Thats funny, becuase I don't think Lincoln really would have thought we'd have just slightly less than half the country worried that a very annoying and vocal minority would see trying to shove their Bibles up our asses twenty-four hours a day as their inalienable right, either.
I bet Lincoln also never thought there would be a way for some citizen of this country to publish a sentence that teamed up his name and the phrase "bibles up our asses" and have it be almost instantly viewable by a million people.
Sigh. Stupid Lincoln. He should have had the foresight to see this shit coming.
Its not that we all see nothing wrong with pornography, it's that we see things wrong with trying to control WHO sees WHAT without leaving that choice up to them.
I, by the way, DO happen to really dig me some pornography every so often; and I don't really think Lincoln was a big stupid.
Before it became fairly standard for banks to have giant online applications for working your account, Bank of America had a pretty good phone system for checking your balance and what checks have cleared and so on.
Of course, they fucked that all up by then changing it to asking you to speak your options - that never worked.
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yeah, you kids with your new-fangled lossy-compression musical-listening devices!
I can remember back when we had to walk up-hill in the snow to buy the latest cylinder recording! Wrapped in tar-paper because we didn't need no stinking "plastic," and we liked it that way!
Then we'd put all out woll clothes back on and climb uphill to get to the shack we used to live in and listen to what we just bought after thawing it properly becuase the tar-paper was frozen solid! My brother would chop wood for months just to run the steam-victrola to play it, and we liked it that way!
Then our parents would flog us to sleep with sticks and we'd get up at four i the morning to go to work at the mill...
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Then again, these things technically WOULD be reusable. Go to the store, pup in your USB drive, buy music, and get it downloaded. Drive home.
or, turn it in to someplace and get a litlte hunk of money back, then it gets reused.
Then again, none of this makes as much sense as just downloading the thing in one big tarball or something.
Yes, yes they do. I once played MechWarrior in wireframe mode for so long it really screwed up my balance. Got a bit lightheaded when I stood up.
Ooh... then theres the time I sat down to play that Dungeon Maser game at my buddies place as he was leaving for work (I had the day off) "Just lock up when you leave," he said. Only problem was it was so much fun watching my little goblins kill adventurers that I sort of lost track of time... and was sitting in the exact same place 9 hours later when he got home from work.
Then there's that day I lost track of time playing Day of Defeat - one of the few days I consistently had more kills then deaths and still ran up a bunck of caps. Missed both football games that Sunday.
Yeah, those video games are really bad for you. Lost two days of drinking beer and once got myself a little dizzy, which for one in a million times was NOT caused by drinking beer.
Google's text-only ads were a really good thing when they first came out, then they got popular, so every sleazeball with a make-all-the-money-now sense of doing things started figuring out how to capitalize on it, tweak it, and bend the system to work with their own sleazy methods.
Now it's mostly useless, like most ads.
Then again, I never really bothered to use ads in any form other than my own personal entertainment anyway.
If I want to buy sommething, I'll go look for it. Oddly enough, when I WANT to see an ad for something I'm interested in, it never seems to show up. Typical. Nice job at targeting, guys.
Well, look what it's up against... If you don't like football (which is emperically WRONG) or if the game sucks (like tonights epic of Minnesota vs Green Bay - who fucking cares?) what the hell else do you have to watch? "Medium"? Please.
Or, you can waatch the panoply (i have no idea if thats even being used correctly, i just like saying it) of junk on Cable ranging from TLC's "Yet more shit about babies" to Lifetime's "Yet more Movies about Empowered Women Taking on men (who are ALL jerks, except for old-european Princes)" to The Military Channel's "How Much New Narration Can We Put To Stock Footage of Nazi's Getting Their Asses Kicked."
Disclaimer: I happen to LOVE the Military Channel
There ain't a whole lot of effort in putting decent TV on monday nights, and CSI Miami does have them hot scientists. And that Coroner... rrrrowrrr!
Its sort of like the whole "Number One movie In The Country!" fact that marketers love to throw around.
It should say "Number One Movie in SALES in the Country, becuase its in every theatreplex, sometimes on two or three screens, and we aint taking free passes to see this one." There's no subjective data from people who've actually seen the movies and what their opinion of them is.
