anti-spam crusaders were often victims of the "joe job", where spammers would use their email address to send spam, so that the anti-spam crusaders would suffer the effects of their own crusade
under this anti-predator law, the email address of chris hansen would instantly become the most potent sexual predator email address in existence. in other words, the law is bullshit and belies a lack of understanding of how the internet works
which, when it comes to lawmakers, is not that shocking, and even expected. all it seems lawmakers are able to do when it comes to policy and laws concerning the internet is make how laughably out of touch they are woefully obvious
that creationism is just as valid as natural evolution, and you disregarded me, based on logic and reason, i would reply as you are replying: "oh so you think only your opinion counts"
actually, yes, only one person's "opinion" counts on issues of fact and logic. because the real issue is of course, logic and reason, not opinion. my "opinion" that creationism is true is an opinio indeed completely invalid and worthy of derision, because it abandons logic and reason, and deserves to be disrespected
in exactly the same way, your bullshit rationalization for not voting is equally flawed, and you have tagged yourself as a low iq ignorant worthy of derision as much as a creationist lecturing at the museum of natural history
my opinion counts no more than your opinion, in general. but on issues of fact, logic, and reason, my opinion is instantly 100% true and yours 100% false, or yours is 100% true and mine 100% false, depending upon how much we deviate from fact and logic. my "opinion" that water is not really wet, or that the tides do not rise and fall, is worthy of nothing but quizzical expression, not equal consideration and respect. all that matters is logic. in which case, your "opinion" that your vote has no value deserves to be utterly disregarded, since it is outside the realm of logic and reason
your vote counts. if you don't understand that, or have some alternative "proof" that it doesn't count, you have a pile of steaming shit in your head equivalent to what a creationist has in their head when trying to talk about evolution. and both you and the creationist deserve nothing but name calling, disrespect, and saliva in the face for being so fucking retarded
however, as you have explicated, the namespace issue is out there as well, although less to do with exhaustion and more to do with collision
i would add to your explication that countires such as china whose "solution" to nonascii domain names is to extend the name space into other character systems, do so at the peril of cleaving the internet. of course, for governments who wish to keep their citizens uninformed and insular, this is not a "problem." and even if chinese ideograms were acccepted part sof the namespace, western users would be less likely to visit, simply out of a lack of familiarity, which breeds exclusion. and of crouse it doesn't do anything really about name collisions, as hp is not going to solve its problem by buying the han ideogram for hp
as it is, the chinese have no problem adding 26 more characters to their collection of thousands of han characters they need to remember, so no real exclusion is happening the other way when you keep it the ascii character set as a hard limit
you could of course say that even if you preserve an ascii character set for the internet namespace, you've won a hollow victory since the website might be in a foreign language and so the exclusionary walls are still in place. but you have at least preserved the common framework across which future exchanges of ideas might still take place. less walls is always better
you would vote, as any obvious understanding of the issue would lead you to vote
since you don't, you forfeit your right to have an opinion. voting is the means by which you turn your opinion into action in the white house. since you don't care to do that, or have some incredibly retarded and false bullshit for thinking your vote can't do that, you forfeit your right to have an opinion, because you have told us loudly and clearly you don't care enough to do the slightest of effort to make your opinion count
you think you have the choice to not vote, and still expect people who know you don't vote to give serious consideration to your words. no: when you choose not to vote, you've announced to me that your opinions are not worthy of respect, since you yourself do not respect yourself enough to vote
you're a moron. clear and through. there is no respecting you, there is only name calling, as it is the only consideration you deserve, for having such a fucking retarded way of thinking
if you want me to respect you and stop calling you names, you will vote. if you don't vote, i have nothing for you but my spit on your face, and that is exactly what you deserve from anyone for not voting
1. you've contradicted your initial assertion that's plenty of consulting dollars in the migration to ipv6. you now say all the infrastructure in place. obviously, there's a lot more work to be done, and obviously, its not completely straightforward and easy. even for end users (calls from mom: "you open network properties and click what again? this is too complicated, why can't i just use the site like i always do?")
