You show equal ignorance by using "Americans" which applys to anyone in the western hemisphere seeing as how everyone there is in "the Americas". So stop wasting your breath.
Actually, for some reason I do recall that the term "American" was implied (since my childhood by otheer Americans) to mean only those born in the US of A. Maybe I was just educated stupid just like all the other Americans... Oh wait...
CAN-SPAM legalized spam by giving bulk advertisers permission to send junk e-mail as long as they followed certain rules
So um... If they are following a standard set of rules, then logic seems to tell me that someone isn't apply their server side rules to full effect. No?
A disgusting bunch of hemp-smoking teenage commie fucktards.
Please keep from describing communists as hippies and vice versa!
Us communists like to keep our hair short and wear uniforms. We also shoot people who do drugs! If feeding people was our main concern we spend more money on food than our great people's army. (Which we are going to smite you with if you dare make fun of our Dear Leader again!)
Umm... If I am discussing something on the internet with someone and they ask me: "What does 'lol' mean?" I can safely assume that they are a internet newbie or just having had many internet discussions.
Doesn't mean they are a dumb person... It means they can't speak "internet" yet.
Like it or not there is a second language on the internet much like there is American English and British English. (Whats the different between a bar and pub anyways?)
Language evolves for the situation (take the military for example and many certain industries).
Ever hear Brokers or Lawyers talk amoung themselves? It's foreign to me and they a great of 3 letter acronyms.
Now put with in a room with another "computer" person and we'll be throwing around things no one else will understand. (Or any MMOG or AD&D player with HP, MP, and AC)
I'm sorry but in "shop talk" we use three letter words and in a large corporation we worked for we had a second language to describe issue. "So you took your DSL to the NID to check the synch? Ok we need to TNF this so they won't get an ETF."
And that is spoken conversation... Not typed.
I refuse to believe that in a forum computer geeks that we are not allowed to use "shop talk" and "internet language". It's like telling the Military they can't use their Acronyms when they are going out to public bars.
And if you don't know what NSFW is then you sir have not used the internet very much.
But everyone knows that geeks know everything about business, and the PHBs are the ones who destroy business! How could all these big geek corps go out of business? I blame Bill Gates and George Bush.
Truth be told, most of the geeks sold their businesses for millions of dollars to PHBs who then proceeded to destroy said business.
Also, keep in mind that "opposed" simply means they fought them.
Nanjing was an attrocity against an occupied city of civilians and not a major battle against Nationalist or Communist Chinese forces. Otherwise it wouldn't have been called "the rape".
Perhaps you should read up on the Sino-Japanese War. Sure Japan occupied a great deal of China... Well so did Germany occupy a great deal of Russia, but neither China nor Russia were totally defeated (Tibet is a poor example because they were defeated unconditioanlly). In most occupied territories of China the Japanese, had a hard time with resistance as well.
*DISCLAIMER* I am not a historian, but a few things bother me about this post since I tend to study this time frame.
We could have dominated the world, and who would have opposed us?
Quite a few people. I agree the America was most generous and possibly the most moral country that once ever existed (until maybe the 21st century), but...
The peasantry of China?
They opposed 2 million Japanese troops since 1927 with nothing but militias. The Chinese handed us our rears in Korean War
The decimated demoralized Soviets?
Stalin dictated the post war terms directly through Molotov to the Allies. The Allies agreed to every term! The Soviets had almost 10,000,000 troops in the field with more factories and tanks than us to boot and millions of readily available free slave labor (German Pow's, Ukranian Freedom Fighters, and Russian dissidents in gulags... not to mention the Soviet People themselves). The Red Army was inefficient, but it was far from being defeated. They would scoff at the poor quality of US tanks that the Americans sent them as aid and nick named them coffins compared to super IS-2 tanks that could knock out Tiger tanks with ease much less a thinly armored Sherman tank. He mostly lacked a Navy and Atomic bombs. Had he not died in 53, it was speculated he was gearing up for a war with the US.
