Something can be equivilent to slavery (it's actually more like indentured servitude - in fact, almost exactly like that) and still be better than where they are coming from - just because it's a "choice" doesn't mean that you can't complain about it. I chose to take the job I have, but I still get pissed off when people are morons. It's really easy to point fingers. Try thinking from someone elses point of view some time.
You might want to do yourself a favor and read Cthon, if you can find it - it's a book of his from the early 70s(?), and while some elements of the "Xanthony" style are there, it's not nearly as intrusive (no puns, for example) and the book is... alot... more adult. I had read it when I was 9 or 10 (precocious, thats me:P), before I'd ever read Xanth, and was blown away when looking over my shelves years later to realize it was him.
One his authors notes (back when I actually read his stuff, so quite some time ago - maybe 8 years or more) mentioned how he was adjusting to a new computer he'd gotten - I believe it was a VAX machine, and I think he also mentioned a Dvorak keyboard. He's been using computers for a long time, certainly pre-dating Linux. This was right around the time I was getting into computers myself, and I remember being impressed when he talked about setting up user directories and such.
If you're doing real e-commerce, and you're relying on client side functionality for ANYTHING, please tell me who you are so I avoid your totally insecure web site. You don't trust the client. Ever. Especially not when you're trying to twist HTTP into doing something it was never intended for, like "real" applications.
Just because it's an "accepted part of our culture" doesn't make it okay. Trivial, obvious example include slavery, racism, gender discrimination, and genocide. All of these were, at one time, accepted as part of our culture. Cultures change. That said, it probably will be overturned, but that doesn't mean that it's RIGHT. There was no good reason to add the under God part in the first place anyway.
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I think with the right environment, people might be fine with a "department of precrime" - and also, you'll notice the constant advertising/propaganda supporting precrime. I would have liked it if they'd touched a bit more on precrime being legit, but also think the ending, with precrime being abolished totally, is not unreasonable - the backlash from such a public display of corruption would be enormous. And the general public doesn't know the conditions the precogs are kept in - remember when Tom Cruise is breaking back in, and there's a tour guide nearby? And he's telling the kids how the precogs all have luxury quarters with a weight room, and how it's so fun to be a precog?
I think you're a little over-sensitive about "left-wing propaganda", personally, although it does have a slighty liberal cast to it. But it's a refreshing change from such moronically obvious propaganda flicks like Black Hawn Down and Behind Enemy Lines...
Because you don't judge the potential impact of a law (or, in this case, a policy) by what it's doing - you judge it by what it CAN do. To do otherwise is to put the decision on the scope of the law into the hands of law enforcement, which is where they don't belong.
How sure are you that you won't be stigamtized for what you say in private? And not just now, or tomorrow, or next week, but EVER? I regret your loss o 9/11. I was there, and also was affected. But I'd rather it happen again, 100 times, than live in a society where law enforcement feels that it has the power and the right to routinely listen in on private conversation. The violation of someones privacy should be an important act, overseen by the checks and balances of our judicial system, not something casual.
The victims of rogue G-Men? Who knows? Anyone who's going to be actively victimized by the FBI will sound exactly like all the kooks with aluminum hats. But the potential for abuse is immense. And I'm not interested in putting powers like that in the hand of law enforcemnt without oversight. Heck, I'm not comfortable with the lack of oversight we have NOW, much less with granting even broader powers.
Nobody can give you rights. They can only take them away. The fact that the implementation of the First Amendment is fucked up doesn't mean it's not the correct ideal to strive for. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's your right. Likewise, just because it's not legal doesn't mean it isn't your right. It's a philosophical issue.
BTW, the Supreme Court decided that rendered child porn, where no actual children are involved is, while not neccesarily protected, is not automatically NOT protected. In fact, the only things on your list that are currently, actually, illegal are the first 2.
This has exactly the same effect as banning links of any length except in cases where the defendent has the time and money for a protracted court battle. This is one of the problems with "reasonable man" legislation - you have to be able to get up there and have your day in court, which, in big guy vrs little guy cases, basically means you lose.
