Yah brah. You know, I see you talk a lot on here, AC. Sometimes you're a little less polite than that, though. I don't know if I should add you as a friend or an enemy!
It'll be SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Check out this tag team battle of the century as the EFF and the ACLU take on the NSA and The Bush Administration in this BATTLE TO THE DEATHHHHHHHHH! EXTREME action! Blood, violence, lawyers TO THE MAX!
Either way, they're pretty tenacious and well known, they may even have as much or more public recognition by now than the ACLU.
Even if they lose this one (or don't entirely get their case), they'll still win. They've backed up some significant cases and have become well known for it, and this will only make them more popular.
In some eyes, the EFF, for what they stand for, may never be wrong, and they could quickly turn into a religion of legal sorts. Especially considering that the targets, the "general unpopular undoers of society", have already had sights set on them many times and even though the law assumes they're in the right or not so in the wrong, they're pariahs and nothing they can do can prove to the people they're not bad guys.
There's a lot of 'little guys' that have gotten hurt by the unfairness of the law when they're weighed against corporations, and it's really building up. The EFF could be one of many outlets for a meta-ideology when people really do start fighting back.
Anyways, I'm just saying this so I can say "Holy shit, I was right?!" later if it really turns out that way.
Oh, ow... ow... I understand completely now... In my sudden enlightenment with tears in my eyes, I will now reformat my drive and delete all that useless Ubuntu garbage and go out and get a copy of Vista.
I'd just throw out the old computer and get a new, branded one, but then I'd be supporting Thinking Differently.
They fucked up, now if I were in charge Bill would have been facing off against the Soup Nazi. Then they could have introduced Ballmer as Bill's heavy. "Ballmer want soup! You give Ballmer soup! Oook ook." Ballmer slowly swivels his head to look semi-intelligently at Jerry and Bill, "Seinfeld want soup! Mr developer guy, he want soup too, you give us soup!"
The Soup Nazi yells "Next!" Ballmer picks up a chair... (well you knew it was coming).
Shit, I'm already getting my wallet to go pick up a copy of Office 2007 now...
That may or may not be true since it can't be reasonably tested, but what I know is true are several people I know who are republican are "strongly considering" voting for Obama. While this isn't significant to anyone else here, it does give me further hope for Obama's survival in the game we're all playing with our own future.
It's something some people simply can not help, and it has nothing to do with intelligence. I know the public is prone to indiscretion but I can hope the average (registered) slashdotter would know better than that.
I love the verbal pauses, he's the one candidate I've seen who doesn't make me feel like a bumbling moron for doing it myself. He does it all the time, but he recovers for it so well.
He's more of a Joe Anybody than Kerry could have ever been, he makes mistakes and he doesn't look like an incompetent tit for making them.
That's a good point but it's limited by some assumptions. You're email account isn't 'stolen' if you publicly gave out the password, and you either shouldn't have any fear or have very much fear if you would trust anyone so easily.
You also propose living in a society where everyone can be trusted as if it's ever a choice. The "didn't do wrong so should have no fear" never works and doesn't really protect or defend anyone or their actions. If there was no need for due process, there would probably be no need for passwords.
Why not just a one time splash screen informing the user that the name "Firefox" and the graphics are property of Mozilla and the users should just not fuck with them under penalty of laws most people are already aware of?
Oh, damnit, I'm drinking out of a PC bottle now. I can already feel the psychosomatic effects taking a hold of me. ERRGGHHH, I CAN FEEL MY PANCREAS DISSOLVING! The horror! My heart! It's like, doing weird stuff it doesn't normally do! Gahhhh! Vision.. fading.. only... enough strength left... to push.. preview.. then wait like.. a minute.. and hit submit... URK!
It may best be assumed that the simplest explanation is the best explanation.
This is probably just a cosmic rift of some sorts involving civilizations far off and more intelligent than our own engaged in an intergalactic war involving weapons we haven't even yet speculated, the results of which will be felt by Earth in about 823 years where we're met by an event involving cake or death by the Splerghlaridish Inquisition, whom none have expected, and will enslave humanity because the shape of our hands are the one race they have yet found that is excellent at wielding sock puppets, leaving humanity to suffer the role of puppeteers forced to perform for millions of strange species who think we taste really bad and smell really good. Not long after that, Luke will blow up the death star and the Super Gigantic Hadron Collider will finally find the Higg's Boson leaving us with a weapon of incredible power that will allow us to make our prior rulers the new puppeteers but also our marionettes. Then the universe will suddenly implode starting the next big bang. What's after that, even I can't ramble on about incoherently for no reason other than I have nothing better to do before I go to bed.
I hope that helps NASA in their endeavor for world conquest.
I'm 24, I suppose I am. The real difference in my life now than what it was is how much I hear about the world outside of what's in my town. Eight years ago I only used the internet for downloading music and bullshitting with other losers on IRC.
I hung out with drug dealers, lunatics, and all sorts of low-lifes, I'd thought the terrible things I often saw were limited to where I was and other big cities like New York. Where I am now really is a much nicer place, but all my ignorance is catching up to me now that I'm learning how volatile a state the rest of the world is now.
