You should be ashamed for protecting those criminals with a badge, just out of some pointless over-the-top national pride. If you hadn’t proven with your comment, that you are American, I’d sad you’re French. There’s no big difference in national pride + arrogance anyway.
You mean the same border guards who beat the crap out of everyone that they can pick out of the mass? Those that kick your ass if you are not extra nice to them, and then convict YOU for assault. Those that put drugs in your car and then punish you for it, just for fun, or to fill some quota, etc?
Uuum, I don’t want to kill your argument, but... How about going OUT??;) You know: Where you can get real actual sex, get drunk, have fun, etc. Certainly more social than any of those anonymous games.
You forget that the REASON the IQ could drop that low, is because it could! The games were made for dumber users, under the excuse of “not losing clients”. What they meant were the loud ones. Who also normally are the dumb ones. While they still lost the more intelligent clients. (Like me and you.)
It’s a vicious cycle. But humanity is not to blame, since humans always are most efficient, by not using more resources than needed. Including intelligence. The companies are to blame, who in their endless greed bought into a misconception, and traded art and creativity for greed and business decisions, based on the loudest idiot in the complaints box.
What? Windows is THE tablet OS. Since its whole UI is designed to be used solely by the mouse. Hell even MS Word is mainly a button-pusher app, with a irrelevant text area.;)
Try to use Windows with a mouse only. And then with the keyboard only. Some things will be impossible with the keyboard only. While you can do everything with the mouse.
I’m sorry, but what does all that have to do with the iPhone in particular, rather than smartphones in general? Maybe it looks like that for Americans, since your providers kept you in the dark ages.
I had smartphones that were nothing short of full computers back in 2003. Of course the sound was still mono, the memory was small, and it still lacked a touch screen. But it had video/audio, a browser, file manager, e-mail, Java, the ability to install what you like, a camera, Putty, games, bluetooth, a scientific calculator, a PIM suite, removable storage, copy/paste with a separate button (worked like shift on PCs).
The only novelty of the iPhone was a touch screen with a fitting UI, and... well... that’s about it. And actually it wasn’t even a novelty at all, by Japanese standards. Rather a late contender. Plus you bought this functionality for the price of lacking half the functionality and freedom of any other smartphone on the market.
The iPhone is just. another. phone. And a pretty mediocre one. So get out of your delusion. You too Mr. Schell!
Just wondering why the technician was going through all that stuff? Seems like service people are being a lot more thorough than is required to get the computer working again.
Well, actually it’s an illegal privacy violation. Like your cleaner going trough your drawers, looking for private stuff.
I’ve though about this quite some time. And the core problem of all of this, is the intent. Or rather that we can’t find out your intent.
If we knew the intent, we could put someone who is trying your scheme, into jail. But not someone who really accidentally landed on such a site. (E.g. a Goatse-like CP link going trough a URL shortener.) This is a giant problem. Which results in the self-contradiction of: 1. Innocent until proven guilty. (= In case of unknown intention, you are not guilty.) 2. Ignorance is no protection against punishment. (= In case of unknown intention, you are guilty.)
I think (2) is morally wrong, because in the cane that the intention really is not known, one should never assume evil intentions. Ever. That’s what proof is for! Proof of intention. For example: A) Someone downloads CP. He jacks off to it, and gets caught in mid-action. -> Guilty! B) Someone downloads CP. He tries to analyze the images to see if he can find clues on how to catch the guy. Later, someone finds the images on his computer. -> NOT guilty! Even if the intention was not known. Even if his intention was bad, but not known.
A fair society demands the rules to be like this. Or else everybody can just shove CP on your computer when you don’t look, and then throw you in jail for it.
Ok, then try to explain quantum physics (especially QED) to them. Something that the very people who came up with it do not fully understand, according to themselves. ^^
If this guy is guilty, then show it, and you can chuck him in jail and take his computer. If he's innocent, give him his computer back.
Wrong. You still have to give him his computer back after removal of CP. It’s still his posession. So everything else still means theft. Also even if he would be a cruel rapist and mass murderer, you’d still have to respect his privacy.
Or else we are no better than a Nazi intelligence agency, and certainly no better than the criminals we put into jails.
It’s the law of reactive efficiency. They will only change something, if they lost something before, that was big enough to seriously get them at risk of losing their job. Otherwise, what would be the point? (From their p.o.v.) Seriously.
I mean you got a job. And your job is to obey rules. So you switch to passive mode. You get good money. So you get the most profit from it, if you do the least possible amount of work in return.