HOWEVER, if there were a consistent way to get this data compiled online and seen for free, it'd only be a matter of time before some small film can start crowinig "Currently the Highest rated film at HonestlyAnonymouslyratingmovies.com
Maybe we should get Google on it... or... motherfuckme! ONLINE PRINTED MOVIE TICKETS!
Theatres that use Services with online purchasae-and-print models have unique IDs on ALL of their ticket stubs around the country. You enter your stub number, confirm the time and the theatre it was used at, and BOOM! semi-honest movie ratings. Then the small film can say "Highest rated currently playing movie, as rated by SlappysBrilliantHonestMovieRatings.com." Valid Cross-Marketing GENUIS!
Gents, you can contact me at the email address above to discuss using my intellectual property.
...who "test drive" the music from our friends then just go buy the damn stuff that doesn't suck, sometimes waiting for it to no longer be hot and subsequently discounted.
It's easy enough for such a customer to run a whois on their domain name. REPLY: Domains are not exclusively sold to people who have a knowledge of how internet works.
Too. Goddamn. Bad. The world's population, in general, needs to take a little self responsibility.
Maybe the guy with the brilliant idea for a site with its own domain name could get the kid next door to send him a couplle of links on how it does work? Then the kid could show him first how to click a link in his email? Maybe as a bonus, the kid could show him how to use Alt-Tab on his windows box and teach him the idea of multiple windows being open.
Drivers licenses are not given exclusively to people who know how to drive, either. That doesn't make it any safer for the rest of us that pay attention.
Guns are not sold exclusively to people who understand how to handle them, but that doesn't excuse the guy whos kid who accidentally shoots himself after finding the peice in a drawer.
I seem to remember the rumor that the gum in our MRE's has stuff in it to make you slightly constipated, so you weren't shitting very often while out in the field. It also had the nice sicde effect of making for a nice solid movement. I always thought the food itself was enough to connstipate you.
Thankfully, I was only a reservist and didn't have to live on the goddamn things for very long.
Mmmmm... Beef brick, Pork Brick, mushy chicken in something... good times. The best part was sneaking the hot cocoa powder back to the barracks for a late night treat. Good times; everyone should do basic training. Its like getting paid to get yelled at while at summer camp!
IPv6 vs. NAT These are two distinctly different things. Nat takes one public IP address and translates it to many private IP addresses. THese are not two competing technologies, and you can use NAT with an IPv6 address. In reality, there isnt a debate here. Its a weak argument for those that want to keep things whe way they are.
IPv4 addresses an a commodity Greedy Fuckers. Pure and simple. The basic interenet and all its various little noodly bits were created but university and governmetn organizations and then just loosed on the planet essentially for free. Yes, you had to buy some hardware to use it, but the shit works without you having to pay for a damn thing but your connection.
I have nothing against the idea of capitalism where you get paid for something you create, but hoarding a commodity that is out there for the collective good as a whole is just shitty. In very few cases is there a justification for the belief that "I must make ALL of the MONEY and IT MUST HAPPEN RIGHT NOW and YOU CANNOT HAVE ANY."
As an added bonus, this sort of behavior helps keep the "have nots" in the "have not" category, which just generally pisses them off unnecessarialy.
needing a publically available address No, obviously we all do not have to have public IP addresses - not yet, anyway. Saying you don't now or never will shows a pretty big lack of foresight. You don't KNOW that there wont be an application that needs publically available addresses to work well andd that NAT just won't cut it. Why don't you know? Becuase someone will eventually come up with sommehting new, and it'll be good and important. People always do, eventually.
I realize that if you really wanted to have everything you own connected to the internet you could just use NAT and then if you wanted to talk to your refridgerator you sould just use "the fridge port" but its adding a level of complexity that could possibly get in the way of something on down the line.
This would slow down address scanning worms, neh? if a worm's gotta look at giant chunks of addresses to find other victims, wouldnt this just slow down their epread a little?
That's really so nice of you to point out my error. Have you considered posting on "Colon: News for Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Nerds"?
No, I have not. Typically I mangle the crap out of the english language on a daily basis with my incredibly poor typoing skills. However, "speach" looked close enough to a real word that I took the time to make sure it wasnt an alternate spelling or something else I didn't know.
Or maybe instead of your friendly spelling advice, you could give me advice on the best spell check for my web browser?
