Well soon it will be everything is downloadable and where is the line?
It wioll be quite a while before you can download food and drink, the #2 and #3 important things in anyone's life.
I'll bet manufacturers are shitting their pants over home printed things... but then, you can only print plastics at this point. When you can download and print a whole car, hell yes I'll pirate a car!
Accidents are senseless, suicide has actual reason.
So does murder. You're ok with murder?
Where did that "suicide is cowardly" nonsense came from?
Suicide is an escape; a coward's escape. It's also the ultimate in selfishness.
It is his life and he has the right to do with it whatever he pleases. Including ending it.
And it's the GP's right to try and do the decent thing and try to talk him out of it, instead of the evil you are doing by cheering the GGP's suicide on. What kind of a God damned monster are you? OH, I see, an athiest, maybe even an antitheist. Carry on, then. You'll find out in the end, poor fool.
Suicide at least is surefire way to end all past, present and future problems.
Again, you're going to be pretty damed surprised when your own end comes.
If that were illegal, half of slashdot would be in prison. You wouldn't think aliterates would be on slashdot (obviously there are no illiterates here, but it seems few have ever finished reading a book more advanced than Cat in the Hat).
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. How could you want to hurt the woman you say you love? Please get professional help. Today there are effective treatments for your mental illness.
Be glad some of the people I know from that bar in the ghetto I drink in aren't your neighbors. Your insurance would be sky high when they were through with you (both property and medical insurance). One guy I know spent time in prison for murder. Surely you're not stupid enough to fuck with someone like him?
Some people don't give a rat's ass about the law or the police. Those people are a lot more adept at making someone's life a living hell than a law-abiding citizen ever could be.
PS. if seven of nine ever runs for my electorate, i'll sure as hell be voting for her... WOOF!
Her ex-husband, Jack Ryan, was running for US Senate in Illinois, but dropped out of the race because of hanky-panky. The wikipedia article about it is pretty interesting.
Jack Ryan (born October 6, 1959) is a Republican from the state of Illinois who was forced to withdraw from the 2004 United States Senate race due to an alleged sex scandal involving his relationship with his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan.[1][2] His eventual replacement, Alan Keyes, would go on to lose the general election to State Senator and future President of the United States, Barack Obama.
I have friends that would send those tweets to people in jest... I couldn't imagine being arrested because of it.
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY YOU CHAUVINIST PIG!!!
One man's joke is another (wo)man's insult. But I do agree, insults should not be against the law. Sometimes I'm jealous of the Brits, then crap like this comes up...
That crossed my mind as well -- why study lizards when cats are so adept at landing right side up? If they'd studied cats, they'd know that the stronger the cat's tail, the better an athelete the cat is, so it stands to reason that the better designed the robot's tail, the better the robot will be at its job.
In 3 or 4 years (or possibly sooner), that will simply not be an option for the same reason you can't easily buy a dedicated word processor or standard definition TV any more
Well, a dedicated word processor would be the tiniest of niches and cost as much as a full-fledged computer, and a standard definition TV would cost as much to manufacture as a high def one, plus who would want one?
As to a phone that they only want to make and recieve calls, having the other gadgets wouldn't hinder them if the phone was designed well.
As long as I can get a small flip phone I can fit in a pants pocket and has the features I wan't, I'm happy. I'm troubled by the fact that flip phones are disappearing, and the phones themselves are becoming huge, way too big for a pocket.
I looked up if adultery is legal in the USA and found in some places, it wasn't.
Is an uninforced law really a law? I live in Illinois, where the linked story mentioned adultery is illegal, but ten years ago my wife left me and my two then-teenaged daughters for another man. Even though she was living with the guy, my lawyer said I couldn't use adultery as grounds for divorce because you have to pretty much have a photograph of the two naked together!
I did get adultery into the court record, though, when the judge asked what the irreconcilable differences were, and I said "the guy she's committing adultery with." All the judge said was "Oh!" and signed the divorce decree.
It may be on the books as being illegal, but if you can walk down the street smoking a joint and not be arrested, smoking pot wouldn't really be illegal, would it? What good (or bad) is a law if it's not enforced?
he doesn't read music. He believes that learning to read music would stifle his creative ability. I disagree strongly.
I disagree with him, too. At least, I think I do. I read music about as well as a first grader reads books, and usually learn by ear (I play guitar), but I can read. My daughter, OTOH, can pick up a sheet of music she's never heard before and play it almost flawlessly on her clarinet the first time, but she's completely incapable of learning by ear.