And _I_ think, again, that they don't care about your opinion and will make thier own choices about what they want Slashdot to be. If Slashdot fails because of that, then so what? It's Slashdot. It's not CNN. It's not K5. The biases are real, well known, and not presented as anything but, which makes it a step up from Fox News as far as journalistic integrity goes. The poor language and spelling goes with the territory and doesn't bug me. If it bugs you, go away. All you're doing is charging VA money so you can say bad things about them, and you don't even have the decency to see an add in exchange for doing so.
If Matrox somehow does manage to get 3d performance on par with thier 2d performace, I will gladly turn around and piss on nvidia. Worst case? I can still get an amazingly cheap dual out G550 for my workstation and continue to pay Nvidia to feed my gaming habit.
Carmack is a great programmer. Doom was a huge advancement in the technology of gaming. Doom was a mediocre game. Doom 3 will be a shitty game. Good games have been made using the Doom engine. Perhaps a couple great games will be made using the Doom 3 engine. Doom 3 does not deserve a "Best Game" award. It deserves a "Best new 3d Engine" award.
And that a lot to do with the extermination of tribes that lived thousands of miles away decades later, when nobody involved was still alive? Don't claim that the near-genocide of a race was justified, for any reason.
Some people may not read, but man, other people just don't THINK. The whole issue is that you SHOULD be able to become a "rock star" on your own merits or at least have some room for negotiation in your contracts. Since they have all the bargaining power, you DO have to either a) accept that contract or b) face not being able to widely distribute your music, at least not over normal channels. Now, this may be fine to you, but that's because you aren't capable of seeing things from another perspective and don't care if something doesn't directly affect you.
The only things you NEED are a minimum of food, shelter, and water. Anything else is a want. Being a human is based around the ability to go in search of your wants. something that's a really important want is the ability to enjoy what you do for a living - I rather suspect that you're either a manic depressive gothboy or someone who has yet to leave home/school (or both!) because you seem to think that people shouldn't mind having boring jobs that don't satisfy them - they may be forced into that, but having the option to do something interesting and exciting with thier life. The (raw) amount of money an artist makes isn't really the issue, although the percentage of the money that they make that they actually recieve is.
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Something can be equivilent to slavery (it's actually more like indentured servitude - in fact, almost exactly like that) and still be better than where they are coming from - just because it's a "choice" doesn't mean that you can't complain about it. I chose to take the job I have, but I still get pissed off when people are morons.
It's really easy to point fingers. Try thinking from someone elses point of view some time.
You might want to do yourself a favor and read Cthon, if you can find it - it's a book of his from the early 70s(?), and while some elements of the "Xanthony" style are there, it's not nearly as intrusive (no puns, for example) and the book is... alot... more adult. I had read it when I was 9 or 10 (precocious, thats me :P), before I'd ever read Xanth, and was blown away when looking over my shelves years later to realize it was him.
One his authors notes (back when I actually read his stuff, so quite some time ago - maybe 8 years or more) mentioned how he was adjusting to a new computer he'd gotten - I believe it was a VAX machine, and I think he also mentioned a Dvorak keyboard. He's been using computers for a long time, certainly pre-dating Linux. This was right around the time I was getting into computers myself, and I remember being impressed when he talked about setting up user directories and such.
If you're doing real e-commerce, and you're relying on client side functionality for ANYTHING, please tell me who you are so I avoid your totally insecure web site. You don't trust the client. Ever. Especially not when you're trying to twist HTTP into doing something it was never intended for, like "real" applications.
Man, you must be old, because people have been offering rewards for proofs for hundreds of years.
No, it's "Kill Madonna for Destroying Music"
I agree. Churches should be as tax-free as any other non-profit, with all the same restrictions.
Just because it's an "accepted part of our culture" doesn't make it okay. Trivial, obvious example include slavery, racism, gender discrimination, and genocide. All of these were, at one time, accepted as part of our culture. Cultures change. That said, it probably will be overturned, but that doesn't mean that it's RIGHT. There was no good reason to add the under God part in the first place anyway.
