People like you really piss me off. You go from Nazi Germany to Muslim extremism to immigration law, all the while avoiding the actual topic on hand (manned space exploration, overpopulation as a reason to expand off the planet). You're like a bad IT manager, spouting off as many buzzwords as fast as possible to hopefully confuse people into thinking you're intelligent and right. I won't take your bait, but I will have you know that you're a real douchebag fearmonger, and your statements are misguided at best.
In my opinion, overpopulation is a myth and colonization of the nearer planets is absolutely going to happen, and probably within the next century. It seems stupid to me that we'd rather stop ourselves from reproducing than simply expand across the neigh-infinite universe. Preserving this planet is absolutely paramount, so why don't we go mine asteroids instead of mountains?
Yet we still do not see any cures... only new, incredibly expensive, and patented treatments. The virus that is the ACS simply evolved to suit the new climate, and I don't consider that reform. I want an anti-cancer organization who's official mission goal is to make itself useless by the eradication of all cancer. Raising awareness is a farce when people are dying by the hundreds-of-thousands a year.
One more thing: research grants to private corporations are still considered "program expenses." To adapt Murphy's Law: that which can be corrupted, will be corrupted.
EVERY SINGLE FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION in the world tries to limit their competition.
Adobe and Apple are not in competition. This is a company trying to tell its users how to use their product. Its about 5 blocks away from DRMville, but still close enough to smell the stench of injustice.
Especially when said software causes huge problems and eats resources on Apple's hardware and operating system that do support Adobe's "media platform"?
Is this a question or a statement? Anyway its still not Apple's problem that Adobe's software is a resource hog and buggy. Inclusion of their software is a decision that should be left to the consumer who owns the device.
Apple does not have an application that competes with Adobe's
And for how long do you think this is going to be true? Just because Apple hasn't yet made a media player plugin doesn't mean they can't make one. And if they did it would be just like IE and Microsoft.
Adobe makes its money from developers... If anyone "isn't even getting a chance to gain iPad customers", it is the developers, not Adobe
Um. You contradict yourself there, but whatever. I'm not saying that the absence of Flash on the iPad will destroy Adobe, rather, I'm arguing that this is a bad precedent to be set in the business world.
Or, not.
I could say the same to your "arguments," but that won't progress anything and besides, "slippery slope" isn't even an argument. Its a figure of speech to convey my fear of where we're headed. Also I started that paragraph off with "It could start a trend..." to hopefully convey to the reader that the paragraph was simply prospect.
My opinion is that their advertising is demeaning to others--those that are not in the "cool crowd." Its elitist and exclusive, and if that's what you like then so be it. I don't like those sorts of things.
I hate Apple for their anti-consumer politics and demeaning advertising. I hate Adobe because their software is bloated, buggy, and insecure. Now that you know I'm not partial to either company, why should Apple be able to block Adobe's media platform out of their hardware? Isn't this just like Microsoft bundling IE with Windows, leaving other browsers at a huge disadvantage? Isn't this worse because Adobe isn't even getting a chance to gain iPad customers? This is also companies deciding how their customers use their product, and that is bad. It may not be illegal, but it is very bad and I really wish this community would get past their fanboi-ism and on to the actual topic.
If Apple gets away with this then they will set a sort of precedence. It could start a trend where any hardware company could block a software company from their product, or the other way around, or with any combination of industries/products. Capitalism is great and all *cough* but the quest for a higher bottom line seems to remove all morals and justice from business and Apple's behavior represents just one of many slippery slopes.
anyone who *dares* drive the car themselves will be considered negligent
That's about the only thing you said I agree with. Driving is stupidly dangerous and I can't wait until computers are driving every car on the road. Freedom? Pfff, driving a car doesn't make you free. The idea is just marketing done by the auto industry to make you feel American and Free by buying 5 cars per family and the gas that goes with 'em.
Also, there is a HUGE FUCKING DIFFERENCE between a bomb, where the payload is intended to destroy, and a car carrying passengers. Think about fault tolerance...
