education is seen as an important social stabilizer. Oh, trust me, the USA has that, too. Most of the nasty things Westerners see about Japan are just open admissions of the nastiest, most covered up bits of our own culture. Like how the "rugged individualism" that built America is basically dead, replaced with office buildings, high schools and strip malls.
Who said it was new? It's right in the Jargon File, the question is what's in the modern War on Terrorism dictionaries rather than the old Cold War dictionaries.
The whole point, however, is changing behavior by any means necessary. Rather than, you know, leaving people to their free will and all, since it's only encouraging them to sin anyway.
Actually, according to the Bible humans were forbidden to eat meat until after the Flood. It was a concession to our moral depravity. Adonai, apparently, is a militant vegetarian.
You know, quantum physics should have such a sticker on the books. After all, there are competing theories. Google is your friend when you ask it about Classical Quantum Mechanics.
Yeah, if data about bin Laden's calling habits leaks out someone might find out how many times Bush has been consulting him on how to screw and scare the public.
These things tend to work based on certain key phrases and words in Dictionaries. Sprinkle your speech with random terrorist-sounding words and phrases as "Vote Green for peace", "jihad", "Allah", "kill for God" and "assasinate George W. Bush" to countermeasure!
Yes, but who fetches metadata over the network? User-attached metadata can be created as sub-files and then safely ignored by network software that only touches the primary file.
It is pretty stupid, and I can't see why The World hasn't gone the Reiser4 route of storing metadata as sub-files of the file itself, which can be accessed as a directory to look at its metadata and as a file to read it.
It's a good question, why have we never changed the rules so that only germane riders could be attached? Oh, wait, how would that pass? The politicians want their pork so they never allow a germane rider requirement to pass!
Wow, and won't all this conversion to DRM'd digital machines obsolete the old ones? Of course, which is probably the real goal here. They aren't merely plugging a hole in their Digital Rights Massacreing, they're forcing everyone to go out and buy new stuff! WOOT, keep the economy fueled and the profits where they belong: in the hands of those who don't need them.
1.Ender didn't self-sacrifice in killing the Buggers. He made himself the single most glorified hero of all humanity. When he was first drafted into Battle School he was tricked into going. None of this says "Jesus figure" to me.
2.Stan, Kyle, Tweak and Cartman rescue "Ender's Game"?
That's Christianity. Judaism doesn't hold you accountable for Adam and Eve's sins except in the sense of requiring you to live in Earth instead of Eden.
If someone wants to practice Scientology outside the official church (there is a group which doesn't charge exhorbitant fees for moving up in the religion) or worship a dead carrot, then raising their children to believe so isn't child abuse. Children aren't idiots, you know.
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education is seen as an important social stabilizer.
Oh, trust me, the USA has that, too. Most of the nasty things Westerners see about Japan are just open admissions of the nastiest, most covered up bits of our own culture. Like how the "rugged individualism" that built America is basically dead, replaced with office buildings, high schools and strip malls.
Now bring on the robots!
Who said it was new? It's right in the Jargon File, the question is what's in the modern War on Terrorism dictionaries rather than the old Cold War dictionaries.
The whole point, however, is changing behavior by any means necessary.
Rather than, you know, leaving people to their free will and all, since it's only encouraging them to sin anyway.
Actually, according to the Bible humans were forbidden to eat meat until after the Flood. It was a concession to our moral depravity. Adonai, apparently, is a militant vegetarian.
You know, quantum physics should have such a sticker on the books. After all, there are competing theories. Google is your friend when you ask it about Classical Quantum Mechanics.
Yeah, if data about bin Laden's calling habits leaks out someone might find out how many times Bush has been consulting him on how to screw and scare the public.
These things tend to work based on certain key phrases and words in Dictionaries. Sprinkle your speech with random terrorist-sounding words and phrases as "Vote Green for peace", "jihad", "Allah", "kill for God" and "assasinate George W. Bush" to countermeasure!
Yes, but who fetches metadata over the network? User-attached metadata can be created as sub-files and then safely ignored by network software that only touches the primary file.
OK, that's damn funny. Probably a random AC, though.
Wait a minute, why was she taking marching orders about her social life from Mom and Dad? She had moved out, right?
It is pretty stupid, and I can't see why The World hasn't gone the Reiser4 route of storing metadata as sub-files of the file itself, which can be accessed as a directory to look at its metadata and as a file to read it.
It's a good question, why have we never changed the rules so that only germane riders could be attached? Oh, wait, how would that pass? The politicians want their pork so they never allow a germane rider requirement to pass!
Pork is tref! Pork is tref!
Wow, and won't all this conversion to DRM'd digital machines obsolete the old ones? Of course, which is probably the real goal here. They aren't merely plugging a hole in their Digital Rights Massacreing, they're forcing everyone to go out and buy new stuff! WOOT, keep the economy fueled and the profits where they belong: in the hands of those who don't need them.
Remember, this is Wikipedia. It may not be 90% accurate.
1.Ender didn't self-sacrifice in killing the Buggers. He made himself the single most glorified hero of all humanity. When he was first drafted into Battle School he was tricked into going. None of this says "Jesus figure" to me.
2.Stan, Kyle, Tweak and Cartman rescue "Ender's Game"?
Or in other words, Evangelion ripped off "Ender's Game" in anime form.
YES! A John Taylor Gatto reference on Slashdot!
WOAH! WOAH THERE BOY! That's a bit too much revealed truth for the masses now, don't you think? Yes, go home and read "Island".
And the Loser Teen zooms back to the top of Old Man Rock, the girls boyfriend is never killed and Homer finds another way to make fun of himself.
Perhaps she has an extra brainwave that lets her fight evil dumb-creatures that wish to destroy everything they can't understand.
/me plays Hail to the Chief Techno Remix.
*A building explodes in the background.*
That's Christianity. Judaism doesn't hold you accountable for Adam and Eve's sins except in the sense of requiring you to live in Earth instead of Eden.
If someone wants to practice Scientology outside the official church (there is a group which doesn't charge exhorbitant fees for moving up in the religion) or worship a dead carrot, then raising their children to believe so isn't child abuse. Children aren't idiots, you know.
When can I purchase a house made of them?
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But can it run Linux?
I for one, welcome our new tetrahedral overlords!
OK, seriously, could somebody list all the cool things we're going to build out of these guys?
Instead of just changing careers and leaving those obnoxious guys obnoxious, why not teach them some social skills? It can be done, I assure you.