you, for being a nationalist. Harsh people for being different than you all you want, but I was more apathetic about the contents of the movie than you; I didn't even watch the movie, it didn't interest me.
land area isn't that odd of a comparison - Russia might be in the same land mass, but it isn't the same continent. The comparison was the US to the EU, right? Russia is in neither Europe, nor the EU. And the vast majority of Russia isn't inhabitable anyway:) If you're going to add Russia, can we add Mexico, Canada, and all of South America?
funny how often this trollish little attempt at a point is made.
Ok, how about a retort, just for fun. So Americans didn't like it because we don't want to see a big blue dong for half a movie. Europeans on the other hand will love it because they DO like seeing a big blue dong for half a movie.
Not fair? Sortof silly, really? Hmmm. Yeah, I agree.
There is a point at which something goes well beyond gratuitous, passes up Supersize Me, and goes on past there being any point anymore.
is there a non-online version of this forum that things are discussed on, then? Because your online rights (your rights while online, your rights online, etc) makes sense. Adding the completely pointless "discussed online" bit makes no sense; of course it's discussed online. Is there a "ask slashdot, online" option too? How about "hardware, discussed online?" "Science, discussed online?" No?
Oh, well then, let's go with the option that actually makes sense.
Generally speaking, those without insurance are those without money. Those without money are not good places to go for a revenue source. Chicago wants to fix their budget woes by targeting those who can't even afford to pay their current bills? Good luck with that; they'll be at court, they'll tie up lines, and they won't be able to pay. In the end, it will have cost more than it gained, and you'll simply have made the worst off even worse off.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not against getting uninsured motorists off the road, but not as a method for generating revenue. That's just absurd.
unless the person that is abruptly stopping for the short yellow light is riding a motorcycle (stops quick), and the person behind them is a semi (stops very slow). Those are the extremes, but yeah. Also note that once a truck hits a small car from behind at a red light, they'll push said car into the intersection, likely causing the tbone accident as a secondary.
you are having a *moral* problem with throttling p2p traffic? Huh?
Oh sure, mod me troll, and yeah, it's cliche', but a business has to play statistics and look at trends. The overwhelming majority of people using p2p for *legit* things aren't using it for such things day in and day out; they're torrenting a fedora dvd, or something like that. That's fine, works, etc. But if you see someone with a constant stream day in and day out...
...that person, on a general level, you feel morally obligated to protect? Really?
There are plenty of valid uses for p2p. Certainly. Just assume that's not the people who your boss is after; it shouldn't be difficult to determine the difference.
AA gadgets seems to be the overall suggestion people have made, when they actually made suggestions;) thanks for the extra tip; as a bit of an environmentalist, I would like to keep from just having him go through hundreds of non-rechargeable, when possible.
he will indeed be with a LAR unit, doing seek-and-destroy of drugs in areas troops haven't yet been, from what he knows so far. He'll be a part of history, something that people will read about 500 years from now; being able to make little videos of what he sees seems almost something he's duty bound to do, at this point.
I wasn't able to record anything to share with others when I was in; while I don't want to detract from his experience, I do selfishly want to share in it. Also, the mother involved would like to see such things.
Posterity and those not in the moment with you are also a consideration, after all;)
did you get mod'd up, or did you just start at 3? I was an 0311 back in Desert Storm, would re-enlist now if I could, I'm in my late 30's, and I'm hetero. You've got a lot of fail going on there - wrong on every count. No, as the ask-slashdot says, my little brother is heading to Afghanistan, and I'd like to get him gadgets he can't afford. The fact that I make more than him doesn't mean I'm ignorant, or condescending...it's just reality. Not sure why you have a problem with me wanting to buy my brother gadgets...?
forward light-armor recon in Afghanistan; we're talking luxury items anyway, so if it's raining...well, no juice - he'll live. Batteries are hard to get, heavy, and expensive. He generally will be away from camp, for days on end. And since he's a medic and not a Marine...he won't be point.
I checked, and unfortunately I had removed the bit in my profile about the fact that I've been boycotting the RIAA since...well hell, I don't even remember now. Plus, I have a very special place in my heart for Lars...and by "my heart" I mean "in my toilet." This story leaves me with mixed desires, but none of them cause me to think that an artist (or even Lars) taking something they created themselves qualifies as stealing. So, yeah. Comments under yours about sum it up.
unrestricted access to the web...huh. Well, ya got me there, any sane person doesn't have unrestricted access to the web. That, and the way they collect that data does not at all show a real cross-section of anything; it would be like going to a mall in Bel Air, doing a poll of some sort, and claiming that it represents the views of everyone on the globe.
if I took what you wrote incorrectly, please let me know how it should instead be read - am I refusing to work? Did I not answer that? Are others refusing to work? Are they lazy? Rather, is their degree of less effort truly measured on a 1/25,000 scale as those who destroyed AIG?
I remember at one point working at a large manufacturer and noting that our internal records showed more non-VM Linux machines in use than what supposedly existed for the entire globe.
