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May I ask why you prefer a godless, warez version of RealPlayer over the malware-free Enterprise Edition?

Sincerely,
AC

I'm glad godless China is finally being influenced by our faithful leader, pResident AC Bush. All that sinful gambling, superstition and paganism, no longer preying on the people. When will we in the US finally recognize their moral superiority and give up our liberal, worldly "democratic" ways, and bow our heads in submission to the mystery of the Chinese priests of government?

devise. it would reek of corepirate nazi censorship to US, if it worked at all.

coming soon to/already on, yOUR desktop/network?:

etc... lookout bullow. these foulcurrs haven't a clue yet, as to what J. Public can do, once he's peaced off. they live in a tiny wwworld, consisting of only their owned

greed/fear based goals. they should get ready to see the light.

we're building a vessel that floats on almost any suBStance.

as to the newclear power/planet/population rescue initiative:

it's all free (as in survival), & available immediately to you/all of US.

as you can maybe already see, yOUR survival/success is not the least bit dependent on the gadgets/combinations of the greed/fear based corepirate nazis, & their phonIE ?pr?

?firm? buyassed /.puppets.

consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet (somtimes that means not buying anything, a notion previously unmentioned buy the greed/fear/war

mongers). seek others of non-aggressive/positive behaviours/intentions. stop wasting anything/being frivolous. that's the spirit.

investigate the newclear power plan. J. Public et AL has yet to become involved in open/honest 'net communications/commerce in a meaningful way. that's mostly due to the

MiSinformation suppLIEd buy phonIE ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup FraUD execrable, etc...

truth is, there's no better/more affordable/effective way that we know of, for J. to reach other J.'s &/or their respective markets.

the overbullowned greed/fear based phonIE marketeers are self eliminating by their owned greed/fear/ego based evile MiSintentions. they must deny the existence of the power

that is dissolving their ability to continue their self-centered evile behaviours.

as the lights continue to come up, you'll see what we mean. meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges, not the least of which is the planet/population rescue (from the

corepirate nazi/walking dead contingent) initiative.

EVERYTHING is going to change, despite the lameNT of the evile wons. you can bet your .asp on that. when the lights come up, there'll be no going back, & no where to hide.

we weren't planted here to facilitate/perpetuate the excesses of a handful of Godless felons. you already know that? yOUR ONLY purpose here is to help one another. any

other pretense is totally false.

pay attention (to yOUR environment, for example). that's quite affordable, & leads to insights on preserving life as it should/could/will be again. everything's ALL about

yOUR motives.

that old tune title (hope we don't get 'busted' for using it) "make the world go away", takes on new/varied meaning in these times.

the prevalent notion that 'everything will be taken care of' without yOUR knowledge/participation is insidiously misleading.

in our estimation, the biggest 'threat' against US (aside from continuing to fire bullinedly into the 'crowd', whilst demanding applause), would be a failure to recognize

our 'role' in the problems. we're victims for sure, but whoare ALL the perpetrators (see also: corepirate nazi puppets), gets lost in the ?pr? ?firm? generated propaganda

spew.

consult with/trust in yOUR creator. seek others of non-aggressive behaviours/intentions. that's the spirit.

the lights ARE coming up now. pay attention (to yOUR heart, for example). that could lead to new ways (see also: newclear power plan) of thinking about/dealing with, the

needs/rights of others EVERYWHERE on the planet.

having the attention span of a gnat, & similar ambitions, might be ok if you are just planning to be a consumer/type one liners.

take care of each other, you're all we've got. we're here for you. get ready to see the light.--

worth reading, again, with feeling.

"It takes a long time to teach the judges, legislators, and public to understand techn

Don't waste your hate on all niggers. Hate only the godless sandniggers that keep blowing up our boys in iraq.

That's a funny way of describing the style of government that left millions of people destitute, even before its "fall."

That would make sense if we were talking about the USSR. The Soviet Union was a real threat.

Nicaragua wasn't. They're a tiny poor nation. And the Sandinistas, while pretty far to the left, weren't exactly godless commie oppressors hellbent on world domination.