The small school district... bans gum and candy because, [superintendent] Ellis said, “It creates a mess. It's all over your furniture and your floors.”
Later he said,
If we had a kid whose mom slipped a couple of candy kisses in their lunch, we don't mess with that. It's basically the hard candy and gum that we don't want. Hard candy, when dropped, it's the messiest to clean up.
The girl was punished for having candy that was known to cause damage to the school's property. A week in detention (no recess all day) for accepting a piece of candy as a gift from a friend. She didn't eat it or drop it. Sad.
But a ban is probably an easier, if less fair, way to deal with the minority who were making a mess.
I refuse to support policies that are "less fair." Pay our janitors more and deal with the fact that kids like candy and will bring it to school, regardless of the rules or punishment in place. Making our schools prisons is destroying our education and our youth.
And back to the topic, the superintendent of the district said that candy and gum are banned at the school because
it creates a mess. It's all over your furniture and your floors.
And then the mom said,
She didn't even eat [the candy]. The teacher took it away.
A ten-year-old was harshly punished before she ever caused any harm, and that's not right. The friend that gave her the candy got in trouble too. I might understand the punishment if she had been a repeat offender and had been given warnings before but there is no mention of that in any article. Humiliating and punishing a child like this is not fair, and that act should be punished. I hope the media rips this school to shreds. We, the people, should have zero fucking tolerance towards this stupidity.
If you are a tinfoiler with a specialization in network privacy, you might want to research the distributors of MW4, MekTek, before you jump in and play. Part of their business is "Geospacial Research Technology," which means this game will probably be doing some phoning home with information about you. I personally don't mind this and think a free game is well worth some targeted advertising (especially when it is in plain view). Hhuzzah for companies that can evolve their business practice!
Your post is alarmingly racist and misguided and I am sad that slashdot modded it up to +5 Insightful. From what you said all I sense is fear. Fear of the infinite unknowns of a world so far attached from your beloved America. Fear of a culture no where near parallel to your own. Fear that you may be wrong in your hatred towards these people. You stereotype an entire people as bloodthirsty heathens when it is a tiny minority that are causing problems. By reacting to the bullies we are inciting the bullies. Learn from Gandhi for God's sake.
I have one question to ask you: How is killing more people solving anything? If you kill a terrorist you are likely to insight retaliation. If you kill a civilian you are guaranteed retaliation. The Middle East is having growing pains, and all we are doing by being over there is trying to brainwash them into growing up into Americans instead of growing into their own culture. It is not our business to determine their way of life. And to make matters worse we do it by force. I am NOT proud to be an American, and haven't been for some time.
The GP was absolutely correct and should have the +5 Insightful... damn my lack of mod points.
You see only menace in one direction, when the menace in the other direction is the real enemy of your values
You see menace in all directions, when the menace inside your heart is the real enemy of your values.
And the world will stand still in anticipation as these leaders of the gaming world release another of their ground-breaking Call of Duty games. This game is sure to push the envelope of the first person shooter genre of videogaming with its amazing new features:
Crosshair (patent pending) - In Call of Duty: Black Ops, players will enjoy the revolutionary new crosshair feature, unseen by any FPS game to this date.
Enemies that hide (USPTO D772719) - For the first time EVER enemies will duck and hide behind boxes, sandbags, and other cover!
Realism - Because we know real-life isn't real enough!
A full-featured single player game - Experience an unprecedented 5 hours of gameplay in the new Call of Duty: Black Ops! Travel through ONE tileset and fight ONE type of enemy in the expansive and immersive new world that looks and is the exact same as our previous game.
AntiSkidRow (tm) DRM - With an always on DRM system you can rest easy knowing that the evil terrorist pirates pedophiles are not undermining the American Way Of Life. (note: all DRM servers will be down for scheduled maintenance starting on November 9th. Downtime unknown).
Downloadable content - Unluck multiplayer, tactical nuke launcher, achievements, a rootkit, much more from the XBox live store! No downloads are required since this content is already ON YOUR GAME DISC.
I don't know about you, but I'm pre-ordering my copy of Call of Duty: Go Fuck Yourself today!
