You can listen to propoganda by rich elite CEO types who want to manipulate your mind by calling you a theif, a pirate, and all kinds of other words to make you feel like a criminal. But really what you are doing is sharing whats yours.
God man! it's THIEF. If you misspell it once again I'm going to puke -- "i" before "e" except after "c"... but maybe you weren't bothered by the propoganda of your elementary school teachers.
And how can he charge someone to write something, if they see / make no value from it because they just copy it from a friend or, God Forbid, are trying to sell it? I think the total destruction of property laws WRT software is something that looks good when your on the receiving end, but when no one is making $60-100k anymore, I don't want to here any whining.
When you make money and give some of it to someone else, you are SHARING that money.
Bits are like money, not like items. An idea is not an item, you can never run out of it
So you're saying you can't run out of money? Come look at me on the 29th of every month (somehow, magically, the 26th of Feb)
I run the same setup with a Lexmark Z32 -- not exactly top, middle, or lower-middle of the line -- which I bought for 1900 baht (about US$45) and have a much easier time than in Windows, but then I only print in B&W, so don't know what the color issues are.
I think you may mean naivette, otherwise I'm not familiar with the word na vet. That, and cellphone is generally spelled with two L's. Just my thoughts. If you actually are making $500k as a web designer, I applaud you. Don't forget to take some time out for family, though.
I don't think that he ever claimed hiring non-caucasions was a bad thing. I think he was speaking mostly to the statistical poosibility of infiltration. Step back a moment before you start slinging anti-racist sentiment.
You are confused. "Chinese has no word order." -- my platoon sergeant at language school (and speaks it much better than I do). Anyway, from my language studies in Beijing, I will say that it follows the SVO model most of the time, similar to English.
Or, even still addicting (to me): the original arcade version of Space Wars. Man I dropped my entire allowance into that game the moment I got it for years.
At the time I attended engineering school, it was rated in the top five in the country. EVERY exam was open book, open note, calculator, satellite link, whatever.... The point was, the material we were tested on was SO complex that, if you did not understand the underlying theory, nothing at that point could help. High school math, on the other hand, is not in this class of difficulty, and can / should be held in your head. In my opinion, I meet too many young students who couldnt multiply without a calculator. Dont even get me started on their abuse of homonyms in their native language.
You know, its funny: the Christians that I know who really get into stuff like this are the same ones that homeschool their children because they need to be TOTALLY involved in their lives. I hear just about two comments in this thread
1) These parents just want to control their childrens lives, and
2) These parents dont want any responsibility to raise their children.
Maybe, just maybe, theyre trying to raise their children the best way that they can, and seek advice from other people, and give that advice themselves, without charging for it. Taking their beliefs about how things should be and trying to move against the tide. Trying to get their kids not to use the same problematic OS, I mean toys...anyway, you should understand them better than you seem to.
Do yourself a favor and dont think that, just because youve visited Europe, that all cultures have an innate view of right and wrong. Step out of the Christian world and realize that the essential truths which you take for granted arent really truths, that what is right and wrong is 90 degrees from where you think it should be, and life may or may not hold any particular value. Hell, step back 100, 200, 1000, or 2000 years and try to say that again. Look at pre-Christian European history (or even post, I guess). Beat a child half to death every day and see how he grows up. Rape his mother in front of him and check the reaction. Youre a fucking moron. People have personal responsibility for their actions because it is required to live in a society like ours, not because they can make any choice they want. You cant even make the choice not to eat that fucking hoho, dude. If virtually ANYONE from 500 years ago stepped into our world, they would look criminally insane. They were a product of their environment, just like you and me.
BTW, I am not, in any way, minimizing the genetic predisposition to certain behaviors or nutritional factor, nor am I, through my mention of the Christian World, trying to hold it up as a prime example of anything. I merely wish to counter the complete idiocy of this post that managed to get rated 2.
