Imagine if he were wearing something lithium polymer related. Maybe we could instruct them to shoot themselves to take out more of the enemy. All that's lacking now is to teach them to be soldiers while they are still children.
Ah.. but I take things too far again.. shame on me.
All I have to say is..
Have you ever even heard of the BLUE RAY? Hi definition! A viewing experience like you've never seen!!
(and I never will)
"I like GO CARTS! VROOM VROOM!"
Careful! 1 step further and you'll be in the Paranoia universe.
Truth is, that the government owns your children (they are a US commodity) and it's illegal not to put goop in their eyes the moment they are born. "Hello! Nice to meet you (splortch) OH SORRY!!:) It's for some disease which we know you don't have but someone arbitrarily decided to put in place because it used to be bad. Oh, and bad news - in the next 4 years we're going to stick you with lots of needles filled with vile substances that have only a tiny amount of quality control placed on them. and THEN you'll have to pay TAXES." (that's when the baby starts really crying)
There's thousands of moral and ethical problems with the law. People refuse to see it as a guideline to life. I could mention religious books which fit this bill also, but that would be trolling, now, wouldn't it;) Enforcement of the law is an elective process. It is still illegal to be caught driving a cab without a bale of hay in England, I think. Don't get me started on Patent law, OMG.
Simply give your computer to Jimmy Hoffa. I'm sure the fishes would like swimming through the case next to your Nvidia card and internal neon tube lighting. Someone who fileshares recklessly probably wouldn't think about it anyway. (criminal mind?)
However, claiming it was stolen by reporting it is stupid. Most deductibles for home theft won't even cover it. It's mostly just a waste of time to report something like that. It's not like anyone does anything. I did get a stolen bicycle back once. I was floored. But I registered the number, so it was traceable. Most of the time, I doubt there would be anything traceable from your computer, unless you got it from Dell (or similar).
Some people think the law is black and white, but it's very gray to me. People get let off the hook for hainous things because of the heart-strings of the jury/judge/policeman, and others get whacked mercilessly for small things because of the color of their skin. It's all so stupid.
Besides, compounding pointless "stupidity and recklessness" comments with bad spelling makes sense only to you.
You must be joking. Laptops come with a whole different set of complications. They're expensive and they break a hell of a lot more often. I have a dual-centrino laptop, but only because I have to use the native-windoze intel crap compiler for our product. If I didn't need that, I'd need it for remote access due to corporate policy (only company-issued equipment).
If you had a bank of compile-servers, and you don't have such a strict remote-access policy, then any thin client or ultra-cheap pc will do. You can remote to any free machine to do anything processor-intensive. Video can be decent enough to watch your google videos on any cheap system.
Lack of a personalized desktop would mean that if the corporate standard for applications didn't give me the tools I needed to do my job more effectively, then I'd have to download them more frequently, or constantly connect to the same remote system which had them, defeating the purpose of the whole thing.
Pretty soon, they'll take all the danger out of life.
I wonder if they'll finally come out with that new foam-rubber hybrid? Or maybe it'll be illegal to own a real knife (we'll only be allowed plastic wear like on the plane - to go with our unwashed hair and unbrushed teeth).
Well - here we go, FIGHT natural selection! Go go go.
People never think right out of the gate about this stuff. Diebold wasn't qualified. They should have gotten G-Tech (or some other company like it) to do the voting machines. I mean, if they can make the lottery work in Texas, surely they can do the voting system. The tolerances are much lower for the lottery than they are for voting. And lottery machines are already ubiquitous.
One million dollars is worth a lot more than the vote to most people, not to mention the sharks with laser beams on their heads.
By the way, for you smart-alecky types out there, I did NOT intentionally draw a parallel between politics and billion-to-one odds.
Actually, can you imagine if he would have insisted on a PS/2? And maybe a Dell with linux on it? They would have thrown his butt in the slammer for life. But man, what a hoot!
I think you fail to realize that you don't really own anything anyway. Anyone can come and take away what you think of as "yours" with little or no valid reason. It happens every day.
Also, to coin a significantly tired phrase "You can't take it with you"
Society makes more sense if you look at people as a commodity instead of people. Your toaster can't own anything, right? But if I give it a piece of bread, then it will make toast!
