I bet the makers of this PCI card will be required to pay extortion fees to the MPAA on the basis of each unit that is sold. Kinda like the RIAA and CD-Roms.
How is it that the MPAA and RIAA can extort media player manufacturers like that?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I didn't watch the lower channels on Satellite and I never once saw a political ad.:) I stayed on the sci-fi channel, the Cartoon network, and the History Channel, etc.
Of course I did vote. But I'm gonna find a way to pass the time while waiting for Hawaii to get done voting.:) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
FINALLY! Someone who will tell the truth! Two thumbs up man! ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
..and another $1000 out of the company's pocket to hook each home up that signs up, I bet ya one thing:
They probably won't pull an @HOME on their customers! ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I admire their consistency in looking objectively at Apache (the darling of all anti-MS people out there, and the darling of all anti-big brother folks since it's open source) as a potential Big Brother tool.
Logging in and of itself wasn't invented by Apache, and the arguments for and against logging are obviously legion, but you can beat that with the Anonymizer proxy. Although.htaccess options allow you to ban anonymizer by IP.
On the bright side you can see how this "Big Brother" works since the source code is right there in the open! ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
You (justifiably, and rightfully) arrogant Linux advocates finally got whatcha want - an open public challenge (in Germany) from Microsoft.
Here's the rules:
No whining. You've been openly bashing Microsoft for years. Now they get to bash back.
No more anticompetitive claims (see: whining). You have to fight on the same playing field with the same rules as everyone else.
No more distro wars. We need to united in our diversity.
There's no running back to mommy and daddy now that we have Microsoft's attention and a position on the world stage of open competition. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Some folks don't understand the chaos that occurs when you sneak whole servers onto the network that are unaccounted for.
I hate to break off from my usual Linux advocacy at all costs here, but like the doctor should be the final arbiter of what treatment you receive (over the insurance company's opinions), the IT department should be the final arbiters of what goes on a network (despite the will of the programmerS).
If the programmers have other ideas, take it to the IT department or the CIO, etc. It's called the chain of command.
Bringing anything in uninvited - especially something as major as a server - becomes an issue of trust. Do you realize that 'sneaking' is 100% bad corporate work policy?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
There is the issue of ex post facto, which works both ways: you cannot be convicted of an act committed before it was made illegal, nor can your conviction be overturned if you broke a law before it was changed, although quite often, a reversal in the law on a certain issue may be accompanied by the previous law being overturned by the courts.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Now we can clone human beings like livestock and cut them up for parts and stuff. Generation X voters will make that possible. Thank god for Gen-X, without them we'd never be able to get this past the public! ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
From http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001002/tc/napste r_lawsuit_3.html:
"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Three federal appeals judges put the onus on the recording industry Monday, grilling its attorneys with questions about why a lower court's injunction against Napster Inc. should be reinstated and the song-sharing service shut down."
And it gets prettier from there:)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Dragonball Z is like Fight Club on methamphetamines at times. At other times..
*yawn*
"Come on people quit yer talkin' and let's see some faces get punched in!"
My count on how long it took Namek to blow up was 5 episodes.
The best fight I saw was Piccolo vs Frieza (second form). Piccolo is my favorite character, because he's so incredibly stone cold.:) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
How many people remember where THAT snafu came from? (If you do remember, you certainly are old skool LOL) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
You must not have seen Gattaca then. The story was about companies refusing to hire anyone who was born naturally, and hiring only those who were genetically engineered.
This has nothing to do with protecting multi million dollar aircraft, this was pure discrimination.
As I said before this would never last long in America because if people found out this was going on, there would be civil war. People would rise up spontaneously and kill those who were putting this system into place.
It would be very much like what happened on Romania.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
After all these years of geeks being made fun of and picked at and bullied, and generally excluded from much of the joys of a healthy social life, it is no wonder that these people grow up with a "me first" attitude towards life.
For years, nobody ever cared whether geeks lived or died. They've grown up learning that fending for yourself is the only way to survive.
