But i posted with my actual e-mail address and you posted anonymously. I'm not afraid of what I'm saying. You, however, it seems, are a fat, parent's-basement-dwelling, music-stealing puss. But that's okay- slashdot is filling up with them recently. Someone must have mentioned the site to you in a Brittney chat room or something.
Now, I may be wrong about this. But I'm pretty sure I'm not.
Here's reality for you: Just because a great number of people steal something doesn't make it okay. No matter what happens to the profits of the music industry, diapered debaters with specious logic only make them look good. You, and the thousands of snot-nosed punks like you, have no integrity.
Pat Buchanan and other "America first" conservatives have already called for the meteor's immediate expulsion from the country- since it is clear that the space rock was simply a Marriel-style vessel for microbes to illegally emmigrate to the United States.
But not to worry. It seems the extra-terrestrial life forms, in spite of being millions of years dead, got married in Los Vegas over the weekend to a colony of algae. This means that their green cards will remain in tact and they may all one day become citizens.
If you want to get the new couples a wedding present, they are registered at Nordstroms- for sun lamps and stagnant water.
One of the best things about/. is that no one can get away with crappy logic. Nobody could get away with a bullshit argument just because most of us want to believe it.
That would never happen here.
Jon Katz is right. We really are better than normal people.
Napster's defenders are not just cleptomaniacs and low-rent communists. Napster doesn't encourage people to steal. Napster is all about freedom of speech.
If I keep saying it to myself, I begin to believe it.
It doesn't seem to matter much if the thing you stole was a copy of data or not. It is still wrong.
Is it okay to steal from a home-grown software business who can barely survive? No? But it's sure okay to use stolen Microsoft aps because they're evil.
You certainly seem like an intelligent person. So, I still cannot see why you need to use third-rate logic when attacking this issue.
I think you're just a cheap/. siccophant who is willing to throw integrity out the window and villify large music companies because you don't want to pay for your crappy corporate music.
Enjoy your stolen crap, boys.
Adams as the Ghost of Christmas Future...
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Adams has, one must admit, lost his ability to write a cohesive tale. Lost. Found. Buried in soft peat.
For anyone who needs evidence for this, simply read anything written by Adams after the eary eighties. Conclusive evidence comes in the form of Adams' return to his bread-and-butter, H2G2.
This is his way of trying to stir up interest among a community he thinks he started. In interviews and speeches, he pretends as though he invented the idea of smarmy sci fi. He did not.
We've moved on. He, it seems, has not.
But I wonder if he is not just a shadow of things to come- for us. We all like to slap ourselves on our backs and talk about this wonderful information revolution we're helping to foster. But after we're all obsolete in ten years, will we all be talking that same way?
"Where's the gratitude?" we will whine. "Why don't kids understand my considerable contributions to the art?"
Randomly shuffle the order of posts (keeping parent/child in tact, of course). I would love to see "frist post" and "all your base belong to me" somewhere in the middle.
If a person has already spent their lives denying a century of scientific research, what can this new development possible mean to them?
"The Allmighty made men and women genetically similar to other animals to throw us off the scent. He knew about the concept of biology millions of years before the field of study began and planted little clues here and there to make believing in Him all the more difficult."
And how did one of those kids get into the FBI, anyway? I undestand that pubescent girls love Hanssen, but that's no reason to give them access to our nation's greatest secrets.
The Enigma was unbreakable, too. And if you've ever spent time reading the output of one of those things and then considered the millions of possible configurations, you'd quickly understand why they felt that way.
One-time pad cyphering has been around for quite a while. In Simon Singh's The Code Book (I happen to have it here at work), he mentions the Russian fondness for it during the Cold War. We never broke the code itself since there is no pattern or repeatable method to discern.
But anyone can steal and secretly photocopy one of the pads and render the encryption useless. I remember breaking the hell out of that comb in grade school. How dare they tell me that thing was unbreakable.
Good with computahs? Like to hunt for pohrn on the Intahnet?
The South Australia Boobie Patrol needs you!
Legislation of this type usually wraps itself in the idea of "protecting children." But this law surely is just an attempt to get a patronage job for some Australian Senator's porn-hungry nephew.
Or perhaps it is a merchandising play. Imagine the gross revenues for "Official South Australia Porn Inspector" T-shirts. It boggles the mind.
In good games, plot has always been king. The best I can remember were all plot (i.e. Yoho!, H2G2, Planetfall, etc.).
I'm not kidding on this one. I swear.
I've been thinking about this over the past few weeks and I think using PHP & MySQL (and perhaps a little Java) you could hammer out an interesting (hopefully entertaining) structure for MUD/MUSH-like multiplayer text adventures.
