>>>You also can't start a chapter of the KKK, start publishing material that has no value and offends a large audience. Oh, and queer-bashing? Also illegal.
It shouldn't be. You're not truly a "free" person if you don't have the right to be an asshole. You've basically made assholes second-class citizens without rights and without freedom - i.e. you demoted them to Serfs. So in my opinion the United States enjoys more freedom because even assholes are free to be themselves.
Yes I'm being serious. Freedom means freedom for ALL people, even the ones you don't like .
>>>In Canada, I can watch uncut movies on public air broadcast channels that contain violence and nudity. In the US, your broadcasts are under a required broadcast delay and censored when deemed inappropriate. Who in this case has more freedom of speech? >>>
Yeah that is bullshit (and unconstitutional). The argument dating to the 1920s was that children needed to be protected from curse words on the radio and tv. I guess everyone forgets that children eventually grow-up, and then they don't want to be censored by the Nanny Government. - Fortunately 70% of americans are now hooked to Cable TV, which has no government censorship.
So? There have been millions of human languages... only about 1% of them have survived to the modern day. In fact the world would be better served if everyone spoke just a few. Look at the benefits gained when Roman Latin replaced the native european languages (circa 100 to 900 AD) - you could travel anywhere from Africa to Rome to Portugal to Britannia, and communicate to everyone with ease.
A single language promoted the sharing of ideas and unity. It's not like that today, due to devolution of Latin into a polyglut of languages. A Roman can no longer communicate with a Portuguese citizen or British citizen or German citizen as easily as he could 1500 years ago.
Very few. The Supreme Court of the US has even ruled that death threats are protected speech, unless the issuer of the threat is carrying a gun or knife. But simply walking up to someone (say a KKK guy) and saying, "I hate racist mother fuckers and I'm going to kill you" is protected speech if said person is unarmed. Those rulings were issued in the 60s and 70s.
Also what's wrong with amendments? We amend and revise our other laws - see no reason why the Supreme Law should be any different. In fact we should use the amendment process more often, rather than have the government arbitrarily grab for power it was never granted in the first place. Example: telling individual citizens how much corn they are allowed to grow - I see that nowhere in the Constitution and yet the government does it.
P.S. Speaking of standards isn't GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile) fairly out-of-date? I was just reading on wikipedia that GSM was developed in 1990. That's equivalent to still using MP1 to encode your songs, or MPEG1 to encode video (they were released in 1992).
Are there any plans to update GSM to more-modern specs?
>>>We have the right to try to break it, and to succeed.
GREAT!
Now if only my Pentium 4 computer could play back these Bluray rips. I doubt the problem is the 3000 megahertz P4 - probably the ancient 2002 graphics card.
I'm not sure what you're talking (acynchrony?) and doubt you know either. Sounds like gobbledy-gook.
As for ease-of-use somehow being a negative for Apple's sales, I don't see it. Atari and Commodore made their computers extremely easy to use, and they had the top 4 computers ever sold (#1 C64, #2 Amiga 500, #3 Atari 800, #4 ST 512)
The Defualt setting for Visitors (and most of the members who never changed the default) is 1 so anything below that is made invisible. It's censorship and MANY mods downscore posts for that exact reason (I hate this guy; I'll make him invisible).
It's the same as if the government started bursting static over CNN's satellite frequency. Sure CNN's reporters are still speaking and broadcasting to people, but it's censorship nevertheless because the reports have been made invisible.
Also in case you mods haven't noticed, making me invisible doesn't work. I just repost the exact-same thing tomorrow. I refuse to be censored
I think Slashdot's system has the exact same flaw as Web Of Trust (WOT) which blocks foxnews.com on my browser. The system is abused by people pushing an agenda, with the intent of censoring what they don't like. It really needs to be abolished since it serves to SUPPRESS ideas rather than encouraging the sharing of thoughts.
>>>I know don't own any other games besides what came bundled
According to NPD numbers from this past Christmas season, Nintendo had a tie ratio of 8:1 which is 8 games sold for every 1 console. That exceeds the 7:1 and 5:1 ratio of Microsoft and Sony.
