But how do the victims of the bullies handle anger and frustration? Some will have their own, non-violent, outlets, others will become bullies themselves, but the rest will keep that anger inside. When it becomes too much to bear, they might only have a single model for how to deal with it - taking out the "weak." But instead of using their fists, they'll use their brain and be *far* more dangerous.
When I was in Jr. High I was bullied a lot. This is probably because I was the one always wrecking grading curves, the one that stood out from everyone else. See, I was tall. Not just a little tall, but 6' tall in 7th grade. I took the poundings for a couple years, just letting it all absorb.
In the 9th grade I snapped. I think I realized that I was letting people dumber and smaller than me take advantage of me. I can still remember the crowd that formed when I decided to lay waste to the unfortunate bully that happened to be there when I realized this. I think the entire school was in shock, but I didn't get in any trouble. Now I look back and think that maybe some administrator was just waiting for this to happen.
The moral (or anti-moral) is that sometimes snapping and going ballistic on the bullies seems to be accepted, as long as you do it "their way." Luckily I was smart enough to not get a gun, or a bomb, or something equally permanent.
A side thought, does this remind anyone of "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand? I know that if I had a say in it back when I was in school, I would have preferred to been homeschooled away from the brutes around me. What would happen to the public school system if all the brains just left?
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Hear Hear! I have a hugeass MP3 collection, almost entirely ripped from CDs I own (over 300). I only deal in full albums, and probably 80% of the time when I get something in MP3 form that I don't have on CD, I will go buy the CD. For example, the new Primus album. I heard the single on the radio. I like old Primus, but not their new stuff. I found the MP3s of the album on Napster, downloaded it, listened to it, and liked what I heard. Next afternoon I went down to Hastings and bought the album. Not only because of the single from the radio, but because of some of the other tracks that I would never have heard (not pop single material) had I not downloaded the MP3s.
When I read the byline "Deety-I-frag-you-three-times" or whatever I just had to smile, knowing that someone else out there enjoys good science fiction as much as I do:)
Although I might carry it around a little, I think that my primary use for this would be as a component to my shelf stereo. It does have an A/C adapter, which means I can play all 100CDs worth of music in a row if I want.
Actually JFK's quote was "Ich bin ein Berliner." He was using the American way of adding -er to a word to mean from there, like "New Yorker". However, this didn't go over well, because he didn't know that a berliner in german is a jelly doughnut. I am sure he would have caught it had he been giving the speech in Frankfurt though.:)
From what I gathered from the article, that is backwards. The Xing key was cracked, as were a bunch of others by process of deduction, from knowing the Xing key. This means that future DVDs produced won't have those keys on the discs, meaning that old players won't be able to play new DVDs. The question then is, what about people who have hardware DVD players with keys that got compromised? Will there be a recall/exchange, some sort of flash upgrade, or are they SOL?
Actually, that Voyager episode with the Borg Queen first aired during the last season. I don't know the exact date, but it was even after Insurrection came to the theatres. The Borg do have time travel. Maybe First Contact is in the future of that Voyager episode. Maybe that was a clone. Maybe that was another queen. Who knows. Just think of it as entertainment.
>> The real way to "fix" this is to get the laws change, which likely won't happen because lawyers are predominantly the ones who are making the laws.
I see a solution coming sometime in the next 100 years. It's called revolution. I honestly think that there will be some form of national revolution in the USA, and when that happens, the victors can change all the laws they want.
I for one would love to get this. I wouldn't take it jogging or running or anything, I simply want something that I can listen to wherever I go, be it at home, work, in my bed, at my friends house, etc. I am assuming it will also have an AC adapter, which would probably be used in mine 75% of the time, same as my discman.
And 4.7GB or whatever is plenty of space for me, I could throw my entire Metallica, KMFDM, NIN album collections on there and have 2.5GB free for other stuff:)
I believe that Nova did a 1-hour documentary on Cliff Stoll and the Cuckoo's Egg story. I personally thought it was fascinating, because it showed how a "real" sysadmin went about finding a cracker. They didn't spruce it up at all, they used all the real people, basically recreating the story (from Cliff's wacky perspective).
the cards could drop in value if the company started printing rare cards en masse. But if this happened, people would be suing the company left and right on the pretext that the company knew that they would be devaluing the cards.
