My friends were doing that all last week, and it gets annoying real fast. Not that the cartoon wasn't funny, but the annoyance was the humor with that one. Unfortunately some people (IRL, of course) like to make references to things like that OVER and OVER and OVER... Makes me wanna grab my sub-machine. (Another obscure reference for you)
> Droids, Ewoks, and even mentions the Christmas Special.
While I don't recall the xmas one, I don't consider the droids or the Ewoks to be leading characters.
Were Tank & wussizname (his bro) leading characters in The Matrix? No, they happened to be part of the lead group, but not lead characters. I know that's a stretch of an argument, but it's a similar idea. I'm not trying to justify the writer's false statement, just trying to point out that, in a sense, he was right.
> I think I'll just sue them for breaching the GPL and walk away with a few thousand dollars... but thats just me
Um... While your thoughts on the (counter)suit are valid, unless you wrote some of the GPLed code they are infringing, you have zero basis for a suit. You aren't the copyright holder.
Oh, I see what you mean about the "double-dipping." I was arguing the wrong point *DOH*:)
> Do you really want to pay a monthly cable TV bill in the high three figures USD?
Nope, I don't want to pay $50/mo for the declining quality that TV is now. Oh well, I guess if I want to watch the 10 or so good shows I have to pay more for less good stuff on more channels. Yay for capitalism. I guess it has less to do with capitalism than with more media being controlled by fewer people... What to do?
The cable company's share is the money I give them to distribute the shows to me.
> If $15 per month goes to fund production of the works
That $15 does NOT go to production. The shows are either independently funded or paid for by the network. The network gets reimbursed when they sell a license to air the program to the cable company or major network. They also pay for it with advertising, which is what I don't like. They are getting more & more wealthy by adding another 30 seconds to the commercial slots every few years.
> The Java JRE should be installed by default with Windows along with Mozilla.
Great, everyone complains (rightly, IMO) about how bloated Windows is, and then you demand they add more stuff to it? Their competitor's stuff, no less.
> linux competitveness in the the desktop market is growing by orders of magnitude in ease of use and software availability
That looks like some sly wording. Yes, the desktop competitiveness may have increased by "orders of magnitude," but unfortunately, the market share has not grown quite so quickly as to reflect that. I wish it would hurry up & do that, but no such luck so far.
> If sept 11. had thought you anything it should be that atleast some people in the world have stopped ignoring you....
Well, the point was not that others are ignoring the U.S., it's that I'm ignoring them.
Honestly? It didn't teach me anything, other than there are certain people out there that are willing to kill 3000 innocents to make themselves feel like they are doing something to change the world. I don't even claim to know 100% who they are or why they really did it.
Know what else? I don't care. I have enough problems of my own that I don't have the time or energy to care about other people's problems. Like most other people on the planet, I'm just trying to live. Yet just because of where I happened to be born, I am considered evil, oppressive, or any other idiotic name others throw at the U.S. citizens without thinking.
Yeah, some might say or think that the whole "I don't care" thing is exactly what's wrong with us, but I say it's exactly what's right (this does NOT extend to the government, who acts outside the power & wishes of the population). If everyone just said "I don't care about anyone else, just leave me alone," the world could be slightly better, although considerably less advanced in some places and slightly more in others... All around, not a bad outcome. This is, of course, on a large scale. If no one "cared" about their neighbors (like I do not), there's no interaction, no progress.
> In my opinion popups are a blatent hi-jacking of a computer system, by abusing a browser function that should not be there in the first place
Woah, cowboy... Just because you don't like a feature it doesn't mean it should not be there. I've been to plenty of sites that use popups (not ads, but new windows) in a very useful way. Also, it's not abuse. Abuse would be if they used it to infect yer PC with viruses. Actually, I guess that would be exploiting, but "abusing" a computer would only cause physical damage to the equipment (AFAIK, my PC has no psyche & can't be mentally abused). As for hijacking, that would, again, only be the case if it "took over," and except for the unending cascade of popups that occur sometimes, that doesn't happen. Plus, those cascading popups usually only occur on "porn" sites -- not to mention that on those, usually, the only porn images on the site are the ads drawing you to it
I absolutely agree with your conclusion, just not how you arrived at it.
> If I see an ad and choose to explore it and purchase a product
Impulse buying is what puts people in debt. If I am going to buy something, I know where to look for it. I don't need a giant flash animation telling me I can buy my widgets at widget-and-gizmo-fetish.com.
You don't seem to realize that you are in the very VERY small minority who likes ads. I pay $15 a month to get on the internet, why should I have to pay to watch adverts for crap I don't want (and for some ppl, they find it offensive). Granted, I feel the same way about Cable TV.
