I mean when you buy something it's yours -- you can resell it or give it away. Can you still do that? If not, you didn't buy anything, you paid for a service.
I'd like to see it and 4chan banned from my beloved nerd site (and yes, I'll be modded down for dissing the 4can and reddit trolls who have mod points).
There, you'll hit at least +4 now -- and disprove the theory. If there's one thing I've learned on slashdot, it's that everyone I disagree with gets atleast a +1 bump based simply on unmitigated fanboy hatred of my wonton slaughter of their sacred cows.
Of course, on Slashdot it *is* a little different. We seem to be such consistent assholes that we eagerly await a chance to mod-down even more than we like to mod-up.
Funny, I was modbombed just last week and my karma's still excellent. Oh, and we're offtopic here... oh, wait, the subjct is manipulating online opinions. I guess we're not offtopic after all.
But that's how we'll be modded just because I used the word "offtopic." Slashdot may be "news for nerds" but a few with limited reasoning abilities still get mod points. Put the word "insightful" somewhere in your post and expect a +5.
It wouldn't have if it was some random site, but it was Popular Science, which I'm sure some slashdotters posted at. I'm sure those folks might like to discuss it.
As for those who are upset about its messageboard shutting down, I suggest that if they see a story there they would like to discuss that they submit it to slashdot. If it isn't accepted, put it in your slashdot journal.
But it isn't. An antenna doesn't suck energy out of the air; an antenna is a passive device. It isn't like wifi or cell communications which have transmitters. The cable company pays the local stations for thier signals because retransmitting the signal is copyright infringement.
It costs the cable company nothing for you to get free cable. It's not theft, it's copyright infringement.
It doesn't cost the barber anything to give you a free haircut, either, and haircuts are no more necessary than cable (not at all). Walk out without paying for that haircut and the barber can and probably will have you arrested for theft of service. It isn't copyright infringement, to infringe copyright you have to supply the copyrighted work, not consume it. If I email you a Metallica song you haven't infringed copyright no matter how many times you listen -- I have.
I wouldn't pay for the wire to come into my house anyway.
No, it was not. Adam and Eve were thrown out of Eden to keep them away from the tree of life, they weren't supposed to eat from either that or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (NOT the "tree of knowledge") that they had taken a bite from. The two trees were as complimentary as a yin to a yang; the knowledge of good and evil is the knowledge of pain and death. So you had the tree of life and the tree of death, and last time I saw, Apples weren't poisonous.
Dude, i am as pissed about what the baby boomers have done to this nation as any other person not in that generation
"The older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us," wrote one of them (John F. Carter in the Atlantic Monthly, September, 1920), expressing accurately the sentiments of innumerable contemporaries. "They give us this thing, knocked to pieces, leaky, red-hot, threatening to blow up; and then they are surprised that we don't accept it with the same attitude of pretty, decorous enthusiasm with which they received it, way back in the 'eighties."
Of course no one wants to visit great-grandma when she just wants to scream racist gibberish about the president and homophobic crap about your cousins.
You make the very mistaken assumption that everyone dies of alzheimer's, when most geezers do not, in fact, get that disease.
Old people often have beliefs that are simply not compatible with living in a modern society.
And you make the mistake of thinking that old folks haven't seen radical change all of their lives. My grandmother was born 3 months before the Wright brothers took off, in a world where most people lived exactly like they had a thousand years earlier, and hers was the first generation of radiacl change. When she was 5 few had seen an airplane, there was no radio (except morse code), most people had never seen an automobile, and the Cubs won the world series. before she died she'd ridden on airplanes, owned cars and radios and TV sets and microwaves and all those things that simply didn't exist in her youth. Just because you're old doesn't mean you don't keep up. My mom's 84 and has a computer and a cell phone and a flat screen TV.
You can't take them into public if you fear they may call your waiter the N word or go on a tirade about the jews when you are trying to get groceries.
Again, your view of the elderly is really fucked up. Most simply aren't like that. Yes, racism was rampant in their youths and they were as racist as the rest of society when they were young, but guess what? My dad, who thought nothing of calling a man a "nigger" when he was your age stood up in court shortly before he retired and testified against his employer for a co-worker who had filed a discrimination lawsuit.
Times change and people change with them. Read this book and see how much different the world was in 1930 than in 1920.
Soooo.... He's a political mover and shaker that can get public funds funneled to his department to give his underlings a kooshier life while they... do whatever it is they do.
What does "kooshier" mean? Google has no clue, it shows Kooshier as being a brand of paint and suggests that I may have misspelled "kosher", which doesn't fit in the context of your sentence. Is it some sort of British slang?
Try landing a well-paying corporate gig if you are over 60, no matter your skill set.
