No one is responsible their own actions; it's either video games, violence on television, music lyrics, or the movies.
How absurd.
Let's get real: It's generally lawyers that generate these ridiculous lawsuits. They see a cash cow, and they bring the families on board.
Yeah, sure, in some cases the families are totally part of the greed and delusion, but let's lay the blame where it belongs: This international litiginous climate created by blood-sucking ambulance-chasing lawyers.
What a totally disappointing day. Slashdot posts a link and story about some of the issues that are being covered up in our nation, and instead of seeing a host of informed responses and insightful messages, I see cognitive dissonance on display.
How disgusting.
No, it is not un-American to be critical of our nation's foreign policy. Quite the contrary; as it is our tax dollars that build those bombs that rip children apart halfway across the globe.
No, it is not a gift to the terrorists to expect human beings to think for themselves; to possibly examine an issue from multiple angles, to apply some rigor in their application of logic.
If the collective intellect of those who monitor Slashdot are so conditioned that they react with anger, venom, and invective in the absence of any true context of the stories involved (and ignorance has been the constant companion of the decryers), then why hope for change?
If you are an American, you have blood on your hands. The blood of children, the blood of innocent people, and you blather on to the other Eloi about how great the Morlocks are. We feed the war machines, and those machines kill for money, kill for profit, and it isn't coming to us. The same people who bleed us farm our jobs overseas, and yet you're cheerleading for these fuckers.
Is it plausible to assume that all men and women in America fall on one side or the other on every conceivable issue (democrat, republican, liberal, conservative, left, right)? Using these terms is one way the propaganda machine keeps itelf wll-oiled. We can easily discount any number of salient points by marginalizing entire segments of populations with a word.
Prediction: This gets modded down immediately, and one person will have read it. Here's to Slashdot Suicide!
Sure, it could be. But why jump to that conclusion? Industries have been willfully exposing workers to harmful chemicals for decades, and largely get away with it.
Check out Blue Vinyl, a documentary on PVC production which uncovers criminal collusion between European and American manufacturers of PVC siding for decades. The Italian heads of involved companies were actually tried, but here in America our rich are royalty, so our contempt must be saved for those who snatch purses rather than those who willingly allow hundreds to die painfully from cancer through sheer greed and malice.
I think you're missing a very important and self-evident point here. What he wrote was "the very best kind of ally..."
On that score, he's 100% correct. Of course alliances are formed out of self-interest. But they are vulnerable from that very position. The interest can shift, and more importantly, can be shifted by opposing forces. The very best kind of allies are those who are working on principles, rather than some material self-interest (which is certainly strongly implied in the use of that term).
From the article: Spiderman was just as nonsensical as Hulk, but it got away with it because there were so many other good things, such as character and plot, going on.
Spider-Man was absolutely terrible. Character? They were paper-cyphers. Plot? What plot? It was simplistic, asinine nonsense. The bit that Jack Black did for the MTV awards had more plot. Not only that, there is a moment when our spandex-clad saves his love after she falls by...falling faster than her. No, he doesn't fly, he falls...faster. How they can use this piece of shit movie as a positive example is beyond me.
couldn't you just stick your sensitively named directories inside commonly named directories and deny access recursively?
Sure. However, I can't understand why anyone would have any sensitive info unsecured behind a number of mechanisms. I use robots.txt to keep spiders out of developmental stuff mostly, and do not see it as a security mechanism in any way...because it's not.;-)
Having these things is a cost of being a superpower.
As is the lack of public health care, terrible infant mortality rates, and consolidation of wealth and power on a scale heretofore unknown in the world's history.
Great. Woo-de-doo for us. And in terms of being a "policeman," it's more about creating favorable investment climates for US business than doing any real policing.
We better sidle up to Fiji next. I hear they're pretty fierce.
If they guy just sat in a chair, drank beer, and watched sports during the time he plays the game, he would be considered normal.
I think he would be considered an alchoholic. 40 hours of drinking a week? That's a lot.
But it is true that gamers get a bum rap. I'd rather play Unreal for a few hours than watch the boob tube for that same amount of time, but there is a stigma attached to that. I'd rather be interacting with _something_ rather than sitting silent and still, mouth agape.
I signed up for the DNC list in my state (PA) as soon as I could. The calls have all but stopped. I used to get a few a day, now once a week is remarkable. Seriously. I was dubious as to the effectiveness of the list, but...
