because these people are most like friends outside of facebook.
NO!
NO WAI!
There's no such thing as friends outside of Facebook! In fact, there's no such thing as PEOPLE outside of Facebook. Those people out there walking around? Facebookers I haven't friended. Yet.
WoW is potentially paid, in fact, by cash money, and always has been. Walk into WallyWorld with $120 or so and walk out with the complete software suite to play WoW. After your initial 60 (? 30? It's been a while) days of play time has expired, walk back into WallyWorld with $30 cash money and walk out with a playtime card good for another 60 days of your favorite sweet, sweet MMORPG addiction. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I played WoW for over a year without Blizzard ever getting a sniff of my CC number.
The only problem becomes Junior getting Mom to take him to the local discount emporioum, and that's obviously not a problem.
TOS's don't enforce themselves, so it's strictly honor-system. Certainly, the "18 and older" thing is honor system. So the only thing Blizz has going for itself is "well, we tried, it's in the TOS that way, it's not our fault!"
Certainly most of the troublemakers in Trade Channel are chronologically <18 YOs. Stupid kids.
You could forbid your kid from ever seeing, visiting, or speaking to the dirty infidels.
Or you could acknowledge that what you want your kid to learn and not learn is pretty much limited by the fact that the kid's world is a lot bigger than just you.
If you give your kids a decent moral foundation, sufficient self-esteem as a buffer against peer pressure, and enough critical thinking skills to decide things for themselves, maybe your kids will make decisions on their own akin to what you'd decide for them.
(I assume we're not talking pre-schoolers here. In that case you have much more direct control.)
Signed, idontgno, proud parent of 3 adult children (who, as far as I know, haven't become axe murderers, drug fiends, or IRS agents.)
You didn't read the summary. Someone else wrote his name in a low-circulation document that is now publicly indexable.
There's no such thing as "low-circulation document" on the internet. If it's there, unless it's encrypted or locked down by strong access controls, it's marked "Distribution: World".
This stuff scares the crap out of me. If you live in a small town, ANY arrest will get you in the newspaper.
So don't get arrested. If you get arrested for something not actually wrong, you'll have a good position to argue it. If you got arrested for something actually wrong, what makes you think you should be able to escape the consequences? (And no, "paid my debt to society" does not mean "trustworthy", "reliable", "rehabilitated", or even "hireable". It just means "completed my sentence and paid my fines and restitution". The difference between those concepts is the reason we have the word "recidivism".)
Besides, if you get arrested, whether the fact is splashed in 72-point headlines on every daily in the world or quietly buried in the police blotter of the county weekly is irrelevant, because you're going to report the fact of the arrest anyways on the application, right where it asks you.
Maybe the unspoken criterion for hiring is "smart enough to not get caught". If you need dirty deeds done dirt cheap, you need people who won't get busted and implicate you in the process.
Certainly, you don't need someone who treats a member of the 4th Estate as a personal confessor. (Yes, if you knew you were discussing your shady past with an internet publisher*, you shouldn't be the tiniest bit surprised that it got out there for anyone who can use Google to find.)
*Yes, an editor for a "a text file zine with a small distribution list" is an internet publisher. Deal with the new reality. Nothing is "small distribution" as long as scrapers, crawlers, and aggregators can find it.
Your Facebook page is not "private". Your blog post is not "private". Your memoir in a "text file zine with a small distribuiton list" is not "private".
"Private" means "we never talk about this with anyone who won't keep it quiet."
As far as I know, unsanctioned printing of your own currency is counterfeiting. It looks like the Secret Service will have to put its little bit of extra goodness into the printer's firmware now.
Correction: I got fooled by the "Year to date (August)" number. In 2008, the last year they have complete stats, it was nearly 35,000. So, even less unusual.
Well, according to the US Humane Society, more than 22,000 cattle were slaughtered in 2009. Presumably, almost all in the manner you describe. So that pretty much negates "unusual".
In that case, someone needs to tell Snopes about it:
Who does own the publishing rights to "Happy Birthday to You"? They were acquired by a New York accountant named John F. Sengstack when he bought the Clayton F. Summy Company in the 1930s; Sengstack eventually relocated the company to New Jersey and renamed it Birch Tree Ltd. in the 1970s. Warner Chappell (a Warner Communications division), the largest music publisher in the world, purchased Birch Tree Ltd. in late 1998 for a reported sale price of $25 million; the company then became Summy-Birchard Music, now a part of the giant AOL Time Warner media conglomerate.
A bit of Google-fu turned up an apparent grassroots protest website on the subject. A bit on the strident side, it seems to me, but they have an interesting idea: turn in every violation.
