It's the bisected stream effect. You're aiming straight, but there's a hair stuck to you or something, and you end up simultaneously pissing on both shoes.
Once you hit puberty and start growing some hair down there, you'll understand...
I do not agree. Advertising is about prompting action by bombarding people with messages engineered to manufacture their consent by any means. It is not ethical, period. It's like torture, it's never redeemable.
You want a breakdown of my position, go watch a Bill Hicks show.
Like I said before. You should make me. I'm not a nice guy, and you wouldn't want to do business with me and support my crazy ideas by financially empowering me.
Do know that the people who roamed North America before the European colonization walked here from Asia.
Also know that there was a new culture created in the intermingling between the two cultures, the Metis, who were rejected by both parent cultures and formed a unique cultural identity for themselves as guides during the times of the fur trade.
Similarly, there was a unique race and culture created in Brazil from the Africans and the Portuguese. And in Mauritius from the French, Africans and Portuguese.
Apple is unlikely to sue Psystar. Apple would probably lose; Apple's EULA is an "illegal tying arrangement" under antitrust law. Psystar is tiny, but a court loss would encourage bigger players to start making clones.
More likely, Apple will stop selling their OS as a boxed product.
Uhh... and how would Mac owners upgrade to the latest OS? Download how many gigabytes of files that make up Leopard?? Oh yeah... I got hours to sit around and wait for that to complete.
Think before you post.
Same way countless other software companies have done, by shipping an "Upgrade Only" version that requires you to have a legitimate install before upgrading.
Those people aren't native to North America. They came across the land bridge from Asia. The first people native to North America were the Métis, a distinct culture and race that was created in this place. The other tribes were no more indigenous to this place than the British or the French.
What about troop placement plans? Nuclear weapon schematics? Your medical records? Your vote? My computer password? Someone's conversations with a psychiatrist? And and all of a myrid other things it is UNETHICAL to reveal.
Your binary worldview does not address the needs of our shades of grey (and even *shudder* color) society.
All of these things should be public. Most especially my vote. You should most definitely have the right to know who and what I'm supporting when you deal with me. How else are you to wield your individual power with any responsibility whatsoever?
This new technology has a liability in that it breaks down when exposed to air, but if they could be manufactured and deployed in space, they might prove very effective. I find that a lot more interesting than the liquid salt solutions, personally. Cool shit.
Today we're hearing of another arrest, this time in India. 22-year-old IT professional Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid. His crime was writing in an orkut community named "I hate Sonia Gandhi." Sonia Gandhi is a prominent politician in India.
Vaid was charged under section 292 of Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information Technology Act because he created a profile and then posted content in vulgar language about Sonia Gandhi in the community.
So, Google is evil because they didn't assist a man in engaging in illegal character assassination to conceal what he did?
I can think of a lot of evil things Google is doing. Selling advertising would be the major one. But, at the end of the day, if you don't want to be public and open about what you're doing, you shouldn't be doing it, and no one should be helping you conceal it. The act of concealing is an evil act, just like spreading misinformation is also an evil act.
Sucks that the wrong guy got apprehended. Other than that... what is the problem? Libel and slander are illegal everywhere you go... nice to see some people taking it seriously.
You could always put together a demonstration, in which you illustrate how easily an unskilled user can issue the wrong query and bring the server to its knees.
Yes, that pretty much sums it up. Makes a person question if there is an aspect of us that exists outside spacetime and uses this place as a vehicle for expression and experience, or if we are totally of this universe.
Nevertheless, the concept that there is an endless now, and that the past and future do not really exist, don't see a lot of credibility to it. I find it a lot more plausible that this universe is not infinite at all, but rather an object of fixed size and with a fixed number of permutations all linked together.
You could meet the needs of a small library by throwing a wireless card into each of them, then pick up one new desktop machine and set the laptops up as thin clients.
Find some small computer shop and get them to donate the desktop machine in exchange for a plaque on the wall at the library (cheap advertising and tax deductible donation for them), set it up over a weekend, and claim the cost of the laptops and your time as a charitable donation when you do your own taxes.
Or, of course, you could make a bunch of ugly digital picture frames that consume way too much electricity.
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It's the bisected stream effect. You're aiming straight, but there's a hair stuck to you or something, and you end up simultaneously pissing on both shoes. Once you hit puberty and start growing some hair down there, you'll understand...
You think you are a gadfly. You are not, and never will be.
Are you trying to hurt my feelings?
I do not agree. Advertising is about prompting action by bombarding people with messages engineered to manufacture their consent by any means. It is not ethical, period. It's like torture, it's never redeemable.
You want a breakdown of my position, go watch a Bill Hicks show.
I'm confused. Weren't those videos released by freedom fighters, attempting to recruit people to oppose imperial tyranny?
