Probably should have organized instead of acting like they unique Libertarian snowflakes like half of the IT staff I've every worked with, who were convinced they were the best and didn't want to be dragged down to the level of their fellow man.
I guess the ones that were the best are now training their replacements.
I'd rather buy from an automated restaurant. No one is peeing on my rice crispy treats. I'm not getting e coli because someone didn't wash their hands after wiping their ass. No one is going to spit in my food and because the process is consistent, I'll get a better meal. If workers seeing a living wage because they chose a stepping stone job as a career, I really don't care. The last time I went to a Carl's Jr, it took a half hour to get my meal. The people behind the counter were not even worth the minimum wage.
BTW, when I was getting my engineering degree, I worked in food service. I know what we did to peoples' food when they were less than polite. And, there are some people who f*ck with your food just for the sport of it.
If you think that's not polite, you should see what those same food service workers do to engineers when you deprive them of their income via automation and there aren't enough unskilled jobs to go around...
Would you find it a substantial loss if more than 90 percent of the sites you visited in a typical week chose not to serve you the content until you pony up $20 for a year's subscription?
I'm not sure I would. I'd say out of most of my web browsing:
20% is forums like Something Awful and Slashdot which would effectively function fine as free newsgroups.
20% are news/journalism stuff which might be the most dependent on ads.
20% is sports scores/gambling stuff which would be online regardless of ads. The gambling sites have a real product to sell, and the sports scores sites exist to promote a real physical product.
20% is porn that i'd pay for if all the free sites went away, I'm sure of it.
20% is e-commerce stuff like Amazon which exists without advertising.
So yeah, I think if the news sites did real hard hitting journalism, I'd throw them my $20 for good reading. The rest pays for itself.
I see. And I understand where that covers 95% of people's use cases. I really want to back up the original product, disk space be damned, so AnyDVD was a good tool for me, and I'm not sure what to use as a replacement.
.isos are overkill. Just get the movie data any way you can and store it on a network share. A hell of a lot easier than dealing with optical burning. If you arent burning to optical, then you dont need isos.
How do you preserve the DVD extras/menus with this option?
I know everyone loves to whinge on about Bush "stealing" the election in 2000, but this is the first time I've ever heard anyone cry about it in 2004. Especially since every Presidential election loser's favorite excuse is the popular vote, which Bush also won in 2004 by over 3 million votes.
Ah yes, what an 'excuse', when a majority of the populace votes for one thing and gets the other.
Right now we have tyranny of the minority -- it's not small states versus large states so much as it was in the 1700's, it's gerrymandered house districts controlled by rural and exurban interests threatening the vast majority of people who now live in cities.
The solution I think would be to have each state proportionally appoint its representatives based on an internal popular vote. Then you would have more accurate representation for all parties within a state, and no need to slice up a city to dilute its votes (or to create a 'minority majority' district).
1. How do you propose funding websites, if not with ads?
They can sell ads as static first party hosted jpgs or pngs or whatever with a target URL in them. Would fly past my adblocker, and I probably wouldn't care, so long as they don't throw 70 of them on the same page.
That's not how www works -- it's incumbent on the server owner to block my traffic if they don't want to serve me the content. All I'm doing is making HTTP requests and rendering the content in my browser as I see fit -- same as its been for 20+ years
She should consider (3), with said crimes not just to support her financial needs, but specifically politically directed at those who refuse to pay her a living wage, and those who rely on their product.
If enough people did this, perhaps someone would wake up.
Besides being deliberately obtuse, you literally made his point my stating that you were an old person, and that you don't block ads. Whether out of ignorance or kind heart, you're allowing him to fly under the radar.
I don't think cheap and available driverless cars are apipe dream, but I do think it will not be available in any Slashdotter's working lifetime so its a bit of a moot point unless we want to pontificate on life more than 50 years from now.
Nonetheless it's an excellent quote and I support your ideal, but I still think static images and links is a good starting point for all sides.
For the websites that want to display ads, it still allows them to make money and shows respect for those visiting the site by showing that the site is willing to take responsibility for the content of the ads they are selling, eliminates malware vectors, etc. Plus they get something almost uncircumventable by modern ad blockers.
For the people who just don't want to be tracked or annoyed by blinking/audio/animation/video it eliminates that as well.
For people like you, me, Banksy and Sean Tejaratchi, we can use Element Hiding Helper or similar tools to "take, re-arrange and re-use" the static ads we come across, as is our right on our local machines.
The ad providers don't trust the content producers not to fleece them. How are they going to know? And how are they going go back to the widget seller and prove the ad was seen and worked?
The same way the local top-40 radio station sells its ads, I imagine. They don't have exact statistics on everyone who is tuned to their radio station, but advertisers are still interested in it. And guess what, sometimes I turn down the volume during a block of ads in my car, look at the clock, and turn it back up in 3-4 minutes. And they can't do a damn thing about it. And the world keeps turning.
Slashdot Mirror
A 256GB (or higher) option would be nice, or god forbid a memory card slot.
Cruising down the freeway in a Corvette at 80mph with the top off and eight cylinders rumbling is the height of non-sexual euphoria.
You need to try more drugs
Probably should have organized instead of acting like they unique Libertarian snowflakes like half of the IT staff I've every worked with, who were convinced they were the best and didn't want to be dragged down to the level of their fellow man.
I guess the ones that were the best are now training their replacements.
I'd rather buy from an automated restaurant. No one is peeing on my rice crispy treats. I'm not getting e coli because someone didn't wash their hands after wiping their ass. No one is going to spit in my food and because the process is consistent, I'll get a better meal. If workers seeing a living wage because they chose a stepping stone job as a career, I really don't care. The last time I went to a Carl's Jr, it took a half hour to get my meal. The people behind the counter were not even worth the minimum wage.
