"If they are so narrow-minded and can only see that one aspect of me, I kind of pity them."
The fucker is sitting in line for several moths straight for a freakin' new Star Wars movie! What other aspects of his life could there possibly be? I mean... we're talking about devoting a non-negligible part of one's life waiting for the next Jar-Jar sighting!
I'm not sure his *ahem* "life" even has an aspect to begin with, precluding any and all possibility of anybody ever seeing "other" aspects entirely.
How much lower can one possibly sink than having the majority of Slashdotters pointing at this guy and saying "dork?" The guy's got Brutus, Cassius and Judas looking down at the guy and saying "Woah, he's pretty low down there."
"Is there some law in the US that makes you lose ownership of property if you don't live there for a while ?"
That depends on who technically owns the house, doesn't it? There're these little things called "mortgage foreclosures," which lead to these other things called "sheriff's sales."
"Losing insurance isn't a big problem - just take a new one."
And what source of income will he be paying for said insurance with? Maybe back in the 1990's you could score some venture capital for soemthing as stupid as standing in line for a movie for days at a time (for a Star Wars movie, no less!), but those days are long gone.
"just publish your diary."
Nobody would want to buy it, which is why no publisher would touch it.
Day 50: Pavement still hard and cold. Theater marquee updated to show title of new Disney movie.
Day 73: Pavement hard but now warm from sun beating on it. Clever theater employee used a backwards 5 for the letter "S" in ticket pricing sign.
Ooooh... real page-turner, that one...
"Actually, it's entirely possible that he has a sponsor of some sort."
He ain't exactly running a marathon to cure cancer here...
"so I'd imagine his (hypothetical) spouse might very well provide with income during that time"
You have got to be kidding! About the only way something like that could happen is if he's playing gigolo for some rich woman three times his age, and even that is a stretch.
"Save enough money to pay the bills without working for that time (and for a while afterwards) "
How do you save money when you're busy spending it on eBay, bidding on auctions like "Kenner Obi-Wan NIB w/ cape & saber! Buy It Now $350!"
"Or save enough goodwill with someone that they'll pay ?"
I'm just a gigolo... and everywhere I go... people know the part I'm playing...
"Or work with your computer and a wireless Internet access ?"
"Make $$$ at home! Spend $19.95 on our kit to find out how!" Again, the 1990's ended a long time ago.
"he didn't like the fact that people were devoting their lives to his movies"
If he followed their example he might churn out a decent flick yet. As it is now he's a guy that can do anything and still make money and he's going about proving it.
At any rate, after eps I and II, this guy may well be the last guy on the planet actually camping out to see a SW flick anymore. I was there for the premiere of Phantom Menace, but only saw Attack of the Clones when somebody else offered to pay for the ticket. At this rate I may not see this next one until after the DVD release (first of many, I'm sure), if at all.
How about another part of the First Amendment, the one covering freedom of speech? What we have is the government not letting students have access to books unless they are modified by said government to be more paletable to the powers that be. What if your government demanded that stickers be put on all boxes of Linux or BSD warning all purchasers that the writers of such software are communists?
Of course it's good, Microsoft knows exactly where to look when it comes to catching software that manipulates exploitable holes. It's amazing what having access to the OS source code can do for you.
And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things...
"The important thing here is, if the US Army learns that GPLing their code can be beneficial for them, we can get a very powerful ally."
You're assuming that the community would accept such an ally. Consider the outcry you hear every time when this group of "father rapers" turns out to be using a piece of FOSS software. "We should modify the license to specifically ban the military from using our app!"
"Watch for the US military to grab a role in "policing the sealanes" across the new arctic circle routes."
Nevermind the fact that the US has one of the longest Arctic shorelines in the world (behind Russia, Canada and Denmark/Greenland).
Nevermind that the US has been one of the most active in the Arctic Ocean in recent decades (thanks to nuclear submarines and the various ice stations they support).
Nevermind that nobody else seems to have any interest in taking over the US' role in "policing the sealanes" in the other four oceans, even though I'm sure there are members of Congress that would like to cut funding from, say, far-off Diego Garcia and move it to their own pork barrel projects (neither India nor Australia seem all that keen on picking up any slack).
Oh no, this is a brand new evil Yankee imperialist power-grab..
"Watch for the Russian military to challenge that role, backed by nuclear weapons. "
How is that a change? That's what the Russian/Soviet Navy has been since they started building their own nuclear submarines. In order to try to save some of their resources, Soviet policy had been to abandon the surface fleet to throw that money at submarines and land and air forces.
"Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland to form a competing coalition"
Why would Canada and Norway want to invite Sweden and Finland? Other than the occasional small rock with a flag flying over it, neither of those two countries actually have any Arctic shoreline. Baltic Sea != Arctic Ocean.
You're forgetting that the Spike award show and the Xbox both have the same target audience. Microsoft wants to attract the people who actually liked what they saw.
"So in my travels this weekend I came across a Microsoft employee and talked him up about Xbox II"
Was this before or after he was finished vacuuming?
"The reason that the first Xbox didn't have built in DVD playback is a simple one, Sony owns the Intellectual Property rights for DVD playback."
You misspelled "DVD Consortium." Anybody willing to pay the fees can play DVD movies (that, or get strung up under the DMCA). Sony opted to pay it. Microsoft decided not to (and yet the MSRP was still the same).
One of our oldest enemies as well. We weren't too keen on this, either. Also, interestingly enough, French aggression in the Pacific caused King Kamehameha III of Hawaii to pursue US statehood in the 1850's. I'm sure I can find other examples of France moving counter to US desires (to say the least) if I felt like digging around more.
If Zimmerman hadn't screwed up and if the sinking of the Lusitania hadn't made such good copy, it's quite possible we might have entered the Great War on the side of the Germans.
"and all of a sudden it's open season on France?"
US animosity towards France goes back at least as far as the De Gaulle presidency. Not really "sudden" at all.
"has cost you the almost all of international support and goodwill"
Personally, I've never been particularly fond of being pitied.
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"If they are so narrow-minded and can only see that one aspect of me, I kind of pity them."
The fucker is sitting in line for several moths straight for a freakin' new Star Wars movie! What other aspects of his life could there possibly be? I mean... we're talking about devoting a non-negligible part of one's life waiting for the next Jar-Jar sighting!
I'm not sure his *ahem* "life" even has an aspect to begin with, precluding any and all possibility of anybody ever seeing "other" aspects entirely.
How much lower can one possibly sink than having the majority of Slashdotters pointing at this guy and saying "dork?" The guy's got Brutus, Cassius and Judas looking down at the guy and saying "Woah, he's pretty low down there."
"Have fun when you can't even get in once the place is open because everyone smarter than you went to Fandango."
Screw that, everybody knows this movie will hit the 'torrents at least a week before "opening night."
Heck, it's probably ol' George himself uploading the stuff...
That depends on who technically owns the house, doesn't it? There're these little things called "mortgage foreclosures," which lead to these other things called "sheriff's sales."
"Losing insurance isn't a big problem - just take a new one."
And what source of income will he be paying for said insurance with? Maybe back in the 1990's you could score some venture capital for soemthing as stupid as standing in line for a movie for days at a time (for a Star Wars movie, no less!), but those days are long gone.
"just publish your diary."
Nobody would want to buy it, which is why no publisher would touch it.Ooooh... real page-turner, that one...
"Actually, it's entirely possible that he has a sponsor of some sort."
He ain't exactly running a marathon to cure cancer here...
"so I'd imagine his (hypothetical) spouse might very well provide with income during that time"
You have got to be kidding! About the only way something like that could happen is if he's playing gigolo for some rich woman three times his age, and even that is a stretch.
"Save enough money to pay the bills without working for that time (and for a while afterwards) "
How do you save money when you're busy spending it on eBay, bidding on auctions like "Kenner Obi-Wan NIB w/ cape & saber! Buy It Now $350!"
"Or save enough goodwill with someone that they'll pay ?"
I'm just a gigolo... and everywhere I go... people know the part I'm playing...
"Or work with your computer and a wireless Internet access ?"
"Make $$$ at home! Spend $19.95 on our kit to find out how!" Again, the 1990's ended a long time ago.
"Engineers don't have the money and don't make the buying decisions,"
Yes they do, because today's world of scalable enterprise solutions everybody is an engineer! Just ask your local web engineer.
"he didn't like the fact that people were devoting their lives to his movies"
If he followed their example he might churn out a decent flick yet. As it is now he's a guy that can do anything and still make money and he's going about proving it.
At any rate, after eps I and II, this guy may well be the last guy on the planet actually camping out to see a SW flick anymore. I was there for the premiere of Phantom Menace, but only saw Attack of the Clones when somebody else offered to pay for the ticket. At this rate I may not see this next one until after the DVD release (first of many, I'm sure), if at all.
When was the last time your average slashdotter actually saw sunlight?
How about another part of the First Amendment, the one covering freedom of speech? What we have is the government not letting students have access to books unless they are modified by said government to be more paletable to the powers that be. What if your government demanded that stickers be put on all boxes of Linux or BSD warning all purchasers that the writers of such software are communists?
