"Adults have more disposable income than children, moreso if they're single"
that makes no sense. how can having two incomes make you have less disposable income than if you had one? two is still greater than one yes? on top of that, you get to split the rent.
I very frequently see topics discussed on slashdot appear in the new yorker. THey most definately have someone trawling slashdot for stories. I cant remember if i ever mentioned it before, but pretty much any technical computer related story has alot of points lifted off of this site.
They frequently quote the EFF as well and ive seen a number of articles on the philosphies and concepts of open source. Its pretty much the most well written magazine out there. It must be nice just trawling slashdot for comments and then copyright infringing them into a piece you get paid for. I dont figure i own what i say on here anyways and id rather have the readership of the new yorker have a better understanding than any vanity i could care to derive. Wish i had that kind of job.
their website is also very well done and their are plenty of free articles offered.
". Freedom of expression, and the Press, unless someone's spending money on it, in which case we'll install campaign-finance laws."
Are you arguing for the freedom to be left alone when being corrupt?
Well i understand that people should be free to poison their bodies with high fat mcdonalds foods, and poison their air with ciggarettes, I certainly dont want these people living their lives like that and then living off the healthcare system that i pay into. Same with bribing politicians. How could you argue that people should be free to do things that hurt society, and yet still be an active part of that society?
I dont think smokers should be covered by the health care system, becuase if thats your choice, im not paying to keep you alive. Sure have your freedom, but dont think that society has to live with you.
"RUSH THE INDEPENDENT THINKER AND PROVE HER RIGHT"
Libertarianism as independent thought in the states? why dont you try proposing socialized medicine or governement run insurance companies and expereince what its like to be completely out of the ballpark of all american mainstream thought. libertarianism is just a small deviation from main stream american conservatism as well as american liberalism. you want independent thought in the states? go talk to noam chomsky.
Ewido and hijack this, when both run in safe mode (with networking so you can get updates), cleans them up once and for all. I have yet to encounter anything that persisted after these two steps were taken and an antivirus package was installed on the machine. Anything remaining after that point is probably a semi ligitimate (borderline adware) system service or some sort of hard to detect rootkit. At the risk of being flamed, i would recomend the Norton AV Corp 10x series from symantec. Its corportate so none of the gay activation or useless slow features and in this release they have started to detect certain spyware as viruses. Most people are turned off of symantec for there absolutely garbage horid products such as NIS. Symantec is a big company and their corporate shit has been for the most part reliable.
The most important thing is to do all this in safe mode. Most people dont even do that so what can you do?
Your gonna want to change all those 127.0.0.1 's to 0.0.0.0 as it doesnt even try and go to the localhost and just drops the request if you put 0's in.
works alot faster, also if you have a webserver on your local machine it doesnt throw up errors.
Perhaps the lack of ads will drive people to consume less and there will be less useless websites out there. I dont recall ever seeing an ad on wikipedia for instance, and alot of pages just rip that content out and put it on their own page. How many redundant websites exsist? how many blogs that say the same exact things, or do like pipiquail and linkjack others content?
perhaps there are too many pages for the market to bare. of course when you tell advertising people that, they would just look for ways to enlarge the market. This is flawed thinking. We should be moving to less products and redundancy and not more. Why are there 50 brands of shampoo in the grocery store? its waste and i will not subsidise it.
does anyone have a direct link? that site makes my eyes sore with content. i tried to look around for about 10 minutes but couldnt see any link to the video feed anywhere. Might be interesting to check out for 10 minutes or something.
Anyone got a direct link or could point me in the direction of the video feed page?
"I was able to find out quite a bit about him and his immediate family. Even dug up a picture that might be of him, she wasn't pleased when I said that as she had never been sent a picture. Seems they weren't that cozy after all."
Wow. Im sure thats why she dumped you, not becuase she found you secretly investigating her friends. So you did all the 133t h4xxing of looking at facesofwow.com congrats. Amazing. Its simply amazing how people can convince themselves they arent a shady stalker and the girl in question is actually the one that made the mistake.
A relationship is built on trust, not driving by her house every day at 11 at night to make sure shes home. Oh and you might be interested to know that i did a little digging as well. I found your personal blog as well as a current photo.
you have a metre long monitor kb and mouse cables?
