They're doing John Does against an IP address and point in time. They can't do "bloodwork" until after they know the person behind the IP and they can't get that without filing a John Doe lawsuit (remember the Verizon case?).
So they can't know before filing whether the person they're filing against is an 11 year old girl or a high-powered lawyer. Nice try, tho.
I think paragon_au was just trying to get a little attention with that Advertising Terrorism bit. I grepped for "terror" in all the linked articles and did not find it. So where did you come up with that?
Methinks paragon_au just put that in there to get a rise out of knee-jerk, I didn't RTFA slashdotters. No one "official" ever used the term Advertising Terrorism.
There is no link in the upper right-hand corner in blue.
Anyhow, I installed realplayer using the steps that I outlined, and it installed the free version. There is a menu option to upgrade to premium, and it doesn't rip mp3s above 96kbps (it asks you up upgrade to the premium version). There is nothing to indicate that this is anything other than the crippled free version.
I hope this made you feel all smart and stuff, tho.
He wants your SSN 'cuz it makes it easier to collect from you if you don't pay your bill. Cellphone company prolly has the same intentions. Usually you can get phone service if you leave a deposit with them in leiu of your SSN.
Are you saying that you think Dean would have stood a chance had it not been for the noise-cancelling mic incident? That doesn't jibe with my recollection of the primary race.
Dean got his ass handed to him in the Iowa caucuses, and his "concession" speech congratulating Kerry on his win was the infamus "scream" speech. Totally ignoring the screaming bit (which, as you correctly point out, is not his fault), what kind of a fucked-up, tasteless, unprofessional concession speech was that?
I've listened to the correctly-mixed version of the Iowa speech, and I agree with you that the media really dropped the ball on that one (of course if Dean would have had better sound engineers, none of this would have happened...). But the truth of the matter is that the real reason Howard Dean lost because he was, is, and probably always will be, a total jackass.
I can also take matches on board, even though you can't smoke on the plane. I bet you can start a great fire with a box of matches and an air-sickness bag full of torn up in-flight magazine pages.
You've still got your bottle of vodka! Can we say "molotov cocktail"? That'll be way more bang for your buck than a barf-bag stuffed full of magazine pages.
Which is why you have to present ID to rent a truck.
Oh, gee. Surely it couldn't be to show that you are licensed to drive said truck. Or perhaps so they know who you are in case you don't return said truck. Hint: you've had to show ID to rent a car/truck since long before Timothy McVeigh.
Maybe the tax is higher on the richest people, making the % of GDP higher, but keeping similar tax rates for the middle class.
Maybe? Did you go through college writing theses like, "Maybe US citizens drive too many SUVs?" What is this maybe crap? Is Frances tax system more progressive than the US's or is it not? "Maybe", indeed!
I'll tell you this: according to the US IRS website, the top 10% of wage earners payed 65% of federal income tax. The top 50% of wage earners paid 96% of federal income taxes in 2001. If France is more progressive than that given their 19% VAT (VAT is regressive), I'd love to see a study that shows it. Until then, I'm sure you've figured out where you can stick your "maybes".
I'm not saying either of these systems are right or wrong, just different. The problem arises when people in one country (me in the US) want to move to a country that shares their values, but don't have the money to do so.
That's what I was saying. Neither is right or wrong, just different.
Anyhow, what's with the cop-out? Where do you want to go that you think you can't afford to go? You are not trapped. If you really want to go somewhere don't tell yourself you can't afford. Find a way to afford it. You can only live once, my friend. Make it count.
I just wasn't gonna let you get away with saying that France provided all these nifty services with the same level of taxation as the US 'cuz France has one of the highest tax burdens in the world (~45% of GDP in France vs. ~30% of GDP in the US).:-) Also, things may cost less in France, but the PPP GDP Per Capita in France is 27% lower than in the US, so y'all got less money to spend.
Unemployment runs about 10% in France vs 6% in the US. In fairness, the percentage of people below the poverty line is ~12% in the US vs. 6% in France, so it seems French welfare pays good. It's just a different system. I don't wanna get all philosophical and stuff 'cuz IAAE, not a philosopher, but maybe in the US since we work so much harder, we have less sympathy for people who are less well-off ("I go to work every day and work my ass off... why can't you just do the same, ya bum?" type of attitude).
