>>Another way of looking at it... thousands of jobs have been destroyed
>Thousands of criminal jobs...
"Counterfieting" goods whose price is kept artificially high by equally artificial so-called "intellectual property" BS? My g-d, it's not even software, it's a goddamned COPY of a jersey used by an athlete on the field. The entire "value" is wholly artificially created scarcity and extraction of $ by market manipulation -- the actual good, unlike, say, a handbag design, costs maybe $2 to produce.
And the "counterfieters?" (pirates, like the US founding fathers?) Real hardened criminals those, Sherlock, real hardened criminals.
>>so that the uber-rich NFL owners can snatch even more money from the commoners.
>Those commoners are going to spend the money. Getting rid of the fake websites doesn't mean more people will spend more money, it only changes who they spend it with. Do you think it is better that they wind up with something that has no value should they ever try to resell it? You hate the rich so much that you'll throw your fellow citizen to the wolves who are making fake goods and selling them at real prices?
What the pirates do is reduce the artificially inflated price, reducing the cost to the commoners and pocketing a profit as a result. Kinda like the people who sold tea to the colonies without paying the Crown's tax? It's called OPEN MARKET CAPITALISM.
As far as the corporate pigs who have brought the United States to the brink of financial collapse? How much do I disdain them? Hand me a bayonet and put me next to the traitorous pig, and I show you exactly how a patriot treats a "capitalist" bent on raping his nation and people for maximum personal gain and profit.
I had a 250MB (you can date it by that) or so backup drive on the way, which literally arrived the day after the drive stopped spinning up-- the backup plan also required me to wire from the IDE which was exposed on the motherboard only, to an external enclosure, or somesuch.
In retrospect I learned the backup lesson the hard way, and would have had critical copies somewhere else, given that the drive was clearly beginning to fail. On the other hand I had retrieved data from a wide variety of drives with stickion problems, including keeping a slew of 30MB MFM drives connected to Sun 2s, and that batch of IBM drives was a particular @($&&^$. Plus at the time,... da da da.
My point is that you should have a robust backup policy, whose cost and options are related to the value of the loss; and that whatever you rely on, whether hard drive platters or the cloud, is subject to unexpected curve balls. The "backup to another company" advice given elsewhere here, plus backup locally (etc), is good.
Kinda like... trusting anything you can't afford to loose to a hard drive.
Remember when IBM moved its production facilities from San Jose to Hungary? I heard they had a 60%+ return rate on those first batches of drives-- I lost two years of grad school research.
Cloud= redundancy, man. Didn't you watch the Steve Jobs presentation at WDDC, when he said HE NEVER LOST ANYTHING? That's the idea.
Oh, shit. Boys, seems like we got us here a 100%, dyed-in-the-wool, drank the Kool-Aid, free-market liberal here.
Now, it may be that an INDIVIDUAL exchanges a product for fair compensation. It may even be that a BUSINESS does so. But a CORPORATION.
This boy ain't been reading Warren Buffet. This boy don't know what a CORPORATION is.
According to Mr. Buffet, a CORPORATION is a CASTLE with a MOAT AROUND IT.
That means a CORPORATION is not a "FREE MARKET EXCHANGE." A CORPORATION does everything it can, to defend its unique position and destroy the competition-- "fair" or not.
That means the essense of a CRPORATION is EXPLOITATION. If a CORPORATION can double its PROFIT by poisoning the water, murdering its workers or competitors (and get away with it), or by fucking the customers who use its product up the ass-- well, more's the better for the CORPORATION. That's what it is there to do.
A CORPORATION is by definiton a false life, a FRANKENSTEIN, an ABOMINATION against nature.
And the ideological fools who think this is some wonderful, best-of-all-possible-worlds "free market?" Damn, they sure are niggers.
Not to mention, the first people who will be against the wall when the REVOLUTION COMES.
Excuse the lack of precision. I should have said "low IQ." And of course the Carlin quote used in a comment above, suggests that the Establishment doesn't want to increase education / intelligence in any way. (How would they get their toads elected?)
>(that's right! The POTUS told a private industry that they could not open a plant in S. Carolina, a red state, because it was not union friendly enough).
Oh, cry me a river of fucking crocodile tears, over your uber-conservative ignorant bullshit. Obama has done no such things; he's been the Establishment's (business's) Uncle Tom, happily handing them everything they wanted.
You're lucky they haven't started shooting based on IQ, in which case, you'd be one of the first against the wall.