It’s how nature works, and there is nothing weird about it.
The problem is that: 1. They are not actively involved in their organization. (Including the risk.) 2. And they can‘t feel any danger. We only feel the danger. But we can’t pass it on and threaten to punish them.
I bet you money that if you get them to fear for their jobs, or achieve to threaten those who already are responsible, they WILL change something. (Don’t forget to state exactly what you expect to get! ^^)
In Linux world, it’s normal that the packages you get via your package manager have custom patches in them. So we get the fixes ASAP anyway. (Of course Windows, being the Playmobil OS that is is, lacks a general package manager.)
But I also wonder why they don’t just shove the minor updates in patch form trough their update functionality. Just like addons can get updated every time you start Firefox. It would be what? A a couple of bytes?
Then again, this also says that the smaller ones are not really worse than the big ones. Which is kinda obvious.
I think if you want to find the core of the problem, you have to follow the money. But I fear that that has already been done, and that it lead right back to the friends of the ones who were searching for it. (Big advertisement companies, big pharma, etc.) Which caused them to do nothing.
My guess is that they use a straw-man company so they appear detached. I have seen this in Internet companies who didn’t want to be affiliated with their porn section. (Sometimes for legal reasons.)
So an independent group should infiltrate them. Just open your own spam business, gain some trust, see who bites, track their money sources back without them knowing...
But OK, even this fixes nothing. Maybe we should go to the root cause: Whatever results in people, dumb enough to really buy stuff like that. Bad education springs to mind. Media and politics that cause passive people. Etc. On the other hand, spammers create some needed kind of natural selection, that is hurting the dumb, which gives intelligent people an advantage. Which definitely is not a bad thing for humanity. ^^
I was talking about trends in general. Fashion, humor, software...
But yes: I am saying that 100% (yes, one-hundred percent) of the stock market trends, are created trough pump-and-dump-like schemes. Doesn’t matter if it’s illegal.
What does poorness have to do with fake fashion “trends”? Perhaps you really think there is no other way than either run around looking like crap or following those fake “trends”. Which means that you completely missed my point.
As I said: Start the trends yourself! I made all my friends use Firefox, and wanting to use Linux, because I used it and showed them. It was so impressive, and I was so secure in my reality, that they saw it too. Hell, my desktop is so good looking that girls ask me if I could install that on their system too. With clothes it’s the exact same thing.
Or in one sentence: It’s not the clothes that make you cool. It must be you who makes the clothes cool!:) I do exactly that. But of course it requires high self-esteem.:)
Waddaya mean “stuck”. Those who are incompetent use whatever came/comes with their computer (IE on Vista/Win7), and the competent don’t use IE, no matter what the OS is. Except in Europe, where we have the browser ballot.
Oh, and don’t bet on my sites caring if you got a browser with a buggy implementation of an outdated standard. IE9 will be the first IE I’m going to support again. But only if they adhere to the standard by the same means as other browsers. (MS: That does not mean we’re good. Your respect debt will just stop getting bigger. You still have to pay it off AND make some profit, before that happens.)
1. There are a couple of dudes, who just make up the latest “trends”. 2. Which of course is where they have their money in. 3. Now the dumb people who listen to them buy those s(t)ocks. 4. And the prophecy fulfills itself. (Yep, that’s the “...” point in all those plans.) 5. PROFIT!
Of course in stocks, after it starts to rise because of the dumb people, the more intelligent got a real reason to invest, and so it goes even higher. In fashion on the other hand people do it because they are such losers that they think they would be left out and not accepted otherwise.
So it’s all rigged. But if you know a bit of social engineering, and are really full of yourself, you can be a rigger too.
My motto: I don’t follow trends. I MAKE them. (And so should you.:)
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You should be ashamed for protecting those criminals with a badge, just out of some pointless over-the-top national pride. If you hadn’t proven with your comment, that you are American, I’d sad you’re French. There’s no big difference in national pride + arrogance anyway.
Ok, I love Firefox’s add-ons and all. It’s great for web development.
But Firefox now officially has jumped the shark.
I’ll check out Opera. I’ve head they support user-supplied extensions too.
So now people call you a jerk, if you not succumb to the big OBEY signs?
Fuck you!
And that’s why this exact situation was a theme in Idiocracy.
That kind of guard/cop/bully is nothing short of a criminal with a badge.
You mean the same border guards who beat the crap out of everyone that they can pick out of the mass?
