This is true in some ways, but theres also the problem with it's getting "too" easy. My brothers a complete idiot and so are most of his friends, yet he often comes home with films just released from the cinema on DVD. He even knows where to get them yet doesn't know you need a burner to put files on a CD..
It's getting to the point where the general public and not just "The evil pirates" can pirate things. So they are and don't think twice about it. I mean go look at Deviant art and look at how many people use photoshop there.. are we really to believe them countless little girls (teenage kids in general) bought $700 software? It's very unlikely..
In the long run it may benefit Adobe but at the same time it could also bite them in the ass because people will be so used to using a hacked photoshop they won't care about buying a licence in the future.
I agree with you and support OSS and such, but the business world takes very few risks. Windows is a stable platform (as in it's safe not that it's a stable OS). It uses file types (the word types etc.) which you have to use to fit in. I'd love to open Open office, fickle away and be all "weeee done!", but OO format is not a standard, so it won't fit in and may infact force me to redo everything. So we're back at the old "Do I support MS and use their apps or do I take a HUGE risk, maybe look like an idiot, waste peoples time, money and whatever else.. just so I can avoid paying to be locked into a format?".
I love shareware, OSS and such. If I have the choice I'll take OSS over everything else every chance I get, but some times you have to fit into your slot and theres just no option for using anything but MS stuff.
"the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth, and with the various related problems of labor, finance, taxation, etc. (Webster's New World)"
From Define in Google.
Economics has always been used as a money issue, the distribution of money basicly. Money to me is not something which has morales attached to it at all. It's "Money is what buys things", how you get it is not something I'd call economics, controling the flow of it is what I call economics.
I guess it depends how you define the word. Maybe it's a difference between the UK and where ever you guys are, or maybe it's just my area where "economic issues" always = we have no money:/
I understand jobs don't come along every day and you have to balance out what you agree with and don't with what you need to survive. I'm not trying to change the world (I very much doubt I could if I tried), such silly non-sense is for children. On the other hand I would rather nor pour money into Microsoft's bank account because they have the Word filetype so locked down I cannot use a third party product and be positive it'll still work correctly.
If I could I'd use Open office every time without fail. I'd donate to OF to support it, as I would any software I could (some times I donate advertising as such instead of cash for example). Where as in this situation it's like paying a jail for them to lock me up in it.
I get that in life you have to do what you have to just to survive. But right now my parents are supporting me fine (infact I commonly have to support other family members when money I've saved up) and I have very little to no hobbies/life style choices which burn money. So I don't "need" this job persay. It's an option is all.
But hey maybe you'd be happy to work at Gator for a while right? "As long as I get money who cares who I screw over"?:)
The console is "I have some control here, I can attempt to steer him away from Sony", I have to pick one or the other basicly. In this position I pick MS.
I don't believe a job makes you whore you are and I don't need to work for any credit. It was an offer and since I can do it from home and I have no other way to get a job it's more or less my only option right now so I have to take it. It's like working in McDonalds, you don't want to but you have to live.
I don't think it will change my life. It maybe a couple of days of work or a full time job, details are still being fixed. But being 19 any job offer when I have no work exprience is better than nothing. I plan to go back to college in the future, so earning money now will help this and let me pick a career I do want to be in (work in an IT department in a college for example).
I wouldn't say my family has any real power or set up as you seemed to read. My mum knows a lot of very very rich people and is more or less a local celebrity with them. I'm well known around for being a geek who's willing to help out people who do me good (AKA not everyone but I'll help friends out). So the guy put two and two together and thought I could be useful to him. I don't doubt having it on my resume could do me a lot of favours, but I'm not looking at it "for the future" more "I don't have much cash and I need to get some in the bank incase of emergencies". Like most Slashdotters I like to prepare for the worst and in my current situation having a large chunk of money in the bank would be very nice.
You've hit home on another point which I'm having to deal with right now.
I've just been offered my first job from a family friend.. He runs a large business (Millionaire type large), now he needs someone to do basic data inputting and has offered me the job. Now I know that this will require me to own MS software. I have an old CD with MS works on it (came with an older PC) which contains spreadsheets, databases and a word processor. I don't have it installed and have no plans to do so, I use open office if I need that sort of thing and have no plans to change that (I don't do it very often if ever).
