What part of the following mentions "stealing" in any manner?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What part of "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" does this MPAA shill not understand? Is he illiterate, or just unfortunate enough to have a brain composed primarily of brown matter?
I had my fill of the Beatles courtesy of my mother. I have no intention of buying the albums myself, and think that Mark Chapman did the world a favor by making a Beatles reunion impossible.
Tyranny of this sort should be rewarded in the manner exemplified by Hassan-i Sabbh. But the people of Saudi Arabia won't rebel against this bullshit in any meaningful way, so it's not my concern.
English doesn't offer much in the way of gender-neutral pronouns. For a long time, it was standard practice to use a "universal 'he'", as the author of TFA did. Or, one could use a "singular they" or alternate between "he" and "she".
Boxee is based on XMBC, so whatever XMBC supports should also be supported by Boxee. I haven't had to download anything yet, but I've just used Boxee as a front-end to my iTunes library, Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu.
And I did it because I just didn't have time to dick around with it any longer. I got a Macbook, and finally found a Unix that didn't require constant tinkering.
You seem rather quick to romanticize face-to-face contact. I find it quite overrated under most circumstances. When with a person I've known well for a long time, it is true that there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction. For all other situations, I prefer to keep people at a distance, so that I have time to think.
Electronic communication allows me to enforce the distance I require when first becoming acquainted with somebody. When I am ready to meet face-to-face, it allows me to find neutral ground and arrange a mutually convenient time.
It is unfortunate that tools like Facebook are seen by their creators not as a valuable service that facilitates social interaction, but as a means to profit from social interaction.
Zuckerberg isn't going to make do with the settings we proles are stuck with. Why should he, when he's the CEO?
Trevor Goodchild might have proclaimed the New Openness, where nothing was sacred and nothing was secret, but you can be damned sure that he himself kept secrets -- and they were most certainly sacred.
The "new social contract" is the same as the old social contract, which boils down to "Obey your overlords, and they'll protect you unless it's more profitable for them to betray you." There is no such thing as a "social contract", and those who use such a nebulous concept to justify the intrusions of business, church, and state into the lives of individuals do so because "divine right" has been thoroughly discredited.
I was never really part of the scene; my friends list on Facebook consists of my wife, my brother, and my wife's friends and family (I added them to be polite). I only got on Facebook because I was job hunting and suspected that prospective employers might think it weird that a programmer wouldn't have any appreciable internet presence.
Keep fucking with my privacy settings. Keep on assuming that I want to share everything with every jerkoff on Facebook. I'll just keep locking my shit down. And if you want to make that impossible, know that I lived happily without Facebook once. I can easily remember how to do so again.
Remember your place while you still have one.
I do one thing at a time. Everything else is a background process. Only difference between me and the macbook I'm using to type this post is that the macbook doesn't become stabbier than Hugo Stiglitz in a basement full of Nazis if expected to do too many context switches in too short a timeframe.
I use email and IM. I receive text messages, but prefer to reply to SMS messages by emailing people's phones. I ignore TV. If somebody sends me a link to a video of a lecture or speech on Youtube, I'll look for a text transcript. So where do I stand? Does it even matter?
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What part of the following mentions "stealing" in any manner?
What part of "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" does this MPAA shill not understand? Is he illiterate, or just unfortunate enough to have a brain composed primarily of brown matter?
...what about Hans Moravec?
I had my fill of the Beatles courtesy of my mother. I have no intention of buying the albums myself, and think that Mark Chapman did the world a favor by making a Beatles reunion impossible.
Just don't send anybody named Quinn Dexter. That would end poorly.
Tyranny of this sort should be rewarded in the manner exemplified by Hassan-i Sabbh. But the people of Saudi Arabia won't rebel against this bullshit in any meaningful way, so it's not my concern.
Well, there was this guy named Henry David Thoreau who write an essay called Civil Disobedience.
The point is to remind the powers that be that they rule only because they are *allowed* to rule. The message sent by Anonymous is a simple message:
Remember your place while you still have one.
English doesn't offer much in the way of gender-neutral pronouns. For a long time, it was standard practice to use a "universal 'he'", as the author of TFA did. Or, one could use a "singular they" or alternate between "he" and "she".
Looks like the single-player campaign in Assassin's Creed III is going to suck.
Boxee is based on XMBC, so whatever XMBC supports should also be supported by Boxee. I haven't had to download anything yet, but I've just used Boxee as a front-end to my iTunes library, Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu.
And I did it because I just didn't have time to dick around with it any longer. I got a Macbook, and finally found a Unix that didn't require constant tinkering.
I don't do sincerity. I don't have to, because I'm a sociopath. You should try it; you might like it.
You seem rather quick to romanticize face-to-face contact. I find it quite overrated under most circumstances. When with a person I've known well for a long time, it is true that there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction. For all other situations, I prefer to keep people at a distance, so that I have time to think.
Electronic communication allows me to enforce the distance I require when first becoming acquainted with somebody. When I am ready to meet face-to-face, it allows me to find neutral ground and arrange a mutually convenient time.
It is unfortunate that tools like Facebook are seen by their creators not as a valuable service that facilitates social interaction, but as a means to profit from social interaction.
Zuckerberg isn't going to make do with the settings we proles are stuck with. Why should he, when he's the CEO?
Trevor Goodchild might have proclaimed the New Openness, where nothing was sacred and nothing was secret, but you can be damned sure that he himself kept secrets -- and they were most certainly sacred.
The "new social contract" is the same as the old social contract, which boils down to "Obey your overlords, and they'll protect you unless it's more profitable for them to betray you." There is no such thing as a "social contract", and those who use such a nebulous concept to justify the intrusions of business, church, and state into the lives of individuals do so because "divine right" has been thoroughly discredited.
So, basically, you want Death Star-on-planet action? Be careful what you wish for; Rule 34 is a bitch.
I was never really part of the scene; my friends list on Facebook consists of my wife, my brother, and my wife's friends and family (I added them to be polite). I only got on Facebook because I was job hunting and suspected that prospective employers might think it weird that a programmer wouldn't have any appreciable internet presence.
Keep fucking with my privacy settings. Keep on assuming that I want to share everything with every jerkoff on Facebook. I'll just keep locking my shit down. And if you want to make that impossible, know that I lived happily without Facebook once. I can easily remember how to do so again. Remember your place while you still have one.
The only Star Wars movie that didn't suck, The Empire Strikes Back, was written by a woman named Leigh Brackett.
So, you think that the only legitimate socialization is done face to face?
Also note that 10 years ago no one was talking about Asperger's, which suggests that this disorder is a fad.
Dr. Hans Asperger, for whom Asperger's Syndrome is named, published his research in 1944.
I do one thing at a time. Everything else is a background process. Only difference between me and the macbook I'm using to type this post is that the macbook doesn't become stabbier than Hugo Stiglitz in a basement full of Nazis if expected to do too many context switches in too short a timeframe.
Stink different.
I use email and IM. I receive text messages, but prefer to reply to SMS messages by emailing people's phones. I ignore TV. If somebody sends me a link to a video of a lecture or speech on Youtube, I'll look for a text transcript. So where do I stand? Does it even matter?
A real engineer would go to step 4: "How do I make a big enough gun to kill said evil tyrant?"