I must admit I didn't read it that way, but when I hit:
"where only its own high priests of security may venture"... I immediately had horrible visions of Steve Ballmer dressed up as the archbishop, hurling church pews around and doing unspeakable things to the altarboys...
Yeah, but "salesmen" are less prone to horrifying technical glitches.
Homer: Good evening, Madam. You have been selected by the good people of
Slash-Co to reap the benefits of their new Nev-R-Dull knife edge.
Here, shake hands with the Slash-Co! [hands her the knife]
Woman: [grabs the wrong end] Aaaaaagh!
Homer: [to himself] Handle first, handle first...
That's all well and good, and I commend you for wanting to write more standards-compliant websites. But try implementing your policy, and then explaining that to your boss when he asks you where the hell the company's market share went. Probably in an exit interview...
Take that as evidence of Macs lagging behind in the technology stakes then. After all, Windows boxen have plenty of holes that allow them to be thoroughly fucked...
We could argue about statistics until the cows come home, and what figure applies to what definition... for example, "alcohol-related collisions" could well include deaths where the driver was sober and a pedestrian was drunk. If I had to offer an opinion, I'd say even using your figures, 17 thousand versus 12 thousand are at least similar orders of magnitude, and certainly doesn't show that one is "is wildly more dangerous, and results in many more deaths-by-idiots" as you claimed.
In any case, my original point still stands: if you're going to make inflamatory statements, you should be prepared to support them with some facts/figures.
I have, with a gun. I couldn't have done the same thing by drinking a beer and then driving my car at him, but the beer/car combo is wildly more dangerous, and results in many more deaths-by-idiots.
If you're going to make outrageous claims like that you have to state your sources.
In 2003, 17,013 people died in "alcohol-related collisions" in the USA. That same year there were 30,136 (page 10) deaths caused by firearms. You do the math.
And I say that as the proud owner of no less than three firearms.
A little more context will make your comments seem a little less... shrill.
And a little more research will make your comments sound a little less... ignorant.
Get convicted of something and you are a prisoner for the rest of your life, if not in bricks then in opportunities.
Who says you need a conviction? The holidaymakers at Club Guantanamo never did. Hell, even an arrest record, or attending a protest, or a bad credit rating and your opportunities are shot to shit.
Simple solution: emigrate. Speaking as a foreigner, if you are genuinely smart enough to see what you have posted, I would be happy to have you in my country.
Capping it at 128kbps slows down downloads of music and movies. Why would you want to download these things? To see a movie that your government doesn't want you to buy...
Or in other cases... to see a movie that the **AA does want you to buy. Not that I think Iran was thinking about the **AA in the slightest, but here's hoping this is a fad that just doesn't catch on...
Sure... meanwhile, anyone else here have doubleclick blocked by NoScript / hosts file / firewall / cookie filter / etc. ? I'm an aggressive whitelister of good sites, and those of course are free to advertise directly to me, but I can guaran-fucken-TEE that doubleclick don't get to see that ad impression. I will let certain people advertise to me direct but I will NOT become an entry in a third-party's database.
I count on one hand all the times i've seen NT 4.0, win2k and 2003 crashed on one hand.
Eh? You could count all the times you've seen NT 4.0, win2k and 2003 crashed on one hand, on one hand could you? So how many times have they crashed on one hand then? Perhaps you shouldn't have touched what he was smoking after all...
Trust me on this, what you want is a desktop, personal teen girl.
Desktop? Personally I find the handheld ones more suited to my lifestyle... the laptops too, however the legality of that may vary depending on your jurisdiction...
No, they should've ignored it, because they believe the entire lawsuit is frivolous. Filing to have it tried in the UK is enough to suggest it should even be tried at all, and that opens them up to lawsuits from every other spammer.
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I must admit I didn't read it that way, but when I hit:
... I immediately had horrible visions of Steve Ballmer dressed up as the archbishop, hurling church pews around and doing unspeakable things to the altarboys...
"where only its own high priests of security may venture"
Homer: Good evening, Madam. You have been selected by the good people of
Slash-Co to reap the benefits of their new Nev-R-Dull knife edge.
Here, shake hands with the Slash-Co! [hands her the knife]
Woman: [grabs the wrong end] Aaaaaagh!
Homer: [to himself] Handle first, handle first...
That's all well and good, and I commend you for wanting to write more standards-compliant websites. But try implementing your policy, and then explaining that to your boss when he asks you where the hell the company's market share went. Probably in an exit interview...
That won't get you all the hotels though - what about the Paris Hilton?
Take that as evidence of Macs lagging behind in the technology stakes then. After all, Windows boxen have plenty of holes that allow them to be thoroughly fucked...
Hell no. In fact people like Dvorak make a career out of it.
Heh - wait until the inevitable dupe then!
"To err is human... but it feels divine" - Mae West
"I bought a humidifier and a dehumidifier, then I put them in the same room and let them fight it out"
We could argue about statistics until the cows come home, and what figure applies to what definition... for example, "alcohol-related collisions" could well include deaths where the driver was sober and a pedestrian was drunk. If I had to offer an opinion, I'd say even using your figures, 17 thousand versus 12 thousand are at least similar orders of magnitude, and certainly doesn't show that one is "is wildly more dangerous, and results in many more deaths-by-idiots" as you claimed.
In any case, my original point still stands: if you're going to make inflamatory statements, you should be prepared to support them with some facts/figures.
If you're going to make outrageous claims like that you have to state your sources.
In 2003, 17,013 people died in "alcohol-related collisions" in the USA. That same year there were 30,136 (page 10) deaths caused by firearms. You do the math.
And I say that as the proud owner of no less than three firearms.
And a little more research will make your comments sound a little less... ignorant.
Counterpoint: without the DRM, he could back it up to a harddrive. Then whether or not the dongle/disc is lost is academic.
Who says you need a conviction? The holidaymakers at Club Guantanamo never did. Hell, even an arrest record, or attending a protest, or a bad credit rating and your opportunities are shot to shit.
Simple solution: emigrate. Speaking as a foreigner, if you are genuinely smart enough to see what you have posted, I would be happy to have you in my country.
Or in other cases... to see a movie that the **AA does want you to buy. Not that I think Iran was thinking about the **AA in the slightest, but here's hoping this is a fad that just doesn't catch on...
Sure... meanwhile, anyone else here have doubleclick blocked by NoScript / hosts file / firewall / cookie filter / etc. ? I'm an aggressive whitelister of good sites, and those of course are free to advertise directly to me, but I can guaran-fucken-TEE that doubleclick don't get to see that ad impression. I will let certain people advertise to me direct but I will NOT become an entry in a third-party's database.
Why do you think he got out when he did? ;-)
Well if it ever becomes a Slashdot poll, my vote's going to "CowboyNealium"...
I believe the currently preferred jargon is "less-than-lethal"...
Hang on let me get this straight, his daughter is "Mercedes" and his friends are "Google" and "Wikipedia"? What an odd bunch of people...
That's a nasty cough you have there. I think you might've picked up a bug...
No, they should've ignored it, because they believe the entire lawsuit is frivolous. Filing to have it tried in the UK is enough to suggest it should even be tried at all, and that opens them up to lawsuits from every other spammer.
Heh... JD "Iliad" Frazer, eat yer hat...