If you desire open and license free standards this is not the right time to make a compromise!
Maybe, but stuff like this needs to happen for widespread adoption of Linux, to make it legit in the eyes of the masses. The purists can always use other distros and/or hack together other working solutions. Remember, the beauty of Linux is that you always have a choice.
As an aside, I'm amused that sopssa has bad karma(excellent FP in this case). If you wanna get constant +5 first posts, you gotta play rough with the big boys, dude.
Didn't the principal suspend a kid for supposedly taking "drugs" at home, that turned out to be Mike N' Ikes?
It dosen't matter even if the student was smoking a joint or snorting a line of coke. It's still none of the school's damn business what students do outside of school, unless it was a school-sponsored function or they were scooped up by the cops or campus security for being truant, period.
...And the mods always string me up by my balls for saying this: Students don't need cell phones and laptops at high school. The computer labs and libraries are more than good enough.
It was noble of you to try to wrest control of a troll thread, but your comment loses a lot of credibility for being titled "Re: Do niggers use linux?"
Would it hurt to at least change the title while you strive for visibility and relevance? When I saw the title of your post, I half-expected to see a poorly-written diatribe against Jamal Jackson for playing basketball and chasing caucasian women.
Thank you, kind sir, for listening. We all must do our part to prevent trolling!
...there has to be sexual activity or suggestive content.
Now we come back to the problem of deciding what constitutes "suggestive content."
One man's harmless baby picture of his nude infant daughter is another man's child pornography. Maybe your bathing suit-clad daughter spread her legs and faced the camera at the exact moment you took the picture. The laws as-is don't make any sense, especially while there are sex-offender registries but not murderer registries. It's as if the people who make the laws are tacitly admitting to feeling dirty for enjoying your daughter's crotch, and blaming you for shoving that harmless picture in their faces.
It must be their earthquake weapons they've been working on. Isn't it convenient that the last major earthquakes have been in Iran, China, Haiti, and Malaysia? Why else would the CIA open a center on Climate Change and national security?
No, listen guys, there's a reason for this. Hot on the heels of the success in exploiting the shock and awe of 9/11 to sieze power and exploit the disaster for business opportunities, the government is now finalizing it's ultimate make-work program - disaster capitalism as described in Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, which states that,
Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the "War on Terror" to Halliburton and Blackwater. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans's residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened.... These events are examples of "the shock doctrine": using the public's disorientation following massive collective shocks - wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy.
Isn't it convenient how the most powerful quakes and tsunamis have hit countries like Iran, China, and Indonesia(because of its Muslim population)? More recently, there were quakes in Mexico and Chile. America has a stake for transforming all of the above nations from the inside out, invading their territories under the guise of "aid" and establishing a cancerous presence before rendering them docile with its culture before sucking them dry. Chile in particular was mentioned in Shock Doctrine as an example of a country who has thumbed their nose at America's financial control of South America to become independent and stable. There's been a lot of Tsunami FUD in San Diego lately, to build hype for the climate weapons and persuade its overwhelmingly Christian population to buy into the "end times" madness.
and if it's not a discussion class, who cares if you attend?
The funny thing about online classes, where nobody actually goes to school, is that threaded discussions(with at least 4 posts) are almost always mandatory -- even in classes which wouldn't otherwise be dependent on discussions. It's good for students because of the easy points, and it's nice for teachers because it offloads some of their teaching onto the students.
Regarding your first paragraph - We should have proportional private taxation along with proportional representation. Breaks and refunds can be dependent on, well, dependents. Tax breaks based on marriages are obsolete. If corporations want tax breaks and other incentives, they should be held to certain requirements such as a ratio of their employees(including contractors and consultants) being U.S. citizens paid a prevailing wage. While I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony.
Can you show me just one major example of a (US) ISP restricting political views based solely on political viewpoint without having a simi-valid 'legal' reason?
Not yet, but soon...
