have heard this from friends who have spent several years in Brazil. Like many Latin American nations, you have wonderful people and great potential, but it's hindered by a tradition of corrupt politics.
No matter what is said, the politics of a country are ultimately the result of its own populace. Politicians are a reflection of the society they represent. Even if that reflection is exaggerated, it is nonetheless, a reflection. People have corrupt politicians because they are themselves corrupt or don't give a rat's ass about what happens outside their own bounding box. If you want some example of how this happens, think of a term we commonly used here in America: "Don't worry, it's a rental". It implies disregard, dishonesty, lack of integrity. Now multiply this a few orders of magnitude and you find yourself in Brazil. They even have a term for this in Portuguese: "Jeitinho" (not sure about spelling), which loosely means "work around" (rules, laws, etc.)
It's not about lack of money or lack of opportunity. It's simply lack of integrity.
As I said, something that pagans do. Of course, you masochists/pagans like that, but Christians don't.
I think body piercing to be a pathethic conforming fad and I really don't like it. However, after reading your post and the notion of being pagan, therefore bad, I feel like piercing my balls just to put it on your face...
Get a grip man. One thing is disliking something, another is preaching bigotry (sp). Hey, I think all christians freaks are weird and should not be hired for anything but menial jobs. How would like that?
it's still nice to finally see some real competition to Photoshop
How can you call it real competition when the thing is being pushed, I mean, given for free? Doesn't this sound a bit like IE and every other market segment Microsoft crushes by baiting with free stuff?
I noticed the same thing. They used to be the reason a lot of people had Macs. They did it to themselves though... Didn't they lay off everybody here and hired all new engineers in India? To this day, they are still having problems with OS X, let alone a switch to Intel.
Terrorists don't exist in vaccum. They exist in reaction to something bugging them. Stop bugging them and they will have no reason to cause terror. Every bit of reaction from 9/11 had nothing to do with fixing the reasons it happened and everything to do with bugging the hell out of the entire planet. First it was a feel wacky arabs pissed. Now it's the entire planet. Way to go...
You don't get around religious doctrine on a technicality.
He, he... you haven't been much around a shomer Shabbat home, have you?:) If you can tape the light switch on a refrigerator so you don't "work" on Sabbath, other things could possibly be "worked around" as well. Think of it as adapting to the situation rather than cheating.
What is truly amazing is the presence of terms such as "sassanach sheep farmers" and "Riverdance" under a subject titled "Basic Cryptography". You got to love/.:P
...people who are smarter and more influential than you are--which is nearly everybody, to be honest--who are actually doing something about the Patriot Act other than smoke dope and bitch about it.
The funniest thing I've read on/. Ever! I'm amazed at your patience for replying to this hallmark of human sapience. Geez... People like these make me embarrassed to say where I am from...
When you control the OS, the Development Tools, the Applications, AND you dominate the market, there is no room for competition or free markets. Before saying this is unfair, you should try to understand a bit more what is the issue. It's about criminal predatory behavior.
If you look at the history of statements of Ballmer, Gates you will realize that they never have thought MS is untouchable. They see it as a constant war.
This is how I've even seen Microsoft for the last 20 years and this is the first time I see someone else pointing it out. I never saw Microsoft (Gates, really) as a greedy corporation wanting to take over the world. I've always seen him as a pathological paranoid schizophrenic thinking the entire planet was after him. Every one of his move is a "reaction" rather than an action. A "defensive" reaction.
Granted, today there are a lot of people out to get him, but this was not the case not that long ago. Things have changed, the markets have changed quite radically but the mentality remains. For anyone who has spent any lenght of time at the Microsoft campus, this is obviously clear. Microsoft behavior is hard to grasp for those without much understanding of the market and technology (the bulk of people). Few people understand what happens to competition when you control the OS, the development tools and the applications market. The whole anti-trust brouhaha was a joke as it never touched these issues and latched itself to silly browser integration and media players, things that people got used to and did not understand the underlying problems. Oh well... we all know what that means.
Typical empty-headed Hollywood liberal, running down free-market capitalism between bites of caviar and lobster. Fuck them.
