Interesting idea. However wouldn't that pretty much guarrantee that businesses with small profit margins (i.e. any sort of manufacturing) would go out of business?
You are joking right? Israel has huge (relative to their size) domestic industrial design and manufacturing capacity. The IDF overwhelmingly uses domestic technology. Such as this:
I beg to differ. Evolution was for me *the* killer app of Gnome.
As someone who worked on a helpdesk supporting commercial linux software in a 100% FOSS environment I needed a powerful mail client to replace mutt (and all the associated power user features) when the CEO mandated we send all our email in HTML. The only mail client at the time that came even close was Evolution, and it had great features for managing a mailbox where I received 100+ emails a day.
I don't normally reply to anon or trolls, but what the devil are you smoking? What a total misuse of "THE exception that proves the rule" you blithering monobrowed goatbanger. This instance the exception BREAKS the rule, making it not a rule. Dear lord.
Why can't people be straight up and keep the money?
In this case, I have two theories:
1. Inman is trying to prove a point that he can easily come up with the $20,000 he needs, but he won't give it up nor keep it and do the next best thing to casually tossing it aside while remaining beyond reproach. This is a calculated insult and warning to any further legal shenanigans i.e. I can not only pay you right now, but I can also afford better legal defence than you. Fuck off.
2. Inman is trying to create good will and publicity, carefully positioning himself for a counter-suit.
It is entirely possible he is just a un-douchie sort of bloke, but the two theories above presume he is also intelligent. Which he seems to be.
No offence, but your former flatmate sounds like a complete dickhead.
As someone who has experienced Melbourne trams having to break hard to avoid an accident which resulted in all the passengers being hurled forwards (some off their feet) it is just not cool.
Actually, we have released most of our stuff for free under the Creative Commons license, so we actively encourage people to download and watch it for free.
I am sure that if in the future we get financing/investment in our film making projects we'd have to look at ways of returning on the investments (unless people were investing for altruistic purposes), but they would probably not involve DRM or suing people into oblivion.
That is a little harsh. As an indie film maker I probably fall under the "assorted bungholes" label you freely dish out. I however also hold down an "honest" (according to your world view) job; I work as a sysad for an environmental consultancy.
I can tell you from personal experience that film making is craploads harder than any IT work I have ever done, and I have had some doozies in the past. It is also fun and extremely rewarding.
Or, you know the third possibility; he never existed. None of the horrific realities that have transpired since 9/11 actually needed a physical person to be turned into an Emmanuel Goldstein.
This death (real of otherwise) will change nothing.
How is this a troll? This is possibly the most historically accurate and level headed post yet. Yes, all of us Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians) share a close common heritage, and a lot of our folklore will be shared.
And yes, it was the Bolsheviks and not the Russians per se that are to blame. Don't tar an entire people by the actions of a douchebag villainous political party that held the country by force and bullying. Russians are yet to have a level headed ruler since their independence from the Tatars all those hundereds of years ago, all we seem to get is murderous monomaniacal cretins. The closest we had to a normal ruler was Gorbachev, and look how well that went.
On, and food for thought:
The kolobok folk tale is thought to be originally Finnish, and brought into Slavic foklore through novgorod.
Disclaimer: I have both Russian and Ukrainian heritage, amongst other nationalities.
To be perfectly fair, 100 push ups is a heck of a lot. I don't know fit people would would happily do 100 push ups, and getting a 13 year old child to do so is negligent and dangerous.
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Ouch... Thanks for the heads up.
What was Verizon's response? Please tell me they told them to go cram it with walnuts!
I read that in a Tracy Jordan voice.
Interesting idea. However wouldn't that pretty much guarrantee that businesses with small profit margins (i.e. any sort of manufacturing) would go out of business?
It might help if you told us who you were.
You are joking right? Israel has huge (relative to their size) domestic industrial design and manufacturing capacity. The IDF overwhelmingly uses domestic technology. Such as this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava
And this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMI_Galil
No it doesn't. Lebensraum translates into 'living space' not buffer zone.
Way to miss the Ghostbusters quote dumbass.
