The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited.
Say WHAT???! The article wasn't clear about how this would be accomplished (not allowing us to skip commercials) but I assume the commercials would be flagged, and any new hardware must respect the flag's autho-i-tay.
And who are these Senators representing, anyway? Planning to FORCE our hardware to play commercials? They sure as hell aren't representing ME. Bunch of streetwalkers, they are.
***sigh*** I have a TiVo now, and there is no way in HELL I will EVER watch another commercial again. In a way, I hope these shitheads actually DO get their way, and FORCE my hardware to play all commercials. That would be a sure way to get me to unplug the goddamned thing once and for all.
I have to post the obligatory Robert Heinlien quote for this:
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit."
The cause you're fighting is every bit as noble as that for "hacker", and just as lost.
It may be a lost fight, but at least the fight brings to people's attention that it is, strictly speaking, incorrect usage.
We may not be able to change the general usage, but at least we can help SOME slashdot readers, who care about the language, from sounding uneducated and vulgar in their future communications.
What gets me is who buys these fucking games? I don't know about you, but if I already had, say, a copy of NBA Live 2003 or 2004, what's my incentive to buy 2005?
I dunno. The only EA game I have is Tiger Woods Golf. I got the 2005 version, liked it alot, and bought the 2004 version because it had different courses to play. And I'll probably buy Tiger Woods 2006, if only because it will have new golf courses.
But golf is a special case. Basketball games, well, I can't tell you.
Sad that this is the state of the art in insults these days. I may be a misanthrope, a pessimist, a nerotic, a complainer, a defeatist, a nihilist, a downer, a drag, a gloomy gus, an asher or a worrywart, but I am certainly NOT an 'idiot'.
A common belief, but not exactly true. Suicides are covered in MOST life insurance policies unless it is done within two years of getting the policy. Also, any change in the policy (e.g. upping the benefits, or a different beneficiary) is considered 're-starting' the two-year clock).
Man, was that story depressing. Guy has a family and kids. If you don't feel compassion for that guy's story, you're not human.
Personally, I think the country is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket, which is one of the reasons I choose not to procreate. If life got intolerable enough, I can always say "Screw you guys" and check out. I have lived a good life and have absolutly no fear of any after life.
But with a family, well, you just can't check out while your children still depend on you.
I know, I know, that's the way it's always been. But for me, particularly in this society, it still gives me strength to know that if life gives me the old "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" trip I can always say "Fuck that shit" and make the Big Trip.
So, for those of you who don't have kids, please, don't do it. Contrary to popular opinion, procreation is one of the most selfish things one can do.
Think of the future. Globalization. That means a leveling of resource use and wages, and let me tell you something: yours are going to go down more than Habibi's in the Middle East is going to go up. The powers-that-be have mastered the art of groupthink and know how to sway popular opinion that the power will only get more oppressive.
Once triggered, it issues a verbal warning then fires a warning shot (a foam disc).
Oh yeah. I can see it now. How long before someone bolts their.357 to the thing, rigs up a solenoid trigger-puller set up to activate when the "foam discs" are supposed to launch.
Jehovah's witnesses might have something to worry about.
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A game where you wantonly kill towelheads.
Already been done. It's called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" by Bush! It's the best! And it has the best force-feedback hardware in the industry! They can shoot back, and you actuall feel it! Yee ha!
Why do people get so worked up about something as completely trivial as the choice of operating systems?
Well, tell my girlfriend's best friend how trivial it was when her daughter accidentally installed a dialer on her Windows box and she ended up with a $300 bill for calls to some banana republic. Or tell a friend of mine how trivial it was when a virus trashed his spreadsheets and Word documents. Oh yeah, choice of an OS is so frickin' trivial.
Why does Ballmer do this? Why does he make such idiotic, easy-to-refute statements? For example, from the article:
Ballmer noted: "Yankee's study concluded that, in large enterprises, a significant Linux deployment or total switch from Windows to Linux would be three to four times more expensive - and take three times as long to deploy - as an upgrade from one version of Windows to a newer release".
What he failed to point out, according to Novell, was Yankee's statement: "In summary, the Yankee Group's TCO survey found that Linux does offer compelling cost savings, economies of scale and technical advantages, as many a satisfied user will attest...
