No, the entire point of the American system is to provide a means for changing the actors of government without resorting to a revolution at all.
At the end of a successful election, even a particularly tumultuous one, the government still retains the same basic form and appearance, and frequently retains many of the same individuals as well. That's not how revolutions work.
I fail to see how changing the rules so that signs can be in all capital letters OR NOT increases the costs for anyone at all. Signs that are currently in compliance could still be in compliance, as could some signs that are not, but are perfectly functional.
When, exactly, did the purpose of regulation become ensuring that everywhere and everyone is exactly the same? That just doesn't seem like a good reason to make rules.
It would be really awesome if somebody took it upon themselves to build a store rather more like Apple's than what Android currently has. There are a lot of strengths to that model, where each app is thoroughly tested and run through a vetting process to ensure it performs as advertised, is malware free, and doesn't eat through system resources so as to make the phone a piece of worthless slag once installed. The weakness comes in the fact that, on iPhone, it's mandatory (without a jailbreak); questionable rejections and potential censorship are merely the symptoms, secondary vendors would render them largely moot (and probably cut down on them, ultimately).
I'm planning to go Android on my next phone, partly because I prefer the OSS aspect, partly because they're a bit cheaper, partly because it gives me more choices for network and price, and largely because I can't fucking stand using Apple products... they make me irrationally angry and frustrated, and prolonged exposure just enrages me.
Apropo nothing, I have similar feelings of unwarranted hatred toward Owl City, and am similarly driven toward bloodlust whenever I'm subjected to his music. It has no bearing on this article, but I want to Raid every single firefly in the world, then shove a Dremel into his eye socket. To paraphrase St. Carlin: this isn't a pet peeve, it's an irrational fucking hatred.
How so? They're urging current members not to work on the film because the producers have opted not to meet union conditions. This is the only power the SAG actually has, and it is otherwise a complete waste of everybody's time.
They have not, and cannot, force the film to use union actors or meet union conditions, nor can they force people to join their union, nor can they prevent union members from participating (they could, in theory, expel any members who do... but that is fairly unlikely, and doesn't keep them from doing the project regardless).
For all the anti-union rhetoric and sentiment out there, at least in the US, union membership has steadily and dramatically declined during the past 30 years. The combined annual budget of all unions is substantially lower than each of the lobbying budgets for most of the Fortune 100 (ie. Wal-Mart spends more on lobbying than the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, SAG, etc. COMBINED spend on everything). They are particularly powerful, they are not particularly wealthy, they are not particularly abusive, and they certainly aren't scary enough to warrant all of the fear people have of them.
Unless I wish to alter the code, repackage it, then redistribute it. Then, by virtue of requiring me to meet various conditions, it limits my rights. There exist other licenses which grant all of the GPL's but come with no restrictions on further use, such licenses are, in absolute terms, "more free". I do not believe that "more free" is synonymous with "better", or with "worse" for that matter, but it is important to keep our terms straight if we're going to argue semantics.
Yeah, and popular or not, that was one of the things Vista did right. That was an obvious thing people didn't like, so it was ripe for mockery, but at the end of the day Vista sucked because it screwed up a bunch of other, unrelated, things.
Yeah, there's an ENORMOUS amount of gray area in that, and I suspect you've not really thought about what the world would actually look like if nobody tried to tell others about their products at all, and simply relied on word of mouth or actively looking in opt-in directories (here's a hint, the first still requires at least one person to know, and the latter doesn't really work if the directory service never solicits merchants for listings or advertises to potential customers that their list exists).
I'm no fan of pop over/unders or Flash ads with screaming monkeys, but the opposite extreme just isn't workable.
Rickroll is the goatse du jour for 2 years ago. People were sending troll links to one another long before/b/tards realized that "Never Gonna Give You Up" is a shitty song with a shitty music video.
In all honesty, I see and hear a lot about sex toys, particularly off-kilter ones (hazard of the side gigs), and teledildonics is progressing pretty rapidly. They actually have working, commercially available models with bilateral controls... 10 years ago the idea was just a bad joke.
The more you know, the more you sometimes wish you didn't.
You sir are a God among men. Short Men, who aren't terribly bright... more like dwarves with learning disabilities. You are a God among Drawves With Learning Disabilities. Hmm... doesn't quite roll off the tongue that way, I think we should stick with the original, but imply the meaning of the second. Right then.
