If you really object to X this much then create your own damned 'desktop' distro of linux that uses direct buffering. Cut the whining, bitching, and moaning, and do something constructive - if you're capable, that is.
'nature' is a human concept, and thus anything we define it as being. If we decide that finding dead, disemboweled rodents on the living room floor is 'unnatural' at 3 in the bloody a.m. (or worse, stepping in the carcass on our way to the bathroom), then it's damned well unnatural. As well as gross.
I once owned a very hyperactive cat that would at times drive me crazy enough to put it into a bedroom and close the door until it calmed down. This proved a deterrant for about three months, after which the cat discovered that it could jump up and wrap both forelegs about the door knob, then rock back and forth until the knob turned enough to open the door.
It took me awhile to figure out exactly how the cat was getting the door open, but damn me if I wasn't impressed once I saw her actually do it. Most cats seem to be too stupid to master this trick, but those like my former pet-from-hell will no doubt figure out the camera system fairly quickly.
Business models aren't protected by law. Well, they weren't until the DMCA made it legal to freeze technological and economic growth to 20th century standards, at any rate.
In any event, I don't recognize the legality of the DMCA. It's clearly a direct violation of the intent of copyright and patent as laid out by the founding fathers in the Constitution itself. Laws like these, bought and paid for by corporate America, aren't laws I have any intention of honoring.
Besides, Blizzard was just being a collective company shit, throwing a hissy fit over the fact that a few unpaid yahoos built a better product on their free time than Blizzard itself was capable of cobbling together. The existence of bnetd no more cut into their business model than the proliferation of free copies of Doom hurt id software.
And let's not forget an email system which, until recently, which was famous for mail delays, not delivering the mail at all, not forwarding the mail according to the standard practices of the net (and thus earning it the famous 'AOL ban' amongst ISPs far and wide), the inability to properly deal with attachments - just a few of the many headaches that AOL users have had to put up with over the years.
Sure, you scaled it to unprecedented scales. But a turd is still a turd no matter how large it gets.
Jesus H. Christ, try doing a bit of research on 'separation of church and state'. And while you're at it, read up on evolution and see why it's by far and away the only plausible theory around. Creationism is the kind of tripe only complete morons give any credence to, the same folks who read "The Weekly World News" and actually believe the articles are on the up and up.
The crazy christian scum are easily spotted and therefore easily avoided. The fuckwits who insist on using their religion to determine what my daughter is taught in school - these are the *really* dangerous folks. Because *they won't leave other people alone - ever*. They won't stop until *they* decide what my children will be taught and how they will live.
Yep, puts the priorities of everyone in perspective. Of course, I'm not actually brainwashed enough to think that I'm obligated to support *any* company's business model - call me a crazy capitalist, not a company buffoon.
I do the same thing across my network with two identical machines (between them they have 200 gigs of hard drive space, so why not?). If one machine dies the other is an exact duplicate; the odds of both dying at the same time (apart from a power outage) are exceedingly slim.
This means I can always reach one machine - it doesn't matter which one - and they're both in a secure physical location (my house).
But me, the American who loves meat of all kinds and isn't planning on going to Mars, *wants* Mr. Astronaut to have nice juicy steaks whenever the fuck he feels like it.
A forced Vegan diet undoubtedly qualifies as 'cruel and unusual punishment', at least to anyone who isn't a blazing PETA fanatic. God knows, I'd probably flip out and eat a fellow astronaut if I didn't have any meat for three freakin' years.
Unlike the college boy hypocrites who earlier this month were foaming at the mouth over Blizzard fucking with bnetd, but now are eagerly awaiting their chance to throw their 'ethics' to the wind as soon as they can purchase their copy of W3, I won't be playing this game. Not now, not ever.
So, how many of the rest of you are going to remain true to your word, and how many are going to act like crack whores offered a hit off the pipe? Bet quite a few more of you fall into the latter category rather than the former.
I donate my cycles to helping poor, deprived teenagers rip pornographic movies from DVD to mpeg so they can share them with their equally-underprivileged friends.
Which explains why all the fucked up sons of bitches in Oregon trying to force prayer and Creationism onto the schools while at the same time banning any sort of sex education are all...Christians.
