Not surprisingly, the most popular catchphrases have unusual combinations of words and often express some pearls of wisdom. "Do. Or Do not. There is no try."
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."
This is, of course, just another kind of paywall. By giving the content for free, you create a cost for people that don't come here, thus, it's a paywall of freeness. People might want to be blocked from this site or have metered reading limits or something, and you're FORCING them to be able to come here and read for free! See? Paywall!
And Big Search, Big IT, Big Ben, Big Mac and Deuce Biggelow.
Punitive, to punish. Basically, take money from them out of spite (because what they did... it's just wrong, man!) rather than any "losses" that could be proven.
Exemplary, to make an example of. Make the damages so big that everyone will be afraid of ever considering doing the same thing.
"Amazing the comments I see. Pretty much just selfishness going on."
I know! It's incredible! People are being told to sit on the back of the bus, and they won't do it! What kind of entitled world we live in, where people that get told to sit on the back of the bus are disobedient little brats and instead sit on the front of the bus.
If you don't want to sit on the back of the bus, change the laws that say that you have to sit on the back of the bus! Don't just go and sit on the front on the bus all defiant-like! We're the bosses over here! I hope the next time you refuse to sit on the back of the bus, Pepper Spray cop empties his entire canister of pepper spray down your throat, and that you get sent to Gitmo, while a dozen crack dealers burn your testicles (or other genitalia) with their crack pipes, while Mr. Pilot Dave shoots you with his taser gun and vultures remove your eyes from your sockets!
If you don't go and sit on the back of the bus right now, I'm going to not be in such a good mood. It's very important that I'm in a good mood, okay? Respect my authoritah!
At some point while reading Duke's insightful comment, I forgot I was in the "Best of the Week" article, and thought I was reading a standalone article.
This, to me, means that Duke's comment should definitely be elevated as a standalone post, somehow.
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"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."
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Oh, so you just do some shill freelancing for the Labels then.
Self-employment is nice.
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Re: but, but...
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And Big Search, Big IT, Big Ben, Big Mac and Deuce Biggelow.
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What kind of sick fuck would do that to a DRM?!?!
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Exemplary, to make an example of. Make the damages so big that everyone will be afraid of ever considering doing the same thing.
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I know! It's incredible! People are being told to sit on the back of the bus, and they won't do it! What kind of entitled world we live in, where people that get told to sit on the back of the bus are disobedient little brats and instead sit on the front of the bus.
If you don't want to sit on the back of the bus, change the laws that say that you have to sit on the back of the bus! Don't just go and sit on the front on the bus all defiant-like! We're the bosses over here! I hope the next time you refuse to sit on the back of the bus, Pepper Spray cop empties his entire canister of pepper spray down your throat, and that you get sent to Gitmo, while a dozen crack dealers burn your testicles (or other genitalia) with their crack pipes, while Mr. Pilot Dave shoots you with his taser gun and vultures remove your eyes from your sockets!
If you don't go and sit on the back of the bus right now, I'm going to not be in such a good mood. It's very important that I'm in a good mood, okay? Respect my authoritah!
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Since you're not expected to personally pilot the plane yourself, the same should apply.
Booyah!
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This, to me, means that Duke's comment should definitely be elevated as a standalone post, somehow.
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Substitute X for anything, really. "You bought the last can of soup against my wishes!" is immoral too I guess.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride on the back of an obsolete business model.
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Different bits, same content. Nobody stole somebody else's bits.
You can have a robot build a replica of a car. How is that different? "Sweat of the brow" is not a valid argument.
"Well, if you *worked* at it, then it's copying. But if you didn't *work* it's stealing."
Yeah that doesn't process.
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He'd probably need an Ouija board for that 'though.
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