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Working Hard?
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you're not some square-jawed Ayn Rand hero supporting ungrateful parasites
Great quote!
Re:Looks like an interesting book.
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Hacking the XBox
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If the company choses to sell their product at a loss, it's their own problem if they can't make up for that profit - not the general public's. We have no responsibility to them.
Like Fugazi says:
We owe you nothing. You are not what you own. We owe you nothing. You have no control.
Agrarian theocracy? Nah. I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major...
It's just an LCD display which is designed to be portable, so the base folds against the screen for easy carrying. It's not like some goddamn collapsing screen that fits in your pocket. Geesh!
Noo oonce-a zee IOoCD legeesleshun is sterteeng tu get implemented in fereeuoos deefffferent Ioorupeun Uneeun cuoontreees, peuple-a ere-a begeenning tu veke-a up und ooppuse-a zee chunges. Unffurtoonetely thees is tuu lete-a noo. Zee IOoCD, Ioorupeun Uneeun Cupyreeght Durecteefe-a ves epprufed by zee IOo perleeement elreedy in 2001 veethuoot furtooelly unyune-a nuteecing it.
IOoCD seemply stetes thet ell Ioorupeun Uneeun member cuoontreees (und thuse-a jueening tu IOo next yeer) need tu implement zee durecteefe-a intu zeeur neshunel levs. Zee ooreeginel deedleene-a fur dueeng su ves in December, 2002 boot es elveys, ell cuoontreees meessed zee deedleene-a. Noo, zee IOoCD legeesleshun is ecteefe-a in hundffool ooff IOo member cuoontreees -- und oonce-a egeeen, must ooff thuse-a leefing in zeese-a cuoontreees dun't ifee knoo ebuoot it. Sume-a ooff zee cuoontreees thet hefe-a -- es fer es ve-a knoo -- implemented zee legeesleshun elreedy ere-a Germuny und Denmerk.
Su, vhet IOoCD reqooures? It fery cleerly stetes thet ell tuuls und sufftvere-a thet elloo curcoomfenteeng cupy prutecshun mechuneesms (vhezeer booeelt by prugremmeeng oor by mechuneecel meuns) veell be-a bunned veethin zee Ioorupeun Uneeun. Zee durecteefe-a duesn't speceefficelly meke-a it illegel tu use-a sooch tuuls, boot mekes it illegel tu deestriboote-a, sell und edferteese-a sooch tuuls. Preeme-a ixemple-a ooff sooch tuuls ere-a DFD reeppers. Su, iff a seete-a is luceted veethin zee Ioorupeun Uneeun, it cun't deestriboote-a DFD reeppers (iff its neshunel cuoontry hes elreedy implemented zee IOoCD).
Es a durect resoolt ooff Germuny's IOoCD legeesleshun, zee must pupooler DFD reepping peck fur Leenoox, dfd::reep hed tu be-a mudeeffied su thet it duesn't incloode-a uny perts thet elloo curcoomfenteeng zee CSS cupy prutecshun.
Noo Svedee hes unnuoonced its prupusel fur implementeeng zee IOoCD intu its oovn legeesleshun. Svedee hes oobfeeuoosly deceeded tu teke-a theengs a beet foorzeer thun IOoCD vuoold reqooure-a. In eddeeshun tu bunneeng deestribooshun ooff cupy prutecshun curcoomfenshun tuuls, Svedee's prupusel mekes it elsu illegel tu doonlued cupyreeghted metereeel frum P2P netvurks (tredeeshunelly veethin zee IOo, doonluedeeng illegel metereeel is perffectly legel, boot deestribooting it -- sooch es shereeng zee metereeel feea P2P netvurks -- is illegel) und elsu edds a lefy tu blunk deegitel medeea tu cumpensete-a cupyreeght oovners fur lust refenooe-a (sooch lefy hes ixeested yeers in fereeuoos cuoontreees, sooch es Feenlund und Cuneda).
Zee must dremeteec theeng is prubebly zee prupused rete-a fur zee medeea lefy -- zee lefy (oor steelt tex oor vhetefer yuoo vunt tu cell it) vuoold edd a decent SEK31 (eppx. â3.4 oor $4.0) tu iech blunk deesc despeete-a its ixeesting reteeel preece-a.
Iff zee prupused lev pesses in Svedee's perleeement, it veell be-a implemented es a lev by ind ooff zee yeer.
As I understand it, then, you are arguing that a newspaper, being information stored in paper and ink, should be required to print rebuttals. But the internet, being information stored as bytes and pixels, should have no such requirement. So, it's a matter of a technical difference in the way information is stored?
You are perfectly capable of getting your own free blog or webpage and globally publishing your comments yourself.
Are free blogs guaranteed under your government's constitution? I wouldn't be suprised if free blogs go the way of free ISPs some day. After all, it costs money to host a website in much the same way it costs money to publish a newspaper.