Lost, for me, has equated to reading 'The Hobbit' + 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy as a young kid
That's really, really sad. I can't believe you compare a megabudget corporate TV production to a true work of art.
Everything from that point on has extreme potential to copy-cat
Only a fool would think Lost wasn't already a copy-cat show. All they (the producers/writers of Lost) are trying to do is cash in on the end of the reality show fad that has plagued the US for the past decade or so. They just mashed up Survivor and Real World with the style of 24, Prison Break, and other serial TV shows. I for one am not the least bit impressed.
Oh, and the one that hit the other guy in the face with the foam ball should have been arrested for assault. They were all a bunch of hooligans, and a public nuisance
Says you! Those hooligans could be a welcomed part of the weekend bar crawl. Business seems to be booming in the video, although I didn't see any golfers. Go worry about your lawn.
Put on your best eyepatch and let out a throaty AARRRGGGHHHHH:
http://www.google.com/search?q=south+park+s14e06+torrent
The SP team won't really lose anything if you download this episode. Comedy Central will lose profits and Muhammed will lose some spotlight, and both of those are great!
I don't agree that installing the OS is necessary as the first step towards understanding Linux. Better to get newcomers comfortable and excited about working with the OS and have them install it on their own machines on their own time when they might actually have some true interest. Also, Ubuntu is even *easier* to install than Windows, requiring less input from the user. My last Xubuntu install was just a Next, Next, Next, Finish sort of thing, albeit on a well supported VM. Creating users/groups and managing permissions is still just as possible with a pre-installed starter environment, so I don't see what else would be missing...
Why all the negativity, slashdot? Most posts here are some Terminator reference or a "detailed" explanation of why the skeletons / suits won't work (yet they do). I have a feeling all of the fearmonger posts are from Americans, because we seem to be perpetually afraid of advances in technology--especially by those evil Japanese or Chinese! I dream of the day when the whole world rejoices at significant technological advances, not just the country that profits the most... I dream of a day when we humans realize we're not going to survive until we cooperate with eachother. My dreams aren't profitable.
Try to think about what all the developers would have done instead of reinventing the wheel. And if GIF/MP3 were never patented, those alternatives could still exist. Stagnation, not progress, is the result of IP law. Progress should always, always, always be put before profits. I know thats a naive statement, but one day I believe we Humans, as a whole, will grow up.
Repeat your thought process with the assumption of a replenishable food, water, and air supply. We ain't going to Mars without them anyway, one way trip or not. Saving money has nothing to do with this.
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To get a good view of society, one must separate himself from it. Your grammar/wording Nazi-ness doesn't invalidate any of spun's points.
And are you a garbage man Stan? Or just the Morality Police?
People like you really piss me off. You go from Nazi Germany to Muslim extremism to immigration law, all the while avoiding the actual topic on hand (manned space exploration, overpopulation as a reason to expand off the planet). You're like a bad IT manager, spouting off as many buzzwords as fast as possible to hopefully confuse people into thinking you're intelligent and right. I won't take your bait, but I will have you know that you're a real douchebag fearmonger, and your statements are misguided at best.
In my opinion, overpopulation is a myth and colonization of the nearer planets is absolutely going to happen, and probably within the next century. It seems stupid to me that we'd rather stop ourselves from reproducing than simply expand across the neigh-infinite universe. Preserving this planet is absolutely paramount, so why don't we go mine asteroids instead of mountains?
Yet we still do not see any cures... only new, incredibly expensive, and patented treatments. The virus that is the ACS simply evolved to suit the new climate, and I don't consider that reform. I want an anti-cancer organization who's official mission goal is to make itself useless by the eradication of all cancer. Raising awareness is a farce when people are dying by the hundreds-of-thousands a year.
One more thing: research grants to private corporations are still considered "program expenses." To adapt Murphy's Law: that which can be corrupted, will be corrupted.
EVERY SINGLE FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION in the world tries to limit their competition.
Adobe and Apple are not in competition. This is a company trying to tell its users how to use their product. Its about 5 blocks away from DRMville, but still close enough to smell the stench of injustice.
