Are they still going to have to remove the Forgotten Realms specific stuff?
Or did the deal make it possible to keep the specific setting?
Anyone know?
I'll skip the vitriol of calling you a full of bullshit ignorant moron troll. Pity you couldn't extend me the same courtesy. Do you start conversations that way in realtime?
I have no degree. 5 years of university, no degree. Guess I just lack the finisher's touch. In the distant past I have had to clean human excrement off of the bathroom floor of a fast food joint. I am now a computer professional. Spare me the working class hero garbage. I'll take your "cred" as given. You utterly missed the focus of my post.
I am sick of living with sheep. (Take that one and run with it if you are clever.)
I would like to find a way to make sheep into people.
"But opportunity is not a free ride; it means you are free to reach for the brass ring, but if you areen't willing to hang on tight enough, or werent' willing to build yourself a ladder to be able to reach it, or fail for some other reason, too bad. Thank you for playing. Please try again soon!" Uh...yeah thanks. THERE IS A DECREASING OPPORTUNITY FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY.
Where do you think that HS education came from? Neverland? Ever use a public library? Are you aware that Pat Schroeder heads a lobbying committee to dismantle the ability of libraries to freely distribute information? Where are all these "feet" voters in Detroit or Shreveport going to get the free time and money to cart their kids an hour away to the schools that "perform"? Whatever. Its not worth bitching to you. These swarming prole maggots can always be kept at bay, right?
Until they can't.
Then you and I can share a beer and a laugh over how clever we were to rise above our station (YOU) or above our character flaws (ME). Delightful. When a small horde of the 10 billion ignorant proles interrupts our little soiree in 2030 to smash our skulls with those beer bottles I guess I'll just turn to you and laugh. "You're right, gaj, it wasn't worth investing in people's education and fair treatment. Wiser spent was the gold for these rifles and cartridges. Let's waste these barbarian dogs."
Pathetic. You'll never see my point. Hell, your hubris will allow you to believe you can keep the marching morons under your heel. Do I respect, love and admire everyone who is poor, ignorant, stupid, lazy or just unmotivated? No. I just don't see the advantage in screwing people.
And your post exactly what I meant in my other post.
"Fuck 'em all, anyway." Right?
People cannot form unions since our pseudogovernment has completely undermined them.
Public education is a malformed joked, being actively disassembled by conservative treachery and liberal stupidity. So...
You can't make a decent living doing honest work.
You can't get an education unless you come from an already fairly affluent family.
So...if you are not already comfortable...you can't get comfortable. Wasn't the great game of America supposed to be social mobility?
Guess what, tough guy, my family was already well off when I was educated. I'll bet my life yours was too. Its not about coddling people, its about seeing that they don't get tyrranized.
The GPL is "infectious"? Windows has better security right out of the box? Open source is "un-American"?
Hey this crap isn't funny anymore. In the last 12 months BallmerCo has gone from "linux is a joke" to "OSS is a threat...hmm...maybe it should be illegal?" How long do you think it will be before the first sub-committee hearings on this garbage? They see that this forced march upgrading path will no longer cut it when linux is a fully developed OS suite supported by a myriad of pay-for-support companies. So, they are prepping the roiling masses for an assault of "open software is communism."
Okay kids, open software is communism, mmmmmkay? And communism is bad, mmmmmkay?
This crap isn't amusing anymore. This is a systematic and orchestrated wave of propaganda that Goebbels would be proud of. The legislature is bought and paid for, so getting hearings and eventual legislation is no problem.
Shrub:"Well, in the interest...uh...of 'Merican prosperity and...uh...'Merican jobs...uh...we need to assure 'lectual properties...uh...'lectually. So 'Merica will stop this open source infectiousness."
Jesus christ I know this is a rant. But look at it. Corporations now have the power to bully thought and freedom into the ground with litigation or legislative electioneering bribery.
How far are we from injunctions against Red Hat, et al? How much longer are we going to get kicked around by liars and bullies?
