Except, an already weakened individual probably shouldn't be subjected to additional gravitational force. After all, if this were the case, how MUCH force needs to be added before the bacteria's spread slows to the point where it dies / is killed faster than it can be reproduced?
People lose sight of something in the battle between Linux and *OS, though. Linux is MEANT to be a UNIX clone, so it's major target is still UNIX. The whole idea that it's being used to attack Windows is sort of silly, actually. It certainly does make a good Windows replacement on the server for systems that need a wider range of or more robust tools, but part of the reason it isn't a good desktop solution yet is that it's not really meant to go head to head with Windows that way. They're too distinct systems, UNIX and Windows, and Linux tries to be UNIX, only better. There are, of course, a lot of people working to make it ready to go head to head on the desktop, and it's gaining ground, but the reason we're playing "catch up" to Windows is, again, because that wasn't the original target.
Words evolve in meaning; you can't legislate the development of language.
No, but you can challenge the evolution in court. Think about contracts. Legalese that normal people consider gibberish makes a lot of lawyers a lot of money because they challenege extreme technicalities and interpretations in court. As certain interpretations are ruled on and supported or eliminated by court decisions, language takes on new meaning within the realm of law. I have no doubt that some of this can seep out to the rest of us normal folks. Think about it - the major difference between "UNIX" and "BSD" is mainly semantic (yes, yes, I know you can argue otherwise using technicalities, but it passes the duck test this way which is how non-psychopathic-zealots determine similarity in casual discussion). It's mainly semantic because the courts ruled that way nearly a decade ago. Interesting.
Actually, if you think about it, the court can even rule on language within the Consitution and amendments. These things are legislated first, then challenged. I suppose, indirectly, you can legislate the course of language evolution.
You didn't read my link, that's why you think my comment is unfair.
The entire "problem" I had was caused by Best Buy's intentionally inept system of ordering between their website and their stores. I picked up the item in the store after ordering it online and, lo and behold - they gave me rebate slips and reciepts in the store. Best Buy then promptly refused to honor the rebate on one point:
You must use an online rebate form with an online reciept even though there is no difference between the online and in-store reciepts except the formatting. The information included on each is exactly the same.
They then proceeded to refuse any return on the item because they had been bouncing me from department to department, store to web, manager to manager for more than a month.
Now, even at this point, you could say that the issue was my own fault for not paying attention, but they gave me rebate forms in the store and told me to use them. They tried to screw me out of a rebate because 2 clerks, an asst. manager, and the store manager couldn't figure out the policy for rebates? Uh uh. That stinks of crooked practice. The whole purpose of the system is obviously to try and rip people off on technicalities, and I've NEVER had this kind of problem with anyone else. The most amazing part, however, is that no single part of the Best Buy system could tell me what any other part of the system was doing, and they all had the same answer: go talk to someone else. Whether they're the single most inept group on the planet, or they're are flat out evil is irrelvant.
"The other group" is obviously comprised completely of morons, so I'll just disregard them.
As for fear, I don't buy that as an acceptable answer. I would think that if you fear something you should try and reconcile your fear, or, if it can't be reconciled, fight or hide from it. There are things I fear, I certainly don't offer them praise. Respect, perhaps, if only for power and influence, but not praise.
I get the impression you're NOT a believer. I think that should automatically disqualify you from trying to answer the question!:-P
* You must have your reciept, otherwise we will laugh at you
Feh... Best Buy will laugh at you even if you DO have the reciept. Best Buy's entire business revolves around:
Extended warranties. In the event they have to actually back one up, they drag their feet until you either give up, or it expires. The most popular form of foot dragging is "blaming the manufacturer".
Rebates. Trust me, I got burned on one because Best Buy is crooked. Only god could help you sort out the fucking mess that is their rebate system. I can only imagine how much cash these clowns rake in by ripping people off on rebates they never intended to give.
Shameless editorial: I don't see what the big deal is about them shooting themselves in the foot on Black Friday deals. Only a masochistic idiot would shop there for anything more valuable than a CD anyhow.
Christianity is not a works-based religion (contrary to the belief of some cultic variations of my religion). It is only by the acceptance of Christ as your savior that salvation is attained.
