The Original Trilogy...
in its unedited, unspecialized form...
is now public domain?
Or, more importantly, if he's abandoning the original trilogy, can one get sued for making DVDs of the original trilogy and selling them? 'Cuz, I'll tell you what, I have a Pioneer LaserDisc player and can get these puppies delivered on DVD in about a weekend for $5 a copy!
You're not far from the truth. Formula-1 USED TO MEAN the simplest of all regulations: no restrictions, just go win. Things have gotten stricter and stricter and now it doesn't mean the same.
There are other formula feeder-series, like Formula 2 (spec engine, all else open), Formula 3 (now Formula 3000) with a spec chassis and engine block but all else open) Formula Ford, and some other minor series with manufacturers' names attached.
AMD sponsors Ferrari. They're not a sponsor of the series and I don't think are on any other cars.
HP sponsors Williams BMW.
Sun sponsors McLaren Mercedes.
I'm not sure who Suber have in their camp, but the Saubers have last year's Ferrari engine (and have for several years used the previous year's Ferrari engine), so it's possible they have AMD on their sleeves.
Monaco 2002, David Coulthard's McLaren suffers major engine disruption. Technicians in the pit spend several laps (might even have been over a dozen) trying to get the car to stop smoking so horribly. They finally got the car fixed, David went on to win the race, and the FIA banned two-way telemetry soon thereafter.
Your post assums way too much regarding one's personal tastes. Therefore, I humbly request you disclaim your tirade with a little more humility.
The reason I make this statement is because of the nasty, NASTY turn your argument took in favor of "fluff." Your Ford/Ferrari statement was true, but the DeTomaso idea is wrong: the Pantera (and MOST DeTomasos) used a Ford engine (a 351C, to be exact). Ferraris are AWESOME cars to work on, but they require CONSTANT work, ergo the disappointment and lack-of-smiles-per-hour. I know this because I've owned one, an '82 400i with, you guessed it, a V12 engine.
Don't get into Ford's spanking of Ferrari in '66 until you take a look at what has happened SINCE: LOTS of Formula-1 cars have DROPPED the Ford Cosworth V8 in favor of a (gulp) Honda engine, yet Sauber managed to secure a deal getting last year's Ferrari engine. Hmm...
Bringing up McLaren was a mistake. The F1 was a 3-year-only car, and it hasn't been made for 3 years. The NEW McLaren is rightfully a Mercedes, since the McLaren F1 cars use Benz (Ilmor) engines. The BMW V12 in the F1 was a proof of concept that REALLY exceeded expectations--the transmission is custom-designed for that car--no off-the-shelf drivetrain here!
Mentioning the Skyline in this post was extremely out of place and way too Fast & Furious. 'Nuff said.
The Caterham isn't a go-kart any more than your dick is a bologna sandwich. Its only real advantage (tiny tracks and autocrossing) takes a HUGE back seat to the cost-effectiveness of a Porsche 914 or even a Fiat X1/9, especially in terms of cost, driveability and parts availability--points you use to decry Ferrari in your post's opening!
The Ford transit is a lorry. Period. There's NOTHINg special about it, and it proves you like to name drop. Good for you--you bought the latest issue of EVO. The best lorries are an argument just like your car argument, and the only lorry to pop up on this side of the Atlantic is the Freightliner Sprinter, actually a Mercedes V-class rebadged with Freighliner logos. Don't believe me? Check their website.
I own a Porsche, and there's no way in hell I can drive it every day. No way in hell. It's an AWESOME box to flog on weekends and dates, but not commuting more than 10 miles every day. For that, I have an S-class.
We own 2 Mercedes, and they are hands-down the easiest cars to do ANYTHING on, and there's not much to do. First car I've ever owned where an oil change could be done standing up and oil didn't drip all over the place.
Yawning over a Ferrari is akin to masturbating yourself limp: what the hell is wrong with you? Might I humbly suggest you open your mind a bit, close your mouth, and quit acting like the advertisement fodder Corporate Automobilia has fed you for the last 25 years and pick out the good things, ignore the bad and don't waste your breath commenting about things you don't have personal experience with. My guess is that you'll find a LOT more people that agree with you and want to be your friend. JUST ENJOY.
I've gotta tell you though: it takes a lot to get me to bash-back on people, but this post was really deserving. You don't know what you're talking about, and your personal experience lacks most--if not all--of the makes and models you mention. Might I humbly suggest you stick to counting polygons and playing with yor Pokemon cards and leave That Which You Don't Know in someone else's inbox?
