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Perhaps it's the cowards that voted out of fear instead of with their conscience that should take a long hard look at themselves. Instead of join the revolution, they tried to bail out a sinking ship.
Democrats will scapegoat Nader, but that's a cop-out. The television pundits will talk ad nauseum about "The Nader Factor." They need to accept the fact that Gore was not able to mobilize people even off a 60% approval rating for Clinton. Bush was able to mobilize people. That's it. There's nothing more to it.
What we are left with is an election season that created $3 billion dollars in donations. Those aren't the empty campaign promises that the candidates have been selling the general public. These are real IOUs that will be paid in full and then some, with pork barrel tax cuts, corporate welfare, and a free ride on polluting our environment. And that would be true regardless of who came out on top.
The question that always gets asked is, "Do you believe that any innocent person has been executed yet?" My question is a little bit different. I would like to know, "Do you believe that anyone whose lawyer fell asleep during court proceedings has been executed?"
If things keep going this way we can expect them to shut down every other place that provides directory listings in which copyright violators are listed. Such sites include Yahoo, Altavista, HotBot, Lycos, Looksmart, and every other search engine in every corner of the Internet.
I mean, I would love to have an electric powered car, right? Where would I charge it? Just about only at my house! What would I charge it in?
Actually the new Toyota Prius doesn't need to be plugged in. It uses gas to charge the battery and uses regenerative breaking to re-coup some of the power lost by breaking. It gets like 50mpg city and 40mpg highway with a range of 600miles on a full tank. All that for only $20,000. I don't mean to sound like an advert but I figure the more popular it gets the more manufacturers will have to consider it. Honda has a gas/electric hybrid on the market now too but that one looks kind of gay.
I once read a creationist article that used the fact that there wasn't enough Hydrogen around for the Universe to be that old as an argument against Big Bang and Evolution. heh.
Destroys all your MP3s? I heard about this thing a while ago, I think it was called Project Zapster. It was done by some hacker group called the RIAA. Sneeky SOBs.
The way I reacted to this news, and I'm sure at least some of you, was with outrage. But then I realized why I was upset. It's because I didn't think of it first (and have $50m to pull it off).
I am confident that since the 2600 team has more time to prepare for this one, they will be better able to defend themselves. Remember, last time they only had a few hours to get their shit together.
In the California lawsuit, the DVDCCA did ask for the judge to have the sites remove links to the code on other sites but the judge decided against it. This is excerpted from Judge Elfving's ruling:
However, the Court refuses to issue an injunction against linking to other websites which contain the protected materials as such an order is overbroad and extremely burdensome. Links to other websites are the mainstay of the Internet and indispensable to its convenient access to the vast world of information. A website owner cannot be held responsible for all of the content of the sites to which it provides links. Further, an order prohibiting linking to websites with prohibited information is not necessary since the Court has enjoined the posting of the information in the first instance.
has anyone ever played Herzog Zwi? It was an old game for Genesis. The first ever real time head to head strategy war game. I don't think it was all that much of a commercial success but me and my friends used to have 3 hour long wars with it. That was the greatest game I've ever played. If they re-released that for Dreamcast and allowed for internet play. I'd buy it in a sec.
fondly recalling sega cd and 32X, tingalingusob -- no point, just getting nostalgic and shooting the shit.
Personally, I would have liked to see Microsoft be crushed under the pressure of free open source software. It would have been a real victory, instead of these legal shenanaguns. The details of this case are so old that it's absolutely irrelevant to what's going on today. They are suing over MS giving IE away for free with Windows. I think that was the best thing they ever did. tingalingusob
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I don't believe the article was referring to power users, or administrators, or developers. It's talking about designing a GUI for ordinary folk.
You couldn't get condoms in college? Where did you go to college, Bob Jones University?
Can we get a link that doesn't make my skin crawl?
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amar
Push the rock to find the dagger.
The ever self-righteous,
amar
The rumors, allegations, and half truths continue even after the election.
amar
"The excrement has hit the airconditioning."
amar
The networks just declared Bush as the winner.
