If you want me to look at your ads, stop making them annoy me so much! Stop using blinking, flashing banners (too bad the BLINK tag didn't take you with it when that died), stop using javascript banners that are as likely to infect my computer as not. Stop trying to "bundle" your adware with anything I want to install.
You forgot to add, "Stop making me waste download time and bandwidth (especially if I have to pay for it) to download your ads. That's one of the most practical arguments in support of Adblock Plus.
It's the MAFIAA doing all this hard and expensive work. You think running a nationwide/worldwide mob is cheap?
I know you're being sarcastic, but the real problem is that law enforcement is doing all this hard and expensive work. Tying up the courts and sending the police to your door, all to keep a failed business model afloat. Now the RIAA is so confident in their enforcement connections that they're trying to set up an extortion model to get more money. This is a classic example of taxpayer money distributed upward to the deep pockets.
Taking my money to pay somebody else's housing bill is theft of labor.
I think a financial sector that systematically deregulated any oversight and pisses away over one third of our GDP on derivatives, where nobody knows who owes what to who, is theft of labor. Up another notch if they keep on demanding their executive bonus money from taxpayers, "or else the economy will collapse".
How many stupid bloody plastic toy accessories are going to be released for this fad of a console? Soon it will be a 1:1 ratio of games to controllers available for it, all the while your consumers snapping them like wildfire. I'll stick with my PS3 and maybe buy a 360 again when Jasper Elite finally comes out.
Better than "buying a 360 again" when a game comes out, eh?
This post is very proprietary. You can't do anything with it. In fact, you have to pay 25 cents because you read it... Otherwise, it would be a shame if anything happened to your...everything. (/extortion) Yes, I can do that with your zero license.
Says somebody who obviously never needed social programs. It's everybody's responsibility to uphold a civil society by helping the truly needy, because they would expect the same if they needed it.
Time to go after the pork. Scaling the military-industrial complex down to a defensive level instead of an imperial level suddenly frees up nearly half our federal revenue. Imagine all the social programs that would benefit.
Agreed. This switch away from NTSC has "new revenue stream" written all over it. Solutions to problems people currently face with the digital switch? "Buy this, buy that." Seriously, who can repair digital electronics nearly as easily as the analog counterparts? You can't order a replacement ATSC tuner for your TV model. Cash in the $$$ and get a converter box that you'll have to plug into another power socket. Even the signal is flaky, so you need to buy a "smart antenna". HDTV apparently wasn't compelling enough to spend thousands of dollars on, so the TV manufacturers wanted help from the government to speed obsolesence along. Let's hope they never shut down analog radio broadcasts. I like making radios.
China is the Western world's factory exactly because they have no pollution control and slave labor. If they set more rigorous standards for worker's rights and the environment, we would manufacture things in the cheapest country somewhere else.
so what is the carbon footprint of a $44B dollar broadband system
Internet-posting hypocrite! Even if you don't use broadband, dial-up forces electrical current through the telephone line. Probably far more costly than fiber-optic lines, especially waiting hours to download that XP hotfix.
Rant! This is the main beef I have with people who call themselves "anarcho-capitalist economic libertarian" etc. Social programs like healthcare apparently mean nothing, but when scaling back our gluttonous military-industrial complex (well over 50% of our federal taxes) is ever brought up, you guys sound all butt-hurt. Sure, it could be a different technocrat group, but it sounds like it's coming from the libertarian camp. If I were to cut back government spending, the "richest military in the world" budget would be the first place I'd look.
A good quality hardcover can last HUNDREDS of years! Try that with any electronic device or file-system.
Indeed. Archivability is the sticking point in most forms of modern media. Hard drives are especially fragile, which is yet another reason why I won't buy something that isn't available in a physical form. Ease-of-use, durability, and especially archivability are what books do well. E-books are well past a solution searching for a problem, but they've got too many disadvantages (especially with proprietary file formats) compared to good old paper.
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If you want me to look at your ads, stop making them annoy me so much! Stop using blinking, flashing banners (too bad the BLINK tag didn't take you with it when that died), stop using javascript banners that are as likely to infect my computer as not. Stop trying to "bundle" your adware with anything I want to install.
You forgot to add, "Stop making me waste download time and bandwidth (especially if I have to pay for it) to download your ads. That's one of the most practical arguments in support of Adblock Plus.
For example, today is 04/04/2009. It's a very useful technique, maybe Slashdot just wanted to let us the power at our fingertips?
to clarify...
Check that flooring material, pronto.
It's the MAFIAA doing all this hard and expensive work. You think running a nationwide/worldwide mob is cheap?
