GNAA reactionaries take Condoleezza Rice hostage Zeikfried - Associated Press, America
In a dawn raid that shocked and overwhelmed local security in its ferocity,
the normally pacifistic forces of the Gay Nigger Assocation of America
(seemingly backed up by a highly trained militia recruited from the French
district of New
Orleans), attacked and captured Americas second most notorious Nigger,
National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice.
As baffled secret service officials still searched for a motive, their
questions were soon answered in the form of a video (distributed via Ogrish.com) showing a now naked
and bound Rice knelt before her captors, who were all masked and of
african-american descent. In a carefully prepared statement, Miss Rice stated
that her captors had been accommodating, providing her with fresh dongs and gay
nigger seed to sustain her during the difficult journey to her current
location, which is believed to be Central Nigeria.
His voice muffled by the cloth covering all but his eyes, the leader of the
kidnappers (who referred to himself as "Tuvai"), demanded the release of one of
their members, known only as "l0de", currently being held and
beaten with sacks of Jewish gold in the
notorious Camp X-ray (located in US naval base of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba). The
dark men then chillingly warned that "If our demands were not met within 72
hours, we shall decapitate the zionist with our dongs".
In response, a disheveled President Bush, who had to postpone his somewhat
mysterious personal vacation to Columbia, stated that if Miss Rice was not
returned immediately he would "personally march to Nigeria himself" to see the
utter destruction of the GNAA.
After being silently informed by the carefully hovering
Dick Cheney that Nigeria was infact across several thousand miles of Ocean and
such a feat was impossible, the mobilsation of the US Airforce began, with
Nigerian capital Abuja City
already described by Fox News as "a smoking ruin". Although Reuters, AP and the
BBC have maintained that it is "unharmed and currently in the middle of a mass
orgy".
OSTG was
unavailible for comment, however it has been confirmed via Netcraft that LostCluster
has been given a pre-emptive +5, fellatio from Slashdot editor Michael Sims,
several hours before the articles posting.
About l0de:
Long time GNAA and Teens4christ member l0de has amassed a loyal following
both among the listeners to his weekly "l0de radio hour" internet
broadcast/terrorist sleeper cell activation code, and among the AIDS ridden
homosexuals that frequent the New Orleans area.
His disappearance soon after his arrest by local authorities has been blamed
on the Secret Service, who, it is alleged, were tipped off an hour previously
regarding threats made by l0de on his September 11th lrh special to hijack a
Carnival Cruise Ship and ram it into the White House.
About GNAA: GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
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Chicago, IL - The GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America)
announces their forcible entry into the Soulseek filesharing network. This action
was tasked to faggot tar baby Lysol,
who created the GNAA's first slsk chatroom.
This development is expected to make thousands of gay nigger converts as
nigger-seed-virus laced mp3s and FLACs are injected into rooms Underground
Hip-Hop and Jazz (Full CDs), among others.
GNAA member Lysol commented, "With our new slsk chatroom GNAA we will
be able to spread our holy nigger seed to copyright violating music pirates the
world over!". He then proceeded to fuck Jazz (Full CDs) founder Lamig
with his massive nigger dong, making her the third human female (after the
Olsen twins) to be impregnated with the holy gay nigger seed.
Already, signs of niggerdom are spreading. Last Measure is being
distributed on the network by persons not directly known to the ghey darkies.
GNAA software development branch have created trollseek, which is a
Microsoft Windows-only proxy
server, which connects to SoulSeek network, and translates SoulSeek protocol
into RFC1459. This allows
connecting to SoulSeek network using an irc client such as mIRC. Development of this software greatly
improved GNAA's ability to troll Soulseek chatrooms.
About SoulSeek:
Soulseek is a free p2p tool, available for the Windows and LUNIX operating
systems.
The majority of Soulseek users are in the United States and Brazil, with many
users on the European continent.
About GNAA: GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
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There is a strong case for opposing intellectual property. Among other things, it often retards innovation and exploits Third World peoples. Most of the usual arguments for intellectual property do not hold up under scrutiny. In particular, the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas provides no justification for ownership of ideas. The alternative to intellectual property is that intellectual products not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. Strategies against intellectual property include civil disobedience, promotion of non-owned information, and fostering of a more cooperative society.
