Um, that kinda sounds, er, sorry, but it sounds like he's saying we all have D.I.D. (AKA "multiple Personality Syndrome"). Actually, to be brutally honest (earning me, of course, a -1 flamenbait) it's just retarded.
Now do I get the coveted "+1, troll" moderation?;)
Does this mean every flame and troll post in this thread will get modded +1 Insightful
And that's different from any other slashdot story exactly how? Go for "funny" and you get "insightful". Go for "offtopic" and you get "funny." Go for troll and you get this.
That link from 2003, BTW, is about OFFLINE trolling, proving these bozos wrong.
There's this device that's been around for over a century. It's called a "camera". Since a rainbow is simply a band of color caused by refraction of light, capturing a record of that band of color on film (or digital media) is, in effect, captuting the rainbow itself.
Now if you could catch the leprechaun that would be a different story!
They might be if you think paint drying is entertaining, or if he could write better. My eyes strarted crossing two paragraphs in. A hi-fi stereo manual is more entertaining (and readable).
I've heard (and IANAL) that anyone who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer.
here is an account of my trying to collect child support from my ex, who left me and my two teenaged daughters for another man (October 2004).
It is also an account of what happens if you call the judge a "motherfucker". You can't possibly be as amused by my account of it as I was by the actual event. I've never seen a courtroom drama as entertaining, and I doubt I ever will.
If you don't want to believe contemporary witnesses, that's your business. His existance was documented. To argue that he was simply executed rather than dying for my sins would be a valid debating point, his extensively documented existance itself isn't.
My roommate was homeless before I let her move in with me; she's now paying me rent. Not much rent, as cab drivers don't make much money here despite working 12 hours a day 6 days a week. Next time you take a cab, please tip the driver! Especially if she's an attractive woman, she might be my roommate.
Many != "all" or even "most", although I might hazard a guess that most homeless may have mental health problems (that my government refuses to address) that contributes to or causes their homelessness. Why is John's cancer or Jane's AIDS ok, but Willie's schitzophrenia isn't?
If you've set aside some money and purchased insurance for your health care...
This is the US. My health care and its bill are none of anyone's business but my own. We don't have universal health care here.
...funeral, existing debts, and the care of any dependents you may have
Are you suggesting that I may never die? What is it with you dumb yuppies anyway? Face it, dumbass, you will die. Maybe today. Maybe not for another seventy years - but you WILL die.
Let's look at two people - my Grandmoter and her son, my Uncle.
Grandma didn't smoke and didn't drink. Uncle Bill smoked four packs of Kools a day through the one lung he had left after he lost the other to TB.
Uncle Bill died at age 65. He never collected Social Security. He never got Medicare. All those SS taxes he paid go to somebody else's retirement.
Grandma collected SS for thirty five years, and saw the doctor at least monthly, for thiose decades, paid for by the government (Medicare). She fell and broke her hip at age 99.
In the end, you will run up a huge hospital bill and die. The sooner you do so, the easier your burden on society is. When you come up with a method of not dying, then maybe your points will have merit. Until then you're whistling past the graveyard you WILL inhabit whether or not you ever eat a trans-fat french fry, smoke a cigarette, or snort a line of cocaine.
He and his bandmates changed music, probably forever. How is he NOT relevant? The man's been dead for a quarter of a century yet everyone knows who he was. Reznor's still alive and yet still fairly obscure.
Your straw man is on fire. Drunk Driving is not a "purely personal" activity. Drinking itself is, until you get behind the wheel.
Where does the Constitution give Congress the right to outlaw a wager between you and me? Where does it give Congress the right to outlaw your mom's services to me? Or her right to put a needle full of steroids in her arm?
When will they come up with a test to show that you're actually intoxicated on cocaine, heroin, or marijuana rather than one to test whether you may have been intoxicated in the last week or (in pot's case) month?
Drinking is legal. Driving drunk isn't. I have no problems with either concept. Go troll somebody else.
