it seems that chuck norris is not longer the top choice:
and congratulations to the hungarians for not letting themselves get pushed around by socially-maladjusted north americans who think a legitimate attempt at citizen participation is nothing more than an opportunity for a practical joke.
i admit i've never seen this colbert guy's show but it seems that his recent schtick has been to damage other people's hard work and call it 'comedy'. what he encouraged his viewers to do to wikipedia was nothing short of vandalism. period. i wonder if some kids spray painted rude words on his garage door if he would find that funny as well.
Crypto's perfectly legal here, as far as i know there aren't any laws (yet) that say we have to hand over the keys..
the reason why openbsd holds their hackathon in canada is because of crypto legislation (or lack thereof). here's my source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
Business has the same responsibilities as the people.
wrong.
business has one responsibility: to make profit for their shareholders. if that means firing you, okay. if that means shipping your job overseas, fine. if that means violating any labour law they can get away with (or afford to get caught for), sure.
if you don't like that you have three options:
whinge and complain but, bascially do nothing about and pray your boss doesn't hear you being 'ungrateful'
start your own company so you can be the person shipping jobs overseas and reaping the profit
unionize
this is the way the economy runs for steelworkers and the way it runs for programmers. period.
What did they do! Now we have to find four missing links to put between these they just found!
you may think it's funny, but this is exactly what creationists do. as the fossil record fills out more and more, they continue to demand finer granularity. no mater how many different stages of evolution are found, there will always be missing intermediaries.
it's like xeno's paradox: you can never get to a certain place because you must first go half the distance, and then half the remainder, then half of that remainder... and so on.
I just wonder how long it will be before Mark Klein is repaid for his heroic and patriotic act with legal action from AT&T, a la Stephen Heller / Diebold
what i want to know is how long is it going to be before we start boycotting at&t?
c'mon! i already changed my webmail provider to one that didn't traceroute over obviously at&t-owned lines. it's fun and easy!
What? Overpopulated? Have you ever been to the United States? How about OUTSIDE any metropolitan city? I can travel 30 miles in any direction and be far far from any 'over population'.
you're assuming that the only space and resouces that people use are the ones they're standing or living on.
what about the land needed to grow the food these people eat? that's not in cities. what about the water required to irrigate deserts so those people can have lettuce in january? that's not in cities. what about all the oil required to run suvs and make platic shampoo bottles for all those people? what about the massive hydro and coal electricity projects needed to run all those electric shavers and 60" televisions?
just consider food for a moment. the average north american diet requires 3 acres of areable land per person per year. for the entire population of the united states that works out to just less a billion acres.
Absolutely! This is what the counterintelligence agencies DO!
it is? it seems like mostly what the 'intelligence' community does in the united states these days is spy on unarmed, constitutionally-protected demonstrators. like these cases, for instance:
i'll say... like a privacy policy perhaps? does boddy who runs this thing own my content?
microsoft may have all sorts of draconian licensing policies, but at least i know what they are. with this thing i can just type up all sorts of private content that can be read easily and, apparently, legally by who knows who.
That is ad hominem. Whether he was paid or not has absolutely no bearing on the accuracy of his statements.
You can check the accurracy of his statements and decide if they are correct.
correct. attempting to invalidate someone's statements by pointing out they have been paid to make them is ad hominem. just because a person, in a worst case scenario, makes a cynical statement merely for personal profit has absolutely no bearing on the truth of that statement whatsoever.
now, having said that, i went and read the article and have come to the conclusion that the real purpotrator of fallicies in this thread is Jonathan Zuck himself. the entire rambling piece is little more than a bag of poor analogies propped up as straw men, miscontextualized quotes and mild ad hominem. this is a gross exercise in rhetoric that brings approprixmately zero new insight to discussion about the future of the gpl.
>> They're saying that it was every bit as warm in 800 A.D. then? That kinda discounts their theory that modern man is causing global warming then doesn't it?
