I've got it all figured out: you want to be NatePWIV!
Naw, I don't like that guy either. Anybody who doubts the/. effect is a fool!
Shut UP shut UP shut UP. Slashdot is NOT the place for your stupid pyramid marketing schemes.
It's not a pyramid marketing scheme, though! It's the real deal! My friend has gotten a check, and mine is coming soon! Get in on it now, by going to alladvantage.com and telling them that member# EQA-881 referred you! Also, you seem to have some serious anger management issues! Use the money to get a psychiatrist!
Plus, you just put the info in the body of your comment, so everyone who read it did have to see it.
The guy who I responded to started it. People who can't understand what Im saying often criticze my signature. I just tell them to go to alladvantage.com and sign up!
annoy everyone else in the process just to make some pocket change.
Only people who are reading THIS thread can see it. And, do you see all the people saying "Amen" to me? Those are my supporters!
>Obviously his opinion of it differed I don't hear anybody else raving about this movie. People are saying that: It sucked, It won't work, or just bickering like we are.
>you don't pay for slashdot. Sure, I do! I look at the ads. I click on the interesting ones. I post and (often) add valuable content. I'm doing my part.
>That alladvantage stuff doesn't increase >credibility, you know. Why not? It's a great way to pay for your internet connection! You should try it! Go to alladvantage.com, and tell them that member # EQA-881 referred you! I've already gotten several referrals from/., and my check is coming soon!
As you would say, you don't HAVE to read my signature. You're just looking at it and complaining! Besides, it's my comment, and you aren't paying for it. Anyway, you can always choose to strip sigs in your preferences, like I do.
I'm sorry, but/. has been reading like the obituary pages for the past few days. Hemos was raving about this movie, so I downloaded it, and it BLEW! It was childish, anti-gun propaganda!
It took me half an hour with DSL, and then it didn't work! It didn't look very interesting, anyway.
CmdrTaco/ Hemos: Stop posting tis boring garbage you call "news." Post the articles that people send in to you and you constantly reject!
On the twelfth day of Christmas,/. gave to me: 12 midmoderated comments, 11 Katz uninformative essays, 10 boring obits, 9 broken links, 8 noncomputer related stories...5 moderator points...
This reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum is suddenly awakened. He gets on his radio and says, "I've got a 10-18... Waking a police officer."
>That means records of how much traffic you >used, what type, and when.
Basically, a record of the websites that I visit. That would be creepy. Granted, ISPs already know this, but this would entail a database that would sit around for months!
Yabbut, what are you going to do? Sue the spammer for 0.01 cents? With the amount of spam sent in this country, we'd need a separate legal system (small, small, small claims court?) just to handle these cases!
Plus, if you pingflood someone, do they have to pay for the packets that you send? What if someone mailbombs you. Keep in mind that the pinger or mailbomber might not have to pay for bandwith likr the pingee/mailbombee does.
I better idea would be to charge the sender of the emails, pings or whatever. Most people who really don't send much would hardly be effected, but the people who spam 1000's of messages would be screwed!
>and I'm rarely the only person in the theater who does.
Are these people (a) trying to see the movie again for free (b)asleep or (c)do they have the same strange facination with people's names that you do?
At this point, I suggest that you start a club. I think Yahoo! offers a service for doing that.
There's a program called Select Phone, which is basically a list of names that you can scroll through. You could buy it, and demo it at your first club meeting!
ROTFL! Thanks, I needed a good laugh. I guess you have the right to watch anything that's boring, as long as it doesn't endanger your life. That's where I draw the line. If you ever start reading the phone book, email me and I'll get you some help.
>Movies credit most all involved all the time, >right down to the waterboys. Why shouldn't >programmers receive similar recognition?
Duh. If you'lll notice, NO ONE watches all the credits because NO ONE cares who the executive assistant best grip gaffer was, except for the executive assistant best grip gaffer. The same with software credits. They're just a morale boost for the people who write software.
Basically, no one cares about the credits except for the programmers themselves. Why don't they just write their names down on a piece of paper?
As for the death of Atari, it could be because Atari became synonomous with "crappy console gaming system.":-)
>Since you're so good at quoting documents, could you quote this one or at least provide a reference?
Merry Christmas, parner! It's Title 10, Section 311 of the U.S. Code. I had it bookmarked. And it's actually 17 years old. My bad.
Read the Federalist Papers, and find out what the founding fathers, MY ANCESTORS, thought about guns.
Also, the supreme court has ruled on only 4 cases relating to the 2nd amend. this century. See US vs. Miller, 1939, a supreme court case which ruled in favor of the right of everyone to keep and bear arms.
Do you know what tear gas decomposes into under extreme heat? Cyanide. You can't very well jump out of a building if your bones are broken from convulsions. I'm sure some people DID try to jump, and were impailed on debris.
