Let me state that I love Linux, and I am fortunate enough to be able to use it for my work.
In the past I've been responsible for switching a small company over (circa 150 desktops) from -- what was it now? -- DOS to WIN 3.1, or WIN 3.1 to WIN 95, I forget, I've burned it from my memory. And it was a nightmare. Not cuz it was Windows, cuz we were switching, period. Accounting gave us hell ("what are the cost benefits again?"), users gave me hell ("Time is Money, Y'Know!"), and Super Senior Mgt tweaked me more than once ("If you weren't switching us to this, um, upgrade thing, what is it that you would be doing, hmm?"). Learned an AWFUL lot about wacky boutique Accounting-Inventory-Shipping-Graphics-YouNameIt programs that all ran lovely on the OLD system but had to be bludgeoned into submission on the new.
Not saying you should not upgrade. Not saying Linux is not an upgrade from what you're using (not saying it IS, either; you really need to examine the apps). Just saying that you really need to look at this upgrade from every direction short of Sunday before you dive into the change. There's a large, cold room reserved in the House of Pain for Linux Evangelists who push their companies to make The Switch without having a whole pond worth of ducks in a row.
Good Luck, Bud, and God speed! And better you than me.
It should probably be considered about as accurate and authoritative as the so called "MSM" then...
Less. There is an arrogance to the MSM, but ultimately there is an accountability as well. Rather got ushered out early, and Mapes was canned, when it was determined they had aired content that was not properly substantiated. Who gets hurt financially at the Wikipedia Foundation Inc. when libel goes un-retracted for X period of time?
If Wikipedia wants the credibility of a "mainstream" encyclopedia, it needs mainstream accountability as well. Start charging for "premium" access, kick back a fraction of the revenue to a core stable (emphasis on the 'stable') of writers, and hire some real editors. Acknowledge that the "Hey, Kids, Let's Put On a Reference Work!" stage of their deveopment is done, and move forward (They can pretend is was their intent all along, aiming to drop the facade once they had gotten a sufficient number of people in the habit of using Wikipedia as their principal online general reference). Maybe hire a spin doctor or two to beat back the bad rep Wikipedia has in higher academe and the research industries.
"Open Source Reference" is not like "Open Source Software." If I use the latter, and it's faulty, it hurts only me...
These guys seem to be (a) overly ambitious, trying to conquer the known universe with their site, and (b)confused, lacking a clear strategy or a well thought out business model... dude, that is just so 1999.
But... I thought that was Google?!
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It is not "The Gimp"... It is "The GIMP" as in: GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Oh, hey, thanks for pointing that out, Bunky. A couple more correspondence courses and I predict an absolutely stellar career in Marketing is yours for the taking.
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Really. I love Linux, have been a user since the early 90's, but some of the language conventions just vex me. "Stable" for instance. Yeah, yeah, I know what is meant by it in this context, but it never fails to make me contemplate what an "unstable" desktop would be like, and the vision has nothing to do with BSODs. "Stable" is for relationships and isotopes, and is valid only in the context that most examples in kind are given to falling apart. It's part of the "I was happy to hear you are no longer beating your wife!" phrase family that achieves a "positive" slant only by dragging the listener through scary negative spaces. Linux deserves better than this.
It also deserves better than having its major graphics package called "The Gimp," but that's a discussion for a different day...
And what must that be like, exactly? Should we just have the prop department get bigger, heavier buses for him to throw around in Times Square? Gee, if Superman fought the Hulk, who would win? Is that the kind of "story" you're looking for?
And if so, great, it's called Superman II, and it was really, really good. Arguably the definitive Hollywood treatment of a comic-book slugfest. Superman versus three other supermen, and one of them a young Sarah Douglas. Can't beat that. Or you can TRY and beat that, and up the SFX budget or something. Or you can do something original with the material. Personally, I'm hoping for a "Smallville," 20 years on, without the pandering to the Kristin Kreuk oglers.
Oh, Jesus, God!! I'm arguing about comic books on SlashDot!!!! If my penis falls off, I'm suing you, Taco, I swear...
Ummmm, you gotta problem with All-American country boys who do what's right, nance?
