This has been news in Japan for quite a long time now, and anyone who visits virtualy any Tenchi Muyo website that features an epsiode listing would know this.
Cheers!
Learn more about your stance, ignorant enough now.
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First of all, not anime is equal. That's sort of like saying "Western Live-action Shows" are all the same. Last time I checked, WWF != Touched By An Angel != Baywatch. Get a clue, and don't condemn the ways of foreign lands before looking at the ways of your own people. Secondly, have you actually --watched-- Tenchi Muyo? Yes, some of the girls are hot. In the uncensored versions, they are even naked (not any degree of detail, thoguh) when they take a baths. (Cartoon Network simply paints bathing suits over on them.) More often then not, it is a device to get nosebleed comedy out of Tenchi, and not done out of lustful desires of animators. Besides that, there is nothing wrong with the naked body. I'm sorry you have trouble understanding it, but when you have statements issued by the Pope (who I consider far more christian and understanding of the ways of the world than you might ever hope to be), there is absolutely nothing wrong with the human body in any state of nakedness, however, when it is lusted after outside of marriage (and inside marriage in extreme cases), that is when there is a problem. You even seem to think that stories that include themes of violence serve no purpose and should be condemned by Westerners. First, you should probably burn your copy of the bible, because you will only get a few pages into it when you read of murder in the story of Cain and Able. Considering that much of Western society is based on teachings and lessons from the bible such as the ones brought up by said story, do you really have __ANY__ position to judge the "moral-less" people of the East? I doubt it. In fact, violence is very rarely rewarded in any for of anime I've seen, except for the perverted type, which you really have to actively hunt for if you want to find any of it anyway. Otherwise, most anime still plays out like more of the Western shows and movies should. It's generally obvious who the heros and villians are, and in the "WWF" of Anime, Dragonball Z, you can hardly count the number of times Goku grants mercy to the villian and gives them a second chance to live their life.
I'm sorry, but I just had to correct you blatant lack of clue. BTW, I believe that anyone who commits violence and rape have a genetic disposition for it and no fear for the law. Media has very little effect on decisions that flawed. I believe western punishment should be a bit more like that of the east, sans tendencies to punish those who are not quite proven guilty.
Unless you get them to sign a contract or enter into a brain-dead liscence. Nobody is going to buy or use a product with the restricitons you want to put on it. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a product like yours without making changes internally to fit their needs. In a capitalist system, expect them to either go straight to one of your competitors or they might even hire a contractor. It's like buying a britney spears album. Under standard copyright law, I would buy it for $18 (rhetorically). But if the packaging said "Hey, you can't make a copy of this CD for any purpose whatsoever, you can't make an MP3 of it, you can't dispose of the jewel case or the packaging, and you sure as hell can't play any part of it in a public setting where more than 2 people are present." You simply won't buy it. Neither will anyone buy your scripts if you are going to bind their hands like that. Expecting them not to resell your product is reasonable. Expecting them not to change the scripts to fit their needs and desires is out of the question. Do it, they will _NEVER_ buy it.
Binary is meant, as far as the GPL is concered, as "executable, compiled, binary machine code."
Binary means MACHINE READABLE. HTML is HUMAN READABLE. HTML is a human-readable format used to specify document formatting.
I can write down an HTML document on paper as easily as I can type it in a word processor.
The only advantage HTML has on computers is that, when entered in a word processor and passed through a browser, it'll enable me to look at a pretty page and links.
Yes, you can store HTML documents in binary form. But you can do the same with music. That does not mean music is binary data, not anymore than an html formatted document.
As far as "HTML generation" goes in this question, it pertains to a whiny moron who doesn't understand copyright (like most Napster users) and who wants to get a lot of money for doing very little. Most people like that are classified as "marketers"
You can not prevent internal derivative works. Period.
Ford can't stop consumers from ripping the ugly "Ford" letters from the front of their trucks. Intel can't prevent me from pulling "Intel inside" stickers from my machines. And fscking "copying a CD for your wife to use in her car does not constitute fair use" Hillary Rosen-bitch can't prevent me from singing a duet with Britney and Lars and recording it on a tape recorder for my own use.