Congratulations, society. You created this monster. Now you want the monster to change his own ways while providing absolutely zero indication that you'd give a rat's ass if these geeks live or die.
Sorry, it don't work that way. You alienated these guys, now they have learned to do things their way, and when these guys decide to become politically active, there is going to be a very intense, very cleansing and very lesson-teaching social conflict in this country.
Ultimately, their selfish nature will be a painful lesson to America about why we shouldn't screw people over just because they're different. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
If they want to ban Microsoft from doing things in -their- country, fine. However when these lawsuits come down, the effect usually is something like "Microsoft is banned from doing this in that guy's country, and nobody can do it in their home country as well." It always winds up influencing how we as Americans do things within our own borders.
If you do not believe me, then look up the World Trade Organization and how they told us to repeal the ban on fishing where it harmed sea turtles.
Any country is free to tell Microsoft to get lost, but it always winds up coming down to them trying to decidehow companies will behave within the United States as well. And I say no way.
We Americans will handle the business of telling Microsoft how to behave in America, thank you very much. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Anyone who thinks this could ever be used for DNA sampling to see who had entered the building or locate where you had been can relax now. Even though the technology to pull in bits of skin and do DNA testing on the results exists today, it is an amazingly sensitive tests. So sensitive that it really can't sensibly be used in a non-clean environment - the augmentation of the original DNA material is extremely vulnerable to contamination.
Yes, that is true. For now. But in the future this technology will be refined. It always is. It will be made practical.
Always think ahead... ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
... to try and use this schlieren photography technology to detect illnesses in people.
The moment the American public heard they were doing this, there would be an instant and very violent revolution.
Those medical insurance execs would fear for their lives to even live in the US, once this was found out, because people everywhere would be trying to kill them.
The police would be instantly overwhelmed by constant acts of terrorism against these companies. If they abused this system, even with all the ignorant stupid complacent Americans running around out there, they would trigger an instant civil war.
It would be very short but very, very bloody. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I don't want to trade in the ugly evil beast that is Microsoft, for the even uglier more evil beast that is any foreign government telling US corporations how to run their business.
In ten years y'all will rue the day you rooted for the EU against Microsoft, when international laws dig even deeper into your nation's sovereignty.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
There has not even been one feeble eep from people who cheat, on this message board. This has been entirely a one sided discussion.
Now that is pure boolshit. Some of y'all would like to cheat if you could, but the fact is some of you don't want to be honest about it.
Cheating in games is nothing more than an extension of how people cheat on tests, and worst of all, how people cheat to get ahead in life. Yes. People are known to lie, steal, espionage and sabotage their way ahead in life. It is the dark side of human nature.
That is why we invented the words treacherous and untrustworthy. Because, as Blade said, someone is always trying to skate uphill.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The fraggin' government does enough of that already! Sheesh:) ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
moderators be merciful please... frankly I think it's time we took a stand against this crap. If they threatened to sue me I would send them a reply saying that if they cared about the physical well being of their process server, they would not send him my way with a lawsuit, because I will make it a point to reply to the plaintiff with a note attached to the process server's arm which will arrive in a rose box.
And I will deliver it personally.
I don't care if the cops come after me. I'd be sending a message that you don't intimidate me, or anyone else over such bogus lawsuits.
If you are too squeamish for the violent revolt approach, which 99.99% of us are, then it would be very wise to consider this, Fubar: Minnesota may have an anti-SLAPP statute. That's SLAPP as in Strategic Lawsuit Against Political Participation. Many states have laws against this. File a SLAPP lawsuit against the company and let the state's leg breakers have a go at it.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I have never laughed so hard in weeks. Dude, Jamie, clue up! Corporations are trying to Big Brother us here, whereas government agencies are the ones doing it in Australia and the USSR.
