I agree with everything you just said in your first paragraph, but I think your second was unnecessary, seeing as how you're already anonymous, and thus don't need to justify yourself.
Also, nothing in your first paragraph makes you sound the least bit like a pedophile.
I just saw this game at Gen Con over the weekend. I was really, really unimpressed by it.
When I first saw it I was really confused, I turned to my friend and said, "Why are these people playing WoW underneath a Warhammer Online banner? That just doesn't make any... ooooooh."
If you're currently a WoW player, you might as well just stick with that, if you're not then this game probably won't interest you either. (Champions Online on the other hand...)
I'm not against fission power. In fact I wholeheartedly support it.
I was just pointing out that we have a readily available source of fusion power already that is more than capable of providing a significant portion of our energy needs, though obviously not all of them. It's been enough to supply the energy required to sustain almost all life on Earth since there was life on Earth.
Not all of that energy necessarily needs to be converted into electricity to be useful for us. We can (and people do) use it directly to heat water, for one quick example.
having said that, what these guys are doing is still important in terms of awareness and getting the good word out. we NEED fusion power. to save us from pollution, global warming, petrodollar funded russian neoimperialism and islamic fundamentalism, etc.
We have plenty of fusion power.
We've got a 1.989e30 kg fusion reactor producing approximately 386 billion billion megawatts of power.
We just don't harness it very efficiently at the moment.
And please, I am not trolling, I like to express my point of view when political and ethical questions arise in Slashdot - which is quite often.
Thank you.
By the way I said you were trolling (and obviously from the previous thread other people got the same impression) because you weren't really making any points. You were making vague statements that said only that you believed the US government to be illegitimate. I guess that you were an anarchist because I've known several, but you could just as easily have been a monarchist who believes the government was illegitimate for breaking away from the crown, or just being a dick. If you care to avoid negative moderation (and maybe you don't), it helps to explain yourself at least a little bit.
It's an unusual enemy that headquarters its company in enemy territory (London) from 1932 until its merger with Grand Metropolitan (another "enemy" company). It's also strange that they would base their recipe on the porter style, which originated in enemy London.
I was being facetious.
There's a historical dislike between the Irish and English. Didn't mean anything by it.
Then again, I'm American and Canadians probably don't hear about every random murder that happens here, no matter how horrifying.
I'm not sure what the RCMP could have done to prevent it though. From reading the article it sounds like the attacker stabbed the victim while he (the victim) was asleep aboard a bus. Even in America we don't put cops on buses.
You go use your gun to defend your freedoms against an over-zealous cop who doesn't fully know the law he's enforcing. Come back and let us know how you get on, assuming you're not dead.
Ooh! Good point! Tyrants might do bad things to you!
Quick, lay down and bow before their oppression like a good sheep, lest you be culled from he herd.
That's an interesting answer, and one that Plato probably wouldn't have entertained in his wildest fantasies, though in the modern world it may be an appropriate one.
This is why if the RCMP find some dude cutting some random guy's head off with a knife they enter into a five hour standoff rather than just shooting the sick bastard and moving on.
Not disputing your morality or sense or justice, but how about a citation?
Every cop on the beat is participating in the persecution of marijuana smokers, for instance
Not the cops in california. For the most part, they leave that to the DEA.
When I lived in Washington state, the cops pretty much only confiscated marijuana so they could smoke it. I don't know anyone who was ever arrested in Washington for marijuana possession, though I know several people who had their stash "confiscated".
Please tell us all, for the record, who does govern the Unites States, if not the United States government? Where does their authority come from, if not the constitution? And finally, regardless of who you believe does govern the US, who should?
I was making a practical observation, not a strategic one.
But in interest of informed debate, if it came down to revolution, there are 2,885,948 of them, and approximately 297,000,000 of us. Even disregarding that some portion of the military will not bow to the will of a tyrant and murder their neighbors and countymen, I like those odds.
I'm a right tools for the job person instead of an "everything I use has to be open source" one (as you have shown yourself to be).
Have I? Interesting. My dislike of MS dev tools is simply that I don't like them as products, it isn't political. I suppose that did sound like zealotry, but honestly if a knew any proprietary tools that I had enjoyed using I'd recommend those too. It's just easier to try stuff that's gratis, and of the stuff I've tried I prefer the open source stuff... obviously if you're doing.NET work, VS is the right tool for the job.
