First off, many of the posts on here attacking france seem to be coming from other europeans.
You're opinions don't make you hostile, it's your expression of those opinions that makes you hostile.
I didn't say or imply that you were wrong either.
"I chose to respond by criticizing the pseudo conservatism of Bush's America and juxtapose it to the supposed censorship that EU goverments impose on nazi-like fanatics."
Which makes no sense giving the context of the conversation. This makes it all the more hostile of your post to attack conservatism in america when this topic, and most of the replies of this topic, don't express conservatism in america as the way to be.
Maybe you haven't been around here long, but I think you'll find a trend that/.'ers are more liberal and anti-bush than not.
I tend to agree with alot of what you said. I'm still in the process of forming solid opinions because the consequences are very complex.
I think the greatest villain here is the A or B mentality. Nobody considers ab a potential solution.
Recently I've been playing with the idea of splitting the country into smaller pieces. To me, the point of democracy is to bring forth the will of the majority. I don't think a 51% majority is a majority at all, it's a silent civil war.
Government has taken on too much responsibility for matters of state, and the social programs are unmanageable and corrupt to the core.
For property matters, I'd say you shouldn't have any right over any property that you couldn't fence in and maintain effectively. Idealy, I'd wish to live in a world with no property rights where you would build your house and enjoy the land around you while respecting the space of those around you. Of course, that could never work in a real world situation.
The world filled with oil huh? I'll have to run that buy a few of my geobuddies. Some good laughs for sure.
They're telling me that we have good solid data down to the core/mantle boundry.
This conversation is getting exceedingly silly.
Topic switch!
Checking out your info, you seem to have a bit of experience in fancial markets and strong opinions on the topics. Can I propose a question for you to expand upon?
What's your opinion on the value of land in human ownership vs the value of land in humanities ownership. For example, rain forests benifit humanity as a whole by existing, but an individual can't profit unless he owns and can utilize a registered chunk of land. Should all land be owned by people or does land have a value without ownership?
"I travel the world, and I travel to many continents annually. I see how the land is becoming more viable to live on, not less."
Forgive me for not trusting your personal observations as scientific fact, especially inlight of your oil opinions, but actual scientific studies have been done on how pushing further into the desert affect regional climate and ecosystem... not the economy.
When we start to get money hurricanes we can discuss human expansion and the economy.
"supporting warlords is too high risk and too low paying to be worthwhile."
Last time I checked, people didn't support warlords because it suited them at the time... They supported them to keep their lives, their families and... well mostly their lives.
"Yes, it is made the way that government tells us to make it."
I'm sure it was just a simple misunderstanding but, I was talking about the physical process by which not-oil becomes oil. Understanding that process would easily lead to the conclusion that we do not have infinite oil as you suggested. I was not talking about how oil is pulled from the ground and then processed and used.
"Actually, I tend to disagree. I see the amount of land becoming available to us as increasing."
That's rediculous. Land that we have is becoming more erroded and more desolate. We can build irrigated grassy neighborhoods in the desert if we like, but it just does more harm in the long run. There are many people starting to notice the long term effects we have on the areas in which we build these irrigated lands in the middle of deserts. Short story: bad things are happening and the lands are becoming even more desolate.
"People lived and died based on the beliefs that their warlord was granted by God to conquer and spread their souls through rape and pillage. Now that people are a bit more intelligent, the mandate of God is not as potent."
Most followers of warlords didn't believe that their leaders were given to them by god. The were the biggest and baddest and they took their position through force.
The mandate of god may not be as powerful as before, but the mandate of the fist is.
"There is no peak oil. There never was, and there likely never will be"
This is pathetic. You do know what oil is and how it's made right?
I want the spyware to look at what I actually look at, not just what I tell them too. It's far more likely to give me good suggestions that way.
This tool looks at what webpage is currently displayed, and suggests possible other products you might like. It's actually kind of nice, when you want to use it, and does nothing when you don't. Win.
Except that it's enabled by default and doesn't tell you that it's doing it in the first place.
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That last part is kind of the whole point.
