The logical response to this is for foreign countries to blackhole US sites after SOPA passes. Because it's the slap in the face my politicians need, especially jackasses like Smith, Conyers, Berman, Goodlatte, Waters and especially Watt.
Watt, the asshole who actually argued from ignorance and used ignorance as a reason to vote for SOPA.
SOPA will pass because the technophobes of the House of Representatives fully outnumber reps like Polis by an order of magnitude.
SOPA is a declaration of war against the commerce and economies of the entire world outside the US. And we deserve to lose it.
So you think that that the invasion itself and Bush's actions did not plunge the entire state of Iraq into lawlessness and chaos? Bush explicitly stated that we are "not into nation building." We went there, killed everyone claiming to be Baathist, disbanded the government, disbanded the army, and basically broke the entire social structure of a nation, with the attitude from our President Bush that basically "we don't care" about national stability and you want to hang this on Obama?
>mention bean counters AKA accountancy firms and MBAers bent on stripping companies of value >not mention sales or marketing >accuse me of being anti-sales and marketing
Silicon Valley and other islands of technology define their economic model by success in the marketplace, not by the manipulations of ivy league finance wizards.
That is until the so-called finance wizards cast their jaundiced eye at your little cozy world.
The bean counters will come, eventually and a price will be put on everything and the value stripped.
The thing is, like BMO, am not looking at the "method" as much as I am the purpose and reasoning behind it.
At least someone gets it. The methods may change but the motivation is always the same.
Another similarity is the out-of-proportion reaction to the world. Rather than find a way to deal with how the world has changed as far as media distribution goes, the goal is to disable the most important information revolution since the printing press for everyone. It is collective punishment. Collective punishment is always bad. It is so bad that it is illegal in meatspace and sometimes a war crime.
I suggest you go look up the definitions of metaphor, simile, comparison, and contrast. I also suggest that you go back to school and learn literary criticism, because you only read the surface and take whatever you want from there and do not look any deeper.
I also note that you also conveniently disregarded my mention of our own Taliban right here in the States. There is little difference between what the Taliban want and the Dominionists like Joel's Army whose ultimate goal is "kill everyone"
Lastly:
You can take your personal attacks, print each of them out on oaktag, fold them until they are all sharp corners, and shove them squarely up your ass..
DRAVOT:Now listen to me, you benighted muckers! We're going to teach you soldiering, the world's noblest profession. When we've done with you, you'll be able to stand up and slaughter your enemies like civilised men. But first, you'll have to learn to march⦠in step and do the manual of arms without having to think! Good soldiers don't ever thinkâ"they just obey!⦠Do you suppose if a man thought twice he'd give his life for King and Country? Not bloody likely. He wouldn't go near a battlefield!⦠(pauses) One look at your foolish faces tells me you're going to be crack troops. Him, thereâ"(pointing) â"with the five and a half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!
Following your own link and reading it contradicts your assertion.
Eskander also reported that the destruction was performed by "a mix of poor people looking for a quick profit, along with regime loyalists intent on destroying evidence of atrocities"
And...
âoeAccording to Eskander, Saddam loyalists burned the entirety of the Republican Archive, which contained the records of the Ba'athist regime between the years 1958 and 1979. Also completely destroyed were the Ba'athist court proceedings detailing the charges against and trials of party opponents. Records of Iraq's relations with its neighbors, including Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, are missing. Iraq has accused neighbouring countries of stealing sections of its national archives.[6]
In case you haven't noticed, the MPAA and RIAA have been nothing but terrorist thugs when it comes to the Internet. It fucks with their distribution system, cuts out middle men, and is generally a pain in the ass to them. They would like nothing better than to go back to the bad old days of no Internet where they held the distribution channels in their grip.
SOPA, a bill which they wrote, is tantamount to burning down the Internet.
There are people in the US that are ready and waiting to do the exact same thing. Some of them are corporations.
The RIAA and MPAA wish all this would go away.
The Dominionists and other so-called-Christian radicals (note the location of the hyphen) would burn all modern communications technology and "unchristian books" (meaning anything other than the bible) in a heartbeat.
I am not worried about these things, these are the things that the media pumps up about the "science" they report on,
You said absolutely nothing about this in your previous posts on this. You argued with a straight face about science fiction scenarios and expected me to take them seriously.
It is not my problem if you cannot communicate clearly.
It is not my job to be clairvoyant and throw chicken bones to divine what you meant. Go find some other witch doctor.
