It really pisses me the fuck off that when i get to the bottom of a thread with zillions of comments and click the "home" link at the bottom, i get taken to some.fucking.stupid.ass.subdomain.slashdot.org instead of slasahdot.org. Just because you are now ownz0red by corporate skankholes doens't mean you gotta run you website like one. get a fucking clue.
I thought usuing the name of a company to criticize said company was perfectly legal
well, it is, as long as you do it in a medium where nobody cares (ranting at pals in your living room) or where it costs you a ton of money and nobody pays any attention because you are not a well known content provider (tv, any print media) or where you get arrested for disturbing the peace (car-mounted loudspeaker).
but if you think for one second that 500 meg/50 gig shell/ftp/email account you pay $5/month for gives you the right to besmirch the public-minded selfless corporate sugar-daddys who improve your sad little existence on a daily basis, and to do it in front of the entire wired planet, at no additional cost, well, you are a thief and a traitor to the [insert greed-driven dog-eat-dog financial philosophy of choice here] dream. and that's the reason we'll have that upstart internet so enmeshed in restrictive laws - within a short time we'll have made the internet safe for business, just like tv is now!
</bile>
Hollywood, MPAA, and RIAA are all a bunch of greedy bastards
i would hope not, but i suspect this statement of yours will be totally forgotten as you queue up in the near future with the rest of the sheep to see The Matrix: Repetitions or whatever peurile papola they're cooking up next.
until you start staying the fuck out of theaters and forbidding your children to set foot in one, and start ranting endlessly until your neighbors also see the light, you're just talking for the sake of hearing yourself speak.
firstly, this wasn't in any way shape or form, intended to be flamebait. maybe i was a little strident, i am not a licensed radio amateur but have always loved radio and have several freinds who are hams. my screed above is more meant to reflect my disgust with the FCC's actions this last decade or so than to incite hams to flames. i just don't think there's a chance in hell of stopping this snowball as it rolls downhill.
the utility has found no problem with radio wave interference
and microsoft has found no fundamental security weaknesses in its products. and enron saw no problem with inventing intangible investments. bush found no reason to think saddam wouldn't make a mushroom cloud out of us any day. and i have a marvelous over-water vehicular conveyance device located in brooklyn i can let you have for a pittance. and i see no problem giving you a quit-claim deed to it.
OR...
It will interfere heavily with ham radio, which will complain, wail and moan to no avail. you sound pretty certain of yourself there with your "properly licensed" service and all, except that's about as solid as a fart in the wind. The FCC almost 10 years ago knuckled under to the New Improved GI Joe Walkie Talkie (cellular) industry, and drew a line across a chunk of public spectrum and said "Thou shalt listen here no more." They've approved an ignorant consumers nightmare called HDTV, the implementation of which has far less to do with HDTV than it does bulldozing certain spectrum into the control of those who hope to profit from selling "personal wireless services". you can no more count on your license remaining valid (or even useable in the HF bands) on the basis of the existence of either the past, or the FCC. I know hams have deluded themselves into thinking they shall overcome, but there are billions of dollars to be made, and your passion for HF radio will be painted as the outmoded, troublesome activities of a handful of eccentric hobbyists. Your interests will be portrayed by the media as quaint and evocative of simpler times. And "logical" voices will call for the removal of your "anachronistic" sorry asses from the path of progress. The FCC will act against the least financially endowed, or simply NOT respond to the interference complaints of those without corporate monies, and POOF. It HIGHLY more likely that ham radio enthusiasts will disappear from the HF bands than broadband providers. Sorry. I hate it, but if you think otherwise, you are seriously lacking in understanding of how money and the United States government interface.
Federal agents have arrested Commander Taco, of Slashdot.org on cyberterrorism charges under the USA PATRIOT Act for a malware attack against over 20 internet web sites. As part of an online weblog on February 29, 2004, Mr. Taco "linked" the sites on the front page of his website. He disguised the links as ordinary "hypertext", thus inducing users to click them. This effectively sent the malicious links to his 800,000 readers. The next time they tried to log on, they would end up killing the servers linked to. Prosecutors charge that the act meets the definition of cyberterrorism since it endangered public internet safety."
Instead, a push model should be used, where news is distributed when it arrives...thus bringing that unruly web thing one giant step closer to television. yawn.
It would have been much less damaging to everyone else in the city.
