I remember when I joked that if I'd had a laptop I'd play DOOM in the woods alone in the summer at night, sitting on a treestump... now think Doom III and one of these babes or the ones that are to follow!!
Expensive, yeah, but if you're rich check it it out:P
As you can see some sites will come up error free where as some may only have some slight discolouration. For the most part I could not find a site that did
n't completely blowup in Opera.
I seriously doubt that this was organized by anyone high level at MS.. probably just a salesman who thought it would be a good idea to get everyone to vote in the poll.
As long as you can't come up with more than "serious doubt" and "probably" your guess is just as good as mine, and mine is different. MS tends do shit like this ("aggressive marketing", just that it's not that, it's "dishonest marketing") at every opportunity. So it kinda is "high-level". And what if they teach their salesman that stuff like this is proper practice? Does the CEO have to write the email himself for it to be "high-level"?
And even if the author of the email "acted alone", don't you think that the MS management very likely approves of it?
This is a war in which you have to choose sides: do you support state-sponsored terrorism, or don't you?
Holy cow, you're talking like the US/CIA hadn't a long history of supporting/training terrorists. You're talking like Osama Bin Laden wasn't an American creature, sponsored by the US in the 1980s to keep the Russian Army out of Afghanistan.
And to quote Powell, "people who think they can kill civilians and destroy buildings to achieve political purposes"....sounds like the US to me. Oh the hypocrisy.
American citizens might not realize it right now, you might really think this was an "unprovoked" attack on "liberty and democracy", but history *will* look down on you, if you don't use this opportunity to STOP, LOOK, THINK, and act rationally.
I'm not defending the terrorist attack in the least, I'm just saying you're not a bit better. When 700.000 children died in Iraq (according to the UN) because of the US embargo, you just shrugged and said "they have the choice, if they kick out Saddam the embargo will be gone 2 hours later". I don't know who is behind these attacks, but it could very well be that it's "you have the choice, stop fucking up the middle east and the terrorism stops".
Religion itself isn't to blame, it's used as a tool. Islam itself is strictly against violence except for self-defense. "If you kill a man, you kill the whole humankind" or something along those lines.
much of the news is simply the same facts being repeated.
Facts. Yeah right. It's not so much what they tell you, but what they omit. Taken from http://www.zmag.org/solocalam.htm and posted without the authors consent:
We stare at TV screens and try to comprehend the suffering in the aftermath of terrorism. Much of what we see is ghastly and all too real; terrible anguish and sorrow.
At the same time, we're witnessing an onslaught of media deception. "The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing," Aldous Huxley observed long ago. "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
Silence, rigorously selective, pervades the media coverage of recent days. For policy-makers in Washington, the practical utility of that silence is enormous. In response to the mass murder committed by hijackers, the righteousness of U.S. military action is clear -- as long as double standards go unmentioned.
While rescue crews braved intense smoke and grisly rubble, ABC News analyst Vincent Cannistraro helped to put it all in perspective for millions of TV viewers. Cannistraro is a former high-ranking official of the Central Intelligence Agency who was in charge of the CIA's work with the contras in Nicaragua during the early 1980s. After moving to the National Security Council in 1984, he became a supervisor of covert aid to Afghan guerrillas.
In other words, Cannistraro has a long history of assisting terrorists -- first, contra soldiers who routinely killed Nicaraguan civilians; then, mujahedeen rebels in Afghanistan... like Osama bin Laden.
How can a longtime associate of terrorists now be credibly denouncing "terrorism"? It's easy. All that's required is for media coverage to remain in a kind of history-free zone that has no use for any facets of reality that are not presently convenient to acknowledge.
In his book "1984," George Orwell described the mental dynamics: "The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably necessary."
Secretary of State Colin Powell denounced "people who feel that with the destruction of buildings, with the murder of people, they can somehow achieve a political purpose." He was describing the terrorists who had struck his country hours earlier. But Powell was also aptly describing a long line of top officials in Washington.
Maybe since the events were so hard to believe and grasp, I had to keep watching for it to even seem real.
Maybe you should have used the time you wasted with watching the same stuff over and over again, hearing the same emotional hypocrisy bullshit again and again, for READING UP on the last 50 years. Might help you understand where all this hate is coming from
I see this comment was modded down in 2 seconds by other the other consipracy theorists..
Seems like you are the conspiracy theorist here =)
The government represents the people. What do they have to gain by NOT representing the people? In the event someone doesn't represent accordingly, another will take their place to represent.
So why don't you kick Bush out of office? All he represents are the interests of the big businesses (which hurts the smaller ones, which hurts the overall economy) and the oil industry (which is just retarded, since oil will be gone in 10-20 years, and then you'll have a hard time catching up with the other countries, which are doing a lot more research in alternative energy sources and have a biiig headstart), all that stuff about The Great American Citizens is just giving you what you want to hear. Wake up already.
