Well, if you knew more details you'd know that this story involves them also "persuading" at least 18 other countries not to attend the presentation, and not letting the man's relatives collect the prize for him etc. It's more than just them censoring things in their own country this time. This is just an update on that story.
It would be funny if it wasn't affecting so many peoples' lives. At least our own governments try to make their lies plausible and their political maneuvers relatively subtle.
Well, he could have chosen a better example. Purposely disturbing the balance of the ecosystem could potentially cause a lot more harm than letting a few starfish die after a storm.
Also, perhaps poking holes in what other people do was what the old man wanted to achieve in life. Certainly most people here on/. seem to be closer to the old man than the young one. Trolling or arguing online is fun!
I spent a lot of my childhood in the back garden destroying worms with rocket launchers, cluster bombs, flying sheep, and concrete donkeys. If only I lived in America I could be making millions right now.
Well, aside from Batman/Bruce Wayne being a fictional character, he's meant to be a crazy multi-billionaire, so I really doubt there would be "hundreds of thousands" of people with 20 times more money than him. What the hell are you smoking?
What about all the ones that died while he'd been away building his business? And surely if he was that bright he could have just made a device with a big net where he could run along and scoop up the starfish pretty quickly anyway. Hmm. I really don't get the point of this story, other than both the old man and the boy being douches.
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New Dell Precision workstation we got recently only has either DisplayPort or mini-HDMI connectors on the graphics card. There was an adapter included to convert to DVI output so I just used that.
It does have its legitimate uses. What about someone with, say, one hand? Or one finger? Capslock H Capslock e l l o period, one key at a time.
Well, the people I'm talking about have two hands, they're just really, really awful with computers. Even when typing one handed I still use shift. One finger, then yeah you don't have much choice. Bit of an extreme example though!
Even when I type all caps I still tend to use shift. Very occasionally I'll remember about caps lock. I suppose that could make me almost as bad as those who only use caps lock:P But actually, how do they get question marks and exclamation points if they don't know how to use the shift key?
So I am a free loading douche when the same music is legally streamed over digital radio every day, streamed over analog radio every day, streamed for free over the internet every day, all legal
And all properly licensed, and often ad supported.
Only a small selection of music is played on digital radio. If you can find exactly the songs you want at a quality you want, then good for you. I doubt you'll get many full albums though, and the quality will often be pretty mediocre compared to the lossless albums you can get on P2P networks or when buying a CD. You're legally allowed to record it, but you're not legally allowed to make copies for anyone else.
Extending this to say you should just be able to download anything over P2P is absurd. Your argument basically goes along the lines of "I've seen the trailer for free - so I should be allowed to watch the whole movie for free!".
The summary should have made a distinction between wrong and illegal. It definitely is illegal, but lots of people don't see it as wrong.
Also, finance is clearly involved otherwise these people would just buy the stuff. With movies you could still make the argument that BitTorrent is more convenient or higher quality than alternatives - especially outside of the US - but with music the only reason to receive/share music without the author's permission is that you're a freeloading douche. In my opinion, of course.
Why assume I'm American? I'm Scottish and live in the UK. I know fine you have to respect the laws of the country you're currently in, but saying sex without a condom is rape is pretty absurd. As some other people have pointed out though, starting sex with a condom and then purposefully breaking the condom is a different matter.
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The working class buys cheap goods at the expense of itself you mean. If America restricted imports too much then you'd be complaining about that too.
is like expecting U.S. citizens to be outraged over Gitmo
You mean they aren't? WTF..
Well, if you knew more details you'd know that this story involves them also "persuading" at least 18 other countries not to attend the presentation, and not letting the man's relatives collect the prize for him etc. It's more than just them censoring things in their own country this time. This is just an update on that story.
It would be funny if it wasn't affecting so many peoples' lives. At least our own governments try to make their lies plausible and their political maneuvers relatively subtle.
Well, he could have chosen a better example. Purposely disturbing the balance of the ecosystem could potentially cause a lot more harm than letting a few starfish die after a storm.
