He's the guy who says what you can get away with. If you're the plaintiff in a lawsuit, you don't want him holding you to strict rules. You want a "we're all just amicable people trying to figure out the answer here" kind of deal.
Not this.
This copyright group is toast.
One wonders what Judge Learned Hand would have said in a situation like this. It would have been colourful.
>I think that respecting freedoms involves me respecting others' right to give up their freedom
You advocate a dog-eat-dog world.
You are advocating feudalism.
You are advocating slavery.
All with that one phrase.
Unconscionable contract terms are unconscionable. There is a long tradition that says you cannot sign away your first born or your rights. Such things are not allowed in a civilized society. You want absolute freedom to do as you want, to subjugate others? Go back to Somalia and start your own gang there.
I think the Touro Synagogue letter is more important because it's not just Adams trying to do diplomacy.
The Touro Synagogue letter says that we should all each be free to sit under our own tree (believe what we want) unmolested.
If you follow any faith or follow no faith, it behooves you to read the letter. It is excellent ammunition to use against those who would tell you what you must believe in. It is short and to the point with no wiggle room for those who would want to pervert its argument into something else.
Yes, he got caught at the end. Yes, he told them that there would be a huge force. This was a bluff.
But if you go and try to decipher Palin Word Salad (TM) it's clear she skimmed the history and had it mashed up in her head. This is why I said "you can't cram" for New England history. You either know it or you don't.
We all know the Longfellow poem has hooey in it. It's a poem, not a dissertation. But it captured the spirit of the ride. Palin's word salad did not. Instead it dropped the main point of the ride on the ground.
Yes, we know about guns. We do know that the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting.
Stop trying to tell us what we already know and screwing it up. It's unseemly.
What a lot of people in this thread refuse to understand is that...
One day you will become injured One day, you will become sight impaired. One day, you will become old. One day, your perfect body will no longer be perfect.
As a person with decent vision, I have problem with captchas. I don't know what it is about some of them, but some are undecipherable and I have to hit the reload key.
Every single one of them with objection to making web pages non-discriminatory against the sight impaired are either teenagers or 20 something that have never been sick a day in their lives.
Some day things will be different for them. And they won't like it. Karma is a bitch.
You can't cram for New England history and come here and spout what you know and try to bluff your way through it with word salad. There are 391 years of it here, and we know all of it.
You either admit you don't know or we're going to ridicule you until you cry yourself to sleep.
And the next person who says that somehow this is a Christian nation like Sarah is wont to do, I am going to take a copy of the Touro Synagogue letter from George Washington *and* a copy of the Bloudy Tenent, roll them both up, and shove them down his neck.
>Bitcoin has the feature, that it can't be inflated (claimed by their proponents).
More than that. If buttcoin actually becomes an actual alternative to paper currency, it has built-in hyperdeflation.
There are 21 million buttcoins (roughly) to be mined, and that's it. Over time you have fewer buttcoins (because they can be destroyed) chasing after more goods (because of economic growth).
This means that any leveraged purchases are a fools' errand - capital machinery, durable goods, houses, bought on credit, are the worst deals in the world because you pay with money that is worth more over time. Deflation serves only the hoarders and creates a braking effect on an economy, because why spend money today when it will be worth more tomorrow?
Buttcoin is a scam made to enrich the hoarding early adopters. It's a sort-of ponzi scheme.
And now it's being used for money laundering.
The sooner it's stomped out of existence the better.
Not only does it discriminate against machines (like it should) it discriminates against humans, too.
I long for the day when the Americans with Disabilities Act gets amended for the interbutt. You are an institution or you do commerce on the Web? You can no longer discriminate against the sight impaired ever again.
People see CAPTCHA as a magic wand for dealing with brute-force attacks and spam. It's not. If it was a pill for erectile dysfunction, the side effects would give you projectile diarrhea.
Where is even the correlation, let alone causative link, to brain cancer?
This was on NPR the other day and it was all "LOL we don't know but it/might/ cause brain cancer even though every study we have shows there isn't any correlation."
And the brain cancer it supposedly causes is a rare type that has not shown an increase in incidence from the time of no cell phones to the time of cellphones everywhere.
