Yeah man, good deals all but I really think you're referring to more of an electronic flyer than any sort of pushed advertising campaign onto any device possible. What you're describing is "opt in" and not a "we'll decide for you and your device" - targeted or not. Again, for clarity, receiving an email is not being subjected to push advertisements. It's email, spam or not you get to decide.
Again with the 'ads are just' and you should feel guilty for touching yourself angle.
If it fails and disappears because ads didn't make enough money to "run the site" then what? We die? No more content? It's not the "right" kind of website as NeutronCowboy above you alludes to with the likes of : 'If you can afford to run it without ads it sucks' approach? Tools. What? Seriously.
Modern Internet. I don't understand that pair of words in the way that you've used them. Are you alluding to content consumption like it's the only fucking thing that matters on the Internet? This may come off as a slight shocker but them "Interweb sites" do not, in and of themselves, make anything modern and especially not the Internet. Simply because your primary Internet activities include consumption of professional content does not make it a justifiable argument for anything save some random "successful" (in your eyes) WEB site.
A website does not exist solely to become or be popular. And it definitely doesn't exist just for you and your masses in the way that you seem to think it should. What you meant to say was nobody cares but you about you. "Cheap because it's bad" that's kind of a short-sighted, dickhead thing to think much less write. Some people don't care what *you* want and in the case of ads it's what *they* want - your money. That is not the be all end all of everything Internet. Shocker, I know.
Gosh, I'm not sure if you just buy way too much shit or if I should go out and look for a bunch of shit whilst signing up for this that or the other doohickey wack-ass website to throw targeted ads at me so I can... buy more shit. If I need something I look for it - the very last thing I need is it looking for me.
I am glad it works out for you though. That's cool. But I will, indeed, block ANYTHING, repeat ANYTHING, that I want up to and including refusing to consider anything offering something that I can't block. Capice? Don't aim a diss at people for not benefiting from what you seem to benefit from. Especially if it concerns ads. That makes your two cents a waste of two pennies, but, I do sense that you seem to part easily with your pennies and then when you happen to save a couple on your purchased goods you can waste them here, with that, like this.
eh? Not once have I ever seen any ad on slashdot. Ever. I even get confused by the little box located top right asking if I'd like to disable advertising. Whatever I did I think I did it right and this is spanning multiple platforms over multiple years.
Shouldn't one be able to do it that way on any (*any*) purchased electronic platform? In other words your ads are not my business unless I choose to make them my business. And when I purchase an electronic piece of equipment I have every right to decide what exists on it and when. If I don't then I won't until I do then I might.
The same goes for this that or any other web site. Their business plan is not my problem. Advertising is not my problem. Being asked to take part in something I'd rather not take part in can be a problem. These are ebook readers right? I would tolerate a cover jacket type add as I would with a book and I would damn sure hope it was an add for another book then, at least, relevancy is assured.
Who the fuck would pay more than free to be force-fed ads? More importantly: Why?
So, yes, when I can get a free car that senses when I'm hungry and throws options up on the screen for the best lobster roll in Texas two miles on the left then I'll bite.
So, if you were trying to instill some weird sense of guilt about consumption of ads and bandwidth.. the fuck?
If anything (*anything*) disappears because they couldn't make enough money through ads then the problem is not mine to care about for more than minute. Ads are not all evil, granted. What is evil is the assumption that ads are an absolute necessity and must be imposed at all times and at almost any cost. We must ensure that this product designed for people to read includes every opportunity for us to sell ads. There's no good in that mate. Not for you, the reader, at any rate.
So let's push a viable candidate from outside - way outside - online, right now. One of the currently eligible candidates that are not from the red or the blue. Screw the media, now. If it ends up being a completely wasted effort just what would the difference be? Exactly? Not much? I'd say so at this point. It's all bump and grind for someone, always. Throw down a vote in a conscious effort to steer hundreds of thousands of votes to the other party, the party of one person, - the one that is missing - a platform of trust. But you can't waffle, ever. And then we take better aim at Congress.
