You, sir, are an idiot. Whether he peddles child pornography or not does not make his opinion on the matter of digital pens and papers any less or more insightful.
Yes, it is illegal in the US to distribute, view,... child pornography (I my issues with this, but different thread..). But who made the ISPs law enforcement? I have an idea! Let's make the top-level DNS machines block it all. Ooo.. stop it at the Internet's backbone! That will, for sure, eliminate this horrible disease!
Blah.. Don't be so emotional. 99%+ of the world disagrees with child pornography including myself. Be rational, be proactive and quit pushing yuor morals onto someone else.
How about the government get out of the business of telling me what is and what isn't obscene? Now, I am no fanboy of child pornography and find it utterly disgusting, but why should the government be in the business of censoring the world for me?
If you're a parent, buy a good proxy and filter the stuff for your kids on your own. Everyone has different views of what should and shuoldn't be censored. Move its implementation down to the lowest level, the consumer level.
To pre-empt (sp?) the certain objection that not everyone can set things like Dan's Guardian and other web filters, I say this: If you're a parent and don't want your children seeing topic X, you better fuckin' teach yuorself how to use these tools. You're a human, afterall.. the smartest being on the planet. I think you can handle it!
One last thing.. I don't understand why people care what others do in the privacy of their own home. IF I want to look at child pornography at home, I should be allowed. I am not infringing on anyone else's rights when I do so. If I were to look at child pornography in a public library, I could possibly be infringing on those rights. So don't bring your offensive behavior out into public and everyone is happy!
Speaking of dipping knowledge in spelling and grammar, I just received an email from a friend of mine who recently completed his Master's in Computer Science instructing me to "tell them that your the new ACM president.." WTF, Ramzi?! You have a freakin' Master's degree!
Spell checkers.. only adding to the idiocy of the world!
I live in the big 'ole state of Nevada here in the western United States. Legal age of consent here is 16. So if you had sex with a 16 y.o. here, you're in no trouble whatsoever.
My school isn't. In fact, my CS professors tend to prefer UNIX/Linux over Microsoft for their personal machines. The College of Engineering has an entire lab full of Sun Sparcs, has a supercomputer, and labs full of Dell P4s running Red Hat 9. The CS department servers all run Slackware. Yes, there are some Windows machines spread through this mix, but we actually have more non-MS amchines. Granted, though, the majority of CS students use Windows at home.:-\
I don't buy any CDs anymore. Not that I won't ever again, though. I simply refuse to pay $15 US for a CD that costs less than a dollar to press. I realize there are other people that need to get paid, but $15 is far too much for the shit that gets pushed on us. On the other hand, I would buy a CD retail if there were 7 or 8 songs on the album I liked, but that hasn't happened in a long while.
Spam is here to stay. You cannot stop it. I've been an avid user of email and the Internet for years now and ya' know how much spam I get in my mailbox? 4 or 5 messages per day. And these only blink in my inbox as Thunderbird (or Outlook with SpamBayes) quickly relegate my spam to my junk folder. Every email that ends up in my inbox is legitimate email that I want to receive. And even if it's not, one click and it's gone and my filter just got smarter.
Yes, this doesn't cut down on the congestion on the internet, but as a free and public network, you cannot hope to contain it.
Also, be sure to practice smart internet usage. Have throw-away email accounts, only supply your email when it is absolutely necessary to do so.. Don't be willy-nilly about it all and you'll be just fine!
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In regards to AbiWord.. I absolutely love the philosophy of starting with just the basics and allowing your users to add the fucntionality they need via plugins. Firefox is the best example of this, IMO. AbiWord is the same. The Abi installer is only 5 MB. I love it!
Saying 'you can't send unsolicited email' is much like saying 'you cannot speak in public'.
I, for one, do not consider my email box a public forum. You see, once I download the mil from the server, the email is on my PERSOANL, PRIVATE computer.
Doh! I use and love DC, but every hub I'm on is private.. run by friends or run from a machine overseas. No password.. no access. [jack black]See.. It's fuckin' simple![/jack black]
Who gives a damn about the fuckin' Euro perception of America? Especially the French? And the French are sisys. yes, they have some good special ops and such, but put them in a big slugfest with another army of any size at all and my dollar is on the other guy. We all know the popular Google-bomb of "french military victories."
The French as well as, IMHO, most other European countries (not to be confused with individual citizens which can be as strong as any other man on the planet) are notorious for being gun shy, especially in today's modern age. Germans.. had their asses handed to them in both World Wars (not to say that the Nazi's couldn't have won - Hitler, you meddeling fool!).. French.. see above.. Spanish.. wasn't their last war a civil war, one which was won with German assistance? Italians go to war? No way!
now, Norway and Swedeen seem to have a pretty good defense force but couldnt handle a full-scale war, IMO. America doesn't like to put up with shit. We don't withdraw troops from Iraq 'cause a few of our citizens were killed by a car bomb. We have peoples' heads chopped off and we just get pissed.
man.. where was I going wiht this incessant rant?!
