You think you're free there, city boy? What, you cut your own wood to heat your house? Grow your own food? Got a gerbil running in his wheel for the lights? Your own ISP?
Ohhh..all the spirit of humanity yearning to be free of oppression
Jesus! The sap runs out of you like Niagara Falls. Your antibiotics that nobody can afford...Your genetic monstrosities of terminator seeds...Man on the moon? Done a lot with that, haven't we? Oh yeah! that's real "yearning to be free"...You have no clue of the meaning of the word you pompous piece of poop! You don't see the other end of the stick. Let's see how free you are when you actually stand up and take action. You would be laughable, if you weren't so pitiful. Free~ Christ! Why don't you go out and see what you do to other people to be so "free". But screw them. They're only slaves but they think like slaves. Do you know what blood money is? Cause that's all you got in your pocket. Punk!
Cool sig. Thanks for the props! You're the greatest.
Yeah, it's sad, believe me Missy When you're born to be a sissy Without the vim and verve But I could show my prowess Be a lion, not a mowess If I only had the nerve
Well see? That's what you get for thinkin'. Now, do you really want me to go and link to all your flamebaiting yelling and hollering? I mean, it's not like it would be difficult or anything. I think you just play it up for laughs. The funny part is the people who take you seriously. You won't catch me doing that. Nevertheless there it is. So when you keep a civil tongue, you probably won't hear a word from me. If you want to keep messing around... well I'm always up for some cheap entertainment.
Aaah..hope. I've heard of that. Sorry sonny, the forces of nature are much more powerful than all your silly ranting and raving that will only turn people against you. For good reason with the way you express yourself. I've seen your type..over there at deomocraticunderground.com. You all sound just as foolish as the Rushball himself. More so actually. Damn near make me want to go vote for McCain with the kind of pathetic pomposity you spew. You're the kind that is actually slowing things down. Because of you, more and more people will believe there is no hope. You are proving that you are no viable alternative. Leaving us all with one less. I am thanking my god that I am not you, and will have nothing to do with you. It would only hurt the cause. You are the little man who envies the strength you will never have. The little dictator with mad desires. At first I thought you were rather eclectic, but now I see you're just another ass. Have a nice day:-)
...because we simply wouldn't use the net anymore anymore...
You give the average consumer way to much credit. Take a glance at the drivel that gets the highest ratings, the most hits.
they would turn it into this ridiculous sprawling series of checkpoints.
The bureaucrats wet dream come true. People don't care about that when there's dinner on the table, Idol's on the TV. People complain about the airlines all the time, but the airports are no ghost towns. The lines are as long as ever. And the service is worse than ever. People want entertainment. As long as they get it, they care not where it comes from. There will be no uprising. Those that want freedom are but a tiny majority, and the others will shout them down if the fall season is threatened in any way.
Your first post that I responded to was most right on. I agree with it a thousand percent. Copyright must go away. But the vested interests that keep it in place for their very survival are most stronger than those ideals. They've been doing it for over 300 years. Everybody expected all the succeeding new technologies to kill it off, and it has only become stronger every step of the way. What was an eighteen year copyright is now a hundred year copyright. And there's still no let up in sight. What with new more draconian rules written into law every year. Now with actual criminalization entering the picture. Things could change in two or three generations, but this thing is very tenacious. And the people currently running the show are not about to give it up yet. And also you will find that the cross ownership between the producers and the providers is much stronger than it appears, all done through proxies and their stock portfolios. They are very intertwined. They will fight till the very end.
For the gatekeepers that's the problem. It is the curse of all those who control the flow of information. And as long as those same people are the only ones that provide access, and we remain tied to their wire, progress remains in doubt.
I can make great money selling contraband. Prohibition is great for my profit margins. The prison system and law enforcement industry is flourishing for it. I can control the quality of my product. If contraband suddenly became legal and everybody was able to sell it, we would all be forced to do something else to support our families.
That's mostly an issue with the airlines. And the "outsourcing" is just to a contractor, which is still usually domestic. But where's a guy going to take his Bonanza? The big problem with the pirate nations that rule the world is that when a job goes to India, you can't follow it. When those economic borders came down for the big boys, we should have torn them down completely for the rest of us, also. We should assert the same rights for ourselves that we have given them. It's high time that we do just that.
I was replaced by a machine. Well, guess who fixed the machine? With a nice raise besides. Can't get paid to fly airplanes? Sure can to fix 'em. With all sorts of phony pretexts to take them up for a "test" flight. Just replaced a nav light. Gotta take it up to make sure it doesn't shake loose.
Might be okay if there was a place to go. Like he said, "I was born here". Nobody has any right to displace me. I'm not excluding you from "my" property, but I'm not saying you have the right to trample my fields and burn my crops or my house. And I sure won't give an arbitrary group such "rights". Maybe it's time to rethink what is property. And who, if anybody can own it. The the idea of private ownership of natural resources means denying somebody else's same rights to those resources. Do you have a right to damn up a river for your exclusive use and to deny me access to its waters? I don't accept that, nor the idea of separate nations, which basically exist to create a disparity of rights to access. And it serves only the pirates among us. The human race is the collective. You shouldn't try to divide us up. Whatever deal is made must be under a mutual agreement, not by arbitary dictate under a force of arms. The force of arms should only be used to keep it consensual amongst all involved parties.
