Me at the music store:
"crap, crap, crap, crap, country, crap, crap, rap, crap, crap, crap..."
It's really nice that I can buy the new Micheal Jackson album(not really...), but I want to listen to something good, and pop isn't it. Soulless tripe...
I don't care how much you gripe about that, and it's a legitmate beef, but BE CONSISTENT for cripes' sake. To be consistent, the parent post should have read: "How dare Ukraine violate the international treaty they signed in good faith. It is a step in the right direction that the US is enforcing international law in this instance, with all the examples of them violating it lately around the globe."
How about "You can't have it both ways"?
It is a step in the same direction they were heading in before. They always play the "white knight" when somebody breaks a small law like copyright, but they obviously are just trying to manipulate the world to line the pockets of rich old men. If they were to start something with China, I would call it a step in the right direction, but in light of their previous actions, it's just the same old America once again.
Come and get us. We're right here next to Canada, so it should be easy to find us.
Mosquitos should be swatted. So come on, mosquito, call all your friends and have a field day with the U.S. I'm afraid you'll find yourselves in a world of hurt.
Be careful who you incite. Make no mistake that a man who has lost his family would not hesitate to take out a city around him(ummm...not me, I'm just pointing out that your attitude is ultimately self-destructive).
Mousquitos can carry malaria. Be wary, or you may find yourself, and your blind ego, in a world where pain is the least of your problems.
That's cool. That's really cool. I guess there are still places in the world which appreciate something other than the garbage produced by the US pop culture machine.
I don't think it's whining to destroy an enemy who has dared bloody our nose. I don't consider it whining to demand that terrorists be brought to justice.
Justice? Sounds like whining to me.
Punishment isn't Justice. If you wanted Justice, there'd be more planes coming for you, perhaps to take an American life for every life you've taken in every battle fought in the name of greed. The sheltered lives you lead ensure that you will never understand the wars you blindly send troops to fight, or realize that a single death, military or civilian, in a battle such as that, fueled by nothing but a rich mans obsession to become ritcher, is an atrocity upon itself.
Not only that, but then when we tell them, they'll point at some other country we hate and tell us that it's okay because they are doing it too.
A:"Why do you hate us so much?"
SJ:"your country routinely disregards human life in favour of petty economic interests, and tends to disregard laws, both it's own, and international laws as well."
A:"So does China and Iraq!"
Seriously, read just about any "Here is why we hate America" chat, and this will happen. It's happened on slashdot quite a few times in recent memory.
Starve their citizens by withdrawing from trade between our two countries. The U.S. is the single largest consuming market in the world. To keep a country's goods out of this market effectively cuts their economy in half.
Yes. Lets starve the poor so that the uber-rich can get richer. So what if they work just as hard? We're rich! They don't deserve to eat! They *listen to pirated Britney Spears albums!* GOOD GOD MAN! WILL SOMEBODY THINK OF THE POOR CHILDREN! EVIL PIRATES!!!
Though listening to any of that trash is generally proof enough that you have no life of your own anyway...
Theres an interesting point to be made here. Are these people actually "harming" American commercial interests? I'd say that in such a situation, the trade embargo wouldn't change anything. We're not talking about people stealing cars from dealerships, we're talking about people copying music. In the end, it's all profit which wouldn't make it's way to America if the disks weren't so cheap.
I know it's easy to wave your finger at pirates when you can afford what you need/want, but in this case, the whole "information wants to be free" thing kicks in. All the music labels are really selling are ones and zeros, placed onto plastic disks which cost them about a dollar. If someone buys that CD(people often forget that the a copy of the music must be bought before it is pirated), and imitates the bits on another plastic disk, which he has paid for, the music industry isn't really losing anything.
- "Monitoring cable modems without a warrant is double-plus-ungood".
Your comments on the matter are double-plus ungood. Verging crimethink. Big Brother is watching. Didn't you get the message during the two minutes of hate?
