" and that's why we hide ourselves on slashdot and in blogs. "
while mabye you can hide yourself, blogs are a public affair. They allow the world to see what exactly you are, and it allows you to say what needs to be said. Nothing about hiding.
Everyone who ever hopes to have any sort of public life these days almost needs to have a blog, politicians, artists, you name it, because that is the way for the world to get to know you and for artists and poleticians you *want* to be known. Everything I say on/. and elsewhere I have
a hard held belief that I have every right to say
even if it sometimes dissagrees with what
my local government feels I have a right to say;
in those cases it is the government and the backwards plutocrats who elected them who are wrong;
and it is my duty to oppose them.
for the record
Here at the University of Regina my roommate MachinationX had gotten a virus on his WinXP box (why didn't he have antivirus software?! he's an IT consultant!! but I digress) So our ISP (U of R computing services) not only disconnected him from the network, but refused to let him back on the network unless he agreed to give them his computer and let *them* run an antivirus scan on it, after which it would be returned. I happened to have some of my old backups on his machine at the time, but the point is that our ISP can not only watch your internet traffic(as they have been), but if you "get a virus" they can disconnect you and demand they have access to all your personal files at will.
I don't know about you but this summer 'cold beans' and rice and 'a roof over [my] head' sounds like a deal. Where's this job you're talking about and how do I it?
Should be happy that there is work for him to do.
If his employer would be put out of business by spam clogging their mail servers, perhaps they would need him around hrm? Spam is part of the business environment, if the business does not want to pay someone to help them navigate it, does the business deserve to stay in business?
The customers of the business on the other hand... . . .
youhavethewrongguy
mister. That and I'm not a homophobe. My *nix system is fine, I don't need a prettier looking one. Yes I know I'm just feeding a troll.
Not sure about institutions but me & my roommates have left our windows open through most of the winter. My room was about room-tempurature, and my roommate's room was about 40 degrees Celcius the whole winter, just from the heat of our computers alone. Now that we don't have the -60 degree celcius winter to cool our computers I've had to turn half my computers off just to keep from turning my room into a completely uninhabitable place.
The thugs *are* the government, in your scenario, and capitalism *is* people ripping other people off. At it's core.
businesses are not guaranteed a very good profit in the marketplace; they are only guaranteed profit at all if they act in a certain way, ie produce goods that are demanded during favourable market conditions. Some businesses will operate at a loss and eventually evaporate.
Any time the government intervenes in the form of propping up a business (in this case the thugs who sell the car stereos), competitor businesses will have as you have pointed out, less profit, so if anything making the market safe for businesses in fact makes market inefficiency through monopoly/oligopoly. Unless the whole point is to offset natural oligopoly/monopoly but in cases of natural oligopoly/monopoly usually the case can be made for economies of scale.
Then again if you consider the thugs or government to be part of the environment allready, a government propped up/thug shop will likely have its own version of the economies of scale, just not quite to the scale or nearing the scale of the business that dominates the market, and there's the entire 'thugs don't actually produce anything, they just steal' part that sort of suggests that the market will tend to go towards the non-thug business, or self-destruct. But either way you do have to compete with the thugs/government in the free market, don't you?
It is an interesting scenario, government and business.
Why is making something with a similar name to a common board game wrong? Shouldn't the market feature indestinguishable producers from all angles, in order to gain the most utility for all?
"The government is supposed to provide a fair and safe playing field for companies to do business on."
.
"safe in the sense of police keeping muggers and rapists in check." And rapists and muggers have what to do with businesses now? We aren't talking about safety for people, we're talking about some sort of life-support for companies that cannot survive in the open market. Are we not?
Don't blur your terms, it makes you look like an idiot.
You are correct, he does not have the moral highground in this case; he must make some sort of a compromise in regards to GPL violations.
however, using the terms 'stealing' is blurring the lines of argument in such a way to bias the argument towards your favour. Use reason, not deceipt, to forward your position, lest your position go unaccepted not due to it's falsity, but that you tried to push it forward in a way that is against rational discourse.
As to the rest of your post the industry did, in fact, steal from me, when they forced my government to put a tax on writable media.
And don't think that just because you may not live in my country that you're excempt from this; if they would seek to do it to me, they would do it to you. Money that should have stayed with me when I purchased data and backup CDs went to the CRIA, and so on.
Money is going from my pocket into ISP black-box surveillance systems to track down my packets, whether or not I pirate.
