Yeah, I've still managed to hang onto a few transformers oddly enough, but My Starwars action figures were always my Favorite and unfortunately they're all gone now.
I'm still fanatical about starwars, I have the box vhs set, episode 1 collectors edition, starwars mouse pad, and still get teary when darth vader dies after saving luke. I can see how someone would be willing to spend 10,000$ on transformers if money was no object. Personally I wouldn't go for the transformers, but definately the Starwars.
Damn, my parents were right, all thouse years I spent just wanting to be older so my parents couldn't make me clean my room and they kept sayin "when you're our age you'll wish you were this young" I hate it when they're right...
Now my girlfriend makes me clean my room:(. I don't know, It's almost like buying back our innocense. I'm sure that's why I love SW so much, It's the first movie I saw in the theater and was only 4 at the time so it stuck like nothing else ever could. It is the epic reminder of how great it was to be so young and imaginative... Reminds me of dreaming of being a jedi and fighting the evil empire. Everything was so clearcut and simple, there was no in-between. Just good and bad, right and wrong. *sniff*
All these feelings from and article about transformers for sale. This isn't news, but it's really cool and it's important, almost art...
Every thing these days is cheap and plastic... Yeah, I know that they all light up, beep and run spell check even for 2 year olds, but the good old days of toys are gone,
not that transformers weren't plastic, but they were good stong plactic with some metal in it (joint pins and what not) also have you seen hotwheels now-a-days? They are all PLASTIC!!! I remember when ours were Die Cast Steel. They didn't even rust. We could roller scate on them, throw them at the neighbors mean dog, leave them in the street to get run over, and bury them in our sandboxes for weeks without so much as a scratch.
yup that's right Nostalgia is expensive... I bet at least 50% of us who are male, grew up in the US and were born before 1981 upon seeing this thought depressingly to ourselves "I told mom not to give those to good will, along with my GIJOE's and StarWars Action figures..."
If in need of a good guilt trip (to get extra money for beer-um i mean college) be sure you email that url to your mom:)
This is EXACTLY WHY NOTHING CHANGES. oh, poor us, all the politians are crooks and we can do nothing. We should just go sit in our living room and bitch and wine everytime we watch the news. BULLSHIT
YES most politicians are corrupt. NO we don't have to take it. YES we can do something. If you really feel that way then you should be in the steets carrying signs protesting. You should be mailing government agencies complaining. Everyone should. By god we should be sending them so much mail that the Unemployment drops another 2% because it should take that many postal workers to process the mail. We should be sending so much email that their servers Crash.
I'm very glad the civil rights leaders didn't say that in the 60's. "oh those politicians just want us to dissappear, they'll never change anything" Instead they got pissed off and did something about it. Eventually the politians couldn't ignore it anymore and had to start making changes. No it won't change overnight, but we can change things. It's up to us though. Writing politicians is but a small step.
If we want our rights back as consumers we have to fight for them. If we want the free speech and expression that we were gauranteed in the constitution then we have to fight for it. It is too important to let it just slip away.
"Take back the spectrum, and auction it. These jokers dont seem to be in any hurry to use it."
Give it to Air Traffic Control. Due to increased flights (and increased wireless devices ie. cell phones) they are quickly running out of frequencies to broadcast on causeing delays and setbacks. If anyone can use it they can!
Of all the people on Slashdot who bitch about what the MPAA and RIAA are doing to consumers and how horrible the DMCA is, how many have actually written law makers, MPAA, RIAA and associates there-of about how you feel?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL CHANGE WITHOUT YOU! period, don't expect the rest of the world to fight your battles. It's time we start pushing congress to balance the laws. Copyright laws need to be revised. It's time lawmakers start asking if such laws infringe on the rights of consumers. For those of you who have written these people don't stop. This is the first step to changing something and nothing changed without action.
Once the letters start coming in Officials will have to pay more attention to the issue. Once we can show them that many americans do feel that XYandZ are wrong they will have to take such things into consideration. If they choose to ignore it we will just have to be louder.
Now don't give me any of that crap that this is off topic because this is Direct TV's decision. It's obvious that the MPAA's anticopying tatics are to blame. This is what happens when we stay quite. It's all been trickling down from the DMCA.
