A lot of people are using the analogy of suing a gun shop for a crime committed with a gun, and saying that it's wrong. And, if that is wrong, then so is this lawsuit. The thing that everyone is forgetting is that guns are used by loyal patriots to defend their rights, at least according to their multi-billion dollar lobby, and MP3s are used by even hackers bent on stealing every single piece of intellectual property on the planet and bankrupting honest Americans, according to the multi-billion dollar music industry's lobby. Why do you think that the fact that the mp3/gun analogy is perfectly valid is going to matter? It won't.
I don't like movie reviews. I hate John Katz. There shouldn't be movie reviews on this site. Is this really news for nerds, really stuff that matters?
Okay, now that that's out of the way, can we talk about the movie instead the same rants EVERY SUNDAY about why there shouldn't be movie reviews on this site? Oh, yeah, and the smaller subrant about what a hypocrite whoever reviewed this is for giving money to the MPAA when we should instead be burning down their homes and smashing their DVD players.
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Sticks Us asked why pop culture is all so derivative. I have 2 theories. Theory 1 is that it's hard to be creative. What takes more effort, coming up with the idea of a planet where apes rule men, or the idea to remake that movie 30 years ago about that planet where apes ruled men?
Theory 2 is that people and corporations don't like risks or surprises. I guess it would be more accurate to say that people like predictable surprises. I know Freddy is going to pop out of the walls again, but when? Anyway, I think that many people enjoy the idea of going to a movie that they "know" already. I can't count the number of people that I've heard say, "That Planet of the Apes is going to be awesome! I loved the original movies!" The same goes for Charlie's Angels(no surpises, and hot chixx to boot, why wouldn't you make that movie?) and almost every sequel. I could go on and on... Star Wars Episode 1 was the same familiar Star Wars that we know and love, but with surprising new characters and spaceships. American Pie II == American Pie in college.
People like being comfortable. They love to be entertained, but they don't like it when the entertainment makes them feel stupid. How many times have you heard someone leaving a theater say, in a disappointed tone, "It wasn't what I expected."? Think about it.
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Begin quote: "At least those guys are honest. Wait till the big time-travel/wormhole/quantum-computer/snake-oil fiasco makes it out in the open. It won't be pretty. The physics community should realize that the lay public is not as stupid as they would want everyone to believe. "
End quote.
What the hell are you talking about?
Security through Obscurity obviously works. Back in the day, people though that it was a good idea to give kids sexual education, and tell them about things like STDs and contraception. That just inspired them to go out and have sex. Luckily, saner heads have prevailed, and now that we aren't teaching kids anything about sex, they aren't going to do it. If you don't put the ideas in their heads, they won't have sex! If your security is based on arresting anyone that knows anything about cryptography, then it's unbreakable. Q.E.D.
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Hey, thanks for making my day. I've been stuck at werk for hours, I'm going to miss my karaoke date because I'm getting shafted by Seimens tech support, and I'm depressed for other reasons, and then you said the two magical words that brought a huge smile to my face: "Galaxy High."
I'm not being sarcastic.
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Re:STOP WITH THE FAG MOVIE REVIEWS
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Review: Atlantis
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I like fag movies, and it's good that someone takes the time to review them so I don't end up seeing a bad one, accidentally. Also, isn't there some way you can filter the stories that appear to you on slashdot so you only see the ones you want to see, i.e. non-fag movie topics like Microsoft and Linux and Amusing Beowulf Cluster jokes? Yes, yes there is.
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Like you care what I want, but... Remember when they told us that soon we'd be able to go to the music store and pick 15 songs and they'd smack them onto a CD and give it to us right then? That's what I want, and I don't think I'm the only one. That's the only reason I use Napster, anyway. I like making mix CDs, but I don't want to buy a whole album just to get Girlfriend in a Coma and then a whole other album to get Under my Thumb. I know a lot of people say this, but if I could just legally BUY those goddamn songs one at a time from the record companies, I would. Even if there was some sort of brutal encryption to prevent me from giving it away, I wouldn't care because that other guy can spend $2 on the song if he wants it. I also think that if the RIAA companies provided this service themselves, they'd have a much better legal and moral footing to fight things like Napster and Gnutella and all their siblings. Imagine RIAA saying, "We try to make our music available on the web for a fair price, but then people steal it," instead of saying, "We're trying to force people to buy $15+ CDs to get the one hit that Generic Band has, but instead evil anarchists just GIVE IT AWAY!"