This so reminds me of the sue-happy guy done by the Jerky Boys.
He calls up a lawyer to ask a number of questions about possible lasuits (all ridiculously frivolous), dragging the lawyer further and further into the realm of stupidity, then he asks the lawyer if he could sue HIM.
Considering that "uncertainty" is a noun, and "doubt" is both a noun AND a verb...no. In the verb context, doubt clearly has a different meaning than does uncertainty.
Good job with your little addition to FUD. More than one dipshit even modded you up.
ie, in your eyes they are guilty until proven innocent. Great.
Please don't put words in my mouth. It is easy to wax idealistic on any situation, however Microsoft has a history. Are they guilty? I don't know. But what I am saying is there is evidence that points towards it. Factual evidence. I think my meaning was clear.
Of course, "it" could mean a great many things.
The use of a term such as "conspiracy theory" has a very negative connotation, and does not fit this situation. That is what I am saying. Bruce Perens was not going out on a limb making his statements.
SCO has filed a lawsuit against IBM. Fact. Microsoft bought a license fee from SCO. Fact. The timing of that agreement is close upon the lawsuit. Fact. Microsoft is an huge company, who makes it their business to be informed on the state of the industry. Fact. Microsoft has openly declared a campaign against open source software. Fact.
Adding them up calls for common-sense. There is such a thing as preponderance of the evidence, which is used to decide civil cases.
A conclusion based on the preponderance of the evidence is easily made, objectively.
Therefore, I strongly disagree with your assertions.
Circumstantial evidence is still evidence. Facts are facts.
Does anybody else wish that Bruce Perens would stop expounding conspiracy theories involving Redmond at every possible opportunity?
Conspiracy theory is one thing; claims supported by factual evidence is another entirely, and this particular case falls directly under that aegis.
It just makes him, and by extension us, look rather childish.
No one can make "us" look childish, unless the looker is intrinsically biased towards foolish stereotyping and generalizations...and if so, who cares?
The evidence is circumstantial at best, and that simply isn't good enough to go around making unsupportable claims.
We're not in court. Common-sense has a place here, and motives can be divined. What possible motive do you see as a counterpoint for MS' involvement with SCO at this time?
All in all, the use of "conspiracy theories" doesn't make you look childish, but it does cast doubt on your ability as a critical thinker, at least in this case.
It was a joke, though Dokken wrote some terrible music in their own right. In fact, everything that isn't Alone Again pretty much sucks.
As to the Metallica, I didn't recognize the tunes, therefore I knew they must be post-eighties, as I was a leather-jacket/ripped jeans wearing devotee of all things truly heavy during that time.
Now I'd much prefer to listen to Tool and pre-Black Album Metallica for the heavy stuff.
I actually like that DL song too, but couldn't easily take a swing at the whole deal while making a bunch of provisions.;-)
My goal is to be reasonably self-sufficient in the event that modern conveniences are lost. Far-fetched idea, but I definitely collect data, both in electronic and hard-copy form, as often as I can. So far the collection outweighs my reading by a lot, but it's there. It's also a humourous collection of information that I may never so much as glance at...but it's there. And much of it does interest me.
And yes, I realize the irony of collection digital forms of data in the event that conveniences (which I always assume means electricity among other things...at least in easily accessible forms) are removed.
In a co-ordinated effort, anti-spam activists dug up Ralsky's home address, his telephone number, even pictures of his extravagant home, and the information was posted online.
Coordinated my ass. I know that there were calls in the discussion to do some of this stuff, but someone I know very well decided to do that as soon as this person (who shall remain nameless) read the article where this arrogant ass bragged about making a fortune by disregarding all sense of decency.
Fuck him, and fuck this author. People will act and react to certain behaviors. They're called "informal sanctions" in anthropological terms. Ralsky got a taste of his own medicine based upon the fact that a lot of people were very pissed off at his actions, and there was no "co-ordination"(sic) necessary. Calling it coordinated lessens the impact of the largely spontaneous reaction.
The people involved with the project appear very talented, but... I'm sorry. Some of this looks very ghetto.
As an inexperienced person, I only looked at the design...the sets (if you will), the creatures, etc. I thought they looked amazing. Very evocative. The story seems thin and simplistic, but then: most Hollywood blockbusters are utter tripe anyway.
