Why is it that one after another after another after another of these government-sponsored security systems keep failing? I just don't get it. We give them infinite amounts of money to spend protecting us from something FAR less dangerous than ourselves (compare # of US gun crime victims to # of US terrorist victims sometime), and they consistently do a half-assed job.
In about 1960, we decided to go to the moon. In 1969, we were there. Done and dusted -- and a government program, at that. Has America just lost its technical know-how, or what?
Other people will put pictures of you, drunk and naked, on THEIR web pages.
The right way to keep your reputation clean is not to try to hush up everything you do, but not to do things that reflect badly on you in the first place... duh.
The days of the Internet as some kind of Wild West where you can do and say whatever the fuck you want without having to take the consequences for it are coming to an end. If somebody want to be an asshole, he'd better be one anonymously from an Internet café... which shows just what a cowardly little shit he is.
A good many people depend on their good name for their living. Jerks who try to damage someone's ability to feed his children deserve to be punished.
I'm told I get 10 MBPS. As far as I'm concerned, that means 10 MPBS 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for as long as I pay my bill. Any effort to throttle that back and I sue for false advertising.
You transmit radio waves through my body without my permission. I am therefore entitled to do anything with those radio waves that I like. If you don't like that, stop transmitting.
Incidentally, the same applies to laws against radar detectors, police scanners, listening to shortwave radio in repressive countries, and so on. If you irradiate my body without my permission, you can't complain when I make use of the radiation.
These fundamental freedoms are MORE important, not LESS important, during times of national stress. It is those times when cowards like Bush are most prepared to sell our freedom, so hard-won over the centuries, for the promise of a little temporary security.
Guantanamo is Bush's Manzanar. In the hysteria of the time it might have seemed like the right thing to do, to a few frightened people. The judgment of history will be firmly otherwise.
Freedom of speech includes his right to spout nonsense and our right to tell him he should STFU. As long as we don't actually hold our hands over his mouth (tempting as it may be), he hasn't been gagged by being told to STFU. Freedom of speech includes the right to say, "You are wrong and should not say what you are saying."
As for his flagrant abuse of the legal process in order to advance his political agenda... that can and should be stopped, and it doesn't constitute gagging him either. It should be stopped because it's abuse of the law. It also should be stopped because he's wrong.
> I think it might be savvy, that if physics become common even in free games, > that consumers won't want to pay for a commercial game unless it features physics as well.
Very large numbers of extremely popular games don't need any physics, e.g. Puzzle Quest. And the majority of the game-buying public neither knows nor cares anything about physics or the engine that runs the game.
Consumers will pay for what they enjoy. Physics, presence or absence thereof, doesn't enter into their buying decisions.
They don't exist in natural law; they are a fiction established by legislation. We can set them up to do anything we want them to do (hence nonprofit corporations, etc.). There's no reason why we can't change what they're supposed to accomplish.
That's what I really want: totally unregulated germ warfare laboratories!
The capitalist engine DID run unfettered until about WWI. Children in the mines, unsafe working conditions, rampant pollution, anybody who wants to unionize gets fired, women paid less than men for doing the same job... yeah, let's bring back them good ol' days.
A corporation is a "pretend person" created by a governmental process. There are various kinds, but they're all imaginary: charities, educational corporations, membership associations, foundations, etc. Corporations have no existence beyond what the government chooses for them, so their functions can be adjusted by the government as necessary.
This law criminalizes ot the violent, not the fraudulent, not theft of something or abuse of someone, but merely the icky. It's against the law because we don't like the thought of it. Great.
My wife used to work for a Perkin-Elmer lab in California. Front desk security was charged with searching all bags, boxes, etc. -- anything carried by an employee on the way in and out of the building -- EXCEPT purses (they might contains tampons, which could embarrass a lady) or briefcases (they might contain top secret business data, I guess, which could embarrass a man, or anyone carrying a briefcase). The policy made no sense whatsoever. She carried a small backpack because it was more convenient than a purse, though about the same size, and had to put up with having it searched all the time. When she pointed out the stupidity of these exceptions, she was told that she was risking her job (by demonstrating to management that it was dumb as a fucking stump).
What were they actually searching for? Who knows. But if it could be got in or out in a purse or briefcase, they never would have found it.
Even first class does not provide seats as wide as an ordinary armchair in my living room, which considering that first class costs several times what my armchair cost (and I don't get to keep the seat) they damn well should.
The kind of cheap flights available in the UK (£1 to Malta, etc.) are an abomination and should be banned.
I ask because that is undoubtedly the place the next plane-bomber is going to carry his explosives, so it won't be long before we're all subject to body cavity searches. If this stuff can safely be sprayed up the ass, though, I'm sure it'll shorten the proctology line at the airport.
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Why is it that one after another after another after another of these government-sponsored security systems keep failing? I just don't get it. We give them infinite amounts of money to spend protecting us from something FAR less dangerous than ourselves (compare # of US gun crime victims to # of US terrorist victims sometime), and they consistently do a half-assed job.
In about 1960, we decided to go to the moon. In 1969, we were there. Done and dusted -- and a government program, at that. Has America just lost its technical know-how, or what?
Boxing is scored on points. So are most martial arts. Are those too girly for you?
