How does this lame aside get modded +4 funny? I swear the RIAA/MPAA is paying shills to get on popular web forums and diss the type of music downloading that the vast majority of people do.
That's the kind thats free in oh-so-many ways, as opposed to the kind where you pay a bunch of rich dipshits (music execs) for paying another bunch of rich dipshits (congressmen) for the privledge of using what's already yours (your computer and net connection).
He IS a murderer! After all, think of the tiny percent of those fat profits which music execs give to charity for tax purposes, they feed starving kids in Africa, who will now go hungry and die, all because HE didn't want to pay a dollar for permission to use his computer. And rape? Well any feminist literature major will be happy to tell you that reaping the fruits of the prostituting of the musician without paying IS rape.
Using Linux is the same thing. Just look at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Overfed, lazy, incompetent Linux users are stealing bread from the mouths of starving children, while the law-making and -abiding plutocrats try desperately to save them!
I'd also like to add that the idea of eternal punishment by god is kind of a new idea in christianity, it's not anywhere in the bible. We all know Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, and the worst punishment the jewish God metes out is like 18 months in hell or something, everyone goes to heaven eventually.
Most (maybe all) of the really bad ideas in the churches are things put in there by the priesthood to increase their influence and keep people obedient, not the "word of God" as reported by the major prophets. The prophets all say God is by definition perfectly good and powerful, which is of course obviously incompatible with, say, creating most of mankind exclusively for the purpose of sending them to hell for all eternity (that is, all except the good Catholics [or whatever subgroupd of the religion in question] which are only a fraction of the Catholics overall).
You might find it illluminating to read the "Theodicy" by Liebnitz.
By the same token, do you think the Washington Post is going to learn about theft of top-level secure data? Probably the only reason this got out is that they're going to have to tell thousands of employees about it anyway.
Einstein (among others) pointed out: If you can't trust someone with a little job, why would you trust 'em with a big important one?
parent is a 'tard, but what do you expect from a repugnican. Here in the US and W. Europe you bribe lawyers with $300 an hour to get you out of a jam. In other countries you cut out the middleman and just give the police a $20.
Maybe not all that you'd want right out of the box. However my C750 has a FULL debian install on it, apt-get packages and everything. Mozilla, flash, realplayer, whatever. It takes a little work, but that's part of the fun right?
Negligent homicide? Like when the president's wife (Laura Bush) ran over and killed her ex-boyfriend after running a stop sign?
True story you'll never find in the "biased liberal media!" Feel free to look it up on Google. I wonder what they'd say if Hilary had murdered someone through carelessness and got off without so much as a moving violation?
But if any of my friends ever get caught with 5 grams of weed then they have to work at Burger King for the rest of their lives. God Bless the USA!
Sweet is right! Damn buying stock, if I ever complete my Ph.D in math then the top slot of my prospective employer list will be for IBM.
Plus Greg Chaitin works there!
It sounds to my ear like the parent poster is the problem with wikipedia. Obviously the article on Rape as gov't policy had a link to the US/Abu-Ghraib story to show that it's not just maniac dictators in African nations that use rape as a weapon, but even the richest (and most self-righteous) nation on earth.
Being a shill, the poster then edited the article to fit it into his simplistic political world-view (US is all good, Saddam is evil, ignore the fact that the US put him in power to begin with)
Of course, both that article and this one are mostly just opinion, but mine has one objective leg-up: I did not lie. It is a known fact, and well documented for anyone who looks, that some prisoners at Abu-Ghraib had broomhandles inserted in their anus by US soldiers, and that this kind of practice was encouraged by the highest levels of the US gov't (to the civilians who control the military). A textbook example of policy-oriented institutionalized rape.
In brief: parent is a Fox-news type shill and should be ignored, To mod it +5 inf. is a travesty.
Totally redundant are your assertions. A wise man of strong moral character doesn't need to consult the law before he takes action.
I suppose your counterpart in colonial America 200 years ago walked around yelling "We are clearly all British subjects and any talk to the contrary, besides being treasonous, is flatly ridiculous!" Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong and vice versa, ass.
If always taking the safest route were the best idea then all the glory would go to the most mediocre people. Go back to posting on Fark about lib-ral activist judges and toasted cheese if you don't want to read the opinions of a web community devoted to something real that is of daily increasing importance.
Man, those guys must be lvl 40 coders who have amulets of quick typing +8!