But since this is for a business and maybe accessed by other people I must do it in a format they can use... we all know the standard and I'll have to get Word and Excel some how to stick to it.. now I refuse to buy software from MS on principal (although my brother wants an Xbox or a PS2 for Christmas.. between MS and Sony I decided MS was the least evil and so am pushing him towards the Xbox.. plus I don't have one and will inherit it COUGH), but I need this software to do the work to a standard I think is fair. After my first pay check I will have enough money to buy the software if I want..
So my dillema is : Do I pay for my software and give in to MS's monopoly, even support it because I had to, to earn money, or do I keep using the pirate software to do the work and not support something I need to work?
Right now the lesser of two evils is to rip off MS. Something I see "no evil" in, but something I also fear maybe an issue in the future some where down the line (how do I know said pirate software isn't putting something in the encoded files which later may come back to hurt the company?).
It's a game of 6s and 7s. If I do one thing I support something I disagree with, if I do another I support something I disagree with.
As for TV and such.. I have no intrest in most Western TV. I DLed an episode of Doctor who (had already seen every episode on TV, I wanted to rewatch it and DVDs weren't out yet), but I'm from the UK and pay a TV licence for that sort of thing.
I guess we're living in an age where morales is the only thing we have to stop us turning into outright scum. But on the other hand companies are turning into scum and the only way to keep our rights is to repeatedly break rules and barriers they put up:/
Economics is money based not morale. If I work on economics then I will steal everything. If I work on morales I will support things I feel deserve supporting. O.o
I don't work on economics, I work in what I feel is right. I believe in supporting things I enjoy.. so I do so. People who don't believe this never will support things.
From what I get these seem military use.. Surely if these "evil terrorists" have all this uber technology and use the internet for communication it would be extremely easy for them to see this news (here or else where) and start shooting them the second they see them comming..
Maybe I'm just not seeing it but this to me screams "good idea, yet not".
I have that exact same urge though "screw it I have it, who cares about them". I have very limited money so what I buy really does matter to me. Games these days have become so short in most cases they arn't worth the price tag, you almost need to try them just to make sure it's not an hour or 2 long.
I understand supporting authors and I do as much as I can. Some times it's by buying merchandise and not the main product (in the case of anime fansubbed, since I don't wish to support the company who do vile English tracks). I also get that some people won't pay for stuff, but can you count these as lost sales since they never would of bought it in the first place?
I'd love to know how software piracy hurts software vendors without spin put on it. Lately I tried a rom of Final fantasy Tactics Advance. On Monday I'll be going into the local game shop to purchase it. I've done this countless times on games I wouldn't have played other wise. So for every game I randomly downloaded and enjoyed I've added a sale. For every game I've downloaded and didn't like I've not taken anything away.. are these figures ever taken into account? No, because if people admit piracy just about balances out or may even help a company they'd have to stop using rootkits and DRM to take away your basic right to copy things for self use.
It's Slashdot man, try to calm down a touch. I've had comments so insightful they could see the future modded troll and comments I wrote when pissed off at people modded +5 insightful. It depends who has mod points on the given day(after all if we're all getting them some days idiots must get them too).
Look on the bright side at least you didn't have a topic go from +5 insightful to -1 insightful (damn over rated), like I have several times. I'm starting to wonder if I have made a few enemies modding me down when I get a high rated comment.
Just remember idiots go for the easy mods and if they don't have anyone to lead them (notice it's always +5 -1 or just the default 1/2 when things are modded), they'll mod up the first thing they think is even remotely correct/funny (waste of mod points alert)/they agree with.
Welcome to Slashdot, where the ???? always stands for get minions/followers
Truthfully? I would find that REALLY fucking funny..
The thing is most girls want to look like Lara Croft, thats why fashion crap and products sell so well. We rarely see complaints about films having these same women now do we?
Why don't girls get that us men have to put up with the same damn thing? I don't look like Duke Nukem, or Doom guy, maybe close to Freeman but not very close. It's the same as any other "fantasy" word, we get to play the Hollywood steriotypes and we're stuck with it. I'm tired of girl's whining "women have big boobs in all these games! It's so fake!", then five minutes later drooling over the latest celebrity fodder magazine which are full of these exact same body shapes.
Will all female gamers PLEASe shut up about being female. For the love of God already, just get over it. Yes you have boobs, yes you have a vagina. Do I care when we're playing games? NO!
I play games with a lot of girls, it's no different to playing with guys. Save character models, same game, same exprience. If they don't like a game they don't buy it, they buy games they want to play (normally GASP same ones guys like to play). Ingame you're an avatar, as long as you have eyes, ears, and fingers you'll fit right in and be part of the community like everyone else. Don't make a huge deal of your gender and no one else will.
