"Child molesters are the boogeymen of the 2000s, just like drug lords were of the 1980s and 90s, gangs of the 60s and 70s, and communists of the 1950s. They pose a societal threat, but not somuch that you need to legislate around their existence and vastly expand policing powers beyond what already exists."
Wait a second, I thought that the terrorists were the boogeymen of our generation. Or are we supposed to call them "insurgents" now? Please, won't somebody tell me who to be afraid of... I can't decide these things on my own!
My fellow art nerds and I are all poor. We can't afford to go out and buy expensive software like photoshop; so what do we do? We go out and buy a wacom, get ourselves a copy of the GIMP and go to work. When we start getting ourselves into decision making positions, what are we going to choose?
Erm, not really. In my experience, it usually ends up that the poor students pirate a copy of photoshop, because it actually does the things that you need. After years of using said pirated copies, most of these students don't end up buying the software themselves (though some certainly do), but when they end up working in a design or advertising firm, they get a legal copy via a site license.
Oh yeah, also, if you are actually a poor design student, I would at least expect that your university would provide you with educational copies of the software you need. Otherwise, I would seriously consider transferring schools, since you one day risk walking into a job interview with "the gimp" listed on your resumé, and getting a very puzzled look from the HR lackey who is interviewing you. Your comparison to IBM is totally ridiculous here, and I think history shows that adobe has been leveraging the edu/piracy angle for years, which is exactly how they came to be known as an "industry standard".
The fact that gimp is free isn't everything. You'll understand once you graduate.:P
Whoever said anything about quoting wikipedia itself? I would say it is of far greater use for research papers in that you can get a good overview of a subject, and then use the citations of said article to find other, lengthier papers more suitable for academia.
Wikipedia is a research tool, not the swiss army knife of research.
I'll start a flamewar with you. I also do audio production, and it's precisely the reason I switched from linux to mac. Audacity and Audour are in a sorry state compared to Logic/Cubase/Ableton Live/Pro Tools... let alone that there are basically no good mastering plugins (or any good plugins?) for this platform.
I would be very interested to hear what software you use and what you're actually producing.
A 30 day trip to mars after 8 months of travel would be like a family driving the kids to Disneyland, riding on one ride, and then everybody back in the car for the ride home!
I understand that this experiment is probably limited by funds, not a realistic simulation, etc.... but really, 30 days?
IANAL also, but my father is (well, an attorney, anyways), and I seem to recall that part of getting "served" is that it must be shown that you received your summons. It is fairly common to hear of stories in the legal profession of people trying to dodge getting served, and people serving said papers doing mischevious things to try to pressure their targets to comply.
Posting a summons on an internet message board would probably do a lot to get people's attention (which, IMHO, seems to be kind of the root cause of this case to begin with), but there's no legal way to prove it was read unless the defendants post in thread. Which, even then, sounds rather lame to me..
I support drunk driving laws. And I have heard that cell driving is similar in impairment to drink driving (though I think the studies so far have been less than perfectly rigorous). So that makes me tend to support the idea of cell driving laws.
Yes, but you're ignoring one crucial difference... you can always hang up the phone in the car, but you can't sober up on the way home. So while I also support anti-cell driving laws, I think that it's important not to persecute them the same way as drunk driving, even though they might have similar effects on driving ability.
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Also on whether or not they get the house address right...
"Child molesters are the boogeymen of the 2000s, just like drug lords were of the 1980s and 90s, gangs of the 60s and 70s, and communists of the 1950s. They pose a societal threat, but not somuch that you need to legislate around their existence and vastly expand policing powers beyond what already exists."
Wait a second, I thought that the terrorists were the boogeymen of our generation. Or are we supposed to call them "insurgents" now? Please, won't somebody tell me who to be afraid of... I can't decide these things on my own!
This is really the first post; your clocks just don't agree with mine.
Yes, and judging from how your personal website looks, the results must be simply breathtaking....
Very very few people get hired for their skills with the Gimp.
Not true! A buddy of mine just got offered a primo job out in Vegas thanks to his Gimp skills.
Shhhhhh! Employees from HP and Dell might be reading!
