"The US Court System has previously ruled (need a reference here) that parody is protected under the First Amendment. That's how people like Weird Al get away with what they do."
Weird Al is not the best one to mention. He always tries to get permission from the original songwriters. In instances where he did not get permission ("Amish Paradise"), there was a communication mix-up and Weird Al was under the false impression he had gotten permission.
"I have recently converted to christianity and have been struggling to get my new found christian friends to open thier minds to the possiblity that evolution isn't complete BS. But the more I look the less proof I find."
So far, all the evidence supports evolution, and none contradicts it. More information rolls in all the time to make this "theory" all the more strong. Perhaps you are looking in the wrong journals.
Castro's conquest of Cuba is "successful" because Castro is smart enough to quash dissent and maintain power with a combination of "bread and circuses" with brutal oppression of dissenters. His movement was as far from nationalist as you could get; being basically controlled by a foreign power, the USSR (from which he got the governing Leninist / Stalinist model). Castro's conquest of Cuba was basically an expression of good old fashioned European colonialism. He did not improve the average Cuban's life when it came to education: literacy was as high before he took over. I do not, however, know the education stats from before the Soviet conquest.
As for Castro himself, it is a cult of personality, and he is wealthy enough to make it to the Forbes 400. He lives better than the average Cuban, of course, because it is illegal for the average Cuban to work their way out of poverty. Conveniently enough, there is no legal limit to the wealth and power of just one particular man. As the absolute dictator of a large island, its wealth is his to control.
"Dude do you know how many Alkaline batteries it would take to supply the power found in a Lithium Ion battery? Not only that but do you have the $10-$20 bucks a day to keep buying these batteries?"
They've had rechargable Lithium Ion AA batteries for a few years now.
How would it cut costs? I can see the "cut profits" argument (no more making $$$ selling proprietary batteries), but do tell what the costs are that would be involved.
"If Sony did a recall for exploding PS3's before they shipped them out"
No need for a recall. Let the marketing department handle this with a press release about the added realism in shoot-and-explode military games due to Sony's new sensory-feedback controller. That's a lot cheaper.
"Well, i personally havn't had any problems with the sony battery in my laptdjsaDASDJAShd NO CARRIER"
I'm not so sure it's the batteries #$_@NO CARRIER $#@@#@# bud. It might be ]].]]]NO CARRIER that particu//NO CARRIER/]] r defective Sony modem that shorts out every [[32[[@@NO CARRIER )($##$# three seconds or so.
Everything would go a lot better if these companies just used regular batteries (AAA, AA, C, D, etc) instead of these strange proprietary non-standard hard-to-replace batteries.
"Revolutions are generally only successful when the majority of the population are grossly dissatisfied with the current government and feel the armed struggle is the only option left open to them."
That happens sometimes. Too often, it is like in the Cuba situation, where a revolution occurs because an armed faction is successful in its effort to take over and crush both the existing/previous regime AND any dissent from the populace. A similar thing happened when Lenin overthrew the democratic Russian government.
"This means that although you might have to go without the occasional little luxury, you dont have to see someone else who has more money than they know what to do with living it up"
What do you think they have NOW in Cuba? The super rich guy who has more money than he knows what to do with is living it up (aside from the fact that he is now dying). He has his picture all over the place. He's worth several billions in cash holding, but if you count his vast real estate holdings (almost all of a really huge Caribbean island), he's even much richer than Gates.
"Turns out for some things regulation is better - look at how a poor country like Cuba has better healthcare (with lower infant mortality rates) than the wealthy US"
I'm sure these statistics are very accurate, as Cuba is known for its open government information and the complete accountability and ability to criticise and evaluate government programs without any restrictions.
"There's some pretty nasty chemicals in there and they need proper disposal."
Too bad Packard Bell is not still around. These batteries would be perfect to sell to Packard Bell so they could put them in their nice new laptop computers for sale.
Just about all of the several respondents after me also wondered if your message implied some sort of justification for keeping the information away from the proles.
Then it really shouldn't matter, should it? No matter what kind of report you release, there will always be some idiot who does not understand it. A non-issue, really.
"Or perhaps you're okay with the fact that the current administration (and I use the term loosely) has brought the US from amongst the most loved countries on earth to the most despised"
Yes, you are so right. During the Clinton years, Kim Jong Il would not have even CONSIDERED building a nuclear weapon, there was no Al Qaeda, Iraq was peaceful and democratic and prosperous, there no terrorism, and the people of Iran were encouraged by the government to dance in the streets chanting "Love to America"!
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"The US Court System has previously ruled (need a reference here) that parody is protected under the First Amendment. That's how people like Weird Al get away with what they do."
Weird Al is not the best one to mention. He always tries to get permission from the original songwriters. In instances where he did not get permission ("Amish Paradise"), there was a communication mix-up and Weird Al was under the false impression he had gotten permission.
"I can finally grow myself a twin!"
If it is the fifth (or later) season of the show, rest assured that this twin will be evil.
Didn't "Star Trek" have an episode about a guy who had this condition?
Next year, Linux drives a car.
