Then why do federal investigators send target letters informing subjects about the charges they are about to experience?
It's unfortunate that my post was marked troll. The New York Times IS a discredited, dishonored, ethically bankrupt, plagiarist organization. That's not a troll, that's a fact.
Why was this a negotiating point and not automatic? Last time I checked, there were rights to know your accuser and the right to a speedy and public trial.
The New York Times is a fucking plagiarist rag. Just another example of those who need to litigate to shine the light away from their business going to the crapper.
It says that the experiment is rigged to fail if we let it fail. Some crafty character at some point in the past managed to convince the elite that a republic with elements of democracy is a good idea. Both ideas are dangerous and both got through. Almost like planting a virus through spam in the early days. People fell for it. But now it's in the system and the only way to get rid of it is to crash the system and flash everything.
The bad news is that they work overtime trying to crash the system or at least shut it down but nobody seems to have control of that function. The good news is that people can keep it if they fight for it.
People need to first recognize that the republic and democracy was a mistake in their favor, not some benevolent decision by the elite. Education doesn't come from the walls of the University. Neither does character. Education, at the very least, provides credentials for working within the system but is pretty irrelevant once you have it.
To counter democracy and foster stupidity, we get bombarded with crap on TV, in our stereos and our daily lives. The Western cultural shitstorm beats our intuition until it's numb and tries to convince us that reason is useless. Most people don't put up a mental shield. Others take it too far and become religious fundamentalists.
I don't have the answer but I will say that individuality was their biggest mistake because that makes you, me and the other dude into autonomous programs rather than subroutines of the larger system. The only way to counter that is through the media.
Hopefully, you weren't trying to troll me because I have a lot to say about the American experiment. Maybe we'll chat more again. For now, goodnight and peace unto you.
The fact that GTA is a "trigger" means that it definitely isn't the cause. The issue of rights, privileges and individuality hasn't stopped since the Philadelphia Convention in 1789. If the US is to have a society that supports individually and democracy, that *MUST* be supported with education and responsibility. Once you take education and responsibility out of the equation, the whole American experiment goes straight to hell and gives the elite a pretty good reason for greater restrictions on rights, privileges and individuality.
Sino culture is different. There are no individuals in China. Nobody thinks of themselves as individuals and this hive mind mentality makes propaganda spread easily. Those that think of themselves as individuals tend to be visiting Western professors under state surveillance or Chinese citizens in prison.
Americans have their behavior rooted in a mythology of distant settlers fucking over a detached empire. If you want to call that mythology overrated, maybe you have a case. If you want to call that mythology false, just try to push the citizen next to you and hope he doesn't have a gun.
Any individuality that China had either ran like Hell or was ruthlessly slaughtered during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
American capital is heavily invested on both sides of the strait - and new investment is primarily being made on the mainland. What makes you think we'd go to war with China when there's money to be made regardless of who's in power in Taiwan?
Primarily because every good grand strategy game allows you to continue trading with the enemy even while you are at war with them.
It's not worth it because there are alternatives in music and software.
Precisely because of the cheaper/free alternatives in music and software, I gladly spend money on games. I don't particularly like modern music anyway. It's short, simplistic and, as you pointed out, works to destroy the art of music itself.
Why give the RIAA dirtbags the time of day, let alone your effort into taking their garbage? Indy music is great and well produced. Same with software. Don't take MS Office. OpenOffice is an excellent alternative for individuals. Let these clowns lose all goodwill by playing by the rules during their zealotry.
If techs like us get along just great without compromising our ethics, people will want to know what we're doing. Slashbots need to accept some responsibility (quietly of course) for teaching the average user how to acquire warez and music.
We can turn people to ethical habits just as easily AND fuck over the corporations we generally dislike in the process. Indy music, open source and freedom. It's the future.
Why stick with something that's worse then[sic] free?
Sometimes, as you mentioned, it's a stupid reason. Sometimes, as in my case, it's a serious reason. The only voice dictation software available for Linux was IBM and IBM removed the software from their product line.
The real Sun Pin of ancient China put it something along the lines of,"Without the masses, you will fail."
