I wasn't trying to suggest anyone is "obligated" to viewing advertisements. Obviously even catching a glimpse of any advertisement would automatically transform you into a corporate drone, and strip away your precious self-proclaimed title of Underground Renegade Freedom Fighter Against Corporate Machinos. Please allow me to play a Rage Against the Machine MP3 in your honor as penance.
Jesus, why is it so evil just to ignore the ads? Do you go through a newspaper or a magazine before you read it and rip out every ad, just in case your free will is somehow subjegated to Corporate Greed? Do you refuse to watch any TV "live" just because you can't stand the thought of wasting 30 seconds of your life?
Yeah, I know, "I do it because I can". Well yay for you I guess.
Well, "The Web ain't free" is of course a gross generalization, but pretty accurate in the context of this discussion I think. Even a simple, low traffic hobby site is gonna cost you some bucks, unless you go with a "sponsored" site like Geocities or something.
I'm with you in that I probably won't be paying anything for Slashdot, but personally I've never really understood the loathing hatred of banner ads. They don't add that much more to page load, even on dial-up, and one wheel-scroll down and I'm past it. Pop-ups/unders and side banners are of course slightly more annoying, but not something I can't live with.
Yeah, cause all your contributions have been so incrediblyvaluable already.
I suggest you go download Slashcode or Scoop and open up your own blog, where there are no banner ads whatsoever, no one will ever have to pay a subscription, and life is perfect. Two years later you might have more of an appreciation for what Taco and company have accomplished here.
The web ain't free anymore, and no matter how much people like you will cry and scream about it, it's a fact of life. Places like Slashdot can't stay afloat unless they're being paid by users, or being paid by advertisers. Advertisers expect people to look at their ads, so if your blocking, your doing Slashdot a disservice, period.
Well I have to say I find that more than attitude more than just a little irresponsible. If you don't find that Slashdot has enough value to pay for directly, then fine. Truth be told, I'm probably with you on that, don't think I'll be subscribing.
But if your going to then turn around and junkbuster the ads, and still actively view and participate in discussions, I find that very hypocritical. Your opinion of the way Slashdot has handled it's business affairs is immaterial. It's like refusing to pay taxes because the government is corrupt, but still making use of government-funded services like roads and a police force. Either put up with the ads (which is you paying for Slashdot indirectly), or just don't visit Slashdot.
I'm curious what Bablefish filter you run "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" through where it comes out "We are the most important, accurate, and not to mention important news site on the Internet ever".
I'm also curious at what you really expect Slashdot to do at this point? The place is being crushed under the weight of it's own popularity. Seriously, what would you have them do to stay afloat besides subscription services/larger banner ads?
Most of the time they're too busy explaining to customers they can't return 5 year-old broken computers for full refunds, and that it's usually not a good idea to delete c:\windows\system32.
Sorry, bitter ex CompUSSR tech felt the need to defend our honor.
Well, that's pretty much what I believe as well, along with some other concepts (6 days=~6 billion years, evolution is a natural process God created). I've found, however, that arguing points like this tends to get you labled as "non-creationist", at least by those who steadfastly hold to the literal definition of creation as it's described in the Bible.
But that of course suggests that God had previously created one or more other planets that were capable of sustaining life, which is totally against creationism.
Keep in mind that, if you buy into evolution, in theory very small changes could have very drastic effects down the road.
This is all completely hypothetical, but let's say you have Pangea, starting to break apart. At this time they have pretty much the same animals wandering around. Now, when they finally do become seperated and start drifting apart, one of the new continents begins to see average temperatures a few degrees lower than on the others. These few degrees perhaps has a negative effect on the incubation periods of several key predators eggs, resulting in a mini-mass extinction of certain predators on the "colder" new land mass.
With a bunch of predators gone, there is suddenly a gap, which predators who were previously lower on the food chain can exploit. Or perhaps prey start dominating the landscape for a while, growing tremendously in size. The process just continues to domino effect from there on.
The point being that there are so many factors that could send evolution branching in so many different ways, it's very unlikely that dinosaurs would have continued to evolve in much the same way on seperated landmasses. Hence the idea that the breakup took a very long time, and the possibilities of "land bridges".
OK, so "many things" on Earth appear to be very old, but the Earth itself is only 6000 years old? Dinosaur bones from space? Someone added a few too many zero's to estimated ages of deep ice core samples from the Arctic? Carbon dating a liberal myth? Help me out here.
