Precisely. It's not a "war for oil" for America. It's a "war for oil" for a bunch of sh*tf*ck millionaires and billionaires who benefit from asset-stripping Iraq using the American public purse (and blood). I'm honestly confounded why the American people are putting up with this.
I saw the title and reflected on how little needed to be changed to say: "Unofficial Homebrew Chanel From the Wee". I thought: "Finally, perfume I can afford for the girlfriend I wish I had!"*
*Note to self: My DIY perfume philosophy may be hindering mating efforts,
the inspirational value -- to everyone, not just aspiring legless athletes -- of letting this fellow compete trumps any concerns over fairness. Trumps concerns over fairness??????!?!?!?!1@1! How can you have a meaningful competition without fairness? Personally, I find it far more inspirational watching the beauty, grace, and power of a fully unencumbered/unenhanced human at absolute peak possible condition than any triumph of technology or sentimentalism for those who are capable of less/more than that. I find it bizarre: The idea of people enhanced technologically competing on an even playing field with the poor bastards who have dedicated their lives to fulfilling their raw human potential; somehow, that's supposed to be inspirational?
That's likely true in lots of cases. It also seems like many of the people who have had "the very worst" sort of experiences tend to be more understanding of others' misery. SatanicPuppy seems to be an example of that. One of my best friends, whose entire childhood (up until she was put in a group home) I'd classify as a horrific obscenity, is the same. I got that impression from Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning as well. I suppose the variety of responses that people exhibit make generalizations difficult, if not impossible.
I think a big part of the problem is that there are lots of people who, because they don't understand how an experience may be traumatic (since it wouldn't be to them), dismiss the response as weak or wrong. It makes the assumption that there is a "right" way for everybody to act in any given situation, and failure to act in that way means a person is a screw up or weak, when the problem is really with the person making the judgement: they don't understand.
Personally, I'm often surprised by people's responses to my childhood. Words like "revulsive", "monstrous", or "disgusting" are used to describe events that I considered ordinary. Then, on the other hand, there are things that upset the crap out of me that get dismissed as irrationality or weakness.
It would be a boring world if we were all the same. I think people need to keep that in mind a lot more, especially when it involves someone who is having a hard time coping.
It's sort of funny, in a way, when Digg/C|Net//. are used as illustrative of kooks and assholes. That was (and probably still is, I suppose) USENET to a tee. I'm still not sure if a) we've become more sophisticated in identifying the subtleties of kooks..., b) anonymous communication breeds more kooks..., or c) many of them have moved their particular magic from USENET to the web. Probably all three, I suppose. It's toned down a great deal, IMO, from USENET, though. I've rarely seen people behave as badly as on USENET, with the exception of cops, belligerent drunks, methheads, or crackheads who thinks you might be able to help them out with the next rock. AFAICT,/. etc... have nothing on either scale or severity of USENET asshole-ishness.
Just to be a pissant, and carry on your point in a much more extreme fashion (in a slightly Ambrose Bierce-y fashion):
Olympics: An intermittent event which is used by highly evolved nations pretending they honour the value of each other's citizen, which lasts for a couple of weeks separated by long periods of the subjugation, dehumanisation, and murder of those same citizens. Not to be confused with treaties or peace accords, which lack the same level of athleticism.
I don't think that's necessary. It's the same thing with hardware, or MS formats or whatever. If a complete and accurate spec is available, the open source community can make their own player/driver/reader/writer or whatever.
Adobe may not be providing an open source player here, but they are giving the information needed for us to make one ourselves. Isn't that basically what we've been wanting from hardware manufacturers?
Also, this makes a Linux Flash writer possible. oOFlash? I really don't see anything to complain about here.
Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists What a disparate group of people. Goes to show, no matter what problems one may have with someone else's ideology, there is always some common interest (albeit for different reasons).
It's not only China who subsidizes US consumers. If Joseph Stiglitz is to be believed (I personally would be unable to contradict him), a fair amount of the developing world does.
From: "Making Globalization Work"[Ch. 9]:
...the United States, seemingly cannot live within its means, borrowing $2 billion a day from poorer countries.
Some of these dollars...go to pay off their enormous debts....Others go to buy bonds...Most of the bonds are short-term US Treasury bills (usually referred to as 'T-Bills'), which in recent years have yielded as low as 1 percent interest. There is something peculiar about poor countries desperately in need of capital lending hundreds of billions of dollars to the world's richest country." He doesn't go into it, but it seems to me that capital investment at a substandard interest rate in US currency would be "artificially inflating" US currency, rather than "artificially devaluing" Chinese (or whoever's) currency. IANAE, so I don't know.
As an aside, somewhere in the same book he gives his opinion that individual buying power for China/India will rise, but fall for the US, and end up closer to the China/India end of things...