Since I don't have an eye for modeling (have 3dsmax, the interface has utterly defeated me to this point), I only looked at the other stuff. Ghetto is not a word that I would have used to describe it.
True. And yet look at the number of Les Pauls that appear to be used by just about any given band. Look at the custom shop PRS' that guys like Santana play. You can get a great set up for less. And yet somehow a lot (granted, not all) of successful bands still seem to use the expensive stuff.
Just to add my comments, because we disagree only slightly. I worked in studios & music stores for years, and got to try literally hundreds, maybe more, guitars in numerous applications. Some guitars, though they be cheap, just have something. When I decided to buy an electric, I was definitely going Strat, and I tried dozens. The best one was a Mexican strat. They went for around 300 then. It still sounds phenominal. Add to that the number of amps available, processing, etc, and the possibilities are endless. I am not saying that the expensive stuff isn't good, I'm just saying that there are opportunities to produce outstanding sound without them.
From my experience, that $100 acoustic I started on sounded great and I do still love the feeling it invokes. Yet it doesn't compare to the $350 ones I was looking at replacing it with. Even less does it compare to the $700 one I ended up getting. Funny how the guys selling guitars know that all they have to do is put the next level of guitar up in to your hands, off a discount and you'll find some way to squeeze up because that little bit of difference makes all the difference.
They're selling;-)
FWIW, I was not thinking "grunge" when I posted my reply. I was actually thinking of a Fender Strat running clean through a Reverb or Roland JC. Certainly, the dirtier the intent, the easier it is to skimp.
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No one is responsible their own actions; it's either video games, violence on television, music lyrics, or the movies.
How absurd.
Let's get real: It's generally lawyers that generate these ridiculous lawsuits. They see a cash cow, and they bring the families on board.
Yeah, sure, in some cases the families are totally
part of the greed and delusion, but let's lay the blame where it belongs: This international litiginous climate created by blood-sucking ambulance-chasing lawyers.
What a totally disappointing day. Slashdot posts a link and story about some of the issues that are being covered up in our nation, and instead of seeing a host of informed responses and insightful messages, I see cognitive dissonance on display.
How disgusting.
No, it is not un-American to be critical of our nation's foreign policy. Quite the contrary; as it is our tax dollars that build those bombs that rip children apart halfway across the globe.
No, it is not a gift to the terrorists to expect human beings to think for themselves; to possibly examine an issue from multiple angles, to apply some rigor in their application of logic.
If the collective intellect of those who monitor Slashdot are so conditioned that they react with anger, venom, and invective in the absence of any true context of the stories involved (and ignorance has been the constant companion of the decryers), then why hope for change?
If you are an American, you have blood on your hands. The blood of children, the blood of innocent people, and you blather on to the other Eloi about how great the Morlocks are. We feed the war machines, and those machines kill for money, kill for profit, and it isn't coming to us. The same people who bleed us farm our jobs overseas, and yet you're cheerleading for these fuckers.
Is it plausible to assume that all men and women in America fall on one side or the other on every conceivable issue (democrat, republican, liberal, conservative, left, right)? Using these terms is one way the propaganda machine keeps itelf wll-oiled. We can easily discount any number of salient points by marginalizing entire segments of populations with a word.
Prediction: This gets modded down immediately, and one person will have read it.
Here's to Slashdot Suicide!
Could it be the workers fault?
Sure, it could be. But why jump to that conclusion? Industries have been willfully exposing workers to harmful chemicals for decades, and largely get away with it.
Check out Blue Vinyl, a documentary on PVC production which uncovers criminal collusion between European and American manufacturers of PVC siding for decades. The Italian heads of
involved companies were actually tried, but here in America our rich are royalty, so our contempt must be saved for those who snatch purses rather than those who willingly allow hundreds to die painfully from cancer through sheer greed and malice.
I think you're missing a very important and self-evident point here. What he wrote was "the very best kind of ally..."
On that score, he's 100% correct. Of course alliances are formed out of self-interest. But they are vulnerable from that very position. The
interest can shift, and more importantly, can be shifted by opposing forces. The very best kind of allies are those who are working on principles, rather than some material self-interest (which is certainly strongly implied in the use of that term).
From the article:
Spiderman was just as nonsensical as Hulk, but it got away with it because there were so many other good things, such as character and plot, going on.
