im running a small business offering it services, web development, hosting to individuals and businesses and i am one of the direct customers of these fuckers. not to mention that im also a web developer, leaving aside being an end customer of some of the devices a few of those companies make, like cellular phones.
from now on i will put each one of those bastards into my blacklist and will avoid them like the plague. serves them only right for working against the very thing that made internet possible and made me able to make a living and offer services to people. not only i will avoid them, but also i will advise my colleagues, my family and my close circle to avoid them too.
do the same. its 2009. the time to tolerate those who work against online freedoms is long past by.
it is an essential function. it is the means to run mailing lists, it is the means to communicate en masse among corporations, organizations, interest groups.
with that logic, you may as well go as far to say 'send' buttons or enter keys are not essential functions. they rank the same with anything else.
'people have been banned from using computers for repeatedly committing crimes with them' ~= 'people have been banned from living for repeatedly committing crimes with the body they have'.
funny how similar they sound if you change just a few words in that sentence. you can justify anything with that faulty logic of yours.
'what kind of cloud computing project costs $32 mil' it says.
hell. even the bare costs of the number of servers that would be required to run a cloud of that size would amount to a goodly portion of that $32 mil. EVEN if you buy them in bulk. thats leaving out everything else including the datacenter setup, software, administrators, engineers, the team to create the project.
doh. i suppose cloud computing comes free, in the universe the article poster lives in.
Yes, you can bar someone from using the "reply all" feature. There are people who would use something like that to set up a way to intimidate someone.
no you cannot. the fact that some courts have banned people from 'using computers' is just another example of centuries old, derelict legalese being incapable of coping up with 21st century.
this is 21st century. phones, computers, internet, communication devices are not only means to communicate with random people anymore. they are actually mandated in a lot of fields of life to conduct the daily routines or government services. some countries even mandate some government services to be conducted over the internet in europe, in terms of efficiency. in united states it is just up to informational level now, but soon it will aim for the level it is in eu, because the efficiency boost and convenience for everyone involved is incomparable with old travel & paper & pen ways.
therefore, in many countries around the world, banning people from communication devices already means stripping them of services they pay with their taxes for, or some of their basic human rights (access to information).
there is nothing justifiable in it. you could as well ban people from life or 'shelter'.
the email might have been informative or inquisitive, rather than inflammatory. doesnt matter. the question here is, due to a glitch in law (actually shortcoming) she would have to spend approx 1-3 hours per mass email to weed out those guy's emails. and that doesnt include their other emails that she may or may not know about.
if, you buy a fucking monopoly license that encompasses the lives of ALL people in an area, you are fucking obliged to fulfill the needs of people anywhere. it is the public that is selling that monopoly right to the company. therefore, company's obligation is to public. if it cant come up with a profitable yet acceptable scheme to cover everyone in its monopoly area, it shouldnt have fucking bid for the license in the first place.
despite not being 'an american', you are so 'american' in your viewpoint that you cant see anything from out of the box. therefore, i will take you as 'an american' and i will approach this from 'an american's' viewpoint so it will pass valid for you and all those 1800 AD & mccarthian fools out there:
I also wonder how "Europeans" are going to act when their federal government decides to take over all of it's member states health care and forms an all encompassing, all powerful, cross border police force, constantly expands into it's member states sovereignty and neighbouring countries lives and all the other lovely goodies that inevitably come with a huge central government..
in contrast with you 'americans's stupid, stupid, outdated, brain dead phobia of 'government' that is reminiscent of 300 years ago, european people arent afraid of government, and know how to use the government to better their society.
all of the member states of eu have to implement standards mandated by eu already. thats why healthcare and everything else in eu countries are top notch in the world. because the standards are mandated by an independent, almost impossible to bribe higher organization, no company in no country can bribe the local government and prepare grounds for sucking the blood dry of its citizens for its profit, in contrast with america and its healthcare (and other) lobbies.
we have all that schizophrenia coming from americans because their founding fathers have incorporated a lot of central government phobia into their constitution and their culture, and the following centuries of 'conservative' administrations has brainwashed entire nation even more to the point of paranoia.
