Just because your tag line is SO assinine (And my Karma is already wrecked), I can't resist pointing out that George W. Bush had MORE people COME TOGETHER on election night than anyone you apparently consider a uniter.
My sincere appologies to everyone who has let past elections reside in the past, but I'm ornery today.
"It's no different if I went out and bought a Microsoft program and started sharing it with everyone in my apartment."
Observation: No. I would consider that to be assault against the apartment dwellers. We could call it e-rape or iRape in case you distribute OSX, and then put you away for a good long time.
Another observation is that whoever owns the open wi-fi connection should be in trouble for stealing this poor kid's signal and forwarding *his* data on to the interent without his permission. Just ask the satelite tv companies if you may use a signal just because it's in your space.
(And now to contradict my last statement) : A better Analogy would be someone broadcasting MS Software into my home or ME. If I get hit in the face with a fucking Office CD (After dutifully checking to make sure it's genuine microsoft and I won't be doing hard time for posessing it), I will do whatever I wish with it.
What, would you rather have it be an IBM "DeathStar"?
Yes. At least so far. Scared the hell out of me when I found out their record, but it has been in hard use since 2001 and it is fast. It's funny to say that it has been the best drive I have ever had. Previous machines ate Western Digitals like fat people eat chips. (By the bag, that is) I better go make another backup now that I have jinxed the damn thing.
Strict constructionists rule! The court obviously needs more of 'em and I hope Bush gets a chance to deliver a few. It's funny how judges like that always surprise idealogues of every persuasion by simply doing their job as intended: being as true as they can to the constitution.
How about we require a warrant for EVERY goddamned search so that the RIGHT of the people to be secure in their homes, papers and posessions is not abridged?
Indeed. Strict constructionist judges are required to make sure the Constitution is not ignored.
At the very least they should eliminate the sneaky trick that they don't even have to TELL you you're a target of an investigation.
"Hi, I'm from the FBI and we are going to tap your phones and watch your movement because we think you're a terrorist". I think a Judge issued warrant is a more realistic option in this case as long as some evidence points to truly being an enemy of the state.
When will these bozos realize that terrorists are CRIMINALS, not "foreign combatants" who need to be locked up without any rights at all in some gulag for years under military supervision?
Actually, they are foreign combatants. They are not US citizens (Foreign) and they were picked up while fighting us (Combatants). And they certainly are retaining rights. For instance they have the right not to have their heads sawed off. (A right not offered in return to our captured.) In general prisoners of war are returned at the end of hostilities. No doubt you will protest that hostilities against this jihad may go on for a very long time. So? Is 10 or 20 years too long a sentence for someone who after the events of 9/11/01 in effect said "Fuck yeah. I want to be part of that team"? If you are still uncomfortable with a lack of process, I suppose a military tribunal could try each combatant and if found guilty a life sentence could be applied. Better?
If this goes on much longer it will be a simple matter to apply the "T" label to anyone for any reason at all.
Undeserved Labels suck. A lot of people are using "Fascist" where it doesn't really apply these days.
I propose we shut down the Slashdot servers in a patriotic effort to save energy. What's that I hear? "Igonore the energy wasted by computers and only focus on SUVs and Business waste." There, that's the Slashdot hypocrisy I love!
p.s. Am I to understand that "Patriotic" is a good thing when applied to countries other than the US? Reading posts here, I had been led to believe that patriotic=fascist. Perhaps I am just not "nuanced" enough to understand!
Besides all the "eyecandy" of Windows XP, what is the difference between this and 2k?
While I have noticed some fixes and enhancements to the API (New Event Messages, More controllable controls) the system seems to be much slower and flakier overall. Personally, I imagine they are letting the Windows ME Mongoloids loose on the fairly solid NT/2000 code.
Fucking Mods. Parent post was not flamebait. It was an honest opinion with some humor and there was no indication the poster was a Republican, which would have required the -1 rating around here.
Here's what will happen: You get taxed 10 bucks when you buy your shiny new DELL machine. Time passes. You call DELL to dispose of your old machine. They tell you there are recycling centers in LA and Ohio. If you will just mail the components at your expense to the recycling center they will recycle it "free". 5 minutes later you through the piece of shit in the trash, lead and all.
It might actually work if there were local options. Now that my city will let you drop "toxic" waste off every other sunday I'm happy to give them my oil and chemical containers.
You're splitting hairs to justify doing something that is clearly ethically wrong, that is pirating movies...
The MPAA/Movie/TV lobby would be wise to stop *giving* people so many ways to justify copyright infringement (with no need to split hairs): They play at being the wronged innocent party while they try to fuck over thousands who bought early HDTVs by making them unusable. They are trying to make next generation video recorders unable to record without their permission. They are trying to control the production of every electronic device ever built that can work with an audio or video signal. They don't want you to be able to put your favorite movie or tv show on different media for your convenience. They are littering our lives with myriad uninteroperable DRM schemes at our cost without understanding that they can NEVER stop "unauthorized" decryption because to view the media we must be given the keys. And while not wrong, it is stupid that they fail to realize that they could profit from using a bittorrent like system for distribution. Some people would pay for ultra high resolution releases. Targeted advertising inserted into encodes of TV shows would kill unauthorized tv torrents and probably increase advertising revenue.
