To get back on topic, the French were the Old Republic, and the British the Trade Federation with their control of trade routes and legions of driod slaves. The Sith were the Germans, who created a master race of identical clones that they used against the French and the British. Led by a powerful charismatic senator the galaxy was to come under a thousand year Reich, that is Empire. A while into this, the Americans, or Rebels showed up and proceeded to kick the Empires arse, and with the aid of the Ewok French Resistance they freed the galaxy from Darth Hitlers tyrrany. Oh, and the Russians were Wookies.
He has a bad dream, and after a nice little chat with a Sith Lord he feels all better and coincidentally turns into a rampaging murderous genocidal child killer, finishing with the attempt to kill the very person whose imaginary death somewhere vaguely in the future drove him to this in the first place. It's ten times worse than less credible moments like Ewoks defeating a legion of stormtroopers armed to the teeth using rocks and twine, or a moon sized space fortress not armouring its exhaust pipe, or anything Jar-Jar said or did because it makes Darth Vader look like a whinging, cretinous gullible fool. Darth fucking Vader, the ultimate evil badarse from my childhood turned into a snivelling, drooling moronic dipshit. Episode III was the culmination of a massive, stinking turdlogy that utterly ruined my joyous childhood memories of the originals. Fuck George Lucas, first he neuters Lucasarts then brings out this Hutt sized steaming pile of crap forever tainting the good reputation he obviously never deserved. Nobody with half a brain will let him go near a camera again, but unfortunately the entertainment industry was never one to require half a brain. It was just too much to retire on millions of dollars, the tool had to go prove what a talentless hack he was.
I'd go so far as to say they should definitely be selling these games to minors. Firstly, the ratings are knee-jerk reactionary mostly meaningless bullshit. kids aren't as stupid as we make out, and know the difference between cartoon and computer game versus real life violence. Secondly, any parent giving their children enough money for games these days and not supervising their purchases should be happy that all little Timmy is buying is a computer game. The stores should do what the hell they like, not cave to whining parents lobbies who want everyone except the parent to be responsible for a childs upbringing. The day we legislate the need for no personal responsibility is the day we descend into totalitarianism.
How the hell Microsoft gets to play the 'just works' card is beyond me. Unless, of course, by 'just' they mean 'barely', like 'it works, but only just.' Apart from the overly heavy handed authentication that breaks on trivial hardware changes, the godforsaken registry from hell and lets not forget their latest innovation in insanity, you can [Accept] windows 'barely works' or live in [Denial].
Why would you want to avoid forks? If it splits the community evenly, well in time there will hopefully be two strong communities. If it splits for a specific purpose and forms a small dedicated community (eg. IceWeasel) it does little harm to the main package, and provides for improvements to be fed back via merging (like Cegega with WINE). The whole 'forks are bad' concept is flawed, some forks fail, some work fine independently, some create a symbiotic system of dozens of forks that interoperate (eg. Linux). Forks are a vital aspect of the open source landscape, providing specialist needs as well as diversifying communities.
Betas can be surprisingly stable, but I'd give it more than a cursory glance before recommending it widely. Until you've played with it for at least a week, you won't see its weaknesses. That said, I'm sure responsiveness and memory usage are better because they were two of the glaring flaws in the package and an obvious site for improvement. As for the rest, well who cares if other little issues remain, if they did fix those two glaring flaws and kept the rest tight it should be the de facto browser fairly soon. Finally we can code to W3C not Redmond. Netscape may have lost many battles, but the war isn't over by a long shot.
djgpp has mprotect but no mmap, but malloc is all you need for his technique. It looks very robust at minimal cost. No such thing as too paranoid, look what just happened with FLAC.
They also failed to mention the biggest problem, which is the proliferation of stupid people since AOL came online.