Remember, make fun of a man's spelling and you feel superior for day, but teach man to spell and you can feel superior for a lifetime.
Actually, it came from curiosity out of wondering if we americans had mangled the shit out of yet another british spelling of a word. I mean, all those dropped "u"s (humour, armour, etc.)... just WHERE do they GO? Are they in a big pile in heaven next to all the lost socks and sunglasses?
As for feeling superior; I'm currently seven grand in the hole, jobless, and living in my "sister"s spare bedroom. I don't feel superior to anyone right now.
"speach" is apparently Gaelic for "wasp, any venomous insect, bite or sting of wasp, etc., stitch in the side" (From: http://www.mackinnon.me.uk/Faclair/S.html in case you wanna look up some Gaelic; and really, who doesn't?)
"Speach" is also a surname.
If we're going to discuss schools and education and whatnot, maybe we should use the right words.
I, for one, do not support "Freedom of Speach." Keep your wasps away from me.
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Thats funny, becuase I don't think Lincoln really would have thought we'd have just slightly less than half the country worried that a very annoying and vocal minority would see trying to shove their Bibles up our asses twenty-four hours a day as their inalienable right, either.
I bet Lincoln also never thought there would be a way for some citizen of this country to publish a sentence that teamed up his name and the phrase "bibles up our asses" and have it be almost instantly viewable by a million people.
Sigh. Stupid Lincoln. He should have had the foresight to see this shit coming.
Its not that we all see nothing wrong with pornography, it's that we see things wrong with trying to control WHO sees WHAT without leaving that choice up to them.
I, by the way, DO happen to really dig me some pornography every so often; and I don't really think Lincoln was a big stupid.
Before it became fairly standard for banks to have giant online applications for working your account, Bank of America had a pretty good phone system for checking your balance and what checks have cleared and so on.
Of course, they fucked that all up by then changing it to asking you to speak your options - that never worked.
PROGRESS!!!
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Amen. Pass the Alfredo.
yeah, you kids with your new-fangled lossy-compression musical-listening devices!
I can remember back when we had to walk up-hill in the snow to buy the latest cylinder recording! Wrapped in tar-paper because we didn't need no stinking "plastic," and we liked it that way!
Then we'd put all out woll clothes back on and climb uphill to get to the shack we used to live in and listen to what we just bought after thawing it properly becuase the tar-paper was frozen solid! My brother would chop wood for months just to run the steam-victrola to play it, and we liked it that way!
Then our parents would flog us to sleep with sticks and we'd get up at four i the morning to go to work at the mill...
Then again, these things technically WOULD be reusable. Go to the store, pup in your USB drive, buy music, and get it downloaded. Drive home.
or, turn it in to someplace and get a litlte hunk of money back, then it gets reused.
Then again, none of this makes as much sense as just downloading the thing in one big tarball or something.
Darren, you fucking ROCK. Excellent post.
[ No Mod points for me today. ]
The best part of this comment...
...is that the immediate next one timewise is "Americans are Retarded."
It's posts like these that bring out the best of Slashdotters.
I, as an American, must concur.
Now I go to put on my protective helmet.
"I just Wanted The Boys To Notice Me!!!"
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
That was so horrible. More horrible than CSIMiami typically is.
Yes, yes they do. I once played MechWarrior in wireframe mode for so long it really screwed up my balance. Got a bit lightheaded when I stood up.
Ooh... then theres the time I sat down to play that Dungeon Maser game at my buddies place as he was leaving for work (I had the day off) "Just lock up when you leave," he said. Only problem was it was so much fun watching my little goblins kill adventurers that I sort of lost track of time... and was sitting in the exact same place 9 hours later when he got home from work.
Then there's that day I lost track of time playing Day of Defeat - one of the few days I consistently had more kills then deaths and still ran up a bunck of caps. Missed both football games that Sunday.
Yeah, those video games are really bad for you. Lost two days of drinking beer and once got myself a little dizzy, which for one in a million times was NOT caused by drinking beer.
fuck 'em.
Google's text-only ads were a really good thing when they first came out, then they got popular, so every sleazeball with a make-all-the-money-now sense of doing things started figuring out how to capitalize on it, tweak it, and bend the system to work with their own sleazy methods.
Now it's mostly useless, like most ads.
Then again, I never really bothered to use ads in any form other than my own personal entertainment anyway.