Shame, Taco. And here we complain about there being no women at industry get-togethers. Guess we know why.
Other people will put pictures of you, drunk and naked, on THEIR web pages.
The right way to keep your reputation clean is not to try to hush up everything you do, but not to do things that reflect badly on you in the first place... duh.
In my house, the requirement of courtesy trumps freedom of speech every time.
The days of the Internet as some kind of Wild West where you can do and say whatever the fuck you want without having to take the consequences for it are coming to an end. If somebody want to be an asshole, he'd better be one anonymously from an Internet café... which shows just what a cowardly little shit he is.
A good many people depend on their good name for their living. Jerks who try to damage someone's ability to feed his children deserve to be punished.
Why should a newspaper be quoting blog entries at all, must less illiterate ones? They have no news value.
I'm told I get 10 MBPS. As far as I'm concerned, that means 10 MPBS 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for as long as I pay my bill. Any effort to throttle that back and I sue for false advertising.
You transmit radio waves through my body without my permission. I am therefore entitled to do anything with those radio waves that I like. If you don't like that, stop transmitting.
Incidentally, the same applies to laws against radar detectors, police scanners, listening to shortwave radio in repressive countries, and so on. If you irradiate my body without my permission, you can't complain when I make use of the radiation.
Don't even think of trying to teach logic or critical thinking to our children, you satanic commie traitor!
Echoed loudly. You guys SO totally rock.
These fundamental freedoms are MORE important, not LESS important, during times of national stress. It is those times when cowards like Bush are most prepared to sell our freedom, so hard-won over the centuries, for the promise of a little temporary security.
Guantanamo is Bush's Manzanar. In the hysteria of the time it might have seemed like the right thing to do, to a few frightened people. The judgment of history will be firmly otherwise.
Freedom of speech includes his right to spout nonsense and our right to tell him he should STFU. As long as we don't actually hold our hands over his mouth (tempting as it may be), he hasn't been gagged by being told to STFU. Freedom of speech includes the right to say, "You are wrong and should not say what you are saying."
As for his flagrant abuse of the legal process in order to advance his political agenda... that can and should be stopped, and it doesn't constitute gagging him either. It should be stopped because it's abuse of the law. It also should be stopped because he's wrong.
Definitely not Oscar-caliber, but some of the richest, most nuanced characters ever seen in a video game.
It CAN be done.
> I think it might be savvy, that if physics become common even in free games,
> that consumers won't want to pay for a commercial game unless it features physics as well.
Very large numbers of extremely popular games don't need any physics, e.g. Puzzle Quest. And the majority of the game-buying public neither knows nor cares anything about physics or the engine that runs the game.
Consumers will pay for what they enjoy. Physics, presence or absence thereof, doesn't enter into their buying decisions.
They don't exist in natural law; they are a fiction established by legislation. We can set them up to do anything we want them to do (hence nonprofit corporations, etc.). There's no reason why we can't change what they're supposed to accomplish.
That's what I really want: totally unregulated germ warfare laboratories!
The capitalist engine DID run unfettered until about WWI. Children in the mines, unsafe working conditions, rampant pollution, anybody who wants to unionize gets fired, women paid less than men for doing the same job... yeah, let's bring back them good ol' days.
Communism is a whole other thing. Go back to Poli Sci 101.
A corporation is a "pretend person" created by a governmental process. There are various kinds, but they're all imaginary: charities, educational corporations, membership associations, foundations, etc. Corporations have no existence beyond what the government chooses for them, so their functions can be adjusted by the government as necessary.
No fascism about it.
This law criminalizes ot the violent, not the fraudulent, not theft of something or abuse of someone, but merely the icky. It's against the law because we don't like the thought of it. Great.
My wife used to work for a Perkin-Elmer lab in California. Front desk security was charged with searching all bags, boxes, etc. -- anything carried by an employee on the way in and out of the building -- EXCEPT purses (they might contains tampons, which could embarrass a lady) or briefcases (they might contain top secret business data, I guess, which could embarrass a man, or anyone carrying a briefcase). The policy made no sense whatsoever. She carried a small backpack because it was more convenient than a purse, though about the same size, and had to put up with having it searched all the time. When she pointed out the stupidity of these exceptions, she was told that she was risking her job (by demonstrating to management that it was dumb as a fucking stump). What were they actually searching for? Who knows. But if it could be got in or out in a purse or briefcase, they never would have found it.
presidenthuisamurderingratbag@tyrannicalassholes.gov.cn Put that in your ticket and parse it.
Even first class does not provide seats as wide as an ordinary armchair in my living room, which considering that first class costs several times what my armchair cost (and I don't get to keep the seat) they damn well should. The kind of cheap flights available in the UK (£1 to Malta, etc.) are an abomination and should be banned.
How about making the airplane seats big enough and comfortable enough to actually sleep in?
Jet lag would be much less of a problem if the airlines didn't squash us all in like sardines for 13 hours at a time.
I ask because that is undoubtedly the place the next plane-bomber is going to carry his explosives, so it won't be long before we're all subject to body cavity searches. If this stuff can safely be sprayed up the ass, though, I'm sure it'll shorten the proctology line at the airport.
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