Well, duh, it's America Online, and everyone knows that America is the stupidest country on Earth. You made the internet, you broke it, now FIX THE BASTARD BY RAISING THE FUCKING LEVEL OF DISCOURSE, START WITH YOUR PITIFUL BROKEN EDUCATION SYSTEM! Since your country is the wealthiest, including your INCALCULABLE WEALTH OF STUPIDITY, try to reinvest some of your tax funds in EDUCATING YOUR DUMB ARSES instead of BLOWING SHIT UP SO YOU CAN CHANNEL YOUR COUNTRYS WEALTH INTO THE POCKETS OF CORRUPT MULTINATIONALS WHO ARE ALL IN BED WITH YOUR KLEPTOCRATIC DICTATORS! Oh noes but that would be SOCIALISM and we all know that means DICTATORSHIP and COMMUNISM even though you are PUTTING MUSSOLINI, HITLER and STALIN TO SHAME with your level of PLUTOCRATIC FASCISM and GULAGS. Fuck your AMERICAN SPIRIT, IT IS A PALE COWARDLY IMITATION OF YOUR FOREBEARS AND YOU HAVE SHAMED AND CORRUPTED THEIR GREAT LEGACY. WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
Phew! I haven't shouted so much in years! It really helps clear the phlegm.
Here's something I wrote a while back about trolls:
That was an excellent summary. Most trolls seem to be pranksters like you, in it for a giggle. It's a pity they aren't tolerated more, I guess most people can't take a joke:p I think it is a wonderful part of the global internet culture, a streak of larrikinism and mirth that is often lacking in the 'serious business' that is the internet. Of course, they do get annoying fast... to which I got the reply:
I troll because I hate people and enjoy making them suffer. If anything, the troll is varied in its motives Sticking trolls into a particular state of mind and pinning down their motivation is impossible, as one mans entertainment is another mans hate fueled rage. I like trolls, they are a subtle reminder that boundaries must be constantly tested and pushed back lest we fall into totalitarianism.
The following letter is inspired by a quote from Thomas Paine: "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Instead of focusing on why biased reporting and blatant disregard for the truth are hardly limited to highly visible media outlets, I would like to remind people that HiggsBison likes to compare his protests to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them. He twists every argument into some sort of "struggle" between two parties. HiggsBison unvaryingly constitutes the underdog party, which is what he claims gives him the right to scrap the notion of national sovereignty. His double standards are based on two fundamental errors. They assume that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. And they promote the mistaken idea that hooliganism brings one closer to nirvana.
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people. I can therefore assure you that if HiggsBison were to inculcate the hermeneutics of suspicion in otherwise open-minded people, social upheaval and violence would follow. It is therefore clear that HiggsBison will accelerate the natural tendency of civilization to devolve from order to chaos, liberty to tyranny, and virtue to vice because he possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses the most batty ex-cons I've ever seen with neo-biggety and uncontrollable rage. HiggsBison periodically puts up a facade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual. If he thinks that he can make me cower before the emotions and accusations of others, then he's barking up the wrong tree. HiggsBison's understrappers work behind the scenes to shame my name. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true.
You may not understand this now, and I don't fault you for that, but HiggsBison's grievances will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that. You might think that anyone who doesn't know that HiggsBison is unforgiving must be inhabiting a different world. Well, if that's the case, then I'm afraid HiggsBison's vassals must have spent the past month on Mars. Are you beginning to get the picture here? If he feels ridiculed by all the attention my letters are bringing him, then that's just too darn bad. HiggsBison's arrogance has brought this upon himself. Anyway, I hope I've made my point, which is that the only morally sound solution is to deal summarily with polyloquent card sharks.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, there is no formation of attorney client privilege, this does not serve as an offer to represent you, your family, or anyone you have ever met, consult the advice of a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction before taking any action, the forgoing is for informational and educational purposes only, and any and all warranties inherent in this post whether express or implied are hereby disclaimed. Are you sure you're not a lawyer?
Shhhh! The quicker game developers move to OpenGL the quicker MS will lose their gaming advantage. So just let DirectX 10 die with Vista, then we can all happily ditch MS and live in a Linuxian computopia!
