damnit... the FCC made a half decent decision, and the corporate lapdogs in congress decided to back the big money in entertainment and remove more of theses PUBLIC resources from the general populace...
i dont get it anymore... who the hell is running this country? it isnt the people...
for christs sake, GWB got elected with about 20% of the eligible voters voting for him? does that sound like the MAJORITY of people want this guy to lead... its a minority... a very small minority is running this country, and selling the people out for the dollar...
i guess the RIAA and broadcaster associations are scared of a bunch of small radio stations that they dont own... who knows, maybe they'll play music OTHER than the crap pushed byt the big 5... my god, the horror!!! someone might listen to something else...
Indiana Jones did not require two joysticks to operate...
that is, I think... ummm... err...
But yes, that game was truly awful, too... In order to win, you had to parachute into a hole undeneath a tree branch sticking out of the side of a ?mesa?, then avoid the ravenous, evil sheep and somehow dig this pile of something or other on the bottome of the screen...
of course, if you missed the hole underneath the treebranch, or got your parachute stuck on the tree, you plumetted into the pits? under the mesa, and some robber dude, who could only be shot, came and stole stuff from you, while you were bring attacked by tsetse flies...
ahh yes, the "good" old days of gaming...
not to mention the endless possibilities that Pitfall offered to you...
you know, i thought that it was over-obvious which particular game title that i was referring to... maybe i needed to put it in big BLANK tags, and come right out and state it...
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The gaming industry needs one big blockbuster... Hell, maybe they could even acquire the rights to make a video game from the highest grossing film of all time!
Imagine if the gaming industry could pin all their hopes and dreams on this one title... and it would be sure to be a success because its based a Steven Spielberg film that everyone loved!!!
Yeh yeh... the licensing is insanely expensive, but trust us, it'll make one hell of a game... It'll change our company forever!
now go out and write the worst game that you can create, make sure the graphics are horrendous, the storyline is stupid and incomprehensible, and there is not point to it.
Great... now lets see how our company cashes in on this!
i would think that the devidce would have to check the permissions on the document that it was trying to reaad, and it would refuse if the permissions were incorrect...
scary thing is, rms kindof predicted this in The Right to Read. Of course no one took him seriously, and it looks like he was on target more than anyone thought.
And you thought that voice recognition was a waste of time...
Voice recognition could be used to check whats on teh screen, and automatically listen to the surrounding sounds, compare the noises to the text on screen, and if there is a 90% match or more, employ a high powered electric shock to you and flash a warning that you are violating the copyright agreement, and that further violations are punishable by death.
If you continue to read aloud, the electric shock will increase in intensity until it resembles the power that GW Bush has been sending through all of those inmates in Texas.
A just punishment for obvious copyright thiefs who are stealiong from the poor artists... THIEF... tagline
Funny thing is, that the Democrats approved two of the most conservative Judges on the bench right now!!!
hey, if you all were so god damned worried about the supreme court justices why the fuck is scalia on the bench? oh thats right... its not like the democrats held the senate there... no... they just let them in, didnt they...
REP George W. BUSH 968,840 49 0
DEM Al GORE 907,778 46 54 W
wat??? looks like Bush is winnong Californina, but they are still trying to give it to gore...
Oh yeh, add nader's CA votes 64,542 to GOres, and Gore would be in the lead
Hey democrats... you want the liberal vote next time? you know, the one that nader took away from you? how about doing something for it? end the drug war, save the environment, add a green plank to your platform...
i remember talking with my father in 1992 about this whole "internet" thing. he thought that no one would be able to make money on it, and that there is no compelling reason for it to be used.
and then came the web and all hell broke loose in 1994.
now we've got a different protocol, one that keeps true to the original intenet of the internet, and allows "Peer to Peer" sharing.
geez, the internet has always been peer to peer sharing, this is just allowing us to go back to this philosophy, and allow everyone to truly contribute back, instead of only those with large amounts of cash needed to generate hits.
so, all of a sudden, we will be back to the model that allows anyone to communicate with anyone else.
