Ever been to Decatur, Illinois, home of ADM, whose corporate motto is "breadbasket to the world"?
Decatur smells like someone killed a pig, let the carcass rot, threw it on a pile of pigshit, covered it with sugar and set it on fire.
It's not as bad as Sauget (1/2 mile south of East St Louis, Il) used to be when I was a kid. When it was 100 degrees F and no car air conditioning you would roll your windows up driving up or down highway 3 because of Monsanto, Cerro Copper, and the other toxic industries there.
Actually I haven't been through Decatur in ten years, maybe they've cleaned it up a bit? Nah, Bush is President and Blago is governor (will be federal Prisoner after leaving office), no way it smells better.
I doubt these stupid new phones' scent capabilities will even be useable in a place like your Hunsruck or our Decatur. It would be like watching TV with a searchlight on top of it pointed at your eyes.
Damned cheap keyboards thay make these days! Now if I was on a phone, instead of "bach" you would have heard a far easier to understand message. Like "Yeah [sshhsht] well You [KKKKKKKkkkkkkrumble] phoney [chchchshshshhshh] to the bitch and call [crackle] and they smell [pssht] articifial [pshtpshtpsht] bleach smell."
You're forgetting that other people who are still alive may have personal messages in this guy's inbox or MySpace account
And you're forgetting (as everyone seems to) that if you send someone an embarrassing email, it may become public anyway. He could have posted the details of his tawdry yet legal affair you had with your fat intern on conservapedia.
If you want to keep something secret, don't tell anybody.
Yeah, this will really go over well. You take your phone to the bach and call somebody and they smell a generic, articifial "almost like a real yet generic" beach smell.
Uh huh.
One dimwitted company came up with this a few years ago (ten?) with the PC, now we all have internet smells enabled on our PCs. Yep.
But what do I know? I predicted that quadraphonics was a stupid idea, since a $500 quadraphonic sound system didn't sound as good as a $250 stereo system (you need twice as many of everything), yet "5.1 surround sound" eventually happened a quarter of a century later.
It can be a way of doing business, but it isn't some corporonazi mammon worshiping religion, either. Open source simply does what you need it to do the way you want it to do what you want. If you want to use it for business, it can be used for that. If you want to simply give, it can be used for that as well.
And I though vi vs emacs was bad...
this whole free speech and the internet thing have gone too far.
I'll leave it to the younger slashdotters to flame you for that particular piece of "wisdom".
the great thing about linux is that you can do things like that.
That's a completely foreign concept to someone who would say
All I know is that upgrading to Hoary bricked my PC, I can't even boot into XP anymore
I've been bitching about XP's contiunually rebooting until it "catches" and reaches the desktop while Mandriva boots right up with no complaints, but I finally found our why it was doing that.
The power supply was on its way south. My PC is now truly bricked, at least until I replace the power supply.
Read the sig. It doesn't affect me, I'm a cyborg now and don't need glasses, contact, or even reading glasses, but it DOES affect most people my age.
Coding a web site so that Firefox's [Ctrl]-[X] is disabled as this dumb move by these young dumb developers. Just because I don't need a feature doesn't mean you don't.
The irony is that it affects geezers more than anyone else. The ability to resize text is fairly meaningless to a young person, but when these whippersnappers get to middle age they're going to kick themselves in the ass for their youthful ignorance.
OTOH most of us geezers don't bother with IM anyway, we have better things to do.
A swift kick in the ass. Didn't you know all the cool kids are on the long list? The record company lawyers and SCO and Sony executives are on your list.;)
"President" is a title, as is "Commisioner" or "Chief Executive Officer". "Internet" is not a title. "The internet" is like "the pencil", even though there is only one internet amd many pencils.
If the guy has done something like viewed child porn, rape, murder, torture etc (probably repeatedly) or knowingly caused the death of someone online or other stuff (repeatedly), he probably doesn't want anyone to know.
And my dad says "if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their asses when they jumped, either." The biggest word in the English language is onlt two characters long.
IF he didn't want anyone to see it, either he would have said something to someone.