I think I'll respond by recounting a conversation I had with a Sunday School teacher back when I was a kid. Paraphrased, as sadly I had not the foresight to record it:
Teacher: The Earth was created in 6 days, 6000 years ago. There were no such things as dinosaurs.
Me: Then where do all these bones come from?
Teacher: God put them there.
Me: Why? To tempt people into not believing in the bible? Isn't that Satan's job?
Teacher: Ummm....
Me: Cause if God is all loving, and wants us all in heaven, why would he tempt people into not believing in his word? And if he's all knowing, doesn't he already know who would believe in dinosaurs and who wouldn't?
Teacher:.....God works in mysterious ways.
Some Other Kid: Maybe the 6 days are really like 6 billion years, and all the dinosaurs and stuff happened during like the 3rd and 4th day, which was really billions of years?
Teacher: No, that's not how it is at all. Let's move onto something else...
(Still waiting for Jerry Fallwell or Pat Robertson to blame dinosaurs on gays and minorities...)
Yeah, somewhere Stan Lee is laughing his ass off right about now at these researchers. Christ, call him up, he'll tell you all about how he (and others) conciously created their characters to mimic the real world. This has been a hallmark of Marvel comics for years, and is one of the major reasons they were able to make any progress at all against comic juggernaut DC.
Shoot, just go watch Mallrats and find out all about it.
Is this "Linux" anything like NT 3.5? Cause I'm a freaking wizard at NT 3.5. My brother in laws a dentist, and I setup a nice little 3-computer network in there so his receptionist could email him directly with patient info and such. NT 3.5 Server on a 1Ghz machine to handle all the "back end" stuff (technical term).
If you're still looking please let me know. I can do some research and find out if Exchange/Outlook is available for Linux.
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So that's why I can't get onto PalmInfoCenter today. Anyone looking for more info on this might want to try PDABuzz, another pretty good Palm site.
I wasn't trying to suggest anyone is "obligated" to viewing advertisements. Obviously even catching a glimpse of any advertisement would automatically transform you into a corporate drone, and strip away your precious self-proclaimed title of Underground Renegade Freedom Fighter Against Corporate Machinos. Please allow me to play a Rage Against the Machine MP3 in your honor as penance.
Jesus, why is it so evil just to ignore the ads? Do you go through a newspaper or a magazine before you read it and rip out every ad, just in case your free will is somehow subjegated to Corporate Greed? Do you refuse to watch any TV "live" just because you can't stand the thought of wasting 30 seconds of your life?
Yeah, I know, "I do it because I can". Well yay for you I guess.
Well, "The Web ain't free" is of course a gross generalization, but pretty accurate in the context of this discussion I think. Even a simple, low traffic hobby site is gonna cost you some bucks, unless you go with a "sponsored" site like Geocities or something.
I'm with you in that I probably won't be paying anything for Slashdot, but personally I've never really understood the loathing hatred of banner ads. They don't add that much more to page load, even on dial-up, and one wheel-scroll down and I'm past it. Pop-ups/unders and side banners are of course slightly more annoying, but not something I can't live with.
Your very welcome! Perhaps you'd like to have a discussion on the benefits Microsoft could have to Open Source software?
I'm curious: is it your need for attention or your need to feel intellectually superior that makes you troll Slashdot?
provide value through my contributions...
Yeah, cause all your contributions have been so incredibly valuable already.
I suggest you go download Slashcode or Scoop and open up your own blog, where there are no banner ads whatsoever, no one will ever have to pay a subscription, and life is perfect. Two years later you might have more of an appreciation for what Taco and company have accomplished here.
The web ain't free anymore, and no matter how much people like you will cry and scream about it, it's a fact of life. Places like Slashdot can't stay afloat unless they're being paid by users, or being paid by advertisers. Advertisers expect people to look at their ads, so if your blocking, your doing Slashdot a disservice, period.
Well I have to say I find that more than attitude more than just a little irresponsible. If you don't find that Slashdot has enough value to pay for directly, then fine. Truth be told, I'm probably with you on that, don't think I'll be subscribing.
But if your going to then turn around and junkbuster the ads, and still actively view and participate in discussions, I find that very hypocritical. Your opinion of the way Slashdot has handled it's business affairs is immaterial. It's like refusing to pay taxes because the government is corrupt, but still making use of government-funded services like roads and a police force. Either put up with the ads (which is you paying for Slashdot indirectly), or just don't visit Slashdot.
I'm curious what Bablefish filter you run "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" through where it comes out "We are the most important, accurate, and not to mention important news site on the Internet ever".
