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If the skate were not Roller Blades I wouldn't use the term "roller blading".
Yes, but it's a good way to stick out like a giant wrinkly penis in social settings to not use the common phrases for things. I call gelatin deserts 'jello', inline skates 'roller blades', and using the search bar in a browser 'googling', if for not other reason than to not have to stop and explain things with more words than needed.
Then again, as a personal entity with no stake in these corporate entities, I could care less about their trademark protections.
Anyway, just about everyone uses Google nowadays, so it's usually going to be technically correct to say "googling".
France, along with most other Western countries, is like a fire department in the middle of a forest fire who can't use water because it would be politically incorrect.
Well, I find John Hodgman a riot, but that but the that little scruffy Mac guy just comes across like some beatnik who posts on Mac forums between fixing bitter-ass lattes at his Starbucks job.
As for this Microsoft commercial, it's not really good or bad, imo. I did like the old picture on his store ID card. The rest was kind of blah, but nowhere near the worst major brand advertising I've ever seen.
There's a mountain of bad ads including commercials for Feminine hygiene products, dick drugs, American Idol, Invest in gold or buy this cheapass coin from South America ads.
At least the Microsoft ads are kind of quiet and mellow. No OH SHIT like when whatever that horrible commercial is that starts off with the Hendrix version of the Star Spangled Banner thundering over the THX system at 3am when I am watching an otherwise quiet show.
I guess we are in the same boat. These are likely the two most positive comments any Microsoft ad will get here. Mind you, I bet the tone would have been completely different had Mac picked up Seinfeld. "OMG How chic campy!" or "Wow, good plan to target middle aged people!" and so on would dominate the thread and we all know it.
You only need look as far as what passes for entertainment on television in the USA to figure out that you should be considered special if you have an 8th grade education!
Have you ever watched TV in other countries? If it's not reruns of old stuff from the US, It's knock-offs like [insert country here] Idol. Entertainment is bad on a global scale.
The bulk of stuff you will find in basic programming is going to suck everywhere for a long time to come, because, well, it has to cater to the 50% of us who are under average.
Wow, do you really think the industry isn't going to push to get around technological obstacles?
Amazing how all those video cards managed to sell since the 3dfx, and all those slower processors prior to technology getting to the level it is today. I guess the rest of us were "lower sighted" for using and enjoying the technology of the day.
The way I see it, a portion of what you spend on any new equipment goes back into R&D, thus often resulting in small improvements over time.
The industry would simply crash and burn, leaving us with pencils and paper if everyone decided to hold out for someone to pull a gigaflop laptop with a TB of "unlimited" write storage out of their ass on zero R&D.
Ultimately I think we're going to see systems with the OS essentially in ROM on a solid state disk, with room for application installation.
There's really no need for a rom. You can just make a read-only partition for files of this nature. You also shouldn't have to worry about this to begin with if you've properly partitioned your OS during the install.
Speaking of handicaps and stalls, isn't that exactly what's going to happen to many of these 1st- and 2nd-generation SSD drives when they reach their maximum # of write cycles and suddenly fail to be writable anymore?
Just like SATA and SCSI drives, it will just build up bad sectors as the system tries to write information, resulting in a "shrinking" drive.
It is actually much less likely this type of storage device will have a sudden, catastrophic failure, when it only takes one moving part to foul in a mechanical drive to destroy everything it contained.
That MythTV box for example has a very volatile environment and loses power on a regular basis. I haven't lost any data through any of these outages.
Okay, you need to consider a couple of things. First off, this is MythTV. Your concept of "large files" and the normal industry use of "large files" are entirely two different things. I really doubt you are going to exceed any limitations of a modern filesystem with porn, dvds, and television recordings.
Second, you aren't going to lose data from a power outage when it comes to archived data you are reading (divx file, for example) when the power goes out. But no file system using system memory for a cache is going to play well when abruptly having the power yanked while it's writing.
Third, just use ext3. It's one of the most used, reliable, and proven file systems to date. If it's not enough, you are better off using a UPS and software raid5 an array a few similar sized drives, with a ext3 file system.
Let's please filter further headlines where people are asking about what exotic filesystem they should be trying out for non-raid applications. PLEASE.
