"Secondly if you are free to do something wrong and people are free to retaliate then even if you have the freedom to use a WoW bot then Blizzard should have the freedom to stop you and protect the majority of their paying customers that dislike it."
Blizzard already has a mechanism for "protecting" their player base: it's called the "Ban-hammer". This is a completely different thing. These Glider people are being sent up the river and it sets a scary if not inconsistent precedent.
So now, it's OK to sue companies because they create things that OTHER PEOPLE can use to break the law. Will we be suing gun companies next? Because if anybody gets sued for some BS like that, it should be them.
What about when Microsoft decides to sue some small outfit like the n-lite/v-lite people that allow you to create those shrunken, Windows install disks? Hey, they're "circumventing a control mechanism" so they shouldn't be able to do that, right? Hell, if that's the case, they can start suing people for installing "unauthorized" software on their PC.
Do you have a Linksys router with modified firmware? If so, you might be a criminal. They didn't MEAN to leave TFTP on when you reboot, so you were "circumventing" their "access control mechanism" when you uploaded that custom firmware image.
I think the problem is that, increasingly, CORPORATIONS have the expectation of monetizing EVERYTHING that they do/produce, while at the same time, the precedent is being set for it to be "normal" to "leech off of the public" in different ways for the benefit of the business class.
For a timely example, look at how we historically privatize corporate profits, and yet force the public to pay for/bailout these same companies when times are bad.
CF is worth researching, but that is not the point. The purpose of this Slashdot submission was to point out how harsh and unfair the world is for white males. After all, that would seem to be the major demographic here.
You say it's just a commercial. I say it's rather sad and pathetic that we allow them to bullshit us all day and that's considered "normal". Although I agree with you, I still think it's sad because it doesn't have to be that way.
"When something starts floating a way, quickly point the gun toward the lost object and shoot"
It's my understanding that even that would change the trajectory of the station enough to need to be compensated for.
Damn it. You said something about some tubes. Where do the tubes go? Did all my internet leak out of my tubes? Do I need to refill my computer? Do you have to fill the old internet and the new internet separately? Can I fill them with the same internet?
"The video appeared on Youtube and several sites showing Palin taking part in a 2005 service at a Pentecostal church in Alaska where preacher Thomas Muthee calls for witches and other Palin enemies to be defeated."
also...
Earlier this month, a video surfaced from a speech Palin had given in June to students at her former church in Alaska where she said United States forces in Iraq had been sent on a "task that is from God."
"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right," Palin said in the video.
"Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she said.
"And $50 says the CEO's won't be taking a dip in their salaries to compensate for the fine; nope, chances are they'll lay off some people and give pay cuts out to everyone that just does their job without trying to find a way to make a quick buck."
Ahhh. I can tell that you must NOT be new here...I'd say your $50 will continue to be safe and warm in your pocket.
"Great, let's send a bunch of unmotivated kids to do stupid work."
I think it's intended to try to limit the number of children in our country who grow up to be the self-centered, anti-social asshole that you seem to be. Yeah. That's pretty much it I think.
"But then again I'm racist for thinking any of this, right?"
Probably. But it seems to mostly be because you don't have a very thorough understanding of the problems facing black people, but, amazingly, you have ALL the right answers. It's more of a subtle, more benign racism. Possibly not really racism as much as elitism. Or just being a know-it-all.
Why should I help you just because I saw you get hit by a bus? My time is money, so why should I spend my money on YOU when you obviously WANTED to get hit by that bus.
I, like any respectable human being, am in complete control of myself and the world around me. Anything unfortunate that happens to ANYONE can surely be attributed to them being deficient in some manner. You just weren't fast/strong/smart enough to move out of the way of that bus. After all, one IS responsible for one's own doing...or not-doing as it were .
Now pull yourself from under that bus and get your act together. Lazy bum....
"Console games all play on machines with roughly the same processing power. That makes things a lot easier."
