Well, you threatened him for playing loud music. There's no reason to think that someone chasing you honking their horn doesn't have bad intentions. Someone who would get out of their house and chase someone around for a few seconds of annoyance obviously isn't the most rational person. Honestly, you're probably more of a danger to society then this guy.
The fact that you were scared just means you're a huge pussy. I mean really, you chased him, then he chased. OMG SCARY!
You can, but there's a difference between humming softly and softly telling someone that you fucked their mother.
He was just listening to music, which irritated. You on the other hand decided to follow him around honking your horn, which is a deliberately irritating act.
The hilarious thing is that you can go around following people, acting like a jerk, but when they do the same thing you freak out, call the cops, and 'get afraid for your life'. Hah, what a pussy.
Oh, I forgot. He's a thug.
While you were smugly typing in your oh-so-wise critique of Bush, did it ever even occur to you how inane this is? It's the central frickin' principal of federalist government, you idiot!
Yup. It's absolutely inane to place the lives and safety of citizens above 'states rights'.
Not that many state governments complain about federal funding, that I've seen.
I think there's a limit on how loud an FM broadcast can be. And what's the point of changing the frequency of a square wave? A square wave is the sum of all frequencies already, IIRC. I also doubt it would cause much damage to the system.
Most of these guys are probably listening to CDs. Who the hell would spend thousands on a sound system and use it to listen to the radio. I've never heard any loud bass that matched anything on the radio.
The really depressing thing is realizing that I'm essentially powerless. People can be a55holes and threaten your life and you can't do anything. Why? Because I have to follow the law while they have nothing to lose.
compilers! you can't program sh*t on a windows install without buying separate software.
You're a bit out of date. You can download Microsoft's C++ compiler, as well as the "Express" versions of popular visual studio projects, V++/VB.net/C#. And of course you can get copies of all the OSS compilers for windows
games, not just freecell and solitaire
There are far more freeware and shareware games for windows then Linux. DXball and Tetrinet come to mind. Of course, these days you have to look out for Spyware in anything executable.
real networking tools, such as nmap, a variety of firewalls, heck the list is too long to begin here
You said "if you ignore windows ports of GNU applications", but if you ignore GNU application on both OSs, Windows is clearly superior. "If you ignore a certain class off applications on X, Y is better" isn't much of an argument.
We're talking about a country that banned swords. It's what America would be without the bill of rights, I think. Well, except the whole crocodile thing. Maybe the problem is that they have to spend money putting up crocodile warning signs on like every single body of water, and don't have any left to spend on, for example, education.
If you're an iTunes subscriber, then you would need to remove the DRM and re-encode your songs in Mp3 format (or burn them to CD and rip),
But that's just an incompatability, not a lacking feature. You'd lose iTunes, but you'd have quick access to plenty of WMA stores.
I realize a lot of people around here take it as axiomatic that the iPod is 'superior' to everything else in the world, but could you be a bit more specific?
Not everyone has been saying 'bad programmers cause security holes, not languages.' In fact, quite a few people have been saying that choice of programming language can affect things greatly, particularly people with 'safe' programming languages. This is certainly the case with respect to ye olde buffer overflow.
It would have been pretty impressive if Java on the web had taken off the way sun envisioned. Flash was pretty new when ActiveX was announced, and it mostly compared to java, in that you could do 'anything' (which unlike java, let you overwrite the hard drive with zeros if the coder wanted).
Honestly, I can't imagine what Microsoft was thinking with that one. ActiveX is used mostly these days as 1) a simpler way to install plugins, or 2) to infect people's machines with spy ware.
Java applets, on the other hand, seem to be limited to interactive scientific demos, these days:P
How long till we start seeing spam for "Windows/Office, just $40!!", after all, Microsoft can't prevent the reimportation of their product. Of course, if it's all written in Thai, there won't be much benefit.
its always odd as an "outsider" to watch americans. anyone that speaks out about the government is branded a radical, an extremist. round here in canada this is absolutely normal, the evening news has all sorts of people saying all sorts of critiques about the government and its not odd for people to talk about it on the street.
What the fuck are you talking about? Have you ever even been to the united states?
I haven't seen FH911 yet, but I am told that moore has learned his lesson and taken himself out of the film, and primarily uses footage of bush himself to make his point. I can't wait:)
Moore narates, and you hear him asking some interview questions. He plays a much smaller role then in Bowling for Columbine, however.
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Well, you threatened him for playing loud music. There's no reason to think that someone chasing you honking their horn doesn't have bad intentions. Someone who would get out of their house and chase someone around for a few seconds of annoyance obviously isn't the most rational person. Honestly, you're probably more of a danger to society then this guy.
The fact that you were scared just means you're a huge pussy. I mean really, you chased him, then he chased. OMG SCARY!
So, what do I do?
Well, for starters you could stop being such a choad.
Deserves? If he can make noise, why can't I?
You can, but there's a difference between humming softly and softly telling someone that you fucked their mother.
He was just listening to music, which irritated. You on the other hand decided to follow him around honking your horn, which is a deliberately irritating act.
