(*Announcer comes onto the stage*) Announcer: "It's *STEALING*!" (*Now imagine footage from a 60s-like craze for a band coming to the stage, with thousands of screaming and fainting girls, shaking their heads sideways*)
Alternatively:
(*A band finished playing the last song*) Band leader: And now we are going to play a very special song, for all you fans out there. It's called "THAT'S STEALING"!!! (*Now imagine footage from a 60s-like craze for a band coming to the stage, with thousands of screaming and fainting girls, shaking their heads sideways*)
Have you "launched" a new "course"? The eevil hacker destroyed everthing. Cash, oil, food, it's the global meltdown! Aaah!
LOL. It really reminds me of this game we used to play as children, where the challenge was, to end the story in the destruction of the world, trough a chain of cause and effect, in as few steps as possible. And from a totally harmless starting point.
First a tiny drop of rain fell onto the street. But a insect got stuck in it. Causing a bird to land and pick it up. So the car of the president drove into it, causing a crash and his death. Just while on the phone with the Chinese government. So the CIA assassinates the Chinese premier, because they think he is the responsible one. Which causes China to launch all its nukes, which causes the USA to launch all its nukes, which causes special experimental biochemical weapons to be released, which causes all remaining humans to turn into alienlike raptor-zombies. So a tenthousand years later, some real aliens land, get their ship taken over by the raptor-zombie-humans, which then fly out to enslave and nuke the entire universe!
Yes, it always ends with nukes, and most of the time with monsters too.
I don't take them seriously. They have long lost any respect. What are they going to do? Throw us all in jail. All? Throw 10 in jail, and there are 1000, writing the next, even better anonymized and secure client. They will never get there. Also, they have lost anyway. Even if we could not download anything, the music industry would still be dead and gone in less than a decade. According to us, according to them, according to everybody.
The new industry that rose from it, is the musician industry. Part of the artist industry. An industry that lives without them. and they know it. That's the point.
Oh, and... come up to me, and tell me in my face that that is stealing. And I'm gonna kick you in your ass so deep, that a part of my ass will be in your ass!;) Seriously, what are they thinking? That we wince in fear, and cave in? MUHAHA. Yeah right. A billion people is going to cave in against some of the smallest industries on the planet.
What a great way to think of yourself: That only stupid women would want you.
Please continue. I'll even support you.
Me, I will think women are wisest if they choose me, that I am the greatest man that ever existed, then work hard to actually make that true, and because of that get the greatest women that ever existed. MUHAHAHAHAAAA (*camera zooms away from evil lair, into the sky... and the movie is over*)
Ok, on a more serious note, *I was only half-joking*!
My guess is, that sugar can be the link between those two things. Or generally all very pure carbohydrates.
Because they usually not only make you fatter than fat. (It's a common misconception that fat would be generally bad, while it would be OK if there's still too much sugar in it.) But they also lack the vitamin Bs that you need to digest them... and that your brain unfortunately needs too, to work properly.
Just sayin...
And even if not, you won't hurt yourself by replacing them by wholemeal products and fresh fruits.:) The trick is to make them so tasty that you get used to it, like it by itself, and stop liking sugary and starchy stuff because it tastes too sweet and poor in flavor.
Banking trough the browser is just as stupid as e-mailing, watching videos, chatting, etc. (Ok, there are exceptions, like when you're not at home. but you wouldn't do banking there anyway.) There are specialized protocols that are much much better at it.
For banking, that would be FinTS. I'm using its predecessor HBCI for nearly a decade now. Including the usage of a class 2 card reader with card.
I am really happy with it. There are nice programs for it, like GnuCash or KMyMoney, and all professional programs support it. No need to use the browser for it.
What? It's true, and was not meant to feel trollish, but written with good intentions. You must have misunderstood something.
Or do you really want to live in global "unity" (something that is physically impossible, and would be a lie), with nowhere to go when they are trying to find something to hang you because they don't like you? Really? I mean *really*?? It's a total loss of freedom, you know.
And my examples to imagine, were just so you knew what I meant. I could just as well use North Korea, Stalin's regime, or anything else with totalitarian tendencies as examples. But which ones are you more related to at the moment? See...:)
The FCC stated that they will go after violations. This is not the same as them actually doing it!
Let's first wait and see how this agency, that is stuffed with people from companies that are net-neutrality opponents, actually will perform. I personally don't believe a word of what a government agency says. Because I learned a bit about rhetorics. And one thing is clear: The reason they are saying it, is never ever to inform anyone about their intentions, but always about reaching a specific effect in the target group.
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and it's an old hat with pretty much every professional marketing company. Either employees are asked to post things, or they hire some external people, like in this example.
I have seen it, I have even been asked to do it*, and from what I know, it's pretty much an expected standard. Music, games, books, websites, other products, you name it...
The only difference is, that real professional companies have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy about it, and the only person asking is your direct boss, in private.
