Most people I know use the standard emails; GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo. I have a couple people that use emails that I gave them from my own site, but mostly everyone else didn't use my email because webmail isn't glitzy enough.
APART from the Slashdot crowd? Only a few; a few of my friends have email addresses from my site. Most of the others that had it dumped it, simply because the webmail wasn't glitzy enough and they don't use Thunderbird/Outlook.
My guess is that because Google does everything Doubleclick does better already, and has a much better reputation, that they're going to dissolve the name altogether.
And if there's anything a minor needs more of, it's more reasons to have a nice, healthy hatred for the system and the "Man". Shit like this for minors just makes more anarchists as adults. What do you do? Shoot them all? Congratulations: you are now a fascist government.
Why is it that when the news programs, even Fox News, do their "Lets hear from the troops", the vast majority of the statements toe the Bush Administration's line?
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Because they're forced. They are ordered to go and applaud, and be happy bullet sponges.
Been there. Done that. And if I didn't, I'd have possibly lost some rank and pay.
(Full Disclosure: I served on the USS George Washington from 2000 - 2003. The amount of ass-kissing we have to do to anyone with any sort of title is disgraceful. We either do it, or we're disobeying orders)
The flexibility of the system, to me, is a perk. The only thing I don't want is for developers to feel forced into adding gimmicks into their games just so they could say they "got the most" out of the Wii. Too many otherwise-good DS games were fucked up because developers forced us into using the touch pad for things we could easily use a classic control scheme for (the DS version of Star Fox burns me, especially), I'd hate to see that happen to Wii games.
Then again, I'm a little concerned that Nintendo is all of a sudden having shortages on what is ostensibly outdated, pri-gen hardware. You mean to tell me they got all those Wiis together for launch - coincidentally with a screwed up PS3 launch coinciding - and now all of a sudden, they just happened to run out of shit? Seems... almost like they've done this before...
(Hint: Zelda II was intentionally shorted in 1988 to increase and sustain consumer demand)
Think about this: our current console market is a three player game. And the players are all "evil" in their own ways. Every single one. Let's review:
Microsoft: Established in this article, as well as through the entire history of the Windows operating system.
Sony: I think I've personally exposed most of their offences here, and that was back when they were destroying Lik-Sang.
Nintendo: Yeah, sure, they come off as the "noble" company now, but behind that shiny, chubby plumber's veiner lies a company that charges $5 a download - minimum - for games that have been illegally emulated for years and require a pathetically little amount of overhead, while BREAKING their functionality (old passwords don't work on some games), consistently milks their best franchises into spin-off after spin-off of games that have nothing to do with the franchises' original games, and back when they were on top of the console market, would force game companies into Draconian licensing agreements stating that companies could 1) only develop for Nintendo, 2) only make a certain amount of games per year (five), 3) had to allow Nintendo to manufacture all of the cartridges, and 4) Had to acquire the Seal of Quality, and let's not forget how they caused intentional shortages of hardware to create buzz for their products (Zelda II, anyone?) Nintendo is playing nice-nice with people now because they HAVE to.
So who do you root for? Personally, I think it's like choosing just how big the phallus is that screws you up the ass.
Because I'm uncomfortable with getting students comfortable with a system that, by default, orders them to assimilate solely based on how many taxes they pay. It's one thing for a student to want to buy a porno at 15, but to put a school's faculty above reasonable critique is too much. Our country allows us to critique our elected officials because they're elected; I do not want young people to get used to a fascist style of government because it's against our principles, and also because it takes away from the rights of parents to truly determine what is right for their kid.
In a perfect world, the kids parents would have blistered their asses, and this would not be necessary. But in a perfect world, parents wouldn't sue the school system because their kid is a fuck-up, either.
When I was a child, I liked to play shoot-em-up games where you shot "humans". One time, my mother had me pause the NES version of Commando, and showed me what real war looked like; scarred bodies, blood, dead bodies, you name it. I couldn't have been older than nine, considering when Commando came out, I was likely eight.
At that point, I lost all illusions that war was fun, and that everyone just threw their hands up and disappeared when they died. And though I eventually got to having fun with the games again, I never thought about them the same way again.
At companies that do this type of hiring - hiring to save money and keep the bottom line happy, no matter what - they have HR staffs that have to make sure every hire either works out, or doesn't hurt the company. They simply cannot afford to take a chance on anything, because if someone doesn't pan out, they have people that they have to answer to.
So what happens when someone doesn't pan out? Depends. If they take some guy that doesn't have a degree, then it's because of their hiring practises; why didn't they take the person with the degree? He has a degree! But if the guy with the degree didn't pan out? Well, that's on the guy with the degree now. HE'S the moron.
It's all about accountability. And HR types are there for two things: filling holes, and keeping their asses covered. Even if too many people with large titles next to their names are idiots everywhere else, it doesn't matter to people doing the hiring (who oftentimes don't know the first thing about what they're interviewing for).
But where do you stop? I'm all for nailing happy-slappers, but where do you stop? What's the next Crusade? (Oops... probably a bad word to use, dealing with England...)