Traditional media aims to be looking for a lock down and a wholesale information availability reset. The Justice Department seem to be helping that effort along and these appointed trade representatives, in secret no less, and not too mention a few other fronts of encroachment into what we, as citizens all of us, know as freedom.
God damn to hell the backroom deals of governing this people, any people. There is a hideous stench in that. And that goes too for our relations with other countries, each and every one - we negotiate in public or we do not negotiate. If you're a leader with something to hide and are oppressive to your people then the natural course of things dictates that you should probably not negotiate but each and every corner of how you rule will become open for this country to see and hopefully others could follow as well. Looking for oil? Looking for water? Looking for rice, corn, weapons or weed? Then we should know. All of our people need to steer this nation, on this planet, in a direction that will enable us and not just guide us to some random (or well guided) fucking meat cleaver of an end point. Espionage? Lay it out. Is there something to fear in that? Are we going to allow a continued epic conflict between sciences that we've learned and discovered and the thing that created all of this vast thing we call the universe - all of creation? Really? The learn while you're alive VS the thing you may learn when you are dead? There's a good fucking con job in there baby. Are we going to find a room of super sophisticated heads of three companies, a handful of dictators and another of base religious driven drivel meant to blindly guide entire nations into some great and epic battle? Engage the people of the planet when and wherever you can right? This is one large conference call of potential these Internet lines. Mesh.
So, how much longer are we going to do this? Just as long as it takes until we can no longer communicate this freely? I'm beginning to think Mr. Manning had intentions that were just. A cherry pick would have been a waste of his efforts if it is to mean anything - anything at all. People blow whistles and we allow ourselves to be blindly led into stopping the sound and not the reason. What the fuck is that? Who's scared and of what? The time to stop playing these ball twisting games that lead to things like Hitlers and Assads and any other family of horrors in charge, including the family of darkness that drives nails of control and oppression right here at home. Justice Dept., treaty makers, the court of corporate opinion and channeled funds of influence. It doesn't take money to elect our officials - it takes people. Vote for control. Collective voice, open forum, genuine good intentions for any breathing mother fucker on this planet. Stop. Not. Taking. Control. Vote. Now. Fuckin' a.
Ah yes, the Design Your Own Nightmare and Make It a Reality Show. Good programming that. And stay tuned because up next is a blast from the past - We Could Tell You, But Then We'd Have to Kill You.
I'm not at all certain which way this is going but I know that I'll be listening to and guided by the folks with the level heads. Your whack smack about some cold days and some cold water having something to do with boobs.. well.. not so much.
"It's the middleman's job to make the consumers aware of the work."
It is. But said middlemen are failing because there are simply too many works now, and means. In order to be effective they need works at a level on par with history. They seem to want to force works back to historical levels and eradicate the current realities. How do they do this? By continuing to do what they're doing - attempting to FORCE payment, any payment by any means thus constricting and restricting their working platform, their playing field, back to something where they can channel their previous levels of control and influence (and expertise).
It is my opinion that the RIAA must be destroyed and dismantled, obliterated even. They're a clear and present danger to progress. That and their historical products are non-essential goods. Luxury. Yet they clearly deem it appropriate to affect all of creation in and around communications.
Someone's hand is being over-played. There is a royal flush somewhere in play and the *AA is holding four nines and going all in.
I'm trying to comprehend where your line of questioning is going. You seem rooted in "because they've heard it elsewhere". That is not valid. Anyone exploring for music is far and away not relegated to exploring the terrestrial radio output or a restaurant booth. That would be a rock that only you're under I should think. That's what the RIAA et al seem to believe as well and, in fact, that is probably precisely what they're aiming for.
Anyway, after the individual or small group event that "notices" a lick they like then good old fashioned word of mouth (or wire as it were) is "how".
and would that they could I'd venture a guess that establishments firmly under the foot of the current regime that are forced to pay for the possibility that their patrons might actually hear something they (riaa), apparently, invented would be more than happy to stream "non-compliant" sounds to those dear, hapless patrons.
or fuck, I don't know, maybe the creator of the new tune could, I don't know, send it to fucking radio stations, wired and not? Like the old days?