Especially when said software causes huge problems and eats resources on Apple's hardware and operating system that do support Adobe's "media platform"?
Is this a question or a statement? Anyway its still not Apple's problem that Adobe's software is a resource hog and buggy. Inclusion of their software is a decision that should be left to the consumer who owns the device.
Apple does not have an application that competes with Adobe's
And for how long do you think this is going to be true? Just because Apple hasn't yet made a media player plugin doesn't mean they can't make one. And if they did it would be just like IE and Microsoft.
Adobe makes its money from developers... If anyone "isn't even getting a chance to gain iPad customers", it is the developers, not Adobe
Um. You contradict yourself there, but whatever. I'm not saying that the absence of Flash on the iPad will destroy Adobe, rather, I'm arguing that this is a bad precedent to be set in the business world.
Or, not.
I could say the same to your "arguments," but that won't progress anything and besides, "slippery slope" isn't even an argument. Its a figure of speech to convey my fear of where we're headed. Also I started that paragraph off with "It could start a trend..." to hopefully convey to the reader that the paragraph was simply prospect.
My opinion is that their advertising is demeaning to others--those that are not in the "cool crowd." Its elitist and exclusive, and if that's what you like then so be it. I don't like those sorts of things.
I hate Apple for their anti-consumer politics and demeaning advertising. I hate Adobe because their software is bloated, buggy, and insecure. Now that you know I'm not partial to either company, why should Apple be able to block Adobe's media platform out of their hardware? Isn't this just like Microsoft bundling IE with Windows, leaving other browsers at a huge disadvantage? Isn't this worse because Adobe isn't even getting a chance to gain iPad customers? This is also companies deciding how their customers use their product, and that is bad. It may not be illegal, but it is very bad and I really wish this community would get past their fanboi-ism and on to the actual topic.
If Apple gets away with this then they will set a sort of precedence. It could start a trend where any hardware company could block a software company from their product, or the other way around, or with any combination of industries/products. Capitalism is great and all *cough* but the quest for a higher bottom line seems to remove all morals and justice from business and Apple's behavior represents just one of many slippery slopes.
anyone who *dares* drive the car themselves will be considered negligent
That's about the only thing you said I agree with. Driving is stupidly dangerous and I can't wait until computers are driving every car on the road. Freedom? Pfff, driving a car doesn't make you free. The idea is just marketing done by the auto industry to make you feel American and Free by buying 5 cars per family and the gas that goes with 'em.
Also, there is a HUGE FUCKING DIFFERENCE between a bomb, where the payload is intended to destroy, and a car carrying passengers. Think about fault tolerance...
The small school district... bans gum and candy because, [superintendent] Ellis said, “It creates a mess. It's all over your furniture and your floors.”
Later he said,
If we had a kid whose mom slipped a couple of candy kisses in their lunch, we don't mess with that. It's basically the hard candy and gum that we don't want. Hard candy, when dropped, it's the messiest to clean up.
The girl was punished for having candy that was known to cause damage to the school's property. A week in detention (no recess all day) for accepting a piece of candy as a gift from a friend. She didn't eat it or drop it. Sad.
But a ban is probably an easier, if less fair, way to deal with the minority who were making a mess.
I refuse to support policies that are "less fair." Pay our janitors more and deal with the fact that kids like candy and will bring it to school, regardless of the rules or punishment in place. Making our schools prisons is destroying our education and our youth.
And back to the topic, the superintendent of the district said that candy and gum are banned at the school because
it creates a mess. It's all over your furniture and your floors.
And then the mom said,
She didn't even eat [the candy]. The teacher took it away.
A ten-year-old was harshly punished before she ever caused any harm, and that's not right. The friend that gave her the candy got in trouble too. I might understand the punishment if she had been a repeat offender and had been given warnings before but there is no mention of that in any article. Humiliating and punishing a child like this is not fair, and that act should be punished. I hope the media rips this school to shreds. We, the people, should have zero fucking tolerance towards this stupidity.
