It's just a control game. He doesn't trust them with something he built and they intend to prove that he's a peon. The normal government crap to keep people down. I hope childs generates enough stink to get attention on the upper shitheads that started this.
"Waterboard in this case would be simpler, safer, and better for everyone."
And extremely illegal, quite a bit more illegal than anything childs did, slimey. You guys talk about the powers that be, well childs just aced them since he controls the machine. This seems more about control games and egos than anything else. The system works fine, the people are fucked, and they did it to themselves. He didn't flip out, they fucked with him and he fucked them back. If you think waterboarding is ok suffer it yourself, unethical...
"But the researchers do note a disturbing trend towards omitting harder kinds of math questions from standardized tests."
So in other words they dumbed down the tests, just like in every other field. Reminds me of the military when they lowered the standards to allow women in the eighties.
Actually the university and the student should be compensated and I don't mean by just a paycheck. Personally I don't think businesses should be on public campuses as it injects a private, greed driven bias and corruption into a public institution. Let's not forget the public is actually sponsoring this. You know facilities, brain trust(students and professors), research, and labor(students) all paid for the public and students. It should be a shared patent otherwise microsoft should build their own lab and hire their own engineers and do their own independent research from the ground up.
"And leaving a game up for days or weeks, completely unattended, without having your cats nap on the middle of the board or eat the pieces? Priceless."
Your cats only napped and ate pieces?? You're lucky. Mine became their kitty litter while it was on the diner table right before a 4th of july party at home. After seeing this story I guess the cats were right, I just wish they had picked a different day.
"Can you imagine if we we still had to pay royalties to whatever company bought the rights to Shakespeare's estate every time a school drama club wanted to put on Hamlet?"
Yes, no one would put on a show of Hamlet, the only good excuse for IP law I can think of.
"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you -- Screaming Lord Sutch"
It's a little to late to realize though, isn't it? How about before you don't succeed.
Even 4 million, more would be better, individual lawsuits directed at the ISPs. The costs alone would stop them. The minute the politcos see the figures I don't think this will get anywhere. If it does get anywhere, knock them out of power. You can always bring back flogging of public officials who even think of passing this crap while reminding them of who they actually work for. I know your country prides itself on law but when special interests hi-jack the law it becomes who has the biggest guns. You could try to remind them that you're the biggest special interest but I doubt it will do much without money and threat of physical harm behind it. You know, something to really worry them. Although, I think the biggest threat to lawyers and judges is the abolition of self-sustaining law.
Most of the useful(java plugin) or popular apps(games, some business) are not as stable in 64-bit if they exist at all(skype) so why put out a 64 bit distro especially when cutting edge means nothing and stability is paramount. What little speed increase you see, assuming in the end there is any, will be offset by the increased distro size and instabilities of going 64-bit. If you want a 64 bit slackware distro there's bluewhite64. Damn primadonas.
Is it just me or aren't there federal laws on the books for this kind of crap? There seems to be for everything else. Even if it has to be extended a little, you know rackettering, harrassment, there has to be something there after over 200 years that comes close. Much of the online world is no different that the real world at the economic and social level, money changes hands, people lie to get money, same old shit, just more of it online and at a faster pace.
"in a genre bending alt-future-retro world where mechani-punk technology meets space opera in a blend of the best of Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle."
Hasn't anyone noticed that there's a money crunch going on. 10 to 1 his bosses just wanted to get access so they could start stripping it to get their bonuses for saving money. Childs just wouldn't let the incompetent fools screw up the city IT that's been working and still is working just to save their asses.
So the BSA is just a bunch of racketeers. The claymore is to good for the bastards, kill'em individually on national TV and youtube with an olive fork in the middle of CSI:whatever(more shows per week more kills). And start with the genitals, especially with the women.
Maybe you should have gotten him fired for wiping your machine for no reason except to cover his ass and charged extra hours for rebuilding the machine.