Some people will like it some won't. Not giving a choice makes it spyware.
Some people enjoy advertising being delivered directly to the computers, some don't.
Do some people find out about great products? Sure!
Fanboyism aside, it's a common fact known to manufacturing companies that you never sell everything you make.
It's common fact to retailers that you never sell all that you buy (except in special cases).
So yes, shipped vs sold to customers is generally a very misleading number with a discrepancy that can vary wildly. A.K.A. shipped is a bogus number. You can't even figure out how many were built from that number.
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Wow dude. That was a whole lot of not much.
I apologize for criticizing your language. You do a pretty good job in English as a second language.
Apparantly German people speak in contradictions.
Some other facts, there was indeed an "internet" in the early 90's. Aside from the AOL/CompuServ crap and aside from BBS's, although they were still chillin in those days some places.
By saying that there was no "cybercrime" in the 80's I assume you mean that people weren't getting arrested for computer related activities. The activities that today are considered cybercrime were most definately taking place back then. It just wasn't understood by the media and most people so it wasn't reported on very often.
Let me express my disbelief that a computer system was disabled for a month by a trojan that tricked a server into sending you information. There, it's been expressed.
I've done a bit of reverse engineering (RevEnging?) in my day and I agree that many malicious programs are not very unique, but they do sometimes have neat little tricks in them. I also agree that writing malicious programs is lame and ethically reprehesible when their outcome is to be released into the wild.
Well that was fun. Guten Tag.
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Dude, grammar, spelling and just about anything that involves text communcation evades you.
WTF?!?:"Complexability, I sniff the smell of it when my face is pushed in that kind."
WTF?!?:"I just wrote a trojan horse back in the mid-90s in a very simple script-language called pilot."
So you just wrote it? Or you wrote it in the mid-90's.
WTF?!?:"And that one worked so good as a proof-of-concept, that the sysadmin (a friend of mine) banned me for a month."
Earlier you said that people can't attack you for berrating virus writers when you yourself wrote a virus because you only wrote it as part of a college experiment. Now you say you wrote a malicious program as a "proof-of-concept" and were banned by your friend?
Why would your friend ban you if it was just a proof-of-concept. That means it was never deployed. Also, why would your friend ban you?
When push comes to shove, Sober is indeed a clever program. Deal with it. Is it a good program to write? No.
Your lies and bullshittery are blatant my friend.
Does you mom know you say stuff like this on the interwebs? She might ground you!
The company I work at has much the same policy, except for the stamping of papers and clothing requirements (I think anyway, they don't bother employees as much as guests). All the employees here wear ID's around our necks, guests have the same thing. We don't feel like we're being treated as criminals. It makes us feel empowered.
We understand that the work we do has a potential for security risks that need to be handled. You'd be a fool, in this industry, to have lax security. In the long run it's in the employees interest to have very strict security. My job depends on it.
They're not making profit on the razor and they're not making profit on the blades.
The whole XBox divison ended in a financial loss.
They're dumping money made from other divisions into the game market to force some market share.
It may or may not be a predatory practice to use money gained elsewhere to force market share. I wouldn't think that it is since they're not likely to put sony or nintendo out of business, but I am not a person who posesses a law degree.
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Troll? Apparently the mods didn't read the Q&A.
"We know our old stuff is filled with security holes but that's because we didn't really care before.
The new stuff will rock! GO BUY IT NOW!
Oh yeah... open source sucks too!"
The guy even blew off valid questions from MS Developers.
That's talent... this guy should run for President.
First off, many of the posts on here attacking france seem to be coming from other europeans.
/.'ers are more liberal and anti-bush than not.
You're opinions don't make you hostile, it's your expression of those opinions that makes you hostile.
I didn't say or imply that you were wrong either.
"I chose to respond by criticizing the pseudo conservatism of Bush's America and juxtapose it to the supposed censorship that EU goverments impose on nazi-like fanatics."
Which makes no sense giving the context of the conversation. This makes it all the more hostile of your post to attack conservatism in america when this topic, and most of the replies of this topic, don't express conservatism in america as the way to be.
