I think its actually a perfect example of status anxiety. People were all happy when they were working (or percieved to be working) for the same wage (free) and a measure of equality. But as soon as some were elevated above the others, anxiety took root. Theres a book and a 2004 documentary film on the concept. It really is a perfect example.
I guess the fact that I already PAID multiple times (hl2, then again for CS) does not factor into this at all? Worse yet, If I try and hack the games to remove the ads, they can just take ALL the games I have on steam and invalidate them. I knew I should never put money into steam. They have way too much control over you.
I just really don't see this as valve being anything but greedy. They don't even run the servers that you play on - people buy servers from third party companies! If I ran my own halflife server, and there wasn't a way to disable the ads, id be hopping mad. What is this if not just a straight cash grab by valve. "Hey, we have some unexploited asses here, lets rape them!"
"What is OK for governments to use to fight terrorism"
Ok well to start, you cant fight a philosophy. What you are perhaps asking is that the government do more to fight Criminals. I would say that we have enough laws already to fight criminals. Some would say that this is a brave new world we live in and they need better tools to keep up with the crimes. I disagree that the world has magically changed and that we need to become a police state to fight for security. You will never be secure, because security is a concept of the mind (thats why gun enthusiasts think that they can buy security, they are somewhat right). Even your american founding fathers knew this in what was argueably a more savage and brutal world than the one we live in. They say clearly, dont sacrifice liberty for security, and I think whatever country you live in that thats a good idea. I would suggest that you instead look at the root causes and motivations of these particular criminals. Bin laden has said specifically what he wanted, most notably the USA out of the middle east. Why not start with that?
Are you saying people who do drugs don't live a "normal" life? Why do you feel the need to descriminate against drug users?
Someone posts a non story about dead hookers and you think its perfectly acceptable to make declarations about drug users?
The fascination some slashdotters (ie you) have show^H^H^H trolled for the "drug angle" makes me worry about who I am associating with here, and says far more about the write^H^H^H^H trolls than the victims.
Iptables is shite. Get a netbsd router like pfsense. IPF ftw. As someone pointed out in another thread, iptables tries to be a firewall in about 30 lines where as netbsd's packfilter does it properly with thousands of lines of code.
"So how could additional P2P traffic actually be a good thing for the Internet?"
How is getting any creative work on demand (give or take a day) delivered right into the comfort of your house, NOT what the internet was designed to do? The internet was not designed to be a money making vaccum to suck out peoples wallets. There was a really good film floating around on the gootubes from the late 80s with douglas adams and Tom baker called Hyperland which describes what THEY thought the internet would be. Any guesses whoes ideas line up more with theirs, corporations or mine? I believe they use the phrase "entire knowledge and creative works of mankind at your fingertips". See for yourself
They know they need these kinds of measures because if the US economy starts hardcore tanking and people cant feed themselves or get work, they know that they will turn to revolution out of desperation. This is also why they contracted halliburton to start building massive prison camps. Sadly, this is one of those chicken and egg things. When the americans realize what has happened, they will already be poor and hungry. Before this time, they (will be)/(are) too comfortable to care.
A hungry man is an angry man. If I was american, I would stockpile guns like in terminator 2. Thats the next right to go.
They really should ban religion starting with the dum dum dum gold plate fucking mormons.
"If banning artificial child porn makes child porn hard to come by and thereby dampens the demand for the real thing (or molestation), then it's a great idea."
What a great idea! Worked great for drugs and terrorism right? Because someone decides not to do drugs because of the lack of easy availability. Because someone decides not to ram airplanes into buildings because piloting planes is hard and its against the law. Because someone decides not to molest children because they havent ever seen an image of someone molesting a child. Because people have no inherent desires or motivations and always let external stimuli dictate their decisions.
This my friends is why religion is evil. It makes you think that there are "reasons" for every fucking little thing in the world. It indoctrinates you to think that people are just randomly "corrupted" by magic satan elves or forceably conditioned to believe in different sorts of morals and that morality MUST be programmed into a normal human being, else they dont have any morals. Everything needs to be taught or influenced by something right? Theres no inherent morality? fuck that shit. People are who they are, and you dont need conditioning to turn you good, or turn you bad (if there was even such a thing as good and bad).
I love how with the "commence flaming" you some how feel that you are being repressed by the 'evil majority'. Religion really makes you think persecution always equates with being right eh? Your such a hypocrite too. If your a guy, you masterbate to something. If you say you don't, your lying. No one can keep that much spunk inside of them. It would back up all the way to your brai- oh wait...
"However, do the same thing to someone addicted to alcohol, and they might die. That's real addiction."
Um wow. Are you stupid? How does that make sense at all? You might die by not drinking alcohol? I am an alcoholic (few drinks to a bottle every day) but had no problem stopping for a few weeks after I had surgery. Its called self control. All these so called addictions are just people happier being addicted than they would be not addicted. I certainly didnt die for lack of alcohol. Reality was really fucking boring, and I cleaned my house alot more, but death? Who the fuck even claims that besides you! Seriously. This is the first time I've ever heard that people can die from alcohol withdrawl. Even heroin or ciggarettes withdrawl you dont "die" from. You were obviously modded up by someone, can anyone tell me where he is getting this from???