"Are your roads in order, is the traffic calm and orderly? Do you have electricity in your home? Are you being raided by armed bandits? what about clean water, can you drink the water coming out of your faucet? What about the mail, is it being delivered?"
I drive very little on the death traps I have for roads as I have a bicycle and a horse. Thanks to gas prices there is very little traffic anyway. As for electricity I generate my own and what little I get from outside I pay for. Armed bandits?? They lost and haven't had problems since. I have a well and water collection system and distill what I drink. The only mail I get is the odd bill and other garbage. I won't get into the waste of paying for other peoples brats to go to school/babysitter.
If you compare the level of taxes paid to the services received you'll find many of us, you know the public, are ripped off. I'm not saying government does nothing, just very damn little that's meaningful versus the money spent. They do plenty if you're talking about going in circles as slowly as possible. Just look our current troubles and you can see how well our tax dollars have been and are being spent.
When I was still in college I had heard of a programmer at one of the nearby companies had rigged the payroll system she wrote. I guess they hired her on little more than a vocal agreement and fired her after they thought the job was finished. Oddly enough she thought she had a long term job, go figure. Anyway, her payroll system was setup to payout $100,000 checks to every employee on payday one month after her name was off the rolls. Suffice it to say they had to hire her back with real terms of employment and she made them follow through with their previous agreement as well.
Just remember, capitalism is a dog eat dog system. If you don't protect yourself, no one else will. Business and government are notorious for screwing people when its convenient and even when its not, even those they depend upon. Just remember, even if you have a glowing employee record, there's always going to be some prick above or even below you that can intentionally or unintentionally mess things up, that's when you don't do it yourself.
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It's just a control game. He doesn't trust them with something he built and they intend to prove that he's a peon. The normal government crap to keep people down. I hope childs generates enough stink to get attention on the upper shitheads that started this.
In this psychopathic backstabbing country and especially these economic times its definitely job security.
"Waterboard in this case would be simpler, safer, and better for everyone."
And extremely illegal, quite a bit more illegal than anything childs did, slimey. You guys talk about the powers that be, well childs just aced them since he controls the machine. This seems more about control games and egos than anything else. The system works fine, the people are fucked, and they did it to themselves. He didn't flip out, they fucked with him and he fucked them back. If you think waterboarding is ok suffer it yourself, unethical ...
No! The politicos of the current study made a mistake in their math.
"But the researchers do note a disturbing trend towards omitting harder kinds of math questions from standardized tests."
So in other words they dumbed down the tests, just like in every other field. Reminds me of the military when they lowered the standards to allow women in the eighties.
Seems kind of biased to me.
Actually the university and the student should be compensated and I don't mean by just a paycheck. Personally I don't think businesses should be on public campuses as it injects a private, greed driven bias and corruption into a public institution. Let's not forget the public is actually sponsoring this. You know facilities, brain trust(students and professors), research, and labor(students) all paid for the public and students. It should be a shared patent otherwise microsoft should build their own lab and hire their own engineers and do their own independent research from the ground up.
"And leaving a game up for days or weeks, completely unattended, without having your cats nap on the middle of the board or eat the pieces? Priceless."
Your cats only napped and ate pieces?? You're lucky. Mine became their kitty litter while it was on the diner table right before a 4th of july party at home. After seeing this story I guess the cats were right, I just wish they had picked a different day.
"Can you imagine if we we still had to pay royalties to whatever company bought the rights to Shakespeare's estate every time a school drama club wanted to put on Hamlet?"
Yes, no one would put on a show of Hamlet, the only good excuse for IP law I can think of.
And if they're right?
It wasn't that many members, just the corporates caved in to the few that complained.
"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you -- Screaming Lord Sutch" It's a little to late to realize though, isn't it? How about before you don't succeed.
