Actually - that is not such a bad idea. If by splashing you mean something like transmitting your currently played songs info in the area around you covered by your WiFi.
Seeing people use various plugins to show other IM users what they are listening to at the time, and sites like Last.fm - that seems to be a wanted feature.
Nah... my parental units didn't really give much credit to fairy tales.
And since Yugoslavia was still a communist country back then - I had the luck to grow up without having religion shoved down my throath with Easter and Christmas. Santa was for New Years and Easter was the day when SOME neighbours (non-practising Orthodox Christians in my neighbourhood) painted their eggs. Which we found fun, so our mother did it for us too. But no Easter Bunny. Found out about him only years later.
So, being born with a brain, and as I was taught to read in school - over the years I've checked out most of the major religions. Found them all to be a bunch of BS.
And what little affection (well... you could use crosses and holy water to kill vampires) I had for religion - I've lost it all during the '90s. The war and all... But lately I am starting to despise it.
You know... when you see a village without a decent road (and nearest town with a hospital being about 30-60 minutes by car) but with a brand new mosque or a church - only thing comes to mind is that people building those are complete idiots. And I am yet to find a greater danger to the human rase then idiots.
Well of course, if you want to convert pre-existing religions, you start out by telling them they're on the right track, but *really* there's this other new stuff that they'll learn about in *your* religion.
Aka embrace, extend... extinguish Well... technically... I doubt that Mohammed had that in mind regarding Christianity or Judaism at the time. Mecca WAS an important trading center back then, but still... I doubt that more than 1 or 2 percent of population was practising Christianity and/or Judaism there at the time. At the time, much greater local problem were the multitude of gods people worshiped. It was a One god per One man. Well.. almost.
But... al that aside it comes to this.
Either the Allmighty Allpowerful Multipurpose God of Jews and Christians (and at the time it WAS one and the same god for ALL Christians) contacted Mohammed in that cave and gave him the necessary manuals on religion and technical updates for the next version of G.O.D. (This would be G.O.D. 3.0, right? Which would make Shia Islam 3.11 for workgroups?) - which makes it the same god as the one Christians and Jews use.
OR... Mohammed found and copied almost entire religion from the Bible. Which again makes his god the one and the same with the Christian/Jewish god.
Personally, I find the entire religion thing a big nasty fairy tale. But the funniest (in the dark, morbid, "How do you unload a truck-full of babies" kind of way) religions simply have to be Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Like Three Stooges of religion. All that inter-religious strife and holy wars and people killed because they prayed to the different version of the same god.
Mohammed's grandfather was a pagan priest of a specific deity of the Quraish tribe. He named his son (Mohammed's dad) "Abd'allah", literally "Slave of Allah."
This was before the monotheistic "Allah" was cooked up by Mohammed.
Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for? You know... that guy from the Bible. Him who is called I Am!
Islam is the same thing as Christianity - only with minor updates and changes. Same basic rules (plus couple of new ones), same prophets, same angels... It even has Jesus - only his name is Isa (like the slot) in Qur'an.
Main difference that was very useful for all these holy wars all these centuries?
No crosses or icons.
Cause there is that rule about no idols in the HolyBookTM. Pick the one you like - its the same thing anyway.
A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale
Creating universe in six days, talking snakes, winged creatures under his command sent to destroy cities, people created out of other peoples body parts and various plot holes you could drive a truck through (Where did the Mrs. Cain come from?)...
Which part exactly of the story of his doings falls out of fairy tale definition?
Oh... you meant that HE is not a fairy tale but a fairy tale character? Like Prince Charming, Big Bad Wolf, Snow White or Shreck? Oh... OK... I can go with that.
As long as we are not proposing that just because something is written in some book somewhere long time ago in a land far away - it is the truth. Cause... then I'd rather go with Scientology. It kinda makes more sense then the Judeo-Christian-Islamic myth.
I've got 1920x1080 DivX of Naruto's 3rd movie. Total size - 2.2 gigs for 94 minutes of video and audio, with four different language subtitle choices. All on one DVD.
I'm glad I have a high-def DivX-capable standalone player. Screw these more expensive formats! Hooray compression technology! And it comes down to about 24 MB/minute. And that with only one audio stream. Soo.. you can fit about 6 Naruto episodes (at best - more like 5) of such quality to that same DVD.
Which, considering it is Naruto is about... one fight? Or less? Of a series that is 200+ episodes long.
