Though it may be fucked up - the world is a fucked up place. For so long we've lived in our U.S. bubble and were free from the sort of garbage that happens all over the rest of the world. Sure it's not been on the scale of the world trade center, but terrorism is a way of life for a lot of nations.
I think the "coward" has a good point in that force of that magnitude could possibly stop a war right now. However, we would not be able to take out the proper targets at this time. We cannot just turn Afghanistan to glass and be done with it. While it would possibly be theoretically possible to wipe out many nations in that fashion, we wouldn't eliminate all of the dangers. That would only spur the ones left on to doing as much damage as possible. We know that people who don't care if they live or die can do immense damage.
With all that said, I think it's pretty ridiculous to call someone who sees reality a sick bastard. I commend you on your utter devotion to living in a bubble where good trumphs over evil and good people are never injured, but that bubble should have broken on the 11th. That's not always how the world works.
Honestly, the people we have to take out aren't nice. If bin Laden made himself a suit of live crying babies to hide behind (these jackasses love to hide behind generally innocent people), a few babies may die but we'd have to take him out. To do anything else would be to condemn even more later to death. THAT, my friend, is the actual issue at hand. To do anything else would be sicker and more bastardly than anything I can imagine. I see no excuse for nearsighted stupidity.
Sure, I hate microsoft as much as the next competent user of a computer, but there REALLY are a lot of people who actually love microsoft.
Even if only half of the people who do use windows like it, the other half surely couldn't ALL be able to run linux/bsd/whatever/who cares anyhow, so they're stuck.
We're forgetting that the majority of people don't understand WHY windows is a third rate OS. There are people who post on this site that don't understand this.
I don't think that any fraud has been committed. Most people are morons, only a moron would be a part of one of these mail-a-politician campaigns, so I'm expecting that they'd send these letters themselves.
How else would you expect M$ to stay in business? It's not one maroon supporting them. It's a nation full of them.
Given the specific hoops that the user would have to jump through to prove that they posessed the cd, they should be clear on the fact that it is for them only, or possibly people who also can show such proof of ownership.
However, lawyers are good at making the idiotic seem reasonable to idiots.
You completely misunderstand the reasoning behind discounting religious beliefs.
In religion, concepts are laid down as truth. When reality comes to blows with this 'truth,' the preiest or whoever it is instructs people to ignore it.
In science, ideas are respected until disproven, and the job of reconciling data and theory is never-ending.
Well at least there's less weight for Atlas to keep on his shoulders, made his job a little easier.
And by the way, did he die by sailing off the end of the world? Or was it by flying into a mountain at 30,000 miles per hour when the earth stopped rotating... oops.. I mean the sun stopping in the sky... yeah that's the ticket.
Damn you must play some high limit poker. Anything below 30/60 and half the table thinks that a gutshot is a great hand - they'll be re-raising you, at least in vegas.
Would it have been funny if he mistook him for Robert Jordan? The same joke would have applied.
At least something of L. Ron's proof of the concept that a lot of people are complete idiots and will pay for just about anything could have been said.
The fact that most of those imbeciles are in the entertainment industry was already an axiom.
Of course there are many ignorant posts. I've learned to respect people on a post-by-post basis. One day I read an informed opinion, and the next I see the same person talking out of their ass.
The same would go for a post by a *real* lawyer. I wouldn't accept it until I researched it myself anyhow.
Just don't do ANYTHING at all, and then you reduce your chances of being arrested for anything. Whether your action is illegal or not, your guilt will be decided by 12 ignorant buffoons anyhow.
Basically, ignorant postings are a great way to figure out if you'll end up in jail for something or not.
I'd like to request that people stop making ignorant technical postings, instead.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have well-supported hardware. Say the only drivers for your devices crash periodically. I'd rather have a flaky NIC than none at all.
The drivers for my sound card suck, but sometimes I don't care if it's going to crash.
Some people think that this is a way to have customer satisfaction - not let them run things that crash their box. I'm in another camp... I want to have the option to run buggy software.
Whether M$ is evil or not, I would never install XP for this very reason.
As for data being sent automatically... I trust Microsoft as much as I trust the IRS.
You're absolutely right. But like you say about the Pentium Pro - It SUCKED when it came out.
The Pentium 4 is an inferior chip right now, so it's a poor purchase choice, again, now - and for more reasons than are made evident in this comparison.
Better analogy: You double click on a Word file. It fails, because Microsoft can't build a halfway decent OS - it has NOTHING to do with an incorrect branch prediction.
Wrong branch taken: the correct instruction is fed into the pipeline a tiny fraction of a second later and you're set.
Just because a kid understands game theory doesn't mean that it isn't fun for them. I'm highly annoyed at those who think that understanding something can EVER ruin it.
I'm sure that every astronomer is FAR more appreciative of the beauty of a night's sky than someone who thinks that the "Big Dipper" is actually something in itself.
I've usually found that removing the magic from a subject does nothing but make it more enjoyable.
Not realizing that Windows Media is hardly cross-platform just shows ignorance. Not being skeptical of a product based on the track record of the company putting it out shows ignorance.
What a bad kid!!! Breaking into a system and then TELLING THEM ABOUT IT! And last year, looking at naked girls online! That kid should be executed. I hear that Adolf Hitler liked naked girls.
I truly do hate people who punish others solely for doing what they cannot.
If there was harm done, or he was actually doing more than just breaking in in response to a challenge... then fine. Suspend him.
150 years from now they'll be looking back on incidents like this as we do upon the Salem witch trials.
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Though it may be fucked up - the world is a fucked up place. For so long we've lived in our U.S. bubble and were free from the sort of garbage that happens all over the rest of the world. Sure it's not been on the scale of the world trade center, but terrorism is a way of life for a lot of nations.