Perhaps I exaggerated a bit. But I am a prolific downloader. Many albums I have downloaded I haven't listened to in their entirety. But I don't share that much in return. I currently share about 1 GB of the 25+ I have on my machine.
Keep ya' safe? Are you that worried about it? There are so many ways to avoid prosecution.. the sheer mass of people downloading stuff keeps ya' pretty safe. The RIAA has sued such a tiny fraction of a percent of P2P users that it is laughable. I download all day everyday without any fear from these organizations..
Well, instead of bitching about it, do what smart college students do and buy online. I just spent $95 and bought all 4 of my the textbooks I need for my upcoming semester. What did the bookstore want for these same books? $387.50 If you're still shopping at yuor campus bookstore, you deserve to get the shaft!
I downloaded D3 'cause I was unsure whether I'd like it or not. Turns out, it's a piece of shit not considering the "pretty graphics." Therefore, I shall not go out and buy it. Hooray for the warez community! Saved me a small chunk of change!
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I loved this man's policies. In my opinion, he is one of America's finest sheriffs so far as kickin' ass and treating criminals as they should be. Hooray for chain gangs, stripped uniforms, and wecams!
Fuck non-compete clauses. They are anti-capitalistic and are used by companies who are afraid that they can't compete. Fuck 'em.. If they can't compete, let 'em die. That's my policy.
Dude.. nice sob story. However, in a capitalist society, it's sink or swim. Whatever the reason you were laid off, it's obvious that you were expendable (not to discount your abilities ro anything). Your company decided that they would be better served by cutting you out completely or outsourcing your position. Whatever the reason, you failed to make yourself indispensible. Plain and simple..
That, my friends, is what it takes to make it these days. Be indispensible. I feel for ya', man, but when someone loses their job, it's their own fault. Even if some government action convinced your company to cut your position, it's still your fault. I'm sorry to be blunt, but it's the truth.
In other news, I still have a job in the computing nidustry and, at the moment, I'm pretty secure. But I acknowledge the fact that I could lose it. So I continue to make myself indispensible.
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You, sir, are an idiot. Whether he peddles child pornography or not does not make his opinion on the matter of digital pens and papers any less or more insightful.
Yes, it is illegal in the US to distribute, view, ... child pornography (I my issues with this, but different thread..). But who made the ISPs law enforcement? I have an idea! Let's make the top-level DNS machines block it all. Ooo.. stop it at the Internet's backbone! That will, for sure, eliminate this horrible disease!
Blah.. Don't be so emotional. 99%+ of the world disagrees with child pornography including myself. Be rational, be proactive and quit pushing yuor morals onto someone else.
How about the government get out of the business of telling me what is and what isn't obscene? Now, I am no fanboy of child pornography and find it utterly disgusting, but why should the government be in the business of censoring the world for me?
If you're a parent, buy a good proxy and filter the stuff for your kids on your own. Everyone has different views of what should and shuoldn't be censored. Move its implementation down to the lowest level, the consumer level.
To pre-empt (sp?) the certain objection that not everyone can set things like Dan's Guardian and other web filters, I say this: If you're a parent and don't want your children seeing topic X, you better fuckin' teach yuorself how to use these tools. You're a human, afterall.. the smartest being on the planet. I think you can handle it!
One last thing.. I don't understand why people care what others do in the privacy of their own home. IF I want to look at child pornography at home, I should be allowed. I am not infringing on anyone else's rights when I do so. If I were to look at child pornography in a public library, I could possibly be infringing on those rights. So don't bring your offensive behavior out into public and everyone is happy!
Speaking of dipping knowledge in spelling and grammar, I just received an email from a friend of mine who recently completed his Master's in Computer Science instructing me to "tell them that your the new ACM president.." WTF, Ramzi?! You have a freakin' Master's degree!
Spell checkers.. only adding to the idiocy of the world!
I live in the big 'ole state of Nevada here in the western United States. Legal age of consent here is 16. So if you had sex with a 16 y.o. here, you're in no trouble whatsoever.
My school isn't. In fact, my CS professors tend to prefer UNIX/Linux over Microsoft for their personal machines. The College of Engineering has an entire lab full of Sun Sparcs, has a supercomputer, and labs full of Dell P4s running Red Hat 9. The CS department servers all run Slackware. Yes, there are some Windows machines spread through this mix, but we actually have more non-MS amchines. Granted, though, the majority of CS students use Windows at home. :-\
I don't buy any CDs anymore. Not that I won't ever again, though. I simply refuse to pay $15 US for a CD that costs less than a dollar to press. I realize there are other people that need to get paid, but $15 is far too much for the shit that gets pushed on us. On the other hand, I would buy a CD retail if there were 7 or 8 songs on the album I liked, but that hasn't happened in a long while.