Perhaps somewhat tangentially, some newspapers even have the same business model as free blog sites: the use of advertising to cover the cost of publication. The fact that people are paying for a newspaper or not does not affect their responsibility to publish retractions, etc.
Nobody told me this design award was up for grabs. If they had, I would have sent in photos of my cool case mod, which is entirely made of potato chips and twine. That would have easily clinched it.
"Over the last ten years laptops are starting to look the same," said Phoenix spokesperson David Tractenberg. "Something like TheftGuard can help to differentiate one product from another."
Something like TheftGuard? It's like saying "TheftGuard is OK. But check out things that are like it, and you'll really be impressed."
Seriously, how "controversial" is it? There are like 12 responses to the blog. Not exactly the kind of stuff that gets people out protesting on the street.
Where's the love? Come on, now, people. The 18 cent piece is a fine idea. Why, the other day I bought lunch, including a burger and drink, and it came to exactly $4.82. Oh, and it came with fires. I mean, fries. So anyhow, being the smart guy I am, I gave the cashier $7.29, so that the change would be exactly $1.61, which is a nice round number. Easy, but not as easy as the new system. Had the 18 cent piece existed, it would have been even simpler. I could have given her 27 of these new coins and told her that I counted it already, and said it was exact change. By the time she noticed it wasn't, I'd be a mile down the road calling her a sucker. I'd be ahead by at least 4 1/2 cents! Now, which scenario would you prefer, huh?
It's not about taking a stand on some piddly "thing", it's supporting individual rights against the overwhelming power of moneyed interests. If you ever find yourself in similar trouble, you'll be glad to find out that other people aren't as numb and (a)pathetic as you are.
What kind of arrangements do I need to make with the zoning board of my town?
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"We have concerns about Iranian agents in Iraq... We have made clear to Iran we oppose any outside interference in Iraq's road to democracy." - Ari Fleischer
> Hello, the terrorists declared war on the U.S. a long time ago.
> There has never been a better time for LotR to rise into popular
> culture - it reminds us that there are indeed things worth
> fighting for.
Like in the case of Iraq, oil!
Or did you mean "our way of life"? Yes, by annihilating Iraq, we will be truly fighting for our way of life. Those Iraqis sure resemble, at least in skin tone but probably in mindset, the Saudi terrorists who attacked us.
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Great quote!
If the company choses to sell their product at a loss, it's their own problem if they can't make up for that profit - not the general public's. We have no responsibility to them.
Like Fugazi says:
We owe you nothing.
You are not what you own.
We owe you nothing.
You have no control.
I sure as heck bought a few. I've got some Jones, some Smith, you name it. It's like having a friggin phone book, but it costs a lot more.
Agrarian theocracy? Nah. I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major...
It's just an LCD display which is designed to be portable, so the base folds against the screen for easy carrying. It's not like some goddamn collapsing screen that fits in your pocket. Geesh!
Noo oonce-a zee IOoCD legeesleshun is sterteeng tu get implemented in fereeuoos deefffferent Ioorupeun Uneeun cuoontreees, peuple-a ere-a begeenning tu veke-a up und ooppuse-a zee chunges. Unffurtoonetely thees is tuu lete-a noo. Zee IOoCD, Ioorupeun Uneeun Cupyreeght Durecteefe-a ves epprufed by zee IOo perleeement elreedy in 2001 veethuoot furtooelly unyune-a nuteecing it.
IOoCD seemply stetes thet ell Ioorupeun Uneeun member cuoontreees (und thuse-a jueening tu IOo next yeer) need tu implement zee durecteefe-a intu zeeur neshunel levs. Zee ooreeginel deedleene-a fur dueeng su ves in December, 2002 boot es elveys, ell cuoontreees meessed zee deedleene-a. Noo, zee IOoCD legeesleshun is ecteefe-a in hundffool ooff IOo member cuoontreees -- und oonce-a egeeen, must ooff thuse-a leefing in zeese-a cuoontreees dun't ifee knoo ebuoot it. Sume-a ooff zee cuoontreees thet hefe-a -- es fer es ve-a knoo -- implemented zee legeesleshun elreedy ere-a Germuny und Denmerk.
Su, vhet IOoCD reqooures? It fery cleerly stetes thet ell tuuls und sufftvere-a thet elloo curcoomfenteeng cupy prutecshun mechuneesms (vhezeer booeelt by prugremmeeng oor by mechuneecel meuns) veell be-a bunned veethin zee Ioorupeun Uneeun. Zee durecteefe-a duesn't speceefficelly meke-a it illegel tu use-a sooch tuuls, boot mekes it illegel tu deestriboote-a, sell und edferteese-a sooch tuuls. Preeme-a ixemple-a ooff sooch tuuls ere-a DFD reeppers. Su, iff a seete-a is luceted veethin zee Ioorupeun Uneeun, it cun't deestriboote-a DFD reeppers (iff its neshunel cuoontry hes elreedy implemented zee IOoCD).
