Yeah, I need privacy to conduct my uh... pharmaceutical enterprises. How can I, a TOTALLY LEGITIMATE businessman conduct the sale of weapons and indentured sex servants, without "the law" breaking down my door if the can track my transactions. Cash is far better for exchanges of a discrete nature. Plus, have you seen the service charges from AmEx? Yikes! I had to cut my coca-plant derived powder product with Exlax to make up the difference!
Boo hoo, I moved into this expensive, pretty shack on a mountain far from all you plebes and no one comes to visit me anymore and I can't get basic services!
i heard tell that owls like to go for the eyes when they feel threated. i can handle a nasty cat scratch or dog bite, but having an owl pluck out my eyeball is just unnacceptable.
that we should double the number of adults in the classroom. i don't mean smaller classes... i mean MORE adults in the room. One up front teaching and one in the back preventing distractions and bullying. The second adult doesn't have to have a Bachelor's degree, just a keen eye, patience and a bit of courage. This would be most useful in elementary years when the kids no longer worship their teacher. If the kids grow up with this, they might not need such supervision later in high school.
"Seriously? Somebody needs to point this guy to Mozilla Labs and tell him to join the community and start working on his own dreams instead of proposing/forcing them on the community."
Would he be of any help beyond coming up with the idea?
Some people are idea people, some people are doers. Some can do both, but many can't. i can spin out ideas for smartphone apps at an alarming rate. However, i can't code for shit. There's a ninja coder out there who has zero, zip, zilch, nada, goose egg ideas. Some doers are lousy at ideas, and some idea people are lousy doers. Just as some outstanding coders are lousy managers and vice versa.
Your post smacks of the chicken hawk fallacy, that someone must do, or be able to do the thing that they are talk/caring about. You might as well say, "you can't watch football unless you are willing to suit up and get pummelled by guys twice your size, LOLOLOLLOOLO!". No listening to music until you can play guitar. No criticizing the president until you are president. It's simply untrue, and certainly not insightful.
Forcing them? In what way is this guy forcing anyone to do anything. He's offering an idea, that's it. He's a dude with an opinion, not the CEO and he's not pointing guns at any heads.
i like having an FB account because it's the most efficient way to find my old friends. As for privacy, there's a new form of it. Privacy used to be in the form of obscurity, you were hard to find. Now it's through being one of entirely too many.
It's ego-mania for the ant crawling on the ass of an elephant to think the elephant cares. The elephant prolly doesn't know the you exist, and can't tell one ant from another. As long as you don't bite the elephant it's likely to never give you a thought. Bite it, and now you have it's undivided attention.
As long as people filter what they post there's little to fear. Don't post anything you don't want your mom or the entire world to know about. Anyone who can get that through their skull can use FB without worrying about their privacy. It's not rocket surgery. Everything FB knows about its users was *put* there by the users. The company isn't disregarding privacy... the users are.
Maybe this is a new line of social contract. The line about what we share or don't, and to who and why has shifted. Might have something to do with some new technology. Most social change is a result of technology, not the people. Our values would shift incredibly if we pefected cold fusion, had holodecks or replicators. Seems that with FB and other sites, we trade another want for a have. We have "private" information that companies can use to improve their businesses. We want to contact that cute girl from Biology class to find out if she's still hot or got fat. FB has a massive database and infrastructure. Btw, want for have is the basis of all interactions, human or otherwise. To gain the right to live we must give up the right to kill. To reconnect with that hot chick we trade away some private information. We risk being pestered by that dork from Algebra.
Capitalism? What else is on that continuum that history hasn't already disregarded? Your privacy can be bought, sold and traded under any regime. It's not capitalism that causes privacy problems, it's a matter of legal policy, not economic.
Fun bit of history. Draco merely wrote down the laws of the land so that the courts couldn't just make up stuff. Draco was a champion of justice (for his time) but his name became forever tied to the opposite.
They apply the joke to Beck because this is a tactic Beck uses every night. Just keep repeating it, but then say that you're not saying it. Then say it a few more times.
Do you have any proof that Beck didn't rape and kill a girl in 1990? It's a pretty serious accusation. All he has to do is confirm that he didn'tl, right?
"Meanwhile the so-called "liberals" seem intent to roll us back to Serfdom. It's as if they want to restore a 1500s-style political system in modern society, where the common man is treated like wards of the government. Rolling our individual liberty back 400 years, like serfs, is true conservativism."
This isn't +5 interesting. It's +5 unhinged.
i'll play your game, let me know if it rings true:
So called conservatives want a return to feudalism, where the many are powerless against the few who have all the resources. The elite will rule over us, weak will either serve in the rulers personal armies or be serfs.
Hey, you're right, putting imaginary arguments in the mouths of people who disagree with me DOES make them easier to attack!
i extend my middle finger to you for calling Defense of the Ancients "Dota". i went looking for a game called Dota (no such game exists).
