In free and democratic societies, an individual deciding on his or her own to leak classified information is a subversion of that very democratic process
Yes. And war is peace, slavery is freedom, and ignorance is strength.
Or... they wanted to change formulation from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup, but knew there would be an uproar because the taste would change, so they made "new coke", waited for stock of the old formula to disappear, then reintroduced their real "new" formula as "classic", and their old customer base thought that they were getting the same stuff they'd always had.
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From your post, I have a *very* hard time believing that you have any idea what it really feels like to be on stage.
You're very wrong.
About what, exactly? You think I *don't* have a hard time believing it? How do you know what I have a hard time believing or not?
Duh, it's a simulation.
No, it's not a simulation. It's a game. I understand perfectly what a simulation is - it's you that seems to not understand. If it was a simulation, it would simulate. It would include expressive and improvisational elements, and include performer/audience interplay. Being on stage is *nothing* like sitting on your ass hitting buttons.
How are you not understanding this?
How are you not understanding what I wrote? I see you didn't actually address anything I said, which I can only assume is because you know I'm right.
Oh, you're a curmudgeon.
Because idiots like you don't understand what performing music really is? If that's your definition of "curmudgeon", then I guess so. (So what colour is the sky in your world?)
Don't you realize people have been saying this kind of thing since the time of Beethoven?
Yeah, you're gonna have to prove to me that this game has been around 200 years, because I don't believe you. (Or are you talking about the movie with the St. Bernard - which would also be wrong.)
Seriously, the variety and depth of ideas in popular music recently is the greatest it's been since the 30s. If you don't realize that, you haven't been paying attention.
What the fuck does "depth of ideas in popular music" have to do with mashing buttons and playing instruments on stage?
Why are you trying to change the subject? Oh right - because you know you're wrong.
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It's hard to describe the feeling you get being on stage, but they do a pretty good job simulating it.
From your post, I have a *very* hard time believing that you have any idea what it really feels like to be on stage.
there is the awesome feeling that comes when amazing music comes from your fingers.
Except it's not coming from your fingers. (And music doesn't come from the fingers anyway.)
If you don't play the notes right, then they don't come out on the stage.
See this - right here. Playing music has almost *nothing* to do with "playing the notes right", because "right" is subjective and dependent on the moment. There can be a hundred different ways to "play a note right", and often "right" wouldn't be the way it would be presented by a computer. The fact that you don't know this is what tells me you've never been on stage.
They've taken as much of the good stuff as they can and gotten rid of the boring stuff.
So interpretation and improvisation are "boring stuff"??!?!?!
a great deal of military technology went from lab to massive scale rather quickly for new bombs to wreak havoc in cave strongholds. Why is BP or some other interested party with deep pockets unable to do the same here?
Because there's no money in cleaning it up, and a lot of expense.
We have an existing crisis and a potential solution. Somebody pony up the cash and start producing this. Its a risk, but if effective there is a great deal of profit to be made in the event of another oil spill.
Therein lies the problem. BP estimated the likelihood of the current spill as "so close to zero that it doesn't matter". Ask any oil company what the chances are of another spill, and you'll get "so close to zero that it doesn't matter." So why should they spend all this money on something that will never happen?
Environmental issues are externalities - and it would be socialism to force companies to deal with externalities. After all, we're all responsible for the Gulf spill, because of our demand for oil. And anyway, if you tried to enact a law, they would just shut down and open up under a different name. Let the invisible market fairy handle this, she will make it all go away!
Well *obviously* they only made $50B/year because Limewire is stealing all their income! So if Limewire hadn't existed, they would have made every penny of that $1.5 Trillion. And don't try telling me that it's absurd that they would be owed 10% of the entire US GDP. GDP is only a measure of economic output, so obviously if Limewire hadn't stolen all that money, and it had gone to EMI instead, the GDP would have been $1.5 Trillion more than it was!
And since it's known that EMI's revenue is a tiny fraction of the US's GDP, we can only conclude that the GDP would have been several thousands of times higher than it was.
Conclusion: LIMEWIRE IS STEALING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM THE USA EVERY YEAR!!!!!
Gotta say I agree - I did the same thing - only except I bought one with a swivel, so I don't need an articulating arm.:)
It took a few hourst getting the display set up correctly.. most software (including xrandr and nvidia's twinview) expect that you have all monitors set to the same orientation. Xinerama to the rescue:)
He found a simple RESTful web API to be too complicated. You actually thought he would be able to understand binary?
And it was a Google RESTful API, as this is a Google binary... so obviously Google would have created it to be so complicated, only Google staffers could understand it!
