We believe it is up to the individual to uphold the law; not that of organisations such as Napster and Metallicster.
- From the website.
I take it that no Napster supporter here supports gun control, then? OK, Napster doesn't kill people. But the whole idea of having a police force is that *people can't be trusted* to uphold the law. In the same way, certain lockpicking tools are only available to bona-fide locksmiths, even though there's a perfectly legitimate use for someone who has forgotten their keys, because if they were freely available then the majority of use would be for burglaries. If a company sold these tools to the public, they'd be sued and/or shut down, fined, etc etc.
Napster is almost exclusively used for theft. And if Lars is to be believed, they're going to try and get an IPO out of it. This, surely, is ridiculous (and personally I find it pretty disgusting)...
In the pop superstar's 132nd outrageous stunt of the past six months, Madonna shocked seven TV viewers last night when she appeared on a Barbara Walters special and graphically described oral sex she had performed on an unnamed NBA star
...The shocking remarks returned Madonna to the national spotlight after a three-day absence. Last week, during an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman she strapped a crucifix to her pelvis and simulated coitus, an act which shocked dozens of viewers, but was met with yawns by the millions of Madonna fans who had already witnessed far more impressive acts of sacrilege during her 1990 Blond Ambition tour.
According to a recent poll,... the number of Americans describing themselves as "shocked" by Madonna dropped from 48 to 11."
Hey, I've had one of those recorders for a couple of years now! Damn thing's been into the repair shop about 3 times, each time breaking again just after the 6 month warranty was up... Absolutely shitty bit of equipment.
Anyone knowledgeable out there... if I live in the UK, what are the chances of compensation?
Hey, if the rest of the world *really* wanted to f*ck with America, we'd ask you to pay us back all your debt tomorrow:)
No, seriously, I'm not sure America realises how much power it exerts over other nations. If you think we're messing with you, it's because we have to defend ourselves somehow against your policy of trying to "police the world". We really don't need you to. (When was the last time a European court issued an injunction against a US ISP?)
As a Haiku is meant to be a "distilled/crystallised moment in time", I can understand that the first one (South Park) got moderated up - it's good. But the alt.binaries one, although funny (in the "fitting it into the syllables" sense), is definitely not a haiku.
Not sure I like the sound of that... I know a lot of us here use *nix or MacOS, etc, but if 3 different Windows variants came along, each with their own innovations, protocols, everything, then most of the world's computer users are going to be royally *screwed*.
Few "average" consumers are going to be able to work out what's happening; and although we might think it a good thing to lure them away from Windows, I think it's unfair to cause them that much distress over what version does what and which should they use... Plus, of course, as usual it would be America screwing the rest of the world, which it has no right to do:)
Well I'm sorry! That definition was my first thought, but I just reckoned $6 was rather cheap considering it sells for about 10 times that... Thought there might be another explanation apart from the "huge profit" one. I can understand/spell English fine, but I have difficulties with company jargon.
But as the real price is so hugely different from the contract price, if the contract price goes up by a dime, does that mean the real price to us goes up by nothing, ten dimes, or $30?
...big step forward for GPS, and will only serve to create some fantastic new products.
Umm. Look, I don't mean to sound all commie and left-wing, but does anyone out there agree that the idea of absolute, direct advertising absolutely sucks???
I mean, surely it's bad enough what with all the junk e-mail, post, faxes, everything, that we already get... do we really *have* to get adverts through our PDAs and cellphones?
I'm sorry, I don't mean to rant, but I find adverts nauseating: they are designed purely to take money away from you. Seriously, did no-one else get a really bad feeling when they read this story?
You started off with a number of valid points, but degenerated into a rant about American junk food.
OK, fair point. But the sheer agressiveness with which America forces itself upon the world makes it hard to ignore: entire cultures' ways of doing things are being wiped out because of the US forcing its values upon people, be that through misleading but agressive advertising, funding guerilla armies, or any number of dodgy tactics which come about from an "every man for himself" attitude.