So many people try to portray themselves as battle-ridden freedom fighters leading a culture movement against some corporate-controlled society.
My roommate is closed to getting removed from his apartment for his activities. I am a *terrorist* by law and thus can go to jail or be exterminated without trial. If you don't think that the society is controlled by corporate interests, that's for you to conclude, but when the rest of us are risking life in prison or fines upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars for altruist motives, I'd say we qualify as taking part in some form of culture movement. Some of us are more violent then others, of course, and not everywhere is a battleground. Yet.
"It doesn't matter if the RIAA overprices products. That means you...gasp...don't buy them."
What if you are a capitalist, and believe that a free market is the most efficient and best way of organizing human affairs? Wouldn't you see the p2p nets as a market, where music is sold for the cost of connection time(ie practically nil?)?
If you think the RIAA overprices products, in that case you wouldn't buy those products from the RIAA, you'd get them from other sources. For some, this means buying from used cd stores and pawn shops. For others, this means creating you own music, and for others still, this means buying them from someone who offers it free(as in beer).
If you want to use any sort of capitalist argument against filesharing, be prepared to face the force of the market; which in this case is saying quite clearly that the price of music, when quality and corruption are not issues, is somewhere in the vicinity of 0.00$.
"Oh, I forgot, the actual human beings behind the music being taken never get mentioned in these discussions."
That's because it's actual human beings who partake in these discussions. The premis "there are real human beings involved" goes without saying. If you quit assuming that everyone is just some sort of a music consumer and start thinking that people generally are musicians but more importantly producers, the shade of argument tends to change; We as producers need to find a way to produce and distribute more effectively, and this way will inevidably utilize filesharing's methods in the future.
There is merely different layers of subconsious thought active. The rating system is one interpretation; one exposure to the output of the mind.
Are you telling me that your mind works in such a way that you've never held two opinions that conflict directly with eachother? Or that you've never held one opinion in consious thought, and one in subconsious(mabye you want to fuck your mother)? Or that you've never held two opinions in two different contexts that you never linked together that when linked together prove contradictory?
It is the process of reason that happens when two contradictory opinions are found; and when found one of the following happens
a) one is chosen over the other
b) a third opinion is brought in that legitimizes the split; perhaps for example quantum physics and einstein's relativity are not both true; but in the day to day experience the two along with newtonian physics are *good enough* most of the time.
c) one or both of the opinions are modified so they do not conflict
d) both ideas are dropped as absurd
etc
To an extent all of the above are happening and if you want to help slashdot you do not say that 'slashdot doesn't exist'(which is false), but rather attempt to make comprimise and legitemate debate. Or you could join the penisbird trolls, I suppose, which is really what chosing to ignore the slashdot hivemind amounts to. The ONLY way opinions change is that for at least a limited time two beleifs are held simultaneously, and that they vie competitively for mindshare. The fact that the "filesharing is ok" and "gpl is good" opinions are held simultaneously are indicators that there is uncertainty in the matter; while *I* may believe that the gpl is a Good Thing, and that filesharing is OK under certain circumstances(ie, works that were bootlegs, works that were never sold and can never be sold and never will be sold, and for educational purposes, and for a future means of distrobution of creative commons artists), does not mean that slashdot agrees with me. I am merely one small speck of the slashdot hivemind; my strongest words are but fickle ideas in it's imagination. Slashdot it seems is *undecided* on the matter for the time being, and awaiting a solution or something that will convince it either way whether to support or not support filesharers or the pro gpl/copyright crowd, if either is to be supported.
"The government is supposed to provide a fair and safe playing field for companies to do business on."
Where the hell did you get this from?? I've never heard of this before; did you think this up yourself? Is this some sort of an american tenet? I've never talked to anyone to my knowledge who feels that the government should do this before.
Throwing aside any accusations towards the organizations involved and looking purely at the people within them and the intentions of Mensa (if not the reality) there is a great irony.
MSN User #121402: OMfG!11!!onehundredeleven! im so hpy - C U L8r GurlZ!
The fact that the so called "Top 5% of the population" in terms of intelligence would want to be associated with that is delicious. The society that centres around the use of MSN consists mainly of 13 year olds who have just discovered that they can post blogs of their useless opinions and hopeless angst.
Anyhow, can't say they don't deserve eachother. I suppose I can see how Mensa might want to advertise with MSN though. I mean, they've got to perpetuate their member-base somehow. "Angst-ridden kids" is actually a step up from "pompus, elitist old men with no practical skills (but a knack for IQ tests)".
