I had the idea to make an air-hockey style mouse pad. I've started building it, but my fans aren't nearly strong enough. Which brings me to my point- do any of you rocket scientists know the equation that will tell me how much airflow and pressure I need to lift an object weighing x grams, x millimeters off the surface of a x square millimeter surface that has a cabinet volume of x cubed millimeters. Also, how many holes, how far apart, how large themselves, etc.
I'm pretty sure it's out there somewhere, but I've tooled around with tons of fluid mechanic websites and books and haven't found any "air-hockey" models. The closest I've come is taking the equations for a hydrofoil and applying that crudely in reverse.
Anyway, I'll hook up a blower fan soon and it should either work, or not.
heh.
I've always wanted a super fast super hot incenerator. Like maybe a lead box with a baby nuke inside. Ok, maybe something a little less extreme. Anyway, when the taliban come knocking at your door you simply break the glass and hit the big red button and step away from the big lead box. In a minute or two there is no hard drive, there is no computer, there are no playboys, there is no bible, no pot, no overdue library books, whatever it is you're trying to hide - it's gone.
perhaps I should ask slashdot, what's the best way to destroy your harddrive?
What would your husband think if I traded his songs on KaZaA? Would it bother him? I have some other "free as in speech" songs that artists have released and that's basically all I trade. That and rare/unreleased stuff. If it was released as an MP3 by the artist, I don't feel bad trading it on KaZaA. Also, if it is impossible to purchase, I feel no harm is done by offering it online. Those are two different arguments and the second is weaker than the first, but still. Anyway, this is my first chance to ask a musician if his freely released songs were swapped all over the P2P networks if it would bother him. I figure if you release a song as an MP3, you expect/hope this is what happens to it.
You're right. good source too. It is also worth pointing out that senator hollins and that other guy (I think the one that wanted to allow the RIAA to attack filesharers computers) are also dems.
But my comment was regarding the recent news that Hillary Rosen's replacement is a former bigshot in the republican administration. I think this was done in hopes that ties to the current administration will help them out. What with the TIA and the homeland security and the friendliness of big business that is so ever conservative. I don't intend to pretend that the dems care about consumer/personal rights at all. They don't. But the new republican replacement for hillary will be as bad if not worse than the democratic hillary, if only because the republicans are the ones currently in charge.
My extended point was that they can hire as many new republicans to replace the democrats on thier payroll - or even to support the dems on thier payroll and it won't stop progress from making them history. their business model is soon defunct and working deals to make laws to prevent this is only going to impede progress in america much like laws protecting scriveners would have done.
I'm not trying to blame the republicans any more than the democrats. They're all a bunch of money hungry sell outs. Even still, they won't win this fight in the long run. I just wonder how much damage they'll do trying.
Remember scriveners? They used to hand-copy important legal documents because there was no other way? They were paid fairly well too, and had great skill and talent to copy with speed and legibility. Imagine if they sued to prevent Carbon Paper or Type Writers or Xerox Machines or scanners or Magnetic Media. I mean, hell, you can copy a 1000 page document in a matter of seconds on most modern HOME computers. There's no way even the fastest scrivener can compete. They could have formed an Association of America back in the 1800s and passed some DMCA-styled legislation making carbon paper illegal and we never would have progressed past the 1800s. Sure some people in free worlds would have used carbon paper, but the Interpol treaties and such would have made it clear that they were rogue states full of pirates. No God fearing American would have ever been caught using such a terrible device. Not only that, but these laws would have saved and entire industry and tons of jobs nation wide. Instead, look at the way things are. Most of you didn't even know what scrivener meant and those that did owe it all to Melville, not because you have ever met a scrivener. Can we allow the RIAA to go the way of the scriveners? I think not. We need to legislate their existence for eternity. After all, that's what this is all about. They are as obsolete as the scriveners. I need to pay the RIAA to make a CD as much as I need to pay a scrivener to make a copy of a document. All I need is talent and an IMac and I can record, encode, market world-wide and distribute world-wide and the RIAA doesn't need to be involved at all. That's what this is all about. It's not piracy and never has been. It's about losing their stranglehold on the market, and losing their usefulness all at the same time.
