Okay, moderator...who ever modded this down is fucking stupid. Yes, you, you fucking idiot. Normally I don't care if I get modded down, but I'll make an exception in your case.
My posts are always given 2 points because of my karma level, not because someone modded it up. Yet you called my comment overrated. Why the fuck are you wasting your time with me and not burning a point on a Troll? Because you're a fucking retard.
It infuriates me to see other people fuck with my shit for NO APPARENT REASON! The comment above was in reference to a comment by another user, and granted, it's off-topic (at best) but it's also BURIED IN THE FUCKING THREAD. Why the hell are you bothering to read down in threads to moderate something down? Why don't you waste your brainpower on something that is actually grabbing the attention of more than two fucking people, MORON.
This is why I refuse to moderate on/. anymore...because democracies will vote themselves bread and circuses until they destroy themselves and Slashdot moderators are fucking idiots.
Do you have BBC America? I know it isn't quite the same thing...most of the shows are not new, but I get my Python/Faulty Towers fix from it. There's a few other good shows as well. The national PBS feed, from what I remember, was pretty much documentary heavy, mostly American documentarys at that...
Hate local channels?!? Yeah, I hate some of my local channels too. There are also channels that I like that I cannot get because of the retarted local channel rules.
For instance, until recently, I was able to receive the nationwide PBS feed on my DirecTV satellite system. Unfortunately, DTV recently switched my PBS to the local PBS. Now, instead of getting all the high budget, awesome PBS programming like Nova, Frontline, Secrets of the Dead, Nature, etc. I have to watch all the terrible (not all of it, mind you, but a lot) local, low budget shite. I'm sorry, all you PBS workers, but even in Chicago, a good deal of the locally produced public television is little better than cable access tv.
What I would really like to be able to have is both, and I did for a month...but because of these ridiculous FCC rules, I can no longer have the nationwide PBS feed, and have lost most of the programming I was accustomed to getting in a timely manner.
Hell, I'd pay more for the nationwide PBS than I do for HBO.
Just what we need, a bunch of assholes with blue glowing laptop and pda screens clicking and tapping away at their devices in the middle of a movie.
I don't know about you'all, but I get livid when they don't turn the house lights down all the way. Now I'm going to have to have the bottom half of my night vision ruined by idiots with glowing laptops?
No thanks!
I got the same letter...
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I had to look through all the comments to see if anyone else had posted it, so i'll not post it too. Not a bad form letter though, and it pretty much did address my concerns.
I hate the fact that everyone is moving to these idiotic subscription models...it's really just a way for providers to fleece the market just that much more.
When in high school, a buddy of mine and I made a magnetic gun of sorts by taking magnet wire (think 24 guage, laminated, solid core wire) and wrapping it around a piece of 1/2 inch pvc pipe about eight times or so. Then, by running a very powerful DC current through the wire, it turned tha apparatus into a very powerful solenoid, of sorts. If you put a projectile in one end, turned on the power, and disconnected it before the projectile reached the middle of the tube, it would continue out the other side of the tube for some distance. I think the final version was able to shoot a small wood screw about 30 feet or so...
I read quite a few of the comments, and most of what I was able to find (albeit in a very small sample, 20 or so) were pro-Microsoft comments. Now, at least 5 of those 20 were form letters that must have originated with M$ and quite a few others seemed to be so clueless as to what M$ does in the marketplace..."stop harrasing Microsoft"..."stop keeping M$ from innovating"...ugh...
The United States is populated with sheep. I can't wait to leave...
I guess the money from Phillips's patent and royalties paid to the DVD-CCA would be separate (though Phillips is prolly part of the DVD-CCA and would see some of that too).
Interesting though how the DVD-CCA is not going after these folks, too, as it's obviously a violation of the DMCA(as they would have you read it...)...or are the rip-off player manufacturers paying the DVD-CCA and not Phillips? That doesn't sound right to me...
