I know this is off topic, but I want to see what you mean about this...
Do you mean that when the kids talk about their parents, that you don't want your kid hearing that Heather has two mommies? Or you don't want your kid hearing that Heather is still ok even though she has two mommies?
He does not believe that 2 women raising a child as a family unit is a proper environment, nor does he wish his child to be taught such. As a parent that is his right. And you can not flame him for his moral stance.
I had a look at the battlebots and robotwars websites. I haven't seen any actual competitions yet but it seems that the winners are always robots that try to immobilize the opponents by a "flipping or tossing" strategy - like the battlebots reigning champion - Biohazard.
An easy way to combat flippers is to have your Bot not care what side is up or down. Mine would be a large metal ball slung between two big tractor tires. I'd put a cutting device on it, and possibly some big ceramic magnets so it could clamp onto the competition and cut them apart. To avoid side flipping just put convex metal covers over the tires so that it keeps rolling. It would never lose to a flipper, but a smasher might take it down.
add me too, or did all of you play college football too?
Unfortunately I still had the shy, can't pick up a clue to save his life, persona until midway through college. Now I work all the time (my real job and hobbies would seem disturbingly similar to outsiders) and just don't usually make the effort.
BTW, Vacations at exotic locales are great for getting laid, but don't do much for long-term love-gettin'.
Wrestling and Martial Arts for me, I was never quite big enough for football, though I was invited to be the kicker for my highschool team because the coach saw me do some boardbreaks and stuff... I always prefered slightly less team oriented sports.
Okay, we've got the geek quotient to do it -- we just need Andover.net to sponsor the project and a few folks out there to kick in some time. Let's put together our own competitor for the Battle Bot scene!
count me in! I'm a hardware geek through and through. I didn't see whether they allowed projectile weapons or not though... I would guess no. How about something with a ton of ceramic magnets (Like from inside a hard drive) mounted on a couple of thick arms to lock it to its opponent, then a set of sawblades mounted under the body to carve the enemy up... To avoid those damn flippy bots we'd go into the light weight category and mount the body between 2 giant tractor tires so that it was suspended from the ground. Power it with a gocart engine or something similar... the hardest part would be to make sure that it could turn the wheels instead of just spinning itself around a lot.... Heck, I could probably build that with 500$.... >:)
Geeks are ugly. Or, more to the point, people who sit around all day doing softare or electrical design, aren't usually the sort who live in their bodies. They tend to live in their heads, and sod all with that bag of flesh down below.
I assume that you're referring to firearms control? If so, there's a problem with your analogy -- software patches are free, and weapons are not.
If all levels of weaponry were free, and none of them could be used for evil purposes, then your analogy would hold.
However, weapons are not free, and they CAN be used for evil purposes -- unlike software patches.
Ever accidentally patched your TCP/IP stack with a SCSI patch? I thought not. Ever missed a target with a bullet? I thought so.
This doesn't mean that your underlying point is equally flawed, but you'll need to elaborate on it a bit more . . .
first, not all software is free. Second, it is much easier to learn how to use a gun than learn how to effectively patch every security hole in your system. Most people who own computers don't have time to spend cruising BugTraq and downloading patches to keep their system secure up to the minute, if they did that they would never get anything else done on their system. Patches CAN screw up a system, one of the patches for my V3 screwed my sound card up, requiring me to get a second patch for my sound card, the V3 patch also screwed up my DVD player, which had no patch available, so no more DVD capability on my PC. No big deal to me, but still annoying.
Anyways, I'm drifting from my point... My first POINT is that if the meatspace cops can't protect me from some back alley mugger then why should we expect these guys to protect us from crackers? And my SECOND point is, since the government can't protect the average user, how is the average use supposed to secure their system?
Personally, I wish the government would spend less time trying to crack down on miscreants and more time educating the public. Prevention starts at he end-user, Janet!
This statement annoys me to no end. So many people on this site are completely against the end 'User' protecting themselves from conventional crime, yet expect them to completely secure themselves from all harm when it comes to the 'net and their PC. How would you feel if you got mugged and the response by the people you talked to was nothing but 'Well, you should have downloaded the easily available patch Remington.45 and you would have been secure against that exploit.' ? Either it is the end users job to protect themselves from everything or nothing. I vote for Everything.
