I am officially sick of/., it seems that most of the posts are just parrots(esp. on YRO), and if you dare disagree with the PTB(Parrots that Be), you get modded down. Well, if I want to listen to parrots I can go to a pet store, so here you go trolls, a chance to burn good karma with your most creative trolls, my password is: t1hsux
Enjoy, and I will be back to ensure that my user name is being used for good trolls, so please, take care of her!
Heh, it's actually not the price of food that is a problem in a lot of the starving areas of the world, it's that there is no way they can get access to food. You can't just "give"(thus making it free) food to people in the poorest parts of Africa. It usually winds up getting diverted from it's intended recipients to warlords who use it to feed their army, or sell it elsewhere etc. The problem of stopping government corruption is probably just as important, if not moreso, than increasing the supply. And if either of us had a 1 sentence solution to that, we would be in Oslo discussing it, not on/.
Um, I never said that they wouldn't. Read the post next time instead of just a single line. Guess what, that piece of plastic makes it much easier to track down whoever caused the accident, and allows police to keep drunks off the road.
God, this is why I really should stop reading YRO articles on/., the article summary is usually just a bunch of FUD, followed by a bunch of posts by parrots who tend to take 1 sentence and use it out of context to try to prove their point instead of actually debunking what was said.
Wow, childish name callling, that is just amazing.
If you would have taken the half second to actually digest the post instead of making a very poor attempt to shove words in my mouth, you would have realized that I didn't imply that having a license will stop someone from driving drunk, but it will make that person easier to catch. And taking away that license will help(but not totally) ensure that the person doesn't drive again. Your assumption that stricter penalties will ensure that people don't drive drunk when they are allowed to drive annonymously is pure and utter bullshit. If the person is driving without any identifying marks, then how are the police supposed to catch that person if they get into a hit and run? Hmmm? How are the police supposed to look for a stolen car? Or didn't you think that deep. Something tells me that since you are the kind of person who resorts to name calling that your arguments are very poorly thought out and you are just a parrot for others, without really understanding the consequences of your proposals. Prior restraint goes against everything this country has ever stood for.
Your "prior restraint" argument sidesteps my argument that transportation on public roads is a priveledge, not a right. I used to play a game in high school called, "Propaganda", and your point is a classic Non-Sequiter argument, you take something someone said, and then go off on a complete tangent. It still stands that you do not have a right to drive a car, no matter how much you use arguments of being a tyrant to prove otherwise. But if you insist you have that right, then do what Martin Luther King Jr. did, engage in non-violent civil disobedience and drive without a license or a license plate. But something tells me that you won't, because as much as you like complaining on/., you will do nothing to stand up for your beliefs.
I don't believe there is a God, so that doesn't give you the right to create one and pretend that somehow that diety gives you the right to do whatever you please. You failed to make one argument on why a license plates somehow violates your rights. Instead, you just produced a lot of emotional dribble.
Come back to me when you grow up and can have a big boy argument, till then please actually read what others have to say and respond to their arguments in a mature fashion instead of resorting to childish name calling, k?
This is coming from someone who is a stron supporter of the ACLU(I would be a member, but I am a cheap bastard)
So it is the right of some drunk driver to mow down a pedestrian and be able to get away with it because in the name of civil liberties, he shouldn't have to have a license plate and drivers license eh?
Next time someone close to you is killed by a drunk driver, think about that for a second, k?
Yes I agree that big brother should be kept out of your living room, but when you are on the road, you can very easily affect another citizen's right to "life, liberty and the persuit of happiness". This is what pisses me off most about these, "I can do whatever the fuck I feel like" civil libertarians, what you do can adversely affect other people.
Same goes with speech, you have the right to say whatever the fuck you want, but I also have the right not to listen to it if I so desire. Which is why/. moderation is not supressing free speech(cept for the abuse of the underrated/overrated modifier which easily allows mods with agendas to push said agendas without getting caugh in meta-modding, but every system has flaws), because people can post whatever they want, I can just choose whether or not I want to read every GNAA troll.
Just like you can do whatever the fuck you want on your own property, as long as you don't hurt anyone else, but once you get on the road, you have certain responsibilites. Don't want to abide by the rules? There is nothing stopping you from walking/riding a bike/taking the bus/taking a train etc. All of those things will get you from point A to point B, and your odds of hurting someone else, while not zero, are much lower than they are if you are driving a car or flying in a plane.
Simply put, if you want to travel anonymously, then don't drive or take a plane. For the rest of us, we will go along without our tinfoil hats enjoying the (relative) safety of knowing that if someone hits us, they will be hunted down using their license plate/driver's license and brought to justice.
