I get your point, and I'm not saying no trial lightly. But it should be like fining companies for dumping waste. They get caught, they get fined. It's not like some intricate elaborate thing you have to prove, they did it, end of story
ok, good point, but... what would the result be? Sony gets charged $5000 dollars? Even per CD that's nothing to them. The problem is the trial process. Something as this should be an automatic fine. Sony wouldn't be sued and made to pay the money, it would automatically happen. Otherwise, who's going to go to war with a monster like Sony over $5000?
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Lets take over blizzard and make it ourselves. Actually, less radical, check out Project Revolution, a warcraft starcraft mod.
brilliant. Now all we need to do is random s/$name/$newname/ all over the place and we've figured out how to generate blog entries without ever typing anything
I agree with you. Mental illness nonwithstanding, there ought to be something that helps the mentally ill. But the majority of impoverished people in america are white people living in the vicinities of farming or industrial communities. You may be able to see farther and do more by standing on the shoulders of your family and friends, but my dad didn't stand on anybody's shoulders. He dug himself and his entire family along with some friends out of a post communist country without doing a single illegal thing and a single immoral thing. If he can make it from one of the shittiest situations possible all the way to a rich suburb in America with virtually everybody trying to bring him down let alone help him, I believe most of America's poor can as well. They're already here, they already have citizenship and have won half the battle.
I agree though, people should have a second chance. This bullshit about no phone number, no address, no job, is just stupid. Giving people a second chance is the foundation of this country. The government should also provide access to libraries and information to anybody anywhere regardless of class status.
I'm going to restrain from calling you names. I'm just going to put it very simply. If you believe what you just said, you are mistaken. Yes, some people in the United States have it very bad. They have to sleep in misery or on the streets and they have seemingly no way out. But anywhere in america, if you have the intelligence and the willpower, you can pick yourself up, get yourself 6 dollars for a shower, get yourself 10 bucks for some new clothes from the corner salvation army, get yourself an interview and a steady job at the miriad of McDonald's or janitorial positions that are available everywhere. You can be in debt for ten years but work your way out of it, perhaps even earn a degree and go to a better job.
In some parts of the world, there's nothing man. NOTHING. No job. No McDonald's. No janitor position. No scrubbing the shit from someone's ass for money. NOTHING. The only thing that is in some places is crime. So they do crime. It's just that attitude that caused us to bomb afganistan instead of go after the terrorists and really work with the country to solve their problems. We were spending like 1 billion a week in Iraq at one point (I'm not sure what it is now). Do you think that if we gave an assasin 1 billion dollars they couldn't kill Sadaam Husein? Or if we gave an assasin 1 billion dollars they couldn't kill Osama Bin Ladin? Ok, how about 10 billion dollars? Cause that's still cheaper than going to war.
Don't be silly, some people really have no way out. Not like spoiled little bums in the United States that don't feel like going to work because they got laid off from their previous job. I understand hurricane victims. But in Haiti it's like that EVERY FUCKING DAY. No, it's not peaches and cream in the absolute sense. But compared to some other parts of the world, yeah, it's peaches and cream.
That's deep man. You're totally right. I think the guy who said "walk a mile in my shoes" is guilty of a little blindness to how some parts of the world are and a little blindness to the fact that his/her problems are not as bad as they seem. When we have no problems, we have to invent some because people aren't happy being happy most of the time... they need challenges.
There's a perfect movie about this called High and Low by Kurosawa. Check it out sometime.
that is so awesome. Everyone that posted saying you're lonely and sad must not get it. One thing though, I agree with the person that said your argument sounds as if love is a bad thing. Love is kind of made up, just like marriage, but you've got to admit, lust has another level. You can lust for someone and then you can like really truly want to be with a person, sometimes without even being physical. I mean, you love your friend, mom, brother, dad, dog, cat, or something else other than women, right?
I think love in couples is a little weird because it's too much tied into society's idea of acceptable marriage behavior. However, love between two people is a strong force and it helps you to understand others.
