Did someone say concept plagarism? The first I saw of smart paint was in the movie "Mega Force" (1982) starring Barry Bostwick. They could go from desert camo to black in the flip of a swtich....
Well, I was referencing Optic Camoflauge from Metal Gear Solid, which didn't even require a switch, it was simply automatic.
...if this is another case of concept plagiarism. We know of the concept before being stolen from Radix. I get the feeling some R&D guy got stoned and played Metal Gear Solid.
Of course not. Haven't you heard? Iraq OnLine is the 137,000,000th hottest internet service provider, serving all of 2 people (Saddam and the hacker)for the past decade! And it's growing fast! With new Dictator Controls, it's easier for Saddam to choose what access you have. And e-mail is a snap. Just ask the guy who hacked his inbox!
I wish I was back in Germany. Germany kicked so much ass. Maybe instead of the "Free State Project" taking place in the US, why not make a Free State (As in the non-American definition) in Germany? There's probably more potential there, and German's a better language than english, anyway.
I think you got it wrong. On Slashdot FlameTown(TM), when someone brags on you, it's praise. When someone brags on someone else, it's redundant and not worth posting.
Well, do you disagree with every senator, representitive, measure, local issue etc? If not, you can still come to election and vote on the ones you think are meaningful. Also, if people keep voting against the incumbant, someone might eventually try to please them and stay for the second term.
In many cases, yes. This election, all the candidates running for office take money from the same political interests backing the DMCA. As well, all the local issues are relating to Sales Tax. And the issue is whether I want to raise taxes to improve roads, which I'm fine with, but I don't trust the government to spend it properly. They're going to make me pay more so they can hire more guys to stand on the side of the road all day and wait for rush hour to begin construction, so their budgets appear justified, even if they in the end make the roads worse. And there's no accountibility system, so we vote in the tax, and it doesn't get spent on the purpose, it's not like someone gets punished.
I recommend in the future that you read parent posts before you read the replies. I'm assuming you didn't, so I'll post what I was replying to.
Which is the largest flaw in your own argument. A Libertarian candidate is simply not going to win. If you're pissed off with a Republican and vote Dem, they have a much more serious chance of going under.
In reply to this, I asked what someone should do when the parties and party members are expressing the exact same things, except on issues that do not matter to me (Like Abortion. I'm not a woman, so it's not an issue of great importance to me). When both candidates are pro- DMCA, pro-Iraqi-war, and anti-free-speech...what should we do, if we are to follow the directions of this guy? We vote for the candidate we believe in, not who is most likely to win. It's a matter of principle.
It's a statement: I do not know enough, or do not care enough to vote. (Which in my opinion is the same)
Well, there's the other opinion that applies to an election, which is that you totally disagree with all the candidates. Take for example the last one. In all reality, I disagreed with all of them. Bush was too stupid, Gore was a two-faced poll-chaser, Nader was a Socialist, Buchanan was too radical right, and Browne made Pot his central issue, which I really don't care about either way.
My statement? Stop giving us candidates like this. In some cases, I choose not to vote for the least of all evil, because it is still evil. If there was a choice between Hitler and Stalin, I'd endorse neither. Why endorse anyone else with my vote if they don't feel I'm important to speak for?
Does America have a similar process? Could the DCMA be struck down on the basis of ambiguity or does this just mean that the judge has to sort through what it means himself?
Well, not really. Only if the ambiguity allows it to be used in a manner that is in violation of the constitution. But of course, we have laws that less ambiguously violate the constitution that is being allowed (Patriot Act, anyone?). So, you never know.
Further proof that some people shouldn't get moderation points. You make an honest opinion on Microsoft trying to be the end all-be all on software AND hardware, and how it compares to Apple, and some guy comes up with "Flamebait".
The reason is that people in alot of non-North American Countries are running alot of credit card scams. Some e-tailers have solved this with a scheme at mailboxes etc., but other than that, most e-tailers have stopped shipping off-continent, especially to Russia, which has been a big problem country.
The assumption here of course is that there will be something so irresistable in future generations of Windows and PC hardware that will force people to upgrade even though all their rights are taken away.
Time will prove they are wrong. As soon as my right to do whatever I want with my own hardware declines, I'll stop buying new hardware (until it can be hacked to recover those rights).
You're thinking that most computer buyers are smart enough to not believe hype. You're thinking that most people aren't going to CompUSA and getting told that WindowsXP and a P4 will make the "internet run faster".
And you're assuming most computer users are like you. MOST computer users have never used or even heard of StarOffice. So, if they are told that the next version of Microsoft Oriface will run ONLY on the next version, and that they'll have to pay the same amount of money whether they upgrade or not, most computer users will scramble to their nearest CompUSA or Circuit City or Best Buy to purchase Windows Palladium, or whatever.
