Getting cell phone companies in the U.S. to abandon the "locked-in" model at this point would require a new law or high-level legal ruling. And, since the telecoms basically own Congress and the Presidency, it ain't gonna happen.
If Apple cared about ethical behavior towards us, they would also offer an unsubsidized version for consumers at a higher price. Since they refuse to do that, why do we owe them anything?
A good review is one that agrees with me. Like everything else, it revolves exclusively around my wants, tastes, and desires. Everything that fails to revolve around me, including every other human being who existed before my birth and will exist after my death, is completely irrelevant.
A good review must be score by how much the author represented the right way of thinking about the game (i.e. my way of thinking about the game).
Don't forget Werner Von Braun. He used slave labor to build the V2, was an SS officer, etc. But, without his help after the war, the U.S. probably would have never gotten to the moon.
The idealist: Kid's will be able to use it to broaden their horizons
The kid: Alright, PORN!!
The idealist: It will educate them and open them up to the outside world
The kid: Time to scam some wealthy Westerners for more money in 24 hours than I could make doing honest work all year
The idealist: It will lead to better more educated communities
The kid: Hey, let's steal that little kid's laptop and sell it on the black market!
The idealist:...making them better global citizens
The kid: Uh, could I have some clean drinking water instead?
A lot of people are going to point out that they hate Metallica because of the anti-Napster stuff they did in the late 90's. I would like to point out that there are also a lot of disaffected fans from the 80's who hate them for selling out with the black album in the early 90's. Metallica has made so many enemies over the years that they have people hating them NUMEROUS reasons.
He graduated, sold out, married a total bitch, had a bunch of bratty kids who only loved him when he bought them stuff, divorced the bitch for a younger bitch, and now spends every waking moment wishing he could go back to his college glory days when he didn't have a big gut or a big mortgage.
On the DVD commentary track, director John Badham talks about how they used several technical advisers from a specific phreaker club (in Michigan I think) to handle the film's technical details and hacker culture. They did a good job. It is easily the most technically accurate of the hacker films (not that it has much competition, really). And it has a good story too. Holds up amazingly well even today (wish they would release an anamorphic DVD of it, though).
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So, who's the moron with mod points who DOESN'T think the telecoms own our politicians?
...He lifted the rest of world up.
Well, I would call being the administrator of a production facility that used slave labor and had its own concentration camp "something."
We should appoint some fungineers to decide the question.
Getting cell phone companies in the U.S. to abandon the "locked-in" model at this point would require a new law or high-level legal ruling. And, since the telecoms basically own Congress and the Presidency, it ain't gonna happen.
If Apple cared about ethical behavior towards us, they would also offer an unsubsidized version for consumers at a higher price. Since they refuse to do that, why do we owe them anything?
Hot grits and Natalie Portman...guess which one I'd rather eat?
Ha, I'm not afraid of you thugs! You'll never shut me dow@$##@NO CARRIER
A good review must be score by how much the author represented the right way of thinking about the game (i.e. my way of thinking about the game).
A Chuck Norris punch can easily power Las Vegas for a full month.
Just make sure the 50 people are all assholes. That way, when they die, no one will really much care.
We don't have HBO. Besides, everyone knows that Bob Odenkirk did his best work on The Ben Stiller Show.
Can't we just get rid of that giant ugly "CHA"?
And piss off the Martians? No thanks.
You just gave me a great idea for a made-for-Scifi movie! Someone get me Caspar Van Dien and Eric Roberts on the phone!
Don't forget Werner Von Braun. He used slave labor to build the V2, was an SS officer, etc. But, without his help after the war, the U.S. probably would have never gotten to the moon.
I hear "Some Puerto Rican Guy" did it.
The kid: Alright, PORN!!
The idealist: It will educate them and open them up to the outside world
The kid: Time to scam some wealthy Westerners for more money in 24 hours than I could make doing honest work all year
The idealist: It will lead to better more educated communities
The kid: Hey, let's steal that little kid's laptop and sell it on the black market!
The idealist: ...making them better global citizens
The kid: Uh, could I have some clean drinking water instead?
This is slashdot. I'm going to bitch about it no matter HOW good the finished product is.
They couldn't afford Indiana, so they outsourced it.
A lot of people are going to point out that they hate Metallica because of the anti-Napster stuff they did in the late 90's. I would like to point out that there are also a lot of disaffected fans from the 80's who hate them for selling out with the black album in the early 90's. Metallica has made so many enemies over the years that they have people hating them NUMEROUS reasons.
He graduated, sold out, married a total bitch, had a bunch of bratty kids who only loved him when he bought them stuff, divorced the bitch for a younger bitch, and now spends every waking moment wishing he could go back to his college glory days when he didn't have a big gut or a big mortgage.
Just release the damn thing already!
On the DVD commentary track, director John Badham talks about how they used several technical advisers from a specific phreaker club (in Michigan I think) to handle the film's technical details and hacker culture. They did a good job. It is easily the most technically accurate of the hacker films (not that it has much competition, really). And it has a good story too. Holds up amazingly well even today (wish they would release an anamorphic DVD of it, though).