Perhaps it's the cowards that voted out of fear instead of with their conscience that should take a long hard look at themselves. Instead of join the revolution, they tried to bail out a sinking ship.
Democrats will scapegoat Nader, but that's a cop-out. The television pundits will talk ad nauseum about "The Nader Factor." They need to accept the fact that Gore was not able to mobilize people even off a 60% approval rating for Clinton. Bush was able to mobilize people. That's it. There's nothing more to it.
What we are left with is an election season that created $3 billion dollars in donations. Those aren't the empty campaign promises that the candidates have been selling the general public. These are real IOUs that will be paid in full and then some, with pork barrel tax cuts, corporate welfare, and a free ride on polluting our environment. And that would be true regardless of who came out on top.
Amar
Bush wants to
Give a tax cut
Increase defense spending
Have a prescription drug plan
Increase spending on the drug war
Is anyone keeping track of all this? Does he plan on selling everything in the Lincoln bedroom on ebay to pay for all this?
amar
Amar
tingaling
tingaling
I mean, I would love to have an electric powered car, right? Where would I charge it? Just about only at my house! What would I charge it in?
Actually the new Toyota Prius doesn't need to be plugged in. It uses gas to charge the battery and uses regenerative breaking to re-coup some of the power lost by breaking. It gets like 50mpg city and 40mpg highway with a range of 600miles on a full tank. All that for only $20,000. I don't mean to sound like an advert but I figure the more popular it gets the more manufacturers will have to consider it. Honda has a gas/electric hybrid on the market now too but that one looks kind of gay.
fuck you.
I once read a creationist article that used the fact that there wasn't enough Hydrogen around for the Universe to be that old as an argument against Big Bang and Evolution. heh.
Destroys all your MP3s? I heard about this thing a while ago, I think it was called Project Zapster. It was done by some hacker group called the RIAA. Sneeky SOBs.
Ting-a-ling
The way I reacted to this news, and I'm sure at least some of you, was with outrage. But then I realized why I was upset. It's because I didn't think of it first (and have $50m to pull it off).
tingalingusob@tv.sucks
I doubt that nbc.tv, abc.tv, or fox.tv will go for $200.
tingalingusob@tv.sucks
I am confident that since the 2600 team has more time to prepare for this one, they will be better able to defend themselves. Remember, last time they only had a few hours to get their shit together.
In the California lawsuit, the DVDCCA did ask for the judge to have the sites remove links to the code on other sites but the judge decided against it. This is excerpted from Judge Elfving's ruling:
However, the Court refuses to issue an injunction against linking to other websites which contain the protected materials as such an order is overbroad and extremely burdensome. Links to other websites are the mainstay of the Internet and indispensable to its convenient access to the vast world of information. A website owner cannot be held responsible for all of the content of the sites to which it provides links. Further, an order prohibiting linking to websites with prohibited information is not necessary since the Court has enjoined the posting of the information in the first instance.
I'm optimistic about our chances.
Injunct this.
tingalingusob
has anyone ever played Herzog Zwi? It was an old game for Genesis. The first ever real time head to head strategy war game. I don't think it was all that much of a commercial success but me and my friends used to have 3 hour long wars with it. That was the greatest game I've ever played. If they re-released that for Dreamcast and allowed for internet play. I'd buy it in a sec.
fondly recalling sega cd and 32X,
tingalingusob
-- no point, just getting nostalgic and shooting the shit.
Personally, I would have liked to see Microsoft be crushed under the pressure of free open source software. It would have been a real victory, instead of these legal shenanaguns. The details of this case are so old that it's absolutely irrelevant to what's going on today. They are suing over MS giving IE away for free with Windows. I think that was the best thing they ever did. tingalingusob
Sony:
"Sorry guys, the software we gave you is too good. You'll have to return it for an inferior copy. I'm sure you understand."
Customers:
"Fuck off."
translated from Japanese by,
tingalingusob