I would say it was the 35 year occupation(1910-1945) and colonial Japan's attmept to wipe out the Korean language and culture(people were given Japanese names, the Japanese language was the only language allowed in schools and official forums), Korean comfort women etc. Plus the fact that unlike Germany, Japan made very few renumerations to the victims. The youth of Korea seem a lot less angry at Japan than their parents/grandparents. Off topic but if you do get the chance, I recommend you talk to both Germans and Japanese about the war, you will get some very interesting opinions...
I don't know how well EQ would do in Korea. Korea only recently removed the bans on importing "cultural" items such as cds and games from Japan. Sony, being a Japanese company, may have trouble setting up a Korean EQ server. It also explains why Koreans love American games such as Warcraft and Quake, but don't seem to be so supportive of Japanese games....
Well, if they are expert phishers, then they probably have a few spare identities they can use to set up the server. And even if they aren't annonymous, you stll have the problem of the host country actually being able to/wanting to prosecute them. that isn't always a given....
was the M*A*S*H game for the 2600, you had to go around rescuing falling patients from helicopters at first. Then after you were done with that, you had to go into the "operating room" and operate on terrified patients(well, that was the look in his mono-color body anyway) and remove a little pink thing. If you were successful, you went outside again. Good times....good times....
The terrorists all had ID cards, and that didn't stop the hijackings or the deaths.
And the terrorists were identified through this ID. So we got a clearer picture of who attacked us. Appearently you think you should be able to kill people anonymously too...
We may still identify more terrorists(I know it is abused, but what system isn't? Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater)
So tell me where in the constitution it says you are allowed to utilize a commercial service annonymously?
What was your point again?
Well, IBM can "make" money from Linux while contributing back to Linux at the same time. IBM needs to meet it's customer's needs, and if Linux doesn't satisfy those customer's needs, then IBM can modify Linux to suit those customer's needs. However, the customer isn't paying for Linux, they are paying for the custom services/software on top of it.
Linux allows IBM to quickly build a solution for that customer without having to "re-invent the wheel" or pay software license fees. Thus IBM can get the job done for less, they can pass some of those savings on to the cutomer, and the Linux community can benefit from their additions. So, in essence they made money....
connection: Cover your ethernet chord with a prophalctic(sp?). Of course, you block out all the interesting stuff on the internet along with the bad stuff, but that is the price one must pay to sleep with a dirty whore!
It probably could not stand alone in court, just like testimony of handwriting experts alone is not enough to convict somebody. They would still have to find a motive, an opportunity, history etc.
Are they worried about them being re-exported? If so, they should not cripple the functionality, but cripple the languages. Make it so that all the menus text boxes etc. are only in one language(that cannot be changed). I doubt people in the US want Thai menus etc. They should still be allowed to type in other languages though.
but id hinted not so subtly that the mac video cards royaly blow(cept for the ultra-expensive high end) by saying that the mac isn't as good as platform as the PC....
Hopefully since Apple finally dropped ADC, more manufacturers will be willing to make mac cards(basically pc cards with modified firmware). I am willing to pay a $25-50 premium, but the $100+ premium for current vid cards is just rediculous, a 9800 should not be over $300....
It is also bad for corporations in the long run, but by that time the "geniouses" who engineered this will be out with a golden parachute. Low labor costs really hide the true cost of your product, esp. if you price everything in dollars. It takes more resources to make thsoe etch-a-sketchs in China than it does in the US, but since there doesn't seem to be the need to make labor cheaper, the costs just get hidden(or more likely, passed along to everyone else in the US in the form of higher prices for commodoties like oil and steel). Eventually, those workers won't be so cheap anymore(would happen sooner if China didn't enforce such an deflated yuan), and then the company will be faced with high labor costs and virtually no advances in automation. If they try to fire people, the factory will probably just pump out a ton of rip-off etch a sketches and beat them with their own product.
But once again, it won't matter to the executives with the golden parachute....
is kind of like the dot com bubble of sorts. A few people made the risky investment, and made a lot of money off it due to the availability of cheap labor, lots of natural resources, an interested government etc. Then the gold rush started, and people just poured money into China without thinking in the long term, they were told that China was a guarenteed gold mine. This led to a glut of over production(not just in DVDs, but almost any commodity you can think of), and now people have to fight eachother off with lower and lower margins to survive. That is what happens in a commodity market. They knew that getting into the business, and now we are supposed to feel bad for them?
I for one will not be crying because they were too stupid to plan more than a month ahead.
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I am officially sick of /., it seems that most of the posts are just parrots(esp. on YRO), and if you dare disagree with the PTB(Parrots that Be), you get modded down. Well, if I want to listen to parrots I can go to a pet store, so here you go trolls, a chance to burn good karma with your most creative trolls, my password is: t1hsux
Enjoy, and I will be back to ensure that my user name is being used for good trolls, so please, take care of her!
