First, universal, 24x7, everywhere, all-the-time privacy is NOT a God-Given Right, nor is it in the Constitution (for US Citizens, YMMV elsewhere). Nor is Universal, 24x7, everywhere, all-the-time anonymity. In your household, in your car, in your boat, you can argue about your right to privacy. However, when you leave your property, either in the normal physical sense, or electronically, by means of interacting with others online, you don't.
Think for a minute. If you walked up to someone on the street and shot them in the head, would you be able to say Hey! You can't get me! You violated my right to privacy because I have Universal, 24x7, everywhere continual anonymity, and therefore you couldn't possibly have legally seen me out in public doing anything, let alone shoot someone in the head! My rights! My rights! My rights are being violated! ????
Same difference.
Say you do shoot someone in the head in the privacy of your own home. Are you somehow magically safe from the law because nobody has the right to know or determine what you do in your God-Given-Constitutionally-Approved-Super-Duper-Pr ivace? No.
Are you afraid that someone is going to track down your Super-Private online goings-on and share your secret with others? For example... is Safeway (grocery chain) going to track down all your online purchases of ass ailment treatments, and then, in their store, announce over the loud speaker, John Doe, We're currently featuring 10 cents off Assinol Plus with the purchase of Roidwipes2000? No. Could they? Perhaps. Would they? No. Their legal department would forbid it, for fear of frivolous lawsuits such as the one you'd hit them with 10 minutes later.
So Anyway, my main points here are:
1. you don't have a universal deluxe right to privacy, it's a myth.
2. The Man is already reluctant to use your top-secret-Jedi info for fear of frivolous lawsuits.
Also, the cornerstone of paranoia is the mistaken belief that others actually care. They just don't. You're not that interesting (nor am I), nobody really cares, so relax.
One thing that bugs the crap out of me is trying to build something to find that it needs version xxx of yyy, which in turn needs version zzz of aaa, which in turn needs version ddd of qqq, etc, etc, etc. Why not have everything it needs bundled up nice? Then when the installer/builder/manager tries to install, prompt the user if xxx, zzz,yyy, etc, should be installed as well?
Wouldn't this be found in the source packets of the email? I believe it would. Why not set up routers with rules, say if x many emails are sent within a given time period, add originating MAC address to blacklist, and drop future packets from same?
Also, how would you like it if your daughter was raped and murdered, and you go to the Police and they say "Well, we found a bunch of semen, but because we don't collect DNA, we have nothing to compare it to. Sorry."
There's no big evil conspiracy. The people at the DMV who take your finger prints aren't snickering to themselves saying "Heh, heh, I have that bastard's prints! We own him now! We can frame him for the murder of OJ's wife!" They're thinking "Christ, is it Five yet?". They go to Home Depot on the weekend, they step in dog crap on occasion, they get paper cuts and hug their kids goodnight.
Paranoia mistakenly assumes a great deal of competence, cunning, and motive in the average worker.
You leave your fingerprints everywhere. You don't cry like a baby about people having access to your fingerprints. You likewise leave bits of DNA all over the place (ala Gattica).
Please show me where we are guaranteed the right to total annonymity (sp?) all the time everywhere. Better yet, retroactive guaranteed annonymity always everywhere all the stinking time!!! It doesn't exist. It's a paranoid pre-conception!
...and after two seasons they show the work behind the work where everyone is a backstabbing bitch that fucks everyone else.
They all revert to the true nature of humanity.
Like a Disney World ride operator, who might say for the first day or so "Ah, the magic of it all." but by day three is saying "Fuck I hate this place."
... 3-5 times faster in raytracing then a Pentium4 CPU...
No, you should have used "than" here. Here are some examples of the proper usage(s) of then and than:
I am smarter THAN you.
Back THEN, Star Wars was cool.
Bunnies are cuter THAN staplers.
If you like it so much, why don't you marry it THEN?
Generally, if you think THAN=comparisson, you're okay. Really, it may seem petty, but glaring grammatical errors like this are an immediate turn-off. I read stuff like this and immediately assume the author is a nitwit and don't bother reading further.
I think the MOAB would take him out. That would make a pretty cool scene too. Or maybe a sidewinder up the ass ala Luke Skywalker's sinking the bombs down the vent in the first, original, only good Star Wars. That would be cool too.
This is what happens. Geeky little bastard becomes "inspired" by a movie as a child, goes on to make it big, then has to remake the move that inspired him.
Here's a partial list of movies that should NEVER, EVER, EVER be remade again, having been absolutely beaten into the ground:
King Kong
Dracula
Frankenstein
Tarzan
A Christmas Carol
Please join me in ridiculing those who insist that these deserve yet another interpretation!!!
is go to this Star Wars movie when it opens... and during a dark, sad moment, say when the muppets get stomped on by a wookie, make a really loud fart noise! Heh, that would be funny.
