This just in - the Congress have renamed themselves "lords" rather than representatives. So now we have an elected nobility, and we citizens are no longer sovereign individuals, but serfs.
So if I'm Dutch and store my downloads from Seventeen in my Google account, and that data makes its way over to the U.S., does that mean I've committed a child porn crime?
ID and Mars Attacks may be skippable, but B5 and DS9 both had great episodes worth watching (in fact I consider them the best scifi shows ever produced for TV). And First Contact is one of the better Star Trek movies - not as good as, say, Wrath of Khan but still recommended viewing (unlike the other TNG movies).
>>>Google's intention is completely different and they act on removal notices.
So too does Isohunt. If a company says, "Stop linking to the *.tor file for my Hollywood Blockbuster," then Isohunt complies. It's just the same way that Google or Youtube operate.
It helps if you avoid movies. (Which is easy because most movies are crap anyway.) Cable programs are also targeted, so don't download the latest HBO or Syfy episode. But if it's more than a year old, you'll have no problem.
Broadcast shows are also not a problem. Download the latest episode of V if you wish - ABC won't come after you.
Get a dialup connection. I've received 3 notices from my DSL provider, but absolutely nothing from my 56k Dialup provider. For whatever reason dialup bittorrenters seem to be ignored.
And no it isn't that slow. Figure 2 episodes downloaded while you're sleeping, and 2 more while at work == 4 new episodes a day that I can watch when I get home.
>>>disk space and upload speed limitations have prevented me from achieving any >1.0 ratios
I counteract that by setting my download speed == upload speed (i.e. 15 KB/s DL). It helps keep my overall ratio very close to 1.0 since I'm only downloading as fast as I share.
>>>If your intention is to run illegal site you will be held accountable.
Isohunt doesn't run a tracker. They don't even host the actual torrent files. They simply provide a convenient search engine, and then download the torrent from the original source (example: from piratebay). It's like google, if google specialized in only searching for *.tor files.
Aside -
- I better hurry up and find a different source for my "NapisyPL" files. I like these files due to their tiny size (70 or 130 MB), but have no clue where they originated from. Time to find out before isohunt disappears.
It occurs to me that if I refrained from internet reading/posting, I'd have an automatic +50 bonus in my prodictivity stat (versus all my other coworkers).
>>>i for one would gladly outlaw guns. the result?
It would fail just like the Alcohol Prohibition and Marijuana/drug Prohibition has failed. .
>>>guns are incompatible with democracy. they do not underpin it, they threaten it
(1) Then why was it listed as article 4 in the Bill of Rights? Clearly it was considered important to keep guns present in case, just like 1776, it were necessary to revolt again. (2) Those who lived in Eastern Europe would have gladly preferred to have guns. It would have made it a LOT easier to overthrow the governments in 1989, and thereby restore democracy. .
>>>if the noble experiment known as the united states ever comes to an end, it will done at the hands of armed factions
No more likely the U.S. Republic will end the same way the Roman Republic ended. A takeover by a single leader, who manipulates his way into a position of dictatorship, and then holds-on to that power using the force of government, to suppress the masses underfoot.
>>>The biggest reason SS is broke is because politicians starting with LBJ started robbing from it.
It's also broke because it's a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme (pyramid). When the number of people entering from the bottom is fewer than the number exiting at the top, then the pyramid becomes insolvent and collapses.
Madoff's pyramid collapsed in 2008. The government's pyramid will collapse circa 2020.
>>>How do you think pro-life folks feel, as they find abortion morally objectionable (to put it lightly), and are being forced to pay for something they find abhorrent?
Terrible. It's akin to forcing everyone to donate $10 to church every Sunday. People shouldn't have to fund things they find morally objectionable, especially when it involves the killing of a human fetus.
(And yes I know that's also an argument against war funding.)
>>>Failure to buy healthcare means that you will eventually want everyone else to pay your way, when you skip out on your ER bill.
