Does anyone out there believe that any of the Bell companies will give the service they prove? Does anyone need proof anymore to prove what these people are up to?
In Portland, OR there is a system where if a police officer suspects someone is selling drugs, he can ban him from the area where he is suspected of selling drugs with absolutly no proof . Now, some people might think this is a bad idea, but what I really think is that it needs to be expanded.
Everyone knows that the telephone companies cheat their customers every chance they get. It's accepted and agreed upon that this is the normal state of affairs. So why even go through the legal formalities of it. What we need is a law that anytime a Bell Company is accused of cheating their customers, the lawsuit is automatically found in favor of the plaintiffs, without legal formalities.
The christian right part of it is what really steams me.
So basically the difference is that, if George Bush wins, there will no longer be symbolic permission for homosexuals to be homosexual while working in low paying corporate controlled jobs?
As far as I can tell, the only difference between the candidates is that they offer symbolic differences in "lifestyle" choices, none of which make that much difference in the economic and caste system of my country.
Well, I myself persoanlly think about Civlization (not any of the new fangled variants, strictly I and II) not only when I hear about these things, but all the time. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night thinking how to get my catapults into position to take the enemy capital, or whether to convert to a democracy and wait a few thousand years before doing it the easy way with Stealth Bombers.
Now that you mention it, thinking about Civ all the fscking time is really getting to be not very good for my health...
There are MANY sites on the net that get far more traffic than hotmail (the MSN homepage for instance)
The only site that I can think of that would really get more traffic then Hotmail is Yahoo. And even with that, Hotmail is not just running a "hey look at this" site, but has to handle billions of pieces of mail a day, which I think would make it very obviously more complicated to run than a site where all they do is send data one way.
Okay, this is almost getting to the point of offtopic, offensive threads that I expect from Slashdot, especially at this hour of the night. But I am ashamed that more people didn't join in, and that noone accused Jon Katz of being a Nazi, or posted anything in 14|\/|3r...now get to work you lazy/.ers!
Sexual frustaration? That is pretty and tasteful! It looks like a picture I might have on my desk of my cousin. Is that really the best you can do? Although I dont think it would be appropriate to have something porongraphic (although it wouldn t surprise me),I think something tasteless, or at least with some kind of geek injoke, would be better for Slashdot. Get to work, y'lazy scurvy dogs! I want to see Ntalia Portman, with a light saber, chopping off Bill Gates head, and then putting his head in a big ball of maltomeal!
I am ashamed of you! You had a link that suggested it had something to do with Natalie Portman, and indeed, it was a non-working link, but it was not a link to goatse.cx! You Slashdotters are slipping, aren't you?
I'm surprised that none of you Slashdotters out there could come up with a humorous angle on this. Especially regarding all of our own little homes problems with such problems. So here is my attempt at it:
Febuary 3rd, 2003 Aided by Senator Orin Hatch, President Ventura has today signed into law a bill first proposed by the editors of Website Slashdot (which recently bought out AOL\TIme Warner\USQwest\GTE-Worldcom), which will permanently put a "lameness" filter over the nations information infrastructure. In addition to wiretapping the nations phonelines to detect any transmissions of the ASCII codes 124-255 in sequences greater then four; there will be a seven day waiting period for people tp purchase any keyboard that can fire more then 20 ampersands a minute. There is also talk that the bill may be extended to including a 1 byte tax on all capital letters.
In addition to this, First Lady Ventura will join Natalie Portman in a 3 billion dollar public service campaign called "Only you can stop ASCII art"
In addition, the house passed a 23 Billion dollar bill that will supply military aid to such high semicolon, backslash and astrerik producing nations as Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica and Belgium to help get rid of their punctuation-producing crimelords.
The only dissenting voice comes from Jon Katz....who {insert Jon Katz joke here}
I may be wwrong, but I think that after Warlock got killed in the X-Tinction agenda, his ashes were scattered on Dougs grave, and somehow they combined with Dougs body to form a psuedo-Doug\psuedo-Warlock character.
Why would a thirty second or even two minute ad add that much file size? Even on a 56K connection, I have downloaded more then a gig of mp3s without really trying. And connection speeds and hard drive sizes are only going to get bigger.
Is there anything out there the advertisers won't try to slap an annoying ad on?
I think the past twenty years of North American culture should answer that question for you. Of course, just be glad that things haven't progressed as far as they have in David Foster Wallace's infinite jest , where the government sells the names of years, and the people have "the year of the depends adult undergarment"...
At first, I thought this was a joke...(well, the d1ck and j4n3 part was), but there are really people who talk like that? How can anyone be so clueless as to actually be able to call themselves "31337" without a touch of irony? It's almost like hearing someone say "Whoa dude...the Grateful Dead really jammed in that show...it was, like, a heavy trip and stuff, dude"...or any other subcultures stereotyped talking.
It's a little harsh to criticize the people who fall for such things as the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. A lot of the people who participate in such things are older, isolated, not very cunning, maybe losing a little cognitice sparkle and from an era where people were more trusting...
Wait, now that I think about it , isolated, not very cunning and lacking cognitive sparkle also describes most of the people I encountered working tech support. And those people need the FTC to help them out, especially if the FTC could help them type faster and tell the difference between a right and left mouse click.
Well, at least from the space station, you can see the whole world all at once. Might be actually cheaper then seeing the whole thing from ground level.
It looks like SUN, who is gearing up to be the next industry leader once Micro$oft is broken up, has learned a thing or two about what happens to companies that don't play fair. So, for now, at least, SUN is going to share with their comrades. Even with some of those open-source-hippie-types. Hopefully SUN, despite being a large corporation, will choose to be marginally less evil and selfish then other large corporations.