But seriously, that was a troll par excellence. Your bridge must be enormous, and located in the farthest, darkest, foulest depths of the wilderness simply to accommodate your awesome power.
More importantly, you can just keep making up new company names forever with little or no repercussion. Who the hell are voltage Pictures? I've never heard of them before, and I suspect I'll never hear of them again. The next project funded by the same people could be released by Amperage Pictures instead, and nobody would be the wiser.
pedantic. Joss Whedon worked on the Buffy film, but it was not his idea, not his premise, and not even something normally credited to him primarily. Because he was one of the members of the writing team, he was able to secure head writer and a bunch of other spiffy titles for the TV show, and from there substantially changed the character. You might as well give Kevin Smith writing credit for Star Wars, since he later wrote some stuff that referenced it.
Hey now, that was always a perfectly truthy statement; one might even say it still retains a strong sense of truthishness about it. And really, where would we be without truthy statements? We wouldn't have a communist US president, the US wouldn't have the best health care system in the world, the American middle-class would have spent the last 9 years in a recession and continued deregulation as an economic policy would be an utter laughing stock. Truthiness has most certainly contributed more to the world than truth ever could.
Vampires are ancient, evil, debauched, blood drinking, monsters who turn to ash in the sun.
Fairies are youthful, amoral (note the difference), sparkly, supernatural beings who turn children away from their families and gain strength from human emotions.
Yeah, now that it can't process basic arithmetic properly, it will likely start reporting that computers are infected with 1.33374 viruses. That will be a headscratcher for sure.
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No, the entire point of the American system is to provide a means for changing the actors of government without resorting to a revolution at all.
At the end of a successful election, even a particularly tumultuous one, the government still retains the same basic form and appearance, and frequently retains many of the same individuals as well. That's not how revolutions work.
Dude, that's not even fair. My Kenshin//Disturbed AMV is totally sick!
Full disclosure, I have neither made nor posted to the internet any such thing at any time. And even if I had, it would most assuredly be utter crap.
Yeah, last I checked, twitter still lacks the ability to project bullets.
At least in America, there will be no bloodless revolution, and anything that pretends to be such is clearly a sham.
I fail to see how changing the rules so that signs can be in all capital letters OR NOT increases the costs for anyone at all. Signs that are currently in compliance could still be in compliance, as could some signs that are not, but are perfectly functional.
When, exactly, did the purpose of regulation become ensuring that everywhere and everyone is exactly the same? That just doesn't seem like a good reason to make rules.
It would be really awesome if somebody took it upon themselves to build a store rather more like Apple's than what Android currently has. There are a lot of strengths to that model, where each app is thoroughly tested and run through a vetting process to ensure it performs as advertised, is malware free, and doesn't eat through system resources so as to make the phone a piece of worthless slag once installed. The weakness comes in the fact that, on iPhone, it's mandatory (without a jailbreak); questionable rejections and potential censorship are merely the symptoms, secondary vendors would render them largely moot (and probably cut down on them, ultimately).
I'm planning to go Android on my next phone, partly because I prefer the OSS aspect, partly because they're a bit cheaper, partly because it gives me more choices for network and price, and largely because I can't fucking stand using Apple products... they make me irrationally angry and frustrated, and prolonged exposure just enrages me.
Apropo nothing, I have similar feelings of unwarranted hatred toward Owl City, and am similarly driven toward bloodlust whenever I'm subjected to his music. It has no bearing on this article, but I want to Raid every single firefly in the world, then shove a Dremel into his eye socket. To paraphrase St. Carlin: this isn't a pet peeve, it's an irrational fucking hatred.
Slashdot comments: 99% crap, 1% good.
Sounds like most everything else, honestly.
How so? They're urging current members not to work on the film because the producers have opted not to meet union conditions. This is the only power the SAG actually has, and it is otherwise a complete waste of everybody's time.
They have not, and cannot, force the film to use union actors or meet union conditions, nor can they force people to join their union, nor can they prevent union members from participating (they could, in theory, expel any members who do... but that is fairly unlikely, and doesn't keep them from doing the project regardless).
