"Now I go around the world as a consultant fixing problems. Kind of like Macgyver"
all the "consultants" i have ever met were more like old over paid fakes who struggled for a while on a problem, then asked me, and i came up with a quick solution. in this sense i think you are more like matlock.
fuck you bitch. if you have a car and drive it drunk, is it my fault if you hit me? FUCK NO
if your a stupid fuck who didnt learn how to conduct yourself properly in your environment, whoes fault is that?. I have explained to people 4 or 5 times (or more) how to do various things. its not ignorance, its pure and simple - lazy noncaring ellitism by the majority. they figure that they acomplish sooo damn much with their lives that a small thing like learning how to use a tool is beneath them... computer people are the most patient non confrontational people i have ever met. the problem is the (l)users that just complain and bitch and want their hand held all the way thru everything. i am mostly speaking about over 30 users here, which hopefully will obsolete themselves as the internet generation becomes dominant.
people want this like magic box that does everything imagineable (how do i download movies off the internet for free!!! my friend does it!!!... what do you mean i have to download a codec???? this is too complicated.. my gawd, i thought you said this was easy.)
hello STUPID FUCK everything takes some amount of effort. if your not willing to learn then suck my balls.
pardon my french but i just got home from a really annoying service call.
"Games? Why? If games are what draws people to a system, then people are going to buy game consoles. That's why game consoles sell so well."
no games are the only reason i dont use linux on the desktop right now. and trust me i would *love* to switch completely over. you do know that theres a big big big devide between console gamers (locked in system, games getting gradually obsolete, stupid innefcient controllers) and PC gamers (upgrade system to run better, play mp3s while playing games, multitasking on same machine, etc) plus there are those of us who dont even have televisions so.
weither you like it or not, games are what drives pc desktop sales. not word proccessing apps or digital camera compatability. this is because you can buy a 3 year old system that will do those things quite well.
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um IMDB *does* do tv shows. thats why you can search for knight rider, star trek, or the family guy and have it return results. i know you were just trying for an early post, because thats what gets you free karma but um.. try a bit harder mmmkay
because the government NEEDS the hot springs. Millions of peoples go every year to the yellowstone to bathe in the hot springs. they are infected with various diseases (varries by year), in order to conduct wide-spread Genetic Trials on the populace. The goal? Well their short term goals consist of building a database using the peverted bacterium nucleosis. A terrible gene that affects the ability of the cel to produce the lesser know substance from its cousin -RNA. when this RNA bankrupt gene bonds with the cells it slowly affects their homeostasis. once this is acomplished, it is mere SLIGHT OF HAND to take a drop of blood, analyze it and pull up a file on ANY PERSON IN THE USA.
Longterm goals are unclear. they are reciving funding from major fortune 500 companies, in order to get the industry in place. as more and more industry falls under their control (the puppets who hold the scythe over your head) the "men in red", will enter into a long standing war. this war will be on the "bad" genes. once it discovers them -- using sites like yellowstone ntl park (there are also MANY sites in NEW ZELAND) -- it will slowly introduce cancer spreading toxins -- weeding out the inferior.
i suggest you take THAT up with your official park ranger go now.
wow you actually think all that? damn it makes me wonder if my fantasy's are real or not. umm there are SO MANY societal opportunities for Loosing.. trust me on this.. sports is the least useful way to loose becuase its so clear cut. you win, you loose. life isnt like that. its all shades of grey.
sometimes people have thoughts and ideas that sports-industrial-complex suppresses and fears. why do you like sports? odds are that you connected with a family memeber who watched them. you use it as a way to bond and spend time with people. ok fine. but anything could be like that - could be turned into a science - it just has to have some sort of social adhesives as well. like religion or staring at a wall. you can easily form groups around any thing. why pick sports? becuase its the most popular? thats silly. thats like picking reality tv shows or oprah to base your relationships around. that to me is the sadest part.
with a nod to the 20+ fp comments that say, "switch to ogg, i want to marry ogg, omg i saw oggs boobies!!" i dont think mp3s are going anywhere. Why would this do anything at all? people with drm mp3s share them - and once you find out, you dont download off of them. it takes what a minute or less to download an mp3?
what they are saying is that people will buy DRM'd mp3s, enmasse. Why oh why would they do that? if i wanted crippled, i would download WMA's or ituney music. And im sure people will love trying to get their DRM'd mp3s to work in their 5 year old mp3 car stereo.
if their not labeled differently, all this will do is add more clutter to P2P networks, making people swtch to less cluttered p2p networks.
um nirvana will always rock. its 2004 and if someone came to me and said "What are you guys doing? Listening to Nirvana?" i'd say HELL YEAH BIATCH and then i'd pass them fatty and then they would say 'word'.
but im sure the bare naked ladies or the limp bisket or whatever you were listening to was alot cooler.