Indeed, I allow ads onto sites that I frequent, though I block ads by default and have the larger advertisers (doubleclick, google etc.) blocked in my host file. Still, I never think I'm stealing bandwidth by not looking at ads, that is completely disingenuous. I have to pay for bandwidth on my end, if they don't want to pay for bandwidth on theirs they can get off the net.
You forgot the part where she controls their mind them from birth to become virtual extensions of her hive mind and assimilate all the nectar in the cosmos to build more Hive Cubes.
Nope, this is the world we live in today, a world where the question 'How do we teach inner city adolescents about the homeless' would be met not with a grouchy muppet but with condemnation for even suggesting childrens minds should be tainted with real world facts.
Political correctness, or pussification has gone too far and must be rudely and loudly stamped out of our society before we all become spineless weaklings afraid to stand up to such blatant abuse of authority.
Explain to me why homosexuality is so bad. Explain to me why the preacher dude wears a dress. Explain to me why I should care about the whole Jesus thing. Explain to me why God matters in today's and tomorrow's society. Most importantly, do it all in a pertinent and rational manner.
I was raised Catholic, so here's my perspective: Homosexuality is not so bad according to Catholics and the Pope (well, John Paul II was very lenient, Benedict is more catious). Many don't believe this, so here's the Pope:
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder...
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs. - Pope Benedict XVI
Condemnation of male homosexuality (girls don't get much of a mention in the bible and are free to munch carpet) extends from rules proscribed in Leviticus, which also call for the stoning to death of those that work on the sabbath and many other antiquated and unobserved rituals. Catholics study the bible the way it was meant to be studied, not literally but interpretively. Also, the new testament tells us that the old ways need not be heeded, only that we should accept Christ and his message, though others interpret this differently. Either way, we have stopped condemning sabbath violators to death as well as homosexuals.
The priest wears a robe as a part of a ritual symbolizing his loss of individuality among other things, which is also why the Pope often changes his name upon ordination - he sacrifices his individuality to become a representative of Christ on earth.
The whole Jesus thing is simply that he cast off the old rules (ie. Leviticus) to say there is only one rule, love your neighbour as you love yourself. You should care because what the world needs now, is love, sweet love.
Religion matters in this day and age because it is still a great way to explore the metaphysical. God matters because humanity matters, and God is just a metaphor for humanity as a whole.
All this said I am strongly (devoutly?) atheist, as I believe there is no mythical creator deity but simply that we are all gods, whose individual and collective achievements create mythical gods as time goes on. I do believe there is more to this universe than matter and time alone, such that science, numbers and even language are powerless to describe. That said, I read the works of the prophets in the bible, the koran, as I do the acts of the gods in the epic of Gilgamesh simply to enhance my wisdom with that of ages past. There is no need to condemn the bible if you just look at it as a nice poetry book, just condemn the acts of those who use ambiguous poetry as justification of their actions.
It's quite insane, and its not just humans but plants, insects, you name it, someones out there patenting a genome sequence of it. It seems ludicrous, but hey look at the crazy stuff they do to modify natural remedies into pharmaceuticals introducing all sorts of unwanted effects, all because they wouldn't let nature be patented. We sure learned our lesson there, won't let that happen again. Damn, its becoming like I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic anymore. That's it, I'm off to take a patent out on the English language - prior art be damned!
Actually, this would be a terrible idea, as Australia has one of the most heavy handed censorship campaigns in the western world. Here's an excerpt from the OpenNet Initiative:
Australia maintains some of the most restrictive Internet policies of any Western nation, while its neighbor, New Zealand, is less rigorous in its Internet regulation. Without any explicit protection of free speech in the constitution,1 the Australian government has used its "communications power" delineated in the constitution to regulate the availability of offensive content,2 endowing a government entity with the power to issue take-down notices for Internet content hosted within the country. A number of state and territorial governments in Australia have also passed legislation making the distribution of offensive material a criminal offense, as the constitution does not afford that power to the national government.3
The Australian government also promotes and finances an "opt-in" filtering program, in which Internet users voluntarily accept filtering software that blocks offensive content hosted outside of the country. At present there are no plans for a countrywide Internet service provider (ISP)-level filtering regime, though Australia's handling of hate speech, copyright, defamation, and security signal the government's desire to increase the scope of its Internet regulation.
