Amazon puts up a free concert, and Slashdot idiots go nuclear. What a surprise.
This isn't deserving of thanks or, 'gee look how kind they are' -- I think of it as an extra service provided by a company. Some will enjoy it, some won't. Why is it deserving of such scorn?
It isn't.
When AOL did this several times over the past years, with the Rolling Stones, for example, did that deserve scorn?
Nope.
Music is highly subjective, but it's the height of adolescent immaturity to slag off Bob Dylan and Norah Jones as crap if you don't like their style of music.
Bob Dylan IS crap (as a performer - decent songwriter though). He sings in a monotone mumbling. I should think that fact that he can't pronounce the words or sing on key could be objectively measured. I can't comment on Norah Jones, not being familiar with her work.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
OK. You can like Bob Dylan if you want. I forgive you. Everybody makes mistakes.
Baba Fett? Boba's long lost identical twin sister who is also strong in Bounty Hunting, like their father (Jango)?
Not to be confused with cousin Baby Fett, or any of the clone warriors.
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The introduction of midichlorians bothers me to no end. That wonderful message that the force is available to anyone committed to the nobel [sic] ideals (compassion, honesty, etc.) of the Jedi disappeared into a flushed toilet when Lucas introduced "midichlorians". The Jedi knights went from a nobel, [sic] egalitarian group to a snobbish group whose members are determined by blood.
While I agree that the midichlorians are total crap, you are wrong about the "egalitarianness problem" of the Jedi. It was always about family/genetics. I've seen a comment like yours is the last 3 Star Wars postings (not sure if it was you each time, but one of those posts was corrected), and I'm tired of seeing this wrong information, just because YOU didn't understand what "the Force is strong in my family" meant. The Force was never something open to just anybody. You were either sensitive to it or not; you either had it or you didn't. Now I don't see how that makes the Jedi "snobbish" since there was no choice on whether someone had Jedi powers. The Jedi would take anybody, so long as that individual was Force sensitive (enough) and young enough to be brought up "right".
In one episode, Cat uses the word 'Jozxyqk' in a Scrabble game, claiming it to be a cat word meaning, "the sound you get when you get your sexual organs trapped in something."
Well, in the vein of funny quotes indirectly related to the science at hand, here's one from UHF:
"George, you know I was wondering, like if you were traveling through outer space, I mean like you're going real fast, like the speed of light, you know... hoooohhhhh... and all of a sudden you started screaming... aaaahhhhh aaaaahhhhh... Do you think your brain would blow up?"
And I'm really tired of hearing these type of complaints from people who don't know the definition of discover, and try to use it as some sort of political argument in a (supposedly) scientific discussion, so I guess it all works out.:)
How about saying, "loftwy, too lazy to look up the definition of discover, decides to troll with irrelevant anti-western-ism."
Not to contradict, but why then would the spammers spend the effort to actually send out the spam? It wouldn't be necessary once someone has been conned into purchasing their services. I suppose they could be using a different con on people (who end up spamming) by saying "here, use this program and get lots of money." I would be interested in seeing some real data on the phenomenon which could shed some light on it. Everything I've seen has been just someone's opinion. It would be unrealistic to expect to be able to devise a workable solution without knowing what is actually happening.
The root cause was definitely NOT a browser problem as it affected other services like telnet and ping. Or are you going to try to tell me that ping is a browser? However, as others have noted, the browsers did incorrectly list the page being viewed as 'http://www.google.com/' instead of 'http://www.google.com.net/'. This happened with several different browsers on several different platforms. Interestingly enough, ping and telnet reported the correct address (www.google.com.net). Depending on when you tried it, and how the entry was cached on your system, you could work around it by typing 'www.google.com.'.
I remember that! It would say things like, "You meant to do that, right?", "[sarcasm]Oh my god, that's the best move I've ever seen![/sarcasm]" I tried looking for it, but could never find anything on the web. I wish I could get a copy of it, it was so fun.
Count me as another lefty who uses the mouse with the left hand. Regular button mapping (too confusing otherwise). I learned at a relatively early age so naturally started doing it left handed, I guess. Almost all lefties I know use the right hand to control the mouse, though. Yes, we exist, and are rare. At work I use a trackball (marble mouse) which is symmetrical. It actually has many of the benefits of this horse thing in regards to shape, plus I don't have to move my arm back and forth, so no more tennis elbow.
While, I don't know the size of the universe, "80% of the way back to the big bang," does not refer to a location in space, rather a measure of time. It is 80% of the way back to the event of the big bang, which theory (backed by very strong evidence) states occurred about 13 billion years ago.
I just caught the Ascent of Man this past weekend on the Science Channel, they were doing "science classics". I had never seen or heard of it before. Great show.:-)
Don't they realize that something is wrong with their business when their news is about lawyers, and not musicians?!
It makes perfect sense, as the RIAA's business *is* about lawyers, and not musicians.
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Amazon puts up a free concert, and Slashdot idiots go nuclear. What a surprise.
This isn't deserving of thanks or, 'gee look how kind they are' -- I think of it as an extra service provided by a company. Some will enjoy it, some won't. Why is it deserving of such scorn?
It isn't.
When AOL did this several times over the past years, with the Rolling Stones, for example, did that deserve scorn?
Nope.
Music is highly subjective, but it's the height of adolescent immaturity to slag off Bob Dylan and Norah Jones as crap if you don't like their style of music.
Bob Dylan IS crap (as a performer - decent songwriter though). He sings in a monotone mumbling. I should think that fact that he can't pronounce the words or sing on key could be objectively measured. I can't comment on Norah Jones, not being familiar with her work.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
OK. You can like Bob Dylan if you want. I forgive you. Everybody makes mistakes.