We're gonna prosecute happy-slappers! OK, that's done... now, let's prosecute litterbugs! We'll catch them on video, and yell at them, or possibly fine them! We'll know, we have it on file!
Furthermore, I don't know about you, but the prospect of being on camera, under constant scrutiny, constantly recorded and logfiled 100% of the time is a bit unsettling. I am a law abiding citizen, and can defend myself against those that aren't, I don't want to be constantly watched and have every little thing potentially corrected simply because a few people don't have the common sense to be aware of their surroundings.
The ONLY people that care about DST from a work standpoint are us IT people, because of all the shit we had to go to re-patch our systems. Other than that, this is insignificant. Moving DST was insignificant in itself; I call it "Freedom Fries Legislation"
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It's where it's going that scares me.
The United States want TOTAL control of where you go, what you can do, etc. They're going to use 9/11 to get anything and everything it wants in terms of our liberties. And the fact of the matter is that it simply doesn't have the right to do that. Not only does it not have the right to be that intrusive on it's own citizens, it sure as HELL doesn't have that right to be that intrusive on citizens of other countries! "Hey, Canada won't accept our demands to make their own version of the DMCA? Cool, we'll do it for them!"
The United States has justified everything they do lately with no more than two words: terrorism or paedophilia. Those are the heavy hitters that get people moving. Even if the subject at hand has nothing to do with either of those things, they shove their laws down the throats of their own citizens on those two principles, weather they like it or not, and if they can't have it become a law, then the US just does whatever it is anyway (see: domestic warrantless wiretapping, secret spying programme, the FBI abusing the Patriot Act, etc.). Now you want them to be able to do that with THE ENTIRE INTERNET?
Yes, but how would it be enforced? The top level adult sites, yes, they'd go to.xxx. But that won't stop the less legitimate sites from trying to sneak around... not only will those sites ignore the.xxx domain - and by extension, the filtering of it - those sites are that much more likely to have malware and viruses.
It's a great idea in theory, but I don't see it being properly executed.
This is a great idea, but hard to enforce. Most people let anything and everything get to their systems because they don't want to miss that ONE KEY EMAIL~ and really, you're entrusting end-users with PGP. That's what it sounds like to me, and if that's the case, this has little chance of working in practise.
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Or remember that there is no language called "Chinese".
Most people I know use the standard emails; GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo. I have a couple people that use emails that I gave them from my own site, but mostly everyone else didn't use my email because webmail isn't glitzy enough.
APART from the Slashdot crowd? Only a few; a few of my friends have email addresses from my site. Most of the others that had it dumped it, simply because the webmail wasn't glitzy enough and they don't use Thunderbird/Outlook.
My guess is that because Google does everything Doubleclick does better already, and has a much better reputation, that they're going to dissolve the name altogether.
Not that I'm complaining...
I like the nice, thinly veiled reference to campaign fundraising that was made.
So what's taking so long with election reform again?
And if there's anything a minor needs more of, it's more reasons to have a nice, healthy hatred for the system and the "Man". Shit like this for minors just makes more anarchists as adults. What do you do? Shoot them all? Congratulations: you are now a fascist government.
Why is it that when the news programs, even Fox News, do their "Lets hear from the troops", the vast majority of the statements toe the Bush Administration's line?
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Because they're forced. They are ordered to go and applaud, and be happy bullet sponges.
Been there. Done that. And if I didn't, I'd have possibly lost some rank and pay.
(Full Disclosure: I served on the USS George Washington from 2000 - 2003. The amount of ass-kissing we have to do to anyone with any sort of title is disgraceful. We either do it, or we're disobeying orders)
The flexibility of the system, to me, is a perk. The only thing I don't want is for developers to feel forced into adding gimmicks into their games just so they could say they "got the most" out of the Wii. Too many otherwise-good DS games were fucked up because developers forced us into using the touch pad for things we could easily use a classic control scheme for (the DS version of Star Fox burns me, especially), I'd hate to see that happen to Wii games.
Then again, I'm a little concerned that Nintendo is all of a sudden having shortages on what is ostensibly outdated, pri-gen hardware. You mean to tell me they got all those Wiis together for launch - coincidentally with a screwed up PS3 launch coinciding - and now all of a sudden, they just happened to run out of shit? Seems... almost like they've done this before...
(Hint: Zelda II was intentionally shorted in 1988 to increase and sustain consumer demand)
Think about this: our current console market is a three player game. And the players are all "evil" in their own ways. Every single one. Let's review:
Microsoft: Established in this article, as well as through the entire history of the Windows operating system.
Sony: I think I've personally exposed most of their offences here, and that was back when they were destroying Lik-Sang.
Nintendo: Yeah, sure, they come off as the "noble" company now, but behind that shiny, chubby plumber's veiner lies a company that charges $5 a download - minimum - for games that have been illegally emulated for years and require a pathetically little amount of overhead, while BREAKING their functionality (old passwords don't work on some games), consistently milks their best franchises into spin-off after spin-off of games that have nothing to do with the franchises' original games, and back when they were on top of the console market, would force game companies into Draconian licensing agreements stating that companies could 1) only develop for Nintendo, 2) only make a certain amount of games per year (five), 3) had to allow Nintendo to manufacture all of the cartridges, and 4) Had to acquire the Seal of Quality, and let's not forget how they caused intentional shortages of hardware to create buzz for their products (Zelda II, anyone?) Nintendo is playing nice-nice with people now because they HAVE to.