The original rationale for copyrights and patents was to foster artistic and practical creative work by giving a short-term monopoly over certain uses of the work. This monopoly was granted to an individual or corporation by government. The government's power to grant a monopoly is corrupting. The biggest owners of intellectual property have sought to expand it well beyond any sensible rationale.
There are several types of intellectual property or, in other words, ownership of information, including copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, design rights and plant breeders' rights. Copyright covers the expression of ideas such as in writing, music and pictures. Patents cover inventions, such as new substances or articles and industrial processes. Trademarks are symbols associated with a good, service or company. Trade secrets cover confidential business information. Design rights cover different ways of presenting the outward appearance of things. Plant breeders' rights grant ownership of novel, distinct and stable plant varieties that are "invented."
The type of property that is familiar to most people is physical objects. People own clothes, cars, houses and land. But there has always been a big problem with owning ideas. Exclusive use or control of ideas or the way they are expressed doesn't make nearly as much sense as the ownership of physical objects.
Many physical objects can only be used by one person at a time. If one person wears a pair of shoes, no one else can wear them at the same time. (The person who wears them often owns them, but not always.) This is not true of intellectual property. Ideas can be copied over and over, but the person who had the original copy still has full use of it. Suppose you write a poem. Even if a million other people have copies and read the poem, you can still read the poem yourself. In other words, more than one person can use an idea--a poem, a mathematical formula, a tune, a letter--without reducing other people's use of the idea. Shoes and poems are fundamentally different in this respect.
Technological developments have made it cheaper and easier to make copies of information. Printing was a great advance: it eliminated the need for hand copying of documents. Photocopying and computers have made it even easier to make copies of written documents. Photography and sound recordings have done the same for visual and audio material. The ability to protect intellectual property is being undermined by technology. Yet there is a strong push to expand the scope of ownership of information.
This chapter outlines the case against intellectual property. I begin by mentioning some of the problems arising from ownership of information. Then I turn to weaknesses in its standard justifications. Next is an overview of problems with the so-called "marketplace of ideas," which has important links with intellectual property. Finally, I outline some alternatives to intellectual property and some possible strategies for moving towards them.
Problems with intellectual property
Governments generate large quantities of information. They produce statistics on population, figures on economic production and health, texts of laws and regulations, and vast numbers of reports. The generation of this information is paid for through taxation and, therefore, it might seem that it should be available to any member of the public. But in some countrie
We're no longer "citizens" in this country, we are consumers - cattle whose job it is to passivly graze on what corporations have to offer us. Sure, we had more dignity as citizens, but at least we don't have to make decisions anymore!
GNAA Announces Victory over Apple Community GNAA Announces Victory over Apple Community
San Francisco, California - Just three days after being the first in
the world to leak photos of Apple's upcoming revision to MacOS X, version 10.4,
Steve Jobs announced to the world facts about the new Operating System
consistent with information leaked by elite GNAA operator Gary Niger and
prospective member Ron Delsner.
"We've pulled it off!", noted Niger during Jobs' announcement at Apple's
Worldwide Developers Conference. "The GNAA plan was clever from the start with
this one I think. When we received our leaked copy of the OS, we knew that by
releasing only partial information and some screenshots, the association people
would make with the GNAA would lead them to believe the screenshots were fake.
Now that Steve 'Rim' Jobs has verified everything we leaked, we have managed to
fool the entire Mac community. In essense, a few hundred thousand people have
been trolled, a few hundred thousand people have lost. Though I do wish they
have a nice day"
"I don't think it could have worked out any better; Every single one of the
features shown in our screenshots, particularly Dashboard, which everybody
called as fake, was demoed by Jobs. This is my revenge for being beat up on the
rent", quoted Ron Delsner on being approached by reporters. "I've been wanting
to join the Gay Nigger Association of America for quite some time, and knew
that I help pull off something big if they were to let me in."
Delsner was right, as upon hearing this, Gary Niger immediately produced a vial
of what he called the "Holy Gay Nigger Seed" from his front pocket, and asked
Ron to kneel, at which time the Seed was poured upon Ron's head, making him an
official member of the GNAA. Noticing the television cameras present in the
press room, Gary cited that this was in fact the first televised induction of a
member into the GNAA.