To be fair, the things we find preserved are the ones which died and were preserved under unusual circumstances. Mudslides, stinky pits, volcanic ash, fell in sap which turned to amber, etc. The vast majority were reclaimed by the earth long ago, so we'll only ever have the ones which died in special circumstances to study.
It seems, though, a number of species falling to illness would leave some pretty hefty evidence behind, given the number of odd circumstances in which a fossil is preserved.
I don't think they did, either. But I am just joe sixpack, too. It would seem like there would be a lot of evidence in fossil records of bones being a bit different due to disease.
I'm basing this on the many natgeo and pbs shows I've watched where a human skeleton is dug up and some guy looks at the bones and says "oh no, this one died of old age and this is what their staple diet was". Not that it would be quite as obvious as non-fossil remains such as this, but I'd be more willing to buy the disease argument if they kept finding fossils with T-Rex critters missing a lot of teeth and having badly developed bones for a number of generations prior to dying out.
I'm in when they dig one up with some kind of prehistoric dinosaur wheelchair, tho.
which actually happened first, meteors and volcano disasters or flowering plants, I don't know,
I'd be willing to bet meteors and volcanoes have been going on a lot longer than flowering plants have been around. Sorry, I know what you were saying, but this is slashdot.
I do like to just say it was a whole lotta luck that lead to things being the way they are today. I find it just as likely the early mammal-type critters in our lineage simply being under this mound, as opposed to that mound, when catastrophe struck thus giving us the genes we have as opposed to those genes, which might have been superior at everything except being lucky enough not to get squished in any given random astrological event.
And I hate to be harsh, but why the fuck are we so lazy and want to scream Union when our jobs are threatened?
Not "we", just "he". A rare circumstance of real life and a slashdot thread having a lot in common, almost everyone with half a brain in IT dies a little inside when someone brings up the issue of unionizing. It's an obvious fatal move in most cases.
Hell, most shops I've worked for would have never been in business if not for open source software to handle most operations and most commercial software licensing pales in comparison to a union cost-wise.
I was thinking about this the other day. I'm almost 30. The internet came about in my generation. IT has been going on much longer. How was it done before "always-on", "always-connected"? Surely it was less efficient. And yet, you hear about IT people from that time staying in their jobs for decades, loving what they do, etc. Nowadays you're surprised to see someone stick around 3 years in a "permanent" job.
You don't know many true gray beard SA types if you think getting called up over a server outage at 2AM is something to whine about.
My neighbor, who was doing this work in the early 80's, would often get the surprise phone call from his dark overlords about a server outage three states away and to be ready for a helicopter to pick him up in 15 minutes.
I am sure that was more exciting, considering the free chopper ride and all, but after a few years of these things happening, I am sure he would have dreamed of being able to get up, walk to the home office, vpn into the corporate network and get to fixing things without having to so much as put a pair of pants on.
Ah, yes-- the siren song of unionization, born out of the early 20th century labor struggles where socialism was still an idyllic future utopia, and factory conditions were truly brutal.
Exactly, if Google isn't going to pay a mobile car wash to spit-shine the wheels on his Audi, it's time to find a company that will.
I've played the 60-80hr a week, pager on my hip, game off and on for years. Never again. It's better money for less credentials, but by no means is it something that was more than voluntary. The headline poster could just as easily go get a 40hr a week job doing something else in IT if his credentials are worth paying for.
Plus, who ever got into SA or NetEng thinking servers would magically stay online overnight and on holidays?
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I see unions as detrimental only as an efficiency problem, thus killing the concept cold for me.
But, as for operating in the interests of joe sixpack, I can tell you that's very true. In my younger days, I worked at a large food chain retailer which was unionized by the Teamsters.
I show up to work one day late. The first time in over a year I was ever tardy. I get taken to the manager's office and told I'm being written up, which was fine. I was 10 minutes late, we just wasted 20 minutes in a meeting over it. Let's make sure I never let it happen again. I should have gotten around that wreck in traffic a little quicker. Whatever. Shit happens.
A week later, I show up on time, but I goofed. the uniform tie I was issued had accidentally ended up in a wash load of whites, thus got exposed to bleach and looked kind of bad, but they only issued one to me, so I had to wear it. I ask my manager if I can get a new one or skip wearing it for a few hours and put some of that RIT dye on it and put it back on when dry, but no, I get taken to the same office, by the same manager and am told I am being fired for not complying with their uniform code. Basically, saying I was on a 90 day probation for being tardy, so they could let me go for any further infractions.