Obsenity is NOT protected under the first amendment. Why is it that most of slashdot disagree? It's been ruled by the Supreme Court that obsenity is not protected.
I find your statement to be obscene and demand that it be removed from the forum immediately before some impressionable free-speach activist sees it and is permanently scarred.
And just in case you didn't understand the point of that, WHO DECIDES WHAT IS OBSCENE?
or what about Thor believing in God, or God in the hammer? or the hammer in/.? grow up folks, religion is simply a placebo for the weak minded. why would an all powerful diety (or group thereof) leave no sign for us to know their existance?
Maybe you just don't know what you're looking for? But I believe it is interesting to get the perspective of a man who works daily with the fundamental aspects of the universe. He of all people should have some sort of opinion as he is closer to this that the rest of us. Oh, and last time I checked this guy wasn't claiming to be the Thunder God....
Yes its true. Most americans are afraid of there own body parts! Its amazing really. So many people think its bad to see a body part EVERYONE else has. I mean if youd been raised being told that ears were just the most evil things and a males genetalia is not. Which would you think is bad? Its so annoying that folks think like that. Whats the big DEAL? You afraid to go without pants or a shirt because someone might see something every person on the planet has? Its like.. freaking sad. I recently went to Austrailia to visit my aunt. I can tell you this aussies have no inhibitions about displaying nudity on TV. As long as its in good taste its cool. (Mostly Educational stuff but..) That just sorta took me back a lil. Not much sense I have always had this philosophy. Whats the big deal? Unless you have penis Envy or you were raised to think your own body parts are something to hide. You dont mind it. Really.. pr0n does very little for me due to my up bringing. Its no big deal just another body part. Not something to get all excited about. Okay so you use your mouth to eat and your unit to reproduce. Ahem whats the big deal? Anyone care to comment?
I wear pants/boxers for protection and warmth... Don't want to have my bits and pieces hanging about where they could get caught on something... Seems like good sense to me, it's why clothes were invented in the first place, it's freaking cold and pointy out there in the real world.>:)
I personally had a mother who died of cancer. and I personally think your attitude is horrible. I took my VA Linux "winnings" and invested them in something with no chance of a financial ROI... research.
No, I'm not saying anybody else should do this. Just that I wish everybody would stop telling everybody how to spend their money. There are far more good causes than I know how to give to, so I pick and choose. I'm sure this is the norm, for those of us who give to charity
I agree completely with this since you are doing it because someone you loved died of the disease. But charities soliciting donations from everyone and then people saying how horrible it is for others to pick and choose their charities instead of giving to the one THEY favor is inane. I'll give to the people *I* care about, you give to the people YOU care about, and everyone that anyone cares about gets something. Amazing how that works isn't it...?
My bad then, I was only referencing my own posts. Though he wasn't being harsh as me paying for some lifetime smokers chemotherapy or lung transplant would be ludicrous. Or giving to a charity designed to help the 400lb over eater get a quad-bypass... I sympothize with children, adults usually make their own choices...
Oh yeah, gee, you're right, I'm sorry. Gosh, how could I have been so selfish and blind?!?
bah, forget about a child in the hospital suffering from a defective heart valve, forget about the kids suffering from leukemia, and while I'm at it, forget about everyone else too.
Thank you for showing me the way in such a hateful world. Even though I cannot be assured that my hard-earned money will actually benefit these poor little penguins, and that there is not information about who to actually make the check out to, at least I will be secure in the fact that it's not going to all those suffering kids who really have no one to blame for their condition but themselves. After all, as you put it, it's their own lifestyle choices that put them in that condition.
Gee, you think maybe I should alert the medical community and let them know the exact cause for cancer while I'm at it?... Recently Enlightened/. Poster addressing scientists: "Hey guys! You morons, you're doing it wrong! You're wasting all this money trying to find a cause, when the actual cause is their lifestyle!"
Thanks, I feel enlightened.
