Since I got broadband, I have more pr0n than the Pope!![*]
[*] Actually, that's saying a lot, since the Vatican library actually has a pornography section!!
Yeah, but it takes him six months to walk to it and six more months to reach his arm out to grab his copy of Juggs.
"the most... inflammatory corners of the Internet... hacktivism, hate crime, con games, spam, phone phreaking... flaming..."
I'm sure I'm in there at least 50 times.
Of course, if it's about the most bitter, angry, pissed-off, hate-inciting trolls of the Internet, (ie flaming), there's obviously a Slashdot chapter....
Probably so much Slashdot in there that the Foreward is written by Cowboy Neal.
It comes out in your attitude. Only an American would claim that they 'ignored' communism (which is obviously false), and that it's dead simply because it's not in place in their country.
Bzzzzzttt! Sorry to disappoint you, but my attitude is NOT very American. I'm a Libertarian, and that's a massive minority anywhere on this planet. BTW, my Russkie friend, where are YOU from?
There are these other countries on the planet, and despite what you think, they seem to be doing quite well with their communist ideals. Besides that, a country is not the only group that can sustain communism - ever heard of a commune?
Yeah, in Waco.
So you have dishonest people who try to game the welfare system. Well, who'da thunk it? You spend your entire lives being beaten with the idea that more money == better, and you wonder why people rip each other off and get lazy.
Don't blame me for the system, I'm advocating the abolishment of it - in fact, ALL public social services should be privatized. Every friggin' minority and special interest group demanding money constantly is a cancer on the ass of society. It's got to stop before economic principles finally take hold and destroy us all...
People should only benefit from the work they put into society. Anything more is theft from ME. ~BlackBolt
Look. You're obviously an idealist, and a "No Logo" type of tree-hugging hippie. That's good. The world needs more people fighting the establishment, keeping checks and balances on the system that tends to go corrupt and place all the power in the hands of an elite greedy few. But you're not helping anything here. You're not doing what you were meant to do. If you want to change the world, why don't you get out there and *DO SOMETHING* rather than sitting around reading Slashdot all day. While you're asleep, us Capitalists are working at destroying the world 24/7. So if you think you can do better, go ahead.
Why do you think I'm American? Every Western country and many of the Eastern ones think (..know..) communism has lost the war. I know it's nice to have stereotypes, but it's not just Americans who think communism was fatally flawed. Sorry.
"Imagine, the idea of people sharing and working together! What an anathema to the Usonian way of life."
You need to spend some time down at the welfare office, watching guys who own three motorcycles and a big house with a pool beg for money, despite the fact that they're working under the table and not telling the government. I know a guy who wrote freelance articles for the local paper, worked at a jewelry store, AND collected government assistance. Why on earth would I support this system after seeing that? NO, the only fair way is to say that "what I work for, I keep; what you earn, you keep." I'm not supporting lazy ass bums who'll just end up raping somebody out of boredom with my hard-earned cash. VOTE LIBERTARIAN.
But yeah, communism is dead - the bodies just haven't stopped twitching yet.
My grandfather wouldn't be able to read it at all, as he's dead. What's that have to do with anything?
The point remains, that people using the Net are more used to bad spelling and have trained their brains to skip over it, much as Iraqis don't even seem to hear half the bomb blasts in their cities, they happen so regularly.
First we ignored Communism... yadda yadda, now it's DEAD. Reality doesn't always obey the cliches, but I know you're just being funny here.
Gandhi's point was that when you rise up against the minority British ruling elite (in this case, SCO and Microsoft), you will win your freedom if you are
* on the side of truth, ethics, and god ("righteous");
and
* are a mass of a hundred million oppressed Indian citizens ("a sleeping giant").
SCO is neither. In this case, unlike Gandhi's, SCO is greatly in the minority, they're in the wrong ethically, they're based on lies and deception, they're paid puppets of Microsoft waging a misinformation campaign, and the only thing oppressing them is their weak technology and bad attitudes. SCO is dead, and has been for some time. The voodoo king Gates resurrected them to do one last evil before they abscond with the shareholder's money. Don't let it be you. If they lose these lawsuits, AND THEY WILL, they will disappear off the face of the earth forever, leaving Evil Overlord Bill Gates smiling and with artificially clean hands.