Obligatory bashing of anti-red-state-biases aside, the most interesting themes in the Superman canon have to do with nature vs. nurture. Superman could be GENERAL KAL-EL (as in "KNEEL BEFORE..."), he's got the super powers and all -- but he uses them for good. Why? Because it was the way he was raised. Lex Luthor, all-natural, Earth-grown, smartest guy in the room, driven to be The Best, like some Ayn Randian proto-protaganist dropped on his head at an early age, and he's Capital-E Evil. Why?
The Silver Age scripters had Superboy accidentally causing Lex's baldness, and so turning Lex into his nemesis-for-life, running around in purple and green spandex and controlling giant robots in a neverending battle to defeat his foe. That, of course, was just silly. Under John Byrne in the 90's, Lex became an Evil Corporate Dude (evil corporate dudes being all the rage in the 90's, but becoming sillier and more trite each passing day), and again, Superman with nothing but the talents granted him by a yellow sun could defeat all Lex's plans for "taking over" Metropolis. Why is Lex evil? IS Lex evil? And who's a better role model for Earthlings, a self-made small-s superman with a more, shall we say, subjective perspective of morality, or a space alien with magical powers rocketed to earth from a dying planet whom we can never strive to be like, but who has an unwavering code of Judeao-Christian honor and corn-fed American Way ideals?
Me, I'm backing Kal-El all the way, even if it does cost an arm and a leg for him to phone home. But the opportunities for a good writer to tell a Superman story that transcends merely depicting our boy hurling buses into the lights at Times Square and cringing before kryptonite are clearly there, and nothing has to be "dark" or "gothic."
I'm thinking Fleisher, and Art Deco, and whatever you do, don't lose the spit-curl.
Cleolinda's understanding of pop culture on the whole is impressive
Whaaaaa...? Isn't that, like, an oxymoron? Someone's understanding of Ancient Greek authors can be impressive, Assyrian courtship rituals maybe, Vietnamese astrology, sure. Good Pennsylvanian wines, absolutely. But isn't pop culture by its very nature, not something which one may have an impressive grasp upon. Or something?
(By the way, the subject line is from a first season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you didn't catch that, time to bone up on the Assyrian courtship rites...)
I'm an Irish American Catholic. Cromwell and the Brits oppressed my ancestors' asses pretty well Back in the Day. Then of course there was that whole anti-Catholic/'No Irish Need Apply' thing here in America for the longest time. Can I be an oppressed minority defended religiously -- sorry, ardently -- by the Politically Correct Media? Oh, Please, C'mon!! What do I have to do to get in the club? Start a blog? Refuse to wear a necktie?
Or have we worked so hard at integrating ourselves into American society that it's too late to collect any of those 21st Century societal guilt-perks I keep hearing about...?
CmdrTaco, I like the Navy as much as anyone else, but I don't see how looking at sailors has anything to do with Slashdot or Digg. Oh, you meant "navel gazing".
No it's not. It's an advertisement. O'R paid for one of those warm, snuggly, Neil-Gaiman's-Written-Another-Grocery-List-Let's-A ll-Blog-About-It front-page mentions on slashdot, but, amazingly, after the money's already changed hands, Hemos still hasn't gotten round to writing the piece. So O'R gets it's nose out of joint, correctly, and the OSDN salesguy sez, "look, why don't you just send us a chapter, and we'll post that, it'll sort of be like a review, only better, cuz we won't have to wait for Hemos, but we'll get him to say nice things about it, even though he hasn't finished it yet. Deal? Cool. Here, have another mallomar. And we're really, really sorry, but Hemos, he's like one of the founding guys, so there's not much we can do, y'know? I'll mention it to Rob, though. Aren't those mallomars good? Yeah."
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wikipedia pegs the start of H.Sapiens at 200,000 years ago
"Wikipedia pegs?!?!?" Wikipedia could be a kid in his pajamas sugared up on Fruit Loops and jujubes watching a Mummies Alive! marathon and logged on from his Mom's computer.
Wikipedia! You cite it like it means something. C'mon...
So you want the US Government to take more of my money, because... why? Because your country's government takes more of yours? That'd make ya feel better, would it?
Oh, wait, I get it, you think somehow if gasoline were taxed more here the benevolent philosopher-geniuses in our Congress would take that money and reallocate every penny back into some kind of pro-enviro, alternative energy initiatives, Your're raving.
