Well, I quite like the way that slashdot is right now, but you're right in thinking there is room for improvement... one day we'll get there.
Anyway, as a few people have said, the first comments tend to be the most moderated... I always view the newest first and on a story a day old I tend to have to go the the beginning of the story to find any well moderated comments, and these tend to be in the five points regen.
*idea*... you say that the idea of limiting the amount of comments that can be moderated might work... go for it ! How about the last twenty comments posted ? Only twenty to moderate ? Well, there are other storys, you knows.
I also think that the more moderation points for those who have a good karma is going to work... that way it can be taken for granted that i) the user has been here 'a while' and ii) they are actually relevant to the world of slashdot.
However, how does meta-moderation work ? I've never seen one of my comments come up and neither one of the ones I've moderated (I think)... so far so good... ...also, as far as I'm aware, anyone can meta-moderate as long as they're logged in... how about this is changed so that the amount of comments on can m2 is limited by ones karma ?
Well I must admit that I don't have any problem with Hasbros... yet. I own the atari.co.uk domain and have a pretty tacky site on there, but in the year that I have owned it I have had no correspondance regarding it from Hasbros. Touch wood I won't in the future.
If someone could figure out quite why not please state... I would be interested in my legal position. I know for a fact that the owners of atari.de were contacted but other than that, who knows ?
Another site, diet-coke.net was bought by my company by accident... long story but it basically comes down to an internet domain-registering program. Anyway, we got the invoice and then started trying to figure out who had registered the domain (never mind why) when two days later we received a letter from lawyers representing diet coke (or whoever owns them) demanding that we hand over the domain to them promptly *or else*. Needless to say we gave it over to them - we're a small company and the publicity would not do us any good, even if ruled in our favour.
The point is, what gives the big companies the right to do this ? Fair enough if someone registered the simpson.com domain and then started selling off sub-domains eg bart.simpson.com but just for owning one for legit purposes must be fair enough... after all, "first come, first served.".
OK, people have been saying 'It *must* be the NSA' for this Microsoft 'key'.
Now, there are a lot of conspiracy theorists out there that would say this is the NSA. There are even more that believe in the coverup of Roswell et al. Some even believe the X-Files is real...
Here's a thought - IF the Government is so powerfull and has been so good at keeping secrets, how come they are pretty inefficient in comparasin. Surely if the Government was able to keep all of these things secret and so effeciently then why do we still have crime on the streets ? Why are there still the unemployed... makes you think...
As I think a couple of other people have said, is it not plausable that a MS programmer thought of a name for a key and then thought of the NSA... bet he's laughing if he did... otherwise we better start to worry;-)
hmm... do you quite know what you are saying ? If you do, I don't quite see how... but that's my opinion as opposed to yours, so let me try to illustrate why I do not think moderation is censorship.
First of all, I am English and so I don't have the first amendment to fall back on. Even so, this has never stopped me speaking my mind if I find it applicable.
So, say a man walks up to me in the street and starts swearing at me. I havn't done anything to provoke him, I hadn't even noticed him standing there until he started to swear at me. Listening, I notice that is directed at me in a personal way. I have long hear, so he starts going on about hippies... I'm quite tall but very thin, so he starts going on about this too. I carry on walking, but that man has ruined any thoughts runnings through my head. I feel bullied.
Now, what that man has done is nasty. No two ways about it. He has been speaking his mind. Now, if this man does the same thing day after day I would call the police and sue the man for harrasment. THIS IS NOT CENSORSHIP. This is exactly the same as moderation in the Slashdot sense.
Now, if it turns out that I have been lying about the man swearing and hurling abuse at me, and in fact every day he warned me about an oil leak on the pavement in front of me, this would come out in the courts and I would not have a lot to my name... the same applies to Slashdot and Rob, OK ?
Please accept the differences between censorship and making the world a better place.
To try and prove this I will (off - topic) say that I like the general idea of communism, I think that in an ideal world it would be great !
Now, if this line disapears from the comment, or I am marked down for that one line, then I will have been censored.
