Of my penis lodged in their anus! I ONLY play the parts of their games (if at all) that are FREE! I don't buy anything to improve my "gaming experience" or the lethality of my Strike Force unit. The day they implement this bullshit policy is the day that I quit playing their fucking games. If anything they should adopt a cash-making model where-in they give me a cut of the dough they make off of selling any information they glean about me via my use of their service!!! I AM NOT A DAIRY COW, THEREFORE I DO NOT EXIST SIMPLY FOR SOME ASSHOLE TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF ME! If in turn they want to give me the option of utilizing that cut in-game, I'd be tempted to do so, but would most likely ask them to cut me a check at the end of the month and call it good.
"I'm afraid that me not owning a gun will not save me from being shot and killed."
That isn't my problem or concern. You choose not to arm yourself, (with wit or other weapon) that is your reality to deal with. I think the trouble most people have with the idea of getting rid of guns, is that even in places where they don't have a means to produce or purchase firearms, people still manage to get ahold of them. The idea that if you make guns illegal that gun-violence will end is pure folly. The idea of a weapon that omits a projectile is in the human mind. Where a need or desire to possess such a thing exists there is a demand that will be supplied.
To me the best solution is to arm everyone, and make safety classes as requisite as ownership. It won't mean that no one dies via gun-violence, but it will reduce such occurrences, and you can be sure that there would be far fewer "accidental" gun-related deaths. Also there would be far fewer murders and robberies. Knowledgeable owners of firearms statistically kill the least number of people (barring police and soldiers). Therefore an armed and knowledgeable populace would be a more polite and safe populace.
And the funny part about it is that you guys still have a lot of gun violence for a place where public ownership of firearms is more or less banned. What I find even more humorous is how the murder rate in your country actually increased after guns were banned...hmmm I wonder why. Make guns illegal, and only criminals will seek to have them.
Hey extortionist assholes out there who think this is a whizbang good idea! FUCK YOU!!!! I'll just set up a dummy account, use it to copy your data, and post it on my free site! Actually, I'd either visit non-extortionist sites only or just go back to life before the web and do things like read books and such. I am so sick of these assholes who think that the only reason I draw breath is for them to force me to pay them money! If I had a half decent job, where I made enough money that I could waste it online, it wouldn't be so bad, but these assholes are also the type of asshole who think it's a good idea to ship the jobs I can do to China.
Well I guess you can consider this an outlier on your scale of bs. I said it because there are a million or so sources out there with which to enrich one's knowledge of industrial hemp. If you think I am bullshitting you, you have only to investigate the subject for yourself, and draw your own opinions. If you put any level of honest effort toward it (meaning seriously considering hemp as a possible solution to many of our modern concerns) I believe you will find that it solves the dilemma of a clean source of energy, food, clothing, building materials, plastics...etc at a negligible, if not negative "cost" to the environment. The only reason I said enlighten yourself is that I've already spent the time, considered the variables, and have sold myself on the idea that it can be an option. And that I believe if enough people put forward the effort I have, that this solution could become a reality. Not because I think we all need to be brain-washed to a particular religious, political, or social bent to make the world a happy place....
Actually China grows hemp. As to why they don't use it for biofuels? Your guess is as good as mine. The Chinese are great game players and probably realize that by using oil they foul us up with their ever increasing demand. Japan and Canada grow it. As a matter of fact, both nations have begun building houses out of hemp-based textiles. You also have to take into account that we REQUIRE that nation's who trade with us get rid of any hemp they are growing. The only nation's who've been allowed to deviate from this are those who import enough wares to be able to tell us to fuck ourselves well we tell them to stop growing hemp. Canada is a great example of this.
There is a problem with hemp. IT GROWS VIRTUALLY EVERYWHERE with little or no assistance from humans. This means that people like you and I (with enough acreage) could grow our own. Extortionist-capitalism requires concentration of supply to as few sources as possible. This is why when people talk about potential biofuel sources, they talk about stuff that can only be grown in certain climates, or require pesticides, herbicides, an abundance of water....etc. There are 100's of strains of Industrial Hemp. This allows for hemp to be grown on roughly 90% of the planet's arable land (too much potential supply for extortionists to be able to ass-rape everyone for), This is why we bother with drilling for oil in over 500 ft of water, when we could just as easily be growing our nation's fuel supply in the depressingly flat states.
