With Monsanto's terminator technology, they will sell seeds to farmers to plant crops. But these seeds have been genetically-engineered so that when the crops are harvested, all new seeds from these crops are sterile
So... uh... don't buy them? Use the system you've been using so far, which seems to work well enough?
I love the smell of rants in the morning.
You have evidently nothing to add to the conversation so I'll leave it at that. Please keep indulging in your fantasies where slavedom is freedom. When 90% of the population finds out that they can live thanks to your generous contributions and finally decide to stay at home and get fat(ter) because, after all, YOU are paying for them, I take it you'll be happy.
Have a nice, productive, day.
I see you become more and more offensive with every post, which goes a long way to show how civilized YOU are. Now I am a monster lusting to dominate? How cute... I thought I simply said "leave me be". Yes, an "or i'll fucking you" is implied. Yes I made a MS joke, because I understand you are nothing but a Slashbot, so I might just cue you in and make your life easier.
Your "representative democracy" is nothing more but an attempt at dictatorship, only more organized and thinly disguised. Anything that limits my freedom is just that.
Oh sorry, I used the forbidden word... Am I going to be deported to Siber^H^H^H^H^Ha civilized, pinnacle-of-society jail tonight, for disagreeing with "The People"?
Nice attempt at sarcasm. But you fail. "Conscience-free parasites" are those that YOU support by happily paying for their life while they vegetate. Which is fine, after all, it's your money you're wasting. How comes that in your uber-free country you need to force other people to behave the way YOU want?
You must find it funny to keep misunderstanding everything I say. These were examples of communism at work ("When I talked about countries brought to their knees").
Canadians have chosen to kill people (but hey, they don't do it directly! they have an army for this, so their hands are clean) when said people refuse to keep supporting parasites = don't pay (part of) their taxes. When they finally come to take away what you have earned and you try to defend it, tell me the police does not get involved and the story does not end with you shot down. I'll be flying over immediately.
There are more countries in the world than just the USA and Canada. Evidently your education failed to teach you about the rest of the world. I don't remember saying I am from the USA, nor advocating their kinda sorta not really applied capitalism. Your examples (40 million people without healthcare) only show that a half-assed attempt at capitalism can fail. When I talked about countries brought to their knees I took for granted some level of knowledge on your side. I realize it must be difficult to aknowledge the existance of, oh I don't know, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, tcfka Jugoslavia, Russia (!), Cambodia, Vietnam... when the only continent you know is North America.
And I'll be delighted to know why your perfect Social Democracy needs to kill the ones who oppose it and refuse to take part in it.
Wowzer, talk about a rant! Even assuming that ad hominem attacks are in some way compatible with broadside firing (do you even know what ad hominem means?), do you realize that an "unsubstantiated attack" is the exact description of your post? You are certainly no teacher in the art of applying "modest amounts of logic and reason" but that does not surprise me, seeing as the only way to believe in the religion known as communism is to suppress reason. Well at least you'll find yourself at home with all the fundamentalists out there.
Finally, hate to break the truth to you but everyone who's not an anarchocapitalist can only be a communist. Call it a socialist if that makes you feel better (I know truth hurts), but that will not change reality.
You were too stupid to realize that my first post was meant to highlight that condemning the system that gave you almost everything you enjoy in your life is even more stupid than adopting the one that brought everyone of its adopters to their knees. Have a good day. And please keep deluding yourself... It'll make my life even easier.
FTA: Movies can't be "burned" or copied onto disks that can be played on other devices, such DVD players. The movies, however, can be copied to play on as many as two other PCs
Of course, it would be too easy if they were let out of the DRM jail...
Customers can hook up their computers to their TV sets using specially equipped video cables
Uh? Specially equipped cables? WTF are they talking about? Something that's got to do with HD and/or closing the analog hole?
Nice to know you live in a commune, in direct contact with Mother Nature, taking care of your peers an putting everybody's needs before yours. I take it this is the reason why you're drilling wells in Sub-Saharian Africa, clothing the poor and feeding the hungry.
Or maybe, just maybe, you're sitting in your chair and posting bullshit on/.
