Yeah, sure, Bub. You're one of those hyper-dramatics who start coughing a block away when you see us exiled to our little smoking quadrant marked off in white paint 80 feet from from the nearest exit at the back of the building by the loading dock, aintcha? Sink Me! I'm not a car and yet intimidation doesn't work on me for some odd reason, either! Perhaps it's because I can see through the non-smoker/pro-pot BULLSHIT.
'At's ok. You'll be singing the same tune as me 5 years after you get it legalized. You'll get yours - all's I gotta' do is not cough up a lung before I see it happen with my own two, gleeful little bloodshot eyes.
'80's vintage 10-speed, btw. Bet you drive a disgusting, carbon monoxide, lead-emitting car, don'tcha? Cuz you have to -right, Hypocrite?
True enough, but they still have to "grow" their business - ie, make new, future customers.
As an "unlicenced" musician with free stuff on the web which might be blocked, I don't plan on using Virgin now, do you? Would you recommend their service? How about just a little office smack-talk on behalf of how 'wonderful' Virgin Media is for sniffing your ass every time you decide to connect to their servers?
"...but the fact that ma(n)y people have a hard time getting better than a minimum wage job after committing murder isn't something I feel bad about."
Fair enough: you feel absolutely no remorse nor have any empathy for those who have paid their so-called "debt to society" as dictated by the law.
You see, of course, how this only contributes to the problem, though, right? 8,000,000 people in prison in this country and yes - I'm blaming you. Why? Because if "paying your debt to society" means absolutely NOTHING to you, Mr. Law-Abiding Citizen...
...Binge and Purge, Binge and Purge, Binge and Purge; on and on and on it goes.
There is a better way and it was completely derived from and developed as a consequence of the cultural phenomena of the Internet - ie, if you've been voicing your opinions and dissent on the web in the last decade or so, this is the result of that. Cost: you have to start thinking differently about how things are going to be and start acting toward that goal. Actually, for now I suppose all you have to do is act differently. You don't even really need to mean it so long as you do it. Eventually, if you repeat a behavior long enough your thinking will change, no?
Short of another "Revolution" where one form of "power" takes the place of another and millions of otherwise innocent human lives are once again thrown into pits, I personally don't see any other way out. And I've been living with this bullshit government "of the people/by the people/for the people" hoax for nearly half a century. It's never worked for me, only against me. Ever. Why? Because at the heart of it's so-called "democratic" social contract, I have to work against you and you me.
Personally, I could do without that nonsense for a change. Be nice to just shake hands and get to know someone out of the blue without wondering what they wanted from me.
"Speaking Truth to Power Dept"??? Knock it off, Slashdot. Not all of your readers are effing braindead; no blogger on the planet is THAT good that they can bring the wheels of government (no matter how small) to a grinding stop. Report the whole story or don't report it at all. Read the blogger's own stuff on this. Oh, and do your website a favor and stay off the BBC bullshit train.
Try here: Deli Linux. Specs: 486 +(exactly) 750mb hd. Most likely you can trim down the floppy install in some manner to bink that back enough to be meaninful. Try the forums. Hope that helps.
By-the-by, I get why anyone would want to "waste their time" with such efforts: Because You Can. Please disregard these post `90's, Pentium-based infidels. Deli's tagline: "`Why the heck make a Linux for such old crap ?' you may ask.'" (Because) "I can't stop playing with it." (Taken directly from the front webpage).
That's a pretty remarkable DNA test that can tell someone's political affiliation (because, let's face it, that's what they're actually checking for - guilt by racial association). I'll bet within 6 months or so they'll even be able to tell what religion one subscribes to! In a couple of years, what ice cream flavor you prefer and (gasp!) your actual sexual orientation!!! I feel so much safer now!
What won't surprise me is if some Giant Old Man In The Sky just waves his pinky finger at this planet and demolishes it wholesale in complete frustration. Couldn't blame Him at all for that...
If every car on the planet suddenly changed into a loaded.357 magnum with the hammer cocked it would be THE GUN OWNER'S RESPONSIBILITY to ensure you didn't inadvertently shoot somebody, wouldn't it?
