To force XP users to upgrade to Vista. By requiring DX10 in new versions of Office with non-backwards-compatible file formats. How naive can you be not to guess that?
I expect Vista to come complete with plenty of "DRM" features designed to kill Wine and other Windows emulators/substitutes. If people could use DX10 under Linux, we wouldn't be as locked into Microsoft's monopoly.
A picture of watching eyes that aren't actually watching is not "Big Brother".
Hidden eyes that are actually watching and then take action: that's "Big Brother".
When those same eyes are everywhere, public and private, and have total power, that's the Big Brother of George Orwell's _1984_ (read it if you haven't).
Since just a picture of blind eyes keeps people "honest", actually internalizing the monitor themselves, why go to all the bother and cost of wiring everyone? For the raw, unlimited power.
You're a fascist and a liar. That you believe posting your transparent lies with no support but your own insistence proves you're insane, as if your lies and fascism weren't sufficient.
You are the kind of fascist who aims for corporate anarchy while propping up the corporate government, like a "Communist" who aims for socialist anarchy while propping up a socialist government.
I don't have any time to waste with someone who doesn't learn from Menegele that some experimentation is unacceptably costly. Or who's so smug while arguing merely from analogy, one of the most childish fallacies. While insisting that rejecting experiments on dimming the entire Earth is merely irrational fear, rather than simply responsible.
"Your argument from analogy is stupid. Your refusal to learn from some of our worst mistakes is disgusting. You're not a "man of science", you're a morbid catastrophe freak."
I will not pay the government, the record label, the artist, or anyone else for a copy of content that I already am entitled to have, such as by paying for the original copy.
They're already cheating by keeping copyright on content more than a generation (17+ years) old, which has become folklore. These artificial government monopolies are justified only when temporary, to help ensure that creators are compensated. The current rabid abuse merely ensures that the recording industry never takes a risk, yet is guaranteed vast profits, while choking folk culture to death. I will not play that game, and neither will the majority of people.
New Orleans had all kinds of power systems underground, including powering their pumps. When Katrina hit, they flooded and failed, just like they did for years in smaller storms.
If New Orleans didn't learn to do it different before Katrina, why should we learn to do it different after Katrina?
Now I will buy all my blank media in Spain, and copy content as much as I damn please. The copyright tax will take care of the producers. If the RIAA/ES/whoever comes after me, I'll just wave my tax-paid media at them.
You: We didn't induce the so called greenhouse effect. If it wasn't for the greenhouse effect the planet would be an ice ball.
Me: Just denying your limits with some kind of macho strawman about "shouldn't know" is what got us into this mess.
You: What mess? Slightly elevated average temperatures? That's why people are talking about correcting and maintaining the temperatures now: because there is not yet a crisis. If we do nothing the crisis will happen. And yes, stopping all the factories on Earth is the same as doing nothing.
That's what you've decided the rule is for, so you can rationalize breaking it. I see no reason to believe that you don't have multiple accounts so you can mod yourself up when you rationalize that somehow.
All your behavior is completely consistent with your expectations of privilege, screw everyone else and damn the system. I bet you vote for Bush.
Your argument from analogy is stupid. Your refusal to learn from some of our worst mistakes is disgusting. You're not a "man of science", you're a morbid catastrophe freak.
Arguing with you about your Greenhouse denial on Slashdot has never been fun, you never learn anything, and it's increasingly boring. And increasingly unnecessary, as people reading your posts are increasingly sensible about the excessive Greenhouse effect we're creating. Play your denial games with yourself.
Cite some evidence that deforestation on a global scale isn't unbalancing us, but rather returning the environment to a preindustrial condition. It isn't.
Also, tell me how reforestation consuming CO2 is bad, or where I said that CO2 is the only variable in climate regulation. Trees mitigate the Greenhouse effect in many ways, including chemical decomposition of Greenhouse gases not limited to CO2. Every little bit of recovery counts, and reforestation accounts for a lot of recovery.