I think I agree with you - if you murder or steal, whether or not you were under the influence or trying to get under the influence should be of no concern. I see no difference between stealing a carton of cigarettes to feed your addiction to the most addictive substance on earth and a starving man stealing a sitloin steak. I see no difference in murdering someone because you're shitfaced drunk and because you caught them fucking your wife.
The crime should be what matters, not the reason for the crime. Drugs should play no part at all, good or bad.
Yes it is mostly legal to copy and listen for personal purposes, but you can't redistribute it.
Who said anything about redistributing? There's no need to redistribut the God Damned top 40!!! It's on the God Damned radio, the whole POINT of the post is that for the top 40 at least, there's no need for P2P whatever!!!
The radio issue is a tricky one because the problem is that the quality of radio is digital and that means your music is near perfect. In the good ol days of radio this was not the case and people bought music because of that. People bought music because what they bought gave them full quality music.
"Digital" has absolutely nothing to do with quality. A cassette is analog, and (usually) inferior to the digital CD, but (again usually) superior to the digital MP3.
In the good ol days of radio this was not the case
Unless you're talking about Satellite Radio (which I can't comment on as I have no experisnec with it, but I understand it's more or less MP3 quiality) you're entirely incorrect. FM radio technology is virtually unchanged since its inception well over half a century ago. It's inferior to CD, but not by much and far superior to MP3.
BS, the RIAA is not afraid of that in the least. This is about money and business.
That's right, money and business - and competetion. Every single study except the one the RIAA paid for says that downloaders spend more money on music than those of us who don't download.
If I illegallly download or legally sample a CD's worth of music there's still plenty of music to buy with the twenty bucks I still have in my pocket. If I buy four indie CDs with that twenty bucks, that's twenty bucks I don't have for an RIAA CD.
It's about what you can afford to buy, not what you can get for free.
The Indie bands are not a dent. If Indie bands were a threat they would have been many many moons ago.
"Many moons" ago the labels were the only means of making a record. It's only been about as long as the RIAA labels have been screaming about "piracy" that the average mucisicn could record without the RIAA.
"The reality is that folks have taken it as a sport to rip off and not pay."
You say that. I'll believe it when I actually meet such a creature.
"Let's say that Indie bands were a threat, well the labels would have signed them up a long time ago."
They are the ones smart enough to know that the major labels are run by theievs and who would rather be assraped than sign with them. It ain't 1966 anymore, grandpa.
Would a label boycott a band because they were "Indie?"
That's stupid. It's the bands refusing to let the labels buttfuck them. More and more bands are starting to realize that a major label contract means signing away the rights to all their work. Only a moron would sign with a major label these days, which may explain why today's mainstream music sucks so bad.
Excuse me? Are you accusing me that I am lying?
Actually yes, I am. You could keep your photocopied "books" as long as you could keep your storebought paperbacks.
Really? What country do you live in?
The one who the RIAA lives in. We are talking about the Recording Industry Associaltion of America. They're not going after downloaders in YOUR country.
Now go away, unless your industry changes its business model it will die.
Acts 4:32-37 says that the early church was decidedly communist.
"And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet."
Then there are various things Jesus said: - mark 4:19 "And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."
And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Jesus was homeless. Matthew 8:20"And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."
You might think about that the next time you badmouth the homeless.
So the restaurant owner who built the restaurant, bought the deep-fryer and other kitchen equipment, and pays the cook, isn't creating wealth by his actions?
No. He didn't build the restaraunt; he hired someone who did. The construction worker who did the actual building created the wealth. He didn't create wealth by buying a deep fryer, he invested his wealth.
You think it would be better if those owners didn't do those things?
I never said that. Your straw man is on fire.
I'll tell you: sitting on welfare whining they don't have jobs.
If I was on welfare I'd be whining about not having a job too, while I was looking for one.
...extremist statements about how people who build and run factories, restaurants and other businesses are nothing but parasites on the people they employ, and want to use the government as a tool to suck the blood of the working man...