Once the Soviets had the bomb in 1947, America did not have that option to dominate the world even if they wanted to. That's only two years. Mind you that General MacArthur bemoaned on the state of the military by the Korean War.
Great as America was, it's military might was not really as great then as it was and is since the 1970's as it was tested in the Vietnam war. Of course the prevailing thought at the time was that there was no need for a standing army since the US could defend itself with the Bomb.
Not to say America has great freedoms, but neither was it a lone super power until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.
However, when traveling to another country you must RESPECT that country. You are a guest, just as your a guest in someone's home. Failure to obey the rules of that country is rude, inconsiderate and frankly, you deserve whatever punishment is given for violations.
Unless of course I bring along 500,000 of my buddies armed with the latest anti-personnel technology, then all bets are off.
(And no, this isn't a jab at the US in Iraq but a realist statement of history and warfare between foreign powers in general. Kind of like how it's wrong to kill a man unless you have the go ahead from your society, government, or religion. It's just Ironic.)
I think what the parent is trying to say Engineers != Scientists.
I consider myself and engineer and a master of my domain, but I will freely admit I know nothing about advanced Physics, Biology, and Quantum Mechanics.
For example if a commitee of Scientists told me they were going to shoot atomic bombs into the Sun to create a black hole in order to save mankind I would most likley say "You know guys... That sounds like a bad idea, but since you're the experts and had decades of experience on the subject I'll agree to it."
To tell you the truth I can't really think of one example of a bad mess that actual Scientists have gotten us in. Well there was the Atomic bomb, but scientists created that on the request of the military and the military deployed it. Not the scientists and I don't recall having to stay in a Fallout shelter so apparently we haven't really made a mistake with that technology.
I think regular mankind (myself included) likes to fear the possibilities of global disasters caused by science. So as far as much I can tell, all scientific evils were always sponsored by evil political groups and evil governments and not some lone mad scientist bent on world domination.
Perhaps patents should be only allowed to be owned by individuals. No corporations or not individual entity and a distinct clause that you cannot force the invidual to sign an exclusive rights to the patent away to the company.
In a sense the invidual could then license the patent to other companies without retribution spreading innovation without legal restrictions.
That or it might be easier to request a physical prototype and not on paper like the olden days.
One of the big things mentioned on Paradox Interactive Forums (a Sweedish Game Company) is that you can have Swastikas on media of "artistic nature" and video games are not considered art. It's really not that big of deal. Just swap it out with the old Prussian Tricolors or Iron cross.
In France I don't think they allow it even in art.
Do they have the Inspector Gadget shoe phone? If so, would we really want? It might cut down on phone use while driving...
Inspector Gadget had the hand phone where he pulled the antennae out of his thumb and spoke into his pinky. It was a little spiraly thing if I remember correctly. "Get Smart" had the shoe phone.
I will have to say this... This might be off topic though.
Earthlink (or should I say old Mindspring) used to be one of the best corporations out there, but before I quit in 2003, it had turned into one that I pitied every single customer I talked to.
Yes they had made some inter-corporate changes that seemed to be fairly poor (but I've worked for worse companies and worse PHBs), but I really pitied the customers as they called in.
So many issues of hodged podged equipment patched together.
But things might have changed equipment wise, but I think they are more corporate than ever. That said, I would not recommend Earthlink to anyone (go Covad people!) even with these new technologies, but it might be that I am jaded over the whole Charles Brewer leaving the company and layoff issue. And no... I quit before they closed our call center to pursue better jobs. If they are doing this like the past roll outs, it will be done in peicemail with no prior training or notification to the tech support or egineers and I bet there might be some employees of ELNK that might find out about this from this news post.
I could go on about horror stories about Early Termination Fee's and making customer go out with step ladders and extention cords to the NIC on the side of their house to prove to us that they indeed did not have a DSL signal before we would send the Telco out to look at it.
