Newspeak is designed to change the language in such a way as to prevent independent thought.
You know, with services like Steam and GOG, I find it very easy to pay for games. Sometimes I throw money at games I am not even going to play. When I was young I lived in Hong Kong, a place where piracy is so efficient there are entire shopping complexes devoted to it, where the counterfeit products sell for the price of a pack of crisps and are indistinguishable from the real thing. Places like China, south east Asia and India have no problem doing things like this, because the prices of things made in the west are set at an extortionate rate compared to the average daily wage, IE compared to things like FOOD and SHELTER. I have exactly no moral reservation about downloading something to see if it works for my computer. How exactly did the game industry manage to save my soul then eh?
Wow, this slashdot posting thing is really harsh. You shouldn't have to rely on verbal or physical violence to correct someone's simple grammatical errors. Please keep your posts civil and professional, it is not a lot to ask.
Meh is actually a more intelligent reaction than it might seem. Behind a simple meh, a calculated thought can occur in a place that the government can't yet spy on.
Even if that thought is just 'Maybe I should download less tentacle porn'
The real point is, if you are observant and you know human nature, then it isn't particularly surprising that all this is happening, and despite it nice to have suspicions concretely confirmed, this is not a sudden rude awakening, it is just "I always thought as much"
Aside from this basically being what the fucking nazi's were all about, it's an unbelievably retarded point of view to have given that the majority of muslims genuinely AREN'T trying to bother anyone. If they actually were, believe me you would fucking know about it.
As a UKian, I would like to play devils advocate: if it stops one single delusional nutter from murdering upwards of 200 people in one easy stroke because the voices in their head told them to, and the only thing between that latent human homicidal psychosis and my safety is a porno machine, what do I care how many 3d pictures of my cock I have to give up?
Airplanes are very delicate and dangerous machines, filled with fragile meat cargo, making them the easiest and most yielding of targets for aggressors with limited resources, and if we want to use them with confidence, we don't really have time to fuck around with what is 'acceptable'. The kind of people that would attack an airplane don't deserve the satisfaction of shedding one single drop of innocent blood. You want a mode of transport that doesn't infringe on your privacy? Try taking the bus.
It is a bug. That's the whole point. It may not be a bug that exists in some source code on a computer, but it is still a tangible issue that can be 'tracked'
Religious followers aren't cool. Religious followers are morons who don't know how to think independently. They are the least cool thing in the known universe. Name one religion in the world that is cool to be in - and if you say jedi, you are not cool.
It really is sad that our two countries can be dragged into war over an island full of not much other than sheep. It's even a little bit comical that a country the size of Argentina would consider that an 'invasion'. We think of it more along the lines of 'punching a baby in the face'
In the second world war, we gave up the channel islands for a bit, Guernsey, Jersey, and so on. Then we went suicidally against the strongest, proudest country in Europe, with the most awe inspiring and powerful army the world had ever seen, all because we didn't much like what they were doing to the the Poles and the French, the first of which we hardly have a connection to, and the latter of which used to own our country's soil and make our rules. Best of luck!
Valve are considered a team of people, so they go in the same bracket as 'they have'. Also, English has no umbrella regulating body, it simply follows general consensus. Occasionally, people with OCD feel that they are doing the language a service by pointing out the real or imagined mistakes of others loudly and publicly while insulting the intelligence of their target with vulgar language. The rest of us who care notice anyway but do not feel the need to be a total prick about it. What you are going around doing is the literary equivalent of "AHAHAHA LOOK this fucking douchebag doesn't know how to tie shoelaces!". I hope you feel proud of your valiant effort to preserve the English language exactly as you found it. If you could just please re-introduce the u when you spell colour, and use ise instead of ize, that would be lovely.
He does have a point, you can save time making custom windows images.
Except for the fact that on the other side of the fence, slipstreaming all the latest updates into an easy to use install image has been standard operating procedure pretty much the whole time...
