I think democrats tend to look at things like the swiftboat lies and other organized rumor mongering as what they'd like to have balanced.
I think broadcasters should have a fairness doctrine, to keep shams like Fox News from being so insanely one-sided. I think there is no reason why a moron like Shawn Hannity shouldn't have a show and his show should be as shitty and biased as he wants to make it, but Fox shouldn't be allowed to have one Hannity after another all day long.
MSNBC has a slew of center-right douchebags, but only one Keith Olberman, that's not balanced either. That traitor to our nation Lawernce Cudlow is blasted over the airwaves spewing lies and distortions to foster his Anti-American (That's American as in a person, the people whos jobs people like him send to slave-wage countries, not the scumbags who own and run our country).
I would like major media internet sites to also have a fairness doctrine, but how do you enforce that? How do you find out which sites are major media and which aren't? I would never want individual people and their websites to be subject to anykind of a fairness doctrine.
Traffic analysis could identify massive sites, then these sites could be checked out. Something like how a hair-dresser has to have training and a license not a FBI/SWAT/IRS teams showing up for a raid with guns and body armor. I think a site with millions of hits a day should have at least as much regulatory hassle as a hairdressing shop.
Republicans like less government because it makes rich people more powerful. It makes countries less democratic. According to conservatives Afghanistan should have been a paradise under the taliban and their mujahdeen predacessors. There was no government at all, guns and money were the only power. Suprise, surprise when they started machine gunning women in soccerfields.
The main reason for that is it is still a large investment for a single family house to go renewable.
Most people are renters, some of them are lucky if they get hot water let alone an landowner who will provide renewable engery sources. The owners just see that as money they spend to save their tenants money.
There are no more communities. There are just places where people live. Most people are dirtbags.
I also was a lad visiting the lab at Manchester! I don't know about you, but when I was there the engineers groped my cock. After that I was adicted to computer technology, if you know what i mean!
The internet was not intended for free exchange of information, it was made to help us destroy the red menace! It allows scientists to exchange data on nuking commies more efficently! Anything else is typical com-simp namby-pamby-ism!
You pay for it when you pay your ISP, whether that's some jerkoff in his house or youtube.com. Anyone else is an anti-net neutrality fascist trying to steal your money or restrict your freedom.
But before combating this "prefect storm" of digital theft, I want to know if it matters. What percentage of these "thieves" would have actually paid for the content if they had no way to easily copying it for free? I would argue most of these copies are made by people who would not have paid for it under any circumstances. How many of these copies last for one, or a partial listening/viewing and are immediately discarded because "they suck"?
The only reason the "music business" suffering less profit than before is because they promote terrible music, terrible bands and force-feed bullshit to consumers. The new technology gives people the ability to get the music, sitcoms and movies THEY want, when they want it. Not what some executive invests millions of dollars of promotion into.
They want to cripple and destroy multi-trillion dollar industries, and beyond that the whole electronic future of our civilization for the sake of a billon dollar industry with a bad business model. They want to regulate and take control of the new technology to enforce scarcity. Out with uploading, out with net-neutrality, etc.
That PCWorld website is the design that has the sux! What the fuck where they thinking, a slidebar? Plus so much java and flash, it took my 1.9ghz laptop forever to layout the page. Shit.
Speaking of bad design, its been a while since I've read slashdot, but man what the fucking is going on with its design and all the java/flash bullshit.
Islam not Racist? ask the people of darfur about that. Or ask all the other African peoples that have been ethnically cleansed over the last 1000 years or so. Arabs raided east africa for slaves just like europeans did in west africa, the Arabs starting several hundreds of years earlier. Most of the people in darfur have converted to islam over the last hundred years in an attempt to keep from being attacked, but the arab dominated government in Kartoum still attacks and kills them because they are Africans not Arabs.
As for Turkey being the example of a modern, peaceful muslim country, ask the Kurds about that. Or the Greeks or the Armenians, etc that have been ethnically and religiously cleansed by Turkey. And the "democracy" in turkey is more of a military junta promoting modern technology/methods to regain the empire the turks lost when the Ottoman Empire collapsed after WWII. Its not any sort of a democratic movement promoting the rights and freedoms of the individual. Turkey has a large extremist muslim political party that recently took over the government and is slowly converting turkey into another highly anti-every-not-extremist-islam muslim country.
