2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
let me spell it out for you AC.
MS is promoting Janus as a program that allows you to download music for a monthly fee. The intended meaning is that they are giving you the freedom to have whatever music you want without "violating the intelectual property rights" (Neasea ensues...) of their clients, namely the RIAA.
The Society of Janus is a BDSM organisation. BDSM in case you didn't know stand for Bondage & Discipline. Sado-Masochism (I think).
The key words there being Bondage. As in you being in Bondage to MS. The apparent meaning is that if you sign up for this thing you may be giving consent for MS to tie you down, beat you with a leather paddle and call you a dirty, stupid little whore.
I had one. a Dell Inspiron 8200 2GHZ 512 MB RAM, Geforce 4 440 GO. Sweet rig. Unfortunately it wieghted 12lbs. Toss is a Mouse, Adpater and extra Battery, DVDs, a good pair of headphones and you got about 16lbs of wieght. Used it during my commute, between classes at school and at work while waiting for experiements to finish oR something to explode. That lasted for about a month. I'm a big believer in the bare neccesities, having the minimum amount of stuff you need for comfortable survival, and 16lb of computer equipment plus my books was just to much.
I parked it on my desktop for another 9 months and then sold it on Ebay. Got a little more than half of what I paid for it, but that was still enough to buy a decent desktop machine from Dell and a 20 inch monitor.
The only time I really missed it is on plane flights, but whats the point of buying a laptop that only leaves your desk twice a year?...
The laptop I buy has to wieght less than 5lbs, have more than 5hrs battery time (without an extra battery) and have kickass specs. So maybe in 2010...
I don't nbeed counceling. I'm over it. Episode 1 showed me how stupid this obsession with SW rerally is. Doesn't change the fact that George Lucas fucked around with something that was very important to me.
Some guys wash and hand wax their cars every week, and use a car cover when they park it at work. Some guys have baseball stats memorized back to 1935. No one tells these guys to "Get a Life". They don't get ridiculed like Trekkers, Sci-fi & D&D geeks.
Do like 4 a day mix em in with real news, but posting one everytime you think of one is not funny. Come up with em before hand cull out the bad and just do a couple. Jeez.
There's no way he's gonna make it to another trilogy.
Unless he can get some decent collaborators and actual listen to them I can only see this as a good thing. Very few people can screw up SW more than George Lucas is doing right now.
"I'm sorry for all the childhoods I wrecked with The Phantom Menace and subsequent 5 years of crap that has come out of the Star Wars Franchise.
I've decided to hire some good writers to help me write the next film and I won't be directing it either, I'm thinking of maybe given Daron Aronofsky or Guillermo Del Toro a shot at it, David Fincher is also in the running. In fact I think I'm retiring, spend some time with my kids, lose some weight, take some Community College writing courses.
Except for some storyboard approvals I'll probably be removing myself from the whole thing.
Oh, and Han shot first. I don't know what the hell was I thinking..."
Have YOU ever heard of counterfeit cigarettes? I was itching to get a look at these so called counterfiets, but our lawyer said even if they didn't exist getting into a battle over it would be more trouble than proven PM wrong was worth (financially). As far as we can tell they only evidence PM had was the supplier had been known to mix in counterfiets with batches of real cigarettes in the past. So PM's solution was to sue 200+ retailers to get to one supplier.
Getting sued because you knowingly did something wrong is one thing, but being collateral damage in someone's war is just fucked up...
I think you should give people some credit for knowing what their needs or wants are versus what they can afford.
rofl. I don't know where you live. Where I live people's needs are driven by whats hip ATM. I've watched kids I worked with at retail stores for just above min wage blow two weeks pay on a platinum watch. I watched a 27 year old guy working at UPS for 15.00 an hour, living at home with his parents so he can drive a pre-owned Lexus with $1500 Rims. I've known people who change their cell phones everytime a new one is released. I've known several people who own a cell phone, two way pager and a Handspring and carry around all at once, and for no work related reasons.
So tell me again how people know what their needs are...
Only if the company being sued is reasonably large. Lawsuits in this country are really out of hand. Philip Morris (MR. B.I.G. Tabacco himself) sued my girlfriends parents last year for selling counterfeit cigarettes. They own a tiny little store sell maybe 2 or 3 packs a day and hardly speak any English but PM sued them for amounts in the 6 figure range. Even with a no money settlement (they gave up the names of their suppliers) and a lawyer that did most of his actual work pro bono it still wound up costing them a couple thousand dollars.
I guess the question here is who is more important to you, your customers or your legal department.
Thats not an excuse, anyone with a business of any size in America has a reasonable chance of being sued. If you roll over and show your belly everytime someone shouts litigation you won't survive very long. EV1 is learning that the hard way.
I almost majored in philosophy (with a creative writing minor), but I changed my mind early on and went into Electrical Engineering because I wanted to be able to get a job when I got out of college...
What bothers me the most about Walmart isn't that they sell cheap crap at low prices and the masses just eat it up. Quality products are always easily available, thanks to the internet I can order a hand made mountain bike frame from Japan as easily as I can buy one of the cheap-ass Huffies Wally -World churns out.
What really bothers me is that they're slkowly killing the American economy so pretty soon those of us that want a quality product aren't going to be able to afford it, because our jobs p0ay us just enough to afford Wally-World prices. Thats what living in one of the Kansas Walmart town must be like. Pick up your paycheck from Walmart on Friday and spend it all right there in the store.
It would be stupid for them to keep it as Waif me at this point. Anyone who would actually listen to Nirvana knows that story, and seeing as Cobain is dead it would be kind of insulting not to use the correct name.
and most fans of pop are well not so quick about such things
Most fans of pop who aren't buying the CD and spouting the RIAA rubbish funneled through the likes of Madonna and Britney are ripping these songs off Kazaa through a Chinese proxy server.