No, they have their uses and society wouldn't be what it is without them. Someone has to control the wealth. But the wealthy think they are above us "little people". They pay a disproportionately small amount in taxes as a percentage of their income, and think they're getting ripped off. They think the world not only owes them a living, but godhood. They think they are above the law, and they're mostly right. I find their attitudes offensive.
Neither was high school when government first started paying for it.
Maybe we should start by making public high schools in this country not totally suck.
Agreed, although it sucked when I was there in the late 1960s and it sucked when my kids were there in the '90s. So high school has sucked for a long, long time. I had one teacher mark a paper down because she thought I made up the word "hierarchy", and a science teacher give me an A on a paper because it was over his head. That didn't make me respect my teachers much.
I found a job where I could walk to work.
I could walk to work when I lived on 7th street, and they transferred me way to the other end of town. As I'm only a few years from retiring, getting a new job really isn't an option. I imagine lots of other folks can't swap jobs for various reasons either.
You want a service (higher education), but don't want to pay for it?
But I would be paying for it, the same way I'm paying for my roads, high schools, police, and firefighters now. Public infrastructure should not be privately owned IMO, and I think education is a pretty important part of the infrastructure.
As to starting your own business, you have to be good with people to do that. I'm not; I'm a nerd. I communicate well in writing, but I suck in person. If I was a good businessman I could get laid once in a while, and have her pay my way. Everybody sucks at something. Nobody is equal in abilities.
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...less focused on our own identity...
;)
Um, that kinda sounds, er, sorry, but it sounds like he's saying we all have D.I.D. (AKA "multiple Personality Syndrome"). Actually, to be brutally honest (earning me, of course, a -1 flamenbait) it's just retarded.
Now do I get the coveted "+1, troll" moderation?
-mcgrew
Does this mean every flame and troll post in this thread will get modded +1 Insightful
And that's different from any other slashdot story exactly how? Go for "funny" and you get "insightful". Go for "offtopic" and you get "funny." Go for troll and you get this.
That link from 2003, BTW, is about OFFLINE trolling, proving these bozos wrong.
-mcgrew
PS- Since you are a nerd, it is your duty to troll the cave man jocks
There's this device that's been around for over a century. It's called a "camera". Since a rainbow is simply a band of color caused by refraction of light, capturing a record of that band of color on film (or digital media) is, in effect, captuting the rainbow itself.
Now if you could catch the leprechaun that would be a different story!
-mcgrew
He is a regular and in general well liked if considered a bit weird
Dude, we're nerds. If you're not "a bit wierd" you hardly belong here.
-mcgrew
His stories are entertaining
They might be if you think paint drying is entertaining, or if he could write better. My eyes strarted crossing two paragraphs in. A hi-fi stereo manual is more entertaining (and readable).
Maybe a lawyer could have argued it better
I've heard (and IANAL) that anyone who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer.
here is an account of my trying to collect child support from my ex, who left me and my two teenaged daughters for another man (October 2004).
It is also an account of what happens if you call the judge a "motherfucker". You can't possibly be as amused by my account of it as I was by the actual event. I've never seen a courtroom drama as entertaining, and I doubt I ever will.
-mcgrew
What is the point?
Thus ISS slashdot. Ewe muss bee knew hear. Literacy? We've heard off it...
This is what we get for the writers being on strike.
Wow, what a long strike. What is it, something like 50 years now?
The idea is not to go after the bottom-feeders who are sending the actual spams from their Mom's basement
Considering that most spam these days comes from botnets, it's more likely that they're sending spam from your mom's basement!
my mom doesn't have a basement.
-mcgrew
We can get CD-quality music without all that "disc" nonsense.
Whare? I mean, you can download SHNs and FLACs but I don't see iTunes offering them.
Damn, I only got a 4. Tough room!
If you don't want to believe contemporary witnesses, that's your business. His existance was documented. To argue that he was simply executed rather than dying for my sins would be a valid debating point, his extensively documented existance itself isn't.
My roommate was homeless before I let her move in with me; she's now paying me rent. Not much rent, as cab drivers don't make much money here despite working 12 hours a day 6 days a week. Next time you take a cab, please tip the driver! Especially if she's an attractive woman, she might be my roommate.