The only way you can hope to achieve branding on a product is by forcing your client into an agreement that says "my logos and obnoxious shit must be included in implementations of my product that you use in your website.".... Only really stupid people would agree to those terms. Smart buisnessmen would simply contract a web firm to build that stuff for them on an hourly basis if it was worth having, anyway.
Quite simply, you are selling a script. A script is code, and can be protected from proprietary redistribution under GPL... as in, if they make changes, they can't simply release it under _another_ liscence. They can release it still under the GPL though, without owing any money to you. That is why GPL doesn't work for you in what you want to do, has nothing to do with binary distribution.... I believe you simply want to "copyright" your source code in this case. As long as it falls into the "fair use" categoties of copyright law, you customers can then do whatever they want to with it up to a certain degree of internal copying. Your customers can go into and make changes for themselves, like inking notes into the margins of a book, but that's about it. You'll never achieve what you want to do and manage to make any money off of your product. Quit digging so deep.
Sci-fi showed an episode this morning about the future of dictatorships in civilization. The executed an obsolete librarian. After all, libraries were no longer needed because books were done away with because they presented ideas to people that would threaten the well being of the state. The bible was apparantly the first to be eradicated from the earth. Anyway, that's how everything will keep going as long as people who are not directly parenting their children decide what should and shouldn't be censored:) The coolest thing about that episode is that "The state has PROVEN that God does NOT exist." Sounds like something the liberal end of the US government would do to any non-christian deity one of these days:)
Cheap Trick made Surrender '99 availiable online last year in MP3. The only catch? It came with a 10 second ad from the guys themselves saying "If you like this song, then go to cheaptrick.com and buy our new record." Rather nifty as far as promotion goes, I believe.
I hate buying a CD from any artist just to find out I hate it. If I love the music, I buy the CD. If I hate it, I don't buy. My money goes to the best musicians nowadays.
Favorite Musicians? Well.... There's Monte Montgomery. He is the next great guitar god.... Then there's Phil Pritchett. His latest minor-acoustic-release kinda sucks, but his earlier stuff kicks ass! I need to get the new Cowboy Mouth CD....
Go back and look at the changes made in American government made during the Reagan administration. A number of useless government programs were cut, phased out, or incorporated into better-managed programs.
My earlier post, btw, was to point out the irony of complaining about the death of personal freedoms and democracy while attacking corporations and promoting regualtion. However, I must point out (just cuz I feel like it), that the federal government needs to fscking give up on enforcing anti-drug laws and simply pull all social responsibilty for individuals who partake in the use of illegal drugs. (BTW, they need to add drug testing to social welfare programs anyway.) If they want to fsck up thier lives, then the government shouldn't gaurantee a damn saftey net. That alone will reduce the number of welfare-mother crackwhores tenfold, and save millions of dollars put to use in trying to crack-down on drug activity and put it to more usefull causes, like teacher salaries;).
Corporations need to answer to employees and customers just as much as anyone else. If not, they loose customers, market share, and stock value, then they go broke.
America needs more moronic pro-communism liberals like I need a hole in the head.
2) The freedoms that U.S. people don't have are the freedoms they gave conrol to under whichever representatives they vote for. It's not irreperable damage though. Note Al Gore's progress in the polls.
3) If you really want to see the Constitution and the Bill of Rights prevail, then quit attacking corporations, power mongers, and religious fanatics already and start voting for representatives who want a weaker central government, one that isn't so corruptible:)
Quites simply, on point #3, the governemnt shouldn't have anything to do with McDonalds or any other corporation. Who friggin cares if McD's are really really big. They also employ tons of people, virtually created fast food (which has saved my ass numerous times), and make good french fries. Are they evil? No. Hitler was evil. Stalin was Evil. Mr. McDonald just found a good way to make a profit in exchange for feeding tons of people who don't care to spend time in the kitchen. They are not breaking any laws, and will only show intrest in the government if the government suggests something stupid, like shutting them down or crippling their buisness, which seems fine to people like you.
