You "don't believe" that astrology works? Good lord (pardon the irony in that statement)!!
It doesn't matter what you believe. That's my point. Who cares. Facts talk, everything else walks. The only opinion I gave was wrt Friends. So I'm a f-ckwad for saying Friends sucks. OK. I can live with that.
The Friends thing was a joke, as was much of my post. Lighten up and stop confusing tolerance with acceptance. Just because some people believe in god or astrology doesn't mean I have to accept that. They're wrong. But I tolerate that and make cracks on slashdot to make them feel inferior. Thanks for playing.
I welcome HPs actions. But I can't help but wait for the other shoe to drop. Paranoid? Skeptical? Who was the other licensee?
Something's afoot. I really wish that this had all been cleared up by Labor Day. It was a nice Summmer story (Summer of the SCO). But now it's just tedious. SCO has time on their side. The longer they can hang the cloud over it all, the better for them. FUD is a mysterious and marvelous thing.
This law has absolutley zero chance of standing. It is a total joke signed into law by a desperate politician who is willing to fart at strong constitutional law precedent to win an election.
Give me a break. Anyone who thinks this law will withstand 10 mintues of a challenge is seriously deluded.
Riiiiight. The phone is in no way equivalent to listening to music or watching Sex in the City in such high resolution that you can see the plaque on their teeth.
Here's how stupid you sound: "There was one type of technology that became ubiquitous and necessary. Therefore, all technology will follow in that exact same path and all technology will become ubiquitous and necessary."
The main problems here are compatability and demand. First, demand... The people don't need it. So, they won't use it. That's easy. The people in this article were all wrong for this stuff. They will NEVER use 20% of it.
Second, compatability. We all know and it is obvious to most people that this stuff all becomes 10 times cooler when it works with other stuff. When I buy a new X, it would be totally awesome if it will integrate with my Q, R, S, and V. Well, open standards certainly won't make much money for the manufacturers, so they don't work very well together. Heck, even all my Sony stuff has problems playing nice together. And especially the really cool features will never integrate.
Last, but not least, they kids are gonna ruin it all anyway. So to hell with it. Read a book. Take the $15,000 and put it in the kids' college funds.
My bigger beef is with this new 5GB hidden partition on new computers. It contains the Windows backup and recovery partition. Machines don't ship with CDs and DVDs anymore, they just slap all that in a "permanent" space on your HD. Buttheads. So, I buy a computer advertised as 40GB, it's really 37.5, but also has 5GB of junk hidden. So I can only "use" 32GB. 2GB for OS and 31GB of pr0n puts me in a nasty place. Jerks.
It's on CNN, FNC, MSNBC, TWC, and Cartoon Network as well. And they use cameras! I even noticed that one of the reporters was kinda hot. You don't get that on Ham!
In short, for those who have not upgraded to "Television" from radio, this may be the right time!
Invisible, undetectable. And you can't interact with it. But, you can ask it all the questions you want. We'll all feel better just by thinking that we know it's there.
The implication of the article (the slashdot summary) was that the movie DVD was the same as the music CD plus all this bonus stuff. I completely disagree. The editors should be familiar with the licensing schemes before posting such trivial articles.
Are you saying that if I own the DVD then I automatically have rights to the songs? I can LEGALLY make MP3's out of them per fair use? Can I? Really? Can I make a CD out of them and then play them in my CD player in my car? Can I? Really?
Don't think so, michael. I don't think so. Apples... meet Oranges...
Sheesh. The whole post was a tongue-in-cheek-DaveBarryesque blurb. I barely got modded funny before the metamoderators took my post from a 5 to a 3. Lighten up, folks.
Yes. It is a proven fact that most journalists are liberal in at least how they vote (like 90%+ democratic in the US.) This is indisputable. I was just making a crack as to why that might be so.
The vast majority of youth (minus the Jesus freaks) are liberal. Many people change their views as they age and we end up with a more diverse adult public. Which is fine and healthy. I'm glad that I have the ability to change my point of view over time. Too many people don't. As we all know, neither side has a lock on righteousness or truth. Hardly.
I would characterize myself as leaning towards the libertarian point of view. My liberal friends see me as a conservative and my conservative friends certainly see me as liberal.
The ratio of journalists who vote democratic vs republican in America is 12.5 to 1 (ok, that is about a 4 year old stat). But at least, "you can look it up", as the saying goes.
Questions? Or do you want to keep spewing unsubstantiated BS? Either way is fine with me.
Most folks who go into "journalism" go into it to "change the world". They have an agenda. They want to "expose the truth" with liberal use of "quotes". Having committed themselves to their ideologies at a young age stunts the normal brain growth pattern of maturing from liberalism to conservativism as you pass through your 20's and into your 30's and 40's. Hence, most journalists are liberal hippy dope smoking freaks.
Um. Excuse me. But the story itself is flamebait. I guess the moderator did not read the story in the link. Please mod my original post back up to 1. Thanks in advance.
Slashdot Mirror
I, for one, welcome our arrogant, socialist, lunar invaders.
Although I suspect that they are simply looking for a better grade of cheese to go with their overpriced, dull wine.
It doesn't make you feel inferior. It was a joke. But your lack of sense of humor DOES, in fact, make you inferior.
Bow down to your atheist lord. And wipe that smirk off your face!
Don't feel sorry for me. I can feel sorry enough for myself for the both of us!
You "don't believe" that astrology works? Good lord (pardon the irony in that statement)!!
It doesn't matter what you believe. That's my point. Who cares. Facts talk, everything else walks. The only opinion I gave was wrt Friends. So I'm a f-ckwad for saying Friends sucks. OK. I can live with that.
The Friends thing was a joke, as was much of my post. Lighten up and stop confusing tolerance with acceptance. Just because some people believe in god or astrology doesn't mean I have to accept that. They're wrong. But I tolerate that and make cracks on slashdot to make them feel inferior. Thanks for playing.
