But if you come into my home spewing filth, I have every right to kick your ass out so I don't have to listen to it.
Youtube is Google's house. They make the rules. If they were homophobic bigots, and wanted to delete every single pro-gay video on their site, they would be within their rights to do so. There would obviously be enormous consequences to that and they would likely be abandoned by 99% of their users within days, but if they wanted to open that can of worms, that's their right.
That kind of crap disgusts me, too, and like you I support the right of anyone to be a bigoted piece of crap because that's what freedom is, but let's not pretend that Google has some sort of obligation to be purveyors of that crap if they do not wish to be. If they're going to yank down birdsong due to a bullshit copyright complaint, then they damn sure better be yanking filth like that shit down.
To put it another way, if you think Slashdot comments are full of trolls now, imagine if they had to respect the First Amendment and keep them visible. Boom, now all of a sudden all the gamemaker and mycleanpc trolls have the first amendment protecting their bullshit, and now nobody else can use the shit at all. I can't support that.
You see, that's why the police are supposed to investigate crimes prior to charges being filed.
Investigations just take too much time. This is the 21st century, we file the charges and then investigate. Don't worry, though, when it turns out it's all bullshit, they'll probably be good enough to drop the charges. Probably.
He also said they were going to dig up Marilyn Monroe and the fucking idiot immigration people actually searched their bags for shovels. Because they wouldn't buy one here in the states from one of the eight-fucking-million stores one can buy a shovel if they were actually going to do this...no, they'd bring one with them from England.
We have a seriously disproportionate number of dumbshits in our police agencies, it seems.
Well, lucky for the bulk of society, 99.999999999999% of the world's population is not the President of the United States.
I don't think I've ever met a person who hasn't said they wanted to kill someone at some point. Obviously they don't actually mean they're going to kill someone. Hell, find me a parent who hasn't said they wanted to kill their kid(s) at some point. Good luck.
People who can't make that distinction remind me a lot of those people that respond to obviously commiserative apologies with a "Why are you apologizing?" I mean, yes, obviously I didn't drive over to your house flatten your tire last night, I was saying I'm sorry that you woke up to a flat because that sucks. Fucking DURRRRRRRR.
The difference is context, and most people with a functioning brain can tell whether a threat is real or not.
Agreed. I've got shit to do, and assaulting me with banalities, such as recaps of last night's Dancing With The Stars, usually results in a colleague muttering "Geez, what's his problem!?!" as they walk away...
It's pretty ridiculous how resentful people get when a coworker doesn't want to piss away half their day on stupid shit, too.
It's funny how the fax machine just refuses to die to dignity. My sister-in-law works as a liason between group insurers and a major hospital in Wisconsin, and she faxes shit daily. Comes in handy whenever we need to fax something in our personal lives, which is about once every 3 years.
I was under the impression that medical records were going electronic, but she tells me she still generates at least a ream of paper a week, and she works alongside hundreds of people. I can't even imagine what they were using before...
If it wasn't for email I wouldn't even know about all these new social networks that are constantly springing up.
What?
I don't where your invites go, but all mine go to my email address. G+, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc....how do you invite someone from outside the network to join? Their email address.
But maybe 10" tablet could, if car manufacturers designed their dashboards to have suitable slot to install your spanking new 10" android tablet.
You mean the iPad slot? Every car I've ever been in that has a built in anything for a portable device has always assumed that said portable device is going to be an iWhatever. Either they're getting paid to make sure that Apple-only slots are getting put into the cars, or they just figure everyone owns an Apple device. Either way, it's irritating when you don't, and never will, own an iThing.
I've actually been present with someone car-shopping when the salesmen pointed out the iPod slot and the person I was with responded "Can I get that switched out to something else, a universal dock or something? I hate iPods." You'd have thought we'd grown an extra arm out of our ass for the look we got; it's as if in his car salesmen universe, there was no other MP3 player out there...
I was considering getting a car GPS. I don't drive a whole lot, I bike to work and can walk to most stores. So often when I am driving, it is to some place I've never been that isn't near where I live. Car GPS would be nice. I'd put it off since they were kind of pricey and I could solve the problem with a pen, paper, and online directions before leaving. However as the price dropped I thought maybe it would be something to have for convenience.
Then, I got my smartphone. I now have zero desire to own one. It takes care of everything perfectly. I have no reason to spend the money on a separate nav system and in fact a good reason not to in that I never forget my phone. It completely eliminated my interest in a sat nav.
