I don't think either of you are idiots, you are just looking at it in a different way. One of you is talking about harnessing the physical vibrations of the hardware, the other is considering picking up energy as compression waves off of the vibrating object...
And most Special Interest Groups that I've seen produce ideology that borders on completely fucking nuts. Both sides are usually wrong, it just depends on the point of view of the person who wants their wrong ideas heard most.
> As to whats wrong with Corporations and Big Business: in one word: Enron
Wow, try using a little more thought next time. There is nothing wrong with business. What was wrong with Enron was the people running it (or, not running it). There are plenty of big businesses out there that are not corrupted like Enron. Stop beating your chest with stupid remarks that don't hold up.
> most people only want to listen to the mindless stuff
I disagree. I think most people would readily listen to most good music, but they just don't know it's there because the record companies don't want them to know it's there.
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Why would we add someone no one has ever heard of to a list of talented musicians? What, is that your local band or something?
> Why, in free countries, do we citizens let this happen? It's because we're sheep
Bull... It's not because we're sheep, it's because most of the people are too F*%#!ng lazy to think for themselves. They'd rather go about their day-to-day lives, sitting on their asses and believing there is someone in charge doing "good" things.
Oh wow, what amazing insight. PLEASE tell me where you can buy all that equipment flat-out for $300... What, you can't? Then you didn't loan anyone any freakin' money, duh.
I got the same catalog. The footnotes are painted to the underside of the lid of an invisible toilet in the ultra-secret 7th floor of Dell's true HQ in Saudi Arabia.
> At least 90%+ of the wacky British are functionally literate. > Literacy could also be a factor, the report suggested, as nearly one-quarter of the U.S. population cannot read well enough to handle everyday tasks.
Yeah, offtopic, but that statistic is so wildly wrong in many ways that it borders on offensive.
Maybe its because everyday tasks, according to the US statistic, includes things like assembling a nuclear reactor, whereas the off-the-cuff 90% stat includes identifying the alphabet...
Functionally literate and "cannot read well enough" may look similar but they are entirely different things. Hell, I consider myself more literate than probably 85% of the world (and that's probably a low estimate), but that doesn't mean I don't make occasional mistakes, or come across something I can't recognize.
No, it is not, and since I understand that distinction I am saying that the US government is not fundamentally corrupt unless the others are as well. So that's exactly the point.
> You don't want the employees that you have to monitor continuously
That may be a very good point. I admit I know much less about K.Mitnick than a lot of others here, but what exactly did he steal? Was he convicted of thievery? If so, your statement makes sense, but if he doesn't steal, keeping an eye on him wouldn't do any good.
> I think that the only way that the Israel-Palestine issue is to get both sides to sit down
Oh, whew, good thing you're on the ball. CLINTON TRIED THAT AND FAILED MISERABLY. Neither side is interested in peace. The Isrealis want the land they were given and don't want to be attacked. Tha Palestinians want the land that was given to the Isrealis, which they claim is theirs. It also doesn't help that they are jealous of the rich Jews. In reality it belongs to no one.
Genetic engineering will not kill us, nanotechnology will not kill us, any technology will not kill us.
There will always be people who say that the next big technology will be the end of the world. That's been going on a long time. They may be right, but only once and that's very far in the future, if at all.
Wow, a whole load of ignorance to be chewed on. Of course it's an AC
1) All the people who were sent to Australia as criminals are long dead.
2) I'm not your fscking brother, only one person in the world holds that legitimate claim, so don't insult my family by arbitrarily including yourself into it.
3) Forgiving is a choice, no one deserves forgiveness.
4) The US is not a corporation, duh, and Mr. Mitnick is not being held any more. RTFA... hell, RTF summary
5) The US is not a church, duh
6) The US is not immoral, although its people may be. A country is not a real entity, it is made up of its people.
7) Hmm, does this sound like forgiveness? > whatever vile act committed against me with malice should be dealt equaly in return
8) Jesus Christ did not teach you anything, he has been dead for years. His followers' followers' followers'... followers taught you. Unless of course you really are 2000 years old...
9) Comparing Mitnick to Jesus is laughable to myself, but for someone who portrays themself as a Christian, it is an insult to your own religion to do something like that.
