Your Wall-e example is pretty poor. It's pretty shallow entertainment, the moral is fairly shallow as well, in addition to being a moral, which is itself a shallow literary tool.
A lot of the time, the author really did intend to write just an adventure novel (The Lord of the Flies...) but more profound themes just kind of popped up completely by accident.
Wall*E was just an Aesop Hammer designed to feed the flames of class envy and promote progressivism.
So.
Didn't you ever have to read Aesop in a Lit class?
Oh, it happens. The ACLU or NLG brings lawsuits during/after many major protests like this. And sometimes they even win (years later). I've actually heard of more cases where people successfully sue for damages than where people successfully convict cops on criminal charges.A cynic might say this is because criminal charges actually have a significant negative impact on the police department and would force them to change their policies, wheras civil damages are just a minor inconvenience.
The criminal trial I was refering to was for the protestors not the police.
Don't do it! IT'S A TRAP! I lost my wife to that Goddamn cult. Seriously, they've got secret meetings and a lexicon to keep the Unbelievers out. They call their wool and stuff a "stash". A stash!
women are only needed for procreation. if you don't plan on raising spawn then stay away from women. They possess an evil that will drain your life and wallet slowly and painfully......
However, I simply cannot deny that if there were a truly effective way to immediately shut down this behavior, there would be much less of it, nor can I deny that this would be a benefit to everyone else.
If you are in the left lane and someone can't get past you, you are impeding traffic. Keep to the right, you have no idea why someone else might be in a hurry and it is the height of arrogance to take it upon yourself to decide.
If the person in front of you is going the speed limit and your trying to get past him your breaking the law. It's the height of arrogance to ignore this simple fact.
The statistics show that tailgating doesn't kill. Following farther back and not having proper attention is much much more fatal. But don't let facts get in the way of your rants.
...and then the courts say "Yes, what the police did was illegal. They must now pay $X in damages and say they're sorry." And so the police department gets some money from the city government, or dips into its "lawsuit slush fund" (public tax dollars, either way) and hands out the dough, a bullshit apology statement, and then turns around and buys more weapons for the next protest.
Large summits like the G20 have a security budget, and you can often see a significant amount of money factored in for "legal settlements and costs". This is money they set aside in advance for the fines and damages they know will have to pay for violating people's rights.
LOL, right like you'd actually get any money out of it. You'd win a criminal trial here . The only reward for that is walking out of jail. Good luck actually suing the police.
Wouldn't it be interesting to get someone with Korsakoff's syndrome to play Korsakovia? Maybe the two would cancel each other out and everything would make sense.
Some one with Korsakoff's wouldn't remember having played it
This game will make you wish you had Korsakoff's.
SO now protesters need to cover themselves something tasty but only 1/64th of an inch thick. That way the pain ray won't work on them but they'll get a delicious microwave meal instead!
It's just unproductive to stand on the street and yell at police with a megaphone. If you actually want to do something about protecting your constitutional right to assemble, take it to the courts. The police have declared the assembly unlawful.. if your argument is that no peaceful assembly can be unlawful then take it up with the appropriate court. That's how the world works.
.......and by the time the legal proccess vidicates you the g20 is over with and it's too late to protest.
And what does it provide ? The hack-fu bolt on permissions system that is group-policy is the only real "reason" and that is easily replicated using any number of tools (puppet, cfengine, SELinux policy etc etc) from the Unix world.
Hell even crap like Zimbra is better than exchange.
We all know Exchange sucks, stop beating that horse it's dead.
So to replace actice directory we string together LDAP, Kereberos, Samba, and Puppet...........and your accusing Microsoft of Hack-fu?
Wrong! Novell Zenworks is on Linux too - so why can't you have a heterogeneous large scale Linux and Windows rollout?
There is Zenworks for Mac but none of our customers (though there is quite a few Macs) use it. If you are going to roll out Novell stuff you may as well do Novell Groupwise while you are at it.
Novell solutions pwn Microsoft, sorry to say.