Why does no one ever consider the possibility that perhaps $10 million for a lead actor is a slightly over the top wage for the challenge of 'looking pretty while pretending to be someone else in front of a video camera for a few months'?
Huh. I thought we bombed enough nazi's into the stone age. I guess next on the agenda is more bombing of nazi's, who would have guessed? Always hard to deal with single issue political parties....
I know its not going to sell it to anyone, but sometimes, I actually really like cycling in freezing rain. Since it makes it impossible to overheat, you can really push yourself as far as you can go, and the experience is quite bracing.
Traffic on the other hand really is a problem in some places. You may be able to trust 99% of drivers, but it only takes one fuckwit to turn you into a crunchy paste on the asphalt, and that is really 1% too many. There is no reason anyone should have that nagging fear in the back of their mind just when going back and forth to work. It makes about as much sense as having to worry that hyenas might suddenly appear out of nowhere and chew your fucking balls off while you are walking to the shopping centre to get an ice cream. The world is flat out hostile to road cyclists, because drivers will always look at them like turds that don't belong, and aren't entitled to use the roads that were built just for their own precious selves. I have no idea how modern society can tolerate it, but it certainly does and I don't find it very fucking funny. I don't think anyone should be allowed a driving licence until they have been forced to log a couple of hundred road cycling hours, so they can see what type of fucking morons drive around everywhere.
Um. If you are so easily stirred up into murderous frenzy by what is an issue of HOW ARTWORKS ARE SHARED, then you are precisely the reason we don't need guns.
Tolerable? There is barely any practical difference between winxp and win8 to me, apart from the amount of money that was theoretically supposed to have left my wallet in between them in order to support the development of further versions of windows that I didn't need or ask for. Necessity being the mother of invention after all. The only way I even notice they are still making them is the artificial barriers they include in every new version in order to make people who don't slavishly fawn over them suffer. I have no idea how they manage to make so much noise and yet achieve so little.
'When civilizations get bored, they do crazy shit.'
So essentially what you are trying to assert is, that if we do not keep JK Rowling fed well enough to make Harry Potter novels, then WWIII?
I think you have overestimated the entertainment value of copyrighted material... and underestimated the will of the public to support creative work. You might have pirate bay/napster/THE BLANK CASSETTE TAPE in one hand, but on the other hand, how do you explain the sudden emergence of kickstarter? Conversely, the industry may support talented people now, but it also manages to spew out an endless stream of obnoxious filthy rich crackheads who would enjoy nothing less than to shit all over the people who put them there. Why is there no regulation for that? Where is THEIR moral high ground when they are publicly executing[sorry, LEGALLY FINING] a member of the proles to send a message to the rest of us?
If I have an idea I want to develop today, I can advertise it to the people that would care about it, I can create it with the people that care about it, and I can have it distributed the world over by people that care about it, without having to suck any corporate cock whatsoever! The only barrier I have to cross is having an idea people find worth caring about.
The self centred industry of yesterday lacks the imagination to capitalise on any of those things just as much as it lacked the initiative to develop them, because it is obnoxiously stuck in the ways that worked well enough AT THE TIME. It became so self satisfied, it did not notice the world was happening around it! It simply has not occurred to them that in light of the immense power we have at our fingertips in this era, they have become PITIFULLY REDUNDANT, like a red top newspaper trying to compete with Wikipedia. They had a chance, they chose to make war with the people instead of examine the reasons for their frustration. When you become a grumpy old pensioner who chases the kids off the lawn with a shotgun, you reap what you SOW.
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Feh, I like porn as much as the next guy, but porn didn't get mankind to the moon or bring about world peace, and I fucking hate hyperbole...
Newspeak is designed to change the language in such a way as to prevent independent thought.