And eventually, the Free Software Community will win. It will not get derailed, and it will keep getting better until there will be no reason for anyone to buy Microsoft products anymore for any purpose. Gandhi's on OUR side, not SCO's.
Ok, so let me get this straight.
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· Score: 2, Insightful
... all of a sudden, some blogging scientist-types not only think that dyslexia is cool, they actually write perl code to dyslexitize perfect spelling? Are we TRYING to kill the education system?
Where was this research when I was in Grade 5? If bad spelling was cool, I'd have won a Pultzier Przie by now.
But seriously folks, it's obviously true that people NOW can read this jumble easily, but that's because we all spend so much time on the internet. We're ACCLIMATIZED to it by now. In fact, we're DESENSITIZED to it. I just ignore it now, like my friend Vince, who doesn't even realize he's got a blue screen, they happen so often.
They should just rename the internet the Itnerent, the spelling's so bad.... Ask your grandfather to read the same passage you breeze through and watch the cursing begin. See my piont?
Okay, let me apply this to common internet jingo:
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Can You Raed Tihs?
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Bah... I know it'll never happen just because of the brutal naming coincidence. But just think of all the extra space we could use for "valuable forensic support and rescue tools" (like Unreal Tournament) if we ditched Gnome and KDE altogether!
...there's a simple solution. Apple just has to change their name, and VOILA! No more violation.
So I'd like to be the first to suggest a new original name: dig this:.... "Snapple".
Weird, but at least it's original, and their lawsuit days are over.
Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot to mention I'm on nu medication. Here's some more suggestions that are all deathfully funny to medicated me:
FlapJackle Peter Frample Los Anpeles The Fappleous Thunderbirds When I think about you I Slapple myself Happle a nice day If you're happle and you know it slap your hand
The Bapples: Ringo Starple, Paul MacCappley John Lennonple, George Happleson
Mister Jobs, if you choose any of these, all you owe me is an iPod engraved with "Made in Taiwan" in big letters. Thanks, mister sleepy
Said Brianna: 'I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love.'
Personally, I think that if you 'love music' and 'don't want to hurt the artists' you love, you'll boycott the system that is keeping a great chunk of the money that artists deserve from getting to them. You'll help cut out the greedy middleman who is no longer required and is really nothing more than a festering cancer on the ass of music. Of course, I'm referring to the RIAA, not gangsta rap, which is a whole different ass cancer.;-)
There's *got* to be a better, more efficient system of distribution, and the RIAA doesn't want anybody to find it, because if we do, THEY'RE DEAD. And musicians will make a proportionately larger chunk of the cash if we do find it.
I don't admit anywhere publicly whether I pirate stuff or not;-) Very wise...
I honestly can't think of anybody who either doesn't or HASN'T pirated software in the past. My mom HAD pirated software on her computer, but she didn't KNOW it was pirated. So she's sort of innocent, I guess.
And I know it's not morally right, but neither is organizing a music cartel in order to artificially raise prices (thus screwing the consumers) while simultaneously giving very little back to the bands. Many people refuse to buy CDs on that grounds alone. The recording industry could EASILY cut their prices, but like all monopolistic dinosaurs, they will refuse to do so until they're forced by consumers. And this is how consumers are forcing them. There's always a battle between two opposing sides, with the best solution in the middle. But neither side will budge.
But I'm not worried, I'm DEFINITELY not on their list, I'm not a pirate! Nothing good musically has come out in 10 years, and I have no time to waste getting it even if it did. And all my software is GPL anyway, so I can honestly say that I'm currently 100% clean. If I had to use Windows, I'd likely NEED to get additional software to fill the gaping holes in functionality that come with Windows. And it's easier to get a pirated version of WinZip or AtGuard than suffer through their moronic nag screens or whatever.
But thanks to the Free Software Community, I have no need to pirate anything. And the only good music out nowadays is the indy stuff and friends' bands, most of which you can find out there for free anyway, and if it's good enough, I'll try to find some way to buy it.
