"I don't think that word means what you think it means". Since when is protecting your trademarked name bullying?
Ever since they claimed "scouts" was their trademark when in fact it is not.
Here is a listing of all of their actual real trademarks that begin with the letters "SC": â Scoutfitter® â Scout Gearâ â Scouting® â Scouting USA® â Scoutmaster® â Scoutnet® â Scout Shop® â Scout Stuff®
Here is a listing of all their trademarks beginning with the letter "H" (as in hack/hacking):
(Yes this list is empty, because they do not have any trademarks beginning with the letter "H" what so ever)
It's simply business.
OK, in that case I am now informing you I have a trademark on the word "David_Hart" Since you agree it's only business, you agree I must defend that mark or lose it, and you agree I don't actually need to have that trademark in the first place... I guess you have no choice but to license it from me!
The law forces organizations to do this or they lose their right to their own name. Like the Boy Scouts or not, the problem here is the law.
Darn. I was going to license you my trademark of "David_Hart" for $0.0001 per year, and not require payment until the total is equal to or greater than a penny. The law says I can do that and not have to worry about you making my mark generic The law also says the only danger is the mark becoming Generic, or causing confusion within your business category.
Also quite worrying, the BSA does list the trademark: â Boy Scoutâ
But the USPTO shows "boyscout" being registered to a completely different group (In Russia no less) Neither "boy scout" (with the space) nor either form of "boy scoutS" (with the S on the end) show as registered.
Looking up one of the other trademarks the BSA does have registered, shows their business scope to be: IC 036. US 100 101 102. G & S: Charitable fundraising services, namely, the solicitation and management of donations to benefit an organization for youth.
So yea...
I'm sure it could possibly be argued that "hacker scouts" solicits donations, possibly even for charitable services, and as long as one person under the age of 18 has ever shown up, you can throw in the whole "organization for youth" on them as well. But I don't think it's quite that black and white.
But since they have no marks on "hacker scouts", "hacker", or "scouts", it's pretty moot.
USPTO lookup is session based so I can't give a permlink, but http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/ Go to "trademark search" on the left, then "basic word search" (first option) "boyscout" is an interesting lookup, belonging to a Russian company. "boy scout" with the space will pull up the BSA company record, and you can work backwards from there.
Steam steals your freedom... It's undoubtedly using NVIDIA or AMD graphics which are proprietary.
As are most all gaming PCs, as well as current and last gen game consoles.
Until Intel got their head out of their ass recently as far as their GPUs go, basically nvidia and amd graphics were your only options. Hell, Intel graphics are just as closed too.
Claiming that Steam steals your freedom due to the video card is pretty hypocritical, considering the PC you made your post from and thus by extension you, have the exact same fault.
Yes it sucks that the big 3 keep their GPUs closed, no argument there. But there aren't any other 3d cards on the market that are both open and can claim to be within 15-20 years of the technology nvidia/amd bring to the table.
Yes, I enjoy my current Linux-based gaming PC with a controller-based interface I can easily use from the couch to play a large selection of games and media.
Wait a second...
I gather from the ending there that you are in fact not enjoying your current linux based controller based TV PC.
You might also have noted the slashdot summary claiming this story was valves *second* announcement in this area (of course it would be too much to have asked the editors or submitter to, i dunno, even mention the first one) The first announcement was for "The Big Picture" mode added to the Steam client, designed to do exactly this.
Basically, hookup a PC to your TV, plug in a USB gamepad (xbox usb controllers work as-is, including the $5 cheap-o-clones), then run Steam.
There is a button at the top right named "Big Picture". Click that. It's also under Settings / Interface to start with it enabled, which one would generally want.
This mode requires no input devices but a gamepad (although it can still utilize a mouse or keyboard if present) - and it can launch games, jump on the web, manage basic PC functions like powering it off or rebooting, as well as pretty much any other feature steam is used for such as the community functions and what not. Unfortunately playing media is the only thing I don't know if Steam can do yet.