Nowhere did anyone say that it is the fault of the people with cancer that they have it, or any other medical condition. But WE aren't the ones that should be helping them. Their friends and relatives should be helping them. *I* should be helping my friends and relatives, which I do. I'm not sending any money to these penguins, even though I support the cause, because I have no idea where this money is actually going. I would be much more interested in prosecuting the company responsible. I'm sorry that you feel the burning need to try and add more useless crap to our gene pool but don't take your bitterness out on me. Despite my views I sleep perfectly soundly at night.
Perhaps if you personally knew of someone who suffered from cancer, diabetes, heart problems, or some other type of physical condition, you would think differently.
I have personally known people with these conditions, family members, neighbors, people I cared about. My FAMILY bands together to support itself, my COMMUNITY does the same. We don't go out searching for handouts and donations from everyone. If someone has cancer well that's just too bad, but they have friends, and relatives that can help them and should be helping them. My resources are devoted to helping people that I know and care about. And I'm afraid random charities that spend 50% of the money paying for their infrastructure aren't on my list.
However, I have to remind you that there are thousands of poor, homeless, destitute people around the world, dying in streets, suffering in refugee camps, and there are hundreds and thousands (no, that's not a gross over estimation ) of children orphaned by wars and natural disasters.
Each of those human beings is capable of making a choice as to how they live and what resources are available to them. The parents of the starving children chose to continue fucking like rabbits in order to spawn off a whole new generation of starving children. People in refugee camps are there by choice in one way or another, they can pick up and walk somewhere else. Yes, it's hard, no I doubt I'd be able to do it, but it can be done and they have that choice. The penguins have no such option. I for one have no sympathy for 90% of all poor/homeless/destitute people as I have seen people try to help over and over and over again and the person always ends up back in the gutter. Maybe the homeless in other countries aren't the laziest 3% of the population, but in the US the homeless aren't usually worth helping. Yes I'm a jackass, yes I'm a bastard, but I've tried helping these people and it doesn't work. At least the penguins don't smell like Wild Turkey when they stumble up to me. All of those orphaned children have relatives somewhere, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, that should be taking care of them. Yes it's too bad they lost their parents, but there should be people there to help them already, my contribution should not be needed.
Mark this as flamebait and a troll if you really want to, but it's the way I feel about sanctimonious bastards that bitch and moan about the plight of the homeless.
So what is being done to punish the oil company? Which company is responsible, are they investigating the cause? Who is being held accountable for this? Someone needs to get their ass handed to them on a platter for dumping a bunch of oil in our ocean!
I can't help but feel that you're being irrationally paranoid here. You don't need guns to protect yourself in a civilised society, and in fact the widespread presence of guns is more of a threat to your personal safety than 'invaders'. I live in a country that has not been invaded successfully for 934 years, and feel no threat there. I feel some threat from street crime, yes, as I am currently living in a poor inner-city area, but I would not feel any safer if there were more guns about and least of all if I were carrying one. And as for the government coming down on you, well, maybe, but I don't see that happening soon either in the USA or in any EU country.
AHA! This is the key mistake, nowhere on this floating mud ball does there exist a 'Civilized' society. As to the proximity in time of the next government sponsored citizen slaughter it is irrelevant when it will happen, only that it will and I would prefer to at least take down a couple of the bastards before they kick in my door, rape my wife, and put a bullet in me. If it doesn't happen to me then I want to make sure my children and my friend's children have the same capability to defend their freedom. If you choose not to defend your own freedom do not look to me to defend it for you when the shit hits the fan, I'll be busy reloading.
'Fine' is insufficient. If I can't see every individual rendered blood droplet when I blow your head through the back of the screen from all the way across the level without any slow down with ALL of the eye candy turned on then it isn't good enough! >:)
Of course, the issue here is that the devices being sold were illegal under US law. If you don't like the law, that's one thing, but criticising law enforcement is like criticising fire for burning down your house after you left those candles burning. I also find it amusing that all the geeks who routinely rail against Big Brother also run to protect the people who make their tools (where do you think corporate security buys their gear?)...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the devices are not illegal under US law. They are only illegal if they are used as surveillance equipment and/or hidden in everyday objects like clocks and smoke alarms. The devices the agents confiscated are used for medical, recreation, and educational purposes every day and are legal in that use. They only become illegal when a customer does something illegal with them. Hence this company is innocent of wrong doing and will be proven so in court, but that will take 5 or 10 years and by that time they will likely have been forced out of business by the government.