This man was a Psych prof and Westpoint. You would do well to read his book, On Killing, which is now required reading there. You need to understand that this is in the final chapter of his book, a kind of after thought. The majority of the book is about how, after WWII, the US military changed the way it trained in order to increase the number of effective shooters in a firefight beyond a measely 15% or so. If you had trained for war in the military, you would know. The result was that by the Korean war, the number was over 50%, and in Vietnam it was 90%. He claims this as the reason for the unbelievable number of PTSD cases when compared to other wars. Do you think that Vietnam was THAT different? Maybe the reason was that 70% of those that shot to kill werent psychologically ready to handle it, but the training methods (which he later relates to first person shooters, etc) gave them a hair trigger and they did it anyway. I used to train hard and fast and alot, and put over 10,000 rounds through my M-4, but this book changed the way I saw all of this. It is a definite good read if you EVER talk about the effect of desensitizing violence on people. I also have serious doubts, from your comments, about whether you have children or not. For the rest of you out there with the I grew up on Doom and Im OK lines, you arent. Think about that next time you think how cool it would be if you could pop that guy and get away with it.
And who will hold the technology for your cheap assemblers? Who really thinks THAT information will be widely available? When (and a BIG if) we get to that point, the costs of universal synthesizers (whatever you like to call them) will be the limiting factor. Quite possibly the energy needed to operate them. There will be something. Man exists by commoditizing, if not between individuals, then between groups. There are communalistic societies, but they are small and they do not commune with their enemies.
I fell soooo bad for you. You get modded (1, redundant) for this and the guy who cut/pastes the EXACT same message 1 minute later gets a (5,interesting). Life sucks, man.
Although your point has been made before in previous articles about teh settlement, the more interesting factor is that this is out-of-date software, which, as far as I can tell from the clearance racks, maintains virtually NO value whatsoever. Liken it to Apple selling $800M of OS 8 -- What's it worth? Cetainly not the full original box value. In this instance, Microsoft has NO WAY to generate income from this software, and so the value is close to zero.
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You can listen to propoganda by rich elite CEO types who want to manipulate your mind by calling you a theif, a pirate, and all kinds of other words to make you feel like a criminal. But really what you are doing is sharing whats yours.
God man! it's THIEF. If you misspell it once again I'm going to puke -- "i" before "e" except after "c"... but maybe you weren't bothered by the propoganda of your elementary school teachers.And how can he charge someone to write something, if they see / make no value from it because they just copy it from a friend or, God Forbid, are trying to sell it? I think the total destruction of property laws WRT software is something that looks good when your on the receiving end, but when no one is making $60-100k anymore, I don't want to here any whining.
When you make money and give some of it to someone else, you are SHARING that money. Bits are like money, not like items. An idea is not an item, you can never run out of it
So you're saying you can't run out of money? Come look at me on the 29th of every month (somehow, magically, the 26th of Feb)I run the same setup with a Lexmark Z32 -- not exactly top, middle, or lower-middle of the line -- which I bought for 1900 baht (about US$45) and have a much easier time than in Windows, but then I only print in B&W, so don't know what the color issues are.
I think you may mean naivette, otherwise I'm not familiar with the word na vet. That, and cellphone is generally spelled with two L's. Just my thoughts. If you actually are making $500k as a web designer, I applaud you. Don't forget to take some time out for family, though.
I don't think that he ever claimed hiring non-caucasions was a bad thing. I think he was speaking mostly to the statistical poosibility of infiltration. Step back a moment before you start slinging anti-racist sentiment.
You are confused. "Chinese has no word order." -- my platoon sergeant at language school (and speaks it much better than I do). Anyway, from my language studies in Beijing, I will say that it follows the SVO model most of the time, similar to English.
Who's going to be the absolute jerk that writes the genetically self-altering computer virus using these methods?
Oh God! I nearly wet myself that was so funny!!!
Or, even still addicting (to me): the original arcade version of Space Wars. Man I dropped my entire allowance into that game the moment I got it for years.
Yeah, you've got to respect an aging actor that STILL does all his own stunts!
At the time I attended engineering school, it was rated in the top five in the country. EVERY exam was open book, open note, calculator, satellite link, whatever.... The point was, the material we were tested on was SO complex that, if you did not understand the underlying theory, nothing at that point could help. High school math, on the other hand, is not in this class of difficulty, and can / should be held in your head. In my opinion, I meet too many young students who couldnt multiply without a calculator. Dont even get me started on their abuse of homonyms in their native language.