Like I said, America is viewed as a big bully by those who don't like her (and this number is considerable). Why else do you all put Canadian flags on your backpacks when travelling abroad?:)
Just back on the junk food issue: just because people like something doesn't mean it's good for them, or even that they should be allowed to have it sometimes... just think how awful those children are who have always gotten everything they wanted! I'm not saying "Ban fast food". But people as a collective are basically not the brightest of things, and some help should be afforded to them as to how to do various things, including eat. And having America come in and shout as loudly as possible "it doesn't have to be like this, you can all have exactly what you want, all the time!" really doesn't help matters.
BTW, Britain was at its healthiest ever when rationing was in force in the forties. Complete freedom of choice isn't always the best approach; neither is complete control. Some happy medium should be found...
I know it's hard to work out why some people hate the US - I'm sure some people hate the UK (or sometimes just specifically England) and I don't know why.
However, ancient history aside, the way that America and American attitudes have pervaded most of Western civilisation is nothing really for the US to be proud of: I think we generally regard you as a bit of a bully. Examples:
* The Cuban blockade. The US is causing absolute misery to thousands of innocent people through a completely unnecessary blockade (and this *does* affect other countries through that ridiculous Jesse Helmes law...).
* The trade disputes with the EU: You say that it's "unfair" that we don't want to import your awful, hormone-ridden beef and consequences-unknown GM foods. Now, I know that we've had BSE, and many thick people in the UK tried to force it upon other countries during the crisis. But at least we knew we were doing something wrong! Whereas the US decides to get its pet the WTO to say that it can ban imports of EU things - so hundreds of orders of perfectly innocent things (wool jumpers, for instance) are being lost, and so are jobs in rural small companies.
* The US has a very "everyone for him/herself" attitude, which we had for a while in the form of Thatcher (who coincidentally did the most damage to this country's industry, infrastructure, social outlook, education, health, etc, etc of any government, err, ever, probably...). You try to force this attitude on everyone else as being the best way to be, and to be frank, we're sick of it.
* You still owe (AFAIK) billions, probably trillions, of dollars to everyone else. Are you likely to pay up anytime soon?
* The impression that we in the non-US world get of the US is that you simply don't understand anything that doesn't fit into your culture... I was watching a program on Great British Ads the other day - there was one for Walkers crisps (owned by a US company) which the American PR people tried to stop being made again and again because they really didn't think it would work in the UK, despite all the assurances of *loads* of British PR people it would (it featured Gary Linekar stealing crisps from a small child!). The ad went ahead anyway without the US's knowledge, and was a huge success. But the thick US people refused to even give it a try!
* OK, back on-topic. In summary, the whole "Bigger is better", spoilt, I've-got-more-money-so-I-_must_-be-better concept that the US is *founded* on annoys the piss out of me. Most of what you eat wouldn't count as food to any right-minded person ("Kraft dinners", the fact that Mars bars, etc, are much, *much* sweeter over in the US) - it's all because everyone is so spoilt that they don't know what's actually *good* for them any more. Which is fine - go ahead, be my guest. But DON"T FORCE IT on everyone else. Which is exactly what you do. Eg, the amount of over-eating in Japan since American attitudes to fast-food got there. The huge anorexia rate in (I think) Fiji once US TV got there (a diet of fish meant the local culture said large was beautiful, but now all that's changed).
Right, I've said it:) Hope that was detailed enough. Essentially America is ruining the world, in culture (the arts), social attitude, crass commercialism, lawsuits, etc, etc.
NB: I know some very nice American people. I don't wish to stereotype you all!
I don't know if this is the norm, but I know that King Crimson did several gigs in the seventies for which they got paid *nothing* because it was good promotion for their record sales...
So perhaps it works the other way round sometimes?
"The mouseover states mean that you have to mouse over them to get that info. "
Well, yes, but if you mouse-over one button then all three symbols show up in their respective buttons.
Personally I think the "Stop using this window" works as red. Green I can very easily relate to maximise (moreso than just a box with another box in it) - it just feels right to me. And of course, yellow is the perfect compliment to red and green, a recognised "in-between" type button.
Anyway, the fact that just moving into the area of the buttons displays all three "pictures" definitely makes this feature novice-friendly in my eyes at least...
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We believe it is up to the individual to uphold the law; not that of organisations such as Napster and Metallicster.
- From the website.