I can't believe that guy is a top executive of a major corporation. He makes Darl look like a business genius in comparison. He impresses me as some kind of jackass, who just HAPPENED to be in the right place at the right time, and is where he is DESPITE rather than BECAUSE of his business acumen.
It seems that you almost have to have your head up your ass as firmly as Ballmer or Darl to get anywhere in corporate america. It's examples like this which prove to me that I will never be an executive of any company but my own. I am just too attracted to honesty and integrity.
So if team X scores 36 runs in the first game of a seven game series and then doesn't score a single run in the next six games they should win the series? That's insane.
I agree. Also, in the World Series, they should just add up the number of total runs for all the games, and declair the team that got the most runs in the series the winner.
Not "Team X won 4 games, Team Y, 3". It should be "Team X: 23 runs, Team Y: 24".
These are completly unreasonable people, and trying to make an argument with reason will be lost on them, no matter how much scientific backing it has.
This willful ignorance is destroying america.
The people you cite believe their mythology, literally. There have been people like this since, well, the beginning of myths. Contrary to your tone, more and more people are putting mythology where it belongs, and more and more people are seeking truth rather than mere comfort. Don't dispair because people today behave like people of 2,000 years ago. Intellectual evolution is certainly occurring, just not as rapidly as we might wish.
No intellectual snobbery from you anymore plz kthx.
I was performing a valuable public service. Fact of the matter is, using the phrase as the grandparent did DOES make one appear uneducated, whether or not some grammarian gives that usage the thumbs up or not. The guy may be going on a job interview or the like, and things like that make a difference.
The vast majority of the public couldn't describe in the simplest terms the physics behind how radio works if their lives depended on it, much less construct a transmitter or receiver themselves. It is ridiculous that they should have any right of ownership & control over the airwaves.
lol. So only engineers should be able to own frequencies?
The airwaves are public property. Their use is not a right of companies.
It is interesting that, in a supposedly 'democratic' and 'captialistic' country that the airwaves are considered 'public property' and managed under socialistic systems. How convenient for the government; to be able to regulate modes of speech through socialism and invoking 'the public good' (think of the children!).
I suppose the airwaves were labeled 'public property' under the guise of the reality that they are limited. Only one entity can use a given frequency, and the number of usable frequencies are limited.
But the same argument could be used for land. Land is limited. Only one entity can use a certain parcel of land at a time. But do we use socialist systems to manage land? No, we use the legal system. People can 'own' land, and use the courts to protect their land rights. If someone wants some land, he goes to the free market and buys it from someone else. He does not have to petition the government.
The same principle of private ownership should be used with the airwaves. People should be able to 'own' frequencies, and be able to use the courts to protect their rights. In this way, if someone wants a frequency, let him purchase it on the open market, like he would with land, instead of having to petition the government for the ability to address the public over the air.
You seem to imply that you would love this stuff in your car, because you have such superior driving ability and your apparently larger brain than the "simpletons".
I'm sorry if I 'implied'. I meant to be more obvious. I've spent most of my life examining my conciousness. I've spent time in a Zen montastery. I'm proficient in two martial arts, and am an advanced hatha Yoga practitioner. So when I multi-task on the road, it is with an uncommon amount of awareness and conciousness. It is not bragging or deluded to say that I am a much better driver than most, but simple honesty. I would like all that neat stuff, because I could use it wisely and responsibly. Many others, however, cannot, and I'm not about to pretend that we are all equal out there.
My not understanding why anyone is proud of being able to do something as mundane as driving
Have you ever been in an accident? Do you have any idea of the physics behind something so 'mundane' as driving? It is not 'pride' in driving but simple abhorrance of inability and foolishness.
I take driving very seriously. Lots of people do not. These people are hazards to my and your well-being, and I find them reprehensible.
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The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited.
Say WHAT???! The article wasn't clear about how this would be accomplished (not allowing us to skip commercials) but I assume the commercials would be flagged, and any new hardware must respect the flag's autho-i-tay.
And who are these Senators representing, anyway? Planning to FORCE our hardware to play commercials? They sure as hell aren't representing ME. Bunch of streetwalkers, they are.
***sigh*** I have a TiVo now, and there is no way in HELL I will EVER watch another commercial again. In a way, I hope these shitheads actually DO get their way, and FORCE my hardware to play all commercials. That would be a sure way to get me to unplug the goddamned thing once and for all.