( i know they exsist but how many people purchase extenders? )
grandparent is exactly what I thought. except for the fringe people that hide the PC in a closet 3 rooms over from where they actually are working, most computers are either on or under a desk. definately alot less than a metre away.
3 step install? one click interaction? You realize that windows doesnt even install that easy right? Its an OS install. it shouldnt be as easy as installing MSN, or people will start fucking themselves. no prompting for formatting hard drives? yeah that will work real well.
last time i installed fedora, it seemed mighty simple to me. The only tricky part was selecting what packages you really _need_. Windows just installs all the packages it has, but since linux is not just the OS files, that would take up a ton of space. Whats so hard about linux installs? its the afterwards configuration that always takes me the time. Even that using something like webmin is pretty damn easy to get default configs up and running.
"and the banter between characters and between characters and NPCs is better than that in most fantasy novels."
pure curiosity as i have never played dnd but wouldnt an "NPC" be text off a piece of paper? Do they use audio cassets with pre recorded medievil voices? Im kind of picturing the board game nightmare right now.
"They're not robots. They're your son, your niece, your little brother, caught up in a horrible situation not of their own making. Don't take your anger out on them. Save it for the evil old men who never exposed themselves to that kind of horror, who would never allow their own children to go through it, who casually, thoughtlessly, cheerfully send other people's kids off to hell."
with all due respect, if these "sons, neices and little brothers" are american, they (or their families) voted for these old men TWICE. americans actually have a chance to stop their government doing these evil things, that non american citizens can ony dream about. time and time again its been shown that most americans just dont give a fuck who the CIA is covertly torturing this year. so fuck them. you made your bed, now you die in it.
"This is a game. Maybe it's a fun game, but it's just a game"
You never spent days building your chars, only to have some pompous admin come and smack you down. it burns, and its happened to quite a few people i know. not for macroing, but they can ban you for just negative chat. i had one friend who was banned for swearing at another player. thats it. all his hard work, +1 line of text = ban. how you could ever get banned from anything just for speech is a crime, but as you say:
"They are, quite literally, the gods of WoW."
The issue isnt that they have power, the issue is that they are using it very irresponsibly. His is a bit more of a grey area and he was a complete n00b for actually admiting to them that he was macroing. But the point still stands. WoW Gms are anything but benevolent, so i would generally always side with the player in these sorts of disputes as it could easily tommorrow be me.
"Huh? How about freedom to keep what I earn and use it to pay for my own medical insurance of my choice?" and the freedom to have insurance companies think your too much of a risk and not insure you.
"Freedom to not run across the border to have to use a doctor of my choice?" and the freedom to have to illegally export the drugs that doctor tells you to take from another country to the north because big pharma thinks americans should be charged more.
"Freedom to not be poor through the sweat of my brow?" Thats called "working". something most everyone has to do.
"They're breaking apart as they become more and more like us!" america is not breaking apart. mr klein please stop trolling slashdot.
"If you write a 20 page paper and turn in for a course and get an A, then someone photocopies your paper and turns it in and also gets an A are they doing something wrong or unethical?"
When i start claiming that i wrote the new metalica album, then your example would make sense. People arent passing off other peoples work as their own, they are merely disseminating other peoples content, almost always with credit to the original author. Thats why when you download an episode of lost it doesnt say "Churla's magic island of doom.avi" it says "lost.avi". IF you tried to pass off an episode of lost as your creation people would laugh at you. in other words, your analogy falls very far short.
Considering the rest of your post seems to be random words thrown together, i think we are done here.
"since getting WoW I raid about 4 hours a night or so after work" and "You don't have to be a hardcore WoW player necessarily for it to take most of your leisure time up."
