Eh, I mixed up who I was thinking of in my head with someone else. So sue me. (Wait, since you obviously support this bullshit -- DON'T sue me. I'm not Canadian.)
I did have problems with AIM yesterday trying to send a legitimate License # to a co-worker for a piece of software with a floating license! And Aim blocks all kinds of comments.
Really? I've never had a message blocked. What kind?
It's a US Military base, which is considered sovereign US territory. For example, one must be born within the US to become president; McCain was not born in the borders of the US, but he was born on sovereign US territory, therefore, he's eligible.
Each country's got its own laws, and what it does within its borders shouldn't be anybody else's business.
Then it's okay for gays to be hanged in Iran for, well, being gay, then? Or the human rights violations in China, and their censorship of the internet? All that is a-okay with you?
To your point about the debate being asinine: Maybe the reason this is a rule in Canada is being most citizens don't realize how fucking stupid things have gotten with regards to "hate speech" and talking about it will open their eyes to it and they'll vote for change. Besides, it's free speech, we're allowed to debate it or talk about how stupid it is. Sorry if that's asinine to you. Don't participate then.
Also, being a Holocaust denier may make one an asshole, but I don't think citizens should be prosecuted or fined just for being assholes. If that were the case, most of the population of the world would be in debt to the government and Richard Warman.
2. Free speech is designed to protect unpopular speech. Show me one ounce of evidence Steyn has impacted anyone's right to a happy and free life -- other than being unhappy he's saying something bad about them. The idea that the law gives you a right to not be offended is dangerous.
3. The quote about mosquitoes is not original to Mark Steyn: he was quoting an Imam. As for offering a rebuttal, it's their magazine, their printing press. Why should they allow a rebuttal? Am I allowed to write a column in the New York Times if they print something I disagree with? No. Is Microsoft allowed to force Slashdot to post a pro-Vista rebuttal on the main page? No. Do we want that sort of stupid to be a law? No. It might seem nice and fair if you don't think about it, but when you do, you'll see a thousand ways it would be abused and used to bog down free speech to the point no one says anything someone else might not like for fear of having to let the someone else use their resources to yammer on and on about how wronged they were.
Also, considering the stink this idiot commission raised against Ezra Klein -- a rather liberal fellow who happened to publish some cartoons depicting Mohammad -- I don't trust it, especially when almost all the decisions directly financially benefit a former member of the council, Richard Warman. And these "awards" he gets aren't taxable.
I love the Wii, but it simply isn't a replacement for the 360. It isn't intended to be, either -- the Wii is in it's own weird little niche, and didn't aim to be a powerful system. It also doesn't have GTA4 or BioShock... so for me, the Wii won't replace the 360.
Most of the time the AC "unpopular opinion" I see is blatant trolling. You can disagree without sounding like an asshole simply looking for replies. Very, VERY rarely do I see an AC account posting something truly insightful -- because they have nothing to lose. They can say whatever they want and there's nothing tying them to it, so it attracts all sorts of morons.
I have nothing against AC posts, and I have posted in favor of copyright (and also in reforming the current stupidity that is copyright in the US), and I sometimes post as AC. But insightful, interesting posts don't often come from the AC bunch. Especially on hot-button issues -- look in just about any thread on an issue and you'll see dozens of ACs posting shit like OP did.
I RTFA, and I think this guy is an idiot. The method Canonical wants to use to make money is pretty much the method I hear OSS people talk about all the time -- selling support, as opposed to product.
But then I got to wondering -- who is this tool? There's no Wikipedia entry for him, and googling doesn't really produce anything helpful. So should the title of the/. post be "Some random tool thinks Ubuntu isn't OSS"?
So domain names would be $0.80 higher than they are now to compensate for the difference. Not exactly a big difference. I have more than that in change on my desk right now. Even with the twenty cents included, it's a dollar a year. Whoopee. I could register a dozen domains and all I'd have to do is buy one less pizza that year to make up for the difference. It's only going to really impact people registering a lot of domains.
I disagree. The Carmen Sandiego game I played was great, and I loved Oregon Trail (especially when my entire harem made it!), and when I was younger I recall some strange math program that was kind of fun. And I didn't even like math.
