Sorry, how can you possibly link an aborted fetus to pornography?
It's a picture of a naked dead baby.
Both will help you look less like a fool here on slashdot.
Yeah, but oftentimes looking like a fool within the slashdot hivemind is tantamount to appearing insightful and wise in the real world.
Secondly, while I don't disagree that we wouldn't be worse off without the two sites you mentioned - I do STRONGLY disagree that sites that for example promote anti-abortion should be disallowed.
My head just exploded. What was that, a quintuple negative?
(For the record I am pro-abortion)
Thanks for clearing that up. Man, don't they teach proper sentence structure in public school any more...?
What other industry do you get paid over and over again for work you have already done?
What industry do you get paid vacations? Yours? What industry can you show up for work, surf the web, and be otherwise unproductive for two-three hours so long as you steer clear of the PHB? Yours? What industry do you get -- I love this one! -- "sick days," where you can make a phonecall to some suit and then stay home under the covers and still be paid the same amount of money that week as if you had had 40 productive hours? Yours?
Or you can try being a writer. Sure they get residuals, money for something they've written a while back. Does that make up for not being paid for the sick days, Christmases, vacations, overtimes, whatever other downright wacky (when you think about it) conventions of the modern workplace in which they do not share? Maybe, maybe not. But the writers knew what they were getting into when they started their careers, same as the corporate clock-watchers. Seems a bit wrong to change the rules somehow...
There was a niche just crying out to be filled, eh?
If this is the future of music, then the future is bleak indeed.
I share your sentiment, but am a bit more optimistic. There will always be geek pseudo-artists with more toys than talent, but just as PhotoShop didn't kill off photography, I'm guessing that this... this... whatever it is, won't kill off actual music.
It would have dropped off on its own - now you all have made sure anyone who comes along the thread later will know it was there. Sometimes it is worth just chilling out and seeing where things go.
Maybe. But most times it's worth taking a stand and pointing out bigotry and hypocrisy in the editorial slant of holier-than-thou hipster tech blogs right when you find it.
Please remove the "Mormons" tag. Not all Mormons think that way. San Francisco has liberal Mormons, Texas has conservative Mormons, and there are libertarians dispersed throughout.
Oh, c'mon, Dude!! What's wrong with you? Geez... Christian-bashing is the last socially acceptable form of bigotry left to Americans, and now you want to take that away, too?
Tons of disabled people already depend on text-to-speech and with an ever older populace this is only going to become even more important to everyone.
Guess not.
Disabled folks get a legal pass around the Copyright law specifically for this.
Plus, where does the copyright end? If someone makes a book reference in public will they get their butt sued? Or will we have to get a public display licence to have a conversation now?
What?!? What are you talking about?? Any kind of reference or quotation is covered by fair use, and "public performances" are already strictly defined. (hint: "conversations" don't qualify) Why are you fear-mongering?
In fact I want this to be legally tested and put to rest asap.
You need the rest. If Amazon is smart they will charge extra, on a title by title basis, for the speech-to-text function, and give the author a percentage of the difference. Most people couldn't give a damn about hearing the book (and those that do are already downloading them from Audible.com, read by actual humans, into a device much more portable than a Kindle), and so the majority of folks will find themselves buying the "discounted" version of the book, and feeling better about it. Good marketing. Everybody wins.
Except of course the technology-for-technology's-sake non-creators screaming "Buggy-Whip!! Buggy-Whip!!" who view photo-shopping, HTML, and fan-fiction as artforms.
You have an entrenched base of Mac and Windows-teaching teachers in the K-12 system (and *nothing* says "entrenched" like a US Public School System teacher). Who's going to convince the union that they should switch their curriculum to an Open OS and Open Apps? You? Stallman? And since the majority of parents (and teachers) view K-12 computer class as akin to Home Economics or Auto Shop (i.e., teaching the kids something "practical, real-life, that they can use") where will that sudden groundswell of support for open software come from? The children, who are anxious to play all those linux-based games? Oh, wait...
This is one change that, if it comes at all, will not arise up out of the schools, but downward from business. When the moms and dads get linux-friendly at work, and can see the value of their children learning the apps in "computer shop," you may see some change.
The number of similarities between global warming and the older, more traditional religions have been documented numerous times and places: The high priesthood for whom the sins don't apply, the levied guilt, prophets of doom, attack on science by a faithful flock, the purchase of indulgences (carbon credits), concerted attempts to control the secular leadership as a means to bring the general population into line, etc., etc.
The only non-similarity -- and it's a shame, really -- is that the medieval inquisition had those really cool hooded robes. The modern Global Warming Cult has no fashion sense whatsoever, as best as I can make out.