It can happen here, and it can happen with the assist of all the ignorant and apathetic Americans. Namely starting with the ones who said it couldn't happen here. *hint* *hint*
*obPrayer: moderators have mercy.*
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
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I bet the makers of this PCI card will be required to pay extortion fees to the MPAA on the basis of each unit that is sold. Kinda like the RIAA and CD-Roms.
How is it that the MPAA and RIAA can extort media player manufacturers like that?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I didn't watch the lower channels on Satellite and I never once saw a political ad. :) I stayed on the sci-fi channel, the Cartoon network, and the History Channel, etc.
:)
Of course I did vote. But I'm gonna find a way to pass the time while waiting for Hawaii to get done voting.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
or gaping security holes?
Take your pick.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
FINALLY! Someone who will tell the truth! Two thumbs up man!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
..and another $1000 out of the company's pocket to hook each home up that signs up, I bet ya one thing:
They probably won't pull an @HOME on their customers!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I admire their consistency in looking objectively at Apache (the darling of all anti-MS people out there, and the darling of all anti-big brother folks since it's open source) as a potential Big Brother tool.
Logging in and of itself wasn't invented by Apache, and the arguments for and against logging are obviously legion, but you can beat that with the Anonymizer proxy. Although
On the bright side you can see how this "Big Brother" works since the source code is right there in the open!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
To face open competition with Microsoft?
You (justifiably, and rightfully) arrogant Linux advocates finally got whatcha want - an open public challenge (in Germany) from Microsoft.
Here's the rules:
No whining. You've been openly bashing Microsoft for years. Now they get to bash back.
No more anticompetitive claims (see: whining). You have to fight on the same playing field with the same rules as everyone else.
No more distro wars. We need to united in our diversity.
There's no running back to mommy and daddy now that we have Microsoft's attention and a position on the world stage of open competition.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Some folks don't understand the chaos that occurs when you sneak whole servers onto the network that are unaccounted for.
I hate to break off from my usual Linux advocacy at all costs here, but like the doctor should be the final arbiter of what treatment you receive (over the insurance company's opinions), the IT department should be the final arbiters of what goes on a network (despite the will of the programmerS).
If the programmers have other ideas, take it to the IT department or the CIO, etc. It's called the chain of command.
Bringing anything in uninvited - especially something as major as a server - becomes an issue of trust. Do you realize that 'sneaking' is 100% bad corporate work policy?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
There is the issue of ex post facto, which works both ways: you cannot be convicted of an act committed before it was made illegal, nor can your conviction be overturned if you broke a law before it was changed, although quite often, a reversal in the law on a certain issue may be accompanied by the previous law being overturned by the courts.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Now we can clone human beings like livestock and cut them up for parts and stuff. Generation X voters will make that possible. Thank god for Gen-X, without them we'd never be able to get this past the public!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
From http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001002/tc/napste r_lawsuit_3.html:
:)
"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Three federal appeals judges put the onus on the recording industry Monday, grilling its attorneys with questions about why a lower court's injunction against Napster Inc. should be reinstated and the song-sharing service shut down."
And it gets prettier from there
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
the word you're looking for is civil disobedience.
Whe one person breaks the law it's a crime.
When millions do it, it's civil disobedience.
But sometimes just one person can get the ball rolling. See: Rosa Parks.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
LOL
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Dragonball Z is like Fight Club on methamphetamines at times. At other times..
:)
*yawn*
"Come on people quit yer talkin' and let's see some faces get punched in!"
My count on how long it took Namek to blow up was 5 episodes.
The best fight I saw was Piccolo vs Frieza (second form). Piccolo is my favorite character, because he's so incredibly stone cold.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
How many people remember where THAT snafu came from? (If you do remember, you certainly are old skool LOL)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
You must not have seen Gattaca then. The story was about companies refusing to hire anyone who was born naturally, and hiring only those who were genetically engineered.
This has nothing to do with protecting multi million dollar aircraft, this was pure discrimination.
As I said before this would never last long in America because if people found out this was going on, there would be civil war. People would rise up spontaneously and kill those who were putting this system into place.
It would be very much like what happened on Romania.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
That's how I would have titled this book.
