Do you have a legitimate explanation for the following: from around 1200 AD to 1890 AD there was less than a.1 degree Celsius change (+/-) in the mean global temperature, followed by (as soon as industrialization took over every developing/developed nation) a.8 degree Celsius increase in the mean global temperature from 1900-2000. After nearly a millenium of virtually no change, it increases eightfold coincidentally when humans begin polluting the atmosphere?
Sad part is, for you to have actually typed that out and consciously decide to post it, you probably followed it up by opening a new tab and beginning your jack-off procedures.
But Vancouver's luge track is the one you choose to flame. How about letting an athlete willing to do 95 mph down a curvy piece of ice take the blame for once?
Fail analogy; everyone dies. I believe eating healthy (by obeying the most intelligent nutritionists/biologists in the world) will kill you. Unfalsifiable.
You made it through -- not around, but through -- three of the largest cities in the US without having to use a personal vehicle or pay for gasoline? You're an inspiration; the other ~308,000,000 people in the US should take note and sell their vehicles if they own one as well!
I've had a few too and it caught me off-guard as well, but even inebriated I ended up realizing how slick he is: there was no dollar-sign ($) in front of 11.876.
There are many legal avenues that a well-paid legal team can travel down to simply outpace the individual in both resources and time.
I'm going to tell a quick story. When I was a minor (though admittedly close to 18), my parent and I filed a lawsuit against [z] for wrongful discipline. It wasn't really wrongful discipline, but that's the easiest way to put it: [x] had broken code/regulations dozens of times during the course of the incident after I had unknowingly done something wrong due to a "disability"; my lawyer discovered all of this, and we filed the lawsuit. During the first settlement meeting, they were in one room, we were in another, our lawyers/mediators were jumping all over and meeting privately at times. (Typical mediation.) They were extremely heavy-handed and wouldn't settle for more than a meager amount at first. Four hours into the meeting, the mediator and my lawyer came in the room and we began talking. I decided to play the best card I had after the mediator had informed me that they will be willing to spend however much money it takes, and go through trial for probably over a year, (that that is their main weapon against litigants that are common folk without much money.) I made it very clear to the mediator: "Listen, I'm going to be honest, I don't care about this settlement, it's not even a dent in my worth. I want them to learn their lesson, and I will not walk out of here without getting at least 20x what they are offering. When I turn 18, I am inheriting over two million dollars and will be more than happy to pay as many lawyers as it takes. [$x] is an insult to me and my family, and unless we see [$20x], we'll be looking very forward to trial and the ability to speak to the press about this whole ordeal."
Long story short, after 5 hours worth of arguing over the size of a three digit settlement, the mediator came back and informed us that over the course of five minutes, they accepted the five-digit number upon finding out about my inheritance and my eagerness to go to trial. For me, it wasn't a risky move: my lawyer already had the media lined up to speak to me and break the story, I really was inheriting a very large amount of money, and I was dying to go to trial (because of the severity of the "awe" factor in my favor). It's important to note, however, that if you have these three things against you, it becomes a much risker move to make. Though it's a risky move, its very effective, because as this article clearly shows, a large corporation/entity's main weapon is the fact that they can afford far more legal action than you can. Also please note that I was blessed to have had a great lawyer: my family and I were literally going days without eating in order to pay the mortgage and one or two bills a month (single parent), but my lawyer offered to take the case and allow me to pay him once I turned 18 or when we won. Because I was a minor, the settlement wasn't given to me until I was 18 anyway. I was very lucky to have such a large upper-hand against an entity that had an enormous advantage to begin with.
Moral of the story: as soon as they found out I was willing to dish out just as much (if not more) money than they were to fight, they backed down and realized even 20x the original settlement amount is worth ending the matter ASAP. Granted, this article is dealing with the RIAA and I have nowhere near the amount of available resources that they do. Because of that, they will continue fighting this battle just because they can and would like to deter file-sharers from doing this in the future. Legal fights are all about money: ever seen the lower-class people on Judge Judy fighting over $100? How long do those cases last? Think about it, it's all about money, and unfortunately when an entity as large as the RIAA sues an individual, it is a very uneven fight.