2. finally, with ipv6, just as you will notice in february 2009, no one is going to use ipv6 or digital tv unless they HAVE to. and even then there will tons of complaints, even though its obviously better. you completely discount the inertia and comfort level and "good enough" mentality involved here
ipv6 will never get out of the single digits on percentage of users, until it is mandated. if you refute that, you don't know much about human psychology
a man drowned today in his sinking boat, but not before he had his laptop reprogram a lightbulb in his house to blink SOS in morse code to get attention. his wife and children, who did not know morse code, simply tried changing the lightbulb 2 times, not understanding the bulb wasn't faulty. the man took his last breath reading his last email message: "honey, you need to fix the lightbulb in the study"
you don't care. ok, fine. now put your money with your mouth is, and shut the fuck up
or do you enjoying whining about problems you will never be part of the solution to?
your vote matters. that's not an opinion of mine, that's a fact. despite all of the bullshit rationalization you feed yourself, it rings hollow outside the confines of your head. if you disagree with me on the FACT your vote counts, you are not registering an alternative valid opinion, you are registering your stupidity and your lack of caring
your'e an asshole, and a moron
now prove you don't care about the vote, and shut the fuck up, or reveal yourself to be a hypocrite. because if you actually cared, YOU WOULD VOTE. fucking ignorant loser
is if the government mandates it, like forcing television stations to go digital in february 2009
even if all of the ipv4 namespace was exhausted, and people were shooting each other in the street for ipv4 addresses, still no one would go to ipv6
the reason is: there is no audience there. and there is no audience there because there are no sites there. and there are no sites there because it costs so much money to upgrade your infrastructure... for the sake of a protocol no one is using
its the same problem as: no job without experience, no experience without a job. the only solution is for the government to force us to ipv6 in a given timeframe. no other solution will work
no one is going to voluntarily migrate, because there is no reward for doing so. you can reply there is a reward: solve address exhaustion. but you are not looking at the problem in the right perspective: individual versus community. this is a problem we all have, not an individual problem. therefore, there is no individual incentive to solve the problem. we either all go at the same time, or we don't go at all. no one is going to trickle over to ipv6, since its such a hassle and there is no reward for doing so, on an individual basis
the IT hysteria of the early century. just as juicy a media hit as the Y2K panic and fear from last century, but not as much consulting opportunities
personally i'm waiting for 2012, when the elder gods of the mayan calendar awaken and in their rage at not being greeted by chocolate, peppers, and virgins, they reroute all null pointers in all code to the apocalypse. plenty of IT hysteria, plenty of consulting opportunities
are you going to vote for the other things up for consideration?
if not, you are exactly the asshole i think you are
if so, you will purposefully avoid making the 3 seconds more of effort to vote in the presidential election?
and let's say for the sake of argument thatyour rationale is 100% correct. i live in new york, and i am voting obama. but if your rationale sways me, i shouldn't vote, because someone else will
so if enough people think like you, obama won't even get new york. this is what you want? this is your position. do you stand by your opinion to that point? or do you back off your opinion of that becomes a possibility, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of your words. that riding off the back of others is not a defensible position in the end
it is course absurd that mccain will carry new york, because more people will vote for obama in new york. then why do they do it? why don't they think like you?
BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY CARE, unlike you. they realize everything you do, and they still schlep to the polls and vote. why? BECAUSE THEY CARE. you don't!
