Second is preventing crime. The theory is if you take a mentally unstable person and bathe him in child porn, virtual or not, he's more likely to actually commit a crime acting out what he's been exposed to. So, by removing the stimulus, you prevent the crime.
Good point. And a very good reason for banning the Bible.
It's chock full of rape, pillage, and genocide.
Damn those Gideons!
Anything that offends me, therefore, must offend average people.
Funny. But I believe that if the truth were known, the people who insist that drawings or other depictions will encourage others to commit illegal acts do so because they KNOW, deep down, that such things have a very strong influence on THEM, and they fear that they will give in to their own demons.
Other, more normal people look at stuff like this and walk away, knowing it's fiction.
. If not, you're trying to lift sample-based music like this up to the level of pop music.
There's your problem.
You're under the impression that pop music is somehow 'above' something.
While it's true the so-called 'musicians' are usually high,
the results are lower than primordial slime.
I've produced more musical results with a burrito grande and 30 minutes notice.
Meanwhile, bills are being introduced that will allow middle-school drop-outs to teach high school as long as they are paired with someone with a teaching degree telling them what to say, Most schools from 1776 up until mid 1950's did exactly that.
allow 5-year-olds to drive cars as long as they have an adult to work the pedals for them,
I drove an Army jeep that way when I was 6. Didn't hit anything. and formally entitle idiots to run for governor (and then president) as long as they "surround themselves with the right people".
Read the news. What can I say. All your examples are already fairly commonplace. Why not blind shooters?
The answer is, of course, to equip each train/road crossing with double gates rather than single which most crossings in USA are equipped with. This will prevent cars from driving around the single gate and unto the track.
I guess that's so much easier than, say, refusing to give drivers' licenses to people who are too stupid to know that if they drive in front of a speeding train, they're likely to get hurt.
If having your business totally destroyed, as has happened with EVERY business which has ever 'partnered' with Microsoft, is somehow in Novell's business interest, then you are right.
The computer manufacturers won't let it happen.
They depend heavily on Windows bloat to sell new high-end
computers. And if they aren't selling new computers with Windows pre-installed, Microsoft isn't going to be selling many copies of Windows.
You have a swimming pool in your back yard. You can tell your kids not to go in it all you want, but one day, when you're not looking, they will, and when that time comes, wouldn't it be safer if they've been taught how to swim?
That's a nice analogy, but it doesn't fit.
Almost every friend I've set up with Firefox, firewalls, anti-virus programs, etc. has, within days, DISABLED those programs and gone back to surfing bareback.
Why? I ask.
Every bogus reason in the book:
"It was too *slow*" (It wasn't)
"I didn't *like* it!" (Won't say why)
"It *messed up my computer*" (How, they can't say).
"The Icons look wrong" (no joke)
Now I just walk away. Why waste my time with bozos when actual work is available for which I'll not only get paid, but get a "thank you" along with the check?
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I just opened my laptop and turned it on, and it resumed from a hibernate just fine (running Vista Business release version).
Turn off the main water to your house. Open a faucet. No broken pipes.
You obviously haven't ever actually tried this.
Think for a moment: what happens when the water in your toilet bowl freezes? Or in any of the numerous drain traps? Unless your house plumbing has specifically been designed for winter drain-down, opening a faucet is NOT going to drain the water out of all the pipes, water heater, etc.
Nice idea but if you are not going to be living there, why heat it at all?
We tried that. NOT a good idea. Moisture collects on the interior walls, then freezes. ALL THE PAINT FALLS OFF!
Had to repaint the entire inside walls and ceilings.
- had deceptive popups, offering a free scan, that always, in every machine, report that the user had spyware.
Well, by the time you downloaded and ran the scan, you certainly did have spyware. So I guess it was telling the truth.
The IRS openly indicates in publication 525 that, "If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year you return it to its rightful owner." The same applies to accepting bribes.
So... approximately how many Senators and Congressmen have broken this rule?
Why aren't they in jail?
Is Ford responsible for every accident on the road?
Well, yes, in a very big way. Ford was the first to make cars affordable to the rabble. Rabble drive recklessly, as we know. They also do it while blabbing on cell phones. So much safer to leave the driving to professionals, don't you know. Home, James!
Ford and Microsoft just filled a need... not their fault if you can't watch were you are going.
Let's leave the computing to the professionals, as well. I'm convinced that the world really does only need 12 computers. After all, the rest are just generating spam messages 24/7.
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If you think looking at cartoons will make you a child molester, then you are right. ABOUT YOURSELF. Not anybody else. Learn to deal with it.
Second is preventing crime. The theory is if you take a mentally unstable person and bathe him in child porn, virtual or not, he's more likely to actually commit a crime acting out what he's been exposed to. So, by removing the stimulus, you prevent the crime. Good point. And a very good reason for banning the Bible. It's chock full of rape, pillage, and genocide. Damn those Gideons!
Anything that offends me, therefore, must offend average people.
Funny. But I believe that if the truth were known, the people who insist that drawings or other depictions will encourage others to commit illegal acts do so because they KNOW, deep down, that such things have a very strong influence on THEM, and they fear that they will give in to their own demons.
Other, more normal people look at stuff like this and walk away, knowing it's fiction.
Best post this week. Won't somebody Please Mod this UP?
. If not, you're trying to lift sample-based music like this up to the level of pop music.
There's your problem.
You're under the impression that pop music is somehow 'above' something.