I'm not trolling or baiting you, this is a legitimate question that to this point, has failed to provoke a reasonable, intelligent answer:
Given the fact that this god considers its own arrogance and egocentrism more important than its people's actions and lives, why does it deserve to be worshipped? Any being that would allow an individual to be tortured for eternity who labored and sacrificed to comfort others, solely because that person did it out of the goodness of their own heart rather than a blind faith, is something I'd label enemy. I would never kneel before something capable of such cruelty and outright evil.
Answer me then - WHY should it be worshipped if it shows such propensity for corruption?
Ummm.... not that I think the whole Judeo-Christian Heaven and Hell thing isn't totally illogical and ridiculous (quite frankly... why SHOULD I worship a creature that's so arrogant that the only possible thing you can go to Hell for is not worshipping it? The only unforgiveable sin? Nice to know that that thing's ego is more important than human life. Uh uh, nope, sorry. Sounds like somebody I'd rather put on my Foe list.).. but if life isn't fair, why should death be?
You're not "using my logic", you're just not using ANY logic. First of all, you can't just put my face over yours and think it's going to work. This isn't Texas Chainsaw Massacre, we're back in the real world now, Leatherface.
Second, nobody I know of has a credit card with their face and I don't ever recall even seeing or hearing of such an option. That's what signatures are for. I suppose such a thing may exist and I've just somehow missed it in my thousands of credit card offers, but it's irrelevant because even if it does, it's OPTIONAL. Besides that, this is not an issue being discussed here, so stop stop pulling unrelated bullshit out of your ass. And, if you can't resist introducing unrelated topics, at least have the sense to make sure they're a little bit realistic before you do.
Third, YOU have A friend that drives a 200K pound car. Good for you! Funny thing about that is that your ONE friend doesn't define normality for the rest of the 6.5 billion people in the world.
Fourth, robbery and murder numbers are different and the fact that you're drawing some unbelievably assinine correlation between the two (especially with NO data on either of them) is truly a testament to how little content you've managed to add to this thread so far. If there are 20 robbers and 5 murderers, and only 4 of the robbers are willing to hurt or kill people to commit the robbery, that means there will be 0 robbers and 9 potential murderers. What sort of an IDIOT would give a person INCENTIVE to kill them to get their money? Your odds of being robbed go down, and your odds of being MURDERED go up. If YOU want to give people incentive to kill you for your money just fight back and leave the rest of us out of it. $20 in my wallet that I can just surrdender isn't worth a fight that could end my life, IMHO, but if you're miserable little pissant life is only worth 20 bucks to you, by all means - go crazy.
No, they latch on to the young and old targets because:
They're good emotional jumping off points.
Who the fuck in their right mind expects a 12 year old to understand copyright law when most well-educated adults don't?
TV = Free imperfect music w/ ads. Radio = free imperfect music w/ ads. Computer =.... not free imperfect music w/ ads? Huh?
People are being threatened with lawsuits for the whole purpose of extorting "small" cash "settlements" out of them before they get a chance to defend themselves. Not that they could afford to if they tried.
Besides - bear in mind that the issue at hand right now is the fact that effective monopolies (just like Verizon - yea, they HAVE competition, but go try and find it in any significant way) are trying to become immune to laws that govern that govern the United States. You have a piracy problem? Too fucking bad. Like it or not, black markets are 'market realities' that reflect problems in the product being "pirated". Fix your distribution chain and make the product more attractive to buyers so they don't go to the black market.
Yea yea, yap yap - the law says this, the law says that. The law in Kentucky says you can't fish in the Ohio river without an Indiana fishing license. Doesn't mean it's a good law or that anyone with half a brain should pay it any mind. Laws are meant to protect CITIZENS not CORPORATIONS that have, on more than one occasion, proven that THEY have as little disregard for the law as everyone they're yelling at (can we say... "price-fixing").
I hate to be the one to provide the rude wake-up call, but the RIAA, the MPAA, the BSA - they aren't interested in protecting SHIT. There's no money to be made in protecting business interests. There IS money to be made in holding illegitimate customers upside down and shaking them and then trying to turn EVERYONE into an illegitimate customer SOMEHOW.
Frankly - the law can suck my nuts in this matter. When they stop threatening to hand out low-price laws on Capitol Hill to these nutjobs and hold them to the same standards as everyone else, I'll give the law the respect it deserves. I don't expect that to happen anytime soon, though.