After all these years of geeks being made fun of and picked at and bullied, and generally excluded from much of the joys of a healthy social life, it is no wonder that these people grow up with a "me first" attitude towards life.
For years, nobody ever cared whether geeks lived or died. They've grown up learning that fending for yourself is the only way to survive.
Congratulations, society. You created this monster. Now you want the monster to change his own ways while providing absolutely zero indication that you'd give a rat's ass if these geeks live or die.
Sorry, it don't work that way. You alienated these guys, now they have learned to do things their way, and when these guys decide to become politically active, there is going to be a very intense, very cleansing and very lesson-teaching social conflict in this country.
Ultimately, their selfish nature will be a painful lesson to America about why we shouldn't screw people over just because they're different.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
If they want to ban Microsoft from doing things in -their- country, fine. However when these lawsuits come down, the effect usually is something like "Microsoft is banned from doing this in that guy's country, and nobody can do it in their home country as well." It always winds up influencing how we as Americans do things within our own borders.
If you do not believe me, then look up the World Trade Organization and how they told us to repeal the ban on fishing where it harmed sea turtles.
Any country is free to tell Microsoft to get lost, but it always winds up coming down to them trying to decidehow companies will behave within the United States as well. And I say no way.
We Americans will handle the business of telling Microsoft how to behave in America, thank you very much.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Yes, that is true. For now. But in the future this technology will be refined. It always is. It will be made practical.
Always think ahead...
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
... to try and use this schlieren photography technology to detect illnesses in people.
The moment the American public heard they were doing this, there would be an instant and very violent revolution.
Those medical insurance execs would fear for their lives to even live in the US, once this was found out, because people everywhere would be trying to kill them.
The police would be instantly overwhelmed by constant acts of terrorism against these companies. If they abused this system, even with all the ignorant stupid complacent Americans running around out there, they would trigger an instant civil war.
It would be very short but very, very bloody.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I don't want to trade in the ugly evil beast that is Microsoft, for the even uglier more evil beast that is any foreign government telling US corporations how to run their business.
In ten years y'all will rue the day you rooted for the EU against Microsoft, when international laws dig even deeper into your nation's sovereignty.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
There has not even been one feeble eep from people who cheat, on this message board. This has been entirely a one sided discussion.
Now that is pure boolshit. Some of y'all would like to cheat if you could, but the fact is some of you don't want to be honest about it.
Cheating in games is nothing more than an extension of how people cheat on tests, and worst of all, how people cheat to get ahead in life. Yes. People are known to lie, steal, espionage and sabotage their way ahead in life. It is the dark side of human nature.
That is why we invented the words treacherous and untrustworthy. Because, as Blade said, someone is always trying to skate uphill.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The fraggin' government does enough of that already! Sheesh
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
moderators be merciful please... frankly I think it's time we took a stand against this crap. If they threatened to sue me I would send them a reply saying that if they cared about the physical well being of their process server, they would not send him my way with a lawsuit, because I will make it a point to reply to the plaintiff with a note attached to the process server's arm which will arrive in a rose box.
And I will deliver it personally.
I don't care if the cops come after me. I'd be sending a message that you don't intimidate me, or anyone else over such bogus lawsuits.
If you are too squeamish for the violent revolt approach, which 99.99% of us are, then it would be very wise to consider this, Fubar: Minnesota may have an anti-SLAPP statute. That's SLAPP as in Strategic Lawsuit Against Political Participation. Many states have laws against this. File a SLAPP lawsuit against the company and let the state's leg breakers have a go at it.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Fortunately, this could never happen here.
I have never laughed so hard in weeks. Dude, Jamie, clue up! Corporations are trying to Big Brother us here, whereas government agencies are the ones doing it in Australia and the USSR.
It can happen here, and it can happen with the assist of all the ignorant and apathetic Americans. Namely starting with the ones who said it couldn't happen here. *hint* *hint*
*obPrayer: moderators have mercy.*
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,