ther are things that will bite you because people are judgemental. right or wrong, it is simply true. People will judge you for things that they really have no business judging. When this can affect your ability to pay your bills, sometimes it is prudent to use an alter ego.
If you dig hard enough you can find out who soloes is, but I have not made it easy. I say things that are inflamatory, and while I do totally believe most of what i say, I am not willing to have a boss who may disagree use them against me, or taint my working relationship with my coworkers.
The sad thing is it is a different world when you have to deal with people who pay your bills and are vehemently opposed to what you believe.
if you are going to do everything above board, that is great, but some people like to lead alter lives. supra_dude164 can be a persona that you act out online or a fantasy, who knows, but just because you dont need more out of life than you get in your real life doesnt mean some people dont. The smart thing to do here is to not associate your real name in any way shape oor fashion with supra_dude164 if you are just acting out a fantasy, doing things that you shouldnt, or whatever.
It does not make people children to have active imaginations, or to desire to be something that their social standing/career would never allow themn to be.
You would be amazed at the number of fetish people in corporate america, do you think they want their secret livces revealed in the board room? they create an alterego that they can live out in secret while maintaining their jobs that pay them well enough to afford those hobbies. It is not childish as you say, it is smart.
Feint memories of the last person who claimed to have no skeletons in their closet this publicly... Jerry Brown... Me thinkest thou doest protest too much. A 20 yr old calling people children hehe Especially one who is a full time student. you dont even know what it means to have a career yet. graduate, get a job and a life outside of playing dragonball Z then come tell what you are willing for people to find out about your online presence.
ahh the joys of being 20 and having all the answers.. gods I miss those days, now I dont even have all the questions.
ok maybe the picture of you abusing pills in your own myspace profile could be a bigger deal. you want to make a personal profile with questionable acts: dont use your full real name moron.
so you really think that teh prospective employers saw your picture on a friend's myspace? How the hell would they have found that? Maybe, just maybe it was your deductive reasoning skills that cost you the job. the type person who concludes that a picture on a blog that has virtually no chance of being found cos tthem a job probably cant reason themselves out of a nonexistant wet paper bag. the employer probably got this impression and ran like any smart person would. While there are a lot of things to worry about in your online presence, your picture on a blog is not one of them.
this is just anotehr of the things they research like workplace stress that will come to inconclusive conclusions. I am actually kind of glad they are doing this. It may shut people like Hillary up since there will be no definitive teeth to the results. they are researching something here that it is impossible to get a control group for. What do you do make the Amish your control group? No matter what control group you use for this, there will be external factors.. other things about that group besides vieo games... that could play a role in the results.. thus no conclusion will be reached.
well put. I use Itunes a little, but mainly use walmart for my purchase site and I use Napster for my subscription. I like being able to set up my play lists for my portable device and listen to those same playlists on my home computer, work computer and one other one. for the price of 1 cd a month i have thousands of songs in my phillips player, and an almost unlimited supply of music I can choose to download. The only drawback to Napster is same as rahpsody.. windows needs to work on WMA. That DRM really lacks a lot.
yo win the best quote in thread.. "Some people would say not having a job, girlfriend/wife, or a social life is cheating, since those people are able to play 12 hours a day."
cracks me up to see people griping about trade gods and sayng farmers are to blame. Most of your farmers are farming things that are broken anyways like they used to farm the hypogryph feathers. they cannot make enough money selling things like leather to make a profit. Think about it when farmers started hitting twilight texts.. what happend to the prices of it? they actually went up. farmers do not low ball. Heck the ones i knew used to buy the low ball stuff and relist it on ah. I love the simple point, this is a game. If it is a job to me then why play? I have a job already and it pays me well enough to buy some gold if I want every now and then.
BTW best quote in this thread so far by far is.. "Some people would say not having a job, girlfriend/wife, or a social life is cheating, since those people are able to play 12 hours a day."
Man I would loved to see the thread that pissed this politician off enough to make this big of a fool out of himself. Somebody must have reemed him a new one... looking at the way this bill is written it sounds like he was a troll on some boards in his day. funny little rant he posted.. shame he is trying to post it to law instead of a forum. Ever wonder what would happen if your local politicaian would troll your boards... now you know.
Politics = from the greek poli meaning many, tics meaning blood sucking insects.
thank you. that gave me a nice chuckle. would have laiughed harder, but it is too true to be laughed at from the inside. if I were an outside observer I would be roflmao.. instead Im just goma (grunt of mild amusement)
Well I am one of those comcast subscribers that also has vonage, and I cant say they are doing this for sure, but I can tell you that my vonage works 1 million billion gakjazillion times better on every other service provider I have tried. I kind of doubt they are throttling though. If they were it would take a lot to keep that quiet. One disgruntled employee from the neteng or security group and they are busted.
