Thank you sir, that explained the point _exactly_. It was meant to be a light hearted jest, albeit at original poster's expense, and it had way to much explanation required for the genius.
Some people really need to up the sense of humor recognition and cut the self righteous bs. Its the internets for christs sake. You never know who could be hiding on it.
In the US corporations are give status as a legal 'entity' not 'entities', ergo there does exist a tolerable bit of logic to use singular in this case.
Let us not forget the most kickass-ist of ALL, the original Neverwinter Nights, exclusively available to AOL customers. I spend many a dollars of my parents going past that $9.95/10 hour limit on AOL cuz I was cracked on NWN.
Sure, LoTR and U-something-that-had-whores-and-was-cooler (Usurper?) on dialup BBSes were hellafun, but NwN actually integrated graphics and made it all sexy. for the time.
Ever since I spent a month on UO and Everquest (I'm sorry, but if you were addicted to EQ you should be face stabbed, it SUCKED, even with a kick ass high speed connection) years ago I havent been able to really get into these newfangled bullshit ripoff MMORPGs. I'd much rather devote my time to an open, networked sort of world, but Second Life's interface is total crap, so back to CS and biding my time.
Look at that, brought out the kid in me, I'm talking like an angry 14 year old fan boy now.
I'd think its sad when someone lets their kid(s) get away with saying things like this in public or at Walmart. Its a failure of PARENTING if your kid is saying these words. I have a 5 year old son and he has been exposed to much of the real world language and he knows its grownup speak AND its bad, he will even correct us if we slip up in front of him and seems very aware that those are not words for kids. Those are 'daddy' and 'grandpa' words (especially old school grandpa). Further evidence, my own grandpa was a sailor, so you can imagine the kind of crazy stuff he would/could say around me and my siblings growing up, but we knew, thanks to our PARENTS, that those were not words to be used in public and were adult words.
Really, I learned most of my bad words when I was 5 from 2 specific kids that were in my kindergarten class, I grew up hanging around one of them until I was out of high school, and I tell you, it was definitely a deficit of active parenting that led to it.
A really good, extra-long, badass episode will be great, if its made for tv. If this is a real movie, these sonsabitches BETTER continue that fucking story line, theres still too much to be developed upon, or I say we riot and burn some Fox shit down, starting with Fox News studios. Then we make Duchovny and Anderson act out live a new, corrected x-files movie script of our choosing. And Robert Patrick has to be there, unless he's busy killing Eddie Furlong, then he can have a pass.;)
You don't understand real world capitalist economics, when GM and Ford switch their engines to use the very cheap and efficient power source, gas prices EXPLODE and only the richest people can afford to have gasoline engines. People will consume when its is provided, oil companies and car companies are made up of educated people who know how to manage production and supplies but it all goes out the window when they learn how to squeeze some more profit from the equation. They are not universities or do-gooders, they are corporations, and exist only for money.
Perhaps the discussion we should be having should be about abolishment of the corporation status. An entity with rights intended for individuals but separates responsibility and culpability from those running it sounds like a scam.
Wait so you are saying that you walked up the street for every support call, when simply walking around your house and checking the physical connection on your cable line(s) and the connection at the street would have immediately told you that someone was haxoring on your wires? What the hell are you doing on slashdot? Any geek knows how to steal cable and knows to check his own cables when things mysteriously go out. 3 days? Shame.
As much hilarity is to be had with the cubic zarconia angle, I'd like to take a moment to say something real...
FUCK THESE GUYS AND THEIR FUCKING PATENTING.
This is technology with real potential to help a debilitating planet, if we started implementing this in 1-2 years, maybe it would actually do something to help save the world from having its natural resources sucked from its insides to the atmosphere. Everyone is so busy raping the planet and trying to get theirs, they don't stop to think about what impact things could have.
That said, I'm investing in these guys and buying a fleet of Hummers when I cash out, just for the sake of irony.
We need to stop saying the 'spirit' and say the 'intent', THAT is what needs to be understood by all parties. Problem is, it will probably take a judge setting a precedent of just what the general and specific case intent is before its near universally agreed upon, until the next case where a different judge rules differently. Welcome to the snafus of the American legal system.
For fucks sake people, its a software license, its something for educated legal minds to argue over, not developers and random slashdot mouth flappers like myself.
Spare me the bullshit. Its your own drivel that should make the rest of us shudder. You sound like a viral marketing drone, or maybe just a run of the mill fanboy that needs to justify dropping hundreds of dollars on a severly lacking gaming system. I don't give two shits about who 'wins' in the HD DVD vs BluRay (and on this, strangely enough, I like the Sony tech better overall, but suspect HD DVD will be cheaper in the long run).