Awesome post. Here's what I take from it. Symantec and Adobe should get behind Linux. Seriously. In Linux, Symantec can contribute their expertise at the KERNEL level instead of in the weak application domain. Application domain security is like using the "optional" decorator pattern to implement security when coding an app. It's gotta be a tight kernel that doesn't allow code to execute unless the user specifically says I want to execute this code and I want it to have priviliges [up to] my own priviliges. So, Symantec, Adobe, all those foresaken by Microsoft, come, join the Open world
"On the other hand, it's still early in Kahuna's development, and I don't recommend that anyone switch their production email account over to this service quite yet"
Hahaha, yeah right, if I have ANY alternatives to the HORRIBLE webmail interface that hotmail is right now, I'll take it, even if it's worse. You know why? Cause it can't get any worse, it can only wrap around and become better.
See, that's exactly what I thought as an outsider comin to Linux. I tried all those, literally in the order you mention them:
Red Hat didn't work on my laptop. Ubuntu worked but ran into libc dependency problems when upgrading my system. Suse I actually didn't try but assumed it was the same as Red Hat. Mandrake was nice but didn't really work with all the packages I wanted and for the life of me could not get sound or video to work on my laptop. Gentoo was awesome. Everything worked, hand configed by yours truly now becoming non-noobish. Until I tried to upgrade gcc because I needed some iPod tools and they in turn needed the new gcc. Then all went to shit.
BUT get this, I'm still usin Linux and it's one of the distros you forgot. You guessed it: Slackware. WHY? Because it just works. Handle all dependencies on your own as easily as it is to install something in windows. That's what distros should aspire to. Oh god, no, not being LIKE windows, but having the apparent EASE OF USE of windows.
So in conclusion, Slackware rocks, all the others rock less to none. FlameWAAAAR
Um, ok, in response to you and the whole article...
If they wanted to do this, they could do it with bar codes. Like... when you check out, record a list of barcodes associated with a credit card number. Sure, RFID is easier, but if RFID didn't exist, with an increasing IT budget, they could still do this with bar codes.
Climate change is irreversible. The polar caps have started melting and they are creating more water around them. This water will gather more sunlight energy and keep it for longer causing less ice to be formed every winter and more ice to be melted every summer. Driving smaller cars is our ignorant idea on how to stop the enormity of nature from doing something that she's been set to do. We just have to figure out a way to live with climate change.
There was a darwin award for a lady that left her bus in neutral and then instead of just letting it crash into the wall she got in front of it and tried to push it back. We are all guilty of that if we think we can stop global warming. I totally agree, we have to stop producing so much CO2. We can do a lot of things towards that end, and I really hope that we start building sustainable housing and semi sustainable cars (that is my life goal). However, none of this will reverse climate change. Only help us to live in a cleaner world and to feel better about ourselves and our relationship with mother nature.
Here's to people realizing the gift of nature and not squandering it!!
wikipedia is unreliable information as opposed to what? Fact? Facts are extremely elusive. I think that wikipedia is the bomb just because it attempts to set up a framework that for the most part chases facts. I have yet to see a source (newspapers, news, encyclopedias, etc.) that is truly Factual and actually a lot of them are not factual on Purpose. So, kudos wikipedia.
"the new disc allows consumers to decide when they watch films"
wtf? This can't be for renting (for very obvious reasons), so it's for purchase, right? So... if I purchase this, I get to decide when I watch the film ???? If by that you mean I get to pick one time ever in my life that I get to watch the film, then... there you go.
Here's my guess: Microsoft isn't developing this because this is IDIOTIC. I call bullshit story.
yeah... this whole thing always seemed to me silly. It's a product that's meant to be read. DVDs and movies are supposed to be readable so they can be played in all the players and such. So how are you going to prevent somebody else from reading it? Any such attempt just seems futile. Short of some whacky quantum algorithm, I don't see this ever working.
