Nothing wrong with getting old at all. I happen to be huge fan of it myself as I'm really looking forward to 50. I'm currently 36. My statement about "old" business men has to do with the typical boneheaded decisions regarding technology being made by people who don't grasp it. Sadly, it's hard for people to keep up with the changes these days because they happen so fast and most people really want to hold onto their heyday even if it's no longer viable.
My theory on homosexuality is that it is a natural population control mechanism when an environment begins to exceed it's carrying capacity. I would suggest that is real study were done, you'd find less homosexuality in environments where there are plenty of resources and a small population. Contrary to that, I think you'd find abundant homosexuality in ares where resources are scarce and overpopulation is a problem. (Note: I'm not talking about "out" homosexuality, because cultural pressures are often contrary to natural and normal behavior) Of course I believe in a firm biological basis for sexual preference. I also believe that there are two kinds of sexual preference, which most people tend to not want to think about. I think that the "bi" population of married women who occasionally have "lesbian" encounters is a perfect illustration. I put the "lesbian" in quotesd because these women are not lesbians as they don't have any romantic interest in women at all. They might like their female sex partners a lot. They might even go as far as saying that they love them. But they won't leave their husbands for these women. Therefore this behavior is a completely different thing when compared with real lesbians who truly have no romantic+sexual interest in men. But, to add more complexity to the mix, take the segment of the true lesbian population who DO have a sexual, but non-romantic interest in men. Typically this sort of relationship is sadistic in nature and part of the BD/SM culture. These lesbians might want to be involved with a submissive man's wife in both a sexual and romantic nature. They might also want to submit the male member of this threesome to homosexual acts. In this instance the lesbian has no true interest in the male at all other than to humiliate him. Another segment of the population are the "straight" men who get involved in secret sexual relationships with other men. One or both men might strongly assert that they are "straight" and excuse the homosexual interaction as just "horsing around". If you look at it from the perspective of pure sexuality, these men are interacting in homosexual activity which implies that they are homosexual regardless of what they may say. If you look at it from the romantic+sexual perspective, these men have no desire or longing to have a romantic relationship at all. From that perspective, they are "straight". All of this illustrates that human beings all fall somewhere on a continuum of sexual identity. All societies put too much focus on the sexual behavior as being intertwined with romance. The way I see it:
1. You have sex for pleasure which can be had in any combination of genders, any number of participants, any marital status and has no romantic value whatsoever. 2. You have sex as a symbol of romantic love, which can also apply to any combination of genders, participants and marital status, however it most traditionally is between two people of the same or opposite sexes. 3. You have sex as a "quick fix" anitdote for boredom, which can occasionally be same sex gratification with a huge guilt complex to follow if you confuse sex with romantic intention 4. You have "handshake sex" which is simply quick sex with no strings attached. A fairly difficult kind of sex to truly engage in as most people apply the strings no matter what they say on the surface 5. You have minimal sex romance where the involved partners love each other on a higher romantic plane and may or may not indulge in sex, but may very well be same or opposite sex partners (This is typically the type of relationship that is headed for marriage) 6. You have maximal sex romance where the involved partners are extremely romantic and sexual in nature, may be of the same or opposite sex and they engage in a variety of sexual and romanti endeavors together (polyamory, swingers, open marriage, etc...)
Most people don't like this sort of complexity and shy away from it, but I firmly believe it's inescapable and has a true bilogical function in terms of a self-regulating environment. We are merely cogs in the machinations of the sexual realm. With that view, I say that anything goes, and you should just go with the flow...
THIS is NOT what we're talking about here: "We don't care. We want it , and we're going to make our own and sell it."
If it were, the t-shirts would have been "spin-offs" from the original. They would have been more like Fan Fiction, in that they would have featured NEW characters that didn't exist in the original. They would have had different names instead of Firefly or FIrefly related names. THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN HERE. Wake up and stop decieving yourself.
...on both sides. The companies have no right to screw the fans this way. But, that's what people like me have been trying to tell people like these fans for years. On the other hand, the fans are being idiots in thinking they can win against a big corporation. This will have about as much effect as the liberal boycotts of various company's products and services over the past few decades. As one scientist put it when that asteroid hit Jupiter back in the 90s and everyone was predicting the end of the world, this will have as mush effect as "...a grape hitting a bowling ball". Sorry, but the idealists in the fanbase of Firefly will NOT get a decent result from these actions. If anything, they'll have to settle for something, and if I know the type well enough, they'll still tell themselves they won, when in fact they didn't. I sincerely hope that this totally fails because it will show you just how excessively powerful corporations are in this society. Then maybe you'll come around. You CAN'T win.
