If anything, the MPAA should be paying people to watch garbage like Meet the Spartans and Untraceable.
Well, this tells me one of three things:
1. You don't watch movies at all, including those you just listed, and you are instead just spouting off about two recent movies because you read about what someone else said via some media source.
2. You do go to the theater and watch movies and saw those two which you call "trash" and you are supporting the MPAA's campaign to subvert media outlets, higher educational institutions and families.
3. You don't pay for these movies and instead pirate them and are just as much of a torrenter as anyone else that downloads stuff.
So, which is it? You can't have your cake and eat it to you know.
And MPAA and RIAA officials... should acknowledge, respect and strongly support the continuing efforts of campus officials to address copyright issues, in part by ending the public posturing that portrays colleges and universities as dens of digital piracy.
The MPAA and RIAA aren't interested in anything except changing the publics' perception of their "plight". By recognizing their flawed research and statistics it would mean that their campaign to flood the eyes and ears of the uninformed via the media outlets, who are hungry for trash, would possibly end.
They are currently winning the war over parents and the majority of educational administrators who are worried that those they have jurisdiction over are doing things that someone told them was theft. They don't want to have others look poorly on them and they are going to spend an inordinate amount of time ensuring that they are doing everything they can to stop this horrible threat to our youth! Unfortunately, that comes at a serious cost in an arena that is notoriously short on funding and which should honestly have a lot more important shit to worry about.
What is the most tiring is that the media outlet continue to eat what the MPAA/RIAA are feeding them and the parents don't sit down to think about anything other than how to "talk to their kids about drugs" errr, I mean "stealing"! I guess because many of us who are either just becoming parents or aren't planning for kids for at least a few more years have sat through the majority of the Nancy-period and the bullshit anti-drug messages, we are more immune to being bombarded with this crap. Unfortunately, the rest of them are all caving to the media pressure. "Don't let this happen to you!"
I wish that more higher education institutions had the ability to pull off what Harvard did but the financial funding just isn't there to fight it in the short term but instead, wasting resources and funds over the long term is. The MPAA/RIAA knows exactly what they are doing and how to exploit those they are attacking and it sucks, bad.
This lawsuit is merely part of a recent trend seeking to move the responsibility for policing copyrights away from the copyright holders and on to third parties.
No, this lawsuit is just testing the waters to see if they can overturn pieces of the DMCA that do not work in their favor. If they can turn this provision over then they can fuck Google over too and tap into that endless revenue stream for allowing services like g2p to exist out there.
If anything, they should be using these sites to take down the offenders' pages and not the sites themselves.
I'm sorry but we're talking about an ISP that charges you $39.99/month for service and not your own SMTP server, corporate e-mail account or other pay-for service that ensures that your e-mail is safe. Be glad that they are getting $50 credits. If this was ATTBI or AT&T @ Home, then they would have shrugged and told you "pay for our business class service."
This isn't always the case in older variants of the rootkit. To be certain your server isn't compromised, it's best to sniff packets for a brief 3-5 minute period. You can do this using the command below: tcpdump -nAs 2048 src port 80 | grep "[a-zA-Z]\{5\}\.js'"
That isn't something worth talking about, that's mind-pollution.
So is reading Slashdot, dealing with politics, and religion but that's what people are interested in and that's what you should have at least a little bit to talk about so that people feel that they are on par with you.
I recently read Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's written by Augusten Burroughs' brother John Elder Robinson. Towards the end John talks about how he has learned over the years to respond differently to the general public than he would have in the past. When someone asks how you are doing you don't give them a diatribe about the minute intricacies of the technical project you're working on and instead you should simply reply with "Great, how about you? How's the wife and kids? Did you catch the Packers' game on Saturday night?" While I do not ever recommend that you become friends with your co-workers, I certainly don't advocate that you alienate yourself at work by being a social retard. Assimilating yourself into the culture that surrounds you is social camouflage and helps you move along.
