I hate the commercials too. But I've been a Vonage user since just about Day One, and they have been extremely cool with me. Even overseas (read Lahore) support. I don't like out-sourced support, either, but I cannot dismiss my own experience, based on my, or mob, prejudice. So, I am very happy that the 9th Circuit has injected at least a modicum of common sense into this situation. But... the 'whoo, hoo, hoo' thing? heheh.... no:) -Regards, Brian Stegner
And it made me take a different look at health, which up until now I've always simply taken for granted. I'm sure that whatever thoughts I've had, you've had ten times as strong.
Thanks for the note and good wishes. But if my thoughts/fears were 'ten times as"anything" it was mostly due to my thick-headedness from my so-called carefree days. It just took more to rock my boat.
I see the lives of individuals in terms of absolute value (like math), so when one person perceives a situation/possibility of 'no recovery', or mortality, the fear, itself, is of the same value as another whose situation might appear more threatening. Boy, talk about vague:)
And yes, death and all that aside, the browser situation looks interesting at worst, and very promising, at least.
By the way, those Webkit nightlies are really looking strong.
Thank you very much for this tip. I haaven't been well, lately (it's not one of those things that 'gets better' either) and am not myself as far as being plugged-in, or 'with it', and I really appreciate the tip even more than I normally would. It's a time like this where, all silliness aside, Slashdot is so great to have access to. I take it for granted, like many do, I'd imagine... but I really am appreciating the different viewpoints and outright info tips. Thanks.
I use Eudora, also, with gmail filtering other spam-challenged webmail accounts (thanks Google), before being tapped through POP3. Other domains being tapped the same way, minus the google 'filter', with (POP3). Very convenient. Polling ten accounts in ten seconds, more or less, depending on numbers of messages per account, postage-stamp sized 'filters report' to give a mini-glimpse of what's 'in.'. Try that with Firefox/Thunderbird/whatever and a bunch of maybe yes/maybe no remote servers. Time and screen real estate wasting... Wake me when it's over.:)
So, for Verizon it was providing the DSL (or whatever) connection for a substantial portion of Vonage's customers and also providing the telephone network to complete the call. And, for being involved on both ends of the call they got... often nothing at all.
What are you, an idiot? The phone infrastructure in this country was built with inventions that were created either by tax subsidy of educational institution research, or by virtue of the old AT&T monopoly. In other words, the fucking people built the god-damned hardware and paid for the research into the software... you see where this is going? And what do mean 'provided?' I pay for my cable, so as far as I'm concerned the data path for my phone is provided by ME, motherfucker.
I hope Verizon, and all their fucking kids come down with cancer of the asshole and leukemia, and that their pets eat their dead families and then go shit on the defenders of this illusory 'free' market you wackjobs keep blurting out of your brainless faceholes... Fuck them, and fuck you all for having such a short-term memory, and/or shallow understanding of who actually financed all this shit that has been hijacked in the name of unfair competition and monopoly.
Ditto. I occasionally watch something dumb for a couple of minutes. If there is an ad, I won't waste one second.
jesus christ, hasn't it occurred to anyone that for starters, the implementation of the DRM can occur on the creative side or the provider side, right? So, assuming that the 'camwhores' and dying of cancer journalists DON'T use DRM, do you really think that the Internet, and people who use it are going to be unable to route around a YouTube, or any other service that makes access to its content burdensome?? Come on, use your fucking heads, folks, the Internet is designed to route around this shit, almost instantly. Viral "Fuck that, try this!" anyone?
Does anyone blame Adobe for having a rear-guard system "OPTION" to defend against Microsoft? "Come on" is right. Next...
Apple stands to make few, if any, new hardware sales by releasing Leopard.
Agreed. And, besides, with Adobe coming out with the first native (OS X) Creative Suite (maybe around the time of the iPhone release?) Apple sales are going to get a 'bubble' anyway, from pent up 'creatives' demand. I think it's a smart move on Apple's part...looked at from my POV, but we'll see.
and I think we'll see some improvements like a new Finder and UI.
