> I think the perversion of Gimli is worse than the perversion of Faramir. > > "Toss me!" WTF? And him being a big whiner for the whole film just pissed me off right proper. Gimli's my favourite character.
Indeed. Gimli was supposed to be a heroic figure, not a comic relief. in the book his character had depth, in the movie it was not memorable.
> No humanity in the characters and dialogue. The movies just don't enjoy themselves. The first one had a mixture of humor and joy and was just having fun with what it could do. That's why things like the lobby scene kicked so much ass. It was like, "We've smashed the barriers of physics, now lets see what we can do with it!" And you had the fun human moments like the discussion during breakfast, the Cipher character, and so on. Neo was just a normal computer programmer who discovered the world around him wasn't real. More importantly, the movie was FUN.
One of the reasons I enjoy watching "Farscape" reruns. The series mostly manages to find a delicate balance between serious ideas and tongue-in-cheek presentation. And not having somebody else's regurgitated ideas of morals and ethics shoved down your throat (die ST:Voyager, die!) also does wonders to the fun factor.
> Wow. I guess there is no real difference between clinton and bush then.
Clinton had better looks, personality and was more intelligent and articulate. Thus, he was more successful with the ladies.
I firmly believe that the differences between the Democrats and the Republicans are superficial and mostly serve the purpose of giving people a false sense of choice.
I know I am getting a bit off topic here but can anybody tell me (or point me to) what are the important differences between the two and how do they affect programming in these languages?
Seems to me that this is one more step towards the new order where corporations and politicians will wield all the power and "regular" people will take the place of livestock.
The program highlights:
* No private ownership - everything (including ideas) will be owned by "entities". People will be given the "privilege" to lease things instead.
* No effective individual rights and freedoms - sure they may still be in the books and, nominally, you'll still be living in "the land of the free" but this freedom will be directly proportional to your resources (see previous point).
* No power to individuals - you will not be able to influence the decision making process, even "voting" will become meaningless.
During the cold war, Americans were told that the "enemy" would like to take away their freedom. Well, friend, seems to me that you have lost that war.
>... given how height is as obviously a part of a "good-looks" package as attractiveness, and we all know that good looks gets all sorts of advantages.
I'd assume that it is more an issue of confidence than of attractiveness.
>> something like Freenet would be the anemia (sp?) of the command-and-control society companies are pushing us towards. > > I think the word you're looking for is "anathema".
Or possibly "enema". One can argue that society needs it more than the suggested aternative.
> There's a good reason not to trust customers, because searching for Trillian online has more cracked versions than anything else. I'm fine with depending on them to sign on, but they need to find a better way to authenticate it.
So, as usual, the "protection" inconveniences the legitimate users while having no effect on the illegitimate ones.
> My opinion of Cerulean Studios just changed when I found out they submitted their Yahoo fix to Gaim, but [now] it's just changed back. O well. I liked them for 10 minutes.
No need to change your opinion so often...
1) See this message: "We helped Trillian awhile back connect to Yahoo when they changed the protocol. They're returning the favor. We have a good relationship with the Trillian people."
2) The "phone home" misfeature does not mean that Cerulean studios are "evil", just misguided.
FYI: Trillian 2.0 Pro tries to authenticate the user over the internet and refuses to work if it cannot contact the Cerulean Studios servers.
This misfeature originally appeared in the beta and we (the users) were led to believe (in the forums) that it will not make it into the final release. Guess what, it did.
This creates problems with users behind corporate firewalls, those running local servers on intranets, etc. It makes Trillian vulnerable to DOS attacks on a single source and in general is a pain (for example, on my machine it starts and tries to connect before the SW firewall finishes loading).
While "patches" for this behaviour are widely available (no, I will not link to one, use your favourite "crack search" site then contemplate the fallacy of "copy protection"), I see it more as a trust issue. Cerulean Studios doesn't trust me (a paying customer) and, after that stunt, I have a hard time trusting them.
Therefore, I am no longer recommending Trillian to anyone. Rather, I urge people to look at the available alternatives (Gaim, Easy Message, AYTTM and others).