I used to believe that too, until I had to get my Xbox 360 replaced two times within a year. I've move my slider back to a 70/30 split now between PC and Console. If there's a PC version, 9 times out of 10, that's what I'm going with. Otherwise, I'll keep the console around to play the occasional console exclusive. So for me that means, in the last 6 months and ahead in the next 6:
Things I actively chose NOT to buy for the console in the past: -UT3 -Lost Planet -Bioshock -Half-Life 2 -Portal -Team Fortress 2 -Prey -Age of Conan (Granted, it's not out yet, but I would have made the same decision if it had released on time anyway)
Games I have decided NOT TO BUY on my CONSOLE in the near future (I WILL buy them for the PC instead): -Dead Space -Fallout 3 -FarCry 2 -Call of Duty 4 -Saints Row 2 -Left 4 Dead
So yeah, they need to quit it with this "nobody plays games on the PC" nonsense, or I might just start reading a book here or there. I pretty much bought all those games on the PC because I had MORE faith in the PC giving me a smoother experience than my Xbox 360.
First off, the summary reads like a press release, as does TFA, is Slashdot that desperate for cash these days? Secondly, the $ITEM itself seems like a pretty useless gimmick.
I don't understand who is supposed to be buying this thing at $LOWPRICE-$HIPRICE. Hardcore $HOBBY? OK the thing has excellent $FEATURE, but not much better than you could achieve with a decent $COMPETE_TECH $ITEM at a fraction of the price. This group will be put off by the proprietry(and probably overpriced)upgrades and the difficulty of actually $MAINTENANCE the thing, not to mention the pricetag. $HOBBY2? Why would they pay this much over the odds for a $ITEM that's at best $PERCENT_BETTER% $VERB than a commodity $ITEM? Again, this group will be put off by the lack of a decent $ALTERNATIVE. $HOBBY3? This group might be interested at first, the one thing an $ITEM might arguably be useful for is $FEATURE. But at $LOWPRICE+, you've got to be joking, there are already very good solutions at a fraction of that price.
Ultimately I just don't see any need for this kind of $ITEM, $ITEM's just don't $BEHAVIOR that it's worth dealing with the hassle.;)
"Democratic Congressional Black Caucus, who was praised by Fannie Mae's CEO Daniel Mudd for passing beneficial legislation, in the name of loosening regulations allowing people with poor credit scores to overextend themselves with home loans. We know today how that turned out."
So let me get this straight: Some poor black woman in Detroit is the reason our economy is shit now?
Bullshit. Put your hood back on (probably made of $110 bills) and go back home.
"Poor" would actually be more of an ethnic/socio-economic thing. For example, in my college days, it was VERY unlikely that I would have been able to "make friends" with any hot "WASP" chicks because we didn't (and still don't) muddle about in the same social circles. It's exactly the same way that I don't get to hang out with so called "A list" celebrities. We don't know the same people, and our friends, generally, don't know the same people.
If any of these other groups of people I just mentioned were to mysteriously contract some sort of disease, I wouldn't have to much to worry about because I have virtually NO exposure to any of these people in real life.
In many cultures, you have similar situations, so it is quite feasible to have a disease that primarily targets "poor" people, depending on the circumstances.
Additionally, airplanes and things of that nature don't necessarily have much of a bearing on transmission of a disease that is passed primarily by some sort of "intimate" contact.
As stated by Jon Stewart in regards to Michelle Obama and the assertions that she must "prove" that she's Patriotic:
"She's got to. She's a Democrat. She must PROVE she loves America. As opposed to Republicans, who everyone KNOWS love America, they just hate half of the people living in it."
"The whole issue revolves around the new FAS regulation from a year ago (157, if anyone cares) which required the banks to revalue their investment holdings based on the daily current market values, which, due to a current housing market glut, are tanking. In the long term most of these assets have a much higher (and more stable) value, but since they're being measured in the short term, these horrible reports are coming out and scaring the shit out of everyone."
I really do think that you just horribly misspelled "Avarice".
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"Secondly if you are free to do something wrong and people are free to retaliate then even if you have the freedom to use a WoW bot then Blizzard should have the freedom to stop you and protect the majority of their paying customers that dislike it."
Blizzard already has a mechanism for "protecting" their player base: it's called the "Ban-hammer". This is a completely different thing. These Glider people are being sent up the river and it sets a scary if not inconsistent precedent.
