> If you can spare some money, donate it to the newly-homeless > residents of Miyagi and Iwate
As an American I've been advising my friends not to donate funds to Japan relief. Why would you need monetary aid in a macro scale, seriously?
Japan is as rich as the USA, has vastly greater savings, astronomical foreign trade surpluses, etc. I'm saying this not to castigate but to support my argument.
What you need, what Japan needs is food aid, rescue aid, salvage aid, _frank_ nuclear advise aid, _immediate_ potable water aid. IOW, the life or death shit that any nation might have less than infinite numbers.
Respectfully, what your country needs most aid in is a collective smack-in-the-head to your leadership system, that which you call a government. Habitual ritual apologies on behalf of melting nuclear reactors (and spewing radiation to the four winds and most of East Asia as well as South East Asia, not to mention Russia, and but fuck you P.M. Kan the USA, man you have some balls, Japan) is wilful blindness to facts.
> but for those of us who contributed only to have someone > cash in on out hard work leaves a bad taste in our mouths.
No disrespect, but, how old are you? After the cddb fiasco people around here learned. But that was like 10+ years ago. But since then a lot of other examples have occurred. I personally liked how DJB [*flame on!*] in his email headers (shiz, I read it in the archives no less, maybe news, wtf) included the following in paraphrase: I hereby license this work [email] under $public_domain, even, if, yuo have told me otherwise.
Know what? Since then, whenever I contribute any work _of mine_ I add that - as suffix to my/* copyleft license header comment, like so. */
Guess what, I do it like so to the likes of the LA Times, the Financial Times, Asahi Shimbun, Zappos, whomever. I want to give back, those comments have value, but since they haven't paid me, and if you bother reading the runon infinite legalese they always make a land grab, if not outright, then as a future option---and they always pick up the option. I get a drink before I get fucked, madam, and I say when.
BTW, if you've noticed the same BS occurs when your local news TV station asks for your photographs after a snow storm, flood, shooting, etc. Your name, your copyright NEVER appears in the televised photo. Google Earth barely gets a 1/10th second day-in-and-day-out when the TV stations use Google's imagery when highlighting the story du jour: Lybia, Honshu, Lincoln Park, etc. Tisk, tisk.
> : when you're trolling you're dragging bait through the > water hoping some sucker will take a bite.
I've been waiting since 1995 for someone to make the same association. That year whilst reading news I saw that term and my mind went to the same mental image. But then I realized, after many months of watching the word being bandied around, that no one else got it. Or, to wit, was thinking the same image, at least no one I ever read made it in print. I was thinking _trawling_, you know for lobster and shiz, but they meant trolling, as in mythical figures.
I figured geeks were fantasy addicts so absolutely that's what was always meant, indubitably.
On tangent. Ever notice how back then too, prior to its popularity, and apparition on the likes of The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, etc. it was: "Sorry, I meant to say The London Times, 'my bet!'"
If you listened, noticed, liked language, and wondered how it was spelled, everyone said "my bet." Later when the neologism was in the common culture and noted every suddenly enunciated "my bad."
Same goes for "Carmen." You know, "respect my otoritay!"
> > Let people tag sites they've found as a result of a search. Build a tagging system which will allow people to exclude linkspam for example.
> Because no spammer could write a program to repeatedly search for and tag their site.
Forget about that, baby. What it really sounds like is Yahoo's old human-search-edited directory. The Googe ("gooj" or "guj") kicked its ass with the algorithm.
If yopu have been paying attention Netflix's quality has gone down, substantially! Case in point. Six months ago I returned from a three year Netflix hiatus. Getting back to banging out the rest of the UFO (TV series) I saw that netflix did not have the series anymore! Fuck! Shit wears, print runs come and go, but, fuck! *right*
So I go to bang out Magnum PI, first season, you know Tom Berenger, Big Chill. Ah fuck you.;-) No season one. FUCK!!
So I order some current Italian foreign film, not here yet, but I can watch it, like streaming. Fuck you, that's for you lemmings. Three months later I am still waiting for it to go from Saved to Queue. FUCK!!!
So I order some Korean film, some Apatow sheisse, some D.W. some Torchwood and some some shit I can't remember and I get discs that are like visibly used, you know, like laser-side noticeably used. That's the kind of shiz I get from the library, but like I'm paying hard greenbacks. I gotta break out the alcohol or find a clean spot on my T-shirt! FUCK!!!! "I see a pattern here! No!"
I am in NY and I'm charged $16.99 PLUS TAX; when in the past 3 years did that shit happen?! FUCK!!!!!!