however the government their founding fathers were afraid of was the king's government, or the possibility of any form of king establishing itself in a democratic government (much like caesar, napoleon or other petty dictators), so they tried to minimize the power of government as much as possible to avert that possibility.
but one thing they missed - corporations sufficiently large are little different than feudal kings in that when their reach of products and market share gets larger, they practically dictate the lives of the people. and that's totally leaving out bribery of government officials, or granted monopolies.
they missed this, because at that time no such thing was even conceivable. the corporations that existed and were big enough belonged to kings, and were seen as part of king's government, and all the other corporations and private initiatives were the size of mid sized shipping companies, small manufactories and whatnot. monopolizing the life of an entire nation by companies not belonging to a king's government was inconceivable.
today it is not the case. the corporations have more power than countries. in the list of world's 10 biggest economies, there are as many corporations as there are countries.
a corporation, no matter how big its shareholder base is, is a MINORITY private interest. NO different than feudal nobility, no matter how large it is. it will seek and protect its OWN interests, at the expense of EVERYONE else, IF let be. case in point - the unbelievable wall street SCAM, and alan greenspan's clueless excuse in the form of 'i cant understand why corporations didnt regulate themselves'.
so, 'letting corporations be' is little different than letting nobility be, in today's terms. priviledged minority who have been able to get to the top dictating the lives of everyone else through various means.
the only tool that can regulate the country so that no minority group (nomatter how large they are, they are still minority compared to all nation, and then the world) can claim partial sovereignity, is GOVERNMENT. that is so, because it is an overseeing power that is above every other organization, every citizen has equal share in it, and it has all the resources a country can muster.
the right to enjoy the freedoms of society. with your stupid, stupid, 200 year old gop logic, we should as well let go of human rights for all, and make them so that only the ones who can pay for something can enjoy them.
get a few brain cells. we arent living in 1800s. the definition of 'basic' conditions for life in 2009 are much different from 1809. and, corporations are invented to benefit mankind. not mankind to benefit corporations.
exact same thing happened to one of my friends who was fighting a corrupt foundation who uses a lot of dirty tricks, in the courts. one of those is a similar trick ; first the foundation's lawyer acquired a restraining order from court. then, one of the foundation members has sent an extremely inflammatory email cced to hundreds of people working in the relevant area, including my friend, AND the lawyer. naturally, my friend responded to inflammatory and defamating remarks by using 'reply all' feature, so that everyone in the mailing list would see the other side of the story. then the smartypants lawyer went to the court, showing the email he received through 'reply all'. and the court, being ignorant in that regard took up the case and now prosecuting my friend.
it is quite possible that this woman/man (whatever it was) purposefully arranged such a setup to get back at the defendant, just like what this smartypants fucktard did here.
they REDUCED image quality, boosted performance. there isnt ANYthing wrong with that technically. you are yourself allowed to reduce image quality and boost performance through settings on any graphics cards.
it means that they TRADED OFF quality for performance. not showed as if their card was capable of delivering both, through cheating.
judges of today are yet unaware of what batch communication is. someone sends a mail to 150 people by ccing them. if you reply to the mail, your reply goes to 150 other people. if you have a restraining order concerning one of the 150 on that list, you are violating court order.
that's the incompetence of the courts and failure of the law to account for this. these laws were made centuries ago. no such communication existed.
you can NOT bar people from using the technical amenities of modern information technology ( reply all feature, social networking sites' various features, etc). its against human rights.
i dont give a FLYING fuck about the person who was 'disturbed' by the poke - what s/he did is basically violating someone's rights. its as if having courts ban someone from using long distance calls, because if someone does a long distance call, the call will pass through a node that the person with the restraining order is also connected to.
but the + performance thing is real. you can experience it live, as opposed to benchmarks. whereas the raw 'processing power' intel supposedly sells to people doesnt translate into real world tasks as it should.
im an end user. i care about multimedia, video, games, internet, daily tasks. im not going to run long batches of arithmetic calculations or compile thousands of lines of code. i dont give a flying fuck about what number a cpu has on it - what i care is what i SEE in front of my eyes as performance.
optimizing != benchmark. just optimizing for one thing does NOT mean that you are cheating. cheating is making the world think your card can do something it cant. like what intel did, ie unloading the load onto the cpu.
you seem to be a witless fanboi tho, since you havent been able to muster the courage to post with your own userid. so never mind this reply. its kinda wasted on you probably.
