Take this how you will:
I work as an engineer for a small tech company in the heart of Silicon Valley. This comes a year after I started working there as an intern.
I recently expressed the desire to travel abroad to some of my fellow employees. They sent my resume around, and as a result, I am heading traveling to France next month for a two month job, and to Australia immediately after that for another job. A company in the Netherlands has also shown to be very interested in hiring me.
I am seventeen. I graduated from highschool two weeks ago. All of the hiring parties are aware of these last two facts.
Go Figure.
The comment feature rules. Because you know how everything anybody ever posts on there will always be sagely reviewed and taken into the fullest of considerations.
I'm thinking of quitting my job and just trolling and writing flames on there all day.
Because that impending feeling of doom is true.
Well, impending doom is a bit much. The way I see it, there are two possible futures: We'll be given the dignity of all being locked away in jail cells in an Orwellian America. Or we'll be further pacified by retarded, uninforming, watered-down, cutesey, biased CNN news broadcasts, and mind-numbing television sitcoms, while the government runs its conspiratorial hands through the only remaining (and most powerful) communication medium in existance and ruins it entirely, until we've got the individuality and the capacity for thinking for ourselves of a hyperactive four year old cracked out on ridalin and rubbing his crotch to Barney. As much time as I spend rubbing my crotch, I'm hoping for the former.
That's going a bit far, but there's no denying the recently made slightly public government conspiracies and all that crap. On a whole, 9/11 did more good for the country - evil, opressive legislation, oppertunities to cause war and bind all remaining dissident nations to our economic will, bettered economy, reasons to ressurect the defense industry, etc etc, than it did bad (only a couple thousand people killed, another hundred thousand jobless - no big deal when you consider what we did to the Middle East before 9/11, and then afterwards, and what we're going to do). The clear as day evidence that the US Gov knew about the attack is all right there in the open. And now it's clear that they counted on it.
There's lots of crazy shit going on today in America, that's raping us of our 'rights' (if we ever had any). It's a shame that our miserable, miserable media just sort of glosses over it. And that the American people are unable, or unwilling to research it themselves, and connect the dots.
For example, it's pretty esoteric knowledge that the US government began a new 45 Billion US$ s00p3r s3kr3t spy satellite project early last year. We're big on hideing the things that we don't want to know from ourselves.
Not to be a cynic or anything - that sounds feasable and a good solution; but if that kind of idea catches on and becomes widespread, after a few years they'll (yes, the ominous 'they') wisen up a bit and pass even more silly, restricting legislation. On both crypto and IP.
That's why we oughtn't give them any leeway now.
Vote with a bullet.
No kidding.
It appears that this is more of an insult doubling as legal appeasement more than anything. MS is big on vengeance. Any IT-savy court should see that implementing a five year old, custom version of the VM is not only doing no good, but more harm as casual users wonder why their applications won't work.
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Take this how you will: I work as an engineer for a small tech company in the heart of Silicon Valley. This comes a year after I started working there as an intern. I recently expressed the desire to travel abroad to some of my fellow employees. They sent my resume around, and as a result, I am heading traveling to France next month for a two month job, and to Australia immediately after that for another job. A company in the Netherlands has also shown to be very interested in hiring me. I am seventeen. I graduated from highschool two weeks ago. All of the hiring parties are aware of these last two facts. Go Figure.
The comment feature rules. Because you know how everything anybody ever posts on there will always be sagely reviewed and taken into the fullest of considerations. I'm thinking of quitting my job and just trolling and writing flames on there all day.
Because that impending feeling of doom is true. Well, impending doom is a bit much. The way I see it, there are two possible futures: We'll be given the dignity of all being locked away in jail cells in an Orwellian America. Or we'll be further pacified by retarded, uninforming, watered-down, cutesey, biased CNN news broadcasts, and mind-numbing television sitcoms, while the government runs its conspiratorial hands through the only remaining (and most powerful) communication medium in existance and ruins it entirely, until we've got the individuality and the capacity for thinking for ourselves of a hyperactive four year old cracked out on ridalin and rubbing his crotch to Barney. As much time as I spend rubbing my crotch, I'm hoping for the former. That's going a bit far, but there's no denying the recently made slightly public government conspiracies and all that crap. On a whole, 9/11 did more good for the country - evil, opressive legislation, oppertunities to cause war and bind all remaining dissident nations to our economic will, bettered economy, reasons to ressurect the defense industry, etc etc, than it did bad (only a couple thousand people killed, another hundred thousand jobless - no big deal when you consider what we did to the Middle East before 9/11, and then afterwards, and what we're going to do). The clear as day evidence that the US Gov knew about the attack is all right there in the open. And now it's clear that they counted on it. There's lots of crazy shit going on today in America, that's raping us of our 'rights' (if we ever had any). It's a shame that our miserable, miserable media just sort of glosses over it. And that the American people are unable, or unwilling to research it themselves, and connect the dots. For example, it's pretty esoteric knowledge that the US government began a new 45 Billion US$ s00p3r s3kr3t spy satellite project early last year. We're big on hideing the things that we don't want to know from ourselves.
Not to be a cynic or anything - that sounds feasable and a good solution; but if that kind of idea catches on and becomes widespread, after a few years they'll (yes, the ominous 'they') wisen up a bit and pass even more silly, restricting legislation. On both crypto and IP. That's why we oughtn't give them any leeway now. Vote with a bullet.
No kidding. It appears that this is more of an insult doubling as legal appeasement more than anything. MS is big on vengeance. Any IT-savy court should see that implementing a five year old, custom version of the VM is not only doing no good, but more harm as casual users wonder why their applications won't work.