Assuming that technology remained static (no further hardware innovation from tomorrow onward) you might have a point. But the hardware won't remain static. Word processor peformance on a 2-d GUI? Probably has a maximum development phase one decent voice rec is spooled in. But what about teleoperated mechanisms? Fully sensory virtual interaction? Fictional purposes at this point, but they won't remain so for long. Yes, installing GNUOffice 2031 will become unskilled labor. But newer technology will require newer software. Always.
Hmmm...I hear Shawn unbolting those servers and filling out his dual citizenship forms.
I get this image in my mind. What time is it in New York, Sam? I bet they're asleep in New York. I bet they're asleep all over the world. Lars Ulrich in SS getup and a pencil mustache---his mullet done up in Princess Leia buns---"Vell, Herr Fanning, your ideas may be akzeppted in Kobenhavn, but zee Reich does not approve. I am afraid you will not receive your transit papers."
Does the Danish national anthem sound as good as the Marsellaise? You have to give the Danes credit: per capita of effort they fought about sixteen years longer than the French. Looks like they continue the tradition.
"...if they put the cost of XMR access into improving the bandwidth into their house, they'd be getting radio freedom XMR users could only dream of."
True. But I am still having technical difficulties with hooking up my ehternet cable to my Chevy. That suff is surprisingly inelastic. Maybe I can rig the car to receive pigeon packets. Come to think of it, from what I saw on my hood this morning I am already compliant to that standard.
Hey thanks, asshole.
God forbid anyone render any form of constructive encouragement or critcism.
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I totally agree. I read Daniken when I was a little kid. Entertaining hogwash.
However...
The one thing that still intrigues me is the Dogon people of Cameroon (?) Gabon (?) Totally Other Place In Africa who Know Too Much about Sirius. Ever heard of them? I am just curious if any of these sites have a cultuaral explanation for Dogon astronomy: observation...or simple coincidence? Not arguing...just curious. Gracias.
Its amazing how flexible the english language is for creating perjoratives.
I had "fucking goofball" in my head---but "gobot" came out instead. I am such a child of the eighties nerdling that "gobot" had the connotation of "cheap, shabby copy." I guess Hasbro (?) Tanaka (?) really got their hooks into me.
"Better to stand still in a meadow of sweet flowers than run forward across the bombpitted, mined and chlorine gassed no man's land of technological advance" is 'informative'?
Hello? What the fuck, folks. Funny, maybe, if a bit ham-fisted. Flamebait, certainly. Troll, assuredly. Look, I like to curl up with a good Philip K. Dick novel and 70 ccs of misery as much as the next guy but my GOD, people.
So...the tribulations of the P4 are going to lead to the stable Chung Kuo heavenly realm of techno-stasis. This is as fucking stupid as the gobot writing how open-source was communism the other day. Shouldn't Katz be writing this bullshit? Or at least interviewing someone about it?
Looks like I'm going to have to re-animate Heinlein's corpse with a team of crack commandos and surprise the fuck out of a lot of people. No stupider idea than this pile of mental dung.
But thank you for being a reactionary socialist stooge.
Naziism is merely a prop. A farce. All black and red and the flags with spiders on them. Just like red neck confed flag moronics, klanslime robes and imperial hoo-hah, whatever perversion of Islam is the flavor of the day, or Khmer Rouge black-pajama parties.
Right of Expression APPLIES TO EVERYONE. Every hate blighted imbecile, every innocent child, every ignorant prole (whom you must be very devoted in shepherding...right?), every scholarly poet warrior of thought and grace and reason.
Darwinism. Those societies that believe the muck and slime of humanity and their racist cultural bile get crushed: Germany. Cambodia. Or they collapse and decay and are stifled by their idiocy: Afghanistan. Iran. Rwanda. Israel.
Those societies that preserve expression while attempting to punish criminal action can endure, and get the opportunity to develop and progress: South Africa, United States, Chile. You can namby pamby and proclaim that some countries exist in the fourth category: true enlightenment unencumbered by racist slime. Sweden? Denmark? Nope. The best are in the third category. Smaller countries have no where near the crossracial and cultural mixes that can foster such racist bullshit. But they never view oppressing expression as "progress". Free societies allow dissent and punish criminality. Oppressive societies succumb to either tyranny over expression or nihilist racist warfare. I'll risk the volatility of the free society.
