"Bill O'Reilly jokingly called for a boycott of The Colbert Report during an interview on The Daily Show, because he assumed, as others have, that the name Colbert was French, "proving" that his satirical clone was a Frenchman. [11]. Colbert is in fact an Irish-American; his surname is Irish (of Norman origin)" http://www.answers.com/topic/stephen-colbert
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Can you blame Colbert for making the mistake?? I mean he is Irish, so he was probably drunk when he said it...
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"But this is all anecdotal. If I had more time, I'd reference some of those studies you claim don't exist. I saw one just a week or three ago on CNN."
Studies can prove anything if you screen out the data that doesn't support what you want to find. That's why I also used the word reputable. All the studies you are thinking about were not conducted scientifically - they knew the result they wanted to find, and only use the data that supported it. There have been several studies done http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm that proved there were no links between second hand smoke and cancer.
"I don't know about you, but whenever I'm around smokers, I wind up with a headache for a day or more, due to serious sinus congestion."
That is about as much scientific proof as some of the studies you cite have... I hang around smokers all the time and the worst thing that happens is my clothes smell like an ashtray... Maybe you have a helath problem that is amplified by smoke, but I doubt that smoke is the cause of your problem.
"The whole "Daily Show" type faux news show is overdone."
Quite the contrary. The Daily Show and Colbert Report are the two most real news programs out there. They will talk about things most "conventional" (read - afraid of their sponsers) news shows would never go near, and call people out on things that should be called out... Fox News should be renamed "Conservative Propoganda"
"If you want talk about overdone shows, lets talk about reality tv, hospital drama, and crime investigation shows."
Amen brother. They all share one common thread - they are all about as real as Santa Claus. There is only one way to do a great "reality" show - Hire professional actors, write a brilliant script, and practice, practice, practice....
You mean like grinding up someone's parents, feeding them the ground up parents in chili, and then having Radiohead laugh at them for crying?? (and drinking their tears as they cry) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Tenorman_Must_D ie
I try to explain this fact to people all the time that don't get the joke. Some folks are apparently unaware that Steven Colbert is a playing a character - which just says leaps and bounds about Colbert's ability to never break character. Most brilliant satire ever on mainstream cable.... The best way to make an ass out of someone who is already an ass is simply to act just like them...
"Pulling the trigger randomly" would never be considered "self-defense" if you hit someone. And for the record, the amount of particles in the air from second hand smoke is smaller than the amount in the air you breathe in if you live in a city. When the air was tested in smoke filled bars in the city I live in, the air quality was 4 times higher than the EPA standards for "clean air". The smoking ban laws were never for health reasons, they were because A) people want to tell other people what to do B)people don't like the smell, think it is disgusting etc. Don't blow smoke up my ass (pun intended) about wanting to protect my or other's health - the truth is no reputable study that indepenedent researchers can verify that proves any link between cancer and second hand smoke. The funniest thing is that I am finding myself siding wwith a lot of conservatives on this issue, and all the liberals are the ones fighting so hard to strip rights away from people. That doesn't sound very liberal now, does it? Oh, in case you care, I am a non-smoker who just happens to think these tactics are complete bullshit - not just a whiny smoker with a vested interest. Today they are banning something (legal) that I don't do (and I assume you don't) but tomorrow it may be something that you or I do participate in.
"I believe that the cost of marijuana if legal would not significantly change. The same for cocaine as well."
Considering that during prohibition alcohol sold for 10 to 20 times it's value when it was legal (and was often of questionable quality), I think drugs would cost significantly less. The fact that they are illegal, and people will still do almost anything to get them, is what deterimines the price. You can't compare prices from years ago to current - they were still as illegal then as they are now. You used to be able to buy cocaine in pharmacies (until the Harrison Tax Act) for literally pennies when it was legal.
I don't think you realize what the black market does to the price of drugs. Take cocaine for instance - it has a 1700% profit ratio [source VH1's "Drug Years" and the History Channel's "Histroy of Cocaine"] compared to what it costs to manufacture. Now apply that to anything else and you will see why laws will never stop the businessmen. Say you manufactured pens in your factory. The pens cost you $1 to produce and sell for $1700. Would you let a few laws stop you from producing and selling pens? No way in hell... The reason drugs cost so much is precisely because they are illegal and completely unregulated by anything but pure supply and demand...
Now, you take away the insane profit ratios and there is no incentive to produce that product anymore.
"I'm perfectly fine with the anti-smoking laws. They're just as american as the ones that prevent me from "blowing" lead your way when you blow smoke mine. If you wish to remove the former, also remove the latter."