Celebrity news is everywhere and taking a quite glance at the blurb that says Heath Ledger is dead can give you something more to say to your co-workers instead of "who gives a shit that some Australian actor is dead?" Just like learning to talk tech with the guys in your immediate workgroup at your job, learning to talk trashy news is yet another way to make yourself seem like someone who is a viable human at work.
YMMV.
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I read, more than your average American and trying to read more daily, and I find that there is plenty of utter shit out there in book form. I spend entirely too much time trying to find things to read that don't suck as much as what appears in serial form on TV and the big screen. Take for example my post from December of 2003 where I talk about The Last Goodbye being the worst book I read in 2003 or the fact that I just read The Catcher in the Rye and found it to be a terrible example of literature that shouldn't be read by anyone -- especially those currently attending secondary schooling. On the other hand, I have read some decent books recently including Plenty and Animal Vegetable Miracle both of which have changed my life for the better.
I have watched some terrible TV shows such as Breaking Bad which held my attention for exactly 3 minutes during the opening sequence and dropped it when the main character was getting a hand job from his pregnant wife. I have also watched some great TV such as Arrested Development and Rescue Me.
I have listened to some pretty terrible music and then also gotten into some other really great stuff like Feist and The New Pornographers both of which are happy to allow you to distribute their live shows and which makes me support them all the more.
So while surfing the web, reading books and entertaining yourself in other ways is great for you, I do like to expand my horizons in many directions while not assuming that everything that appears on the TV is a pile of shit. Personally, I find people that are disconnected from TV an absolute bore as they have very little to talk about in the ways of popular culture that allows them to have something in common with the majority of Americans around them. People who don't watch TV are especially annoying when they continually let you know that they don't know Foo because they don't own or watch a TV.
I'm thrilled that they have made the personal choice to avert their senses from something they feel has no worth but for them to assume that the rest of us are mildly retarded for having a well rounded media experience is just ridiculous. Use TV as a part of your overall experience rather than the majority and you'll find yourself enjoying it a little more than you realize.
If you saw it three weeks ago, then why didn't you post it? Oh, you were too lazy? Then STFU.
Because I didn't think it was worth discussing on Slashdot? Perhaps because in the past when I've submitted what I thought was pretty cool shit it was rejected within minutes or rejected and then posted a few days later by someone else instead that had, what I felt to be, a lame writeup?
But most of all it's because I can't stand the fact that some of the writeups are nothing more than blog advertisements that link to the real article and they continue to get pushed through seemingly w/o even hitting the firehose.
I saw this video three weeks ago when it came out and went around the web alongside the video and mocking version of the Microsoft Surface. Why are we waiting for Gizmodo before posting something cool? Should Slashdot just become an aggregator with comments and moderation for the other tech blogs out there?
Because it ensures that the very real possibility of bitrot for the majority of documents written in the last 15 years is now greatly reduced.
Now they just need to open up VBA so that all those applications won't be rendered useless by their choice to do away with them, starting with future Office versions. Oh wait, that was their point... To force people to upgrade.
So they open up one way and close up another. Anything to keep their anti^H^H^H^Hcompetitive behavior moving!
In addition, now that I've read the article again just because so many parts of it made sense and so many others just pissed me off more:
Books begat films, character merchandising, giant fan guides, remix videos, fan art and other forms of secondary authorship that simply didn't exist 100 years ago.
100 years ago we didn't have Disney fucking with Copyright then (the Mickey Mouse and Sonny Bono Protection Acts only came about in 1976!) So for us to even bring that shit up in this modern discussion is nothing short of ridiculous.
Let's face the facts here... Copyright has been extended to an unreasonable point so that nothing will ever enter the Public Domain so if anything is different in the "Digital Age" it's the fact that we're more fucked than ever before.
There is no difference in Fair Use rights in the "Digital Age". It's the same as it's always been. It's only because of the misinformation campaigns by the RIAA and MPAA that we have a society that's confused about the rights they have had for quite some time.
