I was once trying to kill old crap files on a win95 machine from a dos prompt. I had one of those crappy keyboards with a smaller "enter" key and the backslash right above it. Tried to do a "deltree/y c:\foo" but when I went for the backslash I thought I missed it, so I swiped at it again. Turns out I did hit it the first time and the second time I missed and hit "enter" with "deltree/y c:\" on the prompt. That was a fun one to fix.
I tried to download the latest security patches from windowsupdate.com but when I got there it said to click the link to see what needed to be installed and you just finished warning me not to click links.
Ok, for the sake of being the devil's advocate, let's say that Longhorn comes out, and SmallSoftwareCorp. Inc. thinks that some bit of software looks just like their UberWidget 1.0 only it's been rebranded as MSWidget 1.0. So they do a little digging and find a string that says "Copyright SmallSoftwareCorp. Inc.". They have MS dead to rights and decide that they want $1000 for each misappropriated copy of their software, which by now is on ten million machines world wide. Are you certain that MS will go to court and fight this for YOU? Have they ever come out and said "don't worry, if you get sued over our software, we'll foot the bills"? Last I checked their EULA pretty much gave them immunity from everything up to and including the cardboard box that the software ships in coming to life and strangling you with it's newly formed hands.
Yeah, and night club owners have an unfair advantage because they can afford metal detectors for their bouncers to keep you from coming in with a weapon. Grow the fuck up. It's a movie theatre. Private property. They can fucking frisk you if they feel like it. Don't like it? Stay home and download a shitty camcorder copy from some retard who didn't get pegged by the nv goggles. Some of us just want to go to the theatre to watch a movie, and I'd appreciate you and your whiny ilk staying home anyways, so I don't have to listen to you bitch about the MPAA trouncing your "right" to record a movie off the screen. There *are* battles to be fought (backing up dvds, for one) but this isn't one of them, and misguided crybabies like you are making those of us with legitimate arguments look bad too.
But it's not like you often "accidentally" read email. It's understandable that you'd have no expectation of privacy with a postcard, since everyone who handles it could conceivable read it. Email doesn't need to be "handled" by anyone - the software can do it all. Going out of your way to read plain text email is like going out of your way to steam open envelopes (except that, apparently, the former is perfectly legal while the latter would land you in jail).
You mean that you can say with a straight face that you thought snail mail was a private medium to begin with? Its sent plain text, through who knows how many intermediaries, then stored in a building you don't have control over. At any one of those points it could be read, even accidentally.
I don't consider an $8000 drapery to cover a stone tit a good use of my tax money either. The government is not a democracy if they refuse information to the citizens (especially when that info is not vital to "national security"). I pay my taxes, and if I want those documents, they'd better fucking hand them over. And take that "feeding hungry children" bullshit and cram it.
For those of you who didn't get it, there was some sarcasm intended for the line "Not that that has any bearing on the current situation or anything." And an excellent use of sarcasm it was. Keep up the good work!
There! That stuff you just said! Perfect! Now TELL IT TO YOUR FUCKING CHILDREN AND LEAVE THE REST OF US TO ENJOY OUR GODDAMN PORN! Do you really not comprehend that? It's good that you want to protect the children, or whatever, just keep it to your own children and I'll do the same with mine, and let's keep the government the hell away from legislating anything that's not their damn business. Now that that's settled, we need to repeal some drug laws...
That description really only seems to work for painting, where each brush stroke is a near permanent piece of the finished product. Even if covered up with another colour, the original will still show through in some minute way. As another poster has pointed out, Melville very well may have written the second chapter first, then added the first later on to bring more depth to the story. I've written many songs before that come out nothing like they were originally imagined after stumbling on a guitar chord that sounds better than what I had in mind, or because rearranging a few pieces made them more interesting. A piece does grow by becoming specific, but it very well may change entirely from the first concept, and may not always be growing into the best piece that it could be, only the best that the artist could imagine at that time.
We'll leave out the argument of it not being theft, since I have not the patience for idiocy at the moment. However, you can most certainly argue that it's for the cause of fair use if the people who purchased it can't listen to it on their computer any other way. Just because the original poster said he's downloading it doesn't mean he's listening to it.
I wasn't trying to start a browser zealot war, I just thought there was some comedy there. You recommend moz, and people laugh. You recommend opera, and it's apparently news to mods that this exists. I use both (Opera on my win machine at work, Moz on my macs, Fire($random) on my linux and win machines at home).
I couldn't help but follow the link in your sig. Quite honestly, I'm sure that site must make some relevant points somewhere, and I'm sure that Moore is no perfect saint, but how are we supposed to take it seriously when they can't even veil their political leanings? The man makes a movie that bashes the current administration, and the response to that is a website saying he's cracked, and plastered with ads for Bush / Cheney bumperstickers, t-shirts, playing cards, a petition for a Reagan dollar, and a link to a site entitled "the museum of left wing lunacy". It makes it rather difficult for me to even *read* their articles, and even more difficult to believe them.
