The Harry Porter novels were very very hot, so hot that the Harry Porter series became absolute blockbusters when turned into movie
After the fad is over, what's remain of Harry Porter?
Has the world changed because of Harry Porter?
Has the world changed because of James Bond, 007?
Has the world changed because of _any_ novel?
SciFi novels are novels, SciFi novels are no different from other genre of novels - and just like other novels, SciFi's basic aim is to provide the readers something to occupy their free time - and by reading the novel - the readers are transported by the writing into an imaginary realm
Many famous books had been written. Books like "Animal Farm", "World and Peace", "1984" did have their effects on their readers - unfortunately they too, have failed to change the world
Saying that SciFi can "transform" the world is to burden SciFi with unnecessary baggages
If looking at kiddie-porn, or beheading, or whatever gory pics can made someone so f*cked up that he has to get a therapy I'll say that this guy is already f*cked up _before_ he got the job
I do not like those gory pictures but I ain't gonna be affected by them, those are only pics and vids - In real life I had a lot worse experience
Anyone who has been through war, and experiencing up close all the savagery stuffs that war brings, know what I am talking about
I do not forget - how can anyone forget such experience?
But I do have a whole life in front of me and I am determined to not letting my life being led by those gory memories
Just leave them behind, stuffed the memory in some backrooms inside the brain, and get on with life
The Jewish Holocaust survivors had done that
The Vietnamese war victims had done that
How come the Americans can't?
How come they have to "seek therapy" and letting their lives be ruined by bad experiences?
For crying out loud, this guy who previously worked in Google only get to watch the gory thing - he was spared the other senses, like smell the blood, like feel the scorching heat from an explosion, like having the guy next to you losing almost half his torso in an explosion and still living and screaming - many of us had lived through that, and our lives ain't as f*cked as that guy
All I can say is that the ex-Google guy is nothing but another new-age whiner - wasting time whining about how his life was altered because of watching gory vids and pics
A lot more rambling and ranting about the so-called "Illuminati" and "chem trails" and also things like "UN invading USA" can be had @ www.godlikeproductions.com
In this world of scarce resources, we should not encourage any wasteful behavior
If you ask people from South Africa or Latin America or large part of Asia about the wasteful behavior of the West, almost always you will get an earful of comments
Like the "La Tomatina festival, the tomatoes throwing contest, where throngs of people throwing perfectly edible tomatoes at each others, at Valencian town of Buñol, in Spain
There are tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) of human beings in this world who are malnourished - and the tomatoes that gone to waste could have been put into better use than the wasteful display in Spain
And now we have this "Cellphone throwing contest" in Finland
Perfectly usable cellphones that could have found better usage in third world countries are being destroyed, just for the fun of it
It's this type of pure, unadulterated wasteful behavior of the West that has festered anger of many millions of people elsewhere
Because of the wasteful display of the West, when the economic crisis hit Europe and America, the rest of the world actually felt that the West deserves all the hardship brought on by the economic crash
Events such as the "Cellphone throwing contest" are irresponsibility, childish, and wasteful act - and no one, not even the West, should continue to condone such behavior
They can say almost everything they want to say, but if what they say is false, and has caused damages to the target of what they say, then they must be responsible, and must be made liable for defamation suits that might follow
If it's a something that my business has agreed to participate, and we did poorly, we accept the consequence - that the name of our business appear in the bottom ranking
But if the compilation of "social responsibility" or "american progress" list has the name of our company in it, without our permission to do so, - especially when we do not want to participate in their scheme, we do have the right to sue them back to kingdom come
Freedom of Speech carries with it the responsibility of the speech itself
One just can't go around defame others for the sake of the "Freedom" - and if one goes around defame others just for the fun of it, that one must be prepared to face all the consequences
I am not surprised at all by the news that it's the bug in the Chinese sms payment system software that provides the vulnerability
The quality, or rather, the lack of it, of Chinese software is a given
Almost all software that were written by Chinese, that I've come across, - no matter which platform the software run on, - are very poorly constructed, they are not intuitive, and very very buggy
I suppose you prefer having a few thousand dead rather than having to curtail your ability to send text messages to more than 5 people at once? Is your convenience worth someone else's life?