This is the only real solution anyone has listed. The only downside is that both your microsoft and mac fanboy users will complain about having to use it.
LDAP, thunderbird w/ lightning plugin (or openexchange, citadel or similar), XDMCP.. Updates? Your own local ubuntu/debian mirror w/ custom packages, etc. Lots of equivalents.
....and still no replacement for active directory.
This is really the only practical reason why windows is still on top.
Option A: don't claim the right to "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute" tweets. Problem: publishing material on a website involves using, copying, transmitting, displaying, adapting, modifying and distributing it, so they would be infringing copyright and, sooner or later, get sued by some troll (in other news: Twitter operates in countries outside the US which don't have the same "fair use" clauses in their copyright laws).
Option B: claim ownership of everything. They could do this if they wanted to - nobody forces you to post your 120 character masterwork on Twitter.
Option C: lock out the public and pay professional twitterers to produce pithy and erudite tweets on a "work for hire" basis. Tempting, but I don't see the business model.
Your call.
D: Move the server offshore and pirate other people's work.
The question of whether viruses are living things is far from clear-cut.
The question of whether viruses are alive or not is as interesting a question as whether submarines swim. (To steal a phrase for Dijkstra).
We know what viruses do and don't do. Arguing about whether they're "alive" or not is purely semantics and is not a scientific question at all.
Nope not a scientific question.
Defining what life is falls under philosophy.
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Your Wall-e example is pretty poor. It's pretty shallow entertainment, the moral is fairly shallow as well, in addition to being a moral, which is itself a shallow literary tool.
A lot of the time, the author really did intend to write just an adventure novel (The Lord of the Flies...) but more profound themes just kind of popped up completely by accident.
Wall*E was just an Aesop Hammer designed to feed the flames of class envy and promote progressivism.
So.
Didn't you ever have to read Aesop in a Lit class?
What do you mean will?. It's happend, done, etc
. Books just aren't as polualr as TV or Movies which is why they're pirated less.
Am I the only person that prefers making their friends cry? It's just not as fun drinking a strangers tears.
Oh, it happens. The ACLU or NLG brings lawsuits during/after many major protests like this. And sometimes they even win (years later). I've actually heard of more cases where people successfully sue for damages than where people successfully convict cops on criminal charges.A cynic might say this is because criminal charges actually have a significant negative impact on the police department and would force them to change their policies, wheras civil damages are just a minor inconvenience.
The criminal trial I was refering to was for the protestors not the police.
Don't do it! IT'S A TRAP! I lost my wife to that Goddamn cult. Seriously, they've got secret meetings and a lexicon to keep the Unbelievers out. They call their wool and stuff a "stash". A stash!
Are they knitting hemp?
women are only needed for procreation. if you don't plan on raising spawn then stay away from women. They possess an evil that will drain your life and wallet slowly and painfully......
Some of us enjoy that evil...sweet sweet evil.
However, I simply cannot deny that if there were a truly effective way to immediately shut down this behavior, there would be much less of it, nor can I deny that this would be a benefit to everyone else.
If you are in the left lane and someone can't get past you, you are impeding traffic. Keep to the right, you have no idea why someone else might be in a hurry and it is the height of arrogance to take it upon yourself to decide.
If the person in front of you is going the speed limit and your trying to get past him your breaking the law. It's the height of arrogance to ignore this simple fact.
The statistics show that tailgating doesn't kill. Following farther back and not having proper attention is much much more fatal. But don't let facts get in the way of your rants.
It may not kill but I don't want a dent either.
...and then the courts say "Yes, what the police did was illegal. They must now pay $X in damages and say they're sorry." And so the police department gets some money from the city government, or dips into its "lawsuit slush fund" (public tax dollars, either way) and hands out the dough, a bullshit apology statement, and then turns around and buys more weapons for the next protest. Large summits like the G20 have a security budget, and you can often see a significant amount of money factored in for "legal settlements and costs". This is money they set aside in advance for the fines and damages they know will have to pay for violating people's rights.