Y'know, the real crime at the root of the online privacy debate has nothing to do with privacy, and everything to do with pretentiousness.
We're not talking about Sakharovs, people with dangerous ideas who genuinely have something to say, we're talking about people disguised as Dark Elves "cheating" on their wives through chat channels in a video game, or -- dorkier still -- IT admins who believe anyone outside their small circle of friends around the cafeteria lunch table give two shits why they prefer one operating system or another.
Cyberspace is filled with over-educated self-absorbed drama queens who have too much time on their hands, people who contribute nothing to society making their "private tells" worth reading. Stalin wouldn't lock these people up, he would just order his driver to bitch slap them.
Sony already did their part in not giving a flying fuck about protecting their customers' privacy
Why did you think you have any reasonable claim to privacy in an MMO? If you "sent some tells about sometimes wanting to kill your classmates or co-workers" not only would I not expect you to retain your privacy and anonymity, but I would expect Sony -- and anyone who read your tells -- to feel an obligation to notify the law. Talk "about sex to someone who, as it turns out, is 8 years old"? You should spend a night in jail just to cure you of your stupidity. Don't they teach you in school specifically *not* to make any assumptions about the age and gender of someone you "meet" online? You're worried that because you "Talked about drugs or homosexuality" potential employers might not hire you; if I were you I'd be concerned they wouldn't hire me because I lack any discretion and the common sense God gave a dog.
Do not write anything in any online forum anyplace, even under a pseudonym, that you would not be comfortable having viewed by your teacher/boss/wife/husband/neighbor. Period. You do not have any right to privacy online (somehow this slipped past the Founding Fathers) and you are a fool if you expect any.
It certainly goes out of it's way to keep it alive. Certainly it's efforts in this area are way disproportionate to the EFF's actual credibility in legal circles, where they are the Britney Spears in a boardroom full of King Crimsons.
If Eve were a bike, it would be one without any seat. And 5,000 volts would periodically be shot through the handlebars.
That said, it's still the most wonderful online experience available short of teledildonics (and I understand the devs are adding that skill to the next expansion...)
I mean, sure, if you need a handy re-cap of the fifth season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or a quick history of some server-side scripting language, you can't do much better than wikipedia: "by Geeks, for Geeks." But geo-politics? Current events? Stop. Wikipedia plays around in these and all areas, of course, but any student or journalist who uses it as source should be ridiculed, then shot.
I could not care in the least whether the voice on "Circus" and "Toxic" belongs to a young blond woman named Britney Spears or an AI in a basement in Kyoto. It's pop music: flash, rhymes, synth, beat, top hat and just enough cowbell. Ever since MTV it's also been good looks and plenty of skin, and that's fine too. Lemme say it again: It's Pop Music! It's not classical, or jazz, or standards, or any of the genres which mandate legit chops. When I listen to a pop song, I am under no illusion that the person credited wrote the song, is playing the instrument, or sings like that in real life. I don't care about the artist (or his/her politics) I care about the production of the song.
I've yet to come across any youthful geek-goth-emo-indy-gamer-progressive-wirehead-gearhead whatever who views him or herself as "the mainstream." Everybody is just too cool for the room, proud to be part of that hip 10% who think or do something a different way. To criticize the people of Utah for being "detached from the mainstream" is the height of hypocrisy.
In fact, in a nation of talkers, nobody walks the walk like the Utah folk. You may not agree with the way they live their lives -- in fact, that's kinda the point, ennit? -- but you gotta respect their capacity for shaping their world into their worldview. I mean, they carved out a goddam state for themselves, they make the laws, and if you don't like it, stay the fuck out. Let's see the Gays, Catholics, Muslims, Libertarians, Han-Shot-Firsters try that and succeed.
I may not agree with every aspect of their lifestyle or beliefs, but I do like the way they get things done.
Sources tell me they would have launched with a copy of "Frozen Bubble" but were so afraid of getting their servers slashdotted by the huge demand from the linux gaming community that they decided to hold off a few weeks...
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I consider $250k reasonable for a CEO and $36k reasonable for a factory worker.
In Vermont, perhaps.
Sorry, how can you possibly link an aborted fetus to pornography?
It's a picture of a naked dead baby.
Both will help you look less like a fool here on slashdot.
Yeah, but oftentimes looking like a fool within the slashdot hivemind is tantamount to appearing insightful and wise in the real world.
Secondly, while I don't disagree that we wouldn't be worse off without the two sites you mentioned - I do STRONGLY disagree that sites that for example promote anti-abortion should be disallowed.