No modern farmer "reuses" seeds, GM or no. Modern hybrids don't breed true, for one thing. And by planting part of the harvest, you miss out on protective seed-coat treatments, and terrestrial pests eat your crops before they've even sprouted. Nonsense. I grew up on a farm, and we always sent our own grain to local seed cleaners (oats, barley, wheat). We never bought seed for grains. With dry beans, we sometimes bought seed, but just as often cleaned our own and treated it by hand. Cleaning and treating enough bean seed for 700-800 acres took my Dad and I less than a day.
Otherwise, I mostly agree with your position. I don't agree with the way the corporation often behaves, but they are doing a lot of good in the world, along with the bad. It seems ridiculous that so many people lose sight of this.
Hey, back off! Idaho is clearly mocking us, and my people must be protected! I can really relate to Lord Steve-Applemaker. Hopefully he comes out with iAgentOrange, so he can properly go after the apple orchards as well.
Don't forget, he also needs higher-end, expensive hardware to perform adequately and doesn't work well with others, so he's kind of like a belligerent, high-maintenance, chubby kid at fat camp. None of that's good.
other times they need to be smacked in the head and have their hallucinogenics confiscated. Jeez... you sound like my parole officer...
Just the other day I was watching a video of two lovely young ladies, very down-to-earth gals. Then they kissed, and I thought "Hey, those girls are just right for me!" I was in love. They had a cup they were using to share information, so they're probably pretty smart and tech savvy. I was a little non-plussed by the next few minutes of these 2girls with their 1cup, but then it occurred to me, they were on Facebook!
I really think you're being harsh with your comments. Personally, I envision an entirely new paradigm of social networking that these computer cups can usher in, and the dataset doesn't even have to change significantly.
There once was a man come to Bergen
Who promised that everything's working
He came to the fjord
And bought off the board
Now we're all autospacelikeWord'ing.
There once was a man who said "Trust us!
Accept this, or surely you'll bust us."
With his special langcodes
Now he's ISO'd.
I wonder how much this will cost us?
We also gave you Celine Dion, as a specific punishment for a general failure in realising the song "American Woman" by "The Guess Who" is about the Statue of Liberty.
From Shatner to Celine Dion in thirty short years. I shudder to think of what entertainment monstrosity we'll be inflicting on you in 2020. Maybe "Nickelback: The Musical". Of course, there are the Geneva Conventions to worry about, but if we classify you as Enemy Consumers, it should pass muster.
In what Fox is calling the most tentacle-packed Futurama epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. What lies beyond is a mix of horror and love Ha! And they called me a fool for getting a giant "I [heart] Cthulu" tattoo on my torso. What started out as Pascal's Wager with the Old Ones, has turned into cartoon-pop-culture-indirect-reference coup d'etat! I can already feel myself becoming cooler.
I only need two more developments to vindicate my tattoo choices: a massive, popular uprising of Schmoo fanatics, and technology capable of generating the Care-bear Stare with skin grafts.
..but: "forsee"? Shouldn't the title be "foresee"? Apologies for spelling Nazism, usually, I don't care about that sort of thing, but it's the title, for God's sake, put in a little effort...
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Precisely. It's not a "war for oil" for America. It's a "war for oil" for a bunch of sh*tf*ck millionaires and billionaires who benefit from asset-stripping Iraq using the American public purse (and blood). I'm honestly confounded why the American people are putting up with this.
I saw the title and reflected on how little needed to be changed to say: "Unofficial Homebrew Chanel From the Wee". I thought: "Finally, perfume I can afford for the girlfriend I wish I had!"*
*Note to self: My DIY perfume philosophy may be hindering mating efforts,
Oooooooo! I love this game....
[walrus-protectors]
['s end]
[genetically engineered megaphone-ferrets]
[production of cherry flavoured pumice stones]
That's likely true in lots of cases. It also seems like many of the people who have had "the very worst" sort of experiences tend to be more understanding of others' misery. SatanicPuppy seems to be an example of that. One of my best friends, whose entire childhood (up until she was put in a group home) I'd classify as a horrific obscenity, is the same. I got that impression from Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning as well. I suppose the variety of responses that people exhibit make generalizations difficult, if not impossible.
Great post.
I think a big part of the problem is that there are lots of people who, because they don't understand how an experience may be traumatic (since it wouldn't be to them), dismiss the response as weak or wrong. It makes the assumption that there is a "right" way for everybody to act in any given situation, and failure to act in that way means a person is a screw up or weak, when the problem is really with the person making the judgement: they don't understand.
Personally, I'm often surprised by people's responses to my childhood. Words like "revulsive", "monstrous", or "disgusting" are used to describe events that I considered ordinary. Then, on the other hand, there are things that upset the crap out of me that get dismissed as irrationality or weakness.
It would be a boring world if we were all the same. I think people need to keep that in mind a lot more, especially when it involves someone who is having a hard time coping.