Don't blame the prophet for the failings of those who take his name in vein. He had a vivacious and ever exploring mind, concieving of the previously unimaginable and laying the foundations of the modern space age and information age. To blame Tesla for the modern day tinfoil club nutters is like blaming Darwin for intelligent designers.
You do realise that he repeatedly succeeded in wirelessly distributing power. We've been wirelessly distributing power for over a century thanks to his discoveries, from powering a crystal radio from the airwaves to RFID chips. Rather, I'd suggest he was too busy writing the physics books to make much money from them.
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To get back on topic, the French were the Old Republic, and the British the Trade Federation with their control of trade routes and legions of driod slaves. The Sith were the Germans, who created a master race of identical clones that they used against the French and the British. Led by a powerful charismatic senator the galaxy was to come under a thousand year Reich, that is Empire. A while into this, the Americans, or Rebels showed up and proceeded to kick the Empires arse, and with the aid of the Ewok French Resistance they freed the galaxy from Darth Hitlers tyrrany. Oh, and the Russians were Wookies.
He has a bad dream, and after a nice little chat with a Sith Lord he feels all better and coincidentally turns into a rampaging murderous genocidal child killer, finishing with the attempt to kill the very person whose imaginary death somewhere vaguely in the future drove him to this in the first place. It's ten times worse than less credible moments like Ewoks defeating a legion of stormtroopers armed to the teeth using rocks and twine, or a moon sized space fortress not armouring its exhaust pipe, or anything Jar-Jar said or did because it makes Darth Vader look like a whinging, cretinous gullible fool. Darth fucking Vader, the ultimate evil badarse from my childhood turned into a snivelling, drooling moronic dipshit. Episode III was the culmination of a massive, stinking turdlogy that utterly ruined my joyous childhood memories of the originals. Fuck George Lucas, first he neuters Lucasarts then brings out this Hutt sized steaming pile of crap forever tainting the good reputation he obviously never deserved. Nobody with half a brain will let him go near a camera again, but unfortunately the entertainment industry was never one to require half a brain. It was just too much to retire on millions of dollars, the tool had to go prove what a talentless hack he was.
I'd go so far as to say they should definitely be selling these games to minors. Firstly, the ratings are knee-jerk reactionary mostly meaningless bullshit. kids aren't as stupid as we make out, and know the difference between cartoon and computer game versus real life violence. Secondly, any parent giving their children enough money for games these days and not supervising their purchases should be happy that all little Timmy is buying is a computer game. The stores should do what the hell they like, not cave to whining parents lobbies who want everyone except the parent to be responsible for a childs upbringing. The day we legislate the need for no personal responsibility is the day we descend into totalitarianism.
How the hell Microsoft gets to play the 'just works' card is beyond me. Unless, of course, by 'just' they mean 'barely', like 'it works, but only just.' Apart from the overly heavy handed authentication that breaks on trivial hardware changes, the godforsaken registry from hell and lets not forget their latest innovation in insanity, you can [Accept] windows 'barely works' or live in [Denial].
It's obviously MSNBC, but we don't like to mention the Beast around here.
Why would you want to avoid forks? If it splits the community evenly, well in time there will hopefully be two strong communities. If it splits for a specific purpose and forms a small dedicated community (eg. IceWeasel) it does little harm to the main package, and provides for improvements to be fed back via merging (like Cegega with WINE). The whole 'forks are bad' concept is flawed, some forks fail, some work fine independently, some create a symbiotic system of dozens of forks that interoperate (eg. Linux). Forks are a vital aspect of the open source landscape, providing specialist needs as well as diversifying communities.