Welcome to the world of disagreeing, where you have to make a reasonable argument or look stupid.
Mostly they don't, like in Siberia. But even where they do, they could use a lot more trees. Humans have lived with trees since humans. Get to know them - they're good neighbors: quiet, shady, give away oxygen...
After we've messed with the atmosphere with CO2 on a global scale inducing the Greenhouse, we should know better than to mess with it again - until we do know enough.
People who don't understand the risks shouldn't take them, not when the stakes are so high.
Just denying your limits with some kind of macho strawman about "shouldn't know" is what got us into this mess.
Currently participating in the carbon cycle is not the problem. Carbon clogging the atmosphere is the problem. Reforestation is an extremely effective way to sequester the carbon out of the atmosphere, where it's safe. Without expending much energy to clean up the pollution. In fact, absorbing lots of warming energy in the sequestration process instead.
It's nontrivial, but less nontrivial than leaving the CO2 in the air, leaving the deforested areas bare, or messing with the basic source of practically all energy used by Earth's life, including us.
What's wrong with spending that money on engineering to reforest the huge deforested areas of every continent? Just replanting the native vegetation sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere, increases energy absorption by the greener surface, and produces material to consume. And lets the plants do all the hard work. Without another risky meddling in the poorly-understood, vastly complex feedback system we all depend on.
Instead we should blot out the Sun? That's insane, and therefore even more likely to burn us harder and faster.
What stops you from reflashing the $5 router with Linux and blowing off the contract terms that require you to share it? The contract, sure, but are they really going to sue people, and blow all the "goodwill" they're generating, converting it to "illwill"?
I remember eMachines tried something similar, free/cheap PCs in the 1990s bubble, subsidized by ads around the outer margin of the screen. They sank and wound up selling the PCs for $100 to anyone who'd pay, and just letting those who wouldn't pay keep them without making too much noise about it.
Yes, I mean all that. Including your uncanny choices of facetious examples, all of which are just as true. All of which are blamed on "poorly trained troops" or "bad intelligence". All of which executes civilians in the name of Republican government policy. Which is as inflammatory as it can get - so I won't apologize for using appropriate language.
Be careful how you satirize history: as you shine a light on abuse that we can already see.
Oh, "they died". And 55,000 American soldiers "died" in Vietnam, and a million Vietnamese "died". It's all complicated, but you're the one oversimplifying the killings to pretend someone didn't kill them.
Anonymous whitewash Coward, they were killed. The US government sent troops with guns trained to kill to kill them, and the troops killed them. At Kent State, the state school issued the immediate orders. 4 unarmed students.
And in Iraq and Afghanistan, many people were randomly kidnapped by American troops without committing any crime or act of war, tortured, and... they "died"? No, they were killed. By US government troops. Anonymous My Lai Coward, you've probably got some kind of excuse for that, too.
And now you're pretending to respect the memorories of the students killed at Kent State. Those students died defending our country, their campus, from the wanton authority abuse we're talking about in this thread. Not just to defend the lives of their classmates drafted to kill and die in Vietnam, but all our freedoms. So don't give me your fake "respect", when all you've got is excuses for killers and tyrants.
Do you know how many ways you've been subsidized since you were born, and before? What did you "have to offer" until your society invested in you?
The point of subsidizing poor people's education is equality of opportunity, what the US is based on.
Posting as AC after moderating in a thread shows how much for granted you take gaming the system. Just stop using the word "honestly" as if you're some kind of authority.
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This rule, combined with Bush's recent victories stripping government whistleblowers of protections, lets Bush fry anyone he wants to intimidate, especially if they've been leaking.
"These days it's all secrecy, and no privacy."
- The Rolling Stones, from "Fingerprint File"
To force XP users to upgrade to Vista. By requiring DX10 in new versions of Office with non-backwards-compatible file formats. How naive can you be not to guess that?