The main warnings I've heard of about living in Tokyo and other large cities is the extreme housing shortages. Because of it, it's difficult to get a place to stay, and when you do, you may not even be allowed to have a car.
Most likely because there is almost to practical method of eliminating them. It's like the Matrix, where Morpheus says that the Agents are the "gatekeepers", holding all the keys and opening all the doors.
The RIAA as a whole has most of the copyrights and they represent the most artists. The sad thing is that artists think that going with the flow with the RIAA Evil Empire is the only way to get out there.
When the RCC was started, it was laughed upon and its members scorned. Slowly the church grew in power through monetary donatios, political intruige and war. You ask me not to compare the two, yet the comaprisons are undeniable and plentyful.
Actually, the technical birth of the RCC is when Emperor Constantine converted and made it the state religion of Rome. (Get it? Roman Catholic?)
The church you're thinking of that was persecuted was the Gnostic and the Orthodox churches.
Finally: you can be a Buddhist and anything else as the same time. But then I always use hte more universal definition of religion that defines the word as a set of tenets used to shape ones actions and goals in life. Buddhists do not worship Buddha as a god, but I think few would contest it as a religion. To my knowledge the teachings of Buddha are not incompatible with any of the major religions of the world.
A Buddhist would believe that, but most priests would not agree. And they tell you that when you enter the door, not when you reach "OT 8"
Well, it's funny though...because it seems as if you're justifying Scientology's fight to censor the web by expressing the crimes of another religion. It makes little sense.
Most all of what you say is also applicable to the Roman Catholic Church:
The Catholic Church does not have a policy of "Always attack, never defend.", it does not have an "Office of Special Affairs" that hires P.I.'s. It does not break into government buildings.
They exist soley to collect money (sure they spend some of it on charitable things but what's with the gold goblets, fine linen robes, vast tracks of land, incredible ornate arcitecture, etc)
Soley [For the sole purpose of?] for the purpose of money? Maybe in your eyes. According to your theory all religions that exist outside of a few people's basements is for the purpose of collecting money, because many churches/mosques/temples are on expensive tracts of land and are quite ornate.
They intend to take over the world by converting everyone to their faith and using their vast monetary reserves to pay for votes in government
You're thinking of the Baptist Church. If the Catholic Church bought votes, the only thing that'd be different is there'd be no abortion and condoms would be outlawed. That'd be pretty much it. And it's a bit different from Scientology, in that Hubbard stated that those who cannot become Scientologists must be "disposed of quietly and without sorrow".
The worst the Catholic Church will do is excommunicate you, and once you've reached that point, you probably WANT to be excommunicated.
They encourage their members to NOT read material about other religions, and detractors of the curch
I've never been told by any member of the clergy to avoid reading anything else. In fact, one priest encouraged me to read everything I could about every other religion.
So what's the problem again? Oh yea. the RCC has been around for 1500 or so years, and Scientology is only about 20 years old. Older MUST be better. So why not go back to the oldest religions and worship as the Greeks, or the Chineese?
The problem is the following: 1. Scientology tells people they are using a SCIENCE of the mind when they start. There is no SCIENCE in SCIENTOLOGY.
If the Catholic Church claimed that communion was a SCIENCE, everyone would cry bullshit, but it's fine to hook someone up to a low-power TENS unit and induce a trance state and call it "applied religious philosophy" and "technology"?
2. RCC's paid for it's crimes in the past and is paying now. As we post, Churches are closing and priests are having to either ditch the only vocation they've known since they were kids, or leave the communities they care about.
Scientology answers for few of its crimes. Not to mention that they obfuscate the past of their founder and replace it with a fabrication that not only includes falsified stories of Nuclear Engineering and Naval War Injuries, but of travels, and even of his own family, including bigamist marraige practices.
3. If my pockets are empty, I can still recieve Sacraments at any Catholic Church and I can still partake in communion at any protestant church. I'm not sure about other faiths, though. I do know, however, if I go into a Scientology Org and ask to take Dianetics Auditing, they'll ask where the money is. I tell 'em I'm broke, and they ask about credit cards, they want to know if I have any inheritance, or maybe I could take out a third mortgage...ANYTHING...but I can't get anything for free, except the personality test.
It's the money factor. People volunteer their money to the Catholic Church. They won't kick you out if you don't tithe. But the Scientology guys will use ANYTHING to get you to drop some Benjamins.