What the hell do you suspect from a support technician? It's not that they are stupid like you try to make appear(granted may are) but why the hell would they know anything at all about the exact layout of AOL's 18 or 19 mail servers (not sure how many they are up to)
Their job is to answer questions like "why don't my AOL say welcome no more?" and help people who "cain't get into my AOL, it sez modEm is already in use, please trii agin" (notates the vernacular of the majority of AOL users)
Now then, let's review:
you call the underpaid overworked poorly trained AOL technican wanting to know why port 25 is blocked from server X.X.X.X
You execpt this technician who has never even seen a real AOL server to respond with "why this server has been blacklisted from connecting to AOL because of blahblahblahblah and we have the same problem with 200 thousand other servers that I have a list of right in front of me that MR admin provides me with daily. Is there anything else I can help you with like mapping out AOL's entire firewall and routing system? Have a GREAT AOL DAY and remember if it doesn't say welcome enable sounds under preferences:)"
The response you actually get is canned because America's largest (sudo) ISP or really very many other large isp's don't have Network admins for tech support. I really don't see why you are so upset or suprised by this?
To make it worse you take all of your aggression and aggrivation out on this tech and expect him to immediately patch you to NOC (whom he/she has never even recieved so much as an email that wasn't addressed to blah@majordomo.aol.com
I know always stunned when the average support technician isn't able to track down server problems... sheesh
Mattel has now bought this technology to replace their aging line of transformers. In it's place it will introduce MegaTelevision leader of the Deceptijons and Optimus-Prime-Time leader of the autopots. Mattel does warn that pets be kept in a seperate room
I'd have to agree that kids will be kids and will certainly take advantage of poorly monitored libraries. While I'm certainly not a fan of censorship I don't think I want my kids completely unprotected.
From what I understand the biggest problem with censorware is the fact that it's all copyrighted as IP and the minute some kid finds a way around it and publishes it or discovers the secret "ban" list bans x political party and grandma's family photo album. Not to mention how uneffective it is. Why not compromise and work on an open source censor ware. At least this way admins could modify the criteria and now what they are filtering etc. Also watch groups can make sure it's not going to far and filtering useful data. Perhaps it could even utilize a rating system so people of X amount of age can have more access to profanity or children could get parental consent and what not based on a login or simular.
I think we all realize that the best resoultion to this is to have enough workers in the library to keep an eye out for abuse of internet privilages by children but it's hardly applicable. When is the last time you remember your legislator dumping money into the library system for more employees by selling the governors fleet of jets? Certainly not here in the Great state of MS...
Also the other advantage is the fact it would be free... save us some tax dollars and maybe snub censor ware companies all together.
not really, if M$ makes their own distro for linux it would have to follow GPL... so any modifications would be public for other disto's to use... might actually be good for the community
"As IBM found with OS/2, once MS percieves you as a threat, they attack like a rabid pit bull. I expect we'll see a lot more negative Linux press on zdnet, reporters paid to laud Windows and slam UNIX, fake grass roots movements, and all the other favorite MS tricks." Well, I'm not that quite that paranoid, but I'll be keping my eyes open"
I think negative media will not effect Linux as much as it did OS2. It's very easy to target a product of a single company and push it under the rug by trying to bring down profits. Since Linux is open source and many many companies distribute it targeting them all will be very difficult. Attacking linux as a whole will still not remove the core linux users and if one company was to actually have problems there would be 7 more to replace it. Also unlike OS2 linux is free. I don't think people will have the same problem of trying to decide do I want to spend $200 on OS2 or $200 on winXX with linux. Instead it will be, I'm might download Mandrake(it's just an example don't get huffy cause it isn't your favorite distro) and try that Linux thing... won't hurt since it's free... It's hard for people to turn down free:)...
And don't forget about all the free marketing Linux gets. How many of you have participated in an install fest with your local LUG. Generally I've noticed a very good turn out for all the ones I've attended. The local lug here also does community service here by setting up computer systems/networks using linux for nonprofit organizations. That's a lot of publicity for free.
In the long run Linux will be very difficult, even for Micro$oft to sweep under the rug.
well, if it is illegal to view pornography for legitimate research on the internet, what does that say about libraries... looks like newspaper articles, romance novels, art books, music books, religious texts, and anything else that could have anything slightly controversial or sexually explicite will HAVE to be removed;) will be next.
What a wonderful country this is becoming. It took 30 years just to get NAKED LUNCH in libraries due to obsenity laws. Now the courts can undo that and many other great pieces of literature.
or perhaps this just means librarians won't be able to look at 25% of the books and periodicles...
I find it odd slashdot would post this if the only information on this subject is ONE paragraph on fuckedcompany.com . There is nothing on dotcom guy's web page supporting this. I looked in google and could find nothing there either.