Are you retarded? Did you not read the last few words explaining that it must be done in a violent manner? Is voting violent? Idiot. And yes, I mean idiot, because only an idiot would read 49 words of a sentence and forgot the final 8.
I think the stupidity lies within the selective readers who have no problem reading, analyzing, and interpreting what you quoted, but gloss right over the last several words requiring it be in a VIOLENT MANNER.
If we were moving back in time to 1999, I'd be a hell of a candidate. For now, hit me up if you need someone to write your thesis paper or ghost-write a book for you.
You just proved my point PERFECTLY. I said that today "you're either an advanced black hat, an advanced white hat, script kiddie, or nothing." I am none of those. I considered myself a hacker at one time, after being mentored for years by a white-hat working in the Italian government and a black-hat creating/selling neural-network software for hospital uses in Nashville. It was a different time back then, I guess that's all I can say.
He meant mass laziness, as in even if Google's social networking services are far more powerful and intuitive than Facebook's, mass laziness will stop them -all- from switching over. Since they -all- won't switch over, many individuals won't switch. It's a mean spiral.
... where the hell did you get this? This is about Google creating some social networking services integrated with Gmail... not Google and Facebook teaming up..
I just realized the parent was trying to make a joke about how 0days have been on the black market since the 90's. When I read it the first time I thought it was a nostalgic reference, not a reference to the fact that the news contained in this story is far from news. Maybe olds, but not news.
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Do you have a legitimate explanation for the following: from around 1200 AD to 1890 AD there was less than a .1 degree Celsius change (+/-) in the mean global temperature, followed by (as soon as industrialization took over every developing/developed nation) a .8 degree Celsius increase in the mean global temperature from 1900-2000. After nearly a millenium of virtually no change, it increases eightfold coincidentally when humans begin polluting the atmosphere?
Sad part is, for you to have actually typed that out and consciously decide to post it, you probably followed it up by opening a new tab and beginning your jack-off procedures.
2006 Olympic Luge Track: http://jasondeem.com/Travel/2006-Winter-Olympics/IMG1203/95743972_uLP92-S-1.jpg
2002 Olympic Luge Track: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~cwyman/personal/olympics/web_bobsledtrack.jpg
But Vancouver's luge track is the one you choose to flame. How about letting an athlete willing to do 95 mph down a curvy piece of ice take the blame for once?
Fail analogy; everyone dies. I believe eating healthy (by obeying the most intelligent nutritionists/biologists in the world) will kill you. Unfalsifiable.
You made it through -- not around, but through -- three of the largest cities in the US without having to use a personal vehicle or pay for gasoline? You're an inspiration; the other ~308,000,000 people in the US should take note and sell their vehicles if they own one as well!
What an ignorant jackass.
I've had a few too and it caught me off-guard as well, but even inebriated I ended up realizing how slick he is: there was no dollar-sign ($) in front of 11.876.
The ignorance of your post is incredible.
He's just salty because he wasn't invited.
That's what I'm sayin'! $50 for a device like this? Most people would pay far more...
Dear Slashdotters,
Can someone explain posts like this to me? I don't quite understand why someone would go through the effort of posting something like this...
There are many legal avenues that a well-paid legal team can travel down to simply outpace the individual in both resources and time.
I'm going to tell a quick story. When I was a minor (though admittedly close to 18), my parent and I filed a lawsuit against [z] for wrongful discipline. It wasn't really wrongful discipline, but that's the easiest way to put it: [x] had broken code/regulations dozens of times during the course of the incident after I had unknowingly done something wrong due to a "disability"; my lawyer discovered all of this, and we filed the lawsuit. During the first settlement meeting, they were in one room, we were in another, our lawyers/mediators were jumping all over and meeting privately at times. (Typical mediation.) They were extremely heavy-handed and wouldn't settle for more than a meager amount at first. Four hours into the meeting, the mediator and my lawyer came in the room and we began talking. I decided to play the best card I had after the mediator had informed me that they will be willing to spend however much money it takes, and go through trial for probably over a year, (that that is their main weapon against litigants that are common folk without much money.) I made it very clear to the mediator: "Listen, I'm going to be honest, I don't care about this settlement, it's not even a dent in my worth. I want them to learn their lesson, and I will not walk out of here without getting at least 20x what they are offering. When I turn 18, I am inheriting over two million dollars and will be more than happy to pay as many lawyers as it takes. [$x] is an insult to me and my family, and unless we see [$20x], we'll be looking very forward to trial and the ability to speak to the press about this whole ordeal."
