What the fuck is wrong with people who will go out and vote more power to Bush and his fucking fascist government this Tuesday?
Maybe they think "If it's this bad under a 'conservative', imagine Hillary!"
This is what the lesser of two evils system gets you. Democrats voted "Anybody but Bush" in 2004, is it really surprising that there are people saying "Anybody but Democrats"?
The lack of empathy is astounding.
This is why I either don't vote, or I vote 3rd party. I'm not participating in this crap. Both sides are destroying this country, they just think THEIR side is going to do it slower.
If the U.S. keeps control, eventually the corporatocracy will kill off everything.
What are you referring to, exactly?
What have 'they' done thus far to impede the internet?
Last time I checked, I can still download illegal files, go to any website on the web, and e-mail anybody in the world.
Sure, some things may end up with me in the FBI's hot-seat, but that has nothing to do with corporations.
It is likely that several countries will object to the US monopoly on Internet governance
WHAT governance? The sections of the network owned by people or businesses in the US are governed by THEIR OWNERS. Germany can outlaw swastika's and regulate their own country's infastructure, and the US can regulate theirs. That's what made the internet the powerhouse it is today--give people incentive to build infastructure by giving them control over it.
THE ONLY reason to give power to others is so they can assert control over US-OWNED NETWORKS. If they're pissed because some companies ban foreign traffic, tough bananas. Go ahead and ban US citizenry from using your network, if you think you can take the financial hit.
Nice try, UN.
When the US economic power slows, and the EU (or whatever group) has more power, maybe then will the tables turn and it will be the US complaining about lack of power online. Until then, deal with it.
(quoting in its entirity because this guy is about to mistakenly be labeled a troll):
I remain skeptical of the global warming arguments, and divided on what to think of the whole issue. I've seen evidence both for and against the reality and human cause of global warming (see eg. Crichton's propagandistic but informative bad novel State of Fear). It seems as though claims of global warming, even if they're accurate, are an excuse to grant governments even greater power over the economy in the name of Saving the Planet. Because taxation and regulation are undesirable in themselves, I see this movement to create some massively expensive global regulation treaty as a definite harm to the world, being offered as a possible, partial remedy for a problem we're not even sure exists.
Most of the best solutions for global warming are taxing polution itself. Taxing goods has been done for hundreds of years and I happen to think directing social change is probably the best way of doing it.
Think about it: they used to tax all sorts of random goods that people needed. Now, they can tax pollution and let the economy figure it out. I think there are a lot libertarians (including myself) that like this approach.
We may also be erring on the side of pessimism in judging the effects of global warming (again, assuming it's real). We know there will be problems, but aren't we overlooking some opportunities it will create? In various sources I've heard claims about Scotland's destiny as a premier wine-growing region; easier ice-free shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean; greening of the Sahara Desert due to increased ocean evaporation; and greater practicality of mining Antarctica's undiscovered resources. Even as we hear about polar bears in trouble, there are also increasing news reports of wolves, manatees and other wildlife flourishing in surprising places. This "crisis" could actually work out better than we think.
I believe me leaving this in my post will get me modded to troll as well. People think downplaying global warming as a threat is often 'dangerous thought'.. Slashdot repeatedly supresses posts on this, including one I made a few weeks ago in the same "what if" form making no assumptions.
I think it's dispicable not to look at this vastly important issue in its totality, and with the parent post being modded as troll, we can clearly see that even us 'nerds' are not immune to supression of information.
The Administration as a whole is what scares the hell out of me. Add to this the people in Congress who support these shenanigans. And places like the UK have some nasty new laws as well.
It's not just the UK and the US. here is a picture (chart) from the economist magazine with a world-wide view of freedoms lost after 9/11 around the world. It's an old picture, too (2003)--it's likely worse now.
Ignoring problems is the new American Way. We're doing the same thing with budget deficits, social security, medicare, and solving the root cause of global terrorism.
Exactly! Because the social security, medicare, and budget issues weren't apparent until recently!... Oh wait.
We've been consistently setting ourselves up for disaster for at least 60 years now.
Before someone brings up the citations in Michael Crichton's State of Fear [amazon.com] , which inevitably happens in global warming discussions here, let's remember that Crichton is not a scientist, he's not competent to judge the strength of the material he was relying on, and you shouldn't be forming your opinion about grave issues from airport paperbacks.
And this guy's an economist, so I guess we'll ignore both here.
