I won't argue that at all, and question the "free market capitalists". If I, as a human being, sopposedly free, must live my life under totally artificial restraints on what I can and can't do that have no bearing on anyone but myself (I'm thinking reefer here), then why shouldn't a corporation be regulated in such a way that the common good is helped?
That particlar piece of technology made me think of something else I read at the esteemed link above (on a different subject)- "Creak can be bought from both drug dealers and prostitutes. The difference is, the prostitute can wash her crack and sell it again."
Unfortunately somebody mutilated that particular article, removing the funniest parts (including the above quote) so I'll link this article instead.
For a better acronym, considering the industry we're talking about and its insane policy of suing customers, would be the Copy Right Association Cartel of Kalamazoo.
you need tens of thousands of computers with Internet connections
Each and every one of which is absolutely free, thanks to the storm worm, other worms, viruses, and malware, and thanks to Microsoft's incredibly bad OS that makes such shitware easy to write.
I'll agree that unsolicited ads are spam-like, but who solicits advertising anyway?
Yeah, and who doesn't? That's why I got reid of cable a few years ago (it was Insight then, now it's Comcast). It's not like I watch a lot of TV.
I can do without cable; in fact, I am doing without it. I still have more than twice as many channels as I did when I was a kid, and I grew up in a major city and am now in a small city.
But gasoline is something I can't do without. It's now over three times what I was paying when oil men Bush and Cheney took over. Food, natural gas, water, electricity have all gone up as well.
It seems the only thihg that isn't more expensive is my labor.
Only the US and the USSR had enough nukes to destroy all life except cockroaches. Now only the US does, and IINM its stockpiles are slowly being drawn down as well.
You can't destroy the world with a handful of nukes. The US and USSR had thousands of them each.
Wikipedia? What? You know that's not a reliable source of information. So I looked it up in the uncyclopedia:
A Black hole is an impossible object which makes the Universe work. It has the useful property of being "undetectable". It's like when your spouse comes home with a dent in the car, and blames it on an invisible black mass; the dent is proof of the black mass, but you can't, and never will be able to see it with CCTV cameras, but you know it's there. "Dark matter" is an equally undetectable force that causes cars to defy gravity, and hit invisible black holes. Astronomers will tell you that lots of them have spouses with dents in their cars, and can explain this is very technical terms, so you won't be able to understand why it's not possible.
The copyright is shorter. Not short enough; I think the twenty years it used to be here in the US is plenty long, and I say that as a copyright holder.
In fact, there are many at slashdot who want to abolish copyright entirely. I think there would be far fewer of these folks if copyrights were sanely limited.
I don't know about Europe, but here in the US we're not supposed to have lifetime copyrights. In fact, our Constitution specifies copyrights and patents are to get artists to create in order that the public domain be enriched, and that they should last "a limited time." SCOTUS fucktards, ignoring the plain language the Constitution was written in, have ruled that "limited" means whatever Congress wants it to mean.
Since all US laws are based on the Constitution, and the Supreme Court is ignoring it, I choose to ignore all the other God damned laws they write and to hell with them.
Aren't you Microsoft whiners tired of being laughed at? Did you see how the comment was modded? Did you see the Monty Pythoon reference in the subject line?
That's ok, if I were a Microsoft programmer or held Microsoft stock I'd be a little touchy about the subject too.
-mcgrew
PS- "funny" adds no karma. I have plenty, have some of mine cryboy.
The one where they did "Cops" had me laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face, and I didn't even have any pot! The part where the hooker had her hand caught in the vending machine had me dying, that's what all the hookers I know are like.
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I won't argue that at all, and question the "free market capitalists". If I, as a human being, sopposedly free, must live my life under totally artificial restraints on what I can and can't do that have no bearing on anyone but myself (I'm thinking reefer here), then why shouldn't a corporation be regulated in such a way that the common good is helped?
Why should I be regulated but not Comcast?
The joke died in the '70s, man.
No it didn't, I've been keeping it on life support.
The place I worked at had a Wang minicomputer as late as 1995, and even bough Wang PCs. The secretaries all loved Wangs!
Option 4: all of the above
Option 5: option four plus some shit we slashdotters haven't thought of
as well as to ensure that no one unscrupulous gets any technology
Er, didn't some unscrupulous people put the damned thing up ther ein the first place? I mean, us?
