[clang] Bring out your dead! Here's one. Ninepence. I'm not dead! What? Nothing. Here's your ninepence. I'm not dead! 'Ere. He says he's not dead! Yes, he is. I'm not! He isn't? Well, he will be soon. He's very ill. I'm getting better! No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment. Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. I don't want to go on the cart! Oh, don't be such a baby. I can't take him. I feel fine! Well, do us a favour. I can't. Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today. Well, when's your next round? Thursday. I think I'll go for a walk. You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do? [singing] I feel happy. I feel happy. [whop] Ah, thanks very much. Not at all. See you on Thursday. Right. All right. [howl] [clop clop clop] Who's that, then? I dunno. Must be a king. Why? He hasn't got shit all over him.
I used to be an avid gamer; look up TheFragfest.com in archive.org's "wayback machine". Online Quake/Quake 2 against other players on the internet was awesome.
The trend now is to sell you a game that's "internet only", and then you have to pay to play on an overloaded server. WTF???
Give the damned games away as a fee download if you're going to charge for play.
Any software developer dumb enough to think DRM works is way too dumb to write a good game.
Copyright (whether you approve or not) denotes ownership
No, it doesn't, not in the US according to our Constitution. The public OWN the work, the work's creator is given a limited time monopoly.
If you rent a house you have a limited time monopoly to the house, but it is NOT your property. If you OWN the house it is yours to pass to your decendants forever (or until it burns or someone steals it).
If you go into a store and take a game without paying for it you're stealing. If you download it, even illegally, you're not.
If you steal a game the store owner is out the cost of the game he bought from the publisher. If you download a game illegally nobody has lost anything, particularly if it is a game you would not have otherwise paid for (too poor, just want to check out a new genre etc) and most especially if, like some do, you want to see if you actually like the game and then buy it if you do. There are a lot of people who have been ripped off buying shitty games and are fighting back.
If you steal a game and get caught you will be charged with a misdemeanor and pay a few hundred dollars fine. If you infringe copyright you can be hit with a civil suit for thousands of dollars.
Yeah, this place is full of cartoon characters. Gail Simpson is an alderman here. The bald guy on the right, in front of the giant check, in this picture runs the power plant. Looks familiar, doesn't he? Here is Springfield's Mayor, I'm sure you'll recognise him as well.
I have no aversion to adultery and in fact recently was very tempted. But one has an aversion to his or her (especially his) partner committing adultery and I think that is surely from evolution. Kids from unstable homes, especially back when the world was more dangerous, had less chance to survive to puberty.
Homosexuality wasn't even discussed during my formative years. I assume (but don't really know) that homosexuals are as averse to sex with woman as heterosexuals are averse to sex with men.
That, in turn, raises the question of why an obvious evolutionary dead-end hasn't gone right out by now, but instead currently manifests in about 10% of the population ?
You're going to have to point to a verifiable study saying 10% of the population is homosexual. I know hundreds of people, but very few of them are homosexual. I simply don't believe that one in ten people is homosexual.
The reason evolution hasn't weeded out homosexuality is same reason you occasionally get horribly deformed animals, despite the fact that those deformed animals will never reproduce.
That's the prevailing wisdom, but my view is that if you vote for ANY candidate who doesn't express your views you have wasted your vote.
You're against big government? Yet still vote Republicrat or Demublican? That's insane! It's like losing your dime in the dark and looking for it under a streetlight because you can't see in the dark.
Ross Perot got lots of coverage and so did Nader back in 2000.
The Nader campaign was very telling. He was not on the ballots in enough states to win even if he won in every state he was on the ballot on, while the Libertarians were on the ballot in 49 states. Nader had no chance of winning yet got tons of press, while the party that could have won got no press at all.
Ross Perot got press because freedom of the press is for people who can afford to buy it.
Why is it that police officers are not listed among the top five or ten dangerous occupations?
Because being a cop really isn't that dangerous a job. The Chicago Tribune reported the other day about a cop who was shot with his own service revolver while struggling with a woman, and it mentioned he was the first cop to die in Chicago since (IIRC and I'm probably not) 2002.
There hasn't been a Springfield cop die on the job since I moved here in 1986, but my dad saw a man literrally fry on his job as electrical lineman when he worked for the power company here. It wasn't the first guy he saw die on the job, either.
OTOH the Cops are killing people right and left. Looks to me that being a cop is a lot less dangerous than being a criminal, or in some cases just a citizen in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I think he picked exactly the right section. And it appears that you have never submitted a story, as the submitter picks the section. An editor can, of course, override the submitter's chosen section but in my experience they seldom do, although sometimes they completely change what the submitter says.
Caution: the linked text is titled "Happy Nude Year". My journals are seldom SFW.
So? How many times have we discussed the RIAA and SCO? How many times have we discussed Vista?
Yesterday's discussion was about one of the two corporate parties' candidates, Obama, voting for FISA (Oddly no discussion of the other corporate party's candidate, McCain, not voting for or against) while today's discussion is about citizen backlash.
Still no word at slashdot or anywhere else where the other candidates stand. Depending on who the Greens nominate, I'll probably vote for Bob Barr. As he's a pseudo-Libertarian I'm sure he's against FISA.
