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  1. Any knowledgeable Chinese residents here ? on Triangle Boy Lives · · Score: 0


    Thanks to some comment links I finally downloaded the tarball.

    I hope someone in CHINA is knowledgeable about this and can tell me though... Since I'll be moving to China in about 30 days, what is the best way to smuggle this software into the country ?? Will customs likely search my laptop harddrive, or my CD-R labeled 'Metallica' that actually has TriangleBoy burned on it ?? Or is that dangerous ground, and I should instead have my friend e-mail it to my pop3 once I arrive ??

    Furthermore, does the program still work good -- and since I don't want to install it now, lest I leave traces on my machine, do I need any special ips to actually get it up and running ? Anything that I can take with me, written down in a secret code language so I can get it up and running ? I'll go crazy if I spend a year in China and can't read www.capitalismmagazine.com or the like!

    Thanks

  2. Re:Air conditioning has destroyed architecture on 100th Anniversary of Air Conditioning · · Score: 0

    Can you tell me what this 8' as opposed to 10' ceilings is in reference to ?? My parents are about to buy a house up in Toledo, which gives you the incredible feeling of being a 'child' again inside because the ceilings are really high like probably 10' everywhere... is there something important they should know ?

  3. chinese distros all the way on Reading/Writing Chinese Using Linux? · · Score: 0

    As per my anecdotal experience, I'd say forget about ever getting Chinese to work on any distro that isn't native 100% Chinese.

    I've tried every fricking FAQ and HOWTO I can find, and have neither gotten Chinese or Japanese to ever work on Mandrake. Something always goes wrong, some insane problem that I don't even know what is wrong nor how to debug it. The only "support" I have then, is from the CXterm which is decent, but last I downloaded it was hard to find and seemingly about to disappear because of old age..

    On the other hand I test installed TurboLinux (I think) or something, a Chinese distro straight out, and anyway it was BEAUTIFUL. Even the console terminals had Chinese support (though I couldn't use characters in my login :( ) Not to mention character support in every fricking X app, including Abiword and all the other billion others you'd probably have to specifically recompile for it on another disto.

  4. fck anonymous coward on Using Cellular Traffic to Monitor Traffic Jams · · Score: 0

    "but how do other /.ers feel about a company profiting from data emitted by the cellphone that they paid for?"

    These little Slashdotters can go FUCK THEMSELVES. How do you feel about the satelites in space that are taking space-photos
    of your home and property and profitting from them ? How do you feel about the environmentalist dirt worshipping
    propaganists profitting from the data colection of weather data over your property when they fly their stupid fucking UFO
    space ballons to collect fake temperature data ? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE KID WHO LOOKS AT NATELIE PORTMAN'S HOT
    BODY, AS SHE WALKS BY ON THE STREET, AND PROFITS MUCH IN PLEASURE BY JERKING OFF TO HER GOD-LIKE BEAUTY ?!

    FUCK OFF /.er's, go suck a cock.

  5. pansies on Noise Control Stealth Tower · · Score: 0

    WHAT KIND of fucking pansy assed mother fucker could possibly hear their computer over top of their stereo ? What kind of volume levels do you fucking wusses listen at ? FOR GOD's SAKE! Turn the stereo the fuck up man!! HEAD BANG GODDAMNIT YOU FUKCING PUSSIES. Worship SATAN, listen to CANNIBAL CORPSE, and don't be a fucking looser and sissy bitch - DO NOT turn it off while you are sleeping. Besides it give you fucking awesome ass nightmares dude!!!!

  6. Nader is pure evil. on U.S. Asked to Put Purchasing Power to Good Use · · Score: 0

    You are an absolutely incredible fucking piece of shit. Anyone who would associate with the likes of Nader, without the intent of causing that bastard bodily harm deserves to die a horrible wretched death. And this fate I do wish and pray might befall upon you: immense suffering in restitution for your iniquities.