You cannot compare the two things. E-mail is more akin to an extremely decentralized mail system where everyone can turn into a postman at their whim. The absence of a huge central infrastructure makes it so that the cost of delivering your mail does not fall on the system itself; rather, on your own mailservers. If my ISP asked me for money to send email, well 1. I'm already paying a flat fee for always-on and 2. I'd set up my own server and be happy with it. Actually... I'd probably do it even if nobody forced me.
the ssh 1.3 source would probably have been picked up by GNU and we'd have free GnuSSH
which would suddenly turn off encryption on your channel and pop up RMS's face saying "You are using this software for something *I*, his Imperial Majesty RMS, happen not to like today or maybe in the future, therefore I will stop it. I also hope your OS crashes and burns because it's not running HURD." Thanks, I'll keep using the *really open* OpenSSH.
What influence the Vaticane has today on normal people's life is highly debatable. Suffice to say not many more people listen to the Pope here than in any other Catholic country. And why would they? The Vatican is a sovereign country that happens to be surrounded by Italy. So? It's not like Luxembourg exerts much influence on its neighbours just because it's surrounded on all sides.
Well, to be honest, I was going to write the name of my country but then I thought I'd make fun of your habit of referring to a "general"Europe... because as we all know it's not like we have lots of different countries over here.
My own "here" is Italy, anyway. And I'd really like to ask you when and where on TV you have seen full frontal nudity, in any of the European countries you listed. Maybe I've been missing out:D
Europe, where you regularly have full frontal female and male nudity on free to air TV
WTF? Have you actually *been* here? First of all, there are organisations that can (and *do*) enforce regulations on the kind of content that is allowed at any given time of the day. And second... the moment you broadcast full frontal female nudity you will have half the population up in arms asking for your head. (OK, not literally.)
Full frontal is kinda allowed after 12.00 or so. Unless you're calling "full frontal" Janet Jackson-level stuff.
Talk about a rant!
Well, my bad for suggesting PlaneShift, especially since I misunderstood what the genre had to be. But really, don't you think you're exaggerating the thing a bit? Yeah PS sucks, I've tried it at least 3 times in the last year or so and I did not find it of an adequate quality: but it's a bloody BETA! You say "When others can play it, it IS the game", well no, MMORPGs tend to have long beta periods where the game is not finalized. "What use is it to work on a game for 10 years and then finally finish it and have it look like 2002's Morrowind ?" Uh... well here I concur 100% with you. They probably do it Because They Can(tm) and because it's kinda leet to publish an OS MMORPG which is supposed to be free forever. But then, what use is it to publish Tux Racer & friends...
Anyway I suggest we wait and see what happens. It's not like they owe us anything and, besides, 'it's free so you have no right to complain'. I do believe in this last principle: or, to explain myself better, you have no right to spam the forums with "OMG LEET how do i download this?", followed by "LOL no i don't know where i saved it", and then (when you finally get around to install & update & create char & actually enter the bloody city) "SOMEONE GIMME A WEAPON PLS KTHX BTW THIS GAME SUCKS BIG TIME". Sorry for the caps... they were intended to mirror what happens in there all the time.
If you don't want something to get freely archived and redistributed by countless 3rd parties outside your control, why don't you just try not posting it on Usenet?
If you don't want your credit card number/SSN to get freely archived and redistributed by countless 3rd parties outside your control, why don't you just try not using a credit card/giving your SSN to anyone?
Strangely enough, when it comes to Google everything's ok in Slashdot's book. But every other corp must be some incarnation of the devil. Care to explain your double standard?
I believe it's PlaneShift you're looking for. http://www.planeshift.it/. The domain is.it but the site is in English and most players in game have standardized on English too.
So you'd be against spending $40 less each month with that being offset by government spending?
Yes. Government = me, because I work. Apparently, you don't. Loser.
Would you also to pay tolls for every road that you use?
Yes. Actually, I already do.
How about paying a tax every time you cross state lines on each good that you purchase?
It's their right to ask me. It's my right not to conduct business in their country.
How about paying into a private militia to protect you and your family from rival factions?
That would be awesome. Maybe our useless police would be disbanded and we'd have effective security.
You like to be in charge of collecting and purifying your own drinking water?
Yes. Even though it seems like I can pay someone to do that for me, if I don't want to do it.