Unfortunately, the sheep are easily swayed over time (the frog/boiling water deal I suppose). I'm not fooled and hopefully they won't be able to fool intelligent judges either. They might buy over Congress but someone needs to put their foot down and stick up for us.
This is the same FDA that allows beef growers to feed the parts of other cows (minus the brains and spinal cords) to other cows while they are packed in tightly and standing in their own piles of urine and feces because they can't move anywhere.
This is the same FDA that has permitted plenty of E. coli outbreaks because they refuse to put an end to unhealthy meat practices.
This is the same FDA that bends to political pressure instead of caring about the health of the American public it is supposed to protect.
What about hormones which possibly cause early puberty in girls? I could go on but I won't bother, we all know what we're putting into our bodies...
Cloned beef may be safe but it's the practices that they allow outside of this that really suck and I wouldn't trust a fucking thing they approve and neither should you. If only that beef didn't taste SO good:(
I'm just waiting for the DVI output along with bluetooth for KB and mouse so that I can carry around ALL my devices in one. I am someone who wants a high quality camera with GPS (for geotagging), music player, phone, and pocket computer that I can take with me wherever I am.
I enjoy my mobile device but I really don't care for hacks to distribute my settings across the multiple devices I use during the day and even throughout my home. Once it's all in one spot I'll be really happy.
I like working with my teammates, and don't mind a little small talk, but really...I'm here to make money not friends. The fact that I enjoy the work is a plus, but it's not super important to me. My home-time is spent doing things that most 'middle Americans' would find scary or offensive so I really don't want to mix my work/home lives.
I don't have autism and I'm not anti-social and I have absolutely no interest in making friends at work (I have discouraged it on Slashdot at least twice before). I'm there to get a job done and go the fuck home and spend time with my wife, dog and our friends that don't give a fuck about what we did at work.
I don't have any hobbies that make "Middle Americans" (I assume I'm one) uncomfortable but I honestly believe you work your shift and you go home. Once you're home you don't talk about work, you don't worry about work, and you certainly don't concern yourself with what you're going to be doing tomorrow.
Work isn't important enough to care about it that much. Do your job to the best of your ability and go home. Too many people have it backwards -- worrying about work at day and all night.
What they've failed to account for is, all the old bastards who can afford this, well, their eyes aren't really that great anymore.
My father just purchased a Sharp Aquios 52" HDTV before Christmas for their new house. I was there visiting and hated it. Why? Well, not just because I believe HDTV to be a pointless joke but b/c he didn't have an HD feed from his satellite provider. I asked, "why did you buy an HDTV when you don't have HD?" He said, "because it's bigger and my eyes aren't so good anymore."
For someone who used to be so in tune with technology and so on top of shit, I was surprised when he made this illogical reasoning. All that TV does now is over-distort an already distorted image and make it 52" wide. It's blurry as shit and obnoxious to watch unless you have a newer DVD in there. Older DVDs -- which he has more than a few -- look like ass on there because it won't upconvert them to anything near the 1080 it will do. Newer DVDs, like his copy of Ratatouille looked fine upconverted to 1080.
The only useful thing for HD is watching the NFL and I can do that for free at someone else's house or at the bar where I usually am on Sunday anyway since Minnesota still has fucking pointless Blue Laws and you can't buy anything except 3.2 in the stores.
It can be a bit of an inconvenience because of the temperature rise in your house, but if your house is well insulated, you won't notice it that much.
You notice it, like I did, when the condensing unit is powered down and powered back on too quickly and it trips the circuit breaker causing the house's temperature to rise to 88 degrees (with only a dog inside) while you're at work. When you get home, reset the circuit breaker, and attempt to get the house's temperature to something more reasonable, you cannot because they're still throttling you.
The "savings" I see on my electric bill during the summer months isn't worth the hassle and the possibility of having a dog with heatstroke. I now keep a fan running in the kitchen just in case it happens again (it didn't occur last summer for whatever reason) and I'm positive that the "energy savings" is eliminated by running that fan.