Please tell me how this little child brainwashing campaign is any different than what Scientology does, especially when the religious pricks take to harrassing their opponents (e.g., by holding protests outside your home). Or, for example, shooting doctors who perform abortions (which happened *again* just a few months ago...after *another* firebombing).
I'll grant you that these folks are probably a minority of Christians, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous or less despicable than Scientologists. Both sets are whackjobs; simply because one is Christian doesn't make their actions any more forgivable.
Being wary of religious freaks has nothing to do with bigotry and everything to do with self-preservation. Arguing over the minor quibbles of brand name is irrelevant.
I'm all for free software. Y'know, the kind I write and decide, for myself, as the creator, what license I'll use when distributing it. GPL, BSD, closed-source proprietary, so long as *I* have the freedom to make a *choice* without some mouth-breathing shithead telling me that only certain Approved Options(TM) are moral.
Just as you have the choice to buy or not buy, use or not use, my software. See? Maximum choice, maximum freedom all-around. And no annoying little mental midgets kicking us in the shins trying to decide for us what is good and what is not.
There are assholes and there are assholes. Scientologists, however, define the word 'asshole'. They should be right there in Websters along with a color glossy of goatse.cx and a pic of Bill G.
This 'church' is really nothing more than a scam for making money and getting the brainwashed drones to put out for 'church officials'. It's a cult, a con, a terrorist organization - all harbored under the umbrella of 'religion' in the U.S. Criticize it at your peril, for these lunatics will do whatever they have to to silence their opponents. The legality of their actions is of little importance to them.
I spit on the Scientologists and everything they stand for. They are scum of the worst sort, deserving of nothing but contempt and ridicule. They'd be a damned joke if they weren't so dangerous. As is, even criticizing them is enough to attract months of harrassment, online and off.
I only wish someone had put a bullet in Hubbard's skull before he came up with this scheme....
The Constitution protects everyone at all times because *no entity other than government can make laws*. And since only government can make laws, prosecute laws, and sentence offenders, the actions of government in all three endeavors are regulated by the Constitution.
It doesn't matter for jack what a company thinks on the matter. The company has no legal authority of any kind. The worst it can do is complain through a civil suit - which immediately remands the matter before a judge *who is bound by the Constitution in interpretating the law, just as Congress was when they made it.*
The idea what corporations are somehow exempt is a bogus one fronted by slashdotters who think (or wish) that we live in some sort of cyberpunk reality. This simply isn't at all true. These folks should stop smoking the crack that inspires such delusions.
I see this popular fallacy on slashdot time and again. That is, the Constitution only applies to the government and not to corporations.
This simply isn't true. No corporation has the right to make laws (legislative branch), enforce laws (executive branch), or pass judgement on laws (judicial branch). If you sign a contract with a company and the contract dispute ends up escalating to a civil suit, that civil suit *must* be prosecuted before a judge - who is explicity bound by the Constitution in all things, including any judgement made concerning the constitutionality of your contract.
*Any* dispute which enters the legal system *must* take second place to Constitutional guarrantees. It's right there in the Constitution, and *no* private agreement can abridge those rights.
All law is the province of government, not corporations - *by definition*. Slashdotters need to realize that corporations *do not* make law - this isn't a Gibsonian world yet, even though quite a few folks seem to be confused on this issue. Mostly the same folks who think that EULAs are binding agreements, it seems.
America is about as capitalist as the former Soviet Union was communist. Real capitalism, or anything close to it, has never existed in modern history. Although it's a great buzzword for shutting down rational thought and inspiring patriotic fervor.
Sure you do. And anything which opposes your point of view on the oil companies is FUD, even when backed up by sources (e.g., Harpers article on Indonesia, government papers showing the Valdez acted inappropriately several times - all in previous threads). Whatever you say, supported by cites or not, is factual and therefore not FUD.
Guess that makes you no different from the average slashdotter after all.
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If you really object to X this much then create your own damned 'desktop' distro of linux that uses direct buffering. Cut the whining, bitching, and moaning, and do something constructive - if you're capable, that is.
Max
Are you vying for "most outrageous lie ever told"?
Max
The release of Windows XP didn't suddenly make Windows 3.1 stop working.
Probably because Windows 3.1 never actually worked well in the first place.
Max
"Microsoft Works!"
