Well, 90% chance you are in fact trolling, but just in case: white knighting like you're doing right now is the worst form of discrimination against women. Women are perfectly capable of standing up for themselves if they are offended. They are not weak, fragile flowers who need you to rise to their defense, and you insult them by doing so.
Yeah, but if the OP hadn't said he was male, all the slashtards would have assumed it was a woman and started with the "show us your tits" comments.
Aliens who visit us, dismember our cattle and probe us? No.
Extra-solar planets with intelligent life? Probably. Given the sheer size of the universe and the number of solar systems and planets there are quite likely some out there with intelligent life (within range of detection is a different matter). Given enough rolls of the dice you're bound to hit on any given combination more than once.
This pre-supposes that "intelligent life" is a possible result. It may be that much like you can't roll 42 on 2 six sided dice, intelligence is just not possible in this universe. Were that the case, any intelligent life to think you have found is merely an illusion cause by your inadequate intelligence.
As has been pointed out many times before, we know with 100% certainty that there is intelligent life in the universe, because we are it.
If the argument is that humans aren't necessarily intelligent on a universe-wide scale, how do you know? What are you comparing us with?
Hold up a ball. Which side points to the earth? What happens when you drop it? Will it always fall towards the earth? Now, go to Australia. Which side of the ball faces the earth? What happens when you drop it? If you drop the ball, will it fall towards the earth? If so, that's why they haven't fallen off.
Really?
You should really get some sort of Nobel prize for finally solving that particular puzzle.
Translation: I am a shallow buffoon who believes that the path to happiness is conspicuous spending on fashionable consumer goods.
I'm not bothered when people think they have to have a new car or TV every couple of years I just pity their inability to see how they arre being manipulated by the military-industrial-consuer complex into wasting their lives working for objects that provide nothing but short term satisfaction for a few days, and then become just another self-created financial burden each month.
Smartphones have their genuine uses, but generally they're just yet another status symbol/toy. Although if you count 24/7 access to Facebook as an essential part of your life, they are pretty much invaluable.
There was just a survey done that was published a couple weeks ago and recarried on CNN that said 53% of android users were switching phones, the majority of them that were switching to iPhones, and another very significant portion of current android users who want an iPhone but bought the droid only because it was cheaper -- not better.
That would make sense if the cost of a top end Android phone/contract (here in the UK most people get a "free" or cheap phone with a high monthly charge rather than buying the phone outright) wasn't similar to an iPhone.
So, you are saying BB users don't do [most] anything internet related? Hmmm...
While I find your statement true, you have to admit that there is a large correlation of those two. The BB folks I know typically don't hop around with a browser like the Android folks I know. And yes, I do know BB users... and yes, they have penis envy.;)
You can only have penis envy over what fucking phone you use if you have micro-genitalia to start with.
Poe's law states that, on the internet, the most obvious troll, parody or piece of satire will be taken deadly seriously by some fanboy/anti-fanboy somewhere. It derives from po-faced, which itself comes from poker-faced, i.e. looking as though someone has just shoved a red hot poker up your arse.
Any savvy person knows to get a networked printer, which also happens to make most driver issues irrelevant, as it will use a relatively standard networking printing protocol.
I thought savvy people just wrote their own drivers?
The protesters need to grow the fuck up. If I am walking down the street and somebody calls me a name I don't walk over and start a fight, because I am a gwon up and that is not how grown ups live.
I don't know what planet you live on, but where I come from people get into fights based on being insulted all the time.
Your right to free speech is not a right to suffer no consequences for the results of that speech.
Yes, ideally people would walk away from insults, but in practice they don't.
Violence between grown men is basically a socially acceptable way for them to "do it" with each other. Straight guys don't have sex with each other, they fight each other. But it's really the same kind of interaction. "You, me, let's do this."
That is only true if you equate having sex with rape. Most of us in the civilized world make a clear distinction between the two.
GeenStijl made a discovery which they communicated to the public. Free speech. This ruling is barbaric.
No, what is barbaric is a childishly simplistic black and white view of the world with absolute freedom of speech on one side, and evil communism/fascism on the other. It's not as simple as that.
If you knew anything about economics at all, you'd support the free market by advocating that copyright be abolished
How can it be a fucking market, free or otherwise, when you don't intend to pay anything?
The people producing music, writing or whatever release their works, and you copy them. There's nothing to do with economics going on, there's no trading, no swapping of goods for money or goods for other goods.
Fuck you and your condescending attitude. Free speech is more important than copyright. Period.
Free speech is the freedom to say what you want without government censorship, not the freedom to copy other people's works and not pay for them. They are two different things.
You may well believe that it is perfectly legitimate to copy anything you are able to, but that is nothing to do with free speech.
It's a bit like how copyright infringement!=theft, as people love to point out here.
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I'm impressed that the expected racist garbage only came relatively late in this thread.
Excellent Douglas Adams reference.
Which was quoted at the top of TFA.
I know, I know...
Well, 90% chance you are in fact trolling, but just in case: white knighting like you're doing right now is the worst form of discrimination against women. Women are perfectly capable of standing up for themselves if they are offended. They are not weak, fragile flowers who need you to rise to their defense, and you insult them by doing so.
Yeah, but if the OP hadn't said he was male, all the slashtards would have assumed it was a woman and started with the "show us your tits" comments.
Aliens who visit us, dismember our cattle and probe us? No.
Extra-solar planets with intelligent life? Probably. Given the sheer size of the universe and the number of solar systems and planets there are quite likely some out there with intelligent life (within range of detection is a different matter). Given enough rolls of the dice you're bound to hit on any given combination more than once.