Sorry to come off sounding like Cap'n Pirate! I'm actually pretty darned clean, unless they look through my junk box of CD's, which probably has something illicit.... no idea. And I've probably photocopied some articles in college, or taped some stuff off tv, which means I'm either going to hell or going to jail - they'll come after the "timeshifters" taping "Survivor" after they finish with the big nasty pirates. Then it'll be the people who repeat Chris Rock's jokes at the watercooler and don't give credit. And who knows what will come then. We can go on forever, until our government makes Stalin look good.
No offense, but you must live in an ivory tower. I can't name ONE person who doesn't pirate stuff - or hasn't in the past. My *PASTOR* has pirated Bible software on his computer. He admitted it in a sermon, so he's probably cleaned it off by now because he felt guilty. He'd used it since Bible College. And remember the politician who was cracking down on piracy who was running his website off unlicensed software?
Only Richard Stallman is pure among the masses of thieving swines such as myself - and yourself, if you're honest. And that's because he is a Gnuhead and has sworn off all proprietary software.
Catching up with Bill Gates of Microsoft outside his $600 million dollar home this morning, he declared "I strongly believe it is unfair to use any software but ours, and to come up with your own so you're not totally reliant on us is just wrong on so many levels. And if they're worried about all the NSA backdoors in Windows, tell them to suck it up and live with it like everybody else. Privacy is dead. Now screw off, peasant. I've got a tee-off at ten."
Similarly, a press release from Orville Reddenbacker this morning claimed that "when you buy no-name popcorn, you're buying terrorism" and immediately demanded the abolition or bombing of all popcorn makers but them in order to defend America against this terrible low-priced threat. "The time for competition is over", the deceased Reddenbacker stated, the national anthem playing gloriously in the background, "We are an American institution now and must be protected from any loss of sales resulting from people buying other brands. Choice is the true enemy here. Remember this when you're voting, kids, there should be limits on freedom - especially the freedom to buy popcorn other than our new Maple Salmon flavored EZ-Popp(TM) Microwaveable popping corn, on sale now at better grocery stores near you."
The RIAA, MPAA, and SatelliteTV vendors all agreed. "Look, we all know that you'd all have bought all those 400,000 CDs, movies, and tv channels anyway if it weren't for piracy, so just cough up the money and we'll call off the dogs. Making 'mad money' is a guaranteed right that is protected by law since Dubya's been in power. It's the American Way. You love America, don't you? If you don't buy more stuff from us, we WILL press charges." Jack Valenti took it one step further. "These goddamn Chimese terrorisms ain't de worst part of dis trend either. What I tink we should do is outlaw 'playing outside'. Yup, jes tink about it. All dem little rats playing outside when dey could be enjoying a good movie or copy-protected Celine CD. De children is de REAL Boston Stranglers here, dose unAmerican little gooks. Wasting their lives playing outside in de goddam sun when dey could be supporting our economy? I don't understand kids dese days. De world is goin' straight to hell, I tell ya. Goddam nature. We'll sue God next, yeah, go for de REAL deep pockets." At this point, SCO's Darl McBride quickly took out a notepad and started scribbling furiously and then ran off, his villainous humpback swaying in the wind.
Despite the overwhelmingly good evidence the corporate shills of America had barfed forth, I thought I'd see if another view existed. So I sought out some elusive hippie culture leaders. When asked for his views, the uber-influential Richard Stallman said, "My name is GNU/RMS! Why can't you people get that right!" and starting making clucking noises and playing a flute like that little centaur guy off the Hercules cartoon. His arch-enemy Linus Torvalds quipped, "I don't get involved. Sorry.", dismissed us with a wave of his hand, and went back to his penguin burrito. Eric Raymond could not be reached for comment, as he has been at the gun club since July and is apparently not ever coming out until people start using Python to write device drivers.
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[*] Actually, that's saying a lot, since the Vatican library actually has a pornography section!!
Yeah, but it takes him six months to walk to it and six more months to reach his arm out to grab his copy of Juggs.
Just kidding, of course
"the most... inflammatory corners of the Internet... hacktivism, hate crime, con games, spam, phone phreaking ... flaming ..."
I'm sure I'm in there at least 50 times.
