I think he's refering to the early Caucasian inhabitants of America, which fact the "Native Americans" are desperately trying to hide by returning to the soil their "ancestors" before the anthropologists can do a proper study.
Most banks I know of still use the telephone or snailmail for serious issues. They most assuredly do not send out emails. When did the public IQ drop to the point where people would expect them to do so? Could it perhaps have something to do with said banks using email to hype new services, offer free tax preparation software, and generally associate email in the public mind with serious banking business? Just another example of corporations not thinking through the consequences of their actions.
Under this theory of free speech, I have the right to stand over your bed at midnight and give you my opinion on current affairs. I also have a right to privacy, and that includes a bunch of hax0rs breaking into my computer and turning it into a zombie or some moron corporation trying to sell me exactly what I just bought from them. No, free speech does not include the right to be heard.
Unless there's some penalty associated with this new "crime," I suspect no one's going to pay any attention to it, like they have so far paid no attention to the smoking gun in the British press implicating President Monkey Boy in the intentional faking of intelligence data in regard to WMDs to justify his predetermined invasion of Iraq.
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What you are conveniently forgetting is that the folks who look at the child porn are creating the market for it. Without them, there would be none. All the rest of your sophistry is just that--sophistry.
Freedom is not absolute. Even Germany in the middle of the European Union has laws against neo-nazi propaganda. Some things *are* beyond the pale and I would suspect that most rational humans would agree that at the very least coerced child pr0n is one of those cases. You could argue, I suppose, that evil must be fought on a more fundamental level than that of speech, but I would defy you to ask any survivor of the death camps whether communication of neo-nazi ideas is an important thing to control despite its implications for "free" speech. It's a shame that there is always someone who wants to use a public resource for other than the public good, but short of intentionally mutating the human organism, it ain't gonna happen. How to impliment such an attitude technically? I haven't a clue. I just know that the myth of absolute freedom is just that--a myth. And any project that tries to support that myth is going to get really bizarre.
Are you seriously telling me a game *built* for Windows runs better under WINE+Linux than under the vaunted XP? Excuse me while I check my alternate reality detector... I read somebody recently who claimed the smell of rot was all over M$. Could this be another indication?
With all due respect, it's really not about what Microsoft *does*, it's about what they are implicitly *threatening to do* if Dell doesn't stay on board, i.e., charging them the full $200 per box. And that is more than a technicality, it's blackmail.
Ah, we seem to have forgotten already about all the judges Bill Clinton couldn't even get voted on. Did you know that most federal judges now sitting are Bush and Reagan appointees? Doesn't it bother you that these "conservative" judges now are even too liberal for the current crop of neo-fascists who control the Republican Party? No, I didn't think so...
Am I the only one who remembers Senator Everett Dirksen introducing this very same type of legislation (I believe during the Kennedy Administration) and then withdrawing it because he was informed it was unconstitutional? So why is it now constitutional and why has no one informed the writer of the bill of its potential constitutional illegitimacy? It says something about the current "Republicans" in power that I can look back with almost a sense of nostalgia at an era when Republicans were capable of bipartisan and constitutionally sound behaviour.
Good name for a haX0r: Crash Mobile. Not to be confused with Crash Valdez, an alcoholically skippered wayward ship of Exxon Mobile.
And while I'm on the subject of idiocy, just while exactly do we care how the microbrains have renamed their pathetic excuse for software? I am reminded of the press release from Parmount jacking the fact that the Vulcan woman had a new costume.
Next we're gonna hear that war is peace and freedom is slavery. Oh, right...
You realise the blue screen isn't set in concrete. You can change it in the registry like a lot of other things in Windders. I haven't seen it in ages, but I seem to recall I set mine to purple. Makes me think of easter eggs.
I didn't say they said it first, I just said they like to say it. Just do a Google search on the phrase and you will find many Asians using the expression, as well as the similar, "There is nothing new under the sun." Please don't read things into what I write. One must admit there is something fundamentally Asian about this attitude toward existence.
Indeed. Rather than let the Iraqis pay for their OWN reconstruction with their OWN oil, we give the oil to American and British oil companies and then WE (the American taxpayer) "reconstruct" their country giving massive profits to other American companies allied with the Bush Crime Family and the "conservative" weenies lap it all up because "anything good for [American business] is good for America." And we're even back to calling anyone who disagrees with the morons a Communist. Like the Chinese like to say, "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
I fear the only solution to this level of corruption may be to bring back the guillotine.
