The problem here is the difference between an active combatant and a passive combatant. Imagine a village where your unit has helped build a school, clean the water, and rebuild houses. Now one day as you are cruising through the village a bomb goes off killing your buddies. How many of the so called noncombatants knew the bomb was going to go off, insinuating the locals knew it was set up? The streets are usually clear before the IED's go off. Why wouldn't these people who you helped help you by warning you? Most of the populace of Iraq are just happy to play both sides of the field taking the benefits from both the US and insurgents. So to act like the soldiers are horrible for not trusting the noncombatants is kind of self deceiving don't you think?
Now, I've never understood anybody who said they believed in the bible but didn't take it literally. What. The. Fuck.
OK, how about: "I believe in The Complete Works Of Shakespeare, but I don't take it as a literal historical document." Say what now? What does "believe in" *mean* then?!
If I were to tell you that it was raining cats and dogs outside, would you not believe me that it was raining? Just because you don't believe that there is actually dogs and cats falling from the sky doesn't mean you can't believe what I said was true.
A vote for a creationist... is a vote for the U.S. as a backwater religious theocracy.
Do you really think it matters what religious beliefs our President or Vice President hold? What matters is their ability to keep their beliefs out of their politics. My friend, you are the atheist version of the John Kennedy detractors who said he'd be a horrible president just because he was Catholic.
But I don't think anyone imagines somehow that they're getting a Mac JUST BECAUSE it will integrate with their iPhone and or iPod
Don't be so sure, I recently broke my wife's MacBook and one of the first things she said was "Oh no, how am I going to charge my iPod?" I imagine there are other females out there like that.
So should "" be a crime in this country? Wouldn't this set some kind of precedent such as making it illegal to lie to children? If someone's child finds out there is no Santa Claus and kills themself should the adult be prosecuted as a murderer? Should every work of fiction, books, movies, TV, be labeled as such in case a child believes it to be true and commits suicide when they find out it was fantasy?
As tragic as it is, this child was taken in by a fantasy, and when the illusion was shattered she murdered herself. The responsibility, if on any adult, should be on the parents who failed to educate their daughter on the realities of internet relationships.
Disclaimer: I have owned a Mac in some form since 1993.
The one thing that Apple just doesn't do is a budget minded notebook computer, the kind I like to call "Disposable" notebooks. I had a cheap ($350 brand new) Toshiba Satellite that I had bought from Circuit City that I had managed to run OSX 10.4 Tiger on for over a year. It worked great, did not sound like an airplane taking off, and was amazingly responsive. I think Apple could greatly expand it's market share if they would just put out a budget minded notebook, although I am not claiming to be an market analyst. I tend to replace my notebooks about every other year, so they sure would have me sold.
Although my wife just wouldn't put up with a "fake" Mac and bought a nice new MacBook.
I once had MacOS 10.4 running in VMWare PLayer on a Celeron budget notebook. It is possible, but it was slow as hell and took a lot of tinkering to get it up and running.
So buying something, not using it, and then trying to resell it is wrong in your opinion? If we were to follow your logic it would lead to thoughts like "That man bought some property and won't develop it hoping to resell it later at a profit! What a jerk, we should TAKE IT AWAY from him since he isn't using it!"
Is there anything you don't use that you'd be happy if I came and took it away from you because you weren't using it?
I do believe in this case, the intellectual property is a little more than imaginary. Harry Potter as an idea has become a very profitable subject. The storylines, the characters, the locations are all very much the invention of JK Rowling. She wrote books about them, thus making the idea very tangible.
How can anyone not be on her side? This site is not just publishing derivative works based on Harry Potter, they are making a PROFIT from her ideas.
When I was nine years old, me and my cousin thought it would be awesome to sneak up and mix a bunch of chemicals together and boil the container over the included candle. Well, a few minutes after the goop was boiling, it blew up sending browninsh liquid everywhere. Might I mention we were in the living room. Well, me and Josh spent the next few hours cleaning before my parents woke up. I think it was about half an hour after we finished (just in time) cleaning and had gone to bed, we were woken up by my parents yelling. Boy they were PISSED! Apparently we didn't think to clean the ceiling! That was almost twenty years ago and I swear there are still a few brown spots on my Mother's ceiling.
Don't assume my anger over the double standard means I'm in favor of file sharing. I don't think letting corporations go free means individuals should go free, I think punishing individuals means corporations should be punished too.
"Number of terrorist bombs that have blinky LEDs: ~0"
Dude, obviously you haven't been to the middle east or southeast asia. I've seen quite a few IED's that contained "blinky LEDS". Just because the real complicated stuff hasn't made it to America yet, doesn't mean it won't.
We need this in order to protect our children from online predators! Once they track your children down they almost always attempt to call them first. We NEED safeguards for our children. To think otherwise must mean that you support child predators.
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Took your idea and ran with it: Kanye and Pbo
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Seriously, the United States is quickly becoming a nation where nobody is required to take responsibility for anything they do.
How can someone honestly say that it wasn't their fault they threw their controller and broke a T.V.?