Or in other words, "the early bird gets the worm".
Do you still work with this guy? If so, ask him if he can go fuck himself, and let me know what he says...
Well mate, th' game's got plenty 'a droogs, but none o' th 'ol in-out, in-out...
Nice comparison.... At least you're admitting that in the end, both efforts are wasting large sums of money to accomplish basically nothing.
Just because one is wasting tons more money than the other doesn't make it any less silly.
Sure, just see if ASUS fires anyone today, and give them a call...
You forgot...
7. Outsourcing. Why bother gaining your own experience, weapons, and gold, when you can pay some chinese hack to do it for a fraction of the cost!
My fellow art nerds and I are all poor. We can't afford to go out and buy expensive software like photoshop; so what do we do? We go out and buy a wacom, get ourselves a copy of the GIMP and go to work. When we start getting ourselves into decision making positions, what are we going to choose?
:P
Erm, not really. In my experience, it usually ends up that the poor students pirate a copy of photoshop, because it actually does the things that you need. After years of using said pirated copies, most of these students don't end up buying the software themselves (though some certainly do), but when they end up working in a design or advertising firm, they get a legal copy via a site license.
Oh yeah, also, if you are actually a poor design student, I would at least expect that your university would provide you with educational copies of the software you need. Otherwise, I would seriously consider transferring schools, since you one day risk walking into a job interview with "the gimp" listed on your resumé, and getting a very puzzled look from the HR lackey who is interviewing you. Your comparison to IBM is totally ridiculous here, and I think history shows that adobe has been leveraging the edu/piracy angle for years, which is exactly how they came to be known as an "industry standard".
The fact that gimp is free isn't everything. You'll understand once you graduate.
Whoever said anything about quoting wikipedia itself? I would say it is of far greater use for research papers in that you can get a good overview of a subject, and then use the citations of said article to find other, lengthier papers more suitable for academia.
Wikipedia is a research tool, not the swiss army knife of research.
These can be turned off without compromising public safety, and with minimal harm to the efficacy of the advertising.
"But won't someone think of the corporations!"
The others, are waiting tables.
Hey man... at least we kept it real!
Their parents? At least, until they graduate...
I'll start a flamewar with you. I also do audio production, and it's precisely the reason I switched from linux to mac. Audacity and Audour are in a sorry state compared to Logic/Cubase/Ableton Live/Pro Tools... let alone that there are basically no good mastering plugins (or any good plugins?) for this platform.
I would be very interested to hear what software you use and what you're actually producing.
It seems that the only thing you can do on Ubuntu that you can't do on windows is troll slashdot...
True. But it's not like we're planning on launching a real manned mars mission in the next 2-3 years, so they might as well...
A 30 day trip to mars after 8 months of travel would be like a family driving the kids to Disneyland, riding on one ride, and then everybody back in the car for the ride home!
I understand that this experiment is probably limited by funds, not a realistic simulation, etc.... but really, 30 days?
IANAL also, but my father is (well, an attorney, anyways), and I seem to recall that part of getting "served" is that it must be shown that you received your summons. It is fairly common to hear of stories in the legal profession of people trying to dodge getting served, and people serving said papers doing mischevious things to try to pressure their targets to comply.
Posting a summons on an internet message board would probably do a lot to get people's attention (which, IMHO, seems to be kind of the root cause of this case to begin with), but there's no legal way to prove it was read unless the defendants post in thread. Which, even then, sounds rather lame to me..
I support drunk driving laws. And I have heard that cell driving is similar in impairment to drink driving (though I think the studies so far have been less than perfectly rigorous). So that makes me tend to support the idea of cell driving laws.
Yes, but you're ignoring one crucial difference... you can always hang up the phone in the car, but you can't sober up on the way home. So while I also support anti-cell driving laws, I think that it's important not to persecute them the same way as drunk driving, even though they might have similar effects on driving ability.
...our interior isn't a barren wasteland like most of the other big countries...
Wait, what do you call the midwest, then?
I wonder how many people in Paris are actually using Fahrenheit these days, anyways... aside from American tourists with fake iPhones, that is. ;)