In a related story, the National Inquisitortilla unearthed proof that Microsoft has renumbered Windows 95 into Windows 2003. Apparently this has been an on-going practice for several iterations of the Redmond-based product, roughly since Ballmer decried Adobe's Illustrator 88 naming scheme as being "ambiguous" and "prone to immediate obsolescence."
Who distributes the funds? Who prevents the old "Club of Six" from hoarding all the booty? Who turns their back while Unca Sam takes his share?
Who does this St. Matthew of the Blessed Internet answer to? And why can't I send him mail?
The term is "taxation without representation," and there are too many people with too much tea (packets) in a very big harbor (IPv4).
Oh I GET IT! OK, so migrate the willing onto the gummint-subsidized Internet-II, where this tax is a Reality(tm) and leave the Rest Of Us down on lowly Internet-I with the warning that, "Well, if you want freedom from spam, you'll come play at our house, otherwise you're just going to have to deal with it because you don't want US interfering with your Wild Wild West--oh, and BTW, we don't know how much longer Constituent Corp Dot Com is going to keep affording to keep that nasty old link up, since they keep getting sued for allowing so many hacker attacks and violations of the DMCA to perpetrate through the gateways to the 'real' Internet so if I were you I'd make a decision real quick like because we're having a $9.95 a year sale but it's only good until next Tuesday."
Collocation is spelled with two ells, dingdong. Co-location is the same thing in 2 locations ("visit our co-location in Klamath Falls").
Collocation is more than one of the same thing in the same location.
Don't believe me, look it up. Any dictionary of the English language should help you out.
Maybe if the dotcoms could fucking spell they'd still be in business and not be perceived as a bunch of fucking lazy scooter-riders and nerf-shooters with no clue how to build a business plan.
And the reason the Nazi's needed to be defeated was the fact that they attacked and invaded other countries, just as the US is now doing.
Iraq invaded Iran. During those 8 years, they used chemical weapons.
Iraq invaded Kuwait. During those 8 months, they plundered Kuwaiti air conditioners and set fire to thier oil wells with the ancient piracy attitude of "if I can't have it, nobody can."
Iraq launched SCUD missiles into Israel. Why? Well, because gefilte is not an approved Republican Guard munition. No other reason. Well, there's that whole exaggerated-difference-of-opinion thing, but being an American has taught me to be politically correct. Grandpa would say they're fucking bigots.
If you're old enough to post to slashdot with even a slight sense of maturity, ALL of these events happened during your lifetime.
Most/.ers have no real firm understanding of what's going on Over There. The reason Arabs hate us so much is because, by and large, very few Arabs get to (a) freely speak about how tolerant Americans are of Muslims and (b) hear such a message.
I'm not pro-war. I'm not pro-death. But, come on now, capital punishment *IS* pro-choice. Going on ad nauseum about your anti-war views just proves you're not well-informed and you have a very skewed threshold of acceptable loss-versus-global consequence.
First there were pirates. Then there was a U.S. Navy. Then the pirates were gone, and the world never ONCE fucking thought, "Well, gee, the pirates never plundered YOUR land so why not leave them alone?"
Saddam is a bad guy. If what we're doing is really bad, let's see your arguments against Milosevic...or Ceaucescu...
...I dare ya!
...and show me how the Europeans (especially the Serbs and the Romanians) hate us for what we did there. Go for it. I love the violent clashes between liberals' ignorance and their arrogance.
You all need to chill pushing for all these spam laws, regulating the internet is a bad thing in the end. Do you really want your real name and SSN tied to your e-mail account for the sake of ending spam? (Because thats about the only solution the government will come up with).
Beef up your filters and accept it.
Don't be an idiot. Your phone number isn't known by everyone, but someone could guess because it's a 1-in-1000 chance they could get it if they know your NPN/NXX. The gummint has your phone number if they want it. You're using the infrastructure of the country you (live in | call home), therefore expecting anonymity on said infrastructure is moronic. Telephone to your ear, keyboard under your hands: doesn't matter. You don't own it end-to-end, you have NO RIGHTS on either medium until the content thereof is removed from the safe haven of its confines and put somewhere different rules apply.
Your SSN is tied to your PO Box, it's one phone call away from your monthly phone bill,
getting someone's "real" address from a PO Box costs a whole DOLLAR. Give me a break. You're delusional if you think standing up for the Internet takes away freedoms or shouts, "Ready: take your places!" through a big screen in your living room wall any more than standing up for freedom of the press or freedom from mail fraud.
