Because the amount of methane contributed to the atmosphere after "Burrito Night" at my house certainly needs to be accounted for and will undoubtedly be found as the sole cause of global warming.
Oh come on, a fart joke needed to be made! Laugh already.
Your expansion upon my post is definitely insightful. I was not aware of sites like Perverted Justice, but this case certainly does make one have to think about the future of such sites. As for parents monitoring children's conversations on the internet, I can't help but be worried about how treacherous that would be in court, as it could infringe on a parent's right to protect their children as well as infringing upon a child's rights to not be monitored constantly (if this is infact a "right" is debateable in itself).
What about the IM programs that conversation logs as a default option of the program itself. In theory, both parties could unknowingly be recording their conversation.
Does anyone know if these laws apply in any other states?
If he just hadn't broken into the other person's home and stolen his possesions, well then I imagine he would also be a free man as well. But, I guess you can look at the stupid part being the lack of a mask.:\
Considering he has created three of the best hiphop albums of the last ten years I believe your theory of his musical prowess is a bit skewed. Also, it's spelt "aggrandizing" and your accusations truly reveal your white Eurocentric bias towards music and towards human beings.
If he's any good, we'll notice. If he isn't, we'll notice.
Apparently he is good, as was noticed by the fucking Emmy committee, who has a lot more credibility than your sorry ass will ever have. Take your troll somewhere else. I wasn't over-endulging his abilities at all, I was simply stating commonly known fact.
Mos Def is an extremely gifted musician and skilled actor. He was recently nominated for an Emmy as a lead actor in a mini-series for his work on Something the Lord Made on HBO. He has also been in numerous other films which you can look at here.
Computing standards are so incredibly important to the successful distribution of PCs throughout the world and the TCP/IP standard is perhaps one of the most important, considering the vast importance of the internet and network-based communications.
Congratulations to some truly innovative pioneers.
While you vision of Google's future indeed seems intriguing, I must say that your desire to rapidly sign-up everyone in the world for a $20/month fee for their services is quite obsurd. Frankly, I don't enjoy the fact that I would have to pay my ISP money to access the internet and then pay Google, and I'm sure every other company who would RAPIDLY follow suit, for their services too. I'd find myself having to shell out close to $60-$100 a month for the internet, which is something I frankly don't care to do.
I understand there are operating costs, but isn't Google's revenue stream that currently has it as one of the most successful business out there sufficient enough? The Google share holders certainly wouldn't argue against the current business plan.
It is not necessarily that I don't want to pay for outstanding services, its just that I fear the precident this would set for all services (e.g. pay-per-use operating systems and software) especially those on the web.
After decades of pushing for more fuel efficient cars, now they want to punish you for owning them.
This is my sentiment exactly. Progress is really just starting to be made on a large scale with fuel efficient and eco-friendly vehicles and now the state who has the largest group spear-heading the whole movement wants to essentially put a halt to the entire thing. I am so baffled by this idea and its ludicrious assertions on so many levels. Not only are they attempting to curb a movement that is attempting to save the environment but they are also advocating invasion of privacy and the entire premise behind the "open roadways" initiatives of the 60's which built up all the damn freeways in the first place.
Yes, yes it should indeed be free. Information is the essential ingredient to the advancement of society. This is why public libraries, schools, and lectures were created, so that information could be dissemenated to all individuals who actively sought it out for themselves and for their children. Charging $20 a month for access to information is an outrageous idea and is particularly frightening when uttered by an individual whose company holds the key to so much of the electronic information on the web. I think if they continue with his "vision" of the future, Google's usage will plummet quite rapidly.
Hasn't the Open Source community taught anyone the value of free information exchange??
Does anyone know what cell companies will make this model available in the States? I read TFA and it didn't seem to mention who would be offering this. Are we going to endure another Motorola Razor situation? I think this would be a poor decision by Motorola if they don't get this one out to more providers.
I find it quite interesting that all of these mergers seem to involve one company that has a reputation primarily, although not exclusively, for being a cellular provider and the other being a land-line/long distance carrier. After these three mega-corps control all the air and land telecommunications what is next for them?