Face it RIAA, you're dead as you exist today. You can sue all you want and claim Piracy all you want and hire as many republicans as you can afford, but you'll never ever ever be the necessary evil you were for most of this century. Take your money and get out of the cartel business. The world is wise to you, and all it wil take is a few brave musicians who won't use you to make millions and you'll never survive the blow. The people you're calling theives today are the musicians who'll drive the nails in your coffin tomorrow.
I'd put money on Poindexter getting capped for coming up with this assinine (sp?) idea. (Just kidding, of course FBI/Carnivore/Echelon/TIA/CIA/HomelandSecurity/Etc.) (Damn what a large number of spy on the people groups we have these days. wow.)
Seriously though, there has to be a black market version. I wonder if there already was one or two. It not, there are now.
You've gotta blame a lot of it on the republican conservative born again freaks too. In Arizona, Surrogacy is illegal. You have to go to California. I think CA and AZ have fairly equal percentages of catholics, but AZ has a much higher percentage of conservatives . Surrogacy is against God, I suppose. Funny how they know so well what God thinks on the matter.
yeah, the most important surival trait in individual humans can be inherited (and soon without any taxes applied) and that's $$$. The second most important trait is height and speed, which can get you $$$ if you have a good agent. The third most is intelligence. None of this has anything to do with fertility.
Ironically, the most fertile people are 15 year old teenagers, especially the drunk ones. Unfortunately for Darwin, this doesn't help their offspring much. Although, Darwin talked about the species, not the individual. An individual only needs to live long enough to reproduce for continued "success" of the species.
So, I suppose for survival of the species, the Parent poster is correct. It's better for a bunch of teenagers to reproduce when they are fertile and raise kids who are very likely to also reproduce when they are hyper-fertile teenagers. Look at the population growth of cultures (and sub cultures) that follow this pattern.
This is why in an earlier rant about the DMCA I said that it was driving Tech out of the US. There are lots of conventions that will not meet in the US anymore. There is real science at stake here, and it's terrriibbbble to think the US is the place people are afraid to enter for fear that they won't be able to return. That used to be the USSR and East Germany and China and all those other countries. Now it's the US. Wonderful. I'm damn proud to be an American somtimes, and then other times I'm truly ashamed. That's right, I said it. Bite me if you don't like it. We're great, but we ain't perfect and we can be better. The DMCA is anti-constitutional and the Constitution (no, not hollywood of levis) is what makes America any better than the soviet union. make unconstitutional laws and you're much more anti-american than any foreigner.
"At its prebubble height, InterTrust (founded in 1990) employed 376 people and marketed its own software and hardware products; today it consists mainly of a patent portfolio, 30 employees, and this lawsuit."
Great, an IP only company. Wonderful
"Microsoft argued in court that crucial phrases in InterTrust's patents were too vague to be enforceable, and that others required such narrow interpretation that they would have been hard for Microsoft to infringe."
Don't we claim stuff like this all the time about Patents. This is a test of someone with real money being able to say the USPTO is full of shit and these patents are vague adn useless.
Win or lose, the more of this crap the better. It will eventually get so bad that someone will change the USPTO.
I coulda been more clear. Imagine if the park tried to ban cell phones because they didn't want to "step on the toes" (direct quote from the article) of whomever is providing phone service to the ball park.
You see, even if Comcast isn't behind this (which I never said), the fact of the matter is that WiFi will mean turf battles in no time at all. If those of us who really think offering WiFi for free is a good idea don't get aggressive now, we'll be called criminals when we try to offer free WiFi in a location where someone else wants to offer Pay-WiFi. It's a matter of who gets to control the overlapping of hotspots? Think it's too early for a call-to-arms? I wonder if the pay for WiFi people feel the same way regarding these rebellous free wifi providers popping up all over the place. Something tells me they'll organize faster, better and sooner, and in a year or two it will be illegal to offer free WiFi without special permission from some governing board whose job is to make sure your signals don't have the ability to cut into anyone elses Pay-WiFi hotspots. I guess we'll wait and see.
