Tell you what, fuckhead, here's a challenge for you: You really believe that there needs to be an armed revolution in the United States? Then go load your AK-47, go get your buddies, and start shooting, NOW. Or are YOU too much of a fucking coward?
Enjoy your "revolution". Oh, and by the way: They know you're coming. Enjoy being arrested, beaten, held without legal representation or trial, branded a terrorist, stripped of your citizenship, "deported", and likely used for medical experimentation by some shadow organization, all because you jumped the goddamned motherfucking gun and started shooting at people yelling "Revolution!" like some retarded redneck survivalist nutcase.
I'll be over here, with the INTELLIGENT people, working to REPAIR my country's system of government and NOT getting made into a non-person. There'll be plenty of time later on to go and get shot defending my country from itself IF THAT IS WHAT IT COMES TO. That day however is NOT TODAY.
I am not an advocate of violence to solve this countries' problems -- not yet at least. Also, your pro-violence attitude just justifies the violations of people's Constitutional rights being committed by police and officials around the country; your attitude will create more problems than it will solve and I will not condone it. Take it somewhere else.
You have two choices: You can be a sniveling, whiney little apathetic coward who lets other people decide for him how his life is going to be, or you can grow a pair, stand up, be heard, and have some say in what your world looks like. It's time for you and everyone like you to forget the programming. The corps and the bad politicians don't want you to think for yourself, they want you to shut the fuck up and do what you're told, when you're told and fucking like it. Are you seriously going to just sit back, complain about everything, do nothing about any of it, and accept getting anally raped by corporations and by the political leaders who are supposed to be representing you, but who are instead just representing their own agenda and corporate interests? Time to grow up.
No real name or personally identifiable information about me was ever used on Failbook. In fact I used completely fictitious information wherever I could, just to fuck with Failbook, and nobody I know was ever allowed by me to post photos of me.
I used false information everywhere on Failbook, and never made posts with personally-identifiable information in it, and NEVER allowed anyone to post a photo with me in it.
That's cute, you think I used my real name, real information, and posted personally-identifiable information about myself anywhere on Failbook, ever. At best they'd have the names of people I know, none of which would reveal my actual, legal name (and not all of them know it) unless compelled by a court order.
I have it on the authority of someone older and much more experienced than I, that all this sort of bullshit is cyclic: it's happened before, it's happening again now, and it's likely to happen again in the future. We who live in these turbulent times must just endure it, and continue to raise our voices against that which is unjust, and eventually the bastards of the world will be shouted down and things will be quiet again. We might even come out ahead of the game.;-)
This is an encouraging thing to read on a Monday morning. SOPA/PIPA gets shelved here in the U.S., and now the EU is showing some backbone. Should we dare hope?
Except there is a flaw in that: I, and many, many others, simply will not pay for that, especially at the premium prices that are being charged. For myself, if that's what the ultimate fate of the global Intenet is, is to become one big walled garden, then I won't pay anything for it. It would be an adjustment, much like the adjustment I've made recently to stop paying for cable TV and use an antenna for local channels only, but I'm not dying because of it, and not having internet anymore wouldn't kill me, either -- and neither would it kill anyone else. So, ultimately, they will fail at this -- because ISPs already know this, and backbone providers already know this, too, and without them, there IS no internet. Realistically, the Internet genie has been out of the bottle way too long now to ever put it back in. No matter how diligent they are about cracking down on file-sharing, people will find more ways to do it. If it comes right down to it, there's always SneakerNet, and bloody good luck to whoever tries to squash that. They need to stop wasting money fighting the future, and embrace it instead.
I'm willing to bet all I own that neither will ever be successfully claimed
I'll do you one better: If all the man-hours that have been wasted over the last 2000 years trying to "prove" or "disprove" the existence of "God" had been spent doing constructive, positive things on behalf of all Mankind, we might have abolished war, have an abundant, clean, renewable energy source, conquered all disease, and maybe even moved out to colonize other planets. Instead we sit on this increasingly smaller chunk of rock and water and contemplate our "spiritual" navels, and fire bullets and lob bombs at people who don't happen to agree with our own specific musings on the subject.
