I just came back from sixteen days in Europe pretty recently (my first visit) and it's true - though the majority of places at which I drank beer kept it in refrigerators, their temperature was nowhere near as low as we keep them in the US. (This was nice when you go to butter your bread in the morning, incidentally). German beer tastes pretty good warm. You should give it a try sometime.
I get really sick of this crap that's posted around here though about how we only keep ours cold to kill the flavor. It's not true. As the wise man a few posts below me indicated, we just like cold beverages around here. (In Nebraska, it has been over 40 degrees Celsius for the past week if you need an idea of why that might be) Beer snobbery is HUGE on Slashdot, among both Americans and Europeans and pretty much everyone else here. Snobbery would really lose its effectiveness if you didn't have a great story you completely made up so that you could more verbosely look down on something, right?
I had by far the best beer I have ever had during those days in Germany and Belgium. (In fact, if anyone knows where I can get a bottle of Chimay for less than $6 I would love to know about it). When I got back to Nebraska, however, the first thing I wanted to drink was an ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon. There's nothing wrong with a little variety, and I'm just not quite enough of an elitist asshole to complain about a national tradition, I guess.
The guy (JD8) is most likely a meth addict. I've had several in my family and a handful of friends who have dabbled in it. It's not so much the late night parties; it's more the working on his car and his house at 2:00 or 3:00 or 5:00 A.M. bit. People tend to not sleep for several days at a run when they're tweaking.
I agree with you that you can't really change the law. Of course, corporations can only buy laws because no one really cares about any of it. To change the law, a lot more people than just some guys on Slashdot would have to give a rat's ass one way or the other, and they JUST DON'T.
How about just don't buy their particular brand of entertainment? If you disagree with their control over their own assets, why not listen to music that falls outside the boundaries of their empire? I see dozens of great bands every year that are not on major record labels, and I live in Lincoln, Nebraska of all places. If you're near Chicago, Lawrence, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Austin, or anywhere like that there are some really kick ass acts around ALL THE TIME, most of whom bear no affiliation to the RIAA whatsoever.
If the RIAA/MPAA REALLY gets under your skin and the skins of about a thousand other Slashdot posters as much as you continue to claim, why do you want anything to do with their products in the first place?
Alternatives do exist, and they don't suck just because they're not millionaires and they don't have platinum records or whatever. Hundreds of bands have garnered enough national attention to be able to live off of touring and small record sales simply because they are good enough that people want to hear them. The idea that you have to sign some soul crushing contract and join a major label to make a living is only for people with big gold dollar signs in their eyes. No one REALLY needs the RIAA to get their shit out there.
She is not a "public figure" - she posts on a blog. You can read her opinions and the court documents she helpfully provides, and decide whether or not you agree with her.
If you are only willing to agree with someone when you know who they are, that's fine and I'm not so much calling you out on that, but all that really means is that you shouldn't be reading her blog.
So, I guess my question is - why are you such an asshole? Were you born that way or did you develop this condition out of bitterness or turmoil or what?
I read the parent's post and scrolled through all of these KNOWING there would be one irritating, pompous pedant like you calling him out for the HORRIBLE CRIME OF PLURALIZING A TRADEMARK. Oh god, the horror!!!
Seriously, do you work for Lego? If not, then WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH?
Actually, all he said was something about an ass sandwich and you shit your diaper and cried about it for a while.
You SAID that he should stop "engaging in hyperbole" in an effort to sway people. Could you explain to the rest of us outspoken assholes how that is NOT telling him to hold back his opinion?
I really hate you "WHY IS THIS NEWS?!!!!" crybabies. It's news because this particular ISP is doing something which it previously was not. See how that works? Something HAPPENS, and then someone REPORTS that it happened, and then the story gets posted here because its subject matter appeals to a large portion of this site's readership. Are you so blindingly stupid as to actually need this explained to you? It's the fucking dictionary definition of news.
By the way, most ISPs still are NOT doing this. Time Warner's Road Runner, for instance, never even looks in the direction of a trojaned machine on their network - at least in my area.
God damn, I am glad you stepped in to correct this. There is NOTHING WORSE than when someone is telling a joke on Slashdot and they get THE FACTS of the situation wrong! I mean, someone could have LAUGHED at the guy's joke, you know, it could have been FUNNY but since the LOCATION was WRONG, it was as if all the humor was COMPLETELY INVALIDATED.