So, I go home and call up my regional Teamsters representative (over 200 miles away). The next morning, he calls me from the store I worked at and tells me to come on in for a chat. I got to sit through a meeting with HR, my manager, and the union guy as he named both legal and contractual reasons why they should not have fired me and should offer my job back with better pay, and if they don't, the union to sue them on my behalf. I got an instant $1.20/hr pay raise, assigned under a different manager, who was much cooler.
They definitely empower the 'little guy', but often too much so. There's a lot of people who really sucked at their jobs who managed to keep them, but then there were people like me who worked hard but, for whatever reason, was disliked by a manager and end up getting screwed as a result.
On the flip side, that chain is now out of business in the US. I don't doubt the union assisted in this by driving wages of non-managers up too high regardless of the health of the business overall, allowing competition to consume them.
On the other hand, I do see where you are coming from. When things get to the point of a strike, the worker often loses out, but don't forget, these issues are voted on by the workers so you will get a lot of differing opinions depending on how much the worker cared what they were striking over and the availability of temporary jobs to take up in an area to make up for the smaller check the union is sending until operations get back to normal.
These types are all about investments. For all who aren't familiar with new boats, a $50k bass boat will be worth about $20k in a couple of years. Even if you buy it and lock it in a garage the whole time.
I recall looking at Tritons once, which were proudly displayed outside. Brand new boats. Simply sitting on display for a couple of weeks on nice weather days already caused most to have slightly degraded vibrancy in the gel coats.
Millionaire? This thing cost less than most modern Bass boats, decently equipped pontoons, and less than half what a common cruiser will run you. More than your average Seadoo PWC, but most people who buy them get at least two if not three or four (depending on wealth and the number of kids they have).
Then again, perhaps the millionaire aspect comes into play when it comes time to find someone to repair the craft, as anyone who spends a few hours on the water every week will tell you, anything boat/pwc related has a tendency to demonstrate it's willingness to break down in the worst possible ways at the worst possible times. It's almost as powerful enough of a force, I am beginning to suspect Murphy has a whole set of laws being enforced upon anyone who takes up marine recreation. Anyway, even the millionaires I've met who are into marine craft already know all this and still try to shop for designs which have been around for a few years and closer to the "proven technology" badge instead of pissing away money on completely new designs bound to have many flaws-- that's why they are millionaires and not scratching lottery tickets.
I'd also not really want to run that thing in most US waterways. More than once, I've cracked gel coats on thick fiberglass hulls ramming into surface debris at speeds below 50mph. The last thing I would want is to be sitting behind some plastic windshield and have a pointy chunk of tree collide with it at any speed. Not to mention the stump mazes just a few feet under many managed waterways. It'd be cool in some place like the Bahamas, though.
Would you rather use an optical drive's power-sucking moving parts
Having done some QA on usb hardware in the past, I can tell you the USB ports on a box that has things plugged/unplugged a lot will get really loose and not work so well after a while.
This can be countered with a hub, but it would seem kind of a burden to carry around extra bulk with a laptop when, even without an optical device, you would likely prefer ripping and playing back from the boot device.
It won't be so much the government cracking down against *dissident* websites in the U.S.
Yes, only on/. is it "Insightful" to compare an attempt to foil software pirates in the U.S. to the attempted annihilation of expressing political beliefs by those in another country.
The last I checked, both of our major political parties thrive on protesting each other. Somehow I do not see this changing anytime soon. The right will want people protesting the left, the left will want people protesting the right, etc. This is kind of a tradition here.
Anyone who moderates up this kind of garbage really should be ashamed. People in Thailand are up a creek without a paddle and you actually encourage bringing a discussion of U.S. piracy into the thread. Shame.
What's next? GWB isn't going to leave office peacefully when the new guy is voted in and immediately begin leading an army of robots to take over the world? That sounds "Insightful"./rant
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If the skate were not Roller Blades I wouldn't use the term "roller blading".
Yes, but it's a good way to stick out like a giant wrinkly penis in social settings to not use the common phrases for things. I call gelatin deserts 'jello', inline skates 'roller blades', and using the search bar in a browser 'googling', if for not other reason than to not have to stop and explain things with more words than needed.