No it doesn't. It means it will come-out of the corporation's pockets. i.e. Less money for the CEO and his management team's salaries/bonuses. (Excuse me if I don't cry about that.)
Besides I do have insurance if my bill goes above $20,000, so I am covered in event of emergency or lack-of-funds. Unfortunately that doesn't "count" as insurance under this new law.
>>>You have to buy unemployment insurance.. You have to buy workers compensation insurance.. You have to buy Auto insurance..
No I don't. No I don't. No I don't.
The first two things are not "insurance" but government programs, and funded by the corporations/employers not me. I don't write out a check every month for employment or compensation and mail it off.
As for auto insurance, a private product, I know lots of people who don't have it since they either walk, bike, or take the bus to get around. It's not a universal mandate. ALSO it's not a federal mandate, because Congress was never granted that power by the Supreme Law (constitution). It's a reserved State power.
>>>Married women couldn't own property. Slavery was legal.
Why repeat what I've already said? I already started "except for slavery and sexism". Try to be more original.
Oh and you're wrong about the women couldn't own property bit. In virtually all states they could own property if the husband passed away and the widow inherited the land/assets. And in the more-progressive northern states not only did women own property, they were allowed to vote in elections. .
>>>Health care was practically nonexistent
So was electricity and cars, but that doesn't have anything to do with government and how much freedom a person had. An american individual in the 1820s had a LOT more freedom than we have today, if only because there was no income tax to take-away your earnings.
>>>Let's stop calling anything that happens in the African continent as happening in 'Africa' and start using the name of the country it occurred in" >>>
(which he repeated about 5 times like a troll)
How about YOU stop trying to boss us around? Other than the stable countries in the north (Egypt and Sudan) and south (South Africa), I don't know the ~20 different African hellholes that are being run by dictatorial bastards that let their people starve to death.
Tough shit. Deal with it.
It's MY mouth not yours. I'm not your slave and you're not my plantation master. So fuck off. If I want to say "somewhere in Africa" I will, and if you don't like it, then shove a fork in your eyes so you can't read what I wrote, you conttrolign, bossy, aergumentative, anti-free-speech asshole.
"somewhere in Africa" "somewhere in Africa" "somewhere in Africa"
The first 3D Zelda game did that same 4D deal, where you had to do a task in the Garoudo desert, travel backwards in time, and then finish the task. (Sorry I can't be more specific but it's been a while since I last played.)
I agree. Smith has shown himself capable of doing drama, just as Robin Williams did two decades ago. TRIVIA - Independence Day was nominated for the Worldcon's Hugo Award:
Independence Day Mars Attacks! (winner) "Severed Dreams" (Babylon 5) Star Trek: First Contact "Trials and Tribble-ations" (DS9)
Yeah we wouldn't have that Wild West video which sat on top of the TRL (total request live) chart for half-a-year until finally MTV got sick of it and forced it into retirement.
>>>It's disingenuous to single out Toyota when so many other major car makers habve a similar track record.
No they do not. Yes other carmakers have problems. Like my Dodge with a bad axle. The difference is that Dodge recalled my car and replaced the axle for free. TOYOTA took the opposite position of refusing to admit problems existed, and stuck their customers with ~$7000 bills to replace 20,000 mile engines.
Toyota refused to honor warranty. For thousands of customers. Over ten years time.
In contrast Ford also ad some engine problems, and Ford fixed the problem for free. Ford honored the warranty. Ford acted honorably, whereas Toyota did not.
Slashdot Mirror
- It's NOT funny when I'm on a slow connection and slashdot is stealing it, and I have no way to turn this shit off.
- It's NOT funny when I'm at work, and the admin wants to know why I streaming mega-videos & tying up work servers.
- It's NOT funny. Slashdot is now acting like Microsoft, ramming crap down my pipe that I don't want.
April Fool?
More like April asshole.
This just in - the Congress have renamed themselves "lords" rather than representatives. So now we have an elected nobility, and we citizens are no longer sovereign individuals, but serfs.
