You are delusional if you think there are enough people who are even AWARE of this new law AND pissed off enough to stop coming to the US. As a matter of course we constantly have more people coming into the US then we WANT. A pissed off Canadian or European here or there, one who is highly principled and pedantic btw, is not even a blip on the radar.
Is there some fundamental brain flaw that prevents slashdot geeks from understanding the obvious? That just because an advertisement claims "unlimited" access that you cannot download all the information compiled in the history of creation and expect the ISP to just sit there and do nothing?
The fact, and yes I know its a fact, that an advertisement says something is unlimited is not defensible in a court of law if the service is abused. One may ask how could a service by definition be "abused" if it is offered in an unlimited manner. Well thats where common sense comes in and courts generally do not like to allow smart ass consumers to take advantage of any company with slick, snide comments like "Well their ads said unlimited so I thought running a gNutella server that uses 120^4petabytes of data a day was perfectly acceptable! How was I supposed to know I'd get billed for ripping a hole in the time/space continuum? Geesh! Tell em to change their ads if they don't want this to happen!"
I believe a short several step program is in order.
1. Acknoweldge the dot.com era of plenty is over. 2. Grow the fuck up. 3. Obtain stable enough employment so that you are able to move out of your mother's house. 4. Begin reading sources of news that are not exclusively scientific or technological. 5. Cultivate a real world lifestyle that involves hanging out with people in physical person and doing things outside your domicile. 6. Try to prevent yourself from getting "the last word" on your next 10 conversations. Increase slowly from there to 15 conversations, all the way up to 100.
I would add another 6 steps but I am wise enough to know that others may have useful tips of their own to add. Please add your own helpful steps if you can and wish to.
Can I have some of your 500% Pure Genetically Enhanced Crack Cocaine?
WTF do you mean by "unconstitutional entity"??? An organization need not be in the US Constitution to be a legal and legitimate government organization.
Why was this modded up? Spiderman was an EXCELLENT movie and a great comic book to film adapatation on par with X-Men and clearly superior to recent Batman films, Daredevil and The Incredible Hulk.
You have to admit 8,000 people killed is a very small number for a WAR. This latest incursion into Iraq may very well be the most humane war we've ever fought. I understand you are upset at even 1 person getting killed but most people's thresholds aren't that low and 8,000 for a war is within most people's tolerances, especially considering the lingering residual anger over 3000 Americans dying on Sept. 11th.
Based on the numbers of high school seniors/college freshman who drink themselves to death via alcohol poisoning every year I'd say our drug policy with concerns to teens is wholly appropriate.
.....use a device they must inconvienently buy refil cartridges for instead of easily plugging it into the wall to recharge?
Or is the industry just ignoring that little question and is proceeding full steam ahead so the manufacturers can make a lot of money before people wake the fuck up?
First of all you are an AC so your comment hardly matters but here goes, there are plenty of people in the 18-21 age range who do not drink. I am one of them. So there goes your "bullshit."
Its all about drunk driving. You see you are allowed to get a drivers license at 16. If you were allowed to drive at 18 a lot of people would die. Since the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21, drunk driving deaths have dropped dramatically. And not enough people give a fuck about the drinking rights of some pissant 18 year old to tolerate the previous numbers of people dying every week, month and year from drunk driving accidents.
If you take a look at Europe they've come to the same conclusion only in reverse. You can drink younger than you can drive. Same results, fewer deaths.
Are you doing that annoying Mac zealot thing where you try to deny there's a signficintly higher amount of COMPUTER PROGRAMS available to run under Windows as compared to on ANY Mac OS?!?!?
How many hundreds of people do you think browse with an alternative browser? Simply by going thru the process of testing your website in Konq and Opera and other browsers you are WASTING YOUR TIME.
This is the single hardest thing to get thru alternative browser users heads is that a very small number of people use anything other than IE. I was kidding above about "hundreds" but its certainly only in the thousands. Not even a million people. So why should companies develop for anything other than IE? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
.....of a huge ass 160Mhz CPU? If its that slow it should be as small as embedded chips are.
It takes billions and billions of dollars just to build the fabs alone to have a successful consumer processor. Nevermind the salaries for all the engineers. What good is UCLinux?
Can anyone seriously point out some practical applications of this processor?
Not a very bright thing to do. Its going to be hard to get customers when they find out their cells don't work in your building. Same goes for employees.
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2. Have you ever ever really, really really ever, loved a slashdotter?
The post first have I.
Do you plan on committing a crime in the future? If not then what makes you think your privacy is so important to protect in the first place?
Sounds like someone still hasn't gotten used to the fact that the USA is the new Global Hegemon!
You are delusional if you think there are enough people who are even AWARE of this new law AND pissed off enough to stop coming to the US. As a matter of course we constantly have more people coming into the US then we WANT. A pissed off Canadian or European here or there, one who is highly principled and pedantic btw, is not even a blip on the radar.
