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Dear Captain Oblivious,

Please read the enclosed link for enlightenment.

Your humble servant,
A.C.

I think it's a little odd that you make a post like this, but don't seem to be able to distinguish between fascism and communism.

While I might not personally use the word fascist to describe what's going on, the original poster is using the word in the correct sense.

I think it's a little odd that you make a post like this, but don't seem to be able to distinguish between fascism and communism.

While I might not personally use the word fascist to describe what's going on, the original poster is using the word in the correct sense.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

As of now, HP has also only threatened to invoke it.

Uh, no, "invoking the DMCA" is precicely what HP is doing, though they haven't formally filed a complaint with the feds. How can you possibly defend these unscrupulous fucks? From dictionary.com.

invoke Pronunciation Key(n-vk)
tr.v. invoked, invoking, invokes
...
2. To appeal to or cite in support or justification.
...
5. To resort to; use or apply:
...

Did you mean "rIdiculous"?

Just curious, how do you pronounce rEdiculous? Do you actually say "red" like the color, then "culous"?

Why is this such a common misspelling?

You know, the Internet is your friend.

Jerry Pournelle always set that he never thought his data was safe until it was an 8 inch floppy.

BTW, you need to see an 8 incher to know why they were called floppy.

3.5" diskettes ARE NOT FLOPPY.

It's not about lying on the form, fuck head. True, I don't want them to have correct information. The crux of the issue is that I do not feel like taking the time to fill-out 20+ fields of nonsense, then go back and correct it repeatedly when it says "your ZIP/email/state/whatever is invalid".

As for personal information, spam is not the issue. NYT doesn't need to know my gender, age, region, etc. It's an issue of privacy.

Perhaps this explanation will help you to understand.

Why do people always feel the need to not translate?

Because they post when they are in serious hack mode and make the assumption that others will understand without explinations.

Mea Culpa ;-)

The only thing that offends me is your cowardice.

3,520 is on the small side but would be enough to be considered a legion. (that is: between 3000 to 6000 infantrymen & another 100 to 200 cavalrymen)
from dictionary.com

It's a safe and sane way of expressing nostalgia (as opposed to killing yourself while attempting to use a time travel device made from thirty yards of string and two protracters held together with a rubber band).

Oh, and if you aren't familiar with the concept, here's a link.

point 1) The word is centrifugal, which means away from an axis. Centripetal is towards the axis, which doesnt happen on anything spinning. Think of a centrifuge. Or see dictionary.com.

point 2) I realize it's going to need to be continuously spun but with a flywheel it's insanely easier once it's started. It appeared to me that this was the intent, as nobody gave the required information for any other situation, such as for what duration it would need to keep spinning once winding stopped, etc. But now I see what you were saying. You were saying that if you wanted to get it started and leave it, it would need to be spinning very fast. True enough.

(not to you alone) People, stop trying to look smart by saying centripetal! :-P

the end

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-nerd solutions-

You may not personally care for P2P technology, but as nobody loses property when a file gets copied from one location to another, you'll have to find another word other than 'stealing' to make your argument.

Notwithstanding
notwithstanding Pronunciation Key (ntwth-stndng, -wth-)
prep.
In spite of: The teams played on, notwithstanding the rain.

adv.
All the same; nevertheless: We proceeded, notwithstanding.

conj.
In spite of the fact that; although.



IN SPITE OF any other federal or state laws, they can do what they like.

Oh, and they can delete any file they want if it is "necessary" to prevent you from trading their copyrighted files.

Yes, it REALLY is that bad.

Hey! Asshole Moderator!

How's it redundant, IF IT'S THE FIRST ONE???

MOOOORRROOONNNN!!!!

Look it up, assmunchkin!

I personally like the term "poaching" when referring to these types of practices. Strip mining is nasty, but not necessarily illegal (though it should be.) Poaching, by the very definition is:
To take or appropriate something unfairly or illegally.
I can't think of a better way of describing this type of information THEFT, for the gain of the THIEF.