Max
'nature' is a human concept, and thus anything we define it as being. If we decide that finding dead, disemboweled rodents on the living room floor is 'unnatural' at 3 in the bloody a.m. (or worse, stepping in the carcass on our way to the bathroom), then it's damned well unnatural. As well as gross.
Max
I once owned a very hyperactive cat that would at times drive me crazy enough to put it into a bedroom and close the door until it calmed down. This proved a deterrant for about three months, after which the cat discovered that it could jump up and wrap both forelegs about the door knob, then rock back and forth until the knob turned enough to open the door.
It took me awhile to figure out exactly how the cat was getting the door open, but damn me if I wasn't impressed once I saw her actually do it. Most cats seem to be too stupid to master this trick, but those like my former pet-from-hell will no doubt figure out the camera system fairly quickly.
Max
Business models aren't protected by law. Well, they weren't until the DMCA made it legal to freeze technological and economic growth to 20th century standards, at any rate.
In any event, I don't recognize the legality of the DMCA. It's clearly a direct violation of the intent of copyright and patent as laid out by the founding fathers in the Constitution itself. Laws like these, bought and paid for by corporate America, aren't laws I have any intention of honoring.
Besides, Blizzard was just being a collective company shit, throwing a hissy fit over the fact that a few unpaid yahoos built a better product on their free time than Blizzard itself was capable of cobbling together. The existence of bnetd no more cut into their business model than the proliferation of free copies of Doom hurt id software.
Max
And let's not forget an email system which, until recently, which was famous for mail delays, not delivering the mail at all, not forwarding the mail according to the standard practices of the net (and thus earning it the famous 'AOL ban' amongst ISPs far and wide), the inability to properly deal with attachments - just a few of the many headaches that AOL users have had to put up with over the years.
Sure, you scaled it to unprecedented scales. But a turd is still a turd no matter how large it gets.
Max
Jesus H. Christ, try doing a bit of research on 'separation of church and state'. And while you're at it, read up on evolution and see why it's by far and away the only plausible theory around. Creationism is the kind of tripe only complete morons give any credence to, the same folks who read "The Weekly World News" and actually believe the articles are on the up and up.
The crazy christian scum are easily spotted and therefore easily avoided. The fuckwits who insist on using their religion to determine what my daughter is taught in school - these are the *really* dangerous folks. Because *they won't leave other people alone - ever*. They won't stop until *they* decide what my children will be taught and how they will live.
Fascist assholes.
Max
Yep, puts the priorities of everyone in perspective. Of course, I'm not actually brainwashed enough to think that I'm obligated to support *any* company's business model - call me a crazy capitalist, not a company buffoon.
Max
I do the same thing across my network with two identical machines (between them they have 200 gigs of hard drive space, so why not?). If one machine dies the other is an exact duplicate; the odds of both dying at the same time (apart from a power outage) are exceedingly slim.
This means I can always reach one machine - it doesn't matter which one - and they're both in a secure physical location (my house).
Max
But me, the American who loves meat of all kinds and isn't planning on going to Mars, *wants* Mr. Astronaut to have nice juicy steaks whenever the fuck he feels like it.
A forced Vegan diet undoubtedly qualifies as 'cruel and unusual punishment', at least to anyone who isn't a blazing PETA fanatic. God knows, I'd probably flip out and eat a fellow astronaut if I didn't have any meat for three freakin' years.
Max
Unlike the college boy hypocrites who earlier this month were foaming at the mouth over Blizzard fucking with bnetd, but now are eagerly awaiting their chance to throw their 'ethics' to the wind as soon as they can purchase their copy of W3, I won't be playing this game. Not now, not ever.
So, how many of the rest of you are going to remain true to your word, and how many are going to act like crack whores offered a hit off the pipe? Bet quite a few more of you fall into the latter category rather than the former.
Max
Um, perhaps the fact that Linux actually has some working mail server and client software?
Max
You have enormous balls, to actually admit to having anything to do with that system.
Max
Hey, don't forget: AOL is the home of pedophiles, both online and in management. Yep, who better to promote family values than child molestors?
Max
I donate my cycles to helping poor, deprived teenagers rip pornographic movies from DVD to mpeg so they can share them with their equally-underprivileged friends.