We're taking the power back with P2P. Using the internet what its meant to do - communicate, not make a buck... tagline
(Associated Press - Alcatraz) Today, in an effort to end the pampered style of geek prison life that so many convicted criminals have been accustomed to, The Rock was reopened for service today.
"Hey, these guys managed to get T3 lines into every cell, and the guard door system was a joke, we think that they managed to hack the system so that it would let the doors open whenever they wanted.", said Red Bull, the head of HACK (H)ackers (A)re (C)riminals (K)ill 'em.
"I wished that we could have continued using the death penalty against these evil terrorists and child pornographers, but the ACLU felt it necessary to defend these scumbags. Something about 'the punishment not fitting the crime' or other such nonsense"
"Look, these felons have it better in prison, hell, their cells are over 4 times as big as a typical cubicle is, and they get in house laundry, THEY DONT EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DOING LAUNDRY AGAIN, and look this doesnt seem like a big point, but I've been to busts on these evil hackers, and their laundry piles up to huge amounts before they decide to do it. It's inhuman, I tell you.
"I just wanted to make this prison term as much of a punishment as possible, so we are cutting these geeks off of their lifeline, and going back to all old-style technology. No computers, no net access, barely electricity.
Maybe now these felons will get what they deserve.
Ignorance is Strength!
Freedom is slavery!
Peace is War!
Hacking is Evil!
this is one of those things that really makes people wonder if the crackpots wearing tinfoil hats are right.
great, so now the government is going to check up on you. they know who you are, where you live, who lives with you, if you filed your taxes correctly, whow many tv's you own, how far you drive to work. geez...
have you seen some of the questions on the long form? christ i wouldnt want people to be able to attribute a lot of those answers back to me, and thats exactly what they will be able to do if they cross reference all those documents.
maybe the government should do what they are supposed to do with a census, and just count people, and not try to profile everyone and everything. imagine if they fed your long form census answers through "profiling" device such as the one being pushed by the FBI for schools.
This is to report that "those bastards" have killed Kenny. I know that this is unusual for children to be repeatedly killed and brought back to life each week, but in this case, we thought in unavoidable.
Have you actually read the Green Party platform? Add in some racism, take out some technophobia, and you basically have a good copy of the Nazi party platform. Nazi was short for "National Socialism," after all, which is pretty much what the Greens are all about.
ok... lets see here... you've managed to accuse ralph nader of being both a communist and nazi, great strawman... by usenet rules, this should end this thread...
Based on his past rhetoric, I believe that Ralph Nader thinks, like Bush and Gore, that ordinary citizens are not wise enough to make decisions for ourselves. He thinks that we are sheep, and need to be managed as such. He will receive not vote from me. I'm thinking I'll cast a little protest vote for Harry Browne.
oh geezus... nader is trying to protect us sheep from being abused... the corporations and big parties are dictating law from a very minority viewpoint. he's trying to give the people a chance to manage themselves again, and not let some large bureaucracy control everything. nader is for much more sum total individual freedom by freeing us from corporate influence.
I mean come on, individuals can not compete for the attention of the political process when their competitor has so much lobbying money and influence that corporations do. companies and industries routinely buy laws and politicians so that they will get the most profit.
these same companies dont have any accountability to the general populace, only to themselves, and therefore dont care about the overall good of the population, only their bottom line.
by supporting the status quo, democrat or republican, you are supporting default enslavement of the populace by the corpocracy. harry browne will only make this worse by allowing corporations to run amok without ANY limits.
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i dont get it anymore... who the hell is running this country? it isnt the people...
for christs sake, GWB got elected with about 20% of the eligible voters voting for him? does that sound like the MAJORITY of people want this guy to lead... its a minority... a very small minority is running this country, and selling the people out for the dollar...
i guess the RIAA and broadcaster associations are scared of a bunch of small radio stations that they dont own... who knows, maybe they'll play music OTHER than the crap pushed byt the big 5... my god, the horror!!! someone might listen to something else...
