Wow. I really am floored by your qurestion. "What's so bad about that?" Because the entire worldwide web only exists because of hyperlinks. Once they can be controlled, limited, or even just threatened with action, the internet as we know it will go back to the pre- Google days. OK, pre search engine, period, Google being a latecomer. Instead, then, unless you know the 12 character internet address of the information site you want, you're SOL... And never mind remembering and entering IPv6! And, copyright is the preferred way of invoking censorship. Just by linking to any kind of information that the party wants kept hidden, they can stop you. Threaten you. Read, information blackout. Just like before there was ever the 'net, never mind the WWW. No, this is A Really Really Bad Thing...
Hmm.. Obama "Change you can believe in". Indeed. He sure changed a lot..he didn't lie. But with Hillary..:"Change you can be investigated in".. And yup.. she's being investigated for her "changes' to her emails... And so what about The Donald? "Change you can invest in" ?. If you've got a spare million..
I'd have to agree. Just how much is relaying ubderground news worth to you? If it really s that important (which it is) then you chouldn't be coopted by advertising anywauys.. Monetization can only dilute your mnessage by steering ou towards picking stories that wiol earn you money, instead of picking the truth, even if unpopular.
I haven't often seen a more clear casse of culpability.. if the facts in the post are indeed correct. In fact it is hardly a news story at all. "Company breaks law. Company found guilty. Company fined"...:yawn:
If the suggestion you proferred had been implemented 40 or so years ago, we now would have, IMHO, 75% less crime, taxes would be significantly lower, we would still have a thriving middle class, the entire country would never haver been duped into the scam called "trickle down", there would still be a significant amount of thriving small businesses, the military industrial complex would never have been able to profit from a growing sense of dissatisfaction in society, the CIA would not have been able to pay for all these contra guns by pushing crack into all these poor neighborhoods because there would be less coconuts, and maybe we would not now be only days away from nuclear war.. Remember sticky tape on the windows and duck, roll, and cover!
I was quite into modding windows 3.1 (and Widows NT 3.1 and 3.51as well) at the time (late 90s) and had it running really well, plus a few really rare releases of programs that normally would nerver have run on it. So I frequented these pages that dealt with that. Oh, and Nathan's page with the flames and IE is Evil! Needless to say it was a well designed if basic site,,,
I think a gruff of trolls would work, and has a nice ring to it.
Hmm.. not a Grimble? After all, you can have a gruff of grimbles, and a grimble of trolls. Residikey also the housing under the bridgegum is the dwellingly of the trolls, who happily their grimbles they gruff happily do.
You know what? It kind of makes me very angry.. The joke "they'll be dead before the networks ever okay a B5 update" just doesn't seem at all funny anymore. And holy f@#$.. He was only around my age. Somehow I always thought I was younger than the cast of the show...
Garibaldi was awesomely acted by Doyle and he will be missed. RIP. Too young to die at age 60.
Time to binge B5 for my respects. I would love to see a prequel called "B4", mostly because I like puns. Any remake would be able to examine closely the tropes of POV and "anyone can die" as they reimagine the series as a space epic. Game of Thrones in space is something that could potentially get a huge audience and would definitely be welcomed by all.
The prequel would likelly disappear before it got finished....
Yeah but you're Canadian, and we traditionally tend to adopt early and use better technology when we adopt because we don't ALWAYS go with the ultra lowest bidder, unlike the states. So here in Canada everything "just works". Case in point. Cable TV and internet. in 1980 I phoned in to a radio station in, I think Seattle.. "How are you possibly receiving us? the DJ asked bewilderdlty.. "Why, cable , of course". He was stunned. "You have CABLE ACCESS up there???" Why sure. Doesn't everybody? And in1996 the biggest problem in having cable internet was that Windows had no drivers for it. Or so it seemed. I hadn't yet switched to Apple until the next year, so didn't know that they did... I stopped using dialup in 1997. Some people in the states are STILL on it!
It's called bribes, you moron. The U.S. dangles all this money and aid, and expects "cooperation" in future endeavours. Back room deals are a staple of "diplomacy"; it's the stuff you don't hear about on the news that you should be afraid of.
Of course, the countries don't "have to" accept it, but they often do, because it's free money, an easy avenue into the lucrative U.S. trade market, and sometimes they even provide the lube, so it don't hurt quite so much. The U.S. is sometimes "nice" in that regard.