I couldn't find a specific vid on Youtube about Russian hemp but I googled it (which you could just as easily have done...wise ass) and this was one of the first pages that came up.
http://blog.alextiller.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=2729&PostID=54348. And in addition (for a little more info from ol youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TiFBPw7SNQ
Try doing a little research as I had previously suggested. I am sure you'll find (unless you were already aware and are just being an asshole about it) that you've been LIED TO, for most of your life concerning this plant and it's true potential.
It was this nation's #1 cash crop for over 100 years. As such, 90% of the components for the first automobiles were made of it (and previous to prohibition of alcohol, most cars were fueled by it). Henry Ford grew acres of it, and envisioned that we'd literally be "GROWING CARS"... But unfortunately William Randolph Heart made his money from newspapers printed on paper made from wood pulp (one of the three textiles it would have displaced had it remained legal after the invention of the decordicator...the other two being oil, and cotton). A medium he used to demonize it, and stigmatize our nation to the point where to this day (80 years later) all most of us do is make stupid snarky comments at the mere suggestion of it's use as an alternative to oil. Due to this nation's ignorance of it, and our resulting dependence on it's competitors, most of civilization will most likely perish before it becomes legal again....I am of course talking about Industrial Hemp.
Think I'm lying? Rather than make stupid remarks about smoking it, try looking it up on Google or Youtube and enlighten yourself!!!
I'm starting to hate the internet. More and more it seems like the internet is turning into one big bug in the ass. I have to specifically opt out of fucking invasive bullshit toolbars that I didn't ask for, had no interest in, and no desire to have corrupting my machine. I got an idea for all you assholes who think that is the way to make money....HOWS ABOUT YOU WORK ON PROJECTS THAT MAKE US FREER RATHER THAN FURTHER CONFINE OR TRACK US??? Is it really so much to ask to be able to scan, upload, download, chat, skype, mud, "be on the web" without fear of being constantly surveiled? I'm not a tree. My psychological profile, shopping habits, surfing habits, political interests, are not "fruit" to be picked and sold on the market, and as such ARE NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!!! If I want your shit, I will use the most powerful investigatory tool humankind has ever invented, find it myself, and possibly even buy it! If what you had to offer was worth having I might even buy it again. But, until that point, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!
It's been my experience that those who are against copyright are (predominantly) lazy programmers who think it is a waste of time to create original code, when they can just rip off someone else's IP. Out in the wild of non-digital commercial ventures, (where I live) copyright and patents are the only means I have of making ripping off my IP too prohibitively expensive for massive corporations to bother with (they are in turn motivated to go back to their R&D dept to create something "better" instead). Where I have a problem with patents and copyright is when a company develops something and then warehouses the IP after submitting a patent for it. It inhibits the motivation to release new products (for fear of being sued), denies the public the benefit and example of it, and gives patents and copyright a bad name. To me, the best solution would be a "use it or lose it" approach. Meaning (and I am unaware as to whether or not this is already being done so save the flame for being informative about it please) that if you submit a patent or claim copyright over something, you should only have 6 to 12 months to get it on the shelf, otherwise someone who is able and willing to bring it to market can do so (and this should apply to the government as well as private industry) without suffering the threat of a lawsuit, or owe you a fucking dime in royalties.
I was thinking the same exact thing. What I think no one is really paying attention to is the logistics angle here. Wikileaks has put out a million or so pages worth of "VETTED" intel over the last couple of years. Does ANYONE really think that Assange is vetting all that information himself??? I for one seriously doubt it!!!
Can someone please tell me which planet these assholes are coming from so we can get proactive, and wipe it out of the Universe, before they turn the rest of the planet into 1984?
I am getting so sick of technology. I swear that it quit liberating humans from a previous woe or burden soon after the invention of the wheel, and has served only to further imprison and monitor humans ever since. Microsoft Silverlight turns your computer into a video/audio surveillance device for god knows who. GPS has turned your car and cell phone into a mobile tracking device. Kinect has turned your XBOX 360 into a living room biometric monitoring device....Sometimes I think Ted Kaczynski had the right idea all along....BTW no cash means that you won't be able to spend any money unless it's monitored and/or taxed, if not both. At this rate one more step in any direction will end with RFID implants...MOO!