Sorry I can't come-up with any more recent numbers but I suspect the present figures are not much different, and it's a huge improvement over the Gamecube and N64 days (although still not as good as the Super Nintendo and NES days).
So maybe the Xbox 3 when it gets released circa 2015 will finally be the console to win Microsoft the #1 slot and beat Sega, Sony, and Nintendo. But it's still a risky strategy, because that would be a decade-and-a-half of no profits for the Xbox gaming division.
I'd like Boeing to design a solar-powered car like this. Even if it only goes 25mph, being able to go to work without burning money... oops I mean gasoline would be great.
>>>You aren't going to get money from nothing unless you're the Federal Reserve®
It's worth noting that this is a PRIVATE bank. Sure it's regulated like the electric or natural gas company, but still private. And a monopoly as well. What a nice gig that bankers setup for themselves in 1913 to print paper dollars whenever they need them.
The BSA report doesn't need to be accurate. It only needs to be good enough to convince the dullards in the government. Like that Congressman who was concerned "the island might tip over" if we put an Army Base there.
Oh and it's ridiculous:
If I wasn't able to pirate MS Word, I'd just use OpenOffice.org or Go-oo instead. If I couldn't use ModelSim illegally, I'd use some other free alternative. It's a false presumption to think blocking piracy means an automatic sale. (But again: Probably good enough to convince the Barney Franks of the world.)
Okay. Thanks for answering my question instead of modding me "flame". So is GSM using time-division multiplexing to handle the many calls, or code-division? The wikipedia article doesn't say.
Oh brother. A FANBOY. To be honest I don't give a shit who wins - Nintendo, Sony, Sega, Atari, or Odyssey 2. And neither should you, because it matters not. But since you asked here are the numbers from wikipedia:
WII units shipped Worldwide: 73.97 million (as of June 30, 2010 360 Units sold Worldwide: 41.7 million (as of June 30, 2010 PS3 Units sold 38.1 million (as of June 30, 2010)[
- Okay so Wii is actually "2 to 1" not 4 to 1. Shame on my for relying on my foggy memory, but still Wii is "winning" by a long shot. Wii is to this generation what PS2, PS1, SNES, NES, and Atari VCS/2600 were in previous gens.
Speaking of standards isn't GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile) fairly out-of-date? I was just reading on wikipedia that GSM was developed in 1990. That's equivalent to still using MP1 to encode your songs, or MPEG1 to encode video. Old.
>>>they add a billion features based upon a dozen standards and only implement about 30% of the standard
This is why I vehemently disagree with those who claim 90s-era Internet Exploder 3 or 4 was better than Netscape Navigator 3 or 4. Netscape wasn't perfect but it followed the standards better than IE did, which forced websites to create special IE-specific code to make them work. (And still do even now, ten years later.)
>>>Better for them to lose money now, even lots of it, than for a free market (or a competitor) to win.
That strategy isn't working for them in the Xbox market. First they sold the Xbox for about half its actual cost of build. Now they are losing 10-20 dollars per 360 sold, but Microsoft is still being outsold 4-to-1 by the current winner. I know MS has deep pockets but how long can they continue this strategy? 10 years max? 15?
Microsoft is just like any other business and cannot afford to lose money on cellphones or any other product. Eventually their treasury will run dry.
>>>it actually tends to be one of the better systems I've seen on the net
As compared to what? I think it's junk. It has exactly the same flaws as described in the article, and is basically just "+1 I Agree" or "-1 I Disagree". The same purpose could be achieved via posting.
Of course I grew-up in age of Fidonet and Usenet, where pretty much anything was allowed. I prefer that non-censorship, even if it means you sometimes encounter a conspiracy nut (who can easily be ignored).
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>>>You also can't start a chapter of the KKK, start publishing material that has no value and offends a large audience. Oh, and queer-bashing? Also illegal.
It shouldn't be. You're not truly a "free" person if you don't have the right to be an asshole. You've basically made assholes second-class citizens without rights and without freedom - i.e. you demoted them to Serfs. So in my opinion the United States enjoys more freedom because even assholes are free to be themselves.