>The global warming crowd hates inconvient facts like that.
i think the 'global warming crowd' would take your rebuttal more seriously if you actually bothered to read the article. here's a direct quote you might have caught if you'd done so:
Reliable records from trees and other sources go back only about 1,200 years, but this allowed the researchers to measure the magnitude of the current bout of warming
so, the answer is: it's not "every bit as warm in 800 A.D.", it's just that there's only data to go back that far.
golf is good because you can cheat... or, more importantly, let your boss cheat. it's easy to turn the other way when the vp of sales kicks his titelist back onto the fairway.
in wow, however, such "curtousies" are hard to pull off.
remember, golf was invented so that upper management could feel good at something and so that we could have something to screw up deliberately to stroke their egos.
>> Blockbuster won't carry NC-17 or "unrated" versions of movies.
This is also untrue. I haven't seen any NC-17 rated movies at Blockbuster, but that's probably because there haven't been any NC-17 rated movies released by a major studio in a decade.
on february 10 2002 robert ebert (who apparently knows stuff about movies) stated:
[Blockbuster] refuses to handle NC-17 movies, insisting that R-rated versions be supplied. Blockbuster thus dictates both format and content. Imagine the outcry if a book store stocked only the Reader's Digest Condensed Book versions of a novel, and quietly removed all the offensive parts. ...
By refusing to handle NC-17 movies, Blockbuster has all but destroyed the freedom of American directors to make studio pictures intended for adults.
After I hear a song on the radio that I like, I search for whatever lyrics I can remember from the song and then I purchase the song from the iTunes Music Store.
wonderful! except.... the mpa doesn't care if you buy cd's or aac's. the music publishers association represents companies that publish sheet music. now, what the mpa is saying is "if you want to find that artist/song based on a snippet of lyrics you should go down to your local music publishing store and buy glossy tab/sheet music books til you find the song your looking for".
They change their name and get lots of publicity. They change it back, they got lots more publicity, and praise on Slashdot. Is that about right? Seems the name change did exactly what it was meant to.
wait til they get sued by pyjamas media next week....
actually, the place to play is on your own hard drive.
at work i have one hard drive in my machine running my home-rolled ubuntu and one with the company-approved install of centos. i'd feel pretty clever about it if i hadn't been the one pushing so hard to adopt centos in the first place...
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To me, capitalist is sort of like 'pregnant.' Either you are or you aren't.
virtually everyone who calls themself a 'capitalist' isn't. to be a capitalist, you must live off the revenue generated by capital you control. i suspect stronlgy that dada21 and others like him actually live by trading their labour to people who are, in fact capitalists.
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and congratulations to the hungarians for not letting themselves get pushed around by socially-maladjusted north americans who think a legitimate attempt at citizen participation is nothing more than an opportunity for a practical joke.
i admit i've never seen this colbert guy's show but it seems that his recent schtick has been to damage other people's hard work and call it 'comedy'. what he encouraged his viewers to do to wikipedia was nothing short of vandalism. period. i wonder if some kids spray painted rude words on his garage door if he would find that funny as well.
the reason why openbsd holds their hackathon in canada is because of crypto legislation (or lack thereof). here's my source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
if you're clever enough to do that, you're too clever to write 'fuck' in wikipedia.
usually.
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wrong.
business has one responsibility: to make profit for their shareholders. if that means firing you, okay. if that means shipping your job overseas, fine. if that means violating any labour law they can get away with (or afford to get caught for), sure.
if you don't like that you have three options:
- whinge and complain but, bascially do nothing about and pray your boss doesn't hear you being 'ungrateful'
- start your own company so you can be the person shipping jobs overseas and reaping the profit
- unionize
this is the way the economy runs for steelworkers and the way it runs for programmers. period.you may think it's funny, but this is exactly what creationists do. as the fossil record fills out more and more, they continue to demand finer granularity. no mater how many different stages of evolution are found, there will always be missing intermediaries.
it's like xeno's paradox: you can never get to a certain place because you must first go half the distance, and then half the remainder, then half of that remainder... and so on.
what i want to know is how long is it going to be before we start boycotting at&t? c'mon! i already changed my webmail provider to one that didn't traceroute over obviously at&t-owned lines. it's fun and easy!
it's sco's intellectual property. cowboy neal is working on a reverse engineer of it, though.
you're assuming that the only space and resouces that people use are the ones they're standing or living on.
what about the land needed to grow the food these people eat? that's not in cities. what about the water required to irrigate deserts so those people can have lettuce in january? that's not in cities. what about all the oil required to run suvs and make platic shampoo bottles for all those people? what about the massive hydro and coal electricity projects needed to run all those electric shavers and 60" televisions?
