"I'm not a homophobe -- I have gay friends even. But for me, the idea of touching a guy in places...? "doing things"? Look, I won't even do a woman in the butt -- it's just not a place for a penis to go!!"
"It's just a good arrangement and "the way it was meant to be.""
Heh. You've expressed your physical disgust at gay sex, cited gay friends, and then hetronormatively othered anyone who isn't in a male-female relationship. You may be doing less well at avoiding homophobia than you think.
This guy is an idiot, oh, sure he's smart to crack the PS3, and so on, but lacks the street smarts to know that you play with fire you can get burned. Weather he wins or loses it's a moot point, he'll be up to his eyeballs in debt when this is over.
Actually, Geohot is paying for his legal defence via donations. As the Groklaw link I suspect you haven't read states, it's working out reasonably well.
Say what you like about them, but I'm hoping they'll bring this idealistic side out to play more now Eric has been given the elbow. Eric openly admitted that he was the most gung-ho on China of the leadership team, and I have to say I trust Sergey rather more and am a bit happier that he's 50% of the decision-making again.
Please note that you appear to be disregarding abortions for medical reasons. I assume that you wouldn't support not aborting when the failure to do so would kill mother and child.
I am going to largely leave aside the slut-punishment overtones of your argument, but I fundamentally disagree with them.
Call me a hater - but the idea of spending $7-800 on a CPU that will never ever make a difference in your gameplay, video editing, internet surfing, facebooking, etc... Where is the value proposition?
Video conversion, CAD, data processing, compiling very complex programs, software 3d rendering. This is slashdot, I'm sure you can think of your own use cases.
On the contrary, I understand that the DRM in my DVD player has absolutely no impact on my computer as a whole (aside from trivial technicalities, like the disk space it takes up, and the fact that the icon for the program will show up when I look at my applications, and similar insignificant forms of "impact") if I never play a DVD. And even if I do play a DVD, the DRM doesn't somehow creep into the rest of the system. The actual impact of this DRM is extremely minimal.
Sure. It slows down video performance, and had a material impact on Vista's performance in other areas. For example, the audio path now has higher latency on Windows boxes to ensure a secure path. In addition, your selection of DVD players is definitely from one side of the spectrum of acceptability. Installed game DRM may have severe impacts on the computer (and indeed has in the past), as well as DRM that verges on malware such as the Sony CD rootkits. In addition, DRM often isn't chosen in a knowing way, as much of what it does is not openly declared on install.
For some examples.
For some examples.
"The country that is surrounded by 6 hostile neighboring nations whom have all vowed to annihilate said country down to the last child"
You are aware there is a peace treaty with some of them, right?
"Requiring you to tie your cell phone number to an email address in the hands of the biggest dataminers in the fucking world? Not so much."
You'll be pleased to know that if you have an Android, iOS or Blackberry device you don't have to. Even optionally.
"On the other hand, private activities between consenting adults may be deemed to be against the public good and the consent found to be void. See the case of R v Brown."
In fairness, I think everyone involved in the prosecution of R v Brown now looks shiftily at the floor and wanders off if anyone mentions it. It got distinguished out of existence, really.
Wow. He cut taxes for the rich, lowered food/water standards, gutted constitutional protections from unreasonable search, invaded two states and threatened more. And now he's called left wing by trolls? Life is harsh sometimes.
In your opinion, a few thousand dollars worth of damage is nothing in comparison to the value of a human life, but only a sociopath would trade one life for another?"
Nice trolling. No, the answer is that a few thousand dollars of property damage will never be equal to the value of a human life, and so the first part of your statement fails.
"if it's an acceptable (and even noble) compromise to crash a vehicle and cause a few thousand dollars in property damages to save a few lives, why isn't it similarly an acceptable compromise to kill a few enemy combatants in order to save the lives of your fellow countrymen?"
These aren't similar dilemmas, because only a sociopath equates a few thousand dollars of property damage with human lives. Just how cheap a price do you put on people?
"It is allowing studios to hide really poorly written and acted scripts from kiddies that are more impressed with shiny 3d. It is now at the stage where if I see the movie is being advertised as being 3D I write it off as garbage without even bothering to see it now."
In UK law, this would be admissible in the court. Even if the police break the law obtaining evidence, it is still admissible. The punishment for the methods used is, unlike the US, a separate issue from admissibility.
It's one of our (UKian speaking) ex-colonies, and, indeed, is still in the commonwealth as HM Queen is our shared head of state. This currently applies to Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and (of course) the United Kingdom. Historically, this also applied to India, Burma and Singapore (and too many others to list). The English speaking nature of these states should thus be explained.
"It doesn't even have a package manager". Yes it does. You may add any.apk you wish - via the package manager - , and it will be sandboxed. You may then remove it - via the package manager - and it will be gone. How does this not constitute having a package manager?
"The fear of libertarianism is the terror that the mediocre feel at the possibility of being judged on their merits."
Well, or the feeling that the job of society is to support all of the members of that society...or even that regulation of the market produces better outcomes. You've got a bit of a strawman there.
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Why are they going after everything and anything?
Maybe they should blow up some unmarked yellow vans to further obscure whatever their "message" is.
Why are they going after everything and anything?
For the lulz, obviously.
"I'm not a homophobe -- I have gay friends even. But for me, the idea of touching a guy in places...? "doing things"? Look, I won't even do a woman in the butt -- it's just not a place for a penis to go!!"
"It's just a good arrangement and "the way it was meant to be.""
Heh. You've expressed your physical disgust at gay sex, cited gay friends, and then hetronormatively othered anyone who isn't in a male-female relationship. You may be doing less well at avoiding homophobia than you think.