If you have seen someone singing Happy Birthday in a restaurant, a park, or at a school, you should tell ASCAP so that they can arrange for a license. If you are an offender, you should apologize and offer to pay whatever is due -- a nickel, a quarter, a dollar -- whatever ASCAP demands.
There is an overwhelming amount of copyright infringement of Happy Birthday. Let's right the balance and tell ASCAP about every one of these violations!
I guess the idea is to overwhelm ASCAP and the Time Warner, and to highlight inconsistent enforcement as a reason to drop the whole stupid copyright fight over this song.
What's the offset of a joke going over a poster's head?
The entire point of the "bug cap-and-trade" is to humorously raise money for quality software. If you believe in carbon cap-and-trade, think of it as a slightly comical tribute. If you're opposed to cap-and-trade, think of it as mocking.
Now, it occurs to me that you may actually be joking, and the whoosh offset is in force in my post. But in my defense, the mods seem to also be currently buying it (50% overrated, 50% insightful). So if you're trolling, in the immortal words, "ur doin it rite".
I seem to remember the Somalians in Mogadishu being able to take down our choppers and engage our forces using tactics that were taught to them by Mujaheddin which they picked up fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
As far as I can tell, the Somalis in Mogadishu used tactics appropriate for the setting (home ground, street fighting) and based on their primary advantage: numbers. Stalin, whose military also usually lacked technical parity with its adversaries, said it well: "Quantity has a quality all its own." Lob enough RPGs at hovering helis and you'll eventually get lucky.
In other words, a marginally trained and decently armed merchant sailor defending his ship is at a great disadvantage if the pirates outnumber him 5-to-1 (for instance). I don't know if that's the case with recent history, but if armed self-defense becomes typical on piracy targets expect the pirates to respond by up-sizing their attack forces to compensate.
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This.
because these people are most like friends outside of facebook.
NO!
NO WAI!
There's no such thing as friends outside of Facebook! In fact, there's no such thing as PEOPLE outside of Facebook. Those people out there walking around? Facebookers I haven't friended. Yet.
WoW is paid, presumably by credit card.
WoW is potentially paid, in fact, by cash money, and always has been. Walk into WallyWorld with $120 or so and walk out with the complete software suite to play WoW. After your initial 60 (? 30? It's been a while) days of play time has expired, walk back into WallyWorld with $30 cash money and walk out with a playtime card good for another 60 days of your favorite sweet, sweet MMORPG addiction. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I played WoW for over a year without Blizzard ever getting a sniff of my CC number.
The only problem becomes Junior getting Mom to take him to the local discount emporioum, and that's obviously not a problem.
And my modpoints just expired.
+1 Great White North reference (unofficial, wind-assisted) moderation for you!
And this is enforced... how?
TOS's don't enforce themselves, so it's strictly honor-system. Certainly, the "18 and older" thing is honor system. So the only thing Blizz has going for itself is "well, we tried, it's in the TOS that way, it's not our fault!"
Certainly most of the troublemakers in Trade Channel are chronologically <18 YOs. Stupid kids.
You could quietly kill the dirty infidels.
You could forbid your kid from ever seeing, visiting, or speaking to the dirty infidels.
Or you could acknowledge that what you want your kid to learn and not learn is pretty much limited by the fact that the kid's world is a lot bigger than just you.
If you give your kids a decent moral foundation, sufficient self-esteem as a buffer against peer pressure, and enough critical thinking skills to decide things for themselves, maybe your kids will make decisions on their own akin to what you'd decide for them.
(I assume we're not talking pre-schoolers here. In that case you have much more direct control.)
Signed,
idontgno, proud parent of 3 adult children (who, as far as I know, haven't become axe murderers, drug fiends, or IRS agents.)
You didn't read the summary. Someone else wrote his name in a low-circulation document that is now publicly indexable.
There's no such thing as "low-circulation document" on the internet. If it's there, unless it's encrypted or locked down by strong access controls, it's marked "Distribution: World".
This stuff scares the crap out of me. If you live in a small town, ANY arrest will get you in the newspaper.
So don't get arrested. If you get arrested for something not actually wrong, you'll have a good position to argue it. If you got arrested for something actually wrong, what makes you think you should be able to escape the consequences? (And no, "paid my debt to society" does not mean "trustworthy", "reliable", "rehabilitated", or even "hireable". It just means "completed my sentence and paid my fines and restitution". The difference between those concepts is the reason we have the word "recidivism".)