Unfortunately history tends to agree with my cynical point of view. We'll all sit here and say wow, asscroft's call-to-arms was a good idea but it's too late now.
By the way,the "call-to-arms" is simply saying that we should work to convince the powers that be that free wifi hotspots are not the work of communists or criminals but, like parks and librarys, are for the common good of all. That's all, it's not nearly as scary or radical as your tone suggests.
Imagine if they gave PacBell or whoever it was exclusive rights to the phone network including pay phones and tried to ban cell phones within their park.
On the other hand, we better start on the offensive or we'll lose all these fights. By we, I mean the scientific community. We need the NSF to take on wifi the way they did the original internet, or else it will all be pay as you go and free nodes will be made illegal.
I guess AGP 3.0 Spec allows this. Although the next reply seems to disagree, but the one after that agrees. hmm.
Also, the Alpha Server has 2 AGP slots as an option, but that's not a typical gamer machine.
Here, is further proof that AGP 3.0 allows 2 AGP slots:
The general layout of the A7N8X Deluxe shows one AGP Pro slot and five PCI slots. This is different from the A7N266(-E) and also different from the preproduction boards that were circulated courtesy of AMD and that featured the additional ACR slot for modem and sound riser cards. Also keep in mind that we have taken it granted for the longest time that the one AGP slot we are looking at is always the only AGP slot possible. This has changed with the definition of the AGP3.0 specifications that brought us AGP 8X mode and, among other goodies allows 2 AGP slots. On the A7N8X we are still looking at a single AGP slot, though. It will be interesting to see who will come out with a dual AGP board first.
Freakin Cool Man, I may have to upgrade from my awesome machine once they come out if DRM/Palladium isn't too overwhelming on these new boards. I also think the processor has to have support for AGP 3.0 for it to be worthwhile as well, but I'm not sure.
to emigrate. The real land of the free. Issues like this seem to always favor the consumer and small business rather than the conglomerate. Pot is not-illegal. Gays are free to marry while in the US they have to fight to keep the police out of their bedrooms. Not everyone is considered a terrorist until proven otherwise. Unfortunately you are still amazingly too anti-gun for my tastes.
Seriously, why didn't the big guys win? They always win here. Are your politicians not for sale? Or are your corporations too cheap to buy them?
Really is that so hard. Should I be forced to use a PCI card if I want to dual head it w/o buying a dual head card - what if I want to quad head it, shouldn't I be able to use 2 AGP ports.
Do you own kitchen knives? Perhaps You're the one who killed Nicole. Quick! Someone tell OJ so he can clear his name.
Just because a knife can be used to kill someone, doesn't mean it's a MURDER DEVICE. So why is a smart card programmer a PIRATE DEVICE?
The only Pirate Devices I don't think I could argue the definition of woul be a Parrot, a Wooden Leg, an Eye Patch, a Funny hat with skull and cross bones, a wine bottle wrapped in dried grasses, a sword, potentially a mustache? No, some people own parrots and aren't pirates at all, so there goes that too.
The people smart enough to do that, aren't dumb enough to be terrorists. That's why we always start to advocate it, and then either talk ourselves out of it, or never do anything about it. We know better than to seriously think killing will improve matters in the long run. And it's the long run we're after with causes such as freedom of speech, environment, privacy, etc. isn't it? At some point killing is ok, like in 1776, but that is pretty rare.
[despite saying click hear to read the rest of this comment, you only get all of it if you hit reply to this. So I posted it as a reply. Hopefully this will work.] oh sure, now it all displays. whatever.