Man... as a long time Apple user (who also has no problem in Windows or Linux), you hit the nail (one of them) squarely on the head. The Finder has got to go, and all the kludges to keep the underlying OS 'compatible' with the crazy/stupid HFS file system, too.
I never see anybody address this (which doesn't mean that people don't), but, why is it they can have this great underlying OS, functional eye candy, and then have the lame Finder, and those notoriously 'mushy', crappy keyboards, as the hard-, software interface to the whole shebang.
I want to see a Unix, used by a Linux developer, with a NeXT-like front-end, (which Apple could have done ten years ago, almost), then Apple can just switch to phones and mp3 players and we can all move along.
And if I were at Apple I would be ashamed after watching what ubuntu looks, and runs like, on old Mac gear. My heart, nostalgic old useless thing that it is, is with Apple, but if I was a betting man, I'd let 'er rip on Linux on the desktop, globally, for all the geographic, and nature-of-the-expansion-of-new-user-base reasons that we are already familiar with.
Apple made a slow, fatal error on the computer side, when they decided to graft/weld all the crapola (including HFS) onto the FreeBSD/Mach-O base. Much the same as Microsoft blew the NT thing when they forced Cutler to remodel as a 'single-user' environment (with the enigmatic 'hidden' system, hidden from everyone, except the bad guys) destined for a multi-user (i.e., networked) World.
I'll be surprised if they are deleted beyond the recall of reasonably simple forensic techniques.
Why pay a forensic guy all the cash? Just do what I'll do if I lose my non-Google email.... file a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA, simple, let them pick up the bill.:=)
Wow, you guys scared me, I thought maybe something dreadful had happened to the actual birthplace of Silicon Valley.
I refer, of course, to the REAL birthplace, which was the garage in Menlo Park, sort of, and the industrial park in and around Stanford University, for real.
Shockley, and his demented personna, arrived twenty years later.
When I think of "the Valley" I know we are talking about 'Santa Clara', but Portola Valley could qualify, too. But the reality is that it started around Stanford University, extended to the companies out near Moffet Field (Ford Philco, Varian, Sylvania, Lockheed, etc), and the 'new' guys... the Amazons and Apple, set up shop in what was then, the low rent area...Sunnyvale, Milpitas, Mountain View, etc.
If you are in the 'neighborhaood' where the founders 'lived', drive east, take a right at El Camino, go to Page Mill Road, take a right, get out of the car, look around... you are now at the real center of the start of what became known as Silicon Valley. If you're in the modern "Silicon Valley", drive west, take a right at El Camino, turn left onto Page Mill, etc, etc, and voila, you are there. "Really" there. To hell with Shockley.
Pity he is no more, because he would certainly be shouting to copy his music now and would be a lout voice against **AA.
Man, you can say that again. I know a ton of people miss Frank, dearly. Thanks for the reminder that a few saw this stuff coming from a million miles away.
And, not to forget the hypocrites out there: I remember when Bruce Springsteen was forcing Columbia to renegotiate his contract. He didn't produce any product for a seriously-extended period of time, but in his live shows (caught, 'live', on loads of bootleg vinyl) he was always coming back from intermissions with admonishments to the crowd, to "roll them tapes." But as soon as Napster came around, he was, "Poor me, they're stealin'."
And who wants to bet where John ("Music should be free") Lennon would have stood on these issues today? I'm 'almost' glad he didn't see what the country of his 'adopted' residence turned into... well, not really. Shit, I miss both of those guys a ton.
We can't have the employees ruining our perfect computer network with work and stuff.
Ha ha ha, where are the mods on this one?
It sounds just like the engineers' attitude towards the 'musicians' in the music biz; Musicians were these psychos who kept screwing around with the 'source' signal.:=)
You're right though, anecdotal "switching" evidence is useless.
That's a good rational point. The thing people seem to be overlooking, is that the market expands far more at the margins than it does at the center.
And 'the margins' are where the 'newest' users are located, by definition, so they are less likely to 'know' why they are making the choice they made, and less likely to be 'savvy' about things like 'security', 'trends in the future of computing', etc.