I play the same games as you and I deal with all the issues you do, except it's not "lol you're ugly wheres pics?" it's "lol you're a fag". You're not special because you have boobs, stop acting like you are.
To mods : This is not a troll. I hope we see more female games, but we don't need the attenction whores who want everyone to know they're women when it doesn't matter!
Other than the ability to remember when you had open when you last closed it I found Opera to be very cold. The feel of it was very sterile and "clean". It just felt wrong to me.. maybe it's because I'm so used to FF but Opera just felt too "iPod" if that makes sense.
Does anyone know a site with designs for tin foil hats? I've for my tin foil and looking for an intresting design now, but google isn't helping.. so help me slashdot!
So what's new? Companies send Cease and desist orders all the time, it's the easiest way to scare people into doing what they want. It's ridiclous but it's true, if you act like you're going to sue people they figure out if they can aford the law suit (win or lose) and more often than not they see they don't have the money so they're forced to stop.
It's like pointing a gun at someone, they "could" not get shot, but is it worth the risk when you could just give them your watch and be done with it?
I keep my blog restricted to just my friends (the reason I use LJ is it's so easy). I don't need random nutjobs reading about my life, I wouldn't even let my family read it. It's like a public diary in effect which is what blogs were always ment to be it seems. A social way to discuss thoughts and hang around like minded people.
There are serious blogs which I'd say are like news sites. They just use blogging software to post their news. You can't really call these blogs since they're news sites with a comment system in the same way Slashdot is a news site with a comment system. But Slashdot I would not call a blog, but a news site.
It's really up to you how you see blogs. Some are for fun, others are news source. We've not found a way to define each type yet.
Let it happen. We can always replace them with people who arn't bought off.
Remember when the entry price is free to all blogs and theres hundreds out there, you will find one which suits your needs better. Smart people won't listen to idiots who have clearly been bought off any more then we listen to magazines or celebrities.
I have a blog. It's mostly full of random thoughts, notes to people and reviews of things I like. It's read by 20 or so of my friends and that's about it. Does that some how make me an elite person or does it just mean I'm using a blog to get thoughts of my head and run them through?
Anyone who thinks blogs are a resource worth listening to and appealing to beyond any other basic news site clearly doesn't understand blogs. They're not some sort of revolution in ways of reporting news, they're not the newest way to make money. They're simpaly social circles written down, in the past I'd tell friends about new games I was playing, now I just blog about them and they can read it if they wish.
The way most blog systems are set up is very simple and easy. You click a button after you've done typing and it's done. It's like having a geocities site with no limit on bandwidth and no need to waste time designing a layout. Maybe a few more links and a few less images but this isn't anything special, just another resource for the average person to use.
Seems the idea is to make as much money as possible, make your friends as rich as possible and then run like fuck to me..
I have no faith in the system. The system is rather pathetic and gives me no real choice in to how I want the country run.. most people just don't care at all and never will. These are the people who don't vote but still complain.. This was the first year I could vote.. so I did.. I voted for the lib dems.. not because I liked them, purely because my vote ment next to nothing so I threw it at anyone I didn't hate (Labour I hate and Conservatives seem like slimey assholes to me..). I voted purely because if I didn't vote then I have no right to complain..
I find the system to be corrupt and pathetic.. but I can't change the system and if I try I'd be ignored.. I can see why people don't want to get involved in politics.. it's pathetic and corrupt..
I'm a very negative person.. I'm quite sick of how the world is right now. your point on "fuck the world" would be totally accurate. I can look objectively but I still see the world as a hell hole..
That's where my problem comes in. I don't feel like being in debt for years and years. So I want to make money so I can goto college (again, I went at 14 to do some courses while I also had home schooling) then uni. Slight problem with working at summer markets is I was born with screwed up legs. I can't walk for more then 30 minutes before I'm in agony.. hence can't do manual labour for extended periods without spending the next 12 hours without the ability to walk..
Maybe you'll see why I'm quite so annoyed with the current "lets screw students over" thing Labour seem to have going. I come from a working class family, I don't wish to spend my entire life in debt and I can't just go "weee!" and jump onto the first McDonalds job avaible to make myself more money.
