and i can't wait to kill people with a high powered rifle when i get home from work, i wonder if i can get jack thompson skinned hostages for counterstrike.
this is a country where one of the most popular sports is watching people play online games, a quick search for korean gamer scored 1.2 million hits with a number of articles talking about south korea as the gaming capital of the world.
maybe this has something to do with a fervent windows dedication? linux games are still limted to cedega, and no one wants to pay for play, although some people don't care, like my friend who pays their dev fee on top of his WoW subscription; i guess it depends on your disposable income.
what i'm saying is maybe ActiveX isn't the only factor here, maybe DirectX is a big (bigger?) one.
and operated society, please refer to luminaries like Noam Chomsky for details no how you're being savagely ass fucked every day of your life whether you know it or not, so some fortune 500 executive can make that payment on their 3rd yacht while you're busy trying to get enough money to take your kid to the doctor.
i have never understood why treatment like this by companies is a.) accepted and b.) suprising to anyone after submitting to "a" by purchasing from known shitty megacorporations (aka, all of them, ever bought a cellphone? how about opened a bank account or shopped at wal-mart? guess who is the problem)
uhm.. beats nothing; which according to the manheim steamroller christmas thing on the radio all day at work, is what most people get , as the christmas bonus was started by woolworth's $5 a year (i think they said something $110 in today's money) with a 5 year cap and was widely copied later but is presently (hoho) dying off.
i would call it putting their money wehre their mouths were.
OSDN is based entirely on GPL'd code and sponsors those projects (afiak, i haven't bothered to research this at all but it certainly isn't M$ funding "surveys" to find in their favor)
maybe they're trying to show that open/free software can make money aka support viable business and create a beachhead on the M$ front
oh and i've been reading/. for about 10 years, i'm not sure if that qualifies me for your oldschool club or not but i certainly respect their decision
how much money have you donated? i haven't donated any so you won't hear me bitch
ps i use XP cause it Just Works (TM) unlike linux which while making huge leaps is still way behind the mainstream curve (games and porn people, come on, aren't you the same ones working in the datacenters for these venues anyway? shouldn't you know what sells?) but i have tons of freeware apps, and that i owe to the community.
fact: americans work an average of 300 more hours a year than the next hardest working 1st world country (Japan)
yes Greed is the primary factor here, but you people forget you own stock in the same companies that treat you like shit, you're supposed to be hte owners but you all think you're helpless and as long as you are an individual instead of an organized group you're right you are.
personally i barely make more than minimum wage, i routinely work overtime i get fucked out of and i'm not salaried, and yes i "have to" or it's instant homelessness and starvation, a $.25 federal minimum wage hike is a cruel joke and akin to spitting in the face of the overwhelming majority of the population (aka the poor, which i dare say, *MOST* of the people posting here are not).
americans are raised from birth told that their only value is as a cog in a corporate soul-grinder somewhere, and they better compete and beat out everyone else at all the fire-hoop jumping competitions or they have no futures.
so while our entire country runs on Greed, greed is really a front for Fear, most people are running around terrified 90% of the time, over terorrists, tax returns or that secret something the nightly news doesn't want to tell you about til you watch their commercial filled broadcasts; most americans just care about the next football game or idol contest so they can keep digging their heads deeper into the escapist sands.
life in america sucks and it's the predatory nature of capitalistic survivalism that permeates every cell of this decadent culture.
Let me say that our state has a long and proud tradition of ME TOO laws, usually stemming from some stupid bullshit laws passed in either of the Costal meccas. Indiana sucks, if you're considering moving here it's probably because your lobotomy was successful or you like things so mundane they make eating lima beans look risque.
rupert from Survivor is now a local celebrity.
anyone want to donate to my paypal account so i can not only leave this morass of mediocrity but the country that spawned it?
it's not an addiction to a particular thing as it is to distraction in general
i've read numerous studies on national happiness (i admit to being well on the periphery of my country's politics and viewpoints and values -- so i'm no where near happy) and the US has yet to rank in so much as the top 10.
what's also amusing is while apparently consumption of Shiny Things(tm) is up so are prescpritions for the attention getting of both adults and children.
they aren't including java, after I read this headline (I won't pretend to have RTFA) I was just notified of another available update for java which I have running.. it downloaded and began installing; but not before trying to include a google searchbar for IE (which I don't even use).. if it's opensource they undermine their benefactors.
gates knows this, all he talked about in his first book (the only one i've read, The Road Ahead) was upward and downward spirals in business basically saying if you weren't expanding you were declining and that stagnation was death.
besides, what more evidence do you need besides the fact that 5 of the top 10 billionaires are walmart family members while virtually all of their employees are insuranceless toothless rednecks with no hope of ever digging themselves out of poverty thanks to the corporate money-caste system in power in this country
thank you for trying to justify your walmart patronage on moral grounds so i could bring you hurtling back to reality.