This is fucking pseudoscience scare mongering. There is a moneyed interest here somewhere for the scare mongering. Grants? Maybe. But that doesn't explain the actions of Sweden. Who wants to scare people into not using cellphones, and why?
I have used Flash on nearly every platform it's available on
It's a steaming pile. There are no qualifiers to go with that statement. It is singularly crap. It sucks on desktops, it sucks on laptops, it sucks on pads, and it sucks on mobile.
There is no platform that it does not suck on. I cannot stress this enough.
It doesn't matter how small the bite you take is, it's still a shit sandwich.
If he was a dictator, we probably would have had single payer health care (which would have been a good thing), but since he's not, he took it off the table from the get-go.
What made me angry was the sneering way "Hope" was denigrated.
As if it's something worthless. It's not.
The treatment the word got at the hands of people like Sarah Palin disturbed me.
Sure, it was used as a slogan. It's not a bad slogan to have, though. Like I said, the slogan is on my flag. It's there for a reason. Hope means that tomorrow can be a better day than today. It might not be, but it can.
Hope.... is a bad thing? Hope is to be sneered at? Hope is to be torn up and discarded? Hope is to be perverted and used as a weapon? I dunno man, but down that path lies evil.
>Folks like you would demand moronic laws in the name of "think of our children" but when it comes to actually making their future a little better, folks like you don't actually give a shit about your children and your grand-children. After all, YOU are not benefiting immediately. Right?
That is exactly what it's all about. It's the driving force behind the tea party. It's what's behind all the "hurr, that's socialism" bullshit. It's the "I've got mine, fuck you" niggardly attitude where anything that benefits everyone in the long run is somehow socialist because spending a dime today on it is immoral according to the church of Mammon and Ayn Rand, the prophet PBUH.
These are the same people who ridiculed the word "Hope" in the Obama campaign.
It's on my fucking state flag. I have not enough middle fingers for such folks.
>For years, computer geeks and the media alike have been hollering that everyone needs antivirus, and warning them of the dire dire dangers of not being protected. So now that malware is exploiting that by warning users (as their trusted Antivirus program!) that "we have detected these threats, you better act now", you want to call them stupid for trying to follow all those warnings?
WE HAVE ALSO BEEN YELLING AT YOU TO STOP CLICKING ON EVERY STUPID THING ON THE INTERBUTT. STOP PUNCHING THE MONKEY. STOP DOING WAREZ. STOP DOWNLOADING THAT MOVIE.REALLY.NOT.FAKE.THIS.TIME.EXE THAT IS 14KB LONG. STOP INSTALLING PURPLE GORILLAS. STOP DOING STUPID SHIT AND GET SOFTWARE FROM LEGITIMATE SOURCES.
MAC DEFENDER DOES NOT COME FROM ANY LEGITIMATE SOURCE. IT IS STUMBLED UPON BY USERS AND IT IS IMMEDIATELY TRUSTED BECAUSE IT "LOOKS SO REAL." WHY PEOPLE TRUST IT BLOWS MY FUCKING MIND. IT'S LIKE COMING ACROSS A PICKPOCKET ON THE STREET THAT SAYS HE CAN BE YOUR TOUR GUIDE IN AN UNFAMILIAR CITY FOR FREE BECAUSE HE'S WEARING A COAT AND TIE.
IT SEEMS NO AMOUNT OF CAJOLING AND SHOUTING AND EDUCATING PENETRATES THE THICK SKULLS OF PEOPLE WHO WILL JUMP THROUGH HOOPS AND "CUT AND PASTE THIS INTO YOUR BROWSER BAR AND GET THE NEW FACEBOOK CHAT."
IF IT'S NOT STUPIDITY, THEN IT'S GREED. GREED IN THINKING THAT YOU CAN GO SOMEWHERE NOT VETTED BY ANYONE YOU HAVE EVEN READ ABOUT AND GET FREE STUFF THAT WILL NOT HARM YOU. IT'S BELIEVING IN THE FREE LUNCH.
WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS FOR YEARS, YET YOU DO NOT LISTEN.
STOP IT.
YES, I'M MAD. THIS IS WHY THE ALL CAPS. FUCK YOU FOR IMPLYING THAT I HAVE NOT TRIED ENOUGH IN EDUCATING USERS. GO TO HELL.