History is complicated, plenty of blame for all groups. Everyone seems to remember the Crusades, but no one hardly ever brings up the previous muslim invasions (and forced conversions) of christian middle-east, christian egypt, christian asia minor, christian north africa, and christian spain that provoked the crusades. Not to mention the invasions of christian russian, christian balkans, Hindu India, Buddhist central asia, buddhist indonesia, etc.
We would be better off letting go of these type of historical grudges, but you can only do that when BOTH sides acknowledge they have been in the wrong. When BOTH sides legitimately learn tolerance and individual freedom.
Muslims have hardly any religous or racial problems living in eruope, except maybe the occasional skinhead who might yell something or spraw-paint something. However the fact is any non-muslim walking the streets of most islamic countries is far more likely to be killed and/or tourtured. The entire arabian pennensula, egypt (except at tourist sites under heavy security guards), libya, Algeria, syria, palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, pakistan, afghanistan are countries that you would be taking a huge risk just walking around. Image if you moved there and tried to setup a store or some other business.
Much of Islam is the arab eqivalent of racist skinheads or the KKK. The main difference between the west and the moslem world is the KKK doesn't run the United States. Skinheads do not control the police and government in Eruope. Racial or religous killings in the US or Eruope actually get investigated. Killers go to jail. In most Islamic countries these arab-rednecks run everything: control the mosques, the police, everything. Coptic Christians get killed every single day in Egypt and the government, the average moslem citizen in eqypt, doesn't do a damn thing about it or even care. The west is far from perfect, but it has done far more to end racism and promote toleration than the rest of the world combined.
Maybe mozilla can write a plugin that can detect when a user is tibetan or pro-democracy, then inform the chinese government, collect sites visited, log input so their disloyalty trials can go as smoothly as their executions will. Great job Open Source Foundation!
This company stole from me! I cancelled my account online on the 25th of the month, and they didn't actually cancel it after the 1st so they could charge me another 14.95. They refused to refund any of the money and they removed my account so I couldn't even play the game for the extra month I didn't want. I hope they die
And lets not forget about Stephen J Gould and punctuated evolution. Evolution tends to occur in small isolated populations that are under stress (marginal environment, harsh diseases and parasites, extremely successful predators, etc). These small groups are under extreme stress, any marginal advantage is successful and spreads. Adaptation occurs apon adaptation, then suddenly this highly evolved population (compared to similar groups in less-stressed environments) explodes onto the scene replacing the unchanged forms and/or moving into totally new niches.
The small evolutionary changes do not make much impact on the rest of the species inhabiting less stressful environments because the changes are small and have little real advantages in the easy environments. Only in the harsh ones, do these changes make a difference and replace previous forms and these changes build up again and again. Then a much evolved form bursts out, the many changes giving it a major advantage, replacing un-evolved forms in all environments.
All programming is now illegal, there are just too many legal issues to allow anyone to program their own code. All technological advancement is now impossible. Your civilization has now officially destroyed itself.
Is there anyone in the US that is supposed to regular credit card companies? Or is our only recourse to shoot credit card company executives in the head as they walk to their car?
The patent award doesn't mean you built it or have it working or even thought of it first. It just means you filled out the paperwork first. Then you sit like a leach and suck the blood of the people who actually MADE the idea work. Most of the patents are obvious to anyone, or if highly technical would be obvious to anyone in the field. Very few of the patents over the last 30 or 40 years are truely original or involve any scientific research. Patents were supposed to protect someone inventing something, for example a NEW way to generate energy not to protect the idea of one-clicking on a webpage via the internet. That is just simple, outright theft/blackmail. It sits on top of dozens if not hundreds of PRIOR major techincal innovations. Our politicians should be hung for allowing such bullshit.
I'm sure that freeing the content is illegal due to the license agreement they signed to get it. The real theft will be when the users end up buying the content all over again from the Music Mafia, errr, Music Industry.
I think the people who hold the original licenses (RIAA, etc) should be held responsible when they license via 3rd parties, and have to move the consumers to another 3rd party company/technology when one closes.
I know this is insulting trolling, but I can't help it.
The BSD license was supposed to be about freedom, freedom to do ANYTHING you want in any way you want, dude!
Not like those restrictive GPL licenses, where you can't just take someones code and make it proprietary and sell it without source.
So if someone forks BSD code, and puts it under the GPL, then that's acceptable under the BSD license, isn't it? Isn't that the freedom what the bsd people keep whining about? Boo fucking hoo, oh they did exactly what my license allows them to do? How dare they!
