History is not just old stuff. History is everything that has happened up to the present. So yes, GTA III is just as much "history" as the original Pong.
Google, Yahoo, CNN/CBS/NBC/ABC, AOL, Amazon, EBay, and a bunch of other sites get many times more traffic, and have much less downtime (I don't think I've ever seen Google down). It's probably a combination of cost and culture - VA doesn't have the cash to buy a huge server farm, and Taco still thinks of it as his personal site and has no problem applying almost-untested CVS code to the live site.
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In my younger days, I read the first fifteen or so, before I realized they all sucked. It would actually be better if he just published lists of puns, without attempting to create a cookie-cutter story out of them.
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It doesn't matter. You don't write thirty shitty books as a parody. One or two maybe. When you get to thirty shitty books, it ceases to be a parody and just becomes a cesspool of bad puns.
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That might be a valid argument, except he's churned out thirty of the fucking things.
It seems you can still continue your diatribes and rants; it appears your civil liberties are in tact.
One person being able to post political statements on a website does not prove that other liberties are still intact for everyone.
Bad economy, corporate scandals, 9/11 and war.
Bad economy - sure, it was declining, but Bush hasn't helped.
Corporate scandals - Ken Lay and other Enron executives are still unprosecuted. Meanwhile, Andrew Fastow only gets ten years in prison after ruining thousands of people's financial lives - that's less than many minor drug sellers. WTF?
War - and guess who started that? Do you think Bush didn't know that wars and nation-building cost money?
This is the same administration who wants to remove Evolution from schools and teach Creationism.... Do you have concrete evidence to this fact?
I don't know Bush's opinion, but there are people in the administration who would certainly not object to seeing evolution out of schools. They're too smart to push for it, though.
increased crime associated with carelessness with sexual relationships.
So, instead of teaching kids how to have careful sexual relationships, we tell them not to have them at all. They have them anyway (that's just human nature), and we end up with all those problems. That doesn't sound like a very effective system to me.
Which is still much harder on Windows than Linux. If you crack a Windows box, you'd have to upload a spam-sending program you either bought or wrote, which could be a pain, considering how hard Windows boxes are to control remotely (unless you get in through Remote Desktop). With a Linux box, it's as simple as a few lines of shell script (or one line of Perl, if you're really hardcore).
DVDXCopy does not make bit-for-bit copies. It extracts the video (using DeCSS or something like it) and reencodes it to fit on a DVD-R (which , currently, have only half the capacity of a commercial dual-layer disc).
What is the purpose of algebra except to separate the smart and mentally endowed from the stupid and cranially shortchanged?
While thinking is an important activity, should the schools be in the business of providing instruction in algebra? Even if so, should it be a requirement and should it be graded? A student with mental retardation will always fail through no fault of his own.
In the end, algebra provides no preparation for life which other classes at least provide a semblence of. There is nothing that algebra provides that cannot be acquired via after-school activities. There is no "how fast can you factor this quadratic equation" test for any job that one would reasonably encounter in the private sector.
Algebra has outlived its purpose and should be done away with. If the result is a generation of stupid kids, then so be it.
That's like saying "MS can't complain about copyright infringement, their entire IP is stolen from Xerox" or "Metallica can't complain about copyright infringement, their entire IP is stolen from Bach". In both cases, the majority of the work is theirs, even though it may be based on others'.
Depending on your definition of "child porn", it is quite possible to be produced with no abuse involved - consenting kids can have sex, or there can be nonsexual nudity. Hell, in many places, it's legal for two 16-year-olds to have sex, but they're not allowed to take pictures of each other. I'm all against child abuse, and the photography/videography thereof, but much of what's considered child porn is innocent. In a world where mothers are prosecuted for having nude pictures of their toddlers in the bathtub, I can see a use for Freenet. The best way to stop child abuse is at the source - go after the people who abuse children.
Stuff only stays in Freenet if people request it. I don't think throngs of people would be chomping at the bit to find and download your personal info, when a simple KaZaA search will pull up more personal info than anyone'd ever want anyway.
...I don't want to store kiddie porn on my computer. And that freedom of speech BS - did the kids have the freedom not to be raped?
In the cases of kiddy porn where kids have been raped (which is rather a minority of it, AFAIK), the rape has already happened. Nothing can keep it from having happened. The fact that a video exists does not change anything. Distribution of that video, while it violates the child's privacy, does not tangibly harm anyone. In fact, one could even argue that distribution of such material on Freenet reduces actual child rape, because material on Freenet is by definition free as in beer, so the original "content producer" isn't getting any money for it.
I'm against child abuse and rape as much as anyone else, but we really need to get our priorities in order. As the Freenet FAQ says, "While most people wish that child pornography and terrorism did not exist, humanity should not be deprived of their freedom to communicate just because of how a very small number of people might use that freedom."
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Thank you, Mr. Cut-and-Paste (7th comment down).
History is not just old stuff. History is everything that has happened up to the present. So yes, GTA III is just as much "history" as the original Pong.
VB is used primarily for viruses embedded in Office documents, because MS Office has a built in VBA interpreter.
