You're an idiot. Just because someone prays in your presence does not mean that they are forcing anything on you. It means that they are praying. I believe that we have freedom to practise religion.. be tolerant, and if you don't wanna pray, then don't. No one will think any the less of you, unless they are stupid brainwashed Christian fundamentalists. Those people need to be shot.:-) Ok, there goes my point. Seriously, you're just on the other end of the continuum from them.. just don't make it an issue.
High school. Oh, wow, what an experience. My district is in it's twelfth year of some stupid deseg lawsuit, and they cannot even hardly afford to school their students anymore. The tax rate in my city is incredible. In any case, fortunately for me, I am in the Academically Gifted program, and we do real, challenging work, as opposed to the shit that the normal classes in my school do (and my class time is not taken up with any disciplinary problems-- you're there because you wanna be). I like school because it gives me a chance to socialize, but too many of my classes are wastes (my electives). I've never really been physically abused or anything, but the underdeveloped cretons who go to my school are sooo obnoxious in the hallways, cafeteria, etc., and they can get in your face sometimes. The good thing about the Academy is that we're all a little weird (well, lotsa preppies too, but...), and all smart enough to accept all groups, so my geekhood is not a problem.
As to sex, I don't get enough; I'm a nice guy, and, besides, I don't like dirty white trash uneducated girls.
To the real point of this, I hate high school because of the grade game (even in the academy, it's not important if or what you actually 'learn'; it's important to get that 'a' by any means. So I'm a slacker. Anyway, my school district has of late cracked down on drinking pop and eating in classrooms, as if this is a problem (it never is, at least in my academy classes; we're at least that mature), as if to take their minds off the REAL and GIGANTIC problems this district is facing, ie, going bankrupt. The administrators are overpaid imbeciles, and the hall aides came from the bottom of some lost, forgotten barrel (they speak such heavy ebonics that no white person can understand them; they are racist, favouring the black kids, which gets me all the time. Once I got in trouble for AGREEING with one of them!!!) Well, the point is thqat life BETTER get better from now on, because while the actual dynamics of high school aren't that bad, elected schoolboard officials and administrators do their best to make life hard and act completely illogically (like making our computers COMPUTELY UNUSABLE by my C++ class because 'you could make bad programs with those compilers'. Give me a break.)
Well, that just seems a stopgap measure to me; binaries/dualities are becoming passé. We need something with, say, sixteen states (a hex computer) to do our computing. Wouldn't that be nice! There is just too much complexity and too many transistors in the semiconductor today. True, size is going down always (in accordance with Moore's Law), and the same with power consumption, but the next generation of supercomputers needs to work ot the principle that more than two states are available for use.
Where would we be without intellectual property?
I mean, to a point, we need a some incentive to do one's own work.
Think of the freeloader concept from your high school Economics class.
Anyway, I'm not gonna say anything not already hashed and rehashed here on/., so I'm just gonna say this:
Balance in all things.
But: I wonder who's gonna bitch about DivX-- MPAA has begun to embrace it. Don't we need somebody to create controversy and give the/. community something to complain about?:-) Anyway, just a half- serious comment.. no flames, please.
Um, who's the fag?? You are the one who has nothing to do besides try to piss people of fonline... looooser. I was having a discussion, and you WERE NOT part of it.
Next time you try out your sorry trolling skills, provide some kind of link to your 'SMTP server'. Not real, mind you, but something inflammatory.
Allright, I admit that I had not even heard of him until this evening... Mt reading habits lean toward The Revered John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, AC Clarke, Umberto Eco, Stephen King, John Grisham, and, of course, Tom Clancy. From what I DID read, though, his aversion to subtlety was, well, apparently jumping out. I really can empathize with him, but, he's going after the wrong people, and in the wrong way.
Are you serious that he wrote City on the Edge of Forever??? That was, and IS one of my favorite episodes... wow, maybe he's not ALL bad!:-p
And as an aside, maybe the Death Star is more subtle than you suggest: Obi-Wan thought it was a freakin' MOON for the longest time...:-)
Actually, any amount of money is neither a reasonable or unreasonable amount to charge... the point here is that a company can charge anything it wants, and a monopoly will do so without allowing its customers the choice of anything cheaper.
The (disputed) role of the US government is to break up the monopolies so as to protect the comsumer and keep our economy in a market system, instead of falling back on a feudal system with a few rich controlling everything.
Anyway, the other part of this is that it is one's right to fight a system that is percieved as unfair/unjust/whatever. That's the American way, after all; the only problem with this is that you've gotta have the support of authority in order to be successful with illegal/unethical tactics, hence, stealing and the Napster tizz.
The biggies have rights, also, but the question is where to draw the line and whether to make an exception to the idea of 'free market'.
End of rant.