It's already coming down, isn't it? Wouldn';t they be shooting it UP?
That makes a better headline anyway, "US To Shoot Up".
I just toss mine in the dishwasher. BTW, I see that's an orange one. The orange ones fuck you up real good.
That particlar piece of technology made me think of something else I read at the esteemed link above (on a different subject)- "Creak can be bought from both drug dealers and prostitutes. The difference is, the prostitute can wash her crack and sell it again."
Unfortunately somebody mutilated that particular article, removing the funniest parts (including the above quote) so I'll link this article instead.
For a better acronym, considering the industry we're talking about and its insane policy of suing customers, would be the Copy Right Association Cartel of Kalamazoo.
you need tens of thousands of computers with Internet connections
Each and every one of which is absolutely free, thanks to the storm worm, other worms, viruses, and malware, and thanks to Microsoft's incredibly bad OS that makes such shitware easy to write.
I'll agree that unsolicited ads are spam-like, but who solicits advertising anyway?
When a company has a monopoly there is no free market.
Old episodes of Dr Who, but only if you have cable. I don't.
Yeah, and who doesn't? That's why I got reid of cable a few years ago (it was Insight then, now it's Comcast). It's not like I watch a lot of TV.
I can do without cable; in fact, I am doing without it. I still have more than twice as many channels as I did when I was a kid, and I grew up in a major city and am now in a small city.
But gasoline is something I can't do without. It's now over three times what I was paying when oil men Bush and Cheney took over. Food, natural gas, water, electricity have all gone up as well.
It seems the only thihg that isn't more expensive is my labor.
-mcgrew
Er, well, I don't have to comment since this guy said it well. You might want to reread a comment before before flaming the poster.
No, more like the scene in The Dead Pool where they're shooting a movie in a meat locker right before the junkie rock star is murdered.
Only the US and the USSR had enough nukes to destroy all life except cockroaches. Now only the US does, and IINM its stockpiles are slowly being drawn down as well.
You can't destroy the world with a handful of nukes. The US and USSR had thousands of them each.
I submitted this yesterday, it was probably already in the firehose. I saw it at New Scientist, where I followed some links to Professor Wang's press release.
Yes, that's really his name. Here is his research group's home page.
-mcgrew
OK, these aren't the pictures you are looking for. Move along. Here is the black hole on Mars, here is the vortex on Saturn.
Both are as much "black hole" as the one they "reated in the lab". Meanwhile, the last one I met was named JoAnne.
Well, they can blow up the earth if they want to but PLEASE DON'T LET THEM RECITE POETRY!
So do the white ones. Oh you're talking about interstellar phenomena, never mind.
The copyright is shorter. Not short enough; I think the twenty years it used to be here in the US is plenty long, and I say that as a copyright holder.
In fact, there are many at slashdot who want to abolish copyright entirely. I think there would be far fewer of these folks if copyrights were sanely limited.
I don't know about Europe, but here in the US we're not supposed to have lifetime copyrights. In fact, our Constitution specifies copyrights and patents are to get artists to create in order that the public domain be enriched, and that they should last "a limited time." SCOTUS fucktards, ignoring the plain language the Constitution was written in, have ruled that "limited" means whatever Congress wants it to mean.
Since all US laws are based on the Constitution, and the Supreme Court is ignoring it, I choose to ignore all the other God damned laws they write and to hell with them.
-mcgrew
Dude, Sony is a sore spot with me. I'd give up pot and hookers if it would make Sony go away.
Aren't you Microsoft whiners tired of being laughed at? Did you see how the comment was modded? Did you see the Monty Pythoon reference in the subject line?
That's ok, if I were a Microsoft programmer or held Microsoft stock I'd be a little touchy about the subject too.
-mcgrew
PS- "funny" adds no karma. I have plenty, have some of mine cryboy.
Not even the firehose listed. Well, here's a related story and it's still on the front page.
The one where they did "Cops" had me laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face, and I didn't even have any pot! The part where the hooker had her hand caught in the vending machine had me dying, that's what all the hookers I know are like.
Well, seeing how I was born and raised in America, who should I blame then??