"If people now buy one $50 Redhat installer instead of 10,000 Microsoft licenses, there is that much less money into the economy."
Ah actually--no.
All the rest of that money gets put into mp3 players, steak sandwiches, insurance plans for health care, ounces of weed, trips to Disneyland, or into Joe Bob's savings account. With the possible exception of Joe Bob's account---ALL OF THESE OTHER EXPENDITURES ARE STILL FUELING THE ECONOMY, LAME-O.
It just doesn't go into Bill's tyrannical megalomanical pocket. But don't worry---you'll be in Bill's pocket filling up space.
"...but I am not always around to supervise them."
Well, you were obviously born sometime after 1965 and your parents were born between 1938 and 1948. That's the only way you could just check off the "please abdicate my personal responsibility, I need some ME time."
Unsupervised children? Just too hard? Need some personal ME time away from those darn organic talking ornaments that squall and whine all the time?
Turn off the damn computer. Lock it in a cabinet. Turn off the damn tv. Turn off the radio, grab the walkmen, the cd players, the nomads, the gameboys and the goddamn tamagotchis. Pick out some books, a baseball mitt, ball, and bat, a soccer ball, and an easel and some paint. You can manage to keep your children in your yard? Right. Good. Now place your children gently outside with their books, balls, and brushes. Add graham crakers if necessary. Allow play. Reading. Thought. Creativity. ACTIVITY.
Best damn form of internet censorship I ever heard of. Can't supervise them my ass. That's a parent's job.
"I will, of course, be considered a fanatical jarhead - that's what happens when Marines express views"
Join the club.
Screw the "force continuum". That's a trick Yoda might pull. The weaponry should be as lethal as possible. Especially when it is in the hands of the military. I was constantly dismayed when we, as Marines, were forced into tasks more suited for police forces: crowd control, security over refugees. Indoctrinating warriors and then demanding that they restrain their conduct and and in concert with civilian entities instead of against an opposing military force is insane.
Utilizing the military as a research conduit for subjugation weapons that will inevitably find themselves in the hands of "civilian" police forces is also insane. Beware the military / prisons / police / industrial complex. I'm not kidding.
The military --- and damnably and specifically the Marine Corps --- should be focused solely on the indoctrination of rigorously trained and aggressively dangerous warriors. They should be outfitted with only the most effective and lethal weaponry. This has the effect both to cow a potential enemy --- and to force restraint on the controlling civilian authority: "These bastards are so damn dangerous...we have to be absolutely certain that we want to unleash them."
"Force continuum" crap leads to marginalization, "containment of aggression", kill counts, "winning hearts and minds", actions "to destroy the village in order to save it"...in other words: bullshit.
Non lethal research to power the engine of commerce to sell to police to snag members of crowds to fill prisons to create pretty numbers to incite fear to spur funding of non lethal research. Bullshit.
But I'm just another mindless Marine fanatic. Ask anyone.
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If I had 10 million mod points I would feel I had not given you enough.
Bravo.
Hi-lar-ity.
Are they still going to have to remove the Forgotten Realms specific stuff?
Or did the deal make it possible to keep the specific setting?
Anyone know?
I'd vote for this idea.
"I'm reasonably intellegent..."
Hmm. Next issue.
I'll skip the vitriol of calling you a full of bullshit ignorant moron troll. Pity you couldn't extend me the same courtesy. Do you start conversations that way in realtime?
I have no degree. 5 years of university, no degree. Guess I just lack the finisher's touch. In the distant past I have had to clean human excrement off of the bathroom floor of a fast food joint. I am now a computer professional. Spare me the working class hero garbage. I'll take your "cred" as given. You utterly missed the focus of my post.
I am sick of living with sheep. (Take that one and run with it if you are clever.)
I would like to find a way to make sheep into people.