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This is true in some ways, but theres also the problem with it's getting "too" easy. My brothers a complete idiot and so are most of his friends, yet he often comes home with films just released from the cinema on DVD. He even knows where to get them yet doesn't know you need a burner to put files on a CD..
It's getting to the point where the general public and not just "The evil pirates" can pirate things. So they are and don't think twice about it. I mean go look at Deviant art and look at how many people use photoshop there.. are we really to believe them countless little girls (teenage kids in general) bought $700 software? It's very unlikely..
In the long run it may benefit Adobe but at the same time it could also bite them in the ass because people will be so used to using a hacked photoshop they won't care about buying a licence in the future.
I agree with you and support OSS and such, but the business world takes very few risks. Windows is a stable platform (as in it's safe not that it's a stable OS). It uses file types (the word types etc.) which you have to use to fit in. I'd love to open Open office, fickle away and be all "weeee done!", but OO format is not a standard, so it won't fit in and may infact force me to redo everything. So we're back at the old "Do I support MS and use their apps or do I take a HUGE risk, maybe look like an idiot, waste peoples time, money and whatever else.. just so I can avoid paying to be locked into a format?".
I love shareware, OSS and such. If I have the choice I'll take OSS over everything else every chance I get, but some times you have to fit into your slot and theres just no option for using anything but MS stuff.
"the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth, and with the various related problems of labor, finance, taxation, etc. (Webster's New World)"
:/
From Define in Google.
Economics has always been used as a money issue, the distribution of money basicly. Money to me is not something which has morales attached to it at all. It's "Money is what buys things", how you get it is not something I'd call economics, controling the flow of it is what I call economics.
I guess it depends how you define the word. Maybe it's a difference between the UK and where ever you guys are, or maybe it's just my area where "economic issues" always = we have no money
I'm 19 not 15. :P
:)
I understand jobs don't come along every day and you have to balance out what you agree with and don't with what you need to survive. I'm not trying to change the world (I very much doubt I could if I tried), such silly non-sense is for children. On the other hand I would rather nor pour money into Microsoft's bank account because they have the Word filetype so locked down I cannot use a third party product and be positive it'll still work correctly.
If I could I'd use Open office every time without fail. I'd donate to OF to support it, as I would any software I could (some times I donate advertising as such instead of cash for example). Where as in this situation it's like paying a jail for them to lock me up in it.
I get that in life you have to do what you have to just to survive. But right now my parents are supporting me fine (infact I commonly have to support other family members when money I've saved up) and I have very little to no hobbies/life style choices which burn money. So I don't "need" this job persay. It's an option is all.
But hey maybe you'd be happy to work at Gator for a while right? "As long as I get money who cares who I screw over"?
The console is "I have some control here, I can attempt to steer him away from Sony", I have to pick one or the other basicly. In this position I pick MS.
I don't believe a job makes you whore you are and I don't need to work for any credit. It was an offer and since I can do it from home and I have no other way to get a job it's more or less my only option right now so I have to take it. It's like working in McDonalds, you don't want to but you have to live.
I don't think it will change my life. It maybe a couple of days of work or a full time job, details are still being fixed. But being 19 any job offer when I have no work exprience is better than nothing. I plan to go back to college in the future, so earning money now will help this and let me pick a career I do want to be in (work in an IT department in a college for example).
I wouldn't say my family has any real power or set up as you seemed to read. My mum knows a lot of very very rich people and is more or less a local celebrity with them. I'm well known around for being a geek who's willing to help out people who do me good (AKA not everyone but I'll help friends out). So the guy put two and two together and thought I could be useful to him. I don't doubt having it on my resume could do me a lot of favours, but I'm not looking at it "for the future" more "I don't have much cash and I need to get some in the bank incase of emergencies". Like most Slashdotters I like to prepare for the worst and in my current situation having a large chunk of money in the bank would be very nice.
You've hit home on another point which I'm having to deal with right now.
:/
I've just been offered my first job from a family friend.. He runs a large business (Millionaire type large), now he needs someone to do basic data inputting and has offered me the job. Now I know that this will require me to own MS software. I have an old CD with MS works on it (came with an older PC) which contains spreadsheets, databases and a word processor. I don't have it installed and have no plans to do so, I use open office if I need that sort of thing and have no plans to change that (I don't do it very often if ever).