Well, my interpretation of prosecute was the first definition, "to initiate civil or criminal court action against." I was assuming that they were prosecuting people via civil courts. I don't think anyone has gone to jail here (yet), I think its just a matter of getting shut down - and maybe paying some restitution.

But as far as Sony running the government, I think they've had a pretty big influence via the RIAA and the MPAA. They influence the government more than a lot of other companies. And I'm sure I don't need to point out how quick the government was to listen to Adobe's "referal" in the Sklyarov case. Big copyright holders aren't running the government but they sure have a heck of a lot more influence than I'd like.

Slashdot has reviews of this strange new technology known as a Dynamo?! Wow! Now we no longer have to wonder if these results of witchcraft actually work.

I wondered myself, since it's brand new technology :P

What is so amazing about this again?

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

I'm used to posting on the OpenBSD mailing lists, so my first response is do your homework!
(j/k)

how can putting living creatures (yeast) into a dish allow it to stay vegan?

vegan is "someone who eats no animal products at all", yeast is part of the fungus kingdom, not the animal kingdom. it would be the same as plucking fruit from a tree and eating it (in terms of being vegan, but if you really wanna get strict with your eating habits check out fruitarianism)

With regards to this site, i figured it would be relevant to point out the vegan aspect of that dish since it means there is no cholesterol in it, which might be of importance to those whose stereotypical meal consists of big macs[3,3] and pizza (well, the typical pizza. i really like Amy's vegetable pizza).
My recipe is also quite low fat and very high protein, by the way.

hyperbole
n.

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

Since you still don't seem to understand that dependable and reliable are synonyms, or maybe you don't know what synonym means, I think I'll just leave this pointless conversation with links to the definitions of the words.

Since you still don't seem to understand that dependable and reliable are synonyms, or maybe you don't know what synonym means, I think I'll just leave this pointless conversation with links to the definitions of the words.

Since you still don't seem to understand that dependable and reliable are synonyms, or maybe you don't know what synonym means, I think I'll just leave this pointless conversation with links to the definitions of the words.

It's "moot", not "mute". That's the second time today I've seen someone use the word "mute" when they meant "moot" so I had to comment this time.

My original post was intended to be ironic, a concept that you appear to be unfamiliar with.

The fact that you're still taking my bait doesn't say much for your intelligence.

I thank you for letting me know how incredibly stupid I am. You're a real pal.

YHBT, YHL, HAND


--
SweetAndSourJesus

Since you mention it, your spelling is also incorrect (very ironic, isn't it?) The word that everyone is trying to spell is hypocrisy. Look it up on Dictionary.com if you don't believe me.

Reliability and dependability are synonymns, dude. So what the hell are you taling about? Oh, you don't know...? Ok, thought so...

Then again I haven't used Linux in quite some time just becuase I found myself doing nothing but hacking instead of be productive. So don't mind me.

Actually democracy is majority rule. Im not sure which definition you use but mine differs:


Your failure to understand our own Constitution is ... depressing. But understandable, since virtually every Congressman similarly misunderstands the Constitution (either that, or believes in mob rule and religiously follows the polls).


Then perhaps you will enlighten me to what the Constitution really means. BTW, Your condescending tone does nothing for your argument. It puts me in a automatic defensive position, instead of one of reason.

While you should be (and are) free to be a Christian, and think gays are, well, gay, don't you think the same should be true of these "PC" groups you despise so? Shouldn't atheists be free to go about their lives without having Christianity shoved down their throats? Shouldn't gay people be allowed to live their lives? I say yes.

