I didn't think so. This is business. There's no room for nicities such as ethics, morals, scrupals, or even laws. The RIAA know better than most how the game is played and they'll continue to play it. And win it.
Once again the infantile among us attempt to manipulate the facts in order to make room for their silly religious cult beliefs.
If you cannot or will not grow up, please worship your cult's idols, deities, gods or prophets in the privacy of your own home, or the cult's clubhouse.
The adult world has no interest in your mental illnesses.
What's the use of our sitting up all night saying there may (or may not be) a God if this machine comes along next morning and gives you his telephone number?
Anybody who wastes their time on such an infantile question deserves to have their time wasted.
How can a wholly imaginary being have a telephone number? Is that like the address for Santa listed at the Post Office?
Then again, the tooth fairy conceit is just as ludicrous as the "god" postulate, yet those damn coins keep showing up anyway.
Ergo, deities must, in fact, exist, according to all the best ID logic.
A guy working support at the country's largest ISP shared his staff login and password with his 13-year-old brother.
The little brother shared the login and password with a friend.
His friend logged in with the ISP staff login, went exploring and deleted a big bunch of the ISP's customer's websites.
All hell broke loose.
The ISP staff member was leaned on, admitted he'd shared the login...his little brother admitted he'd shared the login with his friend...the friend admitted he'd deleted the websites...
New Zealand's media went orgasmic over it all.
The 13 year-old friend appeared on national talk shows, with his face obscured like some Mafia informer, and repeatedly described himself (and was described) as "an unstoppable genius hacker" among other similar things.
The kid was a clueless n00b blindling stumbling around and making a mess of things but that's not very interesting, so both he and the media felt obliged to build him and his actions up.
There's always somebody moronic enough to do this stuff, and somebody even dumber willing to give them money for doing it.
Most of the world outside the US has been subsidising your insanely cheap gas for decades. $5 per gallon has been the way for us for many years, but now it's $7 and beyond.
Good ol' George.
I had an argument with a girl who'd had a minor role in 'Solo'...when I criticised the acting in the vast majority of NZ productions, she screamed "It's not the acting, it's the accent!"
Cultural Cringe syndrome was invented by talentless people as an avenue of escape. Criticise their (lack of) ability or talent, and they will accuse you of Cultural Cringe.
Many Australians have an appalling accent, yet there are a number of excellent Ocker actors. My only beef with them is when some moronic Hollywood casting director hands them a role in an American show ('Without a Trace', et al), which they proceed to ruin with their lousy 'American' accents, simply because the CD thinks they Australians are 'exotic'.
Anyway, Temuera Morrison sucks, and Lucas should be beaten with dead monkeys for giving him a part. Not that we ought to be surprised, mind.
Star Wars had a stellar cast, all proven professionals...well, mostly. The problem was the writing and dialogue...it stunk on ice. Lucas cannot write, and his direction is little better. Leave the screenwriting to competents and maybe the franchise may begin to un-stink.
Amateur astronomers have been doing this for ages.
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Ever since it was discovered that the old Connectix B&W QuickCams were easily modded. There have been many webpages devoted to this kind of thing for years.
I gave up on the modding idiocy here a while back.
I had positive (+2) karma, then one of my posts was modded (Score:+5, Funny), but was subsequently modded down to -1 in short-order, and my karma went to "Terrible"...and this after meta-modding every damn day, yet never getting the chance to mod beyond that, even after months of it.
Then why not use Linux?
Companies whose management elect to use Windows on anything other than the desktop will always use Windows for all tasks, no matter what. It's a result of the fear which stems from cluelessness.
These are the sort of people who like to be really condescending to others (particularly those they think know less)...
I've yet to meet a geek who didn't believe that everybody knows less than themselves.
"Whatever you think you know, you're wrong, and I know more, and I knew it before you did."
"My CPU/GPU/memory/hdd controller/LCD monitor/etc is way better than yours!"
"My certification is more desirable than your yours, and I got it 14 minutes before you got your cert, and the diploma is printed on much nicer paper."
"My distro is cooler than your distro. All True Geeks use my distro. Your distro is for n00bz and Windoze luserz!"
