If you have actually bought Vista and want to activate it why not do it the right way instead of setting all this stuff up?
Maybe you bought it because you had to use it for your job, same reason most people bought previous generations of Windows.
Maybe you don't want to participate in the whole data collection inherent in MS's activation schemes. Maybe you want as little to do with MS as you absolutely have to.
I've purchased a laptop and a desktop that both came with XP preinstalled. The first thing I did was wipe their disks and install from a cracked bootleg ISO for exactly the above reasons. I paid for my copies and now I don't have to worry that MS is going to make an error and deactivate my installation or suffer a data breach on their registration database and share my personal info with a bunch of identity thieves.
I was amazed by how fast the cops and the city backed off from the bullshit charges, when they realized how extensively people had documented the actual goings-on.
I tend to think that they would have backed off anyway, maybe framing it as a show of mercy or something along those lines. The reason being that the cops' bosses got what they wanted - freedom of expression was successfully restricted. The event was over, so no point it dwelling on it. The sooner the whole thing was swept under the rug the less likely someone with a high enough profile might start asking questions.
An interesting twist from this is that the most feature-rich Vista Ultimate Edition may not be the most warezed one after all. Because these aren't supporting KMS activation, unlike Enterprise and Business who were both intended for this use.
Somebody will probably figure out how to drop the right DLLs from the Enterprise edition into any other edition to make it do KMS.
Even better is that the torrent tracker referred to is The Pirate Bay -- who mocked microsoft's legal threats, resulting in Microsoft appearing to pull strings that lead to an unprecedented, although ultimately unsuccessful, raid on their servers.
It is commonly believed that the MPAA, not Microsoft, was responsible for the US State Department leaning on the right local ministers to get the Pirate Bay raided. For one thing, the MPAA prematurely ejaculated a press-release congratulating themselves for getting the Pirate Bay shut down, while Microsoft was mum on the event.
(And it's not like this argument is my idea, I've read it in dozens of other slashdots posts about this subject, and agree.)
Attribution is no excuse. The fact is, you did steal that argument. Think of all the karma-starved slashdot posters - how are slashdot posters going to feed their families if they can't be compensated with the karma they deserve for the work they do?
Not true. The TSA is all about Security Theater - putting on a show to distract the masses from the facts. That is why this guy is being persecuted, he made it much harder for the audience to suspend disbelief and thus really was interfering with the TSA's mission. He should go to jail for that.
Second, COx emissions are not the only environmental threat.
Considering that they are the root cause of over-population, they could probably be classified as the greatest threat to the environment. If more people could be convinced to keep their COx emissions to themselves, we would have a lot less people consuming energy on this planet.
yes, a few hundred miles in the american southwest would do it (anyone objecting to using Texas?)
Or, how about the Arabian Desert? With the world's largest continuous body of sand, I hear they get lots of sunlight there. Close to Europe and almost equidistant to the USA and Asia, seems like it would be a great place to become the primary source of the world's energy supply!
'm not about to let the person behind me make me speed up and make me responsible for an accident.
Excessive speed does not cause accidents. It is poor decisions that cause accidents. When you choose to prolong a dangerous situation more than is necessary, you are making a poor decision. You can't control what the other guy does, but you can control what you do, so it is your responsibility to do whatever you can to minimize the chance of an accident.
And are they going to edit all the people out? I don't see how they could.
That kind of work is exactly what the 3rd-world "IT" shops excel at. It is a very simple task to describe, and very simple to determine if the work is done correctly. But it is very hard for a computer to do it completely automatically.
Nobody's using Yahoo for search, including people who work at Yahoo.
I've found that the search-engine bar on firefox has actually encouraged me to use yahoo (and other search engines) because it makes it so easy, I type the search terms in once and then just pick different search engines from the drop down menu. It is just as easy as going to multiple pages of results from a single engine.
FWIW, in my searches for hi-rez CD cover art, yahoo image search was often a better tool than google.
The kids are going to get clothed anyway. It's not like the uniforms are _extra_ clothes; they're just different clothes.
You are the second one to make this point, but it is not true. They are not just different clothes, they are clothes that are mostly inappropriate to wear outside of school, that is part of what makes them a uniform versus a dress code.
