triple annoying when said behavior ALSO SCROLLS YOU TO THE TOP OF THE FUCKING THREAD and applies to clicks INSIDE A FUCKING EDIT BOX in which you're' composing a reply, causing it to scroll about a light-year below the bottom of the screen with every click
If Google was stealing from you, would you not enlist the forces of the government in getting your property back?
And if you were a big company used to suing children for the content of their college funds, but saw a giant pot of money trundling along the horizon doing exactly the same thing those children were doing, could you avoid drooling?
If Google is doing anything infringing, the RIAA will peel them like a baggie of crystal meth, and the sound they make on the way to the courthouse will set off car alarms on Neptune.
About half of my house is space I only go into to drop or look for stuff. I don't get why people put themselves through that kind of life for any longer than it takes to get the fuck out of it.
I'm seriously thinking of working on a phone app that tells my sound system where I am in the house and switches speakers appropriately. Downside is that it would use battery power in the "off" state. Upside is always being where the music is. And yes, Bill Gates had this done to his house a couple of decades ago.
Osama bin Laden isn't a US citizen. He can break US laws all day long and it's A-OK. Now, if he broke INTERNATIONAL LAW or the laws of his country, you might have something there. But whatever law he broke would have to be covered by one of those inconvenient extradition treaties...
See what I did there?
Law applies everywhere. Extradition is granted if the country that has the crook decides to give him up. There is no codocil for whether it was an international or national law. If a citizen of one nation injures another nation, the injured nation can sue for extradition. Yes, the general who rules Myanmar can issue a warrant for your arrest today for looking at porn on the Internet, and request the US DOJ turn you over. The US DOJ will tell him to fuck off. Not because it's not against international law, but because our country doesn't think you should be tried for it, nor should we be bothered with such requests.
On the other hand, every country believes secrets are important and has laws to protect them. Our law regarding them is one of the least restrictive. A trial would surely determine that Assange and Wikileaks broke it. He broke a law that's not an International Law, but is pretty much on the books everywhere, including Australia, the UK, and Sweden. Sweden doesn't have a treaty with us to extradite people, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't, it just means we have to negotiate a few more details. I expect that their only condition would be that we guarantee he not be executed when he's found guilty, since capital punishment is the only reason they don't have an extradition treaty with the U.S. The UK does have an extradition treaty with us, though they will not extradite if capital punishment is on the table either. They would both like nothing more than to see him jailed for putting good guys in grave danger for proportionally less gain.
But first, he has to be extradited from the UK to stand trial for egregious douchebaggery, which is a crime in Sweden. We'll get him when he's old and...grayer.
It's not because of conservatives. It's because of perception of conservatives. Who, by and large, are mouth-breathing dopes who have fallen for a self-defeating philosophy of supporting corporate welfare in the hopes that someday they will be a corporation, or something ludicrous like that.
Okay, actually, it's because they only read the part of Ayn Rand's "philosophy" that dealt with selfishness being a viable world-view, and didn't realize she wasn't espousing it, she was exposing it. They think "enlightened self-interest" means "self-interest", and confuse constant competitive tension for stability.
And because of this insanity, rational people rightly crap on them, often in a rapid-reaction manner, without giving their ideas any consideration. Albeit 99% of their ideas come straight from a well-denigrated playbook and don't deserve any consideration, but that 1% gets the king's feces dumped on it as well.
The real tragedy of this is that it causes the other side's ideas to be conflated with any sort of countercultural attitude. Which gives the conservatives a semantic foothold on which to form arguments, which, lacking any real basis other than semantics eventually are refuted, merely waste the time needed to inculcate fact over fiction's head, that could better be used producing something of value other than one more disgruntled conservative.
And because of the conflation, expressing any opinion at odds with the counterculture results in being treated as a conservative. For instance, just try to explain that Julian Assange and Wikileaks did, indeed, break U.S. law and deserve to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for it, and you'll get karma-bombed for it by people acting emotionally rather than rationally.
So while conservatives are monopolized by fallacy, they don't have a monopoly on it.
You will be supporting "free speech", and people will take it too far, because, frankly, people are immature assholes when they believe they can't be caught.
You read a soundbite filtered through multiple internet links at sites given to hyping soundbites and from that you conclude that all government science funding is going to producing soundbites.
Just how big is the cluebat hanging over your head?
I have travelled the length and breadth of this internet, and have talked with the worst people in web 2.0. I can assure you on the highest authority that people's hunger for unoriginal content is a fad and won't last out the year.
Seriously. Cable company infrastructure is getting old, and their business and customer-service practices are shit.
If Netflix is making a lot of cash, no better way to use it than to roll out a nationwide to-the-home fiber network to deliver Internet service including of course full-bore Netflix product.
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triple annoying when said behavior ALSO SCROLLS YOU TO THE TOP OF THE FUCKING THREAD and applies to clicks INSIDE A FUCKING EDIT BOX in which you're' composing a reply, causing it to scroll about a light-year below the bottom of the screen with every click
If Google was stealing from you, would you not enlist the forces of the government in getting your property back?
And if you were a big company used to suing children for the content of their college funds, but saw a giant pot of money trundling along the horizon doing exactly the same thing those children were doing, could you avoid drooling?
If Google is doing anything infringing, the RIAA will peel them like a baggie of crystal meth, and the sound they make on the way to the courthouse will set off car alarms on Neptune.