So now, it's OK to sue companies because they create things that OTHER PEOPLE can use to break the law. Will we be suing gun companies next? Because if anybody gets sued for some BS like that, it should be them.
What about when Microsoft decides to sue some small outfit like the n-lite/v-lite people that allow you to create those shrunken, Windows install disks? Hey, they're "circumventing a control mechanism" so they shouldn't be able to do that, right? Hell, if that's the case, they can start suing people for installing "unauthorized" software on their PC.
Do you have a Linksys router with modified firmware? If so, you might be a criminal. They didn't MEAN to leave TFTP on when you reboot, so you were "circumventing" their "access control mechanism" when you uploaded that custom firmware image.
'He "looks" like a michigan-hotdog+poutine-looer '
Huh?!? What do you people DO up there during the winters?
I think the problem is that, increasingly, CORPORATIONS have the expectation of monetizing EVERYTHING that they do/produce, while at the same time, the precedent is being set for it to be "normal" to "leech off of the public" in different ways for the benefit of the business class.
For a timely example, look at how we historically privatize corporate profits, and yet force the public to pay for/bailout these same companies when times are bad.
It's disingenuous.
CF is worth researching, but that is not the point. The purpose of this Slashdot submission was to point out how harsh and unfair the world is for white males. After all, that would seem to be the major demographic here.
You say it's just a commercial. I say it's rather sad and pathetic that we allow them to bullshit us all day and that's considered "normal". Although I agree with you, I still think it's sad because it doesn't have to be that way.
"When something starts floating a way, quickly point the gun toward the lost object and shoot" It's my understanding that even that would change the trajectory of the station enough to need to be compensated for.
LOL Good point...
So how do I use the check boxes with the RSS feed, oh great and powerful alpha-nerd?
Damn it. You said something about some tubes. Where do the tubes go? Did all my internet leak out of my tubes? Do I need to refill my computer? Do you have to fill the old internet and the new internet separately? Can I fill them with the same internet?
Bah! I'm going to sleep!
"The video appeared on Youtube and several sites showing Palin taking part in a 2005 service at a Pentecostal church in Alaska where preacher Thomas Muthee calls for witches and other Palin enemies to be defeated."
also...
Earlier this month, a video surfaced from a speech Palin had given in June to students at her former church in Alaska where she said United States forces in Iraq had been sent on a "task that is from God." "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right," Palin said in the video. "Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she said.
Is that "Whacky" enough???
Amazing. You've successfully mirrored the PC-Fanboy Elitism of ten years ago. I guess the more things change, the more they really do stay the same.
Boot every ASRock motherboard! For great justice!
I just assumed that you eat free at Pancake-Hut on Tuesdays. Senior Discount Day FTW!
"And $50 says the CEO's won't be taking a dip in their salaries to compensate for the fine; nope, chances are they'll lay off some people and give pay cuts out to everyone that just does their job without trying to find a way to make a quick buck."
Ahhh. I can tell that you must NOT be new here...I'd say your $50 will continue to be safe and warm in your pocket.
"Great, let's send a bunch of unmotivated kids to do stupid work."
I think it's intended to try to limit the number of children in our country who grow up to be the self-centered, anti-social asshole that you seem to be. Yeah. That's pretty much it I think.
"But then again I'm racist for thinking any of this, right?"
Probably. But it seems to mostly be because you don't have a very thorough understanding of the problems facing black people, but, amazingly, you have ALL the right answers. It's more of a subtle, more benign racism. Possibly not really racism as much as elitism. Or just being a know-it-all.
Is it hard being brilliant?
"But let's listen to the internet nerds who think they know everything."
Yes, let's.
*Sits down and looks at you attentively.
Why should I help you just because I saw you get hit by a bus? My time is money, so why should I spend my money on YOU when you obviously WANTED to get hit by that bus.
I, like any respectable human being, am in complete control of myself and the world around me. Anything unfortunate that happens to ANYONE can surely be attributed to them being deficient in some manner. You just weren't fast/strong/smart enough to move out of the way of that bus. After all, one IS responsible for one's own doing...or not-doing as it were .
Now pull yourself from under that bus and get your act together. Lazy bum....