It's sort of funny, in a way, when Digg/C|Net//. are used as illustrative of kooks and assholes. That was (and probably still is, I suppose) USENET to a tee. I'm still not sure if a) we've become more sophisticated in identifying the subtleties of kooks..., b) anonymous communication breeds more kooks..., or c) many of them have moved their particular magic from USENET to the web. Probably all three, I suppose. It's toned down a great deal, IMO, from USENET, though. I've rarely seen people behave as badly as on USENET, with the exception of cops, belligerent drunks, methheads, or crackheads who thinks you might be able to help them out with the next rock. AFAICT, /. etc... have nothing on either scale or severity of USENET asshole-ishness.
Just to be a pissant, and carry on your point in a much more extreme fashion (in a slightly Ambrose Bierce-y fashion):
Olympics: An intermittent event which is used by highly evolved nations pretending they honour the value of each other's citizen, which lasts for a couple of weeks separated by long periods of the subjugation, dehumanisation, and murder of those same citizens. Not to be confused with treaties or peace accords, which lack the same level of athleticism.
I don't think that's necessary. It's the same thing with hardware, or MS formats or whatever. If a complete and accurate spec is available, the open source community can make their own player/driver/reader/writer or whatever.
Adobe may not be providing an open source player here, but they are giving the information needed for us to make one ourselves. Isn't that basically what we've been wanting from hardware manufacturers?
Also, this makes a Linux Flash writer possible. oOFlash? I really don't see anything to complain about here.
That's a good point. Maybe newer versions of Dreamweaver have some serious bugs, or something. :P
From: "Making Globalization Work"[Ch. 9]:
...the United States, seemingly cannot live within its means, borrowing $2 billion a day from poorer countries.Some of these dollars...go to pay off their enormous debts....Others go to buy bonds...Most of the bonds are short-term US Treasury bills (usually referred to as 'T-Bills'), which in recent years have yielded as low as 1 percent interest. There is something peculiar about poor countries desperately in need of capital lending hundreds of billions of dollars to the world's richest country." He doesn't go into it, but it seems to me that capital investment at a substandard interest rate in US currency would be "artificially inflating" US currency, rather than "artificially devaluing" Chinese (or whoever's) currency. IANAE, so I don't know.
As an aside, somewhere in the same book he gives his opinion that individual buying power for China/India will rise, but fall for the US, and end up closer to the China/India end of things...
It's kind of comical that you actually got Whuffie (erm...modded up) for that comment.
Please use the full, proper name of the villain... it's "Ezekiel GNU/Stane". Thank you, RMS.
Otherwise, I mostly agree with your position. I don't agree with the way the corporation often behaves, but they are doing a lot of good in the world, along with the bad. It seems ridiculous that so many people lose sight of this.
Don't be silly!
The correct step three is:
Build a fake Earth in New Mexico with a little model ship on it, and take a picture of it with a normal camera.
Satellites? Pfft. You've bought into the hoax that we've actually sent things into orbit.
Her response: "I would do anything for love.....but I won't do that!"
Hey, back off! Idaho is clearly mocking us, and my people must be protected! I can really relate to Lord Steve-Applemaker. Hopefully he comes out with iAgentOrange, so he can properly go after the apple orchards as well.
Don't forget, he also needs higher-end, expensive hardware to perform adequately and doesn't work well with others, so he's kind of like a belligerent, high-maintenance, chubby kid at fat camp. None of that's good.
Just the other day I was watching a video of two lovely young ladies, very down-to-earth gals. Then they kissed, and I thought "Hey, those girls are just right for me!" I was in love. They had a cup they were using to share information, so they're probably pretty smart and tech savvy. I was a little non-plussed by the next few minutes of these 2girls with their 1cup, but then it occurred to me, they were on Facebook!
I really think you're being harsh with your comments. Personally, I envision an entirely new paradigm of social networking that these computer cups can usher in, and the dataset doesn't even have to change significantly.
There once was a man come to Bergen
Who promised that everything's working
He came to the fjord
And bought off the board
Now we're all autospacelikeWord'ing.
There once was a man who said "Trust us!
Accept this, or surely you'll bust us."
With his special langcodes
Now he's ISO'd.
I wonder how much this will cost us?
We also gave you Celine Dion, as a specific punishment for a general failure in realising the song "American Woman" by "The Guess Who" is about the Statue of Liberty.
From Shatner to Celine Dion in thirty short years. I shudder to think of what entertainment monstrosity we'll be inflicting on you in 2020. Maybe "Nickelback: The Musical". Of course, there are the Geneva Conventions to worry about, but if we classify you as Enemy Consumers, it should pass muster.
I only need two more developments to vindicate my tattoo choices: a massive, popular uprising of Schmoo fanatics, and technology capable of generating the Care-bear Stare with skin grafts.
..but: "forsee"? Shouldn't the title be "foresee"? Apologies for spelling Nazism, usually, I don't care about that sort of thing, but it's the title, for God's sake, put in a little effort...