I know you're being sarcastic, but the real problem is that law enforcement is doing all this hard and expensive work. Tying up the courts and sending the police to your door, all to keep a failed business model afloat. Now the RIAA is so confident in their enforcement connections that they're trying to set up an extortion model to get more money. This is a classic example of taxpayer money distributed upward to the deep pockets.
Taking my money to pay somebody else's housing bill is theft of labor.
I think a financial sector that systematically deregulated any oversight and pisses away over one third of our GDP on derivatives, where nobody knows who owes what to who, is theft of labor. Up another notch if they keep on demanding their executive bonus money from taxpayers, "or else the economy will collapse".
Your retort was +1 Truth, but if you looked a little further into the comment:
we have people around the world trying to kill us
You were talking to a War-on-Terror nut who thinks the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was patriotic. Trolls delight in being fed.
You have experienced the horror of keyword advertising!
This site is news for nerds, no 'news for consumers'.
Tell that to the Slashdot sections on Apple, Books, Games, Hardware, Linux, and Mobile.
How many stupid bloody plastic toy accessories are going to be released for this fad of a console?
Soon it will be a 1:1 ratio of games to controllers available for it, all the while your consumers snapping them like wildfire.
I'll stick with my PS3 and maybe buy a 360 again when Jasper Elite finally comes out.
Better than "buying a 360 again" when a game comes out, eh?
This post is very proprietary.
You can't do anything with it. In fact, you have to pay 25 cents because you read it...
Otherwise, it would be a shame if anything happened to your...everything. (/extortion)
Yes, I can do that with your zero license.
I said revenue, not spending. It's easy for half of the federal revenue to make up 18-20% of their spending if a massive deficit is propped up.
Social programs are pork as well.
Says somebody who obviously never needed social programs. It's everybody's responsibility to uphold a civil society by helping the truly needy, because they would expect the same if they needed it.
Time to go after the pork. Scaling the military-industrial complex down to a defensive level instead of an imperial level suddenly frees up nearly half our federal revenue. Imagine all the social programs that would benefit.
Agreed. This switch away from NTSC has "new revenue stream" written all over it. Solutions to problems people currently face with the digital switch? "Buy this, buy that." Seriously, who can repair digital electronics nearly as easily as the analog counterparts? You can't order a replacement ATSC tuner for your TV model. Cash in the $$$ and get a converter box that you'll have to plug into another power socket. Even the signal is flaky, so you need to buy a "smart antenna". HDTV apparently wasn't compelling enough to spend thousands of dollars on, so the TV manufacturers wanted help from the government to speed obsolesence along.
Let's hope they never shut down analog radio broadcasts. I like making radios.
Or you have a shotgun and know where the local transformers are located.....
That makes me think of Homer shooting the kitchen lights off. With a bit more ingenuity, you could find the switch.
Noooooo! Don't provoke the wrath of the Gold Standard nuts. It's like poking at a hive of killer bees.
::whoosh::
***Gee-Hod, which is truly capable of making the world end.
China is the Western world's factory exactly because they have no pollution control and slave labor. If they set more rigorous standards for worker's rights and the environment, we would manufacture things in the cheapest country somewhere else.
so what is the carbon footprint of a $44B dollar broadband system
Internet-posting hypocrite! Even if you don't use broadband, dial-up forces electrical current through the telephone line. Probably far more costly than fiber-optic lines, especially waiting hours to download that XP hotfix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N64#Programming_difficulties
The amount of video memory for textures was way too small.
The internet routes around damage?
Great, let me know when my incoming line routes around the only ISP in the area.
So, it sounds like you are advocating Bread & Circuses. That worked out great for Rome...
A professional military worked out great for Rome, too! Bwahaha!
Rant!
This is the main beef I have with people who call themselves "anarcho-capitalist economic libertarian" etc. Social programs like healthcare apparently mean nothing, but when scaling back our gluttonous military-industrial complex (well over 50% of our federal taxes) is ever brought up, you guys sound all butt-hurt. Sure, it could be a different technocrat group, but it sounds like it's coming from the libertarian camp. If I were to cut back government spending, the "richest military in the world" budget would be the first place I'd look.
And yes, that IS what I meant.
Fixed that for you. ;)
A good quality hardcover can last HUNDREDS of years! Try that with any electronic device or file-system.
Indeed. Archivability is the sticking point in most forms of modern media. Hard drives are especially fragile, which is yet another reason why I won't buy something that isn't available in a physical form. Ease-of-use, durability, and especially archivability are what books do well. E-books are well past a solution searching for a problem, but they've got too many disadvantages (especially with proprietary file formats) compared to good old paper.