> > Any man who is not a socialist at age 20 has no heart. > > > > Any man who is still a socialist at age 40 has no head. >
> It should really go "Any man who is not a liberal at age 20 has no heart." then "Any man who has become rich and powerful by age 40 and who is still a liberal has no head."
So if I understand you both correctly... "any man who is still a liberal at age 20 will be neither rich nor powerful by 40?"
> As long as you could keep them out of tuna nets.
I'd hope so. A radio-controlled dolphin with a mine on its head bumping into a drift net and blowing itself and a thousand tuna into sushi sure sounds like an act of terrorism.
You never know. Maybe there's a shark in Iraq giving out $25,000 clams to every delfinbomber's family before going out to feast in the resulting chum.
> So lets see, instead of paying 1200 for a 1 bdroom apt, I pay 1000 for a 3 level town house.
Three questions come to mind with your "house math":
1) Insurance on that house?
2) Property taxes?
3) Maintenance/upkeep?
I'm biased towards home ownership as a good investment - the tax-deductibility of interest is a great thing, especially in Gray Davis' high-tax California. (To say nothing about a 2-bedroom shack being around $350K - talk about poor value for the money.)
Hence I'm worried about a housing bubble - and even more so in Cali. My rent's gone up, but I have ample spare cash flow to devote to savings. I'll never be able to retire here, so I'm happy to piss money away into an apartment for a few more years in order to buy a home outright in a less tax-addled state with a lower cost of living when retirement finally beckons.
> And if you aren't going to be in a house for 5 years, DO NOT BUY! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY!
Absofrigginlutely. Absent a housing bubble, the transaction costs alone will eat any return you could reasonably expect to make in 2-3 years.
> In the year 2000, all monster trucks will be controlled by Slashdot Techies using Remote Controls.
Survival Research Labs has been doing senseless violence with giant teleoperated robots since 1980.
Rather than drawing a comparison between SRL and Robot Wars (likely involving a Saturn V and a bottle rocket) suffice it to say that during an SRL show in Austria, the Army was called out out to investigate reports from town residents who thought there was an invasion in progress.
> Hrm... I had an idea. Verizon throw in a clause in the AUP saying 'If we get a P2P complaint, and we can prove that it is a valid complaint, your cut off'
> > Then... RIAA: Uhm.. joeuser is doing p2p stuffs > > Verizon: We'll look into it, yup he is, *BOOT*
That'd be reasonable, and would translate to this:
RIAA: P2P activity from IP xx.xx.xx.xx
Verizon: *boot*
But this case is about something different. This case is about what RIAA wants:
RIAA: P2P activity from IP xx.xx.xx.xx. Give us his name."
Verizon: Yes massa Rosen, here's the customer's name. Customer may pays us moneys, but we's only here to serves you massa Valenti. We's yo bitchez, RIAA/MPAA. It's our pleasure to serves!
Except what happened was...
Verizon: "We'll do what the law requires - namely delete any infringing material on our servers and enforce our AUP as we deem fit. The law does not require that we give you his name, so go piss up a rope."
There's a big difference between those two things, and that's why the parties are in court.
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> "Throw them into the IRON MAIDEN!" >"EXCELLENT!" >"And Execute them!" > "BOGUS!"
What about the closing credits? If MTV's doing this, aren't they gonna hafta rewrite that KISS song?
"Hill sells rock and roll to you,
Sells rock and roll to you,
Tore its heart and so-oul from everyone..."
> I have mod points. Let's see if I get sued for modding this comment [alleging that Mr. Novak was a pedophile] as informative. Because its my opinion also and I believe its true (I heard it on slashdot.)
Interesting question.
IANAL, so I should STFU, but... hey, it's Slashdot. When has ignorance of the subject matter stopped me before?
I'd think the AC posting the allegation could be sued for libel / defamation of character. He presented the allegation as a fact, not an opinion, and (assuming the allegation is false, which it almost certainly is) cannot claim truth as a defence.
I'd think, however, that a moderator upmodding such a comment as "Informative" could not be sued, as a Slashdot moderation is just that, an expression of a moderator's opinion of someone else's posting.
(Are there any landsharks around here crazy enoug to confirm or deny my speculation?:)
> If you use that phrase [Congresscritters] again, me and my elite crew of katana-wielding trolls will come to your house and whack off your genitals.