About half of my house is space I only go into to drop or look for stuff. I don't get why people put themselves through that kind of life for any longer than it takes to get the fuck out of it.
Now it's Chinese territory again. In 200 years they'll talk like Chinese rednecks, maybe.
To break US law, you have to be in US jurisdiction (i.e. in the country).
That's not right. It's not even wrong.
-W. Pauli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction
Where you are does not determine your culpability for violation of espionage laws. I would think that should be obvious.
I'm seriously thinking of working on a phone app that tells my sound system where I am in the house and switches speakers appropriately. Downside is that it would use battery power in the "off" state. Upside is always being where the music is. And yes, Bill Gates had this done to his house a couple of decades ago.
Osama bin Laden isn't a US citizen. He can break US laws all day long and it's A-OK. Now, if he broke INTERNATIONAL LAW or the laws of his country, you might have something there. But whatever law he broke would have to be covered by one of those inconvenient extradition treaties...
See what I did there?
Law applies everywhere. Extradition is granted if the country that has the crook decides to give him up. There is no codocil for whether it was an international or national law. If a citizen of one nation injures another nation, the injured nation can sue for extradition. Yes, the general who rules Myanmar can issue a warrant for your arrest today for looking at porn on the Internet, and request the US DOJ turn you over. The US DOJ will tell him to fuck off. Not because it's not against international law, but because our country doesn't think you should be tried for it, nor should we be bothered with such requests.
On the other hand, every country believes secrets are important and has laws to protect them. Our law regarding them is one of the least restrictive. A trial would surely determine that Assange and Wikileaks broke it. He broke a law that's not an International Law, but is pretty much on the books everywhere, including Australia, the UK, and Sweden. Sweden doesn't have a treaty with us to extradite people, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't, it just means we have to negotiate a few more details. I expect that their only condition would be that we guarantee he not be executed when he's found guilty, since capital punishment is the only reason they don't have an extradition treaty with the U.S. The UK does have an extradition treaty with us, though they will not extradite if capital punishment is on the table either. They would both like nothing more than to see him jailed for putting good guys in grave danger for proportionally less gain.
But first, he has to be extradited from the UK to stand trial for egregious douchebaggery, which is a crime in Sweden. We'll get him when he's old and...grayer.
the metasummary says it all about the summary
It's not because of conservatives. It's because of perception of conservatives. Who, by and large, are mouth-breathing dopes who have fallen for a self-defeating philosophy of supporting corporate welfare in the hopes that someday they will be a corporation, or something ludicrous like that.
Okay, actually, it's because they only read the part of Ayn Rand's "philosophy" that dealt with selfishness being a viable world-view, and didn't realize she wasn't espousing it, she was exposing it. They think "enlightened self-interest" means "self-interest", and confuse constant competitive tension for stability.
And because of this insanity, rational people rightly crap on them, often in a rapid-reaction manner, without giving their ideas any consideration. Albeit 99% of their ideas come straight from a well-denigrated playbook and don't deserve any consideration, but that 1% gets the king's feces dumped on it as well.
The real tragedy of this is that it causes the other side's ideas to be conflated with any sort of countercultural attitude. Which gives the conservatives a semantic foothold on which to form arguments, which, lacking any real basis other than semantics eventually are refuted, merely waste the time needed to inculcate fact over fiction's head, that could better be used producing something of value other than one more disgruntled conservative.
And because of the conflation, expressing any opinion at odds with the counterculture results in being treated as a conservative. For instance, just try to explain that Julian Assange and Wikileaks did, indeed, break U.S. law and deserve to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for it, and you'll get karma-bombed for it by people acting emotionally rather than rationally.
So while conservatives are monopolized by fallacy, they don't have a monopoly on it.
you will have trolls.
No two ways about it.
You will be supporting "free speech", and people will take it too far, because, frankly, people are immature assholes when they believe they can't be caught.
embedded video of goatse website on grimy monitor in 3...2...
Are you hiding your name from everyone, or are you sharing that only with /.'s government?
It's 1.2e16 Lennas.
I swear officer, she told me she was 10^7!
You read a soundbite filtered through multiple internet links at sites given to hyping soundbites and from that you conclude that all government science funding is going to producing soundbites.
Just how big is the cluebat hanging over your head?
Maybe in Sendai alone.
This is about a thousand containers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcnbits/2859509269/
Doesn't look like much from that angle.
I have travelled the length and breadth of this internet, and have talked with the worst people in web 2.0. I can assure you on the highest authority that people's hunger for unoriginal content is a fad and won't last out the year.
...that has only three words of text in it...
So if they ever release a perfect build, they're going to lose a lot of customers...
I put Ubuntu on a machine about 4 years ago. But it was too toyish, and I haven't done it since. But are they counting me? I wouldn't mind.
Risinger, I mean, not god.
Does he have two heads?
Producing content is an expensive and painful business.
HBO is a money machine. So are the networks.
There's no good reason not to try to take that business away from the cable companies.
Seriously. Cable company infrastructure is getting old, and their business and customer-service practices are shit.
If Netflix is making a lot of cash, no better way to use it than to roll out a nationwide to-the-home fiber network to deliver Internet service including of course full-bore Netflix product.
Then Netflix will be big.
And would he still know it if he did?