The CNN Article only mentions that she took pictures in a bar, and that was considered "public."
I don't care what the CNN article or Slashdot mentions. This story broke in the past few days, and SmokingGun.com has the complaint documents and pictures.
A public baseball field? Like a little league bassball field? Durring a game or at night?
Right beside a public baseball field, on a motorcycle, during the day. Violates public nudity laws.
I also wonder if she might use the argument that public nudity laws are stupid/archaic.
Would you want your kid to accidentally stumble by her nude photo shoot? Or notice it from a distance? Think a little. How are public nudity laws stupid/archaic? What possible justification could you have for letting people take off their clothes right there in front of you?
I don't get any spam because I use a Hotmail account for anything public. I don't get pop-ups because I use Opera. I don't get hacked because I keep my patches up to date (which means not bitching about an RPC hole that was patched two months before that the government warned twice about).
How about the "screw it all up" is the fact that, I don't know, the core XFree86 development team decided to disband because they were no longer relevant?
Politics--Keith Packard getting fired. Idealism--the consortium of XFree86 and their inability to let progress supercede their committee ideas. Lack of interest--the fact that people are already decided on "successors."
Now, see, 90% of the people reading Slashdot will assume XFree86 has completely disbanded because of that completely misleading article summary that asks for a successor.
If you bring things like this up to CmdrTaco in, say, an e-mail, you'll either get no reply or a really nasty, sarcastic response. It's frustrating.
You say X doesn't suck, but then explain how it doesn't fully utilize graphics cards.
X doesn't work. I hate dragging a simple window and have a trail of tutti-fruity after it, or waiting 5 seconds for a menu to popup. Here's the part where you blame the window manager, or the graphics library, or the desktop environment.
XFree86 doesn't dare do a thing wrong. Hold on while we hack on yet another "extension," and then meanwhile in a Microsoft discussion complain that you can't hack on things that weren't in the core design of Windows.
Not just the software, but I mean the development. It's development by committee. Look at the rapid pace of the Linux kernel--headed by one guy.
Compare to XFree86 and its Board of Directors, Consortium, Core team, etc. And then people wonder why there is frustration at the slow pace of development. I'm not even talking about retardedly simple things like RandR (a feature even Windows 95 had close to a decade ago).
Welcome to the reason OSS doesn't succeed in the mainstream like commercial software does. Politics, idealism, and lack of interest screw it all up. It's viewed as much too fickle to be reliable. This reflects in the final products as well.
I'm not trolling but making a sincere point here in the hopes things improve. Reply if you disagree, but don't downmod me for it (just saying because I've had it happen before).
Trivial to prove. All one has to do is look at your imflammatory language and attitude to determine that you're a troll.
"Imflammatory?" Haha.
Which translates to: "I don't like your opinion, so I'm going to call it inflammatory. Sorry, imflammatory."
You even troll with your.sig line.
How dare I criticize the two-party system in America. You got me.
You get a strange thrill out of people replying to your outrageous statements.
If that is true, why do you reply? Let me guess, you're "pointing it out for others," right? Haha.
In other words, you're a troll because you fit the definition of one. Not because people disagree with your "opinions" (which you like to bandy about as though they were facts).
In other words, stating my opinion means I'm bandying them around as facts. Guess what? The nature of having an opinion means that, yes, I consider them correct. Contratulations for being obvious!
Then again, even more damning are your own words [slashdot.org] (just a small sample).
The fact that you track past posts like some sort of stalker is the most frightening thing of all. Let's see more of these "samples." Oh, that's right, it was a dismissive statement meant to put the burden of work on someone else to actually come up with anything, because you couldn't do it.
If all you have to offer for your "evidence" is me criticizing someone for not paying attention, you're even more pathetic than I originally assumed.
Sorry, but the fact that you have excellent karma doesn't change the fact that you're a troll. You're just a bit more skilled at karma whoring than the average garden variety troll. Face it. You've been exposed. No one will ever take you seriously any more.
Yet I get modded up. What are you going to do? You're the guy who goes to my posts and says "KNOWN TROLL, MOD ACCORDINGLY," which is hilarious. They do that to everybody. Next.
I'm not trying to troll here...but hear me out: People simply don't trust electronic voting...as a geek this makes me very sad, because voting is something that could and should be more automated.
Oh, you're trolling.