I don't think part of an argument as to whether or not cops are "small small people" who could never get a date in highschool, and the ramifications thereof re:brutality is particularly insightful. It is kinda interesting, in a car wreck kind of way, though.
Marge: You know,Homer, it's very easy to criticize.
Homer: Fun, too.
Yeah.
Re:Do you see the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasak
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Review: Pearl Harbor
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· Score: 1
Look.
Yes, America ended up killing a bunch of Japanese civilians. As someone has already pointed out, that happened years after Pearl Harbor, and it happened BECAUSE they attacked us at Pearl Harbor. Also, have you the vaguest notion of the horrible things that Japan did to China and Korea and the Pilipines that made the U.S. start thinking about a war with Japan? I don't know if you're trolling, or what, but trendily whining about racism isn't always the sharpest thing to do on Slashdot.
But then again, so are oil, coal, and nuclear power. Everytime there's a new tech advance posted here on Slashdot, 50 people reply to the story pointing out how deadly the new tech is. Imagine the replies to the post about Ford releasing the Model T:
"So we're just going to let anyone that has $500 drive around some thousand pound chunk of metal powered by EXPLODING GASOLINE! No thanks, I'm sticking to horses!"
All technology is dangerous. If you discount a new idea because it's possible to accidentally kill people with it, well, enjoy your cave.
Why is it abomination for women to "sell" their bodies, but not so bad for them to "sell" their minds? Athletes make money of their bodies all the time, and it's perfectly acceptable.
Everyone has to werk to get money. Some women and men don't have the intelligence or desire to make the money they want with their minds alone, and they sell their bodies. Half of them become heroes, and the other half are labled as whores, if you believe that women have free will, or labeled as slaves if you believe that they don't.
Their ain't no justice, is there?
I think that your topic might be a little to broad. Have you considered chosing one of the many smaller topics that other posters have suggested? You could spend an entire year teaching about computer games alone, and not even get into programming, or hardware, etc.
History and Culture of Computing is as broad a topic as "History and Culture of the Automobile."
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A lot of people are using the analogy of suing a gun shop for a crime committed with a gun, and saying that it's wrong. And, if that is wrong, then so is this lawsuit. The thing that everyone is forgetting is that guns are used by loyal patriots to defend their rights, at least according to their multi-billion dollar lobby, and MP3s are used by even hackers bent on stealing every single piece of intellectual property on the planet and bankrupting honest Americans, according to the multi-billion dollar music industry's lobby. Why do you think that the fact that the mp3/gun analogy is perfectly valid is going to matter? It won't.
Like,
Woe
I don't like movie reviews. I hate John Katz. There shouldn't be movie reviews on this site. Is this really news for nerds, really stuff that matters? Okay, now that that's out of the way, can we talk about the movie instead the same rants EVERY SUNDAY about why there shouldn't be movie reviews on this site? Oh, yeah, and the smaller subrant about what a hypocrite whoever reviewed this is for giving money to the MPAA when we should instead be burning down their homes and smashing their DVD players. Like, Woe
A lot of people get games from www.theunderdogs.org. I don't, though, because it's illegal! :-)
Sticks Us asked why pop culture is all so derivative. I have 2 theories. Theory 1 is that it's hard to be creative. What takes more effort, coming up with the idea of a planet where apes rule men, or the idea to remake that movie 30 years ago about that planet where apes ruled men? Theory 2 is that people and corporations don't like risks or surprises. I guess it would be more accurate to say that people like predictable surprises. I know Freddy is going to pop out of the walls again, but when? Anyway, I think that many people enjoy the idea of going to a movie that they "know" already. I can't count the number of people that I've heard say, "That Planet of the Apes is going to be awesome! I loved the original movies!" The same goes for Charlie's Angels(no surpises, and hot chixx to boot, why wouldn't you make that movie?) and almost every sequel. I could go on and on... Star Wars Episode 1 was the same familiar Star Wars that we know and love, but with surprising new characters and spaceships. American Pie II == American Pie in college. People like being comfortable. They love to be entertained, but they don't like it when the entertainment makes them feel stupid. How many times have you heard someone leaving a theater say, in a disappointed tone, "It wasn't what I expected."? Think about it. Like, Woe
Begin quote: "At least those guys are honest. Wait till the big time-travel/wormhole/quantum-computer/snake-oil fiasco makes it out in the open. It won't be pretty. The physics community should realize that the lay public is not as stupid as they would want everyone to believe. " End quote. What the hell are you talking about?