Dead wrong. Shooting people is illegal, smoking is not. If smoking is so bad for everyone, why not just do the right thing and make the act of smoking illegal? Your analogy is bad because you are comparing something that is already illegal to do anywhere with a perfectly legal act. For that matter, why not ban fat people from eating McDonalds?? Obesity kills far more people every year that the bullshit "second hand smoke kills" and can be easily proven by respectable studies. Hell, cars kill more people more year than "second hand smoke", why not ban cars also? Hey, it's just protecting me from people like you who drive....
"If the government is so worried about Winblows machines, why don't they just have ISPs block ports 135-139, among others? Most problems solved. Heck, honestly, block all ports below 1024 unless you have "server" licensed access. Then, to finish it off, ban IE, and mandate Firefox."
In a nutshell, because we don't live in Communist China. The government can regulate business, but short of passing laws and enforcing them, they can't force a business to do something that is within their legal rights.(With the exception of the anti-smoking in private business laws, which are completely unAmerican)
And we need less "hand-holding" "protect us from ourselves" laws. If a business, or you at home wants to block those ports, feel free - but the government shouldn't be involved. I think that decision should be left to the individuals, and not mandated.
The US government really isn't in the business of "taking over" and actively running businesses. Legislation is supposed to control the way businesses are run, that's what the govenrment does - pass and enforce laws.
And of course everyone knows that Fords are more exploitable in this manner than Chevys are...But to be truly secure, you need to buy a kit car and assemble it yourself...
"How do you know exactly? Viruses, trojans, and rootkits should be undetectable."
With "undetectable rootkit detection software", duh.... Unless the rootkit has an "undetectable rootkit detection software" detector and tries to disable it, then you need "undetectable rootkit detection software detector detector software" to disable the rootkit's detector - no big deal..
"For that matter, they also have a member list so if you really wanted, you could keep track of all those and organize a boycott of just those lables."
No way - I judge and buy music on the criteria of music only. Politics and music are a bad mix - I won't buy or not buy something based on anything but whether or not I like the music.
Am I supposed to hate this because it is "new" Star Wars and will have lots of CGI, or am I supposed to love it because it is a fan film and not Lucas?? Tell me what to think!
Please hurry, I want to make up my mind before I see it...
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Using Windows is optional. If you don't like the features, you don't have to use it...
So what the hell are knickers then?
In the US "lifts" are called "elevators", "flats" are called "apartments", and "kidney pie" is called "ptomaine".
"Bill O'Reilly jokingly called for a boycott of The Colbert Report during an interview on The Daily Show, because he assumed, as others have, that the name Colbert was French, "proving" that his satirical clone was a Frenchman. [11]. Colbert is in fact an Irish-American; his surname is Irish (of Norman origin)"
http://www.answers.com/topic/stephen-colbert
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Can you blame Colbert for making the mistake?? I mean he is Irish, so he was probably drunk when he said it...
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"But this is all anecdotal. If I had more time, I'd reference some of those studies you claim don't exist. I saw one just a week or three ago on CNN."
Studies can prove anything if you screen out the data that doesn't support what you want to find. That's why I also used the word reputable. All the studies you are thinking about were not conducted scientifically - they knew the result they wanted to find, and only use the data that supported it. There have been several studies done http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm that proved there were no links between second hand smoke and cancer.
"I don't know about you, but whenever I'm around smokers, I wind up with a headache for a day or more, due to serious sinus congestion."
That is about as much scientific proof as some of the studies you cite have... I hang around smokers all the time and the worst thing that happens is my clothes smell like an ashtray... Maybe you have a helath problem that is amplified by smoke, but I doubt that smoke is the cause of your problem.
"The whole "Daily Show" type faux news show is overdone."
Quite the contrary. The Daily Show and Colbert Report are the two most real news programs out there. They will talk about things most "conventional" (read - afraid of their sponsers) news shows would never go near, and call people out on things that should be called out... Fox News should be renamed "Conservative Propoganda"
"If you want talk about overdone shows, lets talk about reality tv, hospital drama, and crime investigation shows."
Amen brother. They all share one common thread - they are all about as real as Santa Claus. There is only one way to do a great "reality" show - Hire professional actors, write a brilliant script, and practice, practice, practice....
You mean like grinding up someone's parents, feeding them the ground up parents in chili, and then having Radiohead laugh at them for crying?? (and drinking their tears as they cry) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Tenorman_Must_D ie
Except Steven Colbert is Irish, not French...(It's okay - Bill O'Reilly made the same mistake, but then again he makes lots of mistakes))
He was only getting 115% of the votes when they were using Diebold machine to count the votes...
I'm just shooting from the hip here, but maybe because it's in Hungary?
I try to explain this fact to people all the time that don't get the joke. Some folks are apparently unaware that Steven Colbert is a playing a character - which just says leaps and bounds about Colbert's ability to never break character. Most brilliant satire ever on mainstream cable.... The best way to make an ass out of someone who is already an ass is simply to act just like them...