And look at that, while I was typing some other mod abused their power by modding the parent a Troll solely because they don't agree with the subject matter. I love Slashdot... I think Slashdot needs to run a censorship article on some of these idiots that get mod points sometime.
Look, kid. If you hang around long enough, you MIGHT find someone rolling up in a brand new DB7 Vanquish, but don't hold your breath. The BEST target for robbery is old people, you twit. They're far more likely to be carrying wads of cash you can jack. If you've got a scanner that can read the balances on people's chips though, you instantly know EXACTLY who has the most cash in a crowd of people and can act accordingly. And don't give me any security bullshit, either. No technology can ever be totally secure. And, funny, crime really brings out the best of the worst traits in people, so it WILL be broken by someone at some point.
I have to ask - are you a troll, or do you actually know so little about the real world that you believe you're not spouting shit out your mouth everytime you open it?
So, how'd that lobotomy go for you anyway? I hear the doctor didn't have real steady hands.
The original poster already said - and if you'd have been paying attention instead of just flapping your gums in the wind, you'd know this:
There'd have to be some sort of security mechanism for the chip to make sure the user was still alive.
Which takes care of your first statement.
I guess we should all leave our possessions outside our houses and the car keys in the ignition.
And, what alternative would you suggest to keeping your keys in your pocket and your posessions in your house? Hmmm? Do you know something the rest of us don't (I highly doubt that...)? Have you been keeping your posessions in an uber-safe 5th dimension or something?
The difference, since you can't pick this simple point out on your own, is in necessity. I don't need to put a chip in my body to perform transactions, yet putting the chip in my body gives EXTRA INCENTIVE to kill to get at my money. I don't have choice but to put my posessions in my abode, so I haven't much of a choice when it comes to a robber - they have to break into my house because I don't have a better place to store my stuff. And, of course, if I'm being mugged or robbed, I can willfully surrender my posessions to avoid being hurt or killed for them as long as the assailant didn't intend to hurt me regardless. If the chip is IN MY FINGER they have NO CHOICE but to remove the finger to get it. Nobody has to cut my finger off to get my wallet, thanks.
Do us all a favor and go upgrade your IQ a few points before posting again.
What happens to people that are born days or even hours before the end of the world then? I don't know about you, but I have a hard time communicating on any meaningful level with a newborn that can't even open its eyes, much less comprehend any human language.
Actually, I seem to recall seeing somewhere that movies cost so much to screen that the cost of the other crap is all they can do to turn a profit.
Not that I give a fuck. That just means someone, somewhere has a serious cost problem. Oh yea, it's right there in the studio where dipshits "earn" *cough*bullshit*cough* 20 million for 6 months working on a single fucking movie that turns out to be a giagantic pile of horseshit anyway
Yes, I know, that's what I mean by embracing and extending an "immature" technology. They haven't even bothered to let this get off the ground before bastardizing it.
From the article: However, Microsoft has made public that it intends to introduce changes that will make the operating system incompatible with chips that follow the current version of the TCP spec.
I guess Microsoft just can't resist embracing and extending things. I mean.. here, they're not even waiting for the spec to mature before they ruin it with their own implementation. Maybe Microsoft will be our greatest ally in the war on DRM... or not.
Way to go. You just e-mailed a technical question to a bunch of underpaid, overworked lackeys who had nothing to do with the decision and will probably never see anyone who did.
Bear in mind that, beyond that, the trend in Customer *cough*fuckright*cough* Service these days is to use canned responses for as long as possible in the naive hope that eventually the whiny customer goes away in frustration. You'll be lucky to get a response, much less one that makes any sense.
You're lumping two completely different things under "organized crime" as if there are no degrees to criminal behavior. You can't just say "it's either crime or it's not". Not only is that a terribly horrifying idea, law enforcement and the courts RARELY do such a thing and, when they do, they typically draw the justified ire of the public. Say you're speeding up the road at twenty miles over the limit toward the hospital because your kid just swallowed a half gallon of drain cleaner.
Technically speaking, there is NO exception to the speed limit unless you're traveling UNDER it because it's a LIMIT. If there is no latitude to differentiate crimes based on intent, potential harm, etc. then, by all accounts, you should get ticketed for speeding once the cop escorts you to the hospital. That's utterly ridiculous and I find it extremely unlikely that such a thing would happen.