1) If you want internet, you gotta agree to the EULA.
2) Post in favor of unpopular candidate in a forum, have your internet disconnected for "abusive" posting where "abusive" is defined loosely or not at all. And they will find something to use against you.
3) Pay your early termination fee.
4) (ISP) Profits!!!
And whenever you have governmental control over communication (such as the BBC) smaller viewpoints get left out even more than with our current system. Look at the debates that were publicly funded and left out major parties such as the Scottish Nationalist Party and Plaid Camru.
No difference there. The FCC is basically admitting that they're powerless against the one-two punch of corporate lobbying and litigation. American "debates" have been a joke for a long time.
Not every family had the money for those toys back then.
Technical literacy had little to do with it. None of my peers had trouble learning, navigating, and exploiting the Apple ]['s or the early Macs at grade school.
This could be a real inconvenience, suppose you wanted to submit a picture to Rate My Poo?
...Or finish wiping your ass, for that matter. Funny that some places use flushless urinals to be "green", but then waste the water with automatic toilets that flush twice for one dump's worth*.
When talking to someone else, we can politely stop them and ask : "Sorry, what did you say?"
That dosen't always work. When accents and the command of a language are so poor, you only get a few chances to ask, "Sorry, what did you say?" After asking three times, you either look like an asshole and/or give up and spend the next few minutes nodding and smiling before trying to parse what they said, hoping you get it right.
Which is why we need good speech-recognition and translation software. It's easy to infer the meaning of "come to me give the diagram" because there are at least intelligible words to work with. And no, I'm not being racist -- the situation applies to all cultures and languages.
Exactly. It's like actively seeking a rock of crack and then blaming the dealer for your being hooked. The pusher didn't force that crackipipe into anybody's mouth, and nobody stole 300 bucks from anyone's wallet while shoving an iPhone in their hand.
As a layman, I'm puzzled why regulators are just now going after Apple's app dev process instead of something like their requiring* iTunes to interface with their stuff*. There's a car analogy above that says that one loses support for aftermarket parts. Fair enough, but at least they still allow the "owner" to change the battery.
* So iTunes isn't the only solution now, after hacks and reverse-engineering, but would it have been so hard to just support mass-storage protocol like everybody else does? That would be a good example of Just Works(TM)
so basically a private corporation, somewhere, probably has much more info on you than leave aside your government, but even your parents ever may have hoped to know about you...you choosing 'not to do business with them' doesnt mean shit. once your information is out, its out.
Then the government just requests or buys that data anyway. They can get away with whatever they want as long as proxies are willing to do it for them, especially for cash. Times are tough and government agencies have big, big pools of informant money.
Proponents of private, under-regulated healthcare like to say that the customer benefits from competition. Horseshit. The only competition is that of profit, while customer care is a race to the bottom. When company A begins collecting and selling customer data, companies B and C say, "Hey, we make more money doing that too!", not "Hey, maybe our customers will like us better if we don't collect their data!"
Steve jobs is no charismatic guru, he's just a turtlenecked faggot in the right place at the right time who speaks with a wimpy-voiced lisp. He had the chance to earn more mainstream credibility with getting the slate form factor right, but he failed because he assumed that everybody else would suck his cock without wanting those things called "features". Only a Frisco faggot insulated from the rest of the thinking country* could be as arrogant as the Hep-C-ridden Steve Jobs, who attained a second chance at life because he had money. Linux is kicking MacOS' ass as we speak.
The protect and serve motto is a reminder of police officer's dedication to service..."knuckle dragging cowardly bullies" is absurd at best. While I would never wish for you to need the services of a police officer, if you ever find yourself doing so, I assume you wouldn't make such a statement. If you ever plan on doing so, let me know when and where so I can watch.