This sounded a bit more like sour grapes from your part than reality. From the beginning, the money making (licensing and whatnot) was necessary as he was self financing everything. The very first movie was financed by Fox. It was reject time and again as something that wouldn't sell. He finally got it through. When he started working on his second film, he wanted more control over the movie. He wanted to tell a story and didn't want Hollywood to interfere on how that story was told. He was ostracized by Hollywood. Yes, he has made a shitload of money in the process but you can see it invested in moviemaking and not in some outrageous Hollywood lifestyle. What you think about Stars Wars is somewhat irrelevant. What's important is what it meant for everything that came after it. It changed the industry more than anything before or since.
The guy worked his butt off to get where he is today. I don't see it as a liberal running down free-market capitalism. I see someone with a passion for what he does and doing well. Someone who dared to criticize the way things are done in Hollywood. He never said profits are bad. What he complained about was that the artists are screwed by Hollywood and the only people making any money are the deal makers.
If you say he sounds like a liberal taking a free ride, I could say you sound like a communist cry baby pissed because it wasn't you who made the money.
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I wouldn't worry too much if I'm called a non "contributer". I guess that might mean someone making things "contrived"? Who knows...
If even a fraction of the so called fundamentalists had the clear mind you've exposed, I would probably respect them. As is, I see them no different than those muslim radicals they so love to hate.
Bravo, lindo, whatever fucking language you speak. This is the most to-the-point opinion about this issue I've read in a long time (if ever). There is a term for what you describe: Xenophobia. Thanks for that. It almost made me think there is intelligent life forms here at/.
That's pretty stupid. Money goes out and stays out. That's part of the international trade (and deficit therefore). What "American goods"? I haven't seen anything with a "Made In USA" sticker in a very long time. The tidbit about the currency trade is even more naive. No. This is a drain just as everything you buy imported. With few exceptions (Boeing, Phillip Morris, etc.) the US expors no "goods". It's a country of "suers" and "sellers". There won't be anything left.
I've wondered about this too. But then again, wouldn't that be part of this scripting as well? I mean, how many times can you mispronounce "nuclear" and get away with it? Maybe it's all part of this "scripting". One to make it look close to home to most "red Americans"...
I don't know about car alarms but when I saw the term "bird brain", the first thing that came to mind was the mispronunciation of the word "nuclear"...
My politeMy polite answer to Nikon: Fuck Off and Die. Don't ask for my rude answer...
I had been a Nikon user since mid 70's. When the D1 came out I waited a few months but eventually switched to Digital. I went through a D1 and a couple of D1x. Being both an artist and a geek, Nikon's position on its "proprietary" format infuriated me. I love to be able to tweak things. Its refusal to provide an SDK just made me want to switch away. I am a "bona-fide" developer but I did not want to make the request in the name of the company I work for. I wanted the SDK to tweak things. Many programs are out there now because of this sort of things. I did switch. Last November I dumped my entire pile of Nikon gear. 30 years of stuff all at once on eBay. Now I'm a happy camper Canon 1Ds MkII user. Nikon: Fuck off.
That's what makes this so naughty. Only large corporations are able to file patents for every brain-fart they come up with. The small guy is again rear-ended by the tool created to protect him.
You see, this is why we rebelled. None of these stupid namby-pamby taxes.
You are right. Only billions spent on a war that provides us nothing while ours schools have no money to educate our kids. Indeed this all makes sense to me now...
Could you please enlighten us with your communistic wisdom, oh lord of almighty intelligence? I was under the impression that within a communist state, property is non existent. How do you fit secure communications within this context?
Isn't that sort of oxymoronic? In a communist country how does one fit "privacy" and/or "secure" encryption? This is obviously for public use. The government can adopt whatever security standards they dam please for their own communications.
No, I don't. Nor does he as he stated in his post. That's the point. Unless you have good data to back it up, any argument in any direction is religion and not science. This is not peculiar to this small subthread but to this whole conversation. I see a lot of "religion" and very little math.
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have heard this from friends who have spent several years in Brazil. Like many Latin American nations, you have wonderful people and great potential, but it's hindered by a tradition of corrupt politics.