Keep thinking that way, and by the time of your children they wouldn't be permitted to make a conference call to more than 5 people simultaneously
Good luck, India, for you have this "ganesh.rao" guy who believe that freedom must be stifled in order to achieve a totally ordered (as specified by TFTB) Indian society
BTW, Mr. Rao, do you believe in "honor killing"?
Would you kill your own daughters when they decide that it's their freedom to become someone other than what you expect of them?
We are blessed that back in the 1970's, 1980's and in early 1990's there were many inventors decided to share their incredible inventions with the world, and they also decided against patenting their inventions
That is why we got what we got today - from hypertext to web2, web3
If the inventors of yesteryears were as greedy as Apple - We are sure going to miss out on the many things that we are enjoying today
I read somewhere that flaws like paranoia could be an asset in times of crisis
Those without any paranoia are more likely be "sheeples" and they will blindly walk into a slaughterhouse waiting to be slaughtered
Those who are paranoid - oh yes, the world often laugh at them - may choose to not enter the slaughterhouse, and thus spared
I also read that flaws like depression could be useful too
Depressed people have much less spontaneity than those who are not depressed. Because of that, they are less likely to do spontaneous things, - like jumping over a drainage, for example - thus, are less likely to suffer injury that could have been prevented
I hope that this world wakes up to the fact that many of those so-called "progressive movement" organizations,- such as the "Center for American Progress", - are but con-artists with nice sounding name
Who are "Center for American Progress" anyway?
Who gives them the right to tell the world which company is "good", which is "bad"?
Who gives them the right to define who are the "terrorists"?
Who gives them the right to harass private business entities with their silly demands?
Essentially, they do two things -
1. Put up a grand sounding name, like "Center for American Progress" (by the way, what the hell does "American Progress" really mean?)
2. Blackmail everyone with deep pockets
The business that I run have had contacts from similar scumbags before, and all we did was shut our door on their face
We have a business to run
The world business competition is fast and furious
We need to make a profit so our employee get to take home their paycheck every single month
We do not have time, nor we care, to satisfy their silly criteria (and by the way, who get to define who are the "terrorist??)
We do not care what they think
If they _dare_ to publish our company name in their so-called "social responsibility" ranking, they will hear from our solicitors
They do not have the right to link our name in their list for we never agree to participate in their silly scheme in the first place
But that does not mean Google can not implement something that let users to rate the services/products they received via the vendors they have used - through Google, of course
I believe Google still have enough talents to implement such feature - that is, if Google wants users to participate more in their income generation
As TFA also has pointed out - they _never_ even bother to listen to the users - as if they (the developers) are "higher grade human beings" while we users are made of "lower grade materials"
That's what really sux
The "sux-ness" of Gnome 3 is but a by-product of the arrogance of the Gnome developers
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The real question is not whether the lock company should charge for fixing the bug
The real question is whether there is a guarantee that the new circuit board (the upgrade) that the lock company provides is hack proof
Or put it another way ---
Will any e-lock company dare to guarantee that their e-lock for hotel room will be hack-proof?
Where can one get help if _that_ happens?
Please advise !!
They can "torn" how ever many new ones but the basic tenet of LIFE is to get on living
Wallowing on what had happened in the past is NOT living, at least, not living to the full
There's one even telling me I do not know anything about psychology - What I'm interested to know how much psychology that guy knows?
What's the point of having double, or triple, or quadruple dose of so-called "psychology" if one can't even get on with one's life?
What is the most important aspect of life is what we ARE doing right now
We can only plan for the future
As for the past - other than the lessons that I've learnt - I let the past be the past
Crying over spilled milk ain't gonna get any of the spilled milk back
Wallowing over the past over and over again ain't gonna change the past
What had happened, had happened
Having sessions upon sessions of therapy ain't gonna turn back the clock
Time goes on, life goes on, and the most important is -
Are we prepared to tackle the challenges of tomorrow?
The Harry Porter novels were very very hot, so hot that the Harry Porter series became absolute blockbusters when turned into movie
After the fad is over, what's remain of Harry Porter?
Has the world changed because of Harry Porter?
Has the world changed because of James Bond, 007?
Has the world changed because of _any_ novel?
