That's right, 1976. My friends and I used to attack each other over a HP timeshare system, infecting each other with keystroke recorders, DOS attacks against specific terminals, buffer overflow exploits that could be used to steal passwords, and programs that consumed all of another users storage space by creating hundreds of 1 byte files.
We never got caught for any of it, until one of our group found a way to change the addresses in the jump vector table for the kernel and hosed the mainframe for over a week. Even then, they did not know what he had done, they just wanted to know how he got the admin's password.
Good Lord! Did you even realize that there was a sexual revolution going on then?
Bah! Can you not see that the Jews are just a sock-puppet diversion away from the REAL conspiracy. As is the Free Masons, and the Templars, and the Illuminati, most of the UFOs, and the supersonic nazi hell creatures from inside the hollow earth.
Fah! These are all mere puppets, drones if you will, for the real masters - The Lizards. And I for one, welcome our new Lizard Overlords! And I'm more than happy to help them round up humans to toil in their underground mouse-raising facilities.
Disney threatened another company for using Snow White in a story, even though she's from folk tales.
I don't suppose you have a link to that, do you? If they simply used the old folk story to make a derivative work, Disney doesn't have a leg to stand on. But, if they used the Snow White character image from the movie, that could be a problem. (And, of course, IANAL)
If the companies pass on too much of the settlement cost onto the consumers themselves, they will lose to their competitors.
Thank you. This is what the corporate shills on television and radio don't understand (well, actually they probably understand, but they will never openly say it). A rise in taxes or an assessment of fines for illegal business practices does not translate into a direct increase in consumer costs since, in a healthy marketplace, competition will help set the price. What taxes and fines eat into to a much greater degree are the profits that the owners, CEO's, et cetera wind up being able to take home (which is why shills are hired in the first place).
Actions like this show that the Great Holy Infallible Markets (TM) usually decide that eliminating your rights and stepping all over you generate the most profits. Especially if they can collude and set "industry standard" business practices. In fact, the few consumer protection laws that do exist are one of the few reasons that we really aren't a Corporate Dictatorship yet.
Actually, I don't think it is human nature. It's just the nature of the sort of people who seek offices of power. Those who seek power are almost always people who desire to control others. There are many (such as myself) who don't wish to control others, but simply want to be able to reasonably run their own lives and let others run theirs.
Although some may say it's not as accurate, or reliable, it definitely has a wider breadth of knowledge and obscure articles than any other encyclopedia I've ever seen.
Plus, it has the words "Don't Panic" enscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.
Well, I would take issue with your comments about global warming, but you are certainly right about us still burning things for fuel. If there are aliens that have watched Earth, they are probably saying something along the lines of:
"The humans want us to contact them."
"Screw 'em! They are still powering everything by setting fire to it! Who wants to talk to a bunch of stupid primitives."
Um, when Al Gore stated that "The Debate is Over", he was referring to the fact that no serious scientist is debating whether or not there is global warming. He was not stating it as some prophetic vision he received on top some high mountaintop. He is simply repeating what climatologists have told him.
Wow! And the Clinton administration would let Dr. Carmona speak out of needle sharing programs for drug users. Remember Joycelyn Elders?
This is nothing new. It just serves as another reason to hate Bush (as if the media needed any).
This is getting really old and tired. This kind of bullshit is similar to the "reasoning" that says it is okay for Bush to lie to Congress and the American people about things that cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and thousands of our soldiers, just because Clinton lied in court about a blow job. You Bush apologists make me sick and you deserve to be where Mussolini, Hitler and Mao are now.
These are the methods of a tin pot dictator, not the leader of a great and worthy nation.
Well, there are also billboards with Bush's face on them with the words "Our Leader" emblazoned underneath. There is a picture of it here . So, yes, Bush does wish he was a dictator and is doing all he can to achieve that end. But then, what do you expect from a family that supported and helped fund the Nazis?
The current candidate is criticized because he called homosexual intercourse unhealthy and unnatural. Excuse me, but are there any reproductive structures in the anus?
Sounds like you've given that question quite a lot of delicate contemplation lately. Seriously, though, doesn't everyone notice how the extreme and loud homophobes always wind up describing gay sex in the sort of detail that sort of, um, makes you wonder.
To get back on topic, I thought Godwin's law doesn't apply where the topic actually is Hitler and/or Nazis - though I can't find a reference for it.
It doesn't apply, but that never stops a bunch of stupid slashbots from invoking it every time Hitler is mentioned. And, your "reference" would be simple logic.
Godwin's law is more for things like discussions on whether coffee or tea is better, with the tea lover calling the coffee lover a Nazi since Hitler liked coffee.
Discussions on, say, comparing a certain president - who invades countries on false pretenses, tries to establish a police state in his own country, calls people who disagrees with him "traitors", kills hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and calls it "collateral damage", and so on - with Hitler would not invoke Godwin's law since there is a reasonable basis for a comparison.
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Well, let's just hope they don't let William Shatner have a hand in its design.
Actions like this show that the Great Holy Infallible Markets (TM) usually decide that eliminating your rights and stepping all over you generate the most profits. Especially if they can collude and set "industry standard" business practices. In fact, the few consumer protection laws that do exist are one of the few reasons that we really aren't a Corporate Dictatorship yet.
Well, I would take issue with your comments about global warming, but you are certainly right about us still burning things for fuel. If there are aliens that have watched Earth, they are probably saying something along the lines of:
"The humans want us to contact them."
"Screw 'em! They are still powering everything by setting fire to it! Who wants to talk to a bunch of stupid primitives."
All joking aside, at least he does have the guts to go up against Bush's Iraq fiasco.
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Godwin's law is more for things like discussions on whether coffee or tea is better, with the tea lover calling the coffee lover a Nazi since Hitler liked coffee.
Discussions on, say, comparing a certain president - who invades countries on false pretenses, tries to establish a police state in his own country, calls people who disagrees with him "traitors", kills hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and calls it "collateral damage", and so on - with Hitler would not invoke Godwin's law since there is a reasonable basis for a comparison.