I travel from Europe to the US on a regular basis (once a month) for work. It's getting worse and worse. They track everything about you. I get held up when trying to enter. They're asking me more and more pointless questions. Like where do you work, what kind of work do you do, when will you going back, when was the last time you visited, where do you stay. I can't book any internal US flights from Europe anymore, since they can't verify my European credit card anymore (this started last month). Welcome to the US, land of the guilty until proven innocent.
At some point I'm not going to put up with this Bullcrap anymore. I'm just going to stay in Europe. And you can forget about my business.
Just tell your boss, that next time things break down you could either have spare parts ready ($3,500.00) or waste another two days of the companies & customers time ($???,???,???.00). That should do the trick.
BECAUSE evolution theory has (not yet??) been the cause of wars with millions and millions of death. Evolution theory doesn't want to make me blow up myself in a bus full of people, with the promise of paradise and 70 virgins. Because evolution has hard scientific evidence behind it, and ID is just religious fanatics talking. Science is not a religion.
"I would rather take comfort with God than with the here_today, gone_tomorrow of science."
When I was a kid, hiding under the bed would make me feel safe as well. I never really saw the boogie man, because - you know - he doesn't exist. And neither does god. I take more comfort in "atheist science" than in lies - damn lies - that have kept humankind down, led the world to pain, war and destruction for the last 5000 years over and over again.
Look further, accept and embrace your human condition.
If we make software for commercial reasons, it is evil. If we fund open source, it is evil.
Getting sick of stupid people treating Europe as if it was a single person, summarizing extremely complicated discussion as a one-liner, and saying populistic things about it.
And as a fanatical non-believer, I would have to say that if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem.
Please understand that, I mean no disrespect to you - or try to insult you in anyway, I know you're a thinking believer, but here's what I think. And I just want you to know what goes on inside my head.
Religion (any), is bad for you.
[1] Time and time again it has been shown that religion is used to control the masses.
Let's face it, it's a great way to have everyone do what's needed to keep you in position of power. Compromises to the power of the institution behind the religion are only made when it is really needed for the survival of the institution. Think about catholic church admitting the earth is not flat.
It strikes me that they are forbidding the use of condoms (while half of Africa is dying of sexually transmitted diseases). Don't even get me started on religious wars. Well this is not you who does all of this, right? right!
[2] religion is keeping humanity down
How open minded are religious people, really? Not everyone is a fanatic, but many are (in my view). And the whole purpose of this post is to show you that being a reasonable believer is just as bad (IMO).
How about the real world out there, the oppurtunity, the potential of mankind, the will to explore and learn about the world and the universe? The potential to become so much more than the animal on two legs?
Religion provides most of the answers to personal and technical questions everyone has (as to why do we exist, etc). In my view, religion is holding people back from creating there own ideas and discovering their own answers. And it's not all about the destiniation, it's also about getting there. I truly believe that denying someone this is one of the worst things you can do to a person.
Well, I could rant on for hours. While I mean no disrespect to you as a person, I hope that you see a bit more clearly what goes on inside my head when I say that you're part of the problem.
A tool that allows other (invited) Mozilla / firefox users to see what I display on my desktop (not only browser). Preferably using p2p technology and working behind firewalls etc. Combine this with voice-over-IP technology like skype.
This would be a killer app for companies, because it allows them to do online presentations, software demo's etc. The other side does not need to control my PC, or something. It's not VNC. There is a product from Microsoft Live Office or something (used to be a company called Placeware, which was eaten by MS).
I'm sure it would be big fun at home as well. If it's easy to use.
- slashdot finally fixes HTML to be standard compliant and restores old karma system with points. - emacs and vi decide on the same set of keyboard shortcuts and start merging their codebase - A poll recently showed that the french do take a shower every day
The government will install a high resolution 24/7 webcam in your bedroom, feed all the footage over the internet and store it for ever? Just to make sure that nothing is said there that could be connected to criminal or terrosist activity. Anyway if your a good, well behaved, citizen you have nothing to worry about because you have nothing to hide, right? In my opinion we're all being held hostage by criminals and terrorist.
As well, history has repeatedly shown that it is just a very small step from storing personal information to abusing it to repress the masses. Maybe good intentions, but very dumb dumb people.