I'm 100% behind Symantec on this. They are giving the customer what they want. That is what businesses are supposed to do! The customer does not want to look at advertisements, they want to find porn without a billion popups, dan't you? I mean, what is the Internet, if not Slashdot and porn? Oh, and drivers, the 'Net is invaluable for those. Err, music, movies, games... but I undress, er digress.
> Then AoC came out and removed all doubt by actually being worse than the first one
Oh, come on... Jar jar was only in the second one a few minutes, so it's instantly better. Not only that, but after we learned to hate him in the first, Lucas went and made him cause (well, proposed it: it woulda' happened without him I'm sure) the Clone War. What better punishment for being a stupid bipedal rasta frog with a speech impediment can there be?
> I can't believe they're making a 5th movie in that series
How can there be more than one after there was only one left... twice? And, BTW, anyone who enjoys Highlander should consider all of #2 a dream sequence, cuz it sure as hell wasn't Highlander. Aliens? WTF. See what Hollywood can do to a good story?
> I hope you see the problem with this line of reasoning:-)
The problem lies not with the reasoning, but the reasoner. Take any given fact, then make a story so it matches close enough to what you have said before. Politics defined...
> Many of todays drugs are tested by giving large doses to small animals.
Oh shit! Large doses of caffiene are deadly. I better NEVER see you drink Mountain Dew, Coffee, Tea... Not to mention alcohol's toxicity... Or ANY DRUG (Rx|Otherwise) YOU'VE EVER TAKEN. Double-Standard?
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> [Typical Genndy stuff] will rock for 2 seasons then go down hill
Luckily, there is only two seasons to this (20 EPS). Maybe Lucas read your mind & realized you were right.
Also, I still like Samurai Jack.
> It's what Gary is good at...after all Dexter and Powerpuf eps [...]
Gary who? Do you mean Genndy, or is there a Gary that does something else?
> Don't you mean BIZARRO Cartoon Network?!!
Aaahh, Bizarro, bizarro bizarro bizarro. Bizarro, biz.. *WHACK*
My friends were doing that all last week, and it gets annoying real fast. Not that the cartoon wasn't funny, but the annoyance was the humor with that one. Unfortunately some people (IRL, of course) like to make references to things like that OVER and OVER and OVER... Makes me wanna grab my sub-machine. (Another obscure reference for you)
> Droids, Ewoks, and even mentions the Christmas Special.
While I don't recall the xmas one, I don't consider the droids or the Ewoks to be leading characters.
Were Tank & wussizname (his bro) leading characters in The Matrix? No, they happened to be part of the lead group, but not lead characters. I know that's a stretch of an argument, but it's a similar idea. I'm not trying to justify the writer's false statement, just trying to point out that, in a sense, he was right.
> It would only be a small victory for the Empire.
But a huge victory for the rest of us.
Ewoks were the Jar-Jars of the original series.
> BEFORE I KOCK THAT DICK OUTTA YOUR MOUTH
How do you kock a cock?
> Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Man, I got a friggin lameness catch because of a quote. Geesh.
> *BUMP,BUMP,BUMP*
> Passenger: "I think you just hit some lawyers."
Three bumps? Is it a 6-wheeler, or were there just 1.5 lawyers there?
> $699 says that SCO is dead before I get my G5
$1mil says that the Earth dies before I get a Mac.
> I think I'll just sue them for breaching the GPL and walk away with a few thousand dollars... but thats just me
Um... While your thoughts on the (counter)suit are valid, unless you wrote some of the GPLed code they are infringing, you have zero basis for a suit. You aren't the copyright holder.
> Maybe if one of the two cars going 500mph was on top of the other car going 500mph.
Yes, but unless the bottom car is extremely long, the top one won't be doing its (relative) 1000mph for very long.
> Just imagine what will happen once they manage negative sizes!
Infinite speed? Maybe they can warp the electrons from gate to gate at that point!
Huh? Why, no, I don't have a degree in mathematics, physics, engineering... How'd you guess?
Oh, I see what you mean about the "double-dipping." I was arguing the wrong point *DOH* :)
> Do you really want to pay a monthly cable TV bill in the high three figures USD?
Nope, I don't want to pay $50/mo for the declining quality that TV is now. Oh well, I guess if I want to watch the 10 or so good shows I have to pay more for less good stuff on more channels. Yay for capitalism. I guess it has less to do with capitalism than with more media being controlled by fewer people... What to do?
> what funds distribution of works to your home
The cable company's share is the money I give them to distribute the shows to me.
> If $15 per month goes to fund production of the works
That $15 does NOT go to production. The shows are either independently funded or paid for by the network. The network gets reimbursed when they sell a license to air the program to the cable company or major network. They also pay for it with advertising, which is what I don't like. They are getting more & more wealthy by adding another 30 seconds to the commercial slots every few years.