We must defend Joe User because it is in our interest to do so. We need to convince him to support us as we do the hard work of railing against crap like this. His support is represented by either money or, in the case of open source, not spending his money./bots need to stop preaching to the choir and start preaching to the masses--that's all.
Intellectual arguments are not intellectual at all. They are stupid, arrogant and the average user will just roll his eyes from such arguments.
This could be a good thing. Enough people have heard of "open source alternatives" that they will start to seriously examine what that phrase means.
There is nothing in this article that talks about benefits to consumers. With what/bots know about the average user, it's an indisputable fact that people don't give a flying fsck about document security. Those that do already know how to protect themselves.
When a M$ clone decides to say, "When we asked consumers about...", you can be certain that they didn't ask consumers anything. Consumers want document compatibility. There is nothing Office does for the average user that OpenOffice can't do.
Except take money. It's high time to start preaching this to ordinary users.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't have the same ethics or mission as the Census. After 90 days of unemployment, you are no longer counted in the statistics. Hence, the unemployment numbers are always lower than your daily random sample of going through a normal day. Look at the Census. It's much more insightful. Believe it or not, the CIA factbook is remarkably honest about the current state of the US.
I hope the *AAs go completely psycho and pursue every man, woman and child as a criminal. They will go bankrupt doing this. With 60% of this country in the working poor category, we've got nothing to lose. They can bring it on if that's what they really want.
I'm not sure that Microsoft was ever the user's friend. They are the next *AA anti-consumer bozos on the rise. They really haven't done what they want to do and what they are capable of doing with their desktop monopoly.
Every few months, I've given Mozilla a try just to keep the faith. This summer, 1.5 Beta found a permanent spot on my drive as the undisputed default browser/mail application. I just happened to avoid the sobig disaster because of it.
Firebird looks slick but it's not ready for primetime quite yet. I like Thunderbird as well and I look forward to seeing it fully developed.
The Mozilla Organization is a terrific example of open source producing something much better and even more innovative than commercial competitors.
Internet Explorer cannot hold a candle to Mozilla 1.4/1.5. As people that were sitting on the fence decide to get involved (like myself), IE will have no reason to return even in 2008. It's completely over for IE.
Mozilla is a victory for open source software. It's not a "me too" project that seeks to replicate IE to spite M$. More projects can/will learn from the Mozilla example. Microsoft is running out of time to open its software. Eventually, the OSS options will be better and widely known to the public.
Well said. Considering, however, that Motorola owned a big chunk of Symbian, why did they sell it off? Perhaps they have something big lined up that they would rather not put in the pool of available applications?
uh... probably to just get on with his life. We all make choices. If he hadn't dealt with his condition in comparison to what he wants out of life, I'm sure he'd still be trying to use a cane or a walker. I was in a similar quandary 10 years ago. Flat out exhaustion would win many points in the "poster child" category but gain nothing in every other aspect of life.
I'm sure they were. I don't believe his *last* words were "I am not a Marxist" but he definitely said it while in the process of dying. My post stands.
I hope your intentions are good. I will elaborate. Marx intended his economic work, i.e. Das Kapital, to reach industrial societies. The minute agricultural Russia declared themselves "Marxist revolutions", the whole project essentially fell off a cliff. Like Democracy, capitalism evolves. Marx wanted to identify the various stages of capitalism and how it related to industrial Europe and America. As I understand it, Marx was kind of unstable (genius and geek.) He felt like nobody was paying attention to his work and decided on the ridiculous marketing stunt of the 50 page Communist Manifesto. The fallout was severe. He attracted lunatics that discredited his entire life. It's much easier to read 50 pages of troll feed than it is to read a well-developed scholarly work like Das Kapital. He never recovered from it and "I am not a Marxist" was his famous statement on his death bed. Definitely look it up if you have the time.
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Then why do federal investigators send target letters informing subjects about the charges they are about to experience?
It's unfortunate that my post was marked troll. The New York Times IS a discredited, dishonored, ethically bankrupt, plagiarist organization. That's not a troll, that's a fact.