10) Semantics or not, he knew he was not supposed to be in what he was in -- unauthorized, so no he was not "authenticated to access the data." To be authenticated, he would have to be an authentic user, which -- guess what -- he wasn't.
11) Mitnick was prosecuted by a government interested in protecting the companies that he was breaking into. Not because the government hated him. Hell, as long as he paid his taxes and didn't step on any toes, they would have left him alone. But no, he "deserved" access to information and services without giving anything in return (modern-day meaning: cash). I'm not even going to try to argue "ignorant, foul, and illegitimate," as they are desperate adjectives coming from an ignorant or desperate person.
12) Go read a book about the Gestapo, you will find very little relevance (in scale) to the US. And what appearance has to do with ANYTHING is extremely doubtful at best.
My hair is roughly the same size as everyone else's, and I don't doubt you "know" what you are talking about, I just think you misinterpret what you know.
> Will you hire a convicted rapist as a bodyguard for your daughter?
This and the pedophile analogy keep coming up and they piss me off -- It is not like hiring a rapist to watch your daughter. It is allowing someone else, who you have no legal affiliation with and who knows the details of the person, to hire a rapist as a bodyguard for their own daughter. In other words, if they want to hire him, that's their own decision (whether it be stupid or not), not yours.
> To not try to reform a person is one of the most inhumane things you can do
If you don't use Microsoft products, you must be "reformed" into using them! Yes, different severity, but the same idea. Who the heck do you think you are to say someone needs to be reformed? Maybe everyone else needs to be reformed into going back to the "natural" state. Get rid of clothes, technology, bricks, metal... Just live in the forest. To not try to reform everyone is a terrible thing.
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I don't think either of you are idiots, you are just looking at it in a different way. One of you is talking about harnessing the physical vibrations of the hardware, the other is considering picking up energy as compression waves off of the vibrating object...
I don't know which, if either, is correct.
> As apposed to when the israelies bulldoze the homes of those families
Sure, as long as the palestinians give money to victims' families whenever those suicide bombers blow up another fricking dance club.
Not that I reply to trolls (which are replies to trolls...), but you show your absolute stupidity there.
"You're a fag"
"Huhuh, I know you are but what am I?"
Great comeback there, buddy.
And most Special Interest Groups that I've seen produce ideology that borders on completely fucking nuts. Both sides are usually wrong, it just depends on the point of view of the person who wants their wrong ideas heard most.
> As to whats wrong with Corporations and Big Business: in one word: Enron
Wow, try using a little more thought next time. There is nothing wrong with business. What was wrong with Enron was the people running it (or, not running it). There are plenty of big businesses out there that are not corrupted like Enron. Stop beating your chest with stupid remarks that don't hold up.
> most people only want to listen to the mindless stuff
I disagree. I think most people would readily listen to most good music, but they just don't know it's there because the record companies don't want them to know it's there.
Why would we add someone no one has ever heard of to a list of talented musicians? What, is that your local band or something?
> Why, in free countries, do we citizens let this happen? It's because we're sheep
Bull... It's not because we're sheep, it's because most of the people are too F*%#!ng lazy to think for themselves. They'd rather go about their day-to-day lives, sitting on their asses and believing there is someone in charge doing "good" things.
Every time a generalization is made it is wrong.
> This is just the same as descriminating...knowing that that neighbourhood is lived in mostly by, for example, blacks
No, it's like discriminating based on location because that location has more criminals.
50 or 100? Never underestimate the number of people out to get as much money from you as possible.
Not to nitpick, but you get 2nd place...
Oh wow, what amazing insight. PLEASE tell me where you can buy all that equipment flat-out for $300... What, you can't? Then you didn't loan anyone any freakin' money, duh.
I got the same catalog. The footnotes are painted to the underside of the lid of an invisible toilet in the ultra-secret 7th floor of Dell's true HQ in Saudi Arabia.
> At least 90%+ of the wacky British are functionally literate.
> Literacy could also be a factor, the report suggested, as nearly one-quarter of the U.S. population cannot read well enough to handle everyday tasks.
Yeah, offtopic, but that statistic is so wildly wrong in many ways that it borders on offensive.
Maybe its because everyday tasks, according to the US statistic, includes things like assembling a nuclear reactor, whereas the off-the-cuff 90% stat includes identifying the alphabet...
