Yeah, well, the FF2 bar wasn't all that hot either. The only thing more annoying than waiting for the list of sites to never come up because you started typing while another tab was still loading, is having the list of sites popup while you're typing and since you had the mouse in the wrong location when you hit enter you went to some completely different place than you had expected.
I don't care whether it's awesome or not, give me an option to make it not appear unless I press down or alt-down or tab or something that indicates that I want it to appear.
It's quite obvious that the federal government does take this stuff seriously, and it's entirely possible there's a file somewhere tagged "slashdot+rebel" that lists everyone who suggests such things on the site.
they aren't the kind that won't take a job because it's not what their degree is in, or not good enough for them are they?
There will always be the "unemployable" but right now there is more labor than jobs, and jobs are getting cut faster than they're made. (wasn't it something like 60K lost last month, with losses since the beginning of the year?)
If his claims are true, this will be a trivial task.
Never underestimate the resistance of investors to believe in the amazing.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" From my own experience with investors, you could tie down the investor and force them to watch the entire decomposition process over however many days it took to convert the soybean leftovers into this stuff, put this stuff into the investors own car after forcing the investor to suck out the gasoline himself, then enter his car in the Indy 500 and win, and he'd still assert that you've faked it somehow.
Unless, of course, you tell him alllll about every step in exact detail. Then he still won't believe you, but he'll be doing it himself in a month.
Because in order to do that we'd have to use labeling laws so that everyone can use their own mindset instead of thinking whatever the companies want them to think.
Yeah, all of us on the side of the country where AT&T rules the phone lines were planning on selling our houses and moving to the other side of the country.
Good question, maybe if we could pry some reporters away from the hairdos of the women running for first lady, they might get bored enough to actually cover other candidates, and we might get to find out what Bob Barr is willing to claim he thinks.
I happen to believe that companies acting in good faith
You happen to believe wrong. The companies involved acted for money, nothing more. See also: Qwest's refusal to go along and the contracts that were pulled due to that choice. Or if you don't buy that, see also the story that got linked here about how the telcos have no qualms turning off the taps when the government doesn't pay.
Furthermore, as another user pointed out, this began before 9/11.
some of which have even been around for centuries? They might even get "cultured" or something.
You're absolutely right! How could we have missed it? Add Jules Verne to the list!
On a more serious note, there's plenty of other stuff out there that kids should be able to sit through, like the Iliad and the Odyssey, or Gulliver's Travels, or the Three Musketeers. Progressing more towards modern times we have H.G. Wells (who did more than just The War of the Worlds, for instance, The Invisible Man).
In the middle there are the philosophers like Thoreau. If your kid's in Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts, I'd suggest handing them a copy of Walden, or if that's too boring (in which case I'd blame city-slicker troops that go camping once a year in only perfect weather at a pre-approved campground complete with plumbing), track down some volumes of the Foxfire Books.
Or you could break out War and Peace and "culture" the kid upside the head with it.
Now that we're off the scifi track, I'd add Momo by Michael Ende (who wrote Neverending Story, which really is a good book too). A few years back I picked up a used copy, and having read it as an adult, I regret never having heard of it as a kid.
will allow me to post anything I want there, otherwise they're suppressing my "free speech rights".
Does the AP tell you you can post stuff there? No? Don't go off the deep end. Flickr put up a list of rules to abide by. None of those rules had anything to do with a smoking kid. Some person at flickr made the decision to remove the content.
Whether you like it or not, that decision to remove content is the very definition of censorhip. It has nothing to do with government power, it has nothing to do with whether the artist could have gone somewhere else to publish his work.
Is non-government censorship illegal? No, and amazingly enough, the AP didn't claim it was, despite your ridiculous rant.
They have no right to tell you you can't listen to that "damn negro music" in that leased car, nor do they have a right to control the speed of the vehicle from the corporate office.
They can try, as long as they A) tell you (there is no written rule against kids holding a cigarette) and B) have some way of enforcing it (the picture was there for some time before someone with the ability to do anything about it noticed it).
And actually, several rental places do put governors on their vehicles, mostly for moving vans.
Yes, yes, we get it. The people who actually commit the crime are the victims here, just like those poor, poor mafia members paid to break legs and toss people in the lake with concrete shoes. They're just trying to make a living, can't we all cut them a break?!
If it was demanded by the government
Qwest refused and nobody went to jail. There was no "demand," just the government giving companies money to perform illegal acts.
Gallium is currently more expensive to get out of landfills than it is to get out of the ground.
And then we bury it deeper with every passing garbage truck. Who knows, maybe someday the value of undoing all of that will finally catch up to the increase in the cost of undoing all of that.
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17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds or less.
What if it's a leap year?
Because "jumping through hoops" is a colloquialism meaning "more difficult than necessary".
Show us an easier way. If you don't have one, then how do you know its more difficult than necessary?
Yeah, well, the FF2 bar wasn't all that hot either. The only thing more annoying than waiting for the list of sites to never come up because you started typing while another tab was still loading, is having the list of sites popup while you're typing and since you had the mouse in the wrong location when you hit enter you went to some completely different place than you had expected.
I don't care whether it's awesome or not, give me an option to make it not appear unless I press down or alt-down or tab or something that indicates that I want it to appear.
PS1 games are still supported entirely in software. Only the PS2 hardware was removed.
Do either of you have first-hand experience with someone who spoke out against the government and then "heard the fed knocking"?
If neither of them reply, does that mean the answer is yes?
But in reality, this just doesn't happen here.
Yet kids still get investigated by the Secret Service for singing Bob Dylan songs or drawing pictures of Bush's head on a spike or of him as a demon with rockets and a caption of "end the war on Errorism" (amusingly enough google warned me that the second page could be harmful to my computer). There's also the infamous case about the guy who was arrested for joking about God talking from a burning bush.