Google, Yahoo, CNN/CBS/NBC/ABC, AOL, Amazon, EBay, and a bunch of other sites get many times more traffic, and have much less downtime (I don't think I've ever seen Google down). It's probably a combination of cost and culture - VA doesn't have the cash to buy a huge server farm, and Taco still thinks of it as his personal site and has no problem applying almost-untested CVS code to the live site.
In my younger days, I read the first fifteen or so, before I realized they all sucked. It would actually be better if he just published lists of puns, without attempting to create a cookie-cutter story out of them.
It doesn't matter. You don't write thirty shitty books as a parody. One or two maybe. When you get to thirty shitty books, it ceases to be a parody and just becomes a cesspool of bad puns.
That might be a valid argument, except he's churned out thirty of the fucking things.
Because satellite radio isn't free, cable radio requires cables, and internet radio doesn't scale (and requires an internet connection).
One person being able to post political statements on a website does not prove that other liberties are still intact for everyone.
Bad economy, corporate scandals, 9/11 and war.
Bad economy - sure, it was declining, but Bush hasn't helped.
Corporate scandals - Ken Lay and other Enron executives are still unprosecuted. Meanwhile, Andrew Fastow only gets ten years in prison after ruining thousands of people's financial lives - that's less than many minor drug sellers. WTF?
War - and guess who started that? Do you think Bush didn't know that wars and nation-building cost money?
This is the same administration who wants to remove Evolution from schools and teach Creationism. ... Do you have concrete evidence to this fact?
I don't know Bush's opinion, but there are people in the administration who would certainly not object to seeing evolution out of schools. They're too smart to push for it, though.
increased crime associated with carelessness with sexual relationships.
So, instead of teaching kids how to have careful sexual relationships, we tell them not to have them at all. They have them anyway (that's just human nature), and we end up with all those problems. That doesn't sound like a very effective system to me.
Which is still much harder on Windows than Linux. If you crack a Windows box, you'd have to upload a spam-sending program you either bought or wrote, which could be a pain, considering how hard Windows boxes are to control remotely (unless you get in through Remote Desktop). With a Linux box, it's as simple as a few lines of shell script (or one line of Perl, if you're really hardcore).
DVDXCopy does not make bit-for-bit copies. It extracts the video (using DeCSS or something like it) and reencodes it to fit on a DVD-R (which , currently, have only half the capacity of a commercial dual-layer disc).
They discarded worms that acquire remote root without any user interaction. You can't chalk that up to user stupidity.
Why would anyone want to crack a Windows box? It'd be completely useless to you.
While thinking is an important activity, should the schools be in the business of providing instruction in algebra? Even if so, should it be a requirement and should it be graded? A student with mental retardation will always fail through no fault of his own.
In the end, algebra provides no preparation for life which other classes at least provide a semblence of. There is nothing that algebra provides that cannot be acquired via after-school activities. There is no "how fast can you factor this quadratic equation" test for any job that one would reasonably encounter in the private sector.
Algebra has outlived its purpose and should be done away with. If the result is a generation of stupid kids, then so be it.
That's not a Google feature. It's just some guy who googlebombed this page. Google had nothing to do with it.
Of course not. Rockstar, Blizzard, and Nintendo will each have at least one game in the top five.
This is only half the bracket. Have some patience.
This is only half the bracket. Have patience.
GTA3 is losing pretty conclusively to Vice City at the moment. It's doubtful it'll even enter the bracket.
Where have you been? Goatse's been down for weeks.
That's like saying "MS can't complain about copyright infringement, their entire IP is stolen from Xerox" or "Metallica can't complain about copyright infringement, their entire IP is stolen from Bach". In both cases, the majority of the work is theirs, even though it may be based on others'.
Depending on your definition of "child porn", it is quite possible to be produced with no abuse involved - consenting kids can have sex, or there can be nonsexual nudity. Hell, in many places, it's legal for two 16-year-olds to have sex, but they're not allowed to take pictures of each other. I'm all against child abuse, and the photography/videography thereof, but much of what's considered child porn is innocent. In a world where mothers are prosecuted for having nude pictures of their toddlers in the bathtub, I can see a use for Freenet. The best way to stop child abuse is at the source - go after the people who abuse children.
Stuff only stays in Freenet if people request it. I don't think throngs of people would be chomping at the bit to find and download your personal info, when a simple KaZaA search will pull up more personal info than anyone'd ever want anyway.
In the cases of kiddy porn where kids have been raped (which is rather a minority of it, AFAIK), the rape has already happened. Nothing can keep it from having happened. The fact that a video exists does not change anything. Distribution of that video, while it violates the child's privacy, does not tangibly harm anyone. In fact, one could even argue that distribution of such material on Freenet reduces actual child rape, because material on Freenet is by definition free as in beer, so the original "content producer" isn't getting any money for it.
I'm against child abuse and rape as much as anyone else, but we really need to get our priorities in order. As the Freenet FAQ says, "While most people wish that child pornography and terrorism did not exist, humanity should not be deprived of their freedom to communicate just because of how a very small number of people might use that freedom."
In many places you can buy bottles for less than 99 cents. For example, the local university snack shop sells 20 oz. bottles for 78 cents.