I agree with Trumps decision. If you're not a US citizen you shouldn't benefit from US law. I also believe that U.S. citizenship should be earned... Not granted at birth. You should be required to serve the country in some way whether that be military service or some other.
China is our enemy. Mark my words... they will use the appetite of US cows (the 99% of our population that brainlessly consumes without thinking about where products come from) to grow ever more powerful as we become weaker, finally becoming subservient to them. Remember the commercial... Wal-Mart. Save Money. Finance Communism.
If motorists won't abide by the law, then enforce it through hardware. Built-in (vehicle-only-area) cellular jamming hardware could enforce cell-phone compliance while the vehicle is in motion. Only after being placed in park would the jamming device allow calls to be made. A signal on a seperate frequency could indicate an incoming call by chiming. The motorist would still have to stop the vehicle to actually take the call.
Every human being on the planet should be fingerprinted, retinal scanned and DNA sampled. If they've nothing to hide why should they object? Only scumbags with something to hide would want to remain in the shadows. Also, only those who have served their country in the military should have citizenship status and get the priviledges that offers (business and home ownership, drivers license, social security at retirement, etc). And automobiles should be required to have an alcohol detector so that they cannot be started if the driver has been drinking.
he believes that the 17-year-old defendant "had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever."
If someone as old as 17 doesn't understand this basic fact of life, then there's obviously something wrong that has nothing to do with the video game.
Exactly. Obviously if he values a video game or software program over the lives of another Human Being (let alone that of his mother and father) he is mentally and emotionally sick, as well as severely skewed from reality.
And it is indeed your right not to go. But I might suggest that if you need to be tethered to your device when you go to an amusement park with your family, friends, or alone, that you need to seriously consider whether your current career choice is more valuable to you than your own vacation or time off. Many people want too much in life, and suffer working too many hours to compensate. If owning the toys you really can live without is more important than quality time with your family, then you shouldn't have one. If you want a family, work enough to pay for a home, the vehicles you absolutely need to get you to work and the market, plus something for a movie or to eat out once a week, plus a nestegg, and be happy. If getting that boat (plus a truck large enough to haul it) or a couple four-wheelers and a truck and trailer is going to mean working weekends at the expense of your family time, then you really shouldn't have them. There is no reason a husband and wife shouldn't be able to support the necessities with just two $20,000 incomes. You can work at a convenience store in Maine, which has a lower per-capita income than most states, and bring that home.
Also, while on vibrate, do you answer your phone while in the theater, or do you exit and take/return the call in the lobby? You probably leave the theater. But many people open their phones right there and start holding a conversation. This is very rude, and the reason that banning is happening, and will get more confining as rudeness increases. Frankly, I'll be glad when some of these areas have localized interference set up so that no signal gets through . . . period.
1. It's not your park. It's owned and run by them. If you don't like it, don't go there.
2. The device is indeed your property just as your automobile is, but driving it is a priviledge, not a right. Too often people lose sight of that simple fact. Cellular users should be banned from using their devices while driving, in restaurants, theaters, EMR-sensitive zones within hospitals, etc. You're banned by law from driving within amusement parks, through hay fields, across airport runways, etc. Do you hear people complain about that? No. Why? Because it's common sense and shouldn't need debating.
Ditto here. I regularly check old diskettes I find at flee markets, and in attics, garages and basements, and 95% of them are readable in their entirety with no signs whatsoever of age. I even have some 8" floppies and reel of high-speed magnetic tape that still function as well as the day they were recorded on back in the 70's and early 80's. To those of you here at/. and abroad who are quick to put forward your "professional" opinion of this man's question, I say keep on spouting doom and gloom rather than admit that media typically lasts much longer than "experts" would have you believe. Or even better, keep your mouth shut if you really don't know what you're talking about. And yes, I do know what I'm talking about. I've worked as a computing professional since 1976, for colleges and such, while many if not most of you were in diapers.