(and by us I mean the general population. You are a terrorist and a pirate until proven innocent in today's world, all it takes is an accusor- kinda like date rape). So although the above would make a great book or movie, it would suck in reality. Don't actually go killing CEOs and politicians.
Having said that, I have one more contradiction: If you are a psycho killer, and are going to kill someone anyway, don't kill someone innocent like a little kid or an old lady or a guy walking down the street or your wife or girlfriend or her mom or whatever. If you just have to kill someone, then go ahead and kill one of those bad guys mentioned above, like a patent-squatter-lawyer. Don't tell anyone I told you to do this, but I figure if someone's gonna die anyway, it's better a patent-sqatting-lawyer or corrupt politician than someone's little 9yr old sister. Can I get a "Hell Yeah!" from all the 9yr olds and their parents.
What we need isn't classical terrorism, like blowing up an airplane or a bus or a building. Rather, we need a systematic assassination of those that would sacrifice basic civil liberties, environmental responsibilities and human rights for profit. And I'm talking about both of the "two" parties and all lines of CEOs.
Are you a lawyer who specializes in pushing through vague ass patents, sitting on them doing nothing to develop the idea into real technology, and then pulling it out, dusting it off, and suing everyone who made "your" idea reality? You're gonna die.
Are you a politician who will make anything digital illegal if it isn't approved first by Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA and Microsoft - no matter the potential uses or the employed uses - just to keep getting your campaign money? You're gonna die.
Are you a legislator that is so viscously anti guns that you want to remove the people last (albeit feeble) method of defense against a corrupt government? You're gonna die - though in your case we won't use a gun, just to prove we can kill you even if you outlaw guns.
Are you CEO of a paper company who thinks clear cutting the redwood forest which you aquired in a sneaky ass back room deal for a 10th of what is is worth ripping off taxpayers and destroying a national treasure so that future generations will never know what beauty our country once held? You're gonna die.
See, if we kill a few select targets the others will think twice about their actions. Right now, there is no immediate harm done by their actions. They only see next quarter's profits, not 50, 10 or even 1 year down the road. By putting murderous revenge from consumers into the picture we give them an immediate consequence to contend with at their board meetings. "Hmm, we could do this evil thing and turn a profit, but John did and look at him, he got killed days afterward. Maybe we should think about the big picture a little more." Likewise, we make it personal. Once you've made your first 5 million, you are out of touch with the rest of the world. The impact of your actions will never ever affect you or anyone in your world. Fuckover the retirement accounts of hundreds (or was it thousands) of loyal hardworking employees that put your business where it is today? Sure, why not, I've got my retirement account. Ok, buddy, but for how much longer will you have your life?
We need to declare war on these evil greedy people. They can hide behind a company no longer. Sure, Enron might be a bad company, but only because bad people ran Enron. Those bad people need to be dealt with by the rest of us. How much longer can we allow a few greedy assholes to ruin the world? It's past time to hold them personally accountable. Our government won't do it. They're as bad as the Corporations. Hell, they're paid by the Corporations. They are the Corporations. It's clear to me that corporations run this world, and corporations are only as evil as thier leaders and the people making the decisions. And those people are only as evil as we allow them to be. To take back the power to the people, we need to start not at the voting booth, but at the CEO's drive to work, if you know what I mean.
It's too bad it's come to this, but hopefully only 1 or 2 assholes will have to die and the rest will shape up right quick.
Having said that, I'd like to take it all back. You see, a year or maybe even less, I wanted nothing more than to see Senator Fritz Disney Holllings die an early death. But recently he has fought a terrible piece of legislation and has done so convincingly. I'm not sure on the details, but I was very suprised and very glad that he was still alive. So, everything I said earlier is utter bullshit. Killing isn't good and doesn't help anyone, especially those of us with causes - and good causes such as freedom of speech, env. protection, gun rights, privacy rights - though misunderstood causes. We don't need murder attached to the labels those who wish to control us have already given us. (and by us I mean the general
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go ahead and mod me down, you know you're glad i said it.