2 Questions.
1. Where do I sign up?
2. How much content am I required to generate per payment cycle in order to get my share?
It seems like this model could reward people who produce very little content or content of very poor quality on an equal level as those who produce lots of content or content of an excellent quality. That doesn't seem right.
Did you READ the story? They paid, 3 checks they sent were cashed, the ISP asked for the 3 checks, then said they would look into the mistake, then cut them off without warning. Masslinux then did what they could to get back online, they could have done a better job of it but everyone is getting their page and data back, everyone is getting their money back, and Masslinux is GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. What the FUCK more do you want from them? They are BROKE, and you want to take them to court or have them investigated over something they couldn't control?!
To protest all of these people screaming about the guy putting his all advantage info into his SIG I'm putting mine into the body of a Post which starts at 2 and will take 3 moderator points to get rid of. So there.
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The Romans would sheath their battle sword, pull out this short sword, and chase down the enemy from behind, using the "Pike" to stab the anus and genitals of the fleeing enemy, leaving the injured to a slow painful death by infection.
A Pike is an entirely different weapon. A Pike is similar to a PoleArm or Spear, usually they would be set slightly buried in the ground butt first by foot soldiers to discourage horsemen from charging their lines. Traditionally these foot soldiers would be backed up by Archers or Crossbowmen, during a siege the Catapults would be behind them, and beyond that on a hill would be the commander of the army with runners and signal flags or mirrors.
A sincere FUCK OFF to you. MassLinux is refunding the money that they have recieved from customers for which they will not be able to render service. They got shafted by their provider and did the best they could to fix it. These people were doing a service to the community and making very very little money from it. So stop bitching.
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I know this is off topic, but I want to see what you mean about this...
Do you mean that when the kids talk about their parents, that you don't want your kid hearing that Heather has two mommies? Or you don't want your kid hearing that Heather is still ok even though she has two mommies?
He does not believe that 2 women raising a child as a family unit is a proper environment, nor does he wish his child to be taught such. As a parent that is his right. And you can not flame him for his moral stance.
Kintanon
I had a look at the battlebots and robotwars websites. I haven't seen any actual competitions yet but it seems that the winners are always robots that try to immobilize the opponents by a "flipping or tossing" strategy - like the battlebots reigning champion - Biohazard.
An easy way to combat flippers is to have your Bot not care what side is up or down. Mine would be a large metal ball slung between two big tractor tires. I'd put a cutting device on it, and possibly some big ceramic magnets so it could clamp onto the competition and cut them apart. To avoid side flipping just put convex metal covers over the tires so that it keeps rolling. It would never lose to a flipper, but a smasher might take it down.
Kintanon
add me too, or did all of you play college football too?
Unfortunately I still had the shy, can't pick up a clue to save his life, persona until midway through college. Now I work all the time (my real job and hobbies would seem disturbingly similar to outsiders) and just don't usually make the effort.
BTW, Vacations at exotic locales are great for getting laid, but don't do much for long-term love-gettin'.
Wrestling and Martial Arts for me, I was never quite big enough for football, though I was invited to be the kicker for my highschool team because the coach saw me do some boardbreaks and stuff... I always prefered slightly less team oriented sports.
Kintanon
Okay, we've got the geek quotient to do it -- we just need Andover.net to sponsor the project and a few folks out there to kick in some time. Let's put together our own competitor for the Battle Bot scene!
count me in! I'm a hardware geek through and through. I didn't see whether they allowed projectile weapons or not though... I would guess no.
How about something with a ton of ceramic magnets (Like from inside a hard drive) mounted on a couple of thick arms to lock it to its opponent, then a set of sawblades mounted under the body to carve the enemy up... To avoid those damn flippy bots we'd go into the light weight category and mount the body between 2 giant tractor tires so that it was suspended from the ground. Power it with a gocart engine or something similar...
the hardest part would be to make sure that it could turn the wheels instead of just spinning itself around a lot....
