This is the end result of a free market: nothing is off limits, everything has a price.
Market-based approaches to everything subvert democracy (obviously). Laws against pollution? Lets just charge expensive "pollution credits". Constitutional right to privacy? Let the market find an acceptable price to get around it.
This shit is like the matrix. There is no public square to communicate, only corporate owned venues - Verizon cells, AT&T telephones, AOL instant messenger, Google email, Comcast internet, MSN groups - it makes sense that they would govern themselves with business practices instead of Law.
Im not sure what the problem is here. When I was a kid I was stealing the games, I dont see how game ratings would have affected me back then. I dont worry about copy protection because everything I play is already cracked. So here I am playing free and unemcumbered games (music, movies, and tv shows too) while there are people walking the straight line and getting fucked for it.
One game I dont play - their's.The white collar black market my friends - kick back, relax, and enjoy!
We still have troops in Iraq? I thought we pulled them out when the war ended last year? You'd think the media would cover something like this if it was still going on..weird...
Isn't is odd that the only time something is described as having "a lot of life in it" is when its pretty apparent the thing is dying? Why not be a little more honest say something is "not as dead as it appears"?
For most products, the brick and mortal business model is DEAD. E-commerce offers better variety, lower prices, and a chance for smaller e-tailers to compete. The overhead costs with running a b&m are rediculous, and you end up with higher prices, and paying people a slave wage.
In the case of the "switching the box" situation - this is NOT stealing.
You PAID for a product. You were the informed consumer, and they were the merchant. When you come back to the store you are SELLING them a product. If they decide it is cheaper to pay someone $7/hr that cannot tell the difference of their own products - then its their own damn fault. You cant have it both ways.
This is a battle between the consumers and retail corporations. They have a literal ARMY of people to deceive you, with PR, marketing, et cetera.
Forcing manufacturers to outsource production to China is unethical.
Destroying local economies is unethical.
Fighting unions is unethical.
Selling $20 printers to poor people, and when they go to get ink refills they find out they cost $40 (?!). THAT is unethical.
Sticking it back to these assholes? That's fighting for a noble cause.
If you want to argue semantics, then by your account the biological father could rape an adopted child, and thats ok.
The point here is that corporations don't give out jobs because they are nice people, they hire people. Now if someone gives you something and then takes it back, well thats a dick move.
If they promise you a pension and then take it back because they cant run a business for shit, well, that cant even be accounted for by witty speech. We are punishing people for working hard, and being loyal - this is disgusting and wrong.
Good business plans dont require sacrifice, bad ones do. HP isnt in the shitter because 15,000 employees decided to slack off - management FUCKED UP. But they are in charge, so there is no way they're going to be held responsible.
A four month CEO is cutting R&D at a TECH company, firing IT workers, and hiring more managers - this is good?? I guess those 120 days on the job does give him the right to slash the pensions on engineers who have been their for 20+ years. After all, those idiots were trying to invent things to make the world better, when they should have been in business school....eck.
And I love this:
And they certainly won't celebrate the 150,000 people who still *do* have jobs created by the likes of HP.
Absolutely, and I'm sure if someone raped your daughter you wouldn't complain - you'd be celebrating that they didnt do it to your wife too!
I don't see how this is the case - had the US recently colonized 35% of land mass on earth - 500 million 'subjects'? Last I checked it was at 0% (not counting territories obviously.
I guess your argument is we have economic and militaristic influence over a similar amount of people, but that isnt the same.
I dont know if this is misplaced social commentary or what, but wouldnt the celebration of independence from the british empire be better represented by the rebel forces?
Plus, its not like our president is using mass fear against a faceless enemy to subvert the power of the senate and assume total control of our government, err...
I remember all sorts of cute graphics and flyers about root-fu (THE BICOASTAL HACKER COMPETITION - OOH!), then as far as I can tell it never even happened. Maybe this one will actually occur.