Those that are willing to trade freedom for security, will get none and deserve neither !
from the article: Virtual worlds are under evolutionary pressure to promote design features that, while not exactly bad, are nevertheless poor. Each succeeding generation absorbs these into the virtual world paradigm, and introduces new poor features for the next generation to take on board.
Sorry but I just had to say this. A comparison of something with evolution is misused in soo many ways, that it makes me uncomfortable sometimes.
So for the record: games are intentionally designed with the goal of attracting newbies. Evolution is without a preset goal. In this case creationism would be a far better example than evolution.
Greenpeace are a bunch of misguided people. They advertise with save the wale, save the environment, and those things. Then if you donate money they use it to protest (violently) against vital medical and agricultural research.
They would rather see half of the third world population die of hunger than allow research into transgenic crops.
They mislead the general population, always playing on cheap sentiments, never ever through the rational, sensible way.
I would label greenpeace as eco-religion, with a small group of fanatic eco-terrorists at the core. I actively discourage anyone from donating money to this group. I can only hope these people will become reasonable one day, since there are obviously important things that deserve the attention of environmentalists.
Glad to see that there are more people on/. who share (at least some of) my opinion. That means there's still hope.
The interesting part from the EULA does not seem so bad. Except if they change it again with the next version of course.
(c) The Skype Software and Services may be incorporated into, and may incorporate, technology, software and services owned and controlled by third parties. Skype emphasizes that it will only incorporate such third party software for the purpose of (i) adding new or additional functionality or (ii) improving the technical performance of the Skype Software and Services. Any other third party software which could be distributed together with Skype will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with this third party. Use of such third party software or services is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable third party license agreements, and you agree to look solely to the applicable third party and not to Skype to enforce any of your rights.
I think spammers are stealing time (and therefore money) from the community and should be punished accordingly (jail time, large fines). It must have a measurable impact on the efficiency of the economy. There's enough people annoyed by spammers, so let's pass a law, hunt all spammers down and correct their criminal behavior.
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I bought the Plextor px708a last week, and I must say that it's amazingly fast. Plextor has a list of supported media on their site. More media to follow as they still update the firmware.
I tried it with two different kinds of Verbatim DVD+R 4x (43231,43211). It works at 8 speed (under 9 minutes to burn "backups" of your DVD collection). Burned over 20 disks, zero toasters up until now.
The PX708a has some Plextor specific goodies to make sure speed of burning is optimized for the media (bad media will slow down the burning).
Needless to say that the px708a is also one of the best & fastests CDR burners around at the moment (under 3 minutes to burn a 700 Mb ISO).
Yeah it's amazing. The page wants to know all details, including your mother maiden name. I mean, come on this must be more obvious than Nigerian scam.
It also says: WARNING: Credit-card fraud is a criminal offense. For your protection all transactions are carefully monitored and logged including IP adresses, ISP, and other pertinent information.
Hilarious! Ironic?
If you do view source, you'll notice that the javascript used on the form is quite lame as well.
Gaim does not work anymore! Finally, those of us developing under Linux have an excuse for not being disturbed every 10 minutes by marketing types. They forced us to use IM - while we really don't want to.
What an annoying page.. I turn off Flash to squelch their highly annoying animated ads and none of their graphs show up.
Just use the Mozilla Firebird browser and install the Flash click to view plugin. Like the name suggests, you won't see any flash unless you explicitly click the flash placeholder.
Thanks for the suggestion, I thought about that as well. Unfortunately I don't have a clear view on the satellite from where I live. I am not allowed to attach satellite dishes to my appartment, and all I can see from my window are 8 metre high walls.
In the last three years, I have spend a lot of quality time with books, games and./ You can not begin to imagine things you have time for, when you stop watching the tellie every night.
As an non French living in Paris, this is soo good. Now we can finally watch some real TV here, instead of only 5 public channels of stupid quizzes and musical shows.
I can't wait to see the royle family again. In fact, a friend of mine just ordered the DVDs with the BBC last week.
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I travel from Europe to the US on a regular basis (once a month) for work. It's getting worse and worse. They track everything about you. I get held up when trying to enter. They're asking me more and more pointless questions. Like where do you work, what kind of work do you do, when will you going back, when was the last time you visited, where do you stay. I can't book any internal US flights from Europe anymore, since they can't verify my European credit card anymore (this started last month). Welcome to the US, land of the guilty until proven innocent.