This is how you should have introduced the acronym for Defense of the Ancients (DotA). i wrote it in full and put the acronym in parentheses, showing that i'll be referring to it as DotA from now on. Further more, you made the acronym look like a word/name by leaving the A in lower case. If the A was capitalized the reader would know they are looking at an abbreviation. Or you could have gone with the less elegant DOTA. i prefer to show prepositions, conjunctions and articles as lower case. This tells the reader that o stands for on or of or somesuch. LotR hints that the ot means 'of the' or 'on the', and not Lord Operations Tactical Recon./descriptivist excuse making in 3... 2... 1....
I am a scientist. I am a physicist. I know what I want, and I know how to get it, I want to unlock the universe.
Yes, I want a unified field theory. It's the only one for me.
A unified field theory, it's coming some day wait and see. A theory to combine electromagnetivity, with the weak and strong forces and gravity.
Yes, I want a unified field theory. Not Newtonian gravity.
Einstein tried, but he couldn't see, the random state of the galaxies. But quantum theory will be key, to a unified field theory.
Yes, I want a unified field theory. Not relativity.
Right now the best bet seems to be, the work being done in M-Theory. Time will tell but I guarantee, they ain't gonna find it at MIT.
The institute won't beat me. Ain't gonna happen G.
Cause, I want a unified field theory. Yes, I want a unified field theory. You know what I mean? Yes, I want a unified field theory. And a Nobel prize for me.
Between English speakers, America refers to the United States of America. Chile is part of The Americas. Spanish speakers can call it whatever.
-1 Overated. Not insightful. This is being obtuse to whore karma from the boys trying to impress the girl at the campus bookstore. Grown-ups know better.
Slashdot Mirror
If the site is free to use, YOU are the product.
Yeah, I need privacy to conduct my uh... pharmaceutical enterprises. How can I, a TOTALLY LEGITIMATE businessman conduct the sale of weapons and indentured sex servants, without "the law" breaking down my door if the can track my transactions. Cash is far better for exchanges of a discrete nature. Plus, have you seen the service charges from AmEx? Yikes! I had to cut my coca-plant derived powder product with Exlax to make up the difference!
Subby's shitty grammar created a headline that says that Windows phone modifies MicroSD cards and warns Samsung.
Non-shitty grammar would look like this: Subject, Verb, Object.
Samsung warns Windows phone permanently modifies MicroSD cards.
This version is more direct and succinct.
Boo hoo, I moved into this expensive, pretty shack on a mountain far from all you plebes and no one comes to visit me anymore and I can't get basic services!
Enjoy your self-imposed exile.
milli hertz? Wow that IS slow.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing that.
i heard tell that owls like to go for the eyes when they feel threated. i can handle a nasty cat scratch or dog bite, but having an owl pluck out my eyeball is just unnacceptable.
that we should double the number of adults in the classroom. i don't mean smaller classes... i mean MORE adults in the room. One up front teaching and one in the back preventing distractions and bullying. The second adult doesn't have to have a Bachelor's degree, just a keen eye, patience and a bit of courage. This would be most useful in elementary years when the kids no longer worship their teacher. If the kids grow up with this, they might not need such supervision later in high school.
They are made of paper.
A laptop computer, otoH, could.
Youtube: FL7yD-0pqZg
Time machine = no problem.
Time machine that puts you in the same place relative to where you left = problem.
DUH! Have you ever heard of Heishenburg compeshatorsh?
"Seriously? Somebody needs to point this guy to Mozilla Labs and tell him to join the community and start working on his own dreams instead of proposing/forcing them on the community."
Would he be of any help beyond coming up with the idea?
Some people are idea people, some people are doers. Some can do both, but many can't. i can spin out ideas for smartphone apps at an alarming rate. However, i can't code for shit. There's a ninja coder out there who has zero, zip, zilch, nada, goose egg ideas. Some doers are lousy at ideas, and some idea people are lousy doers. Just as some outstanding coders are lousy managers and vice versa.
Your post smacks of the chicken hawk fallacy, that someone must do, or be able to do the thing that they are talk/caring about. You might as well say, "you can't watch football unless you are willing to suit up and get pummelled by guys twice your size, LOLOLOLLOOLO!". No listening to music until you can play guitar. No criticizing the president until you are president. It's simply untrue, and certainly not insightful.
Forcing them? In what way is this guy forcing anyone to do anything. He's offering an idea, that's it. He's a dude with an opinion, not the CEO and he's not pointing guns at any heads.
Subby,
Why did you verbify a verb?
i like having an FB account because it's the most efficient way to find my old friends. As for privacy, there's a new form of it. Privacy used to be in the form of obscurity, you were hard to find. Now it's through being one of entirely too many.
It's ego-mania for the ant crawling on the ass of an elephant to think the elephant cares. The elephant prolly doesn't know the you exist, and can't tell one ant from another. As long as you don't bite the elephant it's likely to never give you a thought. Bite it, and now you have it's undivided attention.