Now, ask yourself, why is it that people don't trust comptuers?
They don't have the time to spend learning the operating system. It's that simple (and the reason why Linux is so less accepted right now...far too overly complex).
Answer: Microsoft's abhorent trackrecord with regard to security has an awful lot to do with it. It's not the only factor, but it is *huge*.
Of course it doesn't. People don't blame Microsoft for things like that. They blame the HACKERS.
All these windows bugs do effect us linux geeks: The perception of computers in general has suffered greatly.
Not because of any track record. Man, Slashdotters will turn ANYTHING into an anti-Microsoft post. This is about an e-voting firm!
He's not using it because "everything else is bloaty." He's using it because he is stubborn and resistent to change, even when better technology comes along and makes him obsolete. This goes along with my recurring point that X users in general are the most stubborn lot ever created and fear change no matter how minor.
But go ahead and stick with TWM for another decade.
...for sticking in the most obvious, cheesy, cliched line you can have whenever you're doing a man-on-the-run, stolen-identity story.
"YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!"
I can't help but laugh at Ben Affleck delivering this. "Tell us what happened." "I can't. You wiped my memory!"
Ben's voice echoes in my mind amidst maniacal laughter at the copiousness of its cheese. "YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!"
Do I blame myself? When I first heard the premise of yet another bastardized Phillip K. Dick movie and saw that Ben Affleck was in it, and heard that it was about his memory being erased (gee, that's never been done before), why did I immediately expect that exact line to be inserted somewhere in the trailer? "YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!" It's like I wanted it to be there, like touching a sore tooth.
Anyone else remember, "He's got a bomb in his RIBCAGE!" That other Phillip Dick movie and its cheesy line repeated over and over in all the trailers actually became a running gag over at Ain't-It-Cool talkbacks. "HE'S GOT A BOMB IN HIS RIBCAGE!"
Now I have "HE'S GOT A BOMB IN HIS RIBCAGE!" and "YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!" battling each other surrounded by torrents of laughter in my mind.
Gee, you can choose an alignment (i.e., "Light" or "Dark" force). I can't tell you how many games I've played with an alignment attribute since the 80s.
That's not a new thing in an RPG. A new thing in an RPG would be abolishing ridiculous "experience levels" and finding new ways to simulate skill improvements that don't require textbooks of rules and numbers to understand.
* Microsoft puts out a Windows reliability test study. Thousands of Slashbots jump on it and accuse it of being biased, maked BSOD and Clippy "jokes," and generally act like lunatics.
* IBM puts out a Linux reliability test study. Nobody even dreams of calling it biased. It's considered to be a pass of "flying colors," and everyone nods along with the rest of the flock.
Every single time some pedantic moron brings up that "copying is *NOT* stealing!", I shake my head, for several reasons.
1.) It doesn't matter. Your trying to remove the connotation of the word "theft" from it is just a laughable attempt at trying to reduce the negative image of someone downloading things they didn't pay for.
2.) It IS theft, every way you look at it. If you look at it as intellectual property...if you look at it as lost revenue which you owe and don't pay when you obtain the product...and so on and so on.
If cable theft is stealing, so is downloading without paying for it. Of course, pedantic Slashbots will jump in and try to say that cable theft is theft of service. Theft of service? Are you somehow removing a tangible copy of service from them that they no longer have? That's right, your counterarguments don't fly in the face of the very logic you use to justify that downloading somehow isn't stealing. Sorry.
The whole point of your argument is visible when you said this:
Does that make me a thief? Nope.
This tells me you're just trying to shake the image of being a thief. You're trying to justify it in your mind to absolve yourself of guilt. Guess what? You ARE a thief. Sorry.
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The CNN Article only mentions that she took pictures in a bar, and that was considered "public."
I don't care what the CNN article or Slashdot mentions. This story broke in the past few days, and SmokingGun.com has the complaint documents and pictures.
A public baseball field? Like a little league bassball field? Durring a game or at night?
Right beside a public baseball field, on a motorcycle, during the day. Violates public nudity laws.
I also wonder if she might use the argument that public nudity laws are stupid/archaic.
Would you want your kid to accidentally stumble by her nude photo shoot? Or notice it from a distance? Think a little. How are public nudity laws stupid/archaic? What possible justification could you have for letting people take off their clothes right there in front of you?
Save it from what?