I'm not saying I don't shop there but I'm not deluded into thinking they're something Good (tm)
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*kid from simpsons voice* HA HA
and i can't wait to kill people with a high powered rifle when i get home from work, i wonder if i can get jack thompson skinned hostages for counterstrike.
waspleg
starting a country with freedom as its basis on the moon
i would say that could be done here on earth but it hasn't been, and there is no unclaimed land left to move to.
waspleg
hmm, indianapolis is on your list, lived here my whole life, never heard of a "barter buck" and i'd be suprised if youc an get a hold of one.
waspleg
this is a country where one of the most popular sports is watching people play online games, a quick search for korean gamer scored 1.2 million hits with a number of articles talking about south korea as the gaming capital of the world.
maybe this has something to do with a fervent windows dedication? linux games are still limted to cedega, and no one wants to pay for play, although some people don't care, like my friend who pays their dev fee on top of his WoW subscription; i guess it depends on your disposable income.
what i'm saying is maybe ActiveX isn't the only factor here, maybe DirectX is a big (bigger?) one.
waspleg
ah yes, get 'em young, the Joe Camel business model
waspleg
and operated society, please refer to luminaries like Noam Chomsky for details no how you're being savagely ass fucked every day of your life whether you know it or not, so some fortune 500 executive can make that payment on their 3rd yacht while you're busy trying to get enough money to take your kid to the doctor.
i have never understood why treatment like this by companies is a.) accepted and b.) suprising to anyone after submitting to "a" by purchasing from known shitty megacorporations (aka, all of them, ever bought a cellphone? how about opened a bank account or shopped at wal-mart? guess who is the problem)
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waspleg
uhm.. beats nothing; which according to the manheim steamroller christmas thing on the radio all day at work, is what most people get , as the christmas bonus was started by woolworth's $5 a year (i think they said something $110 in today's money) with a 5 year cap and was widely copied later but is presently (hoho) dying off.
waspleg
i would call it putting their money wehre their mouths were.
/. for about 10 years, i'm not sure if that qualifies me for your oldschool club or not but i certainly respect their decision
OSDN is based entirely on GPL'd code and sponsors those projects (afiak, i haven't bothered to research this at all but it certainly isn't M$ funding "surveys" to find in their favor)
maybe they're trying to show that open/free software can make money aka support viable business and create a beachhead on the M$ front
oh and i've been reading
how much money have you donated? i haven't donated any so you won't hear me bitch
ps i use XP cause it Just Works (TM) unlike linux which while making huge leaps is still way behind the mainstream curve (games and porn people, come on, aren't you the same ones working in the datacenters for these venues anyway? shouldn't you know what sells?) but i have tons of freeware apps, and that i owe to the community.
waspleg
it wasn't built in a day
;P
and it didn't crumble in one either
Bush says: let the wars and circuses continue
waspleg
fact: americans work an average of 300 more hours a year than the next hardest working 1st world country (Japan)
yes Greed is the primary factor here, but you people forget you own stock in the same companies that treat you like shit, you're supposed to be hte owners but you all think you're helpless and as long as you are an individual instead of an organized group you're right you are.
personally i barely make more than minimum wage, i routinely work overtime i get fucked out of and i'm not salaried, and yes i "have to" or it's instant homelessness and starvation, a $.25 federal minimum wage hike is a cruel joke and akin to spitting in the face of the overwhelming majority of the population (aka the poor, which i dare say, *MOST* of the people posting here are not).
americans are raised from birth told that their only value is as a cog in a corporate soul-grinder somewhere, and they better compete and beat out everyone else at all the fire-hoop jumping competitions or they have no futures.
so while our entire country runs on Greed, greed is really a front for Fear, most people are running around terrified 90% of the time, over terorrists, tax returns or that secret something the nightly news doesn't want to tell you about til you watch their commercial filled broadcasts; most americans just care about the next football game or idol contest so they can keep digging their heads deeper into the escapist sands.
life in america sucks and it's the predatory nature of capitalistic survivalism that permeates every cell of this decadent culture.
waspleg
sorry, even we have standards
-waspleg
what kind of gov't? the right wing christian kind who believes in moral enforcement at the end of a police shotgun/riot baton
and he got elected TWICE, and they wonder why history repeats
fuck karma.
Let me say that our state has a long and proud tradition of ME TOO laws, usually stemming from some stupid bullshit laws passed in either of the Costal meccas. Indiana sucks, if you're considering moving here it's probably because your lobotomy was successful or you like things so mundane they make eating lima beans look risque.
rupert from Survivor is now a local celebrity.
anyone want to donate to my paypal account so i can not only leave this morass of mediocrity but the country that spawned it?
it's not an addiction to a particular thing as it is to distraction in general
i've read numerous studies on national happiness (i admit to being well on the periphery of my country's politics and viewpoints and values -- so i'm no where near happy) and the US has yet to rank in so much as the top 10.
what's also amusing is while apparently consumption of Shiny Things(tm) is up so are prescpritions for the attention getting of both adults and children.
no i didn't read the article.
they aren't including java, after I read this headline (I won't pretend to have RTFA) I was just notified of another available update for java which I have running.. it downloaded and began installing; but not before trying to include a google searchbar for IE (which I don't even use) .. if it's opensource they undermine their benefactors.
waspleg
you lose
google china
anyone else read this as a sublimedirectory.com tag line?
and how many companies does sony parent where its not clear you're buying a sony product, they are in many venues.
Share.
"We cannot allow young people to be denied an appropriate science education simply on ideological grounds.'"
uhm... science is an ideology.
gates knows this, all he talked about in his first book (the only one i've read, The Road Ahead) was upward and downward spirals in business basically saying if you weren't expanding you were declining and that stagnation was death.
as they're both making 5 to 7x what i'm making i don't care.
and read one of the 71k articles
besides, what more evidence do you need besides the fact that 5 of the top 10 billionaires are walmart family members while virtually all of their employees are insuranceless toothless rednecks with no hope of ever digging themselves out of poverty thanks to the corporate money-caste system in power in this country
thank you for trying to justify your walmart patronage on moral grounds so i could bring you hurtling back to reality.
I'm not saying I don't shop there but I'm not deluded into thinking they're something Good (tm)
is they have good prices, they have hte lowest of any grocier in my area including all the local ones
however any company that encourages their employees to apply for welfare and foodstamps as walmart does is off my christmas card list