No shit, really? A computer geek wants to use geeky stuff in his operation? Crazy!
Well, that's all well and good but the kids probably still need to learn to use Office 2007 because, like it or not, that's what the Real World (TM) uses. Because the Real World uses Office 2007 other companies are copying that UI design and implementing it across their own pieces of software.
I hate the UI myself as it's taken me several months to get used to it and I still have a very difficult time finding some things. Relying on online Office help to guide me through something sucks. If I had only had someone teach me how to use that software for free!
Office is there, it's entrenched and it's going to continue to be used regardless of news bits like this one. How many times have we seen "we're forcing Linux and free software," and then two years later we find out that Microsoft's solution became very affordable and has been in use for the majority of those two years?
Yes, free software is getting better and it's actually almost viable to use OpenOffice (I don't know if Office 2007 files open all right in it) but until *everyone* even outside of academia begins to use alternatives free software is still dead in the water -- like it has been for at least the last 10 years that we've been hearing these stories on Slashdot.
- Very little "good" help available (Doctors throwing pills, diets selling useless books, but nobody wants to give good advice except perhaps Paul Mckenna and a couple of others)
What "good" help do you need? I can guarantee you that you already know every single last bit of information about how to lose weight successfully as it's only two words: diet, exercise.
If you mean that you need someone to motivate you to change your diet substantially or if that means finding someone to do the shopping, cooking, and cleaning for you instead of going to Rotten Ronnie's three times a day then you're insane. Or do you mean that you need someone to put you outside and on the pavement for 45 minutes a day?
I think you just need to help yourself, seriously.
We didn't take precautions when we played when I was growing up. And you know what? We survived. We did amazing crazy things. We played tackle football in the street. We threw rocks at each other. And no matter what we did we didn't wear helmets. And the worst that came from all of it is one of my friends got a broken arm once.
I have a friend that just recently had his fourth child (they are all 5 and under) and he said to me, "I need to buy a farm. I can't allow my children to do what I was able to do -- like ride my bike all over town." I asked, "why not?" Now, I want to mention that I wasn't allowed out of sight of my house on a bike until I was probably 12 and even then I had to be within earshot and 5 minutes of my father's whistle (which had quite a range). His reply, "They can't be trusted."
So it has nothing to do with litigious society, etc, it has to do with parents realizing what they got away with as kids (surviving, yes) and attempting to stop it for their children. What these people don't realize is that kids are still going to get hurt, get abducted, steal shit, fuck, drink and do drugs. All that's going to happen is that they are going to find ways that we didn't think of to get it done.
Back on topic:
While what McDonald's UK douche says is true, it's also very true that the "Fast Food Nation" (sponsored heartily by communities like the one I live in where the little guy is ignored while the big box and chain restaurants are encouraged to thrive by the Council) is also killing us. I've read several books like Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally and similarly Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life which mention the advantages of local eating, home cooking, and healthy lifestyles. I'm really going to attempt to get into Community Supported Agriculture, get out to our local farmers' market more than 1x a month, and stop eating out nearly as much as I was.
We've traded dangers from biking without a helmet, pads and an orange flag with blinking LEDs to eating foods with 50% of your daily need of fat, 75% of your calories and loaded with high fructose corn syrup. One might take 15 to 20 years to kill you rather than 15 to 20 seconds but we need to decide which is better.
Happy Meals need to be replaced with Happy Medium.
I went in there looking for Yuengling before I found out (directly from Yuenging) that they have absolutely no plans on expanding to the Midwest for at least 10 years. They have notices clearly stating that they scan IDs (which is far better than Lakeville Liquors) and I walked right back out the door never to return.
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If anything, the MPAA should be paying people to watch garbage like Meet the Spartans and Untraceable.
Well, this tells me one of three things:
1. You don't watch movies at all, including those you just listed, and you are instead just spouting off about two recent movies because you read about what someone else said via some media source.