Can anybody explain to me why liberals see the corporations as evil and big government as inherently good?
(Last time I asked that question here, people replied that the governemnt should be socially responsible for it's people, to which I replied that social responsibility shouldn't make up for personal irresponsibility. If anyone could go beyond this, please....)
The freedoms that we don't have are freedoms that the people of the United States gave up by electing the wrong people into office. If you really want a real democracy, then I say vote for Republicans like I do. They support a small central government, which do not regulate your "evil" corporations as strongly as Democrats do on a federal level. They support local government power and control more than federal control. Not only does this mean a more well-balanced governement than the top-heavy one that's been growing in the last 8 years, but it also means that your vote means more. If you live in a state or county that is more liberal or more conserative than average, then they should live under their own set of rules (and see what results) instead of attempting to impose those ideas on the entire frikkin country. If you don't want McDonalds, then see what your local government can do against it before forcing the federal government to do something.
Speaking of Choose Your Own Adventure...
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I don't believe that they ar emaking the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books anymore. I must say, that series of books had more to do with my literacy as a kid than anything else. Much like a game, you had to try to solve the mystery or make the right command decision in order to succeed (or sometime, just get caught in bad luck). However, I would read over an over again, trying ever different path I could to find as many different endings as possible.
Offtopic, yes, but I felt like talking about 'em.... They are as big a part of my childhood as Legos:)
Maybe all kids need today to keep them off the streets are a couple of those books;)
1) E-commerce makes a lot of money. So does catalog sales (JCPenny, Sears, etc...). E-commerce is really just the simple progression of mail order sales onto digital media and communication channels.
2) Wireless data delivery, as in getting stocks and scores over you mobile phone, really isn't that big of a deal. Simple evolution of pager and mobile phone technologies, nothing more.
3) Handheld computing is just evoliving, nothing really amazing about it. Simple evolution of the calculator, in my opinion.
4) The marketing industry has simply blown it's top. Everything "E" is the current focus, and advertisers and media execs are singing all the way to the bank. They have taken simple product evolution in the consumer electronics industry, which can be related to the "revolution" of adding the freshness date to the bottom of beer cans, and made these "marvelous" to be much more larger than life than they really are.
Quite simply, the wizzards of oz are really putting on quite a show.
Maybe, one day, the media zombies of the world will start seeing through these inflated advances in technology and realize the actual, unrealized potential of technology and convince these buisnesses to bring _real_ revolution to the table. Or, at least bring the inflated costs of these products and services down.
(Note, this post was just an observation, no real point to it;).)
Wrong. If an employee doesn't like a job is or maltreated, they can get another job somewhere else with an employee that treats them better. Ever hear of labor markets? When is an worker not an asset or an investment? They are not one in a economic system that focuses on equality above skill and self-motivation. Have you heard of communism? And don't give me bull about unskilled, untrained labor. This is the land of opritunity, and if you've got what it takes, go for it. If you don't, then get the fsck out. If a four-eyed college dropout can create the most valuable company in the world, than you are capable of doing anything if you put your mind to it. Microsoft would not have succeeded in any country but this one, and computer technology as a whole would be in the gutter if not for the US's unique, and mostly-effective economic system.
There are exceptions, but for the most part single mothers made mistakes in the past and should overcome them. It's her fault (most of the time) that she did not pick a father that was mentally stable, or that she is mentally unstable to the point where she decides to live off the government instead of dealing with real life problems and relationships. Widows are a special case, and none of this argument is directed at them. Yes divorce happens, but it shouldn't have to, and the government and taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay for the mother's mistake. If she can't provide for her children by herself, she shouldn't have concieved them. If she needs help, that's what family and neighbors are for. That, or she should go live in a country which explicitly believes that people should be dependent of the government.
Yes it's extreeme, but shit, there should be limits to both sides, and the welfare system should not be expanded any more than it already is. A saftey net should not be a way to provide capabale people with a reason not to work or to find another means of support.
My head is out of my ass. If you want communism, move to Cuba.