I don't get any spam because I use a Hotmail account for anything public. I don't get pop-ups because I use Opera. I don't get hacked because I keep my patches up to date (which means not bitching about an RPC hole that was patched two months before that the government warned twice about).
Internet is just fine for me.
She took pictures, remember?
Smokinggun.com even has them. It shows her publicly nude, including on a motorcycle right by a baseball field.
How about the "screw it all up" is the fact that, I don't know, the core XFree86 development team decided to disband because they were no longer relevant?
Politics--Keith Packard getting fired. Idealism--the consortium of XFree86 and their inability to let progress supercede their committee ideas. Lack of interest--the fact that people are already decided on "successors."
Next.
Cite an example.
Now, see, 90% of the people reading Slashdot will assume XFree86 has completely disbanded because of that completely misleading article summary that asks for a successor.
If you bring things like this up to CmdrTaco in, say, an e-mail, you'll either get no reply or a really nasty, sarcastic response. It's frustrating.
You say X doesn't suck, but then explain how it doesn't fully utilize graphics cards.
X doesn't work. I hate dragging a simple window and have a trail of tutti-fruity after it, or waiting 5 seconds for a menu to popup. Here's the part where you blame the window manager, or the graphics library, or the desktop environment.
XFree86 doesn't dare do a thing wrong. Hold on while we hack on yet another "extension," and then meanwhile in a Microsoft discussion complain that you can't hack on things that weren't in the core design of Windows.
Not just the software, but I mean the development. It's development by committee. Look at the rapid pace of the Linux kernel--headed by one guy.
Compare to XFree86 and its Board of Directors, Consortium, Core team, etc. And then people wonder why there is frustration at the slow pace of development. I'm not even talking about retardedly simple things like RandR (a feature even Windows 95 had close to a decade ago).
Welcome to the reason OSS doesn't succeed in the mainstream like commercial software does. Politics, idealism, and lack of interest screw it all up. It's viewed as much too fickle to be reliable. This reflects in the final products as well.
I'm not trolling but making a sincere point here in the hopes things improve. Reply if you disagree, but don't downmod me for it (just saying because I've had it happen before).
Trivial to prove. All one has to do is look at your imflammatory language and attitude to determine that you're a troll.
.sig line.
"Imflammatory?" Haha.
Which translates to: "I don't like your opinion, so I'm going to call it inflammatory. Sorry, imflammatory."
You even troll with your
How dare I criticize the two-party system in America. You got me.
You get a strange thrill out of people replying to your outrageous statements.
If that is true, why do you reply? Let me guess, you're "pointing it out for others," right? Haha.
In other words, you're a troll because you fit the definition of one. Not because people disagree with your "opinions" (which you like to bandy about as though they were facts).
In other words, stating my opinion means I'm bandying them around as facts. Guess what? The nature of having an opinion means that, yes, I consider them correct. Contratulations for being obvious!
Then again, even more damning are your own words [slashdot.org] (just a small sample).
The fact that you track past posts like some sort of stalker is the most frightening thing of all. Let's see more of these "samples." Oh, that's right, it was a dismissive statement meant to put the burden of work on someone else to actually come up with anything, because you couldn't do it.
If all you have to offer for your "evidence" is me criticizing someone for not paying attention, you're even more pathetic than I originally assumed.
Sorry, but the fact that you have excellent karma doesn't change the fact that you're a troll. You're just a bit more skilled at karma whoring than the average garden variety troll. Face it. You've been exposed. No one will ever take you seriously any more.
Yet I get modded up. What are you going to do? You're the guy who goes to my posts and says "KNOWN TROLL, MOD ACCORDINGLY," which is hilarious. They do that to everybody. Next.
I specifically remember a "death of the BIOS" article last month some time.
Prove it. Prove I'm a "known troll" (my karma is Excellent, by the way).
In other words, you disagree with my opinion, so you want people to mod me down.
Sorry, but it doesn't change my opinion of X and its users.
I'm not trying to troll here...but hear me out: People simply don't trust electronic voting...as a geek this makes me very sad, because voting is something that could and should be more automated.
Oh, you're trolling.
Now, ask yourself, why is it that people don't trust comptuers?
They don't have the time to spend learning the operating system. It's that simple (and the reason why Linux is so less accepted right now...far too overly complex).