There is NO connection between peaceful protestors and terrorists except for the incidental usage of the term "training camp" by a couple nuts at the FBI who SHOULD be out doing something useful like tracking REAL ter'rists. Even if the protestors are doing something illegal, as long as it's not dangerous or too terribly invasive, few officials will resort to treating them like criminals to get them dispersed and few charges are typically filed. That's because there's a HUGE difference between organizing on the steps of the courthouse without a permit and bombing it. Nobody in their right mind would lump the two actions and their perps together.
And, unbounded freedom is free. "Limited freedom" is "true freedom" doesn't make any sense, but it makes for good Newspeak. People are just too irresponsible to have it and, as a result, the strong folks whomp the weak ones anyway. Just because you're happy within confines doesn't mean you're free and just because you're miserable without rule doesn't mean you're confined.
Or, more likely, you just have no perspective and an unrealistic view of the world. Fortunately, very few people in or out of law enforcement and the courts share that problem with you.
No, that's lumping them into the same, very, very broad category based on a very narrow sampling of extemely broadly interpreted common traits. Airplanes, Yugos, and baby carriages are all in the same very broad category of "transportation devices" based on some common, yet, very dissimilar traits (e.g. "wheels" - even though the wheels are highly dissimilar on the devices), but they're certainly not "too far off" in relation to one another. Nobody in their right mind would say a baby carriage isn't "too far off" from an airplane just because they both have wheels and carry people.
Face it: terrorists are terrorists, violent protestors are criminals, and peaceful protestors, whether they go to "training camps" or not, and even if they do non-violent, illegal things, are just civil annoyances given purpose.
I don't think you can apply definitions during word cleaning. It would simply have to be introduced as: "word cleaning doubleplusgood" so as to cause maximum confusion and obfuscation of the language. Application of the new terminology is meant to obfuscate the language so as to render it inoperable for any purpose beyond the most basic directives required by the Party. If the language renders communication of abstract thought impossible, abstract thought, even if it's not caught by the Party, becomes useless.
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Response to ridiculous extreme "example" #21388:
Ricidulously extreme example used by aminorex:
Destroying the planet Earth would be no more of an act of war than providing the use of its surface to an enemy.
In response to lobstergun who posted:
Destroying the system would be no more af an act of war than providing the use of the system to an enemy.
Response:
Nobody relies on the surface of a satellite for the continuation of life, jackass.
Except, an already weakened individual probably shouldn't be subjected to additional gravitational force. After all, if this were the case, how MUCH force needs to be added before the bacteria's spread slows to the point where it dies / is killed faster than it can be reproduced?
People lose sight of something in the battle between Linux and *OS, though. Linux is MEANT to be a UNIX clone, so it's major target is still UNIX. The whole idea that it's being used to attack Windows is sort of silly, actually. It certainly does make a good Windows replacement on the server for systems that need a wider range of or more robust tools, but part of the reason it isn't a good desktop solution yet is that it's not really meant to go head to head with Windows that way. They're too distinct systems, UNIX and Windows, and Linux tries to be UNIX, only better. There are, of course, a lot of people working to make it ready to go head to head on the desktop, and it's gaining ground, but the reason we're playing "catch up" to Windows is, again, because that wasn't the original target.
Words evolve in meaning; you can't legislate the development of language.
No, but you can challenge the evolution in court. Think about contracts. Legalese that normal people consider gibberish makes a lot of lawyers a lot of money because they challenege extreme technicalities and interpretations in court. As certain interpretations are ruled on and supported or eliminated by court decisions, language takes on new meaning within the realm of law. I have no doubt that some of this can seep out to the rest of us normal folks. Think about it - the major difference between "UNIX" and "BSD" is mainly semantic (yes, yes, I know you can argue otherwise using technicalities, but it passes the duck test this way which is how non-psychopathic-zealots determine similarity in casual discussion). It's mainly semantic because the courts ruled that way nearly a decade ago. Interesting.
Actually, if you think about it, the court can even rule on language within the Consitution and amendments. These things are legislated first, then challenged. I suppose, indirectly, you can legislate the course of language evolution.
You didn't read my link, that's why you think my comment is unfair.
The entire "problem" I had was caused by Best Buy's intentionally inept system of ordering between their website and their stores. I picked up the item in the store after ordering it online and, lo and behold - they gave me rebate slips and reciepts in the store. Best Buy then promptly refused to honor the rebate on one point:
You must use an online rebate form with an online reciept even though there is no difference between the online and in-store reciepts except the formatting. The information included on each is exactly the same.