4. If I fail to show up at mass, I don't get annoying phone calls from guys asking why I haven't been around.
If you don't show up for regular auditing at the local Scientology Org, you will be called daily, and they'll harass family members who "hold you back". And even if you get 'em to stop, they'll still junk mail you.
And finally, most other established religions make no claims to be totally compatable with any other. There is no priest who will tell you that you can be a Wiccan and a Catholic at the same time. There is no Rabbi that'll say you can be Jewish AND a Muslim at the same time.
Scientology claims you can be a Scientlogist and anything else at the same time...and it seems right...until you reach the upper levels and have spent around $500,000 and they tell you L. Ron Hubbard is the Messiah and that all other religions are implants from space aliens.
In closing, there are BIG differences. Don't compare the two. Until you've done battle with Scientology, it doesn't seem as real as it is. And it's worse than you think.
Since the Google debacle, I myself felt compelled to join the worldwide battle against the Cult of Scientology.
Since I've begun, I've met individuals like Arnie Lerma here, as well as Elizabeth Ann Cox, and members of the Lisa McPherson Trust. I've talked to people who've been at this for decades.
They told me stories that before I'd become vocal, would've sounded stupid and impossible. But once I came out to join them for one picket, everything became true.
I picketed the DC Org earlier this month. I was followed, photographed, questioned, and everything they'd told me was true. That the "Church" would attack and attempt to intimidate anyone who dared speak out.
This "church" was the first one where it's "parishoners" make fat jokes in public. That anyone who says that it's wrong to censor google is a bigot.
Scientology is EVIL. Scientology doesn't care about anything but money. Scientology's only consistent results are lawsuits and ex-scientologists. And if Scientology had it's way, everyone would be either dead or a Scientologist.
...is that no matter how good my computer is, I still can't get alot of of games to run.
Example: Dominion Wars
Requirements: 233 Mhz P2 w/ 64 MB ram and a graphics card that supports more then 256 colors.
My computer: 1.2 Ghz Athlon w/ 512 MB ram and a GeForce4.
Result: Runs as slow as shite. And sometimes, it doesn't even run, period. When it does, it's sad.
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Did someone say concept plagarism? The first I saw of smart paint was in the movie "Mega Force" (1982) starring Barry Bostwick. They could go from desert camo to black in the flip of a swtich....
Well, I was referencing Optic Camoflauge from Metal Gear Solid, which didn't even require a switch, it was simply automatic.
...if this is another case of concept plagiarism. We know of the concept before being stolen from Radix. I get the feeling some R&D guy got stoned and played Metal Gear Solid.
Of course not. Haven't you heard? Iraq OnLine is the 137,000,000th hottest internet service provider, serving all of 2 people (Saddam and the hacker)for the past decade! And it's growing fast! With new Dictator Controls, it's easier for Saddam to choose what access you have. And e-mail is a snap. Just ask the guy who hacked his inbox!
I wish I was back in Germany. Germany kicked so much ass. Maybe instead of the "Free State Project" taking place in the US, why not make a Free State (As in the non-American definition) in Germany? There's probably more potential there, and German's a better language than english, anyway.
I think you got it wrong. On Slashdot FlameTown(TM), when someone brags on you, it's praise. When someone brags on someone else, it's redundant and not worth posting.
...I heard in another article that BSD is dead!!
Well, do you disagree with every senator, representitive, measure, local issue etc? If not, you can still come to election and vote on the ones you think are meaningful. Also, if people keep voting against the incumbant, someone might eventually try to please them and stay for the second term.
In many cases, yes. This election, all the candidates running for office take money from the same political interests backing the DMCA. As well, all the local issues are relating to Sales Tax. And the issue is whether I want to raise taxes to improve roads, which I'm fine with, but I don't trust the government to spend it properly. They're going to make me pay more so they can hire more guys to stand on the side of the road all day and wait for rush hour to begin construction, so their budgets appear justified, even if they in the end make the roads worse. And there's no accountibility system, so we vote in the tax, and it doesn't get spent on the purpose, it's not like someone gets punished.
I recommend in the future that you read parent posts before you read the replies. I'm assuming you didn't, so I'll post what I was replying to.
Which is the largest flaw in your own argument. A Libertarian candidate is simply not going to win. If you're pissed off with a Republican and vote Dem, they have a much more serious chance of going under.
In reply to this, I asked what someone should do when the parties and party members are expressing the exact same things, except on issues that do not matter to me (Like Abortion. I'm not a woman, so it's not an issue of great importance to me). When both candidates are pro- DMCA, pro-Iraqi-war, and anti-free-speech...what should we do, if we are to follow the directions of this guy? We vote for the candidate we believe in, not who is most likely to win. It's a matter of principle.
