No, you're missing the point; Slashdot's most popular post are most often this America-bashing, pseudo-intellectual nonsense rant about how even though eternal September was years ago, you still have no idea how a user base can degenerate over time by being discovered by loud-mouth blowhards who sensationalize everything in hopes of appealing to the now like-minded users who are gifted mod points. It MUST be the corporations and govt messing with us! Do you believe in chemtrails too? Get over your self-deluded fantasy that this website is posted on by anything more than a slowly disintegrating quasi-nerd fallowing who's posts are almost always subject to some type of bias (see any Mac "news" story). I mean you must know about it, you just did it!
Bots don't know if you're being patriotic or just sarcastic yet, so for now the cost still exceeds the reward. Thinking that American intelligence operatives have infiltrated the/. to push their "extremely pro-market, pro-capitalist" agenda is just imagined self-importance. Chinese propaganda agents, on the other hand, are as numerous as they are inexpensive, and love to rant about how evil the West is with their decadent, pro-capitalist agenda...
You've got it wrong; he's not saying that being rich or poor will make you corrupt or saintly by default, but that corrupt people always seem to gravitate toward jobs that offer disproportionate amounts of money or power and/or aren't well regulated, and that those with ability are able to cause the most damage.
They are locked down by IP law, just not US IP law. Also, the "if we don't someone else will" has never been a valid argument.
How about we look at the facts for once without this stupid "us vs them" troll-fest mentality OH WAIT I'M ON SLASHDOT; I'LL STFU NOW
*holds post up between mirrors*
+5 for this pro-oppression Chinese propaganda officer? What the hell has happened to you, slashdot? Its a sad day when the statement that upholding intellectual property law is less moral than authorities deleting information from the web to stop information about human suffering from propagating is considered at all "insightful".
I suppose this is at least a step up from organ harvesting. If the prison bosses give kickbacks to the party, which seems likely, its not a huge leap in logic to think that the state may begin to arrest "undesirables" for the sole purpose of earning an income, unless of course the operating costs outweigh the income (IANAPB).
Its certainly not the same as playing it for the first time all those years ago. That said, the memories that it brought up alone made it a worthwhile journey. Now I can play though these games much faster than before which changes the experience quite a bit, though Ultima Underworld is so expansive (which is nuts) that it almost feels like roaming new dungeons. There is also an element of fear that I no longer feel which defiantly made the experience more intense back then.
Except in this case DOS Box would be some sort of old-movie converter so you would not need your old projector at all. Not the perfect analogy but I couln't think of a way to relate it to cars, sorry.
So by this logic I should throw out all my classic movies that I'm not currently watching?:\
DOS Box is a top notch emulator if you learn the commands. I finished a replay of an old game (Wing Commander I & II) and part of Ultima Underworld about four months ago. Just because I haven't played UU in a while does not mean I will never do it again and I that I should trash my old games.
If you are seriously considering throwing out your old games I beg of you considering putting them up on ebay or something for those of us who still care.
is that no one could make it back due to rapid bone degeneration, at lease with "current" propulsion systems. A nuke rocket, developed in the 1950s might work though.
However, it seems astronauts are keen to go anyway. The blood wont be on SpaceX 's hands according to Musk:
"Our goal is to facilitate the transfer of people and cargo to other planets, and then it will be up to people if they want to go,"
Although the moral implications are ones I would personally agree with, I'm not so sure the public at large would continue to view a mission to Mars as an entirely noble venture if they knew.
Something tells me that if he had conducted this experiment a few hundred miles south and spent any reasonable amount of time outside he would have had different results entirely.
Grandparent's analogy fails. A closer analogy would be that and you pay someone who owns millions of houses to guide you around and tell you which one to loot, and you find a way to influence the guide (without bribery). Who made this "guide"? The casinos did. Who is ultimately responsible for the guide's actions? The casinos should be, but the system has been corrupted.
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Yes; we should never bother looking for problems with things when they are successful.
This exactly the sort of attitude that leaves us with inferior products, a corrupt government, and tolerance toward evil.
In this "scenario", how is the survival of one sheep morally superior than the survival of two wolves?
