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Instead, the next generation (or their children) will get to deal with the huge piles of plastic waste AOL is generating. At least electronic spam ultimately falls into the bit bucket.
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While I think you're partially correct about the economy being a limiting factor for the airlines, one must also consider that many are put off by the extreme paranoia exhibited by airport security since the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks.
I flew over Christmas, and got frisked no less than three times. They asked me to open my belt, searched my shoes, looked through my bag, ect. After this treatment, I'm not sure I want to fly ever again. I guess we're learning that complete security comes at a terrible price.
Since you were unable to make a worthwhile response to my arguement, I humbly accept your surrender. As terms of your defeat, you must never post here again. Also, you must make a yearly contribution to the FSF in the name of William Gates III, and brush Stallman's beard whenever he desires.
If growing a plant is illegal, then you should be arrested.
So-called victemless crimes like the above simply underscore the OP's point. As as been said, you can't rule innocemt men. When a government passes laws protecting one from oneself, I see it as a sign of oppresive government.
By the way I'm not just talking about Prohibition (past & present). I'm also talking about things like The Seat Belt Law(tm), bought to us by our friendly insurance companies.
You defend Flash because you say it has it's uses, and I won't argue there. Personally, I can live without Flashvertisements and animated Flash intros. My problem with Flash is thus:
Flash has a user-hostile interface. Since it's a third party product, there are no options within the browser to control it. Animated GIFs and annoying Javascript may be problematic at times, but those can be easily disabled for the offending site, then re-enabled later. How do you temporarily disable Flash? Right click on the abomination and you get a menu that contains a single item, "About Flash..".
If Macromedia would include a user interface for Flash so that the user may choose to disable or enable it at any time, then I would not have a problem with it. To my point of view, Flash is a Trojan horse. You want it on your computer to view Flash movies, play Flash games, ect. But make no mistake, the real purpose of Flash is advertising.
I guess the problem would come from one country having a lower age of consent than another. So if the age of consent is 17 years in Country A, but the age of consent is 18 years in Country B, then a porno featuring Miss 17 yrs old would be legal in A, while being kiddie porn in B. This is pure speculation btw.
Our presidential elections are a joke. The Electoral College claims to be there to prevent "mob rule", while in fact their purpose is to prevent democratic rule.
I used to love playing UT CTF online. Went by Fuzzylogic, FuzzyBad-Mofo, Deuce, and other nicks, and got rather good at the game. I never cheated, but after the aimbots came out, it became hard to trust other players. There are several reasons I don't play anymore, namely:
Wow, I didn't expect so many great responses. My folks are familiar with Nero and Apaptec already, so either Arson or k3b would probably be a good choice for them. The shell script idea might be workable also. Thanks for the leads!
I would have no qualms about upgrading my Parent's computer to this distro, except for one thing: CD writing. They are not particularly technical, and would probably have trouble using X-CD-Roast. Is there a really user-friendly CDR program for Linux?
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Any browser that's IE, anyway.
.. does this mean Cisco will honor the evil bit?
Instead, the next generation (or their children) will get to deal with the huge piles of plastic waste AOL is generating. At least electronic spam ultimately falls into the bit bucket.
For Great Justice
Apparently, he's putting in 110% effort.
While I think you're partially correct about the economy being a limiting factor for the airlines, one must also consider that many are put off by the extreme paranoia exhibited by airport security since the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks.
I flew over Christmas, and got frisked no less than three times. They asked me to open my belt, searched my shoes, looked through my bag, ect. After this treatment, I'm not sure I want to fly ever again. I guess we're learning that complete security comes at a terrible price.
Dear AC,
Since you were unable to make a worthwhile response to my arguement, I humbly accept your surrender. As terms of your defeat, you must never post here again. Also, you must make a yearly contribution to the FSF in the name of William Gates III, and brush Stallman's beard whenever he desires.
I don't understand your analogy, are you saying that Free Software is like a whore or a girlfriend?
Closed software is the whore, because their services cost money, there is no love, and we both know what operating systems propagate computer viruses.
If growing a plant is illegal, then you should be arrested.
So-called victemless crimes like the above simply underscore the OP's point. As as been said, you can't rule innocemt men. When a government passes laws protecting one from oneself, I see it as a sign of oppresive government.
By the way I'm not just talking about Prohibition (past & present). I'm also talking about things like The Seat Belt Law(tm), bought to us by our friendly insurance companies.
I think you're being a little overly critical there, guy. Geez!
At least in Unix the slashes run the right way, and text files don't use silly two-byte line terminators.
You defend Flash because you say it has it's uses, and I won't argue there. Personally, I can live without Flashvertisements and animated Flash intros. My problem with Flash is thus:
Flash has a user-hostile interface. Since it's a third party product, there are no options within the browser to control it. Animated GIFs and annoying Javascript may be problematic at times, but those can be easily disabled for the offending site, then re-enabled later. How do you temporarily disable Flash? Right click on the abomination and you get a menu that contains a single item, "About Flash..".
If Macromedia would include a user interface for Flash so that the user may choose to disable or enable it at any time, then I would not have a problem with it. To my point of view, Flash is a Trojan horse. You want it on your computer to view Flash movies, play Flash games, ect. But make no mistake, the real purpose of Flash is advertising.
I guess the problem would come from one country having a lower age of consent than another. So if the age of consent is 17 years in Country A, but the age of consent is 18 years in Country B, then a porno featuring Miss 17 yrs old would be legal in A, while being kiddie porn in B. This is pure speculation btw.
Our presidential elections are a joke. The Electoral College claims to be there to prevent "mob rule", while in fact their purpose is to prevent democratic rule.
Same here.. I guess stupid jokes are now more important than "news for nerds"..
2003-04-01 20:11:41 3DRealms GPL's Duke Nukem 3D Source (articles,games) (rejected)
I thought you said, "the Mozilla forks" I wonder how that could have popped into my head?
Sadly, you're right. One look at the Google Zeitgeist tells us the majority cares only for convienience.
Flashback to 80's computer software. Just hope your new music CD doesn't quiz you on the liner notes before allowing playback. ;)
I used to love playing UT CTF online. Went by Fuzzylogic, FuzzyBad-Mofo, Deuce, and other nicks, and got rather good at the game. I never cheated, but after the aimbots came out, it became hard to trust other players. There are several reasons I don't play anymore, namely:
Hey, that doesn't work! I just tried it and&:>e{Ea@#$">?@%EOL
I guess he didn't get the memo. Real programmers use assembler! ;)
Wow, I didn't expect so many great responses. My folks are familiar with Nero and Apaptec already, so either Arson or k3b would probably be a good choice for them. The shell script idea might be workable also. Thanks for the leads!
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* Free hours only apply in the first month. During a full moon. By people named Frank.I would have no qualms about upgrading my Parent's computer to this distro, except for one thing: CD writing. They are not particularly technical, and would probably have trouble using X-CD-Roast. Is there a really user-friendly CDR program for Linux?