"But opportunity is not a free ride; it means you are free to reach for the brass ring, but if you areen't willing to hang on tight enough, or werent' willing to build yourself a ladder to be able to reach it, or fail for some other reason, too bad. Thank you for playing. Please try again soon!" Uh...yeah thanks. THERE IS A DECREASING OPPORTUNITY FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY.
Where do you think that HS education came from? Neverland? Ever use a public library? Are you aware that Pat Schroeder heads a lobbying committee to dismantle the ability of libraries to freely distribute information? Where are all these "feet" voters in Detroit or Shreveport going to get the free time and money to cart their kids an hour away to the schools that "perform"? Whatever. Its not worth bitching to you. These swarming prole maggots can always be kept at bay, right?
Until they can't.
Then you and I can share a beer and a laugh over how clever we were to rise above our station (YOU) or above our character flaws (ME). Delightful. When a small horde of the 10 billion ignorant proles interrupts our little soiree in 2030 to smash our skulls with those beer bottles I guess I'll just turn to you and laugh. "You're right, gaj, it wasn't worth investing in people's education and fair treatment. Wiser spent was the gold for these rifles and cartridges. Let's waste these barbarian dogs."
Pathetic. You'll never see my point. Hell, your hubris will allow you to believe you can keep the marching morons under your heel. Do I respect, love and admire everyone who is poor, ignorant, stupid, lazy or just unmotivated? No. I just don't see the advantage in screwing people.
And your post exactly what I meant in my other post.
"Fuck 'em all, anyway." Right?
People cannot form unions since our pseudogovernment has completely undermined them.
Public education is a malformed joked, being actively disassembled by conservative treachery and liberal stupidity. So...
You can't make a decent living doing honest work.
You can't get an education unless you come from an already fairly affluent family.
So...if you are not already comfortable...you can't get comfortable. Wasn't the great game of America supposed to be social mobility?
Guess what, tough guy, my family was already well off when I was educated. I'll bet my life yours was too. Its not about coddling people, its about seeing that they don't get tyrranized.
--FLAME SHIELD ACTIVATED--
Yet, here on slashdot, praising unions or any form of socialism gets leveled in a barrage of libertarian venom.
To a disheartening number of posters, unemployment and abusive workplace practices are just evolution in action. Sad.
"..nobody cares what the proles think"
As for the role of government...we (US) have not had one in about 40 years. We have corps and lobbyists.
The GPL is "infectious"? Windows has better security right out of the box? Open source is "un-American"?
Hey this crap isn't funny anymore. In the last 12 months BallmerCo has gone from "linux is a joke" to "OSS is a threat...hmm...maybe it should be illegal?" How long do you think it will be before the first sub-committee hearings on this garbage? They see that this forced march upgrading path will no longer cut it when linux is a fully developed OS suite supported by a myriad of pay-for-support companies. So, they are prepping the roiling masses for an assault of "open software is communism."
Okay kids, open software is communism, mmmmmkay? And communism is bad, mmmmmkay?
This crap isn't amusing anymore. This is a systematic and orchestrated wave of propaganda that Goebbels would be proud of. The legislature is bought and paid for, so getting hearings and eventual legislation is no problem.
Shrub:"Well, in the interest...uh...of 'Merican prosperity and...uh...'Merican jobs...uh...we need to assure 'lectual properties...uh...'lectually. So 'Merica will stop this open source infectiousness."
Jesus christ I know this is a rant. But look at it. Corporations now have the power to bully thought and freedom into the ground with litigation or legislative electioneering bribery.
How far are we from injunctions against Red Hat, et al? How much longer are we going to get kicked around by liars and bullies?
jesus sorry but it just PISSES ME OFF!
Assuming that technology remained static (no further hardware innovation from tomorrow onward) you might have a point. But the hardware won't remain static. Word processor peformance on a 2-d GUI? Probably has a maximum development phase one decent voice rec is spooled in. But what about teleoperated mechanisms? Fully sensory virtual interaction? Fictional purposes at this point, but they won't remain so for long. Yes, installing GNUOffice 2031 will become unskilled labor. But newer technology will require newer software. Always.
