As opposed to the political hacks from past administrations that compose the rest of Obama's appointees. So much for change. Industry leaders don't necessarily know the industry, they just won the back-stabbing contest.
President Obama. How about posting questions straight to slashdot, you might just get some true, no kiss-ass, answers for once from people who aren't trying to make points and kissing up to ambitions.
How about taking care of your own children and leaving the rest of us the f*ck out of it? Stop involving the rest of us in your reproductive choices. That goes for schools(speed zones), tax exemptions, various child laws, etc that screws the rest of us because you, ya that's you, decided to have a kid, a "ha ha" -- little darling, ah hell a little trouser stain. Stop dumping your responsibilities on the rest of us.
You forget that in this country we ignore laws that are on the books all the time. In many places there are speeding laws from the 1920s when the limit was still 15mph. They are still valid just not enforced. Its amazing that we deny kids all the freedoms that adults have, under the constitution they actually have them, and then we charge them with adult violations for doing things that are actually legal as adults. Just because some puritan prosecutor/lawmaker is in office shouldn't shift how laws are interpreted. I hope the kid/parents challenge on discrimination which is what it is. Let's not forget the idiot lawmakers who passed these crappy "for the children" laws that are now harrassing children.
Treat this as the kid to kid garbage that it is, There's no adults, well except the cops and school adminstrators (should they be charged too?), involved so I don't see how its child porn anyway. There's alot more out there to worry about than kids new version of "you show me your wee-wee and i'll show you mine". Any prosecutor that punishes for this, after all he probably did it too, should be run out on a rail. I won't get into what we should do to lawmakers wasting public time and money on this.
They wanted the bad review removed, it's a bribe. Now if they had just wanted a citation that the problem had be corrected or better no change at all, then its customer service. Although I don't know how you correct missing a due date. It's called taking your lumps or cost of doing business, etc. The public obviously has few ethics or backbone, that explains US political behavior though, so business can just keep lieing to us.
Maybe they all should learn to be a little mechanical knowledge. They might appreciate what they have more, you know, the car before the wreck. Maybe even realize the space between their ears and under their hair isn't just to expel hot air. They might even have an original thought, golly gee, off to college.
"including pulling strings to get the people pushing for this pressured to leave."
If true, shouldn't the public be worried if not outright angry about this? If anything it proves corporations have to much control over public government.
You forget, many of the companies are limited or just plain monopolies. They don't have to care about reputation as they always know they're going to get paid. So essentially we're getting screwed at both ends and still can't trust anybody. The government has some advantages as an issuer, it's huge, not going away soon, and bureaucracy helps keep the corruption away and eventually can be held accountable for what corruption there is as it's all public. Look at all the hundreds of business scandals of the last eight years and I doubt you can count on more than one hand the number of people held accountable for all of them. That's including the latest series of financial/real estate debacles. The threat of lawsuits hasn't been all that effective at reigning any of this in either. Business has advantages of being more dynamic, well, more than government, and the effects of competition in the market. I won't get into private records as neither side has any kind of shiny record.
According to many arguments, not just mine. Private companies, especially big companies, can't be trusted and neither can government. Guess we're screwed, eh folks?
Maybe go back to actually visiting and talking with people/businessmen and snail mail for business transactions.
"it's a "patriotic duty" to give your money to the govt so they can mismanage it?"
Oh, so it's ok to give our money to corporations so they can mismanage it.
Sending money to other countries to avoid taxes is tax evasion which is illegal and corporations using government functions without paying their fair share for their use should be. If Microsoft is big enough to manipulate world bodies(ISO) then it can do it's own enforcement. The federal government is not there to be the whipping boy for corporations, of course that's oblivious to current government behaviors. Maybe Obama will fix this to where it's a government for the people but I won't hold my breath for it.