So, I guess we'll finally here the truth from the government on why aliens from Area 51 made so many homosexuals?
You're not supposed to take that song seriously! More on-topic than Stuart would be Mojo Nixon's Elvis Is Everywhere.
Elvis is everywhere, man! He's in everything. He's in everybody...
Elvis is in your jeans. He's in your cheesburgers Elvis is in Nutty Buddies! Elvis is in your mom!
He's in everybody. He's in the young, the old, the fat, the skinny, the white, the black the brown and the bluepeople got Elvis in 'em too
Elvis is in everybody out there. Everybody's got Elvis in them! Everybody except one person that is... Yeah, one person! The evil opposite of Elvis. The Anti-Elvis
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em, lemme tell ya.
Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him.
<snip>
Yeah man, you know people from outer space,people from outer space they come up to me. They don't look like like Doctor Spock. They don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Elvis. ELVIS! Everybody in outer space looks like Elvis. Cause Elvis is a perfect being. We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness
Soon all will become Elvis. Everything everywhere will be Elvis. Why do you think they call it evolution anyway? It's really Elvislution! Elvislution!
For those unassociated with Mojo Nixon and the Dead Milkmen, the Dead Milkmen are a humorous punk rock band, while Mojo Nixon is a humorous Punk Country boy.
The one group that seems to be more highly associated with ID in my personal experience (for what it's worth) is Born Again Christians
Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to Athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. He and his ilk are the wolves in sheep's clothing we were warned about.
Never trust a preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit.
Is it "afraid" to not want my children taught an out-and-out lie
Whether or not a statement is true, if you believe in its truth when you say it, you are not lying.
L. Ron Hubbard was lying. Those who parrot his teachings are not.
As you obviously know this (or can easily find out from a dictionary), YOU are the liar here when you call those who hold beliefs that oppose yours "liars".
My aversion to homosexuality has nothing to do with Christianity. My aversion is rooted in evolution; the "yuck" factor maintains reproduction. Evolution depends entirely on reproduction!
A lot of Christians make too much noise about a minor sin like homosexuality that is none of their damned business (and none of mine) while ignoring major sins like malicious lying, adultery, war, wanting others' possessions, stealing, execution of criminals, etc.
They would try to take a speck from their brother's eye when there is a two by four plank in their own. IMO they should stay out of the old testament and read the testament that supersedes it.
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It is wrong because it violates the social contract you agree to by continuing to live in our society.
I don't buy it. What would you have one who disagrees with "our" society, commit suicide? That's illegal too.
I'll respect the law when they write respectable laws. I signed no contract to live in "our" society; there are no more frontiers to inhabit.
But when it isn't, neither are you.
Eye all wise ewes a spill chucker. Tat whey ever body thing I'm smart.
[clang]
Bring out your dead!
Here's one.
Ninepence.
I'm not dead!
What?
Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
I'm not dead!
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
Yes, he is.
I'm not!
He isn't?
Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
I'm getting better!
No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
I don't want to go on the cart!
Oh, don't be such a baby.
I can't take him.
I feel fine!
Well, do us a favour.
I can't.
Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
Well, when's your next round?
Thursday.
I think I'll go for a walk.
You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do?
[singing] I feel happy. I feel happy.
[whop] Ah, thanks very much.
Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Right. All right. [howl] [clop clop clop]
Who's that, then?
I dunno. Must be a king.
Why?
He hasn't got shit all over him.
I used to be an avid gamer; look up TheFragfest.com in archive.org's "wayback machine". Online Quake/Quake 2 against other players on the internet was awesome.
The trend now is to sell you a game that's "internet only", and then you have to pay to play on an overloaded server. WTF???
Give the damned games away as a fee download if you're going to charge for play.
Any software developer dumb enough to think DRM works is way too dumb to write a good game.
Copyright (whether you approve or not) denotes ownership
No, it doesn't, not in the US according to our Constitution. The public OWN the work, the work's creator is given a limited time monopoly.
If you rent a house you have a limited time monopoly to the house, but it is NOT your property. If you OWN the house it is yours to pass to your decendants forever (or until it burns or someone steals it).
I think you unintentionally found the replacement for the term "pirate".
it is MUCH easier to buy off bureaucrats and politicians than ten thousand pissed off freemen customers
The Fremen fought CHOAM and the Sppacing Guild. Perfect name for copyright infringers!
I prefer the term "stealing games" myself.
If you go into a store and take a game without paying for it you're stealing. If you download it, even illegally, you're not.
If you steal a game the store owner is out the cost of the game he bought from the publisher. If you download a game illegally nobody has lost anything, particularly if it is a game you would not have otherwise paid for (too poor, just want to check out a new genre etc) and most especially if, like some do, you want to see if you actually like the game and then buy it if you do. There are a lot of people who have been ripped off buying shitty games and are fighting back.
If you steal a game and get caught you will be charged with a misdemeanor and pay a few hundred dollars fine. If you infringe copyright you can be hit with a civil suit for thousands of dollars.
So "stealing" just doesn't work.