Also, perhaps poking holes in what other people do was what the old man wanted to achieve in life. Certainly most people here on /. seem to be closer to the old man than the young one. Trolling or arguing online is fun!
I spent a lot of my childhood in the back garden destroying worms with rocket launchers, cluster bombs, flying sheep, and concrete donkeys. If only I lived in America I could be making millions right now.
Wait.. why have I never noticed the innuendo in the name "Solid Snake" before? Surely I must have, but subsequently forgot..
Well, aside from Batman/Bruce Wayne being a fictional character, he's meant to be a crazy multi-billionaire, so I really doubt there would be "hundreds of thousands" of people with 20 times more money than him. What the hell are you smoking?
What about all the ones that died while he'd been away building his business? And surely if he was that bright he could have just made a device with a big net where he could run along and scoop up the starfish pretty quickly anyway. Hmm. I really don't get the point of this story, other than both the old man and the boy being douches.
New Dell Precision workstation we got recently only has either DisplayPort or mini-HDMI connectors on the graphics card. There was an adapter included to convert to DVI output so I just used that.
I have turned on Stickeykeys by mistake in the past, just through my regular keyboarding habits...
I did the same in the past when I used to use Windows - ended up just disabling it.
It does have its legitimate uses. What about someone with, say, one hand? Or one finger? Capslock H Capslock e l l o period, one key at a time.
Well, the people I'm talking about have two hands, they're just really, really awful with computers. Even when typing one handed I still use shift. One finger, then yeah you don't have much choice. Bit of an extreme example though!
Even when I type all caps I still tend to use shift. Very occasionally I'll remember about caps lock. I suppose that could make me almost as bad as those who only use caps lock :P But actually, how do they get question marks and exclamation points if they don't know how to use the shift key?
Well, it's good to know that the kids still have one loving and responsible parent, I hope they're okay.
Indeed. Actions taken by Anonymous have no power.
If it was going to come out at some point anyway, they may as well try to kill Wikileaks while they can.
We do voluntary DDoSes all the time. You've perhaps even helped out yourself. It's called Slashdotting.
If you post a comment elsewhere in this thread it will undo your mods.
I don't think they count as zombies when the botnet is voluntary. This is more like a coordinated attack by ninjas and pirates.
Stupid people probably don't even know shift works for caps. I've seen people pressing caps just to get a single capital letter in their password.
All we can say for sure is that he's well fucked.
So I am a free loading douche when the same music is legally streamed over digital radio every day, streamed over analog radio every day, streamed for free over the internet every day, all legal
And all properly licensed, and often ad supported.
Only a small selection of music is played on digital radio. If you can find exactly the songs you want at a quality you want, then good for you. I doubt you'll get many full albums though, and the quality will often be pretty mediocre compared to the lossless albums you can get on P2P networks or when buying a CD. You're legally allowed to record it, but you're not legally allowed to make copies for anyone else.
Extending this to say you should just be able to download anything over P2P is absurd. Your argument basically goes along the lines of "I've seen the trailer for free - so I should be allowed to watch the whole movie for free!".
The word "ignorant" applies to you here.
It was meant to be a double entendre.
why would anyone 'break' a condom
Because they remove a lot of the sensation and pleasure of having sex..
The summary should have made a distinction between wrong and illegal. It definitely is illegal, but lots of people don't see it as wrong.
Also, finance is clearly involved otherwise these people would just buy the stuff. With movies you could still make the argument that BitTorrent is more convenient or higher quality than alternatives - especially outside of the US - but with music the only reason to receive/share music without the author's permission is that you're a freeloading douche. In my opinion, of course.
Someone here mentioned a fingernail. Otherwise you could just be really rough.
Why assume I'm American? I'm Scottish and live in the UK. I know fine you have to respect the laws of the country you're currently in, but saying sex without a condom is rape is pretty absurd. As some other people have pointed out though, starting sex with a condom and then purposefully breaking the condom is a different matter.