It was something like this that got me out of the M:TG market a few years ago. If I remember correctly, WotC released a new expansion that reprinted tons of the old cards from previous expansions, and the value of those old cards dropped like a stone. My previously $2000 collection of M:TG was instantly worth about $500. I got out while the getting was good, as I think WotC continued reprinting and instituting tournament rules that made the old cards useless for most players (who play based on tourney rules).
I don't recall any lawsuits over this, just lots of grumbling, and lots of people getting out of the game. I think that it was one of the worst decisions WotC made, and led to the general reduction of interest in M:TG nowadays.
Now, just out of curiosity, who out there DIDN'T have their SSN as their student ID in college?
At Washington State University, ID numbers are an 8 digit number, with the first two digits being significant in that they are increased each year. The assumption is that a student 100 years ago isn't gonna need their SID anymore. As far as I can tell, my insignificant 6 digits are completely unrelated to my SSN, I believe they are incremental throughout a year of issue, but they could be random, I just dunno.
I did work in the computer labs at WSU, and had to interact with several school databases. The SID is used as the PK for almost everything, so for a lab worker, getting someones SID gets you all their personal data (except SSN).
Similar situation here. I sold a Canopus Pure3D-II (Voodoo2) that I bought refurbished for 150% of what I paid for it, at a time that better tech (TNT) was out for cheaper. Blew my mind, but happily padded my wallet:)
Believe it or not, there are people selling their ICQ UIN#/pw on eBay, starting at $50 for numbers in the 1million range. I talked to one of them, who styles himself as a broker of numbers, asking him what my # (103792) would be worth, he said he'd pay me $450 for it, and could probably auction it for $750. The things people would bid on...
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But how do the victims of the bullies handle anger and frustration? Some will have their own, non-violent, outlets, others will become bullies themselves, but the rest will keep that anger inside. When it becomes too much to bear, they might only have a single model for how to deal with it - taking out the "weak." But instead of using their fists, they'll use their brain and be *far* more dangerous.
When I was in Jr. High I was bullied a lot. This is probably because I was the one always wrecking grading curves, the one that stood out from everyone else. See, I was tall. Not just a little tall, but 6' tall in 7th grade. I took the poundings for a couple years, just letting it all absorb.
In the 9th grade I snapped. I think I realized that I was letting people dumber and smaller than me take advantage of me. I can still remember the crowd that formed when I decided to lay waste to the unfortunate bully that happened to be there when I realized this. I think the entire school was in shock, but I didn't get in any trouble. Now I look back and think that maybe some administrator was just waiting for this to happen.
The moral (or anti-moral) is that sometimes snapping and going ballistic on the bullies seems to be accepted, as long as you do it "their way." Luckily I was smart enough to not get a gun, or a bomb, or something equally permanent.
A side thought, does this remind anyone of "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand? I know that if I had a say in it back when I was in school, I would have preferred to been homeschooled away from the brutes around me. What would happen to the public school system if all the brains just left?
Hear Hear! I have a hugeass MP3 collection, almost entirely ripped from CDs I own (over 300). I only deal in full albums, and probably 80% of the time when I get something in MP3 form that I don't have on CD, I will go buy the CD. For example, the new Primus album. I heard the single on the radio. I like old Primus, but not their new stuff. I found the MP3s of the album on Napster, downloaded it, listened to it, and liked what I heard. Next afternoon I went down to Hastings and bought the album. Not only because of the single from the radio, but because of some of the other tracks that I would never have heard (not pop single material) had I not downloaded the MP3s.
When I read the byline "Deety-I-frag-you-three-times" or whatever I just had to smile, knowing that someone else out there enjoys good science fiction as much as I do :)
Unless you are a criminal, and quite a significant one, you have nothing to fear from the FBI.
Am I the only one that finds that statement scary? Was Martin Luther King Jr. a significant criminal?