HD video is USELESS without a writeable media significantly larger then a DVD to put it on. And by significantly I mean at least 10 times bigger.
What? I should go back to one movie one disk solution? Fuck that! I want to have my DivX collection on as few disks as possible. My anime too.
Wait for couple of months and THEN buy a Lenovo laptop.
By then, this monk business should be over, and you can explain to your conscience that China (or Lenovo) are not backing monk-shooters NOW.
Still.. I'd hate to be you. I mean... giving up everything made in USA because of current troubles in Iraq. Giving up everything made in Germany, Italy and Japan because of WWII. And Spanish Inquisition...
Damn! Come to think of it... What do you eat and drink then?
They have connected the generator or its controlling software/hardware combo to the internet and then they have run a fake "cyber-attack" (If they only knew...) to make it go PUF!
And then... They start to waive the red "What if..." flags.
What if this happened on the large scale? To a huge part of the country for months, mind you... "Huge part" and "for months". By day three stores run out of food and emergency generators out of gas.
I guess that the main idea is that all of those electrical engineers are twiddling their thumbs during that time?
Here is a "What if..." What if all of a sudden "the leaders and innovators of industry in the world start to disappear"? This could mean the end of the civilisation as we know it. I think that there might be book in there somewhere... hmm...
Further on... "After 10 days with no hope of power being restored..."... Video goes on to babble about no emergency services, fuel, and even NO WHERE TO EVACUATE!!!
Like... when did I miss the news of the large part of US being held in the air above Atlantic Ocean by use of force fields/tractor beams connected to generators, which are connected to the internet? And, has the modern civilisation really become SO fragile that 10 days without TV and internet porn will cause immediate collapse of society?
And Joe Weiss (of Applied Control Solutions) is A FUCKING IDIOT! Besides the fact that he assumes (very possible as he says) that Iran has NOT SIMILAR but SAME "systems", people there "absolutely" know how to run them, and "absolutely" know how to bring them down - he goes on to claim that they also have the SAME PASSWORDS!!!
Well damn... Here - I have the solution.
First - STOP CONNECTING CRITICAL SYSTEMS TO THE INTERNET!!! Second - CHANGE YOUR GOD DAMN PASSWORD!!!!
Amazon trumps iTunes on DRM-free volume, but iTunes trumps Amazon by selling 256kbps AAC, as opposed to the 256kbps MP3 that Amazon sells. Isn't that kind of like saying "These big, red, juicy apples with razors inside sure taste better than those smaller, greener apples"?
I see what you mean there. "The Moron" population is a very significant part or the market. And once you get the morons to use your product (and like it), you are set for life. Because... morons... in large groups... They do wonders.
But.
There is simple solution to your problem.
They should simply market it as BDD (Blueray Disk Drive).
And when a moron comes along and asks what does BDD stand for sellers should be instructed to answer "Better Disk Drive" or "Bigger Disk Drive" or "Best Disk Drive". And Better beats HD every time.
High Definition - ours is Better. Hyper Drive - ours is Better. Humongous Dude - ours is Better.
I wont even go into ramifications of buying 30$ socks for an inanimate music player.
I dare not think what would happen should MicroSoft or Sony venture such a customer-buggering move. Thousands of turds shaped like Zunes mailed in for replacement as defective to MS? (If you are reading this and thinking "Oh, jolly good. Now I'm going to make a brown MS product joke!" - You are too late. MS and I both have beat you to it.) PS3s boxes filled with tarantulas and/or roaches shipped to Sony? Sony's HQ stoned (bricked?) with bricks with buttons and screen drawn on them with chalk?
But when Apple does that? Oh noooouuuuu... Then it is hailed by fan-boys (fan-bots?) as "Brilliant Marketing Strategy" or "Quality Customer Relations".
Damn! And I just got my karma back to Bad from the last time I spoke my mind about Apple and its cult.
If your friend was THAT determined to break the law he should have went the whole nine yards - but the right (and fun) way. Pulling a gun on someone - what's that? Assault with a deadly weapon? Maybe even attempted murder if he was stupid enough to say those three little words. "I'll", "kill" and "you".
Instead, after seeing where his girlfriend lives, just go after him to his house. See where HE lives. Then... you have many options.
