Ah fook. How did I get myself into this? I don't even support the Greens! I'd tell you what I do believe, but I get the distinct impression you'd either dismiss me as "immature", a leftist, pigeonhole me under some other label, or tell me that I'm saying exactly what the LP says, if I'd only bother to check them out. I apologize for wasting your time.
Whatever. Do you know how fookin' stupid you sound? Do you even know anything about Jello Biafra? He's put out several spoken word albums filled with political speech. He's hardly a celebrity. He's more of an activist than an artist. And in my view, he's pretty cool.
As for your assessment of the Greens: I agree. It is dangerous to use the government as a club. The Libertarian approach is to let capitalists use law (and therefore "the deadly force of government") as a crutch to prop up their exploitation of the land and workers, further dividing society into classes, with no real program to offer true opportunities to those not born into successful capitalist families. Frankly, I don't know why I even bother to vote-- I have a hard time getting into any political party.
Greens socialist vegetarian anti-gun feminists. Ideal society: bland, folk-music and hugs predominate. Democrats that government is best which governs the most. Ideal society: Lake Wobegon, only with a Starbucks. Police have the right to arrest anyone who uses language which doesn't boost the self-esteem of others. Republicans sanctimonious militarism. Ideal society: cowboy cops can shoot drug users on sight, and the pastor is also the mayor. Libertarians merchant class who'd prefer to be nobles. Ideal society: all business executives now considered royalty, workers are of course "free" to work their ass to the bone in factories that poison their neighborhoods for 80 hours a week.
That's about how the ad looked the one time it popped up for me, too.
You'd think they could at least put the story/ad cell into two columns, so that the ad is on the right, story on the left and the ad isn't adding a whole "row" to the existing layout. I don't mind margin ads that much, but to simply throw it as a whole block into the middle of the layout is ugly, distracting, and since it's an ad: presentation is everything.
On behalf of the Slashdot community I hereby award you, former Vice President Dan Quayle, the Murphy Brown Commemorative Idaho State "Real Good Speller" lifetime achievement award. We were going to give it to little Joey Lieberman, but his spelling sucks.
It's obviously a fookin' exaggeration. Duh. You say to take two statistics, but nowhere do you link to, quote, or otherwise reveal the nature thereof. Your conclusion is muddled in its presentation and appears to rely solely on assumptions of cause and effect that are hardly proven. And in fact, what you assert is the cause may be the effect. And vice versa.
Somehow this comment got me wondering when we're going to see an MPAA version of that Courtney Love ripoff of the Steve Albini essay. Will we ever see "Brad Pitt does the math?"
Oh cripes. Probably that story happened when he was all of 19 or 20. And it's not like he intended to hurt anybody. According to that track, the people in the truck had reportedly squirted him with water at least twice by this time. So he dents their big phallovehicle. BFD. They did proceed to chase after him and threaten him with actual bodily injury. I believe getting one's ass kicked by jocks was Standard Operating Procedure for most punk rockers in the late 70's and early 80's. I believe the point of the story is that the jocks were so damn stupid that when the cop came out and was all set to arrest *Jello* over an incident the jocks started, they screwed it up by howling like apes for blood and that the cop ended up driving Jello home and telling the jocks to buzz off. It's not like Jello was set to bomb eastern Europe over it. He's a damn peace activist after all.
Besides, if the Libertarians had their way he would have been armed to the teeth!
Hey. Fook yerself. The Greens rock. They had Jello Biafra as a potential candidate for president-- did you Libertarians have anyone that cool? Well? Cuz unless you can see the Greens one Jello and maybe raise them a Larry Flynt forget it! I'll keep voting for people who care about the social good but have enough brains to respect freedom of speech and private decisions.