No matter what is said, the politics of a country are ultimately the result of its own populace. Politicians are a reflection of the society they represent. Even if that reflection is exaggerated, it is nonetheless, a reflection. People have corrupt politicians because they are themselves corrupt or don't give a rat's ass about what happens outside their own bounding box. If you want some example of how this happens, think of a term we commonly used here in America: "Don't worry, it's a rental". It implies disregard, dishonesty, lack of integrity. Now multiply this a few orders of magnitude and you find yourself in Brazil. They even have a term for this in Portuguese: "Jeitinho" (not sure about spelling), which loosely means "work around" (rules, laws, etc.)
It's not about lack of money or lack of opportunity. It's simply lack of integrity.As I said, something that pagans do. Of course, you masochists/pagans like that, but Christians don't.
I think body piercing to be a pathethic conforming fad and I really don't like it. However, after reading your post and the notion of being pagan, therefore bad, I feel like piercing my balls just to put it on your face...
Get a grip man. One thing is disliking something, another is preaching bigotry (sp). Hey, I think all christians freaks are weird and should not be hired for anything but menial jobs. How would like that?
it's still nice to finally see some real competition to Photoshop
How can you call it real competition when the thing is being pushed, I mean, given for free? Doesn't this sound a bit like IE and every other market segment Microsoft crushes by baiting with free stuff?
I noticed the same thing. They used to be the reason a lot of people had Macs. They did it to themselves though... Didn't they lay off everybody here and hired all new engineers in India? To this day, they are still having problems with OS X, let alone a switch to Intel.
Terrorists don't exist in vaccum. They exist in reaction to something bugging them. Stop bugging them and they will have no reason to cause terror. Every bit of reaction from 9/11 had nothing to do with fixing the reasons it happened and everything to do with bugging the hell out of the entire planet. First it was a feel wacky arabs pissed. Now it's the entire planet. Way to go...
You don't get around religious doctrine on a technicality.
He, he... you haven't been much around a shomer Shabbat home, have you? :) If you can tape the light switch on a refrigerator so you don't "work" on Sabbath, other things could possibly be "worked around" as well. Think of it as adapting to the situation rather than cheating.
What is truly amazing is the presence of terms such as "sassanach sheep farmers" and "Riverdance" under a subject titled "Basic Cryptography". You got to love /. :P
The funniest thing I've read on /. Ever! I'm amazed at your patience for replying to this hallmark of human sapience. Geez... People like these make me embarrassed to say where I am from...
When you control the OS, the Development Tools, the Applications, AND you dominate the market, there is no room for competition or free markets. Before saying this is unfair, you should try to understand a bit more what is the issue. It's about criminal predatory behavior.
If you look at the history of statements of Ballmer, Gates you will realize that they never have thought MS is untouchable. They see it as a constant war.
This is how I've even seen Microsoft for the last 20 years and this is the first time I see someone else pointing it out. I never saw Microsoft (Gates, really) as a greedy corporation wanting to take over the world. I've always seen him as a pathological paranoid schizophrenic thinking the entire planet was after him. Every one of his move is a "reaction" rather than an action. A "defensive" reaction.
Granted, today there are a lot of people out to get him, but this was not the case not that long ago. Things have changed, the markets have changed quite radically but the mentality remains. For anyone who has spent any lenght of time at the Microsoft campus, this is obviously clear. Microsoft behavior is hard to grasp for those without much understanding of the market and technology (the bulk of people). Few people understand what happens to competition when you control the OS, the development tools and the applications market. The whole anti-trust brouhaha was a joke as it never touched these issues and latched itself to silly browser integration and media players, things that people got used to and did not understand the underlying problems. Oh well... we all know what that means.
Typical empty-headed Hollywood liberal, running down free-market capitalism between bites of caviar and lobster. Fuck them.