While I personally still recommend having a keyboard handy, it's mainly for the same reasons I want a keyboard on xbox or playstation as well.
Also worth noting that you don't need to use Linux either, Windows and OS X are valid options (for varying values of valid ofc) If by chance your HDMI video card works better using Windows drivers, or you already have a spare Windows box laying around, might as well go with that! Linux of course brings to the table stability and embedded hardware devices that are more easily hidden away in an entertainment center. Point being you can use whatever is better or easier for you at the time.
If you have Steam on a PC somewhere already, you should check the new mode out at the least. It allows for many new options that were previously annoying at best. Big Screen mode works even on normal tiny LCDs too.
Wow, 14 replies and no one actually provided you links to "current state of the art robots". I do hope you find these at least entertaining, if not informative.
With our current weapons systems, sensors available, and interconnected swarm networking that is actively being used, about half of your listed examples would result in you being found and killed, with the other half still not resulting in confusing the robot at all but instead causing it to alert the backup team of humans to come help it out. It's only a matter of time (~10 years) until they won't even need help with those.
Only the AI is currently lagging behind, and so the fully autonomous operations are limited. We still use human "pilots" in these cases, which works just as well. The human attacking you using the robot will be safe and sound in the heartland of his country, in a comfy chair, KVM switching between all of the machines he controls. You can't kill the operator at all. All you can do is slow down the remotely controlled robots, and the question is how much and for how long.
Honestly, if 10 atlas robots came synchronized marching towards me, sub-machine guns or no, I would be scared shitless.
This is a SECURITY firm, not a backroom russian exploits dealer, they sell this advanced knowledge because people want to protect themselves and know what is coming. The weather service is not about weather warfare it's about advanced knowledge of what's coming. Insert car analogy here if that's insufficiently obvious.
The differences is that (unfortunately) I can't enter my credit card number and have the weather service send a network of compromised lightning storm clouds and tornadoes to kill the guy that pissed me off on IRC.
So let's follow your logic to its final conclusion.
I accuse you of being a pedophile. By your own admission, you now have NO rights what so ever, as pedophiles don't have the right to rape children, which I claim you did.
I have a secret court order that I can't show you, and you can't even tell anyone about under penalty of death. You'll just have to trust me on that one (Clearly not a problem for one such as yourself who admits people such as yourself have no rights)
Now you have just given me the right to murder you, I mean "kill you" as you put it. (Murder is the crime, killing is when its legal like this)
If you resist, I can rely on the fact you have no rights due to being called a pedophile that rapes children, which you have no right to do, and you make no distinction based on if you have actually done it or not so thankfully that detail doesn't matter.
If you DON'T resist, I can also kill you, since the secret court order I can't show you says I can, despite the fact you can't even verify that as truth.
Lastly, not only are you dead, but due to your opinions on the law, literally anyone can kill anyone else using the same rules you setup justifying your own murder.
You have 11 replies already, so probably won't even see this. But I am surprised no one has brought up the total lack of verification.
Case A - The real CIA/FBI use a NSA secret warrant to search a suspected kidnappers home. He/she can't consult a lawyer since that is treason. They can't verify the warrant since that is treason. They have no real way to tell it is real, so will likely act naturally and suspect a home invasion and begin shooting.
Case B - You get visited in the night by me and my friends dressed as cops/agents waving a laser printed NSA order in your face and informing you discussing it with anyone including lawyers results in life imprisonment. We proceed to steal your belongings, shoot your dog, and kidnap your wife.
These are both things you argue should be OK.
In case A, you just made the world morally side with a kidnapper, and made it morally OK to shoot cops. Good job. In case B, your cowardliness results in a lack of worldly possessions, killing and taking those whom you love to do worse things to, and you won't even go to report these horrible crimes for fear of going to prison for life...
Is this really the type of world you want to be arguing in favor of?
If black holes grow by the absorbing the quantum foam, then the universe is slowly gaining mass as new matter is spontaneously being generated but not getting a chance to vanish back to where it came from.