Betas can be surprisingly stable, but I'd give it more than a cursory glance before recommending it widely. Until you've played with it for at least a week, you won't see its weaknesses. That said, I'm sure responsiveness and memory usage are better because they were two of the glaring flaws in the package and an obvious site for improvement. As for the rest, well who cares if other little issues remain, if they did fix those two glaring flaws and kept the rest tight it should be the de facto browser fairly soon. Finally we can code to W3C not Redmond. Netscape may have lost many battles, but the war isn't over by a long shot.
Tell that to Robert Hazeley, a 50 year old vegan who placed 10th out of 18 at last years Mr. Universe competition.
djgpp has mprotect but no mmap, but malloc is all you need for his technique. It looks very robust at minimal cost. No such thing as too paranoid, look what just happened with FLAC.
Well, duh, it's America Online, and everyone knows that America is the stupidest country on Earth. You made the internet, you broke it, now FIX THE BASTARD BY RAISING THE FUCKING LEVEL OF DISCOURSE, START WITH YOUR PITIFUL BROKEN EDUCATION SYSTEM! Since your country is the wealthiest, including your INCALCULABLE WEALTH OF STUPIDITY, try to reinvest some of your tax funds in EDUCATING YOUR DUMB ARSES instead of BLOWING SHIT UP SO YOU CAN CHANNEL YOUR COUNTRYS WEALTH INTO THE POCKETS OF CORRUPT MULTINATIONALS WHO ARE ALL IN BED WITH YOUR KLEPTOCRATIC DICTATORS! Oh noes but that would be SOCIALISM and we all know that means DICTATORSHIP and COMMUNISM even though you are PUTTING MUSSOLINI, HITLER and STALIN TO SHAME with your level of PLUTOCRATIC FASCISM and GULAGS. Fuck your AMERICAN SPIRIT, IT IS A PALE COWARDLY IMITATION OF YOUR FOREBEARS AND YOU HAVE SHAMED AND CORRUPTED THEIR GREAT LEGACY. WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
Phew! I haven't shouted so much in years! It really helps clear the phlegm.
The following letter is inspired by a quote from Thomas Paine: "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Instead of focusing on why biased reporting and blatant disregard for the truth are hardly limited to highly visible media outlets, I would like to remind people that HiggsBison likes to compare his protests to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them. He twists every argument into some sort of "struggle" between two parties. HiggsBison unvaryingly constitutes the underdog party, which is what he claims gives him the right to scrap the notion of national sovereignty. His double standards are based on two fundamental errors. They assume that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. And they promote the mistaken idea that hooliganism brings one closer to nirvana.
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people. I can therefore assure you that if HiggsBison were to inculcate the hermeneutics of suspicion in otherwise open-minded people, social upheaval and violence would follow. It is therefore clear that HiggsBison will accelerate the natural tendency of civilization to devolve from order to chaos, liberty to tyranny, and virtue to vice because he possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses the most batty ex-cons I've ever seen with neo-biggety and uncontrollable rage. HiggsBison periodically puts up a facade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual. If he thinks that he can make me cower before the emotions and accusations of others, then he's barking up the wrong tree. HiggsBison's understrappers work behind the scenes to shame my name. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true.
You may not understand this now, and I don't fault you for that, but HiggsBison's grievances will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that. You might think that anyone who doesn't know that HiggsBison is unforgiving must be inhabiting a different world. Well, if that's the case, then I'm afraid HiggsBison's vassals must have spent the past month on Mars. Are you beginning to get the picture here? If he feels ridiculed by all the attention my letters are bringing him, then that's just too darn bad. HiggsBison's arrogance has brought this upon himself. Anyway, I hope I've made my point, which is that the only morally sound solution is to deal summarily with polyloquent card sharks.
In any case, perhaps you were looking for this.
Shhhh! The quicker game developers move to OpenGL the quicker MS will lose their gaming advantage. So just let DirectX 10 die with Vista, then we can all happily ditch MS and live in a Linuxian computopia!