Also, didn't I read in a science magazine that Global Warming can only be slowed, and not stopped? It will supposedly reach its apex and then an ice age will occur shortly afterwards.
When is the next ice age, anyway? I heard we're 1,000 years overdue.
Hey Jackass have you ever used Jahjah? The call is _free_ for both sides. Are you a shill for some competitor? How does this shit get on slashdot unverified?
Chavez might be a populist loudmouth fucker, but he is pretty open about what he wants and what his intentions are, not like the current crop of corrupt, deceiptful pigs running the USA, who resort to vague accusations like this one in times of elections because they finally realised that they fucked up across the board and that people really hate them for it.
Yeah, all populists have secret police to round up dissidents.
Even anti-Bush politicians like Nancy Pelosi agree that Chavez is a "thug."
Like most 3rd world dictators, Chavez will say anything to get more attention and further his. He'll say he's just an underdog leader of a poor, disenfranchised nation and hold up a Noam Chomsky book, because that's the best angle he can persue.
Don't assume Chavez is just doing what's right for his people just because he's got that 'victim' image he projects. Like most politicians, he'll act in whichever way will garner more favorable opinion.
Luckily, most of our politicians see through this (which is remarkable, considering the agreement we passed with North Korea in the 90's which any idiot could see was going to fail).
I'm used to listening to music on either my old Sony EX-71 in-ear buds, or my newer (since the Sony's are pure crap in quality) Sennheiser MX-300. They act as ear-plugs and headphones at the same time, which means I can turn the volume DOWN since I don't get bothered by outside noise as much.
You have muscles in your ear that dampen sounds over a period of time (I know the names but IANAPP [I am not a pedantic prick] so I'll spare you). For instance, if you're in a loud machine shop and someone fires a starter pistol, your ears will probably be OK. However, if you turn all the machines off and have it silent in the exact same room for a while before firing the pistol, you'll likely damage your ears.
Therefore, in some cases, plugs + phones can be bad. The outside noise will cause your ears to adjust for the loudness and will attenuate the force of the sound as it enters your ears (unless you just turn up the volume too loud).
Oh man this is such a lie..... Did they perform metabolic chamber analysis? Where is the published paper? Why do people *always* seem to fall for marketing nonsense like this? Look, the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. It's calories in versus calories out and Enviga, metabolically will not let you magically burn more calories by consuming it unless it can somehow short circuit the electron transport chain or mitochondrial respiration and that is dangerous as hell. (Think poisons like dinitrophenol or proteins in brown fat like thermogenin).
When I lost weight (80 pounds in 6 months [246 to 166]), I was eating 33% more calories than I was burning (4000 in Vs 3000 out).
I took no pills other than a multivitamin 3 times a week, and I drank no idiotic hippie concoctions like green tea.
Diet alone doesn't work, and moreover it causes your weight to rebound when you stop dieting. The only diet I was on was high protein, high fat, and high fiber. This was NOT BY DESIGN, this was simply so I could actually stop being hungry, as carbs didn't fill me up. I didn't eat sugars because sugar is worthless (FYI: Starch changes into sugar on contact with saliva).
Also, aspartame-laden beverages slow you down when you work out a lot, so I drank that new-fangled "water" stuff that comes out of the tap.
After losing all that weight, I STOPPED exercising for about 5 months while not really paying attention to my diet.. I lost an additional 5 pounds in that time. If I had lost the weight via a diet, it's almost assured I would have bounced back.
Of course, I felt like crap and started working out again. The point is: Calories are bogus. There's no trick to losing weight, just exercise.
The parent's post's bottom line is: this new drink is BS. I think we can agree on this point. However, metabolism determines your weight better than any diet, in my experience.
The user bears sole responsibility for any use and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility is dependent on the national legislation in each user's country of residence. The Administration of AllOFMP3.com does not possess information on the laws of each particular country and is not responsible for the actions of foreign users.
Read that last paragraph, if you've been in the United States & using AllOfMp3.com, they've been shifting legality issues to you. Visa has now chosen to recognize this issue and not be party to breaking the law.
Yes, however, American law says that any copyrighted material legally purchased in other countries can be imported into the US without duty.
With Allofmp3.com, you buy the song in Russia (legally), and import it into the US using the internet.
Since it's legal, it's still theft, but not piracy.
You're going to call up every company for every product that you buy? And then expect to reach someone who will know the answer? And even if they do know the answer, you expect them to give you a truthful one?