    I hope that you and your fellow Anti-American scum bags will one day see fit to leave this country, that once was free, one that could breathe so much better without the likes of you pieces of shit. Go find a fucking socialist shithole that correlates with your values to live in you fucking scumbag.

  7. Re:liberal cunt on Instant Messenger or Instant Advertiser? · · Score: 0

    ROTFLOL. And what is this ? Some sort of idiotic causation-free philosophy applied to a real life situation ? Uh.. yeah the US has to EVENTUALLY loose it's superiority, yup, because uh "What goes up must come down".. or tell me please what your brilliant logic behind it is ? Thing happen without causes ? NO. THEY DO NOT. And I certainly WOULDN'T be surprised if the US and China meet somewhere in the middle. But there are causes, and considering that America gets further from Capitalism every year, the correlation and obviousness of the cause could hardly be more apparent.

    As per "justification", what needs justification is the liberal's nihilism and hatred of man kind. Surely if they cared about anyone they only need to look to the system that has caused untold suffering for 1 second, and then move on to the only system in history to create material abundance, capitalism.

  8. reevaluate on What Turns You Off About Evaluation Software? · · Score: 0

    Hmm.. I hate to tell you man, but this one isn't too aweful hard to figure out. Obviously if they're not downloading -- but still bothering to register, they're not downloading for a reason. What could that be ? PerHAPS the fact that they've ALREADY downloaded it once before, and now are supplying fake information for a 2nd (3rd, 4th, or more) password and username so they can "re-evaluate"

  9. liberal cunt on Instant Messenger or Instant Advertiser? · · Score: 0

    "Just when you think market saturation has reached the limit, leave it to a greedy corporation to start targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is."

    Just when I thought Liberal asshole propaganda had reached it's peak, it begins to infect Slashdot worse than ever. Just when I thought I was free to read a single paragraph without being barraged by this FUCKING ASSHOLE's implicit anti-Capitalistic deflamations... hey fuckface, why not move to one of the wonderful progressive socialistic shitholes, that would love to have your worthless proletariat ass drip a few pennies of the immense material wealth the only moral social system to ever exist, Capitalism, has created.

  10. void Property Rights ad absurdium on Amazon & Used Books II: Bezos Strikes Back · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Let us extend this wonderful logic a bit further. Invariably allowing the resale of used items "takes" away from those who would have profited has the item been bought new. So therefore why not just set an outright ban on the selling of used items ? I mean the loss for BOOKS is negligible, but how about something bigger ? Say.. HOUSES and CARS?? Just think how many architects, laborers, carpenters, etc.. lose business every time someone is allowed to resell their home ?

    So let me propose we offer one way of unloading your home, as to "preserve" the interest of all the hardworking American plumbers and carpenters: if you don't want it, you can burn it or blow it up. But you can't give it away or sell it.

    So much for property rights, you fucking retards.

  11. Re:Where was.. on A Review of Existing Music Subscription Services · · Score: 0

    Dude Therion sounds pretty cool -- I got on emusic and listened to it asap when you mentioned. (Since I already know Opeth rules)
    Do you by chance have any other recommendations of music on Emusic ? They have a lot of stuff that I've never heard of, but I'm still not sure what to download and check out. I'm somewhat tired of metal that is "plain metal" like say in the style of C. Corpse or SFU. Progressive or melodic rule though.
    BTW: Any other metal heads on here who like "softer" more musical type metal I strongly recommend the sweedish band Vintersorg and also the power metal of Falconer.

  12. Everything in moderation. on Vibrating Controller Alert · · Score: 0

    Bleh bleh bleh. There should be a warning, there should be a law. Doesn't this kind of crap, and the idiots who promote it -- as if they're servering in some useful capacity to society -- bore you to death ? It certainly bores me. How about if I make a press release about my totally significant discovery that if you brush your teeth to freqently, for say a mere 7 hours a day, you can utterly destroy the enamel on your teeth ? Will you guys help me lobby Washington to pass a lawing forcing Crest and Colgate to carry a warning label of these dire conseqences ?