Yeah. I started out that way too. I currently use Linux, Icecast, OpenVPN, NFS and a variety of media players depending on where I am. If I'm at home, I just hit an NFS share with a Linux media player (all desktops/laptops and the media center in my house are Linux boxes). If I'm at work, I hit an Icecast stream over OpenVPN (heheh on port 80) with Xine. If I'm at my folk's house, I use OpenVPN and Xine. If I'm at a friend's house, I might use Putty for tunneling over SSH and Windows Media Player or Real Player, depending on what they've got. If I could afford the cost and the bandwidth was high enough I could listen to music in my car via streaming over a cell modem. The point is that this stuff SHOULD be available to Joe Average, and it should be cheap. It should also allow the most flexibility possible. So, even though we can do this sort of thing through complex trickery, it's a shame the industry doesn't see the value in offering an easier to use and universal implementation (Mac/Windows and *nix) as being a viable option.
It's not about "extra material". It's about convenience. CDs, tapes, and vinyl are ALL a pain in the ass. The reason that digital music is better is because of what it COULD allow us to do if we were not held back by ridiculous artificial restrictions. Imagine being able to have your music collection centralized at home on ONE MACHINE. NOT files strewn about all over the place, but one centralized location. Imagine being able to listen to that music ANYWHERE and ANYTIME you want to. It's not an impossible dream. It's completely technically feasible today. If the artifical restrictions on the technology were lifted and the artificial price of wireless bandwidth set at a reasonable rate, we could be doing this in six months at worst. But because old, stupid business people with no grasp of technology want to hold onto old schemes, we're made to suffer. Currently, I stream everything from my house to wherever I happen to be. The only exception being my cell phone or the car because I can't waste that much money on wireless data services. But, work, a friend's house, a relative's house??? I can listen to (and in some cases watch) ANYTHING I want to. Today.
I SUCK at math horribly. So that must mean I'm REALLY good with people.;P Actually, the sad part is that I while I suck at math, it's not because I didn't get it. It's because I have a lot of trouble finding my mistakes. I remember in college algebra that I would work out a problem and double, triple, quadruple, quintuple check it and not see a problem at all. But the answer would be wrong. Then I'd show it to the prof or a teaching assistant and BAMMO! they'd show me where I'd written a - sign instead of a +, or a 10 instead of a 100. Those were the errors that always got me and I was incapable of seeing them no matter how hard I tried. I remember actually forcing myself to write out every step by hand on paper and then proof reading it for accuracy before even trying to work it out and I'd still get it wrong every time.
Today, I have a job in IT that has me doing scripting and coding (which share some similarities to math, although not as much as most non-techs assume) and my problem still manifests itself. But the major difference is that the compilers and script processors actually TELL you that you made a mistake and they give you some notion of where it is and in some cases what it might be. So that makes it easy for me to check my own work, since I get a little assistance. Understanding the formulas/algorithms isn't the hard part. It's catching the mistakes.
'Every country in the world is moving towards modernization and a major element of this is high-speed internet access'
Yeah, and every country is running at breakneck speed towards the edge of the cliff that leads to the deep abyss too. Think we should all follow them? Didn't think so. NEXT!
I remember all too well getting beaten up and slammed really hard during battle ball. That was one of the worst traumas I ever experienced as a kid. To make matters worse, when I got glasses in the 4th grade, that made me an even better target. Kids would try really hard to hit me in the face just so they could mess up my glasses. I don't see why anyone would allow kids to play such a painful and psychologically traumatic game. The same thing with volleyball. I remember when it was my turn to serve and I had difficulty getting the ball to even go over the net or it would go off to the side. All the kids on my team would take it way too seriously and get angry at me. It was fucking gym class for crying out loud!!! They'd yell at me, call me "wimp" or "idiot" and just generally were horrible to me. I didn't deserve that for just a game. I'd prefer if they banned volleyball too. I still wish basketball was the sport I originally thought it was: You all form an orderly line and take turns trying to make a shot into the basket with every person getting three turns. The person who gets the most shots in after several successive tries in, wins. That way it's more about skill than anything else. All these "macho" posturing games really had me shivering in terror on gym days. Fortunately, I have a daughter, and we don't (yet) expect them to be "macho" when it comes to sports. I still don't get the reason why kids are so mean when you don't have any physical coordination or athletic skill. If the tables were turned and instead of gym class, there was brain glass once a week... and the smart kids got to get angry and disparage the jocks for not understanding the command line, I think the other side would get a taste of how it feels.
