If you recall, we humans came up with this red dust stuff that killed the Visitors on contact...so they couldn't be on the surface of the planet--hope they answer that situation in the return.
I used Google to search for St. Anger (Metallica's newest release) and found it in about 10 seconds. RIAA should go after Yahoo, Google, Lycos, et. al and leave this kid alone. What a bunch of felch-monkeys....
What penalties are available for those who use GPLed code but don't conform to the "release and show" that one should do? I mean, it's not like Linus could call Linksys up and revoke their license... Could this be the big flaw in GPL?
"So, if you bring bottled water to a park, are drinking fountains litter (since you have no use for them)?"
Nope, the fountains fall into the idea of a building. They're integral to the park itself. I'm not leaving my bottles there, filled with a note saying "FF7 was here" either. Same for the trash recepticles that exist.
"If you never feel the need to sit down, are park benches litter?"
You assume that I don't sit. The benches are, again, integral to the park itself, are a building (per-se) and are meant to be there. Your comprihension is flawed.
"What I am getting at is that there are already several unnatural objects in public parks, because they provide a convenience or possibly a fun factor to that park; and yet you do not seem to specifically object to their presence. What then is your beef with geocaches?"
Unnatural, yes, like a bench or a waterfountain--these serve a purpose to the general populace of the park. A geocache (nice way of saying "shit in a box") is just some containter with a note in it ("Joe was here. Welcome to 67 degrees N, 15 degrees W...") It's an abandoned container (tupperware for instance) with a note inside. It wont degrade in the soil. It's there until someone removes it. And the park clean-up crew has to deal with them. Gee, how would you like to have to go all over the place and pick up someone elses crap they leave behind? This is more likened to litter/garbage and grafitti than anything else and it's not a legitimate item.
*sigh* A Monument is MEANT to be there you clod. It's supposed to exist at that place, as planned by the city leadership, park rangers, et. al. It's not garbage. It's not the same as a pile of shit in a box.
You're the one who has no idea. If you think that any monument is the same as the "caches" left you are seriously on some kind of trip.
If it's not supposed to be there, if it is more or less just some shit in a box, it's not anything more than man-made and abandoned. That's garbage, litter, and annoying. If I find one of these caches in my area, I'm going to throw it away. Just because it's an orderly disposition doesn't make it less than some junk on the ground that the park rangers don't want. Remember the "take nothing and leave only footprints" theory? Well, this is left behind (abandoned), not disposed of, and it is just not supposed to be there. Ergo, garbage/litter.
Mine is not a "definition," rather a point being made. The Caches that are left are, for all intents and putposes, junk in a box. It's not a building, like the Washington Monument, but just a collection of "stuff." So, if I carefully wrap some horse dung, place it in a container, and put it on the roadside that's not litter? Somehow because I plced it there purposefully it mystically transforms into something else? Give me a break.
Previous posters in under this parent have a bit of logical impairment. Nowhere in the parent does bluelip say "buried." Tell me, why does not burying the cache not make this litter? It's material, man made, left out in the open, not in a proper recepticle, and on the ground.
Bubs, that's litter. Don't care if it's in tupperware, or whatever.
Duh... simple people. They KNOW what the KG weighed at the start (2.2046.... pounds.) That amount is convertable to anything else (like X number of silicon atoms, etc.) I don't know why this is that big a deal. Must be the French...
Ok, MS has too much power and money, so you all bitch and moan about that; so they decide to give some away in a charitable fashion, and... you bitch about that, too! Come on, if it was any other company you'd be dancing in the freaking streets. You all are giving MS waaaay too much credit for evil.
that I fall back on great wisdom gleaned from movies. "The Man Who Would Be King" talked about using a good law for a bad purpose. This is such a time. Should a criminal in the midst of a criminal act be allowed to point accusatory fingers? I think not. Ergo: fuck the criminal bastards.