Yet you continue to argue slippery slope fallacy based on nothing but absolute science fiction.
A fusion reaction under water can burn all the water in the oceans? Really? We've actually done the "bomb under water" thing and the oceans are still here, guy.
Weaponizing viruses is extremely tricky and requires a lot more technology and smarts, really, than any terrorist organization has. Really, look at how intelligent the people are who go to blow themselves up. You expect them to suddenly come up with a weaponized version of the flu? I think you give them way too much credit .
>EMP can demolish society
Go read up on solar storms and what they can do to the Earth. If we have another one like in 1859, we're pretty much fucked, and that is more likely than a terrorist cell exploding a fission bomb in the ionosphere.
You invent scenarios that are less likely than MomNature herself fucking with us. You worry about the wrong things.
You know, they're trying to use a modified version of the AIDS virus to deliver cancer killing drugs. Not only that, but studying how viruses get virulent may teach us how to stop a 1918 Spanish Flu type pandemic. If you're going to limit discussion on modifying viruses and such, you're going to limit science and medicine.
Your fear is based on bad movie plots and lack of information.
âoeexperimental details and mutation data that would enable replication of the experiments.â
But the whole point of science is to see if results can be replicated or not. This is anti-science and pro-stupid and if taken to its logical conclusion means a drastic slowdown in research since people have to reinvent wheels for no reason except for bad movie plots.
Slashdot Mirror
Late night with George Noory?
Are we going to take the "Nazis built Cydonia" loony-tunes hypothesis too?
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The logical response to this is for foreign countries to blackhole US sites after SOPA passes. Because it's the slap in the face my politicians need, especially jackasses like Smith, Conyers, Berman, Goodlatte, Waters and especially Watt.
Watt, the asshole who actually argued from ignorance and used ignorance as a reason to vote for SOPA.
SOPA will pass because the technophobes of the House of Representatives fully outnumber reps like Polis by an order of magnitude.
SOPA is a declaration of war against the commerce and economies of the entire world outside the US. And we deserve to lose it.
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BMO
Then let's not manufacture anything then. Let's all be designers. Because, you know, all these devices are going to magic themselves into existence.
Such is the logic of pointy-haired-bosses.
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BMO
So you think that that the invasion itself and Bush's actions did not plunge the entire state of Iraq into lawlessness and chaos? Bush explicitly stated that we are "not into nation building." We went there, killed everyone claiming to be Baathist, disbanded the government, disbanded the army, and basically broke the entire social structure of a nation, with the attitude from our President Bush that basically "we don't care" about national stability and you want to hang this on Obama?
You're a fucking idiot.
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The thing is, the guy selling the module isn't violating the license.
At all.
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BMO
>mention bean counters AKA accountancy firms and MBAers bent on stripping companies of value
>not mention sales or marketing
>accuse me of being anti-sales and marketing
Learn to fucking read and stop being an ass.
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BMO
If it's 39 litres, the little green men (TM) have to be really little
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BMO
>Hell, their idea of a "cheap" product is AutoCAD LT which is still $500.
And LT is a 2D cad.
You want CAD that will read .dwg files?
Dassault's Draftsight. It's free. It's also cross platform - Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
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That is until the so-called finance wizards cast their jaundiced eye at your little cozy world.
The bean counters will come, eventually and a price will be put on everything and the value stripped.
Ignore them at your peril.
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BMO
The thing is, like BMO, am not looking at the "method" as much as I am the purpose and reasoning behind it.
At least someone gets it. The methods may change but the motivation is always the same.
Another similarity is the out-of-proportion reaction to the world. Rather than find a way to deal with how the world has changed as far as media distribution goes, the goal is to disable the most important information revolution since the printing press for everyone. It is collective punishment. Collective punishment is always bad. It is so bad that it is illegal in meatspace and sometimes a war crime.
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BMO
I suggest you go look up the definitions of metaphor, simile, comparison, and contrast. I also suggest that you go back to school and learn literary criticism, because you only read the surface and take whatever you want from there and do not look any deeper.
I also note that you also conveniently disregarded my mention of our own Taliban right here in the States. There is little difference between what the Taliban want and the Dominionists like Joel's Army whose ultimate goal is "kill everyone"
Lastly:
You can take your personal attacks, print each of them out on oaktag, fold them until they are all sharp corners, and shove them squarely up your ass..
Meet your new status.
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BMO
I didn't go off the deep end.