Heck, I could probably build that with 500$.... >:)
Kintanon
Geeks are ugly. Or, more to the point, people who sit around all day doing softare or electrical design, aren't usually the sort who live in their bodies. They tend to live in their heads, and sod all with that bag of flesh down below.
Add me to the list of counter-examples.
Kintanon
I assume that you're referring to firearms control?
If so, there's a problem with your analogy -- software patches are free, and weapons are not.
If all levels of weaponry were free, and none of them could be used for evil purposes, then your analogy would hold.
However, weapons are not free, and they CAN be used for evil purposes -- unlike software patches.
Ever accidentally patched your TCP/IP stack with a SCSI patch? I thought not. Ever missed a target with a bullet? I thought so.
This doesn't mean that your underlying point is equally flawed, but you'll need to elaborate on it a bit more . . .
first, not all software is free. Second, it is much easier to learn how to use a gun than learn how to effectively patch every security hole in your system. Most people who own computers don't have time to spend cruising BugTraq and downloading patches to keep their system secure up to the minute, if they did that they would never get anything else done on their system.
Patches CAN screw up a system, one of the patches for my V3 screwed my sound card up, requiring me to get a second patch for my sound card, the V3 patch also screwed up my DVD player, which had no patch available, so no more DVD capability on my PC. No big deal to me, but still annoying.
Anyways, I'm drifting from my point...
My first POINT is that if the meatspace cops can't protect me from some back alley mugger then why should we expect these guys to protect us from crackers? And my SECOND point is, since the government can't protect the average user, how is the average use supposed to secure their system?
Hopefully that isn't too muddled.
Kintanon
Personally, I wish the government would spend less time trying to crack down on miscreants and more time educating the public. Prevention starts at he end-user, Janet!
.45 and you would have been secure against that exploit.' ?
This statement annoys me to no end. So many people on this site are completely against the end 'User' protecting themselves from conventional crime, yet expect them to completely secure themselves from all harm when it comes to the 'net and their PC.
How would you feel if you got mugged and the response by the people you talked to was nothing but 'Well, you should have downloaded the easily available patch Remington
Either it is the end users job to protect themselves from everything or nothing. I vote for Everything.
Kintanon
Obsenity is NOT protected under the first amendment. Why is it that most of slashdot disagree? It's been ruled by the Supreme Court that obsenity is not protected.
I find your statement to be obscene and demand that it be removed from the forum immediately before some impressionable free-speach activist sees it and is permanently scarred.
And just in case you didn't understand the point of that, WHO DECIDES WHAT IS OBSCENE?
Enjoy,
Kintanon
or what about Thor believing in God, or God in the hammer? or the hammer in /.? grow up folks, religion is simply a placebo for the weak minded. why would an all powerful diety (or group thereof) leave no sign for us to know their existance?
Maybe you just don't know what you're looking for?
But I believe it is interesting to get the perspective of a man who works daily with the fundamental aspects of the universe. He of all people should have some sort of opinion as he is closer to this that the rest of us.
Oh, and last time I checked this guy wasn't claiming to be the Thunder God....
Kintanon
Yes its true. Most americans are afraid of there own body parts! Its amazing really. So many people think its bad to see a body part EVERYONE else has. I mean if youd been raised being told that ears were just the most evil things and a males genetalia is not. Which would you think is bad? Its so annoying that folks think like that. Whats the big DEAL? You afraid to go without pants or a shirt because someone might see something every person on the planet has? Its like.. freaking sad. I recently went to Austrailia to visit my aunt. I can tell you this aussies have no inhibitions about displaying nudity on TV. As long as its in good taste its cool. (Mostly Educational stuff but..) That just sorta took me back a lil. Not much sense I have always had this philosophy. Whats the big deal? Unless you have penis Envy or you were raised to think your own body parts are something to hide. You dont mind it. Really.. pr0n does very little for me due to my up bringing. Its no big deal just another body part. Not something to get all excited about. Okay so you use your mouth to eat and your unit to reproduce. Ahem whats the big deal? Anyone care to comment?
I wear pants/boxers for protection and warmth... Don't want to have my bits and pieces hanging about where they could get caught on something...
Seems like good sense to me, it's why clothes were invented in the first place, it's freaking cold and pointy out there in the real world.>:)
Kintanon
Do you believe in (a) God?