I'm reading a lot of posts about people being sad and giving up on happiness and being all cynical about it. Maybe I have some insight, with no offense intended for those of you that have any chronic illnesses.
Try hard to place yourself. Go out into a field and spend an hour or so just breathing, looking at the little bugs going about their life. Check out what the animals are up to. They are far wiser than you or me. They just are what they are, without shame or disrespect for anything. Doing this regularly can help you actually realize that you're different. That you disrespect and are ashamed of many things. It is this that contributes to so much unhappiness. So then you have a choice of two courses of action:
1.) Stay in society. Make a plan and carry it through (house, money, curing cancer, whatever). This will give you a sense of purpose and you will attach your life meaning to that plan. 2.) Ignore everyone's busy bustle and seek a simpler life. If someone chooses this course of action and is still chronically depressed, I would be terribly surprised. Much like the busy bee, you have no time to be depressed when you're growing your own food and a flood hits. Stop and realize for a second. There are millions of stars out there exploding and burning and millions of ants and flies having sex and millions of people orgasming, and millions of unknown things happening. Nobody gives a shit about you being depressed. For me, personally, that comforts the crap out of me. If the universe doesn't care about me, I can just live life however the fuck I want. I just try to stay respectful of other living beings and to be less and less ashamed of myself.
Actually, I chose course 1.) believe it or not. My goal is to develop sustainable housing. Want to help?
A lot of interesting items. The thing is, if you've got a knife and something to start a fire with and you're dressed in warm waterproof clothing, you don't need any of that. You can kill things to eat and distill water to drink. Shit, you can eat leaves and mud if you need to. The only other thing I'd personally bring is rope (thin and thick).
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I get your point, and I'm not saying no trial lightly. But it should be like fining companies for dumping waste. They get caught, they get fined. It's not like some intricate elaborate thing you have to prove, they did it, end of story
ok, good point, but... what would the result be? Sony gets charged $5000 dollars? Even per CD that's nothing to them. The problem is the trial process. Something as this should be an automatic fine. Sony wouldn't be sued and made to pay the money, it would automatically happen. Otherwise, who's going to go to war with a monster like Sony over $5000?
Lets take over blizzard and make it ourselves. Actually, less radical, check out Project Revolution, a warcraft starcraft mod.
wtf
brilliant. Now all we need to do is random s/$name/$newname/ all over the place and we've figured out how to generate blog entries without ever typing anything
mod parent up (insightful).
I agree with you. Mental illness nonwithstanding, there ought to be something that helps the mentally ill. But the majority of impoverished people in america are white people living in the vicinities of farming or industrial communities. You may be able to see farther and do more by standing on the shoulders of your family and friends, but my dad didn't stand on anybody's shoulders. He dug himself and his entire family along with some friends out of a post communist country without doing a single illegal thing and a single immoral thing. If he can make it from one of the shittiest situations possible all the way to a rich suburb in America with virtually everybody trying to bring him down let alone help him, I believe most of America's poor can as well. They're already here, they already have citizenship and have won half the battle.
I agree though, people should have a second chance. This bullshit about no phone number, no address, no job, is just stupid. Giving people a second chance is the foundation of this country. The government should also provide access to libraries and information to anybody anywhere regardless of class status.
I'm going to restrain from calling you names. I'm just going to put it very simply.
If you believe what you just said, you are mistaken. Yes, some people in the United States have it very bad. They have to sleep in misery or on the streets and they have seemingly no way out. But anywhere in america, if you have the intelligence and the willpower, you can pick yourself up, get yourself 6 dollars for a shower, get yourself 10 bucks for some new clothes from the corner salvation army, get yourself an interview and a steady job at the miriad of McDonald's or janitorial positions that are available everywhere. You can be in debt for ten years but work your way out of it, perhaps even earn a degree and go to a better job.