How many lines do we need to program a mind nowadays?
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Do you feel silly for paying thousands of dollars for what other people get for free?
How about when you take into account that most of your money is gong to the worst kind of rich people who want nothing more than to LIMIT what you (or anyone else) can do with your music?
That's not the half of it. Almost every medium sized or larger American city in every red state has a Mexican flea market, and they ALL have swap meets. Every one of these types of places has AT LEAST one stall where some guy sells pirated DVD's of all kinds. Hundreds or even thousands.
And the same thing goes on everywhere around the world. My brother was an Infantryman in Afghanistan and guys in his unit bought hundreds of CDs + DVDs for 1 or 2 dollars each, most containing more than one movie, ie he got the whole "Lord of the Rings" on ONE DVD for $2. Ditto Kill Bill.
I totally disagree. I think there is a sizeable group of early adapters who have not found their needs met by either 20-lb laptops with their accesories nor the OS-crippled playtoys that are current PDA's.
What I (and I believe many others here want) is a personal computer we can carry around like our wallet, keys, and cellphone. It's not like PDAs lack the CPU horsepower, many of them are stronger than the Pentium II's that we just recently discontinued, which were cutting edge a few years ago and many today run linux, because it is a mature, robust OS that will be around forever and which has growing support from vendors. What do you think the Chinese Pc's that will soon bear the IBM stamp will run?
In any even, Palm will get clobbered by the industrial might of windows mobile if they don't make a big change now. This is a great idea! I just wish I hadn't ordered a Zaurus just recently so I could run linux on it!
"'Mr. Schleicher said that students in countries that emphasized theorems and rote learning tended not to do as well as those that emphasized the more practical aspects of mathematics.'"
This is the most ridiculous statement I've seen in a while. What ARE the practical aspects of mathematics if not the theorems and rote parts? If you take away the memorization of facts, then you are left with meaning and abstract perceptions, and while I will agree that this is the important part of mathematics, it is certainly not the practical part, in terms of knowing things like how much wallpaper is needed to cover a wall or converting units of measurement.
Yeah I use AMD now too, but I had a PII and I suspect a lot of folks on this board did.
But for a lot of people, the pentium 2 was the real start of PC's for EVERY person in America, not just the nerds and rich kids. It was the Model-T behind the IT boom.
Howard Stern stays exactly within the narrow lane of behavior with which he has been assigned. Namely, he is to appeal to the 'rebel' demographic by himself being a 'rebel' against the very system which permits his survival. This reminds me of the skinny dork I knew in 8th grade who was talking about all the advantages of survival of the fittest and anarchy, and how mad he got when my very intelligent friend asked him if it had occurred to him that he would in all likelihood be the first to die!
What I'm trying to say is, if it weren't for censorship and moral values, nobody as crude and boring as Howard Stern would be listened to by anyone besides their cat. All he has to offer is his 'zany antics' which are really only interesting because they're the crudest thing your likely to see in mass media, sort of like how Nickelodian is the raciest thing kids know their parents will let them watch.
I think the only thing remotely worth watching is Public TV for news and FOX for new simpsons. Everything else is better on the internet anyway.
Yeah, I'm sure IBM's math guys and engineers who design this stuff then put on their overalls and head onto the factory floor to put the thing together.
I'm not so sure that the percentage of parts that come from a single vendor is of much importance with regard to the performance of a modern computer.
Unless of course you're just an anti-Dell shill. In which case I ask: where will it ever end? I know MS is evil because it charges for closed software, but you can't possibly expect much more out of a computer supplier than you can from Dell.
My brother and I both got Compaq laptops three years ago. Recently I had to personally take them BOTH apart and reinstall the heat sinks on the main chips, and I suspect this is actually a design FEATURE from Compaq to force upgrades, seeing as how their time to failures were nearly identical and they were even built to degrade gracefully, and it would've obviously taken LESS engineering effort to desing the thing to stay locked tight in the first place!
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How does this lame aside get modded +4 funny? I swear the RIAA/MPAA is paying shills to get on popular web forums and diss the type of music downloading that the vast majority of people do.
That's the kind thats free in oh-so-many ways, as opposed to the kind where you pay a bunch of rich dipshits (music execs) for paying another bunch of rich dipshits (congressmen) for the privledge of using what's already yours (your computer and net connection).