  13. French on Animate Your LILO · · Score: 0

    I don't read French, but then again I can't seem to find any. Where is it ?

    Translations appreciated.

  14. Re:A sickening display of hatred. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    This is just what I did: Seeing there are going to be hundreds if not thousands of slash-ididots sending THEIR e-mails, I sent an explanation of my theorys of the reasons that all the tech people have complaints against Microsoft. And asked them to consider all of those irrelevant *grin*.
    My reasons just happened to be very similar to your ideas.
    heh

  15. Re:A sickening display of hatred. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    Hmm! lots of information! thanks.

    Anyhow:
    "They wouldn't make any profit at all if we
    didn't pay for the police and the justice system that will enforce their patent. If we want to insist on sliding-scale prices so that poor/middle
    class/whoever people aren't priced out of the market by the power that monopoly pricing gives to the patent-holder, why shouldn't we? Since most
    of us are either poor or middle class, we'd have to be insane to support a system of intellectual property that excludes us from its benefits. "

    Why shouldn't you ? Because that is exactly how the benefits are NOT begotten. To say that such would be a system "excluding" you from the benefits is ludicrous! Even the simplest of conveniences, which would have been possessed by maybe only great King in yester-centry, are now held by even the poorest of our society--thanks to capitalism. The value that the invisible hand of the market sets upon an object, is a objective price -- exactly what it is worth because of the counterbalance of producer and consumer. Given your example of a cure for the world's richest man: the moment he bought it (NOT the moment he died as you insist) there would no longer be further profit in it unless the price came drastically down. And *this* is exactly what happens, though on a longer and necessarily the fastest time scale. It takes great amounts of wealth and research to find new medicines, someone has to foot the bill. And it is pretty damn obvious how terribly intervention works: sure you can make it sound all nice, you can even claim that people have a *right* to the object of their desire (say medicine or whatever). But ever since the US government began coercing health care providers and invaded it, controling ever aspect of it they can get their grubby little hands on, it has been on the decline. Look back to the history of the US just before the government destoryed health care: ANYONE who had a decent job could afford good health insurance for a very reasonable sum. But NOW that everyone has a *right*, especially the least productive memebers, and even non-members of the society (illegal aliens).. NOW look what happens. This intervention has necessarily destroyed the proper functioning of the market, that is why the mixed economy will continually degenerate and taxes will never cease to grow- -now that this country is in the death spiral of destruction.

    As far as your side note on the benefits of intellectual property: I find it rather irrelevant. Contracts are very necessary, and it is not the government's concern how people dispose of their "property" rights. It is not a valid consideration if you're thinking (the proper way) based on principals and not pragmatics (the great destroyer).

  16. Re:A sickening display of hatred. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    Oh dear.
    We "allow" companies to exist ? EXCUSE me ? Do you think that companies are in some way not comprised of individuals, who by virture of THEIR individual rights can assemble and work together in any manner which suits them ? (Of course, thanks to your crowd, that has not been the case in this country.) Oh..*gasp* You don't believe in individual rights either ? (Which are an antecendent concept and essential basis for the concept of "company") If this is the case then why don't you find a more suitable country--there are plenty. How about good old Castro's concentration camp ?

    No on to the next point: regardless of any company's existence, intellectual property rights are there to protect the most valuable form of property in this day and age of science: knowledge. As such it allows the intellectual or artists to see profit from the fruits of his labour. Very VERY moral and essential indeed...

  17. Re:A sickening command of grammar. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    LOL and yet you persist with your futile claim that sequence is misspelled! You do realize that an average person has a number of dictionaries at his disposal ?
    "Such" doesn't cut it, eh ? ROTFLOL. Okay buddy, then what do you wish to contest ? The pronoun status of "such", or would you rather say it is impossible to commit suicide ? ie: "Johnny killed HIMSELF" Oh, bother, Johnny cannot commit suicide because killed is transitive, and it can't have a pronoun refering to the same subject!
    You're a RIOT man! Keep up the good work.