But since this is for a business and maybe accessed by other people I must do it in a format they can use... we all know the standard and I'll have to get Word and Excel some how to stick to it.. now I refuse to buy software from MS on principal (although my brother wants an Xbox or a PS2 for Christmas.. between MS and Sony I decided MS was the least evil and so am pushing him towards the Xbox.. plus I don't have one and will inherit it COUGH), but I need this software to do the work to a standard I think is fair. After my first pay check I will have enough money to buy the software if I want..
So my dillema is : Do I pay for my software and give in to MS's monopoly, even support it because I had to, to earn money, or do I keep using the pirate software to do the work and not support something I need to work?
Right now the lesser of two evils is to rip off MS. Something I see "no evil" in, but something I also fear maybe an issue in the future some where down the line (how do I know said pirate software isn't putting something in the encoded files which later may come back to hurt the company?).
It's a game of 6s and 7s. If I do one thing I support something I disagree with, if I do another I support something I disagree with.
As for TV and such.. I have no intrest in most Western TV. I DLed an episode of Doctor who (had already seen every episode on TV, I wanted to rewatch it and DVDs weren't out yet), but I'm from the UK and pay a TV licence for that sort of thing.
I guess we're living in an age where morales is the only thing we have to stop us turning into outright scum. But on the other hand companies are turning into scum and the only way to keep our rights is to repeatedly break rules and barriers they put up
Economics is money based not morale. If I work on economics then I will steal everything. If I work on morales I will support things I feel deserve supporting. O.o
I don't work on economics, I work in what I feel is right. I believe in supporting things I enjoy.. so I do so. People who don't believe this never will support things.
From what I get these seem military use.. Surely if these "evil terrorists" have all this uber technology and use the internet for communication it would be extremely easy for them to see this news (here or else where) and start shooting them the second they see them comming..
Maybe I'm just not seeing it but this to me screams "good idea, yet not".
I have that exact same urge though "screw it I have it, who cares about them". I have very limited money so what I buy really does matter to me. Games these days have become so short in most cases they arn't worth the price tag, you almost need to try them just to make sure it's not an hour or 2 long.
I understand supporting authors and I do as much as I can. Some times it's by buying merchandise and not the main product (in the case of anime fansubbed, since I don't wish to support the company who do vile English tracks). I also get that some people won't pay for stuff, but can you count these as lost sales since they never would of bought it in the first place?
I'd love to know how software piracy hurts software vendors without spin put on it. Lately I tried a rom of Final fantasy Tactics Advance. On Monday I'll be going into the local game shop to purchase it. I've done this countless times on games I wouldn't have played other wise. So for every game I randomly downloaded and enjoyed I've added a sale. For every game I've downloaded and didn't like I've not taken anything away.. are these figures ever taken into account? No, because if people admit piracy just about balances out or may even help a company they'd have to stop using rootkits and DRM to take away your basic right to copy things for self use.
Back to +3 now. It's fine.. :P
It's Slashdot man, try to calm down a touch. I've had comments so insightful they could see the future modded troll and comments I wrote when pissed off at people modded +5 insightful. It depends who has mod points on the given day(after all if we're all getting them some days idiots must get them too).
Look on the bright side at least you didn't have a topic go from +5 insightful to -1 insightful (damn over rated), like I have several times. I'm starting to wonder if I have made a few enemies modding me down when I get a high rated comment.
Just remember idiots go for the easy mods and if they don't have anyone to lead them (notice it's always +5 -1 or just the default 1/2 when things are modded), they'll mod up the first thing they think is even remotely correct/funny (waste of mod points alert)/they agree with.
Welcome to Slashdot, where the ???? always stands for get minions/followers
Truthfully? I would find that REALLY fucking funny..
The thing is most girls want to look like Lara Croft, thats why fashion crap and products sell so well. We rarely see complaints about films having these same women now do we?
Why don't girls get that us men have to put up with the same damn thing? I don't look like Duke Nukem, or Doom guy, maybe close to Freeman but not very close. It's the same as any other "fantasy" word, we get to play the Hollywood steriotypes and we're stuck with it. I'm tired of girl's whining "women have big boobs in all these games! It's so fake!", then five minutes later drooling over the latest celebrity fodder magazine which are full of these exact same body shapes.
Will all female gamers PLEASe shut up about being female. For the love of God already, just get over it. Yes you have boobs, yes you have a vagina. Do I care when we're playing games? NO!
I play games with a lot of girls, it's no different to playing with guys. Save character models, same game, same exprience. If they don't like a game they don't buy it, they buy games they want to play (normally GASP same ones guys like to play). Ingame you're an avatar, as long as you have eyes, ears, and fingers you'll fit right in and be part of the community like everyone else. Don't make a huge deal of your gender and no one else will.
