I can't believe it -- he was arrested for chatting with someone who *claimed* to be a minor? What a joke. I can't believe how far it's going. I believe you can't blame someone until they've actually commited something for real -- what do we know? A lot of people might be turned on by the idea of having with 13 yo (not me!), that does'nt mean that when the occasion actually arises they will do it. This is sickening. Roleplaying -- that's what chat room seem to about, isn't it? Now it's forbidden to play anything but some PC shit. Absurd.
crit.org's nice... but we need a more client side solution. For currently this is really heavy on the crit.org server, hence slow, does'nt work with layered, etc...
Yeah, it's being done proprietary by some company, and of course windows only, but here's what we really need: a module to annotate pages/url in real time. To put post-its(tm) on pages, to be able to chat real time, based on the page you're currently browsing... isn't that cool? That's really simple to implement... now that we have source code...
Hey folks, look, there's over countries on the planet... and they don't have the same problems. You hear of no such similar thing in Europe. But... here in France 90% of the school are public. Only the super-rich or the super-bad go to private school. And violence, though a big problem, is not on the same order as in the US. So what's different? We don't have any such thing as the 2nd amendment. Here, only the neofascists advocate freeing gun owning. And since someone asked, yes, geeks are ostracized here too, but I guess it's to a much lesser extent. Anyhow, I sympathize dearly with the people quoted in Katz's article; especially since their writing skills are excellent (or did Katz edit them?), which is quite uncommon for (young) americans, even to non-natively english speaking person like me.
What I'm saying is that meme-complexes are very loosely-defined entities with an almost organic quality, and trying to say, definitively, what one is or is not is a losing endeavor. It really does depend upon the specific subspecies of meme, and the generalization which you are advocating does not hold for all instances.
The use of Gen-X techno-jumbo does not make your point any more relevant.
When you say thta "there is no dogma of atheism", you are incorrect. It is possible for atheism to be held and propagated based upon shallow dogma. I know this to be true because I've met dogmatic atheists before.
Yeah, there are atheists who are quite religious; but that does'nt make atheism any more of a religion. Like, there are atheists who have a job, but that does not make atheism a job description either.
If religion was so unimportant, why did you go to such lengths to decry it?
What a specious argument. You religious fanatics are trying to impose your views on us -- on abortion, on politics, and even on science (creationism!)
Some of you comments are foolish, and others are wrong but understandable.
I pee on Jesus. BTW "Jesus" sounds a bit like "I suck" (je suce) in French.
People talk of the harm done by religion, but I think it is small compared with the good. Some thousands have been killed in religious wars, but many, many more have lived suffering from incurable disease, poverty, and oppression, and found religion their source of hope and solace.
A good joint or Prozac can achieve the same ends, yunno.
It is the nature of people to war over strongly held beliefs that conflict, whether or not those beliefs are religious.
No one ever die of a KDE vs. Gnome flame war AFAIK.
Blasphemy is fun.
Burning a church a day keeps the drooling macaques away.
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Religion would help nerds cope with their lack of sexual life -- by making it appear as a choice instead as of a fatality. Huh, ain't I so rude? I just *hate* religion. It's just part of my genetic programming. I started coding around 10 y.o., but I *knew* I hated religion (as well as the militaries) when I was around 8 y.o. I was kicked out of sunday school because I told them it was "bullshit" (des conneries, in French). Religion is about manipulating people. Get to realize that. Stand up!
I guess the point is, know what you're making, what they're willing to spend, and what you're really worth. I think the third point is the most important, since that can't be found on some survey sheet, and probably the hardest to find out.
What you're really worth? Nope, it does'nt mean anything.
Example: in France the most sought out engineers are those who come from "grandes ecoles", it's a bit like the Ivy League -- except that the teaching is not necessarily good, it's just hard to get in those. I've heard many stories of engineers coming from these and being utterly bad at their jobs. But they tend to be paid more.
Lie. It's that simple. Companies are here to make money..... Me too! Not happy with that? Fuck's sake, I don't even have to submit resumes; they kidnap me into job interviews (no kidding!). So who the fuck cares? Last time (when I was "kidnapped"), they asked me, "how much would you want". I said "I get that much, and I ain't gonna move if you don't offer anything more significant". They added 20%. I still have to send my resignation though.