  18. Re:A sickening command of grammar. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    sequence (SP) --What dictionary are *you* using ? Maybe I could teach you how to look words up, because I assure you it is in there.

    wherewith (WC) -- What in the world is WC ??

    Faulty usage of transitive verb my ass.

    It's nice to know that you so diligently adhere to the ancient school of PRESCRIPTIVE grammar. Hell, it's too bad we don't have MORE folks like you -- we wouldn't even need liguists because we would all still be speaking *the* proto-language.

  19. Re:A sickening command of grammar. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    sequence (SP) wherewith (WC) Faulty usage of transitive verb my ass.
    It's nice to know that you so diligently adhere to the ancient school of PRESCRIPTIVE grammar. Hell, it's too bad we don't have MORE folks like you -- we wouldn't even need liguists because we would all still be speaking *the* proto-language.

  20. Re:A sickening display of hatred. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    Oh.. REAL NICE. So you think you automatically have a right to someone's property simply because it has gone into disuse ? That is about as rational and moral (IMMORAL) as those vile creatures who would coerce the drug companies, saviors of human life, into producing or sharing their wealth with people who have NO RIGHT to such modern drugs -- BECAUSE they cannot afford them.

  21. Re:A sickening command of grammar. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    No sir. I'm affraid I've seen fit to NOT attend English class ever since I realized I was literate. Yes, I am attending a state (coerced) public university. Oh come all ye lovers of mediocrity to the institutions which so epitomize such, and into the throes of socialism that has long plagued the United States. I am not exaggerating either. It was a very sad day indeed when I realized that half of my English 112 class (the final course of the sequence) did not possess the ability to read, but stumbled on nearly ever word. Then into the treachory that was "fellow student evaluation" wherewith I had to suffer through the rough drafts of my fellow classmates, drawing upon their papers in the neighborhood of 200 circles.

    So when this situation is amened, THEN come unto me and complain about my English which has become most proficient with help from no one.

  22. Re:A sickening display of hatred. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0

    Wow.. Flamebait!? I just want to COMMEND the moderators who so SUCESSFULLY push Slashdot's blatant (sickening) liberal agenda, to the point of "hiding" decent from the majority of slashdotters by giving it a -1 flame bait.
    Thanks guys, you're really EXCELLENT, instruments of evil.

  23. A sickening display of hatred. on Respond To The Tunney Act · · Score: 0, Interesting


    I hope you will all give this one a seriously consideration before actually doing something against the company that is the epitome of greatness and capitalism. You can see very clearly from Jeremy's page what he really cares about:

    "4.Compose a simple, polite, email describing the problem and how you feel about it."

    How do *you* feel about it ? As if your feelings are some valid form of cognition, as if this represents *morality*. It is infact the anti-trust laws which are completely immoral, they paralyze a company who is constantly under threat that it *may* have broken the law by being TOO GOOD, but it can never know until after the fact. Imagine if the criminal law was like this: imagine if you were paralyzed realizing anything you did good could end up causing you to be sentenced to jail.

    So please, before you do something stupid (like this guy) think about it, think about the immorality of the anti-trust laws. And then proceed to do the RIGHT thing: writing a letter supporting the achievements of Microsoft, and their right to exist and keep all the profit they have earned and DESERVE, by moral right.

  24. Re:worthless fags on Alan Cox to Leave if RH AOL Buyout Happens? · · Score: 0

    It's nice to know that you moderateors are ALSO worthless communists. I hope that you get deported to Castro's little concentration camp, I'd gladly pay the airfair to send you all there -- and especially this scumbag Alan Cocks

  25. worthless fags on Alan Cox to Leave if RH AOL Buyout Happens? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well its good to know that he is a worthless piece of anti-capitalist shit. I personally would be honored to work for AOL, or even better yet Microsoft--the very essence and epitome of greatness for the only moral social system to ever exist on the face of this earth.