"Yeah, because they'd NEVER have thought of it themselves! (rolls eyes)"
but now they have no choice.
i thought this thread was to discuss what, if any, reason the usa has to put weapons into space. the only reason to be armed is out of paranoia and fear. the cold war was all about fear, so is this. his post is right on topic.
maybe you should look up the fight or flight mentality. that really applies to animals and i think were a weee bit better than that.
your post is so american - its astounding. do you honestly believe your any different than a terrorist? that any human being is different from another? you have to honestly think, what would it take for you to blow up buildings? jealousy of the great USA(TM) or that the usa has bombed your country for years and you have a very long memory. the american public continues blissfully unaware, and they have no reason to care. you think - ill make them pay attention. ill make them acknowledge that they have to be responsible for the actions of their government. thats the thinking behind people like osama. its not we are attacking freedom(tm) like your govt has hammered into your head. everyone wants freedom.
you have been brainwashed by the religious powers that have shaped the world for the last 2000 years. there is no such thing as good and evil, black and white - only shades of grey.
"until the philosophy that holds one race supperior, is finaly and perminantly abandoned, everywhere is war" - bob marley/marcus garvey
WOW dell intel AND apple said that floppys are dying?? why dont you go out into the real world instead of just labeling things dead based on some very overhyped companies.
but im sure youve never had to fix a computer with a broken cd rom drive, or a early pentium thats running a whole organizations firewall, or ever had the need for a rewriteable, pretty much universally accepted, technology.. noo that didnt occur to mr mac elitest...
its really sad. the floppy drive, albiet old, slow, and ugly still has quite a place. unless you want to buy every old person with a pentium 3 and no cd burner a new pc. its a self contained read/write technology, for transfering small amounts of files, to any computer made since the mid 80s. perhaps you should actually go out there and realize that while in your circles maybe everyone has the latest gee wizz coloured box, the reality is that there is no real replacement for the floppy. name one that satisfies all ive said and ill concede defeat.
oh and pretending to be intelligent by correcting peoples spelling is just about the most nitpicky, elitest thing you can do. so congrats. i notice you called me a troll as well, also very envogue these days.
i dont know.. when i read that book, being a big gibson fan, i thought it was mostly a let down. they kept building the subplot of her father up so much that you knew he had to come back at the end. But it didnt come back to him. It just sort of became some story about some russian girls who werent even involved in sex. I thought at least the end should have some meaning. Unless he meant for it to have a sequel (possible i guess), the book itself made me feel like i just wasted my time.
nothing was really acomplished and there weren't any real insights at all gained on anything. maybe because he was writing about the present day instead of the future, or maybe because he was traumatized by sept 11th, who knows. I didnt really see the point in basing so much of the book on sept 11th anyways. it seemed tacked on.
The main character, was like a last refugee from the dot com bubble. i remember her just walking in, saying yes or no to things and then getting a huge check and going home to her studio apartment. it seems like he wrote half of it before sept 11th and then added a bunch more to it after.
"Somehow I think this will push them to b), and I sure wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of the next $97 billion lawsuit... $97 million, billion, trillion, kazillion is kinda irrelevant at that point anyway."
exactly. so how could you ever pay it? so what, a significant amount of the USA gets their wages garnished to pay the RIAA? people will really stand for that. more likely than option b, option c would be that 1 or 2 of said people crack and go on killing sprees - because basically their life has been ruined and they want to go out in a blaze of glory.
all it takes is one mass murder to really change americas mind on things - havent you learned anything:)
well i see they took the same amount of time and effort as you did. do you actually know what a number with 34 zeros behind it is called?? no? well then. shut the fuck up - it is in the clearest possible format for most people.
oh and i did bother to google for it and the first result tells me that it is 10 decilion to americans, or 10 000 quintillion to the rest of the world.
dont just bitch, actually try and learn something - its not hard.
canada isnt socialist*. It values people and treats them equally. It tries to give things like healthcare to everyone equally. Canada doesn't suck up to coperations as much as they do down south.
Im not surprised at all this has been put into law. Privacy is a right that all citizens have equally.