Heh, it's actually not the price of food that is a problem in a lot of the starving areas of the world, it's that there is no way they can get access to food. You can't just "give"(thus making it free) food to people in the poorest parts of Africa. It usually winds up getting diverted from it's intended recipients to warlords who use it to feed their army, or sell it elsewhere etc. The problem of stopping government corruption is probably just as important, if not moreso, than increasing the supply. And if either of us had a 1 sentence solution to that, we would be in Oslo discussing it, not on /.
Um, I never said that they wouldn't. Read the post next time instead of just a single line. Guess what, that piece of plastic makes it much easier to track down whoever caused the accident, and allows police to keep drunks off the road. /., the article summary is usually just a bunch of FUD, followed by a bunch of posts by parrots who tend to take 1 sentence and use it out of context to try to prove their point instead of actually debunking what was said.
God, this is why I really should stop reading YRO articles on
Wow, childish name callling, that is just amazing. /., you will do nothing to stand up for your beliefs.
If you would have taken the half second to actually digest the post instead of making a very poor attempt to shove words in my mouth, you would have realized that I didn't imply that having a license will stop someone from driving drunk, but it will make that person easier to catch. And taking away that license will help(but not totally) ensure that the person doesn't drive again. Your assumption that stricter penalties will ensure that people don't drive drunk when they are allowed to drive annonymously is pure and utter bullshit. If the person is driving without any identifying marks, then how are the police supposed to catch that person if they get into a hit and run? Hmmm? How are the police supposed to look for a stolen car? Or didn't you think that deep. Something tells me that since you are the kind of person who resorts to name calling that your arguments are very poorly thought out and you are just a parrot for others, without really understanding the consequences of your proposals.
Prior restraint goes against everything this country has ever stood for.
Your "prior restraint" argument sidesteps my argument that transportation on public roads is a priveledge, not a right. I used to play a game in high school called, "Propaganda", and your point is a classic Non-Sequiter argument, you take something someone said, and then go off on a complete tangent. It still stands that you do not have a right to drive a car, no matter how much you use arguments of being a tyrant to prove otherwise. But if you insist you have that right, then do what Martin Luther King Jr. did, engage in non-violent civil disobedience and drive without a license or a license plate. But something tells me that you won't, because as much as you like complaining on
I don't believe there is a God, so that doesn't give you the right to create one and pretend that somehow that diety gives you the right to do whatever you please. You failed to make one argument on why a license plates somehow violates your rights. Instead, you just produced a lot of emotional dribble.
Come back to me when you grow up and can have a big boy argument, till then please actually read what others have to say and respond to their arguments in a mature fashion instead of resorting to childish name calling, k?
This is coming from someone who is a stron supporter of the ACLU(I would be a member, but I am a cheap bastard) /. moderation is not supressing free speech(cept for the abuse of the underrated/overrated modifier which easily allows mods with agendas to push said agendas without getting caugh in meta-modding, but every system has flaws), because people can post whatever they want, I can just choose whether or not I want to read every GNAA troll.
So it is the right of some drunk driver to mow down a pedestrian and be able to get away with it because in the name of civil liberties, he shouldn't have to have a license plate and drivers license eh?
Next time someone close to you is killed by a drunk driver, think about that for a second, k?
Yes I agree that big brother should be kept out of your living room, but when you are on the road, you can very easily affect another citizen's right to "life, liberty and the persuit of happiness". This is what pisses me off most about these, "I can do whatever the fuck I feel like" civil libertarians, what you do can adversely affect other people.
Same goes with speech, you have the right to say whatever the fuck you want, but I also have the right not to listen to it if I so desire. Which is why
Just like you can do whatever the fuck you want on your own property, as long as you don't hurt anyone else, but once you get on the road, you have certain responsibilites. Don't want to abide by the rules? There is nothing stopping you from walking/riding a bike/taking the bus/taking a train etc. All of those things will get you from point A to point B, and your odds of hurting someone else, while not zero, are much lower than they are if you are driving a car or flying in a plane.
Simply put, if you want to travel anonymously, then don't drive or take a plane. For the rest of us, we will go along without our tinfoil hats enjoying the (relative) safety of knowing that if someone hits us, they will be hunted down using their license plate/driver's license and brought to justice.
I would say it was the 35 year occupation(1910-1945) and colonial Japan's attmept to wipe out the Korean language and culture(people were given Japanese names, the Japanese language was the only language allowed in schools and official forums), Korean comfort women etc. Plus the fact that unlike Germany, Japan made very few renumerations to the victims. The youth of Korea seem a lot less angry at Japan than their parents/grandparents. Off topic but if you do get the chance, I recommend you talk to both Germans and Japanese about the war, you will get some very interesting opinions...