I hope Im not offending anybody, but that review was lacking in substance. Even the dell comparisons are not explained. just some graphs with no explanation of what the test methodology was.
and for some reason the elections commisioners in all these places, as well as the manufacturer, diebold, blocked every attmept to allow 3rd party auditors. they wanted this done in secret, and it may niot have had any effect on this election, they could be laying wait til the hubub dies down. it will happen too, people ha ve very little attention span and even shorter memories.
people are upset that they bought bleeding technology several years ago and are suprised that it is out of darte. Hell I bought my hdtv in 01 nad it had analog and digital inputs, so they had to buy a "bleeding edge" device more than 5 years ago... yet they expect it to still be cutting edge 5 years later? Come on people. If you are the type to buy a first to market item, yu are not going to be satisfied with analog even if it looked exactly the same. Early adopters do not buy one early item then stick with it for ever.. they like the newest neat gadgets, and most of them have probably already sold their older tv's to somebody who couldnt aford a new hdtv anyways.
that is assuming you bothered to obtain a copyright on the picture you took with yur camera. Copyrights are not automaticly assigned to works of art etc... you have to actually go through a process.
MR. VERRILLI: I disagree with that, Your Honor. 21 Certainly not -- I don't think there's any empirical 22 evidence to suggest, with respect to any of the things 23 that Your Honor just identified -- and let me pick out the 24 iPod as one, because it's the most current example, I 25 guess. From the moment that device was introduced, it was 11 Alderson Reporting Company 1111 14th Street, NW Suite 400 1-800-FOR-DEPO Washington, DC 20005 1 obvious that there were very significant lawful commercial 2 uses for it. And let me clarify something I think is 3 unclear from the amicus briefs. The record companies, my 4 clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on 5 their Website for some time now, that it's perfectly 6 lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto 7 your computer, put it onto your iPod.
is that reallyt true.. what is IN the music I record a series of ultra high freuency tones that cant be heard by the human ear? they could be detected by music players, and even recording the music with a microphone would pick it up and the copy protection would still be in the music. It would work just like the light and sound machines do for making the purdy lights dance. The code is in the music. Funny how simple things get overloked for outrageously complicated ones most of the time.
the problem you have with the iPod is not from the RIAA or microsoft. Apple has gone Micrsoftish on us and refused to support windows media player at all, and thus will not play WMAs whcih are the most common DRms out there now. iPod's proprietary DRM is also not compatible with anybody else. they hahve cut them selves out of a huge share of the market. It is hilarious that even doing all this, they are by far the biggest share of the portable mp3 player market.
this may be true [The [submitted arguments in favor of granting exemptions to the DMCA] provide no arguments or legal authority that making back up copies of CDs...], but the point is you dont need an exemption to the DMCA for backup copies for personal use. This was provenm in the supreme court back in the days of VHS being tried by the MPAA. they are making a flase pretense here stating that you need an exemption to the DMCA for personal backups and trying to play on the fact that the current supreme court is more conservative and may side with them if they pretend this is something new. Funny how many different wordings they can come up with to try to enforce the same thing they and the MPAA have been denied the rights to enforce for 25 years now.
What evolutionary event is going to make the RIAA go the way of the dinosaur. In big business and politics,there are evolutionary changes just like in the real world. Species that need to die out cling on as long as they can, but sooner or later the tides of evolution grab them, pull them under and hopefully fosilize them for future study. One day our great grand children will dig up the bones of the RIAA and exclaim, "look mom! I found a copy of physical music. Did people really used to only get their music printed on these things?" Laws of evolutionary survival 101.. adapt or die. The RIAA has proven yet again that they have no desire to adapt. I cannot even remember the last time I bought music that I couldnt download. I personally refuse to buy any artist i cant get on mp3.com or napster.. or itunes sometimes. I personally do not mind the DRM at all. I think it is a good thing for businesses to make money, but I sure wish artists would bypass the RIAA and market to me directly.
so stewie as a host is going to be a cross between Dennis Miller and Bill Mahr. I think it has potential, but to be honest i would prefer to see one with Quagmire and only female guests. Well maybe he could interview the guy who started "Girls Gone Wild." diggity
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ther are things that will bite you because people are judgemental. right or wrong, it is simply true. People will judge you for things that they really have no business judging. When this can affect your ability to pay your bills, sometimes it is prudent to use an alter ego.
