It appears that one of the main problems that Eric Weisstein had during his ordeal were people that just didn't care and only had a profit motive in mind. Not only should you boycott this company but the individuals that were involved in the mess. A blacklist of corrupted individuals that an someone can reference before making a deal would be a lifesaver for so many. I am sure as hell never going to have any publishing relationship with Bob Stern or company that employees him.
We must remember that its not companies that ultimately screw with us, its people. Once people realize they cannot hide behind the corporate curtain, they will start acting more responsible. Granted, reading a contract is incredibly important but supplying a devious contract and calling its "normal, standard and harmless" is pure evil for an editor to do and unethical to the maximum. Rot in hell, Mr. Stern, you're name has been added to the list.
Oh my God! My nerves are fraying! Too much terror input!
Yesterday, California Gov. Davis said bridges on the entire West Coast were going to blow up. The week before that, Anthrax was everywhere making already testy US Postal Employees, with the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, a little more edgy in mass wearing disguises. I am not even going to start with jumbo jets plowing into buildings 3/4 miles south of my apartment a month ago.
Now, thanks to Slashdot, I am freaking out about things I can't see without an electron microscope (yea like I got those laying around like cue-cats) crawling around my body screwing up my DNA! With the way the technology industry is dominated and my luck, I could end up ingesting a Microsoft Nanabot NT for the Intestines and end up with the Blue Skin of Death.
Can't we have more fun stories about people that cover their cases in PETA approved faux fur, obviously photoshopped, fake Apple combination PDA/MP3/GPS prototypes or someone running a beowulf cluster of Aibos powered by the disco beat of the Bee Gees. I got enough forwarded e-mail in my mailbox to freak me out for quite a while. On a positive note, at least no malls blew up on Halloween like that woman from Mississippi/Oregon/Florida/Arizona with the Saudi/Iranian/Iraqi/Palestinians/Egyptian/Sudanese boyfriend (that left abruptly) told her sister/mother/hair stylist/local sheriff would happen.
"VA Software"? Damn I am calling my broker right now. Not! This is a sign that end times are near for "VA Whatever". We have seen it time and time again in the Internet market. The second a company changes its name in this market, they are on the road to oblivion. Confuse the investors so they are not focused on the business plan.
I am really scared that Slashdot will be dumped real soon by "VA Whatever" and my personal data will be thrown into the wind for the company with the most pennies to snatch up. As we have seen in the past, its real tuff to control your own personal data held by a third party under extreme financial trouble.
I am sure that Pud at Fucked Company will be reporting the demise of "VA Whatever" in the near future. Dump the stock if you got it.
Not only does Katz have an axe to grind it appears that today's Moderators hate capitalism and western civ!!! I can't believe this post was modded as a "Troll". Every post in this forum that says, "America is good" or "Capitalism is a good economic system" has been either moderated as "Flamebait" or "Troll". Sad, sad, sad.
If Western Civ, Capitalism and America are Flamebait and Troll food, how about we ship these moderators to Afghanistan and so they can hide in the caves with the noble anti-western Taliban. Get a feeling what life without Western Civ is like. Hopefully, they will get a virulent infection in their multiple body piercings during their soul searching.
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If you can't understand why people would be upset with the many instances where the USA has not acted in the most honorable manner, I don't know how I can help communicate that to you. In some sense, the great social/ethical/moral successes of the USA act to make the failings more painful.
Then all I ask of these people that feel that America has done wrong by them is to immediately cease all contact with American foreign aid and American products.
There was no excuse for the atrocity of 9/11/01 nor was America in *ANY* way responsible for the terrorist attack. Trying to point the finger of blame at the US for these ISLAMIC terrorists is completely deluded. This was an act of hate and America was the victim of the crime. Its like blaming a woman for being raped because of the clothes she wore.
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fact that the targets included a planned parenthood, 2 democrats, media outlets, and the Supreme Court
Why couldn't it be Democrats upset over the Supreme Court decision that placed Bush in the White House? Planned Parenthood might be using the scare to boost fundraising (it is their beg for money time). Once NBC got Anthrax all the other networks were scrambling to find one of their employees with the disease so they can scream "Me too! Me too!" (who knows who they forced to shear sick sheep). Plus any right wing nutcase knows that Postal Service Employees are crack shots with semi-automatic rifles and they last people you want to piss off.
Do you think that installed base for Linux will be higher or lower than the installed base for Mac OS X in terms of gaming population? Do you think that it will be easier to port your games to Linux or Mac OS X? Will UNIX ever beat Windows for Gaming?