If the government taxes me more, it taxes me more, and that's our only guarantee. There is no illusion amongst anyone who has been around the track here at least once that the additional taxes will be used for The Good of Mankind.
Something else to consider. The US is a B-I-G country. People Drive here, with a capital 'D.' The distance I go some days to visit a single client would have me crossing international borders were I in Europe. And when I drive, I spend, and my spending is taxed, in various states. Gas gets too expensive, I travel less, I spend less, and I spend a lot less out of state. So higher federal gas taxes lead indirectly to decreased state sales tax revenues. Sure, I'm oversimplifying a bit, but you see that it's all a bit more complex than it may seem from 'Over There.'
Plus, we have *actual* roads here in the US, built for six lanes of modern traffic, not those single-lane chariot paths that are passed off as roads in Europe (and Boston, for that matter...). Man, if I lived in The Netherlands or Belgium, I'd be driving a motorbike, nevermind a Prius...
Actually, it's not. Plenty of rich African Americans there. I can't tell their religion from merely looking at them, of course, but I see no reason to believe why there is no higher or lower percentage of Muslims among them. I think having Cosby or Denzel as your neighbor _raises_ your property value there.
Upper West Side of Manhattan, different story. If the entire first string of the Knicks announced they were moving into the apartment upstairs your Co-op board would suddenly pass a law forbidding anyone taller than 6'3" from owning an apartment there due to "Post 9/11 fire safety issues."
Was it named after the UK's Greenwich? Maybe. Who cares? Do you care? Seriously, dude, if you're going to log into slashdot and attempt to be funny, you should either try a lot harder or enroll in Clown School, where maybe the instructors can help you tap into your Inner Bozo.
he/she has another opportunity to convince you buy that next episode of the series.
Umm, D00d, there is more, thankfully, to the printed word than "Dragonlance" or "The Wheel of Time."
Sure, one can argue that this program helps the 'unknown' but prolific author who might value promotion over coin at that particular stage in his career, but it hurts an established, "name" author. You may not care that it hurts an established "name" author, you may even derive a certain degree of glee in sticking it to someone with more talent and/or money than you have, but let's not pretend for a moment that every author everywhere is in favor of this, like "we" somehow managed to convince ourselves that every musician and composer was in favor of free music downloads but were being constrained by those evil music industry types.
The bottom line is that it should be up to the author whether or not his book is part of this program. Anything else is digital mob rule.
D00d, Slashdot article summaries, particularly in the Politics and YRO sections, are slanted and biased ALL THE TIME. You just don't notice it cuz they're biased in the direction you clearly favor.
It's pretty disturbing
So see a shrink, and be sure to let us know how that works out for you. I think it's pretty AMAZING that this story got through with such a reverse slant in play. Is/. merely going for the pageviews this will engender? Is small-town-video-game-reviewer-turned-overnight-ma jor-site-front-page-editor Zonk just asleep at the console? Or is it something more... interesting? (There is no user registered as "not so anonymous" -- what up with dat?)
No one buys theatre tickets because of the stage crew.
Ritchie and Thompson may have agreed to work for "x amount" a year, but actors don't. The concept of "residuals" is as basic to them as free coffee, sick days, and Christmas off is to the 9-5 cube-dweller. No one group is better or worse, they just have different and long-entrenched schemes of compensation.
...all of which the individuals know about when they start their careers, so I can appreciate the red flags going up in their camp when something as basic as where their next paycheck is coming from might change. Ya wanna change the rules on one particular group cuz now "we're digital" and cite the old shoe about Model T's and buggy-whip makers, fine, g'head, be as boring as you like, but if someone takes away your Christmas holiday cuz the Internet has "brought the world closer" and no one works on December 25 in South Central Asia, you'll be looking for loopholes as well...
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Let me state that I love Linux, and I am fortunate enough to be able to use it for my work.
In the past I've been responsible for switching a small company over (circa 150 desktops) from -- what was it now? -- DOS to WIN 3.1, or WIN 3.1 to WIN 95, I forget, I've burned it from my memory. And it was a nightmare. Not cuz it was Windows, cuz we were switching, period. Accounting gave us hell ("what are the cost benefits again?"), users gave me hell ("Time is Money, Y'Know!"), and Super Senior Mgt tweaked me more than once ("If you weren't switching us to this, um, upgrade thing, what is it that you would be doing, hmm?"). Learned an AWFUL lot about wacky boutique Accounting-Inventory-Shipping-Graphics-YouNameIt programs that all ran lovely on the OLD system but had to be bludgeoned into submission on the new.