"But back to the troll", Niger said quickly after. "I had a sneaking suspicion
that the homosexual caucasians of the Mac community would feel threatened by
the GNAA's massive nigger cocks and immediately cast doubts upon any
screenshots we produced for them. I saw this as an opportunity to troll
hundreds of thousands of people. It just goes to show that GNAA is greater than
j00, and that fristage postage is mine."
And Niger certainly did not fail it, as can be seen from the following excerpts
taken from various Internet website's covering the leak:
ThinkSecret.com - "In fact, it was the source that led many users to call the
shots fake; the information in that story, as well as this one, was provided by
Gary Niger and Ron Delsner of the GNAA, an organization that deals in
crapfloods and Slashdot trolling."
AppleInsider.com - "Enjoy the photoshop work. I seriously don't think Apple
would be so crazy to use those jargons."
MacRumors.com - "Hmm... Information by "Gary Niger" of GNAA. Sounds too stupid
to be true. And that dashboard thing? Hogwash me thinks..."
MacRumors.com - "I immediately thought of them when I saw "GNAA". Anyone who
reads Slashdot would be familiar with them - they put big spam posts
everywhere. Yes, and it doesn't surprise me. I don't think the screenshots are
real (at least not the Dashboard ones), but I have no trouble believing the
PDF."
Kim Kap Sol on AppleInsider.com said "I can guarantee those are fake." He then
continued by saying "Hello I R Korea KEKEKEKE OMG ZERG RUSH GOGOGOGO ^_^"
Gary's reply to this was "Way to make a complete idiot of yourself you
dog-eating douchebag."
Steve Jobs was unavailable for comment immediately following the keynote
address, though WWDC attendee and GNAA member Porfa noticed "A cute wiggle in
Jobs' ass as he walked away."
About Apple
Apple Computer is the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay
computer". 87% of GNAA members are Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly o
Protecting children is one of our chief duties as adults, whether we are parents, professionals, or friends. But we also have to ask: What are we protecting them from? My book says that sexuality is a fact of life, and a potentially wonderful part of growing up for children at all stages of their lives. It's not sex itself that is harmful to children, but the conditions under which they might express themselves sexually that can leave them vulnerable to harms like HIV, unwanted pregnancy, or sexual violence.
In our country, there are people pushing a conservative religious agenda that would deny minors all sexual information and sexual expression. They're the people behind abstinence-only education, the child-pornography laws that get people arrested for taking pictures of their babies in the bathtub, or laws that make abortion risky and traumatic for young women. These so-called protections are more harmful to minors than sex itself.
But most people don't have an agenda. They're just nervous thinking about children as sexual beings and they're worried that something bad might happen to a kid they love. I'm not saying we should stop caring. But let's care realistically. Do we really want to strip sexuality out of young people's lives?
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I noticed this comment sounded strikingly similar to something I had read before, and, sure enough, after some searching I found the original. Parent should be modded down.
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Operating systems could, if they wanted to, impose restrictions on what you can and can't copy, and use hashing to keep track of it. (Think Palladium) The solution to either of these situations is to simply use software (OSS?) that doesn't have these "features" Duh.
If I'm reading the article right, there seems to be little difference between this "console" (if you can even call it that what with all the features) and a fully-blown PC, except for one thing - the OS, which will be embedded Windows XP. If a fully-featured Linux distro could be gotten to run on this animal - and I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard - it would make a great workstation, much better than the Xbox turned out to be for this sort of thing. The only potential problem I see is if it comes with some sort of DRM that makes loading alternative OS's difficult. Unfortunately this is more than likely, but we shall see. In any case, I'll probably be getting one simply because I enjoy tinkering with the latest tech toys. But who doesn't? 8)
Mr Stallman asks the question, "What does it mean to run free software?". Each person or organization who chooses an open source OS, application or other tool over a proprietary one chooses to do so for a their own reasons. In this article Stallman discusses why he chose this path but he is arguing that each person or organization should make the choice for the same reasons he did, with the same motivation.