Security through Obscurity obviously works. Back in the day, people though that it was a good idea to give kids sexual education, and tell them about things like STDs and contraception. That just inspired them to go out and have sex. Luckily, saner heads have prevailed, and now that we aren't teaching kids anything about sex, they aren't going to do it. If you don't put the ideas in their heads, they won't have sex! If your security is based on arresting anyone that knows anything about cryptography, then it's unbreakable. Q.E.D. Like, Woe
Didn't Nancy Kress write a book like that?
Hey, thanks for making my day. I've been stuck at werk for hours, I'm going to miss my karaoke date because I'm getting shafted by Seimens tech support, and I'm depressed for other reasons, and then you said the two magical words that brought a huge smile to my face: "Galaxy High." I'm not being sarcastic. Like, Woe
I like fag movies, and it's good that someone takes the time to review them so I don't end up seeing a bad one, accidentally. Also, isn't there some way you can filter the stories that appear to you on slashdot so you only see the ones you want to see, i.e. non-fag movie topics like Microsoft and Linux and Amusing Beowulf Cluster jokes? Yes, yes there is. Like, Woe
Like you care what I want, but... Remember when they told us that soon we'd be able to go to the music store and pick 15 songs and they'd smack them onto a CD and give it to us right then? That's what I want, and I don't think I'm the only one. That's the only reason I use Napster, anyway. I like making mix CDs, but I don't want to buy a whole album just to get Girlfriend in a Coma and then a whole other album to get Under my Thumb. I know a lot of people say this, but if I could just legally BUY those goddamn songs one at a time from the record companies, I would. Even if there was some sort of brutal encryption to prevent me from giving it away, I wouldn't care because that other guy can spend $2 on the song if he wants it. I also think that if the RIAA companies provided this service themselves, they'd have a much better legal and moral footing to fight things like Napster and Gnutella and all their siblings. Imagine RIAA saying, "We try to make our music available on the web for a fair price, but then people steal it," instead of saying, "We're trying to force people to buy $15+ CDs to get the one hit that Generic Band has, but instead evil anarchists just GIVE IT AWAY!"
I don't think part of an argument as to whether or not cops are "small small people" who could never get a date in highschool, and the ramifications thereof re:brutality is particularly insightful. It is kinda interesting, in a car wreck kind of way, though.
Marge: You know,Homer, it's very easy to criticize. Homer: Fun, too. Yeah.
Look. Yes, America ended up killing a bunch of Japanese civilians. As someone has already pointed out, that happened years after Pearl Harbor, and it happened BECAUSE they attacked us at Pearl Harbor. Also, have you the vaguest notion of the horrible things that Japan did to China and Korea and the Pilipines that made the U.S. start thinking about a war with Japan? I don't know if you're trolling, or what, but trendily whining about racism isn't always the sharpest thing to do on Slashdot.
But then again, so are oil, coal, and nuclear power. Everytime there's a new tech advance posted here on Slashdot, 50 people reply to the story pointing out how deadly the new tech is. Imagine the replies to the post about Ford releasing the Model T: "So we're just going to let anyone that has $500 drive around some thousand pound chunk of metal powered by EXPLODING GASOLINE! No thanks, I'm sticking to horses!" All technology is dangerous. If you discount a new idea because it's possible to accidentally kill people with it, well, enjoy your cave.
Why is it abomination for women to "sell" their bodies, but not so bad for them to "sell" their minds? Athletes make money of their bodies all the time, and it's perfectly acceptable. Everyone has to werk to get money. Some women and men don't have the intelligence or desire to make the money they want with their minds alone, and they sell their bodies. Half of them become heroes, and the other half are labled as whores, if you believe that women have free will, or labeled as slaves if you believe that they don't. Their ain't no justice, is there?
I think that your topic might be a little to broad. Have you considered chosing one of the many smaller topics that other posters have suggested? You could spend an entire year teaching about computer games alone, and not even get into programming, or hardware, etc. History and Culture of Computing is as broad a topic as "History and Culture of the Automobile."