Not saying you should not upgrade. Not saying Linux is not an upgrade from what you're using (not saying it IS, either; you really need to examine the apps). Just saying that you really need to look at this upgrade from every direction short of Sunday before you dive into the change. There's a large, cold room reserved in the House of Pain for Linux Evangelists who push their companies to make The Switch without having a whole pond worth of ducks in a row.
Good Luck, Bud, and God speed! And better you than me.
It should probably be considered about as accurate and authoritative as the so called "MSM" then...
Less. There is an arrogance to the MSM, but ultimately there is an accountability as well. Rather got ushered out early, and Mapes was canned, when it was determined they had aired content that was not properly substantiated. Who gets hurt financially at the Wikipedia Foundation Inc. when libel goes un-retracted for X period of time?
If Wikipedia wants the credibility of a "mainstream" encyclopedia, it needs mainstream accountability as well. Start charging for "premium" access, kick back a fraction of the revenue to a core stable (emphasis on the 'stable') of writers, and hire some real editors. Acknowledge that the "Hey, Kids, Let's Put On a Reference Work!" stage of their deveopment is done, and move forward (They can pretend is was their intent all along, aiming to drop the facade once they had gotten a sufficient number of people in the habit of using Wikipedia as their principal online general reference). Maybe hire a spin doctor or two to beat back the bad rep Wikipedia has in higher academe and the research industries.
"Open Source Reference" is not like "Open Source Software." If I use the latter, and it's faulty, it hurts only me...
These guys seem to be (a) overly ambitious, trying to conquer the known universe with their site, and (b)confused, lacking a clear strategy or a well thought out business model... dude, that is just so 1999.
But... I thought that was Google?!
It is not "The Gimp"... It is "The GIMP" as in: GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Oh, hey, thanks for pointing that out, Bunky. A couple more correspondence courses and I predict an absolutely stellar career in Marketing is yours for the taking.
Really. I love Linux, have been a user since the early 90's, but some of the language conventions just vex me. "Stable" for instance. Yeah, yeah, I know what is meant by it in this context, but it never fails to make me contemplate what an "unstable" desktop would be like, and the vision has nothing to do with BSODs. "Stable" is for relationships and isotopes, and is valid only in the context that most examples in kind are given to falling apart. It's part of the "I was happy to hear you are no longer beating your wife!" phrase family that achieves a "positive" slant only by dragging the listener through scary negative spaces. Linux deserves better than this.
It also deserves better than having its major graphics package called "The Gimp," but that's a discussion for a different day...
Superman is THE "super" hero. Treat him like it.
And what must that be like, exactly? Should we just have the prop department get bigger, heavier buses for him to throw around in Times Square? Gee, if Superman fought the Hulk, who would win? Is that the kind of "story" you're looking for?
And if so, great, it's called Superman II, and it was really, really good. Arguably the definitive Hollywood treatment of a comic-book slugfest. Superman versus three other supermen, and one of them a young Sarah Douglas. Can't beat that. Or you can TRY and beat that, and up the SFX budget or something. Or you can do something original with the material. Personally, I'm hoping for a "Smallville," 20 years on, without the pandering to the Kristin Kreuk oglers.
Oh, Jesus, God!! I'm arguing about comic books on SlashDot!!!! If my penis falls off, I'm suing you, Taco, I swear...
Ummmm, you gotta problem with All-American country boys who do what's right, nance?
Obligatory bashing of anti-red-state-biases aside, the most interesting themes in the Superman canon have to do with nature vs. nurture. Superman could be GENERAL KAL-EL (as in "KNEEL BEFORE..."), he's got the super powers and all -- but he uses them for good. Why? Because it was the way he was raised. Lex Luthor, all-natural, Earth-grown, smartest guy in the room, driven to be The Best, like some Ayn Randian proto-protaganist dropped on his head at an early age, and he's Capital-E Evil. Why?