You know, with services like Steam and GOG, I find it very easy to pay for games. Sometimes I throw money at games I am not even going to play. When I was young I lived in Hong Kong, a place where piracy is so efficient there are entire shopping complexes devoted to it, where the counterfeit products sell for the price of a pack of crisps and are indistinguishable from the real thing. Places like China, south east Asia and India have no problem doing things like this, because the prices of things made in the west are set at an extortionate rate compared to the average daily wage, IE compared to things like FOOD and SHELTER. I have exactly no moral reservation about downloading something to see if it works for my computer. How exactly did the game industry manage to save my soul then eh?
Wow, this slashdot posting thing is really harsh. You shouldn't have to rely on verbal or physical violence to correct someone's simple grammatical errors. Please keep your posts civil and professional, it is not a lot to ask.
He said it with the qualifier 'basically', so it 's fine :)
Besides, someone built a scale model starship enterprise with it. Who wouldn't do that if they had infinite lego?
Meh is actually a more intelligent reaction than it might seem. Behind a simple meh, a calculated thought can occur in a place that the government can't yet spy on.
Even if that thought is just 'Maybe I should download less tentacle porn'
The real point is, if you are observant and you know human nature, then it isn't particularly surprising that all this is happening, and despite it nice to have suspicions concretely confirmed, this is not a sudden rude awakening, it is just "I always thought as much"
Again, MEH.
GMT bitches, boooooooyaaaaaah!
Feet are deprecated. You are welcome to make your own conversion :)
There there, of course it is. The jews, yes. We all believe you.
Changing the subject, you are doing really well for yourself, considering your mental disability. Well done.
Aside from this basically being what the fucking nazi's were all about, it's an unbelievably retarded point of view to have given that the majority of muslims genuinely AREN'T trying to bother anyone. If they actually were, believe me you would fucking know about it.
As a UKian, I would like to play devils advocate: if it stops one single delusional nutter from murdering upwards of 200 people in one easy stroke because the voices in their head told them to, and the only thing between that latent human homicidal psychosis and my safety is a porno machine, what do I care how many 3d pictures of my cock I have to give up?
Airplanes are very delicate and dangerous machines, filled with fragile meat cargo, making them the easiest and most yielding of targets for aggressors with limited resources, and if we want to use them with confidence, we don't really have time to fuck around with what is 'acceptable'. The kind of people that would attack an airplane don't deserve the satisfaction of shedding one single drop of innocent blood. You want a mode of transport that doesn't infringe on your privacy? Try taking the bus.
It is a bug. That's the whole point. It may not be a bug that exists in some source code on a computer, but it is still a tangible issue that can be 'tracked'
Religious followers aren't cool. Religious followers are morons who don't know how to think independently. They are the least cool thing in the known universe. Name one religion in the world that is cool to be in - and if you say jedi, you are not cool.
It really is sad that our two countries can be dragged into war over an island full of not much other than sheep. It's even a little bit comical that a country the size of Argentina would consider that an 'invasion'. We think of it more along the lines of 'punching a baby in the face'
In the second world war, we gave up the channel islands for a bit, Guernsey, Jersey, and so on. Then we went suicidally against the strongest, proudest country in Europe, with the most awe inspiring and powerful army the world had ever seen, all because we didn't much like what they were doing to the the Poles and the French, the first of which we hardly have a connection to, and the latter of which used to own our country's soil and make our rules. Best of luck!
Yeah, why don't those dirty imperialist Dutch hand back Aruba to the rightful Venezuelan Heirs!
Oh sorry wrong chatroom...
How does it feel to be wasting your life?
Valve are considered a team of people, so they go in the same bracket as 'they have'. Also, English has no umbrella regulating body, it simply follows general consensus. Occasionally, people with OCD feel that they are doing the language a service by pointing out the real or imagined mistakes of others loudly and publicly while insulting the intelligence of their target with vulgar language. The rest of us who care notice anyway but do not feel the need to be a total prick about it. What you are going around doing is the literary equivalent of "AHAHAHA LOOK this fucking douchebag doesn't know how to tie shoelaces!". I hope you feel proud of your valiant effort to preserve the English language exactly as you found it. If you could just please re-introduce the u when you spell colour, and use ise instead of ize, that would be lovely.