Although I might carry it around a little, I think that my primary use for this would be as a component to my shelf stereo. It does have an A/C adapter, which means I can play all 100CDs worth of music in a row if I want.
Actually JFK's quote was "Ich bin ein Berliner." He was using the American way of adding -er to a word to mean from there, like "New Yorker". However, this didn't go over well, because he didn't know that a berliner in german is a jelly doughnut. I am sure he would have caught it had he been giving the speech in Frankfurt though. :)
From what I gathered from the article, that is backwards. The Xing key was cracked, as were a bunch of others by process of deduction, from knowing the Xing key. This means that future DVDs produced won't have those keys on the discs, meaning that old players won't be able to play new DVDs. The question then is, what about people who have hardware DVD players with keys that got compromised? Will there be a recall/exchange, some sort of flash upgrade, or are they SOL?
Actually, that Voyager episode with the Borg Queen first aired during the last season. I don't know the exact date, but it was even after Insurrection came to the theatres. The Borg do have time travel. Maybe First Contact is in the future of that Voyager episode. Maybe that was a clone. Maybe that was another queen. Who knows. Just think of it as entertainment.
>> The real way to "fix" this is to get the laws change, which likely won't happen because lawyers are predominantly the ones who are making the laws.
I see a solution coming sometime in the next 100 years. It's called revolution. I honestly think that there will be some form of national revolution in the USA, and when that happens, the victors can change all the laws they want.
I don't have anything really to say, I just wanted to extend the cascade :)
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I for one would love to get this. I wouldn't take it jogging or running or anything, I simply want something that I can listen to wherever I go, be it at home, work, in my bed, at my friends house, etc. I am assuming it will also have an AC adapter, which would probably be used in mine 75% of the time, same as my discman.
:)
And 4.7GB or whatever is plenty of space for me, I could throw my entire Metallica, KMFDM, NIN album collections on there and have 2.5GB free for other stuff
I believe that Nova did a 1-hour documentary on Cliff Stoll and the Cuckoo's Egg story. I personally thought it was fascinating, because it showed how a "real" sysadmin went about finding a cracker. They didn't spruce it up at all, they used all the real people, basically recreating the story (from Cliff's wacky perspective).
the cards could drop in value if the company started printing rare cards en masse. But if this happened, people would be suing the company left and right on the pretext that the company knew that they would be devaluing the cards.
It was something like this that got me out of the M:TG market a few years ago. If I remember correctly, WotC released a new expansion that reprinted tons of the old cards from previous expansions, and the value of those old cards dropped like a stone. My previously $2000 collection of M:TG was instantly worth about $500. I got out while the getting was good, as I think WotC continued reprinting and instituting tournament rules that made the old cards useless for most players (who play based on tourney rules).
I don't recall any lawsuits over this, just lots of grumbling, and lots of people getting out of the game. I think that it was one of the worst decisions WotC made, and led to the general reduction of interest in M:TG nowadays.
Now, just out of curiosity, who out there DIDN'T have their SSN as their student ID in college?
At Washington State University, ID numbers are an 8 digit number, with the first two digits being significant in that they are increased each year. The assumption is that a student 100 years ago isn't gonna need their SID anymore. As far as I can tell, my insignificant 6 digits are completely unrelated to my SSN, I believe they are incremental throughout a year of issue, but they could be random, I just dunno.
I did work in the computer labs at WSU, and had to interact with several school databases. The SID is used as the PK for almost everything, so for a lab worker, getting someones SID gets you all their personal data (except SSN).
Similar situation here. I sold a Canopus Pure3D-II (Voodoo2) that I bought refurbished for 150% of what I paid for it, at a time that better tech (TNT) was out for cheaper. Blew my mind, but happily padded my wallet :)
Believe it or not, there are people selling their ICQ UIN#/pw on eBay, starting at $50 for numbers in the 1million range. I talked to one of them, who styles himself as a broker of numbers, asking him what my # (103792) would be worth, he said he'd pay me $450 for it, and could probably auction it for $750. The things people would bid on...