*Socialism, often confused with communism (i think you meant it negatively), is not a bad thing. Its the middle ground between capitalism and communism.
The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.
"replaced it with the genetic material of skin cells (presumably from an adult, but that wasn't clear)"
didnt you see boys from brazil? thats EXACTLY what they did, and that was in the 70s!!
"Good point. The difference is that the cells destroyed monthly would be considered "natural" whereas the cloning process is "unnatural". For many, this is probably unimportant, but there are some who possess religious or philosophical beliefs that would greatly oppose this. It's something we have to at least be sensitive to, even if we don't agree with their viewpoint."
well i dont have to be sensetive to racists and bigots, why should i be sensitive to someone who is equally ignorant? its like saying oh well because of these peoples religion, they are allowed kill women who have exposed faces. I dont think we should support those kinds of people at all. I would say that being 'sensitive' to something is just another way of saying that you support it, at least on some level.
I dont know what organizations or types of people would be against this. I can see religious right type folks not wanting to use aborted featuses, but i'm pretty sure thats because a) they dont agree with abortion, and b) becuse a fetus is quite a bit more human than an unfertilized egg.
are you saying that there is some group out there who specifically says that humans shouldnt use anything that comes out of a woman, or a man, for any purpose other than what... natural sex? they already harvest eggs and sperm for use in other people. how is this different?
if you actually did find a hole, wouldnt it be lot more profitable to wait till the os is deployed worldwide and then exploit it?
i didnt RTFA but the blurb said nothing of compensation if someone did crack it. IF there is a bounty, im sure its not as much as one would make cracking a bank a year from now.
"So do I think violent games make normal people violent? No. I do not have desire to go killing people for money or fun in real life but then I do not have that desire in games either. I do not kill someone in an rpg just to get some extra credits or deny someone in need credits even if it doesn't give experience points. I hate the goodness rating as it is more accuratly not being a complete asshole rating. "
sounds like someone got pk'd.:P
"Unarmed girl begs for her life and you kill her for 300 credits wich in game is about 1 clip of ammo? Game should not give you points for not killing her, instead the door should burst open the moment you raise your gun and you are shotdown in a hail of fire by the real hero of the game. Then it should lock the controls and you can watch the real hero complete the quest. "
Yeah you'd have people lineing up to play that game for sure! you could name it something like "the elitest world of unrealistic boring dreams". honestly whats more fun than masacaring someone when their reloading or lagged?
"So if you play GTA and kill a minimum of people and do professianal job then perhaps you are unaffected by the game play. If you go putting holes in their body parts to make them die slowly or gain extra gore well then excuse me while I call the padded wagon to take you away."
oh ok. so if your a professional killer, training to be a professional killer than thats fine. but if your just a gamer looking for a laugh or trying to test the game mechanics, your a psychopath. do you ever have any fun at all?
its a game. if people waged pretend wars, i believe that would eliminate the bloodlust for real wars. its like those people who are treated for fears of heights in a simulator. they recieve their stimulation artificially.
you my friend are the person in this thread who sounds like hes closer to snapping then any of the pro game people who are just trying to have a good time. its when you take it seriously, as you are doing, that it begins negatively affecting you. as it seems to be.
"I wanna play a dirty old knight in slightly rusty armor!"
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"Now I go around the world as a consultant fixing problems. Kind of like Macgyver"
all the "consultants" i have ever met were more like old over paid fakes who struggled for a while on a problem, then asked me, and i came up with a quick solution. in this sense i think you are more like matlock.
if your a stupid fuck who didnt learn how to conduct yourself properly in your environment, whoes fault is that?. I have explained to people 4 or 5 times (or more) how to do various things. its not ignorance, its pure and simple - lazy noncaring ellitism by the majority. they figure that they acomplish sooo damn much with their lives that a small thing like learning how to use a tool is beneath them... computer people are the most patient non confrontational people i have ever met. the problem is the (l)users that just complain and bitch and want their hand held all the way thru everything. i am mostly speaking about over 30 users here, which hopefully will obsolete themselves as the internet generation becomes dominant.
people want this like magic box that does everything imagineable (how do i download movies off the internet for free!!! my friend does it!!!... what do you mean i have to download a codec???? this is too complicated.. my gawd, i thought you said this was easy.)
hello STUPID FUCK everything takes some amount of effort. if your not willing to learn then suck my balls.
pardon my french but i just got home from a really annoying service call.