Back in the day of Star Craft 1, you could buy a copy, then give it to your friend, whose computer would crash at some future moment. At that point, many times that friend would then just go out and buy a copy of their own. They already knew they loved the game, so it didn't really seem like to big a jump to throw down the $30 for it. Now, not only does Blizzard want to force you to buy a copy just to play it, they want to claim "we haz all ur base" and demand that you buy another copy of it if at any time during your playing of the original copy you decide to enable a cheat to help you get through a tough level, or play a "dirty" once-through. Well they can fuck off, and keep their cash-sucking time-waster! I'll stick to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC if they are going to be that way about it.
The problem isn't that we don't have the rare earth minerals. As a matter of fact, it isn't even that the EPA won't "allow" companies to mine or utilize them. The reason why overtly-greed pieces of shit move their rare-earth mineral demands to countries like China is that it takes a little more initial investment, and a little more in production costs and licensing fees every year to pay AMERICANS to provide and process the same materials here. You see here in America, we actually expect our companies to behave responsibly when it comes to the treatment and health of the air, land, water, and other biological organisms. While this may at first seem like a big pain in the ass for executives, and other money-grubbing turds, it is what is necessary for us to have clean safe environments to work and play in. If they could look any further than their balance-sheets and flow charts they'd realize that is it also more cost effective to make the necessary adjustments to their production techniques and just pay Americans to do it. Over the long term, paying an American worker to do it here costs less. When it is made here A) Americans can actually continue to afford to buy your products because they make a half-decent wage and do not have to enslave themselves to banks and credit-card companies to afford them. B) you don't have to worry about profit disruptions caused by inflating shipping costs, C) you don't have to worry about 3rd world countries developing an attitude (due to your dependence on them) and demanding more money for the same or less materials.
Knowing the nature of Gene Simmonz, it was probably his parents who taught him that one. It's ok, if Anonymous reads/., I'm sure that got Gene one more attack planned. Got to love it. Watching the likes of Lars Ulrich, and Gene Simmonz get their panties in a bunch over how people choose to share their media online, is like watching an elderly person yell at the tv...and almost as ineffectual.
We already know what is going to happen. Sony is going to make a righteous little gaming device (that just so happens to be a phone too) and for about a year, everything will go smashingly well with it. Game developers will fawn, coo, and write code for the ubiquitous new gaming interface, and all will seem just peachy. Gamers will game to their hearts content and laugh hearty belly laughs at their "non-Sony-gaming/wunderkinder-devicenonhavenum contemporaries". Almost unnoticably (at first) a cancer will start growing. It seems that some of the users (not content with just playing SoCom 14: Shadow Recon and talking to their team- mates in both Guam and Amsterdam online while.... driving) will find something inherently wrong with the fact that they can't seem to get their car started and warmed up without having to go out there, put the key in the ignition and turning it. Yep, despite all of the other wonderful things the device was designed to do, it seems the dev-teams at Sony neglected to add the libs and drivers for "their" iCar that would have allowed the device to perform this task out of the box. "Shame on you Sony" will be the rallying cry, and droves of users dissatisfied with this device's lack of support for "remote" speed-control on their girlfriend's iVibrator, will come out of the woodwork, and begin conspiring to home-brew their own firmware that would facilitate such functionality. Unfortunately, Sony's firmware will be intrinsically woven into the DNA of the Cell processor, thus requiring the use of such workarounds as after-market Rogue-Cell flash-cards, and virii that invariably "brick" a solid third of all devices they are initially introduced to, (and infect another third of Cell'd devices wirelessly). The lawsuits will abound as users attempt yet more uses not covered in the original EULA, and under the burgeoning weight of the ensuing lawyer fees, Sony will drop all support within the following 2 years
BTW: iCar, iVibrator, and all other words made up by Ozlanthos are mine, so don't use them in attempts to make money unless you intend to give Ozlanthos some of it!
So I goofed a tad...You understood everything I wrote, (for the most part)so I don't see what the problem is. Normally I am a stickler for grammar and spelling, but my gf was waiting in a full bubble bath for me, so get over it already!