At some point I'm not going to put up with this Bullcrap anymore. I'm just going to stay in Europe. And you can forget about my business.
Get this What Color Is Your Parachute book, which is quite good and goes into much detail on all things you've talked about here.
Works for me!
Just tell your boss, that next time things break down you could either have spare parts ready ($3,500.00) or waste another two days of the companies & customers time ($???,???,???.00).
That should do the trick.
Yes yes yes, very funny. Please mod parent up !!!!! FUNNY +5 seriously.
Re:Can't We All Just Get Along?
BECAUSE evolution theory has (not yet??) been the cause of wars with millions and millions of death. Evolution theory doesn't want to make me blow up myself in a bus full of people, with the promise of paradise and 70 virgins. Because evolution has hard scientific evidence behind it, and ID is just religious fanatics talking. Science is not a religion.
"I would rather take comfort with God than with the here_today, gone_tomorrow of science."
When I was a kid, hiding under the bed would make me feel safe as well. I never really saw the boogie man, because - you know - he doesn't exist. And neither does god. I take more comfort in "atheist science" than in lies - damn lies - that have kept humankind down, led the world to pain, war and destruction for the last 5000 years over and over again.
Look further, accept and embrace your human condition.
If we make software for commercial reasons, it is evil. If we fund open source, it is evil.
Getting sick of stupid people treating Europe as if it was a single person, summarizing extremely complicated discussion as a one-liner, and saying populistic things about it.
Grow up and see the world around you !
And as a fanatical non-believer, I would have to say that if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem.
;)
Please understand that, I mean no disrespect to you - or try to insult you in anyway, I know you're a thinking believer, but here's what I think. And I just want you to know what goes on inside my head.
Religion (any), is bad for you.
[1] Time and time again it has been shown that religion is used to control the masses.
Let's face it, it's a great way to have everyone do what's needed to keep you in position of power. Compromises to the power of the institution behind the religion are only made when it is really needed for the survival of the institution. Think about catholic church admitting the earth is not flat.
It strikes me that they are forbidding the use of condoms (while half of Africa is dying of sexually transmitted diseases). Don't even get me started on religious wars. Well this is not you who does all of this, right? right!
[2] religion is keeping humanity down
How open minded are religious people, really? Not everyone is a fanatic, but many are (in my view). And the whole purpose of this post is to show you that being a reasonable believer is just as bad (IMO).
How about the real world out there, the oppurtunity, the potential of mankind, the will to explore and learn about the world and the universe? The potential to become so much more than the animal on two legs?
Religion provides most of the answers to personal and technical questions everyone has (as to why do we exist, etc). In my view, religion is holding people back from creating there own ideas and discovering their own answers. And it's not all about the destiniation, it's also about getting there. I truly believe that denying someone this is one of the worst things you can do to a person.
Well, I could rant on for hours. While I mean no disrespect to you as a person, I hope that you see a bit more clearly what goes on inside my head when I say that you're part of the problem.
Feel free to disagree with me
A tool that allows other (invited) Mozilla / firefox users to see what I display on my desktop (not only browser). Preferably using p2p technology and working behind firewalls etc. Combine this with voice-over-IP technology like skype.
This would be a killer app for companies, because it allows them to do online presentations, software demo's etc. The other side does not need to control my PC, or something. It's not VNC. There is a product from Microsoft Live Office or something (used to be a company called Placeware, which was eaten by MS).
I'm sure it would be big fun at home as well. If it's easy to use.
- slashdot finally fixes HTML to be standard compliant and restores old karma system with points.
- emacs and vi decide on the same set of keyboard shortcuts and start merging their codebase
- A poll recently showed that the french do take a shower every day
The government will install a high resolution 24/7 webcam in your bedroom, feed all the footage over the internet and store it for ever? Just to make sure that nothing is said there that could be connected to criminal or terrosist activity. Anyway if your a good, well behaved, citizen you have nothing to worry about because you have nothing to hide, right? In my opinion we're all being held hostage by criminals and terrorist.
As well, history has repeatedly shown that it is just a very small step from storing personal information to abusing it to repress the masses. Maybe good intentions, but very dumb dumb people.