This isn't too bad an idea. Maybe we can start harvesting deliberately bad email addresses and deliberately honeypotting those who send to it and publish the list to everyone else with an idle DNS & SMTP server so they can do the same thing. Maybe we could band together and bring the 'Net to a fucking CRAWL with all our nonsene.
I'm only half kidding with this. I have an idle DNS / SMTP server, and we can make up a domain name not likely to be guessed, like dhxlwqgm.com and that way we KNOW anyone sending to it is a spammer.
Problem is, spam isn't going away. If we don't do something LEGALLY to get the authorities bought into our plight, then spammers will do something legally to insure their way of life survives. Until then, we're cutting off our own noses for the privilege of saying "You ca-ANT spam me! Neener neener nEEEEEEner! I'm untouchable; only real mail gets through to me go bug someone else."
If you want spam to stop, then want it to stop for EVERYONE.
Also a bad idea. I don't want that crap here, and I don't want Spamfanny thinking this is a valid destination for his tripe.
I want Spamfanny to know we don't tolerate that sort of thing here, and I want him to know he was DELIBERATELY denied, not just disapproved.
I do a variation of the honeypot here, and every 24 hours, the syslog gets script-read and the offending domain gets added to access_db. So, I guess one of your ideas has some merit, but as one small tool in the box against spam.
Mostly, and above all, I don't want to accept his connection. access_db is pretty much the closest way you can be a free-standing domain and effect this.
Well, it's lame in that procmail has this capability nailed, as does the SpamBlocker folks (whose URL I'm currently forgetting under the guise of the word "Budweiser"). I use this. Problem is, roughly half of the polite (no, really, they ARE polite) bounce messages return right back to my account "user unknown."
Spammers joejob yahoo and hotmail and msn so much that even with my reasonably large/etc/mail/access file, I'm still getting gobs and gobs and gobs of spam. Find me a way to blacklist the open relay via procmail (currently all you get is general headers and body-text) or sendmail's access_db and I can find you a free/etc/mail/access subscription service that'll cut 'em off at the knees.
I wish I could just block aol, yahoo, hotmail, etc. I wish, I wish, I wish. problem is, grandma and Mommy Dearest and clueless newbiefriends are from that part of town, so it's the old nose-face-spite thing.
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The Original Trilogy... in its unedited, unspecialized form... is now public domain? Or, more importantly, if he's abandoning the original trilogy, can one get sued for making DVDs of the original trilogy and selling them? 'Cuz, I'll tell you what, I have a Pioneer LaserDisc player and can get these puppies delivered on DVD in about a weekend for $5 a copy!
You're not far from the truth. Formula-1 USED TO MEAN the simplest of all regulations: no restrictions, just go win. Things have gotten stricter and stricter and now it doesn't mean the same. There are other formula feeder-series, like Formula 2 (spec engine, all else open), Formula 3 (now Formula 3000) with a spec chassis and engine block but all else open) Formula Ford, and some other minor series with manufacturers' names attached.
AMD sponsors Ferrari. They're not a sponsor of the series and I don't think are on any other cars. HP sponsors Williams BMW. Sun sponsors McLaren Mercedes. I'm not sure who Suber have in their camp, but the Saubers have last year's Ferrari engine (and have for several years used the previous year's Ferrari engine), so it's possible they have AMD on their sleeves.
Monaco 2002, David Coulthard's McLaren suffers major engine disruption. Technicians in the pit spend several laps (might even have been over a dozen) trying to get the car to stop smoking so horribly. They finally got the car fixed, David went on to win the race, and the FIA banned two-way telemetry soon thereafter.
The reason I make this statement is because of the nasty, NASTY turn your argument took in favor of "fluff." Your Ford/Ferrari statement was true, but the DeTomaso idea is wrong: the Pantera (and MOST DeTomasos) used a Ford engine (a 351C, to be exact). Ferraris are AWESOME cars to work on, but they require CONSTANT work, ergo the disappointment and lack-of-smiles-per-hour. I know this because I've owned one, an '82 400i with, you guessed it, a V12 engine.
Don't get into Ford's spanking of Ferrari in '66 until you take a look at what has happened SINCE: LOTS of Formula-1 cars have DROPPED the Ford Cosworth V8 in favor of a (gulp) Honda engine, yet Sauber managed to secure a deal getting last year's Ferrari engine. Hmm...
