Funny how everyone flips out about Verizon having to hand over a couple of names of pirates to the RIAA, and yet they scream at the top of their lungs for private information about spammers engaged in annoying (yet legal) bulk mailing.
Re:Me Tarzan, you Jane?
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I, Spammer
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I don't see why him being an eighth-grade dropout is so key to this story as to mention it in the Slashdot summary. We don't like spammers for what they do, but we don't have to cast aspersions on their personal lives, intelligence levels, or educational backgrounds. Frankly, being a self-taught programmer after that little education is impressive. Maybe he annoys us, but I don't think he's dumb.
With a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, a modern filmmaker should be able to give them a consistent look and feel no matter how far apart in time they were filmed. Keeping everyone in one place until the whole project is done is just more convienent and cheaper than trying to coordinate on-off scheduling of the entire cast and crew.
Okay. Why is 'T' capitalized, but not 'o'? Don't capitalization rules stipulate that both short prepositions and articles begin with lowercase letters in titles? Normally I wouldn't gripe about this, but we're trying to make a new acronym here. Let't not screw it up!
This guy has no patents. He's just trying to scare us off from stealing his idea. Why else jump to mention his patents at the first available opportunity, on a website which hates patents no less?
The original story said "Yay jingoism!" instead of "Yay America!" I guess simoniker realized what an asshole he was being and edited his post. Either that or he actually looked up the word jingoism and saw that it didn't mean what he thought it did, but I doubt he has that many brain cells.
Would a game in which you fly 747's into American buildings be more to your liking?
Sounds to me like the problem is with the DVDs not being produced to spec, rather than with the PlayStation. Sure, the PlayStation is not a good DVD player by any means, but if a DVD is manufactured out of spec just so people with 'real' DVD players can have more features, with no thought given to people playing DVDs on PCs, Macs, or game systems, well... hard to blame that on Sony. It would be like suing Mozilla for not correctly displaying a page that was made for IE only. "Hey, you said this was a web browser, but it doesn't work with every web page!"
These guys are big-time Philadelphia activist trial lawyers who never met a case they didn't like. The firm handles everything from ambulance-chasing to malpractice to suing drug manufacturers for making life-saving yet imperfect drugs like Prozac and the flue vaccine. They are also heavily involved with Democratic politics and were central to the 2000 election litigation by the Gore team.
One of the members of the caucus: helped author a note last fall to 74 fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source operating system's GNU General Public License as a threat to America's 'innovation and security.'
"This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse." - Julian Simon
Or maybe a little more witty repartee by the editors.
If they want to get witty, they can use the comment system and open themselves up to moderation like everyone else. Most people read this site for the news*, not so they can see what CmdrTaco thinks about the news.
*Okay, so most people actually read this site for the trolls. But no one is reading it for michael's commentary on satellite imagery.
If my tax dollars were used to get me top-notch voyeur pics of beautiful women, I'd certainly have a lot less reason to bitch about taxes. Of course I am am sensitive to women who don't want to be used as sex objects. Certain exhibitionist girls could wear a GPS-enabled bracelet, and then the government could use its spying power to get me awesome upskirt, downblouse, nude beach, bedroom, and shower pics and videos. Sounds like a fair return on my tax dollars to me.
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And nothing like fixing the typo with no editorial comment about it, so that everyone who pointed it out gets modded into oblivion.
it becomes apparent that he truly does believe what he posts.
That's odd. It's apparent to me that he's a good troll, and one who's testing if Slashbots are truly as tolerant of the ideas of others as they claim to be. Of course, the answer is no. As such, he's fashioned a likable character who "just happens" to be racist. It also has the added benefit of getting constantly modded up and down, as the ideas are solid, but the racism sparks a reflexive mod-down. If everyone truly got over the racism and stopped commenting on it, I suspect we'd see "I'm a racist" become even more blatantly racist in an attempt to get attention, or simply disappear.
Of course, as another troll, I highly approve of what he's doing. A large number of people on Slashdot, however, take everything too seriously [particularly this amateurish website], and can't comprehend that someone else may not actually be who they seem. Trolls are not any dumber than other Slashdot readers; we are perfectly capable of creating the illusion of reality instead of being a blatant obscene crapflooder. I smile when I see trolls; why can't others? Too many people are out there looking to be offended.
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In other words, no one would buy it anyway.
Just what we need... more games advancing the causes of Anglo-Saxon hegemony and jingoism.
Or the sequel to Custer's Revenge... CR2: Little Big Horny.
Interesting. I wonder how many deaths can be attributed to Slashdot being slow.
For the record, they also don't murder thousands of innocent civilians.