Didn't microsoft do the exact same thing with telnet? The whole point of the GPL was to protect coders from being exploited, so that someone couldnt take your work, make a few minor improvements, sell it, and keep their changes from you. If you use GPL code, your work on it is free to everyone else. In just the same way the original code was free to you in the first place.
I love all of these windows fag-hags who are whining about it being "a beta release", "it doesnt have proper drivers", blah blah blah... who gives a shit. He just want to run it to test it out and didn't have a microsoft-approved rig to run it on. Go Die. I hope microsoft is paying you losers to make excuses for them, and generally to spread microsoft FUD.
Except for a quick test, running Vista or any other windows on apple hardware is fucking retarded. OS X is much better than windows. Maybe dual-booting it with linux makes sense, but fuck windows!
I find it funny people hate this guy so much! There is nothing wrong with what he did, I think its very interesting. All of these responses he has posted are exactly the message their sender/authors meant to send. But somehow they are now embarassed by them? Why is it more embarrassing to send these emails to the general public than some completely random member of the general public? Luckily that person just posted everything to the web, rather than using their phone numbers, work emails, etc to track them down and serially kill them. When you communicate to some random person on the internet you know nothing about you are taking a big risk.
EMAIL IS NOT PRIVATE, I can forward it, post it to the web, print it out and tack it to the wall somewhere, others could sniff it off the network, steal it from my harddrive, etc. Even if you gpgp it the reciepient can do anything he wants with it, get used to it. What you want the MPAA or RIAA to track down "email-sharers". Perhaps there should be laws against talking about the contents of email messages......
HA! Too bad you guys didn't have a CONSTITUTION to protect you! Maybe the founding fathers should have sent agents to england to raise a rebellion there too. HAHAHAHA! See, here in America our right to free Speech, Assembly and Redress of Greivences is respected! I'm free to say the Iraq War is going bad, George Bush is a moron, and Donald Rumsfeld is a War Criminal. Oh shit, the FBI just kicked in my door.......(sounds of being dragged off to a gitmo interrigation cell)....ouch!!!.........
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I think democrats tend to look at things like the swiftboat lies and other organized rumor mongering as what they'd like to have balanced.
I think broadcasters should have a fairness doctrine, to keep shams like Fox News from being so insanely one-sided. I think there is no reason why a moron like Shawn Hannity shouldn't have a show and his show should be as shitty and biased as he wants to make it, but Fox shouldn't be allowed to have one Hannity after another all day long.
MSNBC has a slew of center-right douchebags, but only one Keith Olberman, that's not balanced either. That traitor to our nation Lawernce Cudlow is blasted over the airwaves spewing lies and distortions to foster his Anti-American (That's American as in a person, the people whos jobs people like him send to slave-wage countries, not the scumbags who own and run our country).
I would like major media internet sites to also have a fairness doctrine, but how do you enforce that? How do you find out which sites are major media and which aren't? I would never want individual people and their websites to be subject to anykind of a fairness doctrine.
Traffic analysis could identify massive sites, then these sites could be checked out. Something like how a hair-dresser has to have training and a license not a FBI/SWAT/IRS teams showing up for a raid with guns and body armor. I think a site with millions of hits a day should have at least as much regulatory hassle as a hairdressing shop.
Republicans like less government because it makes rich people more powerful. It makes countries less democratic. According to conservatives Afghanistan should have been a paradise under the taliban and their mujahdeen predacessors. There was no government at all, guns and money were the only power. Suprise, surprise when they started machine gunning women in soccerfields.
The main reason for that is it is still a large investment for a single family house to go renewable.
Most people are renters, some of them are lucky if they get hot water let alone an landowner who will provide renewable engery sources. The owners just see that as money they spend to save their tenants money.
There are no more communities. There are just places where people live. Most people are dirtbags.
I also was a lad visiting the lab at Manchester! I don't know about you, but when I was there the engineers groped my cock. After that I was adicted to computer technology, if you know what i mean!
The internet was not intended for free exchange of information, it was made to help us destroy the red menace! It allows scientists to exchange data on nuking commies more efficently! Anything else is typical com-simp namby-pamby-ism!
You pay for it when you pay your ISP, whether that's some jerkoff in his house or youtube.com. Anyone else is an anti-net neutrality fascist trying to steal your money or restrict your freedom.
But before combating this "prefect storm" of digital theft, I want to know if it matters. What percentage of these "thieves" would have actually paid for the content if they had no way to easily copying it for free? I would argue most of these copies are made by people who would not have paid for it under any circumstances. How many of these copies last for one, or a partial listening/viewing and are immediately discarded because "they suck"?