just consider food for a moment. the average north american diet requires 3 acres of areable land per person per year. for the entire population of the united states that works out to just less a billion acres.
overpopulated.
it is? it seems like mostly what the 'intelligence' community does in the united states these days is spy on unarmed, constitutionally-protected demonstrators. like these cases, for instance:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11751418/c le/2006/03/14/AR2006031401520_pf.html w s/2006/03/24/TopStories/Students.Fbi.Lecture.Displ ays.Watch.List-1716066.shtml?norewrite200603281210 &sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com c le_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001995631 r yID=20060214-053955-9494r
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/ne
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/arti
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?Sto
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBTP976FJE.html
The ability to steer, a dimwit for president with a need to invade some other guy's country, two towers in New York, and the will to do it.
but with the soon-to-be-implemented automatic pilotless aircraft, all you'll need is a script kiddie with a copy of jihad.exe.
i'll say... like a privacy policy perhaps? does boddy who runs this thing own my content?
microsoft may have all sorts of draconian licensing policies, but at least i know what they are. with this thing i can just type up all sorts of private content that can be read easily and, apparently, legally by who knows who.
You can check the accurracy of his statements and decide if they are correct.
correct. attempting to invalidate someone's statements by pointing out they have been paid to make them is ad hominem. just because a person, in a worst case scenario, makes a cynical statement merely for personal profit has absolutely no bearing on the truth of that statement whatsoever.
now, having said that, i went and read the article and have come to the conclusion that the real purpotrator of fallicies in this thread is Jonathan Zuck himself. the entire rambling piece is little more than a bag of poor analogies propped up as straw men, miscontextualized quotes and mild ad hominem. this is a gross exercise in rhetoric that brings approprixmately zero new insight to discussion about the future of the gpl.
okay,, both the article and the parent post stated that the id card was only mandatory for people applying for passports...
so, the situation is this: you submit to enumeration by the state or you are not allowed to leave the country.
i submit that before 2008 we'll see people 'defecting' from britain.
>The global warming crowd hates inconvient facts like that.
i think the 'global warming crowd' would take your rebuttal more seriously if you actually bothered to read the article. here's a direct quote you might have caught if you'd done so:
Reliable records from trees and other sources go back only about 1,200 years, but this allowed the researchers to measure the magnitude of the current bout of warming
so, the answer is: it's not "every bit as warm in 800 A.D.", it's just that there's only data to go back that far.
golf is good because you can cheat... or, more importantly, let your boss cheat. it's easy to turn the other way when the vp of sales kicks his titelist back onto the fairway.
in wow, however, such "curtousies" are hard to pull off.
remember, golf was invented so that upper management could feel good at something and so that we could have something to screw up deliberately to stroke their egos.
because aslan is god and god is perfect.
i mean, duh!
This is also untrue. I haven't seen any NC-17 rated movies at Blockbuster, but that's probably because there haven't been any NC-17 rated movies released by a major studio in a decade.
on february 10 2002 robert ebert (who apparently knows stuff about movies) stated:
my source for the above qoutes is here:
http://www.raptorial.com/Zine/b-buster.htm
wonderful! except.... the mpa doesn't care if you buy cd's or aac's. the music publishers association represents companies that publish sheet music. now, what the mpa is saying is "if you want to find that artist/song based on a snippet of lyrics you should go down to your local music publishing store and buy glossy tab/sheet music books til you find the song your looking for".
but maybe you could... if you get started on that freedom of information act request right now.
wait til they get sued by pyjamas media next week....
actually, the place to play is on your own hard drive.
at work i have one hard drive in my machine running my home-rolled ubuntu and one with the company-approved install of centos. i'd feel pretty clever about it if i hadn't been the one pushing so hard to adopt centos in the first place...
virtually everyone who calls themself a 'capitalist' isn't. to be a capitalist, you must live off the revenue generated by capital you control. i suspect stronlgy that dada21 and others like him actually live by trading their labour to people who are, in fact capitalists.
what are some good sites about astorturfing?
solution provided.
the united states has a long history of restricting expression. some if it may shock you.
start with these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act#1944:_Great _Sedition_Trial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decenc y_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infr ingement_Liability_Limitation_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint