...although I have a feeling this whole thing is going to pan out like Orwell's Animal Farm. Not to say that I don't cherish my gmail account, or would fail to recognize our googlolian overlords in the instance that they would assume supreme dominion over the galaxy.
they've got to find some way of spending all that surplus (what is it now...eighty some billion dollars?) after becoming publicly traded and hyped as they now are.
Not that I've even RTFA (God forbid) but I'm always flummoxed to hear people claim linux is less user friendly (which isn't even inherently true) and that since switching to a new desktop environment is momentarily 'non-intuitive' or difficult to adapt to that it then follows it is not cost-effective or worth switching. Well, if people could learn to pause (for only a second) when they encounter that things don't work the same in 'nix and patiently surf the docs or google for a solution as well as working to, in a sense, "survey" how the various apps work, then maybe they'd recognize that Linux is overall more stable and many distros can be operated entirely through a GUI anyway, with in some cases, more ease than windows. I mean seriously, how is mandrake, for instance, harder than windows?! Certainly there's less hardware compatibility and the tech support is more expensive now, but as people start buying linux-friendly hardware and dual booting (for kicks!), by degrees Microsoft will be down on her knees and open-source will own j00~!!!
Had they avoided sending spam unsoliticed they could have collaberated to make a very first in the whole of the pr0n industry: a big budget flick! Kleenex stock would like burgeon out of control (which would benefit me exceedingly) and on opening weekend every boy/man and husband less wily than myself would be gone for at least 30 minutes! That would leave plenty of time for me and the ladies.
But...*sigh* unfortunately for now, I suppose I am/will remain a loser.
Right, because the liberal environmental terrorist wackos are all about giving you freedom instead of forcing you to obey their edicts about land use?
There are a lot more socialist and communist we-want-to-run-your-life liberal wacko's out there than there are many of the peace-love-and-rock-n-roll just leave everyone alone crowd anymore.
Especially the farther you get into politics, since politics tends to attract the control types, while the non-control types don't seem to desire the power as much.
How does a post so rife with stereotypes get a score of "5, Informative"? Like seriously... c'mon, how many ambiguous labels is that, 5 or 6? I see what _Sharp'r_ is trying to convey but I believe for a post to be labelled as "Informative" it should be less POV. Perhaps a label of "Funny" if only for the irony would be more fitting?
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Password: loser123
Durn/. effect.
But I'm too lazy to download the bugmenot extension. Can someone provide the link to the.xpi URL plz?
Sorry to have digressed, but I think the drug issue bears some relevance to the discussion as the Bush admin wouldn't be adverse to tracking suspected drug offenders over the internet as they are already known to blur the distinction between drug trafficker and terrorist as we all know from that infamous super bowl commercial.
This google search turns up interesting results:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=drug+trafficker+terr orist
Very true. Although I find it unfortunate that legalization is seen as a pipe dream. With the exception of perhaps Courtney Love, it's clear that the rich are able to function normally as addicts without having to resort to theft and violence (Rush Limbaugh is a salient example). All a heroin addict needs for instance is a regular maintanance dose to ensure homeostasis which is slowly augmented to account for tolerance. In the vast majority of cases those that die from heroin die of either overdoses that would be preventable provided there was a system ensuring purity or of diseases tramsmitted through the use of dirty syringes. Other drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine are likely to cause psychosis when heavily abused but among such cases, rarely are others harmed (as is the case with schizophrenia). The criminalization of drug addiction is what is truly responsible for spawning the societal ills purpotedly caused by the drugs and not the other way around. Gov't backed studies and the WHO's zeolous stance on controlling all drugs are undermining all efforts to change this.
A practical political calculation made by Republican and Democratic presidents over and over again. It's one of those "third rail" issues. Politicians have to pick their battles carefully or they will never have the opportunity to fight the good important battles....so 57% of the US federal prison population are there for drug offences and the US has the second highest amount of prisoners proportionally (next to Rwanda) and the highest amount of prisons anywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_prison_ population
If that isn't loaded language then I don't know what is. How is violating intellectual copyright all of a sudden tantamount to theft? If I remember correctly the definition of theft includes not only the obtainment of but the withholdment of property as well.
with internet hunting is that it makes the experience less personal and lowers people's inhibitions to shoot irresponsibly in places that would cause more suffering to the deer. You cannot see/hear the animal suffering over the internet as clearly and certainly that would make people less squeamish over essentially torturing the animal.
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...although I have a feeling this whole thing is going to pan out like Orwell's Animal Farm. Not to say that I don't cherish my gmail account, or would fail to recognize our googlolian overlords in the instance that they would assume supreme dominion over the galaxy.
they've got to find some way of spending all that surplus (what is it now...eighty some billion dollars?) after becoming publicly traded and hyped as they now are.
PFFT...! more like 'work expectancy' :P
Once a google fanboy, ALWAYS a google fanboy
Not that I've even RTFA (God forbid) but I'm always flummoxed to hear people claim linux is less user friendly (which isn't even inherently true) and that since switching to a new desktop environment is momentarily 'non-intuitive' or difficult to adapt to that it then follows it is not cost-effective or worth switching. Well, if people could learn to pause (for only a second) when they encounter that things don't work the same in 'nix and patiently surf the docs or google for a solution as well as working to, in a sense, "survey" how the various apps work, then maybe they'd recognize that Linux is overall more stable and many distros can be operated entirely through a GUI anyway, with in some cases, more ease than windows. I mean seriously, how is mandrake, for instance, harder than windows?! Certainly there's less hardware compatibility and the tech support is more expensive now, but as people start buying linux-friendly hardware and dual booting (for kicks!), by degrees Microsoft will be down on her knees and open-source will own j00~!!!
Had they avoided sending spam unsoliticed they could have collaberated to make a very first in the whole of the pr0n industry: a big budget flick! Kleenex stock would like burgeon out of control (which would benefit me exceedingly) and on opening weekend every boy/man and husband less wily than myself would be gone for at least 30 minutes! That would leave plenty of time for me and the ladies. But...*sigh* unfortunately for now, I suppose I am/will remain a loser.
Right, because the liberal environmental terrorist wackos are all about giving you freedom instead of forcing you to obey their edicts about land use? There are a lot more socialist and communist we-want-to-run-your-life liberal wacko's out there than there are many of the peace-love-and-rock-n-roll just leave everyone alone crowd anymore. Especially the farther you get into politics, since politics tends to attract the control types, while the non-control types don't seem to desire the power as much.
How does a post so rife with stereotypes get a score of "5, Informative"? Like seriously... c'mon, how many ambiguous labels is that, 5 or 6? I see what _Sharp'r_ is trying to convey but I believe for a post to be labelled as "Informative" it should be less POV. Perhaps a label of "Funny" if only for the irony would be more fitting?
I can just smell a public stoning of Bram Cohen is on the horizon.
Username: loser1234 /. effect.
But I'm too lazy to download the bugmenot extension. Can someone provide the link to the .xpi URL plz?
Password: loser123
Durn
Sorry to have digressed, but I think the drug issue bears some relevance to the discussion as the Bush admin wouldn't be adverse to tracking suspected drug offenders over the internet as they are already known to blur the distinction between drug trafficker and terrorist as we all know from that infamous super bowl commercial. This google search turns up interesting results: http://www.google.ca/search?q=drug+trafficker+terr orist
Very true. Although I find it unfortunate that legalization is seen as a pipe dream. With the exception of perhaps Courtney Love, it's clear that the rich are able to function normally as addicts without having to resort to theft and violence (Rush Limbaugh is a salient example). All a heroin addict needs for instance is a regular maintanance dose to ensure homeostasis which is slowly augmented to account for tolerance. In the vast majority of cases those that die from heroin die of either overdoses that would be preventable provided there was a system ensuring purity or of diseases tramsmitted through the use of dirty syringes. Other drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine are likely to cause psychosis when heavily abused but among such cases, rarely are others harmed (as is the case with schizophrenia). The criminalization of drug addiction is what is truly responsible for spawning the societal ills purpotedly caused by the drugs and not the other way around. Gov't backed studies and the WHO's zeolous stance on controlling all drugs are undermining all efforts to change this.
A practical political calculation made by Republican and Democratic presidents over and over again. It's one of those "third rail" issues. Politicians have to pick their battles carefully or they will never have the opportunity to fight the good important battles. ...so 57% of the US federal prison population are there for drug offences and the US has the second highest amount of prisoners proportionally (next to Rwanda) and the highest amount of prisons anywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_prison_ population
be preventing the design of software that would capture BBC media player content?
If that isn't loaded language then I don't know what is. How is violating intellectual copyright all of a sudden tantamount to theft? If I remember correctly the definition of theft includes not only the obtainment of but the withholdment of property as well.
Unless of course I'm missing something and it isn't direct pointing and clicking and involves some type of moderation or 3rd party hunting.
with internet hunting is that it makes the experience less personal and lowers people's inhibitions to shoot irresponsibly in places that would cause more suffering to the deer. You cannot see/hear the animal suffering over the internet as clearly and certainly that would make people less squeamish over essentially torturing the animal.