Then Blockbuster goes buster, 7, 11 or thirteen. FUCK? YEAH FUCK!!!!!!! Price goes up after that (~18%), in the past two months.
I am not happy with Amazon either, I just learned after purchasing that they are carrying water, collecting for NY tax too. 8.85% tax is not trivial. They should be based in UT or ND as far as I'm concerned, I was about to sign up for Prime shipping and order all my shit online, and I* mean everything or nearly so. Big TV, snow chains, toothpaste, books, music, books, clothing, zappos, whatever. And I remember the RMS-one-click-Bezos boycott, but it's time. It was. And I'm not into having my sheisse shipped to NJ for pick up when I bang my gf. I, for one, welcome another streaming-media-competitor overlord.
Unlike you and the other uncritical fanbois I read all nine fucking pages, and I did it overnight before this fucking/. story was posted.
Some highlights on either side of the coin:
* "... by Justice Hugo Black 40 years ago, concurring with the Supreme Court ruling that stopped the government from suppressing the secret Vietnam War history called the Pentagon Papers: “The government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people.”
* "Max Frankel, then the Washington bureau chief, wrote in a wise affidavit filed during the Pentagon Papers case: “For the vast majority of ‘secrets,’ there has developed between the government and the press (and Congress) a rather simple rule of thumb: The government hides what it can, pleading necessity as long as it can, and the press pries out what it can, pleading a need and a right to know. Each side in this ‘game’ regularly ‘wins’ and ‘loses’ a round or two. Each fights with the weapons at its command. When the government loses a secret or two, it simply adjusts to a new reality.”
* "By this time, The Times’s relationship with our source had gone from wary to hostile. I talked to Assange by phone a few times and heard out his complaints. He was angry that we declined to link our online coverage of the War Logs to the WikiLeaks Web site, a decision we made because we feared — rightly, as it turned out — that its trove would contain the names of low-level informants and make them Taliban targets. “Where’s the respect?” he demanded. “Where’s the respect?” Another time he called to tell me how much he disliked our profile of Bradley Manning, the Army private suspected of being the source of WikiLeaks’s most startling revelations. The article traced Manning’s childhood as an outsider and his distress as a gay man in the military. Assange complained that we “psychologicalized” Manning and gave short shrift to his “political awakening.”
The final straw was a front-page profile of Assange by John Burns and Ravi Somaiya, published Oct. 24, that revealed fractures within WikiLeaks, attributed by Assange’s critics to his imperious management style. Assange denounced the article to me, and in various public forums, as “a smear.”
* Since you are so attuned to your "tendentious rubric" of the Times putative bias of his 'bad' fashion sense, the Times also serves up the opposite:
"Assange was transformed by his outlaw celebrity. The derelict with the backpack and the sagging socks now wore his hair dyed and styled, and he favored fashionably skinny suits and ties."
There, there now, all better?
* "An independent journalist, Heather Brooke, had obtained material from a WikiLeaks dissident and joined in a loose alliance with The Guardian. Over the coming weeks, batches of cables would pop up in newspapers in Lebanon, Australia and Norway. David Leigh, The Guardian’s investigations editor, concluded that these rogue leaks released The Guardian from any pledge, and he gave us the cables.
On Nov. 1, Assange and two of his lawyers burst into Alan Rusbridger’s office, furious that The Guardian was asserting greater independence and suspicious that The Times might be in possession of the embassy cables. Over the course of an eight-hour meeting, Assange intermittently raged against The Times — especially over our front-page profile — while The Guardian journalists tried to calm him. In midstorm, Rusbridger called me to report on Assange’s grievances and relay his demand for a front-page apology in The Times. Rusbridger knew that this was a nonstarter, but he was buying time for the tantrum to subside. In the end, both he and Georg Mascolo, ed
I've been wondering or a while why there is not an AdBlocker-cookie-blocker? Subscriptions, ya know. Like who doesn't block doubleclick.net|com, bluekai, etc. But I don't follow this. So, a la Ghostery, AdBlocker cookie-cutter developer where art thou?
"Larry" Fishburne will have to lose like a thousand pounds. Or maybe he wont. Maybe Chong Jr. wont stick his foot in his mouth asking for the moon. Maybe Neo upgrades to an Android phone. Shizzzz! Product placement crystal ball sayz it's an Iphone. *jajaja*
> then whine unceasingly when shows get canceled for lack of revenue from viewers
Here's a frequent trope. I'll answer it, and I didn't murder anybody in the high seas for Hollywood content! Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Hardly. Let the film, tv, music studios fail, let the airwaves go silent. Nature abhors a vacuum, it'll be filled. Lest you are financially invested in the system, welcome the new growth. It's bound to better than this. No ifs ands or buts. I love tv, most of it sails past me, I waited for it to address me but as a mistreated, unloved, uncared for being might say, fuck you I'm tired of waiting, I'm doing my own thing, curse your unlucky stars on day. I'm not a fucking boomer.
