As a bit of a philosophical aside, I kind of feel that any party, once it reaches a certain size, is going to begin sucking. It becomes more about power and less about doing the "right" thing, or doing even being competent. There's a reason there are 2 major parties - they use the issues solely to buttress their desire for power. The others actually care about the issues. Against the 2 major parties, who will do whatever it takes to stay in power or to become in power, those who are more interested in doing what is right, proper, logical, or rational can't truly compete. It's like economics: those companies who are driven by the bottom line (such as wal-mart) generally do better than some hippy store that focuses on a nice work environment for their workers. Do we feel warm fuzzies thinking about such a utopian place of business? Sure. But it's Wal-Mart that has become a mega giant in retail, and not those who worry about things other than money. Capitalism is to money as Politics is to power.
Or, at least, so I assert. I'm sure there are those who would disagree.
I genuinely hope it is not added, or at least allowed to be disabled. I don't even know how many media plugins have crashed firefox when I have dozens of tabs open at once (WMP and Quicktime, both). The last thing I want is the media from the page that crashed the browser automatically opening again as soon as the application loads, starting a neverending loop of "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT STOP BEING SUCH A CUM GUZZLING GUTTERSLUT".
This is probably the best way to go about things, but only if you also let the publisher know why you will not be purchasing their precious game.
The part that really pisses me off is that you never know what copy protection scheme is on a game without doing a lot of research first. Would it be so terribly difficult if you told us "Hey, Rainbow Six: Lockdown utilizes Starforce?" before we purchase it? It's a bitch to return things, and if you made the mistake (as I did) of purchasing from direct2drive.com, then there's no way they will offer a refund. I guess I DID install it, but the moment after that Starforce shit came up, and I did some research, I decided I was not interested in playing a game that contained that protection scheme. But, it was too late. There goes 50$ that I'll never be able to get back. Admittedly, I guess I should have done research beforehand, but there's something dreadfully wrong with the world when you have to google for hours before you can be relatively sure a company isn't going to proper-fuck you somehow. All I ask for is an inconspicuous label that says "Warning: This Product Will Stick Things In Your Butt" and then list the details below it. Then I can decide whether I'm okay with this probing or not so much a fan.
I can certainly see your point, but if, as they claim (which, admittedly, is not verified), bill o'reilly's site is fair game, but many leftist sites are not, it kind of calls into question your entire justification of blocking political sites.
(in all fairness, it doesn't call into question YOUR justification, because the network in question isn't even the one you administrate, but if this were the reason the marines were using then they're obviously being very selective in their enforcement of this rule).
Aside from a very few minor common elements, how exactly are they similar? I don't remember the magic or items that common throughout all the games. Perhaps they had the same names, but they were utterly different in concept. By your definition, World of Warcraft is a sequel to Lord of the Rings, if only because they have elves, dwarves, orcs, and mithril. Even though they are, for the most part, wildly differing in realization, they're more similar than the common threads in any of the Final Fantasies short of airships or chocobos.
Why is that wrong? It's what the definition is. Just because you don't like it or puts something in a negative light doesn't mean it's "wrong", it means "well, if I were in that situation, I would have used a different word". That's a judgement call and subjective to each person; just because you wouldn't choose something doesn't make it "wrong".
Look, that's the definition of the word, jackass. Just because you don't like it, don't point it at me. Go look it up in the fucking dictionary before you start raving at others because you're pissed off. Just because we use bribe as a way of saying "gaining influence" in nefarious context doesn't mean that's the only way it can be used.
bribe
n.
1. Something, such as money or a favor, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person's views or conduct.
2. Something serving to influence or persuade.
Not in a 4 minute piece. I'm sure if he had half an hour he'd love to do that for you. And I'd love to see him do it.
When you have 4 minutes, and the topic is BT encryption, you don't go off on a tangent about whether or not the authorities are doing what they're say they're doing for the reasons they're specifying. It's called "sticking to your topic".
Besides, 4 minutes is hardly enough time to give anything the critical analysis it deserves. Maybe next time, on a bigger time slot, with a different topic.
then don't buy the fucking media? be pissed at the media cartels for trying to make you buy crippled entertainment, not vista. just wait a few days and get an HDDVD rip on BT.