But your brother in law already can learn by listening, I believe that learning to read sheet music would help him immensely. If he creates a new tune, how can he score it if he can't read music?
If you've installed a Ubi game and are experiencing hangs, lock ups, BSODs, weird errors, you might want to remove the DRM and see if that clears it up
When I see a machine like that, I assume it's pwned and just back up the data, FDISK, reformat, and reinstall. As they say at slashdot, "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure."
Living close to the ghetto, and drinking in a redneck bar in the ghetto, I've noticed that people who talk like that are usually on crack. Not sure about the written word, the crackheads are probably illiterate, and and certainly aliterate.
is there some show or public figure that is providing an incorrect example?
I'd say My Name Is Earl (Joy was particularly bad about that, and there was the episode with Darnel arguing about whether it was a moot point or a mute point) but that show's not been on for a while.
And you have also identified yourself as wierd by logging into a site for nerds. How can you be considered normal if you're in the top 2% of intellect? We nerds aren't normal. Normal is nothing to be proud of. Shaquile O'Niel is NOT normal. Babe Ruth was not normal. Albert Einstein was not normal. Neither Mitt Romney or Barrack Obama are normal. Hemmingway was not normal.
What's so fucking great about normal? I'm proud to be weird!
But you can't be a sports fan very easily unless you settle for 1960's era image quality.
That's what bars are for. That, and getting laid. You think people go to bars to drink? You can drink at home for a fourth of the price.
Why do you think every bar has at least two TVs, always tuned to Speed and ESPN unless there's a game on a different channel? Many of them have humungous screens, too.
In that sense, it's *very* Communistic (worse than socialist) and is actually anti-capitalism.
You say that like sharing is dirty and selling is holy. If you are a capitalist without capital, you are a fool.
I have a tree full of fruit in my front yard, far more than I can eat, so I give it away. I could sell it at the Farmer's Market, but rather than put my wealth where thieves can steal it and dust and moths can corrupt it, there is a better place to keep my fortune.
I thought the NSA was able to read hard drives that had been overwritten with zeros?
Correct, there is no such thing as perfect, and heads are out of alignment just enough. Overwriting with random data many times might keep you safe, but if I had data that were THAT sensitive, I'd sand the oxide off the platters.
Trouble is..this is gonna stop a LOT of use tx going on now with private physicians!!
I'm sorry, but I have no clue what that sentence means. What is a "use tx"?
As to the coherent part of your comment, I must disagree. You don't know what is going to be the result of ANY medical procedure until it's thoroughly tested. I don't want to be the guinie pig for any medical experiments, but if you're ok with your doctor saying "we're not sure what injecting this stuff into you will do but I think it might help and I'm trying it anyway", go ahead. But I want my doctor held to strict medical standards that have been tested and shown effective and safe.
It's not like you need to give your real name when you sign up, just some email address. I happened to use mine (and I expose it) but it's not like it's a requirement.
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing your real name is "drinkypoo".
How much formal musical education did Mozart have when he wrote music at age five? How much formal education did Stevie Ray Vaughn or Jimi Hendrix have?
IIRC the man who invented jazz had no formal musical education, in fact little education whatever (and was schitzophrenic to boot).
Van Gogh had no formal art education. His educated contemporaries, who were selling well in the galleries, are not rememered today (I had an art history class, the educated painters had no imaginations). Today Van Gogh's paintings are worth millions, and are stunning; photos do not do the originals justice. Had he had a formal art education, that same education might possibly have ruined his abilities.
When it comes to the arts, native inborn talent trumps education every time. Some people are born painters, some people are born artists, but no amount of education will turn a normal person into a Van Gogh or a Mozart.
Art is not like physics. In physics, you need intellect. The arts do not. In art, you need inborn talent. In physics, you do not.
You are forgetting minor chords, 5ths, 7ths, etc. And much modern music does in fact have a lot of different chords (maybe not pop, but pop is to music what McDonald's is to a restaraunt).
For some reason, after I saw this thread this morning I had the William Tell Overture stuck in my head (I probably dreamed about the Lone Ranger last night and can't remember it), and it occured to me that there is a great opportunity for a new genre of music.
There is a treasure trove of classical music. What would the above overture, or Beethooven's fifth, or especially Mozart sound like with distorted electric guitars instead of violins, electric basses instead of violas and cellos, saxophones and electronica (and more guitars!) substituting for woods and brass?
I'd be interested in hearing that music, I believe!