Anyhow, I'm glad you're getting to travel (of course, this year I've been to Napa, Steamboat, Vegas, Lake Michigan, Chicago, NYC, DC, MN, NJ, MD... anywhere else? I can't remember, but my wife and I have the travel bug so we get out a lot. Still hoping to get over to Southeast Asia for a few weeks this fall.) You should definitely take advantage of this opportunity. Enjoy!
P.S. Normally I don't rip on people's spelling online, but I love the irony that you misspell "restaurant", a French word, like 15 times.;)
You know what I've always found to be funny about people? They tend to take their own negative qualities and try to project them unto others. For instance, you say that I have an "adolescent mentality", yet your own behavior is that of an adolescent. Who has degenerated to name-calling? Who told the other to go "die"? Who attributed the "haha n00b i rox0rz!" garbage to the other? And, most importantly, who called the other a hypocrite? You really might benefit from checking your own actions and getting yourself under control before you put your foot in your mouth criticizing others.
You don't listen to anybody; you make snap judgments about a person's entire character based on a few dozen words (s)he's written.
You're the ultimate hypocrite and a total assfaced bastard.
You made a snap judgment about me when you said I dub anyone who agrees with me a woman. Do you consider "assfaced bastard" a judgment about me, or were you just blowing off some of your adolescent-minded steam?
You claim to be able to instantly identify the "gender" of a person's "brain" without knowing a damn thing about that person
I love how you put things in quotes as though I wrote them. I would never have written that I could determine a random person's "gender"; and if your grammar were better you would know why. I merely ascertained one person's "sex" based on several posts that happened to be very characteristic of a man's communication style. No leaping tall buildings in a single bound, and there is nothing up my sleeve.
unlike you I don't have an inflated, self-serving ego, and unlike you I don't make ignorant, blanket judgments about people I don't even known[sic], rationalizing intolerance and stereotyping as "honest character assessments"
Self-serving? How so? What personal gain could I have possibly derived from any of this? Intolerance? Is there something about Veronica that would cause me hardship that I would have to "tolerate"? Is Veronica so reprehensible to you that you feel the need to use your finely-honed "tolerance" skills?
Further, if a proper double-blind scientific study were done of your "miraculous" "power" to detect the "gender" of someone's "brain" just by reading a few sentences that he or she has written
You are the one who attributed that "power" to me, remember?
stop acting like a subhuman Nazi
A subhuman Nazi. Does that make me worse than an actual Nazi or were you simply being redundant? Are you suggesting that I kill Jews? What could you possibly mean by that?
Do you know what is funny about this whole conversation? Veronica has already admitted to communicating like a man. My assessment was correct this entire time. Is that what is making you so upset?
I think I understand how your "amazing psychic powers" work.
I think you do not understand me and never will.
Anyone who agrees with everything you say must have a "female brain".
How could that possibly make any sense? Do you honestly believe it is possible for anyone in the world to agree with every woman on every possible past, present, and future issue? Here, I'll answer that for you. I do not agree with every woman on every possible past, present, and future issue. Would you believe that way back in high school, I once dumped a girl for agreeing with me too much? She bored me to death.
Anyone who dares to disagree with you or question your "obviously superior intellect" or who takes issue in any way with anything you say must have a "male brain".
Why do you put "obviously superior intellect" in quotes? I never said those words. You put them in my mouth. Well, you can have them back, smart guy.
Yeah, you're an idiot.
That may be the case, but do you know what separates idiots like me from smart people like you? I listen to people and take the time to understand them. You just talk out of your ass and hope for the best and it shows.
You do not understand me, yet you feel comfortable putting words in my mouth. You put words in my mouth without even bothering to think if they made sense or not. Why would you do that? Do you understand why your views of me make no sense?
C'mon. Let's hear your honest character assessment of me. Think it through this time and really put some effort into it. So far all you've done is make stuff up and call me names, which frankly, is a little sophomoric.