People who think they have a right to use our collective property without playing by our rules are initiating force against us. We have the right to respond with force.
Those who don't consent have the same right to hold their ground also. So all you will get is perpetual warfare. We end up with what we already have. Might makes right. Yeah, it's nature's way, so there might be no escape from it. But sentient beings should at least make the effort. I wonder how you would feel if you weren't at the top of the "food chain", so to speak. These are all easy things to say when you're not the guy being robbed. Those who make those rules should do a better job of living by them. Because if they won't, it just invalidates the rules.
I'm sorry. You seem like one of the more enlightened people around here. I expected better from you than the defense of the status quo.
Not with the meager budget they're getting. We'll either do the job cheap, or we'll do it right. Looks like we chose "cheap". And on the long run it won't be cheap either. Just like the way the shuttle turned out. A horrible expensive kludge. I hope they at least put in a better escape system...like what they had on the old expendable rockets.
Possibly, but I do cook with gas. And I haven't burned the house down yet. Does erring on the side of caution make me an unreliable judge risk? When we a have a market economy that throws caution to the wind? Lots of defective stuff out there that we won't about for years after they hit the market. How long did it take before Apple and Dell admitted there was a problem? We're still dealing with the same mentality that gave us the Ford Pinto. Nobody cares about the fire hazard. It's all about cost/benefit ratios. The matter of suffering does not come up at the board meetings.
Battery fire. Yeah, they burn pretty good also. So, while Apple and Dell are busy fighting off efforts to force a recall, you takes your chances. With greater time and money spent trying to protect market interests, it's going to happen. Come to think of it, a working laptop could be set up as a pretty good weapon. I think I'm going to take a boat, or the train
Slashdot Mirror
Me too. It's ******
Didn't realize the executive branch wrote laws...
Yes... They're called Executive Orders. Ya learn something new every day.
They could do with a red-yellow-green warning system.
We have a working system right at our fingertips. Now with more colors!
You think you're free there, city boy? What, you cut your own wood to heat your house? Grow your own food? Got a gerbil running in his wheel for the lights? Your own ISP?
Ohhh..all the spirit of humanity yearning to be free of oppression
Jesus! The sap runs out of you like Niagara Falls. Your antibiotics that nobody can afford...Your genetic monstrosities of terminator seeds...Man on the moon? Done a lot with that, haven't we? Oh yeah! that's real "yearning to be free"...You have no clue of the meaning of the word you pompous piece of poop! You don't see the other end of the stick. Let's see how free you are when you actually stand up and take action. You would be laughable, if you weren't so pitiful. Free~ Christ! Why don't you go out and see what you do to other people to be so "free". But screw them. They're only slaves but they think like slaves. Do you know what blood money is? Cause that's all you got in your pocket. Punk!
Cool sig. Thanks for the props! You're the greatest.
Yeah, it's sad, believe me Missy
When you're born to be a sissy
Without the vim and verve
But I could show my prowess
Be a lion, not a mowess
If I only had the nerve
Try running 98 with more than 768MB of RAM. I for one, am very upset...
Well see? That's what you get for thinkin'. Now, do you really want me to go and link to all your flamebaiting yelling and hollering? I mean, it's not like it would be difficult or anything. I think you just play it up for laughs. The funny part is the people who take you seriously. You won't catch me doing that. Nevertheless there it is. So when you keep a civil tongue, you probably won't hear a word from me. If you want to keep messing around... well I'm always up for some cheap entertainment.
Yeah well, these guys left me the impression he was already buried.
I bet you he would get it.
speak hopefully or shut up.
Aaah..hope. I've heard of that. Sorry sonny, the forces of nature are much more powerful than all your silly ranting and raving that will only turn people against you. For good reason with the way you express yourself. I've seen your type..over there at deomocraticunderground.com. You all sound just as foolish as the Rushball himself. More so actually. Damn near make me want to go vote for McCain with the kind of pathetic pomposity you spew. You're the kind that is actually slowing things down. Because of you, more and more people will believe there is no hope. You are proving that you are no viable alternative. Leaving us all with one less. I am thanking my god that I am not you, and will have nothing to do with you. It would only hurt the cause. You are the little man who envies the strength you will never have. The little dictator with mad desires. At first I thought you were rather eclectic, but now I see you're just another ass. Have a nice day :-)
He'd be perfect...If you don't use Vista, you're an idiot!
This is why you don't have a significant other...
Don't you know? You're it, sweetie pie.
Oh, cant you seeeee
You belong to me...
Mocking and ridiculing trolls is my new hobby. Now give grandma a big kiss
Love ya
...because we simply wouldn't use the net anymore anymore...
You give the average consumer way to much credit. Take a glance at the drivel that gets the highest ratings, the most hits.
they would turn it into this ridiculous sprawling series of checkpoints.