If the top 1% in the telecommunications industry weren't sucking the life (read money) out of their respective corporations, they'd have the funds to upgrade the networks when that need arises. If, as a consumer, I'm sold a 1.5Mbps/384Kbps package, I should have every right to utilize 100% or that bandwidth, 100% of the time. No exceptions. If the telecommunications industry can't deliver on that, they shouldn't be running a corporation. Businesses should be 100% liable for honesty and deliver 100% of advertized services. If I walked into any store in these United States, saw a package containing 50 items for $29.95, and after taking my money I find out the package now contains only 27 items, you can damn well bet I'm gonna be in the right to get back the difference. Every breathing soul on this planet would expect the same. Just because we're talking about electrons and not gumballs has absolutely NO bearing on what we as consumers should be getting. I would expect the other "players" to send in comments defending Comcasts practices. Each of them either already uses similar methods themselves or plans to, and they can see the writing on the wall. Here's some writing for AT&T, Verizon, and everyone other service provider that is "with" Comcast . . . "Eat my Dick Mother-Fuckers!"
I sent several letters to my Representative(s), Senator(s) and Congress person(s) expressing concisely my feelings regarding why the telecom companies should NOT be granted retroactive immunity. The most important of these was the fact that no-one, person or corporation, should do anything based on the assumption of good faith. Corporations the size of AT&T retain hundreds of lawyers to advise them as to whether or not just such an action is or is not legal based on current United States law. Presently, those actions were and are illegal. But they did it anyway. I must therefore conclude that they were either threatened into complying with government demand, or they are simply "in bed with" the dark and seedy forces of our government that condone these illegal actions (read Bush administration). All I've yet to receive (of those that replied) were the usual standardized reply letters basically explaining why my opinion was opposite that of my government representatives, and that they were currently working hard to see that these corporations were given the immunity they deserved because they did what they did in good faith. Well excuse me . . . I thought our representatives in Washington worked for us, and aren't supposed to have their own oppinion unless We The People give them one. Boy, was I wrong. So much for getting involved in government affairs. The New World Order is here now. We have no names. We are nameless.
We need to nuke those slant-eyed yellow-skins back to the stone age where they belong. And while we're at it, disembowel anyone at Wal-Mart making more than $30,000 per year with a hot, dull butter knife for doing business with those chinks. That'll weed out the working folk employed there. Time to add some chlorine to the Chinese gene pool.
Did intelligence just take a nose-dive? Innovation results from accretion? The simple facts are that todays researchers/scientists simply specialize too much to gain the needed mental facility to achieve the "Eureka" moment. Once, long ago, people had to be knowledgeable in many diverse fields, and could mentally assemble innovative ideas, whereas today people focus on a single discipline, and almost never see a bigger picture. We've also forgotten how to daydream - an important ability in the creative process. It's sad. I myself am a student of multiple disciplines, master of none. Over the 44 years of my life thus far I have independantly conceived of several new devices, as well as alternative methods to transmit data, etc. I lack the desire to learn to network with others (I won't play that game, and so stay true to myself). I also lack any financial resources to see these innovations through to fruition. Because of these personal limitations, my ideas and inventions have either remained in my head or as notes scribbled on paper, while sometimes years later someone else has been able to successfully bring them to market. So keep trying to convince yourself that there are no true "Eureka" moments. There most certainly are.
A close source of mine, without coming right out with it, indicated that the Bush administration is responsible for the severed cables. When the time comes to run new cables, they will come complete with integrated hardware which will allow easier monitoring/tracking/decoding of sensitive communications, as well as the ability to remotely sever the lines in times of crisis.
Because kids are lame. They don't seek knowledge, they seek gratification of baser wants. And each generation of kids are lamer than the last. The food they eat is lame. The clothes they wre are lame. The way they socialize is lame. The music they listen to (if you wish to call it that) is lame. Their reasons for owning something like a cell phone or a computer are lame. I watched a film recently, where the IQ of the country continued to drop for couple hundred years until a couple (a prostitute, and an Army reject) thawed from cryogenic freeze to find that the entire country was as stupid as cows, and the Army reject was not the smartest man in the country. I sense that this is occurring as I type this, and it alarms me greatly. If the government could institute some sort of manditory birth control for any couple with less than a combined IQ of 250, stop importing smart bastards from other nations, cull the herd (add a little chlorine to the gene pool), and shut down the wellfare system, our country might still have a chance.
I would hope that the fag-fucks at Verizon were promptly kicked out the door to the curb without a severance package for making such a stupid decision. No wonder Verizon has sucked for so long . . . fuck-wads like these are making important decisions. Hell, anyone else on Earth could have been more prudent.