Boy it's a good thing you were here so that didn't happen though, huh?
What does piggybacking on someone's WAP have to do with his mobile phone? He is saying the guy should get a wireless card and use his neighbor's internet access.
Why would you have modded him down? Which moderation category do you feel you could have fit his post into?
I guess I'm confused, because you don't seem to disagree with him that much - he listed features he'd like to see in IE7, you listed features you'd like to see in IE7 - what's the problem?
The market decided that the latest Britney Spears album or whatever is worth $15. They offer something at a price AND PEOPLE BUY IT. How is that not a price which is determined by the market?
If I grew watermelons in my back yard and people were willing to shell out $100 for each one, then WHY IN THE LOVE OF FUCK would I sell them for $10 instead? That's like throwing money away. What's the point?
Think about this - some movie studio has the exclusive rights to publish and distribute a particular movie. Now, how do you suppose they would feel if I started my own publishing company, took a copy of their movie, and sold it to theaters in my area, undercutting their price. Or even GIVING IT AWAY for free.
That's pretty much what you're defending with your analogy, right? You're saying you have a RIGHT to DISTRIBUTE someone else's movie. Call me up the first time you publish a book. I'm going to undercut your publisher's sale price since I have the right to give everything away, after all.
Well, actually, in a way I agree with the statement that this is an expression of the will of the people. However, what that says to me is that the will of most people is that if something that they should have paid for can be had conveniently, for free, they will have it, and the law be damned.
That's sad but true and I am certainly not going to exempt myself from that group, but it is not something noble you should be striving to protect - saving your ability to obtain things without paying is NOT the cause you want to devote your energy to.
Browse around the internet for a while (especially Livejournal). There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of self proclaimed geniuses with blogs all over the place - people who admit that they dropped out of high school or college, that they can't get a decent job (or any job), and that besides writing diary entries, they have nothing concrete to show anyone that displays their genius.
It's a personality type. These people also complain at great length that the only reason they've never accomplished anything is that society measures their value incorrectly. Seriously, they are a dime a dozen.
I went to college with some extremely intelligent, highly motivated friends who got excellent grades because they dedicated themselves to their schoolwork. I slacked off like crazy and got a low GPA and barely finished my degree. Do I make an excuse that I'm anything but a lazy slacker? No way. Do I call myself a misunderstood genius? Again - NO FUCKING WAY.
Your ability to apply yourself to something is *important* if you are going to try to impress people with how brilliant you are. If you're not concerned with that (I never was) then quit making dumb excuses like you're an inventor genius and just admit that you're fucking lazy.
So did you miss the sarcasm/humor because you choked under pressure, which would mean that you are smart, or is it because you're a big dummy? Just curious.
It's fine if you want to sound like a huge fucking dork all the time.
HEY GUYS could you go down to the store and pick me up some BOXEN OF LUCKY CHARMS? I'd do it but I caught some WICKED VIRII from being out in the cold too long! HEY WHY IS EVERYONE PUNCHING ME?!
Then your other roommate hits you with a chair so you'll shut up. The end.
Man am I ever glad you posted. It's a good thing to know that the JOKE MONITOR is on the job! Otherwise, I might have erroneously chuckled at a joke which obviously DOES NOT CONTAIN THE PROPER AMOUNT OF ACCURACY.
HA! Torture? God I love Slashdot sometimes. Where do you people fucking COME from? Way to trivialize anyone EVER who's been tortured by comparing it to something so comparatively insignificant.
Please stop posting until you can develop a GOD DAMN sense of perspective.
We all hated the kid with the laptop when I was a Freshman in Comp Sci. That was 8 years ago, so things are probably a lot different now, but man I wanted to change my major to "Kicking That Kid In The Nuts" every time I was in class.
Right now men and women are not held equal under the law. The supreme court has ruled in the past that all the rights of the constitution apply only to men and no case has come up to change this.
Well that was a pretty insipid response until your last line there - what in the fuck are you talking about with that? That doesn't make any sense at all.
You know, I already posted pretty much the same thing I am about to somewhere else, but you made me think about it some more.
I live in the US. Our government is, in my opinion, a fair representative of the opinions, the desires, and the weaknesses of the general populace. Everyone is telling cynics such as yourself that you should work to improve the government if you don't like it, but I am going to go ahead and disagree with all of those people - you can't change anything. Ever.
