Yes, but he'll tear your arms out of their sockets if he loses.
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what kind of a world do we have where someone can make such vile and hateful statements and we just write it off?
One where we all respect the concept of "free speech" - not just as a legal construct, but actually not being offended by some trivial bit of text on a computer screen.
Also, I'm pretty sure he intended it to be funny in the first place.
everyone started bashing the PS3, which contains a very impressive processor, allows installation of linux, has built-in media streaming, uses standard USB and Bluetooth hardware, runs folding@home, upscales DVDs and old games, etc. etc. All anyone here says, though, is "OMG SONY I BET THERE'S A ROOTKIT ON IT LOL".
But is that the fault of "Slashdot", or Sony?
ie: did it ever occur to you that you might not be grasping the cause-and-effect relationship here?
Oh, and you people who are posting "Slashdot had changed, man!" in an article bashing an MS product - how do you do that with a straight face?:)
Actually you don't need a computer model. Just work for a big corporation (instead of say, the eden-like Institute for Advanced Studies for most of your life), know that large corporations are who are going to be managing that land, and the answer is clear. We're gonna *rape* it. Cause next year's topsoil doesn't effect this quarter's profits so it's not material.
You know, it's no wonder some of us find it hard to take the global warming movement seriously, and why some have started to label it a conspiracy to pretty much destroy western industrial civilization and bring us all back to the stone age.
I'm sorry, but you're an idiot. I work for a corporation that is today reaping the benefits of decisions made in the 1960s. That just embarked on a project which will not be complete for over 20 years - and it won't even show a dime of profit for at least 10. In fact, the entire oil industry works on these sorts of time scales - and imagine that, they're the ones most directly contributing to global warming. In short, you haven't a hot fucking clue what you're talking about.
The lunatic ravings of "OMG BIG CORPS RAPE TEH PLANET!!!!" don't exactly make it easy to read anything else in your post. All you're doing is making the conspiracy theorists RIGHT.
All of this is moot. Pollution is hurting us as we speak and is preparing a debt which might end up as the most effective mean of enslavement. You are already paying for water. What will happen if air is not breathable, cultivations need shielding from the sun and the pollution, and you need therapy to have a little chance to procreate?
Absolutely right!
Except none of that has anything to do with CO2 production, or CO2-caused global warming. In fact most of the current hysteria around global warming has made us forget about the actual pollution that matters - you know, the stuff that actually IS killing us.
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Dude have some perspective please. Darl didn't rape or murder anyone.
Neither did anyone involved in the Enron fiasco. They just ruined the lives of thousands of people.
Which is what could have happened to the entire Linux/OSS community if SCO had won. Never mind thousands of IBMers who could have lost their livelihoods (Novell is pretty much a shell anyway, but I guess they might have lost a coupla guys).
We still put people in jail for things that are VERY BAD for society. I don't think the OP was actually serious about pissing on a gun-shot corpse.
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And that, my friends, is exactly why they're destined to lose.
The RIAA/MPAA really has no leg to stand on with their "we're losing money to piracy!" angle. Sales (and revenues) are up for pretty much every entertainment medium.
They're not mad that they're LOSING money due to piracy. They're mad that they could be making more (or so they think).
It's much like how people get all riled up by a neighbour with pirated satellite service. He's not really costing anyone anything, but the fact that he's getting something without paying is the sore spot.
It's like all the kids who pirate Photoshop, but would never pay $600 for it. It's not a lost sale. It in no way, shape, or form affects Adobe. But they'll still move heaven & earth to stop it, because someone's getting something for free. I believe the expression is "sour grapes".
With all the scaremongering around random strangers abducting children off the Internet, the statistics are telling. In one year in Canada (2005 or so), there were thousands of abducted children reported. 5 were taken by strangers. 5. Abuse figures are similarly telling.
If we ever cared about protecting children, we'd keep them as far away as possible from parents, family members, and family friends. But it's more fun to whip people into a frenzy over something that's less likely to happen than being hit by lightning.
we are not ENTITLED to get anything for free - movies, songs or anything else
We sure as heck are once the creator has had a reasonable chance to turn a buck on it.
I'll start giving a flying rat's behind about this stupid argument once copyright terms get reduced to a level where there's a chance that something from my childhood might actually hit the public domain before my grandchildren are retired. Until such time, if our current laws make no distinction between something that's 80 years old and something that's 80 days old - why should I?
I still sing Happy Birthday in public. Let them throw me in jail for ripping off a decades-dead songwriter.
I'll also resume caring at the point that I can once again use a CD in my PC without worrying about accquiring a rootkit, and when I can actually skip through idiotic "don't steal me!!!!" warnings on a DVD that I JUST PAID MONEY FOR.