If I want to buy sommething, I'll go look for it. Oddly enough, when I WANT to see an ad for something I'm interested in, it never seems to show up. Typical. Nice job at targeting, guys.
Well, look what it's up against... If you don't like football (which is emperically WRONG) or if the game sucks (like tonights epic of Minnesota vs Green Bay - who fucking cares?) what the hell else do you have to watch? "Medium"? Please.
Or, you can waatch the panoply (i have no idea if thats even being used correctly, i just like saying it) of junk on Cable ranging from TLC's "Yet more shit about babies" to Lifetime's "Yet more Movies about Empowered Women Taking on men (who are ALL jerks, except for old-european Princes)" to The Military Channel's "How Much New Narration Can We Put To Stock Footage of Nazi's Getting Their Asses Kicked."
Disclaimer: I happen to LOVE the Military Channel
There ain't a whole lot of effort in putting decent TV on monday nights, and CSI Miami does have them hot scientists. And that Coroner... rrrrowrrr!
Its sort of like the whole "Number One movie In The Country!" fact that marketers love to throw around.
... motherfuckme! ONLINE PRINTED MOVIE TICKETS!
It should say "Number One Movie in SALES in the Country, becuase its in every theatreplex, sometimes on two or three screens, and we aint taking free passes to see this one." There's no subjective data from people who've actually seen the movies and what their opinion of them is.
HOWEVER, if there were a consistent way to get this data compiled online and seen for free, it'd only be a matter of time before some small film can start crowinig "Currently the Highest rated film at HonestlyAnonymouslyratingmovies.com
Maybe we should get Google on it... or
Theatres that use Services with online purchasae-and-print models have unique IDs on ALL of their ticket stubs around the country. You enter your stub number, confirm the time and the theatre it was used at, and BOOM! semi-honest movie ratings. Then the small film can say "Highest rated currently playing movie, as rated by SlappysBrilliantHonestMovieRatings.com." Valid Cross-Marketing GENUIS!
Gents, you can contact me at the email address above to discuss using my intellectual property.
(its public record & its tiemstamped!)
oh, so offtopic.
So was Napster.
I actually bought MORE music once I could hear a few songs pro bono. You konw, for the car CD player.
...who "test drive" the music from our friends then just go buy the damn stuff that doesn't suck, sometimes waiting for it to no longer be hot and subsequently discounted.
It's easy enough for such a customer to run a whois on their domain name.
REPLY:
Domains are not exclusively sold to people who have a knowledge of how internet works.
Too. Goddamn. Bad. The world's population, in general, needs to take a little self responsibility.
Maybe the guy with the brilliant idea for a site with its own domain name could get the kid next door to send him a couplle of links on how it does work? Then the kid could show him first how to click a link in his email? Maybe as a bonus, the kid could show him how to use Alt-Tab on his windows box and teach him the idea of multiple windows being open.
Drivers licenses are not given exclusively to people who know how to drive, either. That doesn't make it any safer for the rest of us that pay attention.
Guns are not sold exclusively to people who understand how to handle them, but that doesn't excuse the guy whos kid who accidentally shoots himself after finding the peice in a drawer.
I, for one, welcome our new Avahi Cleeseian overlords.
In Soviet Russia, the lemurs name you!
This is supposedly the URL:
t _topic&f=5&t=001759
http://ca.geocities.com/infringements@rogers.com
of course, its exceeded its transfer alloted for the day, so its down.
Typical. It IS cached by google, though.
Found some info here:
http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=ge
Theres some info with contact information for the woman and the company.
...Libelous statements sue... uh...
In South Korea, only old libelous... damn.
I, for one, welcome our Libelous Housewife... shit.
Uh, well, good for her. Fuck the man. Yeah.
Anyone got a link to this woman's website? I'm giving odds that theres a few crafty animated gifs on there.
You get warmth all year round, that has to count for something.
It does:
- Constantly sweating your asses off
- seasons? what are seasons?
- Thousands of geriatrics driving their golf carts to the store, all the while complaining that 85 degrees is just too damn cold
- $250 a month electric bills from aunning aforementioned air conditioning
- Lets buy all the water from Colorado!
- No, really, I WANT the dashboard of my car to bake and crack wide open.