As to the "ethically wrong" statement: Is stealing from a crooked bully wrong? Maybe. I'm less clear on it than you. But it is hard not to be pleased with the karmic justice.
Myself, I have stopped casually buying DVDs (Only go for those I know I will watch a lot). I find it too disgusting to give a bunch of money to a lobby doing so much ethically wrong. They can have a few cents of my $1.75 per two day rental fee instead of the $150 or so a year I used to spend.
The Babylonians used base-360 a lot, which is where we get our circles from.
I get my circles imported from Canada because they're cheaper. Also, puck-design knowhow has allowed them to create circles with superior curvature. I can't imagine myself ever going back to domestic circles.
Without hunters Bambi would have been a terrible movie. Without internet hunting where will the Bambis of tomorrow come from? Think of the children!
As an aside, I believe slashdot moderation is making me stupider. I now strive to spell things wrong and verbally stroke OSS projects in pursuit of a post rated +5. I have abandoned reasoned arguments and humor in favor of cliched puns and predictable one liners. For example, the above post is extremely stupid, but it should be just bewildering enough to avoid being labeled as a troll.
I am afraid that they may have, along with 5 or 6 million other "undesireables" that Hitler had done in. I don't see a lot of people around me that have learned lessons about absolute hatred of people with opposing views or removing weapons from citizens for "public safety" or confronting madmen in charge of countries that invade neighboring countries or indoctrination with a limited set of views in schools or special laws for special classes of citizens (Police, Identity Groups, etc.) or...
Which nutjob rated the parent nutjob insightfull? That was the same old tired and hate based factless dribble. Almost everything presented as a fact above is NOT a fact. It almost doesn't deserve rebuttal so I will restrict myself to one point: helping define terrorist. A terrorist is someone who INTENTIONALLY attacks CIVILIANS to cause political changes out of FEAR that would not happen otherwise. I bet you don't see a difference between the U.S. invading Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban and the Train bombings in Spain to throw an election, huh? But just repeat the manta. It is more comforting than critical thought.
Either someone is too dangerous to be free in society or they are not. Probably something like 2 strikes would work well: "You do that again and you are going away forever". The 3 strikes laws have certainly cut crime rates, and to bait the leftists, I must point out something printed in one of the more liberal east coast papers (I think NYT but I can't remember). This is the gist : "Jail population increases despite drop in crime rate". OMG, how do people who think like that function?
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Just because your tag line is SO assinine (And my Karma is already wrecked), I can't resist pointing out that George W. Bush had MORE people COME TOGETHER on election night than anyone you apparently consider a uniter.
My sincere appologies to everyone who has let past elections reside in the past, but I'm ornery today.
Observation: No. I would consider that to be assault against the apartment dwellers. We could call it e-rape or iRape in case you distribute OSX, and then put you away for a good long time.
Another observation is that whoever owns the open wi-fi connection should be in trouble for stealing this poor kid's signal and forwarding *his* data on to the interent without his permission. Just ask the satelite tv companies if you may use a signal just because it's in your space.
(And now to contradict my last statement) : A better Analogy would be someone broadcasting MS Software into my home or ME. If I get hit in the face with a fucking Office CD (After dutifully checking to make sure it's genuine microsoft and I won't be doing hard time for posessing it), I will do whatever I wish with it.
also, "than" after different, maggot.
Yes. At least so far. Scared the hell out of me when I found out their record, but it has been in hard use since 2001 and it is fast. It's funny to say that it has been the best drive I have ever had. Previous machines ate Western Digitals like fat people eat chips. (By the bag, that is) I better go make another backup now that I have jinxed the damn thing.
Strict constructionists rule! The court obviously needs more of 'em and I hope Bush gets a chance to deliver a few. It's funny how judges like that always surprise idealogues of every persuasion by simply doing their job as intended: being as true as they can to the constitution.
If God wanted you to have downloaded music on your iPod, he would have miracled it there.
Defacing an LA Times Website; That's kind of like pissing on a wall of grafitti, isn't it?
Indeed. Strict constructionist judges are required to make sure the Constitution is not ignored.
At the very least they should eliminate the sneaky trick that they don't even have to TELL you you're a target of an investigation.
"Hi, I'm from the FBI and we are going to tap your phones and watch your movement because we think you're a terrorist". I think a Judge issued warrant is a more realistic option in this case as long as some evidence points to truly being an enemy of the state.
When will these bozos realize that terrorists are CRIMINALS, not "foreign combatants" who need to be locked up without any rights at all in some gulag for years under military supervision?