As for uniforms: schools have the right to require uniforms, and the power to enforce that right.
Unless they are going to provide the uniforms with taxpayer money, public schools may have a problem enforcing that 'right' due to it being an undue financial burden on some students who are nevertheless required by law to attend.
This statement is ambiguous; is it saying that Novell made these statements about Stallman, or is it the journalist's own statement?
Since the unquoted quote under question includes the phrase "clinging to the notion" it is highly unlikely that it is Novell's own statement. Using that kind of phraseology would be way beyond even a radical change in american corporate honesty.
Didn't they have nearly 2 weeks of rioting by these peace lovers?
You know, you go on and on about what you think you know about me. You don't know shit.
You think I voted for Clinton. You think I haven't served in the military. You think you know more about muslims than I do. You think you are more widely read than I am. You think that because I don't support genocide, that I am an ignorant 'lib.'
All false, as is just about every other assumption you've made in this thread.
I shot down your ignorant justifications about the quran not containing a single instruction to be peaceful to your neighbor. I will now shoot down another ignorant claim on your part:
When the riots started, they were treated in some quarters as a "suburban intifada". "Jihad comes home", ran one newspaper headline. Some American observers regarded the uprising as further proof of Europe's inability to control the spread of radical Islam. France has Europe's biggest Muslim population--an estimated 5m, or 8% of France's inhabitants--so it comes under special scrutiny.
A report into the riots by the French Renseignements Généraux, the domestic intelligence-gathering service, however, found the opposite. Islamists had "no role in setting off the violence or in fanning it," it concluded. Clichy's mayor agrees. "I completely reject the idea that the riots were an Islamist plot," he says. "During the rioting I never heard of a young man burning a car in the name of Allah; but I heard of plenty of Muslims saying, 'go home in the name of Allah'." --The Economist, Oct 26, 2006
I've read all the islamofreak propaganda that you have taken as gospel, except I read it with a critical eye. You are the one who needs to pay better attention.
Er, sorry, but that won't wash, the Koran and other Muslim texts have been copied, translated,re-translated, re-copied and effectively re-written so many times that different groups of Ayats and Surrahs project different views and attitudes, producing ideological contradictions in the text.
Could you be more of a dumbfuck? The whole of point of the quran is that the literal original text has been preserved perfectly, word for word. You lead off with that kind of bullshit and expect to have any sort of credibility? And then you follow up with a quotation that isn't even from the quran. It is very clear you are working to deceive.
The belligerent coward said plainly that "there is nothing in that rag that states 'be peaceful with your neighbors'." It took me less than 5 minutes to find two examples disproving his claims. Now you come along, coincidentally 10 minutes before he comes back, and try to wiggle his foot free of his own mouth. No such luck.
(and I say this as a non-American non-Westerner man who has lived among Muslims for a long time)
Whoopdy fucking doo. With a billion muslims in the world your experience is hardly more than anecdotal. I'm pretty confident that I have lived in closer proximity to muslims for longer than you have. So don't be pulling that "I know them better than you do" shit. You'll have to come up with a more convincing false authority than that.
So yes, Islam as it is followed normatively is the danger here, and no amount of quote mining the Koran will change that truth.
If that were true, that all one billion muslims, hell, even just one tenth, were so easily incited into destroying the west because that is "normative islam" then we would all be dead. In case you haven't noticed, we aren't. Hell, more Americans die in traffic accidents in two months than have been killed by terrorists in the last 50 years. The number of muslims who feel anything stronger than distrust for the US is small, just a couple of years ago the British intelligence services put the number of islamic terrorists, world-wide, at under 1000.
But, big deal. This thread is all about how we conduct life at home in the USA, not the red herring of islamofreak apologists. The belligerent coward stands ready and eager to fight the enemy by telling us to hide beneath the desk, quivering in terror whenever an anonymous website posts a completely unsubstantiated threat. I am the one who flew less than a week after the planes were in the air after 9/11 and I am the one who thinks it is entirely foolish and destructive to our national character to let a risk of death that is significantly less than the risk of dying in a traffic accident so radically change the way we live our lives.
