It's a bit easier to act like weeding people out based on how they fall victim to crime is a good thing when you are a hundred percent sure that you wouldn't fall for the crime discussed. On Slashdot, people act like they are smarter than crime because they don't fall for phone scams and banner ads but maybe they would fall victim to bullets that weren't aimed at them but.. oh shit look you walked in the wrong area at the wrong time of night! Well aren't you glad those nice guntoting thugs taught you a valuable lesson? Plus so much criminal shit happens to people who don't deserve it, but hey anyone dumb enough to not know how to use a computer (aka has a different focus in life then me) deserves to get ripped off.
Yeah but I mean you could also say that it is good that a 16 year old learned not to wear cocktail dresses after a certain time on a certain block too. A bit extreme, I know, but people shouldn't have to learn anything like that nor should they be expected to be happy about having a worldier view now that they have fallen victim. Yeah, people should educate and make it clear these things are bad ideas but it's never the person's fault whose focus isn't on the terrible things that could happen to them that by no fault of their own they aren't even entirely aware of.
Um actually it would be violent because coercing someone by displaying a firearm has the implicit attachment of "do what I say or I will shoot you". If you fuck around and hold someone up with a toy gun and think you can get cutesy with the police saying "hang on officers let me remember just what those ACLU videos told me about getting arrested oh and by the way it was a toy gun lol so you guys cant even get me in trouble" you would be in for a shitty surprise. Fucking around with toy guns can get you in trouble; for example making them appear real and threatening someone with violence is also illegal even if you had no intention or ability to follow through.
Jobs came back and reinvented the company. iWhatever became the big thing (iPods, iTunes, iMac) along with OS X bringing Apple up from OS 9. Microsoft, however, was still on XP and Apple's architecture was still PPC. There was still the Apple to PC gap, to some extent. Then time went on and Windows fucked up with Vista while Apple switched to Intel. Apple became more and more known for usability and style and while Microsoft flailed around with Vista, Apple became more popular and the bridge was no longer there between Apples and PCs because of the x86 architecture switchover and the modern sophistication of operating systems in general, that unlike in the 90s did not need to transfer data via properly formatted floppies and other stupid but old fashioned barriers that made it just that much more complicated to deal with things between Windows and Mac.
Apple is around because they aren't the same as they used to be and now the PC market has become not just a competition between brands supported by Windows, but also somewhat of a competition between Windows and Mac. Apple also isn't going for a Lian Li look, they go for a very specific look that fits with their iLook for that year. I used to run a PC in a cool case too with a sidewindow and leds and I think it looked bad ass too, but Apple is looking for something that doesn't say hardcore but balanced design and I think their stuff pulls that off as well.
Hm well I get mod points every other day and browse at -1, and use my mod points fairly and to be honest I see a lot of other mods marking anyone who defended Apple a troll more than anyone who said something bad at Apple being a troll. I end up trying to undo a lot of shitty moderation used on someone who said something completely uninflammatory about Apple but I don't ever really see anyone who says something trollish and inflammatory getting modded down and instead they seem to be jerked off about their insightful post for about 20 comments.
It is theft because the right to own the media is a service. The music is not a good, the right to own it is. Copying the music and thus not paying for your right to own it and play it is theft because the song was produced with the intention of making back money by selling the rights to own it. To undermine this business model, that has been clearly laid out in a way to declare copying of music to be theft, is indeed theft because it illegally detracts from the profits of the music company. If you don't like the business model, if you think the records companies are stupid and outdated, well it doesn't matter. In the end, all of our popular music is produced by these people and they believe that the right to own music costs money. We wouldn't have these artists if they gave us the music for free. The reason why copying intellectual property wasn't declared in Hammurabi's Code and what not is because we have never had a medium in which duplicating property was so easy and free. However, intellectual property has always been protected by COPYright which is to say, the implied right of the creator or other copyright holder to copy something for distribution. The ease of freedom to copy something is a red herring that confuses everyone, including the people in the record companies who know that we are going to have to figure something else out realistically, but just because you can copy a song in a split second with pretty much no cost to you, it does not mean it isn't theft as it stands now.