Stallman asserts that "non-free software carries with it an antisocial system that prohibits coopoeration and community." This is certainly overstating the importance of software's influence on each person's ability to cooperate and experience community. And I assert that this is where the open source movement fails.
While open source software promotes cooperation and community for the developers involved in its creation, it doesn't attempt to build community by creating more user friendly tools.
The general popluation doesn't care about the right to see the source code, most of the users of computers can't do any thing with the code any way. Open source project managers and developers need to better consider their end users. End users are not always other programmers, some are teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, housewives, grandparents.
Usability for the community at large must go beyond RPMs and a GUI that mimics Windows. Usability must extend into high quality instructional programs that provide the information at the user's fingertips. Job aids and other electronic performance support tools that address the needs of the non-developer community will do more to foster cooperation and community between the developers and their users.
Organizations like the FSF and SEUL need to consider how to partner include Instructional Systems Design (ISD) and change mangement experts into their projects. After all what good is any application free or not without a high probability of end user acceptance.
I have no idea what R.S. would or will say in reply to your concerns, but I would like to give you my perspective as a professional economist. As such, I am perhaps somewhat less interested than R.S. is in arguing what SHOULD be, and perhaps somewhat more interested in explaining what exists.
What indisputably exists is a rapidly expanding set of free software which more and more perfectly substitutes for commercial software, and in many cases excels it. Particularly considering its low cost, there is no need to explain the demand for this software. The challenge is, to explain the supply.
It seems to me that among the key sources of supply of "free" software are (1) that rewards not directly compensatory can nevertheless have significant value (e.g. recognition as a good designer, inventor of algorithms, or project coordinator is valuable human capital); (2) that marketing a new piece of code is significantly more difficult and costly than simply handing it out; (3) that normal IT puruits inevitably yield as by-products sections of code that are useful to others but neverthess may be too small or too insignificant to be packaged and marketed as stand-alone software products (see 2); (4) that very many minds working on any given software development problem will generally produce a much better solution than a few minds (this effect is an 'economy of scale'); and (5) the existence of the internet as an inexpensive but effective mechanism by which production may be coordinated and promotion and distribution may be facilitated.
I personally believe that the cost advantages enjoyed by free software producers are such that free software will eventually drive out proprietary software for all tasks that are routine and widespread. I believe there will remain scope for the development of proprietary software only in applications that are highly specialized or require confidentiality. I believe that this will occur as a market outcome of the self-interested actions of economic agents. So I differ from what seems to be R.S.'s belief that this will require anyone's altruistic conduct.
I also disagree with his proposal that we should shun proprietary software for the sake of encouraging the development of free software. Any business should do what best, subject to the law, makes money for its owners. The profit motive, which is responsible for the great efficiency of our economy, leaves scant room for altruistic software preferences. As for individuals, R.S. may do as he likes, but I personally feel no obligation to give special preference to free software. Instead, I take into account the costs and benefits of each and use whatever I decide is best for my particular circumstances.
That's why I use free software like GNU Linux, GNU Emacs, the Ion window manager, Open Office, Cdrecord, Gphoto2 and so forth, but also why I use proprietary software like Windows 98, Win4lin, ChessBase, Hiarcs and Bookup (the latter three being chess applications that really have no equal in the free software domain and which, unfortunately, exist in Windows versions only). Oh, and I paid $39 for Opera for Linux, which I think is a very good browser. Detesting Windows as I do, I do not browse, word process or do anything but chess on my Win4lin setup. Someday, perhaps after I retire, I may devote some time to improving the free software that exists for chess. If I do, I will do it for my own entertainment and not for the altruistic reasons proposed by R.S. I admit, however, that I would take keen satisfaction in stealing business from developers who designed software for Windows only.
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Kinda defeats the whole purpose behind GNU/Linux, don't you think?
I bet the majority of the population, not just slashdot, would be upset by this news, and the new "War on Piracy(TM)" in general. So the question is, if most people think downloading music is OK, why isn't it legal? I'll tell you why: we don't live in a democracy anymore - we live in a corporatocracy.
Either that or people are too entranced by their televisions to give a damn.
Slashdot Mirror
read it and weep!
