No the problem is that, without undeniable PROOF, no other cop or prosecutor would take the word of civilians over cops, irrespective of how many people "spoke out." Unless you have something tangible to give to the media (i.e., a video or at least a photo) no one in power would do a damn thing about it, no matter the number of witnesses.
You're right, they shouldn't be required to hire locally. The government, conversely shouldn't be giving them tax breaks, special immigration exemptions, bailouts, and all the other bits of corporate welfare that are regularly given to large corporations like this.
If you want to argue for the "free market" and the laissez-faire approach to letting businesses do whatever the hell they want to, then you had damn well better remember that it cuts BOTH ways. "Free market" also means no handouts.
They can keep all their little incremental security and interface updates. What use are a few little tweaks in IE8, when Firefox offers me add-ons like adblock plus, noscript, slashdotter, etc.? Besides, I can always open a site with IE Tab if I need to.
Firefox is even nice enough to spell check my form entries for me (it caught me misspelling "incremental" just now).
My worry is what the cop will do after he hears your phone click when you catch him beating the shit out of somebody. Makes it a little hard to conceal that you just caught him in action.
Considering that much of his work takes place in the near-future and focuses on the implications of technologies and technological issues which are extant even today (such as P2P, copyright issues, etc.), you must have a pretty stringent definition of "hard" science fiction to exclude him. He's one of the hardest science writers I'm familiar with. Even guys like Charles Stross are softer than that.
I'm not a big music fan, so I can't speak for the quality-to-sucking ratio of self published to studio music. But I suspect that the vast majority of self-published music out there is complete shit too. If you can't even get a small record company (or small publisher, or SOMEONE with at least a little clout) to support your work, odds are there is a good reason for it.
Plenty of geeks have written fiction in the past. Some of the best "hard" science fiction writers of today are geeks (Cory Doctorow comes immediately to mind, and there are plenty of physicists and engineers who've made fine writers too). Having said that, however, it must be noted that for every geek who is a great fiction writer, there are 99+ geeks who only THINK they're great fiction writers. And the number one rule of avoiding an author who only THINKS he can write is NEVER, NEVER, NEVER bother with a self-published book. Saying a book is self-published is a writer's way of saying "This book sucks ass and I have no dignity."
No, that was the PROBLEM. This guy probably started out as a "pimple-faced highschool kid dialing in with his VIC-Modem and Commodore 64" who got a job offer to go legitimate. So he went legitimate for a while, but his nature ultimately led him back to black hat work. The idea of hiring a black hat and turning him to a white hate sounds nice, but the reality is that you can never really trust someone like that not to go back to their old ways.
Remind me how Microsoft has EVER stopped me from downloading and installing whatever browser I damn well choose? Of the almost 15 years I've been on the web, I've only used IE for maybe three years of that (first Cello, then Netscape, then IE, then Firefox). And Windows never once gave me any hassle in downloading, installing, or using any of those.
Ha, since when have any computer makers REMOVED stuff? My problem isn't with the stuff MS bundles (that's fairly trivial), it's with all the crap-ware that companies like HP, Dell, etc. throw in ON TOP of that. That's where the REAL bloat comes from.
As for IE, I'm just fine with it. As a poster jokingly pointed out above (but made an actual insightful point), how else can you get to Mozilla's website and download Firefox if you don't have Internet Explorer installed?
It's a shame he's wasting such a cash cow on some old petty grudges. Even if MST3K couldn't get back on a network (and, considering the sheer number of networks now doing original programming, it seems like SOMEONE would pick it up), it would still clean up on DVD and the internet. Looking at Mallon's resume, it doesn't look like he's done anything in years.
It's sad that after all these years, these two groups still seem to harbor grudges. It's even more tragic because they all worked together for years before Joel left. You would think a bunch of middle-aged guys would have left this silly shit behind a long time ago.
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And anarchy ensued?
Obviously you're not my little brother.
I could look at any video of Muhammad Ali made in the last 20 years.
Yeah, I said "Addon" not "Skeevy looking third-party browser that probably has more viruses than Paris Hilton."
I lost my ReiserFS-formatted drive. It must be somewhere in Russia.
Ah, that's a bunch of crap. One of the most famous videogames of all time was produced in less than 6 weeks.
Sorry, I was talking about Microsoft's Internet Explorer, not some questionable third party browser.