Someone give these pussies a hanky. I play video games because I like games. Not because I want to be part of some piece of shit movie. The whole reason I started playing games in the first place was to get away from this silver screen diarrhea. I think it's all summed up in one line: developers should be focused on franchises, not games. Yeah, I'm always like "man, I wish the developers focused a little less on this game, and a little more on 'the franchise'". These douchebags better keep working on polishing up their turds so that unsuspecting parents can continue to disappoint their children with licensed games.
Viral marketing fucking sucks. The only amazing feat here is the ability of these people to be even bigger liars than other marketing firms. How long until our memories are full of these corporate 'happenings'? Thanks for making the world a worse place, dickwads.
If you've already got a HDTV, you're all set. If not, the average price these days is around $1,000
But wait - don't have electricity? You're looking at $50-80$ A MONTH. And you cant just run these systems off mains - your gonna need a HOUSE to pipe that 'letric though, which can run anywhere from $80,000 to MILLIONS
Average Final Cost to "Get the Most" Out of Next-gen consoles: $2,654,789 (And this is with one controller!)
Management isnt going to act on ethics. We need an example - a company that has clearly benefited from switching, and not just "we saved a couple bucks because our IT nerd is running a linux box for something I never knew existed". We need to convince the millions of people who sell stuff for a living that something free is the best option. It's a culture war, and either we fight that or "we had a better product but..." If we want linux to take over the business world then we need business men to do some heavy lifting.
But why should we care? Is Linus doing this for world domination? Is anybody? I'm content with thriving community we have now, I play with it, and I'm lucky enough to work with it. Fuck the boardroom.
FINALLY! I cant remember how many times I've said to myself "this whole swiping thing fucking sucks - if only there was a way to swipe - but not actually touch the reader - I would be in heaven". And not only that but they made it insecure? Plz, where do I sign UP??
Slashdot Mirror
Man1: "I want to be the captain!"
Man2: "No, I'm the captain!"
(ship sinks)
This is the end result of a free market: nothing is off limits, everything has a price.
Market-based approaches to everything subvert democracy (obviously). Laws against pollution? Lets just charge expensive "pollution credits". Constitutional right to privacy? Let the market find an acceptable price to get around it.
This shit is like the matrix. There is no public square to communicate, only corporate owned venues - Verizon cells, AT&T telephones, AOL instant messenger, Google email, Comcast internet, MSN groups - it makes sense that they would govern themselves with business practices instead of Law.
Im not sure what the problem is here. When I was a kid I was stealing the games, I dont see how game ratings would have affected me back then. I dont worry about copy protection because everything I play is already cracked. So here I am playing free and unemcumbered games (music, movies, and tv shows too) while there are people walking the straight line and getting fucked for it.
One game I dont play - their's.The white collar black market my friends - kick back, relax, and enjoy!
We still have troops in Iraq? I thought we pulled them out when the war ended last year? You'd think the media would cover something like this if it was still going on..weird...
Isn't is odd that the only time something is described as having "a lot of life in it" is when its pretty apparent the thing is dying? Why not be a little more honest say something is "not as dead as it appears"?
And all because Mike Wynn has a nokia phone - I think this attempt at silencing him has gotten a little out of hand.
For most products, the brick and mortal business model is DEAD. E-commerce offers better variety, lower prices, and a chance for smaller e-tailers to compete. The overhead costs with running a b&m are rediculous, and you end up with higher prices, and paying people a slave wage.
In the case of the "switching the box" situation - this is NOT stealing.
You PAID for a product. You were the informed consumer, and they were the merchant. When you come back to the store you are SELLING them a product. If they decide it is cheaper to pay someone $7/hr that cannot tell the difference of their own products - then its their own damn fault. You cant have it both ways.
This is a battle between the consumers and retail corporations. They have a literal ARMY of people to deceive you, with PR, marketing, et cetera.
Forcing manufacturers to outsource production to China is unethical.
Destroying local economies is unethical.
Fighting unions is unethical.
Selling $20 printers to poor people, and when they go to get ink refills they find out they cost $40 (?!). THAT is unethical.
Sticking it back to these assholes? That's fighting for a noble cause.
I prefer no advertising.
If you want to argue semantics, then by your account the biological father could rape an adopted child, and thats ok.
