An egg is not necessarilly a chicken... it may become a chicken, or it may become breakfast. Variable.
In mathematically equations, you place the constant before the variable (i.e. "3x"). Therefore, the chicken came before the egg.
(NOTE... yes, this is rediculous. If anyone took it seriously and wants to rip into an angry mathematical rant, take a few deep breaths and go find something more important to worry about)
"Value is not created by having someone repeat it over and over again, if anything it is likely to get us incredibly bored of it, and thus making it less valuable to us."
You do realize that no one is talking about repeating things to the same person each time, right?
When Nina said that value increases when it's repeated, she meant that the value is increased because it's repeated to new people who haven't heard it before. Think of how much more value the Boss's songs are when they reach a new audience they otherwise wouldn't have reached if they weren't repeated.
I can understand the US demanding information stored over-seas by US companies... those companies are technically US citizens (thanks to ridiculous interpretations to the 14th Amendment long ago). So if they are citizens, should they be able to hide 'incriminating' information over-seas to escape the law? If I'm missing something, please do let me know.
Now that I'm done playing devil's advocate... Of course the US is going to decry other companies exercising jurisdiction over the internet in their own countries... if they effectively control it, how can we? THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Honestly, I can't wait until the US completes its campaign to run the rest of the world out of .com/.net, the rest of the world sets up its own .screwusa, and cuts us all effectively out of the loop.
After all, isn't the general response to infection supposed to be isolation and termination?
Do you notice that the word "CONSTITUTION" and "LAW" look somewhat different !!!!!"
Kicking off the week with fail, huh?
The word "cheeseburger" and "fast-food" look different, but that doesn't mean that they are polar opposites. In fact, much like the Law and the Constitution, one is nestled nicely inside of the other…
"The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. "
Tasty, huh?
You're right that the police do not 'swear to uphold the constitution'... that's because they don't enforce the constitution. But the laws they enforce are derived from and authorized by the constitution. That's why we see LAWS that are put in place which regulate sales of videogames being over-turned by the Supreme Court as being unconstitutional... or, not allowed by the Constitution. So, if the Constitution can trump a law, that would make the Constitution a Supreme Law.
"Second, do you believe that the US Government is not deeply driven (and RUN) by the Religious left ?"
I think you'll find that it's the religious right who has (unfortunately way too much) sway in our government. At least, they're the ones making the most noise.
"And that there are many situations (constitutional situations) that show that constitutionally 'free speech' is very low down on the list of things you have a 'right' to do.
yes, and those situations are spelled out by the Constitution. No one around here has ever implied that the Constitution is applied in numerical order (except one AC, but we argued against him too).
"You DO NOT have "free speech" simple as that, if you did, you would be able to teach religion in schools, and you are not allowed to do that !!!!..
Yes you have a narrow form of limited 'free speech' WHEN AND IF the US Government, the surprime court, and the police decide it is ok for you to do so."
Hate to break this to you (I lie... I love this), but it's the Constitution that tells our government when we can have free speech, not the other way around.
Failing miserably four times in one day and in one post is not normal... but on Darryl it is.
Darryl... not even once.
That was the sound of a thousand insurance actuarial departments collectively facepalming and admitting to themselves they've got to get off their asses and actually come up with insurance and rates for this thing.
"They are in profit business, not the hand out business."
See... most industries call that an 'investment'. And if they give the artists $1mil... and rake in $20mil... and write off the advance... that's not profit?
"Note that this is per incident, not a general situation. If you deal with RAW files, zipped or tarred bundles, corporate videos / virtually any non-MPAA / RIAA media file, you're still talking about file sizes that will immediately create that red flag regardless."And not just non-**AA files... what about my household? All 4 of us use Pandora and/or Netflix/Hulu to watch stuff. I'm sure that I use quite a bit of authorized content... at what point am I going to be flagged? And, as you mentioned, who's going to have to pay for the increased cost of monitoring? The customer, of course.
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A chicken is a chicken. Constant.
An egg is not necessarilly a chicken... it may become a chicken, or it may become breakfast. Variable.
In mathematically equations, you place the constant before the variable (i.e. "3x"). Therefore, the chicken came before the egg.
(NOTE... yes, this is rediculous. If anyone took it seriously and wants to rip into an angry mathematical rant, take a few deep breaths and go find something more important to worry about)
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You do realize that no one is talking about repeating things to the same person each time, right?
When Nina said that value increases when it's repeated, she meant that the value is increased because it's repeated to new people who haven't heard it before. Think of how much more value the Boss's songs are when they reach a new audience they otherwise wouldn't have reached if they weren't repeated.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
Or, more accurately, all matter can behave as particle and as wave. Sorry... I heart physics.
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Want some koolaid?
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So if it's ok for donkeys, its ok for monkeys... hell, they're only one letter apart after all.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950069/
Where's my "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" Farnsworth image?
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How dare... um... this guy (whom I never heard of) sell this tape (I never heard about until this lawsuit)?!
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Now that I'm done playing devil's advocate... Of course the US is going to decry other companies exercising jurisdiction over the internet in their own countries... if they effectively control it, how can we? THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Honestly, I can't wait until the US completes its campaign to run the rest of the world out of .com/.net, the rest of the world sets up its own .screwusa, and cuts us all effectively out of the loop.
After all, isn't the general response to infection supposed to be isolation and termination?
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@Darryl
The word "cheeseburger" and "fast-food" look different, but that doesn't mean that they are polar opposites. In fact, much like the Law and the Constitution, one is nestled nicely inside of the other…
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution ... I'll even give you the FIRST SENTANCE FROM THE ARTICLE:
Tasty, huh?
You're right that the police do not 'swear to uphold the constitution'... that's because they don't enforce the constitution. But the laws they enforce are derived from and authorized by the constitution. That's why we see LAWS that are put in place which regulate sales of videogames being over-turned by the Supreme Court as being unconstitutional... or, not allowed by the Constitution. So, if the Constitution can trump a law, that would make the Constitution a Supreme Law.
I think you'll find that it's the religious right who has (unfortunately way too much) sway in our government. At least, they're the ones making the most noise.
yes, and those situations are spelled out by the Constitution. No one around here has ever implied that the Constitution is applied in numerical order (except one AC, but we argued against him too).
Hate to break this to you (I lie... I love this), but it's the Constitution that tells our government when we can have free speech, not the other way around.
Failing miserably four times in one day and in one post is not normal... but on Darryl it is.
Darryl... not even once.
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See... most industries call that an 'investment'. And if they give the artists $1mil... and rake in $20mil... and write off the advance... that's not profit?
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/sarc
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