No system is perfect, but ours does work.
The Taliban isn't perfect either, but it does work. Your point? Replying to criticism with "but NOTHING is PEFECT" is not productive, since no one asking you to be perfect, we're asking you to *improve* some bits here and there. That or stay the fuck out of other countries, you have the choice.
I realize there are some greedy politicians who aren't happy with the 6 figures they earn in office, but that's the exception, not the rule.
Unless you have something to back that up, your speculations are just as likely as mine.
The fact is, if the US citizens demand privacy, then they will have privacy.
Hopefully. But if they don't demand it, because *everybody* knows law-abiding citizens don't have anything to hide, and International Terrorism (tm) is *everywhere* ?
Okay, I'm confused (who isn't?), and I guess my post came across like this. I'm not saying there is a conspiracy; but I am asking you how you make sure that you'll NEVER get fucked over? Maybe one day a president will get a brain tumor and turn evil, who knows?
If you're going to have your govermnent provide for your safety, and allow it to control nearly every aspect of your daily life to do so, better have some means to check up on it.
The US relies on it's intelligence to prevent disasters such as this.
Hmm, doesn't seem to work, does it. How about stopping to be the bully of the world, might be worth a try.
I'm not saying "A is bad because Hitler liked it", I'm saying "while A is claimed to have purpose B, and is nearly useless to reach that goal B, it's actually about the best thing you could do to reach goal C."
Slashdot Mirror
just think of the clouds of insects that will gather between your face and the glowing screen... Good point.
:-/
You could kinda wrap a moskito net around you, but that would defeat the purpose. Or put Insect lights all around you, although that's kinda cruel.
You could also go sit in a laaarge, deeep cave, same concept. Or check out a deserted house or construction site at night etc.
Oh well, and it helps if you're a kid, too...
I remember when I joked that if I'd had a laptop I'd play DOOM in the woods alone in the summer at night, sitting on a treestump... now think Doom III and one of these babes or the ones that are to follow!!
:P
Expensive, yeah, but if you're rich check it it out
Hmm, do you by any chance mean Uridium?
You mean like this?
The point is watermarking, not copy protection.
As long as you can't come up with more than "serious doubt" and "probably" your guess is just as good as mine, and mine is different. MS tends do shit like this ("aggressive marketing", just that it's not that, it's "dishonest marketing") at every opportunity. So it kinda is "high-level". And what if they teach their salesman that stuff like this is proper practice? Does the CEO have to write the email himself for it to be "high-level"?
And even if the author of the email "acted alone", don't you think that the MS management very likely approves of it?
Speaking of the Amiga... "Zombie".
Okay, but you can actually find good stuff on the web.
On the other hand, you'll never get the real deal on TV, no matter how long you search, because it just isn't in there.
I think the fact that so many folks went to CNN shows a weakness in the current people model...
Haha, if M$ vanished, the software/OS industry would benefit and bloom. In the long run, of course. And that's what it's all about, isn't it?
I thought exactly the same, but I liked that. Actually I think I'll reinstall UT. Assault rocks my nuts =)
Bah. In my days, we had to actually run around and shoot people =)
the people on the front line
Yeah, fighting against time, the battle of helping the victim still rages on.
I don't think these brave folks have any appetite for this talk. Those who have seen the horror first hand just want it to STOP.
This is a war in which you have to choose sides: do you support state-sponsored terrorism, or don't you?
Holy cow, you're talking like the US/CIA hadn't a long history of supporting/training terrorists. You're talking like Osama Bin Laden wasn't an American creature, sponsored by the US in the 1980s to keep the Russian Army out of Afghanistan.
And to quote Powell, "people who think they can kill civilians and destroy buildings to achieve political purposes"....sounds like the US to me. Oh the hypocrisy.
American citizens might not realize it right now, you might really think this was an "unprovoked" attack on "liberty and democracy", but history *will* look down on you, if you don't use this opportunity to STOP, LOOK, THINK, and act rationally.
I'm not defending the terrorist attack in the least, I'm just saying you're not a bit better. When 700.000 children died in Iraq (according to the UN) because of the US embargo, you just shrugged and said "they have the choice, if they kick out Saddam the embargo will be gone 2 hours later". I don't know who is behind these attacks, but it could very well be that it's "you have the choice, stop fucking up the middle east and the terrorism stops".
This nation was founded as a Christian nation on Biblical principles.
Yeah RIGHT. Try the State/Church Quiz, might clear up a thing or two.
