Thanks for Slashdot, Rob. It was very influential for me while growing up with technology. Had it not been for/. I might have become a corporate drone cutting and pasting C# code on a Windows machine. As it is, I'm a corporate drone hacking away on Lisp code using Linux and a tiling window manager. Thanks for keeping me sane!
Seriously, I think you were a major force in the Free Software & Open Source movement, Linux / Unix and keeping us sceptical of Microsoft.
Here's to Nathalie Portman and hot grits!
Not only that but it has to be thought up and created by artists.
Yes, they could just copy the current island or have some scenery randomly created but that is far from interesting and will lose the game's makers customers.
People pay for things that they don't have to pay for out of good faith and a desire to follow the law. This makes them good people. Other people try to weasel their way around the laws trying to redefine the situation to fit their own unwillingness to be straightforward and honest. This makes them bad people.
That's, indeed, why we are advising them to keep moving between Windows and Macs. As long as the morons stay the fuck away from *nix we won't become a nice and juicy target.
Oh, and cammoblammo, down there: you're wrong.
"the security inherent in *nix means that they'll have to come up with a really ingenious model to get the virus to plant itself". LOL, get the fuck away from me!
I'm not defending rfid's in id cards, I wouldn't like it myself either (as we always have to carry them, technically we would be easy to track then if there ever was enough infrastructury for this rolled out).
I just wanted to say that id cards in general are not a bad thing on themselves.
Agreed, it's not so much the ID cards themselves I object to as well as the obligation to have them on your person at all times and the obligation to show them to a police officer whenever one asks for them.
In the end the 'good' people who don't do anything wrong aren't bothered by it,
That's funny: I am a 'good'[1][2] person and I am bothered by these developments.
Anyway, I can't continue on this topic at the moment (work), although I'd love to. Just wanted to prove you wrong on that statement.
[1] Except for the occasional mp3 download. (The drugs I use are 'legal' where I live, thank god.)
[2] What the hell is good anyway? Please define. Is it people who don't break laws? Is it people who are 'moral'[3].
[3] I'd have to define that:) We're getting into recursion here. Bring your favourite
CL
implementation!
As you can see, even in The Netherlands we have our ignorants.
Since when does using drugs equal being addicted to them?
Neither are all hard drugs very harmful or addictive for you. Though some are. We're mostly following the party line on what substances to put on the list of hard drugs.
You'd better get a healthy dose of
Bill Hicks,
KamuSan.
I wish we would just legalize the whole shebang and make a nice economic market out of it. However, that would severely cut into the profits of certain organizations and fuck up the agenda's of certain people (though the terrorism/safety-line is pretty popular these days to get one's way).
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Thanks for Slashdot, Rob. It was very influential for me while growing up with technology. Had it not been for /. I might have become a corporate drone cutting and pasting C# code on a Windows machine. As it is, I'm a corporate drone hacking away on Lisp code using Linux and a tiling window manager. Thanks for keeping me sane!
Seriously, I think you were a major force in the Free Software & Open Source movement, Linux / Unix and keeping us sceptical of Microsoft.
Here's to Nathalie Portman and hot grits!
Not only that but it has to be thought up and created by artists.
Yes, they could just copy the current island or have some scenery randomly created but that is far from interesting and will lose the game's makers customers.
I didn't write the previous comment, but: Flamebait?
:-D )
Have you moderators gone into patriot mode already? Morons..
(Flamebait this
Well, just because Bush Jr. likes to be the corporations' bukake bitch doesn't mean Microsoft didn't (and doesn't) abuse its monopolistic powers.
Well, for what it's worth, I agree with your comment. Though rather than a pizza guy I would have used a gardener or somesuch for the example.
Forgot to quote what I replied to:
People pay for things that they don't have to pay for out of good faith and a desire to follow the law. This makes them good people. Other people try to weasel their way around the laws trying to redefine the situation to fit their own unwillingness to be straightforward and honest. This makes them bad people.
Following the law doesn't make someone a good person.
Laws aren't inherently good, they can be (and are) used for both good and bad.
Can you elaborate a little on this? It sounds like you are exaggerating somewhat for effect, but I'm curious on what's going on in the offices there.
It's probably a good money-maker.
Yeah, because we're doing so much better in Europe. *boggle*
This is the first good reason I hear FOR patents.
Been there, done that.
Instead of candy I used my aura of power and money this time.
I'm off from work until the 4th of January. Life's just started actually!
That's, indeed, why we are advising them to keep moving between Windows and Macs. As long as the morons stay the fuck away from *nix we won't become a nice and juicy target.
Oh, and cammoblammo, down there: you're wrong.
"the security inherent in *nix means that they'll have to come up with a really ingenious model to get the virus to plant itself". LOL, get the fuck away from me!
Sounds like pissing in a wall socket because it feels so good when you stop[1] to me.
Agreed on walking around once in a while though.
[1] Jake Thomson, a.s.f.
http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html
Positively brilliant!
Vaccine?
I just wanted to say that id cards in general are not a bad thing on themselves.
Agreed, it's not so much the ID cards themselves I object to as well as the obligation to have them on your person at all times and the obligation to show them to a police officer whenever one asks for them.
Sigh... back to work :-)
That's funny: I am a 'good'[1][2] person and I am bothered by these developments.
Anyway, I can't continue on this topic at the moment (work), although I'd love to. Just wanted to prove you wrong on that statement.
[1] Except for the occasional mp3 download. (The drugs I use are 'legal' where I live, thank god.) :) We're getting into recursion here. Bring your favourite
CL
implementation!
[2] What the hell is good anyway? Please define. Is it people who don't break laws? Is it people who are 'moral'[3].
[3] I'd have to define that
An alternative view
Go Troll! Go Troll! Gooooooo!.. Trolly!
I don't understand those who insist on using Perl when you can use an advanced programming language like Common Lisp:
$ clisp -q -x "(loop for x from 1 to 10 do (print x))"
But can't we put cameras there as well then?
Deflector?
Great music as well. Ben Daglish is da man!
Since when does using drugs equal being addicted to them?
Neither are all hard drugs very harmful or addictive for you. Though some are. We're mostly following the party line on what substances to put on the list of hard drugs.
You'd better get a healthy dose of Bill Hicks, KamuSan.
I wish we would just legalize the whole shebang and make a nice economic market out of it. However, that would severely cut into the profits of certain organizations and fuck up the agenda's of certain people (though the terrorism/safety-line is pretty popular these days to get one's way).