C'mon, you've never run across an elitist Linux snob? I have. This isn't necessarily a mainstream view, but there are a whole lot of loud-mouth "I use Linux and I'm better than everyone!" types out there. And I don't mean/. trolls. I mean people who are serious. Just like there are Mac Fans who act that way, or people without TVs, or (insert just about anything even remotely obscure) fans.
I'm not even all that heavily involved in hanging around Linux people (despite being one) and I see this pretty often. Probably because they stand out.
Or you could not put private information up on a website.
Seriously, people. It's a social website, a public website, and it doesn't need any of that information -- it's not like you have to use facebook to make internet purchases. I've never understood people who put information at places like that. Of course your privacy is going to be invaded. That's the damn point of the site... if you don't want the world to know it, don't transmit it over an unsecured connection to a website with a crummy privacy policy...
I got it on the Wii VC when it came out, and I've played through it. It's strange (and a little scary) how the skill is still there even though I'm not a regular gamer and certainly not a regular Mario-er.
I know -- I was joking about the "x90" typo. It should be x900. I was just imagining a wide, but very short, monitor.;)
I had a BITCH of a time the first time I installed Ubuntu getting it to run at my monitor's native 1280x1024, so I'm very aware it's not perfect. But since (including a reinstall that wiped the config file), I haven't had to deal with that. Maybe I got lucky.
At least 3 different people have moderated you down there (and that assumes two of them used all five points). Take a hint. "When more than 3 people in your life are assholes, maybe it's you."
Seriously. It was two years and three months ago. Four versions have come since then. A fifth is coming in the next two weeks. You have been bitching about this one single event for almost thirty months. You dedicated your username to it.
Maybe, just maybe, you have a problem, and I don't mean with your MBR. I was sympathetic to you on another thread last year about this, and even recently. But your actions in this thread have changed my mind; I no longer feel bad for you. I feel that you need to let go. Maybe buy yourself a stress-head toy and squeeze it. Take a vacation. There's going to be another silly named Ubuntu release in October, so maybe you should schedule it around then so your head doesn't explode, because I fear it might if you start another one of these threads.
Maybe you should give Hairy Hardon, I mean, Hardy Heron, a try before you condemn it.
January 06. Dude, there have been four major releases since then and a fifth is on the way. I didn't use Ubuntu until August 06, so I caught the one next up from you. The difference between that and what I have now? Pretty much astounding. I can't imagine how crappy the version out in January of 06 must have been.
Also, just so you know, if you don't have a floppy drive, you should have a bootable CD-ROM. Otherwise you're just asking for trouble. And it used to be standard operating procedure to have a boot disk of some sort. Windows CDs are bootable.
My webcam worked easier in Ubuntu than Windows XP. My TV Tuner worked easier in Ubuntu than Windows XP. And my laptop was pretty easy to get working with 1280x800 Never tried a temp sensor. You didn't ask, but my printer worked MUCH better in Ubuntu than XP (somehow, Windows glitched and printed 20 pages of gibberish on the install when I hit "print test page" and got up to get something to drink, figuring now was a good time after setting up most of XP from a fresh install... I haven't risked wasting toner to fix it and just print from Linux)
I won't argue that it's easier than Mac OS X -- never used it -- but I will say it worked for me better than Windows XP. (before ubuntudupe or anyone replies yapping at me, please note the "for me" clause there...)
I was going to reply to this but I can't really find a way to reason with someone who thinks providing the actual quote, in the face of a lie about the quote, makes someone "stupid" and responsible for the downfall of a nation. Because I just don't know how to deal with that kind of crazy.
Put down the Kool-Aid. People who disagree with you aren't crazed lunatics out to kill you. Get over yourself.
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They didn't change "some details."
They changed the entire premise. It would be like a Tomb Raider movie without Lara Croft or tombs.
"The Rock is an asshole on Mars for 90 minutes" has no possible resemblance whatsoever to Doom, no.
And some high schools have metal detectors and armed guards, and visiting is a real pain in the ass.
Eh, I mixed up who I was thinking of in my head with someone else. So sue me. (Wait, since you obviously support this bullshit -- DON'T sue me. I'm not Canadian.)
and Doom was a fairly faithful adaptation
Um. They made a movie about a game about demons and hell without the demons or the hell.