Yeah. You run off and believe those numbers. Go for it.
matters not whether the perception is valid, matters what the perception is. I'm an absolutist myself when searching for truths, but that's not what we're doing here - we're attempting to predict social phenomena. The status of the elite has always been protected merely by the distraction of the poor. The poor are catching on...on a much bigger scale than they did in France in the late 18th century.
That said, I worked ~90 hours each of the last 2 weeks (very non-normal), generally it is around 50hrs. I work my ass off, and do fairly skilled (sr unix engineer) work. My wife has 2 doctorates and does very high-end pathology research. Yet, are we "elite" in financial status due to effort and skill? No. While we're in the top 7 percent, there is a HUGE gap between those in the 3-10% range, and those in the top 1-2% range. I completely reject the notion that, in a society that has orchestrated the need for someone to work at McDonalds, the McDonalds employee works 1/25,000th as hard as any human being on this planet. That you would propose such an idiotic idea suggests you're not noticing yet. I could double my salary...hell, I could be making 500k/yr, and I still wouldn't be rich...my income would still be a joke compared to the people who got millions in bonuses for destroying mega-corps (executives of AIG, as an example). And really? You want to compare that to them working hard, and me not? Seriously? Rather daft, aren't you. Let them eat cake, indeed.
Personally, I feel the evidence indicates that the case was presented in this way because those presenting the case were bought off.
Which would become a criminal concern, something this and many other actions Corporations have taken should have been treated as. This particular case, however, was a class-action civil suit.
you don't like reading, do you - just making up ridiculous counter-arguments.
The way the case was presented, and the way fraud works anyway, the plaintiffs had to prove MS was unjustly enriched by the fraud, not just that the fraud occurred. That the machine is able to use Vista versus the alternative (XP) is an important, and meaningful, distinction. People wanting the world but wanting it for free is a sign of an upcoming revolution, not a sign of something we should pretend has any merit for an argument in a legal case in the current/old system. That the plaintiffs weren't equally affected negated the class-action nature of the case. And what would have been the end result, had this not occurred? Lots of rich lawyers, and consumers getting a few worthless coupons. Don't get hung up on a resolution system that would have been pointless even if MS lost the case.
find a bicycle that is actually just the basic version of a car, then perhaps your argument might mean something. There is a version of Vista those machines would run with, and it is actually Vista...not DOS, not Win3.1, but Vista.
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you, for being a nationalist. Harsh people for being different than you all you want, but I was more apathetic about the contents of the movie than you; I didn't even watch the movie, it didn't interest me.
land area isn't that odd of a comparison - Russia might be in the same land mass, but it isn't the same continent. The comparison was the US to the EU, right? Russia is in neither Europe, nor the EU. And the vast majority of Russia isn't inhabitable anyway :) If you're going to add Russia, can we add Mexico, Canada, and all of South America?
funny how often this trollish little attempt at a point is made.
Ok, how about a retort, just for fun. So Americans didn't like it because we don't want to see a big blue dong for half a movie. Europeans on the other hand will love it because they DO like seeing a big blue dong for half a movie.
Not fair? Sortof silly, really? Hmmm. Yeah, I agree.
There is a point at which something goes well beyond gratuitous, passes up Supersize Me, and goes on past there being any point anymore.
is there a non-online version of this forum that things are discussed on, then? Because your online rights (your rights while online, your rights online, etc) makes sense. Adding the completely pointless "discussed online" bit makes no sense; of course it's discussed online. Is there a "ask slashdot, online" option too? How about "hardware, discussed online?" "Science, discussed online?" No?
Oh, well then, let's go with the option that actually makes sense.
does ticketing the semi make the biker somehow less dead? and automated redlight cameras aren't going to notice the trucker following too closely.
Generally speaking, those without insurance are those without money. Those without money are not good places to go for a revenue source. Chicago wants to fix their budget woes by targeting those who can't even afford to pay their current bills? Good luck with that; they'll be at court, they'll tie up lines, and they won't be able to pay. In the end, it will have cost more than it gained, and you'll simply have made the worst off even worse off.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not against getting uninsured motorists off the road, but not as a method for generating revenue. That's just absurd.
unless the person that is abruptly stopping for the short yellow light is riding a motorcycle (stops quick), and the person behind them is a semi (stops very slow). Those are the extremes, but yeah. Also note that once a truck hits a small car from behind at a red light, they'll push said car into the intersection, likely causing the tbone accident as a secondary.
it's 2009, years after we were supposed to have flying cars, most new computers are 64bit, and Cisco refuses to release a 64bit IPSec client For x64 (64-bit) Windows support, you must utilize Cisco's next-generation Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client." . So umm...we're supposed to think they have any clue what's going on above layer 4 these days? What are they going to be installing on these servers, Windows2000?
you are having a *moral* problem with throttling p2p traffic? Huh?
Oh sure, mod me troll, and yeah, it's cliche', but a business has to play statistics and look at trends. The overwhelming majority of people using p2p for *legit* things aren't using it for such things day in and day out; they're torrenting a fedora dvd, or something like that. That's fine, works, etc. But if you see someone with a constant stream day in and day out...
...that person, on a general level, you feel morally obligated to protect? Really?
There are plenty of valid uses for p2p. Certainly. Just assume that's not the people who your boss is after; it shouldn't be difficult to determine the difference.