No, I don't work for the RIAA, but I think I must have genes from someone who does to come up with this crap.
Yeah, but booting XFS from a single floppy is basically impossible. You also have to have a special rescue CD, as XFS has a code footprint which is very large.
Don't get me wrong, I use XFS for certain specific applications, as it has a better implementation and structure internally, IMHO.
It will take 3 years to implement.. I MEAN DELIVER.. deliver, and it will cost $3M for the first unit, payable now (unless there is a patent already filed on such a device).
Basically he wants a Psion strapped to an Archos Recorder, but 1/10th the size. Perhaps a sony phone with a USB jack? Narf!
I like your analogy. If I want to split a cupcake with a friend (or with several, so they don't feel left out), that's ok too.
Perhaps I know someone who's never tried a cupcake, and they take a bite. Maybe they like it and go buy some cupcakes (or the company that makes the mix, if they really like it).
I believe in free enterprise, until they diminish their gift to society by charging obscenely. Then it's bait.
---
Give me a fish, I eat well for a day. Teach me to fish, and I'll be ok until someone says it's proprietary and makes it illegal. Then I'll starve to death while waiting for the hearing. Legal side effects are worse than the crime (or lack thereof).
I don't want policed OR traditional, for the record. I just thought that putting the trolls first was, well: "way over the line. You're so far past the line, you can't even see the line.. THE LINE IS A DOT to you."
Hey, I like to read a good troll occasionally, but lets not lose our heads, and say "tradition above all".. I think rome fell that way. Continue to change for the better, or stagnate, right?
Besides, you're talking about San Francisco. That's where trolls come from, right? Most people who live there look and act like trolls, anyway.
The trolls are good for a laugh and are more interesting than the articles.
GROW UP! EVOLVE!
Contribute an article or two to improve the content instead of bitching about how there isn't any. Go out and find some. There was a kick-ass AI show about HAL and the state of AI today a little while back on PBS..
What happens in society when you see
A) someone cursing horribly over and over
B) someone encouraging them
They both get thrown out of macy's. Sometimes the cops throw them in jail. They should do they sameon the net. Fine people for profanity in "public forums".
Slashdot needs user deletions, because society cannot police the internet yet.. but with the new powers in congress, it might not be so long before they can.
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Really? wow. I modded you up informative bro!
Is that mousy guy running for president again? What was his name again? Poirot? Oh no wait, that's that french investigator guy.
Imagine if he were wearing something lithium polymer related. Maybe we could instruct them to shoot themselves to take out more of the enemy. All that's lacking now is to teach them to be soldiers while they are still children. Ah.. but I take things too far again.. shame on me.
All I have to say is.. Have you ever even heard of the BLUE RAY? Hi definition! A viewing experience like you've never seen!! (and I never will) "I like GO CARTS! VROOM VROOM!"
Does Voodoo work on Aliens? I thought Voodoo only worked if you believed in it. Personally I think Dell got the better deal, but hey.. it's close.
Tuna, or peanut butter and banana? Look CLOSER. (thanks xine)
Careful! 1 step further and you'll be in the Paranoia universe.
:) It's for some disease which we know you don't have but someone arbitrarily decided to put in place because it used to be bad. Oh, and bad news - in the next 4 years we're going to stick you with lots of needles filled with vile substances that have only a tiny amount of quality control placed on them. and THEN you'll have to pay TAXES." (that's when the baby starts really crying)
;) Enforcement of the law is an elective process. It is still illegal to be caught driving a cab without a bale of hay in England, I think. Don't get me started on Patent law, OMG.
Truth is, that the government owns your children (they are a US commodity) and it's illegal not to put goop in their eyes the moment they are born. "Hello! Nice to meet you (splortch) OH SORRY!!
There's thousands of moral and ethical problems with the law. People refuse to see it as a guideline to life. I could mention religious books which fit this bill also, but that would be trolling, now, wouldn't it
BTW - I agree with you.
I would mod you down, but *yawn*.
Simply give your computer to Jimmy Hoffa. I'm sure the fishes would like swimming through the case next to your Nvidia card and internal neon tube lighting. Someone who fileshares recklessly probably wouldn't think about it anyway. (criminal mind?)