(sorry, I just finished the book a couple months ago and haven't had a chance to annoy people with innane references to it yet.:) )
Unfortunately, I fear that you are correct. Such philosophy is dangerous and self-destructive, but you are correct.
I suppose it's the same philisophy which turns pop stars into heroes, the demented and maddening decline of the world into a chaos from which nobody cares enough to escape. History repeats itself, and once again, we are destined to fall into anarchy, where only the strong may survive, and the weak are trampled in their onslaught. I'm sure the new religion of econo-christianity, where god forgives if you're broke is a sign of the changing times -- where there was once some sort of light, some sort of warmth left in humanity, all is left is animal greed and jealousy, overriding a mans need to survive with a need to close himself off from the world, to pretend his castle of glittering gold will protect his mark on the world, and upon history. The need to destroy oneself, and die nothing more than a trained seal, living not to enjoy life, or even to survive, but to get their next fish, and considering their petty fortunes to be more than an insignificant speck of wealth among countless others, but they die thinking about their stock options or how to get a raise in the next week, and in doing so, find themselves without a mark on the world, only to be replaced in the next round of hirings..
Perhaps an economy based on machines? Everybody has X number of AI units, and these units are traded in return for goods, and the units could be used for services.
What about the people who don't consider work to be the most important thing in their lives? I go to work to do a job and for the money, but I consider my family, freinds, and well-being to be much more important. Why create a society even more geared towards those who measure their worth by the size of their wallet?
You can talk about how bad MS sucks when the Linux "community" actually releases a desktop OS that's as user-frienly as Windows 3.1 Linux suxs man, get over it. Go write some drivers so you can get your shit to work.
That's a new approach to linux bashing -- apparantly comparing Windows 3.1 to RedHat 4.2?
For users, Linux in it's current state is very good compared to Windows. I'm running RedHat 7.2, and it's fast and easy. Internet access was at the very least on par with Windows, though I found it easier because I didn't have to convert microsoftese into real language (Press 'OK' to continue, or 'Cancel' to skip this step(but still continue with the point after this step))
On the other hand, I suppose you're going to tell us about how shitty the Model 'A' ford is too?
That's really nice and all, but I need to eat, as does everyone. The working world in the past has been about some stability -- travelling around the world will burn you out in a few years, just as it's burned me out. Try to stay with superior self-motivation and ambition after your seventh job, your seventh place to live...It's shit. The point of a permenant job is so you don't have to be kept awake at night with the lingering question "where is my next meal coming from?". Besides, only a social god could keep up with the lack of social stability. Imagine leaving everyone behind, all your freinds, all you know, every time your contract runs out. Imagine spending your life like this. For those of us with ambitions beyond the next rung of the corporate ladder, it's hell.
Just FYI, those who you think 'disappear' still exist, and guess what? They're being fed with the taxes the rest of us are stuck paying. That's a pretty damn good reason why this whole thing sucks.
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You're not kidding.
Me at the music store:
"crap, crap, crap, crap, country, crap, crap, rap, crap, crap, crap..."
It's really nice that I can buy the new Micheal Jackson album(not really...), but I want to listen to something good, and pop isn't it. Soulless tripe...
I don't care how much you gripe about that, and it's a legitmate beef, but BE CONSISTENT for cripes' sake. To be consistent, the parent post should have read: "How dare Ukraine violate the international treaty they signed in good faith. It is a step in the right direction that the US is enforcing international law in this instance, with all the examples of them violating it lately around the globe."
How about "You can't have it both ways"?
It is a step in the same direction they were heading in before. They always play the "white knight" when somebody breaks a small law like copyright, but they obviously are just trying to manipulate the world to line the pockets of rich old men. If they were to start something with China, I would call it a step in the right direction, but in light of their previous actions, it's just the same old America once again.
The US has earned the extra scrutiny.
Thank you for proving my point.