There's a reason only 6% of French homes have computers: France is a corrupted, backward, bureacratic, crusty tourist shop.
We'll talk when you'll have the figures in both countries on crime, illitteracy, and say, tuberculosis. And pregnant teenagers, while we're at it. And police abuse.
Mind you, I don't even have a 'pooter nor a teevee at home. But I have a (digital) cellphone.
In France there's a trial going on right now of former ministers who deliberately allowed AIDS tainted blood to be used in transfusions to protect a French company while that company got its AIDS blood test together.
The three ministries in question are accused of delaying the introduction of AIDS blood testings. Whether they did it or not, one thing is known for sure: the tests were used in France before many other countries anyway (including Germany and Switzerland, don't know about the U.S.)
You don't get the point. People will have an incentive to buy new cars that use less fuel. Companies will have incentive to produce cars that use less fuel. It's possible, with today's technology, to design car motors that use up to 10x less fuel. But since it's more expensive, and less powerful, people don't buy it.
.. and they sent the letter to mp3.com . So don't blame CmdrTaco for the error, it's sightsound.com mistake then! Besides, I can think of prior art like, online databases existed since the late 70's, I don't remember the names.
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Apparently the FBI provoked the crime. Such practice is highly illegal, AFAIK, in my country.
I can't believe it -- he was arrested for chatting with someone who *claimed* to be a minor? What a joke. I can't believe how far it's going. I believe you can't blame someone until they've actually commited something for real -- what do we know? A lot of people might be turned on by the idea of having with 13 yo (not me!), that does'nt mean that when the occasion actually arises they will do it. This is sickening. Roleplaying -- that's what chat room seem to about, isn't it? Now it's forbidden to play anything but some PC shit. Absurd.
Nice urban legend. It's certainly as true as the story of the girl who puts nutella on her cunt to have it licked by doggie.
crit.org's nice ... but we need a more client side solution. For currently this is really heavy on the crit.org server, hence slow, does'nt work with layered, etc ...
Yeah, it's being done proprietary by some company, and of course windows only, but here's what we really need: a module to annotate pages/url in real time. To put post-its(tm) on pages, to be able to chat real time, based on the page you're currently browsing ... isn't that cool? That's really simple to implement ... now that we have source code ...
The Register is a vast joke. And you guys call that "well-sourced"! Hey, you really should take some lessons in journalism!
The code may be good, but the PR sucks. Even to a frenchman like myself, the language used in the press release sounds clumsy and amateurish.
Hey folks, look, there's over countries on the planet ... and they don't have the same problems. You hear of no such similar thing in Europe. But ... here in France 90% of the school are public. Only the super-rich or the super-bad go to private school. And violence, though a big problem, is not on the same order as in the US. So what's different? We don't have any such thing as the 2nd amendment. Here, only the neofascists advocate freeing gun owning. And since someone asked, yes, geeks are ostracized here too, but I guess it's to a much lesser extent. Anyhow, I sympathize dearly with the people quoted in Katz's article; especially since their writing skills are excellent (or did Katz edit them?), which is quite uncommon for (young) americans, even to non-natively english speaking person like me.
... except that it might be one of the rare case where mentioning Hitler might be appropriate ...
What I'm saying is that meme-complexes are very loosely-defined entities with an almost organic quality,
and trying to say, definitively, what one is or is not is a losing endeavor. It really does depend upon the
specific subspecies of meme, and the generalization which you are advocating does not hold for all
instances.
The use of Gen-X techno-jumbo does not make your point any more relevant.
When you say thta "there is no dogma of atheism", you are incorrect. It is possible for atheism to be held
and propagated based upon shallow dogma. I know this to be true because I've met dogmatic atheists
before.
Yeah, there are atheists who are quite religious; but that does'nt make atheism any more of a religion. Like, there are atheists who have a job, but that does not make atheism a job description either.
If religion was so unimportant, why did you go to such lengths to decry it?
What a specious argument. You religious fanatics are trying to impose your views on us -- on abortion, on politics, and even on science (creationism!)