I can also type "bastard" with one hand on Qwerty keyboard.
I have always found that useful when I am eating with my fingers and having IRC conversations. However, I wouldn't mind a keyboard more curse words for the right hand so I could keep my mouse hand food free and still be able to hold conversations.
...if Lake Vostok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok were to melt then we might get either supersaturated with oxygen or some 400,000 year old bacteria. But considering Vostok's is the coldest place on Earth it would take a great deal of global warming.
No one can agree on anything in the science field when it comes to this planet. Earth is more complex than anyone can comprehend or understand, it will outlast humans by a long shot, nothing we will do will kill it.
Give me a 10 trillion dollar budget, a 100 megaton nuclear bomb, and very large drill and I think I can prove you wrong. Mind you, the 10 trillion dollars are for living quarters on Mars.
You do realize that in the time you spent to write this post on Slashdot, you could have corrected it yourself on Wiki.
Actually, that feature is great for proving points. If link something on wiki right as you have changed it and the other person looks at it before the angry masses revert it back then they will often concede your point without checking what time the information was edited and conclude that it was written by an authoritive source.
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...because you CAN'T change your finger print.
Hrmf! Telling me I can't change my finger prints?
*revs up the workbench sander*
I'll show you! ARRRGGHHASDFWDasdfsdaf12~!!!
sea i cntoo chadnfge my ow ow ow fignr prnits ow ow
Let's see...
Best case for a startup = Earn millions.
Best case for a normal corporate job = Earn average cubicle wage and maybe get an ok 401K plan.
Worse case for a startup = Get laid off after company goes bust.
Worse case for normal corporate job = Get laid off anyways because the CEO needed to appease the stockholders.
I think it's a pretty clear choice.
You show equal ignorance by using "Americans" which applys to anyone in the western hemisphere seeing as how everyone there is in "the Americas". So stop wasting your breath.
Actually, for some reason I do recall that the term "American" was implied (since my childhood by otheer Americans) to mean only those born in the US of A. Maybe I was just educated stupid just like all the other Americans... Oh wait...
CAN-SPAM legalized spam by giving bulk advertisers permission to send junk e-mail as long as they followed certain rules
So um... If they are following a standard set of rules, then logic seems to tell me that someone isn't apply their server side rules to full effect. No?
You know, if I ever meet you in a fox hole in Tehran fighting Chinese soldiers around 2007, I'm going to enjoy saying "I told you so".
A disgusting bunch of hemp-smoking teenage commie fucktards.
Please keep from describing communists as hippies and vice versa!
Us communists like to keep our hair short and wear uniforms. We also shoot people who do drugs! If feeding people was our main concern we spend more money on food than our great people's army. (Which we are going to smite you with if you dare make fun of our Dear Leader again!)
Please get your facts straight!
-signed
The People's Moderator
Umm... If I am discussing something on the internet with someone and they ask me: "What does 'lol' mean?" I can safely assume that they are a internet newbie or just having had many internet discussions.
Doesn't mean they are a dumb person... It means they can't speak "internet" yet.
Like it or not there is a second language on the internet much like there is American English and British English. (Whats the different between a bar and pub anyways?)
Language evolves for the situation (take the military for example and many certain industries).
Ever hear Brokers or Lawyers talk amoung themselves? It's foreign to me and they a great of 3 letter acronyms.
Now put with in a room with another "computer" person and we'll be throwing around things no one else will understand. (Or any MMOG or AD&D player with HP, MP, and AC)
I'm sorry but in "shop talk" we use three letter words and in a large corporation we worked for we had a second language to describe issue. "So you took your DSL to the NID to check the synch? Ok we need to TNF this so they won't get an ETF."
And that is spoken conversation... Not typed.
I refuse to believe that in a forum computer geeks that we are not allowed to use "shop talk" and "internet language". It's like telling the Military they can't use their Acronyms when they are going out to public bars.