> and used manual guidance on the missiles along with several spotters who reported the flight path.
Don't forget the dissection of and _prediction from_ past Nighthawk sorties! That was vital. I still can't accept the foul up of not bombing the 117's wreckage for supposed fears of striking nosy hate filled "civilians." Otherwise known as greater Serbia war mongers, genocide apologists, genocide participants.
I remember news stories not too long afterward of a second F117 being downed. It seems to be a false claim as I can't find reports of the downing last I checked. The stealthy bomber that saw first blood over Panama, where it refined the bombing tactics later seen, literally, in Desert Storm was then used as a predictable truck would to ferry bombs. Sortie after sortie, day after day, mission after mission, week in and out! After that they got wise, they throttled back on the black bird.
You're being ironical---yes! Alanis there is a word for that. Kaufmanississisism is not clever, neither did I think his shiz was clever then, or, now. But the man and Hollywood told me it was 'cause, you know, they made a movie about it and shit and proclaimed it so. Aha! As do an endless number of dunderhead radio DJs. The Bizarro sterling recommendation. Who knows, maybe you was serious about dat.
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> If you can spare some money, donate it to the newly-homeless
> residents of Miyagi and Iwate
As an American I've been advising my friends not to donate funds to Japan relief. Why would you need monetary aid in a macro scale, seriously?
Japan is as rich as the USA, has vastly greater savings, astronomical foreign trade surpluses, etc. I'm saying this not to castigate but to support my argument.
What you need, what Japan needs is food aid, rescue aid, salvage aid, _frank_ nuclear advise aid, _immediate_ potable water aid. IOW, the life or death shit that any nation might have less than infinite numbers.
Respectfully, what your country needs most aid in is a collective smack-in-the-head to your leadership system, that which you call a government. Habitual ritual apologies on behalf of melting nuclear reactors (and spewing radiation to the four winds and most of East Asia as well as South East Asia, not to mention Russia, and but fuck you P.M. Kan the USA, man you have some balls, Japan) is wilful blindness to facts.
I've mentioned this many times before but it never get modded up.
Robert X Cringely is a nom de plume for many individuals!
In the OP it's at least partially qualified.
> but for those of us who contributed only to have someone > cash in on out hard work leaves a bad taste in our mouths.
No disrespect, but, how old are you? After the cddb fiasco people around here learned. But that was like 10+ years ago. But since then a lot of other examples have occurred. I personally liked how DJB [*flame on!*] in his email headers (shiz, I read it in the archives no less, maybe news, wtf) included the following in paraphrase: I hereby license this work [email] under $public_domain, even, if, yuo have told me otherwise.
Know what? Since then, whenever I contribute any work _of mine_ I add that - as suffix to my /* copyleft license header comment, like so. */
Guess what, I do it like so to the likes of the LA Times, the Financial Times, Asahi Shimbun, Zappos, whomever. I want to give back, those comments have value, but since they haven't paid me, and if you bother reading the runon infinite legalese they always make a land grab, if not outright, then as a future option---and they always pick up the option. I get a drink before I get fucked, madam, and I say when.
BTW, if you've noticed the same BS occurs when your local news TV station asks for your photographs after a snow storm, flood, shooting, etc. Your name, your copyright NEVER appears in the televised photo. Google Earth barely gets a 1/10th second day-in-and-day-out when the TV stations use Google's imagery when highlighting the story du jour: Lybia, Honshu, Lincoln Park, etc. Tisk, tisk.
> : when you're trolling you're dragging bait through the
> water hoping some sucker will take a bite.
I've been waiting since 1995 for someone to make the same association. That year whilst reading news I saw that term and my mind went to the same mental image. But then I realized, after many months of watching the word being bandied around, that no one else got it. Or, to wit, was thinking the same image, at least no one I ever read made it in print. I was thinking _trawling_, you know for lobster and shiz, but they meant trolling, as in mythical figures.
I figured geeks were fantasy addicts so absolutely that's what was always meant, indubitably.
On tangent. Ever notice how back then too, prior to its popularity, and apparition on the likes of The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, etc. it was: "Sorry, I meant to say The London Times, 'my bet!'"
If you listened, noticed, liked language, and wondered how it was spelled, everyone said "my bet." Later when the neologism was in the common culture and noted every suddenly enunciated "my bad."
