I won't comment on the EFF, but a year or more ago I had thought that it would be the EPIC in the more prominent position that EFF is today. I really don't know much about the EFF's history, while I know that EPIC is responsible for Privacy.org, and has worked closely with the ACLU. Actually, I think a lot more could be accomplished if the EFF and EPIC were to become one. Or at least, work together alongside the ACLU. They seem to have the same priorities.
Post-9/11 it seems fairly evident that most people take their rights completely for granted. I'm willing to bet that they care a lot more about drinking.
What if this sort of telescope technology becomes commonplace, and someone uses it to shoot laserpointers at alien worlds? They would be so annoyed that they would hate us forever. We would be doomed.
It's depressing to think that we can see so far, and will be seeing even further soon enough, while travel is still such an impossible thought. I'm no expert, but I'm sure someone here can tell you that it'd take a group of human explorers 50 generations on a spaceship to reach some of the places we can see. Point being, is the future a place where all sorts of alien worlds (including ours) will be staring at eachother through a telescope with no way of meeting?
Maybe that's for the best though, cause it'd give us a chance to maybe get to know eachother and avoid the possible interplanetary war that might result if we were to just plop down onto someone else's homeworld. Why am I speculating about this as if it were even remotely possible yet? Good question, me. I think I should stop typing now.
In the interest of fairness (and not getting flamed), maybe something's changed about Andromeda since the time I first watched it, when it had just started it's first season. I guess they coulda sprayed the cast with a 'smarty-beam' or something.
As far as I'm concerned, no one can argue with the fact that, at the very least, Enterprise is well-acted. I personally like it. But 'Andromeda'!? That is the most idiotic show I've ever seen. I liked Deep Space Nine, and I only now realized that someone from it is writing for Andromeda; he must've suffered massive head injuries. The entire cast looks like they were ripped out of a Gap commercial to play in this 'trendy, fashionable, sci-fi show'. Kevin Sorbo is a joke. The only sci-fi show he should be in should be one where he makes fun of himself constantly as a comedic, egomaniacal captain. And the acting all around is just horrible. If the requirements for becoming an astronaut included starring in Calvin Klein underwear ads it might be a tiny bit easier to suspend disbelief and watch an entire episode. Blech.
And another thing, I was raised in Frankfort, KY where a lot more than 6,000 people died to give me what freedom I have left. So I hope you can understand my anger. How many bloody revolutionary wars are you willing to have before you just let one goddamn country be free? I know it's not safe. Fucking DUH. I mean seriously, what about those of us who want to be left alone with our 'perilous' freedom? Do we one-up the founding fathers, and colonate the moon to claim independence? And when the moon gives in to big-brotherism, where do we go then? Our democracy is in bad enough shape as it is, leave it the hell alone. To anyone who believes things like this are the solution; you're not the countries' mommy or daddy. We don't need your protection. And any "Americans" who disagree should get the hell out and move to a country that already fits their 'security' needs. Please don't shape this one place of real freedom into another group of Government-protected citizens.
By it's very NATURE. It infuriates me to see things like this, and to see a good two-thirds of the country supporting the idea of a national ID card. You know what, I can't fucking stand it. You whining little pansies need to MOVE TO LONDON where there's a camera on every street if you like the idea of information being restricted for 'our safety'. America might be the only truely free country, with a bill of rights to back it up. People who want to live in a society that treats it's citizens this way have more places to choose from than I care to count. So excuse my attitude, but FUCK OFF.
Well, duh. If I complained about every unfunny joke I've made that's not been modded up I would..........uhhh, be doing a lot of complaining. My pitiful reaction was a result of being modded down as a troll for an unfunny joke.
I read somewhere a long time ago that mining asteroids would eventually reap such huge quantities of resources that poverty and perhaps even money itself would become a thing of the past. Obviously I'm short on details, but like I said it's been a long time and I don't remember where I saw the story. I'm just wondering whether anyone here knows how that would be possible. I'm still hoping for a Star-Trek-ish economy to come along in my lifetime. Meaning the labor-work no one wants would be done by machines, other jobs would be done by people who enjoy doing them for their own benefit, and the only purpose in life is self-improvement and happiness. A slacker's paradise.
I should mention that I'm running Win98. I forget which P2P programs have Linux versions and which don't. Hell I'm not even sure if spyware works on Linux, but if it does then I'm just clarifying. If it doesn't; that'd make a nice sales pitch for Linux advocates.
I see people saying try Kazaa instead, but on my system it was Kazaa that installed Cydoor. When I used Ad-aware to remove Cydoor, Kazaa refused to run and told me I had removed files it needed and should reinstall.
I'm sure someone has pointed this out before, but it's ironic that the only thing I've lost by Napster's death is the ability to find really obscure music from nobody's who would never be heard if not for the internet. The popular mainstream stuff is always the first thing that's available on Alternative P2P 'networks'. The only thing the RIAA lawsuits accomplished was to extend the lifespan of the obsolete services they and their members provide: publicity, advertisment, and distribution, in an internet-ready world where any musician can gain enormous popularity and distribute to millions of people at the blink of an eye, all because they have the talent to make something people want. Is that not the height of greed and anti-competitive behavior?