P.S. Thanks for native build of "The Sims" on Mac OS X and supporting Linux in general.
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But what if everyone else in the neighbourhood, city, state, country, or world, does not want to live in such a social setup? Where are you then?
Moving to a place where my values are represented.
It is the lack of ethical growth, particularly outsde of the country's borders, that causes us to be ashamed.
You are right, it is so unethical to feed the world, assist other countries in times of natural/unnatural disaster, provide medical treatment for the world, defend weak nations against rogue nations, etc. Its amazing how often people completely refuse to acknowledge the overwhelming good that comes out of America. I don't understand what perverse thrill you must get to hate your country and your home.
If America is so horrible and evil, why hasn't the UN moved out?
Red Cross Got What It Deserved...
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After all what would you call someone who bombed a Red Cross depot ?
Smart. After the events of the last two days, the Red Cross needs to be eliminated as a criminal organization. It has taken $100 million of the $550 million donated to it for 9/11 recovery and decided that American victims of the 9/11 ATROCITY don't deserve it. Children in my neighborhood scrambled around, hitting up every person they saw for money for the Red Cross. Its sad to know their hard work and heart felt desire to help was for nothing. Now we find out that the Red Cross is going to misappropriate that money for other purposes. If you or I took $100 million and diverted it for purposes other than the intended, I think we would be in deep trouble. What is even worse, there is no guarantee that the Red Cross will use majority of the money donated for the 9/11 Atrocity will be used for the victims. Very disturbing to say the least!!!
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Also, painting BIG RED CROSSES on your buildings tend to make them easier to hit.
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Thanks! I was shocked to see me being called a "Troll" for laying it out. Guess we have a problem with Globalization of moderation on Slashdot. Too many "Blame America Firsters" given access. Notice how every Pro-American culture message has been labeled as "Flamebait" in this forum.
As for He/She/It, I am an American He with no excuses or apologies for my culture.
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Can governments preserve the environment, keep work secure and equitable, ensure fair wages, control capitalism, distribute new technologies equitably, respect diverse cultural values, contain greed and restrict the imagery that Americans love but that frightens and offends large segments of the world population?
Does Government also need to change your diaper Katz?
The only thing Government really needs to do is keep itself out of my life and my affairs! What is the benefit of a bunch of faceless, bumbling, job secured bureaucrats lead by a bunch of glad handing, ass kissing, donation grubbing, pandering politicians ensuring my security from those evil, efficient, beneficial product producing capitalists? None so far in my life.
I want to live in a Representative Republic not a nanny-state Socialist monstrosity like Hitler's National Socialism of the 1930s. Its not the Government's role to "distribute" technology that is the marketplace's job. If you don't have the technology you need in your life, get a second job or create your own technology! Its not the Government's job to "ensure fair wages", you get paid what your labor is worth at the time. Don't like what you make, take a risk and start your own business. Its not the Government's job to "contain greed" as greed is relative to the observer and who's opinion of greed are we going to use? The Dali Lama or Gordon Gecko? Its not the Government's job to tell me whose culture to respect. I sure as hell do not respect cultures that force female circumcision or require women to wear suffocating clothing for religious reasons.
Restrict the imagery of Americans love but it frightens the world? "F" the rest of the world. If the rest of the world was as successful, productive and entrepreneurial as the USA has been in the last 225 years on the Earth, we would be in a much better world. If there is a benefit from cultures outside of ours, we would have already stolen it, modified it, incorporated it and claimed it was ours from the start. We have excelled in our nation while being historically isolationist from the rest of the world. It is only the last 80 years that we have been truly interested in "world affairs". Mainly because we were saving the world from itself in two major, global wars.
The "world" has a tremendous chip on its shoulder regarding America. You can almost feel the jealousy burning through their collective souls. Here we are, an infant nation, only 225 years old and we are numero uno, the top dog, the Alpha Male of nations. Think how long France, England, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, Egypt, etc. have been around -- thousands of years! That must really hurt emotionally that the new kid on the global block has stolen the show. That's why they call us arrogant. Not because of our bravado but because of the lack of motivation to be what America has become -- a social, economic, military and cultural powerhouse. No American should hold their head in shame for that.
The open source community should take the same stance as closed source corporations when it comes to bugs. They are not really bugs but undocumented features!
Then you know nothing about the realities of gang membership, and the demographics involved, and how tied up they are with family and community relationships. They have felonized gang membership, but that legal detail is irrelevant to the day to day lives of the people in the gangs.