}
~rant();
Wow, that rant was about the worst thing one could expect from a professional writer.
What happened to eloquence and subtlety?
What happened to NOT drowning out one's own point by using all caps??
What happened to having one's own lawyer review the contents of the release to assure effectiveness??
Maybe it's just me, but, not only do I NOT care too much about this, but this guy turned me off to his cause because of the crassness, arrogance, and assuming nature of his rant.
Some small timer was copying parts of his books and posting them on a NEWSGROUP? What's the big deal?? How much revenue did he really lose due to that?? Compare that to the cost of a lawyer, and you'll see my point.
Oh well, It's just as well...
My school also contracts the service of this company... Has anyone else noticed that the firewall INTERMITTENTLY blocks certain sites?? For instance,/. is on the blocked sites list, (public board, people can say what they want, etc blahblah) but I can get to it 70% of the time. Sometimes, I'll come to/., read the front, click to go into a content site (reading commentary, etc...) and be blocked. This may help you convince them to AT LEAST change providers of this kind of service... and maybe just have a tech guy put up his own firewall... it's a thought
Um, am I alone in the opinion (among die-hard Trekkies, of sourse) that that movie was really, I mean, REALLY bad anyway?? Flying through V'ger's cloud is about as exciting as the movie gets. Now don't get me wrong, I like most of the others, (especially IV), including the '67- '69 series, but, why remake a REALLY bad movie? That'd be like remaking Battlefield: Earth or Starship Troopers or something. Just my opinion.
Ah finally someone who relates to me... Hey, why did I get modded down for being a troll?? It's not MY fault is some coward posts shit in response to my post... Dang. That's irritating.
Um, has Katz reminded anyone here of George Orwell? 1984 was a good book, but Katz here has just re-written it as a modern reality-horror, kinda like on of those over-hyped Dateline exposes about bacteria being on phones and in cheese... Yes, I admit the problems with the beauracracy here, but it's not really that much of a plague to our society. (if it had, it would have been taken care of or prevented) And the bottom line is to protect yourself; don't just bitch here on/. When someone (Damn computer games beg you to register with them, and then ask you all kinds of personal shit...) asks for your SSN or home address, when it's not needed, just give them 127-0-0-1, or whatever. Action is the redeemer.
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Offtopic, but I feel compelled to say that Cowboy Bebop is some of the best anime I've seen in a very Long time.
See you, space cowboy!
You're an idiot. Just because someone prays in your presence does not mean that they are forcing anything on you. It means that they are praying. I believe that we have freedom to practise religion.. be tolerant, and if you don't wanna pray, then don't. No one will think any the less of you, unless they are stupid brainwashed Christian fundamentalists. Those people need to be shot. :-) Ok, there goes my point. Seriously, you're just on the other end of the continuum from them.. just don't make it an issue.
Don't the moderators recognize hard, bitter sarcastic irony when they read it?? Geez...
High school. Oh, wow, what an experience. My district is in it's twelfth year of some stupid deseg lawsuit, and they cannot even hardly afford to school their students anymore. The tax rate in my city is incredible. In any case, fortunately for me, I am in the Academically Gifted program, and we do real, challenging work, as opposed to the shit that the normal classes in my school do (and my class time is not taken up with any disciplinary problems-- you're there because you wanna be). I like school because it gives me a chance to socialize, but too many of my classes are wastes (my electives). I've never really been physically abused or anything, but the underdeveloped cretons who go to my school are sooo obnoxious in the hallways, cafeteria, etc., and they can get in your face sometimes. The good thing about the Academy is that we're all a little weird (well, lotsa preppies too, but...), and all smart enough to accept all groups, so my geekhood is not a problem.
As to sex, I don't get enough; I'm a nice guy, and, besides, I don't like dirty white trash uneducated girls.
To the real point of this, I hate high school because of the grade game (even in the academy, it's not important if or what you actually 'learn'; it's important to get that 'a' by any means. So I'm a slacker. Anyway, my school district has of late cracked down on drinking pop and eating in classrooms, as if this is a problem (it never is, at least in my academy classes; we're at least that mature), as if to take their minds off the REAL and GIGANTIC problems this district is facing, ie, going bankrupt. The administrators are overpaid imbeciles, and the hall aides came from the bottom of some lost, forgotten barrel (they speak such heavy ebonics that no white person can understand them; they are racist, favouring the black kids, which gets me all the time. Once I got in trouble for AGREEING with one of them!!!) Well, the point is thqat life BETTER get better from now on, because while the actual dynamics of high school aren't that bad, elected schoolboard officials and administrators do their best to make life hard and act completely illogically (like making our computers COMPUTELY UNUSABLE by my C++ class because 'you could make bad programs with those compilers'. Give me a break.)
Go get TweakUI; it has an option for that. Active window follows mouse pointer. Glad I could be of service.