The only reason the "music business" suffering less profit than before is because they promote terrible music, terrible bands and force-feed bullshit to consumers. The new technology gives people the ability to get the music, sitcoms and movies THEY want, when they want it. Not what some executive invests millions of dollars of promotion into.
They want to cripple and destroy multi-trillion dollar industries, and beyond that the whole electronic future of our civilization for the sake of a billon dollar industry with a bad business model. They want to regulate and take control of the new technology to enforce scarcity. Out with uploading, out with net-neutrality, etc.
That PCWorld website is the design that has the sux! What the fuck where they thinking, a slidebar? Plus so much java and flash, it took my 1.9ghz laptop forever to layout the page. Shit.
Speaking of bad design, its been a while since I've read slashdot, but man what the fucking is going on with its design and all the java/flash bullshit.
Islam not Racist? ask the people of darfur about that. Or ask all the other African peoples that have been ethnically cleansed over the last 1000 years or so. Arabs raided east africa for slaves just like europeans did in west africa, the Arabs starting several hundreds of years earlier. Most of the people in darfur have converted to islam over the last hundred years in an attempt to keep from being attacked, but the arab dominated government in Kartoum still attacks and kills them because they are Africans not Arabs.
As for Turkey being the example of a modern, peaceful muslim country, ask the Kurds about that. Or the Greeks or the Armenians, etc that have been ethnically and religiously cleansed by Turkey. And the "democracy" in turkey is more of a military junta promoting modern technology/methods to regain the empire the turks lost when the Ottoman Empire collapsed after WWII. Its not any sort of a democratic movement promoting the rights and freedoms of the individual. Turkey has a large extremist muslim political party that recently took over the government and is slowly converting turkey into another highly anti-every-not-extremist-islam muslim country.
History is complicated, plenty of blame for all groups. Everyone seems to remember the Crusades, but no one hardly ever brings up the previous muslim invasions (and forced conversions) of christian middle-east, christian egypt, christian asia minor, christian north africa, and christian spain that provoked the crusades. Not to mention the invasions of christian russian, christian balkans, Hindu India, Buddhist central asia, buddhist indonesia, etc.
We would be better off letting go of these type of historical grudges, but you can only do that when BOTH sides acknowledge they have been in the wrong. When BOTH sides legitimately learn tolerance and individual freedom.
Muslims have hardly any religous or racial problems living in eruope, except maybe the occasional skinhead who might yell something or spraw-paint something. However the fact is any non-muslim walking the streets of most islamic countries is far more likely to be killed and/or tourtured. The entire arabian pennensula, egypt (except at tourist sites under heavy security guards), libya, Algeria, syria, palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, pakistan, afghanistan are countries that you would be taking a huge risk just walking around. Image if you moved there and tried to setup a store or some other business.
Much of Islam is the arab eqivalent of racist skinheads or the KKK. The main difference between the west and the moslem world is the KKK doesn't run the United States. Skinheads do not control the police and government in Eruope. Racial or religous killings in the US or Eruope actually get investigated. Killers go to jail. In most Islamic countries these arab-rednecks run everything: control the mosques, the police, everything. Coptic Christians get killed every single day in Egypt and the government, the average moslem citizen in eqypt, doesn't do a damn thing about it or even care. The west is far from perfect, but it has done far more to end racism and promote toleration than the rest of the world combined.
Maybe mozilla can write a plugin that can detect when a user is tibetan or pro-democracy, then inform the chinese government, collect sites visited, log input so their disloyalty trials can go as smoothly as their executions will. Great job Open Source Foundation!
This company stole from me! I cancelled my account online on the 25th of the month, and they didn't actually cancel it after the 1st so they could charge me another 14.95. They refused to refund any of the money and they removed my account so I couldn't even play the game for the extra month I didn't want. I hope they die
And lets not forget about Stephen J Gould and punctuated evolution. Evolution tends to occur in small isolated populations that are under stress (marginal environment, harsh diseases and parasites, extremely successful predators, etc). These small groups are under extreme stress, any marginal advantage is successful and spreads. Adaptation occurs apon adaptation, then suddenly this highly evolved population (compared to similar groups in less-stressed environments) explodes onto the scene replacing the unchanged forms and/or moving into totally new niches.