"Pulling the trigger randomly" would never be considered "self-defense" if you hit someone. And for the record, the amount of particles in the air from second hand smoke is smaller than the amount in the air you breathe in if you live in a city. When the air was tested in smoke filled bars in the city I live in, the air quality was 4 times higher than the EPA standards for "clean air". The smoking ban laws were never for health reasons, they were because A) people want to tell other people what to do B)people don't like the smell, think it is disgusting etc. Don't blow smoke up my ass (pun intended) about wanting to protect my or other's health - the truth is no reputable study that indepenedent researchers can verify that proves any link between cancer and second hand smoke.
The funniest thing is that I am finding myself siding wwith a lot of conservatives on this issue, and all the liberals are the ones fighting so hard to strip rights away from people. That doesn't sound very liberal now, does it? Oh, in case you care, I am a non-smoker who just happens to think these tactics are complete bullshit - not just a whiny smoker with a vested interest. Today they are banning something (legal) that I don't do (and I assume you don't) but tomorrow it may be something that you or I do participate in.
"I believe that the cost of marijuana if legal would not significantly change. The same for cocaine as well."
Considering that during prohibition alcohol sold for 10 to 20 times it's value when it was legal (and was often of questionable quality), I think drugs would cost significantly less. The fact that they are illegal, and people will still do almost anything to get them, is what deterimines the price. You can't compare prices from years ago to current - they were still as illegal then as they are now. You used to be able to buy cocaine in pharmacies (until the Harrison Tax Act) for literally pennies when it was legal.
I don't think you realize what the black market does to the price of drugs. Take cocaine for instance - it has a 1700% profit ratio [source VH1's "Drug Years" and the History Channel's "Histroy of Cocaine"] compared to what it costs to manufacture. Now apply that to anything else and you will see why laws will never stop the businessmen. Say you manufactured pens in your factory. The pens cost you $1 to produce and sell for $1700. Would you let a few laws stop you from producing and selling pens? No way in hell... The reason drugs cost so much is precisely because they are illegal and completely unregulated by anything but pure supply and demand...
Now, you take away the insane profit ratios and there is no incentive to produce that product anymore.
"I'm perfectly fine with the anti-smoking laws. They're just as american as the ones that prevent me from "blowing" lead your way when you blow smoke mine. If you wish to remove the former, also remove the latter."
Dead wrong. Shooting people is illegal, smoking is not. If smoking is so bad for everyone, why not just do the right thing and make the act of smoking illegal? Your analogy is bad because you are comparing something that is already illegal to do anywhere with a perfectly legal act. For that matter, why not ban fat people from eating McDonalds?? Obesity kills far more people every year that the bullshit "second hand smoke kills" and can be easily proven by respectable studies. Hell, cars kill more people more year than "second hand smoke", why not ban cars also? Hey, it's just protecting me from people like you who drive....
"If the government is so worried about Winblows machines, why don't they just have ISPs block ports 135-139, among others? Most problems solved. Heck, honestly, block all ports below 1024 unless you have "server" licensed access. Then, to finish it off, ban IE, and mandate Firefox."
In a nutshell, because we don't live in Communist China. The government can regulate business, but short of passing laws and enforcing them, they can't force a business to do something that is within their legal rights.(With the exception of the anti-smoking in private business laws, which are completely unAmerican)
And we need less "hand-holding" "protect us from ourselves" laws. If a business, or you at home wants to block those ports, feel free - but the government shouldn't be involved. I think that decision should be left to the individuals, and not mandated.
The US government really isn't in the business of "taking over" and actively running businesses. Legislation is supposed to control the way businesses are run, that's what the govenrment does - pass and enforce laws.
So how is labeling sermon-writing software as "bad" not a Good Thing (TM)?? Sounds like it is stamping out crappy SPAM to me....
It's better to fight the Japanese in Japan than on the moon....
Jack-Ass?
And of course everyone knows that Fords are more exploitable in this manner than Chevys are...But to be truly secure, you need to buy a kit car and assemble it yourself...
Sweet - that means you can be exploited at twice the distance!
"How do you know exactly? Viruses, trojans, and rootkits should be undetectable."
With "undetectable rootkit detection software", duh....
Unless the rootkit has an "undetectable rootkit detection software" detector and tries to disable it, then you need "undetectable rootkit detection software detector detector software" to disable the rootkit's detector - no big deal..
Your post is so gay - you must have a small penis.
"For that matter, they also have a member list so if you really wanted, you could keep track of all those and organize a boycott of just those lables."
No way - I judge and buy music on the criteria of music only. Politics and music are a bad mix - I won't buy or not buy something based on anything but whether or not I like the music.
Help me Slashdot, I'm confused...
Am I supposed to hate this because it is "new" Star Wars and will have lots of CGI, or am I supposed to love it because it is a fan film and not Lucas?? Tell me what to think!
Please hurry, I want to make up my mind before I see it...