And I moved halfway across the continent just so that I could do both on a regular basis.
Similarly, I've made other "sacrifices" to ensure I can always keep current with many different OSes. All depends on what's important to you in life.
I do find myself always returning to skiis however, but that's just an individual preference. I didn't know that until I had given the alternative a good tryout though.
Let me just say that I've been wanting an electric car for years, if only to finally say to my American and European friends:
YES! Those damn plug-ins ARE in fact for our electric cars! Now shut up about it!
Sadly, southern Alberta doesn't seem to have many plug-in parking spots. So it's only the colder parts of the prairies that will be able to make this joke.
Does Chevron actually own a patent on "any and all uses of NiMH batteries in a car"? Because I have many NiMH batteries here right now. They're fantastic. Hundreds of companies sell them for thousands of uses. So there's obviously no patent on the NiMH technology itself. Is there some super-efficient way of using the nickel that is required for use in a car, but that's patented?
Oh, and incidentally, if that link has any substance - the patents will be running out in a decade or less. So in 10 years, when the market is flooded with very cheap, very efficient NiMH car batteries, well then I might start believing some of this nonsense.
/b/ is well-known among people who are familiar with the Internet as a culture
No, it's not. It's well-known to people familiar with 4chan, apparently.
Remember kids, your little corner of the Internet != the Internet as a whole.
Now will someone PLEASE explain just what the hell this/b/ and/i/ nonsense is all about? Preferably someone over the age of 18? Preferably without resorting to terms like "gigantic faggot"?
It seems to me that so far it's been NASA's completely sober management decisions that have killed astronauts and lost shuttle equipment.
I'll start panicing about the astronauts having a few when they actually start affecting things. Makes me wonder just what kind of actually scary info is coming down the pipe from NASA, that they have to whip everyone into a frenzy with a story about OMG DRUNK ASTRONAUTS!!1
Slashdot Mirror
Do astronomers have any idea why the dust chose to be gay?
Intergallactic schools started requiring the reading of "Dusty Has Two Like Progenitor Strands"?
Exactly. Organic means that no pesticides or herbicides were used in making it.
And I thought operator-overloading in C++ made things confusing...
Yes, but he'll tear your arms out of their sockets if he loses.
what kind of a world do we have where someone can make such vile and hateful statements and we just write it off?
One where we all respect the concept of "free speech" - not just as a legal construct, but actually not being offended by some trivial bit of text on a computer screen.
Also, I'm pretty sure he intended it to be funny in the first place.
everyone started bashing the PS3, which contains a very impressive processor, allows installation of linux, has built-in media streaming, uses standard USB and Bluetooth hardware, runs folding@home, upscales DVDs and old games, etc. etc. All anyone here says, though, is "OMG SONY I BET THERE'S A ROOTKIT ON IT LOL".
:)
But is that the fault of "Slashdot", or Sony?
ie: did it ever occur to you that you might not be grasping the cause-and-effect relationship here?
Oh, and you people who are posting "Slashdot had changed, man!" in an article bashing an MS product - how do you do that with a straight face?
Actually you don't need a computer model. Just work for a big corporation (instead of say, the eden-like Institute for Advanced Studies for most of your life), know that large corporations are who are going to be managing that land, and the answer is clear. We're gonna *rape* it. Cause next year's topsoil doesn't effect this quarter's profits so it's not material.
You know, it's no wonder some of us find it hard to take the global warming movement seriously, and why some have started to label it a conspiracy to pretty much destroy western industrial civilization and bring us all back to the stone age.
I'm sorry, but you're an idiot. I work for a corporation that is today reaping the benefits of decisions made in the 1960s. That just embarked on a project which will not be complete for over 20 years - and it won't even show a dime of profit for at least 10. In fact, the entire oil industry works on these sorts of time scales - and imagine that, they're the ones most directly contributing to global warming. In short, you haven't a hot fucking clue what you're talking about.
The lunatic ravings of "OMG BIG CORPS RAPE TEH PLANET!!!!" don't exactly make it easy to read anything else in your post. All you're doing is making the conspiracy theorists RIGHT.
All of this is moot. Pollution is hurting us as we speak and is preparing a debt which might end up as the most effective mean of enslavement. You are already paying for water. What will happen if air is not breathable, cultivations need shielding from the sun and the pollution, and you need therapy to have a little chance to procreate?
Absolutely right!
Except none of that has anything to do with CO2 production, or CO2-caused global warming. In fact most of the current hysteria around global warming has made us forget about the actual pollution that matters - you know, the stuff that actually IS killing us.
Dude have some perspective please. Darl didn't rape or murder anyone.
Neither did anyone involved in the Enron fiasco. They just ruined the lives of thousands of people.