The idea of bringing MUDs into the 20th century intrigues me - kinda like everquest.
If this doesn't sound dumber than rocks, let me know.
The idea of subscripts made sense two years ago when the whole industry was swimming in OEM revenue.
I know, let's piss off our only remaining stable revenue stream in an attempt to shore up second quarter profits!
As a consumer, if you didn't have a reason to buy a new computer before when software ran "forever," why would you buy one now (the advantage being increased tech support that you don't trust, anyway)?
[I apologise for the previous convluted sentence. Do not attempt to diagram.]
Face it. We think we're all l337 and everything. But the future of HTML is like the future of any language. It is defined by the users, good and bad ones.
You cannot legislate language (see: The failure of German spelling reform of last year). You can only react to how people use it.
If I can't stop people from using impact as a verb, we certainly can't stop folks from using Frontpage to make their Geocities home pages.
We may know more about the language. But we cannot define it.
Sheep run the show. And the corporations on whose land they graze are the only ones who will profit.
Everyone talks about fibre as the Cadillac solution (because it costs about as much as a caddy per station). But there are a lot more elements to consider other than the drive bay adapters. Just getting the optical cable installed with its various freaky components drive up the cost in a hurry.
Fibre is also a solution with few big players- and loads of tiny less-stable providers. I don't want to get stuck on the bleeding edge with a company with a crappy web site [cough. Cionic. Cough.]
[I'm sure cionic is getting slashdotted right now. And from a quick check of network solutions, it seems that the poster has a vested interest in that.]
An enormous golden calf roams through the outer-regions of the known universe to exploit merchandising opportunities and maximize the ROI of Paramount investors.
There will be no human actors. In a merchandising first, the actual toys will finally take center stage.
And, of course, Roddenberry's widow will play a bit part. She will appear on alternate episodes to feed the cow.
Hanibal: 90 minutes of talking is scary
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Forget horror movies of the past, I'll take a Merchant & Ivory historical drama every time. All that talking - with accents no less. It scares the crap out of me. I won't watch Room With A view alone ever again!
A book that Thomas Harris didn't want to write. A movie that Jodie Foster flat-out refused to participate in. A sluggish plot more reminiscent of a costume drama. I almost wet myself with fear.
People who prefer to misspell a particular form of lumbardial back injury are suing us over the name "ridiculopathy.com."
It's a made-up word. We haven't had a chance to tell them that. They believe that rAdiculopathy is so common a misspelling that we have no right to do business under our proper name.
Our only hope is to get the word ridiculopathy entered into Websters next edition.
Ridiculopathy
n: 1. A phenomenon brought about by ridiculous circumstances; 2. A field of science studying ridiculous phenomena. Ridiculopath a practitioner of the science of Ridiculopathy.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, I may be wrong about this. But I'm pretty sure I'm not.
Here's reality for you: Just because a great number of people steal something doesn't make it okay. No matter what happens to the profits of the music industry, diapered debaters with specious logic only make them look good. You, and the thousands of snot-nosed punks like you, have no integrity.
YHBT
But not to worry. It seems the extra-terrestrial life forms, in spite of being millions of years dead, got married in Los Vegas over the weekend to a colony of algae. This means that their green cards will remain in tact and they may all one day become citizens.
If you want to get the new couples a wedding present, they are registered at Nordstroms- for sun lamps and stagnant water.
Elian as fossilized microbe...
suddenly their hard drive collapses under the weight of spam.
advertising = convenience
That would never happen here.
Jon Katz is right. We really are better than normal people.
Napster's defenders are not just cleptomaniacs and low-rent communists. Napster doesn't encourage people to steal. Napster is all about freedom of speech.
If I keep saying it to myself, I begin to believe it.
I'm cured. Thanks slashdot!
huh?
Translation: Douglas Adams is a twit!
It doesn't seem to matter much if the thing you stole was a copy of data or not. It is still wrong.
Is it okay to steal from a home-grown software business who can barely survive? No? But it's sure okay to use stolen Microsoft aps because they're evil.
You certainly seem like an intelligent person. So, I still cannot see why you need to use third-rate logic when attacking this issue.
I think you're just a cheap /. siccophant who is willing to throw integrity out the window and villify large music companies because you don't want to pay for your crappy corporate music.
Enjoy your stolen crap, boys.
For anyone who needs evidence for this, simply read anything written by Adams after the eary eighties. Conclusive evidence comes in the form of Adams' return to his bread-and-butter, H2G2.
This is his way of trying to stir up interest among a community he thinks he started. In interviews and speeches, he pretends as though he invented the idea of smarmy sci fi. He did not.