(Hey, that could be fun. My right hand gets tired sometimes:)
I actually started using it for gender-neutrality. Congressmen/women reads too awkwardly, and the sex of the critter in question isn't important in the context of this legislation. If it's specific to one house, "Senator" and "Representative" are fine. (Technically, I suppose "Senatrix" would be the feminine form, but Latin's been dead for long enough that "Senator" is universally-regarded as gender-neutral in English.) But to address both bodies in one phrase, I'd still have to fall back on "Member of Congress", which is also pretty cumbersome, or "politician" which is too broad (and arguably an even worse slander:).
(But yeah, if you're asking me if I'd advocate its use in print, or when writing a letter to one? Hell, no!)
> Remember, he's in the business of suing people, so be sure not to accuse the no-good, rat-bastard, slimy, underhanded, weaseling, gutless scumbag of doing anything improper.
Are you implying that you believe Mr. Novak of Petswarehouse.com is a no-good, rat-bastard, slimy, underhanded, weaseling gutless scumbag?
I would advise you to be more cautious in the future. The NGRBSUWGSADL - No-Good Rat Bastard Slimy Underhanded Weaseling Gutless Scumbag Anti-Defamation League - might sue you for libel.
> I find it helpful when I write to my representatives in congress, with paper and pen not keyboard and pixels, to show not only why a particular bill is bad or good, but how that bill fits into the bill fits into the party's platform and philosophy, depending on what party a particular representative belongs to. So they can see 1) this isn't just a form letter and 2) how my wishes fit into their philosophy of government.
That's actually a damn good point, and it's missed by just about everyone who ever writes their Congresscritters.
The reasons a Republican would use to justify a vote against CBDTPA to his constituents are not the reasons a Democrat would use.
Thus - when writing to a Democrat, you point out that CBDTPA serves only to strengthen the hand of Big Corporate Media Executives against the Little Guy trying to write free software to teach music to kids in Guatemala, and when writing to a Republican, you point out that CBDTPA exists only to suffocate high-tech business innovators by funneling their money into hands of the liberal Hollywood establishment.
Remember, what you believe about CBDTPA is irrelevant. It's what you can convince your representative into believing about CBDTPA that matters.
> Hobbyists cross donkeys with zebras. They call the offspring "golden zebras". Hobbyists cross lions and tigers. These crosses are, apparently, a bit nuts.
Okay. That's it. That's the last time anybody on Slashdot ever gets away with saying "Building a watercooled PC rig out of Kraft Dinner and installing cold cathode lights in their hard drives? Those silly PC hobbyists have too much time on their hands!":)
> What about those of us with rabbit ears and bow-tie connected to the two screws? I ain't runnin' out to get a fancy new TV just to get an "rf connector", when my TV still works!
The funny thing is that's pretty much what I've got - an ATI TV tuner card, one of those little 300-ohm gadgets plugged into the "cable in". And wires to screws on the other end of said gadget. And yes, rabbit ears on top of my 19" flat-face CRT monitor.
Everyone thinks they're just there as a joke, then I fire up the TV app and wiggle the ears. Big retro w00t!
> How to Optimize your Commodore Cassette Tape Drive
Use Monster cable between your tape deck and your VIC-20, of course! Eliminate those errors from 20-year-old tapes!
> Tips for getting the most out of a Walmart Keyboard
The XT keyboard port (gotta use that, none of this wimpy small-connector PS/2 stuff!) has five pins. Buy five strands of $15/foot cable and hook 'em up, one to a pin, for fastest time between keyboard and CPU!
> Is your toast the best it can be? Read on to find out...
Make more efficient toast by eliminating resistive heating in your AC line with a heavy-gauge solid-core copper plug, only $30/foot! Or for the best toast, buy $50/foot heavy-gauge pure-silver cable and rewire your whole frikkin' house!
> Super Mario Bros. Tips and Tricks - How to run AND JUMP in COMBINATION!
Best accomplished, of course, with our $10 per foot per pin per connector Super Mario Cable between your controller and your console!
> And finally: >
> Screws: Righty-tighty or do they work better if you use hammers?
Huh? I don't get it. How the hell am I supposed to sell more cable with that?
> I have never heard anyone say, "I'd get broadband if only there were high quality content from Hollywood available." No, what I hear is, "I'd get DSL or a cable modem if it was available in my area," or "I'd get DSL or a cable modem if it didn't cost a fortune."
Which is close, but not quite. I heard a lot of "I'd get DSL or a cable modem if there were more MP3z and DiVXz available on P2P networks."
Napster - yes, used as a tool for copyright infringment - was broadband's only real killer app. When RIAA/MPAA killed it, they killed the demand for DSL.
Alas, that's not something any telco exec dares say, especially in front of the Judiciary Committee. Consequently, Rosen/Valenti are the only ones who get to speak.