AA gadgets seems to be the overall suggestion people have made, when they actually made suggestions ;) thanks for the extra tip; as a bit of an environmentalist, I would like to keep from just having him go through hundreds of non-rechargeable, when possible.
he will indeed be with a LAR unit, doing seek-and-destroy of drugs in areas troops haven't yet been, from what he knows so far. He'll be a part of history, something that people will read about 500 years from now; being able to make little videos of what he sees seems almost something he's duty bound to do, at this point.
I wasn't able to record anything to share with others when I was in; while I don't want to detract from his experience, I do selfishly want to share in it. Also, the mother involved would like to see such things.
Posterity and those not in the moment with you are also a consideration, after all ;)
(feeding the troll...)
did you get mod'd up, or did you just start at 3? I was an 0311 back in Desert Storm, would re-enlist now if I could, I'm in my late 30's, and I'm hetero. You've got a lot of fail going on there - wrong on every count. No, as the ask-slashdot says, my little brother is heading to Afghanistan, and I'd like to get him gadgets he can't afford. The fact that I make more than him doesn't mean I'm ignorant, or condescending...it's just reality. Not sure why you have a problem with me wanting to buy my brother gadgets...?
forward light-armor recon in Afghanistan; we're talking luxury items anyway, so if it's raining...well, no juice - he'll live. Batteries are hard to get, heavy, and expensive. He generally will be away from camp, for days on end. And since he's a medic and not a Marine...he won't be point.
After rent, I still make 5 times as much as him...and I live in a nice area. Thanks for the offtopic, though.
I checked, and unfortunately I had removed the bit in my profile about the fact that I've been boycotting the RIAA since...well hell, I don't even remember now. Plus, I have a very special place in my heart for Lars...and by "my heart" I mean "in my toilet." This story leaves me with mixed desires, but none of them cause me to think that an artist (or even Lars) taking something they created themselves qualifies as stealing. So, yeah. Comments under yours about sum it up.
your comment will be ignored, mostly because it makes too much sense.
unrestricted access to the web...huh. Well, ya got me there, any sane person doesn't have unrestricted access to the web. That, and the way they collect that data does not at all show a real cross-section of anything; it would be like going to a mall in Bel Air, doing a poll of some sort, and claiming that it represents the views of everyone on the globe.
whoosh!
if I took what you wrote incorrectly, please let me know how it should instead be read - am I refusing to work? Did I not answer that? Are others refusing to work? Are they lazy? Rather, is their degree of less effort truly measured on a 1/25,000 scale as those who destroyed AIG?
and if you actually believe those statistics...
I remember at one point working at a large manufacturer and noting that our internal records showed more non-VM Linux machines in use than what supposedly existed for the entire globe.
Yeah. You run off and believe those numbers. Go for it.
matters not whether the perception is valid, matters what the perception is. I'm an absolutist myself when searching for truths, but that's not what we're doing here - we're attempting to predict social phenomena. The status of the elite has always been protected merely by the distraction of the poor. The poor are catching on...on a much bigger scale than they did in France in the late 18th century.
That said, I worked ~90 hours each of the last 2 weeks (very non-normal), generally it is around 50hrs. I work my ass off, and do fairly skilled (sr unix engineer) work. My wife has 2 doctorates and does very high-end pathology research. Yet, are we "elite" in financial status due to effort and skill? No. While we're in the top 7 percent, there is a HUGE gap between those in the 3-10% range, and those in the top 1-2% range. I completely reject the notion that, in a society that has orchestrated the need for someone to work at McDonalds, the McDonalds employee works 1/25,000th as hard as any human being on this planet. That you would propose such an idiotic idea suggests you're not noticing yet. I could double my salary...hell, I could be making 500k/yr, and I still wouldn't be rich...my income would still be a joke compared to the people who got millions in bonuses for destroying mega-corps (executives of AIG, as an example). And really? You want to compare that to them working hard, and me not? Seriously? Rather daft, aren't you. Let them eat cake, indeed.
Personally, I feel the evidence indicates that the case was presented in this way because those presenting the case were bought off.
Which would become a criminal concern, something this and many other actions Corporations have taken should have been treated as. This particular case, however, was a class-action civil suit.
you don't like reading, do you - just making up ridiculous counter-arguments.
The way the case was presented, and the way fraud works anyway, the plaintiffs had to prove MS was unjustly enriched by the fraud, not just that the fraud occurred. That the machine is able to use Vista versus the alternative (XP) is an important, and meaningful, distinction. People wanting the world but wanting it for free is a sign of an upcoming revolution, not a sign of something we should pretend has any merit for an argument in a legal case in the current/old system. That the plaintiffs weren't equally affected negated the class-action nature of the case. And what would have been the end result, had this not occurred? Lots of rich lawyers, and consumers getting a few worthless coupons. Don't get hung up on a resolution system that would have been pointless even if MS lost the case.
find a bicycle that is actually just the basic version of a car, then perhaps your argument might mean something. There is a version of Vista those machines would run with, and it is actually Vista...not DOS, not Win3.1, but Vista.