-- BMO
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING
"Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?"
Userspace malware is nothing different than Purple Gorilla Bonzi-Buddy shit.
There is no OS or kernel patch that protects against stupid.
I can install the SELinux scripts, and there is nothing preventing me from utterly hosing the system as administrator or my own account with my own permissions. You would have to make a read-only system, maintained by someone not-me. This is what corporate IT does.
I see a market for itinerant bonded neighborhood sysadmins should people get over themselves and admit that joe-user can't handle his own computer at home.
I am 40(mumble) years old and it's been 20 years since they've had anything worth looking at in their Potemkin Village of a so-called electronics DIY store. And I'm being generous there.
Up here in the Providence/Boston corridor, there is a store called You-Do-It Electronics in Needham MA. You can get/anything/, really. If you ask nicely, I suppose they can find plutonium to power your radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
Radio Shack is going to have to beat them for me to step foot in one of their stores ever again.
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... is generally a bad idea.
He's the guy who says what you can get away with. If you're the plaintiff in a lawsuit, you don't want him holding you to strict rules. You want a "we're all just amicable people trying to figure out the answer here" kind of deal.
Not this.
This copyright group is toast.
One wonders what Judge Learned Hand would have said in a situation like this. It would have been colourful.
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BMO
>serious answer
>pun thread
*whistle*
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BMO
The only reason why Y2K /wasn't/ a disaster was because people worked their asses off for it to not happen.
Idiots everywhere...
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BMO
>I think that respecting freedoms involves me respecting others' right to give up their freedom
You advocate a dog-eat-dog world.
You are advocating feudalism.
You are advocating slavery.
All with that one phrase.
Unconscionable contract terms are unconscionable. There is a long tradition that says you cannot sign away your first born or your rights. Such things are not allowed in a civilized society. You want absolute freedom to do as you want, to subjugate others? Go back to Somalia and start your own gang there.
I believe I have the freedom to call you an ass.
--
BMO - burning karma because shit like this.
I think the Touro Synagogue letter is more important because it's not just Adams trying to do diplomacy.
The Touro Synagogue letter says that we should all each be free to sit under our own tree (believe what we want) unmolested.
If you follow any faith or follow no faith, it behooves you to read the letter. It is excellent ammunition to use against those who would tell you what you must believe in. It is short and to the point with no wiggle room for those who would want to pervert its argument into something else.
--
BMO
Palin was /partly/ right.
She was wrong about the /reason/ for the ride.
Yes, he got caught at the end. Yes, he told them that there would be a huge force. This was a bluff.
But if you go and try to decipher Palin Word Salad (TM) it's clear she skimmed the history and had it mashed up in her head. This is why I said "you can't cram" for New England history. You either know it or you don't.
We all know the Longfellow poem has hooey in it. It's a poem, not a dissertation. But it captured the spirit of the ride. Palin's word salad did not. Instead it dropped the main point of the ride on the ground.
Yes, we know about guns. We do know that the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting.
Stop trying to tell us what we already know and screwing it up. It's unseemly.
--
BMO
What a lot of people in this thread refuse to understand is that...
One day you will become injured
One day, you will become sight impaired.
One day, you will become old.
One day, your perfect body will no longer be perfect.
As a person with decent vision, I have problem with captchas. I don't know what it is about some of them, but some are undecipherable and I have to hit the reload key.
Every single one of them with objection to making web pages non-discriminatory against the sight impaired are either teenagers or 20 something that have never been sick a day in their lives.
Some day things will be different for them. And they won't like it. Karma is a bitch.
--
BMO
You can't cram for New England history and come here and spout what you know and try to bluff your way through it with word salad. There are 391 years of it here, and we know all of it.
You either admit you don't know or we're going to ridicule you until you cry yourself to sleep.
And the next person who says that somehow this is a Christian nation like Sarah is wont to do, I am going to take a copy of the Touro Synagogue letter from George Washington *and* a copy of the Bloudy Tenent, roll them both up, and shove them down his neck.
--
BMO
>Bitcoin has the feature, that it can't be inflated (claimed by their proponents).
