I have found that many, many people don't really want to make their own decisions. Alot of people really like having someone else tell them what to wear and how to act (it's been the same throughout history). The people that stand up for what they believe in are almost always in the minority. The people that believe in anything are in even less a minority. Ignorance is bliss, being stupid and not making your own decisions may actually be more enjoyable for some.
heh, BTW, I liked the guy that was talking about us all being individual the same way.
Now this may make me sound like a wuss, but what of your ISP? They control my window to the internet, they have a monopoly on all high-speed connections in my area (My cable co, Adelphia, anyone who doesn't think they are a local monopoly is a moron) This means if I share my files and they get pissed over bandwidth, WTF I'm SOL. The internet isn't open till the commerical ISP dies, they want to protect their own interests which means making money, which means the more dumbasses they can shove on a line the better. What will we have to do to truly make the internet free? I can't do everything I could want (run my own site or use linux (bastard one-way modem dealie and in linux i'm a newbie)) because my ISP is in it for the money, not for the net. (Stray thought: What about the governments, what can they do, the USA thinks they can outlaw whatever they want to on the net, gee, they smart, me bow down now. to that i say SHUT THE HELL UP BITCH. How about we make some changes, guess who has the money now, Techies, guess how governments are run, Money. We should be changing the world, not bitchin' on a forum for our own kind(who generally agrees anyway)Let's make some changes. No person has the right to show others how to live. Screw our "common good" laws, some can't even be proven anyway, ass politicians just assume that whoever pays them the most is right (Old ppl can drive, young ppl can't, how many old ppl are blind? how many can't drive?) What is the internet going to become if the corperate jackasses begin control, our great information superhighway (hate that term, but it's an effective metaphor for the situation) becomes another yuppie suburb.)
"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now" RATM
uh, since they are going for standards, that means that AOL can put the standard into AIM, thereby giving back to MS(well not really since that what MS wants)What i dont understand is why MS didnt emulate ICQ instead, theyed still get the chance to piss off AOL but somewhat more indirectly.
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I have found that many, many people don't really want to make their own decisions. Alot of people really like having someone else tell them what to wear and how to act (it's been the same throughout history). The people that stand up for what they believe in are almost always in the minority. The people that believe in anything are in even less a minority. Ignorance is bliss, being stupid and not making your own decisions may actually be more enjoyable for some.
heh, BTW, I liked the guy that was talking about us all being individual the same way.
This would be great, wait till ya here this. According to my telco DSL is 4-6 years away from my area, crap eh?
Now this may make me sound like a wuss, but what of your ISP? They control my window to the internet, they have a monopoly on all high-speed connections in my area (My cable co, Adelphia, anyone who doesn't think they are a local monopoly is a moron) This means if I share my files and they get pissed over bandwidth, WTF I'm SOL. The internet isn't open till the commerical ISP dies, they want to protect their own interests which means making money, which means the more dumbasses they can shove on a line the better.
What will we have to do to truly make the internet free?
I can't do everything I could want (run my own site or use linux (bastard one-way modem dealie and in linux i'm a newbie)) because my ISP is in it for the money, not for the net.
(Stray thought: What about the governments, what can they do, the USA thinks they can outlaw whatever they want to on the net, gee, they smart, me bow down now. to that i say SHUT THE HELL UP BITCH. How about we make some changes, guess who has the money now, Techies, guess how governments are run, Money. We should be changing the world, not bitchin' on a forum for our own kind(who generally agrees anyway)Let's make some changes. No person has the right to show others how to live. Screw our "common good" laws, some can't even be proven anyway, ass politicians just assume that whoever pays them the most is right (Old ppl can drive, young ppl can't, how many old ppl are blind? how many can't drive?) What is the internet going to become if the corperate jackasses begin control, our great information superhighway (hate that term, but it's an effective metaphor for the situation) becomes another yuppie suburb.)
"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now" RATM
Geez, I really needed to get that out
thx
now im not entirely sure about this but wouldnt an effective response to increased hacking be maybe *gasp* better security
uh, since they are going for standards, that means that AOL can put the standard into AIM, thereby giving back to MS(well not really since that what MS wants)What i dont understand is why MS didnt emulate ICQ instead, theyed still get the chance to piss off AOL but somewhat more indirectly.