"Simply put, Google has become a new kind of foe, and that's what has Gates so riled. It has combined software innovation with a brand-new Internet business model--and it wounds Gates' pride that he didn't get there first."
New? Wasn't this the reason M$ took defeating Netscape so seriously after they had ignored the internet for years? They finally figured out that browsers could make operating systems obsolete. Now the same threat appears from a just slightly different angle and M$ passes a brick again. But this time, giving it away free doesn't help.
I remember when component audio first became the rage. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. We want to put everything in one box. What happened to isolating sources? Avoiding interference? Swapping out components without having to buy a whole new system? Now we need a box that not only makes phone calls but plays games, takes pictures, washes your clothes, and gives you a shiatsu massage? Are our apartments and houses so Tokyo-small we need to put it all in a shoe box? I guess I'm just not up to date. Next they'll want me to give up my bellbottoms.;-)
Let's not forget that AOL began as a closed system like the early phone companies. You literally couldn't make a call to someone on a competing phone system. AOL is just using spam as an excuse to try to return to its original business model. They obviously think they have enough clout in the marketplace to do this without marginalizing themselves. I wish them luck. NOT!
What they are really going to accomplish is to lose anybody who depends on incoming email for important matters. I would think this would include anyone who doesn't wish to have their butt blown away in a hurricane.
Having tried Linux and seen enough crashes so bad I had to reinstall the damned OS, let me just extend my previous remarks:...held hostage to any old damned operating system...
When I want to watch a DVD (I don't watch the Vast Wasteland anymore) I want to relax and watch a DVD. I most assuredly DO NOT wish to futz around with a damned computer. WHY O WHY do you folks insist on trying to make the simple complicated?
As for the brain-dead moron who modded me Flamebait, I would suggest you go back and read the rules again, giving you the benefit of the doubt that you read them the first time. I am a metamoderator here and I have excellent karma. I am not a flamer, though I do tend to toast the asses of little kiddies who think their opinion is the only one worth considering.
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I think he's refering to the early Caucasian inhabitants of America, which fact the "Native Americans" are desperately trying to hide by returning to the soil their "ancestors" before the anthropologists can do a proper study.
Your side disappears when the oil runs out, then, bunky. Current estimate, 2020.
Don't you just love self-limiting stupidity, sometimes known as "evolution in action"?
They should have thought of this when they still had 50% of the market! "See, Internet Explorer just doesn't work right!"
Most banks I know of still use the telephone or snailmail for serious issues. They most assuredly do not send out emails. When did the public IQ drop to the point where people would expect them to do so? Could it perhaps have something to do with said banks using email to hype new services, offer free tax preparation software, and generally associate email in the public mind with serious banking business? Just another example of corporations not thinking through the consequences of their actions.
Under this theory of free speech, I have the right to stand over your bed at midnight and give you my opinion on current affairs. I also have a right to privacy, and that includes a bunch of hax0rs breaking into my computer and turning it into a zombie or some moron corporation trying to sell me exactly what I just bought from them. No, free speech does not include the right to be heard.
Unless there's some penalty associated with this new "crime," I suspect no one's going to pay any attention to it, like they have so far paid no attention to the smoking gun in the British press implicating President Monkey Boy in the intentional faking of intelligence data in regard to WMDs to justify his predetermined invasion of Iraq.
What you are conveniently forgetting is that the folks who look at the child porn are creating the market for it. Without them, there would be none. All the rest of your sophistry is just that--sophistry.
Freedom is not absolute. Even Germany in the middle of the European Union has laws against neo-nazi propaganda. Some things *are* beyond the pale and I would suspect that most rational humans would agree that at the very least coerced child pr0n is one of those cases. You could argue, I suppose, that evil must be fought on a more fundamental level than that of speech, but I would defy you to ask any survivor of the death camps whether communication of neo-nazi ideas is an important thing to control despite its implications for "free" speech. It's a shame that there is always someone who wants to use a public resource for other than the public good, but short of intentionally mutating the human organism, it ain't gonna happen. How to impliment such an attitude technically? I haven't a clue. I just know that the myth of absolute freedom is just that--a myth. And any project that tries to support that myth is going to get really bizarre.
Are you seriously telling me a game *built* for Windows runs better under WINE+Linux than under the vaunted XP? Excuse me while I check my alternate reality detector... I read somebody recently who claimed the smell of rot was all over M$. Could this be another indication?