How come I can't get the fucking cheese out of this grater? The holes have been made too tiny and the cheese is too moist. It's like this cheesy mush that threads together in the center of the grating wheel (it's one of those circular graters with the arm you spin... That's how it's getting stuck... You know, in the middle part.)
I tried pushing it out with my index finger and caught myself on one of the edges... Normally this wouldn't be so bad, but I tried with a knife just before and actually caused the metal to tear creating a sharp edge (unknown to me just before sticking my finger in there.)
So I have my finger in this circular cheese grater and it's started to bleed... There's a little pool of blood forming right in the pocket of moist yellow cheese from where my finger compressed it. For some reason it still wouldn't come out, and now I was bleeding all over it. It was not a good situation. I abandon the knife and the finger ideas (the knife being too pointy and my finger being too soft and rippable) and attempt a spoon. Holy fuck, it worked!
So the cheese comes out in this strand-ey (due to the various strands being ripped asunder and re-united by the finger pushing) sort of bloody cylinder with a big dip on the top. I realize I've been biting my lip this whole time and I had this really intense look on my face. I shout a victory scream, and realize my girlfriend has been watching me this entire time.
Anyhow, I smiled at her and she shook her head and left the room... I figured it was for the best as the worst was yet to come. I took the cheese grater and threw it out of the kitchen in disgust... This is about the time when I decided this entire process would be made a lot easier with the aid of robots. No, it was time to begin from scratch, no grater was required. I'd build this fucker.
Right then and there I decided to try and build a mechanical cheese grater. I pulled out my robotics books from the cookbook cupboard (don't ask) and got my trusty parts box and tool kit. I began with a pretty simple little motor and got a converter to plug it into the wall. It's at this point that I had to head into the other room to get the grater I had originally disgarded. Anyhow, I get the grater and (through the magic of solder and a bit of duct tape) managed to attach the thing to the motor. I took my screwdriver and forced the holes to be a bit bigger (which would hopefully solve the problem of the bloody cheese cylinder.) I decided there needed to be some way to keep the pressure on the cheese so that it would be forced into tiny little holes (and RIPPED TO PIECES, FUCK YES. DIE YOU FUCKING CHEESE!!1!) Anyhow, to solve this problem I rigged up a bit of a spring and pulley system (attached to a second motor) onto the original lever and let 'er fly.
There was a lot of noise, and I think I've blocked the rest out of my memory (probably for the best, therapy can be expensive, but you don't need therapy for what you can't remember, ah-hah!) The next thing I know, I'm laying on the floor and there is cheese -EVERYWHERE- my girlfriend is picking me up and I have glass all over myself. Stupid bowl got caught by the motorized grater and shards of glass came out where the cheese was supposed to.
I was lucky, I lived, but let this be a lesson to all of you. Do -NOT- mess with motorized cheese graters. Or, if that's a bit too specific for you (and trust me, it does cover a wide range of dangers) don't tamper with cheese related products, it's for the best if you just back down.
There is no way to stress this enough. Plain cheese graters may cramp up your hand and strain your arm, they may even not work, but you CAN NOT REPLACE THEM WITH ROBOTS!
Oh great. Now we are seeing add the guy making a smartass comment about a "guy complaining about how overquoted pop culture references that have something to do with the topic getting an instant +5 funny" getting modded as insightful" getting ignored by mods. What's next? Will we see
the guy who makes a reference to the guy making a smartass comment about a "guy complaining about how overquoted pop culture references that have something to do with the topic getting an instant +5 funny" getting modded as insightful" getting +5 Insightful?! What is the world coming to?!
I tells ya what. I'm going to move out of campus in a few months; wherever I move, you agree to foot the bill for the biggest solar panels we can fit on whatever property I live on next, because by then I will have no money nor people left who will lend me money.
sounds good?
How is serving the public making "unfair use of the info?" The marketplace only is efficient if those who partake in it are properly informed; This means if there's a good idea, whether one company's employee's thought of it or another's company did, hiding it from the public actually makes the situation worse for everyone involved.
NDA's are vile and poisonous and must be resisted at all cost.