This comment is clearly copying all preciou karma whores, and seeking to avoid IP licensing fees to the original virgin karma whore. (She who shall-not-be-named).
My "faith in the non-existence of G-d?" Sheesh. I'm an observant Jew, who can at least present a coherent and consistent argument for the "existence" of G-d, which amounts to more than schoolyard rambling.
(*) Niggers, Spics and anyone without their papers are considered Towel-Heads for purposes of this definition; and all Towel-Heads shall be labeled TERRORISTS for purposed of indefinite incareration, at the sole definition of the Excutive Fuerher Herr Doctor Obama.
It is now illegal to dislike anything Christian in Amerika. You may not dislike anything Jewish on Mondays, Tuesdays and alternating Thursdays. Towel-heads are open game.
> Atheist billboards, bus signs, meetings. Un-baptising ceremonies.
Interesting business idea. I doubt it's as profitable as a Scientology franchise, but still, there may be something to it. How much do you think we can charge for un-John-the-Baptising, and related products? Is the market defensible, or are others likley to get in the game?
>Anyone believing in fucking sand dwelling nomadic fairy tails today, needs to give up their right to use technology and science.
Personally, I quite enjoy fucking sand dwelling nomadic fairy tail, when I can get it. But I suppose you "social conservatives" have some kind of problem with that, and with your PIPA and SOPA and DMCA and RIAA, want to deny me the means to do so. To which I can only reply: bend over, spread, and slide down.
Umm. For the impaired: the above may employ sarcasm, irony, and other linguistic devices.
Slashdot Mirror
I can not press "submit" on this post. Really. I *can* not press submit. Really I can....
http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/muslim-man-workplace-quip-made-terror-suspect-211334769.html?back=%2F&.ts=1328402603&.intl=ca&.lang=en-ca
Link in OP does not seem to work.
His name is Saad Allami and he sent your daughter a text message that said "Hello?"
Book him, Danno.
Well, that's an articulate response. May want to work on your professional demeanor.
But to return the sentiment, may you received a blow job from a prostitute with a combination of hepatitis and a porcupine tongue.
>>Another way of looking at it... thousands of jobs have been destroyed
>Thousands of criminal jobs...
"Counterfieting" goods whose price is kept artificially high by equally artificial so-called "intellectual property" BS? My g-d, it's not even software, it's a goddamned COPY of a jersey used by an athlete on the field. The entire "value" is wholly artificially created scarcity and extraction of $ by market manipulation -- the actual good, unlike, say, a handbag design, costs maybe $2 to produce.
And the "counterfieters?" (pirates, like the US founding fathers?) Real hardened criminals those, Sherlock, real hardened criminals.
>>so that the uber-rich NFL owners can snatch even more money from the commoners.
>Those commoners are going to spend the money. Getting rid of the fake websites doesn't mean more people will spend more money, it only changes who they spend it with. Do you think it is better that they wind up with something that has no value should they ever try to resell it? You hate the rich so much that you'll throw your fellow citizen to the wolves who are making fake goods and selling them at real prices?
What the pirates do is reduce the artificially inflated price, reducing the cost to the commoners and pocketing a profit as a result. Kinda like the people who sold tea to the colonies without paying the Crown's tax? It's called OPEN MARKET CAPITALISM.
As far as the corporate pigs who have brought the United States to the brink of financial collapse? How much do I disdain them? Hand me a bayonet and put me next to the traitorous pig, and I show you exactly how a patriot treats a "capitalist" bent on raping his nation and people for maximum personal gain and profit.
... an available parking space.
You ever live on a grad student's budget?
I had a 250MB (you can date it by that) or so backup drive on the way, which literally arrived the day after the drive stopped spinning up-- the backup plan also required me to wire from the IDE which was exposed on the motherboard only, to an external enclosure, or somesuch.
In retrospect I learned the backup lesson the hard way, and would have had critical copies somewhere else, given that the drive was clearly beginning to fail. On the other hand I had retrieved data from a wide variety of drives with stickion problems, including keeping a slew of 30MB MFM drives connected to Sun 2s, and that batch of IBM drives was a particular @($&&^$. Plus at the time, ... da da da.
My point is that you should have a robust backup policy, whose cost and options are related to the value of the loss; and that whatever you rely on, whether hard drive platters or the cloud, is subject to unexpected curve balls. The "backup to another company" advice given elsewhere here, plus backup locally (etc), is good.
Kinda like... trusting anything you can't afford to loose to a hard drive.