I know that I've been in some pretty heated debates with people myself wishing I could take a board to their heads. I hope this phenomena converges with "flash mobs". Just imagine the fun that could be had. (I'm a true anarchist at heart!)
OK. So where are the "personal responsibility" idiots?
PBI1: "Arr.. arr.. arr... I'll be goddamned before I let anyone tell me that watching TV is bad even if they claim to back it up with science. It's junk science I tell you! Junk science! I had an uncle who watched 200 hours of TV a day for 95 years and he lived to be 1000 years old. So don't you go telling me what's good for me or not! PERSONAL REPONSIBILITY!! I'm smart enough to know what's good for me and if watching TV till my eyes rot causes a few minor health inconveniences later in life, I'm not going to worry about it"!
PBI2: " Bah! Those insane jackbooted thugs are really part of the big anti-gun lobby. Nothing but the nanny state!! They want to disarm us as well as take away our right to do whatever pleases us! They know that by suing the very moral, good and profitable television networks they can do evil and immoral things, like giving people free e-Checks on their cars using OUR stolen money! It's my money goddammit and I'll spend it any way I want! So what if it goes to network television thanks to advertising dollars at the cost of other people's kids? I certainly don't want the nanny state telling me that TV is bad for me or my kids, or that the money I invested in all those networks over the years will get funnelled into paying for something as evil as some nanny state project project. Flithy liars all want my money goddammit!!!"
So anyone want to refute me as I KNOW I speak the truth...
You're not supposed to be able to boot OS X. The very fact that these guys have gone ahead and enabled a way to boot multiple OSes as well as OS X puts them in completely illegal territory. Apple and the U.S. government established the anti-boot laws to keep people from booting OS X. This was for the protection of both the consumer and Microsoft. Now that people can boot OS X, it's a problem. So these people will be heavily sued by Apple, you can count on that.
...that we're not the only ones. I've seen the rate of blocked spam messages on our spam firewall increase from 75% to 97% in the past few months. That means only 3% of our total message stream is allowed through as "legit" and our users are STILL seeing about 20 spam messages a day. So this, is apparently normal e-mail in this day and age? Sad.
Not so much in defence of the PSP, but... WHY ON EARTH MUST A PLAYER HAVE A RELATED STORE? I think that's the stupidest reason to buy a player. I prefer to be able to buy from whomever I want, use any audio format I want and have no restrictions or limitations to live with or work around. I've been the happy owner of a Rio Karma for the past year and a half that cost LESS than the iPod, and holds 20 gigs of music or data. (Keep in mind this was before the concept of the video iPod) I LIKE the fact that I don't have to use the fascist Apple iTunes store to get music. I PREFER to buy a CD and rip it to Ogg Vorbis. I PREFER to be able to stream my music anywhere I want over a virtual private network (this is what everyone will do someday). So why live with the limitations of an iPod??
Pure spin. Trickery, deception and lies. Those numbers can be cooked up any way they want them to. The fact is that all of those cans of Spam product, are purely novelty. I know this for a fact because I myself owned a can of Spam Potted Meat Product back in the early 90s. Why? Certainly NOT to eat it. It was a novelty item purchased as part of a gag gift. And then that gag gift was bestowed upon me by the person who recieved it and didn't want to have anything to do with it. I then put it in my car as a totem. It was ensconced in the area where you would normally have a car stereo and I called it my Potted Meat God that all who enetered must worship before we drive. (Worship was anything from a simple kiss on the spam can, to the placement of any monetary unit in the receptacle below the can) Once I got rid of the car, the can of meat was disposed with it. I've never once met a person who at Spam in their lives. So I suggest that all of these purchases of the supposedly beloved meat product are purely novelty in nature. Anyone stupid enough to eat Spam and claim to like it is no longer safely classified as a civilized human being.
Me too. Why do you think I posted that. Of course I also did it at my desktop just to annoy the Outlook jocks near me. They hated the fact that I didn't use their precious Outlook client, but could still read my e-mail and see attachments.