So who do you root for? Personally, I think it's like choosing just how big the phallus is that screws you up the ass.
So if you're such a fucking lawyer, why are you here, and not out suing people?
Because I'm uncomfortable with getting students comfortable with a system that, by default, orders them to assimilate solely based on how many taxes they pay. It's one thing for a student to want to buy a porno at 15, but to put a school's faculty above reasonable critique is too much. Our country allows us to critique our elected officials because they're elected; I do not want young people to get used to a fascist style of government because it's against our principles, and also because it takes away from the rights of parents to truly determine what is right for their kid.
In a perfect world, the kids parents would have blistered their asses, and this would not be necessary. But in a perfect world, parents wouldn't sue the school system because their kid is a fuck-up, either.
When I was a child, I liked to play shoot-em-up games where you shot "humans". One time, my mother had me pause the NES version of Commando, and showed me what real war looked like; scarred bodies, blood, dead bodies, you name it. I couldn't have been older than nine, considering when Commando came out, I was likely eight.
At that point, I lost all illusions that war was fun, and that everyone just threw their hands up and disappeared when they died. And though I eventually got to having fun with the games again, I never thought about them the same way again.
Yes, but you're forgetting one important thing:
At companies that do this type of hiring - hiring to save money and keep the bottom line happy, no matter what - they have HR staffs that have to make sure every hire either works out, or doesn't hurt the company. They simply cannot afford to take a chance on anything, because if someone doesn't pan out, they have people that they have to answer to.
So what happens when someone doesn't pan out? Depends. If they take some guy that doesn't have a degree, then it's because of their hiring practises; why didn't they take the person with the degree? He has a degree! But if the guy with the degree didn't pan out? Well, that's on the guy with the degree now. HE'S the moron.
It's all about accountability. And HR types are there for two things: filling holes, and keeping their asses covered. Even if too many people with large titles next to their names are idiots everywhere else, it doesn't matter to people doing the hiring (who oftentimes don't know the first thing about what they're interviewing for).
A freak is someone that has officially listed you as a "foe". :(
But where do you stop? I'm all for nailing happy-slappers, but where do you stop? What's the next Crusade? (Oops... probably a bad word to use, dealing with England...)
We're gonna prosecute happy-slappers! OK, that's done... now, let's prosecute litterbugs! We'll catch them on video, and yell at them, or possibly fine them! We'll know, we have it on file!
Furthermore, I don't know about you, but the prospect of being on camera, under constant scrutiny, constantly recorded and logfiled 100% of the time is a bit unsettling. I am a law abiding citizen, and can defend myself against those that aren't, I don't want to be constantly watched and have every little thing potentially corrected simply because a few people don't have the common sense to be aware of their surroundings.
The ONLY people that care about DST from a work standpoint are us IT people, because of all the shit we had to go to re-patch our systems. Other than that, this is insignificant. Moving DST was insignificant in itself; I call it "Freedom Fries Legislation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act
Simply put? Yes.
It's where it's going that scares me.
The United States want TOTAL control of where you go, what you can do, etc. They're going to use 9/11 to get anything and everything it wants in terms of our liberties. And the fact of the matter is that it simply doesn't have the right to do that. Not only does it not have the right to be that intrusive on it's own citizens, it sure as HELL doesn't have that right to be that intrusive on citizens of other countries! "Hey, Canada won't accept our demands to make their own version of the DMCA? Cool, we'll do it for them!"
The United States has justified everything they do lately with no more than two words: terrorism or paedophilia. Those are the heavy hitters that get people moving. Even if the subject at hand has nothing to do with either of those things, they shove their laws down the throats of their own citizens on those two principles, weather they like it or not, and if they can't have it become a law, then the US just does whatever it is anyway (see: domestic warrantless wiretapping, secret spying programme, the FBI abusing the Patriot Act, etc.). Now you want them to be able to do that with THE ENTIRE INTERNET?
Yes, but how would it be enforced? The top level adult sites, yes, they'd go to .xxx. But that won't stop the less legitimate sites from trying to sneak around... not only will those sites ignore the .xxx domain - and by extension, the filtering of it - those sites are that much more likely to have malware and viruses.
It's a great idea in theory, but I don't see it being properly executed.
Is that a bad thing?
Let's not let Stars and Stripes interfere with our better judgement, if that's what you're getting at.
So what are you proposing? A phishing scan of every email? Public encryption keys attached to every ebay.com email?
Good luck. How long do you think it will take to find a way around that?
In the meantime? I do what I can.
This is a great idea, but hard to enforce. Most people let anything and everything get to their systems because they don't want to miss that ONE KEY EMAIL~ and really, you're entrusting end-users with PGP. That's what it sounds like to me, and if that's the case, this has little chance of working in practise.
I'd be with you if I actually trusted Congress to act in the best interests of the people instead of the Big Four.