Yay.
April Fool's?
So if I'm Dutch and store my downloads from Seventeen in my Google account, and that data makes its way over to the U.S., does that mean I've committed a child porn crime?
Wow you're harsh.
ID and Mars Attacks may be skippable, but B5 and DS9 both had great episodes worth watching (in fact I consider them the best scifi shows ever produced for TV). And First Contact is one of the better Star Trek movies - not as good as, say, Wrath of Khan but still recommended viewing (unlike the other TNG movies).
>>>Google's intention is completely different and they act on removal notices.
So too does Isohunt. If a company says, "Stop linking to the *.tor file for my Hollywood Blockbuster," then Isohunt complies. It's just the same way that Google or Youtube operate.
It helps if you avoid movies. (Which is easy because most movies are crap anyway.) Cable programs are also targeted, so don't download the latest HBO or Syfy episode. But if it's more than a year old, you'll have no problem.
Broadcast shows are also not a problem. Download the latest episode of V if you wish - ABC won't come after you.
Get a dialup connection. I've received 3 notices from my DSL provider, but absolutely nothing from my 56k Dialup provider. For whatever reason dialup bittorrenters seem to be ignored.
And no it isn't that slow. Figure 2 episodes downloaded while you're sleeping, and 2 more while at work == 4 new episodes a day that I can watch when I get home.
>>>disk space and upload speed limitations have prevented me from achieving any >1.0 ratios
I counteract that by setting my download speed == upload speed (i.e. 15 KB/s DL). It helps keep my overall ratio very close to 1.0 since I'm only downloading as fast as I share.
>>>If your intention is to run illegal site you will be held accountable.
Isohunt doesn't run a tracker. They don't even host the actual torrent files. They simply provide a convenient search engine, and then download the torrent from the original source (example: from piratebay). It's like google, if google specialized in only searching for *.tor files.
Aside -
- I better hurry up and find a different source for my "NapisyPL" files. I like these files due to their tiny size (70 or 130 MB), but have no clue where they originated from. Time to find out before isohunt disappears.
It occurs to me that if I refrained from internet reading/posting,
I'd have an automatic +50 bonus in my prodictivity stat (versus all my other coworkers).
>>>i for one would gladly outlaw guns. the result?
It would fail just like the Alcohol Prohibition and Marijuana/drug Prohibition has failed.
.
>>>guns are incompatible with democracy. they do not underpin it, they threaten it
(1) Then why was it listed as article 4 in the Bill of Rights? Clearly it was considered important to keep guns present in case, just like 1776, it were necessary to revolt again. (2) Those who lived in Eastern Europe would have gladly preferred to have guns. It would have made it a LOT easier to overthrow the governments in 1989, and thereby restore democracy.
.
>>>if the noble experiment known as the united states ever comes to an end, it will done at the hands of armed factions
No more likely the U.S. Republic will end the same way the Roman Republic ended. A takeover by a single leader, who manipulates his way into a position of dictatorship, and then holds-on to that power using the force of government, to suppress the masses underfoot.
>>>The biggest reason SS is broke is because politicians starting with LBJ started robbing from it.
It's also broke because it's a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme (pyramid). When the number of people entering from the bottom is fewer than the number exiting at the top, then the pyramid becomes insolvent and collapses.
Madoff's pyramid collapsed in 2008.
The government's pyramid will collapse circa 2020.
>>>People pay into social security, and then get money out
Unless you die early, which has happened to every member of my family. Therefore that makes it a tax. (Money taken and never returned.)
>>>How do you think pro-life folks feel, as they find abortion morally objectionable (to put it lightly), and are being forced to pay for something they find abhorrent?
Terrible. It's akin to forcing everyone to donate $10 to church every Sunday. People shouldn't have to fund things they find morally objectionable, especially when it involves the killing of a human fetus.
(And yes I know that's also an argument against war funding.)