I'll tell you the reason at least one person (moi) didn't attempt Wal-Marts Movie Download Service beyond the first try . . . it didn't work with my non-IE browser (yes it's in the top three most popular). I expressed this concern to Wal-Mart through email, essentially stating that they should be producing web pages that adhere to W3C standards so that all browsers will work, and got back the standard auto-response. You know, the one that basically states, "We want it to work so we can take all your money and it doesn't, but we don't care if you know the reason it isn't, we'll keep doing it our way just the same." You know, that response.
Wow. The RIAA sounds an aweful lot like the propaganda spewed forth during our major wars. Fact is, when I put together a compilation CD for myself, a friend, a family member, or the girl I just pulled up beside in traffic, the lunch-counter waitress, the Wal-Mart associate, the filling station attendant, etc, etc, etc . . . they get a CD with all the audio goodness of an RIAA-sanctioned release. Gee, but how is that possible? Because contrary to their dogma, most copied music is very listenable . . . and a great percentage is indistinguishable from the original CD. I rip my tracks to an uncompressed lossless format and author them directly, rather than rip, convert to MP3 or some other lossy format, then the inevitable conversion back to a lossless format during the authoring (burning) process. Unfortunately, by then it's too late. It just goes to show, you can't trust what you see and hear on the nightly news. It's all spin brought to us by the richest, most powerful of this country with absolutely no vested interest in us, the consumer/citizen. So . . . fuck the fucking fuckers.
The Bush administration allowed the Iranian government access to the CPUs as part of several black ops that I have been privy to, thus insuring that when the time to attack grows near, the U.S. will have further proof that the Iranians have an advanced nuclear program. And why not? Bush is providing them with all the materials they need (computing and reactor components, etc).
Nanotech worries scientists more than the cows (general public) of our society because society is over-populated with idiots that either don't care about the world around them or unable to comprehend it. So, it's no shock to this amateur scientist.
We should cut the Internet backbones to those commie fuckers (China) and isolate their entire goddamn country from the rest of the world until they stop fucking around.
Instead of blocking those apps that use more bandwidth, those Comcast fascists need to spend some of the money we customers pay to improve the network. Fuck it if the shareholders only make $13,490.00 per hour instead of $17,436.00. We're more important than their salaries or dividends.
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I agree with Trumps decision. If you're not a US citizen you shouldn't benefit from US law. I also believe that U.S. citizenship should be earned... Not granted at birth. You should be required to serve the country in some way whether that be military service or some other.
China is our enemy. Mark my words... they will use the appetite of US cows (the 99% of our population that brainlessly consumes without thinking about where products come from) to grow ever more powerful as we become weaker, finally becoming subservient to them. Remember the commercial... Wal-Mart. Save Money. Finance Communism.
If motorists won't abide by the law, then enforce it through hardware. Built-in (vehicle-only-area) cellular jamming hardware could enforce cell-phone compliance while the vehicle is in motion. Only after being placed in park would the jamming device allow calls to be made. A signal on a seperate frequency could indicate an incoming call by chiming. The motorist would still have to stop the vehicle to actually take the call.
Every human being on the planet should be fingerprinted, retinal scanned and DNA sampled. If they've nothing to hide why should they object? Only scumbags with something to hide would want to remain in the shadows. Also, only those who have served their country in the military should have citizenship status and get the priviledges that offers (business and home ownership, drivers license, social security at retirement, etc). And automobiles should be required to have an alcohol detector so that they cannot be started if the driver has been drinking.
he believes that the 17-year-old defendant "had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever."
If someone as old as 17 doesn't understand this basic fact of life, then there's obviously something wrong that has nothing to do with the video game.
Exactly. Obviously if he values a video game or software program over the lives of another Human Being (let alone that of his mother and father) he is mentally and emotionally sick, as well as severely skewed from reality.
And it is indeed your right not to go. But I might suggest that if you need to be tethered to your device when you go to an amusement park with your family, friends, or alone, that you need to seriously consider whether your current career choice is more valuable to you than your own vacation or time off. Many people want too much in life, and suffer working too many hours to compensate. If owning the toys you really can live without is more important than quality time with your family, then you shouldn't have one. If you want a family, work enough to pay for a home, the vehicles you absolutely need to get you to work and the market, plus something for a movie or to eat out once a week, plus a nestegg, and be happy. If getting that boat (plus a truck large enough to haul it) or a couple four-wheelers and a truck and trailer is going to mean working weekends at the expense of your family time, then you really shouldn't have them. There is no reason a husband and wife shouldn't be able to support the necessities with just two $20,000 incomes. You can work at a convenience store in Maine, which has a lower per-capita income than most states, and bring that home. Also, while on vibrate, do you answer your phone while in the theater, or do you exit and take/return the call in the lobby? You probably leave the theater. But many people open their phones right there and start holding a conversation. This is very rude, and the reason that banning is happening, and will get more confining as rudeness increases. Frankly, I'll be glad when some of these areas have localized interference set up so that no signal gets through . . . period.