they vote for obama in new york, and california, because, unlike you, they do not ride on the backs of others. they believe what they say, and they act on it. unlike you, who will complain and whine and moan AND NEVER ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT
you are a genuine 100% asshole. a loser. name calling? i can't get into what i would do to you if i met you in person, so undeserving you are of any respect
in this world, are those do, and those who whine. democracy is a wonderful government because it allows you to make your opinion heard without bloodshed, without much effort
but if that's still too much effort for you, if you have rationalized whatever bullshit reason to think you don't matter (you do, despite your bullshit rationalization), you are not deserving of respect, you are deserving of being spit in the face. because you, and the way you think, represents the downfall of our country: those who don't care about it
and you do NOT care what happens to this coutnry if you do not vote, you really don't. in fact, if you do not vote, you deserve to do only one thing: shut up, and never speak of the taxes that taxed you, of troops in iraq, of the gas prices you pay, of anything that involves the decision of governments and its effects on your life. because you were given a chance to make your opinion mean something, and you chose not to, out of bullshit rationalization of it being too much effort, of your right not to care
i'm glad you don't care enough, good for you asshole
now shut the fuck up, you've given up your right to speak
i've written comments where i have subconsciously capitalized correctly, then gone back and converted it to lower case before hitting submit. a refined anti-grammar, if you will
I am fully capable of exercising a perfect adherence to modern rules of grammar. Strunck and White's little handbook is something I am completely familiar with. So why do I purposely do a comment.toLowerCase(); in everything I write?
it is precisely because of replies like yours. i purposefully go out of my way to ignore grammar, in order to drive people exactly like you crazy. it works, so i will always adhere to this path, as it is very rewarding
i enjoy pissing off mediocre minds. and, by all means, do not get it wrong: overemphasis on grammar is the sign of a brittle mind. i only gain a better audiecen for my comments, consisting of more supple minds, by driving away people such as yourself
but george w really is worse than them, on a whole range of issues. from invading iraq to ignoring katrina to advancing ignorance (pro creationism, anti stem cell) to the wall street meltdown, george w really is our worst president ever
1. most partisan passions, that drive people to vote, have nothing to do with being informed at all. more like indoctrinated
2. the impartial observer has the cleanest and clearest perspective on the issues. but the most impartial observer is also likely the least passionate observer and therefore less likely to vote
a superior democracy than ours (for many reasons, not least of which the idiotic aristocratic hedge bet the founding fathers foisted on us called the electoral college) is a system like brazil. in brazil, voting is compulsory. you get a receipt when you vote that you need to produce whenever renewing a license, etc
this is absolutely a superior approach to democracy than the united states. the united states might have led the world in adopting democracy, but the democracies since then have adopted policies that are superior to the early adopter's approach. the united states needs a democracy overhaul. the debacle of 2000 is the biggest case for this
most partisan passions, that drive people to vote, have nothing to do with being informed at all. more like indoctrinated
and usually, the most impartial observer has the cleanest and clearest perspective on the issues. but the most impartial observer is also likely the least passionate observer and therefore less likely to vote
i actually prefer a democratic system like brazil, where voting is compulsory. you get a receipt when you vote that you need to produce whenever renewing a license, etc.
the issues involved are to some degree subjective. its not like physics where you can make a hard true or a hard false out of an issue
therefore, it is absolutely impossible to talk about economics without some sort of bias. of course there is blatant purposeful bias, and then there is an honest attempt at intellectual honesty, in spite of the bit of bias we all have
everyone serious realizes this. then there is sort of paranoid partisan type that sees agendas and bias everywhere they look. this kind of hysterical approach to the subject matter only cheapens you, so you need to lose your hypersensitivity to the issue of bias, you only make yourself look foolish
i know that there is some friction between the hard sciences and the soft sciences. and that physics, chemistry, and math types tend to look down in disdain on the economics, sociology, and psychology types
but there really is no need to blatantly use the "sci-fi" label for an economics story. really slashdot, come on now
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anti-spam crusaders were often victims of the "joe job", where spammers would use their email address to send spam, so that the anti-spam crusaders would suffer the effects of their own crusade
