Why must we punish those that have the desire and ability to achieve in this world? If we do that, then we degrade ourselves to being afraid of achievement as a future goal. And at the end of the day, what is the total sum of everyone's productivity?
Sounds like a form of socialism that put the Soviet Economy into the shitter.
I remember hearing about a gym bike that had a generator connected to it. The idea was that if you kept exercising, you could watch as much TV as you like...or physically able too. heh
So just how long will it be before BIG GOVERNMENT forces the Internet to be FCC regulated (for US citizens)? With deep pockets of the RIAA and greedy polititions, it's only a matter of time. Follow the money trail boys and girls.
When your making a speech to a large audience, it's not about "zinging" people with words they may not understand. It's about being concise yet able to get his point accross in a manor that everyone (or mostly) can understand.
If you want someone that is condescending and "acts" like he is an intellectual, then perhaps someone like John F. Kerry would appeal to you.
I've thought this too. After the first atomic explosions, perhaps this sends out some unknown FTL (faster then light) energy or quantum disturbance. And being this is an artificial fision explosion, I'm guessing it has it's own signature that sticks out like a sore thumb in the universe.
If you want to send out a message to aliens, a nuclear explosion is a damn good effective one. Hell, how COULD you miss it?
Interesting to note, UFO sightings have increased again after the testing in India and Pakistan. Sounds like a correlation to me. Or...it could all be bunk. I'll let you decide. heh
I know call centers love using AIM. When I worked at Dell, I could AIM a message to a co-worker while on the phone with a customer. So if I wasn't sure of an answer, I could get a second opinion through AIM. After a while, I learned who as strenghts and weaknesses in available knowledge. Thus, depending on a question, I might ask a certain co-worker on AIM.
Or maybe, the sun emits something unknown that may be causing this effect. But, I doubt it. I still hold my theory of proportional displacement but.....
Exactly! What do you do when your working on a very important work related project only to fing out ater your CD burning software is broken and wont make backus of your software. Hell, what if some "undocumented" driver hoses your machine with a BSOD screen to boot?
Ya, I would say that's a law suit waiting to happen. Your exactly right.
So I have a question for you. Just where do you draw the line? If I put in a music CD, does the record label have the right to install a "driver" to search my harddrive for all MP3s and erase them on the premis that should have owned the original CDs to begine with? What about applications? Can they install "drivers" to prevent you from running an application that allows for CD backup even though the CD your backing up has nothing to do with the original games copywrite protection?
Seriously, where do you draw the fucking line. My face is so red it hurts now. I'm not mad at you, I'm just fucking pissed off at whole scheme of "copywrite protection"!!!! Please, I gotta punch something...HARD!
I don't "Lease". I purchase to "OWN" So when games start going the way of leasing, then I will just have to find another hobby other then playing video games.
I will never compromise personal values of ownership. It's my way, or the highway. I am a consumer, and I will vote with my wallet.
I only speak for myself. But a buddy at work burned me the three CD set of Doom3 with the crack. He downloaded it from a torrent. With greed, I took the CDs. But...after I had some personal time to myself on break, I decided not to keep them.
Yes folks, I have morals and ethics..
So anyways, I gave him back the CDs. After knowning all the heart and soul (not to mention blood sweat and tears from nonstop coding)Carmack and gang put into project, I had no other choice. After work, I bought a copy simply because Carmack has EARNED himself the sale of another copy.
I vote with my wallet. And ID Soft gets my vote yet again.
I agree. In fact, if you buy new wheels at Discount Tire, they have the right to use keyed lugnuts on them. That way, only THEY can remove the wheels thus forcing you to use their service.
ok...so it's a shitty analogy. But I'm trying to convey the same level of frustration of someone making changes or modifications to your shit long after you purchase a product. I bought a game, I didn't buy an "unknown" and "undocumented" program that would fuck with my other applications!!!
I thought everytime a new device was installed or driver, windows would ask you if you want to have it installed regardless of the fact it is WHQL signed.
Please, is there a group policy I can change to not alow ANY drivers be it real or virtual to be installed without my explicit permission?
Having a form of common sense actually imbues a form of bias in the methodology of the human thinking process. By lacking common sense, your brain is more easily tuned to logical thinking without fear to the final answers during the scientific investigation process. That is to say, engineers are logically open minded but with a slight enigma; they don't like new rules as that may change the paradigm to their current order of thinking.
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If it wasn't for the excessive amounts of pot and Sky Vodka...I might remember.
On a serious note however, I value what people have to say of their own experences. I could give a damn about the kinda BS "Intellectuals" shove in their face only for them to come back and regurgitate it back at me.
Keep it real, keep it clean, keep it pure. No liberal additives please.
Will there be girls and nookie? Ohhh please please please...PLLLEEEASE.
Ok, I'm a techno geek at heart. But this, THIS is just sad. Hell, if you are looking for a place to sacrifice virgins, you couldn't find a better place.
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Why must we punish those that have the desire and ability to achieve in this world? If we do that, then we degrade ourselves to being afraid of achievement as a future goal. And at the end of the day, what is the total sum of everyone's productivity?
Sounds like a form of socialism that put the Soviet Economy into the shitter.
I remember hearing about a gym bike that had a generator connected to it. The idea was that if you kept exercising, you could watch as much TV as you like...or physically able too. heh
You Sir, get the grammar-nazi award of 2004! Congrats
*applause*
...I'm working on it, you shmuck!