While it's true the so-called 'musicians' are usually high,
the results are lower than primordial slime.
I've produced more musical results with a burrito grande and 30 minutes notice.
So you would also be skeptical of the claim that I may be a billionaire by 2040?
Not at all. I am almost certain you WILL be a billionaire by 2040. Whether that will buy a big mac with fries is another question.
Meanwhile, bills are being introduced that will allow middle-school drop-outs to teach high school as long as they are paired with someone with a teaching degree telling them what to say,
Most schools from 1776 up until mid 1950's did exactly that.
allow 5-year-olds to drive cars as long as they have an adult to work the pedals for them,
I drove an Army jeep that way when I was 6. Didn't hit anything.
and formally entitle idiots to run for governor (and then president) as long as they "surround themselves with the right people".
Read the news. What can I say. All your examples are already fairly commonplace. Why not blind shooters?
Perhaps you are just stipid, I don't know...
The answer is, of course, to equip each train/road crossing with double gates rather than single which most crossings in USA are equipped with. This will prevent cars from driving around the single gate and unto the track.
I guess that's so much easier than, say, refusing to give drivers' licenses to people who are too stupid to know that if they drive in front of a speeding train, they're likely to get hurt.
Were they "hard questions" or were they loaded questions,
They were neither hard nor were they loaded. They just weren't answered. Fool.
Novell did what was in its business interest...
If having your business totally destroyed, as has happened with EVERY business which has ever 'partnered' with Microsoft, is somehow in Novell's business interest, then you are right.
No, it's not gonna happen.
The computer manufacturers won't let it happen. They depend heavily on Windows bloat to sell new high-end computers. And if they aren't selling new computers with Windows pre-installed, Microsoft isn't going to be selling many copies of Windows.
One hand washes the other.
You have a swimming pool in your back yard. You can tell your kids not to go in it all you want, but one day, when you're not looking, they will, and when that time comes, wouldn't it be safer if they've been taught how to swim?
That's a nice analogy, but it doesn't fit. Almost every friend I've set up with Firefox, firewalls, anti-virus programs, etc. has, within days, DISABLED those programs and gone back to surfing bareback.
Why? I ask.
Every bogus reason in the book:
"It was too *slow*" (It wasn't)
"I didn't *like* it!" (Won't say why)
"It *messed up my computer*" (How, they can't say).
"The Icons look wrong" (no joke)
Now I just walk away. Why waste my time with bozos when actual work is available for which I'll not only get paid, but get a "thank you" along with the check?
I just opened my laptop and turned it on, and it resumed from a hibernate just fine (running Vista Business release version).
One success does not undo a lifetime of failure.
Turn off the main water to your house. Open a faucet. No broken pipes.
You obviously haven't ever actually tried this.
Think for a moment: what happens when the water in your toilet bowl freezes? Or in any of the numerous drain traps? Unless your house plumbing has specifically been designed for winter drain-down, opening a faucet is NOT going to drain the water out of all the pipes, water heater, etc.
Nice idea but if you are not going to be living there, why heat it at all?
We tried that. NOT a good idea. Moisture collects on the interior walls, then freezes. ALL THE PAINT FALLS OFF! Had to repaint the entire inside walls and ceilings.
Linux: It doesn't suck. Indeed. Ubuntu 6.10 wakes up from hibernation just fine, and quickly, even on my old computers. How hard can it be?
And they probably call Band-Aids(TM) adhesive bandages and refer to Ping Pong(TM) as table tennis. What a bunch of idiots!
Well, since they (the gov't) granted the use of those trademarks, why shouldn't they use them? Or maybe take them away, if there's any complaints.
- had deceptive popups, offering a free scan, that always, in every machine, report that the user had spyware. Well, by the time you downloaded and ran the scan, you certainly did have spyware. So I guess it was telling the truth.
Absolutely. Lawyers have no right to be paid for their work.
When's the last time we paid sharks for eating swimmers?
Same principle applies.
And thus begins the torrent of Microsoft mocking posts...
Your post implies that somehow such mocking is not a justified response to Microsoft's continual blundering.
After a while, yes, it does become funny. See the Three Stooges, for example.
So. You are recommending environmentally concerned people to stop breathing?
Not at all. I recommend humor-impaired people such as yourself should not hold their breath until they 'get' the joke.
Change the rules: Players don't win any kind of valuable goods; they get paid in "Senators" and use "Representatives" as small change.
Once a player aquires enough Senators and Representatives, he can get the tax rules changed.
Don't laugh. It works for the RIAA, MPAA, etc.
The IRS openly indicates in publication 525 that, "If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year you return it to its rightful owner." The same applies to accepting bribes.
So... approximately how many Senators and Congressmen have broken this rule? Why aren't they in jail?
Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time.
Let me get this straight: First, I have to buy a copy of Windows, so that I can run Windows programs on my Mac?
Isn't this like paying Rosie O'Donell for sex when you're already dating Halle Berry?
Is Ford responsible for every accident on the road?
Well, yes, in a very big way.
Ford was the first to make cars affordable to the rabble.
Rabble drive recklessly, as we know. They also do it while blabbing on cell phones. So much safer to leave the driving to professionals, don't you know. Home, James!
Ford and Microsoft just filled a need... not their fault if you can't watch were you are going.
Let's leave the computing to the professionals, as well.
I'm convinced that the world really does only need 12 computers. After all, the rest are just generating spam messages 24/7.