Absolute freedom is an illogical myth. Some freedoms must be precluded to preserve more important ones. That's why my freedom to swing my fist must end at the tip of your nose. Everybody (aside from anarchists) knows this intuitively.
Anarchists know this intuitively. Unless you're talking about "chaos and bombs" anarchists, which aren't really anarchists at all.
Anarchists are non-violent by nature because violence is an authoritave act. Any successful act of authority creates a hierarchy.
It is a commone misconception that anarchy means "do whatever the fuck you want to." It doesn't. It's not no rules, it's no authority. There would be rules in an anarchist society, the difference would be in how the rules were made, and how they were enforced.
I was thinking of the morse-codish language the descaloda had. It's the first thing that popped into my head when morse-code and cells came together in a sentence.
More so than gattaca....I don't know I haven't seen Gattaca. I said more like because....well...I don't know. Just because.
My point is - it still happens whether people take all these precautions or not.
"those of us who give the criminals pause, who have made the choice to do what it takes to protect our homes and our families ask nothing in return for the extra protection it affords you, except that you leave us alone. Not even for your thanks. We can't even get that."
what extra protection that is affords me? are you fucking crazy? What should I be thanking you for? If someone attacks me, I'll fight back. I have no problem with someone owning a gun. I was responding to someone who was talking like everyone should be watching their back constantly otherwise the oh-so-dangerous general public might rape them.
While I understand that the grandparent post may have touched a soft spot with you, and while I understand that there have been many, many "home invasions," I believe that the difference between the number of people who are victimized each day, and the number of people who just live out a normal day is very great indeed.
Just because it happened to you, or to people you know, does not make it likely. Or "not all that unlikely." It's pretty damn unlikely depending on where you live. Sure there's a chance that the victim could have been me, or someone I know but when you look at the fact that the vast majority of people haven't ever had their homes broken into, it seems pretty dumb to worry about it.
But anyway, as far as all this Roland shit goes, Slashdot sold out a long time ago, people. Fuck it. Maybe, just maybe the people who ran the site figured out that they could do whatever they wanted, and they'd still be rolling in the page hits.
I mean think about the amount of traffic that pours through this site everyday. This is a site that has a reputation for bringing down servers from mass amount of click-through traffic, and that's just the people who even bother to RTFA. I rarely if ever do, myself seeing as most of the articles don't interest me for shit.
I say we just ignore the articles entirely, and just start talking about whatever the fuck we want to. It's not like we pay to see this site (at least I don't)
Oh wait, everyone is already doing that, barely keeping on-article topic if at all. Good, because theres almost always people here that know more about the topic the article was written on than the authors of said shitty articles.
Don't read the articles, block the ads, and just start talking about whatever comes to your head when you read the article summary. That's what/. is for.
If you are a paying member of the site...I'm assuming you have the money to throw around. The incentive to pay to be a member(OOH I CAN SEE THE ARTICLES SOONER) is pretty much counter-productive to what I come here for anyhow.
No, it doesn't seem to be. However, if I was working at Best Buy, I suppose I'd rather ask people to make sure that their computer could run the game, than deal with ignorant people who call back pissed that their new game won't run.
You can look at those three pictures and tell me that the artists involved are turning out crap? If you can, good luck to ya, but we are in way different worlds.
If you mean crap as in untalented, then no. If you mean crap as in "I think it's crap." then yes, yes I can.
I could have liver cooked by the best liver-cook in the world and still think it's crap because I don't like liver.
Does that means it's crap? Yeah, to me at least because it's not my thing. Manga's not his thing.
You know, he wasn't saying "MAN THOSE MANGA MAKERS CANT DRAW WORTH A SHIT"
You know, not all manga looks the same, but all manga looks like.....well...manga. I've never seen a manga that I thought was something else after seeing the cover to it.
You can tell a manga at first glance.
You don't need extensive knowledge, or even working knowledge of anything to know whether or not you are going to like it.
Say I don't like sitcoms. I just don't like them. When I see a commercial for a new sitcom, do I need to watch it to know I won't like it? Well, there is a possibility that I would, but I would say that there's a 99% chance that I wont.