Yes I'm being serious. Freedom means freedom for ALL people, even the ones you don't like
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>>>Quebec men prefer pussies, you like cocks?
I have to admit when I traveled to Nouveau Brunswick and some cute girl started talking to me in French, I was instantly smitten. ;-)
>>>In Canada, I can watch uncut movies on public air broadcast channels that contain violence and nudity. In the US, your broadcasts are under a required broadcast delay and censored when deemed inappropriate. Who in this case has more freedom of speech?
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Yeah that is bullshit (and unconstitutional). The argument dating to the 1920s was that children needed to be protected from curse words on the radio and tv. I guess everyone forgets that children eventually grow-up, and then they don't want to be censored by the Nanny Government. - Fortunately 70% of americans are now hooked to Cable TV, which has no government censorship.
>>>Without these laws we would lose our language
So? There have been millions of human languages... only about 1% of them have survived to the modern day. In fact the world would be better served if everyone spoke just a few. Look at the benefits gained when Roman Latin replaced the native european languages (circa 100 to 900 AD) - you could travel anywhere from Africa to Rome to Portugal to Britannia, and communicate to everyone with ease.
A single language promoted the sharing of ideas and unity. It's not like that today, due to devolution of Latin into a polyglut of languages. A Roman can no longer communicate with a Portuguese citizen or British citizen or German citizen as easily as he could 1500 years ago.
>>>There are limits.
Very few. The Supreme Court of the US has even ruled that death threats are protected speech, unless the issuer of the threat is carrying a gun or knife. But simply walking up to someone (say a KKK guy) and saying, "I hate racist mother fuckers and I'm going to kill you" is protected speech if said person is unarmed. Those rulings were issued in the 60s and 70s.
Also what's wrong with amendments? We amend and revise our other laws - see no reason why the Supreme Law should be any different. In fact we should use the amendment process more often, rather than have the government arbitrarily grab for power it was never granted in the first place. Example: telling individual citizens how much corn they are allowed to grow - I see that nowhere in the Constitution and yet the government does it.
It's not illegal if the advertising is sent to your existing customers.
Cell companies can block whatever they want. (Unless the law has recently changed and I didn't know about it.)
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ONE year of profit after 8 years of losses doesn't negate my previous point.
P.S. Speaking of standards isn't GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile) fairly out-of-date? I was just reading on wikipedia that GSM was developed in 1990. That's equivalent to still using MP1 to encode your songs, or MPEG1 to encode video (they were released in 1992).
Are there any plans to update GSM to more-modern specs?
>>>We have the right to try to break it, and to succeed.
GREAT!
Now if only my Pentium 4 computer could play back these Bluray rips. I doubt the problem is the 3000 megahertz P4 - probably the ancient 2002 graphics card.
I'm not sure what you're talking (acynchrony?) and doubt you know either. Sounds like gobbledy-gook.
As for ease-of-use somehow being a negative for Apple's sales, I don't see it. Atari and Commodore made their computers extremely easy to use, and they had the top 4 computers ever sold (#1 C64, #2 Amiga 500, #3 Atari 800, #4 ST 512)
The Defualt setting for Visitors (and most of the members who never changed the default) is 1 so anything below that is made invisible. It's censorship and MANY mods downscore posts for that exact reason (I hate this guy; I'll make him invisible).
It's the same as if the government started bursting static over CNN's satellite frequency. Sure CNN's reporters are still speaking and broadcasting to people, but it's censorship nevertheless because the reports have been made invisible.
Also in case you mods haven't noticed, making me invisible doesn't work. I just repost the exact-same thing tomorrow. I refuse to be censored
I think Slashdot's system has the exact same flaw as Web Of Trust (WOT) which blocks foxnews.com on my browser. The system is abused by people pushing an agenda, with the intent of censoring what they don't like. It really needs to be abolished since it serves to SUPPRESS ideas rather than encouraging the sharing of thoughts.