Anyway, like I said that's no big revelation to most people, but it bears repeating.
Time Warner Cable caps all Road Runner users' speeds to 'maintain quality service' or whatever it was the guy told me the week they started doing it in my area. It must've been a year or more ago; I had been getting speeds over 1mbps (I think that's right? Over 1000 KB/sec, anyway) and they dropped to pretty much nothing over 300 KB/sec.
Since these are more prominent than smaller stars maybe I'll be able to make out a blurry glimpse of them as they streak across the smog clouds above the city!
It's understandable that some people can't take a joke, but either accept it or reject it. I submit a lot of stories with stupid remarks, and that's probably why I have so many rejects. I would also guess that at least 1 out of 10 of them are almost as stupid as remarks some of the editors make after a quoted submission. I made a joke, big deal. But for the record, I'll add a note to my submission saying that you can edit out parts if I feel like getting the story out to people is more important than my brilliantly humorous opinion. I didn't do that, and I didn't get an email asking if I would allow that to get the story posted. So I fart in your general direction.
Oh please. I would love to see some of the people who complain about bias explain to me how you can run a site where the content is generated by the readers without opinions showing up. That comment was made (by me), and I have opinions just like all the other readers. Why not complain that Slashdot doesn't filter out biased comments under the story itself? It would make as much sense. I find it hard to understand how people get their panties in a bunch even when it's an editor making an opinionated comment after the story. Are we all so stupid that we need opinions to be labelled for us? It's a different story when an opinion is being presented as fact, but if you can point out that kind of blatant lie by an editor, then I'll give you a cookie. Meanwhile you're just schmucks, nitpicking your own personally generated content for being personal; while I'm sure you're likely to get your nightly news from MSNBC, or CNN, where you can't bitch and complain about bias because the professional bullshitters don't bother to state their predispositions; they just decide what you can and can't see.
This is also a great opportunity for Microsoft to do some more astroturfing. It's kind of disappointing that we aren't collectively taking this opportunity to march in a protest right up to the DoJ. Until MS can build some lifelike androids to stage a support rally, that's one of the strongest messages we could send. I guess it's understandable though, since this isn't exactly as confrontational or unexpected as something like Dimitry's arrest.
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I won't comment on the EFF, but a year or more ago I had thought that it would be the EPIC in the more prominent position that EFF is today. I really don't know much about the EFF's history, while I know that EPIC is responsible for Privacy.org, and has worked closely with the ACLU. Actually, I think a lot more could be accomplished if the EFF and EPIC were to become one. Or at least, work together alongside the ACLU. They seem to have the same priorities.
Post-9/11 it seems fairly evident that most people take their rights completely for granted. I'm willing to bet that they care a lot more about drinking.
What if this sort of telescope technology becomes commonplace, and someone uses it to shoot laserpointers at alien worlds? They would be so annoyed that they would hate us forever. We would be doomed.
It's depressing to think that we can see so far, and will be seeing even further soon enough, while travel is still such an impossible thought. I'm no expert, but I'm sure someone here can tell you that it'd take a group of human explorers 50 generations on a spaceship to reach some of the places we can see. Point being, is the future a place where all sorts of alien worlds (including ours) will be staring at eachother through a telescope with no way of meeting?
Maybe that's for the best though, cause it'd give us a chance to maybe get to know eachother and avoid the possible interplanetary war that might result if we were to just plop down onto someone else's homeworld. Why am I speculating about this as if it were even remotely possible yet? Good question, me. I think I should stop typing now.
In the interest of fairness (and not getting flamed), maybe something's changed about Andromeda since the time I first watched it, when it had just started it's first season. I guess they coulda sprayed the cast with a 'smarty-beam' or something.
As far as I'm concerned, no one can argue with the fact that, at the very least, Enterprise is well-acted. I personally like it. But 'Andromeda'!? That is the most idiotic show I've ever seen. I liked Deep Space Nine, and I only now realized that someone from it is writing for Andromeda; he must've suffered massive head injuries. The entire cast looks like they were ripped out of a Gap commercial to play in this 'trendy, fashionable, sci-fi show'. Kevin Sorbo is a joke. The only sci-fi show he should be in should be one where he makes fun of himself constantly as a comedic, egomaniacal captain. And the acting all around is just horrible. If the requirements for becoming an astronaut included starring in Calvin Klein underwear ads it might be a tiny bit easier to suspend disbelief and watch an entire episode. Blech.
You can use Causenet at CommonCause.org to e-mail/fax/snail-mail your representatives about anything you like.
Is that a record?
And another thing, I was raised in Frankfort, KY where a lot more than 6,000 people died to give me what freedom I have left. So I hope you can understand my anger. How many bloody revolutionary wars are you willing to have before you just let one goddamn country be free? I know it's not safe. Fucking DUH. I mean seriously, what about those of us who want to be left alone with our 'perilous' freedom? Do we one-up the founding fathers, and colonate the moon to claim independence? And when the moon gives in to big-brotherism, where do we go then? Our democracy is in bad enough shape as it is, leave it the hell alone. To anyone who believes things like this are the solution; you're not the countries' mommy or daddy. We don't need your protection. And any "Americans" who disagree should get the hell out and move to a country that already fits their 'security' needs. Please don't shape this one place of real freedom into another group of Government-protected citizens.