He does have a point, you can save time making custom windows images.
Except for the fact that on the other side of the fence, slipstreaming all the latest updates into an easy to use install image has been standard operating procedure pretty much the whole time...
I mean seriously, it's no wonder no one has any shame about robbing hollywood, they've been robbing everyone else for decades :)
It isn't really that hard to piece together the big picture is it?
Why does no one ever consider the possibility that perhaps $10 million for a lead actor is a slightly over the top wage for the challenge of 'looking pretty while pretending to be someone else in front of a video camera for a few months'?
Huh. I thought we bombed enough nazi's into the stone age. I guess next on the agenda is more bombing of nazi's, who would have guessed? Always hard to deal with single issue political parties....
I know its not going to sell it to anyone, but sometimes, I actually really like cycling in freezing rain. Since it makes it impossible to overheat, you can really push yourself as far as you can go, and the experience is quite bracing.
Traffic on the other hand really is a problem in some places. You may be able to trust 99% of drivers, but it only takes one fuckwit to turn you into a crunchy paste on the asphalt, and that is really 1% too many. There is no reason anyone should have that nagging fear in the back of their mind just when going back and forth to work. It makes about as much sense as having to worry that hyenas might suddenly appear out of nowhere and chew your fucking balls off while you are walking to the shopping centre to get an ice cream. The world is flat out hostile to road cyclists, because drivers will always look at them like turds that don't belong, and aren't entitled to use the roads that were built just for their own precious selves. I have no idea how modern society can tolerate it, but it certainly does and I don't find it very fucking funny. I don't think anyone should be allowed a driving licence until they have been forced to log a couple of hundred road cycling hours, so they can see what type of fucking morons drive around everywhere.
Um. If you are so easily stirred up into murderous frenzy by what is an issue of HOW ARTWORKS ARE SHARED, then you are precisely the reason we don't need guns.
But it was obviously a light hearted joke, eh?
And we didn't need any convincing anyway. Enjoy your doom!
Tolerable? There is barely any practical difference between winxp and win8 to me, apart from the amount of money that was theoretically supposed to have left my wallet in between them in order to support the development of further versions of windows that I didn't need or ask for. Necessity being the mother of invention after all. The only way I even notice they are still making them is the artificial barriers they include in every new version in order to make people who don't slavishly fawn over them suffer. I have no idea how they manage to make so much noise and yet achieve so little.
'When civilizations get bored, they do crazy shit.'
So essentially what you are trying to assert is, that if we do not keep JK Rowling fed well enough to make Harry Potter novels, then WWIII?
I think you have overestimated the entertainment value of copyrighted material... and underestimated the will of the public to support creative work. You might have pirate bay/napster/THE BLANK CASSETTE TAPE in one hand, but on the other hand, how do you explain the sudden emergence of kickstarter? Conversely, the industry may support talented people now, but it also manages to spew out an endless stream of obnoxious filthy rich crackheads who would enjoy nothing less than to shit all over the people who put them there. Why is there no regulation for that? Where is THEIR moral high ground when they are publicly executing[sorry, LEGALLY FINING] a member of the proles to send a message to the rest of us?
If I have an idea I want to develop today, I can advertise it to the people that would care about it, I can create it with the people that care about it, and I can have it distributed the world over by people that care about it, without having to suck any corporate cock whatsoever! The only barrier I have to cross is having an idea people find worth caring about.
The self centred industry of yesterday lacks the imagination to capitalise on any of those things just as much as it lacked the initiative to develop them, because it is obnoxiously stuck in the ways that worked well enough AT THE TIME. It became so self satisfied, it did not notice the world was happening around it! It simply has not occurred to them that in light of the immense power we have at our fingertips in this era, they have become PITIFULLY REDUNDANT, like a red top newspaper trying to compete with Wikipedia. They had a chance, they chose to make war with the people instead of examine the reasons for their frustration. When you become a grumpy old pensioner who chases the kids off the lawn with a shotgun, you reap what you SOW.