What if I think the Democrats and the Republicans are the same?
It's a statement: I do not know enough, or do not care enough to vote. (Which in my opinion is the same)
Well, there's the other opinion that applies to an election, which is that you totally disagree with all the candidates. Take for example the last one. In all reality, I disagreed with all of them. Bush was too stupid, Gore was a two-faced poll-chaser, Nader was a Socialist, Buchanan was too radical right, and Browne made Pot his central issue, which I really don't care about either way.
My statement? Stop giving us candidates like this. In some cases, I choose not to vote for the least of all evil, because it is still evil. If there was a choice between Hitler and Stalin, I'd endorse neither. Why endorse anyone else with my vote if they don't feel I'm important to speak for?
Does America have a similar process? Could the DCMA be struck down on the basis of ambiguity or does this just mean that the judge has to sort through what it means himself?
Well, not really. Only if the ambiguity allows it to be used in a manner that is in violation of the constitution. But of course, we have laws that less ambiguously violate the constitution that is being allowed (Patriot Act, anyone?). So, you never know.
(Score:-1, Flamebait)
Further proof that some people shouldn't get moderation points. You make an honest opinion on Microsoft trying to be the end all-be all on software AND hardware, and how it compares to Apple, and some guy comes up with "Flamebait".
The reason is that people in alot of non-North American Countries are running alot of credit card scams. Some e-tailers have solved this with a scheme at mailboxes etc., but other than that, most e-tailers have stopped shipping off-continent, especially to Russia, which has been a big problem country.
The assumption here of course is that there will be something so irresistable in future generations of Windows and PC hardware that will force people to upgrade even though all their rights are taken away. Time will prove they are wrong. As soon as my right to do whatever I want with my own hardware declines, I'll stop buying new hardware (until it can be hacked to recover those rights).
You're thinking that most computer buyers are smart enough to not believe hype. You're thinking that most people aren't going to CompUSA and getting told that WindowsXP and a P4 will make the "internet run faster".
And you're assuming most computer users are like you. MOST computer users have never used or even heard of StarOffice. So, if they are told that the next version of Microsoft Oriface will run ONLY on the next version, and that they'll have to pay the same amount of money whether they upgrade or not, most computer users will scramble to their nearest CompUSA or Circuit City or Best Buy to purchase Windows Palladium, or whatever.
Forget about Compaq et al--Microsoft wants to own the hardware, as well as the software.
Sounds like Microsloth is turning into Apple.
The main warnings I've heard of about living in Tokyo and other large cities is the extreme housing shortages. Because of it, it's difficult to get a place to stay, and when you do, you may not even be allowed to have a car.
Most likely because there is almost to practical method of eliminating them. It's like the Matrix, where Morpheus says that the Agents are the "gatekeepers", holding all the keys and opening all the doors.
The RIAA as a whole has most of the copyrights and they represent the most artists. The sad thing is that artists think that going with the flow with the RIAA Evil Empire is the only way to get out there.
...Janis Ian?
She has at least 2 articles on her website, http://www.janisian.com, that are quite anti-RIAA.
When the RCC was started, it was laughed upon and its members scorned. Slowly the church grew in power through monetary donatios, political intruige and war. You ask me not to compare the two, yet the comaprisons are undeniable and plentyful.
Actually, the technical birth of the RCC is when Emperor Constantine converted and made it the state religion of Rome. (Get it? Roman Catholic?)
The church you're thinking of that was persecuted was the Gnostic and the Orthodox churches.
Finally: you can be a Buddhist and anything else as the same time. But then I always use hte more universal definition of religion that defines the word as a set of tenets used to shape ones actions and goals in life. Buddhists do not worship Buddha as a god, but I think few would contest it as a religion. To my knowledge the teachings of Buddha are not incompatible with any of the major religions of the world.
A Buddhist would believe that, but most priests would not agree. And they tell you that when you enter the door, not when you reach "OT 8"
Well, it's funny though...because it seems as if you're justifying Scientology's fight to censor the web by expressing the crimes of another religion. It makes little sense.
Most all of what you say is also applicable to the Roman Catholic Church:
The Catholic Church does not have a policy of "Always attack, never defend.", it does not have an "Office of Special Affairs" that hires P.I.'s. It does not break into government buildings.
They exist soley to collect money (sure they spend some of it on charitable things but what's with the gold goblets, fine linen robes, vast tracks of land, incredible ornate arcitecture, etc)
Soley [For the sole purpose of?] for the purpose of money? Maybe in your eyes. According to your theory all religions that exist outside of a few people's basements is for the purpose of collecting money, because many churches/mosques/temples are on expensive tracts of land and are quite ornate.