"hey, i've been playing 'Battlemaster' but i want to play some other LINUX games"........
complete fucking advertisement with link to that web game. the article poster shamelessly throws in 'linux' in order to make the article 'legitimate, despite a php web game being IRRELEVANT to linux. it doesnt matter if you have linux, macos, sunos, windows or not, a php web game will play as long as you have a browser. actually noone here needs to be told that.
i dont know which is worse - the smartypants who shoved this blatant advertisement as an article, or the fools who approved it.
a lot of people use those proxy services in order to shield their personal data from their repressive governments in other countries. a proxy in u.s. will not give out data to random repressive country # 2318765, when they ask for the details of the dissenter that is running a blog. its very important for people who live in less civilized countries, for making a stand and changing things.
every time microsoft pulls some shit, there are fanbois who are defending them as if there is no tomorrow. but still, i wonder if there is any 'side by side' fanboi left to defend them after all the incompetency and stunts they pulled in the last year.
Now your only chance to shut down pirate bay is to get its owner shot. and if that happens, you will be in a hell of trouble, so it wont happen. and even if they are shot, someone else will take over, and the thing will go on.
GIVE UP ALREADY. 'the people' apparently seem to have decided that p2p is the way to go in the future. its 'the people' like in 'we, the people'. you cant fight against that.
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im running a small business offering it services, web development, hosting to individuals and businesses and i am one of the direct customers of these fuckers. not to mention that im also a web developer, leaving aside being an end customer of some of the devices a few of those companies make, like cellular phones.
from now on i will put each one of those bastards into my blacklist and will avoid them like the plague. serves them only right for working against the very thing that made internet possible and made me able to make a living and offer services to people. not only i will avoid them, but also i will advise my colleagues, my family and my close circle to avoid them too.
do the same. its 2009. the time to tolerate those who work against online freedoms is long past by.
it is an essential function. it is the means to run mailing lists, it is the means to communicate en masse among corporations, organizations, interest groups.
with that logic, you may as well go as far to say 'send' buttons or enter keys are not essential functions. they rank the same with anything else.
'people have been banned from using computers for repeatedly committing crimes with them' ~= 'people have been banned from living for repeatedly committing crimes with the body they have'.
funny how similar they sound if you change just a few words in that sentence. you can justify anything with that faulty logic of yours.
all my intelligence and experience from my time on this earth, i will put my opinion as elaborately and as eloquently i can in the form below :
fuck that.
i frequently donate to eff through paypal. even tho my donations are not regular and small, i think every bit counts.
'what kind of cloud computing project costs $32 mil' it says.
hell. even the bare costs of the number of servers that would be required to run a cloud of that size would amount to a goodly portion of that $32 mil. EVEN if you buy them in bulk. thats leaving out everything else including the datacenter setup, software, administrators, engineers, the team to create the project.
doh. i suppose cloud computing comes free, in the universe the article poster lives in.
Yes, you can bar someone from using the "reply all" feature. There are people who would use something like that to set up a way to intimidate someone.
no you cannot. the fact that some courts have banned people from 'using computers' is just another example of centuries old, derelict legalese being incapable of coping up with 21st century.
this is 21st century. phones, computers, internet, communication devices are not only means to communicate with random people anymore. they are actually mandated in a lot of fields of life to conduct the daily routines or government services. some countries even mandate some government services to be conducted over the internet in europe, in terms of efficiency. in united states it is just up to informational level now, but soon it will aim for the level it is in eu, because the efficiency boost and convenience for everyone involved is incomparable with old travel & paper & pen ways.
therefore, in many countries around the world, banning people from communication devices already means stripping them of services they pay with their taxes for, or some of their basic human rights (access to information).
there is nothing justifiable in it. you could as well ban people from life or 'shelter'.
