Watch the media... they are a fairly good indicator of what Democrats are thinking.
Naw, it tells you what the "village" is thinking, so: Democrats, Republicans and the Media. It's a 3-for-one establishment special!
Republican neo-cons (my mouth feels foul, saying that) are much harder to predict.
That's one of the funniest things I've ever read, it's not like they don't publish big honking documents detailing exactly what they'd like to do years in advance.
Crunch is coming, and Yahoo is going under one way or another. The current tack to Google is only to squeeze out a little more cash from the deal.
Google don't want 'em, what exactly would they be acquiring? Whereas, depending on the attendant levels of asshattery involved, MS/Yahoo could be better than a disaster.
people lead themselves into tyranny when they get themselves into the mindset that personal self-defence is not the single most important; fundamental; inalienable and absolute right that exists for all.
Totally agreed.
However, accept that you're going to get royally fucked unless you're in the majority. Your rights are great and all, but the herd hates a mutant.
Congratulations! Instead of responding to the substance of my post, you parsed it, contended definition, and offered a pointless quote all while bringing nothing to the conversation. It's thanks to mindless, blinkered centrists such as yourself that we're still arguing the fucking meaning of what some scumbucket politician said instead of nailing him to the cross for abuse of power.
You think you're so clever, with your moderate positions, never once realizing that this is real life, not some kind of obscure documentary that needs to be overanalyzed from a safe, objective distance.
The question quickly becomes: is anyone actually retarded enough to think that if you cut off the internotz to Iran, you can secretly bomb them and nobody will notice? Or, not notice in a timely fashion?
Of course not. But that's not what you want. What you want is to create a bottleneck everything passes through, and you control the bottleneck.
in many ways they've gotten to be somewhat pedestrian compared to the excitement of playing Dig Dug or Conan on the green monitors.
It occurs to me the reason we don't excited about games the way we did when we first played Pong, or messed around with early Apples and C64s is because back then, this was all cutting-edge stuff and very non-mainstream. We were doing cool shit that almost nobody else knew about. In the days before the NES and Sega Master system, I could count people I knew who played videogames on one hand.
Nowadays, everybody and his cousin owns at least a couple piece of hardware able to play games, even if it's just a low-spec PC and a cellphone, and most games tend to basically be point releases, incremental upgrades designed to suck up your spare cash, not try anything new.
Granted, she's not Catherine Deneuve, but hot body+cute face+understanding of physics and engineering is not average, not by a long shot. Either you spend too much time in your basement or you're banging Playboy models on a regular basis.
I'll leave it up to the reader to decide which is the most likely scenario;)
Not to mention the article's free of any "fixes" promised in the first paragraph. The best we get is "it should be like this!" Uh, yeah, it should, but got anything more practical?
I love Jamie and Adam, but he needs to realize that engineering!=profits, hence all these annoyances.
I gotta say, when I clicked through on this story, I was mostly expecting comments along positive lines. This seemed to me as well to be an interesting story of how the old and the new can coexist in new models. I really didn't expect all this player-hating. Weird. I didn't realize we had so many technological absolutists here.
For an interesting story with a similar theme, I suggest this Wired article from '99.
If there is anyway to monitor the data, or mine through the aggregate resultant data, someone will, and I'll go ahead and wager that it will first show up in either the form of a letter from the **AA or a specialized targeted advertisement sent to you because they know you like Elvis
I've bought U2's albums, t-shirts, concert tickets and other crap. Over the years, I've easily spent several hundred dollars on your band's products. Same goes for hundreds of other artists: Concerts, posters, tshirts, albums, box sets, fan club-only items. Hell, some albums I've bought multiple times in multiple formats over the years.
I've got a huge DVD library, and it keeps growing. I'll happily pay premium prices for Criterion editions, I'm a hardcore movie geek who's always loved going to the cinema, sometimes even repeat fucking viewings for movies I really like.
So when you come out with this ignorant, self-serving tripe and try to pass it off as a moral issue, I look at you and get sick to my fucking stomach. I'm terribly fucking sorry I downloaded your band's last album just so I could get my hands on that lame "quatorze" single. Fuck, I can't even remember the last time I listened to that song (I sure as shit didn't bother with the rest of the album).
Hell, if it makes you feel better, I'll delete it when I get home tonight. Not really any skin off my nose. I've got my $120 Led Zep Box set to keep me warm at night. I've got the Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum, 2 albums I've paid full retail for more than once.