You misrepresented your argument. Willfully, apparently.
Good day, sir.
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DRAVOT:Now listen to me, you benighted muckers! We're going to teach you soldiering, the world's noblest profession. When we've done with you, you'll be able to stand up and slaughter your enemies like civilised men. But first, you'll have to learn to march⦠in step and do the manual of arms without having to think! Good soldiers don't ever thinkâ"they just obey!⦠Do you suppose if a man thought twice he'd give his life for King and Country? Not bloody likely. He wouldn't go near a battlefield!⦠(pauses) One look at your foolish faces tells me you're going to be crack troops. Him, thereâ"(pointing) â"with the five and a half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!
Americans?
Following your own link and reading it contradicts your assertion.
And...
"Neigboring countries" are not Americans.
Flamebait
Troll
Douchebag
Fuck. Off.
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I had to google that last quote because I liked it so much.
For everyone's edification:
"Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."
"That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also."
Heinrich Heine, in the play "Almansor" - 1821
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Excuse me?
In case you haven't noticed, the MPAA and RIAA have been nothing but terrorist thugs when it comes to the Internet. It fucks with their distribution system, cuts out middle men, and is generally a pain in the ass to them. They would like nothing better than to go back to the bad old days of no Internet where they held the distribution channels in their grip.
SOPA, a bill which they wrote, is tantamount to burning down the Internet.
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BMO
There are people in the US that are ready and waiting to do the exact same thing. Some of them are corporations.
The RIAA and MPAA wish all this would go away.
The Dominionists and other so-called-Christian radicals (note the location of the hyphen) would burn all modern communications technology and "unchristian books" (meaning anything other than the bible) in a heartbeat.
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BMO
I am not worried about these things, these are the things that the media pumps up about the "science" they report on,
You said absolutely nothing about this in your previous posts on this. You argued with a straight face about science fiction scenarios and expected me to take them seriously.
It is not my problem if you cannot communicate clearly.
It is not my job to be clairvoyant and throw chicken bones to divine what you meant. Go find some other witch doctor.
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BMO
Yet you continue to argue slippery slope fallacy based on nothing but absolute science fiction.
A fusion reaction under water can burn all the water in the oceans? Really? We've actually done the "bomb under water" thing and the oceans are still here, guy.
Weaponizing viruses is extremely tricky and requires a lot more technology and smarts, really, than any terrorist organization has. Really, look at how intelligent the people are who go to blow themselves up. You expect them to suddenly come up with a weaponized version of the flu? I think you give them way too much credit .
>EMP can demolish society
Go read up on solar storms and what they can do to the Earth. If we have another one like in 1859, we're pretty much fucked, and that is more likely than a terrorist cell exploding a fission bomb in the ionosphere.
You invent scenarios that are less likely than MomNature herself fucking with us. You worry about the wrong things.
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BMO
You know, they're trying to use a modified version of the AIDS virus to deliver cancer killing drugs. Not only that, but studying how viruses get virulent may teach us how to stop a 1918 Spanish Flu type pandemic. If you're going to limit discussion on modifying viruses and such, you're going to limit science and medicine.
Your fear is based on bad movie plots and lack of information.
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BMO
>arguably
This is a weasel word and to start a sentence with it means that the sentence is mealy-mouthed bullshit.
If you're going to censor, you need some evidence to justify it, not bad movie plots.
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BMO
âoeexperimental details and mutation data that would enable replication of the experiments.â
But the whole point of science is to see if results can be replicated or not. This is anti-science and pro-stupid and if taken to its logical conclusion means a drastic slowdown in research since people have to reinvent wheels for no reason except for bad movie plots.
Fuck this government-by-fear bullshit. Publish.
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BMO
Does it really matter what order minimise/maximise/close is?
It's the first thing I change in every desktop where I can change it.
Close on left, minimize and maximize/restore on right.
As God and IBM intended.
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BMO
1. No they don't look the same. Ohhh, they both have a top bar, icons, and windows, but that's where the similarity ends.
2. That's Gnome 2.3, not Unity. Ubuntu hasn't shipped with 2.3 as the default desktop for a year now.
3. Gnome 3 is radically different, which is why a lot of people don't like it, and it looks absolutely nothing like OSX
The only person here who hasn't used Ubuntu, apparently, is you, because you'd know this.
>I'm getting mad
I don't suffer idiots gladly.
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BMO
Yeah, that was the one. I thought it was a Boeing for some reason.
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