he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison
First, a minor bit of pedantry: only prostitutes have a$$es. Everyone in the US has asses, and everyone not in the US has arses.
Second, isn't "I hereby sentence you to five years of being assraped" unconstitutional? It violates the injunction against cruel and unusual punishment, and only men get assraped in prison. I'm surprised that freed felons aren't suing the government left and right; it's the warden and jailers' responsibilities to ensure that prisoners aren't committing crimes in prison.
I don't know why they don't teach it in high school, but they do teach it in college history courses. That book was required reading in an undergrad class I had to take at SIU, and the online version is hosted by the University of Virginia.
Actually the reference was to Marvin from Douglas Adams' Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy. It's one of the funniest book series I've ever read. If you haven't read it I urge you to visit your local library and check a copy out.
Marvin never complained about his diodes in the movie version, to my great dissapointment.
By the time he'd died, Asimov managed to tie the "I, Robot" universe to the Foundation universe. In the last few books in the Foundation series, R. Daneel Olivaw was found to be behind Hari Seldon's "psychohistory". Daneel was a central figure in the Elija Baily books, where robots were pretty much banned on Earth.
Asimov was always my favorite writer. His death IMO was a blow to mankind.
What Douglas Adams had to say about presidents in The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe also pertains to cops: anyone who would want the job is unsuited for it. Good luck finding many cops that respect what their badges stand for.
Yes dictatorships and their like tends to be much better at misappropriating funds for personal interest but US is a democracy
Actually, no it isn't. The US is a republic, not a Democracy. It isn't even a democratic republic; if it were, before any bill became law it would have to be voted on my the citizens.
We have "almost" democratically elected legislators. I say "almost" because we are more of a plutocracy than a democracy; usually the candidate with the most money to spend on his campaign wins. This allows the corporates, who own the media, to marginalize all but two of the political parties and "contribute" to those two, making whoever wins beholden to them.
I truly wish we were a democratic republic, where nobody could contribute to more than one candidate in any given race, where nobody could contribute to a candidate he wasn't eligible to vote for, where all laws expired after ten years and had to be relegislated, and where no bill became law unless voted on by the citizens.
I'd like to be rich, too, but that's about as likely to happen.
As somebody who was born in the middle of the 20th century, I got to correct you. It just ain't so. Nobody never used proper grammar back then, neither.
That was an excellent post, except you dodn't add any links. From the Nazis at Wikipedia:
Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is an adage formulated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states:[2][3]
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
Godwin's Law is often cited in online discussions as a caution against the use of inflammatory rhetoric or exaggerated comparisons, and is often conflated with fallacious arguments of the reductio ad Hitlerum form.
The rule does not state whether any reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate, but only asserts that the probability of such a reference increases over time. It is precisely because such a comparison may sometimes be appropriate that Godwin has argued[4] that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.
In one of its early forms, Godwin's Law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions.[5] The law is now applied to any threaded online discussion, including electronic mailing lists, message boards, chat rooms, blog comment threads, and wiki talk pages.
"Godwin's Law is precisely like Hitler. The similarities between Godwin's law and the Nazis are uncanny. People who start screaming that the fascist law of Godwin has been invoked are no better then the guards at the Nazi death camps." ~ Godwin's Law on Godwin's Law
You'd better log off. Science says - he's coming for you.Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Apparition) is a scientific law. It is not a theory!
The law states:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of Nazis or Hitler spontaneously materialising and enacting systematic genocide against the poster approaches one. Godwin's Law does not question whether the genocide enacted by Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate or justified, but only asserts that the enactment of one is increasingly probable.
The most frequent invocation of the law today is found on Wikipedia, where discussion threads for the most trivial of topics cover pages and pages. This explains the origin of the WikiNazis who roam the site, permitting only their warped "NOPV" version of the facts.
Very good points. The cheapest sex I ever had cost me a draft Budweiser, but the most expensive cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension.
The trick to dealing with prostitutes is not letting them in your house. Twenty bucks is the going price here, but you have to know that; some of them tell me they get hundreds from politicians, and they name the politicians! And they laugh about how the stupid dweebs overpay like that. Fifteen grand will buy a lot of hookers. They don't talk back, either.
Asimov's universe has robots being banned on Earth, robot colonies dying, and robotics itself dying as well, with R. Daneel Olivaw being the only remaining robot in a galaxy with no non-human sentient life (except on Gaia, where everything is sentient).
I think Asimov's robots will be about as like the real future's robots as his Multivac is to the internet. I don't see robots being banned.
Ok, this is quite unlike me but I clicked the link and... Terminator 0.0.1 (alpha) looks like a robotic clown. She has no breasts, looks like sh'e made of HARD plastic, and doubtless has no vagina.
I'm going to pay $15,000 for that? Come on, dude, I want one like Data's daughter! What are you guys smoking? Speaking of smoking, I can get a real twenty five year old human crack whore for twenty bucks.
"You cannot serve two masters" -the bible. If you put duty before faith, you have no faith.