under this anti-predator law, the email address of chris hansen would instantly become the most potent sexual predator email address in existence. in other words, the law is bullshit and belies a lack of understanding of how the internet works
which, when it comes to lawmakers, is not that shocking, and even expected. all it seems lawmakers are able to do when it comes to policy and laws concerning the internet is make how laughably out of touch they are woefully obvious
that creationism is just as valid as natural evolution, and you disregarded me, based on logic and reason, i would reply as you are replying: "oh so you think only your opinion counts"
actually, yes, only one person's "opinion" counts on issues of fact and logic. because the real issue is of course, logic and reason, not opinion. my "opinion" that creationism is true is an opinio indeed completely invalid and worthy of derision, because it abandons logic and reason, and deserves to be disrespected
in exactly the same way, your bullshit rationalization for not voting is equally flawed, and you have tagged yourself as a low iq ignorant worthy of derision as much as a creationist lecturing at the museum of natural history
my opinion counts no more than your opinion, in general. but on issues of fact, logic, and reason, my opinion is instantly 100% true and yours 100% false, or yours is 100% true and mine 100% false, depending upon how much we deviate from fact and logic. my "opinion" that water is not really wet, or that the tides do not rise and fall, is worthy of nothing but quizzical expression, not equal consideration and respect. all that matters is logic. in which case, your "opinion" that your vote has no value deserves to be utterly disregarded, since it is outside the realm of logic and reason
your vote counts. if you don't understand that, or have some alternative "proof" that it doesn't count, you have a pile of steaming shit in your head equivalent to what a creationist has in their head when trying to talk about evolution. and both you and the creationist deserve nothing but name calling, disrespect, and saliva in the face for being so fucking retarded
apologies, i meant numberspace, i wrote namespace
however, as you have explicated, the namespace issue is out there as well, although less to do with exhaustion and more to do with collision
i would add to your explication that countires such as china whose "solution" to nonascii domain names is to extend the name space into other character systems, do so at the peril of cleaving the internet. of course, for governments who wish to keep their citizens uninformed and insular, this is not a "problem." and even if chinese ideograms were acccepted part sof the namespace, western users would be less likely to visit, simply out of a lack of familiarity, which breeds exclusion. and of crouse it doesn't do anything really about name collisions, as hp is not going to solve its problem by buying the han ideogram for hp
as it is, the chinese have no problem adding 26 more characters to their collection of thousands of han characters they need to remember, so no real exclusion is happening the other way when you keep it the ascii character set as a hard limit
you could of course say that even if you preserve an ascii character set for the internet namespace, you've won a hollow victory since the website might be in a foreign language and so the exclusionary walls are still in place. but you have at least preserved the common framework across which future exchanges of ideas might still take place. less walls is always better
you would vote, as any obvious understanding of the issue would lead you to vote
since you don't, you forfeit your right to have an opinion. voting is the means by which you turn your opinion into action in the white house. since you don't care to do that, or have some incredibly retarded and false bullshit for thinking your vote can't do that, you forfeit your right to have an opinion, because you have told us loudly and clearly you don't care enough to do the slightest of effort to make your opinion count
you think you have the choice to not vote, and still expect people who know you don't vote to give serious consideration to your words. no: when you choose not to vote, you've announced to me that your opinions are not worthy of respect, since you yourself do not respect yourself enough to vote
you're a moron. clear and through. there is no respecting you, there is only name calling, as it is the only consideration you deserve, for having such a fucking retarded way of thinking
if you want me to respect you and stop calling you names, you will vote. if you don't vote, i have nothing for you but my spit on your face, and that is exactly what you deserve from anyone for not voting
fucking ignorant turd
1. you've contradicted your initial assertion that's plenty of consulting dollars in the migration to ipv6. you now say all the infrastructure in place. obviously, there's a lot more work to be done, and obviously, its not completely straightforward and easy. even for end users (calls from mom: "you open network properties and click what again? this is too complicated, why can't i just use the site like i always do?")