Same goes for "Carmen." You know, "respect my otoritay!"
> > Let people tag sites they've found as a result of a search. Build a tagging system which will allow people to exclude linkspam for example.
> Because no spammer could write a program to repeatedly search for and tag their site.
Forget about that, baby. What it really sounds like is Yahoo's old human-search-edited directory. The Googe ("gooj" or "guj") kicked its ass with the algorithm.
How about satellite-burst SMS? Any sat phones offer this?
If yopu have been paying attention Netflix's quality has gone down, substantially! Case in point. Six months ago I returned from a three year Netflix hiatus. Getting back to banging out the rest of the UFO (TV series) I saw that netflix did not have the series anymore! Fuck! Shit wears, print runs come and go, but, fuck! *right*
So I go to bang out Magnum PI, first season, you know Tom Berenger, Big Chill. Ah fuck you. ;-) No season one. FUCK!!
So I order some current Italian foreign film, not here yet, but I can watch it, like streaming. Fuck you, that's for you lemmings. Three months later I am still waiting for it to go from Saved to Queue. FUCK!!!
So I order some Korean film, some Apatow sheisse, some D.W. some Torchwood and some some shit I can't remember and I get discs that are like visibly used, you know, like laser-side noticeably used. That's the kind of shiz I get from the library, but like I'm paying hard greenbacks. I gotta break out the alcohol or find a clean spot on my T-shirt! FUCK!!!! "I see a pattern here! No!"
I am in NY and I'm charged $16.99 PLUS TAX; when in the past 3 years did that shit happen?! FUCK!!!!!!
Then Blockbuster goes buster, 7, 11 or thirteen. FUCK? YEAH FUCK!!!!!!! Price goes up after that (~18%), in the past two months.
I am not happy with Amazon either, I just learned after purchasing that they are carrying water, collecting for NY tax too. 8.85% tax is not trivial. They should be based in UT or ND as far as I'm concerned, I was about to sign up for Prime shipping and order all my shit online, and I* mean everything or nearly so. Big TV, snow chains, toothpaste, books, music, books, clothing, zappos, whatever. And I remember the RMS-one-click-Bezos boycott, but it's time. It was. And I'm not into having my sheisse shipped to NJ for pick up when I bang my gf. I, for one, welcome another streaming-media-competitor overlord.
10 centimeters, that's like a decimeter right. Why not say that.
> "Watchful caution!
Is there any other kind?
> Avatar come!"
Mine always does, honey.
> and people have a tendency to swerve, slowdown and do other
> strange reactions when there's obstructions
Do they have the tendency to defy gravity, perhaps by hitting the ole Jetson anti-gravity drive? Get realz.
> if we want to get off the mobile carrier teat and buy them ourselves.
Wait a minute, you just argued persuasively that carriers make it nearly impossible. So, which is it?
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Julian is that you?
~We made openssh so that fucking legacy rash will die!~ --Theo deRaadt
Damn hippies!
Unlike you and the other uncritical fanbois I read all nine fucking pages, and I did it overnight before this fucking /. story was posted.
Some highlights on either side of the coin:
* "... by Justice Hugo Black 40 years ago, concurring with the Supreme Court ruling that stopped the government from suppressing the secret Vietnam War history called the Pentagon Papers: “The government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people.”
* "Max Frankel, then the Washington bureau chief, wrote in a wise affidavit filed during the Pentagon Papers case: “For the vast majority of ‘secrets,’ there has developed between the government and the press (and Congress) a rather simple rule of thumb: The government hides what it can, pleading necessity as long as it can, and the press pries out what it can, pleading a need and a right to know. Each side in this ‘game’ regularly ‘wins’ and ‘loses’ a round or two. Each fights with the weapons at its command. When the government loses a secret or two, it simply adjusts to a new reality.”
* "By this time, The Times’s relationship with our source had gone from wary to hostile. I talked to Assange by phone a few times and heard out his complaints. He was angry that we declined to link our online coverage of the War Logs to the WikiLeaks Web site, a decision we made because we feared — rightly, as it turned out — that its trove would contain the names of low-level informants and make them Taliban targets. “Where’s the respect?” he demanded. “Where’s the respect?” Another time he called to tell me how much he disliked our profile of Bradley Manning, the Army private suspected of being the source of WikiLeaks’s most startling revelations. The article traced Manning’s childhood as an outsider and his distress as a gay man in the military. Assange complained that we “psychologicalized” Manning and gave short shrift to his “political awakening.”
