Holy geezus fuck, at $2k you'd do better building your own navigation system based on a mini-PC, a touch screen LCD, and DeLorme's Street Atlas USA software. And you can plug in a webcam, and store and play mp3s.
And let's face it, the Jeep Grand Cherokee is an original, and therefore real, SUV. Almost everything else is for yuppy wankers and soccor moms. And Acura? Does it come with VTEC stickers and irrelevent Chinese glyphs?
It's a sad day in America when a man can't trust that his mumified monkey corpse impaled on a mechanical rig in the reproduction of an Arab smoking a controlled substance isn't the genuine article.
"Oh, great, another one's running..." "Hold on, I got it... *BANG*" "Head shot, nice."
Actually, I imagine the only change this will make to the status quo is an explosion in the amount of "hidden camera" pr0n available in the Gnutella network.
There is no such thing as perpetual motion. Didn't your parents ever teach you that? Given the choice of the transport module, with its stainless steel construction, it is obvious that they are powering the vehicle with energy stolen from... THE FUTURE!
Work it out, it does not violate thermodynamics. In fact, it actually accelerates the rate of entropy expansion.
Actually, they do, but you will rarely religious leaders admit that, since it tends to undermine their power and authority. Capital T truth is supposed to be eternal and unchanging.
You're like the anti-Signal 11. Opposite charge, but equally as lame. You'd think someone at Columbia could writter better trolls than this (or is he merely a victim?)
This is nothing more than promotion for his company and the excuse to brag about money. Please, save your gushing for those who do make interesting things.
Besides, this asshole owns CDDB, fucking parasite.
Disclaimer: I am not a wimpy car sympathizer, I own a v8 Camaro and a v8 Mustang, I would never buy a 4cyl FWD car. But that doesn't mean I cannot understand other peoples need for wimpy cars.
Don't worry about it. We understand your need for macho cars. It's really nothing to be ashamed of.
Show me a consitution or legal framework that allows murder.
And it is a specious example. Yelling fire in a theater is no more speech than using a voice-activated bomb. It is an action, not speech. Speech, in the sense that the first amendment implies, is the expression of knowledge or opinion. How can that threaten your security?
Stupid metaphors are an even weaker form of argument. Since when is murdering people considered a freedom?
It might be accurate to say privacy may be traded for security, but limiting speech or freedom of assembly is hardly a defense against these threats, real and imagined.
Nah, the analogy is perfect, though it isn't so much that Microsoft murdered something dear to people as that they aborted a monster: a slow, bloated, oozing crime against nature.
(The fact that they did so by making that monster even more vile is an interesting lesson in propganda).
Indeed, there is nothing wrong with that. Honest, honorable people do this all the time. After all, this is business, and in business one needs to be aware of the risks.
The similarities that this variation of the bait-and-switch tactic has to the means by which many crack dealers aquire new customers is pure coincidence.
"The vast potential of broadband has so far benefited nobody as clearly as it's benefited downloaders of pornography and pirates of digital content"
Chernin, the president of the owner of the Fox corporation, decries the Net's lack of morals. Isn't that delicious?
"The truth is that anyone unwilling to condemn outright theft by digital means is either amoral or wholly self-serving."
Irony meter going off the scale!
Make no mistake about it, this is a culture war with trillions of dollars at stake. It is becoming more and more clear that Hollywood isn't just being greedy, they actively hate and fear the Internet. They would destroy everything we have built rather than adapt to reality.
No number of humanties classes is going to create "leadership ability". Dealing with stupid employees and stupider customers while working retail did more for my "leadership" skills then all my classes in college.
I imagine such an experimental, insular environment will produce graduates a lot like the worst products of home schooling: arrogant know-it-alls with a severly screwed up view of how the world works.
But then again, when I hear people use the phrase "well-rounded", they generally mean "fits in, won't rock the boat, and won't embarrass the sales team with their fashion sense". These traits are usually counter-productive to a good programmer or engineer, and I don't see how extra humanities classes are going to change that. The best of us are already culturally literate, but don't care about the inane things that others find so important.
I'm sick of people believing that contrarian opinions automatically make them insightful. Or that profit motive excuses a person or corporation from being an asshole.
My point flew right over your head. If you are not in their employ, then you really have no idea what their intentions are, do you? The most critical assertion, that they are intentionally trying to drive out free competition, could be entirely accurate.
Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by self interest.
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Holy geezus fuck, at $2k you'd do better building your own navigation system based on a mini-PC, a touch screen LCD, and DeLorme's Street Atlas USA software. And you can plug in a webcam, and store and play mp3s.
And let's face it, the Jeep Grand Cherokee is an original, and therefore real, SUV. Almost everything else is for yuppy wankers and soccor moms. And Acura? Does it come with VTEC stickers and irrelevent Chinese glyphs?