- get all hot and sweaty while outside, then freeze your balls off when you hit nthe wall of air conditioning - POOF Instant Illness!
- Its an amazingly beautiful area, if you like brown. Lots and lots of brown. Hey, les make all the houses brown, too!
- Goofballs lining their Driveways with paper bags with candles in them at christmas time
- Hey, lets force midwest-style lawns of grass to grow where it has no goddamn business being.
I seem to remember the rumor that the gum in our MRE's has stuff in it to make you slightly constipated, so you weren't shitting very often while out in the field. It also had the nice sicde effect of making for a nice solid movement. I always thought the food itself was enough to connstipate you.
Thankfully, I was only a reservist and didn't have to live on the goddamn things for very long.
Mmmmm... Beef brick, Pork Brick, mushy chicken in something... good times. The best part was sneaking the hot cocoa powder back to the barracks for a late night treat. Good times; everyone should do basic training. Its like getting paid to get yelled at while at summer camp!
IPv6 vs. NAT
These are two distinctly different things. Nat takes one public IP address and translates it to many private IP addresses. THese are not two competing technologies, and you can use NAT with an IPv6 address. In reality, there isnt a debate here. Its a weak argument for those that want to keep things whe way they are.
IPv4 addresses an a commodity
Greedy Fuckers. Pure and simple. The basic interenet and all its various little noodly bits were created but university and governmetn organizations and then just loosed on the planet essentially for free. Yes, you had to buy some hardware to use it, but the shit works without you having to pay for a damn thing but your connection.
I have nothing against the idea of capitalism where you get paid for something you create, but hoarding a commodity that is out there for the collective good as a whole is just shitty. In very few cases is there a justification for the belief that "I must make ALL of the MONEY and IT MUST HAPPEN RIGHT NOW and YOU CANNOT HAVE ANY."
As an added bonus, this sort of behavior helps keep the "have nots" in the "have not" category, which just generally pisses them off unnecessarialy.
needing a publically available address
No, obviously we all do not have to have public IP addresses - not yet, anyway. Saying you don't now or never will shows a pretty big lack of foresight. You don't KNOW that there wont be an application that needs publically available addresses to work well andd that NAT just won't cut it. Why don't you know? Becuase someone will eventually come up with sommehting new, and it'll be good and important. People always do, eventually.
I realize that if you really wanted to have everything you own connected to the internet you could just use NAT and then if you wanted to talk to your refridgerator you sould just use "the fridge port" but its adding a level of complexity that could possibly get in the way of something on down the line.
This would slow down address scanning worms, neh?
if a worm's gotta look at giant chunks of addresses to find other victims, wouldnt this just slow down their epread a little?
then again, what the fuck do i know?
That's really so nice of you to point out my error. Have you considered posting on "Colon: News for Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Nerds"?
No, I have not. Typically I mangle the crap out of the english language on a daily basis with my incredibly poor typoing skills. However, "speach" looked close enough to a real word that I took the time to make sure it wasnt an alternate spelling or something else I didn't know.
Or maybe instead of your friendly spelling advice, you could give me advice on the best spell check for my web browser?
Spelling hints when you're unsure:
http://www.onelook.com/
Google the word alone (and see if it asks you "did you mean?") or with a "define" parameter, e.g.:
googling the word "speach" alone
Searching for the definition with "define:speach"
Remember, make fun of a man's spelling and you feel superior for day, but teach man to spell and you can feel superior for a lifetime.
Actually, it came from curiosity out of wondering if we americans had mangled the shit out of yet another british spelling of a word. I mean, all those dropped "u"s (humour, armour, etc.)... just WHERE do they GO? Are they in a big pile in heaven next to all the lost socks and sunglasses?
As for feeling superior; I'm currently seven grand in the hole, jobless, and living in my "sister"s spare bedroom. I don't feel superior to anyone right now.
However, I'm still a giant smartass.
"speach" is apparently Gaelic for "wasp, any venomous insect, bite or sting of wasp, etc., stitch in the side"
(From: http://www.mackinnon.me.uk/Faclair/S.html in case you wanna look up some Gaelic; and really, who doesn't?)
"Speach" is also a surname.
If we're going to discuss schools and education and whatnot, maybe we should use the right words.
I, for one, do not support "Freedom of Speach." Keep your wasps away from me.