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Well soon it will be everything is downloadable and where is the line?
It wioll be quite a while before you can download food and drink, the #2 and #3 important things in anyone's life.
I'll bet manufacturers are shitting their pants over home printed things... but then, you can only print plastics at this point. When you can download and print a whole car, hell yes I'll pirate a car!
Accidents are senseless, suicide has actual reason.
So does murder. You're ok with murder?
Where did that "suicide is cowardly" nonsense came from?
Suicide is an escape; a coward's escape. It's also the ultimate in selfishness.
It is his life and he has the right to do with it whatever he pleases. Including ending it.
And it's the GP's right to try and do the decent thing and try to talk him out of it, instead of the evil you are doing by cheering the GGP's suicide on. What kind of a God damned monster are you? OH, I see, an athiest, maybe even an antitheist. Carry on, then. You'll find out in the end, poor fool.
Suicide at least is surefire way to end all past, present and future problems.
Again, you're going to be pretty damed surprised when your own end comes.
If that were illegal, half of slashdot would be in prison. You wouldn't think aliterates would be on slashdot (obviously there are no illiterates here, but it seems few have ever finished reading a book more advanced than Cat in the Hat).
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. How could you want to hurt the woman you say you love? Please get professional help. Today there are effective treatments for your mental illness.
Be glad some of the people I know from that bar in the ghetto I drink in aren't your neighbors. Your insurance would be sky high when they were through with you (both property and medical insurance). One guy I know spent time in prison for murder. Surely you're not stupid enough to fuck with someone like him?
Some people don't give a rat's ass about the law or the police. Those people are a lot more adept at making someone's life a living hell than a law-abiding citizen ever could be.
PS. if seven of nine ever runs for my electorate, i'll sure as hell be voting for her... WOOF!
Her ex-husband, Jack Ryan, was running for US Senate in Illinois, but dropped out of the race because of hanky-panky. The wikipedia article about it is pretty interesting.
I'm worried about the hobbit though.
I don't see how it could be worse than this version (I have a copy, bought it when the kids were little. It's terrible).
I have friends that would send those tweets to people in jest... I couldn't imagine being arrested because of it.
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY YOU CHAUVINIST PIG!!!
One man's joke is another (wo)man's insult. But I do agree, insults should not be against the law. Sometimes I'm jealous of the Brits, then crap like this comes up...
That crossed my mind as well -- why study lizards when cats are so adept at landing right side up? If they'd studied cats, they'd know that the stronger the cat's tail, the better an athelete the cat is, so it stands to reason that the better designed the robot's tail, the better the robot will be at its job.
In 3 or 4 years (or possibly sooner), that will simply not be an option for the same reason you can't easily buy a dedicated word processor or standard definition TV any more
Well, a dedicated word processor would be the tiniest of niches and cost as much as a full-fledged computer, and a standard definition TV would cost as much to manufacture as a high def one, plus who would want one?
As to a phone that they only want to make and recieve calls, having the other gadgets wouldn't hinder them if the phone was designed well.
As long as I can get a small flip phone I can fit in a pants pocket and has the features I wan't, I'm happy. I'm troubled by the fact that flip phones are disappearing, and the phones themselves are becoming huge, way too big for a pocket.
I looked up if adultery is legal in the USA and found in some places, it wasn't.
Is an uninforced law really a law? I live in Illinois, where the linked story mentioned adultery is illegal, but ten years ago my wife left me and my two then-teenaged daughters for another man. Even though she was living with the guy, my lawyer said I couldn't use adultery as grounds for divorce because you have to pretty much have a photograph of the two naked together!
I did get adultery into the court record, though, when the judge asked what the irreconcilable differences were, and I said "the guy she's committing adultery with." All the judge said was "Oh!" and signed the divorce decree.
It may be on the books as being illegal, but if you can walk down the street smoking a joint and not be arrested, smoking pot wouldn't really be illegal, would it? What good (or bad) is a law if it's not enforced?
he doesn't read music. He believes that learning to read music would stifle his creative ability. I disagree strongly.
I disagree with him, too. At least, I think I do. I read music about as well as a first grader reads books, and usually learn by ear (I play guitar), but I can read. My daughter, OTOH, can pick up a sheet of music she's never heard before and play it almost flawlessly on her clarinet the first time, but she's completely incapable of learning by ear.
But your brother in law already can learn by listening, I believe that learning to read sheet music would help him immensely. If he creates a new tune, how can he score it if he can't read music?