However, claiming it was stolen by reporting it is stupid. Most deductibles for home theft won't even cover it. It's mostly just a waste of time to report something like that. It's not like anyone does anything. I did get a stolen bicycle back once. I was floored. But I registered the number, so it was traceable. Most of the time, I doubt there would be anything traceable from your computer, unless you got it from Dell (or similar).
Some people think the law is black and white, but it's very gray to me. People get let off the hook for hainous things because of the heart-strings of the jury/judge/policeman, and others get whacked mercilessly for small things because of the color of their skin. It's all so stupid.
Besides, compounding pointless "stupidity and recklessness" comments with bad spelling makes sense only to you.
If you had a bank of compile-servers, and you don't have such a strict remote-access policy, then any thin client or ultra-cheap pc will do. You can remote to any free machine to do anything processor-intensive. Video can be decent enough to watch your google videos on any cheap system.
Lack of a personalized desktop would mean that if the corporate standard for applications didn't give me the tools I needed to do my job more effectively, then I'd have to download them more frequently, or constantly connect to the same remote system which had them, defeating the purpose of the whole thing.
Pretty soon, they'll take all the danger out of life. I wonder if they'll finally come out with that new foam-rubber hybrid? Or maybe it'll be illegal to own a real knife (we'll only be allowed plastic wear like on the plane - to go with our unwashed hair and unbrushed teeth). Well - here we go, FIGHT natural selection! Go go go.
Yeah, you're right, there's no similarity here. Never mind.
One million dollars is worth a lot more than the vote to most people, not to mention the sharks with laser beams on their heads.
By the way, for you smart-alecky types out there, I did NOT intentionally draw a parallel between politics and billion-to-one odds.
Actually, can you imagine if he would have insisted on a PS/2? And maybe a Dell with linux on it? They would have thrown his butt in the slammer for life. But man, what a hoot!
Also, to coin a significantly tired phrase "You can't take it with you"
Society makes more sense if you look at people as a commodity instead of people. Your toaster can't own anything, right? But if I give it a piece of bread, then it will make toast!
No, I don't work for the RIAA, but I think I must have genes from someone who does to come up with this crap.
Don't get me wrong, I use XFS for certain specific applications, as it has a better implementation and structure internally, IMHO.
Where else can you feel so safe, but completely fuel inefficient? Plus, if you run into someone else's code, you'll be just fine.
It will take 3 years to implement.. I MEAN DELIVER.. deliver, and it will cost $3M for the first unit, payable now (unless there is a patent already filed on such a device).
Basically he wants a Psion strapped to an Archos Recorder, but 1/10th the size. Perhaps a sony phone with a USB jack? Narf!
I like your analogy. If I want to split a cupcake with a friend (or with several, so they don't feel left out), that's ok too. Perhaps I know someone who's never tried a cupcake, and they take a bite. Maybe they like it and go buy some cupcakes (or the company that makes the mix, if they really like it). I believe in free enterprise, until they diminish their gift to society by charging obscenely. Then it's bait. --- Give me a fish, I eat well for a day. Teach me to fish, and I'll be ok until someone says it's proprietary and makes it illegal. Then I'll starve to death while waiting for the hearing. Legal side effects are worse than the crime (or lack thereof).
I don't want policed OR traditional, for the record. I just thought that putting the trolls first was, well: "way over the line. You're so far past the line, you can't even see the line.. THE LINE IS A DOT to you."
Hey, I like to read a good troll occasionally, but lets not lose our heads, and say "tradition above all".. I think rome fell that way. Continue to change for the better, or stagnate, right?
Besides, you're talking about San Francisco. That's where trolls come from, right? Most people who live there look and act like trolls, anyway.
The trolls are good for a laugh and are more interesting than the articles. GROW UP! EVOLVE! Contribute an article or two to improve the content instead of bitching about how there isn't any. Go out and find some. There was a kick-ass AI show about HAL and the state of AI today a little while back on PBS.. What happens in society when you see A) someone cursing horribly over and over B) someone encouraging them They both get thrown out of macy's. Sometimes the cops throw them in jail. They should do they sameon the net. Fine people for profanity in "public forums". Slashdot needs user deletions, because society cannot police the internet yet.. but with the new powers in congress, it might not be so long before they can.