If this is true why haven't any other large media sources reported on this like cnn.com or zdnet etc. The Media is loving every minute of the dotcom failures so I can't imagine it not reporting on a story like this. Someone earlier pointed out that there are plenty of his supporters left and I would have to agree.
I think Slashdot should have waited for more official documentation and/or resources that can be confirmed before posting this. I have a feeling they may end up retracting it. If anyone has any evidence to support this report could you please post it?
I can see it now instead of putting "hello" or "merry christmas hitler" on bombs like they did in WWII they'll write "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!", "ph34r my Sk1llz" and " 1337 liek jeffk!!!111!!!"
I wonder how tramatic this will be to people suffering from seasonal blues... just think, it's winter, everything is dead, the holidays (christmas no less), and now the sunshine is going away..... noooooo, i think god hates me:)
it's 3 in the morning and it's taken 10 minutes to get 6 comments. While I agree/. should be careful in finding mirrors before posting lowbandwidth sites, this site certainly hasn't been slashdotted... I think it managed to just break itself... I already checked and there is no google cache that I could find... sniff, stupid internet:)
Sure there are plenty of video card companies out there, but the big 3 for gamers have been NVIDIA 3DFX and ATI... mostly the first two with ATI targeted at a slightly lower game performance and better video editing.
There isn't much competition left for NVIDIA now that 3DFX will be assimilated. I hope this doesn't lead to a video card market that resembels the pre K6/Athlon days of Intel. Without any compatition NVIDIA can charge more for there products and put much less into them... *sniff*
"Why should the West have helped these people? By now we should have learned that all aid to Eastern Europe goes to the Russian Mafia anyway"
because a nucleur fallout effects us all, not just that area. The radioactive particles that are expeled during an explosion are carried in the wind, and water. They can reach all over the world due to weather patterns.
I hope that the site is still strongly monitored for years to come... If I remember correctly the dome that was built to contain the melted reactor began to crack causeing some radiation to seep. The last of the rods for the remaining reactors will be there until 2008, but who knows if that schedual will actually be followed.
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Yeah, I've still managed to hang onto a few transformers oddly enough, but My Starwars action figures were always my Favorite and unfortunately they're all gone now.
:(. I don't know, It's almost like buying back our innocense. I'm sure that's why I love SW so much, It's the first movie I saw in the theater and was only 4 at the time so it stuck like nothing else ever could. It is the epic reminder of how great it was to be so young and imaginative... Reminds me of dreaming of being a jedi and fighting the evil empire. Everything was so clearcut and simple, there was no in-between. Just good and bad, right and wrong. *sniff*
I'm still fanatical about starwars, I have the box vhs set, episode 1 collectors edition, starwars mouse pad, and still get teary when darth vader dies after saving luke. I can see how someone would be willing to spend 10,000$ on transformers if money was no object. Personally I wouldn't go for the transformers, but definately the Starwars.
Damn, my parents were right, all thouse years I spent just wanting to be older so my parents couldn't make me clean my room and they kept sayin "when you're our age you'll wish you were this young" I hate it when they're right...
Now my girlfriend makes me clean my room
All these feelings from and article about transformers for sale. This isn't news, but it's really cool and it's important, almost art...
Every thing these days is cheap and plastic... Yeah, I know that they all light up, beep and run spell check even for 2 year olds, but the good old days of toys are gone,
not that transformers weren't plastic, but they were good stong plactic with some metal in it (joint pins and what not) also have you seen hotwheels now-a-days? They are all PLASTIC!!! I remember when ours were Die Cast Steel. They didn't even rust. We could roller scate on them, throw them at the neighbors mean dog, leave them in the street to get run over, and bury them in our sandboxes for weeks without so much as a scratch.
yup that's right Nostalgia is expensive... I bet at least 50% of us who are male, grew up in the US and were born before 1981 upon seeing this thought depressingly to ourselves "I told mom not to give those to good will, along with my GIJOE's and StarWars Action figures..."
:)
If in need of a good guilt trip (to get extra money for beer-um i mean college) be sure you email that url to your mom
damn, i forgot to close the BOLD tag... guess i shoulda previewed it eh? :/
This is EXACTLY WHY NOTHING CHANGES. oh, poor us, all the politians are crooks and we can do nothing. We should just go sit in our living room and bitch and wine everytime we watch the news. BULLSHIT
YES most politicians are corrupt. NO we don't have to take it. YES we can do something. If you really feel that way then you should be in the steets carrying signs protesting. You should be mailing government agencies complaining. Everyone should. By god we should be sending them so much mail that the Unemployment drops another 2% because it should take that many postal workers to process the mail. We should be sending so much email that their servers Crash.