Saying this is contradictory to Phillips's position on copy protected CD's is not correct. Phillips going after illegal DVD manufacturers is very similar to them chafing against copy protected CD's.
Someone is using a format that they invented, have the patent on, and should for a reasonable time, have the ability to apportion the use of that patent(s) out as they will. The difference here is that the folks they are going after are making money "stealing" Phillips's technology, unlike a certain sixteen year old kid from Norway.
While I don't agree with everything they do with their patents (region encoding is complete bullshit theivery....glad I don't live in the UK and have to pay $30 per DVD), this is a relatively new technology and they do hold the patent...this is what patents are for, to keep lazy assholes from making money off you your invention for a certain period of time.
....most wall street analysts panned the profits made by Amazon in the first quarter. As a retailer, the last quarter (Oct/Nov/Dec) is supposed to be their biggest quarter of the year, and by a large margin. Amazon barely made a profit that quarter. Sales for the next three quarters are going to be significantly lower for Amazon, basically until the holiday season begins anew. I seriously doubt Amazon will make a profit for those three quarters, and will still be a bad investment for the next several years.
The problem with fusion reactions isn't so much controlling the reaction, but keeping the reaction going. These folks aren't wrapping a magnetic bottle around a hydrogen bomb here. A "breach" in a fusion reactor will result in the reaction stopping, and perhaps some spilled fuel locally.
Fusion reactors will not explode...the energy they create is not "explosive" but rather maintained and constant.
...ish.
I thought this idiocy was over...
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Didn't anyone tell Verisign that the dot com bubble burst? What? Do they expect to get $10 million a piece from NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and CNN and run away with a $5 million profit? I don't get it. IIRC, domain speculation has pretty much gone bust too, and this seems to be that...
I suppose if you look at S.A.F.E. in that light, it might be a descent film. I really didn't like it mostly because it made me cringe to think that people like that exist, not so much that it was a bad film. I believe I spent about 90 minutes writhing in pained anxiety that one of these nutjobs would turn up in real life.
Of course, "nutjob" not being the preferred nomenclature, as psychological conditions are really not to be made light of.
...as the idiot with the web site dedicated to eliminating letterboxed movies and television because "the black bars are censoring the movie".
There was a movie out several years ago called "S.A.F.E" about that chemical sensitivity crap. Please avoid it at all costs, as it is about a nutjob who thinks she's allergic to everything and must live in a clean porcelain box.
All you nutjobs out there...you don't like electromagnetic radiation? I suggest you bury yourselves deep within the ground in a lead lined box...even that will not stop many cosmic rays from penetrating your soul from time to time.
Hey Taco, next time you link a Japanese only site, specify it so. I have little time to look at nothing more than a booklet of pretty pictures.
I don't think you get my point...
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"...blah blah blah...I don't give a rat's arse...blah blah blah"
You see, the above quote is not intended in support of any Israeli or Jewish cause. I also don't give a rat's arse about the other side of the morality coin. What I do know is that a whole bunch of people are killing each other every day for little more than revenge at this point.
If you were to ask the average eight year old Jew in "Palestine" why the Isrealis kill Arabs, you would receive the answer, "because they kill us". Now turn that question around and ask the Arab/Palestinian child, and you will receive the same answer.
That whole situation is shite. Were I born there, I'd have left when I was 18...earlier if possible. Some patch of treeless, over-dry land is not worth your life.
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As is the case with certain sects of Christianity and Judiasm. Hell, if you looked hard enough, you might even find some violent Buddists.
That comment you made above is complete malarky. Sacrament? Bullshit. What I do believe is there are a bunch of murderous fanatics in this world, and whether they belong to the teachings of Mohammed or Jesus Christ is beside the point.
You are not going to convince me that half a billion people on this planet believe that killing others is their God given right as a believer. Jihad doesn't mean "war", it means "struggle" and fatah doesn't mean "death sentence" either, it's an "edict".