"Games? Why? If games are what draws people to a system, then people are going to buy game consoles. That's why game consoles sell so well."
no games are the only reason i dont use linux on the desktop right now. and trust me i would *love* to switch completely over. you do know that theres a big big big devide between console gamers (locked in system, games getting gradually obsolete, stupid innefcient controllers) and PC gamers (upgrade system to run better, play mp3s while playing games, multitasking on same machine, etc) plus there are those of us who dont even have televisions so.
weither you like it or not, games are what drives pc desktop sales. not word proccessing apps or digital camera compatability. this is because you can buy a 3 year old system that will do those things quite well.
dude thats super cool im going to start wearing my grandfathers old ww2 medals around. that my friend is a trend i can reprezent!
because the government NEEDS the hot springs. Millions of peoples go every year to the yellowstone to bathe in the hot springs. they are infected with various diseases (varries by year), in order to conduct wide-spread Genetic Trials on the populace. The goal? Well their short term goals consist of building a database using the peverted bacterium nucleosis. A terrible gene that affects the ability of the cel to produce the lesser know substance from its cousin -RNA. when this RNA bankrupt gene bonds with the cells it slowly affects their homeostasis. once this is acomplished, it is mere SLIGHT OF HAND to take a drop of blood, analyze it and pull up a file on ANY PERSON IN THE USA.
Longterm goals are unclear. they are reciving funding from major fortune 500 companies, in order to get the industry in place. as more and more industry falls under their control (the puppets who hold the scythe over your head) the "men in red", will enter into a long standing war. this war will be on the "bad" genes. once it discovers them -- using sites like yellowstone ntl park (there are also MANY sites in NEW ZELAND) -- it will slowly introduce cancer spreading toxins -- weeding out the inferior.
i suggest you take THAT up with your official park ranger
go now.
sometimes people have thoughts and ideas that sports-industrial-complex suppresses and fears. why do you like sports? odds are that you connected with a family memeber who watched them. you use it as a way to bond and spend time with people. ok fine. but anything could be like that - could be turned into a science - it just has to have some sort of social adhesives as well. like religion or staring at a wall. you can easily form groups around any thing. why pick sports? becuase its the most popular? thats silly. thats like picking reality tv shows or oprah to base your relationships around. that to me is the sadest part.
fanboy.
what they are saying is that people will buy DRM'd mp3s, enmasse. Why oh why would they do that? if i wanted crippled, i would download WMA's or ituney music. And im sure people will love trying to get their DRM'd mp3s to work in their 5 year old mp3 car stereo.
if their not labeled differently, all this will do is add more clutter to P2P networks, making people swtch to less cluttered p2p networks.
how did you even have time to buy a computer? much less go home every evening/morning for sleep.
but im sure the bare naked ladies or the limp bisket or whatever you were listening to was alot cooler.
um i really dont think that they would care. Its like credit card theft. Do you call the cops or the credit card company? who has more at stake?
but now they have no choice.
i thought this thread was to discuss what, if any, reason the usa has to put weapons into space. the only reason to be armed is out of paranoia and fear. the cold war was all about fear, so is this. his post is right on topic.
your post is so american - its astounding. do you honestly believe your any different than a terrorist? that any human being is different from another? you have to honestly think, what would it take for you to blow up buildings? jealousy of the great USA(TM) or that the usa has bombed your country for years and you have a very long memory. the american public continues blissfully unaware, and they have no reason to care. you think - ill make them pay attention. ill make them acknowledge that they have to be responsible for the actions of their government. thats the thinking behind people like osama. its not we are attacking freedom(tm) like your govt has hammered into your head. everyone wants freedom.
you have been brainwashed by the religious powers that have shaped the world for the last 2000 years. there is no such thing as good and evil, black and white - only shades of grey.