Yes, gays and atheists should be allowed to live their lives as freely as any American. They contribute just as much to society as any other group. I agree wholheartedly. And I don't disagree that they have legit arguments. BUT I don't think a very vocal minority should be the cause of change. It's like the more vocal a group is the more they get attention because the squeeky wheel gets the oil. One person bitches, loudly, and change happens regardless of what the majority feels is right. Back to my original point - This is the same attitude highlighted in Bradbury's 451 that caused the eventual outlawing of books. Too many people took offense to a particular book or phrase in a book and wanted it banned. Eventually all books were banned because they were deemed offensive.

I think your points are valid. I just feel that our system is flawed. Too often decisions are made based on offending the least amount of people, regardless of merit.

Are you really that fucking stupid that you need a dictionary to spell algorithm or are you trying to be like one of those SCA fuckwits that spell things wrong because it makes them cultured?

And just what is that effect? Global warming? There's no evidence that the actions of humans have had a significant effect on climate. The Greenhouse Effect? Evidence indicates that the increased amount of CO2 in the air is stimulating the growth of trees, and thus, the production of O2. Oil spills? Sorry, we're no match against nature. Large amounts of oil gush into the ocean every day through naturally occurring cracks in the ocean floor. Not to worry, though. Certain bacteria happen to think that petro tastes yummy, so they eat it up! Yeah, a few birds and fish will get a nasty oil bath from top-surface spills, but they'll restore their numbers within a generation.

Technology giveth trouble, and technology taketh it away.*

At the end of the 19th century, an English journalist wrote that the number of horses needed to provide transport in London was increasing so fast that the city would be engulfed in horse manure in less than twenty years! This raw sewage was left in streets or dumped in rivers polluting both water and air. Cities became havens for disease-carrying insects. And how many helpless trees had to be axed to make way for grazing pastures for all those horses? *jabs at the tree huggers* ;-) Fortunately, the automobile came along just in time to disprove this prediction and save the city from catastrophe.

The New Bad: Automotive technology created toxic emissions.
The New Good: Automotive technology significantly reduced toxic emissions by giving us the catalytic converter.
The Better New Good: And those water-emitting hydrogen fuel cell cars will come any day.. err decade now.

So you're worried about landfills? We'll find a solution. Think about this. Technology has not yet been harnessed in an attempt to solve this problem. To quote some famous words, We have not yet begun to fight! We will win when we fight. It looks scary now, but it'll be defeated once we devote our attention and resources to the problem.

Not that any of this matters anyway, because the earth will expire in 2050. (I saw it in the Science section of /.)

*This is a proverb, not a mathematical law of absoluteness in which all negatives of technology are completely cancelled out by positives of technology alone (nature helps, too). This also says nothing about the time frame of resolution to problems, but I believe that the pressures of humanity to survive and live happily will keep such problems in check before they get out of hand. After all these millennia, humanity's still batting 1.000.

MSFT today announced the acquisition of Integrity for $358 billion(USD).

This follows on the footsteps of several recent corporate buyouts, including the impending $5.8x10^300 (USD) Church of Scientology buyout of Truth and Morality.

Man, I am so glad I'm a fucking trans-national megacorporation. Suckas!

MSFT today announced the acquisition of Integrity for $358 billion(USD).

This follows on the footsteps of several recent corporate buyouts, including the impending $5.8x10^300 (USD) Church of Scientology buyout of Truth and Morality.

Man, I am so glad I'm a fucking trans-national megacorporation. Suckas!

MSFT today announced the acquisition of Integrity for $358 billion(USD).

This follows on the footsteps of several recent corporate buyouts, including the impending $5.8x10^300 (USD) Church of Scientology buyout of Truth and Morality.

Man, I am so glad I'm a fucking trans-national megacorporation. Suckas!

It's the perineum, actually.

According to dictionary.com, it means literally "bitter water" rather than frothy water.

3 entries found for sarcasm.


sarcasm Pronunciation Key (särkzm)
n.

1. A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
2. A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
3. The use of sarcasm. See Synonyms at wit1.

[Late Latin sarcasmus, from Greek sarkasmos, from sarkazein, to bite the lips in rage, from sarx , sark-,
flesh.]