Come and get us. We're right here next to Canada, so it should be easy to find us.
Mosquitos should be swatted. So come on, mosquito, call all your friends and have a field day with the U.S. I'm afraid you'll find yourselves in a world of hurt.
Be careful who you incite. Make no mistake that a man who has lost his family would not hesitate to take out a city around him(ummm...not me, I'm just pointing out that your attitude is ultimately self-destructive).
Mousquitos can carry malaria. Be wary, or you may find yourself, and your blind ego, in a world where pain is the least of your problems.
That's cool. That's really cool. I guess there are still places in the world which appreciate something other than the garbage produced by the US pop culture machine.
I don't think it's whining to destroy an enemy who has dared bloody our nose. I don't consider it whining to demand that terrorists be brought to justice.
Justice? Sounds like whining to me.
Punishment isn't Justice. If you wanted Justice, there'd be more planes coming for you, perhaps to take an American life for every life you've taken in every battle fought in the name of greed. The sheltered lives you lead ensure that you will never understand the wars you blindly send troops to fight, or realize that a single death, military or civilian, in a battle such as that, fueled by nothing but a rich mans obsession to become ritcher, is an atrocity upon itself.
Yes. Let them starve. The U.S. is an empire (Pax Americana), it's about time we started flexing our muscles.
Only if you're willing to shut your trap and quit whining about terrorism when somebody decides to flex back.
Nope, the moment read that, I envisioned some sort of RIAA nazi germany.
:)
Lackey:"gutentag! Ze pitiful ukranians vill fall before us now!"
Adolf Spears:"Excellent. Vill zey get avay vith pirating our CDs? NEIN!"
Lackey:"Heil Spears! Heil Spears!"
Just a humorous fantasy. It'd be best if you simply ignored it.
Not only that, but then when we tell them, they'll point at some other country we hate and tell us that it's okay because they are doing it too.
A:"Why do you hate us so much?"
SJ:"your country routinely disregards human life in favour of petty economic interests, and tends to disregard laws, both it's own, and international laws as well."
A:"So does China and Iraq!"
Seriously, read just about any "Here is why we hate America" chat, and this will happen. It's happened on slashdot quite a few times in recent memory.
Starve their citizens by withdrawing from trade between our two countries. The U.S. is the single largest consuming market in the world. To keep a country's goods out of this market effectively cuts their economy in half.
Yes. Lets starve the poor so that the uber-rich can get richer. So what if they work just as hard? We're rich! They don't deserve to eat! They *listen to pirated Britney Spears albums!* GOOD GOD MAN! WILL SOMEBODY THINK OF THE POOR CHILDREN! EVIL PIRATES!!!
Though listening to any of that trash is generally proof enough that you have no life of your own anyway...
Theres an interesting point to be made here. Are these people actually "harming" American commercial interests? I'd say that in such a situation, the trade embargo wouldn't change anything. We're not talking about people stealing cars from dealerships, we're talking about people copying music. In the end, it's all profit which wouldn't make it's way to America if the disks weren't so cheap.
I know it's easy to wave your finger at pirates when you can afford what you need/want, but in this case, the whole "information wants to be free" thing kicks in. All the music labels are really selling are ones and zeros, placed onto plastic disks which cost them about a dollar. If someone buys that CD(people often forget that the a copy of the music must be bought before it is pirated), and imitates the bits on another plastic disk, which he has paid for, the music industry isn't really losing anything.
- "Monitoring cable modems without a warrant is double-plus-ungood".
Your comments on the matter are double-plus ungood. Verging crimethink. Big Brother is watching. Didn't you get the message during the two minutes of hate?
(sorry, I just finished the book a couple months ago and haven't had a chance to annoy people with innane references to it yet.
Because it's the American Way (tm).
Unfortunately, I fear that you are correct. Such philosophy is dangerous and self-destructive, but you are correct.