It was some ancient civilization and some sort of "rage virus." Which exists nowhere in any Doom I've played.
How exactly is "throwing out the entire fucking premise" faithful?
I did have problems with AIM yesterday trying to send a legitimate License # to a co-worker for a piece of software with a floating license! And Aim blocks all kinds of comments.
Really? I've never had a message blocked. What kind?
It's a US Military base, which is considered sovereign US territory. For example, one must be born within the US to become president; McCain was not born in the borders of the US, but he was born on sovereign US territory, therefore, he's eligible.
Each country's got its own laws, and what it does within its borders shouldn't be anybody else's business.
Then it's okay for gays to be hanged in Iran for, well, being gay, then? Or the human rights violations in China, and their censorship of the internet? All that is a-okay with you?
To your point about the debate being asinine: Maybe the reason this is a rule in Canada is being most citizens don't realize how fucking stupid things have gotten with regards to "hate speech" and talking about it will open their eyes to it and they'll vote for change. Besides, it's free speech, we're allowed to debate it or talk about how stupid it is. Sorry if that's asinine to you. Don't participate then.
Also, being a Holocaust denier may make one an asshole, but I don't think citizens should be prosecuted or fined just for being assholes. If that were the case, most of the population of the world would be in debt to the government and Richard Warman.
Oops, yeah, I did.
1. Legal doesn't mean moral or right.
2. Free speech is designed to protect unpopular speech. Show me one ounce of evidence Steyn has impacted anyone's right to a happy and free life -- other than being unhappy he's saying something bad about them. The idea that the law gives you a right to not be offended is dangerous.
3. The quote about mosquitoes is not original to Mark Steyn: he was quoting an Imam. As for offering a rebuttal, it's their magazine, their printing press. Why should they allow a rebuttal? Am I allowed to write a column in the New York Times if they print something I disagree with? No. Is Microsoft allowed to force Slashdot to post a pro-Vista rebuttal on the main page? No. Do we want that sort of stupid to be a law? No. It might seem nice and fair if you don't think about it, but when you do, you'll see a thousand ways it would be abused and used to bog down free speech to the point no one says anything someone else might not like for fear of having to let the someone else use their resources to yammer on and on about how wronged they were.
Also, considering the stink this idiot commission raised against Ezra Klein -- a rather liberal fellow who happened to publish some cartoons depicting Mohammad -- I don't trust it, especially when almost all the decisions directly financially benefit a former member of the council, Richard Warman. And these "awards" he gets aren't taxable.
As an owner of both a Wii and a 360; no.
I love the Wii, but it simply isn't a replacement for the 360. It isn't intended to be, either -- the Wii is in it's own weird little niche, and didn't aim to be a powerful system. It also doesn't have GTA4 or BioShock... so for me, the Wii won't replace the 360.
Maybe so, but troll accounts often get shot down to posting -1 by default, making them easier to avoid.
Most of the time the AC "unpopular opinion" I see is blatant trolling. You can disagree without sounding like an asshole simply looking for replies. Very, VERY rarely do I see an AC account posting something truly insightful -- because they have nothing to lose. They can say whatever they want and there's nothing tying them to it, so it attracts all sorts of morons.
I have nothing against AC posts, and I have posted in favor of copyright (and also in reforming the current stupidity that is copyright in the US), and I sometimes post as AC. But insightful, interesting posts don't often come from the AC bunch. Especially on hot-button issues -- look in just about any thread on an issue and you'll see dozens of ACs posting shit like OP did.
I RTFA, and I think this guy is an idiot. The method Canonical wants to use to make money is pretty much the method I hear OSS people talk about all the time -- selling support, as opposed to product.
/. post be "Some random tool thinks Ubuntu isn't OSS"?
But then I got to wondering -- who is this tool? There's no Wikipedia entry for him, and googling doesn't really produce anything helpful. So should the title of the
So domain names would be $0.80 higher than they are now to compensate for the difference. Not exactly a big difference. I have more than that in change on my desk right now. Even with the twenty cents included, it's a dollar a year. Whoopee. I could register a dozen domains and all I'd have to do is buy one less pizza that year to make up for the difference. It's only going to really impact people registering a lot of domains.
Like domain squatters.
