They really, really don't like it when you pay them in pennys in those rolls you get from the bank. There's like 50 pennys in each, so it's only expected that you will use several handfuls of the rolls. *shrug*
Pure truth. In highschool, pot was a cell phone call away, with at least 3 reliable choices of dealers to choose from. Then delivered in 30 minutes tops! (Keep in mind this was in BC, Canada)
But booze on the other hand, was always a mission. If you didn't have a brother, sister or older friend, it meant standing outside the liquor store waiting for a shady or young looking person to buy it for you.
While I was working with a network admin at a local highschool, the entire district got banned from Slashdot for "abuse" that appeared we were trying to dos them or somesuch. Of course we just assumed it was the district, but as it turned out, all the schools in the province are connected to a massive network that provides bandwidth for every school. So every school in the province got banned, that's thousands of IT workers and whoever the heck knows how many geeky kids who were suddenly greated with a big red screen. It took a few emails to slashdot to finally get them to unblock it, and the problem as it turned out was some kind of a router looping explosion thing. Sorry, boring story and I forgot the details. And the point. But I got this far, so *submit button*
Hopefully they will not. What's actually sad and pathetic is that the American Government(TM) has convinced you that people who "steal" intellectual property deserve jail time.
It's simply fucked that for sending electrical signals down a wire can be worse then rape. (Refering to IP stuff, not hacking or virus making, which are actual crimes that need to be taken seriously.)
All that is really the way of the past. It's nice, it's romantic, but it's over and it's for the betterment of our entire society. (The family tradition/religion thing, not the American consumer culture.)
and even if the local authorities had somehow miraculously gotten megaphones on the beach in time, you can be certain people there would have just yawned them away...
I'm kind of interested in where you got your information about people not leaving a beach when they are warned by megaphone about a tsunami, because I know for sure I'd run like hell at that warning, as would pretty well everyone I know.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if it's against the law NOT to keep said logs?
If I were running an ISP, I really wouldn't want to help the **AA's. Why not just keep the logs for a week for internal security use, and then send em to/dev/null?
If someone from within your network was viewing child porn and it was tracked back, if you cannot provide the information will you be held accountable?
A good point. I'll stand by my thinking that the day of "IT Interest = Nerd" in highschool is no longer, but on the subject of homeschooling, it's entirely possible that I've never noticed the "normal" ones because you really don't notice what doesn't stand out. Thanks for the viewpoint.
That was about 5-10 years ago. I just finished highschool last year as a full fledged geek. Back in grade 6 I remember it was still a bad thing to be the nerd, and the stereotype was fairly accurate, but then around grade 8 things started to change, when the IT nerds became the guys who could make mix cd's for $10 (downloaded off napster with dialup, heh heh). Suddenly there was a clear distinction between the "nerds" and the "geeks". Most of the kids into IT that I knew went to the side of the geek, while the nerdier band lovers and theatre people stayed socially awkward. The young IT geek has a respected place in society now, complete with friends, girlfriends, partys, drugs, sexual experimentation and all the other fun things that used to only be for the "normies".
The reason the ads are so universal and abundant can kind of be compared to the Soviet-American arms race. Just as each side kept upping the ante, Pepsi and Coke have always had to match eachother for adveritising. If one side were to tone it down now, the other would appear to be more popular and successful. It's a never ending spiral of assult on your eyes and ears, and it's only going to get worse.
Our Canadian ISPs arn't so harsh on the matter (probably because those submitting the complaints have no power to do any real damage here yet), as far as I know both Telus and Shaw just send C&D's automaticly, with no limit to how many you can get.
With Shaw they enforce download and upload caps though. My friend was unplugged after a few warning, and was told that if he upgraded to their "server" package for 20-30 bucks more he wouldn't be harassed anymore. So he did.
There seem to be two opinions of the "right thing" in this discussion (and the world today).
There's the American one, where it's the right thing as long as the end result is what makes you happy (forget the means), and there's everybody else's, where the right thing is finding a solution that helps everybody, without bulldozing the middleman (or Iraqi civilians).
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Just replace the glass with plexiglass and you are in business. Slightly less prone to smashing when you drop a stack of 2x4's on it.
They really, really don't like it when you pay them in pennys in those rolls you get from the bank. There's like 50 pennys in each, so it's only expected that you will use several handfuls of the rolls. *shrug*
I just don't get strippers.
Excellently said.
