I think you mean that the BANK owns more peoples' homes. To me that is not a good indicator of how the population is getting wealthier... Many people would get much wealthier by renting and investing the difference than paying interest on a huge loan. If I pay 8% interest, and my house appreciates at 5% am I getting wealthier?
Who's talking about personal safety? I'm talking about the means to overthrow a tyrannical government... You have too much faith that your government will exercise "common decency".
History is REPLETE with cases of governments getting too powerful and becoming tyrannical. Even modern history. 20th century! People think, "But oh! OUR governement would never do anything BAD. OUR government is a GOOD government. Checks and Balances!!" Yeah, governments NEVER abuse their power. Humans NEVER abuse their power. What happens when the government puts a PATRIOT act type of thing into effect that says in order to combat "terrorism" they're going to round up all arabs and put them into camps. And to pay for this they going to tax you at 90%. Oh, and elections are cancelled this year in order to focus our efforts on national safety. And then an 8pm curfew. And then random full body searches at the airports. And then random house searches. Etc... What will you do? Write your congressman? Hold a peace rally? Say, "Please be nice!"
There may be a time when the government needs to be overthrown. I'm not saying it WILL happen, or that it will EVER happen. But if it DOES happen and the government has ALL the guns, then what? The founding fathers specifically put the 2nd ammendment in there for this very reason. If the people have no FORCEFUL MEANS to overthrow their government, how will they do it?
Yeah this is iffy. Copying a copyrighted book without permission is obviously illegal. But you can take the book home without making a copy. So the method of transmission from libary->house doesn't involve a copy operation. But distributing things electronically is intrisincally a copy operation. So you can't say "I'm going to download it, but NOT make a copy." because you have already made a copy by downloading it. I can see lawyers ending up in some sort of infinite loop and exploding from this...
Why do governments tax anything in the first place? It's because public services cost money, and that's a convenient way to of collecting said money (and because they are usually the ones that have all the guns).
Wrong. Governments will tax anything that they can so long as the people let them. The government doesn't run the country, the people do. I think many people have forgotten this. And as for them having all the guns, that's the purpose of the 2nd ammendment -- to make sure they NEVER have ALL the guns. Gun control is the single worst thing a society can institute because then the government WILL have all the guns, and the people will have no last-resort measure to overthrow their government when it becomes Evil(tm). I think people have too much faith that their government is inherently Good(tm) especially fools who support complete gun control. They're just BEGGING to be dominated by their government.
What the fuck does that mean? If you have the TIME to FINISH a 25 hour game, you certainly have the time to finish something longer if you would just go and start ANOTHER 25 hour game... Did you mean to say "I get bored after 25 hours"? If I had the time to play a fun game for 25 hours I wouldn't be like, "HOLY SHIT I'VE SPENT 25 HOURS PLAYING THIS GAME! I've got tons of other 25-hour not-fun-games to fucken play... GAWD!!!!" If it's fun, play it. Or is he trying to correlate his experience as a GAME DEVELOPER to normal people who don't have dozens of games sitting around waiting to be played...? Whatever.
the status quo is that its ok to make a boarding pass generator, but its not ok to create DVD decrypting software
If creating boarding passes required circumventing a digital copyright control, then it would be illegal. It's not illegal to just print some shit out on your printer that happens to look like a boarding pass...
I don't see why they should give a shit if I run multiple installations of the same OS on a single computer. It's not like I have 10 people in my office, all taking turns on a single computer using their own VM window each. If I want to futz around and run 10 VM windows, what's the big deal? Is this somehow ruining MS? MS is simply power-hungry and just doesn't GET it. Every single thing they do or move they make is designed to lock you into Microsoft. It's ridiculous. They repeatedly demonstrate that they don't "get it" and I think users (home users) are finally realizing this too...
This is the most insightful post in this whole thread. If I was a parent and spending tens of thousands of dollars to send my kid to a good college, and I found out they didn't do everything in their power to remove this asswad from the campus I would be EXTREMELY upset. Your stupid kid's right to act like an asswad in the library does not trump my kid's right to safety.
Safer, probably. Efficient or smart, I doubt it. So there's nothing to stop people from double or triple-parking? Nothing to stop them from just stopping in the middle of the road, running in to get groceries, getting a cup of coffee, and then coming back? You can just make a u-turn wherever you want? Block a driveway? Does no signs == no laws? This seems like a perfectly awful idea in any town with more than 1000 residents.
Have you ever read 1984? How on earth is this story anything like 1984?
After enough repetitious propoganda and brainwashing, the masses can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not. I'm not saying it correlates 100%, but still... If you had read the book and thought about it for more than 1 microsecond you might have seen what I was getting at...
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More people own their own homes.
I think you mean that the BANK owns more peoples' homes. To me that is not a good indicator of how the population is getting wealthier... Many people would get much wealthier by renting and investing the difference than paying interest on a huge loan. If I pay 8% interest, and my house appreciates at 5% am I getting wealthier?
You were supposed to run out in the street and say, "HAW haw...."
"The majority of the reactions I get from drivers are that they don't realize they are tailgating."
Pyeah, right...