They then proceeded to refuse any return on the item because they had been bouncing me from department to department, store to web, manager to manager for more than a month.
Now, even at this point, you could say that the issue was my own fault for not paying attention, but they gave me rebate forms in the store and told me to use them. They tried to screw me out of a rebate because 2 clerks, an asst. manager, and the store manager couldn't figure out the policy for rebates? Uh uh. That stinks of crooked practice. The whole purpose of the system is obviously to try and rip people off on technicalities, and I've NEVER had this kind of problem with anyone else. The most amazing part, however, is that no single part of the Best Buy system could tell me what any other part of the system was doing, and they all had the same answer: go talk to someone else. Whether they're the single most inept group on the planet, or they're are flat out evil is irrelvant.
"This is my friend Brad Price."
We should all take heart, I suppose, that someone who would embark on a project so geeky can still have a friend.
Note, however, that he did use an absolute singular: "my friend" instead of "one of my freinds".
"The other group" is obviously comprised completely of morons, so I'll just disregard them.
As for fear, I don't buy that as an acceptable answer. I would think that if you fear something you should try and reconcile your fear, or, if it can't be reconciled, fight or hide from it. There are things I fear, I certainly don't offer them praise. Respect, perhaps, if only for power and influence, but not praise.
I get the impression you're NOT a believer. I think that should automatically disqualify you from trying to answer the question! :-P
* You must have your reciept, otherwise we will laugh at you
Feh... Best Buy will laugh at you even if you DO have the reciept. Best Buy's entire business revolves around:
Shameless editorial: I don't see what the big deal is about them shooting themselves in the foot on Black Friday deals. Only a masochistic idiot would shop there for anything more valuable than a CD anyhow.
Uh oh. You seem to be, at least partially, contradicting this guy on the whole "forging eternity" thing.
Oh goody.... I started a theology lesson.
Christianity is not a works-based religion (contrary to the belief of some cultic variations of my religion). It is only by the acceptance of Christ as your savior that salvation is attained.
I'm not trolling or baiting you, this is a legitimate question that to this point, has failed to provoke a reasonable, intelligent answer:
Given the fact that this god considers its own arrogance and egocentrism more important than its people's actions and lives, why does it deserve to be worshipped? Any being that would allow an individual to be tortured for eternity who labored and sacrificed to comfort others, solely because that person did it out of the goodness of their own heart rather than a blind faith, is something I'd label enemy. I would never kneel before something capable of such cruelty and outright evil.
Answer me then - WHY should it be worshipped if it shows such propensity for corruption?
Ummm.... not that I think the whole Judeo-Christian Heaven and Hell thing isn't totally illogical and ridiculous (quite frankly... why SHOULD I worship a creature that's so arrogant that the only possible thing you can go to Hell for is not worshipping it? The only unforgiveable sin? Nice to know that that thing's ego is more important than human life. Uh uh, nope, sorry. Sounds like somebody I'd rather put on my Foe list.).. but if life isn't fair, why should death be?
Well looky there, I made a new friend.
You're not "using my logic", you're just not using ANY logic. First of all, you can't just put my face over yours and think it's going to work. This isn't Texas Chainsaw Massacre, we're back in the real world now, Leatherface.
Second, nobody I know of has a credit card with their face and I don't ever recall even seeing or hearing of such an option. That's what signatures are for. I suppose such a thing may exist and I've just somehow missed it in my thousands of credit card offers, but it's irrelevant because even if it does, it's OPTIONAL. Besides that, this is not an issue being discussed here, so stop stop pulling unrelated bullshit out of your ass. And, if you can't resist introducing unrelated topics, at least have the sense to make sure they're a little bit realistic before you do.
Third, YOU have A friend that drives a 200K pound car. Good for you! Funny thing about that is that your ONE friend doesn't define normality for the rest of the 6.5 billion people in the world.
Fourth, robbery and murder numbers are different and the fact that you're drawing some unbelievably assinine correlation between the two (especially with NO data on either of them) is truly a testament to how little content you've managed to add to this thread so far. If there are 20 robbers and 5 murderers, and only 4 of the robbers are willing to hurt or kill people to commit the robbery, that means there will be 0 robbers and 9 potential murderers. What sort of an IDIOT would give a person INCENTIVE to kill them to get their money? Your odds of being robbed go down, and your odds of being MURDERED go up. If YOU want to give people incentive to kill you for your money just fight back and leave the rest of us out of it. $20 in my wallet that I can just surrdender isn't worth a fight that could end my life, IMHO, but if you're miserable little pissant life is only worth 20 bucks to you, by all means - go crazy.