>>>Failure to buy healthcare means that you will eventually want everyone else to pay your way, when you skip out on your ER bill.
No it doesn't. It means it will come-out of the corporation's pockets. i.e. Less money for the CEO and his management team's salaries/bonuses. (Excuse me if I don't cry about that.)
Besides I do have insurance if my bill goes above $20,000,
so I am covered in event of emergency or lack-of-funds.
Unfortunately that doesn't "count" as insurance under this new law.
>>>You have to buy unemployment insurance.. You have to buy workers compensation insurance.. You have to buy Auto insurance..
No I don't.
No I don't.
No I don't.
The first two things are not "insurance" but government programs, and funded by the corporations/employers not me. I don't write out a check every month for employment or compensation and mail it off.
As for auto insurance, a private product, I know lots of people who don't have it since they either walk, bike, or take the bus to get around. It's not a universal mandate. ALSO it's not a federal mandate, because Congress was never granted that power by the Supreme Law (constitution). It's a reserved State power.
>>>Married women couldn't own property. Slavery was legal.
Why repeat what I've already said? I already started "except for slavery and sexism". Try to be more original.
Oh and you're wrong about the women couldn't own property bit. In virtually all states they could own property if the husband passed away and the widow inherited the land/assets. And in the more-progressive northern states not only did women own property, they were allowed to vote in elections.
.
>>>Health care was practically nonexistent
So was electricity and cars, but that doesn't have anything to do with government and how much freedom a person had. An american individual in the 1820s had a LOT more freedom than we have today, if only because there was no income tax to take-away your earnings.
>>>Let's stop calling anything that happens in the African continent as happening in 'Africa' and start using the name of the country it occurred in"
>>>
(which he repeated about 5 times like a troll)
How about YOU stop trying to boss us around? Other than the stable countries in the north (Egypt and Sudan) and south (South Africa), I don't know the ~20 different African hellholes that are being run by dictatorial bastards that let their people starve to death.
Tough shit. Deal with it.
It's MY mouth not yours. I'm not your slave and you're not my plantation master. So fuck off. If I want to say "somewhere in Africa" I will, and if you don't like it, then shove a fork in your eyes so you can't read what I wrote, you conttrolign, bossy, aergumentative, anti-free-speech asshole.
"somewhere in Africa"
"somewhere in Africa"
"somewhere in Africa"
There. Make me stop. I dare you.
The first 3D Zelda game did that same 4D deal, where you had to do a task in the Garoudo desert, travel backwards in time, and then finish the task. (Sorry I can't be more specific but it's been a while since I last played.)
I agree. Smith has shown himself capable of doing drama, just as Robin Williams did two decades ago. TRIVIA - Independence Day was nominated for the Worldcon's Hugo Award:
Independence Day
Mars Attacks!
(winner) "Severed Dreams" (Babylon 5)
Star Trek: First Contact
"Trials and Tribble-ations" (DS9)
Yeah we wouldn't have that Wild West video which sat on top of the TRL (total request live) chart for half-a-year until finally MTV got sick of it and forced it into retirement.
The world would be deprived.
(cough)
I think Lucas did a really effective job of showing how Lord Vader/Anakin Skywalker was actually just a ponce - i.e. like your typical tyrant.
"I don't know the word why."
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>>>It's disingenuous to single out Toyota when so many other major car makers habve a similar track record.
No they do not. Yes other carmakers have problems. Like my Dodge with a bad axle. The difference is that Dodge recalled my car and replaced the axle for free. TOYOTA took the opposite position of refusing to admit problems existed, and stuck their customers with ~$7000 bills to replace 20,000 mile engines.
Toyota refused to honor warranty.
For thousands of customers.
Over ten years time.
In contrast Ford also ad some engine problems, and Ford fixed the problem for free. Ford honored the warranty. Ford acted honorably, whereas Toyota did not.
Yeah except the U.S. Consumer Protection Agency has been investigating Toyota for *years*..... the investigation predates the GM bailout.