The problem here is the difference between an active combatant and a passive combatant. Imagine a village where your unit has helped build a school, clean the water, and rebuild houses. Now one day as you are cruising through the village a bomb goes off killing your buddies. How many of the so called noncombatants knew the bomb was going to go off, insinuating the locals knew it was set up? The streets are usually clear before the IED's go off. Why wouldn't these people who you helped help you by warning you? Most of the populace of Iraq are just happy to play both sides of the field taking the benefits from both the US and insurgents. So to act like the soldiers are horrible for not trusting the noncombatants is kind of self deceiving don't you think?
Now, I've never understood anybody who said they believed in the bible but didn't take it literally. What. The. Fuck.
OK, how about: "I believe in The Complete Works Of Shakespeare, but I don't take it as a literal historical document." Say what now? What does "believe in" *mean* then?!
If I were to tell you that it was raining cats and dogs outside, would you not believe me that it was raining? Just because you don't believe that there is actually dogs and cats falling from the sky doesn't mean you can't believe what I said was true.
What about Crafty Cthulhu?
A vote for a creationist... is a vote for the U.S. as a backwater religious theocracy.
Do you really think it matters what religious beliefs our President or Vice President hold? What matters is their ability to keep their beliefs out of their politics. My friend, you are the atheist version of the John Kennedy detractors who said he'd be a horrible president just because he was Catholic.
So, would the Patent Reform Act of 2007 allow companies like MS actually patent stuff like this as long as they were the first to file?
As far as the 6 year old wife goes there are too many references to post individually:
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This is true of ayatollah Khomeini as well:
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Don't be so sure, I recently broke my wife's MacBook and one of the first things she said was "Oh no, how am I going to charge my iPod?" I imagine there are other females out there like that.
So should "" be a crime in this country? Wouldn't this set some kind of precedent such as making it illegal to lie to children? If someone's child finds out there is no Santa Claus and kills themself should the adult be prosecuted as a murderer? Should every work of fiction, books, movies, TV, be labeled as such in case a child believes it to be true and commits suicide when they find out it was fantasy?
As tragic as it is, this child was taken in by a fantasy, and when the illusion was shattered she murdered herself. The responsibility, if on any adult, should be on the parents who failed to educate their daughter on the realities of internet relationships.
The one thing that Apple just doesn't do is a budget minded notebook computer, the kind I like to call "Disposable" notebooks. I had a cheap ($350 brand new) Toshiba Satellite that I had bought from Circuit City that I had managed to run OSX 10.4 Tiger on for over a year. It worked great, did not sound like an airplane taking off, and was amazingly responsive. I think Apple could greatly expand it's market share if they would just put out a budget minded notebook, although I am not claiming to be an market analyst. I tend to replace my notebooks about every other year, so they sure would have me sold.
Although my wife just wouldn't put up with a "fake" Mac and bought a nice new MacBook.
I once had MacOS 10.4 running in VMWare PLayer on a Celeron budget notebook. It is possible, but it was slow as hell and took a lot of tinkering to get it up and running.
This doesn't surprise me at all considering the US Army still has propaghanda units, they just call them Psychological Operations.
One of the most successful independent punk bands ever, and the average cost of a cd on their site is $10.
I'm just hoping that the simulation isn't running on "Window's Vista Universal Edition"
I'm no MS fan but check this link Mono
So buying something, not using it, and then trying to resell it is wrong in your opinion? If we were to follow your logic it would lead to thoughts like "That man bought some property and won't develop it hoping to resell it later at a profit! What a jerk, we should TAKE IT AWAY from him since he isn't using it!"
Is there anything you don't use that you'd be happy if I came and took it away from you because you weren't using it?
I do believe in this case, the intellectual property is a little more than imaginary. Harry Potter as an idea has become a very profitable subject. The storylines, the characters, the locations are all very much the invention of JK Rowling. She wrote books about them, thus making the idea very tangible.
How can anyone not be on her side? This site is not just publishing derivative works based on Harry Potter, they are making a PROFIT from her ideas.
When I was nine years old, me and my cousin thought it would be awesome to sneak up and mix a bunch of chemicals together and boil the container over the included candle. Well, a few minutes after the goop was boiling, it blew up sending browninsh liquid everywhere. Might I mention we were in the living room. Well, me and Josh spent the next few hours cleaning before my parents woke up. I think it was about half an hour after we finished (just in time) cleaning and had gone to bed, we were woken up by my parents yelling. Boy they were PISSED! Apparently we didn't think to clean the ceiling! That was almost twenty years ago and I swear there are still a few brown spots on my Mother's ceiling.
Growing up in the eighties was awesome!
Don't assume my anger over the double standard means I'm in favor of file sharing. I don't think letting corporations go free means individuals should go free, I think punishing individuals means corporations should be punished too.
"Number of terrorist bombs that have blinky LEDs: ~0"
Dude, obviously you haven't been to the middle east or southeast asia. I've seen quite a few IED's that contained "blinky LEDS". Just because the real complicated stuff hasn't made it to America yet, doesn't mean it won't.
I expected to be marked "Funny", or even "Troll", but "insightful"? Who the hell really thinks that way?
We need this in order to protect our children from online predators! Once they track your children down they almost always attempt to call them first. We NEED safeguards for our children. To think otherwise must mean that you support child predators.
Actually, believe it or not, I work and she stays at home with the children. She cooks me dinner, cleans my house, and even has sex with me.
;) Aren't I the lucky one?
Oh and she's a super cool computer geek like her husband