The illegality of theft has been around since civilization decided to organize itself. Maybe we could chop people's hands off still? See it hasn't gotten worse, it's gotten better. Sorry you are a deadbeat and can't afford to buy music:(
Yeah man, capitalism sucks. I want material goods but I hate paying for them. I hate the idea that other people want material goods as well! Why should I subsidize their capitalistic lifestyles? I want things but I don't want to pay and since I disagree with capitalism, I'm not going to pay. I'm going to mumble about shitty business models reliant on money exchanged for goods and/or services because I think goods and services should exist for free as I honestly cannot perceive a world in which other people want to benefit from their work. As far as I know, I'm the only one who wants things and I want them for free. Fuck yours got mine and capitalism sucks because corporations have a disconnect with me wanting everything for free and I can easily expand that to them having a disconnect with everyone.
Getting a picture of a skull with a pair of crossed machine guns under it with a Confederate flag in the background is one thing, being a math nerd and getting some equations inked is quite another.
They are different. For starters, one is badass. I'll give you a hint: it's not the one that you wish was badass.
Haha it's like when you see a dorky guy who has somehow risen to the top of the misfits gang in small to medium sized social setting, and all of the misfits follow his every word because even though they are the lowest rung in the general population, their leader is the highest rung in their specific population.
"Frances, go get me some milk and maybe I'll give you some tips on how to get laid *snort*!"
"Hey guys, I got a dissertation explaining the concept behind discrete logarithms tattooed above my junk because as far as we can tell, this discrete log is always hard!!!"
By our calculations the sun would have consumed the earth before that man even had a chance of getting laid.
Oh well he'd probably insist that he'd have gotten screwed if he'd just given out his private key; the private key of course being the key to unlock his privates from the chastity belt he's wearing for some punrelated reason.
Seriously though he's way too cryptic no woman would go for that. Except maybe Eve; she's crazy too, always trying to listen in on people's conversations. He actually had her one time at his pad. They smoked some hash but it just made him exponentially more secretive.
How about don't get a tattoo and then tell everyone observing it that their observation has changed the outcome of the tattoo and in fact you didn't get one, but only because everyone looked
Oh yeah it's culturally condescending to think tattoos are stupid. Actually this makes sense; all those white guys with tattoos like to think of themselves as being a different culture then those "straight edge" white folk who don't get tattoos. I can just see them living out a Hanes ad except instead of Michael Jordan it's some random black guy they meet on the street and instead of bonding over the fact they both wear Hanes, the white guy desperately tries to explain why he's actually more like a black guy than other white men thanks to his tattoos, as a very bemused African American tries to offer him money so he goes away.
The guy in the article should get the above post as a tattoo because it proves that networking wormholes are real as predicted by Stephen Hawking! In this example, a post meant for Myspace in the year 2004 has found it's way through space and time to here!
Hm I dunno if you are getting a tattoo because you want a tattoo why not go for traditional? Tattoos exist to look badass and although you might think the things you listed are douchey or trashy, what really is the point of a tattoo in the first place? On the other hand, if you are getting a tattoo to be ironic or drive home the fact that you are a man centered around knowledge and learning, you are being extremely shortsighted and typecasting yourself as someone who loves to make fun of how twinky and nerdy they are, and while that may be funny or cute occasionally and everyone needs to laugh at themselves, I don't quite see the point of going through life being self deprecating because you like math. And before someone says "HAI DICK, THEY JUST LIKE MATH THATS WHY THEY ARE GETTING THE TATTOO" you are wrong. They get the tattoos because they are desperate for some kind of social interaction and think that by stamping themselves with something "nerdy", they will become more popular. It is like saying "hey look at me I'm a nerd and I can prove it!" and getting a few cheap laughs and girls who have no intention of sleeping with them saying "hey can I see your tattoo:*"
No other profession except "Badass" results in people getting related tattoos. It is simply done in a pathetic way to "embrace" the whole "haha you are a nerd" thing, when in reality if you haven't grown out of that after high school then you are just as bad as the people who peaked playing football in highschool who no doubt used to beat you up before going nowhere in their life. Seriously, having a profession in the math or science field should not result in someone making self deprecating declarations in the form of tattoos just because they feel there is some sort of nerd status penis size thing they have to live up to.