Sounds to me like just another reason to arrest anyone, anywhere, anytime, for NO valid reason, and hold them indefinitely, without charge or legal representation, with the option of stripping them of their citizenship and "deporting" them ("To where?", I keep asking? Work camps? Medical experiments?) or just dropping them in a military prison for the rest of their days.
When are you people going to stand up and say "HELL NO!" to this shit? Hasn't it gone far enough?
..oh, and the first person who says "If you're not doing anything wrong, then you shouldn't have anything to hide" is going to get punched in the mouth.
..a couple of guys with a boat and some small arms could take it over
I'm not quite so generous as that: A couple guys with some scuba gear and a couple pounds of C4 could sink the entire "nation" to the bottom of the North Sea.
Wow, I thought back in the 1990's that things were bad, then I read stuff like this lately and realize that we had it good.
This is all complete and utter bullshit. It's a goddamned game, not some cutting-edge industrial software that you use to make millions of dollars for your company by producing something for sale. You buy it, it is yours, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it when you're tired of it.
Stop buying and playing games. When they're all crying because nobody is buying their overpriced and locked-down "products" then they'll have to change their tune or go bankrupt. You all need to put this in perspective: It's a friggin' video game! You can live without it!
See, accepting that is not just closing the door to possible future technological advancements, it's nailing it shut permanently and building a brick wall over it so no one will ever know it was there. If you teach everyone that "nothing new will ever be discovered, so don't even bother looking", guess what happens? Enough people will believe you that they won't bother considering anything new. That sort of thinking would have us still living in the Middle Ages, with all the bad things that go along with it. We are too young a race to decide that we've discovered and developed all that there is to discover and develop. I'll go so far as to say that's the very height of arrogance, to assume we're so damned smart as to have attained that goal already.
You know, people might actually think about taking you seriously if you didn't post from the safety of being an Anonymous Coward, instead actually backing your dubious claims with your "good" name.
..or, you could just be another drooling, retarded troll who thinks that Slashdot is easier pickings than 4chan/b. I've got news for you: It isn't. LURK MOAR.
Ah, so the human race has progressed materials science as far as it will go? We already know about all possible alloys, composites, and construction techniques? Science has unraveled all the mysteries of the Universe, all the way down through the quantum level? No possible advances in propulsion technology? Think again.
I keep hearing about this mission, and I'd like to start a movement that part of the MSR mission will be to retrieve the rover from Mars and bring it back to Earth for evaluation, because I believe that examination of the rover after surviving for so long beyond it's original design lifetime will be very educational.
All of you who scoffed at people like me about preserving and protecting your privacy? Who pointed and laughed at the "privacy freak"? Who said "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide"? Who then proceeded to put their entire lives on Facebook? I'm pointing and laughing at you for being so utterly short-sighted and stupid. How do you like me now, hmm? Be sure to enjoy having government law enforcement pawing through all your personal posts, maybe deciding through profiling methods that you're a potential terrorist -- or just dropping by to arrest you and toss your house because you had harsh words to say about an elected official, or made an unfortunate joke. Also, enjoy your Police State -- because that's what we're living in now, morons, because you didn't give a fuck about it when it counted.
Better be sure your papers are in order, Comrade, or the Stassi will not be pleased.
Seriously? How many news stories have we all read where some cloud-based service starts up, people pay to use it, get used to using it, then they decide it's not making enough money and discontinue it, in some cases abruptly? Or for that matter how many stories have we all read where some cloud-based service fucks up and loses a whole bunch of people's data? Or gets hacked? Why on Earth would you take a chance like that with anything important or valuable to you? It's just plain dumb.
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Tell you what, fuckhead, here's a challenge for you: You really believe that there needs to be an armed revolution in the United States? Then go load your AK-47, go get your buddies, and start shooting, NOW. Or are YOU too much of a fucking coward?