This sounded a bit more like sour grapes from your part than reality. From the beginning, the money making (licensing and whatnot) was necessary as he was self financing everything. The very first movie was financed by Fox. It was reject time and again as something that wouldn't sell. He finally got it through. When he started working on his second film, he wanted more control over the movie. He wanted to tell a story and didn't want Hollywood to interfere on how that story was told. He was ostracized by Hollywood. Yes, he has made a shitload of money in the process but you can see it invested in moviemaking and not in some outrageous Hollywood lifestyle. What you think about Stars Wars is somewhat irrelevant. What's important is what it meant for everything that came after it. It changed the industry more than anything before or since.
The guy worked his butt off to get where he is today. I don't see it as a liberal running down free-market capitalism. I see someone with a passion for what he does and doing well. Someone who dared to criticize the way things are done in Hollywood. He never said profits are bad. What he complained about was that the artists are screwed by Hollywood and the only people making any money are the deal makers.
If you say he sounds like a liberal taking a free ride, I could say you sound like a communist cry baby pissed because it wasn't you who made the money.I wouldn't worry too much if I'm called a non "contributer". I guess that might mean someone making things "contrived"? Who knows...
If even a fraction of the so called fundamentalists had the clear mind you've exposed, I would probably respect them. As is, I see them no different than those muslim radicals they so love to hate.
Bravo, lindo, whatever fucking language you speak. This is the most to-the-point opinion about this issue I've read in a long time (if ever). There is a term for what you describe: Xenophobia. Thanks for that. It almost made me think there is intelligent life forms here at /.
That's pretty stupid. Money goes out and stays out. That's part of the international trade (and deficit therefore). What "American goods"? I haven't seen anything with a "Made In USA" sticker in a very long time. The tidbit about the currency trade is even more naive. No. This is a drain just as everything you buy imported. With few exceptions (Boeing, Phillip Morris, etc.) the US expors no "goods". It's a country of "suers" and "sellers". There won't be anything left.
If you need to advertise the size of your dick through your username, I'm not sure the worth of a reply, but hey... I'm bored.
I don't need to design my own camera. I chose a manufacturer who provided what I wanted. That's the beauty of free markets.
As far as the "little shit" comment goes, I'd rather think of it as "grande merda"... but hey, as I said, I'm bored.
I've wondered about this too. But then again, wouldn't that be part of this scripting as well? I mean, how many times can you mispronounce "nuclear" and get away with it? Maybe it's all part of this "scripting". One to make it look close to home to most "red Americans"...
I don't know about car alarms but when I saw the term "bird brain", the first thing that came to mind was the mispronunciation of the word "nuclear"...
My politeMy polite answer to Nikon: Fuck Off and Die. Don't ask for my rude answer...
I had been a Nikon user since mid 70's. When the D1 came out I waited a few months but eventually switched to Digital. I went through a D1 and a couple of D1x. Being both an artist and a geek, Nikon's position on its "proprietary" format infuriated me. I love to be able to tweak things. Its refusal to provide an SDK just made me want to switch away. I am a "bona-fide" developer but I did not want to make the request in the name of the company I work for. I wanted the SDK to tweak things. Many programs are out there now because of this sort of things. I did switch. Last November I dumped my entire pile of Nikon gear. 30 years of stuff all at once on eBay. Now I'm a happy camper Canon 1Ds MkII user. Nikon: Fuck off.
That's what makes this so naughty. Only large corporations are able to file patents for every brain-fart they come up with. The small guy is again rear-ended by the tool created to protect him.
You see, this is why we rebelled. None of these stupid namby-pamby taxes.
You are right. Only billions spent on a war that provides us nothing while ours schools have no money to educate our kids. Indeed this all makes sense to me now...
Could you please enlighten us with your communistic wisdom, oh lord of almighty intelligence? I was under the impression that within a communist state, property is non existent. How do you fit secure communications within this context?
Isn't that sort of oxymoronic? In a communist country how does one fit "privacy" and/or "secure" encryption? This is obviously for public use. The government can adopt whatever security standards they dam please for their own communications.
Radiation from coal is released continually in small quantities, making it tolerable.
For a moment I thought you were talking about cigarettes...
No, I don't. Nor does he as he stated in his post. That's the point. Unless you have good data to back it up, any argument in any direction is religion and not science. This is not peculiar to this small subthread but to this whole conversation. I see a lot of "religion" and very little math.