You are the one who doesn't understand Libertarianism. Here is the party platform on monopolies. You can't just go redefining Libertarianism to mean whatever you want it to mean. That is one of my big beefs with Libertarians, whenever you call them on an issue, they waffle and say, "Oh, but that's not what we believe!" Either you are a Libertarian according to what the Libertarian party says, or you are a roll-your-own Anarcho-capitalist, and I would have a lot more respect for you if you would just call yourself that instead of co-opting a word that already has a defined meaning counter to what you profess to believe.
Can't we just gut all the AOL users instead? What was that quote, oh yes, here we go (emphasis mine):
There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway". They don't know didley about the Net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor.
Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the net...
A highway hundreds of lanes wide. Most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on ramps at every intersection.
No signs. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions.
Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a capital offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.
AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds of ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been assembled at home from kits. Some are built around 2.5 horsepower lawn mower engines with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn nitroglycerin and idle at 120.
No license plates. World War II bomber nose art instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or vampire eagles. Bumper mounted machine guns. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a white phosphorus grenade up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks cruise around with anti-aircraft missile batteries to shoot down the traffic helicopter. Little kids on tricycles with squirt guns filled with hydrochloric acid switch lanes without warning.
NO OFFRAMPS. None.
Now that's the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
Author (maybe, it's hard to track down sources on the Net): Jim Wiedman
How are power utilites supposed to maintain their monopoly if we do that? You know the world owes them a living, right? No, if we ever do use renewable energy, it will be with big centralized plants so they can protect their rightful income. Oh, I'm sure that won't be the rational they foist off on us, but I'm willing to bet that's the way it will go down.
Unless governments step in and mandate, oh say, solar panels on all government buildings. Then economies of scale will kick in and solar will be affordable for the rest of us, and the power companies can kiss their monopoly goodbye. But we all know that politicians would never do anything to hurt their friendly neighborhood lobbiest.
Don't you hate people who look back on high school as "the best years of their lives?" They are either forgetting what it was like, or they were the bastards who made life miserable for the rest of us. I'm never going to tell my kids to cherish those years. Tough it out and get through them, because it gets better, that's what I'll tell them. Even with some of the rough shit I've been through as an adult, pretty much everything after high school was better.
Isn't it ironic that a song entitled "Isn't it Ironic" contains no irony? But that makes it ironic, which means it does contain irony. Which means that it isn't ironic...
Like I said, their could very well be other processes that release oxygen, but I doubt there could be anything besides life of some sort that could do it continuously and rapidly enough to put a very large percentage of oxygen into an atmosphere. But that wouldn't fit in the subject line very well, so I had to make a more definite statement. Anyway, the chances are pretty good that oxygen == life. Or if not, something equally as weird and interesting!
This is frontpage news not because of anything to do with pirating. That's just the excuse. The real reason is that the editors and many readers, myself included, love to make religious types irate. Nothing could be funnier than seeing some self-proclaimed holier-than-thou type go all froth and spittle when their supposedly peace promoting fairy tale is questioned. Religious types have had to shut down major logic circuits in their brains in order to believe the unbelievable, making their attempts at defending their chosen sky-god particularly amusing.
If we find oxygen in the atmosphere, we have found life. Oxygen is very reactive, without some process to constantly replenish it, any oxygen in an atmosphere would very quickly bind with other chemicals. The only process we know of that can do that is life. There could be others, but it is a very safe bet that where we find oxygen, there's life. Here's a link to the wikipedia article about earth's atmosphere, specifically the part about it's evolution.
P.S. Anyone else first learn about this stuff through SimEarth? Hehe. Fun game, very educational.
I was under the impression there was more than just the bnetd case. There's a guy here who has a "Eula upheld in court" link, wish I could find that...
Libertarian?! Oh noes!!11! Libertarians are teh evil! Hehe, I kid, I kid. But I'm sure that's how some of my posts come across. Me, I'm a straight up anarchist of the socialist type, not the capitalist type. Property is theft! Small government? Great! No Coercion? I'm with ya. Inalieanable property rights? Yah lost me. But I'm not in the mood for a debate about Libertarianism right now, I just have to keep reminding myself that we aren't THAT different.;)
I wish knew how to change a lot of things about our political system. I've tried canvassing, protesting, direct action, even voting! Nothing seems to work as fast as I want it to... Sigh. I guess we just keep trying, eh?
Bakunin was in fact a straight up Anarchist, which is what I am when I'm not being a socialist or a democrat or a republican (labels are for dummies).
