I don't know about you guys, but I refuse to use the bugridden POS that MSIE is. I haven't wasted one byte worth of bandwidth to download.NET and damned if I will. I don't want it, I don't need it.
I know this isn't everyone's aproach. It's probably just/.-zealots who does things this way, but -we- are the geeks. We are the ones who make and maintain the net. Sure there are some noobie-tools like "Front page", but in my experience the noobs still needs help getting the stuff uploaded.
We shouldn't allow Microsoft to take over the net. When doctoring your none-geeks friends machine, simply remove all MS-conspiracy related trash you can find:)
In short, preach and even pressure people who aren't too talented when it comes to computers. Tell them that you will only assist them, if you are allowed to remove and replace "security risks" and "faulty products".
So when a propaganda-organisation formed single-handedly to promote it's own cause, you swallow everything they say without once applying a minimum of criticism? That seems to be, if not yours, the consensus among some people here.
Anything the RIAA says is just what the RIAA says. It's not law. It doesn't even have to be correct. In fact it can purely be lies.
"The RIAA says" means nothing at all. Not immidiatly anyway.
Copyright is supposed to benefit sosciety because the copyrighted material shall fall into the public domain after a limited copyright period. Thus increasing the cultural base that society may use freely. Since all ideas are inspired by others, this is how it is supposed to benefit society and promote arts and science.
How come people allways forget this last bit when making discussions regarding copyright?
And to anyone trying to restrict the way I can use legally purchased items: Screw goat! Literally. Because what you're into has nothing to do with respecting copyright law. It has with giving corporations power to dictate my behaviour.
Perpetual copyright is not. It was never ment to be. In fact it was ment to be 14 years.
So... Every single original beatles release should be public domain now. Let's take a reality check... Is it? Oh... Copyright was extended retroactively again.
It's that kind of BS that makes me disrepsect copyright law to the extent that I enjoy breaking it.
Unless copyright law is fixed you'll be damned if you see me respect it. Same goes for marihuana-prohibition. Also a law based on complete BS.
Facts and intents have no place in modern law. At least so it seems.
You, sir, are correct. I don't need a car at all. It might be handy to have one, but I don't need it. And they do lots of nasty thing like polluting, making noises, cost money, and so on.
So guess what? I don't have a car. Now I do have a bike, but I don't use it. That's because I can take the time to walk the 30 minutes to work every day.
The real reason ofcourse is that I'm just too lazy to fix my bike, but then again that is kinda fit of me or what?:)
He got gradually worse, to the extent that we didn't really notice. First of all he was wierd to begin with. Second, he was a horny fucker, no doubt. We used to say that he would fuck anything (not anyone). Third, we were partying a lot. Not to mention that we smoked weed on a quite so daily basis.
All in all, we were used to weirdness from his this guy. It took some time until we figured.
So when he started saying that "he could see that those girls wanted him", from hundred meters distance or so, nothing less , he wasn't mental in our eyes, he was just horny and weird.
In the end his mother realized he needed help, and he agreed.
When he got committed, he was pretty much in his own delusional world. From his point of view, and he loves talking about this, so this is not speculation, he were held captive by agents trying to manipulate him. I am not kidding.
And he believed that he were part of a big syndicate smugling heroin, so he really couldn't talk to these agents. Which ofcourse were the people attending him at section 8.
He also believed he had raped, extremely brutaly, a not so little amount of young girls. He believed these agents were trying to tag this onto him, but he did not want to get caught. So he shut up as much as he could.
He also was manicly trying to control his own thoughts. Believe it or not, he thought that others could see what he was thinking, and he wouldn't want to embaress himself in front of others. After all he was quite a perv.
When I called him at the instituition, he talked to me somewhat refusingly. He believed I was in on the agent plot... You get the picture.
But with time and medication, he is returning more to his old self. It has taken a couple of years, but now we can hang out and have fun.
But recovery takes time. Just a few months ago when talking to us, he realized for the first time that people actually cannot see his thoughts.
And he still isn't entirely customed to "being sane" as he himself put it, so it happens he makes a few bloopers. But all in all he is recovering quite well now.
If I hadn't known that he had been committed, and hadn't seen him since he was, I wouldn't see the difference.
If you are lucky and get good treatment, all you need is patience.
Hope this helps in some ways. Feel free to ask any other things if you like.
That's why people, as well as cops, as the general rule are not allowed to bear arms in Norway.
In an emergency, police might pick up some guns from the trunk, and ordinary people are allowed to perform self-defence, but on the general basis: no guns in public.
You'll need a warrent, and those don't come easy. Unlike in the US.