I play the same games as you and I deal with all the issues you do, except it's not "lol you're ugly wheres pics?" it's "lol you're a fag". You're not special because you have boobs, stop acting like you are.
To mods : This is not a troll. I hope we see more female games, but we don't need the attenction whores who want everyone to know they're women when it doesn't matter!
Really? You honestly perfer Opera?
Other than the ability to remember when you had open when you last closed it I found Opera to be very cold. The feel of it was very sterile and "clean". It just felt wrong to me.. maybe it's because I'm so used to FF but Opera just felt too "iPod" if that makes sense.
Does anyone know a site with designs for tin foil hats? I've for my tin foil and looking for an intresting design now, but google isn't helping.. so help me slashdot!
So what's new? Companies send Cease and desist orders all the time, it's the easiest way to scare people into doing what they want. It's ridiclous but it's true, if you act like you're going to sue people they figure out if they can aford the law suit (win or lose) and more often than not they see they don't have the money so they're forced to stop.
It's like pointing a gun at someone, they "could" not get shot, but is it worth the risk when you could just give them your watch and be done with it?
I keep my blog restricted to just my friends (the reason I use LJ is it's so easy). I don't need random nutjobs reading about my life, I wouldn't even let my family read it. It's like a public diary in effect which is what blogs were always ment to be it seems. A social way to discuss thoughts and hang around like minded people.
There are serious blogs which I'd say are like news sites. They just use blogging software to post their news. You can't really call these blogs since they're news sites with a comment system in the same way Slashdot is a news site with a comment system. But Slashdot I would not call a blog, but a news site.
It's really up to you how you see blogs. Some are for fun, others are news source. We've not found a way to define each type yet.
Let it happen. We can always replace them with people who arn't bought off.
Remember when the entry price is free to all blogs and theres hundreds out there, you will find one which suits your needs better. Smart people won't listen to idiots who have clearly been bought off any more then we listen to magazines or celebrities.
I have a blog. It's mostly full of random thoughts, notes to people and reviews of things I like. It's read by 20 or so of my friends and that's about it. Does that some how make me an elite person or does it just mean I'm using a blog to get thoughts of my head and run them through?
Anyone who thinks blogs are a resource worth listening to and appealing to beyond any other basic news site clearly doesn't understand blogs. They're not some sort of revolution in ways of reporting news, they're not the newest way to make money. They're simpaly social circles written down, in the past I'd tell friends about new games I was playing, now I just blog about them and they can read it if they wish.
The way most blog systems are set up is very simple and easy. You click a button after you've done typing and it's done. It's like having a geocities site with no limit on bandwidth and no need to waste time designing a layout. Maybe a few more links and a few less images but this isn't anything special, just another resource for the average person to use.
Seems the idea is to make as much money as possible, make your friends as rich as possible and then run like fuck to me..
I have no faith in the system. The system is rather pathetic and gives me no real choice in to how I want the country run.. most people just don't care at all and never will. These are the people who don't vote but still complain.. This was the first year I could vote.. so I did.. I voted for the lib dems.. not because I liked them, purely because my vote ment next to nothing so I threw it at anyone I didn't hate (Labour I hate and Conservatives seem like slimey assholes to me..). I voted purely because if I didn't vote then I have no right to complain..
I find the system to be corrupt and pathetic.. but I can't change the system and if I try I'd be ignored.. I can see why people don't want to get involved in politics.. it's pathetic and corrupt..
I think it does..
I'm a very negative person.. I'm quite sick of how the world is right now. your point on "fuck the world" would be totally accurate. I can look objectively but I still see the world as a hell hole..
That's where my problem comes in. I don't feel like being in debt for years and years. So I want to make money so I can goto college (again, I went at 14 to do some courses while I also had home schooling) then uni. Slight problem with working at summer markets is I was born with screwed up legs. I can't walk for more then 30 minutes before I'm in agony.. hence can't do manual labour for extended periods without spending the next 12 hours without the ability to walk..
Maybe you'll see why I'm quite so annoyed with the current "lets screw students over" thing Labour seem to have going. I come from a working class family, I don't wish to spend my entire life in debt and I can't just go "weee!" and jump onto the first McDonalds job avaible to make myself more money.
But does it run Linux and goto 11?