Hey! I'm not saying anything is exclusively human, not even self awareness as you claim. Dolphins and chimps have been proven (beyond a reasonable doubt) to be self aware with the mirror experiment.
Love this bit, btw, "When we are evolved enough to be called human or sentient, willing to give up up anything for nothing in return, we will all be anarchists. Cooperation without domination. Rules without rulers." There are those of us who are (trying) to work towards that, in fact, some would say it is the longest running project in human history. Hehe, we'll get there.
Least efficient, well put! That was the concept I was getting at in my clumsy way.
Nice research, but it doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Do a google search on eula upheld in court. Like I said, it sucks and I wish it weren't the case, but there it is. EULAs have been upheld by the courts, your interpretation of law notwithstanding. You can argue until your face turns blue, it won't change the law.
1.) We only make a big deal about homosexuals because people like you are trying to make them into second class citizens for no reason. If you shut up about it, so would we.
2.) What the hell does this mean? Oh, you mean like the freedom to own property is bondage for those that don't own any? Gotcha.
3.) Sorry, you are still free to say what you want at University. If you can't take people disagreeing with you, that's your problem. No one is going to lift a finger against you, unlike your skinhead example.
4.) They don't. You are making this up.
5.) This is just meaningless tripe. Leftists love to live in big cities? Wtf? Leftists act like they own the concept of environmentalism? Can you back any of this up or are you just talking out your ass?
6.)America is socialist, but it's socialism for the rich. The poor keep getting poorer and the rich richer, trickle down economics has been proven not to work again and again. There's a reason Bush Sr. called it "voodoo economics."
7.) This is my post you were replying to:
Can you point me to some news coverage, articles, essays, anything, or is this just your bias talking? Please, enlighten me on how liberals accept gay bashing from muslims.
This is what I love about arguing with conservatives, they will just make things up in order to discredit the other side, and they will never back down or admit they lied. And idiots will believe them and parrot back the lies as if they were truth.
I was asking for references. Someone had made a ridiculous statement, which I feel to be par for the course for conservatives. Read Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken for an overview of how conservatives lie all the time. If I can read Anne Coulter without vomiting, I'm sure you can make it through Al's book.
What, don't you believe in the free market? We have the best justice system money can buy! I bet you just want to drag everyone down to the same level. Hah! If I have tons of money, that proves I am a better person and more deserving of justice. Damn commies with your "justice should be blind" crap. If I wanted justice to be blind, I would have hired someone to poke her eyes out.
Yes, but what did you just purchase? The physical media and a license to the copyrighted work on that media. Not a license to copy the work into your console's memory. If you want to make a copy of that work, you need to have an additional license, which you can only get by clicking "I agree" in the EULA box. This is how and why EULAs work, and they have been upheld in court. Until you agree to that contract, you have the right to sell the media and your initial license, but not to copy it into your console.
I don't like it, but that is the way it is. The real issue is that minors can't enter into legally binding contracts, which is one of the many reasons why Sony will never do this despite paranoid ravings from the Anti-Sony camp. You know that this rumor has come up before and been shot down, right?
Without them, how will we know how to dress ourselves, shave, apply "product", and cook hors d' oeuvres? Damn it, we geeks need gays more than most straight men!
Seriously, we need a "Queer Eye for the Muslim Guy." Then they will understand the valuable service homosexuals provide.
I weigh about 180, but I could stand to lose ten pounds. I live with my wife, who is younger than me, and I only like to tear down people who deserve it. Let me quote your original post:
Leftists have a strange attraction to homosexuality. They almost worship it like a cult. Leftists are no more tolerant than any skinhead. They act like they are for the poor, but then they call them rednecks and try to drive the place where they shop out of business (Wal-Mart). They are not really for free speech, unless it is speech they agree with (Dr. Laura TV show, Sen. McCain commencement). They act like they are for the environment, but then they live in places like L.A. or N.Y. (L.A., known for its smog, requires water be brought in from other places just to live there. In NYC, to see a tree you have to visit central park.) Want more examples? I've never known a leftists government to succeed in providing the wealth that this country has for its people, or the freedom. Thank God that the leftists have not succeeded and will not succeed in this country.
You feel free to tear down people who have different ideas about politics than you do using degrading terminology and inflamatory rhetoric, and yet you have the gall to complain when people flame you right back? You put others down to make yourself fell better and then complain when your behavior is mirrored back at you. You, sir are a piece of work.
Let me treat this piece of drivel you wrote like a serious critique, rather than the obvious flamebait trollery it is.
1.) Leftists do not worship homosexuality, we worship freedom, which is what people like you would deny to any who are different than you.