I'm currently studying computer science at college and we have to learn Pascal. I can state that I absolutly *hate* the language just for it's incosistancy. People state that the language is highly structured and teaches how to write programs with a structure. That's true, but then why are there so many shortcuts and why are the if statements quite so horrible ?
Please don't misunderstand me, there are quite a few people in my class who have never programmed before and are finding Pascal to be difficult but learnable. If we were to be taught C or C++ then I can imagine the most of the class falling apart.
Unfortunatly, I've never seen what Python code looks like, but if it looks better than Pascals, then I say go for it - we can get on to the more complicated stuff later.
So, Apple is basically copying Intel over the whole socket 7 issue (well, not entirely but you get my drift).
So what ? It's a sound business plan, a bit like MS's brilliant 'two-fingers-to-the-open-souce-community' stance.
OK I'm getting a little bit silly here... the fact remains that Apple is being out of order because it doesn't have the consumers best interests at heart... a bit like Microsoft.
This is what is wrong with the software industry. For example, if one goes shopping in a supermarket and buys a large roast chicken, only sparing a quick thought to it's not-so-large weight, takes it home and discovers that the reason for it's weight is that the chicken has been hollowed out from the inside only to leave a thin layer of edible chicken, then we would go back to the supermarket and no doubt they would appologise furiously to try and stop the relevant person from taking them to court... d'ya see what I'm saying kids ?
Someone please point out to me quite WHY we as consumers appear to have no rights in the software / hardware industry ?
I'm sorry, but you obviously don't quite understand South Park, do you ? The Animation is ment to be blantently crap (and a bit more) to extract the urine from all the typical uselessly-animated kiddy programs we used to watch when young... get it yet ?
Also, whilst I think that the language in the film was obscene (it's on a 15 certificate here in England... ie anyone 15 or over can see it), the film *is* funny, especially the way that Kyle's Mum starts to blame everyone apart from him for his swearing... you must admit that is a pretty American way of doing things... "Blame Canada" the maxim goes...
If you're a legitamate citizen not involved in underworld dealings (which if you are, I hardly think you're going to have a problem getting guns) then there is *no* need to own a gun.
I'm English. Our Police officers still don't carry guns I feel safer for the fact that they don't. There are special forces which do carry guns, but they are highly trained and few in number thus of a high quality.
OK, I'm a foreigner to Australia, and unfortunatly I have never been there... bit of a long flight from England (never mind the prices), but anyway my views on the matter...
The Australian Government has taken the decision that it has a right to decide for its people what they want them to see. *Hmm*. So, the democraticly elected Government suddenly wishes to impose its own ethics upon the population. Is this democracy ? I think not.
Trying not to stray not too far off-topic, some people are talking about the gun laws being changed and this then leading the way to more freedoms being taken away... *arse*. I don't feel a need to own a gun. I've shot them, and I enjoy using them, but I feel no need whatsoever to let everyone be able to own them.
Leading on from this, the Australian Government probably thought the same as me on this point and so enforced it. Now, I agree that there are certain things that should be shielded from minors and the public in general - One of my neighbours is a real pyromaniac and so I'm not *too* keen on him reading up on the latest home-grown bomb making methods. So in principal I think I agree with the Australian Government.
My only grievence is that I don't think that their aim of true censorship can ever be enforced... it's just not feasible. If someone really wants to find out something they can turn off the blocking software or be clever through other means, no doubt...
Wouldn't life be boring if everything was the same, people were the same, and there was no variation whatsoever.
If I agree with someone, it's because I feel the same as them. If I don't, then fair do's - it's my life and sod the rest of you.
Do you find it boring when you talk to people that have exactly the same views as you, and you can do nothing but to agree ? Explaining, reasoning, contemplating... human nature surely.
I'm not from the US so I'm not going to go on about my rights. However, it *is* a right to disagree with other people. Come up with a few good reasons why not and I'll think about it... maybe even agree;)
Typical MS PR stuff... We admit a slight problem which we then fixed after being told about it... even though they knew about it hours before they admitted it...