What's your least favorite color? OH YEAH? WELL WHAT'S YOUR BASIS ON WHICH YOU REST YOUR ARGUMENT THAT SAID COLOR IS WORSE THAN OTHERS?? HUH? HUH?!?!?!
Opinion. It's what makes us different.
""Hard-core" gamers, who have every system available, and save for wont of space, will not need backwards-compatability"
I would consider myself a "hard-core" gamer and I tell you that unless the PS3 has backwards compatability with both the PS2 and (especially) the PS1 I will most likely not be buying it.
When the PS2 came out, I bought one mainly for the fact that I would be able to play new games on it, while not having to have another system for PS1 games - and frankly, I used the system mainly for PS1 games.
So, unless I can play all three system's games on the PS3 - or if a game comes out for it that would actually be worth the price of the system - I will not be buying a PS3.
Although I am a bit biased when it comes to games - I tend to judge the quality of a system by the quality of it's RPGs
i was going to say just this - google isnt the one writing about him, its whoever wrote what was on the site. how has google committed any crime here? it hasnt, all it did was return some search results.
if this guy somehow wins, almost anybody could sue google. its ridiculous.
imagine - every mainstream musician, every politician, everyone who has ever had someone make a webpage about them sues google.
Slashdot Mirror
Absolute freedom is an illogical myth. Some freedoms must be precluded to preserve more important ones. That's why my freedom to swing my fist must end at the tip of your nose. Everybody (aside from anarchists) knows this intuitively.
Anarchists know this intuitively. Unless you're talking about "chaos and bombs" anarchists, which aren't really anarchists at all.
Anarchists are non-violent by nature because violence is an authoritave act. Any successful act of authority creates a hierarchy.
It is a commone misconception that anarchy means "do whatever the fuck you want to." It doesn't. It's not no rules, it's no authority. There would be rules in an anarchist society, the difference would be in how the rules were made, and how they were enforced.
What's the point of replying if you're not going to put in any text....not even change the default subject line of "Re: Fear and Loathing in Mars..."
Man, you would think that blank posts would get lameness-filtered out, but no.
I did feel kind of uneasy looking at your post though, I don't know why.
I use firefox, I see pop-ups every once in a while....a long while. Who didn't expect them though?
I mean as pop-up blockers gain in popularity, those who write pop-ups are going to figure out ways of circumventing the blockers.
Duh.
He didn't say anything condenscending, or anything that would imply that us Americans "just can't seem to understand" anything.
All he said was that electronic music has been consistantly more popular in Europe than in America.
I was thinking of the morse-codish language the descaloda had. It's the first thing that popped into my head when morse-code and cells came together in a sentence. More so than gattaca....I don't know I haven't seen Gattaca. I said more like because....well...I don't know. Just because.
My point is - it still happens whether people take all these precautions or not.
"those of us who give the criminals pause, who have made the choice to do what it takes to protect our homes and our families ask nothing in return for the extra protection it affords you, except that you leave us alone. Not even for your thanks. We can't even get that."
what extra protection that is affords me? are you fucking crazy? What should I be thanking you for? If someone attacks me, I'll fight back. I have no problem with someone owning a gun. I was responding to someone who was talking like everyone should be watching their back constantly otherwise the oh-so-dangerous general public might rape them.
While I understand that the grandparent post may have touched a soft spot with you, and while I understand that there have been many, many "home invasions," I believe that the difference between the number of people who are victimized each day, and the number of people who just live out a normal day is very great indeed. Just because it happened to you, or to people you know, does not make it likely. Or "not all that unlikely." It's pretty damn unlikely depending on where you live. Sure there's a chance that the victim could have been me, or someone I know but when you look at the fact that the vast majority of people haven't ever had their homes broken into, it seems pretty dumb to worry about it.
Xenocide.
/. is for.
But anyway, as far as all this Roland shit goes, Slashdot sold out a long time ago, people. Fuck it.
Maybe, just maybe the people who ran the site figured out that they could do whatever they wanted, and they'd still be rolling in the page hits.