Bringing up McLaren was a mistake. The F1 was a 3-year-only car, and it hasn't been made for 3 years. The NEW McLaren is rightfully a Mercedes, since the McLaren F1 cars use Benz (Ilmor) engines. The BMW V12 in the F1 was a proof of concept that REALLY exceeded expectations--the transmission is custom-designed for that car--no off-the-shelf drivetrain here!
Mentioning the Skyline in this post was extremely out of place and way too Fast & Furious. 'Nuff said.
The Caterham isn't a go-kart any more than your dick is a bologna sandwich. Its only real advantage (tiny tracks and autocrossing) takes a HUGE back seat to the cost-effectiveness of a Porsche 914 or even a Fiat X1/9, especially in terms of cost, driveability and parts availability--points you use to decry Ferrari in your post's opening!
The Ford transit is a lorry. Period. There's NOTHINg special about it, and it proves you like to name drop. Good for you--you bought the latest issue of EVO. The best lorries are an argument just like your car argument, and the only lorry to pop up on this side of the Atlantic is the Freightliner Sprinter, actually a Mercedes V-class rebadged with Freighliner logos. Don't believe me? Check their website.
I own a Porsche, and there's no way in hell I can drive it every day. No way in hell. It's an AWESOME box to flog on weekends and dates, but not commuting more than 10 miles every day. For that, I have an S-class.
We own 2 Mercedes, and they are hands-down the easiest cars to do ANYTHING on, and there's not much to do. First car I've ever owned where an oil change could be done standing up and oil didn't drip all over the place.
Yawning over a Ferrari is akin to masturbating yourself limp: what the hell is wrong with you? Might I humbly suggest you open your mind a bit, close your mouth, and quit acting like the advertisement fodder Corporate Automobilia has fed you for the last 25 years and pick out the good things, ignore the bad and don't waste your breath commenting about things you don't have personal experience with. My guess is that you'll find a LOT more people that agree with you and want to be your friend. JUST ENJOY.
I've gotta tell you though: it takes a lot to get me to bash-back on people, but this post was really deserving. You don't know what you're talking about, and your personal experience lacks most--if not all--of the makes and models you mention. Might I humbly suggest you stick to counting polygons and playing with yor Pokemon cards and leave That Which You Don't Know in someone else's inbox?
There's a good boy.
Wow, I've never ever had a CHANCE to be first post before!
ALL of you fuckers are absolute RETARDS! Fucking Nazi bin Laden queers.
Now THAT's a flamewar! :-)
In a related story, the National Inquisitortilla unearthed proof that Microsoft has renumbered Windows 95 into Windows 2003. Apparently this has been an on-going practice for several iterations of the Redmond-based product, roughly since Ballmer decried Adobe's Illustrator 88 naming scheme as being "ambiguous" and "prone to immediate obsolescence."
The horror...
Who does this St. Matthew of the Blessed Internet answer to? And why can't I send him mail?
The term is "taxation without representation," and there are too many people with too much tea (packets) in a very big harbor (IPv4).
Oh I GET IT! OK, so migrate the willing onto the gummint-subsidized Internet-II, where this tax is a Reality(tm) and leave the Rest Of Us down on lowly Internet-I with the warning that, "Well, if you want freedom from spam, you'll come play at our house, otherwise you're just going to have to deal with it because you don't want US interfering with your Wild Wild West--oh, and BTW, we don't know how much longer Constituent Corp Dot Com is going to keep affording to keep that nasty old link up, since they keep getting sued for allowing so many hacker attacks and violations of the DMCA to perpetrate through the gateways to the 'real' Internet so if I were you I'd make a decision real quick like because we're having a $9.95 a year sale but it's only good until next Tuesday."
Don't believe me, look it up. Any dictionary of the English language should help you out.
Maybe if the dotcoms could fucking spell they'd still be in business and not be perceived as a bunch of fucking lazy scooter-riders and nerf-shooters with no clue how to build a business plan.
Then go buy an IBM 7012 (or any other desktop RS/6000) and be done with it.
STOP WHINING! NOBODY HAS THE ONLY WAY TO DO SOMETHING
Iraq invaded Iran. During those 8 years, they used chemical weapons.
Iraq invaded Kuwait. During those 8 months, they plundered Kuwaiti air conditioners and set fire to thier oil wells with the ancient piracy attitude of "if I can't have it, nobody can."
Iraq launched SCUD missiles into Israel. Why? Well, because gefilte is not an approved Republican Guard munition. No other reason. Well, there's that whole exaggerated-difference-of-opinion thing, but being an American has taught me to be politically correct. Grandpa would say they're fucking bigots.