In some parts of the world, there's nothing man. NOTHING. No job. No McDonald's. No janitor position. No scrubbing the shit from someone's ass for money. NOTHING. The only thing that is in some places is crime. So they do crime. It's just that attitude that caused us to bomb afganistan instead of go after the terrorists and really work with the country to solve their problems. We were spending like 1 billion a week in Iraq at one point (I'm not sure what it is now). Do you think that if we gave an assasin 1 billion dollars they couldn't kill Sadaam Husein? Or if we gave an assasin 1 billion dollars they couldn't kill Osama Bin Ladin? Ok, how about 10 billion dollars? Cause that's still cheaper than going to war.
Don't be silly, some people really have no way out. Not like spoiled little bums in the United States that don't feel like going to work because they got laid off from their previous job. I understand hurricane victims. But in Haiti it's like that EVERY FUCKING DAY. No, it's not peaches and cream in the absolute sense. But compared to some other parts of the world, yeah, it's peaches and cream.
That's deep man. You're totally right. I think the guy who said "walk a mile in my shoes" is guilty of a little blindness to how some parts of the world are and a little blindness to the fact that his/her problems are not as bad as they seem. When we have no problems, we have to invent some because people aren't happy being happy most of the time... they need challenges.
There's a perfect movie about this called High and Low by Kurosawa. Check it out sometime.
that is so awesome. Everyone that posted saying you're lonely and sad must not get it. One thing though, I agree with the person that said your argument sounds as if love is a bad thing. Love is kind of made up, just like marriage, but you've got to admit, lust has another level. You can lust for someone and then you can like really truly want to be with a person, sometimes without even being physical. I mean, you love your friend, mom, brother, dad, dog, cat, or something else other than women, right?
I think love in couples is a little weird because it's too much tied into society's idea of acceptable marriage behavior. However, love between two people is a strong force and it helps you to understand others.
But there is just such a law: It's called the Lawyer. You see, lawyers get involved, everyone loses.
Awesome post. Here's what I take from it. Symantec and Adobe should get behind Linux. Seriously. In Linux, Symantec can contribute their expertise at the KERNEL level instead of in the weak application domain. Application domain security is like using the "optional" decorator pattern to implement security when coding an app. It's gotta be a tight kernel that doesn't allow code to execute unless the user specifically says I want to execute this code and I want it to have priviliges [up to] my own priviliges. So, Symantec, Adobe, all those foresaken by Microsoft, come, join the Open world
"On the other hand, it's still early in Kahuna's development, and I don't recommend that anyone switch their production email account over to this service quite yet"
Hahaha, yeah right, if I have ANY alternatives to the HORRIBLE webmail interface that hotmail is right now, I'll take it, even if it's worse. You know why? Cause it can't get any worse, it can only wrap around and become better.
See, that's exactly what I thought as an outsider comin to Linux. I tried all those, literally in the order you mention them:
Red Hat didn't work on my laptop. Ubuntu worked but ran into libc dependency problems when upgrading my system. Suse I actually didn't try but assumed it was the same as Red Hat. Mandrake was nice but didn't really work with all the packages I wanted and for the life of me could not get sound or video to work on my laptop. Gentoo was awesome. Everything worked, hand configed by yours truly now becoming non-noobish. Until I tried to upgrade gcc because I needed some iPod tools and they in turn needed the new gcc. Then all went to shit.
BUT get this, I'm still usin Linux and it's one of the distros you forgot. You guessed it: Slackware. WHY? Because it just works. Handle all dependencies on your own as easily as it is to install something in windows. That's what distros should aspire to. Oh god, no, not being LIKE windows, but having the apparent EASE OF USE of windows.
So in conclusion, Slackware rocks, all the others rock less to none. FlameWAAAAR
Um, ok, in response to you and the whole article...
If they wanted to do this, they could do it with bar codes. Like... when you check out, record a list of barcodes associated with a credit card number. Sure, RFID is easier, but if RFID didn't exist, with an increasing IT budget, they could still do this with bar codes.
um, because it's the right thing to do and because if you think about it it's more productive
Climate change is irreversible. The polar caps have started melting and they are creating more water around them. This water will gather more sunlight energy and keep it for longer causing less ice to be formed every winter and more ice to be melted every summer. Driving smaller cars is our ignorant idea on how to stop the enormity of nature from doing something that she's been set to do. We just have to figure out a way to live with climate change.
