You are absolutely right! Last week a friend of mine wanted digital copies of some of my CD's. Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, and of course...Bach. I told him to sod off with that glowing feeling in my gut, the knowledge that with one less dirty rotten thief these artists have a better chance of being fairly compensated for their works and will continue to create new music. Plus, I'm sure that when these artists die their works will be released into the public domain in a reasonable amount of time.
I'm as anti-jingoistic as the next rational American, but my rule of thumb is that if China approves of a UN internet referendum, it's probably a bad thing.
Can I buy drugs from you? Seriously, you want to drag partisan rhetoric into this? Both parties are criminally complicit in the erosion of our civil liberties, and people like you are the reason why we cannot make any progress.
Like pretty much every other Slashdotter, I had to deal bullying. Part of it though, is not being so pick-onable. I was able to excel at math and science while playing sports and making friends. I actually enjoyed my time in high school and undergraduate without feeling like I needed to hide anything. You can be intelligent, it's when you flaunt it and deliberately try to make others feel inferior that they lash out. There will always be the outliers that will hurt for the sake of their own sadism.
Same here. I'm still a Christian, but the politicization of religion and the hypocrisy of other Christians made church unbearable. I think there are more of us than most people imagine.
Blacks...and anybody with more than 3 brain cells. We are a very amorous species and will mate with anything regardless of race, color, or creed. In my family tree (to two generations) I have Western European, North African, Mexican, and good ole' Canadian. So, in summation: The only racial purity left is with the hopelessly inbred European royals, nobody is pure and that is a damned good thing for humanity as a whole.
I actually have seen the 'Walled Garden' in action. I had to root my brother's phone when he found out that AT&T had removed the option to allow 3rd party app installs. He's now happily running CM9, but I was astounded to find out that the option was permanently grayed out.
I know more about his AWS setup than the Wordpress one, but from what I remember he'll do a basic theme and throw in a few hours of training if needed.
A buddy of mine makes more from his side gig of setting up Amazon AWS services and Wordpress for bloggers and small businesses around my area than he does at his regular job. I've thought about branching out, but don't know if I could bring myself to charge that much for what is essentially an hour or so of work.
Unlike complete nit-wits (such as yourself) I don't have my identity tied up into a phone. I use what works best for me, at the moment that's Android, if in a year a more tantalizing phone comes out I'll make the switch. And for the record, ANY company that tries to get away with patenting concepts that a first year computer science student would create (don't worry, you'll get there eventually!) should be forced to sit in a corner for a year to think about what they've done. YOU are part of the problem, you defend your team no matter what, in your (admittedly miniscule) mind they can do no wrong. Oh, and using terms like "fandroid" really adds a lot to the conversation. Sorry if I kept you from rubbing your iPhone over your body while masturbating to zombie Steve Jobs, I'll leave you to it.
Agree completely! Apple is far worse than Microsoft. They're trying to stifle innovation by utilizing our system of laws like a blunt instrument, they sell 'cool' and are attempting to make the current generation of computer users into sub-moronic wallets with legs that bring every iDevice problem into a "genius" bar. But I suppose that anybody with a Fox News link in their sig worships freely at the alter of the free market. Even if it doesn't actually exist.
I don't think I could live without git. I used it at home to keep changes to family photos when I (attempt to) enhance them with Photoshop. At work to keep my vim scripts, and bash files consistent between machines. Needless to say, all of my code is also there too. It's dead easy to setup and tutorials abound.
Nail on the head. My fiance is a civil engineer, I'm an application developer. Granted she doesn't get into coding in the same way that I do, but our love of classic video games, good sci-fi, and other nerdy pursuits makes us a pretty awesome couple. I've seen some messy workplace relationships in all fields, if anything that is what to avoid (if you're in a small workplace or work together in a small group). You should always be at the same intellectual level as your partner.
Agreed wholeheartedly! I run nothing but vanilla Debian (testing on my workstations, stable on my servers) but am the exact opposite of a Linux evangelical. Tweaking the OS is part of my hobby and I get a happy glowing feeling when my computers act like well-oiled machines. I also acknowledge that I represent about.1% of actual users and that most people just want it to work. Would a gear head ever buy a brand new car with an automatic transmission and the hood welded shut?
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You are absolutely right! Last week a friend of mine wanted digital copies of some of my CD's. Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, and of course...Bach. I told him to sod off with that glowing feeling in my gut, the knowledge that with one less dirty rotten thief these artists have a better chance of being fairly compensated for their works and will continue to create new music. Plus, I'm sure that when these artists die their works will be released into the public domain in a reasonable amount of time.
I've had good results with piping to /dev/null
Somebody boo this man!
