The kids nor their parents gave permission for this footage to be used as this. Don't they have rights? Hang him on this, confiscate all his past, current and future earning to pay for damages. That should frighten any musician I know far more then mere jail time.
So take him to court for not obtaining permission from the parents or whatever. Hanging him or making him permanently bankrupt as some sort of example is absolutely sick and I think that you should perhaps seek psychiatric help.
.. considering you can burn through most plan's miserly download caps in a couple of hours of streaming content even on 3G? For example, T-Mobile advertise a 10$/mo 4G data plan with a 200Mb cap. 200Mb!!! AT&T's 200Mb plan is $35/mo and to upgrade to a 5Gb cap would cost an additional $25! Until cell phone companies in the US move into the 21st century there is no way I am buying a smartphone.
What did you expect he'd get for attacking the government? A good conduct ribbon? Toss him in Gitmo, and throw the key away!
In an alternate history: "What did you expect [The Founding Fathers of The United States to] get for attacking the government? A good conduct ribbon? Toss [them] in [The Tower of London], and throw the key away!
There is NO SUCH THING as a gene that dictates your behavior, preferences, or predisposition!
Hold on, if this is true then how do you explain
instinctive behaviour? I'm no biologist, but my understanding is that genes can dictate behaviour (e.g. baby turtles move towards ocean) and preferences (e.g. birds of paradise).
And instead we become beholden to the evils of a single shady biotech company who have no motivation other than to make as much money as they can at the expense of whatever they crush under the grinding wheels of their greed. Great. Hardly better than the middle eastern regimes if you ask me.
I have no need for this. I don't drive very much, but a few times a year I need to take fairly long trips. That is not lost time to me. I kick back and read a book, or work on a notepad, and gain many hours of personal time. I use the railways.
Also remember that this game has no respawns unless you hail from a particular region of south-Asia (a privilege granted for chumming up the devs no doubt).
Although you have not expressed an opinion on the merits of astrology, you clearly lump science into the same category as 'something that requires belief', and equate scientists as believers in the same way as those who worship the various sky faeries. I suggest you read about the Scientific Method, and you will discover that the underlying principle of science is the constant attack on existing theories with new ideas and data. Belief in anything is contradictory to the very foundations of science.
In my experience with Apple products (iPod, iPhone, Macbook pro), they seem to enjoy changing things around to make their software more inaccessible to a new user. Just yesterday I was programming in emacs (VM ubuntu running on Mac OS) on my work Macbook and somehow managed to enable text overwrite. Apparently Apple saw fit to remove the insert key, so I spent half an hour on google trying to find the arcane series of keystrokes required to turn it off again. There are hundreds of sites spewing many different combinations of key presses (some also suggested using the preferences menu of MS Word ffs), none of which worked. Eventually I just looked up the lua command. My other pet peeves include the absence of the home and end keys, the delete key (not backspace) and the repositioning of the backslash character.
18 Million per CD per month is how much the RIAA get per Britney Spears album for suing hapless teenage girls. The plant that is referred to is an oblique reference to the artists, who, from the RIAA's perspective, are a tree from which they can harvest money.
Then said children go home and listen to rap music on MTV or watch any TV show involving people from "the 'hood" and they'll easily find 219 uses of the word 'nigger', along with 'bitches', 'hoes', and a wide variety of other unsavoury phrases.
The actions are certainly rational in that the politician makes a rational decision (in its 'derived from reason' meaning) based on his or her personal gain, but the law itself may not seem rational (in its 'reasonable/sensible' meaning) to the people subjected to the action. Do tax cuts for the rich seem like good sense when the economy is collapsing? Do the Republicans blocking every motion by the government simply because the Democrats proposed it seem rational? Do the (thankfully recently repealed) laws discriminating against gay people in the army seem rational? To me these seem like the actions of a bunch of greedy and ignorant school children and not those of rational people.
I don't think its an issue of rational or irrational. In order to understand the politician, look no further than his pocket. Today the politicians might agree on some 'rational' piece of legislation, but you can be sure that 'irrational' legislation will be built on top of it if it serves their interests. The slippery slope arguments do make sense, as people with foresight will see that today's rational legislation is paving the way for a whole host of irrational yet profitable outcomes.
I would be surprised if the 310M people in this country would survive for long without the power for the infrastructure on which their lives depend. Yes, an individual can survive without electricity, but a country certainly won't if all of the refrigerators, food processing plants, modern-style farms, docks, road-management systems, etc all stopped working, and suddenly everyone has to grow their own foods locally.
I imagine it's because it is much easier for them to throw money at a problem and hope it goes away rather than actually trying to address any issues with their corrupt power structure.
Why do Apple consider it their job to police this kind of behaviour? Noone is stopping a PC software developer from making this kind of statement, but by the looks of it the sky has not yet fallen.
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The kids nor their parents gave permission for this footage to be used as this. Don't they have rights? Hang him on this, confiscate all his past, current and future earning to pay for damages. That should frighten any musician I know far more then mere jail time.
So take him to court for not obtaining permission from the parents or whatever. Hanging him or making him permanently bankrupt as some sort of example is absolutely sick and I think that you should perhaps seek psychiatric help.