I tried to write my congressmen about this on Saturday morning. My email was rejected because it hadn't been submitted using their web forms! I think everybody should switch to web forms. Fook multiple recipients and the CC and BCC fields! I guess I'll just print the damn email out on paper and send it in. Maybe they'll read in 9 months after they've sufficiently tested it for Anthrax, fingerprints, and whatever else. Never mind that it's trivial to forge real mail and non-PGP-signed email-- especially "email" submitted via web form.
The SSSCA is *insane*. It requires every piece of hardware/software to protect copyright, which means the end of cut & paste, email forwarding, and-- most importantly-- the entire alt.binaries.pictures.* hierarchy! Oh fook, did I mention that last one out loud?
But given that the Congress is apparently techno-illiterate, I doubt they'll understand the difference.
Yeah, this is fooked! We'll have to go back to actually having to have real live friends and borrowing their CDs and ripping those. Or asking them what they want from our collections and burning them a custom disc. The horror!:)
I'm not. CD-R's, though, maybe. I've downloaded a fookload mp3s from www.emusic.com-- paid for and now mine legally. I'm not even sure I'll ever be able to listen to all of them. I also have about 300 CDs I've purchased in years past, plus vinyl and tapes. I don't think I have to leech from P2P or buy any new CDs for quite some time.
Oh, sorry, I'm all for the use of Flash to do vector and sprite animations when possible (my idealist half says it would be nice if there were a free standard, my pragmatic half is trying to get over it). I almost never see Flash used for anything but ads-- but maybe they should be called commercials in that form. In reading the article I very much got the sense that Macromedia isn't doing so hot right now and is just trying to boost investor hopes. I doubt this will catch on, given that Google says it's indexed some 2 billion web pages, most written in HTML I'd suspect that's an fookuvalotta inertia to overcome.
Huh. I have cable at home and high speed at work and I've never knowingly found Flash to be good for anything but kids' games and advertisements. Sure it has the potential to be a decent animation platform for vector animations and the like. But if I wanted to want TV I'd watch fookin' TV. If I want to surf hypertext I fire up one of several lovely HTTP clients I have on my computer. On those rare occasions when I do need to see moving pictures on my computer, they are videos, not animations, and should be delivered (preferably as MPEGs) but I can also stand QuickTime or RealPlayer streams in a pinch.
It is not limited in theory maybe, but in practice Slashdot traffic is going to be fairly predictable (except on days like 2001-09-11). Everyday Slashdot gets x number of page views. Because the traffic levels and overall growth/decline patterns are likely to be stable, forecasting future page view levels should not be overly difficult.
That is, until you throw monkey-wrenches into the pattern that fook it all up, like suddenly charging for a previously free service. That's where some market research would be handy. In this case: Slashdot asks 1000 random users to fill out a survey and among the questions are some related to subscriptions and pricing. Then based on those users' habits (obtained from the logs) and their answers, assumptions can be drawn about the level of subscription that would be obtained at various price points. Presumably the price points which allow for the greatest maximization of profit would be chosen for the first roll-out.
And in a way, rolling out pricing the way they are achieves some of this. They will quickly get data on how much people are willing to pay and in what amounts.
Why not? Simply add up the cost to provide the whole metered service, divide by the number of people who will pay for the service, add in your 12% for a return on your assets/investment, and there you go.
And yes, that's simplifying it, but it's not fookin' rocket science.
While I haven't studied the dot-coms intensely, I suspect most of the "crash" is related to them having overvalued stocks and the fact that most of them generated little in the way of actual sales (advertising or otherwise) revenue. That and the fact that most dot-coms seemed to have little in the way of products, true value-adds in the service category, and no real effective way to place advertizing (to draw in ad revenues). I don't see selling a "metered service" as the hard part here.
I, too, like the cookie and javascript control in Konqueror, but the cookie control and javascript control in Galeon are even better. Options to control them are right on the fookin' menus so you don't have to go digging into the preferences dialog to deal with them. Although IIRC, in Konqueror cookies are lots easier to handle than changes in JS policy. Big drawback to Galeon is needing to install the mozilla libraries and Gnome (which I only consider a drawback because I don't use either desktop). One of the main reasons I've switched from using Konqueror is that I could never get it to do FTP correctly through my firewall.