More than that. If buttcoin actually becomes an actual alternative to paper currency, it has built-in hyperdeflation.
There are 21 million buttcoins (roughly) to be mined, and that's it. Over time you have fewer buttcoins (because they can be destroyed) chasing after more goods (because of economic growth).
This means that any leveraged purchases are a fools' errand - capital machinery, durable goods, houses, bought on credit, are the worst deals in the world because you pay with money that is worth more over time. Deflation serves only the hoarders and creates a braking effect on an economy, because why spend money today when it will be worth more tomorrow?
Buttcoin is a scam made to enrich the hoarding early adopters. It's a sort-of ponzi scheme.
And now it's being used for money laundering.
The sooner it's stomped out of existence the better.
--
BMO
The quicker CAPTCHA dies the better.
Not only does it discriminate against machines (like it should) it discriminates against humans, too.
I long for the day when the Americans with Disabilities Act gets amended for the interbutt. You are an institution or you do commerce on the Web? You can no longer discriminate against the sight impaired ever again.
People see CAPTCHA as a magic wand for dealing with brute-force attacks and spam. It's not. If it was a pill for erectile dysfunction, the side effects would give you projectile diarrhea.
--
BMO
That's OK. I will be sure not to record your beating or shooting when it comes to you.
Fair enough?
--
BMO
Where is even the correlation, let alone causative link, to brain cancer?
This was on NPR the other day and it was all "LOL we don't know but it /might/ cause brain cancer even though every study we have shows there isn't any correlation."
And the brain cancer it supposedly causes is a rare type that has not shown an increase in incidence from the time of no cell phones to the time of cellphones everywhere.
This is fucking pseudoscience scare mongering. There is a moneyed interest here somewhere for the scare mongering. Grants? Maybe. But that doesn't explain the actions of Sweden. Who wants to scare people into not using cellphones, and why?
That would explain this bullshit.
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BMO
>just need a hair dryer!
Honey?
yeah?
Can I borrow your EZ Bake Oven?
But daddy, the police took it last time...
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BMO
I have used Flash on nearly every platform it's available on
It's a steaming pile. There are no qualifiers to go with that statement. It is singularly crap. It sucks on desktops, it sucks on laptops, it sucks on pads, and it sucks on mobile.
There is no platform that it does not suck on. I cannot stress this enough.
It doesn't matter how small the bite you take is, it's still a shit sandwich.
Are we clear on this?
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BMO
>current dictator
If he was a dictator, we probably would have had single payer health care (which would have been a good thing), but since he's not, he took it off the table from the get-go.
You're stupid.
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BMO
What made me angry was the sneering way "Hope" was denigrated.
As if it's something worthless. It's not.
The treatment the word got at the hands of people like Sarah Palin disturbed me.
Sure, it was used as a slogan. It's not a bad slogan to have, though. Like I said, the slogan is on my flag. It's there for a reason. Hope means that tomorrow can be a better day than today. It might not be, but it can.
Hope.... is a bad thing? Hope is to be sneered at? Hope is to be torn up and discarded? Hope is to be perverted and used as a weapon? I dunno man, but down that path lies evil.
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BMO
I need... mod... points.
Mod this up, guys.
>Folks like you would demand moronic laws in the name of "think of our children" but when it comes to actually making their future a little better, folks like you don't actually give a shit about your children and your grand-children. After all, YOU are not benefiting immediately. Right?
That is exactly what it's all about. It's the driving force behind the tea party. It's what's behind all the "hurr, that's socialism" bullshit. It's the "I've got mine, fuck you" niggardly attitude where anything that benefits everyone in the long run is somehow socialist because spending a dime today on it is immoral according to the church of Mammon and Ayn Rand, the prophet PBUH.
These are the same people who ridiculed the word "Hope" in the Obama campaign.
It's on my fucking state flag. I have not enough middle fingers for such folks.
*spit*
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BMO
Steam games run fine.
I don't know what you're talking about.
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BMO
>For years, computer geeks and the media alike have been hollering that everyone needs antivirus, and warning them of the dire dire dangers of not being protected. So now that malware is exploiting that by warning users (as their trusted Antivirus program!) that "we have detected these threats, you better act now", you want to call them stupid for trying to follow all those warnings?