Hey! It was past my bedtime! ;)
"Console games all play on machines with roughly the same processing power. That makes things a lot easier."
I used to believe that too, until I had to get my Xbox 360 replaced two times within a year. I've move my slider back to a 70/30 split now between PC and Console. If there's a PC version, 9 times out of 10, that's what I'm going with. Otherwise, I'll keep the console around to play the occasional console exclusive. So for me that means, in the last 6 months and ahead in the next 6:
Things I actively chose NOT to buy for the console in the past:
-UT3
-Lost Planet
-Bioshock
-Half-Life 2
-Portal
-Team Fortress 2
-Prey
-Age of Conan (Granted, it's not out yet, but I would have made the same decision if it had released on time anyway)
Games I have decided NOT TO BUY on my CONSOLE in the near future (I WILL buy them for the PC instead):
-Dead Space
-Fallout 3
-FarCry 2
-Call of Duty 4
-Saints Row 2
-Left 4 Dead
So yeah, they need to quit it with this "nobody plays games on the PC" nonsense, or I might just start reading a book here or there. I pretty much bought all those games on the PC because I had MORE faith in the PC giving me a smoother experience than my Xbox 360.
Thanks. That was perfect:
First off, the summary reads like a press release, as does TFA, is Slashdot that desperate for cash these days? Secondly, the $ITEM itself seems like a pretty useless gimmick.
I don't understand who is supposed to be buying this thing at $LOWPRICE-$HIPRICE.
Hardcore $HOBBY? OK the thing has excellent $FEATURE, but not much better than you could achieve with a decent $COMPETE_TECH $ITEM at a fraction of the price. This group will be put off by the proprietry(and probably overpriced)upgrades and the difficulty of actually $MAINTENANCE the thing, not to mention the pricetag.
$HOBBY2? Why would they pay this much over the odds for a $ITEM that's at best $PERCENT_BETTER% $VERB than a commodity $ITEM? Again, this group will be put off by the lack of a decent $ALTERNATIVE.
$HOBBY3? This group might be interested at first, the one thing an $ITEM might arguably be useful for is $FEATURE. But at $LOWPRICE+, you've got to be joking, there are already very good solutions at a fraction of that price.
Ultimately I just don't see any need for this kind of $ITEM, $ITEM's just don't $BEHAVIOR that it's worth dealing with the hassle. ;)
I was actually buying into your BS until:
"Democratic Congressional Black Caucus, who was praised by Fannie Mae's CEO Daniel Mudd for passing beneficial legislation, in the name of loosening regulations allowing people with poor credit scores to overextend themselves with home loans. We know today how that turned out."
So let me get this straight: Some poor black woman in Detroit is the reason our economy is shit now?
Bullshit. Put your hood back on (probably made of $110 bills) and go back home.
"Poor" would actually be more of an ethnic/socio-economic thing. For example, in my college days, it was VERY unlikely that I would have been able to "make friends" with any hot "WASP" chicks because we didn't (and still don't) muddle about in the same social circles. It's exactly the same way that I don't get to hang out with so called "A list" celebrities. We don't know the same people, and our friends, generally, don't know the same people.
If any of these other groups of people I just mentioned were to mysteriously contract some sort of disease, I wouldn't have to much to worry about because I have virtually NO exposure to any of these people in real life.
In many cultures, you have similar situations, so it is quite feasible to have a disease that primarily targets "poor" people, depending on the circumstances.
Additionally, airplanes and things of that nature don't necessarily have much of a bearing on transmission of a disease that is passed primarily by some sort of "intimate" contact.
As stated by Jon Stewart in regards to Michelle Obama and the assertions that she must "prove" that she's Patriotic:
"She's got to. She's a Democrat. She must PROVE she loves America. As opposed to Republicans, who everyone KNOWS love America, they just hate half of the people living in it."
"The whole issue revolves around the new FAS regulation from a year ago (157, if anyone cares) which required the banks to revalue their investment holdings based on the daily current market values, which, due to a current housing market glut, are tanking. In the long term most of these assets have a much higher (and more stable) value, but since they're being measured in the short term, these horrible reports are coming out and scaring the shit out of everyone."
I really do think that you just horribly misspelled "Avarice".