Enjoy your "revolution". Oh, and by the way: They know you're coming. Enjoy being arrested, beaten, held without legal representation or trial, branded a terrorist, stripped of your citizenship, "deported", and likely used for medical experimentation by some shadow organization, all because you jumped the goddamned motherfucking gun and started shooting at people yelling "Revolution!" like some retarded redneck survivalist nutcase.
I'll be over here, with the INTELLIGENT people, working to REPAIR my country's system of government and NOT getting made into a non-person. There'll be plenty of time later on to go and get shot defending my country from itself IF THAT IS WHAT IT COMES TO. That day however is NOT TODAY.
Also, fuck you, asshole.
I am not an advocate of violence to solve this countries' problems -- not yet at least. Also, your pro-violence attitude just justifies the violations of people's Constitutional rights being committed by police and officials around the country; your attitude will create more problems than it will solve and I will not condone it. Take it somewhere else.
You have two choices: You can be a sniveling, whiney little apathetic coward who lets other people decide for him how his life is going to be, or you can grow a pair, stand up, be heard, and have some say in what your world looks like. It's time for you and everyone like you to forget the programming. The corps and the bad politicians don't want you to think for yourself, they want you to shut the fuck up and do what you're told, when you're told and fucking like it. Are you seriously going to just sit back, complain about everything, do nothing about any of it, and accept getting anally raped by corporations and by the political leaders who are supposed to be representing you, but who are instead just representing their own agenda and corporate interests? Time to grow up.
No real name or personally identifiable information about me was ever used on Failbook. In fact I used completely fictitious information wherever I could, just to fuck with Failbook, and nobody I know was ever allowed by me to post photos of me.
I used false information everywhere on Failbook, and never made posts with personally-identifiable information in it, and NEVER allowed anyone to post a photo with me in it.
That's cute, you think I used my real name, real information, and posted personally-identifiable information about myself anywhere on Failbook, ever. At best they'd have the names of people I know, none of which would reveal my actual, legal name (and not all of them know it) unless compelled by a court order.
I have it on the authority of someone older and much more experienced than I, that all this sort of bullshit is cyclic: it's happened before, it's happening again now, and it's likely to happen again in the future. We who live in these turbulent times must just endure it, and continue to raise our voices against that which is unjust, and eventually the bastards of the world will be shouted down and things will be quiet again. We might even come out ahead of the game. ;-)
This is an encouraging thing to read on a Monday morning. SOPA/PIPA gets shelved here in the U.S., and now the EU is showing some backbone. Should we dare hope?
Apparently I picked a good month to decide I'm sick and tired of all the Failbook bullshit and delete my account.
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Except there is a flaw in that: I, and many, many others, simply will not pay for that, especially at the premium prices that are being charged. For myself, if that's what the ultimate fate of the global Intenet is, is to become one big walled garden, then I won't pay anything for it. It would be an adjustment, much like the adjustment I've made recently to stop paying for cable TV and use an antenna for local channels only, but I'm not dying because of it, and not having internet anymore wouldn't kill me, either -- and neither would it kill anyone else. So, ultimately, they will fail at this -- because ISPs already know this, and backbone providers already know this, too, and without them, there IS no internet. Realistically, the Internet genie has been out of the bottle way too long now to ever put it back in. No matter how diligent they are about cracking down on file-sharing, people will find more ways to do it. If it comes right down to it, there's always SneakerNet, and bloody good luck to whoever tries to squash that. They need to stop wasting money fighting the future, and embrace it instead.
What they should be asking is "Prove that something other than Man is responsible for global warming"
I'm willing to bet all I own that neither will ever be successfully claimed
I'll do you one better: If all the man-hours that have been wasted over the last 2000 years trying to "prove" or "disprove" the existence of "God" had been spent doing constructive, positive things on behalf of all Mankind, we might have abolished war, have an abundant, clean, renewable energy source, conquered all disease, and maybe even moved out to colonize other planets. Instead we sit on this increasingly smaller chunk of rock and water and contemplate our "spiritual" navels, and fire bullets and lob bombs at people who don't happen to agree with our own specific musings on the subject.