This is what people dont understand about wow. 4 hours a day is *not* considered by most, to be a hardcore player. IMHO hardcore would be 8+ hours a day, and i know plenty who play for that length of time. The grand parent clearly has never played wow or they would realize that their arent any other games once you get into that one.
if by "blowing away" you mean: - no link from the frontpage so i have to do two searches when i know i only want images - horrible laggy popup "thumbnail" that when you click on it, goes to the cache of the page a third of which is taken up by whitepspace and useless ms menus and crap. - home pgup and down work but end doesnt? hows that for consistancy! - incredibly laggy and slow, probably because as someone else mentioned, its retartedly loading things on the fly. try scrolling down that left image pane. impossible. the scrollbar just sort of sticks there untill the images load up..
bravo ms you actually made searching slower. who the hell wants on the fly results? maybe it saves bandwidth but come on.
"Why has this concept been limited to MMOs? It could work in any sport, game, or competitive activity you can think of. "
the problem is that your analogies compare wow to other games, clearly you should be comparing it to life. whats the worlds number 1 most competitive activity? living!
and as we all know, you can buy your way up in that game, so i dont see why wow should be any different. some people get their enjoyment from buying a new sports car or epic mount. some others log on to see friends and interact.. mostly, and this is why i keep playing, people like to kill one another. no matter what your level of skill in pvp, you can always find someone to gank. just like (ideal) real life...
"My character has solid gear for someone whose guild doesn't run the 40-man instances"
and there you go. thats why you dont get what hes saying. *brs brd dm etc are all instances where you are still "leveling up" or "gearing up" they arent endgame instances. theres a big difference between someone who just turned 60 and someones whoes geared up. those 40 man raids that take 4 hours every day to do, are what hes saying, "tiny opaque carrots" or whatever he said. One day you will wake up to find that you are "farming" mc for hours, day after day, and you will understand what he means. Everything he said was spot on. Thats why personally, i find it more rewarding to level alts and pk n00bs then doing all that endgame MC/bwl shit. Been there done that and it was mindnumbingly dull.
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"Adults have more disposable income than children, moreso if they're single"
that makes no sense. how can having two incomes make you have less disposable income than if you had one? two is still greater than one yes? on top of that, you get to split the rent.
I very frequently see topics discussed on slashdot appear in the new yorker. THey most definately have someone trawling slashdot for stories. I cant remember if i ever mentioned it before, but pretty much any technical computer related story has alot of points lifted off of this site.
They frequently quote the EFF as well and ive seen a number of articles on the philosphies and concepts of open source. Its pretty much the most well written magazine out there. It must be nice just trawling slashdot for comments and then copyright infringing them into a piece you get paid for. I dont figure i own what i say on here anyways and id rather have the readership of the new yorker have a better understanding than any vanity i could care to derive. Wish i had that kind of job.
their website is also very well done and their are plenty of free articles offered.
"I firmly believe that pornographic materials shouldn't be sold in supermarkets and to 11 year olds."
and yet most supermarkets sell water guns, cap guns, etc. Porn is the least evil thing in the world. people need to grow the fuck up.
". Freedom of expression, and the Press, unless someone's spending money on it, in which case we'll install campaign-finance laws."
Are you arguing for the freedom to be left alone when being corrupt?
Well i understand that people should be free to poison their bodies with high fat mcdonalds foods, and poison their air with ciggarettes, I certainly dont want these people living their lives like that and then living off the healthcare system that i pay into. Same with bribing politicians. How could you argue that people should be free to do things that hurt society, and yet still be an active part of that society?
I dont think smokers should be covered by the health care system, becuase if thats your choice, im not paying to keep you alive. Sure have your freedom, but dont think that society has to live with you.
"RUSH THE INDEPENDENT THINKER AND PROVE HER RIGHT"
Libertarianism as independent thought in the states? why dont you try proposing socialized medicine or governement run insurance companies and expereince what its like to be completely out of the ballpark of all american mainstream thought. libertarianism is just a small deviation from main stream american conservatism as well as american liberalism. you want independent thought in the states? go talk to noam chomsky.
Ewido and hijack this, when both run in safe mode (with networking so you can get updates), cleans them up once and for all. I have yet to encounter anything that persisted after these two steps were taken and an antivirus package was installed on the machine. Anything remaining after that point is probably a semi ligitimate (borderline adware) system service or some sort of hard to detect rootkit. At the risk of being flamed, i would recomend the Norton AV Corp 10x series from symantec. Its corportate so none of the gay activation or useless slow features and in this release they have started to detect certain spyware as viruses. Most people are turned off of symantec for there absolutely garbage horid products such as NIS. Symantec is a big company and their corporate shit has been for the most part reliable.