The point here is that corporations don't give out jobs because they are nice people, they hire people. Now if someone gives you something and then takes it back, well thats a dick move.
If they promise you a pension and then take it back because they cant run a business for shit, well, that cant even be accounted for by witty speech. We are punishing people for working hard, and being loyal - this is disgusting and wrong.
Good business plans dont require sacrifice, bad ones do. HP isnt in the shitter because 15,000 employees decided to slack off - management FUCKED UP. But they are in charge, so there is no way they're going to be held responsible.
A four month CEO is cutting R&D at a TECH company, firing IT workers, and hiring more managers - this is good?? I guess those 120 days on the job does give him the right to slash the pensions on engineers who have been their for 20+ years. After all, those idiots were trying to invent things to make the world better, when they should have been in business school....eck.
And I love this:
And they certainly won't celebrate the 150,000 people who still *do* have jobs created by the likes of HP.
Absolutely, and I'm sure if someone raped your daughter you wouldn't complain - you'd be celebrating that they didnt do it to your wife too!
Apologist.
I can just imagine Steve Jobs announcing cold fusion during a Macworld keynote - the phrases, the graphs, oh my..
I don't see how this is the case - had the US recently colonized 35% of land mass on earth - 500 million 'subjects'? Last I checked it was at 0% (not counting territories obviously.
I guess your argument is we have economic and militaristic influence over a similar amount of people, but that isnt the same.
I dont know if this is misplaced social commentary or what, but wouldnt the celebration of independence from the british empire be better represented by the rebel forces?
Plus, its not like our president is using mass fear against a faceless enemy to subvert the power of the senate and assume total control of our government, err...
Advertising for Nerds. Stuff that sells.
(Requires QT 7.)
Yeah, or mplayer 1.0 apparently, on my p4 1.7ghz..
I remember all sorts of cute graphics and flyers about root-fu (THE BICOASTAL HACKER COMPETITION - OOH!), then as far as I can tell it never even happened. Maybe this one will actually occur.
Someone give these pussies a hanky. I play video games because I like games. Not because I want to be part of some piece of shit movie. The whole reason I started playing games in the first place was to get away from this silver screen diarrhea. I think it's all summed up in one line:
developers should be focused on franchises, not games.
Yeah, I'm always like "man, I wish the developers focused a little less on this game, and a little more on 'the franchise'". These douchebags better keep working on polishing up their turds so that unsuspecting parents can continue to disappoint their children with licensed games.
Viral marketing fucking sucks. The only amazing feat here is the ability of these people to be even bigger liars than other marketing firms. How long until our memories are full of these corporate 'happenings'? Thanks for making the world a worse place, dickwads.
If you've already got a HDTV, you're all set. If not, the average price these days is around $1,000
But wait - don't have electricity? You're looking at $50-80$ A MONTH. And you cant just run these systems off mains - your gonna need a HOUSE to pipe that 'letric though, which can run anywhere from $80,000 to MILLIONS
Average Final Cost to "Get the Most" Out of Next-gen consoles: $2,654,789 (And this is with one controller!)
Management isnt going to act on ethics. We need an example - a company that has clearly benefited from switching, and not just "we saved a couple bucks because our IT nerd is running a linux box for something I never knew existed". We need to convince the millions of people who sell stuff for a living that something free is the best option. It's a culture war, and either we fight that or "we had a better product but..." If we want linux to take over the business world then we need business men to do some heavy lifting.
But why should we care? Is Linus doing this for world domination? Is anybody? I'm content with thriving community we have now, I play with it, and I'm lucky enough to work with it. Fuck the boardroom.
Hell yeah, mod this mofucka UP!
atom and his package++
I think you were looking for "Ask A Slashdot Editor"
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FINALLY! I cant remember how many times I've said to myself "this whole swiping thing fucking sucks - if only there was a way to swipe - but not actually touch the reader - I would be in heaven". And not only that but they made it insecure? Plz, where do I sign UP??
Apparently there was no way to exploit the chinese to deliver dvds to hip americans!
Head - meet Wall
Repeat.