I assume you post anonymously because of your slander? No matter, the RIAA isn't the only ones with tools to determine who posted what where. You wil be hearing form my lawyer shortly.
And I thank you for giving me all your money like that.
Give a man a fish, he is fed for a day. Teach him to use the 'net, and he won't bother you for weeks" ~ Oscar Wilde on the Internet
"The Internet is a Series of Tubes!" ~ Sen. Ted Stevens on the Internet
"Ah, the internet. Giving voiceless, pubescent young teens a place to rant about everyone in their lives to a bunch of people who either think it's funny or want to rape them." ~ Unknown_Entity on The Internet
"Its where we truly belong. We are accepted, not teased or harassed" ~ The Nerd Association on the internet
"Im a genius!" ~ An Idiot on the Internet
"It's not all just cybergeeks and girls with their tops off!" ~ Internet Expert on Internet's contents
"Mmmm...very interesting invention...let's use it to destroy Microsoft!" ~ Steve Jobs on the Internet
"The internet is for porn" ~ Your Mom on the Internet
The Internet is a complex system made of, but not limited to, a series of tubes , telegraph wires, pony expresses, hobo signs, tortoise shells, and smoke signals. It was invented by Al Gore and is owned, operated and monitored by the Illuminati. Mostly used for access to porn, theme songs, ultra-porn, and cans of spam.
Where was the printing press 15 years after its invention?
Where was the telephone fifteen years after its invention? (Hint: not in many homes)
Where was the television fifteen years after its invention? It was Commercially available since the late 1930s but when I was a kid in the 1950s there were only three stations in the St Louis metro area, one of the US's larger cities.
Once you express an idea, it is no longer yours. Whether on paper or in a computer, if you write it down you should expect that someone some day may actually read it.
Many people wish that no one will gain access to such intimate information, even after their death.
Then they had better damned well express that wish to someone. You shouldn't assume without proof or witness that a person wished his papers private. If lacking evidence either way one should assume that either he wished them public or had no preference.
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Ever been to Decatur, Illinois, home of ADM, whose corporate motto is "breadbasket to the world"?
Decatur smells like someone killed a pig, let the carcass rot, threw it on a pile of pigshit, covered it with sugar and set it on fire.
It's not as bad as Sauget (1/2 mile south of East St Louis, Il) used to be when I was a kid. When it was 100 degrees F and no car air conditioning you would roll your windows up driving up or down highway 3 because of Monsanto, Cerro Copper, and the other toxic industries there.
Actually I haven't been through Decatur in ten years, maybe they've cleaned it up a bit? Nah, Bush is President and Blago is governor (will be federal Prisoner after leaving office), no way it smells better.
I doubt these stupid new phones' scent capabilities will even be useable in a place like your Hunsruck or our Decatur. It would be like watching TV with a searchlight on top of it pointed at your eyes.
Damned cheap keyboards thay make these days! Now if I was on a phone, instead of "bach" you would have heard a far easier to understand message. Like "Yeah [sshhsht] well You [KKKKKKKkkkkkkrumble] phoney [chchchshshshhshh] to the bitch and call [crackle] and they smell [pssht] articifial [pshtpshtpsht] bleach smell."
Ot conversely,
"@ bch cul8tr"
A memory of someone is not that someone. A person is far more than his body.
Plato does not exist. All that is left is memories of memories of memories.
You're forgetting that other people who are still alive may have personal messages in this guy's inbox or MySpace account
And you're forgetting (as everyone seems to) that if you send someone an embarrassing email, it may become public anyway. He could have posted the details of his tawdry yet legal affair you had with your fat intern on conservapedia.
If you want to keep something secret, don't tell anybody.
Yeah, this will really go over well. You take your phone to the bach and call somebody and they smell a generic, articifial "almost like a real yet generic" beach smell.
Uh huh.
One dimwitted company came up with this a few years ago (ten?) with the PC, now we all have internet smells enabled on our PCs. Yep.