Those that kick your ass if you are not extra nice to them, and then convict YOU for assault.
Those that put drugs in your car and then punish you for it, just for fun, or to fill some quota, etc?
Those guard types?
Uuum, I don’t want to kill your argument, but... How about going OUT?? ;)
You know: Where you can get real actual sex, get drunk, have fun, etc.
Certainly more social than any of those anonymous games.
You forget that the REASON the IQ could drop that low, is because it could!
The games were made for dumber users, under the excuse of “not losing clients”. What they meant were the loud ones. Who also normally are the dumb ones.
While they still lost the more intelligent clients. (Like me and you.)
It’s a vicious cycle. But humanity is not to blame, since humans always are most efficient, by not using more resources than needed. Including intelligence.
The companies are to blame, who in their endless greed bought into a misconception, and traded art and creativity for greed and business decisions, based on the loudest idiot in the complaints box.
What? Windows is THE tablet OS. Since its whole UI is designed to be used solely by the mouse. Hell even MS Word is mainly a button-pusher app, with a irrelevant text area. ;)
Try to use Windows with a mouse only. And then with the keyboard only.
Some things will be impossible with the keyboard only. While you can do everything with the mouse.
I know because I was forced to try it out.
P.S.: Yes, I’m exaggerating it a bit. ;)
I’m sorry, but what does all that have to do with the iPhone in particular, rather than smartphones in general?
Maybe it looks like that for Americans, since your providers kept you in the dark ages.
I had smartphones that were nothing short of full computers back in 2003. Of course the sound was still mono, the memory was small, and it still lacked a touch screen. But it had video/audio, a browser, file manager, e-mail, Java, the ability to install what you like, a camera, Putty, games, bluetooth, a scientific calculator, a PIM suite, removable storage, copy/paste with a separate button (worked like shift on PCs).
The only novelty of the iPhone was a touch screen with a fitting UI, and... well... that’s about it.
And actually it wasn’t even a novelty at all, by Japanese standards. Rather a late contender.
Plus you bought this functionality for the price of lacking half the functionality and freedom of any other smartphone on the market.
The iPhone is just. another. phone. And a pretty mediocre one.
So get out of your delusion. You too Mr. Schell!
Just wondering why the technician was going through all that stuff? Seems like service people are being a lot more thorough than is required to get the computer working again.
Well, actually it’s an illegal privacy violation. Like your cleaner going trough your drawers, looking for private stuff.
You made a good point.
I’ve though about this quite some time. And the core problem of all of this, is the intent.
Or rather that we can’t find out your intent.
If we knew the intent, we could put someone who is trying your scheme, into jail. But not someone who really accidentally landed on such a site. (E.g. a Goatse-like CP link going trough a URL shortener.)
This is a giant problem. Which results in the self-contradiction of:
1. Innocent until proven guilty. (= In case of unknown intention, you are not guilty.)
2. Ignorance is no protection against punishment. (= In case of unknown intention, you are guilty.)
I think (2) is morally wrong, because in the cane that the intention really is not known, one should never assume evil intentions. Ever.
That’s what proof is for! Proof of intention.
For example:
A) Someone downloads CP. He jacks off to it, and gets caught in mid-action. -> Guilty!
B) Someone downloads CP. He tries to analyze the images to see if he can find clues on how to catch the guy. Later, someone finds the images on his computer. -> NOT guilty! Even if the intention was not known. Even if his intention was bad, but not known.
A fair society demands the rules to be like this. Or else everybody can just shove CP on your computer when you don’t look, and then throw you in jail for it.
Ok, then try to explain quantum physics (especially QED) to them. Something that the very people who came up with it do not fully understand, according to themselves. ^^
If this guy is guilty, then show it, and you can chuck him in jail and take his computer. If he's innocent, give him his computer back.
Wrong. You still have to give him his computer back after removal of CP. It’s still his posession. So everything else still means theft. Also even if he would be a cruel rapist and mass murderer, you’d still have to respect his privacy.
Or else we are no better than a Nazi intelligence agency, and certainly no better than the criminals we put into jails.
It’s the law of reactive efficiency.
They will only change something, if they lost something before, that was big enough to seriously get them at risk of losing their job.
Otherwise, what would be the point? (From their p.o.v.)
Seriously.
I mean you got a job. And your job is to obey rules. So you switch to passive mode.
You get good money. So you get the most profit from it, if you do the least possible amount of work in return.
It’s how nature works, and there is nothing weird about it.