___ * and lied about actually doing it, like most people in the company at that time, because half the staff just got fired because of management incompetence
And why would we want a unified planet? I mean you can't even get to one p.o.v with all your friends, let alone a whole country, and you expect global lockstep?
There will always be differences and arguments. The point is that we will hopefully be able to solve them without ripping our heads off. But this does not mean we all have to live under the same rules. We can live happily side-by-side with differing view.
The only thing a global unity is absolutely guaranteed to bring, is the lack of any freedom of choice in politics/regime/laws/etc. Imagine the US nation under bush, or how it's in UK now... But global! Now think about this: Where would all those go, who wanted to leave the country?
Well, in the long term, they would go to jail. It's the totalitarian dream. And it will only happen over my dead body, and those of many many other people.
Hey, you gave me an idea for long-term storage: How about a micro-engraved hard metal disc with a protection against the effects of nature (eg chemicals and humidity in the air)? Like a vinyl disk for example. Make it as detailed as possible, and always deliver it with a reader that survives the same time and has a wide variety of interfaces.
Well, what do you think AK-47s in Afghanistan are made of? My father told me, that they rip(ped) off parts of bombs that did not explode, car parts, etc, and then used a small hammer and fire, to make real working AK-47s out of them. Horribly unprofessional and very impressive at the same time. ^^
Yeah. An iPod. Good luck with DRM then complaining you did not connect to the Apple server for 17 years and therefore can't use the thing at all anymore.:P That fad is like a bad virus. It just won't die. It's just an MP3 player for god's sake!
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I have never in my life seen so bad errors. What does "He's" even mean? "He his"? He what his what? ^^
Oh, and I'd recommend going outside once in the decade. It prevents nasty outbreaks of cheap IT porn literature. ;)
Is it in heat with tons of pussies aroun...? ...OH SHIT!
Mod parent up! This is the best comment on the whole page!
So true...
I think we should have multiple competing governments in the same country! In a way, one government alone, is an unacceptable monopoly.
Yes, I'm serious!
(*Announcer comes onto the stage*)
Announcer: "It's *STEALING*!"
(*Now imagine footage from a 60s-like craze for a band coming to the stage, with thousands of screaming and fainting girls, shaking their heads sideways*)
Alternatively:
(*A band finished playing the last song*)
Band leader: And now we are going to play a very special song, for all you fans out there. It's called "THAT'S STEALING"!!!
(*Now imagine footage from a 60s-like craze for a band coming to the stage, with thousands of screaming and fainting girls, shaking their heads sideways*)
That site: http://iase.disa.mil/eta/iaav7-3/iaa/index.html (the first link in TFS)
Have you "launched" a new "course"? The eevil hacker destroyed everthing. Cash, oil, food, it's the global meltdown! Aaah!
LOL. It really reminds me of this game we used to play as children, where the challenge was, to end the story in the destruction of the world, trough a chain of cause and effect, in as few steps as possible. And from a totally harmless starting point.
First a tiny drop of rain fell onto the street.
But a insect got stuck in it.
Causing a bird to land and pick it up.
So the car of the president drove into it, causing a crash and his death.
Just while on the phone with the Chinese government.
So the CIA assassinates the Chinese premier, because they think he is the responsible one.
Which causes China to launch all its nukes, which causes the USA to launch all its nukes, which causes special experimental biochemical weapons to be released,
which causes all remaining humans to turn into alienlike raptor-zombies.
So a tenthousand years later, some real aliens land, get their ship taken over by the raptor-zombie-humans, which then fly out to enslave and nuke the entire universe!
Yes, it always ends with nukes, and most of the time with monsters too.
Or the short video version: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end
...news at 11.
I don't take them seriously. They have long lost any respect. What are they going to do? Throw us all in jail. All? Throw 10 in jail, and there are 1000, writing the next, even better anonymized and secure client. They will never get there.
Also, they have lost anyway. Even if we could not download anything, the music industry would still be dead and gone in less than a decade. According to us, according to them, according to everybody.
The new industry that rose from it, is the musician industry. Part of the artist industry. An industry that lives without them. and they know it. That's the point.
Oh, and... come up to me, and tell me in my face that that is stealing. ;)
And I'm gonna kick you in your ass so deep, that a part of my ass will be in your ass!
Seriously, what are they thinking? That we wince in fear, and cave in? MUHAHA. Yeah right.
A billion people is going to cave in against some of the smallest industries on the planet.
Good luck with that! :D
What a great way to think of yourself: That only stupid women would want you.
Please continue. I'll even support you.
Me, I will think women are wisest if they choose me, that I am the greatest man that ever existed, then work hard to actually make that true, and because of that get the greatest women that ever existed. MUHAHAHAHAAAA
(*camera zooms away from evil lair, into the sky... and the movie is over*)
Ok, on a more serious note, *I was only half-joking*!
My guess is, that sugar can be the link between those two things. Or generally all very pure carbohydrates.
