1. My nerd license was suspended last week, I got laid 2. I already have bittorrent installed 3. Money is for tangible goods and services, bittorrent is for bits. I can't (yet) trade my electronic gizmos for reefer through bittorrent (but just wait a while and you can, I'll be dead)
I'm not bothered too much by having someone else get their submission posted instead of mine, especially since I've had eight posted this year. I do wish that the editors would do a quick google before an item is posted just to check for dupes, since every article that is remotely similar to some other article has every third comment yelling DUPE!1!!!ONE!!!
There, you got your modpoint-free mod*. It's a three, just like mine, you little karma whore. Happy? Now go take your Zoloft or I shall taunt you again, silly person.
-mcgrew
* "funny" garners no karma. Karma whores don't do "funny". People who go for "funny" do it just to brighten someone's day. Now get off my lawn you miserable little humorless snot (hits AC in head with AC's own balls).
This was Sangamon County, not the entire US. The feds won't have traffic violations, but they WILL have marijuana farmers.
And this wasn't one of those "sting" parties at all, her family was politically connected. Everyone invited was in politics, law enforcement, or connected to someone in law enforcement or politics. Had this been one of those stings she would never have gotten out of there.
"36.4% of the world's computers have LimeWire installed"
That's some damned weak logic, since LimeWire's real reason for existance (and the RIAA's opposition to it) is for independant artists to get their music out.
The RIAA labels have radio and empty-v. Since the RIAA effectively killed "internet radio" P2P is all the indies have.
Now someone please tell me, I heard a song by some indie whose name I don't remember named "scatterbrain". There are literally hundreds of different songs with that name. How can I get a copy of the lagal song I want without ACCIDENTALLY downloading some crap RIAA song with the same name?*
The war against P2P is a war against their competetitors, the independant musicians.
-mcgrew
* Fuck LimeWire, Morpheus has a check box where you don't automatically share downloaded files. The RIAA can go fuck themselves. Hey guess what they are!
Sorry owlnation, you must have had a great Christmas because in the middle of your blackout you missed that first, the story isn't a dupe. What you thought was the first instance of this story said that the US lost. This "dupe" adds that Antigua can ignore US copyright with impunity. That was not in the "original" you mention.
However, your comment is a DUPE. What's more, it lacks the original "dupe" comment's weak humor. So now the mods will have no trouble deciding whether your post is offtopic or redundant.
Since when did "free trade" translate into an abandonment of sovereignty in favor of having an unelected global organization dictate national policy?
Since about the last century when they were rioting in Seattle, don't you ever read the news? What do you think all those people were pissed off about?
If the people of the United States (or any country) want to ban online gambling then what business of the WTO is it? At least when the WTO steps in over protective tariffs that makes SOME sense. If a product is completely outlawed though, how the hell is a free trade issue?
The same way the "interstate commerce" clause of the US Constitution, according to SCOTUS, irrationaly and illogically lets the DEA bust medical marijuana outfits in California where medical pot is legal despite the fact that it is not transported across any state lines.
Never expect rationality out of any government. Governments have been corrupt since the first cave man (Thor IIRC, yes I'm old*) bashed in his neighbor's skull and proclaimed that everything and everybody was his for as far as one could walk.
-mcgrew
*I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did get all the bugs out.
Under this administration, The WTO and Antiguan people are now terrorists. Prepare for us to spend 1 billion dollars a day in taxpayer funds to attack you now. -- Enjoy Freedom? - Register as Republican
Methinks ye needs a new sig. Avast! Shiver me timbers! Ye be walkin' the plankk thar, matey!
If you wonder why a "first post" would be modded "redundant" instead of "offtopic", it's because "holy shit" is of course not offtopic. In the Carribean they have a religion where marijuana is used as a sacrement. So the shit there is indeed holy, making the statement "holy shit" itself redundant.
Also, "holy shit" is redundant because right now in every office in Hollywood, overpaid cocaine soaked executives are making that very same exclamation.
Well, not all of them will be saying "holy shit." Some will simply be saying "shit", referring to what they just did in their pants.
-mcgrew
PS- everyone should now go out and sell all their Sony stock. Not because this will make the price of Sony stock drop, just because Sony is evil and this is as good an excuse as any.
The link from the summary leads to... damn it's so bad I can hardly say it. Worse than tubgirl and goatse combined.
As the blank screen fails to load, an ad pops up. Then a "greeting page" appears on the blank page ("greetings from our advertisers")
Then I notice the "click here to ignore this greetings page and enter ComputerWorld, the world's worst IT magazine".
Of course I quickly hit the "back" button so I wouldn't be assaulted with a million ads and a paragreph of content-free lead-in text before "click here for next page".
Honestly, guys, can't you find a better link? Oh shit, the only two that Google News shows is ComputerWorld and PC World.
Why is it that the very WORST sites on the internet are IT sites? It's embarrassing! And people wonder why, if you RTFM, "ewe muss bee knew hear". We KNOW BETTER! We know what is ready to assault us if we dare click a link to an IT site!
