You opt out by leaving the country and making your own. Sorry, you don't get to dictate to the rest of us. If you want it to be different, go through the process we all have to go through to change things, or leave and do your own thing. You don't own the whole country, and you own your property only because we all agree to private ownership of property. Without us around, I'd like to see how long you could defend your property from those who don't recognize your unilateral claim to it. Actually, could you point me to somewhere where I can go and kill off all the natives and start said country without, say, the UN coming in an defending the property and unilateral claim of the previous occupants?
No no you have it all wrong. They have all the evidence they need. I think most of us here would agree that piracy does cost corporations some amount of money/profit. Well, you see, Terrorism is defined as "cutting into corporate profit" not this silly notion of killing civilians to make political statements. That's why they're insurgents in Iraq. They're making someone in the military industrial complex wads of cash!
Did I really just say that? I've been here to long.
Well ma'am if you truly are a woman, which is doubtful as I will explain, you must remember this internet axiom: All 16 yr old cheerleaders on the internet are 40 year old dudes in their underwear or cops or both.
What can be further extrapolated from this, and the fact that many slashdotters have been burned by not remembering the above axiom is what leads to the massive doubt of anyone who claims to be a woman on slashdot.
But you probably already know that 'cause you are probably a 37 yr old dude sitting in your underwear in your mom's basement. (if you're not and you ever dump the "other guy" gimme a ring)
Citing a Hollywood Sci-Fi movie to explain temporal causality theory on why you should not tempt fate against ancient Mayan mythology predicting the end of the world because of scaremongering US-litigation junkscience, according to Slashdot rules that is damn well supposed to be modded Informative!
(Score:5, Funny)
Who the hell modded that Funny?
An extended rant responding to an inappropriate mod that involves temporal causality, Sci-Fi, mythology, and scaremongering US-litigation junkscience, per Slashdot mod rules, is damn well supposed to be modded Insightful!
...Bombing Iran will be more devastating to the USA than bombing a major US city. How, for example, about the world-wide trade and travel ban against the USA? And that is the mildest possible response against such an attack... ...and saddle the country with an unpayable debt which would lead to massive depression and unrest in the populace. Along would come a young charasmatic leader with a nationalistic and socialistic government. The people will be united by hating a small group of people. Lets say the ones with the funny star...
personaly i bet they where shipped back there for RMA - and they for got to put the number on the outside of the box so it took them awhile to get around to them
Funny? This should be +5, informative
I'd do the same thing if I were an author - why waste time inserting a bunch of middlemen like editors and publishers between me & my customer?
Well haveing spent soem time on slashDot I must say that editors are imprtant. Publishers eh not so much.
After further thought, I realize the irony in saying editors are important on/.. I was refering to book editors who proof things etc.
Yeah. Just as soon as the commercial comes on...
Dude, if we could convince "The Man" that a revolution would start during the commercial break, he'd be so scared there wouldn't be any more commercials!
I had several prof's who knew the material amazingly, really liked teaching, but I couldn't understand them half the time. Ditto for the TA's in the physics dept.
Scientists are often good at taking real-world things and describing them with formulas and theories. They are often bad at taking their findings and describing them in real-world terms.
To be unable to break your field's concepts down into simpler terms is a mental shortcoming, just like not being able to understand the concepts in the first place. Maybe it's no big deal if you only talk to other scientists. As an engineer, I found, past the introductory coursework, the humanities had their fair share of unintelligible crap. At least with eng, you go through the pages and pages of formula and cruft and come out with a useful result vs humanities you go through 50 pages of hrming and hawing and you get someone's opinion on someone else's hrming and hawing.
wait until you get on your JOB. Engineering education works perfectly; it prepares you for the boredom ahead of you. What do you mean? I've been out almost a year, and my job is great! I sit around and read slashdot all day! I have no idea what I am supposed to be doing, but I think it involves really big excel spreadsheets and doing stuff that they should have hired a code monkey to do.