Hmmm... Can anyone take it upon themselves to compile a comparison between the available multiprotocol IM clients?
> Welcome to the hell of American politics - you can vote either Democrat or Republican which makes no noticeable difference. Or you can vote independent and then you might as well stay home, they probably won't even count your vote. And even if they'll count, it will make no difference whatsoever.
Congratulations, you have been successfully brainwashed by the perpetuators of the 2-party system.
This is a classic circular argument: Don't vote independent because not enough people vote independent...
Now think what may happen if you do vote for an independent representative and also go out and persuade 10 people to do the same? What happens when each of those 10 people persuades 10 others? What happens when this goes long enough to build a critical voter mass?
The real issue is that the imaginary differences between the Republicans and Democrats give the people a false feeling of having a choice when, in fact, they don't.
The Simpsons, in the "Treehouse of Horror VII" episode, said it much better than me:
Kang: The politics of failure have failed. We need to make them work again. Tomorrow, when you are sealed in the voting cubicle, vote for me, Senator Ka... Bob Dole.
applause
Kodos: I am looking forward to an orderly election tomorrow, which will eliminate the need for a violent blood bath.
applause
From the sky comes a scream, as Homer is crashing right into the Capitol. A few footsteps later, he comes running down the stairs.
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles.
unmasks them. audience gasps in terror
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
murmurs
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
Kang and Kodos laugh out loud. Ross Perot smashes his "Perot 96" hat
The next day, Kodos announces the result: "All hail, President Kang."
The field in front of the Capitol has now become a working ground where humans are whipped by aliens and used to carry materials. The Simpsons family is working too, with Homer and the kids carrying wood, and Marge pushing a wheelbarrow of cinderblocks - with Maggie on top.
Marge: I don't understand why we have to build a ray gun to aim at a planet I never even heard of.
> seriously think that the GPL should be modified... > > Instead of "anyone" it should read "anyone *except* SCO" > > Would be really nice if SCO are denied to use *any* of the > software in the distro that is not Linux, such as KDE/Gnome etc.
Which word in "free software" did you fail to understand?
Any limitation on the use of GPL'ed SW will violate the spirit of the GPL and will ultimately kill it.
> You'll only have a problem if your drive doesn't support turning off C2 correction, in which case, spring the fifty bucks to get a cheap older Plextor drive from Blindwrite's "supported drives" list.
I cannot find a "supported drives" list on their site. Can you give a pointer please? Also, are there any DVD drives (which, by definition, can read CDs) that have this feature and are otherwise "rip friendly"? Is there a site with reviews/comparisons of such DVD drives?
> You can start a business with much less interference, taxes, regulations, etc in only a few countries besides the US but they're usually in a state of anarchy.
That is a part of the problem. The US is very friendly and free for businesses, much less so for people.
> Taxes are the most onerous intrusion into my life and no industrialized country has lower tax rates than the US.
Once you factor in state taxation, quite a few insdustrialized countries have lower taxes.
From the Tax Misery Index, some figures on the total tax burden of several countries in 2003: USA + New York - 117.6 Germany - 116.6 Luxembourg - 111.4 United Kingdom - 111.3 Switzerland (Zurich) - 108.7 USA + Illinois - 102.7 South Korea - 99.9 Canada (Ontario) - 99.8 USA + Texas - 99.7 Lithuania - 97.0 Russia - 92.6 Ireland - 90.3 Australia - 90.0 Singapore - 87.0 South Africa - 85.0 Thailand - 83.0 Taiwan - 81.7 Hong Kong - 43.0
> Thanks to Bush, my corporation can pollute, lay waste to foreign countries with impugnity. I can even use it to rob millions of people and still remain free. I'd like to see a Canadian do that.
Problem is, those corporations are now demanding a carte blanche to rob you.
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> I think the perversion of Gimli is worse than the perversion of Faramir.
>
> "Toss me!" WTF? And him being a big whiner for the whole film just pissed me off right proper. Gimli's my favourite character.