"My NIC is better than your NIC coz it's, like, red, and has some features that I never use and don't understand, which your NIC doesn't."
"What does [insert tricky question here] mean? Uh...well...see it's what happens when the FDG controller flip-flops on a vertexial shading write-back architectural artifact when the frame relay buffer conflicts with the data array's API function call and...look I don't have time to do your work for you, I have to go to a meeting!...[insert sound of running feet fading off into the distance, a door slamming, followed the screeching tires of a car speeding off...]
Sound familiar? I bet it does.
This is one of the reasons I refuse to socialise with such people anymore. Just working with them is hellish enough without having to spend the rest of my time with the bastards.
Of course, my attitude proves I'm not really a true geek like them...
I've stopped talking to friends about computer-related issues, and have actually stopped talking to some completely because all they ever want to do is engage in these fucking idiotic competitions.
Here's a typical IM chat transcript:
Friend: what r u doing?
Me: Installing a new video card for somebody
Friend: what card did you get?
Me: The XXXX-XX
Friend: good luck! those are shit!
Me: It seems okay. These guys only do basic stuff anyway
Friend: pffft! sucker! Those are garbage! I got a XX-XXXX! WAAAAY better!
Me: Whatever
Friend: how much did u pay? i hope it wasn't more than $XXX!!!!
Me: $XXX
Friend: LOL!!! dude they saw u coming! u wont even get XX fps from that! the drivers are the WORST eva!!! u should have asked me!
Me: Uhuh
Friend: I had one of those cards AGES ago and it stunk. i gave it to somebody and got the XX-XXXX instead. way way better. the pixellatingvertexantialiasingtrilinearnucleardefib rillator is the best around. that card u got is a dog!!! man when r u going to learn tha-
Ya see this all the time...Corporation X will give up when they see that "consumers" won't stand for it!...even as those "consumers" continue to stand for it, and beg for more.
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I didn't think so. This is business. There's no room for nicities such as ethics, morals, scrupals, or even laws. The RIAA know better than most how the game is played and they'll continue to play it. And win it.
Where was that advertised?
Once again the infantile among us attempt to manipulate the facts in order to make room for their silly religious cult beliefs. If you cannot or will not grow up, please worship your cult's idols, deities, gods or prophets in the privacy of your own home, or the cult's clubhouse. The adult world has no interest in your mental illnesses.
How can a wholly imaginary being have a telephone number? Is that like the address for Santa listed at the Post Office?
Then again, the tooth fairy conceit is just as ludicrous as the "god" postulate, yet those damn coins keep showing up anyway.
Ergo, deities must, in fact, exist, according to all the best ID logic.
I'm a philosophiser.
Doing it even once is guaranteed to get your Karma modded down to 'Terrible' from +2. Oh wait...thanks so much Michael Sims!
...I have to take a vacation away from my monitors just to let my eyesight recover. What the hell are these gadgets going to do to us?
A guy working support at the country's largest ISP shared his staff login and password with his 13-year-old brother. The little brother shared the login and password with a friend. His friend logged in with the ISP staff login, went exploring and deleted a big bunch of the ISP's customer's websites. All hell broke loose. The ISP staff member was leaned on, admitted he'd shared the login...his little brother admitted he'd shared the login with his friend...the friend admitted he'd deleted the websites... New Zealand's media went orgasmic over it all. The 13 year-old friend appeared on national talk shows, with his face obscured like some Mafia informer, and repeatedly described himself (and was described) as "an unstoppable genius hacker" among other similar things. The kid was a clueless n00b blindling stumbling around and making a mess of things but that's not very interesting, so both he and the media felt obliged to build him and his actions up. There's always somebody moronic enough to do this stuff, and somebody even dumber willing to give them money for doing it.
Most of the world outside the US has been subsidising your insanely cheap gas for decades. $5 per gallon has been the way for us for many years, but now it's $7 and beyond. Good ol' George.
Aussies will be twice as proud of that than the breakthrough.
Not a snowball's chance...
Timothy's idiotic dupes are almost pleasantly amusing by comparison with Michael's daily dose of scum-baggery.
And isn't it strange that suddenly there are few submissions being accepted from Roland now?
Oh wait, no, it's not strange at all...