"I was unaware that it was US soldiers that were blowing themselves up in crowded civilian areas at the behest of bush"
You must not get Al Jazeera either, right?
"during a poltical campaign, some photograph of Kerry giving a speech years ago is doctored. I think there is some precedent there"
I doctored it, and then I undoctored it.
"Face it. Every attempt to eradicate or exile a given group within a population of humans has failed since the dawn of history*"
There are hundreds of groups/tribes/etc who have been utterly eliminated. And these are just the documented ones of the past few hundred years.
"I have recently converted to christianity and have been struggling to get my new found christian friends to open thier minds to the possiblity that evolution isn't complete BS. But the more I look the less proof I find."
So far, all the evidence supports evolution, and none contradicts it. More information rolls in all the time to make this "theory" all the more strong. Perhaps you are looking in the wrong journals.
Castro's conquest of Cuba is "successful" because Castro is smart enough to quash dissent and maintain power with a combination of "bread and circuses" with brutal oppression of dissenters. His movement was as far from nationalist as you could get; being basically controlled by a foreign power, the USSR (from which he got the governing Leninist / Stalinist model). Castro's conquest of Cuba was basically an expression of good old fashioned European colonialism. He did not improve the average Cuban's life when it came to education: literacy was as high before he took over. I do not, however, know the education stats from before the Soviet conquest.
As for Castro himself, it is a cult of personality, and he is wealthy enough to make it to the Forbes 400. He lives better than the average Cuban, of course, because it is illegal for the average Cuban to work their way out of poverty. Conveniently enough, there is no legal limit to the wealth and power of just one particular man. As the absolute dictator of a large island, its wealth is his to control.
"Dude do you know how many Alkaline batteries it would take to supply the power found in a Lithium Ion battery? Not only that but do you have the $10-$20 bucks a day to keep buying these batteries?"
They've had rechargable Lithium Ion AA batteries for a few years now.
How would it cut costs? I can see the "cut profits" argument (no more making $$$ selling proprietary batteries), but do tell what the costs are that would be involved.
"If Sony did a recall for exploding PS3's before they shipped them out"
No need for a recall. Let the marketing department handle this with a press release about the added realism in shoot-and-explode military games due to Sony's new sensory-feedback controller. That's a lot cheaper.
"Well, i personally havn't had any problems with the sony battery in my laptdjsaDASDJAShd NO CARRIER"
I'm not so sure it's the batteries #$_@NO CARRIER $#@@#@# bud. It might be ]].]]]NO CARRIER that particu//NO CARRIER/]] r defective Sony modem that shorts out every [[32[[@@NO CARRIER )($##$# three seconds or so.
Everything would go a lot better if these companies just used regular batteries (AAA, AA, C, D, etc) instead of these strange proprietary non-standard hard-to-replace batteries.
"Revolutions are generally only successful when the majority of the population are grossly dissatisfied with the current government and feel the armed struggle is the only option left open to them."
That happens sometimes. Too often, it is like in the Cuba situation, where a revolution occurs because an armed faction is successful in its effort to take over and crush both the existing/previous regime AND any dissent from the populace. A similar thing happened when Lenin overthrew the democratic Russian government.
"This means that although you might have to go without the occasional little luxury, you dont have to see someone else who has more money than they know what to do with living it up"
What do you think they have NOW in Cuba? The super rich guy who has more money than he knows what to do with is living it up (aside from the fact that he is now dying). He has his picture all over the place. He's worth several billions in cash holding, but if you count his vast real estate holdings (almost all of a really huge Caribbean island), he's even much richer than Gates.
"Turns out for some things regulation is better - look at how a poor country like Cuba has better healthcare (with lower infant mortality rates) than the wealthy US"
I'm sure these statistics are very accurate, as Cuba is known for its open government information and the complete accountability and ability to criticise and evaluate government programs without any restrictions.
"There's some pretty nasty chemicals in there and they need proper disposal."
Too bad Packard Bell is not still around. These batteries would be perfect to sell to Packard Bell so they could put them in their nice new laptop computers for sale.
"We've been asked by a lot of customers to provide tools to do mass migrations"
AFLAC account still pretty important, Bill?
"If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby."
That fits agnosticism, but not strong atheism (which "collects stamps", so to speak).
Take hike? None necessary. Just spend the money wisely.
Just about all of the several respondents after me also wondered if your message implied some sort of justification for keeping the information away from the proles.
Then it really shouldn't matter, should it? No matter what kind of report you release, there will always be some idiot who does not understand it. A non-issue, really.
Either that, or "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud" is the name of a new nanobot swarm threat that came out of Brazil.
"Or perhaps you're okay with the fact that the current administration (and I use the term loosely) has brought the US from amongst the most loved countries on earth to the most despised"
Yes, you are so right. During the Clinton years, Kim Jong Il would not have even CONSIDERED building a nuclear weapon, there was no Al Qaeda, Iraq was peaceful and democratic and prosperous, there no terrorism, and the people of Iran were encouraged by the government to dance in the streets chanting "Love to America"!
What is your reason for asking this? Are you attempting to justify keeping the reports secret?