> they would be shot, that wouldn't stop them from trying to escape the fire That's my point - they WERE shot.
>There were plenty of windows that weren't blocked by debris. Then why didn't survivors come out of these windows? Was the fire burning at that end of the building? Were there BATF with guns there? Tanks?
>preventing people from escaping I'll rephrase this - preventing people from escaping ALIVE. There were almost no survivors except for the people that left before the fire.
>I appear to have a much better understanding of constitutional law than you.
I guess that's really the subject of our debate isn't it.
>in connection with your service as part of the militia.
Exactly! But just because I'm a militia member in reserve doesn't mean that I can't keep my weapon, as the constitution allows.
>maintained by a "State" Slow down, pardner! It doesn't say ANYTHING about states being involved - just that militias are necessary for states to be free!
>Since you're so good at quoting documents, Sorry, I don't have this one on top of my desk!
> I did not say that the 2nd Amendment has been misunderstood for 300 years But Americans have ALWAYS owned guns, and it would have to be a misundetstanding if they really weren't allowed to!
> So, the Supreme Court at least has not misunderstood the constitution The "Supreme" Court vs. 80 million gun owners about Constitutional law? I go with the 80 million side.
> I don't suppose lying to support a cause What are you implying?
>why didn't they flee? If you lok at the IR footage taken from helicopters, you see that BATF/FBI/Delta Force people were firing at the exits and preventing people from escaping. Debris was bulldozed next to the building to prevent people from jumping out, and to corral them into fields of fire.
The BATF wouldn't have been able to get away with killing them if their religion had been mainstream.
A sure way to find real idiots on/. is to look for those words.
(sarcasm) You can't fight a war against tyrants. Look what happened to the American Revolutionaries! They were removed from the genepool! We're still a British colony, as British as lime pie!
Are you American? From what I read of your posts, you have a shaky grasp of American current events and our constitution.
It so happens that I have an "actual" copy of the constitution before me. The second amendment reads:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
According to the United States Code, the militia consists of all able-bodied males over 18. This coincides nicely with "private citizens." I think your argument that the 2nd amendment has been misunderstood for 300 years is rather baseless.
Take your facist ideas back to Japan, please. Where the Shoguns prohibited people from owning weapons.
> Which no one ever disputed, certainly not the BATF...
I'm afraid that this assertion is incorrect. Part of the problem was the BATF's failure to understand what David Koresh was thinking and expecting. During the negotiation, when he talked about how his religion, the BATF negotiators dismissed what he had to say as "bible babble."
>why the BATF was there attempting to arrest them.
Can you give me a reason for them to be arrested?
I'll repost this guy's comment because it's score is a zero, and people deserve to see it:
>The Branch Davidians killed themselves.
riiiiight... The BATF filling the building with a flammable gas and sending in incindiary grenades had nothing todo with the ENORMOUS fire which erupted, right. The one which looked like a burning oil well? House fires do not burn with plumes of black smoke.
>they could have simply opened fire on them on when they first got there.
And the fact that the BATF waited a couple weeks to do so means what? Lon Horiuchi, the BATF sniper who shot a woman and a 14 year old boy at the Ruby Ridge standoff was at Waco. Curiously, about 50 spent shell casings were found in the building where he was observing (read: sniping) the Waco standoff. And curiously, in pictures of the standoff before the deadly arson, the BATF people are standing in front of the building blazing away and obviously not being shot at. The roof of the building was riddled with bullets which could only have come from helicopters. No wonder the BATF torched the building - there was far too much evidence tat there had been a massacre.
I urge you to go to this web site and learn the truth: http://www.mnsinc.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/
I'll name one: the Branch Davidians. They were Christians brutally murdered by the strong arm of our government, the BATF. They may not be "real" Christians, but they had every right to practice their religion in peace.
You may not recognize their name. They were killed in Waco, Texas.
>Namely, get a gun and arm yourself. Absolutely! The second amendment isn't about duck hunting. It's about protecting your self from evil governments.
If you want your children to be as free as we are, get a gun and join the NRA. Download PGP and force the NSA's Echelon servers to work harder.
Above all, protect other people's rights - even if you don't agree with them. "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death to make sure you have the right to say it."
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Hey, "pal," why don't you back up on the "gravy train?" See these comments:
One
Two
Three
Four
And, especially this one:
Five
They all side with me. And I didn't write them.
I've got it all figured out: you want to be NatePWIV!
/. effect is a fool!
Naw, I don't like that guy either. Anybody who doubts the
Shut UP shut UP shut UP. Slashdot is NOT the place for your stupid pyramid marketing schemes.