And the mention of the paper on wireless sniffing? What the fuck does that have to do with Google? Did they sponsor it? No. Did their employees write it? No. Did their employees participate in it? No. But he mentions it just because it re-inforces the conclusion he wants you to draw.
Glenn Beck would be so proud!
So.. when do we call out this idiot as an MS shill?
Ask yourself something - assuming the student is guilty of the act - what's better for the student and their family:
1. Being suspended for a few days and learning that actions have consequences.
2. Being taken to court, possibly having criminal charges pressed against you, bankrupting your family due to legal expenses and the judgement against you, and learning that actions have consequences.
Sounds like the school did what was best for the student, and is now being punished for it.
I'm only a couple of decades older than you. [...] during the course of my lifespan, there's always been television (not color to start with, but there was TV), that indoor plumbing and lights have always been around, flight is not only possible but commonplace and pretty much always has been, and the moon landing happened before I was born.
The last time we tried prohibition it started an arms race between the criminals and the police. Too bad we didn't learn any lessons from that experience.
What are you talking about? From your own example, it seems they learned the lesson pretty well: If you want more power, use prohibition to get it.
Goddammit - why should newspapers have to change to suit the internet? Newspapers were here first! It's not fair - the internet should be the one that has to change!
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You think you're irreplaceable?
I think every time I post a new position I get 100 candidates more qualified than your dumbass.
And every single one of them wants triple what you're currently paying.
Because if they were more qualified and willing to work for the same amount, you'd be replacing your current employee.
In free and democratic societies, an individual deciding on his or her own to leak classified information is a subversion of that very democratic process
Yes. And war is peace, slavery is freedom, and ignorance is strength.
Got any other claptrap you'd care to share?
Or... they wanted to change formulation from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup, but knew there would be an uproar because the taste would change, so they made "new coke", waited for stock of the old formula to disappear, then reintroduced their real "new" formula as "classic", and their old customer base thought that they were getting the same stuff they'd always had.
From your post, I have a *very* hard time believing that you have any idea what it really feels like to be on stage.
You're very wrong.
About what, exactly? You think I *don't* have a hard time believing it? How do you know what I have a hard time believing or not?
Duh, it's a simulation.
No, it's not a simulation. It's a game. I understand perfectly what a simulation is - it's you that seems to not understand. If it was a simulation, it would simulate. It would include expressive and improvisational elements, and include performer/audience interplay. Being on stage is *nothing* like sitting on your ass hitting buttons.
How are you not understanding this?
How are you not understanding what I wrote? I see you didn't actually address anything I said, which I can only assume is because you know I'm right.
Oh, you're a curmudgeon.
Because idiots like you don't understand what performing music really is? If that's your definition of "curmudgeon", then I guess so. (So what colour is the sky in your world?)
Don't you realize people have been saying this kind of thing since the time of Beethoven?
Yeah, you're gonna have to prove to me that this game has been around 200 years, because I don't believe you. (Or are you talking about the movie with the St. Bernard - which would also be wrong.)
Seriously, the variety and depth of ideas in popular music recently is the greatest it's been since the 30s. If you don't realize that, you haven't been paying attention.
What the fuck does "depth of ideas in popular music" have to do with mashing buttons and playing instruments on stage?
Why are you trying to change the subject? Oh right - because you know you're wrong.
most consumers buy benefits, not features.
You are provably wrong.
The endless list of would-be iPod/iPhone killers that touted better features but failed to have an impact in the market are evidence of this.
Evidence of what?
It's hard to describe the feeling you get being on stage, but they do a pretty good job simulating it.
From your post, I have a *very* hard time believing that you have any idea what it really feels like to be on stage.
there is the awesome feeling that comes when amazing music comes from your fingers.
Except it's not coming from your fingers. (And music doesn't come from the fingers anyway.)
If you don't play the notes right, then they don't come out on the stage.
See this - right here. Playing music has almost *nothing* to do with "playing the notes right", because "right" is subjective and dependent on the moment. There can be a hundred different ways to "play a note right", and often "right" wouldn't be the way it would be presented by a computer. The fact that you don't know this is what tells me you've never been on stage.
They've taken as much of the good stuff as they can and gotten rid of the boring stuff.
So interpretation and improvisation are "boring stuff"??!?!?!
No wonder recent music sucks.
Gee i donno, a big fucken database given to a big fucken advertising firm ...
How about you skip the handwaving and answer the fucken(sp) question
Or are you just about spreading FUD today?
blames the manufacturer of the drive, blames the consumer, but skirts around blaming the OS in question.
Well duh - consider the source.. it's an antivirus company. They wouldn't be in business if not for Windows.