As long as people filter what they post there's little to fear. Don't post anything you don't want your mom or the entire world to know about. Anyone who can get that through their skull can use FB without worrying about their privacy. It's not rocket surgery. Everything FB knows about its users was *put* there by the users. The company isn't disregarding privacy... the users are.
Maybe this is a new line of social contract. The line about what we share or don't, and to who and why has shifted. Might have something to do with some new technology. Most social change is a result of technology, not the people. Our values would shift incredibly if we pefected cold fusion, had holodecks or replicators. Seems that with FB and other sites, we trade another want for a have. We have "private" information that companies can use to improve their businesses. We want to contact that cute girl from Biology class to find out if she's still hot or got fat. FB has a massive database and infrastructure. Btw, want for have is the basis of all interactions, human or otherwise. To gain the right to live we must give up the right to kill. To reconnect with that hot chick we trade away some private information. We risk being pestered by that dork from Algebra.
Capitalism? What else is on that continuum that history hasn't already disregarded? Your privacy can be bought, sold and traded under any regime. It's not capitalism that causes privacy problems, it's a matter of legal policy, not economic.
Because that would be socialism. If you want to go Mars start yanking on your bootstraps and Jesus will do the rest.
Fun bit of history. Draco merely wrote down the laws of the land so that the courts couldn't just make up stuff. Draco was a champion of justice (for his time) but his name became forever tied to the opposite.
Please, oh great one, tell us what is good!
This will help:
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?title=gilbert-gottfried-pt.-1&videoId=179741
They apply the joke to Beck because this is a tactic Beck uses every night. Just keep repeating it, but then say that you're not saying it. Then say it a few more times.
Do you have any proof that Beck didn't rape and kill a girl in 1990? It's a pretty serious accusation. All he has to do is confirm that he didn'tl, right?
"Meanwhile the so-called "liberals" seem intent to roll us back to Serfdom. It's as if they want to restore a 1500s-style political system in modern society, where the common man is treated like wards of the government. Rolling our individual liberty back 400 years, like serfs, is true conservativism."
This isn't +5 interesting. It's +5 unhinged.
i'll play your game, let me know if it rings true:
So called conservatives want a return to feudalism, where the many are powerless against the few who have all the resources. The elite will rule over us, weak will either serve in the rulers personal armies or be serfs.
Hey, you're right, putting imaginary arguments in the mouths of people who disagree with me DOES make them easier to attack!
He had to do SOMETHING to make it watchable. Note the inversion of action to dialog/history essay ratio. The books were as dry as history texts.
i'll forgive the liberties.
Robots that respond to their environment are essentially sentient. Dogs certainly are sentient. Neither are SAPIENT.
Sci-fi has misused the work sentient when they meant to say sapient.
That does NOT mean that sentient means self aware, it means the sci-fi writers and everyone else who says sentient when they mean sapient are WRONG.
Yes, even if the dictionary agrees with them.
i extend my middle finger to you for calling Defense of the Ancients "Dota". i went looking for a game called Dota (no such game exists).
This is how you should have introduced the acronym for Defense of the Ancients (DotA). i wrote it in full and put the acronym in parentheses, showing that i'll be referring to it as DotA from now on. Further more, you made the acronym look like a word/name by leaving the A in lower case. If the A was capitalized the reader would know they are looking at an abbreviation. Or you could have gone with the less elegant DOTA. i prefer to show prepositions, conjunctions and articles as lower case. This tells the reader that o stands for on or of or somesuch. LotR hints that the ot means 'of the' or 'on the', and not Lord Operations Tactical Recon. /descriptivist excuse making in 3... 2... 1....
(to the tune of Anarchy in the UK)
Right now!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
I am a scientist.
I am a physicist.
I know what I want, and I know how to get it,
I want to unlock the universe.
Yes, I want a unified field theory.
It's the only one for me.
A unified field theory,
it's coming some day wait and see.
A theory to combine electromagnetivity,
with the weak and strong forces and gravity.
Yes, I want a unified field theory.
Not Newtonian gravity.
Einstein tried, but he couldn't see,
the random state of the galaxies.
But quantum theory will be key,
to a unified field theory.
Yes, I want a unified field theory.
Not relativity.
Right now the best bet seems to be,
the work being done in M-Theory.
Time will tell but I guarantee,
they ain't gonna find it at MIT.
The institute won't beat me.
Ain't gonna happen G.
Cause, I want a unified field theory.
Yes, I want a unified field theory.
You know what I mean?
Yes, I want a unified field theory.
And a Nobel prize for me.
O yeah!
Uhh!
Wish i had karma for you. Well said. Too bad facts can't penetrate the minds of partisans.
Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery.
Between English speakers, America refers to the United States of America. Chile is part of The Americas. Spanish speakers can call it whatever.
-1 Overated. Not insightful. This is being obtuse to whore karma from the boys trying to impress the girl at the campus bookstore. Grown-ups know better.