It's not a pyramid marketing scheme, though! It's the real deal! My friend has gotten a check, and mine is coming soon! Get in on it now, by going to alladvantage.com and telling them that member# EQA-881 referred you! Also, you seem to have some serious anger management issues! Use the money to get a psychiatrist!
Plus, you just put the info in the body of your comment, so everyone who read it did have to see it.
The guy who I responded to started it. People who can't understand what Im saying often criticze my signature. I just tell them to go to alladvantage.com and sign up!
annoy everyone else in the process just to make some pocket change.
Only people who are reading THIS thread can see it. And, do you see all the people saying "Amen" to me? Those are my supporters!
>Obviously his opinion of it differed
/., and my check is coming soon!
I don't hear anybody else raving about this movie. People are saying that: It sucked, It won't work, or just bickering like we are.
>you don't pay for slashdot.
Sure, I do! I look at the ads. I click on the interesting ones. I post and (often) add valuable content. I'm doing my part.
>That alladvantage stuff doesn't increase >credibility, you know.
Why not? It's a great way to pay for your internet connection! You should try it! Go to alladvantage.com, and tell them that member # EQA-881 referred you! I've already gotten several referrals from
As you would say, you don't HAVE to read my signature. You're just looking at it and complaining! Besides, it's my comment, and you aren't paying for it. Anyway, you can always choose to strip sigs in your preferences, like I do.
I'm sorry, but /. has been reading like the obituary pages for the past few days. Hemos was raving about this movie, so I downloaded it, and it BLEW! It was childish, anti-gun propaganda!
It took me half an hour with DSL, and then it didn't work! It didn't look very interesting, anyway.
/. gave to me: 12 midmoderated comments, 11 Katz uninformative essays, 10 boring obits, 9 broken links, 8 noncomputer related stories...5 moderator points...
CmdrTaco/ Hemos: Stop posting tis boring garbage you call "news." Post the articles that people send in to you and you constantly reject!
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
That's all I have so far.
This reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum is suddenly awakened. He gets on his radio and says, "I've got a 10-18... Waking a police officer."
Oink. Oink.
I laughed for 5 min straight after I read this. I think what the man is trying to say is: This article blows, and what the "FUD" is a FUD?
If I had moderator points, I'd bump this up to a 5, so that all may have the benefit of reading it.
I only have All Advantage on one computer, and I only use that computer to read slashdot.
>That means records of how much traffic you >used, what type, and when.
Basically, a record of the websites that I visit. That would be creepy. Granted, ISPs already know this, but this would entail a database that would sit around for months!
Set your User Prefs to strip signatures. That's what I'd do, and I'd forgotten that I had that in there! Not that I'm going to change it...
Also - All Advantage is NOT a pyramid scheme or a scam. I have been paid. For more information, check out http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/alladvantage2
Yabbut, what are you going to do? Sue the spammer for 0.01 cents? With the amount of spam sent in this country, we'd need a separate legal system (small, small, small claims court?) just to handle these cases!
Plus, if you pingflood someone, do they have to pay for the packets that you send? What if someone mailbombs you. Keep in mind that the pinger or mailbomber might not have to pay for bandwith likr the pingee/mailbombee does.
I better idea would be to charge the sender of the emails, pings or whatever. Most people who really don't send much would hardly be effected, but the people who spam 1000's of messages would be screwed!
>and I'm rarely the only person in the theater who does.
Are these people (a) trying to see the movie again for free (b)asleep or (c)do they have the same strange facination with people's names that you do?
At this point, I suggest that you start a club. I think Yahoo! offers a service for doing that.
There's a program called Select Phone, which is basically a list of names that you can scroll through. You could buy it, and demo it at your first club meeting!
ROTFL! Thanks, I needed a good laugh. I guess you have the right to watch anything that's boring, as long as it doesn't endanger your life. That's where I draw the line. If you ever start reading the phone book, email me and I'll get you some help.
I hope that this answers your questions.
>Why don't they just write their names down on a >piece of paper?
>Movies credit most all involved all the time,
:-)
>right down to the waterboys. Why shouldn't
>programmers receive similar recognition?
Duh. If you'lll notice, NO ONE watches all the
credits because NO ONE cares who the
executive assistant best grip gaffer was, except
for the executive assistant best grip gaffer. The
same with software credits. They're just a morale boost for the people who write software.
Basically, no one cares about the credits except
for the programmers themselves. Why don't they
just write their names down on a piece of paper?
As for the death of Atari, it could be because
Atari became synonomous with "crappy console gaming system."
>Since you're so good at quoting documents, could you quote this one or at least provide a reference?
Merry Christmas, parner! It's Title 10, Section 311 of the U.S. Code. I had it bookmarked. And it's actually 17 years old. My bad.
Read the Federalist Papers, and find out what the founding fathers, MY ANCESTORS, thought about guns.
