I'm still certain that their intention is not profit but control of their industry and that they will fight tooth and nail not to get profit but to hurt anyone who opposes them and their goals.
Someone should explain to them that while their time might be as valuable as $1000/hr or more, the common folk are not that way, so when they do stuff like this they're not even causing that much distress to the people who frustrate them.
Shouldn't there be a term for something like this? Like malicious prosecution? (or if that's taken, litigious assault) I mean these guys are literally picking up the judicial branch of the US and wielding it as a weapon against people who do not know of their rights. That's wrong and against the spirit of the law whether or not the law allows it.
With Guild Wars 2 on the horizon, I find myself extremely hyped up because GW 1 was way better than my first expectations were of it and has always been one of my favorite games. At work I found myself having trouble concentrating what with my allergies, pollen season, the very cold office (It's summer in Texas, I shouldn't have to have a coat!), and other problems, this just made it really hard to get work done.
Twitter gave me the option of getting instant text messages as soon as new information was released about the game, so I could scratch that off my list of worries.
Like any other tool it has its uses and shouldn't be used as a tool for everything.
fyi, I skipped breakfast this morning.
Actually it might be better. Imagine, if a show didn't have to worry about censorship, warning labels, or the esrb or any of the federal agencies that keep the airwaves "clean".
There might someday be a porno with an actual good plot.
Would be kinda naive of us to dismiss the idea that people would want to see that.
Dude you obviously are not a programmer.
Every goddamned program out there is capable of annihilating humanity and no matter who designed it, the error is inevitably going to be blamed on you until you fix it.
but seriously, we heard "never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity" record numbers of times over eight years. That statement doesn't hold any water anymore. It's an excuse to be as malicious as possible and to never be held accountable for anything you do, especially if it was intentional. After all, no matter what happens, you can always claim you're older and wiser AFTER THE FACT.
"They're all criminals, they should all pay."
Including Steve Jobs, the guy who created his own 'police force' and raided a guy's house because the guy pissed him off?
Welcome to the new double-plus-good future, where everything is owned by Apple.
I fail to understand your question. What could not be fun about a fully realistic simulation of the inner workings of the reproductive system of the Liturgusidae?
Politics is a sin, and those who practice it should be forced to repent. If only it were illegal - then only criminals would be politicians. Oh, wait...
I don't think it was about "safe".
It's a sad but safe bet that the airlines weren't worried about people dying, but rather worried about them suddenly becoming litigious hypochondriacs.
Very likely that at least one person would claim that the volcanic ash gave them a horrible disease or whatever, and then, well...
Let's just say it's a good thing those planes stayed on the ground.
Totally going to have to have one of these with a field of stars moving in one direction, like the windows on a starship in Trek.
I wonder how many of these you could have synched up.
You could turn your house into a starship.
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Not to argue his point for him, (since I do not believe the command line has anything to do with it) but... There are plenty of people who wouldn't churn their own butter, even if it was easier, cheaper, and/or faster than buying it store-bought. I think your analogy is flawed; people really do expect alternate forms of controlling their o/s, be it mouse, voice, touchpad, or ddr dance pad. It's unwise to ignore those market forces.
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I'm still certain that their intention is not profit but control of their industry and that they will fight tooth and nail not to get profit but to hurt anyone who opposes them and their goals.
Someone should explain to them that while their time might be as valuable as $1000/hr or more, the common folk are not that way, so when they do stuff like this they're not even causing that much distress to the people who frustrate them.
Shouldn't there be a term for something like this? Like malicious prosecution? (or if that's taken, litigious assault) I mean these guys are literally picking up the judicial branch of the US and wielding it as a weapon against people who do not know of their rights. That's wrong and against the spirit of the law whether or not the law allows it.
With Guild Wars 2 on the horizon, I find myself extremely hyped up because GW 1 was way better than my first expectations were of it and has always been one of my favorite games. At work I found myself having trouble concentrating what with my allergies, pollen season, the very cold office (It's summer in Texas, I shouldn't have to have a coat!), and other problems, this just made it really hard to get work done.
Twitter gave me the option of getting instant text messages as soon as new information was released about the game, so I could scratch that off my list of worries.
Like any other tool it has its uses and shouldn't be used as a tool for everything.
fyi, I skipped breakfast this morning.
Actually it might be better. Imagine, if a show didn't have to worry about censorship, warning labels, or the esrb or any of the federal agencies that keep the airwaves "clean".
There might someday be a porno with an actual good plot.
Would be kinda naive of us to dismiss the idea that people would want to see that.
Huh?
Oh, a car analogy. I get it!
Dude you obviously are not a programmer.
Every goddamned program out there is capable of annihilating humanity and no matter who designed it, the error is inevitably going to be blamed on you until you fix it.
I can confirm that this is true.
There is at LEAST an equal amount of planet Earth underneath Nevada as there is underneath Saudi Arabia.
Yeah, like that oil spill.
No, because inflation would render those nickels worthless.
And he was right.
How about "only a sith deals in absolutes"?
but seriously, we heard "never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity" record numbers of times over eight years. That statement doesn't hold any water anymore. It's an excuse to be as malicious as possible and to never be held accountable for anything you do, especially if it was intentional. After all, no matter what happens, you can always claim you're older and wiser AFTER THE FACT.
"I'm surprised we haven't seen a much faster rise in malware for unlocked phones in the last few years."
The room does not become empty when you close your eyes.
- Quote mangled from a joke taken from the Jargon File.
I have discovered a flaw in their request:
If the rocket flies back, it did not blow up. Is this desired?
No, that's just what they want you to think.
Censorship is fucking obscene.
"They're all criminals, they should all pay."
Including Steve Jobs, the guy who created his own 'police force' and raided a guy's house because the guy pissed him off?
Welcome to the new double-plus-good future, where everything is owned by Apple.
I fail to understand your question. What could not be fun about a fully realistic simulation of the inner workings of the reproductive system of the Liturgusidae?
They had trouble counting each other.
Slashdotocracy.
Politics is a sin, and those who practice it should be forced to repent. If only it were illegal - then only criminals would be politicians. Oh, wait...
We're now one step closer to... Wait for it...
Shark troops! Heh heh heh.
These are the first full science results, because the previous results were half-science, half-magic.
I don't think it was about "safe".
It's a sad but safe bet that the airlines weren't worried about people dying, but rather worried about them suddenly becoming litigious hypochondriacs.
Very likely that at least one person would claim that the volcanic ash gave them a horrible disease or whatever, and then, well...
Let's just say it's a good thing those planes stayed on the ground.
Totally going to have to have one of these with a field of stars moving in one direction, like the windows on a starship in Trek. I wonder how many of these you could have synched up. You could turn your house into a starship.
Not to argue his point for him, (since I do not believe the command line has anything to do with it) but... There are plenty of people who wouldn't churn their own butter, even if it was easier, cheaper, and/or faster than buying it store-bought. I think your analogy is flawed; people really do expect alternate forms of controlling their o/s, be it mouse, voice, touchpad, or ddr dance pad. It's unwise to ignore those market forces.
No way you could run Ubuntu on a dime. Dimes have no cpu, no video card, no ram. And where would you insert the liveCD?