Big big fan of U2, at least until Pop, anyway. Shame they're on the decline. Shame you're a douchebag.
One last thing. Facebook? Apple? Get some meds, man. Even the worst **AA shill isn't that shrill.
Yes pretty much everyone on slashdot knows all this stuff, and further knows how to research anything we don't know, but trying to impart that information to others is often a trying experience
Which is why I mentioned about.com as my example. It's a mainstream site, and it contains all the information this book does, and more, for free as in beer.
The Church of Scientology is not a group of people, it is a corporation
Kinda splitting hairs, no? I'm no fan of CoS (or religion in general), but most of the general hatred towards CoS is nothing more than bigotry.
committed countless criminal acts including conducting espionage against the US government and fabricating terrorist threats, and is hatrid against it for it's criminal and unethical actions as legitimate as hatrid against any other corporation
Read my post again. I never asked ICANN to do anything. My point was, how precious and difficult is their oversight, exactly, when, as far as I (and, it seems, many here) can see, the problems and challenges facing the internet as we know it are completely unrelated to ICANN, and several orders of magnitude more important?
Anonymous also fails to realize that most people don't give a crap about stuff on the internet outside of email and maybe some major news sites
Double-edged sword. If the mainstream media doesn't pick up on this, less law enforcement attention is paid to his malfeasance. Similarly, more attention into this issue can only be beneficial for his cause as Scientology comes under more and more scrutiny.
It's also worth noting that there's a lot of mainstream hatred of Scientology. Technically, it's bigotry, but Anonymous has way more support than you think he does. Enemy of my enemy and all that...
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What kind of nonsense is this?
Watch the media... they are a fairly good indicator of what Democrats are thinking.
Naw, it tells you what the "village" is thinking, so: Democrats, Republicans and the Media. It's a 3-for-one establishment special!
Republican neo-cons (my mouth feels foul, saying that) are much harder to predict.
That's one of the funniest things I've ever read, it's not like they don't publish big honking documents detailing exactly what they'd like to do years in advance.
Crunch is coming, and Yahoo is going under one way or another. The current tack to Google is only to squeeze out a little more cash from the deal.
Google don't want 'em, what exactly would they be acquiring? Whereas, depending on the attendant levels of asshattery involved, MS/Yahoo could be better than a disaster.
people lead themselves into tyranny when they get themselves into the mindset that personal self-defence is not the single most important; fundamental; inalienable and absolute right that exists for all.
Totally agreed.
However, accept that you're going to get royally fucked unless you're in the majority. Your rights are great and all, but the herd hates a mutant.
Congratulations! Instead of responding to the substance of my post, you parsed it, contended definition, and offered a pointless quote all while bringing nothing to the conversation. It's thanks to mindless, blinkered centrists such as yourself that we're still arguing the fucking meaning of what some scumbucket politician said instead of nailing him to the cross for abuse of power.
You think you're so clever, with your moderate positions, never once realizing that this is real life, not some kind of obscure documentary that needs to be overanalyzed from a safe, objective distance.
You freakish fucks make me puke.
Glad somebody got the point.
True, but considering the country was recently 'liberated' and democracy was 'brought' to it, it is a little weird.
The question quickly becomes: is anyone actually retarded enough to think that if you cut off the internotz to Iran, you can secretly bomb them and nobody will notice? Or, not notice in a timely fashion?
Of course not. But that's not what you want. What you want is to create a bottleneck everything passes through, and you control the bottleneck.
Do people really use Windows Live Search or MSN search?
On purpose?
Yes and yes, considering it's the default on all Windows boxes. To regular people, a search box==a search box.
in many ways they've gotten to be somewhat pedestrian compared to the excitement of playing Dig Dug or Conan on the green monitors.
It occurs to me the reason we don't excited about games the way we did when we first played Pong, or messed around with early Apples and C64s is because back then, this was all cutting-edge stuff and very non-mainstream. We were doing cool shit that almost nobody else knew about. In the days before the NES and Sega Master system, I could count people I knew who played videogames on one hand.
Nowadays, everybody and his cousin owns at least a couple piece of hardware able to play games, even if it's just a low-spec PC and a cellphone, and most games tend to basically be point releases, incremental upgrades designed to suck up your spare cash, not try anything new.
RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied
And I want a pony. Somehow, I think we're both going to be disappointed.
Kari is pretty much average.
;)
Granted, she's not Catherine Deneuve, but hot body+cute face+understanding of physics and engineering is not average, not by a long shot. Either you spend too much time in your basement or you're banging Playboy models on a regular basis.