When I was a little kid and I would tell my parents how I wanted a tattoo (of a Power Ranger or something), my mom would always say "If you had been allowed to get a tattoo of Barney when you were three, how do you think you would feel about it now that you are in Kindergarten? Wouldn't that have been a bad idea?"
Hell fucking no it wouldn't have been a bad idea! If I had gotten that Barney tattoo all that would mean was that I was a hardcore fucking three year old. "Why do you have that Barney tattoo?" the ladies would now ask, 18 years later. "Because I kicked my way out of the fucking womb, got drunk, and socked my dad in the face before he'd even met me," I'd say, taking a drag from the Marlboro precariously resting off-kilter on my lip.
- My niece tattooed a rose on her ankle. It was cute on her young high school body.
Hold on their chief let's not get too excited. Remember, she's family! Also why the hell did a highschooler get a tattoo? Isn't there minimum age laws where you live? That is precisely why they exist... to prevent stupid decisions being made as a 16 year old that one will later regret.
Dude look at any Apple thread on Slashdot and all people did was say the iPad was going to tank. Maybe not be the death of Apple, but the parent was exaggerating. When the iPad didn't tank people quickly changed their views, doublethink style, to "oh we always knew it would sell millions but it still sucks on principle"
FUCK I wish I hadn't posted here already, I was going to mod this insightful and whoever modded it flamebait can go take their Loonix fueled spergmodding and commit suicide:)
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It's a bit easier to act like weeding people out based on how they fall victim to crime is a good thing when you are a hundred percent sure that you wouldn't fall for the crime discussed. On Slashdot, people act like they are smarter than crime because they don't fall for phone scams and banner ads but maybe they would fall victim to bullets that weren't aimed at them but.. oh shit look you walked in the wrong area at the wrong time of night! Well aren't you glad those nice guntoting thugs taught you a valuable lesson? Plus so much criminal shit happens to people who don't deserve it, but hey anyone dumb enough to not know how to use a computer (aka has a different focus in life then me) deserves to get ripped off.
Yeah but I mean you could also say that it is good that a 16 year old learned not to wear cocktail dresses after a certain time on a certain block too. A bit extreme, I know, but people shouldn't have to learn anything like that nor should they be expected to be happy about having a worldier view now that they have fallen victim. Yeah, people should educate and make it clear these things are bad ideas but it's never the person's fault whose focus isn't on the terrible things that could happen to them that by no fault of their own they aren't even entirely aware of.
Um actually it would be violent because coercing someone by displaying a firearm has the implicit attachment of "do what I say or I will shoot you". If you fuck around and hold someone up with a toy gun and think you can get cutesy with the police saying "hang on officers let me remember just what those ACLU videos told me about getting arrested oh and by the way it was a toy gun lol so you guys cant even get me in trouble" you would be in for a shitty surprise. Fucking around with toy guns can get you in trouble; for example making them appear real and threatening someone with violence is also illegal even if you had no intention or ability to follow through.
Jobs came back and reinvented the company. iWhatever became the big thing (iPods, iTunes, iMac) along with OS X bringing Apple up from OS 9. Microsoft, however, was still on XP and Apple's architecture was still PPC. There was still the Apple to PC gap, to some extent. Then time went on and Windows fucked up with Vista while Apple switched to Intel. Apple became more and more known for usability and style and while Microsoft flailed around with Vista, Apple became more popular and the bridge was no longer there between Apples and PCs because of the x86 architecture switchover and the modern sophistication of operating systems in general, that unlike in the 90s did not need to transfer data via properly formatted floppies and other stupid but old fashioned barriers that made it just that much more complicated to deal with things between Windows and Mac.
