RapidShare is not just sharing files, it's making money off content that is mostly illegal
ISP are not just transmitting data, they are making money off data that is illegal.
PC makers are not just running code, they are making money off code that is illegal.
XXX is not just doing YYY, they are making money off ZZZ that is illegal.
Maybe the electric company, the water company, the food industry, etc.. are all complicit because they enable people to do illegal things.
Well, use all of your super movie-making skills and give me a call when you've made a movie that beats Gattaca on RottenTomatoes and I'll buy a ticket...
Gattaca is a great film, for many reasons. Great acting, great photography, deep motifs, solid soundtrack, realistic depiction of a possible future, etc... It's a thought film about a not-too-distant future, not a futuristic space adventure. You think the future will be as flashy as Blade Runner or Star Wars? Maybe in 1000 years, but that's not what Gattaca was about...
I think you're exactly right. Somehow the word "community" has become synonymous with "business". Communities should not be based on business, but on a goal to achieve a common good. The common good is not necessarily based on providing business to one or two local shop owners, but the entire community. The entire community does not benefit from me shoveling money into the pocket of a local businessman, unless the goods he is selling are coming from local producers. How is giving a local businessman $20 for a Chinese-produced toy better for the community than giving $10 to Amazon, and using the other $10 to support my local school or homeless shelter?
There are 24,051,218 people in North Korea (says Wikipedia), and only a large handful of them are actually causing this problem.
Well then my suggestion to those 24,051,218 people (and I'm sure they're hanging on my every word) is that if they don't agree with their government's decision to basically force the rest of the world to annihilate them, they should rise up and overthrow. Sure, there will be casualties, but certainly far less than if we are forced to nuke the entire country.
Except that when you are sworn in as jurors, judges now specifically direct you to NOT look shit up in the Internet. Specifically. Do not research. Do not converse. Do not do anything related to the case. Either the judge failed in her duty, or that juror is a moron, or both. Certainly not a honest mistake.
To tell the truth, I don't see how researching terms used in court, so the implications of phraseology used by lawyers during the trial are fully understood by the jurors themselves, taints a jury.
Ok, let's say you're the victim of rape, and you're testifying against your attacker. The day before, some schoolkid jokingly edits the WP page on rape trauma syndrome to say something like, "Rape trauma syndrome has been shown to be a hoax. The presence of rape trauma syndrome always indicates the plaintiff is either lying or mentally incompetent." I'm sure you would want a printout of that circulating among the jurors in your case...
Also with none of those machines' drawbacks. You don't have to worry about compatibility issues, memory issues, hard drive space, hard drive crashes, backups, etc...
It'll have to sell on simplicity itself and a low device cost if it's to really work as a product
Uhh, that's exactly what they're doing. You plug it in, turn it on, it boots up instantly, and you go. And since it doesn't rely on all the extra hardware garbage that encumbers other computers, it's vastly cheaper. Sure, maybe it's not for everyone, but I can't imagine there isn't a sizable market for something like this.
Actually you didn't solve it. You forgot to convert to ASCII, for which 42 = * . So the real answer is *, which as we all know is a wildcard for "everything". So maybe you did solve it. Creepy...
Bullshit. This is money earned thru capitalism, which by definition is not altruistic. That's like stealing a car and then donating it to CarsForKids. If any of these execs were altruistic at all, they wouldn't have become billionaires to begin with. That money would have stayed with their customers, employers, and investors... Make no mistake -- this is a publicity thing, and like the first-poster said, they are angling it to get some monetary benefit to themselves.
How would that notion apply to the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The whole point of the US government is that there are checks and balances even against the people. It shouldn't be possible to deprive people of their rights just because a significant number of people think it proper.
Uh, wrong. If enough people wanted to legalize slavery, then it would happen. The constitution would be amended, the laws changed, and the political figures all replaced with ones who will do the will of the people, that the people elect. Contrary to most peoples' view, the people actually are the government and could make the country do whatever they wanted, as long as enough of them wanted it.
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ANDs can be converted to ORs which would make them logically equivalent
Unless they're looking into ways to execute him
You must be new here.
echo "World Peace"
You were saying?
RapidShare is not just sharing files, it's making money off content that is mostly illegal
ISP are not just transmitting data, they are making money off data that is illegal.
PC makers are not just running code, they are making money off code that is illegal.
XXX is not just doing YYY, they are making money off ZZZ that is illegal.
Maybe the electric company, the water company, the food industry, etc.. are all complicit because they enable people to do illegal things.
Apollo: hustun we has teh prob. LOL
Houston: n00bs...