GNAA reactionaries take Condoleezza Rice hostage
Zeikfried - Associated Press, America
In a dawn raid that shocked and overwhelmed local security in its ferocity, the normally pacifistic forces of the Gay Nigger Assocation of America (seemingly backed up by a highly trained militia recruited from the French district of New Orleans), attacked and captured Americas second most notorious Nigger, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
As baffled secret service officials still searched for a motive, their questions were soon answered in the form of a video (distributed via Ogrish.com) showing a now naked and bound Rice knelt before her captors, who were all masked and of african-american descent. In a carefully prepared statement, Miss Rice stated that her captors had been accommodating, providing her with fresh dongs and gay nigger seed to sustain her during the difficult journey to her current location, which is believed to be Central Nigeria.
His voice muffled by the cloth covering all but his eyes, the leader of the kidnappers (who referred to himself as "Tuvai"), demanded the release of one of their members, known only as "l0de", currently being held and beaten with sacks of Jewish gold in the notorious Camp X-ray (located in US naval base of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba). The dark men then chillingly warned that "If our demands were not met within 72 hours, we shall decapitate the zionist with our dongs".
In response, a disheveled President Bush, who had to postpone his somewhat mysterious personal vacation to Columbia, stated that if Miss Rice was not returned immediately he would "personally march to Nigeria himself" to see the utter destruction of the GNAA.
After being silently informed by the carefully hovering Dick Cheney that Nigeria was infact across several thousand miles of Ocean and such a feat was impossible, the mobilsation of the US Airforce began, with Nigerian capital Abuja City already described by Fox News as "a smoking ruin". Although Reuters, AP and the BBC have maintained that it is "unharmed and currently in the middle of a mass orgy".
OSTG was unavailible for comment, however it has been confirmed via Netcraft that LostCluster has been given a pre-emptive +5, fellatio from Slashdot editor Michael Sims, several hours before the articles posting.
About l0de:
Long time GNAA and Teens4christ member l0de has amassed a loyal following both among the listeners to his weekly "l0de radio hour" internet broadcast/terrorist sleeper cell activation code, and among the AIDS ridden homosexuals that frequent the New Orleans area.
His disappearance soon after his arrest by local authorities has been blamed on the Secret Service, who, it is alleged, were tipped off an hour previously regarding threats made by l0de on his September 11th lrh special to hijack a Carnival Cruise Ship and ram it into the White House.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
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Are you a NIGGER ?
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GNAA Penetrates Popular Pirating Network
By Commander Trollco
Chicago, IL - The GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) announces their forcible entry into the Soulseek filesharing network. This action was tasked to faggot tar baby Lysol, who created the GNAA's first slsk chatroom.
This development is expected to make thousands of gay nigger converts as nigger-seed-virus laced mp3s and FLACs are injected into rooms Underground Hip-Hop and Jazz (Full CDs), among others.
GNAA member Lysol commented, "With our new slsk chatroom GNAA we will be able to spread our holy nigger seed to copyright violating music pirates the world over!". He then proceeded to fuck Jazz (Full CDs) founder Lamig with his massive nigger dong, making her the third human female (after the Olsen twins) to be impregnated with the holy gay nigger seed.
Already, signs of niggerdom are spreading. Last Measure is being distributed on the network by persons not directly known to the ghey darkies.
GNAA software development branch have created trollseek, which is a Microsoft Windows-only proxy server, which connects to SoulSeek network, and translates SoulSeek protocol into RFC1459. This allows connecting to SoulSeek network using an irc client such as mIRC. Development of this software greatly improved GNAA's ability to troll Soulseek chatrooms.
About SoulSeek :
Soulseek is a free p2p tool, available for the Windows and LUNIX operating systems.
The majority of Soulseek users are in the United States and Brazil, with many users on the European continent.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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There is a strong case for opposing intellectual property. Among other things, it often retards innovation and exploits Third World peoples. Most of the usual arguments for intellectual property do not hold up under scrutiny. In particular, the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas provides no justification for ownership of ideas. The alternative to intellectual property is that intellectual products not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. Strategies against intellectual property include civil disobedience, promotion of non-owned information, and fostering of a more cooperative society.