That pretty much explains why Windows, which was never written, originally, as a multi-user , 'secure' system, had so many security issues (didn't Cutler think he was working on a system that would have the OS walled-off from the so-called 'user'?); The least likely users to know how to deal with 'issues' were the largest group, and growing, in existence. And at the 'core' of the savvy users, (big corps, their SysAdmins, and mega-seat installed nets), the security updates were a regular source of counter-productive 'downtime', in the short-sighted view. So you had this quantum increase in newbies, feeding into a Web that was slow to react to the malware, and viruses, etc, that were breeding in the exponentially-growing margins. If that isn't a vicious circle, and a prescription for disaster, what is?
This is just my rough, generalized take on it, and I'm surely no expert, but it lends credence to my personal feeling that Microsoft, in a sense, walked into a total ambush, that was only partly their fault.
I'm an Apple user at home, with multiple installs of Windows OS for cross-checking my work, who has worked almost exclusively on Windows boxes at companies. I like ubuntu Linux, a lot, and when I see where the expansion of the market is, at the margins, as always, I see a huge future for Linux, Unix at the core, Apple computers as a niche player, and Microsoft in deep shit, almost no matter what they do, deserved, or not. I find that sad, actually, and am glad that at least a philanthropist was at the helm of the short-term goliath, as opposed to that snarky Jobs. A silver lining, if you will.
I'm all for net neutrality, but did they really believe that their opinions matter?
Let me get this straight, so, a bunch of guys struggle against serious odds, and manage to make more than a mediocre living in the worst paying part of the music industry, and therefore, lose their right to express opinions?
Interesting point of view pal. But it doesn't sound like you're all for net neutrality, sounds more like you're all for an ignorant, arrogant form of stupidity.
Nice goin' asshat, righteous use of the old brain, eh? Not.
Well, if REM says so, then it must be a good thing. That really helped me solidify my stance.
Stance? What stance? You mean you sitting on your ass while someone else actually tries to do something to stop the corporate juggernaut? Aren't you the smart, brave motherfucker? Here's my asshole, pucker up ya cynical sack of shit.
There has got to be some small print. It is Yahoo!, there's just gotta be.
I don't know about 'fine print', but there is sub-text, and it goes like this: "We have the world's shittiest SPAM filtering, and, frankly, we need the space!"
Oh, and I'm a life-long peanut butter fan, and in all the years I spent in Quebec (and the rest of Canada, where French translations are on everything), I never saw PB called anything but 'beurre d'arachides.'
I lived all my life in Montreal and almost everyone I know say "beurre de peanut", so what part of Montreal did you spend your 20 years ? the mostly-english-part ?? But I agree on pretty much the rest of your post
You know, when I think back, I don't remember any speech of peanut butter, so I take you at your word. I remembered food labeling, but can't honestly say that I remember hearing that speech. So... point well taken.
As for what part of the city: A couple years on Chomedey, near the old Forum, Peel, above Sherbrooke, for two years, blvd St-Laurent, close to the Port, avenue des Pins Est (coin St-Laurent) for ten years, and 5 years on Christophe-Columb, 1/2 block below Mont-Royal (the Plateau). I miss the city more than is easily described.
So, yes, I lived briefly in English Montreal, but consider The Main to be multicultural, and the Plateau to be perfectly French. I was functioning in French language when I first arrived, but was self-conscious of my accent, of course.
But I stand corrected on the Peanut Butter 'spoken' words, issue, thank you.
I take umbrage when I encounter that notion of Quebecois french being 'bastardized' Parisian french. Is it dialectical? Of course. The french in Toulouse is not the french in Paris, either, but the same french will suffice in both. Not an issue of qualitative linguistics, at all.
The French in France, and the Americans, are probably the only people who would get riled up about which is more 'authentic. All I can say is that the French in France can, at least, substantiate their arrogance to some degree, whereas the yanks have a particularly barbarian arrogance, supported only by their ignorance. Thank God the Americans kept their mouths shut until after Lafayette saved their asses from the Brits.