"but for many mammals and birds, there's much more to behavior than just DNA."
Thats a pretty bold statement to make dont you think? Your basically saying that all animals need to be raised by parents to teach them how to live? Thats not very genetically resiliant and I'd be surprised if it was at all correct. What about dolphins whoes mothers die in childbirth? Do they just sink to the bottom of the river and die because they dont know what food tastes like?
Doesnt make much sense does it. Your DNA has all the tools you need to survive. Behavior is based on your suroundings. It doesnt mean your a new species if you behave differently than other animals based on how you were raised.
A wild west fallen society libertarian dream is depressing? Man.. Depressing is if I have to sit at this desk for the next 50 years paying off debt, acomplishing absolutely nothing, and never having the thrill of driving battle hardended muscle cars over the sun parched alkali flats hearding brahmin, or possibly a zardoz-esque population of sub humans.
But if it's like a canadian cable box its not worth it because you can no longer split the cable to multiple TV's or suites in a building. This is the reason that companies desperately want you to go digital. To stop people from what they've been doing for years, splitting their cable to multiple tv's in one house. Now you need to rent a different box for EVERY tv.
"It is a scam simply because it intends to mislead the consumer by making him beleive that what he's seeing was created by someone who really would like a PSP for Christmas."
So this is unlike all advertising, how exactly?
Do supermodels really eat at mcdonalds? Does the hot 19 year old who gets picked up by the 55 year old in his bimmer really want to sleep with him when shes not getting paid? This guy was paid to say he likes the psp. If it helps your mind any, for the right amount of money lies can become truth. Especially when the lie is "liking" or "wanting" something which is entirely subjective and personal.
All advertising is a evil manipulative trash for the mind. This is just advertising (shudder) 2.0.
"the machine decided at that very exact instant... apparently _after_ I selected shutdown... that it would be a good idea to download and install a system update first!"
Typical luser. You selected "install updates AND THEN shutdown" instead of shutdown. Yes, you telling the computer to do something is really the computers fault.
Yeah right. Theres no such thing as a 10k rpm laptop hard drive. That would be such a waste of the battery no one would do that. Even a "gaming" laptop I would have trouble seeing anything over 7200..
No thats not true. Even VLK has to be activated. Aparently they will be having a machine ala SUS that makes all the authorization attempts for them. They said the activations are like 180 days or so.
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Wow buddy, you sound streesed. How about a drink?
I think its actually a perfect example of status anxiety. People were all happy when they were working (or percieved to be working) for the same wage (free) and a measure of equality. But as soon as some were elevated above the others, anxiety took root. Theres a book and a 2004 documentary film on the concept. It really is a perfect example.
I guess the fact that I already PAID multiple times (hl2, then again for CS) does not factor into this at all? Worse yet, If I try and hack the games to remove the ads, they can just take ALL the games I have on steam and invalidate them. I knew I should never put money into steam. They have way too much control over you.
I just really don't see this as valve being anything but greedy. They don't even run the servers that you play on - people buy servers from third party companies! If I ran my own halflife server, and there wasn't a way to disable the ads, id be hopping mad. What is this if not just a straight cash grab by valve. "Hey, we have some unexploited asses here, lets rape them!"
Ok well to start, you cant fight a philosophy. What you are perhaps asking is that the government do more to fight Criminals. I would say that we have enough laws already to fight criminals. Some would say that this is a brave new world we live in and they need better tools to keep up with the crimes. I disagree that the world has magically changed and that we need to become a police state to fight for security. You will never be secure, because security is a concept of the mind (thats why gun enthusiasts think that they can buy security, they are somewhat right). Even your american founding fathers knew this in what was argueably a more savage and brutal world than the one we live in. They say clearly, dont sacrifice liberty for security, and I think whatever country you live in that thats a good idea. I would suggest that you instead look at the root causes and motivations of these particular criminals. Bin laden has said specifically what he wanted, most notably the USA out of the middle east. Why not start with that?
I would happily pay $35 dollars a month to wear dry fluffy clothes as opposed to damp starchy ones. (currently I pay 1.50 a week for this privelage.)
Are you saying people who do drugs don't live a "normal" life? Why do you feel the need to descriminate against drug users?
Someone posts a non story about dead hookers and you think its perfectly acceptable to make declarations about drug users?
The fascination some slashdotters (ie you) have show^H^H^H trolled for the "drug angle" makes me worry about who I am associating with here, and says far more about the write^H^H^H^H trolls than the victims.
Do you really think you should be legitimzing prison rape by forming a union?
Oh i dunno.. DRM'ed text files that dont open in linux or macos?
DRM = vendor lockin. Microsofts weapon of choice.
ScreenPrint32. Lets you crop while taking a screenshot. Brilliant FREE program. Cannot live without. Snagit costs money.
If its not on soulseek, i'd be surprised. P2P isnt only bittorrent.
Iptables is shite. Get a netbsd router like pfsense. IPF ftw. As someone pointed out in another thread, iptables tries to be a firewall in about 30 lines where as netbsd's packfilter does it properly with thousands of lines of code.