Then again, as a personal entity with no stake in these corporate entities, I could care less about their trademark protections.
Anyway, just about everyone uses Google nowadays, so it's usually going to be technically correct to say "googling".
Oh, that and "Home Improvement" dubbed into German.
OH GOD. That sounds terrible and possibly funny, depending on how bad of a dubbing it was.
France, along with most other Western countries, is like a fire department in the middle of a forest fire who can't use water because it would be politically incorrect.
Lol, what?
Well, I find John Hodgman a riot, but that but the that little scruffy Mac guy just comes across like some beatnik who posts on Mac forums between fixing bitter-ass lattes at his Starbucks job.
As for this Microsoft commercial, it's not really good or bad, imo. I did like the old picture on his store ID card. The rest was kind of blah, but nowhere near the worst major brand advertising I've ever seen.
There's a mountain of bad ads including commercials for Feminine hygiene products, dick drugs, American Idol, Invest in gold or buy this cheapass coin from South America ads.
At least the Microsoft ads are kind of quiet and mellow. No OH SHIT like when whatever that horrible commercial is that starts off with the Hendrix version of the Star Spangled Banner thundering over the THX system at 3am when I am watching an otherwise quiet show.
I guess we are in the same boat. These are likely the two most positive comments any Microsoft ad will get here. Mind you, I bet the tone would have been completely different had Mac picked up Seinfeld. "OMG How chic campy!" or "Wow, good plan to target middle aged people!" and so on would dominate the thread and we all know it.
You only need look as far as what passes for entertainment on television in the USA to figure out that you should be considered special if you have an 8th grade education!
Have you ever watched TV in other countries? If it's not reruns of old stuff from the US, It's knock-offs like [insert country here] Idol. Entertainment is bad on a global scale.
The bulk of stuff you will find in basic programming is going to suck everywhere for a long time to come, because, well, it has to cater to the 50% of us who are under average.
Wow, do you really think the industry isn't going to push to get around technological obstacles?
Amazing how all those video cards managed to sell since the 3dfx, and all those slower processors prior to technology getting to the level it is today. I guess the rest of us were "lower sighted" for using and enjoying the technology of the day.
The way I see it, a portion of what you spend on any new equipment goes back into R&D, thus often resulting in small improvements over time.
The industry would simply crash and burn, leaving us with pencils and paper if everyone decided to hold out for someone to pull a gigaflop laptop with a TB of "unlimited" write storage out of their ass on zero R&D.
Ultimately I think we're going to see systems with the OS essentially in ROM on a solid state disk, with room for application installation.
There's really no need for a rom. You can just make a read-only partition for files of this nature. You also shouldn't have to worry about this to begin with if you've properly partitioned your OS during the install.
Oh wait, are you talking about Windows?
Speaking of handicaps and stalls, isn't that exactly what's going to happen to many of these 1st- and 2nd-generation SSD drives when they reach their maximum # of write cycles and suddenly fail to be writable anymore?
Just like SATA and SCSI drives, it will just build up bad sectors as the system tries to write information, resulting in a "shrinking" drive.
It is actually much less likely this type of storage device will have a sudden, catastrophic failure, when it only takes one moving part to foul in a mechanical drive to destroy everything it contained.
That MythTV box for example has a very volatile environment and loses power on a regular basis. I haven't lost any data through any of these outages.
Okay, you need to consider a couple of things. First off, this is MythTV. Your concept of "large files" and the normal industry use of "large files" are entirely two different things. I really doubt you are going to exceed any limitations of a modern filesystem with porn, dvds, and television recordings.
Second, you aren't going to lose data from a power outage when it comes to archived data you are reading (divx file, for example) when the power goes out. But no file system using system memory for a cache is going to play well when abruptly having the power yanked while it's writing.
Third, just use ext3. It's one of the most used, reliable, and proven file systems to date. If it's not enough, you are better off using a UPS and software raid5 an array a few similar sized drives, with a ext3 file system.
Let's please filter further headlines where people are asking about what exotic filesystem they should be trying out for non-raid applications. PLEASE.
To be fair, the things we find preserved are the ones which died and were preserved under unusual circumstances. Mudslides, stinky pits, volcanic ash, fell in sap which turned to amber, etc. The vast majority were reclaimed by the earth long ago, so we'll only ever have the ones which died in special circumstances to study.