> He is saying exactly what any rational, intelligent person can clearly see that our elected officials are thinking. > >Frankly, he'd be far better for the job, since he is at least truthful.
(Thanks, I think:-)
Better for the job, maybe - but being truthful also means I'll never get the job, so the first AC has nothing to worry about:)
Hey, the entire market wants to short oil at $40 - but nobody wants to short oil until it gets to $40. Result is what we've got today - $30 oil and a sluggish economy.
And although I'm a hawk, you don't have to be a hawk to realize that if a war's gonna happen, the sooner it's won and over with, the better.
> The real wireless market in Japan is dating sites. That is what all of the spam you get on your phone is advertising. So who uses these dating systems?
Judging from Japanese pr0n, the users are primarily octopi, squid, and other minions of Great Cthulhu.
Am I the only one who had visions of the Jetdillo, ca. 1993?
2,000 pounds of steel, 20,000 poounds of thrust, and a pair of very dark shades. The world's first fully cybernetic, SSTO-capable armadillo. Coming soon from Armadillo Labs. The Dasypian Future begins tomorrow...
(Yeah, I admit it, I'm way too old-sk00l for my own good. Carmack, if you're reading this - was that the inspiration for the name of your firm? -{}{}{}{}{}{}8>
> some Californian politicians were unimpressed when they're penis didn't GROW FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OVERNIGHT. Also, it seems that some lesbian twins didn't want their 'hot bodies' after all.
Close, but not quite. I know for a fact that it was Gray Davis who's seriously pissed off because he doesn't yet have his 15% of the $52,109,995 THAT THE GREAT GRAND-NIECE OF UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN ASKED HIM TO HELP SPIRIT AWAY IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT FROM THE GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA BEFORE THE NEXT BUDGET:-)
> And there's another MAJOR story that is not getting much coverage in the establishment media: the longshoremen lockout.
I agree that this is a huge story. I happen to think it's a big reason why the stock market's off - no imports from the Far East, no toys/clothes on the shelves for Xmas, consumer spending drops, and the last bit of the economy implodes.
So, how do I get to be a longshoreman? $100K/year for unloading big b0x3n off boats sounds like hard work, but fun, especially if this tech thing doesn't work out.
(Seriously - is it so hazardous that they have to offer that much per year to get anyone to take the job? Or is it really $50K/year, but 16-hour days with overtime results in the $100K/year figure? Or are they being grossly overpaid due to their union's militancy, and a $40K/year grunt with a Palm Pilot could do their job just as well?)
The media and my prejudices tell me it's the latter, but that convenient match-up is too convenient -- and I therefore think I'm missing something vitally important here. What piece of the puzzle am I missing?
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>In America we tell jokes about the insane alcoholism in Russia.
In Russia, they wake up next morning and are sober.
> >
> > Any man who is still a socialist at age 40 has no head.
>
> It should really go "Any man who is not a liberal at age 20 has no heart." then "Any man who has become rich and powerful by age 40 and who is still a liberal has no head."
So if I understand you both correctly... "any man who is still a liberal at age 20 will be neither rich nor powerful by 40?"
Cool. Less competition for me to worry about. *G*
Yep, we see CEOs and other executives chanting "One, Two, Three, Four, tax our profits even more!" every day!
> waste untold sums of money on espionage,
Holy fsck! Who privatized the NSA, and on what exchange can I buy shares? (And can I simultaneously short the f3i and INS?)
> tearing down foreign regimes,
Call my broker! Long 10,000 shares of USMC at the market! Confirmed, uh, I mean, Semper Fi!
> dumbing school students down
Oh yeah! I almost forgot the last bastions of capitalist productivity and wellsprings of innovation... the NEA and the teachers' unions!
> and relying on the Military Industrial Complex to pull the company out of a recession that will soon lead to an all-out Depression?
Free clue: Not one of the things you mentioned in your rant has anything to do with capitalism or bears any resemblance to free-market economics.
> Socialism costs money.
It sure do. But hey, it's what you asked for, voted for, and achieved. So what are you complaining about?
I'd hope so. A radio-controlled dolphin with a mine on its head bumping into a drift net and blowing itself and a thousand tuna into sushi sure sounds like an act of terrorism.
You never know. Maybe there's a shark in Iraq giving out $25,000 clams to every delfinbomber's family before going out to feast in the resulting chum.
Where's Great Cthulhu when you need Him?
Three questions come to mind with your "house math":
1) Insurance on that house?
2) Property taxes?
3) Maintenance/upkeep?