Actually, they are foreign combatants. They are not US citizens (Foreign) and they were picked up while fighting us (Combatants). And they certainly are retaining rights. For instance they have the right not to have their heads sawed off. (A right not offered in return to our captured.) In general prisoners of war are returned at the end of hostilities. No doubt you will protest that hostilities against this jihad may go on for a very long time. So? Is 10 or 20 years too long a sentence for someone who after the events of 9/11/01 in effect said "Fuck yeah. I want to be part of that team"? If you are still uncomfortable with a lack of process, I suppose a military tribunal could try each combatant and if found guilty a life sentence could be applied. Better?
If this goes on much longer it will be a simple matter to apply the "T" label to anyone for any reason at all.
Undeserved Labels suck. A lot of people are using "Fascist" where it doesn't really apply these days.
Moon landing conspiracy theories, like tin foil hats, are the first signs of paranoid delusions.
At a Terrorist camp somewhere in the Middle East...
Terrorist 1: Allah-damnit! The Americans are attacking us!
Terrorist 2: Where? I don't see any planes or tanks.
Terrorist 1: Look up. It's coming right for us. It looks like some kind of weaponized-space.
I propose that the codename for the Monad command line be "Project Tom Green". Seriously, who comes up with these awfull names.
Fuck you Lexmark. Fuck you right in the neck.
p.s. Am I to understand that "Patriotic" is a good thing when applied to countries other than the US? Reading posts here, I had been led to believe that patriotic=fascist. Perhaps I am just not "nuanced" enough to understand!
While I have noticed some fixes and enhancements to the API (New Event Messages, More controllable controls) the system seems to be much slower and flakier overall. Personally, I imagine they are letting the Windows ME Mongoloids loose on the fairly solid NT/2000 code.
Fucking Mods. Parent post was not flamebait. It was an honest opinion with some humor and there was no indication the poster was a Republican, which would have required the -1 rating around here.
It might actually work if there were local options. Now that my city will let you drop "toxic" waste off every other sunday I'm happy to give them my oil and chemical containers.
These European zombies only eat...Cycles
The MPAA/Movie/TV lobby would be wise to stop *giving* people so many ways to justify copyright infringement (with no need to split hairs): They play at being the wronged innocent party while they try to fuck over thousands who bought early HDTVs by making them unusable. They are trying to make next generation video recorders unable to record without their permission. They are trying to control the production of every electronic device ever built that can work with an audio or video signal. They don't want you to be able to put your favorite movie or tv show on different media for your convenience. They are littering our lives with myriad uninteroperable DRM schemes at our cost without understanding that they can NEVER stop "unauthorized" decryption because to view the media we must be given the keys. And while not wrong, it is stupid that they fail to realize that they could profit from using a bittorrent like system for distribution. Some people would pay for ultra high resolution releases. Targeted advertising inserted into encodes of TV shows would kill unauthorized tv torrents and probably increase advertising revenue.
As to the "ethically wrong" statement: Is stealing from a crooked bully wrong? Maybe. I'm less clear on it than you. But it is hard not to be pleased with the karmic justice.
Myself, I have stopped casually buying DVDs (Only go for those I know I will watch a lot). I find it too disgusting to give a bunch of money to a lobby doing so much ethically wrong. They can have a few cents of my $1.75 per two day rental fee instead of the $150 or so a year I used to spend.
I get my circles imported from Canada because they're cheaper. Also, puck-design knowhow has allowed them to create circles with superior curvature. I can't imagine myself ever going back to domestic circles.
Fucking Trillahertz! or is it Terrahertz! Either way, imagine a Beowulf Clu....[Post terminated by Karma Police]
As an aside, I believe slashdot moderation is making me stupider. I now strive to spell things wrong and verbally stroke OSS projects in pursuit of a post rated +5. I have abandoned reasoned arguments and humor in favor of cliched puns and predictable one liners. For example, the above post is extremely stupid, but it should be just bewildering enough to avoid being labeled as a troll.
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I am afraid that they may have, along with 5 or 6 million other "undesireables" that Hitler had done in. I don't see a lot of people around me that have learned lessons about absolute hatred of people with opposing views or removing weapons from citizens for "public safety" or confronting madmen in charge of countries that invade neighboring countries or indoctrination with a limited set of views in schools or special laws for special classes of citizens (Police, Identity Groups, etc.) or...
Which nutjob rated the parent nutjob insightfull? That was the same old tired and hate based factless dribble. Almost everything presented as a fact above is NOT a fact. It almost doesn't deserve rebuttal so I will restrict myself to one point: helping define terrorist. A terrorist is someone who INTENTIONALLY attacks CIVILIANS to cause political changes out of FEAR that would not happen otherwise. I bet you don't see a difference between the U.S. invading Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban and the Train bombings in Spain to throw an election, huh? But just repeat the manta. It is more comforting than critical thought.
Either someone is too dangerous to be free in society or they are not. Probably something like 2 strikes would work well: "You do that again and you are going away forever". The 3 strikes laws have certainly cut crime rates, and to bait the leftists, I must point out something printed in one of the more liberal east coast papers (I think NYT but I can't remember). This is the gist : "Jail population increases despite drop in crime rate". OMG, how do people who think like that function?
Unfortunately, none of those are practical.