Why was this a negotiating point and not automatic? Last time I checked, there were rights to know your accuser and the right to a speedy and public trial.
The New York Times is a fucking plagiarist rag. Just another example of those who need to litigate to shine the light away from their business going to the crapper.
It says that the experiment is rigged to fail if we let it fail. Some crafty character at some point in the past managed to convince the elite that a republic with elements of democracy is a good idea. Both ideas are dangerous and both got through. Almost like planting a virus through spam in the early days. People fell for it. But now it's in the system and the only way to get rid of it is to crash the system and flash everything.
The bad news is that they work overtime trying to crash the system or at least shut it down but nobody seems to have control of that function. The good news is that people can keep it if they fight for it.
People need to first recognize that the republic and democracy was a mistake in their favor, not some benevolent decision by the elite. Education doesn't come from the walls of the University. Neither does character. Education, at the very least, provides credentials for working within the system but is pretty irrelevant once you have it.
To counter democracy and foster stupidity, we get bombarded with crap on TV, in our stereos and our daily lives. The Western cultural shitstorm beats our intuition until it's numb and tries to convince us that reason is useless. Most people don't put up a mental shield. Others take it too far and become religious fundamentalists.
I don't have the answer but I will say that individuality was their biggest mistake because that makes you, me and the other dude into autonomous programs rather than subroutines of the larger system. The only way to counter that is through the media.
Hopefully, you weren't trying to troll me because I have a lot to say about the American experiment. Maybe we'll chat more again. For now, goodnight and peace unto you.
The fact that GTA is a "trigger" means that it definitely isn't the cause. The issue of rights, privileges and individuality hasn't stopped since the Philadelphia Convention in 1789. If the US is to have a society that supports individually and democracy, that *MUST* be supported with education and responsibility. Once you take education and responsibility out of the equation, the whole American experiment goes straight to hell and gives the elite a pretty good reason for greater restrictions on rights, privileges and individuality.
Fuck you.
Yes, you are correct but he should have covered his ass by setting up a security magazine online so he could enjoy the Freedom of the Press.
Freedom of the Press belongs only to those that own a press. Everyone else will be raped when the system feels like doing so.
In that case, I'm about to become a fugitive.
Sino culture is different. There are no individuals in China. Nobody thinks of themselves as individuals and this hive mind mentality makes propaganda spread easily. Those that think of themselves as individuals tend to be visiting Western professors under state surveillance or Chinese citizens in prison.
Americans have their behavior rooted in a mythology of distant settlers fucking over a detached empire. If you want to call that mythology overrated, maybe you have a case. If you want to call that mythology false, just try to push the citizen next to you and hope he doesn't have a gun.
Any individuality that China had either ran like Hell or was ruthlessly slaughtered during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
Primarily because every good grand strategy game allows you to continue trading with the enemy even while you are at war with them.
Amen, brother.
It's not worth it because there are alternatives in music and software.
Precisely because of the cheaper/free alternatives in music and software, I gladly spend money on games. I don't particularly like modern music anyway. It's short, simplistic and, as you pointed out, works to destroy the art of music itself.
Why give the RIAA dirtbags the time of day, let alone your effort into taking their garbage? Indy music is great and well produced. Same with software. Don't take MS Office. OpenOffice is an excellent alternative for individuals. Let these clowns lose all goodwill by playing by the rules during their zealotry.
If techs like us get along just great without compromising our ethics, people will want to know what we're doing. Slashbots need to accept some responsibility (quietly of course) for teaching the average user how to acquire warez and music.
We can turn people to ethical habits just as easily AND fuck over the corporations we generally dislike in the process. Indy music, open source and freedom. It's the future.
Sometimes, as you mentioned, it's a stupid reason. Sometimes, as in my case, it's a serious reason. The only voice dictation software available for Linux was IBM and IBM removed the software from their product line.
Agreed. One note about your sig though. John Adams didn't say that. Thucydides said it. Check the Peloponnesian War.
The real Sun Pin of ancient China put it something along the lines of,"Without the masses, you will fail."
/bots need to stop preaching to the choir and start preaching to the masses--that's all.