What will happen is that my tax dollars will be used for that and that my friend is just wrong. What has happened is certain legislators have realized that broadband has become a necessary and basic right. As an American citizen, you're forced to pay for certain things for yours and others benefit. This is win-win and you're a crybaby.
What has happened is you're a fucking bloodleech who wants to surf with my money. This is a no-no and you're a fascist. Oh sorry I meant a communist. Oh well not much difference anyway.
You see... you're forced to X is always wrong. Loser.
You really think people should be free to rape/murder/rob?
It looks to me like rape, murder and robbery are very common indeed - they happen everyday. And how is your tiranny solving these problems? And, yes, you are lucky when people decide to "freely behave" like god guys are supposed to - in fact I take part in such good behaviour. However, you say:
You're free (everyone is) to behave however you want, you're just not going to be free from the consequences (no one is).
and this is bullsht. I am not free to behave how I want as long as an external, ad-hoc created entity uses its power to force me into/out of things. As much as you like to think so, a government is NOT some kind of being that spontaneously arises from the common good will of the people. That's called a shop, a company, a service provider, etc. I will submit to the consequences that society chooses to inflict upon me for my sins (which BTW amounts to burping from time to time, while you're almost depicting me like a serial rapist) as long as such rules arise spontaneously from the people around me. Not that I respect them, not at all... I simply am not trained/armed/powerful enough to behave with utmost disregard for those around me. Therefore I have to keep myself at bay and behave sensibly. That's called a social contract. But a government is certainly not a part in a contract - unless you think unilateral contracts can exist.
Finally, you just have to look at how well government-run services, violence, *whole economic systems* work (need I quote?) to realize the only way to handle things in society is not to handle them at all. What people want bad enough will happen.
Oh and you should really try to chill out. The mockery and attempted subtlety found in your post reek of repressed anger from miles away.
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With Monsanto's terminator technology, they will sell seeds to farmers to plant crops. But these seeds have been genetically-engineered so that when the crops are harvested, all new seeds from these crops are sterile
So... uh... don't buy them? Use the system you've been using so far, which seems to work well enough?
That would be "slavery"
Well sorry for not being a native speaker. Now I'll go study so I can "pallacate" my thirst for knowledge...
I love the smell of rants in the morning.
You have evidently nothing to add to the conversation so I'll leave it at that. Please keep indulging in your fantasies where slavedom is freedom. When 90% of the population finds out that they can live thanks to your generous contributions and finally decide to stay at home and get fat(ter) because, after all, YOU are paying for them, I take it you'll be happy.
Have a nice, productive, day.
I see you become more and more offensive with every post, which goes a long way to show how civilized YOU are. Now I am a monster lusting to dominate? How cute... I thought I simply said "leave me be". Yes, an "or i'll fucking you" is implied. Yes I made a MS joke, because I understand you are nothing but a Slashbot, so I might just cue you in and make your life easier.
Your "representative democracy" is nothing more but an attempt at dictatorship, only more organized and thinly disguised. Anything that limits my freedom is just that.
Oh sorry, I used the forbidden word... Am I going to be deported to Siber^H^H^H^H^Ha civilized, pinnacle-of-society jail tonight, for disagreeing with "The People"?
Nice attempt at sarcasm. But you fail. "Conscience-free parasites" are those that YOU support by happily paying for their life while they vegetate. Which is fine, after all, it's your money you're wasting. How comes that in your uber-free country you need to force other people to behave the way YOU want?
You must find it funny to keep misunderstanding everything I say. These were examples of communism at work ("When I talked about countries brought to their knees").
Canadians have chosen to kill people (but hey, they don't do it directly! they have an army for this, so their hands are clean) when said people refuse to keep supporting parasites = don't pay (part of) their taxes. When they finally come to take away what you have earned and you try to defend it, tell me the police does not get involved and the story does not end with you shot down. I'll be flying over immediately.
There are more countries in the world than just the USA and Canada. Evidently your education failed to teach you about the rest of the world. I don't remember saying I am from the USA, nor advocating their kinda sorta not really applied capitalism. Your examples (40 million people without healthcare) only show that a half-assed attempt at capitalism can fail. When I talked about countries brought to their knees I took for granted some level of knowledge on your side. I realize it must be difficult to aknowledge the existance of, oh I don't know, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, tcfka Jugoslavia, Russia (!), Cambodia, Vietnam... when the only continent you know is North America.