Some of you comments are foolish, and others are wrong but understandable.
I pee on Jesus. BTW "Jesus" sounds a bit like "I suck" (je suce) in French.
People talk of the harm done by religion, but I think it is small compared with the good. Some thousands
have been killed in religious wars, but many, many more have lived suffering from incurable disease,
poverty, and oppression, and found religion their source of hope and solace.
A good joint or Prozac can achieve the same ends, yunno.
It is the nature of people to war over strongly held beliefs that conflict, whether or not those beliefs are
religious.
No one ever die of a KDE vs. Gnome flame war AFAIK.
Blasphemy is fun.
Burning a church a day keeps the drooling macaques away.
... and you are a sucker.
Religion would help nerds cope with their lack of sexual life -- by making it appear as a choice instead as of a fatality.
Huh, ain't I so rude?
I just *hate* religion.
It's just part of my genetic programming. I started coding around 10 y.o., but I *knew* I hated religion (as well as the militaries) when I was around 8 y.o. I was kicked out of sunday school because I told them it was "bullshit" (des conneries, in French).
Religion is about manipulating people. Get to realize that. Stand up!
I guess the point is, know what you're making, what they're willing to spend, and what you're really
worth. I think the third point is the most important, since that can't be found on some survey sheet, and
probably the hardest to find out.
What you're really worth? Nope, it does'nt mean anything.
Example: in France the most sought out engineers are those who come from "grandes ecoles", it's a bit like the Ivy League -- except that the teaching is not necessarily good, it's just hard to get in those. I've heard many stories of engineers coming from these and being utterly bad at their jobs. But they tend to be paid more.
Lie. It's that simple. Companies are here to make money. .... Me too!
Not happy with that? Fuck's sake, I don't even have to submit resumes; they kidnap me into job interviews (no kidding!).
So who the fuck cares?
Last time (when I was "kidnapped"), they asked me, "how much would you want". I said "I get that much, and I ain't gonna move if you don't offer anything more significant". They added 20%. I still have to send my resignation though.
There's a reason only 6% of French homes have computers: France is a corrupted, backward, bureacratic, crusty tourist shop.
We'll talk when you'll have the figures in both countries on crime, illitteracy, and say, tuberculosis. And pregnant teenagers, while we're at it. And police abuse.
Mind you, I don't even have a 'pooter nor a teevee at home. But I have a (digital) cellphone.
In France there's a trial going on right now of former ministers who deliberately allowed AIDS tainted
blood to be used in transfusions to protect a French company while that company got its AIDS blood test
together.
The three ministries in question are accused of delaying the introduction of AIDS blood testings. Whether they did it or not, one thing is known for sure: the tests were used in France before many other countries anyway (including Germany and Switzerland, don't know about the U.S.)
Laws are important. In the U.S., (...)
You should rephrase this as: Lawyers are important in the U.S.
Falwell is a DICK-head, and he appears on his own TV channel.
....
Showing a DICK qualifies for pornography, does'nt it?
IMPROVE YOUR IQ BY 80 POINTS,
AND YOUR SOCIAL LIFE BY 300%
THROW YOUR TV OUT OF THE WINDOW!
Plus it will make a nice pop noise when it hits the floor.
You don't get the point.
People will have an incentive to buy new cars that use less fuel. Companies will have incentive to produce cars that use less fuel.
It's possible, with today's technology, to design car motors that use up to 10x less fuel. But since it's more expensive, and less powerful, people don't buy it.
Problem: the kind of content on this site is tough to distribute. But that could be done.
I can provide a mirror in France if you want.
1) The organ lasted for 10 months because it was transplanted ... 10 months ago IDIOT!
2) It CAN'T be rejected. Period.
BTW what your credentials?
.. and they sent the letter to mp3.com .
So don't blame CmdrTaco for the error, it's sightsound.com mistake then!
Besides, I can think of prior art like, online databases existed since the late 70's, I don't remember the names.
I've long believed that privacy is a failing concept and that if we were going to successfully move forward, we'd
need to relax about the whole thing.
I really don't mind being seen naked; but I'm still worried about evil orgs. (say, $cienology) compiling personal data about me.
So your argument sucks.