I have to post the obligatory Robert Heinlien quote for this:
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit."
The cause you're fighting is every bit as noble as that for "hacker", and just as lost.
It may be a lost fight, but at least the fight brings to people's attention that it is, strictly speaking, incorrect usage.
We may not be able to change the general usage, but at least we can help SOME slashdot readers, who care about the language, from sounding uneducated and vulgar in their future communications.
What gets me is who buys these fucking games? I don't know about you, but if I already had, say, a copy of NBA Live 2003 or 2004, what's my incentive to buy 2005?
I dunno. The only EA game I have is Tiger Woods Golf. I got the 2005 version, liked it alot, and bought the 2004 version because it had different courses to play. And I'll probably buy Tiger Woods 2006, if only because it will have new golf courses.
But golf is a special case. Basketball games, well, I can't tell you.
You are an idiot.
This is +1 Insightful?
Sad that this is the state of the art in insults these days. I may be a misanthrope, a pessimist, a nerotic, a complainer, a defeatist, a nihilist, a downer, a drag, a gloomy gus, an asher or a worrywart, but I am certainly NOT an 'idiot'.
why it must be an accident.
A common belief, but not exactly true. Suicides are covered in MOST life insurance policies unless it is done within two years of getting the policy. Also, any change in the policy (e.g. upping the benefits, or a different beneficiary) is considered 're-starting' the two-year clock).
Man, was that story depressing. Guy has a family and kids. If you don't feel compassion for that guy's story, you're not human.
Personally, I think the country is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket, which is one of the reasons I choose not to procreate. If life got intolerable enough, I can always say "Screw you guys" and check out. I have lived a good life and have absolutly no fear of any after life.
But with a family, well, you just can't check out while your children still depend on you.
I know, I know, that's the way it's always been. But for me, particularly in this society, it still gives me strength to know that if life gives me the old "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" trip I can always say "Fuck that shit" and make the Big Trip.
So, for those of you who don't have kids, please, don't do it. Contrary to popular opinion, procreation is one of the most selfish things one can do.
Think of the future. Globalization. That means a leveling of resource use and wages, and let me tell you something: yours are going to go down more than Habibi's in the Middle East is going to go up. The powers-that-be have mastered the art of groupthink and know how to sway popular opinion that the power will only get more oppressive.
Once triggered, it issues a verbal warning then fires a warning shot (a foam disc).
.357 to the thing, rigs up a solenoid trigger-puller set up to activate when the "foam discs" are supposed to launch.
Oh yeah. I can see it now. How long before someone bolts their
Jehovah's witnesses might have something to worry about.
A game where you wantonly kill towelheads. Already been done. It's called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" by Bush! It's the best! And it has the best force-feedback hardware in the industry! They can shoot back, and you actuall feel it! Yee ha!
Hoestly, what do you expect the CEO of Microsoft to do in the face of open source competion?
Not lie, at least so blatantly, obviously, and so easily refutable.
A CEO does not have to tell the TRUTH, he should just not be such an obvious liar. There's a big difference.
Really? Just wait until you see the monkey boy dance (mirrors).
LOL.
Ahhh... that did the trick. I get it now; my confusion has been abated. Many thanks!
Why do people get so worked up about something as completely trivial as the choice of operating systems?
Well, tell my girlfriend's best friend how trivial it was when her daughter accidentally installed a dialer on her Windows box and she ended up with a $300 bill for calls to some banana republic. Or tell a friend of mine how trivial it was when a virus trashed his spreadsheets and Word documents. Oh yeah, choice of an OS is so frickin' trivial.
Asswipe.
Why does Ballmer do this? Why does he make such idiotic, easy-to-refute statements? For example, from the article:
Ballmer noted: "Yankee's study concluded that, in large enterprises, a significant Linux deployment or total switch from Windows to Linux would be three to four times more expensive - and take three times as long to deploy - as an upgrade from one version of Windows to a newer release".
What he failed to point out, according to Novell, was Yankee's statement: "In summary, the Yankee Group's TCO survey found that Linux does offer compelling cost savings, economies of scale and technical advantages, as many a satisfied user will attest...
I can't believe that guy is a top executive of a major corporation. He makes Darl look like a business genius in comparison. He impresses me as some kind of jackass, who just HAPPENED to be in the right place at the right time, and is where he is DESPITE rather than BECAUSE of his business acumen.