The quantum foam is still just a conversion from energy to matter (and normally back to energy again)
Any mass gained as matter had to come from mass of energy, so the net sum is zero, not gaining.
Yes, I was punching, kicking, and otherwise beating the crap out of this random person. It was the fact they put their arms up to shield their face that resulted in such a horrible beating. I bare no fault what so ever for his actions which, despite being performed after I started the beating, are still somehow the reason for the beating.
The Day After is rather tame compared to most other similar themed movies, including Threads. In fact, The Day After is a walk through candy land with rainbows and sunshine compared to Threads specifically.
One comment specifically regarding Ronald Regan and the movie The Day After - The point of such movies is to show the futility and devastation caused by nuclear war, to show that anyone thinking such a war should even be a possibility - will end, at best, like the movies show, and probably much much worse.
Regan completely missed the point. Sure, he said we must avoid nuclear war at all costs, but he also did so by making sure we had a nuclear first and second strike capability (aka MAD)
This is not dissimilar to claiming that we must do everything in our power to prevent AI powered robots from taking over the world, and to assure they do not, we will build an AI powered robot army to prevent it from happening. The mind truly boggles at the logic such people use. And Regan was far from the only one, on both sides of that war, and through out today.
Failing to use it reduces your customer/client/whatever base
So I risk alienating a potential customer and their money, thus should accept paypal and risk having that customer send me money that I quite possibly will never see?
Doesn't sound like too much of a risk either way as both end up with me not getting paid, so might as well go the least effort route.
In my previous reply, one of those "at best"'s is an "at worse", but I'll let you make up whichever answer you feel I meant. Likely is easier for you that way.
my thoughts were "why are they stopping this and why aren't WE in the US doing this?"
Because people like you are lying hypocrites whom claim to want this but then turn around and behave like you don't want it.
Want proof? Ok, I, as someone upset at you, verbally claim you are a rapist and a murderer with no proof what so ever. Now that that part is out of the way, you now exactly match the type of person who should be killed for their organs. You just stated people, such as yourself now, deserve to be put to death and your organs given to those who accused them.
I do fully expect you to hand over MY kidneys that are within your body.
No? Not going to give me my kidneys? After 100% meeting your own criteria for being a person whom you feel should be put to death and your organs given away to people such as myself, whom claim with no proof what so ever that you committed a crime?
And that is why you are a liar and a hypocrite.
If you require nothing more from the people on death row, 99% of which did nothing more than you just now did, then put your organs where your mouth is.
Taken to the logical extreme, the entire "problem" can easily be solved with just two very simple changes.
1) Declare that everything is against the law 2) Close down the US borders and imprison every last man woman and child.
Not only would they catch more criminals than they currently do, but they would catch ALL the criminals, solving the problem of crime once and for all - permanently.
If that isn't acceptable and crosses some line, then the question becomes why is that over some line but other abuses of human rights not? It usually boils down to which side of the line the argumenter believes they fall on, and denying they could ever be on the wrong side of it.
Of course people in such deep denial would never admit that if laws can be changed to make everyone else BUT them a criminal, that laws can also be equally changed to make them a criminal too.
I posted more details up above, but if you get the Adobe Enterprise Toolkit (free), you can rebuild a custom MSI installer that you deploy through Group Policy. It defines both installer options, and default user preferences.
You can specify a file share on your LAN for it to check for updates, so it will only have updates available once you rebuild the new version installer and vet for everything working.
There are also group policy admin templates you can use to lock user preferences, and you can have reader check an internal file share for updates instead of from Adobe.
Oh, and you can turn off the Ask toolbar crap too.
If you can't avoid the Adobe reader, the best advice is to Google "Adobe Reader Enterprise Toolkit"
It's a GUI you run, point at an offline installer exe, pre-configure both the installer settings and the default user settings, and it spits out an MSI. There are also Group Policy admin templates you can use to lock down user preferences.