I have my home e-mail server configured to reject all HTML messages. You'd be surprised how much spam that cuts out... Any n00bs who send me HTML mail get a bounce saying "Please don't use pictures or colored fonts in your messages to me. And get a REAL mail client like Thunderbird and configure it for text-only". And I don't care if they can't reach me. If you don't know how to configure your mail client for text-only, you shouldn't be using a computer as you are a hazard to the internets.
I suggest that your product, no matter how you may percieve it has NEVER been a favorite. Why do you think that the term for unsolicited e-mail uses the "SPAM" name? BECAUSE NO ONE REALLY LIKES SPAM (both the canned meat product and the unsolicited e-mail) TO BEGIN WITH!!!! I would suggest that you consider renaming your product. Do some market studies and find out just how you can rethink things. Hell. Call Steve Jobs! He "thinks different", he could probably help you out of this scrape with insignificance. So here's my take on it.
1. Reinvent yourself as hip, now, happening and totally new. In fact, why don't you "go out of business" and then start up as a new food company selling the same product under a new name, with new packaging and new applications. 2. See if you can hook up with the latest trendy chefs and Food Network folks. If you can get the Iron Chef to feature you as the ingredient of the day, you'll be golden. 3. You might want to thin out the spam formulation and put it in toothpaste tubes as a cracker topping. 4. Or... you could even make "fun time" packs for kids like a Build Your Own Hotdog set where kids fill digestable casings with your meat product, suture it and then cook them for the ultimate meaty experience! 5. A friend and I have also posited the possibility of a new meat based alcohol. In the ever increaing quest to prove manliness by the male segment of society, it should be possible to market it as a proof of manliness to drink your meat-a-hol.
And that's just off the cuff! See. Hire ME as your idea man and I promise that while Spam (the food substance) will be a thing of the past, your new look and feel will propel you into more success than you've EVER experienced in all your years of existence.
(Someone please mail this to Hormel corporate for me. M'kay?)
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Nothing wrong with getting old at all. I happen to be huge fan of it myself as I'm really looking forward to 50. I'm currently 36. My statement about "old" business men has to do with the typical boneheaded decisions regarding technology being made by people who don't grasp it. Sadly, it's hard for people to keep up with the changes these days because they happen so fast and most people really want to hold onto their heyday even if it's no longer viable.
My theory on homosexuality is that it is a natural population control mechanism when an environment begins to exceed it's carrying capacity. I would suggest that is real study were done, you'd find less homosexuality in environments where there are plenty of resources and a small population. Contrary to that, I think you'd find abundant homosexuality in ares where resources are scarce and overpopulation is a problem. (Note: I'm not talking about "out" homosexuality, because cultural pressures are often contrary to natural and normal behavior) Of course I believe in a firm biological basis for sexual preference. I also believe that there are two kinds of sexual preference, which most people tend to not want to think about. I think that the "bi" population of married women who occasionally have "lesbian" encounters is a perfect illustration. I put the "lesbian" in quotesd because these women are not lesbians as they don't have any romantic interest in women at all. They might like their female sex partners a lot. They might even go as far as saying that they love them. But they won't leave their husbands for these women. Therefore this behavior is a completely different thing when compared with real lesbians who truly have no romantic+sexual interest in men. But, to add more complexity to the mix, take the segment of the true lesbian population who DO have a sexual, but non-romantic interest in men. Typically this sort of relationship is sadistic in nature and part of the BD/SM culture. These lesbians might want to be involved with a submissive man's wife in both a sexual and romantic nature. They might also want to submit the male member of this threesome to homosexual acts. In this instance the lesbian has no true interest in the male at all other than to humiliate him. Another segment of the population are the "straight" men who get involved in secret sexual relationships with other men. One or both men might strongly assert that they are "straight" and excuse the homosexual interaction as just "horsing around". If you look at it from the perspective of pure sexuality, these men are interacting in homosexual activity which implies that they are homosexual regardless of what they may say. If you look at it from the romantic+sexual perspective, these men have no desire or longing to have a romantic relationship at all. From that perspective, they are "straight". All of this illustrates that human beings all fall somewhere on a continuum of sexual identity. All societies put too much focus on the sexual behavior as being intertwined with romance. The way I see it:
1. You have sex for pleasure which can be had in any combination of genders, any number of participants, any marital status and has no romantic value whatsoever.
2. You have sex as a symbol of romantic love, which can also apply to any combination of genders, participants and marital status, however it most traditionally is between two people of the same or opposite sexes.