Apple is around because they aren't the same as they used to be and now the PC market has become not just a competition between brands supported by Windows, but also somewhat of a competition between Windows and Mac. Apple also isn't going for a Lian Li look, they go for a very specific look that fits with their iLook for that year. I used to run a PC in a cool case too with a sidewindow and leds and I think it looked bad ass too, but Apple is looking for something that doesn't say hardcore but balanced design and I think their stuff pulls that off as well.
Hm well I get mod points every other day and browse at -1, and use my mod points fairly and to be honest I see a lot of other mods marking anyone who defended Apple a troll more than anyone who said something bad at Apple being a troll. I end up trying to undo a lot of shitty moderation used on someone who said something completely uninflammatory about Apple but I don't ever really see anyone who says something trollish and inflammatory getting modded down and instead they seem to be jerked off about their insightful post for about 20 comments.
I thought California was bankrupt or something. But I guess this is the biggest problem.
Pringles come in stacks? No wonder their slogan is "once you pop the fun don't stop!"
And sun chips come in compostable bags make from b-trees.
DATA STRUCTURES AND TATER CHIPS, SLASHDOT, WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT
Probably because on a mobile form factor, handling video inline is still not mature enough?
But dont you remember AIFF containers wrapping MP3 codecs with 128 bit rates ????
It is theft because the right to own the media is a service. The music is not a good, the right to own it is. Copying the music and thus not paying for your right to own it and play it is theft because the song was produced with the intention of making back money by selling the rights to own it. To undermine this business model, that has been clearly laid out in a way to declare copying of music to be theft, is indeed theft because it illegally detracts from the profits of the music company. If you don't like the business model, if you think the records companies are stupid and outdated, well it doesn't matter. In the end, all of our popular music is produced by these people and they believe that the right to own music costs money. We wouldn't have these artists if they gave us the music for free. The reason why copying intellectual property wasn't declared in Hammurabi's Code and what not is because we have never had a medium in which duplicating property was so easy and free. However, intellectual property has always been protected by COPYright which is to say, the implied right of the creator or other copyright holder to copy something for distribution. The ease of freedom to copy something is a red herring that confuses everyone, including the people in the record companies who know that we are going to have to figure something else out realistically, but just because you can copy a song in a split second with pretty much no cost to you, it does not mean it isn't theft as it stands now.
The illegality of theft has been around since civilization decided to organize itself. Maybe we could chop people's hands off still? See it hasn't gotten worse, it's gotten better. Sorry you are a deadbeat and can't afford to buy music :(
Yeah man, capitalism sucks. I want material goods but I hate paying for them. I hate the idea that other people want material goods as well! Why should I subsidize their capitalistic lifestyles? I want things but I don't want to pay and since I disagree with capitalism, I'm not going to pay. I'm going to mumble about shitty business models reliant on money exchanged for goods and/or services because I think goods and services should exist for free as I honestly cannot perceive a world in which other people want to benefit from their work. As far as I know, I'm the only one who wants things and I want them for free. Fuck yours got mine and capitalism sucks because corporations have a disconnect with me wanting everything for free and I can easily expand that to them having a disconnect with everyone.
Getting a picture of a skull with a pair of crossed machine guns under it with a Confederate flag in the background is one thing, being a math nerd and getting some equations inked is quite another.
They are different. For starters, one is badass. I'll give you a hint: it's not the one that you wish was badass.
Haha it's like when you see a dorky guy who has somehow risen to the top of the misfits gang in small to medium sized social setting, and all of the misfits follow his every word because even though they are the lowest rung in the general population, their leader is the highest rung in their specific population.
"Frances, go get me some milk and maybe I'll give you some tips on how to get laid *snort*!"
"Hey guys, I got a dissertation explaining the concept behind discrete logarithms tattooed above my junk because as far as we can tell, this discrete log is always hard!!!"
By our calculations the sun would have consumed the earth before that man even had a chance of getting laid.
Oh well he'd probably insist that he'd have gotten screwed if he'd just given out his private key; the private key of course being the key to unlock his privates from the chastity belt he's wearing for some punrelated reason.