I'll try. The fault with the statements above is that they equate police officers with DHS guards. Despite having been on the wrong side of the law many times, I do believe that the vast majority of police officers are honest folks who foster good relations with their citizens and have honest intent(the only bad publicity seems to come from Los Angeles, with its officers up against crotch-grabbers and coked-up madmen using babies for human shields). I also agree that they're not out to cause trouble because they want to go home to their families without any bullshit.
However - DHS guards are not police officers. They are glorified security guards gone mad with the power they attained in the wake of 9/11. The vast majority of them face no danger, and the last one to be shot to death(since the '80's) passed under mysterious circumstances with his gun stolen, an obvious cover-up. This ICE "officer" drove at night with tinted windows and plowed through a stop sign, killing 3 women. Calling them "federal officers" is an insult to everybody else with "officer" in their title. They're on par with prison guards, for fuck's sake. I know because I get eye-fucked and sent to secondary on a regular basis by those assholes, because I always lose the staring contest. Why don't you try driving through a few of their checkpoints being preemptively treated like a criminal and having dogs run your car beacuse you "might" be a criminal?
so he must have done more than just stepped out of his car (in fact we know that he did so at border patrol, which by definition carries a higher risk for officers, so a higher reaction would be expected than in, for example, Canada).
I know you're just trolling, but I've lived on the Southern US border my whole life. The Border Patrol checkpoints are more safe than anywhere else. It's the Southern badlands laterally between the checkpoints, where the coyotes and armed narcotrafficantes smuggle their payloads, that are dangerous. There's no reason for those at the Canadian border to feel threatened enough to gang-beat a skinny punk.
Anyone with more than 2 brain cells to bang together saw it for what it was.
And those of us with two brain cells were hopeful that each brain cell would finally have their own screen. I guess I could sniff some glue and kill off one of my two brain cells. That would make me a prime candidate for the iPad.
I'm even going to stick my head up Rob Malda's ass and say that it's the best and most convenient place to get an information fix, where every post counts and at least a few people know what they're talking about. Even this little petty argument is more fun than the "LOL JAJA" bullshit of MyBook and Twitter.
Not everybody gets to live near MIT or Santa Rosa. Why don't you try living in a desolate Christian-dominated shit-town full of paranoid war vets and DHS goons? Try it and come back and tell us how refreshing Slashdot discussions are. Especially if all your friends are all married with kids and work long hours while you are too young to settle down, but too old to have any real fun. Such is the quarter-life crisis.
Yeah, so I troll Slashdot occasionally. So what, does that hurt your feelings?
Of course, not with close friends, but you can look at how people in a bus or a subway will stare at the floor and try their best not to make eye contact.
Did it occur to you that some of us don't enjoy small talk because we're sick of the shallow bite-size noise-ridden internet methods of communication?
People think I'm weird because I don't have a MySpace or Facebook.
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Heh, should've written it by hand. Chicks love that, especially if they receive it in the mail. It's a most pleasant surprise.
Maybe, but stuff like this needs to happen for widespread adoption of Linux, to make it legit in the eyes of the masses. The purists can always use other distros and/or hack together other working solutions. Remember, the beauty of Linux is that you always have a choice.
As an aside, I'm amused that sopssa has bad karma(excellent FP in this case). If you wanna get constant +5 first posts, you gotta play rough with the big boys, dude.
It dosen't matter even if the student was smoking a joint or snorting a line of coke. It's still none of the school's damn business what students do outside of school, unless it was a school-sponsored function or they were scooped up by the cops or campus security for being truant, period.
...And the mods always string me up by my balls for saying this: Students don't need cell phones and laptops at high school. The computer labs and libraries are more than good enough.
I like you, Pudge. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister!
It was noble of you to try to wrest control of a troll thread, but your comment loses a lot of credibility for being titled "Re: Do niggers use linux?"
Would it hurt to at least change the title while you strive for visibility and relevance? When I saw the title of your post, I half-expected to see a poorly-written diatribe against Jamal Jackson for playing basketball and chasing caucasian women.