You are absolutely right to be cynical; however, I am not one to believe that politics works the way it does because the people at the top are attempting to exploit everyone else. I work for the State of Nebraska, so let me give you and all the other "oppressed" people some advice: the US government is the way it is because of two things and only two things: unbelievably massive inefficiency, and total, unabashed apathy. Seriously, it goes from the lowest levels of government available (i.e. some low level programmer such as myself) to some of the most influential offices around (Congress).
I am not making a blanket statement about ALL politicians; as in American society, there are people with genuine ambitions and closely held beliefs who want to make something great out of their life. In general, however, our government is EXACTLY like the general US population - you do whatever you need to do to maintain an adequate life for yourself - you go to work, you do your job, you push all ambition out of your mind completely and forget about your dreams and you just live. And you know what, most people are fine with that.
We in the US have exactly the government we want, and exactly the one we deserve. You may not like it, and I usually don't, but such is the nature of our lazy society. Do you really think that our government could exist in its form if it wasn't satisfactory to most people? That's freedom for you, right there.
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I bet we wouldn't. There would, as usual, be a huge crying shitstorm from the religious zealots, but then nothing would ever come of it, because all they're doing is political posturing.
The nature of the US government is such that the only real measuring stick of success for most politicians is in their ability to maintain their careers as elected officials over an extended period of time. The notion that they should censor things, rather than springing out of any real belief that it is right to do so, springs instead from their desire to temporarily please a particular piece of their constituency. As it turns out, actually following through and banning something is completely unnecessary to that end - merely talking about it is good enough.
The FBI might start taking a closer look at people who bought the thing though. That wouldn't surprise me at all.
God, people like you make me want to puke. Your unabashed cynicism, backed up by NOT ONE single reference, but rather a horrid, confusing mess of paranoia and hatred, is like someone punching me in the throat repeatedly every time I read it.
I have a hard time believing that even someone as mind fuckingly insane as YOU can honestly believe that, because you dislike Microsoft Windows, donating money to VACCINATING CHILDREN is somehow ALSO BAD. Good lord, you are a disgusting caricature.
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I just came back from sixteen days in Europe pretty recently (my first visit) and it's true - though the majority of places at which I drank beer kept it in refrigerators, their temperature was nowhere near as low as we keep them in the US. (This was nice when you go to butter your bread in the morning, incidentally). German beer tastes pretty good warm. You should give it a try sometime.
I get really sick of this crap that's posted around here though about how we only keep ours cold to kill the flavor. It's not true. As the wise man a few posts below me indicated, we just like cold beverages around here. (In Nebraska, it has been over 40 degrees Celsius for the past week if you need an idea of why that might be) Beer snobbery is HUGE on Slashdot, among both Americans and Europeans and pretty much everyone else here. Snobbery would really lose its effectiveness if you didn't have a great story you completely made up so that you could more verbosely look down on something, right?
I had by far the best beer I have ever had during those days in Germany and Belgium. (In fact, if anyone knows where I can get a bottle of Chimay for less than $6 I would love to know about it). When I got back to Nebraska, however, the first thing I wanted to drink was an ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon. There's nothing wrong with a little variety, and I'm just not quite enough of an elitist asshole to complain about a national tradition, I guess.
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The guy (JD8) is most likely a meth addict. I've had several in my family and a handful of friends who have dabbled in it. It's not so much the late night parties; it's more the working on his car and his house at 2:00 or 3:00 or 5:00 A.M. bit. People tend to not sleep for several days at a run when they're tweaking.
Plus, it's the most redneck drug available.
I agree with you that you can't really change the law. Of course, corporations can only buy laws because no one really cares about any of it. To change the law, a lot more people than just some guys on Slashdot would have to give a rat's ass one way or the other, and they JUST DON'T.
How about just don't buy their particular brand of entertainment? If you disagree with their control over their own assets, why not listen to music that falls outside the boundaries of their empire? I see dozens of great bands every year that are not on major record labels, and I live in Lincoln, Nebraska of all places. If you're near Chicago, Lawrence, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Austin, or anywhere like that there are some really kick ass acts around ALL THE TIME, most of whom bear no affiliation to the RIAA whatsoever.
If the RIAA/MPAA REALLY gets under your skin and the skins of about a thousand other Slashdot posters as much as you continue to claim, why do you want anything to do with their products in the first place?