Of course, if it's about the most bitter, angry, pissed-off, hate-inciting trolls of the Internet, (ie flaming), there's obviously a Slashdot chapter....
Probably so much Slashdot in there that the Foreward is written by Cowboy Neal.
It comes out in your attitude. Only an American would claim that they 'ignored' communism (which is obviously false), and that it's dead simply because it's not in place in their country.
Bzzzzzttt! Sorry to disappoint you, but my attitude is NOT very American. I'm a Libertarian, and that's a massive minority anywhere on this planet. BTW, my Russkie friend, where are YOU from?
There are these other countries on the planet, and despite what you think, they seem to be doing quite well with their communist ideals. Besides that, a country is not the only group that can sustain communism - ever heard of a commune?
Yeah, in Waco.
So you have dishonest people who try to game the welfare system. Well, who'da thunk it? You spend your entire lives being beaten with the idea that more money == better, and you wonder why people rip each other off and get lazy.
Don't blame me for the system, I'm advocating the abolishment of it - in fact, ALL public social services should be privatized. Every friggin' minority and special interest group demanding money constantly is a cancer on the ass of society. It's got to stop before economic principles finally take hold and destroy us all...
People should only benefit from the work they put into society. Anything more is theft from ME.
~BlackBolt
Look. You're obviously an idealist, and a "No Logo" type of tree-hugging hippie. That's good. The world needs more people fighting the establishment, keeping checks and balances on the system that tends to go corrupt and place all the power in the hands of an elite greedy few. But you're not helping anything here. You're not doing what you were meant to do. If you want to change the world, why don't you get out there and *DO SOMETHING* rather than sitting around reading Slashdot all day. While you're asleep, us Capitalists are working at destroying the world 24/7. So if you think you can do better, go ahead.
Darwin without Aqua is useless. It's not even a good kernel. I love Apple, but most of the "come in, it's open" stuff is PR.
How about Windpower generated by the propellerhead beanies we geeks all wear?
"Imagine, the idea of people sharing and working together! What an anathema to the Usonian way of life."
You need to spend some time down at the welfare office, watching guys who own three motorcycles and a big house with a pool beg for money, despite the fact that they're working under the table and not telling the government. I know a guy who wrote freelance articles for the local paper, worked at a jewelry store, AND collected government assistance. Why on earth would I support this system after seeing that? NO, the only fair way is to say that "what I work for, I keep; what you earn, you keep." I'm not supporting lazy ass bums who'll just end up raping somebody out of boredom with my hard-earned cash. VOTE LIBERTARIAN.
But yeah, communism is dead - the bodies just haven't stopped twitching yet.
Heh. This game could go on all day...
My grandfather wouldn't be able to read it at all, as he's dead. What's that have to do with anything?
The point remains, that people using the Net are more used to bad spelling and have trained their brains to skip over it, much as Iraqis don't even seem to hear half the bomb blasts in their cities, they happen so regularly.
First we ignored Communism... yadda yadda, now it's DEAD. Reality doesn't always obey the cliches, but I know you're just being funny here.
Gandhi's point was that when you rise up against the minority British ruling elite (in this case, SCO and Microsoft), you will win your freedom if you are
* on the side of truth, ethics, and god ("righteous");
and
* are a mass of a hundred million oppressed Indian citizens ("a sleeping giant").
SCO is neither. In this case, unlike Gandhi's, SCO is greatly in the minority, they're in the wrong ethically, they're based on lies and deception, they're paid puppets of Microsoft waging a misinformation campaign, and the only thing oppressing them is their weak technology and bad attitudes. SCO is dead, and has been for some time. The voodoo king Gates resurrected them to do one last evil before they abscond with the shareholder's money. Don't let it be you. If they lose these lawsuits, AND THEY WILL, they will disappear off the face of the earth forever, leaving Evil Overlord Bill Gates smiling and with artificially clean hands.
And eventually, the Free Software Community will win. It will not get derailed, and it will keep getting better until there will be no reason for anyone to buy Microsoft products anymore for any purpose. Gandhi's on OUR side, not SCO's.
... all of a sudden, some blogging scientist-types not only think that dyslexia is cool, they actually write perl code to dyslexitize perfect spelling? Are we TRYING to kill the education system?