Why you cross reference it to the globally accessible database of copyrighted materials along with the current listed owner(s) - writings, recordings etc. and feed your track,vid,lyric etc. into the "compare this" filter, of course. Upon indication of a near-miss you're offered one of a) a license b) an offer to negotiate a license c) challenge the findings and, finally, d) GTFO
I could be sorely mistaken but I do believe that each and every business you're using your card at has to pay for the privilege of being able to accept your card. Which, in turn, means that business is passing that overhead to you, the customer, cash, debit and credit.
So, all y'all have zero points. Or are businesses magical realms that separates a mystical "them" from "us"?
They all have fees so whether you see them in the first person or in the third makes not one bit of difference as to whether you're paying for it or not. You are. We all are.
Your cash back is a pittance in comparison to what the card providers are making. Otherwise you'd be getting nothing back, ever.
Gosh, when you say it like that it's almost as if it really is too hard to offer a donate button, a log in and some content for your trouble. It's basically lunacy. "You can, but you can't because, well, because." Sure. Makes perfect sense.
I mean if people really, really give zero fucks why should anyone else give zero fucks? Do we not reap what we sow?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry but what the fuck did you just say? You went sailing with your bitch and she rode a coke bottle then traded dresses with Tinkerbell?
Being that A1 has a pretty damn good 'interest financing' engine - they put their money where their interests stand a good chance of being served thus adversely affecting the race where A2 believes they can have their own affect. Congress seems to have a funny and twisted way of bringing about a foregone conclusion. Anything you get is "forward" looking and never undoing damage from the past. Fuck they don't even talk about it. Too many funds to raise.
My point was - no matter how you got there if you have the gall to be led by fright (and who knows what else, party mobs perhaps) to vote on a proposed law that is counter to the Constitution then they should be held to account when said law is abused to the detriment of the entire population. Everybody seems to think you can just vote that away when, clearly, that is an enormous undertaking. Gargantuan. Monumentous even. Much more difficult an issue than simply who elects Congress.
And yes, agreed, we are our own enemy albeit Congress is supposed to represent us, all of us, and not simply serve the desires and whims of any given administrations bureaucracy, threat assessments included. Where's the hindsight? Where is the country's conscience? And where, for Christ's sake, is accountability? If accountability is tossed aside and there is no fear from being held responsible it is far too easy a cop out to simply ask who elects Congress. Fuck the voters, the representatives, the president of the day and the judges - who approved the law that has resulted in a frontal on our country? Not you and certainly not me. Sovereign Immunity - who allows that and on what occasion does that come into effect? Why, conveniently enough, it seems to be when shit gets serious enough as to question the integrity of our government it would appear. Convenient.
So, again, I understand and respect your answer yet that seems to leave us with.. nothing. "You voted the asshats in" does not seem to have much bearing on what said asshat does while they're there and I'm of the mind that asshats responsible for setting this stage should be held to account. Removing them from office is a nice gesture and all that but at junctions like these what's the message?
I hesitate to type this but after reading TFA I could only conclude that Congress is, in fact, the enemy. Those responsible for passing the applicable laws should, in my mind, be tried for treason. That or show us all (that is - all of us) the truth about all these plots and evil little plans that threatened to take off half the eastern seaboard. SHOW ME! Cunts.
That we're allowed to (nay, made to) fear and to react to that which we can not see is no longer acceptable. Not. Acceptable. I. Do. Not. Accept.
The Olympics--where everyone gets paid except the athletes who actually do the work and the volunteers who actually make it work.
and throw in since I'm typing;
What the fuck is happening? Sponsors sponsor - what this is is corruption of the games that represent the world - our world - not just their fucking manipulative twisted strong-arming of OUR product.
Fuck the IOC and their supposed "sponsorships"
And may each and every athlete from each and every country perform to the best of their abilities. Impress yourselves and impress the world.
luther349, I did try and refrain and I do recognize that there is a new cult spin and war on iOS fiends, freaks, friends and fools however your "broad brushed" scoping is, well, ignorant at worst and forward-looking at best. I was handed an OSX platform for the purposes if integration quite some time ago. I find and feel it's the best "user-end" tool going for my working role in life.. UNIX. Windows is.. Windows, Linux is still clunky by trying to keep it seamless and still somewhat difficult to force into position (re custom interfacing) and, I'm finding Android seems to suffer from this everywhere and nowhere thing as well. The apple wars are foolish - they're going to sink their own float. When my current platform is best left to web page viewing and stereo hook-up it may very well be the end. I don't like the direction and I don't like the company lately.
