Investing responsibly would just be too complex for them. paraphrasing doesn't hold a candle to mis-quoting. It's a lot more fun too, because it's in their own words...
£500m?! Ok, after thinking about this for a bit this is just R-E-T-A-R-T-E-D! There are so many things you could do with 1,000,000,000 that is so much more important that shielding yourself from copy right laws. This has to be the most irresponsible way to spend that kind of money I have ever heard of. Not just for Pirates Bay, but any idiot that thinks about buying the rights to call Sealand their own. What a total waste of money!
You could put that into a checking account and earn $5,000,000 a year in interest. Just image what you could do if you really invested it.
I couldn't agree more. Everytime I start up a new computer system that is targeted for the consumer market I fully expect to hear "Entrance of the Gladiators" play and the start up sound. (other wise know as "the circus music" or "the clown song")
Typical ricer post. 1. Ricer! Nuff said... 2. I have yet to see a Linux distro that isn't modular. 3. As many idiot Gentoo users, on many forums have shown, it doesn't teach you all that much. Some of the most ignorant comments I have ever heard regarding Linux have come from Gentoo users. But I suppose if your idea of learning about Linux is typing "emerge [package]" and "nano -w [conf.file]" over and over again, then yea, it teaches you ALOT. 4. FC6 Automatic Updates: chkconfig yum on 5. *cough* Debian! *cough*
The person who posted this clearly didn't make any points. They just made a few unfounded opinionated remarks.
Ok, I know it's not redundant in this thread by can we please start moderating these "You must be new here!" comments as such. There are easily 10 of these in the comments of every freaking./ article.
In addition, Bletsas indicates that the units have been designed around low-failure operation, with no moving parts. For example, the motherboard sits directly behind the LCD, avoiding the need for a failure-prone connecting cable. So then how is the keyboard on the lower portion of the device communicating with the mother board? Is is using a low power radio transmitter or something? What about the touchpad? And power from the battery?
I'm a firm believer in the theory that regular users need System Administrators. Maybe home users do too. If I could come up with a business model for a company that provided System Administrator services to home computer users i'd be rich!
If MS were to scrap IE and start on a new browser and they chose the Mozilla Firefox as a new starting point. How long would it be before they completely ruined it?
I love that skit but I never understood how the person who made up the joke survived long enough to put it down on paper...
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More than likely no, but if you really need access out in those areas, then there are satellite options, although I'm sure they are cost prohibitive for most situations.
There are many charges in the US that can apply to someone using a laptop while driving that was either in an accident of caused one: Careless or negligent driving Reckless Driving Reckless Endangerment Contributing to an accident
And when all else fails and a police officer know you were being a dumb ass and deserve to be charged with something but can't find something that is fitting: Miscellaneous traffic violations
It's stupid to legislate laptop usage in cars because it's not the laptop usage it's the mindless dumb fuck that lacks good judgement that cause the accident.
Whoa! Let's not toss the baby out with the bath water...
If you do this to the drug industry you will still be left with surgeons, doctors, dentist, health insurance companies, and hospitals that are profiting quite handsomely from people's health care needs still.
Something like that would cause Middle Tennessee plummet economically. The Healthcare industry employs quite a large number of people here. Out side of that your choices for work are factories, retail stores and restaurants, and being a country music star.
I might be wrong here, but I thought that patenting something effectively publishes it. Other can then review the patent and learn from it, but if they want to use your invention (in any form outlined in your patent) then they need to get permission from you or pay you some royalties for using your invention.
Maybe someone can tell me if I'm just being retarded...?
Creative thinking, observing things from a unique perspective and hard work is what leads scientist to these discoveries. Saying that these discoveries are simply a matter of putting a few more bricks on an existing wall and that someone else eventually would have done this anyway is an insult to the discoveries of the scientific community.
Harry Potter built on a wealth of previously existing literature about wizards and magic, but that doesn't cheapen it in anyway...
Just because you don't see the artistic, creative beauty of science doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Things that are systematic and functional can also be artistic.
Famous Misquotes: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin A phrase commonly attributed to Franklin. This quote an excerpt from a letter written in 1755 from the Assembly to the Governor of Pennsylvania, and it may or may not have originated from Franklin. See Those who would give up Essential Liberty.
It's kind of dumb when you think about it. You don't buy stuff from Wal-Mart because it make sense in the long run, you buy it because its the cheapest thing right now.
No, that is incorrect. They went after people who distributed music because the only method of discovering who was trading music was the search for songs and track down those who showed up in the results. They cannot see what everyone is downloading with out some sort of massive spying campaign, they can however see what everyone is opening offering to share with the world.
"Anything can happen if current trends don't continue, which if you look at enough trends, is always the case." Modded Insightful!? That was one of the funniest comments i've read on/. in quite sometime...