No dipstick. The moderators and I are both aware of the fact that Marijuana was originally illegalized because it was the number one textile crop in America at the time. And as such, it existed as the primary competition to wood, cotton, and oil. Look up "The Marijuana Trick" on Youtube, and you'll find out the truth: That Marijuana was made illegal so that William Randolph Hearst didn't lose MILLIONS (back when a Million dollars was an OBSCENE amount of dough) on his thousands of square acres of woodland due to hemp existing as a competing textile to wood in the paper-pulp industry, DuPont didn't lose MILLIONS due to the fact that Hempinol was fueling our cars,and making plastics from hemp seed oil, and that cotton farmers didn't lose MILLIONS because we were getting by making Levi's (and other clothing)out of Hemp fiber. This has been the single biggest FACT left out of 95% of every American history class taught since the 1920's! Mostly because the Yellow Press (named as such due to the rapid oxidation rate of newspapers printed on wood-pulp paper...as well as it's inherent sensationalism) succeeded in demonizing Hemp by calling it "Marijuana", and "Hashish", and convincing everyone that Mexicans, and Negros were driven to rape white women under it's influence.
As many farmers were relatively under-educated by today's standards, they unknowingly nagged congress and the senate to ban the crops growing in their own fields, and feeding their families. Although it hasn't been officially stated as such, I feel that this also brought about the "Great Depression" due to so much of this country's economy being dependent on the production, refinement, sale, and export of "hemp", before it was made illegal as "marijuana". One can only hope that California will lead this country back to a sane path by reigniting the flame of industrial hemp as a by-product of their attempt to legalize marijuana.
In a word...GOOD! We've been doing it the prohibitionista way for the last 8 decades and gotten NOWHERE. It's about time we do something smart for a change and legalize it.
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Of my penis lodged in their anus! I ONLY play the parts of their games (if at all) that are FREE! I don't buy anything to improve my "gaming experience" or the lethality of my Strike Force unit. The day they implement this bullshit policy is the day that I quit playing their fucking games. If anything they should adopt a cash-making model where-in they give me a cut of the dough they make off of selling any information they glean about me via my use of their service!!! I AM NOT A DAIRY COW, THEREFORE I DO NOT EXIST SIMPLY FOR SOME ASSHOLE TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF ME! If in turn they want to give me the option of utilizing that cut in-game, I'd be tempted to do so, but would most likely ask them to cut me a check at the end of the month and call it good.
-Oz
"I'm afraid that me not owning a gun will not save me from being shot and killed."
That isn't my problem or concern. You choose not to arm yourself, (with wit or other weapon) that is your reality to deal with. I think the trouble most people have with the idea of getting rid of guns, is that even in places where they don't have a means to produce or purchase firearms, people still manage to get ahold of them. The idea that if you make guns illegal that gun-violence will end is pure folly. The idea of a weapon that omits a projectile is in the human mind. Where a need or desire to possess such a thing exists there is a demand that will be supplied.
To me the best solution is to arm everyone, and make safety classes as requisite as ownership. It won't mean that no one dies via gun-violence, but it will reduce such occurrences, and you can be sure that there would be far fewer "accidental" gun-related deaths. Also there would be far fewer murders and robberies. Knowledgeable owners of firearms statistically kill the least number of people (barring police and soldiers). Therefore an armed and knowledgeable populace would be a more polite and safe populace.
-Oz
Go live in Juarez Mexico if you doubt it!
-Oz
And the funny part about it is that you guys still have a lot of gun violence for a place where public ownership of firearms is more or less banned. What I find even more humorous is how the murder rate in your country actually increased after guns were banned...hmmm I wonder why. Make guns illegal, and only criminals will seek to have them.
-Oz
Hey extortionist assholes out there who think this is a whizbang good idea! FUCK YOU!!!! I'll just set up a dummy account, use it to copy your data, and post it on my free site! Actually, I'd either visit non-extortionist sites only or just go back to life before the web and do things like read books and such. I am so sick of these assholes who think that the only reason I draw breath is for them to force me to pay them money! If I had a half decent job, where I made enough money that I could waste it online, it wouldn't be so bad, but these assholes are also the type of asshole who think it's a good idea to ship the jobs I can do to China.