Thank you, kind sir, for listening. We all must do our part to prevent trolling!
Even better, a custom driver that XOR's the traffic twice for double the protection.
Now we come back to the problem of deciding what constitutes "suggestive content."
One man's harmless baby picture of his nude infant daughter is another man's child pornography. Maybe your bathing suit-clad daughter spread her legs and faced the camera at the exact moment you took the picture. The laws as-is don't make any sense, especially while there are sex-offender registries but not murderer registries. It's as if the people who make the laws are tacitly admitting to feeling dirty for enjoying your daughter's crotch, and blaming you for shoving that harmless picture in their faces.
No, listen guys, there's a reason for this. Hot on the heels of the success in exploiting the shock and awe of 9/11 to sieze power and exploit the disaster for business opportunities, the government is now finalizing it's ultimate make-work program - disaster capitalism as described in Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, which states that,
Isn't it convenient how the most powerful quakes and tsunamis have hit countries like Iran, China, and Indonesia(because of its Muslim population)? More recently, there were quakes in Mexico and Chile. America has a stake for transforming all of the above nations from the inside out, invading their territories under the guise of "aid" and establishing a cancerous presence before rendering them docile with its culture before sucking them dry. Chile in particular was mentioned in Shock Doctrine as an example of a country who has thumbed their nose at America's financial control of South America to become independent and stable. There's been a lot of Tsunami FUD in San Diego lately, to build hype for the climate weapons and persuade its overwhelmingly Christian population to buy into the "end times" madness.
The funny thing about online classes, where nobody actually goes to school, is that threaded discussions(with at least 4 posts) are almost always mandatory -- even in classes which wouldn't otherwise be dependent on discussions. It's good for students because of the easy points, and it's nice for teachers because it offloads some of their teaching onto the students.
Done.
Just scroll down until you see the $250,000. You know where to look for other examples.
Not yet, but soon...
1) If you want internet, you gotta agree to the EULA.
2) Post in favor of unpopular candidate in a forum, have your internet disconnected for "abusive" posting where "abusive" is defined loosely or not at all. And they will find something to use against you.
3) Pay your early termination fee.
4) (ISP) Profits!!!
No difference there. The FCC is basically admitting that they're powerless against the one-two punch of corporate lobbying and litigation. American "debates" have been a joke for a long time.
Not every family had the money for those toys back then.
Technical literacy had little to do with it. None of my peers had trouble learning, navigating, and exploiting the Apple ]['s or the early Macs at grade school.
* Toilet AI: Courtesy-flushing gone wrong?
That dosen't always work. When accents and the command of a language are so poor, you only get a few chances to ask, "Sorry, what did you say?" After asking three times, you either look like an asshole and/or give up and spend the next few minutes nodding and smiling before trying to parse what they said, hoping you get it right.
Which is why we need good speech-recognition and translation software. It's easy to infer the meaning of "come to me give the diagram" because there are at least intelligible words to work with. And no, I'm not being racist -- the situation applies to all cultures and languages.
Exactly. It's like actively seeking a rock of crack and then blaming the dealer for your being hooked. The pusher didn't force that crackipipe into anybody's mouth, and nobody stole 300 bucks from anyone's wallet while shoving an iPhone in their hand.
As a layman, I'm puzzled why regulators are just now going after Apple's app dev process instead of something like their requiring* iTunes to interface with their stuff*. There's a car analogy above that says that one loses support for aftermarket parts. Fair enough, but at least they still allow the "owner" to change the battery.
* So iTunes isn't the only solution now, after hacks and reverse-engineering, but would it have been so hard to just support mass-storage protocol like everybody else does? That would be a good example of Just Works(TM)
Then the government just requests or buys that data anyway. They can get away with whatever they want as long as proxies are willing to do it for them, especially for cash. Times are tough and government agencies have big, big pools of informant money.
