Actually, the increase in powers comes at the same time as an FBI re-org to increase its focus on terrorism. It's been mentioned in all the major news outlets.
Hear hear. The pod-racer announcer was the single thing I hated most in Ep 1. Yes, even more than Jar Jar. And I think you may be right about Coruscant and its 50's diner and billboard-cluttered streets. What's next? Karaoke bars? "Reality" tv shows?
CNN does very little investigation for its online articles (and I don't know that their televised content is any better). Instead, most CNN articles simply parrot whatever comes over the Reuters or AP lines. They never do their own checks on any of the information contained in these news reports, they just slap them up, mistakes and all. Who's going to hold them accountable anyway?
Forgive me for saying so, but people in California seem to have a bad habit of wanting everything, but not wanting to pay for it in some way or another.
Actually, I'm using Lynx from a Linux box... mainly because they track our web browser activities here at work, in all honesty. But let's also remember that a lot of/.ers are simply lurkers, and so the most vocal/.ers adamant opposition to MS products may not represent the overwhelming majority (surprise surprise).
Because you're no longer quoting, this isn't a statement of fact; I'd call it a statement of your opinion.
Actually, it was paraphrasing. It's not an opinion, simply a plain text reading of the Declaration of Independence.
And THIS I'd call an offensive statement of your offensive opinion.
And now you're being an idiot. I wasn't trying to say that "it doesn't matter if you believe God gave you these rights, because he did", I was saying "it doesn't matter whether you believe God gave you these rights, because this is still the foundation upon which our Constitution is built." The only thing offensive is your extreme incompetence.
No, the original poster was right. The whole foundation is that certain rights are God-given ("that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"). The government does not give us these rights... The Creator did. Whether or not you believe this doesn't matter. It's still the very concept that the nation was built upon. It is the role of the government to "secure" these rights for its citizens, to protect them and defend them from those who would take them away.
Your bringing up contract law is completely irrelevant to the discussion. The point of a contract is that it's an agreement between two parties. The government simply enforces legally binding contracts because if they didn't, the whole foundation of a capitalistic commerce would collapse. Contracts don't take away rights... you simply agree to waive them in exchange for something else in return.
You say "we" like you're in some kind of great Slashdot fraternity. The majority of high-score posts I've read under this article are all expressions of utter disbelief at the notion that the U.S. would actually have such plans in place and documented. Those are the people I was addressing.
You, however, are a completely different kind of fool. "It's got everything to do with world domination." Oh my God, what an idiot.
I've never seen so many hysterical ninnies collected in one place. All these expressions of shock and disgust at the "insanity" of the Bush administration. And why? Over a document that, in some form or another, has been around for decades and the only difference between now and 5 years ago is that you apparently didn't have a clue it existed. It is not a response to terrorist attacks. It has not sprung from the crazy mind of Dubya. For as long as there have been nations, there have been contingency plans, and for as long as there have been atomic/nuclear weapons, there have been contingency plans that involved them. What rock have you people been living under?
Very implausible situation, I know, but I am giving it to show why it is not a good idea to tie any time limit to specific interests, other that the author's own.
Uhm, if the mother has only the copyright as a source of income, wouldn't that make her... stupid? Seriously, why is it that you think that the universe owes something to the children of an author that it doesn't to, say, the children of a banker, or the children of a construction worker, or the children of a florist?
Huh? That's ridiculous. All that it takes is for Congress to repeal the Sony Bono Act. That does not require a Constitutional Amendment. It just takes them passing a law repealing or modifying the previous one. What, you think every time they want to change a previous law they have to change the Constitution?
However, a Constitutional amendment is the only thing which would permanently bar Congress from ever extending the copyright length... unless that were to be repealed through a second Constitutional amendment.
I'm sorry... I must have missed the portion of Taco's blurb where it says "I AM AN ANIME JUNKIE!" Oh wait, that's right, it doesn't. All it says is that it's nice for anime junkies, wherever they might live.
Jeez, hate the guy if you must, but at least be rational about it.
That's exactly what I was thinking when he said that. The Heavy Gears are large "mech" robots with a pilot inside. They have retractable wheels in the feet to "skate" when possible.
I never claimed you said "don't eat, help someone else". Apparently I can add "inability to read" to your list of flaws. What you are saying is that it is immoral and obscene to spend money on something one enjoys unless you specifically approve it. There are television shows where people die. There are movies where people die. There are books where people die. There are video games where people die. In my opinion your entire premise is juvenile nonsense. Take your ridiculous self-righteousness and... keep it to yourself.
I hope you're posting from a public/school computer, because if you spent money on a computer, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
I hope you've never gone to a movie, because if you spent $7.00 to see a film, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
I hope you don't own a TV, because if you spent money on a television, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
I hope you don't own DVDs, CDs, posters, books, or furniture, because if you spent money on luxuries, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
One feature advertised about it (if I remember correctly...) was the "portal" technology, where you could be looking at a teleporter that would move you somewhere else on the map and actually see that location in real time, while if your character physically looked behind the actual transporter drevice, you'd still see the room.
Heck, Serious Sam and Quake III have been doing that for a long time.
John "Q" DeLancy, unfortunately. Chrisd actually trimmed out the comment in my submission where I lamented that he was the first to go, since he was my favorite.