He IS a murderer! After all, think of the tiny percent of those fat profits which music execs give to charity for tax purposes, they feed starving kids in Africa, who will now go hungry and die, all because HE didn't want to pay a dollar for permission to use his computer. And rape? Well any feminist literature major will be happy to tell you that reaping the fruits of the prostituting of the musician without paying IS rape.
Using Linux is the same thing. Just look at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Overfed, lazy, incompetent Linux users are stealing bread from the mouths of starving children, while the law-making and -abiding plutocrats try desperately to save them!
I'd also like to add that the idea of eternal punishment by god is kind of a new idea in christianity, it's not anywhere in the bible. We all know Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, and the worst punishment the jewish God metes out is like 18 months in hell or something, everyone goes to heaven eventually.
Most (maybe all) of the really bad ideas in the churches are things put in there by the priesthood to increase their influence and keep people obedient, not the "word of God" as reported by the major prophets. The prophets all say God is by definition perfectly good and powerful, which is of course obviously incompatible with, say, creating most of mankind exclusively for the purpose of sending them to hell for all eternity (that is, all except the good Catholics [or whatever subgroupd of the religion in question] which are only a fraction of the Catholics overall).
You might find it illluminating to read the "Theodicy" by Liebnitz.
Off topic, but is your sig accurate?
I don't think Elizabeth Smart got raped at all, wasn't she going to parties and such most of the time?
No no no, a sixth sense to warn of impending danger, like how all the Zionists knew to leave the world trade center before 9/11.
:o
Oh wait, that was their cell phones!
By the same token, do you think the Washington Post is going to learn about theft of top-level secure data? Probably the only reason this got out is that they're going to have to tell thousands of employees about it anyway.
Einstein (among others) pointed out: If you can't trust someone with a little job, why would you trust 'em with a big important one?
Actually, it pronounced "CIAs" backwards.
so uhh the real question is:
where's a scan of these notes and doodles?
parent is a 'tard, but what do you expect from a repugnican. Here in the US and W. Europe you bribe lawyers with $300 an hour to get you out of a jam. In other countries you cut out the middleman and just give the police a $20.
Maybe not all that you'd want right out of the box. However my C750 has a FULL debian install on it, apt-get packages and everything. Mozilla, flash, realplayer, whatever. It takes a little work, but that's part of the fun right?
Negligent homicide? Like when the president's wife (Laura Bush) ran over and killed her ex-boyfriend after running a stop sign?
True story you'll never find in the "biased liberal media!" Feel free to look it up on Google. I wonder what they'd say if Hilary had murdered someone through carelessness and got off without so much as a moving violation?
But if any of my friends ever get caught with 5 grams of weed then they have to work at Burger King for the rest of their lives. God Bless the USA!
Sweet is right! Damn buying stock, if I ever complete my Ph.D in math then the top slot of my prospective employer list will be for IBM.
Plus Greg Chaitin works there!
If you try and play the lawyer's game, you'll end up wasting your life, just like they do. Your legacy will be only so much meaningless blather.
Just let the guy do his stuff, and if you don't like it, it's open source. So why don't YOU go talk to the lawyers and talk show hosts?
It sounds to my ear like the parent poster is the problem with wikipedia. Obviously the article on Rape as gov't policy had a link to the US/Abu-Ghraib story to show that it's not just maniac dictators in African nations that use rape as a weapon, but even the richest (and most self-righteous) nation on earth.
Being a shill, the poster then edited the article to fit it into his simplistic political world-view (US is all good, Saddam is evil, ignore the fact that the US put him in power to begin with)
Of course, both that article and this one are mostly just opinion, but mine has one objective leg-up: I did not lie. It is a known fact, and well documented for anyone who looks, that some prisoners at Abu-Ghraib had broomhandles inserted in their anus by US soldiers, and that this kind of practice was encouraged by the highest levels of the US gov't (to the civilians who control the military). A textbook example of policy-oriented institutionalized rape.
In brief: parent is a Fox-news type shill and should be ignored, To mod it +5 inf. is a travesty.
Post a reply if one of the first things you learned how to do with windows XP was edit the registry....
Totally redundant are your assertions. A wise man of strong moral character doesn't need to consult the law before he takes action.
I suppose your counterpart in colonial America 200 years ago walked around yelling "We are clearly all British subjects and any talk to the contrary, besides being treasonous, is flatly ridiculous!" Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong and vice versa, ass.