It's a sad day in America when a man can't trust that his mumified monkey corpse impaled on a mechanical rig in the reproduction of an Arab smoking a controlled substance isn't the genuine article.
It was called Enigma.
Luna is a harsh mistress.
Cruithne is a drunken whore.
This little thing is a street urchin that gives blow jobs for crack money.
"Oh, great, another one's running..."
"Hold on, I got it... *BANG*"
"Head shot, nice."
Actually, I imagine the only change this will make to the status quo is an explosion in the amount of "hidden camera" pr0n available in the Gnutella network.
There is no such thing as perpetual motion. Didn't your parents ever teach you that? Given the choice of the transport module, with its stainless steel construction, it is obvious that they are powering the vehicle with energy stolen from... THE FUTURE!
Work it out, it does not violate thermodynamics. In fact, it actually accelerates the rate of entropy expansion.
Um try asking a true Christian...and I mean one who believes and is born again
Or you can ask a kid on MDMA about how good it is for you. You'll get the same response with about the same degree of credibility.
Religion will not.
Actually, they do, but you will rarely religious leaders admit that, since it tends to undermine their power and authority. Capital T truth is supposed to be eternal and unchanging.
User friendliness? I'm sorry, what part of "--help" don't you understand?
You're like the anti-Signal 11. Opposite charge, but equally as lame. You'd think someone at Columbia could writter better trolls than this (or is he merely a victim?)
This is nothing more than promotion for his company and the excuse to brag about money. Please, save your gushing for those who do make interesting things.
Besides, this asshole owns CDDB, fucking parasite.
And it wasn't posted in Braille either. Assholes.
Disclaimer: I am not a wimpy car sympathizer, I own a v8 Camaro and a v8 Mustang, I would never buy a 4cyl FWD car. But that doesn't mean I cannot understand other peoples need for wimpy cars.
Don't worry about it. We understand your need for macho cars. It's really nothing to be ashamed of.
Integral? What's that?
Show me a consitution or legal framework that allows murder.
And it is a specious example. Yelling fire in a theater is no more speech than using a voice-activated bomb. It is an action, not speech. Speech, in the sense that the first amendment implies, is the expression of knowledge or opinion. How can that threaten your security?
Stupid metaphors are an even weaker form of argument. Since when is murdering people considered a freedom?
It might be accurate to say privacy may be traded for security, but limiting speech or freedom of assembly is hardly a defense against these threats, real and imagined.
Nah, the analogy is perfect, though it isn't so much that Microsoft murdered something dear to people as that they aborted a monster: a slow, bloated, oozing crime against nature.
(The fact that they did so by making that monster even more vile is an interesting lesson in propganda).
Infantile? Compared to what, talk shows? Politics is infotainment; flash games are the logical conclusion.
After all, the DMCA is harmless, isn't that right Declan?
Indeed, there is nothing wrong with that. Honest, honorable people do this all the time. After all, this is business, and in business one needs to be aware of the risks.
The similarities that this variation of the bait-and-switch tactic has to the means by which many crack dealers aquire new customers is pure coincidence.
Copy the next node into the one to which you are pointed, and free the orphaned node instead?
I'm suprised they didn't link to this article:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954651.html
"The vast potential of broadband has so far benefited nobody as clearly as it's benefited downloaders of pornography and pirates of digital content"
Chernin, the president of the owner of the Fox corporation, decries the Net's lack of morals. Isn't that delicious?
"The truth is that anyone unwilling to condemn outright theft by digital means is either amoral or wholly self-serving."
Irony meter going off the scale!
Make no mistake about it, this is a culture war with trillions of dollars at stake. It is becoming more and more clear that Hollywood isn't just being greedy, they actively hate and fear the Internet. They would destroy everything we have built rather than adapt to reality.
I'm very conservative myself -- slightly to the right of Attila the Hun, I believe
So you not only murder women and children, but eat them too?
No number of humanties classes is going to create "leadership ability". Dealing with stupid employees and stupider customers while working retail did more for my "leadership" skills then all my classes in college.
I imagine such an experimental, insular environment will produce graduates a lot like the worst products of home schooling: arrogant know-it-alls with a severly screwed up view of how the world works.
But then again, when I hear people use the phrase "well-rounded", they generally mean "fits in, won't rock the boat, and won't embarrass the sales team with their fashion sense". These traits are usually counter-productive to a good programmer or engineer, and I don't see how extra humanities classes are going to change that. The best of us are already culturally literate, but don't care about the inane things that others find so important.
I'm sick of people believing that contrarian opinions automatically make them insightful. Or that profit motive excuses a person or corporation from being an asshole.
My point flew right over your head. If you are not in their employ, then you really have no idea what their intentions are, do you? The most critical assertion, that they are intentionally trying to drive out free competition, could be entirely accurate.
Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by self interest.