I'll leave it up to the reader to decide which is the most likely scenario
Not to mention the article's free of any "fixes" promised in the first paragraph. The best we get is "it should be like this!" Uh, yeah, it should, but got anything more practical?
I love Jamie and Adam, but he needs to realize that engineering!=profits, hence all these annoyances.
I gotta say, when I clicked through on this story, I was mostly expecting comments along positive lines. This seemed to me as well to be an interesting story of how the old and the new can coexist in new models. I really didn't expect all this player-hating. Weird. I didn't realize we had so many technological absolutists here.
For an interesting story with a similar theme, I suggest this Wired article from '99.
If there is anyway to monitor the data, or mine through the aggregate resultant data, someone will, and I'll go ahead and wager that it will first show up in either the form of a letter from the **AA or a specialized targeted advertisement sent to you because they know you like Elvis
More like a huge torrent file on the Pirate Bay.
With all due respect, Paul, Fuck you.
I've bought U2's albums, t-shirts, concert tickets and other crap. Over the years, I've easily spent several hundred dollars on your band's products. Same goes for hundreds of other artists: Concerts, posters, tshirts, albums, box sets, fan club-only items. Hell, some albums I've bought multiple times in multiple formats over the years.
I've got a huge DVD library, and it keeps growing. I'll happily pay premium prices for Criterion editions, I'm a hardcore movie geek who's always loved going to the cinema, sometimes even repeat fucking viewings for movies I really like.
So when you come out with this ignorant, self-serving tripe and try to pass it off as a moral issue, I look at you and get sick to my fucking stomach. I'm terribly fucking sorry I downloaded your band's last album just so I could get my hands on that lame "quatorze" single. Fuck, I can't even remember the last time I listened to that song (I sure as shit didn't bother with the rest of the album).
Hell, if it makes you feel better, I'll delete it when I get home tonight. Not really any skin off my nose. I've got my $120 Led Zep Box set to keep me warm at night. I've got the Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum, 2 albums I've paid full retail for more than once.
Big big fan of U2, at least until Pop, anyway. Shame they're on the decline. Shame you're a douchebag.
One last thing. Facebook? Apple? Get some meds, man. Even the worst **AA shill isn't that shrill.
Yes pretty much everyone on slashdot knows all this stuff, and further knows how to research anything we don't know, but trying to impart that information to others is often a trying experience
Which is why I mentioned about.com as my example. It's a mainstream site, and it contains all the information this book does, and more, for free as in beer.
Dude, those cheat sheets are all over the web. Or, you could always hit up a forum and ask nicely (that's how most of us learned what we know).
If you really want, post a JE. Plenty of us here with nothing better to do than help a brother out.
$20 for information that can be quickly gleaned in 5 minutes from a couple of big sites like about.com? Oooookay.
Nice review. No idea why you posted it here though.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
And sometimes its a way to tell you you presented your argument with the grace and wit of a 5 year old.
Are these divided up and tagged as to the myspace user profile they originated from?
Who cares? Wake me up when somebody offers up the "director's cut" of this torrent, ie only the really goofy and naked pics.
When your security procedures are this lax, anything can happen.
The Church of Scientology is not a group of people, it is a corporation
Kinda splitting hairs, no? I'm no fan of CoS (or religion in general), but most of the general hatred towards CoS is nothing more than bigotry.
committed countless criminal acts including conducting espionage against the US government and fabricating terrorist threats, and is hatrid against it for it's criminal and unethical actions as legitimate as hatrid against any other corporation
Convicted in court? If not, that's libel.
By the way, there are no 12-year-olds on Slashdot.
Physically, you're mostly right. Mentally? Another story altogether.
Read my post again. I never asked ICANN to do anything. My point was, how precious and difficult is their oversight, exactly, when, as far as I (and, it seems, many here) can see, the problems and challenges facing the internet as we know it are completely unrelated to ICANN, and several orders of magnitude more important?
Anonymous also fails to realize that most people don't give a crap about stuff on the internet outside of email and maybe some major news sites
Double-edged sword. If the mainstream media doesn't pick up on this, less law enforcement attention is paid to his malfeasance. Similarly, more attention into this issue can only be beneficial for his cause as Scientology comes under more and more scrutiny.
It's also worth noting that there's a lot of mainstream hatred of Scientology. Technically, it's bigotry, but Anonymous has way more support than you think he does. Enemy of my enemy and all that...