...instead of a black box running Windows CE. As it is, the most effective use of the modern "ballot box" may be to simply drop it from a great height on the head of the politician you wish to defeat.
I doubt that legalizing weed would be very popular with our privatized, for-profit prison industry over here in the USA. Those prisons need fresh meat, or else it becomes a less profitable business. As we all know, in 21st Century America there's no greater crime than threatening someone's profits.
A better way to boost piracy is difficult to even imagine.
DIVX was made of such utter fail that not only was it a key stage in the decline of the once-respectable Circuit City chain (whippersnappers, this was before your time), its very name became synonymous with movie piracy's codec of choice.
Go ahead and try it, EA. This ought to be pretty amusing.
But seriously, Thompson will keep right on getting on the network news shows. They're not at all bright, as you may have noticed. He's obnoxious, and that's all it really takes to get on the news. It will accomplish nothing for niche sites like Slashdot to blacklist all related stories. However, we are more than capable of giving him enough rope to hang himself.
Being all cool and slack, the Apple store does not take appointments Say what, now? My experience with the Apple Stores on Fifth Avenue and in Soho is that if you don't make an appointment for the Genius Bar, you'll be standing around for a couple of hours waiting for a no-show. You'll probably be lined up behind several other people who also thought they could get the time of day from Apple without making an appointment. If you're there to purchase, no appointment required. Anything else, yeah, good luck with that. Even if you do make an appointment, expect them to be running a half-hour fashionably late. And if your problem involves one of their godawful slot-loading SuperDrives crapping out, they will fight you tooth and nail, every step of the way, claiming it's your discs that are defective if they can manage to get it to read ANYTHING. Bring a large pistol and be prepared to whip some smarmy little bastard across the face with it.
I want to see this, and I have heard very little to suggest that it's anything other than quite good. Robert Downey, Jr. is, to my mind, flawless casting for the role.
Having said that, fuck off with the slashvertizing. If I wanted to read Aint It Cool News, I'd read Aint It Cool News. And I don't want to.
I'd totally mod this up. For every problem this book has allegedly solved, for every person it's allegedly saved, it's created 20 problems and doomed 1000 men, women, and/or children. Ban it. Am I being sarcastic? I don't even know anymore. Probably so, but...
Their influence is considerable. It's especially important to pay close attention to what they're saying, seeing as it's the crazy ones with real influence who are in a position to fuck things all up. Never take your eyes off them.
Exactly. I would love to see Metallica try it, though. The FAIL will be pure, epic, and immensely satisfying. I plan on downloading it, not paying for it, not listening to it, and immediately deleting it. Fuck those has-beens.
Nobody "credible" will dig, and those who demand that digging be done will merely be ridiculed as crazy. Which I guess is true; you'd have to be crazy to think that the truth (whatever it might be) will come out on this, but you'd have to be stupid to think that on this one particular issue this administration is at all trustworthy when they've been caught brazenly lying about pretty much everything else they've ever done since they took power - and it was taken, not given. This is no different. Just because I don't know and can't prove what happened doesn't mean that I have to accept as gospel the words of the biggest bullshit artists of them all.
No REAL technophile would EVER insist on electronic voting. They would understand the inherent stupidity of damn near every aspect of the entire concept. Anyone so-called "technophile" hyping the greatness of e-voting is either a clueless poseur or bought and paid for by the Stand Alone Complex of politicians, corporations, and religious leaders that I will simply refer to as The Man.
evoting is only attractive to governments people because it can be hacked easily and more importantly without trace (ram is good like that) no pesky tonnes of paper to dispose of in a ditch. While Mr. Coward's post is entitled "Solution looking for a problem" he also accurately points out that it is, in fact, a solution perfectly matched to the only problem it can ever really solve - the problem of what to do about all those damn voters. The technology will not be going anywhere without assistance from a pitchfork-wielding mob marching on Washington DC. America needs more angry, pitchfork-wielding mobs ready to fuck shit up... politicians would be considerably more receptive to the will of the people if they were one corporate handout away from a PWM scratching up their Benz.
Electronic voting systems have proven easily corrupted, are profanely expensive, and undermine the very spirit of democracy itself. This is why many politicians find them so attractive; it's like looking into a mirror.
Nintendo? Plasma TVs? The revolutionary spirit died long before that. How else to explain both Nixon and Reagan not dying in prison? How else to explain Ollie North almost getting elected as a Senator?