Answer: Microsoft's abhorent trackrecord with regard to security has an awful lot to do with it. It's not the only factor, but it is *huge*.
Of course it doesn't. People don't blame Microsoft for things like that. They blame the HACKERS.
All these windows bugs do effect us linux geeks: The perception of computers in general has suffered greatly.
Not because of any track record. Man, Slashdotters will turn ANYTHING into an anti-Microsoft post. This is about an e-voting firm!
He's not using it because "everything else is bloaty." He's using it because he is stubborn and resistent to change, even when better technology comes along and makes him obsolete. This goes along with my recurring point that X users in general are the most stubborn lot ever created and fear change no matter how minor.
But go ahead and stick with TWM for another decade.
I just subscribed to Slashdot!
...for sticking in the most obvious, cheesy, cliched line you can have whenever you're doing a man-on-the-run, stolen-identity story.
"YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!"
I can't help but laugh at Ben Affleck delivering this. "Tell us what happened." "I can't. You wiped my memory!"
Ben's voice echoes in my mind amidst maniacal laughter at the copiousness of its cheese. "YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!"
Do I blame myself? When I first heard the premise of yet another bastardized Phillip K. Dick movie and saw that Ben Affleck was in it, and heard that it was about his memory being erased (gee, that's never been done before), why did I immediately expect that exact line to be inserted somewhere in the trailer? "YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!" It's like I wanted it to be there, like touching a sore tooth.
Anyone else remember, "He's got a bomb in his RIBCAGE!" That other Phillip Dick movie and its cheesy line repeated over and over in all the trailers actually became a running gag over at Ain't-It-Cool talkbacks. "HE'S GOT A BOMB IN HIS RIBCAGE!"
Now I have "HE'S GOT A BOMB IN HIS RIBCAGE!" and "YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!" battling each other surrounded by torrents of laughter in my mind.
Help me. "YOU WIPED MY MEMORY!"
Gee, you can choose an alignment (i.e., "Light" or "Dark" force). I can't tell you how many games I've played with an alignment attribute since the 80s.
That's not a new thing in an RPG. A new thing in an RPG would be abolishing ridiculous "experience levels" and finding new ways to simulate skill improvements that don't require textbooks of rules and numbers to understand.
An icon in art music? I never even heard of the guy until this article.
80s new wave rockers haven't been icons of anything since the early 90s.
This has got to be one of the lamest article submissions I've seen. Karma bonus unchecked accordingly.
It's really, really sad how void the discussions are on this. So far I've only seen a couple of games mentioned.
Was there anything released this year that wasn't a franchise game? Seems this article is dead.
Here is an example of Slashdot bias.
* Microsoft puts out a Windows reliability test study. Thousands of Slashbots jump on it and accuse it of being biased, maked BSOD and Clippy "jokes," and generally act like lunatics.
* IBM puts out a Linux reliability test study. Nobody even dreams of calling it biased. It's considered to be a pass of "flying colors," and everyone nods along with the rest of the flock.
Guess you don't want the NSA or the government to be using or contributing to Linux, then. But they do.
Um, sure, Mr. "hand hand."
Every single time some pedantic moron brings up that "copying is *NOT* stealing!", I shake my head, for several reasons.
1.) It doesn't matter. Your trying to remove the connotation of the word "theft" from it is just a laughable attempt at trying to reduce the negative image of someone downloading things they didn't pay for.
2.) It IS theft, every way you look at it. If you look at it as intellectual property...if you look at it as lost revenue which you owe and don't pay when you obtain the product...and so on and so on.
If cable theft is stealing, so is downloading without paying for it. Of course, pedantic Slashbots will jump in and try to say that cable theft is theft of service. Theft of service? Are you somehow removing a tangible copy of service from them that they no longer have? That's right, your counterarguments don't fly in the face of the very logic you use to justify that downloading somehow isn't stealing. Sorry.
The whole point of your argument is visible when you said this:
Does that make me a thief? Nope.
This tells me you're just trying to shake the image of being a thief. You're trying to justify it in your mind to absolve yourself of guilt. Guess what? You ARE a thief. Sorry.
You're right.
Because you didn't like someone's cell phone going off or that the movies aren't up to your insane standard justifies you downloading them.
Rock on. You sure showed them. Chances are, you went to see ROTK and the Matrix anyway, despite your claims to the contrary.