Pushing taxes are a liberal thing. They do it to steal from the rich and give to the poor, rather than encourage the poor to earn a living and get a paycheck for thier work, a paycheck that tends to come from the rich. There is a difference between pandering to big buisness and letting buisness be themeselves without regulating every aspect of operation. You really need to get a clue.
Well, who's really worse, the ISP for wanting some of it's bandwidth back to in order to protect it's other customers, or the fscking script kiddies.
It's a lose-lose situation. The internet looks more and more like the real world, where stupid people do selfish, evil bullshi+ in order to force their target into submission.
Life is too short, folks. If you are a script-kiddie, get a clue and stop fscking with my time. If any of you could please try to explain why the fsck revenge and bullshi+ attacks are so important to ya'll, I'm all ears.
By the way, "tlhIngan Hol" is the name of our language;) Good parts about the language? Power in the speech pattern. It is standard talk in the form of object->verb->subject. So "Lunch was aten by Richard" and "The guards fell victim to Worf" is kinda cool. That, and in order to learn it, you'll have to find the books (Power Klingon!) and fork over some cash for them. However, the sad stuff is letters and syllables of the language are much too closely derived from english, infact, slightly simpler. Really bad is the fact that only 2000 words actually exist in the language. Still, maybe one day I'll purchase the Klingon edition of Hamlet.:)
Link they said on "..completely different":
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"If you enjoyed this progam half as much as we enjoyed making it, we've enjoyed it twice as much as you."
There have been numerous repackaging for those very same games (also original edition-ified) released for the Super Nintendo, PC, and Playstation. I believe they also released a good deal of them on a ripoff "classics" arcade machine recently. They probably couldn't make any more money off of them no matter what they try now:)
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This is just OVA episodes 13-18.
This has been news in Japan for quite a long time now, and anyone who visits virtualy any Tenchi Muyo website that features an epsiode listing would know this.
Cheers!
First of all, not anime is equal. That's sort of like saying "Western Live-action Shows" are all the same. Last time I checked, WWF != Touched By An Angel != Baywatch. Get a clue, and don't condemn the ways of foreign lands before looking at the ways of your own people.
Secondly, have you actually --watched-- Tenchi Muyo? Yes, some of the girls are hot. In the uncensored versions, they are even naked (not any degree of detail, thoguh) when they take a baths.
(Cartoon Network simply paints bathing suits over on them.) More often then not, it is a device to get nosebleed comedy out of Tenchi, and not done out of lustful desires of animators. Besides that, there is nothing wrong with the naked body. I'm sorry you have trouble understanding it, but when you have statements issued by the Pope (who I consider far more christian and understanding of the ways of the world than you might ever hope to be), there is absolutely nothing wrong with the human body in any state of nakedness, however, when it is lusted after outside of marriage (and inside marriage in extreme cases), that is when there is a problem.
You even seem to think that stories that include themes of violence serve no purpose and should be condemned by Westerners. First, you should probably burn your copy of the bible, because you will only get a few pages into it when you read of murder in the story of Cain and Able. Considering that much of Western society is based on teachings and lessons from the bible such as the ones brought up by said story, do you really have __ANY__ position to judge the "moral-less" people of the East? I doubt it. In fact, violence is very rarely rewarded in any for of anime I've seen, except for the perverted type, which you really have to actively hunt for if you want to find any of it anyway. Otherwise, most anime still plays out like more of the Western shows and movies should. It's generally obvious who the heros and villians are, and in the "WWF" of Anime, Dragonball Z, you can hardly count the number of times Goku grants mercy to the villian and gives them a second chance to live their life.
I'm sorry, but I just had to correct you blatant lack of clue.
BTW, I believe that anyone who commits violence and rape have a genetic disposition for it and no fear for the law. Media has very little effect on decisions that flawed. I believe western punishment should be a bit more like that of the east, sans tendencies to punish those who are not quite proven guilty.
I would never subject anyone to listening to Spear's crap anyway ;)
that says any work you do on our code must be open back to the public. A "billion dollar IPO" is completely irrelevant.