"until the philosophy that holds one race supperior, is finaly and perminantly abandoned, everywhere is war" - bob marley/marcus garvey
but im sure youve never had to fix a computer with a broken cd rom drive, or a early pentium thats running a whole organizations firewall, or ever had the need for a rewriteable, pretty much universally accepted, technology.. noo that didnt occur to mr mac elitest...
its really sad. the floppy drive, albiet old, slow, and ugly still has quite a place. unless you want to buy every old person with a pentium 3 and no cd burner a new pc. its a self contained read/write technology, for transfering small amounts of files, to any computer made since the mid 80s. perhaps you should actually go out there and realize that while in your circles maybe everyone has the latest gee wizz coloured box, the reality is that there is no real replacement for the floppy. name one that satisfies all ive said and ill concede defeat.
oh and pretending to be intelligent by correcting peoples spelling is just about the most nitpicky, elitest thing you can do. so congrats. i notice you called me a troll as well, also very envogue these days.
kind of like how floppy drives are dead now eh? oh and its spelled 1337, but hey your a mac user so i can forgive the obvious lack of understanding.
nothing was really acomplished and there weren't any real insights at all gained on anything. maybe because he was writing about the present day instead of the future, or maybe because he was traumatized by sept 11th, who knows. I didnt really see the point in basing so much of the book on sept 11th anyways. it seemed tacked on.
The main character, was like a last refugee from the dot com bubble. i remember her just walking in, saying yes or no to things and then getting a huge check and going home to her studio apartment. it seems like he wrote half of it before sept 11th and then added a bunch more to it after.
of course i have no idea imho and all that.
exactly. so how could you ever pay it? so what, a significant amount of the USA gets their wages garnished to pay the RIAA? people will really stand for that. more likely than option b, option c would be that 1 or 2 of said people crack and go on killing sprees - because basically their life has been ruined and they want to go out in a blaze of glory.
all it takes is one mass murder to really change americas mind on things - havent you learned anything
"Any idea, anyone ?"
you wont fool us mr FBI agent!
well i see they took the same amount of time and effort as you did. do you actually know what a number with 34 zeros behind it is called??
no? well then. shut the fuck up - it is in the clearest possible format for most people.
oh and i did bother to google for it and the first result tells me that it is 10 decilion to americans, or 10 000 quintillion to the rest of the world.
dont just bitch, actually try and learn something - its not hard.
Im not surprised at all this has been put into law. Privacy is a right that all citizens have equally.
*Socialism, often confused with communism (i think you meant it negatively), is not a bad thing. Its the middle ground between capitalism and communism.
socialism
doesnt sound that bad now does it.
didnt you see boys from brazil? thats EXACTLY what they did, and that was in the 70s!!
well i dont have to be sensetive to racists and bigots, why should i be sensitive to someone who is equally ignorant? its like saying oh well because of these peoples religion, they are allowed kill women who have exposed faces. I dont think we should support those kinds of people at all. I would say that being 'sensitive' to something is just another way of saying that you support it, at least on some level.
I dont know what organizations or types of people would be against this. I can see religious right type folks not wanting to use aborted featuses, but i'm pretty sure thats because a) they dont agree with abortion, and b) becuse a fetus is quite a bit more human than an unfertilized egg.
are you saying that there is some group out there who specifically says that humans shouldnt use anything that comes out of a woman, or a man, for any purpose other than what... natural sex? they already harvest eggs and sperm for use in other people. how is this different?
i just say 'tab, tab, tab, tab, space' into my voice recognition software and viola!
i didnt RTFA but the blurb said nothing of compensation if someone did crack it. IF there is a bounty, im sure its not as much as one would make cracking a bank a year from now.
sounds like someone got pk'd.
"Unarmed girl begs for her life and you kill her for 300 credits wich in game is about 1 clip of ammo? Game should not give you points for not killing her, instead the door should burst open the moment you raise your gun and you are shotdown in a hail of fire by the real hero of the game. Then it should lock the controls and you can watch the real hero complete the quest. "
Yeah you'd have people lineing up to play that game for sure! you could name it something like "the elitest world of unrealistic boring dreams". honestly whats more fun than masacaring someone when their reloading or lagged?
"So if you play GTA and kill a minimum of people and do professianal job then perhaps you are unaffected by the game play. If you go putting holes in their body parts to make them die slowly or gain extra gore well then excuse me while I call the padded wagon to take you away."
oh ok. so if your a professional killer, training to be a professional killer than thats fine. but if your just a gamer looking for a laugh or trying to test the game mechanics, your a psychopath. do you ever have any fun at all?
its a game. if people waged pretend wars, i believe that would eliminate the bloodlust for real wars. its like those people who are treated for fears of heights in a simulator. they recieve their stimulation artificially.
you my friend are the person in this thread who sounds like hes closer to snapping then any of the pro game people who are just trying to have a good time. its when you take it seriously, as you are doing, that it begins negatively affecting you. as it seems to be.
"I wanna play a dirty old knight in slightly rusty armor!"
surprisingly, thats exactly how i pictured you.