I'm also curious at what you really expect Slashdot to do at this point? The place is being crushed under the weight of it's own popularity. Seriously, what would you have them do to stay afloat besides subscription services/larger banner ads?
Well, see you later then. I'm sure they'll enjoy your incredible insights over at Adequecy.
I have 12-18 months to buy as much non-protected digital media/hardware as I can? I guess this is one way to stimulate the economy.
Most of the time they're too busy explaining to customers they can't return 5 year-old broken computers for full refunds, and that it's usually not a good idea to delete c:\windows\system32.
Sorry, bitter ex CompUSSR tech felt the need to defend our honor.
...that Microsoft releases these statements just to watch the inevitable flames on message boards like this one.
"This would destroy Windows desktop operating systems as a stable and consistent development platform,"
Can you moderate a press release as -1 Troll?
No no, God is in the square root of the second time dimension. The proof is here.
Well, that's pretty much what I believe as well, along with some other concepts (6 days=~6 billion years, evolution is a natural process God created). I've found, however, that arguing points like this tends to get you labled as "non-creationist", at least by those who steadfastly hold to the literal definition of creation as it's described in the Bible.
But that of course suggests that God had previously created one or more other planets that were capable of sustaining life, which is totally against creationism.
But the questions is, who will archive this site when it is censored?
But it's so fun and easy!
Keep in mind that, if you buy into evolution, in theory very small changes could have very drastic effects down the road.
This is all completely hypothetical, but let's say you have Pangea, starting to break apart. At this time they have pretty much the same animals wandering around. Now, when they finally do become seperated and start drifting apart, one of the new continents begins to see average temperatures a few degrees lower than on the others. These few degrees perhaps has a negative effect on the incubation periods of several key predators eggs, resulting in a mini-mass extinction of certain predators on the "colder" new land mass.
With a bunch of predators gone, there is suddenly a gap, which predators who were previously lower on the food chain can exploit. Or perhaps prey start dominating the landscape for a while, growing tremendously in size. The process just continues to domino effect from there on.
The point being that there are so many factors that could send evolution branching in so many different ways, it's very unlikely that dinosaurs would have continued to evolve in much the same way on seperated landmasses. Hence the idea that the breakup took a very long time, and the possibilities of "land bridges".
OK, so "many things" on Earth appear to be very old, but the Earth itself is only 6000 years old? Dinosaur bones from space? Someone added a few too many zero's to estimated ages of deep ice core samples from the Arctic? Carbon dating a liberal myth? Help me out here.
I think I'll respond by recounting a conversation I had with a Sunday School teacher back when I was a kid. Paraphrased, as sadly I had not the foresight to record it:
.....God works in mysterious ways.
Teacher: The Earth was created in 6 days, 6000 years ago. There were no such things as dinosaurs.
Me: Then where do all these bones come from?
Teacher: God put them there.
Me: Why? To tempt people into not believing in the bible? Isn't that Satan's job?
Teacher: Ummm....
Me: Cause if God is all loving, and wants us all in heaven, why would he tempt people into not believing in his word? And if he's all knowing, doesn't he already know who would believe in dinosaurs and who wouldn't?
Teacher:
Some Other Kid: Maybe the 6 days are really like 6 billion years, and all the dinosaurs and stuff happened during like the 3rd and 4th day, which was really billions of years?
Teacher: No, that's not how it is at all. Let's move onto something else...
(Still waiting for Jerry Fallwell or Pat Robertson to blame dinosaurs on gays and minorities...)
Yeah, somewhere Stan Lee is laughing his ass off right about now at these researchers. Christ, call him up, he'll tell you all about how he (and others) conciously created their characters to mimic the real world. This has been a hallmark of Marvel comics for years, and is one of the major reasons they were able to make any progress at all against comic juggernaut DC.
Shoot, just go watch Mallrats and find out all about it.
Pretty damn cool, until bearded, evil versions of ourselves start popping up all over the place.
Is this "Linux" anything like NT 3.5? Cause I'm a freaking wizard at NT 3.5. My brother in laws a dentist, and I setup a nice little 3-computer network in there so his receptionist could email him directly with patient info and such. NT 3.5 Server on a 1Ghz machine to handle all the "back end" stuff (technical term).
If you're still looking please let me know. I can do some research and find out if Exchange/Outlook is available for Linux.
Tabloid headlines indeed :)
Almost as good as that one from this morning about Taco getting married. I mean, who believes this stuff?
This is great. Congrats and all, but I can't wait to read the trolls in this one.