The bureaucrats wet dream come true. People don't care about that when there's dinner on the table, Idol's on the TV. People complain about the airlines all the time, but the airports are no ghost towns. The lines are as long as ever. And the service is worse than ever. People want entertainment. As long as they get it, they care not where it comes from. There will be no uprising. Those that want freedom are but a tiny majority, and the others will shout them down if the fall season is threatened in any way.
Your first post that I responded to was most right on. I agree with it a thousand percent. Copyright must go away. But the vested interests that keep it in place for their very survival are most stronger than those ideals. They've been doing it for over 300 years. Everybody expected all the succeeding new technologies to kill it off, and it has only become stronger every step of the way. What was an eighteen year copyright is now a hundred year copyright. And there's still no let up in sight. What with new more draconian rules written into law every year. Now with actual criminalization entering the picture. Things could change in two or three generations, but this thing is very tenacious. And the people currently running the show are not about to give it up yet. And also you will find that the cross ownership between the producers and the providers is much stronger than it appears, all done through proxies and their stock portfolios. They are very intertwined. They will fight till the very end.
...the internet lets everyone be a publisher...
For the gatekeepers that's the problem. It is the curse of all those who control the flow of information. And as long as those same people are the only ones that provide access, and we remain tied to their wire, progress remains in doubt.
...make money off my copy rights...
I can make great money selling contraband. Prohibition is great for my profit margins. The prison system and law enforcement industry is flourishing for it. I can control the quality of my product. If contraband suddenly became legal and everybody was able to sell it, we would all be forced to do something else to support our families.
...Stuffed into Your Gullet Our Way
Aaah, Slashdot...Gavage for nerds...Foie gras that tastes great
Be niiiice.
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you
That's mostly an issue with the airlines. And the "outsourcing" is just to a contractor, which is still usually domestic. But where's a guy going to take his Bonanza? The big problem with the pirate nations that rule the world is that when a job goes to India, you can't follow it. When those economic borders came down for the big boys, we should have torn them down completely for the rest of us, also. We should assert the same rights for ourselves that we have given them. It's high time that we do just that.
Too hasty with the "Submit"
I was replaced by a machine. Well, guess who fixed the machine? With a nice raise besides. Can't get paid to fly airplanes? Sure can to fix 'em. With all sorts of phony pretexts to take them up for a "test" flight. Just replaced a nav light. Gotta take it up to make sure it doesn't shake loose.
by having multiple trades. Don't be so specialized.
If you don't consent, you are free to leave.
Might be okay if there was a place to go. Like he said, "I was born here". Nobody has any right to displace me. I'm not excluding you from "my" property, but I'm not saying you have the right to trample my fields and burn my crops or my house. And I sure won't give an arbitrary group such "rights". Maybe it's time to rethink what is property. And who, if anybody can own it. The the idea of private ownership of natural resources means denying somebody else's same rights to those resources. Do you have a right to damn up a river for your exclusive use and to deny me access to its waters? I don't accept that, nor the idea of separate nations, which basically exist to create a disparity of rights to access. And it serves only the pirates among us. The human race is the collective. You shouldn't try to divide us up. Whatever deal is made must be under a mutual agreement, not by arbitary dictate under a force of arms. The force of arms should only be used to keep it consensual amongst all involved parties.
People who think they have a right to use our collective property without playing by our rules are initiating force against us. We have the right to respond with force.
Those who don't consent have the same right to hold their ground also. So all you will get is perpetual warfare. We end up with what we already have. Might makes right. Yeah, it's nature's way, so there might be no escape from it. But sentient beings should at least make the effort. I wonder how you would feel if you weren't at the top of the "food chain", so to speak. These are all easy things to say when you're not the guy being robbed. Those who make those rules should do a better job of living by them. Because if they won't, it just invalidates the rules.
I'm sorry. You seem like one of the more enlightened people around here. I expected better from you than the defense of the status quo.
Nothing else worked?
Not with the meager budget they're getting. We'll either do the job cheap, or we'll do it right. Looks like we chose "cheap". And on the long run it won't be cheap either. Just like the way the shuttle turned out. A horrible expensive kludge. I hope they at least put in a better escape system...like what they had on the old expendable rockets.
Which makes you an unreliable judge of fire risk.
Possibly, but I do cook with gas. And I haven't burned the house down yet. Does erring on the side of caution make me an unreliable judge risk? When we a have a market economy that throws caution to the wind? Lots of defective stuff out there that we won't about for years after they hit the market. How long did it take before Apple and Dell admitted there was a problem? We're still dealing with the same mentality that gave us the Ford Pinto. Nobody cares about the fire hazard. It's all about cost/benefit ratios. The matter of suffering does not come up at the board meetings.
Until 1996 they both had an equal chance.
Battery fire. Yeah, they burn pretty good also. So, while Apple and Dell are busy fighting off efforts to force a recall, you takes your chances. With greater time and money spent trying to protect market interests, it's going to happen. Come to think of it, a working laptop could be set up as a pretty good weapon. I think I'm going to take a boat, or the train
Where can I get an iPod Pro?