Kintanon
I personally had a mother who died of cancer. and I personally think your attitude is horrible. I took my VA Linux "winnings" and invested them in something with no chance of a financial ROI... research.
No, I'm not saying anybody else should do this. Just that I wish everybody would stop telling everybody how to spend their money. There are far more good causes than I know how to give to, so I pick and choose. I'm sure this is the norm, for those of us who give to charity
I agree completely with this since you are doing it because someone you loved died of the disease. But charities soliciting donations from everyone and then people saying how horrible it is for others to pick and choose their charities instead of giving to the one THEY favor is inane. I'll give to the people *I* care about, you give to the people YOU care about, and everyone that anyone cares about gets something. Amazing how that works isn't it...?
Kintanon
My bad then, I was only referencing my own posts.
Though he wasn't being harsh as me paying for some lifetime smokers chemotherapy or lung transplant would be ludicrous. Or giving to a charity designed to help the 400lb over eater get a quad-bypass... I sympothize with children, adults usually make their own choices...
Kintanon
Oh yeah, gee, you're right, I'm sorry. Gosh, how could I have been so selfish and blind?!?
... Recently Enlightened /. Poster addressing scientists: "Hey guys! You morons, you're doing it wrong! You're wasting all this money trying to find a cause, when the actual cause is their lifestyle!"
bah, forget about a child in the hospital suffering from a defective heart valve, forget about the kids suffering from leukemia, and while I'm at it, forget about everyone else too.
Thank you for showing me the way in such a hateful world. Even though I cannot be assured that my hard-earned money will actually benefit these poor little penguins, and that there is not information about who to actually make the check out to, at least I will be secure in the fact that it's not going to all those suffering kids who really have no one to blame for their condition but themselves. After all, as you put it, it's their own lifestyle choices that put them in that condition.
Gee, you think maybe I should alert the medical community and let them know the exact cause for cancer while I'm at it?
Thanks, I feel enlightened.
Nowhere did anyone say that it is the fault of the people with cancer that they have it, or any other medical condition. But WE aren't the ones that should be helping them. Their friends and relatives should be helping them. *I* should be helping my friends and relatives, which I do. I'm not sending any money to these penguins, even though I support the cause, because I have no idea where this money is actually going. I would be much more interested in prosecuting the company responsible. I'm sorry that you feel the burning need to try and add more useless crap to our gene pool but don't take your bitterness out on me. Despite my views I sleep perfectly soundly at night.
Kintanon
Perhaps if you personally knew of someone who suffered from cancer, diabetes, heart problems, or some other type of physical condition, you would think differently.
I have personally known people with these conditions, family members, neighbors, people I cared about. My FAMILY bands together to support itself, my COMMUNITY does the same. We don't go out searching for handouts and donations from everyone. If someone has cancer well that's just too bad, but they have friends, and relatives that can help them and should be helping them. My resources are devoted to helping people that I know and care about. And I'm afraid random charities that spend 50% of the money paying for their infrastructure aren't on my list.
Kintanon
However, I have to remind you that there are thousands of poor, homeless, destitute people around the world, dying in streets, suffering in refugee camps, and there are hundreds and thousands (no, that's not a gross over estimation ) of children orphaned by wars and natural disasters.
Each of those human beings is capable of making a choice as to how they live and what resources are available to them. The parents of the starving children chose to continue fucking like rabbits in order to spawn off a whole new generation of starving children. People in refugee camps are there by choice in one way or another, they can pick up and walk somewhere else. Yes, it's hard, no I doubt I'd be able to do it, but it can be done and they have that choice. The penguins have no such option.
I for one have no sympathy for 90% of all poor/homeless/destitute people as I have seen people try to help over and over and over again and the person always ends up back in the gutter. Maybe the homeless in other countries aren't the laziest 3% of the population, but in the US the homeless aren't usually worth helping. Yes I'm a jackass, yes I'm a bastard, but I've tried helping these people and it doesn't work. At least the penguins don't smell like Wild Turkey when they stumble up to me.
All of those orphaned children have relatives somewhere, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, that should be taking care of them. Yes it's too bad they lost their parents, but there should be people there to help them already, my contribution should not be needed.