Dude i thought I was the only one! SOMEONE ELSE SEES THE BLUE MICKEY! SOMEONE ELSE SEES THE BLUE MICKEY!
...sob...
Hmmm...I hear Shawn unbolting those servers and filling out his dual citizenship forms.
I get this image in my mind. What time is it in New York, Sam? I bet they're asleep in New York. I bet they're asleep all over the world. Lars Ulrich in SS getup and a pencil mustache---his mullet done up in Princess Leia buns---"Vell, Herr Fanning, your ideas may be akzeppted in Kobenhavn, but zee Reich does not approve. I am afraid you will not receive your transit papers."
Does the Danish national anthem sound as good as the Marsellaise? You have to give the Danes credit: per capita of effort they fought about sixteen years longer than the French. Looks like they continue the tradition.
"...if they put the cost of XMR access into improving the bandwidth into their house, they'd be getting radio freedom XMR users could only dream of."
True. But I am still having technical difficulties with hooking up my ehternet cable to my Chevy. That suff is surprisingly inelastic. Maybe I can rig the car to receive pigeon packets. Come to think of it, from what I saw on my hood this morning I am already compliant to that standard.
Hey thanks, asshole.
God forbid anyone render any form of constructive encouragement or critcism.
I totally agree. I read Daniken when I was a little kid. Entertaining hogwash.
However...
The one thing that still intrigues me is the Dogon people of Cameroon (?) Gabon (?) Totally Other Place In Africa who Know Too Much about Sirius. Ever heard of them? I am just curious if any of these sites have a cultuaral explanation for Dogon astronomy: observation...or simple coincidence? Not arguing...just curious. Gracias.
The '70's Asimov book was Extraterrestrial Civilizations.
I wore that copy out in my elementary school library.
Its amazing how flexible the english language is for creating perjoratives.
I had "fucking goofball" in my head---but "gobot" came out instead. I am such a child of the eighties nerdling that "gobot" had the connotation of "cheap, shabby copy." I guess Hasbro (?) Tanaka (?) really got their hooks into me.
"Ohh--I wasted my life."
"Better to stand still in a meadow of sweet flowers than run forward across the bombpitted, mined and chlorine gassed no man's land of technological advance" is 'informative'?
Hello? What the fuck, folks. Funny, maybe, if a bit ham-fisted. Flamebait, certainly. Troll, assuredly. Look, I like to curl up with a good Philip K. Dick novel and 70 ccs of misery as much as the next guy but my GOD, people.
So...the tribulations of the P4 are going to lead to the stable Chung Kuo heavenly realm of techno-stasis. This is as fucking stupid as the gobot writing how open-source was communism the other day. Shouldn't Katz be writing this bullshit? Or at least interviewing someone about it?
Looks like I'm going to have to re-animate Heinlein's corpse with a team of crack commandos and surprise the fuck out of a lot of people. No stupider idea than this pile of mental dung.
Uh...wrong.
But thank you for being a reactionary socialist stooge.
Naziism is merely a prop. A farce. All black and red and the flags with spiders on them. Just like red neck confed flag moronics, klanslime robes and imperial hoo-hah, whatever perversion of Islam is the flavor of the day, or Khmer Rouge black-pajama parties.
Right of Expression APPLIES TO EVERYONE. Every hate blighted imbecile, every innocent child, every ignorant prole (whom you must be very devoted in shepherding...right?), every scholarly poet warrior of thought and grace and reason.
Darwinism. Those societies that believe the muck and slime of humanity and their racist cultural bile get crushed: Germany. Cambodia. Or they collapse and decay and are stifled by their idiocy: Afghanistan. Iran. Rwanda. Israel.
Those societies that preserve expression while attempting to punish criminal action can endure, and get the opportunity to develop and progress: South Africa, United States, Chile. You can namby pamby and proclaim that some countries exist in the fourth category: true enlightenment unencumbered by racist slime. Sweden? Denmark? Nope. The best are in the third category. Smaller countries have no where near the crossracial and cultural mixes that can foster such racist bullshit. But they never view oppressing expression as "progress". Free societies allow dissent and punish criminality. Oppressive societies succumb to either tyranny over expression or nihilist racist warfare. I'll risk the volatility of the free society.