3. You have sex as a "quick fix" anitdote for boredom, which can occasionally be same sex gratification with a huge guilt complex to follow if you confuse sex with romantic intention
4. You have "handshake sex" which is simply quick sex with no strings attached. A fairly difficult kind of sex to truly engage in as most people apply the strings no matter what they say on the surface
5. You have minimal sex romance where the involved partners love each other on a higher romantic plane and may or may not indulge in sex, but may very well be same or opposite sex partners (This is typically the type of relationship that is headed for marriage)
6. You have maximal sex romance where the involved partners are extremely romantic and sexual in nature, may be of the same or opposite sex and they engage in a variety of sexual and romanti endeavors together (polyamory, swingers, open marriage, etc...)
Most people don't like this sort of complexity and shy away from it, but I firmly believe it's inescapable and has a true bilogical function in terms of a self-regulating environment. We are merely cogs in the machinations of the sexual realm. With that view, I say that anything goes, and you should just go with the flow...
Quit being stupid.
THIS is NOT what we're talking about here: "We don't care. We want it , and we're going to make our own and sell it."
If it were, the t-shirts would have been "spin-offs" from the original. They would have been more like Fan Fiction, in that they would have featured NEW characters that didn't exist in the original. They would have had different names instead of Firefly or FIrefly related names. THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN HERE. Wake up and stop decieving yourself.
...on both sides. The companies have no right to screw the fans this way. But, that's what people like me have been trying to tell people like these fans for years. On the other hand, the fans are being idiots in thinking they can win against a big corporation. This will have about as much effect as the liberal boycotts of various company's products and services over the past few decades. As one scientist put it when that asteroid hit Jupiter back in the 90s and everyone was predicting the end of the world, this will have as mush effect as "...a grape hitting a bowling ball". Sorry, but the idealists in the fanbase of Firefly will NOT get a decent result from these actions. If anything, they'll have to settle for something, and if I know the type well enough, they'll still tell themselves they won, when in fact they didn't. I sincerely hope that this totally fails because it will show you just how excessively powerful corporations are in this society. Then maybe you'll come around. You CAN'T win.
Yeah. I started out that way too. I currently use Linux, Icecast, OpenVPN, NFS and a variety of media players depending on where I am. If I'm at home, I just hit an NFS share with a Linux media player (all desktops/laptops and the media center in my house are Linux boxes). If I'm at work, I hit an Icecast stream over OpenVPN (heheh on port 80) with Xine. If I'm at my folk's house, I use OpenVPN and Xine. If I'm at a friend's house, I might use Putty for tunneling over SSH and Windows Media Player or Real Player, depending on what they've got. If I could afford the cost and the bandwidth was high enough I could listen to music in my car via streaming over a cell modem. The point is that this stuff SHOULD be available to Joe Average, and it should be cheap. It should also allow the most flexibility possible. So, even though we can do this sort of thing through complex trickery, it's a shame the industry doesn't see the value in offering an easier to use and universal implementation (Mac/Windows and *nix) as being a viable option.
It's not about "extra material". It's about convenience. CDs, tapes, and vinyl are ALL a pain in the ass. The reason that digital music is better is because of what it COULD allow us to do if we were not held back by ridiculous artificial restrictions. Imagine being able to have your music collection centralized at home on ONE MACHINE. NOT files strewn about all over the place, but one centralized location. Imagine being able to listen to that music ANYWHERE and ANYTIME you want to. It's not an impossible dream. It's completely technically feasible today. If the artifical restrictions on the technology were lifted and the artificial price of wireless bandwidth set at a reasonable rate, we could be doing this in six months at worst. But because old, stupid business people with no grasp of technology want to hold onto old schemes, we're made to suffer. Currently, I stream everything from my house to wherever I happen to be. The only exception being my cell phone or the car because I can't waste that much money on wireless data services. But, work, a friend's house, a relative's house??? I can listen to (and in some cases watch) ANYTHING I want to. Today.
Ubuntu is for pussies. Gentoo is where it's at beyotches!!!! And before the troglodyte hordes of BSD users get on my case, read my lips: BSD is DEAD.