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you dont have to play the "is this a goatse.cx" link game...
its always tons of fun at work...
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that is, I think... ummm... err...
But yes, that game was truly awful, too... In order to win, you had to parachute into a hole undeneath a tree branch sticking out of the side of a ?mesa?, then avoid the ravenous, evil sheep and somehow dig this pile of something or other on the bottome of the screen...
of course, if you missed the hole underneath the treebranch, or got your parachute stuck on the tree, you plumetted into the pits? under the mesa, and some robber dude, who could only be shot, came and stole stuff from you, while you were bring attacked by tsetse flies...
ahh yes, the "good" old days of gaming...
not to mention the endless possibilities that Pitfall offered to you...
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maybe i need a sarcasm-impaired version of it...
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Imagine if the gaming industry could pin all their hopes and dreams on this one title... and it would be sure to be a success because its based a Steven Spielberg film that everyone loved!!!
Yeh yeh ... the licensing is insanely expensive, but trust us, it'll make one hell of a game... It'll change our company forever!
now go out and write the worst game that you can create, make sure the graphics are horrendous, the storyline is stupid and incomprehensible, and there is not point to it.
Great... now lets see how our company cashes in on this!
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ESPN was bought out by ABC... which is owned by Disney, which owns go.com
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but i think mozilla did some funky stuff with the submitted field...
oh well... there it is...
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scary thing is, rms kindof predicted this in The Right to Read. Of course no one took him seriously, and it looks like he was on target more than anyone thought.
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Voice recognition could be used to check whats on teh screen, and automatically listen to the surrounding sounds, compare the noises to the text on screen, and if there is a 90% match or more, employ a high powered electric shock to you and flash a warning that you are violating the copyright agreement, and that further violations are punishable by death.
If you continue to read aloud, the electric shock will increase in intensity until it resembles the power that GW Bush has been sending through all of those inmates in Texas.
A just punishment for obvious copyright thiefs who are stealiong from the poor artists... THIEF...
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what exactly is in $* ? then we can know exaclt how much you care about it...
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its late...
oh yeh - click here for more information...
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hey, if you all were so god damned worried about the supreme court justices why the fuck is scalia on the bench? oh thats right... its not like the democrats held the senate there... no... they just let them in, didnt they...
thanks... we've had enough of your "help"...
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REP George W. BUSH 1,175,673 48 0
DEM Al GORE 1,152,351 47 54 W
GRN Ralph NADER 85,195 4 0
Gore is down by 23k votes in California... thats a whole lot at this stage (25%) of the game...
I wonder how long they are going to keep calling it for gore?
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oh yeh - what about nader's 45k votes as a statement? A statement like "al gore sucks, too"
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WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN CALIFORNIA???!!!???
REP George W. BUSH 968,840 49 0
DEM Al GORE 907,778 46 54 W
wat??? looks like Bush is winnong Californina, but they are still trying to give it to gore...
Oh yeh, add nader's CA votes 64,542 to GOres, and Gore would be in the lead
Hey democrats... you want the liberal vote next time? you know, the one that nader took away from you? how about doing something for it? end the drug war, save the environment, add a green plank to your platform...
idiots...
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Bush 32,819,023 49 % 26 229
Gore 32,248,729 48 % 17 231
Nader 1,585,981 2 % 0 0
Buchanan 288,889 1 % 0 0
from cnn.com
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Gore electoral 231
Bush electoral 229
i got the correct popular votes, though...
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Bush electoral 291 popular - 31,475,385
Nader popular 1,516,982.
GORE IS LEADING ELECTORAL, LOSING POPULAR!!!
This is known as "BAD"
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it goes something like...
"excuse me... pardon me... BLAM... thank you very much, sorry about that."