I did not waste my hard earned money on any of the over hyped gaming machines. I *MIGHT* get a Wii since I have a 5 year old son, other than that, I'd be hard pressed to buy a limiting console gaming machine for the price of a new low-mid range pc or some decent hardware upgrades on an existing pc. If BluRay does in fact get some real, non-PR traction, I'll consider just going the PS3 WHEN I buy a 42"+ tv to utilize the quality. Until then I'll stick with the PC and an old X-Box.
You are rooting for Sony? Betamax? Minidisc? Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo? Sony is the KING of proprietary hardware, I'm glad MS has spanked them a bit on PS3, Sony is the one company that can take a Linux based game console with so much potential and fantastically fuck it up.
No, its not ridiculous, its perfectly-goddamn-acceptable that if the bank wants to shift culpability form themselves to end users in terms of fraud and security, which is the purpose of this, they should ABSOLUTELY be required to get a subpoena from a judge to access your personal computer. There is a basic right to privacy, and the onus of security is on the bank, not the end user. If they choose to connect their financial systems to the internet, thats THEIR choice, especially if the access allows more than just read only information of accounts (eg. bank's online ability to transfer funds to other bank customers and outside accounts, automatic bill pay, etc.). I don't think you have a healthy understanding of just how bad this is. They will have the ability to access everything on your computer, it only takes one unscrupulous bank IT employee to start copying/logging/etc personal data.
Why don't we make it illegal to 'Attempt' to subvert the US Constitution and its Amendments by passing laws under the guise of 'economic progress' that infringe upon other limitations of the government specifically in aforementioned US Constitution?
I didn't even want to touch on that until the MS PR team kicked in gear on my comments. Hope you don't have any sites with legacy Novell apps out there, good luck getting the 'alpha' Vista compatible Novell tools to work.
Cisco SSL VPN does-not-work for Vista (last time I looked), making it useless for several clients with an remote user infrastructure focused around it.
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Thank you sir, that explained the point _exactly_. It was meant to be a light hearted jest, albeit at original poster's expense, and it had way to much explanation required for the genius.
Some people really need to up the sense of humor recognition and cut the self righteous bs. Its the internets for christs sake. You never know who could be hiding on it.
Cheers.
In the US corporations are give status as a legal 'entity' not 'entities', ergo there does exist a tolerable bit of logic to use singular in this case.
Cheers.
You claim to have associated with MIT and not UHF, but your slashdot ID betrays you.
Cheers.
And yes, I associated it with UHF.
As if OS Zealotry wasn't bad enough, now they go and combine OS with Religious Zealotry.
Really, how much more do you people need in a sign of the coming apocalypse?
Cheers.
But its all just so GODDAMN DELICIOUS!
*eats a donut sandwich with bacon in the middle and bacon sprinkles on top*
Cheers.
*heart attack*
Let us not forget the most kickass-ist of ALL, the original Neverwinter Nights, exclusively available to AOL customers. I spend many a dollars of my parents going past that $9.95/10 hour limit on AOL cuz I was cracked on NWN.
Sure, LoTR and U-something-that-had-whores-and-was-cooler (Usurper?) on dialup BBSes were hellafun, but NwN actually integrated graphics and made it all sexy. for the time.
Ever since I spent a month on UO and Everquest (I'm sorry, but if you were addicted to EQ you should be face stabbed, it SUCKED, even with a kick ass high speed connection) years ago I havent been able to really get into these newfangled bullshit ripoff MMORPGs. I'd much rather devote my time to an open, networked sort of world, but Second Life's interface is total crap, so back to CS and biding my time.
Look at that, brought out the kid in me, I'm talking like an angry 14 year old fan boy now.
Cheers.
I'd think its sad when someone lets their kid(s) get away with saying things like this in public or at Walmart. Its a failure of PARENTING if your kid is saying these words. I have a 5 year old son and he has been exposed to much of the real world language and he knows its grownup speak AND its bad, he will even correct us if we slip up in front of him and seems very aware that those are not words for kids. Those are 'daddy' and 'grandpa' words (especially old school grandpa). Further evidence, my own grandpa was a sailor, so you can imagine the kind of crazy stuff he would/could say around me and my siblings growing up, but we knew, thanks to our PARENTS, that those were not words to be used in public and were adult words.
Really, I learned most of my bad words when I was 5 from 2 specific kids that were in my kindergarten class, I grew up hanging around one of them until I was out of high school, and I tell you, it was definitely a deficit of active parenting that led to it.
Cheers. And fuck it.
A really good, extra-long, badass episode will be great, if its made for tv. If this is a real movie, these sonsabitches BETTER continue that fucking story line, theres still too much to be developed upon, or I say we riot and burn some Fox shit down, starting with Fox News studios. Then we make Duchovny and Anderson act out live a new, corrected x-files movie script of our choosing. And Robert Patrick has to be there, unless he's busy killing Eddie Furlong, then he can have a pass. ;)
Cheers.