Many != "all" or even "most", although I might hazard a guess that most homeless may have mental health problems (that my government refuses to address) that contributes to or causes their homelessness. Why is John's cancer or Jane's AIDS ok, but Willie's schitzophrenia isn't?
That was the worst attempt at trolling I've ever seen. You need practice, son. Try again.
This is the US. My health care and its bill are none of anyone's business but my own. We don't have universal health care here.
Are you suggesting that I may never die? What is it with you dumb yuppies anyway? Face it, dumbass, you will die. Maybe today. Maybe not for another seventy years - but you WILL die.
Let's look at two people - my Grandmoter and her son, my Uncle.
Grandma didn't smoke and didn't drink. Uncle Bill smoked four packs of Kools a day through the one lung he had left after he lost the other to TB.
Uncle Bill died at age 65. He never collected Social Security. He never got Medicare. All those SS taxes he paid go to somebody else's retirement.
Grandma collected SS for thirty five years, and saw the doctor at least monthly, for thiose decades, paid for by the government (Medicare). She fell and broke her hip at age 99.
In the end, you will run up a huge hospital bill and die. The sooner you do so, the easier your burden on society is. When you come up with a method of not dying, then maybe your points will have merit. Until then you're whistling past the graveyard you WILL inhabit whether or not you ever eat a trans-fat french fry, smoke a cigarette, or snort a line of cocaine.
He and his bandmates changed music, probably forever. How is he NOT relevant? The man's been dead for a quarter of a century yet everyone knows who he was. Reznor's still alive and yet still fairly obscure.
Your straw man is on fire. Drunk Driving is not a "purely personal" activity. Drinking itself is, until you get behind the wheel.
Where does the Constitution give Congress the right to outlaw a wager between you and me? Where does it give Congress the right to outlaw your mom's services to me? Or her right to put a needle full of steroids in her arm?
When will they come up with a test to show that you're actually intoxicated on cocaine, heroin, or marijuana rather than one to test whether you may have been intoxicated in the last week or (in pot's case) month?
Drinking is legal. Driving drunk isn't. I have no problems with either concept. Go troll somebody else.
Learn to quote properly, you gay fucking bastard.
He didn't seem all that happy to me.
I think I agree with you - if you murder or steal, whether or not you were under the influence or trying to get under the influence should be of no concern. I see no difference between stealing a carton of cigarettes to feed your addiction to the most addictive substance on earth and a starving man stealing a sitloin steak. I see no difference in murdering someone because you're shitfaced drunk and because you caught them fucking your wife.
The crime should be what matters, not the reason for the crime. Drugs should play no part at all, good or bad.
A rich neocon wants you to give your money to the government so the government can give it to the rich neocon.
;)
I corrected your post for you.
I forget who the comedian lampooning liberals was, but he was correct when he said "oh you poor hungry thing! You need money! Here, have some of his!"
Yes it is mostly legal to copy and listen for personal purposes, but you can't redistribute it.
Who said anything about redistributing? There's no need to redistribut the God Damned top 40!!! It's on the God Damned radio, the whole POINT of the post is that for the top 40 at least, there's no need for P2P whatever!!!
The radio issue is a tricky one because the problem is that the quality of radio is digital and that means your music is near perfect. In the good ol days of radio this was not the case and people bought music because of that. People bought music because what they bought gave them full quality music.
"Digital" has absolutely nothing to do with quality. A cassette is analog, and (usually) inferior to the digital CD, but (again usually) superior to the digital MP3.
In the good ol days of radio this was not the case
Unless you're talking about Satellite Radio (which I can't comment on as I have no experisnec with it, but I understand it's more or less MP3 quiality) you're entirely incorrect. FM radio technology is virtually unchanged since its inception well over half a century ago. It's inferior to CD, but not by much and far superior to MP3.
BS, the RIAA is not afraid of that in the least. This is about money and business.
