Many sites (slashdot excluded) and certain types of client filtering software implement a naive filtering algorithm which block out easily recognized profanities ("fuck", "shit", etc)- perhaps even blocking the whole page or post.
Ahh, good. So "balls" is a profanity now? So much for kids playing baseb*ll, or learning about housings which use b*ll bearings, or using colloquialisms such as "being on the b*ll". Will we have to start packaging wool in cylindrical shapes or cubes now, instead of selling them in b*lls?
Jesus.
I guess we better start censoring other such potentially damaging words as "d*g", "b*by", "t*ble", "toothp*ste" now as well...
It doesn't matter. This will go over like a lead baloon. Cops don't want people to slow down. How would they raise revenue? If cops really wanted to stop speeders, all they have to do is drive one marked police car though the area at the posted speed limit. No one will pass them. Instead, they hide in alleys and behind bushes waiting to jump out and fine people. Isn't it obvious what their real motivation is?
Uh. Are cops paid commission on speeding collars? Didn't think so.
And you're right, driving a marked car at the speed limit would probably work... for the couple of minutes in the particular area where that car was driving through.
It would be cool though if there were such thing as a Traffic Enforcement car, and then made legal for anyone to deck out their own cars as such...
...and then they could make the OS part real big and claim it's Wind OS. To highlight that the real name is really Wind they could have a grassy hill as the background with blue sky and fluffy clouds being blown about.
Of course, the whole slashdot communty could have a field day saying "WindOS really blows!" but, hey, you can't have everything.
However, downloaders be warned: the music industry will now proceed to actually participate in copyright infringement by downloading those shared songs or otherwise monitoring the downloads of those shared songs. The "my songs are shared out but were not actually downloaded" argument might not work next time.
Ok, so when the RIAA or somebody happens to download my personally recorded and produced recordings without authorization, I can just counter-sue em back, hmm?
The music player levy has been in effect for a couple of months now. There is a $25 surcharge on all iPods, for example. See Apple store Canada and note the red text.
If I was planning to die onboard an aircraft I was about to hijack, I don't think I would see the point in trying to hide my identity for people after the fact.
Matt Mays is pretty good too. I don't have any of his stuff but I saw him play here back in the spring. I should fetch some. Haven't heard of Wintersleep, but I will keep my eyes peeled.
Maybe you've heard of Thrush Hermit... they were briefly distributed by Elektra (I think?) some years ago. Plaskett was the front man from that band, and has since gone on to do his own thing. His songwriting is excellent, and if you like the CD, you should see him live.
I guess that's like me saying "if Joel Plaskett doesn't win a Billboard award, maybe that incestual self-congratulatory kiss-fest will become irrelevant."
Nobody's forcing you to care about useless shit. Me, I've never watched the Oscars; I prefer to go out and watch decent films, then rave to my friends about them.
If you want an immediate response, get off your fat ass and come to my office.
This raises an interesting idea in my mind.
If or when such time comes as I am managing a company of several employees, I may well be inclined to mandate that physical fitness (not to mention good self-esteem) be required attributes for potential hires.
Why? So that people are inclined to get up, walk around, and give a shit about each other (and therefore work more productively).
However, most high speed trains are moving to having a cell on the train itself, which then links to the landline system via a dedicated link from train to land.
And... what form does that dedicated link take? A big long cable strewn beneath the train running between Osaka and Tokyo?:)
If not, doesn't it come back to the same issues raised by the original poster?
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Except pot smokers aren't being sued by large corporations for failing to bogart
Not to nitpick... but wouldn't that be for NOT failing to bogart, or in other words, for recklessly bogarting?
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Johnny Pneumonic
Did he have pneumonia, or was he just full of hot air?
-b
Many sites (slashdot excluded) and certain types of client filtering software implement a naive filtering algorithm which block out easily recognized profanities ("fuck", "shit", etc)- perhaps even blocking the whole page or post.
Ahh, good. So "balls" is a profanity now? So much for kids playing baseb*ll, or learning about housings which use b*ll bearings, or using colloquialisms such as "being on the b*ll". Will we have to start packaging wool in cylindrical shapes or cubes now, instead of selling them in b*lls?
Jesus.
I guess we better start censoring other such potentially damaging words as "d*g", "b*by", "t*ble", "toothp*ste" now as well...
