See, when I was a kid, learning was made fun with hip, black rappers in colorful early 1990s clothing dancing on backgrounds animated to look like the covers of the equally-colorful notebooks we carried around (triangles and paint splotches and shapes that look like confetti -- oh my!), singing us about why copying that floppy will amount to the... END OF THE COMPUTER AGE... mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
This is why I call conservatives socialists -- just like liberals, Big Government is the altruistic, infallible Superman that saves the day, the solution to all your personal complaints with the world, isn't it?
Bill Gates sounds like one of those pseudo-capitalists who tend to think that corporate subsidies and government regulations are very pro-capitalism, but laissez faire economics and government nonintervention in competition is Marxist liberalism from the Soviet conspiracy.
I wish Ayn Rand were still alive to deliver him a much-needed spanking on his ass until he actually gets it.
No, you're exactly right. I can't help but think this is just a political game, they know we won't give them control, and "they" can use that as "oh, look, yet another example of American arrogance" in the discussions they hold amongst each other.
It's all political smoke-and-mirrors by the usual yapping European bureaucrats and their third-world dictatorship lapdogs who never get anything done except passing meaningless resolutions that blame America and Israel for all the world's problems but never actually achieve anything pragmatic at all.
I am disappointed that we can't have inferior, buggy, unreliable Microsoft software for our Linux systems. Oh, well, I guess I'll have to get over this tragedy in time.... There, I'm over it.
What also made me a little skeptical was Microsoft, to my knowledge, isn't really a hardware company (not counting the XBox of course). Isn't their speciality in annoying their customers through software, not hardware?
It doesn't look to me like Flock is ripping off 37signals, rather a lack of visual creativity by both sides. Like they're trying so hard at mimicking the minimalist stylings of The Designer's Republic and yet so horribly failing at doing it well.
They also indicate that he knows he's lying out of his ass. He knows everything he says is bullshit, but he's a clever motherfucker who too many people are underestimating.
He's even managed to pull off a dual socialist-nannycrat-yet-right-wing-theocrat image he's got going on. But above all, Jack Thompson knows full well what he's doing, and it shows in his rude behavior towards his critics and detractors; because he knows if he actually engaged anyone in a mature and composed debate, he'd lose some of his footing with the Big Nanny Government politicians in our country.
And that's all Jack Thompson (or any activist on any issue) needs to do to win favor with the Big Nanny Government types -- to just be a flaming activist bullshitter and pander to both sides relentlessly.
I remember when I was like 11, I thought Maxis could see everything I was doing in SimAnt, since it had a Name/Company registration thing in the game, and that my games were being transmitted to Maxis for some kind of high-score database. My computer had no modem or anything at all in my computer, the only thing plugging it into the wall being the power cable.
Oh I can't wait to get in that car, start pedaling my feet real fast on the ground, and scream "YABBA DABBA DOOOOOOOOOO!" down the highway in that thing.
I was rather optimistic that, considering Sony's previous engagement into reaching a geekdom fanbase, they would be a little more embracing and supportive of the PSP tinkering scene. Somehow I think Sony's going to start acting like babies and toss around the DMCA if this gets too fun, if you know what I mean.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony has some kind of internal feuds of freedom-vs-DRM ideologies between its development team department and its department full of ponytailed marketing guys regarding this issue.
Does anyone think "activist judges" would get away with their abuse of authority, if there weren't laws and bureaus in the other two branches of government that equally go overboard in their abuse of authority?
It's almost as if conservatives do this, so they can look forward to complaining and crying "activist judges are deteriorating our country's morals blah blah blah!" when they find out the FBI can't get away with as much power as they want the FBI to have.
Whatever happened to conservatism being an ideology standing for limited government and personal freedoms? Just a pipe dream, so blatantly contradicting their own words with their actions. Just so some fat midwestern housewife voters can shake their fat arms in the air and scream in religious orgasm when they see consenting adults arrested on the 10:00 news.
While I don't have a source offhand, I wouldn't hesitate in guessing that encryption technology and the use thereof probably has questionable legal status in China just as much as political speech itself.
Microsoft is probably responsible for most of the vitriol directed at them. They aren't exactly the pinnacle example of ethical business practices or even freedom of choice to do with what you, the customer, owns. Ballmer's been having a chubby (in more ways than one) over how Digital Restriction Management will "revolutionize" operating systems and become a de facto standard, at least in his myopic, distorted view of reality. Perhaps if Microsoft would start cooperating with consumers instead of trying to put them on a leash of proprietary restrictions and limitations and their CEO would stop making retarded comments linking the OSS movement to Communism, nobody would really care less about whether Microsoft exists or not.
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See, when I was a kid, learning was made fun with hip, black rappers in colorful early 1990s clothing dancing on backgrounds animated to look like the covers of the equally-colorful notebooks we carried around (triangles and paint splotches and shapes that look like confetti -- oh my!), singing us about why copying that floppy will amount to the ... END OF THE COMPUTER AGE... mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
This is why I call conservatives socialists -- just like liberals, Big Government is the altruistic, infallible Superman that saves the day, the solution to all your personal complaints with the world, isn't it?