Microsoft hated the site license agreement my university had with them when I was an undergrad (it has since changed).
And now their basic dev software is free (as in beer), fancy that.
This is not an endorsement, merely a counterpoint. For the record, I *loathe* MS development software. I encourage you to use free (as in speech) alternatives. I like Eclipse, but you don't have to.
I'm not sure what we're debating anymore. I'm talking about taking pride in your work and basic professionalism and you're talking about billing models. Are you trying to use your billing model as a proxy to defend your right to deliver a sub-standard product? Or are you suggesting that binding estimates and quality work are antithetical to each other?
Sometimes the best you can do is document the client's intent to cut corners.
True dat. But that street goes both ways. The assumption that a contractor needs client X and thus should do second rate work to keep their business is a fallacy. A common one, but a fallacy none the less.
Lets look at the big picture: You build site Y for client X. Client X wants to save a few bucks and opts to have you remove those useless "security" features. Site Y gets hacked. Client X is unhappy. Do they blame themselves? Ha! Contractor may be called in to fix he problem, but there's a good chance contractor has lost future business with client X. Client X may have friends and acquaintances in contractor's business area. Contractor loses good reputation with those people (who might themselves be good clients, but you won't know, you don't get the chance to work with them).
There are bigger issues at stake than a quick buck.
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I agree with everything you just said in your first paragraph, but I think your second was unnecessary, seeing as how you're already anonymous, and thus don't need to justify yourself.
Also, nothing in your first paragraph makes you sound the least bit like a pedophile.
Agreed. Great message. Terrible video.
Just write it in your blog, Larry. Slashdot will read it anyway. I can't tell people who might vote for McCain, "Here, watch this terrible video!"
I just saw this game at Gen Con over the weekend. I was really, really unimpressed by it.
When I first saw it I was really confused, I turned to my friend and said, "Why are these people playing WoW underneath a Warhammer Online banner? That just doesn't make any... ooooooh."
If you're currently a WoW player, you might as well just stick with that, if you're not then this game probably won't interest you either. (Champions Online on the other hand...)
I'm not against fission power. In fact I wholeheartedly support it.
I was just pointing out that we have a readily available source of fusion power already that is more than capable of providing a significant portion of our energy needs, though obviously not all of them. It's been enough to supply the energy required to sustain almost all life on Earth since there was life on Earth.
Not all of that energy necessarily needs to be converted into electricity to be useful for us. We can (and people do) use it directly to heat water, for one quick example.
having said that, what these guys are doing is still important in terms of awareness and getting the good word out. we NEED fusion power. to save us from pollution, global warming, petrodollar funded russian neoimperialism and islamic fundamentalism, etc.
We have plenty of fusion power.
We've got a 1.989e30 kg fusion reactor producing approximately 386 billion billion megawatts of power.
We just don't harness it very efficiently at the moment.
And please, I am not trolling, I like to express my point of view when political and ethical questions arise in Slashdot - which is quite often.
Thank you.
By the way I said you were trolling (and obviously from the previous thread other people got the same impression) because you weren't really making any points. You were making vague statements that said only that you believed the US government to be illegitimate. I guess that you were an anarchist because I've known several, but you could just as easily have been a monarchist who believes the government was illegitimate for breaking away from the crown, or just being a dick. If you care to avoid negative moderation (and maybe you don't), it helps to explain yourself at least a little bit.
"and your Irish enemies"
It's an unusual enemy that headquarters its company in enemy territory (London) from 1932 until its merger with Grand Metropolitan (another "enemy" company). It's also strange that they would base their recipe on the porter style, which originated in enemy London.
I was being facetious.
There's a historical dislike between the Irish and English. Didn't mean anything by it.
No, I hadn't heard about that.
Then again, I'm American and Canadians probably don't hear about every random murder that happens here, no matter how horrifying.
I'm not sure what the RCMP could have done to prevent it though. From reading the article it sounds like the attacker stabbed the victim while he (the victim) was asleep aboard a bus. Even in America we don't put cops on buses.