Having played with it for 13 days after getting it off of BT, I can say that Vista is as much a change away from XP as Linux is. I actually found it easier configuring things in KDE and Gnome than I did in Vista -- how crazy is that? Of course, this is mostly because every configuration you could do via a particular widget on the control panel has been moved to another widget, or hidden, tucked away in the shadows to the left, but it's much different.
Whether or not the security model truly is secure is something I can't answer. However, Vista pesters you for permission to run just about every exe out there for the very first time, assumedly before it has been registered as 'safe'. I don't remember 100%, but I believe it required me to create a separate user account on installation, along with the administrator account. Of course, since my activation would expire after 14 days, I really didn't give a fuck if someone would be able to compromise my system, so I ran everything as Administrator anyway. Therefor I can't really tell you if it requires Administrator priveleges to install programs.
It did make use of a C:\Users\ folder, however, which was rather nice.
In any event, I'm sure you can find the DVD ISO on one of the torrent networks so you can check it out yourself. I like to give Microsoft a hard time just as much as the next guy, but in all honesty, this is a very, very slick and polished OS. I had vowed never to buy it and to move to Linux, but now I'm questioning my decision. Now it's a question of all the DRM restrictions I would have to endure.
Well, honestly, the cancer killing is probably a pipe dream -- i would think having a deep understanding of our biological makeup is a hair different than being a mechanical engineering genius. But hey, if he can do it, rock on.
Actually, my only problem with the Segway is that...uhm...i have legs. And they work. And I move. I'm already fat enough. I don't need one more thing that will make me less active. I'm already spending an average of an hour per day at the gym. I don't need to tack more time on because I can't be bothered to walk to the post office.
Be that as it may, it IS a nifty little gadget. The company I work for recently fitted a pair of Segways with fuel cells and tanks for hydrogen (without overbalancing them) just to see how well it would do. Pretty nifty stuff.
As an aside, those guys get to have all the fun. Us in software engineering? Boring. Sigh.
In all honesty, Ford was about the only good thing the movie had going for it. Mos Def did a fantastic job and gained more respect (from me) in one movie than any other actor since Jack Nicholsen in Batman. He just _felt_ right.
Everything else was essentially repulsive. I'll stick with the books -- but now I'll always (happily) imagine Mos Def as Ford.
I'm sorry, I just don't see why this is insightful. It's common sense. The problem people have isn't that these businesses are complying for no-good-reason, it's that they're complying and helping a government stiffle contrary views. Is it allowing them do business in these countries? Absolutely. Do we give a flying fuck whether they do business in these countries? Fuck no.
Look, Yahoo and Google can do whatever the hell they want. If there is a country that allows corporations to place babies on spikes and plant them in the ground, and these corporations do it, so be it. We don't have a legal right to stop them, here, in America.
That doesn't mean we can't say "fuck you" and stop using their services. Of course, we also have to avoid the ubiquitous advertising services they both offer to all and sundry, but a quick configuration of ad block will fix that.
Is this going to change things? Probably not. But at least we know we did something, no matter how pathetically inconsequential, to say "we do not agree".
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It pained me to see Google agree to filter things for China. That was bad enough. But what Yahoo has done is take it one step farther. And that was one step entirely too far.
Absolutely wrong. If I publish a GPL v.2 interface, and someone releases a module in GPL v.3 or BSD or $PROPRIETARY_LICENSE, it can still be released provided the license of the module allows for it to be released. GPL v.3 code can released right along with the Linux kernel if the author so desires (and it makes it into the kernel). The rest of the kernel does not automagically become GPL v.3 just because one piece is.
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As a bit of a philosophical aside, I kind of feel that any party, once it reaches a certain size, is going to begin sucking. It becomes more about power and less about doing the "right" thing, or doing even being competent. There's a reason there are 2 major parties - they use the issues solely to buttress their desire for power. The others actually care about the issues. Against the 2 major parties, who will do whatever it takes to stay in power or to become in power, those who are more interested in doing what is right, proper, logical, or rational can't truly compete. It's like economics: those companies who are driven by the bottom line (such as wal-mart) generally do better than some hippy store that focuses on a nice work environment for their workers. Do we feel warm fuzzies thinking about such a utopian place of business? Sure. But it's Wal-Mart that has become a mega giant in retail, and not those who worry about things other than money. Capitalism is to money as Politics is to power.