"Sometimes they even provide the lube" LOL! Thanks for that! I needed a laugh.. I was starting to get really frustrated reading about all this sickening behavior from the "Purveyors of denmocracy and freedoms". Hmmm.. afterthought.. What would they consider the best lube to allow US to enter via the back door most easily?
So if I Google kickass torrents and Google returns a link to their site, shouldn't Google be prosecuted as an accessory?
No.
I'm sorry, but I seriously disagree, I think YES. However, the alternative would be censorship, which I can't countenance either. And as far as the "Mastermind" behind KAT.. Seriously? Mastermind? And how is it that the US government hat authority in Poland, anyways, of all places? That they can just enter any country with immunity and arrest someone? Shouldn't that be illegal? Or do all these countries just let 'em in with open arms? This whole thing stinks worse than a rat's nest...
I think I do. Lets start by stopping to glorify PhD`s and the Ivory Tower. Stop requiring post-doc for liberal professions like engineering and computer science [among others]. Lets put Platonism aside and return to the good old empirical approach. Lets appreciate the reasoning of independent thinkers. Lets recognize that many a drop-out have contributed more than academic prima donnas for the tech world we live in. These things would make up for a good start.
"Many a drop out have contributed..." I don't know why I *immediately* thought of Steve Jobs...
Aw, man.. that takes it and just chucks it right outa the window. I was just about to phone God (on a BBerry, natch) with a text message to tell him He's out of a job.. now that mankind's taken over the "free will" bizness. Text message is right, right? Isn't that the "hip" way to fire people these days? Or is it just techs that get fired that way? Sent from Lucifer's iPhone at 6:66 am.
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Wow. I really am floored by your qurestion. "What's so bad about that?" Because the entire worldwide web only exists because of hyperlinks. Once they can be controlled, limited, or even just threatened with action, the internet as we know it will go back to the pre- Google days. OK, pre search engine, period, Google being a latecomer. Instead, then, unless you know the 12 character internet address of the information site you want, you're SOL... And never mind remembering and entering IPv6!
And, copyright is the preferred way of invoking censorship. Just by linking to any kind of information that the party wants kept hidden, they can stop you. Threaten you. Read, information blackout. Just like before there was ever the 'net, never mind the WWW.
No, this is A Really Really Bad Thing...
We "know* what all those officials are up to in Brussels. Thanks to the BBC and "Yes Minister" ;-)
Hmm .. Obama "Change you can believe in". Indeed. He sure changed a lot..he didn't lie. :"Change you can be investigated in" .. And yup.. she's being investigated for her "changes' to her emails...
But with Hillary..
And so what about The Donald? "Change you can invest in" ?. If you've got a spare million..
I'd have to agree. Just how much is relaying ubderground news worth to you? If it really s that important (which it is) then you chouldn't be coopted by advertising anywauys.. Monetization can only dilute your mnessage by steering ou towards picking stories that wiol earn you money, instead of picking the truth, even if unpopular.
So when Philip Morris says cigarettes are safe, we should listen as closely as when the Surgeon General says they aren't?
No, mr anonymous idiot. The source of a message matters.
Philip Morris says cigs are safe? Phew! What a relief I was so worried!
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I haven't often seen a more clear casse of culpability.. if the facts in the post are indeed correct. In fact it is hardly a news story at all. ... :yawn:
"Company breaks law. Company found guilty. Company fined"
All loyal party members who can actually afford computer now manbang with each other!
ROFLOL!!!
Well, less of a lot worser than a little.. Sorry :-) The heat have my brane been cooking ...
If the suggestion you proferred had been implemented 40 or so years ago, we now would have, IMHO, 75% less crime, taxes would be significantly lower, we would still have a thriving middle class, the entire country would never haver been duped into the scam called "trickle down", there would still be a significant amount of thriving small businesses, the military industrial complex would never have been able to profit from a growing sense of dissatisfaction in society, the CIA would not have been able to pay for all these contra guns by pushing crack into all these poor neighborhoods because there would be less coconuts, and maybe we would not now be only days away from nuclear war..
Remember sticky tape on the windows and duck, roll, and cover!
If only you could bottle that sarcasm and add it to yer whisky.. boy what bite it would have.. ... Totally in agreement, however
I was quite into modding windows 3.1 (and Widows NT 3.1 and 3.51as well) at the time (late 90s) and had it running really well, plus a few really rare releases of programs that normally would nerver have run on it. So I frequented these pages that dealt with that.