1. It's not your park. It's owned and run by them. If you don't like it, don't go there. 2. The device is indeed your property just as your automobile is, but driving it is a priviledge, not a right. Too often people lose sight of that simple fact. Cellular users should be banned from using their devices while driving, in restaurants, theaters, EMR-sensitive zones within hospitals, etc. You're banned by law from driving within amusement parks, through hay fields, across airport runways, etc. Do you hear people complain about that? No. Why? Because it's common sense and shouldn't need debating.
Ditto here. I regularly check old diskettes I find at flee markets, and in attics, garages and basements, and 95% of them are readable in their entirety with no signs whatsoever of age. I even have some 8" floppies and reel of high-speed magnetic tape that still function as well as the day they were recorded on back in the 70's and early 80's. To those of you here at /. and abroad who are quick to put forward your "professional" opinion of this man's question, I say keep on spouting doom and gloom rather than admit that media typically lasts much longer than "experts" would have you believe. Or even better, keep your mouth shut if you really don't know what you're talking about. And yes, I do know what I'm talking about. I've worked as a computing professional since 1976, for colleges and such, while many if not most of you were in diapers.
If the top 1% in the telecommunications industry weren't sucking the life (read money) out of their respective corporations, they'd have the funds to upgrade the networks when that need arises. If, as a consumer, I'm sold a 1.5Mbps/384Kbps package, I should have every right to utilize 100% or that bandwidth, 100% of the time. No exceptions. If the telecommunications industry can't deliver on that, they shouldn't be running a corporation. Businesses should be 100% liable for honesty and deliver 100% of advertized services. If I walked into any store in these United States, saw a package containing 50 items for $29.95, and after taking my money I find out the package now contains only 27 items, you can damn well bet I'm gonna be in the right to get back the difference. Every breathing soul on this planet would expect the same. Just because we're talking about electrons and not gumballs has absolutely NO bearing on what we as consumers should be getting. I would expect the other "players" to send in comments defending Comcasts practices. Each of them either already uses similar methods themselves or plans to, and they can see the writing on the wall. Here's some writing for AT&T, Verizon, and everyone other service provider that is "with" Comcast . . . "Eat my Dick Mother-Fuckers!"
I sent several letters to my Representative(s), Senator(s) and Congress person(s) expressing concisely my feelings regarding why the telecom companies should NOT be granted retroactive immunity. The most important of these was the fact that no-one, person or corporation, should do anything based on the assumption of good faith. Corporations the size of AT&T retain hundreds of lawyers to advise them as to whether or not just such an action is or is not legal based on current United States law. Presently, those actions were and are illegal. But they did it anyway. I must therefore conclude that they were either threatened into complying with government demand, or they are simply "in bed with" the dark and seedy forces of our government that condone these illegal actions (read Bush administration). All I've yet to receive (of those that replied) were the usual standardized reply letters basically explaining why my opinion was opposite that of my government representatives, and that they were currently working hard to see that these corporations were given the immunity they deserved because they did what they did in good faith. Well excuse me . . . I thought our representatives in Washington worked for us, and aren't supposed to have their own oppinion unless We The People give them one. Boy, was I wrong. So much for getting involved in government affairs. The New World Order is here now. We have no names. We are nameless.
We need to nuke those slant-eyed yellow-skins back to the stone age where they belong. And while we're at it, disembowel anyone at Wal-Mart making more than $30,000 per year with a hot, dull butter knife for doing business with those chinks. That'll weed out the working folk employed there. Time to add some chlorine to the Chinese gene pool.