Otherwise shut the hell up because you just prove my point.
Just remember you are the fucking grunt who is cowering in fear over a posting on a website that our own government has said that it has "no information corroborating the threat." You gutless, anti-american traitor.
the quantities used in smoke detectors is small - less than a microgram. You'd need an awful lot of smoke detectors to amass a dangerous amount of Americium.
I am not afraid...fear is not a factor for me...know why? because I am willing to fight to continue to live in the land of the free and home of the brave.
Any dumbshit can fight. Cowards like you are afraid to uphold the values of our constitution no matter what the price. The phrase "Freedom isn't free" does not mean you give up freedom in the face of adversity, it means sometimes people will abuse that freedom to hurt you - that's the real price of freedom.
You fuckers cut and run on being American at the first sign of a threat, you are all too willing to give up what makes America better than other countries just because some guy in a cave has you scared shitless. You salute the flag, but you don't have one damn clue what it stands for. You are just another tribalist, no better than the people you so 'bravely' fight.
Read their book, there is nothing in that rag that states "be peaceful with your neighbors".
Oh, now I get it. You are just another dumbfuck dhimmi-meme lover, probably because you think it validates your tribalism and excuses you from being a real American. How do you know that the quran does not say that? You haven't read it. Fuck, even a dumbshit like you should be able to use google to find out the truth If you weren't a coward you would be looking for the truth, not justification for failing to live up to the standards of being a real American.
Sura 8:61 "If they incline towards peace, then you incline thereto, and place your trust in God;"
Sura 4:90 Exempt those who join a people with whom you have concluded a peace treaty, and those who come to you with hearts unwilling to fight you, nor to fight their relatives. Had God willed, he could have placed them in power over you and they would have made war on you. Therefore, if they leave you alone, refrain from fighting you, and offer you peace, then God gives you no way to go against them.
Go hug a tree hippy. Leave the protect of the country to people with balls enough to do something when attacked.
The only balls you got are the ones you are slapping against the trees.
You and the cowards like you are responsible for changing my country from the land of the free and home of the brave to land of the fearful and home of the brainwashed. Fucking, dumbshit tribalist.
I also find it interesting that you have taken this so personally...how my opinions effect you is beyond me.
I take it personally because people who think the same way you think are destroying my country. Bin Laden smashes our thumb and you are already amputating both arms in response.
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If you have actually bought Vista and want to activate it why not do it the right way instead of setting all this stuff up?
Maybe you bought it because you had to use it for your job, same reason most people bought previous generations of Windows.
Maybe you don't want to participate in the whole data collection inherent in MS's activation schemes. Maybe you want as little to do with MS as you absolutely have to.
I've purchased a laptop and a desktop that both came with XP preinstalled. The first thing I did was wipe their disks and install from a cracked bootleg ISO for exactly the above reasons. I paid for my copies and now I don't have to worry that MS is going to make an error and deactivate my installation or suffer a data breach on their registration database and share my personal info with a bunch of identity thieves.
I was amazed by how fast the cops and the city backed off from the bullshit charges, when they realized how extensively people had documented the actual goings-on.
I tend to think that they would have backed off anyway, maybe framing it as a show of mercy or something along those lines. The reason being that the cops' bosses got what they wanted - freedom of expression was successfully restricted. The event was over, so no point it dwelling on it. The sooner the whole thing was swept under the rug the less likely someone with a high enough profile might start asking questions.
An interesting twist from this is that the most feature-rich Vista Ultimate Edition may not be the most warezed one after all. Because these aren't supporting KMS activation, unlike Enterprise and Business who were both intended for this use.
Somebody will probably figure out how to drop the right DLLs from the Enterprise edition into any other edition to make it do KMS.
Even better is that the torrent tracker referred to is The Pirate Bay -- who mocked microsoft's legal threats, resulting in Microsoft appearing to pull strings that lead to an unprecedented, although ultimately unsuccessful, raid on their servers.
It is commonly believed that the MPAA, not Microsoft, was responsible for the US State Department leaning on the right local ministers to get the Pirate Bay raided. For one thing, the MPAA prematurely ejaculated a press-release congratulating themselves for getting the Pirate Bay shut down, while Microsoft was mum on the event.