Besides, he had a DUTY to execute more men than any other Governor or of the state that executes more men than any other state? No, he's a cold blooded sociopath who will stop at nothing to advance his aims, not unlike most other powerful men.
You're still hosed if your server's power supply goes titsup. Or if your hard drive crashes. Or if the building burns down.
Gotta love these slashvertisements, I wonder whose UPSes they're pimping? Its not like we don't all know you need a UPS. What's next, a FA about how you need fire insurance?
I think by "work" he wasn't referring to installing an ad blocker, but rather to hunt for the content among the all the annoying ads, or to concentrate on the content when the ads are doing their damnedest to distract you from it.
If you want to read the newspaper on your break at work, your network admin isn't going to let you install an ad blocker.
Whoever modded that comment as "troll" should wake up and look around. I was assigned a book in an undergrad history class in the late 1970s, it's a good read and I still have the thing, reread it a couple of months ago.
The link is to the text of the book. Economic similarities between now and the US shortly before the great depression are scary. From "XII.THE BIG BULL MARKET"
The speculative fever had been intensified by the action of the Federal Reserve System in lowering the rediscount rate from 4 per cent to 3'/2 per cent in August, 1927, and purchasing Government securities in the open market. This action had been taken from the most laudable motives: several of the European nations were having difficulty in stabilizing their currencies, European exchanges were weak, and it seemed to the Reserve authorities that the easing of American money rates might prevent the further accumulation of gold in the United States and thus aid in the recovery of Europe and benefit foreign trade. Furthermore, American business was beginning to lose headway; the lowering of money rates might stimulate it. But the lowering of money rates also stimulated the stock market. The bull party in Wall Street had been still further encouraged by the remarkable solicitude of President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon, who whenever confidence showed signs of waning came out with opportunely reassuring statements which at once sent prices upward again. In January 1928, the President had actually taken the altogether unprecedented step of publicly stating that he did not consider brokers' loans too high, thus apparently giving White House sponsorship to the very inflation which was worrying the sober minds of the financial community.
By 1927, according to Homer B. Vanderblue, most of the elaborate real-estate offices on Flagler Street in Miami were either closed or practically empty; the Davis Islands project, "bankrupt and unfinished," had been taken over by a syndicate organized by Stone & Webster; and many Florida cities, including Miami, were having difficulty collecting their taxes. By 1928 Henry S. Villard, writing in The Nation, thus described the approach to Miami by road: "Dead subdivisions line the highway, their pompous names half-obliterated on crumbling stucco gates. Lonely white-way lights stand guard over miles of cement side- walks, where grass and palmetto take the place of homes that were to be.... Whole sections of outlying subdivisions are composed of unoccupied houses, past which one speeds on broad thoroughfares as if traversing a city in the grip of death." In 1928 there were thirty-one bank failures in Florida; in 1929 there were fifty-seven; in both of these years the liabilities of the failed banks reached greater totals than were recorded for any other state in the Union. The Mediterranean fruitfly added to the gravity of the local economic situation in 1929 by ravaging the citrus crop. Bank clearings for Miami, which had climbed sensation- ally to over a billion dollars in 1925, marched sadly downhill again:
It's not that people hate advertising itself. They don't.
People love the Geico ads with the duck. They loved the Budweiser ads with the frogs. They like ads for items they didn't know existed but could save them time/money/otherwise make their lives better.
What they hate is pushy, in your face, obnoxious, trite, boring ads that detract from the content. Nobody hates Google's text ads, for instance. Everybody hates weather.com's advertisers.
You are missing sometheing. The newer generation of hybrids plug into the grid; there was a slashdot article on the subject a few days ago. Unless you go in a long trip you cold get by without buying gasoline at all.
Slashdot Mirror
he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison
First, a minor bit of pedantry: only prostitutes have a$$es. Everyone in the US has asses, and everyone not in the US has arses.
Second, isn't "I hereby sentence you to five years of being assraped" unconstitutional? It violates the injunction against cruel and unusual punishment, and only men get assraped in prison. I'm surprised that freed felons aren't suing the government left and right; it's the warden and jailers' responsibilities to ensure that prisoners aren't committing crimes in prison.
Korben Dallas: "We're safe, they stop chasing you after a mile
Computer: "Incoming missles!"
Korben Dallas: "Maybe that's two miles? Hang on!"
I don't know why they don't teach it in high school, but they do teach it in college history courses. That book was required reading in an undergrad class I had to take at SIU, and the online version is hosted by the University of Virginia.
Actually the reference was to Marvin from Douglas Adams' Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy. It's one of the funniest book series I've ever read. If you haven't read it I urge you to visit your local library and check a copy out.
Marvin never complained about his diodes in the movie version, to my great dissapointment.
I guess that shows that advertising is pretty ineffective, at least on me.
By the time he'd died, Asimov managed to tie the "I, Robot" universe to the Foundation universe. In the last few books in the Foundation series, R. Daneel Olivaw was found to be behind Hari Seldon's "psychohistory". Daneel was a central figure in the Elija Baily books, where robots were pretty much banned on Earth.
Asimov was always my favorite writer. His death IMO was a blow to mankind.