Things like the LHC excites me and gives me hope for the so-called 'better tomorrow', seeing these people fuck with it like this gives me no surprise, and that's why it hurts.
The painful part is knowing that with how easily they're persuaded by television, it's just as easy for me to say some bullshit like "It's already been done before a whole bunch of times and nothing happened".
I've already had to calm down 4 people myself, apparently mainstream media doesn't give you the crucial details of the argument to avoid sensationalism. It's really strange, someone needs to come up with a place where people can speak freely to those who are interested without relying on broadcasting or what other people decided is good for them.
Too bad, I don't think we'll ever have anything like that.
A shame, really.
Be nice if it could be accessible at any time in the privacy of your own home, too, but I'm just dreaming.
Sounds like an Act of God to me, it's gonna cost you a fortune, and won't you feel like shit when a black hole doesn't crush all your property into a space that's size can't even yet be speculated?
This is such a shame that people are so scared of this thing that they'll go this far. Maybe the reason it's so easy to convince people to be afraid of this thing is because it's so damn big, and I suspect that it being in a foreign country(ies) has a sour effect on some people. However, some people I've spoken with about it aren't even aware it's on the other side of the planet, one person thought it was in California.
This tool may solve some of the most incredible mysteries of our universe (and bring up more interesting questions), but I feel some terrible and tragic emotion that I know that, no matter how revolutionary the results may or may not be, ignorance is a powerful and destructive force.
I am damn near wishing the LHC destroys us all despite having no doubt that it won't, Humanity is really starting to disappoint me.
I used to not care about anything, even 9/11 didn't phase me, but the changes I've had in my life has taught me to respect life and individuals, but it's also given me insight into the nature of conflict in people.
The values people have are so different, and it's those differences that shape some of the best things in the world, but the people who lack values that's becoming distasteful.
What did these pricks think would happen? Oh, they upset some work. For a multibillion project like this, it's going to take big, intentional explosions and a lot of mindless people to stop it.
That's just me wishing for the strength of the project, though. I really will shed some tears if only a few squeaky wheels can halt the LHC in it's tracks.
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Yah brah. You know, I see you talk a lot on here, AC. Sometimes you're a little less polite than that, though. I don't know if I should add you as a friend or an enemy!
It'll be SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Check out this tag team battle of the century as the EFF and the ACLU take on the NSA and The Bush Administration in this BATTLE TO THE DEATHHHHHHHHH! EXTREME action! Blood, violence, lawyers TO THE MAX!
ONLY ON PAY PER VIEW!
In America, you can sue anyone, and you'll probably win! Just imagine how easily you too can win a million dollars with little or no effort at all!
Call now, we have operators standing by!!
Heh... heheheh... eheheheheh... that's funny...
That's just what they want you to think.
Either way, they're pretty tenacious and well known, they may even have as much or more public recognition by now than the ACLU.
Even if they lose this one (or don't entirely get their case), they'll still win. They've backed up some significant cases and have become well known for it, and this will only make them more popular.
In some eyes, the EFF, for what they stand for, may never be wrong, and they could quickly turn into a religion of legal sorts. Especially considering that the targets, the "general unpopular undoers of society", have already had sights set on them many times and even though the law assumes they're in the right or not so in the wrong, they're pariahs and nothing they can do can prove to the people they're not bad guys.
There's a lot of 'little guys' that have gotten hurt by the unfairness of the law when they're weighed against corporations, and it's really building up. The EFF could be one of many outlets for a meta-ideology when people really do start fighting back.
Anyways, I'm just saying this so I can say "Holy shit, I was right?!" later if it really turns out that way.
And the while we'll only be spreading more EEEEEVIL, assuming we adopt consumers faster than we disease, disillusion and kill them.
Oh, ow... ow... I understand completely now... In my sudden enlightenment with tears in my eyes, I will now reformat my drive and delete all that useless Ubuntu garbage and go out and get a copy of Vista.
I'd just throw out the old computer and get a new, branded one, but then I'd be supporting Thinking Differently.
They fucked up, now if I were in charge Bill would have been facing off against the Soup Nazi. Then they could have introduced Ballmer as Bill's heavy. "Ballmer want soup! You give Ballmer soup! Oook ook." Ballmer slowly swivels his head to look semi-intelligently at Jerry and Bill, "Seinfeld want soup! Mr developer guy, he want soup too, you give us soup!"
The Soup Nazi yells "Next!" Ballmer picks up a chair ... (well you knew it was coming).
Shit, I'm already getting my wallet to go pick up a copy of Office 2007 now...
3. New Slurm didn't work out so well so we'll market old Slurm as Slurm Classic and we'll make billions!
Vista is a good idea! Absolutely! It'll sell 16 billion copies in the first year alone!
Now where's my ~$100k a year salary?
I strangely suspect that all the bright minds in charge of advertising at MS have AS.
That may or may not be true since it can't be reasonably tested, but what I know is true are several people I know who are republican are "strongly considering" voting for Obama. While this isn't significant to anyone else here, it does give me further hope for Obama's survival in the game we're all playing with our own future.