Im sorry, but OFFTOPIC?
And before you respond to me, please read. MY POINT was that the sense sense of right and wrong of which you speak doesnt exist at all.
1) These parents just want to control their childrens lives, and
2) These parents dont want any responsibility to raise their children.
Maybe, just maybe, theyre trying to raise their children the best way that they can, and seek advice from other people, and give that advice themselves, without charging for it. Taking their beliefs about how things should be and trying to move against the tide. Trying to get their kids not to use the same problematic OS, I mean toys...anyway, you should understand them better than you seem to.If you think a toy is inappropriate for your child or goes against your value system, there is a simple solution -- don't buy it!
I think that is the whole point of the web-site. Decide where you stand.Do yourself a favor and dont think that, just because youve visited Europe, that all cultures have an innate view of right and wrong. Step out of the Christian world and realize that the essential truths which you take for granted arent really truths, that what is right and wrong is 90 degrees from where you think it should be, and life may or may not hold any particular value. Hell, step back 100, 200, 1000, or 2000 years and try to say that again. Look at pre-Christian European history (or even post, I guess). Beat a child half to death every day and see how he grows up. Rape his mother in front of him and check the reaction. Youre a fucking moron. People have personal responsibility for their actions because it is required to live in a society like ours, not because they can make any choice they want. You cant even make the choice not to eat that fucking hoho, dude. If virtually ANYONE from 500 years ago stepped into our world, they would look criminally insane. They were a product of their environment, just like you and me.
BTW, I am not, in any way, minimizing the genetic predisposition to certain behaviors or nutritional factor, nor am I, through my mention of the Christian World, trying to hold it up as a prime example of anything. I merely wish to counter the complete idiocy of this post that managed to get rated 2.
This man was a Psych prof and Westpoint. You would do well to read his book, On Killing, which is now required reading there. You need to understand that this is in the final chapter of his book, a kind of after thought. The majority of the book is about how, after WWII, the US military changed the way it trained in order to increase the number of effective shooters in a firefight beyond a measely 15% or so. If you had trained for war in the military, you would know. The result was that by the Korean war, the number was over 50%, and in Vietnam it was 90%. He claims this as the reason for the unbelievable number of PTSD cases when compared to other wars. Do you think that Vietnam was THAT different? Maybe the reason was that 70% of those that shot to kill werent psychologically ready to handle it, but the training methods (which he later relates to first person shooters, etc) gave them a hair trigger and they did it anyway. I used to train hard and fast and alot, and put over 10,000 rounds through my M-4, but this book changed the way I saw all of this. It is a definite good read if you EVER talk about the effect of desensitizing violence on people. I also have serious doubts, from your comments, about whether you have children or not. For the rest of you out there with the I grew up on Doom and Im OK lines, you arent. Think about that next time you think how cool it would be if you could pop that guy and get away with it.
And who will hold the technology for your cheap assemblers? Who really thinks THAT information will be widely available? When (and a BIG if) we get to that point, the costs of universal synthesizers (whatever you like to call them) will be the limiting factor. Quite possibly the energy needed to operate them. There will be something. Man exists by commoditizing, if not between individuals, then between groups. There are communalistic societies, but they are small and they do not commune with their enemies.
DUDE!!! I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe and almost passed out. Thanks
So that falls under the "Cooness Factor" seen in a comment above, eh?
From everything I see, there is a big cooness factor involved.
I didn't even know that word was used anymore!I fell soooo bad for you. You get modded (1, redundant) for this and the guy who cut/pastes the EXACT same message 1 minute later gets a (5,interesting). Life sucks, man.
Although your point has been made before in previous articles about teh settlement, the more interesting factor is that this is out-of-date software, which, as far as I can tell from the clearance racks, maintains virtually NO value whatsoever. Liken it to Apple selling $800M of OS 8 -- What's it worth? Cetainly not the full original box value. In this instance, Microsoft has NO WAY to generate income from this software, and so the value is close to zero.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/23/201
I remember thinking is was quite an interesting piece at the time.