If they don't it's fraud. They can be sued.
Without regulation, your hair dye would contain toxic amounts of lead. Oh, wait a minute -- it currently does!
If having lead in your hair caused any diseases, companies would stop to keep from getting sued.
The lazy, lying bastards should be shut down, made an example of. At the least, they're now liable because someone showed it could be done, and because they were too lazy to do it themselves, they now have a liability exposure for any child that was preyed upon through their web site.
Yeah, OR parents could just protect their own damn kids so companies don't have to.
If I had a kid who I felt was dumb enough to be lured in by one of these guys, myspace would be blocked on my router. If I didn't know how to do that, I'd keep the cable modem in a locked drawer, only to be brought out at times when I could sit with them on the computer and watch what was going on.
Whatever happened to raising your own kids, and not having the internet, video games, and TV do it for you?
If only other systems had thought of that. You could implement it so that all the data of one user is stored in a single directory, called home directory.
Actually, when going from a Powermac G5 to my mac pro, I had my 'user folder' was actually another hard drive.
When I switched, I simply plugged in my old hard drive to the new computer, created a user, and pointed the user folder to the hard drive.
It had preferences for all the programs I hadn't even installed yet, complete with serial numbers and registration codes in some instances.
How cool would it be if, when you were too lazy or apathetic to do your own job, it became somebody else's responsibility? How much cooloer would it be if you still got paid for doing your job?
That's basically what happened when I got an underling at work. Being management rules.
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What the fuck is wrong with people who will go out and vote more power to Bush and his fucking fascist government this Tuesday?
Maybe they think "If it's this bad under a 'conservative', imagine Hillary!"
This is what the lesser of two evils system gets you. Democrats voted "Anybody but Bush" in 2004, is it really surprising that there are people saying "Anybody but Democrats"?
The lack of empathy is astounding.
This is why I either don't vote, or I vote 3rd party. I'm not participating in this crap. Both sides are destroying this country, they just think THEIR side is going to do it slower.
You gotta fight
for your right
to brooaaaadband.
Broadband is not a right, but partying is.
If the U.S. keeps control, eventually the corporatocracy will kill off everything.
What are you referring to, exactly?
What have 'they' done thus far to impede the internet?
Last time I checked, I can still download illegal files, go to any website on the web, and e-mail anybody in the world.
Sure, some things may end up with me in the FBI's hot-seat, but that has nothing to do with corporations.
It is likely that several countries will object to the US monopoly on Internet governance
WHAT governance? The sections of the network owned by people or businesses in the US are governed by THEIR OWNERS. Germany can outlaw swastika's and regulate their own country's infastructure, and the US can regulate theirs. That's what made the internet the powerhouse it is today--give people incentive to build infastructure by giving them control over it.
THE ONLY reason to give power to others is so they can assert control over US-OWNED NETWORKS. If they're pissed because some companies ban foreign traffic, tough bananas. Go ahead and ban US citizenry from using your network, if you think you can take the financial hit.
Nice try, UN.
When the US economic power slows, and the EU (or whatever group) has more power, maybe then will the tables turn and it will be the US complaining about lack of power online. Until then, deal with it.
(quoting in its entirity because this guy is about to mistakenly be labeled a troll):
I remain skeptical of the global warming arguments, and divided on what to think of the whole issue. I've seen evidence both for and against the reality and human cause of global warming (see eg. Crichton's propagandistic but informative bad novel State of Fear). It seems as though claims of global warming, even if they're accurate, are an excuse to grant governments even greater power over the economy in the name of Saving the Planet. Because taxation and regulation are undesirable in themselves, I see this movement to create some massively expensive global regulation treaty as a definite harm to the world, being offered as a possible, partial remedy for a problem we're not even sure exists.
Most of the best solutions for global warming are taxing polution itself. Taxing goods has been done for hundreds of years and I happen to think directing social change is probably the best way of doing it.
Think about it: they used to tax all sorts of random goods that people needed. Now, they can tax pollution and let the economy figure it out. I think there are a lot libertarians (including myself) that like this approach.
We may also be erring on the side of pessimism in judging the effects of global warming (again, assuming it's real). We know there will be problems, but aren't we overlooking some opportunities it will create? In various sources I've heard claims about Scotland's destiny as a premier wine-growing region; easier ice-free shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean; greening of the Sahara Desert due to increased ocean evaporation; and greater practicality of mining Antarctica's undiscovered resources. Even as we hear about polar bears in trouble, there are also increasing news reports of wolves, manatees and other wildlife flourishing in surprising places. This "crisis" could actually work out better than we think.