Agreed. I just don't get why people like anime. Plus the racial overtones... just imagine if caucasians made movies featuring super-squinty-eyed Japanese people.
Anyway, what is the attraction? Is it the cute-ness of the characters? Really, I want to know.
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Think for a minute. If you walked up to someone on the street and shot them in the head, would you be able to say Hey! You can't get me! You violated my right to privacy because I have Universal, 24x7, everywhere continual anonymity, and therefore you couldn't possibly have legally seen me out in public doing anything, let alone shoot someone in the head! My rights! My rights! My rights are being violated! ????
Same difference.
Say you do shoot someone in the head in the privacy of your own home. Are you somehow magically safe from the law because nobody has the right to know or determine what you do in your God-Given-Constitutionally-Approved-Super-Duper-P
Are you afraid that someone is going to track down your Super-Private online goings-on and share your secret with others? For example... is Safeway (grocery chain) going to track down all your online purchases of ass ailment treatments, and then, in their store, announce over the loud speaker, John Doe, We're currently featuring 10 cents off Assinol Plus with the purchase of Roidwipes2000? No. Could they? Perhaps. Would they? No. Their legal department would forbid it, for fear of frivolous lawsuits such as the one you'd hit them with 10 minutes later.
So Anyway, my main points here are:
1. you don't have a universal deluxe right to privacy, it's a myth.
2. The Man is already reluctant to use your top-secret-Jedi info for fear of frivolous lawsuits.
Also, the cornerstone of paranoia is the mistaken belief that others actually care. They just don't. You're not that interesting (nor am I), nobody really cares, so relax.
Huh? There is anything? Huh?
Timothy... must be smoking some... Timothy Grass.
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Some of my inlaws are freaky-nutty suckers and go in for this crap.
WHY THE FUCK is it so hard to master using Then and Than appropriately?????!!!!!!!
You can download several of their tunes from amazon.com I believe. It's pretty good stuff.
One thing that bugs the crap out of me is trying to build something to find that it needs version xxx of yyy, which in turn needs version zzz of aaa, which in turn needs version ddd of qqq, etc, etc, etc. Why not have everything it needs bundled up nice? Then when the installer/builder/manager tries to install, prompt the user if xxx, zzz,yyy, etc, should be installed as well?
Why not use these "unique" id's for the purpose of filtering out spam?
Also, how would you like it if your daughter was raped and murdered, and you go to the Police and they say "Well, we found a bunch of semen, but because we don't collect DNA, we have nothing to compare it to. Sorry."
They Are Us.
There's no big evil conspiracy. The people at the DMV who take your finger prints aren't snickering to themselves saying "Heh, heh, I have that bastard's prints! We own him now! We can frame him for the murder of OJ's wife!" They're thinking "Christ, is it Five yet?". They go to Home Depot on the weekend, they step in dog crap on occasion, they get paper cuts and hug their kids goodnight.
Paranoia mistakenly assumes a great deal of competence, cunning, and motive in the average worker.
You leave your fingerprints everywhere. You don't cry like a baby about people having access to your fingerprints. You likewise leave bits of DNA all over the place (ala Gattica).
Please show me where we are guaranteed the right to total annonymity (sp?) all the time everywhere. Better yet, retroactive guaranteed annonymity always everywhere all the stinking time!!! It doesn't exist. It's a paranoid pre-conception!
They all revert to the true nature of humanity.
Like a Disney World ride operator, who might say for the first day or so "Ah, the magic of it all." but by day three is saying "Fuck I hate this place."
Just because they declare end-of-life doesn't mean the cd's are going to burst into flames.
No, you should have used "than" here. Here are some examples of the proper usage(s) of then and than:
Generally, if you think THAN=comparisson, you're okay. Really, it may seem petty, but glaring grammatical errors like this are an immediate turn-off. I read stuff like this and immediately assume the author is a nitwit and don't bother reading further.
I think the MOAB would take him out. That would make a pretty cool scene too. Or maybe a sidewinder up the ass ala Luke Skywalker's sinking the bombs down the vent in the first, original, only good Star Wars. That would be cool too.
Here's a partial list of movies that should NEVER, EVER, EVER be remade again, having been absolutely beaten into the ground:
Please join me in ridiculing those who insist that these deserve yet another interpretation!!!
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Personally, I don't even want a portable phone, as people tend to annoy me.
When will this end? What's next, a pacemaker with built-in mp3?
Anyway, what is the attraction? Is it the cute-ness of the characters? Really, I want to know.
That's funny. Firefox, you have to dick around a lot, downloading extensions and whatnot. Opera is good to go from the get go.