Unfortunatly, I feel that there is no such thing as bad publicity... how many people that are new to the internet will take a look just to see what the Hotmail service is like, only to continue using it ? Quite a few, methinks...
that's why I said it as a hotfix to buy time... not as a permanent method. By the time it had been figured out by those capable you could have a new system roughly in place...
The thing I don't quite get is is it too difficult to check the HTTP_REFERER setting to see if the request came from HotMail ? Surely that would be a good hotfix to buy more time, and a pretty quick one at that.
I'm no lawyer, but is typing in an URL illegal ? I'm probably wrong, but cracking passwords and the like *is* illegal, this is just typing an URL... maybe I'm far too optimistic.
What a nice arse ! returns : Which for nice donkey!
Help ! I ate my Pink Floyd CD collection !!! Support! I ate my rosafarbene SINCE STORAGE Floyd!!!
I may have paid for sex but I was cursed by love
I can have paid for sex, but I was by dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear-liebeverflucht the dear love of the love love love love.
OR paid boxiikasten to III the III II for sex, but II by love.
(two of many)
I get knocked down, but I get up again, you are never going to keep me down.
display, but III III II II II II I i-iii-iii-ii-ii-ii-ii-i-i-i-iii-iii-ii-ii-ii-ii-i- i-i-iii-iii-ii-ii-ii-ii-i-i-i-iii-iii-ii -ii-ii-ii-i-i-steige, which knocked in the morning again down, it, which I never fasten display screen mask screen mask screen display.
All in all, you are just another brick in the wall.
All in all, you are another loam loam loam clay brick Lehmlehmlehmlehmlehmlehmlehm in the wall straight.
Let us all meet up in the year 2000, will it not be great when we are all fully grown ?
We mention all, all session in the year 2000, it no longer more more more rueber on left from large, if it grew us completely?
Puff the magic dragon lives by the sea
The pages Drachelebensdauern to the sea-airline holidays the magic for running.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the Walrus !
I am, it eggman, eggmen in the morning, I am the Walrus!
And for all those in favour of British Rail, I am sorry to announce that the oh-seven-thirty train service from London Victoria to Brighton has been cancelled due to leaves on the line.
I am to announce the fact sadly that the service of the series of OH -- filters thirty usable pages on the line, aborted from London Victoria to Brighton, were.
Being able to sit at a bus stop drinking a beer with friends whilst an old granny is queing for her bus is just wrong, too. Which is why it's illegal to do so.
Excuse me ? Is this another american law ?
I live in England, and whilst there is such a thing as causing a public nuisance, what's the problem drinking at a bus stop ? Or on the train home from work ? OK, if I was drinking at the stop and being abusive then fair enough, but otherwise that's plain stupid. A bit like those places where you cannot smoke outside in public at all.
It's fair enough if non-smokers are sitting around you if you light up, but if I'm on my own at the train station and someone walks up to me, sits down next to me and *then* complains, that's wrong.
1) Not many people realise that one of the most notable Jazz musicians of our time, Louis Armstrong, was a *very* heavy hash smoker. It is said that every morning he would start off with a joint... and yet this is one of the most influential people of our time, being recognised as something else when it came to music, and then to be made a diplomat on top of it. It was only in his penultamate year that Louis finally gave the habit up.
So, this with the Astronomer mentioned above must surely prove that marajuana *must* be legalised... or not ?
I am young. 17 in fact. I admit that I have smoked hash... not regulaly but it has happened - it would be rude not to. I will also freely admit that I liked the feeling that it gave me. However, I am not entirely satisfied that hash/pot/marajuana/ganja should be legalised for the simple reason that, in my personaly opinion, it *will* lead on to stronger, more dangerous drugs being given less impact as to their effects.
For example, heroin. It takes two shots to get addicted. You enjoy your first trip so much that you have another. Hooked. Now, if marajuana was legal and I was made aware of this fact in school, the impact that there are classes of drugs, heroin being among the top at class 'A', would not lead me to have the same strong feelings I have against heroin as I currently do.