LOL, right like you'd actually get any money out of it. You'd win a criminal trial here . The only reward for that is walking out of jail. Good luck actually suing the police.
Wouldn't it be interesting to get someone with Korsakoff's syndrome to play Korsakovia? Maybe the two would cancel each other out and everything would make sense.
Some one with Korsakoff's wouldn't remember having played it
This game will make you wish you had Korsakoff's.
SO now protesters need to cover themselves something tasty but only 1/64th of an inch thick. That way the pain ray won't work on them but they'll get a delicious microwave meal instead!
Is there anything bacon can't do?
It's just unproductive to stand on the street and yell at police with a megaphone. If you actually want to do something about protecting your constitutional right to assemble, take it to the courts. The police have declared the assembly unlawful.. if your argument is that no peaceful assembly can be unlawful then take it up with the appropriate court. That's how the world works.
.......and by the time the legal proccess vidicates you the g20 is over with and it's too late to protest.
And what does it provide ? The hack-fu bolt on permissions system that is group-policy is the only real "reason" and that is easily replicated using any number of tools (puppet, cfengine, SELinux policy etc etc) from the Unix world.
Hell even crap like Zimbra is better than exchange.
We all know Exchange sucks, stop beating that horse it's dead.
So to replace actice directory we string together LDAP, Kereberos, Samba, and Puppet...........and your accusing Microsoft of Hack-fu?
Active Directory
You can't be serious on this one. LDAP + Kerberos can easily take on that role plus some.
And you do group policy how?
Wrong! Novell Zenworks is on Linux too - so why can't you have a heterogeneous large scale Linux and Windows rollout? There is Zenworks for Mac but none of our customers (though there is quite a few Macs) use it. If you are going to roll out Novell stuff you may as well do Novell Groupwise while you are at it. Novell solutions pwn Microsoft, sorry to say.
This is the only real solution anyone has listed. The only downside is that both your microsoft and mac fanboy users will complain about having to use it.
LDAP, thunderbird w/ lightning plugin (or openexchange, citadel or similar), XDMCP.. Updates? Your own local ubuntu/debian mirror w/ custom packages, etc. Lots of equivalents.
....and still no replacement for active directory.
This is really the only practical reason why windows is still on top.
If this is anything like World of Warhammer they'll never get around to adding it back in.
We can only hope.
People who do web sites are not programmers, unless you write it in C,FORTRAN, or assembler!
Be a real programmer.
http://www.sorehands.com/humor/real1.htm
I've done website cgi-bin stuff in C, that makes me a real programmer not like those wanna be PERL coders.
we can do whatever we want with them....
What alternative do you suggest?
Option A: don't claim the right to "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute" tweets. Problem: publishing material on a website involves using, copying, transmitting, displaying, adapting, modifying and distributing it, so they would be infringing copyright and, sooner or later, get sued by some troll (in other news: Twitter operates in countries outside the US which don't have the same "fair use" clauses in their copyright laws).
Option B: claim ownership of everything. They could do this if they wanted to - nobody forces you to post your 120 character masterwork on Twitter.
Option C: lock out the public and pay professional twitterers to produce pithy and erudite tweets on a "work for hire" basis. Tempting, but I don't see the business model.
Your call.
D: Move the server offshore and pirate other people's work.
you can't just apply this joke to every story... /rolls eyes
I for one welcome our repeating meme overlords.
we can do whatever we want with them....
Viruses are the undead.
They prey on living cells and convert them to their own kind like a zombie or a vampire.
The question of whether viruses are living things is far from clear-cut. The question of whether viruses are alive or not is as interesting a question as whether submarines swim. (To steal a phrase for Dijkstra).
We know what viruses do and don't do. Arguing about whether they're "alive" or not is purely semantics and is not a scientific question at all.
Nope not a scientific question.
Defining what life is falls under philosophy.
Why no video?
Flying mice on youtube would bring more media coverage of this.
Ever try to remove a dead, frozen, 600 pound gorilla from a computer case?
That's still easier than putting a living one in there.