How is getting any creative work on demand (give or take a day) delivered right into the comfort of your house, NOT what the internet was designed to do? The internet was not designed to be a money making vaccum to suck out peoples wallets. There was a really good film floating around on the gootubes from the late 80s with douglas adams and Tom baker called Hyperland which describes what THEY thought the internet would be. Any guesses whoes ideas line up more with theirs, corporations or mine? I believe they use the phrase "entire knowledge and creative works of mankind at your fingertips". See for yourself
They know they need these kinds of measures because if the US economy starts hardcore tanking and people cant feed themselves or get work, they know that they will turn to revolution out of desperation. This is also why they contracted halliburton to start building massive prison camps. Sadly, this is one of those chicken and egg things. When the americans realize what has happened, they will already be poor and hungry. Before this time, they (will be)/(are) too comfortable to care.
A hungry man is an angry man. If I was american, I would stockpile guns like in terminator 2. Thats the next right to go.
But was it linked to all their internet posts, call records, google searches, cel phone tracking for the last 6 months and library records?
What a great idea! Worked great for drugs and terrorism right?
Because someone decides not to do drugs because of the lack of easy availability.
Because someone decides not to ram airplanes into buildings because piloting planes is hard and its against the law.
Because someone decides not to molest children because they havent ever seen an image of someone molesting a child.
Because people have no inherent desires or motivations and always let external stimuli dictate their decisions.
This my friends is why religion is evil. It makes you think that there are "reasons" for every fucking little thing in the world. It indoctrinates you to think that people are just randomly "corrupted" by magic satan elves or forceably conditioned to believe in different sorts of morals and that morality MUST be programmed into a normal human being, else they dont have any morals. Everything needs to be taught or influenced by something right? Theres no inherent morality? fuck that shit. People are who they are, and you dont need conditioning to turn you good, or turn you bad (if there was even such a thing as good and bad).
I love how with the "commence flaming" you some how feel that you are being repressed by the 'evil majority'. Religion really makes you think persecution always equates with being right eh? Your such a hypocrite too. If your a guy, you masterbate to something. If you say you don't, your lying. No one can keep that much spunk inside of them. It would back up all the way to your brai-
oh wait...
Um wow. Are you stupid? How does that make sense at all? You might die by not drinking alcohol? I am an alcoholic (few drinks to a bottle every day) but had no problem stopping for a few weeks after I had surgery. Its called self control. All these so called addictions are just people happier being addicted than they would be not addicted. I certainly didnt die for lack of alcohol. Reality was really fucking boring, and I cleaned my house alot more, but death? Who the fuck even claims that besides you! Seriously. This is the first time I've ever heard that people can die from alcohol withdrawl. Even heroin or ciggarettes withdrawl you dont "die" from. You were obviously modded up by someone, can anyone tell me where he is getting this from???
You don't know many smokers do you.. Almost every person I know that smokes knows that they "should" quit.
Thats a pretty bold statement to make dont you think? Your basically saying that all animals need to be raised by parents to teach them how to live? Thats not very genetically resiliant and I'd be surprised if it was at all correct. What about dolphins whoes mothers die in childbirth? Do they just sink to the bottom of the river and die because they dont know what food tastes like?
Doesnt make much sense does it. Your DNA has all the tools you need to survive. Behavior is based on your suroundings. It doesnt mean your a new species if you behave differently than other animals based on how you were raised.
A wild west fallen society libertarian dream is depressing? Man.. Depressing is if I have to sit at this desk for the next 50 years paying off debt, acomplishing absolutely nothing, and never having the thrill of driving battle hardended muscle cars over the sun parched alkali flats hearding brahmin, or possibly a zardoz-esque population of sub humans.
Do you even know what happiness is?
But if it's like a canadian cable box its not worth it because you can no longer split the cable to multiple TV's or suites in a building. This is the reason that companies desperately want you to go digital. To stop people from what they've been doing for years, splitting their cable to multiple tv's in one house. Now you need to rent a different box for EVERY tv.
And I am 100% sure that un drmed mp3s and divx files will be. Why even take a 1% chance? Dont be optimistic when you can be sure.
So this is unlike all advertising, how exactly?
Do supermodels really eat at mcdonalds? Does the hot 19 year old who gets picked up by the 55 year old in his bimmer really want to sleep with him when shes not getting paid? This guy was paid to say he likes the psp. If it helps your mind any, for the right amount of money lies can become truth. Especially when the lie is "liking" or "wanting" something which is entirely subjective and personal.
All advertising is a evil manipulative trash for the mind. This is just advertising (shudder) 2.0.
Typical luser. You selected "install updates AND THEN shutdown" instead of shutdown. Yes, you telling the computer to do something is really the computers fault.
Yeah right. Theres no such thing as a 10k rpm laptop hard drive. That would be such a waste of the battery no one would do that. Even a "gaming" laptop I would have trouble seeing anything over 7200..
No thats not true. Even VLK has to be activated. Aparently they will be having a machine ala SUS that makes all the authorization attempts for them. They said the activations are like 180 days or so.