It's quite obvious that the federal government does take this stuff seriously, and it's entirely possible there's a file somewhere tagged "slashdot+rebel" that lists everyone who suggests such things on the site.
they aren't the kind that won't take a job because it's not what their degree is in, or not good enough for them are they?
There will always be the "unemployable" but right now there is more labor than jobs, and jobs are getting cut faster than they're made. (wasn't it something like 60K lost last month, with losses since the beginning of the year?)
...and spiky-haired bois with fast cars.
Not console-wizards.
But I have a robe! And a wizard hat!
They're banking on disasters, frankly
They're banking on being "too big to fail" and being saved by taxpayer money.
Meanwhile, nobody will ask where the actual cash that is supposedly being lost came from, or where it all went to.
If his claims are true, this will be a trivial task.
Never underestimate the resistance of investors to believe in the amazing.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" From my own experience with investors, you could tie down the investor and force them to watch the entire decomposition process over however many days it took to convert the soybean leftovers into this stuff, put this stuff into the investors own car after forcing the investor to suck out the gasoline himself, then enter his car in the Indy 500 and win, and he'd still assert that you've faked it somehow.
Unless, of course, you tell him alllll about every step in exact detail. Then he still won't believe you, but he'll be doing it himself in a month.
Why has there got to be one "right" mindset?
Because in order to do that we'd have to use labeling laws so that everyone can use their own mindset instead of thinking whatever the companies want them to think.
Does such a boycott exist?
Yeah, all of us on the side of the country where AT&T rules the phone lines were planning on selling our houses and moving to the other side of the country.
Mine's been on the market for over a year now.
Kinda like when I screwed your wife while you were at work. You could still use her, so it wasn't stealing
Fixed that for you.
Good question, maybe if we could pry some reporters away from the hairdos of the women running for first lady, they might get bored enough to actually cover other candidates, and we might get to find out what Bob Barr is willing to claim he thinks.
Wouldn't count on it though.
"precious tools"?
Think Gollum.
why the Supreme Court of the United States listens to arguments about constitutional issues.
One of the people who was being wiretapped "accidentally" got a copy of their transcript in the mail.
The government proceeded to seize it.
They went to court with the copy they kept.
The government seized that copy too, and the judge ordered them not to keep any more copies or bring it up in court again.
The judge then ruled that without evidence that they had been tapped, they have 30 days to prove they were tapped without referring to these copies.
Well, we'll see if the courts blow their last chance.
moving to a different country so it won't affect you?
Isn't that exactly what would make it affect you? Unless of course you never called, wrote, or chatted with anyone in the US ever again, anyways.
I happen to believe that companies acting in good faith
You happen to believe wrong. The companies involved acted for money, nothing more. See also: Qwest's refusal to go along and the contracts that were pulled due to that choice. Or if you don't buy that, see also the story that got linked here about how the telcos have no qualms turning off the taps when the government doesn't pay.
Furthermore, as another user pointed out, this began before 9/11.
See, you had me going there for a minute...
They're trying to hang on to that last 9%
some of which have even been around for centuries? They might even get "cultured" or something.
You're absolutely right! How could we have missed it? Add Jules Verne to the list!
On a more serious note, there's plenty of other stuff out there that kids should be able to sit through, like the Iliad and the Odyssey, or Gulliver's Travels, or the Three Musketeers. Progressing more towards modern times we have H.G. Wells (who did more than just The War of the Worlds, for instance, The Invisible Man).
In the middle there are the philosophers like Thoreau. If your kid's in Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts, I'd suggest handing them a copy of Walden, or if that's too boring (in which case I'd blame city-slicker troops that go camping once a year in only perfect weather at a pre-approved campground complete with plumbing), track down some volumes of the Foxfire Books.
Or you could break out War and Peace and "culture" the kid upside the head with it.
Now that we're off the scifi track, I'd add Momo by Michael Ende (who wrote Neverending Story, which really is a good book too). A few years back I picked up a used copy, and having read it as an adult, I regret never having heard of it as a kid.
A lot of the pervy stuff I totally didn't remember.
And this pretty much sums up why people worry too much about this stuff.
will allow me to post anything I want there, otherwise they're suppressing my "free speech rights".
Does the AP tell you you can post stuff there? No? Don't go off the deep end. Flickr put up a list of rules to abide by. None of those rules had anything to do with a smoking kid. Some person at flickr made the decision to remove the content.
Whether you like it or not, that decision to remove content is the very definition of censorhip. It has nothing to do with government power, it has nothing to do with whether the artist could have gone somewhere else to publish his work.
Is non-government censorship illegal? No, and amazingly enough, the AP didn't claim it was, despite your ridiculous rant.
They have no right to tell you you can't listen to that "damn negro music" in that leased car, nor do they have a right to control the speed of the vehicle from the corporate office.
They can try, as long as they A) tell you (there is no written rule against kids holding a cigarette) and B) have some way of enforcing it (the picture was there for some time before someone with the ability to do anything about it noticed it).
And actually, several rental places do put governors on their vehicles, mostly for moving vans.
Yes, yes, we get it. The people who actually commit the crime are the victims here, just like those poor, poor mafia members paid to break legs and toss people in the lake with concrete shoes. They're just trying to make a living, can't we all cut them a break?!
If it was demanded by the government
Qwest refused and nobody went to jail. There was no "demand," just the government giving companies money to perform illegal acts.
Gallium is currently more expensive to get out of landfills than it is to get out of the ground.
And then we bury it deeper with every passing garbage truck. Who knows, maybe someday the value of undoing all of that will finally catch up to the increase in the cost of undoing all of that.