How is my post a "troll"? Could a moderator with a spine grow enough of a pair to tell me this?
Is there some fundamental brain flaw that prevents slashdot geeks from understanding the obvious? That just because an advertisement claims "unlimited" access that you cannot download all the information compiled in the history of creation and expect the ISP to just sit there and do nothing?
The fact, and yes I know its a fact, that an advertisement says something is unlimited is not defensible in a court of law if the service is abused. One may ask how could a service by definition be "abused" if it is offered in an unlimited manner. Well thats where common sense comes in and courts generally do not like to allow smart ass consumers to take advantage of any company with slick, snide comments like "Well their ads said unlimited so I thought running a gNutella server that uses 120^4petabytes of data a day was perfectly acceptable! How was I supposed to know I'd get billed for ripping a hole in the time/space continuum? Geesh! Tell em to change their ads if they don't want this to happen!"
I believe a short several step program is in order.
1. Acknoweldge the dot.com era of plenty is over.
2. Grow the fuck up.
3. Obtain stable enough employment so that you are able to move out of your mother's house.
4. Begin reading sources of news that are not exclusively scientific or technological.
5. Cultivate a real world lifestyle that involves hanging out with people in physical person and doing things outside your domicile.
6. Try to prevent yourself from getting "the last word" on your next 10 conversations. Increase slowly from there to 15 conversations, all the way up to 100.
I would add another 6 steps but I am wise enough to know that others may have useful tips of their own to add. Please add your own helpful steps if you can and wish to.
Can I have some of your 500% Pure Genetically Enhanced Crack Cocaine?
WTF do you mean by "unconstitutional entity"??? An organization need not be in the US Constitution to be a legal and legitimate government organization.
Why was this modded up? Spiderman was an EXCELLENT movie and a great comic book to film adapatation on par with X-Men and clearly superior to recent Batman films, Daredevil and The Incredible Hulk.
You have to admit 8,000 people killed is a very small number for a WAR. This latest incursion into Iraq may very well be the most humane war we've ever fought. I understand you are upset at even 1 person getting killed but most people's thresholds aren't that low and 8,000 for a war is within most people's tolerances, especially considering the lingering residual anger over 3000 Americans dying on Sept. 11th.
Based on the numbers of high school seniors/college freshman who drink themselves to death via alcohol poisoning every year I'd say our drug policy with concerns to teens is wholly appropriate.
.....use a device they must inconvienently buy refil cartridges for instead of easily plugging it into the wall to recharge?
Or is the industry just ignoring that little question and is proceeding full steam ahead so the manufacturers can make a lot of money before people wake the fuck up?
First of all you are an AC so your comment hardly matters but here goes, there are plenty of people in the 18-21 age range who do not drink. I am one of them. So there goes your "bullshit."
Its all about drunk driving. You see you are allowed to get a drivers license at 16. If you were allowed to drive at 18 a lot of people would die. Since the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21, drunk driving deaths have dropped dramatically. And not enough people give a fuck about the drinking rights of some pissant 18 year old to tolerate the previous numbers of people dying every week, month and year from drunk driving accidents.
If you take a look at Europe they've come to the same conclusion only in reverse. You can drink younger than you can drive. Same results, fewer deaths.
So every little unix app is supposed to somehow make up for all of the larger programs Windows users have and Mac users don't?
Are you doing that annoying Mac zealot thing where you try to deny there's a signficintly higher amount of COMPUTER PROGRAMS available to run under Windows as compared to on ANY Mac OS?!?!?
Calculate the increased development costs for alternative browser compliance versus the cost of one iPod.
You haven't *quite* figured out how this open source thing works yet have you?
Here's a hint: You don't tell the developers what to work on and in return you get software for free!
YAY!!!
How many hundreds of people do you think browse with an alternative browser? Simply by going thru the process of testing your website in Konq and Opera and other browsers you are WASTING YOUR TIME.
This is the single hardest thing to get thru alternative browser users heads is that a very small number of people use anything other than IE. I was kidding above about "hundreds" but its certainly only in the thousands. Not even a million people. So why should companies develop for anything other than IE? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
How many hundreds of people do you think browse with an alternative browser?
They're not missing out on a huge number of people by developing only for IE.
Its good to see that our Anglo Subsidiary, New Zealand Corp is complying with the laws and regulations of its parent company, USCorp.
Do human beings who exist in such jurisdictions matter at all?
No they don't.
.....of a huge ass 160Mhz CPU? If its that slow it should be as small as embedded chips are.
It takes billions and billions of dollars just to build the fabs alone to have a successful consumer processor. Nevermind the salaries for all the engineers. What good is UCLinux?
Can anyone seriously point out some practical applications of this processor?
The high prices of property in the NY metro area seems to dispute your claim.
Not a very bright thing to do. Its going to be hard to get customers when they find out their cells don't work in your building. Same goes for employees.