I wonder if you'd have been so quick to run up the racism flag if he'd used the "southrn" filter, and filled the message with "y'all"s and "cotton pickin"s. It's been my observation that picking on black culture is considered taboo, but goofing on rednecks is just good clean fun.
Maybe I'm just old fashoned, but I think that is pretty low.
You are not old fashioned. For time immemorial people have made fun of other culture's mannerisms. Thinking this is a "bad thing" is a relatively new concept. But then so is "badthink", "thought crime" and "newspeak".
I think we should all endevour not to take offense too easily. Perhaps doing so would reduce the general stress level.
I think its because when the economy slows down the major labels try to save money in what they spend for promotion.
I agree with your observation, but not with your theory. Here's mine: bad economic times = high unemployment = lots of people with lots of time on their hands. Some of those people scrounge instruments, practice a bit and form bands. More bands = more diversity, and more good (and bad) music.
This makes a lot of sense - an entertainment product that purposely delivers an unpleasant physical sensation to it's user without any supervision. No lawsuit bait there, naw...
I can't find anything on the Mad Catz site about this. I think we should replenish our salt grain inventory.
"Technically called antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media and informally referred to as "pixie dust" at IBM...
Uh-oh, this could get into big trouble. Pixie Dust is a schedule II controlled substance - why do you think it makes you fly? Tink is doing hard time for posession, and the Supreme Court just said "no" to medical use of Mary Jane. You think they're going to allow 'dust in hard drives? No way that's going to fly.
It just occurred to me - if I'm reading that CA law correctly, someone in a role playing game (say, post- or just pre- Apoloclytic) might tell the GM "I'll nuke Sacremento, just to be safe" -
and get arrested for it. Wow.
On one hand, I detest the lunatic laws that CA passes without a second thought. On the other hand, I appreciate the fact that California gets the just results of these lunatic laws and provides an example of How To Fuck Up for the rest of the states.
The fact that they can't keep the lights on speaks volumes.
Not necessarily. Automatics disguise this to some extent, and there is the less well known but used since the '30s CVT - Continously Variable Transmission.
I can't speak for CVT but every automatic I've driven has clearly had two modes: Go Forward and Go Backward.
(I'm probably setting myself up, somewhere in history there's probably a car that couldn't go backwards)
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Stop whining folks, learn how to use the delete key.
E-mail address noted. I'll start sending all my filtered spam to you from now on, since banging the delete key all day doesn't seem to bother you as much as me.
Thanks for the offer! You're a pal! Wish there were more like you!
Imagine what this could do if Sony opens up it's music IP for access over the PS/2. Of course there'd be no way to save the music (short of analog-recording from yer TV), but turning your game console into an on-demand jukebox might make it look pretty sweet to the consumer.
What would be really cool would be if Paramount got their heads out of their asses and realized that they were writing science fiction rather than political commentary.
Paramount and the Trek writers/creators are absolute geniuses - just look at all the posts saying "Boy, Trek sucks so bad I can hardly watch it!"
But then you watch it. Eyeballs on screen == $$$ in Paramount pockets.
I really can't understand why people would bitch about how bad a product sucks and then keep right on buying more of it! It's like saying "Windoze Sucks!" while you install it on your machine.
Again.
For the 49th time.
This month.
"Damn, those last 158 episodes of Trek really sucked. I wonder if episode 159 will suck too?"
Paramount is bloody brilliant. My hat's off to'em.
(Personally, I watch Voyager. With the sound off. And only when Jeri Ryan is prancing around in that [drool drool drool] painted-on costume. Goddamighty, how does she breathe in that thing?)
How is online spam any different from junk mail, then? In both cases, the spammer is paying to send the stuff.
Very wrong.
With physical junk mail the mailer is paying the entire cost of delivery, whereas a spammer just pays for an ISP connection. All the equipment and infrastructure that the spam goes through was paid for with private funds, for purposes other than delivering ads for Viagra and "Hot Teen Action". All the infrastructure and equipment that delivers snail mail was paid for via postage.
The biggest difference has already been pointed out to you: who bears the cost. But there's a second important difference: the legitimacy of the product being offered. Most spam offerings are at best seedy and at worst illegal: pr0n, get-rich-quick scams, gambling, drugs, snake-oil, warez, etc. I don't get much physical mail trying to sell these sorts of things, and I don't get much spam trying to sell me a pizza or a new brand of laundry detergent.
This just popped into my head, perhaps it's nonsense, perhaps it's workable (given somebody with a legal background to pull it off):
What if you asked them to sign a document that certified (1) you company did not do any work on the system(s) identified and (2) they have reviewed the list of security vulnerabilities attached and agree and certify that they are not the fault of your company and (3) that your company has provided due dilligence in notifying them of the gaping holes.
The idea is that you're approaching from a CYA angle instead of a "look at what those twits have done to you" angle.
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The point is, Monte, did those CEOs deserve to get their pay increased 4 and a half times faster than profits increased under their tender loving care?
"Deserve"? I don't know, that's not my call, that's up to the board and the stockholders.
