And, although I really liked the Ents I felt they got pretty short shrift scriptwise. Maybe there are some cut Ent scenes that will show up in the TTEE (Two Towers Extended Edition) DVD when it comes out.
Geez, the geeks always gotta focus on the titties. Never stops.
Geez!! Post a warning with that...
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Fourth: There is nothing inherently evil about that.
You're right, it's not evil.
It's inherently, mind-bogglingly, numbingly STUPID, and it's this sort of thinking that perpetuates the problem.
Here's a business model for you, let me know what you think:
I'm going to create a product that has Value. It'll cost time and money to produce it. My product is called Magic Lemonade. It comes in a glass. It's cool and refreshing! It will have more cool and refreshing value than any other lemonade. I propose that our Company spend time and money in order to produce and sell our Magic Lemonade at a Profit!
Here's the magic part, and why it's so cool: After I sell a glass to someone, they can push a button on the glass and make another one! An exact copy of the first, just as tasty and thirst-quenching! And they can push that button just as many times as they want. And better yet, all the new glasses have their own buttons, so anyone who ever gets one can push it as many times as they want. And doing so costs them nothing. Anyone that ever buys or is given a glass of our Magic Lemonade can instantly and freely make as many more glasses as they want.
So, I propose that we form our Magic Lemonade company right away and sell just as many of these glasses of lemonade as we possibly can! Can I get some venture capital now?
Now, if we actually start up a company and get this going, we're not evil, but we're pretty damn stupid. But suppose we had a whole ton of money to throw into this investment. And we want to make it work no matter what, so we build tons of infrastructure to support our product. And then, best yet, we start throwing tons of money towards Congress to pass laws to enforce our stupid business model...wasting all sorts of resources, doing harm to the economy and harm to the common good...well, IMO it might not be evil but we sure wouldn't be saints.
You know, the script kiddie that's waiting around for exploits to be published on bugtraq is a pretty junior kiddie indeed. This thing's been out there for a couple weeks.
What's a worse situation? A bug that goes completely unnoticed by the general population, but is quietly exploited for months by hackers that have done their homework....or...maybe a few more script kiddies find out about it but now Joe Public is WELL aware of it, due in no small part to the discussions that happen on boards like this.
And riddle me this, how is Symantec possibly irresponsible in this matter? They have no responsiblity whatsoever towards Microsoft or any of their products; they're both separate corporations. They both pursue their own separate agendas as they see fit. The good that comes of this is that maybe the public gets a little more aware of the situation.
MS has its own side to this, Symantec has its own side, they both have valid points to their arguments, but what winds up happening is the general public gets caught in the middle. If just one more person wakes up and realizes that because of this, then there's the real benefit.
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And George Peppard is Lt. Col. John "Hannibal" Smith.
And if you've got a problem, no one else can help, and if you can find him...maybe you can hire...the A-Team.
Well, I don't have enough energy to spare on getting offended by the platitudes. To me, it just turned the article into "light" reading, good for a quick break.
He's still got a valid point in there somewhere. You'd think with the economy tanking that it would weed out more of the shabby programmers running around with IT degrees from random business schools.
From what I've seen, that's completely not the case. Idiocy seems to pervade every level of company management, and that means idiot programmers are still getting hired by idiot HR staff. And for a lot of companies, I expect this will represent a considerable problem with their future code base.
The only reason I can think of that someone would be offended or put off or feel that this article is degrading is that it's perhaps hitting a bit close to home, no?
Might want to think about that. And maybe read the article again.
Yeah, but what's really funny is the short-term memory of everyone on this site (editors included), and that they're gonna click through and slashdot the poor fools again even though this is a dupe from last week.
That's just the standard ro-sham-bo clause. Took me awhile to figure out what was going on, but once I started winning every now and then I don't have to pay rent that week.
*when the doctor had to manually extract the feces from his colon.
HOW IN THE HELL?!?! does that get modded Interesting?!
What, are you curious about the precise methodology of feces extraction that was used? How many of you would have clicked through if there had been a link "Would you like to know more?"
These look really interesting, are affordable, and you can drive them in the HOV lanes. Not all the models are electric yet, but they seem to be working on it.
How many people have got copies of the Mona Lisa? Maybe a nice Van Gogh? Holy crap, there's inflatable Van Gogh dolls of the screaming dude all over the place. He deserves a cut from all the screaming doll sales?
You're all falling victim to the myth perpetrated by the RIAA and other industries that want/need to hang on to whatever dollars they can.
Call me a criminal? Bah! You're telling me that owning the data (let's say a song) that they've already publicly broadcasted through my own body via radio waves millions of times is illegal?!
If you make something publicly available for me to view or listen do, then YES you really have no complaint if I store it and maintain a personal copy of it, so that I can view it or listen to it again.
Once you've made it available to the public domain there is no distinction and nothing wrong with me going out to get a public copy of it.
Again I reiterate, the laws are unenforceable and therefore should not exist. People simply need to rethink the entire philosophy of art and ownership.