I suppose it's the same philisophy which turns pop stars into heroes, the demented and maddening decline of the world into a chaos from which nobody cares enough to escape. History repeats itself, and once again, we are destined to fall into anarchy, where only the strong may survive, and the weak are trampled in their onslaught. I'm sure the new religion of econo-christianity, where god forgives if you're broke is a sign of the changing times -- where there was once some sort of light, some sort of warmth left in humanity, all is left is animal greed and jealousy, overriding a mans need to survive with a need to close himself off from the world, to pretend his castle of glittering gold will protect his mark on the world, and upon history. The need to destroy oneself, and die nothing more than a trained seal, living not to enjoy life, or even to survive, but to get their next fish, and considering their petty fortunes to be more than an insignificant speck of wealth among countless others, but they die thinking about their stock options or how to get a raise in the next week, and in doing so, find themselves without a mark on the world, only to be replaced in the next round of hirings..
Now that's a rant!
we've got a pretty high standard of living for the middle class and working class, compared to the rest of the world
:)
I'd say on par with other industrialized nations.
You know that in the end, the netherlands(land of legal weed -- I think?) will win in any discussion about quality of life.
Perhaps an economy based on machines? Everybody has X number of AI units, and these units are traded in return for goods, and the units could be used for services.
Finally the person posted a note on www.slashdot.org, and within a few hours the server was being probed and flooded with IP-level attacks.
Sounds bad. Does that make us hacker terrorists?
That's gotta be a joke.
:)
If so, it's damn funny.
If not, it's damn scary.
What about the people who don't consider work to be the most important thing in their lives? I go to work to do a job and for the money, but I consider my family, freinds, and well-being to be much more important. Why create a society even more geared towards those who measure their worth by the size of their wallet?
Don't you remember? Bill Gates *created* open source!
:)
Keep up! It was at the last stockholders meeting!
(The amount of bullshit tollerated in the corporate world is astounding.)
"Windows SX is faster and more reliable than ever!"
One day later:
"Uh...I'm still having the same problems!"
:)
You know what I'm talking about.
You can talk about how bad MS sucks when the Linux "community" actually releases a desktop OS that's as user-frienly as Windows 3.1 Linux suxs man, get over it. Go write some drivers so you can get your shit to work.
That's a new approach to linux bashing -- apparantly comparing Windows 3.1 to RedHat 4.2?
For users, Linux in it's current state is very good compared to Windows. I'm running RedHat 7.2, and it's fast and easy. Internet access was at the very least on par with Windows, though I found it easier because I didn't have to convert microsoftese into real language (Press 'OK' to continue, or 'Cancel' to skip this step(but still continue with the point after this step))
On the other hand, I suppose you're going to tell us about how shitty the Model 'A' ford is too?
That's really nice and all, but I need to eat, as does everyone. The working world in the past has been about some stability -- travelling around the world will burn you out in a few years, just as it's burned me out. Try to stay with superior self-motivation and ambition after your seventh job, your seventh place to live...It's shit. The point of a permenant job is so you don't have to be kept awake at night with the lingering question "where is my next meal coming from?". Besides, only a social god could keep up with the lack of social stability. Imagine leaving everyone behind, all your freinds, all you know, every time your contract runs out. Imagine spending your life like this. For those of us with ambitions beyond the next rung of the corporate ladder, it's hell.
Just FYI, those who you think 'disappear' still exist, and guess what? They're being fed with the taxes the rest of us are stuck paying. That's a pretty damn good reason why this whole thing sucks.
Perhaps something like the rain forest, where you cannot bomb that which you cannot see due to foliage?
maybe with treadmills, but 100 MP/H on robotic legs for 50 miles would likely destroy those legs. You'd be buying a new set of legs every week.
:)
I'm more interested in the strength and endurance aspect. You stick a man who can lift 2 tons into a house, and moving becomes a lot easier
BTW, the power supply for such a treadmill would make it so you might as well drive to work.