The original rationale for copyrights and patents was to foster artistic and practical creative work by giving a short-term monopoly over certain uses of the work. This monopoly was granted to an individual or corporation by government. The government's power to grant a monopoly is corrupting. The biggest owners of intellectual property have sought to expand it well beyond any sensible rationale.
There are several types of intellectual property or, in other words, ownership of information, including copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, design rights and plant breeders' rights. Copyright covers the expression of ideas such as in writing, music and pictures. Patents cover inventions, such as new substances or articles and industrial processes. Trademarks are symbols associated with a good, service or company. Trade secrets cover confidential business information. Design rights cover different ways of presenting the outward appearance of things. Plant breeders' rights grant ownership of novel, distinct and stable plant varieties that are "invented."
The type of property that is familiar to most people is physical objects. People own clothes, cars, houses and land. But there has always been a big problem with owning ideas. Exclusive use or control of ideas or the way they are expressed doesn't make nearly as much sense as the ownership of physical objects.
Many physical objects can only be used by one person at a time. If one person wears a pair of shoes, no one else can wear them at the same time. (The person who wears them often owns them, but not always.) This is not true of intellectual property. Ideas can be copied over and over, but the person who had the original copy still has full use of it. Suppose you write a poem. Even if a million other people have copies and read the poem, you can still read the poem yourself. In other words, more than one person can use an idea--a poem, a mathematical formula, a tune, a letter--without reducing other people's use of the idea. Shoes and poems are fundamentally different in this respect.
Technological developments have made it cheaper and easier to make copies of information. Printing was a great advance: it eliminated the need for hand copying of documents. Photocopying and computers have made it even easier to make copies of written documents. Photography and sound recordings have done the same for visual and audio material. The ability to protect intellectual property is being undermined by technology. Yet there is a strong push to expand the scope of ownership of information.
This chapter outlines the case against intellectual property. I begin by mentioning some of the problems arising from ownership of information. Then I turn to weaknesses in its standard justifications. Next is an overview of problems with the so-called "marketplace of ideas," which has important links with intellectual property. Finally, I outline some alternatives to intellectual property and some possible strategies for moving towards them.
Problems with intellectual property
Governments generate large quantities of information. They produce statistics on population, figures on economic production and health, texts of laws and regulations, and vast numbers of reports. The generation of this information is paid for through taxation and, therefore, it might seem that it should be available to any member of the public. But in some countrie
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We're no longer "citizens" in this country, we are consumers - cattle whose job it is to passivly graze on what corporations have to offer us. Sure, we had more dignity as citizens, but at least we don't have to make decisions anymore!
GNAA Announces Victory over Apple Community
San Francisco, California - Just three days after being the first in the world to leak photos of Apple's upcoming revision to MacOS X, version 10.4, Steve Jobs announced to the world facts about the new Operating System consistent with information leaked by elite GNAA operator Gary Niger and prospective member Ron Delsner.
"We've pulled it off!", noted Niger during Jobs' announcement at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. "The GNAA plan was clever from the start with this one I think. When we received our leaked copy of the OS, we knew that by releasing only partial information and some screenshots, the association people would make with the GNAA would lead them to believe the screenshots were fake. Now that Steve 'Rim' Jobs has verified everything we leaked, we have managed to fool the entire Mac community. In essense, a few hundred thousand people have been trolled, a few hundred thousand people have lost. Though I do wish they have a nice day"
"I don't think it could have worked out any better; Every single one of the features shown in our screenshots, particularly Dashboard, which everybody called as fake, was demoed by Jobs. This is my revenge for being beat up on the rent", quoted Ron Delsner on being approached by reporters. "I've been wanting to join the Gay Nigger Association of America for quite some time, and knew that I help pull off something big if they were to let me in."
Delsner was right, as upon hearing this, Gary Niger immediately produced a vial of what he called the "Holy Gay Nigger Seed" from his front pocket, and asked Ron to kneel, at which time the Seed was poured upon Ron's head, making him an official member of the GNAA. Noticing the television cameras present in the press room, Gary cited that this was in fact the first televised induction of a member into the GNAA.