There was a darwin award for a lady that left her bus in neutral and then instead of just letting it crash into the wall she got in front of it and tried to push it back. We are all guilty of that if we think we can stop global warming. I totally agree, we have to stop producing so much CO2. We can do a lot of things towards that end, and I really hope that we start building sustainable housing and semi sustainable cars (that is my life goal). However, none of this will reverse climate change. Only help us to live in a cleaner world and to feel better about ourselves and our relationship with mother nature.
Here's to people realizing the gift of nature and not squandering it!!
that's awesome, I wish Microsoft stopped beating its own drums and took a look around at a bunch of incompatible shitty software.
wikipedia is unreliable information as opposed to what? Fact?
Facts are extremely elusive. I think that wikipedia is the bomb just because it attempts to set up a framework that for the most part chases facts. I have yet to see a source (newspapers, news, encyclopedias, etc.) that is truly Factual and actually a lot of them are not factual on Purpose. So, kudos wikipedia.
so.... HBO wants to fight with all the 1337 HaX0r armies out there? Ok, I'll be the referee.
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HBO, on your marks.
1337 HaX0r armies, on your marks.
HAJIME!!!
"the new disc allows consumers to decide when they watch films"
wtf? This can't be for renting (for very obvious reasons), so it's for purchase, right? So... if I purchase this, I get to decide when I watch the film ???? If by that you mean I get to pick one time ever in my life that I get to watch the film, then... there you go.
Here's my guess: Microsoft isn't developing this because this is IDIOTIC.
I call bullshit story.
yeah... this whole thing always seemed to me silly. It's a product that's meant to be read. DVDs and movies are supposed to be readable so they can be played in all the players and such. So how are you going to prevent somebody else from reading it? Any such attempt just seems futile. Short of some whacky quantum algorithm, I don't see this ever working.
Here's a mind boggling idea. Why don't you just call it Taiwan and let them figure it out?
If I was anywhere Near Redmond I wouldn't be anywhere Near a chair right now...
I'm reading a lot of posts about people being sad and giving up on happiness and being all cynical about it. Maybe I have some insight, with no offense intended for those of you that have any chronic illnesses.
Try hard to place yourself. Go out into a field and spend an hour or so just breathing, looking at the little bugs going about their life. Check out what the animals are up to. They are far wiser than you or me. They just are what they are, without shame or disrespect for anything. Doing this regularly can help you actually realize that you're different. That you disrespect and are ashamed of many things. It is this that contributes to so much unhappiness. So then you have a choice of two courses of action:
1.) Stay in society. Make a plan and carry it through (house, money, curing cancer, whatever). This will give you a sense of purpose and you will attach your life meaning to that plan.
2.) Ignore everyone's busy bustle and seek a simpler life. If someone chooses this course of action and is still chronically depressed, I would be terribly surprised. Much like the busy bee, you have no time to be depressed when you're growing your own food and a flood hits. Stop and realize for a second. There are millions of stars out there exploding and burning and millions of ants and flies having sex and millions of people orgasming, and millions of unknown things happening. Nobody gives a shit about you being depressed. For me, personally, that comforts the crap out of me. If the universe doesn't care about me, I can just live life however the fuck I want. I just try to stay respectful of other living beings and to be less and less ashamed of myself.
Actually, I chose course 1.) believe it or not. My goal is to develop sustainable housing. Want to help?
A lot of interesting items. The thing is, if you've got a knife and something to start a fire with and you're dressed in warm waterproof clothing, you don't need any of that. You can kill things to eat and distill water to drink. Shit, you can eat leaves and mud if you need to. The only other thing I'd personally bring is rope (thin and thick).