"Its more marketable than 'pure' linux because there is a large company supporting it"
As opposed to linux being supported by redhat -- a linux only company from the beginning, IBM, Novell, etc. Many of which are bigger and have been around a lot longer than Sun. Sun is a similar situation to Microsoft, one company supporting one OS with nearly all the same dependencies and potential control games. Linux gets away from that with wide ranging support from an array of companies and organizations. Linux may not be perfect but it's enough to scare Microsoft which should say something about it's penetration. Sun, being late to the game, is trying to play the best hand it's got after watching the Microsoft nightmare.
Is everyone on this/. post stupid? The multimedia corporations are out to destroy a competing system. Otherwise why go to the trouble to alienate your base? Filesharing does a complete endrun around them and they don't like it. And like any major threat those corporations are reacting accordingly. They can't buy or control it themselves so as a group, this time hiding under a shell name RIAA, MPAA, etc (you know conspiracy), have government control or destroy it. Like it's governments business to keep corporations afloat. Funny, it does seem to happen alot though. This is a more or less normal business tactic that has been used by the auto industry(tucker) among others.
Quest for the rings was quite a game in its time. The graphics were primitive and it required alot of planning to have a game but it had its place. Fact is I played UFO and that gunfighter game more because no one in my family was into DND style multiplayer games. Like most games at the time, the packaging was pure art.
"someone. There are people that are "hopeless"
They end up crazy cat or dog people but I now can see that a robot wouldn't be any different then a cat or dog that a person bonds with.
I doubt many people would be lining up for the sex upgrade. I've meet some very lonely people (hospic for instance) and it's just the idea that there is someone there, be it a dog, or cat, or I suppose a robot. There are people that truely love their pets and bond with them. From cats, dogs, rats, bats, snakes, horses, goats, ferrits, birds of all sorts, and even fish. I suppose a robot would be no different really.
There are some people that aren't going to find companionship in life. I see quite a few mentally handicapped people in thier 70 and 80 (those that survive some rather barbaric eugenics movements) who never have been on a date. If a robot could have provided them some companionship, so be it.
Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age... but I just can seem to find the energy to mock this stuff anymore. I've seen too many lonley people suffering quietly who could use someone that fits some of the holes in their hearts. And sometimes you just need to hear someone speak to you. Some gaps, no pet can fill."
The arrogance.
Except their teachers and supposed to be intelligent and open minded and essentially learning more as the years go by to impress on/keep up with their students. A narrow minded drone is not someone I would like to send my kids to be educated by.
It's amazing when I was young and something like this went on the teacher was usually respectful and just asked that you do it at the end or after class. Many teachers would even give time at the end of class for it just to end the disruption at the moment. It mostly worked too.
Just remember kids are on the edge due hormones, inexperience, etc, all the emotional extremes which happen in that age group. Need proof, remember your own time as a teenager. A teacher chastising a kid in the middle of class should expect nothing less than an aggressive response, that's besides the regular excuse(don't trust anyone over 30 or is it 20 now?). Especially when the kid knows the teacher is wrong and getting first hand proof that guilty before innocent is normal.
Now for reality, teachers with this bent are not open minded enough to accept anything besides what they are told to teach. This one just proved she is outdated and should be somewhere else, doing something else. Personally I hope the kid sues.
But Lori Drew and friends did know this girl was unbalanced and used that knowledge to ill effect. I haven't seen any one argue that yet. The fact that the one who sent the final message, that essentially pushed the known unbalanced girl over the edge, got off says much to how meaningless this case has become. So much for teaching responsibility for words and actions to the young. If Drew is taking responsibility for the behaviors of the group then make her pay for intentionally contributing to the known unbalanced girls death. I'm sure there's a couple of laws somewhere that covers this.
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As opposed to the political hacks from past administrations that compose the rest of Obama's appointees. So much for change. Industry leaders don't necessarily know the industry, they just won the back-stabbing contest.
President Obama. How about posting questions straight to slashdot, you might just get some true, no kiss-ass, answers for once from people who aren't trying to make points and kissing up to ambitions.
"But, think of the children!"