Maybe you haven't been around here long, but I think you'll find a trend that
I think just about anybody would mod you the same way.
Your post contained alot of hostility and your rebuttal to the mod matched.
I'm no O'Reilly lover, nor a redneck and I support the intent of what you wish to say, but don't be a dick about it.
National-oriented search area?
How about:
http://www.google.fr/
Wow... France really makes some loot on CAP.
Thanks for the info.
Subsidies always cause a rumble.
They have good sides and bad sides. Unfortunately, like most programs of this nature, it will be exploited.
I like that idea alot... I must ponder that for awhile.
I think it allows the most people to get what they want at whatever level they need it.
What need do you then forsee for groups like congress and so forth?
Please pardon my American Ignorance(TM), but what is CAP?
I tend to agree with alot of what you said. I'm still in the process of forming solid opinions because the consequences are very complex.
I think the greatest villain here is the A or B mentality. Nobody considers ab a potential solution.
Recently I've been playing with the idea of splitting the country into smaller pieces. To me, the point of democracy is to bring forth the will of the majority. I don't think a 51% majority is a majority at all, it's a silent civil war.
Government has taken on too much responsibility for matters of state, and the social programs are unmanageable and corrupt to the core.
For property matters, I'd say you shouldn't have any right over any property that you couldn't fence in and maintain effectively. Idealy, I'd wish to live in a world with no property rights where you would build your house and enjoy the land around you while respecting the space of those around you. Of course, that could never work in a real world situation.
Thank you sir. I'm glad to see that /. can still be a place of learning.
Would you say that a country as large as the US should be split into smaller countries that could be maintained and protected better?
Do you think that government has a right to own the land in it's territory or does it belong to the people of that country?
(I apologize if these are too time consuming for you and feel free not to answer them at all if you like.)
The world filled with oil huh? I'll have to run that buy a few of my geobuddies. Some good laughs for sure.
They're telling me that we have good solid data down to the core/mantle boundry.
This conversation is getting exceedingly silly.
Topic switch!
Checking out your info, you seem to have a bit of experience in fancial markets and strong opinions on the topics. Can I propose a question for you to expand upon?
What's your opinion on the value of land in human ownership vs the value of land in humanities ownership. For example, rain forests benifit humanity as a whole by existing, but an individual can't profit unless he owns and can utilize a registered chunk of land. Should all land be owned by people or does land have a value without ownership?
Amen brother-in-arms!
I, too, shall carry a sword!
"I travel the world, and I travel to many continents annually. I see how the land is becoming more viable to live on, not less."
Forgive me for not trusting your personal observations as scientific fact, especially inlight of your oil opinions, but actual scientific studies have been done on how pushing further into the desert affect regional climate and ecosystem... not the economy.
When we start to get money hurricanes we can discuss human expansion and the economy.
"supporting warlords is too high risk and too low paying to be worthwhile."
Last time I checked, people didn't support warlords because it suited them at the time... They supported them to keep their lives, their families and... well mostly their lives.
"Yes, it is made the way that government tells us to make it."
I'm sure it was just a simple misunderstanding but, I was talking about the physical process by which not-oil becomes oil. Understanding that process would easily lead to the conclusion that we do not have infinite oil as you suggested. I was not talking about how oil is pulled from the ground and then processed and used.
"Actually, I tend to disagree. I see the amount of land becoming available to us as increasing."
That's rediculous. Land that we have is becoming more erroded and more desolate. We can build irrigated grassy neighborhoods in the desert if we like, but it just does more harm in the long run. There are many people starting to notice the long term effects we have on the areas in which we build these irrigated lands in the middle of deserts. Short story: bad things are happening and the lands are becoming even more desolate.
"People lived and died based on the beliefs that their warlord was granted by God to conquer and spread their souls through rape and pillage. Now that people are a bit more intelligent, the mandate of God is not as potent."
Most followers of warlords didn't believe that their leaders were given to them by god. The were the biggest and baddest and they took their position through force.
The mandate of god may not be as powerful as before, but the mandate of the fist is.
