Okay. Just keep that in mind when my kids grow up and support the government giveaway SS/Medicare/Universal healthcare/whatever programs that keep your old feeble body alive.
Maybe my mother-in-law who doesn't drive should get a tax break because she doesn't use the roads?
Before America showed up they had a tyrant dictator who had the good sense to stay out of religious disputes in an area where people with religious disputes are prone to making their case with guns and bombs, even if it means taking their own lives.
Bullshit. He happily waded into religious and ethnic disputes with the Shiites and Kurds, respectively. That's how he maintained and grew his power. The difference was that he was ruthless and brutal enough to keep the opposition down.
If I accept that cookie crumbs *are* cookies, what happens when I pulverise a chocolate chip cookie? Do the child cookies inherit their "chocolate chip cookie" nature from the parent cookie? What happens if the child cookie does not actually contain any chocolate chips?
Or, are you arguing that chocolate-free child cookies remain cookies, but undergo some sort of change into a non-chocolate-chip cookie, even though the molecules in the child cookie have in fact not changed since being baked? If a chocolate chip from the parent cookie is broken free of all dough-based parts of the parent, is it considered a chocolate chip again?
Does milk have anything to do with this? Because all of a sudden I'm hungry and thirsty.
Breaking the same cookie in half is feasible if you are in two parallel universes, right? Or did I just screw up that whole spacetime-continuum thing again? Damn, I should have paid better attention when we were learning quantum physics.
Crazy isn't it? Their attempts to charge internet radio ridiculous fees are going to backfire as badly as their attempts to sue their own customers. I swear, it's like the guy writing their business plan has been eating lead paint chips or something.
Actually, as a homebrewer I would have loved to take the beer analogy further, but I figured the post was too long already, brevity being the soul of wit and all.
Currently available in my beer cellar: Dry Irish stout.
In the fermenter: Amber ale.
Next to brew: (Not sure... probably a nice, strong porter, but the garage is getting close to lager fermenting temperatures... maybe time for a Vienna style lager. Suggestions?)
A few folks have corrected my historically inaccurate definition of "piracy" - mea culpa, point taken. Yes, TPB incorporated it into their name. Still, the nerds and geeks (terms used with the most respect possible, of course) running the most persecuted torrent site on the planet seem about as pirate-y to me as that pirate dude from Dodgeball.
That being said, I stand by the rest of it... any comments there?
"Piracy" essentially means armed robbery and murder on the high seas. The recent abuse of the term to refer to unauthorized duplication is idiotic. But of course, the more the media conglomerates and their toadies bellow "piracy" at the top of their lungs, the more a vapid and mostly uncritical public will eat it up, and eventually repeat it. I'm not justifying unauthorized duplication or redistribution; I'm just sick of the MP/RIAA's bullshit. They are organizations that have engaged in highly questionable practices for years, and still cling to their outdated gangster ways. They have monopolized the public airwaves for years through payola schemes, to the detriment of artists and listeners. I find it hard to shed a tear for them.
Worse yet, their attacks have laid waste not just to independent artists and labels, but to promising technologies as well, which is probably what pisses off slashdotters more than anything else.* File torrents are a legitimate source of lots of perfectly legal content, and enable small entities to put out content without paying for tons of bandwidth to do it. Shutting down TPB is a slap in the face of lots of people who never "pirated" a song in their life.
What really gets me is the hypocrisy, though. The RIAA knows better than anyone that delivering free music to waiting ears is the best guarantee of album sales. After all, that's why they've been caught in payola schemes over and over - they buy off the radio stations because they know that if their songs are played for free, we will buy the album. They also know that if their songs aren't heard, sales will never take off. I don't think that underneath it all they are concerned that "piracy" will hurt their sales; they are concerned that they are losing control of the "free" distribution, and they are afraid of technology they don't fully understand.
*Although, I've also found a large number of technically proficient people are also very musically inclined (myself excepted; I suck at playing music). It may well be that many here are pissed off because the recording industry has turned out music that is the equivalent of a typical American beer; bland and mass-produced, succeeding on marketing instead of merit.
So don't tell them it's a dumb terminal. Put a thin client on their desk and tell them they're getting a 6 ghz octocore with 32 gigs of ram and a petabyte hard drive. They'll never know. Most of them, anyway.
Er, that's not what he means. Obama was elected on essentially not being Dubya, and much of the enthusiasm behind his campaign came from people who believed his promises of ending much of the unpopular Bush stuff. War. Wiretapping. Gitmo. Almost a year into his presidency, he has precious little to show for it.
The violence in Iraq is still there, albeit better than 4 years ago, but that tenuous improvement in stability came from the surge (under Bush) that Obama vigorously opposed before having to admit that it worked. The troop reduction roadmap in Iraq that Obama is following was laid out by Bush before leaving office. Now Obama is caught in another war escalation debate regarding Afghanistan. Which way will he go?