They intend to take over the world by converting everyone to their faith and using their vast monetary reserves to pay for votes in government
You're thinking of the Baptist Church. If the Catholic Church bought votes, the only thing that'd be different is there'd be no abortion and condoms would be outlawed. That'd be pretty much it. And it's a bit different from Scientology, in that Hubbard stated that those who cannot become Scientologists must be "disposed of quietly and without sorrow".
The worst the Catholic Church will do is excommunicate you, and once you've reached that point, you probably WANT to be excommunicated.
They encourage their members to NOT read material about other religions, and detractors of the curch
I've never been told by any member of the clergy to avoid reading anything else. In fact, one priest encouraged me to read everything I could about every other religion.
So what's the problem again? Oh yea. the RCC has been around for 1500 or so years, and Scientology is only about 20 years old. Older MUST be better. So why not go back to the oldest religions and worship as the Greeks, or the Chineese? The problem is the following:
1. Scientology tells people they are using a SCIENCE of the mind when they start. There is no SCIENCE in SCIENTOLOGY.
If the Catholic Church claimed that communion was a SCIENCE, everyone would cry bullshit, but it's fine to hook someone up to a low-power TENS unit and induce a trance state and call it "applied religious philosophy" and "technology"?
2. RCC's paid for it's crimes in the past and is paying now. As we post, Churches are closing and priests are having to either ditch the only vocation they've known since they were kids, or leave the communities they care about.
Scientology answers for few of its crimes. Not to mention that they obfuscate the past of their founder and replace it with a fabrication that not only includes falsified stories of Nuclear Engineering and Naval War Injuries, but of travels, and even of his own family, including bigamist marraige practices.
3. If my pockets are empty, I can still recieve Sacraments at any Catholic Church and I can still partake in communion at any protestant church. I'm not sure about other faiths, though. I do know, however, if I go into a Scientology Org and ask to take Dianetics Auditing, they'll ask where the money is. I tell 'em I'm broke, and they ask about credit cards, they want to know if I have any inheritance, or maybe I could take out a third mortgage...ANYTHING...but I can't get anything for free, except the personality test.
It's the money factor. People volunteer their money to the Catholic Church. They won't kick you out if you don't tithe. But the Scientology guys will use ANYTHING to get you to drop some Benjamins.
4. If I fail to show up at mass, I don't get annoying phone calls from guys asking why I haven't been around.
If you don't show up for regular auditing at the local Scientology Org, you will be called daily, and they'll harass family members who "hold you back". And even if you get 'em to stop, they'll still junk mail you.
And finally, most other established religions make no claims to be totally compatable with any other. There is no priest who will tell you that you can be a Wiccan and a Catholic at the same time. There is no Rabbi that'll say you can be Jewish AND a Muslim at the same time.
Scientology claims you can be a Scientlogist and anything else at the same time...and it seems right...until you reach the upper levels and have spent around $500,000 and they tell you L. Ron Hubbard is the Messiah and that all other religions are implants from space aliens.
In closing, there are BIG differences. Don't compare the two. Until you've done battle with Scientology, it doesn't seem as real as it is. And it's worse than you think.
Good. If you know anyone you care about or are related to who is in Scn... GET THEM OUT! NOW!
Since the Google debacle, I myself felt compelled to join the worldwide battle against the Cult of Scientology.
Since I've begun, I've met individuals like Arnie Lerma here, as well as Elizabeth Ann Cox, and members of the Lisa McPherson Trust. I've talked to people who've been at this for decades.
They told me stories that before I'd become vocal, would've sounded stupid and impossible. But once I came out to join them for one picket, everything became true.
I picketed the DC Org earlier this month. I was followed, photographed, questioned, and everything they'd told me was true. That the "Church" would attack and attempt to intimidate anyone who dared speak out.
This "church" was the first one where it's "parishoners" make fat jokes in public. That anyone who says that it's wrong to censor google is a bigot.
Scientology is EVIL. Scientology doesn't care about anything but money. Scientology's only consistent results are lawsuits and ex-scientologists. And if Scientology had it's way, everyone would be either dead or a Scientologist.
...is that no matter how good my computer is, I still can't get alot of of games to run.
Example: Dominion Wars
Requirements: 233 Mhz P2 w/ 64 MB ram and a graphics card that supports more then 256 colors.
My computer: 1.2 Ghz Athlon w/ 512 MB ram and a GeForce4.
Result: Runs as slow as shite. And sometimes, it doesn't even run, period. When it does, it's sad.
It's not about anything anymore except for the hot alien chicks.