Even 4 million, more would be better, individual lawsuits directed at the ISPs. The costs alone would stop them. The minute the politcos see the figures I don't think this will get anywhere. If it does get anywhere, knock them out of power. You can always bring back flogging of public officials who even think of passing this crap while reminding them of who they actually work for. I know your country prides itself on law but when special interests hi-jack the law it becomes who has the biggest guns. You could try to remind them that you're the biggest special interest but I doubt it will do much without money and threat of physical harm behind it. You know, something to really worry them. Although, I think the biggest threat to lawyers and judges is the abolition of self-sustaining law.
Most of the useful(java plugin) or popular apps(games, some business) are not as stable in 64-bit if they exist at all(skype) so why put out a 64 bit distro especially when cutting edge means nothing and stability is paramount. What little speed increase you see, assuming in the end there is any, will be offset by the increased distro size and instabilities of going 64-bit. If you want a 64 bit slackware distro there's bluewhite64. Damn primadonas.
except many necessary applications that work well aren't.
You forgot two:
8. Wish for jlowery real name released to community before slashdot closure.
9. Wish for jlowery's slow execution by former slashdot community.
Finished it for you and finished you as well.
Is it just me or aren't there federal laws on the books for this kind of crap? There seems to be for everything else. Even if it has to be extended a little, you know rackettering, harrassment, there has to be something there after over 200 years that comes close. Much of the online world is no different that the real world at the economic and social level, money changes hands, people lie to get money, same old shit, just more of it online and at a faster pace.
Neither of you must be home much or use anything. I live alone and my use was never below 400kwh and has often been around 1000kwh or more per month.
"in a genre bending alt-future-retro world where mechani-punk technology meets space opera in a blend of the best of Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle."
Geek crap.
Hasn't anyone noticed that there's a money crunch going on. 10 to 1 his bosses just wanted to get access so they could start stripping it to get their bonuses for saving money. Childs just wouldn't let the incompetent fools screw up the city IT that's been working and still is working just to save their asses.
So the BSA is just a bunch of racketeers. The claymore is to good for the bastards, kill'em individually on national TV and youtube with an olive fork in the middle of CSI:whatever(more shows per week more kills). And start with the genitals, especially with the women.
Fuck the spelling, how 'bout decent editing and selection?
Maybe you should have gotten him fired for wiping your machine for no reason except to cover his ass and charged extra hours for rebuilding the machine.
"Are your roads in order, is the traffic calm and orderly? Do you have electricity in your home? Are you being raided by armed bandits? what about clean water, can you drink the water coming out of your faucet? What about the mail, is it being delivered?"
I drive very little on the death traps I have for roads as I have a bicycle and a horse. Thanks to gas prices there is very little traffic anyway. As for electricity I generate my own and what little I get from outside I pay for. Armed bandits?? They lost and haven't had problems since. I have a well and water collection system and distill what I drink. The only mail I get is the odd bill and other garbage. I won't get into the waste of paying for other peoples brats to go to school/babysitter.
If you compare the level of taxes paid to the services received you'll find many of us, you know the public, are ripped off. I'm not saying government does nothing, just very damn little that's meaningful versus the money spent. They do plenty if you're talking about going in circles as slowly as possible. Just look our current troubles and you can see how well our tax dollars have been and are being spent.
When I was still in college I had heard of a programmer at one of the nearby companies had rigged the payroll system she wrote. I guess they hired her on little more than a vocal agreement and fired her after they thought the job was finished. Oddly enough she thought she had a long term job, go figure. Anyway, her payroll system was setup to payout $100,000 checks to every employee on payday one month after her name was off the rolls. Suffice it to say they had to hire her back with real terms of employment and she made them follow through with their previous agreement as well.
Just remember, capitalism is a dog eat dog system. If you don't protect yourself, no one else will. Business and government are notorious for screwing people when its convenient and even when its not, even those they depend upon. Just remember, even if you have a glowing employee record, there's always going to be some prick above or even below you that can intentionally or unintentionally mess things up, that's when you don't do it yourself.
oblig. futurama response: "What are you, gay?"
When I was ten, any good-looking female worked for me and especially when she was a teen.