I did a search and couldn't find any ad blockers. Can anyone provide a direct link?
If you're going to be a *real* writer, it's not enough to believe in yourself. You have to be good enough to get others to believe in you too.
No the problem is that, without undeniable PROOF, no other cop or prosecutor would take the word of civilians over cops, irrespective of how many people "spoke out." Unless you have something tangible to give to the media (i.e., a video or at least a photo) no one in power would do a damn thing about it, no matter the number of witnesses.
You're right, they shouldn't be required to hire locally. The government, conversely shouldn't be giving them tax breaks, special immigration exemptions, bailouts, and all the other bits of corporate welfare that are regularly given to large corporations like this.
If you want to argue for the "free market" and the laissez-faire approach to letting businesses do whatever the hell they want to, then you had damn well better remember that it cuts BOTH ways. "Free market" also means no handouts.
They can keep all their little incremental security and interface updates. What use are a few little tweaks in IE8, when Firefox offers me add-ons like adblock plus, noscript, slashdotter, etc.? Besides, I can always open a site with IE Tab if I need to.
Firefox is even nice enough to spell check my form entries for me (it caught me misspelling "incremental" just now).
My worry is what the cop will do after he hears your phone click when you catch him beating the shit out of somebody. Makes it a little hard to conceal that you just caught him in action.
Considering that much of his work takes place in the near-future and focuses on the implications of technologies and technological issues which are extant even today (such as P2P, copyright issues, etc.), you must have a pretty stringent definition of "hard" science fiction to exclude him. He's one of the hardest science writers I'm familiar with. Even guys like Charles Stross are softer than that.
I'm not a big music fan, so I can't speak for the quality-to-sucking ratio of self published to studio music. But I suspect that the vast majority of self-published music out there is complete shit too. If you can't even get a small record company (or small publisher, or SOMEONE with at least a little clout) to support your work, odds are there is a good reason for it.
I'm sorry, but what website is MS forcing to design only for IE again? Even the Microsoft site itself works fine in Firefox.
Plenty of geeks have written fiction in the past. Some of the best "hard" science fiction writers of today are geeks (Cory Doctorow comes immediately to mind, and there are plenty of physicists and engineers who've made fine writers too). Having said that, however, it must be noted that for every geek who is a great fiction writer, there are 99+ geeks who only THINK they're great fiction writers. And the number one rule of avoiding an author who only THINKS he can write is NEVER, NEVER, NEVER bother with a self-published book. Saying a book is self-published is a writer's way of saying "This book sucks ass and I have no dignity."
No, that was the PROBLEM. This guy probably started out as a "pimple-faced highschool kid dialing in with his VIC-Modem and Commodore 64" who got a job offer to go legitimate. So he went legitimate for a while, but his nature ultimately led him back to black hat work. The idea of hiring a black hat and turning him to a white hate sounds nice, but the reality is that you can never really trust someone like that not to go back to their old ways.
And that man's name? John Titor.
Remind me how Microsoft has EVER stopped me from downloading and installing whatever browser I damn well choose? Of the almost 15 years I've been on the web, I've only used IE for maybe three years of that (first Cello, then Netscape, then IE, then Firefox). And Windows never once gave me any hassle in downloading, installing, or using any of those.
Ha, since when have any computer makers REMOVED stuff? My problem isn't with the stuff MS bundles (that's fairly trivial), it's with all the crap-ware that companies like HP, Dell, etc. throw in ON TOP of that. That's where the REAL bloat comes from.
As for IE, I'm just fine with it. As a poster jokingly pointed out above (but made an actual insightful point), how else can you get to Mozilla's website and download Firefox if you don't have Internet Explorer installed?
Joel and the older cast are doing something similar over at Cinematic Titanic.
It's a shame he's wasting such a cash cow on some old petty grudges. Even if MST3K couldn't get back on a network (and, considering the sheer number of networks now doing original programming, it seems like SOMEONE would pick it up), it would still clean up on DVD and the internet. Looking at Mallon's resume, it doesn't look like he's done anything in years.
It's sad that after all these years, these two groups still seem to harbor grudges. It's even more tragic because they all worked together for years before Joel left. You would think a bunch of middle-aged guys would have left this silly shit behind a long time ago.
Will there be an option to turn off the pussy-era songs?