No, there are 3 ways: Buy it, Steal It or Copy It
You're being redundant. The last two are the same thing.
You're knowingly being an asshat. Stealing implies taking a physical object, thus taking something away from the owner.
Copying takes nothing away from the owner. Yes, maybe I'll keep it and not pay up, maybe I'll pay up immidiatly because I liked it, or next month when I got the cash.
Really, who's to tell what happens? We don't know. That still doesn't alter the legal freakin facts. Stealing is stealing is theft. Copying is copying is copyright infringement which is not theft.
You know this, so stop being an farking asshat. Fsck off.
This ever repeated discussion is noticably more uninteresting then the infamous GPL vs. BSD flaming, except here you provably are wrong. So fsck off.
/flamebaint for flamebaiter intended.
Feel free to mod that way. I just want to get the message trough to this farking flamebait.
So you are saying that omiting vital information to distort the picture to give an impression exactly opposite how things really are, really isn't lieing.
You're probably right. If I lead people to believe something that clearly isn't true, based on subjective selection of information, but not telling anything provably wrong, it can't be lieing.
You're just being an asshole with an agenda. This is normal. However, I have a serious beef when people like this has govermental influence.
Call me naive, but I'd like to think that things haven't allways been this bad.
Oh! And feel free to suggest laws against this kinda trickery though. But that would probably backfire on Mr. Bush, so he'll probably be against it.
Slashdot Mirror
I like webstandards. I like what they were ment to achieve. I don't like people directly opposing that.
The day I meet a website saying "Requiring .NET" I will put that site as a 127.0.0.1 hosts entry, but that's probably just me.
Someone might call it an overreaction, but wtf. See if I care.
No. It the other way around. It's property that makes people self absorbed, believing they are smart, and also gives them heavy litigating tendencies.
I don't know about you guys, but I refuse to use the bugridden POS that MSIE is. I haven't wasted one byte worth of bandwidth to download .NET and damned if I will. I don't want it, I don't need it.
I know this isn't everyone's aproach. It's probably just /.-zealots who does things this way, but -we- are the geeks. We are the ones who make and maintain the net. Sure there are some noobie-tools like "Front page", but in my experience the noobs still needs help getting the stuff uploaded.
We shouldn't allow Microsoft to take over the net. When doctoring your none-geeks friends machine, simply remove all MS-conspiracy related trash you can find :)
In short, preach and even pressure people who aren't too talented when it comes to computers. Tell them that you will only assist them, if you are allowed to remove and replace "security risks" and "faulty products".
Surely, they cannot object to that? *hope*
I agree. However, for this scenario to be effective, a binary-level infection needs to be in place before there's any actual risk.
Interesting read, never the less.
Quick! Somebody patent custom protocols! So we can stop them! Otherwise OSS will die! And DRM will reign! And... Oh, well. Whatever.
So when a propaganda-organisation formed single-handedly to promote it's own cause, you swallow everything they say without once applying a minimum of criticism? That seems to be, if not yours, the consensus among some people here.
Anything the RIAA says is just what the RIAA says. It's not law. It doesn't even have to be correct. In fact it can purely be lies.
"The RIAA says" means nothing at all. Not immidiatly anyway.
Copyright is supposed to benefit sosciety because the copyrighted material shall fall into the public domain after a limited copyright period. Thus increasing the cultural base that society may use freely. Since all ideas are inspired by others, this is how it is supposed to benefit society and promote arts and science.
How come people allways forget this last bit when making discussions regarding copyright?
And to anyone trying to restrict the way I can use legally purchased items: Screw goat! Literally. Because what you're into has nothing to do with respecting copyright law. It has with giving corporations power to dictate my behaviour.
Perpetual copyright is not. It was never ment to be. In fact it was ment to be 14 years.
So... Every single original beatles release should be public domain now. Let's take a reality check... Is it? Oh... Copyright was extended retroactively again.
It's that kind of BS that makes me disrepsect copyright law to the extent that I enjoy breaking it.
Unless copyright law is fixed you'll be damned if you see me respect it. Same goes for marihuana-prohibition. Also a law based on complete BS.
Facts and intents have no place in modern law. At least so it seems.
If you want speed, you use Lynx!
'nuff said!
OMG! Stop the press! Fusion power! In the future!
I'm still waiting that Perpetual Motion machine.
At least it got obvious secondary uses, if it's primary doesn't work out.
And that is why we are slashdotting it?
At least thats my experience after "testing" it now.
You, sir, are correct. I don't need a car at all. It might be handy to have one, but I don't need it. And they do lots of nasty thing like polluting, making noises, cost money, and so on.
So guess what? I don't have a car. Now I do have a bike, but I don't use it. That's because I can take the time to walk the 30 minutes to work every day.