An antivirus company saying that Windows in insecure would be like BP saying that we should all switch to solar power and stop using oil.
how about gallons per kilo-mile?
Depends. How many miles would there be in a kilo-mile?
If it's an even power of 10, it wouldn't catch on because it would be too much like metric.
I nominate a kilo-mile to be 34.5233835 miles.. that makes it not a power of 10, but simple enough to remember - exactly 10 leagues.
Hey, we pay a tax, on all recordable media, to them already
Stop. Talking. Like. Shatner. People. Will. Believe. We. All. Talk. That. Way.
Wait. I thought. ... We all. Did?
a great deal of military technology went from lab to massive scale rather quickly for new bombs to wreak havoc in cave strongholds. Why is BP or some other interested party with deep pockets unable to do the same here?
Because there's no money in cleaning it up, and a lot of expense.
We have an existing crisis and a potential solution. Somebody pony up the cash and start producing this. Its a risk, but if effective there is a great deal of profit to be made in the event of another oil spill.
Therein lies the problem. BP estimated the likelihood of the current spill as "so close to zero that it doesn't matter". Ask any oil company what the chances are of another spill, and you'll get "so close to zero that it doesn't matter." So why should they spend all this money on something that will never happen?
Environmental issues are externalities - and it would be socialism to force companies to deal with externalities. After all, we're all responsible for the Gulf spill, because of our demand for oil. And anyway, if you tried to enact a law, they would just shut down and open up under a different name. Let the invisible market fairy handle this, she will make it all go away!
Well *obviously* they only made $50B/year because Limewire is stealing all their income! So if Limewire hadn't existed, they would have made every penny of that $1.5 Trillion. And don't try telling me that it's absurd that they would be owed 10% of the entire US GDP. GDP is only a measure of economic output, so obviously if Limewire hadn't stolen all that money, and it had gone to EMI instead, the GDP would have been $1.5 Trillion more than it was!
And since it's known that EMI's revenue is a tiny fraction of the US's GDP, we can only conclude that the GDP would have been several thousands of times higher than it was.
Conclusion: LIMEWIRE IS STEALING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM THE USA EVERY YEAR!!!!!
who can't already print from their existing email client?
ipad users.
Gotta say I agree - I did the same thing - only except I bought one with a swivel, so I don't need an articulating arm. :)
It took a few hourst getting the display set up correctly.. most software (including xrandr and nvidia's twinview) expect that you have all monitors set to the same orientation. Xinerama to the rescue :)
PHP's strength: ubiquity. PHP is installed everywhere
So what you're saying is that PHP is to programming languages what MS Windows is to operating systems?
I think more critically now than I ever did before the Internet.
http://xkcd.com/552/
He found a simple RESTful web API to be too complicated. You actually thought he would be able to understand binary?
And it was a Google RESTful API, as this is a Google binary... so obviously Google would have created it to be so complicated, only Google staffers could understand it!
And the mention of the paper on wireless sniffing? What the fuck does that have to do with Google? Did they sponsor it? No. Did their employees write it? No. Did their employees participate in it? No. But he mentions it just because it re-inforces the conclusion he wants you to draw.
Glenn Beck would be so proud!
So.. when do we call out this idiot as an MS shill?
Ask yourself something - assuming the student is guilty of the act - what's better for the student and their family:
1. Being suspended for a few days and learning that actions have consequences.
2. Being taken to court, possibly having criminal charges pressed against you, bankrupting your family due to legal expenses and the judgement against you, and learning that actions have consequences.
Sounds like the school did what was best for the student, and is now being punished for it.
Witness the tax levy on blank media in Canada.
What about the levy on blank media in the USA?
when I was born (1984)
I'm only a couple of decades older than you. [...] during the course of my lifespan, there's always been television (not color to start with, but there was TV), that indoor plumbing and lights have always been around, flight is not only possible but commonplace and pretty much always has been, and the moon landing happened before I was born.
.. and people could always do simple arithmetic.
No, it's nothing like Calvinball.
In Calvinball, both players got to change the rules. With the iphone, only Apple gets to.
the (admittedly few) police officers I've known personally have been intelligent
You must not live in Connecticut then.
The last time we tried prohibition it started an arms race between the criminals and the police. Too bad we didn't learn any lessons from that experience.
What are you talking about? From your own example, it seems they learned the lesson pretty well: If you want more power, use prohibition to get it.
We didn't try to artificially keep wagon wheel business alive when cars were invented.
Yes you did.
Goddammit - why should newspapers have to change to suit the internet? Newspapers were here first! It's not fair - the internet should be the one that has to change!
(Isn't that the rationale of a four-year-old?)