And if you don't know what NSFW is then you sir have not used the internet very much.
But everyone knows that geeks know everything about business, and the PHBs are the ones who destroy business! How could all these big geek corps go out of business? I blame Bill Gates and George Bush.
Truth be told, most of the geeks sold their businesses for millions of dollars to PHBs who then proceeded to destroy said business.
Also, keep in mind that "opposed" simply means they fought them.
Nanjing was an attrocity against an occupied city of civilians and not a major battle against Nationalist or Communist Chinese forces. Otherwise it wouldn't have been called "the rape".
Perhaps you should read up on the Sino-Japanese War. Sure Japan occupied a great deal of China... Well so did Germany occupy a great deal of Russia, but neither China nor Russia were totally defeated (Tibet is a poor example because they were defeated unconditioanlly). In most occupied territories of China the Japanese, had a hard time with resistance as well.
*DISCLAIMER* I am not a historian, but a few things bother me about this post since I tend to study this time frame.
We could have dominated the world, and who would have opposed us?
Quite a few people. I agree the America was most generous and possibly the most moral country that once ever existed (until maybe the 21st century), but...
The peasantry of China?
They opposed 2 million Japanese troops since 1927 with nothing but militias. The Chinese handed us our rears in Korean War
The decimated demoralized Soviets?
Stalin dictated the post war terms directly through Molotov to the Allies. The Allies agreed to every term! The Soviets had almost 10,000,000 troops in the field with more factories and tanks than us to boot and millions of readily available free slave labor (German Pow's, Ukranian Freedom Fighters, and Russian dissidents in gulags... not to mention the Soviet People themselves). The Red Army was inefficient, but it was far from being defeated. They would scoff at the poor quality of US tanks that the Americans sent them as aid and nick named them coffins compared to super IS-2 tanks that could knock out Tiger tanks with ease much less a thinly armored Sherman tank. He mostly lacked a Navy and Atomic bombs. Had he not died in 53, it was speculated he was gearing up for a war with the US.
Once the Soviets had the bomb in 1947, America did not have that option to dominate the world even if they wanted to. That's only two years. Mind you that General MacArthur bemoaned on the state of the military by the Korean War.
Great as America was, it's military might was not really as great then as it was and is since the 1970's as it was tested in the Vietnam war. Of course the prevailing thought at the time was that there was no need for a standing army since the US could defend itself with the Bomb.
Not to say America has great freedoms, but neither was it a lone super power until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.
However China is slowly catching up...
However, when traveling to another country you must RESPECT that country. You are a guest, just as your a guest in someone's home. Failure to obey the rules of that country is rude, inconsiderate and frankly, you deserve whatever punishment is given for violations.
Unless of course I bring along 500,000 of my buddies armed with the latest anti-personnel technology, then all bets are off.
(And no, this isn't a jab at the US in Iraq but a realist statement of history and warfare between foreign powers in general. Kind of like how it's wrong to kill a man unless you have the go ahead from your society, government, or religion. It's just Ironic.)
I think what the parent is trying to say Engineers != Scientists.
I consider myself and engineer and a master of my domain, but I will freely admit I know nothing about advanced Physics, Biology, and Quantum Mechanics.
For example if a commitee of Scientists told me they were going to shoot atomic bombs into the Sun to create a black hole in order to save mankind I would most likley say "You know guys... That sounds like a bad idea, but since you're the experts and had decades of experience on the subject I'll agree to it."
To tell you the truth I can't really think of one example of a bad mess that actual Scientists have gotten us in. Well there was the Atomic bomb, but scientists created that on the request of the military and the military deployed it. Not the scientists and I don't recall having to stay in a Fallout shelter so apparently we haven't really made a mistake with that technology.
I think regular mankind (myself included) likes to fear the possibilities of global disasters caused by science. So as far as much I can tell, all scientific evils were always sponsored by evil political groups and evil governments and not some lone mad scientist bent on world domination.