-ben
It doesn't matter. This will go over like a lead baloon. Cops don't want people to slow down. How would they raise revenue? If cops really wanted to stop speeders, all they have to do is drive one marked police car though the area at the posted speed limit. No one will pass them. Instead, they hide in alleys and behind bushes waiting to jump out and fine people. Isn't it obvious what their real motivation is?
Uh. Are cops paid commission on speeding collars? Didn't think so.
And you're right, driving a marked car at the speed limit would probably work... for the couple of minutes in the particular area where that car was driving through.
It would be cool though if there were such thing as a Traffic Enforcement car, and then made legal for anyone to deck out their own cars as such...
-ben
...and then they could make the OS part real big and claim it's Wind OS. To highlight that the real name is really Wind they could have a grassy hill as the background with blue sky and fluffy clouds being blown about.
:)
Of course, the whole slashdot communty could have a field day saying "WindOS really blows!" but, hey, you can't have everything.
A field day, eh?
-b
It sucked because the drive wasn't in a vaccume
Don't you have that backwards?
-b
However, downloaders be warned: the music industry will now proceed to actually participate in copyright infringement by downloading those shared songs or otherwise monitoring the downloads of those shared songs. The "my songs are shared out but were not actually downloaded" argument might not work next time.
Ok, so when the RIAA or somebody happens to download my personally recorded and produced recordings without authorization, I can just counter-sue em back, hmm?
-b
In the future, your computer will:
1) Be a mammal.
2) Fight ALL the time.
3) Flip out and kill people.
You might not be so far off with #1: mammals.org
-ben
Microsoft ought to be ashamed.
Of course they oughtn't be ashamed. If having done so would have made them more cash, well then, yes. But clearly not.
(Yeah, I agree with you in principle, but the reality is that Microsoft's only goal is to make money. They are a corporation.)
-ben
Does that mean the Pope is using .va linux?
-b
digitally handicapped individuals
They have broken fingers?
-b
How about this, then. It is a good idea because:
:D
The music player levy has been in effect for a couple of months now. There is a $25 surcharge on all iPods, for example. See Apple store Canada and note the red text.
-ben
Yeah? Yeah? Well, my A500 did that back in *1987*. ;)
-b
Well, maybe my money would have been, but my time would still have been wasted. I'd rather do productive things than sit in a courtroom. :)
I believe that's the way it works here in Canada.
(But having had no court experience, thankfully, I'm not certain.)
So PayPal has adoped Xfree86? Remarkable!
...oh, that's x.org, my bad.
If I was planning to die onboard an aircraft I was about to hijack, I don't think I would see the point in trying to hide my identity for people after the fact.
Yeah, too bad the Barenaked Ladies suck. :)
Matt Mays is pretty good too. I don't have any of his stuff but I saw him play here back in the spring. I should fetch some. Haven't heard of Wintersleep, but I will keep my eyes peeled.
Maybe you've heard of Thrush Hermit... they were briefly distributed by Elektra (I think?) some years ago. Plaskett was the front man from that band, and has since gone on to do his own thing. His songwriting is excellent, and if you like the CD, you should see him live.
-ben
the Oscars will become irrelevant
Oh, they weren't already?
I guess that's like me saying "if Joel Plaskett doesn't win a Billboard award, maybe that incestual self-congratulatory kiss-fest will become irrelevant."
Nobody's forcing you to care about useless shit. Me, I've never watched the Oscars; I prefer to go out and watch decent films, then rave to my friends about them.
-ben
The Canadian prices for iPods are $439, $579, and $729 for 10GB, 20GB and 40GB iPods, respectively.
Not any more! Post-ruling, they've all now jumped by $25. Yeeeouch!
-ben
True. It evokes images of using rotary saws and drills to [dis]assemble Linux boxen. :D
-b
If you want an immediate response, get off your fat ass and come to my office.
This raises an interesting idea in my mind.
If or when such time comes as I am managing a company of several employees, I may well be inclined to mandate that physical fitness (not to mention good self-esteem) be required attributes for potential hires.
Why? So that people are inclined to get up, walk around, and give a shit about each other (and therefore work more productively).
-ben
Very true.
Frank Abagnale wrote about this (and many other fascinating techniques) in his 2002 book The Art of the Steal. Great read.
-ben
However, most high speed trains are moving to having a cell on the train itself, which then links to the landline system via a dedicated link from train to land.
:)
And... what form does that dedicated link take? A big long cable strewn beneath the train running between Osaka and Tokyo?
If not, doesn't it come back to the same issues raised by the original poster?
-ben