2. You do go to the theater and watch movies and saw those two which you call "trash" and you are supporting the MPAA's campaign to subvert media outlets, higher educational institutions and families.
3. You don't pay for these movies and instead pirate them and are just as much of a torrenter as anyone else that downloads stuff.
So, which is it? You can't have your cake and eat it to you know.
And MPAA and RIAA officials ... should acknowledge, respect and strongly support the continuing efforts of campus officials to address copyright issues, in part by ending the public posturing that portrays colleges and universities as dens of digital piracy.
The MPAA and RIAA aren't interested in anything except changing the publics' perception of their "plight". By recognizing their flawed research and statistics it would mean that their campaign to flood the eyes and ears of the uninformed via the media outlets, who are hungry for trash, would possibly end.
They are currently winning the war over parents and the majority of educational administrators who are worried that those they have jurisdiction over are doing things that someone told them was theft. They don't want to have others look poorly on them and they are going to spend an inordinate amount of time ensuring that they are doing everything they can to stop this horrible threat to our youth! Unfortunately, that comes at a serious cost in an arena that is notoriously short on funding and which should honestly have a lot more important shit to worry about.
What is the most tiring is that the media outlet continue to eat what the MPAA/RIAA are feeding them and the parents don't sit down to think about anything other than how to "talk to their kids about drugs" errr, I mean "stealing"! I guess because many of us who are either just becoming parents or aren't planning for kids for at least a few more years have sat through the majority of the Nancy-period and the bullshit anti-drug messages, we are more immune to being bombarded with this crap. Unfortunately, the rest of them are all caving to the media pressure. "Don't let this happen to you!"
I wish that more higher education institutions had the ability to pull off what Harvard did but the financial funding just isn't there to fight it in the short term but instead, wasting resources and funds over the long term is. The MPAA/RIAA knows exactly what they are doing and how to exploit those they are attacking and it sucks, bad.
It uses Google searches (mostly for MegaUpload) to find albums, songs, etc available over the web.
This lawsuit is merely part of a recent trend seeking to move the responsibility for policing copyrights away from the copyright holders and on to third parties.
No, this lawsuit is just testing the waters to see if they can overturn pieces of the DMCA that do not work in their favor. If they can turn this provision over then they can fuck Google over too and tap into that endless revenue stream for allowing services like g2p to exist out there.
If anything, they should be using these sites to take down the offenders' pages and not the sites themselves.
I'm sorry but we're talking about an ISP that charges you $39.99/month for service and not your own SMTP server, corporate e-mail account or other pay-for service that ensures that your e-mail is safe. Be glad that they are getting $50 credits. If this was ATTBI or AT&T @ Home, then they would have shrugged and told you "pay for our business class service."
From the linked article:
This isn't always the case in older variants of the rootkit. To be certain your server isn't compromised, it's best to sniff packets for a brief 3-5 minute period. You can do this using the command below:
tcpdump -nAs 2048 src port 80 | grep "[a-zA-Z]\{5\}\.js'"
That's another way to check apparently.
That isn't something worth talking about, that's mind-pollution.
So is reading Slashdot, dealing with politics, and religion but that's what people are interested in and that's what you should have at least a little bit to talk about so that people feel that they are on par with you.
I recently read Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's written by Augusten Burroughs' brother John Elder Robinson. Towards the end John talks about how he has learned over the years to respond differently to the general public than he would have in the past. When someone asks how you are doing you don't give them a diatribe about the minute intricacies of the technical project you're working on and instead you should simply reply with "Great, how about you? How's the wife and kids? Did you catch the Packers' game on Saturday night?" While I do not ever recommend that you become friends with your co-workers, I certainly don't advocate that you alienate yourself at work by being a social retard. Assimilating yourself into the culture that surrounds you is social camouflage and helps you move along.