I believe me leaving this in my post will get me modded to troll as well. People think downplaying global warming as a threat is often 'dangerous thought'.. Slashdot repeatedly supresses posts on this, including one I made a few weeks ago in the same "what if" form making no assumptions.
I think it's dispicable not to look at this vastly important issue in its totality, and with the parent post being modded as troll, we can clearly see that even us 'nerds' are not immune to supression of information.
The Administration as a whole is what scares the hell out of me. Add to this the people in Congress who support these shenanigans. And places like the UK have some nasty new laws as well.
It's not just the UK and the US. here is a picture (chart) from the economist magazine with a world-wide view of freedoms lost after 9/11 around the world. It's an old picture, too (2003)--it's likely worse now.
Ignoring problems is the new American Way. We're doing the same thing with budget deficits, social security, medicare, and solving the root cause of global terrorism.
... Oh wait.
Exactly! Because the social security, medicare, and budget issues weren't apparent until recently!
We've been consistently setting ourselves up for disaster for at least 60 years now.
Before someone brings up the citations in Michael Crichton's State of Fear [amazon.com] , which inevitably happens in global warming discussions here, let's remember that Crichton is not a scientist, he's not competent to judge the strength of the material he was relying on, and you shouldn't be forming your opinion about grave issues from airport paperbacks.
And this guy's an economist, so I guess we'll ignore both here.
Also, didn't I read in a science magazine that Global Warming can only be slowed, and not stopped? It will supposedly reach its apex and then an ice age will occur shortly afterwards.
When is the next ice age, anyway? I heard we're 1,000 years overdue.
Hey Jackass have you ever used Jahjah? The call is _free_ for both sides. Are you a shill for some competitor? How does this shit get on slashdot unverified?
By raffle.
Chavez might be a populist loudmouth fucker, but he is pretty open about what he wants and what his intentions are, not like the current crop of corrupt, deceiptful pigs running the USA, who resort to vague accusations like this one in times of elections because they finally realised that they fucked up across the board and that people really hate them for it.
Yeah, all populists have secret police to round up dissidents.
Even anti-Bush politicians like Nancy Pelosi agree that Chavez is a "thug."
Like most 3rd world dictators, Chavez will say anything to get more attention and further his. He'll say he's just an underdog leader of a poor, disenfranchised nation and hold up a Noam Chomsky book, because that's the best angle he can persue.
Don't assume Chavez is just doing what's right for his people just because he's got that 'victim' image he projects. Like most politicians, he'll act in whichever way will garner more favorable opinion.
Luckily, most of our politicians see through this (which is remarkable, considering the agreement we passed with North Korea in the 90's which any idiot could see was going to fail).
'If a recent patent filing is any indication'...
It isn't.
But in the age of "CD quality" 128 kBit MP3s and crappy PC speakers, who cares about audio quality anyway...
*raises hand*
That's why I'm going back to buying CDs now that Allofmp3.com is basically gone.
I changed the currency to Japenese yen and bought the '04 election for $100.
Too bad the stupid spell checker changed 'Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus' to "Bush" and we're stuck with this guy now.
Sorry dudes, my B.
-slug
I'm used to listening to music on either my old Sony EX-71 in-ear buds, or my newer (since the Sony's are pure crap in quality) Sennheiser MX-300. They act as ear-plugs and headphones at the same time, which means I can turn the volume DOWN since I don't get bothered by outside noise as much.
You have muscles in your ear that dampen sounds over a period of time (I know the names but IANAPP [I am not a pedantic prick] so I'll spare you). For instance, if you're in a loud machine shop and someone fires a starter pistol, your ears will probably be OK. However, if you turn all the machines off and have it silent in the exact same room for a while before firing the pistol, you'll likely damage your ears.
Therefore, in some cases, plugs + phones can be bad. The outside noise will cause your ears to adjust for the loudness and will attenuate the force of the sound as it enters your ears (unless you just turn up the volume too loud).
Oh man this is such a lie..... Did they perform metabolic chamber analysis? Where is the published paper? Why do people *always* seem to fall for marketing nonsense like this? Look, the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. It's calories in versus calories out and Enviga, metabolically will not let you magically burn more calories by consuming it unless it can somehow short circuit the electron transport chain or mitochondrial respiration and that is dangerous as hell. (Think poisons like dinitrophenol or proteins in brown fat like thermogenin).