Slashdot Mirror
" and that's why we hide ourselves on slashdot and in blogs. "
/. and elsewhere I have
a hard held belief that I have every right to say
even if it sometimes dissagrees with what
my local government feels I have a right to say;
in those cases it is the government and the backwards plutocrats who elected them who are wrong;
and it is my duty to oppose them.
for the record
while mabye you can hide yourself, blogs are a public affair. They allow the world to see what exactly you are, and it allows you to say what needs to be said. Nothing about hiding. Everyone who ever hopes to have any sort of public life these days almost needs to have a blog, politicians, artists, you name it, because that is the way for the world to get to know you and for artists and poleticians you *want* to be known. Everything I say on
nah they'd probably charge you with plagarism
Here at the University of Regina my roommate MachinationX had gotten a virus on his WinXP box (why didn't he have antivirus software?! he's an IT consultant!! but I digress) So our ISP (U of R computing services) not only disconnected him from the network, but refused to let him back on the network unless he agreed to give them his computer and let *them* run an antivirus scan on it , after which it would be returned. I happened to have some of my old backups on his machine at the time, but the point is that our ISP can not only watch your internet traffic(as they have been), but if you "get a virus" they can disconnect you and demand they have access to all your personal files at will.
Blows my mind.
I don't know about you but this summer 'cold beans' and rice and 'a roof over [my] head' sounds like a deal. Where's this job you're talking about and how do I it?
Should be happy that there is work for him to do. If his employer would be put out of business by spam clogging their mail servers, perhaps they would need him around hrm? Spam is part of the business environment, if the business does not want to pay someone to help them navigate it, does the business deserve to stay in business?
The customers of the business on the other hand... . . .
you have the wrong guy mister. That and I'm not a homophobe. My *nix system is fine, I don't need a prettier looking one. Yes I know I'm just feeding a troll.
nt
and it would be emacs.
nothing more, nothing less.
Not sure about institutions but me & my roommates have left our windows open through most of the winter. My room was about room-tempurature, and my roommate's room was about 40 degrees Celcius the whole winter, just from the heat of our computers alone. Now that we don't have the -60 degree celcius winter to cool our computers I've had to turn half my computers off just to keep from turning my room into a completely uninhabitable place.
"Canada takes quite seriously the concept of making sure that suspects receive a fair trial."...unless you're a terrorist.
Just thought I'd throw that one in.
"I prefer to get my news from some organization without an axe to grind."
...And this news organiztion would be...?
The thugs *are* the government, in your scenario, and capitalism *is* people ripping other people off. At it's core. businesses are not guaranteed a very good profit in the marketplace; they are only guaranteed profit at all if they act in a certain way, ie produce goods that are demanded during favourable market conditions. Some businesses will operate at a loss and eventually evaporate.
Any time the government intervenes in the form of propping up a business (in this case the thugs who sell the car stereos), competitor businesses will have as you have pointed out, less profit, so if anything making the market safe for businesses in fact makes market inefficiency through monopoly/oligopoly. Unless the whole point is to offset natural oligopoly/monopoly but in cases of natural oligopoly/monopoly usually the case can be made for economies of scale.
Then again if you consider the thugs or government to be part of the environment allready, a government propped up/thug shop will likely have its own version of the economies of scale, just not quite to the scale or nearing the scale of the business that dominates the market, and there's the entire 'thugs don't actually produce anything, they just steal' part that sort of suggests that the market will tend to go towards the non-thug business, or self-destruct. But either way you do have to compete with the thugs/government in the free market, don't you?
It is an interesting scenario, government and business.
Why is making something with a similar name to a common board game wrong? Shouldn't the market feature indestinguishable producers from all angles, in order to gain the most utility for all?
"The government is supposed to provide a fair and safe playing field for companies to do business on."
.
"safe in the sense of police keeping muggers and rapists in check."
And rapists and muggers have what to do with businesses now? We aren't talking about safety for people, we're talking about some sort of life-support for companies that cannot survive in the open market. Are we not?
You are correct, he does not have the moral highground in this case; he must make some sort of a compromise in regards to GPL violations. however, using the terms 'stealing' is blurring the lines of argument in such a way to bias the argument towards your favour. Use reason, not deceipt, to forward your position, lest your position go unaccepted not due to it's falsity, but that you tried to push it forward in a way that is against rational discourse.
As to the rest of your post the industry did, in fact, steal from me, when they forced my government to put a tax on writable media. And don't think that just because you may not live in my country that you're excempt from this; if they would seek to do it to me, they would do it to you. Money that should have stayed with me when I purchased data and backup CDs went to the CRIA, and so on.
Money is going from my pocket into ISP black-box surveillance systems to track down my packets, whether or not I pirate.
So many people try to portray themselves as battle-ridden freedom fighters leading a culture movement against some corporate-controlled society.
