You honestly think your healthcare system is better than the United States'? My uncle in Edmonton broke his leg and there were problems with the way it was set, so minor surgery was required to straighten it. He was on the surgery waiting list for almost THREE YEARS before he decided to fly down to St. Paul, Minnesota to have the surgery, which took an hour and only cost him ~$450.
"The Law can be wrong, and it's up to the people to change it."
Sorry bud, but I think most of us will agree that setting fire to a police car and giving a cop a concussion SHOULD be against the law. Common sense tells you that you should provide information to the government that leads to the arrest of criminals, and it is immoral to do otherwise.
You misread the article. According to the paragraph that you quoted, the RIAA agent downloads a file FROM the user they're intending to sue, not the other way around. They then take screenshots of their directory of shared music, which is public on the file-sharing program. None of that is illegal.
Well Gitmo isn't US soil; that's why the United States rents the land from the Cubans and puts prisoners there. It's a small technicality, and using such a loop-hole is sleezy, but it's still there.
4.1.2 Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, provided that they fulfill all of the following conditions: -that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; -that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance -that of carrying arms openly; -that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
Terrorists fail to fulfill 3 out of the 4 requirements. Oh, by the way, at the bottom of that same page:
"The phrase "unlawful combatants", although not appearing in the Convention itself, has been used since at least the 1940s to describe prisoners not subject to the protections of the Convention."
Maybe you should do a tiny bit of research before assuming things. And again, like I said before, I am against what is going on in Gitmo and Bush in general. But the Geneva Convention has nothing to do with it.
Well it would be silly to say that the United States Constitution applies to everyone everywhere. If you told someone in Somalia that they had the right to bear arms, they would laugh at you.
And I get modded Troll on my previous post, just because someone disagreed with my [valid] points? Gotta love Slashdot.
So you see nothing wrong with throwing someone in a hole for 3 years, declaring them outside the Geneva convention, and outside civil due process?
I agree that what's going on in Gitmo is scary, but last I checked the Geneva Convention only protects prisoners of war, and civil due process--guaranteed by the US Constitution--only applies to US Citizens.
Let's not forget the Sino-Indian War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India-China_War of 1962, where China suddenly decided that a large chunk of India's territory belonged to them.
And hey, what about China's intervention in the Korean War against the United Nations Army (95% American)? And their whole "if the US wasn't there we would nuke Taiwan" policy?
Starcraft is the one game that I still play a few times a month, even after it's been out this long. Considering I paid ~$80 for over 9 years of entertainment, I would say it's the greatest game I've ever bought.
Warcraft II was delayed, Warcraft III was delayed 4 years (original release date was Q4 1999, was pushed back to September 2003 to change the game engine to 3D), Diablo II and its eventual expansion were both also delayed, as well as the Brood War expansion for Starcraft.
None of those had monthly fees; Blizzard has a history of delaying games in order to ensure that their customers get the best product available. Don't be so quick to assume the delay of Burning Crusade is just a conspiracy to milk more money out of subscribers.
You're missing the point; the parent was trying to say that if anyone could build a nuclear bomb in their back yard--like the original poster claimed--then it would have happened by now, and probably many times over.
Sure, the 9/11 attacks were "cost effective", but the ~2000 killed in 9/11 would pale in comparison to the ~8,000,000 (population of NYC) killed in a nuclear blast. Between a few felled buildings and all of Manhattan Island being turned into a flat sheet of class, which do you think would cause overwhelmingly more physical and psychological damage?
I'm sorry for your loss. I was a bit luckier; both of my parents are colon cancer survivors. But my comments were directed towards Dosius, so please do not take offense.
I never said that diseases don't mean big business. And for the most part, I agree with you. But the point of the article was this one particular advance.
As someone who is more-or-less destined to get colon cancer (despite eating healthy, most people with that type of cancer have a family history of it), I see any and all advances in cancer research as a positive thing. What upset me about Dosius' comments was that rather than talking about the specific new advancement that this article was referring to, he chose to use it as an excuse to attack medical corporations as a whole.
If this were a seperate thread dedicated to discussing the greed-induced system that is in place today, I would probably be arguing on the same side as both of you. But whether or not the system in place is corrupt and evil, this advancement is a good thing.
The festival felt that it would offend more people than it interested, and would push away more visitors than it would attract. This is a private game festival making a sound business decision about one of the entries. It has nothing to do with free speech.
If a movie touches a controversial subject, it's considered avant-guard and the director worthy of praise for daring to tackle such a "hard" issue. If a serious game that uses an interactive medium to try to do the same (SCMRPG is basically Zero Day in RPG form), it's not even worthy of consideration?
The festival felt that this game would offend more people than it interested, which would be bad for them both in the short run and the long run. It was a sound business decision.
Maybe someday you'll have a family member with cancer, and you'll look on the bright side and see this for the positive thing it is rather than using it as an excuse to regurgitate some anti-corporation blabber.
It's not sad that medical security means a lot when you have a family to care for; it's sad that due to our pathetic system of health care, medical security usually means being stuck in a job at a large company.
You're saying that working at a large company is automatically bad. I get great benefits where I work, and I enjoy my job. Don't assume that just because somebody works for a large company that they will be unhappy, or that they're "stuck" there.
What does intelligence have to do with anything? Evolution has no values. It's purely about survival, adaptation, and successful procreation
Intelligence has nothing to do with adaptation? One would think creating tools and developing agriculture would be classified as both intelligent AND adaptation, both of which were crucial to Man's rise to the top of the food chain.
