What are you complaining about? I went the dentist and then the urologist a few years ago, and then attempted to drive over the Williamsburg bridge. Six ATF guys pulled me over because their radiation detector went off... I don't want to remember the rest of it.
Reading and Writing found to be bad for attention, deceptive and morally corrupting
SPARTA, Greecean Lands, 389 B.C.E. Spartan philosopher Demosnstentes announced today that his extensive research has revealed that the use of ink and papayra and similar technologies leads to severely negative and morally corrupting results.
"Reading causes you to be separated from the moment and events in front of you," said Demosnstentes. "Often, it presents a false or sort of virtual reality, which does not actually exist and confuses the reader. As well, it has a clearly destructive effect on the memory, which can be seen in reader's inability to perform simple tasks, such as reciting shorts texts such as the Illiad and Odyssey, or the names of all their ancestors."
"Moreover," he continued, this artificial reality separates individuals from actual reality, and other individuals, leading to individuals who are unable to focus on the real world and general moral corruption. "Reading is clearly bad for the soul," Demosnstentes declared in the Spartan town square while advertizing his seminars for young men. "Youth have even been known to be so mezmerized by this new, destructive technology that they spend all night reading, and then ignore their duties the next day."
What can be done? When asked this question by this reporter, Demosnstentes replied "I dunno. Perhaps we should burn all the papyrus and return to relying on our memory."
To Americans it's the 'warzone' but to people that live there it is 'home'.
Why didn't they get out? C'mon, people are responsible for their actions. If they're there, they must be guilty in some way. If a van stopped for the reporter, surely he was involved with the insurgents in some way.
And I don't know why the US doesn't just nuke the whole area and get this over with...
black-clad soldiers going "Oh shit! I think these people were just civilians!" and then digging out their rounds from the bodies, tying them up, artfully arranging them, and discussing their cover story, how do you think that would have gone over? Instead of everyone forgetting in a few weeks, we'd still be watching the congressional hearings on CSPAN.
You're kidding yourself. The US is killing towel-heads. These people deserve to die. No one in the US really cares, as long as they can drive their SUVs, watch their wide-screen TVs and otherwise live comfortable bourgeois lives at other people's expense.
Yeah. Or, if they did have this problem, they could solve it by bandwidth shaping, or any of many other solutions. And, of course, in the end, this is just, simply, an excuse for price gouging... O2 is buying the data in bulk and setting a cap so low, that they can take a huge multiple of actual costs...
in short, they're greedy thieving bastards. No surprise there.
It would have been more believable if you'd mentioned that SCO had hired *IAA's legal team to sue the first 10,000 Linux users in its efforts to stop the piracy of the Unix source code it doesn't rightfully own.
San Jose, CALIFORNIA. In response to a judge's dismissal of it's demands for a new trial today, SCO filed 10,000 new lawsuits against various entities including IBM, Oracle, and G-d. "One of these must stick," said SCO's Chief Extortion Officer. "It's not about principle. It's about being money-grubbing assholes."
Redmond, Wash., 2 June 2010. MicroSoft Corp. Security Directory Kluenlos Nove today announced that MicroSoft had innovated a new, unassailable security method known as Obscurity. "It's so secret, I can't tell you anything about it, but I assure you it works, and of course it works better than Mac or Linux methods," said Kluenlos.
Super Lawyers Duenlap, Grubb and Beaver have now announced that they have acquired the firm of Goendoenin, Groen and Eaton, and are soliciting suggestions for the name of their new firm...
>These people are BREAKING THE LAW, and more importantly, doing something immoral: >they are taking someone else's work and not merely using it without due compensation, >but helping others to do the same.
Where do idiots like you come from? Oh, I forgot, the United States.
Repeat after me: copyright is a social compact. There is such a thing as fair use. Copying an intellectual work is not 'taking' or 'theft,' because there's nothing to steal. It's just making a copy.
Wait. I'm wasting my breath. I'm talking to an ignorant American. The only thing you people understand is force.
Washington, D.C.-- Super Lawyers Duenlap, Grubb and Beaver declared today that they had been able to save the ailing film industry via a new, innovative IP-chasing strategy. "It's really simple," declared Duenlap. "You just put a really shitty film on the internet," said Grubb. "And then you wait for peoples' cousins dogs to come download five minutes from the honeypot, and SUE everyone in their zip code," said Ms. Beaver. Due to this innovation, Hollywood stars will continue to be able to walk the red carpet with millions in diamonds and rubies, instead of being reduced to begging at soup kitchens, said Duenlap, Grubb and Beaver. CNET news attempted to contact the IP addresses involved in this article but ping requests were not returned.
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Barf.
What are you complaining about? I went the dentist and then the urologist a few years ago, and then attempted to drive over the Williamsburg bridge. Six ATF guys pulled me over because their radiation detector went off... I don't want to remember the rest of it.
So.. you pay $1 to register... and get a card... and then you can either:
1) Pay $3.99/hr after 2hrs.
2) Pay $1 again to register again, and get another card, which works for at least 2hrs each day.
Please choose.
(In practice, worldwide, if the bloody access points work, then it is rare that the time limit is enforced.)
Shiite, muslin. Currently I have about 2000 tabs open. Your mind is clear.
/me suggest the following scoring category: -2, sarcasm-impaired. :P
-1, Flamebait? It's called *sarcasm*, people...
Reading and Writing found to be bad for attention, deceptive and morally corrupting
SPARTA, Greecean Lands, 389 B.C.E. Spartan philosopher Demosnstentes announced today that his extensive research has revealed that the use of ink and papayra and similar technologies leads to severely negative and morally corrupting results.