If you dig hard enough you can find out who soloes is, but I have not made it easy. I say things that are inflamatory, and while I do totally believe most of what i say, I am not willing to have a boss who may disagree use them against me, or taint my working relationship with my coworkers.
The sad thing is it is a different world when you have to deal with people who pay your bills and are vehemently opposed to what you believe.
if you are going to do everything above board, that is great, but some people like to lead alter lives. supra_dude164 can be a persona that you act out online or a fantasy, who knows, but just because you dont need more out of life than you get in your real life doesnt mean some people dont.
The smart thing to do here is to not associate your real name in any way shape oor fashion with supra_dude164 if you are just acting out a fantasy, doing things that you shouldnt, or whatever.
It does not make people children to have active imaginations, or to desire to be something that their social standing/career would never allow themn to be.
You would be amazed at the number of fetish people in corporate america, do you think they want their secret livces revealed in the board room? they create an alterego that they can live out in secret while maintaining their jobs that pay them well enough to afford those hobbies. It is not childish as you say, it is smart.
Feint memories of the last person who claimed to have no skeletons in their closet this publicly... Jerry Brown... Me thinkest thou doest protest too much.
A 20 yr old calling people children hehe Especially one who is a full time student. you dont even know what it means to have a career yet. graduate, get a job and a life outside of playing dragonball Z then come tell what you are willing for people to find out about your online presence.
ahh the joys of being 20 and having all the answers.. gods I miss those days, now I dont even have all the questions.
ok maybe the picture of you abusing pills in your own myspace profile could be a bigger deal. you want to make a personal profile with questionable acts: dont use your full real name moron.
so you really think that teh prospective employers saw your picture on a friend's myspace? How the hell would they have found that? Maybe, just maybe it was your deductive reasoning skills that cost you the job. the type person who concludes that a picture on a blog that has virtually no chance of being found cos tthem a job probably cant reason themselves out of a nonexistant wet paper bag. the employer probably got this impression and ran like any smart person would.
While there are a lot of things to worry about in your online presence, your picture on a blog is not one of them.
this is just anotehr of the things they research like workplace stress that will come to inconclusive conclusions. I am actually kind of glad they are doing this. It may shut people like Hillary up since there will be no definitive teeth to the results. they are researching something here that it is impossible to get a control group for. What do you do make the Amish your control group? No matter what control group you use for this, there will be external factors.. other things about that group besides vieo games... that could play a role in the results.. thus no conclusion will be reached.
doh!
Guess it wasnt sanctioned enough.
well put. I use Itunes a little, but mainly use walmart for my purchase site and I use Napster for my subscription. I like being able to set up my play lists for my portable device and listen to those same playlists on my home computer, work computer and one other one. for the price of 1 cd a month i have thousands of songs in my phillips player, and an almost unlimited supply of music I can choose to download.
The only drawback to Napster is same as rahpsody.. windows needs to work on WMA. That DRM really lacks a lot.
yo win the best quote in thread..
"Some people would say not having a job, girlfriend/wife, or a social life is cheating, since those people are able to play 12 hours a day."
cracks me up to see people griping about trade gods and sayng farmers are to blame. Most of your farmers are farming things that are broken anyways like they used to farm the hypogryph feathers. they cannot make enough money selling things like leather to make a profit. Think about it when farmers started hitting twilight texts.. what happend to the prices of it? they actually went up. farmers do not low ball. Heck the ones i knew used to buy the low ball stuff and relist it on ah.
I love the simple point, this is a game. If it is a job to me then why play? I have a job already and it pays me well enough to buy some gold if I want every now and then.
BTW best quote in this thread so far by far is..
"Some people would say not having a job, girlfriend/wife, or a social life is cheating, since those people are able to play 12 hours a day."
Man I would loved to see the thread that pissed this politician off enough to make this big of a fool out of himself.
Somebody must have reemed him a new one... looking at the way this bill is written it sounds like he was a troll on some boards in his day. funny little rant he posted.. shame he is trying to post it to law instead of a forum.
Ever wonder what would happen if your local politicaian would troll your boards... now you know.
Politics = from the greek poli meaning many, tics meaning blood sucking insects.
thank you. that gave me a nice chuckle. would have laiughed harder, but it is too true to be laughed at from the inside. if I were an outside observer I would be roflmao.. instead Im just goma (grunt of mild amusement)
good point. I just wanted to let others flame today. iwasnt in the starting shit mood this time.