Unless you get them to sign a contract or enter into a brain-dead liscence. Nobody is going to buy or use a product with the restricitons you want to put on it.
Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a product like yours without making changes internally to fit their needs. In a capitalist system, expect them to either go straight to one of your competitors or they might even hire a contractor.
It's like buying a britney spears album. Under standard copyright law, I would buy it for $18 (rhetorically). But if the packaging said "Hey, you can't make a copy of this CD for any purpose whatsoever, you can't make an MP3 of it, you can't dispose of the jewel case or the packaging, and you sure as hell can't play any part of it in a public setting where more than 2 people are present." You simply won't buy it. Neither will anyone buy your scripts if you are going to bind their hands like that.
Expecting them not to resell your product is reasonable. Expecting them not to change the scripts to fit their needs and desires is out of the question. Do it, they will _NEVER_ buy it.
Binary is meant, as far as the GPL is concered, as "executable, compiled, binary machine code."
Binary means MACHINE READABLE.
HTML is HUMAN READABLE. HTML is a human-readable format used to specify document formatting.
I can write down an HTML document on paper as easily as I can type it in a word processor.
The only advantage HTML has on computers is that, when entered in a word processor and passed through a browser, it'll enable me to look at a pretty page and links.
Yes, you can store HTML documents in binary form. But you can do the same with music. That does not mean music is binary data, not anymore than an html formatted document.
As far as "HTML generation" goes in this question, it pertains to a whiny moron who doesn't understand copyright (like most Napster users) and who wants to get a lot of money for doing very little. Most people like that are classified as "marketers"
You can not prevent internal derivative works. Period.
.... Only really stupid people would agree to those terms. Smart buisnessmen would simply contract a web firm to build that stuff for them on an hourly basis if it was worth having, anyway.
Ford can't stop consumers from ripping the ugly "Ford" letters from the front of their trucks. Intel can't prevent me from pulling "Intel inside" stickers from my machines. And fscking "copying a CD for your wife to use in her car does not constitute fair use" Hillary Rosen-bitch can't prevent me from singing a duet with Britney and Lars and recording it on a tape recorder for my own use.
The only way you can hope to achieve branding on a product is by forcing your client into an agreement that says "my logos and obnoxious shit
must be included in implementations of my product that you use in your website."
Quite simply, you are selling a script. A script is code, and can be protected from proprietary redistribution under GPL... as in, if they make changes, they can't simply release it under _another_ liscence. They can release it still under the GPL though, without owing any money to you. That is why GPL doesn't work for you in what you want to do, has nothing to do with binary distribution....
I believe you simply want to "copyright" your source code in this case. As long as it falls into the "fair use" categoties of copyright law, you customers can then do whatever they want to with it up to a certain degree of internal copying. Your customers can go into and make changes for themselves, like inking notes into the margins of a book, but that's about it.
You'll never achieve what you want to do and manage to make any money off of your product.
Quit digging so deep.
Sci-fi showed an episode this morning about the future of dictatorships in civilization. The executed an obsolete librarian. After all, libraries were no longer needed because books were done away with because they presented ideas to people that would threaten the well being of the state. The bible was apparantly the first to be eradicated from the earth. :) :)
Anyway, that's how everything will keep going as long as people who are not directly parenting their children decide what should and shouldn't be censored
The coolest thing about that episode is that "The state has PROVEN that God does NOT exist." Sounds like something the liberal end of the US government would do to any non-christian deity one of these days
Cheap Trick made Surrender '99 availiable online last year in MP3. The only catch? It came with a 10 second ad from the guys themselves saying "If you like this song, then go to cheaptrick.com and buy our new record." Rather nifty as far as promotion goes, I believe.
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Connie Chung: So tell me, is he really a replicant?
Scott: That's a secret. Watch the movie and tell me what you think.
Connie Chung: Comon, why don't you just whisper in my ear what the truth really is.
Scott: He's a replicant.
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Ah hah! So, now you know! That bastard connie conived him out of the information! **sob**
I hate buying a CD from any artist just to find out I hate it. If I love the music, I buy the CD. If I hate it, I don't buy. My money goes to the best musicians nowadays.