My roommate is closed to getting removed from his apartment for his activities. I am a *terrorist* by law and thus can go to jail or be exterminated without trial. If you don't think that the society is controlled by corporate interests, that's for you to conclude, but when the rest of us are risking life in prison or fines upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars for altruist motives, I'd say we qualify as taking part in some form of culture movement. Some of us are more violent then others, of course, and not everywhere is a battleground. Yet.
"It doesn't matter if the RIAA overprices products. That means you...gasp...don't buy them."
What if you are a capitalist, and believe that a free market is the most efficient and best way of organizing human affairs? Wouldn't you see the p2p nets as a market, where music is sold for the cost of connection time(ie practically nil?)? If you think the RIAA overprices products, in that case you wouldn't buy those products from the RIAA, you'd get them from other sources. For some, this means buying from used cd stores and pawn shops. For others, this means creating you own music, and for others still, this means buying them from someone who offers it free(as in beer).
If you want to use any sort of capitalist argument against filesharing, be prepared to face the force of the market; which in this case is saying quite clearly that the price of music, when quality and corruption are not issues, is somewhere in the vicinity of 0.00$.
"Oh, I forgot, the actual human beings behind the music being taken never get mentioned in these discussions."
That's because it's actual human beings who partake in these discussions. The premis "there are real human beings involved" goes without saying. If you quit assuming that everyone is just some sort of a music consumer and start thinking that people generally are musicians but more importantly producers, the shade of argument tends to change; We as producers need to find a way to produce and distribute more effectively, and this way will inevidably utilize filesharing's methods in the future.
slashdot's hivemind is not a fallacy.
There is merely different layers of subconsious thought active. The rating system is one interpretation; one exposure to the output of the mind.
Are you telling me that your mind works in such a way that you've never held two opinions that conflict directly with eachother? Or that you've never held one opinion in consious thought, and one in subconsious(mabye you want to fuck your mother)? Or that you've never held two opinions in two different contexts that you never linked together that when linked together prove contradictory?
It is the process of reason that happens when two contradictory opinions are found; and when found one of the following happens
a) one is chosen over the other
b) a third opinion is brought in that legitimizes the split; perhaps for example quantum physics and einstein's relativity are not both true; but in the day to day experience the two along with newtonian physics are *good enough* most of the time.
c) one or both of the opinions are modified so they do not conflict
d) both ideas are dropped as absurd
etc
To an extent all of the above are happening and if you want to help slashdot you do not say that 'slashdot doesn't exist'(which is false), but rather attempt to make comprimise and legitemate debate. Or you could join the penisbird trolls, I suppose, which is really what chosing to ignore the slashdot hivemind amounts to. The ONLY way opinions change is that for at least a limited time two beleifs are held simultaneously, and that they vie competitively for mindshare. The fact that the "filesharing is ok" and "gpl is good" opinions are held simultaneously are indicators that there is uncertainty in the matter; while *I* may believe that the gpl is a Good Thing, and that filesharing is OK under certain circumstances(ie, works that were bootlegs, works that were never sold and can never be sold and never will be sold, and for educational purposes, and for a future means of distrobution of creative commons artists), does not mean that slashdot agrees with me. I am merely one small speck of the slashdot hivemind; my strongest words are but fickle ideas in it's imagination. Slashdot it seems is *undecided* on the matter for the time being, and awaiting a solution or something that will convince it either way whether to support or not support filesharers or the pro gpl/copyright crowd, if either is to be supported.
"The government is supposed to provide a fair and safe playing field for companies to do business on."
Where the hell did you get this from?? I've never heard of this before; did you think this up yourself? Is this some sort of an american tenet? I've never talked to anyone to my knowledge who feels that the government should do this before.
Throwing aside any accusations towards the organizations involved and looking purely at the people within them and the intentions of Mensa (if not the reality) there is a great irony. MSN User #121402: OMfG!11!!onehundredeleven! im so hpy - C U L8r GurlZ! The fact that the so called "Top 5% of the population" in terms of intelligence would want to be associated with that is delicious. The society that centres around the use of MSN consists mainly of 13 year olds who have just discovered that they can post blogs of their useless opinions and hopeless angst. Anyhow, can't say they don't deserve eachother. I suppose I can see how Mensa might want to advertise with MSN though. I mean, they've got to perpetuate their member-base somehow. "Angst-ridden kids" is actually a step up from "pompus, elitist old men with no practical skills (but a knack for IQ tests)".
