wo1verin3 writes "CNN is reporting that not all Slashdot readers are the anti-social folk they are hyped to be by parents and the media. Roughly two-thirds of college students play video games, but the image of a nerdy guy who spends all day in a dimly lit room blowing up computer-generated bad guys is off base, according to a new study. Full story here."
Every lan party I have ever been to has been anti-social folk. That is why we are at a lan party, and not out drinking, and sleeping with the opposite sex.
Nerdy guys, and Nerdy girls shooting each other, and vying for mines.
Since we've grown up, we are more attractive, hold better jobs, drive nicer cars, etc.
but is it actually stealing if it is given to you freely? If I give you something, then regardless of where I got it from, you haven't stolen anything.
I was really kidding.
I honestly beileve that since I do not have the money to purchase a book, I should still be able to read it.
You have the right to profit from me. If you cannot do so, I still have the right to read whatever I want.
Then, when I get the money, I will purchase your book.
One of my points on arguing is this: If you need to use an analogy to make your point while debating with someone with comporable knowledge, you do not know what point you are actually attempting to make.
I don't think you read the parent.
He said copied their furniture.
FREE Furniture.
You can't possibly be against this, and thus you must agree with him.
When most people think of stealing, they think of people taking stuff that isn't theirs. They don't worry about the technical aspects of actually depriving someone else of physical property. I.E. they aren't nerdy like you
*sob*
Say it isn't so!....
When music theieves try to attack the technicality of the RIAA's rhetoric, such as trying to say that the word "stealing" isn't correct, they end up looking like a kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is trying to manipulate words and circumstance to somehow make himself look either innocent or "less guilty". This behavior reveals to judges and intelligent people just what kind of a person they are dealing with.
Good thing there are none of those here!
the RIAA sucks dude, and they made a lot of money of the artists, so what's a few MP3's to them!
"Fancy controlling your mobile phone just by moving it? This article on ZDNet describes a new smartphone that is motion sensitive, so users can zoom into a Web page, scroll round a document or switch from portrait view to landscape simply by tilting the handset."
even moreso, I hate having to answer the phone and then it isn't even anyone I know and they want me to listen to them.
Sing it from the roof tops!
and it is always obvious that they don't like what they are doing
And it's always obvious I don't like what they are doing either!
ugh - everything about it is awful.
Amen!
but since I have moved, for whatever reason, there is no telemarketing here at all. probably b/c there is either a law against it, there is not enough return on investment, or the place is so small (about 65K people) that people would start to recognize the people on the phone
This is probably a good thing from a certain point of view. If they had tried to restrict political calls, then the whole regulation might have been tossed out on 1st Amendment grounds. It certainly would have clouded the issue, and would have very like have been challenged.
this doesn't affect market researchers calling you. Don't get me wrong i'm not complaining, but it would be great if we could somehow get them under the umbrella.
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wo1verin3 writes "CNN is reporting that not all Slashdot readers are the anti-social folk they are hyped to be by parents and the media. Roughly two-thirds of college students play video games, but the image of a nerdy guy who spends all day in a dimly lit room blowing up computer-generated bad guys is off base, according to a new study. Full story here."
Every lan party I have ever been to has been anti-social folk. That is why we are at a lan party, and not out drinking, and sleeping with the opposite sex.
Nerdy guys, and Nerdy girls shooting each other, and vying for mines.
Since we've grown up, we are more attractive, hold better jobs, drive nicer cars, etc.
But we are still all a mangled verison of that.
Forgive me for punctuating properly. Perhaps you would benifit from today's comic over at Penny-Arcade.
And how!
Ah.. sorry, I just mis-read what you were saying.
That's because I was using sarcasm which is often badly translated through text.
"You can't possibly be against this, and thus you must agree with him."
That was the pointed remark. Analogies are used for one of two purposes.
To connect a statement to another statement via a relation of negative, or positive points.
Thus saying, A sounds like B. B is good, so A is good.
I was mocking his analogy, in a tongue and cheek way agreeing with you.
Oh, Free Furniture?
I renounce my previous statements and agree with you, because I want free furniture.
Pretty silly.
Analogies are used because they are the easiest way to convince anyone of anything.
Do you think abortion is wrong?
I don't.
Do you beileve Indianapolis in the capitol of Indiana?
Good, we're back in agreement.
I don't think you read the article, which I was referring to.
Thanks for playing.
I don't think you got the intent.