The biggest reason for violence coming out of the Middle East is that power is in the hands of too few people (Whether it be the Wahabi, the Saud, Ayatollahs or the Israelis). Much of the Middle East is not represented or under represented. Nearly half the population of Israel is Palestinian. How much voting power do those folks have? Nearly zero.
The fighting always has been, and always will be about politics, not religion, so make sure you've got your facts straight before accusing half a billion people of being ordained murderers.
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And no pacifist, if I'm not mistaken...but, in a discussion amongst Westerners, I believe the utterence of the single name Gandhi will bring to mind Mahatma...
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Exactly...
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Hey, I'm not saying pacifism is the only way to go, but it certainly is an option. I'll not cite India specifically, but if the Israelis were to mow down a few hundred peaceful Palestinian protesters (as did the British before CNN and the Internet), I'm certain that Israel's days of support from the U.S. would be numbered.
But considering the fact that Hamas leaders insist upon sending the youth of Palestine to their deaths, that "moral high ground" is unreachable.
I personally dont give a rat's arse about the morality of the situation, but if the Palestinians really want the United States to stop supporting Israel, they need to do something that Americans can identify with. Strapping 20 pounds of C4 to your chest and walking into a crowded disco full of teenagers before detonating youself is most definitely not something that Americans can identify with. In fact, most Americans are horrified by such an act and would much rather see the folks doing such things stamped out of existance than support them.
Americans are so far removed from the situation that all they see is murder and revenge, not defence and the liberation of one's peoples.
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D'oh!
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I have a feeling that the teachings of Dr. King and M. Ghandi will have much more of an impact once "oppressed peoples" realize that violence isn't going to harm the "enemy" any more.
That, and had the Palestinians taken a King/Ghandi approach to their current situation (apartheid), they would stand on much higher moral ground than the Israelis. But that's another story entirely.
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Okay, moderator...who ever modded this down is fucking stupid. Yes, you, you fucking idiot. Normally I don't care if I get modded down, but I'll make an exception in your case.
/. anymore...because democracies will vote themselves bread and circuses until they destroy themselves and Slashdot moderators are fucking idiots.
My posts are always given 2 points because of my karma level, not because someone modded it up. Yet you called my comment overrated. Why the fuck are you wasting your time with me and not burning a point on a Troll? Because you're a fucking retard.
It infuriates me to see other people fuck with my shit for NO APPARENT REASON! The comment above was in reference to a comment by another user, and granted, it's off-topic (at best) but it's also BURIED IN THE FUCKING THREAD. Why the hell are you bothering to read down in threads to moderate something down? Why don't you waste your brainpower on something that is actually grabbing the attention of more than two fucking people, MORON.
This is why I refuse to moderate on
Do you have BBC America? I know it isn't quite the same thing...most of the shows are not new, but I get my Python/Faulty Towers fix from it. There's a few other good shows as well. The national PBS feed, from what I remember, was pretty much documentary heavy, mostly American documentarys at that...
Hate local channels?!? Yeah, I hate some of my local channels too. There are also channels that I like that I cannot get because of the retarted local channel rules.
For instance, until recently, I was able to receive the nationwide PBS feed on my DirecTV satellite system. Unfortunately, DTV recently switched my PBS to the local PBS. Now, instead of getting all the high budget, awesome PBS programming like Nova, Frontline, Secrets of the Dead, Nature, etc. I have to watch all the terrible (not all of it, mind you, but a lot) local, low budget shite. I'm sorry, all you PBS workers, but even in Chicago, a good deal of the locally produced public television is little better than cable access tv.
What I would really like to be able to have is both, and I did for a month...but because of these ridiculous FCC rules, I can no longer have the nationwide PBS feed, and have lost most of the programming I was accustomed to getting in a timely manner.
Hell, I'd pay more for the nationwide PBS than I do for HBO.