-Oz
Well I guess you can consider this an outlier on your scale of bs. I said it because there are a million or so sources out there with which to enrich one's knowledge of industrial hemp. If you think I am bullshitting you, you have only to investigate the subject for yourself, and draw your own opinions. If you put any level of honest effort toward it (meaning seriously considering hemp as a possible solution to many of our modern concerns) I believe you will find that it solves the dilemma of a clean source of energy, food, clothing, building materials, plastics...etc at a negligible, if not negative "cost" to the environment. The only reason I said enlighten yourself is that I've already spent the time, considered the variables, and have sold myself on the idea that it can be an option. And that I believe if enough people put forward the effort I have, that this solution could become a reality. Not because I think we all need to be brain-washed to a particular religious, political, or social bent to make the world a happy place....
-Oz
Actually China grows hemp. As to why they don't use it for biofuels? Your guess is as good as mine. The Chinese are great game players and probably realize that by using oil they foul us up with their ever increasing demand. Japan and Canada grow it. As a matter of fact, both nations have begun building houses out of hemp-based textiles. You also have to take into account that we REQUIRE that nation's who trade with us get rid of any hemp they are growing. The only nation's who've been allowed to deviate from this are those who import enough wares to be able to tell us to fuck ourselves well we tell them to stop growing hemp. Canada is a great example of this.
There is a problem with hemp. IT GROWS VIRTUALLY EVERYWHERE with little or no assistance from humans. This means that people like you and I (with enough acreage) could grow our own. Extortionist-capitalism requires concentration of supply to as few sources as possible. This is why when people talk about potential biofuel sources, they talk about stuff that can only be grown in certain climates, or require pesticides, herbicides, an abundance of water....etc. There are 100's of strains of Industrial Hemp. This allows for hemp to be grown on roughly 90% of the planet's arable land (too much potential supply for extortionists to be able to ass-rape everyone for), This is why we bother with drilling for oil in over 500 ft of water, when we could just as easily be growing our nation's fuel supply in the depressingly flat states.
I couldn't find a specific vid on Youtube about Russian hemp but I googled it (which you could just as easily have done...wise ass) and this was one of the first pages that came up. http://blog.alextiller.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=2729&PostID=54348. And in addition (for a little more info from ol youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TiFBPw7SNQ
Try doing a little research as I had previously suggested. I am sure you'll find (unless you were already aware and are just being an asshole about it) that you've been LIED TO, for most of your life concerning this plant and it's true potential.
-Oz
It was this nation's #1 cash crop for over 100 years. As such, 90% of the components for the first automobiles were made of it (and previous to prohibition of alcohol, most cars were fueled by it). Henry Ford grew acres of it, and envisioned that we'd literally be "GROWING CARS"... But unfortunately William Randolph Heart made his money from newspapers printed on paper made from wood pulp (one of the three textiles it would have displaced had it remained legal after the invention of the decordicator...the other two being oil, and cotton). A medium he used to demonize it, and stigmatize our nation to the point where to this day (80 years later) all most of us do is make stupid snarky comments at the mere suggestion of it's use as an alternative to oil. Due to this nation's ignorance of it, and our resulting dependence on it's competitors, most of civilization will most likely perish before it becomes legal again....I am of course talking about Industrial Hemp.
Think I'm lying? Rather than make stupid remarks about smoking it, try looking it up on Google or Youtube and enlighten yourself!!!
-Oz
For you 250k....Unless you have a "Soul", or "Moonlight"...Then we can negotiate.
-Oz
I got 4 words for you, "ha ha.....suck it!"
-Oz
I'm starting to hate the internet. More and more it seems like the internet is turning into one big bug in the ass. I have to specifically opt out of fucking invasive bullshit toolbars that I didn't ask for, had no interest in, and no desire to have corrupting my machine. I got an idea for all you assholes who think that is the way to make money....HOWS ABOUT YOU WORK ON PROJECTS THAT MAKE US FREER RATHER THAN FURTHER CONFINE OR TRACK US??? Is it really so much to ask to be able to scan, upload, download, chat, skype, mud, "be on the web" without fear of being constantly surveiled? I'm not a tree. My psychological profile, shopping habits, surfing habits, political interests, are not "fruit" to be picked and sold on the market, and as such ARE NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!!! If I want your shit, I will use the most powerful investigatory tool humankind has ever invented, find it myself, and possibly even buy it! If what you had to offer was worth having I might even buy it again. But, until that point, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!
