For the uninitiated:
Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience. A major step up from the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics is a way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it was realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
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Hmm... this is akin to making cheese graters & shredders illegal, selling shredded/grated cheese at an unconscionable mark-up and then suing people who DARE to shred their own blocks of cheese.
Shouldn't it be illegal to advertise that you can "own" it when in fact you allegedly do not have the right to resell it, modify it, show it to friends... essentially none of the rights which are generally regarded to make up "ownership".
Can't we sue these jerks for fraud or misleading advertising, perhaps both?
Thomas Edison was an asshole. He was only good at stealing credit from other inventors, not at actually inventing. The world could use fewer assholes--or at least it would be nice if assholes only got credit for the things they themselves invented.
Telling other people what's wrong with their person/house/state/company is, for some reason, far easier than addressing/fixing the problems in one's own person/house/state/company.
We could make laws where it's only legal to illegally tamper with legislation if one's company's net income represents x% (let's say, 15%) of your home nation's GDP...
Well, is there a law in Sweden saying something like "people/corporations from outside of Sweden attempting to unjustly influence the body politic shall be considered treason."...?
'Cause there should be; if there isn't.
Seriously, how is it that Sweden isn't extraditing several hi-ranking corporate officers so they can spend a lifetime in Swedish prisons?!?
Hollywood camera & film, AC Power, "The Real McCoy", sealed primer rounds (aka modern bullets), the rifle, the galleon, cannons, cloth weaving, the language (totally stolen, also see the crime of "conversion" 'cause we're guilty of that too with the language), pizza, burritos, german sausage, champagne, scotch (aka whiskey)...
That's all I've got off the top of my head, but I'm sure if somebody but some time into it the list is more readily measured in meters than inches.
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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Re: Arrgh@!
"INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY"
Please, prove some guilt or shut the f*ck up.
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Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience. A major step up from the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics is a way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it was realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
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Legality
Can't we sue these jerks for fraud or misleading advertising, perhaps both?
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Kinda always wanted my own private army...
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Hollywood Cops have style?
;-P
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Re: True, but...
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Re: Human Behaviour 101
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Re: I know!
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Re: Treason should lead to executions...?
'Cause there should be; if there isn't.
Seriously, how is it that Sweden isn't extraditing several hi-ranking corporate officers so they can spend a lifetime in Swedish prisons?!?
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Re: Re: Uneven Punishment
FTFY
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Re: Here's a fun thought excersize
You know the old joke:
What's the difference between a lawyer and a leech?
A leech stops feeding off you once you're dead...
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In your place, I'd stick to acerbic anonymous comments on other people's sites.
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Re: -sigh-
Barely humorous, not much else.
Try harder.
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That's all I've got off the top of my head, but I'm sure if somebody but some time into it the list is more readily measured in meters than inches.
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Mental Images
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