We've moved on. He, it seems, has not.
But I wonder if he is not just a shadow of things to come- for us. We all like to slap ourselves on our backs and talk about this wonderful information revolution we're helping to foster. But after we're all obsolete in ten years, will we all be talking that same way?
"Where's the gratitude?" we will whine. "Why don't kids understand my considerable contributions to the art?"
"Why, at some point in 2001, my karma was up to about forty!"
my base don't belong to anyone else
"The Allmighty made men and women genetically similar to other animals to throw us off the scent. He knew about the concept of biology millions of years before the field of study began and planted little clues here and there to make believing in Him all the more difficult."
Praise the Lord and pass the blindfolds
Hanssen is l337!
Accountants in space. It all makes sense now.
How quantum gravity affects tax withholding and other actuarial issues...
If people would just stop locking their doors at night, their valuables would be free as well- and I could get back to what I do best.
Cat burglaring just hasn't been the same since that deadbolt lock salesman came to town. How can they do this? Is this even Constitutional?
Join me in my struggle. stand up for your fundamental right to pilfer!
Some say that the XML isn't even a real language, that in spite of its proclaimed extensibility, it is "fixed." But I think they're cultural elitists.
Applications for the XML
One-time pad cyphering has been around for quite a while. In Simon Singh's The Code Book (I happen to have it here at work), he mentions the Russian fondness for it during the Cold War. We never broke the code itself since there is no pattern or repeatable method to discern.
But anyone can steal and secretly photocopy one of the pads and render the encryption useless. I remember breaking the hell out of that comb in grade school. How dare they tell me that thing was unbreakable.
Today: Eco-Terrorism Wuss Bags
The South Australia Boobie Patrol needs you!
Legislation of this type usually wraps itself in the idea of "protecting children." But this law surely is just an attempt to get a patronage job for some Australian Senator's porn-hungry nephew.
Or perhaps it is a merchandising play. Imagine the gross revenues for "Official South Australia Porn Inspector" T-shirts. It boggles the mind.
Hey South Australia, take a look at this
I'm not kidding on this one. I swear.
I've been thinking about this over the past few weeks and I think using PHP & MySQL (and perhaps a little Java) you could hammer out an interesting (hopefully entertaining) structure for MUD/MUSH-like multiplayer text adventures.
The idea of bringing MUDs into the 20th century intrigues me - kinda like everquest.
If this doesn't sound dumber than rocks, let me know.
There are exits to the north, west and south.
1) Microsoft products suck.
2) Microsoft better not limit my access to their software.
What doesn't make sense here? I'm honestly confused.
"blue screen of death" gallery
I know, let's piss off our only remaining stable revenue stream in an attempt to shore up second quarter profits!
As a consumer, if you didn't have a reason to buy a new computer before when software ran "forever," why would you buy one now (the advantage being increased tech support that you don't trust, anyway)?
[I apologise for the previous convluted sentence. Do not attempt to diagram.]
The solution: Embedded Banner ads!
You cannot legislate language (see: The failure of German spelling reform of last year). You can only react to how people use it.
If I can't stop people from using impact as a verb, we certainly can't stop folks from using Frontpage to make their Geocities home pages.
We may know more about the language. But we cannot define it.
Sheep run the show. And the corporations on whose land they graze are the only ones who will profit.
baa. baa. baaaa.
Fibre is also a solution with few big players- and loads of tiny less-stable providers. I don't want to get stuck on the bleeding edge with a company with a crappy web site [cough. Cionic. Cough.]
[I'm sure cionic is getting slashdotted right now. And from a quick check of network solutions, it seems that the poster has a vested interest in that.]
don't believe the hype
There will be no human actors. In a merchandising first, the actual toys will finally take center stage.
And, of course, Roddenberry's widow will play a bit part. She will appear on alternate episodes to feed the cow.
live long and profit
A book that Thomas Harris didn't want to write. A movie that Jodie Foster flat-out refused to participate in. A sluggish plot more reminiscent of a costume drama. I almost wet myself with fear.
can you hear the cash, Clarise?
2) Tape the bags together on the sides- don't forget the shoulder reinforcements.
3) Fill said bag with semi-set Jello(TM)
4) Cover the while thing with globs of rubber cement.
Alternative method: watch the first three movies 400 times while eating pork rinds and taking no exercise.
It's a made-up word. We haven't had a chance to tell them that. They believe that rAdiculopathy is so common a misspelling that we have no right to do business under our proper name.
Our only hope is to get the word ridiculopathy entered into Websters next edition.
Help us convince Merriam-Webster