"But back to the troll", Niger said quickly after. "I had a sneaking suspicion that the homosexual caucasians of the Mac community would feel threatened by the GNAA's massive nigger cocks and immediately cast doubts upon any screenshots we produced for them. I saw this as an opportunity to troll hundreds of thousands of people. It just goes to show that GNAA is greater than j00, and that fristage postage is mine."
And Niger certainly did not fail it, as can be seen from the following excerpts taken from various Internet website's covering the leak:
ThinkSecret.com - "In fact, it was the source that led many users to call the shots fake; the information in that story, as well as this one, was provided by Gary Niger and Ron Delsner of the GNAA, an organization that deals in crapfloods and Slashdot trolling."
AppleInsider.com - "Enjoy the photoshop work. I seriously don't think Apple would be so crazy to use those jargons."
MacRumors.com - "Hmm... Information by "Gary Niger" of GNAA. Sounds too stupid to be true. And that dashboard thing? Hogwash me thinks ..."
MacRumors.com - "I immediately thought of them when I saw "GNAA". Anyone who reads Slashdot would be familiar with them - they put big spam posts everywhere. Yes, and it doesn't surprise me. I don't think the screenshots are real (at least not the Dashboard ones), but I have no trouble believing the PDF."
Kim Kap Sol on AppleInsider.com said "I can guarantee those are fake." He then continued by saying "Hello I R Korea KEKEKEKE OMG ZERG RUSH GOGOGOGO ^_^"
Gary's reply to this was "Way to make a complete idiot of yourself you dog-eating douchebag."
Steve Jobs was unavailable for comment immediately following the keynote address, though WWDC attendee and GNAA member Porfa noticed "A cute wiggle in Jobs' ass as he walked away."
About Apple
Apple Computer is the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members are Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly o
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Protecting children is one of our chief duties as adults, whether we are parents, professionals, or friends. But we also have to ask: What are we protecting them from? My book says that sexuality is a fact of life, and a potentially wonderful part of growing up for children at all stages of their lives. It's not sex itself that is harmful to children, but the conditions under which they might express themselves sexually that can leave them vulnerable to harms like HIV, unwanted pregnancy, or sexual violence.
In our country, there are people pushing a conservative religious agenda that would deny minors all sexual information and sexual expression. They're the people behind abstinence-only education, the child-pornography laws that get people arrested for taking pictures of their babies in the bathtub, or laws that make abortion risky and traumatic for young women. These so-called protections are more harmful to minors than sex itself.
But most people don't have an agenda. They're just nervous thinking about children as sexual beings and they're worried that something bad might happen to a kid they love. I'm not saying we should stop caring. But let's care realistically. Do we really want to strip sexuality out of young people's lives?
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ON FEBRUARY 10, 2004, SLASHDOT WILL BE CRACKED BY ELITE MEMBERS OF THE GNAA. THAT IS ALL.
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I noticed this comment sounded strikingly similar to something I had read before, and, sure enough, after some searching I found the original.
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Operating systems could, if they wanted to, impose restrictions on what you can and can't copy, and use hashing to keep track of it. (Think Palladium) The solution to either of these situations is to simply use software (OSS?) that doesn't have these "features" Duh.
X-bit labs - Hardware news - AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Processor is available now
AMD launches new mobile, desktop Athlon chips (IT World)
Reviews: Athlon 64 3400+
AMD extends Athlon 64 family
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Processor launched
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+ Joins the Line-Up
If I'm reading the article right, there seems to be little difference between this "console" (if you can even call it that what with all the features) and a fully-blown PC, except for one thing - the OS, which will be embedded Windows XP. If a fully-featured Linux distro could be gotten to run on this animal - and I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard - it would make a great workstation, much better than the Xbox turned out to be for this sort of thing. The only potential problem I see is if it comes with some sort of DRM that makes loading alternative OS's difficult. Unfortunately this is more than likely, but we shall see. In any case, I'll probably be getting one simply because I enjoy tinkering with the latest tech toys. But who doesn't? 8)
Mr Stallman asks the question, "What does it mean to run free software?". Each person or organization who chooses an open source OS, application or other tool over a proprietary one chooses to do so for a their own reasons. In this article Stallman discusses why he chose this path but he is arguing that each person or organization should make the choice for the same reasons he did, with the same motivation.