And I'll be delighted to know why your perfect Social Democracy needs to kill the ones who oppose it and refuse to take part in it.
Wowzer, talk about a rant! Even assuming that ad hominem attacks are in some way compatible with broadside firing (do you even know what ad hominem means?), do you realize that an "unsubstantiated attack" is the exact description of your post? You are certainly no teacher in the art of applying "modest amounts of logic and reason" but that does not surprise me, seeing as the only way to believe in the religion known as communism is to suppress reason. Well at least you'll find yourself at home with all the fundamentalists out there.
Finally, hate to break the truth to you but everyone who's not an anarchocapitalist can only be a communist. Call it a socialist if that makes you feel better (I know truth hurts), but that will not change reality.
You were too stupid to realize that my first post was meant to highlight that condemning the system that gave you almost everything you enjoy in your life is even more stupid than adopting the one that brought everyone of its adopters to their knees. Have a good day. And please keep deluding yourself... It'll make my life even easier.
Communist apologists are so funny. Especially when they play naive. Have a good day.
FTA: Movies can't be "burned" or copied onto disks that can be played on other devices, such DVD players. The movies, however, can be copied to play on as many as two other PCs
Of course, it would be too easy if they were let out of the DRM jail...
Customers can hook up their computers to their TV sets using specially equipped video cables
Uh? Specially equipped cables? WTF are they talking about? Something that's got to do with HD and/or closing the analog hole?
Nice to know you live in a commune, in direct contact with Mother Nature, taking care of your peers an putting everybody's needs before yours. I take it this is the reason why you're drilling wells in Sub-Saharian Africa, clothing the poor and feeding the hungry. /.
Or maybe, just maybe, you're sitting in your chair and posting bullshit on
not every boy on earth feels a need to play D&D
:D
O tempora! O mores! This problem needs to be addressed! Someone think of the chiiiiiiiiildren!
HAHAHAHA
"free society" next to "government" made me laugh out loud.
Next thing you tell me, we need laws to protect people's rights, don't we?
You cannot compare the two things. E-mail is more akin to an extremely decentralized mail system where everyone can turn into a postman at their whim. The absence of a huge central infrastructure makes it so that the cost of delivering your mail does not fall on the system itself; rather, on your own mailservers. If my ISP asked me for money to send email, well 1. I'm already paying a flat fee for always-on and 2. I'd set up my own server and be happy with it. Actually... I'd probably do it even if nobody forced me.
the ssh 1.3 source would probably have been picked up by GNU and we'd have free GnuSSH
which would suddenly turn off encryption on your channel and pop up RMS's face saying "You are using this software for something *I*, his Imperial Majesty RMS, happen not to like today or maybe in the future, therefore I will stop it. I also hope your OS crashes and burns because it's not running HURD."
Thanks, I'll keep using the *really open* OpenSSH.
What influence the Vaticane has today on normal people's life is highly debatable. Suffice to say not many more people listen to the Pope here than in any other Catholic country. And why would they? The Vatican is a sovereign country that happens to be surrounded by Italy. So? It's not like Luxembourg exerts much influence on its neighbours just because it's surrounded on all sides.
sometime between '95 and '98. Between 9pm and 10pm on BBC 2. A specific episode fits your definition of "regularly" *how* exactly?
Well, to be honest, I was going to write the name of my country but then I thought I'd make fun of your habit of referring to a "general"Europe... because as we all know it's not like we have lots of different countries over here. :D
My own "here" is Italy, anyway. And I'd really like to ask you when and where on TV you have seen full frontal nudity, in any of the European countries you listed. Maybe I've been missing out
Europe, where you regularly have full frontal female and male nudity on free to air TV
WTF? Have you actually *been* here? First of all, there are organisations that can (and *do*) enforce regulations on the kind of content that is allowed at any given time of the day. And second... the moment you broadcast full frontal female nudity you will have half the population up in arms asking for your head. (OK, not literally.)
Full frontal is kinda allowed after 12.00 or so. Unless you're calling "full frontal" Janet Jackson-level stuff.
Talk about a rant!