Long story short, after 5 hours worth of arguing over the size of a three digit settlement, the mediator came back and informed us that over the course of five minutes, they accepted the five-digit number upon finding out about my inheritance and my eagerness to go to trial. For me, it wasn't a risky move: my lawyer already had the media lined up to speak to me and break the story, I really was inheriting a very large amount of money, and I was dying to go to trial (because of the severity of the "awe" factor in my favor). It's important to note, however, that if you have these three things against you, it becomes a much risker move to make. Though it's a risky move, its very effective, because as this article clearly shows, a large corporation/entity's main weapon is the fact that they can afford far more legal action than you can. Also please note that I was blessed to have had a great lawyer: my family and I were literally going days without eating in order to pay the mortgage and one or two bills a month (single parent), but my lawyer offered to take the case and allow me to pay him once I turned 18 or when we won. Because I was a minor, the settlement wasn't given to me until I was 18 anyway. I was very lucky to have such a large upper-hand against an entity that had an enormous advantage to begin with.
Moral of the story: as soon as they found out I was willing to dish out just as much (if not more) money than they were to fight, they backed down and realized even 20x the original settlement amount is worth ending the matter ASAP. Granted, this article is dealing with the RIAA and I have nowhere near the amount of available resources that they do. Because of that, they will continue fighting this battle just because they can and would like to deter file-sharers from doing this in the future. Legal fights are all about money: ever seen the lower-class people on Judge Judy fighting over $100? How long do those cases last? Think about it, it's all about money, and unfortunately when an entity as large as the RIAA sues an individual, it is a very uneven fight.
Would you mind elaborating, for the sake of us /.'ers?
Are you retarded? Did you not read the last few words explaining that it must be done in a violent manner? Is voting violent? Idiot. And yes, I mean idiot, because only an idiot would read 49 words of a sentence and forgot the final 8.
I think the stupidity lies within the selective readers who have no problem reading, analyzing, and interpreting what you quoted, but gloss right over the last several words requiring it be in a VIOLENT MANNER.
No shit? The fact that the point of news is to spread new information had nothing to do with it?
So anyone creating a social networking application is ultimately gaining access to Facebook?
Off-topic, would you mind explaining the point of your signature?
What if the code they use has errors that affect the outcome of their experiments? What should be done? Let it slide?
The scientists aren't being asked to release every piece of code in their repository, just the code they used to reach the conclusions they published.
If we were moving back in time to 1999, I'd be a hell of a candidate. For now, hit me up if you need someone to write your thesis paper or ghost-write a book for you.
You just proved my point PERFECTLY. I said that today "you're either an advanced black hat, an advanced white hat, script kiddie, or nothing." I am none of those. I considered myself a hacker at one time, after being mentored for years by a white-hat working in the Italian government and a black-hat creating/selling neural-network software for hospital uses in Nashville. It was a different time back then, I guess that's all I can say.
He meant mass laziness, as in even if Google's social networking services are far more powerful and intuitive than Facebook's, mass laziness will stop them -all- from switching over. Since they -all- won't switch over, many individuals won't switch. It's a mean spiral.
Aggressive? Elaborate?
... where the hell did you get this? This is about Google creating some social networking services integrated with Gmail... not Google and Facebook teaming up..
I just realized the parent was trying to make a joke about how 0days have been on the black market since the 90's. When I read it the first time I thought it was a nostalgic reference, not a reference to the fact that the news contained in this story is far from news. Maybe olds, but not news.