the email might have been informative or inquisitive, rather than inflammatory. doesnt matter. the question here is, due to a glitch in law (actually shortcoming) she would have to spend approx 1-3 hours per mass email to weed out those guy's emails. and that doesnt include their other emails that she may or may not know about.
its not the way life is. we make these laws.
if, you buy a fucking monopoly license that encompasses the lives of ALL people in an area, you are fucking obliged to fulfill the needs of people anywhere. it is the public that is selling that monopoly right to the company. therefore, company's obligation is to public. if it cant come up with a profitable yet acceptable scheme to cover everyone in its monopoly area, it shouldnt have fucking bid for the license in the first place.
despite not being 'an american', you are so 'american' in your viewpoint that you cant see anything from out of the box. therefore, i will take you as 'an american' and i will approach this from 'an american's' viewpoint so it will pass valid for you and all those 1800 AD & mccarthian fools out there :
I also wonder how "Europeans" are going to act when their federal government decides to take over all of it's member states health care and forms an all encompassing, all powerful, cross border police force, constantly expands into it's member states sovereignty and neighbouring countries lives and all the other lovely goodies that inevitably come with a huge central government..
in contrast with you 'americans's stupid, stupid, outdated, brain dead phobia of 'government' that is reminiscent of 300 years ago, european people arent afraid of government, and know how to use the government to better their society.
all of the member states of eu have to implement standards mandated by eu already. thats why healthcare and everything else in eu countries are top notch in the world. because the standards are mandated by an independent, almost impossible to bribe higher organization, no company in no country can bribe the local government and prepare grounds for sucking the blood dry of its citizens for its profit, in contrast with america and its healthcare (and other) lobbies.
we have all that schizophrenia coming from americans because their founding fathers have incorporated a lot of central government phobia into their constitution and their culture, and the following centuries of 'conservative' administrations has brainwashed entire nation even more to the point of paranoia.
however the government their founding fathers were afraid of was the king's government, or the possibility of any form of king establishing itself in a democratic government (much like caesar, napoleon or other petty dictators), so they tried to minimize the power of government as much as possible to avert that possibility.
but one thing they missed - corporations sufficiently large are little different than feudal kings in that when their reach of products and market share gets larger, they practically dictate the lives of the people. and that's totally leaving out bribery of government officials, or granted monopolies.
they missed this, because at that time no such thing was even conceivable. the corporations that existed and were big enough belonged to kings, and were seen as part of king's government, and all the other corporations and private initiatives were the size of mid sized shipping companies, small manufactories and whatnot. monopolizing the life of an entire nation by companies not belonging to a king's government was inconceivable.
today it is not the case. the corporations have more power than countries. in the list of world's 10 biggest economies, there are as many corporations as there are countries.
a corporation, no matter how big its shareholder base is, is a MINORITY private interest. NO different than feudal nobility, no matter how large it is. it will seek and protect its OWN interests, at the expense of EVERYONE else, IF let be. case in point - the unbelievable wall street SCAM, and alan greenspan's clueless excuse in the form of 'i cant understand why corporations didnt regulate themselves'.
so, 'letting corporations be' is little different than letting nobility be, in today's terms. priviledged minority who have been able to get to the top dictating the lives of everyone else through various means.
the only tool that can regulate the country so that no minority group (nomatter how large they are, they are still minority compared to all nation, and then the world) can claim partial sovereignity, is GOVERNMENT. that is so, because it is an overseeing power that is above every other organization, every citizen has equal share in it, and it has all the resources a country can muster.
even governments can be c
the right to enjoy the freedoms of society. with your stupid, stupid, 200 year old gop logic, we should as well let go of human rights for all, and make them so that only the ones who can pay for something can enjoy them.
get a few brain cells. we arent living in 1800s. the definition of 'basic' conditions for life in 2009 are much different from 1809. and, corporations are invented to benefit mankind. not mankind to benefit corporations.