The real reason ofcourse is that I'm just too lazy to fix my bike, but then again that is kinda fit of me or what? :)
Damn us green liberals or what? *grin*
Not to weed out a serious subject, but I think most women are chronic scizos.
In case you really don't know.
He got gradually worse, to the extent that we didn't really notice. First of all he was wierd to begin with. Second, he was a horny fucker, no doubt. We used to say that he would fuck anything (not anyone). Third, we were partying a lot. Not to mention that we smoked weed on a quite so daily basis.
All in all, we were used to weirdness from his this guy. It took some time until we figured.
So when he started saying that "he could see that those girls wanted him", from hundred meters distance or so, nothing less , he wasn't mental in our eyes, he was just horny and weird.
In the end his mother realized he needed help, and he agreed.
When he got committed, he was pretty much in his own delusional world. From his point of view, and he loves talking about this, so this is not speculation, he were held captive by agents trying to manipulate him. I am not kidding.
And he believed that he were part of a big syndicate smugling heroin, so he really couldn't talk to these agents. Which ofcourse were the people attending him at section 8.
He also believed he had raped, extremely brutaly, a not so little amount of young girls. He believed these agents were trying to tag this onto him, but he did not want to get caught. So he shut up as much as he could.
He also was manicly trying to control his own thoughts. Believe it or not, he thought that others could see what he was thinking, and he wouldn't want to embaress himself in front of others. After all he was quite a perv.
When I called him at the instituition, he talked to me somewhat refusingly. He believed I was in on the agent plot... You get the picture.
But with time and medication, he is returning more to his old self. It has taken a couple of years, but now we can hang out and have fun.
But recovery takes time. Just a few months ago when talking to us, he realized for the first time that people actually cannot see his thoughts.
And he still isn't entirely customed to "being sane" as he himself put it, so it happens he makes a few bloopers. But all in all he is recovering quite well now.
If I hadn't known that he had been committed, and hadn't seen him since he was, I wouldn't see the difference.
If you are lucky and get good treatment, all you need is patience.
Hope this helps in some ways. Feel free to ask any other things if you like.
Please hold while I make one mile of coffee in my toaster and get a liter of crackers from the vcr.
NOBODY would have gone for that, btw.
But because people are too lazy to learn anything they don't think they'll need, stuff like this happens.
Don't forget the greek font!
That's why people, as well as cops, as the general rule are not allowed to bear arms in Norway.
In an emergency, police might pick up some guns from the trunk, and ordinary people are allowed to perform self-defence, but on the general basis: no guns in public.
You'll need a warrent, and those don't come easy. Unlike in the US.
Seems like it's mostly something the author of the page has written herself. She probably won't mind mirroring, that's just my guess.
There is no Jar Jar (*cough*) in episodes IV, V and VI.
That means that JarJar will be killed in episode 3. I'll pay to see that!
Lazy, paranoid and helpfull.
wget -m http://www.blackboxvoting.org ; chmod -R a+rx *
At your service. As we speak. Univeristy-class hosting.
You might notice a slight glitch, but I'll have that corrected.
You're being redundant. The last two are the same thing.
You're knowingly being an asshat. Stealing implies taking a physical object, thus taking something away from the owner.
Copying takes nothing away from the owner. Yes, maybe I'll keep it and not pay up, maybe I'll pay up immidiatly because I liked it, or next month when I got the cash.
Really, who's to tell what happens? We don't know. That still doesn't alter the legal freakin facts. Stealing is stealing is theft. Copying is copying is copyright infringement which is not theft.
You know this, so stop being an farking asshat. Fsck off.
This ever repeated discussion is noticably more uninteresting then the infamous GPL vs. BSD flaming, except here you provably are wrong. So fsck off.
Feel free to mod that way. I just want to get the message trough to this farking flamebait.
So you are saying that omiting vital information to distort the picture to give an impression exactly opposite how things really are, really isn't lieing.
You're probably right. If I lead people to believe something that clearly isn't true, based on subjective selection of information, but not telling anything provably wrong, it can't be lieing.
You're just being an asshole with an agenda. This is normal. However, I have a serious beef when people like this has govermental influence.
Call me naive, but I'd like to think that things haven't allways been this bad.
Oh! And feel free to suggest laws against this kinda trickery though. But that would probably backfire on Mr. Bush, so he'll probably be against it.
Again? Pigs must be flying in flocks these days!
I also see the need for a "Score: Frozen, Obvious" kinda modifier after seing previous post moded "Informative".
Ofcourse the list of moderations required could be made as long as a decent Windows vs. *nix flamewar...