Guantanamo Bay still holds enemy combatants, and likely will "indefinitely". Corporate bailouts got rolling under Bush, and continued under Obama. Evidently, warrantless wiretapping will continue. He excorciated Bush for all this evil stuff, and is now perpetuating it himself. He marketed himself as "Change We Can Believe In", but there has been little or no "change" (certainly not on the issues he campaigned on), and we are learning that we can't "believe in" him.
So I'd say the old boss == new boss observation is pretty valid.
I guess the question is not whether there are some few policy differences between them, or whether Obama has worked on one of his campaign promises while abandoning most of the others. Rather, why?
Theory #1 - They are all out to do evil stuff, and the evil stuff will get done no matter who is in office, and no matter what they promised in the election.
Theory #2 - Obama campaigned without really knowing (or likely caring) about the serious reasons these unpopular things are in place. Reality is catching up.
Theory #3 - I read once that stopping an aircraft carrier required about 10 miles of ocean. I'm guessing Obama is the equivalent of about 1 mile into that process, and never realized it would be this hard.
I don't know if I could point out one in particular, but they're around. Trying to talk to them about other OSes is either excruciating or amusing, depending on whether you are trying to make a point, or just messing with them. I worked with one guy back in 1998 - 2001 who insisted that NT4 and Win 2000 were more stable and secure than Solaris. Now, every OS has its vulnerabilities and Solaris is no exception. But you couldn't have a debate with the guy; he wouldn't open his mind up.
I generally run Linux at home. As I type this, however, I am doing an emergency install & patch of XP onto a salvaged desktop for my wife. I could take more time and migrate her to Linux, (the install is a snap, it's getting either a)- her Windows apps working under WINE, or b)- her data migrated to a comparable Linux app) but that task will have to wait for a weekend when I have more time. Lazy? Maybe. I prefer to think of it as "temporally economical".
I kid, I kid. Actually, I love this article. My own recent 40th birthday is close to the middle of those two "internet birthdays". Like it's my brotha from anotha mutha.
Slashdot Mirror
:P
The comment was only intended for readers who are sophisticated enough to parse it as-is.
/:P
Okay. Just keep that in mind when my kids grow up and support the government giveaway SS/Medicare/Universal healthcare/whatever programs that keep your old feeble body alive.
Maybe my mother-in-law who doesn't drive should get a tax break because she doesn't use the roads?
Before America showed up they had a tyrant dictator who had the good sense to stay out of religious disputes in an area where people with religious disputes are prone to making their case with guns and bombs, even if it means taking their own lives.
Bullshit. He happily waded into religious and ethnic disputes with the Shiites and Kurds, respectively. That's how he maintained and grew his power. The difference was that he was ruthless and brutal enough to keep the opposition down.
If I accept that cookie crumbs *are* cookies, what happens when I pulverise a chocolate chip cookie? Do the child cookies inherit their "chocolate chip cookie" nature from the parent cookie? What happens if the child cookie does not actually contain any chocolate chips?
Or, are you arguing that chocolate-free child cookies remain cookies, but undergo some sort of change into a non-chocolate-chip cookie, even though the molecules in the child cookie have in fact not changed since being baked? If a chocolate chip from the parent cookie is broken free of all dough-based parts of the parent, is it considered a chocolate chip again?
Does milk have anything to do with this? Because all of a sudden I'm hungry and thirsty.
I bet that's what all the BBW girls tell you.
Breaking the same cookie in half is feasible if you are in two parallel universes, right? Or did I just screw up that whole spacetime-continuum thing again? Damn, I should have paid better attention when we were learning quantum physics.
Well, all the requirements are there ... let's vote. Any opposed? [gavel] Excellent.
/sarcasm
I am all for stopping fraud, but scammers are far more nimble and inventive than our government, particularly Congress. This ain't gonna stop them.
Actually, we're both right ... radio stations dopay royalties.
Crazy isn't it? Their attempts to charge internet radio ridiculous fees are going to backfire as badly as their attempts to sue their own customers. I swear, it's like the guy writing their business plan has been eating lead paint chips or something.
Record labels have used payola for a long time to get airplay for the songs they want people to hear -> like -> buy.
Actually, as a homebrewer I would have loved to take the beer analogy further, but I figured the post was too long already, brevity being the soul of wit and all.
Currently available in my beer cellar: Dry Irish stout. ... probably a nice, strong porter, but the garage is getting close to lager fermenting temperatures ... maybe time for a Vienna style lager. Suggestions?)
In the fermenter: Amber ale.
Next to brew: (Not sure
Water views land as damage and routes around it.
A few folks have corrected my historically inaccurate definition of "piracy" - mea culpa, point taken. Yes, TPB incorporated it into their name. Still, the nerds and geeks (terms used with the most respect possible, of course) running the most persecuted torrent site on the planet seem about as pirate-y to me as that pirate dude from Dodgeball.