The Silver Age scripters had Superboy accidentally causing Lex's baldness, and so turning Lex into his nemesis-for-life, running around in purple and green spandex and controlling giant robots in a neverending battle to defeat his foe. That, of course, was just silly. Under John Byrne in the 90's, Lex became an Evil Corporate Dude (evil corporate dudes being all the rage in the 90's, but becoming sillier and more trite each passing day), and again, Superman with nothing but the talents granted him by a yellow sun could defeat all Lex's plans for "taking over" Metropolis. Why is Lex evil? IS Lex evil? And who's a better role model for Earthlings, a self-made small-s superman with a more, shall we say, subjective perspective of morality, or a space alien with magical powers rocketed to earth from a dying planet whom we can never strive to be like, but who has an unwavering code of Judeao-Christian honor and corn-fed American Way ideals?
Me, I'm backing Kal-El all the way, even if it does cost an arm and a leg for him to phone home. But the opportunities for a good writer to tell a Superman story that transcends merely depicting our boy hurling buses into the lights at Times Square and cringing before kryptonite are clearly there, and nothing has to be "dark" or "gothic."
I'm thinking Fleisher, and Art Deco, and whatever you do, don't lose the spit-curl.
Cleolinda's understanding of pop culture on the whole is impressive
Whaaaaa...? Isn't that, like, an oxymoron? Someone's understanding of Ancient Greek authors can be impressive, Assyrian courtship rituals maybe, Vietnamese astrology, sure. Good Pennsylvanian wines, absolutely. But isn't pop culture by its very nature, not something which one may have an impressive grasp upon. Or something?
(By the way, the subject line is from a first season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you didn't catch that, time to bone up on the Assyrian courtship rites...)
I'm an Irish American Catholic. Cromwell and the Brits oppressed my ancestors' asses pretty well Back in the Day. Then of course there was that whole anti-Catholic/'No Irish Need Apply' thing here in America for the longest time. Can I be an oppressed minority defended religiously -- sorry, ardently -- by the Politically Correct Media? Oh, Please, C'mon!! What do I have to do to get in the club? Start a blog? Refuse to wear a necktie?
Or have we worked so hard at integrating ourselves into American society that it's too late to collect any of those 21st Century societal guilt-perks I keep hearing about...?
Um, Dood, you're citing DailyKos. Were FreeRepublic, DemocraticUnderground and Art Bell unavailable for comment?
CmdrTaco, I like the Navy as much as anyone else, but I don't see how looking at sailors has anything to do with Slashdot or Digg. Oh, you meant "navel gazing".
Now even the typos, and the subsequent jokes they engender, are dupes!
I sit here slack-jawed and in awe.
I mean, it's a BOOK REVIEW
A ll-Blog-About-It front-page mentions on slashdot, but, amazingly, after the money's already changed hands, Hemos still hasn't gotten round to writing the piece. So O'R gets it's nose out of joint, correctly, and the OSDN salesguy sez, "look, why don't you just send us a chapter, and we'll post that, it'll sort of be like a review, only better, cuz we won't have to wait for Hemos, but we'll get him to say nice things about it, even though he hasn't finished it yet. Deal? Cool. Here, have another mallomar. And we're really, really sorry, but Hemos, he's like one of the founding guys, so there's not much we can do, y'know? I'll mention it to Rob, though. Aren't those mallomars good? Yeah."
No it's not. It's an advertisement. O'R paid for one of those warm, snuggly, Neil-Gaiman's-Written-Another-Grocery-List-Let's-
wikipedia pegs the start of H.Sapiens at 200,000 years ago
"Wikipedia pegs?!?!?" Wikipedia could be a kid in his pajamas sugared up on Fruit Loops and jujubes watching a Mummies Alive! marathon and logged on from his Mom's computer.
Wikipedia! You cite it like it means something. C'mon...
It's a Totally Free Service!!
(You just have to pay Google if you DON'T want them to track every little thing about you.)
So you want the US Government to take more of my money, because... why? Because your country's government takes more of yours? That'd make ya feel better, would it?
Oh, wait, I get it, you think somehow if gasoline were taxed more here the benevolent philosopher-geniuses in our Congress would take that money and reallocate every penny back into some kind of pro-enviro, alternative energy initiatives, Your're raving.
If the government taxes me more, it taxes me more, and that's our only guarantee. There is no illusion amongst anyone who has been around the track here at least once that the additional taxes will be used for The Good of Mankind.