I don't know how well EQ would do in Korea. Korea only recently removed the bans on importing "cultural" items such as cds and games from Japan. Sony, being a Japanese company, may have trouble setting up a Korean EQ server. It also explains why Koreans love American games such as Warcraft and Quake, but don't seem to be so supportive of Japanese games....
you could always just get a lot of pointless posts to boost the post count.
look at me, I am wasting disk space!
Why not just go out and stand in front of the RNC's headquarters and block people from entering?
Does the name "Gitmo" mean anything to you?
Well, if they are expert phishers, then they probably have a few spare identities they can use to set up the server. And even if they aren't annonymous, you stll have the problem of the host country actually being able to/wanting to prosecute them. that isn't always a given....
was the M*A*S*H game for the 2600, you had to go around rescuing falling patients from helicopters at first. Then after you were done with that, you had to go into the "operating room" and operate on terrified patients(well, that was the look in his mono-color body anyway) and remove a little pink thing. If you were successful, you went outside again. Good times....good times....
D'oh, the joke was that they each get a gold medal, because they are the only ones participating in it. Damn preview button.
The entire population of Luxembourg gets a gold medal in 100 years(namely because they will be the only people left on the planet)
The terrorists all had ID cards, and that didn't stop the hijackings or the deaths.
And the terrorists were identified through this ID. So we got a clearer picture of who attacked us. Appearently you think you should be able to kill people anonymously too...
We may still identify more terrorists(I know it is abused, but what system isn't? Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater)
So tell me where in the constitution it says you are allowed to utilize a commercial service annonymously?
What was your point again?
Well, IBM can "make" money from Linux while contributing back to Linux at the same time. IBM needs to meet it's customer's needs, and if Linux doesn't satisfy those customer's needs, then IBM can modify Linux to suit those customer's needs. However, the customer isn't paying for Linux, they are paying for the custom services/software on top of it.
Linux allows IBM to quickly build a solution for that customer without having to "re-invent the wheel" or pay software license fees. Thus IBM can get the job done for less, they can pass some of those savings on to the cutomer, and the Linux community can benefit from their additions. So, in essence they made money....
connection: Cover your ethernet chord with a prophalctic(sp?). Of course, you block out all the interesting stuff on the internet along with the bad stuff, but that is the price one must pay to sleep with a dirty whore!
It was turned into a weather forecaster for the Atlanta Olympics. I dunno what happened to it after that.
It probably could not stand alone in court, just like testimony of handwriting experts alone is not enough to convict somebody. They would still have to find a motive, an opportunity, history etc.
Are they worried about them being re-exported? If so, they should not cripple the functionality, but cripple the languages. Make it so that all the menus text boxes etc. are only in one language(that cannot be changed). I doubt people in the US want Thai menus etc. They should still be allowed to type in other languages though.
I can already hear it now, "damnit, my level 15 cowboy neal was slain by a level 13 Commander Taco, now I gotta get enough karma to revive him!"
but id hinted not so subtly that the mac video cards royaly blow(cept for the ultra-expensive high end) by saying that the mac isn't as good as platform as the PC....
Hopefully since Apple finally dropped ADC, more manufacturers will be willing to make mac cards(basically pc cards with modified firmware). I am willing to pay a $25-50 premium, but the $100+ premium for current vid cards is just rediculous, a 9800 should not be over $300....
to create my own website. I'm hoping donations will start flowing in any day now.....
It is also bad for corporations in the long run, but by that time the "geniouses" who engineered this will be out with a golden parachute. Low labor costs really hide the true cost of your product, esp. if you price everything in dollars. It takes more resources to make thsoe etch-a-sketchs in China than it does in the US, but since there doesn't seem to be the need to make labor cheaper, the costs just get hidden(or more likely, passed along to everyone else in the US in the form of higher prices for commodoties like oil and steel). Eventually, those workers won't be so cheap anymore(would happen sooner if China didn't enforce such an deflated yuan), and then the company will be faced with high labor costs and virtually no advances in automation. If they try to fire people, the factory will probably just pump out a ton of rip-off etch a sketches and beat them with their own product.
But once again, it won't matter to the executives with the golden parachute....
is kind of like the dot com bubble of sorts. A few people made the risky investment, and made a lot of money off it due to the availability of cheap labor, lots of natural resources, an interested government etc. Then the gold rush started, and people just poured money into China without thinking in the long term, they were told that China was a guarenteed gold mine. This led to a glut of over production(not just in DVDs, but almost any commodity you can think of), and now people have to fight eachother off with lower and lower margins to survive. That is what happens in a commodity market. They knew that getting into the business, and now we are supposed to feel bad for them?
I for one will not be crying because they were too stupid to plan more than a month ahead.