Indeed. Gimli was supposed to be a heroic figure, not a comic relief.
in the book his character had depth, in the movie it was not memorable.
> So this fancy-shmancy Homeland Security plan can be defeated with a trashcan.
Outlaw trashcans.
I believe it would fall under "posession of a circumvention device".
After all, we cannot take Father^H^H^H^H^H^HHomeland security lightly!
> No humanity in the characters and dialogue. The movies just don't enjoy themselves. The first one had a mixture of humor and joy and was just having fun with what it could do. That's why things like the lobby scene kicked so much ass. It was like, "We've smashed the barriers of physics, now lets see what we can do with it!" And you had the fun human moments like the discussion during breakfast, the Cipher character, and so on. Neo was just a normal computer programmer who discovered the world around him wasn't real. More importantly, the movie was FUN.
One of the reasons I enjoy watching "Farscape" reruns.
The series mostly manages to find a delicate balance between serious ideas and tongue-in-cheek presentation. And not having somebody else's regurgitated ideas of morals and ethics shoved down your throat (die ST:Voyager, die!) also does wonders to the fun factor.
And the prize goes to Malcontent for the following gem:
"Secondly they were humaniterian wars from the get go" (sic.)
> Wow. I guess there is no real difference between clinton and bush then.
Clinton had better looks, personality and was more intelligent and articulate. Thus, he was more successful with the ladies.
I firmly believe that the differences between the Democrats and the Republicans are superficial and mostly serve the purpose of giving people a false sense of choice.
Vote independent!
> I'm an American. I love my country and I love the freedoms we have.
Correction:
The freedoms that you still have.
>>How does that change the question? Can't you theoretically get talk radio content over, say, the Internet?
... and for free?
>
> While driving?
I know I am getting a bit off topic here but can anybody tell me (or point me to) what are the important differences between the two and how do they affect programming in these languages?
EULAs on physical objects?
I wonder what happend to the First Sale Doctrine.
Mod parent up please.
Seems to me that this is one more step towards the new order where corporations and politicians will wield all the power and "regular" people will take the place of livestock.
The program highlights:
* No private ownership - everything (including ideas) will be owned by "entities". People will be given the "privilege" to lease things instead.
* No effective individual rights and freedoms - sure they may still be in the books and, nominally, you'll still be living in "the land of the free" but this freedom will be directly proportional to your resources (see previous point).
* No power to individuals - you will not be able to influence the decision making process, even "voting" will become meaningless.
During the cold war, Americans were told that the "enemy" would like to take away their freedom. Well, friend, seems to me that you have lost that war.
>
I'd assume that it is more an issue of confidence than of attractiveness.
> Anyone using an earlier version should upgrade to 2.0 to fix any MSN imcompatibilities.
Trillian Pro 2.0 phones home. 'Nuff said.
Dear USA citizens,
Your system is totally FUBARed.
Please consider another revolution and this time make sure that what is done right, stays right.
>> something like Freenet would be the anemia (sp?) of the command-and-control society companies are pushing us towards.
>
> I think the word you're looking for is "anathema".
Or possibly "enema".
One can argue that society needs it more than the suggested aternative.
> There's a good reason not to trust customers, because searching for Trillian online has more cracked versions than anything else. I'm fine with depending on them to sign on, but they need to find a better way to authenticate it.
So, as usual, the "protection" inconveniences the legitimate users while having no effect on the illegitimate ones.
When will they learn???
> My opinion of Cerulean Studios just changed when I found out they submitted their Yahoo fix to Gaim, but [now] it's just changed back. O well. I liked them for 10 minutes.
No need to change your opinion so often...
1) See this message: "We helped Trillian awhile back connect to Yahoo when they changed the protocol. They're returning the favor. We have a good relationship with the Trillian people."
2) The "phone home" misfeature does not mean that Cerulean studios are "evil", just misguided.
FYI: Trillian 2.0 Pro tries to authenticate the user over the internet and refuses to work if it cannot contact the Cerulean Studios servers.