Not to mention, why would you test Galeon under KDE? It's a Gnome application, for fook's sake. Ever run a Gnome app and a KDE app at the same time? Check out the insane number of services running with a 'ps aux' sometime. For that matter, why test any of the listed browsers under KDE?
The word was "Republi-crats" (minus the hyphen). How the fook a corporation can basically contribute equal sums to the general committee of both parties is beyond me. BUt I consider it a serious indication that there ain't no fookin' difference between the two parties when that happens.
Also note this is the first non-general fund donation on the list:
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
REDMOND, WA 98052 12/31/1999 $5,000 Ashcroft Victory Cmte Non-Federal
No wonder they're getting fook-all for punishment. They're not quite at the Assemblies of God level of donations to the Ashcroft coffers, but I can't wait to see Open Secrets when they get 2001 data out there.
Go to OpenSecrets Search, put "microsoft" into the individual donor search field and click the "Go!" button. I think the answer as to why the Republicrats are behaving this way will become immediately apparent.
For those who just can't find a real charity to donate to... just give your money to a private business? Sorry, while I'll gladly pay for their service. Google ain't Public fookin' Television, y'know.
Even under the proposed SSSCA I'll still be able to do that, as long as I don't buy new hardware. I'm also concerned that without all kinds of government red tape, we may see DRM rolled out on a wide scale sooner. If consumers buy the hardware, free software is in danger. Free software thrives now on commodity hardware. Will it run on tomorrow's commodity hardware without violating the DMCA?
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After all, all those people with cell-phnores are really just pirates in the making.
;)
Sounds good to me. Maybe then they'll hang up and drive. Or maybe I'll be able to hear myself think on the bus. I'm not seeing a downside here.
Ah fook. How did I get myself into this? I don't even support the Greens! I'd tell you what I do believe, but I get the distinct impression you'd either dismiss me as "immature", a leftist, pigeonhole me under some other label, or tell me that I'm saying exactly what the LP says, if I'd only bother to check them out. I apologize for wasting your time.
You're absolutely right. Launching all those perl scripts from the command prompt is just wasting time! How could I be so fooking stupid?
Whatever. Do you know how fookin' stupid you sound? Do you even know anything about Jello Biafra? He's put out several spoken word albums filled with political speech. He's hardly a celebrity. He's more of an activist than an artist. And in my view, he's pretty cool.
As for your assessment of the Greens: I agree. It is dangerous to use the government as a club. The Libertarian approach is to let capitalists use law (and therefore "the deadly force of government") as a crutch to prop up their exploitation of the land and workers, further dividing society into classes, with no real program to offer true opportunities to those not born into successful capitalist families. Frankly, I don't know why I even bother to vote-- I have a hard time getting into any political party.
Greens socialist vegetarian anti-gun feminists. Ideal society: bland, folk-music and hugs predominate.
Democrats that government is best which governs the most. Ideal society: Lake Wobegon, only with a Starbucks. Police have the right to arrest anyone who uses language which doesn't boost the self-esteem of others.
Republicans sanctimonious militarism. Ideal society: cowboy cops can shoot drug users on sight, and the pastor is also the mayor.
Libertarians merchant class who'd prefer to be nobles. Ideal society: all business executives now considered royalty, workers are of course "free" to work their ass to the bone in factories that poison their neighborhoods for 80 hours a week.
That's about how the ad looked the one time it popped up for me, too.
You'd think they could at least put the story/ad cell into two columns, so that the ad is on the right, story on the left and the ad isn't adding a whole "row" to the existing layout. I don't mind margin ads that much, but to simply throw it as a whole block into the middle of the layout is ugly, distracting, and since it's an ad: presentation is everything.
