"Hey, could you help me out? I wanted to get rid of the spiders crawling in my mind so I did something to my linux box, but I was so stoned I don't remember what I did!"
It's not like teachers are paid as much as their college-educated counterparts in commerce.
Obviously their attitude about Open Source stems from their own feelings of inadequacy at having the same education as those in the private sector but making a fraction of the money.
Not that I steal games. Back in the Napster days I realised I didn't want to give entities I don't like mind-share by using their products, even illegally.
That said, if you're a company selling easily stolen luxuries, you MUST NOT shit where you eat. Treat your customers(The people with money, who give you said money for products) well, and they'll reciprocate. Shit on them, and they won't be your customers for long.
I could hop on a plane to Europe, buy a laptop while I'm there, find a wifi hotspot, and Valve will give me access to Half-life 2 despite never getting anything from me but my username and password. By contrast, I can only install it 3 times? Guess who I'm giving my money to?
I should add that unlike Jack Thompson, you don't even land firmly on the side of "I'm upset about this". You land in some even worse camp of "I may have possibly been upset about this if I had bothered to take a look".
Shit, it's a picture of the Venus de Milo with an under age drivers license pinned to her forehead. Now don't you feel like a tool, considering it was banned thanks to your letter?
You don't know whether it was reasonable or not. You don't know whether it was a good thing to take the images down or not. You don't know anything. For all you know, you just caused an inhuman and unjust act of censorship of a work of meaningful art.
Your actions are completely meaningless, because they are completely devoid of any actual decision.
You're like Jack Thompson writing letters condemning Mass Effect as a porno because it features 30 seconds of bare ass despite never having played the game, because he read an article.
Congratulations on jumping on a bandwagon without gathering enough facts to form an opinion of your own. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I'd argue the reason the libertarian candidate barely has anything behind him is the exact reason Ron Paul runs as a Republican: Nobody other than the big 2 gets any media coverage. Hell, even the Republican Ron Paul was quickly squelched.
I've got better ideas than Paul, but I'm a nobody who will never hold office. Hey look, it's the leader of the libertarian party sitting next to me on the bleachers.
The letter you wrote is literally meaningless. There is no meaning within it. You don't have concerns with the law, because you don't know what the effects of the law are. "Dear Sirs: I read an article that says I should be scared. I don't know whether I should or not. please be aware of my acknowledgement that there may or may not be an issue. Signed, Cederic"
Decisiveness is a masculine trait, that's where I'm saying "Act like a man". Refusing to form an opinion because you don't want to get in trouble, but writing a letter as if you do, it's the ultimate in indecisiveness. "I don't have an opinion, and I'm going to make sure my non-opinion is heard by the powers that be! I'll write a letter stating my concern that something I might have a concern about may going on! Maybe an entire ARMY of people will write in about the things that they haven't decided whether they're bothered by or not, and we can get the entire ADMINISTRATION acting on our show of solidarity, our message strong and pure, one that our grandchildren will be proud of: 'We may or may not be troubled!', the roaring call from which our flags are hoisted and our battle lines drawn! Or not! We haven't decided!"
I'm curious, do you have kids? How about brothers and sisters?
I ask because when I was a step-father for a short time(Dated a girl with kids, we were going to get married but it didn't work out), I saw things more suggestive than this on a weekly basis or so simply in the pursuit of duties as a parent. I've also seen my (at the time underage) sister naked a few times, just as a natural consequence of living with a young girl.
I've always done my best to avoid it, but if there are kids in the house, you'll see naked kids, sometimes in situations that someone might consider suggestive.
With your attitude, we see things like parents being arrested for family photos. I'm worried about the way things are heading now, where there's this insane double standard emerging between what actually happens around kids and what lawmakers pretend happens around kids.
So you're sending a letter which may or may not actually represent your views, stating that the picture in question may or may not be appropriate, and their decision may or may not be correct, so they should take a second look(or not)?
Son, I know it feels like this Internet thing is awfully new, but it isn't.