Another problem - smoking. That is, of the legal, tobaco kind. How many children under 16 (for that is the legal minimum here in England) started at eleven just because it seemed 'naughty' ? I think quite a few. I have seen fourteen-year-olds getting high just for the reason that it isn't legal... do you see where I am leading ?
Whilst it would be great if I could walk into a shop and ask for ten reefers, I *know* that I would not feel right doing it, and I would almost resent the fact that I could. Being able to sit at the bus stop getting high with friends whilst an old granny is queing for her bus is just wrong. Sorry, but it is.
Could someone please tell me quite what the problem is here ? As far as I can tell, Star Division is a smaller company that Sun... therefore being taken over is bad ? I like Star Office as it does everything that I require. Now that it has been taken on by a bigger company I'm sure that they arn't going to change it that much. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that they'll make it better because they can have more programmers working on it in exactly the same amount of time...
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I couldn't tell any sarcasm from your comment, so here I go;)
Joy is also an emotion, therefore when referenced to as such no trademark or copyright can be applied.
The same applies for the rest.
However re. Java, I'm no lawyer, but if they were to refer to it in a sensible way I'm sure Sun would have no problems with it. For example "Java coffee, the new blend from xxx" is unlikely to be a problem. However other obvious trade-ins on the name should be taken up
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Hey Rob,
Well, I quite like the way that slashdot is right now, but you're right in thinking there is room for improvement... one day we'll get there.
Anyway, as a few people have said, the first comments tend to be the most moderated... I always view the newest first and on a story a day old I tend to have to go the the beginning of the story to find any well moderated comments, and these tend to be in the five points regen.
*idea*... you say that the idea of limiting the amount of comments that can be moderated might work... go for it ! How about the last twenty comments posted ? Only twenty to moderate ? Well, there are other storys, you knows.
I also think that the more moderation points for those who have a good karma is going to work... that way it can be taken for granted that i) the user has been here 'a while' and ii) they are actually relevant to the world of slashdot.
However, how does meta-moderation work ? I've never seen one of my comments come up and neither one of the ones I've moderated (I think)... so far so good...
...also, as far as I'm aware, anyone can meta-moderate as long as they're logged in... how about this is changed so that the amount of comments on can m2 is limited by ones karma ?
Hey all,
Well I must admit that I don't have any problem with Hasbros... yet. I own the atari.co.uk domain and have a pretty tacky site on there, but in the year that I have owned it I have had no correspondance regarding it from Hasbros. Touch wood I won't in the future.
If someone could figure out quite why not please state... I would be interested in my legal position. I know for a fact that the owners of atari.de were contacted but other than that, who knows ?
Another site, diet-coke.net was bought by my company by accident... long story but it basically comes down to an internet domain-registering program.
Anyway, we got the invoice and then started trying to figure out who had registered the domain (never mind why) when two days later we received a letter from lawyers representing diet coke (or whoever owns them) demanding that we hand over the domain to them promptly *or else*.
Needless to say we gave it over to them - we're a small company and the publicity would not do us any good, even if ruled in our favour.
The point is, what gives the big companies the right to do this ? Fair enough if someone registered the simpson.com domain and then started selling off sub-domains eg bart.simpson.com but just for owning one for legit purposes must be fair enough... after all, "first come, first served.".
Hey all,
;-)
OK, people have been saying 'It *must* be the NSA' for this Microsoft 'key'.
Now, there are a lot of conspiracy theorists out there that would say this is the NSA. There are even more that believe in the coverup of Roswell et al. Some even believe the X-Files is real...
Here's a thought - IF the Government is so powerfull and has been so good at keeping secrets, how come they are pretty inefficient in comparasin. Surely if the Government was able to keep all of these things secret and so effeciently then why do we still have crime on the streets ? Why are there still the unemployed... makes you think...
As I think a couple of other people have said, is it not plausable that a MS programmer thought of a name for a key and then thought of the NSA... bet he's laughing if he did... otherwise we better start to worry
moderation = censorship
hmm... do you quite know what you are saying ? If you do, I don't quite see how... but that's my opinion as opposed to yours, so let me try to illustrate why I do not think moderation is censorship.