I'm biased towards home ownership as a good investment - the tax-deductibility of interest is a great thing, especially in Gray Davis' high-tax California. (To say nothing about a 2-bedroom shack being around $350K - talk about poor value for the money.)
Hence I'm worried about a housing bubble - and even more so in Cali. My rent's gone up, but I have ample spare cash flow to devote to savings. I'll never be able to retire here, so I'm happy to piss money away into an apartment for a few more years in order to buy a home outright in a less tax-addled state with a lower cost of living when retirement finally beckons.
> And if you aren't going to be in a house for 5 years, DO NOT BUY! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY!
Absofrigginlutely. Absent a housing bubble, the transaction costs alone will eat any return you could reasonably expect to make in 2-3 years.
Survival Research Labs has been doing senseless violence with giant teleoperated robots since 1980.
Rather than drawing a comparison between SRL and Robot Wars (likely involving a Saturn V and a bottle rocket) suffice it to say that during an SRL show in Austria, the Army was called out out to investigate reports from town residents who thought there was an invasion in progress.
Yeah, this sucks.
Spam filtering would be so much simpler if all of .cn were in the same /8, the way it is with Latin America. (two /8s in Class B space.)
>
> Then... RIAA: Uhm.. joeuser is doing p2p stuffs
>
> Verizon: We'll look into it, yup he is, *BOOT*
That'd be reasonable, and would translate to this:
RIAA: P2P activity from IP xx.xx.xx.xx
Verizon: *boot*
But this case is about something different. This case is about what RIAA wants:
RIAA: P2P activity from IP xx.xx.xx.xx. Give us his name."
Verizon: Yes massa Rosen, here's the customer's name. Customer may pays us moneys, but we's only here to serves you massa Valenti. We's yo bitchez, RIAA/MPAA. It's our pleasure to serves!
Except what happened was...
Verizon: "We'll do what the law requires - namely delete any infringing material on our servers and enforce our AUP as we deem fit. The law does not require that we give you his name, so go piss up a rope."
There's a big difference between those two things, and that's why the parties are in court.
>"EXCELLENT!"
>"And Execute them!"
> "BOGUS!"
What about the closing credits? If MTV's doing this, aren't they gonna hafta rewrite that KISS song?
"Hill sells rock and roll to you,
Sells rock and roll to you,
Tore its heart and so-oul from everyone..."
Interesting question. IANAL, so I should STFU, but... hey, it's Slashdot. When has ignorance of the subject matter stopped me before?
I'd think the AC posting the allegation could be sued for libel / defamation of character. He presented the allegation as a fact, not an opinion, and (assuming the allegation is false, which it almost certainly is) cannot claim truth as a defence.
I'd think, however, that a moderator upmodding such a comment as "Informative" could not be sued, as a Slashdot moderation is just that, an expression of a moderator's opinion of someone else's posting.
(Are there any landsharks around here crazy enoug to confirm or deny my speculation? :)
(Hey, that could be fun. My right hand gets tired sometimes :)
I actually started using it for gender-neutrality. Congressmen/women reads too awkwardly, and the sex of the critter in question isn't important in the context of this legislation. If it's specific to one house, "Senator" and "Representative" are fine. (Technically, I suppose "Senatrix" would be the feminine form, but Latin's been dead for long enough that "Senator" is universally-regarded as gender-neutral in English.) But to address both bodies in one phrase, I'd still have to fall back on "Member of Congress", which is also pretty cumbersome, or "politician" which is too broad (and arguably an even worse slander :).
(But yeah, if you're asking me if I'd advocate its use in print, or when writing a letter to one? Hell, no!)
Are you implying that you believe Mr. Novak of Petswarehouse.com is a no-good, rat-bastard, slimy, underhanded, weaseling gutless scumbag?
I would advise you to be more cautious in the future. The NGRBSUWGSADL - No-Good Rat Bastard Slimy Underhanded Weaseling Gutless Scumbag Anti-Defamation League - might sue you for libel.
> Most of the 150 million or more P2P software downloaders believe they will never be hauled into court, and they are right.
"...and I'm eternally grateful that so few of them bother to vote."
That's actually a damn good point, and it's missed by just about everyone who ever writes their Congresscritters.
The reasons a Republican would use to justify a vote against CBDTPA to his constituents are not the reasons a Democrat would use.
Thus - when writing to a Democrat, you point out that CBDTPA serves only to strengthen the hand of Big Corporate Media Executives against the Little Guy trying to write free software to teach music to kids in Guatemala, and when writing to a Republican, you point out that CBDTPA exists only to suffocate high-tech business innovators by funneling their money into hands of the liberal Hollywood establishment.