I expect Vista to come complete with plenty of "DRM" features designed to kill Wine and other Windows emulators/substitutes. If people could use DX10 under Linux, we wouldn't be as locked into Microsoft's monopoly.
A picture of watching eyes that aren't actually watching is not "Big Brother".
Hidden eyes that are actually watching and then take action: that's "Big Brother".
When those same eyes are everywhere, public and private, and have total power, that's the Big Brother of George Orwell's _1984_ (read it if you haven't).
Since just a picture of blind eyes keeps people "honest", actually internalizing the monitor themselves, why go to all the bother and cost of wiring everyone? For the raw, unlimited power.
Whoa, Slashdot editors can monitor the discussions? We're all busted!
You're a fascist and a liar. That you believe posting your transparent lies with no support but your own insistence proves you're insane, as if your lies and fascism weren't sufficient.
You are the kind of fascist who aims for corporate anarchy while propping up the corporate government, like a "Communist" who aims for socialist anarchy while propping up a socialist government.
You hate America, and I hate you.
I don't have any time to waste with someone who doesn't learn from Menegele that some experimentation is unacceptably costly. Or who's so smug while arguing merely from analogy, one of the most childish fallacies. While insisting that rejecting experiments on dimming the entire Earth is merely irrational fear, rather than simply responsible.
"Your argument from analogy is stupid. Your refusal to learn from some of our worst mistakes is disgusting. You're not a "man of science", you're a morbid catastrophe freak."
When the shoe fits, wear it.
I will not pay the government, the record label, the artist, or anyone else for a copy of content that I already am entitled to have, such as by paying for the original copy.
They're already cheating by keeping copyright on content more than a generation (17+ years) old, which has become folklore. These artificial government monopolies are justified only when temporary, to help ensure that creators are compensated. The current rabid abuse merely ensures that the recording industry never takes a risk, yet is guaranteed vast profits, while choking folk culture to death. I will not play that game, and neither will the majority of people.
New Orleans had all kinds of power systems underground, including powering their pumps. When Katrina hit, they flooded and failed, just like they did for years in smaller storms.
If New Orleans didn't learn to do it different before Katrina, why should we learn to do it different after Katrina?
Now I will buy all my blank media in Spain, and copy content as much as I damn please. The copyright tax will take care of the producers. If the RIAA/ES/whoever comes after me, I'll just wave my tax-paid media at them.
What a bunch of wankers.
You: We didn't induce the so called greenhouse effect. If it wasn't for the greenhouse effect the planet would be an ice ball.
Me: Just denying your limits with some kind of macho strawman about "shouldn't know" is what got us into this mess.
You: What mess? Slightly elevated average temperatures? That's why people are talking about correcting and maintaining the temperatures now: because there is not yet a crisis. If we do nothing the crisis will happen. And yes, stopping all the factories on Earth is the same as doing nothing.
Me: Play your denial games with yourself.
You: I don't think I denied anything.
You're an asshole.
That's what you've decided the rule is for, so you can rationalize breaking it. I see no reason to believe that you don't have multiple accounts so you can mod yourself up when you rationalize that somehow.
All your behavior is completely consistent with your expectations of privilege, screw everyone else and damn the system. I bet you vote for Bush.
Your argument from analogy is stupid. Your refusal to learn from some of our worst mistakes is disgusting. You're not a "man of science", you're a morbid catastrophe freak.
Arguing with you about your Greenhouse denial on Slashdot has never been fun, you never learn anything, and it's increasingly boring. And increasingly unnecessary, as people reading your posts are increasingly sensible about the excessive Greenhouse effect we're creating. Play your denial games with yourself.
Cite some evidence that deforestation on a global scale isn't unbalancing us, but rather returning the environment to a preindustrial condition. It isn't.