Same here. I'd always checked out the sale circulars for stores around here and looked for good deals on a GPS for the car, but the thing that always kept me from making the plunge was the bullshit subscription fees required. My father has an ~5 year old GPS (not sure which brand honestly, it's not something that I've wasted brain cells committing to long-term memory) that he has never updated because he abhors subscription fees as much as I do and it's gotten progressively more and more useless, especially now because there has been tons of reconfiguration of the roadways around here, adding the dreaded 'circles' all over the place that very, very few people know how to navigate. It's pretty much only useful for highway driving now, since obviously major interstates aren't going to be moving around much.
Once I upgraded my decrepit WinMo XV6800 to my (now decrepit) Droid with it's built in navigation, I stopped looking for standalone GPS's entirely. My phone was a hell of a lot more useful than my father's ancient GPS device, although it's not a perfect solution...the navigation absolutely murders my battery so I had to go out and buy a car charger. Other than that, though, it works great anywhere I've gone with it, although I admit that I'm not geocaching with it or anything.
Consequently I don't have any bones with anyone not paying taxes, if you can get away with it, more power to ya.
While I understand the sentiment, I have a lot of bones to pick with multi-billion dollar corporations paying a lower effective tax rate then the receptionist at their headquarters.
The problem is, of course, that the people that could actually use the extra money most often don't have access to the expensive accountants that the people that are just going to shove the money into an account for perpetuity do. An extra 1,000 a month to a middle class family could mean getting their car fixed a little sooner, or paying off a credit card, but an extra 1,000 to a millionaire is just another 1,000 in the bank.
I know, right? They can filter for too many caps, but not for this constant, endless bullshit?
Any post with the text 'mycleanpc' in it should be automatically rejected and the IP address that attempts to post it blocked from posting for a 24 hour cooling off period. Most trolls have short attention spans and will quickly lose interest.
I do what I do so that we can keep this fight away from our home.
Yeah, by fighting in someone else's home, so their little girls get to experience it, instead.
Your little girl's security comes at the expense of hundreds of thousands of completely innocent people, and not only that, but it perpetuates the terrorism that we're supposedly over there fighting in the first place. Simple logic and human nature dictates that losing your family in response to terrorist acts they had no part in can do nothing but encourage the survivors to engage in terrorist acts themselves. If your little girls were killed by an occupying force, would you not retaliate with every fiber of your being? Yet we vilify the Iraqis (and Afghanis, and Vietnamese, and every other country we've occupied in the last 50+ years of proxy war we're involved in)? The vast majority of the people of this country would do the same fucking thing in their situation.
The late, great Bill Hicks said it best:
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
Imagine how much good will there would be in the world if, instead of killing these people, we fed them?
All the major unions grew stronger during the war. The government put pressure on employers to recognize unions to avoid the sort of turbulent struggles over union recognition of the 1930s, while unions were generally able to obtain maintenance of membership clauses, a form of union security, through arbitration and negotiation. Employers gave workers new untaxed benefits (such as vacation time, pensions and health insurance), which increased real incomes even when wage rates were frozen. The wage differential between higher skilled and less skilled workers narrowed, and with the enormous increase in overtime for blue collar wage workers (at time and a half pay), incomes in working class households shot up, while the salaried middle class lost ground.
Also, uou might sue legitimatelly and lose because of some loophole or because you were wrong.
That's the glaring issue I see with this idea. It's well-meaning, but in reality it could end up screwing the little guy even more. The fact is, most of the patent trolls have access to funds that most people can only dream of, and with those funds they are able to by star legal talent, while you're stuck with Joe Schmoe the Lawyer who got his degree online because that's all you can afford.
This will have a chilling effect like you would not believe on these types of lawsuits being brought by anyone that isn't a megacorporation because even if their case has merit, the 3x the damages rules will basically destroy them financially while the thieves get to not only continue stealing their work but have one less competitor (albeit a small one) to deal with.
Exactly. Consider the entire romance genre. The vast majority of them are the literary equivalent of a Happy Meal and I know many women who buy a dozen a month and blow throw them as if someone may steal it from them.
Ever read anything by V.C. Andrews? An ex-girlfriend goaded me into reading one of her books and I didn't even finish due to how fucking sick it was, and I've been reading Stephen King and similar since I was in 3rd grade. She must have really enjoyed reading about rape and sexual abuse or something...
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I am just making it clear that I find it funny.
Which is going to accomplish nothing but alienate people that actually care enough to do so in the first place.
But that's okay, keep being a twat. All the well-meaning comments will eventually dry up, and you can enjoy your misery all by yourself.
Try using it the next time your neighborhood bar has a cover bad playing.
Best Freudian slip I've seen today.
Oh, boohoo. So now people are entitled to relevancy? Where the fuck is my 15 minutes of fame? I demand it!!!!
She has every right to say it, but Youtube also has every right not to broadcast it on her behalf.
She should contact the Westboro Baptist Church. I'm sure they would be more than happy to post her bullshit on their website.
