Good actions lauded yes, but scant praise can be found for a rapist that has just helped a granny across the street. Nor does a few acts of benevolence outweigh a lifetime of ill-deeds.
These items are all debatable and often subject to public opinion, but one thing is certain; for the time being we all have the right to express ourselves, being a free country and all. You have no authority to tell anyone to keep their trap shut.
A degree does not automatically make anyone capable, conversely, a lack of a degree does not make them incapable. This holds true in all walks of life.
For SexConker, what icebike said and I have to append. I have a book 200+ years old and I am damn well going to photocopy it, and will give that work up to whatever library wants to have a copy. As for the original book, long into the public domain, will be shoved up the ass of any lawyer or any copyright fist-fuck that tries to say shit.
I have some other very old books that will be scanned as well, for the preservation of their content. All in the public domain. You think my response is over the top? Copyright, and the trolls that defend it can fuck themselves. It's no longer serving the purpose it was intended for.
You need to run out of gas on a dark unlit road somewhere, next to a huge ravine, river, thorn bushes etc. Then also try riding a bicycle at night under the same conditions.
As it is I am very close to taking a bat to every HID light I find. Lasers belong on sharks, not cars.
It's threads like these that make we wish we could send civilians out to war, if anything for the entertainment of each side performing these antics...
Just because it's a new way of doing things, doesn't mean it's smart.
There's a difference to being a Luddite and carefully evaluating long term availability of your data. That's just common sense saying; "My data is available to engineers I don't know, and cannot screen", "Availability of my data depends on reliable and cost effective internet access", "Availability of my data requires the service I am storing my data to remain in business, and also have a reliable internet connection". Try pricing out fast internet access with redundancy to insure 100% up-time. Remember that you have to rotate that hardware when it reaches end of life, or be running a Unix variant and have even more redundancy.
Or I could use readily available software installed on the local machine and save documents to a server, thumb drive, CDROM, or a variety of other means. Redundancy is handled by having more computers with the same hardware, and software versions.
This would be useful for signs, by stitching together different colors. We could get away from those huge hollow signs filed with incandescent tubes, and just plaster *everything* instead with these things...
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Good actions lauded yes, but scant praise can be found for a rapist that has just helped a granny across the street. Nor does a few acts of benevolence outweigh a lifetime of ill-deeds.
These items are all debatable and often subject to public opinion, but one thing is certain; for the time being we all have the right to express ourselves, being a free country and all. You have no authority to tell anyone to keep their trap shut.
- Dan.
A degree does not automatically make anyone capable, conversely, a lack of a degree does not make them incapable. This holds true in all walks of life.
- Dan.
There's a Monty Python skit in that somewhere...
Spoken like a true American...
- Dan.
There are some hardware solutions that suck so bad you wouldn't want Linux on their anyways.
- Dan.
My head just exploded...
And everyone's going to sing: "Blame Canada!".
Now the hardware can be ground to a halt without ever loading an OS.
Given the choice of McAfee or malware at this level, I would choose the malware.
- Dan.
I couldn't agree more. What if a government held the same world view? That would be awesome.
- Dan.
Specifically, how will this software work when their face is covered with saran wrap and chilled from the water baths?
- Dan.
Point made.
I don't give a shit for being seen as a tough guy.
The corporate abuse of the copyright as I see it is pissing me off.
So much to the point I am ready to soil myself with politics and run to clean this crap up. Soapbox, Ballot, Courtroom, Bullet. In that order.
- Dan.
Peace has descended upon my soul... There is hope after all.
There really needs to be an astroturf rating.
For SexConker, what icebike said and I have to append. I have a book 200+ years old and I am damn well going to photocopy it, and will give that work up to whatever library wants to have a copy. As for the original book, long into the public domain, will be shoved up the ass of any lawyer or any copyright fist-fuck that tries to say shit.
I have some other very old books that will be scanned as well, for the preservation of their content. All in the public domain. You think my response is over the top? Copyright, and the trolls that defend it can fuck themselves. It's no longer serving the purpose it was intended for.
- One pissed off reader.
Because the Unix Admin won't have to *FIX* it every few weeks.
- Dan.
You call us F*ing stupid, but yet you're the only one that had difficulty figuring it out...
- Dan.
You need to run out of gas on a dark unlit road somewhere, next to a huge ravine, river, thorn bushes etc. Then also try riding a bicycle at night under the same conditions.
As it is I am very close to taking a bat to every HID light I find. Lasers belong on sharks, not cars.
- Dan.
It's threads like these that make we wish we could send civilians out to war, if anything for the entertainment of each side performing these antics...
I would love that show... *Happy Sigh*
- Dan.
Just because it's a new way of doing things, doesn't mean it's smart.
There's a difference to being a Luddite and carefully evaluating long term availability of your data. That's just common sense saying; "My data is available to engineers I don't know, and cannot screen", "Availability of my data depends on reliable and cost effective internet access", "Availability of my data requires the service I am storing my data to remain in business, and also have a reliable internet connection". Try pricing out fast internet access with redundancy to insure 100% up-time. Remember that you have to rotate that hardware when it reaches end of life, or be running a Unix variant and have even more redundancy.
Or I could use readily available software installed on the local machine and save documents to a server, thumb drive, CDROM, or a variety of other means. Redundancy is handled by having more computers with the same hardware, and software versions.
- Dan.
Chaotic Neutral
This would be useful for signs, by stitching together different colors. We could get away from those huge hollow signs filed with incandescent tubes, and just plaster *everything* instead with these things...
- Dan.
Austin, Lord help us...
- Dan.
1 word: Bofors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_40_mm
- Dan.
They say too much Lead is bad for your health. *Grin*
- Dan.
*Guilty*