But what do I know? I predicted that quadraphonics was a stupid idea, since a $500 quadraphonic sound system didn't sound as good as a $250 stereo system (you need twice as many of everything), yet "5.1 surround sound" eventually happened a quarter of a century later.
Its a way of doing business
It can be a way of doing business, but it isn't some corporonazi mammon worshiping religion, either. Open source simply does what you need it to do the way you want it to do what you want. If you want to use it for business, it can be used for that. If you want to simply give, it can be used for that as well.
And I though vi vs emacs was bad...
this whole free speech and the internet thing have gone too far.
I'll leave it to the younger slashdotters to flame you for that particular piece of "wisdom".
Redhat is the most widely used distro in St Louis, but in Chicago they'll kill you for using it.
In Springfield, a thitd of the way between the two cities, wearing either hat in a bar may result in severe bodily injury. Use at your own peril.
the great thing about linux is that you can do things like that.
That's a completely foreign concept to someone who would say
All I know is that upgrading to Hoary bricked my PC, I can't even boot into XP anymore
I've been bitching about XP's contiunually rebooting until it "catches" and reaches the desktop while Mandriva boots right up with no complaints, but I finally found our why it was doing that.
The power supply was on its way south. My PC is now truly bricked, at least until I replace the power supply.
Read the sig. It doesn't affect me, I'm a cyborg now and don't need glasses, contact, or even reading glasses, but it DOES affect most people my age.
Coding a web site so that Firefox's [Ctrl]-[X] is disabled as this dumb move by these young dumb developers. Just because I don't need a feature doesn't mean you don't.
The irony is that it affects geezers more than anyone else. The ability to resize text is fairly meaningless to a young person, but when these whippersnappers get to middle age they're going to kick themselves in the ass for their youthful ignorance.
OTOH most of us geezers don't bother with IM anyway, we have better things to do.
Me, I have that cybernetic implant =P
What do I win? a bike?
;)
A swift kick in the ass. Didn't you know all the cool kids are on the long list? The record company lawyers and SCO and Sony executives are on your list.
You're on the short list.
"President" is a title, as is "Commisioner" or "Chief Executive Officer". "Internet" is not a title. "The internet" is like "the pencil", even though there is only one internet amd many pencils.
His estate IS "those he left behind".
He holds nothing. He no longer exists.
If the guy has done something like viewed child porn, rape, murder, torture etc (probably repeatedly) or knowingly caused the death of someone online or other stuff (repeatedly), he probably doesn't want anyone to know.
And my dad says "if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their asses when they jumped, either." The biggest word in the English language is onlt two characters long.
IF he didn't want anyone to see it, either he would have said something to someone.
I wasn't talking about law.
I assume you post anonymously because of your slander? No matter, the RIAA isn't the only ones with tools to determine who posted what where. You wil be hearing form my lawyer shortly.
And I thank you for giving me all your money like that.
-mcgrew
Don't worry, the government cant resist much longer in taxing the golden goose.
What "government" do you refer to? The internet is international, which is after all what "inter" is shoort for (international network).
Ok mister, I'll get off your damned lawn! Gees! Can I have my ball back?
(capital 'i' please)
Why? "Internet" is not a proper name, like George or Indiana. It's a common noun, a thing, like "television" or "microwave oven" or "pencil".
"Ms. Pedant, may we sharpen our Pencils, please?"
Where was the printing press 15 years after its invention?
Where was the telephone fifteen years after its invention? (Hint: not in many homes)
Where was the television fifteen years after its invention? It was Commercially available since the late 1930s but when I was a kid in the 1950s there were only three stations in the St Louis metro area, one of the US's larger cities.
The internet is barely out of the womb,
Once you express an idea, it is no longer yours. Whether on paper or in a computer, if you write it down you should expect that someone some day may actually read it.
Many people wish that no one will gain access to such intimate information, even after their death.
Then they had better damned well express that wish to someone. You shouldn't assume without proof or witness that a person wished his papers private. If lacking evidence either way one should assume that either he wished them public or had no preference.
They probably actually belong to his "estate".
In other words, "those he left behind".