By it's very NATURE. It infuriates me to see things like this, and to see a good two-thirds of the country supporting the idea of a national ID card. You know what, I can't fucking stand it. You whining little pansies need to MOVE TO LONDON where there's a camera on every street if you like the idea of information being restricted for 'our safety'. America might be the only truely free country, with a bill of rights to back it up. People who want to live in a society that treats it's citizens this way have more places to choose from than I care to count. So excuse my attitude, but FUCK OFF.
Well, duh. If I complained about every unfunny joke I've made that's not been modded up I would..........uhhh, be doing a lot of complaining. My pitiful reaction was a result of being modded down as a troll for an unfunny joke.
I shoulda known better.
Stoopid mod-head.
I have come to the conclusion that Commander Taco is a 12 year old boy trapped in the body of one high-ranking mexican cuisine.
Why's everyone making everything smaller? Nuts ta that. I wanna surf the net on the WALL IN MY ROOM. When's that gonna happen at an affordable cost?
I read somewhere a long time ago that mining asteroids would eventually reap such huge quantities of resources that poverty and perhaps even money itself would become a thing of the past. Obviously I'm short on details, but like I said it's been a long time and I don't remember where I saw the story. I'm just wondering whether anyone here knows how that would be possible. I'm still hoping for a Star-Trek-ish economy to come along in my lifetime. Meaning the labor-work no one wants would be done by machines, other jobs would be done by people who enjoy doing them for their own benefit, and the only purpose in life is self-improvement and happiness. A slacker's paradise.
I should mention that I'm running Win98. I forget which P2P programs have Linux versions and which don't. Hell I'm not even sure if spyware works on Linux, but if it does then I'm just clarifying. If it doesn't; that'd make a nice sales pitch for Linux advocates.
I see people saying try Kazaa instead, but on my system it was Kazaa that installed Cydoor. When I used Ad-aware to remove Cydoor, Kazaa refused to run and told me I had removed files it needed and should reinstall.
I was referring to the RIAA, not the artists.
I'm sure someone has pointed this out before, but it's ironic that the only thing I've lost by Napster's death is the ability to find really obscure music from nobody's who would never be heard if not for the internet. The popular mainstream stuff is always the first thing that's available on Alternative P2P 'networks'. The only thing the RIAA lawsuits accomplished was to extend the lifespan of the obsolete services they and their members provide: publicity, advertisment, and distribution, in an internet-ready world where any musician can gain enormous popularity and distribute to millions of people at the blink of an eye, all because they have the talent to make something people want. Is that not the height of greed and anti-competitive behavior?
Anyway, like I said that's no big revelation to most people, but it bears repeating.
Time Warner Cable caps all Road Runner users' speeds to 'maintain quality service' or whatever it was the guy told me the week they started doing it in my area. It must've been a year or more ago; I had been getting speeds over 1mbps (I think that's right? Over 1000 KB/sec, anyway) and they dropped to pretty much nothing over 300 KB/sec.
Since these are more prominent than smaller stars maybe I'll be able to make out a blurry glimpse of them as they streak across the smog clouds above the city!
It's understandable that some people can't take a joke, but either accept it or reject it. I submit a lot of stories with stupid remarks, and that's probably why I have so many rejects. I would also guess that at least 1 out of 10 of them are almost as stupid as remarks some of the editors make after a quoted submission. I made a joke, big deal. But for the record, I'll add a note to my submission saying that you can edit out parts if I feel like getting the story out to people is more important than my brilliantly humorous opinion. I didn't do that, and I didn't get an email asking if I would allow that to get the story posted. So I fart in your general direction.
Why'd they remove that part from my submission?
Oh please. I would love to see some of the people who complain about bias explain to me how you can run a site where the content is generated by the readers without opinions showing up. That comment was made (by me), and I have opinions just like all the other readers. Why not complain that Slashdot doesn't filter out biased comments under the story itself? It would make as much sense. I find it hard to understand how people get their panties in a bunch even when it's an editor making an opinionated comment after the story. Are we all so stupid that we need opinions to be labelled for us? It's a different story when an opinion is being presented as fact, but if you can point out that kind of blatant lie by an editor, then I'll give you a cookie. Meanwhile you're just schmucks, nitpicking your own personally generated content for being personal; while I'm sure you're likely to get your nightly news from MSNBC, or CNN, where you can't bitch and complain about bias because the professional bullshitters don't bother to state their predispositions; they just decide what you can and can't see.
This is also a great opportunity for Microsoft to do some more astroturfing. It's kind of disappointing that we aren't collectively taking this opportunity to march in a protest right up to the DoJ. Until MS can build some lifelike androids to stage a support rally, that's one of the strongest messages we could send. I guess it's understandable though, since this isn't exactly as confrontational or unexpected as something like Dimitry's arrest.