No, by free he meant Costing nothing; gratuitous. (As I'm sure you were well aware.) Honestly, this habit of claiming that "free" always means Stallman's definition rather than the definition than almost everyone else automatically thinks of is rather ridiculous.

Was the word ' shebang ' so smutty that you had to remove a character to soften it?</sarcasm>

You are such a typical Mac zealot. You do not understand that there is nothing, besides the keyboard (if you know the alphabet), about a computer, or it's UI that is "intuitive." There is a learning curve involved no matter which computer, which OS, or which method of data entry involved.

How 'steep' or not is hard to prove one way or the other. The only way would be to have a study involving 3 groups of people, without any computer experience or trepidation, have one group on Windows, one group on Mac, and the third with access to both. The third is your control group that determines a preference to one or the other. The other 2 groups determine which is easier, or faster, to learn. The bitch of it is, how can someone make use of a computer that does not understand what it is for? And how do you measure progress? Sending an email? Perusing the web? Using a messaging protocol?

My point is this: It is all learned. It is not intuitive. One might be more to your liking than another, but that does not make it more 'intuitive' for the rest of the planet. That is the problem with Mac zealots. You all are as close minded as the Nazi's were.

Dictionary.com says:

No entry found for medireview.

32 suggestions found:

" ...could litterly be used... "

GOD you PEOPLE are FUCKING MORONS

> You're American right ...?
No :-)

Seriously, is upliftment a real word? I always thought it to be one of those pseudo-words that were popular in some parts of the world -- if you look closely at the Google results, you'll find quite a number of the 33k results to be from pages written by Asians/Africans. I wouldn't be surprised if upliftment was popular in `local' english (for some values of local) but it's hardly a standard word. On the other hand, the OED has over the past few years been very inclusive in its approach to including words from across the globe (jihad from arabic(?), thali from hindi, and so on) so who knows, somebody could have included upliftment as well.

Encarta can't locate ``upliftment'' (though I know it's hardly the final answer); but then neither does the online cambridge dictionary or dict.org or dictionary.com (which searches through quite a few dictionaries). My old dogeared copy of Oxford Concise also doesn't have the word.

I don't have a subscription to the OED Online, so I can't go to the ultimate authority :-), but please, if you can give me a citation, I'd be very glad (contact info here).

Dictionary.com
America:
1. The United States.
2. also the Americas (-kz). The landmasses and islands of North America, Central America, and South America.

Woohoo, now I get to be modded down!

You, sir, are an ass. A well-intentioned ass, to be sure, but an ass nonetheless.

First, you mention specific political situations in the 1930's. You are dangerously close to forfeiting via Godwin's Law. But enough about that, I'll merely point out that straw men do not an argument make.

Now then, you claim that Yahoo should pull out of China rather than bend to the will of the Chinese government. I wonder what you hope to gain by this? Do you hope to make the lot of the Chinese people better by denying them even a censored Yahoo? To you expect the Chinese government to cave in and embrace the unfiltered net? No. Dictators love embargoes. Compare China, North Korea, and Cuba. Which is the most free? What have our policies of isolation done to promote freedom? Nothing. They have buttressed up Castro and Kim, allowing them a death-grip on their people. Supposedly most North Koreans don't even realize that starving to death is unusual in the wider world.

So, yes. Appeasement. It is a wonderful strategy for fighting totalitarianism. Beats invasion, beats embargoes. Why? The center cannot hold. People do not want to be repressed. If you isolate them, they cannot even get an inkling of freedom. If you let them peek out through the thick curtains of censorship, they can see that there's a different world outside. You make the choice - the windowless room of isolation or the thin slit of censorship. Which would you offer the Chinese people?

I'm still curious about your previous soundbite. ("Yahoo! Where your civil liberties are what your government tells us they are.") What other kinds of civil liberties are there?