Ever try proving something that is not going to happen?
If you're using a quantum computer, it could go either way.
Sounds to me like just another reason to arrest anyone, anywhere, anytime, for NO valid reason, and hold them indefinitely, without charge or legal representation, with the option of stripping them of their citizenship and "deporting" them ("To where?", I keep asking? Work camps? Medical experiments?) or just dropping them in a military prison for the rest of their days.
When are you people going to stand up and say "HELL NO!" to this shit? Hasn't it gone far enough?
..oh, and the first person who says "If you're not doing anything wrong, then you shouldn't have anything to hide" is going to get punched in the mouth.
..a couple of guys with a boat and some small arms could take it over
I'm not quite so generous as that: A couple guys with some scuba gear and a couple pounds of C4 could sink the entire "nation" to the bottom of the North Sea.
Wow, I thought back in the 1990's that things were bad, then I read stuff like this lately and realize that we had it good.
This is all complete and utter bullshit. It's a goddamned game, not some cutting-edge industrial software that you use to make millions of dollars for your company by producing something for sale. You buy it, it is yours, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it when you're tired of it.
Stop buying and playing games. When they're all crying because nobody is buying their overpriced and locked-down "products" then they'll have to change their tune or go bankrupt. You all need to put this in perspective: It's a friggin' video game! You can live without it!
See, accepting that is not just closing the door to possible future technological advancements, it's nailing it shut permanently and building a brick wall over it so no one will ever know it was there. If you teach everyone that "nothing new will ever be discovered, so don't even bother looking", guess what happens? Enough people will believe you that they won't bother considering anything new. That sort of thinking would have us still living in the Middle Ages, with all the bad things that go along with it. We are too young a race to decide that we've discovered and developed all that there is to discover and develop. I'll go so far as to say that's the very height of arrogance, to assume we're so damned smart as to have attained that goal already.
You know, people might actually think about taking you seriously if you didn't post from the safety of being an Anonymous Coward, instead actually backing your dubious claims with your "good" name.
..or, you could just be another drooling, retarded troll who thinks that Slashdot is easier pickings than 4chan/b. I've got news for you: It isn't. LURK MOAR.
Ah, so the human race has progressed materials science as far as it will go? We already know about all possible alloys, composites, and construction techniques? Science has unraveled all the mysteries of the Universe, all the way down through the quantum level? No possible advances in propulsion technology? Think again.
I keep hearing about this mission, and I'd like to start a movement that part of the MSR mission will be to retrieve the rover from Mars and bring it back to Earth for evaluation, because I believe that examination of the rover after surviving for so long beyond it's original design lifetime will be very educational.
All of you who scoffed at people like me about preserving and protecting your privacy? Who pointed and laughed at the "privacy freak"? Who said "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide"? Who then proceeded to put their entire lives on Facebook? I'm pointing and laughing at you for being so utterly short-sighted and stupid. How do you like me now, hmm? Be sure to enjoy having government law enforcement pawing through all your personal posts, maybe deciding through profiling methods that you're a potential terrorist -- or just dropping by to arrest you and toss your house because you had harsh words to say about an elected official, or made an unfortunate joke. Also, enjoy your Police State -- because that's what we're living in now, morons, because you didn't give a fuck about it when it counted.
Better be sure your papers are in order, Comrade, or the Stassi will not be pleased.
Seriously? How many news stories have we all read where some cloud-based service starts up, people pay to use it, get used to using it, then they decide it's not making enough money and discontinue it, in some cases abruptly? Or for that matter how many stories have we all read where some cloud-based service fucks up and loses a whole bunch of people's data? Or gets hacked? Why on Earth would you take a chance like that with anything important or valuable to you? It's just plain dumb.
Fuck Chris Dodd sideways with a rusty chainsaw, then. What a cocksucking asshole.
"The Cloud" is for dopes. Period. If you stored mission- or life-critical data in "The Cloud", then you get what you deserve.