Celebrity news is everywhere and taking a quite glance at the blurb that says Heath Ledger is dead can give you something more to say to your co-workers instead of "who gives a shit that some Australian actor is dead?" Just like learning to talk tech with the guys in your immediate workgroup at your job, learning to talk trashy news is yet another way to make yourself seem like someone who is a viable human at work.
YMMV.
I read, more than your average American and trying to read more daily, and I find that there is plenty of utter shit out there in book form. I spend entirely too much time trying to find things to read that don't suck as much as what appears in serial form on TV and the big screen. Take for example my post from December of 2003 where I talk about The Last Goodbye being the worst book I read in 2003 or the fact that I just read The Catcher in the Rye and found it to be a terrible example of literature that shouldn't be read by anyone -- especially those currently attending secondary schooling. On the other hand, I have read some decent books recently including Plenty and Animal Vegetable Miracle both of which have changed my life for the better.
I have watched some terrible TV shows such as Breaking Bad which held my attention for exactly 3 minutes during the opening sequence and dropped it when the main character was getting a hand job from his pregnant wife. I have also watched some great TV such as Arrested Development and Rescue Me.
I have listened to some pretty terrible music and then also gotten into some other really great stuff like Feist and The New Pornographers both of which are happy to allow you to distribute their live shows and which makes me support them all the more.
So while surfing the web, reading books and entertaining yourself in other ways is great for you, I do like to expand my horizons in many directions while not assuming that everything that appears on the TV is a pile of shit. Personally, I find people that are disconnected from TV an absolute bore as they have very little to talk about in the ways of popular culture that allows them to have something in common with the majority of Americans around them. People who don't watch TV are especially annoying when they continually let you know that they don't know Foo because they don't own or watch a TV.
I'm thrilled that they have made the personal choice to avert their senses from something they feel has no worth but for them to assume that the rest of us are mildly retarded for having a well rounded media experience is just ridiculous. Use TV as a part of your overall experience rather than the majority and you'll find yourself enjoying it a little more than you realize.
If you saw it three weeks ago, then why didn't you post it? Oh, you were too lazy? Then STFU.
Because I didn't think it was worth discussing on Slashdot? Perhaps because in the past when I've submitted what I thought was pretty cool shit it was rejected within minutes or rejected and then posted a few days later by someone else instead that had, what I felt to be, a lame writeup?
But most of all it's because I can't stand the fact that some of the writeups are nothing more than blog advertisements that link to the real article and they continue to get pushed through seemingly w/o even hitting the firehose.
I saw this video three weeks ago when it came out and went around the web alongside the video and mocking version of the Microsoft Surface. Why are we waiting for Gizmodo before posting something cool? Should Slashdot just become an aggregator with comments and moderation for the other tech blogs out there?
Because it ensures that the very real possibility of bitrot for the majority of documents written in the last 15 years is now greatly reduced.
Now they just need to open up VBA so that all those applications won't be rendered useless by their choice to do away with them, starting with future Office versions. Oh wait, that was their point... To force people to upgrade.
So they open up one way and close up another. Anything to keep their anti^H^H^H^Hcompetitive behavior moving!
In addition, now that I've read the article again just because so many parts of it made sense and so many others just pissed me off more:
Books begat films, character merchandising, giant fan guides, remix videos, fan art and other
forms of secondary authorship that simply didn't exist 100 years ago.
100 years ago we didn't have Disney fucking with Copyright then (the Mickey Mouse and Sonny Bono Protection Acts only came about in 1976!) So for us to even bring that shit up in this modern discussion is nothing short of ridiculous.
Let's face the facts here... Copyright has been extended to an unreasonable point so that nothing will ever enter the Public Domain so if anything is different in the "Digital Age" it's the fact that we're more fucked than ever before.
Boo.
There is no difference in Fair Use rights in the "Digital Age". It's the same as it's always been. It's only because of the misinformation campaigns by the RIAA and MPAA that we have a society that's confused about the rights they have had for quite some time.