On behalf of the Slashdot community I hereby award you, former Vice President Dan Quayle, the Murphy Brown Commemorative Idaho State "Real Good Speller" lifetime achievement award. We were going to give it to little Joey Lieberman, but his spelling sucks.
It's obviously a fookin' exaggeration. Duh. You say to take two statistics, but nowhere do you link to, quote, or otherwise reveal the nature thereof. Your conclusion is muddled in its presentation and appears to rely solely on assumptions of cause and effect that are hardly proven. And in fact, what you assert is the cause may be the effect. And vice versa.
Somehow this comment got me wondering when we're going to see an MPAA version of that Courtney Love ripoff of the Steve Albini essay. Will we ever see "Brad Pitt does the math?"
Heh. Fook! Dammit! Hahaha. :)
(I'll rationalize my response by saying that, hey, someone might've believed you!)
Oh cripes. Probably that story happened when he was all of 19 or 20. And it's not like he intended to hurt anybody. According to that track, the people in the truck had reportedly squirted him with water at least twice by this time. So he dents their big phallovehicle. BFD. They did proceed to chase after him and threaten him with actual bodily injury. I believe getting one's ass kicked by jocks was Standard Operating Procedure for most punk rockers in the late 70's and early 80's. I believe the point of the story is that the jocks were so damn stupid that when the cop came out and was all set to arrest *Jello* over an incident the jocks started, they screwed it up by howling like apes for blood and that the cop ended up driving Jello home and telling the jocks to buzz off. It's not like Jello was set to bomb eastern Europe over it. He's a damn peace activist after all.
Besides, if the Libertarians had their way he would have been armed to the teeth!
Hey. Fook yerself. The Greens rock. They had Jello Biafra as a potential candidate for president-- did you Libertarians have anyone that cool? Well? Cuz unless you can see the Greens one Jello and maybe raise them a Larry Flynt forget it! I'll keep voting for people who care about the social good but have enough brains to respect freedom of speech and private decisions.
I tried to write my congressmen about this on Saturday morning. My email was rejected because it hadn't been submitted using their web forms! I think everybody should switch to web forms. Fook multiple recipients and the CC and BCC fields! I guess I'll just print the damn email out on paper and send it in. Maybe they'll read in 9 months after they've sufficiently tested it for Anthrax, fingerprints, and whatever else. Never mind that it's trivial to forge real mail and non-PGP-signed email-- especially "email" submitted via web form.
The SSSCA is *insane*. It requires every piece of hardware/software to protect copyright, which means the end of cut & paste, email forwarding, and-- most importantly-- the entire alt.binaries.pictures.* hierarchy! Oh fook, did I mention that last one out loud?
But given that the Congress is apparently techno-illiterate, I doubt they'll understand the difference.
Yeah, this is fooked! We'll have to go back to actually having to have real live friends and borrowing their CDs and ripping those. Or asking them what they want from our collections and burning them a custom disc. The horror! :)
I'm not. CD-R's, though, maybe. I've downloaded a fookload mp3s from www.emusic.com-- paid for and now mine legally. I'm not even sure I'll ever be able to listen to all of them. I also have about 300 CDs I've purchased in years past, plus vinyl and tapes. I don't think I have to leech from P2P or buy any new CDs for quite some time.
Oh, sorry, I'm all for the use of Flash to do vector and sprite animations when possible (my idealist half says it would be nice if there were a free standard, my pragmatic half is trying to get over it). I almost never see Flash used for anything but ads-- but maybe they should be called commercials in that form. In reading the article I very much got the sense that Macromedia isn't doing so hot right now and is just trying to boost investor hopes. I doubt this will catch on, given that Google says it's indexed some 2 billion web pages, most written in HTML I'd suspect that's an fookuvalotta inertia to overcome.