Yeah, this place is full of cartoon characters. Gail Simpson is an alderman here. The bald guy on the right, in front of the giant check, in this picture runs the power plant. Looks familiar, doesn't he? Here is Springfield's Mayor, I'm sure you'll recognise him as well.
There are more links at the bottom of this barely SFW journal.
I've seen Betty Boop, Popeye, and a whole rash of non-Simpsons cartoon characters here. Betty Boop is a hooker I call "Bighead" in the linked journal.
Durbin is from one of the surrounding towns and ran for mayor quite a while back, befire he was elected Senator.
I still don't follow your reasoning. What law is anti-tech?
The aversion to homosexuality is not aversion to homosexuals, it is aversion to sex with men.
I have no aversion to adultery and in fact recently was very tempted. But one has an aversion to his or her (especially his) partner committing adultery and I think that is surely from evolution. Kids from unstable homes, especially back when the world was more dangerous, had less chance to survive to puberty.
Homosexuality wasn't even discussed during my formative years. I assume (but don't really know) that homosexuals are as averse to sex with woman as heterosexuals are averse to sex with men.
That, in turn, raises the question of why an obvious evolutionary dead-end hasn't gone right out by now, but instead currently manifests in about 10% of the population ?
You're going to have to point to a verifiable study saying 10% of the population is homosexual. I know hundreds of people, but very few of them are homosexual. I simply don't believe that one in ten people is homosexual.
The reason evolution hasn't weeded out homosexuality is same reason you occasionally get horribly deformed animals, despite the fact that those deformed animals will never reproduce.
That's the prevailing wisdom, but my view is that if you vote for ANY candidate who doesn't express your views you have wasted your vote.
You're against big government? Yet still vote Republicrat or Demublican? That's insane! It's like losing your dime in the dark and looking for it under a streetlight because you can't see in the dark.
Ross Perot got lots of coverage and so did Nader back in 2000.
The Nader campaign was very telling. He was not on the ballots in enough states to win even if he won in every state he was on the ballot on, while the Libertarians were on the ballot in 49 states. Nader had no chance of winning yet got tons of press, while the party that could have won got no press at all.
Ross Perot got press because freedom of the press is for people who can afford to buy it.
Why is it that police officers are not listed among the top five or ten dangerous occupations?
Because being a cop really isn't that dangerous a job. The Chicago Tribune reported the other day about a cop who was shot with his own service revolver while struggling with a woman, and it mentioned he was the first cop to die in Chicago since (IIRC and I'm probably not) 2002.
There hasn't been a Springfield cop die on the job since I moved here in 1986, but my dad saw a man literrally fry on his job as electrical lineman when he worked for the power company here. It wasn't the first guy he saw die on the job, either.
OTOH the Cops are killing people right and left. Looks to me that being a cop is a lot less dangerous than being a criminal, or in some cases just a citizen in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Read more of the journals and you'll be even more pleased you're not me!
I think he picked exactly the right section. And it appears that you have never submitted a story, as the submitter picks the section. An editor can, of course, override the submitter's chosen section but in my experience they seldom do, although sometimes they completely change what the submitter says.
Caution: the linked text is titled "Happy Nude Year". My journals are seldom SFW.
So? How many times have we discussed the RIAA and SCO? How many times have we discussed Vista?
Yesterday's discussion was about one of the two corporate parties' candidates, Obama, voting for FISA (Oddly no discussion of the other corporate party's candidate, McCain, not voting for or against) while today's discussion is about citizen backlash.
Still no word at slashdot or anywhere else where the other candidates stand. Depending on who the Greens nominate, I'll probably vote for Bob Barr. As he's a pseudo-Libertarian I'm sure he's against FISA.
So, I guess we'll finally here the truth from the government on why aliens from Area 51 made so many homosexuals?
You're not supposed to take that song seriously! More on-topic than Stuart would be Mojo Nixon's Elvis Is Everywhere .
For those unassociated with Mojo Nixon and the Dead Milkmen, the Dead Milkmen are a humorous punk rock band, while Mojo Nixon is a humorous Punk Country boy.
The one group that seems to be more highly associated with ID in my personal experience (for what it's worth) is Born Again Christians
Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to Athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. He and his ilk are the wolves in sheep's clothing we were warned about.
Never trust a preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit.
Is it "afraid" to not want my children taught an out-and-out lie
Whether or not a statement is true, if you believe in its truth when you say it, you are not lying.
L. Ron Hubbard was lying. Those who parrot his teachings are not.
As you obviously know this (or can easily find out from a dictionary), YOU are the liar here when you call those who hold beliefs that oppose yours "liars".
My aversion to homosexuality has nothing to do with Christianity. My aversion is rooted in evolution; the "yuck" factor maintains reproduction. Evolution depends entirely on reproduction!
A lot of Christians make too much noise about a minor sin like homosexuality that is none of their damned business (and none of mine) while ignoring major sins like malicious lying, adultery, war, wanting others' possessions, stealing, execution of criminals, etc.
They would try to take a speck from their brother's eye when there is a two by four plank in their own. IMO they should stay out of the old testament and read the testament that supersedes it.
*woosh*