I would have liked it if they'd touched a bit more on precrime being legit, but also think the ending, with precrime being abolished totally, is not unreasonable - the backlash from such a public display of corruption would be enormous. And the general public doesn't know the conditions the precogs are kept in - remember when Tom Cruise is breaking back in, and there's a tour guide nearby? And he's telling the kids how the precogs all have luxury quarters with a weight room, and how it's so fun to be a precog?
I think you're a little over-sensitive about "left-wing propaganda", personally, although it does have a slighty liberal cast to it. But it's a refreshing change from such moronically obvious propaganda flicks like Black Hawn Down and Behind Enemy Lines...
It's not just me! Yay!
No, it's normal to pass by ref. Especially when you're passing objects. (or arrays or strings)
I include intelligence angencies under the broad umbrella of "law enforcment". My apologies if that wasn't clear.
How sure are you that you won't be stigamtized for what you say in private? And not just now, or tomorrow, or next week, but EVER? I regret your loss o 9/11. I was there, and also was affected. But I'd rather it happen again, 100 times, than live in a society where law enforcement feels that it has the power and the right to routinely listen in on private conversation. The violation of someones privacy should be an important act, overseen by the checks and balances of our judicial system, not something casual.
The victims of rogue G-Men? Who knows? Anyone who's going to be actively victimized by the FBI will sound exactly like all the kooks with aluminum hats. But the potential for abuse is immense. And I'm not interested in putting powers like that in the hand of law enforcemnt without oversight. Heck, I'm not comfortable with the lack of oversight we have NOW, much less with granting even broader powers.
BTW, the Supreme Court decided that rendered child porn, where no actual children are involved is, while not neccesarily protected, is not automatically NOT protected. In fact, the only things on your list that are currently, actually, illegal are the first 2.
This has exactly the same effect as banning links of any length except in cases where the defendent has the time and money for a protracted court battle. This is one of the problems with "reasonable man" legislation - you have to be able to get up there and have your day in court, which, in big guy vrs little guy cases, basically means you lose.
Except the judge doesn't have jurisdiction over all the direct links. Which is why he's trying to stop indirect links as well.
And _I_ think, again, that they don't care about your opinion and will make thier own choices about what they want Slashdot to be. If Slashdot fails because of that, then so what? It's Slashdot. It's not CNN. It's not K5. The biases are real, well known, and not presented as anything but, which makes it a step up from Fox News as far as journalistic integrity goes. The poor language and spelling goes with the territory and doesn't bug me. If it bugs you, go away. All you're doing is charging VA money so you can say bad things about them, and you don't even have the decency to see an add in exchange for doing so.
I think the main issue is that they don't give a shit whether or not you approve and if you don't like it you're free to not read.
If Matrox somehow does manage to get 3d performance on par with thier 2d performace, I will gladly turn around and piss on nvidia. Worst case? I can still get an amazingly cheap dual out G550 for my workstation and continue to pay Nvidia to feed my gaming habit.
Carmack is a great programmer. Doom was a huge advancement in the technology of gaming. Doom was a mediocre game. Doom 3 will be a shitty game. Good games have been made using the Doom engine. Perhaps a couple great games will be made using the Doom 3 engine. Doom 3 does not deserve a "Best Game" award. It deserves a "Best new 3d Engine" award.
People are like this everywhere, about everything. Bread and Circuses.
Personally, I'm curious why him being black has anything at all to do with anything. Racism? The only one who said anything about race is you.
And that a lot to do with the extermination of tribes that lived thousands of miles away decades later, when nobody involved was still alive? Don't claim that the near-genocide of a race was justified, for any reason.
I shudder to think what games you're playing where latency induced in the sound driver can make a difference.
The only things you NEED are a minimum of food, shelter, and water. Anything else is a want. Being a human is based around the ability to go in search of your wants. something that's a really important want is the ability to enjoy what you do for a living - I rather suspect that you're either a manic depressive gothboy or someone who has yet to leave home/school (or both!) because you seem to think that people shouldn't mind having boring jobs that don't satisfy them - they may be forced into that, but having the option to do something interesting and exciting with thier life. The (raw) amount of money an artist makes isn't really the issue, although the percentage of the money that they make that they actually recieve is.