Mark this as flamebait and a troll if you really want to, but it's the way I feel about sanctimonious bastards that bitch and moan about the plight of the homeless.
Kintanon
So what is being done to punish the oil company? Which company is responsible, are they investigating the cause? Who is being held accountable for this? Someone needs to get their ass handed to them on a platter for dumping a bunch of oil in our ocean!
Kintanon
I can't help but feel that you're being irrationally paranoid here. You don't need guns to protect yourself in a civilised society, and in fact the widespread presence of guns is more of a threat to your personal safety than 'invaders'. I live in a country that has not been invaded successfully for 934 years, and feel no threat there. I feel some threat from street crime, yes, as I am currently living in a poor inner-city area, but I would not feel any safer if there were more guns about and least of all if I were carrying one. And as for the government coming down on you, well, maybe, but I don't see that happening soon either in the USA or in any EU country.
AHA! This is the key mistake, nowhere on this floating mud ball does there exist a 'Civilized' society. As to the proximity in time of the next government sponsored citizen slaughter it is irrelevant when it will happen, only that it will and I would prefer to at least take down a couple of the bastards before they kick in my door, rape my wife, and put a bullet in me. If it doesn't happen to me then I want to make sure my children and my friend's children have the same capability to defend their freedom. If you choose not to defend your own freedom do not look to me to defend it for you when the shit hits the fan, I'll be busy reloading.
Kintanon
Quake runs fine.
'Fine' is insufficient. If I can't see every individual rendered blood droplet when I blow your head through the back of the screen from all the way across the level without any slow down with ALL of the eye candy turned on then it isn't good enough!
>:)
Kintanon
Of course, the issue here is that the devices being sold were illegal under US law. If you don't like the law, that's one thing, but criticising law enforcement is like criticising fire for burning down your house after you left those candles burning. I also find it amusing that all the geeks who routinely rail against Big Brother also run to protect the people who make their tools (where do you think corporate security buys their gear?)...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the devices are not illegal under US law. They are only illegal if they are used as surveillance equipment and/or hidden in everyday objects like clocks and smoke alarms. The devices the agents confiscated are used for medical, recreation, and educational purposes every day and are legal in that use. They only become illegal when a customer does something illegal with them. Hence this company is innocent of wrong doing and will be proven so in court, but that will take 5 or 10 years and by that time they will likely have been forced out of business by the government.
Kintanon
2 Questions.
1. Where do I sign up?
2. How much content am I required to generate per payment cycle in order to get my share?
It seems like this model could reward people who produce very little content or content of very poor quality on an equal level as those who produce lots of content or content of an excellent quality. That doesn't seem right.
Kintanon
Did you READ the story? They paid, 3 checks they sent were cashed, the ISP asked for the 3 checks, then said they would look into the mistake, then cut them off without warning. Masslinux then did what they could to get back online, they could have done a better job of it but everyone is getting their page and data back, everyone is getting their money back, and Masslinux is GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. What the FUCK more do you want from them? They are BROKE, and you want to take them to court or have them investigated over something they couldn't control?!
Kintanon
To protest all of these people screaming about the guy putting his all advantage info into his SIG I'm putting mine into the body of a Post which starts at 2 and will take 3 moderator points to get rid of. So there.
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So there!
Kintanon
The Romans would sheath their battle sword, pull out this short sword, and chase down the enemy from behind, using the "Pike" to stab the anus and genitals of the fleeing enemy, leaving the injured to a slow painful death by infection.
A Pike is an entirely different weapon. A Pike is similar to a PoleArm or Spear, usually they would be set slightly buried in the ground butt first by foot soldiers to discourage horsemen from charging their lines. Traditionally these foot soldiers would be backed up by Archers or Crossbowmen, during a siege the Catapults would be behind them, and beyond that on a hill would be the commander of the army with runners and signal flags or mirrors.
Kintanon
A sincere FUCK OFF to you. MassLinux is refunding the money that they have recieved from customers for which they will not be able to render service. They got shafted by their provider and did the best they could to fix it. These people were doing a service to the community and making very very little money from it. So stop bitching.
Kintanon