I'm very glad the civil rights leaders didn't say that in the 60's. "oh those politicians just want us to dissappear, they'll never change anything" Instead they got pissed off and did something about it. Eventually the politians couldn't ignore it anymore and had to start making changes. No it won't change overnight, but we can change things. It's up to us though. Writing politicians is but a small step.
If we want our rights back as consumers we have to fight for them. If we want the free speech and expression that we were gauranteed in the constitution then we have to fight for it. It is too important to let it just slip away.
"Take back the spectrum, and auction it. These jokers dont seem to be in any hurry to use it."
Give it to Air Traffic Control. Due to increased flights (and increased wireless devices ie. cell phones) they are quickly running out of frequencies to broadcast on causeing delays and setbacks. If anyone can use it they can!
Of all the people on Slashdot who bitch about what the MPAA and RIAA are doing to consumers and how horrible the DMCA is, how many have actually written law makers, MPAA, RIAA and associates there-of about how you feel?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL CHANGE WITHOUT YOU! period, don't expect the rest of the world to fight your battles. It's time we start pushing congress to balance the laws. Copyright laws need to be revised. It's time lawmakers start asking if such laws infringe on the rights of consumers. For those of you who have written these people don't stop. This is the first step to changing something and nothing changed without action.
Once the letters start coming in Officials will have to pay more attention to the issue. Once we can show them that many americans do feel that XYandZ are wrong they will have to take such things into consideration. If they choose to ignore it we will just have to be louder.
need to know how to contact your senator or rep? House of Representatives
Senate
Now don't give me any of that crap that this is off topic because this is Direct TV's decision. It's obvious that the MPAA's anticopying tatics are to blame. This is what happens when we stay quite. It's all been trickling down from the DMCA.
Check to see if your an open relay or have been black listed at mail-abuse.org
What the hell do you suspect from a support technician? It's not that they are stupid like you try to make appear(granted may are) but why the hell would they know anything at all about the exact layout of AOL's 18 or 19 mail servers (not sure how many they are up to)
:)"
Their job is to answer questions like "why don't my AOL say welcome no more?" and help people who "cain't get into my AOL, it sez modEm is already in use, please trii agin" (notates the vernacular of the majority of AOL users)
Now then, let's review: you call the underpaid overworked poorly trained AOL technican wanting to know why port 25 is blocked from server X.X.X.X
You execpt this technician who has never even seen a real AOL server to respond with "why this server has been blacklisted from connecting to AOL because of blahblahblahblah and we have the same problem with 200 thousand other servers that I have a list of right in front of me that MR admin provides me with daily. Is there anything else I can help you with like mapping out AOL's entire firewall and routing system? Have a GREAT AOL DAY and remember if it doesn't say welcome enable sounds under preferences
The response you actually get is canned because America's largest (sudo) ISP or really very many other large isp's don't have Network admins for tech support. I really don't see why you are so upset or suprised by this?
To make it worse you take all of your aggression and aggrivation out on this tech and expect him to immediately patch you to NOC (whom he/she has never even recieved so much as an email that wasn't addressed to blah@majordomo.aol.com
I know always stunned when the average support technician isn't able to track down server problems... sheesh
Mattel has now bought this technology to replace their aging line of transformers. In it's place it will introduce MegaTelevision leader of the Deceptijons and Optimus-Prime-Time leader of the autopots. Mattel does warn that pets be kept in a seperate room
you apparently don't have children. I know kids will find it and what not, but i'm certainly not going to endorse it.
I'd have to agree that kids will be kids and will certainly take advantage of poorly monitored libraries. While I'm certainly not a fan of censorship I don't think I want my kids completely unprotected.
From what I understand the biggest problem with censorware is the fact that it's all copyrighted as IP and the minute some kid finds a way around it and publishes it or discovers the secret "ban" list bans x political party and grandma's family photo album. Not to mention how uneffective it is. Why not compromise and work on an open source censor ware. At least this way admins could modify the criteria and now what they are filtering etc. Also watch groups can make sure it's not going to far and filtering useful data. Perhaps it could even utilize a rating system so people of X amount of age can have more access to profanity or children could get parental consent and what not based on a login or simular.
I think we all realize that the best resoultion to this is to have enough workers in the library to keep an eye out for abuse of internet privilages by children but it's hardly applicable. When is the last time you remember your legislator dumping money into the library system for more employees by selling the governors fleet of jets? Certainly not here in the Great state of MS...
