You seem much more articulate than the standard troll, so I'm going to ask you:
What exactly is the purpose of comments like this? I mean, this is slashdot. If you don't like the average lifestyle (or the percieved average lifestyle) why post or read? If you're attempting to evangelize for real life, why not do it effectively? If you're trying to troll, can you at least try to make it interesting instead of trite?
Disclaimer: I spend 12hr a day on a computer, but I get paid for 9 of those. Most of the rest is playing with people in the same room, similar to console gaming with friends, only with better games.
And, like every other post you've ever made, this one is pointless, ill-informed, and trolling. Sorry, kid, you're just not as hot shit as you think you are.
162543...but honestly, depending on a lot of subtleties, it's hard to tell.
Examples: Someone really being shot on a news report vs. someone really being shot as part of some sort of "When Oppressive Governements ATTACK! next on Fox". It is entirely possible to show two people having sex with no skin but faces showing, if they're using blankets. Breasts for breastfeeding vs. breasts on a nude beach vs. breasts being touched sexually.
Lots of grey areas in your initial poll question...you might want to refine it.
Regarding "no provocation" with regards to Iraq...
Regardless of what you may have heard on ANY mainstream media, in the US or otherwise, the war with Iraq never ended. There was no signed peace.
There was a cease-fire agreement.
However, Saddam in his infinite wisdom chose to violate that agreement (by firing on American and British aircraft in the no-fly zones, for example) several times over the past decade and change. If you wish to argue that the no-fly zones are invalid, DESPITE being put into place by the coalition agreement in '91 and not unilaterally by the U.S., then you're advocating that international law and agreements mean nothing.
If you wish to argue that the no-fly zones had gone on long enough, then surely an enlightened world leader like Saddam should have re-negotiated that ceasefire into a final peace rather than simply opening fire on aircraft he didn't like.
The point of this post is that the first Gulf War never ended, legally speaking. Iraq has been shooting at U.S. aircraft and the U.S. has been engaging surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile sites since the cease-fire.
Personally, I think it was rather manganimous of our government to put up with blatant treaty violations for over ten years before we decided to oust Saddam.
Yes, the GP is correct about statutory limits on damages due to non-registration. Yes, the parent is correct that copyrights don't need to be registered as per the Berne Convention.
How can this be, you ask?
Simple. The US Code specifies one set of copyright laws for all works under the Berne Convention, and one can gain additional protections by registering ones copyright. Two-tier system, baby.
"How do people prevent natural forest fires (i.e. lightning, etc)?"
I was unclear--I meant "People put out small natural forest fires before they can adequately clear the underbrush."
"We're "hard-up" about preventing human-caused forest fires, of course, but before there were people everywhere I don't think this was much of an influence."
Exactly. Before there were people, there were smallish underbrush-clearing forest fires all the time, and you didn't really get the huge tree-burning wildfires you get now. (at least not as often)
Speaking as someone who lives in the heart of Pennsylvania coal country, they're getting significantly better--if not at reducing the impact while they're mining, at least they put the land back the way they found it (I mean that almost literally--some strip mines that were mined out twenty years ago are once again indistinguishable from the surrounding forests).
Quoth the poster: "This apparently was due to the prevalence of underbrush in the forest -- her claim was that in the 1500s, all of North America was a carefully tended garden, apparently with all of the underbrush removed regularly by the indigenous people"
Very ridiculous of you, but from my earth science courses and speaking with a professor in forestry at Penn State, prevalance of underbrush is a potential cause of the truly devastating fires we're getting these days--mostly because, in the past when there were no fire departments, small fires happened regularly and cleared the undergrowth while leaving large trees standing. This doesn't happen any more near populated areas because people are hard-up about preventing forest fires. Ironically, stopping natural fires causes more devastating fires down the road.
Warning: Surgeon General Zeriel has determined that following sex/relationship advice from NineNine may result in attracting similar women to those NineNine attracts. These approaches may also work on other types of women, but (I'm being serious now =P) there are as many types of females as there are males, and many women that geeks would be interested in (who are also interesting people and not just sperm receptacles) are highly responsive to being courted or other non-faux-apathetic strategies.
...I fail to see how damaging Slashdot further will help fix any of the problems you attribute to Slashdot.
But, of course, this is just another repetitive troll group in the guise of anarchist "freedom fighters" for a "less repressive Slashdot".
If any of you groups had an original troll, it might be worth doing, but the fake account/goatse/"troll database" stuff makes you just another (GNAA|Trollkore|M00kore) wannabe.
1. Why did the Egyptians and Babylonians both ignore the flood--it appears in none of their records, and they have written records from before and after the time the flood was supposed to have happened.
2. Similarly, why would the Egyptian historians go to such care that they occasionally recorded what people WORE to court, but at the same time not even mention anything about a mass exodus of hebrew slaves, or the plagues, or the military losses in the red sea.