Did you stand there and gloat at the asshole while the judge yelled at him?
Just what we need, a bunch of assholes with blue glowing laptop and pda screens clicking and tapping away at their devices in the middle of a movie.
I don't know about you'all, but I get livid when they don't turn the house lights down all the way. Now I'm going to have to have the bottom half of my night vision ruined by idiots with glowing laptops?
No thanks!
I had to look through all the comments to see if anyone else had posted it, so i'll not post it too. Not a bad form letter though, and it pretty much did address my concerns.
I hate the fact that everyone is moving to these idiotic subscription models...it's really just a way for providers to fleece the market just that much more.
When in high school, a buddy of mine and I made a magnetic gun of sorts by taking magnet wire (think 24 guage, laminated, solid core wire) and wrapping it around a piece of 1/2 inch pvc pipe about eight times or so. Then, by running a very powerful DC current through the wire, it turned tha apparatus into a very powerful solenoid, of sorts. If you put a projectile in one end, turned on the power, and disconnected it before the projectile reached the middle of the tube, it would continue out the other side of the tube for some distance. I think the final version was able to shoot a small wood screw about 30 feet or so...
I read quite a few of the comments, and most of what I was able to find (albeit in a very small sample, 20 or so) were pro-Microsoft comments. Now, at least 5 of those 20 were form letters that must have originated with M$ and quite a few others seemed to be so clueless as to what M$ does in the marketplace..."stop harrasing Microsoft"..."stop keeping M$ from innovating"...ugh...
The United States is populated with sheep. I can't wait to leave...
I guess the money from Phillips's patent and royalties paid to the DVD-CCA would be separate (though Phillips is prolly part of the DVD-CCA and would see some of that too).
Interesting though how the DVD-CCA is not going after these folks, too, as it's obviously a violation of the DMCA(as they would have you read it...)...or are the rip-off player manufacturers paying the DVD-CCA and not Phillips? That doesn't sound right to me...
Saying this is contradictory to Phillips's position on copy protected CD's is not correct. Phillips going after illegal DVD manufacturers is very similar to them chafing against copy protected CD's.
Someone is using a format that they invented, have the patent on, and should for a reasonable time, have the ability to apportion the use of that patent(s) out as they will. The difference here is that the folks they are going after are making money "stealing" Phillips's technology, unlike a certain sixteen year old kid from Norway.
While I don't agree with everything they do with their patents (region encoding is complete bullshit theivery....glad I don't live in the UK and have to pay $30 per DVD), this is a relatively new technology and they do hold the patent...this is what patents are for, to keep lazy assholes from making money off you your invention for a certain period of time.
....most wall street analysts panned the profits made by Amazon in the first quarter. As a retailer, the last quarter (Oct/Nov/Dec) is supposed to be their biggest quarter of the year, and by a large margin. Amazon barely made a profit that quarter. Sales for the next three quarters are going to be significantly lower for Amazon, basically until the holiday season begins anew. I seriously doubt Amazon will make a profit for those three quarters, and will still be a bad investment for the next several years.
Online retailing has not come of age.
The problem with fusion reactions isn't so much controlling the reaction, but keeping the reaction going. These folks aren't wrapping a magnetic bottle around a hydrogen bomb here. A "breach" in a fusion reactor will result in the reaction stopping, and perhaps some spilled fuel locally.
Fusion reactors will not explode...the energy they create is not "explosive" but rather maintained and constant.
...ish.
Didn't anyone tell Verisign that the dot com bubble burst? What? Do they expect to get $10 million a piece from NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and CNN and run away with a $5 million profit? I don't get it. IIRC, domain speculation has pretty much gone bust too, and this seems to be that...
Egggcellent...I forgot where that was. Thanks!
I suppose if you look at S.A.F.E. in that light, it might be a descent film. I really didn't like it mostly because it made me cringe to think that people like that exist, not so much that it was a bad film. I believe I spent about 90 minutes writhing in pained anxiety that one of these nutjobs would turn up in real life.
