+5 insightful? while you troll around in the ocean of generalizations please keep in mind that there are those of us who are state/government employees who work hard and get payed squat for it, and we don't appreciate you private sector assholes who get payed 3 times what we do shitting on us.
(I work help desk for a state university getting 5.50 and hour and work for the department of transportation during the summer, making a whopping 8 dollars an hour)
I would write a detailed and heart-felt response to this if I thought I would change your mind. Instead I'll join you, bring on the bloodshed, damn the breasts that nurtured us from a helpless babes into the God-fearing bringers of righteous vengance that we are now. Someone give me sinner's skull to crush...
Ah, that seems like it could quite possibly be the reason...I was thinking more along the lines that Christians might simply be less aggressive in defending their point of view...but you are right about the slashdot population ideally requiring evidence. Regardless, the tone is much more civil from the Christians. Perhaps if the bitch-slapping was toned down to perhaps a playful ass-smacking it would be more effective? Personally, I don't respond well to bitch-slappings.
disclaimer: I am a self-proclaimed luke-warm fence-straddler.
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of the 58ish comments I've read, I've not seen one childish outburst on the side of the Christians, only on the side of those non-christian...not to say we won't stir up a fantatic in a minute, but it reflect badly on the rest of us...I detect a bit of unforgiveness on the parts of non-christians here.
*putting all thoughts of imaginary karma aside, he scrolls by the "Post Anonymously" button and straight on to "Submit"*
Getting a little off topic, but I am totally against raising the prices of speeding tickets until we start giving the money taken in from this offense to charity. The people that enforces the law should not profit from it. I have been in a couple of wrecks, and I have also sped before, even though I don't speed regularly. However, the wrecks I have been are a result of bad judgement on my part, and not paying enough attention to driving, rather than simply speeding.
fancy that, a person that would take what is not his own by force is not thinking about the global impact of his actions. I bet he didn't research his target to make sure the victim didn't foster orphans or give to the poor, this anomaly among thieves.
I used to work in a library where I was asked to shelve carts upon carts of books for hours on end. The all knowing president of the library disallowed us to wear headphones on the job because "customers"(fellow students) would be less likely to ask us questions when we were wearing headphones. Though he was right about students being less likely to ask us questions, morale plummetted because shelving books just sucks, it requires just enough mental energy that you can think about how much the job sucks but not daydream. Now I have a much better job at the helpdesk *screams*
I too wish that there was more strategy in the fighting for most mmorpgs...I play final fantasy XI, and there are elements of strategy(you have specific abilities that can be used in succession with other characters that do more damage, heal life, ect.) but for the most part it lacks what you are looking for. Also, such a heavy reliance on other party memebers is particularly frustrating sometimes, but that is another story altogether.
speaking of the nora jones album, I decided it was worth buying and loaded up itunes to download it...only to find it was like $18.00 or some outlandish price like that(wish I wasn't at work so I could check). I would have practically paid the same price to purchase the tracks individually...so i downloaded it from my p2p network. Sorry nora, shouldn't have been so greedy.
Yes, I can definitely vouch for this. My favorite CS professor at my university just recently got his tenure...and he has since made his classes significanly easier. However, he also previously got bad reviews from his students because he was so difficult, which brings up another point entirely. Will professors make their classes easy to get good reviews because of these sites?
I purchased my cell phone(which has all the bells and whistles, including the camera) because it was like 40 bucks with the plan I bought... I really didn't need all the bells and whistles, but I certainly don't mind them if I don't have to pay more for them. However, I will not pay money to play pac-man on the phone, that to me is just rediculous...perhaps counter-strike I would pay for....
what you are referencing is not the point of what I read above. Some of us like to contribute, but the contribution is a very delicate thing. We don't want to feel obligated or like we've been tricked/coerced into doing it. Also, there is the factor of need. I would gladly fix the computer/code of a kid in an orphanage, but not for my aunt who feels like I should since I am her kin, or for someone who can obviously afford it.
As for the music argument...yes, you must be right, music will cease to exist when people cannot make money off of the reproduction of it. The farmer analogy is terrible...but lets go with it...I would venture to say that some farmers would still grow them, just to get the satisfaction of helping people/people appreciating what they do, or out of love of the art of farming.
I say, bring on the end of music as we know it...just to see what happens
for those of you who haven't had the bright idea(and don't go spreading this around) you can burn the Annoying Constraining Crap format to cds, even cd-rw's, and re-rip the songs from that. Granted, it is a bit of a pain, but ah to be free from the chains of proprietary formatting.
Even though you are right about much of what you said, I think we should be paying for the services rendered. The video store down the street doesn't charge anything if I just want to know if a movie is in, even though they have to pay for elec, insurance, rent, ect. No doubt there is a difference, but the checkups should not be so expensive, no doubt when I had my 10,000.00 knee surgery I was paying for the equipment and expertise of the doctor, but when I pay for an examination it is like a piece of paper to sit on and a wooden spoon...