I'm 61, I retire next year. I don't WANT to work, a young guy can have my job. That said, I do know guys older than me who were working under the table (not paying taxes) and will have to work until they're dead.
Of course, this doesn't eliminate the fact that very senior individuals - some with excess money to burn, use that money to fill the ever-increasing, yawning gap of boredom and disconnection in their lives brought on by the social isolation of the elderly in our culture.
What social isolation? Even my parents aren't socially isolated. Geezers aren't treated as pariahs in our culture, what are you blabbering on about? If you're infirm you may be socially isolated, but that has nothing to do with age.
I looked at it at work not logged in... apparently whoever designed that mess doesn't realize that screens have different sizes and aspect ratios. Everything on my monitor was stretched vertically and squashed horizontally. What's with all those giant photographs of nothing, anyway?
Sorry, slashdot, I absolutely HATE your new design. It looks like I'm far from alone, did you guys hire Balmer and Shuttleworth?
Neither you, nor the submitter, nor the editor actually bothered to RTFA apparently. Rather than making riskier decisions, TFA says we geezers are risk-averse, and part of the reason is so many of us are fucking BROKE. Haven't you seen that bumper sticker "RETIRED... no food, no gas, no money. Haven't you heard the phrase "why do they call it a fixed income when I'm always broke"?
By the time you've lived over half a century and been crushed like a bug under a shoe numerous times, you're going to be more careful, too.
That said, of I have more money than I did when I was 25. You've never gotten a raise?
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The publishers say piracy is what is killing their market.
Yes, they do, but research doesn't.
I mean when you buy something it's yours -- you can resell it or give it away. Can you still do that? If not, you didn't buy anything, you paid for a service.
I'd like to see it and 4chan banned from my beloved nerd site (and yes, I'll be modded down for dissing the 4can and reddit trolls who have mod points).
You're offtopic and redundant. Go away.
I predict this post will be forgotten quickly and accomplish nothing
This guy has balls of crystal, I tell you!
There, you'll hit at least +4 now -- and disprove the theory. If there's one thing I've learned on slashdot, it's that everyone I disagree with gets atleast a +1 bump based simply on unmitigated fanboy hatred of my wonton slaughter of their sacred cows.
Lady, take it from me... don't post drunk.
Is it just me, or has there recently been a rash of poorly-edited summaries that have been nothing more than a brain dump of the submitter?
Uh, RECENTLY??? You just now noticed?
Like dupes, it used to happen occasionally, but now it's at least once or twice a day.
You just went through rehab, didn't you? It's always been like that. You just didn't notice.
Of course, on Slashdot it *is* a little different. We seem to be such consistent assholes that we eagerly await a chance to mod-down even more than we like to mod-up.
That's one of the things I like about slashdot.
Funny, I was modbombed just last week and my karma's still excellent. Oh, and we're offtopic here... oh, wait, the subjct is manipulating online opinions. I guess we're not offtopic after all.
But that's how we'll be modded just because I used the word "offtopic." Slashdot may be "news for nerds" but a few with limited reasoning abilities still get mod points. Put the word "insightful" somewhere in your post and expect a +5.
Don't people suck?
Hey, look, it's antireligious crazy.
Sheesh, you kids...
The problem is it's too cloudy today. Half a bajillion people trying to play on one server and it won't work?
Back in the day when we were playing Quake we ran our own servers, and QuakeSpy (later GameSpy) made it easy to find and connect.
But back then we actually BOUGHT games rather than renting them. DRM killed gaming for me (and company servers are indeed DRM).
I miss it. The corporofacists ruined it for me.
Well, it was a fruit tree so yeah, it was probably an angiosperm. Are there any fruit trees that that aren't?
It wouldn't have if it was some random site, but it was Popular Science, which I'm sure some slashdotters posted at. I'm sure those folks might like to discuss it.
As for those who are upset about its messageboard shutting down, I suggest that if they see a story there they would like to discuss that they submit it to slashdot. If it isn't accepted, put it in your slashdot journal.
Most folks who come here like science.
Not only is it true
But it isn't. An antenna doesn't suck energy out of the air; an antenna is a passive device. It isn't like wifi or cell communications which have transmitters. The cable company pays the local stations for thier signals because retransmitting the signal is copyright infringement.
It costs the cable company nothing for you to get free cable. It's not theft, it's copyright infringement.
It doesn't cost the barber anything to give you a free haircut, either, and haircuts are no more necessary than cable (not at all). Walk out without paying for that haircut and the barber can and probably will have you arrested for theft of service. It isn't copyright infringement, to infringe copyright you have to supply the copyrighted work, not consume it. If I email you a Metallica song you haven't infringed copyright no matter how many times you listen -- I have.