So just how long will it be before BIG GOVERNMENT forces the Internet to be FCC regulated (for US citizens)? With deep pockets of the RIAA and greedy polititions, it's only a matter of time. Follow the money trail boys and girls.
When your making a speech to a large audience, it's not about "zinging" people with words they may not understand. It's about being concise yet able to get his point accross in a manor that everyone (or mostly) can understand.
If you want someone that is condescending and "acts" like he is an intellectual, then perhaps someone like John F. Kerry would appeal
to you.
And vending machines will have Coke and Pepsi written on them....not for long though.
Hey, what do you know!!! The BGF9k DOES blow shit up.
WinXP is a much stabler OS and therefore the applications run with more reliability.
Oh man, you should have used the grammar feature. Here, let me help you with my copy of Word XP....
WinXP is a much more stable OS, and therefore, the applications run with better reliability.
I've thought this too. After the first atomic explosions, perhaps this sends out some unknown FTL (faster then light) energy or quantum disturbance. And being this is an artificial fision explosion, I'm guessing it has it's own signature that sticks out like a sore thumb in the universe.
If you want to send out a message to aliens, a nuclear explosion is a damn good effective one. Hell, how COULD you miss it?
Interesting to note, UFO sightings have increased again after the testing in India and Pakistan. Sounds like a correlation to me. Or...it could all be bunk. I'll let you decide. heh
I know call centers love using AIM. When I worked at Dell, I could AIM a message to a co-worker while on the phone with a customer. So if I wasn't sure of an answer, I could get a second opinion through AIM. After a while, I learned who as strenghts and weaknesses in available knowledge. Thus, depending on a question, I might ask a certain co-worker on AIM.
Or maybe, the sun emits something unknown that may be causing this effect. But, I doubt it. I still hold my theory of proportional displacement but.....
That's a good question. Unfortunatly, the rest of the slashdot crowd would rather bash your statment then answer it.
I feel your pain, it has happend to me before. But, this IS slashdot for ya.
Just like lawers, politicians have to justify their job as well. Hence, the legal bloat. It will only get worse too.
Maybe they are some form of tumbleweed or bush. Would be interesting to take a look though up close just to be sure.
Exactly! What do you do when your working on a very important work related project only to fing out ater your CD burning software is broken and wont make backus of your software. Hell, what if some "undocumented" driver hoses your machine with a BSOD screen to boot?
Ya, I would say that's a law suit waiting to happen. Your exactly right.
Point well made!
So I have a question for you. Just where do you draw the line? If I put in a music CD, does the record label have the right to install a "driver" to search my harddrive for all MP3s and erase them on the premis that should have owned the original CDs to begine with? What about applications? Can they install "drivers" to prevent you from running an application that allows for CD backup even though the CD your backing up has nothing to do with the original games copywrite protection?
Seriously, where do you draw the fucking line. My face is so red it hurts now. I'm not mad at you, I'm just fucking pissed off at whole scheme of "copywrite protection"!!!! Please, I gotta punch something...HARD!
I don't "Lease". I purchase to "OWN" So when games start going the way of leasing, then I will just have to find another hobby other then playing video games.
I will never compromise personal values of ownership. It's my way, or the highway. I am a consumer, and I will vote with my wallet.
I only speak for myself. But a buddy at work burned me the three CD set of Doom3 with the crack. He downloaded it from a torrent. With greed, I took the CDs. But...after I had some personal time to myself on break, I decided not to keep them.
Yes folks, I have morals and ethics..
So anyways, I gave him back the CDs. After knowning all the heart and soul (not to mention blood sweat and tears from nonstop coding)Carmack and gang put into project, I had no other choice. After work, I bought a copy simply because Carmack has EARNED himself the sale of another copy.
I vote with my wallet. And ID Soft gets my vote yet again.
I agree. In fact, if you buy new wheels at Discount Tire, they have the right to use keyed lugnuts on them. That way, only THEY can remove the wheels thus forcing you to use their service.
ok...so it's a shitty analogy. But I'm trying to convey the same level of frustration of someone making changes or modifications to your shit long after you purchase a product. I bought a game, I didn't buy an "unknown" and "undocumented" program that would fuck with my other applications!!!
They are virus when you spread the program around freely using a P2P program.
SHaaaa...roight. I wonder when Norton will add games to the their next definition updates?
I thought everytime a new device was installed or driver, windows would ask you if you want to have it installed regardless of the fact it is WHQL signed. Please, is there a group policy I can change to not alow ANY drivers be it real or virtual to be installed without my explicit permission?
Having a form of common sense actually imbues a form of bias in the methodology of the human thinking process. By lacking common sense, your brain is more easily tuned to logical thinking without fear to the final answers during the scientific investigation process. That is to say, engineers are logically open minded but with a slight enigma; they don't like new rules as that may change the paradigm to their current order of thinking.
If it wasn't for the excessive amounts of pot and Sky Vodka...I might remember.
On a serious note however, I value what people have to say of their own experences. I could give a damn about the kinda BS "Intellectuals" shove in their face only for them to come back and regurgitate it back at me.
Keep it real, keep it clean, keep it pure. No liberal additives please.
Will there be girls and nookie? Ohhh please please please...PLLLEEEASE.
Ok, I'm a techno geek at heart. But this, THIS is just sad. Hell, if you are looking for a place to sacrifice virgins, you couldn't find a better place.
Damn! That was cold. Hmm, maybe I should keep my windows closed [rim shot]