BTW, when I was getting my engineering degree, I worked in food service. I know what we did to peoples' food when they were less than polite. And, there are some people who f*ck with your food just for the sport of it.
If you think that's not polite, you should see what those same food service workers do to engineers when you deprive them of their income via automation and there aren't enough unskilled jobs to go around...
Would you find it a substantial loss if more than 90 percent of the sites you visited in a typical week chose not to serve you the content until you pony up $20 for a year's subscription?
I'm not sure I would. I'd say out of most of my web browsing:
20% is forums like Something Awful and Slashdot which would effectively function fine as free newsgroups.
20% are news/journalism stuff which might be the most dependent on ads.
20% is sports scores/gambling stuff which would be online regardless of ads. The gambling sites have a real product to sell, and the sports scores sites exist to promote a real physical product.
20% is porn that i'd pay for if all the free sites went away, I'm sure of it.
20% is e-commerce stuff like Amazon which exists without advertising.
So yeah, I think if the news sites did real hard hitting journalism, I'd throw them my $20 for good reading. The rest pays for itself.
Fuck internet advertising.
I see. And I understand where that covers 95% of people's use cases. I really want to back up the original product, disk space be damned, so AnyDVD was a good tool for me, and I'm not sure what to use as a replacement.
.isos are overkill. Just get the movie data any way you can and store it on a network share. A hell of a lot easier than dealing with optical burning. If you arent burning to optical, then you dont need isos.
How do you preserve the DVD extras/menus with this option?
How to I combine those tools to make a proper ISO copy of my DVDs and Blurays?
I know everyone loves to whinge on about Bush "stealing" the election in 2000, but this is the first time I've ever heard anyone cry about it in 2004. Especially since every Presidential election loser's favorite excuse is the popular vote, which Bush also won in 2004 by over 3 million votes.
Ah yes, what an 'excuse', when a majority of the populace votes for one thing and gets the other.
Right now we have tyranny of the minority -- it's not small states versus large states so much as it was in the 1700's, it's gerrymandered house districts controlled by rural and exurban interests threatening the vast majority of people who now live in cities.
The solution I think would be to have each state proportionally appoint its representatives based on an internal popular vote. Then you would have more accurate representation for all parties within a state, and no need to slice up a city to dilute its votes (or to create a 'minority majority' district).
1. How do you propose funding websites, if not with ads?
They can sell ads as static first party hosted jpgs or pngs or whatever with a target URL in them. Would fly past my adblocker, and I probably wouldn't care, so long as they don't throw 70 of them on the same page.
That's not how www works -- it's incumbent on the server owner to block my traffic if they don't want to serve me the content. All I'm doing is making HTTP requests and rendering the content in my browser as I see fit -- same as its been for 20+ years
But Tumblr is only 9 years old -- they can't be 30 yet!
You're spending almost double what she takes home after tax in an entire year on your rent. Kindly fuck off.
She should consider (3), with said crimes not just to support her financial needs, but specifically politically directed at those who refuse to pay her a living wage, and those who rely on their product.
If enough people did this, perhaps someone would wake up.
I thought it was just for the ramblings of 17 year old girls? Or is that LiveJournal?
Lets not go out of our way to draw him out. I'm convinced something of substance has been done, but he's still going to leak in around the edges.
Besides being deliberately obtuse, you literally made his point my stating that you were an old person, and that you don't block ads. Whether out of ignorance or kind heart, you're allowing him to fly under the radar.
They couldn't have fired those bullets without Zinc. Clearly the only answer is to gather up all of the Zinc and transmute it into a safer element.
Haha well... have you seen any APK spam lately?
God-fucking bless man. Thank you. Dude must be stewing in his own juices angry
Have you been to Kearney, Nebraska? I think I'd choose Bangalore on food alone.
I don't think cheap and available driverless cars are apipe dream, but I do think it will not be available in any Slashdotter's working lifetime so its a bit of a moot point unless we want to pontificate on life more than 50 years from now.
The common thread is that they both perverted Judaism by turning it into a proselytizing religion.
That's actually not Banksy's quote, it's heavily lifted from another dude, Sean Tejaratchi: http://www.readingfrenzy.com/l...
Nonetheless it's an excellent quote and I support your ideal, but I still think static images and links is a good starting point for all sides.
For the websites that want to display ads, it still allows them to make money and shows respect for those visiting the site by showing that the site is willing to take responsibility for the content of the ads they are selling, eliminates malware vectors, etc. Plus they get something almost uncircumventable by modern ad blockers.
For the people who just don't want to be tracked or annoyed by blinking/audio/animation/video it eliminates that as well.
For people like you, me, Banksy and Sean Tejaratchi, we can use Element Hiding Helper or similar tools to "take, re-arrange and re-use" the static ads we come across, as is our right on our local machines.
There are large technical problems with that.
The ad providers don't trust the content producers not to fleece them. How are they going to know? And how are they going go back to the widget seller and prove the ad was seen and worked?
The same way the local top-40 radio station sells its ads, I imagine. They don't have exact statistics on everyone who is tuned to their radio station, but advertisers are still interested in it. And guess what, sometimes I turn down the volume during a block of ads in my car, look at the clock, and turn it back up in 3-4 minutes. And they can't do a damn thing about it. And the world keeps turning.
Is that a per video choice? Have any examples? I got alarmed when i saw your comment and loaded a random video and it displayed OK.