Frankly, I couldn't give a squat about excuses for their criminal behavior. It doesn't matter. What matters is that society is protected from their criminal behavior and making sure that behavior is not glorified to other children. To me, telling a kid that gang banging is a bad idea and will lead to a life of misery is an excellent message to send to children.
You might have had a point but your personal insults have made sure it was lost...
Now that was funny! Thanks for pointing out his link to what he calls, "Web Development". Muhahaha! The products and services page was too much! I think the homeboyz could have done a better job.
Being a gang member is not just "a small mistake". A criminal gang banger is a member of an organized criminal conspiracy, i.e., a felony. Our legal system does not think felonies are "small mistakes".
Unlike you, I don't want to send the message of "Its ok to be in gang because we will bail you out when the going gets ruff." I want to send this message to kids, "Don't be a gang member or the rest of your life will be spent in self-imposed misery."
It's even cheaper, at 7500 bucks, to rehabilitate them. Also, define thug? Not every gang member is a murderer. I know, lets execute grafiti artists and petty thieves! It'll let you sleep soundly at night.
What about theft and property damage thats pretty thug like to me? Those are expensive activities to the victims. Petty theft is not so petty to the victim since a lot of their victims are the poor. Also, the $7,500 does not prevent them from commiting crimes, spending the $30,000 to surround with them with iron bars will.
It doesn't take a rocket scientists to know the difference between right and wrong. And its too bad that society acts like it does require that level of intelligence. There is no excuse for thuglike behavior nor should there be a reward.
I don't have a problem with helping kids that follow the rules. My problem is that we tend to focus on the bad eggs before the good eggs with a lousy situation in life. We never hear about programs for inner city youth that are not involved in gangs or some sort of criminal activity. Whether we like the idea or not, giving benefits to ex-cons (or whatever you want to call them) sends a message out to their peers that criminal actions are being rewarded. The worst message a society can send.
Then you can pay for their upkeep and training in further criminal activity. Bravo!
God, I just love jingoistic comments!
Sitting in jail is much cheaper than having them out on the streets causing death, property damage and theft. If it costs $30,000 a year to keep a thug in jail, its still a hell of a lot cheaper than loosing a human life. There is a huge benefit to society, financially, to keep thugs in jail. The longer the better.
I consider Unix administration as a part of Web Development not just HTML tagging.
Sitting in jail is much cheaper than them out on the streets causing death, property damage and theft. If it costs $30,000 a year to keep a thug in jail, its still a hell of a lot cheaper than loosing a human life. There is a huge benefit to society, financially, to keep thugs in jail.
Look at it a different way - you're telling children that even if they screw up, there's a chance they can make it. I don't know if you've heard of forgiveness....
"Hey kids, go ahead and sell drugs, shoot at your rivals and operate in a criminal conspiracy because after you are all done, we will forgive you and train you for a career!" Um, no. What we need to be saying is, "Hey kids, if you go ahead and sell drugs, shoot at your rivals and operate in a criminal conspiracy, we will catch you, prosecute you, leave you to rot in jail for a few years and after you get out you will have no prospects for a decent life. So don't do it nor will we reward you for doing it!"
There is a big difference between "screwing up" and engaging in a criminal conspiracy that breeds fear in your neighbors.
This isn't rewarding bad behaviour, this is rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation would involve restitution for previous actions. None of these sort of programs require the individual to provide such an action. These program exist so rich people can tell other people at award shows and banquets that "They Care!". And isn't that the most important thing?
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We must remember that its not companies that ultimately screw with us, its people. Once people realize they cannot hide behind the corporate curtain, they will start acting more responsible. Granted, reading a contract is incredibly important but supplying a devious contract and calling its "normal, standard and harmless" is pure evil for an editor to do and unethical to the maximum. Rot in hell, Mr. Stern, you're name has been added to the list.
Yesterday, California Gov. Davis said bridges on the entire West Coast were going to blow up. The week before that, Anthrax was everywhere making already testy US Postal Employees, with the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, a little more edgy in mass wearing disguises. I am not even going to start with jumbo jets plowing into buildings 3/4 miles south of my apartment a month ago.
Now, thanks to Slashdot, I am freaking out about things I can't see without an electron microscope (yea like I got those laying around like cue-cats) crawling around my body screwing up my DNA! With the way the technology industry is dominated and my luck, I could end up ingesting a Microsoft Nanabot NT for the Intestines and end up with the Blue Skin of Death.