FAUX NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Even as residents begin to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives after the horrific attack on emergency services by a webtv hacker, officials took Mz. Tillie Halfwit into custody under maximum security at an undisclosed location. Officials describe Halfwit as an "evil and ingenious hacker" who was able to reprogram her high tech Verizon wireless cellular telephone into a "terminator"-like device which conducted a brutally relentless assault on 911 dispatchers. As Halfwit was being taken into custody, she could be heard shouting what appeared to be coded messages intended to warn off other members of her terrorist cell. "IT WAS IN MY PURSE! I FORGOT TO LOCK THE KEYPAD!" President Bush this afternoon classified Halfwit as an enemy combatant, citing her "arrogant attempts to continue communication with terrorists via this blatant hijacking of our nations critical news media" as evidence of her intention to bring democracy to it's knees.
It will never work. Does anyone here remember the short-lived and ill-fated seat belt ignition interlock? People raised so much hell, rejected it so completely, they had to change it - all it does these days is buzz annoyingly at you for 10 seconds. Consumers will neither pay the extra cost nor put up with the inconvenience. People will disable it. When will politicians learn that technology makes a shitty social engineering tool?
no, not really. people in your circle certainly, but not people in general! a friend of mine who does web stuff is always dealing with "tech clueless" executive types, guys who have the latest and greatest box on the credenza which they use to play solitaire and type a letter in Word now and then, before calling the secretary in to spell-check and print it because he doesn't know the menus. smart guys generally, but focused on what they do, not on being internet savvy. for some of these guys, learning to use google is like a eureka moment - the web suddenly makes sense to them. in my experience, when saying something like "i'll google it" around people who aren't net jocks, i get funny looks.
Some people don't have a choice when it comes to social isolation.
you got that right, boy. why only a few short months ago i realized that other people are all evil lying, stealing, greedy dumbasses intent on destroying me, looting my possessions and feasting on the meat of my bones, virtually the last good, honest, innocent bones left on the planet. this has brought great clarity. this has illuminated the path i must take. this has opened the doors that would block, the elite, secret, sacred passages that would hide, and the dark veil is lifted from my eyes. *shakes fist* you kids are ruining the fucking lawn.
odd that they have a specific button in XP that says *Shop Online for Music*?
not in the least bit odd, in fact, it projects in a superbly concise manner Microsoft's own vision of it's operating systems: insidious, relentless marketing tools.
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and that is so fucking stoopit!
Troll or not, it's still true that the link does not go to the home page.
It really pisses me the fuck off that when i get to the bottom of a thread with zillions of comments and click the "home" link at the bottom, i get taken to some.fucking.stupid.ass.subdomain.slashdot.org instead of slasahdot.org. Just because you are now ownz0red by corporate skankholes doens't mean you gotta run you website like one. get a fucking clue.
well, it is, as long as you do it in a medium where nobody cares (ranting at pals in your living room) or where it costs you a ton of money and nobody pays any attention because you are not a well known content provider (tv, any print media) or where you get arrested for disturbing the peace (car-mounted loudspeaker). but if you think for one second that 500 meg/50 gig shell/ftp/email account you pay $5/month for gives you the right to besmirch the public-minded selfless corporate sugar-daddys who improve your sad little existence on a daily basis, and to do it in front of the entire wired planet, at no additional cost, well, you are a thief and a traitor to the [insert greed-driven dog-eat-dog financial philosophy of choice here] dream. and that's the reason we'll have that upstart internet so enmeshed in restrictive laws - within a short time we'll have made the internet safe for business, just like tv is now! </bile>
i would hope not, but i suspect this statement of yours will be totally forgotten as you queue up in the near future with the rest of the sheep to see The Matrix: Repetitions or whatever peurile papola they're cooking up next.
until you start staying the fuck out of theaters and forbidding your children to set foot in one, and start ranting endlessly until your neighbors also see the light, you're just talking for the sake of hearing yourself speak.
are you familiar with the term "stinking, lying, mealy-mouth cunts"?
you may also climb off your asspole and note that the use of quote marks around anachronistic was intentional.
firstly, this wasn't in any way shape or form, intended to be flamebait. maybe i was a little strident, i am not a licensed radio amateur but have always loved radio and have several freinds who are hams. my screed above is more meant to reflect my disgust with the FCC's actions this last decade or so than to incite hams to flames. i just don't think there's a chance in hell of stopping this snowball as it rolls downhill.
the utility has found no problem with radio wave interference and microsoft has found no fundamental security weaknesses in its products. and enron saw no problem with inventing intangible investments. bush found no reason to think saddam wouldn't make a mushroom cloud out of us any day. and i have a marvelous over-water vehicular conveyance device located in brooklyn i can let you have for a pittance. and i see no problem giving you a quit-claim deed to it.