-Oz
It's been my experience that those who are against copyright are (predominantly) lazy programmers who think it is a waste of time to create original code, when they can just rip off someone else's IP. Out in the wild of non-digital commercial ventures, (where I live) copyright and patents are the only means I have of making ripping off my IP too prohibitively expensive for massive corporations to bother with (they are in turn motivated to go back to their R&D dept to create something "better" instead). Where I have a problem with patents and copyright is when a company develops something and then warehouses the IP after submitting a patent for it. It inhibits the motivation to release new products (for fear of being sued), denies the public the benefit and example of it, and gives patents and copyright a bad name. To me, the best solution would be a "use it or lose it" approach. Meaning (and I am unaware as to whether or not this is already being done so save the flame for being informative about it please) that if you submit a patent or claim copyright over something, you should only have 6 to 12 months to get it on the shelf, otherwise someone who is able and willing to bring it to market can do so (and this should apply to the government as well as private industry) without suffering the threat of a lawsuit, or owe you a fucking dime in royalties.
-Oz
I was thinking the same exact thing. What I think no one is really paying attention to is the logistics angle here. Wikileaks has put out a million or so pages worth of "VETTED" intel over the last couple of years. Does ANYONE really think that Assange is vetting all that information himself??? I for one seriously doubt it!!!
-Oz
Can someone please tell me which planet these assholes are coming from so we can get proactive, and wipe it out of the Universe, before they turn the rest of the planet into 1984?
-Oz
I am getting so sick of technology. I swear that it quit liberating humans from a previous woe or burden soon after the invention of the wheel, and has served only to further imprison and monitor humans ever since. Microsoft Silverlight turns your computer into a video/audio surveillance device for god knows who. GPS has turned your car and cell phone into a mobile tracking device. Kinect has turned your XBOX 360 into a living room biometric monitoring device....Sometimes I think Ted Kaczynski had the right idea all along....BTW no cash means that you won't be able to spend any money unless it's monitored and/or taxed, if not both. At this rate one more step in any direction will end with RFID implants...MOO!
-Oz
Back in the day of Star Craft 1, you could buy a copy, then give it to your friend, whose computer would crash at some future moment. At that point, many times that friend would then just go out and buy a copy of their own. They already knew they loved the game, so it didn't really seem like to big a jump to throw down the $30 for it. Now, not only does Blizzard want to force you to buy a copy just to play it, they want to claim "we haz all ur base" and demand that you buy another copy of it if at any time during your playing of the original copy you decide to enable a cheat to help you get through a tough level, or play a "dirty" once-through. Well they can fuck off, and keep their cash-sucking time-waster! I'll stick to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC if they are going to be that way about it.
-Oz
The problem isn't that we don't have the rare earth minerals. As a matter of fact, it isn't even that the EPA won't "allow" companies to mine or utilize them. The reason why overtly-greed pieces of shit move their rare-earth mineral demands to countries like China is that it takes a little more initial investment, and a little more in production costs and licensing fees every year to pay AMERICANS to provide and process the same materials here. You see here in America, we actually expect our companies to behave responsibly when it comes to the treatment and health of the air, land, water, and other biological organisms. While this may at first seem like a big pain in the ass for executives, and other money-grubbing turds, it is what is necessary for us to have clean safe environments to work and play in. If they could look any further than their balance-sheets and flow charts they'd realize that is it also more cost effective to make the necessary adjustments to their production techniques and just pay Americans to do it. Over the long term, paying an American worker to do it here costs less. When it is made here A) Americans can actually continue to afford to buy your products because they make a half-decent wage and do not have to enslave themselves to banks and credit-card companies to afford them. B) you don't have to worry about profit disruptions caused by inflating shipping costs, C) you don't have to worry about 3rd world countries developing an attitude (due to your dependence on them) and demanding more money for the same or less materials.
-Oz
I guess Gene thinks that as long as he is getting free distribution, he ought to shoot for free publicity while he is at it.