Also, the supreme court has ruled on only 4 cases relating to the 2nd amend. this century. See US vs. Miller, 1939, a supreme court case which ruled in favor of the right of everyone to keep and bear arms.
Do you know what tear gas decomposes into under extreme heat? Cyanide. You can't very well jump out of a building if your bones are broken from convulsions. I'm sure some people DID try to jump, and were impailed on debris.
> they would be shot, that wouldn't stop them from trying to escape the fire
That's my point - they WERE shot.
>There were plenty of windows that weren't blocked by debris.
Then why didn't survivors come out of these windows? Was the fire burning at that end of the building? Were there BATF with guns there? Tanks?
>preventing people from escaping
I'll rephrase this - preventing people from escaping ALIVE. There were almost no survivors except for the people that left before the fire.
>I appear to have a much better understanding of constitutional law than you.
I guess that's really the subject of our debate isn't it.
>in connection with your service as part of the militia.
Exactly! But just because I'm a militia member in reserve doesn't mean that I can't keep my weapon, as the constitution allows.
>maintained by a "State"
Slow down, pardner! It doesn't say ANYTHING about states being involved - just that militias are necessary for states to be free!
>Since you're so good at quoting documents,
Sorry, I don't have this one on top of my desk!
> I did not say that the 2nd Amendment has been misunderstood for 300 years
But Americans have ALWAYS owned guns, and it would have to be a misundetstanding if they really weren't allowed to!
> So, the Supreme Court at least has not misunderstood the constitution
The "Supreme" Court vs. 80 million gun owners about Constitutional law? I go with the 80 million side.
> I don't suppose lying to support a cause
What are you implying?
>why didn't they flee?
If you lok at the IR footage taken from helicopters, you see that BATF/FBI/Delta Force people were firing at the exits and preventing people from escaping. Debris was bulldozed next to the building to prevent people from jumping out, and to corral them into fields of fire.
The BATF wouldn't have been able to get away with killing them if their religion had been mainstream.
>Idiot.
/. is to look for those words.
>dickbrain.
A sure way to find real idiots on
(sarcasm)
You can't fight a war against tyrants. Look what happened to the American Revolutionaries! They were removed from the genepool! We're still a British colony, as British as lime pie!
(/Sarcasm)
Are you American? From what I read of your posts, you have a shaky grasp of American current events and our constitution.
It so happens that I have an "actual" copy of the constitution before me. The second amendment reads:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
According to the United States Code, the militia consists of all able-bodied males over 18. This coincides nicely with "private citizens." I think your argument that the 2nd amendment has been misunderstood for 300 years is rather baseless.
Take your facist ideas back to Japan, please. Where the Shoguns prohibited people from owning weapons.
> Which no one ever disputed, certainly not the BATF...
I'm afraid that this assertion is incorrect. Part of the problem was the BATF's failure to understand what David Koresh was thinking and expecting. During the negotiation, when he talked about how his religion, the BATF negotiators dismissed what he had to say as "bible babble."
>why the BATF was there attempting to arrest them.
Can you give me a reason for them to be arrested?
I'll repost this guy's comment because it's score is a zero, and people deserve to see it:
>The Branch Davidians killed themselves.
riiiiight... The BATF filling the building with a flammable gas and sending in incindiary grenades had nothing todo with the ENORMOUS fire which erupted, right. The one which looked like a burning oil well? House fires do not burn with plumes of black smoke.
>they could have simply opened fire on them on when they first got there.
And the fact that the BATF waited a couple weeks to do so means what? Lon Horiuchi, the BATF sniper who shot a woman and a 14 year old boy at the Ruby Ridge standoff was at Waco. Curiously, about 50 spent shell casings were found in the building where he was observing (read: sniping) the Waco standoff. And curiously, in pictures of the standoff before the deadly arson, the BATF people are standing in front of the building blazing away and obviously not being shot at. The roof of the building was riddled with bullets which could only have come from helicopters. No wonder the BATF torched the building - there was far too much evidence tat there had been a massacre.
I urge you to go to this web site and learn the truth: http://www.mnsinc.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/
I'll name one: the Branch Davidians. They were Christians brutally murdered by the strong arm of our government, the BATF. They may not be "real" Christians, but they had every right to practice their religion in peace.
You may not recognize their name. They were killed in Waco, Texas.
>Namely, get a gun and arm yourself.
Absolutely! The second amendment isn't about duck hunting. It's about protecting your self from evil governments.
If you want your children to be as free as we are, get a gun and join the NRA. Download PGP and force the NSA's Echelon servers to work harder.
Above all, protect other people's rights - even if you don't agree with them. "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death to make sure you have the right to say it."
Try "Internet Time" from Swatch. It is cool.