3. How do artifacts supposedly carring images of Jesus on his way to crucifixion "prove" anything that happens AFTER his crucifixion? We know that many people were crucified--the Romans loved it as an execution method. Show me an artifact supposedly created by Jesus AFTER Jesus rose from the dead.
4. Which "written history" that is not religious or bible-based points out any of the points you made? Links please, or ISBN numbers.
5. Your human brain arguement is ridiculous. How do you define "far too complex", when certain non-human primates can be taught sign language, computer use, and tool making?
Quoth the Poster: "prove that god does not exist. physically prove it. you can't. you can't prove or disprove it."
It's not possible, logically speaking, to prove a negative. Hence your statement that it can't be proven is true, but not for the reasons you intended.
"how did the world get here? how were people created? how were all the different animals and plants created? how did all this come to be?"
Testable theories have been advanced for all of these. Some are very promising and have held up despite ridiculous amounts of naysaying and scrutiny. Consult your local educational institution for classes in evolutionary biology and geology.
Or consult your pineal gland for all I care. Fnord.
If I had mod points, I would mod you up. That is the single clearest and most complete summary of Israeli history I've ever read, and every point you made is truth.
I'm sorry, but there's just no way this makes sense. Blaming an individual for the acts of their ancestors is nothing short of lunacy.
Noting that a culture was once twisted into something evil and could possibly be again is moderately acceptable.
But there is a difference between saying "The cultural and political climate in Europe is showing signs of the insular racism that led to Nazism in the past." and saying "Your grandparent was a Nazi, and you could turn into one ANY SECOND."
*shrugs* Performance, mostly. AD on Win2k Server seems to go out of its way to pretend like it's a full-fledged multi-domain-capable muck, even if all you want is a simple LDAP server handling user authentication.
And if that's all you want, Linux+OpenLDAP is what you want.
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Administration and management costs don't scale linearly, they scale exponentially.
You seem much more articulate than the standard troll, so I'm going to ask you:
What exactly is the purpose of comments like this? I mean, this is slashdot. If you don't like the average lifestyle (or the percieved average lifestyle) why post or read? If you're attempting to evangelize for real life, why not do it effectively? If you're trying to troll, can you at least try to make it interesting instead of trite?
Disclaimer: I spend 12hr a day on a computer, but I get paid for 9 of those. Most of the rest is playing with people in the same room, similar to console gaming with friends, only with better games.
And, like every other post you've ever made, this one is pointless, ill-informed, and trolling. Sorry, kid, you're just not as hot shit as you think you are.
Karma to burn... =P
162543...but honestly, depending on a lot of subtleties, it's hard to tell.
Examples:
Someone really being shot on a news report vs. someone really being shot as part of some sort of "When Oppressive Governements ATTACK! next on Fox".
It is entirely possible to show two people having sex with no skin but faces showing, if they're using blankets.
Breasts for breastfeeding vs. breasts on a nude beach vs. breasts being touched sexually.
Lots of grey areas in your initial poll question...you might want to refine it.
Regarding "no provocation" with regards to Iraq...
Regardless of what you may have heard on ANY mainstream media, in the US or otherwise, the war with Iraq never ended. There was no signed peace.
There was a cease-fire agreement.
However, Saddam in his infinite wisdom chose to violate that agreement (by firing on American and British aircraft in the no-fly zones, for example) several times over the past decade and change.
If you wish to argue that the no-fly zones are invalid, DESPITE being put into place by the coalition agreement in '91 and not unilaterally by the U.S., then you're advocating that international law and agreements mean nothing.
If you wish to argue that the no-fly zones had gone on long enough, then surely an enlightened world leader like Saddam should have re-negotiated that ceasefire into a final peace rather than simply opening fire on aircraft he didn't like.
The point of this post is that the first Gulf War never ended, legally speaking. Iraq has been shooting at U.S. aircraft and the U.S. has been engaging surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile sites since the cease-fire.
Personally, I think it was rather manganimous of our government to put up with blatant treaty violations for over ten years before we decided to oust Saddam.
That's just off the top of my head, and both are incredibly good reasons.
While I doubt you wrote it yourself, a brilliant and original offtopic troll of the first rank. My hat is off to you.
They still are open to the public for pretty much the same fees as students, speaking as a recent alum.
Yes, the GP is correct about statutory limits on damages due to non-registration. Yes, the parent is correct that copyrights don't need to be registered as per the Berne Convention.
How can this be, you ask?
Simple. The US Code specifies one set of copyright laws for all works under the Berne Convention, and one can gain additional protections by registering ones copyright. Two-tier system, baby.
"How do people prevent natural forest fires (i.e. lightning, etc)?"
I was unclear--I meant "People put out small natural forest fires before they can adequately clear the underbrush."
