Pff. You want to see them give the MAFIAA free money? Come to Canada where they'll literally tax your hard drive to pay the crooks to screw you. Heil Harper!!!
Actually, I have quite a few games I own a legitimate copy of and still downloaded the pirated version, specifically because the DRM annoyed me. Just like I haven't actually used a disk to load a game in years, that's what virtual drives are for. Your gross generalization of all pirates as bums looking for a free lunch is patently false and offensive. Free lunch pirates are a trivial minority in the pirate ecosystem.
I learned that when you look anywhere other than to your self to find the problems in your life you remove all power of being able to change it your self.
You say that like there's a damn thing those of our generation who got caught in the college-debt-trap we were systematically led into can do about it now, other than do their best to find work and pay off the debt. You can't sell your degree to clear your debt or discharge it through bankruptcy. I managed to get out before I hit the point of no return, but there are plenty of our generation now who are just plain SOL and will be paying for the bill of goods their teachers, parents and other roll models sold them until their dying day.
That's not as crazy as it sounds. Consolidating the pool, and leasing access to all network providers would allow for much more efficient spectrum usage. You don't exactly 'create 10 times the spectrum' but you do have the potential for an order of magnitude more functional bandwidth.
Harper doesn't give a shit about public opinion. He's skilled at selling a story and manipulating the shit out of the media. He hasn't actually achieved a damn thing of significance since his first term as Prime Minister. He's managed to convince half the country sitting on his hands and pushing an agenda that bears no resemblance to his campaign platforms is progress. "Staying the Course" my maple dipped left testicle. He's even managed to blame his opposition for him repeatedly sabotaging his own legislation.
I don't have any doubt, if he could find a way to make a buck for him or his corporate handlers doing it, he'd jail every citizen in the country.
You're telling me you have seriously never met one of the 'lunatic atheists' who legitimately believe that anyone who believes in a magic sky fairy of any kind should be summarily executed for the good of mankind?
I never said anything about there being a lot of them. I also specifically said they were certainly not well organized. Most atheists are atheist due to rational analysis of the question and drawing a logical conclusion based on the non-disprovability of the existence of G-d. Some small few however are atheist because it's a socially acceptable way to hate someone else. I think it would be foolish to assume that they could not start forming groups and trying to get publicity for their mission to 'cleanse the opiate of the masses from the world'. Every ideology has it's lunatic fringe. Every ideology, no exceptions.
Oh, the atheist extremists are out there, and they are just as obnoxious as the religious extremists. They tend to lack the organization of the religious extremists, but if they ever remedy that they very well may end up as dangerous as the religious nutjobs.
I've never really considered myself an atheist. I'm old enough to remember a time when there was a time when we had more than just f(p) xor f(!p), my personal stance has always been !(f(p) or f(!p)) (where f(x) is belief in x and p is any religion). We used to call ourselves agnostic, but I've been informed we are now referred to as 'soft atheists'. I guess anything more than a binary opposition was just too complicated for some people.
I am intrigued however about the inclusion of texture as an adjective for ones beliefs (or lack thereof). Does this mean I can refer to people as squishy Buddhists or fizzy Christians (crispy Wiccans just seems kind of poor taste)?
Seems like Criminally negligent manslaughter to me. With every right there comes a duty. The right to bear arms comes with the duty to use those arms, and make sure they are properly safeguarded, in a responsible manner consistent with the fact that their fundamental purpose is to kill. Jail time in this case seems inappropriate. However the degree of negligence warrants IMHO a loss of the right to bear arms, and oversight consisting of parole and possible observation by child services (or whatever they call it) to ensure they are not placing the remaining child in danger.
Reasonable pre-paid data plan in Canada...? Surely you jest. With our perverse telecom/wireless telecom situation most third world countries have better speeds and dollar/byte rates than up here.
Last Mac-head I asked about dual booting gave me some shtick about "corrupting the sanctity of his hardware" when I asked him if he dual-booted. There is likely a small but significant niche of Mac 'gamers' who would be willing to give this a whirl. I'm with the GP on this one though, dump the Windows client and build a Linux version. The Windows version is just redundant in most cases.
Hell, if they made a Linux client where the performance wasn't too bad (In the neighborhood of competitive with running under Wine, with broader compatibility) I might even consider dumping my Windows partition... maybe.
There was another new idea that came out a couple of years ago involving applying an electric current to gasoline just prior to injection, reducing surface tension and greatly increasing atomization.
That was for diesel. Gasoline has no polar molecules so unleaded gas has nothing that interacts with the electric field. Diesel on the other hand has plenty of polar molecules that interact with the electric field, agitating the mixture and lowering the surface tension pre-injection.
If somebody cares enough to spends tens of millions to attack me verbally, then I must be an important person (like a president or other leaders). Which means I'll have approximately equivalent resources at my disposal to fight back, and demand the idiot provide evidence, or else shut up.
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and obviously Nokia *saw* the same thing.
FTFY... obviously Nokia's regretting getting in to bed with M$ these days.
Yeah, for sure, we'll just find a way to invalidate the exclusivity agreements the governments have handed the monopolies and get right on that.
Pff. You want to see them give the MAFIAA free money? Come to Canada where they'll literally tax your hard drive to pay the crooks to screw you. Heil Harper!!!