How come I can't get the fucking cheese out of this grater? The holes have been made too tiny and the cheese is too moist. It's like this cheesy mush that threads together in the center of the grating wheel (it's one of those circular graters with the arm you spin... That's how it's getting stuck... You know, in the middle part.) I tried pushing it out with my index finger and caught myself on one of the edges... Normally this wouldn't be so bad, but I tried with a knife just before and actually caused the metal to tear creating a sharp edge (unknown to me just before sticking my finger in there.) So I have my finger in this circular cheese grater and it's started to bleed... There's a little pool of blood forming right in the pocket of moist yellow cheese from where my finger compressed it. For some reason it still wouldn't come out, and now I was bleeding all over it. It was not a good situation. I abandon the knife and the finger ideas (the knife being too pointy and my finger being too soft and rippable) and attempt a spoon. Holy fuck, it worked! So the cheese comes out in this strand-ey (due to the various strands being ripped asunder and re-united by the finger pushing) sort of bloody cylinder with a big dip on the top. I realize I've been biting my lip this whole time and I had this really intense look on my face. I shout a victory scream, and realize my girlfriend has been watching me this entire time. Anyhow, I smiled at her and she shook her head and left the room... I figured it was for the best as the worst was yet to come. I took the cheese grater and threw it out of the kitchen in disgust... This is about the time when I decided this entire process would be made a lot easier with the aid of robots. No, it was time to begin from scratch, no grater was required. I'd build this fucker. Right then and there I decided to try and build a mechanical cheese grater. I pulled out my robotics books from the cookbook cupboard (don't ask) and got my trusty parts box and tool kit. I began with a pretty simple little motor and got a converter to plug it into the wall. It's at this point that I had to head into the other room to get the grater I had originally disgarded. Anyhow, I get the grater and (through the magic of solder and a bit of duct tape) managed to attach the thing to the motor. I took my screwdriver and forced the holes to be a bit bigger (which would hopefully solve the problem of the bloody cheese cylinder.) I decided there needed to be some way to keep the pressure on the cheese so that it would be forced into tiny little holes (and RIPPED TO PIECES, FUCK YES. DIE YOU FUCKING CHEESE!!1!) Anyhow, to solve this problem I rigged up a bit of a spring and pulley system (attached to a second motor) onto the original lever and let 'er fly. There was a lot of noise, and I think I've blocked the rest out of my memory (probably for the best, therapy can be expensive, but you don't need therapy for what you can't remember, ah-hah!) The next thing I know, I'm laying on the floor and there is cheese -EVERYWHERE- my girlfriend is picking me up and I have glass all over myself. Stupid bowl got caught by the motorized grater and shards of glass came out where the cheese was supposed to. I was lucky, I lived, but let this be a lesson to all of you. Do -NOT- mess with motorized cheese graters. Or, if that's a bit too specific for you (and trust me, it does cover a wide range of dangers) don't tamper with cheese related products, it's for the best if you just back down. There is no way to stress this enough. Plain cheese graters may cramp up your hand and strain your arm, they may even not work, but you CAN NOT REPLACE THEM WITH ROBOTS!
by schnits0r (633893) ... on 23:52 17th March, 2005
... on 0:00 18th March, 2005
by Bruce Perens (3872)
you missed by 8 minutes.
Oh great. Now we are seeing add the guy making a smartass comment about a "guy complaining about how overquoted pop culture references that have something to do with the topic getting an instant +5 funny" getting modded as insightful" getting ignored by mods. What's next? Will we see the guy who makes a reference to the guy making a smartass comment about a "guy complaining about how overquoted pop culture references that have something to do with the topic getting an instant +5 funny" getting modded as insightful" getting +5 Insightful?! What is the world coming to?!
All I can say is Duh.
pay attention, mods
They are too busy watching television and working, it seems.
Personally I'm not single because I don't show confidence or interest
I'm single because I'm poor*. What's the point of falling in love when you cannot afford to feed yourself, nevermind a loved one or children?
I tells ya what. I'm going to move out of campus in a few months; wherever I move, you agree to foot the bill for the biggest solar panels we can fit on whatever property I live on next, because by then I will have no money nor people left who will lend me money.
sounds good?
How is serving the public making "unfair use of the info?" The marketplace only is efficient if those who partake in it are properly informed; This means if there's a good idea, whether one company's employee's thought of it or another's company did, hiding it from the public actually makes the situation worse for everyone involved.
NDA's are vile and poisonous and must be resisted at all cost.