Pedestrians, and people in general, aught to have a reasonable expectation of safety in public and places where vehicles operate (use some common sense here - people don't weigh a 3/4 of a ton and and go 0-60 in 12 seconds). And no, one should never take this expectation for granted and all pedestrians should practice common sense safety, but motorists are expected via operator's license to take extra measures to protect those who are outside their vehicles. That's the way it is, that's the way it should be.
Look at your state driver's training manual: I'm pretty sure it says something to the effect of "It is, in fact, your job to keep idiots (ie, people who are walking in public) safe".
A Windows Geek? No Such Animal. "Windows Guru", sure - since that conjures up an image of a half-baked, long-haired hippie smoking a hookah who makes seven figures a year. I'll even give you a "Windows Tekkie", because of all the poor suffering IT peoples out there who wish-to-god they'd planted their college loans on English Lit, PoliSci or Phys Ed now that they're IRL. Perhaps there are a few "Windows Wizards" who actually understand the correct ordering of services, or maybe a "Windows Safari Guide" who can point out the more exotic aspects of the Registry. But a "Windows Geek"??? Nope. Sorry. Snark Hunt, that is. Only Grandma believes there are such things as Microsoft-Enhanced Geeks.
Think of it like this: does anyone want a t-shirt that says "C:\"? or "Where Would You Like To Go Today?" Meh.
As always, Greed Will Out. I can't even express how dismal I've felt over the last 15 years whenever I walk by a Radio Shack. Any more I just refuse to enter as the whole front end of the stores are simply stark, deserted reminders of 21st century cellphone stupidity. When I was a teenager I had my Battery Club card so I could get a free battery for my radio or walkie-talkie and that lead me to discover Forrest Mims, ham radio and 741 op-amps and the utopia of the Parts Wall and the Coco III. No more. All gone. A couple of slag plastic bins and perhaps a switch or two and none of them light up. It sucks.
As far as I'm concerned, they can call it anything they want since to find a good world-band radio you have to hit the flea markets or yard sales anyway. Take the "Radio" out and call it "Fone Shack" or "2-Year Service Plan Crap Shack". So long as they don't try resting on their otherwise historically awesome laurels. I'll call it what it is: Radio Shite.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just further proof of the systemic opinion that most Americans have that "it doesn't matter what you believe, only what lies you are willing to subscribe to"? From just casually spending the last 25 years of my life trying to impartially observe why it is that the vast majority of people in America are willing to tolerate a government that abuses it's authority and having heard over and over and over again replies to the effect of "eh - whatcanya' do?", the only conclusion I can draw is that people in America are willing to tolerate outrageous, often unlawful behavior on the part of their so-called "leaders" so long as they continue to enjoy the benefits and comforts those leaders seem to be providing them - even to the point of abdicating their so-called "constitutional rights".
If you are a student of history, you might have at some time noticed a disquieting trend from the earliest civilizations to what we have today: technological advances don't create a more "civilized" society. In fact, it empowers those who have the means to use it to cause people to become less civil towards each other. Should you doubt this you could take a little tour through the sewer that is 4chan. Does anyone with even an iota of civil behavior in them believe for an instant that 4chan is a reflection of the proper use of one's first amendment right of freedom of speech? If you do I would submit that you, in fact, are part of the problem and if that is what you are, your opinions and views are made moot by association and are therefore not part of any solution. The unrealistic paradigm that simply because you CAN say (or do), a thing you SHOULD is the hallmark of uncivilized thinking. ("Do As Thou Wilt" is not "the law", it is the anti-thesis of law - and civil behavior - sorry to disillusion those of you out there with a Crowley Hardon and completely misunderstand this).
Fact of the matter is: so long as you are willing to tolerate a government that will listen, record, observe, make note of, and in far too many instances eliminate those who would oppose it, you're part of the problem and you have no right to bitch, no ground to stand on and object, no reason to do so in the first place and should go back to masturbating with your shiny little WIRETAPPED iPhone because THAT, My Fellow American, is the lie that you're willing to subscribe to.