First of all, I am English and so I don't have the first amendment to fall back on. Even so, this has never stopped me speaking my mind if I find it applicable.
So, say a man walks up to me in the street and starts swearing at me. I havn't done anything to provoke him, I hadn't even noticed him standing there until he started to swear at me. Listening, I notice that is directed at me in a personal way. I have long hear, so he starts going on about hippies... I'm quite tall but very thin, so he starts going on about this too. I carry on walking, but that man has ruined any thoughts runnings through my head. I feel bullied.
Now, what that man has done is nasty. No two ways about it. He has been speaking his mind.
Now, if this man does the same thing day after day I would call the police and sue the man for harrasment. THIS IS NOT CENSORSHIP. This is exactly the same as moderation in the Slashdot sense.
Now, if it turns out that I have been lying about the man swearing and hurling abuse at me, and in fact every day he warned me about an oil leak on the pavement in front of me, this would come out in the courts and I would not have a lot to my name... the same applies to Slashdot and Rob, OK ?
Please accept the differences between censorship and making the world a better place.
To try and prove this I will (off - topic) say that I like the general idea of communism, I think that in an ideal world it would be great !
Now, if this line disapears from the comment, or I am marked down for that one line, then I will have been censored.
Note the difference ?
Is this a bit of a first ? I've never had the privalidge of seeing a major new product being launched first in the United Kingdom before.
Brilliant, and about time too !
Hey all,
I'm currently studying computer science at college and we have to learn Pascal. I can state that I absolutly *hate* the language just for it's incosistancy. People state that the language is highly structured and teaches how to write programs with a structure. That's true, but then why are there so many shortcuts and why are the if statements quite so horrible ?
Please don't misunderstand me, there are quite a few people in my class who have never programmed before and are finding Pascal to be difficult but learnable. If we were to be taught C or C++ then I can imagine the most of the class falling apart.
Unfortunatly, I've never seen what Python code looks like, but if it looks better than Pascals, then I say go for it - we can get on to the more complicated stuff later.
Hey all,
So, Apple is basically copying Intel over the whole socket 7 issue (well, not entirely but you get my drift).
So what ? It's a sound business plan, a bit like MS's brilliant 'two-fingers-to-the-open-souce-community' stance.
OK I'm getting a little bit silly here... the fact remains that Apple is being out of order because it doesn't have the consumers best interests at heart... a bit like Microsoft.
This is what is wrong with the software industry.
For example, if one goes shopping in a supermarket and buys a large roast chicken, only sparing a quick thought to it's not-so-large weight, takes it home and discovers that the reason for it's weight is that the chicken has been hollowed out from the inside only to leave a thin layer of edible chicken, then we would go back to the supermarket and no doubt they would appologise furiously to try and stop the relevant person from taking them to court... d'ya see what I'm saying kids ?
Someone please point out to me quite WHY we as consumers appear to have no rights in the software / hardware industry ?
(Have I gone off-topic ? Sorry!)
I'm sorry, but you obviously don't quite understand South Park, do you ?
The Animation is ment to be blantently crap (and a bit more) to extract the urine from all the typical uselessly-animated kiddy programs we used to watch when young... get it yet ?
Also, whilst I think that the language in the film was obscene (it's on a 15 certificate here in England... ie anyone 15 or over can see it), the film *is* funny, especially the way that Kyle's Mum starts to blame everyone apart from him for his swearing... you must admit that is a pretty American way of doing things... "Blame Canada" the maxim goes...
Why do you need to look at porn?
I'm a pervert.
Why do you need to own a gun
because I'm paranoid and feel that by not owning one I'm just asking for trouble...
OK, short but sweet :
Why do you need to own a gun.
If you're a legitamate citizen not involved in underworld dealings (which if you are, I hardly think you're going to have a problem getting guns) then there is *no* need to own a gun.