The toolkit program claims to be able to customize most all Adobe product installers, but I've never used it beyond Reader.
With this you can set up the exact policy you need, including either disabling javascript, or pre-load your domain certificates and set it to only run javascript from documents created in-house.
You can also turn off the Ask toolbar crap, and set it to check your own file share for updates instead of having all your workstations do the downloads.
Note this will NOT work with the "online" installer, which at least for me is the only download link I can seem to find on their website. You'll need the "offline" installer from their FTP.
- Adobe reader offline installer Go to ftp link above, and up two dir levels into 11.x Find the latest folder, and under a 'misc' dir will be the full installer.
I would love to see the look on a kid's face as they experience a floppy for the first time. I think it akin to walking up hill in the snow both ways to school. I love the sound.
This might not quite be what you meant by loving the sound, but...
[A] 1 + 1 = 3 [B] No, 1 + 1 = 2 and here is a ton of math books to prove it [A] Well, 2, 3, it's all the same thing, and close enough anyway, I was still right
The above situation is not changing your position to admit you were wrong. Yet this is what many people do, and I'm fairly certain what the OP was referring to.
On the other hand, I am the type of person who rarely ever claims "I am 100% certain". The few rare times I do, it is usually because something happened to me by personal experience, and/even then/ I've qualified my 100% certainty to that one specific instance - no matter if I am convinced future instances would result in the same or not.
When I say I am 100% certain of something, it's generally bit me in the ass more than once before I learned better, and have seen it happen consistently the same way to others.
As far as the raids go, I can see why the entertainment industry doesn't like fan subs, at least from this angle. What I don't necessarily see is why they have enough pull to make raids like this happen.
I dunno about that, I can't see why the industry doesn't LOVE fan sub sites myself.
See, the industry can do nothing, and lose a bit of money to piracy... Or, the industry can do raids and suing, lose even more money to piracy (the angry don't buy, but will DL), lose any money from customers who specifically buy the movie knowing there are good subs they can obtain, and get exactly $0 more from the non-existent people who refuse to buy the movie specifically and only because there ARE subs.
Instead of cutting off their pinky finger tip, they instead sliced off the finger tip, then again at the knuckle, then again through the bone, before lopping their hand right off.
But no one is really arguing they don't have the law on their side, and that it's literally a crime against humanity. Only arguing that they shouldn't, and just because it's "only" a kick in humanities teeth doesn't make it right.
Fair enough, I somehow assumed a slightly higher age for the kids (no offense intended!)
I wouldn't conciser it any sort of dad-fail myself. In fact if anything I'd only suggest the 4th season ep "The Drumhead" (The Debris review) - A classic conspiracy story
So basically a technology that "resulted in a place being uninhabitable" thousands of times known as coal is perfectly OK in your book, and natural gas lifting which has done the same for roughly a hundred cities is also OK, but nuclear which has done this twice is Mr Evil?
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"I don't think that word means what you think it means".
Since when is protecting your trademarked name bullying?
Ever since they claimed "scouts" was their trademark when in fact it is not.
Here is a listing of all of their actual real trademarks that begin with the letters "SC":
â Scoutfitter®
â Scout Gearâ
â Scouting®
â Scouting USA®
â Scoutmaster®
â Scoutnet®
â Scout Shop®
â Scout Stuff®
Here is a listing of all their trademarks beginning with the letter "H" (as in hack/hacking):
(Yes this list is empty, because they do not have any trademarks beginning with the letter "H" what so ever)
It's simply business.
OK, in that case I am now informing you I have a trademark on the word "David_Hart"
Since you agree it's only business, you agree I must defend that mark or lose it, and you agree I don't actually need to have that trademark in the first place... I guess you have no choice but to license it from me!
The law forces organizations to do this or they lose their right to their own name. Like the Boy Scouts or not, the problem here is the law.
Darn. I was going to license you my trademark of "David_Hart" for $0.0001 per year, and not require payment until the total is equal to or greater than a penny.