I'm sure that your mom is the exception to the rule, but anyone who accepts any advice from a high school guidance counselor deserves what he or she gets. If you ask people about the advice they received, you'll find that it ranged from trivial: "I think you should take an English class" (well, no shit lady, it's required in order to get a diploma by state law so yeah, it's a fucking good idea to take English) to just plain flat-out wrong:
My wife (when she was in high school): I want to sign up for AP this, AP that, AP theother, etc. Counselor: I'm not going to let you take that many AP classes. Only our top students take that many AP classes. My wife: Have you looked at my class rank, dear? (Looks down at transcript and sees a big number "1") Counselor: Oh. Well it seems like you're doing ok. Please come back soon if you want some more great individualized advice! My wife: (massively big overblown teenage eye-roll)
Even the talented counselors can't do much because of the number of students they are asked to support. But, yeah, I would definitely not listen to a high school guidance counselor.
Now I'm little, too? I'm surprised you couldn't peg me for a classic slashdot 375 pounder from a mile away!
But I see you have nothing better to do than to hurl unimaginative insults in my direction. Could you possibly think of something more amusing to say? I find you to be a bit boring.
Also, a pussy is very complex and multifaceted. Which qualities do you find that I posses? We have to be sure about these things, you see.
No one should have to cry over a slashdot post, and for that I'm sorry. AC was just being a pain in the ass, whereas I seem to have struck a nerve.
Just to clarify a few things:
Of course the sample of women I was referring to was of greater size than 1. We are talking every female friend, relative, coworker, romantic interest--you name it.
Remember that you are not the only one who was teased in school. Children can be so cruel to one another.
Who is a woman depends upon who you ask, I guess. What George W. Bush would say vs. what the local fetish club would say are two vastly different things.
I do hope that you are able to become more comfortable with who you are and accepting of yourself. You don't have to go too deep to see the difference between Madison ("I am a woman") and yourself ("who me? I never said I was a woman--I'm TG"). Your last post was much more feminine, of course. You expressed your feelings instead of saying, "Go look at such and such a website".;)
Well, it's getting late and I'm sure the last thing you need to deal with right now is some jackass on slashdot, so I'm going to sign off. Seriously, I hope you are able to figure out who you are and what you feel. Accepting yourself will help others to accept you. Again, best of luck.
The fact that I act like a girl (and have since birth) has nothing to do with whether or not I am capable of getting a comp sci degree.
So you are saying that, as most people would suspect, being a girl does not affect a person's ability to attain a degree in comp sci. This is great news. It means that nothing must be done to attract women into computer science, because women can already figure out what they want. You are walking, living, breathing proof that women are more than capable of doing whatever inspires them.
What does the relevance of Veronica's reply to the conversation have to do with whether he communicates like a man?
Incidentally, you communicate like a man, too. A retarded man who can't spell, but a man nonetheless. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
What, exactly, would you call what men do all day if not studying females? I mean, come on. Day and night. Night and day. What do we think about? That's right. Pussy. Pussy, and more pussy. But I didn't feel the need to be so crass before. You bring out the best in me, it seems.
Oh, and BTW, I prefer to call myself a jackass. If you could kindly quit calling me an ass and please refer to me as a jackass, I would be most appreciative.
and those stereotypes exist for a reason. As a hetero male, I have spent 30 years studying females, and you, sir, are male. You may have hacked your wang off, but you are male.
Madison is a woman. It's in her nature. You can tell by the way she communicates. She may not look 100% feminine--look at her face (and prolly her crotch too, since she's pre-op, right?), but as you say, she is a woman in her head and her heart.
So if you're so analytical, follow the conversation.
I suggested that Madison is not the same as most women and that she might be getting blank stares as people try to wrap their heads around what she is.
She agreed with me, but said her experiences are similar to those of other women.
You come along and ask what makes a woman a woman and implying that I can't figure out what a woman is (hell, I married one... hopefully I've got it figured!). Remember, at this point it was already clear that Madison and I agree that she is a woman. So your post is, at best, irrelevant, but more than likely you read my post, saw that I said she was "different", and automatically assumed that I was clueless as to what was going on without even bothering to understand what I wrote.