WE HAVE ALSO BEEN YELLING AT YOU TO STOP CLICKING ON EVERY STUPID THING ON THE INTERBUTT. STOP PUNCHING THE MONKEY. STOP DOING WAREZ. STOP DOWNLOADING THAT MOVIE.REALLY.NOT.FAKE.THIS.TIME.EXE THAT IS 14KB LONG. STOP INSTALLING PURPLE GORILLAS. STOP DOING STUPID SHIT AND GET SOFTWARE FROM LEGITIMATE SOURCES.
MAC DEFENDER DOES NOT COME FROM ANY LEGITIMATE SOURCE. IT IS STUMBLED UPON BY USERS AND IT IS IMMEDIATELY TRUSTED BECAUSE IT "LOOKS SO REAL." WHY PEOPLE TRUST IT BLOWS MY FUCKING MIND. IT'S LIKE COMING ACROSS A PICKPOCKET ON THE STREET THAT SAYS HE CAN BE YOUR TOUR GUIDE IN AN UNFAMILIAR CITY FOR FREE BECAUSE HE'S WEARING A COAT AND TIE.
IT SEEMS NO AMOUNT OF CAJOLING AND SHOUTING AND EDUCATING PENETRATES THE THICK SKULLS OF PEOPLE WHO WILL JUMP THROUGH HOOPS AND "CUT AND PASTE THIS INTO YOUR BROWSER BAR AND GET THE NEW FACEBOOK CHAT."
IF IT'S NOT STUPIDITY, THEN IT'S GREED. GREED IN THINKING THAT YOU CAN GO SOMEWHERE NOT VETTED BY ANYONE YOU HAVE EVEN READ ABOUT AND GET FREE STUFF THAT WILL NOT HARM YOU. IT'S BELIEVING IN THE FREE LUNCH.
WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS FOR YEARS, YET YOU DO NOT LISTEN.
STOP IT.
YES, I'M MAD. THIS IS WHY THE ALL CAPS. FUCK YOU FOR IMPLYING THAT I HAVE NOT TRIED ENOUGH IN EDUCATING USERS. GO TO HELL.
--
BMO
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING
"Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?"
Ever.
You can educate, but you can only put in just so many policies to prevent stupid before you turn the computer into a brick.
The only way to stop this is for the user to stop clicking on everything in sight, like dumb Windows users have been doing for the past 15 years.
Some people simply shouldn't have computers at all, for their own safety.
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BMO
Userspace malware is nothing different than Purple Gorilla Bonzi-Buddy shit.
There is no OS or kernel patch that protects against stupid.
I can install the SELinux scripts, and there is nothing preventing me from utterly hosing the system as administrator or my own account with my own permissions. You would have to make a read-only system, maintained by someone not-me. This is what corporate IT does.
I see a market for itinerant bonded neighborhood sysadmins should people get over themselves and admit that joe-user can't handle his own computer at home.
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BMO
As if the military gives cheating a pass.
They know *exactly* what cheating gets you - dead friendlies.
You cheat on an exam at a military school (electrician school, etc) and the consequences will be quite severe.
The last thing the Navy wants (for example) is an electrician's mate on a submarine that cheated on his exams.
Try dishonorable discharge, after serving time.
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...or chemistry, or pharmacy, or anything else dealing with human lives directly or indirectly at the end of the chain:
You don't belong in the profession.
You are going to kill people. No question. Someday you will kill someone with your incompetence.
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BMO
A few round disks of vinyl, enough quotes for the rest of your life.
Georgie Tirebiter: Not now, Mudhead, I've got to go to the last meeting of the Philatelists' Club.
Mudhead: I didn't know you masturbated!
- Firesign Theatre
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BMO
"It's just this little chromium switch here (click), ah you people are SO superstitious!"
I am 40(mumble) years old and it's been 20 years since they've had anything worth looking at in their Potemkin Village of a so-called electronics DIY store. And I'm being generous there.
Up here in the Providence/Boston corridor, there is a store called You-Do-It Electronics in Needham MA. You can get /anything/, really. If you ask nicely, I suppose they can find plutonium to power your radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
Radio Shack is going to have to beat them for me to step foot in one of their stores ever again.
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BMO