Where was this research when I was in Grade 5? If bad spelling was cool, I'd have won a Pultzier Przie by now.
But seriously folks, it's obviously true that people NOW can read this jumble easily, but that's because we all spend so much time on the internet. We're ACCLIMATIZED to it by now. In fact, we're DESENSITIZED to it. I just ignore it now, like my friend Vince, who doesn't even realize he's got a blue screen, they happen so often.
They should just rename the internet the Itnerent, the spelling's so bad.... Ask your grandfather to read the same passage you breeze through and watch the cursing begin. See my piont?
LOL becomes... LOL.
ROTFLMAO becomes RAFTLOMLO
>8-) becomes >-8)
Conclusion: There's gonna be a lot of screwed up AOLers if this becomes law.
I love Fluxbox, so I hereby request *FLOPPIX*!
Bah... I know it'll never happen just because of the brutal naming coincidence. But just think of all the extra space we could use for "valuable forensic support and rescue tools" (like Unreal Tournament) if we ditched Gnome and KDE altogether!
...there's a simple solution. Apple just has to change their name, and VOILA! No more violation.
So I'd like to be the first to suggest a new original name: dig this:.... "Snapple".
Weird, but at least it's original, and their lawsuit days are over.
Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot to mention I'm on nu medication. Here's some more suggestions that are all deathfully funny to medicated me:
FlapJackle
Peter Frample
Los Anpeles
The Fappleous Thunderbirds
When I think about you I Slapple myself
Happle a nice day
If you're happle and you know it slap your hand
The Bapples: Ringo Starple, Paul MacCappley
John Lennonple, George Happleson
Mister Jobs, if you choose any of these, all you owe me is an iPod engraved with "Made in Taiwan" in big letters. Thanks, mister sleepy
Said Brianna: 'I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love.'
;-)
Personally, I think that if you 'love music' and 'don't want to hurt the artists' you love, you'll boycott the system that is keeping a great chunk of the money that artists deserve from getting to them. You'll help cut out the greedy middleman who is no longer required and is really nothing more than a festering cancer on the ass of music. Of course, I'm referring to the RIAA, not gangsta rap, which is a whole different ass cancer.
There's *got* to be a better, more efficient system of distribution, and the RIAA doesn't want anybody to find it, because if we do, THEY'RE DEAD. And musicians will make a proportionately larger chunk of the cash if we do find it.
"...has two advantages: one, it's amazingly fast..."
Guess not. ;-)
Did he write it in Python? And did he complete it in under 6 hours?
I don't admit anywhere publicly whether I pirate stuff or not ;-)
Very wise...
I honestly can't think of anybody who either doesn't or HASN'T pirated software in the past. My mom HAD pirated software on her computer, but she didn't KNOW it was pirated. So she's sort of innocent, I guess.
And I know it's not morally right, but neither is organizing a music cartel in order to artificially raise prices (thus screwing the consumers) while simultaneously giving very little back to the bands. Many people refuse to buy CDs on that grounds alone. The recording industry could EASILY cut their prices, but like all monopolistic dinosaurs, they will refuse to do so until they're forced by consumers. And this is how consumers are forcing them. There's always a battle between two opposing sides, with the best solution in the middle. But neither side will budge.
But I'm not worried, I'm DEFINITELY not on their list, I'm not a pirate! Nothing good musically has come out in 10 years, and I have no time to waste getting it even if it did. And all my software is GPL anyway, so I can honestly say that I'm currently 100% clean. If I had to use Windows, I'd likely NEED to get additional software to fill the gaping holes in functionality that come with Windows. And it's easier to get a pirated version of WinZip or AtGuard than suffer through their moronic nag screens or whatever.
But thanks to the Free Software Community, I have no need to pirate anything. And the only good music out nowadays is the indy stuff and friends' bands, most of which you can find out there for free anyway, and if it's good enough, I'll try to find some way to buy it.