2. finally, with ipv6, just as you will notice in february 2009, no one is going to use ipv6 or digital tv unless they HAVE to. and even then there will tons of complaints, even though its obviously better. you completely discount the inertia and comfort level and "good enough" mentality involved here
ipv6 will never get out of the single digits on percentage of users, until it is mandated. if you refute that, you don't know much about human psychology
a man drowned today in his sinking boat, but not before he had his laptop reprogram a lightbulb in his house to blink SOS in morse code to get attention. his wife and children, who did not know morse code, simply tried changing the lightbulb 2 times, not understanding the bulb wasn't faulty. the man took his last breath reading his last email message: "honey, you need to fix the lightbulb in the study"
i said that your zombie bot lightbulb would spam you
not flirt with you on twitter ;-)
you don't care. ok, fine. now put your money with your mouth is, and shut the fuck up
or do you enjoying whining about problems you will never be part of the solution to?
your vote matters. that's not an opinion of mine, that's a fact. despite all of the bullshit rationalization you feed yourself, it rings hollow outside the confines of your head. if you disagree with me on the FACT your vote counts, you are not registering an alternative valid opinion, you are registering your stupidity and your lack of caring
your'e an asshole, and a moron
now prove you don't care about the vote, and shut the fuck up, or reveal yourself to be a hypocrite. because if you actually cared, YOU WOULD VOTE. fucking ignorant loser
your lightbulb will spam you with really short emails
is if the government mandates it, like forcing television stations to go digital in february 2009
even if all of the ipv4 namespace was exhausted, and people were shooting each other in the street for ipv4 addresses, still no one would go to ipv6
the reason is: there is no audience there. and there is no audience there because there are no sites there. and there are no sites there because it costs so much money to upgrade your infrastructure... for the sake of a protocol no one is using
its the same problem as: no job without experience, no experience without a job. the only solution is for the government to force us to ipv6 in a given timeframe. no other solution will work
no one is going to voluntarily migrate, because there is no reward for doing so. you can reply there is a reward: solve address exhaustion. but you are not looking at the problem in the right perspective: individual versus community. this is a problem we all have, not an individual problem. therefore, there is no individual incentive to solve the problem. we either all go at the same time, or we don't go at all. no one is going to trickle over to ipv6, since its such a hassle and there is no reward for doing so, on an individual basis
and don't eat any meat from certain butchers
but i'm apparently more funny than the self-appointed humor police
see? that's funny
(rolls eyes)
the IT hysteria of the early century. just as juicy a media hit as the Y2K panic and fear from last century, but not as much consulting opportunities
personally i'm waiting for 2012, when the elder gods of the mayan calendar awaken and in their rage at not being greeted by chocolate, peppers, and virgins, they reroute all null pointers in all code to the apocalypse. plenty of IT hysteria, plenty of consulting opportunities
that obama has the support of the humor deprived
it's the funniest of ironies to be accused of being too serious and not getting a joke, in the context of the accuser doing exactly that! ;-)
thanks for the smile,
a fucking idiot
(snicker)
are you going to vote for the other things up for consideration?
if not, you are exactly the asshole i think you are
if so, you will purposefully avoid making the 3 seconds more of effort to vote in the presidential election?
and let's say for the sake of argument thatyour rationale is 100% correct. i live in new york, and i am voting obama. but if your rationale sways me, i shouldn't vote, because someone else will
so if enough people think like you, obama won't even get new york. this is what you want? this is your position. do you stand by your opinion to that point? or do you back off your opinion of that becomes a possibility, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of your words. that riding off the back of others is not a defensible position in the end
it is course absurd that mccain will carry new york, because more people will vote for obama in new york. then why do they do it? why don't they think like you?
BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY CARE, unlike you. they realize everything you do, and they still schlep to the polls and vote. why? BECAUSE THEY CARE. you don't!