The hilarious thing is that you can go around following people, acting like a jerk, but when they do the same thing you freak out, call the cops, and 'get afraid for your life'. Hah, what a pussy. Oh, I forgot. He's a thug.
And you're a whiny asshole.
While you were smugly typing in your oh-so-wise critique of Bush, did it ever even occur to you how inane this is? It's the central frickin' principal of federalist government, you idiot!
Yup. It's absolutely inane to place the lives and safety of citizens above 'states rights'.
Not that many state governments complain about federal funding, that I've seen.
I think there's a limit on how loud an FM broadcast can be. And what's the point of changing the frequency of a square wave? A square wave is the sum of all frequencies already, IIRC. I also doubt it would cause much damage to the system.
Most of these guys are probably listening to CDs. Who the hell would spend thousands on a sound system and use it to listen to the radio. I've never heard any loud bass that matched anything on the radio.
You've also hit upon why I carry a Bronx Calling Card, aka 3-D-cell Maglight, in my front door pocket.
WTF is a three dimensional flashlight?
oohhhhh....
The really depressing thing is realizing that I'm essentially powerless. People can be a55holes and threaten your life and you can't do anything. Why? Because I have to follow the law while they have nothing to lose.
Buy a gun.
That wouldn't affect cars with their own computerized fuel efficently computers, like the Prius and Honda hybrids.
compilers! you can't program sh*t on a windows install without buying separate software.
You're a bit out of date. You can download Microsoft's C++ compiler, as well as the "Express" versions of popular visual studio projects, V++/VB.net/C#. And of course you can get copies of all the OSS compilers for windows
games, not just freecell and solitaire
There are far more freeware and shareware games for windows then Linux. DXball and Tetrinet come to mind. Of course, these days you have to look out for Spyware in anything executable.
real networking tools, such as nmap, a variety of firewalls, heck the list is too long to begin here
nmap? Windows has a variety of firewalls as well.
a powerful command prompt for expert users
Cygwin.
You said "if you ignore windows ports of GNU applications", but if you ignore GNU application on both OSs, Windows is clearly superior. "If you ignore a certain class off applications on X, Y is better" isn't much of an argument.
We're talking about a country that banned swords. It's what America would be without the bill of rights, I think. Well, except the whole crocodile thing. Maybe the problem is that they have to spend money putting up crocodile warning signs on like every single body of water, and don't have any left to spend on, for example, education.
You need a flashlight to pee now? What did those poor cavemen do, I wonder. Wait for the sun to come up?
But yeah, you can get tiny LED flashlights to put on your keychain. Used to have one, and it was extreemly usefull.
Oh that's right -- the sturdy design and useful interface.
at least you can change the battery in a BMW. I know a couple people with Bimmers, and none of them have iPods.
If you're an iTunes subscriber, then you would need to remove the DRM and re-encode your songs in Mp3 format (or burn them to CD and rip),
But that's just an incompatability, not a lacking feature. You'd lose iTunes, but you'd have quick access to plenty of WMA stores.
I realize a lot of people around here take it as axiomatic that the iPod is 'superior' to everything else in the world, but could you be a bit more specific?
Not everyone has been saying 'bad programmers cause security holes, not languages.' In fact, quite a few people have been saying that choice of programming language can affect things greatly, particularly people with 'safe' programming languages. This is certainly the case with respect to ye olde buffer overflow.
I thought the misspelling was intentional, but rereading the post I think, uh, it wasn't.
you are truly teh suck.
It would have been pretty impressive if Java on the web had taken off the way sun envisioned. Flash was pretty new when ActiveX was announced, and it mostly compared to java, in that you could do 'anything' (which unlike java, let you overwrite the hard drive with zeros if the coder wanted).
:P
Honestly, I can't imagine what Microsoft was thinking with that one. ActiveX is used mostly these days as 1) a simpler way to install plugins, or 2) to infect people's machines with spy ware.
Java applets, on the other hand, seem to be limited to interactive scientific demos, these days
The real question is, what can you do with your code modifications? Can you put out 'patches' under the GPL ala early Minix development?
Not too surprising they'd stay away from anything GPL like, given their oblique hatred of it.
How long till we start seeing spam for "Windows/Office, just $40!!", after all, Microsoft can't prevent the reimportation of their product. Of course, if it's all written in Thai, there won't be much benefit.
Bradbury himself appropriated titles wholesale, without even changing them around.
its always odd as an "outsider" to watch americans. anyone that speaks out about the government is branded a radical, an extremist. round here in canada this is absolutely normal, the evening news has all sorts of people saying all sorts of critiques about the government and its not odd for people to talk about it on the street.
What the fuck are you talking about? Have you ever even been to the united states?
I think they were.
First of all, I'm not a conservative. I'm a centrist who hates bush. And how is reading the names of the war dead 'pretending they didn't die'?
I haven't seen FH911 yet, but I am told that moore has learned his lesson and taken himself out of the film, and primarily uses footage of bush himself to make his point. I can't wait :)
Moore narates, and you hear him asking some interview questions. He plays a much smaller role then in Bowling for Columbine, however.