I hate euphemisms. By "provide services" do you mean something like this?
I stopped by Farley's after work for a beer, and I'm sitting there at a table sipping, listening to the annoying beeping of the illegal gambling machines that are in every bar in town when a skinny, ugly, skanky looking bitch sits down at my table.
"Hi, I like to fuck and smoke crack. My husband's in prison, he likes dick even more than I do. Ya wanna smoke some crack and fuck? Hey buy me a beer!"
The uncyclopedia has this to say about crack- "Crack is something that is sold by both drug dealers and prostitutes. The only difference is that a prostitute can wash her crack and sell it again."
I mean, I don't care about financial matters or stocks or suh, I'm a nerd. Money, to me, is just a tool, an easy way to trade goods and services. The kind of person who eagerly seeks financial news and links to the WSJ and the like worships money. I think worshiping oes' tools is foolish.
But SCO is different. So YAY SLASHDOT! The only thing I'd like to see different is a) for McBride to go to prison for fraud and b) Sony to get delisted.
As I have, er, ahem, met some interesting people here in Springfield (although I haven't met Alderman Simpson), there's something I know about these "wanted" lists most people dont.
Many of these criminals are low level petty thugs, thieves, and especially dopers. I've mentioned my friend Tami in my slashdot journals, here's a true (AFAIK, I have no reason to doubt her) and I think hilarious story she told me.
Tami's been in jail before, but she's not what anyone would think of as a "hardened criminal" and in fact comes from a well to do family with political connections that has (sucks to be me) pretty much given up on her.
One time she'd had some sort of run-in with the law; "failure to appear" for a speeding ticket or pot or some such nonsense and didn't even know she was wanted. She got tickets to some shindig some friend of her father's was throwing and showed up. The affair had to do with these "top twenty wanted in Sangamon County" lists.
She showed up for the free food and alcohol (Tami's no beanpole and likes to drink) and of course most of the people there were from law enforcement. There was one of the top-20 wanted posters prominently displayed, and she was on it!
"Boy, I got the hell out of there real quick!" she told me.
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1. My nerd license was suspended last week, I got laid
2. I already have bittorrent installed
3. Money is for tangible goods and services, bittorrent is for bits. I can't (yet) trade my electronic gizmos for reefer through bittorrent (but just wait a while and you can, I'll be dead)
I'm not bothered too much by having someone else get their submission posted instead of mine, especially since I've had eight posted this year. I do wish that the editors would do a quick google before an item is posted just to check for dupes, since every article that is remotely similar to some other article has every third comment yelling DUPE!1!!!ONE!!!
As to journals, I mostly like using mine to talk about hookers and my other friends.
There, you got your modpoint-free mod*. It's a three, just like mine, you little karma whore. Happy? Now go take your Zoloft or I shall taunt you again, silly person.
-mcgrew
* "funny" garners no karma. Karma whores don't do "funny". People who go for "funny" do it just to brighten someone's day. Now get off my lawn you miserable little humorless snot (hits AC in head with AC's own balls).
This was Sangamon County, not the entire US. The feds won't have traffic violations, but they WILL have marijuana farmers.
And this wasn't one of those "sting" parties at all, her family was politically connected. Everyone invited was in politics, law enforcement, or connected to someone in law enforcement or politics. Had this been one of those stings she would never have gotten out of there.
"36.4% of the world's computers have LimeWire installed"
That's some damned weak logic, since LimeWire's real reason for existance (and the RIAA's opposition to it) is for independant artists to get their music out.
The RIAA labels have radio and empty-v. Since the RIAA effectively killed "internet radio" P2P is all the indies have.
Now someone please tell me, I heard a song by some indie whose name I don't remember named "scatterbrain". There are literally hundreds of different songs with that name. How can I get a copy of the lagal song I want without ACCIDENTALLY downloading some crap RIAA song with the same name?*
The war against P2P is a war against their competetitors, the independant musicians.
-mcgrew
* Fuck LimeWire, Morpheus has a check box where you don't automatically share downloaded files. The RIAA can go fuck themselves. Hey guess what they are!
More like slapping a lion in the mouth with a dead gazelle. It won't know how to act.
The catch is that Microsoft could then only sell their software in Antgua. Hey! I like that!
You misspelled "imaginary property"
Sorry owlnation, you must have had a great Christmas because in the middle of your blackout you missed that first, the story isn't a dupe. What you thought was the first instance of this story said that the US lost. This "dupe" adds that Antigua can ignore US copyright with impunity. That was not in the "original" you mention.
However, your comment is a DUPE. What's more, it lacks the original "dupe" comment's weak humor. So now the mods will have no trouble deciding whether your post is offtopic or redundant.
Since when did "free trade" translate into an abandonment of sovereignty in favor of having an unelected global organization dictate national policy?
Since about the last century when they were rioting in Seattle, don't you ever read the news? What do you think all those people were pissed off about?