We must defend Joe User because it is in our interest to do so. We need to convince him to support us as we do the hard work of railing against crap like this. His support is represented by either money or, in the case of open source, not spending his money.
Intellectual arguments are not intellectual at all. They are stupid, arrogant and the average user will just roll his eyes from such arguments.
This could be a good thing. Enough people have heard of "open source alternatives" that they will start to seriously examine what that phrase means.
/bots know about the average user, it's an indisputable fact that people don't give a flying fsck about document security. Those that do already know how to protect themselves.
There is nothing in this article that talks about benefits to consumers. With what
When a M$ clone decides to say, "When we asked consumers about...", you can be certain that they didn't ask consumers anything. Consumers want document compatibility. There is nothing Office does for the average user that OpenOffice can't do.
Except take money. It's high time to start preaching this to ordinary users.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't have the same ethics or mission as the Census. After 90 days of unemployment, you are no longer counted in the statistics. Hence, the unemployment numbers are always lower than your daily random sample of going through a normal day. Look at the Census. It's much more insightful. Believe it or not, the CIA factbook is remarkably honest about the current state of the US.
I hope the *AAs go completely psycho and pursue every man, woman and child as a criminal. They will go bankrupt doing this. With 60% of this country in the working poor category, we've got nothing to lose. They can bring it on if that's what they really want.
I'm not sure that Microsoft was ever the user's friend. They are the next *AA anti-consumer bozos on the rise. They really haven't done what they want to do and what they are capable of doing with their desktop monopoly.
Every few months, I've given Mozilla a try just to keep the faith. This summer, 1.5 Beta found a permanent spot on my drive as the undisputed default browser/mail application. I just happened to avoid the sobig disaster because of it.
Firebird looks slick but it's not ready for primetime quite yet. I like Thunderbird as well and I look forward to seeing it fully developed.
The Mozilla Organization is a terrific example of open source producing something much better and even more innovative than commercial competitors.
Internet Explorer cannot hold a candle to Mozilla 1.4/1.5. As people that were sitting on the fence decide to get involved (like myself), IE will have no reason to return even in 2008. It's completely over for IE.
Mozilla is a victory for open source software. It's not a "me too" project that seeks to replicate IE to spite M$. More projects can/will learn from the Mozilla example. Microsoft is running out of time to open its software. Eventually, the OSS options will be better and widely known to the public.
Well said. Considering, however, that Motorola owned a big chunk of Symbian, why did they sell it off? Perhaps they have something big lined up that they would rather not put in the pool of available applications?
Sure it does. I can think of 3 reasons off the top of my head: lower production cost, no licensing fees and competitive advantage.
How does that not make sense?
Industry changes when one player decides to screw the status quo. Look at the airlines and Southwest for a good example.
uh... probably to just get on with his life. We all make choices. If he hadn't dealt with his condition in comparison to what he wants out of life, I'm sure he'd still be trying to use a cane or a walker. I was in a similar quandary 10 years ago. Flat out exhaustion would win many points in the "poster child" category but gain nothing in every other aspect of life.
Any chance that this was engineered by a marketing firm? Will we see it in Mountain Dew commercials?
I'm sure they were. I don't believe his *last* words were "I am not a Marxist" but he definitely said it while in the process of dying. My post stands.
I hope your intentions are good. I will elaborate. Marx intended his economic work, i.e. Das Kapital, to reach industrial societies. The minute agricultural Russia declared themselves "Marxist revolutions", the whole project essentially fell off a cliff. Like Democracy, capitalism evolves. Marx wanted to identify the various stages of capitalism and how it related to industrial Europe and America. As I understand it, Marx was kind of unstable (genius and geek.) He felt like nobody was paying attention to his work and decided on the ridiculous marketing stunt of the 50 page Communist Manifesto. The fallout was severe. He attracted lunatics that discredited his entire life. It's much easier to read 50 pages of troll feed than it is to read a well-developed scholarly work like Das Kapital. He never recovered from it and "I am not a Marxist" was his famous statement on his death bed. Definitely look it up if you have the time.
I can't believe that people actually plagiarize to gain stupid karma points from slashdot.