"If people now buy one $50 Redhat installer instead of 10,000 Microsoft licenses, there is that much less money into the economy."
Ah actually--no.
All the rest of that money gets put into mp3 players, steak sandwiches, insurance plans for health care, ounces of weed, trips to Disneyland, or into Joe Bob's savings account. With the possible exception of Joe Bob's account---ALL OF THESE OTHER EXPENDITURES ARE STILL FUELING THE ECONOMY, LAME-O.
It just doesn't go into Bill's tyrannical megalomanical pocket. But don't worry---you'll be in Bill's pocket filling up space.
Oh my gosh please pull out your John Birch Society
membership card so I can puke on it.
Open source is communism folks! Somebody set up a congrssional hearing! We need inquiries! HURRY! SAVE AMERICA FROM THE RED PENGUIN MENACE!
You fucking loser. Go turn Rush back on and get back to cheating your Mexican gardener out of his overtime pay. Fucking dull headed prick.
I honestly hope your post was a joke.
Llama Keeper:
BULLSEYE.
No pun intended. heh.
NO!
Coke is it!
mwuahahaha!
Cool your AMD Sledge-o-duron with new laser de-crystallized frozen Coke slushies!
Woohoo!
"...but I am not always around to supervise them."
Well, you were obviously born sometime after 1965 and your parents were born between 1938 and 1948. That's the only way you could just check off the "please abdicate my personal responsibility, I need some ME time."
Unsupervised children? Just too hard? Need some personal ME time away from those darn organic talking ornaments that squall and whine all the time?
Turn off the damn computer. Lock it in a cabinet. Turn off the damn tv. Turn off the radio, grab the walkmen, the cd players, the nomads, the gameboys and the goddamn tamagotchis. Pick out some books, a baseball mitt, ball, and bat, a soccer ball, and an easel and some paint. You can manage to keep your children in your yard? Right. Good. Now place your children gently outside with their books, balls, and brushes. Add graham crakers if necessary. Allow play. Reading. Thought. Creativity. ACTIVITY.
Best damn form of internet censorship I ever heard of. Can't supervise them my ass. That's a parent's job.
Kasreyn:
YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH.
I vote for a 6 month Katz free zone. Jesus wept.
I would have figured that "jedi" came from sengoku jidai = "The Age of the Country at War"
Japan---16th Century.
Does "jidai" mean warrior?
Jedi Knights: no more ridiculous than any other religion. And with cooler clothes.
Got Force?
"I will, of course, be considered a fanatical jarhead - that's what happens when Marines express views"
Join the club.
Screw the "force continuum". That's a trick Yoda might pull. The weaponry should be as lethal as possible. Especially when it is in the hands of the military. I was constantly dismayed when we, as Marines, were forced into tasks more suited for police forces: crowd control, security over refugees. Indoctrinating warriors and then demanding that they restrain their conduct and and in concert with civilian entities instead of against an opposing military force is insane.
Utilizing the military as a research conduit for subjugation weapons that will inevitably find themselves in the hands of "civilian" police forces is also insane. Beware the military / prisons / police / industrial complex. I'm not kidding.
The military --- and damnably and specifically the Marine Corps --- should be focused solely on the indoctrination of rigorously trained and aggressively dangerous warriors. They should be outfitted with only the most effective and lethal weaponry. This has the effect both to cow a potential enemy --- and to force restraint on the controlling civilian authority: "These bastards are so damn dangerous...we have to be absolutely certain that we want to unleash them."
"Force continuum" crap leads to marginalization, "containment of aggression", kill counts, "winning hearts and minds", actions "to destroy the village in order to save it"...in other words: bullshit.
Non lethal research to power the engine of commerce to sell to police to snag members of crowds to fill prisons to create pretty numbers to incite fear to spur funding of non lethal research. Bullshit.
But I'm just another mindless Marine fanatic. Ask anyone.