they vote for obama in new york, and california, because, unlike you, they do not ride on the backs of others. they believe what they say, and they act on it. unlike you, who will complain and whine and moan AND NEVER ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT
you are a genuine 100% asshole. a loser. name calling? i can't get into what i would do to you if i met you in person, so undeserving you are of any respect
in this world, are those do, and those who whine. democracy is a wonderful government because it allows you to make your opinion heard without bloodshed, without much effort
but if that's still too much effort for you, if you have rationalized whatever bullshit reason to think you don't matter (you do, despite your bullshit rationalization), you are not deserving of respect, you are deserving of being spit in the face. because you, and the way you think, represents the downfall of our country: those who don't care about it
and you do NOT care what happens to this coutnry if you do not vote, you really don't. in fact, if you do not vote, you deserve to do only one thing: shut up, and never speak of the taxes that taxed you, of troops in iraq, of the gas prices you pay, of anything that involves the decision of governments and its effects on your life. because you were given a chance to make your opinion mean something, and you chose not to, out of bullshit rationalization of it being too much effort, of your right not to care
i'm glad you don't care enough, good for you asshole
now shut the fuck up, you've given up your right to speak
i've written comments where i have subconsciously capitalized correctly, then gone back and converted it to lower case before hitting submit. a refined anti-grammar, if you will
I am fully capable of exercising a perfect adherence to modern rules of grammar. Strunck and White's little handbook is something I am completely familiar with. So why do I purposely do a comment.toLowerCase(); in everything I write?
it is precisely because of replies like yours. i purposefully go out of my way to ignore grammar, in order to drive people exactly like you crazy. it works, so i will always adhere to this path, as it is very rewarding
i enjoy pissing off mediocre minds. and, by all means, do not get it wrong: overemphasis on grammar is the sign of a brittle mind. i only gain a better audiecen for my comments, consisting of more supple minds, by driving away people such as yourself
i have the power to prevent mccain voters from voting
fucking cool
but it is a tweak on the value of your vote, not a nullification of it
you are not disenfranchised by the system, you are merely looking for an excuse not to care
you're an asshole. you really are, for saying those words
but george w really is worse than them, on a whole range of issues. from invading iraq to ignoring katrina to advancing ignorance (pro creationism, anti stem cell) to the wall street meltdown, george w really is our worst president ever
1. most partisan passions, that drive people to vote, have nothing to do with being informed at all. more like indoctrinated
2. the impartial observer has the cleanest and clearest perspective on the issues. but the most impartial observer is also likely the least passionate observer and therefore less likely to vote
a superior democracy than ours (for many reasons, not least of which the idiotic aristocratic hedge bet the founding fathers foisted on us called the electoral college) is a system like brazil. in brazil, voting is compulsory. you get a receipt when you vote that you need to produce whenever renewing a license, etc
this is absolutely a superior approach to democracy than the united states. the united states might have led the world in adopting democracy, but the democracies since then have adopted policies that are superior to the early adopter's approach. the united states needs a democracy overhaul. the debacle of 2000 is the biggest case for this
most partisan passions, that drive people to vote, have nothing to do with being informed at all. more like indoctrinated
and usually, the most impartial observer has the cleanest and clearest perspective on the issues. but the most impartial observer is also likely the least passionate observer and therefore less likely to vote
i actually prefer a democratic system like brazil, where voting is compulsory. you get a receipt when you vote that you need to produce whenever renewing a license, etc.
but that doesn't matter
what matters is i VOTE
anyone reading this who is not going to vote, i have nothing for you but the most withering disgust i can muster
there are many arguments as to why it is important for you to vote, but here's probably the best one i can think of right now:
2,912,790 to 2,912,253
it gave us the last 8 years of fail
in these numbers, are those responsible for our worst president ever
next election, don't let the source of our failure be you
the issues involved are to some degree subjective. its not like physics where you can make a hard true or a hard false out of an issue
therefore, it is absolutely impossible to talk about economics without some sort of bias. of course there is blatant purposeful bias, and then there is an honest attempt at intellectual honesty, in spite of the bit of bias we all have
everyone serious realizes this. then there is sort of paranoid partisan type that sees agendas and bias everywhere they look. this kind of hysterical approach to the subject matter only cheapens you, so you need to lose your hypersensitivity to the issue of bias, you only make yourself look foolish
i know that there is some friction between the hard sciences and the soft sciences. and that physics, chemistry, and math types tend to look down in disdain on the economics, sociology, and psychology types
but there really is no need to blatantly use the "sci-fi" label for an economics story. really slashdot, come on now
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