I take it that no Napster supporter here supports gun control, then? OK, Napster doesn't kill people. But the whole idea of having a police force is that *people can't be trusted* to uphold the law. In the same way, certain lockpicking tools are only available to bona-fide locksmiths, even though there's a perfectly legitimate use for someone who has forgotten their keys, because if they were freely available then the majority of use would be for burglaries. If a company sold these tools to the public, they'd be sued and/or shut down, fined, etc etc.
Napster is almost exclusively used for theft. And if Lars is to be believed, they're going to try and get an IPO out of it. This, surely, is ridiculous (and personally I find it pretty disgusting)...
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
From The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" book...
... the number of Americans describing themselves as "shocked" by Madonna dropped from 48 to 11."
:)
"Madonna Shocks Seven!
In the pop superstar's 132nd outrageous stunt of the past six months, Madonna shocked seven TV viewers last night when she appeared on a Barbara Walters special and graphically described oral sex she had performed on an unnamed NBA star
...The shocking remarks returned Madonna to the national spotlight after a three-day absence. Last week, during an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman she strapped a crucifix to her pelvis and simulated coitus, an act which shocked dozens of viewers, but was met with yawns by the millions of Madonna fans who had already witnessed far more impressive acts of sacrilege during her 1990 Blond Ambition tour.
According to a recent poll,
Just thought that might be relevant...
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
Hey, I've had one of those recorders for a couple of years now! Damn thing's been into the repair shop about 3 times, each time breaking again just after the 6 month warranty was up... Absolutely shitty bit of equipment.
Anyone knowledgeable out there... if I live in the UK, what are the chances of compensation?
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
Hey, if the rest of the world *really* wanted to f*ck with America, we'd ask you to pay us back all your debt tomorrow :)
No, seriously, I'm not sure America realises how much power it exerts over other nations. If you think we're messing with you, it's because we have to defend ourselves somehow against your policy of trying to "police the world". We really don't need you to. (When was the last time a European court issued an injunction against a US ISP?)
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
As a Haiku is meant to be a "distilled/crystallised moment in time", I can understand that the first one (South Park) got moderated up - it's good. But the alt.binaries one, although funny (in the "fitting it into the syllables" sense), is definitely not a haiku.
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
Not sure I like the sound of that... I know a lot of us here use *nix or MacOS, etc, but if 3 different Windows variants came along, each with their own innovations, protocols, everything, then most of the world's computer users are going to be royally *screwed*.
:)
Few "average" consumers are going to be able to work out what's happening; and although we might think it a good thing to lure them away from Windows, I think it's unfair to cause them that much distress over what version does what and which should they use... Plus, of course, as usual it would be America screwing the rest of the world, which it has no right to do
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
Well I'm sorry! That definition was my first thought, but I just reckoned $6 was rather cheap considering it sells for about 10 times that... Thought there might be another explanation apart from the "huge profit" one. I can understand/spell English fine, but I have difficulties with company jargon.
But as the real price is so hugely different from the contract price, if the contract price goes up by a dime, does that mean the real price to us goes up by nothing, ten dimes, or $30?
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
Excuse my ignorance, but what's a "contract price"?
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
Umm. Look, I don't mean to sound all commie and left-wing, but does anyone out there agree that the idea of absolute, direct advertising absolutely sucks???
I mean, surely it's bad enough what with all the junk e-mail, post, faxes, everything, that we already get... do we really *have* to get adverts through our PDAs and cellphones?
I'm sorry, I don't mean to rant, but I find adverts nauseating: they are designed purely to take money away from you. Seriously, did no-one else get a really bad feeling when they read this story?
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
You started off with a number of valid points, but degenerated into a rant about American junk food.
:)
OK, fair point. But the sheer agressiveness with which America forces itself upon the world makes it hard to ignore: entire cultures' ways of doing things are being wiped out because of the US forcing its values upon people, be that through misleading but agressive advertising, funding guerilla armies, or any number of dodgy tactics which come about from an "every man for himself" attitude.
Like I said, America is viewed as a big bully by those who don't like her (and this number is considerable). Why else do you all put Canadian flags on your backpacks when travelling abroad?