Sure thing. How about the next time you owe someone twenty bucks, just give them an Oreo. Then tell them that it's not your fault they can't sell the Oreo for twenty bucks. I don't understand how this can be considered justice that they can pay for their crimes in a currency that they get to set the worth of. Chances are if they still have thousands of cds from 1991, nobody's gonna buy them for $17, so why does the RIAA get to say that that's what they're worth AND get a tax write-off for $17 for each of those discs? Also, there's a real good chance that the artists already got fucked for manufacturing costs on the thousands of cds sitting in a warehouse, but I bet they don't get royalties for this.
The next time I get a speeding ticket, I'm paying for it with the jelly beans I've found hiding under the couch cushions, which I have valued at $5.71 USD each. Since it's now legal to pay for stuff with whatever useless crap you have on hand AND to arbitrarily set the price to any random number you pick, I can only see the economy going up from here on out.
Or, make the call, send the email, give 24 hours for a response, then just terminate their outbound 25 until they get back to you. If they really meant to be sending that much email, they're sure to call to bitch about the service being blocked.
The only issue I've had with Classic is that it let developers drag their feet on new versions, since their old wares could run just fine in Classic. That, and for the life of me, I can't get a consistent set of fonts working for OS X and Classic, and I've tried Suitcase, Font Book, and even violent physical abuse. It's kind of annoying that fonts that are installed on my system and even installed for Classic through font book don't get recognized by pagemaker.
Well, ideally, they'd be storing a username, a password, and a list of sites you have registered at. Or even better, websites could sign on to use this service so that when you go to a site to register, you see that they use myuid.com and just plug in your user@myuid.com and password. But since most sites are looking to make some coin from their registered users, I'm sure they wouldn't go in for anything that didn't at least net them an email address to sell to spammers and maybe a checklist of interests that they could spam you about.
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I was once trying to kill old crap files on a win95 machine from a dos prompt. I had one of those crappy keyboards with a smaller "enter" key and the backslash right above it. Tried to do a "deltree /y c:\foo" but when I went for the backslash I thought I missed it, so I swiped at it again. Turns out I did hit it the first time and the second time I missed and hit "enter" with "deltree /y c:\" on the prompt. That was a fun one to fix.
Dear Microsoft,
I tried to download the latest security patches from windowsupdate.com but when I got there it said to click the link to see what needed to be installed and you just finished warning me not to click links.
Please help!
Ok, for the sake of being the devil's advocate, let's say that Longhorn comes out, and SmallSoftwareCorp. Inc. thinks that some bit of software looks just like their UberWidget 1.0 only it's been rebranded as MSWidget 1.0. So they do a little digging and find a string that says "Copyright SmallSoftwareCorp. Inc.". They have MS dead to rights and decide that they want $1000 for each misappropriated copy of their software, which by now is on ten million machines world wide. Are you certain that MS will go to court and fight this for YOU? Have they ever come out and said "don't worry, if you get sued over our software, we'll foot the bills"? Last I checked their EULA pretty much gave them immunity from everything up to and including the cardboard box that the software ships in coming to life and strangling you with it's newly formed hands.
Yeah, and night club owners have an unfair advantage because they can afford metal detectors for their bouncers to keep you from coming in with a weapon. Grow the fuck up. It's a movie theatre. Private property. They can fucking frisk you if they feel like it. Don't like it? Stay home and download a shitty camcorder copy from some retard who didn't get pegged by the nv goggles. Some of us just want to go to the theatre to watch a movie, and I'd appreciate you and your whiny ilk staying home anyways, so I don't have to listen to you bitch about the MPAA trouncing your "right" to record a movie off the screen. There *are* battles to be fought (backing up dvds, for one) but this isn't one of them, and misguided crybabies like you are making those of us with legitimate arguments look bad too.
But it's not like you often "accidentally" read email. It's understandable that you'd have no expectation of privacy with a postcard, since everyone who handles it could conceivable read it. Email doesn't need to be "handled" by anyone - the software can do it all. Going out of your way to read plain text email is like going out of your way to steam open envelopes (except that, apparently, the former is perfectly legal while the latter would land you in jail).
You mean that you can say with a straight face that you thought snail mail was a private medium to begin with? Its sent plain text, through who knows how many intermediaries, then stored in a building you don't have control over. At any one of those points it could be read, even accidentally.
I don't consider an $8000 drapery to cover a stone tit a good use of my tax money either. The government is not a democracy if they refuse information to the citizens (especially when that info is not vital to "national security"). I pay my taxes, and if I want those documents, they'd better fucking hand them over. And take that "feeding hungry children" bullshit and cram it.
