I'm sure that Metallica's record sales will really be hurt when a bunch of poeple who have already decided that they'd rather download Metallica mp3s over buying Metallica albums decide to boycott them. It reminds me of the time that a bunch of local vegans organized a boycott of Taco Bell -- you just can't boycott a product that you don't normally buy. By the way, since when did Metallica market themselves as "rebels?" They've never seemed to have anything against Corporate America to me. They're just a band with strong ideals, none of which I see as inconsistent with their current actions.
If I were evil enough and manipulative enough to take over the galaxy, I would. Besides, Darth Maul wasn't supposed to be three-dimensional. He was Palpatine's attack dog, and that's all he was supposed to be. It's the way he was trained, and I think it worked very well in the movie. As far as Palpatine, what would be a motivation more to your liking? Revenge for the death of his kitten? Compensation for a small penis? Was he just never loved as a kid? Greed and hunger for power work just fine for me.
Evil without motivation? Apparently you missed the whole Darth Sidious/Senator Palpatine bid to set into motion the events which would eventually form the Empire and bring the entire galaxy under his absolute domination. If that's not a motivation for evil, I don't know what is. It seems that Episode I is a little too subtle, more subtle than the other movies for sure, because so many people seem not to pick up on the real story, they just bitch about Jar Jar, the advertising potential, etc.
While science has a built-in peer review process, science also has the built-in weakness in that it has no foundations or methodologies with which it can question itself. As long as science's built-in criticism process has no basis for criticizing itself, we're always going to need people outside the discipline to fully and completely piece through these these endlessly complex issues. While public opinion based on ignorance is worthless, this hardly says that either all public opinion is worthless or even opinion and criticisms coming from non-scientific circles are any less valid than those coming from the scientific elite. This isn't about the atomic weight of some new element or the most efficent algorithm for a particular task; this is about what's morally right and wrong. As sophisticated as I think science is, the scientific process can't be applied to a moral decision. And that is why a religious figure is just as suited to tackling this issue as a scientist, assuming they both go into the process with open minds (something I've found is a rare commodity both among religious figures and scientific figures) and a desire to find the right thing to do, as opposed to pushing particular agendas. Perhaps if we had allowed some debate, among those other than merely scientists, to the issue of developing and dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese, we could've prevented a lot of misery and atrocity. This isn't a linux kernel. Not to mention the fact that science is pointless if not done in order to benefit society in real ways, not just an elite subset of society for esoteric designs. Therefore, the public should have a say in an issue this critical and far-reaching.
What a typical Katzian gesture to be the first one to singularly and originally "observe" this little facet of modern life, and to officially declare the "beginning" of the battle between big business and the individual. Or not. As it is, we should give kudos to Katz for even noticing the struggle which has been going on since the Industrial Revolution, or earlier, and forgive the fact that he thinks he's "discovered" it. Well, a clue from the rest of us, Katz: the battle of the "have vs. the have-nots" predates your slashdot punditry by a few centuries. The reason Katz's heros, Orwell and Huxley, were able to write so poignantly and accurately about bigness, facelessness and blind consumerism is because it existed in the world they lived in! 1984 and Brave New World weren't predictions, they were observations. Our generation has this obsession with deluding ourselves that we're the first people to see things the way they truly are, and that we're rebelling against things that our parents and grandparents blindly and shallowly accepted. And believe me when I say that there have been far more profound and meaningful struggles for the working man (though not by our generation) than that of this sneering throng of vandals and would-be saboteurs delivering WWF-patented "Suck It!" gestures to the police. Katz was right about one thing, though. This is an internet-inspired protest if ever I've seen one: loud, violent and completely devoid of any hint of accomplishment or productivity whatsoever.
I dunno, I consider the terms "intellectual" and "pretentious fuck" to be pretty much interchangable. You have to be pretty damn pretentious to begin with to even consider yourself an "intellectual." Furthermore, the person making the biggest bogus generalizations here is you, when you say: "If you were aware of some of the shit the WTO does, you would see things my way."
The whole system sounded really cool, and I even began considering picking one up when they came out, thinking "Well, it can't be more than a few hundred bucks..." Then I saw the price. Where on god's green earth do they get off charging that much money on what is basically old hardware and free software? I figure whoever put this together thought they'd make a killing or something.. more power to them.. but I'd never buy one of those devices for even half that price. Not in a million years. Not to mention the fact that it's running linux, so it'll be core dumping every half hour just for fun.. and can you update it? Install a new kernel? Run maintainence programs?
Why must it run linux? Why must it cost so much? I guess I still want one..
This thing may use Sequel Server but it still totally blows a$$ from beyond the grave.
What the hell kind of definition of "above average intelligence" would ever include Jon Katz? Maybe he's not so much of a threat as he thinks. Parts of this article read like a feeble rehash of that most honored and enobled inane document, The Hacker's Manifesto. Also, either the FBI has it wrong, or Jon Katz is 'reporting' it wrong, because the prevailing trait that most self-proclaimed "geeks" have in common isn't above average intelligence, but instead boundless arrogance and an unchecked sense of righteous self-importance.