Oh, don't be stupid. If I created a movie that went out of it's way to deeply criticize baptist Christians, it's probably not unreasonable for me to be afraid of visiting the deep south in the US. *Every* religion has it's extremists. It's not unreasonable to be at least somewhat fearful if you go out of your way to bait them into violence.
Could you provide an example of violence perp'ed by baptists because of religious critisism? Based on what I see, pretty much every day it seems someone comes out with something saying "Christians are dumb", and I haven't heard anything in the news about retalitory killings. Shoot Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven't had any trouble and they've made some less than flattering South Park episodes.
The Concorde, and the U.S. lunar program, were done for reasons of national pride. Among piss-poor reasons to spend government funds, that's got to be near the top.
eh I'd rather pay for that than to send YOUR kids to school or YOUR cancer treatment or to pay the social security that the old people I know use to go to Hawaii every year.
Think about that Mr. "Wah wah it could be used for Ed or Health or bettering humanity" Man! (Apologies if you are just generally against Gov spending)
And these should be protested and exposed just as vigorously. Especially the first, since they have voted into office the current leaders who are destroying our economy and our country's future with this inane war, if they haven't already done so. Oh, and our privacy and freedom too, while we're at it.
Maybe you would be more comfortable in Soviet Russia where of course Religious Hostility practices You.
This brings up some of the issues with the whole Anon. thing. As a movement to call them on their suppressive methods, it is good; but as a protest against religion, it is a slippery slope.
Because in 1929 people weren't so afraid of bombs that they wouldn't leave there house. Now this threatens the bomb-freeness of their homes by the ability to send bombs through a series of tubes which because it involves a series of tubes is completely different than sending it through the mail.
Haven't you people learned that tubes makes it different!
A "work of art" for one person may be garbage to someone else.
I should have been an artist! I wonder if they'd take my pieces "Desk With Crap Pilled On Top" or "Basement With Clothes Piled Everywhere"
Besides the fact that there are instances where the effects are not observed( when the orbit is symmetrical with respect to the equator), it seems you forget how science works. Observe->model-> refine observation->see anomaly-> refine model->rinse->repeat
Is France doing well?
Well, its economy, although not stellar, is doing reasonably well.
And apart from that, it's living in peace, rather than being stuck in a war of attrition in the Middle East.
And they have riots and violence every time pension reform is brought up.
Or dumb kids crash into a cop car and die
Or the muslim youth feel disenfrachised
Or kids running from the cops hide in powerstations and get electrocuted
Or someone attemts to deregulate labor
Yeah France is a wonderful place with everyone living in harmony.
Slashdot Mirror
It was immersive enough to fool me... Funny. I had the same kind of problem with Zork. I still need to sleep with a nightlight!
No no you have it all wrong. They have all the evidence they need. I think most of us here would agree that piracy does cost corporations some amount of money/profit. Well, you see, Terrorism is defined as "cutting into corporate profit" not this silly notion of killing civilians to make political statements. That's why they're insurgents in Iraq. They're making someone in the military industrial complex wads of cash!
Did I really just say that? I've been here to long.
Well ma'am if you truly are a woman, which is doubtful as I will explain, you must remember this internet axiom:
All 16 yr old cheerleaders on the internet are 40 year old dudes in their underwear or cops or both.
What can be further extrapolated from this, and the fact that many slashdotters have been burned by not remembering the above axiom is what leads to the massive doubt of anyone who claims to be a woman on slashdot.
But you probably already know that 'cause you are probably a 37 yr old dude sitting in your underwear in your mom's basement. (if you're not and you ever dump the "other guy" gimme a ring)
Who the hell modded that Funny?
Citing a Hollywood Sci-Fi movie to explain temporal causality theory on why you should not tempt fate against ancient Mayan mythology predicting the end of the world because of scaremongering US-litigation junkscience, according to Slashdot rules that is damn well supposed to be modded Informative!