"There is no peak oil. There never was, and there likely never will be"
This is pathetic. You do know what oil is and how it's made right?
No way dude... that's totally Chuck Norris.
Let me do a quick word swap here:
I want the spyware to look at what I actually look at, not just what I tell them too. It's far more likely to give me good suggestions that way.
This tool looks at what webpage is currently displayed, and suggests possible other products you might like. It's actually kind of nice, when you want to use it, and does nothing when you don't. Win.
Except that it's enabled by default and doesn't tell you that it's doing it in the first place.
That last part is kind of the whole point.
Some people will like it some won't. Not giving a choice makes it spyware.
Some people enjoy advertising being delivered directly to the computers, some don't.
Do some people find out about great products? Sure!
Does that make it right? No!
Fanboyism aside, it's a common fact known to manufacturing companies that you never sell everything you make.
It's common fact to retailers that you never sell all that you buy (except in special cases).
So yes, shipped vs sold to customers is generally a very misleading number with a discrepancy that can vary wildly. A.K.A. shipped is a bogus number. You can't even figure out how many were built from that number.
Wow dude. That was a whole lot of not much. I apologize for criticizing your language. You do a pretty good job in English as a second language. Apparantly German people speak in contradictions. Some other facts, there was indeed an "internet" in the early 90's. Aside from the AOL/CompuServ crap and aside from BBS's, although they were still chillin in those days some places. By saying that there was no "cybercrime" in the 80's I assume you mean that people weren't getting arrested for computer related activities. The activities that today are considered cybercrime were most definately taking place back then. It just wasn't understood by the media and most people so it wasn't reported on very often. Let me express my disbelief that a computer system was disabled for a month by a trojan that tricked a server into sending you information. There, it's been expressed. I've done a bit of reverse engineering (RevEnging?) in my day and I agree that many malicious programs are not very unique, but they do sometimes have neat little tricks in them. I also agree that writing malicious programs is lame and ethically reprehesible when their outcome is to be released into the wild. Well that was fun. Guten Tag.
Dude, grammar, spelling and just about anything that involves text communcation evades you.
WTF?!?: "Complexability, I sniff the smell of it when my face is pushed in that kind."
WTF?!?: "I just wrote a trojan horse back in the mid-90s in a very simple script-language called pilot."
So you just wrote it? Or you wrote it in the mid-90's.
WTF?!?: "And that one worked so good as a proof-of-concept, that the sysadmin (a friend of mine) banned me for a month."
Earlier you said that people can't attack you for berrating virus writers when you yourself wrote a virus because you only wrote it as part of a college experiment. Now you say you wrote a malicious program as a "proof-of-concept" and were banned by your friend?
Why would your friend ban you if it was just a proof-of-concept. That means it was never deployed. Also, why would your friend ban you?
When push comes to shove, Sober is indeed a clever program. Deal with it. Is it a good program to write? No.
Your lies and bullshittery are blatant my friend.
Does you mom know you say stuff like this on the interwebs? She might ground you!
The company I work at has much the same policy, except for the stamping of papers and clothing requirements (I think anyway, they don't bother employees as much as guests). All the employees here wear ID's around our necks, guests have the same thing. We don't feel like we're being treated as criminals. It makes us feel empowered.
We understand that the work we do has a potential for security risks that need to be handled. You'd be a fool, in this industry, to have lax security. In the long run it's in the employees interest to have very strict security. My job depends on it.
Agreed, but running a failed business adventure doesn't make you a criminal either.
I definately think that the PS3 is gonna cost significantly more than the XBox 360, if only due to the Blu-Ray drive.
:)
I think I'll hold out for a PS2 when it drops to around $100
And much-delayed congrats on the No-Prize.
This isn't a case of the razor and the blade.
They're not making profit on the razor and they're not making profit on the blades.
The whole XBox divison ended in a financial loss.
They're dumping money made from other divisions into the game market to force some market share.
It may or may not be a predatory practice to use money gained elsewhere to force market share. I wouldn't think that it is since they're not likely to put sony or nintendo out of business, but I am not a person who posesses a law degree.
Overclocking?