Well, use all of your super movie-making skills and give me a call when you've made a movie that beats Gattaca on RottenTomatoes and I'll buy a ticket...
Gattaca is a great film, for many reasons. Great acting, great photography, deep motifs, solid soundtrack, realistic depiction of a possible future, etc... It's a thought film about a not-too-distant future, not a futuristic space adventure. You think the future will be as flashy as Blade Runner or Star Wars? Maybe in 1000 years, but that's not what Gattaca was about...
I think you're exactly right. Somehow the word "community" has become synonymous with "business". Communities should not be based on business, but on a goal to achieve a common good. The common good is not necessarily based on providing business to one or two local shop owners, but the entire community. The entire community does not benefit from me shoveling money into the pocket of a local businessman, unless the goods he is selling are coming from local producers. How is giving a local businessman $20 for a Chinese-produced toy better for the community than giving $10 to Amazon, and using the other $10 to support my local school or homeless shelter?
Mom and pop (and various other combinations) porn films
/me shudders
There are 24,051,218 people in North Korea (says Wikipedia), and only a large handful of them are actually causing this problem.
Well then my suggestion to those 24,051,218 people (and I'm sure they're hanging on my every word) is that if they don't agree with their government's decision to basically force the rest of the world to annihilate them, they should rise up and overthrow. Sure, there will be casualties, but certainly far less than if we are forced to nuke the entire country.
Honest mistake
Except that when you are sworn in as jurors, judges now specifically direct you to NOT look shit up in the Internet. Specifically. Do not research. Do not converse. Do not do anything related to the case. Either the judge failed in her duty, or that juror is a moron, or both. Certainly not a honest mistake.
To tell the truth, I don't see how researching terms used in court, so the implications of phraseology used by lawyers during the trial are fully understood by the jurors themselves, taints a jury.
Ok, let's say you're the victim of rape, and you're testifying against your attacker. The day before, some schoolkid jokingly edits the WP page on rape trauma syndrome to say something like, "Rape trauma syndrome has been shown to be a hoax. The presence of rape trauma syndrome always indicates the plaintiff is either lying or mentally incompetent." I'm sure you would want a printout of that circulating among the jurors in your case...
What are these "stores" that you speak of? Some quaint little novelty from days of yore?
This leaves a bad taste in my mouth
but rather OS fragmentation that makes security updates and vulnerabilities much more difficult to track and to resolve via updates
How is this different than a Win/Mac laptop which could have god-knows-what installed it on it at any time?
with none of those machines' other benefits
Also with none of those machines' drawbacks. You don't have to worry about compatibility issues, memory issues, hard drive space, hard drive crashes, backups, etc...
It'll have to sell on simplicity itself and a low device cost if it's to really work as a product
Uhh, that's exactly what they're doing. You plug it in, turn it on, it boots up instantly, and you go. And since it doesn't rely on all the extra hardware garbage that encumbers other computers, it's vastly cheaper. Sure, maybe it's not for everyone, but I can't imagine there isn't a sizable market for something like this.
Users ALWAYS will consume what is available
I guess that explains the low points in the graph....
I've spent five years of my life trying to invent an anal bum cover, failing to do so is my greatest regret...
When I solved it, I got 42.
Actually you didn't solve it. You forgot to convert to ASCII, for which 42 = * . So the real answer is *, which as we all know is a wildcard for "everything". So maybe you did solve it. Creepy...
I'd rather have pedophiles get their fix by watching child porn movies than by actually going out and doing something to a real child.
I'm sure the kids in the video might not give the slightest fuck what you think.
It's true altruism
Bullshit. This is money earned thru capitalism, which by definition is not altruistic. That's like stealing a car and then donating it to CarsForKids. If any of these execs were altruistic at all, they wouldn't have become billionaires to begin with. That money would have stayed with their customers, employers, and investors... Make no mistake -- this is a publicity thing, and like the first-poster said, they are angling it to get some monetary benefit to themselves.
the US Constitution protects against the tyranny of the majority
And what, pray tell, happens when the majority amend the Constitution to allow tyranny?
How would that notion apply to the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The whole point of the US government is that there are checks and balances even against the people. It shouldn't be possible to deprive people of their rights just because a significant number of people think it proper.
Uh, wrong. If enough people wanted to legalize slavery, then it would happen. The constitution would be amended, the laws changed, and the political figures all replaced with ones who will do the will of the people, that the people elect. Contrary to most peoples' view, the people actually are the government and could make the country do whatever they wanted, as long as enough of them wanted it.
This is why I am divorced. I can forgive once, but any more then that shows a lack of respect for me (and our children)
I would say that unforgivingness shows a lack of respect for the bond of marriage and your family.