I don't really care about Mr. dEaTh_ChUrCh, since he/she/it seems to be incapable of expressing his opnion without having to revert to obscene language. I'll go with the *part of* part. Sounds reasonable. Oh, and Mr. dEaTh_ChUrCh..., FUCK THE US!!! Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
You forget to mention that the Beowulf Cluster of FBI agents, and all sorts of references to hot grits, random Natalies etc. If you're making noise, be complete.
Faith in that very corruptability is what has made our free market economy a success, and the Madisonian model exploits that same weakness. It gives the lower rungs of government a built in incentive to want to hold on to as much power as they can, and not allow the centralized leaders to take over too much of it. So, power is decentralized and diffused so that the energy and resources needed to exert undue influence on the system becomes unreasonably large.
So the different pieces of the government are constantly battling each other over power, which leaves them to little time to actually do something useful. Which will require the country to have a second government to actually govern things, lest some behind the screens topman/woman actually takes over...Sound like fun, where can I sign up?
Plan X from outer space. Definitely the best sci-fi movie ever. The special effects were absolutely amazing. Especially all those little wires those plates had going to the roof...
We used the containers that used to contain ink for pens. By adding a spring you could stick in some matches, jam them in, and when you lit them, their heads would become smaller, causing them to be "launched".
If the previous suggestion of forcing all porn into a certain domain didn't sound like a world police state to you, how about making it illegal to link to porn from a nonporn domain?
Sounds reasonable, or at least making it illegal to do so without explicit warning. Unfortunately we will fall back onto the same old problem: what is the definition of porn? Ah whatever, I guess I could get used to being confronted with all those "beautiful" naked women while I'm really looking for information on something else.
I recently had a customer on the phone from Paris, France who really started to get annying, so I told him to download about 14 Megs of software, in the assumption that this would solve his problem and make him get lost for a little while. About 30 seconds after I told this to him, he told me the whole program was on his harddisk. Turned out he had an ADSL connection.
There should be some sort of limit that stops people from having bandwidth that exceeds their IQ in Kbps.
Ok, good point. So imagine all the "civilised" countries signing a big agreement on this. Will this mean that all pr0n site companies will have ther servers hidden somewhere in the jungle? Should have a nice impact on bandwidth.
Which global internet police-force is going to enforce this? None, thank goodness!
All material not related to pr0n can be placed under the main page www.whatever.com while all material that would be "pr0n" should be placed under a domain with another extension. Something like www.whatever.sex/xxx/bad/not/whatever extension you can think of. That way you should be able to configure a browser to ignore these pages or to notify some sort of warning.
Warning, you're about to see Natalie Portman naked. Be ready to be spoiled for the rest of your life!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist. As far as determining what is pr0n and what not, this could be rated the same way movies/computer games are.
Graphics card 80$, DVD not necessary, modem not necessary, processor runs at 83MHz:-) Did I miss anything? Oh and my computer also runs "useful" things. Not to say that games aren't useful of course.
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Sorry?
I don't really care about Mr. dEaTh_ChUrCh, since he/she/it seems to be incapable of expressing his opnion without having to revert to obscene language. I'll go with the *part of* part. Sounds reasonable. Oh, and Mr. dEaTh_ChUrCh..., FUCK THE US!!! Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
So sue the FBI for sexual deprivation? I want my pr0n!!!
You forget to mention that the Beowulf Cluster of FBI agents, and all sorts of references to hot grits, random Natalies etc. If you're making noise, be complete.
Thanks. By the way, I do techsupport. If you live through that, you can take on anything:-)
Personally, I want it harder for government to affect my daily life.
Disclaimer: the following is a personal opinion, if you do not agree, feel free to bother somebody else about it.
If you can't beat them, make them hire you?
I know what you mean. Guess what my next "career move"***cough*** is gonna be. Local politics. Someone has to do something besides whine about it.
I think here they just pay a anual fee for the air wave...
Where is here?
Faith in that very corruptability is what has made our free market economy a success, and the Madisonian model exploits that same weakness. It gives the lower rungs of government a built in incentive to want to hold on to as much power as they can, and not allow the centralized leaders to take over too much of it. So, power is decentralized and diffused so that the energy and resources needed to exert undue influence on the system becomes unreasonably large.
So the different pieces of the government are constantly battling each other over power, which leaves them to little time to actually do something useful. Which will require the country to have a second government to actually govern things, lest some behind the screens topman/woman actually takes over...Sound like fun, where can I sign up?
Given the choice between an idiot and an idiot who reads /. i'd vote for the /.er
Jon Katz for president?
Lets think hypotethical for a moment. A Sega-Sony-Nintendo alliance to take up the battle with M$. Wouldn't that be fun to watch...
But, that being said, do we really want just two companies competing to make the best games and platforms?
X-Box?
Plan X from outer space. Definitely the best sci-fi movie ever. The special effects were absolutely amazing. Especially all those little wires those plates had going to the roof...
I imagine he would be the one to come and reduce the astronomers to babbling psychotics
Does that require any outside help? I thought scientists are babbling psychotics unless proven otherwise?
Yep, so which continent are they a part of?
We used the containers that used to contain ink for pens. By adding a spring you could stick in some matches, jam them in, and when you lit them, their heads would become smaller, causing them to be "launched".
If the previous suggestion of forcing all porn into a certain domain didn't sound like a world police state to you, how about making it illegal to link to porn from a nonporn domain?
Sounds reasonable, or at least making it illegal to do so without explicit warning. Unfortunately we will fall back onto the same old problem: what is the definition of porn? Ah whatever, I guess I could get used to being confronted with all those "beautiful" naked women while I'm really looking for information on something else.
I recently had a customer on the phone from Paris, France who really started to get annying, so I told him to download about 14 Megs of software, in the assumption that this would solve his problem and make him get lost for a little while. About 30 seconds after I told this to him, he told me the whole program was on his harddisk. Turned out he had an ADSL connection.
There should be some sort of limit that stops people from having bandwidth that exceeds their IQ in Kbps.
And there was me thinking they were in it for the art.
That's why the actresses do it. It all depends from which side of the camera you come.
Ok, good point. So imagine all the "civilised" countries signing a big agreement on this. Will this mean that all pr0n site companies will have ther servers hidden somewhere in the jungle? Should have a nice impact on bandwidth.
,bad joke.
Which global internet police-force is going to enforce this? None, thank goodness!
Parents united? Sorry
All material not related to pr0n can be placed under the main page www.whatever.com while all material that would be "pr0n" should be placed under a domain with another extension. Something like www.whatever.sex/xxx/bad/not/whatever extension you can think of. That way you should be able to configure a browser to ignore these pages or to notify some sort of warning.
Warning, you're about to see Natalie Portman naked. Be ready to be spoiled for the rest of your life!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist. As far as determining what is pr0n and what not, this could be rated the same way movies/computer games are.
+ subject -sex -porn -@##$#^erased by lameness filter$%^%^*#@.
I just built one of these, so I now can listen to MP3s without carrying a very heavy PC around.
Laptop, portable MP3 player? Sorry, but I don't really see the use.
Graphics card 80$, DVD not necessary, modem not necessary, processor runs at 83MHz:-) Did I miss anything? Oh and my computer also runs "useful" things. Not to say that games aren't useful of course.
They could have chosen a slightly more subtle name. Next thing we know M$ gets sued for integrating IES instead of IE5.