So I called you on it and I pointed out that while you may want to dress up like a woman, you communicate like a man.
Then you put words in my mouth about women needing to watch soap operas and such. Seriously man, nobody should watch soap operas. And that is so typical male for you to even say that.
I have little doubt that you are transgendered, but I also have little doubt that you have a man's brain. There's nothing wrong with that. You can't help the way you are. But, the way you communicate just screams "gay guy in drag".
Madison communicates like a woman, despite her being born with male body-parts and hormones. Such is life, I guess. I wish you both the best of luck.
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So they can't know before filing whether the person they're filing against is an 11 year old girl or a high-powered lawyer. Nice try, tho.
Methinks paragon_au just put that in there to get a rise out of knee-jerk, I didn't RTFA slashdotters. No one "official" ever used the term Advertising Terrorism.
Anyhow, I installed realplayer using the steps that I outlined, and it installed the free version. There is a menu option to upgrade to premium, and it doesn't rip mp3s above 96kbps (it asks you up upgrade to the premium version). There is nothing to indicate that this is anything other than the crippled free version.
I hope this made you feel all smart and stuff, tho.
- Go to http://www.real.com/
- Look for the huge button right in the middle of your screen (you can't miss it) that says "Download RealPlayer FREE".
- Give it a click
- There is no number 4, 'cuz yer already done.
Seems fixed to me.He wants your SSN 'cuz it makes it easier to collect from you if you don't pay your bill. Cellphone company prolly has the same intentions. Usually you can get phone service if you leave a deposit with them in leiu of your SSN.
Dean got his ass handed to him in the Iowa caucuses, and his "concession" speech congratulating Kerry on his win was the infamus "scream" speech. Totally ignoring the screaming bit (which, as you correctly point out, is not his fault), what kind of a fucked-up, tasteless, unprofessional concession speech was that?
I've listened to the correctly-mixed version of the Iowa speech, and I agree with you that the media really dropped the ball on that one (of course if Dean would have had better sound engineers, none of this would have happened...). But the truth of the matter is that the real reason Howard Dean lost because he was, is, and probably always will be, a total jackass.
Tell your mother where you are.
I'll tell you this: according to the US IRS website, the top 10% of wage earners payed 65% of federal income tax. The top 50% of wage earners paid 96% of federal income taxes in 2001. If France is more progressive than that given their 19% VAT (VAT is regressive), I'd love to see a study that shows it. Until then, I'm sure you've figured out where you can stick your "maybes".
That's what I was saying. Neither is right or wrong, just different.Anyhow, what's with the cop-out? Where do you want to go that you think you can't afford to go? You are not trapped. If you really want to go somewhere don't tell yourself you can't afford. Find a way to afford it. You can only live once, my friend. Make it count.
Unemployment runs about 10% in France vs 6% in the US. In fairness, the percentage of people below the poverty line is ~12% in the US vs. 6% in France, so it seems French welfare pays good. It's just a different system. I don't wanna get all philosophical and stuff 'cuz IAAE, not a philosopher, but maybe in the US since we work so much harder, we have less sympathy for people who are less well-off ("I go to work every day and work my ass off... why can't you just do the same, ya bum?" type of attitude).
Anyhow, I'm glad you're getting to travel (of course, this year I've been to Napa, Steamboat, Vegas, Lake Michigan, Chicago, NYC, DC, MN, NJ, MD... anywhere else? I can't remember, but my wife and I have the travel bug so we get out a lot. Still hoping to get over to Southeast Asia for a few weeks this fall.) You should definitely take advantage of this opportunity. Enjoy!
P.S. Normally I don't rip on people's spelling online, but I love the irony that you misspell "restaurant", a French word, like 15 times. ;)
Oh well, at least I amuse myself.
Do you know what is funny about this whole conversation? Veronica has already admitted to communicating like a man. My assessment was correct this entire time. Is that what is making you so upset?
to get to my playboy. She is always reading it.