"What does your wishlist include about Mozilla 2.0?"
A version used by AOL by default.
Well, considering how they only just recently released Windows NT 4.0--Finished Edition, I'd say it'd take a while.
"Ok, this car seems to be doing the right thing.. what other cars do I control.."
If we're talkign WarCraft II, they're all trying to drive through the guard rails.
And this is a good and desirable thing?
"I hope so, considering the way Game.com sold."
:)
Does this make Halo Tiger's new Duke Nukem 3D? Now that was a heinous port...
I wonder of the Gizmondo will be backwards compatible...
Of course it's good, Microsoft knows exactly where to look when it comes to catching software that manipulates exploitable holes. It's amazing what having access to the OS source code can do for you.
"Alice's Restaurant"
"Admittedly those people had committed crimes rather than been the victim, but it's really not that big a step."
She was asking for it?
"The important thing here is, if the US Army learns that GPLing their code can be beneficial for them, we can get a very powerful ally."
You're assuming that the community would accept such an ally. Consider the outcry you hear every time when this group of "father rapers" turns out to be using a piece of FOSS software. "We should modify the license to specifically ban the military from using our app!"
"a company called Dow Chemical (think 'Bhopal')"
I don't believe Dow owned Union Carbide at the time of the incident to which you are referring.
"How about we give away land masses based on C02 emissions? That way 25% of the US will be up for auction."
Do we get to pick which states?
"sack the generals in charge of the opposing forces,"
When was the last time a general ever had something to do with the sinking of a submarine, simulated or otherwise?
If you're going to troll the Department of Defense you should at least get your service branch right.
It's a clever distraction by the Kiwi government in an attempt to get people to ignore their own land grabs in the Antarctic.
Of course, if you were wearing your aluminum foil deflector beanie as you're supposed to, you'd know that by now.
"Watch for the US military to grab a role in "policing the sealanes" across the new arctic circle routes."
Nevermind the fact that the US has one of the longest Arctic shorelines in the world (behind Russia, Canada and Denmark/Greenland).
Nevermind that the US has been one of the most active in the Arctic Ocean in recent decades (thanks to nuclear submarines and the various ice stations they support).
Nevermind that nobody else seems to have any interest in taking over the US' role in "policing the sealanes" in the other four oceans, even though I'm sure there are members of Congress that would like to cut funding from, say, far-off Diego Garcia and move it to their own pork barrel projects (neither India nor Australia seem all that keen on picking up any slack).
Oh no, this is a brand new evil Yankee imperialist power-grab..
"Watch for the Russian military to challenge that role, backed by nuclear weapons. "
How is that a change? That's what the Russian/Soviet Navy has been since they started building their own nuclear submarines. In order to try to save some of their resources, Soviet policy had been to abandon the surface fleet to throw that money at submarines and land and air forces.
"Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland to form a competing coalition"
Why would Canada and Norway want to invite Sweden and Finland? Other than the occasional small rock with a flag flying over it, neither of those two countries actually have any Arctic shoreline. Baltic Sea != Arctic Ocean.
You're forgetting that the Spike award show and the Xbox both have the same target audience. Microsoft wants to attract the people who actually liked what they saw.
"So in my travels this weekend I came across a Microsoft employee and talked him up about Xbox II"
Was this before or after he was finished vacuuming?
"The reason that the first Xbox didn't have built in DVD playback is a simple one, Sony owns the Intellectual Property rights for DVD playback."
You misspelled "DVD Consortium." Anybody willing to pay the fees can play DVD movies (that, or get strung up under the DMCA). Sony opted to pay it. Microsoft decided not to (and yet the MSRP was still the same).
Only because there weren't millions of people available to be killed in the French Revolution.
Now to play troll/devil's advocate!
"One of your country's oldest allies"
One of our oldest enemies as well. We weren't too keen on this, either. Also, interestingly enough, French aggression in the Pacific caused King Kamehameha III of Hawaii to pursue US statehood in the 1850's. I'm sure I can find other examples of France moving counter to US desires (to say the least) if I felt like digging around more.
If Zimmerman hadn't screwed up and if the sinking of the Lusitania hadn't made such good copy, it's quite possible we might have entered the Great War on the side of the Germans.
"and all of a sudden it's open season on France?"
US animosity towards France goes back at least as far as the De Gaulle presidency. Not really "sudden" at all.
"has cost you the almost all of international support and goodwill"
Personally, I've never been particularly fond of being pitied.