But if you come into my home spewing filth, I have every right to kick your ass out so I don't have to listen to it.
Youtube is Google's house. They make the rules. If they were homophobic bigots, and wanted to delete every single pro-gay video on their site, they would be within their rights to do so. There would obviously be enormous consequences to that and they would likely be abandoned by 99% of their users within days, but if they wanted to open that can of worms, that's their right.
That kind of crap disgusts me, too, and like you I support the right of anyone to be a bigoted piece of crap because that's what freedom is, but let's not pretend that Google has some sort of obligation to be purveyors of that crap if they do not wish to be. If they're going to yank down birdsong due to a bullshit copyright complaint, then they damn sure better be yanking filth like that shit down.
To put it another way, if you think Slashdot comments are full of trolls now, imagine if they had to respect the First Amendment and keep them visible. Boom, now all of a sudden all the gamemaker and mycleanpc trolls have the first amendment protecting their bullshit, and now nobody else can use the shit at all. I can't support that.
You see, that's why the police are supposed to investigate crimes prior to charges being filed.
Investigations just take too much time. This is the 21st century, we file the charges and then investigate. Don't worry, though, when it turns out it's all bullshit, they'll probably be good enough to drop the charges. Probably.
This reminds me a lot of another Twitter fiasco, where a couple were barred entry into the U.S. because of his tweets that he was going to 'destroy America' ('Destroy' being British slang to get drunk and run amok, but no, they thought it was a literal threat).
He also said they were going to dig up Marilyn Monroe and the fucking idiot immigration people actually searched their bags for shovels. Because they wouldn't buy one here in the states from one of the eight-fucking-million stores one can buy a shovel if they were actually going to do this...no, they'd bring one with them from England.
We have a seriously disproportionate number of dumbshits in our police agencies, it seems.
Well, lucky for the bulk of society, 99.999999999999% of the world's population is not the President of the United States.
I don't think I've ever met a person who hasn't said they wanted to kill someone at some point. Obviously they don't actually mean they're going to kill someone. Hell, find me a parent who hasn't said they wanted to kill their kid(s) at some point. Good luck.
People who can't make that distinction remind me a lot of those people that respond to obviously commiserative apologies with a "Why are you apologizing?" I mean, yes, obviously I didn't drive over to your house flatten your tire last night, I was saying I'm sorry that you woke up to a flat because that sucks. Fucking DURRRRRRRR.
The difference is context, and most people with a functioning brain can tell whether a threat is real or not.
You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!
Agreed. I've got shit to do, and assaulting me with banalities, such as recaps of last night's Dancing With The Stars, usually results in a colleague muttering "Geez, what's his problem!?!" as they walk away...
It's pretty ridiculous how resentful people get when a coworker doesn't want to piss away half their day on stupid shit, too.
Remember, if he uses a memory doubler, he can get a whole 160 GBs in there.
It's funny how the fax machine just refuses to die to dignity. My sister-in-law works as a liason between group insurers and a major hospital in Wisconsin, and she faxes shit daily. Comes in handy whenever we need to fax something in our personal lives, which is about once every 3 years.
I was under the impression that medical records were going electronic, but she tells me she still generates at least a ream of paper a week, and she works alongside hundreds of people. I can't even imagine what they were using before...
If it wasn't for email I wouldn't even know about all these new social networks that are constantly springing up.
What?
I don't where your invites go, but all mine go to my email address. G+, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc....how do you invite someone from outside the network to join? Their email address.
Fuck that, I want more slashvertisements and blog posts passed off as news.
Everyone loves their own brand.
But maybe 10" tablet could, if car manufacturers designed their dashboards to have suitable slot to install your spanking new 10" android tablet.
You mean the iPad slot? Every car I've ever been in that has a built in anything for a portable device has always assumed that said portable device is going to be an iWhatever. Either they're getting paid to make sure that Apple-only slots are getting put into the cars, or they just figure everyone owns an Apple device. Either way, it's irritating when you don't, and never will, own an iThing.
I've actually been present with someone car-shopping when the salesmen pointed out the iPod slot and the person I was with responded "Can I get that switched out to something else, a universal dock or something? I hate iPods." You'd have thought we'd grown an extra arm out of our ass for the look we got; it's as if in his car salesmen universe, there was no other MP3 player out there...
I was considering getting a car GPS. I don't drive a whole lot, I bike to work and can walk to most stores. So often when I am driving, it is to some place I've never been that isn't near where I live. Car GPS would be nice. I'd put it off since they were kind of pricey and I could solve the problem with a pen, paper, and online directions before leaving. However as the price dropped I thought maybe it would be something to have for convenience. Then, I got my smartphone. I now have zero desire to own one. It takes care of everything perfectly. I have no reason to spend the money on a separate nav system and in fact a good reason not to in that I never forget my phone. It completely eliminated my interest in a sat nav.