That being said, I stand by the rest of it ... any comments there?
"Piracy" essentially means armed robbery and murder on the high seas. The recent abuse of the term to refer to unauthorized duplication is idiotic. But of course, the more the media conglomerates and their toadies bellow "piracy" at the top of their lungs, the more a vapid and mostly uncritical public will eat it up, and eventually repeat it. I'm not justifying unauthorized duplication or redistribution; I'm just sick of the MP/RIAA's bullshit. They are organizations that have engaged in highly questionable practices for years, and still cling to their outdated gangster ways. They have monopolized the public airwaves for years through payola schemes, to the detriment of artists and listeners. I find it hard to shed a tear for them.
Worse yet, their attacks have laid waste not just to independent artists and labels, but to promising technologies as well, which is probably what pisses off slashdotters more than anything else.* File torrents are a legitimate source of lots of perfectly legal content, and enable small entities to put out content without paying for tons of bandwidth to do it. Shutting down TPB is a slap in the face of lots of people who never "pirated" a song in their life.
What really gets me is the hypocrisy, though. The RIAA knows better than anyone that delivering free music to waiting ears is the best guarantee of album sales. After all, that's why they've been caught in payola schemes over and over - they buy off the radio stations because they know that if their songs are played for free, we will buy the album. They also know that if their songs aren't heard, sales will never take off. I don't think that underneath it all they are concerned that "piracy" will hurt their sales; they are concerned that they are losing control of the "free" distribution, and they are afraid of technology they don't fully understand.
*Although, I've also found a large number of technically proficient people are also very musically inclined (myself excepted; I suck at playing music). It may well be that many here are pissed off because the recording industry has turned out music that is the equivalent of a typical American beer; bland and mass-produced, succeeding on marketing instead of merit.
So don't tell them it's a dumb terminal. Put a thin client on their desk and tell them they're getting a 6 ghz octocore with 32 gigs of ram and a petabyte hard drive. They'll never know. Most of them, anyway.
Er, that's not what he means. Obama was elected on essentially not being Dubya, and much of the enthusiasm behind his campaign came from people who believed his promises of ending much of the unpopular Bush stuff. War. Wiretapping. Gitmo. Almost a year into his presidency, he has precious little to show for it.
The violence in Iraq is still there, albeit better than 4 years ago, but that tenuous improvement in stability came from the surge (under Bush) that Obama vigorously opposed before having to admit that it worked. The troop reduction roadmap in Iraq that Obama is following was laid out by Bush before leaving office. Now Obama is caught in another war escalation debate regarding Afghanistan. Which way will he go?
Guantanamo Bay still holds enemy combatants, and likely will "indefinitely". Corporate bailouts got rolling under Bush, and continued under Obama. Evidently, warrantless wiretapping will continue. He excorciated Bush for all this evil stuff, and is now perpetuating it himself. He marketed himself as "Change We Can Believe In", but there has been little or no "change" (certainly not on the issues he campaigned on), and we are learning that we can't "believe in" him.
So I'd say the old boss == new boss observation is pretty valid.
I guess the question is not whether there are some few policy differences between them, or whether Obama has worked on one of his campaign promises while abandoning most of the others. Rather, why?
So, you're thinking that short, fat, poor people will evolve into Morlocks?
And we could freeze a bunch of it and ship it to the poles.
Wouldn't that roof interfere with the sun striking the black-bottomed pool?
I don't know if I could point out one in particular, but they're around. Trying to talk to them about other OSes is either excruciating or amusing, depending on whether you are trying to make a point, or just messing with them. I worked with one guy back in 1998 - 2001 who insisted that NT4 and Win 2000 were more stable and secure than Solaris. Now, every OS has its vulnerabilities and Solaris is no exception. But you couldn't have a debate with the guy; he wouldn't open his mind up.
I generally run Linux at home. As I type this, however, I am doing an emergency install & patch of XP onto a salvaged desktop for my wife. I could take more time and migrate her to Linux, (the install is a snap, it's getting either a)- her Windows apps working under WINE, or b)- her data migrated to a comparable Linux app) but that task will have to wait for a weekend when I have more time. Lazy? Maybe. I prefer to think of it as "temporally economical".
You know, you're right. As an English major, I should have thought of that.
I know. Anything beyond Natalie Portman & grits memes, and forget it ...
What illiterate fuckwit was granted mod points? This is no troll, it's funny goddammit. What's the matter, a little too highbrow for Windows fanbois?
I kid, I kid. Actually, I love this article. My own recent 40th birthday is close to the middle of those two "internet birthdays". Like it's my brotha from anotha mutha.
Well, I don't get to change my age based on when I uttered my first words, why should the internet?