Kudos and Good Luck to Mr. Klein and the EFF for stepping up to the plate.
Both of those "short stories" have more than enough plot in them to make decent movies - all you need is a good screenwriter.
Assuming you've read as much and have watched any such derivative movies in the last, oh, 15 years or so, you would also know how un-like, un-fulfilling, un-good any such hack movie would be. Despite Jackson's best efforts, the LotR movies barely squeaked by and then pretty much on cinematography alone. (Note: I will NOT dispute this claim with anyone so don't even bother). If THEY paid ME I wouldn't deign to actually WATCH a movie based on Beren and Luthien; some things should stay in the media they were intended for.
I totally disagree with those of you who think that Tolkien's works should be in the public domain. His heirs are still alive, he was ripped off repeatedly by pirates during his own lifetime here in America and their agreement with Time/Warner was a rock-solid percentage despite how successful the movies were. There's a line, people, to the extent that you can personally gain from the genius of others. Tolkien worked his entire adult life on that marvelous story. I don't think it's asking too much at all that I (and the rip-off artists who run the entertainment industry) pay for the privilege of sharing that genius.
Oh, and by-the-by, Gary Gygax was an evil piece of Balrog Shite. LONG LIVE THE JUDGE'S GUILD, SIR HUEY AND DAVE HARGRAVE!!!
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Yeah, sure, Bub. You're one of those hyper-dramatics who start coughing a block away when you see us exiled to our little smoking quadrant marked off in white paint 80 feet from from the nearest exit at the back of the building by the loading dock, aintcha? Sink Me! I'm not a car and yet intimidation doesn't work on me for some odd reason, either! Perhaps it's because I can see through the non-smoker/pro-pot BULLSHIT.
'At's ok. You'll be singing the same tune as me 5 years after you get it legalized. You'll get yours - all's I gotta' do is not cough up a lung before I see it happen with my own two, gleeful little bloodshot eyes.
'80's vintage 10-speed, btw. Bet you drive a disgusting, carbon monoxide, lead-emitting car, don'tcha? Cuz you have to -right, Hypocrite?
Dyslexia seems more likely.
True enough, but they still have to "grow" their business - ie, make new, future customers.
As an "unlicenced" musician with free stuff on the web which might be blocked, I don't plan on using Virgin now, do you? Would you recommend their service? How about just a little office smack-talk on behalf of how 'wonderful' Virgin Media is for sniffing your ass every time you decide to connect to their servers?
Yeah - that's the pro-active ticket.
The only reason anyone anywhere is getting away with anti-smoking legislation is because cars can't be intimidated.
Oh, and the majority of those calling for an all-out ban are pro-NORML hypocrite asshats.
"Are they also expecting the concept of profit-making businesses to go away then?"
Yes. That is exactly what 'they' are expecting. And, as it happens, working towards bringing about.
"...but the fact that ma(n)y people have a hard time getting better than a minimum wage job after committing murder isn't something I feel bad about."
Fair enough: you feel absolutely no remorse nor have any empathy for those who have paid their so-called "debt to society" as dictated by the law.
...Why should it to a criminal?
You see, of course, how this only contributes to the problem, though, right? 8,000,000 people in prison in this country and yes - I'm blaming you. Why? Because if "paying your debt to society" means absolutely NOTHING to you, Mr. Law-Abiding Citizen...
Until it's you.
Lipstick on a pig.
"...happy with Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama."
Fixed that for ya.
Would have gone back further, but Kennedy actually attempted to get rid of the Fed (Executive Order No. 11110). Too bad somebody nixxed him.
...Binge and Purge, Binge and Purge, Binge and Purge; on and on and on it goes.
There is a better way and it was completely derived from and developed as a consequence of the cultural phenomena of the Internet - ie, if you've been voicing your opinions and dissent on the web in the last decade or so, this is the result of that. Cost: you have to start thinking differently about how things are going to be and start acting toward that goal. Actually, for now I suppose all you have to do is act differently. You don't even really need to mean it so long as you do it. Eventually, if you repeat a behavior long enough your thinking will change, no?