The law says I can do that and not have to worry about you making my mark generic
The law also says the only danger is the mark becoming Generic, or causing confusion within your business category.
Also quite worrying, the BSA does list the trademark:
â Boy Scoutâ
But the USPTO shows "boyscout" being registered to a completely different group (In Russia no less)
Neither "boy scout" (with the space) nor either form of "boy scoutS" (with the S on the end) show as registered.
Looking up one of the other trademarks the BSA does have registered, shows their business scope to be:
IC 036. US 100 101 102. G & S: Charitable fundraising services, namely, the solicitation and management of donations to benefit an organization for youth.
So yea...
I'm sure it could possibly be argued that "hacker scouts" solicits donations, possibly even for charitable services, and as long as one person under the age of 18 has ever shown up, you can throw in the whole "organization for youth" on them as well.
But I don't think it's quite that black and white.
But since they have no marks on "hacker scouts", "hacker", or "scouts", it's pretty moot.
The BSA self-claimed marks are at:
http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/Licensing/Protecting%20the%20Brand/Boy%20Scouts%20of%20America%20Trademark%20Listing.aspx
USPTO lookup is session based so I can't give a permlink, but
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/
Go to "trademark search" on the left, then "basic word search" (first option)
"boyscout" is an interesting lookup, belonging to a Russian company.
"boy scout" with the space will pull up the BSA company record, and you can work backwards from there.
Steam steals your freedom ...
It's undoubtedly using NVIDIA or AMD graphics which are proprietary.
As are most all gaming PCs, as well as current and last gen game consoles.
Until Intel got their head out of their ass recently as far as their GPUs go, basically nvidia and amd graphics were your only options. Hell, Intel graphics are just as closed too.
Claiming that Steam steals your freedom due to the video card is pretty hypocritical, considering the PC you made your post from and thus by extension you, have the exact same fault.
Yes it sucks that the big 3 keep their GPUs closed, no argument there.
But there aren't any other 3d cards on the market that are both open and can claim to be within 15-20 years of the technology nvidia/amd bring to the table.
Yes, I enjoy my current Linux-based gaming PC with a controller-based interface I can easily use from the couch to play a large selection of games and media.
Wait a second...
I gather from the ending there that you are in fact not enjoying your current linux based controller based TV PC.
You might also have noted the slashdot summary claiming this story was valves *second* announcement in this area (of course it would be too much to have asked the editors or submitter to, i dunno, even mention the first one)
The first announcement was for "The Big Picture" mode added to the Steam client, designed to do exactly this.
Basically, hookup a PC to your TV, plug in a USB gamepad (xbox usb controllers work as-is, including the $5 cheap-o-clones), then run Steam.
There is a button at the top right named "Big Picture". Click that.
It's also under Settings / Interface to start with it enabled, which one would generally want.
This mode requires no input devices but a gamepad (although it can still utilize a mouse or keyboard if present) - and it can launch games, jump on the web, manage basic PC functions like powering it off or rebooting, as well as pretty much any other feature steam is used for such as the community functions and what not.
Unfortunately playing media is the only thing I don't know if Steam can do yet.
While I personally still recommend having a keyboard handy, it's mainly for the same reasons I want a keyboard on xbox or playstation as well.
Also worth noting that you don't need to use Linux either, Windows and OS X are valid options (for varying values of valid ofc)
If by chance your HDMI video card works better using Windows drivers, or you already have a spare Windows box laying around, might as well go with that!
Linux of course brings to the table stability and embedded hardware devices that are more easily hidden away in an entertainment center.
Point being you can use whatever is better or easier for you at the time.
If you have Steam on a PC somewhere already, you should check the new mode out at the least. It allows for many new options that were previously annoying at best. Big Screen mode works even on normal tiny LCDs too.
Wow, 14 replies and no one actually provided you links to "current state of the art robots". I do hope you find these at least entertaining, if not informative.