Cheaper, better, faster hardware is great. Expensive, fast, robust end user interface capabilities and underlying flexibility can be worth it too. It's a good combo to date but it does seems to be heading for a wall.
Having thus defended some peoples Apples I'll throw the relatively on-topic bit in - TV is ass but I still have the lowest tier as I still have a lot of people in the house and I, personally, refuse to watch ass programing with commercials save maybe one or two shows I'll watch with family per season, maybe - rarely alone unless it's Nova or the like. The rest can do what they like. As for trunking our viewing pleasure - the current environment is a little like Linux on the desktop - lots to choose from, a few tricks, some know-how, a few pitfalls and the same media corporate greed engines trying to wrest control from the rest of the world.
Good, fair and modern services on ALL platforms are completely possible now, technically - it's just that they are not baked right now for reality unless perhaps you're a one or two person household, then it's easy as pie. If I had more time I would be finding the best match for my house and ripping out TV in a heartbeat. As a full time tinkerer I don't have time to tinker for tinkers sake. I can wait a little bit longer but my patience is wearing thin. "Pirates" (Internet library users) have the right idea and they're blazing the trail to enlightenment it's just that those needing said enlightenment are one notch below religious zealots.
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Apparently nobody else's freedom is worth anything to you alive.
Do enjoy your essential security. Others will see to you having neither in the end, rest assured.
Yeah man, good deals all but I really think you're referring to more of an electronic flyer than any sort of pushed advertising campaign onto any device possible. What you're describing is "opt in" and not a "we'll decide for you and your device" - targeted or not. Again, for clarity, receiving an email is not being subjected to push advertisements. It's email, spam or not you get to decide.
Again with the 'ads are just' and you should feel guilty for touching yourself angle.
If it fails and disappears because ads didn't make enough money to "run the site" then what? We die? No more content? It's not the "right" kind of website as NeutronCowboy above you alludes to with the likes of : 'If you can afford to run it without ads it sucks' approach? Tools. What? Seriously.
Modern Internet. I don't understand that pair of words in the way that you've used them. Are you alluding to content consumption like it's the only fucking thing that matters on the Internet? This may come off as a slight shocker but them "Interweb sites" do not, in and of themselves, make anything modern and especially not the Internet. Simply because your primary Internet activities include consumption of professional content does not make it a justifiable argument for anything save some random "successful" (in your eyes) WEB site.
A website does not exist solely to become or be popular. And it definitely doesn't exist just for you and your masses in the way that you seem to think it should. What you meant to say was nobody cares but you about you. "Cheap because it's bad" that's kind of a short-sighted, dickhead thing to think much less write. Some people don't care what *you* want and in the case of ads it's what *they* want - your money. That is not the be all end all of everything Internet. Shocker, I know.
Gosh, I'm not sure if you just buy way too much shit or if I should go out and look for a bunch of shit whilst signing up for this that or the other doohickey wack-ass website to throw targeted ads at me so I can ... buy more shit. If I need something I look for it - the very last thing I need is it looking for me.
I am glad it works out for you though. That's cool. But I will, indeed, block ANYTHING, repeat ANYTHING, that I want up to and including refusing to consider anything offering something that I can't block. Capice? Don't aim a diss at people for not benefiting from what you seem to benefit from. Especially if it concerns ads. That makes your two cents a waste of two pennies, but, I do sense that you seem to part easily with your pennies and then when you happen to save a couple on your purchased goods you can waste them here, with that, like this.
eh? Not once have I ever seen any ad on slashdot. Ever. I even get confused by the little box located top right asking if I'd like to disable advertising. Whatever I did I think I did it right and this is spanning multiple platforms over multiple years.
Shouldn't one be able to do it that way on any (*any*) purchased electronic platform? In other words your ads are not my business unless I choose to make them my business. And when I purchase an electronic piece of equipment I have every right to decide what exists on it and when. If I don't then I won't until I do then I might.
The same goes for this that or any other web site. Their business plan is not my problem. Advertising is not my problem. Being asked to take part in something I'd rather not take part in can be a problem. These are ebook readers right? I would tolerate a cover jacket type add as I would with a book and I would damn sure hope it was an add for another book then, at least, relevancy is assured.
Who the fuck would pay more than free to be force-fed ads? More importantly: Why?
So, yes, when I can get a free car that senses when I'm hungry and throws options up on the screen for the best lobster roll in Texas two miles on the left then I'll bite.
So, if you were trying to instill some weird sense of guilt about consumption of ads and bandwidth.. the fuck?
If anything (*anything*) disappears because they couldn't make enough money through ads then the problem is not mine to care about for more than minute. Ads are not all evil, granted. What is evil is the assumption that ads are an absolute necessity and must be imposed at all times and at almost any cost. We must ensure that this product designed for people to read includes every opportunity for us to sell ads. There's no good in that mate. Not for you, the reader, at any rate.
So let's push a viable candidate from outside - way outside - online, right now. One of the currently eligible candidates that are not from the red or the blue. Screw the media, now. If it ends up being a completely wasted effort just what would the difference be? Exactly? Not much? I'd say so at this point. It's all bump and grind for someone, always. Throw down a vote in a conscious effort to steer hundreds of thousands of votes to the other party, the party of one person, - the one that is missing - a platform of trust. But you can't waffle, ever. And then we take better aim at Congress.
Traditional media aims to be looking for a lock down and a wholesale information availability reset. The Justice Department seem to be helping that effort along and these appointed trade representatives, in secret no less, and not too mention a few other fronts of encroachment into what we, as citizens all of us, know as freedom.
God damn to hell the backroom deals of governing this people, any people. There is a hideous stench in that. And that goes too for our relations with other countries, each and every one - we negotiate in public or we do not negotiate. If you're a leader with something to hide and are oppressive to your people then the natural course of things dictates that you should probably not negotiate but each and every corner of how you rule will become open for this country to see and hopefully others could follow as well. Looking for oil? Looking for water? Looking for rice, corn, weapons or weed? Then we should know. All of our people need to steer this nation, on this planet, in a direction that will enable us and not just guide us to some random (or well guided) fucking meat cleaver of an end point. Espionage? Lay it out. Is there something to fear in that? Are we going to allow a continued epic conflict between sciences that we've learned and discovered and the thing that created all of this vast thing we call the universe - all of creation? Really? The learn while you're alive VS the thing you may learn when you are dead? There's a good fucking con job in there baby. Are we going to find a room of super sophisticated heads of three companies, a handful of dictators and another of base religious driven drivel meant to blindly guide entire nations into some great and epic battle? Engage the people of the planet when and wherever you can right? This is one large conference call of potential these Internet lines. Mesh.
So, how much longer are we going to do this? Just as long as it takes until we can no longer communicate this freely? I'm beginning to think Mr. Manning had intentions that were just. A cherry pick would have been a waste of his efforts if it is to mean anything - anything at all. People blow whistles and we allow ourselves to be blindly led into stopping the sound and not the reason. What the fuck is that? Who's scared and of what? The time to stop playing these ball twisting games that lead to things like Hitlers and Assads and any other family of horrors in charge, including the family of darkness that drives nails of control and oppression right here at home. Justice Dept., treaty makers, the court of corporate opinion and channeled funds of influence. It doesn't take money to elect our officials - it takes people. Vote for control. Collective voice, open forum, genuine good intentions for any breathing mother fucker on this planet. Stop. Not. Taking. Control. Vote. Now. Fuckin' a.
Who's it going to be? WHO? (keep scrolling)
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Ah yes, the Design Your Own Nightmare and Make It a Reality Show. Good programming that. And stay tuned because up next is a blast from the past - We Could Tell You, But Then We'd Have to Kill You.