Last night, right before I went to bed, I put my glasses on the headboard so that I could find them in the morning when I woke up. This morning, when I woke up, I knew exactly where they were. Isn't that a wonderful hack?
According to this discussion, what the hell on the planet isn't considered a "hack," except possibly for "Ugh. Winbl0wz."
I especially love the part near the bottom where they ask what everyone's favorite website is, and everyone responds with "Oh, I just love me some slashdot!"
Hey, sport. Way to turn a conversation about Quake into a NT mudslinging contest. Sooner or later, every Slashdot conversation, regardless of topic, regresses down to:
"NT sux." "No it doesn't." "Yes it does." (Score:4,Insightful) "No it doesn't u fux." "Right on!!" "Wah wah wah wah wah." "Take your FUD and go." "Yeah, it totally sux." "NT's IP stack sux."
Lemme get this straight. Katz's example for the "new, radically improved information model for the 21st Century," is articles which are revised, ripped to shreds and revised some more by slashdot readers? I mean, I love you guys, but the idea that slashdotters decide that which is considered "the truth" is extremely frightening to me. News is not like a computer program. Objective reality is not open source.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of capitalism. I'm just tired about the feigned "I've got four cars in my garage that are worth more than you'll ever see in your life, but I'm just the same kid from next door you knew growin' up" morality play.
Yes, stand up and be accountable. Quit posting as Anonymous and use your real name, be it LeetPenguinBoy or IHaxedUrBox or whatever it may be. Quit hiding behind Anonymous and use your real faceless handle.
As if it matters what string of letters comes before the question. The content of the question is what matters. Not everyone who loves quake wants to sign up on slahdot or even cares about slashdot, believe it or not.
Yeah, he's down there in the trenches alright. He's driving aroudn the trenches in his ferrari. I have no doubts that Carmack is a "real programmer," but I think if he might have a little more CEO ambition if he weren't making the ungodly salary he does. And if you believe him when he says that all the cars and money and wealth haven't changed him as a person, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you...
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They must have been som real fans if they were pirating Metallica mp3s. They respect Metallica so much that they were willing to rip them off.
I'm sure that Metallica's record sales will really be hurt when a bunch of poeple who have already decided that they'd rather download Metallica mp3s over buying Metallica albums decide to boycott them. It reminds me of the time that a bunch of local vegans organized a boycott of Taco Bell -- you just can't boycott a product that you don't normally buy. By the way, since when did Metallica market themselves as "rebels?" They've never seemed to have anything against Corporate America to me. They're just a band with strong ideals, none of which I see as inconsistent with their current actions.
That really sucks about your story not getting approved. Must've been a huge blow to your ego.
If I were evil enough and manipulative enough to take over the galaxy, I would. Besides, Darth Maul wasn't supposed to be three-dimensional. He was Palpatine's attack dog, and that's all he was supposed to be. It's the way he was trained, and I think it worked very well in the movie. As far as Palpatine, what would be a motivation more to your liking? Revenge for the death of his kitten? Compensation for a small penis? Was he just never loved as a kid? Greed and hunger for power work just fine for me.
Why is it that the day after my moderator points run out, someone actually says something worth moderating up?
Awesome.
Do it.
Evil without motivation? Apparently you missed the whole Darth Sidious/Senator Palpatine bid to set into motion the events which would eventually form the Empire and bring the entire galaxy under his absolute domination. If that's not a motivation for evil, I don't know what is. It seems that Episode I is a little too subtle, more subtle than the other movies for sure, because so many people seem not to pick up on the real story, they just bitch about Jar Jar, the advertising potential, etc.
While science has a built-in peer review process, science also has the built-in weakness in that it has no foundations or methodologies with which it can question itself. As long as science's built-in criticism process has no basis for criticizing itself, we're always going to need people outside the discipline to fully and completely piece through these these endlessly complex issues. While public opinion based on ignorance is worthless, this hardly says that either all public opinion is worthless or even opinion and criticisms coming from non-scientific circles are any less valid than those coming from the scientific elite. This isn't about the atomic weight of some new element or the most efficent algorithm for a particular task; this is about what's morally right and wrong. As sophisticated as I think science is, the scientific process can't be applied to a moral decision. And that is why a religious figure is just as suited to tackling this issue as a scientist, assuming they both go into the process with open minds (something I've found is a rare commodity both among religious figures and scientific figures) and a desire to find the right thing to do, as opposed to pushing particular agendas. Perhaps if we had allowed some debate, among those other than merely scientists, to the issue of developing and dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese, we could've prevented a lot of misery and atrocity. This isn't a linux kernel. Not to mention the fact that science is pointless if not done in order to benefit society in real ways, not just an elite subset of society for esoteric designs. Therefore, the public should have a say in an issue this critical and far-reaching.
