It no longer cares, when it comes down to the bottom line, about the principles upon which it was founded.
It's hard to care when one of the most powerful, and one of the richest, institutions in the world can unleash a barrage of lawyers on you turning your existance into nothing more than a history lesson.
Sure you can look at this post and claim its a conspiracy of some sort to point out these findings, but lets take a look at how many 1k bytes of code could be inserted throughout the SE Linux OS to have them somewhere down the line be combined in order for the NSA to open a backdoor of some sort.
Which is why we have the source code to look through and determine what they're doing.
Violence should only ever be used as a last resort. We have laws and courts to prevent us from being censored. Instead of beating up the censors, fight them legally, moron.
"I was clearly stating that a theater enforcing the R rating was descriminating against the young."
Hate to break it to you but children have very few rights in this society. Don't blame the theater owners because they're afraid that the MPAA rating system is going to become law (as has been threatened) if they don't enforce it voluntarily.
"How does the theater know the parents feel this way or that way about what their children watch?"
Because the parent should have either gotten them into the theater or not. Pretty straight forward, right?
"(Yes, I do mean drag them into the street and hurt them.)"
Hmmm... This seems to show the extent of your intellect. Physically harm those that disagree with you.
BTW, is discriminating, not descriminating. Try turning off the TV and reading a book. You might learn something.
Anyone ever tell you that you're a moron? Well, you are.
In addition to not being able to spell, you seem to lack basic grammar skills. To top if off, you make completely unfounded and baseless comments like:
"There is no reason that a 16 year old boy/girl shouldnt be able to go see an R rated movie, because the MPAA has raters with a different dogma then these kids and their parents."
Sorry, but there is a reason. Perhaps their parents don't want them watching that R rated movie.
OK... Since someone brought up Broadcast 2000, I might was well ask. Has anyone been able to convert a quicktime movie they created using broadcast 2000 to an mpeg? Everytime I try, I end up with an audio track that's all static (though the video track is fine).
I'm certainly not going to argue with your points, but they are still development drivers (hence the pre-1.0 version numbers). Nor am I condoning their practice of using closed source drivers, but for many people, nVidia cards are the best way to go (even under Linux).
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Through their actions in the past, I think they've already forfeited their Common Carriar status.
Can you imagine the postal service or telephone companies trying to publish a book of comments mailed by people or spoken over the phone lines?
Ranessin
It no longer cares, when it comes down to the bottom line, about the principles upon which it was founded.
It's hard to care when one of the most powerful, and one of the richest, institutions in the world can unleash a barrage of lawyers on you turning your existance into nothing more than a history lesson.
Ranessin
Having a huge dick up one's ass doesn't affect one's spelling.
Ranessin
Sure you can look at this post and claim its a conspiracy of some sort to point out these findings, but lets take a look at how many 1k bytes of code could be inserted throughout the SE Linux OS to have them somewhere down the line be combined in order for the NSA to open a backdoor of some sort.
Which is why we have the source code to look through and determine what they're doing.
Ranessin
Perhaps... But I never said I'm never petty. The poster I responded to said in general.
In general, I am not (nor are many people I know), a petty being
Ranessin
Face it, in general, we're petty beings.
Speak for yourself
Ranessin
It's assholes like you that make me sometimes wish I wasn't an atheist.
Ranessin
So we're now operating on the two rights make a wrong theory?
Ranessin
Are you kidding? We'll all be dead by then and our grand children will be in their 50s when it happens.
Raneswsin
Violence should only ever be used as a last resort. We have laws and courts to prevent us from being censored. Instead of beating up the censors, fight them legally, moron.
Ranessin
"is discriminating, not descriminating. "
Should read:
"it's discriminating, not descriminating. "
Ranessin
Troll? My ass. Why is it a troll to point out what a moron one of the Slashdot editors repeatedly shows himself to be?
Ranessin
PS. Now *that* was a troll.
"I was clearly stating that a theater enforcing the R rating was descriminating against the young."
Hate to break it to you but children have very few rights in this society. Don't blame the theater owners because they're afraid that the MPAA rating system is going to become law (as has been threatened) if they don't enforce it voluntarily.
"How does the theater know the parents feel this way or that way about what their children watch?"
Because the parent should have either gotten them into the theater or not. Pretty straight forward, right?
"(Yes, I do mean drag them into the street and hurt them.)"
Hmmm... This seems to show the extent of your intellect. Physically harm those that disagree with you.
BTW, is discriminating, not descriminating. Try turning off the TV and reading a book. You might learn something.
Ranessin
Perhaps CmdrTaco should have as well. Then he wouldn't have put the wrong fucking headline on Slashdot.
Ranessin
I can speak for the other poster but I, for one, have no use for a woman in my living room (or any other room in my house).
Ranessin
Anyone ever tell you that you're a moron? Well, you are.
In addition to not being able to spell, you seem to lack basic grammar skills. To top if off, you make completely unfounded and baseless comments like:
"There is no reason that a 16 year old boy/girl shouldnt be able to go see an R rated movie, because the MPAA has raters with a different dogma then these kids and their parents."
Sorry, but there is a reason. Perhaps their parents don't want them watching that R rated movie.
Ranessin
and the propeller-heads (like us) hates everything not true to form.
Speak for yourself, please.
Ranessin
Obviously you never saw TNG episode where it was explained why all these species look the same.
Ranessin
And it's just as boring, and just as much a waste of time and talent as Quincy ever was.
Ranessin
What a joke. nVidia's Linux drivers are very much on par with their windows drivers.
Ranessin
OK... Since someone brought up Broadcast 2000, I might was well ask. Has anyone been able to convert a quicktime movie they created using broadcast 2000 to an mpeg? Everytime I try, I end up with an audio track that's all static (though the video track is fine).
Ranessin
> wish them all the good-will in the world...but let's be realistic here. Q2? That's gotta be a typo.
Or, more likely, you don't know how to tell time, and don't know when Q2 starts and ends.
Ranessin
Thanks for the correction... My mistake, apparently.
Ranessin
I can't check on this at the moment, but I thought that 0.9-6 had support for XRender...
Ranessin
I'm certainly not going to argue with your points, but they are still development drivers (hence the pre-1.0 version numbers). Nor am I condoning their practice of using closed source drivers, but for many people, nVidia cards are the best way to go (even under Linux).
Ranessin