Well I am one of those comcast subscribers that also has vonage, and I cant say they are doing this for sure, but I can tell you that my vonage works 1 million billion gakjazillion times better on every other service provider I have tried.
I kind of doubt they are throttling though. If they were it would take a lot to keep that quiet. One disgruntled employee from the neteng or security group and they are busted.
I hope Im not offending anybody, but that review was lacking in substance. Even the dell comparisons are not explained. just some graphs with no explanation of what the test methodology was.
double bah to you.. my notebook in college had 3 rings and a binder. so nah nah
The cloest thing we had to laptops were Kapros.
and for some reason the elections commisioners in all these places, as well as the manufacturer, diebold, blocked every attmept to allow 3rd party auditors.
they wanted this done in secret, and it may niot have had any effect on this election, they could be laying wait til the hubub dies down. it will happen too, people ha ve very little attention span and even shorter memories.
people are upset that they bought bleeding technology several years ago and are suprised that it is out of darte. Hell I bought my hdtv in 01 nad it had analog and digital inputs, so they had to buy a "bleeding edge" device more than 5 years ago... yet they expect it to still be cutting edge 5 years later?
Come on people. If you are the type to buy a first to market item, yu are not going to be satisfied with analog even if it looked exactly the same. Early adopters do not buy one early item then stick with it for ever.. they like the newest neat gadgets, and most of them have probably already sold their older tv's to somebody who couldnt aford a new hdtv anyways.
that is assuming you bothered to obtain a copyright on the picture you took with yur camera. Copyrights are not automaticly assigned to works of art etc... you have to actually go through a process.
later in that transcript:
MR. VERRILLI: I disagree with that, Your Honor. 21 Certainly not -- I don't think there's any empirical 22 evidence to suggest, with respect to any of the things 23 that Your Honor just identified -- and let me pick out the 24 iPod as one, because it's the most current example, I 25 guess. From the moment that device was introduced, it was
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1 obvious that there were very significant lawful commercial 2 uses for it. And let me clarify something I think is 3 unclear from the amicus briefs. The record companies, my 4 clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on 5 their Website for some time now, that it's perfectly 6 lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto 7 your computer, put it onto your iPod.
is that reallyt true.. what is IN the music I record a series of ultra high freuency tones that cant be heard by the human ear? they could be detected by music players, and even recording the music with a microphone would pick it up and the copy protection would still be in the music.
It would work just like the light and sound machines do for making the purdy lights dance. The code is in the music.
Funny how simple things get overloked for outrageously complicated ones most of the time.
thanks
the problem you have with the iPod is not from the RIAA or microsoft. Apple has gone Micrsoftish on us and refused to support windows media player at all, and thus will not play WMAs whcih are the most common DRms out there now. iPod's proprietary DRM is also not compatible with anybody else. they hahve cut them selves out of a huge share of the market. It is hilarious that even doing all this, they are by far the biggest share of the portable mp3 player market.
this may be true [The [submitted arguments in favor of granting exemptions to the DMCA] provide no arguments or legal authority that making back up copies of CDs...], but the point is you dont need an exemption to the DMCA for backup copies for personal use. This was provenm in the supreme court back in the days of VHS being tried by the MPAA. they are making a flase pretense here stating that you need an exemption to the DMCA for personal backups and trying to play on the fact that the current supreme court is more conservative and may side with them if they pretend this is something new.
Funny how many different wordings they can come up with to try to enforce the same thing they and the MPAA have been denied the rights to enforce for 25 years now.
What evolutionary event is going to make the RIAA go the way of the dinosaur. In big business and politics,there are evolutionary changes just like in the real world. Species that need to die out cling on as long as they can, but sooner or later the tides of evolution grab them, pull them under and hopefully fosilize them for future study.
One day our great grand children will dig up the bones of the RIAA and exclaim, "look mom! I found a copy of physical music. Did people really used to only get their music printed on these things?"
Laws of evolutionary survival 101.. adapt or die. The RIAA has proven yet again that they have no desire to adapt.
I cannot even remember the last time I bought music that I couldnt download. I personally refuse to buy any artist i cant get on mp3.com or napster.. or itunes sometimes. I personally do not mind the DRM at all. I think it is a good thing for businesses to make money, but I sure wish artists would bypass the RIAA and market to me directly.
so stewie as a host is going to be a cross between Dennis Miller and Bill Mahr. I think it has potential, but to be honest i would prefer to see one with Quagmire and only female guests. Well maybe he could interview the guy who started "Girls Gone Wild."
diggity