I mean think about the amount of traffic that pours through this site everyday. This is a site that has a reputation for bringing down servers from mass amount of click-through traffic, and that's just the people who even bother to RTFA. I rarely if ever do, myself seeing as most of the articles don't interest me for shit.
I say we just ignore the articles entirely, and just start talking about whatever the fuck we want to. It's not like we pay to see this site (at least I don't)
Oh wait, everyone is already doing that, barely keeping on-article topic if at all. Good, because theres almost always people here that know more about the topic the article was written on than the authors of said shitty articles.
Don't read the articles, block the ads, and just start talking about whatever comes to your head when you read the article summary. That's what
If you are a paying member of the site...I'm assuming you have the money to throw around. The incentive to pay to be a member(OOH I CAN SEE THE ARTICLES SOONER) is pretty much counter-productive to what I come here for anyhow.
If its supposed to be like a little machine, its got to be explainable in a deterministic way
Who said it was supposed to be like a little machine?
So cancer's name is Anna Nicole Smith?
Should've previewed. http://www.techbooksforfree.com/
Should've just linked to the parent site like this
Cause that is one awesome site.
No, it doesn't seem to be. However, if I was working at Best Buy, I suppose I'd rather ask people to make sure that their computer could run the game, than deal with ignorant people who call back pissed that their new game won't run.
no fucking shit
You can look at those three pictures and tell me that the artists involved are turning out crap? If you can, good luck to ya, but we are in way different worlds.
If you mean crap as in untalented, then no. If you mean crap as in "I think it's crap." then yes, yes I can.
I could have liver cooked by the best liver-cook in the world and still think it's crap because I don't like liver.
Does that means it's crap? Yeah, to me at least because it's not my thing. Manga's not his thing.
You know, he wasn't saying "MAN THOSE MANGA MAKERS CANT DRAW WORTH A SHIT"
Dont you?
You know, not all manga looks the same, but all manga looks like.....well...manga. I've never seen a manga that I thought was something else after seeing the cover to it.
You can tell a manga at first glance.
You don't need extensive knowledge, or even working knowledge of anything to know whether or not you are going to like it.
Say I don't like sitcoms. I just don't like them. When I see a commercial for a new sitcom, do I need to watch it to know I won't like it? Well, there is a possibility that I would, but I would say that there's a 99% chance that I wont.
DO YOU SEE?
But he does have a basis...
It's his FUCKING OPINION that MANGA LOOKS CRAPPY.
What's your least favorite color? OH YEAH? WELL WHAT'S YOUR BASIS ON WHICH YOU REST YOUR ARGUMENT THAT SAID COLOR IS WORSE THAN OTHERS?? HUH? HUH?!?!?!
Opinion. It's what makes us different.
Fucktard.
Which would be why he said suit.
listening to that bad religion song right now......
yup. they rock.
its fyodor dostoyevsky. just thought you'd like to know, considering he has one of the most confusing names to spell.
and is one of the best authors. ever.
which will be included in an erotic trilogy by anne rice about sleeping beauty.
definately. dev-c++ all the way.
""Hard-core" gamers, who have every system available, and save for wont of space, will not need backwards-compatability"
I would consider myself a "hard-core" gamer and I tell you that unless the PS3 has backwards compatability with both the PS2 and (especially) the PS1 I will most likely not be buying it.
When the PS2 came out, I bought one mainly for the fact that I would be able to play new games on it, while not having to have another system for PS1 games - and frankly, I used the system mainly for PS1 games.
So, unless I can play all three system's games on the PS3 - or if a game comes out for it that would actually be worth the price of the system - I will not be buying a PS3.
Although I am a bit biased when it comes to games - I tend to judge the quality of a system by the quality of it's RPGs
i was going to say just this - google isnt the one writing about him, its whoever wrote what was on the site. how has google committed any crime here? it hasnt, all it did was return some search results.
if this guy somehow wins, almost anybody could sue google. its ridiculous.
imagine - every mainstream musician, every politician, everyone who has ever had someone make a webpage about them sues google.
"A good 1985 adaptation."
the preview button is your best freind.
unless mr. orwell made a sequel?......