(I bet it's redundant, as I haven't read any other comments yet
"Sir, Maverick Re-Engaged"
I had the idea to make an air-hockey style mouse pad. I've started building it, but my fans aren't nearly strong enough. Which brings me to my point- do any of you rocket scientists know the equation that will tell me how much airflow and pressure I need to lift an object weighing x grams, x millimeters off the surface of a x square millimeter surface that has a cabinet volume of x cubed millimeters. Also, how many holes, how far apart, how large themselves, etc. I'm pretty sure it's out there somewhere, but I've tooled around with tons of fluid mechanic websites and books and haven't found any "air-hockey" models. The closest I've come is taking the equations for a hydrofoil and applying that crudely in reverse. Anyway, I'll hook up a blower fan soon and it should either work, or not. heh.
I've always wanted a super fast super hot incenerator. Like maybe a lead box with a baby nuke inside. Ok, maybe something a little less extreme. Anyway, when the taliban come knocking at your door you simply break the glass and hit the big red button and step away from the big lead box. In a minute or two there is no hard drive, there is no computer, there are no playboys, there is no bible, no pot, no overdue library books, whatever it is you're trying to hide - it's gone. perhaps I should ask slashdot, what's the best way to destroy your harddrive?
Ah, the troubles caused by a missing semicolon. Us slashdot geeks should know better. Thanks for posting the clarification.
What would your husband think if I traded his songs on KaZaA? Would it bother him? I have some other "free as in speech" songs that artists have released and that's basically all I trade. That and rare/unreleased stuff. If it was released as an MP3 by the artist, I don't feel bad trading it on KaZaA. Also, if it is impossible to purchase, I feel no harm is done by offering it online. Those are two different arguments and the second is weaker than the first, but still. Anyway, this is my first chance to ask a musician if his freely released songs were swapped all over the P2P networks if it would bother him. I figure if you release a song as an MP3, you expect/hope this is what happens to it.
You're right. good source too. It is also worth pointing out that senator hollins and that other guy (I think the one that wanted to allow the RIAA to attack filesharers computers) are also dems.
But my comment was regarding the recent news that Hillary Rosen's replacement is a former bigshot in the republican administration. I think this was done in hopes that ties to the current administration will help them out. What with the TIA and the homeland security and the friendliness of big business that is so ever conservative. I don't intend to pretend that the dems care about consumer/personal rights at all. They don't. But the new republican replacement for hillary will be as bad if not worse than the democratic hillary, if only because the republicans are the ones currently in charge.
My extended point was that they can hire as many new republicans to replace the democrats on thier payroll - or even to support the dems on thier payroll and it won't stop progress from making them history. their business model is soon defunct and working deals to make laws to prevent this is only going to impede progress in america much like laws protecting scriveners would have done.
I'm not trying to blame the republicans any more than the democrats. They're all a bunch of money hungry sell outs. Even still, they won't win this fight in the long run. I just wonder how much damage they'll do trying.
Remember scriveners? They used to hand-copy important legal documents because there was no other way? They were paid fairly well too, and had great skill and talent to copy with speed and legibility. Imagine if they sued to prevent Carbon Paper or Type Writers or Xerox Machines or scanners or Magnetic Media. I mean, hell, you can copy a 1000 page document in a matter of seconds on most modern HOME computers. There's no way even the fastest scrivener can compete. They could have formed an Association of America back in the 1800s and passed some DMCA-styled legislation making carbon paper illegal and we never would have progressed past the 1800s. Sure some people in free worlds would have used carbon paper, but the Interpol treaties and such would have made it clear that they were rogue states full of pirates. No God fearing American would have ever been caught using such a terrible device. Not only that, but these laws would have saved and entire industry and tons of jobs nation wide. Instead, look at the way things are. Most of you didn't even know what scrivener meant and those that did owe it all to Melville, not because you have ever met a scrivener. Can we allow the RIAA to go the way of the scriveners? I think not. We need to legislate their existence for eternity. After all, that's what this is all about. They are as obsolete as the scriveners. I need to pay the RIAA to make a CD as much as I need to pay a scrivener to make a copy of a document. All I need is talent and an IMac and I can record, encode, market world-wide and distribute world-wide and the RIAA doesn't need to be involved at all. That's what this is all about. It's not piracy and never has been. It's about losing their stranglehold on the market, and losing their usefulness all at the same time.