Remember when IBM moved its production facilities from San Jose to Hungary? I heard they had a 60%+ return rate on those first batches of drives-- I lost two years of grad school research.
Cloud= redundancy, man. Didn't you watch the Steve Jobs presentation at WDDC, when he said HE NEVER LOST ANYTHING? That's the idea.
N.B. The Carpathia _saved_ the Titanic survivors.
Oh, shit. Boys, seems like we got us here a 100%, dyed-in-the-wool, drank the Kool-Aid, free-market liberal here.
Now, it may be that an INDIVIDUAL exchanges a product for fair compensation. It may even be that a BUSINESS does so. But a CORPORATION.
This boy ain't been reading Warren Buffet. This boy don't know what a CORPORATION is.
According to Mr. Buffet, a CORPORATION is a CASTLE with a MOAT AROUND IT.
That means a CORPORATION is not a "FREE MARKET EXCHANGE." A CORPORATION does everything it can, to defend its unique position and destroy the competition-- "fair" or not.
That means the essense of a CRPORATION is EXPLOITATION. If a CORPORATION can double its PROFIT by poisoning the water, murdering its workers or competitors (and get away with it), or by fucking the customers who use its product up the ass-- well, more's the better for the CORPORATION. That's what it is there to do.
A CORPORATION is by definiton a false life, a FRANKENSTEIN, an ABOMINATION against nature.
And the ideological fools who think this is some wonderful, best-of-all-possible-worlds "free market?" Damn, they sure are niggers.
Not to mention, the first people who will be against the wall when the REVOLUTION COMES.
Because we understand what an Uncle Tom reference is, and you don't. // A Union cannot have an Uncle Tom, a corporation can.
You should have prefaced "FTFY" :)
Excuse the lack of precision. I should have said "low IQ." And of course the Carlin quote used in a comment above, suggests that the Establishment doesn't want to increase education / intelligence in any way. (How would they get their toads elected?)
>(that's right! The POTUS told a private industry that they could not open a plant in S. Carolina, a red state, because it was not union friendly enough).
Oh, cry me a river of fucking crocodile tears, over your uber-conservative ignorant bullshit. Obama has done no such things; he's been the Establishment's (business's) Uncle Tom, happily handing them everything they wanted.
You're lucky they haven't started shooting based on IQ, in which case, you'd be one of the first against the wall.
This comment is clearly copying all preciou karma whores, and seeking to avoid IP licensing fees to the original virgin karma whore. (She who shall-not-be-named).
>intercity travel is fast and comfortable in Europe using trains, but Americans are blissfully unaware of anything that occurs outside of the states.
Europe? Where's that? Somewhere in the fly-over states?
Oy gewalt.
My "faith in the non-existence of G-d?" Sheesh. I'm an observant Jew, who can at least present a coherent and consistent argument for the "existence" of G-d, which amounts to more than schoolyard rambling.
And you've presented a poor argument, my friend ;)
Wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words
Most US jurisdictions might *still* arrest you today because they ignore this, but that doesn't make it Law.
(*) Niggers, Spics and anyone without their papers are considered Towel-Heads for purposes of this definition; and all Towel-Heads shall be labeled TERRORISTS for purposed of indefinite incareration, at the sole definition of the Excutive Fuerher Herr Doctor Obama.
It is now illegal to dislike anything Christian in Amerika. You may not dislike anything Jewish on Mondays, Tuesdays and alternating Thursdays. Towel-heads are open game.
There, FTFY.
> Atheist billboards, bus signs, meetings. Un-baptising ceremonies.
Interesting business idea. I doubt it's as profitable as a Scientology franchise, but still, there may be something to it. How much do you think we can charge for un-John-the-Baptising, and related products? Is the market defensible, or are others likley to get in the game?
Lessee.
# grep ~/linux-core -iname agnosticism
[...]
deffn agNosticIze () {
noop;
agNosticize (this);
}
Yeah so? Tastes great less filling.
Please join an atheist "church."
Speaking of a mensch who, according to legend, really enjoyed chasing fairy tail. (See my immediately previous comment for explanation).
>Anyone believing in fucking sand dwelling nomadic fairy tails today, needs to give up their right to use technology and science.
Personally, I quite enjoy fucking sand dwelling nomadic fairy tail, when I can get it. But I suppose you "social conservatives" have some kind of problem with that, and with your PIPA and SOPA and DMCA and RIAA, want to deny me the means to do so. To which I can only reply: bend over, spread, and slide down.
Umm. For the impaired: the above may employ sarcasm, irony, and other linguistic devices.