Perhaps patents should be only allowed to be owned by individuals. No corporations or not individual entity and a distinct clause that you cannot force the invidual to sign an exclusive rights to the patent away to the company.
In a sense the invidual could then license the patent to other companies without retribution spreading innovation without legal restrictions.
That or it might be easier to request a physical prototype and not on paper like the olden days.
You forgot Hearts of Iron 1 and 2 http://www.paradoxplaza.com/heartsofiron2.asp
It was mostly over the fact of the Nationalist Chinese see as a different country than Communist China.
One of the big things mentioned on Paradox Interactive Forums (a Sweedish Game Company) is that you can have Swastikas on media of "artistic nature" and video games are not considered art. It's really not that big of deal. Just swap it out with the old Prussian Tricolors or Iron cross.
In France I don't think they allow it even in art.
Do they have the Inspector Gadget shoe phone? If so, would we really want? It might cut down on phone use while driving...
Inspector Gadget had the hand phone where he pulled the antennae out of his thumb and spoke into his pinky. It was a little spiraly thing if I remember correctly. "Get Smart" had the shoe phone.
Maybe that's because that's all Americans need?
No, because obviously Americans have to be told what they need. The man on the magic picture box in my living room said so!
I will have to say this... This might be off topic though.
Earthlink (or should I say old Mindspring) used to be one of the best corporations out there, but before I quit in 2003, it had turned into one that I pitied every single customer I talked to.
Yes they had made some inter-corporate changes that seemed to be fairly poor (but I've worked for worse companies and worse PHBs), but I really pitied the customers as they called in.
So many issues of hodged podged equipment patched together.
But things might have changed equipment wise, but I think they are more corporate than ever. That said, I would not recommend Earthlink to anyone (go Covad people!) even with these new technologies, but it might be that I am jaded over the whole Charles Brewer leaving the company and layoff issue. And no... I quit before they closed our call center to pursue better jobs. If they are doing this like the past roll outs, it will be done in peicemail with no prior training or notification to the tech support or egineers and I bet there might be some employees of ELNK that might find out about this from this news post.
I could go on about horror stories about Early Termination Fee's and making customer go out with step ladders and extention cords to the NIC on the side of their house to prove to us that they indeed did not have a DSL signal before we would send the Telco out to look at it.
Damn I miss the mom and pop ISP days...
I can also type "bastard" with one hand on Qwerty keyboard.
I have always found that useful when I am eating with my fingers and having IRC conversations. However, I wouldn't mind a keyboard more curse words for the right hand so I could keep my mouse hand food free and still be able to hold conversations.
...if Lake Vostok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok were to melt then we might get either supersaturated with oxygen or some 400,000 year old bacteria. But considering Vostok's is the coldest place on Earth it would take a great deal of global warming.
Or a little too curious scientist.
No one can agree on anything in the science field when it comes to this planet. Earth is more complex than anyone can comprehend or understand, it will outlast humans by a long shot, nothing we will do will kill it. Give me a 10 trillion dollar budget, a 100 megaton nuclear bomb, and very large drill and I think I can prove you wrong. Mind you, the 10 trillion dollars are for living quarters on Mars.
I think the whole complex issue can be summed up in the followed sentence:
DRM does not stop piracy and only causes irritation for legitimate users.
Because the number of Universes with intelligent life is extremely small compared to the number of universes that actually have no life at all.
And that is life that has been able to survive long enough to build said wormhole device or wanted to.
If you think about it, we are actually a fluke.
Why not just build a bunch of worm holes and suck matter all into one spot like one of those black hole thingies? Oh wait...
Somebody needs to correct that entry.
You do realize that in the time you spent to write this post on Slashdot, you could have corrected it yourself on Wiki.
Actually, that feature is great for proving points. If link something on wiki right as you have changed it and the other person looks at it before the angry masses revert it back then they will often concede your point without checking what time the information was edited and conclude that it was written by an authoritive source.