Alternatives do exist, and they don't suck just because they're not millionaires and they don't have platinum records or whatever. Hundreds of bands have garnered enough national attention to be able to live off of touring and small record sales simply because they are good enough that people want to hear them. The idea that you have to sign some soul crushing contract and join a major label to make a living is only for people with big gold dollar signs in their eyes. No one REALLY needs the RIAA to get their shit out there.
She is not a "public figure" - she posts on a blog. You can read her opinions and the court documents she helpfully provides, and decide whether or not you agree with her.
If you are only willing to agree with someone when you know who they are, that's fine and I'm not so much calling you out on that, but all that really means is that you shouldn't be reading her blog.
So, I guess my question is - why are you such an asshole? Were you born that way or did you develop this condition out of bitterness or turmoil or what?
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I read the parent's post and scrolled through all of these KNOWING there would be one irritating, pompous pedant like you calling him out for the HORRIBLE CRIME OF PLURALIZING A TRADEMARK. Oh god, the horror!!!
Seriously, do you work for Lego? If not, then WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH?
Actually, all he said was something about an ass sandwich and you shit your diaper and cried about it for a while.
You SAID that he should stop "engaging in hyperbole" in an effort to sway people. Could you explain to the rest of us outspoken assholes how that is NOT telling him to hold back his opinion?
I really hate you "WHY IS THIS NEWS?!!!!" crybabies. It's news because this particular ISP is doing something which it previously was not. See how that works? Something HAPPENS, and then someone REPORTS that it happened, and then the story gets posted here because its subject matter appeals to a large portion of this site's readership. Are you so blindingly stupid as to actually need this explained to you? It's the fucking dictionary definition of news.
By the way, most ISPs still are NOT doing this. Time Warner's Road Runner, for instance, never even looks in the direction of a trojaned machine on their network - at least in my area.
God damn, I am glad you stepped in to correct this. There is NOTHING WORSE than when someone is telling a joke on Slashdot and they get THE FACTS of the situation wrong! I mean, someone could have LAUGHED at the guy's joke, you know, it could have been FUNNY but since the LOCATION was WRONG, it was as if all the humor was COMPLETELY INVALIDATED.
Boy it's a good thing you were here so that didn't happen though, huh?
What does piggybacking on someone's WAP have to do with his mobile phone? He is saying the guy should get a wireless card and use his neighbor's internet access.
I was going to mod you down but instead...
Why would you have modded him down? Which moderation category do you feel you could have fit his post into?
I guess I'm confused, because you don't seem to disagree with him that much - he listed features he'd like to see in IE7, you listed features you'd like to see in IE7 - what's the problem?
The market decided that the latest Britney Spears album or whatever is worth $15. They offer something at a price AND PEOPLE BUY IT. How is that not a price which is determined by the market?
If I grew watermelons in my back yard and people were willing to shell out $100 for each one, then WHY IN THE LOVE OF FUCK would I sell them for $10 instead? That's like throwing money away. What's the point?
Think about this - some movie studio has the exclusive rights to publish and distribute a particular movie. Now, how do you suppose they would feel if I started my own publishing company, took a copy of their movie, and sold it to theaters in my area, undercutting their price. Or even GIVING IT AWAY for free.
That's pretty much what you're defending with your analogy, right? You're saying you have a RIGHT to DISTRIBUTE someone else's movie. Call me up the first time you publish a book. I'm going to undercut your publisher's sale price since I have the right to give everything away, after all.
Well, actually, in a way I agree with the statement that this is an expression of the will of the people. However, what that says to me is that the will of most people is that if something that they should have paid for can be had conveniently, for free, they will have it, and the law be damned.
That's sad but true and I am certainly not going to exempt myself from that group, but it is not something noble you should be striving to protect - saving your ability to obtain things without paying is NOT the cause you want to devote your energy to.
Why doesn't anyone around here see this?
Browse around the internet for a while (especially Livejournal). There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of self proclaimed geniuses with blogs all over the place - people who admit that they dropped out of high school or college, that they can't get a decent job (or any job), and that besides writing diary entries, they have nothing concrete to show anyone that displays their genius.
It's a personality type. These people also complain at great length that the only reason they've never accomplished anything is that society measures their value incorrectly. Seriously, they are a dime a dozen.