Maybe that was one of those Seinfeld "funny cause it true" things? *smirk*
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£500m?! Ok, after thinking about this for a bit this is just R-E-T-A-R-T-E-D! There are so many things you could do with 1,000,000,000 that is so much more important that shielding yourself from copy right laws. This has to be the most irresponsible way to spend that kind of money I have ever heard of. Not just for Pirates Bay, but any idiot that thinks about buying the rights to call Sealand their own. What a total waste of money!
You could put that into a checking account and earn $5,000,000 a year in interest. Just image what you could do if you really invested it.
£500m!? Damn that's almost *puts pinky to mouth* one biiiiiiilion dollars!
They could purchace 50,000,000 new release movies at full retail price with that.
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3. Be finished
I couldn't agree more. Everytime I start up a new computer system that is targeted for the consumer market I fully expect to hear "Entrance of the Gladiators" play and the start up sound. (other wise know as "the circus music" or "the clown song")
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Typical ricer post.
1. Ricer! Nuff said...
2. I have yet to see a Linux distro that isn't modular.
3. As many idiot Gentoo users, on many forums have shown, it doesn't teach you all that much. Some of the most ignorant comments I have ever heard regarding Linux have come from Gentoo users.
But I suppose if your idea of learning about Linux is typing "emerge [package]" and "nano -w [conf.file]" over and over again, then yea, it teaches you ALOT.
4. FC6 Automatic Updates: chkconfig yum on
5. *cough* Debian! *cough*
The person who posted this clearly didn't make any points. They just made a few unfounded opinionated remarks.
Redundant!
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Ok, I know it's not redundant in this thread by can we please start moderating these "You must be new here!" comments as such. There are easily 10 of these in the comments of every freaking
It is clearly 37.61% before quatum effects are taken into account!
Some people are sooo stupid, I swear!
I'm a firm believer in the theory that regular users need System Administrators. Maybe home users do too. If I could come up with a business model for a company that provided System Administrator services to home computer users i'd be rich!
If MS were to scrap IE and start on a new browser and they chose the Mozilla Firefox as a new starting point. How long would it be before they completely ruined it?
I love that skit but I never understood how the person who made up the joke survived long enough to put it down on paper...
More than likely no, but if you really need access out in those areas, then there are satellite options, although I'm sure they are cost prohibitive for most situations.
GSM Coverage Maps:
http://www.coveragemaps.com/gsmposter.htm
Yes, the observer would have to know ahead of time not only the Frequency being transmitted, but the speed at which the traveller is moving.
On top of that the traveller would have to maintain a constant speed.
There are many charges in the US that can apply to someone using a laptop while driving that was either in an accident of caused one:
Careless or negligent driving
Reckless Driving
Reckless Endangerment
Contributing to an accident
And when all else fails and a police officer know you were being a dumb ass and deserve to be charged with something but can't find something that is fitting:
Miscellaneous traffic violations
It's stupid to legislate laptop usage in cars because it's not the laptop usage it's the mindless dumb fuck that lacks good judgement that cause the accident.
It was set in Oceania which primarily consisted North and South America. Although the governmental body was Ingsoc (English Socialism).
The Whole Internet is not something you just dump in something!
It's a series of tubes!
Whoa! Let's not toss the baby out with the bath water...
If you do this to the drug industry you will still be left with surgeons, doctors, dentist, health insurance companies, and hospitals that are profiting quite handsomely from people's health care needs still.
Something like that would cause Middle Tennessee plummet economically. The Healthcare industry employs quite a large number of people here. Out side of that your choices for work are factories, retail stores and restaurants, and being a country music star.
I might be wrong here, but I thought that patenting something effectively publishes it. Other can then review the patent and learn from it, but if they want to use your invention (in any form outlined in your patent) then they need to get permission from you or pay you some royalties for using your invention.
Maybe someone can tell me if I'm just being retarded...?
Creative thinking, observing things from a unique perspective and hard work is what leads scientist to these discoveries. Saying that these discoveries are simply a matter of putting a few more bricks on an existing wall and that someone else eventually would have done this anyway is an insult to the discoveries of the scientific community.
Harry Potter built on a wealth of previously existing literature about wizards and magic, but that doesn't cheapen it in anyway...
Just because you don't see the artistic, creative beauty of science doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Things that are systematic and functional can also be artistic.
Insightful anyone? Come on Mods get to work!
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Famous Misquotes:
_ up_Essential_Liberty
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
A phrase commonly attributed to Franklin. This quote an excerpt from a letter written in 1755 from the Assembly to the Governor of Pennsylvania, and it may or may not have originated from Franklin. See Those who would give up Essential Liberty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_who_would_give
It's kind of dumb when you think about it. You don't buy stuff from Wal-Mart because it make sense in the long run, you buy it because its the cheapest thing right now.
No, that is incorrect. They went after people who distributed music because the only method of discovering who was trading music was the search for songs and track down those who showed up in the results. They cannot see what everyone is downloading with out some sort of massive spying campaign, they can however see what everyone is opening offering to share with the world.
Maybe that was one of those Seinfeld "funny cause it true" things? *smirk*