Spam is here to stay. You cannot stop it. I've been an avid user of email and the Internet for years now and ya' know how much spam I get in my mailbox? 4 or 5 messages per day. And these only blink in my inbox as Thunderbird (or Outlook with SpamBayes) quickly relegate my spam to my junk folder. Every email that ends up in my inbox is legitimate email that I want to receive. And even if it's not, one click and it's gone and my filter just got smarter.
Yes, this doesn't cut down on the congestion on the internet, but as a free and public network, you cannot hope to contain it.
Also, be sure to practice smart internet usage. Have throw-away email accounts, only supply your email when it is absolutely necessary to do so.. Don't be willy-nilly about it all and you'll be just fine!
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Hence, I still use an Intellimouse from Microsoft. This bad boy is kinda old, but works wonderfully for me.
In regards to AbiWord.. I absolutely love the philosophy of starting with just the basics and allowing your users to add the fucntionality they need via plugins. Firefox is the best example of this, IMO. AbiWord is the same. The Abi installer is only 5 MB. I love it!
Saying 'you can't send unsolicited email' is much like saying 'you cannot speak in public'.
I, for one, do not consider my email box a public forum. You see, once I download the mil from the server, the email is on my PERSOANL, PRIVATE computer.
Doh! I use and love DC, but every hub I'm on is private.. run by friends or run from a machine overseas. No password.. no access. [jack black]See.. It's fuckin' simple![/jack black]
Who gives a damn about the fuckin' Euro perception of America? Especially the French? And the French are sisys. yes, they have some good special ops and such, but put them in a big slugfest with another army of any size at all and my dollar is on the other guy. We all know the popular Google-bomb of "french military victories." The French as well as, IMHO, most other European countries (not to be confused with individual citizens which can be as strong as any other man on the planet) are notorious for being gun shy, especially in today's modern age. Germans.. had their asses handed to them in both World Wars (not to say that the Nazi's couldn't have won - Hitler, you meddeling fool!).. French.. see above.. Spanish.. wasn't their last war a civil war, one which was won with German assistance? Italians go to war? No way!
now, Norway and Swedeen seem to have a pretty good defense force but couldnt handle a full-scale war, IMO. America doesn't like to put up with shit. We don't withdraw troops from Iraq 'cause a few of our citizens were killed by a car bomb. We have peoples' heads chopped off and we just get pissed.
man.. where was I going wiht this incessant rant?!
Easy.. Yahoo! = American company.. Fuck the French!
Perhaps I exaggerated a bit. But I am a prolific downloader. Many albums I have downloaded I haven't listened to in their entirety. But I don't share that much in return. I currently share about 1 GB of the 25+ I have on my machine.
Keep ya' safe? Are you that worried about it? There are so many ways to avoid prosecution.. the sheer mass of people downloading stuff keeps ya' pretty safe. The RIAA has sued such a tiny fraction of a percent of P2P users that it is laughable. I download all day everyday without any fear from these organizations..
Well, instead of bitching about it, do what smart college students do and buy online. I just spent $95 and bought all 4 of my the textbooks I need for my upcoming semester. What did the bookstore want for these same books? $387.50 If you're still shopping at yuor campus bookstore, you deserve to get the shaft!
I downloaded D3 'cause I was unsure whether I'd like it or not. Turns out, it's a piece of shit not considering the "pretty graphics." Therefore, I shall not go out and buy it. Hooray for the warez community! Saved me a small chunk of change!
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I loved this man's policies. In my opinion, he is one of America's finest sheriffs so far as kickin' ass and treating criminals as they should be. Hooray for chain gangs, stripped uniforms, and wecams!
Fuck non-compete clauses. They are anti-capitalistic and are used by companies who are afraid that they can't compete. Fuck 'em.. If they can't compete, let 'em die. That's my policy.
Some IP laws are complete bullshit. Primarily, the current trend of patenting the double-click. But some is worthwhile..
Dude.. nice sob story. However, in a capitalist society, it's sink or swim. Whatever the reason you were laid off, it's obvious that you were expendable (not to discount your abilities ro anything). Your company decided that they would be better served by cutting you out completely or outsourcing your position. Whatever the reason, you failed to make yourself indispensible. Plain and simple..
That, my friends, is what it takes to make it these days. Be indispensible. I feel for ya', man, but when someone loses their job, it's their own fault. Even if some government action convinced your company to cut your position, it's still your fault. I'm sorry to be blunt, but it's the truth.
In other news, I still have a job in the computing nidustry and, at the moment, I'm pretty secure. But I acknowledge the fact that I could lose it. So I continue to make myself indispensible.
What OS are are machines by Diebold and the like running?