I have contacted my Congressmen and bitched about how this is "a bad idea, and it damages the very security fabric of the Internet and Internet Commerce," but they're in Congress, so that means they're also retarded...I'm sure they had no idea what I was talking about. But I still URGE you all in the strongest possible terms to write your Congress-person and tell them about the shitty legislation that keeps getting passed. They won't know any better if you don't complain. They still will not know any better, but at least you can say you tried, which is better than doing nothing at all--because as we all know the only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Since MS is losing money on the XBox, as indicated in the story, couldn't one assist in MS' decline by purchasing as many XBoxes as was available? So, following that logic, everyone who loathes MS needs to go out and buy an XBox (but no games.)
..."suppose I choose to exercise my personal liberty by murdering random strangers on the street? If you try to stop me, you are abrogating my liberty..."
Sophostry. Illegal activities, beit murder, fraud, libel, slander, or anything deemed so for the protection of the public is not a "right." That is unless you can find a caselaw or Common Law statement of such from any legitimate court. Since you can't we'll ignore this particularly unfortunate statement and move on.
Normally I ignore AC posters, but... Indeed, I am an American. And you're also right. Feel free to check out my journal, where I bemoan the return to McCarthyism.
Thy had to have a camera or something, right? The announcement at the beginning tells you it's illegal. Yet there they are. Insecure.org, by definition is an accessory after-the-fact to illegal copying of copyrighted information.
Good job, guys. Reporting on law-breaking as "news."
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If you recall, we humans came up with this red dust stuff that killed the Visitors on contact...so they couldn't be on the surface of the planet--hope they answer that situation in the return.
if you want to kill consumer level broadband. The government shouldn't be allowed to regulate anything that they don't understand....
I used Google to search for St. Anger (Metallica's newest release) and found it in about 10 seconds. RIAA should go after Yahoo, Google, Lycos, et. al and leave this kid alone. What a bunch of felch-monkeys....
What penalties are available for those who use GPLed code but don't conform to the "release and show" that one should do? I mean, it's not like Linus could call Linksys up and revoke their license... Could this be the big flaw in GPL?
"the maximum is 1280 x 768 @ 75Hz."
For 29" display I expected higher resolutions to be available. Is it just me or is that a bit on the low side?
look at Asia Carerra. She's no geek (well, not the stereotypical geek, at any rate.)
Gaming can use a few more hotties like her to alter the image of geekdom.
"So, if you bring bottled water to a park, are drinking fountains litter (since you have no use for them)?"
Nope, the fountains fall into the idea of a building. They're integral to the park itself. I'm not leaving my bottles there, filled with a note saying "FF7 was here" either. Same for the trash recepticles that exist.
"If you never feel the need to sit down, are park benches litter?"
You assume that I don't sit. The benches are, again, integral to the park itself, are a building (per-se) and are meant to be there. Your comprihension is flawed.
"What I am getting at is that there are already several unnatural objects in public parks, because they provide a convenience or possibly a fun factor to that park; and yet you do not seem to specifically object to their presence. What then is your beef with geocaches?"
Unnatural, yes, like a bench or a waterfountain--these serve a purpose to the general populace of the park. A geocache (nice way of saying "shit in a box") is just some containter with a note in it ("Joe was here. Welcome to 67 degrees N, 15 degrees W...") It's an abandoned container (tupperware for instance) with a note inside. It wont degrade in the soil. It's there until someone removes it. And the park clean-up crew has to deal with them. Gee, how would you like to have to go all over the place and pick up someone elses crap they leave behind? This is more likened to litter/garbage and grafitti than anything else and it's not a legitimate item.
*sigh* A Monument is MEANT to be there you clod. It's supposed to exist at that place, as planned by the city leadership, park rangers, et. al. It's not garbage. It's not the same as a pile of shit in a box.
You're the one who has no idea. If you think that any monument is the same as the "caches" left you are seriously on some kind of trip.
If it's not supposed to be there, if it is more or less just some shit in a box, it's not anything more than man-made and abandoned. That's garbage, litter, and annoying. If I find one of these caches in my area, I'm going to throw it away. Just because it's an orderly disposition doesn't make it less than some junk on the ground that the park rangers don't want. Remember the "take nothing and leave only footprints" theory? Well, this is left behind (abandoned), not disposed of, and it is just not supposed to be there. Ergo, garbage/litter.