My head just exploded. What was that, a quintuple negative?
(For the record I am pro-abortion)
Thanks for clearing that up. Man, don't they teach proper sentence structure in public school any more...?
What other industry do you get paid over and over again for work you have already done?
What industry do you get paid vacations? Yours? What industry can you show up for work, surf the web, and be otherwise unproductive for two-three hours so long as you steer clear of the PHB? Yours? What industry do you get -- I love this one! -- "sick days," where you can make a phonecall to some suit and then stay home under the covers and still be paid the same amount of money that week as if you had had 40 productive hours? Yours?
Or you can try being a writer. Sure they get residuals, money for something they've written a while back. Does that make up for not being paid for the sick days, Christmases, vacations, overtimes, whatever other downright wacky (when you think about it) conventions of the modern workplace in which they do not share? Maybe, maybe not. But the writers knew what they were getting into when they started their careers, same as the corporate clock-watchers. Seems a bit wrong to change the rules somehow...
There was a niche just crying out to be filled, eh?
If this is the future of music, then the future is bleak indeed.
I share your sentiment, but am a bit more optimistic. There will always be geek pseudo-artists with more toys than talent, but just as PhotoShop didn't kill off photography, I'm guessing that this... this... whatever it is, won't kill off actual music.
Don't argue. There's already three astronomers at the bottom of Lake Michigan who "begged to differ."
It's the Chicago way.
It would have dropped off on its own - now you all have made sure anyone who comes along the thread later will know it was there. Sometimes it is worth just chilling out and seeing where things go.
Maybe. But most times it's worth taking a stand and pointing out bigotry and hypocrisy in the editorial slant of holier-than-thou hipster tech blogs right when you find it.
Please remove the "Mormons" tag. Not all Mormons think that way. San Francisco has liberal Mormons, Texas has conservative Mormons, and there are libertarians dispersed throughout.
Oh, c'mon, Dude!! What's wrong with you? Geez... Christian-bashing is the last socially acceptable form of bigotry left to Americans, and now you want to take that away, too?
...or would that require responsible editing?
Although seriously questionable legally...
Are you a lawyer?
Tons of disabled people already depend on text-to-speech and with an ever older populace this is only going to become even more important to everyone.
Guess not.
Disabled folks get a legal pass around the Copyright law specifically for this.
Plus, where does the copyright end? If someone makes a book reference in public will they get their butt sued? Or will we have to get a public display licence to have a conversation now?
What?!? What are you talking about?? Any kind of reference or quotation is covered by fair use, and "public performances" are already strictly defined. (hint: "conversations" don't qualify) Why are you fear-mongering?
In fact I want this to be legally tested and put to rest asap.
You need the rest. If Amazon is smart they will charge extra, on a title by title basis, for the speech-to-text function, and give the author a percentage of the difference. Most people couldn't give a damn about hearing the book (and those that do are already downloading them from Audible.com, read by actual humans, into a device much more portable than a Kindle), and so the majority of folks will find themselves buying the "discounted" version of the book, and feeling better about it. Good marketing. Everybody wins.
Except of course the technology-for-technology's-sake non-creators screaming "Buggy-Whip!! Buggy-Whip!!" who view photo-shopping, HTML, and fan-fiction as artforms.
You have an entrenched base of Mac and Windows-teaching teachers in the K-12 system (and *nothing* says "entrenched" like a US Public School System teacher). Who's going to convince the union that they should switch their curriculum to an Open OS and Open Apps? You? Stallman? And since the majority of parents (and teachers) view K-12 computer class as akin to Home Economics or Auto Shop (i.e., teaching the kids something "practical, real-life, that they can use") where will that sudden groundswell of support for open software come from? The children, who are anxious to play all those linux-based games? Oh, wait...
This is one change that, if it comes at all, will not arise up out of the schools, but downward from business. When the moms and dads get linux-friendly at work, and can see the value of their children learning the apps in "computer shop," you may see some change.
The number of similarities between global warming and the older, more traditional religions have been documented numerous times and places: The high priesthood for whom the sins don't apply, the levied guilt, prophets of doom, attack on science by a faithful flock, the purchase of indulgences (carbon credits), concerted attempts to control the secular leadership as a means to bring the general population into line, etc., etc.
The only non-similarity -- and it's a shame, really -- is that the medieval inquisition had those really cool hooded robes. The modern Global Warming Cult has no fashion sense whatsoever, as best as I can make out.
Now the users will think they can control things.
"Users?" Are those, like, customers...?
It's annoying on so many levels.