The most important thing is to do all this in safe mode. Most people dont even do that so what can you do?
Your gonna want to change all those 127.0.0.1 's to 0.0.0.0 as it doesnt even try and go to the localhost and just drops the request if you put 0's in.
works alot faster, also if you have a webserver on your local machine it doesnt throw up errors.
Perhaps the lack of ads will drive people to consume less and there will be less useless websites out there. I dont recall ever seeing an ad on wikipedia for instance, and alot of pages just rip that content out and put it on their own page. How many redundant websites exsist? how many blogs that say the same exact things, or do like pipiquail and linkjack others content?
perhaps there are too many pages for the market to bare. of course when you tell advertising people that, they would just look for ways to enlarge the market. This is flawed thinking. We should be moving to less products and redundancy and not more. Why are there 50 brands of shampoo in the grocery store? its waste and i will not subsidise it.
really? wow. thats a real new low.
i must be new here i guess.
does anyone have a direct link? that site makes my eyes sore with content. i tried to look around for about 10 minutes but couldnt see any link to the video feed anywhere. Might be interesting to check out for 10 minutes or something.
Anyone got a direct link or could point me in the direction of the video feed page?
"I was able to find out quite a bit about him and his immediate family.
Even dug up a picture that might be of him, she wasn't pleased when I said that as she had never been sent a picture. Seems they weren't that cozy after all."
Wow. Im sure thats why she dumped you, not becuase she found you secretly investigating her friends. So you did all the 133t h4xxing of looking at facesofwow.com congrats. Amazing. Its simply amazing how people can convince themselves they arent a shady stalker and the girl in question is actually the one that made the mistake.
A relationship is built on trust, not driving by her house every day at 11 at night to make sure shes home. Oh and you might be interested to know that i did a little digging as well. I found your personal blog as well as a current photo.
wow replying to yourself as AC because no one will talk to you because your a loser. must be just like real life then eh?
"Taking the exam costs $420."
rofl
you have a metre long monitor kb and mouse cables?
( i know they exsist but how many people purchase extenders? )
grandparent is exactly what I thought. except for the fringe people that hide the PC in a closet 3 rooms over from where they actually are working, most computers are either on or under a desk. definately alot less than a metre away.
3 step install? one click interaction? You realize that windows doesnt even install that easy right? Its an OS install. it shouldnt be as easy as installing MSN, or people will start fucking themselves. no prompting for formatting hard drives? yeah that will work real well.
last time i installed fedora, it seemed mighty simple to me. The only tricky part was selecting what packages you really _need_. Windows just installs all the packages it has, but since linux is not just the OS files, that would take up a ton of space. Whats so hard about linux installs? its the afterwards configuration that always takes me the time. Even that using something like webmin is pretty damn easy to get default configs up and running.
"and the banter between characters and between characters and NPCs is better than that in most fantasy novels."
pure curiosity as i have never played dnd but wouldnt an "NPC" be text off a piece of paper? Do they use audio cassets with pre recorded medievil voices? Im kind of picturing the board game nightmare right now.
"I can make rice, only because she told me what to do once"
1) bring water to boil
2) measure and add rice in a 2:1 ratio of water to rice
3) remove from heat cover and stir occasionally till water is absorbed
YOU JUST MADE RICE THE EASIEST POSSIBLE THING TO MAKE
how some of you people survive at all is a complete mystery
"They're not robots. They're your son, your niece, your little brother, caught up in a horrible situation not of their own making. Don't take your anger out on them. Save it for the evil old men who never exposed themselves to that kind of horror, who would never allow their own children to go through it, who casually, thoughtlessly, cheerfully send other people's kids off to hell."
with all due respect, if these "sons, neices and little brothers" are american, they (or their families) voted for these old men TWICE. americans actually have a chance to stop their government doing these evil things, that non american citizens can ony dream about. time and time again its been shown that most americans just dont give a fuck who the CIA is covertly torturing this year. so fuck them. you made your bed, now you die in it.