Short answer: No.
and Run For Cover
Who's talking about personal safety? I'm talking about the means to overthrow a tyrannical government... You have too much faith that your government will exercise "common decency".
History is REPLETE with cases of governments getting too powerful and becoming tyrannical. Even modern history. 20th century! People think, "But oh! OUR governement would never do anything BAD. OUR government is a GOOD government. Checks and Balances!!" Yeah, governments NEVER abuse their power. Humans NEVER abuse their power. What happens when the government puts a PATRIOT act type of thing into effect that says in order to combat "terrorism" they're going to round up all arabs and put them into camps. And to pay for this they going to tax you at 90%. Oh, and elections are cancelled this year in order to focus our efforts on national safety. And then an 8pm curfew. And then random full body searches at the airports. And then random house searches. Etc... What will you do? Write your congressman? Hold a peace rally? Say, "Please be nice!"
There may be a time when the government needs to be overthrown. I'm not saying it WILL happen, or that it will EVER happen. But if it DOES happen and the government has ALL the guns, then what? The founding fathers specifically put the 2nd ammendment in there for this very reason. If the people have no FORCEFUL MEANS to overthrow their government, how will they do it?
dont you mean meteorite ?
You can't have meteorites without meteors, eh?
Yeah this is iffy. Copying a copyrighted book without permission is obviously illegal. But you can take the book home without making a copy. So the method of transmission from libary->house doesn't involve a copy operation. But distributing things electronically is intrisincally a copy operation. So you can't say "I'm going to download it, but NOT make a copy." because you have already made a copy by downloading it. I can see lawyers ending up in some sort of infinite loop and exploding from this...
Why do governments tax anything in the first place? It's because public services cost money, and that's a convenient way to of collecting said money (and because they are usually the ones that have all the guns).
Wrong. Governments will tax anything that they can so long as the people let them. The government doesn't run the country, the people do. I think many people have forgotten this. And as for them having all the guns, that's the purpose of the 2nd ammendment -- to make sure they NEVER have ALL the guns. Gun control is the single worst thing a society can institute because then the government WILL have all the guns, and the people will have no last-resort measure to overthrow their government when it becomes Evil(tm). I think people have too much faith that their government is inherently Good(tm) especially fools who support complete gun control. They're just BEGGING to be dominated by their government.
I never have time to finish anything longer
What the fuck does that mean? If you have the TIME to FINISH a 25 hour game, you certainly have the time to finish something longer if you would just go and start ANOTHER 25 hour game... Did you mean to say "I get bored after 25 hours"? If I had the time to play a fun game for 25 hours I wouldn't be like, "HOLY SHIT I'VE SPENT 25 HOURS PLAYING THIS GAME! I've got tons of other 25-hour not-fun-games to fucken play... GAWD!!!!" If it's fun, play it. Or is he trying to correlate his experience as a GAME DEVELOPER to normal people who don't have dozens of games sitting around waiting to be played...? Whatever.
It's not just the PS3. Sony is hurting in several other departments as well.
But I thought only GOPers who bow to big business?
That's exactly what the democrats wanted you to think.
What does "high-street box shifter" mean?
The first rule of High-Street Box Shifter Club is you do not talk about High-Street Box Shifter Club.
Did I say "money" or "a boarding pass"?
the status quo is that its ok to make a boarding pass generator, but its not ok to create DVD decrypting software
If creating boarding passes required circumventing a digital copyright control, then it would be illegal. It's not illegal to just print some shit out on your printer that happens to look like a boarding pass...
Not all printers print with dots.
How is this any different than just installing the OS and making an image of my drive?
I don't see why they should give a shit if I run multiple installations of the same OS on a single computer. It's not like I have 10 people in my office, all taking turns on a single computer using their own VM window each. If I want to futz around and run 10 VM windows, what's the big deal? Is this somehow ruining MS? MS is simply power-hungry and just doesn't GET it. Every single thing they do or move they make is designed to lock you into Microsoft. It's ridiculous. They repeatedly demonstrate that they don't "get it" and I think users (home users) are finally realizing this too...
This is the most insightful post in this whole thread. If I was a parent and spending tens of thousands of dollars to send my kid to a good college, and I found out they didn't do everything in their power to remove this asswad from the campus I would be EXTREMELY upset. Your stupid kid's right to act like an asswad in the library does not trump my kid's right to safety.
Safer, probably. Efficient or smart, I doubt it. So there's nothing to stop people from double or triple-parking? Nothing to stop them from just stopping in the middle of the road, running in to get groceries, getting a cup of coffee, and then coming back? You can just make a u-turn wherever you want? Block a driveway? Does no signs == no laws? This seems like a perfectly awful idea in any town with more than 1000 residents.
Have you ever read 1984? How on earth is this story anything like 1984?
After enough repetitious propoganda and brainwashing, the masses can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not. I'm not saying it correlates 100%, but still... If you had read the book and thought about it for more than 1 microsecond you might have seen what I was getting at...
This has been going on for so long that I've lost track!
You ever read 1984? It's like that.
I've been having sex regularly since about 1980.
I think you forgot several very important qualifiers in this statement.
I wish they could warm New England to 68 degrees instead.