As someone who was here before Google, let me tell you: There's a VERY good reason they're as big as they are. Without Google, the Internet is very small and useless.
I had the misfortune of trying Live Search a couple days ago, and it was very much like the old Internet: Enter in a search term, and good luck having the most useful results on the first page. You'll spend a month searching and finally find what Google found and placed on the first page.
Nobody who was there back then wants to live without Google.
In a different direction, I agree completely with what you're saying about society's programming, but not only for gay people.
There's a whole set of programming where society tells you "This is how to be a man", that is completely out to lunch. I started dating for the first time in my life, and was having huge problems until I realised that society's image of a sexually successful man isn't remotely connected to being either a real man or a real person.
To be a man is far closer to being a hippy sage than to being a homophobic action hero who ignores women except to say insipid pick-up lines.
Ethanol and biodiesel fail because they require nitrogen fertlizer, which is created from natural gas. This is a lot like the ideas to run hydrogen cars -- you're just taking natural gas, ignoring it, then making something with a lower energy output.
Windows won't brick if you run out of physical memory. At worst, it'll throw an error message to the program when it tries to allocate memory. If the program ignores the error message, at worst that program will crash.
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Naw, those girls are REALLY high maintenance.
"Hey, could you help me out? I wanted to get rid of the spiders crawling in my mind so I did something to my linux box, but I was so stoned I don't remember what I did!"
I love how your problem with the post wasn't that it was advocating murder, but that they got the gender wrong.
I hate to think what he would've thought if it was an Eee 701!
It's not like teachers are paid as much as their college-educated counterparts in commerce.
Obviously their attitude about Open Source stems from their own feelings of inadequacy at having the same education as those in the private sector but making a fraction of the money.
That's office despot; Where our prices are so great that KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHN!
[...]their sales would plummet because of rampart copying.
THE FIENDS! copying our defensive structures? No wonder the people at EA are so upset!
It is NOT an undefeated form of protection.
I can actually copy games to my xbox through FTP and run them off the hard disk, and I don't have a mod chip.
I can think of one reason:
It's easy, and I don't like EA anyway.
Not that I steal games. Back in the Napster days I realised I didn't want to give entities I don't like mind-share by using their products, even illegally.
That said, if you're a company selling easily stolen luxuries, you MUST NOT shit where you eat. Treat your customers(The people with money, who give you said money for products) well, and they'll reciprocate. Shit on them, and they won't be your customers for long.
I could hop on a plane to Europe, buy a laptop while I'm there, find a wifi hotspot, and Valve will give me access to Half-life 2 despite never getting anything from me but my username and password. By contrast, I can only install it 3 times? Guess who I'm giving my money to?
I bought GalCiv II when I learned of their excellent policy on DRM.
From my receipt e-mail,
"GalCiv II: Ultimate Bundle Pack (Digital Download)
$59.95 Quantity: 1"
I should add that unlike Jack Thompson, you don't even land firmly on the side of "I'm upset about this". You land in some even worse camp of "I may have possibly been upset about this if I had bothered to take a look".
Shit, it's a picture of the Venus de Milo with an under age drivers license pinned to her forehead. Now don't you feel like a tool, considering it was banned thanks to your letter?
So you changed something.
You don't know whether it was reasonable or not. You don't know whether it was a good thing to take the images down or not. You don't know anything. For all you know, you just caused an inhuman and unjust act of censorship of a work of meaningful art.
Your actions are completely meaningless, because they are completely devoid of any actual decision.
You're like Jack Thompson writing letters condemning Mass Effect as a porno because it features 30 seconds of bare ass despite never having played the game, because he read an article.
Congratulations on jumping on a bandwagon without gathering enough facts to form an opinion of your own. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I'd argue the reason the libertarian candidate barely has anything behind him is the exact reason Ron Paul runs as a Republican: Nobody other than the big 2 gets any media coverage. Hell, even the Republican Ron Paul was quickly squelched.
I've got better ideas than Paul, but I'm a nobody who will never hold office. Hey look, it's the leader of the libertarian party sitting next to me on the bleachers.