Check out the darpa Atlas robot, preferably the videos from the past 3-4 months.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=darpa+atlas
There is also the darpa PetMan
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=darpa+petman
Good luck pushing over one of these beasts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtRnzlO7m_M
Components such as the high speed hand based on optical camera and feedback systems are only improving year after yaer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk
Plus a bunch of non-humanoid robot models being used on the field today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U41xU5eabg4
With our current weapons systems, sensors available, and interconnected swarm networking that is actively being used, about half of your listed examples would result in you being found and killed, with the other half still not resulting in confusing the robot at all but instead causing it to alert the backup team of humans to come help it out. It's only a matter of time (~10 years) until they won't even need help with those.
Only the AI is currently lagging behind, and so the fully autonomous operations are limited. We still use human "pilots" in these cases, which works just as well.
The human attacking you using the robot will be safe and sound in the heartland of his country, in a comfy chair, KVM switching between all of the machines he controls.
You can't kill the operator at all. All you can do is slow down the remotely controlled robots, and the question is how much and for how long.
Honestly, if 10 atlas robots came synchronized marching towards me, sub-machine guns or no, I would be scared shitless.
This is a SECURITY firm, not a backroom russian exploits dealer, they sell this advanced knowledge because people want to protect themselves and know what is coming. The weather service is not about weather warfare it's about advanced knowledge of what's coming. Insert car analogy here if that's insufficiently obvious.
The differences is that (unfortunately) I can't enter my credit card number and have the weather service send a network of compromised lightning storm clouds and tornadoes to kill the guy that pissed me off on IRC.
So let's follow your logic to its final conclusion.
I accuse you of being a pedophile. By your own admission, you now have NO rights what so ever, as pedophiles don't have the right to rape children, which I claim you did.
I have a secret court order that I can't show you, and you can't even tell anyone about under penalty of death.
You'll just have to trust me on that one (Clearly not a problem for one such as yourself who admits people such as yourself have no rights)
Now you have just given me the right to murder you, I mean "kill you" as you put it. (Murder is the crime, killing is when its legal like this)
If you resist, I can rely on the fact you have no rights due to being called a pedophile that rapes children, which you have no right to do, and you make no distinction based on if you have actually done it or not so thankfully that detail doesn't matter.
If you DON'T resist, I can also kill you, since the secret court order I can't show you says I can, despite the fact you can't even verify that as truth.
Lastly, not only are you dead, but due to your opinions on the law, literally anyone can kill anyone else using the same rules you setup justifying your own murder.
Way to destroy freedom, pedo!
You have 11 replies already, so probably won't even see this.
But I am surprised no one has brought up the total lack of verification.
Case A - The real CIA/FBI use a NSA secret warrant to search a suspected kidnappers home. He/she can't consult a lawyer since that is treason. They can't verify the warrant since that is treason. They have no real way to tell it is real, so will likely act naturally and suspect a home invasion and begin shooting.
Case B - You get visited in the night by me and my friends dressed as cops/agents waving a laser printed NSA order in your face and informing you discussing it with anyone including lawyers results in life imprisonment.
We proceed to steal your belongings, shoot your dog, and kidnap your wife.
These are both things you argue should be OK.
In case A, you just made the world morally side with a kidnapper, and made it morally OK to shoot cops. Good job.
In case B, your cowardliness results in a lack of worldly possessions, killing and taking those whom you love to do worse things to, and you won't even go to report these horrible crimes for fear of going to prison for life...
Is this really the type of world you want to be arguing in favor of?
If black holes grow by the absorbing the quantum foam, then the universe is slowly gaining mass as new matter is spontaneously being generated but not getting a chance to vanish back to where it came from.
The quantum foam is still just a conversion from energy to matter (and normally back to energy again)
Any mass gained as matter had to come from mass of energy, so the net sum is zero, not gaining.
Yes, I was punching, kicking, and otherwise beating the crap out of this random person.