Favorite Musicians? Well....
There's Monte Montgomery. He is the next great guitar god....
Then there's Phil Pritchett. His latest minor-acoustic-release kinda sucks, but his earlier stuff kicks ass!
I need to get the new Cowboy Mouth CD....
Go back and look at the changes made in American government made during the Reagan administration. A number of useless government programs were cut, phased out, or incorporated into better-managed programs.
;).
My earlier post, btw, was to point out the irony of complaining about the death of personal freedoms and democracy while attacking corporations and promoting regualtion. However, I must point out (just cuz I feel like it), that the federal government needs to fscking give up on enforcing anti-drug laws and simply pull all social responsibilty for individuals who partake in the use of illegal drugs. (BTW, they need to add drug testing to social welfare programs anyway.) If they want to fsck up thier lives, then the government shouldn't gaurantee a damn saftey net. That alone will reduce the number of welfare-mother crackwhores tenfold, and save millions of dollars put to use in trying to crack-down on drug activity and put it to more usefull causes, like teacher salaries
Then quit. Duh.
Corporations need to answer to employees and customers just as much as anyone else. If not, they loose customers, market share, and stock value, then they go broke.
America needs more moronic pro-communism liberals like I need a hole in the head.
A few points.
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1) You are free. See Cuba as a reference.
2) The freedoms that U.S. people don't have are the freedoms they gave conrol to under whichever representatives they vote for. It's not irreperable damage though. Note Al Gore's progress in the polls.
3) If you really want to see the Constitution and the Bill of Rights prevail, then quit attacking corporations, power mongers, and religious fanatics already and start voting for representatives who want a weaker central government, one that isn't so corruptible
Quites simply, on point #3, the governemnt shouldn't have anything to do with McDonalds or any other corporation. Who friggin cares if McD's are really really big. They also employ tons of people, virtually created fast food (which has saved my ass numerous times), and make good french fries. Are they evil? No. Hitler was evil. Stalin was Evil. Mr. McDonald just found a good way to make a profit in exchange for feeding tons of people who don't care to spend time in the kitchen. They are not breaking any laws, and will only show intrest in the government if the government suggests something stupid, like shutting them down or crippling their buisness, which seems fine to people like you.
Can anybody explain to me why liberals see the corporations as evil and big government as inherently good?
(Last time I asked that question here, people replied that the governemnt should be socially responsible for it's people, to which I replied that social responsibility shouldn't make up for personal irresponsibility. If anyone could go beyond this, please....)
The freedoms that we don't have are freedoms that the people of the United States gave up by electing the wrong people into office.
If you really want a real democracy, then I say vote for Republicans like I do. They support a small central government, which do not regulate your "evil" corporations as strongly as Democrats do on a federal level. They support local government power and control more than federal control. Not only does this mean a more well-balanced governement than the top-heavy one that's been growing in the last 8 years, but it also means that your vote means more. If you live in a state or county that is more liberal or more conserative than average, then they should live under their own set of rules (and see what results) instead of attempting to impose those ideas on the entire frikkin country.
If you don't want McDonalds, then see what your local government can do against it before forcing the federal government to do something.
I don't believe that they ar emaking the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books anymore. I must say, that series of books had more to do with my literacy as a kid than anything else. Much like a game, you had to try to solve the mystery or make the right command decision in order to succeed (or sometime, just get caught in bad luck). However, I would read over an over again, trying ever different path I could to find as many different endings as possible.
:)
;)
Offtopic, yes, but I felt like talking about 'em.... They are as big a part of my childhood as Legos
Maybe all kids need today to keep them off the streets are a couple of those books
Facts:
;).)
1) E-commerce makes a lot of money. So does catalog sales (JCPenny, Sears, etc...). E-commerce is really just the simple progression of mail order sales onto digital media and communication channels.
2) Wireless data delivery, as in getting stocks and scores over you mobile phone, really isn't that big of a deal. Simple evolution of pager and mobile phone technologies, nothing more.
3) Handheld computing is just evoliving, nothing really amazing about it. Simple evolution of the calculator, in my opinion.