"This is a game. Maybe it's a fun game, but it's just a game"
You never spent days building your chars, only to have some pompous admin come and smack you down. it burns, and its happened to quite a few people i know. not for macroing, but they can ban you for just negative chat. i had one friend who was banned for swearing at another player. thats it. all his hard work, +1 line of text = ban. how you could ever get banned from anything just for speech is a crime, but as you say:
"They are, quite literally, the gods of WoW."
The issue isnt that they have power, the issue is that they are using it very irresponsibly. His is a bit more of a grey area and he was a complete n00b for actually admiting to them that he was macroing. But the point still stands.
WoW Gms are anything but benevolent, so i would generally always side with the player in these sorts of disputes as it could easily tommorrow be me.
"Huh? How about freedom to keep what I earn and use it to pay for my own medical insurance of my choice?"
and the freedom to have insurance companies think your too much of a risk and not insure you.
"Freedom to not run across the border to have to use a doctor of my choice?"
and the freedom to have to illegally export the drugs that doctor tells you to take from another country to the north because big pharma thinks americans should be charged more.
"Freedom to not be poor through the sweat of my brow?"
Thats called "working". something most everyone has to do.
"They're breaking apart as they become more and more like us!"
america is not breaking apart. mr klein please stop trolling slashdot.
"If you write a 20 page paper and turn in for a course and get an A, then someone photocopies your paper and turns it in and also gets an A are they doing something wrong or unethical?"
When i start claiming that i wrote the new metalica album, then your example would make sense. People arent passing off other peoples work as their own, they are merely disseminating other peoples content, almost always with credit to the original author. Thats why when you download an episode of lost it doesnt say "Churla's magic island of doom.avi" it says "lost.avi". IF you tried to pass off an episode of lost as your creation people would laugh at you. in other words, your analogy falls very far short.
Considering the rest of your post seems to be random words thrown together, i think we are done here.
"since getting WoW I raid about 4 hours a night or so after work" and "You don't have to be a hardcore WoW player necessarily for it to take most of your leisure time up."
This is what people dont understand about wow. 4 hours a day is *not* considered by most, to be a hardcore player. IMHO hardcore would be 8+ hours a day, and i know plenty who play for that length of time. The grand parent clearly has never played wow or they would realize that their arent any other games once you get into that one.
"The image search is also blowing Google's away."
if by "blowing away" you mean:
- no link from the frontpage so i have to do two searches when i know i only want images
- horrible laggy popup "thumbnail" that when you click on it, goes to the cache of the page a third of which is taken up by whitepspace and useless ms menus and crap.
- home pgup and down work but end doesnt? hows that for consistancy!
- incredibly laggy and slow, probably because as someone else mentioned, its retartedly loading things on the fly. try scrolling down that left image pane. impossible. the scrollbar just sort of sticks there untill the images load up..
bravo ms you actually made searching slower. who the hell wants on the fly results? maybe it saves bandwidth but come on.
The home key works, as do pg up and down but the end key doesnt work? WTF?
"Why has this concept been limited to MMOs? It could work in any sport, game, or competitive activity you can think of. "
the problem is that your analogies compare wow to other games, clearly you should be comparing it to life. whats the worlds number 1 most competitive activity? living!
and as we all know, you can buy your way up in that game, so i dont see why wow should be any different. some people get their enjoyment from buying a new sports car or epic mount. some others log on to see friends and interact.. mostly, and this is why i keep playing, people like to kill one another. no matter what your level of skill in pvp, you can always find someone to gank. just like (ideal) real life...
"My character has solid gear for someone whose guild doesn't run the 40-man instances"
and there you go. thats why you dont get what hes saying. *brs brd dm etc are all instances where you are still "leveling up" or "gearing up" they arent endgame instances. theres a big difference between someone who just turned 60 and someones whoes geared up. those 40 man raids that take 4 hours every day to do, are what hes saying, "tiny opaque carrots" or whatever he said. One day you will wake up to find that you are "farming" mc for hours, day after day, and you will understand what he means. Everything he said was spot on. Thats why personally, i find it more rewarding to level alts and pk n00bs then doing all that endgame MC/bwl shit. Been there done that and it was mindnumbingly dull.