+1 for this. I find it ludicrous that I can legally purchase and download a song but not play it on certain devices because they can't play "protected content". I then have to go out and download a bootleg copy just to play it in my car (Microsoft Sync system). I don't feel the least bit bad about this "illegal" download since I've already paid for it and am simply getting it in a format I can actually use.
I was just thinking that all this would do would to be drum up business for the ISPs that opted to pay the fees instead of do anything more to combat piracy.
Don't worry about it. Despite popular opinion, not all us Christians are crazy, closed-minded, irrational, judgemental people. The ones who are... well, we can't really talk any sense into them either. Even about Biblical things. Anything contrary to the conclusion they've come to is ALL WRONG and they'll hear none of it. It's really quite frustrating at times, especially since we often all end up being tarred with the same brush in the mainstream.
Although, as a female./er, I'd like to point out that "finger" seems to be missing. Unless it's before "touch" and therefore out of sight, but that seems out of order.;)
Absolutely right. Which is just another feature of email--the fact you have the option of encryption--that sets it so far apart from Twitter, you can't possibly start comparing the two as the parent poster did.
As soon as Twitter is useful for sharing confidential business information, receiving bills and shipping information, having personal conversations with one other person or just a select group of people, and transferring attachments... then and only then can it be compared in any way to email.
...Why? I'm not being sarcastic, I want to hear your reasoning. If there's a safer, more efficient way to train the military to better protect themselves and us, why is that bad?
Haha. If I were creating a username today, I may not include that particular bit of information--I like when people get to know me without a bias:) It's what they called me around the campus I was working on at the time, though--"hey it's that IT girl"--since I was the only female in the department.
AC reply is right, kinda. I took the practice test and it said I was a shoo-in. The actual test was pretty much nothing like it, though. It was challenging, but I found it fun. I don't know how I did, just that I passed it (they don't give you a percentage-based grade or anything). It's definitely worth a shot; go for it!
I have the same problem. If I lived in a "tech town" that may be more possible. (I work for a tech company, but it's not really an area built around that demographic.) I've joined Mensa and go to the meetings/gatherings sometimes, but I find it's mostly people much older than I am. While I do get along with and enjoy the company of people 10-20 years older, this group is largely beyond even that. Plus, I don't get to go as regularly as I'd like, so they kind of have their own "clique" and it's a bit hard to break into. Oh well. I've always got the friends who live in my computer--LOL.
Tragically, this guy is right. I've always been more of the lone-wolf nerd than the social butterfly. I'd be happy working in my little corner all day, but I'm having issues moving onward and upward because of my lack of socializing. I think most people in here spend way too much time talking about their personal lives and bullshitting their time away instead of working. Oh, and kissing the boss's ass. Neither of those things come naturally to me, and my instinct is to cut through the crap and get things done efficiently. But unfortunately, that isn't how the corporate world works.
I'm struggling to overcome this so I can move into a position I enjoy more and where I make more money. Try to develop those habits now--just please, balance it with a good work ethic. Few things are worse than having to constantly pick up the slack for someone who's too busy with the socializing to do their job--especially when the boss hardly ever acknowledges the work except to occasionally say thanks to the 'team' and doesn't notice what's going on.
Oops, the bitterness is starting to leak through. Time for me to STFU;)
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But of course. You are a benign, altruistic, father-like entity only looking out for the best interest of the people...
+1 for this. I find it ludicrous that I can legally purchase and download a song but not play it on certain devices because they can't play "protected content". I then have to go out and download a bootleg copy just to play it in my car (Microsoft Sync system). I don't feel the least bit bad about this "illegal" download since I've already paid for it and am simply getting it in a format I can actually use.
I was just thinking that all this would do would to be drum up business for the ISPs that opted to pay the fees instead of do anything more to combat piracy.
So the label of age discrimination itself discriminates against people below a certain age... *head explodes*
No, you don't want any of that. It tastes terribly bitter.
However, this can be done by any average user in Windows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM
...LOL
You see what you want to see...
... I'm just sayin'. ;)
More screens = more simultaneous porn.
Yeah, that has the potential to be a complete disaster.
...a mass exodus of the male population of South Africa is beginning to occur.
Right, but that isn't what this post is about. Parent started in with a defense that wasn't provoked and I wasn't sure why.
Who, erm... who mentioned Windows? Maybe I missed something, but I just saw the news about Fedora 13.
Fair enough, point taken. I find it an odd comparison, but I can see what you're getting at.
Don't worry about it. Despite popular opinion, not all us Christians are crazy, closed-minded, irrational, judgemental people. The ones who are... well, we can't really talk any sense into them either. Even about Biblical things. Anything contrary to the conclusion they've come to is ALL WRONG and they'll hear none of it. It's really quite frustrating at times, especially since we often all end up being tarred with the same brush in the mainstream.
Although, as a female ./er, I'd like to point out that "finger" seems to be missing. Unless it's before "touch" and therefore out of sight, but that seems out of order. ;)
Absolutely right. Which is just another feature of email--the fact you have the option of encryption--that sets it so far apart from Twitter, you can't possibly start comparing the two as the parent poster did.
what the?? That last post was me... I must have accidentally clicked the "post anonymously" box. Bah, it's early.
Don't forget Start at the end!
(Select, Start if two people are going to be listening to the song.)
As soon as Twitter is useful for sharing confidential business information, receiving bills and shipping information, having personal conversations with one other person or just a select group of people, and transferring attachments... then and only then can it be compared in any way to email.
...Why?
I'm not being sarcastic, I want to hear your reasoning. If there's a safer, more efficient way to train the military to better protect themselves and us, why is that bad?
Haha. If I were creating a username today, I may not include that particular bit of information--I like when people get to know me without a bias :) It's what they called me around the campus I was working on at the time, though--"hey it's that IT girl"--since I was the only female in the department.
AC reply is right, kinda. I took the practice test and it said I was a shoo-in. The actual test was pretty much nothing like it, though. It was challenging, but I found it fun. I don't know how I did, just that I passed it (they don't give you a percentage-based grade or anything). It's definitely worth a shot; go for it!
I have the same problem. If I lived in a "tech town" that may be more possible. (I work for a tech company, but it's not really an area built around that demographic.) I've joined Mensa and go to the meetings/gatherings sometimes, but I find it's mostly people much older than I am. While I do get along with and enjoy the company of people 10-20 years older, this group is largely beyond even that. Plus, I don't get to go as regularly as I'd like, so they kind of have their own "clique" and it's a bit hard to break into.
Oh well. I've always got the friends who live in my computer--LOL.
Soylent Brown is... oh.
Tragically, this guy is right. I've always been more of the lone-wolf nerd than the social butterfly. I'd be happy working in my little corner all day, but I'm having issues moving onward and upward because of my lack of socializing. I think most people in here spend way too much time talking about their personal lives and bullshitting their time away instead of working. Oh, and kissing the boss's ass. Neither of those things come naturally to me, and my instinct is to cut through the crap and get things done efficiently. But unfortunately, that isn't how the corporate world works.
;)
I'm struggling to overcome this so I can move into a position I enjoy more and where I make more money. Try to develop those habits now--just please, balance it with a good work ethic. Few things are worse than having to constantly pick up the slack for someone who's too busy with the socializing to do their job--especially when the boss hardly ever acknowledges the work except to occasionally say thanks to the 'team' and doesn't notice what's going on.
Oops, the bitterness is starting to leak through. Time for me to STFU