This all reminds me of the cable company and internet company mergers of the past few years as well. Why the sudden influx of mega-mergers over the past few years? Are these actually "good business" decisions or are they attempts to salvage the future of corps that feel the end might be near for them? I can't help but worry about the legitimacy of these deals as most of these companies have been bitter rivals for so long. It all just seems a bit too chummy for my taste. (Puts on tin-foil hat)
Why would Verizon want to sign such an agreement with **Apple**? Cut out the middleman, I says.
While it would seem to make more sense for a company like Verizon to go straight to the source for the music, it would also be easier and more lucrative to utilize someone like Apple or Napster or Microsoft, who already have licenses with all the major and a good deal of the minor records labels, for their services. It's all about marketing and when consumers think of online music purchases they are immediately drawn to a branded name such as iTunes or Napster, not to the record label since that is not the type of marketing that the record label itself is looking for in the public image.
Record labels make all their money by promoting an artist, who might flaunt their label a bit, but they predominantly stay back in the shadows.
Anyone who has lived or visited the Philly area in an automobile will easily understand this statement. Sometimes there are simple, yet vastly under-supported, issues in urban areas that get overlooked by groups that are so quick to spend it on more frivolous things. Philly's roads are really quite bad and need attention far moreso than the city needing a WiFi network.
Are you using any software for downloading files? Perhaps you downloaded something that installed the spyware? I'm not trying to say Firefox is impossible to get hit with spyware, but there are other means of getting spyware than just through your web browser.
Considering thousands of transactions happen every hour of the day on EBay, your experience is still very limited and should not be used to denounce other people's legitimate problems on the site.
Certainly no one else could have experienced different error experiences than you have. Yes, all people experience exactly what happens to you. Is it hard balancing the orbits of all the planets around you?
All you have to do is read some of the comments here to realize that some people have other problems on EBay that require support from EBay CS.
You are seriously categorizing groups of consumers into "good" and "bad" groups? How about the sole problem lies more in our ridiculous consumer culture as opposed to the methods people chose to consume. Get a clue man.
This is without a doubt the most confusing post I have ever read on slashdot. Congratulations on completely failing to convey your thoughts coherently. WTF?
As someone who uses BT to get latest episodes of TV programs that I missed (yes I realize there is something called the VCR or Tivo, but I like watching some shows at my PC), I can vouch for why BT is a great service and can be used for very legit reasons. Certainly BT is primarily used for distribution of copyrighted material, but if you look at the number of forums that sites have dedicated just to TV programs and Radio shows I think that there is a large enough minority that you are overlooking here.
What you are talking about the prevalent culture of fear, not caused by, but certainly aided by, terrorism. The culture is far more prevalent than a fear of death, and certainly has been around for far longer than 20 years.
Good observation, however, your anger is directed at far too narrow of a target.
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Oh come on, a fart joke needed to be made! Laugh already.
Thanks for the insights.
Does anyone know if these laws apply in any other states?
If he just hadn't broken into the other person's home and stolen his possesions, well then I imagine he would also be a free man as well. But, I guess you can look at the stupid part being the lack of a mask. :\
If he's any good, we'll notice. If he isn't, we'll notice.
Apparently he is good, as was noticed by the fucking Emmy committee, who has a lot more credibility than your sorry ass will ever have. Take your troll somewhere else. I wasn't over-endulging his abilities at all, I was simply stating commonly known fact.
Mos Def is an extremely gifted musician and skilled actor. He was recently nominated for an Emmy as a lead actor in a mini-series for his work on Something the Lord Made on HBO. He has also been in numerous other films which you can look at here.
Thanks for the laugh! One of the more intelligent jokes made on /. over the past few weeks. Bravo!
Congratulations to some truly innovative pioneers.
I understand there are operating costs, but isn't Google's revenue stream that currently has it as one of the most successful business out there sufficient enough? The Google share holders certainly wouldn't argue against the current business plan.
It is not necessarily that I don't want to pay for outstanding services, its just that I fear the precident this would set for all services (e.g. pay-per-use operating systems and software) especially those on the web.