When I lost weight (80 pounds in 6 months [246 to 166]), I was eating 33% more calories than I was burning (4000 in Vs 3000 out).
I took no pills other than a multivitamin 3 times a week, and I drank no idiotic hippie concoctions like green tea.
Diet alone doesn't work, and moreover it causes your weight to rebound when you stop dieting. The only diet I was on was high protein, high fat, and high fiber. This was NOT BY DESIGN, this was simply so I could actually stop being hungry, as carbs didn't fill me up. I didn't eat sugars because sugar is worthless (FYI: Starch changes into sugar on contact with saliva).
Also, aspartame-laden beverages slow you down when you work out a lot, so I drank that new-fangled "water" stuff that comes out of the tap.
After losing all that weight, I STOPPED exercising for about 5 months while not really paying attention to my diet.. I lost an additional 5 pounds in that time. If I had lost the weight via a diet, it's almost assured I would have bounced back.
Of course, I felt like crap and started working out again. The point is: Calories are bogus. There's no trick to losing weight, just exercise.
The parent's post's bottom line is: this new drink is BS. I think we can agree on this point. However, metabolism determines your weight better than any diet, in my experience.
The user bears sole responsibility for any use and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility is dependent on the national legislation in each user's country of residence. The Administration of AllOFMP3.com does not possess information on the laws of each particular country and is not responsible for the actions of foreign users.
Read that last paragraph, if you've been in the United States & using AllOfMp3.com, they've been shifting legality issues to you. Visa has now chosen to recognize this issue and not be party to breaking the law.
Yes, however, American law says that any copyrighted material legally purchased in other countries can be imported into the US without duty.
With Allofmp3.com, you buy the song in Russia (legally), and import it into the US using the internet.
Since it's legal, it's still theft, but not piracy.
1) What is Sling?
A piece of leather that allows one to hurl stones at high speeds.
2) What is SlingPlayer?
It's a brand new product which is now available on the Mac!
3) What is special about SlingPlayer?
It's NEW!
(You can't call it a troll if I don't say which one becomes the upper class :p)
Sure I can! I'm libertarian, you insensitive clod!
Half of us will be Swedish, and the other half will be British?
From the Oh-Snap! Dept.
You're going to call up every company for every product that you buy? And then expect to reach someone who will know the answer? And even if they do know the answer, you expect them to give you a truthful one?
If they don't it's fraud. They can be sued.
Without regulation, your hair dye would contain toxic amounts of lead. Oh, wait a minute -- it currently does!
If having lead in your hair caused any diseases, companies would stop to keep from getting sued.
The lazy, lying bastards should be shut down, made an example of. At the least, they're now liable because someone showed it could be done, and because they were too lazy to do it themselves, they now have a liability exposure for any child that was preyed upon through their web site.
Yeah, OR parents could just protect their own damn kids so companies don't have to.
If I had a kid who I felt was dumb enough to be lured in by one of these guys, myspace would be blocked on my router. If I didn't know how to do that, I'd keep the cable modem in a locked drawer, only to be brought out at times when I could sit with them on the computer and watch what was going on.
Whatever happened to raising your own kids, and not having the internet, video games, and TV do it for you?
...had he listened to this first: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg
Weird Al Rocks!
If only other systems had thought of that. You could implement it so that all the data of one user is stored in a single directory, called home directory.
Actually, when going from a Powermac G5 to my mac pro, I had my 'user folder' was actually another hard drive.
When I switched, I simply plugged in my old hard drive to the new computer, created a user, and pointed the user folder to the hard drive.
It had preferences for all the programs I hadn't even installed yet, complete with serial numbers and registration codes in some instances.
How cool would it be if, when you were too lazy or apathetic to do your own job, it became somebody else's responsibility? How much cooloer would it be if you still got paid for doing your job?
That's basically what happened when I got an underling at work. Being management rules.
YouTube's policy is to remove copyrighted clips once alerted to their existence. Content providers say the company needs to be even more proactive
The law says otherwise.
Nice try, __AA.
90% of Online Gamers Are Fat Hairy Mail Truckers Pretending To Be Teenage Girls
Yes, they're gross-looking postal workers, but are they chicks or dudes?