For all the anti-union rhetoric and sentiment out there, at least in the US, union membership has steadily and dramatically declined during the past 30 years. The combined annual budget of all unions is substantially lower than each of the lobbying budgets for most of the Fortune 100 (ie. Wal-Mart spends more on lobbying than the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, SAG, etc. COMBINED spend on everything). They are particularly powerful, they are not particularly wealthy, they are not particularly abusive, and they certainly aren't scary enough to warrant all of the fear people have of them.
Unless I wish to alter the code, repackage it, then redistribute it. Then, by virtue of requiring me to meet various conditions, it limits my rights. There exist other licenses which grant all of the GPL's but come with no restrictions on further use, such licenses are, in absolute terms, "more free". I do not believe that "more free" is synonymous with "better", or with "worse" for that matter, but it is important to keep our terms straight if we're going to argue semantics.
Yeah, and popular or not, that was one of the things Vista did right. That was an obvious thing people didn't like, so it was ripe for mockery, but at the end of the day Vista sucked because it screwed up a bunch of other, unrelated, things.
Isn't it a little past your bed time, Mr. 1374367?
Yeah, there's an ENORMOUS amount of gray area in that, and I suspect you've not really thought about what the world would actually look like if nobody tried to tell others about their products at all, and simply relied on word of mouth or actively looking in opt-in directories (here's a hint, the first still requires at least one person to know, and the latter doesn't really work if the directory service never solicits merchants for listings or advertises to potential customers that their list exists).
I'm no fan of pop over/unders or Flash ads with screaming monkeys, but the opposite extreme just isn't workable.
Rickroll is the goatse du jour for 2 years ago. People were sending troll links to one another long before /b/tards realized that "Never Gonna Give You Up" is a shitty song with a shitty music video.
In all honesty, I see and hear a lot about sex toys, particularly off-kilter ones (hazard of the side gigs), and teledildonics is progressing pretty rapidly. They actually have working, commercially available models with bilateral controls... 10 years ago the idea was just a bad joke.
The more you know, the more you sometimes wish you didn't.
You sir are a God among men. Short Men, who aren't terribly bright... more like dwarves with learning disabilities. You are a God among Drawves With Learning Disabilities. Hmm... doesn't quite roll off the tongue that way, I think we should stick with the original, but imply the meaning of the second. Right then.
But seriously, that was a troll par excellence. Your bridge must be enormous, and located in the farthest, darkest, foulest depths of the wilderness simply to accommodate your awesome power.
More importantly, you can just keep making up new company names forever with little or no repercussion. Who the hell are voltage Pictures? I've never heard of them before, and I suspect I'll never hear of them again. The next project funded by the same people could be released by Amperage Pictures instead, and nobody would be the wiser.
What buns?
Now now, don't be unfair to Carlos Mencia. Nobody ever beats him to his material, because he never has any material until somebody else does it.
pedantic.
Joss Whedon worked on the Buffy film, but it was not his idea, not his premise, and not even something normally credited to him primarily. Because he was one of the members of the writing team, he was able to secure head writer and a bunch of other spiffy titles for the TV show, and from there substantially changed the character. You might as well give Kevin Smith writing credit for Star Wars, since he later wrote some stuff that referenced it.
Perhaps you'd like a colonel to read it for you?
Dick Clark is just old, Joan Rivers is Science Fiction.
Hey now, that was always a perfectly truthy statement; one might even say it still retains a strong sense of truthishness about it. And really, where would we be without truthy statements? We wouldn't have a communist US president, the US wouldn't have the best health care system in the world, the American middle-class would have spent the last 9 years in a recession and continued deregulation as an economic policy would be an utter laughing stock. Truthiness has most certainly contributed more to the world than truth ever could.
But then how would he prove he isn't smarter than a short Perl script?
Won't somebody please think of the parse challenged?
Vampires are ancient, evil, debauched, blood drinking, monsters who turn to ash in the sun.
Fairies are youthful, amoral (note the difference), sparkly, supernatural beings who turn children away from their families and gain strength from human emotions.
Twilight is about fairies. Really lame fairies.
Yeah, now that it can't process basic arithmetic properly, it will likely start reporting that computers are infected with 1.33374 viruses. That will be a headscratcher for sure.
I always preferred the gorilla game. I don't recall the name, but something about launching explosive bananas between buildings is just awesome.