For those of you who didn't get it, there was some sarcasm intended for the line "Not that that has any bearing on the current situation or anything." And an excellent use of sarcasm it was. Keep up the good work!
There! That stuff you just said! Perfect! Now TELL IT TO YOUR FUCKING CHILDREN AND LEAVE THE REST OF US TO ENJOY OUR GODDAMN PORN! Do you really not comprehend that? It's good that you want to protect the children, or whatever, just keep it to your own children and I'll do the same with mine, and let's keep the government the hell away from legislating anything that's not their damn business. Now that that's settled, we need to repeal some drug laws...
No, you can rack up long distance charges over the internet no matter how you connect. Check out this reference for more facts.
Is that why Starcontrol 2 plays so damn slow when I use DOSBox under win2k? (or some DOS emu on gentoo)
Sporting long sideburns, a bushy goatee and black baseball cap, instructor Ralph Echemendia has a class...
He wears a black hat, and we're expected to believe that he's teaching ethical hacking? It's a cover! He's building an army! TERRORISTS!!!
That description really only seems to work for painting, where each brush stroke is a near permanent piece of the finished product. Even if covered up with another colour, the original will still show through in some minute way. As another poster has pointed out, Melville very well may have written the second chapter first, then added the first later on to bring more depth to the story. I've written many songs before that come out nothing like they were originally imagined after stumbling on a guitar chord that sounds better than what I had in mind, or because rearranging a few pieces made them more interesting. A piece does grow by becoming specific, but it very well may change entirely from the first concept, and may not always be growing into the best piece that it could be, only the best that the artist could imagine at that time.
why F/france?
F france because they're all a bunch of A/holes.
We'll leave out the argument of it not being theft, since I have not the patience for idiocy at the moment. However, you can most certainly argue that it's for the cause of fair use if the people who purchased it can't listen to it on their computer any other way. Just because the original poster said he's downloading it doesn't mean he's listening to it.
You won't see it on PPV until Comcast pays their licensing fees to stream you the feed.
I wasn't trying to start a browser zealot war, I just thought there was some comedy there. You recommend moz, and people laugh. You recommend opera, and it's apparently news to mods that this exists. I use both (Opera on my win machine at work, Moz on my macs, Fire($random) on my linux and win machines at home).
I have no idea why www.mozilla.org is "4, Funny" but www.opera.com is "5, Informative".
I couldn't help but follow the link in your sig. Quite honestly, I'm sure that site must make some relevant points somewhere, and I'm sure that Moore is no perfect saint, but how are we supposed to take it seriously when they can't even veil their political leanings? The man makes a movie that bashes the current administration, and the response to that is a website saying he's cracked, and plastered with ads for Bush / Cheney bumperstickers, t-shirts, playing cards, a petition for a Reagan dollar, and a link to a site entitled "the museum of left wing lunacy". It makes it rather difficult for me to even *read* their articles, and even more difficult to believe them.
Sure thing. How about the next time you owe someone twenty bucks, just give them an Oreo. Then tell them that it's not your fault they can't sell the Oreo for twenty bucks. I don't understand how this can be considered justice that they can pay for their crimes in a currency that they get to set the worth of. Chances are if they still have thousands of cds from 1991, nobody's gonna buy them for $17, so why does the RIAA get to say that that's what they're worth AND get a tax write-off for $17 for each of those discs? Also, there's a real good chance that the artists already got fucked for manufacturing costs on the thousands of cds sitting in a warehouse, but I bet they don't get royalties for this.
The next time I get a speeding ticket, I'm paying for it with the jelly beans I've found hiding under the couch cushions, which I have valued at $5.71 USD each. Since it's now legal to pay for stuff with whatever useless crap you have on hand AND to arbitrarily set the price to any random number you pick, I can only see the economy going up from here on out.
Or, make the call, send the email, give 24 hours for a response, then just terminate their outbound 25 until they get back to you. If they really meant to be sending that much email, they're sure to call to bitch about the service being blocked.
It's somewhere near the bottom, in 2 pt Comic. Looks like someone didn't read the fine print on their End User Rights Agreement.
The only issue I've had with Classic is that it let developers drag their feet on new versions, since their old wares could run just fine in Classic. That, and for the life of me, I can't get a consistent set of fonts working for OS X and Classic, and I've tried Suitcase, Font Book, and even violent physical abuse. It's kind of annoying that fonts that are installed on my system and even installed for Classic through font book don't get recognized by pagemaker.
Well, ideally, they'd be storing a username, a password, and a list of sites you have registered at. Or even better, websites could sign on to use this service so that when you go to a site to register, you see that they use myuid.com and just plug in your user@myuid.com and password. But since most sites are looking to make some coin from their registered users, I'm sure they wouldn't go in for anything that didn't at least net them an email address to sell to spammers and maybe a checklist of interests that they could spam you about.