-Oz
Knowing the nature of Gene Simmonz, it was probably his parents who taught him that one. It's ok, if Anonymous reads /., I'm sure that got Gene one more attack planned. Got to love it. Watching the likes of Lars Ulrich, and Gene Simmonz get their panties in a bunch over how people choose to share their media online, is like watching an elderly person yell at the tv...and almost as ineffectual.
-Oz
We already know what is going to happen. Sony is going to make a righteous little gaming device (that just so happens to be a phone too) and for about a year, everything will go smashingly well with it. Game developers will fawn, coo, and write code for the ubiquitous new gaming interface, and all will seem just peachy. Gamers will game to their hearts content and laugh hearty belly laughs at their "non-Sony-gaming/wunderkinder-devicenonhavenum contemporaries". Almost unnoticably (at first) a cancer will start growing. It seems that some of the users (not content with just playing SoCom 14: Shadow Recon and talking to their team- mates in both Guam and Amsterdam online while.... driving) will find something inherently wrong with the fact that they can't seem to get their car started and warmed up without having to go out there, put the key in the ignition and turning it. Yep, despite all of the other wonderful things the device was designed to do, it seems the dev-teams at Sony neglected to add the libs and drivers for "their" iCar that would have allowed the device to perform this task out of the box. "Shame on you Sony" will be the rallying cry, and droves of users dissatisfied with this device's lack of support for "remote" speed-control on their girlfriend's iVibrator, will come out of the woodwork, and begin conspiring to home-brew their own firmware that would facilitate such functionality. Unfortunately, Sony's firmware will be intrinsically woven into the DNA of the Cell processor, thus requiring the use of such workarounds as after-market Rogue-Cell flash-cards, and virii that invariably "brick" a solid third of all devices they are initially introduced to, (and infect another third of Cell'd devices wirelessly). The lawsuits will abound as users attempt yet more uses not covered in the original EULA, and under the burgeoning weight of the ensuing lawyer fees, Sony will drop all support within the following 2 years
BTW: iCar, iVibrator, and all other words made up by Ozlanthos are mine, so don't use them in attempts to make money unless you intend to give Ozlanthos some of it!
-Oz
So I goofed a tad...You understood everything I wrote, (for the most part)so I don't see what the problem is. Normally I am a stickler for grammar and spelling, but my gf was waiting in a full bubble bath for me, so get over it already!
-Oz
Joe Rogan actually played out that exact scenario in one of his acts...funny, AND though provoking!
-Oz
No dipstick. The moderators and I are both aware of the fact that Marijuana was originally illegalized because it was the number one textile crop in America at the time. And as such, it existed as the primary competition to wood, cotton, and oil. Look up "The Marijuana Trick" on Youtube, and you'll find out the truth: That Marijuana was made illegal so that William Randolph Hearst didn't lose MILLIONS (back when a Million dollars was an OBSCENE amount of dough) on his thousands of square acres of woodland due to hemp existing as a competing textile to wood in the paper-pulp industry, DuPont didn't lose MILLIONS due to the fact that Hempinol was fueling our cars,and making plastics from hemp seed oil, and that cotton farmers didn't lose MILLIONS because we were getting by making Levi's (and other clothing)out of Hemp fiber. This has been the single biggest FACT left out of 95% of every American history class taught since the 1920's! Mostly because the Yellow Press (named as such due to the rapid oxidation rate of newspapers printed on wood-pulp paper...as well as it's inherent sensationalism) succeeded in demonizing Hemp by calling it "Marijuana", and "Hashish", and convincing everyone that Mexicans, and Negros were driven to rape white women under it's influence.
As many farmers were relatively under-educated by today's standards, they unknowingly nagged congress and the senate to ban the crops growing in their own fields, and feeding their families. Although it hasn't been officially stated as such, I feel that this also brought about the "Great Depression" due to so much of this country's economy being dependent on the production, refinement, sale, and export of "hemp", before it was made illegal as "marijuana". One can only hope that California will lead this country back to a sane path by reigniting the flame of industrial hemp as a by-product of their attempt to legalize marijuana.
-Oz
In a word...GOOD! We've been doing it the prohibitionista way for the last 8 decades and gotten NOWHERE. It's about time we do something smart for a change and legalize it.
-Oz
Yeah it's just too bad hardly anyone knows that the real reason for making it illegal did'nt have any6thing trying to stop people from smoking it...
-Oz