Also the other advantage is the fact it would be free... save us some tax dollars and maybe snub censor ware companies all together.
"No human finger will actually pull a trigger. Onboard computers will decide when to fire the beam."
the AI in the matrix killed everyone and began ingesting humans? =P echo "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" wonder if it's AI has better grammer...
not really, if M$ makes their own distro for linux it would have to follow GPL... so any modifications would be public for other disto's to use... might actually be good for the community
"As IBM found with OS/2, once MS percieves you as a threat, they attack like a rabid pit bull. I expect we'll see a lot more negative Linux press on zdnet, reporters paid to laud Windows and slam UNIX, fake grass roots movements, and all the other favorite MS tricks." Well, I'm not that quite that paranoid, but I'll be keping my eyes open"
:)...
I think negative media will not effect Linux as much as it did OS2. It's very easy to target a product of a single company and push it under the rug by trying to bring down profits. Since Linux is open source and many many companies distribute it targeting them all will be very difficult. Attacking linux as a whole will still not remove the core linux users and if one company was to actually have problems there would be 7 more to replace it. Also unlike OS2 linux is free. I don't think people will have the same problem of trying to decide do I want to spend $200 on OS2 or $200 on winXX with linux. Instead it will be, I'm might download Mandrake(it's just an example don't get huffy cause it isn't your favorite distro) and try that Linux thing... won't hurt since it's free... It's hard for people to turn down free
And don't forget about all the free marketing Linux gets. How many of you have participated in an install fest with your local LUG. Generally I've noticed a very good turn out for all the ones I've attended. The local lug here also does community service here by setting up computer systems/networks using linux for nonprofit organizations. That's a lot of publicity for free.
In the long run Linux will be very difficult, even for Micro$oft to sweep under the rug.
that make me realize how fortunate we are to have linux and bsd available :)
well, if it is illegal to view pornography for legitimate research on the internet, what does that say about libraries... looks like newspaper articles, romance novels, art books, music books, religious texts, and anything else that could have anything slightly controversial or sexually explicite will HAVE to be removed ;) will be next.
What a wonderful country this is becoming. It took 30 years just to get NAKED LUNCH in libraries due to obsenity laws. Now the courts can undo that and many other great pieces of literature.
or perhaps this just means librarians won't be able to look at 25% of the books and periodicles...
I find it odd slashdot would post this if the only information on this subject is ONE paragraph on fuckedcompany.com . There is nothing on dotcom guy's web page supporting this. I looked in google and could find nothing there either.
If this is true why haven't any other large media sources reported on this like cnn.com or zdnet etc. The Media is loving every minute of the dotcom failures so I can't imagine it not reporting on a story like this. Someone earlier pointed out that there are plenty of his supporters left and I would have to agree.
I think Slashdot should have waited for more official documentation and/or resources that can be confirmed before posting this. I have a feeling they may end up retracting it. If anyone has any evidence to support this report could you please post it?
I can see it now instead of putting "hello" or "merry christmas hitler" on bombs like they did in WWII they'll write "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!", "ph34r my Sk1llz" and " 1337 liek jeffk!!!111!!!"
I wonder how tramatic this will be to people suffering from seasonal blues... just think, it's winter, everything is dead, the holidays (christmas no less), and now the sunshine is going away..... noooooo, i think god hates me :)
it's 3 in the morning and it's taken 10 minutes to get 6 comments. While I agree /. should be careful in finding mirrors before posting lowbandwidth sites, this site certainly hasn't been slashdotted... I think it managed to just break itself... I already checked and there is no google cache that I could find... sniff, stupid internet :)
looks like the perfect pitfall fell...
Sure there are plenty of video card companies out there, but the big 3 for gamers have been NVIDIA 3DFX and ATI... mostly the first two with ATI targeted at a slightly lower game performance and better video editing.
There isn't much competition left for NVIDIA now that 3DFX will be assimilated. I hope this doesn't lead to a video card market that resembels the pre K6/Athlon days of Intel. Without any compatition NVIDIA can charge more for there products and put much less into them... *sniff*
"Why should the West have helped these people? By now we should have learned that all aid to Eastern Europe goes to the Russian Mafia anyway"
because a nucleur fallout effects us all, not just that area. The radioactive particles that are expeled during an explosion are carried in the wind, and water. They can reach all over the world due to weather patterns.
I hope that the site is still strongly monitored for years to come... If I remember correctly the dome that was built to contain the melted reactor began to crack causeing some radiation to seep. The last of the rods for the remaining reactors will be there until 2008, but who knows if that schedual will actually be followed.