Remember, what you believe about CBDTPA is irrelevant. It's what you can convince your representative into believing about CBDTPA that matters.
Okay. That's it. That's the last time anybody on Slashdot ever gets away with saying "Building a watercooled PC rig out of Kraft Dinner and installing cold cathode lights in their hard drives? Those silly PC hobbyists have too much time on their hands!" :)
The funny thing is that's pretty much what I've got - an ATI TV tuner card, one of those little 300-ohm gadgets plugged into the "cable in". And wires to screws on the other end of said gadget. And yes, rabbit ears on top of my 19" flat-face CRT monitor.
Everyone thinks they're just there as a joke, then I fire up the TV app and wiggle the ears. Big retro w00t!
Use Monster cable between your tape deck and your VIC-20, of course! Eliminate those errors from 20-year-old tapes!
> Tips for getting the most out of a Walmart Keyboard
The XT keyboard port (gotta use that, none of this wimpy small-connector PS/2 stuff!) has five pins. Buy five strands of $15/foot cable and hook 'em up, one to a pin, for fastest time between keyboard and CPU!
> Is your toast the best it can be? Read on to find out...
Make more efficient toast by eliminating resistive heating in your AC line with a heavy-gauge solid-core copper plug, only $30/foot! Or for the best toast, buy $50/foot heavy-gauge pure-silver cable and rewire your whole frikkin' house!
> Super Mario Bros. Tips and Tricks - How to run AND JUMP in COMBINATION!
Best accomplished, of course, with our $10 per foot per pin per connector Super Mario Cable between your controller and your console!
> And finally:
>
> Screws: Righty-tighty or do they work better if you use hammers?
Huh? I don't get it. How the hell am I supposed to sell more cable with that?
"I find your lack of faith... disturbing..."
- Dark Lord of the Squidth.
Which is close, but not quite. I heard a lot of "I'd get DSL or a cable modem if there were more MP3z and DiVXz available on P2P networks."
Napster - yes, used as a tool for copyright infringment - was broadband's only real killer app. When RIAA/MPAA killed it, they killed the demand for DSL.
Alas, that's not something any telco exec dares say, especially in front of the Judiciary Committee. Consequently, Rosen/Valenti are the only ones who get to speak.
>
>Frankly, he'd be far better for the job, since he is at least truthful.
(Thanks, I think :-)
Better for the job, maybe - but being truthful also means I'll never get the job, so the first AC has nothing to worry about :)
Hey, the entire market wants to short oil at $40 - but nobody wants to short oil until it gets to $40. Result is what we've got today - $30 oil and a sluggish economy.
And although I'm a hawk, you don't have to be a hawk to realize that if a war's gonna happen, the sooner it's won and over with, the better.
Judging from Japanese pr0n, the users are primarily octopi, squid, and other minions of Great Cthulhu.
How does wireless fit into this again?
>You scream!
>We all scream for ice-- SPLAT!
Hmph. At least you got to scream. Most of us just get "Mind that ice cube what ice block splat!"
- With apologies to Red Dwarf.
2,000 pounds of steel, 20,000 poounds of thrust, and a pair of very dark shades. The world's first fully cybernetic, SSTO-capable armadillo. Coming soon from Armadillo Labs. The Dasypian Future begins tomorrow...
(Yeah, I admit it, I'm way too old-sk00l for my own good. Carmack, if you're reading this - was that the inspiration for the name of your firm? -{}{}{}{}{}{}8>
Close, but not quite. I know for a fact that it was Gray Davis who's seriously pissed off because he doesn't yet have his 15% of the $52,109,995 THAT THE GREAT GRAND-NIECE OF UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN ASKED HIM TO HELP SPIRIT AWAY IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT FROM THE GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA BEFORE THE NEXT BUDGET :-)
I agree that this is a huge story. I happen to think it's a big reason why the stock market's off - no imports from the Far East, no toys/clothes on the shelves for Xmas, consumer spending drops, and the last bit of the economy implodes.
So, how do I get to be a longshoreman? $100K/year for unloading big b0x3n off boats sounds like hard work, but fun, especially if this tech thing doesn't work out.
(Seriously - is it so hazardous that they have to offer that much per year to get anyone to take the job? Or is it really $50K/year, but 16-hour days with overtime results in the $100K/year figure? Or are they being grossly overpaid due to their union's militancy, and a $40K/year grunt with a Palm Pilot could do their job just as well?)
The media and my prejudices tell me it's the latter, but that convenient match-up is too convenient -- and I therefore think I'm missing something vitally important here. What piece of the puzzle am I missing?