I SUCK at math horribly. So that must mean I'm REALLY good with people. ;P Actually, the sad part is that I while I suck at math, it's not because I didn't get it. It's because I have a lot of trouble finding my mistakes. I remember in college algebra that I would work out a problem and double, triple, quadruple, quintuple check it and not see a problem at all. But the answer would be wrong. Then I'd show it to the prof or a teaching assistant and BAMMO! they'd show me where I'd written a - sign instead of a +, or a 10 instead of a 100. Those were the errors that always got me and I was incapable of seeing them no matter how hard I tried. I remember actually forcing myself to write out every step by hand on paper and then proof reading it for accuracy before even trying to work it out and I'd still get it wrong every time.
Today, I have a job in IT that has me doing scripting and coding (which share some similarities to math, although not as much as most non-techs assume) and my problem still manifests itself. But the major difference is that the compilers and script processors actually TELL you that you made a mistake and they give you some notion of where it is and in some cases what it might be. So that makes it easy for me to check my own work, since I get a little assistance. Understanding the formulas/algorithms isn't the hard part. It's catching the mistakes.
Bah. Teleport is SOOOO Star Trek 1.0. Today, we SFTP the bombs where we want them.
No. No. I don't think so. Good to feel that you're not alone. Riiiight???
Yeah, and every country is running at breakneck speed towards the edge of the cliff that leads to the deep abyss too. Think we should all follow them? Didn't think so. NEXT!
I remember all too well getting beaten up and slammed really hard during battle ball. That was one of the worst traumas I ever experienced as a kid. To make matters worse, when I got glasses in the 4th grade, that made me an even better target. Kids would try really hard to hit me in the face just so they could mess up my glasses. I don't see why anyone would allow kids to play such a painful and psychologically traumatic game. The same thing with volleyball. I remember when it was my turn to serve and I had difficulty getting the ball to even go over the net or it would go off to the side. All the kids on my team would take it way too seriously and get angry at me. It was fucking gym class for crying out loud!!! They'd yell at me, call me "wimp" or "idiot" and just generally were horrible to me. I didn't deserve that for just a game. I'd prefer if they banned volleyball too. I still wish basketball was the sport I originally thought it was: You all form an orderly line and take turns trying to make a shot into the basket with every person getting three turns. The person who gets the most shots in after several successive tries in, wins. That way it's more about skill than anything else. All these "macho" posturing games really had me shivering in terror on gym days. Fortunately, I have a daughter, and we don't (yet) expect them to be "macho" when it comes to sports. I still don't get the reason why kids are so mean when you don't have any physical coordination or athletic skill. If the tables were turned and instead of gym class, there was brain glass once a week... and the smart kids got to get angry and disparage the jocks for not understanding the command line, I think the other side would get a taste of how it feels.
So... I take it he didn't make it to 20? ;P Good man... I love justice when it's dished out cold.
I know that I've been in some pretty heated debates with people myself wishing I could take a board to their heads. I hope this phenomena converges with "flash mobs". Just imagine the fun that could be had. (I'm a true anarchist at heart!)
OK. So where are the "personal responsibility" idiots?
PBI1: "Arr.. arr.. arr... I'll be goddamned before I let anyone tell me that watching TV is bad even if they claim to back it up with science. It's junk science I tell you! Junk science! I had an uncle who watched 200 hours of TV a day for 95 years and he lived to be 1000 years old. So don't you go telling me what's good for me or not! PERSONAL REPONSIBILITY!! I'm smart enough to know what's good for me and if watching TV till my eyes rot causes a few minor health inconveniences later in life, I'm not going to worry about it"!
PBI2: " Bah! Those insane jackbooted thugs are really part of the big anti-gun lobby. Nothing but the nanny state!! They want to disarm us as well as take away our right to do whatever pleases us! They know that by suing the very moral, good and profitable television networks they can do evil and immoral things, like giving people free e-Checks on their cars using OUR stolen money! It's my money goddammit and I'll spend it any way I want! So what if it goes to network television thanks to advertising dollars at the cost of other people's kids? I certainly don't want the nanny state telling me that TV is bad for me or my kids, or that the money I invested in all those networks over the years will get funnelled into paying for something as evil as some nanny state project project. Flithy liars all want my money goddammit!!!"
So anyone want to refute me as I KNOW I speak the truth...
You're not supposed to be able to boot OS X. The very fact that these guys have gone ahead and enabled a way to boot multiple OSes as well as OS X puts them in completely illegal territory. Apple and the U.S. government established the anti-boot laws to keep people from booting OS X. This was for the protection of both the consumer and Microsoft. Now that people can boot OS X, it's a problem. So these people will be heavily sued by Apple, you can count on that.