Functionally literate and "cannot read well enough" may look similar but they are entirely different things. Hell, I consider myself more literate than probably 85% of the world (and that's probably a low estimate), but that doesn't mean I don't make occasional mistakes, or come across something I can't recognize.
No, it is not, and since I understand that distinction I am saying that the US government is not fundamentally corrupt unless the others are as well. So that's exactly the point.
> Of course, now that means my ID was too
Oh, you time travelling rapscallion... you are good... grrr
> You don't want the employees that you have to monitor continuously
That may be a very good point. I admit I know much less about K.Mitnick than a lot of others here, but what exactly did he steal? Was he convicted of thievery? If so, your statement makes sense, but if he doesn't steal, keeping an eye on him wouldn't do any good.
> I think that the only way that the Israel-Palestine issue is to get both sides to sit down
Oh, whew, good thing you're on the ball. CLINTON TRIED THAT AND FAILED MISERABLY. Neither side is interested in peace. The Isrealis want the land they were given and don't want to be attacked.
Tha Palestinians want the land that was given to the Isrealis, which they claim is theirs. It also doesn't help that they are jealous of the rich Jews. In reality it belongs to no one.
That's me, because my car is nicer to me than other people are.
Genetic engineering will not kill us, nanotechnology will not kill us, any technology will not kill us.
There will always be people who say that the next big technology will be the end of the world. That's been going on a long time. They may be right, but only once and that's very far in the future, if at all.
Wow, a whole load of ignorance to be chewed on. Of course it's an AC
1) All the people who were sent to Australia as criminals are long dead.
2) I'm not your fscking brother, only one person in the world holds that legitimate claim, so don't insult my family by arbitrarily including yourself into it.
3) Forgiving is a choice, no one deserves forgiveness.
4) The US is not a corporation, duh, and Mr. Mitnick is not being held any more. RTFA... hell, RTF summary
5) The US is not a church, duh
6) The US is not immoral, although its people may be. A country is not a real entity, it is made up of its people.
7) Hmm, does this sound like forgiveness?
> whatever vile act committed against me with malice should be dealt equaly in return
8) Jesus Christ did not teach you anything, he has been dead for years. His followers' followers' followers'... followers taught you. Unless of course you really are 2000 years old...
9) Comparing Mitnick to Jesus is laughable to myself, but for someone who portrays themself as a Christian, it is an insult to your own religion to do something like that.
10) Semantics or not, he knew he was not supposed to be in what he was in -- unauthorized, so no he was not "authenticated to access the data." To be authenticated, he would have to be an authentic user, which -- guess what -- he wasn't.
11) Mitnick was prosecuted by a government interested in protecting the companies that he was breaking into. Not because the government hated him. Hell, as long as he paid his taxes and didn't step on any toes, they would have left him alone. But no, he "deserved" access to information and services without giving anything in return (modern-day meaning: cash). I'm not even going to try to argue "ignorant, foul, and illegitimate," as they are desperate adjectives coming from an ignorant or desperate person.
12) Go read a book about the Gestapo, you will find very little relevance (in scale) to the US. And what appearance has to do with ANYTHING is extremely doubtful at best.
My hair is roughly the same size as everyone else's, and I don't doubt you "know" what you are talking about, I just think you misinterpret what you know.
> Will you hire a convicted rapist as a bodyguard for your daughter?
This and the pedophile analogy keep coming up and they piss me off -- It is not like hiring a rapist to watch your daughter. It is allowing someone else, who you have no legal affiliation with and who knows the details of the person, to hire a rapist as a bodyguard for their own daughter. In other words, if they want to hire him, that's their own decision (whether it be stupid or not), not yours.
> To not try to reform a person is one of the most inhumane things you can do
If you don't use Microsoft products, you must be "reformed" into using them! Yes, different severity, but the same idea. Who the heck do you think you are to say someone needs to be reformed? Maybe everyone else needs to be reformed into going back to the "natural" state. Get rid of clothes, technology, bricks, metal... Just live in the forest. To not try to reform everyone is a terrible thing.
damned right, kill the jaywalkers -- that'll get rid of all the crime! or just all of the people...
Perfectly stated, what more can I say? Not much, so I won't!