Well then lets pray to all of our deities that the next president isn't Republican.
.. considering you can burn through most plan's miserly download caps in a couple of hours of streaming content even on 3G? For example, T-Mobile advertise a 10$/mo 4G data plan with a 200Mb cap. 200Mb!!! AT&T's 200Mb plan is $35/mo and to upgrade to a 5Gb cap would cost an additional $25! Until cell phone companies in the US move into the 21st century there is no way I am buying a smartphone.
.... or your servers will be a heap of smouldering slag after the first morning rush over the Triborough bridge!
What did you expect he'd get for attacking the government? A good conduct ribbon? Toss him in Gitmo, and throw the key away!
In an alternate history: "What did you expect [The Founding Fathers of The United States to] get for attacking the government? A good conduct ribbon? Toss [them] in [The Tower of London], and throw the key away!
Damnit, beaten by 10 mins. That's what I get for researching a comment!
There is NO SUCH THING as a gene that dictates your behavior, preferences, or predisposition!
Hold on, if this is true then how do you explain instinctive behaviour? I'm no biologist, but my understanding is that genes can dictate behaviour (e.g. baby turtles move towards ocean) and preferences (e.g. birds of paradise).
And instead we become beholden to the evils of a single shady biotech company who have no motivation other than to make as much money as they can at the expense of whatever they crush under the grinding wheels of their greed. Great. Hardly better than the middle eastern regimes if you ask me.
I was trying to figure that one out myself. I settled on 1MW * 2.718281....
I have no need for this. I don't drive very much, but a few times a year I need to take fairly long trips. That is not lost time to me. I kick back and read a book, or work on a notepad, and gain many hours of personal time. I use the railways.
Given that Windows XP is decently stable, why would you FUD about Vista?
Also don't forget organised religion. If anything can be described as getting 'susceptible people wrapped up in a fantasy world' it's this.
Also remember that this game has no respawns unless you hail from a particular region of south-Asia (a privilege granted for chumming up the devs no doubt).
Although you have not expressed an opinion on the merits of astrology, you clearly lump science into the same category as 'something that requires belief', and equate scientists as believers in the same way as those who worship the various sky faeries. I suggest you read about the Scientific Method, and you will discover that the underlying principle of science is the constant attack on existing theories with new ideas and data. Belief in anything is contradictory to the very foundations of science.
In my experience with Apple products (iPod, iPhone, Macbook pro), they seem to enjoy changing things around to make their software more inaccessible to a new user. Just yesterday I was programming in emacs (VM ubuntu running on Mac OS) on my work Macbook and somehow managed to enable text overwrite. Apparently Apple saw fit to remove the insert key, so I spent half an hour on google trying to find the arcane series of keystrokes required to turn it off again. There are hundreds of sites spewing many different combinations of key presses (some also suggested using the preferences menu of MS Word ffs), none of which worked. Eventually I just looked up the lua command. My other pet peeves include the absence of the home and end keys, the delete key (not backspace) and the repositioning of the backslash character.
18 Million per CD per month is how much the RIAA get per Britney Spears album for suing hapless teenage girls. The plant that is referred to is an oblique reference to the artists, who, from the RIAA's perspective, are a tree from which they can harvest money.
Clearly they should also go back and rewrite Shakespeare for similar reasons.
Then said children go home and listen to rap music on MTV or watch any TV show involving people from "the 'hood" and they'll easily find 219 uses of the word 'nigger', along with 'bitches', 'hoes', and a wide variety of other unsavoury phrases.
The actions are certainly rational in that the politician makes a rational decision (in its 'derived from reason' meaning) based on his or her personal gain, but the law itself may not seem rational (in its 'reasonable/sensible' meaning) to the people subjected to the action. Do tax cuts for the rich seem like good sense when the economy is collapsing? Do the Republicans blocking every motion by the government simply because the Democrats proposed it seem rational? Do the (thankfully recently repealed) laws discriminating against gay people in the army seem rational? To me these seem like the actions of a bunch of greedy and ignorant school children and not those of rational people.
I don't think its an issue of rational or irrational. In order to understand the politician, look no further than his pocket. Today the politicians might agree on some 'rational' piece of legislation, but you can be sure that 'irrational' legislation will be built on top of it if it serves their interests. The slippery slope arguments do make sense, as people with foresight will see that today's rational legislation is paving the way for a whole host of irrational yet profitable outcomes.
I would be surprised if the 310M people in this country would survive for long without the power for the infrastructure on which their lives depend. Yes, an individual can survive without electricity, but a country certainly won't if all of the refrigerators, food processing plants, modern-style farms, docks, road-management systems, etc all stopped working, and suddenly everyone has to grow their own foods locally.
Yeah, someone needs to put a !eternal tag on this story.
Is pissing people off against the law now? I thought that was only true if you're pissing off the US government?
I imagine it's because it is much easier for them to throw money at a problem and hope it goes away rather than actually trying to address any issues with their corrupt power structure.
Why do Apple consider it their job to police this kind of behaviour? Noone is stopping a PC software developer from making this kind of statement, but by the looks of it the sky has not yet fallen.