If the people of the United States (or any country) want to ban online gambling then what business of the WTO is it? At least when the WTO steps in over protective tariffs that makes SOME sense. If a product is completely outlawed though, how the hell is a free trade issue?
The same way the "interstate commerce" clause of the US Constitution, according to SCOTUS, irrationaly and illogically lets the DEA bust medical marijuana outfits in California where medical pot is legal despite the fact that it is not transported across any state lines.
Never expect rationality out of any government. Governments have been corrupt since the first cave man (Thor IIRC, yes I'm old*) bashed in his neighbor's skull and proclaimed that everything and everybody was his for as far as one could walk.
-mcgrew
*I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did get all the bugs out.
That's like two movies on Bittorent according to the MPAA
Or one Justin Timberlake MP3 according to the RIAA
Oh the irony (when attached to your sig)!
Under this administration, The WTO and Antiguan people are now terrorists. Prepare for us to spend 1 billion dollars a day in taxpayer funds to attack you now.
--
Enjoy Freedom? - Register as Republican
Methinks ye needs a new sig. Avast! Shiver me timbers! Ye be walkin' the plankk thar, matey!
If you wonder why a "first post" would be modded "redundant" instead of "offtopic", it's because "holy shit" is of course not offtopic. In the Carribean they have a religion where marijuana is used as a sacrement. So the shit there is indeed holy, making the statement "holy shit" itself redundant.
Also, "holy shit" is redundant because right now in every office in Hollywood, overpaid cocaine soaked executives are making that very same exclamation.
Well, not all of them will be saying "holy shit." Some will simply be saying "shit", referring to what they just did in their pants.
-mcgrew
PS- everyone should now go out and sell all their Sony stock. Not because this will make the price of Sony stock drop, just because Sony is evil and this is as good an excuse as any.
If you need "user friendly" you shouldn't be running a server.
Am I still feeling charitable from the holiays? Hmm...
As it's Microsoft we're discussing here, shouldn't that be "chairitable?"
Irony: That thingy your mommy makes your shirties flat with.
Why did it take until 12/27 to make the newswires?
Slashdot has the slowest firehose on the planet!
The link from the summary leads to... damn it's so bad I can hardly say it. Worse than tubgirl and goatse combined.
As the blank screen fails to load, an ad pops up. Then a "greeting page" appears on the blank page ("greetings from our advertisers")
Then I notice the "click here to ignore this greetings page and enter ComputerWorld, the world's worst IT magazine".
Of course I quickly hit the "back" button so I wouldn't be assaulted with a million ads and a paragreph of content-free lead-in text before "click here for next page".
Honestly, guys, can't you find a better link? Oh shit, the only two that Google News shows is ComputerWorld and PC World.
Why is it that the very WORST sites on the internet are IT sites? It's embarrassing! And people wonder why, if you RTFM, "ewe muss bee knew hear". We KNOW BETTER! We know what is ready to assault us if we dare click a link to an IT site!
Dude, you have to spell it out or you'll be modded to oblivion. Here's how this thing works, now pay attention.
"I'm not exactly what the point is in having a home server if you can't back up files on it."
1. go to store
2. buy MS open server
3. Install files
4. Back up files
5. ????????
6. PROFIT!
One of my friends in Redmond could use a few more chairs.
You lucky stiff. I need low friends in high places, but all I have are high friends in low places.
-mcgrew
I mean, I don't care about financial matters or stocks or suh, I'm a nerd. Money, to me, is just a tool, an easy way to trade goods and services. The kind of person who eagerly seeks financial news and links to the WSJ and the like worships money. I think worshiping oes' tools is foolish.
But SCO is different. So YAY SLASHDOT! The only thing I'd like to see different is a) for McBride to go to prison for fraud and b) Sony to get delisted.
-mcgrew
Happy nude year!
What's funny is that I'm not afraid of dying, but I don't like to think about the incredible suffering that almost always preceeds it.
As I have, er, ahem, met some interesting people here in Springfield (although I haven't met Alderman Simpson), there's something I know about these "wanted" lists most people dont.
Many of these criminals are low level petty thugs, thieves, and especially dopers. I've mentioned my friend Tami in my slashdot journals, here's a true (AFAIK, I have no reason to doubt her) and I think hilarious story she told me.
Tami's been in jail before, but she's not what anyone would think of as a "hardened criminal" and in fact comes from a well to do family with political connections that has (sucks to be me) pretty much given up on her.
One time she'd had some sort of run-in with the law; "failure to appear" for a speeding ticket or pot or some such nonsense and didn't even know she was wanted. She got tickets to some shindig some friend of her father's was throwing and showed up. The affair had to do with these "top twenty wanted in Sangamon County" lists.
She showed up for the free food and alcohol (Tami's no beanpole and likes to drink) and of course most of the people there were from law enforcement. There was one of the top-20 wanted posters prominently displayed, and she was on it!
"Boy, I got the hell out of there real quick!" she told me.
Living in the future is so cool!
Then this might interest you.
-mcgrew