This misfeature originally appeared in the beta and we (the users) were led to believe (in the forums) that it will not make it into the final release. Guess what, it did.
This creates problems with users behind corporate firewalls, those running local servers on intranets, etc. It makes Trillian vulnerable to DOS attacks on a single source and in general is a pain (for example, on my machine it starts and tries to connect before the SW firewall finishes loading).
While "patches" for this behaviour are widely available (no, I will not link to one, use your favourite "crack search" site then contemplate the fallacy of "copy protection"), I see it more as a trust issue.
Cerulean Studios doesn't trust me (a paying customer) and, after that stunt, I have a hard time trusting them.
Therefore, I am no longer recommending Trillian to anyone. Rather, I urge people to look at the available alternatives (Gaim, Easy Message, AYTTM and others).
Hmmm... Can anyone take it upon themselves to compile a comparison between the available multiprotocol IM clients?
Congratulations, you have been successfully brainwashed by the perpetuators of the 2-party system.
This is a classic circular argument: Don't vote independent because not enough people vote independent...
Now think what may happen if you do vote for an independent representative and also go out and persuade 10 people to do the same? What happens when each of those 10 people persuades 10 others? What happens when this goes long enough to build a critical voter mass?
The real issue is that the imaginary differences between the Republicans and Democrats give the people a false feeling of having a choice when, in fact, they don't.
The Simpsons, in the "Treehouse of Horror VII" episode, said it much better than me:
> seriously think that the GPL should be modified...
>
> Instead of "anyone" it should read "anyone *except* SCO"
>
> Would be really nice if SCO are denied to use *any* of the
> software in the distro that is not Linux, such as KDE/Gnome etc.
Which word in "free software" did you fail to understand?
Any limitation on the use of GPL'ed SW will violate the spirit of the GPL and will ultimately kill it.
Sort of like free speech, if you think about it.
> You'll only have a problem if your drive doesn't support turning off C2 correction, in which case, spring the fifty bucks to get a cheap older Plextor drive from Blindwrite's "supported drives" list.
I cannot find a "supported drives" list on their site. Can you give a pointer please? Also, are there any DVD drives (which, by definition, can read CDs) that have this feature and are otherwise "rip friendly"? Is there a site with reviews/comparisons of such DVD drives?
Thanks.
> It would seem that the government only cares about cybercrime when big cash is involved.
It would seem that the government only cares about anything when big cash is involved.
Welcome to the land of the free.
> The proper message is "Press a key to continue" because the worst they will do is press "a"
No, no, no. The proper message should be:
"Press any key to continue or any other key to abort"
See, no more confusion!
> You can start a business with much less interference, taxes, regulations, etc in only a few countries besides the US but they're usually in a state of anarchy.
That is a part of the problem. The US is very friendly and free for businesses, much less so for people.
> Taxes are the most onerous intrusion into my life and no industrialized country has lower tax rates than the US.
Once you factor in state taxation, quite a few insdustrialized countries have lower taxes.
From the Tax Misery Index, some figures on the total tax burden of several countries in 2003:
USA + New York - 117.6
Germany - 116.6
Luxembourg - 111.4
United Kingdom - 111.3
Switzerland (Zurich) - 108.7
USA + Illinois - 102.7
South Korea - 99.9
Canada (Ontario) - 99.8
USA + Texas - 99.7
Lithuania - 97.0
Russia - 92.6
Ireland - 90.3
Australia - 90.0
Singapore - 87.0
South Africa - 85.0
Thailand - 83.0
Taiwan - 81.7
Hong Kong - 43.0
> Thanks to Bush, my corporation can pollute, lay waste to foreign countries with impugnity. I can even use it to rob millions of people and still remain free. I'd like to see a Canadian do that.
Problem is, those corporations are now demanding a carte blanche to rob you.
> The "American Dream" is to hire lawyers to take your case and to win a few bucks.
No, the real "American Dream" is to be one of those lawyers.
(Hint: compare the amount that the plaintiff won to what his lawyer(s) got.)