Just back on the junk food issue: just because people like something doesn't mean it's good for them, or even that they should be allowed to have it sometimes... just think how awful those children are who have always gotten everything they wanted! I'm not saying "Ban fast food". But people as a collective are basically not the brightest of things, and some help should be afforded to them as to how to do various things, including eat. And having America come in and shout as loudly as possible "it doesn't have to be like this, you can all have exactly what you want, all the time!" really doesn't help matters.
BTW, Britain was at its healthiest ever when rationing was in force in the forties. Complete freedom of choice isn't always the best approach; neither is complete control. Some happy medium should be found...
(Apologies for long-windedness here)
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
I know it's hard to work out why some people hate the US - I'm sure some people hate the UK (or sometimes just specifically England) and I don't know why.
:) Hope that was detailed enough. Essentially America is ruining the world, in culture (the arts), social attitude, crass commercialism, lawsuits, etc, etc.
However, ancient history aside, the way that America and American attitudes have pervaded most of Western civilisation is nothing really for the US to be proud of: I think we generally regard you as a bit of a bully. Examples:
* The Cuban blockade. The US is causing absolute misery to thousands of innocent people through a completely unnecessary blockade (and this *does* affect other countries through that ridiculous Jesse Helmes law...).
* The trade disputes with the EU: You say that it's "unfair" that we don't want to import your awful, hormone-ridden beef and consequences-unknown GM foods. Now, I know that we've had BSE, and many thick people in the UK tried to force it upon other countries during the crisis. But at least we knew we were doing something wrong! Whereas the US decides to get its pet the WTO to say that it can ban imports of EU things - so hundreds of orders of perfectly innocent things (wool jumpers, for instance) are being lost, and so are jobs in rural small companies.
* The US has a very "everyone for him/herself" attitude, which we had for a while in the form of Thatcher (who coincidentally did the most damage to this country's industry, infrastructure, social outlook, education, health, etc, etc of any government, err, ever, probably...). You try to force this attitude on everyone else as being the best way to be, and to be frank, we're sick of it.
* You still owe (AFAIK) billions, probably trillions, of dollars to everyone else. Are you likely to pay up anytime soon?
* The impression that we in the non-US world get of the US is that you simply don't understand anything that doesn't fit into your culture... I was watching a program on Great British Ads the other day - there was one for Walkers crisps (owned by a US company) which the American PR people tried to stop being made again and again because they really didn't think it would work in the UK, despite all the assurances of *loads* of British PR people it would (it featured Gary Linekar stealing crisps from a small child!). The ad went ahead anyway without the US's knowledge, and was a huge success. But the thick US people refused to even give it a try!
* OK, back on-topic. In summary, the whole "Bigger is better", spoilt, I've-got-more-money-so-I-_must_-be-better concept that the US is *founded* on annoys the piss out of me. Most of what you eat wouldn't count as food to any right-minded person ("Kraft dinners", the fact that Mars bars, etc, are much, *much* sweeter over in the US) - it's all because everyone is so spoilt that they don't know what's actually *good* for them any more. Which is fine - go ahead, be my guest. But DON"T FORCE IT on everyone else. Which is exactly what you do. Eg, the amount of over-eating in Japan since American attitudes to fast-food got there. The huge anorexia rate in (I think) Fiji once US TV got there (a diet of fish meant the local culture said large was beautiful, but now all that's changed).
Right, I've said it
NB: I know some very nice American people. I don't wish to stereotype you all!
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
Hehe!!! That is just *so* true.
Someone moderate that up...
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
I don't know if this is the norm, but I know that King Crimson did several gigs in the seventies for which they got paid *nothing* because it was good promotion for their record sales...
So perhaps it works the other way round sometimes?
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler
"The mouseover states mean that you have to mouse over them to get that info. "
Well, yes, but if you mouse-over one button then all three symbols show up in their respective buttons.
Personally I think the "Stop using this window" works as red. Green I can very easily relate to maximise (moreso than just a box with another box in it) - it just feels right to me. And of course, yellow is the perfect compliment to red and green, a recognised "in-between" type button.
Anyway, the fact that just moving into the area of the buttons displays all three "pictures" definitely makes this feature novice-friendly in my eyes at least...
- Oliver
"exp(i*Pi)+1=0" - Euler