Can't we have more fun stories about people that cover their cases in PETA approved faux fur, obviously photoshopped, fake Apple combination PDA/MP3/GPS prototypes or someone running a beowulf cluster of Aibos powered by the disco beat of the Bee Gees. I got enough forwarded e-mail in my mailbox to freak me out for quite a while. On a positive note, at least no malls blew up on Halloween like that woman from Mississippi/Oregon/Florida/Arizona with the Saudi/Iranian/Iraqi/Palestinians/Egyptian/Sudanese boyfriend (that left abruptly) told her sister/mother/hair stylist/local sheriff would happen.
I am really scared that Slashdot will be dumped real soon by "VA Whatever" and my personal data will be thrown into the wind for the company with the most pennies to snatch up. As we have seen in the past, its real tuff to control your own personal data held by a third party under extreme financial trouble.
I am sure that Pud at Fucked Company will be reporting the demise of "VA Whatever" in the near future. Dump the stock if you got it.
If Western Civ, Capitalism and America are Flamebait and Troll food, how about we ship these moderators to Afghanistan and so they can hide in the caves with the noble anti-western Taliban. Get a feeling what life without Western Civ is like. Hopefully, they will get a virulent infection in their multiple body piercings during their soul searching.
Then all I ask of these people that feel that America has done wrong by them is to immediately cease all contact with American foreign aid and American products.
There was no excuse for the atrocity of 9/11/01 nor was America in *ANY* way responsible for the terrorist attack. Trying to point the finger of blame at the US for these ISLAMIC terrorists is completely deluded. This was an act of hate and America was the victim of the crime. Its like blaming a woman for being raped because of the clothes she wore.
Why couldn't it be Democrats upset over the Supreme Court decision that placed Bush in the White House? Planned Parenthood might be using the scare to boost fundraising (it is their beg for money time). Once NBC got Anthrax all the other networks were scrambling to find one of their employees with the disease so they can scream "Me too! Me too!" (who knows who they forced to shear sick sheep). Plus any right wing nutcase knows that Postal Service Employees are crack shots with semi-automatic rifles and they last people you want to piss off.
What was the game??? Has it been ported to Linux? :P
P.S. Thanks for native build of "The Sims" on Mac OS X and supporting Linux in general.
Moving to a place where my values are represented.
It is the lack of ethical growth, particularly outsde of the country's borders, that causes us to be ashamed.
You are right, it is so unethical to feed the world, assist other countries in times of natural/unnatural disaster, provide medical treatment for the world, defend weak nations against rogue nations, etc. Its amazing how often people completely refuse to acknowledge the overwhelming good that comes out of America. I don't understand what perverse thrill you must get to hate your country and your home.
If America is so horrible and evil, why hasn't the UN moved out?
Smart. After the events of the last two days, the Red Cross needs to be eliminated as a criminal organization. It has taken $100 million of the $550 million donated to it for 9/11 recovery and decided that American victims of the 9/11 ATROCITY don't deserve it. Children in my neighborhood scrambled around, hitting up every person they saw for money for the Red Cross. Its sad to know their hard work and heart felt desire to help was for nothing. Now we find out that the Red Cross is going to misappropriate that money for other purposes. If you or I took $100 million and diverted it for purposes other than the intended, I think we would be in deep trouble. What is even worse, there is no guarantee that the Red Cross will use majority of the money donated for the 9/11 Atrocity will be used for the victims. Very disturbing to say the least!!!
<SARCASM> Also, painting BIG RED CROSSES on your buildings tend to make them easier to hit. </SARCASM>
As for He/She/It, I am an American He with no excuses or apologies for my culture.
Does Government also need to change your diaper Katz?
The only thing Government really needs to do is keep itself out of my life and my affairs! What is the benefit of a bunch of faceless, bumbling, job secured bureaucrats lead by a bunch of glad handing, ass kissing, donation grubbing, pandering politicians ensuring my security from those evil, efficient, beneficial product producing capitalists? None so far in my life.
I want to live in a Representative Republic not a nanny-state Socialist monstrosity like Hitler's National Socialism of the 1930s. Its not the Government's role to "distribute" technology that is the marketplace's job. If you don't have the technology you need in your life, get a second job or create your own technology! Its not the Government's job to "ensure fair wages", you get paid what your labor is worth at the time. Don't like what you make, take a risk and start your own business. Its not the Government's job to "contain greed" as greed is relative to the observer and who's opinion of greed are we going to use? The Dali Lama or Gordon Gecko? Its not the Government's job to tell me whose culture to respect. I sure as hell do not respect cultures that force female circumcision or require women to wear suffocating clothing for religious reasons.