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i remember talking with my father in 1992 about this whole "internet" thing. he thought that no one would be able to make money on it, and that there is no compelling reason for it to be used.
and then came the web and all hell broke loose in 1994.
now we've got a different protocol, one that keeps true to the original intenet of the internet, and allows "Peer to Peer" sharing.
geez, the internet has always been peer to peer sharing, this is just allowing us to go back to this philosophy, and allow everyone to truly contribute back, instead of only those with large amounts of cash needed to generate hits.
so, all of a sudden, we will be back to the model that allows anyone to communicate with anyone else.
We're taking the power back with P2P. Using the internet what its meant to do - communicate, not make a buck...
tagline
(Associated Press - Alcatraz) Today, in an effort to end the pampered style of geek prison life that so many convicted criminals have been accustomed to, The Rock was reopened for service today.
"Hey, these guys managed to get T3 lines into every cell, and the guard door system was a joke, we think that they managed to hack the system so that it would let the doors open whenever they wanted.", said Red Bull, the head of HACK (H)ackers (A)re (C)riminals (K)ill 'em.
"I wished that we could have continued using the death penalty against these evil terrorists and child pornographers, but the ACLU felt it necessary to defend these scumbags. Something about 'the punishment not fitting the crime' or other such nonsense"
"Look, these felons have it better in prison, hell, their cells are over 4 times as big as a typical cubicle is, and they get in house laundry, THEY DONT EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DOING LAUNDRY AGAIN, and look this doesnt seem like a big point, but I've been to busts on these evil hackers, and their laundry piles up to huge amounts before they decide to do it. It's inhuman, I tell you.
"I just wanted to make this prison term as much of a punishment as possible, so we are cutting these geeks off of their lifeline, and going back to all old-style technology. No computers, no net access, barely electricity.
Maybe now these felons will get what they deserve.
Ignorance is Strength!
Freedom is slavery!
Peace is War!
Hacking is Evil!
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great, so now the government is going to check up on you. they know who you are, where you live, who lives with you, if you filed your taxes correctly, whow many tv's you own, how far you drive to work. geez...
have you seen some of the questions on the long form? christ i wouldnt want people to be able to attribute a lot of those answers back to me, and thats exactly what they will be able to do if they cross reference all those documents.
maybe the government should do what they are supposed to do with a census, and just count people, and not try to profile everyone and everything. imagine if they fed your long form census answers through "profiling" device such as the one being pushed by the FBI for schools.
kids... big brother is watching.
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This is to report that "those bastards" have killed Kenny. I know that this is unusual for children to be repeatedly killed and brought back to life each week, but in this case, we thought in unavoidable.
Sincerely,
Bryan Boytano
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ok... lets see here... you've managed to accuse ralph nader of being both a communist and nazi, great strawman... by usenet rules, this should end this thread...
Based on his past rhetoric, I believe that Ralph Nader thinks, like Bush and Gore, that ordinary citizens are not wise enough to make decisions for ourselves. He thinks that we are sheep, and need to be managed as such. He will receive not vote from me. I'm thinking I'll cast a little protest vote for Harry Browne.
oh geezus ... nader is trying to protect us sheep from being abused... the corporations and big parties are dictating law from a very minority viewpoint. he's trying to give the people a chance to manage themselves again, and not let some large bureaucracy control everything. nader is for much more sum total individual freedom by freeing us from corporate influence.
I mean come on, individuals can not compete for the attention of the political process when their competitor has so much lobbying money and influence that corporations do. companies and industries routinely buy laws and politicians so that they will get the most profit.
these same companies dont have any accountability to the general populace, only to themselves, and therefore dont care about the overall good of the population, only their bottom line.
by supporting the status quo, democrat or republican, you are supporting default enslavement of the populace by the corpocracy. harry browne will only make this worse by allowing corporations to run amok without ANY limits.
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you also have to make sure they are the same LOT... it gets pretty silly...
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