Corporations, like governments, unions, workers cooperatives, churches, cricket teams, whatevers, are nothing but the collective motives of the people making the decisions.
You say that like you really believe it.
If I, Thing 1, released a rootkit upon the world, distributed in the form of music CDs that I sell on eBay et al, then I would go to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison.
Sony, on the other hand, has an artificial legal protection known as "limited liability corporation" (known variously under similar words in different countries). So when Sony put the rootkit on the music CDs they sold, nobody even got fined, let alone jail time.
It would be pretty hard for the candidate to check out each and every contributor, and the chances of making a mistale one way or another would be enormous.
Yes. And it should be pretty hard for any person to get into office, where they can ruin the lives of many citizens with a pen stroke.
(Yeah, I realize that I'm essentially advocating career politicians, because "ordinary people" don't have the resources or skills to vet all their contributions. But perhaps I'm really advocating the creation of a "political industry" which caters to those types of needs.)
Maybe that's how it used to be, back in the good old days (of "help I'm dying of polio!").
These days, there is no competition in SMS pricing; it's 25c no matter what carrier you go with. If that's not collusion, I don't know what is. SMS is something rather useful for a significant portion of the cell-phone-purchasing population, so it would make sense for carriers to compete on price in order to garner the most market share. But they don't; each SMS is 25c, no matter what.
Seems like something our legislative overlords should have more than a passing interest in...
Hmm, tried that, zooming in or out does not change them (well, they get larger or smaller, but are still there). I'm on XP SP3, Firefox 3.0.10. Thanks for trying to help me, though, really.
LOL yeah, I suppose I should chill the fuck out. A little pressure release at the right times though does wonders both for the internal and sometimes external reality.:)
Up until yesterday, I was fairly chill; I had a workaround that would help me to only be perturbed for a few seconds, rather than the duration that I read the story page. When that workaround stopped working, I decided to release some of that pressure. I do feel better, today.
Can you share the details with me? I did try this, a week or so ago, but it ended up blocking "too much" of the site so that I could not see any images, and it was all in an ugly serif font. I had blocked the single image that contains the 3 gray bars and friend/foe icons. (Those gray bars are not in separate images, or at least they weren't when I tried it before.)
If you can share the method you used, and which specific image(s) you blocked, I think others around will would appreciate it -- I know I would.
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You're welcome. Funny that I got a +5 out of it as well. Funny, that is, as I somewhat expected the offtopic mod that you mentioned -- but apparently, this issue and the silence from the owners regarding it, appears to rankle quite a few of us. Enough, in fact, that discussions of this sort, at the present time, are completely on topic and are moderated as such.
Or, perhaps SUBSCRIBING to Slashdot will make this crap go away? Hm?
Yes, that was at the end of my rant: I have no idea what has caused this, or what will make it go away, so if this was their ass-headed way of asking us for money, they've failed.
Or, perhaps I'm just not smart enough to be in their clique, or something.
Poor language does not indicate any one thing, douchebag.
And no, Mr. I'm Better Than You, this has absolutely nothing to do with the ads, which do not bother me at all. This has to do with piss-poor broken layout that we've been complaining about for months.
If you're going to get involved in an argument, it helps to have a basic understanding first. Otherwise, regardless of how clean and pleasant your language appears, you will still look like a fucking idiot.
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This is OT, but needs to be said. My workaround for getting rid of that fucking annoying vertical and horizontal gray bars, and friend/foe circle icons, has now stopped working. It used to be that I could click any post in the story (i.e., "#28404197"), and then click the story link at the top of that page (i.e., "Oracle Kills Virtual Iron") to get back to the story with no disgusting graphics interrupting the flow of the beautiful words.
Now, that has stopped working as of this morning. So: fuck you, Slashdot. Burn in hell for all I care. I'll read you a lot less now than I used to. No, I'm not saying I'll stay away forever, but as soon as your continued idiotic refusal to fix basic layout bugs annoys me, I will stop reading. And that's about 5 or 6 posts into most stories.
If this is supposed to be an incentive to get me to try some other layout, FUCKING TELL ME! Don't just break shit and hope that I know how to "upgrade" to fix it.
The workaround that I've been using for the past fucking week goddammit Slashdot fix yer shit is this: click any comment (like the #28282375), then click the story link at the top of the comment page.
The white goes away and you can read the comment header, and those stupid boxes go away too. Don't try adblocking the image with the boxes because it's a composite image and that will break all of the goofy CSS, it looked a lot worse until I figured out how to unblock.
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OT: I think your sig would be a lot more amusing if the lines were swapped. :)
You say that like you really believe it.
If I, Thing 1, released a rootkit upon the world, distributed in the form of music CDs that I sell on eBay et al, then I would go to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison.
Sony, on the other hand, has an artificial legal protection known as "limited liability corporation" (known variously under similar words in different countries). So when Sony put the rootkit on the music CDs they sold, nobody even got fined, let alone jail time.