(Score:5, Funny)
Who the hell modded that Funny?
An extended rant responding to an inappropriate mod that involves temporal causality, Sci-Fi, mythology, and scaremongering US-litigation junkscience, per Slashdot mod rules, is damn well supposed to be modded Insightful!
I believe the whole point was not that the games were bad but that the titles were dumb which in itself is subjective as well.
...believe it when I see it!
...Bombing Iran will be more devastating to the USA than bombing a major US city. How, for example, about the world-wide trade and travel ban against the USA? And that is the mildest possible response against such an attack...Funny? This should be +5, informative
Well haveing spent soem time on slashDot I must say that editors are imprtant. Publishers eh not so much.
After further thought, I realize the irony in saying editors are important on
Why would they want to do that when they can charge you $100 for unlimited then cut you off at 50GB? Least that seems to be the modus operundi (sp?)
Dude, if we could convince "The Man" that a revolution would start during the commercial break, he'd be so scared there wouldn't be any more commercials!
3) NOT SPEAKING F***ING ENGLISH!
I had several prof's who knew the material amazingly, really liked teaching, but I couldn't understand them half the time. Ditto for the TA's in the physics dept.
To be unable to break your field's concepts down into simpler terms is a mental shortcoming, just like not being able to understand the concepts in the first place. Maybe it's no big deal if you only talk to other scientists. As an engineer, I found, past the introductory coursework, the humanities had their fair share of unintelligible crap. At least with eng, you go through the pages and pages of formula and cruft and come out with a useful result vs humanities you go through 50 pages of hrming and hawing and you get someone's opinion on someone else's hrming and hawing.
Could you provide an example of violence perp'ed by baptists because of religious critisism? Based on what I see, pretty much every day it seems someone comes out with something saying "Christians are dumb", and I haven't heard anything in the news about retalitory killings. Shoot Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven't had any trouble and they've made some less than flattering South Park episodes.
+# Funny!? This comment should be +5 Insightful!
The Mods must be crazy!
What you think I send in all the slashvertisements for fun?
eh I'd rather pay for that than to send YOUR kids to school or YOUR cancer treatment or to pay the social security that the old people I know use to go to Hawaii every year.
Think about that Mr. "Wah wah it could be used for Ed or Health or bettering humanity" Man! (Apologies if you are just generally against Gov spending)
Hi welcome to the USA
Maybe you would be more comfortable in Soviet Russia where of course Religious Hostility practices You.
This brings up some of the issues with the whole Anon. thing. As a movement to call them on their suppressive methods, it is good; but as a protest against religion, it is a slippery slope.
Oh come on! You're trying to give fictional example of a airplane using a mind reading helmet to target planes and the best you can do is Stargate?!
Someone needs to watch Firefox
And remember "You must think in Russian."
Because in 1929 people weren't so afraid of bombs that they wouldn't leave there house. Now this threatens the bomb-freeness of their homes by the ability to send bombs through a series of tubes which because it involves a series of tubes is completely different than sending it through the mail.
Haven't you people learned that tubes makes it different!
I should have been an artist! I wonder if they'd take my pieces "Desk With Crap Pilled On Top" or "Basement With Clothes Piled Everywhere"
Besides the fact that there are instances where the effects are not observed( when the orbit is symmetrical with respect to the equator), it seems you forget how science works. Observe->model-> refine observation->see anomaly-> refine model->rinse->repeat
Well, its economy, although not stellar, is doing reasonably well.
And apart from that, it's living in peace, rather than being stuck in a war of attrition in the Middle East.
And they have riots and violence every time pension reform is brought up.
Or dumb kids crash into a cop car and die
Or the muslim youth feel disenfrachised
Or kids running from the cops hide in powerstations and get electrocuted
Or someone attemts to deregulate labor
Yeah France is a wonderful place with everyone living in harmony.