I'm English. Our Police officers still don't carry guns I feel safer for the fact that they don't. There are special forces which do carry guns, but they are highly trained and few in number thus of a high quality.
The question remains - WHY ?
OK, I'm a foreigner to Australia, and unfortunatly I have never been there... bit of a long flight from England (never mind the prices), but anyway my views on the matter...
The Australian Government has taken the decision that it has a right to decide for its people what they want them to see. *Hmm*. So, the democraticly elected Government suddenly wishes to impose its own ethics upon the population. Is this democracy ? I think not.
Trying not to stray not too far off-topic, some people are talking about the gun laws being changed and this then leading the way to more freedoms being taken away... *arse*. I don't feel a need to own a gun. I've shot them, and I enjoy using them, but I feel no need whatsoever to let everyone be able to own them.
Leading on from this, the Australian Government probably thought the same as me on this point and so enforced it. Now, I agree that there are certain things that should be shielded from minors and the public in general - One of my neighbours is a real pyromaniac and so I'm not *too* keen on him reading up on the latest home-grown bomb making methods. So in principal I think I agree with the Australian Government.
My only grievence is that I don't think that their aim of true censorship can ever be enforced... it's just not feasible. If someone really wants to find out something they can turn off the blocking software or be clever through other means, no doubt...
re : why people argue...
;)
It's very simple - it's fun.
Wouldn't life be boring if everything was the same, people were the same, and there was no variation whatsoever.
If I agree with someone, it's because I feel the same as them. If I don't, then fair do's - it's my life and sod the rest of you.
Do you find it boring when you talk to people that have exactly the same views as you, and you can do nothing but to agree ? Explaining, reasoning, contemplating... human nature surely.
I'm not from the US so I'm not going to go on about my rights. However, it *is* a right to disagree with other people. Come up with a few good reasons why not and I'll think about it... maybe even agree
Typical MS PR stuff... We admit a slight problem which we then fixed after being told about it... even though they knew about it hours before they admitted it...
Unfortunatly, I feel that there is no such thing as bad publicity... how many people that are new to the internet will take a look just to see what the Hotmail service is like, only to continue using it ? Quite a few, methinks...
that's why I said it as a hotfix to buy time... not as a permanent method. By the time it had been figured out by those capable you could have a new system roughly in place...
The thing I don't quite get is is it too difficult to check the HTTP_REFERER setting to see if the request came from HotMail ? Surely that would be a good hotfix to buy more time, and a pretty quick one at that.
Well, the following URL *nearly* works... just complains a bit about cookies...
b ox=ACTIVE&js=no&login=USERNAME&passwd=aaa
So, we now know MS's security policy... if in doubt, change the filename...
http://wya-pop.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/HoTMaiL?curm
I'm no lawyer, but is typing in an URL illegal ? I'm probably wrong, but cracking passwords and the like *is* illegal, this is just typing an URL... maybe I'm far too optimistic.
What a nice arse !
- i-i-iii-iii-ii-ii-ii-ii-i-i-i-iii-iii-ii -ii-ii-ii-i-i-steige, which
returns :
Which for nice donkey!
Help ! I ate my Pink Floyd CD collection !!!
Support! I ate my rosafarbene SINCE STORAGE Floyd!!!
I may have paid for sex but I was cursed by love
I can have paid for sex, but I was by dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear dear
dear-liebeverflucht the dear love of the love love love love.
OR
paid boxiikasten to III the III II for sex, but II by love.
(two of many)
I get knocked down, but I get up again, you are never going to keep me down.
display, but III III II II II II I i-iii-iii-ii-ii-ii-ii-i-i-i-iii-iii-ii-ii-ii-ii-i
knocked in the morning again down, it, which I never fasten display screen mask screen mask screen display.
All in all, you are just another brick in the wall.
All in all, you are another loam loam loam clay brick Lehmlehmlehmlehmlehmlehmlehm in the wall straight.
Let us all meet up in the year 2000, will it not be great when we are all fully grown ?
We mention all, all session in the year 2000, it no longer more more more rueber on left from large, if it grew us completely?