McCain would merely be a bad president; we survived Bush, we could certainly survive McCain. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is a walking embodiment of the repudiation of the American Revolution itself. Bushclintonbushclintonbushclintonbushclinton - President or Vice President since 1980. The New World has gotten a little too Orderly for my taste. No more.
Checking out Solidot via Google translation, I have to remark that Google's translation is not only superior, but actually shits all over Babelfish's gibberish version. The difference is night and day. Suggest a better translation indeed.
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...instead of a black box running Windows CE. As it is, the most effective use of the modern "ballot box" may be to simply drop it from a great height on the head of the politician you wish to defeat.
I doubt that legalizing weed would be very popular with our privatized, for-profit prison industry over here in the USA. Those prisons need fresh meat, or else it becomes a less profitable business. As we all know, in 21st Century America there's no greater crime than threatening someone's profits.
You'd think easy access to drugs and prostitutes would be a selling point.
A better way to boost piracy is difficult to even imagine.
DIVX was made of such utter fail that not only was it a key stage in the decline of the once-respectable Circuit City chain (whippersnappers, this was before your time), its very name became synonymous with movie piracy's codec of choice.
Go ahead and try it, EA. This ought to be pretty amusing.
She IS a Republican in disguise. That's the problem. Well, that, and decades of Bush/Clinton rule. That's an even bigger problem.
Isn't Glory Hole a Christian rap group?
But seriously, Thompson will keep right on getting on the network news shows. They're not at all bright, as you may have noticed. He's obnoxious, and that's all it really takes to get on the news. It will accomplish nothing for niche sites like Slashdot to blacklist all related stories. However, we are more than capable of giving him enough rope to hang himself.
We're working on it. Sometimes these things take time.
Yours,
The United States of America
Does all of your logic come from substance abuse?
No, just the really awesome logic.
I want to see this, and I have heard very little to suggest that it's anything other than quite good. Robert Downey, Jr. is, to my mind, flawless casting for the role.
Having said that, fuck off with the slashvertizing. If I wanted to read Aint It Cool News, I'd read Aint It Cool News. And I don't want to.
I'd totally mod this up. For every problem this book has allegedly solved, for every person it's allegedly saved, it's created 20 problems and doomed 1000 men, women, and/or children. Ban it. Am I being sarcastic? I don't even know anymore. Probably so, but...
Their influence is considerable. It's especially important to pay close attention to what they're saying, seeing as it's the crazy ones with real influence who are in a position to fuck things all up. Never take your eyes off them.
Exactly. I would love to see Metallica try it, though. The FAIL will be pure, epic, and immensely satisfying. I plan on downloading it, not paying for it, not listening to it, and immediately deleting it. Fuck those has-beens.
Nobody "credible" will dig, and those who demand that digging be done will merely be ridiculed as crazy. Which I guess is true; you'd have to be crazy to think that the truth (whatever it might be) will come out on this, but you'd have to be stupid to think that on this one particular issue this administration is at all trustworthy when they've been caught brazenly lying about pretty much everything else they've ever done since they took power - and it was taken, not given. This is no different. Just because I don't know and can't prove what happened doesn't mean that I have to accept as gospel the words of the biggest bullshit artists of them all.
That'd be the Premium Plus edition with the hookers. Also comes with blackjack.
No REAL technophile would EVER insist on electronic voting. They would understand the inherent stupidity of damn near every aspect of the entire concept. Anyone so-called "technophile" hyping the greatness of e-voting is either a clueless poseur or bought and paid for by the Stand Alone Complex of politicians, corporations, and religious leaders that I will simply refer to as The Man.
Electronic voting systems have proven easily corrupted, are profanely expensive, and undermine the very spirit of democracy itself. This is why many politicians find them so attractive; it's like looking into a mirror.
-TJ Too bad we're drowning it in Brawndo.
Nintendo? Plasma TVs? The revolutionary spirit died long before that. How else to explain both Nixon and Reagan not dying in prison? How else to explain Ollie North almost getting elected as a Senator?
McCain would merely be a bad president; we survived Bush, we could certainly survive McCain. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is a walking embodiment of the repudiation of the American Revolution itself. Bushclintonbushclintonbushclintonbushclinton - President or Vice President since 1980. The New World has gotten a little too Orderly for my taste. No more.
I had no idea that was the case; that is without a doubt the most awesome thing I will learn today.
Bush snorted coke and dodged the draft.
Fixed that for you.
My penis - it's everywhere you want to be.
Checking out Solidot via Google translation, I have to remark that Google's translation is not only superior, but actually shits all over Babelfish's gibberish version. The difference is night and day. Suggest a better translation indeed.