No, you're missing the point; Slashdot's most popular post are most often this America-bashing, pseudo-intellectual nonsense rant about how even though eternal September was years ago, you still have no idea how a user base can degenerate over time by being discovered by loud-mouth blowhards who sensationalize everything in hopes of appealing to the now like-minded users who are gifted mod points. It MUST be the corporations and govt messing with us! Do you believe in chemtrails too? Get over your self-deluded fantasy that this website is posted on by anything more than a slowly disintegrating quasi-nerd fallowing who's posts are almost always subject to some type of bias (see any Mac "news" story). I mean you must know about it, you just did it!
Especially with bot driven systems.
Bots don't know if you're being patriotic or just sarcastic yet, so for now the cost still exceeds the reward. Thinking that American intelligence operatives have infiltrated the /. to push their "extremely pro-market, pro-capitalist" agenda is just imagined self-importance. Chinese propaganda agents, on the other hand, are as numerous as they are inexpensive, and love to rant about how evil the West is with their decadent, pro-capitalist agenda...
also, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/10/idUS211494328220111110
The neckbeards created the demand (and supply) for the personal computer in the first place, so I'm sure they can keep it afloat.
You've got it wrong; he's not saying that being rich or poor will make you corrupt or saintly by default, but that corrupt people always seem to gravitate toward jobs that offer disproportionate amounts of money or power and/or aren't well regulated, and that those with ability are able to cause the most damage.
^This. Mod parent up pls.
They are locked down by IP law, just not US IP law. Also, the "if we don't someone else will" has never been a valid argument.
How about we look at the facts for once without this stupid "us vs them" troll-fest mentality OH WAIT I'M ON SLASHDOT; I'LL STFU NOW *holds post up between mirrors*
leave the tea party out of this
^RTFA idiot
I have had a copy of this letter for years, but do not believe it has ever been fully been made available to the public.
And it appears it still isn't, which is somewhat ironic.
Accessories include: String, USB cable, Charger, and Radiation Guard.
+5 for this pro-oppression Chinese propaganda officer? What the hell has happened to you, slashdot? Its a sad day when the statement that upholding intellectual property law is less moral than authorities deleting information from the web to stop information about human suffering from propagating is considered at all "insightful".
I thought you were kidding but then I read the article...
I suppose this is at least a step up from organ harvesting. If the prison bosses give kickbacks to the party, which seems likely, its not a huge leap in logic to think that the state may begin to arrest "undesirables" for the sole purpose of earning an income, unless of course the operating costs outweigh the income (IANAPB).
Its certainly not the same as playing it for the first time all those years ago. That said, the memories that it brought up alone made it a worthwhile journey. Now I can play though these games much faster than before which changes the experience quite a bit, though Ultima Underworld is so expansive (which is nuts) that it almost feels like roaming new dungeons. There is also an element of fear that I no longer feel which defiantly made the experience more intense back then.
Except in this case DOS Box would be some sort of old-movie converter so you would not need your old projector at all. Not the perfect analogy but I couln't think of a way to relate it to cars, sorry.
...and destroyed about 1000 floppy disks chock full of games, shareware, and what not.
I cried a little
So by this logic I should throw out all my classic movies that I'm not currently watching? :\
DOS Box is a top notch emulator if you learn the commands. I finished a replay of an old game (Wing Commander I & II) and part of Ultima Underworld about four months ago. Just because I haven't played UU in a while does not mean I will never do it again and I that I should trash my old games.
If you are seriously considering throwing out your old games I beg of you considering putting them up on ebay or something for those of us who still care.
However, it seems astronauts are keen to go anyway. The blood wont be on SpaceX 's hands according to Musk:
"Our goal is to facilitate the transfer of people and cargo to other planets, and then it will be up to people if they want to go,"
Although the moral implications are ones I would personally agree with, I'm not so sure the public at large would continue to view a mission to Mars as an entirely noble venture if they knew.
Here at the /., there is pedantry for every hyperbole. Alright, replace "a few hundred miles" with "a bit".
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Something tells me that if he had conducted this experiment a few hundred miles south and spent any reasonable amount of time outside he would have had different results entirely.
Mod parent up, hit the nail on the head.
Grandparent's analogy fails. A closer analogy would be that and you pay someone who owns millions of houses to guide you around and tell you which one to loot, and you find a way to influence the guide (without bribery). Who made this "guide"? The casinos did. Who is ultimately responsible for the guide's actions? The casinos should be, but the system has been corrupted.