(And it's not like this argument is my idea, I've read it in dozens of other slashdots posts about this subject, and agree.)
Attribution is no excuse.
The fact is, you did steal that argument.
Think of all the karma-starved slashdot posters - how are slashdot posters going to feed their families if they can't be compensated with the karma they deserve for the work they do?
The TSA has proven itself grossly incompetent.
Not true. The TSA is all about Security Theater - putting on a show to distract the masses from the facts. That is why this guy is being persecuted, he made it much harder for the audience to suspend disbelief and thus really was interfering with the TSA's mission. He should go to jail for that.
Stop buying CDs? And what?
And listen to the collection you already have?
And borrow/trade from your collection with your friends?
It isn't like he's saying you will never get any new music ever again.
I'm sure many of us have gone more than a year without acquiring any new music.
So. You are recommending environmentally concerned people to stop breathing?
Breathing, breeding -- they sound alike but in practice they are a fare bit different.
Second, COx emissions are not the only environmental threat.
Considering that they are the root cause of over-population, they could probably be classified as the greatest threat to the environment. If more people could be convinced to keep their COx emissions to themselves, we would have a lot less people consuming energy on this planet.
yes, a few hundred miles in the american southwest would do it (anyone objecting to using Texas?)
Or, how about the Arabian Desert? With the world's largest continuous body of sand, I hear they get lots of sunlight there. Close to Europe and almost equidistant to the USA and Asia, seems like it would be a great place to become the primary source of the world's energy supply!
I'm an anarcho-capitalist Christian, so I actually don't pay attention to whatever laws you guys voted for.
In soviet^h^h^h^h^h^h democractic America,
laws pay attention to you!
'm not about to let the person behind me make me speed up and make me responsible for an accident.
Excessive speed does not cause accidents. It is poor decisions that cause accidents. When you choose to prolong a dangerous situation more than is necessary, you are making a poor decision. You can't control what the other guy does, but you can control what you do, so it is your responsibility to do whatever you can to minimize the chance of an accident.
And are they going to edit all the people out? I don't see how they could.
That kind of work is exactly what the 3rd-world "IT" shops excel at. It is a very simple task to describe, and very simple to determine if the work is done correctly. But it is very hard for a computer to do it completely automatically.
Nobody's using Yahoo for search, including people who work at Yahoo.
I've found that the search-engine bar on firefox has actually encouraged me to use yahoo (and other search engines) because it makes it so easy, I type the search terms in once and then just pick different search engines from the drop down menu. It is just as easy as going to multiple pages of results from a single engine.
FWIW, in my searches for hi-rez CD cover art, yahoo image search was often a better tool than google.
The kids are going to get clothed anyway. It's not like the uniforms are _extra_ clothes; they're just different clothes.
You are the second one to make this point, but it is not true. They are not just different clothes, they are clothes that are mostly inappropriate to wear outside of school, that is part of what makes them a uniform versus a dress code.
As for uniforms: schools have the right to require uniforms, and the power to enforce that right.
Unless they are going to provide the uniforms with taxpayer money, public schools may have a problem enforcing that 'right' due to it being an undue financial burden on some students who are nevertheless required by law to attend.
This statement is ambiguous; is it saying that Novell made these statements about Stallman, or is it the journalist's own statement?
Since the unquoted quote under question includes the phrase "clinging to the notion" it is highly unlikely that it is Novell's own statement. Using that kind of phraseology would be way beyond even a radical change in american corporate honesty.
You know, you go on and on about what you think you know about me.
You don't know shit.
You think I voted for Clinton. You think I haven't served in the military. You think you know more about muslims than I do. You think you are more widely read than I am. You think that because I don't support genocide, that I am an ignorant 'lib.'
All false, as is just about every other assumption you've made in this thread.
I shot down your ignorant justifications about the quran not containing a single instruction to be peaceful to your neighbor.
I will now shoot down another ignorant claim on your part:
I've read all the islamofreak propaganda that you have taken as gospel, except I read it with a critical eye. You are the one who needs to pay better attention.