A person simply cannot maintain ownership over what has been made publicly available, no matter how much money from the old system they lose because of that.
I'm not kidding here. There is a fundamental realization that people need to wrap their money-grubbing greedy egotistical heads around.
The fact is, if there is anything at all that can be broken down into 1's and 0's (digitally encoded) and then decoded back into its original form, it's qualified as Data.
And you know what? You just can't legislate against the transmission of Data. What do you think we built the entire Internet for? There are an infinite number of places for us to store it, and an infinite number of routes for us to transmit it over. You can't put shackles on it, Data must be Free!
I'm serious though. There is NO WAY for the RIAA, or anyone, to stop any form of data from being transmitted and shared. If this goes along long enough, it'll start getting encrypted. Who's gonna be the first to write the mp3 player with 32bit encryption?
What, Mr. RIAA lawyer? You say I've got an mp3 server? Well in order to determine that you must have illegally broken my server's personal encryption scheme which is against my fair use policy, so I'm just gonna have to sue your ass right back!
Unfortunately they're going to be around as long as people keep caving in and settling for a million bucks. Make no mistake about it, that's their ONLY goal is to keep that cash flow going. Why do you think they were so mightily pleased that the company settled? EASY MONEY.
I'm all for laws against how I use the Data I have. I don't rent out Texas Stadium and hold a Metallica concert charging people 20 bucks to hear my MP3's. That's money that should go to the band. But there's nothing wrong with me receiving that Data and storing it for personal use, or even exchanging it with others. The way they use it is up to them.
Bottom line, these laws and what the RIAA attempts to do are ultimately unenforceable. There will always be another server, another data stream. Keeping unenforceable laws on the books only undermines the credibility of the government and wastes a ton of taxpayer money. See "War on Drugs" for more info.
All you motherfuckers are going to pay! You are the ones who are the ball lickers! We're going to fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little whiney bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Scientologist fucks who is making the movie, we are going to make them eat our shit. Then shit out our shit and then eat their shit that's made up of our shit that we made them eat. And then all you motherfucks are next!
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Now whatcha gonna do?
Ah, the price of being witty on /. :)
And don't forget Gary Busey, playing the gun-toting hard-drinking redneck Phil.
What a great game. :)
Geez, the geeks always gotta focus on the titties. Never stops.
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You're right, it's not evil.
It's inherently, mind-bogglingly, numbingly STUPID, and it's this sort of thinking that perpetuates the problem.
Here's a business model for you, let me know what you think:
I'm going to create a product that has Value.
It'll cost time and money to produce it.
My product is called Magic Lemonade. It comes in a glass.
It's cool and refreshing! It will have more cool and refreshing value than any other lemonade.
I propose that our Company spend time and money in order to produce and sell our
Magic Lemonade at a Profit!
Here's the magic part, and why it's so cool: After I sell a glass to someone, they can push a button on the glass and make another one! An exact copy of the first, just as tasty and thirst-quenching! And they can push that button just as many times as they want. And better yet, all the new glasses have their own buttons, so anyone who ever gets one can push it as many times as they want. And doing so costs them nothing. Anyone that ever buys or is given a glass of our Magic Lemonade can instantly and freely make as many more glasses as they want.
So, I propose that we form our Magic Lemonade company right away and sell just as many of these glasses of lemonade as we possibly can! Can I get some venture capital now?
Now, if we actually start up a company and get this going, we're not evil, but we're pretty damn stupid. But suppose we had a whole ton of money to throw into this investment. And we want to make it work no matter what, so we build tons of infrastructure to support our product. And then, best yet, we start throwing tons of money towards Congress to pass laws to enforce our stupid business model...wasting all sorts of resources, doing harm to the economy and harm to the common good...well, IMO it might not be evil but we sure wouldn't be saints.
But hey, anything for big business, right!
Why strike fear into the hearts of passing travellers, when you can strike lightning into their hearts instead?
What's a worse situation? A bug that goes completely unnoticed by the general population, but is quietly exploited for months by hackers that have done their homework....or...maybe a few more script kiddies find out about it but now Joe Public is WELL aware of it, due in no small part to the discussions that happen on boards like this.
And riddle me this, how is Symantec possibly irresponsible in this matter? They have no responsiblity whatsoever towards Microsoft or any of their products; they're both separate corporations. They both pursue their own separate agendas as they see fit. The good that comes of this is that maybe the public gets a little more aware of the situation.
MS has its own side to this, Symantec has its own side, they both have valid points to their arguments, but what winds up happening is the general public gets caught in the middle. If just one more person wakes up and realizes that because of this, then there's the real benefit.
And if you've got a problem, no one else can help, and if you can find him...maybe you can hire...the A-Team.
He's still got a valid point in there somewhere. You'd think with the economy tanking that it would weed out more of the shabby programmers running around with IT degrees from random business schools.
From what I've seen, that's completely not the case. Idiocy seems to pervade every level of company management, and that means idiot programmers are still getting hired by idiot HR staff. And for a lot of companies, I expect this will represent a considerable problem with their future code base.