Always wrap it when dealing with a professional. Unprotected sex is for monogamous relationships.
What Douglas Adams had to say about presidents in The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe also pertains to cops: anyone who would want the job is unsuited for it. Good luck finding many cops that respect what their badges stand for.
Though most policemen are good people,
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=%22false+arrest%22
http://illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A7027
http://illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A6290
http://www.sj-r.com/news/x857675110/Former-police-officer-sues-for-drug-probe-information
I see you don't live in Illinois.
Yes dictatorships and their like tends to be much better at misappropriating funds for personal interest but US is a democracy
Actually, no it isn't. The US is a republic, not a Democracy. It isn't even a democratic republic; if it were, before any bill became law it would have to be voted on my the citizens.
We have "almost" democratically elected legislators. I say "almost" because we are more of a plutocracy than a democracy; usually the candidate with the most money to spend on his campaign wins. This allows the corporates, who own the media, to marginalize all but two of the political parties and "contribute" to those two, making whoever wins beholden to them.
I truly wish we were a democratic republic, where nobody could contribute to more than one candidate in any given race, where nobody could contribute to a candidate he wasn't eligible to vote for, where all laws expired after ten years and had to be relegislated, and where no bill became law unless voted on by the citizens.
I'd like to be rich, too, but that's about as likely to happen.
As somebody who was born in the middle of the 20th century, I got to correct you. It just ain't so. Nobody never used proper grammar back then, neither.
Grammar is so ninteenth century.
so then whats the law for soviet russia
In Soviet Russia, the law breaks YOU!
That was an excellent post, except you dodn't add any links. From the Nazis at Wikipedia:
From the Uncyclopedia death camps:
Very good points. The cheapest sex I ever had cost me a draft Budweiser, but the most expensive cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension.
The trick to dealing with prostitutes is not letting them in your house. Twenty bucks is the going price here, but you have to know that; some of them tell me they get hundreds from politicians, and they name the politicians! And they laugh about how the stupid dweebs overpay like that. Fifteen grand will buy a lot of hookers. They don't talk back, either.
Asimov's universe has robots being banned on Earth, robot colonies dying, and robotics itself dying as well, with R. Daneel Olivaw being the only remaining robot in a galaxy with no non-human sentient life (except on Gaia, where everything is sentient).
I think Asimov's robots will be about as like the real future's robots as his Multivac is to the internet. I don't see robots being banned.
The picture states that the robot has "23 inches" and points to a questionable area
The handyman's creed (as seen on a tshirt I just bought at a garage sale)- "If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger tool!"
the robot has emotions in its head
Does it have a pain in all the diodes down its left leg?
Ok, this is quite unlike me but I clicked the link and... Terminator 0.0.1 (alpha) looks like a robotic clown. She has no breasts, looks like sh'e made of HARD plastic, and doubtless has no vagina.
I'm going to pay $15,000 for that? Come on, dude, I want one like Data's daughter! What are you guys smoking? Speaking of smoking, I can get a real twenty five year old human crack whore for twenty bucks.
"You cannot serve two masters" -the bible. If you put duty before faith, you have no faith.
Besides, he had a DUTY to execute more men than any other Governor or of the state that executes more men than any other state? No, he's a cold blooded sociopath who will stop at nothing to advance his aims, not unlike most other powerful men.
He is to be pitied.
You're still hosed if your server's power supply goes titsup. Or if your hard drive crashes. Or if the building burns down.
Gotta love these slashvertisements, I wonder whose UPSes they're pimping? Its not like we don't all know you need a UPS. What's next, a FA about how you need fire insurance?
If there's clouds in your server room, your server's probably been slashdotted and is on fire!
I think by "work" he wasn't referring to installing an ad blocker, but rather to hunt for the content among the all the annoying ads, or to concentrate on the content when the ads are doing their damnedest to distract you from it.
If you want to read the newspaper on your break at work, your network admin isn't going to let you install an ad blocker.
Whoever modded that comment as "troll" should wake up and look around. I was assigned a book in an undergrad history class in the late 1970s, it's a good read and I still have the thing, reread it a couple of months ago.
The link is to the text of the book. Economic similarities between now and the US shortly before the great depression are scary. From "XII.THE BIG BULL MARKET"
From "HOME, SWEET FLORIDA"
The Big Red Scare sounds a lot like today's "war on terror". Alcohol prohibition reads like today's "war on (some) drugs".
This book was first published in 1931. Read it and be afraid! Who was it that said "those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it?"
It's not that people hate advertising itself. They don't.
People love the Geico ads with the duck. They loved the Budweiser ads with the frogs. They like ads for items they didn't know existed but could save them time/money/otherwise make their lives better.
What they hate is pushy, in your face, obnoxious, trite, boring ads that detract from the content. Nobody hates Google's text ads, for instance. Everybody hates weather.com's advertisers.
Man, if you can win a game of verbal chess with a woman my hat's off to you.
You are missing sometheing. The newer generation of hybrids plug into the grid; there was a slashdot article on the subject a few days ago. Unless you go in a long trip you cold get by without buying gasoline at all.