You do not understand me, yet you feel comfortable putting words in my mouth. You put words in my mouth without even bothering to think if they made sense or not. Why would you do that? Do you understand why your views of me make no sense?
C'mon. Let's hear your honest character assessment of me. Think it through this time and really put some effort into it. So far all you've done is make stuff up and call me names, which frankly, is a little sophomoric.
My wife (when she was in high school): I want to sign up for AP this, AP that, AP theother, etc.
Counselor: I'm not going to let you take that many AP classes. Only our top students take that many AP classes.
My wife: Have you looked at my class rank, dear?
(Looks down at transcript and sees a big number "1")
Counselor: Oh. Well it seems like you're doing ok. Please come back soon if you want some more great individualized advice!
My wife: (massively big overblown teenage eye-roll)
Even the talented counselors can't do much because of the number of students they are asked to support. But, yeah, I would definitely not listen to a high school guidance counselor.
But I see you have nothing better to do than to hurl unimaginative insults in my direction. Could you possibly think of something more amusing to say? I find you to be a bit boring.
Also, a pussy is very complex and multifaceted. Which qualities do you find that I posses? We have to be sure about these things, you see.
Just to clarify a few things:
- Of course the sample of women I was referring to was of greater size than 1. We are talking every female friend, relative, coworker, romantic interest--you name it.
- Remember that you are not the only one who was teased in school. Children can be so cruel to one another.
- Who is a woman depends upon who you ask, I guess. What George W. Bush would say vs. what the local fetish club would say are two vastly different things.
I do hope that you are able to become more comfortable with who you are and accepting of yourself. You don't have to go too deep to see the difference between Madison ("I am a woman") and yourself ("who me? I never said I was a woman--I'm TG"). Your last post was much more feminine, of course. You expressed your feelings instead of saying, "Go look at such and such a website".Well, it's getting late and I'm sure the last thing you need to deal with right now is some jackass on slashdot, so I'm going to sign off. Seriously, I hope you are able to figure out who you are and what you feel. Accepting yourself will help others to accept you. Again, best of luck.
Also, I'm a little curious about one thing: what exactly does "pussified" mean?
The sky's the limit! Bravo to you!
- I said it was at best irrelevant.
- What does the relevance of Veronica's reply to the conversation have to do with whether he communicates like a man?
- Incidentally, you communicate like a man, too. A retarded man who can't spell, but a man nonetheless. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
- What, exactly, would you call what men do all day if not studying females? I mean, come on. Day and night. Night and day. What do we think about? That's right. Pussy. Pussy, and more pussy. But I didn't feel the need to be so crass before. You bring out the best in me, it seems.
- Oh, and BTW, I prefer to call myself a jackass. If you could kindly quit calling me an ass and please refer to me as a jackass, I would be most appreciative.
Thank you, and good night.Madison is a woman. It's in her nature. You can tell by the way she communicates. She may not look 100% feminine--look at her face (and prolly her crotch too, since she's pre-op, right?), but as you say, she is a woman in her head and her heart.
So if you're so analytical, follow the conversation.
- I suggested that Madison is not the same as most women and that she might be getting blank stares as people try to wrap their heads around what she is.
- She agreed with me, but said her experiences are similar to those of other women.
- You come along and ask what makes a woman a woman and implying that I can't figure out what a woman is (hell, I married one... hopefully I've got it figured!). Remember, at this point it was already clear that Madison and I agree that she is a woman. So your post is, at best, irrelevant, but more than likely you read my post, saw that I said she was "different", and automatically assumed that I was clueless as to what was going on without even bothering to understand what I wrote.
- So I called you on it and I pointed out that while you may want to dress up like a woman, you communicate like a man.
- Then you put words in my mouth about women needing to watch soap operas and such. Seriously man, nobody should watch soap operas. And that is so typical male for you to even say that.
I have little doubt that you are transgendered, but I also have little doubt that you have a man's brain. There's nothing wrong with that. You can't help the way you are. But, the way you communicate just screams "gay guy in drag".Madison communicates like a woman, despite her being born with male body-parts and hormones. Such is life, I guess. I wish you both the best of luck.