Mine is not a "definition," rather a point being made. The Caches that are left are, for all intents and putposes, junk in a box. It's not a building, like the Washington Monument, but just a collection of "stuff." So, if I carefully wrap some horse dung, place it in a container, and put it on the roadside that's not litter? Somehow because I plced it there purposefully it mystically transforms into something else? Give me a break.
Previous posters in under this parent have a bit of logical impairment. Nowhere in the parent does bluelip say "buried." Tell me, why does not burying the cache not make this litter? It's material, man made, left out in the open, not in a proper recepticle, and on the ground.
Bubs, that's litter. Don't care if it's in tupperware, or whatever.
Why is it that when a Microsoftie says something like this it's "Offtopic," "Troll" and "Overrated" but this gets "Funny"?
But in other news, Gentoo can't help it that it's just the superior Linux distro. Really. So stop picking on it and pick it up!
Gentoo and Slack--it's all you need.
that make me wish I had mind control powers. I would so dominate...
Oh, wait, I said that out loud. Well, call me a perv ('cuz I am), I guess.
"OpenMosixKnoppix didn't quite sound good, so I called it ClusterKnoppix ;)"
I would have chosen Kloppix...the "l" for cluster, the rest is self-explanitory.
Duh... simple people. They KNOW what the KG weighed at the start (2.2046.... pounds.) That amount is convertable to anything else (like X number of silicon atoms, etc.) I don't know why this is that big a deal. Must be the French...
Ok, MS has too much power and money, so you all bitch and moan about that; so they decide to give some away in a charitable fashion, and ... you bitch about that, too! Come on, if it was any other company you'd be dancing in the freaking streets. You all are giving MS waaaay too much credit for evil.
An open source benchmark suite for all OSes, one that records all inputs and outputs. This would solve the problems of cheating.
Kinda fuzzy, but that's ok. Makes us almost look lost in the nothingness. Staggering that they could even get that pic.
that I fall back on great wisdom gleaned from movies. "The Man Who Would Be King" talked about using a good law for a bad purpose. This is such a time. Should a criminal in the midst of a criminal act be allowed to point accusatory fingers? I think not. Ergo: fuck the criminal bastards.
I have contacted my Congressmen and bitched about how this is "a bad idea, and it damages the very security fabric of the Internet and Internet Commerce," but they're in Congress, so that means they're also retarded...I'm sure they had no idea what I was talking about. But I still URGE you all in the strongest possible terms to write your Congress-person and tell them about the shitty legislation that keeps getting passed. They won't know any better if you don't complain. They still will not know any better, but at least you can say you tried, which is better than doing nothing at all--because as we all know the only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
REAL:..........MNEMONIC:
Phylum.........Please
Class...........Come
Order..........Over
Family..........For
Genus..........Gay
Species........Sex
Thanks to Robert Smigel (his cartoons) and Saturday Night Live!
But this sort of thing wouldn't happen if congress wasn't corrupt as hell. Amend the 22nd Amendment to equally apply to Congress. It's only fair.
Since MS is losing money on the XBox, as indicated in the story, couldn't one assist in MS' decline by purchasing as many XBoxes as was available? So, following that logic, everyone who loathes MS needs to go out and buy an XBox (but no games.)
Just a thought...
..."suppose I choose to exercise my personal liberty by murdering random strangers on the street? If you try to stop me, you are abrogating my liberty..."
Sophostry. Illegal activities, beit murder, fraud, libel, slander, or anything deemed so for the protection of the public is not a "right." That is unless you can find a caselaw or Common Law statement of such from any legitimate court. Since you can't we'll ignore this particularly unfortunate statement and move on.
Normally I ignore AC posters, but... Indeed, I am an American. And you're also right. Feel free to check out my journal, where I bemoan the return to McCarthyism.
Thy had to have a camera or something, right? The announcement at the beginning tells you it's illegal. Yet there they are. Insecure.org, by definition is an accessory after-the-fact to illegal copying of copyrighted information.
Good job, guys. Reporting on law-breaking as "news."