Er, sorry, but that won't wash, the Koran and other Muslim texts have been copied, translated,re-translated, re-copied and effectively re-written so many times that different groups of Ayats and Surrahs project different views and attitudes, producing ideological contradictions in the text.
Could you be more of a dumbfuck? The whole of point of the quran is that the literal original text has been preserved perfectly, word for word. You lead off with that kind of bullshit and expect to have any sort of credibility? And then you follow up with a quotation that isn't even from the quran. It is very clear you are working to deceive.
The belligerent coward said plainly that "there is nothing in that rag that states 'be peaceful with your neighbors'." It took me less than 5 minutes to find two examples disproving his claims. Now you come along, coincidentally 10 minutes before he comes back, and try to wiggle his foot free of his own mouth. No such luck.
(and I say this as a non-American non-Westerner man who has lived among Muslims for a long time)
Whoopdy fucking doo. With a billion muslims in the world your experience is hardly more than anecdotal. I'm pretty confident that I have lived in closer proximity to muslims for longer than you have. So don't be pulling that "I know them better than you do" shit. You'll have to come up with a more convincing false authority than that.
So yes, Islam as it is followed normatively is the danger here, and no amount of quote mining the Koran will change that truth.
If that were true, that all one billion muslims, hell, even just one tenth, were so easily incited into destroying the west because that is "normative islam" then we would all be dead. In case you haven't noticed, we aren't. Hell, more Americans die in traffic accidents in two months than have been killed by terrorists in the last 50 years. The number of muslims who feel anything stronger than distrust for the US is small, just a couple of years ago the British intelligence services put the number of islamic terrorists, world-wide, at under 1000.
But, big deal. This thread is all about how we conduct life at home in the USA, not the red herring of islamofreak apologists. The belligerent coward stands ready and eager to fight the enemy by telling us to hide beneath the desk, quivering in terror whenever an anonymous website posts a completely unsubstantiated threat. I am the one who flew less than a week after the planes were in the air after 9/11 and I am the one who thinks it is entirely foolish and destructive to our national character to let a risk of death that is significantly less than the risk of dying in a traffic accident so radically change the way we live our lives.
Otherwise shut the hell up because you just prove my point.
Just remember you are the fucking grunt who is cowering in fear over a posting on a website that our own government has said that it has "no information corroborating the threat." You gutless, anti-american traitor.
Yes I am a tribalist..
Then get the fuck out of America. Tribalism is as anti-American as communism.
the quantities used in smoke detectors is small - less than a microgram. You'd need an awful lot of smoke detectors to amass a dangerous amount of Americium.
It has been done, by the Radioactive Boy-Scout.
Any dumbshit can fight. Cowards like you are afraid to uphold the values of our constitution no matter what the price. The phrase "Freedom isn't free" does not mean you give up freedom in the face of adversity, it means sometimes people will abuse that freedom to hurt you - that's the real price of freedom.
You fuckers cut and run on being American at the first sign of a threat, you are all too willing to give up what makes America better than other countries just because some guy in a cave has you scared shitless. You salute the flag, but you don't have one damn clue what it stands for. You are just another tribalist, no better than the people you so 'bravely' fight.
Read their book, there is nothing in that rag that states "be peaceful with your neighbors".
Oh, now I get it. You are just another dumbfuck dhimmi-meme lover, probably because you think it validates your tribalism and excuses you from being a real American. How do you know that the quran does not say that? You haven't read it. Fuck, even a dumbshit like you should be able to use google to find out the truth If you weren't a coward you would be looking for the truth, not justification for failing to live up to the standards of being a real American.
Go hug a tree hippy. Leave the protect of the country to people with balls enough to do something when attacked.
The only balls you got are the ones you are slapping against the trees.
You and the cowards like you are responsible for changing my country from the land of the free and home of the brave to land of the fearful and home of the brainwashed. Fucking, dumbshit tribalist.
I also find it interesting that you have taken this so personally...how my opinions effect you is beyond me.
I take it personally because people who think the same way you think are destroying my country. Bin Laden smashes our thumb and you are already amputating both arms in response.