He says he's dumped them all (made copies), and now is looking to sell them. Doesn't anyone see the legal issue here?
Legal issue, yes. Ethical issue, no.
I'm as anti-jingoistic as the next rational American, but my rule of thumb is that if China approves of a UN internet referendum, it's probably a bad thing.
Can I buy drugs from you? Seriously, you want to drag partisan rhetoric into this? Both parties are criminally complicit in the erosion of our civil liberties, and people like you are the reason why we cannot make any progress.
Like pretty much every other Slashdotter, I had to deal bullying. Part of it though, is not being so pick-onable. I was able to excel at math and science while playing sports and making friends. I actually enjoyed my time in high school and undergraduate without feeling like I needed to hide anything. You can be intelligent, it's when you flaunt it and deliberately try to make others feel inferior that they lash out. There will always be the outliers that will hurt for the sake of their own sadism.
Same here. I'm still a Christian, but the politicization of religion and the hypocrisy of other Christians made church unbearable. I think there are more of us than most people imagine.
Aren't blacks always saying no one is pure?
Blacks...and anybody with more than 3 brain cells. We are a very amorous species and will mate with anything regardless of race, color, or creed. In my family tree (to two generations) I have Western European, North African, Mexican, and good ole' Canadian. So, in summation: The only racial purity left is with the hopelessly inbred European royals, nobody is pure and that is a damned good thing for humanity as a whole.
I actually have seen the 'Walled Garden' in action. I had to root my brother's phone when he found out that AT&T had removed the option to allow 3rd party app installs. He's now happily running CM9, but I was astounded to find out that the option was permanently grayed out.
I know more about his AWS setup than the Wordpress one, but from what I remember he'll do a basic theme and throw in a few hours of training if needed.
Holy shit! I'm a loser, baby.
A buddy of mine makes more from his side gig of setting up Amazon AWS services and Wordpress for bloggers and small businesses around my area than he does at his regular job. I've thought about branching out, but don't know if I could bring myself to charge that much for what is essentially an hour or so of work.
Godwin = Nazi enabler?
Unlike complete nit-wits (such as yourself) I don't have my identity tied up into a phone. I use what works best for me, at the moment that's Android, if in a year a more tantalizing phone comes out I'll make the switch. And for the record, ANY company that tries to get away with patenting concepts that a first year computer science student would create (don't worry, you'll get there eventually!) should be forced to sit in a corner for a year to think about what they've done. YOU are part of the problem, you defend your team no matter what, in your (admittedly miniscule) mind they can do no wrong. Oh, and using terms like "fandroid" really adds a lot to the conversation. Sorry if I kept you from rubbing your iPhone over your body while masturbating to zombie Steve Jobs, I'll leave you to it.
Agree completely! Apple is far worse than Microsoft. They're trying to stifle innovation by utilizing our system of laws like a blunt instrument, they sell 'cool' and are attempting to make the current generation of computer users into sub-moronic wallets with legs that bring every iDevice problem into a "genius" bar. But I suppose that anybody with a Fox News link in their sig worships freely at the alter of the free market. Even if it doesn't actually exist.
I don't think I could live without git. I used it at home to keep changes to family photos when I (attempt to) enhance them with Photoshop. At work to keep my vim scripts, and bash files consistent between machines. Needless to say, all of my code is also there too. It's dead easy to setup and tutorials abound.
Well, I read the headline as "Neil Young Pushes Porno". So there is that.
Nail on the head. My fiance is a civil engineer, I'm an application developer. Granted she doesn't get into coding in the same way that I do, but our love of classic video games, good sci-fi, and other nerdy pursuits makes us a pretty awesome couple. I've seen some messy workplace relationships in all fields, if anything that is what to avoid (if you're in a small workplace or work together in a small group). You should always be at the same intellectual level as your partner.
It's funny how idiots like you use words like "socialist", "left(y)", and "liberal" as if they're some sort of insult.
But what gender?!
You don't watch enough Ancient Aliens. It goes, I'm not sure exactly how they did it, therefore...ALIENS!
Agreed wholeheartedly! I run nothing but vanilla Debian (testing on my workstations, stable on my servers) but am the exact opposite of a Linux evangelical. Tweaking the OS is part of my hobby and I get a happy glowing feeling when my computers act like well-oiled machines. I also acknowledge that I represent about .1% of actual users and that most people just want it to work. Would a gear head ever buy a brand new car with an automatic transmission and the hood welded shut?
Having fun up on that high horse? Think of this minor form of tax evasion as the poor man's Cayman account. Why should the rich get all of the fun?
Here in the U.S. we have more than our fair share of new-age dimwits and vaccine fear mongers. I have no such room to throw stones.