I disagree. The Carmen Sandiego game I played was great, and I loved Oregon Trail (especially when my entire harem made it!), and when I was younger I recall some strange math program that was kind of fun. And I didn't even like math.
You left off the part where, after their last album, they couldn't pay me to listen to their music.
'Cos man.
They started to suck.
C'mon, you've never run across an elitist Linux snob? I have. This isn't necessarily a mainstream view, but there are a whole lot of loud-mouth "I use Linux and I'm better than everyone!" types out there. And I don't mean /. trolls. I mean people who are serious. Just like there are Mac Fans who act that way, or people without TVs, or (insert just about anything even remotely obscure) fans.
I'm not even all that heavily involved in hanging around Linux people (despite being one) and I see this pretty often. Probably because they stand out.
Or you could not put private information up on a website.
Seriously, people. It's a social website, a public website, and it doesn't need any of that information -- it's not like you have to use facebook to make internet purchases. I've never understood people who put information at places like that. Of course your privacy is going to be invaded. That's the damn point of the site... if you don't want the world to know it, don't transmit it over an unsecured connection to a website with a crummy privacy policy...
"Me too!"
I got it on the Wii VC when it came out, and I've played through it. It's strange (and a little scary) how the skill is still there even though I'm not a regular gamer and certainly not a regular Mario-er.
If you need a reminder about MICROSOFT being interested in money, then how can you remember the "M$" thing?
I know -- I was joking about the "x90" typo. It should be x900. I was just imagining a wide, but very short, monitor. ;)
I had a BITCH of a time the first time I installed Ubuntu getting it to run at my monitor's native 1280x1024, so I'm very aware it's not perfect. But since (including a reinstall that wiped the config file), I haven't had to deal with that. Maybe I got lucky.
Dude:
http://slashdot.org/~UbuntuDupe
At least 3 different people have moderated you down there (and that assumes two of them used all five points). Take a hint. "When more than 3 people in your life are assholes, maybe it's you."
Seriously. It was two years and three months ago. Four versions have come since then. A fifth is coming in the next two weeks. You have been bitching about this one single event for almost thirty months. You dedicated your username to it.
Maybe, just maybe, you have a problem, and I don't mean with your MBR. I was sympathetic to you on another thread last year about this, and even recently. But your actions in this thread have changed my mind; I no longer feel bad for you. I feel that you need to let go. Maybe buy yourself a stress-head toy and squeeze it. Take a vacation. There's going to be another silly named Ubuntu release in October, so maybe you should schedule it around then so your head doesn't explode, because I fear it might if you start another one of these threads.
Maybe you should give Hairy Hardon, I mean, Hardy Heron, a try before you condemn it.
January 06. Dude, there have been four major releases since then and a fifth is on the way. I didn't use Ubuntu until August 06, so I caught the one next up from you. The difference between that and what I have now? Pretty much astounding. I can't imagine how crappy the version out in January of 06 must have been.
Also, just so you know, if you don't have a floppy drive, you should have a bootable CD-ROM. Otherwise you're just asking for trouble. And it used to be standard operating procedure to have a boot disk of some sort. Windows CDs are bootable.
1440x90
Whoa! Really? That is one weird monitor you got.
And to answer your questions:
My webcam worked easier in Ubuntu than Windows XP.
My TV Tuner worked easier in Ubuntu than Windows XP.
And my laptop was pretty easy to get working with 1280x800
Never tried a temp sensor.
You didn't ask, but my printer worked MUCH better in Ubuntu than XP (somehow, Windows glitched and printed 20 pages of gibberish on the install when I hit "print test page" and got up to get something to drink, figuring now was a good time after setting up most of XP from a fresh install... I haven't risked wasting toner to fix it and just print from Linux)
I won't argue that it's easier than Mac OS X -- never used it -- but I will say it worked for me better than Windows XP. (before ubuntudupe or anyone replies yapping at me, please note the "for me" clause there...)
I was going to reply to this but I can't really find a way to reason with someone who thinks providing the actual quote, in the face of a lie about the quote, makes someone "stupid" and responsible for the downfall of a nation. Because I just don't know how to deal with that kind of crazy.
Put down the Kool-Aid. People who disagree with you aren't crazed lunatics out to kill you. Get over yourself.