Those that are willing to trade freedom for security, will get none and deserve neither !
from the article: Virtual worlds are under evolutionary pressure to promote design features that, while not exactly bad, are nevertheless poor. Each succeeding generation absorbs these into the virtual world paradigm, and introduces new poor features for the next generation to take on board.
Sorry but I just had to say this. A comparison of something with evolution is misused in soo many ways, that it makes me uncomfortable sometimes.
So for the record: games are intentionally designed with the goal of attracting newbies. Evolution is without a preset goal. In this case creationism would be a far better example than evolution.
You take my karma, but you can not take my opinion. To whomever modded parent post as flamebait, grow up!
Greenpeace are a bunch of misguided people. They advertise with save the wale, save the environment, and those things. Then if you donate money they use it to protest (violently) against vital medical and agricultural research.
/. who share (at least some of) my opinion. That means there's still hope.
They would rather see half of the third world population die of hunger than allow research into transgenic crops.
They mislead the general population, always playing on cheap sentiments, never ever through the rational, sensible way.
I would label greenpeace as eco-religion, with a small group of fanatic eco-terrorists at the core. I actively discourage anyone from donating money to this group. I can only hope these people will become reasonable one day, since there are obviously important things that deserve the attention of environmentalists.
Glad to see that there are more people on
The interesting part from the EULA does not seem so bad. Except if they change it again with the next version of course.
(c) The Skype Software and Services may be incorporated into, and may incorporate, technology, software and services owned and controlled by third parties. Skype emphasizes that it will only incorporate such third party software for the purpose of (i) adding new or additional functionality or (ii) improving the technical performance of the Skype Software and Services. Any other third party software which could be distributed together with Skype will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with this third party. Use of such third party software or services is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable third party license agreements, and you agree to look solely to the applicable third party and not to Skype to enforce any of your rights.
I think spammers are stealing time (and therefore money) from the community and should be punished accordingly (jail time, large fines). It must have a measurable impact on the efficiency of the economy. There's enough people annoyed by spammers, so let's pass a law, hunt all spammers down and correct their criminal behavior.
I bought the Plextor px708a last week, and I must say that it's amazingly fast. Plextor has a list of supported media on their site. More media to follow as they still update the firmware.
I tried it with two different kinds of Verbatim DVD+R 4x (43231,43211). It works at 8 speed (under 9 minutes to burn "backups" of your DVD collection). Burned over 20 disks, zero toasters up until now.
The PX708a has some Plextor specific goodies to make sure speed of burning is optimized for the media (bad media will slow down the burning).
Needless to say that the px708a is also one of the best & fastests CDR burners around at the moment (under 3 minutes to burn a 700 Mb ISO).
Yeah it's amazing. The page wants to know all details, including your mother maiden name. I mean, come on this must be more obvious than Nigerian scam.
It also says: WARNING: Credit-card fraud is a criminal offense. For your protection all transactions are carefully monitored and logged including IP adresses, ISP, and other pertinent information.
Hilarious! Ironic?
If you do view source, you'll notice that the javascript used on the form is quite lame as well.
AOL Billing center sample page.
I think they should sue the keyboard manufacturers, The shift key shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Gaim does not work anymore! Finally, those of us developing under Linux have an excuse for not being disturbed every 10 minutes by marketing types. They forced us to use IM - while we really don't want to.
Keep up the good work Yahoo!
Anyone out there interested in buying the Eiffel tower from me?
What an annoying page..
I turn off Flash to squelch their highly annoying
animated ads and none of their graphs show up.
Just use the Mozilla Firebird browser and install the Flash click to view plugin. Like the name suggests, you won't see any flash unless you explicitly click the flash placeholder.
Thanks for the suggestion, I thought about that as well. Unfortunately I don't have a clear view on the satellite from where I live. I am not allowed to attach satellite dishes to my appartment, and all I can see from my window are 8 metre high walls.
./ You can not begin to imagine things you have time for, when you stop watching the tellie every night.
In the last three years, I have spend a lot of quality time with books, games and
As an non French living in Paris, this is soo good. Now we can finally watch some real TV here, instead of only 5 public channels of stupid quizzes and musical shows.
I can't wait to see the royle family again. In fact, a friend of mine just ordered the DVDs with the BBC last week.