We reap what again?
I'm not at all certain which way this is going but I know that I'll be listening to and guided by the folks with the level heads. Your whack smack about some cold days and some cold water having something to do with boobs.. well.. not so much.
Thanks for that, actually. I was thinking they'd just go and lockout Linux on that platform too.
Perhaps you're not a criminal today. I wonder what the future holds.
"Don't do anything wrong..." - Don't be a stupid, short-sighted, ignorant cunt. There, now we're even. I forgive you.
"It's the middleman's job to make the consumers aware of the work."
It is. But said middlemen are failing because there are simply too many works now, and means. In order to be effective they need works at a level on par with history. They seem to want to force works back to historical levels and eradicate the current realities. How do they do this? By continuing to do what they're doing - attempting to FORCE payment, any payment by any means thus constricting and restricting their working platform, their playing field, back to something where they can channel their previous levels of control and influence (and expertise).
It is my opinion that the RIAA must be destroyed and dismantled, obliterated even. They're a clear and present danger to progress. That and their historical products are non-essential goods. Luxury. Yet they clearly deem it appropriate to affect all of creation in and around communications.
Someone's hand is being over-played. There is a royal flush somewhere in play and the *AA is holding four nines and going all in.
I'm trying to comprehend where your line of questioning is going. You seem rooted in "because they've heard it elsewhere". That is not valid. Anyone exploring for music is far and away not relegated to exploring the terrestrial radio output or a restaurant booth. That would be a rock that only you're under I should think. That's what the RIAA et al seem to believe as well and, in fact, that is probably precisely what they're aiming for.
Anyway, after the individual or small group event that "notices" a lick they like then good old fashioned word of mouth (or wire as it were) is "how".
and would that they could I'd venture a guess that establishments firmly under the foot of the current regime that are forced to pay for the possibility that their patrons might actually hear something they (riaa), apparently, invented would be more than happy to stream "non-compliant" sounds to those dear, hapless patrons.
or fuck, I don't know, maybe the creator of the new tune could, I don't know, send it to fucking radio stations, wired and not? Like the old days?
Just a guess.
Why you cross reference it to the globally accessible database of copyrighted materials along with the current listed owner(s) - writings, recordings etc. and feed your track,vid,lyric etc. into the "compare this" filter, of course. Upon indication of a near-miss you're offered one of a) a license b) an offer to negotiate a license c) challenge the findings and, finally, d) GTFO
Natch.
I could be sorely mistaken but I do believe that each and every business you're using your card at has to pay for the privilege of being able to accept your card. Which, in turn, means that business is passing that overhead to you, the customer, cash, debit and credit. So, all y'all have zero points. Or are businesses magical realms that separates a mystical "them" from "us"? They all have fees so whether you see them in the first person or in the third makes not one bit of difference as to whether you're paying for it or not. You are. We all are. Your cash back is a pittance in comparison to what the card providers are making. Otherwise you'd be getting nothing back, ever.
And here I was thinking I was having a bad experience with a Dr. Bronner's bottle.
Gosh, when you say it like that it's almost as if it really is too hard to offer a donate button, a log in and some content for your trouble. It's basically lunacy. "You can, but you can't because, well, because." Sure. Makes perfect sense.
I mean if people really, really give zero fucks why should anyone else give zero fucks?
Do we not reap what we sow?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry but what the fuck did you just say? You went sailing with your bitch and she rode a coke bottle then traded dresses with Tinkerbell?
Being that A1 has a pretty damn good 'interest financing' engine - they put their money where their interests stand a good chance of being served thus adversely affecting the race where A2 believes they can have their own affect. Congress seems to have a funny and twisted way of bringing about a foregone conclusion. Anything you get is "forward" looking and never undoing damage from the past. Fuck they don't even talk about it. Too many funds to raise.
.. nothing. "You voted the asshats in" does not seem to have much bearing on what said asshat does while they're there and I'm of the mind that asshats responsible for setting this stage should be held to account. Removing them from office is a nice gesture and all that but at junctions like these what's the message?