Es a durect resoolt ooff Germuny's IOoCD legeesleshun, zee must pupooler DFD reepping peck fur Leenoox, dfd::reep hed tu be-a mudeeffied su thet it duesn't incloode-a uny perts thet elloo curcoomfenteeng zee CSS cupy prutecshun.
Noo Svedee hes unnuoonced its prupusel fur implementeeng zee IOoCD intu its oovn legeesleshun. Svedee hes oobfeeuoosly deceeded tu teke-a theengs a beet foorzeer thun IOoCD vuoold reqooure-a. In eddeeshun tu bunneeng deestribooshun ooff cupy prutecshun curcoomfenshun tuuls, Svedee's prupusel mekes it elsu illegel tu doonlued cupyreeghted metereeel frum P2P netvurks (tredeeshunelly veethin zee IOo, doonluedeeng illegel metereeel is perffectly legel, boot deestribooting it -- sooch es shereeng zee metereeel feea P2P netvurks -- is illegel) und elsu edds a lefy tu blunk deegitel medeea tu cumpensete-a cupyreeght oovners fur lust refenooe-a (sooch lefy hes ixeested yeers in fereeuoos cuoontreees, sooch es Feenlund und Cuneda).
Zee must dremeteec theeng is prubebly zee prupused rete-a fur zee medeea lefy -- zee lefy (oor steelt tex oor vhetefer yuoo vunt tu cell it) vuoold edd a decent SEK31 (eppx. â3.4 oor $4.0) tu iech blunk deesc despeete-a its ixeesting reteeel preece-a.
Iff zee prupused lev pesses in Svedee's perleeement, it veell be-a implemented es a lev by ind ooff zee yeer.
As I understand it, then, you are arguing that a newspaper, being information stored in paper and ink, should be required to print rebuttals. But the internet, being information stored as bytes and pixels, should have no such requirement. So, it's a matter of a technical difference in the way information is stored?
You are perfectly capable of getting your own free blog or webpage and globally publishing your comments yourself.
Are free blogs guaranteed under your government's constitution? I wouldn't be suprised if free blogs go the way of free ISPs some day. After all, it costs money to host a website in much the same way it costs money to publish a newspaper.
Perhaps somewhat tangentially, some newspapers even have the same business model as free blog sites: the use of advertising to cover the cost of publication. The fact that people are paying for a newspaper or not does not affect their responsibility to publish retractions, etc.
Newbie.
Nobody told me this design award was up for grabs. If they had, I would have sent in photos of my cool case mod, which is entirely made of potato chips and twine. That would have easily clinched it.
Hopefully, the universal format for postal codes is not derived from the file format of MS Word. But I'd guess it will be.
They may sue over patent infringement, in which case it doesn't matter if the code is copied.
Something like TheftGuard? It's like saying "TheftGuard is OK. But check out things that are like it, and you'll really be impressed."
And they're going to rename it Trans Am next month.
Seriously, how "controversial" is it? There are like 12 responses to the blog. Not exactly the kind of stuff that gets people out protesting on the street.
They've voted Linux to be mayor?! Wow, that IS is a big step for open source software!
Where's the love? Come on, now, people. The 18 cent piece is a fine idea. Why, the other day I bought lunch, including a burger and drink, and it came to exactly $4.82. Oh, and it came with fires. I mean, fries. So anyhow, being the smart guy I am, I gave the cashier $7.29, so that the change would be exactly $1.61, which is a nice round number. Easy, but not as easy as the new system. Had the 18 cent piece existed, it would have been even simpler. I could have given her 27 of these new coins and told her that I counted it already, and said it was exact change. By the time she noticed it wasn't, I'd be a mile down the road calling her a sucker. I'd be ahead by at least 4 1/2 cents! Now, which scenario would you prefer, huh?
OK, it's actually just a deck of cards. Consider it a prototype.
It's not about taking a stand on some piddly "thing", it's supporting individual rights against the overwhelming power of moneyed interests. If you ever find yourself in similar trouble, you'll be glad to find out that other people aren't as numb and (a)pathetic as you are.
What kind of arrangements do I need to make with the zoning board of my town?
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"We have concerns about Iranian agents in Iraq... We have made clear to Iran we oppose any outside interference in Iraq's road to democracy." - Ari Fleischer
But it would also be a good band name...
Naked BMX racing games are alive and well!
Interstingly, the original Pong has no source code, from what I've read. It's implemented completely in hardware.
> There has never been a better time for LotR to rise into popular
> culture - it reminds us that there are indeed things worth
> fighting for.
Like in the case of Iraq, oil!
Or did you mean "our way of life"? Yes, by annihilating Iraq, we will be truly fighting for our way of life. Those Iraqis sure resemble, at least in skin tone but probably in mindset, the Saudi terrorists who attacked us.