Stallman asserts that "non-free software carries with it an antisocial system that prohibits coopoeration and community." This is certainly overstating the importance of software's influence on each person's ability to cooperate and experience community. And I assert that this is where the open source movement fails.
While open source software promotes cooperation and community for the developers involved in its creation, it doesn't attempt to build community by creating more user friendly tools.
The general popluation doesn't care about the right to see the source code, most of the users of computers can't do any thing with the code any way. Open source project managers and developers need to better consider their end users. End users are not always other programmers, some are teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, housewives, grandparents.
Usability for the community at large must go beyond RPMs and a GUI that mimics Windows. Usability must extend into high quality instructional programs that provide the information at the user's fingertips. Job aids and other electronic performance support tools that address the needs of the non-developer community will do more to foster cooperation and community between the developers and their users.
Organizations like the FSF and SEUL need to consider how to partner include Instructional Systems Design (ISD) and change mangement experts into their projects. After all what good is any application free or not without a high probability of end user acceptance.
I have no idea what R.S. would or will say in reply to your concerns, but I would like to give you my perspective as a professional economist. As such, I am perhaps somewhat less interested than R.S. is in arguing what SHOULD be, and perhaps somewhat more interested in explaining what exists.
What indisputably exists is a rapidly expanding set of free software which more and more perfectly substitutes for commercial software, and in many cases excels it. Particularly considering its low cost, there is no need to explain the demand for this software. The challenge is, to explain the supply.
It seems to me that among the key sources of supply of "free" software are (1) that rewards not directly compensatory can nevertheless have significant value (e.g. recognition as a good designer, inventor of algorithms, or project coordinator is valuable human capital); (2) that marketing a new piece of code is significantly more difficult and costly than simply handing it out; (3) that normal IT puruits inevitably yield as by-products sections of code that are useful to others but neverthess may be too small or too insignificant to be packaged and marketed as stand-alone software products (see 2); (4) that very many minds working on any given software development problem will generally produce a much better solution than a few minds (this effect is an 'economy of scale'); and (5) the existence of the internet as an inexpensive but effective mechanism by which production may be coordinated and promotion and distribution may be facilitated.
I personally believe that the cost advantages enjoyed by free software producers are such that free software will eventually drive out proprietary software for all tasks that are routine and widespread. I believe there will remain scope for the development of proprietary software only in applications that are highly specialized or require confidentiality. I believe that this will occur as a market outcome of the self-interested actions of economic agents. So I differ from what seems to be R.S.'s belief that this will require anyone's altruistic conduct.
I also disagree with his proposal that we should shun proprietary software for the sake of encouraging the development of free software. Any business should do what best, subject to the law, makes money for its owners. The profit motive, which is responsible for the great efficiency of our economy, leaves scant room for altruistic software preferences. As for individuals, R.S. may do as he likes, but I personally feel no obligation to give special preference to free software. Instead, I take into account the costs and benefits of each and use whatever I decide is best for my particular circumstances.
That's why I use free software like GNU Linux, GNU Emacs, the Ion window manager, Open Office, Cdrecord, Gphoto2 and so forth, but also why I use proprietary software like Windows 98, Win4lin, ChessBase, Hiarcs and Bookup (the latter three being chess applications that really have no equal in the free software domain and which, unfortunately, exist in Windows versions only). Oh, and I paid $39 for Opera for Linux, which I think is a very good browser. Detesting Windows as I do, I do not browse, word process or do anything but chess on my Win4lin setup. Someday, perhaps after I retire, I may devote some time to improving the free software that exists for chess. If I do, I will do it for my own entertainment and not for the altruistic reasons proposed by R.S. I admit, however, that I would take keen satisfaction in stealing business from developers who designed software for Windows only.
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Kinda defeats the whole purpose behind GNU/Linux, don't you think?
I bet the majority of the population, not just slashdot, would be upset by this news, and the new "War on Piracy(TM)" in general. So the question is, if most people think downloading music is OK, why isn't it legal? I'll tell you why: we don't live in a democracy anymore - we live in a corporatocracy.
Either that or people are too entranced by their televisions to give a damn.
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Apple is great, Jobs is God. The iPod is the greatest invention ever!
I agree with this sentiment.
-- Steve