It's something some people simply can not help, and it has nothing to do with intelligence. I know the public is prone to indiscretion but I can hope the average (registered) slashdotter would know better than that.
I love the verbal pauses, he's the one candidate I've seen who doesn't make me feel like a bumbling moron for doing it myself. He does it all the time, but he recovers for it so well.
He's more of a Joe Anybody than Kerry could have ever been, he makes mistakes and he doesn't look like an incompetent tit for making them.
That's a good point but it's limited by some assumptions. You're email account isn't 'stolen' if you publicly gave out the password, and you either shouldn't have any fear or have very much fear if you would trust anyone so easily.
You also propose living in a society where everyone can be trusted as if it's ever a choice. The "didn't do wrong so should have no fear" never works and doesn't really protect or defend anyone or their actions. If there was no need for due process, there would probably be no need for passwords.
Why not just a one time splash screen informing the user that the name "Firefox" and the graphics are property of Mozilla and the users should just not fuck with them under penalty of laws most people are already aware of?
Oh, damnit, I'm drinking out of a PC bottle now. I can already feel the psychosomatic effects taking a hold of me. ERRGGHHH, I CAN FEEL MY PANCREAS DISSOLVING! The horror! My heart! It's like, doing weird stuff it doesn't normally do! Gahhhh! Vision.. fading.. only... enough strength left... to push.. preview.. then wait like.. a minute.. and hit submit... URK!
It may best be assumed that the simplest explanation is the best explanation.
This is probably just a cosmic rift of some sorts involving civilizations far off and more intelligent than our own engaged in an intergalactic war involving weapons we haven't even yet speculated, the results of which will be felt by Earth in about 823 years where we're met by an event involving cake or death by the Splerghlaridish Inquisition, whom none have expected, and will enslave humanity because the shape of our hands are the one race they have yet found that is excellent at wielding sock puppets, leaving humanity to suffer the role of puppeteers forced to perform for millions of strange species who think we taste really bad and smell really good. Not long after that, Luke will blow up the death star and the Super Gigantic Hadron Collider will finally find the Higg's Boson leaving us with a weapon of incredible power that will allow us to make our prior rulers the new puppeteers but also our marionettes. Then the universe will suddenly implode starting the next big bang. What's after that, even I can't ramble on about incoherently for no reason other than I have nothing better to do before I go to bed.
I hope that helps NASA in their endeavor for world conquest.
I'm 24, I suppose I am. The real difference in my life now than what it was is how much I hear about the world outside of what's in my town. Eight years ago I only used the internet for downloading music and bullshitting with other losers on IRC.
I hung out with drug dealers, lunatics, and all sorts of low-lifes, I'd thought the terrible things I often saw were limited to where I was and other big cities like New York. Where I am now really is a much nicer place, but all my ignorance is catching up to me now that I'm learning how volatile a state the rest of the world is now.
Things like the LHC excites me and gives me hope for the so-called 'better tomorrow', seeing these people fuck with it like this gives me no surprise, and that's why it hurts.
The painful part is knowing that with how easily they're persuaded by television, it's just as easy for me to say some bullshit like "It's already been done before a whole bunch of times and nothing happened".
Whoa.
I've already had to calm down 4 people myself, apparently mainstream media doesn't give you the crucial details of the argument to avoid sensationalism. It's really strange, someone needs to come up with a place where people can speak freely to those who are interested without relying on broadcasting or what other people decided is good for them.
Too bad, I don't think we'll ever have anything like that.
A shame, really.
Be nice if it could be accessible at any time in the privacy of your own home, too, but I'm just dreaming.
Sounds like an Act of God to me, it's gonna cost you a fortune, and won't you feel like shit when a black hole doesn't crush all your property into a space that's size can't even yet be speculated?
Geeze... even in the cheesiest sci-fi novel, they make scientists perform these cool experiments outside the orbit of pluto.
That's how we know it's reality!
This is such a shame that people are so scared of this thing that they'll go this far. Maybe the reason it's so easy to convince people to be afraid of this thing is because it's so damn big, and I suspect that it being in a foreign country(ies) has a sour effect on some people. However, some people I've spoken with about it aren't even aware it's on the other side of the planet, one person thought it was in California.
This tool may solve some of the most incredible mysteries of our universe (and bring up more interesting questions), but I feel some terrible and tragic emotion that I know that, no matter how revolutionary the results may or may not be, ignorance is a powerful and destructive force.
I am damn near wishing the LHC destroys us all despite having no doubt that it won't, Humanity is really starting to disappoint me.
I used to not care about anything, even 9/11 didn't phase me, but the changes I've had in my life has taught me to respect life and individuals, but it's also given me insight into the nature of conflict in people.
The values people have are so different, and it's those differences that shape some of the best things in the world, but the people who lack values that's becoming distasteful.
What did these pricks think would happen? Oh, they upset some work. For a multibillion project like this, it's going to take big, intentional explosions and a lot of mindless people to stop it.
That's just me wishing for the strength of the project, though. I really will shed some tears if only a few squeaky wheels can halt the LHC in it's tracks.