nation just because they are not the same as you,
Gosh, then it's a good idea I criticized them on something specific, and for specific reasons, then, isn't it? I am NOT going to respect any law or action that I feel is a violation of a basic right, and tough tomatoes if that rubs you the wrong way. I don't accept bullcrap from my own government, so I'm not going to shout "that's peachy keen!" when some other government does something stupid.
that makes you a bigot and a racist.
Ah, yes, the racist card. Standard debate currency of those with nothing else to offer. You are now in the intellectual sewer. Congrats and welcome to it.
Honestly, I'll never understand this sort of response.
Person A: This bad thing happened at location X. Person B: But the same thing happens at location Z! Person A:... I'm sorry, but do you have a point?
The only thing that should be defined as wrong in your bar example is the reckless creation of a fire hazard.
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Don't judge Thailand by western standards, it really shows how ugly you are.
Why? Because *YOU* say so?
I say blind adulation, lockstep thinking and mob violence (which many "I lived in Thailand" posters here have implied would happen) over trivial slights are ugly. Far more ugly than a Westerner voicing a harmless opinion.
Thailand has freedom of speech but only if it is responsible.
Responsible as judged by whom? You? Your mom? Who? It's the age old question.
That is the way it should be in the USA and Europe. You cannot use it to attack and threaten people and when you do you lost your right to the freedom of speech.
We *have* laws against things like that. Spray painting a poster is only an "attack" if you are a weak willed and emotionally fragile.
I'm sorry, but I have ZERO respect for any culture that will commit mob violence and/or murder over trivial insults. Fuck them, fuck you and fuck the king.
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Should a governmental body have the right to censor material that a large majority of its population finds offensive?
No.
Should Germany be allowed to block Nazi hate sites?
No.
Should China be allowed to block porn sites?
No.
Should any country be able to block material that depicts or encourages actions illegal in that country?
No.
If you need any more clarifications of the concept of self-evident freedoms, just shout out.
but action to defend honor must be taken.
Remember that when someone punches *you* in the face.
Maybe a person's "honor" shouldn't be so fragile, or dependent on the opinion of a drunken man with a can of paint.
And if you don't think defending honor is worth punching someone in the face
I guess I don't. I guess I live in the 21st century. But you just keep banging those rocks together, Ugg.
But seriously, unless you're gonna keep all 8 cores cooking a lot, or you do a lot of seriously high-end video work or something else where speed above all else matters, they'll be a waste.
OK...
I'm sorry, but is Apple running a "Buy an 8-Core Mac for your grandma" campaign or something?
I gave up on aftermarket car stereos and just get whatever top end factory system is offered. The tiny buttons and Vegasesque displays were just getting too stupid.
Which would you prefer to set a preset station:
Factory stereo: Tune to station. Hold down preset button until beep is heard. Afterward, just hit that button to get that station.
Aftermarket: Run through a sequence of button pushes similar to that required to surface a submarine, and target and launch a cruise missile. Afterward, no less than three presses of tiny buttons are required to access your "convenient" preset.
I'm serious, too. I had onee once where it took more button presses to go to a station preset than to just tune the radio manually. There should be hard jail time given for interface abominations on that level.
Sometimes I would wonder if the Japanese engineers outsourced their interface design to institutions for psychotics.
I'm afraid there's millions of brainless prats who hang on every word of these vapid, blithering corporate constructs. The prats then vote vapid, brainless political constructs into office, and we get government with the math, science and logic skills of a dead vole.
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Who's trying to force culture on the rest of the world here? We're just geeks "talking" in a forum.
That's one of the big problems with the whole world today. If you simply voice an opinion, you're considered to be "forcing" your ideas on people. Do you have any idea how many times I've been called racist because I suggest we might want to enforce our borders a bit?
It's a bullying tactic used by those with no facts or reason. In other worlds, it's used by 99% of humanity.
I love it when I get called racist for criticizing Islam. Islam is a race? Huh???
I'd expect you to be charged with vandalism and fined, not jailed for 10 years, or get beaten by a mob.
Seriously, is that difficult to understand what I and others are criticizing here?
No one is defending vandalism. We're criticizing a government overreaction. And others who claim direct experience in Thai culture say that insulting the king there could get you lynched, and they seem perfectly fine with that. "It's just their way." I'm sorry but I find that horrific in any country.
I don't finish futzing with a box until I replace it years later. This is for both Mac and Windows.
f you have to ask why then you have failed at international diplomacy.
You are mistaking discussion for advocacy. I'm analyzing an event and a general approach to a freedom, not negotiating a weapons treaty.
If you don't know anything about the subject, then you should not claim to be an expert at it.
Gosh, then it's a good thing I didn't claim to be an expert then, isn't it? I'm just one guy expressing a personal opinion on an open message board. That really does BOTHER some folks, though.
If you want to disrespect and trash a foreign nation just because they are not the same as you,
Gosh, then it's a good idea I criticized them on something specific, and for specific reasons, then, isn't it? I am NOT going to respect any law or action that I feel is a violation of a basic right, and tough tomatoes if that rubs you the wrong way. I don't accept bullcrap from my own government, so I'm not going to shout "that's peachy keen!" when some other government does something stupid.
that makes you a bigot and a racist.