Oh, and Nathan's page with the flames and IE is Evil! Needless to say it was a well designed if basic site,,,
I think a gruff of trolls would work, and has a nice ring to it.
Hmm.. not a Grimble? After all, you can have a gruff of grimbles, and a grimble of trolls. Residikey also the housing under the bridgegum is the dwellingly of the trolls, who happily their grimbles they gruff happily do.
"Sorry, users of that app are generally considered to be planning a future crime. Expect a knock on your door shortly"
Start er homes for thhe poorer! Don't laugh,, I lived in a goodwill box for a while when I nws young,,
You know what? It kind of makes me very angry.. The joke "they'll be dead before the networks ever okay a B5 update" just doesn't seem at all funny anymore. And holy f@#$.. He was only around my age. Somehow I always thought I was younger than the cast of the show...
Garibaldi was awesomely acted by Doyle and he will be missed. RIP. Too young to die at age 60.
Time to binge B5 for my respects. I would love to see a prequel called "B4", mostly because I like puns. Any remake would be able to examine closely the tropes of POV and "anyone can die" as they reimagine the series as a space epic. Game of Thrones in space is something that could potentially get a huge audience and would definitely be welcomed by all.
The prequel would likelly disappear before it got finished....
Lots of flash ads get past "click-to-run". I'd love to know how as I always have that set, so they shouldn't.
Yeah but you're Canadian, and we traditionally tend to adopt early and use better technology when we adopt because we don't ALWAYS go with the ultra lowest bidder, unlike the states. So here in Canada everything "just works". Case in point. Cable TV and internet. in 1980 I phoned in to a radio station in, I think Seattle.. "How are you possibly receiving us? the DJ asked bewilderdlty.. "Why, cable , of course". He was stunned. "You have CABLE ACCESS up there???" Why sure. Doesn't everybody?
And in1996 the biggest problem in having cable internet was that Windows had no drivers for it. Or so it seemed. I hadn't yet switched to Apple until the next year, so didn't know that they did...
I stopped using dialup in 1997. Some people in the states are STILL on it!
lets blame russia
Because, well, there's all this evidence and shit.
Yeah. He used a russian VPN. What more d'ya need? :P
Where do we send donations for that? Can we crowd fund this thing , like, now? Eh?
It's called bribes, you moron. The U.S. dangles all this money and aid, and expects "cooperation" in future endeavours. Back room deals are a staple of "diplomacy"; it's the stuff you don't hear about on the news that you should be afraid of.
Of course, the countries don't "have to" accept it, but they often do, because it's free money, an easy avenue into the lucrative U.S. trade market, and sometimes they even provide the lube, so it don't hurt quite so much. The U.S. is sometimes "nice" in that regard.
"Sometimes they even provide the lube"
LOL! Thanks for that! I needed a laugh.. I was starting to get really frustrated reading about all this sickening behavior from the "Purveyors of denmocracy and freedoms".
Hmmm.. afterthought.. What would they consider the best lube to allow US to enter via the back door most easily?
So if I Google kickass torrents and Google returns a link to their site, shouldn't Google be prosecuted as an accessory?
No.
I'm sorry, but I seriously disagree, I think YES. However, the alternative would be censorship, which I can't countenance either. And as far as the "Mastermind" behind KAT.. Seriously? Mastermind? And how is it that the US government hat authority in Poland, anyways, of all places? That they can just enter any country with immunity and arrest someone? Shouldn't that be illegal? Or do all these countries just let 'em in with open arms?
This whole thing stinks worse than a rat's nest...
No, I don't know how to fix it.
I think I do. Lets start by stopping to glorify PhD`s and the Ivory Tower. Stop requiring post-doc for liberal professions like engineering and computer science [among others]. Lets put Platonism aside and return to the good old empirical approach. Lets appreciate the reasoning of independent thinkers. Lets recognize that many a drop-out have contributed more than academic prima donnas for the tech world we live in. These things would make up for a good start.
"Many a drop out have contributed..." I don't know why I *immediately* thought of Steve Jobs...
Aw, man.. that takes it and just chucks it right outa the window. I was just about to phone God (on a BBerry, natch) with a text message to tell him He's out of a job.. now that mankind's taken over the "free will" bizness. Text message is right, right? Isn't that the "hip" way to fire people these days? Or is it just techs that get fired that way?
Sent from Lucifer's iPhone at 6:66 am.