A) Break into his house, steal back your laptop if it is still there, steal anything of value, trash the place, get some rabid dogs and let them into his place... be creative. (Remember to hide YOUR identity - mask, gloves etc.) B) Break into his house, beat the shit out of the fucker with a baseball bat or lead pipe (low tech rules), take back your laptop/belongings and any cash the guy has in the house. C) In the case he has already passed the laptop/belongings on - see the first part of B. After working on the guy with a bat/pipe ask for your laptop/belongings, give him a P.O. Box address to mail it to and promise to be back if you don't get your stuff back in a week. Or if you see someone staking out that P.O. Box.
For an added bonus - inject the guy with a syringe of pure water (some flu virus would be GREAT if you can get your hands on some) and tell him its a poison/virus that will kill him in 10 days and that he will get the antidote AFTER you get your laptop back.
Don't go to pick up the laptop yourself. Find a homeless guy to do it for you. Or just give him a preaddressed box to another P.O. Box to mail it for you.
If you want to be vigilante it is always good to these four little words: "What would Batman do?".
Pull a gun on someone? Nooou...
Beat the shit out of and fear into someone? Hell yes!
Who would throw away a (brand new) computer just to replace a pirated version of Vista and pay $2000+ for a Mac? Wouldn't it be far cheaper to get a legitimate copy of Vista? Not to mention Linux...
Oh... I get it... You meant to give us the insight into the way IUser would solve the problem? Computer and OS treated like a new TV. Concentrating on working straight "out of the box" and when the time for upgrade comes (because everyone just HAS to use the newest version of Photoshop) - replace everything. Software, OS, hardware...
From TFA:
Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions. Conservatives are conservative while liberals are liberal? O_o?
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Actually - that is not such a bad idea.
If by splashing you mean something like transmitting your currently played songs info in the area around you covered by your WiFi.
Seeing people use various plugins to show other IM users what they are listening to at the time, and sites like Last.fm - that seems to be a wanted feature.
...new for old trade?
Or more likely (since it is better for Apple, not the consumer) - bring in your old iPod and get a discount buying a new one.
I have no idea what you are implying to then.
You are not nitpicking about articles like "the" and "a", are you?
I mean... I know being a grammar nazi is a popular sport, but that would be taking it a bit too far...
Yeah.. I guess that it is elves. I don't recall of any elves in the Bible.
There might be some Qu'ran though... Not sure (o_O)?
Nah... my parental units didn't really give much credit to fairy tales.
And since Yugoslavia was still a communist country back then - I had the luck to grow up without having religion shoved down my throath with Easter and Christmas.
Santa was for New Years and Easter was the day when SOME neighbours (non-practising Orthodox Christians in my neighbourhood) painted their eggs.
Which we found fun, so our mother did it for us too. But no Easter Bunny. Found out about him only years later.
So, being born with a brain, and as I was taught to read in school - over the years I've checked out most of the major religions. Found them all to be a bunch of BS.
And what little affection (well... you could use crosses and holy water to kill vampires) I had for religion - I've lost it all during the '90s. The war and all...
But lately I am starting to despise it.
You know... when you see a village without a decent road (and nearest town with a hospital being about 30-60 minutes by car) but with a brand new mosque or a church - only thing comes to mind is that people building those are complete idiots. And I am yet to find a greater danger to the human rase then idiots.
Aka embrace, extend... extinguish Well... technically... I doubt that Mohammed had that in mind regarding Christianity or Judaism at the time.
Mecca WAS an important trading center back then, but still... I doubt that more than 1 or 2 percent of population was practising Christianity and/or Judaism there at the time.
At the time, much greater local problem were the multitude of gods people worshiped. It was a One god per One man. Well.. almost.
But... al that aside it comes to this.
Either the Allmighty Allpowerful Multipurpose God of Jews and Christians (and at the time it WAS one and the same god for ALL Christians) contacted Mohammed in that cave and gave him the necessary manuals on religion and technical updates for the next version of G.O.D. (This would be G.O.D. 3.0, right? Which would make Shia Islam 3.11 for workgroups?) - which makes it the same god as the one Christians and Jews use.
OR... Mohammed found and copied almost entire religion from the Bible. Which again makes his god the one and the same with the Christian/Jewish god.
Personally, I find the entire religion thing a big nasty fairy tale.
But the funniest (in the dark, morbid, "How do you unload a truck-full of babies" kind of way) religions simply have to be Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Like Three Stooges of religion.
All that inter-religious strife and holy wars and people killed because they prayed to the different version of the same god.