Well, my bad for suggesting PlaneShift, especially since I misunderstood what the genre had to be. But really, don't you think you're exaggerating the thing a bit? Yeah PS sucks, I've tried it at least 3 times in the last year or so and I did not find it of an adequate quality: but it's a bloody BETA! You say "When others can play it, it IS the game", well no, MMORPGs tend to have long beta periods where the game is not finalized. "What use is it to work on a game for 10 years and then finally finish it and have it look like 2002's Morrowind ?" Uh... well here I concur 100% with you. They probably do it Because They Can(tm) and because it's kinda leet to publish an OS MMORPG which is supposed to be free forever. But then, what use is it to publish Tux Racer & friends...
Anyway I suggest we wait and see what happens. It's not like they owe us anything and, besides, 'it's free so you have no right to complain'. I do believe in this last principle: or, to explain myself better, you have no right to spam the forums with "OMG LEET how do i download this?", followed by "LOL no i don't know where i saved it", and then (when you finally get around to install & update & create char & actually enter the bloody city) "SOMEONE GIMME A WEAPON PLS KTHX BTW THIS GAME SUCKS BIG TIME". Sorry for the caps... they were intended to mirror what happens in there all the time.
If you don't want something to get freely archived and redistributed by countless 3rd parties outside your control, why don't you just try not posting it on Usenet?
If you don't want your credit card number/SSN to get freely archived and redistributed by countless 3rd parties outside your control, why don't you just try not using a credit card/giving your SSN to anyone?
Strangely enough, when it comes to Google everything's ok in Slashdot's book. But every other corp must be some incarnation of the devil. Care to explain your double standard?
I believe it's PlaneShift you're looking for. http://www.planeshift.it/. The domain is .it but the site is in English and most players in game have standardized on English too.
So you'd be against spending $40 less each month with that being offset by government spending?
Yes. Government = me, because I work. Apparently, you don't. Loser.
Would you also to pay tolls for every road that you use?
Yes. Actually, I already do.
How about paying a tax every time you cross state lines on each good that you purchase?
It's their right to ask me. It's my right not to conduct business in their country.
How about paying into a private militia to protect you and your family from rival factions?
That would be awesome. Maybe our useless police would be disbanded and we'd have effective security.
You like to be in charge of collecting and purifying your own drinking water?
Yes. Even though it seems like I can pay someone to do that for me, if I don't want to do it.
What will happen is that my tax dollars will be used for that and that my friend is just wrong.
What has happened is certain legislators have realized that broadband has become a necessary and basic right. As an American citizen, you're forced to pay for certain things for yours and others benefit. This is win-win and you're a crybaby.
What has happened is you're a fucking bloodleech who wants to surf with my money. This is a no-no and you're a fascist. Oh sorry I meant a communist. Oh well not much difference anyway.
You see... you're forced to X is always wrong. Loser.
What's so immoral, anti-social, or religious about giving someone a gift?
Nothing! There's nothing immoral in the BSD lic... oh wait...
You really think people should be free to rape/murder/rob?
It looks to me like rape, murder and robbery are very common indeed - they happen everyday. And how is your tiranny solving these problems? And, yes, you are lucky when people decide to "freely behave" like god guys are supposed to - in fact I take part in such good behaviour. However, you say:
You're free (everyone is) to behave however you want, you're just not going to be free from the consequences (no one is).
and this is bullsht. I am not free to behave how I want as long as an external, ad-hoc created entity uses its power to force me into/out of things. As much as you like to think so, a government is NOT some kind of being that spontaneously arises from the common good will of the people. That's called a shop, a company, a service provider, etc.
I will submit to the consequences that society chooses to inflict upon me for my sins (which BTW amounts to burping from time to time, while you're almost depicting me like a serial rapist) as long as such rules arise spontaneously from the people around me. Not that I respect them, not at all... I simply am not trained/armed/powerful enough to behave with utmost disregard for those around me. Therefore I have to keep myself at bay and behave sensibly. That's called a social contract. But a government is certainly not a part in a contract - unless you think unilateral contracts can exist.
Finally, you just have to look at how well government-run services, violence, *whole economic systems* work (need I quote?) to realize the only way to handle things in society is not to handle them at all. What people want bad enough will happen.
Oh and you should really try to chill out. The mockery and attempted subtlety found in your post reek of repressed anger from miles away.