Face it RIAA, you're dead as you exist today. You can sue all you want and claim Piracy all you want and hire as many republicans as you can afford, but you'll never ever ever be the necessary evil you were for most of this century. Take your money and get out of the cartel business. The world is wise to you, and all it wil take is a few brave musicians who won't use you to make millions and you'll never survive the blow. The people you're calling theives today are the musicians who'll drive the nails in your coffin tomorrow.
I'd put money on Poindexter getting capped for coming up with this assinine (sp?) idea. (Just kidding, of course FBI/Carnivore/Echelon/TIA/CIA/HomelandSecurity/Etc .) (Damn what a large number of spy on the people groups we have these days. wow.)
Seriously though, there has to be a black market version. I wonder if there already was one or two. It not, there are now.
You've gotta blame a lot of it on the republican conservative born again freaks too. In Arizona, Surrogacy is illegal. You have to go to California. I think CA and AZ have fairly equal percentages of catholics, but AZ has a much higher percentage of conservatives . Surrogacy is against God, I suppose. Funny how they know so well what God thinks on the matter.
yeah, the most important surival trait in individual humans can be inherited (and soon without any taxes applied) and that's $$$. The second most important trait is height and speed, which can get you $$$ if you have a good agent. The third most is intelligence. None of this has anything to do with fertility.
Ironically, the most fertile people are 15 year old teenagers, especially the drunk ones. Unfortunately for Darwin, this doesn't help their offspring much. Although, Darwin talked about the species, not the individual. An individual only needs to live long enough to reproduce for continued "success" of the species.
So, I suppose for survival of the species, the Parent poster is correct. It's better for a bunch of teenagers to reproduce when they are fertile and raise kids who are very likely to also reproduce when they are hyper-fertile teenagers. Look at the population growth of cultures (and sub cultures) that follow this pattern.
This is why in an earlier rant about the DMCA I said that it was driving Tech out of the US. There are lots of conventions that will not meet in the US anymore. There is real science at stake here, and it's terrriibbbble to think the US is the place people are afraid to enter for fear that they won't be able to return. That used to be the USSR and East Germany and China and all those other countries. Now it's the US. Wonderful. I'm damn proud to be an American somtimes, and then other times I'm truly ashamed. That's right, I said it. Bite me if you don't like it. We're great, but we ain't perfect and we can be better. The DMCA is anti-constitutional and the Constitution (no, not hollywood of levis) is what makes America any better than the soviet union. make unconstitutional laws and you're much more anti-american than any foreigner.
yeah, i think you are probably right.I just thought I'd try to play the openminded /. poster angle for a change.
"At its prebubble height, InterTrust (founded in 1990) employed 376 people and marketed its own software and hardware products; today it consists mainly of a patent portfolio, 30 employees, and this lawsuit."
Great, an IP only company. Wonderful
"Microsoft argued in court that crucial phrases in InterTrust's patents were too vague to be enforceable, and that others required such narrow interpretation that they would have been hard for Microsoft to infringe."
Don't we claim stuff like this all the time about Patents. This is a test of someone with real money being able to say the USPTO is full of shit and these patents are vague adn useless.
Win or lose, the more of this crap the better. It will eventually get so bad that someone will change the USPTO.
I coulda been more clear. Imagine if the park tried to ban cell phones because they didn't want to "step on the toes" (direct quote from the article) of whomever is providing phone service to the ball park.
