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Marc Clifton wrote: Then again, at what point do we become intelligent enough to stop paying hundreds of dollars to attend concerts where the performers spew lip-synch meaningless profane drivel?
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Marc Clifton wrote: At what point do we start holding the performer responsible for spewing meaningless profane drivel?
The upside of free speech is that one gets to say what one wants.
The downside of course is that the other guys gets to do the same.
Marc Clifton wrote: Then again, at what point do we become intelligent enough to stop paying hundreds of dollars to attend concerts where the performers spew meaningless profane drivel?
Presumably it will be well after the point where we stop spending hundreds or even thousands to watch adults run up and down a field moving balls around under various arcane rules.
And that of course can't happen until we stop physically assaulting others and rioting after watching such displays.
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MehGerbil wrote: At what point do we stop holding the performer responsible and start holding the guy who booked the act as responsible
At the same point we hold parents responsible for crimes their children commit.
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Slacker007 wrote: At the same point we hold parents responsible for crimes their children commit.
I guess it takes a village up until the point it comes time to assign blame.
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I don't buy into the village bit, never have. Blame always lies with the parents.
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Slacker007 wrote: I don't buy into the village bit, never have. Blame always lies with the parents.
I don't hold you accountable for such a silly view.
I blame your parents. 
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I don't think it is silly. It actually works. I take full responsibilty for my parenting and my parenting mistakes with my children. I don't put the responsibility on some bullshit village.
The parenting that Eminem received in his life was sub standard.
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Slacker007 wrote:
At the same point we hold parents responsible for crimes their children commit.
At least in the US that is often the case certainly at the social level and often at the legal level.
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jschell wrote: At least in the US that is often the case certainly at the social level and often at the legal level.
I might not have understood your comment but I beg to see a case where the parents went to jail because underage Johnny robbed a liquor store.
I could be wrong.
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I was asked to give a talk at a Womens' Institute meeting once.
Accent on the "once".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Were you able to get any phone numbers? 
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I didn't pull 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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He said he was asked to give a speech. He never said that he was allowed to talk for more than a few seconds before being thrown out. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Who cares, what if veterans like Eminem as much as they like other type of music ?
I'm certain more and more veterans will want to watch rap and heavy metal, electronic and all kind of non-mainstream music.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I shot some people in Iraq but for the love of decency don't let me hear the F-bomb.
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American puritanism...
You can watch Rambo movies (especially the last one) where Rambo is killing countless people in full gory detail; but there are beeps when characters use profanity.
Also when there is a semblance of nudity all hell break loose and a congressional hearing is called...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Also when there is a semblance of nudity all hell break loose and a congressional hearing is called...
To be fair, those congressional hearings are usually called when people use the occasion of a family event (such as the Super Bowl) to showcase their sub-par moral standards.
I've not seen Congressional hearings over a porno DVD showing nudity.
The outrage people feel during an obviously planned wardrobe malfunction is of the sort that some of these celebrities would express if they were to attend a Lady Gaga concert only to get a pudgy, middle aged preacher talking about Hell.
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I am getting old - I had to look up what an F-bomb is.
I thought it might have something to do with farting 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's the blame mentality we have. McDonald's makes people fat and guns kill people. It's not like we're responsible for our actions, that's crazy talk.
Jeremy Falcon
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I almost reached a reasonable stage for a WPF control I am working on...
(very intermittently though  it has been 4 months and only 16 commit... chronic health issue is under control it seems, so should be finished soon! )
For the record it is a .. MenuRibbon (something that can act as both an horizontal menu and a ribbon at the same time, just missing keyboard handling now, before release v... 0.8?...)
It has a MahApp[^] look, works well with it!
I am planning to make it open source!
I was thinking to host it on CodePlex. Someone mentioned github to me today quite matter of factly....
I suspect it is because I am currently working in a Web development company, but CodePlex would be a better choice for WPF project I think...
Any thoughts / suggestion?
(on a side note I already have a CodePlex account, but I don't have a github one)
And no, not on CodeProject, can't be bothered to make a nice article! 
Maybe later?  
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Super Lloyd wrote: It has a MahApp[^] look, works well with it!
From their website, I fail to see how the word "shine" can be used to describe a two dimensional monochromatic UI.
Super Lloyd wrote: Someone mentioned github to me today quite matter of factly....
I would suggest GitHub. I find it a lot easier to poke around the code, see revisions, clone it, possibly fork it if I want to make contributions...
Super Lloyd wrote: can't be bothered to make a nice article!
Uh oh. Does that mean yet another undocumented project will be joining the ranks of the millions already on CodePlex and GitHub?  (poke, prod, poke...)
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: From their website, I fail to see how the word "shine" can be used to describe a two dimensional monochromatic UI.
Well said that like that it doesn't seems very convincing does it?!
But from home usage I really prefer Word 2013 to earlier version, ribbon, menu, window border, all fade in the background and leave their place the main content... Really like it.
My home app will have the same look!
Marc Clifton wrote: I would suggest GitHub. I find it a lot easier to poke around the code, see revisions, clone it, possibly fork it if I want to make contributions...
MM... one should pay attention to March Clifton's programming advice!  So I will give it a closer look!
Marc Clifton wrote: Uh oh. Does that mean yet another undocumented project will be joining the ranks of the millions already on CodePlex and GitHub?
Ok, ok! ^_^ Mm... I might have a CodeProject article eventually!!! One steps at a time though! + not many project are google match for "Ribbon + Menu"
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I host all my code on Github. I find it very easy to use. It was one of the first to implement DVCS (Distributed Version control), way ahead of the likes of CodePlex and SourceForge. It also has really useful features such as forking and submitting pull requests.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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