Using the word "deserve" in this context implies that there should be some 3rd-party standard of "fairness". That kind of kibitzing worries me far more than some CEO getting a fat paycheck. But perhaps that's just a knee-jerk reaction on my part, I tend to interpret the phrase "level the playing field" as "bend over, here it comes again".
...and has a variety of improvements for users and administrators alike
For example, the new SlashTag <goatsex>, which saves you the tedium of having to do all that HREF and HTTP:// stuff.
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Corporate profits rose about 104 percent.
Perhaps that was due to the decisions that were made by all those expensives CEOs.
Just a wild thought.
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The very first time some IT weenies tried to start a picket line, their corporate masters could have strike-busters there immidiatly. Those guys could clear the ITsters out in minutes.
No doubt.
They wouldn't even need guns, just a few hits from a strong club would ruin these weakling's resolve.
A club? Wouldn't it be easier to just offer scabs free use of the company's bandwidth to download distros and pr0n? Or maybe a company wide LAN party?
Re:We're not exactly treated like migrant workers.
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Eventually, I gave up, paid for my own medical, and built my own business so that no employer could ever hurt me that way again.
So you wound up better off than when you started, based on your own determinism, skill and guts?
Humans are the WORST thing to ever happen to this planet and I'm including the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and the effects of the ice age.
But on the other hand, this planet is the best thing that ever happened to humans.
Here's something to think about: This planet gave birth to us. Perhaps our welfare (at the cost of the rest of the creatures) was it's plan all along - a mother sacrifices a good deal of her bodily resources when giving birth, maybe that's what's happening now. The earth is giving us it's riches so we can be born into the Greater Universe.
Ah, bullshit. We just like to have fun, drive fast cars and post on Slashdot. Gimme another Quarter Pounder!
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And you really think the NSA which spies on more important people than you has you targeted and is reading all of your email.
Shamelessly stolen analogy:
Some people would rather send a message in an envelope than on the back of a postcard.
Silly, huh?
that is pretty racist.
I wonder if you'd have been so quick to run up the racism flag if he'd used the "southrn" filter, and filled the message with "y'all"s and "cotton pickin"s. It's been my observation that picking on black culture is considered taboo, but goofing on rednecks is just good clean fun.
Maybe I'm just old fashoned, but I think that is pretty low.
You are not old fashioned. For time immemorial people have made fun of other culture's mannerisms. Thinking this is a "bad thing" is a relatively new concept. But then so is "badthink", "thought crime" and "newspeak".
I think we should all endevour not to take offense too easily. Perhaps doing so would reduce the general stress level.
I think its because when the economy slows down the major labels try to save money in what they spend for promotion.
I agree with your observation, but not with your theory. Here's mine: bad economic times = high unemployment = lots of people with lots of time on their hands. Some of those people scrounge instruments, practice a bit and form bands. More bands = more diversity, and more good (and bad) music.
So a bad economy is good for music!
Well, all I know is that he got pissed when people wouldn't pay him for his BASIC program.
And why is this noteworthy? People were stealing his software. Of course he got pissed. Who wouldn't?
This makes a lot of sense - an entertainment product that purposely delivers an unpleasant physical sensation to it's user without any supervision. No lawsuit bait there, naw...
I can't find anything on the Mad Catz site about this. I think we should replenish our salt grain inventory.
All VCRs are capable of simultaneously recording and playing back information at the same time..
There are a few VCRs with dual transports that could pull this off, but that's a long ways from "all".
Being able to watch one program while recording another has been a common feature of most VCR's 20 years ago.
"Watch" <> "Play back".
Tivo (and Replay) can record one program while it plays back a previously recorded program.
Think of how many spams could have been sent with all that wasted bandwidth!
"Technically called antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media and informally referred to as "pixie dust" at IBM...
Uh-oh, this could get into big trouble. Pixie Dust is a schedule II controlled substance - why do you think it makes you fly? Tink is doing hard time for posession, and the Supreme Court just said "no" to medical use of Mary Jane. You think they're going to allow 'dust in hard drives? No way that's going to fly.
So to speak.
1. Liquid Nitrogen is cheaper than beer.
That's not much help. Cheaper than what beer? Chimay runs about $9.00US/liter around these parts.
Of course, it's worth it!
It just occurred to me - if I'm reading that CA law correctly, someone in a role playing game (say, post- or just pre- Apoloclytic) might tell the GM "I'll nuke Sacremento, just to be safe" -
and get arrested for it. Wow.
On one hand, I detest the lunatic laws that CA passes without a second thought. On the other hand, I appreciate the fact that California gets the just results of these lunatic laws and provides an example of How To Fuck Up for the rest of the states.
The fact that they can't keep the lights on speaks volumes.
Not necessarily. Automatics disguise this to some extent, and there is the less well known but used since the '30s CVT - Continously Variable Transmission.
I can't speak for CVT but every automatic I've driven has clearly had two modes: Go Forward and Go Backward.