This guy is an idiot, oh, sure he's smart to crack the PS3, and so on, but lacks the street smarts to know that you play with fire you can get burned. Weather he wins or loses it's a moot point, he'll be up to his eyeballs in debt when this is over.
Actually, Geohot is paying for his legal defence via donations. As the Groklaw link I suspect you haven't read states, it's working out reasonably well.
Say what you like about them, but I'm hoping they'll bring this idealistic side out to play more now Eric has been given the elbow. Eric openly admitted that he was the most gung-ho on China of the leadership team, and I have to say I trust Sergey rather more and am a bit happier that he's 50% of the decision-making again.
I laughed, then realised I wasn't entirely sure this comment is satire.
Please note that you appear to be disregarding abortions for medical reasons. I assume that you wouldn't support not aborting when the failure to do so would kill mother and child. I am going to largely leave aside the slut-punishment overtones of your argument, but I fundamentally disagree with them.
Call me a hater - but the idea of spending $7-800 on a CPU that will never ever make a difference in your gameplay, video editing, internet surfing, facebooking, etc... Where is the value proposition?
Video conversion, CAD, data processing, compiling very complex programs, software 3d rendering. This is slashdot, I'm sure you can think of your own use cases.
I read that as in "until someone finds a way around it". I give it a week.
Fancy a wager? I'll offer you even odds on a month for any sum up to $500.
GNOME on Ubuntu tries to provide the same experience by randomly shuffling the order of my panel items with each boot!
This. I don't know why this is so hard to fix, it drives me a bit crazy.
On the contrary, I understand that the DRM in my DVD player has absolutely no impact on my computer as a whole (aside from trivial technicalities, like the disk space it takes up, and the fact that the icon for the program will show up when I look at my applications, and similar insignificant forms of "impact") if I never play a DVD. And even if I do play a DVD, the DRM doesn't somehow creep into the rest of the system. The actual impact of this DRM is extremely minimal. Sure. It slows down video performance, and had a material impact on Vista's performance in other areas. For example, the audio path now has higher latency on Windows boxes to ensure a secure path. In addition, your selection of DVD players is definitely from one side of the spectrum of acceptability. Installed game DRM may have severe impacts on the computer (and indeed has in the past), as well as DRM that verges on malware such as the Sony CD rootkits. In addition, DRM often isn't chosen in a knowing way, as much of what it does is not openly declared on install. For some examples. For some examples.
"The country that is surrounded by 6 hostile neighboring nations whom have all vowed to annihilate said country down to the last child" You are aware there is a peace treaty with some of them, right?
"Requiring you to tie your cell phone number to an email address in the hands of the biggest dataminers in the fucking world? Not so much." You'll be pleased to know that if you have an Android, iOS or Blackberry device you don't have to. Even optionally.
"On the other hand, private activities between consenting adults may be deemed to be against the public good and the consent found to be void. See the case of R v Brown."
In fairness, I think everyone involved in the prosecution of R v Brown now looks shiftily at the floor and wanders off if anyone mentions it. It got distinguished out of existence, really.
There is a certain irony in SUSE calling a repository tumbleweed, given their recent market share stats.
"Prior art - Criterion Games and Burnout Paradise (I think it's sent to a competitor when you beat their time on a road, I don't recall)."
Prior art only applies to patents, for the record. Only registered trademarks have an effect on other trademarks.
"Bush was a wishy-washy RINO"
Wow. He cut taxes for the rich, lowered food/water standards, gutted constitutional protections from unreasonable search, invaded two states and threatened more. And now he's called left wing by trolls? Life is harsh sometimes.
"It still has the status of being the 'paper of record' in Britain."
Heh. Take it from a Brit, it really doesn't any more.
"Let me see if I'm understanding you correctly.
In your opinion, a few thousand dollars worth of damage is nothing in comparison to the value of a human life, but only a sociopath would trade one life for another?"
Nice trolling. No, the answer is that a few thousand dollars of property damage will never be equal to the value of a human life, and so the first part of your statement fails.
"if it's an acceptable (and even noble) compromise to crash a vehicle and cause a few thousand dollars in property damages to save a few lives, why isn't it similarly an acceptable compromise to kill a few enemy combatants in order to save the lives of your fellow countrymen?"
These aren't similar dilemmas, because only a sociopath equates a few thousand dollars of property damage with human lives. Just how cheap a price do you put on people?
"It is allowing studios to hide really poorly written and acted scripts from kiddies that are more impressed with shiny 3d. It is now at the stage where if I see the movie is being advertised as being 3D I write it off as garbage without even bothering to see it now."
Alternatively, Toy Story 3.
In UK law, this would be admissible in the court. Even if the police break the law obtaining evidence, it is still admissible. The punishment for the methods used is, unlike the US, a separate issue from admissibility.
It's one of our (UKian speaking) ex-colonies, and, indeed, is still in the commonwealth as HM Queen is our shared head of state. This currently applies to Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and (of course) the United Kingdom. Historically, this also applied to India, Burma and Singapore (and too many others to list). The English speaking nature of these states should thus be explained.
"It doesn't even have a package manager". Yes it does. You may add any .apk you wish - via the package manager - , and it will be sandboxed. You may then remove it - via the package manager - and it will be gone. How does this not constitute having a package manager?
"The fear of libertarianism is the terror that the mediocre feel at the possibility of being judged on their merits."
Well, or the feeling that the job of society is to support all of the members of that society...or even that regulation of the market produces better outcomes. You've got a bit of a strawman there.
Your high UID didn't surprise me, and your contribution is another indicator that Slashdot has become too well known.