"We're "hard-up" about preventing human-caused forest fires, of course, but before there were people everywhere I don't think this was much of an influence."
Exactly. Before there were people, there were smallish underbrush-clearing forest fires all the time, and you didn't really get the huge tree-burning wildfires you get now. (at least not as often)
Speaking as someone who lives in the heart of Pennsylvania coal country, they're getting significantly better--if not at reducing the impact while they're mining, at least they put the land back the way they found it (I mean that almost literally--some strip mines that were mined out twenty years ago are once again indistinguishable from the surrounding forests).
Quoth the poster:
"This apparently was due to the prevalence of underbrush in the forest -- her claim was that in the 1500s, all of North America was a carefully tended garden, apparently with all of the underbrush removed regularly by the indigenous people"
Very ridiculous of you, but from my earth science courses and speaking with a professor in forestry at Penn State, prevalance of underbrush is a potential cause of the truly devastating fires we're getting these days--mostly because, in the past when there were no fire departments, small fires happened regularly and cleared the undergrowth while leaving large trees standing. This doesn't happen any more near populated areas because people are hard-up about preventing forest fires. Ironically, stopping natural fires causes more devastating fires down the road.
Warning:
Surgeon General Zeriel has determined that following sex/relationship advice from NineNine may result in attracting similar women to those NineNine attracts.
These approaches may also work on other types of women, but (I'm being serious now =P) there are as many types of females as there are males, and many women that geeks would be interested in (who are also interesting people and not just sperm receptacles) are highly responsive to being courted or other non-faux-apathetic strategies.
...I fail to see how damaging Slashdot further will help fix any of the problems you attribute to Slashdot.
But, of course, this is just another repetitive troll group in the guise of anarchist "freedom fighters" for a "less repressive Slashdot".
If any of you groups had an original troll, it might be worth doing, but the fake account/goatse/"troll database" stuff makes you just another (GNAA|Trollkore|M00kore) wannabe.
The place I work has an agricultural analysis package with some GIS stuff that uses a parallel port dongle.
As a previous poster said, it seems that they're most common in expensive niche software (liek 3d design, drafting, ag, embroidery, etc.)
Buddy, I live on the edge of a city with 400,000 people, and *I* can't get DSL because I'm 150' too far from the telco.
Robot Gore vs. Chimpanzee Bush must have been a horrid decision for them, then.
See Monty Python, "The Crimson Permanant Assurance".
I contest this on the grounds that you have not once posted anything particularly witty or wise to this forum. =P
Okay, so here's a fun question session.
1. Why did the Egyptians and Babylonians both ignore the flood--it appears in none of their records, and they have written records from before and after the time the flood was supposed to have happened.
2. Similarly, why would the Egyptian historians go to such care that they occasionally recorded what people WORE to court, but at the same time not even mention anything about a mass exodus of hebrew slaves, or the plagues, or the military losses in the red sea.
3. How do artifacts supposedly carring images of Jesus on his way to crucifixion "prove" anything that happens AFTER his crucifixion? We know that many people were crucified--the Romans loved it as an execution method. Show me an artifact supposedly created by Jesus AFTER Jesus rose from the dead.
4. Which "written history" that is not religious or bible-based points out any of the points you made? Links please, or ISBN numbers.
5. Your human brain arguement is ridiculous. How do you define "far too complex", when certain non-human primates can be taught sign language, computer use, and tool making?
Quoth the Poster:
"prove that god does not exist. physically prove it. you can't. you can't prove or disprove it."
It's not possible, logically speaking, to prove a negative. Hence your statement that it can't be proven is true, but not for the reasons you intended.
"how did the world get here? how were people created? how were all the different animals and plants created? how did all this come to be?"
Testable theories have been advanced for all of these. Some are very promising and have held up despite ridiculous amounts of naysaying and scrutiny. Consult your local educational institution for classes in evolutionary biology and geology.
Or consult your pineal gland for all I care. Fnord.
If I had mod points, I would mod you up. That is the single clearest and most complete summary of Israeli history I've ever read, and every point you made is truth.
I'd friend you, too, if you weren't AC.
I'm sorry, but there's just no way this makes sense. Blaming an individual for the acts of their ancestors is nothing short of lunacy.
Noting that a culture was once twisted into something evil and could possibly be again is moderately acceptable.
But there is a difference between saying "The cultural and political climate in Europe is showing signs of the insular racism that led to Nazism in the past." and saying "Your grandparent was a Nazi, and you could turn into one ANY SECOND."
I think he must be some kinda prophet.
Either that, or Slashdot itself has somehow gained sentience.
*shrugs* Performance, mostly. AD on Win2k Server seems to go out of its way to pretend like it's a full-fledged multi-domain-capable muck, even if all you want is a simple LDAP server handling user authentication.
And if that's all you want, Linux+OpenLDAP is what you want.