Does that mean we have now voted god into existence?
Does this mean that astrology is real?
Does this mean I can talk to the dead?
Does this mean that Friends is really a good show?
I think not. 50 million people can sometimes be real doofuses.
I welcome HPs actions. But I can't help but wait for the other shoe to drop. Paranoid? Skeptical? Who was the other licensee?
Something's afoot. I really wish that this had all been cleared up by Labor Day. It was a nice Summmer story (Summer of the SCO). But now it's just tedious. SCO has time on their side. The longer they can hang the cloud over it all, the better for them. FUD is a mysterious and marvelous thing.
This law has absolutley zero chance of standing. It is a total joke signed into law by a desperate politician who is willing to fart at strong constitutional law precedent to win an election.
Give me a break. Anyone who thinks this law will withstand 10 mintues of a challenge is seriously deluded.
Riiiiight. The phone is in no way equivalent to listening to music or watching Sex in the City in such high resolution that you can see the plaque on their teeth.
Here's how stupid you sound: "There was one type of technology that became ubiquitous and necessary. Therefore, all technology will follow in that exact same path and all technology will become ubiquitous and necessary."
The main problems here are compatability and demand. First, demand... The people don't need it. So, they won't use it. That's easy. The people in this article were all wrong for this stuff. They will NEVER use 20% of it.
Second, compatability. We all know and it is obvious to most people that this stuff all becomes 10 times cooler when it works with other stuff. When I buy a new X, it would be totally awesome if it will integrate with my Q, R, S, and V. Well, open standards certainly won't make much money for the manufacturers, so they don't work very well together. Heck, even all my Sony stuff has problems playing nice together. And especially the really cool features will never integrate.
Last, but not least, they kids are gonna ruin it all anyway. So to hell with it. Read a book. Take the $15,000 and put it in the kids' college funds.
I, for one, welcome our new, um, overlordish overlords.
Good has been winning over for evil for too long. I'm glad that we will begin to see the balance restored.
Bad news for Iron Man.
We won't have any of this "advertising" on the Internet. The Internet is surely doomed if we allow it.
My bigger beef is with this new 5GB hidden partition on new computers. It contains the Windows backup and recovery partition. Machines don't ship with CDs and DVDs anymore, they just slap all that in a "permanent" space on your HD. Buttheads. So, I buy a computer advertised as 40GB, it's really 37.5, but also has 5GB of junk hidden. So I can only "use" 32GB. 2GB for OS and 31GB of pr0n puts me in a nasty place. Jerks.
It's on CNN, FNC, MSNBC, TWC, and Cartoon Network as well. And they use cameras! I even noticed that one of the reporters was kinda hot. You don't get that on Ham!
In short, for those who have not upgraded to "Television" from radio, this may be the right time!
I, for one, welcome our new toxic wireless overlords.
Now, I can kill my enemies with a simple "Here, it's for you..."
In the past, I had to pass them a tin can connected to a string that previously contained bad salmon.
Yes. You can call is "GodZa". Or "Godster".
Invisible, undetectable. And you can't interact with it. But, you can ask it all the questions you want. We'll all feel better just by thinking that we know it's there.
The implication of the article (the slashdot summary) was that the movie DVD was the same as the music CD plus all this bonus stuff. I completely disagree. The editors should be familiar with the licensing schemes before posting such trivial articles.
Are you saying that if I own the DVD then I automatically have rights to the songs? I can LEGALLY make MP3's out of them per fair use? Can I? Really? Can I make a CD out of them and then play them in my CD player in my car? Can I? Really?
Don't think so, michael. I don't think so. Apples... meet Oranges...
I, for one, welcome our new liberal-biased, Microsoft-bashing, Slashdot-editorial overlords.
Now, about this editorial integrity business...
I, for one, welcome our new packet-based overlords.
Now. About this encryption thing...
Sheesh. The whole post was a tongue-in-cheek-DaveBarryesque blurb. I barely got modded funny before the metamoderators took my post from a 5 to a 3. Lighten up, folks.
Yes. It is a proven fact that most journalists are liberal in at least how they vote (like 90%+ democratic in the US.) This is indisputable. I was just making a crack as to why that might be so.
The vast majority of youth (minus the Jesus freaks) are liberal. Many people change their views as they age and we end up with a more diverse adult public. Which is fine and healthy. I'm glad that I have the ability to change my point of view over time. Too many people don't. As we all know, neither side has a lock on righteousness or truth. Hardly.
I would characterize myself as leaning towards the libertarian point of view. My liberal friends see me as a conservative and my conservative friends certainly see me as liberal.
The ratio of journalists who vote democratic vs republican in America is 12.5 to 1 (ok, that is about a 4 year old stat). But at least, "you can look it up", as the saying goes.
Questions? Or do you want to keep spewing unsubstantiated BS? Either way is fine with me.
Flamebait? Oh. Now that hurts. That really hurts.
Most folks who go into "journalism" go into it to "change the world". They have an agenda. They want to "expose the truth" with liberal use of "quotes". Having committed themselves to their ideologies at a young age stunts the normal brain growth pattern of maturing from liberalism to conservativism as you pass through your 20's and into your 30's and 40's. Hence, most journalists are liberal hippy dope smoking freaks.
Got it?
Um. Excuse me. But the story itself is flamebait. I guess the moderator did not read the story in the link. Please mod my original post back up to 1. Thanks in advance.
Moe
Goddamn! You liberal hippy dope smoking freaks really piss me off!
Almost every story chosen is complete liberal FUD.
Slashdot really seems to get more political as election times draw near. Can't wait to see Howard Dean as the official mascot a year from now.
Screw you guys. I'm going