Puts a tear in me eye just thinking about it....
Max
Which explains why all the fucked up sons of bitches in Oregon trying to force prayer and Creationism onto the schools while at the same time banning any sort of sex education are all...Christians.
Please tell me how this little child brainwashing campaign is any different than what Scientology does, especially when the religious pricks take to harrassing their opponents (e.g., by holding protests outside your home). Or, for example, shooting doctors who perform abortions (which happened *again* just a few months ago...after *another* firebombing).
I'll grant you that these folks are probably a minority of Christians, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous or less despicable than Scientologists. Both sets are whackjobs; simply because one is Christian doesn't make their actions any more forgivable.
Being wary of religious freaks has nothing to do with bigotry and everything to do with self-preservation. Arguing over the minor quibbles of brand name is irrelevant.
Max
I'm all for free software. Y'know, the kind I write and decide, for myself, as the creator, what license I'll use when distributing it. GPL, BSD, closed-source proprietary, so long as *I* have the freedom to make a *choice* without some mouth-breathing shithead telling me that only certain Approved Options(TM) are moral.
Just as you have the choice to buy or not buy, use or not use, my software. See? Maximum choice, maximum freedom all-around. And no annoying little mental midgets kicking us in the shins trying to decide for us what is good and what is not.
Max
There are assholes and there are assholes. Scientologists, however, define the word 'asshole'. They should be right there in Websters along with a color glossy of goatse.cx and a pic of Bill G.
This 'church' is really nothing more than a scam for making money and getting the brainwashed drones to put out for 'church officials'. It's a cult, a con, a terrorist organization - all harbored under the umbrella of 'religion' in the U.S. Criticize it at your peril, for these lunatics will do whatever they have to to silence their opponents. The legality of their actions is of little importance to them.
I spit on the Scientologists and everything they stand for. They are scum of the worst sort, deserving of nothing but contempt and ridicule. They'd be a damned joke if they weren't so dangerous. As is, even criticizing them is enough to attract months of harrassment, online and off.
I only wish someone had put a bullet in Hubbard's skull before he came up with this scheme....
Max
The Constitution protects everyone at all times because *no entity other than government can make laws*. And since only government can make laws, prosecute laws, and sentence offenders, the actions of government in all three endeavors are regulated by the Constitution.
It doesn't matter for jack what a company thinks on the matter. The company has no legal authority of any kind. The worst it can do is complain through a civil suit - which immediately remands the matter before a judge *who is bound by the Constitution in interpretating the law, just as Congress was when they made it.*
The idea what corporations are somehow exempt is a bogus one fronted by slashdotters who think (or wish) that we live in some sort of cyberpunk reality. This simply isn't at all true. These folks should stop smoking the crack that inspires such delusions.
Max
I see this popular fallacy on slashdot time and again. That is, the Constitution only applies to the government and not to corporations.
This simply isn't true. No corporation has the right to make laws (legislative branch), enforce laws (executive branch), or pass judgement on laws (judicial branch). If you sign a contract with a company and the contract dispute ends up escalating to a civil suit, that civil suit *must* be prosecuted before a judge - who is explicity bound by the Constitution in all things, including any judgement made concerning the constitutionality of your contract.
*Any* dispute which enters the legal system *must* take second place to Constitutional guarrantees. It's right there in the Constitution, and *no* private agreement can abridge those rights.
All law is the province of government, not corporations - *by definition*. Slashdotters need to realize that corporations *do not* make law - this isn't a Gibsonian world yet, even though quite a few folks seem to be confused on this issue. Mostly the same folks who think that EULAs are binding agreements, it seems.
Max
America is about as capitalist as the former Soviet Union was communist. Real capitalism, or anything close to it, has never existed in modern history. Although it's a great buzzword for shutting down rational thought and inspiring patriotic fervor.
Max
Burden of proof is always on the plaintiff, not the defendent. That goes for civil cases just as much as criminal cases.
Max
Sure you do. And anything which opposes your point of view on the oil companies is FUD, even when backed up by sources (e.g., Harpers article on Indonesia, government papers showing the Valdez acted inappropriately several times - all in previous threads). Whatever you say, supported by cites or not, is factual and therefore not FUD.
Guess that makes you no different from the average slashdotter after all.
Max