I think the "coward" has a good point in that force of that magnitude could possibly stop a war right now. However, we would not be able to take out the proper targets at this time. We cannot just turn Afghanistan to glass and be done with it. While it would possibly be theoretically possible to wipe out many nations in that fashion, we wouldn't eliminate all of the dangers. That would only spur the ones left on to doing as much damage as possible. We know that people who don't care if they live or die can do immense damage.
With all that said, I think it's pretty ridiculous to call someone who sees reality a sick bastard. I commend you on your utter devotion to living in a bubble where good trumphs over evil and good people are never injured, but that bubble should have broken on the 11th. That's not always how the world works.
Honestly, the people we have to take out aren't nice. If bin Laden made himself a suit of live crying babies to hide behind (these jackasses love to hide behind generally innocent people), a few babies may die but we'd have to take him out. To do anything else would be to condemn even more later to death. THAT, my friend, is the actual issue at hand. To do anything else would be sicker and more bastardly than anything I can imagine. I see no excuse for nearsighted stupidity.
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Sure, I hate microsoft as much as the next competent user of a computer, but there REALLY are a lot of people who actually love microsoft.
Even if only half of the people who do use windows like it, the other half surely couldn't ALL be able to run linux/bsd/whatever/who cares anyhow, so they're stuck.
We're forgetting that the majority of people don't understand WHY windows is a third rate OS. There are people who post on this site that don't understand this.
I don't think that any fraud has been committed. Most people are morons, only a moron would be a part of one of these mail-a-politician campaigns, so I'm expecting that they'd send these letters themselves.
How else would you expect M$ to stay in business? It's not one maroon supporting them. It's a nation full of them.
Given the specific hoops that the user would have to jump through to prove that they posessed the cd, they should be clear on the fact that it is for them only, or possibly people who also can show such proof of ownership.
However, lawyers are good at making the idiotic seem reasonable to idiots.
Who seeded the creator?
You completely misunderstand the reasoning behind discounting religious beliefs.
In religion, concepts are laid down as truth. When reality comes to blows with this 'truth,' the preiest or whoever it is instructs people to ignore it.
In science, ideas are respected until disproven, and the job of reconciling data and theory is never-ending.
Whoever said that we know all there is to know?
Well at least there's less weight for Atlas to keep on his shoulders, made his job a little easier.
And by the way, did he die by sailing off the end of the world? Or was it by flying into a mountain at 30,000 miles per hour when the earth stopped rotating... oops.. I mean the sun stopping in the sky... yeah that's the ticket.
Shame on you.
Damn you must play some high limit poker. Anything below 30/60 and half the table thinks that a gutshot is a great hand - they'll be re-raising you, at least in vegas.
Would it have been funny if he mistook him for Robert Jordan? The same joke would have applied.
At least something of L. Ron's proof of the concept that a lot of people are complete idiots and will pay for just about anything could have been said.
The fact that most of those imbeciles are in the entertainment industry was already an axiom.
Of course there are many ignorant posts. I've learned to respect people on a post-by-post basis. One day I read an informed opinion, and the next I see the same person talking out of their ass.
The same would go for a post by a *real* lawyer. I wouldn't accept it until I researched it myself anyhow.
Just don't do ANYTHING at all, and then you reduce your chances of being arrested for anything. Whether your action is illegal or not, your guilt will be decided by 12 ignorant buffoons anyhow.
Basically, ignorant postings are a great way to figure out if you'll end up in jail for something or not.
I'd like to request that people stop making ignorant technical postings, instead.
~D
Not everyone is lucky enough to have well-supported hardware. Say the only drivers for your devices crash periodically. I'd rather have a flaky NIC than none at all.
The drivers for my sound card suck, but sometimes I don't care if it's going to crash.
Some people think that this is a way to have customer satisfaction - not let them run things that crash their box. I'm in another camp... I want to have the option to run buggy software.
Whether M$ is evil or not, I would never install XP for this very reason.
As for data being sent automatically... I trust Microsoft as much as I trust the IRS.
You're absolutely right. But like you say about the Pentium Pro - It SUCKED when it came out.
The Pentium 4 is an inferior chip right now, so it's a poor purchase choice, again, now - and for more reasons than are made evident in this comparison.
HOW did THIS get mod'ed up???
Shame on both of you.
Better analogy: You double click on a Word file. It fails, because Microsoft can't build a halfway decent OS - it has NOTHING to do with an incorrect branch prediction.
Wrong branch taken: the correct instruction is fed into the pipeline a tiny fraction of a second later and you're set.
I recommend any book on processor architecture.
Just because a kid understands game theory doesn't mean that it isn't fun for them. I'm highly annoyed at those who think that understanding something can EVER ruin it.
I'm sure that every astronomer is FAR more appreciative of the beauty of a night's sky than someone who thinks that the "Big Dipper" is actually something in itself.
I've usually found that removing the magic from a subject does nothing but make it more enjoyable.
Maybe I'm just different.
Not realizing that Windows Media is hardly cross-platform just shows ignorance. Not being skeptical of a product based on the track record of the company putting it out shows ignorance.
What a bad kid!!! Breaking into a system and then TELLING THEM ABOUT IT! And last year, looking at naked girls online! That kid should be executed. I hear that Adolf Hitler liked naked girls.
I truly do hate people who punish others solely for doing what they cannot.
If there was harm done, or he was actually doing more than just breaking in in response to a challenge... then fine. Suspend him.
150 years from now they'll be looking back on incidents like this as we do upon the Salem witch trials.