Walmart knows this. This isn't about making a profit or even about selling music per say. This is about the 800lb Gorilla keeping its paws in everything...
Look at it this way. No one gets paid to reveiw books for slashdot. So really the only reason to write a book reveiw is that you like the book so much that you want to share it, or that its such a steaming load you wish to warn the world to steer clear of it. How many books in the latter category have you read completely enough to give a thorough rational reveiw?
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irony
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
let me spell it out for you AC.
MS is promoting Janus as a program that allows you to download music for a monthly fee. The intended meaning is that they are giving you the freedom to have whatever music you want without "violating the intelectual property rights" (Neasea ensues...) of their clients, namely the RIAA.
The Society of Janus is a BDSM organisation. BDSM in case you didn't know stand for Bondage & Discipline. Sado-Masochism (I think).
The key words there being Bondage. As in you being in Bondage to MS. The apparent meaning is that if you sign up for this thing you may be giving consent for MS to tie you down, beat you with a leather paddle and call you a dirty, stupid little whore.
Is that irony enough for you?
Everytime I hear someone use the phrase "hacker-proof". I think of the Titanic's designers calling it "unsinkable"
Society of Janus
Society of Janus is a San Francisco based BDSM education/support group...
know what it is exactly you're consenting to when you click accept on EULA.
I parked it on my desktop for another 9 months and then sold it on Ebay. Got a little more than half of what I paid for it, but that was still enough to buy a decent desktop machine from Dell and a 20 inch monitor.
The only time I really missed it is on plane flights, but whats the point of buying a laptop that only leaves your desk twice a year?...
The laptop I buy has to wieght less than 5lbs, have more than 5hrs battery time (without an extra battery) and have kickass specs. So maybe in 2010...
Some guys wash and hand wax their cars every week, and use a car cover when they park it at work. Some guys have baseball stats memorized back to 1935. No one tells these guys to "Get a Life". They don't get ridiculed like Trekkers, Sci-fi & D&D geeks.
ti's ont funny.
Do like 4 a day mix em in with real news, but posting one everytime you think of one is not funny. Come up with em before hand cull out the bad and just do a couple. Jeez.
There's no way he's gonna make it to another trilogy.
Unless he can get some decent collaborators and actual listen to them I can only see this as a good thing. Very few people can screw up SW more than George Lucas is doing right now.
"I'm sorry for all the childhoods I wrecked with The Phantom Menace and subsequent 5 years of crap that has come out of the Star Wars Franchise.
I've decided to hire some good writers to help me write the next film and I won't be directing it either, I'm thinking of maybe given Daron Aronofsky or Guillermo Del Toro a shot at it, David Fincher is also in the running. In fact I think I'm retiring, spend some time with my kids, lose some weight, take some Community College writing courses.
Except for some storyboard approvals I'll probably be removing myself from the whole thing.
Oh, and Han shot first. I don't know what the hell was I thinking..."
Thats the only he'll get me to buy these DVDs.
I mean the thing literally wieghs 4lbs runs on 4 AA bateries for a whopping 2hrs of play time.
Next time I'm subjected to some muggage I'll whip out Mr. Pointy and deal out some slayage.
And they claim language is dead...
I'm going to buy some white headphones for my 4lb 1996 Sony Discman. Maybe finally I'll get a chance to try out this new tazer I bought on Ebay...
Getting sued because you knowingly did something wrong is one thing, but being collateral damage in someone's war is just fucked up...
rofl. I don't know where you live. Where I live people's needs are driven by whats hip ATM. I've watched kids I worked with at retail stores for just above min wage blow two weeks pay on a platinum watch. I watched a 27 year old guy working at UPS for 15.00 an hour, living at home with his parents so he can drive a pre-owned Lexus with $1500 Rims. I've known people who change their cell phones everytime a new one is released. I've known several people who own a cell phone, two way pager and a Handspring and carry around all at once, and for no work related reasons.
So tell me again how people know what their needs are...
How is a small business supposed to survive that?
Thats not an excuse, anyone with a business of any size in America has a reasonable chance of being sued. If you roll over and show your belly everytime someone shouts litigation you won't survive very long. EV1 is learning that the hard way.
I wonder if he regrests it because he didn't anticipate the backlash, or because he just now understands that SCO is/was blowing smoke up his ass.
Holy shit. I knew that was a bug. I spent weeks trying to convince one of my professors that its the software thats screwed up.
oh sweet irony...
What really bothers me is that they're slkowly killing the American economy so pretty soon those of us that want a quality product aren't going to be able to afford it, because our jobs p0ay us just enough to afford Wally-World prices. Thats what living in one of the Kansas Walmart town must be like. Pick up your paycheck from Walmart on Friday and spend it all right there in the store.
It would be stupid for them to keep it as Waif me at this point. Anyone who would actually listen to Nirvana knows that story, and seeing as Cobain is dead it would be kind of insulting not to use the correct name.
Most fans of pop who aren't buying the CD and spouting the RIAA rubbish funneled through the likes of Madonna and Britney are ripping these songs off Kazaa through a Chinese proxy server.
Walmart knows this. This isn't about making a profit or even about selling music per say. This is about the 800lb Gorilla keeping its paws in everything...
Look at it this way. No one gets paid to reveiw books for slashdot. So really the only reason to write a book reveiw is that you like the book so much that you want to share it, or that its such a steaming load you wish to warn the world to steer clear of it. How many books in the latter category have you read completely enough to give a thorough rational reveiw?
I saw him pissing on the side of the Supreme Court Building in DC a few weeks back...