:(
Unfortunately, the sheep are easily swayed over time (the frog/boiling water deal I suppose). I'm not fooled and hopefully they won't be able to fool intelligent judges either. They might buy over Congress but someone needs to put their foot down and stick up for us.
I'm tired of stories like this
This is the same FDA that allows beef growers to feed the parts of other cows (minus the brains and spinal cords) to other cows while they are packed in tightly and standing in their own piles of urine and feces because they can't move anywhere.
:(
This is the same FDA that has permitted plenty of E. coli outbreaks because they refuse to put an end to unhealthy meat practices.
This is the same FDA that bends to political pressure instead of caring about the health of the American public it is supposed to protect.
What about hormones which possibly cause early puberty in girls? I could go on but I won't bother, we all know what we're putting into our bodies...
Cloned beef may be safe but it's the practices that they allow outside of this that really suck and I wouldn't trust a fucking thing they approve and neither should you. If only that beef didn't taste SO good
I'm just waiting for the DVI output along with bluetooth for KB and mouse so that I can carry around ALL my devices in one. I am someone who wants a high quality camera with GPS (for geotagging), music player, phone, and pocket computer that I can take with me wherever I am.
I enjoy my mobile device but I really don't care for hacks to distribute my settings across the multiple devices I use during the day and even throughout my home. Once it's all in one spot I'll be really happy.
Maybe next year's MacWorld?
I like working with my teammates, and don't mind a little small talk, but really...I'm here to make money not friends. The fact that I enjoy the work is a plus, but it's not super important to me. My home-time is spent doing things that most 'middle Americans' would find scary or offensive so I really don't want to mix my work/home lives.
I don't have autism and I'm not anti-social and I have absolutely no interest in making friends at work (I have discouraged it on Slashdot at least twice before). I'm there to get a job done and go the fuck home and spend time with my wife, dog and our friends that don't give a fuck about what we did at work.
I don't have any hobbies that make "Middle Americans" (I assume I'm one) uncomfortable but I honestly believe you work your shift and you go home. Once you're home you don't talk about work, you don't worry about work, and you certainly don't concern yourself with what you're going to be doing tomorrow.
Work isn't important enough to care about it that much. Do your job to the best of your ability and go home. Too many people have it backwards -- worrying about work at day and all night.
What they've failed to account for is, all the old bastards who can afford this, well, their eyes aren't really that great anymore.
My father just purchased a Sharp Aquios 52" HDTV before Christmas for their new house. I was there visiting and hated it. Why? Well, not just because I believe HDTV to be a pointless joke but b/c he didn't have an HD feed from his satellite provider. I asked, "why did you buy an HDTV when you don't have HD?" He said, "because it's bigger and my eyes aren't so good anymore."
For someone who used to be so in tune with technology and so on top of shit, I was surprised when he made this illogical reasoning. All that TV does now is over-distort an already distorted image and make it 52" wide. It's blurry as shit and obnoxious to watch unless you have a newer DVD in there. Older DVDs -- which he has more than a few -- look like ass on there because it won't upconvert them to anything near the 1080 it will do. Newer DVDs, like his copy of Ratatouille looked fine upconverted to 1080.
The only useful thing for HD is watching the NFL and I can do that for free at someone else's house or at the bar where I usually am on Sunday anyway since Minnesota still has fucking pointless Blue Laws and you can't buy anything except 3.2 in the stores.
It can be a bit of an inconvenience because of the temperature rise in your house, but if your house is well insulated, you won't notice it that much.
You notice it, like I did, when the condensing unit is powered down and powered back on too quickly and it trips the circuit breaker causing the house's temperature to rise to 88 degrees (with only a dog inside) while you're at work. When you get home, reset the circuit breaker, and attempt to get the house's temperature to something more reasonable, you cannot because they're still throttling you.
The "savings" I see on my electric bill during the summer months isn't worth the hassle and the possibility of having a dog with heatstroke. I now keep a fan running in the kitchen just in case it happens again (it didn't occur last summer for whatever reason) and I'm positive that the "energy savings" is eliminated by running that fan.