It's not offtopic, it's a damn good quetion. When Roxann (Engineer B'Elanna Torres from Voyager) was voted off, she put on a bit of a hissy fit in the "exit interview". She especially singled out Wil Wheaton for "hitting on her" when he knew her husband would be watching.
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Actually, the increase in powers comes at the same time as an FBI re-org to increase its focus on terrorism. It's been mentioned in all the major news outlets.
Illegal on most (nearly all) college campuses, plus there may be the matter of her age.
Hear hear. The pod-racer announcer was the single thing I hated most in Ep 1. Yes, even more than Jar Jar. And I think you may be right about Coruscant and its 50's diner and billboard-cluttered streets. What's next? Karaoke bars? "Reality" tv shows?
Actually, real kids will just use sticks and branches to act out the saber fights.
At least a kid who tries to emulate a head-butt does so only ONCE.
But all of these costs/expenses existed before CDs were around. So really... why are CDs so much more expensive than tapes were?
CNN does very little investigation for its online articles (and I don't know that their televised content is any better). Instead, most CNN articles simply parrot whatever comes over the Reuters or AP lines. They never do their own checks on any of the information contained in these news reports, they just slap them up, mistakes and all. Who's going to hold them accountable anyway?
There's a word for that: Communism.
I think you forgot to take your lithium today.
Actually, I'm using Lynx from a Linux box... mainly because they track our web browser activities here at work, in all honesty. But let's also remember that a lot of /.ers are simply lurkers, and so the most vocal /.ers adamant opposition to MS products may not represent the overwhelming majority (surprise surprise).
- Because you're no longer quoting, this isn't a statement of fact; I'd call it a statement of your opinion.
Actually, it was paraphrasing. It's not an opinion, simply a plain text reading of the Declaration of Independence.- And THIS I'd call an offensive statement of your offensive opinion.
And now you're being an idiot. I wasn't trying to say that "it doesn't matter if you believe God gave you these rights, because he did", I was saying "it doesn't matter whether you believe God gave you these rights, because this is still the foundation upon which our Constitution is built." The only thing offensive is your extreme incompetence.Your bringing up contract law is completely irrelevant to the discussion. The point of a contract is that it's an agreement between two parties. The government simply enforces legally binding contracts because if they didn't, the whole foundation of a capitalistic commerce would collapse. Contracts don't take away rights... you simply agree to waive them in exchange for something else in return.
You, however, are a completely different kind of fool. "It's got everything to do with world domination." Oh my God, what an idiot.
I've never seen so many hysterical ninnies collected in one place. All these expressions of shock and disgust at the "insanity" of the Bush administration. And why? Over a document that, in some form or another, has been around for decades and the only difference between now and 5 years ago is that you apparently didn't have a clue it existed. It is not a response to terrorist attacks. It has not sprung from the crazy mind of Dubya. For as long as there have been nations, there have been contingency plans, and for as long as there have been atomic/nuclear weapons, there have been contingency plans that involved them. What rock have you people been living under?
Who said life is fair? Where is that written?
Contracts that require an illegal action are, by law, uneforceable. So that's not a very good comparison.
Uhm, if the mother has only the copyright as a source of income, wouldn't that make her... stupid? Seriously, why is it that you think that the universe owes something to the children of an author that it doesn't to, say, the children of a banker, or the children of a construction worker, or the children of a florist?
However, a Constitutional amendment is the only thing which would permanently bar Congress from ever extending the copyright length... unless that were to be repealed through a second Constitutional amendment.
I'm sorry... I must have missed the portion of Taco's blurb where it says "I AM AN ANIME JUNKIE!" Oh wait, that's right, it doesn't. All it says is that it's nice for anime junkies, wherever they might live.
Jeez, hate the guy if you must, but at least be rational about it.
That's exactly what I was thinking when he said that. The Heavy Gears are large "mech" robots with a pilot inside. They have retractable wheels in the feet to "skate" when possible.
I never claimed you said "don't eat, help someone else". Apparently I can add "inability to read" to your list of flaws. What you are saying is that it is immoral and obscene to spend money on something one enjoys unless you specifically approve it. There are television shows where people die. There are movies where people die. There are books where people die. There are video games where people die. In my opinion your entire premise is juvenile nonsense. Take your ridiculous self-righteousness and... keep it to yourself.
I hope you're posting from a public/school computer, because if you spent money on a computer, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
I hope you've never gone to a movie, because if you spent $7.00 to see a film, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
I hope you don't own a TV, because if you spent money on a television, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
I hope you don't own DVDs, CDs, posters, books, or furniture, because if you spent money on luxuries, you committed the obscene crime of spending for yourself instead of contributing to someone more in need.
Jackass.
- One feature advertised about it (if I remember correctly...) was the "portal" technology, where you could be looking at a teleporter that would move you somewhere else on the map and actually see that location in real time, while if your character physically looked behind the actual transporter drevice, you'd still see the room.
Heck, Serious Sam and Quake III have been doing that for a long time.John "Q" DeLancy, unfortunately. Chrisd actually trimmed out the comment in my submission where I lamented that he was the first to go, since he was my favorite.
It's not offtopic, it's a damn good quetion. When Roxann (Engineer B'Elanna Torres from Voyager) was voted off, she put on a bit of a hissy fit in the "exit interview". She especially singled out Wil Wheaton for "hitting on her" when he knew her husband would be watching.
I'm pretty certain I didn't submit it as an "Ask Slashdot" category, but it's possible it was a slip up on my part. If it was, my apologies.