Or, at least, so I assert. I'm sure there are those who would disagree.
no, a white spaghetti strap top that rips at the worst moments, spilling her heaving bosoms out for all to (almost) see.
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But why would I want to do a thing like that?
I genuinely hope it is not added, or at least allowed to be disabled. I don't even know how many media plugins have crashed firefox when I have dozens of tabs open at once (WMP and Quicktime, both). The last thing I want is the media from the page that crashed the browser automatically opening again as soon as the application loads, starting a neverending loop of "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT STOP BEING SUCH A CUM GUZZLING GUTTERSLUT".
This is probably the best way to go about things, but only if you also let the publisher know why you will not be purchasing their precious game.
The part that really pisses me off is that you never know what copy protection scheme is on a game without doing a lot of research first. Would it be so terribly difficult if you told us "Hey, Rainbow Six: Lockdown utilizes Starforce?" before we purchase it? It's a bitch to return things, and if you made the mistake (as I did) of purchasing from direct2drive.com, then there's no way they will offer a refund. I guess I DID install it, but the moment after that Starforce shit came up, and I did some research, I decided I was not interested in playing a game that contained that protection scheme. But, it was too late. There goes 50$ that I'll never be able to get back. Admittedly, I guess I should have done research beforehand, but there's something dreadfully wrong with the world when you have to google for hours before you can be relatively sure a company isn't going to proper-fuck you somehow. All I ask for is an inconspicuous label that says "Warning: This Product Will Stick Things In Your Butt" and then list the details below it. Then I can decide whether I'm okay with this probing or not so much a fan.
I can certainly see your point, but if, as they claim (which, admittedly, is not verified), bill o'reilly's site is fair game, but many leftist sites are not, it kind of calls into question your entire justification of blocking political sites.
(in all fairness, it doesn't call into question YOUR justification, because the network in question isn't even the one you administrate, but if this were the reason the marines were using then they're obviously being very selective in their enforcement of this rule).
Aside from a very few minor common elements, how exactly are they similar? I don't remember the magic or items that common throughout all the games. Perhaps they had the same names, but they were utterly different in concept. By your definition, World of Warcraft is a sequel to Lord of the Rings, if only because they have elves, dwarves, orcs, and mithril. Even though they are, for the most part, wildly differing in realization, they're more similar than the common threads in any of the Final Fantasies short of airships or chocobos.
Naw, they're still scary. Mostly because we have no idea what the fuck to do with the waste that we can ensure won't fuck us over in the future.
Why is that wrong? It's what the definition is. Just because you don't like it or puts something in a negative light doesn't mean it's "wrong", it means "well, if I were in that situation, I would have used a different word". That's a judgement call and subjective to each person; just because you wouldn't choose something doesn't make it "wrong".
gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, i'm sorry. that's what i get for filtering out -1. my most sincere apologies :)
Look, that's the definition of the word, jackass. Just because you don't like it, don't point it at me. Go look it up in the fucking dictionary before you start raving at others because you're pissed off. Just because we use bribe as a way of saying "gaining influence" in nefarious context doesn't mean that's the only way it can be used.
bribe
n.
1. Something, such as money or a favor, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person's views or conduct.
2. Something serving to influence or persuade.
Agreed. Cattle prods should always come before legislation.
They're way more fun than laws.
Not in a 4 minute piece. I'm sure if he had half an hour he'd love to do that for you. And I'd love to see him do it.
When you have 4 minutes, and the topic is BT encryption, you don't go off on a tangent about whether or not the authorities are doing what they're say they're doing for the reasons they're specifying. It's called "sticking to your topic".
Besides, 4 minutes is hardly enough time to give anything the critical analysis it deserves. Maybe next time, on a bigger time slot, with a different topic.
then don't buy the fucking media? be pissed at the media cartels for trying to make you buy crippled entertainment, not vista. just wait a few days and get an HDDVD rip on BT.