Well, that just seems a stopgap measure to me; binaries/dualities are becoming passé. We need something with, say, sixteen states (a hex computer) to do our computing. Wouldn't that be nice! There is just too much complexity and too many transistors in the semiconductor today. True, size is going down always (in accordance with Moore's Law), and the same with power consumption, but the next generation of supercomputers needs to work ot the principle that more than two states are available for use.
I mean, to a point, we need a some incentive to do one's own work.
Think of the freeloader concept from your high school Economics class. /., so I'm just gonna say this:
/. community something to complain about? :-) Anyway, just a half- serious comment.. no flames, please.
Anyway, I'm not gonna say anything not already hashed and rehashed here on
Balance in all things.
But: I wonder who's gonna bitch about DivX-- MPAA has begun to embrace it. Don't we need somebody to create controversy and give the
Um, who's the fag??
You are the one who has nothing to do besides try to piss people of fonline... looooser. I was having a discussion, and you WERE NOT part of it.
Next time you try out your sorry trolling skills, provide some kind of link to your 'SMTP server'. Not real, mind you, but something inflammatory.
Thank you.
Allright, I admit that I had not even heard of him until this evening... Mt reading habits lean toward The Revered John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, AC Clarke, Umberto Eco, Stephen King, John Grisham, and, of course, Tom Clancy. From what I DID read, though, his aversion to subtlety was, well, apparently jumping out. I really can empathize with him, but, he's going after the wrong people, and in the wrong way.
:-p
:-)
Are you serious that he wrote City on the Edge of Forever??? That was, and IS one of my favorite episodes... wow, maybe he's not ALL bad!
And as an aside, maybe the Death Star is more subtle than you suggest: Obi-Wan thought it was a freakin' MOON for the longest time...
rant()
{
Actually, any amount of money is neither a reasonable or unreasonable amount to charge... the point here is that a company can charge anything it wants, and a monopoly will do so without allowing its customers the choice of anything cheaper.
The (disputed) role of the US government is to break up the monopolies so as to protect the comsumer and keep our economy in a market system, instead of falling back on a feudal system with a few rich controlling everything.
Anyway, the other part of this is that it is one's right to fight a system that is percieved as unfair/unjust/whatever. That's the American way, after all; the only problem with this is that you've gotta have the support of authority in order to be successful with illegal/unethical tactics, hence, stealing and the Napster tizz.
The biggies have rights, also, but the question is where to draw the line and whether to make an exception to the idea of 'free market'.
End of rant.
}
~rant();
Wow, that rant was about the worst thing one could expect from a professional writer.
What happened to eloquence and subtlety?
What happened to NOT drowning out one's own point by using all caps??
What happened to having one's own lawyer review the contents of the release to assure effectiveness??
Maybe it's just me, but, not only do I NOT care too much about this, but this guy turned me off to his cause because of the crassness, arrogance, and assuming nature of his rant.
Some small timer was copying parts of his books and posting them on a NEWSGROUP? What's the big deal?? How much revenue did he really lose due to that?? Compare that to the cost of a lawyer, and you'll see my point.
Oh well, It's just as well...
My school also contracts the service of this company... Has anyone else noticed that the firewall INTERMITTENTLY blocks certain sites?? For instance, /. is on the blocked sites list, (public board, people can say what they want, etc blahblah) but I can get to it 70% of the time. Sometimes, I'll come to /., read the front, click to go into a content site (reading commentary, etc...) and be blocked. This may help you convince them to AT LEAST change providers of this kind of service... and maybe just have a tech guy put up his own firewall... it's a thought
Um, am I alone in the opinion (among die-hard Trekkies, of sourse) that that movie was really, I mean, REALLY bad anyway?? Flying through V'ger's cloud is about as exciting as the movie gets. Now don't get me wrong, I like most of the others, (especially IV), including the '67- '69 series, but, why remake a REALLY bad movie? That'd be like remaking Battlefield: Earth or Starship Troopers or something. Just my opinion.
Ah finally someone who relates to me... Hey, why did I get modded down for being a troll?? It's not MY fault is some coward posts shit in response to my post... Dang. That's irritating.
Um, has Katz reminded anyone here of George Orwell? 1984 was a good book, but Katz here has just re-written it as a modern reality-horror, kinda like on of those over-hyped Dateline exposes about bacteria being on phones and in cheese... Yes, I admit the problems with the beauracracy here, but it's not really that much of a plague to our society. (if it had, it would have been taken care of or prevented) And the bottom line is to protect yourself; don't just bitch here on /. When someone (Damn computer games beg you to register with them, and then ask you all kinds of personal shit...) asks for your SSN or home address, when it's not needed, just give them 127-0-0-1, or whatever. Action is the redeemer.