Sarcasm and cynicism are one of many linguistic tricks we use to more finely express mood and intent.
Exactly. But why play into this retarded fellow's hand? He's an idiot.
I never heard beurre de peanut, anywhere in Quebec, from Montreal, to Quebec City to James Bay, never.
And there's a reason why all the great modern philosophers wrote in French. It's an extremely precise language, ideally suited for an articulate person to express the nuances of whatever they're trying to describe. This yank, with his 'c'est pas froid' issue, is a typical, retarded, semi-literate, arrogant, asshole, American. Exactly the kind of jerk that made me love Montreal, Quebecers, and even white bread Canadians, so much, and dread coming back into the uneducated mob of arrogant sissies that make up a huge chunk of the American populace. What a disgrace.
On a positive note, it does give meaning and humor to that phrase I used to hear.. you know, the one that went, "maudit anglaises!!" That was putting it nicely.
I lived in Montreal for twenty years. (Born and raised in California), and they say, C'est chaud, for 'it's hot.' Ce n'est pas froid, is "It's not cold", there's a difference asshat. You're far more likely to hear "Ce n'est pas trop froid (ou Chaud)", for: "It's not too cold (or hot)." My fellow Americans have enough trouble with their own language, no need to make up bullshit about others.
Oh, and I'm a life-long peanut butter fan, and in all the years I spent in Quebec (and the rest of C Nextanada, where French translations are on everything), I never saw PB called anything but 'beurre d'arachides.'
Quebec was founded by French people hundreds of years ago, and despite the fact that the government in France has a huge bureaucracy dedicated to 'protecting' la langue française, there are far fewer anglicized words in Quebecois, than in Parisian French. You are so fucking clueless, it gives off a fecal scent, up there where your brain is allegedly located.
The good news is: Stupidity isn't against the law, so, you're free to go. Next.
"...the RIAA and its members..." (plural because of the 'and'). "Has" should be "Have"... and "...all of these criterion?" Whoa... the word, pluralized, is 'criteria.' A very informative piece, regardless. People striving for hyper-factual rebuttal should avoid structure such as, "Well, no, but..." (a mite conversational). American Education: The Indictment. Internet=Evidentiary gold mine. A high school dropout rests his case.:)
Imagine how these women feel if they read slashdot. Here they are, busting their asses to do something cool/good, they finally get some recognition, and the response is a debate on how nice her hips look or don't.
I understand your point, completely, but don't overlook the fact that women, in general, and these women who find the spotlight in a place like Slashdot, in particular, can see through juvenile bullshit, with little to no effort.
Slashdot Mirror
I hate the commercials too. But I've been a Vonage user since just about Day One, and they have been extremely cool with me. Even overseas (read Lahore) support. I don't like out-sourced support, either, but I cannot dismiss my own experience, based on my, or mob, prejudice. So, I am very happy that the 9th Circuit has injected at least a modicum of common sense into this situation. But... the 'whoo, hoo, hoo' thing? heheh.... no :)
-Regards,
Brian Stegner
You don't suppose AT&T had a chat with Apple about v.2 or v.3? Come on
talk about 'going out on a limb'.... this Russinovich sounds pretty rad. is it always like this on Tuesdays?
Thanks for the note and good wishes. But if my thoughts/fears were 'ten times as"anything" it was mostly due to my thick-headedness from my so-called carefree days. It just took more to rock my boat.
I see the lives of individuals in terms of absolute value (like math), so when one person perceives a situation/possibility of 'no recovery', or mortality, the fear, itself, is of the same value as another whose situation might appear more threatening. Boy, talk about vague :)
And yes, death and all that aside, the browser situation looks interesting at worst, and very promising, at least.
Thank you very much for this tip. I haaven't been well, lately (it's not one of those things that 'gets better' either) and am not myself as far as being plugged-in, or 'with it', and I really appreciate the tip even more than I normally would. It's a time like this where, all silliness aside, Slashdot is so great to have access to. I take it for granted, like many do, I'd imagine... but I really am appreciating the different viewpoints and outright info tips. Thanks.