Short of another "Revolution" where one form of "power" takes the place of another and millions of otherwise innocent human lives are once again thrown into pits, I personally don't see any other way out. And I've been living with this bullshit government "of the people/by the people/for the people" hoax for nearly half a century. It's never worked for me, only against me. Ever. Why? Because at the heart of it's so-called "democratic" social contract, I have to work against you and you me.
Personally, I could do without that nonsense for a change. Be nice to just shake hands and get to know someone out of the blue without wondering what they wanted from me.
Or, you can just keep binging and purging.
"Speaking Truth to Power Dept"??? Knock it off, Slashdot. Not all of your readers are effing braindead; no blogger on the planet is THAT good that they can bring the wheels of government (no matter how small) to a grinding stop. Report the whole story or don't report it at all. Read the blogger's own stuff on this. Oh, and do your website a favor and stay off the BBC bullshit train.
Try here: Deli Linux. Specs: 486 +(exactly) 750mb hd. Most likely you can trim down the floppy install in some manner to bink that back enough to be meaninful. Try the forums. Hope that helps.
By-the-by, I get why anyone would want to "waste their time" with such efforts: Because You Can. Please disregard these post `90's, Pentium-based infidels. Deli's tagline: "`Why the heck make a Linux for such old crap ?' you may ask.'" (Because) "I can't stop playing with it." (Taken directly from the front webpage).
That's a pretty remarkable DNA test that can tell someone's political affiliation (because, let's face it, that's what they're actually checking for - guilt by racial association). I'll bet within 6 months or so they'll even be able to tell what religion one subscribes to! In a couple of years, what ice cream flavor you prefer and (gasp!) your actual sexual orientation!!! I feel so much safer now!
What won't surprise me is if some Giant Old Man In The Sky just waves his pinky finger at this planet and demolishes it wholesale in complete frustration. Couldn't blame Him at all for that...
Look at it this way:
.357 magnum with the hammer cocked it would be THE GUN OWNER'S RESPONSIBILITY to ensure you didn't inadvertently shoot somebody, wouldn't it?
If every car on the planet suddenly changed into a loaded
Pedestrians, and people in general, aught to have a reasonable expectation of safety in public and places where vehicles operate (use some common sense here - people don't weigh a 3/4 of a ton and and go 0-60 in 12 seconds). And no, one should never take this expectation for granted and all pedestrians should practice common sense safety, but motorists are expected via operator's license to take extra measures to protect those who are outside their vehicles. That's the way it is, that's the way it should be.
Look at your state driver's training manual: I'm pretty sure it says something to the effect of "It is, in fact, your job to keep idiots (ie, people who are walking in public) safe".
Codependent.
A Windows Geek? No Such Animal. "Windows Guru", sure - since that conjures up an image of a half-baked, long-haired hippie smoking a hookah who makes seven figures a year. I'll even give you a "Windows Tekkie", because of all the poor suffering IT peoples out there who wish-to-god they'd planted their college loans on English Lit, PoliSci or Phys Ed now that they're IRL. Perhaps there are a few "Windows Wizards" who actually understand the correct ordering of services, or maybe a "Windows Safari Guide" who can point out the more exotic aspects of the Registry. But a "Windows Geek"??? Nope. Sorry. Snark Hunt, that is. Only Grandma believes there are such things as Microsoft-Enhanced Geeks.
Think of it like this: does anyone want a t-shirt that says "C:\"? or "Where Would You Like To Go Today?" Meh.
But this:
"#> %blow
#> blow: No such job."
Is Freaking Genius and a high watermark of Geek.
Wait - For - It...
Modup!
There goes the neighborhood...