It seems that you almost have to have your head up your ass as firmly as Ballmer or Darl to get anywhere in corporate america.
It's examples like this which prove to me that I will never be an executive of any company but my own. I am just too attracted to honesty and integrity.
So if team X scores 36 runs in the first game of a seven game series and then doesn't score a single run in the next six games they should win the series? That's insane.
/me smacks pbaumgar with a Bambino sized clue stick.
The popular vote should have been enough
I agree. Also, in the World Series, they should just add up the number of total runs for all the games, and declair the team that got the most runs in the series the winner.
Not "Team X won 4 games, Team Y, 3". It should be "Team X: 23 runs, Team Y: 24".
When you throw something in the garbage, it's still yours. It's not free for the taking.
Not in the USA. Trash is considered 'abandonded property' and is up for grabs.
These are completly unreasonable people, and trying to make an argument with reason will be lost on them, no matter how much scientific backing it has.
This willful ignorance is destroying america.
The people you cite believe their mythology, literally. There have been people like this since, well, the beginning of myths. Contrary to your tone, more and more people are putting mythology where it belongs, and more and more people are seeking truth rather than mere comfort. Don't dispair because people today behave like people of 2,000 years ago. Intellectual evolution is certainly occurring, just not as rapidly as we might wish.
No intellectual snobbery from you anymore plz kthx.
I was performing a valuable public service. Fact of the matter is, using the phrase as the grandparent did DOES make one appear uneducated, whether or not some grammarian gives that usage the thumbs up or not. The guy may be going on a job interview or the like, and things like that make a difference.
Which begs the question:
No it doesn't
It is true that many people use the phrase the way you did, but it makes one look uneducated.
No, a 'wiki' is that hoop of metal you shoot croquet balls through.
... for all those dipsticks who insist on gobbling up every variation of their thing every time a new TLD comes out.
Support, within the kernel, for IE^H^HMozilla! It'll be perfectly safe! Trust us!
The vast majority of the public couldn't describe in the simplest terms the physics behind how radio works if their lives depended on it, much less construct a transmitter or receiver themselves. It is ridiculous that they should have any right of ownership & control over the airwaves.
lol. So only engineers should be able to own frequencies?
The airwaves are public property. Their use is not a right of companies.
It is interesting that, in a supposedly 'democratic' and 'captialistic' country that the airwaves are considered 'public property' and managed under socialistic systems. How convenient for the government; to be able to regulate modes of speech through socialism and invoking 'the public good' (think of the children!).
I suppose the airwaves were labeled 'public property' under the guise of the reality that they are limited. Only one entity can use a given frequency, and the number of usable frequencies are limited.
But the same argument could be used for land. Land is limited. Only one entity can use a certain parcel of land at a time. But do we use socialist systems to manage land? No, we use the legal system. People can 'own' land, and use the courts to protect their land rights. If someone wants some land, he goes to the free market and buys it from someone else. He does not have to petition the government.
The same principle of private ownership should be used with the airwaves. People should be able to 'own' frequencies, and be able to use the courts to protect their rights. In this way, if someone wants a frequency, let him purchase it on the open market, like he would with land, instead of having to petition the government for the ability to address the public over the air.
Dog's are OK if you like living with a slobbering buffoon.
All the best,
A Cat Person
You seem to imply that you would love this stuff in your car, because you have such superior driving ability and your apparently larger brain than the "simpletons".
I'm sorry if I 'implied'. I meant to be more obvious. I've spent most of my life examining my conciousness. I've spent time in a Zen montastery. I'm proficient in two martial arts, and am an advanced hatha Yoga practitioner. So when I multi-task on the road, it is with an uncommon amount of awareness and conciousness. It is not bragging or deluded to say that I am a much better driver than most, but simple honesty. I would like all that neat stuff, because I could use it wisely and responsibly. Many others, however, cannot, and I'm not about to pretend that we are all equal out there.
My not understanding why anyone is proud of being able to do something as mundane as driving
Have you ever been in an accident? Do you have any idea of the physics behind something so 'mundane' as driving? It is not 'pride' in driving but simple abhorrance of inability and foolishness.
I take driving very seriously. Lots of people do not. These people are hazards to my and your well-being, and I find them reprehensible.