Annoying to you. Refreshing to others, also on many levels.
Lookit, you slipped in "C.E." for "A.D." when nobody was looking, but you're going to have to fight us for this one...
C'mon, cut us some slack, we'll take any kind of good news.
Stalin... Sakharov...
Y'know, the real crime at the root of the online privacy debate has nothing to do with privacy, and everything to do with pretentiousness.
We're not talking about Sakharovs, people with dangerous ideas who genuinely have something to say, we're talking about people disguised as Dark Elves "cheating" on their wives through chat channels in a video game, or -- dorkier still -- IT admins who believe anyone outside their small circle of friends around the cafeteria lunch table give two shits why they prefer one operating system or another.
Cyberspace is filled with over-educated self-absorbed drama queens who have too much time on their hands, people who contribute nothing to society making their "private tells" worth reading. Stalin wouldn't lock these people up, he would just order his driver to bitch slap them.
Sony already did their part in not giving a flying fuck about protecting their customers' privacy
Why did you think you have any reasonable claim to privacy in an MMO? If you "sent some tells about sometimes wanting to kill your classmates or co-workers" not only would I not expect you to retain your privacy and anonymity, but I would expect Sony -- and anyone who read your tells -- to feel an obligation to notify the law. Talk "about sex to someone who, as it turns out, is 8 years old"? You should spend a night in jail just to cure you of your stupidity. Don't they teach you in school specifically *not* to make any assumptions about the age and gender of someone you "meet" online? You're worried that because you "Talked about drugs or homosexuality" potential employers might not hire you; if I were you I'd be concerned they wouldn't hire me because I lack any discretion and the common sense God gave a dog.
Do not write anything in any online forum anyplace, even under a pseudonym, that you would not be comfortable having viewed by your teacher/boss/wife/husband/neighbor. Period. You do not have any right to privacy online (somehow this slipped past the Founding Fathers) and you are a fool if you expect any.
Sometimes I think Slashdot invented the EFF.
It certainly goes out of it's way to keep it alive. Certainly it's efforts in this area are way disproportionate to the EFF's actual credibility in legal circles, where they are the Britney Spears in a boardroom full of King Crimsons.
...are the pseudo-journalists/analysts still writing stories using the word "meme."
If Eve were a bike, it would be one without any seat. And 5,000 volts would periodically be shot through the handlebars.
That said, it's still the most wonderful online experience available short of teledildonics (and I understand the devs are adding that skill to the next expansion...)
I mean, sure, if you need a handy re-cap of the fifth season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or a quick history of some server-side scripting language, you can't do much better than wikipedia: "by Geeks, for Geeks." But geo-politics? Current events? Stop. Wikipedia plays around in these and all areas, of course, but any student or journalist who uses it as source should be ridiculed, then shot.
I could not care in the least whether the voice on "Circus" and "Toxic" belongs to a young blond woman named Britney Spears or an AI in a basement in Kyoto. It's pop music: flash, rhymes, synth, beat, top hat and just enough cowbell. Ever since MTV it's also been good looks and plenty of skin, and that's fine too. Lemme say it again: It's Pop Music! It's not classical, or jazz, or standards, or any of the genres which mandate legit chops. When I listen to a pop song, I am under no illusion that the person credited wrote the song, is playing the instrument, or sings like that in real life. I don't care about the artist (or his/her politics) I care about the production of the song.
Jeez... didn't The Monkees teach us anything?
I've yet to come across any youthful geek-goth-emo-indy-gamer-progressive-wirehead-gearhead whatever who views him or herself as "the mainstream." Everybody is just too cool for the room, proud to be part of that hip 10% who think or do something a different way. To criticize the people of Utah for being "detached from the mainstream" is the height of hypocrisy.
In fact, in a nation of talkers, nobody walks the walk like the Utah folk. You may not agree with the way they live their lives -- in fact, that's kinda the point, ennit? -- but you gotta respect their capacity for shaping their world into their worldview. I mean, they carved out a goddam state for themselves, they make the laws, and if you don't like it, stay the fuck out. Let's see the Gays, Catholics, Muslims, Libertarians, Han-Shot-Firsters try that and succeed.
I may not agree with every aspect of their lifestyle or beliefs, but I do like the way they get things done.
Most people I know who play Eve are fascinated by how into Real Life so many others are.
Y'know, I used "Frozen Bubble" as a punchline in my post above, but you're here taking it seriously.
That's pretty scary...
Sources tell me they would have launched with a copy of "Frozen Bubble" but were so afraid of getting their servers slashdotted by the huge demand from the linux gaming community that they decided to hold off a few weeks...