Actually, I have quite a few games I own a legitimate copy of and still downloaded the pirated version, specifically because the DRM annoyed me. Just like I haven't actually used a disk to load a game in years, that's what virtual drives are for. Your gross generalization of all pirates as bums looking for a free lunch is patently false and offensive. Free lunch pirates are a trivial minority in the pirate ecosystem.
Is it? What ever happened to that process Sandia was researching for converting CO2 and Water to Syngas using solar concentrators?
That doesn't sound, I dunno, a little defeatist to you?
You may have bigger problems if Slashdot is your moral compass.
What does Washington have to do with this?
I learned that when you look anywhere other than to your self to find the problems in your life you remove all power of being able to change it your self.
You say that like there's a damn thing those of our generation who got caught in the college-debt-trap we were systematically led into can do about it now, other than do their best to find work and pay off the debt. You can't sell your degree to clear your debt or discharge it through bankruptcy. I managed to get out before I hit the point of no return, but there are plenty of our generation now who are just plain SOL and will be paying for the bill of goods their teachers, parents and other roll models sold them until their dying day.
Probably the same way Google was going to power their floating datacenters.
The real question is how they plan to get communications uplinks (phone, internet, etc.) that don't cost an arm and a leg.
That's not as crazy as it sounds. Consolidating the pool, and leasing access to all network providers would allow for much more efficient spectrum usage. You don't exactly 'create 10 times the spectrum' but you do have the potential for an order of magnitude more functional bandwidth.
... you mean colorless synthetic sapphire? I'm fairly sure we have that already.
Optimist.
Harper doesn't give a shit about public opinion. He's skilled at selling a story and manipulating the shit out of the media. He hasn't actually achieved a damn thing of significance since his first term as Prime Minister. He's managed to convince half the country sitting on his hands and pushing an agenda that bears no resemblance to his campaign platforms is progress. "Staying the Course" my maple dipped left testicle. He's even managed to blame his opposition for him repeatedly sabotaging his own legislation.
I don't have any doubt, if he could find a way to make a buck for him or his corporate handlers doing it, he'd jail every citizen in the country.
~Disgruntled Albertan
Came for this, left satisfied...
I know the feeling... :-(
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php
Not even a percentage point, nice try though.
You're telling me you have seriously never met one of the 'lunatic atheists' who legitimately believe that anyone who believes in a magic sky fairy of any kind should be summarily executed for the good of mankind?
I never said anything about there being a lot of them. I also specifically said they were certainly not well organized. Most atheists are atheist due to rational analysis of the question and drawing a logical conclusion based on the non-disprovability of the existence of G-d. Some small few however are atheist because it's a socially acceptable way to hate someone else. I think it would be foolish to assume that they could not start forming groups and trying to get publicity for their mission to 'cleanse the opiate of the masses from the world'. Every ideology has it's lunatic fringe. Every ideology, no exceptions.
Oh, the atheist extremists are out there, and they are just as obnoxious as the religious extremists. They tend to lack the organization of the religious extremists, but if they ever remedy that they very well may end up as dangerous as the religious nutjobs.
I've never really considered myself an atheist. I'm old enough to remember a time when there was a time when we had more than just f(p) xor f(!p), my personal stance has always been !(f(p) or f(!p)) (where f(x) is belief in x and p is any religion). We used to call ourselves agnostic, but I've been informed we are now referred to as 'soft atheists'. I guess anything more than a binary opposition was just too complicated for some people.
I am intrigued however about the inclusion of texture as an adjective for ones beliefs (or lack thereof). Does this mean I can refer to people as squishy Buddhists or fizzy Christians (crispy Wiccans just seems kind of poor taste)?
Seems like Criminally negligent manslaughter to me. With every right there comes a duty. The right to bear arms comes with the duty to use those arms, and make sure they are properly safeguarded, in a responsible manner consistent with the fact that their fundamental purpose is to kill. Jail time in this case seems inappropriate. However the degree of negligence warrants IMHO a loss of the right to bear arms, and oversight consisting of parole and possible observation by child services (or whatever they call it) to ensure they are not placing the remaining child in danger.
However it might be worth it just for the comic relief of seeing a law on the books containing the words "dis shit be lethal"
Reasonable pre-paid data plan in Canada...? Surely you jest. With our perverse telecom/wireless telecom situation most third world countries have better speeds and dollar/byte rates than up here.
Last Mac-head I asked about dual booting gave me some shtick about "corrupting the sanctity of his hardware" when I asked him if he dual-booted. There is likely a small but significant niche of Mac 'gamers' who would be willing to give this a whirl. I'm with the GP on this one though, dump the Windows client and build a Linux version. The Windows version is just redundant in most cases.
Hell, if they made a Linux client where the performance wasn't too bad (In the neighborhood of competitive with running under Wine, with broader compatibility) I might even consider dumping my Windows partition... maybe.
There was another new idea that came out a couple of years ago involving applying an electric current to gasoline just prior to injection, reducing surface tension and greatly increasing atomization.
That was for diesel. Gasoline has no polar molecules so unleaded gas has nothing that interacts with the electric field. Diesel on the other hand has plenty of polar molecules that interact with the electric field, agitating the mixture and lowering the surface tension pre-injection.
Personally I'm all for lining them up... right in front of a firing squad... is there an app for that?
If somebody cares enough to spends tens of millions to attack me verbally, then I must be an important person (like a president or other leaders). Which means I'll have approximately equivalent resources at my disposal to fight back, and demand the idiot provide evidence, or else shut up.
Tell that to Jammie Thomas.