Pure truth. In highschool, pot was a cell phone call away, with at least 3 reliable choices of dealers to choose from. Then delivered in 30 minutes tops! (Keep in mind this was in BC, Canada)
But booze on the other hand, was always a mission. If you didn't have a brother, sister or older friend, it meant standing outside the liquor store waiting for a shady or young looking person to buy it for you.
While I was working with a network admin at a local highschool, the entire district got banned from Slashdot for "abuse" that appeared we were trying to dos them or somesuch. Of course we just assumed it was the district, but as it turned out, all the schools in the province are connected to a massive network that provides bandwidth for every school. So every school in the province got banned, that's thousands of IT workers and whoever the heck knows how many geeky kids who were suddenly greated with a big red screen. It took a few emails to slashdot to finally get them to unblock it, and the problem as it turned out was some kind of a router looping explosion thing. Sorry, boring story and I forgot the details. And the point. But I got this far, so *submit button*
Hopefully they will not. What's actually sad and pathetic is that the American Government(TM) has convinced you that people who "steal" intellectual property deserve jail time.
It's simply fucked that for sending electrical signals down a wire can be worse then rape. (Refering to IP stuff, not hacking or virus making, which are actual crimes that need to be taken seriously.)
Enough must... Or the spam wouldn't be there in the first place. Where theres a demand, there's a market. *sigh*
All that is really the way of the past. It's nice, it's romantic, but it's over and it's for the betterment of our entire society. (The family tradition/religion thing, not the American consumer culture.)
and even if the local authorities had somehow miraculously gotten megaphones on the beach in time, you can be certain people there would have just yawned them away...
I'm kind of interested in where you got your information about people not leaving a beach when they are warned by megaphone about a tsunami, because I know for sure I'd run like hell at that warning, as would pretty well everyone I know.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if it's against the law NOT to keep said logs? If I were running an ISP, I really wouldn't want to help the **AA's. Why not just keep the logs for a week for internal security use, and then send em to /dev/null?
If someone from within your network was viewing child porn and it was tracked back, if you cannot provide the information will you be held accountable?
http://mike-b.deviantart.com/journal/4103616/ :)
A good point. I'll stand by my thinking that the day of "IT Interest = Nerd" in highschool is no longer, but on the subject of homeschooling, it's entirely possible that I've never noticed the "normal" ones because you really don't notice what doesn't stand out. Thanks for the viewpoint.
That was about 5-10 years ago. I just finished highschool last year as a full fledged geek. Back in grade 6 I remember it was still a bad thing to be the nerd, and the stereotype was fairly accurate, but then around grade 8 things started to change, when the IT nerds became the guys who could make mix cd's for $10 (downloaded off napster with dialup, heh heh). Suddenly there was a clear distinction between the "nerds" and the "geeks". Most of the kids into IT that I knew went to the side of the geek, while the nerdier band lovers and theatre people stayed socially awkward. The young IT geek has a respected place in society now, complete with friends, girlfriends, partys, drugs, sexual experimentation and all the other fun things that used to only be for the "normies".
The reason the ads are so universal and abundant can kind of be compared to the Soviet-American arms race. Just as each side kept upping the ante, Pepsi and Coke have always had to match eachother for adveritising. If one side were to tone it down now, the other would appear to be more popular and successful. It's a never ending spiral of assult on your eyes and ears, and it's only going to get worse.
Home school group might be interested, but in my experiences the kids being home schooled lack many fundamental social skills...
Perfectly said. *tips touque in your general direction*
Our Canadian ISPs arn't so harsh on the matter (probably because those submitting the complaints have no power to do any real damage here yet), as far as I know both Telus and Shaw just send C&D's automaticly, with no limit to how many you can get.
With Shaw they enforce download and upload caps though. My friend was unplugged after a few warning, and was told that if he upgraded to their "server" package for 20-30 bucks more he wouldn't be harassed anymore. So he did.
There seem to be two opinions of the "right thing" in this discussion (and the world today).
There's the American one, where it's the right thing as long as the end result is what makes you happy (forget the means), and there's everybody else's, where the right thing is finding a solution that helps everybody, without bulldozing the middleman (or Iraqi civilians).
Two wrongs don't make a right. Cheesy, sure, but I think it's pretty relevant. There's gotta be a better way without doing "wrong" ourselves.
Whoever gets there first... Most likely.
Such as sleeping.
I actually nearly did. The real scary part is that I don't see anything wrong with the.
BTW, I think the only way to describe this game would be as "the Lord of the Rings of computer games".
Just absolutly epic.
You guys are brutal... Jeez, lol.
No way...
Offtopic? Allow me to clarify... Once again, Canada is immune to this insanity. How long that holds out for though...