exact same thing happened to one of my friends who was fighting a corrupt foundation who uses a lot of dirty tricks, in the courts. one of those is a similar trick ; first the foundation's lawyer acquired a restraining order from court. then, one of the foundation members has sent an extremely inflammatory email cced to hundreds of people working in the relevant area, including my friend, AND the lawyer. naturally, my friend responded to inflammatory and defamating remarks by using 'reply all' feature, so that everyone in the mailing list would see the other side of the story. then the smartypants lawyer went to the court, showing the email he received through 'reply all'. and the court, being ignorant in that regard took up the case and now prosecuting my friend.
it is quite possible that this woman/man (whatever it was) purposefully arranged such a setup to get back at the defendant, just like what this smartypants fucktard did here.
they REDUCED image quality, boosted performance. there isnt ANYthing wrong with that technically. you are yourself allowed to reduce image quality and boost performance through settings on any graphics cards.
it means that they TRADED OFF quality for performance. not showed as if their card was capable of delivering both, through cheating.
please get fucking real.
judges of today are yet unaware of what batch communication is. someone sends a mail to 150 people by ccing them. if you reply to the mail, your reply goes to 150 other people. if you have a restraining order concerning one of the 150 on that list, you are violating court order.
that's the incompetence of the courts and failure of the law to account for this. these laws were made centuries ago. no such communication existed.
you can NOT bar people from using the technical amenities of modern information technology ( reply all feature, social networking sites' various features, etc). its against human rights.
i dont give a FLYING fuck about the person who was 'disturbed' by the poke - what s/he did is basically violating someone's rights. its as if having courts ban someone from using long distance calls, because if someone does a long distance call, the call will pass through a node that the person with the restraining order is also connected to.
but the + performance thing is real. you can experience it live, as opposed to benchmarks. whereas the raw 'processing power' intel supposedly sells to people doesnt translate into real world tasks as it should.
im an end user. i care about multimedia, video, games, internet, daily tasks. im not going to run long batches of arithmetic calculations or compile thousands of lines of code. i dont give a flying fuck about what number a cpu has on it - what i care is what i SEE in front of my eyes as performance.
optimizing != benchmark. just optimizing for one thing does NOT mean that you are cheating. cheating is making the world think your card can do something it cant. like what intel did, ie unloading the load onto the cpu.
you seem to be a witless fanboi tho, since you havent been able to muster the courage to post with your own userid. so never mind this reply. its kinda wasted on you probably.
"hey, i've been playing 'Battlemaster' but i want to play some other LINUX games" ........
complete fucking advertisement with link to that web game. the article poster shamelessly throws in 'linux' in order to make the article 'legitimate, despite a php web game being IRRELEVANT to linux. it doesnt matter if you have linux, macos, sunos, windows or not, a php web game will play as long as you have a browser. actually noone here needs to be told that.
i dont know which is worse - the smartypants who shoved this blatant advertisement as an article, or the fools who approved it.
i cant even say 'prior art' .... unbelievable. in america, right ? every shit works there. every shit.
'things to buy' doesnt make an economy. you buy things in flea markets. check pirates of the burning sea for an 'economy'
average turk doesnt know shit about pragmatism. and votes with his ass rather than his head.
t shapes are probably used for representing humans. ie, some of the shapes appear to be holding small animals under their 'arms'.
a lot of people use those proxy services in order to shield their personal data from their repressive governments in other countries. a proxy in u.s. will not give out data to random repressive country # 2318765, when they ask for the details of the dissenter that is running a blog. its very important for people who live in less civilized countries, for making a stand and changing things.
wow doesnt have any real economy or crafting. its all related to 0.001% chance drops from some mob bosses. and some utility craftables heavily traded.
every time microsoft pulls some shit, there are fanbois who are defending them as if there is no tomorrow. but still, i wonder if there is any 'side by side' fanboi left to defend them after all the incompetency and stunts they pulled in the last year.
good luck catching up behind the world. and thank those conservative morons who ran your country for the better part of the last 60 years for this.
Now your only chance to shut down pirate bay is to get its owner shot. and if that happens, you will be in a hell of trouble, so it wont happen. and even if they are shot, someone else will take over, and the thing will go on.
GIVE UP ALREADY. 'the people' apparently seem to have decided that p2p is the way to go in the future. its 'the people' like in 'we, the people'. you cant fight against that.