It was the fact they put their arms up to shield their face that resulted in such a horrible beating. I bare no fault what so ever for his actions which, despite being performed after I started the beating, are still somehow the reason for the beating.
The Day After is rather tame compared to most other similar themed movies, including Threads.
In fact, The Day After is a walk through candy land with rainbows and sunshine compared to Threads specifically.
Both are awesome movies none the less.
For anyone interested:
The Day After - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2B7sdLPMfc
Threads - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg
One comment specifically regarding Ronald Regan and the movie The Day After - The point of such movies is to show the futility and devastation caused by nuclear war, to show that anyone thinking such a war should even be a possibility - will end, at best, like the movies show, and probably much much worse.
Regan completely missed the point. Sure, he said we must avoid nuclear war at all costs, but he also did so by making sure we had a nuclear first and second strike capability (aka MAD)
This is not dissimilar to claiming that we must do everything in our power to prevent AI powered robots from taking over the world, and to assure they do not, we will build an AI powered robot army to prevent it from happening.
The mind truly boggles at the logic such people use. And Regan was far from the only one, on both sides of that war, and through out today.
It would be comical if it wasn't so damn sad.
Failing to use it reduces your customer/client/whatever base
So I risk alienating a potential customer and their money, thus should accept paypal and risk having that customer send me money that I quite possibly will never see?
Doesn't sound like too much of a risk either way as both end up with me not getting paid, so might as well go the least effort route.
Good luck driving from LA to Honolulu. Let us know how that works out for you.
http://yachtpals.com/files/news/boat-car-aquada.jpg
They see me rollin' they hatin...
In my previous reply, one of those "at best"'s is an "at worse", but I'll let you make up whichever answer you feel I meant. Likely is easier for you that way.
I have yet to see a law that excludes people from liability in a self driving car.
That would be exactly why the original poster said *IF* those things were legal.
You completely ignore the IF clause and proceed to execute all the code within the block, despite the fact it is a false condition.
You sir make a very poor CPU at best, and are massively lacking reading comprehension skills at best.
Troll indeed.
my thoughts were "why are they stopping this and why aren't WE in the US doing this?"
Because people like you are lying hypocrites whom claim to want this but then turn around and behave like you don't want it.
Want proof? Ok, I, as someone upset at you, verbally claim you are a rapist and a murderer with no proof what so ever.
Now that that part is out of the way, you now exactly match the type of person who should be killed for their organs. You just stated people, such as yourself now, deserve to be put to death and your organs given to those who accused them.
I do fully expect you to hand over MY kidneys that are within your body.
No? Not going to give me my kidneys? After 100% meeting your own criteria for being a person whom you feel should be put to death and your organs given away to people such as myself, whom claim with no proof what so ever that you committed a crime?
And that is why you are a liar and a hypocrite.
If you require nothing more from the people on death row, 99% of which did nothing more than you just now did, then put your organs where your mouth is.
Taken to the logical extreme, the entire "problem" can easily be solved with just two very simple changes.
1) Declare that everything is against the law
2) Close down the US borders and imprison every last man woman and child.
Not only would they catch more criminals than they currently do, but they would catch ALL the criminals, solving the problem of crime once and for all - permanently.
If that isn't acceptable and crosses some line, then the question becomes why is that over some line but other abuses of human rights not?
It usually boils down to which side of the line the argumenter believes they fall on, and denying they could ever be on the wrong side of it.
Of course people in such deep denial would never admit that if laws can be changed to make everyone else BUT them a criminal, that laws can also be equally changed to make them a criminal too.
I posted more details up above, but if you get the Adobe Enterprise Toolkit (free), you can rebuild a custom MSI installer that you deploy through Group Policy. It defines both installer options, and default user preferences.
You can specify a file share on your LAN for it to check for updates, so it will only have updates available once you rebuild the new version installer and vet for everything working.
There are also group policy admin templates you can use to lock user preferences, and you can have reader check an internal file share for updates instead of from Adobe.