Seriously though he's way too cryptic no woman would go for that. Except maybe Eve; she's crazy too, always trying to listen in on people's conversations. He actually had her one time at his pad. They smoked some hash but it just made him exponentially more secretive.
How about don't get a tattoo and then tell everyone observing it that their observation has changed the outcome of the tattoo and in fact you didn't get one, but only because everyone looked
Oh yeah it's culturally condescending to think tattoos are stupid. Actually this makes sense; all those white guys with tattoos like to think of themselves as being a different culture then those "straight edge" white folk who don't get tattoos. I can just see them living out a Hanes ad except instead of Michael Jordan it's some random black guy they meet on the street and instead of bonding over the fact they both wear Hanes, the white guy desperately tries to explain why he's actually more like a black guy than other white men thanks to his tattoos, as a very bemused African American tries to offer him money so he goes away.
The guy in the article should get the above post as a tattoo because it proves that networking wormholes are real as predicted by Stephen Hawking! In this example, a post meant for Myspace in the year 2004 has found it's way through space and time to here!
Hm I dunno if you are getting a tattoo because you want a tattoo why not go for traditional? Tattoos exist to look badass and although you might think the things you listed are douchey or trashy, what really is the point of a tattoo in the first place? On the other hand, if you are getting a tattoo to be ironic or drive home the fact that you are a man centered around knowledge and learning, you are being extremely shortsighted and typecasting yourself as someone who loves to make fun of how twinky and nerdy they are, and while that may be funny or cute occasionally and everyone needs to laugh at themselves, I don't quite see the point of going through life being self deprecating because you like math. And before someone says "HAI DICK, THEY JUST LIKE MATH THATS WHY THEY ARE GETTING THE TATTOO" you are wrong. They get the tattoos because they are desperate for some kind of social interaction and think that by stamping themselves with something "nerdy", they will become more popular. It is like saying "hey look at me I'm a nerd and I can prove it!" and getting a few cheap laughs and girls who have no intention of sleeping with them saying "hey can I see your tattoo :*"
No other profession except "Badass" results in people getting related tattoos. It is simply done in a pathetic way to "embrace" the whole "haha you are a nerd" thing, when in reality if you haven't grown out of that after high school then you are just as bad as the people who peaked playing football in highschool who no doubt used to beat you up before going nowhere in their life. Seriously, having a profession in the math or science field should not result in someone making self deprecating declarations in the form of tattoos just because they feel there is some sort of nerd status penis size thing they have to live up to.
When I was a little kid and I would tell my parents how I wanted a tattoo (of a Power Ranger or something), my mom would always say "If you had been allowed to get a tattoo of Barney when you were three, how do you think you would feel about it now that you are in Kindergarten? Wouldn't that have been a bad idea?"
Hell fucking no it wouldn't have been a bad idea! If I had gotten that Barney tattoo all that would mean was that I was a hardcore fucking three year old. "Why do you have that Barney tattoo?" the ladies would now ask, 18 years later. "Because I kicked my way out of the fucking womb, got drunk, and socked my dad in the face before he'd even met me," I'd say, taking a drag from the Marlboro precariously resting off-kilter on my lip.
Once again, my parents ruined my life.
- My niece tattooed a rose on her ankle. It was cute on her young high school body.
Hold on their chief let's not get too excited. Remember, she's family!
Also why the hell did a highschooler get a tattoo? Isn't there minimum age laws where you live? That is precisely why they exist... to prevent stupid decisions being made as a 16 year old that one will later regret.
Dude look at any Apple thread on Slashdot and all people did was say the iPad was going to tank. Maybe not be the death of Apple, but the parent was exaggerating. When the iPad didn't tank people quickly changed their views, doublethink style, to "oh we always knew it would sell millions but it still sucks on principle"
Yup, that's how people sell things
Oh wait no, this is Slashdot "MOMMY THEY CHEATED WITH MARKETING AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
FUCK I wish I hadn't posted here already, I was going to mod this insightful and whoever modded it flamebait can go take their Loonix fueled spergmodding and commit suicide :)
People who don't understand computers like I do are sheep. BRIDGIN THE GAP <("<)