I use Eudora, also, with gmail filtering other spam-challenged webmail accounts (thanks Google), before being tapped through POP3. Other domains being tapped the same way, minus the google 'filter', with (POP3). Very convenient. Polling ten accounts in ten seconds, more or less, depending on numbers of messages per account, postage-stamp sized 'filters report' to give a mini-glimpse of what's 'in.'. Try that with Firefox/Thunderbird/whatever and a bunch of maybe yes/maybe no remote servers. Time and screen real estate wasting... Wake me when it's over. :)
What are you, an idiot? The phone infrastructure in this country was built with inventions that were created either by tax subsidy of educational institution research, or by virtue of the old AT&T monopoly. In other words, the fucking people built the god-damned hardware and paid for the research into the software... you see where this is going? And what do mean 'provided?' I pay for my cable, so as far as I'm concerned the data path for my phone is provided by ME, motherfucker.
I hope Verizon, and all their fucking kids come down with cancer of the asshole and leukemia, and that their pets eat their dead families and then go shit on the defenders of this illusory 'free' market you wackjobs keep blurting out of your brainless faceholes... Fuck them, and fuck you all for having such a short-term memory, and/or shallow understanding of who actually financed all this shit that has been hijacked in the name of unfair competition and monopoly.
Fuck you very much,Brian Stegner
jesus christ, hasn't it occurred to anyone that for starters, the implementation of the DRM can occur on the creative side or the provider side, right? So, assuming that the 'camwhores' and dying of cancer journalists DON'T use DRM, do you really think that the Internet, and people who use it are going to be unable to route around a YouTube, or any other service that makes access to its content burdensome?? Come on, use your fucking heads, folks, the Internet is designed to route around this shit, almost instantly. Viral "Fuck that, try this!" anyone?
Does anyone blame Adobe for having a rear-guard system "OPTION" to defend against Microsoft? "Come on" is right. Next...
Agreed. And, besides, with Adobe coming out with the first native (OS X) Creative Suite (maybe around the time of the iPhone release?) Apple sales are going to get a 'bubble' anyway, from pent up 'creatives' demand. I think it's a smart move on Apple's part...looked at from my POV, but we'll see.
Man... as a long time Apple user (who also has no problem in Windows or Linux), you hit the nail (one of them) squarely on the head. The Finder has got to go, and all the kludges to keep the underlying OS 'compatible' with the crazy/stupid HFS file system, too.
I never see anybody address this (which doesn't mean that people don't), but, why is it they can have this great underlying OS, functional eye candy, and then have the lame Finder, and those notoriously 'mushy', crappy keyboards, as the hard-, software interface to the whole shebang.
I want to see a Unix, used by a Linux developer, with a NeXT-like front-end, (which Apple could have done ten years ago, almost), then Apple can just switch to phones and mp3 players and we can all move along.
And if I were at Apple I would be ashamed after watching what ubuntu looks, and runs like, on old Mac gear. My heart, nostalgic old useless thing that it is, is with Apple, but if I was a betting man, I'd let 'er rip on Linux on the desktop, globally, for all the geographic, and nature-of-the-expansion-of-new-user-base reasons that we are already familiar with.
Apple made a slow, fatal error on the computer side, when they decided to graft/weld all the crapola (including HFS) onto the FreeBSD/Mach-O base. Much the same as Microsoft blew the NT thing when they forced Cutler to remodel as a 'single-user' environment (with the enigmatic 'hidden' system, hidden from everyone, except the bad guys) destined for a multi-user (i.e., networked) World.
-Brian Stegner
Why pay a forensic guy all the cash? Just do what I'll do if I lose my non-Google email.... file a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA, simple, let them pick up the bill. :=)
Wow, you guys scared me, I thought maybe something dreadful had happened to the actual birthplace of Silicon Valley.
I refer, of course, to the REAL birthplace, which was the garage in Menlo Park, sort of, and the industrial park in and around Stanford University, for real.