Enjoy the monkey wrench in your mechanism. :)
LOL, an Informative mod for stating that your GPP is offtopic. Priceless!
Yes. And it should be pretty hard for any person to get into office, where they can ruin the lives of many citizens with a pen stroke.
(Yeah, I realize that I'm essentially advocating career politicians, because "ordinary people" don't have the resources or skills to vet all their contributions. But perhaps I'm really advocating the creation of a "political industry" which caters to those types of needs.)
Maybe that's how it used to be, back in the good old days (of "help I'm dying of polio!").
These days, there is no competition in SMS pricing; it's 25c no matter what carrier you go with. If that's not collusion, I don't know what is. SMS is something rather useful for a significant portion of the cell-phone-purchasing population, so it would make sense for carriers to compete on price in order to garner the most market share. But they don't; each SMS is 25c, no matter what.
Seems like something our legislative overlords should have more than a passing interest in...
Yeah, whenever I leave the flue untreated, my houseguests tend to start coughing. From all the smoke, coming out of the fireplace...
Hmm, tried that, zooming in or out does not change them (well, they get larger or smaller, but are still there). I'm on XP SP3, Firefox 3.0.10. Thanks for trying to help me, though, really.
LOL yeah, I suppose I should chill the fuck out. A little pressure release at the right times though does wonders both for the internal and sometimes external reality. :)
Up until yesterday, I was fairly chill; I had a workaround that would help me to only be perturbed for a few seconds, rather than the duration that I read the story page. When that workaround stopped working, I decided to release some of that pressure. I do feel better, today.
Can you share the details with me? I did try this, a week or so ago, but it ended up blocking "too much" of the site so that I could not see any images, and it was all in an ugly serif font. I had blocked the single image that contains the 3 gray bars and friend/foe icons. (Those gray bars are not in separate images, or at least they weren't when I tried it before.)
If you can share the method you used, and which specific image(s) you blocked, I think others around will would appreciate it -- I know I would.
You're welcome. Funny that I got a +5 out of it as well. Funny, that is, as I somewhat expected the offtopic mod that you mentioned -- but apparently, this issue and the silence from the owners regarding it, appears to rankle quite a few of us. Enough, in fact, that discussions of this sort, at the present time, are completely on topic and are moderated as such.
Yes, that was at the end of my rant: I have no idea what has caused this, or what will make it go away, so if this was their ass-headed way of asking us for money, they've failed.
Or, perhaps I'm just not smart enough to be in their clique, or something.
Poor language does not indicate any one thing, douchebag.
And no, Mr. I'm Better Than You, this has absolutely nothing to do with the ads, which do not bother me at all. This has to do with piss-poor broken layout that we've been complaining about for months.
If you're going to get involved in an argument, it helps to have a basic understanding first. Otherwise, regardless of how clean and pleasant your language appears, you will still look like a fucking idiot.
This is OT, but needs to be said. My workaround for getting rid of that fucking annoying vertical and horizontal gray bars, and friend/foe circle icons, has now stopped working. It used to be that I could click any post in the story (i.e., "#28404197"), and then click the story link at the top of that page (i.e., "Oracle Kills Virtual Iron") to get back to the story with no disgusting graphics interrupting the flow of the beautiful words.
Now, that has stopped working as of this morning. So: fuck you, Slashdot. Burn in hell for all I care. I'll read you a lot less now than I used to. No, I'm not saying I'll stay away forever, but as soon as your continued idiotic refusal to fix basic layout bugs annoys me, I will stop reading. And that's about 5 or 6 posts into most stories.
If this is supposed to be an incentive to get me to try some other layout, FUCKING TELL ME! Don't just break shit and hope that I know how to "upgrade" to fix it.
Most people? Most people? No, hovering is what Michael J. Fox does in BttF 2 and 3.
OT re: your sig: "Unless you're British, there is no 'u' in 'Honor'." So that explains what us dumb Americans have been doing these past 8 years!
Hey! Horse you and the fuck you rode in on! (How's that?)
Fixed that for ... me, really, and my entertainment. :)
Ahem. You just gave me the hiccups by laughing so hard, and (re: your sig), I demand an apology!!!! :)
The workaround that I've been using for the past fucking week goddammit Slashdot fix yer shit is this: click any comment (like the #28282375), then click the story link at the top of the comment page.
The white goes away and you can read the comment header, and those stupid boxes go away too. Don't try adblocking the image with the boxes because it's a composite image and that will break all of the goofy CSS, it looked a lot worse until I figured out how to unblock.
... HEY! Macarena!
Well, if you can make money from this, why are you complaining?
Uh, yeah, Barenaked Ladies (FALSE ADVERTISING!) used it in a song already, "lalala I can't hear you"
I've begun a campaign to change it to IMNAL which seems to read better, but I think people are just closeted. :)
Mmm, Terminator waffles!
So, based on these rules, the last 3 presidents can be terminated?