Or how about the fact that they promote their non existent twitter profile on their main page:
https://twitter.com/revere_group
I beg to differ. Evolution was for me *the* killer app of Gnome.
As someone who worked on a helpdesk supporting commercial linux software in a 100% FOSS environment I needed a powerful mail client to replace mutt (and all the associated power user features) when the CEO mandated we send all our email in HTML. The only mail client at the time that came even close was Evolution, and it had great features for managing a mailbox where I received 100+ emails a day.
Yes.
I don't normally reply to anon or trolls, but what the devil are you smoking? What a total misuse of "THE exception that proves the rule" you blithering monobrowed goatbanger. This instance the exception BREAKS the rule, making it not a rule. Dear lord.
Here, read up on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
Why can't people be straight up and keep the money?
In this case, I have two theories:
1. Inman is trying to prove a point that he can easily come up with the $20,000 he needs, but he won't give it up nor keep it and do the next best thing to casually tossing it aside while remaining beyond reproach. This is a calculated insult and warning to any further legal shenanigans i.e. I can not only pay you right now, but I can also afford better legal defence than you. Fuck off.
2. Inman is trying to create good will and publicity, carefully positioning himself for a counter-suit.
It is entirely possible he is just a un-douchie sort of bloke, but the two theories above presume he is also intelligent. Which he seems to be.
Welcome to Feudalism 2.0, Millenium Edition.
You should see how nuts some of the blogs dedicated (yes dedicated) to the new Ipad are O_o:
http://whereismynewipad.tumblr.com/post/19363428088/when-it-comes
No offence, but your former flatmate sounds like a complete dickhead.
As someone who has experienced Melbourne trams having to break hard to avoid an accident which resulted in all the passengers being hurled forwards (some off their feet) it is just not cool.
Actually, we have released most of our stuff for free under the Creative Commons license, so we actively encourage people to download and watch it for free.
An example: http://www.insecuritymovie.com/
I am sure that if in the future we get financing/investment in our film making projects we'd have to look at ways of returning on the investments (unless people were investing for altruistic purposes), but they would probably not involve DRM or suing people into oblivion.
That is a little harsh. As an indie film maker I probably fall under the "assorted bungholes" label you freely dish out. I however also hold down an "honest" (according to your world view) job; I work as a sysad for an environmental consultancy.
I can tell you from personal experience that film making is craploads harder than any IT work I have ever done, and I have had some doozies in the past. It is also fun and extremely rewarding.
Thank you. I was fairly late to the /. game, but I have enjoyed every minute of it.
Cheers!
"Serious Tubes Networks"? What is it, an ISP run by /b/tards?
Looks that way! http://serioustubes.org/
Or, you know the third possibility; he never existed. None of the horrific realities that have transpired since 9/11 actually needed a physical person to be turned into an Emmanuel Goldstein.
This death (real of otherwise) will change nothing.
How is this a troll? This is possibly the most historically accurate and level headed post yet. Yes, all of us Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians) share a close common heritage, and a lot of our folklore will be shared.
And yes, it was the Bolsheviks and not the Russians per se that are to blame. Don't tar an entire people by the actions of a douchebag villainous political party that held the country by force and bullying. Russians are yet to have a level headed ruler since their independence from the Tatars all those hundereds of years ago, all we seem to get is murderous monomaniacal cretins. The closest we had to a normal ruler was Gorbachev, and look how well that went.
On, and food for thought:
The kolobok folk tale is thought to be originally Finnish, and brought into Slavic foklore through novgorod.
Disclaimer: I have both Russian and Ukrainian heritage, amongst other nationalities.
To be perfectly fair, 100 push ups is a heck of a lot. I don't know fit people would would happily do 100 push ups, and getting a 13 year old child to do so is negligent and dangerous.
News for nerds this aint, but sickening it is.
As I said above, respond logically, not emotionally.
Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist.
-- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3
So proud of not giving a shit about "the environment and all those species". You sound fucking Palinesque.
And you sound like an idiot. When environmentalism gets serious, then I'll take it seriously.
What do you mean by that? I am genuinely curious about what you mean by 'environmentalism gets serious'.