The small evolutionary changes do not make much impact on the rest of the species inhabiting less stressful environments because the changes are small and have little real advantages in the easy environments. Only in the harsh ones, do these changes make a difference and replace previous forms and these changes build up again and again. Then a much evolved form bursts out, the many changes giving it a major advantage, replacing un-evolved forms in all environments.
Lawyers should be shot.
All programming is now illegal, there are just too many legal issues to allow anyone to program their own code. All technological advancement is now impossible. Your civilization has now officially destroyed itself.
the level of stupidity in our society is just shocking.
Is there anyone in the US that is supposed to regular credit card companies? Or is our only recourse to shoot credit card company executives in the head as they walk to their car?
Way to slam GPLv3 in a non-GPL discussion! That's synergistic!
You should be beaten for being such a queer. "ewwwh! Stop copying my electronic dance and house music!!!"
The patent award doesn't mean you built it or have it working or even thought of it first. It just means you filled out the paperwork first. Then you sit like a leach and suck the blood of the people who actually MADE the idea work. Most of the patents are obvious to anyone, or if highly technical would be obvious to anyone in the field. Very few of the patents over the last 30 or 40 years are truely original or involve any scientific research. Patents were supposed to protect someone inventing something, for example a NEW way to generate energy not to protect the idea of one-clicking on a webpage via the internet. That is just simple, outright theft/blackmail. It sits on top of dozens if not hundreds of PRIOR major techincal innovations. Our politicians should be hung for allowing such bullshit.
FUD!
I'm sure that freeing the content is illegal due to the license agreement they signed to get it. The real theft will be when the users end up buying the content all over again from the Music Mafia, errr, Music Industry.
I think the people who hold the original licenses (RIAA, etc) should be held responsible when they license via 3rd parties, and have to move the consumers to another 3rd party company/technology when one closes.
I know this is insulting trolling, but I can't help it.
The BSD license was supposed to be about freedom, freedom to do ANYTHING you want in any way you want, dude!
Not like those restrictive GPL licenses, where you can't just take someones code and make it proprietary and sell it without source.
So if someone forks BSD code, and puts it under the GPL, then that's acceptable under the BSD license, isn't it? Isn't that the freedom what the bsd people keep whining about? Boo fucking hoo, oh they did exactly what my license allows them to do? How dare they!
Didn't microsoft do the exact same thing with telnet? The whole point of the GPL was to protect coders from being exploited, so that someone couldnt take your work, make a few minor improvements, sell it, and keep their changes from you. If you use GPL code, your work on it is free to everyone else. In just the same way the original code was free to you in the first place.
I have my web-based email, my web-based hearts, what I really want is a web-based browser, now that would really solve all my problems!
I love all of these windows fag-hags who are whining about it being "a beta release", "it doesnt have proper drivers", blah blah blah... who gives a shit. He just want to run it to test it out and didn't have a microsoft-approved rig to run it on. Go Die. I hope microsoft is paying you losers to make excuses for them, and generally to spread microsoft FUD.
Except for a quick test, running Vista or any other windows on apple hardware is fucking retarded. OS X is much better than windows. Maybe dual-booting it with linux makes sense, but fuck windows!
I find it funny people hate this guy so much! There is nothing wrong with what he did, I think its very interesting. All of these responses he has posted are exactly the message their sender/authors meant to send. But somehow they are now embarassed by them? Why is it more embarrassing to send these emails to the general public than some completely random member of the general public? Luckily that person just posted everything to the web, rather than using their phone numbers, work emails, etc to track them down and serially kill them. When you communicate to some random person on the internet you know nothing about you are taking a big risk.
EMAIL IS NOT PRIVATE, I can forward it, post it to the web, print it out and tack it to the wall somewhere, others could sniff it off the network, steal it from my harddrive, etc. Even if you gpgp it the reciepient can do anything he wants with it, get used to it. What you want the MPAA or RIAA to track down "email-sharers". Perhaps there should be laws against talking about the contents of email messages......
What am I going to do with the hundreds of motorola 68010 machines I have without netBSD??????
HA! Too bad you guys didn't have a CONSTITUTION to protect you! Maybe the founding fathers should have sent agents to england to raise a rebellion there too. HAHAHAHA! See, here in America our right to free Speech, Assembly and Redress of Greivences is respected! I'm free to say the Iraq War is going bad, George Bush is a moron, and Donald Rumsfeld is a War Criminal. Oh shit, the FBI just kicked in my door.......(sounds of being dragged off to a gitmo interrigation cell)....ouch!!!.........