Something else to consider. The US is a B-I-G country. People Drive here, with a capital 'D.' The distance I go some days to visit a single client would have me crossing international borders were I in Europe. And when I drive, I spend, and my spending is taxed, in various states. Gas gets too expensive, I travel less, I spend less, and I spend a lot less out of state. So higher federal gas taxes lead indirectly to decreased state sales tax revenues. Sure, I'm oversimplifying a bit, but you see that it's all a bit more complex than it may seem from 'Over There.'
Plus, we have *actual* roads here in the US, built for six lanes of modern traffic, not those single-lane chariot paths that are passed off as roads in Europe (and Boston, for that matter...). Man, if I lived in The Netherlands or Belgium, I'd be driving a motorbike, nevermind a Prius...
Beverly Hills is 'ethnically segregated' too.
Actually, it's not. Plenty of rich African Americans there. I can't tell their religion from merely looking at them, of course, but I see no reason to believe why there is no higher or lower percentage of Muslims among them. I think having Cosby or Denzel as your neighbor _raises_ your property value there.
Upper West Side of Manhattan, different story. If the entire first string of the Knicks announced they were moving into the apartment upstairs your Co-op board would suddenly pass a law forbidding anyone taller than 6'3" from owning an apartment there due to "Post 9/11 fire safety issues."
Where does the line between manga and comic art exist then, if not by country of origin?
It's obviously more than just the big eyes. If that were the only qualification, we'd have seen Dragonball Orphan Annie Z! a long time ago.
Greenwich Village, idiot.
Was it named after the UK's Greenwich? Maybe. Who cares? Do you care? Seriously, dude, if you're going to log into slashdot and attempt to be funny, you should either try a lot harder or enroll in Clown School, where maybe the instructors can help you tap into your Inner Bozo.
Is this a Lewis & Clark thingy?
No, it's a Center-of-the-Universe thingy.
Astoria is in Queens, a borough of New York City. It's a subway ride from Times Square.
Tip-off: "Village Voice," as in Greenwich Village
he/she has another opportunity to convince you buy that next episode of the series.
Umm, D00d, there is more, thankfully, to the printed word than "Dragonlance" or "The Wheel of Time."
Sure, one can argue that this program helps the 'unknown' but prolific author who might value promotion over coin at that particular stage in his career, but it hurts an established, "name" author. You may not care that it hurts an established "name" author, you may even derive a certain degree of glee in sticking it to someone with more talent and/or money than you have, but let's not pretend for a moment that every author everywhere is in favor of this, like "we" somehow managed to convince ourselves that every musician and composer was in favor of free music downloads but were being constrained by those evil music industry types.
The bottom line is that it should be up to the author whether or not his book is part of this program. Anything else is digital mob rule.
D00d, Slashdot article summaries, particularly in the Politics and YRO sections, are slanted and biased ALL THE TIME. You just don't notice it cuz they're biased in the direction you clearly favor.
/. merely going for the pageviews this will engender? Is small-town-video-game-reviewer-turned-overnight-ma jor-site-front-page-editor Zonk just asleep at the console? Or is it something more... interesting? (There is no user registered as "not so anonymous" -- what up with dat?)
It's pretty disturbing
So see a shrink, and be sure to let us know how that works out for you. I think it's pretty AMAZING that this story got through with such a reverse slant in play. Is
No one buys theatre tickets because of the stage crew.
Ritchie and Thompson may have agreed to work for "x amount" a year, but actors don't. The concept of "residuals" is as basic to them as free coffee, sick days, and Christmas off is to the 9-5 cube-dweller. No one group is better or worse, they just have different and long-entrenched schemes of compensation.
Thank you for that link. I sit here in tears, I was laughing so hard.
I think I finally found my long-lost twin...
Users of piracy software are NOT responsible for any piracy which may occur when they put pirated content online for others to pirate.
OK. Fine. Who is? I mean, I've heard of victim-less crimes, but perpetrator-less crimes?
The EFF better be all over this.
OH NO!!! Not... the EFF!! I can feel the AAuthorities trembling from here...
Homogenizing the world just makes it a more boring place.
...and yes, I will have a Starbuck's double mocha latte with that falafel, thanks for asking.
You call it Homogenizing. I call it winning the war.