Shockley, and his demented personna, arrived twenty years later.When I think of "the Valley" I know we are talking about 'Santa Clara', but Portola Valley could qualify, too. But the reality is that it started around Stanford University, extended to the companies out near Moffet Field (Ford Philco, Varian, Sylvania, Lockheed, etc), and the 'new' guys... the Amazons and Apple, set up shop in what was then, the low rent area...Sunnyvale, Milpitas, Mountain View, etc.
If you are in the 'neighborhaood' where the founders 'lived', drive east, take a right at El Camino, go to Page Mill Road, take a right, get out of the car, look around... you are now at the real center of the start of what became known as Silicon Valley. If you're in the modern "Silicon Valley", drive west, take a right at El Camino, turn left onto Page Mill, etc, etc, and voila, you are there. "Really" there. To hell with Shockley.
Man, you can say that again. I know a ton of people miss Frank, dearly. Thanks for the reminder that a few saw this stuff coming from a million miles away.
And, not to forget the hypocrites out there: I remember when Bruce Springsteen was forcing Columbia to renegotiate his contract. He didn't produce any product for a seriously-extended period of time, but in his live shows (caught, 'live', on loads of bootleg vinyl) he was always coming back from intermissions with admonishments to the crowd, to "roll them tapes." But as soon as Napster came around, he was, "Poor me, they're stealin'."
And who wants to bet where John ("Music should be free") Lennon would have stood on these issues today? I'm 'almost' glad he didn't see what the country of his 'adopted' residence turned into... well, not really. Shit, I miss both of those guys a ton.
Ha ha ha, where are the mods on this one?
It sounds just like the engineers' attitude towards the 'musicians' in the music biz; Musicians were these psychos who kept screwing around with the 'source' signal. :=)
That's a good rational point. The thing people seem to be overlooking, is that the market expands far more at the margins than it does at the center.
And 'the margins' are where the 'newest' users are located, by definition, so they are less likely to 'know' why they are making the choice they made, and less likely to be 'savvy' about things like 'security', 'trends in the future of computing', etc.
That pretty much explains why Windows, which was never written, originally, as a multi-user , 'secure' system, had so many security issues (didn't Cutler think he was working on a system that would have the OS walled-off from the so-called 'user'?); The least likely users to know how to deal with 'issues' were the largest group, and growing, in existence. And at the 'core' of the savvy users, (big corps, their SysAdmins, and mega-seat installed nets), the security updates were a regular source of counter-productive 'downtime', in the short-sighted view. So you had this quantum increase in newbies, feeding into a Web that was slow to react to the malware, and viruses, etc, that were breeding in the exponentially-growing margins. If that isn't a vicious circle, and a prescription for disaster, what is?
This is just my rough, generalized take on it, and I'm surely no expert, but it lends credence to my personal feeling that Microsoft, in a sense, walked into a total ambush, that was only partly their fault.
I'm an Apple user at home, with multiple installs of Windows OS for cross-checking my work, who has worked almost exclusively on Windows boxes at companies. I like ubuntu Linux, a lot, and when I see where the expansion of the market is, at the margins, as always, I see a huge future for Linux, Unix at the core, Apple computers as a niche player, and Microsoft in deep shit, almost no matter what they do, deserved, or not. I find that sad, actually, and am glad that at least a philanthropist was at the helm of the short-term goliath, as opposed to that snarky Jobs. A silver lining, if you will.
Let me get this straight, so, a bunch of guys struggle against serious odds, and manage to make more than a mediocre living in the worst paying part of the music industry, and therefore, lose their right to express opinions?
Interesting point of view pal. But it doesn't sound like you're all for net neutrality, sounds more like you're all for an ignorant, arrogant form of stupidity.
Nice goin' asshat, righteous use of the old brain, eh? Not.
Stance? What stance? You mean you sitting on your ass while someone else actually tries to do something to stop the corporate juggernaut? Aren't you the smart, brave motherfucker? Here's my asshole, pucker up ya cynical sack of shit.