(I'm probably setting myself up, somewhere in history there's probably a car that couldn't go backwards)
Stop whining folks, learn how to use the delete key.
E-mail address noted. I'll start sending all my filtered spam to you from now on, since banging the delete key all day doesn't seem to bother you as much as me.
Thanks for the offer! You're a pal! Wish there were more like you!
...on mars....
AOL on your PS2 or winCE on your PS2?
AOL running under WinCE on your PS/2, of course.
Imagine what this could do if Sony opens up it's music IP for access over the PS/2. Of course there'd be no way to save the music (short of analog-recording from yer TV), but turning your game console into an on-demand jukebox might make it look pretty sweet to the consumer.
Does the PS/2 have an ethernet port option?
What would be really cool would be if Paramount got their heads out of their asses and realized that they were writing science fiction rather than political commentary.
Paramount and the Trek writers/creators are absolute geniuses - just look at all the posts saying "Boy, Trek sucks so bad I can hardly watch it!"
But then you watch it. Eyeballs on screen == $$$ in Paramount pockets.
I really can't understand why people would bitch about how bad a product sucks and then keep right on buying more of it! It's like saying "Windoze Sucks!" while you install it on your machine.
Again.
For the 49th time.
This month.
"Damn, those last 158 episodes of Trek really sucked. I wonder if episode 159 will suck too?"
Paramount is bloody brilliant. My hat's off to'em.
(Personally, I watch Voyager. With the sound off. And only when Jeri Ryan is prancing around in that [drool drool drool] painted-on costume. Goddamighty, how does she breathe in that thing?)
If you allow the government to say what's okay and what's not okay to e-mail, then you give up freedom.
Sorta like the vehicular homicide laws restrict my freedom to drive on the sidewalks.
People pass laws that restrict freedoms in order to reduce behaviors that they find objectionable. It's a fact of life, and not always a bad thing.
How is online spam any different from junk mail, then? In both cases, the spammer is paying to send the stuff.
Very wrong.
With physical junk mail the mailer is paying the entire cost of delivery, whereas a spammer just pays for an ISP connection. All the equipment and infrastructure that the spam goes through was paid for with private funds, for purposes other than delivering ads for Viagra and "Hot Teen Action". All the infrastructure and equipment that delivers snail mail was paid for via postage.
The biggest difference has already been pointed out to you: who bears the cost. But there's a second important difference: the legitimacy of the product being offered. Most spam offerings are at best seedy and at worst illegal: pr0n, get-rich-quick scams, gambling, drugs, snake-oil, warez, etc. I don't get much physical mail trying to sell these sorts of things, and I don't get much spam trying to sell me a pizza or a new brand of laundry detergent.
This just popped into my head, perhaps it's nonsense, perhaps it's workable (given somebody with a legal background to pull it off):
What if you asked them to sign a document that certified (1) you company did not do any work on the system(s) identified and (2) they have reviewed the list of security vulnerabilities attached and agree and certify that they are not the fault of your company and (3) that your company has provided due dilligence in notifying them of the gaping holes.
The idea is that you're approaching from a CYA angle instead of a "look at what those twits have done to you" angle.
The point is, Monte, did those CEOs deserve to get their pay increased 4 and a half times faster than profits increased under their tender loving care?
"Deserve"? I don't know, that's not my call, that's up to the board and the stockholders.
Using the word "deserve" in this context implies that there should be some 3rd-party standard of "fairness". That kind of kibitzing worries me far more than some CEO getting a fat paycheck. But perhaps that's just a knee-jerk reaction on my part, I tend to interpret the phrase "level the playing field" as "bend over, here it comes again".
...and has a variety of improvements for users and administrators alike
For example, the new SlashTag <goatsex>, which saves you the tedium of having to do all that HREF and HTTP:// stuff.
Corporate profits rose about 104 percent.
Perhaps that was due to the decisions that were made by all those expensives CEOs.
Just a wild thought.
The very first time some IT weenies tried to start a picket line, their corporate masters could have strike-busters there immidiatly. Those guys could clear the ITsters out in minutes.
No doubt.
They wouldn't even need guns, just a few hits from a strong club would ruin these weakling's resolve.
A club? Wouldn't it be easier to just offer scabs free use of the company's bandwidth to download distros and pr0n? Or maybe a company wide LAN party?
Eventually, I gave up, paid for my own medical, and built my own business so that no employer could ever hurt me that way again.
So you wound up better off than when you started, based on your own determinism, skill and guts?
And this is your argument for unions?
Humans are the WORST thing to ever happen to this planet and I'm including the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and the effects of the ice age.
But on the other hand, this planet is the best thing that ever happened to humans.
Here's something to think about: This planet gave birth to us. Perhaps our welfare (at the cost of the rest of the creatures) was it's plan all along - a mother sacrifices a good deal of her bodily resources when giving birth, maybe that's what's happening now. The earth is giving us it's riches so we can be born into the Greater Universe.
Ah, bullshit. We just like to have fun, drive fast cars and post on Slashdot. Gimme another Quarter Pounder!