You go use your gun to defend your freedoms against an over-zealous cop who doesn't fully know the law he's enforcing. Come back and let us know how you get on, assuming you're not dead.
Ooh! Good point! Tyrants might do bad things to you!
Quick, lay down and bow before their oppression like a good sheep, lest you be culled from he herd.
Where's the fuckin' proof of their plan?!
Paranoid conspiracy theorists don't need proof. They consider lack of proof to be evidence of guilt.
And fear and terrorists and spam, but there's not much spam in that.
That's an interesting answer, and one that Plato probably wouldn't have entertained in his wildest fantasies, though in the modern world it may be an appropriate one.
The use of fallacious logic in a statement does not, by itself, constitute satire.
I've always felt that the highest form of humor is satire, and at its best, satire is indistinguishable from propaganda.
This is why if the RCMP find some dude cutting some random guy's head off with a knife they enter into a five hour standoff rather than just shooting the sick bastard and moving on.
Not disputing your morality or sense or justice, but how about a citation?
(and 12 pints in the UK is NOT like 12 pints in the states, we brew proper beer although nothing like what our European counterparts do
Hey now - some of us in the states only the drink the beer brewed by your European counterparts... and your Irish enemies.
Not the cops in california. For the most part, they leave that to the DEA.
When I lived in Washington state, the cops pretty much only confiscated marijuana so they could smoke it. I don't know anyone who was ever arrested in Washington for marijuana possession, though I know several people who had their stash "confiscated".
You're begging the question by assuming the government has a legitimate jurisdiction over the country.
You were trolling about this anarchist fanastyland nonsense in another thread the other day. So here's your chance to defend you point of view.
Please tell us all, for the record, who does govern the Unites States, if not the United States government? Where does their authority come from, if not the constitution? And finally, regardless of who you believe does govern the US, who should?
Let me introduce you to my friend, the question mark.
I was making a practical observation, not a strategic one.
But in interest of informed debate, if it came down to revolution, there are 2,885,948 of them, and approximately 297,000,000 of us. Even disregarding that some portion of the military will not bow to the will of a tyrant and murder their neighbors and countymen, I like those odds.
Facebook uses reCAPTCHA. I guess you can make something useful out of the millions of useless teenagers wasting their time on Facebook.
That's not fair.
Plenty of useless adults waste their time on Facebook.
I'm a right tools for the job person instead of an "everything I use has to be open source" one (as you have shown yourself to be).
Have I? Interesting. My dislike of MS dev tools is simply that I don't like them as products, it isn't political. I suppose that did sound like zealotry, but honestly if a knew any proprietary tools that I had enjoyed using I'd recommend those too. It's just easier to try stuff that's gratis, and of the stuff I've tried I prefer the open source stuff... obviously if you're doing .NET work, VS is the right tool for the job.
Microsoft hated the site license agreement my university had with them when I was an undergrad (it has since changed).
And now their basic dev software is free (as in beer), fancy that.
This is not an endorsement, merely a counterpoint. For the record, I *loathe* MS development software. I encourage you to use free (as in speech) alternatives. I like Eclipse, but you don't have to.
If that works for you, great. Power to you.
I'm not sure what we're debating anymore. I'm talking about taking pride in your work and basic professionalism and you're talking about billing models. Are you trying to use your billing model as a proxy to defend your right to deliver a sub-standard product? Or are you suggesting that binding estimates and quality work are antithetical to each other?
Sometimes the best you can do is document the client's intent to cut corners.
True dat. But that street goes both ways. The assumption that a contractor needs client X and thus should do second rate work to keep their business is a fallacy. A common one, but a fallacy none the less.
Lets look at the big picture: You build site Y for client X. Client X wants to save a few bucks and opts to have you remove those useless "security" features. Site Y gets hacked. Client X is unhappy. Do they blame themselves? Ha! Contractor may be called in to fix he problem, but there's a good chance contractor has lost future business with client X. Client X may have friends and acquaintances in contractor's business area. Contractor loses good reputation with those people (who might themselves be good clients, but you won't know, you don't get the chance to work with them).
There are bigger issues at stake than a quick buck.
When you're let's say "actively" defending your 2nd amendment rights, the government's happiness or approval is no longer of any concern.