It seems, though, a number of species falling to illness would leave some pretty hefty evidence behind, given the number of odd circumstances in which a fossil is preserved.
Look it up for us, please!
I don't think they did, either. But I am just joe sixpack, too. It would seem like there would be a lot of evidence in fossil records of bones being a bit different due to disease.
I'm basing this on the many natgeo and pbs shows I've watched where a human skeleton is dug up and some guy looks at the bones and says "oh no, this one died of old age and this is what their staple diet was". Not that it would be quite as obvious as non-fossil remains such as this, but I'd be more willing to buy the disease argument if they kept finding fossils with T-Rex critters missing a lot of teeth and having badly developed bones for a number of generations prior to dying out.
I'm in when they dig one up with some kind of prehistoric dinosaur wheelchair, tho.
which actually happened first, meteors and volcano disasters or flowering plants, I don't know,
I'd be willing to bet meteors and volcanoes have been going on a lot longer than flowering plants have been around. Sorry, I know what you were saying, but this is slashdot.
I do like to just say it was a whole lotta luck that lead to things being the way they are today. I find it just as likely the early mammal-type critters in our lineage simply being under this mound, as opposed to that mound, when catastrophe struck thus giving us the genes we have as opposed to those genes, which might have been superior at everything except being lucky enough not to get squished in any given random astrological event.
Well sir, I respond to your "blah blah blah" with this:
BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
I see we are going places with this.
a teenager could be more knowledgable and do a better job at a certain technology than a guy in his 30s
While this is true, the guy in his 30s will get the job because he likely used capital letters and punctuation in the right places.
And I hate to be harsh, but why the fuck are we so lazy and want to scream Union when our jobs are threatened?
Not "we", just "he". A rare circumstance of real life and a slashdot thread having a lot in common, almost everyone with half a brain in IT dies a little inside when someone brings up the issue of unionizing. It's an obvious fatal move in most cases.
Hell, most shops I've worked for would have never been in business if not for open source software to handle most operations and most commercial software licensing pales in comparison to a union cost-wise.
I was thinking about this the other day. I'm almost 30. The internet came about in my generation. IT has been going on much longer. How was it done before "always-on", "always-connected"? Surely it was less efficient. And yet, you hear about IT people from that time staying in their jobs for decades, loving what they do, etc. Nowadays you're surprised to see someone stick around 3 years in a "permanent" job.
You don't know many true gray beard SA types if you think getting called up over a server outage at 2AM is something to whine about.
My neighbor, who was doing this work in the early 80's, would often get the surprise phone call from his dark overlords about a server outage three states away and to be ready for a helicopter to pick him up in 15 minutes.
I am sure that was more exciting, considering the free chopper ride and all, but after a few years of these things happening, I am sure he would have dreamed of being able to get up, walk to the home office, vpn into the corporate network and get to fixing things without having to so much as put a pair of pants on.
Kids these days..
Ah, yes-- the siren song of unionization, born out of the early 20th century labor struggles where socialism was still an idyllic future utopia, and factory conditions were truly brutal.
Exactly, if Google isn't going to pay a mobile car wash to spit-shine the wheels on his Audi, it's time to find a company that will.
I've played the 60-80hr a week, pager on my hip, game off and on for years. Never again. It's better money for less credentials, but by no means is it something that was more than voluntary. The headline poster could just as easily go get a 40hr a week job doing something else in IT if his credentials are worth paying for.
Plus, who ever got into SA or NetEng thinking servers would magically stay online overnight and on holidays?
I see unions as detrimental only as an efficiency problem, thus killing the concept cold for me.
But, as for operating in the interests of joe sixpack, I can tell you that's very true. In my younger days, I worked at a large food chain retailer which was unionized by the Teamsters.
I show up to work one day late. The first time in over a year I was ever tardy. I get taken to the manager's office and told I'm being written up, which was fine. I was 10 minutes late, we just wasted 20 minutes in a meeting over it. Let's make sure I never let it happen again. I should have gotten around that wreck in traffic a little quicker. Whatever. Shit happens.
A week later, I show up on time, but I goofed. the uniform tie I was issued had accidentally ended up in a wash load of whites, thus got exposed to bleach and looked kind of bad, but they only issued one to me, so I had to wear it. I ask my manager if I can get a new one or skip wearing it for a few hours and put some of that RIT dye on it and put it back on when dry, but no, I get taken to the same office, by the same manager and am told I am being fired for not complying with their uniform code. Basically, saying I was on a 90 day probation for being tardy, so they could let me go for any further infractions.