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You honestly think your healthcare system is better than the United States'? My uncle in Edmonton broke his leg and there were problems with the way it was set, so minor surgery was required to straighten it. He was on the surgery waiting list for almost THREE YEARS before he decided to fly down to St. Paul, Minnesota to have the surgery, which took an hour and only cost him ~$450.
Free healthcare != good healthcare.
They wear lots of jewelry, or "pirate booty", which is shiny and therefore reflects sunlight back into outer space!
Without Pirates, only the Great Noodly One can save us.
"The Law can be wrong, and it's up to the people to change it."
Sorry bud, but I think most of us will agree that setting fire to a police car and giving a cop a concussion SHOULD be against the law. Common sense tells you that you should provide information to the government that leads to the arrest of criminals, and it is immoral to do otherwise.
Cory Lidle = n00b
You misread the article. According to the paragraph that you quoted, the RIAA agent downloads a file FROM the user they're intending to sue, not the other way around. They then take screenshots of their directory of shared music, which is public on the file-sharing program. None of that is illegal.
Well Gitmo isn't US soil; that's why the United States rents the land from the Cubans and puts prisoners there. It's a small technicality, and using such a loop-hole is sleezy, but it's still there.
According to the Third Geneva Convention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Conventi on
Article 4 defines prisoners of war to include:
4.1.2 Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, provided that they fulfill all of the following conditions:
-that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
-that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance
-that of carrying arms openly;
-that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
Terrorists fail to fulfill 3 out of the 4 requirements. Oh, by the way, at the bottom of that same page:
"The phrase "unlawful combatants", although not appearing in the Convention itself, has been used since at least the 1940s to describe prisoners not subject to the protections of the Convention."
Maybe you should do a tiny bit of research before assuming things. And again, like I said before, I am against what is going on in Gitmo and Bush in general. But the Geneva Convention has nothing to do with it.
Well it would be silly to say that the United States Constitution applies to everyone everywhere. If you told someone in Somalia that they had the right to bear arms, they would laugh at you.
And I get modded Troll on my previous post, just because someone disagreed with my [valid] points? Gotta love Slashdot.
Let's not forget the Sino-Indian War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India-China_War of 1962, where China suddenly decided that a large chunk of India's territory belonged to them.
And hey, what about China's intervention in the Korean War against the United Nations Army (95% American)? And their whole "if the US wasn't there we would nuke Taiwan" policy?
Starcraft is the one game that I still play a few times a month, even after it's been out this long. Considering I paid ~$80 for over 9 years of entertainment, I would say it's the greatest game I've ever bought.
Warcraft II was delayed, Warcraft III was delayed 4 years (original release date was Q4 1999, was pushed back to September 2003 to change the game engine to 3D), Diablo II and its eventual expansion were both also delayed, as well as the Brood War expansion for Starcraft.
None of those had monthly fees; Blizzard has a history of delaying games in order to ensure that their customers get the best product available. Don't be so quick to assume the delay of Burning Crusade is just a conspiracy to milk more money out of subscribers.
You're missing the point; the parent was trying to say that if anyone could build a nuclear bomb in their back yard--like the original poster claimed--then it would have happened by now, and probably many times over.
Sure, the 9/11 attacks were "cost effective", but the ~2000 killed in 9/11 would pale in comparison to the ~8,000,000 (population of NYC) killed in a nuclear blast. Between a few felled buildings and all of Manhattan Island being turned into a flat sheet of class, which do you think would cause overwhelmingly more physical and psychological damage?
Why pay someone with money when you can pay them with HUGS?
I'm sorry for your loss. I was a bit luckier; both of my parents are colon cancer survivors. But my comments were directed towards Dosius, so please do not take offense.
I never said that diseases don't mean big business. And for the most part, I agree with you. But the point of the article was this one particular advance.
As someone who is more-or-less destined to get colon cancer (despite eating healthy, most people with that type of cancer have a family history of it), I see any and all advances in cancer research as a positive thing. What upset me about Dosius' comments was that rather than talking about the specific new advancement that this article was referring to, he chose to use it as an excuse to attack medical corporations as a whole.
If this were a seperate thread dedicated to discussing the greed-induced system that is in place today, I would probably be arguing on the same side as both of you. But whether or not the system in place is corrupt and evil, this advancement is a good thing.
Yeah, funny how that works isn't it?
Ahhh, thanks for correcting me. I made a few assumptions without reading all the way through.
Those hookers deserved it... bitches need to give daddy his money on time.
The festival felt that it would offend more people than it interested, and would push away more visitors than it would attract. This is a private game festival making a sound business decision about one of the entries. It has nothing to do with free speech.
Yes, but the ensuing legal battle would take years and delay the cancer research anyways.
Do you actually think the scientists themselves do that? Ever heard of, you know, lawyers?
Maybe someday you'll have a family member with cancer, and you'll look on the bright side and see this for the positive thing it is rather than using it as an excuse to regurgitate some anti-corporation blabber.
You're saying that working at a large company is automatically bad. I get great benefits where I work, and I enjoy my job. Don't assume that just because somebody works for a large company that they will be unhappy, or that they're "stuck" there.
Intelligence has nothing to do with adaptation? One would think creating tools and developing agriculture would be classified as both intelligent AND adaptation, both of which were crucial to Man's rise to the top of the food chain.