Hilarious!
This was before the monotheistic "Allah" was cooked up by Mohammed.
Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for? You know... that guy from the Bible. Him who is called I Am!
Islam is the same thing as Christianity - only with minor updates and changes. Same basic rules (plus couple of new ones), same prophets, same angels...
It even has Jesus - only his name is Isa (like the slot) in Qur'an.
Main difference that was very useful for all these holy wars all these centuries?
No crosses or icons.
Cause there is that rule about no idols in the HolyBookTM. Pick the one you like - its the same thing anyway.
Creating universe in six days, talking snakes, winged creatures under his command sent to destroy cities, people created out of other peoples body parts and various plot holes you could drive a truck through (Where did the Mrs. Cain come from?)...
Which part exactly of the story of his doings falls out of fairy tale definition?
Oh... you meant that HE is not a fairy tale but a fairy tale character? Like Prince Charming, Big Bad Wolf, Snow White or Shreck?
Oh... OK... I can go with that.
As long as we are not proposing that just because something is written in some book somewhere long time ago in a land far away - it is the truth.
Cause... then I'd rather go with Scientology. It kinda makes more sense then the Judeo-Christian-Islamic myth.
I'm glad I have a high-def DivX-capable standalone player. Screw these more expensive formats! Hooray compression technology! And it comes down to about 24 MB/minute. And that with only one audio stream.
Soo.. you can fit about 6 Naruto episodes (at best - more like 5) of such quality to that same DVD.
Which, considering it is Naruto is about... one fight? Or less?
Of a series that is 200+ episodes long.
HD video is USELESS without a writeable media significantly larger then a DVD to put it on. And by significantly I mean at least 10 times bigger.
What? I should go back to one movie one disk solution? Fuck that!
I want to have my DivX collection on as few disks as possible. My anime too.
...But you'll want them be easily fooled when they start gathering us for the "Human Re-education Program".
And by "re-education" I mean slaving away in the underground mines.
And by "slaving away" I mean being dumped in the deep hole in the ground.
...for their next vacation.
Here a filling is around $20, extraction about the same, removables from $150 to $250 and implants are around $1000 per tooth.
That is what most dental-conscious-abroad-living Bosnians do during their summer vacations. Have their teeth fixed and pulled.
No wonder they only come to visit their family once a year.
Wait for couple of months and THEN buy a Lenovo laptop.
By then, this monk business should be over, and you can explain to your conscience that China (or Lenovo) are not backing monk-shooters NOW.
Still.. I'd hate to be you.
I mean... giving up everything made in USA because of current troubles in Iraq.
Giving up everything made in Germany, Italy and Japan because of WWII.
And Spanish Inquisition...
Damn! Come to think of it... What do you eat and drink then?
You mean..
Hi.. name Is Werner... Brandes. my.. voice! is. my.. passport? verify Me..
Well... it could be worse... you could have used: COOTY RATS SEMEN as your password.
Pointless FUD...
Did anyone watch this video at all? http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/27/meserve.power.at.risk.cnn
They have connected the generator or its controlling software/hardware combo to the internet and then they have run a fake "cyber-attack" (If they only knew...) to make it go PUF!
And then... They start to waive the red "What if..." flags.
What if this happened on the large scale? To a huge part of the country for months, mind you... "Huge part" and "for months".
By day three stores run out of food and emergency generators out of gas.
I guess that the main idea is that all of those electrical engineers are twiddling their thumbs during that time?
Here is a "What if..."
What if all of a sudden "the leaders and innovators of industry in the world start to disappear"? This could mean the end of the civilisation as we know it.
I think that there might be book in there somewhere... hmm...
Further on... "After 10 days with no hope of power being restored..."... Video goes on to babble about no emergency services, fuel, and even NO WHERE TO EVACUATE!!!
Like... when did I miss the news of the large part of US being held in the air above Atlantic Ocean by use of force fields/tractor beams connected to generators, which are connected to the internet?
And, has the modern civilisation really become SO fragile that 10 days without TV and internet porn will cause immediate collapse of society?
And Joe Weiss (of Applied Control Solutions) is A FUCKING IDIOT!
Besides the fact that he assumes (very possible as he says) that Iran has NOT SIMILAR but SAME "systems", people there "absolutely" know how to run them, and "absolutely" know how to bring them down - he goes on to claim that they also have the SAME PASSWORDS!!!