Might want to think about that. And maybe read the article again.
And oh yeah, quit karma whoring, Beavis.
"The exchange of bodily fluids has been outlawed since 2010."
Be Well!
Yeah, but what's really funny is the short-term memory of everyone on this site (editors included), and that they're gonna click through and slashdot the poor fools again even though this is a dupe from last week.
That's just the standard ro-sham-bo clause. Took me awhile to figure out what was going on, but once I started winning every now and then I don't have to pay rent that week.
Since he hadn't been to the can for more than 80 hours, I'd scientifically theorize that when he sat down to take a dump, his ass exploded.
HOW IN THE HELL?!?! does that get modded Interesting?!
What, are you curious about the precise methodology of feces extraction that was used?
How many of you would have clicked through if there had been a link "Would you like to know more?"
Sickos.
You know, I'd rather pay for the whores than risk attracting someone like Anna Nicole Smith...
1) Send some sort of warning to other potential pirates about the seriousness (perceived or otherwise) of their actions, or
2) Make the best argument you could about corporate greed and its influence on America's legislation, or
3) Something entirely different.
And, since you now have that chance,
What would you say?
These look really interesting, are affordable, and you can drive them in the HOV lanes. Not all the models are electric yet, but they seem to be working on it.
why you haven't practiced more; that's really all they're good for. :)
Art? It just doesn't fly.
How many people have got copies of the Mona Lisa? Maybe a nice Van Gogh? Holy crap, there's inflatable Van Gogh dolls of the screaming dude all over the place. He deserves a cut from all the screaming doll sales?
You're all falling victim to the myth perpetrated by the RIAA and other industries that want/need to hang on to whatever dollars they can.
Call me a criminal? Bah! You're telling me that owning the data (let's say a song) that they've already publicly broadcasted through my own body via radio waves millions of times is illegal?!
If you make something publicly available for me to view or listen do, then YES you really have no complaint if I store it and maintain a personal copy of it, so that I can view it or listen to it again.
Once you've made it available to the public domain there is no distinction and nothing wrong with me going out to get a public copy of it.
Again I reiterate, the laws are unenforceable and therefore should not exist. People simply need to rethink the entire philosophy of art and ownership.
A person simply cannot maintain ownership over what has been made publicly available, no matter how much money from the old system they lose because of that.
I'm not kidding here. There is a fundamental realization that people need to wrap their money-grubbing greedy egotistical heads around.
The fact is, if there is anything at all that can be broken down into 1's and 0's (digitally encoded) and then decoded back into its original form, it's qualified as Data.
And you know what? You just can't legislate against the transmission of Data. What do you think we built the entire Internet for? There are an infinite number of places for us to store it, and an infinite number of routes for us to transmit it over. You can't put shackles on it, Data must be Free!
I'm serious though. There is NO WAY for the RIAA, or anyone, to stop any form of data from being transmitted and shared. If this goes along long enough, it'll start getting encrypted. Who's gonna be the first to write the mp3 player with 32bit encryption?
What, Mr. RIAA lawyer? You say I've got an mp3 server? Well in order to determine that you must have illegally broken my server's personal encryption scheme which is against my fair use policy, so I'm just gonna have to sue your ass right back!
Unfortunately they're going to be around as long as people keep caving in and settling for a million bucks. Make no mistake about it, that's their ONLY goal is to keep that cash flow going. Why do you think they were so mightily pleased that the company settled? EASY MONEY.
I'm all for laws against how I use the Data I have. I don't rent out Texas Stadium and hold a Metallica concert charging people 20 bucks to hear my MP3's. That's money that should go to the band. But there's nothing wrong with me receiving that Data and storing it for personal use, or even exchanging it with others. The way they use it is up to them.
Bottom line, these laws and what the RIAA attempts to do are ultimately unenforceable. There will always be another server, another data stream. Keeping unenforceable laws on the books only undermines the credibility of the government and wastes a ton of taxpayer money. See "War on Drugs" for more info.
Where's the Taco Bell Target sitting for this one?
All you motherfuckers are going to pay! You are the ones who are the
ball lickers! We're going to fuck your mothers while you watch and cry
like little whiney bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those
Scientologist fucks who is making the movie, we are going to make them eat
our shit. Then shit out our shit and then eat their shit that's made
up of our shit that we made them eat. And then all you motherfucks are
next!
... Incredible Self-Heating Fuel Source
We join our hero, stranded alone in the sand dunes of Lokkumblok. With his starship out of gas, Spiff had no choice but to crashland.
He searches furiously through his Standard Out of Gas Crashland Survival Kit - But what's this!!
A Can of Self-Heating Undrinkable Fuel Source Only Folger's Crystals! Spiff is saved!
Now if only he can get the pop-top to open, let's see...
Twist here...
Push through foil here...mmmhmm.
Rip off alienproof secondary safety foil...
Ah there we go. Wait ten minutes for fusion. Tap feet.
(shaking can) "Why won't you reach fusion you stupid can!?!?!?!"
(can explodes drenching Spiff)
Another day in the sandbox...