Ah, yes, the racist card. Standard debate currency of those with nothing else to offer. You are now in the intellectual sewer. Congrats and welcome to it.
And that's just as wrong.
... I'm sorry, but do you have a point?
Honestly, I'll never understand this sort of response.
Person A: This bad thing happened at location X.
Person B: But the same thing happens at location Z!
Person A:
The only thing that should be defined as wrong in your bar example is the reckless creation of a fire hazard.
Don't judge Thailand by western standards, it really shows how ugly you are.
Why? Because *YOU* say so?
I say blind adulation, lockstep thinking and mob violence (which many "I lived in Thailand" posters here have implied would happen) over trivial slights are ugly. Far more ugly than a Westerner voicing a harmless opinion.
Thailand has freedom of speech but only if it is responsible.
Responsible as judged by whom? You? Your mom? Who? It's the age old question.
That is the way it should be in the USA and Europe. You cannot use it to attack and threaten people and when you do you lost your right to the freedom of speech.
We *have* laws against things like that. Spray painting a poster is only an "attack" if you are a weak willed and emotionally fragile.
I'm sorry, but I have ZERO respect for any culture that will commit mob violence and/or murder over trivial insults. Fuck them, fuck you and fuck the king.
Should a governmental body have the right to censor material that a large majority of its population finds offensive?
No.
Should Germany be allowed to block Nazi hate sites?
No.
Should China be allowed to block porn sites?
No.
Should any country be able to block material that depicts or encourages actions illegal in that country?
No.
If you need any more clarifications of the concept of self-evident freedoms, just shout out.
but action to defend honor must be taken.
Remember that when someone punches *you* in the face.
Maybe a person's "honor" shouldn't be so fragile, or dependent on the opinion of a drunken man with a can of paint.
And if you don't think defending honor is worth punching someone in the face
I guess I don't. I guess I live in the 21st century. But you just keep banging those rocks together, Ugg.
And your sister is a slut. :)
try spray painting a picture of Jesus Christ anywhere in the "Bible Belt"
Yeah, but you won't get arrested or cause a national government to censor a web site.
I submit as evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
*Paid* for by the government via the NEA.
As far as I know, Andres Serrano is still a free man and designing Metallica covers.
People really need to stop apologizing for censorship and intolerance under the guise of multiculturalism or whatever it is.
What can I learn from this book to make that look even better than it is?
Don't cast yourself in the film?
BWAH HA HA HA HA! :)
Aaahh, I crack me up.
But seriously, unless you're gonna keep all 8 cores cooking a lot, or you do a lot of seriously high-end video work or something else where speed above all else matters, they'll be a waste.
OK...
I'm sorry, but is Apple running a "Buy an 8-Core Mac for your grandma" campaign or something?
He's already very sorry that he did such a thing
Oh, well, why didn't anyone say so?! Case dismissed!
how long is a mile? In real units?
1 mile = 1 mile
1 gallon = 1 gallon
I hope this helps.
Yes, but even throw-away culture assumes getting *SOME* use out of an item before disposing of it.
Bring back the ponies!
I gave up on aftermarket car stereos and just get whatever top end factory system is offered. The tiny buttons and Vegasesque displays were just getting too stupid.
Which would you prefer to set a preset station:
Factory stereo: Tune to station. Hold down preset button until beep is heard. Afterward, just hit that button to get that station.
Aftermarket: Run through a sequence of button pushes similar to that required to surface a submarine, and target and launch a cruise missile. Afterward, no less than three presses of tiny buttons are required to access your "convenient" preset.
I'm serious, too. I had onee once where it took more button presses to go to a station preset than to just tune the radio manually. There should be hard jail time given for interface abominations on that level.
Sometimes I would wonder if the Japanese engineers outsourced their interface design to institutions for psychotics.
This wasn't part of an Aztec ritual, was it?
You're thinking of the Aztechs.
Extra point to anyone who gets the reference.
and encouraging people to leave the country is a viable economic policy
Well... how is it not, exactly?
Making your country's unemployed and impovershed go away and be some other country's responsibility? Pretty clever, actually.
In US there's no government agency that takes care of education.
Uhhhh... wha?
Exactly how long were you in the US?
I'm afraid there's millions of brainless prats who hang on every word of these vapid, blithering corporate constructs. The prats then vote vapid, brainless political constructs into office, and we get government with the math, science and logic skills of a dead vole.
But I'm not cynical.
Just seems like a bigger leap. Aviation generally does not concern itself too much with the concept of gravity wells.
Or will the taxpayers of that county be subsidizing the sending of dubiously talented pop stars into the really really upper atmosphere?
Just playing devil's advocate here, but people are going to ask that question or something similar.
Lack of major NASA involvement tends to lower the costs a tad.
So to answer your question - no.
Ummm... I didn't ask a question. It was a joke post.
Did they firs the ones who failed to protect him from that rogue pretzel?