Restrict the imagery of Americans love but it frightens the world? "F" the rest of the world. If the rest of the world was as successful, productive and entrepreneurial as the USA has been in the last 225 years on the Earth, we would be in a much better world. If there is a benefit from cultures outside of ours, we would have already stolen it, modified it, incorporated it and claimed it was ours from the start. We have excelled in our nation while being historically isolationist from the rest of the world. It is only the last 80 years that we have been truly interested in "world affairs". Mainly because we were saving the world from itself in two major, global wars.
The "world" has a tremendous chip on its shoulder regarding America. You can almost feel the jealousy burning through their collective souls. Here we are, an infant nation, only 225 years old and we are numero uno, the top dog, the Alpha Male of nations. Think how long France, England, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, Egypt, etc. have been around -- thousands of years! That must really hurt emotionally that the new kid on the global block has stolen the show. That's why they call us arrogant. Not because of our bravado but because of the lack of motivation to be what America has become -- a social, economic, military and cultural powerhouse. No American should hold their head in shame for that.
Could you imagine a beowulf cluster of HDTVs? It would be so awesome that even the theme song to the new Enterprise show would sound cool...
How comes the anti-terrorism bill punishes law abiding citizens and not the terrorists? Enquiring minds what to know!
The open source community should take the same stance as closed source corporations when it comes to bugs. They are not really bugs but undocumented features!
Frankly, I couldn't give a squat about excuses for their criminal behavior. It doesn't matter. What matters is that society is protected from their criminal behavior and making sure that behavior is not glorified to other children. To me, telling a kid that gang banging is a bad idea and will lead to a life of misery is an excellent message to send to children.
You might have had a point but your personal insults have made sure it was lost...
Now that was funny! Thanks for pointing out his link to what he calls, "Web Development". Muhahaha! The products and services page was too much! I think the homeboyz could have done a better job.
Unlike you, I don't want to send the message of "Its ok to be in gang because we will bail you out when the going gets ruff." I want to send this message to kids, "Don't be a gang member or the rest of your life will be spent in self-imposed misery."
What about theft and property damage thats pretty thug like to me? Those are expensive activities to the victims. Petty theft is not so petty to the victim since a lot of their victims are the poor. Also, the $7,500 does not prevent them from commiting crimes, spending the $30,000 to surround with them with iron bars will.
It doesn't take a rocket scientists to know the difference between right and wrong. And its too bad that society acts like it does require that level of intelligence. There is no excuse for thuglike behavior nor should there be a reward.
I don't have a problem with helping kids that follow the rules. My problem is that we tend to focus on the bad eggs before the good eggs with a lousy situation in life. We never hear about programs for inner city youth that are not involved in gangs or some sort of criminal activity. Whether we like the idea or not, giving benefits to ex-cons (or whatever you want to call them) sends a message out to their peers that criminal actions are being rewarded. The worst message a society can send.
God, I just love jingoistic comments!
Sitting in jail is much cheaper than having them out on the streets causing death, property damage and theft. If it costs $30,000 a year to keep a thug in jail, its still a hell of a lot cheaper than loosing a human life. There is a huge benefit to society, financially, to keep thugs in jail. The longer the better.
Sitting in jail is much cheaper than them out on the streets causing death, property damage and theft. If it costs $30,000 a year to keep a thug in jail, its still a hell of a lot cheaper than loosing a human life. There is a huge benefit to society, financially, to keep thugs in jail.
I would prefer them in JAIL and not on the streets to make some NPR listener feel less guilty.
"Hey kids, go ahead and sell drugs, shoot at your rivals and operate in a criminal conspiracy because after you are all done, we will forgive you and train you for a career!" Um, no. What we need to be saying is, "Hey kids, if you go ahead and sell drugs, shoot at your rivals and operate in a criminal conspiracy, we will catch you, prosecute you, leave you to rot in jail for a few years and after you get out you will have no prospects for a decent life. So don't do it nor will we reward you for doing it!"
There is a big difference between "screwing up" and engaging in a criminal conspiracy that breeds fear in your neighbors.
Rehabilitation would involve restitution for previous actions. None of these sort of programs require the individual to provide such an action. These program exist so rich people can tell other people at award shows and banquets that "They Care!". And isn't that the most important thing?