Of course, "nutjob" not being the preferred nomenclature, as psychological conditions are really not to be made light of.
Go see the movie, it'll provide some insight...
...as the idiot with the web site dedicated to eliminating letterboxed movies and television because "the black bars are censoring the movie".
There was a movie out several years ago called "S.A.F.E" about that chemical sensitivity crap. Please avoid it at all costs, as it is about a nutjob who thinks she's allergic to everything and must live in a clean porcelain box.
All you nutjobs out there...you don't like electromagnetic radiation? I suggest you bury yourselves deep within the ground in a lead lined box...even that will not stop many cosmic rays from penetrating your soul from time to time.
Not the CIA! Major League Baseball with their roving constellations of satellites...
Hey Taco, next time you link a Japanese only site, specify it so. I have little time to look at nothing more than a booklet of pretty pictures.
"...blah blah blah...I don't give a rat's arse...blah blah blah"
You see, the above quote is not intended in support of any Israeli or Jewish cause. I also don't give a rat's arse about the other side of the morality coin. What I do know is that a whole bunch of people are killing each other every day for little more than revenge at this point.
If you were to ask the average eight year old Jew in "Palestine" why the Isrealis kill Arabs, you would receive the answer, "because they kill us". Now turn that question around and ask the Arab/Palestinian child, and you will receive the same answer.
That whole situation is shite. Were I born there, I'd have left when I was 18...earlier if possible. Some patch of treeless, over-dry land is not worth your life.
As is the case with certain sects of Christianity and Judiasm. Hell, if you looked hard enough, you might even find some violent Buddists.
That comment you made above is complete malarky. Sacrament? Bullshit. What I do believe is there are a bunch of murderous fanatics in this world, and whether they belong to the teachings of Mohammed or Jesus Christ is beside the point.
You are not going to convince me that half a billion people on this planet believe that killing others is their God given right as a believer. Jihad doesn't mean "war", it means "struggle" and fatah doesn't mean "death sentence" either, it's an "edict".
The biggest reason for violence coming out of the Middle East is that power is in the hands of too few people (Whether it be the Wahabi, the Saud, Ayatollahs or the Israelis). Much of the Middle East is not represented or under represented. Nearly half the population of Israel is Palestinian. How much voting power do those folks have? Nearly zero.
The fighting always has been, and always will be about politics, not religion, so make sure you've got your facts straight before accusing half a billion people of being ordained murderers.
And no pacifist, if I'm not mistaken...but, in a discussion amongst Westerners, I believe the utterence of the single name Gandhi will bring to mind Mahatma...
Exactly...
Hey, I'm not saying pacifism is the only way to go, but it certainly is an option. I'll not cite India specifically, but if the Israelis were to mow down a few hundred peaceful Palestinian protesters (as did the British before CNN and the Internet), I'm certain that Israel's days of support from the U.S. would be numbered.
But considering the fact that Hamas leaders insist upon sending the youth of Palestine to their deaths, that "moral high ground" is unreachable.
I personally dont give a rat's arse about the morality of the situation, but if the Palestinians really want the United States to stop supporting Israel, they need to do something that Americans can identify with. Strapping 20 pounds of C4 to your chest and walking into a crowded disco full of teenagers before detonating youself is most definitely not something that Americans can identify with. In fact, most Americans are horrified by such an act and would much rather see the folks doing such things stamped out of existance than support them.
Americans are so far removed from the situation that all they see is murder and revenge, not defence and the liberation of one's peoples.
D'oh!
I have a feeling that the teachings of Dr. King and M. Ghandi will have much more of an impact once "oppressed peoples" realize that violence isn't going to harm the "enemy" any more.
That, and had the Palestinians taken a King/Ghandi approach to their current situation (apartheid), they would stand on much higher moral ground than the Israelis. But that's another story entirely.