I went to college with some extremely intelligent, highly motivated friends who got excellent grades because they dedicated themselves to their schoolwork. I slacked off like crazy and got a low GPA and barely finished my degree. Do I make an excuse that I'm anything but a lazy slacker? No way. Do I call myself a misunderstood genius? Again - NO FUCKING WAY.
Your ability to apply yourself to something is *important* if you are going to try to impress people with how brilliant you are. If you're not concerned with that (I never was) then quit making dumb excuses like you're an inventor genius and just admit that you're fucking lazy.
So did you miss the sarcasm/humor because you choked under pressure, which would mean that you are smart, or is it because you're a big dummy? Just curious.
It's fine if you want to sound like a huge fucking dork all the time.
HEY GUYS could you go down to the store and pick me up some BOXEN OF LUCKY CHARMS? I'd do it but I caught some WICKED VIRII from being out in the cold too long! HEY WHY IS EVERYONE PUNCHING ME?!
Then your other roommate hits you with a chair so you'll shut up. The end.
Man am I ever glad you posted. It's a good thing to know that the JOKE MONITOR is on the job! Otherwise, I might have erroneously chuckled at a joke which obviously DOES NOT CONTAIN THE PROPER AMOUNT OF ACCURACY.
Thanks! You've saved us all!
HA! Torture? God I love Slashdot sometimes. Where do you people fucking COME from? Way to trivialize anyone EVER who's been tortured by comparing it to something so comparatively insignificant.
Please stop posting until you can develop a GOD DAMN sense of perspective.
We all hated the kid with the laptop when I was a Freshman in Comp Sci. That was 8 years ago, so things are probably a lot different now, but man I wanted to change my major to "Kicking That Kid In The Nuts" every time I was in class.
Right now men and women are not held equal under the law. The supreme court has ruled in the past that all the rights of the constitution apply only to men and no case has come up to change this.
Well that was a pretty insipid response until your last line there - what in the fuck are you talking about with that? That doesn't make any sense at all.
You know, I already posted pretty much the same thing I am about to somewhere else, but you made me think about it some more.
I live in the US. Our government is, in my opinion, a fair representative of the opinions, the desires, and the weaknesses of the general populace. Everyone is telling cynics such as yourself that you should work to improve the government if you don't like it, but I am going to go ahead and disagree with all of those people - you can't change anything. Ever.
You are absolutely right to be cynical; however, I am not one to believe that politics works the way it does because the people at the top are attempting to exploit everyone else. I work for the State of Nebraska, so let me give you and all the other "oppressed" people some advice: the US government is the way it is because of two things and only two things: unbelievably massive inefficiency, and total, unabashed apathy. Seriously, it goes from the lowest levels of government available (i.e. some low level programmer such as myself) to some of the most influential offices around (Congress).
I am not making a blanket statement about ALL politicians; as in American society, there are people with genuine ambitions and closely held beliefs who want to make something great out of their life. In general, however, our government is EXACTLY like the general US population - you do whatever you need to do to maintain an adequate life for yourself - you go to work, you do your job, you push all ambition out of your mind completely and forget about your dreams and you just live. And you know what, most people are fine with that.
We in the US have exactly the government we want, and exactly the one we deserve. You may not like it, and I usually don't, but such is the nature of our lazy society. Do you really think that our government could exist in its form if it wasn't satisfactory to most people? That's freedom for you, right there.
I bet we wouldn't. There would, as usual, be a huge crying shitstorm from the religious zealots, but then nothing would ever come of it, because all they're doing is political posturing.
The nature of the US government is such that the only real measuring stick of success for most politicians is in their ability to maintain their careers as elected officials over an extended period of time. The notion that they should censor things, rather than springing out of any real belief that it is right to do so, springs instead from their desire to temporarily please a particular piece of their constituency. As it turns out, actually following through and banning something is completely unnecessary to that end - merely talking about it is good enough.
The FBI might start taking a closer look at people who bought the thing though. That wouldn't surprise me at all.
God, people like you make me want to puke. Your unabashed cynicism, backed up by NOT ONE single reference, but rather a horrid, confusing mess of paranoia and hatred, is like someone punching me in the throat repeatedly every time I read it.
I have a hard time believing that even someone as mind fuckingly insane as YOU can honestly believe that, because you dislike Microsoft Windows, donating money to VACCINATING CHILDREN is somehow ALSO BAD. Good lord, you are a disgusting caricature.