Having played with it for 13 days after getting it off of BT, I can say that Vista is as much a change away from XP as Linux is. I actually found it easier configuring things in KDE and Gnome than I did in Vista -- how crazy is that? Of course, this is mostly because every configuration you could do via a particular widget on the control panel has been moved to another widget, or hidden, tucked away in the shadows to the left, but it's much different.
Whether or not the security model truly is secure is something I can't answer. However, Vista pesters you for permission to run just about every exe out there for the very first time, assumedly before it has been registered as 'safe'. I don't remember 100%, but I believe it required me to create a separate user account on installation, along with the administrator account. Of course, since my activation would expire after 14 days, I really didn't give a fuck if someone would be able to compromise my system, so I ran everything as Administrator anyway. Therefor I can't really tell you if it requires Administrator priveleges to install programs.
It did make use of a C:\Users\ folder, however, which was rather nice.
In any event, I'm sure you can find the DVD ISO on one of the torrent networks so you can check it out yourself. I like to give Microsoft a hard time just as much as the next guy, but in all honesty, this is a very, very slick and polished OS. I had vowed never to buy it and to move to Linux, but now I'm questioning my decision. Now it's a question of all the DRM restrictions I would have to endure.
Yeah, you're better off with nVidia. I've had nothing but extremely bad experiences with my X800.
I'm not saying nVidia is doing a great job or anything, but it's a bit better than ATI.
Well, honestly, the cancer killing is probably a pipe dream -- i would think having a deep understanding of our biological makeup is a hair different than being a mechanical engineering genius. But hey, if he can do it, rock on.
Actually, my only problem with the Segway is that...uhm...i have legs. And they work. And I move. I'm already fat enough. I don't need one more thing that will make me less active. I'm already spending an average of an hour per day at the gym. I don't need to tack more time on because I can't be bothered to walk to the post office.
Be that as it may, it IS a nifty little gadget. The company I work for recently fitted a pair of Segways with fuel cells and tanks for hydrogen (without overbalancing them) just to see how well it would do. Pretty nifty stuff.
As an aside, those guys get to have all the fun. Us in software engineering? Boring. Sigh.
In all honesty, Ford was about the only good thing the movie had going for it. Mos Def did a fantastic job and gained more respect (from me) in one movie than any other actor since Jack Nicholsen in Batman. He just _felt_ right.
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Everything else was essentially repulsive. I'll stick with the books -- but now I'll always (happily) imagine Mos Def as Ford.
At least the movie was good for something...
Finally, someone picked up the Eddie Izzard sketch. +6 to awesome for you!
I'm sorry, I just don't see why this is insightful. It's common sense. The problem people have isn't that these businesses are complying for no-good-reason, it's that they're complying and helping a government stiffle contrary views. Is it allowing them do business in these countries? Absolutely. Do we give a flying fuck whether they do business in these countries? Fuck no.
Look, Yahoo and Google can do whatever the hell they want. If there is a country that allows corporations to place babies on spikes and plant them in the ground, and these corporations do it, so be it. We don't have a legal right to stop them, here, in America.
That doesn't mean we can't say "fuck you" and stop using their services. Of course, we also have to avoid the ubiquitous advertising services they both offer to all and sundry, but a quick configuration of ad block will fix that.
Is this going to change things? Probably not. But at least we know we did something, no matter how pathetically inconsequential, to say "we do not agree".
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It pained me to see Google agree to filter things for China. That was bad enough. But what Yahoo has done is take it one step farther. And that was one step entirely too far.
Absolutely wrong. If I publish a GPL v.2 interface, and someone releases a module in GPL v.3 or BSD or $PROPRIETARY_LICENSE, it can still be released provided the license of the module allows for it to be released. GPL v.3 code can released right along with the Linux kernel if the author so desires (and it makes it into the kernel). The rest of the kernel does not automagically become GPL v.3 just because one piece is.
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time saying two people pointing guns at each other makes them "men". It makes them idiots.
You want to be really manly, and slightly less idiotic? Throw a punch. Using a gun is for pussies -- even more so than hiding behind a lawyer.
Sounds like GPP just got "pwnt".