If you've installed a Ubi game and are experiencing hangs, lock ups, BSODs, weird errors, you might want to remove the DRM and see if that clears it up
When I see a machine like that, I assume it's pwned and just back up the data, FDISK, reformat, and reinstall. As they say at slashdot, "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure."
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's still a work in progress, that's mostly what I've been putting in my journal lately.
Ah, I missed the email address. Very good!
Unfortunately they modded me up, I should have been downmodded for being offtopic as well.
Living close to the ghetto, and drinking in a redneck bar in the ghetto, I've noticed that people who talk like that are usually on crack. Not sure about the written word, the crackheads are probably illiterate, and and certainly aliterate.
is there some show or public figure that is providing an incorrect example?
I'd say My Name Is Earl (Joy was particularly bad about that, and there was the episode with Darnel arguing about whether it was a moot point or a mute point) but that show's not been on for a while.
And you have also identified yourself as wierd by logging into a site for nerds. How can you be considered normal if you're in the top 2% of intellect? We nerds aren't normal. Normal is nothing to be proud of. Shaquile O'Niel is NOT normal. Babe Ruth was not normal. Albert Einstein was not normal. Neither Mitt Romney or Barrack Obama are normal. Hemmingway was not normal.
What's so fucking great about normal? I'm proud to be weird!
But you can't be a sports fan very easily unless you settle for 1960's era image quality.
That's what bars are for. That, and getting laid. You think people go to bars to drink? You can drink at home for a fourth of the price.
Why do you think every bar has at least two TVs, always tuned to Speed and ESPN unless there's a game on a different channel? Many of them have humungous screens, too.
In that sense, it's *very* Communistic (worse than socialist) and is actually anti-capitalism.
You say that like sharing is dirty and selling is holy. If you are a capitalist without capital, you are a fool.
I have a tree full of fruit in my front yard, far more than I can eat, so I give it away. I could sell it at the Farmer's Market, but rather than put my wealth where thieves can steal it and dust and moths can corrupt it, there is a better place to keep my fortune.
Only a fool worships money.
I thought the NSA was able to read hard drives that had been overwritten with zeros?
Correct, there is no such thing as perfect, and heads are out of alignment just enough. Overwriting with random data many times might keep you safe, but if I had data that were THAT sensitive, I'd sand the oxide off the platters.
Trouble is..this is gonna stop a LOT of use tx going on now with private physicians!!
I'm sorry, but I have no clue what that sentence means. What is a "use tx"?
As to the coherent part of your comment, I must disagree. You don't know what is going to be the result of ANY medical procedure until it's thoroughly tested. I don't want to be the guinie pig for any medical experiments, but if you're ok with your doctor saying "we're not sure what injecting this stuff into you will do but I think it might help and I'm trying it anyway", go ahead. But I want my doctor held to strict medical standards that have been tested and shown effective and safe.
It's not like you need to give your real name when you sign up, just some email address. I happened to use mine (and I expose it) but it's not like it's a requirement.
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing your real name is "drinkypoo".
How much formal musical education did Mozart have when he wrote music at age five? How much formal education did Stevie Ray Vaughn or Jimi Hendrix have?
IIRC the man who invented jazz had no formal musical education, in fact little education whatever (and was schitzophrenic to boot).
Van Gogh had no formal art education. His educated contemporaries, who were selling well in the galleries, are not rememered today (I had an art history class, the educated painters had no imaginations). Today Van Gogh's paintings are worth millions, and are stunning; photos do not do the originals justice. Had he had a formal art education, that same education might possibly have ruined his abilities.
When it comes to the arts, native inborn talent trumps education every time. Some people are born painters, some people are born artists, but no amount of education will turn a normal person into a Van Gogh or a Mozart.
Art is not like physics. In physics, you need intellect. The arts do not. In art, you need inborn talent. In physics, you do not.
You are forgetting minor chords, 5ths, 7ths, etc. And much modern music does in fact have a lot of different chords (maybe not pop, but pop is to music what McDonald's is to a restaraunt).
For some reason, after I saw this thread this morning I had the William Tell Overture stuck in my head (I probably dreamed about the Lone Ranger last night and can't remember it), and it occured to me that there is a great opportunity for a new genre of music.
There is a treasure trove of classical music. What would the above overture, or Beethooven's fifth, or especially Mozart sound like with distorted electric guitars instead of violins, electric basses instead of violas and cellos, saxophones and electronica (and more guitars!) substituting for woods and brass?
I'd be interested in hearing that music, I believe!