F*ck the children! -- George Carlin
How about taking care of your own children and leaving the rest of us the f*ck out of it? Stop involving the rest of us in your reproductive choices. That goes for schools(speed zones), tax exemptions, various child laws, etc that screws the rest of us because you, ya that's you, decided to have a kid, a "ha ha" -- little darling, ah hell a little trouser stain. Stop dumping your responsibilities on the rest of us.
You forget that in this country we ignore laws that are on the books all the time. In many places there are speeding laws from the 1920s when the limit was still 15mph. They are still valid just not enforced. Its amazing that we deny kids all the freedoms that adults have, under the constitution they actually have them, and then we charge them with adult violations for doing things that are actually legal as adults. Just because some puritan prosecutor/lawmaker is in office shouldn't shift how laws are interpreted. I hope the kid/parents challenge on discrimination which is what it is. Let's not forget the idiot lawmakers who passed these crappy "for the children" laws that are now harrassing children.
Treat this as the kid to kid garbage that it is, There's no adults, well except the cops and school adminstrators (should they be charged too?), involved so I don't see how its child porn anyway. There's alot more out there to worry about than kids new version of "you show me your wee-wee and i'll show you mine". Any prosecutor that punishes for this, after all he probably did it too, should be run out on a rail. I won't get into what we should do to lawmakers wasting public time and money on this.
"Monster Cable's stuff isn't actually any better than the generic stuff!"
I have it, it's not.
They wanted the bad review removed, it's a bribe. Now if they had just wanted a citation that the problem had be corrected or better no change at all, then its customer service. Although I don't know how you correct missing a due date. It's called taking your lumps or cost of doing business, etc. The public obviously has few ethics or backbone, that explains US political behavior though, so business can just keep lieing to us.
Maybe they all should learn to be a little mechanical knowledge. They might appreciate what they have more, you know, the car before the wreck. Maybe even realize the space between their ears and under their hair isn't just to expel hot air. They might even have an original thought, golly gee, off to college.
"When Microsoft stops offering freebies, then switch to Linux."
Except when Microsoft stops offering freebies it'll be to late because the choice will be gone.
"including pulling strings to get the people pushing for this pressured to leave."
If true, shouldn't the public be worried if not outright angry about this? If anything it proves corporations have to much control over public government.
You forget, many of the companies are limited or just plain monopolies. They don't have to care about reputation as they always know they're going to get paid. So essentially we're getting screwed at both ends and still can't trust anybody. The government has some advantages as an issuer, it's huge, not going away soon, and bureaucracy helps keep the corruption away and eventually can be held accountable for what corruption there is as it's all public. Look at all the hundreds of business scandals of the last eight years and I doubt you can count on more than one hand the number of people held accountable for all of them. That's including the latest series of financial/real estate debacles. The threat of lawsuits hasn't been all that effective at reigning any of this in either. Business has advantages of being more dynamic, well, more than government, and the effects of competition in the market. I won't get into private records as neither side has any kind of shiny record.
According to many arguments, not just mine. Private companies, especially big companies, can't be trusted and neither can government. Guess we're screwed, eh folks?
Maybe go back to actually visiting and talking with people/businessmen and snail mail for business transactions.
"it's a "patriotic duty" to give your money to the govt so they can mismanage it?"
Oh, so it's ok to give our money to corporations so they can mismanage it.
Sending money to other countries to avoid taxes is tax evasion which is illegal and corporations using government functions without paying their fair share for their use should be. If Microsoft is big enough to manipulate world bodies(ISO) then it can do it's own enforcement. The federal government is not there to be the whipping boy for corporations, of course that's oblivious to current government behaviors. Maybe Obama will fix this to where it's a government for the people but I won't hold my breath for it.