Shouldn't they be taking down videos like this instead?
Yes, I'm serious. Advertisers try their very best to convince people that black is white for their own profit. They should all die. Painfully.
Like I said before. You should make me. I'm not a nice guy, and you wouldn't want to do business with me and support my crazy ideas by financially empowering me.
Don't know what BSG is.
Do know that the people who roamed North America before the European colonization walked here from Asia.
Also know that there was a new culture created in the intermingling between the two cultures, the Metis, who were rejected by both parent cultures and formed a unique cultural identity for themselves as guides during the times of the fur trade.
Similarly, there was a unique race and culture created in Brazil from the Africans and the Portuguese. And in Mauritius from the French, Africans and Portuguese.
And so on, and so forth.
Apple is unlikely to sue Psystar. Apple would probably lose; Apple's EULA is an "illegal tying arrangement" under antitrust law. Psystar is tiny, but a court loss would encourage bigger players to start making clones.
More likely, Apple will stop selling their OS as a boxed product.
Uhh... and how would Mac owners upgrade to the latest OS? Download how many gigabytes of files that make up Leopard?? Oh yeah... I got hours to sit around and wait for that to complete.
Think before you post.
Same way countless other software companies have done, by shipping an "Upgrade Only" version that requires you to have a legitimate install before upgrading.
Think before you post.
Those people aren't native to North America. They came across the land bridge from Asia. The first people native to North America were the Métis, a distinct culture and race that was created in this place. The other tribes were no more indigenous to this place than the British or the French.
What about troop placement plans? Nuclear weapon schematics? Your medical records? Your vote? My computer password? Someone's conversations with a psychiatrist? And and all of a myrid other things it is UNETHICAL to reveal.
Your binary worldview does not address the needs of our shades of grey (and even *shudder* color) society.
All of these things should be public. Most especially my vote. You should most definitely have the right to know who and what I'm supporting when you deal with me. How else are you to wield your individual power with any responsibility whatsoever?
Make me. I didn't say I was a good person...
This new technology has a liability in that it breaks down when exposed to air, but if they could be manufactured and deployed in space, they might prove very effective. I find that a lot more interesting than the liquid salt solutions, personally. Cool shit.
Yes, both of those things are evil.
I do think it was bad. I think it's an indication that we need to get rid of anonymity so next time the right person will be apprehended.
Today we're hearing of another arrest, this time in India. 22-year-old IT professional Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid. His crime was writing in an orkut community named "I hate Sonia Gandhi." Sonia Gandhi is a prominent politician in India.
Vaid was charged under section 292 of Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information Technology Act because he created a profile and then posted content in vulgar language about Sonia Gandhi in the community.
Which fantasy figure were you referring to?
Concealing is evil. Keeping a person ignorant damages their capacity to act intelligently, and that is harm.
Mitigating circumstances do not change the nature of this.
As an aside, advertising is misinformation, and also evil, and again, mitigating circumstances change nothing.
So, Google is evil because they didn't assist a man in engaging in illegal character assassination to conceal what he did?
I can think of a lot of evil things Google is doing. Selling advertising would be the major one. But, at the end of the day, if you don't want to be public and open about what you're doing, you shouldn't be doing it, and no one should be helping you conceal it. The act of concealing is an evil act, just like spreading misinformation is also an evil act.
Nice to see they got it right for a change.
That, apparently, depends on which country you're talking about.
Sucks that the wrong guy got apprehended. Other than that... what is the problem? Libel and slander are illegal everywhere you go... nice to see some people taking it seriously.
I'm really starting to like China
What was wrong with Beta 5?
The new location bar. Damn I hate that thing.
you are blindly trusting some hackers in mom's basement, many of whom have personality problems (Theo de Raadt, RMS, Hans Reiser, et al)
Hermann Hesse said it best:
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
You could always put together a demonstration, in which you illustrate how easily an unskilled user can issue the wrong query and bring the server to its knees.
Yes, that pretty much sums it up. Makes a person question if there is an aspect of us that exists outside spacetime and uses this place as a vehicle for expression and experience, or if we are totally of this universe.
Nevertheless, the concept that there is an endless now, and that the past and future do not really exist, don't see a lot of credibility to it. I find it a lot more plausible that this universe is not infinite at all, but rather an object of fixed size and with a fixed number of permutations all linked together.
You could meet the needs of a small library by throwing a wireless card into each of them, then pick up one new desktop machine and set the laptops up as thin clients.
Find some small computer shop and get them to donate the desktop machine in exchange for a plaque on the wall at the library (cheap advertising and tax deductible donation for them), set it up over a weekend, and claim the cost of the laptops and your time as a charitable donation when you do your own taxes.
Or, of course, you could make a bunch of ugly digital picture frames that consume way too much electricity.