As always, Greed Will Out. I can't even express how dismal I've felt over the last 15 years whenever I walk by a Radio Shack. Any more I just refuse to enter as the whole front end of the stores are simply stark, deserted reminders of 21st century cellphone stupidity. When I was a teenager I had my Battery Club card so I could get a free battery for my radio or walkie-talkie and that lead me to discover Forrest Mims, ham radio and 741 op-amps and the utopia of the Parts Wall and the Coco III. No more. All gone. A couple of slag plastic bins and perhaps a switch or two and none of them light up. It sucks.
As far as I'm concerned, they can call it anything they want since to find a good world-band radio you have to hit the flea markets or yard sales anyway. Take the "Radio" out and call it "Fone Shack" or "2-Year Service Plan Crap Shack". So long as they don't try resting on their otherwise historically awesome laurels. I'll call it what it is: Radio Shite.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just further proof of the systemic opinion that most Americans have that "it doesn't matter what you believe, only what lies you are willing to subscribe to"? From just casually spending the last 25 years of my life trying to impartially observe why it is that the vast majority of people in America are willing to tolerate a government that abuses it's authority and having heard over and over and over again replies to the effect of "eh - whatcanya' do?", the only conclusion I can draw is that people in America are willing to tolerate outrageous, often unlawful behavior on the part of their so-called "leaders" so long as they continue to enjoy the benefits and comforts those leaders seem to be providing them - even to the point of abdicating their so-called "constitutional rights".
If you are a student of history, you might have at some time noticed a disquieting trend from the earliest civilizations to what we have today: technological advances don't create a more "civilized" society. In fact, it empowers those who have the means to use it to cause people to become less civil towards each other. Should you doubt this you could take a little tour through the sewer that is 4chan. Does anyone with even an iota of civil behavior in them believe for an instant that 4chan is a reflection of the proper use of one's first amendment right of freedom of speech? If you do I would submit that you, in fact, are part of the problem and if that is what you are, your opinions and views are made moot by association and are therefore not part of any solution. The unrealistic paradigm that simply because you CAN say (or do), a thing you SHOULD is the hallmark of uncivilized thinking. ("Do As Thou Wilt" is not "the law", it is the anti-thesis of law - and civil behavior - sorry to disillusion those of you out there with a Crowley Hardon and completely misunderstand this).
Fact of the matter is: so long as you are willing to tolerate a government that will listen, record, observe, make note of, and in far too many instances eliminate those who would oppose it, you're part of the problem and you have no right to bitch, no ground to stand on and object, no reason to do so in the first place and should go back to masturbating with your shiny little WIRETAPPED iPhone because THAT, My Fellow American, is the lie that you're willing to subscribe to.
Kudos and Good Luck to Mr. Klein and the EFF for stepping up to the plate.
...I'm glad Bush is gone!
The only good movie I've seen recently was Duplicity, and only then because it was a fairly unpredictable ending.
Ah... Errrumm... Egh... Well, we'll just leave it at that, then, and I'll stand by my statement.
Both of those "short stories" have more than enough plot in them to make decent movies - all you need is a good screenwriter.
Assuming you've read as much and have watched any such derivative movies in the last, oh, 15 years or so, you would also know how un-like, un-fulfilling, un-good any such hack movie would be. Despite Jackson's best efforts, the LotR movies barely squeaked by and then pretty much on cinematography alone. (Note: I will NOT dispute this claim with anyone so don't even bother). If THEY paid ME I wouldn't deign to actually WATCH a movie based on Beren and Luthien; some things should stay in the media they were intended for.
I totally disagree with those of you who think that Tolkien's works should be in the public domain. His heirs are still alive, he was ripped off repeatedly by pirates during his own lifetime here in America and their agreement with Time/Warner was a rock-solid percentage despite how successful the movies were. There's a line, people, to the extent that you can personally gain from the genius of others. Tolkien worked his entire adult life on that marvelous story. I don't think it's asking too much at all that I (and the rip-off artists who run the entertainment industry) pay for the privilege of sharing that genius.
Oh, and by-the-by, Gary Gygax was an evil piece of Balrog Shite. LONG LIVE THE JUDGE'S GUILD, SIR HUEY AND DAVE HARGRAVE!!!