"Reading causes you to be separated from the moment and events in front of you," said Demosnstentes. "Often, it presents a false or sort of virtual reality, which does not actually exist and confuses the reader. As well, it has a clearly destructive effect on the memory, which can be seen in reader's inability to perform simple tasks, such as reciting shorts texts such as the Illiad and Odyssey, or the names of all their ancestors."
"Moreover," he continued, this artificial reality separates individuals from actual reality, and other individuals, leading to individuals who are unable to focus on the real world and general moral corruption. "Reading is clearly bad for the soul," Demosnstentes declared in the Spartan town square while advertizing his seminars for young men. "Youth have even been known to be so mezmerized by this new, destructive technology that they spend all night reading, and then ignore their duties the next day."
What can be done? When asked this question by this reporter, Demosnstentes replied "I dunno. Perhaps we should burn all the papyrus and return to relying on our memory."
Julian Bourne cannot be found by Pentagon. Pentagon is found by Julian Bourne.
Since when is 35% when the other party has 53% a "strong plurality?" Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Hindenberg.
Thanks. Background materials:
Myth: Democracy elected Hitler to power.
Fact: Hitler used backroom deals, not votes, to come to power.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitlerdemo.htm
German presidential election, 1932
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_presidential_election,_1932
Now, if we could get THIS THREAD back ON TOPIC :)
To Americans it's the 'warzone' but to people that live there it is 'home'.
Why didn't they get out? C'mon, people are responsible for their actions. If they're there, they must be guilty in some way. If a van stopped for the reporter, surely he was involved with the insurgents in some way.
And I don't know why the US doesn't just nuke the whole area and get this over with...
black-clad soldiers going "Oh shit! I think these people were just civilians!" and then digging out their rounds from the bodies, tying them up, artfully arranging them, and discussing their cover story, how do you think that would have gone over? Instead of everyone forgetting in a few weeks, we'd still be watching the congressional hearings on CSPAN.
You're kidding yourself. The US is killing towel-heads. These people deserve to die. No one in the US really cares, as long as they can drive their SUVs, watch their wide-screen TVs and otherwise live comfortable bourgeois lives at other people's expense.
Yeah. Or, if they did have this problem, they could solve it by bandwidth shaping, or any of many other solutions. And, of course, in the end, this is just, simply, an excuse for price gouging... O2 is buying the data in bulk and setting a cap so low, that they can take a huge multiple of actual costs...
in short, they're greedy thieving bastards. No surprise there.
I've got 200Kb/sec here in [European country on DSL].
At that rate I can upload/download about 2-3GB per day.
Which makes 60-90GB/mo, at the most (under ideal conditions). On DSL. Not fast DSL, not cable, but not O2.
Ergo...
It would have been more believable if you'd mentioned that SCO had hired *IAA's legal team to sue the first 10,000 Linux users in its efforts to stop the piracy of the Unix source code it doesn't rightfully own.
That was LAST WEEK, right?
San Jose, CALIFORNIA. In response to a judge's dismissal of it's demands for a new trial today, SCO filed 10,000 new lawsuits against various entities including IBM, Oracle, and G-d. "One of these must stick," said SCO's Chief Extortion Officer. "It's not about principle. It's about being money-grubbing assholes."
Ja ganz sicher. Und sprechen Sie denn ueberhaupt Deutsch nichtdestoweniger ...
The judges are there to rubber-stamp the corruption.
Didn't they teach you that in middle school?
>Whnat the fuck we need Judges for?
>... if police officers are gonna play judge....
Bullshit. Take a science course.
We assumed that the poster meant, within the civilized world. ;0
WRT:
>>No show = automatic win if you show up"
>That's not even true in some places now. Dekalb County, Georgia
>judges will convict you even if your cop doesn't show up.
In point of fact, I was pulled over between... let's say... Hartford and Boston about 20 years ago.
The officer asked "do you know how fast you were going?" I replied, "probably about 75 or 80."
He asked, "where you going?" and I told him I was on my way home to Boston. It was 2am.
He replied "Okay, I'd probably be doing about the same. Just be careful out here and watch out."
First time, but hardly the last.
Redmond, Wash., 2 June 2010. MicroSoft Corp. Security Directory Kluenlos Nove today announced that MicroSoft had innovated a new, unassailable security method known as Obscurity. "It's so secret, I can't tell you anything about it, but I assure you it works, and of course it works better than Mac or Linux methods," said Kluenlos.
Super Lawyers Duenlap, Grubb and Beaver have now announced that they have acquired the firm of Goendoenin, Groen and Eaton, and are soliciting suggestions for the name of their new firm...
>These people are BREAKING THE LAW, and more importantly, doing something immoral:
>they are taking someone else's work and not merely using it without due compensation,
>but helping others to do the same.
Where do idiots like you come from? Oh, I forgot, the United States.
Repeat after me: copyright is a social compact. There is such a thing as fair use. Copying an intellectual work is not 'taking' or 'theft,' because there's nothing to steal. It's just making a copy.
Wait. I'm wasting my breath. I'm talking to an ignorant American. The only thing you people understand is force.
Anyone got a ... ballot... jury... bullet box?
Washington, D.C.-- Super Lawyers Duenlap, Grubb and Beaver declared today that they had been able to save the ailing film industry via a new, innovative IP-chasing strategy. "It's really simple," declared Duenlap. "You just put a really shitty film on the internet," said Grubb. "And then you wait for peoples' cousins dogs to come download five minutes from the honeypot, and SUE everyone in their zip code," said Ms. Beaver.
Due to this innovation, Hollywood stars will continue to be able to walk the red carpet with millions in diamonds and rubies, instead of being reduced to begging at soup kitchens, said Duenlap, Grubb and Beaver.
CNET news attempted to contact the IP addresses involved in this article but ping requests were not returned.