The problem is that:
1. They are not actively involved in their organization. (Including the risk.)
2. And they can‘t feel any danger. We only feel the danger. But we can’t pass it on and threaten to punish them.
I bet you money that if you get them to fear for their jobs, or achieve to threaten those who already are responsible, they WILL change something. (Don’t forget to state exactly what you expect to get! ^^)
In Linux world, it’s normal that the packages you get via your package manager have custom patches in them. So we get the fixes ASAP anyway. (Of course Windows, being the Playmobil OS that is is, lacks a general package manager.)
But I also wonder why they don’t just shove the minor updates in patch form trough their update functionality. Just like addons can get updated every time you start Firefox. It would be what? A a couple of bytes?
Then again, this also says that the smaller ones are not really worse than the big ones. Which is kinda obvious.
I think if you want to find the core of the problem, you have to follow the money. But I fear that that has already been done, and that it lead right back to the friends of the ones who were searching for it. (Big advertisement companies, big pharma, etc.) Which caused them to do nothing.
My guess is that they use a straw-man company so they appear detached. I have seen this in Internet companies who didn’t want to be affiliated with their porn section. (Sometimes for legal reasons.)
So an independent group should infiltrate them. Just open your own spam business, gain some trust, see who bites, track their money sources back without them knowing...
But OK, even this fixes nothing. Maybe we should go to the root cause: Whatever results in people, dumb enough to really buy stuff like that. Bad education springs to mind. Media and politics that cause passive people. Etc.
On the other hand, spammers create some needed kind of natural selection, that is hurting the dumb, which gives intelligent people an advantage. Which definitely is not a bad thing for humanity. ^^
lol. :)
Ok, in other words: Stop buying into other people’s realities. Including mine. So: Don’t feed off of other people’s (twisted) perceptions so much!
I was talking about trends in general. Fashion, humor, software...
But yes: I am saying that 100% (yes, one-hundred percent) of the stock market trends, are created trough pump-and-dump-like schemes.
Doesn’t matter if it’s illegal.
What does poorness have to do with fake fashion “trends”?
Perhaps you really think there is no other way than either run around looking like crap or following those fake “trends”.
Which means that you completely missed my point.
As I said: Start the trends yourself!
I made all my friends use Firefox, and wanting to use Linux, because I used it and showed them. It was so impressive, and I was so secure in my reality, that they saw it too. Hell, my desktop is so good looking that girls ask me if I could install that on their system too.
With clothes it’s the exact same thing.
Or in one sentence: It’s not the clothes that make you cool. It must be you who makes the clothes cool! :) :)
I do exactly that. But of course it requires high self-esteem.
Waddaya mean “stuck”. Those who are incompetent use whatever came/comes with their computer (IE on Vista/Win7), and the competent don’t use IE, no matter what the OS is.
Except in Europe, where we have the browser ballot.
Oh, and don’t bet on my sites caring if you got a browser with a buggy implementation of an outdated standard.
IE9 will be the first IE I’m going to support again. But only if they adhere to the standard by the same means as other browsers.
(MS: That does not mean we’re good. Your respect debt will just stop getting bigger. You still have to pay it off AND make some profit, before that happens.)
I meant "difficult to use" -- the user interface basically doesn't exist yet.
You mean it doesn’t offer you a retarded point-and-click interface?
That’s not a bug. It’s a feature. So people like you don’t touch it.
BIND has a pleasing interface based on text files. Just like any other professional server software.
You mean like Windows ME? ^^
No. On earth the (a-)holes live on the surface. And nowadays they easily can outweigh an iron core. ;)
1. There are a couple of dudes, who just make up the latest “trends”.
2. Which of course is where they have their money in.
3. Now the dumb people who listen to them buy those s(t)ocks.
4. And the prophecy fulfills itself. (Yep, that’s the “...” point in all those plans.)
5. PROFIT!
Of course in stocks, after it starts to rise because of the dumb people, the more intelligent got a real reason to invest, and so it goes even higher. In fashion on the other hand people do it because they are such losers that they think they would be left out and not accepted otherwise.
So it’s all rigged. But if you know a bit of social engineering, and are really full of yourself, you can be a rigger too.
My motto: I don’t follow trends. I MAKE them. (And so should you. :)
The bug will not only have sex with one, but many male bugs. And one of them will have working sperm. Done.
Maybe making the females sterile would make a bit more sense. ^^
For database designers: It’s a one-to-many relationship.