2.) Leftists are far more tolerant than skinheads. We don't beat people down for what they say, we believe in freedom of speach.
3.) We don't call poor people rednecks unless they act like ignorant assholes, and even then we try to engage in dialogue if it looks like it might be worth while instead of calling them names.
4.) Some leftists have a problem with stores like Wal Mart because of how they drive small mom-and-pop stores out of business and treat their workers like shit. Some conservatives ahve the same problem with Wal Mart.
5.) Not agreeing with someone is not the same as not agreeing they have the right to speak.
6.) About L.A., and New York, wtf? Have you even been to either of these places? Obviously not, but what does any of what you wrote have to do with anything about the environment? Those are cities, and they were not built exclusively by leftists.
7.) Plenty of socialist countries provide a much better distribution of wealth to their citizens. They may not have the overall levels of growth we have, but I'd rather have a fair share of a smaller pie than an unfairly small share of a larger one, and many other people feel comfortable with that tradeoff as well.
I have the suspicion that you came here from some right wing site where this kind of senseless rhetoric earned you brownie points with the dittoheads. It won't fly here, not because of some imagined liberal bias, but because it adds nothing to the discussion and serves only to divide and stir up animosity. Discuss specific failures or issues you have with liberalism, which as others have pointed out to you is a rich part of our countries heritage and has led to such good things as desegregation, women's rights, child labor laws and workplace safety. To dismiss it is to show your ignorance of history.
If you are just here trolling, you won't be here for long. People will simply stop responding to you and you will be shouting in a vacuum.
Profit is what is left over after expenses are paid for. Employees are an expense. Profit is for paying investors, who don't actually work to get their money./pedant
That being said, most slashdotters approve of fair profits. We just don't like scam artists stealing obscene amounts of money and then claiming they are doing good because selfishness is next to godliness. That's not hypocritical, it's just common sense, and not liking being screwed by rich and powerful sociopaths.
You're not pro-getting-screwed-over-by-sociopaths, are you?
Oh, it just gets better and better. Intellect, my friend, it is spelled with two 'l's. Yeah, I'm sure you graduated with honors, too, didn't you? What a hoot, please, keep it coming, I need the laughs.
We are running out of things to be nostalgic about. Every year we are told to be nostalgic about things that were more and more recent. Pretty soon we are going to be nostalgic for things that haven't happened yet. The solution? Recycled nostalgia! We need to start being nostalgic about the nostalgia that we used to have for things. Instead of being nostalgic for, say, the eighties again, we can be nostalgic for the eighties nostalgia we felt in the ninties. Similarly, we no longer have to be nostalgic for the original Super Mario Brothers, now we can be nostalgic for the nostalgia we used to feel.
Shamelessly ripping off a nostalgic old "The Onion" article.
You still haven't given any evidence that it was ideology that got them pulled. It could easily be that automated processes got them included in the first place, then someone noticed what aweful tripe they are and had them removed. Perfectly legitimate.
Let me ask you another question, and please answer clearly yes or no without trying to weasel: do you think these stories are newsworthy?
Slashdot Mirror
You are the one who doesn't understand Libertarianism. Here is the party platform on monopolies. You can't just go redefining Libertarianism to mean whatever you want it to mean. That is one of my big beefs with Libertarians, whenever you call them on an issue, they waffle and say, "Oh, but that's not what we believe!" Either you are a Libertarian according to what the Libertarian party says, or you are a roll-your-own Anarcho-capitalist, and I would have a lot more respect for you if you would just call yourself that instead of co-opting a word that already has a defined meaning counter to what you profess to believe.
Tax breathing, man that would be a great way for cash strapped governments to raise some extra funds. Makes about as much sense as taxing texting...
How are power utilites supposed to maintain their monopoly if we do that? You know the world owes them a living, right? No, if we ever do use renewable energy, it will be with big centralized plants so they can protect their rightful income. Oh, I'm sure that won't be the rational they foist off on us, but I'm willing to bet that's the way it will go down.
Unless governments step in and mandate, oh say, solar panels on all government buildings. Then economies of scale will kick in and solar will be affordable for the rest of us, and the power companies can kiss their monopoly goodbye. But we all know that politicians would never do anything to hurt their friendly neighborhood lobbiest.
Here ya go.
Don't you hate people who look back on high school as "the best years of their lives?" They are either forgetting what it was like, or they were the bastards who made life miserable for the rest of us. I'm never going to tell my kids to cherish those years. Tough it out and get through them, because it gets better, that's what I'll tell them. Even with some of the rough shit I've been through as an adult, pretty much everything after high school was better.