Huh. I have cable at home and high speed at work and I've never knowingly found Flash to be good for anything but kids' games and advertisements. Sure it has the potential to be a decent animation platform for vector animations and the like. But if I wanted to want TV I'd watch fookin' TV. If I want to surf hypertext I fire up one of several lovely HTTP clients I have on my computer. On those rare occasions when I do need to see moving pictures on my computer, they are videos, not animations, and should be delivered (preferably as MPEGs) but I can also stand QuickTime or RealPlayer streams in a pinch.
It is not limited in theory maybe, but in practice Slashdot traffic is going to be fairly predictable (except on days like 2001-09-11). Everyday Slashdot gets x number of page views. Because the traffic levels and overall growth/decline patterns are likely to be stable, forecasting future page view levels should not be overly difficult.
That is, until you throw monkey-wrenches into the pattern that fook it all up, like suddenly charging for a previously free service. That's where some market research would be handy. In this case: Slashdot asks 1000 random users to fill out a survey and among the questions are some related to subscriptions and pricing. Then based on those users' habits (obtained from the logs) and their answers, assumptions can be drawn about the level of subscription that would be obtained at various price points. Presumably the price points which allow for the greatest maximization of profit would be chosen for the first roll-out.
And in a way, rolling out pricing the way they are achieves some of this. They will quickly get data on how much people are willing to pay and in what amounts.
Why not? Simply add up the cost to provide the whole metered service, divide by the number of people who will pay for the service, add in your 12% for a return on your assets/investment, and there you go.
And yes, that's simplifying it, but it's not fookin' rocket science.
While I haven't studied the dot-coms intensely, I suspect most of the "crash" is related to them having overvalued stocks and the fact that most of them generated little in the way of actual sales (advertising or otherwise) revenue. That and the fact that most dot-coms seemed to have little in the way of products, true value-adds in the service category, and no real effective way to place advertizing (to draw in ad revenues). I don't see selling a "metered service" as the hard part here.
I, too, like the cookie and javascript control in Konqueror, but the cookie control and javascript control in Galeon are even better. Options to control them are right on the fookin' menus so you don't have to go digging into the preferences dialog to deal with them. Although IIRC, in Konqueror cookies are lots easier to handle than changes in JS policy. Big drawback to Galeon is needing to install the mozilla libraries and Gnome (which I only consider a drawback because I don't use either desktop). One of the main reasons I've switched from using Konqueror is that I could never get it to do FTP correctly through my firewall.
Not to mention, why would you test Galeon under KDE? It's a Gnome application, for fook's sake. Ever run a Gnome app and a KDE app at the same time? Check out the insane number of services running with a 'ps aux' sometime. For that matter, why test any of the listed browsers under KDE?
I wasn't implying that was all it took! That's the only non-general-fund donation on the list. MS and Ashcroft go back a ways is all I'm saying.
The word was "Republi-crats" (minus the hyphen). How the fook a corporation can basically contribute equal sums to the general committee of both parties is beyond me. BUt I consider it a serious indication that there ain't no fookin' difference between the two parties when that happens.
Also note this is the first non-general fund donation on the list: MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 12/31/1999 $5,000 Ashcroft Victory Cmte Non-Federal
No wonder they're getting fook-all for punishment. They're not quite at the Assemblies of God level of donations to the Ashcroft coffers, but I can't wait to see Open Secrets when they get 2001 data out there.
Huh?
Go to OpenSecrets Search, put "microsoft" into the individual donor search field and click the "Go!" button. I think the answer as to why the Republicrats are behaving this way will become immediately apparent.
For those who just can't find a real charity to donate to... just give your money to a private business? Sorry, while I'll gladly pay for their service. Google ain't Public fookin' Television, y'know.
Even under the proposed SSSCA I'll still be able to do that, as long as I don't buy new hardware. I'm also concerned that without all kinds of government red tape, we may see DRM rolled out on a wide scale sooner. If consumers buy the hardware, free software is in danger. Free software thrives now on commodity hardware. Will it run on tomorrow's commodity hardware without violating the DMCA?