Spider-Man was absolutely terrible. Character? They were paper-cyphers. Plot? What plot? It was simplistic, asinine nonsense. The bit that Jack Black did for the MTV awards had more plot. Not only that, there is a moment when our spandex-clad saves his love after she falls by...falling faster than her. No, he doesn't fly, he falls...faster. How they can use this piece of shit movie as a positive example is beyond me.
couldn't you just stick your sensitively named directories inside commonly named directories and deny access recursively?
;-)
Sure. However, I can't understand why anyone would have any sensitive info unsecured behind a number of mechanisms. I use robots.txt to keep spiders out of developmental stuff mostly, and do not see it as a security mechanism in any way...because it's not.
Definitely check out the Appalachian Trail. It runs
for a few hundred miles, can be done on the cheap, and does offer some breathaking beauty.
One can pick it up in Virginia, so it is in close
proximity to the Smithsonian.
Having these things is a cost of being a superpower.
As is the lack of public health care, terrible infant mortality rates, and consolidation of wealth and power on a scale heretofore unknown in the world's history.
Great. Woo-de-doo for us. And in terms of being a "policeman," it's more about creating favorable investment climates for US business than doing
any real policing.
We better sidle up to Fiji next. I hear they're pretty fierce.
If they guy just sat in a chair, drank beer, and watched sports during the time he plays the game, he would be considered normal.
I think he would be considered an alchoholic.
40 hours of drinking a week? That's a lot.
But it is true that gamers get a bum rap. I'd rather play Unreal for a few hours than watch the boob tube for that same amount of time, but there is a stigma attached to that. I'd rather be interacting with _something_ rather than sitting silent and still, mouth agape.
I signed up for the DNC list in my state (PA) as soon as I could. The calls have all but stopped.
I used to get a few a day, now once a week is remarkable. Seriously. I was dubious as to the effectiveness of the list, but...
There was no pseudo-kung fu staff fight as per the film, true, but there was a struggle. It just isn't described in detail in the book.
There was no struggle. Gandalf was no match for Saruman and he knew it.
It's in the book.
after all it would loose half of its daily articles.
Loose half of its daily articles? Upon whom?
Looser. I'd loose my head if that happened.
Slashdot would loose a lot of respect tooo.
My noose itches.
This so reminds me of the sue-happy guy done by the Jerky Boys.
He calls up a lawyer to ask a number of questions about possible lasuits (all ridiculously frivolous), dragging the lawyer further and further into the realm of stupidity, then he asks the lawyer if he could sue HIM.
"Sue everybody!"
I think Ole Darl is that guy.
Next up: SCO sues Slashdot. News at 11.
Considering that "uncertainty" is a noun, and "doubt" is both a noun AND a verb...no.
In the verb context, doubt clearly has a different meaning than does uncertainty.
Good job with your little addition to FUD. More than one dipshit even modded you up.
ie, in your eyes they are guilty until proven innocent. Great.
Please don't put words in my mouth. It is easy to wax idealistic on any situation, however Microsoft has a history. Are they guilty? I don't know.
But what I am saying is there is evidence that points towards it. Factual evidence. I think my meaning was clear.
Of course, "it" could mean a great many things.
The use of a term such as "conspiracy theory" has a very negative connotation, and does not fit this situation. That is what I am saying. Bruce Perens was not going out on a limb making his statements.
nothing has been shown factually or otherwise.
SCO has filed a lawsuit against IBM. Fact. Microsoft bought a license fee from SCO. Fact.
The timing of that agreement is close upon the lawsuit. Fact. Microsoft is an huge company, who makes it their business to be informed on the state of the industry. Fact. Microsoft has openly declared a campaign against open source software. Fact.
Adding them up calls for common-sense. There is such a thing as preponderance of the evidence, which is used to decide civil cases.
A conclusion based on the preponderance of the evidence is easily made, objectively.
Therefore, I strongly disagree with your assertions.
Circumstantial evidence is still evidence. Facts are facts.
Does anybody else wish that Bruce Perens would stop expounding conspiracy theories involving Redmond at every possible opportunity?
Conspiracy theory is one thing; claims supported by factual evidence is another entirely, and this particular case falls directly under that aegis.
It just makes him, and by extension us, look rather childish.
No one can make "us" look childish, unless the looker is intrinsically biased towards foolish stereotyping and generalizations...and if so, who cares?