> The Java JRE should be installed by default with Windows along with Mozilla.
Great, everyone complains (rightly, IMO) about how bloated Windows is, and then you demand they add more stuff to it? Their competitor's stuff, no less.
> linux competitveness in the the desktop market is growing by orders of magnitude in ease of use and software availability
That looks like some sly wording. Yes, the desktop competitiveness may have increased by "orders of magnitude," but unfortunately, the market share has not grown quite so quickly as to reflect that. I wish it would hurry up & do that, but no such luck so far.
> If sept 11. had thought you anything it should be that atleast some people in the world have stopped ignoring you....
Well, the point was not that others are ignoring the U.S., it's that I'm ignoring them.
Honestly? It didn't teach me anything, other than there are certain people out there that are willing to kill 3000 innocents to make themselves feel like they are doing something to change the world. I don't even claim to know 100% who they are or why they really did it.
Know what else? I don't care. I have enough problems of my own that I don't have the time or energy to care about other people's problems. Like most other people on the planet, I'm just trying to live. Yet just because of where I happened to be born, I am considered evil, oppressive, or any other idiotic name others throw at the U.S. citizens without thinking.
Yeah, some might say or think that the whole "I don't care" thing is exactly what's wrong with us, but I say it's exactly what's right (this does NOT extend to the government, who acts outside the power & wishes of the population). If everyone just said "I don't care about anyone else, just leave me alone," the world could be slightly better, although considerably less advanced in some places and slightly more in others... All around, not a bad outcome. This is, of course, on a large scale. If no one "cared" about their neighbors (like I do not), there's no interaction, no progress.
> In my opinion popups are a blatent hi-jacking of a computer system, by abusing a browser function that should not be there in the first place
Woah, cowboy... Just because you don't like a feature it doesn't mean it should not be there. I've been to plenty of sites that use popups (not ads, but new windows) in a very useful way. Also, it's not abuse. Abuse would be if they used it to infect yer PC with viruses. Actually, I guess that would be exploiting, but "abusing" a computer would only cause physical damage to the equipment (AFAIK, my PC has no psyche & can't be mentally abused). As for hijacking, that would, again, only be the case if it "took over," and except for the unending cascade of popups that occur sometimes, that doesn't happen. Plus, those cascading popups usually only occur on "porn" sites -- not to mention that on those, usually, the only porn images on the site are the ads drawing you to it
I absolutely agree with your conclusion, just not how you arrived at it.
> If I see an ad and choose to explore it and purchase a product
Impulse buying is what puts people in debt. If I am going to buy something, I know where to look for it. I don't need a giant flash animation telling me I can buy my widgets at widget-and-gizmo-fetish.com.
You don't seem to realize that you are in the very VERY small minority who likes ads. I pay $15 a month to get on the internet, why should I have to pay to watch adverts for crap I don't want (and for some ppl, they find it offensive). Granted, I feel the same way about Cable TV.
I'm 100% behind Symantec on this. They are giving the customer what they want. That is what businesses are supposed to do! The customer does not want to look at advertisements, they want to find porn without a billion popups, dan't you? I mean, what is the Internet, if not Slashdot and porn? Oh, and drivers, the 'Net is invaluable for those. Err, music, movies, games... but I undress, er digress.
> Then AoC came out and removed all doubt by actually being worse than the first one
Oh, come on... Jar jar was only in the second one a few minutes, so it's instantly better. Not only that, but after we learned to hate him in the first, Lucas went and made him cause (well, proposed it: it woulda' happened without him I'm sure) the Clone War. What better punishment for being a stupid bipedal rasta frog with a speech impediment can there be?
> I can't believe they're making a 5th movie in that series
How can there be more than one after there was only one left... twice? And, BTW, anyone who enjoys Highlander should consider all of #2 a dream sequence, cuz it sure as hell wasn't Highlander. Aliens? WTF. See what Hollywood can do to a good story?
> He/she is absolutely wrong. I am in my thirties now, and everyday, I realize more and more how stupid people are.
Absolutely true. Only difference with me is, I don't have the common sense to post AC.
> YOU CAN SEE THEM WITH YOUR OWN EYES!
Really? I can't see any. Where are they? Point them out.
> I hope you see the problem with this line of reasoning :-)
The problem lies not with the reasoning, but the reasoner. Take any given fact, then make a story so it matches close enough to what you have said before. Politics defined...
> Ignore the rest of the world and be egocentric idiots
Good advice, it's worked pretty damned well so far.
> Many of todays drugs are tested by giving large doses to small animals.
Oh shit! Large doses of caffiene are deadly. I better NEVER see you drink Mountain Dew, Coffee, Tea... Not to mention alcohol's toxicity... Or ANY DRUG (Rx|Otherwise) YOU'VE EVER TAKEN. Double-Standard?