This pre-supposes that "intelligent life" is a possible result. It may be that much like you can't roll 42 on 2 six sided dice, intelligence is just not possible in this universe. Were that the case, any intelligent life to think you have found is merely an illusion cause by your inadequate intelligence.
As has been pointed out many times before, we know with 100% certainty that there is intelligent life in the universe, because we are it.
If the argument is that humans aren't necessarily intelligent on a universe-wide scale, how do you know? What are you comparing us with?
More to the point would we recognize intelligent life even if it was in front of our face.
There's a television joke in here somewhere....
There's also a slashdot joke, but I'm not sure many people here would appreciate it.
Hold up a ball. Which side points to the earth? What happens when you drop it? Will it always fall towards the earth? Now, go to Australia. Which side of the ball faces the earth? What happens when you drop it? If you drop the ball, will it fall towards the earth? If so, that's why they haven't fallen off.
Really?
You should really get some sort of Nobel prize for finally solving that particular puzzle.
Translation: I am a shallow buffoon who believes that the path to happiness is conspicuous spending on fashionable consumer goods.
I'm not bothered when people think they have to have a new car or TV every couple of years I just pity their inability to see how they arre being manipulated by the military-industrial-consuer complex into wasting their lives working for objects that provide nothing but short term satisfaction for a few days, and then become just another self-created financial burden each month.
Smartphones have their genuine uses, but generally they're just yet another status symbol/toy. Although if you count 24/7 access to Facebook as an essential part of your life, they are pretty much invaluable.
There was just a survey done that was published a couple weeks ago and recarried on CNN that said 53% of android users were switching phones, the majority of them that were switching to iPhones, and another very significant portion of current android users who want an iPhone but bought the droid only because it was cheaper -- not better.
That would make sense if the cost of a top end Android phone/contract (here in the UK most people get a "free" or cheap phone with a high monthly charge rather than buying the phone outright) wasn't similar to an iPhone.
However, as it is, then it doesn't make sense.
So, you are saying BB users don't do [most] anything internet related? Hmmm...
While I find your statement true, you have to admit that there is a large correlation of those two. The BB folks I know typically don't hop around with a browser like the Android folks I know. And yes, I do know BB users... and yes, they have penis envy. ;)
You can only have penis envy over what fucking phone you use if you have micro-genitalia to start with.
Not familiar with that one...
Poe's law states that, on the internet, the most obvious troll, parody or piece of satire will be taken deadly seriously by some fanboy/anti-fanboy somewhere. It derives from po-faced, which itself comes from poker-faced, i.e. looking as though someone has just shoved a red hot poker up your arse.
Something like that, anyway.
No one worships Java. It's owned by Oracle, and the the only tech company to get more hate than M$ is Oracle.
That's not true. Oracle is #3 on my list, just below Apple.
Don't you count Sony as a tech company? I thought they were the current favourites for the Slashdot daily Two Minute Hate?
Keep in mind that the protestors can alter the environment as well. Sounds like a couple of hoses could negate this weapon.
Or some synchronised pissing.
It's essentially a one-dial etch-a-sketch.
Now THAT's what I call an analogy.
If you don't think AI is possible, that's ok, because it's coming no matter what you think. :)
Let me know when we give machines voting rights and I'll let you use the term "Artificial Intelligence" without rolling on the floor laughing.
Any savvy person knows to get a networked printer, which also happens to make most driver issues irrelevant, as it will use a relatively standard networking printing protocol.
I thought savvy people just wrote their own drivers?
The protesters need to grow the fuck up. If I am walking down the street and somebody calls me a name I don't walk over and start a fight, because I am a gwon up and that is not how grown ups live.
I don't know what planet you live on, but where I come from people get into fights based on being insulted all the time.
Your right to free speech is not a right to suffer no consequences for the results of that speech.
Yes, ideally people would walk away from insults, but in practice they don't.
Violence between grown men is basically a socially acceptable way for them to "do it" with each other. Straight guys don't have sex with each other, they fight each other. But it's really the same kind of interaction. "You, me, let's do this."
That is only true if you equate having sex with rape. Most of us in the civilized world make a clear distinction between the two.
GeenStijl made a discovery which they communicated to the public. Free speech. This ruling is barbaric.
No, what is barbaric is a childishly simplistic black and white view of the world with absolute freedom of speech on one side, and evil communism/fascism on the other. It's not as simple as that.
If you knew anything about economics at all, you'd support the free market by advocating that copyright be abolished
How can it be a fucking market, free or otherwise, when you don't intend to pay anything?
The people producing music, writing or whatever release their works, and you copy them. There's nothing to do with economics going on, there's no trading, no swapping of goods for money or goods for other goods.
Fuck you and your condescending attitude. Free speech is more important than copyright. Period.
Free speech is the freedom to say what you want without government censorship, not the freedom to copy other people's works and not pay for them. They are two different things.
You may well believe that it is perfectly legitimate to copy anything you are able to, but that is nothing to do with free speech.
It's a bit like how copyright infringement!=theft, as people love to point out here.
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While 85% of the world drives on the left
There must be a lot of very drunk or highly incompetent drivers in the rest of the world then.
It's in Britain that we drive on the left.
I think that joke went so far over your head you didn't even hear the whoosh.
What is that in a civilized unit of measure?
When are American's going to grow up?
A foot is an arbitrary unit of measurement like a metre. What's the difference? Why is one more civilized or grown up than the other?