Did intelligence just take a nose-dive? Innovation results from accretion? The simple facts are that todays researchers/scientists simply specialize too much to gain the needed mental facility to achieve the "Eureka" moment. Once, long ago, people had to be knowledgeable in many diverse fields, and could mentally assemble innovative ideas, whereas today people focus on a single discipline, and almost never see a bigger picture. We've also forgotten how to daydream - an important ability in the creative process. It's sad. I myself am a student of multiple disciplines, master of none. Over the 44 years of my life thus far I have independantly conceived of several new devices, as well as alternative methods to transmit data, etc. I lack the desire to learn to network with others (I won't play that game, and so stay true to myself). I also lack any financial resources to see these innovations through to fruition. Because of these personal limitations, my ideas and inventions have either remained in my head or as notes scribbled on paper, while sometimes years later someone else has been able to successfully bring them to market. So keep trying to convince yourself that there are no true "Eureka" moments. There most certainly are.
A close source of mine, without coming right out with it, indicated that the Bush administration is responsible for the severed cables. When the time comes to run new cables, they will come complete with integrated hardware which will allow easier monitoring/tracking/decoding of sensitive communications, as well as the ability to remotely sever the lines in times of crisis.
Just a quick FYI: Acid doesn't melt anything, it dissolves them. Basic Science 101.
Because kids are lame. They don't seek knowledge, they seek gratification of baser wants. And each generation of kids are lamer than the last. The food they eat is lame. The clothes they wre are lame. The way they socialize is lame. The music they listen to (if you wish to call it that) is lame. Their reasons for owning something like a cell phone or a computer are lame. I watched a film recently, where the IQ of the country continued to drop for couple hundred years until a couple (a prostitute, and an Army reject) thawed from cryogenic freeze to find that the entire country was as stupid as cows, and the Army reject was not the smartest man in the country. I sense that this is occurring as I type this, and it alarms me greatly. If the government could institute some sort of manditory birth control for any couple with less than a combined IQ of 250, stop importing smart bastards from other nations, cull the herd (add a little chlorine to the gene pool), and shut down the wellfare system, our country might still have a chance.
Don't buy metal-clad laptops you dip-shits. Use your brain!
The Department of Homeland Security (Nazi's of America) can blow me.
I would hope that the fag-fucks at Verizon were promptly kicked out the door to the curb without a severance package for making such a stupid decision. No wonder Verizon has sucked for so long . . . fuck-wads like these are making important decisions. Hell, anyone else on Earth could have been more prudent.
I'll tell you the reason at least one person (moi) didn't attempt Wal-Marts Movie Download Service beyond the first try . . . it didn't work with my non-IE browser (yes it's in the top three most popular). I expressed this concern to Wal-Mart through email, essentially stating that they should be producing web pages that adhere to W3C standards so that all browsers will work, and got back the standard auto-response. You know, the one that basically states, "We want it to work so we can take all your money and it doesn't, but we don't care if you know the reason it isn't, we'll keep doing it our way just the same." You know, that response.
Wow. The RIAA sounds an aweful lot like the propaganda spewed forth during our major wars. Fact is, when I put together a compilation CD for myself, a friend, a family member, or the girl I just pulled up beside in traffic, the lunch-counter waitress, the Wal-Mart associate, the filling station attendant, etc, etc, etc . . . they get a CD with all the audio goodness of an RIAA-sanctioned release. Gee, but how is that possible? Because contrary to their dogma, most copied music is very listenable . . . and a great percentage is indistinguishable from the original CD. I rip my tracks to an uncompressed lossless format and author them directly, rather than rip, convert to MP3 or some other lossy format, then the inevitable conversion back to a lossless format during the authoring (burning) process. Unfortunately, by then it's too late. It just goes to show, you can't trust what you see and hear on the nightly news. It's all spin brought to us by the richest, most powerful of this country with absolutely no vested interest in us, the consumer/citizen. So . . . fuck the fucking fuckers.
The Bush administration allowed the Iranian government access to the CPUs as part of several black ops that I have been privy to, thus insuring that when the time to attack grows near, the U.S. will have further proof that the Iranians have an advanced nuclear program. And why not? Bush is providing them with all the materials they need (computing and reactor components, etc).
Nanotech worries scientists more than the cows (general public) of our society because society is over-populated with idiots that either don't care about the world around them or unable to comprehend it. So, it's no shock to this amateur scientist.
We should cut the Internet backbones to those commie fuckers (China) and isolate their entire goddamn country from the rest of the world until they stop fucking around.
What an ignorant dolt.
Instead of blocking those apps that use more bandwidth, those Comcast fascists need to spend some of the money we customers pay to improve the network. Fuck it if the shareholders only make $13,490.00 per hour instead of $17,436.00. We're more important than their salaries or dividends.