So, it's perfectly acceptable to drive a 4,000 pound piece of metal at an unsafe speed, while impaired, as long as you don't hurt anybody? That's so stupid. Following your logic, my grandfather is legally blind, so he should be allowed to drive as long as he doesn't kill anybody. You ignore the fact that driving is a privilege, not a right; if you break the rules of the road, you no longer have the privilege of using those roads. The license program, however flawed it may be, is there for a reason. You also ignore the fact that driving is an inherently dangerous activity, and plenty of stone-sober people die every day while completely focused on driving. It's a chunk of metal, hurtling down a stone path that isn't much wider than the car itself, with only minimal contact with the stopping surface, operated with barely any coordination.
I'm of the opinion that if you get caught driving under the influence, you should lose your license for no less than 5 years, have to go through a rehabilitation course, attend the funeral of at least one drunk driving victim, and pay a hefty fine. I also have zero problem with police hanging out in a bar parking lot, giving breathalizers at random. If you're drunk, call a cab.
As far as cell phones go, they're not nearly as impairing as alcohol. Almost every phone made today has a speakerphone feature. Nearly every phone also has a headset attachment. Hell, some of the headsets don't need to even be attached. I think that it should be OK to pull drivers over for having a cell phone on their head, just like it's OK to pull you over if the cop doesn't see the seatbelt on your shoulder. It takes one hand away from the activity of driving. Even if you normally drive with one hand, it's still a major physical and mental distraction to keep your arm in that position.
Bush then went on to say, "We need to eradicate the evildoers at Sony BMW. Those terrorists have software weapons of mass destruction, and we can't misunderestimate the, uh... the, uh... lethal and almost deadly potentiality of these devices. It's like a nucular time bomb waiting to blow up. A-heh heh heh. A-heh heh heh."
I agree that people are very biased. I disagree that they are biased because of Apple or open source propaganda. I think it's because Windows sucks. It might also have something to do with Microsoft's vile business tactics and treating their paying customers like criminals.
I'm wondering just how many arbitrary combinations of the millions of devices out there you actually have in your home computer. And out of those millions of arbitrary combinations, how many actually work? Sit back down.
That's retarded. Money in the bank is still property. Having the paper in your wallet is a minor, insignificant, puny detail at best. The fact is that taking that money out of a bank account deprives somebody of something they absolutely own. It is real and it has real value and if you remove it from somebody's possession, they have less value for it. Conversely, downloading a song might deprive somebody of something they might get.
I'm all for the artists, but the artists are eventually going to have to stick up for their own damn selves. If they're tired of only having 3 Humvees with Asanti rims, maybe they should consider that for every dollar they earn, the record label is earning 10. Maybe they should stop being such pussies and stand up for themselves. Maybe they should stop appearing in commercials that call their own fucking customers communists and thieves and everything short of rapers and pillagers, while their labels bribe and cajole our soulless government into passing laws that would make McCarthyists say, "Damn, I wish I thought of that."
The amount it costs to distribute files online is so miniscule as to be irrelevant. At 99 cents per song (70 of which is cut right off the top by the labels), Apple alone is able to maintain and distribute more music than all the CD stamping factories in all the world, in terms of potential capacity. And they're making money at it. The cost of a datacenter holding a million songs is nothing compared to the fuel, labor, time, and workforce needed to distribute that number of songs (on however many discs) just one time. Apple has the capacity to do it indefinitely with an overhead of pennies, if that, per album. The online music stores have made the entire record industry obsolete, and when the market realizes this, the largest cost of a song will be right where it should be: paying the artist.
Riiiight, because nobody who has $500 to spend on a 60 GB hard drive can afford to buy music, and none of them use it for anything but music. Puff puff pass, man.
Hey Eric, how's it goin? I'm gonna need them to go ahead and catch me, uh, refilling my cartridges. Oh, and I'm also gonna need them to go ahead and uh, stop charging $35 for 1 ounce of ink. M'kay? Great, tha-anks.
The government already takes 23% of my income out of every check. I have to pay fees every year just for the "privilege" of owning and driving a motor vehicle. I pay insane taxes on cigarettes and gas. I pay taxes on my phone line and my cable television. If you want to call me a criminal because I want to avoid paying a 6 percent sales tax, you can do that. I work my ass off for that money, and if the government has a problem with that, they can kick me the fuck out.
Use Real Alternative. Integrates fine with Firefox and Windows Media Player 10. Plays through Firefox using Media Player Classic, which I'm assuming is installed with it, because I didn't put explicitly install it. It played that video fine in Firefox 1.0.6 for me.
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So, it's perfectly acceptable to drive a 4,000 pound piece of metal at an unsafe speed, while impaired, as long as you don't hurt anybody? That's so stupid. Following your logic, my grandfather is legally blind, so he should be allowed to drive as long as he doesn't kill anybody. You ignore the fact that driving is a privilege, not a right; if you break the rules of the road, you no longer have the privilege of using those roads. The license program, however flawed it may be, is there for a reason. You also ignore the fact that driving is an inherently dangerous activity, and plenty of stone-sober people die every day while completely focused on driving. It's a chunk of metal, hurtling down a stone path that isn't much wider than the car itself, with only minimal contact with the stopping surface, operated with barely any coordination.