This is my sentiment exactly. Progress is really just starting to be made on a large scale with fuel efficient and eco-friendly vehicles and now the state who has the largest group spear-heading the whole movement wants to essentially put a halt to the entire thing. I am so baffled by this idea and its ludicrious assertions on so many levels. Not only are they attempting to curb a movement that is attempting to save the environment but they are also advocating invasion of privacy and the entire premise behind the "open roadways" initiatives of the 60's which built up all the damn freeways in the first place.
Yes, yes it should indeed be free. Information is the essential ingredient to the advancement of society. This is why public libraries, schools, and lectures were created, so that information could be dissemenated to all individuals who actively sought it out for themselves and for their children. Charging $20 a month for access to information is an outrageous idea and is particularly frightening when uttered by an individual whose company holds the key to so much of the electronic information on the web. I think if they continue with his "vision" of the future, Google's usage will plummet quite rapidly.
Hasn't the Open Source community taught anyone the value of free information exchange??
Does anyone know what cell companies will make this model available in the States? I read TFA and it didn't seem to mention who would be offering this. Are we going to endure another Motorola Razor situation? I think this would be a poor decision by Motorola if they don't get this one out to more providers.
This all reminds me of the cable company and internet company mergers of the past few years as well. Why the sudden influx of mega-mergers over the past few years? Are these actually "good business" decisions or are they attempts to salvage the future of corps that feel the end might be near for them? I can't help but worry about the legitimacy of these deals as most of these companies have been bitter rivals for so long. It all just seems a bit too chummy for my taste. (Puts on tin-foil hat)
While it would seem to make more sense for a company like Verizon to go straight to the source for the music, it would also be easier and more lucrative to utilize someone like Apple or Napster or Microsoft, who already have licenses with all the major and a good deal of the minor records labels, for their services. It's all about marketing and when consumers think of online music purchases they are immediately drawn to a branded name such as iTunes or Napster, not to the record label since that is not the type of marketing that the record label itself is looking for in the public image.
Record labels make all their money by promoting an artist, who might flaunt their label a bit, but they predominantly stay back in the shadows.
Anyone who has lived or visited the Philly area in an automobile will easily understand this statement. Sometimes there are simple, yet vastly under-supported, issues in urban areas that get overlooked by groups that are so quick to spend it on more frivolous things. Philly's roads are really quite bad and need attention far moreso than the city needing a WiFi network.
Are you using any software for downloading files? Perhaps you downloaded something that installed the spyware? I'm not trying to say Firefox is impossible to get hit with spyware, but there are other means of getting spyware than just through your web browser.
Considering thousands of transactions happen every hour of the day on EBay, your experience is still very limited and should not be used to denounce other people's legitimate problems on the site.
All you have to do is read some of the comments here to realize that some people have other problems on EBay that require support from EBay CS.
You are seriously categorizing groups of consumers into "good" and "bad" groups? How about the sole problem lies more in our ridiculous consumer culture as opposed to the methods people chose to consume. Get a clue man.
This is without a doubt the most confusing post I have ever read on slashdot. Congratulations on completely failing to convey your thoughts coherently. WTF?
Valve recently has been shutting down Steam accounts that are in violation of their policies, hence my extension of the parent's joke.
Holy hell I just had to slaughter the joke. Thanks.
HA! Perhaps they will be able to terminate any car that is broken in to and de-activate the car's ignition key.
Hasn't the genius of John Woo taught us all that single bullets can stop freightliners in their tracks?
As someone who uses BT to get latest episodes of TV programs that I missed (yes I realize there is something called the VCR or Tivo, but I like watching some shows at my PC), I can vouch for why BT is a great service and can be used for very legit reasons. Certainly BT is primarily used for distribution of copyrighted material, but if you look at the number of forums that sites have dedicated just to TV programs and Radio shows I think that there is a large enough minority that you are overlooking here.
What you are talking about the prevalent culture of fear, not caused by, but certainly aided by, terrorism. The culture is far more prevalent than a fear of death, and certainly has been around for far longer than 20 years.
Good observation, however, your anger is directed at far too narrow of a target.