Isn't it ironic that a song entitled "Isn't it Ironic" contains no irony? But that makes it ironic, which means it does contain irony. Which means that it isn't ironic...
Like I said, their could very well be other processes that release oxygen, but I doubt there could be anything besides life of some sort that could do it continuously and rapidly enough to put a very large percentage of oxygen into an atmosphere. But that wouldn't fit in the subject line very well, so I had to make a more definite statement. Anyway, the chances are pretty good that oxygen == life. Or if not, something equally as weird and interesting!
This is frontpage news not because of anything to do with pirating. That's just the excuse. The real reason is that the editors and many readers, myself included, love to make religious types irate. Nothing could be funnier than seeing some self-proclaimed holier-than-thou type go all froth and spittle when their supposedly peace promoting fairy tale is questioned. Religious types have had to shut down major logic circuits in their brains in order to believe the unbelievable, making their attempts at defending their chosen sky-god particularly amusing.
If we find oxygen in the atmosphere, we have found life. Oxygen is very reactive, without some process to constantly replenish it, any oxygen in an atmosphere would very quickly bind with other chemicals. The only process we know of that can do that is life. There could be others, but it is a very safe bet that where we find oxygen, there's life. Here's a link to the wikipedia article about earth's atmosphere, specifically the part about it's evolution.
P.S. Anyone else first learn about this stuff through SimEarth? Hehe. Fun game, very educational.
I was under the impression there was more than just the bnetd case. There's a guy here who has a "Eula upheld in court" link, wish I could find that...
;)
Libertarian?! Oh noes!!11! Libertarians are teh evil! Hehe, I kid, I kid. But I'm sure that's how some of my posts come across. Me, I'm a straight up anarchist of the socialist type, not the capitalist type. Property is theft! Small government? Great! No Coercion? I'm with ya. Inalieanable property rights? Yah lost me. But I'm not in the mood for a debate about Libertarianism right now, I just have to keep reminding myself that we aren't THAT different.
I wish knew how to change a lot of things about our political system. I've tried canvassing, protesting, direct action, even voting! Nothing seems to work as fast as I want it to... Sigh. I guess we just keep trying, eh?
s/least efficient/least resistance/
Bakunin was in fact a straight up Anarchist, which is what I am when I'm not being a socialist or a democrat or a republican (labels are for dummies).
;-)
Hey! I'm not saying anything is exclusively human, not even self awareness as you claim. Dolphins and chimps have been proven (beyond a reasonable doubt) to be self aware with the mirror experiment.
Love this bit, btw, "When we are evolved enough to be called human or sentient, willing to give up up anything for nothing in return, we will all be anarchists. Cooperation without domination. Rules without rulers." There are those of us who are (trying) to work towards that, in fact, some would say it is the longest running project in human history. Hehe, we'll get there.
Least efficient, well put! That was the concept I was getting at in my clumsy way.
I prefer to call it Babalot
It's a rhetorical device where one says the opposite of what one means, for emphasis. Perhaps you should look it up, you may find it useful.
Nice research, but it doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Do a google search on eula upheld in court. Like I said, it sucks and I wish it weren't the case, but there it is. EULAs have been upheld by the courts, your interpretation of law notwithstanding. You can argue until your face turns blue, it won't change the law.
2.) What the hell does this mean? Oh, you mean like the freedom to own property is bondage for those that don't own any? Gotcha.
3.) Sorry, you are still free to say what you want at University. If you can't take people disagreeing with you, that's your problem. No one is going to lift a finger against you, unlike your skinhead example.
4.) They don't. You are making this up.
5.) This is just meaningless tripe. Leftists love to live in big cities? Wtf? Leftists act like they own the concept of environmentalism? Can you back any of this up or are you just talking out your ass?
6.)America is socialist, but it's socialism for the rich. The poor keep getting poorer and the rich richer, trickle down economics has been proven not to work again and again. There's a reason Bush Sr. called it "voodoo economics."
7.) This is my post you were replying to:
I was asking for references. Someone had made a ridiculous statement, which I feel to be par for the course for conservatives. Read Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken for an overview of how conservatives lie all the time. If I can read Anne Coulter without vomiting, I'm sure you can make it through Al's book.
What, don't you believe in the free market? We have the best justice system money can buy! I bet you just want to drag everyone down to the same level. Hah! If I have tons of money, that proves I am a better person and more deserving of justice. Damn commies with your "justice should be blind" crap. If I wanted justice to be blind, I would have hired someone to poke her eyes out.