The evidence is circumstantial at best, and that simply isn't good enough to go around making unsupportable claims.
We're not in court. Common-sense has a place here, and motives can be divined. What possible motive do you see as a counterpoint for MS' involvement with SCO at this time?
All in all, the use of "conspiracy theories" doesn't make you look childish, but it does cast doubt on your ability as a critical thinker, at least in this case.
It was a joke, though Dokken wrote some terrible
;-)
music in their own right. In fact, everything that isn't Alone Again pretty much sucks.
As to the Metallica, I didn't recognize the tunes, therefore I knew they must be post-eighties, as I was a leather-jacket/ripped jeans wearing devotee of all things truly heavy during that time.
Now I'd much prefer to listen to Tool and pre-Black Album Metallica for the heavy stuff.
I actually like that DL song too, but couldn't easily take a swing at the whole deal while making a bunch of provisions.
Screenshot.
My god. That's some terrible shit right there.
It's a snapshot of eighties cheesy metal.
And what is that Metallica doing there?
"Two of these things are not like the other...la la la la laaaa."
My goal is to be reasonably self-sufficient in the event that modern conveniences are lost. Far-fetched idea, but I definitely collect data, both in electronic and hard-copy form, as often as I can. So far the collection outweighs my reading by a lot, but it's there. It's also a humourous collection of information that I may never so much as glance at...but it's there. And much of it does interest me.
And yes, I realize the irony of collection digital forms of data in the event that conveniences (which I always assume means electricity among other things...at least in easily accessible forms) are removed.
It is amazing the shit that gets approved here. Who cares about high-priced babies in shit fucking movies?
What is this: E fucking news? Get a grip.
what's your favourite way to execute a script-kiddy?
Drawn-and-quartered. It's still too good for em.
In a co-ordinated effort, anti-spam activists dug up Ralsky's home address, his telephone number, even pictures of his extravagant home, and the information was posted online.
Coordinated my ass. I know that there were calls in the discussion to do some of this stuff, but someone I know very well decided to do that as soon as this person (who shall remain nameless) read the article where this arrogant ass bragged about making a fortune by disregarding all sense of decency.
Fuck him, and fuck this author. People will act and react to certain behaviors. They're called "informal sanctions" in anthropological terms.
Ralsky got a taste of his own medicine based upon the fact that a lot of people were very pissed off at his actions, and there was no "co-ordination"(sic) necessary. Calling it coordinated lessens the impact of the largely spontaneous reaction.
The people involved with the project appear very talented, but... I'm sorry. Some of this looks very ghetto.
As an inexperienced person, I only looked at the design...the sets (if you will), the creatures, etc. I thought they looked amazing. Very evocative. The story seems thin and simplistic, but then: most Hollywood blockbusters are utter tripe anyway.
Since I don't have an eye for modeling (have 3dsmax, the interface has utterly defeated me to this point), I only looked at the other stuff.
Ghetto is not a word that I would have used to describe it.
True. And yet look at the number of Les Pauls that appear to be used by just about any given band. Look at the custom shop PRS' that guys like Santana play. You can get a great set up for less. And yet somehow a lot (granted, not all) of successful bands still seem to use the expensive stuff.
;-)
Just to add my comments, because we disagree only slightly. I worked in studios & music stores for years, and got to try literally hundreds, maybe more, guitars in numerous applications. Some guitars, though they be cheap, just have something. When I decided to buy an electric, I was definitely going Strat, and I tried dozens. The best one was a Mexican strat. They went for around 300 then. It still sounds phenominal. Add to that the number of amps available, processing, etc, and the possibilities are endless. I am not saying that the expensive stuff isn't good, I'm just saying that there are opportunities to produce outstanding sound without them.
From my experience, that $100 acoustic I started on sounded great and I do still love the feeling it invokes. Yet it doesn't compare to the $350 ones I was looking at replacing it with. Even less does it compare to the $700 one I ended up getting. Funny how the guys selling guitars know that all they have to do is put the next level of guitar up in to your hands, off a discount and you'll find some way to squeeze up because that little bit of difference makes all the difference.
They're selling
FWIW, I was not thinking "grunge" when I posted my reply. I was actually thinking of a Fender Strat running clean through a Reverb or Roland JC. Certainly, the dirtier the intent, the easier it is to skimp.