No, they latch on to the young and old targets because:
- They're good emotional jumping off points.
- Who the fuck in their right mind expects a 12 year old to understand copyright law when most well-educated adults don't?
- TV = Free imperfect music w/ ads. Radio = free imperfect music w/ ads. Computer =
.... not free imperfect music w/ ads? Huh?
- People are being threatened with lawsuits for the whole purpose of extorting "small" cash "settlements" out of them before they get a chance to defend themselves. Not that they could afford to if they tried.
Besides - bear in mind that the issue at hand right now is the fact that effective monopolies (just like Verizon - yea, they HAVE competition, but go try and find it in any significant way) are trying to become immune to laws that govern that govern the United States. You have a piracy problem? Too fucking bad. Like it or not, black markets are 'market realities' that reflect problems in the product being "pirated". Fix your distribution chain and make the product more attractive to buyers so they don't go to the black market.Yea yea, yap yap - the law says this, the law says that. The law in Kentucky says you can't fish in the Ohio river without an Indiana fishing license. Doesn't mean it's a good law or that anyone with half a brain should pay it any mind. Laws are meant to protect CITIZENS not CORPORATIONS that have, on more than one occasion, proven that THEY have as little disregard for the law as everyone they're yelling at (can we say... "price-fixing").
I hate to be the one to provide the rude wake-up call, but the RIAA, the MPAA, the BSA - they aren't interested in protecting SHIT. There's no money to be made in protecting business interests. There IS money to be made in holding illegitimate customers upside down and shaking them and then trying to turn EVERYONE into an illegitimate customer SOMEHOW.
Frankly - the law can suck my nuts in this matter. When they stop threatening to hand out low-price laws on Capitol Hill to these nutjobs and hold them to the same standards as everyone else, I'll give the law the respect it deserves. I don't expect that to happen anytime soon, though.
And look at that, while I was typing some other mod abused their power by modding the parent a Troll solely because they don't agree with the subject matter. I love Slashdot... I think Slashdot needs to run a censorship article on some of these idiots that get mod points sometime.
Boy, you ARE an idiot.
Look, kid. If you hang around long enough, you MIGHT find someone rolling up in a brand new DB7 Vanquish, but don't hold your breath. The BEST target for robbery is old people, you twit. They're far more likely to be carrying wads of cash you can jack. If you've got a scanner that can read the balances on people's chips though, you instantly know EXACTLY who has the most cash in a crowd of people and can act accordingly. And don't give me any security bullshit, either. No technology can ever be totally secure. And, funny, crime really brings out the best of the worst traits in people, so it WILL be broken by someone at some point.
I have to ask - are you a troll, or do you actually know so little about the real world that you believe you're not spouting shit out your mouth everytime you open it?
So, how'd that lobotomy go for you anyway? I hear the doctor didn't have real steady hands.
The original poster already said - and if you'd have been paying attention instead of just flapping your gums in the wind, you'd know this:
There'd have to be some sort of security mechanism for the chip to make sure the user was still alive.
Which takes care of your first statement.
I guess we should all leave our possessions outside our houses and the car keys in the ignition.
And, what alternative would you suggest to keeping your keys in your pocket and your posessions in your house? Hmmm? Do you know something the rest of us don't (I highly doubt that...)? Have you been keeping your posessions in an uber-safe 5th dimension or something?
The difference, since you can't pick this simple point out on your own, is in necessity. I don't need to put a chip in my body to perform transactions, yet putting the chip in my body gives EXTRA INCENTIVE to kill to get at my money. I don't have choice but to put my posessions in my abode, so I haven't much of a choice when it comes to a robber - they have to break into my house because I don't have a better place to store my stuff. And, of course, if I'm being mugged or robbed, I can willfully surrender my posessions to avoid being hurt or killed for them as long as the assailant didn't intend to hurt me regardless. If the chip is IN MY FINGER they have NO CHOICE but to remove the finger to get it. Nobody has to cut my finger off to get my wallet, thanks.