Funny how everyone flips out about Verizon having to hand over a couple of names of pirates to the RIAA, and yet they scream at the top of their lungs for private information about spammers engaged in annoying (yet legal) bulk mailing.
I don't see why him being an eighth-grade dropout is so key to this story as to mention it in the Slashdot summary. We don't like spammers for what they do, but we don't have to cast aspersions on their personal lives, intelligence levels, or educational backgrounds. Frankly, being a self-taught programmer after that little education is impressive. Maybe he annoys us, but I don't think he's dumb.
Good point about Stephen Hawking. I have some ideas about him myself.
Pretty odd that no other Lord of the Rings website capitalizes it that way, though, eh?
With a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, a modern filmmaker should be able to give them a consistent look and feel no matter how far apart in time they were filmed. Keeping everyone in one place until the whole project is done is just more convienent and cheaper than trying to coordinate on-off scheduling of the entire cast and crew.
Okay. Why is 'T' capitalized, but not 'o'? Don't capitalization rules stipulate that both short prepositions and articles begin with lowercase letters in titles? Normally I wouldn't gripe about this, but we're trying to make a new acronym here. Let't not screw it up!
This guy has no patents. He's just trying to scare us off from stealing his idea. Why else jump to mention his patents at the first available opportunity, on a website which hates patents no less?
The original story said "Yay jingoism!" instead of "Yay America!" I guess simoniker realized what an asshole he was being and edited his post. Either that or he actually looked up the word jingoism and saw that it didn't mean what he thought it did, but I doubt he has that many brain cells.
Would a game in which you fly 747's into American buildings be more to your liking?
Sounds to me like the problem is with the DVDs not being produced to spec, rather than with the PlayStation. Sure, the PlayStation is not a good DVD player by any means, but if a DVD is manufactured out of spec just so people with 'real' DVD players can have more features, with no thought given to people playing DVDs on PCs, Macs, or game systems, well... hard to blame that on Sony. It would be like suing Mozilla for not correctly displaying a page that was made for IE only. "Hey, you said this was a web browser, but it doesn't work with every web page!"
It's ok, you don't have to look both ways. If you get hit, you can just sue!
These guys are big-time Philadelphia activist trial lawyers who never met a case they didn't like. The firm handles everything from ambulance-chasing to malpractice to suing drug manufacturers for making life-saving yet imperfect drugs like Prozac and the flue vaccine. They are also heavily involved with Democratic politics and were central to the 2000 election litigation by the Gore team.
More lawyer scum looking for a quick buck. If you don't like a product, don't buy it.
Their life expectancy is also 30 years.
A congressman protecting interests within his district? Why I never...
One of the members of the caucus: helped author a note last fall to 74 fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source operating system's GNU General Public License as a threat to America's 'innovation and security.'
Innovative colon usage. Speaking of which...
"This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse." - Julian Simon
Or maybe a little more witty repartee by the editors.
If they want to get witty, they can use the comment system and open themselves up to moderation like everyone else. Most people read this site for the news*, not so they can see what CmdrTaco thinks about the news.
*Okay, so most people actually read this site for the trolls. But no one is reading it for michael's commentary on satellite imagery.
If my tax dollars were used to get me top-notch voyeur pics of beautiful women, I'd certainly have a lot less reason to bitch about taxes. Of course I am am sensitive to women who don't want to be used as sex objects. Certain exhibitionist girls could wear a GPS-enabled bracelet, and then the government could use its spying power to get me awesome upskirt, downblouse, nude beach, bedroom, and shower pics and videos. Sounds like a fair return on my tax dollars to me.
And nothing like fixing the typo with no editorial comment about it, so that everyone who pointed it out gets modded into oblivion.
it becomes apparent that he truly does believe what he posts.
That's odd. It's apparent to me that he's a good troll, and one who's testing if Slashbots are truly as tolerant of the ideas of others as they claim to be. Of course, the answer is no. As such, he's fashioned a likable character who "just happens" to be racist. It also has the added benefit of getting constantly modded up and down, as the ideas are solid, but the racism sparks a reflexive mod-down. If everyone truly got over the racism and stopped commenting on it, I suspect we'd see "I'm a racist" become even more blatantly racist in an attempt to get attention, or simply disappear.
Of course, as another troll, I highly approve of what he's doing. A large number of people on Slashdot, however, take everything too seriously [particularly this amateurish website], and can't comprehend that someone else may not actually be who they seem. Trolls are not any dumber than other Slashdot readers; we are perfectly capable of creating the illusion of reality instead of being a blatant obscene crapflooder. I smile when I see trolls; why can't others? Too many people are out there looking to be offended.