Besides, if you get arrested, whether the fact is splashed in 72-point headlines on every daily in the world or quietly buried in the police blotter of the county weekly is irrelevant, because you're going to report the fact of the arrest anyways on the application, right where it asks you.
Or are you advocating lying on a job application?
Maybe the unspoken criterion for hiring is "smart enough to not get caught". If you need dirty deeds done dirt cheap, you need people who won't get busted and implicate you in the process.
Certainly, you don't need someone who treats a member of the 4th Estate as a personal confessor. (Yes, if you knew you were discussing your shady past with an internet publisher*, you shouldn't be the tiniest bit surprised that it got out there for anyone who can use Google to find.)
*Yes, an editor for a "a text file zine with a small distribution list" is an internet publisher. Deal with the new reality. Nothing is "small distribution" as long as scrapers, crawlers, and aggregators can find it.
Your Facebook page is not "private". Your blog post is not "private". Your memoir in a "text file zine with a small distribuiton list" is not "private".
"Private" means "we never talk about this with anyone who won't keep it quiet."
As far as I know, unsanctioned printing of your own currency is counterfeiting. It looks like the Secret Service will have to put its little bit of extra goodness into the printer's firmware now.
Correction: I got fooled by the "Year to date (August)" number. In 2008, the last year they have complete stats, it was nearly 35,000. So, even less unusual.
In fact, it's not unusual at all.
Wait, didn't Tom Jones have a song about that?
Well, according to the US Humane Society, more than 22,000 cattle were slaughtered in 2009. Presumably, almost all in the manner you describe. So that pretty much negates "unusual".
Why should the law be any different that it is for existing devices for sharing memories?
Michael Jackson's Estate owns Happy Birthday
In that case, someone needs to tell Snopes about it:
A bit of Google-fu turned up an apparent grassroots protest website on the subject. A bit on the strident side, it seems to me, but they have an interesting idea: turn in every violation.
I guess the idea is to overwhelm ASCAP and the Time Warner, and to highlight inconsistent enforcement as a reason to drop the whole stupid copyright fight over this song.
No kidding! Even the A-10 Thunderbolt II's main antitank cannon is only 30mm!
It's amazing what people smuggle into movie theaters nowadays.
the first thing I thought about when I read "3D organ printer" was -- well, you know.
Was it "I bet there'll be a run on legal-size* printer paper..."
*For those in countries other than that United States, please read that as "ISO B-4".
Thanks.
the ink will almost be as expensive as HP's.
I'll save you the trouble of trying to rationalize 1 and 2. Just pick 3.
I'm William of Ockham, and I approve of this message.
Call it a beta!
Of course, BMW's demanding a lot of money, so maybe the Google example isn't the best.
Do the Microsoft! Shell out your hard-earned money to be part of their QC team!
Flameage and massive negative moderation in 3...2...1....
What's the offset of a joke going over a poster's head?
The entire point of the "bug cap-and-trade" is to humorously raise money for quality software. If you believe in carbon cap-and-trade, think of it as a slightly comical tribute. If you're opposed to cap-and-trade, think of it as mocking.
Now, it occurs to me that you may actually be joking, and the whoosh offset is in force in my post. But in my defense, the mods seem to also be currently buying it (50% overrated, 50% insightful). So if you're trolling, in the immortal words, "ur doin it rite".
Martin Luther, is that you?
"Imma cheez sammich, om nom nom!"
Except I have no cheez, because I'm in Mr. Wensleydale's cheese-free cheesemonger's shop.
I'm much more worried about his professed right to arm bears.
Them critters are dangerous enough without guns and knives and such.
But CERN would have been hosed, because someone would have transposed the "d" and the "r" in "hadron" and Google Docs would lock the whole program down for "inappropriate content".
I seem to remember the Somalians in Mogadishu being able to take down our choppers and engage our forces using tactics that were taught to them by Mujaheddin which they picked up fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
As far as I can tell, the Somalis in Mogadishu used tactics appropriate for the setting (home ground, street fighting) and based on their primary advantage: numbers. Stalin, whose military also usually lacked technical parity with its adversaries, said it well: "Quantity has a quality all its own." Lob enough RPGs at hovering helis and you'll eventually get lucky.
In other words, a marginally trained and decently armed merchant sailor defending his ship is at a great disadvantage if the pirates outnumber him 5-to-1 (for instance). I don't know if that's the case with recent history, but if armed self-defense becomes typical on piracy targets expect the pirates to respond by up-sizing their attack forces to compensate.
Netiquette finally has a death penalty.
We could have used this wayyy back, at the beginning of The September that never ended.
Now get offa my Internet, you AOL punks!