>>>I know don't own any other games besides what came bundled
According to NPD numbers from this past Christmas season, Nintendo had a tie ratio of 8:1 which is 8 games sold for every 1 console. That exceeds the 7:1 and 5:1 ratio of Microsoft and Sony.
Sorry I can't come-up with any more recent numbers but I suspect the present figures are not much different, and it's a huge improvement over the Gamecube and N64 days (although still not as good as the Super Nintendo and NES days).
So maybe the Xbox 3 when it gets released circa 2015 will finally be the console to win Microsoft the #1 slot and beat Sega, Sony, and Nintendo. But it's still a risky strategy, because that would be a decade-and-a-half of no profits for the Xbox gaming division.
I'd like Boeing to design a solar-powered car like this. Even if it only goes 25mph, being able to go to work without burning money... oops I mean gasoline would be great.
>>>You aren't going to get money from nothing unless you're the Federal Reserve®
It's worth noting that this is a PRIVATE bank. Sure it's regulated like the electric or natural gas company, but still private. And a monopoly as well. What a nice gig that bankers setup for themselves in 1913 to print paper dollars whenever they need them.
The BSA report doesn't need to be accurate. It only needs to be good enough to convince the dullards in the government. Like that Congressman who was concerned "the island might tip over" if we put an Army Base there.
Oh and it's ridiculous:
If I wasn't able to pirate MS Word, I'd just use OpenOffice.org or Go-oo instead. If I couldn't use ModelSim illegally, I'd use some other free alternative. It's a false presumption to think blocking piracy means an automatic sale. (But again: Probably good enough to convince the Barney Franks of the world.)
>>>Old, sure, but it works
Okay. Thanks for answering my question instead of modding me "flame". So is GSM using time-division multiplexing to handle the many calls, or code-division? The wikipedia article doesn't say.
Oh brother. A FANBOY. To be honest I don't give a shit who wins - Nintendo, Sony, Sega, Atari, or Odyssey 2. And neither should you, because it matters not. But since you asked here are the numbers from wikipedia:
WII units shipped Worldwide: 73.97 million (as of June 30, 2010
360 Units sold Worldwide: 41.7 million (as of June 30, 2010
PS3 Units sold 38.1 million (as of June 30, 2010)[
- Okay so Wii is actually "2 to 1" not 4 to 1. Shame on my for relying on my foggy memory, but still Wii is "winning" by a long shot. Wii is to this generation what PS2, PS1, SNES, NES, and Atari VCS/2600 were in previous gens.
P.S.
Speaking of standards isn't GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile) fairly out-of-date? I was just reading on wikipedia that GSM was developed in 1990. That's equivalent to still using MP1 to encode your songs, or MPEG1 to encode video. Old.
>>>they add a billion features based upon a dozen standards and only implement about 30% of the standard
This is why I vehemently disagree with those who claim 90s-era Internet Exploder 3 or 4 was better than Netscape Navigator 3 or 4. Netscape wasn't perfect but it followed the standards better than IE did, which forced websites to create special IE-specific code to make them work. (And still do even now, ten years later.)
>>>Better for them to lose money now, even lots of it, than for a free market (or a competitor) to win.
That strategy isn't working for them in the Xbox market. First they sold the Xbox for about half its actual cost of build. Now they are losing 10-20 dollars per 360 sold, but Microsoft is still being outsold 4-to-1 by the current winner. I know MS has deep pockets but how long can they continue this strategy? 10 years max? 15?
Microsoft is just like any other business and cannot afford to lose money on cellphones or any other product. Eventually their treasury will run dry.
I think Slashdot's system has the exact same flaw as Web Of Trust (WOT) which blocks foxnews.com on my browser.
The system is abused by people pushing an agenda, with the intent of censoring what they don't like.
>>>it actually tends to be one of the better systems I've seen on the net
As compared to what? I think it's junk. It has exactly the same flaws as described in the article, and is basically just "+1 I Agree" or "-1 I Disagree". The same purpose could be achieved via posting.
Of course I grew-up in age of Fidonet and Usenet, where pretty much anything was allowed. I prefer that non-censorship, even if it means you sometimes encounter a conspiracy nut (who can easily be ignored).