With all due respect, it's really not about what Microsoft *does*, it's about what they are implicitly *threatening to do* if Dell doesn't stay on board, i.e., charging them the full $200 per box. And that is more than a technicality, it's blackmail.
And if they can get *games* working with WINE, one more major obstacle to world domination will have fallen.
I stand corrected.
Ah, we seem to have forgotten already about all the judges Bill Clinton couldn't even get voted on. Did you know that most federal judges now sitting are Bush and Reagan appointees? Doesn't it bother you that these "conservative" judges now are even too liberal for the current crop of neo-fascists who control the Republican Party? No, I didn't think so...
Am I the only one who remembers Senator Everett Dirksen introducing this very same type of legislation (I believe during the Kennedy Administration) and then withdrawing it because he was informed it was unconstitutional? So why is it now constitutional and why has no one informed the writer of the bill of its potential constitutional illegitimacy? It says something about the current "Republicans" in power that I can look back with almost a sense of nostalgia at an era when Republicans were capable of bipartisan and constitutionally sound behaviour.
Well *I* thought it was funny.
Good name for a haX0r: Crash Mobile. Not to be confused with Crash Valdez, an alcoholically skippered wayward ship of Exxon Mobile.
And while I'm on the subject of idiocy, just while exactly do we care how the microbrains have renamed their pathetic excuse for software? I am reminded of the press release from Parmount jacking the fact that the Vulcan woman had a new costume.
Next we're gonna hear that war is peace and freedom is slavery. Oh, right...
You realise the blue screen isn't set in concrete. You can change it in the registry like a lot of other things in Windders. I haven't seen it in ages, but I seem to recall I set mine to purple. Makes me think of easter eggs.
"Summery?" Really? --Support your planet or get the hell out--
I didn't say they said it first, I just said they like to say it. Just do a Google search on the phrase and you will find many Asians using the expression, as well as the similar, "There is nothing new under the sun." Please don't read things into what I write. One must admit there is something fundamentally Asian about this attitude toward existence.
Indeed. Rather than let the Iraqis pay for their OWN reconstruction with their OWN oil, we give the oil to American and British oil companies and then WE (the American taxpayer) "reconstruct" their country giving massive profits to other American companies allied with the Bush Crime Family and the "conservative" weenies lap it all up because "anything good for [American business] is good for America." And we're even back to calling anyone who disagrees with the morons a Communist. Like the Chinese like to say, "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
I fear the only solution to this level of corruption may be to bring back the guillotine.
"Simply put, Google has become a new kind of foe, and that's what has Gates so riled. It has combined software innovation with a brand-new Internet business model--and it wounds Gates' pride that he didn't get there first."
New? Wasn't this the reason M$ took defeating Netscape so seriously after they had ignored the internet for years? They finally figured out that browsers could make operating systems obsolete. Now the same threat appears from a just slightly different angle and M$ passes a brick again. But this time, giving it away free doesn't help.
I remember when component audio first became the rage. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. We want to put everything in one box. What happened to isolating sources? Avoiding interference? Swapping out components without having to buy a whole new system? Now we need a box that not only makes phone calls but plays games, takes pictures, washes your clothes, and gives you a shiatsu massage? Are our apartments and houses so Tokyo-small we need to put it all in a shoe box? I guess I'm just not up to date. Next they'll want me to give up my bellbottoms. ;-)
"Proactive" is not a word!!! The word you are looking for is "active."
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Funny, I get modded troll often enough and my spelling is unpeckable....
Let's not forget that AOL began as a closed system like the early phone companies. You literally couldn't make a call to someone on a competing phone system. AOL is just using spam as an excuse to try to return to its original business model. They obviously think they have enough clout in the marketplace to do this without marginalizing themselves. I wish them luck. NOT!
What they are really going to accomplish is to lose anybody who depends on incoming email for important matters. I would think this would include anyone who doesn't wish to have their butt blown away in a hurricane.
Having tried Linux and seen enough crashes so bad I had to reinstall the damned OS, let me just extend my previous remarks: ...held hostage to any old damned operating system...
When I want to watch a DVD (I don't watch the Vast Wasteland anymore) I want to relax and watch a DVD. I most assuredly DO NOT wish to futz around with a damned computer. WHY O WHY do you folks insist on trying to make the simple complicated?
As for the brain-dead moron who modded me Flamebait, I would suggest you go back and read the rules again, giving you the benefit of the doubt that you read them the first time. I am a metamoderator here and I have excellent karma. I am not a flamer, though I do tend to toast the asses of little kiddies who think their opinion is the only one worth considering.