(It was time to burn the karma anyway)
Burn baby burn! Disco inferno!
(Now I'm just being silly.)
I thought the "prequel" in Chronicles of Narnia was well done. Maybe we'll get to see a movie of it someday.
Baba Fett? Boba's long lost identical twin sister who is also strong in Bounty Hunting, like their father (Jango)?
Not to be confused with cousin Baby Fett, or any of the clone warriors.
The introduction of midichlorians bothers me to no end. That wonderful message that the force is available to anyone committed to the nobel [sic] ideals (compassion, honesty, etc.) of the Jedi disappeared into a flushed toilet when Lucas introduced "midichlorians". The Jedi knights went from a nobel, [sic] egalitarian group to a snobbish group whose members are determined by blood.
While I agree that the midichlorians are total crap, you are wrong about the "egalitarianness problem" of the Jedi. It was always about family/genetics. I've seen a comment like yours is the last 3 Star Wars postings (not sure if it was you each time, but one of those posts was corrected), and I'm tired of seeing this wrong information, just because YOU didn't understand what "the Force is strong in my family" meant. The Force was never something open to just anybody. You were either sensitive to it or not; you either had it or you didn't. Now I don't see how that makes the Jedi "snobbish" since there was no choice on whether someone had Jedi powers. The Jedi would take anybody, so long as that individual was Force sensitive (enough) and young enough to be brought up "right".
I hope that clears things up.
I think this would be the correct placement of the "[sic]," unless "piractes" was your typo.
:)
a band of space piractes [sic] led by Cats,
Please note: I have not pointed out the same old mistake here, it's something that others have missed.
OT: It seems that I don't have to "prove" I'm human anymore. Good thing, because I can't!
That wasn't evil, it was anger.
"Anger, fear, aggression, the Dark Side are they." -Yoda
Let us not forget the Red Dwarf one:
In one episode, Cat uses the word 'Jozxyqk' in a Scrabble game, claiming it to be a cat word meaning, "the sound you get when you get your sexual organs trapped in something."
Funny thing is, I wonder how many people here realize that was actually a parody of the scene from Network (another good movie).
Well, in the vein of funny quotes indirectly related to the science at hand, here's one from UHF:
"George, you know I was wondering, like if you were traveling through outer space, I mean like you're going real fast, like the speed of light, you know... hoooohhhhh... and all of a sudden you started screaming... aaaahhhhh aaaaahhhhh... Do you think your brain would blow up?"
And I'm really tired of hearing these type of complaints from people who don't know the definition of discover, and try to use it as some sort of political argument in a (supposedly) scientific discussion, so I guess it all works out. :)
How about saying, "loftwy, too lazy to look up the definition of discover, decides to troll with irrelevant anti-western-ism."
I suggest you look up the definition of discover.
Not to contradict, but why then would the spammers spend the effort to actually send out the spam? It wouldn't be necessary once someone has been conned into purchasing their services. I suppose they could be using a different con on people (who end up spamming) by saying "here, use this program and get lots of money." I would be interested in seeing some real data on the phenomenon which could shed some light on it. Everything I've seen has been just someone's opinion. It would be unrealistic to expect to be able to devise a workable solution without knowing what is actually happening.
The root cause was definitely NOT a browser problem as it affected other services like telnet and ping. Or are you going to try to tell me that ping is a browser? However, as others have noted, the browsers did incorrectly list the page being viewed as 'http://www.google.com/' instead of 'http://www.google.com.net/'. This happened with several different browsers on several different platforms. Interestingly enough, ping and telnet reported the correct address (www.google.com.net). Depending on when you tried it, and how the entry was cached on your system, you could work around it by typing 'www.google.com.'.
I remember that! It would say things like, "You meant to do that, right?", "[sarcasm]Oh my god, that's the best move I've ever seen![/sarcasm]" I tried looking for it, but could never find anything on the web. I wish I could get a copy of it, it was so fun.
Count me as another lefty who uses the mouse with the left hand. Regular button mapping (too confusing otherwise). I learned at a relatively early age so naturally started doing it left handed, I guess. Almost all lefties I know use the right hand to control the mouse, though. Yes, we exist, and are rare. At work I use a trackball (marble mouse) which is symmetrical. It actually has many of the benefits of this horse thing in regards to shape, plus I don't have to move my arm back and forth, so no more tennis elbow.
While, I don't know the size of the universe, "80% of the way back to the big bang," does not refer to a location in space, rather a measure of time. It is 80% of the way back to the event of the big bang, which theory (backed by very strong evidence) states occurred about 13 billion years ago.
And revealing their source(s) costs NO money.
I haven't been able to do that in quite a while. I just get a silent track.
Surely you mean:
given the number of photos my mum is sending of her Grandkids (my sister's [kids])
Thus we can see the importance of proper punctuation (or at least good editing in the case of a typo).
I was seriously trying to figure out how your mother's granddaughter would be your sister.
It's not IBM and MS vs Apple. Its Apple and HP and the music companies vs MS and Dell and the music companies
Not only that, but in the desktop harware arena, IBM is on Apple's side now.
I suppose that they're just doing their part to help us reach the shoe event horizon.
Now, I'd like to hear some theories that actually take reality into account.
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That's something of a rare commodity on
I just caught the Ascent of Man this past weekend on the Science Channel, they were doing "science classics". I had never seen or heard of it before. Great show. :-)
Don't they realize that something is wrong with their business when their news is about lawyers, and not musicians?!
It makes perfect sense, as the RIAA's business *is* about lawyers, and not musicians.
I don't know what's funnier, "G'Day Kemosabe!" or the fact that GOD ALMIGHTY has to apologise for it.