Same here. I'd always checked out the sale circulars for stores around here and looked for good deals on a GPS for the car, but the thing that always kept me from making the plunge was the bullshit subscription fees required. My father has an ~5 year old GPS (not sure which brand honestly, it's not something that I've wasted brain cells committing to long-term memory) that he has never updated because he abhors subscription fees as much as I do and it's gotten progressively more and more useless, especially now because there has been tons of reconfiguration of the roadways around here, adding the dreaded 'circles' all over the place that very, very few people know how to navigate. It's pretty much only useful for highway driving now, since obviously major interstates aren't going to be moving around much.
Once I upgraded my decrepit WinMo XV6800 to my (now decrepit) Droid with it's built in navigation, I stopped looking for standalone GPS's entirely. My phone was a hell of a lot more useful than my father's ancient GPS device, although it's not a perfect solution...the navigation absolutely murders my battery so I had to go out and buy a car charger. Other than that, though, it works great anywhere I've gone with it, although I admit that I'm not geocaching with it or anything.
Consequently I don't have any bones with anyone not paying taxes, if you can get away with it, more power to ya.
While I understand the sentiment, I have a lot of bones to pick with multi-billion dollar corporations paying a lower effective tax rate then the receptionist at their headquarters.
The problem is, of course, that the people that could actually use the extra money most often don't have access to the expensive accountants that the people that are just going to shove the money into an account for perpetuity do. An extra 1,000 a month to a middle class family could mean getting their car fixed a little sooner, or paying off a credit card, but an extra 1,000 to a millionaire is just another 1,000 in the bank.
I know, right? They can filter for too many caps, but not for this constant, endless bullshit?
Any post with the text 'mycleanpc' in it should be automatically rejected and the IP address that attempts to post it blocked from posting for a 24 hour cooling off period. Most trolls have short attention spans and will quickly lose interest.
I do what I do so that we can keep this fight away from our home.
Yeah, by fighting in someone else's home, so their little girls get to experience it, instead.
Your little girl's security comes at the expense of hundreds of thousands of completely innocent people, and not only that, but it perpetuates the terrorism that we're supposedly over there fighting in the first place. Simple logic and human nature dictates that losing your family in response to terrorist acts they had no part in can do nothing but encourage the survivors to engage in terrorist acts themselves. If your little girls were killed by an occupying force, would you not retaliate with every fiber of your being? Yet we vilify the Iraqis (and Afghanis, and Vietnamese, and every other country we've occupied in the last 50+ years of proxy war we're involved in)? The vast majority of the people of this country would do the same fucking thing in their situation.
The late, great Bill Hicks said it best:
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
Imagine how much good will there would be in the world if, instead of killing these people, we fed them?
Are you kidding? From Wikipedia:
All the major unions grew stronger during the war. The government put pressure on employers to recognize unions to avoid the sort of turbulent struggles over union recognition of the 1930s, while unions were generally able to obtain maintenance of membership clauses, a form of union security, through arbitration and negotiation. Employers gave workers new untaxed benefits (such as vacation time, pensions and health insurance), which increased real incomes even when wage rates were frozen. The wage differential between higher skilled and less skilled workers narrowed, and with the enormous increase in overtime for blue collar wage workers (at time and a half pay), incomes in working class households shot up, while the salaried middle class lost ground.
You know what I meant, but thanks for wasting the time.
Also, uou might sue legitimatelly and lose because of some loophole or because you were wrong.
That's the glaring issue I see with this idea. It's well-meaning, but in reality it could end up screwing the little guy even more. The fact is, most of the patent trolls have access to funds that most people can only dream of, and with those funds they are able to by star legal talent, while you're stuck with Joe Schmoe the Lawyer who got his degree online because that's all you can afford.
This will have a chilling effect like you would not believe on these types of lawsuits being brought by anyone that isn't a megacorporation because even if their case has merit, the 3x the damages rules will basically destroy them financially while the thieves get to not only continue stealing their work but have one less competitor (albeit a small one) to deal with.
Exactly. Consider the entire romance genre. The vast majority of them are the literary equivalent of a Happy Meal and I know many women who buy a dozen a month and blow throw them as if someone may steal it from them.
Ever read anything by V.C. Andrews? An ex-girlfriend goaded me into reading one of her books and I didn't even finish due to how fucking sick it was, and I've been reading Stephen King and similar since I was in 3rd grade. She must have really enjoyed reading about rape and sexual abuse or something...
Plus, you can't ignore the mirth there was to be had with AOHell. Many a troll was born in the AOL chat rooms...