The final straw was a front-page profile of Assange by John Burns and Ravi Somaiya, published Oct. 24, that revealed fractures within WikiLeaks, attributed by Assange’s critics to his imperious management style. Assange denounced the article to me, and in various public forums, as “a smear.”
* Since you are so attuned to your "tendentious rubric" of the Times putative bias of his 'bad' fashion sense, the Times also serves up the opposite:
"Assange was transformed by his outlaw celebrity. The derelict with the backpack and the sagging socks now wore his hair dyed and styled, and he favored fashionably skinny suits and ties."
There, there now, all better?
* "An independent journalist, Heather Brooke, had obtained material from a WikiLeaks dissident and joined in a loose alliance with The Guardian. Over the coming weeks, batches of cables would pop up in newspapers in Lebanon, Australia and Norway. David Leigh, The Guardian’s investigations editor, concluded that these rogue leaks released The Guardian from any pledge, and he gave us the cables.
On Nov. 1, Assange and two of his lawyers burst into Alan Rusbridger’s office, furious that The Guardian was asserting greater independence and suspicious that The Times might be in possession of the embassy cables. Over the course of an eight-hour meeting, Assange intermittently raged against The Times — especially over our front-page profile — while The Guardian journalists tried to calm him. In midstorm, Rusbridger called me to report on Assange’s grievances and relay his demand for a front-page apology in The Times. Rusbridger knew that this was a nonstarter, but he was buying time for the tantrum to subside. In the end, both he and Georg Mascolo, ed
> > that 3D cinema can't work, ever. Not just today's technology, but even theoretically.
> Since 3D cinema pretty clearly empirically does "work" for most reasonable definitions of the word "work",
Implicit and tacit are lost on you.
Someone else eating their lunch not their problem?
* Those are MY bitches, playa!
* Using and abusing our users is OUR job!
* If someone is going to fuck them in the ass IT'S going to be ME. ... things that might be overheard in Facebook control.
> people resort to these measures because web advertising has become
> abusive because they desperately want attention.
I'm just a market force. You want a market mechanism? Equilibrium = ads + abuse + ad networks drive by attacks - ad blocker - web bug blocker - flash blocker + advertiser rants + advertiser counter tactics - ridicule - Element Hiding Helper - capitulation + flailing - demoralize = Detente? Bring on the sixth republic.
I've been wondering or a while why there is not an AdBlocker-cookie-blocker? Subscriptions, ya know. Like who doesn't block doubleclick.net|com, bluekai, etc. But I don't follow this. So, a la Ghostery, AdBlocker cookie-cutter developer where art thou?
"Larry" Fishburne will have to lose like a thousand pounds. Or maybe he wont. Maybe Chong Jr. wont stick his foot in his mouth asking for the moon. Maybe Neo upgrades to an Android phone. Shizzzz! Product placement crystal ball sayz it's an Iphone. *jajaja*
> then whine unceasingly when shows get canceled for lack of revenue from viewers
Here's a frequent trope. I'll answer it, and I didn't murder anybody in the high seas for Hollywood content! Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Hardly. Let the film, tv, music studios fail, let the airwaves go silent. Nature abhors a vacuum, it'll be filled. Lest you are financially invested in the system, welcome the new growth. It's bound to better than this. No ifs ands or buts. I love tv, most of it sails past me, I waited for it to address me but as a mistreated, unloved, uncared for being might say, fuck you I'm tired of waiting, I'm doing my own thing, curse your unlucky stars on day. I'm not a fucking boomer.
> and used manual guidance on the missiles along with several spotters who reported the flight path.
Don't forget the dissection of and _prediction from_ past Nighthawk sorties! That was vital. I still can't accept the foul up of not bombing the 117's wreckage for supposed fears of striking nosy hate filled "civilians." Otherwise known as greater Serbia war mongers, genocide apologists, genocide participants.
I remember news stories not too long afterward of a second F117 being downed. It seems to be a false claim as I can't find reports of the downing last I checked. The stealthy bomber that saw first blood over Panama, where it refined the bombing tactics later seen, literally, in Desert Storm was then used as a predictable truck would to ferry bombs. Sortie after sortie, day after day, mission after mission, week in and out! After that they got wise, they throttled back on the black bird.
What? No link? What will the masses do?
[ faux ranting ]
You're being ironical---yes! Alanis there is a word for that. Kaufmanississisism is not clever, neither did I think his shiz was clever then, or, now. But the man and Hollywood told me it was 'cause, you know, they made a movie about it and shit and proclaimed it so. Aha! As do an endless number of dunderhead radio DJs. The Bizarro sterling recommendation. Who knows, maybe you was serious about dat.
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