So, I go home and call up my regional Teamsters representative (over 200 miles away). The next morning, he calls me from the store I worked at and tells me to come on in for a chat. I got to sit through a meeting with HR, my manager, and the union guy as he named both legal and contractual reasons why they should not have fired me and should offer my job back with better pay, and if they don't, the union to sue them on my behalf. I got an instant $1.20/hr pay raise, assigned under a different manager, who was much cooler.
They definitely empower the 'little guy', but often too much so. There's a lot of people who really sucked at their jobs who managed to keep them, but then there were people like me who worked hard but, for whatever reason, was disliked by a manager and end up getting screwed as a result.
On the flip side, that chain is now out of business in the US. I don't doubt the union assisted in this by driving wages of non-managers up too high regardless of the health of the business overall, allowing competition to consume them.
On the other hand, I do see where you are coming from. When things get to the point of a strike, the worker often loses out, but don't forget, these issues are voted on by the workers so you will get a lot of differing opinions depending on how much the worker cared what they were striking over and the availability of temporary jobs to take up in an area to make up for the smaller check the union is sending until operations get back to normal.
I'm an American, but [insert troll about how Americans suck here please]
But your homepage lists a +82 prefixed contact number, which is in Japan.
Nice troll, though. I am sure you'll cook up a good response.
These types are all about investments. For all who aren't familiar with new boats, a $50k bass boat will be worth about $20k in a couple of years. Even if you buy it and lock it in a garage the whole time.
I recall looking at Tritons once, which were proudly displayed outside. Brand new boats. Simply sitting on display for a couple of weeks on nice weather days already caused most to have slightly degraded vibrancy in the gel coats.
Millionaire? This thing cost less than most modern Bass boats, decently equipped pontoons, and less than half what a common cruiser will run you. More than your average Seadoo PWC, but most people who buy them get at least two if not three or four (depending on wealth and the number of kids they have).
Then again, perhaps the millionaire aspect comes into play when it comes time to find someone to repair the craft, as anyone who spends a few hours on the water every week will tell you, anything boat/pwc related has a tendency to demonstrate it's willingness to break down in the worst possible ways at the worst possible times. It's almost as powerful enough of a force, I am beginning to suspect Murphy has a whole set of laws being enforced upon anyone who takes up marine recreation. Anyway, even the millionaires I've met who are into marine craft already know all this and still try to shop for designs which have been around for a few years and closer to the "proven technology" badge instead of pissing away money on completely new designs bound to have many flaws-- that's why they are millionaires and not scratching lottery tickets.
I'd also not really want to run that thing in most US waterways. More than once, I've cracked gel coats on thick fiberglass hulls ramming into surface debris at speeds below 50mph. The last thing I would want is to be sitting behind some plastic windshield and have a pointy chunk of tree collide with it at any speed. Not to mention the stump mazes just a few feet under many managed waterways. It'd be cool in some place like the Bahamas, though.
It made me feel a sense of interest as opposed to insight.
Would you rather use an optical drive's power-sucking moving parts
Having done some QA on usb hardware in the past, I can tell you the USB ports on a box that has things plugged/unplugged a lot will get really loose and not work so well after a while.
This can be countered with a hub, but it would seem kind of a burden to carry around extra bulk with a laptop when, even without an optical device, you would likely prefer ripping and playing back from the boot device.
It won't be so much the government cracking down against *dissident* websites in the U.S.
Yes, only on /. is it "Insightful" to compare an attempt to foil software pirates in the U.S. to the attempted annihilation of expressing political beliefs by those in another country.
The last I checked, both of our major political parties thrive on protesting each other. Somehow I do not see this changing anytime soon. The right will want people protesting the left, the left will want people protesting the right, etc. This is kind of a tradition here.
Anyone who moderates up this kind of garbage really should be ashamed. People in Thailand are up a creek without a paddle and you actually encourage bringing a discussion of U.S. piracy into the thread. Shame.
What's next? GWB isn't going to leave office peacefully when the new guy is voted in and immediately begin leading an army of robots to take over the world? That sounds "Insightful". /rant