I'm of the opinion that if you get caught driving under the influence, you should lose your license for no less than 5 years, have to go through a rehabilitation course, attend the funeral of at least one drunk driving victim, and pay a hefty fine. I also have zero problem with police hanging out in a bar parking lot, giving breathalizers at random. If you're drunk, call a cab.
As far as cell phones go, they're not nearly as impairing as alcohol. Almost every phone made today has a speakerphone feature. Nearly every phone also has a headset attachment. Hell, some of the headsets don't need to even be attached. I think that it should be OK to pull drivers over for having a cell phone on their head, just like it's OK to pull you over if the cop doesn't see the seatbelt on your shoulder. It takes one hand away from the activity of driving. Even if you normally drive with one hand, it's still a major physical and mental distraction to keep your arm in that position.
Bush then went on to say, "We need to eradicate the evildoers at Sony BMW. Those terrorists have software weapons of mass destruction, and we can't misunderestimate the, uh... the, uh... lethal and almost deadly potentiality of these devices. It's like a nucular time bomb waiting to blow up. A-heh heh heh. A-heh heh heh."
AIDS is a symptom of HIV infection. Not everybody who has HIV will develop AIDS.
Surprisingly, guys, nobody other than you gives a shit about their slashdot UID. Or karma. This is just barely one step above public masturbation.
Well I'll be darned.
http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/
Yeah, but they also spell "color" with a "u" so why should we trust them?
And let's not even talk about the massive holes that she comes with out of the box...
I agree that people are very biased. I disagree that they are biased because of Apple or open source propaganda. I think it's because Windows sucks. It might also have something to do with Microsoft's vile business tactics and treating their paying customers like criminals.
I'm wondering just how many arbitrary combinations of the millions of devices out there you actually have in your home computer. And out of those millions of arbitrary combinations, how many actually work? Sit back down.
Like taking the initiative to use a shift key, or having the courage to punctuate a sentence with a period and not a newline?
I keed!
That's retarded. Money in the bank is still property. Having the paper in your wallet is a minor, insignificant, puny detail at best. The fact is that taking that money out of a bank account deprives somebody of something they absolutely own. It is real and it has real value and if you remove it from somebody's possession, they have less value for it. Conversely, downloading a song might deprive somebody of something they might get.
I'm all for the artists, but the artists are eventually going to have to stick up for their own damn selves. If they're tired of only having 3 Humvees with Asanti rims, maybe they should consider that for every dollar they earn, the record label is earning 10. Maybe they should stop being such pussies and stand up for themselves. Maybe they should stop appearing in commercials that call their own fucking customers communists and thieves and everything short of rapers and pillagers, while their labels bribe and cajole our soulless government into passing laws that would make McCarthyists say, "Damn, I wish I thought of that."
The amount it costs to distribute files online is so miniscule as to be irrelevant. At 99 cents per song (70 of which is cut right off the top by the labels), Apple alone is able to maintain and distribute more music than all the CD stamping factories in all the world, in terms of potential capacity. And they're making money at it. The cost of a datacenter holding a million songs is nothing compared to the fuel, labor, time, and workforce needed to distribute that number of songs (on however many discs) just one time. Apple has the capacity to do it indefinitely with an overhead of pennies, if that, per album. The online music stores have made the entire record industry obsolete, and when the market realizes this, the largest cost of a song will be right where it should be: paying the artist.
When that happens, I'll start buying music again.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16812149113
Riiiight, because nobody who has $500 to spend on a 60 GB hard drive can afford to buy music, and none of them use it for anything but music. Puff puff pass, man.
You're just jealous because you don't have splashy window effects yet.
Hey Eric, how's it goin? I'm gonna need them to go ahead and catch me, uh, refilling my cartridges. Oh, and I'm also gonna need them to go ahead and uh, stop charging $35 for 1 ounce of ink. M'kay? Great, tha-anks.
To my knowledge, they didn't even supply the tracker, just an aggregated and categorized list from a large list of known trackers.
Who chooses to make free software?
AOL Engineer: ...and creating a public nuisance.
Prisoners #1 and 2 sigh in relief and resume their positions
The government already takes 23% of my income out of every check. I have to pay fees every year just for the "privilege" of owning and driving a motor vehicle. I pay insane taxes on cigarettes and gas. I pay taxes on my phone line and my cable television. If you want to call me a criminal because I want to avoid paying a 6 percent sales tax, you can do that. I work my ass off for that money, and if the government has a problem with that, they can kick me the fuck out.
Use Real Alternative. Integrates fine with Firefox and Windows Media Player 10. Plays through Firefox using Media Player Classic, which I'm assuming is installed with it, because I didn't put explicitly install it. It played that video fine in Firefox 1.0.6 for me.
No, A/UX was Unix to be run on a specific few 68k machines, and was *very* hardware dependent.
The Apple Network Servers used AIX. I know a few people who have them, and apparently they're great machines.
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1 shit-ton is equivalent to 2.74 metric fuckloads
Oh, that does it. Now I'm gonna go cry. Thanks a lot mister! This is me sobbing.
Oh, get over yourself.