That's the exact book I've been longing to see made into a movie, but the longing is always tempered by the dread of how badly it can be ruined in the hands of the godless, soulless barbarians of Hollyweird.

(first in probably very bad Chinese, thanks to Babelfish)

Dear Spamhaus,

You have won our promotion in the FREE TIBET, Falun Gong, Remember Tiananmen, rebellion against the Glorious Communist State Sweepstakes!

The number on the bullet (free to you, billed to your family), which will hopefully go through your head when the censors in your godless heathen illegitimate bastard country who can filter out everything except spam see this, is 7417.

Congratulations!

Huh? What's wrong with the DVDs I have now?

Maybe you enjoy 480 resolution for your movies, but I don't.

Will the picture be so sharp and crystal clear and picture-perfect that I simply must upgrade?

Yes, it will. I like the idea of finally seeing Return of the King in at least 1280 resolution.

Will the sound on these things really be so good that if I close my eyes I really will think that Will Smith or Keanu Reeves or Sigourney Weaver or whoever massacred an entire clan of godless communist bug eyed alien monsters on my living room carpet?

Why, yes.

Is it really possible for these things to be as much of an improvement over DVD as DVD was over VHS?

Absolutely. You're getting an increase of over three times in resolution, and the disk space allows for much better compression--no more grain and compression artifacts.

Oh yeah, I forgot. Someone worked a way round the bogus encryption and region coding and DVD-player vendor lockout last time round, so we've all got to dump our perfectly good DVDs and our DVD players and throw more money at film studio execs and consumer hardware manufacturers. Silly me.

DVDs suck. Theater resolution is over 1280. You're missing tons of detail in your blurry, ugly DVDs. Play any DVD on a sharp television or on a computer monitor. It's embarrassing. HD-DVD (or Blueray) need to come and soon. DRM isn't the only reason for this--new DVD specifications were already being worked on before the whole DeCSS fiasco.

Stop being so damned paranoid. Unless you like watching movies at 480. In that case, NOBODY'S FORCING YOU TO BUY A DAMN THING.

Huh? What's wrong with the DVDs I have now? Will the picture be so sharp and crystal clear and picture-perfect that I simply must upgrade? Will the sound on these things really be so good that if I close my eyes I really will think that Will Smith or Keanu Reeves or Sigourney Weaver or whoever massacred an entire clan of godless communist bug eyed alien monsters on my living room carpet? Is it really possible for these things to be as much of an improvement over DVD as DVD was over VHS? Doesn't the law of diminishing returns have something to say about this?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Someone worked a way round the bogus encryption and region coding and DVD-player vendor lockout last time round, so we've all got to dump our perfectly good DVDs and our DVD players and throw more money at film studio execs and consumer hardware manufacturers. Silly me.

More than 666 splash screens have been submitted would that be a conservative estimate?

That depends who you ask. Some conservatives might say that it's just another one of those damn Godless liberals' estimates...

I joke...

Dude, the key word is fled... They fled to avoid other peoples religious beliefs from being imposed on them. They didn't flee the godless hoards. I believe it was the (mostly) Protestants (but included a crap load of other small religious groups.) fleeing the Cathlics and the Church of England...

Groups like the mormons seem to be more what you are talking about. They went to a place where they could set up their own religion based state, and make everyone there obey.

Well, the most recent PISA study pretty much debunks your argument.

While the godless, pinko, commie, socialist, anti-american, linux-using Finns with their wicked socialist public school system came ahead just of about everybody, students from the free enterprise, privatized great nation of the US of A didn't look too well.

Get a clue!

With your great education have you even looked at education beyond your own borders? Do you think other governments aren't capable of recognising the place for rewarding success? Do you think governments are incapable of intervening when they see failure?

In the UK there's no obligation to go to your local school, you can pick any as long as you have the grades to get accepted - and others in Europe can pick one of our universities too. Yet in the US if you don't have the necessary cash you may well be forced to stay in state and go to a local school rather than explore the best that should be available to your academic ability.

I would still take a mediocre private education over the best our Government can offer, thanks.