No shit, really? A computer geek wants to use geeky stuff in his operation? Crazy!
Well, that's all well and good but the kids probably still need to learn to use Office 2007 because, like it or not, that's what the Real World (TM) uses. Because the Real World uses Office 2007 other companies are copying that UI design and implementing it across their own pieces of software.
I hate the UI myself as it's taken me several months to get used to it and I still have a very difficult time finding some things. Relying on online Office help to guide me through something sucks. If I had only had someone teach me how to use that software for free!
Office is there, it's entrenched and it's going to continue to be used regardless of news bits like this one. How many times have we seen "we're forcing Linux and free software," and then two years later we find out that Microsoft's solution became very affordable and has been in use for the majority of those two years?
Yes, free software is getting better and it's actually almost viable to use OpenOffice (I don't know if Office 2007 files open all right in it) but until *everyone* even outside of academia begins to use alternatives free software is still dead in the water -- like it has been for at least the last 10 years that we've been hearing these stories on Slashdot.
- Very little "good" help available (Doctors throwing pills, diets selling useless books, but nobody wants to give good advice except perhaps Paul Mckenna and a couple of others)
What "good" help do you need? I can guarantee you that you already know every single last bit of information about how to lose weight successfully as it's only two words: diet, exercise.
If you mean that you need someone to motivate you to change your diet substantially or if that means finding someone to do the shopping, cooking, and cleaning for you instead of going to Rotten Ronnie's three times a day then you're insane. Or do you mean that you need someone to put you outside and on the pavement for 45 minutes a day?
I think you just need to help yourself, seriously.
We didn't take precautions when we played when I was growing up. And you know what? We survived. We did amazing crazy things. We played tackle football in the street. We threw rocks at each other. And no matter what we did we didn't wear helmets. And the worst that came from all of it is one of my friends got a broken arm once.
I have a friend that just recently had his fourth child (they are all 5 and under) and he said to me, "I need to buy a farm. I can't allow my children to do what I was able to do -- like ride my bike all over town." I asked, "why not?" Now, I want to mention that I wasn't allowed out of sight of my house on a bike until I was probably 12 and even then I had to be within earshot and 5 minutes of my father's whistle (which had quite a range). His reply, "They can't be trusted."
So it has nothing to do with litigious society, etc, it has to do with parents realizing what they got away with as kids (surviving, yes) and attempting to stop it for their children. What these people don't realize is that kids are still going to get hurt, get abducted, steal shit, fuck, drink and do drugs. All that's going to happen is that they are going to find ways that we didn't think of to get it done.
Back on topic:
While what McDonald's UK douche says is true, it's also very true that the "Fast Food Nation" (sponsored heartily by communities like the one I live in where the little guy is ignored while the big box and chain restaurants are encouraged to thrive by the Council) is also killing us. I've read several books like Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally and similarly Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life which mention the advantages of local eating, home cooking, and healthy lifestyles. I'm really going to attempt to get into Community Supported Agriculture, get out to our local farmers' market more than 1x a month, and stop eating out nearly as much as I was.
We've traded dangers from biking without a helmet, pads and an orange flag with blinking LEDs to eating foods with 50% of your daily need of fat, 75% of your calories and loaded with high fructose corn syrup. One might take 15 to 20 years to kill you rather than 15 to 20 seconds but we need to decide which is better.
Happy Meals need to be replaced with Happy Medium.
I just called and they do NOT have it on tap -- I'm not sure why I bothered, I already knew that.
They serve it on tap at the ruby tuesdays off galaxie/42.
There's no way! Yuengling will not ship it out there. How did they manage that?
I went in there looking for Yuengling before I found out (directly from Yuenging) that they have absolutely no plans on expanding to the Midwest for at least 10 years. They have notices clearly stating that they scan IDs (which is far better than Lakeville Liquors) and I walked right back out the door never to return.
Their loss.
Related link that I fucked up b/c I didn't preview here.