Sorry to come off sounding like Cap'n Pirate! I'm actually pretty darned clean, unless they look through my junk box of CD's, which probably has something illicit.... no idea. And I've probably photocopied some articles in college, or taped some stuff off tv, which means I'm either going to hell or going to jail - they'll come after the "timeshifters" taping "Survivor" after they finish with the big nasty pirates. Then it'll be the people who repeat Chris Rock's jokes at the watercooler and don't give credit. And who knows what will come then. We can go on forever, until our government makes Stalin look good.
No offense, but you must live in an ivory tower. I can't name ONE person who doesn't pirate stuff - or hasn't in the past. My *PASTOR* has pirated Bible software on his computer. He admitted it in a sermon, so he's probably cleaned it off by now because he felt guilty. He'd used it since Bible College. And remember the politician who was cracking down on piracy who was running his website off unlicensed software?
Only Richard Stallman is pure among the masses of thieving swines such as myself - and yourself, if you're honest. And that's because he is a Gnuhead and has sworn off all proprietary software.
Note to all: IT WAS A JOKE
I never actually used Kazaa in my life. Sorry. Last I heard, it was spyware anyway.
Oooh, thank you so much for your well-thought out contribution. The world is truly a better place because of you.
+5, Insightful. No, wait, that's -5, AnonymousTrollTooStupidToRecognizeHumor
Whew! Now that I've come clean about that, my family can accept me back again.
I've downloaded gigs and gigs of stuff.
I'm glad to see that justice is still alive SOMEWHERE in the world. (**sighs sorrowfully**)
I wonder what the courts would find HERE.
Catching up with Bill Gates of Microsoft outside his $600 million dollar home this morning, he declared "I strongly believe it is unfair to use any software but ours, and to come up with your own so you're not totally reliant on us is just wrong on so many levels. And if they're worried about all the NSA backdoors in Windows, tell them to suck it up and live with it like everybody else. Privacy is dead. Now screw off, peasant. I've got a tee-off at ten."
Similarly, a press release from Orville Reddenbacker this morning claimed that "when you buy no-name popcorn, you're buying terrorism" and immediately demanded the abolition or bombing of all popcorn makers but them in order to defend America against this terrible low-priced threat. "The time for competition is over", the deceased Reddenbacker stated, the national anthem playing gloriously in the background, "We are an American institution now and must be protected from any loss of sales resulting from people buying other brands. Choice is the true enemy here. Remember this when you're voting, kids, there should be limits on freedom - especially the freedom to buy popcorn other than our new Maple Salmon flavored EZ-Popp(TM) Microwaveable popping corn, on sale now at better grocery stores near you."
The RIAA, MPAA, and SatelliteTV vendors all agreed. "Look, we all know that you'd all have bought all those 400,000 CDs, movies, and tv channels anyway if it weren't for piracy, so just cough up the money and we'll call off the dogs. Making 'mad money' is a guaranteed right that is protected by law since Dubya's been in power. It's the American Way. You love America, don't you? If you don't buy more stuff from us, we WILL press charges." Jack Valenti took it one step further. "These goddamn Chimese terrorisms ain't de worst part of dis trend either. What I tink we should do is outlaw 'playing outside'. Yup, jes tink about it. All dem little rats playing outside when dey could be enjoying a good movie or copy-protected Celine CD. De children is de REAL Boston Stranglers here, dose unAmerican little gooks. Wasting their lives playing outside in de goddam sun when dey could be supporting our economy? I don't understand kids dese days. De world is goin' straight to hell, I tell ya. Goddam nature. We'll sue God next, yeah, go for de REAL deep pockets." At this point, SCO's Darl McBride quickly took out a notepad and started scribbling furiously and then ran off, his villainous humpback swaying in the wind.
Despite the overwhelmingly good evidence the corporate shills of America had barfed forth, I thought I'd see if another view existed. So I sought out some elusive hippie culture leaders. When asked for his views, the uber-influential Richard Stallman said, "My name is GNU/RMS! Why can't you people get that right!" and starting making clucking noises and playing a flute like that little centaur guy off the Hercules cartoon. His arch-enemy Linus Torvalds quipped, "I don't get involved. Sorry.", dismissed us with a wave of his hand, and went back to his penguin burrito. Eric Raymond could not be reached for comment, as he has been at the gun club since July and is apparently not ever coming out until people start using Python to write device drivers.