SciFi novels are novels, SciFi novels are no different from other genre of novels - and just like other novels, SciFi's basic aim is to provide the readers something to occupy their free time - and by reading the novel - the readers are transported by the writing into an imaginary realm
Many famous books had been written. Books like "Animal Farm", "World and Peace", "1984" did have their effects on their readers - unfortunately they too, have failed to change the world
Saying that SciFi can "transform" the world is to burden SciFi with unnecessary baggages
If looking at kiddie-porn, or beheading, or whatever gory pics can made someone so f*cked up that he has to get a therapy I'll say that this guy is already f*cked up _before_ he got the job
I do not like those gory pictures but I ain't gonna be affected by them, those are only pics and vids - In real life I had a lot worse experience
Anyone who has been through war, and experiencing up close all the savagery stuffs that war brings, know what I am talking about
I do not forget - how can anyone forget such experience?
But I do have a whole life in front of me and I am determined to not letting my life being led by those gory memories
Just leave them behind, stuffed the memory in some backrooms inside the brain, and get on with life
The Jewish Holocaust survivors had done that
The Vietnamese war victims had done that
How come the Americans can't?
How come they have to "seek therapy" and letting their lives be ruined by bad experiences?
For crying out loud, this guy who previously worked in Google only get to watch the gory thing - he was spared the other senses, like smell the blood, like feel the scorching heat from an explosion, like having the guy next to you losing almost half his torso in an explosion and still living and screaming - many of us had lived through that, and our lives ain't as f*cked as that guy
All I can say is that the ex-Google guy is nothing but another new-age whiner - wasting time whining about how his life was altered because of watching gory vids and pics
Even with the Grum Botnet taken offline, my email address is still getting all kinds of spam and scam, every single day
Like others, I set up spam filters save the clutters, but I do not know how many genuinely worthy messages my spam-filter had mistakenly deleted
Those goddamn spammers have ruined it
Oh come on! Nobody is going to give their nuclears away for free.
Believe it or not, you are not allowed to give away your smoke for free in smokefree zone
there's a big difference between the 238 and 239
1 ?
A lot more rambling and ranting about the so-called "Illuminati" and "chem trails" and also things like "UN invading USA" can be had @ www.godlikeproductions.com
Be forwarned: A lot of loonies over there
Look at the pictures again !
It ain't the Somalis who are throwing phones
It's the non-nigs who are carrying out the wasteful destruction of perfectly usable mobile phones
In this world of scarce resources, we should not encourage any wasteful behavior
If you ask people from South Africa or Latin America or large part of Asia about the wasteful behavior of the West, almost always you will get an earful of comments
Like the "La Tomatina festival, the tomatoes throwing contest, where throngs of people throwing perfectly edible tomatoes at each others, at Valencian town of Buñol, in Spain
There are tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) of human beings in this world who are malnourished - and the tomatoes that gone to waste could have been put into better use than the wasteful display in Spain
And now we have this "Cellphone throwing contest" in Finland
Perfectly usable cellphones that could have found better usage in third world countries are being destroyed, just for the fun of it
It's this type of pure, unadulterated wasteful behavior of the West that has festered anger of many millions of people elsewhere
Because of the wasteful display of the West, when the economic crisis hit Europe and America, the rest of the world actually felt that the West deserves all the hardship brought on by the economic crash
Events such as the "Cellphone throwing contest" are irresponsibility, childish, and wasteful act - and no one, not even the West, should continue to condone such behavior
They can say almost everything they want to say, but if what they say is false, and has caused damages to the target of what they say, then they must be responsible, and must be made liable for defamation suits that might follow
If it's a something that my business has agreed to participate, and we did poorly, we accept the consequence - that the name of our business appear in the bottom ranking
But if the compilation of "social responsibility" or "american progress" list has the name of our company in it, without our permission to do so, - especially when we do not want to participate in their scheme, we do have the right to sue them back to kingdom come
Freedom of Speech carries with it the responsibility of the speech itself
One just can't go around defame others for the sake of the "Freedom" - and if one goes around defame others just for the fun of it, that one must be prepared to face all the consequences
I am not surprised at all by the news that it's the bug in the Chinese sms payment system software that provides the vulnerability
The quality, or rather, the lack of it, of Chinese software is a given
Almost all software that were written by Chinese, that I've come across, - no matter which platform the software run on, - are very poorly constructed, they are not intuitive, and very very buggy
I suppose you prefer having a few thousand dead rather than having to curtail your ability to send text messages to more than 5 people at once? Is your convenience worth someone else's life?