Because they usually not only make you fatter than fat. (It's a common misconception that fat would be generally bad, while it would be OK if there's still too much sugar in it.)
But they also lack the vitamin Bs that you need to digest them... and that your brain unfortunately needs too, to work properly.
Just sayin...
And even if not, you won't hurt yourself by replacing them by wholemeal products and fresh fruits. :) The trick is to make them so tasty that you get used to it, like it by itself, and stop liking sugary and starchy stuff because it tastes too sweet and poor in flavor.
And it's known for a long time. :)
Banking trough the browser is just as stupid as e-mailing, watching videos, chatting, etc. (Ok, there are exceptions, like when you're not at home. but you wouldn't do banking there anyway.)
There are specialized protocols that are much much better at it.
For banking, that would be FinTS. I'm using its predecessor HBCI for nearly a decade now. Including the usage of a class 2 card reader with card.
I am really happy with it. There are nice programs for it, like GnuCash or KMyMoney, and all professional programs support it. No need to use the browser for it.
Recommended to be used with a class 2 card reader and a RSA chip card, to move any possibility of fraud, and even keyloggers, out of the way.
More infors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBCI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinTS
There, solved it for you.
I was. And I expected something like this: http://moisdeadserious.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downey-jr-tropic-thunder.jpg
What? It's true, and was not meant to feel trollish, but written with good intentions. You must have misunderstood something.
Or do you really want to live in global "unity" (something that is physically impossible, and would be a lie), with nowhere to go when they are trying to find something to hang you because they don't like you? Really? I mean *really*??
It's a total loss of freedom, you know.
And my examples to imagine, were just so you knew what I meant. I could just as well use North Korea, Stalin's regime, or anything else with totalitarian tendencies as examples. But which ones are you more related to at the moment? :)
See...
The FCC stated that they will go after violations.
This is not the same as them actually doing it!
Let's first wait and see how this agency, that is stuffed with people from companies that are net-neutrality opponents, actually will perform.
I personally don't believe a word of what a government agency says. Because I learned a bit about rhetorics. And one thing is clear: The reason they are saying it, is never ever to inform anyone about their intentions, but always about reaching a specific effect in the target group.
and it's an old hat with pretty much every professional marketing company. Either employees are asked to post things, or they hire some external people, like in this example.
I have seen it, I have even been asked to do it*, and from what I know, it's pretty much an expected standard.
Music, games, books, websites, other products, you name it...
The only difference is, that real professional companies have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy about it, and the only person asking is your direct boss, in private.
___
* and lied about actually doing it, like most people in the company at that time, because half the staff just got fired because of management incompetence
and the majority of desktop users switch to Macs
Yeah. Right. In what wet dream involving the great savior did you come up with that? ;)
(P.S.: They should use that sentence instead of "citation needed". Would be much more fun. ^^)
Yeah. Then we Germans could also call it Mac-Affe (Affe = monkey/ape), and state that our Macs now are protected by monkeys. ;)
Wait, I'll ask Ballmer. He will meet Cheney in his home tonight for some sweet sweet love. He can tell us, if he survives it.
Hey, I *actually* don't even own a TV for a decade, you insensitive clod!
And so do my friends! ;)
Yet the whole world, except for some tiny but very delusionally arrogant group, spell it "Aluminium".
Live with it. You can't change it, even if you believe everybody on the planet is living in your regional reality.
Your children will call it Aluminium anyway. And their children will not even know that there was another spelling.
And why would we want a unified planet? I mean you can't even get to one p.o.v with all your friends, let alone a whole country, and you expect global lockstep?
There will always be differences and arguments. The point is that we will hopefully be able to solve them without ripping our heads off. But this does not mean we all have to live under the same rules. We can live happily side-by-side with differing view.
The only thing a global unity is absolutely guaranteed to bring, is the lack of any freedom of choice in politics/regime/laws/etc. Imagine the US nation under bush, or how it's in UK now... But global! Now think about this: Where would all those go, who wanted to leave the country?
Well, in the long term, they would go to jail. It's the totalitarian dream. And it will only happen over my dead body, and those of many many other people.
Hey, you gave me an idea for long-term storage: How about a micro-engraved hard metal disc with a protection against the effects of nature (eg chemicals and humidity in the air)?
Like a vinyl disk for example. Make it as detailed as possible, and always deliver it with a reader that survives the same time and has a wide variety of interfaces.
Well, what do you think AK-47s in Afghanistan are made of? My father told me, that they rip(ped) off parts of bombs that did not explode, car parts, etc, and then used a small hammer and fire, to make real working AK-47s out of them. Horribly unprofessional and very impressive at the same time. ^^
Yeah. An iPod. Good luck with DRM then complaining you did not connect to the Apple server for 17 years and therefore can't use the thing at all anymore. :P
That fad is like a bad virus. It just won't die. It's just an MP3 player for god's sake!