My point was - no matter how you got there if you have the gall to be led by fright (and who knows what else, party mobs perhaps) to vote on a proposed law that is counter to the Constitution then they should be held to account when said law is abused to the detriment of the entire population. Everybody seems to think you can just vote that away when, clearly, that is an enormous undertaking. Gargantuan. Monumentous even. Much more difficult an issue than simply who elects Congress.
And yes, agreed, we are our own enemy albeit Congress is supposed to represent us, all of us, and not simply serve the desires and whims of any given administrations bureaucracy, threat assessments included. Where's the hindsight? Where is the country's conscience? And where, for Christ's sake, is accountability? If accountability is tossed aside and there is no fear from being held responsible it is far too easy a cop out to simply ask who elects Congress. Fuck the voters, the representatives, the president of the day and the judges - who approved the law that has resulted in a frontal on our country? Not you and certainly not me. Sovereign Immunity - who allows that and on what occasion does that come into effect? Why, conveniently enough, it seems to be when shit gets serious enough as to question the integrity of our government it would appear. Convenient.
So, again, I understand and respect your answer yet that seems to leave us with
I hesitate to type this but after reading TFA I could only conclude that Congress is, in fact, the enemy. Those responsible for passing the applicable laws should, in my mind, be tried for treason. That or show us all (that is - all of us) the truth about all these plots and evil little plans that threatened to take off half the eastern seaboard. SHOW ME! Cunts.
That we're allowed to (nay, made to) fear and to react to that which we can not see is no longer acceptable. Not. Acceptable.
I. Do. Not. Accept.
Your statements contradict the spirit of your sig.
Yet another display of the selective application of intelligence.
You must be a voter.
I might adjust this accordingly;
The Olympics--where everyone gets paid except the athletes who actually do the work and the volunteers who actually make it work.
and throw in since I'm typing; What the fuck is happening? Sponsors sponsor - what this is is corruption of the games that represent the world - our world - not just their fucking manipulative twisted strong-arming of OUR product.
Fuck the IOC and their supposed "sponsorships"
And may each and every athlete from each and every country perform to the best of their abilities. Impress yourselves and impress the world.
Pirate The Olympics! For The World!
luther349, I did try and refrain and I do recognize that there is a new cult spin and war on iOS fiends, freaks, friends and fools however your "broad brushed" scoping is, well, ignorant at worst and forward-looking at best. I was handed an OSX platform for the purposes if integration quite some time ago. I find and feel it's the best "user-end" tool going for my working role in life.. UNIX. Windows is.. Windows, Linux is still clunky by trying to keep it seamless and still somewhat difficult to force into position (re custom interfacing) and, I'm finding Android seems to suffer from this everywhere and nowhere thing as well. The apple wars are foolish - they're going to sink their own float. When my current platform is best left to web page viewing and stereo hook-up it may very well be the end. I don't like the direction and I don't like the company lately.
Cheaper, better, faster hardware is great. Expensive, fast, robust end user interface capabilities and underlying flexibility can be worth it too. It's a good combo to date but it does seems to be heading for a wall. Having thus defended some peoples Apples I'll throw the relatively on-topic bit in - TV is ass but I still have the lowest tier as I still have a lot of people in the house and I, personally, refuse to watch ass programing with commercials save maybe one or two shows I'll watch with family per season, maybe - rarely alone unless it's Nova or the like. The rest can do what they like. As for trunking our viewing pleasure - the current environment is a little like Linux on the desktop - lots to choose from, a few tricks, some know-how, a few pitfalls and the same media corporate greed engines trying to wrest control from the rest of the world.
Good, fair and modern services on ALL platforms are completely possible now, technically - it's just that they are not baked right now for reality unless perhaps you're a one or two person household, then it's easy as pie. If I had more time I would be finding the best match for my house and ripping out TV in a heartbeat. As a full time tinkerer I don't have time to tinker for tinkers sake. I can wait a little bit longer but my patience is wearing thin. "Pirates" (Internet library users) have the right idea and they're blazing the trail to enlightenment it's just that those needing said enlightenment are one notch below religious zealots.
Thank you. Now I'm taking my mod points back. That'll do.
Fantastic correction.
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