Yes, but what did you just purchase? The physical media and a license to the copyrighted work on that media. Not a license to copy the work into your console's memory. If you want to make a copy of that work, you need to have an additional license, which you can only get by clicking "I agree" in the EULA box. This is how and why EULAs work, and they have been upheld in court. Until you agree to that contract, you have the right to sell the media and your initial license, but not to copy it into your console.
I don't like it, but that is the way it is. The real issue is that minors can't enter into legally binding contracts, which is one of the many reasons why Sony will never do this despite paranoid ravings from the Anti-Sony camp. You know that this rumor has come up before and been shot down, right?
Keep your hands of our queers muslims.
Without them, how will we know how to dress ourselves, shave, apply "product", and cook hors d' oeuvres? Damn it, we geeks need gays more than most straight men!
Seriously, we need a "Queer Eye for the Muslim Guy." Then they will understand the valuable service homosexuals provide.
You feel free to tear down people who have different ideas about politics than you do using degrading terminology and inflamatory rhetoric, and yet you have the gall to complain when people flame you right back? You put others down to make yourself fell better and then complain when your behavior is mirrored back at you. You, sir are a piece of work.
Let me treat this piece of drivel you wrote like a serious critique, rather than the obvious flamebait trollery it is.
1.) Leftists do not worship homosexuality, we worship freedom, which is what people like you would deny to any who are different than you.
2.) Leftists are far more tolerant than skinheads. We don't beat people down for what they say, we believe in freedom of speach.
3.) We don't call poor people rednecks unless they act like ignorant assholes, and even then we try to engage in dialogue if it looks like it might be worth while instead of calling them names.
4.) Some leftists have a problem with stores like Wal Mart because of how they drive small mom-and-pop stores out of business and treat their workers like shit. Some conservatives ahve the same problem with Wal Mart.
5.) Not agreeing with someone is not the same as not agreeing they have the right to speak.
6.) About L.A., and New York, wtf? Have you even been to either of these places? Obviously not, but what does any of what you wrote have to do with anything about the environment? Those are cities, and they were not built exclusively by leftists.
7.) Plenty of socialist countries provide a much better distribution of wealth to their citizens. They may not have the overall levels of growth we have, but I'd rather have a fair share of a smaller pie than an unfairly small share of a larger one, and many other people feel comfortable with that tradeoff as well.
I have the suspicion that you came here from some right wing site where this kind of senseless rhetoric earned you brownie points with the dittoheads. It won't fly here, not because of some imagined liberal bias, but because it adds nothing to the discussion and serves only to divide and stir up animosity. Discuss specific failures or issues you have with liberalism, which as others have pointed out to you is a rich part of our countries heritage and has led to such good things as desegregation, women's rights, child labor laws and workplace safety. To dismiss it is to show your ignorance of history.
If you are just here trolling, you won't be here for long. People will simply stop responding to you and you will be shouting in a vacuum.
Profit is what is left over after expenses are paid for. Employees are an expense. Profit is for paying investors, who don't actually work to get their money. /pedant
That being said, most slashdotters approve of fair profits. We just don't like scam artists stealing obscene amounts of money and then claiming they are doing good because selfishness is next to godliness. That's not hypocritical, it's just common sense, and not liking being screwed by rich and powerful sociopaths.
You're not pro-getting-screwed-over-by-sociopaths, are you?
Anyone else cry when Floyd the robot died at the end of Planetfall or am I just a girly-man?
Oh, it just gets better and better. Intellect, my friend, it is spelled with two 'l's. Yeah, I'm sure you graduated with honors, too, didn't you? What a hoot, please, keep it coming, I need the laughs.
We are running out of things to be nostalgic about. Every year we are told to be nostalgic about things that were more and more recent. Pretty soon we are going to be nostalgic for things that haven't happened yet. The solution? Recycled nostalgia! We need to start being nostalgic about the nostalgia that we used to have for things. Instead of being nostalgic for, say, the eighties again, we can be nostalgic for the eighties nostalgia we felt in the ninties. Similarly, we no longer have to be nostalgic for the original Super Mario Brothers, now we can be nostalgic for the nostalgia we used to feel.
Shamelessly ripping off a nostalgic old "The Onion" article.
You still haven't given any evidence that it was ideology that got them pulled. It could easily be that automated processes got them included in the first place, then someone noticed what aweful tripe they are and had them removed. Perfectly legitimate.
Let me ask you another question, and please answer clearly yes or no without trying to weasel: do you think these stories are newsworthy?