You see, even if Comcast isn't behind this (which I never said), the fact of the matter is that WiFi will mean turf battles in no time at all. If those of us who really think offering WiFi for free is a good idea don't get aggressive now, we'll be called criminals when we try to offer free WiFi in a location where someone else wants to offer Pay-WiFi. It's a matter of who gets to control the overlapping of hotspots? Think it's too early for a call-to-arms? I wonder if the pay for WiFi people feel the same way regarding these rebellous free wifi providers popping up all over the place. Something tells me they'll organize faster, better and sooner, and in a year or two it will be illegal to offer free WiFi without special permission from some governing board whose job is to make sure your signals don't have the ability to cut into anyone elses Pay-WiFi hotspots. I guess we'll wait and see.
Unfortunately history tends to agree with my cynical point of view. We'll all sit here and say wow, asscroft's call-to-arms was a good idea but it's too late now.
By the way,the "call-to-arms" is simply saying that we should work to convince the powers that be that free wifi hotspots are not the work of communists or criminals but, like parks and librarys, are for the common good of all. That's all, it's not nearly as scary or radical as your tone suggests.
Imagine if they gave PacBell or whoever it was exclusive rights to the phone network including pay phones and tried to ban cell phones within their park.
On the other hand, we better start on the offensive or we'll lose all these fights. By we, I mean the scientific community. We need the NSF to take on wifi the way they did the original internet, or else it will all be pay as you go and free nodes will be made illegal.
I guess AGP 3.0 Spec allows this. Although the next reply seems to disagree, but the one after that agrees. hmm.
Also, the Alpha Server has 2 AGP slots as an option, but that's not a typical gamer machine.
Here, is further proof that AGP 3.0 allows 2 AGP slots:
Freakin Cool Man, I may have to upgrade from my awesome machine once they come out if DRM/Palladium isn't too overwhelming on these new boards. I also think the processor has to have support for AGP 3.0 for it to be worthwhile as well, but I'm not sure.
I guess I don't understand AGP slot theory. I thought it was just faster than PCI. I'll go read up on it, thanks.
HAHAHAHAH too late to sell now. Fun to watch it go down the drain. Only have a coupla shares anyway.
to emigrate. The real land of the free. Issues like this seem to always favor the consumer and small business rather than the conglomerate. Pot is not-illegal. Gays are free to marry while in the US they have to fight to keep the police out of their bedrooms. Not everyone is considered a terrorist until proven otherwise. Unfortunately you are still amazingly too anti-gun for my tastes.
Seriously, why didn't the big guys win? They always win here. Are your politicians not for sale? Or are your corporations too cheap to buy them?
Really is that so hard. Should I be forced to use a PCI card if I want to dual head it w/o buying a dual head card - what if I want to quad head it, shouldn't I be able to use 2 AGP ports.
Do you own kitchen knives? Perhaps You're the one who killed Nicole. Quick! Someone tell OJ so he can clear his name.
Just because a knife can be used to kill someone, doesn't mean it's a MURDER DEVICE. So why is a smart card programmer a PIRATE DEVICE?
The only Pirate Devices I don't think I could argue the definition of woul be a Parrot, a Wooden Leg, an Eye Patch, a Funny hat with skull and cross bones, a wine bottle wrapped in dried grasses, a sword, potentially a mustache? No, some people own parrots and aren't pirates at all, so there goes that too.
The people smart enough to do that, aren't dumb enough to be terrorists. That's why we always start to advocate it, and then either talk ourselves out of it, or never do anything about it. We know better than to seriously think killing will improve matters in the long run. And it's the long run we're after with causes such as freedom of speech, environment, privacy, etc. isn't it? At some point killing is ok, like in 1776, but that is pretty rare.
[despite saying click hear to read the rest of this comment, you only get all of it if you hit reply to this. So I posted it as a reply. Hopefully this will work.] oh sure, now it all displays. whatever.