What a typical Katzian gesture to be the first one to singularly and originally "observe" this little facet of modern life, and to officially declare the "beginning" of the battle between big business and the individual. Or not. As it is, we should give kudos to Katz for even noticing the struggle which has been going on since the Industrial Revolution, or earlier, and forgive the fact that he thinks he's "discovered" it. Well, a clue from the rest of us, Katz: the battle of the "have vs. the have-nots" predates your slashdot punditry by a few centuries. The reason Katz's heros, Orwell and Huxley, were able to write so poignantly and accurately about bigness, facelessness and blind consumerism is because it existed in the world they lived in! 1984 and Brave New World weren't predictions, they were observations. Our generation has this obsession with deluding ourselves that we're the first people to see things the way they truly are, and that we're rebelling against things that our parents and grandparents blindly and shallowly accepted. And believe me when I say that there have been far more profound and meaningful struggles for the working man (though not by our generation) than that of this sneering throng of vandals and would-be saboteurs delivering WWF-patented "Suck It!" gestures to the police. Katz was right about one thing, though. This is an internet-inspired protest if ever I've seen one: loud, violent and completely devoid of any hint of accomplishment or productivity whatsoever.
I dunno, I consider the terms "intellectual" and "pretentious fuck" to be pretty much interchangable. You have to be pretty damn pretentious to begin with to even consider yourself an "intellectual." Furthermore, the person making the biggest bogus generalizations here is you, when you say: "If you were aware of some of the shit the WTO does, you would see things my way."
The whole system sounded really cool, and I even began considering picking one up when they came out, thinking "Well, it can't be more than a few hundred bucks..." Then I saw the price. Where on god's green earth do they get off charging that much money on what is basically old hardware and free software? I figure whoever put this together thought they'd make a killing or something.. more power to them.. but I'd never buy one of those devices for even half that price. Not in a million years. Not to mention the fact that it's running linux, so it'll be core dumping every half hour just for fun.. and can you update it? Install a new kernel? Run maintainence programs?
Why must it run linux?
Why must it cost so much?
I guess I still want one..
This thing may use Sequel Server but it still totally blows a$$ from beyond the grave.
What the hell kind of definition of "above average intelligence" would ever include Jon Katz? Maybe he's not so much of a threat as he thinks. Parts of this article read like a feeble rehash of that most honored and enobled inane document, The Hacker's Manifesto. Also, either the FBI has it wrong, or Jon Katz is 'reporting' it wrong, because the prevailing trait that most self-proclaimed "geeks" have in common isn't above average intelligence, but instead boundless arrogance and an unchecked sense of righteous self-importance.
Actually, I think even Larry Wall says perl code is hard to read. Of course, I think he takes a certain amount of pride in that fact..
Last night, right before I went to bed, I put my glasses on the headboard so that I could find them in the morning when I woke up. This morning, when I woke up, I knew exactly where they were. Isn't that a wonderful hack?
According to this discussion, what the hell on the planet isn't considered a "hack," except possibly for "Ugh. Winbl0wz."
Kinda reminds me of slashdot.
that would also mean the end of slashdot.
I especially love the part near the bottom where they ask what everyone's favorite website is, and everyone responds with "Oh, I just love me some slashdot!"
Hey, sport. Way to turn a conversation about Quake into a NT mudslinging contest. Sooner or later, every Slashdot conversation, regardless of topic, regresses down to:
"NT sux."
"No it doesn't."
"Yes it does." (Score:4,Insightful)
"No it doesn't u fux."
"Right on!!"
"Wah wah wah wah wah."
"Take your FUD and go."
"Yeah, it totally sux."
"NT's IP stack sux."
Hell, if I had the points, I'd moderate it up to funny right now.
So it was all made up. So what? Jerry Springer's been doing that for years.
Lemme get this straight. Katz's example for the "new, radically improved information model for the 21st Century," is articles which are revised, ripped to shreds and revised some more by slashdot readers? I mean, I love you guys, but the idea that slashdotters decide that which is considered "the truth" is extremely frightening to me. News is not like a computer program. Objective reality is not open source.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of capitalism. I'm just tired about the feigned "I've got four cars in my garage that are worth more than you'll ever see in your life, but I'm just the same kid from next door you knew growin' up" morality play.
That was the point I was trying to make. :) It's kind of a joke to call for accountability when you're nothing but a nick.
Yes, stand up and be accountable. Quit posting as Anonymous and use your real name, be it LeetPenguinBoy or IHaxedUrBox or whatever it may be. Quit hiding behind Anonymous and use your real faceless handle.
As if it matters what string of letters comes before the question. The content of the question is what matters. Not everyone who loves quake wants to sign up on slahdot or even cares about slashdot, believe it or not.
Yeah, he's down there in the trenches alright. He's driving aroudn the trenches in his ferrari. I have no doubts that Carmack is a "real programmer," but I think if he might have a little more CEO ambition if he weren't making the ungodly salary he does. And if you believe him when he says that all the cars and money and wealth haven't changed him as a person, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you...