Indeed, I allow ads onto sites that I frequent, though I block ads by default and have the larger advertisers (doubleclick, google etc.) blocked in my host file. Still, I never think I'm stealing bandwidth by not looking at ads, that is completely disingenuous. I have to pay for bandwidth on my end, if they don't want to pay for bandwidth on theirs they can get off the net.
You forgot the part where she controls their mind them from birth to become virtual extensions of her hive mind and assimilate all the nectar in the cosmos to build more Hive Cubes.
Political correctness, or pussification has gone too far and must be rudely and loudly stamped out of our society before we all become spineless weaklings afraid to stand up to such blatant abuse of authority.
I was raised Catholic, so here's my perspective: Homosexuality is not so bad according to Catholics and the Pope (well, John Paul II was very lenient, Benedict is more catious). Many don't believe this, so here's the Pope:
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder...It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs. - Pope Benedict XVI
Condemnation of male homosexuality (girls don't get much of a mention in the bible and are free to munch carpet) extends from rules proscribed in Leviticus, which also call for the stoning to death of those that work on the sabbath and many other antiquated and unobserved rituals. Catholics study the bible the way it was meant to be studied, not literally but interpretively. Also, the new testament tells us that the old ways need not be heeded, only that we should accept Christ and his message, though others interpret this differently. Either way, we have stopped condemning sabbath violators to death as well as homosexuals.
The priest wears a robe as a part of a ritual symbolizing his loss of individuality among other things, which is also why the Pope often changes his name upon ordination - he sacrifices his individuality to become a representative of Christ on earth.
The whole Jesus thing is simply that he cast off the old rules (ie. Leviticus) to say there is only one rule, love your neighbour as you love yourself. You should care because what the world needs now, is love, sweet love.
Religion matters in this day and age because it is still a great way to explore the metaphysical. God matters because humanity matters, and God is just a metaphor for humanity as a whole.
All this said I am strongly (devoutly?) atheist, as I believe there is no mythical creator deity but simply that we are all gods, whose individual and collective achievements create mythical gods as time goes on. I do believe there is more to this universe than matter and time alone, such that science, numbers and even language are powerless to describe. That said, I read the works of the prophets in the bible, the koran, as I do the acts of the gods in the epic of Gilgamesh simply to enhance my wisdom with that of ages past. There is no need to condemn the bible if you just look at it as a nice poetry book, just condemn the acts of those who use ambiguous poetry as justification of their actions.
I'll come round and squirt you with my Zune, we'll see if that helps.
Obviously the professor is assigning /. postings again. I myself have a (Score:3, Funny) GPA.
It's quite insane, and its not just humans but plants, insects, you name it, someones out there patenting a genome sequence of it. It seems ludicrous, but hey look at the crazy stuff they do to modify natural remedies into pharmaceuticals introducing all sorts of unwanted effects, all because they wouldn't let nature be patented. We sure learned our lesson there, won't let that happen again. Damn, its becoming like I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic anymore. That's it, I'm off to take a patent out on the English language - prior art be damned!
The Australian government also promotes and finances an "opt-in" filtering program, in which Internet users voluntarily accept filtering software that blocks offensive content hosted outside of the country. At present there are no plans for a countrywide Internet service provider (ISP)-level filtering regime, though Australia's handling of hate speech, copyright, defamation, and security signal the government's desire to increase the scope of its Internet regulation.
Don't blame the prophet for the failings of those who take his name in vein. He had a vivacious and ever exploring mind, concieving of the previously unimaginable and laying the foundations of the modern space age and information age. To blame Tesla for the modern day tinfoil club nutters is like blaming Darwin for intelligent designers.
You do realise that he repeatedly succeeded in wirelessly distributing power. We've been wirelessly distributing power for over a century thanks to his discoveries, from powering a crystal radio from the airwaves to RFID chips. Rather, I'd suggest he was too busy writing the physics books to make much money from them.