Oh, and you can turn off the Ask toolbar crap too.
Toolkit docs:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/index.html
Adobe Reader "offline" installer (The toolkit won't work with the "online" installer)
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.03/en_US/
Then go up to the 11.0.0 dir to get the group policy templates.
If you can't avoid the Adobe reader, the best advice is to Google "Adobe Reader Enterprise Toolkit"
It's a GUI you run, point at an offline installer exe, pre-configure both the installer settings and the default user settings, and it spits out an MSI.
There are also Group Policy admin templates you can use to lock down user preferences.
The toolkit program claims to be able to customize most all Adobe product installers, but I've never used it beyond Reader.
With this you can set up the exact policy you need, including either disabling javascript, or pre-load your domain certificates and set it to only run javascript from documents created in-house.
You can also turn off the Ask toolbar crap, and set it to check your own file share for updates instead of having all your workstations do the downloads.
Note this will NOT work with the "online" installer, which at least for me is the only download link I can seem to find on their website. You'll need the "offline" installer from their FTP.
- Enterprise toolkit docs
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/index.html
- Enterprise toolkit download, plus group policy admin templates
Toolkit direct download for v11: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/11.x/11.0.00/misc/
- Adobe reader offline installer
Go to ftp link above, and up two dir levels into 11.x
Find the latest folder, and under a 'misc' dir will be the full installer.
I wonder which three letter organization icann will be giving .onion to :/
Ooo a pro torture animal exposes itself! Thank you for that
The only way to prove your case to us is by stating those claims under weeks of torture. As long as you are NOT in agony, nothing you say is true.
I would love to see the look on a kid's face as they experience a floppy for the first time. I think it akin to walking up hill in the snow both ways to school. I love the sound.
This might not quite be what you meant by loving the sound, but...
Apple// Floppy Disk Sound Simulator :D
[A] 1 + 1 = 3
[B] No, 1 + 1 = 2 and here is a ton of math books to prove it
[A] Well, 2, 3, it's all the same thing, and close enough anyway, I was still right
The above situation is not changing your position to admit you were wrong. Yet this is what many people do, and I'm fairly certain what the OP was referring to.
On the other hand, I am the type of person who rarely ever claims "I am 100% certain". The few rare times I do, it is usually because something happened to me by personal experience, and /even then/ I've qualified my 100% certainty to that one specific instance - no matter if I am convinced future instances would result in the same or not.
When I say I am 100% certain of something, it's generally bit me in the ass more than once before I learned better, and have seen it happen consistently the same way to others.
As far as the raids go, I can see why the entertainment industry doesn't like fan subs, at least from this angle. What I don't necessarily see is why they have enough pull to make raids like this happen.
I dunno about that, I can't see why the industry doesn't LOVE fan sub sites myself.
See, the industry can do nothing, and lose a bit of money to piracy...
Or, the industry can do raids and suing, lose even more money to piracy (the angry don't buy, but will DL), lose any money from customers who specifically buy the movie knowing there are good subs they can obtain, and get exactly $0 more from the non-existent people who refuse to buy the movie specifically and only because there ARE subs.
Instead of cutting off their pinky finger tip, they instead sliced off the finger tip, then again at the knuckle, then again through the bone, before lopping their hand right off.
But no one is really arguing they don't have the law on their side, and that it's literally a crime against humanity. Only arguing that they shouldn't, and just because it's "only" a kick in humanities teeth doesn't make it right.
Fair enough, I somehow assumed a slightly higher age for the kids (no offense intended!)
I wouldn't conciser it any sort of dad-fail myself.
In fact if anything I'd only suggest the 4th season ep "The Drumhead" (The Debris review) - A classic conspiracy story
So basically a technology that "resulted in a place being uninhabitable" thousands of times known as coal is perfectly OK in your book, and natural gas lifting which has done the same for roughly a hundred cities is also OK, but nuclear which has done this twice is Mr Evil?
So your whole argument is 2 > 100 > 50000+ ?