Keep thinking that way, and by the time of your children they wouldn't be permitted to make a conference call to more than 5 people simultaneously
Good luck, India, for you have this "ganesh.rao" guy who believe that freedom must be stifled in order to achieve a totally ordered (as specified by TFTB) Indian society
BTW, Mr. Rao, do you believe in "honor killing"?
Would you kill your own daughters when they decide that it's their freedom to become someone other than what you expect of them?
We are blessed that back in the 1970's, 1980's and in early 1990's there were many inventors decided to share their incredible inventions with the world, and they also decided against patenting their inventions
That is why we got what we got today - from hypertext to web2, web3
If the inventors of yesteryears were as greedy as Apple - We are sure going to miss out on the many things that we are enjoying today
Hooray to the generous inventors !!
Pox to those greedy patent trolls !!!
Everybody knows China isn't free
Everybody knows that the communist government of China does not allow its people too much freedom
And the way I look at it, India is doing its best to copy China - they copied everything, including the bad stuffs
Tracing sms to Pakistan is but a lousy excuse to restrict freedom for the over 1 billion people inside India
Gr8Apes (679165) wrote:
I do believe Google started the entire shebang by ripping off Apple's designs, or so says the lawsuits.
ALERT !!
Sock Puppet from Apple, Inc. Sighted !!
I read somewhere that flaws like paranoia could be an asset in times of crisis
Those without any paranoia are more likely be "sheeples" and they will blindly walk into a slaughterhouse waiting to be slaughtered
Those who are paranoid - oh yes, the world often laugh at them - may choose to not enter the slaughterhouse, and thus spared
I also read that flaws like depression could be useful too
Depressed people have much less spontaneity than those who are not depressed. Because of that, they are less likely to do spontaneous things, - like jumping over a drainage, for example - thus, are less likely to suffer injury that could have been prevented
I hope that this world wakes up to the fact that many of those so-called "progressive movement" organizations,- such as the "Center for American Progress", - are but con-artists with nice sounding name
Who are "Center for American Progress" anyway?
Who gives them the right to tell the world which company is "good", which is "bad"?
Who gives them the right to define who are the "terrorists"?
Who gives them the right to harass private business entities with their silly demands?
Essentially, they do two things -
1. Put up a grand sounding name, like "Center for American Progress" (by the way, what the hell does "American Progress" really mean?)
2. Blackmail everyone with deep pockets
The business that I run have had contacts from similar scumbags before, and all we did was shut our door on their face
We have a business to run
The world business competition is fast and furious
We need to make a profit so our employee get to take home their paycheck every single month
We do not have time, nor we care, to satisfy their silly criteria (and by the way, who get to define who are the " terrorist ??)
We do not care what they think
If they _dare_ to publish our company name in their so-called "social responsibility" ranking, they will hear from our solicitors
They do not have the right to link our name in their list for we never agree to participate in their silly scheme in the first place
I know Google is a search company
I know Google's main income source is advertising
But that does not mean Google can not implement something that let users to rate the services/products they received via the vendors they have used - through Google, of course
I believe Google still have enough talents to implement such feature - that is, if Google wants users to participate more in their income generation
Believe it or not, I still read books - yes, the old kind, made of paper and ink and binders
It's the attitude of the Gnome developers
They are too arrogant
As TFA also has pointed out - they _never_ even bother to listen to the users - as if they (the developers) are "higher grade human beings" while we users are made of "lower grade materials"
That's what really sux
The "sux-ness" of Gnome 3 is but a by-product of the arrogance of the Gnome developers
There are a lot of pyro sites, search for them, and you will find lots of answers that you are looking for
....the hippies around here don't take kindly to this.
I'm too old to be a hippie
Obama is not my hero. He just happens to be slightly less of a villain than Romney.
Hmm....
One refuses to reveal his income tax
The other one refuses to reveal his birth cert
Hmm ....