I thought it said, "Microsoft in Talks to by DoubleCrick"
Everybody know, DoubleCrick my company takeover target!
- Wun Hung Low
Shanghai
I don't know about 'fine print', but there is sub-text, and it goes like this: "We have the world's shittiest SPAM filtering, and, frankly, we need the space!"
They're referring, of course, to President Bush, and Alfred E. Newman.
You know, when I think back, I don't remember any speech of peanut butter, so I take you at your word. I remembered food labeling, but can't honestly say that I remember hearing that speech. So... point well taken.
As for what part of the city: A couple years on Chomedey, near the old Forum, Peel, above Sherbrooke, for two years, blvd St-Laurent, close to the Port, avenue des Pins Est (coin St-Laurent) for ten years, and 5 years on Christophe-Columb, 1/2 block below Mont-Royal (the Plateau). I miss the city more than is easily described.
So, yes, I lived briefly in English Montreal, but consider The Main to be multicultural, and the Plateau to be perfectly French. I was functioning in French language when I first arrived, but was self-conscious of my accent, of course.
But I stand corrected on the Peanut Butter 'spoken' words, issue, thank you.
I take umbrage when I encounter that notion of Quebecois french being 'bastardized' Parisian french. Is it dialectical? Of course. The french in Toulouse is not the french in Paris, either, but the same french will suffice in both. Not an issue of qualitative linguistics, at all.
The French in France, and the Americans, are probably the only people who would get riled up about which is more 'authentic. All I can say is that the French in France can, at least, substantiate their arrogance to some degree, whereas the yanks have a particularly barbarian arrogance, supported only by their ignorance. Thank God the Americans kept their mouths shut until after Lafayette saved their asses from the Brits.
Exactly. But why play into this retarded fellow's hand? He's an idiot.
I never heard beurre de peanut, anywhere in Quebec, from Montreal, to Quebec City to James Bay, never.
And there's a reason why all the great modern philosophers wrote in French. It's an extremely precise language, ideally suited for an articulate person to express the nuances of whatever they're trying to describe. This yank, with his 'c'est pas froid' issue, is a typical, retarded, semi-literate, arrogant, asshole, American. Exactly the kind of jerk that made me love Montreal, Quebecers, and even white bread Canadians, so much, and dread coming back into the uneducated mob of arrogant sissies that make up a huge chunk of the American populace. What a disgrace.
On a positive note, it does give meaning and humor to that phrase I used to hear.. you know, the one that went, "maudit anglaises!!" That was putting it nicely.
Bullshit
I lived in Montreal for twenty years. (Born and raised in California), and they say, C'est chaud, for 'it's hot.' Ce n'est pas froid, is "It's not cold", there's a difference asshat. You're far more likely to hear "Ce n'est pas trop froid (ou Chaud)", for: "It's not too cold (or hot)." My fellow Americans have enough trouble with their own language, no need to make up bullshit about others.
Oh, and I'm a life-long peanut butter fan, and in all the years I spent in Quebec (and the rest of C Nextanada, where French translations are on everything), I never saw PB called anything but 'beurre d'arachides.'
Quebec was founded by French people hundreds of years ago, and despite the fact that the government in France has a huge bureaucracy dedicated to 'protecting' la langue française, there are far fewer anglicized words in Quebecois, than in Parisian French. You are so fucking clueless, it gives off a fecal scent, up there where your brain is allegedly located.
The good news is: Stupidity isn't against the law, so, you're free to go. Next.
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"...the RIAA and its members..." (plural because of the 'and'). "Has" should be "Have"... and "...all of these criterion?" Whoa... the word, pluralized, is 'criteria.' A very informative piece, regardless. People striving for hyper-factual rebuttal should avoid structure such as, "Well, no, but..." (a mite conversational). American Education: The Indictment. Internet=Evidentiary gold mine. A high school dropout rests his case. :)
I understand your point, completely, but don't overlook the fact that women, in general, and these women who find the spotlight in a place like Slashdot, in particular, can see through juvenile bullshit, with little to no effort.