you're right, the war has always been there, only now it's much more obvious, and the pace has picked up to a much more rapid one.
and what i meant by the 'corporate feudalism' crack was that the corps and govt are trying to take away all of our rights very quickly right now so that we have no choice but to swear very obedient fealty to them, as peasants who don't own their land, don't have the right to own weapons, etc.
it's all just a war for control.
riaa, mpaa, whatever org you want, everybody is vying for control now, of anything and everything, regardless of whether they should have it or not, and *especially* regardless of whether they really *need* it or not. grab all you can, hoard it like a dog with a bone. grr! it's pretty sad, really. welcome to the beginning of corporate feudalism.
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Or to go the other
way, should all farmers unite and lower food production to drive up prices, and defeat technology that could stop world
hunger?
they do, it's called government subsidies and farm aid. we're so good at producing food that people can't make money at it anymore, so now we have to pay people to NOT make food. if everybody in the first world wanted to feed everybody in the third world, they could. but they don't want to.
besides, suffering of people makes a great way to not only oppress and exploit them, but also sucker those who want to help the sufferers into giving you money.
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find out who's on the ip and threaten them with legal action for attempting to crack your machine.
heh. so what's the immigration procedure like to go from, say, china to, say, lichtenstein? then you could go from lichtenstein to the US and get in easily since lichtenstein probably doesn't even HAVE 10,000 people, let alone 10,000 that are immigrating to the US per year...:)
poster:
Do you actually think the major corporations will stay on Earth? Just like what was said in 'Fight Club': It will be the corporations that colonize space. So don't worry, there will be a brand new Hilton Hotel waiting for you when you arrive on Mars.
me:
hello, 'total recall'...
poster:
Yeah right. Knowing our luck, all the smart ones will die off leaving the gene pool about the same as a packed Walmart on Friday night (what a sight that is).
IMO the problem is not a shortage of tech workers, but rather a shortage of managers. we're getting these incompetent schmoozers who've schlepped their way into a position titled 'manager' (because people who manage things are OBVIOUSLY important, right?) so they can make big $ and don't know a thing about what they're ACTUALLY doing there.
so the fbi tracks the loser down and shoots them.
or the fbi fucks the isp over for not protecting their box.
anyway, if someone DOES do that, what the hell... since there'll be other carnivores elsewhere, you can track 'em, right?:) find where they're posting from and track their sorry asses down. this thing isn't a one shot deal, it's a blanket.
it's still extremely irritating that IM progs try to shove every feature in the world down your throat (who needs to find IM ppl via a web page, have web storage from the IM client, IM email, etc?) and have them all default=active, especially when it doesn't have the common courtesy to SAVE your existing settings when upgrading (thus forcing you to go back through every single preference menu and reset them).
IM's suffer the worst from feature creep and needless bloating. Doesn't anybody believe in making a program do one thing only, and that well?
iirc it has two vsa-100 chips on it, each with their own 32mb memory banks.
(i've been debating a better video card than a voodoo3 3000 16mb agp for playing counterstrike, and have been checking out the voodoo5 vs the geforce 2 cards. i may have mixed up the details though, so correct me if i'm wrong.)
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nice 2112 reference. :)
eudas
not to mention that a copy of a bald eagle is probably not as good as the original one.
i'm not sure if that comment is funny or not.
eudas
the big game hunters would love that...
they'd pay big bucks to be able to go around for weeks/months at a time, just blasting everything in sight.
eudas
you're right, the war has always been there, only now it's much more obvious, and the pace has picked up to a much more rapid one.
and what i meant by the 'corporate feudalism' crack was that the corps and govt are trying to take away all of our rights very quickly right now so that we have no choice but to swear very obedient fealty to them, as peasants who don't own their land, don't have the right to own weapons, etc.
eudas
it's all just a war for control.
riaa, mpaa, whatever org you want, everybody is vying for control now, of anything and everything, regardless of whether they should have it or not, and *especially* regardless of whether they really *need* it or not. grab all you can, hoard it like a dog with a bone. grr! it's pretty sad, really. welcome to the beginning of corporate feudalism.
eudas
man everybody says ianal...
aren't there any law-studying geeks out there?
eudas
the university would just keep tuition the same and profit from the sale of the notes.
eudas
are you in one of my classes or something? ;)
eudas
they do, it's called government subsidies and farm aid. we're so good at producing food that people can't make money at it anymore, so now we have to pay people to NOT make food. if everybody in the first world wanted to feed everybody in the third world, they could. but they don't want to.
besides, suffering of people makes a great way to not only oppress and exploit them, but also sucker those who want to help the sufferers into giving you money.
eudas
find out who's on the ip and threaten them with legal action for attempting to crack your machine.
eudas
heh. so what's the immigration procedure like to go from, say, china to, say, lichtenstein? then you could go from lichtenstein to the US and get in easily since lichtenstein probably doesn't even HAVE 10,000 people, let alone 10,000 that are immigrating to the US per year... :)
eudas
eudas
well, i did say 'bring out the four tittied bitches' in another post...
eudas
poster:
Do you actually think the major corporations will stay on Earth? Just like what was said in 'Fight Club': It will be the corporations that colonize space. So don't worry, there will be a brand new Hilton Hotel waiting for you when you arrive on Mars.
me:
hello, 'total recall'...
poster:
Yeah right. Knowing our luck, all the smart ones will die off leaving the gene pool about the same as a packed Walmart on Friday night (what a sight that is).
me:
oh god... you're depressing, you know that?
eudas
bring on the four-tittied bitches!
eudas
hell, if they hacked my account, the only way my karma could go is up. eudas
i think somewhere along the line it became a model for management... :)
eudas
IMO the problem is not a shortage of tech workers, but rather a shortage of managers. we're getting these incompetent schmoozers who've schlepped their way into a position titled 'manager' (because people who manage things are OBVIOUSLY important, right?) so they can make big $ and don't know a thing about what they're ACTUALLY doing there.
eudas
so the fbi tracks the loser down and shoots them.
:) find where they're posting from and track their sorry asses down. this thing isn't a one shot deal, it's a blanket.
or the fbi fucks the isp over for not protecting their box.
anyway, if someone DOES do that, what the hell... since there'll be other carnivores elsewhere, you can track 'em, right?
eudas
november 22.
eudas
it's still extremely irritating that IM progs try to shove every feature in the world down your throat (who needs to find IM ppl via a web page, have web storage from the IM client, IM email, etc?) and have them all default=active, especially when it doesn't have the common courtesy to SAVE your existing settings when upgrading (thus forcing you to go back through every single preference menu and reset them).
IM's suffer the worst from feature creep and needless bloating. Doesn't anybody believe in making a program do one thing only, and that well?
blah.
eudas
i always thought #1 was the 'good' (relatively) one. 2 was ok but overexaggerated, the others were just ludicrous.
eudas
i just wish they'd write something into windows to enable reading of ext2fs partitions...
eudas
iirc, norton wrote speedisk and unerase first. m$ licensed or bought or reverse engineered or whatever.
speedisk/defrag, unerase/undelete, stacker/doublespace, etc...
'embrace and extend and extinguish'...?
eudas
iirc it has two vsa-100 chips on it, each with their own 32mb memory banks.
(i've been debating a better video card than a voodoo3 3000 16mb agp for playing counterstrike, and have been checking out the voodoo5 vs the geforce 2 cards. i may have mixed up the details though, so correct me if i'm wrong.)
eudas