If always taking the safest route were the best idea then all the glory would go to the most mediocre people. Go back to posting on Fark about lib-ral activist judges and toasted cheese if you don't want to read the opinions of a web community devoted to something real that is of daily increasing importance.
Now imagine if it said:
### ToDo: Prosecute war half a globe away
and plus, instead of your program crashing, a million people get blown up!
A million MORE that is!
There, now we have a 1-1 mapping from programmer's brain to gov't officials brain.
Man, those guys must be lvl 40 coders who have amulets of quick typing +8!
How many lines do we need to program a mind nowadays?
Do you feel silly for paying thousands of dollars for what other people get for free?
How about when you take into account that most of your money is gong to the worst kind of rich people who want nothing more than to LIMIT what you (or anyone else) can do with your music?
That's not the half of it. Almost every medium sized or larger American city in every red state has a Mexican flea market, and they ALL have swap meets. Every one of these types of places has AT LEAST one stall where some guy sells pirated DVD's of all kinds. Hundreds or even thousands.
And the same thing goes on everywhere around the world. My brother was an Infantryman in Afghanistan and guys in his unit bought hundreds of CDs + DVDs for 1 or 2 dollars each, most containing more than one movie, ie he got the whole "Lord of the Rings" on ONE DVD for $2. Ditto Kill Bill.
I totally disagree. I think there is a sizeable group of early adapters who have not found their needs met by either 20-lb laptops with their accesories nor the OS-crippled playtoys that are current PDA's.
What I (and I believe many others here want) is a personal computer we can carry around like our wallet, keys, and cellphone. It's not like PDAs lack the CPU horsepower, many of them are stronger than the Pentium II's that we just recently discontinued, which were cutting edge a few years ago and many today run linux, because it is a mature, robust OS that will be around forever and which has growing support from vendors. What do you think the Chinese Pc's that will soon bear the IBM stamp will run?
In any even, Palm will get clobbered by the industrial might of windows mobile if they don't make a big change now. This is a great idea! I just wish I hadn't ordered a Zaurus just recently so I could run linux on it!
"'Mr. Schleicher said that students in countries that emphasized theorems and rote learning tended not to do as well as those that emphasized the more practical aspects of mathematics.'"
This is the most ridiculous statement I've seen in a while. What ARE the practical aspects of mathematics if not the theorems and rote parts? If you take away the memorization of facts, then you are left with meaning and abstract perceptions, and while I will agree that this is the important part of mathematics, it is certainly not the practical part, in terms of knowing things like how much wallpaper is needed to cover a wall or converting units of measurement.
Yeah I use AMD now too, but I had a PII and I suspect a lot of folks on this board did.
But for a lot of people, the pentium 2 was the real start of PC's for EVERY person in America, not just the nerds and rich kids. It was the Model-T behind the IT boom.
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Oh that Howard Stern! What a rebel!
Howard Stern stays exactly within the narrow lane of behavior with which he has been assigned. Namely, he is to appeal to the 'rebel' demographic by himself being a 'rebel' against the very system which permits his survival. This reminds me of the skinny dork I knew in 8th grade who was talking about all the advantages of survival of the fittest and anarchy, and how mad he got when my very intelligent friend asked him if it had occurred to him that he would in all likelihood be the first to die!
What I'm trying to say is, if it weren't for censorship and moral values, nobody as crude and boring as Howard Stern would be listened to by anyone besides their cat. All he has to offer is his 'zany antics' which are really only interesting because they're the crudest thing your likely to see in mass media, sort of like how Nickelodian is the raciest thing kids know their parents will let them watch.
I think the only thing remotely worth watching is Public TV for news and FOX for new simpsons. Everything else is better on the internet anyway.
Yeah, I'm sure IBM's math guys and engineers who design this stuff then put on their overalls and head onto the factory floor to put the thing together.
I'm not so sure that the percentage of parts that come from a single vendor is of much importance with regard to the performance of a modern computer.
Unless of course you're just an anti-Dell shill. In which case I ask: where will it ever end? I know MS is evil because it charges for closed software, but you can't possibly expect much more out of a computer supplier than you can from Dell.
My brother and I both got Compaq laptops three years ago. Recently I had to personally take them BOTH apart and reinstall the heat sinks on the main chips, and I suspect this is actually a design FEATURE from Compaq to force upgrades, seeing as how their time to failures were nearly identical and they were even built to degrade gracefully, and it would've obviously taken LESS engineering effort to desing the thing to stay locked tight in the first place!