If you're old enough to post to slashdot with even a slight sense of maturity, ALL of these events happened during your lifetime.
Most /.ers have no real firm understanding of what's going on Over There. The reason Arabs hate us so much is because, by and large, very few Arabs get to (a) freely speak about how tolerant Americans are of Muslims and (b) hear such a message.
I'm not pro-war. I'm not pro-death. But, come on now, capital punishment *IS* pro-choice. Going on ad nauseum about your anti-war views just proves you're not well-informed and you have a very skewed threshold of acceptable loss-versus-global consequence.
First there were pirates. Then there was a U.S. Navy. Then the pirates were gone, and the world never ONCE fucking thought, "Well, gee, the pirates never plundered YOUR land so why not leave them alone?"
Saddam is a bad guy. If what we're doing is really bad, let's see your arguments against Milosevic...or Ceaucescu...
...and show me how the Europeans (especially the Serbs and the Romanians) hate us for what we did there. Go for it. I love the violent clashes between liberals' ignorance and their arrogance.
Don't be an idiot. Your phone number isn't known by everyone, but someone could guess because it's a 1-in-1000 chance they could get it if they know your NPN/NXX. The gummint has your phone number if they want it. You're using the infrastructure of the country you (live in | call home), therefore expecting anonymity on said infrastructure is moronic. Telephone to your ear, keyboard under your hands: doesn't matter. You don't own it end-to-end, you have NO RIGHTS on either medium until the content thereof is removed from the safe haven of its confines and put somewhere different rules apply.
Your SSN is tied to your PO Box, it's one phone call away from your monthly phone bill, getting someone's "real" address from a PO Box costs a whole DOLLAR. Give me a break. You're delusional if you think standing up for the Internet takes away freedoms or shouts, "Ready: take your places!" through a big screen in your living room wall any more than standing up for freedom of the press or freedom from mail fraud.
This isn't too bad an idea. Maybe we can start harvesting deliberately bad email addresses and deliberately honeypotting those who send to it and publish the list to everyone else with an idle DNS & SMTP server so they can do the same thing. Maybe we could band together and bring the 'Net to a fucking CRAWL with all our nonsene.
I'm only half kidding with this. I have an idle DNS / SMTP server, and we can make up a domain name not likely to be guessed, like dhxlwqgm.com and that way we KNOW anyone sending to it is a spammer.
Problem is, spam isn't going away. If we don't do something LEGALLY to get the authorities bought into our plight, then spammers will do something legally to insure their way of life survives. Until then, we're cutting off our own noses for the privilege of saying "You ca-ANT spam me! Neener neener nEEEEEEner! I'm untouchable; only real mail gets through to me go bug someone else."
If you want spam to stop, then want it to stop for EVERYONE.
And let's not forgot that the name Unix was chosen to replace an existing OS called MULTICS.
Actually, UNICS replaced MULTICS in 1969. UNIX didn't appear until 1971 as "UNIX Time-Sharing System, Version 1."
Now if it were pronounced MULE-tics, then, yes, eunuchs is a funny replacement for muledicks.
Also a bad idea. I don't want that crap here, and I don't want Spamfanny thinking this is a valid destination for his tripe.
I want Spamfanny to know we don't tolerate that sort of thing here, and I want him to know he was DELIBERATELY denied, not just disapproved.
I do a variation of the honeypot here, and every 24 hours, the syslog gets script-read and the offending domain gets added to access_db. So, I guess one of your ideas has some merit, but as one small tool in the box against spam.
Mostly, and above all, I don't want to accept his connection. access_db is pretty much the closest way you can be a free-standing domain and effect this.
Well, it's lame in that procmail has this capability nailed, as does the SpamBlocker folks (whose URL I'm currently forgetting under the guise of the word "Budweiser"). I use this. Problem is, roughly half of the polite (no, really, they ARE polite) bounce messages return right back to my account "user unknown."
/etc/mail/access file, I'm still getting gobs and gobs and gobs of spam. Find me a way to blacklist the open relay via procmail (currently all you get is general headers and body-text) or sendmail's access_db and I can find you a free /etc/mail/access subscription service that'll cut 'em off at the knees.
Spammers joejob yahoo and hotmail and msn so much that even with my reasonably large
I wish I could just block aol, yahoo, hotmail, etc. I wish, I wish, I wish. problem is, grandma and Mommy Dearest and clueless newbiefriends are from that part of town, so it's the old nose-face-spite thing.