If you are a tinfoiler with a specialization in network privacy, you might want to research the distributors of MW4, MekTek, before you jump in and play. Part of their business is "Geospacial Research Technology," which means this game will probably be doing some phoning home with information about you. I personally don't mind this and think a free game is well worth some targeted advertising (especially when it is in plain view). Hhuzzah for companies that can evolve their business practice!
I have one question to ask you: How is killing more people solving anything? If you kill a terrorist you are likely to insight retaliation. If you kill a civilian you are guaranteed retaliation. The Middle East is having growing pains, and all we are doing by being over there is trying to brainwash them into growing up into Americans instead of growing into their own culture. It is not our business to determine their way of life. And to make matters worse we do it by force. I am NOT proud to be an American, and haven't been for some time.
The GP was absolutely correct and should have the +5 Insightful... damn my lack of mod points.
You see only menace in one direction, when the menace in the other direction is the real enemy of your values
You see menace in all directions, when the menace inside your heart is the real enemy of your values.
I don't know about you, but I'm pre-ordering my copy of Call of Duty: Go Fuck Yourself today!
Lost, for me, has equated to reading 'The Hobbit' + 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy as a young kid
That's really, really sad. I can't believe you compare a megabudget corporate TV production to a true work of art.
Everything from that point on has extreme potential to copy-cat
Only a fool would think Lost wasn't already a copy-cat show. All they (the producers/writers of Lost) are trying to do is cash in on the end of the reality show fad that has plagued the US for the past decade or so. They just mashed up Survivor and Real World with the style of 24, Prison Break, and other serial TV shows. I for one am not the least bit impressed.
Oh, and the one that hit the other guy in the face with the foam ball should have been arrested for assault. They were all a bunch of hooligans, and a public nuisance
Says you! Those hooligans could be a welcomed part of the weekend bar crawl. Business seems to be booming in the video, although I didn't see any golfers. Go worry about your lawn.
Again, it just seems like some beat cops that wanted to break up a rowdy bunch of drunk guys with sticks before something bad happened
I prefer to live under the notion that I'm innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around.
Put on your best eyepatch and let out a throaty AARRRGGGHHHHH: http://www.google.com/search?q=south+park+s14e06+torrent The SP team won't really lose anything if you download this episode. Comedy Central will lose profits and Muhammed will lose some spotlight, and both of those are great!
sc0p3 was absolutely right about the media favoring extremists, though, and I think the percentages were to be read as a generic "almost 0%."
I don't agree that installing the OS is necessary as the first step towards understanding Linux. Better to get newcomers comfortable and excited about working with the OS and have them install it on their own machines on their own time when they might actually have some true interest. Also, Ubuntu is even *easier* to install than Windows, requiring less input from the user. My last Xubuntu install was just a Next, Next, Next, Finish sort of thing, albeit on a well supported VM. Creating users/groups and managing permissions is still just as possible with a pre-installed starter environment, so I don't see what else would be missing...
and I wouldn't their butter touch mah jelly. I define my own art, and if you let anyone else define art for you, you are a tool.
Why all the negativity, slashdot? Most posts here are some Terminator reference or a "detailed" explanation of why the skeletons / suits won't work (yet they do). I have a feeling all of the fearmonger posts are from Americans, because we seem to be perpetually afraid of advances in technology--especially by those evil Japanese or Chinese! I dream of the day when the whole world rejoices at significant technological advances, not just the country that profits the most... I dream of a day when we humans realize we're not going to survive until we cooperate with eachother. My dreams aren't profitable.
Hahahaha! Great plug, sir.
Try to think about what all the developers would have done instead of reinventing the wheel. And if GIF/MP3 were never patented, those alternatives could still exist. Stagnation, not progress, is the result of IP law. Progress should always, always, always be put before profits. I know thats a naive statement, but one day I believe we Humans, as a whole, will grow up.
No! They'll turn it into a first-class tropical resort and take away from Earth tourism revenue!
Repeat your thought process with the assumption of a replenishable food, water, and air supply. We ain't going to Mars without them anyway, one way trip or not. Saving money has nothing to do with this.