So lets forget that minimal charge and consider that I am paying for malpractice and expertise...so, if the doctor can do an exam in 5 minutes and make $100...that is a max of 12/hour...of course they won't do that many, lets say...4 an hour? in an 8 hour day...though I know doctors don't work 8 hours a day..they could do 32 if they wanted...that is 160 examinations a week...so with 48 weeks(vacation in peru and Hawaii excluded) that is $768,000.00 so we can deduct the $80,000/year for malpractice...so, working 20 minutes out of an hour and a normal work week they could clear $688,000 just off of examinations. I know these numbers came somewhere out of my ass, but they seem to point in the direction that we are getting raped on our examinations, right?
After reading the article, the part that jumped out at me and made me want to punch it was the comfort that both the interviewer and interviewee had with the question: "Ok, now that you've developed this amazing technology, how are you going to make every facet of this amazing product proprietary so that no one else can possibly profit from or improve upon it?"
Boo Capitalism...*ducks*
I would have to have to agree that confusion is a fitting term...if we allow "Hacker" to represent someone who maliciously intrudes, what do we call people that applied to the former version of the meaning? I know that this isn't a brilliant insight, but doesn't this dilema reflect how society is stereotyping "Hackers" ?
you throw in multiplayer games as though it were an afterthought...that seems like it would be a signficant number of people needing lots of downloading, especially with the large patches/mods sometimes needed. I think bunching up the people that do not want bandwidth restrictions as being illegal downloaders (not to mention the question of how immoral or even illegal the downloading they are doing is) is unfair.
pet peeve # 843288: people who drive SUV's that they actually need because of their location and driving conditions being ragged on by people who live in a location where there is no need for an SUV. I live in west texas, and I would love to see a geo metro try and come down the dirt road that I live on. And since the honest and trustworthy gas market people are giving it to me with no vasoline, I would appreciate not having to deal w/ your shit too. Thanks.
What will happen to the songs we decide that we like after listening to the cd all the way through 4 times? One thing that we will lose is the desire to look deeper into music and realize what someone was trying to convey in his/her songs unless we keep around some of the songs that we don't like the first time we hear them.
I think that is a great idea, they would have to make the moral and conscious decision to do the right thing, to win the legal way, but something as addicive as civ worries me, I had to delete it off my comp because I was addicted to the game, but hey, thats just me, and I'm on crack.
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+5 insightful? while you troll around in the ocean of generalizations please keep in mind that there are those of us who are state/government employees who work hard and get payed squat for it, and we don't appreciate you private sector assholes who get payed 3 times what we do shitting on us. (I work help desk for a state university getting 5.50 and hour and work for the department of transportation during the summer, making a whopping 8 dollars an hour)
I don't understand your logic, how is making co-op play any less secure than the player vs player mode?
I would write a detailed and heart-felt response to this if I thought I would change your mind. Instead I'll join you, bring on the bloodshed, damn the breasts that nurtured us from a helpless babes into the God-fearing bringers of righteous vengance that we are now. Someone give me sinner's skull to crush...
Ah, that seems like it could quite possibly be the reason...I was thinking more along the lines that Christians might simply be less aggressive in defending their point of view...but you are right about the slashdot population ideally requiring evidence. Regardless, the tone is much more civil from the Christians. Perhaps if the bitch-slapping was toned down to perhaps a playful ass-smacking it would be more effective? Personally, I don't respond well to bitch-slappings.
disclaimer: I am a self-proclaimed luke-warm fence-straddler.
of the 58ish comments I've read, I've not seen one childish outburst on the side of the Christians, only on the side of those non-christian...not to say we won't stir up a fantatic in a minute, but it reflect badly on the rest of us...I detect a bit of unforgiveness on the parts of non-christians here. *putting all thoughts of imaginary karma aside, he scrolls by the "Post Anonymously" button and straight on to "Submit"*
Getting a little off topic, but I am totally against raising the prices of speeding tickets until we start giving the money taken in from this offense to charity. The people that enforces the law should not profit from it. I have been in a couple of wrecks, and I have also sped before, even though I don't speed regularly. However, the wrecks I have been are a result of bad judgement on my part, and not paying enough attention to driving, rather than simply speeding.
fancy that, a person that would take what is not his own by force is not thinking about the global impact of his actions. I bet he didn't research his target to make sure the victim didn't foster orphans or give to the poor, this anomaly among thieves.