4) The marketing industry has simply blown it's top. Everything "E" is the current focus, and advertisers and media execs are singing all the way to the bank. They have taken simple product evolution in the consumer electronics industry, which can be related to the "revolution" of adding the freshness date to the bottom of beer cans, and made these "marvelous" to be much more larger than life than they really are.
Quite simply, the wizzards of oz are really putting on quite a show.
Maybe, one day, the media zombies of the world will start seeing through these inflated advances in technology and realize the actual, unrealized potential of technology and convince these buisnesses to bring _real_ revolution to the table. Or, at least bring the inflated costs of these products and services down.
(Note, this post was just an observation, no real point to it
Only slackware would do a stable release when kernel 2.4 is right on the horizon :)....
"Hey guys, new release! Uhm, but there's no USB or Firewire support, i2o is right out, and don't even think about the new devfs."
Wrong. If an employee doesn't like a job is or maltreated, they can get another job somewhere else with an employee that treats them better. Ever hear of labor markets?
When is an worker not an asset or an investment? They are not one in a economic system that focuses on equality above skill and self-motivation. Have you heard of communism?
And don't give me bull about unskilled, untrained labor. This is the land of opritunity, and if you've got what it takes, go for it. If you don't, then get the fsck out.
If a four-eyed college dropout can create the most valuable company in the world, than you are capable of doing anything if you put your mind to it. Microsoft would not have succeeded in any country but this one, and computer technology as a whole would be in the gutter if not for the US's unique, and mostly-effective economic system.
There are exceptions, but for the most part single mothers made mistakes in the past and should overcome them. It's her fault (most of the time) that she did not pick a father that was mentally stable, or that she is mentally unstable to the point where she decides to live off the government instead of dealing with real life problems and relationships.
Widows are a special case, and none of this argument is directed at them.
Yes divorce happens, but it shouldn't have to, and the government and taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay for the mother's mistake. If she can't provide for her children by herself, she shouldn't have concieved them. If she needs help, that's what family and neighbors are for. That, or she should go live in a country which explicitly believes that people should be dependent of the government.
Yes it's extreeme, but shit, there should be limits to both sides, and the welfare system should not be expanded any more than it already is. A saftey net should not be a way to provide capabale people with a reason not to work or to find another means of support.
My head is out of my ass. If you want communism, move to Cuba.
Pushing taxes are a liberal thing. They do it to steal from the rich and give to the poor, rather than encourage the poor to earn a living and get a paycheck for thier work, a paycheck that tends to come from the rich. There is a difference between pandering to big buisness and letting buisness be themeselves without regulating every aspect of operation. You really need to get a clue.
Well, who's really worse, the ISP for wanting some of it's bandwidth back to in order to protect it's other customers, or the fscking script kiddies.
It's a lose-lose situation. The internet looks more and more like the real world, where stupid people do selfish, evil bullshi+ in order to force their target into submission.
Life is too short, folks. If you are a script-kiddie, get a clue and stop fscking with my time. If any of you could please try to explain why the fsck revenge and bullshi+ attacks are so important to ya'll, I'm all ears.
By the way, "tlhIngan Hol" is the name of our language ;) Good parts about the language? Power in the speech pattern. It is standard talk in the form of object->verb->subject. So "Lunch was aten by Richard" and "The guards fell victim to Worf" is kinda cool. That, and in order to learn it, you'll have to find the books (Power Klingon!) and fork over some cash for them. However, the sad stuff is letters and syllables of the language are much too closely derived from english, infact, slightly simpler. Really bad is the fact that only 2000 words actually exist in the language. Still, maybe one day I'll purchase the Klingon edition of Hamlet. :)
"If you enjoyed this progam half as much as we enjoyed making it, we've enjoyed it twice as much as you."
There have been numerous repackaging for those very same games (also original edition-ified) released for the Super Nintendo, PC, and Playstation. I believe they also released a good deal of them on a ripoff "classics" arcade machine recently. They probably couldn't make any more money off of them no matter what they try now :)