...that we're not the only ones. I've seen the rate of blocked spam messages on our spam firewall increase from 75% to 97% in the past few months. That means only 3% of our total message stream is allowed through as "legit" and our users are STILL seeing about 20 spam messages a day. So this, is apparently normal e-mail in this day and age? Sad.
Not so much in defence of the PSP, but... WHY ON EARTH MUST A PLAYER HAVE A RELATED STORE? I think that's the stupidest reason to buy a player. I prefer to be able to buy from whomever I want, use any audio format I want and have no restrictions or limitations to live with or work around. I've been the happy owner of a Rio Karma for the past year and a half that cost LESS than the iPod, and holds 20 gigs of music or data. (Keep in mind this was before the concept of the video iPod) I LIKE the fact that I don't have to use the fascist Apple iTunes store to get music. I PREFER to buy a CD and rip it to Ogg Vorbis. I PREFER to be able to stream my music anywhere I want over a virtual private network (this is what everyone will do someday). So why live with the limitations of an iPod??
Pure spin. Trickery, deception and lies. Those numbers can be cooked up any way they want them to. The fact is that all of those cans of Spam product, are purely novelty. I know this for a fact because I myself owned a can of Spam Potted Meat Product back in the early 90s. Why? Certainly NOT to eat it. It was a novelty item purchased as part of a gag gift. And then that gag gift was bestowed upon me by the person who recieved it and didn't want to have anything to do with it. I then put it in my car as a totem. It was ensconced in the area where you would normally have a car stereo and I called it my Potted Meat God that all who enetered must worship before we drive. (Worship was anything from a simple kiss on the spam can, to the placement of any monetary unit in the receptacle below the can) Once I got rid of the car, the can of meat was disposed with it. I've never once met a person who at Spam in their lives. So I suggest that all of these purchases of the supposedly beloved meat product are purely novelty in nature. Anyone stupid enough to eat Spam and claim to like it is no longer safely classified as a civilized human being.
Me too. Why do you think I posted that. Of course I also did it at my desktop just to annoy the Outlook jocks near me. They hated the fact that I didn't use their precious Outlook client, but could still read my e-mail and see attachments.
Actually, thanks for noticing the typo, I meant:
... hehehehe
telnet [mailhost] 143
a01 LOGIN [username] [password]
a02 SELECT Inbox
I have my home e-mail server configured to reject all HTML messages. You'd be surprised how much spam that cuts out... Any n00bs who send me HTML mail get a bounce saying "Please don't use pictures or colored fonts in your messages to me. And get a REAL mail client like Thunderbird and configure it for text-only". And I don't care if they can't reach me. If you don't know how to configure your mail client for text-only, you shouldn't be using a computer as you are a hazard to the internets.
Re-read what I wrote. Maybe you will gain a new appreciation for what it says if you THINK.
Speaking on behalf of all the cavemen of the planet Earth, I take issue with your bigotry. Take it back. NOW.
I suggest that your product, no matter how you may percieve it has NEVER been a favorite. Why do you think that the term for unsolicited e-mail uses the "SPAM" name? BECAUSE NO ONE REALLY LIKES SPAM (both the canned meat product and the unsolicited e-mail) TO BEGIN WITH!!!! I would suggest that you consider renaming your product. Do some market studies and find out just how you can rethink things. Hell. Call Steve Jobs! He "thinks different", he could probably help you out of this scrape with insignificance. So here's my take on it.
1. Reinvent yourself as hip, now, happening and totally new. In fact, why don't you "go out of business" and then start up as a new food company selling the same product under a new name, with new packaging and new applications.
2. See if you can hook up with the latest trendy chefs and Food Network folks. If you can get the Iron Chef to feature you as the ingredient of the day, you'll be golden.
3. You might want to thin out the spam formulation and put it in toothpaste tubes as a cracker topping.
4. Or... you could even make "fun time" packs for kids like a Build Your Own Hotdog set where kids fill digestable casings with your meat product, suture it and then cook them for the ultimate meaty experience!
5. A friend and I have also posited the possibility of a new meat based alcohol. In the ever increaing quest to prove manliness by the male segment of society, it should be possible to market it as a proof of manliness to drink your meat-a-hol.
And that's just off the cuff! See. Hire ME as your idea man and I promise that while Spam (the food substance) will be a thing of the past, your new look and feel will propel you into more success than you've EVER experienced in all your years of existence.
(Someone please mail this to Hormel corporate for me. M'kay?)