(and by us I mean the general population. You are a terrorist and a pirate until proven innocent in today's world, all it takes is an accusor- kinda like date rape). So although the above would make a great book or movie, it would suck in reality. Don't actually go killing CEOs and politicians.
Having said that, I have one more contradiction: If you are a psycho killer, and are going to kill someone anyway, don't kill someone innocent like a little kid or an old lady or a guy walking down the street or your wife or girlfriend or her mom or whatever. If you just have to kill someone, then go ahead and kill one of those bad guys mentioned above, like a patent-squatter-lawyer. Don't tell anyone I told you to do this, but I figure if someone's gonna die anyway, it's better a patent-sqatting-lawyer or corrupt politician than someone's little 9yr old sister. Can I get a "Hell Yeah!" from all the 9yr olds and their parents.
"Hell Yeah!"
I thought so. Peace.
What we need isn't classical terrorism, like blowing up an airplane or a bus or a building. Rather, we need a systematic assassination of those that would sacrifice basic civil liberties, environmental responsibilities and human rights for profit. And I'm talking about both of the "two" parties and all lines of CEOs.
Are you a lawyer who specializes in pushing through vague ass patents, sitting on them doing nothing to develop the idea into real technology, and then pulling it out, dusting it off, and suing everyone who made "your" idea reality? You're gonna die.
Are you a politician who will make anything digital illegal if it isn't approved first by Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA and Microsoft - no matter the potential uses or the employed uses - just to keep getting your campaign money? You're gonna die.
Are you a legislator that is so viscously anti guns that you want to remove the people last (albeit feeble) method of defense against a corrupt government? You're gonna die - though in your case we won't use a gun, just to prove we can kill you even if you outlaw guns.
Are you CEO of a paper company who thinks clear cutting the redwood forest which you aquired in a sneaky ass back room deal for a 10th of what is is worth ripping off taxpayers and destroying a national treasure so that future generations will never know what beauty our country once held? You're gonna die.
See, if we kill a few select targets the others will think twice about their actions. Right now, there is no immediate harm done by their actions. They only see next quarter's profits, not 50, 10 or even 1 year down the road. By putting murderous revenge from consumers into the picture we give them an immediate consequence to contend with at their board meetings. "Hmm, we could do this evil thing and turn a profit, but John did and look at him, he got killed days afterward. Maybe we should think about the big picture a little more." Likewise, we make it personal. Once you've made your first 5 million, you are out of touch with the rest of the world. The impact of your actions will never ever affect you or anyone in your world. Fuckover the retirement accounts of hundreds (or was it thousands) of loyal hardworking employees that put your business where it is today? Sure, why not, I've got my retirement account. Ok, buddy, but for how much longer will you have your life?
We need to declare war on these evil greedy people. They can hide behind a company no longer. Sure, Enron might be a bad company, but only because bad people ran Enron. Those bad people need to be dealt with by the rest of us. How much longer can we allow a few greedy assholes to ruin the world? It's past time to hold them personally accountable. Our government won't do it. They're as bad as the Corporations. Hell, they're paid by the Corporations. They are the Corporations. It's clear to me that corporations run this world, and corporations are only as evil as thier leaders and the people making the decisions. And those people are only as evil as we allow them to be. To take back the power to the people, we need to start not at the voting booth, but at the CEO's drive to work, if you know what I mean.
It's too bad it's come to this, but hopefully only 1 or 2 assholes will have to die and the rest will shape up right quick.
Having said that, I'd like to take it all back. You see, a year or maybe even less, I wanted nothing more than to see Senator Fritz Disney Holllings die an early death. But recently he has fought a terrible piece of legislation and has done so convincingly. I'm not sure on the details, but I was very suprised and very glad that he was still alive. So, everything I said earlier is utter bullshit. Killing isn't good and doesn't help anyone, especially those of us with causes - and good causes such as freedom of speech, env. protection, gun rights, privacy rights - though misunderstood causes. We don't need murder attached to the labels those who wish to control us have already given us. (and by us I mean the general