Also, tell me how reforestation consuming CO2 is bad, or where I said that CO2 is the only variable in climate regulation. Trees mitigate the Greenhouse effect in many ways, including chemical decomposition of Greenhouse gases not limited to CO2. Every little bit of recovery counts, and reforestation accounts for a lot of recovery.
Welcome to the world of disagreeing, where you have to make a reasonable argument or look stupid.
Mostly they don't, like in Siberia. But even where they do, they could use a lot more trees. Humans have lived with trees since humans. Get to know them - they're good neighbors: quiet, shady, give away oxygen...
After we've messed with the atmosphere with CO2 on a global scale inducing the Greenhouse, we should know better than to mess with it again - until we do know enough.
People who don't understand the risks shouldn't take them, not when the stakes are so high.
Just denying your limits with some kind of macho strawman about "shouldn't know" is what got us into this mess.
Currently participating in the carbon cycle is not the problem. Carbon clogging the atmosphere is the problem. Reforestation is an extremely effective way to sequester the carbon out of the atmosphere, where it's safe. Without expending much energy to clean up the pollution. In fact, absorbing lots of warming energy in the sequestration process instead.
It's nontrivial, but less nontrivial than leaving the CO2 in the air, leaving the deforested areas bare, or messing with the basic source of practically all energy used by Earth's life, including us.
What's wrong with spending that money on engineering to reforest the huge deforested areas of every continent? Just replanting the native vegetation sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere, increases energy absorption by the greener surface, and produces material to consume. And lets the plants do all the hard work. Without another risky meddling in the poorly-understood, vastly complex feedback system we all depend on.
Instead we should blot out the Sun? That's insane, and therefore even more likely to burn us harder and faster.
How could they leave off the early peak of 1969?
What stops you from reflashing the $5 router with Linux and blowing off the contract terms that require you to share it? The contract, sure, but are they really going to sue people, and blow all the "goodwill" they're generating, converting it to "illwill"?
I remember eMachines tried something similar, free/cheap PCs in the 1990s bubble, subsidized by ads around the outer margin of the screen. They sank and wound up selling the PCs for $100 to anyone who'd pay, and just letting those who wouldn't pay keep them without making too much noise about it.
"officials combat distribution of questionable material"
That's the problem. Officials should be questioning questionable material. Once the question is answered "prohibited", then they should combat it.
Yes, I mean all that. Including your uncanny choices of facetious examples, all of which are just as true. All of which are blamed on "poorly trained troops" or "bad intelligence". All of which executes civilians in the name of Republican government policy. Which is as inflammatory as it can get - so I won't apologize for using appropriate language.
Be careful how you satirize history: as you shine a light on abuse that we can already see.
After you start with the nonsense ad hominem "drama much"?
So then you have no excuse for being totally wrong, and a jerk.
Oh, "they died". And 55,000 American soldiers "died" in Vietnam, and a million Vietnamese "died". It's all complicated, but you're the one oversimplifying the killings to pretend someone didn't kill them.
... they "died"? No, they were killed. By US government troops. Anonymous My Lai Coward, you've probably got some kind of excuse for that, too.
Anonymous whitewash Coward, they were killed. The US government sent troops with guns trained to kill to kill them, and the troops killed them. At Kent State, the state school issued the immediate orders. 4 unarmed students.
And in Iraq and Afghanistan, many people were randomly kidnapped by American troops without committing any crime or act of war, tortured, and
And now you're pretending to respect the memorories of the students killed at Kent State. Those students died defending our country, their campus, from the wanton authority abuse we're talking about in this thread. Not just to defend the lives of their classmates drafted to kill and die in Vietnam, but all our freedoms. So don't give me your fake "respect", when all you've got is excuses for killers and tyrants.
Do you know how many ways you've been subsidized since you were born, and before? What did you "have to offer" until your society invested in you?
The point of subsidizing poor people's education is equality of opportunity, what the US is based on.
Posting as AC after moderating in a thread shows how much for granted you take gaming the system. Just stop using the word "honestly" as if you're some kind of authority.