Puff the magic dragon lives by the sea
The pages Drachelebensdauern to the sea-airline holidays the magic for running.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the Walrus !
I am, it eggman, eggmen in the morning, I am the Walrus!
And for all those in favour of British Rail,
I am sorry to announce that the oh-seven-thirty train service from London Victoria to Brighton has been cancelled due to leaves on the line.
I am to announce the fact sadly that the service of the series of OH -- filters thirty usable pages on the line, aborted from London Victoria to Brighton, were.
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Giving up.
After a couple of pages of this, I'm impressed...
Being able to sit at a bus stop drinking a beer with friends whilst an old granny is queing for her bus is just wrong, too. Which is why it's illegal to do so.
Excuse me ? Is this another american law ?
I live in England, and whilst there is such a thing as causing a public nuisance, what's the problem drinking at a bus stop ? Or on the train home from work ? OK, if I was drinking at the stop and being abusive then fair enough, but otherwise that's plain stupid. A bit like those places where you cannot smoke outside in public at all.
It's fair enough if non-smokers are sitting around you if you light up, but if I'm on my own at the train station and someone walks up to me, sits down next to me and *then* complains, that's wrong.
Hi there,
I agree with what you are saying... but as for it's additiveness...
I'm not an authoritative source, *but* surely there must be a reason for Marajuana Annonymous existing and growing at a rapid rate ?
But, as you say, the effects vary from person to person...
A couple of points that may be of interest :
1) Not many people realise that one of the most notable Jazz musicians of our time, Louis Armstrong, was a *very* heavy hash smoker. It is said that every morning he would start off with a joint... and yet this is one of the most influential people of our time, being recognised as something else when it came to music, and then to be made a diplomat on top of it. It was only in his penultamate year that Louis finally gave the habit up.
So, this with the Astronomer mentioned above must surely prove that marajuana *must* be legalised... or not ?
I am young. 17 in fact. I admit that I have smoked hash... not regulaly but it has happened - it would be rude not to. I will also freely admit that I liked the feeling that it gave me.
However, I am not entirely satisfied that hash/pot/marajuana/ganja should be legalised for the simple reason that, in my personaly opinion, it *will* lead on to stronger, more dangerous drugs being given less impact as to their effects.
For example, heroin. It takes two shots to get addicted. You enjoy your first trip so much that you have another. Hooked. Now, if marajuana was legal and I was made aware of this fact in school, the impact that there are classes of drugs, heroin being among the top at class 'A', would not lead me to have the same strong feelings I have against heroin as I currently do.
Another problem - smoking. That is, of the legal, tobaco kind. How many children under 16 (for that is the legal minimum here in England) started at eleven just because it seemed 'naughty' ? I think quite a few. I have seen fourteen-year-olds getting high just for the reason that it isn't legal... do you see where I am leading ?
Whilst it would be great if I could walk into a shop and ask for ten reefers, I *know* that I would not feel right doing it, and I would almost resent the fact that I could. Being able to sit at the bus stop getting high with friends whilst an old granny is queing for her bus is just wrong. Sorry, but it is.
you people truely have no spine.
Just as well you posted anonymously, then.
Hey all,
Could someone please tell me quite what the problem is here ? As far as I can tell, Star Division is a smaller company that Sun... therefore being taken over is bad ? I like Star Office as it does everything that I require. Now that it has been taken on by a bigger company I'm sure that they arn't going to change it that much. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that they'll make it better because they can have more programmers working on it in exactly the same amount of time...
"Joy" dish soap; "Cheer" ditergent; "Tide" (with bleach)
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I couldn't tell any sarcasm from your comment, so here I go
Joy is also an emotion, therefore when referenced to as such no trademark or copyright can be applied.
The same applies for the rest.
However re. Java, I'm no lawyer, but if they were to refer to it in a sensible way I'm sure Sun would have no problems with it. For example "Java coffee, the new blend from xxx" is unlikely to be a problem. However other obvious trade-ins on the name should be taken up