I wouldn't pay for the wire to come into my house anyway.
Neither will I, which is why I use an antenna.
It's good to see you in a biology thread ;)
The Tree of Knowledge is an apple tree.
No, it was not. Adam and Eve were thrown out of Eden to keep them away from the tree of life, they weren't supposed to eat from either that or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (NOT the "tree of knowledge") that they had taken a bite from. The two trees were as complimentary as a yin to a yang; the knowledge of good and evil is the knowledge of pain and death. So you had the tree of life and the tree of death, and last time I saw, Apples weren't poisonous.
Dude, i am as pissed about what the baby boomers have done to this nation as any other person not in that generation
F.L. Allen, Only Yesterday, chapter V (1931)
To paraphrase Twain, an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate.
No, books (whether paper or e-books) count as reading. The National Enquirer and People don't count, either,
Indeed.
Of course no one wants to visit great-grandma when she just wants to scream racist gibberish about the president and homophobic crap about your cousins.
You make the very mistaken assumption that everyone dies of alzheimer's, when most geezers do not, in fact, get that disease.
Old people often have beliefs that are simply not compatible with living in a modern society.
And you make the mistake of thinking that old folks haven't seen radical change all of their lives. My grandmother was born 3 months before the Wright brothers took off, in a world where most people lived exactly like they had a thousand years earlier, and hers was the first generation of radiacl change. When she was 5 few had seen an airplane, there was no radio (except morse code), most people had never seen an automobile, and the Cubs won the world series. before she died she'd ridden on airplanes, owned cars and radios and TV sets and microwaves and all those things that simply didn't exist in her youth. Just because you're old doesn't mean you don't keep up. My mom's 84 and has a computer and a cell phone and a flat screen TV.
You can't take them into public if you fear they may call your waiter the N word or go on a tirade about the jews when you are trying to get groceries.
Again, your view of the elderly is really fucked up. Most simply aren't like that. Yes, racism was rampant in their youths and they were as racist as the rest of society when they were young, but guess what? My dad, who thought nothing of calling a man a "nigger" when he was your age stood up in court shortly before he retired and testified against his employer for a co-worker who had filed a discrimination lawsuit.
Times change and people change with them. Read this book and see how much different the world was in 1930 than in 1920.
Soooo.... He's a political mover and shaker that can get public funds funneled to his department to give his underlings a kooshier life while they... do whatever it is they do.
What does "kooshier" mean? Google has no clue, it shows Kooshier as being a brand of paint and suggests that I may have misspelled "kosher", which doesn't fit in the context of your sentence. Is it some sort of British slang?
Try landing a well-paying corporate gig if you are over 60, no matter your skill set.
I'm 61, I retire next year. I don't WANT to work, a young guy can have my job. That said, I do know guys older than me who were working under the table (not paying taxes) and will have to work until they're dead.
Of course, this doesn't eliminate the fact that very senior individuals - some with excess money to burn, use that money to fill the ever-increasing, yawning gap of boredom and disconnection in their lives brought on by the social isolation of the elderly in our culture.
What social isolation? Even my parents aren't socially isolated. Geezers aren't treated as pariahs in our culture, what are you blabbering on about? If you're infirm you may be socially isolated, but that has nothing to do with age.
I looked at it at work not logged in... apparently whoever designed that mess doesn't realize that screens have different sizes and aspect ratios. Everything on my monitor was stretched vertically and squashed horizontally. What's with all those giant photographs of nothing, anyway?
Sorry, slashdot, I absolutely HATE your new design. It looks like I'm far from alone, did you guys hire Balmer and Shuttleworth?
Neither you, nor the submitter, nor the editor actually bothered to RTFA apparently. Rather than making riskier decisions, TFA says we geezers are risk-averse, and part of the reason is so many of us are fucking BROKE. Haven't you seen that bumper sticker "RETIRED... no food, no gas, no money. Haven't you heard the phrase "why do they call it a fixed income when I'm always broke"?
By the time you've lived over half a century and been crushed like a bug under a shoe numerous times, you're going to be more careful, too.
That said, of I have more money than I did when I was 25. You've never gotten a raise?
If they were Christians, they'd both still fit the description of "rich right-wing religious crazy guy".
Nope, neither one even TRIES to be a Christian; it takes more than lip service, going to church, and tithing so that you can say you paid taxes. Read the bible, Christ lambasted both Romney and Obama. Luke 16:19-31 damns Romney, and Luke 11:46 damns Obama. All the men who Romney threw out of work during his corporate piracy at Bain Capital are Lazarus, and Obama is a lawyer. Both worship money and power, and No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.