Which is what could have happened to the entire Linux/OSS community if SCO had won. Never mind thousands of IBMers who could have lost their livelihoods (Novell is pretty much a shell anyway, but I guess they might have lost a coupla guys).
We still put people in jail for things that are VERY BAD for society. I don't think the OP was actually serious about pissing on a gun-shot corpse.
Baystar.
And that, my friends, is exactly why they're destined to lose.
The RIAA/MPAA really has no leg to stand on with their "we're losing money to piracy!" angle. Sales (and revenues) are up for pretty much every entertainment medium.
They're not mad that they're LOSING money due to piracy. They're mad that they could be making more (or so they think).
It's much like how people get all riled up by a neighbour with pirated satellite service. He's not really costing anyone anything, but the fact that he's getting something without paying is the sore spot.
It's like all the kids who pirate Photoshop, but would never pay $600 for it. It's not a lost sale. It in no way, shape, or form affects Adobe. But they'll still move heaven & earth to stop it, because someone's getting something for free. I believe the expression is "sour grapes".
Man, Slashdot makes me feel old sometimes. I just realized that half the kids I work with wouldn't even know what that meant.
;)
They probably won't even have lawns. But they damned well can get off mine while it still exists.
Why can't the store just advertise the discount in their window?
s/teachers/parents+otherfamilymembers+trustedfrien ds
With all the scaremongering around random strangers abducting children off the Internet, the statistics are telling. In one year in Canada (2005 or so), there were thousands of abducted children reported. 5 were taken by strangers. 5. Abuse figures are similarly telling.
If we ever cared about protecting children, we'd keep them as far away as possible from parents, family members, and family friends. But it's more fun to whip people into a frenzy over something that's less likely to happen than being hit by lightning.
Thanks for the lulz
TERRORIST!!!!!!
we are not ENTITLED to get anything for free - movies, songs or anything else
We sure as heck are once the creator has had a reasonable chance to turn a buck on it.
I'll start giving a flying rat's behind about this stupid argument once copyright terms get reduced to a level where there's a chance that something from my childhood might actually hit the public domain before my grandchildren are retired. Until such time, if our current laws make no distinction between something that's 80 years old and something that's 80 days old - why should I?
I still sing Happy Birthday in public. Let them throw me in jail for ripping off a decades-dead songwriter.
I'll also resume caring at the point that I can once again use a CD in my PC without worrying about accquiring a rootkit, and when I can actually skip through idiotic "don't steal me!!!!" warnings on a DVD that I JUST PAID MONEY FOR.
Nope, I don't see any similarity with the story a few down about a JPEG replacement. None at all.
And I moved halfway across the continent just so that I could do both on a regular basis.
Similarly, I've made other "sacrifices" to ensure I can always keep current with many different OSes. All depends on what's important to you in life.
I do find myself always returning to skiis however, but that's just an individual preference. I didn't know that until I had given the alternative a good tryout though.
That's just downtown Transcona.
(yes, you have to be from Winnipeg to appreciate the joke)
Let me just say that I've been wanting an electric car for years, if only to finally say to my American and European friends:
YES! Those damn plug-ins ARE in fact for our electric cars! Now shut up about it!
Sadly, southern Alberta doesn't seem to have many plug-in parking spots. So it's only the colder parts of the prairies that will be able to make this joke.
Ok, tinfoil hatters: I'm officially confused.
Does Chevron actually own a patent on "any and all uses of NiMH batteries in a car"? Because I have many NiMH batteries here right now. They're fantastic. Hundreds of companies sell them for thousands of uses. So there's obviously no patent on the NiMH technology itself. Is there some super-efficient way of using the nickel that is required for use in a car, but that's patented?
Oh, and incidentally, if that link has any substance - the patents will be running out in a decade or less. So in 10 years, when the market is flooded with very cheap, very efficient NiMH car batteries, well then I might start believing some of this nonsense.
/b/ is well-known among people who are familiar with the Internet as a culture
/b/ and /i/ nonsense is all about? Preferably someone over the age of 18? Preferably without resorting to terms like "gigantic faggot"?
No, it's not. It's well-known to people familiar with 4chan, apparently.
Remember kids, your little corner of the Internet != the Internet as a whole.
Now will someone PLEASE explain just what the hell this
I don't know exactly how to phrase this, but...
It seems to me that so far it's been NASA's completely sober management decisions that have killed astronauts and lost shuttle equipment.
I'll start panicing about the astronauts having a few when they actually start affecting things. Makes me wonder just what kind of actually scary info is coming down the pipe from NASA, that they have to whip everyone into a frenzy with a story about OMG DRUNK ASTRONAUTS!!1
Don't stop.
That was the Beagle, you twits :)
We have that, it's called Ubuntu. At least for the desktop. Less cursing in the product name though.