Do us all a favor and go upgrade your IQ a few points before posting again.
What happens to people that are born days or even hours before the end of the world then? I don't know about you, but I have a hard time communicating on any meaningful level with a newborn that can't even open its eyes, much less comprehend any human language.
No, the joke's on you! I'M Mark and what I do with my right hand is nothing you want to know about!
Actually, I seem to recall seeing somewhere that movies cost so much to screen that the cost of the other crap is all they can do to turn a profit.
Not that I give a fuck. That just means someone, somewhere has a serious cost problem. Oh yea, it's right there in the studio where dipshits "earn" *cough*bullshit*cough* 20 million for 6 months working on a single fucking movie that turns out to be a giagantic pile of horseshit anyway
Yes, I know, that's what I mean by embracing and extending an "immature" technology. They haven't even bothered to let this get off the ground before bastardizing it.
From the article: However, Microsoft has made public that it intends to introduce changes that will make the operating system incompatible with chips that follow the current version of the TCP spec.
I guess Microsoft just can't resist embracing and extending things. I mean.. here, they're not even waiting for the spec to mature before they ruin it with their own implementation. Maybe Microsoft will be our greatest ally in the war on DRM... or not.
Way to go. You just e-mailed a technical question to a bunch of underpaid, overworked lackeys who had nothing to do with the decision and will probably never see anyone who did.
Bear in mind that, beyond that, the trend in Customer *cough*fuckright*cough* Service these days is to use canned responses for as long as possible in the naive hope that eventually the whiny customer goes away in frustration. You'll be lucky to get a response, much less one that makes any sense.
You're lumping two completely different things under "organized crime" as if there are no degrees to criminal behavior. You can't just say "it's either crime or it's not". Not only is that a terribly horrifying idea, law enforcement and the courts RARELY do such a thing and, when they do, they typically draw the justified ire of the public. Say you're speeding up the road at twenty miles over the limit toward the hospital because your kid just swallowed a half gallon of drain cleaner.
Technically speaking, there is NO exception to the speed limit unless you're traveling UNDER it because it's a LIMIT. If there is no latitude to differentiate crimes based on intent, potential harm, etc. then, by all accounts, you should get ticketed for speeding once the cop escorts you to the hospital. That's utterly ridiculous and I find it extremely unlikely that such a thing would happen.
There is NO connection between peaceful protestors and terrorists except for the incidental usage of the term "training camp" by a couple nuts at the FBI who SHOULD be out doing something useful like tracking REAL ter'rists. Even if the protestors are doing something illegal, as long as it's not dangerous or too terribly invasive, few officials will resort to treating them like criminals to get them dispersed and few charges are typically filed. That's because there's a HUGE difference between organizing on the steps of the courthouse without a permit and bombing it. Nobody in their right mind would lump the two actions and their perps together.
And, unbounded freedom is free. "Limited freedom" is "true freedom" doesn't make any sense, but it makes for good Newspeak. People are just too irresponsible to have it and, as a result, the strong folks whomp the weak ones anyway. Just because you're happy within confines doesn't mean you're free and just because you're miserable without rule doesn't mean you're confined.
Or, more likely, you just have no perspective and an unrealistic view of the world. Fortunately, very few people in or out of law enforcement and the courts share that problem with you.
Boy... you'd looooooove Soviet Russia, I'll bet...
No, that's lumping them into the same, very, very broad category based on a very narrow sampling of extemely broadly interpreted common traits. Airplanes, Yugos, and baby carriages are all in the same very broad category of "transportation devices" based on some common, yet, very dissimilar traits (e.g. "wheels" - even though the wheels are highly dissimilar on the devices), but they're certainly not "too far off" in relation to one another. Nobody in their right mind would say a baby carriage isn't "too far off" from an airplane just because they both have wheels and carry people.
Face it: terrorists are terrorists, violent protestors are criminals, and peaceful protestors, whether they go to "training camps" or not, and even if they do non-violent, illegal things, are just civil annoyances given purpose.
I don't think you can apply definitions during word cleaning. It would simply have to be introduced as: "word cleaning doubleplusgood" so as to cause maximum confusion and obfuscation of the language. Application of the new terminology is meant to obfuscate the language so as to render it inoperable for any purpose beyond the most basic directives required by the Party. If the language renders communication of abstract thought impossible, abstract thought, even if it's not caught by the Party, becomes useless.