You know, you can say all you want about the other browsers, but IE is the most laden with crap-you-don't-need out of all of em. How big was it last time I downloaded it? 25 meg? You'd think it'd come with all sorts of stuff to make your internet experience a little better. But all it seems to do is bloat and take longer to load. You guys might be buying a company, but in the end it's going to add to more and more bloat. And your "free" browser isn't going to seem so appealing to the masses of sheep. *sigh* Bill, get your head out of the clouds. At one point in your long lived company, you were actually a decent programmer. Where are you now?
well see, that's the thing. If people are going to worry about censoring things *at all* you absolutely need to have an all-or-none system, otherwise you get in to that gray area.
They need to a)figure out exactly what people (general voters) think is offensive
b) make stores liable for sales (and you can *not* deny that the 18 year old cigarette ban hasn't taken a huge chunk of under-18'ers out)
If you don't kill off all the censored sales, it ends up effecting everyone else. The mature rating wont mean a thing because everyone's too worried about everyone else not paying attention to that rating.
All-or-none is entirely too practical, when it comes down to it. Just the general public strives for that gray area.
I completely agree with you, but for other reasons. One of the main problems with the US culture is that because they do not hold to the rating systems legally, the government can basically sensor EVERYTHING much more than it should be. Even the rated "mature" titles are censored quite a bit before they're released just because they *know* that kids are buying them and the clerks can't say a word about it. Holding people legally responsible for selling to children would open the doors on all the other media out there. Media creators could express themselves fully without worrying about half their script being edited. Do it with movies, do it with songs, do it with everything.
~end rant
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sounds like you might be "beyond the age" for linux too, as those are all very common things to do, I've found.
Hrm :)
Firefox, 3 different themes, 3 different profiles-- command line switches between em.
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You know, you can say all you want about the other browsers, but IE is the most laden with crap-you-don't-need out of all of em.
How big was it last time I downloaded it? 25 meg?
You'd think it'd come with all sorts of stuff to make your internet experience a little better. But all it seems to do is bloat and take longer to load.
You guys might be buying a company, but in the end it's going to add to more and more bloat. And your "free" browser isn't going to seem so appealing to the masses of sheep.
*sigh*
Bill, get your head out of the clouds. At one point in your long lived company, you were actually a decent programmer. Where are you now?
well see, that's the thing. If people are going to worry about censoring things *at all* you absolutely need to have an all-or-none system, otherwise you get in to that gray area. They need to a)figure out exactly what people (general voters) think is offensive b) make stores liable for sales (and you can *not* deny that the 18 year old cigarette ban hasn't taken a huge chunk of under-18'ers out) If you don't kill off all the censored sales, it ends up effecting everyone else. The mature rating wont mean a thing because everyone's too worried about everyone else not paying attention to that rating. All-or-none is entirely too practical, when it comes down to it. Just the general public strives for that gray area.
I completely agree with you, but for other reasons. One of the main problems with the US culture is that because they do not hold to the rating systems legally, the government can basically sensor EVERYTHING much more than it should be. Even the rated "mature" titles are censored quite a bit before they're released just because they *know* that kids are buying them and the clerks can't say a word about it. Holding people legally responsible for selling to children would open the doors on all the other media out there. Media creators could express themselves fully without worrying about half their script being edited. Do it with movies, do it with songs, do it with everything. ~end rant