I had an argument with a girl who'd had a minor role in 'Solo'...when I criticised the acting in the vast majority of NZ productions, she screamed "It's not the acting, it's the accent!" Cultural Cringe syndrome was invented by talentless people as an avenue of escape. Criticise their (lack of) ability or talent, and they will accuse you of Cultural Cringe. Many Australians have an appalling accent, yet there are a number of excellent Ocker actors. My only beef with them is when some moronic Hollywood casting director hands them a role in an American show ('Without a Trace', et al), which they proceed to ruin with their lousy 'American' accents, simply because the CD thinks they Australians are 'exotic'. Anyway, Temuera Morrison sucks, and Lucas should be beaten with dead monkeys for giving him a part. Not that we ought to be surprised, mind.
Star Wars had a stellar cast, all proven professionals...well, mostly. The problem was the writing and dialogue...it stunk on ice. Lucas cannot write, and his direction is little better. Leave the screenwriting to competents and maybe the franchise may begin to un-stink.
Ever since it was discovered that the old Connectix B&W QuickCams were easily modded. There have been many webpages devoted to this kind of thing for years.
I gave up on the modding idiocy here a while back. I had positive (+2) karma, then one of my posts was modded (Score:+5, Funny), but was subsequently modded down to -1 in short-order, and my karma went to "Terrible"...and this after meta-modding every damn day, yet never getting the chance to mod beyond that, even after months of it.
Then why not use Linux? Companies whose management elect to use Windows on anything other than the desktop will always use Windows for all tasks, no matter what. It's a result of the fear which stems from cluelessness.
They'll defend that wasted trustfund to the bitter end!
My karma just dropped from 'positive' to 'neutral'! Perhaps tomorrow I may even become an electron! Woohoo! Spin baby, spin!
Ha. Ha. Ha. Sigh...I kill me...
I've yet to meet a geek who didn't believe that everybody knows less than themselves.
"Whatever you think you know, you're wrong, and I know more, and I knew it before you did."
"My CPU/GPU/memory/hdd controller/LCD monitor/etc is way better than yours!"
"My certification is more desirable than your yours, and I got it 14 minutes before you got your cert, and the diploma is printed on much nicer paper."
"My distro is cooler than your distro. All True Geeks use my distro. Your distro is for n00bz and Windoze luserz!"
"My NIC is better than your NIC coz it's, like, red, and has some features that I never use and don't understand, which your NIC doesn't."
"What does [insert tricky question here] mean? Uh...well...see it's what happens when the FDG controller flip-flops on a vertexial shading write-back architectural artifact when the frame relay buffer conflicts with the data array's API function call and...look I don't have time to do your work for you, I have to go to a meeting!...[insert sound of running feet fading off into the distance, a door slamming, followed the screeching tires of a car speeding off...]
Sound familiar? I bet it does.
This is one of the reasons I refuse to socialise with such people anymore. Just working with them is hellish enough without having to spend the rest of my time with the bastards.
Of course, my attitude proves I'm not really a true geek like them...
Here's a typical IM chat transcript:
Friend: what r u doing?
Me: Installing a new video card for somebody
Friend: what card did you get?
Me: The XXXX-XX
Friend: good luck! those are shit!
Me: It seems okay. These guys only do basic stuff anyway
Friend: pffft! sucker! Those are garbage! I got a XX-XXXX! WAAAAY better!
Me: Whatever
Friend: how much did u pay? i hope it wasn't more than $XXX!!!!
Me: $XXX
Friend: LOL!!! dude they saw u coming! u wont even get XX fps from that! the drivers are the WORST eva!!! u should have asked me!
Me: Uhuh
Friend: I had one of those cards AGES ago and it stunk. i gave it to somebody and got the XX-XXXX instead. way way better. the pixellatingvertexantialiasingtrilinearnucleardefib rillator is the best around. that card u got is a dog!!! man when r u going to learn tha-
Me has signed out...
...William Shatner?
I almost feel normal when I read such posts.
Ya see this all the time...Corporation X will give up when they see that "consumers" won't stand for it!...even as those "consumers" continue to stand for it, and beg for more.
The love of oil leads to explosions!