You don't understand real world capitalist economics, when GM and Ford switch their engines to use the very cheap and efficient power source, gas prices EXPLODE and only the richest people can afford to have gasoline engines. People will consume when its is provided, oil companies and car companies are made up of educated people who know how to manage production and supplies but it all goes out the window when they learn how to squeeze some more profit from the equation. They are not universities or do-gooders, they are corporations, and exist only for money.
Perhaps the discussion we should be having should be about abolishment of the corporation status. An entity with rights intended for individuals but separates responsibility and culpability from those running it sounds like a scam.
Cheers.
Wait so you are saying that you walked up the street for every support call, when simply walking around your house and checking the physical connection on your cable line(s) and the connection at the street would have immediately told you that someone was haxoring on your wires? What the hell are you doing on slashdot? Any geek knows how to steal cable and knows to check his own cables when things mysteriously go out. 3 days? Shame.
Cheers.
As much hilarity is to be had with the cubic zarconia angle, I'd like to take a moment to say something real...
FUCK THESE GUYS AND THEIR FUCKING PATENTING.
This is technology with real potential to help a debilitating planet, if we started implementing this in 1-2 years, maybe it would actually do something to help save the world from having its natural resources sucked from its insides to the atmosphere. Everyone is so busy raping the planet and trying to get theirs, they don't stop to think about what impact things could have.
That said, I'm investing in these guys and buying a fleet of Hummers when I cash out, just for the sake of irony.
Cheers.
Sure off topic, but the lack of hot grits and natalie portman was upsetting, i say mod down to +4 Funny. ;)
We need to stop saying the 'spirit' and say the 'intent', THAT is what needs to be understood by all parties. Problem is, it will probably take a judge setting a precedent of just what the general and specific case intent is before its near universally agreed upon, until the next case where a different judge rules differently. Welcome to the snafus of the American legal system.
For fucks sake people, its a software license, its something for educated legal minds to argue over, not developers and random slashdot mouth flappers like myself.
Cheers. Did I win?
This is quite possibly the most on-topic offtopic post _ever_
Cheers.
I hate when that happens.
:)
Excellent rebuttal, my overly offenive tone is hereby rescinded.
Cheers.
Spare me the bullshit. Its your own drivel that should make the rest of us shudder. You sound like a viral marketing drone, or maybe just a run of the mill fanboy that needs to justify dropping hundreds of dollars on a severly lacking gaming system. I don't give two shits about who 'wins' in the HD DVD vs BluRay (and on this, strangely enough, I like the Sony tech better overall, but suspect HD DVD will be cheaper in the long run).
I did not waste my hard earned money on any of the over hyped gaming machines. I *MIGHT* get a Wii since I have a 5 year old son, other than that, I'd be hard pressed to buy a limiting console gaming machine for the price of a new low-mid range pc or some decent hardware upgrades on an existing pc. If BluRay does in fact get some real, non-PR traction, I'll consider just going the PS3 WHEN I buy a 42"+ tv to utilize the quality. Until then I'll stick with the PC and an old X-Box.
You are rooting for Sony? Betamax? Minidisc? Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo? Sony is the KING of proprietary hardware, I'm glad MS has spanked them a bit on PS3, Sony is the one company that can take a Linux based game console with so much potential and fantastically fuck it up.
Cheers.
No, its not ridiculous, its perfectly-goddamn-acceptable that if the bank wants to shift culpability form themselves to end users in terms of fraud and security, which is the purpose of this, they should ABSOLUTELY be required to get a subpoena from a judge to access your personal computer. There is a basic right to privacy, and the onus of security is on the bank, not the end user. If they choose to connect their financial systems to the internet, thats THEIR choice, especially if the access allows more than just read only information of accounts (eg. bank's online ability to transfer funds to other bank customers and outside accounts, automatic bill pay, etc.). I don't think you have a healthy understanding of just how bad this is. They will have the ability to access everything on your computer, it only takes one unscrupulous bank IT employee to start copying/logging/etc personal data.
Cheers.
SHADOWRUN.
Datajacks, skillsofts, smartgun systems, enhanced vision, interface for artificial muscle control, cerebral cortex bombs...
The internets, obviously.
He obviously honed his debating prowess from watching Fox News.
Last time I checked the majority of the drivers I install on Windows come back as 'unsigned' with a big ugly warning message.
Unsupported drivers is not a good excuse, WORKING drivers is what matters.
I would but I've still got a soul. ;)
Cheers.
Why don't we make it illegal to 'Attempt' to subvert the US Constitution and its Amendments by passing laws under the guise of 'economic progress' that infringe upon other limitations of the government specifically in aforementioned US Constitution?
Cheers.
I didn't even want to touch on that until the MS PR team kicked in gear on my comments. Hope you don't have any sites with legacy Novell apps out there, good luck getting the 'alpha' Vista compatible Novell tools to work.
Cisco SSL VPN does-not-work for Vista (last time I looked), making it useless for several clients with an remote user infrastructure focused around it.
Cheers.