Ever head of Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Glasgow, Edinburgh? If your government can't offer better perhaps it's time you elect a new government? Free market education determines that access is based as much on wealth as it is on academic ability. That's plain wrong.

So you're suggesting we outlaw all private universities?

Exactly how did capitalism encourage this sort of behavior? Do you even know what capitalism is?

In a "Godless socialised education" system, there's no incentive to succeed whatsoever. When public schools do bad, they just get more money, and their "customers" have no choice. They are forced to go to them. Monopolies are bad, especially when the Government has them.

Anti-capitalists like the poster above are so quick to scream fire every time something fails that isn't run by the Government.

Here's how it is in the real world: This school scammed people, and now they'll pay the price. Their behavior is NOT being rewarded, either in profits or the whole staying out of prison thing. If capitalism means being greedy and earning money, then the people running this school are bad capitalists. I'm pretty sure they won't be making much money as a direct result of their actions.

The same thing happened to Enron. They did dumb stuff, now they're out of business. The market fixed the behavior. That's what happened here. Simply because A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL school has acted unethically and illegally random zealouts like you are going to start screaming for more Government intervention.

I would still take a mediocre private education over the best our Government can offer, thanks.

Capitalism isn't utopia, but socialism is so much farther from utopia it isn't funny. Taking random and fairly isolated incidents like this and citing them as an example of the failures of capitalism is borderline retarded. Especially seeing as how the U.S. is regulating more and more of our daily lives every day. We're hardly capitalist over here anymore. State capitalism would be a better phrase.

I'll take Britain's godless socialised education every day over educational free market capitalism. Employers shouldn't have to waste time determining whether a university is real or not. This is just as disruptive as the fear of litigation that prevents people giving bad references

So just to clarify, when you wrote "the slashdot crowd is so religiously godless" you only meant the religiously godless ones, right?

BTW, many teenagers read Slashdot, so please refrain from using language that kids should not be exposed to.

the slashdot crowd is so religiously godless

You mean Christian. I take offense as I am a Buddhist and believe in god.

radically liberal

If preserving freedoms that so many have died to create and protect is liberal, so be it.

most of 'em dont even have kids so they are talking out of their arse when they speak of parenting

OK. So what if childless people have common sense that a parent should raise a child. Guess what? Most people here had parents and not a couple with a kid. Don't insult people without children. I have no child and will never have one since I'm a carrier of a genetic disease. It won't do away but that is one less person that suffers.

most techno-geeks are hardcore bigots in their own special way anyway

So are fundamentalist Christians. They preach love and compassion but want to destroy and kill anything or anyone that disagrees with them.

Please, return to reality.

this is not going to get modded at all, or -1 troll if anyone bothers to read it, but on principle i will submit it anyway.

Has it ever crossed your tiny mind that maybe the reason your posts get modded down is because they're genuinely flamebait? You say that the thought process of the "liberal and godless" slashdot crowd is comparable to a lynch-mob and then try to claim that you're standing up for your principles in posting your bigoted trash? Frankly, your self-righteousness and hypocrisy disgust me.

Oh, and note that this garbage was modded up. So much for your "the liberal mods are abusing their status" lie. Not that this will stop you and your troll friends from posting it again...and getting modded up again for it.

Why do I have to be godless or not have children - if I believe that we all have different morals and I don't want other people pushing their morals onto my children?

My TV has an off button. And I am teaching my children the truth about the whole picture - not just one narrow sanitized one. My children are learning things like - there is nothing inherantly evil in the word "fuck", however there are times and places where using the word "fuck" is inappropriate. Or they are learning that a naked breast can be a beautiful thing, but a War is always a terrible thing.

But I must be a terrible parent, and godless heathan because I don't want your morals legislated onto me and my own...

(disclaimer: naked breasts' beauty are dependant on the owner of the breasts and the eye of the beholder)

Pretty sure his point was that Christians "vote Christian" without really understanding that the people they're electing on these principles usually act in very un-Christian ways. It's useful to quote scripture at Fundies (if you know what you're getting into) because it throws them off -- they don't expect any godless heathen babyeating liberals to have actually read the Bible. In my case they'd be right, but the point still stands, damn it.