Well damn... Here - I have the solution.
First - STOP CONNECTING CRITICAL SYSTEMS TO THE INTERNET!!!
Second - CHANGE YOUR GOD DAMN PASSWORD!!!!
And a trollific comment on a obvious joke is not insightful or really that smart.
But I guess you already know that - posting as AC and all...
And what about the guy who went through vasectomy to get his iPhone? http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6552323
Will he get one of his balls back with his discount coupon?
I see what you mean there.
"The Moron" population is a very significant part or the market.
And once you get the morons to use your product (and like it), you are set for life.
Because... morons... in large groups... They do wonders.
But.
There is simple solution to your problem.
They should simply market it as BDD (Blueray Disk Drive).
And when a moron comes along and asks what does BDD stand for sellers should be instructed to answer "Better Disk Drive" or "Bigger Disk Drive" or "Best Disk Drive".
And Better beats HD every time.
High Definition - ours is Better.
Hyper Drive - ours is Better.
Humongous Dude - ours is Better.
You give away wads of money and in return you get a "HA-HA! Silly fan boy, we knew we could count on you!" pat on the back and a coupon for three packs of iPod socks. http://www.amazon.com/Apple-M9720G-iPod-Sock-Socks/dp/B0006JMX14
I wont even go into ramifications of buying 30$ socks for an inanimate music player.
I dare not think what would happen should MicroSoft or Sony venture such a customer-buggering move.
Thousands of turds shaped like Zunes mailed in for replacement as defective to MS? (If you are reading this and thinking "Oh, jolly good. Now I'm going to make a brown MS product joke!" - You are too late. MS and I both have beat you to it.)
PS3s boxes filled with tarantulas and/or roaches shipped to Sony?
Sony's HQ stoned (bricked?) with bricks with buttons and screen drawn on them with chalk?
But when Apple does that? Oh noooouuuuu...
Then it is hailed by fan-boys (fan-bots?) as "Brilliant Marketing Strategy" or "Quality Customer Relations".
Damn!
And I just got my karma back to Bad from the last time I spoke my mind about Apple and its cult.
Didn't Dr. Robert Zubrin cut it down to 6 months in one direction already? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437325/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin
Using like... 19th century technology and not... you know... like... those banned nuclear thingies?
If your friend was THAT determined to break the law he should have went the whole nine yards - but the right (and fun) way.
Pulling a gun on someone - what's that? Assault with a deadly weapon? Maybe even attempted murder if he was stupid enough to say those three little words.
"I'll", "kill" and "you".
Instead, after seeing where his girlfriend lives, just go after him to his house. See where HE lives. Then... you have many options.
A) Break into his house, steal back your laptop if it is still there, steal anything of value, trash the place, get some rabid dogs and let them into his place... be creative. (Remember to hide YOUR identity - mask, gloves etc.)
B) Break into his house, beat the shit out of the fucker with a baseball bat or lead pipe (low tech rules), take back your laptop/belongings and any cash the guy has in the house.
C) In the case he has already passed the laptop/belongings on - see the first part of B. After working on the guy with a bat/pipe ask for your laptop/belongings, give him a P.O. Box address to mail it to and promise to be back if you don't get your stuff back in a week. Or if you see someone staking out that P.O. Box.
For an added bonus - inject the guy with a syringe of pure water (some flu virus would be GREAT if you can get your hands on some) and tell him its a poison/virus that will kill him in 10 days and that he will get the antidote AFTER you get your laptop back.
Don't go to pick up the laptop yourself. Find a homeless guy to do it for you. Or just give him a preaddressed box to another P.O. Box to mail it for you.
If you want to be vigilante it is always good to these four little words: "What would Batman do?".
Pull a gun on someone? Nooou...
Beat the shit out of and fear into someone? Hell yes!
Hey! Don't you badmouth Harry Potter!
Who would throw away a (brand new) computer just to replace a pirated version of Vista and pay $2000+ for a Mac?
Wouldn't it be far cheaper to get a legitimate copy of Vista?
Not to mention Linux...
Oh... I get it... You meant to give us the insight into the way IUser would solve the problem?
Computer and OS treated like a new TV.
Concentrating on working straight "out of the box" and when the time for upgrade comes (because everyone just HAS to use the newest version of Photoshop) - replace everything.
Software, OS, hardware...
Fun... but not really economical.
Like... Whoa!