Religion itself isn't to blame, it's used as a tool. Islam itself is strictly against violence except for self-defense. "If you kill a man, you kill the whole humankind" or something along those lines.
much of the news is simply the same facts being repeated.
... like Osama bin Laden.
Facts. Yeah right. It's not so much what they tell you, but what they omit. Taken from http://www.zmag.org/solocalam.htm and posted without the authors consent:
We stare at TV screens and try to comprehend the suffering in the aftermath of terrorism. Much of what we see is ghastly and all too real; terrible anguish and sorrow.
At the same time, we're witnessing an onslaught of media deception. "The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing," Aldous Huxley observed long ago. "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
Silence, rigorously selective, pervades the media coverage of recent days. For policy-makers in Washington, the practical utility of that silence is enormous. In response to the mass murder committed by hijackers, the righteousness of U.S. military action is clear -- as long as double standards go unmentioned.
While rescue crews braved intense smoke and grisly rubble, ABC News analyst Vincent Cannistraro helped to put it all in perspective for millions of TV viewers. Cannistraro is a former high-ranking official of the Central Intelligence Agency who was in charge of the CIA's work with the contras in Nicaragua during the early 1980s. After moving to the National Security Council in 1984, he became a supervisor of covert aid to Afghan guerrillas.
In other words, Cannistraro has a long history of assisting terrorists -- first, contra soldiers who routinely killed Nicaraguan civilians; then, mujahedeen rebels in Afghanistan
How can a longtime associate of terrorists now be credibly denouncing "terrorism"? It's easy. All that's required is for media coverage to remain in a kind of history-free zone that has no use for any facets of reality that are not presently convenient to acknowledge.
In his book "1984," George Orwell described the mental dynamics: "The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably necessary."
Secretary of State Colin Powell denounced "people who feel that with the destruction of buildings, with the murder of people, they can somehow achieve a political purpose." He was describing the terrorists who had struck his country hours earlier. But Powell was also aptly describing a long line of top officials in Washington.
We look for more answers, and that's why we cannot turn the TV off.
That's tragic, because the answers will come from anywhere BUT the TV.
Maybe since the events were so hard to believe and grasp, I had to keep watching for it to even seem real.
Maybe you should have used the time you wasted with watching the same stuff over and over again, hearing the same emotional hypocrisy bullshit again and again, for READING UP on the last 50 years. Might help you understand where all this hate is coming from
News Addiction != Knowledge Addiction
Yeah right. Get the hell outta there, don't bother changing anything. Just go where it's a *little* bit better.
Repeat this until it's equally bad everywhere.
I see this comment was modded down in 2 seconds by other the other consipracy theorists..
Seems like you are the conspiracy theorist here =)
The government represents the people. What do they have to gain by NOT representing the people? In the event someone doesn't represent accordingly, another will take their place to represent.
So why don't you kick Bush out of office? All he represents are the interests of the big businesses (which hurts the smaller ones, which hurts the overall economy) and the oil industry (which is just retarded, since oil will be gone in 10-20 years, and then you'll have a hard time catching up with the other countries, which are doing a lot more research in alternative energy sources and have a biiig headstart), all that stuff about The Great American Citizens is just giving you what you want to hear. Wake up already.
No system is perfect, but ours does work.
The Taliban isn't perfect either, but it does work. Your point? Replying to criticism with "but NOTHING is PEFECT" is not productive, since no one asking you to be perfect, we're asking you to *improve* some bits here and there. That or stay the fuck out of other countries, you have the choice.
I realize there are some greedy politicians who aren't happy with the 6 figures they earn in office, but that's the exception, not the rule.
Unless you have something to back that up, your speculations are just as likely as mine.
The fact is, if the US citizens demand privacy, then they will have privacy.
Hopefully. But if they don't demand it, because *everybody* knows law-abiding citizens don't have anything to hide, and International Terrorism (tm) is *everywhere* ?
Hey, thanks for taking the time to clear that up! Just ignore the quote then, I don't think it makes a difference.
*sigh* YACT (Yet Another Conspiracy Theorist)
Okay, I'm confused (who isn't?), and I guess my post came across like this. I'm not saying there is a conspiracy; but I am asking you how you make sure that you'll NEVER get fucked over? Maybe one day a president will get a brain tumor and turn evil, who knows?
If you're going to have your govermnent provide for your safety, and allow it to control nearly every aspect of your daily life to do so, better have some means to check up on it.
The US relies on it's intelligence to prevent disasters such as this.
Hmm, doesn't seem to work, does it. How about stopping to be the bully of the world, might be worth a try.
I'm not saying "A is bad because Hitler liked it", I'm saying "while A is claimed to have purpose B, and is nearly useless to reach that goal B, it's actually about the best thing you could do to reach goal C."
That, and "Watch you back."