OR... It will interfere heavily with ham radio, which will complain, wail and moan to no avail. you sound pretty certain of yourself there with your "properly licensed" service and all, except that's about as solid as a fart in the wind. The FCC almost 10 years ago knuckled under to the New Improved GI Joe Walkie Talkie (cellular) industry, and drew a line across a chunk of public spectrum and said "Thou shalt listen here no more." They've approved an ignorant consumers nightmare called HDTV, the implementation of which has far less to do with HDTV than it does bulldozing certain spectrum into the control of those who hope to profit from selling "personal wireless services". you can no more count on your license remaining valid (or even useable in the HF bands) on the basis of the existence of either the past, or the FCC. I know hams have deluded themselves into thinking they shall overcome, but there are billions of dollars to be made, and your passion for HF radio will be painted as the outmoded, troublesome activities of a handful of eccentric hobbyists. Your interests will be portrayed by the media as quaint and evocative of simpler times. And "logical" voices will call for the removal of your "anachronistic" sorry asses from the path of progress. The FCC will act against the least financially endowed, or simply NOT respond to the interference complaints of those without corporate monies, and POOF. It HIGHLY more likely that ham radio enthusiasts will disappear from the HF bands than broadband providers. Sorry. I hate it, but if you think otherwise, you are seriously lacking in understanding of how money and the United States government interface.
Federal agents have arrested Commander Taco, of Slashdot.org on cyberterrorism charges under the USA PATRIOT Act for a malware attack against over 20 internet web sites. As part of an online weblog on February 29, 2004, Mr. Taco "linked" the sites on the front page of his website. He disguised the links as ordinary "hypertext", thus inducing users to click them. This effectively sent the malicious links to his 800,000 readers. The next time they tried to log on, they would end up killing the servers linked to. Prosecutors charge that the act meets the definition of cyberterrorism since it endangered public internet safety."
Instead, a push model should be used, where news is distributed when it arrives ...thus bringing that unruly web thing one giant step closer to television. yawn.
not that that would change anything.
FAUX NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Even as residents begin to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives after the horrific attack on emergency services by a webtv hacker, officials took Mz. Tillie Halfwit into custody under maximum security at an undisclosed location. Officials describe Halfwit as an "evil and ingenious hacker" who was able to reprogram her high tech Verizon wireless cellular telephone into a "terminator"-like device which conducted a brutally relentless assault on 911 dispatchers. As Halfwit was being taken into custody, she could be heard shouting what appeared to be coded messages intended to warn off other members of her terrorist cell. "IT WAS IN MY PURSE! I FORGOT TO LOCK THE KEYPAD!" President Bush this afternoon classified Halfwit as an enemy combatant, citing her "arrogant attempts to continue communication with terrorists via this blatant hijacking of our nations critical news media" as evidence of her intention to bring democracy to it's knees.
ZIP! open wide for my throbbing islamic cruise missle.
it's biochemical warfare.
how long before everyone else imposes the "internet death penalty" on the US?
and make a huge pile of money^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H um, contribution to national security. cuz, we're like, um, patriots.
no, they specifically said they hope to die before they get old. sugar never entered into it, that would have been the 1910 fruitgum company anyway.
It will never work. Does anyone here remember the short-lived and ill-fated seat belt ignition interlock? People raised so much hell, rejected it so completely, they had to change it - all it does these days is buzz annoyingly at you for 10 seconds. Consumers will neither pay the extra cost nor put up with the inconvenience. People will disable it. When will politicians learn that technology makes a shitty social engineering tool?
no, not really. people in your circle certainly, but not people in general! a friend of mine who does web stuff is always dealing with "tech clueless" executive types, guys who have the latest and greatest box on the credenza which they use to play solitaire and type a letter in Word now and then, before calling the secretary in to spell-check and print it because he doesn't know the menus. smart guys generally, but focused on what they do, not on being internet savvy. for some of these guys, learning to use google is like a eureka moment - the web suddenly makes sense to them. in my experience, when saying something like "i'll google it" around people who aren't net jocks, i get funny looks.
true, but how many more macdonalds can we possibly build???
you got that right, boy. why only a few short months ago i realized that other people are all evil lying, stealing, greedy dumbasses intent on destroying me, looting my possessions and feasting on the meat of my bones, virtually the last good, honest, innocent bones left on the planet. this has brought great clarity. this has illuminated the path i must take. this has opened the doors that would block, the elite, secret, sacred passages that would hide, and the dark veil is lifted from my eyes. *shakes fist* you kids are ruining the fucking lawn.
odd that they have a specific button in XP that says *Shop Online for Music*?
not in the least bit odd, in fact, it projects in a superbly concise manner Microsoft's own vision of it's operating systems: insidious, relentless marketing tools.
no, just more crapspeak from the usual pack of rabid weasles jockeying for the best position from which to loot the citizenry.