You had a dissenting opinion, that's how.
Bill Gates sounds like one of those pseudo-capitalists who tend to think that corporate subsidies and government regulations are very pro-capitalism, but laissez faire economics and government nonintervention in competition is Marxist liberalism from the Soviet conspiracy.
I wish Ayn Rand were still alive to deliver him a much-needed spanking on his ass until he actually gets it.
No, you're exactly right. I can't help but think this is just a political game, they know we won't give them control, and "they" can use that as "oh, look, yet another example of American arrogance" in the discussions they hold amongst each other.
It's all political smoke-and-mirrors by the usual yapping European bureaucrats and their third-world dictatorship lapdogs who never get anything done except passing meaningless resolutions that blame America and Israel for all the world's problems but never actually achieve anything pragmatic at all.
I am disappointed that we can't have inferior, buggy, unreliable Microsoft software for our Linux systems. Oh, well, I guess I'll have to get over this tragedy in time. ... There, I'm over it.
What also made me a little skeptical was Microsoft, to my knowledge, isn't really a hardware company (not counting the XBox of course). Isn't their speciality in annoying their customers through software, not hardware?
It doesn't look to me like Flock is ripping off 37signals, rather a lack of visual creativity by both sides. Like they're trying so hard at mimicking the minimalist stylings of The Designer's Republic and yet so horribly failing at doing it well.
Heh they had to sour up the humor to it by using the word "juxtaposition" in the About page.
Soccer moms who spend $500 a month at the local mall's Disney Outlet for their 7 underparented kids will probably fall for it.
They also indicate that he knows he's lying out of his ass. He knows everything he says is bullshit, but he's a clever motherfucker who too many people are underestimating.
He's even managed to pull off a dual socialist-nannycrat-yet-right-wing-theocrat image he's got going on. But above all, Jack Thompson knows full well what he's doing, and it shows in his rude behavior towards his critics and detractors; because he knows if he actually engaged anyone in a mature and composed debate, he'd lose some of his footing with the Big Nanny Government politicians in our country.
And that's all Jack Thompson (or any activist on any issue) needs to do to win favor with the Big Nanny Government types -- to just be a flaming activist bullshitter and pander to both sides relentlessly.
Yeah.....
I remember when I was like 11, I thought Maxis could see everything I was doing in SimAnt, since it had a Name/Company registration thing in the game, and that my games were being transmitted to Maxis for some kind of high-score database. My computer had no modem or anything at all in my computer, the only thing plugging it into the wall being the power cable.
Oh I can't wait to get in that car, start pedaling my feet real fast on the ground, and scream "YABBA DABBA DOOOOOOOOOO!" down the highway in that thing.
If the sumo wrestler could eat dog droppings, I wonder if John Waters would sue?
That thing with the exposed brains caught me off guard :\
I'm still thrown into fits of uncontrollable giggles on the sumo wrestler missions.
I was rather optimistic that, considering Sony's previous engagement into reaching a geekdom fanbase, they would be a little more embracing and supportive of the PSP tinkering scene. Somehow I think Sony's going to start acting like babies and toss around the DMCA if this gets too fun, if you know what I mean.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony has some kind of internal feuds of freedom-vs-DRM ideologies between its development team department and its department full of ponytailed marketing guys regarding this issue.
Care to cite a credible source or study to back up that 99.99% figure you claimed?
Some of us have the charisma of Bob Newhart, that's why :-(
Does anyone think "activist judges" would get away with their abuse of authority, if there weren't laws and bureaus in the other two branches of government that equally go overboard in their abuse of authority?
It's almost as if conservatives do this, so they can look forward to complaining and crying "activist judges are deteriorating our country's morals blah blah blah!" when they find out the FBI can't get away with as much power as they want the FBI to have.
Whatever happened to conservatism being an ideology standing for limited government and personal freedoms? Just a pipe dream, so blatantly contradicting their own words with their actions. Just so some fat midwestern housewife voters can shake their fat arms in the air and scream in religious orgasm when they see consenting adults arrested on the 10:00 news.
While I don't have a source offhand, I wouldn't hesitate in guessing that encryption technology and the use thereof probably has questionable legal status in China just as much as political speech itself.
Microsoft is probably responsible for most of the vitriol directed at them. They aren't exactly the pinnacle example of ethical business practices or even freedom of choice to do with what you, the customer, owns. Ballmer's been having a chubby (in more ways than one) over how Digital Restriction Management will "revolutionize" operating systems and become a de facto standard, at least in his myopic, distorted view of reality. Perhaps if Microsoft would start cooperating with consumers instead of trying to put them on a leash of proprietary restrictions and limitations and their CEO would stop making retarded comments linking the OSS movement to Communism, nobody would really care less about whether Microsoft exists or not.
He was kicked in his manhood, and basically his scrotum was split wide open, with one testicle even lying on the ground.
What the hell was he kicked by? A mischevious ninja with wakizashis strapped to the soles of his feet?
And 4chan would be both Sodom and Gomorrah.
The UID was messed up, yeah, but the fact that it never returned any value for a function that was non-void was part of the joke.