I was agreeing with you. Every other post from the article has been a badly worded analogy.
Again, Agreeing with you.
Thank you, Drive through.
but is it actually stealing if it is given to you freely? If I give you something, then regardless of where I got it from, you haven't stolen anything.
I was really kidding.
I honestly beileve that since I do not have the money to purchase a book, I should still be able to read it.
You have the right to profit from me. If you cannot do so, I still have the right to read whatever I want.
Then, when I get the money, I will purchase your book.
No, but the original poster's statement is in proper grammar.
If you're going to attack my post, attack the fact that it makes no sense as quotes were not even used in the sense that my attack would justify.
Try again, and this time be witty about it.
The whole point of peer-to-peer is to share files with others.
Steal files with others.
Steal files with others.
One of my points on arguing is this: If you need to use an analogy to make your point while debating with someone with comporable knowledge, you do not know what point you are actually attempting to make.
I don't think you read the parent.
He said copied their furniture.
FREE Furniture.
You can't possibly be against this, and thus you must agree with him.
When most people think of stealing, they think of people taking stuff that isn't theirs. They don't worry about the technical aspects of actually depriving someone else of physical property. I.E. they aren't nerdy like you
*sob*
Say it isn't so!....
When music theieves try to attack the technicality of the RIAA's rhetoric, such as trying to say that the word "stealing" isn't correct, they end up looking like a kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is trying to manipulate words and circumstance to somehow make himself look either innocent or "less guilty". This behavior reveals to judges and intelligent people just what kind of a person they are dealing with.
Good thing there are none of those here!
the RIAA sucks dude, and they made a lot of money of the artists, so what's a few MP3's to them!
Finally, something I can agree with.
Your use of the word "fucking" doesn't make your point any more relevant.
Your use of "quotes" does not make your "point" any more "relevant."
Mod Parent +1, Insightful!
Sure you skip all of them but the question is which ones do you rewind to watch. I have noticed that hot chicks tend to do the trick for me.:)
Great, every ad will now how hot chicks.
Oh wait...
I knew linux users could get obsessive, but I didn't realize it had reached this level...
Have you ever actually read slashdot?
Finally some good press for Linux!
switch from portrait view to landscape simply by tilting the handset
Would that happen to be a 90 degree tilt?
The real question is, how will you look at it.
You tilt it to view it in landscape, then move it back to view it, and it returns to portrait.
Time to patent using this thing with a porn site!
I picture a guy with one hand flailing a cell phone around trying to stare at it, and the other...
well, you understand. You're a geek. We've all been there.
"Fancy controlling your mobile phone just by moving it? This article on ZDNet describes a new smartphone that is motion sensitive, so users can zoom into a Web page, scroll round a document or switch from portrait view to landscape simply by tilting the handset."
This will work wonderfully while I'm walking!
Actually, looks like they never got the chance to test the fuel cell, so is it truely a failed test?
They failed to test the fuel cell.
Sounds about right to me.
I always avoid the phone, I hate it.
Hell yeah!
even moreso, I hate having to answer the phone and then it isn't even anyone I know and they want me to listen to them.
Sing it from the roof tops!
and it is always obvious that they don't like what they are doing
And it's always obvious I don't like what they are doing either!
ugh - everything about it is awful.
Amen!
but since I have moved, for whatever reason, there is no telemarketing here at all. probably b/c there is either a law against it, there is not enough return on investment, or the place is so small (about 65K people) that people would start to recognize the people on the phone
Where ya live? I'm a movin there!
This is probably a good thing from a certain point of view. If they had tried to restrict political calls, then the whole regulation might have been tossed out on 1st Amendment grounds. It certainly would have clouded the issue, and would have very like have been challenged.
I hadn't thought of that.
My Sarcasm and general negativity is revoked.
Thank you kind sir!
this doesn't affect market researchers calling you. Don't get me wrong i'm not complaining, but it would be great if we could somehow get them under the umbrella.
Could we also add ex-girlfriend's to the list?
That's not his email address. sorry. ;)
bgates@hotmail.com?
It was down before the "there will be a story here" tag went up on /.
So what you're saying is, we slashdotted the site from just moderators checking to see if it would be a decent story to use?
Soon the entire internet will fall by the mere concept of Slashdot linking it.
they require a valid email address to register your phone number online
They said valid, but they didn't say mine!
bgates@microsoft.com
There are exemptions though, like for charities and political organizations.
Political organizations are exempt?
Shocking!