On the other hand, Tolkien springs to mind, a little melodramatically: "only one hand can bear the ring" , and if they do, "another dark lord will appear"
You know, I was almost getting to the point when I was remembering the M$ era with a little bit of wistfulness..."sure, they cut a few corners, but were they really that bad?"
I was figuring that poor M$ didn't do much but be too succesful. I was remembering that they really did do a lot to standardize the industry and introduce people to the internet...and really, even as big as they were, they were the underdog that came from behind, building a company from nothing through hardwork.
Well, thank you for showing your true colors M$. Thank you for reminding me to put off my nostalgia until you are succesfully 6 feet deep.
"Competition is good, it brings out the vital parts."
Although I suppose that another merger between two internet companies is the best example of competition. But the competition between Linux and FreeBSD will probably benefit both. Just like the competion between M$ and Linux could bring out the best of both.
This is just a vague generalizing post. I just felt the need to quote Q-Tip.
I know you meant this as a joke, but is there anyone in the libertarian hacker community, or even from Slashdot specifically, that has a shot at this post? How about Eric S. Raymond?
Slashdot Mirror
I suppose that they want something that sounds less threatening then "carnivore"
How about... Sharing our Feelings
Does anyone out there believe that any of the Bell companies will give the service they prove? Does anyone need proof anymore to prove what these people are up to?
In Portland, OR there is a system where if a police officer suspects someone is selling drugs, he can ban him from the area where he is suspected of selling drugs with absolutly no proof . Now, some people might think this is a bad idea, but what I really think is that it needs to be expanded.
Everyone knows that the telephone companies cheat their customers every chance they get. It's accepted and agreed upon that this is the normal state of affairs. So why even go through the legal formalities of it. What we need is a law that anytime a Bell Company is accused of cheating their customers, the lawsuit is automatically found in favor of the plaintiffs, without legal formalities.
Maybe Episode Three will be 'Return of the Sith'
So basically the difference is that, if George Bush wins, there will no longer be symbolic permission for homosexuals to be homosexual while working in low paying corporate controlled jobs?
As far as I can tell, the only difference between the candidates is that they offer symbolic differences in "lifestyle" choices, none of which make that much difference in the economic and caste system of my country.
Now that you mention it, thinking about Civ all the fscking time is really getting to be not very good for my health...
The only site that I can think of that would really get more traffic then Hotmail is Yahoo. And even with that, Hotmail is not just running a "hey look at this" site, but has to handle billions of pieces of mail a day, which I think would make it very obviously more complicated to run than a site where all they do is send data one way.
Dang! wwhats wrong with you people! This site is not yet Slashdotted! I managed to get my download at a good 4.5K\sec...
Not only that, but there is not Natalie Portman references, even in the Trolls! What is wrong with you people?
I'm surprised that none of you Slashdotters out there could come up with a humorous angle on this. Especially regarding all of our own little homes problems with such problems. So here is my attempt at it:
Febuary 3rd, 2003 Aided by Senator Orin Hatch, President Ventura has today signed into law a bill first proposed by the editors of Website Slashdot (which recently bought out AOL\TIme Warner\USQwest\GTE-Worldcom), which will permanently put a "lameness" filter over the nations information infrastructure. In addition to wiretapping the nations phonelines to detect any transmissions of the ASCII codes 124-255 in sequences greater then four; there will be a seven day waiting period for people tp purchase any keyboard that can fire more then 20 ampersands a minute. There is also talk that the bill may be extended to including a 1 byte tax on all capital letters.
In addition to this, First Lady Ventura will join Natalie Portman in a 3 billion dollar public service campaign called "Only you can stop ASCII art"
In addition, the house passed a 23 Billion dollar bill that will supply military aid to such high semicolon, backslash and astrerik producing nations as Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica and Belgium to help get rid of their punctuation-producing crimelords.
The only dissenting voice comes from Jon Katz....who {insert Jon Katz joke here}
I think the past twenty years of North American culture should answer that question for you. Of course, just be glad that things haven't progressed as far as they have in David Foster Wallace's infinite jest , where the government sells the names of years, and the people have "the year of the depends adult undergarment"...
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It's a little harsh to criticize the people who fall for such things as the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. A lot of the people who participate in such things are older, isolated, not very cunning, maybe losing a little cognitice sparkle and from an era where people were more trusting...
Wait, now that I think about it , isolated, not very cunning and lacking cognitive sparkle also describes most of the people I encountered working tech support. And those people need the FTC to help them out, especially if the FTC could help them type faster and tell the difference between a right and left mouse click.
Wait til you see what Paul Allen is planning on next. He is going to move the Portland Trailblazers into an orbitting space stadium.
Your post seems to suggest that there is something more important to be done with computers then play minesweeper. Well, okay, maybe Free Cell.
On the other hand, Tolkien springs to mind, a little melodramatically: "only one hand can bear the ring" , and if they do, "another dark lord will appear"
I was figuring that poor M$ didn't do much but be too succesful. I was remembering that they really did do a lot to standardize the industry and introduce people to the internet...and really, even as big as they were, they were the underdog that came from behind, building a company from nothing through hardwork.
Well, thank you for showing your true colors M$. Thank you for reminding me to put off my nostalgia until you are succesfully 6 feet deep.
Although I suppose that another merger between two internet companies is the best example of competition. But the competition between Linux and FreeBSD will probably benefit both. Just like the competion between M$ and Linux could bring out the best of both.
This is just a vague generalizing post. I just felt the need to quote Q-Tip.