Seriously? You're going to call Ron Paul's movement a cult of personality?
I guess that shows that Internet or not, we're still shallow enough to believe what we want to believe.
The letter you wrote is literally meaningless. There is no meaning within it. You don't have concerns with the law, because you don't know what the effects of the law are. "Dear Sirs: I read an article that says I should be scared. I don't know whether I should or not. please be aware of my acknowledgement that there may or may not be an issue. Signed, Cederic"
Decisiveness is a masculine trait, that's where I'm saying "Act like a man". Refusing to form an opinion because you don't want to get in trouble, but writing a letter as if you do, it's the ultimate in indecisiveness. "I don't have an opinion, and I'm going to make sure my non-opinion is heard by the powers that be! I'll write a letter stating my concern that something I might have a concern about may going on! Maybe an entire ARMY of people will write in about the things that they haven't decided whether they're bothered by or not, and we can get the entire ADMINISTRATION acting on our show of solidarity, our message strong and pure, one that our grandchildren will be proud of: 'We may or may not be troubled!', the roaring call from which our flags are hoisted and our battle lines drawn! Or not! We haven't decided!"
Either be a man and make a decision about whether the material is appropriate or not and send a letter telling of your decision, or don't do anything.
Sending a letter to say "There may be an issue but I don't know either way" is a waste of time and effort.
I'm curious, do you have kids? How about brothers and sisters?
I ask because when I was a step-father for a short time(Dated a girl with kids, we were going to get married but it didn't work out), I saw things more suggestive than this on a weekly basis or so simply in the pursuit of duties as a parent. I've also seen my (at the time underage) sister naked a few times, just as a natural consequence of living with a young girl.
I've always done my best to avoid it, but if there are kids in the house, you'll see naked kids, sometimes in situations that someone might consider suggestive.
With your attitude, we see things like parents being arrested for family photos. I'm worried about the way things are heading now, where there's this insane double standard emerging between what actually happens around kids and what lawmakers pretend happens around kids.
So you're sending a letter which may or may not actually represent your views, stating that the picture in question may or may not be appropriate, and their decision may or may not be correct, so they should take a second look(or not)?
Way to stick it to the man with decisive action.
Son, I know it feels like this Internet thing is awfully new, but it isn't.
As someone who was here before Google, let me tell you: There's a VERY good reason they're as big as they are. Without Google, the Internet is very small and useless.
I had the misfortune of trying Live Search a couple days ago, and it was very much like the old Internet: Enter in a search term, and good luck having the most useful results on the first page. You'll spend a month searching and finally find what Google found and placed on the first page.
Nobody who was there back then wants to live without Google.
Besides, aren't you being a little OCD in getting antsy in the pantsy over my preferences?
Listen. Your first and last paragraphs were only one line, which is fine.
But your second paragraph had FIVE lines while your third and fourth had FOUR.
You're a real asshole, you know that? Quit being an indecisive prick and chose one. THREE lines or FOUR.
In a different direction, I agree completely with what you're saying about society's programming, but not only for gay people.
There's a whole set of programming where society tells you "This is how to be a man", that is completely out to lunch. I started dating for the first time in my life, and was having huge problems until I realised that society's image of a sexually successful man isn't remotely connected to being either a real man or a real person.
To be a man is far closer to being a hippy sage than to being a homophobic action hero who ignores women except to say insipid pick-up lines.
Ethanol and biodiesel fail because they require nitrogen fertlizer, which is created from natural gas. This is a lot like the ideas to run hydrogen cars -- you're just taking natural gas, ignoring it, then making something with a lower energy output.
Neither of those temperatures is low enough to be safe where I live.
Windows won't brick if you run out of physical memory. At worst, it'll throw an error message to the program when it tries to allocate memory. If the program ignores the error message, at worst that program will crash.
It won't brick, however.
Why do you frequently have problems of the sort that a memory dump is created?
Oh, great swami, please enlighten us fools.
You install windows, then the drivers. Next, you time the boot. After that, you time the boot with swap disabled. Why, oh sawmi, is it slower?