I used to work in a library where I was asked to shelve carts upon carts of books for hours on end. The all knowing president of the library disallowed us to wear headphones on the job because "customers"(fellow students) would be less likely to ask us questions when we were wearing headphones. Though he was right about students being less likely to ask us questions, morale plummetted because shelving books just sucks, it requires just enough mental energy that you can think about how much the job sucks but not daydream. Now I have a much better job at the helpdesk *screams*
I too wish that there was more strategy in the fighting for most mmorpgs...I play final fantasy XI, and there are elements of strategy(you have specific abilities that can be used in succession with other characters that do more damage, heal life, ect.) but for the most part it lacks what you are looking for. Also, such a heavy reliance on other party memebers is particularly frustrating sometimes, but that is another story altogether.
speaking of the nora jones album, I decided it was worth buying and loaded up itunes to download it...only to find it was like $18.00 or some outlandish price like that(wish I wasn't at work so I could check). I would have practically paid the same price to purchase the tracks individually...so i downloaded it from my p2p network. Sorry nora, shouldn't have been so greedy.
Yes, I can definitely vouch for this. My favorite CS professor at my university just recently got his tenure...and he has since made his classes significanly easier. However, he also previously got bad reviews from his students because he was so difficult, which brings up another point entirely. Will professors make their classes easy to get good reviews because of these sites?
I purchased my cell phone(which has all the bells and whistles, including the camera) because it was like 40 bucks with the plan I bought... I really didn't need all the bells and whistles, but I certainly don't mind them if I don't have to pay more for them.
However, I will not pay money to play pac-man on the phone, that to me is just rediculous...perhaps counter-strike I would pay for....
what you are referencing is not the point of what I read above. Some of us like to contribute, but the contribution is a very delicate thing. We don't want to feel obligated or like we've been tricked/coerced into doing it. Also, there is the factor of need. I would gladly fix the computer/code of a kid in an orphanage, but not for my aunt who feels like I should since I am her kin, or for someone who can obviously afford it. As for the music argument...yes, you must be right, music will cease to exist when people cannot make money off of the reproduction of it. The farmer analogy is terrible...but lets go with it...I would venture to say that some farmers would still grow them, just to get the satisfaction of helping people/people appreciating what they do, or out of love of the art of farming. I say, bring on the end of music as we know it...just to see what happens
for those of you who haven't had the bright idea(and don't go spreading this around) you can burn the Annoying Constraining Crap format to cds, even cd-rw's, and re-rip the songs from that. Granted, it is a bit of a pain, but ah to be free from the chains of proprietary formatting.
Even though you are right about much of what you said, I think we should be paying for the services rendered. The video store down the street doesn't charge anything if I just want to know if a movie is in, even though they have to pay for elec, insurance, rent, ect. No doubt there is a difference, but the checkups should not be so expensive, no doubt when I had my 10,000.00 knee surgery I was paying for the equipment and expertise of the doctor, but when I pay for an examination it is like a piece of paper to sit on and a wooden spoon...
So lets forget that minimal charge and consider that I am paying for malpractice and expertise...so, if the doctor can do an exam in 5 minutes and make $100...that is a max of 12/hour...of course they won't do that many, lets say...4 an hour? in an 8 hour day...though I know doctors don't work 8 hours a day..they could do 32 if they wanted...that is 160 examinations a week...so with 48 weeks(vacation in peru and Hawaii excluded) that is $768,000.00 so we can deduct the $80,000/year for malpractice...so, working 20 minutes out of an hour and a normal work week they could clear $688,000 just off of examinations. I know these numbers came somewhere out of my ass, but they seem to point in the direction that we are getting raped on our examinations, right?
After reading the article, the part that jumped out at me and made me want to punch it was the comfort that both the interviewer and interviewee had with the question: "Ok, now that you've developed this amazing technology, how are you going to make every facet of this amazing product proprietary so that no one else can possibly profit from or improve upon it?" Boo Capitalism...*ducks*
I would have to have to agree that confusion is a fitting term...if we allow "Hacker" to represent someone who maliciously intrudes, what do we call people that applied to the former version of the meaning? I know that this isn't a brilliant insight, but doesn't this dilema reflect how society is stereotyping "Hackers" ?
too true
you throw in multiplayer games as though it were an afterthought...that seems like it would be a signficant number of people needing lots of downloading, especially with the large patches/mods sometimes needed. I think bunching up the people that do not want bandwidth restrictions as being illegal downloaders (not to mention the question of how immoral or even illegal the downloading they are doing is) is unfair.
pet peeve # 843288: people who drive SUV's that they actually need because of their location and driving conditions being ragged on by people who live in a location where there is no need for an SUV. I live in west texas, and I would love to see a geo metro try and come down the dirt road that I live on. And since the honest and trustworthy gas market people are giving it to me with no vasoline, I would appreciate not having to deal w/ your shit too. Thanks.
What will happen to the songs we decide that we like after listening to the cd all the way through 4 times? One thing that we will lose is the desire to look deeper into music and realize what someone was trying to convey in his/her songs unless we keep around some of the songs that we don't like the first time we hear them.
"forever in debt to your priceless advice"
I think that is a great idea, they would have to make the moral and conscious decision to do the right thing, to win the legal way, but something as addicive as civ worries me, I had to delete it off my comp because I was addicted to the game, but hey, thats just me, and I'm on crack.
"forever in debt to your priceless advice."