Proponents of private, under-regulated healthcare like to say that the customer benefits from competition. Horseshit. The only competition is that of profit, while customer care is a race to the bottom. When company A begins collecting and selling customer data, companies B and C say, "Hey, we make more money doing that too!", not "Hey, maybe our customers will like us better if we don't collect their data!"
Steve jobs is no charismatic guru, he's just a turtlenecked faggot in the right place at the right time who speaks with a wimpy-voiced lisp. He had the chance to earn more mainstream credibility with getting the slate form factor right, but he failed because he assumed that everybody else would suck his cock without wanting those things called "features". Only a Frisco faggot insulated from the rest of the thinking country* could be as arrogant as the Hep-C-ridden Steve Jobs, who attained a second chance at life because he had money. Linux is kicking MacOS' ass as we speak.
* Steve Jobs is the George W. Bush of Cupertino.
I'll try. The fault with the statements above is that they equate police officers with DHS guards. Despite having been on the wrong side of the law many times, I do believe that the vast majority of police officers are honest folks who foster good relations with their citizens and have honest intent(the only bad publicity seems to come from Los Angeles, with its officers up against crotch-grabbers and coked-up madmen using babies for human shields). I also agree that they're not out to cause trouble because they want to go home to their families without any bullshit.
However - DHS guards are not police officers. They are glorified security guards gone mad with the power they attained in the wake of 9/11. The vast majority of them face no danger, and the last one to be shot to death(since the '80's) passed under mysterious circumstances with his gun stolen, an obvious cover-up. This ICE "officer" drove at night with tinted windows and plowed through a stop sign, killing 3 women. Calling them "federal officers" is an insult to everybody else with "officer" in their title. They're on par with prison guards, for fuck's sake. I know because I get eye-fucked and sent to secondary on a regular basis by those assholes, because I always lose the staring contest. Why don't you try driving through a few of their checkpoints being preemptively treated like a criminal and having dogs run your car beacuse you "might" be a criminal?
You're right. In the absence of real danger, they will perceive a threat anyway, to justify their gross demonstration of their authority.
Also, this, which all started with a couple neighborhood watch vigilantes(er, "neighborhood protectors", that's rich) with itchy trigger fingers.
I know you're just trolling, but I've lived on the Southern US border my whole life. The Border Patrol checkpoints are more safe than anywhere else. It's the Southern badlands laterally between the checkpoints, where the coyotes and armed narcotrafficantes smuggle their payloads, that are dangerous. There's no reason for those at the Canadian border to feel threatened enough to gang-beat a skinny punk.
And those of us with two brain cells were hopeful that each brain cell would finally have their own screen. I guess I could sniff some glue and kill off one of my two brain cells. That would make me a prime candidate for the iPad.
That's what I thought about Surface, but you too can own one if you have $12,000($15,000 for the dev model) if you have a company tax ID.
I'm hoping that Microsoft will keep it going, making it available for consumer use and not screwing it up like Apple did the iPad.
But that's offset by the pint of bull semen CmdrTaco drinks every day with his vitamins.
Yeah, so I like Slashdot.
I'm even going to stick my head up Rob Malda's ass and say that it's the best and most convenient place to get an information fix, where every post counts and at least a few people know what they're talking about. Even this little petty argument is more fun than the "LOL JAJA" bullshit of MyBook and Twitter.
Not everybody gets to live near MIT or Santa Rosa. Why don't you try living in a desolate Christian-dominated shit-town full of paranoid war vets and DHS goons? Try it and come back and tell us how refreshing Slashdot discussions are. Especially if all your friends are all married with kids and work long hours while you are too young to settle down, but too old to have any real fun. Such is the quarter-life crisis.
Yeah, so I troll Slashdot occasionally. So what, does that hurt your feelings?
Did it occur to you that some of us don't enjoy small talk because we're sick of the shallow bite-size noise-ridden internet methods of communication?
People think I'm weird because I don't have a MySpace or Facebook.