That's right, money and business - and competetion. Every single study except the one the RIAA paid for says that downloaders spend more money on music than those of us who don't download.
If I illegallly download or legally sample a CD's worth of music there's still plenty of music to buy with the twenty bucks I still have in my pocket. If I buy four indie CDs with that twenty bucks, that's twenty bucks I don't have for an RIAA CD.
It's about what you can afford to buy, not what you can get for free.
The Indie bands are not a dent. If Indie bands were a threat they would have been many many moons ago.
"Many moons" ago the labels were the only means of making a record. It's only been about as long as the RIAA labels have been screaming about "piracy" that the average mucisicn could record without the RIAA.
"The reality is that folks have taken it as a sport to rip off and not pay."
You say that. I'll believe it when I actually meet such a creature.
"Let's say that Indie bands were a threat, well the labels would have signed them up a long time ago."
They are the ones smart enough to know that the major labels are run by theievs and who would rather be assraped than sign with them. It ain't 1966 anymore, grandpa.
Would a label boycott a band because they were "Indie?"
That's stupid. It's the bands refusing to let the labels buttfuck them. More and more bands are starting to realize that a major label contract means signing away the rights to all their work. Only a moron would sign with a major label these days, which may explain why today's mainstream music sucks so bad.
Excuse me? Are you accusing me that I am lying?
Actually yes, I am. You could keep your photocopied "books" as long as you could keep your storebought paperbacks.
Really? What country do you live in?
The one who the RIAA lives in. We are talking about the Recording Industry Associaltion of America. They're not going after downloaders in YOUR country.
Now go away, unless your industry changes its business model it will die.
Here in the US, the Republicans actually believe that they're conservative. Go figure.
Then there are various things Jesus said: - mark 4:19 "And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."
Mark 10:23-25 Matthew 6:26-32 Jesus was homeless. Matthew 8:20"And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."
You might think about that the next time you badmouth the homeless.
So the restaurant owner who built the restaurant, bought the deep-fryer and other kitchen equipment, and pays the cook, isn't creating wealth by his actions?
No. He didn't build the restaraunt; he hired someone who did. The construction worker who did the actual building created the wealth. He didn't create wealth by buying a deep fryer, he invested his wealth.
You think it would be better if those owners didn't do those things?
I never said that. Your straw man is on fire.
I'll tell you: sitting on welfare whining they don't have jobs.
If I was on welfare I'd be whining about not having a job too, while I was looking for one.
...extremist statements about how people who build and run factories, restaurants and other businesses are nothing but parasites on the people they employ, and want to use the government as a tool to suck the blood of the working man...
No, they have their uses and society wouldn't be what it is without them. Someone has to control the wealth. But the wealthy think they are above us "little people". They pay a disproportionately small amount in taxes as a percentage of their income, and think they're getting ripped off. They think the world not only owes them a living, but godhood. They think they are above the law, and they're mostly right. I find their attitudes offensive.
College isn't mandatory
Neither was high school when government first started paying for it.
Maybe we should start by making public high schools in this country not totally suck.
Agreed, although it sucked when I was there in the late 1960s and it sucked when my kids were there in the '90s. So high school has sucked for a long, long time. I had one teacher mark a paper down because she thought I made up the word "hierarchy", and a science teacher give me an A on a paper because it was over his head. That didn't make me respect my teachers much.
I found a job where I could walk to work.
I could walk to work when I lived on 7th street, and they transferred me way to the other end of town. As I'm only a few years from retiring, getting a new job really isn't an option. I imagine lots of other folks can't swap jobs for various reasons either.
You want a service (higher education), but don't want to pay for it?
But I would be paying for it, the same way I'm paying for my roads, high schools, police, and firefighters now. Public infrastructure should not be privately owned IMO, and I think education is a pretty important part of the infrastructure.
As to starting your own business, you have to be good with people to do that. I'm not; I'm a nerd. I communicate well in writing, but I suck in person. If I was a good businessman I could get laid once in a while, and have her pay my way. Everybody sucks at something. Nobody is equal in abilities.