"Its more marketable than 'pure' linux because there is a large company supporting it"
As opposed to linux being supported by redhat -- a linux only company from the beginning, IBM, Novell, etc. Many of which are bigger and have been around a lot longer than Sun. Sun is a similar situation to Microsoft, one company supporting one OS with nearly all the same dependencies and potential control games. Linux gets away from that with wide ranging support from an array of companies and organizations. Linux may not be perfect but it's enough to scare Microsoft which should say something about it's penetration. Sun, being late to the game, is trying to play the best hand it's got after watching the Microsoft nightmare.
Is everyone on this /. post stupid? The multimedia corporations are out to destroy a competing system. Otherwise why go to the trouble to alienate your base? Filesharing does a complete endrun around them and they don't like it. And like any major threat those corporations are reacting accordingly. They can't buy or control it themselves so as a group, this time hiding under a shell name RIAA, MPAA, etc (you know conspiracy), have government control or destroy it. Like it's governments business to keep corporations afloat. Funny, it does seem to happen alot though. This is a more or less normal business tactic that has been used by the auto industry(tucker) among others.
Quest for the rings was quite a game in its time. The graphics were primitive and it required alot of planning to have a game but it had its place. Fact is I played UFO and that gunfighter game more because no one in my family was into DND style multiplayer games. Like most games at the time, the packaging was pure art.
"I mean, what's next, honest reporting without hidden agendas?"
What?!! Not that!! The shock would be just too much! They'd wipe out the public.
The arrogance.
"someone. There are people that are "hopeless" They end up crazy cat or dog people but I now can see that a robot wouldn't be any different then a cat or dog that a person bonds with. I doubt many people would be lining up for the sex upgrade. I've meet some very lonely people (hospic for instance) and it's just the idea that there is someone there, be it a dog, or cat, or I suppose a robot. There are people that truely love their pets and bond with them. From cats, dogs, rats, bats, snakes, horses, goats, ferrits, birds of all sorts, and even fish. I suppose a robot would be no different really. There are some people that aren't going to find companionship in life. I see quite a few mentally handicapped people in thier 70 and 80 (those that survive some rather barbaric eugenics movements) who never have been on a date. If a robot could have provided them some companionship, so be it. Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age... but I just can seem to find the energy to mock this stuff anymore. I've seen too many lonley people suffering quietly who could use someone that fits some of the holes in their hearts. And sometimes you just need to hear someone speak to you. Some gaps, no pet can fill." The arrogance.
"doesn't belong on a site purportedly aimed at nerds." You know what nerds are right?
Waste money.
"it'd be about as much fun as watching a digital clock click off the time."
You talk like that's a bad thing. It'd be nice to come home and not be in the hole for something I didn't do.
Except their teachers and supposed to be intelligent and open minded and essentially learning more as the years go by to impress on/keep up with their students. A narrow minded drone is not someone I would like to send my kids to be educated by.
4. Dump slashdot.
It's amazing when I was young and something like this went on the teacher was usually respectful and just asked that you do it at the end or after class. Many teachers would even give time at the end of class for it just to end the disruption at the moment. It mostly worked too.
Just remember kids are on the edge due hormones, inexperience, etc, all the emotional extremes which happen in that age group. Need proof, remember your own time as a teenager. A teacher chastising a kid in the middle of class should expect nothing less than an aggressive response, that's besides the regular excuse(don't trust anyone over 30 or is it 20 now?). Especially when the kid knows the teacher is wrong and getting first hand proof that guilty before innocent is normal.
Now for reality, teachers with this bent are not open minded enough to accept anything besides what they are told to teach. This one just proved she is outdated and should be somewhere else, doing something else. Personally I hope the kid sues.
But Lori Drew and friends did know this girl was unbalanced and used that knowledge to ill effect. I haven't seen any one argue that yet. The fact that the one who sent the final message, that essentially pushed the known unbalanced girl over the edge, got off says much to how meaningless this case has become. So much for teaching responsibility for words and actions to the young. If Drew is taking responsibility for the behaviors of the group then make her pay for intentionally contributing to the known unbalanced girls death. I'm sure there's a couple of laws somewhere that covers this.